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Practicing Self Care is a necessity. If you don’t take care of yourself it’s hard to show up every day for your career, partner, pets, and friends. If you’re chronically tired, overworked, eating like crap, and not practicing self-care, you’re bound to become overwhelmed. Try outdoor self-care activities for a fun and relaxing way to reduce stress and fight burnout.
Creating a simple self-care routine is a great first step in helping to replenish your energy and improve your mood and your life. Creating a Self Care Practice can help decrease anxiety, reduce stress, and increase productivity.
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What is Self Care?
Self Care is the act of caring for yourself. You can do this in so many ways.
- Self Care can be taking a personal day from work when you need it.
- Caring for yourself can be getting eyelash extensions and pedicures.
- It can be done by going to the gym and eating healthy.
- Self Care can be taking a nap.
- Or going shopping.
- It can even be traveling the world.
There aren’t a lot of rules on how to practice Self Care. And the reason is; your Self Care is unique to you.
The Different Types of Outdoor Self Care-
Try splitting self-care into five categories for a well-rounded approach self-care routine. There are items in each category that you can adapt for outdoor self-care.
Physical Self Care: self care for your physical body
- Eat a Well Balanced Meal- try grilling or using fresh local fruits and veggies to create fun and delicious meals.
- Skin Care (don’t forget your sunscreen this summer.)
- Pampering/Grooming (try a pedicure outdoors.)
- Exercise- take it outside! Walk, run, hike, swim.
Emotional Self Care: self care for your emotional and mental health
- Journaling– grab your journal and read outside to be inspired by nature.
- Personal Affirmations- stand outside and enjoy the fresh air as you hype yourself up!
- Expressing Gratitude- what are 10 outdoor things you’re thankful for?
Intellectual Self Care: self care that helps your learn and grow
- Learn Something New- try learning a new outdoor hobby or activity like SUP or Gardening
- Listen to a Podcast- Listen to a podcast on a walk or at the beach to learn something new.
- Read a Book- carry a book with you to the beach or park for a fun and relaxing way to kill time.
Spiritual Self Care: self care that connects you to a higher power, the divine, and/or your faith
- Meditation- try taking it outdoors, I find that early morning and evening are the best for fewer distractions.
- Tarot/Oracle Cards- do a card pull outside for fresh energy!
- Go to Church/Temple- try attending an outdoor church event this summer.
Social Self Care: self care that helps you to build strong relationships with your friends, family, and community
- Have a Beach Day- Catch up with a family member or friend at the beach.
- Meet a Friend for Coffee- head to a local outdoor coffee shop and grab a brew.
- Have a Girl’s Night- plan an outdoor girls night full of delicious cocktails
- Host a Dinner Party- plan a fun BBQ and invite over the friends and family.
What kind of Outdoor Self Care Activities are right for you?
Getting started with your self-care journey can be tough. If you’re having a hard time figuring out what activities are needed in your life, go grab your journal and use these fun thought starters to figure out what you need!
Self Care Thought Starters:
- I feel guilty when I can’t/don’t….
- I feel most myself when I take time to…..
- What makes me the most confident/happy?
- I get irritated when I don’t have time to….
20 Outdoor Self Care Activities to Try this Summer
Go on a Picnic for a fun outdoor self care activity to try alone or with friends
Pack up your favorite snacks and drinks and visit the local park. Either by yourself or with a friend having an outdoor picnic is a fun way to get some outside time into your self-care routine. And a girls gotta eat right?
Don’t forget to pack a blanket, sheet, or mat to sit on to prevent grass stains on your clothing! Set up in a nice shady spot and set up your picnic for a fun outdoor eating experience!
Favorite Picnic Foods:
- Grapes, apples, pears (easy to eat fruits)
- Charcuterie with crackers or bread
- Champagne or Sparkling water
Read a Book in a Hammock
Pick up an easy fun read and grab your hammock for a little break from reality. Reading a good fiction book is a great way to take yourself away from the stress of everyday life. Try a portable camping hammock or set up a hammock chair on your deck or patio.
Go for a walk for Outdoor Self Care
Exercise is fantastic for stress relief and mental health. While the weather is nice head outside and gets in your steps. Walking first thing in the morning is a great way to jump-start your metabolism.
Soak up Vitamin D in a Floaty
Get a fabulous floaty, blow it up, and head to the pool, lake, or ocean. Floating out in the sun is a great way to soak up vitamin d and destress in the sun. Make sure to wear sunscreen to prevent sunburn!
Celebrate the Full Moon with a Camping Trip
Pack up your vehicle and hit the road (or your backyard) for a camping trip during the full moon. The fresh air will help you relax, the simplicity of camping also helps to keep you in the present. So head out to the wilderness and enjoy!
Hike a New Trail
Visit AllTrails to find a new hike. You can search by hike difficulty, locations, and amenities. Which can help you find a new area to explore.
I particularly love AllTrails because I can pinpoint which hikes I can take my dog on and which I can’t. You can also read recent reviews which give up-to-date info on the trail conditions.
Try a New Salad Recipe
Search the internet (or your nearest cookbook) for a delicious and interesting salad recipe.
Five Salad Recipes to Try
- Healthy Taco Salad by Love and Lemons
- Grilled Curry Chicken Salad with Herb Vinaigrette by The Modern Proper
- Watermelon Salad with Cucumber and Feta by Dinner at the Zoo
- Blackberry Balsamic Spinach Salad by Taste of Home
- Vegan Cobb Salad by the Simple Veganista
Sun Salutations Relaxing Outdoor Self Care to Start Your Day
A simple sun salutation yoga sequence is perfect for stretching, distressing, and starting your day. With the extended daylight we get in summer the Sun Salutation sequence is perfect for jump-starting your day and warming up your body.
Sun salutations are practiced in time with your breathing as each breath takes you to the next pose. This chart below is the perfect way to walk you through it!
Get Up Early and Watch the Sunrise
Get up early and watch the sunrise at least once during the summer months. As the sun rises much earlier, it can be refreshing and exciting to get up early. Rising with the sun is also great for your own personal clock.
Create a Coffee Nook on your Patio for Daily Outdoor Self Care
Drinking coffee on the patio during the summer months is such a fun way to enjoy your morning cuppa. Make it even easier by setting up a Coffee Nook on your patio instead of a bar this summer.
Paint a Landscape Outside
Tapping into your creativity is a fun way to practice self-care. Grab an easel, paint, brushes, and a canvas (or paper) and head outside somewhere with a beautiful view. Spend the afternoon painting in the sunlight for a fun and relaxing day.
Go to a Drive In Movie
Many towns and cities offer Drive-In Movies during the summer months. A quick google search will often be the most productive way to find a film near you. Pack snacks, warm blankets, and pillows for extra fun and cozy time.
Where to find drive-in movies:
- Check out eventbrite.com
- Visit local events pages
- Check out Facebook Events
- Check to see if any local theaters have pop up drive-in movies
Make Smores with Friends
Meet up with some friends for a night of s’mores. Set up a s’mores station with marshmallows, chocolate, and graham crackers. For a fun twist on traditional s’mores try Reese’s Peanut Butter Cups or Dark Chocolate instead of traditional Hershey’s Milk Chocolate.
Take Yourself Out on a Date
Spending time with yourself in a fun and exciting way helps to build confidence and self-esteem. This is almost limitless.
Ideas for Taking Yourself on a Date
- Take yourself out for coffee and a manicure.
- Visit a farmers market and cook yourself a fun meal with goodies you pick up.
- Go to a movie by yourself.
- Visit your favorite store and take yourself out to lunch.
Set Up a Pool in Your Yard
Reduce stress by setting up a pool in your yard for a little exercise and a lot of fun. There are pools in many different sizes available. Set one up and grab your favorite floaty for a fun day in the sun.
Beat the Heat with Healthy Home Made Popsicles
Grab your favorite fruits, milk or juice, and yogurt, etc., and create healthy and refreshing popsicles to enjoy all summer long.
Mix your favorite fruits, non-dairy milk, and natural sweetener for a healthy and delicious popsicle! One of my all-time favorite popsicles is full-fat coconut milk blended and frozen. It’s the perfect healthy treat for a hot summer day.
Visit a Botanical Garden
Look for a botanical garden near you to spend a day enjoying interesting flora from all around the world! Make sure to take your camera as many botanical gardens are full of statues and art as well as beautiful plants and flowers.
Every botanical garden I’ve ever been to has had something different to offer. From art installations to cafes, to carnivorous plants. There’s always something to explore.
Start an Herb Garden
Growing things is fantastic for grounding yourself and reducing anxiety. Plant a small herb garden to add fresh herbs to new dishes you create in your kitchen. Herbs are often easy to grow and small, so they can be grown outside or indoors.
Easy Herbs to Grow:
Learn a New Outdoor Hobby
Try a new outdoor hobby for a fun way to grow this summer. You can learn how to rollerblade, SUP- Stand Up Paddle Board, rock climbing, geo-caching, and so much more!
Learning something new is a great way to exercise different muscles in your brain! It can help reduce stress, lower anxiety, and build self-esteem.
Take Your Journal Outside
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Not too long ago, Atlantic City was a thriving gambling hub on the East Coast of the U.S., the main casino epicenter along the Eastern Seaboard. Then, things started to fall apart for various reasons and New Jersey was forced to step in to put the city back on track. Everything seemed to be going well for a while and, between 2017-2019, Atlantic City casinos started to mount a rebound. That came to a crashing halt last year because of COVID-19 and this year isn’t shaping up to be much better. Already operating under strict lockdown procedures and reduced capacities, the city’s gambling properties are being forced to extend those policies for another 30 days.
As of yesterday, New Jersey Governor Phil Murphy has renewed the state’s anti-COVID-19 policies for another 30 days. He warned in a Twitter post that the “public health emergency’ could be extended again at the end of that period, as well, if there aren’t significant improvements made in the state’s fight against the coronavirus. However, he remains confident that widespread distribution of the COVID-19 vaccine is coming soon and that this will help New Jersey, as well as other states, start to return to normal.
As a result of the extension, casinos will need to keep their current capacity limits, which have been capped at 25% for what seems like an eternity now. Guests and employees of the city’s nine gambling properties will need to wear face masks and table games will still operate with fewer gamblers able to take a seat. Slot machines, as well, will not be as widely available as they were a year ago, with some having been removed to ensure social distancing policies can be followed. In some instances, the machines have simply been rearranged to allow adherence to those policies.
Atlantic City’s gambling market lost 44% of its gross gaming revenue (GGR) last year compared to what had been reported a year earlier. In 2019, the casinos saw a total GGR of $2.7 billion, but this dropped to $1.5 billion last year. Operating profits obviously declined, as well, with the casinos showing gross profits of $68.1 million across the first three quarters of 2020. That was 86% less than what it was in 2019.
Murphy is optimistic that a new leader in the White House is going to help turn things around, adding in a separate tweet yesterday, “Tomorrow begins a new day in our nation’s history.” He also indicated that he would attend the inauguration of President-elect Biden and Vice President-elect Harris, so perhaps he can convince them to give New Jersey some extra help. | <urn:uuid:055d6797-cdeb-4ce1-ac90-d97d6b4fc595> | CC-MAIN-2023-50 | https://calvinayre.com/2021/01/20/casino/atlantic-city-casinos-to-continue-under-covid-19-restrictions | 2023-12-07T23:16:11Z | s3://commoncrawl/crawl-data/CC-MAIN-2023-50/segments/1700679100705.19/warc/CC-MAIN-20231207221604-20231208011604-00754.warc.gz | en | 0.972848 | 560 | [
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By Linda Hsieh, Editor & Publisher
As the drilling industry puts rigs back to work amid a rebound in oil prices and global energy demand, companies are having to confront an unpleasant truth: Many of the former employees who had been let go during the last downturn don’t want to come back. They’ve found other jobs in other industries, and they’re no longer interested in returning.
This is making it more difficult to staff rigs, especially with experienced people. Speaking on a panel session at the IADC Annual General Meeting in November, Patterson-UTI President and CEO Andy Hendricks noted that his company’s active rig count had dropped from 120+ to the 30s during the pandemic. “Then, as we were coming out of this COVID downturn and bringing rigs back to work, when we got up to about 65-70 rigs – much less than we had pre-COVID – it’s like we ran out of people. The people that we were trying to call and get back weren’t there anymore.”
All of a sudden, the company found itself having to reinstate systems and processes that hadn’t been in place for several years: recruiting, hiring, onboarding and training. Job fairs where the company used to draw 200 people now only pull in 60 people, and even then only half of them are interested, Mr Hendricks said.
The industry has been talking about its people problem for years, but now it appears the pandemic and energy transition are really accelerating and intensifying the challenge. So, what can companies do differently this time when it comes to attracting and retaining new employees?
First, don’t keep looking to the same places for your talent. This can refer to geography, of course, but it can also refer to the type of people you set out to hire. Kim McHugh, Chevron VP of Drilling and Completions, noted during the same panel session that 51% of the world’s population are women, yet women are still a minority in the drilling industry. “We have to tap into a different workforce,” she urged.
Going outside of “comfort zones” to hire new talent won’t be easy, but it may be necessary. It will require the industry to continue combatting misconceptions about the oil and gas business. “This is a noble industry, but we don’t talk about it outside our own communities,” Ms McHugh said. “How do we get others to know about our safety record, our pay and benefits, or what we do for the world?” There is likely no short-term solution here, but volunteer and outreach efforts at middle schools and high schools would help in the long term, she suggested. Start early so that young people learn about our industry well before they embark on their careers.
Companies also need to provide clearer career paths for their employees. Ms McHugh noted that more and more drilling and completion engineers are wondering if they will become irrelevant in five or 10 years. “Career path development is more important than ever before,” she said. “I’m trying to work with them on having more breadth instead of depth, so they can be more competitive as jobs open up globally.”
Rig crews, too, need to be given clearer career paths to show them what is possible in their future. “Giving our employees more visibility will give us an advantage in retaining them,” Brett Schellenberg, Director of Controls & Automation at Nabors, noted on the panel session.
Prioritizing training and continuing to invest in training is another key part of retaining rig crews, Mr Hendricks said. This includes safety training, leadership training, as well as performance training. “All of these investments matter. We want them to understand they have a career, and there are opportunities to grow,” he said. “We want them to think, I do have to be away from home, but it’s still good work because I work for a group of people that care for me.” DC
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Impediment of Crime
Nullifies marriage according to ecclesiastical law, and arises from adultery and homicide separately or together
Crime, IMPEDIMENT OF, nullifies marriage according to ecclesiastical law, and arises from adultery and homicide separately or together. The Roman civil law prohibited the marriage of a man with a widow with whom he had committed adultery during the life-time of her busband. There is serious doubt (Deere-turn, Gratiani, Pt. II, c. xxxi, q. 4 1) whether the Church ever accepted this law. Ecclesiastical law since the twelfth century certainly supposes other circumstances in such adultery in order that it may effect a nullification of the marriage.
According to the actual law (Decretal. Greg. IX, Lib. 4 X tit. 7: De eo qui duxit. Cap. i, Propositum—Cap. vi, Significasti) there are two cases in which an adulterer may not marry one with whom the crime was committed: (I) When the adulterer promises to the partner in guilt marriage after the death of the other’s legitimate spouse; (2) When the two attempted marriage and this was consummated during the lifetime of a legitimate spouse. Hence neither adultery alone without promise of marriage nor the promise of marriage without adultery forms a diriznent, or nullifying, impediment. The promise must be accepted, and if it precede the adultery, must not have been recalled before the sin. Silence alone is not sufficient evidence of the acceptance of the promise. The adultery to which the promise is attached must be formal and known by both. If Titus should corrupt a woman who believed him to be free, he could marry her after his wife’s death, even if he attempted marriage with her during his wife’s life, provided she were unaware of his marriage.
Affected ignorance, certainly, and, most probably, crass ignorance does not excuse from the sin or its penalties. The adultery must be consummated, but it is not required that the promise united to the sin should be absolute, nor, most probably, that it should be sincere, because the impediment does not depend upon the value of the promise, which is essentially null, and because a fictitious promise, if apparently true, is naturally inductive to the sin; and this the Church, by establishing such an impediment, strives to prevent as far as possible. In regard to the impediment, it is indifferent whether the promise precede or follow the adultery, if both occur during the marriage. If the promise were made during the life of a first spouse, and the adultery were committed during the life of a second, the impediment would be doubtful. It is well to note that a promise of two persons to marry after the death of a legitimate spouse is recognized as criminal and null, even if confirmed by oath and made without any thought of adultery.
One murdering a spouse to marry another cannot contract marriage with this other (I) when there was cooperation in the murder for the purpose of this marriage, (2) when, without cooperation in the murder, adultery was committed by them, and the murder committed for the sole purpose of their contracting marriage. Thus, if the homicide is apart from adultery, both must concur in this murder. If the adultery occurs with the homicide, it suffices that one of the guilty should take part in the murder. In both cases, one at least must intend to marry the other. That the adultery and homicide, apart or joined, form a diriment impediment certain conditions are necessary: (I) the homicide must take place; an attempt to kill or the infliction of a wound not mortal would not entail it; (2) the homicide must be of the spouse of one of those who wish to be married; so, when the homicide is apart from the adultery, both must be accomplices by a physical or moral action which influences the murder, either by a command or previous approval. Approval of the event after its occurrence does not suffice, as also if the former command or approval had been recalled. The intention of marriage need not have been mentioned, where there was cooperation in the homicide. In the public ecclesiastical court credence is not given to the murderer of a spouse, who may deny the intention of marrying one with whom adulterous intercourse was held. This impediment holds if only one of the parties is a Christian. The Church claims the right to legislate for her children in their relations with infidels. The impediment is incurred even if not known. The Church may dispense from it, as the impediment is established by her authority. In the case of public homicide, however, whether due to only one or both of the parties, the pope never dispenses (Laurentius, no. 659).
Crime, from a canonical standpoint, at times carries with it its own legal punishment, at others it awaits the decision of a court. Thus we have seen its effect in causing an impediment to marriage. For certain crimes determined by ecclesiastical law, the “right of patronage” may be lost to the guilty party or, in some cases, to his heirs; ecclesiastical benefices may also be lost to the holder when guilty of a crime determined in the law. Homicide, fornication, or adultery, however, would not necessarily deprive a cleric of his benefice, dignity, or office, though he may be deposed by his superior in punishment of these or similar crimes. Unless the law is explicit in determining such privation as resulting from the fact, a legal investigation is required for the punishment. (See Canonical Impediments; Adultery; Homicide; Murder.)
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By Leni Gross Young
PROMPT — During COVID-19 ...
And the beat goes on. Or
we are beaten. So hard to
know. Daily lives go on, yet
“go” has different meaning –
outside, inside, six feet apart,
or under, all is adjusting itself to
the uncertainty and out of control-
ness. Like a game of chess where
no one can see the board, or the
opponents’ moves. Whose move
now? We could use a knight,
one in shining armor. A queen
would potentially do us well.
Checkmate on the king.
Someone said that at the end
of this there would be divorce
court and rehab marathons,
many new babies – perhaps
more than those to replace the
deaths, tolling, trolling the
internet. Collapses. We all should
have invested in Zoom. Who knew?
Only now, we know. Insiders on the
Hill probably all knew, but were
they smart enough to Zoom?
To check? Or mate?
Stories of coy pond mineral water
deaths and bleach swallowed, rationalized
by the unchecked king. Shelter in place,
a new phrase bandied about, urgency,
panic, frantic, economy versus people.
is it mother earth’s warning on our
arrogance? Apocalypse now? I envision
an ark. Who will be the chooser of
the two by twos? Now we are
all in check. If we make the right
moves, or, better, stay unmoving for
as long as necessary, maybe there will be
no checkmate on the human species. But
maybe it’s what we deserve? Pawn
that we are.
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"It was not so long ago that City were very similar, in financial terms, to most teams."
He added: "But then a couple of changes of ownership at the club saw things change quickly for them. With that comes a great deal of expectation."
On Sunday, a Premier League spokesman confirmed Everton had at no point made contact with them about City.
It is understood it would take a formal complaint from a club for them to look into the matter further.
Lescott, 27, missed City's defeat at Goodison Park because of a knee injury.
He signed a five-year contract with City in August 2009 after a long-drawn-out transfer saga in a deal that made him the second most expensive English defender, after Manchester United's Rio Ferdinand.
In the run-up to the move Moyes described City's pursuit of the centre-back as "disgusting".
"It has not been handled correctly from over there [City]," he said.
It was not so long ago that City were very similar, in financial terms, to most teams
Everton manager David Moyes
However, Mark Hughes, Manchester City boss at the time of the transfer, defended his club's pursuit of the defender.
"We feel we are doing things the right way and through the proper channels," he stated.
"I'm not surprised David feels a bit aggrieved with the situation - you always are when a big club is trying to sign one of your best players."
The Everton boss also criticised Lescott at the time, saying the defender had shown "poor attitude" before joining the Manchester club.
Lescott later described Moyes' comments as "disappointing" and "inaccurate".
The centre-back, who has eight England caps, joined Everton from his first club Wolves for £5m in 2006.
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Ok, here's one I heard about: You know how your mother always told you not to point? Well, this guy apparently didn't take that advise to heart. Many years ago my uncle was making a sales call to some big wig in a sky rise. The guy was showing off his beautiful 180 degree window views. "Over here you can see such and such.... and over there... " That's when this guy turned around pointing and put his finger right up my uncles's nose! Just a minor faux pas. | <urn:uuid:28c9f82a-912d-4ae1-b628-d7b646d13f33> | CC-MAIN-2014-52 | http://www.gollygee-pers.blogspot.com/2011/09/contest-for-most-embarrassing-manners.html | 2014-12-18T02:17:04Z | s3://commoncrawl/crawl-data/CC-MAIN-2014-52/segments/1418802765584.21/warc/CC-MAIN-20141217075245-00051-ip-10-231-17-201.ec2.internal.warc.gz | en | 0.980538 | 189 | [
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Ted Mosby: Look, I've never told you guys this, but over the years, a few of my old high-school buddies have asked me to give wedding toasts; and they've haven't... gone... great. Somehow those weddings all fell smack-dab in the worst moments of my life.
Ted Mosby: [Flashback to wedding 2008] Joel and Nora's love is a beautiful thing. I thought I had that, til my fiance left me at the alter last week.
Ted Mosby: I was asked not to talk about this, so I won't.
Ted Mosby: I sit outside her house at night sometimes. She got a haircut.
Ted Mosby: [Wedding, 2009] After I lost my job last week, I was asked not to give this toast
[Someone tries to wrestle the mic away from Ted]
Ted Mosby: No, no!
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Ambulance staff 'can speed up stroke treatment'
Treating stroke in specialised ambulances en route to hospital is feasible and could boost the number of patients who receive life-saving therapy, experts believe.
Mobile stroke units can halve the time it takes a patient to get clot-busting drugs, a small German trial found.
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Mother's milk and touch best for infant's health
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- I believe Formation Ino-Shika-Cho is what it said it is: a formation used by Ino, Shikamaru and Choji. Basically this would be on the same level of jutsu if you know...it was actually a jutsu. Ino-Shika-Cho already does link to Team Asuma.--TheUltimate3 (talk) 02:07, December 8, 2009 (UTC)
Should we merge the Ino-Shika-Chō(new generation) with the Ino-Shika-Chō(previous). We could just split the article into two section one for each generation. I dont know how to merge articles or if we can, but if you think this is a good idea than merge them together.Scott swag (talk) 03:38, October 7, 2010 (UTC)
- How can we merge two articles when only one of the articles actually exists? ~SnapperTo 04:20, October 7, 2010 (UTC)
- From what I understand, both ideas were inspired by the card game
Yamanaka's not included?
We have both Akimichi and Nara clan symbols on this page and all other formations of Ino-Shika-Cho but not Yamanaka. I would like to ask why they're not included before I go and add their symbol to classifications. Joshbl56 05:30, June 24, 2013 (UTC) | <urn:uuid:cfee1c3d-9442-4ddc-b53f-79c64ed988f2> | CC-MAIN-2014-52 | http://naruto.wikia.com/wiki/Talk:Formation_Ino%E2%80%93Shika%E2%80%93Ch%C5%8D?direction=prev&oldid=799244 | 2014-12-21T05:45:32Z | s3://commoncrawl/crawl-data/CC-MAIN-2014-52/segments/1418802770718.139/warc/CC-MAIN-20141217075250-00035-ip-10-231-17-201.ec2.internal.warc.gz | en | 0.976627 | 297 | [
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By Randy Hendrickson
Pharmalot recently reported a study (“Content of Weblogs Written by Health Professionals” by Tara Lagu et al) that shows that there are serious ethical problems associated with physician weblogs. Although weblogs have emerged as a vital new way to share experiences and provide a connection between health professionals and the public, they do not have the same standards of conduct as medical books, peer-reviewed journals, presentations at medical conferences, and other more traditional forms of medical communication.
Funded by the Robert Wood Johnson Foundation and published in the Journal of General Internal Medicine, this study found that a total of:
- 16.6% (45/271) of physician blogs contained information that allowed patients to identify either themselves or their doctor
- 42.1% (114/271) of the blogs described individual patients
- 15.9% (43/271) portrayed patients positively
- 17.7% (48/271) portrayed patients negatively
- 2.9% (8/271) showed patient radiographs with no other identifiable information
- 1.1% (3/271) of the blogs showed recognizable pictures of the patients
Explicit product promotions appeared in a total of 11.4% (31/271) of physician weblogs; however, none of the authors provided conflict of interest information, which is the rule for any legitimate form of medical publishing. Additionally, 29% of bloggers have been approached by public relations firms to endorse a product, and of those, 52% actually wrote a post endorsing that product. Lagu explains that “these endorsements are not advertisements that appear on the website; they are written into the blog narrative, often without any acknowledgment that they are paid promotions.”
According to Lagu, “the ease of use of medical weblogs disconnects blog content from the editorial process common to books, journals, and conventional broadcasts. For the most part, blog authors have few incentives to maintain their credibility and integrity or, in contrast, to compromise it for the sake of ratings or sales.” Most medical literature is subject to peer review; however, weblogs can be written by anyone with an internet connection, regardless of their qualifications.
Although the content of some weblogs shows a lack of respect for the physician-patient relationship, patient confidentiality, and appropriate management of conflict of interest, there has been no formal response from the medical community about the need for standards of conduct for weblog content.
The results of this study show that this new means of medical communication is only going to expand in the future. It is critical that “[p]hysician-leaders and medical educators consider curricular development and educational forums that address the challenges, opportunities, and responsibilities that medical blog authors face, and the place for this new medium with norms of the medical profession.” | <urn:uuid:c407b4b6-7fd7-4411-9d39-8d43e2c0ba5f> | CC-MAIN-2014-52 | http://womensbioethics.blogspot.com/2008/08/are-standards-of-conduct-needed-for.html | 2014-12-21T05:20:48Z | s3://commoncrawl/crawl-data/CC-MAIN-2014-52/segments/1418802770718.139/warc/CC-MAIN-20141217075250-00035-ip-10-231-17-201.ec2.internal.warc.gz | en | 0.95317 | 586 | [
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TV Ratings: NBC's Golden Globes, FOX's Giants-Packers game draw big on Sunday
'Napoleon Dynamite' and 'Undercover Boss' appear to have big premieres
Early returns suggest that NBC's coverage of the 69th Annual Golden Globe Awards was down very slightly (mostly among young viewers) from last year, but the ceremony was still Sunday night's most watched piece of scheduled programming. The Globes couldn't compete, however, with overrun from FOX's coverage of the Giants' upset win over the Packers, which spread into primetime for part of the country and gave the network's entire schedule, including the series premiere of "Napoleon Dynamite," a huge bump.
Due to the football and the live nature (even on the West Coast) of NBC's Golden Globes show, Sunday's ratings are as preliminary as they get and probably shouldn't be taken particularly seriously unless you're looking at ABC or CBS.
Among adults 18-49, FOX averaged an 8.0 rating, easily tops in the coveted demographic, with NBC's 3.6 rating a distant second. ABC's 2.1 rating and the 2.0 rating for CBS followed.
FOX also won Sunday overall, with an estimated 20.17 million viewers and an 11.1 rating/17 share, far ahead of the 12.34 million viewers and 7.5/12 for NBC. CBS' 5.8/9 and 9.165 million viewers and the 4.0/6 and 6.68 million viewers for ABC trailed.
[As a point of entirely inexact comparison, NBC's Golden Globes night last year, when the late playoff game was on CBS, averaged 12.77 million viewers and 3.8 key demo rating, but that includes the red carpet hour.]
7 p.m. - NFL overrun from New York and Green Bay averaged a whopping 40.08 million viewers and a 14.3 rating among adults 18-49 for FOX in the 7 p.m. hour. CBS' "60 Minutes" was a distant second overall with 8.72 million viewers and finished third with a 1.5 key demo rating. NBC's Golden Globes preshow averaged 7.345 million viewers and a 1.9 key demo rating. Fourth place went to ABC with 5.14 million viewers and a 1.2 key demo rating for "America's Funniest Home Videos."
8 p.m. - NBC moved into first overall for the 8 p.m. hour with 14.31 million viewers for the start of the Golden Globes, but finished second with a 4.2 rating among adults 18-49. Still coasting on its football glow, FOX was second overall and first in the demo with "The Simpsons" and "Napoleon Dynamite" averaging 12.61 million viewers and a 5.7 key demo rating. ["Napoleon Dynamite" contributed 9.51 million and a 4.6 key demo rating, but those numbers are too football skewed to be taken seriously.] CBS got a strong premiere for "Undercover Boss," which averaged 11.56 million viewers and a 3.0 key demo rating in third overall and fourth in the demo. Facing this torrent of new competition, ABC's "Once Upon a Time" held up very well with 9.84 million viewers and a 3.3 key demo rating, a reasonable drop from last week.
9 p.m. - The Golden Globes had NBC in first alone for the 9 p.m. hour with 13.55 million viewers and a 4.2 rating among adults 18-49. CBS' "The Good Wife" had a pretty weak showing with 9.31 million viewers and a 1.9 key demo rating. Also stumbling against the Globes was ABC's "Desperate Housewives" with over 7.83 million viewers and a 2.7 key demo rating. FOX's "Family Guy" and a second "Napoleon Dynamite" episode averaged just under 7.83 million viewers and a 4.0 key demo rating. [The second "Napoleon Dynamite" episode averaged 7.15 million viewers and a 3.6 key demo rating, but who knows what to make of that?]
10 p.m. - NBC closed primetime in first with 14.155 million viewers and a 4.2 rating among adults 18-49 for the end of the Golden Globes. CBS' repeat of "CSI: Miami" averaged 7.07 million viewers and a 1.5 key demo rating, beating the 3.93 million viewers and 1.3 key demo rating for ABC's "Pan Am."
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Niamh Perry (born 10 June 1990 in Bangor, County Down, Northern Ireland) is a Northern Irish singer and actress who competed as one of the finalists in the BBC talent show-themed television series I'd Do Anything in 2008.
In 2007 Perry achieved a Distinction in her Grade 8 classical singing exam, for which she won the South Eastern Education and Library Board (SEELB) Outstanding Achievement Award for Contribution to the Arts
Perry was a member of Music Theatre for Youth (MT4UTH) from when the company was founded in 2005. She was also a member of the MT4UTH Showcase group, Footlighters. She performed with MT4UTH in productions of Sweet Charity, in which she played the lead role of Charity, Oliver!, Joseph and the Amazing Technicolor Dreamcoat, Guys and Dolls and West Side Story. She also sang a solo at the re-opening of the Grand Opera House in Belfast.
In February 2008, Perry took part in an NSPCC campaign encouraging adults to call the NSPCC Child Protection Helpline if they had concerns about a child's welfare. She also recorded a CD for charity with two school friends, under the group name Paradis. The CD was played on several local radio stations and they were twice invited to sing live on U105.
On the first live show, on 29 March, she sang "The First Cut is the Deepest". Judge Denise Van Outen commented that Perry had the look and presence of a young Bernadette Peters while fellow judge, Barry Humphries suggested that she could originate the role of Wednesday in The Adams Family musical.
In the second show, on 5 April, she sang "I've Got the Music in Me". Judge John Barrowman described the performance as "wicked, outstanding and wonderful. Absolutely spot on". Andrew Lloyd Webber agreed, stating "you're just extraordinary. You put the vamp back into vampire for me." During the third live show on 12 April, Perry sang "Moon River". Van Outen commented "It was a beautiful performance, I loved the fragility of it." John Barrowman agreed, "your fragility could redefine the role of Nancy, it was very emotional and precise".
The fourth live show took place on 19 April with Perry singing "Wind Beneath My Wings", which she dedicated to her older sister Ciara. Again she received positive feedback from the judging panel. Van Outen saying, "That was gorgeous. I think you're captivating - you give such a classy performance." Humphries said her performance was "exquisite - I've been Fagin to a lot of Nancys and I'd be very happy to take a curtain call with you." Barrowman said that he wanted Perry to improve her confidence, saying, "Believe those compliments - you are good, trust me." And Lloyd Webber said "It was a wonderful performance, you are great."
For the fifth show she sang "Valerie" and for the first time received criticism with Barrowman comenting that she had a problem with her diction. Van Outen agreed and said that her performance "lacked punch". Humphries however called it "wild and wayward, another aspect of your great talent", with Lloyd Webber saying she was terrific. She was in the bottom two and had to compete in the sing-off with Keisha Amponsa-Benson, singing "The Rose" (from the film of the same name). Lloyd Webber chose to save Perry. Before announcing his decision he said, "First, I'm going to say this is a complete and utter travesty, neither of you should be in the bottom two, it's completely wrong. I've been put into a situation that I have never wanted to be in. For the first time on a television show, I am angry."
The sixth show took place on 4 May with Perry singing "They Can't Take That Away From Me". She was praised by the panel with Van outen saying "That was a very mature and sophisticated performance. It was a lovely vocal". Barrowman said "That was a class act and you don't deserve to be in the bottom two" with Humphries adding "That was a very good, intelligent and lyrical reading of that great song by Gershwin". Lloyd Webber was happy with performance and agreed with the rest of the judges saying "It was great, the intensity is there, the acting is there. I think you did wonderfully."
In week seven Perry was involved in the sing-off as well as being chosen by the Olivers to sing with them. She sang "True Colours" as her individual performance on the Saturday show on 10 May. In "The Battle of the Nancy's" she sang "Candyman" as part of "The Girls" trio with Jessie Buckley and Samantha Barks. And on the Results show the following day she was chosen by the Olivers to sing "Chitty Chitty Bang Bang" from the musical of the same name with them. Perry was again though, for the second time, in the bottom two and in the sing-off; this time with Ashley Russell, with Russell having received the lowest number of viewers votes. They sang "Don't Cry for Me, Argentina" from the musical Evita. Lloyd Webber chose to save Perry and eliminate Russell.
Perry was eliminated from the show in week eight. She sang Don't Speak, but received criticism from the panel with Van Outen saying "That was more like a teenager having a tantrum than a leading lady." Barrowman said it was vocally strong but added "I'm also worried that that wouldn't register at the back of the stalls." Humphries said it was a gritty performance but also added that there was a serious technical problem in that Perry was comparably small and the boys would "look like giants clustering around her on stage". Lloyd Webber said he wasn't sure she was ready to do eight shows a week, adding "your voice hasn't developed yet and I wouldn't want you to ruin it forever."
She was in the sing-off for a third time, this time with Rachel Tucker, with Perry having received the lowest number of viewers votes. They sang "Another Suitcase in Another Hall" from the musical Evita. Lloyd Webber chose to save Tucker and eliminate Perry saying, "Niamh, if I was casting Evita, I would seriously think of you for that role." After choosing to eliminate Perry he said of her, "your voice just needs time to mature and I wouldn't be surprised if you were up for a major leading role when you're twenty." | <urn:uuid:5cb47312-3ec6-47ab-82da-8cccdeba1b0c> | CC-MAIN-2014-52 | http://www.reference.com/browse/wiki/Niamh_Perry | 2014-12-21T05:52:58Z | s3://commoncrawl/crawl-data/CC-MAIN-2014-52/segments/1418802770718.139/warc/CC-MAIN-20141217075250-00035-ip-10-231-17-201.ec2.internal.warc.gz | en | 0.988046 | 1,376 | [
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by Lady Mary Hamilton, 1739-1816
London: Printed for Robson and Co. New Bond Street; Walter, Charing Cross; and Robinson, Paternoster Row, 1778.
The plot of Munster Village has many twists and turns, as Lady Mary Hamilton recounts the fortunes and romantic misfortunes of the Munster family. I recommend keeping a scorecard at hand to track the entanglements of the various Lord Munsters!
At first it seems like a digression that Lady Hamilton devotes considerable detail to describing the establishment of a utopian community by Lady Frances Munster. Munster Village includes homes for tradesmen and artificers, a public hospital, and a public university with libraries, museums, and classes in both arts and sciences for men and women of talent.
However, a central theme of the book is the interaction between education and inclination. Lady Hamilton sees education as being at least as important as inclination when forming a strong and lasting romantic attachment. The educational theories and practices that shape her characters are described in detail, to show how their characters, morals, and behavior have been formed. Their choices are a result of early training as much as they are of immediate emotion.
"In an age where men of letters seem so regardless of morals – in an age where they have endeavoured to persuade mankind, with but too much success, that the virtues of the mind and of the heart are incompatible – let them cast their eyes on the character of Mr. Burt – When they find so many virtues united in a man, whose understanding was both sublime and just – when they find a man of his penetration to have been a strictly moral man – they will then, perhaps, be convinced that vice is the natural effect of an imperfect understanding."
Lady Hamilton hopes, in depicting Lady Frances' utopian Munster Village, to map out a possible future in which women (and men) engage in broad and liberal philanthropic work for the benefit of all.
"She considered society is manifestly maintained by a circulation of kindness: we are all of us, in some way or other, wanting assistance, and in like manner qualified to give it."
That Lady Frances becomes a great benefactress is not accidental. She has great resources, but more importantly she has been well educated, and her experience has given her sympathy for those who have endured hardships. She is intended to be a model for real people to emulate. It is also important to Lady Hamilton that a woman is being shown to have agency. For the utopia that Lady Mary Hamilton describes is based on merit, and she is explicit that merit can be found in both men and women.
Lady Frances' university admits 200 young men and 20 women at any given time. Students are chosen on the basis of talent, regardless of class or gender, and given full financial support. The goal of educating both men and women is to help them "to discover wherein their genius consists" and educate them in those pursuits, so that they may be self-supporting.
"These young ladies are not instructed to declaim with grace, or sing with taste; but if they are less amusing, they are infinitely more useful and interesting companions to those they afterwards associate with, whether in the character of wives or friends."
An emphasis on usefulness, and the ability of women to support themselves, recurs throughout Lady Hamilton's account of the various Munsters. Several of her female characters find themselves in difficult straits, lacking the support of family or friends. One character, Lady Eliza, informs her lover that she will not give up her country and her friends to marry him, for "from all her observations in life, no love ever lasted long enough to make it worth while to sacrifice every thing else to it".
One of Lady Hamilton's most positively drawn male characters is attracted to one woman, after having promised himself to another. Inclinations of both males and females are likely to lead them astray, unless their characters have been well formed through education. One of her female characters chooses not to marry until she has discharged other responsibilities, fearing that marriage would cause her to neglect them.
Lady Hamilton's utopian vision is a very egalitarian one, based on merit, and explicitly disavowing assumptions of value based on race, class, and gender. It is not a future in which the wealthy give up their advantages, but rather one in which they put them to good use. It is notable that the various threads of the romantic plot are untangled at a celebratory ball held in honour of Lady Frances, the benefactress of Munster Village. Guests arrive in the guise of famous historical and mythological figures, and acclaim Lady Frances for her virtues and noble deeds. Those who have failed to show respect for women are not admitted!
The themes of Lady Mary Hamilton's novel are also the themes of her life: education, enlightenment, and romance. Lady Mary Leslie was the youngest daughter of Alexander Leslie, fifth earl of Leven and Melville, by his second wife Elizabeth, daughter of David Monypenny. Lady Mary married Dr. James Walker of Innerdovat on 5 Jan. 1762, and had several children. Their education was a major concern of Lady Mary's. Lady Mary left Walker in the early 1790s and moved to Lille, France, with British merchant George Robinson Hamilton. Styling herself "Lady Mary Hamilton", she was accompanied by two of her daughters, Isabella and Elizabeth (Betzy) Walker. The girls married French officers, Étienne de Jouy, and Paul Dieudonné. After Hamilton's death in 1797, Lady Mary may have been involved romantically with Sir Herbert Croft. | <urn:uuid:4b736d32-d057-4b19-93fc-06f138152eaf> | CC-MAIN-2014-52 | http://merrigold.livejournal.com/88786.html | 2014-12-22T14:46:43Z | s3://commoncrawl/crawl-data/CC-MAIN-2014-52/segments/1418802775392.34/warc/CC-MAIN-20141217075255-00115-ip-10-231-17-201.ec2.internal.warc.gz | en | 0.969743 | 1,163 | [
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All right! Yes, for Barbara it is all right. Friends, I no more doubt that than I doubt that I am sitting here now, with the hot tears on my cheeks, telling you about it; but oh! not—not for us!
“Much laughing will end in much crying.” The Brat was right. God knows the old saw has come true enough in my case. I exulted too soon. Too soon I said that the all-victor was vanquished. He might have left us our one little victory, might not he?—knowing that at best it was but a reprieve, that soon or late—soon or late, Algy—we all, every human flower that ever blossomed out in this world’s sad garden, must be embraced in the icy iron of his arms.
I always said that we were too many and too prosperous; long ago I said it. I always wondered that he had so long overlooked us. And now that he comes, he takes our choicest and best. With nothing less is he content. Barbara sickens. Not until the need for her tender nursing is ended, not until Algy can do without her, does she go; and then she makes haste to leave us.
On the morning after my mad and premature elation, it is but too plain that the fever has laid hold of her too, and in its parching, withering clasp, our unstained lily fades. We take her back to Tempest at her wish, and there she dies—yes, dies.
Somehow, I never thought of Barbara dying. Often I have been nervous about the boys; out in the world, exposed to a hundred dangers and rough accidents, but about Barbara—never^ hardly more than about myself, safely at home, scarcely within reach of any probable peril. And now the boys are all alive and safe, and Barbara is going. One would think that she had cared nothing for us, she is in such a hurry to be gone; and yet we all know that she has loved us well—that she loves us still—none better.
Alas! we have no long and tedious nursing of her. She has never given any trouble in her life, and she gives none now. Almost before we realize the reality and severity of her sickness, she is gone. Neither does she make any struggle. She never was one to strive or cry; never loud, clamorous, and self-asserting, like the boys and me; she was always most meek, and with a great meekness she now goes forth from among us—meekness and yet valor, for with a full and collected consciousness she looks in the face of Him from whom the nations shuddering turn away their eyes, and puts her slight hand gently into his, saying, “Friend, I am ready!”
And the days roll by; but few, but few of them, for, as I tell you, she goes most quickly, and it comes to pass that our Barbara’s death-day dawns. Most people go in the morning. God grant that it is a good omen, that for them, indeed, the sun is rising!
We are all round her—all we that loved her and yet so lightly—for every trivial thing called upon her, and taxed her, and claimed this and that of her, as if she were some certain common thing that we should always have within our reach. Yes, we are all about her, kneeling and standing in a hallowed silence, choking back our tears that they may not stain the serenity of her departure. | <urn:uuid:55cb074a-bf63-46e6-857c-4738437d7ad5> | CC-MAIN-2014-52 | http://www.bookrags.com/ebooks/12304/229.html | 2014-12-22T14:54:07Z | s3://commoncrawl/crawl-data/CC-MAIN-2014-52/segments/1418802775392.34/warc/CC-MAIN-20141217075255-00115-ip-10-231-17-201.ec2.internal.warc.gz | en | 0.982074 | 756 | [
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|By persian4runner on Monday, December 02, 2002 - 04:38 pm: Edit|
I was wondering what my chances of getting into UCSD are. I have a 3.85 gpa and have taken the most competitive courses at a very competitive school (University High school in Irvine California). My SAT's are as follows:
SAT 1 = 1300
SAT 2 Math LEVEL 1C = 710
SAT 2 Physics = 670
Sat 2 Writing = 600
I will be taking math level 2c,physics and writing again on december 7th. Will those scores be sufficient or if not what will I need to raise them too.
|By unknown on Monday, December 02, 2002 - 04:44 pm: Edit|
What are my chances at , ass, bitch, , poop, butt , diddly bip, , pock , motherfuck, , dick, rust, bust, nookie wookie pussy???????????!!!!
|By Nonea on Monday, December 02, 2002 - 05:55 pm: Edit|
Is that GPA weighed or unweighed? Your SAT II's seem decent enough, but you might want to work on the writing score if you have the time. Will you have another opportunity to take the SAT I? If you think you can improve, doing that might be a good idea.
|By persian4runner on Monday, December 02, 2002 - 07:13 pm: Edit|
the gpa is weighted. And im taking my sat 2's again i didnt study for the writing part the first time and am studying this time so hopefully that will increase and same with my physics.
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Rachel Sterne, the newly appointed chief digital officer for NYC, released her first report on the city's digital roadmap, and goals she'll be implementing over the course of the year that will provide connectivity for its citizens. While I haven't finished reading the entire 60-page document yet, I am pretty impressed with all the digital tools the city already enjoys. Below are just a few I've already found published in the report:
- More free WiFi in public places, including parks.
- An official @nycgov Twitter account, updating followers on city happenings, news, and alerts.
- Online bill payments for city dues like water, parking tickets, and property taxes.
- 311 service requests, which allow users to report incidents, sanitation issues, taxi or noise complaints, and a number of other issues via a mobile app or website.
- Condom finder iPhone app.
- School-based iZone tools that allow teachers to track progress of their students in real-time, and customize learning plans to individual student needs.
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A lot of students look for left handed scholarships assuming there are a lot of them out there. In all actuality, there is only one well known lefty scholarship program in the country at the moment – the The Frederick and Mary F. Beckley Scholarship at Juniata College in Huntingdon, Pennsylvania. This scholarship is valued between $1,000 and $1,500 a year, and it is issued to 40 left-handed students at the university each year. If you aren’t going to be attending that college, you may still have hope of finding financial aid.
Tips to Help Find Left Handed Scholarships
Tips for Finding College Scholarships
Being a southpaw isn’t the only thing that makes you eligible for scholarship money. You should be able to find a variety of other scholarships to apply for. Think about your academic achievements, your athletic abilities, your family income, and everything in between. Surely there is a college scholarship out there for you. Once you figure out some of traits that may make you eligible for a scholarship, you can check your school, the web, and local organizations to find some of the different opportunities available to you. Then all you have to do is fill out a few applications.
How to Get the Best Results from Your Applications
For most of the scholarships you apply to, you will need to write an essay based on a prompt from the scholarship committee. This prompt could be about almost anything, so you need to read it carefully before you construct your essay. Make sure that your writing is free of grammar mistakes, punctuation errors, and plagiarism. Then have someone else read over it to make sure it looks the best it can. Then all you should have to do is submit the essay along with your other documents for the scholarship.
Whether you’re looking for left handed scholarships or some other sources of financial aid, you need to make sure you fill out your application before the scholarship deadline. Every scholarship has a timeframe that you have to turn in applications within. Failure to do so could cost you a lot of money in the long run. Try to look for scholarships all throughout the year because some of them only show up for a month before they disappear. If you keep up with that and your grades in school, you should have no trouble finding a way to pay for college. | <urn:uuid:d405d79d-b7e7-474a-888a-f54edeff25b4> | CC-MAIN-2014-52 | http://www.scholarshipsauthority.com/left-handed-scholarships/ | 2014-12-22T14:46:25Z | s3://commoncrawl/crawl-data/CC-MAIN-2014-52/segments/1418802775392.34/warc/CC-MAIN-20141217075255-00115-ip-10-231-17-201.ec2.internal.warc.gz | en | 0.960316 | 478 | [
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Gator Baseball Out at SEC Tourney
A day after blowing a four-run lead in the ninth inning, South Carolina scored five runs in the second inning Thursday and made it stand in an 11-3 victory over Florida in the second round of the Southeastern Conference baseball tournament. The loss knocking Florida out of the double-elimination tournament.
The Gamecocks, who lost 5-4 to LSU in Wednesday's opening-round after leading 4-0 in the ninth, jumped out to an early lead Thursday when they sent 11 batters to the plate in the second inning and scored five runs on five hits and three walks.
Parker Bangs, Harley Lail and Resse Havens each had an RBI hit to chase Florida starter Billy Bullock (4-4) after only 1 1/3 innings. Florida, which had scored a run in the top of the first on a sacrifice fly by Brandon McArthur, added runs in the third and fifth innings to narrow the gap to 5-3. McArthur delivered another RBI on a single to center field in the third, and Cole Figueroa had an RBI single in the fifth. The loss drops the Gators to 34-22 for the year. The Gators will next await to hear their NCAA tournament fate on Sunday.
- Gators Blank Commodores, Win SEC Tourney Title, Earn No. 2 Overall Seed In NCAA Baseball Tournament
- Gator Baseball Wins SEC Tourney Opener
- Florida Baseball Loses SEC Tourney Opener, Awaits NCAA Tourney Fate
- LSU Takes Out Top-seed Florida in SEC Tourney
- Gator Softball Wins SEC Tourney Opener
- Gators Soccer Advances to SEC Tourney Semifinals
- GATOR BASEBALL DROPS TOURNEY OPENER
- Florida Baseball Shuts Out Alabama, Advances In SEC Tournament
- GATORS LOAD UP ALL-SEC BASEBALL TEAM
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Roberta Elizabeth Blake (nee Krause), 60, and a resident of Amherst, passed away Wednesday, September 26, 2007 at Haleakala National Park, HI, following a sudden accident. She was born June 15, 1947. Roberta was raised in Amherst and graduated from Marion L. Steele in Amherst. She was a lifetime resident of Amherst.
Roberta was employed as a Nurses Aid at Crystal Waters Assisted Living in Strongsville for four years and Abbewood Retirement Center in Elyria for three years. She also provided home health aid to those in need of therapy or hospice care. She was a member of St. Joseph Catholic Church in Amherst. Roberta provided her home for exchange students from Hungary. She loved to care and help others.
Survivors include her son, David R. Blake of Lorain; sister, Ruth Penwell of Lorain; and niece, Jackie Penwell of CA.
She was preceded in death by her husband, David Ronald Blake; and parents, Robert Antone and Angela Frances Catherine Krause (nee Schmitz).
Friends may call Friday, October 5, 2007 from 2 to 4 and 7 to 9 P.M. at the Hempel Funeral Home, 373 Cleveland Ave., Amherst. Funeral Services will be held Saturday, October 6, 2007 at 11 A.M. from the funeral home. Burial will be in St. Joseph Cemetery, Amherst.
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One of the best things about SABR is meeting with friends you have made thru SABR. After meeting Abby and Kent last year at SABR41 in Long Beach, you would always see the three of us together. The three of us said we would keep in touch with each other. Less than a month later, Abby emailed us about a SABR/Baseball Prospectus event at Citi Field. Kent could not make the trip in August but I did. In addition to seeing Citi Field, Abby and I went to watch a Cyclone game.
Kent is a Dodger fan and a Red Sox fan. Abby is a Yankee fan and you all know I bleed Dodger Blue.
I was remembering that last year Kent wanted to try his first In-N-Out burger. Well, he asked the front desk how far was the closest In-N-Out. The shuttle did not make it that far so we took a taxi. Because we did not want to miss the next session, we had the taxi go thru the drive thru. We quickly ate at the hotel and headed to the next session.
The following day as the bus tour was heading to Lake Elsinore where we were going to catch the Storms against the Rawhides, I looked out the window and saw an In & Out place, I suddenly remembered that I had my car parked at the hotel! I turned to Kent and told him that I had remembered about my car a day late. I remember the taxi was not cheap. Funny I can remember baseball facts but had completely forgotten about my car.
I did not need a car in Minneapolis. I had been there the year before when the Dodgers played there 6/27/11 to 6/29/11. Both Abby and I arrived in Minneapolis in time to take the library tour and the tour of downtown that Brenda was given. This library has a piano! I love libraries!
To be continue… Pictures coming.
Ok, so it took me a while to upload and release the second video I taped of Wes Paker at SABR41 but here it is. Wes talks about McCourt, Dodgers, World Series, Sandy Koufax, Drysdale and Clemente among other things.
Greetings everyone! I have not been able to load my pictures from my trip to Minnesota & also from the SABR41 convention. But I have this video of Wes Parker when we caught him outside one of the sessions. I love Wes Parker’s love for the game.
I had such a great time at the convention. Everyone was so nice and friendly. Love the fangraph group, loved talking to lots of people there. I bought some great books. I love the volunteering, going to the tour of old baseball ballparks in LA. Never knew that there was a ballpark in Vernon so close to where the Farmer John company is. Loved listening to Rob Neyer, Dennis Gilbert, Al Ferrara, Tommy Davis, Francisco Balderrama, oh just everyone!
Loved going back to Dodger Stadium with the group & going to my first trip to see the Storms against the Visalia Rawhides. Did you know that the Rawhides is locally-owned and operated by Tom and his cousin, Kevin O’Malley? Tom’s grandfather was the legendary Walter O’Malley.
SABR41 was a great experience and I made some wonderful friends like Abby& Kent in this picture:
I need to go to Minnesota next year where SABR42 will be held. Also SABR43 will be in Philadelphia!
Enjoy the video
7/25/11. It worked embedding the video!
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After the LA City Fire Department was called to a recording studio where Chris allegedly had a seizure, Karrueche took to Twitter to express her emotions after the incident.
In the early morning of August 9, Chris Brown allegedly suffered a seizure at a recording studio in LA. Chris’ on-again/off-again girlfriend Karrueche Tran appears to have been really upset by the health scare and has been asking for good vibes to be sent Chris’ way.
Karrueche Tran Asks For ‘Prayers’ After Chris Brown Allegedly Suffers Seizure
Early on August 9, around the time of Chris’ alleged seizure, Karrueche tweeted, “Prayers all day.” Later in the day she tweeted a picture of herself laying down with the caption, “a lot on my mind today .. I need a hug.”
Chris Brown Suffers Alleged Seizure At Recording Studio In LA
Around 1 A.M. on August 9, a 911 call came into the LA City Fire Department reporting that Chris had suffered a seizure at Record Planet recording studios in LA, according to TMZ. When the fire department, Chris reportedly refused any medical treatment and did not want to be taken to the hospital. Chris used to suffer from seizures as a child, TMZ reports.
Just three days before Chris had the alleged seizure at the recording studio, he tweeted that he was quitting music.
“Don’t worry mainstream America,” Chris tweeted. “After this X album, it’ll probably be my last album. … Being famous is amazing when it’s for ur music and talent. I’m tired of being famous for a mistake I made when i was 18. I’m cool & over it!”
– Jenny Pickard
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Commemoration of St. Vahan of Goghten
Vahan of Goghten was the son of Prince Khosrov, the Governor of the province of Goghten. In childhood, together with many other Armenian princes, he was captivated by the Arabs and was taken to Damask, where is circumcised and renamed Vahab.
Vahan was a very clever and skilled young man. Receiving proper education he undertook various responsibilities in the royal court. Despite the fact that he was brought up and educated in Arabic environment, Vahan knew about his ancestors. He hadn’t forgotten that he had been Christian and came from a noble family. In 719 AD The Armenian Pontiff Hovhannes of Odzoun paid a visit to the Governor of Damask, and upon his request the Governor allowed the captives to return to their homeland. Taking the opportunity Vahan also expressed wish to visit his homeland and was allowed on condition of returning. Reaching Armenia, Vahan became aware of the Governor’s death and took a decision to remain in his homeland. He married the daughter of the Prince Babken, the Governor of Syounik province, and lived there. However, the New Governor of Damask began the searches for Vahan. The latter concealing himself, wandered in his homeland, in Georgia, visited many churches and monasteries and finally stopped in the town Routsap, in Syria. Rejecting the governor’s suggestion to change his faith, he was martyred in 737 AD. On the day of the saint’s commemoration a special church hymn is sung, the author of which is his sister Khosrovidoukht.
Commemoration of the Virgin Eugine, her father - Philippus, her mother Klothia and her two servants
Philippus was a Roman nobleman. Being appointed the Governor of Egypt, together with his family he moved to Alexandria. Eugine, the daughter of Philippus, upon his father advice began to study in Alexandria. During the studies she read the Apostle St. Paul’s epistles with great interest. Believing in Christ, Eugine and her two servants were baptized and became Christians. Then wearing man’s clothing, she entered a monastery and later became the Abbess. A young woman fell in love with Eugine and being refused by her, blamed her in an attempt to rape. Facing the judge, who was her father, Eugine was forced to reveal the truth and to identify herself. Her father and other relatives, listening from Eugine about the Savior, became Christians. Becoming aware of that reality, the Emperor ordered to kill Philippus. Their family moved to Rome, where they were beheaded because of being Christians. Eugine was beheaded on the day of the Holy Feast of Nativity and Theophany. Soon after that Eugine’s mother - Klothia, was martyred, too. | <urn:uuid:f3f7a579-5658-4fe7-aec6-1806f6075f9a> | CC-MAIN-2014-52 | http://www.qahana.am/?ln=en&page=holidays&date=23.01.2014 | 2014-12-20T00:11:17Z | s3://commoncrawl/crawl-data/CC-MAIN-2014-52/segments/1418802769121.74/warc/CC-MAIN-20141217075249-00075-ip-10-231-17-201.ec2.internal.warc.gz | en | 0.988841 | 609 | [
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Most, perhaps almost all, people and entities that acquire real estate should also purchase title insurance insuring the title to the property. Title insurance is especially important for purchasers of real estate. Many things can adversely affect title to land. Title insurance is a small price to pay to protect against title claims that can affect the value of land or even result in the claimant acquiring title from an owner.
ALTA Form 1 - Assessments: This endorsement is designed for use with the ALTA Loan Policy to provide the insured lender with protection against loss sustained by reason of any assessments for street improvements, under construction or completed at the date of the endorsement, having priority over the lien of the insured mortgage.
ALTA Form 2 - Federal Truth in Lending: It covers a lender for a loss arising from a judicial determination terminating the lien of an insured mortgage due to the exercise of a right of rescission granted by the Federal Truth in Lending Act or Consumer Credit Protection Act.
ALTA Form 3 - Zoning Unimproved Land: This endorsement insures certain zoning matters as they pertain to unimproved property. The endorsement specifies the zoning classification and the use or uses permitted thereunder. Issuance of this coverage requires an examination of the applicable zoning ordinances and amendments thereto to determine the particular zone and permitted uses of the insured land.
ALTA Form 3.1 - Zoning for Improved Property: This endorsement covers zoning matters for improved property. Like the ALTA Form 3, it describes the zoning classification and permitted property uses, but additionally, it insures against loss resulting from a court order prohibiting the insured use or compelling the removal or alteration of a structure on the land because of certain specific zoning violations. This endorsement may only be issued on already improved property when a determination can be made as to the property's zoning classification, uses permitted thereunder, and zoning limitations as to building and building site size.
ALTA Form 4 - Condominium: The ALTA Form 4 endorsement provides insurance that the condominium estate is created in accordance with local laws. In addition, it covers violations of covenants, conditions and restrictions, as well as certain encroachment matters. This endorsement may be issued after a review of the laws, the condominium declarations map and related documents indicates all of the listed assurances can be given.
ALTA Form 4.1 - Condominium : The coverage afforded by this endorsement is essentially the same as the coverage afforded by the ALTA Form 4, F.A. Form 17, and the CLTA Form 115.1; except it provides affirmative coverage that there are no charges or assessments which are due and unpaid at Date of Policy.
ALTA Form 5 - Planned Unit Development: This endorsement provides similar coverage to the ALTA Form 4, but for planned unit developments. The ALTA Form 5 insures against loss or damage due to violations of restrictive covenants, forfeiture or reversion provisions of restrictive covenants, assessments gaining priority over an insured mortgage, compelled removal of improvements due to encroachment and failure of title by reason of a right of first refusal.
ALTA Form 5.1 - Planned Unit Development: The coverage afforded by this endorsement is essentially the same as the coverage afforded by the ALTA Form 5, F.A. Form 18, and CLTA Form 115.2; except it provides affirmative coverage that there are no charges or assessments which are due and unpaid at Date of Policy.
ALTA Form 6 - Variable Rate Mortgages: This endorsement affords insured lenders with protection against loss by reason of, among other things, the invalidity, loss of priority or unenforceability of the lien of the insured mortgage resulting from the provisions therein which provide for changes in the rate of interest (variable rate, convertible, renegotiable rate, adjustable rate, or shared appreciation mortgages).
ALTA Form 6.1 - Variable Rate Mortgages, Regulations: ALTA lender's renegotiable rate coverage. It is identical with the CLTA Form 111.6 Endorsement.
ALTA Form 6.2 - Variable Rate Mortgage with Negative Amortization: Coverage for a variable interest rate loan which contains negative amortization features may be extended with the ALTA Form 6.2 Endorsement. Disclosure of variable interest and negative amortization provisions in the recorded instrument is necessary to consider issuance of the ALTA Form 6.2. Requests to issue this endorsement will usually be accompanied with a request to issue the policy with a liability for 110 percent or 125 percent of the loan amount.
ALTA Form 7 - Manufactured Housing: To remove doubts as to whether or not a manufactured housing unit or mobile home on subject property is included within the policy coverage, the ALTA Form 7 Endorsement is available. It expands the definition of "land" as used in the policy to include the manufactured housing unit as real property. Issuance of this endorsement relies on provisions in state laws allowing the manufactured housing unit to be converted into real property. If the conversion has been proper and if such unit is now being taxed as a real property improvement, the endorsement may be issued.
ALTA Form 8.1 - Environmental Protection/Residential: This endorsement is designed for use with any ALTA loan policy. When the loan is secured by a deed of trust or mortgage on property used primarily for residential purposes to provide the insured lender with certain protection against loss or damage sustained by reason of loss of priority of the lien of the insured mortgage over any environmental protection liens recorded in the public records or created pursuant to certain state statutes. This Coverage is not available for owner's policies
ALTA Form 9 - Restrictions, Encroachments & Minerals: This endorsement is designed as an explicit extension of coverage otherwise provided to insured lenders by the ALTA Loan Policy. ALTA Form 9 was developed to meet "off-record" occurrences. The Endorsement extends the lender's coverage in three general areas: (a) covenants, conditions and restrictions, (b) encroachments, and (c) rights of others to use the surface of the land for mineral development.
CLTA Form 100 - Restrictions, Encroachments & Minerals: This endorsement is designed for use with the ALTA lenders' policies which cover improved property. The unmodified endorsement is not to be furnished when the insured loan covers raw land or any type of construction loan. The version of this endorsement designed for an owner is the F.A. Form 31.1.
CLTA Form 100.1 - Restrictions, Encroachments & Minerals: This endorsement is designed for use with CLTA lenders' policies and is identical with the coverage afforded by CLTA Form 100, except that its language conforms with the CLTA Standard Coverage Policy instead of the ALTA Lenders Policy. The considerations, rules and procedures set forth under the CLTA Form 100 above apply also for this endorsement. NOTE:The coverage given by some sections of this endorsement, not usually available to an insured owner, can with approval of local management be given to an owner.
CLTA Form 100.2 - Restrictions, Encroachments & Minerals: ALTA Lender's - restrictions, encroachments and mineral coverage. This endorsement is identical with the F.A. Form 42 and may be issued in accordance with the procedures set forth herein under F.A. Form 42.
CLTA Form 100.4 - CC&Rs, Violations: This endorsement is designed for use with CLTA or ALTA lenders' policies where there is a present violation of a particular provision of existing covenants, conditions or restrictions. It may be given with the approval of local management when the violation is minor and in other instances where it is very likely that a court would deny enforcement of restrictions with respect to the violation (e.g., uniform non-observance of a general plan of restrictions as to the violation in question by the persons entitled to enforce the restrictions).
CLTA Form 100.4 - CC&Rs, Violations: The coverage afforded by this endorsement is essentially identical with the CLTA Form 100.4, except that it is designed for use with ALTA or CLTA owners' policies.
CLTA Form 100.6 - Violation of CC&Rs: It provides coverage to an owner against judicial enforcement of covenants, conditions and restrictions. The coverage extends to present or future violations. Issuance of a CLTA Form 100.6 endorsement is typically predicated on either a uniform noncompliance with the covenants, conditions and restrictions that clearly indicate a court would be reluctant to enforce them or previous litigation setting a precedent for nonenforcement.
CLTA Form 100.12 - Reverter: This endorsement is designed for use with CLTA and ALTA lenders' or owners' policies to assure a lender that existing covenants, conditions and restrictions do not contain any enforceable reverter, right of reentry or right or power of termination. To a large extent, the same coverage is provided by CLTA Form 100 which insures against loss occasioned by present and future violations of covenants, conditions and restrictions. However, certain lenders are not satisfied with insurance against loss caused by reversion, but require specific assurance that, in fact, there can be no reversion of title. This endorsement may be given with the approval of local management in the following circumstances: (1) the restrictions have been imposed in a deed or declarations of restrictions in the form of covenants only without express provisions for reversion and without the use of the word "condition" or "conditions" in relation to the imposition thereof; (2) when the holder of the reversion has expressly waived his or her power of termination; (3) when the holder of the reversion has by implication waived his or her power of reversion by permitting uniform violations throughout the neighborhood; (4) where the only effective conditions relate to liquor and it appears that the property in question is in a residential neighborhood and will be used for residential purposes throughout the life of the loan and (5) where the restrictions contain no express provisions for enforcing a reversion but there is language alluding to "conditions" or "reversions"-provided that a specific method of enforcement by injunction or abatement is affordable to other owners in the tract.
CLTA Form 100.29 - Mineral Rights: Protection against damage to existing improvements resulting from exercise or use of a surface right for extraction or development of reserved mineral rights is available with a CLTA Form 100.29. If the surface rights were either expressly waived at the time the minerals were reserved or subsequently released, CLTA Form 100.29 may be issued. If rights of surface entry have not been waived, issuance of the endorsement may be considered depending on the particular case with specific facts, including the nature and value of the mineral interest, local geology, local zoning restrictions of mining activity and existing improvements on the property.
CLTA Form 101 - Mechanics Liens: This endorsement is used with CLTA Loan Policies insuring construction loans in instances where lenders seek protection against loss if mechanics' liens gain priority over the insured deed of trust, such priority based on the claim that construction began prior to the recording of the insured loan. This endorsement is not designed for use with ALTA policies.
CLTA Form 102.4 - Foundations: This endorsement is used with ALTA or CLTA loan policies where a construction loan previously has been insured and the lender, prior to making an advance, requires assurance that the foundations do not encroach upon adjoining lands or violate existing covenants, conditions and restrictions. Usually following a physical inspection of the property in question, the endorsement may be issued which will assure the insured lender that, at the date of the endorsement: (1) the foundations of the structure under construction on the subject land are within the boundary lines of said land, and (2) the location of the foundations do not violate the covenants, conditions and restrictions referred to in Schedule B.
CLTA Form 102.5 - Foundations: CLTA Form 102.5 is identical to CLTA Form 102.4 except that the insured lender also is assured that the foundations do not encroach onto any easements referred to in the policy. The endorsement may be issued provided: (1) a physical inspection and/or ALTA survey discloses there are no encroachments onto any easements disclosed in Schedule B of the policy; and (2) the location of the foundations does not violate the covenants, conditions and restrictions referred to in Schedule B.
CLTA Form 103.1 - Easement: This endorsement is designed for use with ALTA or CLTA lenders' policies. Its coverage is broader than that afforded by paragraph 3(a) of CLTA Form 100 endorsement, which is limited to loss resulting from damage to existing improvements located or encroaching upon the easement. It is usually requested by lenders when an item or items appearing in the preliminary title report are unlocatable "blanket" easements. While this endorsement as written is designed to afford protection to lenders, it may be used in appropriate situations to extend coverage to owners.
CLTA Form 103.7 - Public Street Access: This endorsement provides affirmative assurances that the named street is in fact a physically open public street, that the land in question abuts the street and that there is nothing to prohibit access from the land to the street.
CLTA Form 104.1 - Assignment: This endorsement is used with ALTA or CLTA Loan Policies when the beneficial interest in the insured deed of trust has been assigned and the assignee requests the limited assurances that the public records disclose no reconveyance, modification or subordination of the insured deed of trust.
CLTA Form 108.8 - Optional Advances: Frequently, deed of trust forms are drawn to provide security not only for a specified, current obligation, but also to secure future advances (i.e., the form contains an "open-end provision"). In general, the priority of an advance, so secured, against liens and interest arising between the date of trust deed recording and the date the advance is made depends on whether or not the advance is obligatory or optional upon the lender. Where the advance is optional, that priority is contingent upon the lender's knowledge of intervening rights at the date the advance is made.
CLTA Form 110.5 - Modification of Deed of Trust: This endorsement is designed for use with ALTA lenders' policies for the purpose of giving assurances to the lender that the insured mortgage or the obligation secured thereby has been modified and as modified retains its priority.
CLTA Form 116 - Address: This endorsement is used with ALTA Loan Policies when a lender is requiring specific coverage determining the address of the insured land and the type of improvement located therein. It also assures the lender that the map attached to the policy shows the current location and dimensions of the land as disclosed by records imparting constructive notice.
CLTA Form 116.1 - Survey: This endorsement is designed for use with CLTA and ALTA owners' policies and affords assurance that the land described in the policy is the same as that delineated on the plat of survey attached to, and made a part of, the policy.
CLTA Form 116.4 - Contiguous Land: This endorsement may be used with CLTA or ALTA owners' or lenders' policies for contiguous land concerns. The need for this endorsement arises under differing circumstances. An example of this would be when a purchaser acquired land adjacent to land already owned by the purchaser, and it is intended that the two parcels shall be used together. In this situation, ownership of a strip between the two parcels, by a stranger, would frustrate the proposed issue. It may be issued when it is determined that the two parcels in question are actually contiguous. Sometimes this requires a survey.
CLTA Form 122 - Mandatory Advance: This endorsement is designed for use with ALTA lenders' policies when several advances, all secured by the same insured mortgage, are contemplated and a separate endorsement is to be issued as each advance is made.
- F.A. Form 23 & 28.2: Both the F.A. Form 23 and the F.A. Form 28.2 are designed to provide coverage to the insured lender against loss sustained by reason of a loss of priority as to future advances (with certain exceptions) made pursuant to a note or revolving credit loan agreement secured by the insured mortgage. Additionally, the F.A. Form 28.2 provides coverage against loss, caused by invalidity, unenforceability or loss of priority due to provisions in the loan providing for variable interest rates. Typically, these revolving credit endorsements may be issued if the loan agreement clearly creates a revolving line of credit which is disclosed in and secured by the recorded mortgage and further creates an obligation on the lender to honor requests for advances so long as the borrower is not in default. Additionally, issuance of the F.A. Form 28.2 necessitates disclosure of the variable interest rate provisions.
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GENES from ancient viruses may be an essential component of mammalian reproduction, helping the placenta to establish itself in the womb, suggest biologists in California. Their research supports the idea that viruses' talents for ferrying DNA and genes into cells has played a key role in the evolution of humans cells as well as those of other higher organisms.
"Viruses are known primarily for causing disease," said Luis Villarreal of the University of California at Irvine at the meeting. "But I think that's a bum rap."
While many of the viruses that cause disease survive for only a short time in the body during a brief burst of infection, other less virulent varieties stay around for a long time, causing no symptoms and making it easy for the virus to evolve along with its host. One group of viruses called endogenous retroviruses, or ERVs, has developed an especially intimate relationship ...
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This ArtWorks mural ? 'The Village We Call Home' ? was completed in 2012 in partnership with the village of Evendale and the Evendale Cultural Arts Center. The design is by C.F. Payne. You can see the mural at 10500 Reading Road.
Want to help pay for an ArtWorks mural and give young artists summer jobs? Fund a bike rack that looks like an octopus in Over-the-Rhine? Or help underprivileged children see the theater?
"Crowdfunding" for Cincinnati arts and culture becomes formalized for the first time next week, as ArtWorks joins national platform power2give.org to fund 13 projects by ArtWorks and partner arts groups. The website lets anyone donate small amounts to specific projects.
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Tom Harkin was stifled in his effort Tuesday evening to bring a measure to the Senate floor that would cap ATM fees at 50 cents. Harkin (D-Iowa) first introduced his amendment on May 4 and has yet to get a vote. With the close of debate on Wall Street reform rapidly approaching, Harkin went straight to the floor to ask the chamber's consent to vote, conceding that he would be satisfied with a mere five minutes of debate.
Banks, both small and large, oppose the amendment and argue that capping fees will reduce the number of privately available ATMs at convenience stores and elsewhere as well as the number of bank-owned cash machines.
Harkin says that an average ATM transaction costs 37 cents.
Harkin's amendment is just one of several consumer friendly measures that has support but is being cut off by Republican objections and the coming end of the floor debate. "I don't think it's a good idea to cut off good consumer amendments because of cloture," said Sen. Maria Cantwell (D-Wash.).
Cantwell, along with Sen. John McCain (R-Ariz.), is sponsoring an amendment that would reinstate Glass-Steagall, which forces banks to split off investment banking and commercial banking. Cantwell said that the managers of the bill on the floor are telling her that her amendment is not germane and so can't be considered after cloture.
Meanwhile, Senate Republicans blocked Democrats from voting on three amendments Tuesday that are strongly opposed by Wall Street. The combination of the GOP obstruction and Democratic leadership urgency to finish the bill threatens to cut off key consumer protection amendments.
Sen. Richard Shelby of Alabama, the top-ranking Republican on the Banking Committee, rose to object to a vote on one of the most talked-about amendments, cosponsored by Sens. Carl Levin (D-Mich.) and Jeff Merkley (D-Ore.). Levin-Merkley would ban commercial banks from trading for their own benefit with taxpayer-backed money.
Shelby also objected to an amendment from Sen. Kay Hagan (D-N.C.) that would rein in predatory practices of payday lenders and one from Sen. Byron Dorgan (D-N.D.) that would have banned naked credit default swaps, which were at the heart of the financial crisis. Dorgan's amendment was expected to fail, but Levin-Merkley had been surging in recent days.
Merkley took the Senate floor after Harkin and once again called his amendment up for a vote, but Shelby objected again on behalf of coleagues. Merkley demanded to know who was objecting. "Myself, and a lot of others around here," he said, waving his hand at the GOP side of the aisle.
Merkley asked him to name names. Shelby replied that he was objecting on behalf of himself. (Only one Senator is needed to object.)
Sen. Sheldon Whitehouse (D-R.I.) has an amendment that would allow states to cap interest rates on credit cards. He said Tuesday that he was working with Dodd to get a vote and that it has a chance to be ruled germane.
But the only amendment that is certain to be ruled germane, said a Democratic leadership aide, is one that makes it weaker. From Sen. Sam Brownback (R-Kan.), the measure would exempt auto dealers from the purview of the Consumer Financial Protection Bureau that the bill would create.
The only way for an amendment to come to the floor without unanimous consent, which Republicans can object to, is to file cloture to defeat a filibuster. That requires 60 votes but, more importantly, takes several days of floor time. And the Senate has a war it needs to fund.
Levin took the floor after Merkley and vowed to bring the amendment up again on Wednesday. "Wall Street's got a long arm swarming around this place," he said.
Democrats argued with themselves and with the GOP late into the night Tuesday in a session unruly and disorganized even by Senate standards.
It tested Harkin's nerves and led to the following exchange with Senate Majority Leader Harry Reid (D-Nev.). Harkin takes the aggressive position that if he can't get a vote on his ATM amendment, he doesn't want one on his other amendment, either, dealing with annuities.
Harkin: I want to be heard on this amendment. So we were told to stay here tonight so we could offer amendments. I've had an amendment pending since this bill was brought to the floor. I've not been able to bring it up. I've not been able to bring it up. We were told we could stay here tonight and offer amendments. So in good faith, I stayed here tonight to offer my amendment. Now I'm told we can't offer amendments because there is a pending amendment and you can't set it aside. What kind of games are being played around here? I've had this amendment pending ever since the beginning. And I have not been allowed to bring it up. And of course with cloture tomorrow, it would fall. So what does this mean that we should stay around here and offer amendments tonight when there's a pending amendment you can't set aside? Well, Mr. President, if that's the game you're going to play, I'm going to put in a quorum call and we won't call it off.
Reid: Will the Senator yield -- Mr. President? Would my friend yield without his losing the floor for a question?
Harkin: Without losing my right to the floor.
Reid: If the conversations we just completed over here--trying to work something out for the rest of the evening...it is my understanding that the minority, the Republicans, agreed to allow your amendment dealing with annuities to come up, okay? In the conversation we had over here just a few minutes ago, The Republicans and Senator Dodd and his staff thought it would be appropriate to bring up your amendment dealing with annuities. That was part of the general agreement that we had worked out over here.
Harkin: Well, I had this amendment. I have my ATM amendment and then there was an annuities amendment.
Reid: The annuities amendment is what the conversation was.
Harkin: This is the ATM amendment I had filed since the beginning, I would say to my leader, that I had filed since this bill was brought on the floor.
Reid: What about the annuity amendment?
Harkin: I have that amendment, too. I didn't know there was a limit. I have two amendments. I have an annuity amendments and I have the ATM amendment.
Reid: I guess my questions through the chair to my friend from Iowa is, rather than go into quorum call tonight, you could always do that some other time. I think it would be more appropriate if your amendment dealing with annuities -- there are other amendments that have been agreed to, we could see if we could dispose of those.
Harkin: No, I will not be able to. Because there will ago cloture vote tomorrow and I will have been precluded for three weeks from offering my amendment. And, you know, that's not quite fair ball around here.
Reid: But at least - but, I would say --
Harkin: I had only asked for -- I said I'd do my amendment in five minutes. I don't need to take much time with my amendment.
Reid: But I say again through the chair to my friend, it seems that it would be better that you would have the opportunity at least to get the annuity amendment, which a number of us believe is a very important amendment, and I would feel -- I think it would be better that we were able to at least get rid of that amendment in a positive way, because I think there's a very important amendment. If I had to choose between your ATM amendment or the -- the amendment dealing with annuities, it would be hard for me to make a choice which one is the more important amendment. So it is not a question of not having two amendments. It is a question of, couldn't we atleast dispose of one of them, which is an important amendment? Otherwise the way this train is going, we may never get to the annuity amendment.
Harkin: Well, I say to my -- Mr. President, I say to my friend, the leader, that we seem to have an impasse here. I have an annuities amendment. I don't know what's going to happen to that. I don't know if they're going to bring it up or not bring it up. If they're going to vote on it or not vote on it. I have an ATM amendment that I've tried to bring up. I heard earlier my friend from Connecticut -- he is my friend, I respect him highly, he knows that -- but he said, stay around here and offer amendments. Well, I just offered an amendment and I can't offer an amendment because they won't set aside the pending amendment.
Reid: I am not going to belabor the point, Mr. President, other than to say to my friend, there's been a tentative agreement between the two managers of the bill, including the -- offering your amendment dealing with annuities. That's an important amendment of - I support it a lot. I think the other amendment is good, too, but I -- we don't have an agreement on both of them. We do on one of them. It doesn't seem --
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They have been predicting the Browns to be bad for at least 5 years and you have been predicting playoffs.
Who has the better record for predicting?
You do for years and years and finally you get tired of it and just can't find that optimism that you know will not be rewarded because it hasn't been for 48 years. Then you reside yourself to the experts being right.
You look at the schedule and say realistically which of these teams should we beat and when the answer is maybe 2 you hope for some lucky so you don't lose them all. Any given Sunday means that even the Browns can win a game now and then.
No we just actually have watched the Browns play year after year. When you grow up and have watched them year after year suck you will eventually lose your naive optimism. You will have heard every excuse 5 times. Heard every plan and seen it fail 3 times. Finally realize fool me 15 times shame on me.
Spoken like a true child of the 2000s
Trent is going to do what other RB have done. Get injured. While trying to run over guys like he could in college one of those guys he is trying to put cleat marks on is going to take his head off.
No one banks on a RB in todays game, ask Minnesota how that worked out with a far better RB than the one we drafted way too high.
KC rotation is in shambles. If we can't win games and score more than 3 a game against them they should ask permission to play in the International league for the rest of the year.
Can you imagine Santana catching a knuckle ball pitcher? He gets hit by pitches when they don't dance on their way to the plate.
Carlos could never catch Wright especially if he was batting second in the order.
At least we get a good laugh from this inept organization.
they just gave away their own stiff first baseman. One of their wasted first round picks. Now they trade for one just as bad as a replacement?
This organization is a joke.
How long is the lease? I am starting to wonder if Dolan has watched MajoR League too many times and is trying to make the team worse so he can move them.
Please sell the team
Bringing in a first baseman for Columbus? Did they dump LaPorta? Or get smart and dump Kotchman? Their huge off season mistake.
If you don't think Choo is a good player and you don't think career 291 is good, please refrain from further comments. You are too ignorant.
We have dumped stiffs like Blake and kearns in the past. Why not some of those stiffs.
Hoynse Indians publicist to the last. Indians win 35 games? Yea sure just like Dolan is the best owner and the Indians will win 90 games and the division.
Write whatever nonsense that keeps your job and you in good graces of Dolan.
Why would anyone take what you write seriously.
Trade deadline ends and as usual Indains did not get it done. They just punted. Didn't help the team for this year, didn't help the future. Just content to lose and make big profits.
This team is run so badly they are unlikely to pull off a deal. And if they do it will be a bad one.
Sell the team Dolan so we can finally build a team. Sell the team so Shapiro is out of baseball and Acta is unemployed.
Still bringing in brain dead athletes with more muscle than common sense. You know most of these guys are dumber than a box of hammers but at least they should have enough common sense to get through life.
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I sent this to G+ Feedback. I feel better now.
Subject: Custom G+ URL.
A few months ago, I got an email for a pre-approved custom G+ URL. It suggested JorgWillekens as I used my real name G+. I didn’t want that, but asked for the name I am known on the internet for (Hell, I own the .com, .org, .net and .eu) which is “jawtheshark”. To my knowledge there is nobody else on the Internet using that nickname, and I’ve been using it at least since 1998.
Today, I got this nickname denied. I do not approve of this, and I’m pretty certain it’s just your system that is making stupid blanket assumptions. It doesn’t stop there. Due to the forced integration of YouTube, I renamed myself to “Jaw The Shark” because youtube became useless with its native accounts (which, *surprise*, was “jawtheshark”… Check, it, I know you can!)
Now, the custom URL suggests JawTheShark to me, but I absolutely need to add a suffix. You’d think, it would be clear to such a big data-mining operation as you, as what account is what person. My suspicion is that it’s not allowed because it exists as a youtube account or because I tried getting it before.
Now, comes the kicker, back in the day, I created a serious GMail aptly named “jorg.willekens”. It’s used mainly for email, but obviously it has a G+ account as you always get the whole package with Google. I was curious whether I could get JorgWillekens custom URL on that one. Guess what? I can’t: I need to add a suffix. My best guess is, because of my other account.
The TL;DR version for you:
- The account [email protected] can’t get the custom URL “JorgWillekens”
- The account [email protected] can’t get the custom URL “JawTheShark”, but can get “JorgWillekens”.
- The custom URL “JawTheShark” is, for some bizarre reason, not available at all.
How effed-up is that, I ask you? Especially, that the person behind these accounts is one and the same, and you undoubtedly know that or you should really hire some better data-miners.
That’s all I have to say. I’m pretty sure, you are not interested in my ramblings.
For the record: Facebook had no qualms in giving a custom URL “jawtheshark” and LinkedIn’s custom URL knows me as “willekens”. Notice the difference between usage? I’ll give a hint: private use versus professional use.
You want me to use G+ or not, because more and more, I have the impression that the message is “Use FaceBook for crying out loud, the social thing is just a fad!”
Jorg “jawtheshark” Willekens
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MOSCOW, March 18 (RIA Novosti) – Russia supports the idea of sending a European observer mission to Ukraine, presidential aide Yuri Ushakov said on Tuesday.
He said the idea is widely discussed within the framework of the Organization for Security and Cooperation in Europe.
“We are generally positive about this idea. However, this mission should work not only in southeastern Ukraine, but in other regions too,” he said.
Russian Foreign Minister Sergei Lavrov also voiced his support for the initiative in a phone conversation with US Secretary of State John Kerry on Tuesday.
“The minister paid particular attention to the necessity of preventing provocations by ultranationalist and radical forces against Russian speakers and our compatriots in southeastern Ukraine and other regions,” the Foreign Ministry said in a statement.
“To that end, OSCE or Council of Europe observers may be deployed, on the condition that their mandate is impartial and locations and terms of their deployment are clearly agreed,” the statement continues.
Tuesday’s meeting of an OSCE preparatory committee charged with drafting an agreement on the issue ended without any results.
The US envoy to OSCE, Daniel Baer, said the Russian delegation had requested a timeout to receive additional instructions from Moscow and the talks will resume at 13:00 Moscow time [9:00 a.m. GMT] on Wednesday.
Russian diplomats present at the meeting refused to comment on the ongoing negotiations.
A previous OSCE mission, invited by the central government in Kiev, has tried to enter the Black Sea region of Crimea at least three times in early March, but was denied entry. Warning shots were fired on one occasion.
Crimea is at the center of the most serious geopolitical showdown between Russia and the West since the end of the Cold War.
Crimean authorities, who refused to recognize the new pro-Western government in Kiev, have signed a reunification treaty with Russia on Tuesday, two days after a popular vote showed overwhelming support for the move.
A number of Western powers imposed sanctions on senior Russian officials in the wake of the referendum, which they deem unconstitutional.
The United States and the European Union said on Monday they had compiled lists of Russian officials involved in the Crimean affair, who are subject to asset freezes and travel bans.
The United Kingdom and Canada announced on Tuesday they had suspended military cooperation with Russia in reaction to the situation in Ukraine.
Ushakov said Western sanctions can be treated only with “irony and sarcasm.”
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We Sri Lankans know too much about bombs. As a people recovering from a thirty-year long bloody terrorist war, we’re familiar with the many agonies they bring to innocent lives. Our hearts are with you Bostonians, as you face this meaningless tragedy.
There is nothing much we can say about meaningless tragedies and pointless deaths and the insanity of terrorism. Because words stop making any sense when we try.
It is so short and jumbled and jangled, Sam, because there is nothing intelligent to say about a massacre. Everybody is supposed to be dead, to never say anything or want anything ever again. Everything is supposed to be very quiet after a massacre, and it always is, except for the birds.
And what do the birds say? All there is to say about a massacre, things like “Poo-tee-weet?”
— Kurt Vonnegut, Slaughterhouse V
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GameCareerGuide.com's Game Design Challenge: Make Monopoly Fun [09.17.08]
- Manveer Heir
GameCareerGuide.com's Game Design Challenge is an exercise in becoming a game developer, asking you to look at games in a new way -- from the perspective of a game creator, producer, marketer, businessperson, and so forth.
Each Wednesday we'll present you with a challenge about developing video games. You'll have one week to brainstorm a brilliant solution (see below for how to submit your answers). The following week, the best answers and the names of those who submitted them will be posted along with some commentary.
Create three rules for the board game Monopoly, that make it more fun for all players
Monopoly has been one of the most popular board games of all time. As a new designer for the Parker Brothers, you have been tasked with updating the classic game for a new generation of families to play. The design team understands that the board game has some fundamental flaws and wants to address them.
The flaws of Monopoly have been identified as follows:
- the game has a very large amount of luck involved
- games go on for a very long time
- once a player has lost the game, they have nothing to do while others play
In order to get the best possible ideas, all the designers on the game are going to propose three new rules or rule changes that address one or more of these flaws. These rules must be written in the same way they would be in an instruction book, and you have been instructed not to be overly complex with the rules to reduce the number of domestic disputes that occur from the game.
It has been stressed to you that while there are a lot of "house rules" that exist for Monopoly, the Parker Brothers want to make sure everyone is familiar with the latest actual rules from Monopoly. They give you a copy of the latest rules, which can be read here (PDF download).
The designer in charge informs everyone that their rule changes will be judged on ability to solve the flaws listed above, clarity, and simplicity.
Ask questions and discuss different approaches to a solution on the forum. When your submission is complete, send it to [email protected] with the subject line "Design Challenge: Make Monopoly Fun." Please type your answer directly in the email body (don't even think about sending .odt files). Be sure to include your full name and school affiliation or job title, and try to keep your answers to 500 words or fewer -- unless they're really good!
Entries must be submitted by Wednesday, September 24, 2008.
The responses for this challenge will appear the week of September 29.
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Medal of Honor Frontline Teaser Trailer
If you’ve got Medal of Honor on PlayStation 3, you also got your hands on Medal of Honor: Frontline. Originally released on PlayStation 2 way back in 2002, Frontline puts you in the shoes of OSS Lt. Jimmy Patterson as he fights across Europe into Nazi Germany during World War II.
Now EA has rolled out a teaser trailer from Frontline, comparing the newest Medal of Honor title with the 2002 classic.
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Charlie Bernstein Show 7-30-13
Today on The Charlie Bernstein Show, Charlie will be talking about the Rays victory over the Red Sox and the controversial play at the plate. He’ll also be talking about instant replay in baseball.
Does MLB need to expand instant replay?
Charlie will also be talking about Albert Pujols and whether any player is worth a $200 million contract.
Don’t worry, Charlie will also be talking plenty of football including fantasy football.
Don’t forget to check out our video of the day below and our poll question of the day.
3:30 – Russell Baxter – NFL Writer – Bleacher Report, Yahoo! Sports
4:30 – Steve Kinsella – Sports Talk Florida Rays Insider
The Rays get the benefit of a close call at home as Sam Fuld throws out Daniel Nava trying to score the tying run for the Red Sox.
The Charlie Bernstein Show comes to you live Monday through Friday 3pm – 7pm from the Culpepper | Kurland Sports Talk 1040 Studios in Tampa.
Talk with us during the show:
Call him Toll Free (877) 355-1040
In Hillsborough, (813) 289-1040
In Pinellas, (727) 577-1040
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Feeling ineffective at work? Here are some suggestions to spruce up your work style and to get you back into a zone of working effectively.
- Clean up a cluttered desk.
- Reorganize your files.
- Shut the door if people keep interrupting you as you work.
- Set aside a time for answering emails and phone calls and only perform these tasks at the set time.
2Stop procrastination. Do what you can do now rather than wait until later.
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Re: Journey to Conception group grads!
Lol, you guys are crazy I peed on 2 sticks and I am satisfied, I would love to see a digi go positive though. Maybe next time...
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I am hunting for old, dusty super8 film reels of amateur travelers.
Here is one dated 1971, a Belgian family (I suppose) travelled to Turkey between 1-5 April 1971. They start their trip in Ankara in Ataturk boulevard. They stay at Grand Ankara Hotel. Then they travel by car to the Anatolia and visit Cappodocia. Their next step is Istanbul, where they make sightseeings including a Bosphorus tour, Galata tower and old peninsula. They stay at the Hilton Hotel. The family eventually travels to Jerusalem from Istanbul.
The super8 film was telecined by Studio Bidav in Istanbul. Yes, I know the quality is not that good.
I have performed the montage in iMovie.
Once again, I would like say:
long live super8
long live Turkey
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The Scorpio, Mahindra's record breaking SUV, which was first launched in 2001, has had many timely updates keeping it up with other vehicles in the market. Despite a number of changes to the SUV, Mahindra has now decided to develop an all-new Scorpio.
The company which is planning to roll out the new Scorpio by 2014 has named the ambitious project as W105. The project is underway at Mahindra's research facility in Chennai called the Mahindra Research Valley.
The 2014 Scorpio will be light with a weight loss of about 260 kilograms. The new car could be seen using a plenty of fibre parts resulting in weight loss thereby increasing the performance and fuel economy of the SUV. However, there has been no information from the carmaker if there would be any major changes in the design of the 2014 Scorpio.
Mahindra is also working on a new platform with longer wheel base that would provide better leg space and handling traits. The new Scorpio is also expected to get a few changes in its technical department; Mahindra could fit the SUV with the 140 Bhp-330 Nm 2.2 Liter turbo diesel engine that is currently being used inn the XUV500.
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Los Angeles, February 20, 2013 – The increase in domestic energy exploration and production will spur office investment opportunities in U.S. markets like Dallas, Pittsburgh and Oklahoma City; the transformation of the supply chain by e-commerce will accelerate changes in distribution facilities and locations; and an aging population will significantly drive apartment rental demand during this decade. Those are among the key real estate trends that CBRE has identified in a new report, “13 Trends for 2013.”
The CBRE report notes that most of the top energy markets in the U.S. are seeing employment growth, particularly in office-using sectors. These markets, including Dallas, Oklahoma City and Pittsburgh, offer opportunities for investors willing to venture outside of traditional gateway markets, with office valuations well below the national average.
2013 will also be a year during which companies will move goods from their store shelves back to warehouses at an increasing rate. As this trend expands, the nation’s supply chain will be transformed, significantly affecting industrial and retail real estate. Distribution markets where the share of distribution-specific stock is greater than the national average, such as Dallas and Riverside, are at the center of the nation’s supply chain because they have the right mix of infrastructure to justify the construction of large intermodal distribution facilities.
Wider availability of affordable, longer-term rental opportunities for senior citizens could help unlock more demand for multi-housing properties and lead to higher rents. Multi-housing investors and developers should not underestimate the potential contribution of an aging population to future growth in rental demand. Growth in the population aged 65 and above is so strong that even with a traditionally high homeownership rate, the group is likely to contribute more to net growth in rental demand during this decade than households under the age of 35.
“While the slow but steady economic recovery portends positive trends for the U.S. commercial real estate market, owners, occupiers and investors still need sharp insight to make the right decisions and ‘13 trends for 2013’ offers a practical, sector by sector, analysis,” said Jon Southard, Director of Forecasting, CBRE Econometric Advisors.
According to CBRE other key trends for 2013 are:
- Cap rates will remain relatively unchanged in 2013, as a result of loose Fed monetary policy, the continuing recovery in both debt availability and real estate fundamentals, and stability in risk premiums.
- The outlook for manufacturing remains healthy as the U.S. economy continues to gain traction, with industrial production forecast to reach its pre-recession high by the end of 2013. Continued improvement in business and consumer demand will see more need for industrial space throughout the entire supply chain. Higher levels of production will drive manufacturing businesses to expand their access to warehouse space.
- The property pricing gap between suburban office assets and downtown properties will narrow. There are early signs that spreads are narrowing, first through near-term stabilization of cap rates in the suburbs, and then in later years through compression. During 2013 and 2014, investors will gradually increase their risk appetite and venture beyond cities’ central urban core.
Note to editors/journalists: For a full copy of the report email [email protected]
About CBRE Group, Inc.
CBRE Group, Inc. (NYSE:CBG), a Fortune 500 and S&P 500 company headquartered in Los Angeles, is the world’s largest commercial real estate services and investment firm (in terms of 2012 revenue). The Company has approximately 37,000 employees (excluding affiliates), and serves real estate owners, investors and occupiers through more than 300 offices (excluding affiliates) worldwide. CBRE offers strategic advice and execution for property sales and leasing; corporate services; property, facilities and project management; mortgage banking; appraisal and valuation; development services; investment management; and research and consulting. Please visit our website at www.cbre.com. | <urn:uuid:5d8ff9b9-2fc1-4968-8c66-e614bf50e5a8> | CC-MAIN-2014-52 | http://www.cbre.com/EN/aboutus/MediaCentre/2013/Pages/CBRE-Sees-Domestic-Energy-Production-Boom.aspx | 2014-12-21T14:25:49Z | s3://commoncrawl/crawl-data/CC-MAIN-2014-52/segments/1418802771374.156/warc/CC-MAIN-20141217075251-00099-ip-10-231-17-201.ec2.internal.warc.gz | en | 0.940629 | 803 | [
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They poured into our nation’s capitol by the thousands, venting their rage at the government and the Obama administration. They cried out against the creeping socialism they believed was taking over the country, even though America has experienced nearly three decades of rampant deregulation in which government has been reduced to a emaciated remnant of its former self.
The protest was organized by FreedomWorks, a well-funded "think" tank organized by former Republican house leader Dick Armey.
The groups mission statement is a study in irony: “FreedomWorks believes individual liberty and the freedom to compete increases consumer choice and provides individuals with the greatest control over what they earn and own.”
That’s the ultimate goal of the right, to reduce citizens to consumers and make them believe that the government wants to tax away their toys.
The pathetic thing about the march was that the angry protesters should have been rallied by the left, not the right. The demonstration was a masterpiece of misdirection.
The right has neatly deflected public anger over their sinking quality of life onto the government, thus concealing the fact that government is little more than a barnacle clinging to the side of the corporate ship, and like the barnacle, government is powerless to chart its own course. It can only go where the ship takes it.
The left should be raising three kinds of hell as it demonizes corporations. It should preach freedom, freedom from being cogs in the corporate machinery that has used toys and feel-good commercials to deaden the public to what is happening to it.
And now that life has lost its “feel-good” quality, the corporate propaganda mill is busily deflecting public away from the ship by focusing on the barnacle and accusing it of being the culprit even though the poor thing is absolutely powerless.
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Literacy: Reading the Word & the World
At a time when popularizers of cultural literacy are prescribing a cultural canon for the purpose of prying open the closed minds' of American youth . . . Literacy provides an articulate and courageous response.
"Harvard Educational RevieW"
Every chapter . . . asks teachers to thing again about how they teach, what they want for their pupils, and how to get on with it. "Times Educational Supplement"
This] book directs our attention to literacy in its broadest sense so that we can better evaluate the shortcomings of our work as educators at all levels of learning. "Contemporary Sociology"
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Literacy: An Introduction to the Ecology of Written Language
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Korg puts the thrill of the analog synth into everyone’s hands, with the Korg MonoTron Duo Dual Oscillator Analog Synthesizer. This remarkable battery-powered and palm-sized Korg analog synthesizer is powerful and fun-to-play. The Dual Oscillator MonoTron Duo offers X-MOD capabilities for generating even more extreme sounds from its ribbon keyboard and a live, ready-to-be tweaked front panel offering five knobs and a single switch.
Korg MonoTron Duo Dual Oscillator Analog Synth Features
Dual Oscillator / X-Mod Design
- Two analog oscillators (VCO) with individual tunings
- Edgy X-MOD (with Intensity knob) circuit from Korg's classic Mono/Poly
- VCF with Cutoff and Peak Control
- Ribbon controller keyboard with Scale Select
- Original Analog (VCF) Filter taken from the classic MS-10 and MS-20
- Aux input jack lets you apply filter to any audio source
- Built-in speaker and battery power for Go Anywhere Analog sound
- Headphone jack for private use
Offering two oscillators, the Korg Monotron Duo adds an extra dimension, delivering an even more extreme sound. Tune the oscillators in unison for a rich, thick, analog tone. Tune them in intervals for classic soloing sounds and generating new effects. The X-MOD (cross modulation) circuit taken from Korg's classic Mono/Poly can introduce a mild or razor-sharp edge to the overall sound; everything from a rich vibrato to extreme metallic sounds reminiscent of an FM synth.
Enhanced Ribbon Controller Keyboard
The Monotron Duo's ribbon controller keyboard now features the familiar Scale function used on the KAOSSILATOR. You can use this button to select one of four scales: Chromatic, Major, Minor, or Off. Choose the Chromatic scale to play precise pitches as on a piano, or choose Major or Minor to generate musically coherent phrases by simply sliding your finger around on the keyboard.
Go Anywhere Analog
A miniature speaker is built into the Korg Monotron Duo. Along with the battery operation and compact size, this feature allows you to enjoy the share the Monotron Duo analog synthesis sound with your friends, anywhere, at any time. There's also a headphone output that you can use when practicing in private, creating sounds at home, recording, or for connecting to an amplifier or PA system.
VCO + VCF = Modular synthesis building blocks
The basic analog sound-building circuit in the Monotron Duo is radically simple: one voltage-controlled oscillator and one voltage-controlled filter. As a result, the process of sound creation is intuitive, and instantly understandable. And it's tons of fun. The Korg Monotron Duo provides the joy of sonic creativity that's at the heart of analog synthesis.
Classic Korg Filtering
The distinctive tone of an analog filter (VCF) can dramatically alter and enrich the sound. The Monotron Duo synth uses the same highly acclaimed VCF circuit as KORG's classic MS-10 and MS-20 semi modular synthesizers. The VCF Cutoff knob sets the frequency or tone of the filter; the VCF Peak knob adds emphasis. A powerful filter is an essential aspect of any analog synthesizer, applying dramatic tonal changes to the sound, and projecting an intense personality that will stand out in any live performance.
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Those who celebrate the butchering of children are inherently evil
And they will never receive a sympathetic listening ear from me again
To those who say palestinians are fighting a war and are soldiers so civil
Think of whom your next enemy might be and does he wait in the dark to begin
The throat cutting of children and grandchildren, pagan cowards high on Leftist drivel
Imagine the sadistic and orgasmic glee of a pathological homicidal maniac watching the final death agony and fear in the eyes of your innocents
Oh, I dare say, be not so proud of your blood lusting killers so manic
Their foul deeds continue to stain history’s pages with bloody intents
And they only wait to find new victims for their blood lust so Satanic
Be you so bold, to think yourself above G-d’s righteous wrath
While you plead with passion a coward’s case for wanton murder
Bloody killers of children find courage in cowardly Socialist sap
running freely from the wounds of children and into the gutter
May you dream, and smell their red blood flowing across your lap
Oh Liberal! Be not proud of promoting death and mayhem as righteous
The G-d of the Old Testament is still there, I suggest you be more cautious
13Then were there brought unto him little children, that he should put his hands on them, and pray: and the disciples rebuked them.
14But Jesus said, Suffer little children, and forbid them not, to come unto me: for of such is the kingdom of heaven.
15And he laid his hands on them, and departed thence.
16And, behold, one came and said unto him, Good Master, what good thing shall I do, that I may have eternal life?
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Nancy Kilpatrick joins Beware the Dark magazine as regular columnistposted by
From the press release:
BIRMINGHAM, UK, June 7, 2013 – Short, Scary Tales Publications (SST Publications) Owner, Paul Fry is very pleased to announce that award-winning author and editor, Nancy Kilpatrick, has joined Beware the Dark magazine as a regular columnist, effective immediately. In welcoming Nancy, Paul stated: “It gives me great pleasure to welcome Nancy to the team. Her talent and experience will be a great benefit to the magazine. I’m delighted to have her on board!”
About Nancy: “Nancy Kilpatrick is an award-winning author. She has published 18 novels, 1 non-fiction book, over 200 short stories (and 6 collections of stories), and has also edited 13 anthologies. In another life she wrote magazine and newspaper articles for major publications, and has done plenty of other odd work, like a stage play and radio scripts. Check out her website (www.nancykilpatrick.com) and join her on Facebook.”
Nancy says: “What a wonderful opportunity for me, to write for Short, Scary Tales. I tend to blog and carry on quite a bit on my personal Facebook wall, and now I have the luxury of wordage through this brand new magazine in which I can give my thoughts about the genres I love, horror and dark fantasy and the erotic elements that intersect with both. I’m delighted to be part of the team!”
SST Publications are an independent publisher focusing on publishing the best in horror and erotic horror fiction. We have published several books; our first title, Cold Storage included an introduction by legendary author Graham Masterton. Our most recent books include the erotic horror anthology Peep Show, Volume 2 and the debut dark, thriller novel Don’t Stand So Close by screenwriter/director Eric Red. We also published the classic erotic horror magazine Peep Show, and have recently launched our new horror fiction & dark art magazine Beware the Dark, which is a full-size (8.5 x 11 in), full-color interior, high-quality produced mag of between 60-90 pages bringing you the best dark and disturbing fiction and artwork. We publish our titles in multiple formats and they are distributed worldwide by Ingram, the world’s largest book distributor. | <urn:uuid:9860584a-2c4d-4a53-a058-4c3a6dc0948c> | CC-MAIN-2014-52 | http://hellnotes.com/nancy-kilpatrick-joins-beware-the-dark-magazine-as-regular-columnist | 2014-12-21T18:37:06Z | s3://commoncrawl/crawl-data/CC-MAIN-2014-52/segments/1418802772134.89/warc/CC-MAIN-20141217075252-00043-ip-10-231-17-201.ec2.internal.warc.gz | en | 0.945874 | 491 | [
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Strength: I am exempted from attending PLKN batch 1.
Weakness: am still not free from the worry of having to go to PLKN because I've been moved to the second batch in March.
Opportunity: I can do other things while I'm not going for PLKN (yaaay!), and I'll have to think and HOPE for a way that I'll escape the second one.
Threat: The letter for the second batch arriving on my doorstep.
Well, looks like I'll not be going for the first batch of PLKN, so bubbye KEM Summer Set Resort. I have another interview for a Yayasan Tun Razak Leadership Programme coming up on the 16th. Guess what? I'll be moved to the second batch of PLKN coming up in March. Well, at least, if I went for the first batch, I could still coax myself to go by saying that most of the kids there are from SBP, so they're most unlikely to be rowdy kids, well, not that I'm saying that dayschoolers are rowdy, but you get my drift, dontcha? I could handle an m-16 (WOW! XD The only thing I'm excited about for going to PLKN. But that's like, 25 bullets, and only if that is available at your camp site and it's only like less than 1% of your time in PLKN :-( ), yaddyadda, I can get new friends and stuff, and I'll not be doing anything anyway, what I mean to say is that, I could still tolerate the fact of going to PLKN for the first batch, because I've calculated that it's not exactly 3 months, but just slightly more than 2 months if I were to go on Saturday and there's the Chinese New Year Holidays in between and two weeks in March has been excluded...............but for the second batch, which starts in March, I bet there's tonnes of things I'd be busy with after the results....because before the results, that's when we feel that we don't want to study and just want to chill, but after the results, that's when we feel like studying....need to think of a way to escape PLKN altogether. Seriously, does the government think I have nothing better to do??????
my proposal for change in PLKN:
1. offer options, whether to go or not, some people do want to go, trust me.
2. let the school make recommendations on who should be chosen to go. Puh-lease, the school, especially SBP should know their students very well, and they know who are the type to loaf around and the type who are busy...honestly, have I not done enough in my school life?? Don't I deserve a break???????? And what with my interviews and all.....seriously, the government has PICKED THE WRONG GIRL for that. Don't those government people think that people have other things to do than just laze around? people want to work, do licenses, go for seminars, or even help out in the house, and just think about it, this is the only time we, SBP students, have to stay home before they get sent off again to college, overseas universities...and what comes after that? Some of them will start working, get married..and there's less time with family..Come on, give us a break! Especially those SBP students, they've been in the hostel for FIVE FRIGGIN' YEARS!!!! (not exactly, friggin' and not that I didn't enjoy it, but, hey, that's a long time, and we need a break..a long one to match). Then, when you start college, some of them still have to stay in the hostel, especially those overseas. Give us a break, we need home time! Why can't people just identify those delinquents and Mat Rempits and just send them off for PLKN instead?
3. Shorten the time frame for PLKN. Hello, three months is too long. One month is okay for me, like I said, we've better things to do.
You know, it annoys me that people will try to convince me that PLKN is good, and I say, whatever! That is what you think, I beg to differ. Even if I did go, I would still be thinking of that lost time. I will only coax myself because I wouldn't want to be miserable for three whole months, but just because if I did enjoy myself there, I will never ever say that PLKN was a good idea. Perhaps it is a good idea to prevent youths from being bored and become Mat Rempits, but do choose wisely who the PLKN-ers are. I'm not being a sourpuss because I got it, but lets look at it this way. Am I a potential Mat Rempit?? IT IS INCONVENIENT FOR ME AND THOSE IN CHARGE AT MY CAMP IF I WERE TO GO TO PLKN. Let's weigh out the pros and cons. If I did go to PLKN, and I have all these interviews, I will need to go in and out of camp, correct? Who's sending me? Of course those who knows waht PLKN dudes, and if they're dudes, and you're a girl that increases the risk factor. You get my drift. Imagine if I got PLKN at Sabah or Sarawak. Imagine the costs and time it takes to get me across the South China Sea to attend an interview in KL. What about the interview preparations? You don't get internet access in PLKN. That is a case for someone who has lots of interviews.
You're darn right if I sound angry.
Okay, so you say PLKN is character-building? Trust me, I'm a sceptic, not a believer..(haha, I miss The Academy Is...) I've seen the BTN ceramah materials..could it get any more ultra-Malay than that? Seriously, I think it's just the same stuff that we already know, but neglect to take heed of. Malays don't need anymore of this ceramah cr*p, they need a serious wake-up call to reality. The world is a lot tougher out there, the interview is just a tip of the iceberg.
ahhhh....deep breath..got that out.......lega......
Well, at least now I can finish my license.
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By Khalid Abdullah | January 4, 2014
Baby Room Themes Ideas for That unbelievable Ambience For Your Baby
A novel baby coming can whisk up the excitement of everyone and among the popular preparations that need to regain done is to provide the baby with its gain room. Parents get it such a tall deal to provide a baby room with theme in order to bring more life with a jubilant ambience in a room. The comfort and convenience of the baby is the foremost distress of parents. To provide better comfort to a baby’s room, a comfortable bed and an air conditioning system are a must to earn the baby’s comfort.
There are many baby room themes that parents can opt to have for their baby. The kind of theme that you may have will actually depend on the gender of your baby. Most parents obtain it convenient and easy to have baby themes by color. Blue and pink are the current colors for baby boys and girls respectively and it should not be too difficult to transform a room to acquire these themes. For one, you can paint the walls of the room either pink or blue. gain clear that they are not too murky. Light blue and light pink will ideally bring out a cooler room for the baby. You could choose beddings and pillowcases for the baby with either of these colors. The floor on one hand should be white in order to fabricate the room wider and more sizable and well-kept. You can compose additional furniture of the same color like a cabinet, curtains, and lamp.
Other kinds of baby room themes are Safari theme where you could paint the walls with different kinds of animals with trees, nests on a tree, leaves, and jungle like build to withhold your baby entertained by looking at them. An underwater theme is a celebrated approved where the walls can be painted with sea creatures. The approved color customary for this theme is either green or blue. A princess theme is also perfect for baby girls and you could paint different princesses to sustain her amused with their beauty, splendid gowns and costumes.
When planning for a theme for your baby, you should always believe the fact that it would give a relaxing ambience for your baby. Your baby’s room will likely to be their room until they grow as toddlers and even as adults and you may need to renovate and re-paint it to suit your child’s age. Planning for baby room themes is a lot of fun for parents who are obviously more angry than anyone else to give their baby’s room a make-over. | <urn:uuid:1d0b706d-b28d-4dc5-bd1a-d0b4dec3862d> | CC-MAIN-2014-52 | http://renvs-es.com/baby-room-themes-ideas-for-that-unbelievable-ambience-for-your.html | 2014-12-21T18:37:49Z | s3://commoncrawl/crawl-data/CC-MAIN-2014-52/segments/1418802772134.89/warc/CC-MAIN-20141217075252-00043-ip-10-231-17-201.ec2.internal.warc.gz | en | 0.954781 | 519 | [
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As in Popsicle. OMG.
So it's a bajillion degrees here, as it is in many places, and I have rediscovered a food I gave up on long ago - popsicles.
I always equated eating popsicles with touching chalk. I'm weird enough that it's not just chalk on a chalkboard that makes me cringe, it's just touching chalk that's enough to do me in. Popsicles were the same way on my teeth - ick. Give me a bowl of ice cream over that any day.
But I was so wrong! They are the best!! Especially when you are huge and sweaty from the inside out and just want something fruity. And I discovered these fruit bars that are really tasty and don't get that slimy stickiness that some others do. They are only 25 calories! I can eat six in one sitting and not feel guilty! Even the ones that aren't the 'no sugar added' aren't even that bad for you. I would rather eat one of these than ice cream now - so not like me!
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If the Cali Swag District isn't available, perhaps we can get Davey Lopes, Cali Slide District - Bureau Chief, to swing by the Jays while they're in LA to teach Yunel Escobar how to slide.
Headfirst is risky, this much I know. But am I crazy in thinking that Yunel slides headfirst into a base in an, um, unorthodox manner? Take a look at the screencaps of varying quality below.
Two separate triples (first against the Twins last Saturday, the second the ominous concussion-causing slide from Wednesday), two God-awful slides. Is he doing some sort of Bill Madlock, rolling block homage? I don't get it.
Why on Earth does he come into the base on his side? I know Cuban baseball players pride themselves on being stylish and swagging out every single moment on the field, but Yunel's headfirst sliding is awkward & ugly.
Leaving aside the strained expressions of Escobar in flight — seriously, for such a slick fielder he doesn't appear especially athletic when chugging around the bases — sometimes needs to pull him aside and teach him how to slide. Headfirst or otherwise.
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|CES draws professional artists and sport legends|
Nic Rossmüller : January 7th 2007 - 02:30 CET
CES draws professional artists and sport legends : Legendary musicians, actors and sports icons will all come together at the 2007 International Consumer Electronics Show (CES) to experience the hottest products and technologies in the consumer electronics industry. The 2007 International CES, the world's largest technology tradeshow, returns to Las Vegas, NV, January 8-11, to celebrate its 40th anniversary. Multi-platinum 3 Doors Down will perform twice for CES audiences on Tuesday, January 9, once from 2-2:30 p.m. and again from 3-3:30 p.m. in the Grand Lobby of the Las Vegas Convention Center, on the ESPN stage. CEA partnered with this iconic rock band this year to promote the "Great Audio Experience" campaign. |
Consumer electronics - Sports products|
The campaign educates consumers on various price and performance options of audio equipment and encourages them to seek demonstrations from local retailers. Sports enthusiasts will want to check out Haier America in Central Hall, booth #14438. Haier America will have a different NBA legend visit each day, January 8-10. On the opening day of the show, Four Time League Scoring Champion George Gervin, "The Iceman," will be on hand from 11 a.m.-1 p.m. and again from 2-4 p.m. Then, on Tuesday, perennial All-Star and 1992 Olympic Dream Team member Clyde "The Glide" Drexler will make an appearance 10 a.m.-noon and 1-3 p.m., followed by "The Human Highlight Film" Dominique Wilkens, on Wednesday, January 10 from 11 a.m-1p.m. and 2-4 p.m.
Nascar race track - Car audio
For more on the sports side, on Monday, January 8, ESPN Commentator Dr. Jerry Punch will be at the ESPN stage from 2-3 p.m. and Kyle Busch, Nascar Nextel Cup Driver #5 will be representing Delphi in the North Hall, Booth #5206 from 3-5 p.m. Also making appearances from the race track will be Memphis Car Audio Drivers Tanner Foust and Stephan Papadakis. They will both be in the North Hall, booth #4014 all day, every show day, supporting Memphis Car Audio.
Honda humanoid robot - Gene Simmons Kiss
The Humanoid Robot ASIMO is scheduled to be on hand at 11 a.m. on Monday, January 8 at Honda Booth #4006 in the North Hall to show-off its latest technology, Gene Simmons of KISS will make a quick appearance at the Coby Electronics Booth in Central Hall, Booth #14444 from 12:30-1:30 p.m. on Wednesday, January 10, and model Teresa Noreen, will be representing PowerBass USA, from 10 a.m.-noon and 1-4 p.m. January 8-10 in the North Hall, Booth #3733. Monster Cable is also hosting a concert at 8:45 p.m. at the Venetian, on Tuesday, January 9 where the timeless and ever-popular artists George Benson and Al Jarreau will be performing.
Consumer Electronics Show - Gibson guitar
Gibson Guitar will rock CES all week with a long list of talent expected at their Booth, CP-1. Gibson will have surprise celebrity appearances throughout the show starting on Monday, January 8, but on Tuesday, January 9 the performers from Cirque de Soleil "LOVE" will be there from 2-3 p.m., followed by Happy Hour with Sweet Juice performing from 4-5 p.m. Jeff "Skunk" Baxter will be signing autographs at 4:15. At 5:15 Latin Superstar Arthur Hanlon takes the stage, and the day will end with a concert from Joan Jett and the Blackhearts. Wednesday is also packed with superstars at the Gibson booth. Billy Bob Thornton is expected to make an appearance, and the legendary Brian Wilson will perform from 5:30-6:30 p.m.
Consumer Electronics Associations - events
• CES: The Official Press Event of the International CES January 6, 2007, Las Vegas, NV
• 2007 International CES January 8-11, 2007, Las Vegas, NV
• CEA Winter Retreat February 26-28, 2007, Vail, CO
• Digital Music Forum East February 27-28, 2007, New York, NY
• EHX Spring 2007 March 6-10, 2007, Orlando, FL
• CEA Washington Forum March 26-28, 2007, Washington, DC
• Digital Patriots Dinner March 27, 2007, Washington, DC
• Connection: The Digital Home Conference and Showcase May 1-3, 2007, Santa Clara, CA
• Hometech Middle East 2007 May 13-15, 2007, Dubai, UAE
• SINOCES 2007 July 6-9, 2007, Qingdao, China
• CEA Industry Forum October 15 - 17, 2007, San Diego, CA
• EHX Fall 2007 November 6-9, 2007, Long Beach, CA
About Consumer Electronics Association
The Consumer Electronics Association (CEA) is the preeminent trade association promoting growth in the consumer technology industry through technology policy, events, research, promotion and the fostering of business and strategic relationships. CEA represents more than 2,100 corporate members involved in the design, development, manufacturing, distribution and integration of audio, video, mobile electronics, wireless and landline communications, information technology, digital imaging, home networking, multimedia and accessory products, as well as related services that are sold through consumer channels. Combined, CEA's members account for more than $140 billion in annual sales. | <urn:uuid:28cd978f-da97-40d2-9768-35f559017225> | CC-MAIN-2014-52 | http://www.letsgodigital.org/en/11940/sport_legends/ | 2014-12-23T03:09:21Z | s3://commoncrawl/crawl-data/CC-MAIN-2014-52/segments/1418802778013.38/warc/CC-MAIN-20141217075258-00123-ip-10-231-17-201.ec2.internal.warc.gz | en | 0.907774 | 1,214 | [
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Spirax Sarco’s HVAC Solutions has been rebranded with the new name Steam DesignPro to meet the demand of mechanical engineers, designers, and contractors in the HVAC market. The software was created as a visual design tool through an easy, drag-and-drop method for designing and modelling HVAC steam systems.
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Plus, Steam DesignPro supports compiling of equipment schedules based on the Spirax Sarco catalog. Minimal training is required to use this software and one can reuse designs from job to job.
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Additional features include the ability to select relief valves, flowmeters for steam and hydronic applications and control valves.
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One of the worst insect pests in the world is coming to the U.S.—and it’s coming in disguise. By almost any measure of pest severity, the Old World bollworm Helicoverpa armigera tops the charts. Annual losses from the pest are estimated at $5 billion. The caterpillars eat more than 180 kinds of plants including cotton, corn, soybeans, citrus fruits and ornamental flowers. A single female can lay thousands of eggs, and adult bollworm moths can ride wind currents up to 2,000 kilometers—about the distance from Mexico City to Albuquerque, N.M. Yet the invasive pest looks identical to a common North American species called the corn earworm Helicoverpa zea, which has made the task of finding and stopping the newcomers appear nearly impossible.
Until recently the Western Hemisphere has been free of Old World bollworms, which have confined their depredations to Africa, Eurasia and Oceania. In 2013, however, Old World bollworms were found attacking tomato and soybean crops in Brazil. Since then the species has been spotted in Argentina and Paraguay; researchers believe it is likely to spread north. “It can tolerate a wide range of environmental conditions, it can eat lots of different hosts and it can fly great distances. So there is no reason why it won’t move up through Mexico,” says Tom Walsh, research scientist at Commonwealth Scientific and Industrial Research Organization and one of the researchers who first identified Old World bollworms in Brazil.
With the naked eye, the newcomer cannot be distinguished from the corn earworm, making identification impracticable at border customs checks and difficult during in-country surveys. The U.S. Department of Agriculture is funding the development of a new method of quick identification to keep the invaders out as long as possible. If bollworms do make it to the U.S., they could be very hard to kill. The species has developed resistance to more insecticides than any other targeted insect, according to the USDA.
The chief remaining arrow in the pesticide quiver is Bacillus thuringiensis (Bt), a naturally occurring soil bacterium used as a pesticide. Bt toxins still work on bollworms, but possibly not for long. Researchers have no trouble breeding Bt-resistant bollworms in the lab, and resistant individuals are regularly found in the wild. Farmers in Asia and Australia employ farming practices that delay the spread of Bt resistance, but farmers in South America do not.* This could cause trouble, because farmers in both North and South America rely heavily on crops that have been genetically modified to produce Bt toxins. By the time bollworms make it to the U.S., they could already be resistant. “The really scary part about the potential of [Old World bollworms] moving into the United States is that they will be coming from a place where they’re going to be selected intensely for resistance to Bt toxins. So we’re unlikely to get [bollworms] that are susceptible,” says Bruce Tabashnik, professor of entomology at the University of Arizona in Tucson.
USDA officials are trying to stop the bollworms from establishing populations in the country, but first they must find them. Entomologists can distinguish adult moths by their genitals, but only after laborious dissections. Caterpillars have no genitals and can only be identified by their DNA, which takes about a week with traditional methods. “The problem is that you can’t take a week to get an answer if you are holding up a perishable shipment of fresh produce, like oranges or tomatoes,” says Todd Gilligan, research scientist at the Department of Bioagricultural Sciences and Pest Management at Colorado State University. Gilligan has developed a new identification method that takes just 45 minutes.
The new method works by targeting a sequence of DNA that is the same for all Old World bollworms but different in other species. The researchers produce lots of copies of this sequence using a reaction called PCR. Normally, the product of the reaction must be sent to a different lab for analysis, which accounts for most of the weeklong processing time. But Gilligan and colleagues eliminated this step by using a technique known as real-time PCR. With this method, the target DNA triggers a tiny fluorescent flash each time it is copied, allowing researchers to see results as they happen. “I can give you an answer in 45 minutes or less. Once I start seeing this pattern versus that pattern, I can cut this thing off in 30 minutes and tell you exactly what’s going on,” Gilligan says. He presented his method at the 2014 meeting of The Lepidopterists’ Society.
The USDA funded Gilligan’s research primarily because it needed a faster way to identify adult moths caught during surveys. If the moths do make it into the country, officials will need to track their spread and target budding populations. The USDA, however, is also looking at using molecular methods like Gilligan’s to identify caterpillars at U.S. ports of entry, according to Joel Floyd, a domestic diagnostics coordinator with the USDA Animal and Plant Health Inspection Service.
More research has to be done before the new method can be implemented. The USDA will need to confirm its effectiveness, and Gilligan wants to test it with additional specimens and related species. But if the method works, it could be just what we need to see through the Old World bollworm's disguise.
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[IPython-User] Launching IPython kernel in a new thread instead of new process
Fri Mar 22 15:53:22 CDT 2013
Thanks Fernando, I'll take a look at the example you pointed me to.
On Mar 22, 2013, at 12:46 AM, Fernando Perez <[email protected]> wrote:
> You want to embed a kernel... Here's a simple example:
> Marc, more than one Python interpreter per process is as of now a
> no-go, due to limitations in Python itself (too much global state at
> the C level). But the above should give you easily a kernel in your
> app, substitute Cocoa for the Wx code in that example.
> IPython-User mailing list
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Does anyone know if there are any companies that offer residential fuel cells on a lease program?
I met someone at RESNET this year who worked for a company that was offering such a program, but I have not been able to reach him since mid-March.
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QUOTE (Praetorian @ May 3 2009, 03:41 AM)
Here is an mp3 of my Group Assignment. It is a little basic, but I have to be honest with you...this assignment was a little intimidating for me! I have never in my life tried to come up with music on my own! I think it sounds pretty cool, although like I said...a little basic! Sorry for the mp3...my camera is acting up and I couldn't get a video.
Thanks for the upload Ben, glad you did it
First of all, it's really great that you started now to come up with some music on your own. It will surely be a major step forward in your own development as a guitarist! And the good thing is: you did certainly a good job with it on for this blues backing
You nicely played only the allowed notes for each of the chords throughout the complete backing which is great!
It was sometimes a bit tricky to hear, but I tried to figure out which shapes you used throughout your take and I noticed a couple of occassions where you did not switch from chord shape as far as I could hear.
Let's see which ones those are:
In the first 12 bars of the backing you started with the Em chord (E-shape combined with C-shape), followed by the Am chord (A-shape) and back to Em chord (C-shape). Then you ended this first section with the Bm chord (E-shape) to Am chord (C-shape) and Em chord (C-shape). And only this last transistion from Am to Em should have gone from C-shape to either the E-shape or A-shape for this assignment
In the second 12 bars of the backing you continued with the Em (C-shape) to the Am (A-shape), back to the Em (E-shape combined with C-shape). You ended this section by Bm chord (C-shape) followed by Am (C-shape) and finally Em Chord (C-shape?). Again, although quite logical from a musical point of view, you did not switch the chord shapes
The final 12 bars started with Em chord (C-shape) followed by the Am chord (A-shape) to Em (C-shape). Then you continued with the same chords as in the previous 12 bars.
What I particularly liked about your take was the variation in timing you chose throughout the backing (e.g. you had some longer notes during the Bm - Am passages), which made the take much more bluesier
In addition, you started of with quite a bit of strums in the first part, followed by more arpeggiated runs in the middle and ending again with strums, which also gives variation to the listener (that's a good thing
A couple of things what I noticed which can be improved are:
1) Because you probably had quite a difficult time to obey the rules of the assignment, you did not apply a lot of vibrato to any of the notes as far as I could notice. What you could have done e.g. is to play at certain moments only half notes and give them quite a bit of vibrato. This brings more feeling to the solo and increase the time-feel.
2) Try to work a bit more on applying the actual switches correctly (those I pointed out above). I also noticed that you stayed completely in the lower region of the fretboard. Try to go over the 12th fret as well sometimes, which will make your solo also more dynamic
I would suggest that you keep practicing the shape shifts e.g. using this backing (you can use any standard blues backing for this exercise), as it really helps if you can on the spot shift positions all over the fretboard. These standard triad shapes can easily be expanded later on to 7th chords or even further, which enables you to improvise much better in the future without any preparations.
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This is the beginning of my ride home from
Cambridge's Bike Week Transportation Ride
which continues on the South Bay Harbor Trail and the Southwest Corridor Bike Path.
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I've tried quite a few of the lip butters by Revlon and this is my favorite shade (I think I am torn between this and Pink Truffle) this is a sheer plummy wash that is slightly deeper than my natural lip shade, but does not look like i'm wearing a full lipstick, which i like, I am pretty casual, and dont like to look made up all the time. This feels so nice and creamy on, and wears well. fantastic product, only wish it had SPF then it would be perfect!
Sugar Plum is my favorite shade in this line besides Cherry Tart. These can go on sheer, and it would be a sheer mauve, but I like to get in there and warm up the product on my lips. That gives more color and shine, but it never looks goopy or sticky. I have lips in good condition, so I have no complaints about this drying my lips or being thick. I will buy Sugar Plum again because it's a soft and romantic shade. Not at all the purple I thought it would be.
I agree with the other reviewers that this is an excellent, flattering shade. I imagine it would look great on a wide variety of skin tones. It looks natural and warm toned with my NC30 skin. Goes with a wide variety of other makeup looks, doesn't really seem to "clash" with anything I've worn it with so far. Texture wise it is great, as are all the lip butters, its somewhere between a really smoothing (not goopy) gloss and a lipstick. Decently pigmented, and buildable. The one downside is that the wear time is kind of short. Would repurchase.
I absolutely love all Revlon color burst lip balm simply because of their formulation, but this is one of my absolute faves. It's a gorgeous, sheer soft plum color I believe would look great on any skin tone. I can wear this alone and it brightens up my complexion, or with any eye makeup look. The product is moisturizing but not too greasy, shiny but not too glossy, and I also like that it isn't frosty like so many lip products because I think frosty finishes simply look dated. This is excellent quality, and I would reccomend it to everybody.
This color is very similar to MAC's Syrup. i would say Syrup is slightly more pink but very similar. The texture is good. Can't wait to try more!
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IT WAS business as usual at Butlin’s holiday camp, Skegness, after fire had destroyed the two-storey Princes Building one of their main entertainment centres, on Wednesdays afternoon. The evening meal at the Gloucester Dining hall next door was onl half an hour late and other venues were soon found for the activities which normally took place in the stricken building.
A new old-time dancing area has been created at the northern end of the Gloucester Dining Hall and the Ingoldmells Hotel has been brought into the camp complex to be used for dancing, which means it will not be open to the general public this summer.
Competitions and dancing will also take place in the Empress Show Bar and another amusement arcade has been opened this week in the Holiday Fayre.
Val Merrill’s Orchestra lost all their instruments in the blaze. But more were obtained from London and only two nights later they were playing again at the Queens Theatre Bar.
The only reminder of the fire was the skeleton of the Princes Building, its steel framework twisted into grotesque shapes by the fierce heat, the Tudor Lounge Bar, which had lost its windows, to the north, and the burnt out shoe shop at one corner of the dining hall to the south.
There was still a smell of smoke in the air on Saturday.
The whole area was boarded off and demolition of the Princes Building — expected to take about two weeks — was due to start on Monday.
Built 11 years ago, its steel girders had wood and hardboard cladding and the roof was of glass and asbestos. It stretched about 100 yards along the camp’s frontage next to the main reception block.
Inside was a ballroom, a lounge, coffee bar, and griddle, the Beachcomber Bar, a Chinese restaurant, two amusement arcades and a sweet, cigarettes, book and stationery shop.
This was the only building with an escalator, the bottom of which is next to the Chinese restaurant kitchen. The general manager, Mr Harry Oakes, said on Sunday that though the forensic experts who had examined the charred remains had not yet reported, the fire appeared to have started at the base of the escalator.
He estimated the total damage at over £1/4 million.
As soon as smoke was spotted, the alarm was raised and the 600 or so people in the building were hustled out in minutes without casualties. Most were downstairs where the amusement arcades were crowded.
Upstairs in the ballroom, the Miss Personality and knobbly knees competitions had just ended.
Mr Brian Callow, retail restaurant manager, described how he cleared the floor and had to dive for safety through the smoke-fined Emergency exit when he had finished.
He sent everyone down one of the staircases, carrying one elderly man, then went back to check the toilets and make sure no one was left.
“We got them out in one minute flat,” he said. “It was very lucky there were only 10 people there.
“As I was crossing a staircase, that’s when it blew. There was just one hell of an explosion and flames and smoke came up the staircase. I took a handkerchief out, put it over my mouth and ran round a big hole in the ballroom.”
Unable to get down either main staircase, he made for the emergency stairs, on the west side only to find thick smoke coming up that, too.
“The building was just away,” he said. “I didn’t think I was going to get out alive. There was a platform half way down. The smoke was getting me so bad I just dived through and escaped with just a few bruises.”
Mr Callow said he ran into the building when he heard the fire siren and found the Beachcomber Bar downstairs full of smoke. Mr John Grey, assistant chief security officer, was evacuating the ground floor, and he, too, became trapped in thick black smoke before making his own escape.
“We were all carrying out the procedure we had been taught,” said Mr Callow. “We were just doing our jobs and double checking. The fire procedure was spot on.”
The Skegness snorkel was among 23 fire appliances which fought the blaze. Some came from as far away as Boston, Louth, Woodhall Spa and Mablethorpe, and altogether, about 100 firemen were engaged in the operation.
They used the two open-air swimming pools and the boating lake because the mains pressure was low. This was later boosted by the water authority.
The call came at 3.17 pm. By 4.38 the fire was surrounded and by 5.32 it was under control and the firemen were dousing the odd flames among the smoking ruins. They stayed there all night to damp down and prevent any further outbreak.
Ambulancemen treated some firemen for heat exhaustion and the camp first-air staff gave treatment for shock to some of the campers.
Skegness Ambulance Station sent two ambulances with oxygen equipment to stand by but there were no injuries needing emergency hospital treatment. Twenty policemen were also on duty to help control traffic and keep sightseers away from the fire.
One police officer said that when he arrived the flames were leaping up and the asbestos roof was exploding in the fierce heat.
A huge pall of smoke billowing out to sea could be seen from many miles away.
Skegness Hospital was on standby and local doctors and nurses — some of them off duty — volunteered to help if needed.
Tables and chairs from the Gloucester Dining Hall were carried out on to the skating rink. All the records in the reception block were removed in case the fire spread and chalets immediately behind were evacuated.
A strong, blustery wind blowing from the west blew the flames towards the rest of the camp but the firemen prevented them from catching hold on other buildings.
The chalets were untouched, except for some slight damage.
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HMLBK 6 ~
A NORMANDY VETERAN BOWS OUT
His Majesty's Landing Barge Kitchen 6 (HMLBK 6) is
seen departing Portsmouth Naval Base at 13.30 hours on May 10th 2007 under
the tow of a marine tug out of Itchen. Her destination believed to be Babcocks at Southampton for disposal.
Read on to find out what really happened. [Photos courtesy of John Wardale.]
Following her arrival off Normandy HMLBK 6 stood off Sword beach as part
of the 35th Supply and Repair Flotilla of 'U' Landing Barge Squadron. With
her, also part of the 35th Flotilla, were other converted Thames barges of
assorted designations, namely, LBE or Landing Barge (Engineering), LBO
Landing Barge (Oiler) and LBW Landing Barge (Water).
The 35 Supply & Repair Flotilla was, in turn, part of Force 'S'. The Flotilla consisted
of the trawler DAMITO which had been converted to a fuel carrier, the
minesweeping trawler EMPYREAN and VINDELICIA, a trawler which had been
converted to carry fuel but was acting as a tug. The rest of the Flotilla
was the emergency repair craft LCE 13, emergency repair barges LBEs 1, 7,
35, 40, 42 & 43; LBK 6; oiler barges LBOs 5, 12, 15, 25, 31, 42, 50, 51,
52, 85 and water barges LBWs 12 & 13. A further nine LBS & R Flotillas,
similarly composed, were also engaged in support of the Normandy Invasion.
At some point LBK 6 was moved westwards and stood off Gold beach. On July
24th 1944 Admiral Ramsay went aboard and was photographed with her crew. In
1997 Tony Chapman of the LST and Landing Craft Association reminded crew
member Les Hinchliffe, of the occasion. Les was most surprised having
completely forgotten that he had been in the presence of the great man!
A Brief History
LBK 6 is the last of a class of landing vessels used as a floating kitchen to
serve groups of landing craft at the Normandy
beachheads in 1944. The vessel was built as a steel swim barge in 1944 with
an overall length of 79 feet, a beam of 21ft and draught of 3.5ft;
deadweight capacity was about 150 tons, the hold dimensions being
approximately 50ft long by 16ft wide. The kitchen conversion was carried out
to a total of ten vessels, while similar barges were converted to oil, water
and engineering barges to cater for the varied requirements of the invasion
The kitchen conversion involved the installation in the
barge's hold of four ovens aft of a kitchen space with stores for bulk and
perishable goods forward; a 10 ton fresh water tank was fitted in the hold
with additional fresh and seawater and diesel tanks on the accommodation
roof. The vessel had the capacity for storage and issuing space to provide
enough provisions to feed 900 men for one week. In the after section of the
hull two Chrysler petrol engines were fitted, separated by a diesel tank .
The two Chrysler engines developed a total of 130bhp and gave a speed of 6
knots; the estimated endurance was 300 miles at 5 knots on 600 gallons of
petrol carried in tanks fitted in the after peak, while in the forepeak a
toilet and coal storage were provided. At deck level aft was the steering
shelter which, along with the various fuel tanks, was provided with 2.5"
plastic armour. The middle section of the deckhouse, over the galley below,
was the servery area with accommodation for the one officer aft, over the
engines, and accommodation for the 24 man crew forward, over the storage
In September 1946 LBK 6 was at Chatham were she continued
to act as a floating galley for ships in the dockyard. By 1948 LBK 6 was
classed as a Servicing Craft (Civilian) operating under control of the
Captain of the Dockyard's Department. In July 1951 the hull was surveyed and
given an expected life of 13 years; at the same time it was reported that
the engines had been removed. Two years later LBK 6 was listed under the
Captain of the Dockyard's Department, Chatham and continued to be so until
December 1957 when the barge was absorbed into the newly formed Port
LBK 6 was modernised in 1957 and continued to act as a
galley for ships under refit. In September/October 1961 the vessel was
docked and essential repairs and tank clean carried out followed by
emergency repairs the next month. During 1963 LBK 6 was declared for
disposal and approval to give up was given on 24 April that year. Details of
the craft were forwarded to Portsmouth in September 1963 when it was found
that LBK 6 would be suitable to replace YC 3029 or YC 3030, formerly LBK 1
and LBK 3 respectively.
Approval to transfer to Portsmouth was given on 14
October 1963 and LBK 6 was ready for tow by 5 November. The tug BUSTLER left
Sheerness with LBK 6 in tow on 13 November 1963, arriving at Portsmouth the
following day. It was decided that a refit was required following which LBK
6 would replace YC 3030. In late 1964 a refit and quadrennial survey was
carried out at Portsmouth. The following year it was agreed to increase the
complement by one stoker. During 1965 facilities were further improved as
LBK 6 continued to provide food for ships in refit.
[Photo; sister craft LBK1
courtesy of the
Jack Smale/Philip Simons Collection].
LBK 6 underwent various refits at Portsmouth throughout
the 60's & 70's and was actually declared for disposal on 20 November 1977.
However, the barge was used during the refit of INTREPID between June 1977
and November 1978 and continues to have an active role in what is now the
Royal Maritime Auxiliary Service. [© DA Sowdon, BSc (Hons),
1994. World Ship Society RMAS Central Record.]
LBK 6 found a new role as the clubhouse of the Harwich
and Dovercourt Sailing Club. These photos show her arrival at Harwich on
April 2nd 2008 - the first opposite the harbour master's pontoon and the
on her new mooring quay
at the club by the HHA workboat Hornbill. Whilst serving as their clubhouse
the sailing club hope to incorporate some of her history thus making her a
public attraction as well.
Five years after the Harwich & Dovercourt Sailing Club
took delivery of LBK 6, their planned conversion was completed. Rear
Commodore Shirley Constable explained, "It has been a long hard road, but
as well as being our Clubhouse LBK 6 will also serve as a memorial to all
the landing barges, and the men who sailed on them, that took part in
Operation Overlord which started with the D Day landings on June 6 1944."
A Remembrance Service was held on the 69th
anniversary of D-Day on June 6th 2013. Representatives from the service
organisations, veterans their families and friends assembled on the
lower deck (function room) which was very ably opened by D Day veteran
Ron Smith (photo opposite), a member of the LST & Landing Craft Association. The lower
deck is now officially known as "The Normandy Room" as a a tribute to
those ships and men whose destiny it was to sail to Normandy that
fateful day, amongst which was, of course, LBK6.
This 70th Anniversary year we are again
holding a Commemoration event and hope to welcome all service veterans
from whatever field who cannot make it to Normandy, plus their family
and friends. The programme starts around 11.00 am with coffee and
biscuits followed by a gentle short parade with pipe band at around
11.30 am. Lunch and a few "goodies", provided by the club, will draw the
proceedings to an end.
To help with the organisation of the
event, anyone wishing to attend should please e-mail the
Harwich and Dovercourt Sailing Club
in the first instance.
Club is located at: Gas House Creek, Harwich, Essex.
Following the conversion the exterior is unchanged with the
same deck furniture and LBK 6 on her superstructure. However, the interior has
witnessed an amazing transformation as the photos above illustrate.
As far as is known LBK 6 was, until May 10th 2007, the last surviving
Thames barge converted for service during WW2.
Recollections of a Crew Member
Prior to joining HMLBK 6, myself and others were billeted on Hayling
Island at Havant, Hampshire, England. HMLBK 6 was brought to us from London
as confirmed by a veteran who had ferried numerous Thames barges to
Hampshire. He himself served aboard HMLBK 10.
Our Normandy crew were the first to board her but the precise date
escapes me. Our commanding officer was Sub Lt Smillie, a Londoner. On June 4th
he told us that we were to be part of an invasion force to be landed on the
5th June, later to become June 6 because of a delay due to bad weather.
We departed Hayling Island early in the morning to join up with the main
invasion force. The hundreds of ships and boats of all shapes and sizes was
an unforgettable sight as they made their way towards the Normandy beaches
of France. Our crossing was far from pleasant. The sea was so rough
that LBK 6 pitched up and down like a bucking bronco!
We were assigned to Sword beach at Ouistreham on the extreme eastern
flank of the invasion beaches. By my recall when we arrived we were the only
craft there apart from a merchant ship or ammunition ship. This vessel was
later hit by incoming shell fire or by striking a mine and went up in
flames. I vividly recall her crew and other personnel jumping into the sea
to escape the inferno.
[I have been unable to confirm either the actual or planned departure or
arrival time for LBK 6. The convoy records show that she possibly set
out with Convoy SM 4 which had with it two LBKs. That particular convoy was
due off the Normandy beaches on D+1. (Tony Chapman)].
We did not stay long in the vicinity of Sword beach and soon moved
westwards to take up position off Gold beach at Arromanche, where we
HMLBK 6 was about 79 feet long by 21 feet wide at her bows. She had four
ovens aft of her kitchen space, storage for bulk and perishable goods
forward, a ten ton fresh water storage tank housed in the hold with
additional fresh and sea water tanks on the accommodation roof. She could
hold sufficient provisions to feed 900 men for a week. In the after section
of the hull two Chrysler petrol engines gave her a speed of six knots. At
her forepeak were two toilets or ‘heads’ which were emptied by her crew.
crew complement was 24 men including our commanding officer. His quarters were
aft above the engine room and the crew quarters were forward above the storage
I can recall the names of some crew members but others are now only faces
remembered. For the record, those I can recall are;
AB ‘Haircut Sir’ Gutteridge, a barber in civilian life from Hayling
AB L Higgins a native of Norwich,
Cook Bailey from Northampton,
Cook Wicks from London,
AB Isley from Peterborough,
AB Dawson from Hull,
Stoker Gibbons from the Staffordshire area,
Storeman or ‘Jack Dusty’ as they were known also from Staffordshire, from
Brownhills I believe,
AB ‘Scouse’ Hughes from Liverpool,
AB Gibson from Boness in Scotland,
Cook Tyson from Staffordshire,
Cook Barton from Tunbridge Wells,
AB Harold Armitage from Huddersfield in Yorkshire (my best mate ),
AB Douglas Mackrell from Bradford, Yorkshire,
Cook Ward from London,
AB Leslie ‘Tubby’ Morris from Bolton, Lancashire also known affectionately
as ‘Little Eva,'
AB Les Hinchliffe, a native of Sheffield,
Odder who came from South Africa,
Our Coxswain whose name escapes me. He came from London and in
civilian life he was a "lighter-man" working on the Thames barges... the
very same craft he found himself serving with in Normandy... and myself of
As I sit writing this in November of 1995 I am aware that HMLBK 6 is
still going strong and still feeding Royal Navy personnel in Portsmouth.
The photos below were
provided courtesy of Peter Booth son of ‘Jack Dusty’ Fred Booth off
HMLBK 6. They are of crew
in Sas van Gent a small coastal town in Zeeland, Holland in May/June 1945. Where
names are given they read from back row to front row and left to right.
VE Day May 5
Chef, Tubby &
Taffy & Chef
Spike and Dusty
Ginger & Taffy
Lofty & Spike
VE Day May 5
Given her presence in Normandy in 1944 the Harwich and Dovercourt Sailing
Club held a remembrance service on D-Day the 6th of June 2009 with
HMLBK 6 as the focal point flying the White Ensign.
Members of the local area Royal Navy and Merchant Navy Associations were
present as well as members of the Royal British Legion and veterans from the LST
and Landing Craft Association.
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Able Seaman Les Hinchliffe's recollections were transcribed by Tony Chapman, Archivist/Historian of the LST and Landing
Craft Association (Royal Navy). Thanks to John Wardale for sending in the photos of
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Residents of the town got a lift last Friday morning during a special meeting of the Pagosa Springs Town Council.
Specifically, a chair lift that, if the town and the Town Tourism Committee can find the funds, will be installed on the northwest side of Reservoir Hill.
As reported in last week’s edition of The SUN, the TTC proposed securing a decommissioned chairlift from the Cuchara Ski Area at the Dec. 7 town council meeting, asking for $41,000 to dismantle the lift and transport it to Pagosa Springs. At that time, council felt it needed more time and information before making a decision on appropriating funds for the lift, scheduling Friday’s special meeting specifically to make a final decision regarding the lift.
The Cuchara Ski Area had placed a firm and timely deadline on the decision on the lift, stating that if the town did not take it, other communities had also expressed interest.
The purpose of the lift was made clear by TTC Board President Bob Hart and TTC Coordinator Jennie Green during a presentation at the Dec. 7 meeting: to make Reservoir Hill more of an attraction for visitors, with the intent of providing a multitude of activities during their stay in Pagosa Springs.
If the lift is constructed (with an estimated cost of $300,000), it would transport skiers, snow boarders and sledders up the hill for a brief run down slopes — the TTC is in the process of finishing a sledding and snow boarding run on the hill, but has proposed more runs if the lift is installed.
In the summer, the lift would provide transportation up the hill for mountain bikers, hikers, sightseers and attendees of festivals held on the hill. Summertime use of the lift, in fact, necessitated one of the retrofits for the lift: the Cuchara lift currently allows for uploading; a Reservoir Hill lift would also require downloading capabilities to accommodate festival attendees or other visitors to the hill who find a descent too difficult.
Given the recreational opportunities that a lift would potentially open up for the hill, council members who had been fence sitting during the Dec. 7 meeting appeared to have moved firmly in favor of securing the lift by the time the Dec. 10 meeting was convened.
Trustee Shari Pierce was not one of those members of the council. Restating concerns she had with unfinished projects (a large portion of the town’s Riverwalk, restrooms and facilities in Yamaguchi Park, the Town-to-Lakes trail system, etc.), Pierce reported that she had not heard support for the lift from her constituents.
“I’ve had six people contact me regarding this,” she said, “and not one has stated any support.”
Pierce added that she felt that the council should consider funding the lift only if the TTC would consider that appropriation a loan, to be paid back in 2011.
However, Town Manager David Mitchem pointed out that the TTC had other capital expenses dedicated for 2011, most notably the continuing wayfinding and signage project, and that the repayment of a loan would be too much of a financial burden for the committee.
Trustee Darrell Cotton, one of the council members who had stated support for securing the lift at the previous meeting, remarked that, with The Springs Resort reporting 150,000 people staying at the resort during the past year, a lift would most likely be well used.
Undecided at the Dec. 7 meeting, trustee Stan Holt agreed with Cotton, but said that much more work needed to be done to make the lift a viable concern.
“I’m the one who brought up the business plan and I think we need it,” Holt said, adding, “we have very little to lose and a whole lot to gain ... I’m for it.”
Also previously undecided, trustee Kathie Lattin said, “I do agree that there are a lot of projects that need to be completed.
“I’ve been approached by three separate people about this, none of them had one good thing to say about this,” Lattin continued, but conceded that those people had probably not looked at the future potential of the project.
“As far as the initial investment, I think it’s worth it,” she said.
Pagosa Springs Mayor Ross Aragon opened up the discussion for public input. Local business owner Cappy White said, “I think this could be a game-changer,” adding that he felt the project would provide a positive impact on downtown businesses.
Local businessman (and TTC board member) Thad McKain said, “I don’t know who is talking to some of the council members, but I’m hearing positive things as far the potential for all kinds of activities up on the hill. I don’t want to see Reservoir Hill turned into Disneyland or something like that, but I think it has tremendous potential”
Local business owner Norm Vance added, “I think you’ll have people standing in line all summer long — and not just for festivals.”
With comments returning to council members, Cotton stated that the idea of a chairlift on Reservoir Hill was so crazy that it just might work.
“None of you were on the council back then, but back in the eighties the mayor and I talked about how it would be nice to build more pools for soaking. Now look at The Springs Resort today. See how many people are out there. And people thought it was a crazy idea back then.
“Some of the lunacy ideas are the ones that work,” Cotton said.
“I just think about all the people out at the Wyndham. I think it could help keep them here a couple more days,” added Holt.
Pierce, seeing the overall sentiment of council in favor of securing the lift, again floated her idea about making the appropriation a loan, with the TTC reimbursing the town next year.
“I don’t think there’s sufficient cash flow there,” responded Mitchem.
Although trustee Jerry Jackson stated that he agreed with Pierce, saying, “I think it’s a good idea. I think it should be built into the business plan,” he did not stipulate reimbursement of funds into his motion to approve spending for the lift.
With a second by Holt, council approved money for the lift with only Pierce opposing.
“Even if all we get out of this is the rope tow, this could be fun,” Jackson said after the vote, referring to a 400-foot rope tow that is included as part of the package for the lift.
“People get here and complain there’s nothing to do here ... I think that this will be just fun,” he added.
With the lift on its way for storage in Pagosa Springs, it remains to be seen if and when the town will take the next step — spending at least $300,000 to re-engineer and construct the lift for use on Reservoir Hill. If that is done, the next question will be how the town will fund the nearly $150,000 estimated for annual operations and maintenance.
Aragon thanked the TTC at the end of the meeting for, “Working hard on economic development,” assuming that the lift will not only pay for itself through lift passes, but will encourage more recreational — and by implication, economic — activity in the downtown area.
Hart added that, in the aggregate, the lift should add to the local tax base through increased activity downtown.
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Well, since the Big East bellyflopped in the tourney's first weekend, we have two teams—UConn and, uh, Marquette—left reppin' the supposedly superior conference that started with 11 teams on Thursday.
Which means instead of hearing, say, Syracuse grad Lou Reed (or his heirs apparent upstate), you get the mellifluous tones of Marquette's finest, the Spanish O'Donnells. Which is cool if you like autotuned white college rap and hearing the word "buzz" over and over again, usually as a proper noun. But you probably will not like that at all.
What the hell, why not humor the Spanish O'Ds for now? We know John Henson's wingspan will swat the song off the web come Friday night.
Spanish O'Donnells Online [Twitter]
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Photos: District 2-4A swim meet at Socorro Activities Complex
Area high schools competed at Thursday’s district 2-4A swim meet at the Socorro Activities Complex. Hanks won both the girls and boys district titles.
Photos by Vanessa Monsisvais / El Paso Times
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Retail sales grew in July by the largest amount in five months despite lingering high unemployment numbers, according to the Commerce Department.
Sales rose 0.8 percent, beating expectations after three months of declines.
The auto industry expects the rate of sales by the average car dealer to increase to about 805 vehicles per year, up from 719 last year.
And the home improvement giant Home Depot is reporting more than a 12 percent boost in sales just in their second quarter.
Some of the strongest performance came in markets hit hardest by the housing downturn, such as California and Florida.
"The consumers are coming back," Business Week quoted Sung Won Sohn, economics professor at Cal State Channel Islands. "They were temporarily scared because of what was happening in Europe and China, and in parts of the country we also had weather problems."
"But now, consumer sentiment is thawing a little and people are out in the shopping centers looking for bargains and value," he said.
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Inshore Fishing in Delacroix Island in Southeast Louisiana
Drum off the dock at Seringe's
Weekend in Delacroix - 12/29 and 12/30
Didn't do too well Saturday. 1 trout and that was pretty much the only bite all day. Wind was coming out the NW about 20 and some gusts felt like 40. Had fun catching freshwater cats off the dock at Seringe's til about 10PM, and I hooked up with a huge drum. Took about 30 mins to get him in with 10lb mono on the pole. Sunday was nice. Wound up with 30 nice spekcs and one drum. All in all, a pretty good weekend for Team Skill and Talent. | <urn:uuid:fffd19ee-8a74-4591-89a2-fe017cdb4d6f> | CC-MAIN-2014-52 | http://www.louisianasportsman.com/lpca/index.php?section=reports&event=view&action=full_report&style=classic&id=167995 | 2014-12-19T06:39:54Z | s3://commoncrawl/crawl-data/CC-MAIN-2014-52/segments/1418802768276.101/warc/CC-MAIN-20141217075248-00123-ip-10-231-17-201.ec2.internal.warc.gz | en | 0.962539 | 152 | [
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I’m Jeff aka iskol and I am from the States. I am a graphic artist/3D designer, painter and I recently got into photography about a year and a half ago. Photography always had a place in my heart and I enjoy being behind the camera capturing that shot of the moment.
I am a big fan of abstract art, outdoor shots, creepy shots and I appreciate art of any kind. At this time I just want to say thank you for checking out my photos and I hope you enjoy them as much as I do.
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Q: Choosing a Pentax prime lens
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Due to its rather secretive behaviour and cryptic colouration, the eastern whip-poor-will remains a relatively unstudied bird, with little known about its behaviour and ecology (2).
The eastern whip-poor-will forages at dusk and dawn and during moonlit periods at night. It typically makes short flights after insects from a perch in a tree or from the ground, and is also known to investigate rotten logs and leaves in search of food. The eastern whip-poor-will has a strictly insectivorous diet, consisting mainly of ants, beetles, flies, grasshoppers, moths and caterpillars (2).
At the start of the breeding season the male whip-poor-will is known to establish a fairly large territory, and from here produces loud, distinctive “whip-poor-will” calls from a variety of perches in an attempt to attract a suitable mate. The timing of breeding varies greatly with location, occurring sometime between late April and early July across most of its range (2).
The eastern whip-poor-will is a ground-nesting species, with the female laying a clutch of two eggs directly among leaf litter on the forest floor (2) (4). The newly laid eggs are cream or greyish-white, and are marbled and dotted with lavender-grey blotches and yellowish-brown or pale brown spots. This colouration fades fairly quickly and the eggs become well camouflaged to match the leaf litter, allowing them to remain undetected by most predators. The eggs are incubated mainly by the female, although sometimes by the male, for around 19 to 21 days, during which time the adult birds remain motionless on or close to the nest throughout much of the day (2).
Hatching of whip-poor-will chicks appears to be closely tied to the lunar cycle, with most young hatching a few days before a full moon. It is thought that this strategy may have developed to allow the adult birds to forage throughout the night during the full moon period, enabling them to catch enough insects to supply the chicks with sufficient energy to grow (2) (3). At around eight days after hatching, the whip-poor-will chicks develop black-speckled feathers to provide them with additional camouflage, after which they move from the nest site into denser cover (2). The male provides much of the care to the chicks after they leave the nest site until they are able to fly at around 20 days old, while the female often lays a second clutch of eggs nearby (2). | <urn:uuid:da897230-9d42-42be-a370-2f19569824c1> | CC-MAIN-2014-52 | http://www.arkive.org/eastern-whip-poor-will/caprimulgus-vociferus/ | 2014-12-20T17:17:50Z | s3://commoncrawl/crawl-data/CC-MAIN-2014-52/segments/1418802770060.91/warc/CC-MAIN-20141217075250-00027-ip-10-231-17-201.ec2.internal.warc.gz | en | 0.972831 | 527 | [
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Made in Britain
can be personalised
A gorgeous gold storybook locket containing a child’s handprint and personalised message etched onto the wooden pages inside.
This lovely necklace is carefully handmade in our Brighton studio. The wooden discs are made from reclaimed British cherry wood which we laser etch the handprint and message onto. These wooden discs are set within the 24k gold plated brass locket.
The gold plated storybook locket has pretty floral detailing on the front and back, and further decorative details on the inside. This locket is hinged and opens easily, and closes securely with a small clasp.
This lovely necklace makes the perfect gift for a special friend or loved one, and the hidden message makes it an extra personal and unique present. This necklace comes beautifully gift wrapped in a gift box and tied with ribbon.
The right side of the locket can be personalised with up to 3 words. We are able to create the message in any language and can also include a heart ♥ symbol, please just write '(heart symbol)' where you would like the heart.
We will send you an inkless handprint kit within 1-2 days of receiving your order. You can make a handprint or a footprint with this kit, and once happy with them you can post them back to us, or you can scan them and email back to us, along with your personalised message (all details are included in the kit).
The wooden discs are made from reclaimed British cherry wood and the locket hangs on a 14k gold filled chain with a gold filled clasp, in your choice of length from 18, 24 and 27 inch chain.
14K gold filled is a very high quality of gold plating. Gold filled components are made of a base metal (usually brass or copper) covered by sheets of gold in a mechanical bonding process. This produces a thick coat of gold: the gold content is 5% of the total weight. 14k gold filled components are hard wearing and last a long time. They are also safe for most people with sensitive skin.
The locket measures 2.4cm x 2.0cm x 0.4cm and it is attached to an 18, 24 or 27 inch gold filled chain. | <urn:uuid:2f307848-6b91-42ec-9f62-250cff168d3f> | CC-MAIN-2014-52 | http://www.notonthehighstreet.com/mariaallenjewellery/product/handprint-storybook-locket-necklace | 2014-12-20T17:26:49Z | s3://commoncrawl/crawl-data/CC-MAIN-2014-52/segments/1418802770060.91/warc/CC-MAIN-20141217075250-00027-ip-10-231-17-201.ec2.internal.warc.gz | en | 0.923632 | 462 | [
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Dakin Hart appointed Senior Curator of Noguchi Museum
The Noguchi Museum, New York, has appointed Dakin Hart as its senior curator. Hart served as the assistant director at the Nasher Sculpture Center, Dallas, from 2002 to 2004. From 2007 to 2010, Hart worked with John Richardson on a group of Picasso exhibitions for Gagosian gallery. His most recently curated exhibition, a retrospective of Davi Det Hompson, was organised for Zieher Smith gallery, New York. | <urn:uuid:43fdfa06-f3f0-4f1a-921d-aecf77cc72f9> | CC-MAIN-2014-52 | http://www.theartnewspaper.com/comings-and-goings/2013/2 | 2014-12-20T17:17:24Z | s3://commoncrawl/crawl-data/CC-MAIN-2014-52/segments/1418802770060.91/warc/CC-MAIN-20141217075250-00027-ip-10-231-17-201.ec2.internal.warc.gz | en | 0.961585 | 104 | [
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The unmistakable mystique of the desert is captured in Egyptology, a fun, fact-filled tour of ancient Egypt from the publishers of the best-selling book Dragonology. Set in 1926, this clever volume is presented in the form of a diary written by a feisty fictional figure named Miss Emily Sands. Hoping to find the tomb of the god Osiris, Miss Sands an enthusiastic amateur Egyptologist led an expedition up the crocodile-filled Nile River, only to disappear with her party once they reached the desert. Fortunately, her journal survived. Miss Sands' record of her adventures is a fascinating travelogue filled with incisive observations and wonderfully detailed imagery, as well as local anecdotes and legends that young history buffs will love. Removable maps, postcards and special souvenirs, including a swatch of "mummy cloth" and a copy of King Tut's mummy mask, lend the narrative an air of authenticity. There's also a complete game of Senet, a form of checkers played in Egypt, that comes with a playing board, dice and instructions. The book's seductive gold cover, encrusted with three red gems and the raised image of a Horus hawk, is sure to lure readers. With magical illustrations by Nick Harris, Ian Andrew and Helen Ward, Egyptology delivers the essence of that land the blazing sun, the boundless desert and (best of all!) the endless attraction of the unknown. | <urn:uuid:e1c094be-3149-4c81-9e3f-d07de8ad1a7c> | CC-MAIN-2014-52 | http://bookpage.com/review/egyptology/desert-mystique | 2014-12-22T02:52:09Z | s3://commoncrawl/crawl-data/CC-MAIN-2014-52/segments/1418802773061.155/warc/CC-MAIN-20141217075253-00107-ip-10-231-17-201.ec2.internal.warc.gz | en | 0.936136 | 289 | [
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Chris and Pete's Wake Up Call
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Friction up to the base of a large, left-facing corner formed by large flake. Follow the corner to top, then follow groove to tree. There is lots of loose rock just below the tree.
4 large Camalots #2, 2 # 3s, # 4, plus a medium-to-large Stopper just at the top of the corner, and a long sling for the tree. You can belay from tree or from double bolts 15 feet left of tree. We rapped 35' to another set of anchors, then 80' to ground. The guidebook shows a 4th-class descent. | <urn:uuid:228d407f-d8e6-4934-9adc-24f9e0e5d223> | CC-MAIN-2014-52 | http://mountainproject.com/v/chris-and-petes-wake-up-call/105760866 | 2014-12-22T02:56:48Z | s3://commoncrawl/crawl-data/CC-MAIN-2014-52/segments/1418802773061.155/warc/CC-MAIN-20141217075253-00107-ip-10-231-17-201.ec2.internal.warc.gz | en | 0.8736 | 192 | [
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You got 10 more channels then I got Fred, but then again, being conservative I don't want my kids watching that liberal television crap. (Okay, so I was just winding up the liberals on here for fun, no harm meant as they are all good guys).
As for the story Freddy, kind of reminds me of the ole Shipyard down in Portsmouth. The workers claimed it was in NH for years since NH does not pay in state income tax, but any fool looking at the map could tell what side of the line that island was on. I guess they finally decided it a few years ago in court. Not sure what those shipbuilders pay in income tax, but I know I sure pay enough building ships in Bath. (Bath, Maine and not Bath, NH which would be a funny spot to build ships to say the least). I would say we build better ships since ours don't sink, but that is no longer the case. At least we are better then our rivals down in MS; during sea trials one of their ships masts fell off. That is pretty bad welding when a mast falls off a brand new ship...they are 110 feet in the air after all.
I still love my dear NH girl, but it has taken a bit of patience to live with her. She tried to put milk bottles in with my returnables the other day, and it took over a year to get her to stop tossing soda cans in the trash! Worse yet is on the 4th of July she is looking for "shock and awe" here in Waldo County because in NH C-4 is considered a firecracker and anything less than Napalm does not light up the sky enough for her. I told her just because NH's open use of high explosives blew the Old Man on the Mountain down into the valley, doesn't mean we want Mt Katadin to be 100 feet shorter. She gets testy enough when I call her a "flat lander though stating how Mt Washington is higher then our highest "hill" as she calls it. I felt bad for her, so now I just kiddingly call her "import", as in, "Hey, import, can I get some supper". That does not generate advantageous amicable domestic relations however. | <urn:uuid:a091e4df-f77c-4903-bfa7-d93446bcd269> | CC-MAIN-2014-52 | http://nepacrossroads.com/about27225-15.html | 2014-12-22T02:47:30Z | s3://commoncrawl/crawl-data/CC-MAIN-2014-52/segments/1418802773061.155/warc/CC-MAIN-20141217075253-00107-ip-10-231-17-201.ec2.internal.warc.gz | en | 0.983738 | 462 | [
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For the most part. I'm using a mix of textbooks and resources.
For my own sanity, and personality, we are switching Nico over to a more structured program (Seton) in a month or so. Not because I dislike what we're using, but because I do better with a structured program and I have a tutoring student (who is older) and she takes a good deal of time.
I am a Home Schooling, Vaccinating, Non spanking, Nightmare Cuddling, Dessert Giving, Bedtime Kissing, Book Reading, Stay at Home Mom. I believe in the benefit of organized after school activities and nosy, involved parents. I believe in spoiling my children. I believe that I have seen the village and I do not want it anywhere near my children. Now for the controversial stuff: we're Catholic, we're conservative, and we own guns (now there's no need to ask, lol). Aimee
Were pretty happy with the programs we're using. It's a nice combo of good stuff (Saxon, Apologia, K12 Human Odyssey, Runkle's Geography, and Lightning Lit) that ds loves and I find fun and effective. If there was something either of us really didnt like I'd certainly change it (after giving it a good shot, of course).
I am happy with everything except Math Mammoth. I personally love it, my son hates it. It is black and white and too repetitive for him. So we are going to switch that up. Everything else is working fine.
We are all a little ADD and have issues with sticking with ONE curriculum, I think. We like to flip around and do different things.
We are very ecclectic.
oh, but I guess what we are using is great. We really like MUS, and probably will stick with it for a while.
We are still using Rod & Staff English... it works for us. But we switch up with a variety of other stuff so we don't get too mundane and lose interest. I recently ordered a seriously hard-core text book for literature. I think it will be a change up with Rod & Staff. I won't stop teaching R&S completely, though... since I have 4th-7th grade already downstairs, but I'm trying to switch them to teaching the older two English TOGETHER.. so I'm going to start blending a variety of resources... hopefully...
RightStart Math is abacus based and game based. I think this is SO important. I loved math and am a CPA and I just think math with worksheets is so boring and frustrating. Yes, you have to do some but there are better ways!
Handwriting Without Tears - super fun, lots of creative ways to do the same thing (build letters) without being boring. The best part for us has been the tiny crayons and fun worksheets.
Apologia Astronomy - my 4 yr old LOVES this book. I love this book. It's Christian based but coming from someone who does not homeschool for religious reasons it's not overly done. I actually like how God is presented in this book so far. Fun easy experiements and very easy to understand. We have the Jr. workbook but have not used it yet because DD is just too young for that portion.
We also do Magic School Bus DVDs and monthly science kits.
Other than that, we are just reading lots of books, doing some reading games from Lakeshore Learning stores, read-along books from the library and lots of DVDs from the library (Little Pim French, Countries Around the World, etc).
I'm looking into History of the World and All About Spelling as well.
We like everything we are doing right now. We love MUS. Pretty much everything else I pull together myself, so what's not to like? LOL
We are enjoying everything we're using. One daughter is in 3rd, and the other in 6th. We use Math In Focus, Harcourt Horizons Social Studies, Science Fusion, Reading Street, Prentice Hall's Writing and Grammar, 'newspapers' from Studies Weekly, Harcourt Health and Fitness for 3rd, Holt's Decisions for Health for 6th, Ready to Use P.E. Activities, Art Express, and Share the Music.
I also have games and other books from "The Mailbox" for math, language arts, extra craft books, etc.
Most were purchased in great used condition from Amazon or eBay.
Do you like your curriculum Julia?
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From the Savage Pacer’s December 26th Police Report:
Respect my authority!
A 12-year-old boy from Savage was taken to the hospital and placed on a health and safety hold Dec. 17 after police were called to a home on South Park Drive because he was “out of control.” According to the police report, the boy struck his mother with a baseball bat and threatened her with a knife. The mother’s injuries were minor and did not require hospitalization.
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I have a Revo R3700 (NVidia ION2 GPU) with OpenELEC 2.99.2 64-bit on the HDD and a KWorld UB499-2T twin tuner and am using tvheadend, Tvheadend HTSP Client and hdhomerun. Standard definition recorded TV playback is intermittently very choppy & pixellated and occasionally causes XBMC to crash & restart. If I rewind & replay a recording the pixellation & stuttering usually happens at the same point in the video. MP4 files from my NAS generally play OK but occasionally freeze.
I have reformatted the STORAGE partition but the fault remains. Are there any video settings I could fiddle about with?
I also came across a few posts that indicated that there was a problem with OpenELEC and ION2 GPUs - does anyone know anything about this?
I posted this on the HTS TVHeadend subforum a few days ago but didn't get any replies & wondered if it was the correct subforum.
OpenELEC choppy playback with recorded TV
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debug log (how many times does this have to be repeated and repeated. The very obvious sticky in this forum: http://forum.xbmc.org/showthread.php?tid=34655
Read it. Post the required info. Until you do so, do not pass go, do not collect help
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ON the Saturday of the recent March blizzard, I was at Pennsylvania Station in New York, along with a number of other die-hards, trying to catch a train. I eventually got where I was going, but spent much of the day struggling with telephones, and most of the next week learning how to avoid phone problems.
In the station, I needed a phone. After a circuit around the 50-odd pay phones, I decided against using one of them to call my out-of-state destination. Like many, I have become uneasy about punching in or reciting credit card numbers in places in the city where card-number thieves operate, such as Penn Station, the Port Authority Bus Terminal and Grand Central Terminal.
Happy to have an alternative, I went to the lounge provided to those with club car tickets and settled at a wall phone and dialed, only to be told repeatedly by recording that my A.T.&T. calling card would not be accepted by the machine, which bore a label saying it was owned and operated by Ascom in Boca Raton, Fla. When I tried to dial the code to get me to A.T.&T., the dialing impulses ceased after five digits. I waited a while but nothing happened.
I then saw tabletop phones in the lounge that had a slot for a credit card, and was able to complete my call. My problem with Ascom was not created by the theft situation, but rather by a type of competition that has finally brought action by the Government. But the compound result of both situations is that placing phone calls in public places has become frustrating. Part of the problem is guarding against thieves who can interpret your dialing, from the next phone or from 20 feet away, to learn your calling-card numbers. They sell this information, sending a slew of calls onto your phone bill. Foreign Calls Blocked
This thievery has two bothersome results. First, the Port Authority, Amtrak, Metro North, the phone companies and police and security organizations have made it impossible to place calls outside the United States and Canada from phones in vulnerable places, which may not be the same all the time. For example, no phone in the Port Authority Bus Terminal can be used for foreign calls; many phones in other depots are similarly disabled, as are those in Times Square.
Airport phones have not so far been blocked, Terry Benczik of the Port Authority said, because airports tend to be physically remote and when the heat is on, phone-fraud artists want to disappear into the streets.
The second result is that if your calling card number has been stolen and used to run up heavy charges, the phone company may invalidate it without warning. The three major companies, A.T.&T., MCI and Sprint, say they try to notify cardholders, but if the card users are traveling, the companies may not find them. Recently, a journalist's card was compromised in Grand Central Terminal by the time he got home to the suburbs, his card had been invalidated.
There are a number of steps to avoid having your telephone card number stolen. The best, according to experts at A.T.&T., is to find a "swipe card" phone, which is activated by sliding the credit card through. This way, you do not have to punch in or recite your number. These phones are rare in concourses. If you must punch in the number, cover the phone keypad and do not hold the card out to read. The thieves call their technique "shoulder surfing," so be aware of the people at the phones next to you and even those behind you.
If you think your card has been compromised, let the company know right away. If you discover your card is invalid, call the company.
Alan Fredericks, editor in chief of the trade publication Travel Weekly, experienced a phone-card zap in Penn Station when he called home on Jan. 2 that resulted in $1,200 in calls to China: two calls of more than seven hours, and one of more than four hours. A.T.&T. called him before sending the bill and voided the charges after learning he had not placed the calls, but Mr. Fredericks, curious, called the number listed on his bill as having been made in the two or three minutes after his call home Jan. 2. He reached a university dormitory.
The big carriers absorb such losses right now, but in the long run thefts of this kind are going to end up as part of the price we all pay for long-distance service.
Pay phones that reject a particular brand of card are a separate problem. After some years of phone-company wars, when people using pay phones have been prevented from reaching the long-distance company they want -- as I was during the blizzard -- Federal Communications Commission rules have come into force to unblock access. I did not know this, but the rule that became effective Jan. 10 meant that I should have been able to dial the five-digit code on the Penn Station Ascom phones and then dial the number I wanted and charge the call. Two Ascom executives I later spoke to said that access to A.T.&T. was not blocked, that an A.T.&T. operator would come on the line after the dialing of its five-digit code; when I tried again, an operator did come on the line to place the call for me. When I asked, she said she would place the call at the direct-dial rate.
As of January, holders of credit cards for long-distance companies are supposed to be able to get through to their carrier by dialing five specified digits, the area code and number. In the period when owners or leasers of pay phones were still able to block this relatively quick route, the phone companies put in 800 numbers to to place the call for the customer.
According to Sally Novak and Kurt Schroeder, lawyers at the F.C.C., there are pay phones in rural areas where the blocking technology can not be unknotted, and, at these phones, the 800 number must be dialed first. The dialing is tedious: 11 digits to reach the company, 11 digits to place the call and 10 for the calling card number, plus 4 for the personal identification number.
Here are the numbers for the three big carriers:
A.T.&T.: fast route, 10-ATT-0; long route, (800) 321-0288.
MCI: fast route, 10-222-0; long route, (800) 950-1022
Sprint: fast route, 10-333-0; long route, (800) 877-8000.
Complaints that the five-digit route is blocked may be addressed to the F.C.C., 2025 M Street N.W., Suite 6202, Washington, D.C. 20554, or the state utility commission. Hotel Safety Program
A travel safety program has been started by the American Hotel and Motel Association, supported by the American Automobile Association, the American Association of Retired Persons, and American Society of Travel Agents and the National Crime Prevention Council. The core of the program is a card with 10 tips, to be placed in hotel rooms and distributed to the public by travel agents and members of the associations. A short videotape is also to be used on the in-room television channel.
The tips -- for example, don't open a hotel door without verifying who is outside -- are of the common-sense sort. The rising level of violent crime finally propelled these organizations into a campaign to create greater awareness of risks.
The automobile association is taking a further step, one that puts a burden on the hotels and motels that are listed in its tour guides. Starting with the inspections that will be the basis for the 1995 guide, which begin this August, the association is requiring that all of the 22,000 hotels and motels it lists provide a deadbolt in addition to the basic lock, and a peephole or window in the door. Country inns and bed and breakfasts are exempted from the peephole requirement. The association estimated that 80 percent of the properties now in the guides had met at least one requirement. | <urn:uuid:88319e3a-66e5-46bf-9947-35fccbc9c5b9> | CC-MAIN-2014-52 | http://www.nytimes.com/1993/03/28/travel/practical-traveler-phoning-is-an-art-in-the-age-of-shoulder-surfers.html?n=Top%2FFeatures%2FTravel%2FColumns%2FPractical%20Traveler | 2014-12-25T10:51:53Z | s3://commoncrawl/crawl-data/CC-MAIN-2014-52/segments/1419447547257.32/warc/CC-MAIN-20141224185907-00019-ip-10-231-17-201.ec2.internal.warc.gz | en | 0.966865 | 1,712 | [
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INFORMAL CONSULTATIONS ON THE RIO+20 DRAFT OUTCOME DOCUMENT
Closing remarks by Mr. Sha Zukang, Under-Secretary-General for Economic and Social Affairs, Secretary-General of the 2012 UN Conference on Sustainable Development
4 May 2012, New York
Ladies and gentlemen,
Let me start by expressing my deep appreciation for your hard work over the last two weeks.
You have worked tirelessly through day and night.
Under the able leadership of Ambassador Ashe and Ambassador Kim, you have carried forward important but complex and difficult informal negotiations.
The views and positions of the groups and Member States are by now well known.
The negotiations must continue with a sense of urgency, aiming for agreement on critical issues and a balanced outcome.
We must ensure that the outcome emerging from this process is one that Heads of State and Government can subscribe to.
Time is running out. We have only three mandated, formal, negotiating days left before the start of the Conference.
More time is needed. We have heard from the Co-chairs that there is a proposal from the Bureau to have more time, but only with a new approach to negotiation.
If more time is allocated, then the working methods need to change.
The present negotiation approach, necessary as is, has run its course.
At the meeting of the Secretary-General with the Bureau this morning, he repeated his personal dedication and that of all of us in the Secretariat for the success of this Conference.
As the Conference Secretary-General, I and my team will continue to support you in your endeavours, going to all the necessary lengths to make the Conference a success.
But this is an intergovernmental process, and it is rightly in your hands to deliver on the objective and two themes of the Conference.
Despite the strenuous efforts and the progress made over the past two weeks, we remain far from reaching agreement on actions in priority areas.
The negotiating text, as it stands now:
- is a far cry from the focused political document mandated by the General Assembly;
- contains too much duplication and repetition; and
- is losing its readability, with action lost in words;
In short, it is not looking like a focused political document to be adopted by Heads of State and Government.
Our objective should be to arrive in Rio with at least 90% of the text ready. The most difficult 10% should then be negotiated in Rio with the highest political support.
With your commitment and dedication and with able leadership of the two Co-chairs and the Bureau, the vast challenge before you can be met.
I also appeal to you to accept the way forward proposed by the Bureau.
We can have an outcome document:
- that renews political commitment, reaffirms Rio principles and builds upon earlier agreements;
- that is action-oriented in spelling out the Future we Want;
- that contains inspiring agreements for future generations on a green economy in the context of sustainable development and poverty eradication and on the institutional framework for sustainable development;
- that contains ambitious universal goals – the Sustainable Development Goals;
- that contains concrete deliverables in priority areas; and
- that creates or strengthens the institutions and body we need for the post-Rio+20 period.
Let me assure you once again that as Conference Secretary-General, I as well as the Secretariat remain ready to support you, the Co-Chairs and the Bureau in this tremendous undertaking.
I appreciate the deeper involvement of all the major groups. Your voice must be heard loud and clear.
I remain optimistic that with your dedication, this Conference will really deliver in the way it should to fulfil the expectations of all.
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Bob Schmidt shows you how to remove and clean your faucet aerator to increase volume and improve spray of water.
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Hi! I’m Bob Schmidt with Home Remodel Workshop.
So you had a little bit of plumbing work done in your house, or you did a little plumbing work over your own in your house. You go upstairs to that bathroom faucet or that kitchen faucet, you turn it on and find out it has very low flow, and uneven flow of water coming out of it. Generally, there’s a real simple fix for that, I’ll show you how to take care of it. Let’s get to work.
Typical faucets, be it bath or kitchen, have aerators. That’s this little thing here on the bottom. It has two functions. One function is it has screens in here that filter out particulates that should get into your water supply system either from outside or from inside your house. The second thing it does is it allows air to mix with water, reducing the amount of water that you have to use and water treatment that you have to pay for on your water bill. You want to keep this in, it gives you a nice, even flow water. And all likelihood, this is plugged up with particulates and needs to be cleaned. Just take your hand and unscrew this. Before you take anything apart, always make sure that that trap is closed.
There are a lot of small parts in here, and if anything should happen to fall loose, you don’ want to lose it down the drain. Now if you’re lucky, and your faucets fairly new, generally speaking these are put on hand tight. So if you just grab them in between your finger, your first finger and your thumb, and you gently turn it off. Now you don’t want to do this real quick because you don’t want it to fall off into your hand and parts to go flying everywhere. Get it to the point where it just clears, and then drop it away. Take you finger or take a look up in here and make sure that there’s no other parts left up in here that could possibly be part of the aerator.
Your aerators on there are real tight, and you just cannot take your fingers and turn it off. Because there’s a nice finish on this, you don’t want to damage this, it does show. What you can do is take a pair of pliers or channel locks. Now you don’t want to put the metal right onto the finish. You wrap it with either dock tape or electrical tape first, making sure that all the metals covered and it’s padded. And you only press it down, and use as much pressure as it takes to get it started. You don’t want to crash the aerator or damage the threads. As you can see, in this aerator, the screen has picked up several particulates over a period of time, which has disrupted the flow of the water and lessen the pressure.
What I like to do is I like to come to an area where I have a nice flat surface to work so I can take this apart and clean it. Not all aerators are the same. This one here is basically a one piece model, where all I need to do is push the center of it up, take this, set it down aside and basically, this is all one piece, the screen, the washer, and it’s all put together. Now, they’re not all like this. So, be very careful when you’re taking it apart to make sure that you keep the order in line of the way you’re going to put it back together.
Clean the aerator, what you’re going to need is an old toothbrush, a needle or a pin, and a bowl with a little bit of water in it. What I’d like to do is take the aerator, put it into the water, soak it up a little bit, wet up my toothbrush, and just start cleaning away at that debris that’s on that screen. And you know this may take a couple of minutes, and there could be some hard water build up on here. I’ve heard some people say that it’s not a bad idea to soak this in vinegar a little bit, I’ve never had to do that, for the most part of what I want, this does the job. As soon as that screen, that little screen there, looks nice and clean, which looks pretty close.
Then the next thing I want to look at is I want to look at these holes. They’re several of them in the bottom, and there’s a few here on the side. What I’d like to do is I take this needle, and very carefully, I’m jobbing in there like crazy, just make sure that all these little orifices that allow the air to mix with the water are clean, which we’ll make sure it gives me a nice, even flow water after I put it back together.
After you get the screen and all the orifice holes all cleaned out, so it’s real nice and ready to go. Simply bring it up upstairs. Now don’t be in a big hurry to get this thing started, play with it a little bit. Make sure it’s threaded right. You don’t want to cross-thread it. Generally speaking, all you have to do is turn it on with your thumb and first finger until it’s hand-tight. Soon as it’s hand-tight, open up your drain, and it gives you a nice, even flow water, and your pressure’s back.
If I had disrupted flow, and poor water pressure with my water, this would be among the first things I would check. Generally speaking, this is the most common problem. It’s easy to fix, you can get it done in 5-10 minutes and have a nice clean running water.
If this isn’t the case, and someone has done work in your house, you may want to check and make sure that your water valve is open all the way. Either to your house or to the faucet make sure that this is only to the one faucet that you’re having a problem with and not your entire house.
Usually the simple fixes are the best. I hope this took care of your problem, I’m Bob Schmidt of Home Remodel Workshop. Please check out our home channel for many other videos we have. Thanks! | <urn:uuid:ac80802a-798d-4a12-a593-76b3074ba244> | CC-MAIN-2014-52 | http://on.aol.com/video/repairing--bath-and-kitchen-faucets-120809638 | 2014-12-19T10:47:42Z | s3://commoncrawl/crawl-data/CC-MAIN-2014-52/segments/1418802768404.109/warc/CC-MAIN-20141217075248-00067-ip-10-231-17-201.ec2.internal.warc.gz | en | 0.961148 | 2,081 | [
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|Posted by phi pham on September 17, 19100 at 22:56:29:|
|In response to Re: odor from two sinks|
: Returning home after two weeks away, we noticed a foul odour...it smelled like a dirty, damp rag that has been left, unwashed in a corner. The odour came from the laundry and kitchen sinks, both on the same floor, but not from the toilet or bathroom sink on the same floor. I poured a good quantity of bleach down both sinks. Although the odour went away for a short time, it was soon back. It does seem to be slightly better if I am using the sinks and smells the worst after a period without use. What might be causing the odour and what can i do?
maybe the smell comes from the sewer.
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My delightful and committed students are my greatest inspiration. I am humbled to be teaching people who are so strong, open to learning, dedicated to the mat and compassionate. It is through my Buddhist training at OM yoga in New York, and San Francisco teacher, Eugene Cash, that the Buddhist ideas of kindness and compassion come into my teaching – and my students understand that being open-hearted and kind to your neighbor is much more important than perfecting a mean arm balance.
My first Iyengar yoga teacher in NYC, Genny Kapuler, also comes to mind when I think of my influences. I was always awestruck by her ability to transform the teachings into poetry, while offering intelligent and clear instruction. Any moment that I had doubt about the importance and validity of teaching yoga, I would attend her class and be reminded that this profession has potential to be a high art. I am now living in San Francisco, but during my practice I hear her voice: Float your head up and flower-open your eyes. Or, let the birds fly out of your chest.
I invite my students to explore their ever-changing physical bodies and minds through precise vinyasa yoga, while understanding that this practice has ancient and deep roots. At OM, we finish class with a dedication that includes, May all beings dwell in equanimity. It is my intent to guide my students in a way that they feel relaxed, clear and balanced when they leave class. So, whether they come in sluggish or hyper, elated or depressed, silly or somber, they can use their practice to move into a more sattvic or balanced state. Patanjali, in the Yoga Sutras, requests that yogis cultivate santosha, which means that on this path, we have to choose contentment.
I recognize my students as human beings, with names, life experiences, and X amount of time living in their bodies. I respect that and do everything I can to meet them on their path, and invite them, perhaps, to take another way home. And on that journey we can pontificate about the genius of the Buddha.
I can't wait to see y'all in NYC soon. In the meantime, roll out your mat, sit quietly, move vigorously, work, relax, refine, exhale, root the mound of your big toe, let go, repeat, repeat again, and again, and you will understand how yoga illuminates the path. | <urn:uuid:b7c55405-8537-42a8-8ab4-bb20ac961899> | CC-MAIN-2014-52 | http://www.alignyo.com/interviews/new-york-city/margi-young-aug-11 | 2014-12-19T10:44:59Z | s3://commoncrawl/crawl-data/CC-MAIN-2014-52/segments/1418802768404.109/warc/CC-MAIN-20141217075248-00067-ip-10-231-17-201.ec2.internal.warc.gz | en | 0.966875 | 504 | [
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So, I have a chance to test Marantz SR7005
vs my old receiver Yamaha RX-V465
I always complained that my old Yamaha made my speakers sound too bright and uncontrolled.
Marantz makes Sierra speakers sound much softer and not as bright and ear beaming. Listening to Chaka Khan, if on Yamaha her high pitch vocal was a bit too bright that I wanted to turn down the volume, on Marantz it's soft enough not to jump for the remote. Still hear that high pitch, BUT at least it doesn't hit my ear as bad as it did on Yamaha.
Overall I feel like Yamaha was just taking whatever sound came into it and just throwing it up at me. Marantz on the other hand is controlling it.
When I tested "Dark Knight"
first 2 minutes .... again, sound was much more controlled. When they start shooting in the bank with that loud pops and echo ... Marantz controlled it very well and even though I heard more bass than I did with Yamaha, high pitch sounds were controlled very well. Still loud but not loud enough to grab the remote.
When I tested "David Foster concert"
in Tru HD .... sound is much nicer. Again, warm and pleasant and much better controlled. No complaints about violin or saxophone sounding too dimmed down.
When testing "Flight of the Phoenix"
..... plane crash .... everything sounded great, BUT .... old Yamaha made that scene even louder and boomy .... I felt like Marantz toned it down a bit. Strange.
When I tested regular cable TV
programming in Dolby Digital ... Marantz felt a bit too dimmed out. I felt like human voices did not pop as much as they did in my old Yamaha. Everything was just a bit too dull.
Testing MP3s 320kbps
through Samsund bluray USB ..... Yamaha playing via all channels (even though this is not recommended) was not much worse than Pure Direct in Marantz. Maybe even better overall sound.
So ... movies and concerts sound great, but regular cable TV in dolby is so so.
Here are some pics of the EQ, etc that Marantz created.
As always, I had to change back to Speakers = Small and get the crossover at 100.
If I could only get the cable sound a bit more up front and get human dialog a bit louder ... that would be great. In the speaker levels, I did increase center speaker a little and in subwoofer I did lower it down just a tad,.
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Thu, Jul 22, 2010, Paul Tukey, safelawns.org
It’s been almost exactly three years since some impulsive research led me to David Hackenberg. I had just watched an advertisement for grub control for lawns and the punchline stated that “one application lasts 12 months.”
Compulsively suspect of chemical pesticides, I cringed when I thought of a substance that would persist in the soil for a year. “How can that possibly be a good thing?” I said aloud to my wife before she wandered off to bed with her omnipresent here-he-goes-again expression. “I wonder what the active ingredient is?” I asked to an empty livingroom.
Stefano MAINI, Piotr MEDRZYCKI, Claudio PORRINI, Bulletin of Insectology 63 (1): 153-160, 2010
The impact of pesticides on honey bees is an issue that has been studied for many years and is now being reconsidered because controversy still exists with the relationship of insecticides and Colony Collapse Disorder (CCD). It is insufficient to explain CCD with only bee pathology studies. Research must be conducted on a wider series of causes: i) in open field and agroecosystems, to understand the fate of pesticide blends, ii) in the hives, to determine ways to enhance honey bee defence to diseases and parasites. References regarding imidacloprid and CCD in the maize agroecosystems are critically reviewed. Pesticides and the thechniques to rationally use them (in particular following the integrated pest management guidelines) represent one of the several puzzles regarding the mystery of CCD or honey bee vanishing. An appendix, i.e., a rejected letter to Science and relevant reply, is also reported.
In 2009, Italy's neonicotinoid-free corn sowing resulted in no cases of widespread bee mortality in apiaries around the crops. This had not happened since 1999. Francesco Panella, President of the Italian Association of Beekeepers, says: "On behalf of beegrowers working in a countryside dominated by maize crops, I wrote to the Minister of Agriculture to confirm the great news, for once: thanks to the suspension of the bee-killing seed coating, the hives in the Po Valley are flourishing again." Not true in Southern Italy, where bee mortality was high in citrus groves, which were sprayed with neonicotinoids, also used in vineyards and other crops. So what's really holding up the banning of neonicotinoids? As a beekeeper says, "A fifth grader can figure this out."
C.A. Brittain, M. Vighi, R. Bommarco, J. Settele, S.G. Potts, 2010
OIE - World Organisation for Animal Health, Paris , 28 April 2010
Arthropod parasites such as Varroa mites as well as virus and bacteria infections, pesticide exposure, and poor nutrition resulting from other environmental issues linked with human behaviour, are all concomitant factors which threaten the survival of certain bee colonies worldwide. Similarly, the causes of honey bee Colony Collapse Disorder (CCD), a recently described phenomenon leading to global extensive losses of bee colonies, are unquestionably multi-factored, concluded experts of an OIE ad hoc group on diseases of honey bees.
The Times, May 6, 2010
Can the struggling honeybee be pulled back from the brink by a hive of scientific industry?
Beliën T, Kellers J, Heylen K, Keulemans W, Billen J, Arckens L, Huybrechts R, Gobin B.
Honey bees (Apis mellifera) are the most economically valuable pollinators of fruit crops worldwide. Taking into account bees' contributions to other flowering agricultural crops, about one-third of our total diet comes directly or indirectly from bee-pollinated plants. However, in recent years there increasingly have been worrisome alarm sounds on serious bee mortalities and mysterious disappearance of bees from beehives. Among several environmental factors (e.g. climate and bee pathogens), stress factors arising from agricultural practices can potentially play a role in bee losses.
The European Commission announced plans to create an EU Reference Laboratory in the area of bee health. Parallel to this, the first ever bee health training course for officials of Member States under the Better Training for Safer Food initiative is also starting next week.
A group of former members have split from the British Bee Keepers Association (BBKA) and criticised its 12-year-sponsorship deal with chemical companies Bayer Crop Sciences and Syngenta who produce pesticides that the group say are harmful to bees. The BBKA, a charity for the last 135 years, receives around £17,500 pounds-a-year in funding for their relationship with the chemical giants. Phil Chandler, a former BBKA member who left the organisation last year and runs website Biobees promoting sustainable and chemical-free bee keeping, said: "This has been going on for years but has only come to light in the last few years. An organisation claiming to work on behalf on bees cannot be endorsing pesticides. Pesticides kill bees, to pretend they do not have effect is ridiculous. A third of UK bee colonies have been lost over the last two years. There is strong evidence that neonicotinoids a class of pesticide first used in agriculture in the mid 1990s at exactly the time when mass bee disappearances started occurring are involved in the deaths. "
The decline in the US bee population, first observed in 2006, is continuing. Data from the US Department of Agriculture show a 29 percent drop in beehives in 2009, following a 36 percent decline in 2008 and a 32 percent fall in 2007. Winter figures will be published in April. But preliminary estimates already indicate losses of 30 to 50 percent, said David Mendes, president of the American Beekeeping Federation."There are a lot of beekeepers who are in trouble" he said."Under normal condition you have 10 percent winter losses.. this year there are 30, 40 to 50 percent losses."
28-Jan-2010, Helmholtz Association of German Research Centres
A first-time overview of the population trends for honey bee colonies and beekeepers in Europe
Cardiff/Halle/S./Bern. The number of bee colonies in Central Europe has decreased over recent decades. In fact, the number of beekeepers has been declining in the whole of Europe since 1985. This is the result of a study that has now been published by the International Bee Research Association, which for the first time has provided an overview of the problem of bee colony decline at the European level. Until now there had only been the reports from individual countries available. As other pollinators such as wild bees and hoverflies are also in decline, this could be a potential danger for pollinator services, on which many arable crops depend, according to what an international team of scientists have written in a special edition of the Journal of Apicultural Research.
[Maxim and Van der Sluijs 2010, Environmental Research Letters]
French researchers estimate that 73% of the increased colony collapse in 1994-2004 in areas of extensive agriculture in France has been caused by imidacloprid.
[New study by Alaux et al, 2010, Biology Letters]
The maintenance of the immune system can be costly, and a lack of dietary protein can increase the susceptibility of organisms to disease. However, few studies have investigated the relationship between protein nutrition and immunity in insects. Here, we tested in honeybees (Apis mellifera) whether dietary protein quantity (monofloral pollen) and diet diversity (polyfloral pollen) can shape baseline immunocompetence (IC) by measuring parameters of individual immunity (haemocyte concentration, fat body content and phenoloxidase activity) and glucose oxidase (GOX) activity, which enables bees to sterilize colony and brood food, as a parameter of social immunity. Protein feeding modified both individual and social IC but increases in dietary protein quantity did not enhance IC. However, diet diversity increased IC levels. In particular, polyfloral diets induced higher GOX activity compared with monofloral diets, including protein-richer diets. These results suggest a link between protein nutrition and immunity in honeybees and underscore the critical role of resource availability on pollinator health.
England's bees are vanishing faster than anywhere else in Europe, with more than half of hives dying out over the last 20 years, according to a new study.
The plight of the honey bee has been highlighted by Pembrokeshire County Council. Honey bee populations in Britain have declined at an alarming rate over the past decade with a 39% decline in Welsh bee colonies in 2009. Populations in England had declined by similar amounts.
Surveys performed in 1971-1973 and in 2004-2006 document an impoverishment of the bumblebee community in southern Ontario over the past 35 years. Bombus affinis in particular was found to have declined drastically in abundance. The loss of any bumblebee species may result in cascading impacts on native fauna and flora.
NEW YORK, New York, January 4, 2010 (ENS) – A pesticide approved just 18 months ago must be taken off the market because it could be toxic to America's honey bees, already in steep decline.
Global pollinators, like honeybees, are declining in abundance and diversity, which can adversely affect natural ecosystems and agriculture. Therefore, we tested the current hypotheses describing honeybee losses as a multifactorial syndrome, by investigating integrative effects of an infectious organism and an insecticide on honeybee health. We demonstrated that the interaction between the microsporidia Nosema and a neonicotinoid (imidacloprid) significantly weakened honeybees. In the short term, the combination of both agents caused the highest individual mortality rates and energetic stress. By quantifying the strength of immunity at both the individual and social levels, we showed that neither the haemocyte number nor the phenoloxidase activity of individuals was affected by the different treatments. However, the activity of glucose oxidase, enabling bees to sterilize colony and brood food, was significantly decreased only by the combination of both factors compared with control, Nosema or imidacloprid groups, suggesting a synergistic interaction and in the long term a higher susceptibility of the colony to pathogens. This provides the first evidences that interaction between an infectious organism and a chemical can also threaten pollinators, interactions that are widely used to eliminate insect pests in integrative pest management.
Nationally, there are three main reasons for the loss of wildlife on farmed land: 1. Farming has become more specialised. Historically most farms were a mix of grassland and different arable crops. 2. Farming has become much more intensive, with increased applications of fertiliser and pesticides. Herbicides and insecticides reduce numbers of wild plants and insects, thus reducing the food supply for other wildlife, such as birds and mammals. 3. Habitats have been lost through conversion to other land uses, agricultural intensification or through inappropriate or lack of management.
New research has shown that Europe’s farmland birds have declined by almost 50% in the past 25 years – a trend caused by EU-wide agricultural intensification being driven by a policy in need of urgent reform. The results bring together the most comprehensive biodiversity indicators of their kind in Europe, collated by the Pan-European Common Bird Monitoring Scheme (PECBMS) - a partnership led by scientists from the European Bird Census Council, BirdLife International, the RSPB (BirdLife in the UK) and Statistics Netherlands.
The September 2009 issue of The Internationalist presents in seven articles a comprehensive discussion on the vanishing bees.
With almost one million described species, insects eclipse all other forms of animal life on Earth, not only in sheer numbers, diversity, and biomass, but also in their importance to functioning ecosystems. However, human-induced changes to the natural environment threaten vast numbers of these organisms and the vital services they provide to ecosystems. Leading causes of insect endangerment are habitat destruction or alteration of habitat by chemical pollutants (such as pesticides). Pesticides are implicated in the decline of many native bees and some aquatic insects.
Western culture views insects and arachnids as pests and vermin that need to be controlled. They usually are not considered as something to be preserved. Accordingly, arthropods and other small organisms have not been taken seriously for conservation by policy makers and the conservation community at large. Arthropods, however, are major components of diverse ecosystems and are the major players in functioning of ecosystem processes. Arthropods are relentlessly vanishing before our eyes. They must be preserved because of their inherent values but also because we need them for human survival.
PULLMAN, Washington, July 29, 2009 (ENS) — A microscopic pathogen and pesticides embedded in old honeycombs are two major contributors to the bee disease known as colony collapse disorder, which has wiped out thousands of beehives throughout the United States and Europe over the past three years, new research at Washington State University has confirmed.
Fri, Jul 17, 2009
Having received more than 12,000 comments from concerned citizens, the Environmental Protection Agency announced yesterday it will begin reviewing the pesticide responsible for Colony Collapse Disorder of bees.
As one of the first organizations in the U.S. to begin tracking this story, SafeLawns.org has long concluded that a synthetic nicotine known as imidacloprid — used to kill grubs on lawns — is responsible for the widespread bee epidemic that has claimed more than a third of the nation’s beehives since 2006. France, Germany, Italy and several other nations have already banned the chemical, often marketed as “Merit,” that has been licensed for use in the U.S. since the 1990s, but came into widespread use in 2005 after the EPA banned diazinon. | <urn:uuid:4792615c-0aef-4e85-b015-06e413fb6f7e> | CC-MAIN-2014-52 | http://www.bijensterfte.nl/en/taxonomy/term/10?page=4 | 2014-12-19T10:44:48Z | s3://commoncrawl/crawl-data/CC-MAIN-2014-52/segments/1418802768404.109/warc/CC-MAIN-20141217075248-00067-ip-10-231-17-201.ec2.internal.warc.gz | en | 0.94392 | 2,906 | [
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Title: Williams County Family and Community Leadership Program
Collection Number: 10802
Quantity: 1 .25 feet
Abstract: Includes workshop materials, brochures, and photographs of the program display.
Provenance: The State Historical Society of North Dakota acquired the Williams County Family and Community Leadership Program Records from Helen Dahlke in September 2000.
Property Rights: The State Historical Society of North Dakota owns the property rights to this collection.
Copyrights: Copyrights to this collection remain with the donor, publisher, author, or author's heirs. Researchers should consult the 1976 Copyright Act, Public Law 94-553, Title 17, U.S. Code or an archivist at this repository if clarification of copyright requirements is needed.
Access: This collection is open under the rules and regulations of the State Historical Society of North Dakota.
Citation: Researchers are requested to cite the collection title, collection number, and the State Historical Society of North Dakota in all footnote and bibliographic references.
Box / Folder Inventory
1 Photographs of display booth at State Fair and Farm Festival at Tioga ND
2 Family Community Leadership Sample Certificate Feb. 11-14, 1991
3 Community Leadership Participants 1988-1991
4 CVU and Family Community Leadership Brochures, Business Cards and Stickers
5 Family Community Leadership Planning Forms
6 Leadership Curriculum Materials for Workshops
1 Cloth Banners with Family Community Leadership Logo
2 Laminated matted photographs with velcro on back
3 Family Community Leadership pin
612 East Boulevard Ave.
Bismarck, North Dakota 58505
State Museum and Store: 8am - 5pm M-F; Sat. & Sun. 10am - 5pm.
State Archives: 8am - 4:30pm., M-F, except state holidays, and 2nd Sat. of each month, 10am - 4:30 pm.
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There are many birdies and pars waiting to be had at Kenai Golf Course. The Kenai Golf Course is being spruced up at this time. The deck will soon be replaced, lots of trimming is going on here and there, the greens are getting their regular TLC they get each year at this time.
Let's hope September will be just as wonderful as August has been so golfers can squeeze much golf in before you know what happens.
This week's mystery hole winners in the mixed doubles event was the team of Susan and Jerry May. They had the fewest combined strokes on the No. 7 hole.
The team that took the putting award included Teresa and Eddie Sibolboro on hole No. 3.
The quarter finals were played this past week in the Kenai Cup Match Play. The team of Gordon Griffin and Doug Haralson won the match against the Chris Sonnichsen/Tom Bennett team.
The team of Jack Evans and Bruce Galloway won the match against the Doug Jung/Dustin Jung team.
The team of Dan Cabrera and Jeff Johns won the match against the Felix and Pam Martinez team.
The team of Dave Ramsey and Ed Marsh won the match against the Eldon Harvey/Ryan Harvey team.
The four winners advance to the semifinals this week.
Big Thursday was held this past week. The team of Eric Boudreaux, Loren Smagge and Rich Conti placed first in the weekly scramble event with three under par.
The team that took second place with 34 included Matt Tunseth, John Davis and Jeff Johns.
Closest to the pin was John Davis and the slugger of the week was Lorne Smagge.
A Birdie Told Me
Craig Chapman carded his first eagle on No. 6 the other day while playing with Shorty Johnson and Terry Linebarger. It is always a thrill to card such rare feats.
Very recently Dale Brodd carded a hole in one on No. 5 and his name will be added to the Hole-in-One clubhouse trophy.
A couple days ago, Scott Kempf also carded a hole in one on No. 9. Scott will be added to the clubhouse trophy.
Carol Morgan had taken the trophy to the engravers to have Bob Drewes engraved on the trophy for the first hole in one of the 2004 season.
As Carol was walking in the clubhouse with the newly engraved trophy, she was informed about the Brodd hole in one. Back to the engravers Carol went with the trophy. The next time she got to the clubhouse with Brodd engraved on the trophy, she was informed about the Kempf hole in one. Well, the trophy is still at the engravers as this goes to press. Congratulations for those super shots!
Recently, several juniors from the peninsula went to play at Settlers Bay in a 36-hole Junior Masters tournament. The juniors had to qualify during the summer by placing in tournaments held around the state.
Josh Lansing placed second in the 15-to-17-year-old division. Justin Herrmann placed second, Kegan Kiel placed third and Beau Forrest placed fourthth in the 13-14year-old division.
Congratulations for a great showing at Settlers Bay.
On Sept. 11 there will be a Headstart Scramble to benefit the local headstart program. Tee times will get underway around 9 a.m. It's called the Monfor Classic since the program was important to John Monfor. There will be lots of golfing for fun and food and laughs, all for a worthy cause.
The Kenai/Soldotna Associations will have their annual 36 hole tournament on Sept. 11-12 with tee times getting underway at 10:30 a.m. Kenai will host the tourney this year with the awards dinner on Sunday at the Kenai Golf Course pavilion.
The dual tournament's original date was changed since it would have fallen on Labor Day weekend.
Thanks, Jerry Carlson for the positive comments about the "Wonder Cloth" that cleans windows. Jerry is as surprised and happy with his new easy and unbelievable method of cleaning windows as yours truly is. Wonder what Don Gilman thinks of his new wonder cloth? Ran into Don a while back at the Kenai Golf Course and he wanted to know the secret to cleaning windows. It really works!
See you on the back nine.
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Mushrooms and broccoli - it's so simple and yet they make for a satisfying dinner. When I went shopping in Chinatown, I found a package of prince oyster mushrooms. I had never heard of prince mushrooms before (and these looked a lot like King oyster mushrooms). These mushrooms were soft, silky, and meaty. Like a sponge, they perfectly sopped up the sauce we made. This dish went well with a glass of white wine and was really easy to make.
Prince Oyster Mushrooms and Broccoli
Ingredients (serves 2-3):
3 large prince oyster mushrooms, sliced (can substitute with king oyster mushrooms)
3 cloves garlic, sliced
1/2 cup vegetable stock
1/2 cup water
canola oil for cooking
2 tbsp oyster sauce
1/4 tsp sesame oil
1 tbsp all-purpose white flour mixed with 2 tbsp water
1 pkg frozen broccoli, steamed
1. Heat some canola oil in a large pan over medium heat and stir fry the garlic until fragrant.
2. Add mushrooms and stir fry for a few minutes.
3. Add the stock, water, oyster sauce, and sesame oil to the pan. Simmer for about 7-10 minutes while the mushrooms soak up some of the liquid.
4. Put the steamed broccoli on a serving plate. Add the mushrooms on top (but leave the liquid in the pan).
5. Bring the liquid to boil and add the flour mixture. (Make sure to mix the flour and 2 tbsp water before adding to the pan or else it'll be harder to get rid of the lumps). Simmer until the sauce thickens. Pour the sauce over the mushrooms.
Serve with some steamed rice and a glass or two of riesling (usually always pairs well with Asian food). We enjoyed a bottle of the off-dry yet crisp 2008 Eroica Riesling from Chateau Ste. Michelle and Germany's Ernst Loosen (we also like the value "Dr. L" Riesling from Loosen which is usually about $9 to $11).
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Tips for snakes and vipers
I abhor zoos/aquariums and can’t abide by supporting them directly or indirectly through my photography, hence, all these shots were taken in their natural environment.
Some people might be tempted to say yeah, just use a longer lens. A valid point. But this is inadequate in several regards. First it may give too much working distance. In the jungle, there is often not a lot of space between overlapping foliage and so the more distance between you and your subject the more likely you will get some interference. Secondly, this limits your viewing angles and compositional perspectives. With a 100mm macro, if I wanted, I could get on top, or from the side or below, a 200mm and beyond, if I get on the ground there will inevitably be a log obscuring my view, and I don’t want to climb several meters into a tree if there even is one for a shot. Thirdly I can get a sense for the snake itself increased distance between you and your subject physically will probably show up in the photo as an unintimate portrait. However, getting close enough to feel the flick of the tongue on your cheek, you get a real feel and respect for the creature you are photographing which can’t help but show in your shots. Also less flash power is used and in my opinion, the animal actually grows less stressed over a long shooting period.
1) Be careful! wear long rubber boots and approach slowly and with care. Snakes can strike from 1/2 their body length away. This isn’t taking into account their movement either. So to be safe, as soon as you get within one body length, treat it as a potentially hazardous situation.
2) Read the signs of the body language. A snake that is constantly flicking its tongue is generally aggravated. It is wanting to update its chemosensory information second by second to be ready for anything. It is thus extremely alert and in a high state of tension. You might be tempted to grab a shot of it with its tongue darting out during this time, but you should probably wait until it calms down or else avoid it completely. Though this is species dependent I have noticed this especially with the fer-de-lance (Bothrops atrox). Other species might seem exceptionally calm and this too can be a danger signal. Basically read the signs.
3) Try and keep something in between you and the snake. I generally use an umbrella with a hole cut in it for the lens. If the snake pounces, the hope is that it will go for the umbrella. The tension from the metal hinges is enough to repel the force of the strike. It is also compact and multi purpose. If the snake is on the ground I might approach it very slowly with my boot out, heel forwards to gauge the temperament of the snake. So that if it lunges, it will (hopefully) hit the boot and not my leg.
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September 16 2011
Skylight Opera Theatre
Richard Carsey, conductor
Selections for sale:
- Lydia's Romance, soprano and mezzo-soprano duet - Vocal Score
- Lydia's Romance, SA chorus - Octavo
- Lydia's Romance, SATB chorus - Octavo
Vocal score for sale from G. Schirmer Rental Library. Click here
for more information.
(formerly "The Newport Rivals")
Comic Opera in Two Acts
Freely based on Sheridan's play, "The Rivals"
The action takes place during one day in Newport, Rhode Island, about 1900.
Rich and dashing British Naval Captain Jack Absolute has fallen in love with American heiress Lydia Larkspur. But Lydia is in love with a romantic fantasy: she wants to elope with some penniless artist and live in "charming poverty." Jack masquerades as a poor English composer named Waverley and wins her heart; Lydia's aunt and guardian, the famously verbose Mrs. Malaprop, will not hear of it. She and Jack's father, both unaware that "Waverley" is Jack, decide that Lydia should marry the real Jack. Jack now his own rival has a big problem: how to reveal his true identity to Lydia without losing her. He ties himself into knots to indulge her rebellious fantasies, but eventually Lydia learns the truth and rejects him.
Jack's friend Nicholas Astor loves Lydia's cousin Julia, but his gloomy fear of being loved only for his vast fortune drives him to put her love to such ridiculous tests that she finally breaks off their engagement.
Baron von Hakenbock, a bellicose Prussian fortune hunter, has been carrying on a secret correspondence with "Celia," whom he believes to be Lydia but who is really Mrs. Malaprop. He and one of Lydia's rejected suitors, Jasper Vanderbilt, prepare to fight simultaneous duels: Jasper with his rival, the non-existent Waverley, and the Baron with Jack. Jasper is the bumpkin son of the Kentucky branch of the wealthy Vanderbilts; he also does not know that "Waverley" is his friend Jack. It all comes to a head on the dueling field. True love averts the duels, clears up the misunderstandings, and unites the proper pairs.
LYDIA LARKSPUR: Soprano
MRS. MALAPROP, her aunt and legal guardian: Mezzo-soprano
JACK ABSOLUTE, in love with Lydia: Baritone
NICHOLAS ASTOR, Jack's friend: Tenor
JULIA, Lydia's cousin, engaged to Nicholas: Mezzo-soprano
SIR ANTHONY ABSOLUTE, Jack's father: Bass
LUCY, Mrs. Malaprop's maid: Soprano
JASPER VANDERBILT, Lydia's suitor: Tenor
BARON VON HAKENBOCK, a Prussian fortune hunter: Bass-baritone
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The New York Times Co has received multiple bids for The Boston Globe, according to a source familiar with the auction of the daily newspaper.
The size and the precise number of the bids by the deadline at 5 pm EDT (2100 GMT) was not immediately clear though it is likely the New York Times will receive less than 10 percent of the $1.1 billion that it paid for the Globe 20 years ago.
It is the second time that the company has put the paper, and its smaller sister publication, the Worcester Telegram & Gazette, on the block. But with the financial outlook for the New England newspapers and the industry as a whole continuing to deteriorate, there is a greater sense of urgency to get something done this time.
Analysts estimate the New York Times may get only about $100 million for the two papers. It paid $1.1 billion to the Taylor family for the Globe in 1993, and in 2000 it bought the Worcester Telegram & Gazette for nearly $300 million.
The Taylor family is one of the parties that might be interested in the Globe, according to a source familiar with the family. Steve Taylor, a former executive at the Boston Globe and a member of the Taylor family, did not immediately return a call seeking comment.
Other potential bidders could include the private equity firm Revolution Capital Group, which owns the Tampa Tribune, and Doug Manchester who bought the U-T San Diego paper according to a report in the Boston Globe last week.
"They (the New York Times) would be better served getting less money and getting out of it," said Ken Doctor, an analyst with Outsell Research.
Revenue at the New England Media Group - the division for the two papers and related properties - has been on a downward trajectory. For the first quarter, revenue fell 7 percent to $85.2 million on declines in advertising and circulation. It has declined 19 percent since the first quarter of 2009.
The Boston Globe made a small operating profit last year, a source familiar with the newspaper said, but it is unclear how sustainable that would be, particularly as a standalone operation.
Among the factors that could depress the prices bidders are prepared to pay are the newspapers' significant pension obligations and the difficulty of negotiating changes with more than a dozen labor unions that represent about three-quarters of employees.
The New York Times first put the Globe up for sale in 2009 as it struggled with losses. But it halted the sale process and decided to hang onto the paper after winning concessions from unions and implementing cost cuts.
The New York Times has been slimming down, selling newspapers, Internet assets and stakes in sports franchises to concentrate on its flagship newspaper.
The Globe is one of a series of newspapers to go on the block in recent years as long-time newspaper owners exit the industry.
The Tribune Co, for example, is exploring the sale of its newspaper division, which includes The Los Angeles Times and the Chicago Tribune.
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THE COLONEL'S LADY
A new book by Patricia Oliver is always an event of note, and Regency fans are in for a real treat with her fascinating new love story.
Lady Regina Heathercott has everything-wealth, beauty and her choice of suitors. But the headstrong duke's daughter wants only the superbly handsome but totally ineligible Captain Charles Swinburn. Even after years of silence, Lady Regina is convinced that they are meant to be together.
Desperate to avoid a husband chosen by her father, the spirited beauty embarks on a daring journey to Brussels. But it is Charles' infuriating elder brother, Colonel Sir Richard Swinburn, who provides shelter for her while her erstwhile fianc skulks in hiding from the lady he has no intention of marrying. So when her father finally catches up with her, it is Richard who makes the amende honorable.
Can a marriage begun under such unfortunate circumstances possibly succeed?
Ms. Oliver is everything any romance fan could ever want, and much, much more. This dandy love story will fly off the shelves, and readers will wait in breathless anticipation for her next treasure. (May, 224 pp., $4.99) | <urn:uuid:a10d34f5-9b29-40ff-bc82-fdc9afe50990> | CC-MAIN-2014-52 | http://www.rtbookreviews.com/book-review/colonels-lady | 2014-12-22T07:16:54Z | s3://commoncrawl/crawl-data/CC-MAIN-2014-52/segments/1418802774894.154/warc/CC-MAIN-20141217075254-00051-ip-10-231-17-201.ec2.internal.warc.gz | en | 0.940273 | 253 | [
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