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As well as the blog here and the twitter account, the inner ring is now on the microblogging site tumblr: inrng.tumblr.com
If you’re groaning about having to cope with another platform, don’t worry. The blog at inrng.com remains the same and so does the twitter feed too. The tumblr site is not a substitute for either. Instead it’s just somewhere for me to throw a few loose ends from time to time and allows me to follow others using tumblr, for example my online nemesis, BIGRINGRIDING.
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Art emerges out of our collective psyche to reflect our times, and it’s fascinating to see how L.A. theatre is responding to the current attack on our civil, human and constitutional rights and liberties. Radio talk show host Randi Rhodes calls this “the Summer of Hate.” This month Republican Congressman Mike Rogers publicly condemned “the culture of disclosure,” declaring that Private Bradley Manning should be tried for “treason” for allegedly leaking classified information to WikiLeaks, and if found guilty, Manning should be executed.
Also in August journalist Michael Hastings – whose Rolling Stone article led to the dismissal of Gen. Stanley McChrystal as U.S. commander in Afghanistan – was refused permission to embed with American forces in Afghanistan. We’re also witnessing the troubling phenomenon of attempts to roll back hard-won rights, such as: reversals of same sex marriage; repeal of 14th amendment citizenship guarantees (which originally conferred U.S. rights on freed slaves); efforts to deny Muslims First Amendment religious rights to build an Islamic center on private property near Ground Zero; open-ended investigations of scientists and other employees at NASA’s Jet Propulsion Laboratory in Pasadena – which the Ninth Circuit court unanimously issued an injunction against in 2008 — goes before the U.S. Supreme Court October 5.
It’s noteworthy that hard on the heels of the August 8 end of the Geffen’s run of Thurgood, starring Laurence Fishburne as the first Black Supreme Court Justice, Thurgood Marshall, two more L.A. productions opened this August dealing with the Civil Rights movement. The playbill for The Good Negro insightfully asserts: “This show, being produced at this time in history, is particularly apt.” Indeed.
Playwright Tracey Scott Wilson’s drama, which is having its West Coast premiere at Hollywood’s illustrious Stella Adler Theatre, is set in 1962 at Birmingham, Alabama, which the play calls “America’s most segregated city.” Press notes plus the playbill refer to this time as “the early civil rights struggle,” but I’d dispute this – Rosa Parks had triggered a boycott at Montgomery, Alabama, after she defied apartheid mass transit laws in 1955. Emmett Till (subject of another 2010 L.A. play) had been brutally murdered earlier that year, so by 1962, the Civil Rights movement had arguably moved beyond its “early” years (the Dr. Martin Luther King-led march on Washington took place in 1963).
This may seem like a mere quibble, but if a dramatist uses history as his/her raw material, details such as this are important. In The Good Negro, Wilson draws upon and fictionalizes actual events and personages, such as: The vicious murder of the three civil rights workers James Chaney, Andrew Goodman and Michael Schwerner; the 1963 bombing of a Birmingham church that killed four little girls; the FBI’s surveillance of and vendetta against Dr. King; King’s alleged philandering; and more. (Certainly a rich, if too rarely visited, treasure trove for drama – and even for comedy, such as Ossie Davis and Ruby Dee’s wonderfully hilarious 1963 civil rights picture Gone Are the Days.)
I won’t spoil The Good Negro’s plot for you, but suffice it to say that after a Black woman named Claudette Sullivan (the captivating, curvaceous Theresa Deveaux) breaks one of the segregated South’s apartheid rules, a mass movement erupts, including protest marches, boycotts, the Ku Klux Klan, etc. The astute – and feminist – reader will note my references to Claudette’s physical characteristics, and there’s a method to this reviewer’s seeming male chauvinism. Set against the backdrop of this societal upheaval, much of the play’s plot revolves around the relationship between Claudette and the civil rights leader Rev. James Lawrence (Phrederic Semaj). Both characters are married, and their alleged infidelity consumes a lot of this play’s oxygen, and its title, The Good Negro, seems to refer, at least in part, to sexual morality.
On the one hand, it could be argued that what public figures do in their private lives is their own business, that a leader’s sex life is nobody else’s business (other than his/her partners’ and family, that is) and besides, it has no bearing on how well he organizes a demonstration, delivers a speech, etc. As long as he/ she is not privately indulging in behavior he/she publicly condemns, and hypocrisy is not at play, what happens at Vegas stays in Vegas (or, in this case, Birmingham).
On the other hand, if a leader’s personal behavior can be perceived in such a way as to cast aspersions on and to discredit his/her cause, then how one acts in the bedroom is indeed a matter for wide concern. This becomes especially complicated and troublesome if one of the hanky-panky participants is a woman or man of the cloth (or, in this case, minus his/her cloth). These concerns are amplified when they play into sexual stereotypes, in this case that Blacks are instinctually unrestrained, promiscuous, given to out-of-wedlock births, etc. (Much of racism centers on the dominant majority culture’s obsessions with and fear of Black sexuality.)
Reverend Lawrence’s long-suffering wife is named Corinne (Numa Perrier) – probably a not so subtle reference to Coretta Scott King who, by some accounts, endured the infidelity of her husband. (By the way, perhaps for this reason, Coretta and Dr. King do not lie next to one another at their final resting place at an Atlanta shrine.)
As long as we are on the subject of sexuality allow me to point out something that happened during the debut performance of The Good Negro at the Stella Adler Theatre, although I assure you, dear reader, I am not trying to be salacious. Claudette appears in a scene with her husband, the uneducated sharecropper Pelzie (Godwin Obeng), and faces the audience, revealing how full figured she is. In the next scene, presumably wearing exactly the same garments and undergarments, she has a sexual encounter with James. Remarkably, during this scene, Claudette’s erect nipples could be clearly seen (unlike in the previous scene). I know this to be true because not only did I see it, but afterwards I asked another theatergoer, an African American woman, about this, and she verified what I had perceived. This made me wonder: How did Deveaux do that? As this transpired in the Stella Adler Theatre, I mused: “Wow, that Stanislavsky Method really does work!”
Be that as it may, I’ll leave it up to the reader/ticket buyer to determine whether Wilson’s emphasis on the sexual angle enhances The Good Negro or distracts audiences with trivial gossipy type stuff from the world historical happenings of the triumph over American apartheid. I, however, suspect that Wilson is a showman who knows that sex sells.
Be that as it may, the biggest problem with this otherwise absorbing, compelling drama, which previously played at New York’s Public Theater (may you rest in peace, Joe Papp!), is the diction and pronunciations of several performers. I realize that Stella Adler’s most famous pupil was nicknamed “Mumbles” Brando. But I had trouble understanding what Rev. Lawrence was saying during those speeches at the pulpit, etc., and I doubt that this is the San Diego-born Semaj’s normal offstage speaking voice. It took time for me to get used to the cadences of his Southern accent and delivery. But Obeng’s depiction of Pelzie and Deveaux’s of Claudette are undone by the thesps’ accents. They are both supposed to be born and raised Southerners, but you can still hear the Ghana in Obeng’s voice and the Bahamas in Deveaux’s dulcet tones, which diminishes the illusion of the characters they are supposed to be playing. I imagine that Stella Adler would insist that actors must be heard, understood and that their personal accents should not clash onstage with what their roles require.
Nevertheless, The Good Negro’s civil rights subject matter makes it more than worth seeing, as does Carry It On! at the Will Geer Theatricum Botanicum. To be more precise, while Carry It On! does indeed deal with the Civil Rights movement per se, it also depicts the anti-slavery struggle, the abolitionists (but where was Ol’ John Brown?) and Earnestine Phillips gives rousing portrayals of Harriet Tubman, Sojourner Truth and Rosa Parks. The production also dramatizes the suffragette and feminist movement – Jane Bacon plays Susan B. Anthony, Willow Geer as Lucy Stone, Melora Marshall as Elizabeth Stanton, director/writer Ellen Geer as Bella Abzug; the labor movement – Andrew Ravani plays Samuel Gompers; the Latino rights movement — Daniel Chacon portrays Caesar Chavez; and the peace movement, from Vietnam to Iraq, Cindy Sheehan (the willowy Willow Geer) and Afghanistan.
Artists also appear against this rich panoply of American history, including a wry Mark Twain (Bill Durham), a free spirited Isadora Duncan (Rachel Appelbaum), Robert Frost (Mark Lewis, who doubles as Abe Lincoln), Walt Whitman (William Dennis Hunt) and Lillian Hellman (the righteous Alice Sherman), who delivers her pithy, cutting remarks against the Hollywood Blacklist, which in 1951 led to Will Geer being denied employment in the movie industry, and his subsequent co-creation of the Theatricum Botanicum on the Topanga property the actor owned.
Of course, the cast belts out classic progressive songs, such as Woody Guthrie’s (depicted by Matt Van Winkle) socialistic anthem “This Land is Your Land” and “Union Maid,” with the stirring refrain “Oh, You Can’t Scare Me I’m Sticking With the Union.” The Theatricum’s tour-de-force is a sort of Howard Zinn-like people’s history of the United States as told through movement and protest songs, speeches and dramatic vignettes, such as Mother Jones (Ellen Geer) leading a long march of child laborers to the posh Long Island vacation home of Pres. Theodore Roosevelt, who refuses to meet with the impoverished children misshapen by their hard work.
Selecting which episodes from American history to depict in a two-acter, and compressing centuries into two and a half hours is a daunting task. Ellen Geer, who compiled, edited, directed, acted and tickles the ivories in Carry It On!, is usually spot on in her choices in terms of crafting a people’s musical history in the tradition of “proletarian drama.” (Some of the vignettes reminded me of the Federal Theatre Project’s Living Newspaper.) But some of the choices left me scratching my head. The entire American Revolution – you know, that little kafuffle in 1776 over monarchy – is missing in action, and I have often found the U.S. Left’s neglect of our own revolution to be curious. In addition, the events are not always presented in chronological order and while Carry It On! focuses on the U.S.A., Anne Frank (Mollyann Davis as the doomed diarist) makes an appearance, reminding us that people are basically good.
Nevertheless, Carry It On! is a stellar way to spend an afternoon outdoors at the Geers’ amphitheatre in Topanga Canyon, and an excellent, entertaining way to experience American history from a lefty point of view — especially for the young ‘uns. Last but not least is Gerald C. Rivers, who steals the show with his towering, uncanny performance, if not impersonation, of Dr. Martin Luther King. Just as K.B. Solomon captures Paul Robeson in his one-man show, Rivers movingly distills the essence of Rev. King; the actor’s voice, like the civil rights leader’s, mellifluously flows like honey, reminding us of King’s poetic, moral grandeur. Part of our nation’s soul went when that great apostle of non-violence and human rights was stolen from us, and I feel that America has never recovered from his assassination. Nobody on the national scene today speaks with his moral authority and certitude. Along with millions, I miss him still, very much. (And who, outside of possibly some relatives and FBI goons, really cares if King purportedly strayed from his marital vows?)
As our hard-fought-for rights are assailed, it’s reassuring to know that with The Good Negro and Carry It On! L.A. theatre is fighting back, as is Neshoba – The Price of Freedom, the new documentary about Chaney, Goodman and Schwerner.
The Good Negro is being performed Thursdays-Saturdays at 8:00 p.m. and Sundays at 3:00 p.m. through Sept. 19 at the Stella Adler Theatre, Gilbert Stage, 6773 Hollywood Blvd., 2nd Floor, Hollywood, California, 90028. For more information call: (323)960-1054; for online tickets, go here.
Carry It On! is being performed in repertory through September 26 at the Will Geer Theatricum Botanicum: 1419 N. Topanga Canyon Blvd., Topanga, California, 90290. For more information call: (310)455-3723 or see here.
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Test Ban Treaty Signed in Moscow; Leaders Rejoice
Khrushchev and Ministers Join Glittering Reception After Solemn Ceremony
WARM SPIRIT PREVAILS
Thant and 70 U.S. Russian and British Officials Attend -- 'First Step' Is Theme
By HENRY TANNER
Special to THE NEW YORK TIMES
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5,000 Asking White House for Four 'Pupniks'
Moscow, Aug. 5 -- The foreign ministers of the United States, Britain and the
Soviet Union signed the test ban treaty today at a ceremony that was both solemn
Then, led by Premier Khrushchev, they strode into one of the Kremlin's most,
glittering ballrooms for a reception as a Soviet band played Gershwin's "Love
The song summed up the mood of the day. From the start of courtesy calls by the
ministers at 9 A.M. to the end of the gala reception just before nightfall it
was filled with firm East-West handshakes, warm smiles, friendly jokes and
toasts to "peace and friendship" drunk in Soviet champagne.
Premier Poses With Clergy
One diplomat called it a "unique day" in East-West relations, "Peace- it's
wonderful," said another, and meant it.
Premier Khrushchev, who insists he does not believe in religion, was moved by
the spirit of conciliation to the point of posing for pictures with the elders
of the Russian Orthodox Church.
The signing of the 1,500-word treaty banning nuclear tests in the atmosphere, in
space and under water took only five minutes.
It was held in Catherine Hall, a vaulted, white marble chamber in the Kremlin's
Bathed in White Lights
Secretary of State Dean Rusk, Foreign Minister Andrei A. Gromyko and the Earl of
Home, Britain's Foreign Secretary, sat in gold-trimmed chairs at an oblong table
as they affixed their signatures to the three copies of the document.
Above their heads was a huge, glittering chandelier. They were bathed in the
brilliance of the klieg lights set up for Soviet and Western television.
Standing behind them and watching the signing were about 70 Soviet, American and
British dignitaries led by Premier Khrushchev. U. Thant, the United Nations
Secretary General, stood next to the Premier.
The Soviet group included Leonid I. Brezhnev, the Soviet chief of state, and
almost all the key leaders of the Soviet Government with the exception of
Anastas I. Mikoyan, a First Deputy, Premier, who is ill.
British Groups Smaller
The large American delegation included Adlai E. Stevenson, Senators J. W.
Fulbright, Democrat of Arkansas; George D. Aiken, Republicans of Vermont;
Leverett Saltonstall, Republican of Massachusetts; John J. Sparkman, Democrat of
Alabama; Hubert H. Humphrey, Democrat of Minnesota, and John O. Pastore,
Democrat of Rhode Island, and Ambassador to the Soviet Union.
After the signing, the foreign ministers made short statements.
Each stressed the theme that the treaty, in which the world's three most
powerful Governments pledge to refrain from further contaminating the air and
the oceans with nuclear tests, was merely a first step.
Each pledged that his government and his nation was intent on taking further
steps toward easing world tension and creating the conditions for lasting peace.
After each declaration the assembly raised long-stemmed champagne glassed to
drink to "peace and friendship," the toast proposed by Mr. Gromyko and seconded
by Mr. Rusk.
Americans and Russians, Britons and Russians, and Americans and Britons in turn
clinked glasses, smiled and nodded at each other and took a few sips as the
television cameras whirred.
No one smiled more broadly and clinked glasses more eagerly or more often than
Premier Khrushchev. He stood in the center of a group, wearing a gray suit and
silver tie and a row of three medals hanging from red ribbons.
Although he did not speak, he obviously assumed the role of host and, by
implication, of chief architect of the treaty.
The three-power communique issued after the signing echoed the declarations of
the foreign ministers.
'Important Initial Step'
It said that government regarded the partial ban on testing as an "important
initial step" and hoped that "further progress" toward peace would be achieved.
The communique expressed the hope that other states would join the treaty. It
announced that the treaty would be available for signing in London, Moscow and
Washington beginning Thursday.
Thirty-three states had served notice by early this afternoon that they wanted
to sign the treaty now. Thirty additional governments have said that they plan
to do so later.
In spite of the smiles and the champagne, the day was not all celebration.
There were moments when the statesmen showed their old wariness and engaged in
some deft diplomatic fencing.
Secretary Rusk made a point in his statement of stressing some of the things the
treaty did not do.
"It does not end the threat of nuclear war," he said. "It does not reduce
nuclear stockpiles, it does not halt the production of nuclear weapons, it does
not restrict their use in time of war."
The American delegation here regards the reference to the possible use of
nuclear weapons in time of war as an important one.
There has been some concern among legal experts in the Administration that the
language of the treaty is ambiguous on this point and that an attempt may be
made later to interpret it as forbidding the use of nuclear weapons in time of
The concern prompted a clarifying statement from President Kennedy 10 days ago.
Secretary Rusk seized the opportunity of today's formal ceremony to restate the
Mr. Khrushchev, while not speaking at the signing ceremony, made a statement at
the gala reception that followed it.
He stressed the long-standing Soviet request for conclusion of a nonagression
treaty to follow the test ban.
The Western representatives here have made it clear that they will listen to the
Soviet argument, but cannot enter into negotiations on such a treaty because
they have no mandate from the North Atlantic Treaty Organization to do so.
Russians Take Credit
The Russians also indicated that they regarded the treaty that was signed today
as a Soviet initiative and that they meant to take primary credit for it.
Premier Khrushchev referred to it as a "Soviet proposal" to which the two
Western powers had agreed.
This is not quite the way the West sees it. The American diplomats say the
Russians were the first to propose an over-all test ban treaty -- without
It was the West, these diplomats say, that broke the deadlock by proposing a
treaty barring tests in the atmosphere, in space and under water where the issue
of inspection does not arise. The Western proposal left the issue of
underground tests, which involves inspection for future negotiations.
Mr. Thant spoke at the signing ceremony. He called on the three powers to go
beyond the present treaty and to heed United Nations proposals for prohibiting
the further dissemination of nuclear weapons.
He also urged prohibition of the use of nuclear weapons in time of war and asked
for further consideration of proposals for the creation of "denuclearized zones"
in Asia and Africa.
This morning the American and British delegations paid separate courtesy calls
on Mr. Khrushchev and Mr. Gromyko at their offices.
The calls served to introduce the members of the delegations to the two Soviet
leaders before the signing ceremony and the talks to be held tomorrow.
Premier Khrushchev will not participate in tomorrow's talks. He said now that
the treaty had been signed he would fly to Gagra, a resort on the Black Sea
coast, to start a long-delayed vacation.
Secretary Rusk is expected to visit him there Thursday or Friday after a quick
visit to Leningrad Wednesday.
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What I’m reading
I’ve just finished Who Rules? How government retains control in a privatised economy by Michael Keating. Keating’s basic analysis, with which I agree, is that governments are facing a problem of rising demands and bounded state capacity. Hence, wherever possible, they are economising on capacity, for example by using regulation rather than direct public provision of goods and services. Thus, the reforms of the 1980s and 1990s are seen, not as cutting back government but as making it more effective. An obvious inference is that, if the size of the public sector, relative to the economy as a whole, has remained roughly constant for the past 25 years, and the effectiveness of the state has been enhanced, then government is playing a larger role than before, contrary to the hopes of neoliberals and the fears of social democrats. I think this is broadly correct.
Not surprisingly, Keating has a more favourable view of the reforms, many of which he helped to implement, than I do. On almost every point, I felt he was a little too supportive of the reform agenda and a little too dismissive of the critics. Still, it’s an important contribution to the debate, and well worth reading.
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MA'AMAD or MAHAMAD
MA'AMAD or MAHAMAD, council of elders in a Sephardi community or congregation in the West after the expulsion from Spain, corresponding to the *kahal (in the sense of the supreme community council) in Ashkenazi communities. Schooled by bitter memories of the crisis in Spain on the eve of the expulsion, the policy of the ma'amad tended to be conservative and authoritarian in the extreme. One of the characteristic features of ma'amad policy was that on completion of its term of office the ma'amad itself appointed its successors. A nominee was obliged to accept the assignment. Those who disobeyed the directives of the ma'amad were fined heavily, and in some cases were even excommunicated.
Baron, Community, 2 (1942), 52.
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By Sara Ahrens, Women’s Outdoor News
I have never participated in any “veterans’ events,” even though I served 11 years of combined service in the US Army and US Army Reserves. I served from 1992-2003, and I would consider my time of service to be pretty peaceful. I’m a veteran who was willing to and volunteered for temporary duty assignments to areas with conflict (not only for the excitement, but also for the danger pay and temporary duty pay, which was enticing). I was not selected for these assignments, so I’m not sure I feel like a veteran in the truest sense of the word. I will say that I spent some lonely holidays away from family and got a second job because my pay was poor. I was always ready to do whatever was asked or told.
So, what do freedom, veterans, children, pheasants all have in common? They were all part of a memorable day at Rock Hollow Hunt Club in Freeport, Ill., last weekend. Honored American Veterans Afield (HAVA) and United Sportsman Youth Foundation (USYF), along with Rock Hollow Hunt Club sponsored the event, which was a European Pheasant Shoot. I was fortunate enough to get a last minute invite and was able to take my son on his first pheasant shoot. The idea behind the event is for veterans to teach children about the meaning of freedom, and have fun at the same time. I think given this particular time in America’s history, it is good to remind oneself of how quickly our way of life could, and may change.
So what does freedom mean to me, and how would I explain that to a child? I think the best way I can explain freedom, is to reference my Army service, which is the exact opposite of freedom if you think about it. Ironically, those who protect our freedoms are the ones who are most deprived of it. I’m not complaining, I knew what I signed up for and I would do it again today. I have a deep appreciation for the experiences I gained in the Army.
I certainly learned more about myself during those years than any other years in my life. The Army made me realize what it feels like to be really tired, really hungry, really hot, really cold, really broke (financially) and really lonely. Weird as it sounds, I miss those days – often. Even though it all sounds bad, it really isn’t. Being a soldier made me feel really proud (of myself), really strong, really structured and really confidant. It may be hard to believe, but I miss being deprived of human contact, the comforts of everyday life, and the freedom to do what I want … at least once in a while.
Why anyone would miss deprivation?
During those days when I couldn’t shower for weeks, or shave my legs, or eat a good (or even hot) meal, or talk with my family on the phone, I found that I had a genuine appreciation for my personal freedoms once they were restored. I was never “broken’ in the Army”; those moments made me mentally strong.
This past weekend reminded me of those times when I was deprived of my freedoms and I thought to myself, “Imagine if our personal freedoms were stripped tomorrow, would we (as a country) be broken or stronger?”
If I’m going to be honest, I think we would be broken. Too many of us take freedom for granted and have never considered that our freedom could be in jeopardy. We have an expectation of continued freedom and if we ever lose it, this expectation will only make its absence unbearable.
This veterans’ event was thought provoking, to say the least. Unable to find a way to appropriately communicate my dark thoughts regarding the fragile state of our freedom to small children, I opted to keep my thoughts to myself. Whether or not it was the intent of those organizing this event, I spent some time considering how vulnerable our freedoms are today. I have always felt that our military is the most poorly treated segment of our society. I think it is sad that our soldiers and their families are rarely treated like heroes – especially given the hardships and sacrifices they endure. Fortunately there are some organizations like HAVA and USYF who understand and appreciate their service.
I enjoyed the day with my son, the other children, and the other veterans. It appeared that everyone had a fantastic time and I made some new friends. Of everyone, I think my son may have had the best time. He out shot me (by a lot) on the clay pigeons (ummm, awkward) and got his first pheasant. Way to go Mikey, I am proud of you! | <urn:uuid:88ea5e6a-93a0-42b7-a799-11cbaa818b4e> | CC-MAIN-2014-52 | http://dailycaller.com/2012/10/03/sara-ahrens-how-a-pheasant-hunt-teaches-children-about-veterans/ | 2014-12-18T15:25:20Z | s3://commoncrawl/crawl-data/CC-MAIN-2014-52/segments/1418802767247.82/warc/CC-MAIN-20141217075247-00118-ip-10-231-17-201.ec2.internal.warc.gz | en | 0.982358 | 993 | [
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It’s been a while since I’ve logged on here.
Truth is my son’s absence has affected me more than I expected and more than I have confessed out loud to anyone. I miss him deeply and don’t feel like myself without him in my daily life. I know my son is alive and well, but I’ve not seen his handsome face or been able to hug him or hear “I love you, Mom” for 70 days. I know that I will see him again, but being separated from my son continues to take a toll on me both physically (I’ve gained weight, which is awesome! I’ll not fit in any of my clothes for BlogHer! I hardly sleep and you know what that does to a person’s face!) and emotionally.
On Saturday, we got two letters from my son. He sounded so positive and had some exciting news. He scored 225 out of 250 during shooting qualifications and he earned the coveted “Expert” badge. But there was some bad news in the letter. He’s experiencing severe pain in his knee. He said he’s worried it may be a fracture. He’s trying to tough it out, but if it gets worse, he’ll have no choice but to go to medical. If it *is* a fracture, he’s worried he’ll be dropped from his platoon again and placed in medical recovery. That means he’s training will be delayed again and he won’t be graduating on August 10th. There’s nothing I can except hope for the best and pray to God I don’t get the dreaded “I’m injured” phone call for a second time.
In other news that is not related in any way to my son being away at boot camp, I just purchased my plane ticket to NYC for BlogHer next month. (Can we talk about the price of a plane ticket? Because I paid more than double what I paid for the same flight in December. What up with that?!) I’m getting very excited about BlogHer for so many reasons, but mostly because of CheeseburgHer! And if you read that and thought “What the heck is CheeseburgHer?!” I’m writing a post just for you. Because you need to know about CheeseburgHer. I can’t wait for it to get here so we can get down. (While eating Cheeseburgers, while wearing bags on our heads, while possibly jumping on or off of beds.) | <urn:uuid:886bad2f-e083-4626-ad8b-36158ee06bca> | CC-MAIN-2014-52 | http://joyunexpected.com/2012/07/hello-blog-its-me-y/ | 2014-12-18T15:23:33Z | s3://commoncrawl/crawl-data/CC-MAIN-2014-52/segments/1418802767247.82/warc/CC-MAIN-20141217075247-00118-ip-10-231-17-201.ec2.internal.warc.gz | en | 0.971289 | 552 | [
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Welcome Out-of-Town Visitors!
The Special Collections of the University Libraries at Virginia Tech welcomes visitors from around the world. We hope the following will help to make your trip to Blacksburg more productive and enjoyable.
Please let us know in advance of your arrival and subject interest. It may be necessary to bring the materials in from our off-site storage facility. Visitors from out of town often work within a limited time frame. If we know your subject interest in advance, materials can be prepared for your arrival so that you can use your time in Special Collections as productively as possible.
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The Blacksburg Electronic Village (BEV) has assembled a guide to Blacksburg that includes weather, local restaurants, accommodations, shopping, historical sites, points of interest, and other information about education, business, and life in Blacksburg. | <urn:uuid:00795ff4-ab78-4a42-8de1-669a958f0bf0> | CC-MAIN-2014-52 | http://spec.lib.vt.edu/visitors.html | 2014-12-18T15:21:30Z | s3://commoncrawl/crawl-data/CC-MAIN-2014-52/segments/1418802767247.82/warc/CC-MAIN-20141217075247-00118-ip-10-231-17-201.ec2.internal.warc.gz | en | 0.933166 | 226 | [
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Episode 2 of the "Always Open Minded" Series
Named "Always Open Hearted"
Song: "Can't Fake The Feeling"
Production: Ekzarka/Sleepwalkingz/Pop And Roll
"This is not a dance movie...
...just jumping around the beautiful sunset!"
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France prohibits all children from wearing religious symbols such as Muslim headscarves in schools. A government agency has now recommended extending the ban to universities, citing “growing tensions”.
A French government agency responsible for maintaining the country’s secular values has recommended banning university students from wearing religious symbols such as crucifixes, Jewish skullcaps and Muslim headscarves.
In a report seen by French daily Le Monde on Monday, the High Council for Integration (HCI) said it was alarmed by “growing tensions in all sectors of university life” that were undermining the country’s secular values.
A guide to the four main types of Muslim veil
In 2004, France passed a law banning school children from wearing religious symbols in all educational establishments, except for universities. The move, the report noted, has been successful in reducing problems arising from religious differences in schools.
The HCI now wants to see the same rules applied to universities.
Tensions, it reported, came from “demands to be excused from attendance for religious reasons, demands for separation of sexes in lectures and seminars, instances of proselytising, disagreements over the curriculum, and the wearing of religious clothes and symbols.”
'Law needs updating'
The report makes 12 recommendations, chiefly that the 2004 law should be updated to prohibit university students from wearing religious symbols, in particular the Muslim headscarf.
The full report, Le Monde said, is due to be published in the autumn.
Official secularity has a long history in France, dating back to the 1905 Separation of Churches and State law.
While this legislation was intended to reduce the influence of Christianity on French public life, Islam is increasingly influential in France, which has Europe’s biggest Muslim population (estimated at five million).
Following the 2004 law banning religious symbols in schools, former president Nicolas Sarkozy’s government in 2011 banned the wearing of the full face-covering Islamic veil in all public places.
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ASK A QUESTION Euskara (Basque) translation
I wouold like to know how to write these words in Euskara, (Basque): Mother of five and My Mother awaits in Heaven
If you could please help me, I would greatly appreciate it.
¡Hola candace473! ¡Bienvenida al foro! Hi candace473! Welcome to the forum! Try the dictionary at the top of the page. Put in your word. And for your phrase try the translator bar. I will give you the link.
How do I say it in Basque http://www.squidoo.com/how-do-I-say-it-in-basque
basque word list link text
If you want an educated guess -I was only a beginner in Euskera long ago, even though I am from the Basque Country- the first one could be perhaps "bostetako ama", but I'm very uncertain about that. The second one would be: "Nire amak zeruan zain dago", and I'm more confident about that one.
By the way, candace473, do you realize that Basque has nothing do with any Western language? English, Spanish, Russian and Persian are related, but Basque is not. You need to find someone who speaks it, because the best expert in Spanish can have 0% knowledge of Basque.
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I went to the doctor and filled out the paperwork. I gave my DH's DOB. The next nurse came in and looked at the chart and said, you are 24 and your husband is 45? Thats a large gap. I laughed because DH is 25 but they wrote down the wrong DOB, lol..BUT..I was kind of surprised because before DH I dated someone much older and we had a terrific relationship. Granted it wasn't meant to be, but it was fine regardless of age. So I'm curious about how close in age all of you are to your SO and do you ever hear comments?
How close are you and your SO in age?
Mommy to my preemie Mason Douglas 5.26.06
Preparing to welcome Maxwell Alan 12.25.09
I'm 4 years apart, nothing abnormal
Shannon & Brad est. 8/15/09 Aurora - 12/19/09
Angels 3/2011, 8/2011, 9/2011 & 1/6/2013
Expecting our RAINBOW May 17, 2014 Hoping for VBAC!!
DH just turned 28 and I turn 26 in September. Never really dated anyone a lot older but I feel age is nothing but a number.
My husband and I are four months apart.
McKenzie Rose 02/23/96; Jordan Christopher 08/24/98; Michael Dean 04/05/07; Colton James 12/11/09
BF is 33....and I'm only 23.
So basically, I'm the baby and he's the old man! Lol. But he's sensitive about his age (what a girl!) so we don't make too big a deal about. Plus, he still regularly gets carded for alcohol....and cigarettes. LMAO.
Mandi(23) & Mauice(33) since 11/07
Mom to Aiden(6) and StepMom to Devon(10)
Aubrianna Mattie is due Dec 23 We're finally getting our GIRL!!!
we are exactly 6 months apart. My grandparents on my dad's side had a 20+ year difference. And my aunt on that side married (and later divorced) a man that was 17 years older.
Dec 22, 2009 6 lbs 6 oz 19.5 in May 1, 2012 6 lbs 2 oz 19 in
MC October 2013 at 9 weeks EDD Dec 1, 2014
I am 27 (will be 28 around the time baby is born) and dh is 46.
I love to tease my dh that he is old enough to be my dad and the kids grandpa haha! my dh is 6 months younger than my mom and they graduated from high school the same year haha!
Katrina - Mom via CS's - S(12), A(9), O(6), T(5), L(4), ^I^ April '12, "Chip" 9/26/14
I have dated younger and older, it really depends on the person. My hubby and I are 8 years apart, I'm 29 and he is 37
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I'm not sure how much is known around the world about the Finnish producer type fellow named Huoratron, aka Aku Raski. Most likely not a great deal on these shores, this being his debut UK release. Judging solely by the picture accompanying the press release he's a very stern man indeed. He has more than just a bit of the Charles Bronson about him – the serial killer, not the film star. Still, all you need to know about his music is laid fairly clearly out on the table almost instantly, no holds barred.
This seven-track EP (six originals and a remix of 'Corporate Occult') is not a record which eases into things, past about the first half-minute, in any case. You're hit hard from the very start of opener 'Corporate Occult' with a pummeling beat, which quickly morphs quite unsubtly into a movement which could classicaly be drescribed as “all bells and whistles” in the crudest way. It's not suitable listening if you have a headache. In fact it perhaps even sounds like a headache.
When discussing this type of music – I guess some might call it chiptune – there's always a temptation to talk about archaic and antique computer systems and the music's resemblance to such. Often that opportunity is not passed up but it would be amiss to not mention how Rasku started his compositions way back when on two Nintendo Game Boy consoles. It's a bit more advanced than that now, though. It's also fair to say that the primary aim of the music is to make you want to move your feet and body in unison, and it resoundingly achieves this constantly, although the it's not the sort of dancing you'd want your parents to see.
When 'Gbay's (I dunno, eBay for gangsters?) roughness kicks in it's a release of monumental proportions, though it definitely takes its time coming about in a wall of distortion and squeaks, as with much here. Likewise the buzzed-up modemified '$$ Troopers' throws in a few genuine surprises but it moves from organised chaos into coherent noise, surely and steadily. Again and unforseen and detached break strengthens both what came before and what comes after.
There are few breaks for breath and because of this the record's qualities and negative points are accentuated. If you're going to drill a beat and bass into people's brains then it makes sense to ram it home, and rammed home it is from start to finish. Yet, you do want at least a slight movement away from the ADHD unpredictability of it all – not even for one track, but a few minutes. This doesn't materialise and, upon reaching the final few beeps of the relative calm of 'Trolls' you're likely to let out an exhausted but satisfied sigh, then maybe give it another go.
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It's ten years since the Timorese people voted in a politically charged referendum to become an independent nation. The historic poll was held in 1999 amid violent clashes between pro and anti-independence movements, and at least 1,200 people were killed.
Meet the listener guest Irena Kobald is a roving relief teacher in remote communities in the Northern Territory. She loves her job and relishes the opportunity to live in the outback and come to know Indigenous students.
Anger, some people describe it as a force that rises up—unstoppable, uncontrollable and without warning, the so-called brain snap. But is anger, no matter what our individual circumstances, very much within our personal control?
American author Dav Pilkey is creator of the much loved series of books for children, The Adventures of Captain Underpants. The series has been translated into over twenty languages and sold seventy million copies - there are clearly advantages to wearing your underpants on the outside.
Scientists warn that we are facing a mass extinction of plants and animals due to a combination of climate change, habitat loss and pollution. So can captive breeding programs and tissue banks save species from extinction and do we really understand how the loss of biodiversity will affect our own survival on the planet?
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CHARLOTTE, N.C. — President Barack Obama played for time Thursday night, asking voters for the patience to let his policies repair the damage he inherited, and for a mandate to make his second term less turbulent.
He cast the decision voters face between him and Republican Mitt Romney as “the clearest choice of any time in a generation.”
“Over the next few years, big decisions will be made in Washington — on jobs and the economy, taxes and deficits, energy and education, war and peace,” he said. “It will be a choice between two different paths for America.”
He asked Americans to rally around goals in five areas, calling them realistic and achievable, and promising they would put the economy on a stronger foundation: creating 1 million manufacturing jobs by 2016; cutting oil imports in half by 2020; slowing the rise in college costs and expanding the number of teachers and community college graduates; shifting funds no longer needed in Iraq and Afghanistan to invest in the domestic economy; and cutting $4 trillion from the deficit over the next decade.
Obama reminded voters that, from the day he took office, he’s been constrained by problems with roots in decades of bad policy, a trope his critics cast as an attempt to duck responsibility.
“I won’t pretend the path I’m offering is quick or easy,” he said. “The truth is, it will take more than a few years for us to solve challenges that have built up over decades.”
A few hours earlier, Romney had popped in on a veterans group in Concord, N.H., to pan Obama’s likely message. “What I’d like him to do is report on his promises,” such as job growth, rising incomes, a deficit cut in half, he said. “He wants a promises reset. We want a report on the promises he made.”
After two weeks focused on their conventions, Obama and Romney each will stump Friday in Iowa and New Hampshire, and they can expect to cross paths again and again over the next two months, in Virginia, Colorado, Ohio, Nevada and a handful of other battlegrounds that will choose between the competing visions.
Four years ago, a young senator destined to become the nation’s first black president offered a soaring vision of hope and change at a packed Denver stadium bedecked with Greek columns. He cast himself as an agent of change who would end war, cut taxes and forge consensus on a host of vexing problems, including immigration, energy policy and gay marriage.
The Obama who presented himself for re-election Thursday night, grayer and less inspirational to many Americans, has been chastened by years of partisan gridlock, unable to turn the economy around quite as fast as he promised.
Even if he wins, it’s likely that Republicans retain the House, and they could retake the Senate, where a growing tea party faction — possibly including Texas GOP nominee Ted Cruz — won’t be interested much in compromise.
A few weeks ago, Obama likened a potential victory to “popping of the blister,” allowing a more productive relationship with Congress.
On Thursday, he said: “No democracy works without compromise. But when Governor Romney and his allies in Congress tell us we can somehow lower our deficit by spending trillions more on new tax breaks for the wealthy, well, what’d Bill Clinton call it? You do the arithmetic, you do the math.”
Only about 1 in 4 voters say they’re better off than four years ago. And fresh economic indicators have cast a pall over Obama’s convention.
On Monday, gasoline prices hit an all-time high. The next day, the national debt hit $16 trillion, also a record. A jobs report due for release Friday morning will almost certainly show unemployment holding above 8 percent, as it has since Obama took office.
“When you strip away all the varnish and all the goodwill that might be generated for a couple of hours or even a few days by the speeches, you’re going to get back to what Americans really care about,” Virginia Gov. Bob McDonnell said, calling Obama a gifted speaker who does what he can to distract voters from the lack of a plan to pay down the debt and get Americans back to work.
The speech provided a crescendo to a week dedicated to dusting up Romney.
There were numerous references to Swiss and Cayman bank accounts, and testimonials from workers laid off after Bain bought their companies.
Vice President Joe Biden vouched for Obama’s toughness and judgment.
“This man has courage in his soul, compassion in his heart, and steel in his spine,” he said recounting the raid that left Sept. 11 mastermind Osama bin Laden dead, and the president’s focus on working families. “I watched him stand up to intense pressure and stare down choices of enormous consequence.” As a result, he said, “America has turned the corner.”
In taking his turns at Romney-bashing, Obama had some tough acts to follow, particularly former President Bill Clinton, who 24 hours earlier lampooned the Republican pitch as a cheeky effort to shift blame for chaos they created.
Obama, gifted as he is, couldn’t match Clinton’s virtuosity with a crowd. But he got the delegates roaring.
“Our friends at the Republican convention were more than happy to talk about everything they think is wrong with America, but they didn’t have much to say about how they’d make it right,” he said. “Feel a cold coming on? Take two tax cuts, roll back some regulations, and call us in the morning!”
Obama wanted to deliver his acceptance speech to a massive crowd outdoors, as he had in Denver. But heavy rains prevented that. Republicans taunted that, in a sign of Obama’s fallen promise, the campaign couldn’t fill the tens of thousands of seats, which Democrats denied.
The crowd chanted “fired up!” but the scene — bereft of indoor balloons or outdoor fireworks — was less festive than hoped, with blowing confetti and fireworks on the big video screen.
The president offered the type of soaring rhetoric and pitches to bipartisanship that he’s known for, while also drawing contrasts on energy, debt relief and social issues. And he mixed it with the policy proposals that critics — and even some allies — complained had been lacking in his request for re-election.
Obama’s campaign issued a six-page paper filling in some details on policies falling under the five goals. The speech itself went much lighter on details, emphasizing the contrasts in his approach and the Republicans — reinforcing their own efforts to frame the campaign as a fight over the scope of government.
“Now you have a choice — between a strategy that reverses this progress, or one that builds on it,” Obama said.
That, experts said, is the bottom line for the election that’s now just weeks away.
“The one thing the American voter needs to know is that the second term of Barack Obama is better than his first term,” said Democratic pollster Peter Hart. “You can run against Mitt Romney. … But the president is the only person who can say where do we go from here.”
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Pravãha - the journey of cloud, rain and river
Pravãha is an original dance-theatre production conceived and choreographed by Sheejith Krishna. Inspired by the rich lyricism of classical poetry on the iconic river Ganga, Kalidasa's Meghadutam (cloud messenger), and other traditional and modern stories on the many forms of water, the work uses the historic physical, spiritual and cultural significance of water as a lens to explore the complex relationships between human beings and nature.
Pravãha depicts the dance of water through its cycles of existence. The journey of cloud, rain and river become metaphors for the flow of creativity and the dance of the human spirit at one with nature. In tracing the story of water back to the origin of life on the cosmos, Pravãha highlights how human response to nature has evolved over millennia.
Pravãha takes us on a journey of confluence and birth, connection and balance, division and destruction, rebirth and rejuvenation. Emphasizing the interconnectedness of all living things, the dance explores humankind's greatest challenge today: saving our rivers and lakesperhaps our most precious natural resourcesin order to preserve and protect our fragile ecosystem.
Featured Artist Sheejith Krishna Bio:
Sheejith Krishna studied, then taught, at the world-renowned institute for the classical arts in Chennai, India, the Kalakshetra Foundation, for 21 years (1989-2010). Now an independent artiste and choreographer, he has learnt Bharatanatyam, percussion, and vocal music from such stalwarts as Sarada Hoffman, Vikku Vinayakaram, and S. Rajaram. Among several full-length ensemble productions, he choreographed and directed for the Kalakshetra Repertory in 2007 the innovative Masquerade, an adaptation of Alexandre Dumas's Man in the Iron Mask in the idiom of Bharatanatyam, to critical and popular acclaim. Winner of the Sangeet Natak Akademi's prestigious Bismillah Khan Yuva Puraskar (2007) and the Sri Krishna Gana Sabha's Yagnaraman Award for Excellence in Dance (2010), he continues to perform as a lead dancer with the Kalakshetra Repertory's productions while choreographing his own solo and ensemble productions. He has conceptualized and designed dance/dance theatre works for eminent artists in India and abroad, and most recently choreographed the dance sequence for Oscar-winning Ang Lee's 2012 film, Life of Pi. Sheejith is the founder and director of the Sahradaya Foundation (www.sahradaya.org).
Accompanying Sheejith Krishna are 3 distinguished male dancers from India - Nidheesh Kumar, Sreenath Nair, and Season Unnikrishnan and 3 outstanding female dancers from Los Angeles - Tharini Shanmugarajah, Anjana Pathmarajah, and Monisha Jayakumar
Nate Holden Performing Arts Center - Ebony Repertory Theatre (View)
4718 W. Washington Blvd.
Los Angeles, CA 90016
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Interim budget for 2014-2015, which FM P. Chidambaram will unveil on Monday, will set the tone for the stock markets in near-term, experts said. Besides, global cues, movement of rupee and investment pattern of foreign institutional investors (FIIs) will also be important for the domestic indices.
Finance Minister P Chidambaram will present the interim budget on Monday ahead of the general elections due in the next three months.
"The Vote-on-Account will be watched closely. Within that, markets will try to understand the contours of the fiscal deficit. Moreover, any indirect-tax benefit to any sector may have an impact," said Dipen Shah, Head of Private Client Group Research, Kotak Securities.
Experts said on the macro front, market participants will closely watch the FY'15 fiscal deficit target, which will determine the size of market borrowing for the next fiscal.
"Overall, the near-term trend is showing sell on rallies, and till Nifty closes decisively above 6,100, investors may book profit in rallies. In coming week, 6,100 shall be crucial deciding level in near-term, and the index is likely to witness further buying above this level," said Rakesh Goyal, Senior Vice President, Bonanza Portfolio Limited.
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Originally Posted by Dodens Grav
He's healthy now...and healthier than Chris Carter. Maybe LeBeau SHOULD play Worilds more with Harrison's knee the way it is. But he's not, so what can he do? I don't think he's even missed a practice during the regular season...
I was under the impression that he was injured again. Makes no sense NOT to have him playing if he's sharing the lead in the sacks category. Pressure a quarterback and you can win games.
"Either you're playing dumb, or it's not an act". -Judge Judy
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Complementing the successful launch of both 370 flybridge and coupe the yard has taken advantage of their new exceptional hull to produce an exciting and innovative sports cruiser with semi rigid hardtop - softtop. This model offers additional protection from the elements, and helping to extend the season. Unlike other cruisers in this class which utilize canvas panels or difficult to open GRP hatches, the Nord West opens more inline with a full sports cruiser. Its foolproof electrical mechanism folds back the roof in a new and exceptional Nord West way. All Nord West models come complete with LED lighting controlled by dimmers, electric lifting hatches, exemplary soundproofing, superior woodwork, stainless steel window surrounds, teak decking with state of the art electrical systems. Add performance and handling described by MBM in October 2008 as the ”best handling in the world”, and you have a line up which is considered unbeatable. | <urn:uuid:0957612e-804f-4238-afdf-cf405e8b757c> | CC-MAIN-2014-52 | http://www.boats.com/boat-details/Nord-West-370-Sportstop/119785341 | 2014-12-20T07:57:26Z | s3://commoncrawl/crawl-data/CC-MAIN-2014-52/segments/1418802769596.116/warc/CC-MAIN-20141217075249-00142-ip-10-231-17-201.ec2.internal.warc.gz | en | 0.936202 | 187 | [
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Denver Post sports writer Patrick Saunders posts his Rockies Mailbag on Tuesdays.
Pose a Rockies- or MLB-related question for the Rockies Mailbag.
Why is there no talk of extending Michael Cuddyer's contract? He's an unselfish player with great all-around skills, and I'm guessing he's great for the team in the clubhouse. He's 33 or 34 this year, so why not sign him to another three-year deal with an option? He seems like the kind of player who should play well into his late 30s.
-- Philip, Denver
Phillip, you are correct. There has been no talk of extending Cuddyer's contract. And your assessment of his skills and clubhouse leadership is also spot on.
But there is no way the Rockies will talk about extending his contract during the season. Most teams, in fact, don't negotiate contracts after April, unless it's for a young, budding star they want to lock up for the long term.
Cuddyer, the defending National League batting champion, turned 35 on March 27 and is set to make $10.5 million this season. The Rockies would be foolish to tie up a lot of money for him beyond this season.
What's more, Cuddyer is not looking for his next contract right now. He just wants to play out the season and see what happens.
Cuddyer has told me he envisions playing two or three more seasons, but he's really not sure how long he'll play. And remember, there are two sides to this equation: Cuddyer will be a free agent and will get another chance to choose where he plays, so there are no guarantees it will be in Colorado. Perhaps he'll want to play closer to his home in Virginia. Who really knows at this point?
The bottom line: The Rockies won't look to do anything with Cuddyer's contract until the end of the season, and he's not expecting them to. I do think he'll remain with the club for this entire season, unless the Rockies go into a freefall heading into the July 31 trade deadline. Then, all bets are off, and he could be on the trading block to a contender that needs short-term help.
As I write this, Charlie Blackmon is 2-for-2 on a day when (Giants right-hander) Matt Cain clearly came to pitch. I understand he has holes in his game; they've been laid bare by The Post and some of his play. Still, how much does this poor guy have to do to “earn” the title of starter?
-- John Solebello, Grand Junction
John, you asked your question during the Rockies' first trip to the West Coast when, perhaps, Blackmon's role was still undefined. It's clear now that he's the Rockies' everyday center fielder. After going 2-for-4 Sunday with a homer, Blackmon is hitting .406.
The former pitcher also has displayed speed, range and a good arm in center. Blackmon's an interesting guy, something I hope I captured in my story in Sunday's Denver Post.
Blackmon was not very good in spring training - at least, not in terms of batting average - and he appeared to be on the bubble to make the 25-man roster. But the truth is he was working on his swing and his approach at the plate.
I think a lot of media members, including myself, misjudged Blackmon's abilities. Manager Walt Weiss did not, and he deserves credit for that. He saw enough promise in Blackmon late last season that he was convinced Blackmon could be the starting center fielder. And, in retrospect, it's one of the reasons why the Rockies felt they could trade Dexter Fowler to Houston.
Franklin Morales could not cut it when he was with the Rockies before, and now they're putting their hopes on him being a fifth starter. I see him nothing better than a two-three inning guy because it always seems he gets lit up the second time through the order. Do you think now is the time to give one of the youngsters a try and forget about Morales being a starter?
-- Berry, Cheyenne
Berry, my assessment of Morales is similar to yours. However, he was plugged into the fifth spot more out of necessity than choice because on injuries to Tyler Chatwood and then Brett Anderson.
After spending one game in the bullpen, Morales came up huge in the Rockies' 3-1 victory at San Diego last Thursday. The lefty gave up one run in six innings.
After the game, San Diego right fielder Chris Denorfia tossed a backhanded compliment toward Morales.
“He was really effectively wild,” Denorfia said. “It was hard to go through the game plan the way he was pitching.”
The essence to Morales can be found in that quote. He is a wild card, and you never know what you are going to get when he steps on the mound. I believe the Rockies would prefer to have Morales as a middle-inning reliever, but right now they don't have much choice. My guess is that when Jhoulys Chacin returns off the disabled list in about two weeks, Morales will go back to the bullpen. There is no way the Rockies will send Jordan Lyles to Triple-A.
The youngsters you speak of, I'm assuming, are right-handers Eddie Butler and Jon Gray. Butler will arrive before Gray, and it could be this summer, but the Rockies are taking it slow. If Butler kicks down the door, he could be up in June.
Safe to say that no Rockies player will ever go for Cal Ripken's ironman record? These guys don't play more than five or six games in a row. And then rest.
-- Dennis Meehan, Lakewood
Yes, it's safe to say that, but it's a different era, too. The only Rockies player who never seems to miss a game is young third baseman Nolan Arenado.
The Rockies have made a decision to give all of their players planned days off. The club believes that playing games at altitude puts more wear and tear on the body than it does at other place in the majors.
I wrote about this extensively two years ago. I was roundly criticized by some fans for being an apologist for the Rockies, but after talking to a lot of players, trainers and doctors, I do think that playing at altitude takes its toll.
I know fans hate it when the high-paid stars sit out games, especially when they pay for a ticket to see games in person. But the days of Ripken playing in 2,632 consecutive games over 17 years are over. So are the days when Bob Gibson completed 28 of his 34 starts, as he did in 1968 (with 13 shutouts, by the way).
So, like it or not, having star players take days off is part of today's game, not just with the Rockies but throughout baseball.
I do think that Weiss is doing a pretty good job mixing and matching his lineups. Last season, and especially during Jim Tracy's final two seasons, there were days (especially Sundays) when the lineup resembled a Triple-A team. It's been better this season - at least so far.
Does it seem that Charlie Monfort is more concerned about how Coors Field looks instead of being a winning franchise? They spent money on The Rooftop but won't invest in established free-agent pitchers to make it possible to win a world championship.
-- Dave, Alamosa
Dave, I assume you meant Dick Monfort, not Charlie, since Dick is the one involved with the daily operation of the baseball team.
I have answered this question many times. As I wrote before the home opener, the money for The Rooftop came from a surplus of capital construction funds and also from money the Rockies and the Denver Metropolitan Stadium District received from Aramark and RTD. Aramark is the company that runs the food and beverage concessions at Coors Field. Money for stadium upgrades comes out of a different fund from the Rockies' payroll.
But, to your point, you believe the Rockies should spend more money to get better players, regardless of where the money comes from. I completely understand that point of view. The Rockies drew nearly 2.8 million fans to Coors Field last season, ranking 10th in the majors. The club's projected payroll this season is $95.8 million, ranking 17th.
Yes, TV money makes a big difference from club to club, but I do think the Rockies could spend more if they wanted to.
For me, the big test could come this summer. If the Rockies are true contenders at the trade deadline, will they be willing to pull the trigger on a deal to bolster their bullpen or the starting rotation? We'll see.
As for your comment on spending money on free-agent pitchers, I'm not sure that's always the way to go. It hasn't worked out to well in the past and I think you have to greatly over-spend to get quality free-agent starter to even look at Colorado. It's a little different with relievers, and the Rockies did sign Boone Logan to three years for $16.5 million.
Who will be the odd man out of the rotation when Jhoulys Chacin and Tyler Chatwood get healthy? Isn't Jordan Lyles pitching too well to get removed from the rotation?
-- Scott, Fort Collins
Scott, I touched on his in a question about Franklin Morales. Chatwood is already back and pitched very well in his last start. Chacin is tentatively due back in about two weeks. Lyles will stay in the rotation, meaning that the mercurial Morales is likely the odd man out. But things seem to change very quickly with this team, so we'll see.
Coors Field capacity was 50,480. But with the new Rooftop, some seats were removed. What is the new seating capacity?
-- Daniel Picard, Montreal
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The way you manage your benefits online has changed
Your account benefits all in one place
The way you access your Bank of Scotland Added Value Account benefits online has changed. We gave you details of this change in the recent letter that we sent to you.
Instead of visiting this website to manage your Mobile Phone Insurance and Save What Matters benefits, you can now do so from one easy-to-manage place – Bank of Scotland Internet Banking. Once securely logged on to Bank of Scotland Internet Banking, you’ll no longer need to use separate sign in details for Mobile Phone Insurance.
Your access to the Save What Matters website will also move to Bank of Scotland Internet Banking, however, you’ll still need to sign in using your separate sign in details for now.
You will need to be registered for Bank of Scotland Internet Banking to use this feature and take care of your benefits online, because direct access to this website has closed. All of your existing information is still securely held, the only thing we are changing is how you access it.
If you are not already registered for Bank of Scotland Internet Banking it is important that you register so that you can continue to manage your Added Value Account benefits online. Go to bankofScotland.co.uk/manageyourbenefits for more information
You can also manage your AVA benefits by calling Membership Services:
- Q: Why am I seeing this message?
- A: Direct access to this website has closed. To continue to manage your benefits online, you’ll need to be registered for Bank of Scotland Internet Banking
- Q: How will I manage my benefits if I am not registered for Bank of Scotland Internet Banking?
- A: Registering for Bank of Scotland Internet Banking is quick and easy and only takes a few minutes, but you can also call Membership Services to manage all your benefits except for Save My Numbers which is an online only service.
- Q: What has happened to the information I have previously registered online?
- A: Don’t worry, all of your information is still securely held, it’s just how you access it that has changed.
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(PhysOrg.com) -- Criminal justice scholars often say that the true number of innocent people convicted of crimes is unknown—in fact, unknowable. A new University of Michigan study challenges that belief in one important context.
Among defendants sentenced to death in the United States since 1973, at least 2.3 percent—and possibly more—were falsely convicted, said U-M law professor Samuel Gross in a study co-authored by Barbara O'Brien, a professor at Michigan State University College of Law.
If defendants who were sentenced to prison had been freed because of innocence at the same rate as those who were sentenced to death, there would have been nearly 87,000 non-death row exonerations in the United States from 1989 through 2003, rather than the 266 that were reported, the study said.
"The main thing we can safely conclude from exonerations of falsely convicted defendants is that there are many other false convictions that we have not discovered," said Gross, whose research has focused on the death penalty, false convictions and eyewitness identification.
Since 1989, nearly all exonerations in the United States fall into three categories: rape convictions, because of post-conviction DNA testing; murder convictions, and especially death sentences, which are subjected to much more detailed post-conviction reinvestigation than other convictions; and a few groups of false drug and gun possession convictions that were produced by concerted programs of police perjury that later unraveled.
As result, researchers know little about false convictions among crimes of violence other than murder or rape, even though false convictions for robbery could greatly outnumber those for rape and murder. And researchers know next to nothing about false convictions for other types of crimes, such as property crimes, misdemeanors and white collar crimes.
The study did find a couple of strong demographic predictors of false conviction for rape or murder. Black men accused of raping white women face a greater risk of false conviction than other rape defendants; and young suspects, those under 18, are at greater risk of false confession than other suspects.
Gross, the Thomas and Mabel Long Professor of Law, and O'Brien also compared capital cases that ended in exoneration to those that ended in execution. They found that capital exonerations are less common among defendants convicted of murdering more than two victims. They are more common for those convicted of murdering children.
These patterns could reflect differences in the quality of the evidence—and therefore the likelihood of error—based on the age and number of victims, Gross said.
"On the other hand, the low exoneration rate among multiple murder cases may simply mean that defendants who are convicted of killing more than two victims are less likely than others to linger on death row or have their death sentences reduced to life imprisonment," he said.
Capital exonerations also appear to be more frequent among cases in which the criminal investigation was unusually difficult, or where important items of direct or circumstantial evidence of guilt were missing. Specifically:
• Exonerated capital defendants were less likely to have serious criminal records than those who were executed. Gross said he had expected an opposite result because the police might attach too much weight to a suspect's violent history and pursue weak, and sometimes false, cases against plausible-seeming suspects who had committed other crimes.
• Confessions are three-and-a-half times as common among the executed as the exonerated, 52 percent to 15 percent. Many murder defendants confess, and most confessions are true. Without a confession, especially one that is voluntary, the risk of false conviction increases.
• The pattern for confessions is repeated at trial. Some capital defendants do not actively contest their guilt in court. These tacit admissions of guilt are more common among executed than exonerated defendants who were sentenced to death, 38 percent to 13 percent. In other words, among death-sentenced inmates, the risk that a conviction was an error is greater in cases in which the defendants actively asserted their innocence at trial.
• The clearest evidence that a difficult investigation increases the risk of error is the time between the crime and the defendant's arrest. On average, pre-arrest investigations in death sentence cases that led to exoneration were two-and-a-half times as long as in those that ended in execution.
The findings appear in the current issue of the Journal of Empirical Legal Studies.
Provided by University of Michigan
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FINAL FANTASY XII
Maximum order quantity: 5
For the first time in its history, FINAL FANTASY delivers an entirely new breed of RPG that seamlessly integrates exploration and combat. Overflowing with gorgeous, sweeping landscapes and breathtaking adventure, FINAL FANTASY XII is a gaming experience that captivates gamers with its immersive environment, riveting pace and gripping storytelling, made possible only by the creators of the FINAL FANTASY franchise.
- Two years after the fall of Dalmasca, the once proud kingdom struggles under the rule of its oppressors. Subjugated by the mighty Archadian Empire and bereft of its royal family, the kingdom clings tenuously to life. Dalmasca's future has been enslaved.
To Vaan, a young man living on the streets of Rabanastre, the Empire is a hated foe that took the life of his brother. When Vaan meets Princess Ashe, the sole surviving heir to the Dalmascan throne, the two embark on an incredible journey through Ivalice, tracing the mysteries behind the Archadian Empire's invasion. As they travel, they encounter others opposed to the Empire. Together, the choices they make will determine the very fate of the world.
- Newly implemented 16:9 feature enhances graphics on widescreen televisions
- Brand-new, fully voiced cutscenes added for the North American release
- Gorgeous CG cinematics and cutscenes in Dolby® Pro Logic II combined with real-time graphics rivaling those of next-gen titles
- Shocking plot twists take players on an unforgettable journey of betrayal, political intrigue and a kingdom's struggle for survival
- Active Dimension Battle (ADB) system enables players to move seamlessly between exploration and combat
- Highly customizable Gambit system allows complete control over character A.I. during battles
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I was part of a Forrester Team that recently completed a multi-country rollout tour with Emerson Network Power as they formally released their Trellis DCIM product, a comprehensive DCIM environment many years in the building. One of the key takeaways was both an affirmation of our fundamental assertions about DCIM, plus hints about its popularity and attraction for potential customers that in some ways expand on the original value proposition we envisioned. Our audiences were in total approximately 500 selected data center users, most current Emerson customers of some sort, plus various partners.
The audiences uniformly supported the fundamental thesis around DCIM – there exists a strong underlying demand for integrated DCIM products, with a strong proximal emphasis on optimizing power and cooling to save opex and avoid the major disruption and capex of new data center capacity. Additionally, the composition of the audiences supported our contention that these tools would have multiple stakeholders in the enterprise. As expected, the groups were heavy with core Infrastructure & Operations types – the people who have to plan, provision and operate the data center infrastructure to deliver the services needed for their company’s operations. What was heartening was the strong minority presence of facilities people, ranging from 10% to 30% of the attendees, along with a sprinkling of corporate finance and real-estate executives. Informal conversations with a number of these people gave us consistent input that they understood the need, and in some cases were formerly tasked by their executives, to work more closely with the I&O group. All expressed the desire for an integrated tool to help with this.
As 2012 came to a close, we studied the financial position of many CISOs and asked about their expectations for 2013. Unsurprisingly, it was apparent that 2012 was another difficult year and that CISOs had been keeping their belts tight once again. When compared with the other IT departments, however, it became clear that this budgetary flat-line actually represented quite a success, as 2012 had seen most other teams face further cutbacks and spending restrictions.
When we looked ahead to 2013, we saw the usual hopeful optimism from the CISOs – proving once again that any allegation of a correlation between ‘pessimists’ and ‘security professionals’ is complete nonsense. It was interesting, however, to note a marked difference in attitudes dependent upon which side of the Atlantic the respondent was located. Put simply, North American based CISOs had a much more buoyant view of security related finances in 2013 than their European peers. | <urn:uuid:bc561f52-c104-4e86-a480-5621d036aa35> | CC-MAIN-2014-52 | http://blogs.forrester.com/archiver/201301/9217 | 2014-12-23T03:09:12Z | s3://commoncrawl/crawl-data/CC-MAIN-2014-52/segments/1418802778013.38/warc/CC-MAIN-20141217075258-00126-ip-10-231-17-201.ec2.internal.warc.gz | en | 0.97612 | 505 | [
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The first time I watched Toolbox Murders, I was extremely let down by the lack of action after the first half hour. Repeated viewings allowed for a much greater appreciation of the film based on the strange and twisted character progressions later in the film. At the start, the film wreaks of awesome grindhouse grit and grime, with plenty of nudity and several gruesome deaths care of our trusty friends Mr. Hammer and Uncle Nail Gun. I also love how poorly the killer is masked, leaving absolutely no mystery as to his identity. After an initial murder spree, one of the tenants of the unfortunate apartment complex is kidnapped by her would-be assailant and held captive as he plays out delusions that she is his deceased daughter. It is at this point that the tone completely shifts away from the standard slasher and takes on more of its psychological horror aspects that reflect Psycho or Dementia 13 over body count films like Bay of Blood. There are points where the scale and budget are completely evident in the filmmaking, but overall the acting and production are better than they probably should be, with Cameron Mitchell putting in a quirky but entertaining lead. I recommend checking it out, I really enjoy it! | <urn:uuid:d2fdeac3-274a-4532-8f92-58321d417370> | CC-MAIN-2014-52 | http://www.ilikehorrormovies.com/2009/07/toolbox-murders-1978.html | 2014-12-23T02:55:19Z | s3://commoncrawl/crawl-data/CC-MAIN-2014-52/segments/1418802778013.38/warc/CC-MAIN-20141217075258-00126-ip-10-231-17-201.ec2.internal.warc.gz | en | 0.971358 | 243 | [
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Beta for the "Fossil Wall". Apparently ...
|Climbing is currently allowed in Last Chance Canyon. Continued access is everyones responsibility. MORE INFO >>>|
Great spot out of the wind, sunny early and shady late. Good warmup lines here, and home to Mike Gillets "Fling". A nice clear landing with some great rocks to sit down and lace up. The first 20' is a chossy low angle wreck. Some parties spread out up on the big ledge, which gets good sun in the morning and is protected very well from the wind.
Hike the trail, take the sharp left (toward Tornado Wall), and just past the big steep slab section of the trail, look for a faint trail to the right (put in for dog owners). Follow the mellow switchback to the steambed trail in the meadow. Hike downstream till the trail crosses, where you go straight across to the opposing wall. Or from Tornado, follow the streambed down about 200 yeards.
Weather station 2.9 miles from here
6 Total Routes
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News and notes on health, medicine and fitness
CDC doing live chat on Twitter for National HIV Testing Day
The CDC is doing a live chat with several national HIV experts to mark National HIV Testing Day. You can join in, and share experiences with HIV testing -- either getting or giving a test -- by searching for #CDCchat on Twitter.
The chat began at 1 p.m., but you can see what was shared if you don't have time to log in now, and want to check back later. | <urn:uuid:1587ec5e-9a8d-432c-bc66-d2293d271a6f> | CC-MAIN-2014-52 | http://www.jsonline.com/blogs/news/213353611.html | 2014-12-27T05:45:43Z | s3://commoncrawl/crawl-data/CC-MAIN-2014-52/segments/1419447550512.5/warc/CC-MAIN-20141224185910-00022-ip-10-231-17-201.ec2.internal.warc.gz | en | 0.956859 | 104 | [
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FALL CREEK (SAN SABA COUNTY)
FALL CREEK (San Saba County). Fall Creek rises about six miles southeast of Cherokee in southeastern San Saba County (at 30°55' N, 98°36' W) and meanders east along the San Saba-Llano county line for seventeen miles to its mouth on the northern end of Lake Buchanan (at 30°55' N, 98°27' W). The creek, which is intermittent in its upper reaches, traverses flat to rolling uplands with live oak, Ashe juniper, and grasses growing in shallow and stony clayey soils.
The following, adapted from the Chicago Manual of Style, 15th edition, is the preferred citation for this article."FALL CREEK (SAN SABA COUNTY)," Handbook of Texas Online (http://www.tshaonline.org/handbook/online/articles/rbf07), accessed December 26, 2014. Uploaded on June 12, 2010. Published by the Texas State Historical Association. | <urn:uuid:42fb0b05-cee3-41dc-9f21-fd3c75d4f638> | CC-MAIN-2014-52 | http://www.tshaonline.org/handbook/online/articles/rbf07 | 2014-12-27T05:31:15Z | s3://commoncrawl/crawl-data/CC-MAIN-2014-52/segments/1419447550512.5/warc/CC-MAIN-20141224185910-00022-ip-10-231-17-201.ec2.internal.warc.gz | en | 0.907631 | 216 | [
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KRASNAYA POLYANA, Russia (AP) — Hours before the start of any cross-country skiing or biathlon race at the Sochi Olympics, the wax cabins next to the courses are already a hive of activity.
It's here, inside the barrack-like structures that look like they could belong at a construction site, that gold medals can be won or lost before the skiers even get to the starting line.
Finding the right wax setup is crucial to any skier's success but it is a difficult science, and the top teams have more than a dozen technicians preparing up to 30 different pairs of skis before each race.
Different snow temperatures require different setups to get the right amount of glide and grip, and getting it wrong can ruin even a strong favorite's chances. With about 500 different wax products to choose from, the combinations are endless, and getting it right requires years of experience.
"It can make or break a medal performance," American cross-country skier Andrew Newell said in the run-up to the games. "That's on the shoulders of a wax tech."
Depending on snow conditions, the technicians will grind the skis in different ways if grip or glide is a priority, and then use heating irons to melt the wax on top of it. Running a finger along a freshly waxed ski can feel a bit like touching a warm sticky lollypop with grooves.
"It basically comes down to three things," Newell said. "The flex of the ski, the grind of the ski, the kind of structure that's pressed into the bottom of it, and then the wax."
The whole process has been made trickier by the change in weather conditions in Sochi, with temperatures at the Laura Cross-Country Ski and Biathlon Center rising significantly over the last few days compared to last week, when teams began their testing.
Before the races, teams have their staff test the skis on the course, and each skier could get a unique setup depending on his preferences. The best setups are guarded like state secrets, with many technicians speaking in code to each other over the radio so other teams can't copy them.
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For fast, secure and reliable WIODE Hosting, look no further than Arvixe for all your web hosting related needs. The following plan will be preloaded with a fully configured installation of WIODE . It provides everything you need to get you up and running within minutes:
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How it works
The ultimate party in a box
Holiday DJ is the ultimate plug and play party machine that uses a Bluetooth® speaker to get indoor lights of all kinds to flash to music beats and sound effects.
Adding to the fun is simple
Turn it on, plug it in, connect it to your lights, then choose Holiday DJ on any of your Bluetooth-enabled smart devices.
Tips, troubleshooting and more
The most common usage problems with the HDJ are the easiest to solve. Check out our short list of FAQs. | <urn:uuid:7eba5562-7b61-45d9-b3d0-831504558cda> | CC-MAIN-2014-52 | http://www.holidaydj.com/ | 2014-12-19T01:28:17Z | s3://commoncrawl/crawl-data/CC-MAIN-2014-52/segments/1418802768167.64/warc/CC-MAIN-20141217075248-00006-ip-10-231-17-201.ec2.internal.warc.gz | en | 0.854211 | 123 | [
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Feed The Green Bin
To SIGN UP or see if you are in the collection area, please click here.
According to a recent Howard County study, almost 30% of what we send to the landfill could be composted and turned into a valuable product!
Interested households in certain areas (who receive County yard trim collection) can participate in the Feed The Green Bin program. This new program collects the same types of material you have always set at the curb, the difference is a separate container!
Participants receive a special food scrap/yard trim cart that is emptied weekly.
If you're in the collection area and want another green cart, here's the form to purchase additional carts. Please remember that green carts are to be used for food scraps and yard trim ONLY.
Watch our help videos to learn indoor & outdoor tips for collecting food scraps. Neat!
What is Accepted?
- Fruit and vegetable scraps (fresh or cooked)
- Grass, leaves, yard trim
- Bread, pasta, rice, grains, cereal, baked goods, etc.
- Nuts, beans, seeds (including shells/hulls)
- Egg shells
- Coffee grounds, filters, tea bags (no foil or foil-backed products)
- Paper products (paper towels, napkins, paper plates)
- Pizza boxes (remove non-food items)
- Houseplants, cut flowers
- Chopsticks and popsicle sticks
What is NOT Accepted?
- Meat, fish, shellfish (including bones)
- Dairy products (cheese, butter, ice cream, etc.)
- Fats, oils, grease
- Facial tissues
- Pet waste
Benefits of collecting food scraps for composting:
- Reduces household trash. Food scraps are a large part of what people throw away.
- Reduces greenhouse gases - food scraps in the landfill create methane (a powerful greenhouse gas) as they decompose.
- Reduces the need for garbage disposals. By using garbage disposals to get rid of unwanted food, excess nutrients are sent to treatment plants. They are costly to process and remove (about 10 times more expensive than curbside collection and processing).
- Creates a useful product – compost is a great soil amendment that returns nutrients to gardens and produces healthy plants.
- Saves money. Removing food scraps from trash reduces trash tonnages and therefore money spent on disposal.
- Keeps the food scraps local. Food scraps are processed locally at Alpha Ridge Landfill into a soil amendment.
- Provides public awareness. Food scraps are a significant part of household waste that shouldn't be wasted in the landfill.
- Promotes opportunities for local business growth which may enable food scrap collection to be expanded throughout the region.
Frequently Asked Questions
Where can I buy compostable bags?
You are not required to use bags, but if you prefer to, please make sure the bags contain the BPI logo. The BPI logos means they are compostable and they have been tested and proven to breakdown (DO NOT use regular plastic bags). Many local retailers including Roots, My Organic Market, Kendalls Hardware, Home Depot, and Target carry the bags. They are also available online from many different websites.
Why collect food scraps separately?
To reduce waste and save money on disposal costs. Howard County residents could reduce trash sent to the landfill by 30%, simply by composting their food scraps. Food scraps and yard trim that is collected will be composted and turned into a soil amendment.
What will the cart look like and how big is it?
Residents can choose from 2 green carts: a 35 gallon cart (39” tall x 20” wide x 23” deep) or a 65 gallon cart (40.5" tall x 27" wide x 23" deep). Remember, you can add yard trim to the green carts too!
How often is the cart emptied?
The cart will be emptied on your recycling day by the same truck that collects yard trim. No additional collection trucks are needed!
My household doesn’t generate many food scraps. Should I still participate?
Yes! You can make a difference, no matter how big (or small!) your household. Composting even small amounts of food scraps reduces trash. Unexpected items such as herbs/spices, cereal, corn cobs/husks, cookies and paper egg cartons can be included.
Will green bin collection smell?
Please keep in mind you will be setting out the same material for collection; it will just be in a different container. Meat, fish and dairy products, often the most odor causing items, are not accepted for food scrap collection.
You can easily incorporate paper bags, pizza boxes, grass, leaves or baking soda to absorb liquids and reduce any smells. Rinsing and cleaning the cart may also help.
What if I rely on my garbage disposal?
Using a garbage disposal can lead to clogs and backups in your pipes. Disposals also send nutrients that are expensive to treat to the water reclamation facility. Composting food scraps in your backyard or using the green bin for collection are better options. Watch Bill Nye's quick video about garbage disposal use.
Will the 40-pound weight limit apply to my food scrap cart?
No, not for the county-issued cart. Additional containers should weigh less than 40 pounds.
What about leftovers that contain meat, oil, butter or cheese?
Small amounts of these items used as an ingredient can be included in the green bin. However, meatballs or other easily removed meat, fish or dairy products should be placed in the trash.
What should I use to collect food scraps indoors?
A large tub or plastic container is all you need, but if you prefer a food scrap specific container, check online or your local stores. You may also use compostable bags (with the BPI logo) or paper bags. Do not use plastic bags because they don't break down with the material. You can also make an easy indoor bin liner out of newspaper.
How do I learn more about the new ARL pilot compost facility?
Report from the mini food scrap collection pilot in Howard County.
Food scrap pictures from the mini pilot.
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Sharmila Joshi, Head of Equity of Peerless Securities advised holding LIC Housing Finance. She expects Rs 290-295 levels on the stock in next three-four months.
Sharmila Joshi, Head of Equity of Peerless Securities told CNBC-TV18, “May be about Rs 290 kind of level on LIC Housing Finance . Because if you see the way the stock has moved in the whole midcap carnage that we had, we saw the stock corrected deeply and now we see good amount of recovery. So in that sense it has recovered nicely from the lows that it made.”
She further said, “We have had a bit of a positive coming for it in the Budget when you got that extra tax concession for first time house owners and that should reflect in their numbers going ahead. Plus interest rate has gotten cut once, may be you will see another interest rate cut going ahead. So that cycle seems to have peaked. So better results, things are looking up for LIC Housing. Stay put, may be in three-four months expect levels of Rs 290-295.”
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djmcfar (64) - Ixonia, Wisconsin, USA - MAR 23, 2005
3.7 AROMA 6/10 APPEARANCE 4/5 TASTE 7/10 PALATE 4/5 OVERALL 16/20
This amber/tan semi-cloudy alt pours a small tan head with a strong malty nose with hints of hops. Initial taste is very sweet, then a hoppy flavor appears, and it finishes with citrus. Carbonation lasts till the bottom (creamy head reappears even on the next to last taste).
prosqtor (408) - Appleton, Wisconsin, USA - AUG 5, 2007
2.5 AROMA 3/10 APPEARANCE 4/5 TASTE 5/10 PALATE 3/5 OVERALL 10/20
What a disappointment! I really wanted to like this beer. I thought maybe the sourness of the PA Slab City brews would not translate over to this beer, but I was wrong.
StewardofGondor (1934) - Washington Heights - Milwaukee, Wisconsin, USA - FEB 23, 2007
2.4 AROMA 6/10 APPEARANCE 4/5 TASTE 4/10 PALATE 2/5 OVERALL 8/20
Hazed and caramel-orangish-brown in color with a hard lining of grey ice for the head. Aroma revels in maple milk chocolate malted fudge balls with a hint of brown sugared cardboard and melting poppycock. Flavor careens with a citric caramel soufflé bouquet, with lacquered hazelnuts sharing copper kettles. Wholesome carbonation couples with cider on apple walnut corn bread avec caramel drizzle for more appearance that flavor would indicate. Maple oats and bleached pancake syrup swirl around each other in the apple brown sugar crumble finish.
Ughsmash (7181) - Pewaukee, Wisconsin, USA - FEB 18, 2007
1.3 AROMA 2/10 APPEARANCE 3/5 TASTE 3/10 PALATE 1/5 OVERALL 4/20
Bottled. Poured a nice, clear shade of caramel with a tall cap of creamy beige head. Nose clued me in that this would be sour and ugly in the flavor department... some caramel, but mostly just eye-watering sourness. Flavor was sour as can be... deep down there was some floral bitterness and toasted bready malts... on top and all around was a bracing sourness. Ouch.. stay away from this.
hopdog (9133) - Lansdale, Pennsylvania, USA - JUL 25, 2006
1.3 AROMA 3/10 APPEARANCE 2/5 TASTE 2/10 PALATE 2/5 OVERALL 4/20
12oz bottle. This one was a gusher - poured all over my office floor. Settled into a deep and cloudy amber color. Aromas of what. I can stretch it into a little nuttiness and some dough. Tastes of the same with some fruits. Has a sour aftertastes. My 3rd Slab City beer of the night and my 3rd drain pour in a row (2 of the 3 bottles purchased at different stores).
jewedekind (450) - Middleton, Wisconsin, USA - JUL 2, 2006
1.5 AROMA 3/10 APPEARANCE 4/5 TASTE 1/10 PALATE 2/5 OVERALL 5/20
Looks nice enough. Truly copper color with a nice coppery head, that rapidly disappeared. Aroma is flowery, doughy with a sharp edge. Taste is insipid. Sour, diacetyl through the roof....these guys maybe should clean their equipment. Yuck - threw away.
jpm30 (1587) - East Central, Georgia, USA - MAY 30, 2006
2.6 AROMA 5/10 APPEARANCE 3/5 TASTE 5/10 PALATE 3/5 OVERALL 10/20
From a 12 oz. long neck brown bottle with no bottled/freshness date.
Made a decent appearance, poured a clear reddish/golden hued amber with a foamy off-white head that quickly settled into a thin lacing, moderate carbonation.
Had a lemony fruity and sour malty nose, traces of caramel and honey nuttiness.
A crisp, sourish smooth light medium bodied mouth feel, average drinkability.
Big honey and malt taste, a subtle caramel with some nuts thrown in, followed by a sour fruitiness and a dry sour fruity and honey finish.
Far from the beat altbier I’ve tried, purchased as a single at Woodman’s, I am wondering if I purchased a bad bottle.
YourDarkLord (1800) - Urbana, Illinois, USA - MAY 24, 2006
1 AROMA 2/10 APPEARANCE 3/5 TASTE 1/10 PALATE 2/5 OVERALL 2/20
Copper body. Beige head. Aroma of soap suds, cheap caramel, tangerine, deodorent. Weak and watery. Flavor was funky, unpleasant.
Styles (2014) - Lincoln Park, Michigan, USA - FEB 12, 2006
2.5 AROMA 6/10 APPEARANCE 4/5 TASTE 5/10 PALATE 2/5 OVERALL 8/20
Bottle courtesy of Ughsmash. Dark copper in color nice tan head. Aroma is sour apples and oranges. Flavor is very sweet caramel malt, but with the huge sour kick again. I didn’t rate three or four beers from this brewery, previously, because of the sourness, but now it seems it’s par for the course.
badgerben (4502) - Blaine, Minnesota, USA - NOV 12, 2005
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Dark copper color wtih no head. Caramel-ish aroma. The taste was just bizzare... pear? Some hop bitterness. No malt. What the fudge is going on here?
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This is the truth.
Everyone’s job is at times difficult, including mine. We are overworked, don’t get enough sleep and basically tired. As interested as we are with the task at hand, we have to worry about the ongoing tasks and the upcoming tasks. It is rare that we can really think and reflect about the purpose of our labor, and the long-term permanent effects that may follow.So my job is to help people get pregnant. Sounds great, and it is. With all of the demands of a busy medical practice it’s sometimes hard to appreciate that we in infertility are not just helping people get embryos, or heartbeats, or even deliveries and c sections. It’s obvious that it goes well beyond that, but for us, once we are happy about your heartbeat, we need to get happy about the next patient’s heartbeat etc.
Well, the other day I needed to call one of my past patients. Who picked up the phone, and said “hello, this is …..” ? Yes, it was the embryo. First it was a spec of an embryo, then a heartbeat. It then went on to be a 2 dimensional cute photo.
This is all wonderful and miraculous, but it took the phone call to really drive home the meaning. I was now interacting with the embryo. There was cause and effect. My task, the phone call to her mom, was dependent on the decision making of the embryo turned little girl. What a great day for me.I hope that all of you reading this can someday have these types of experiences with your own families. | <urn:uuid:bc5d2e22-a53b-407b-8a1b-a5792077246b> | CC-MAIN-2014-52 | http://theafa.typepad.com/theafablog/2010/03/i-called-and-an-embryo-picked-up-the-phone.html | 2014-12-21T22:09:03Z | s3://commoncrawl/crawl-data/CC-MAIN-2014-52/segments/1418802772743.56/warc/CC-MAIN-20141217075252-00166-ip-10-231-17-201.ec2.internal.warc.gz | en | 0.973884 | 337 | [
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Flyers' Mike Knuble tosses his stick to a fan after the Flyers beat the Sabres 4-3 in their season finale Sunday.
Yes, it was horrible. But it was probably necessary.
As the seconds ticked down in the Flyers' finale Sunday, everyone looked up and discovered they were actually winning -- and, you know, it felt kind of good, for a change. When the Flyers held on to beat Buffalo 4-3, the players swarmed around goalie Martin Biron. Biron waved to acknowledge the crowd, and several players gave away sticks.
All in all, it was a nice way to end a really miserable year, even though the Sabres had precisely nothing to play for and everyone in the building seemed eager to just get this over with.
As Buffalo coach Lindy Ruff put it: "It was pretty mildly contested, from both sides."
So, in the end, what do we have?
The Flyers will be better next year. They'd have to be.
"It can only get better," Mike Knuble said. That's true.
They'll cast around for optimism now, and they'll find some. But whatever good comes from this season, it will only come because it was so bad. The Flyers really are rebuilding now, starting from scratch.
The Flyers do not do this easily, and they had to be forced into it this year. Chairman Ed Snider is wildly competitive, always committed to winning right now. If this hadn't been such a complete disaster, the Flyers would likely have continued to patch and fix and mortgage their future for the now -- and they might have made the playoffs, but it would have been a mistake.
"In November, we could have sold our future for some veterans and maybe made it to the playoffs and maybe got booted in the first round -- and it would have been completely unproductive," Flyers president Peter Luukko said.
He's exactly right. Now the Flyers have to keep that mindset, and that will be harder than it sounds.
The day the Flyers traded Peter Forsberg, Snider was asked about rebuilding the team and Snider said: "We don't understand what rebuilding is." Flyers fans who really care about fixing this team might have been taken aback by this statement.
But here's the thing: Flyers GM Paul Holmgren does understand it. He's made a lot of moves this year -- some excellent, some cosmetic and some just kind of interesting. But they've all been made with the future in mind.
One of them, Biron, was with Buffalo when the Sabres started getting it together. He said players could tell when they were on the verge of big things. The Flyers aren't saying that today. It's instructive to note that while everyone said nice things Sunday, the enthusiasm was tempered by acknowledging there is still much to do.
"I think we're just a few pieces away," Biron said, and he meant that in an optimistic way. But Biron is correct when he said the Flyers are a few pieces away -- not one. A few.
The Flyers may indeed be building something here. But it's not like they really came on at the end. The Flyers were 2-10 in their last 12 games, and sometimes looked the way they looked Saturday in losing to the Islanders. To call them lackadaisical is an insult to lackadaisicalness.
So, really, how optimistic can you be?
"I saw some good stuff from this team, but we still didn't win a lot of hockey games at the end," Simon Gagne said. "That tells you we still have a lot of work to do."
The impulse with the Flyers has always been to quick-fix any problem. And they're not there; they're not that close no matter what they tell themselves. This is a rebuilding situation, and it's just started. The Flyers are headed in the right direction but they're still a long ways off.
If nothing else, this year told them that. This disastrous season taught that lesson -- and maybe it's one the Flyers had to learn, however painful.
Now they've got to keep reminding themselves of it.
"I think the picture for next year and the plan and the identity of this team has become very clear to us," said coach John Stevens, talking about younger and faster, work ethic every night, and a lot more stability on defense.
Stevens was asked if this team would look different next year, and he said: "We need to look a lot different, in terms of our results."
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The Economist is planning paid apps for the iPhone and iPad, with an eye toward recreating the “lean-back” print experience on the mobile devices.
Rob O’Regan writes that Oscar Grut, managing director of digital editions for the Economist Group, believes the iPad especially creates an opportunity for print publications to build engaging and immersive content that embodies the strengths of a print edition more than is possible on the desktop Web:
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Police say a Montville Township woman was charged for the fifth time with operating a vehicle while intoxicated after she caused a five-car accident Thursday afternoon, which sent four people to the hospital with minor injuries.
The crash happened at about 3 p.m. in the westbound lane of state Route 18 near Eastpointe Drive, when a 2010 Ford Edge driven by Michelle Kupec, 45, of 3735 Turnberry Drive, rear-ended a car stopped at a traffic light, setting off a chain-reaction crash that involved three more vehicles driven by Medina residents.
Reports said Kupec’s vehicle stuck a 2013 Honda Accord driven by Edward Hornyak, 55, of Medina. The impact pushed his car into the rear end of a 2012 Ford Escape driven by Melissa King, 42. King’s car was pushed into the tail of a 2012 Suzuki SX4 driven by Lisa Mangual, 25, which then struck the back of 2008 GMC Envoy driven by Irene A. Beganyi-Burg, 61.
Beganyi-Burg’s vehicle was the only one that did not need to be towed from the scene.
Mangual and her two children, Maisen, 3, and Milah, an infant, were taken to Medina Hospital for precautionary treatment of minor injuries, as was Hornyak.
Kupec was charged with following too closely and operating a vehicle impaired. She refused to submit to a portable Breathalyzer test, but was arrested at the scene on suspicion of driving under the influence. She was cited later and driven home, according to police reports.
The charges were filed Friday.
Medina Township police Sgt. Sheri Mangel said Kupec had OVI convictions in 1998 and 2000 in Medina Municipal Court. She had another OVI conviction in 1995 in Brook Park in Cuyahoga County. Her first was in 1987, also in Medina. All four were under her previous married name, Michelle Boger.
Kupec is due in court Wednesday before Medina Municipal Court Judge Dale Chase.
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After a weekend of rich desserts, Shamrock Shakes and French toast, I was in the mood for a simple bowl of cereal for breakfast. Kashi Go Lean Original with dried cranberries and skim milk sounded perfect.
I realized this morning that we are all out of creamer, and I just can't bear to drink my coffee with skim milk - I cut corners where I can, but I draw the line at gray-colored coffee. Instead, I had a cup of Yunnan tea from the Vermont Liberty Tea Company with a little almond milk. It hit the spot!
After breakfast I put together a workout focusing on my leg muscles, since I haven't worked them much over the last week. Since I obviously don't have any gym machines at home, I incorporated a lot of squats and lunges. It looked like this:
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Ah can’t believe I haven’t posted about this one before, one of my favourite tools! It was a big breakthrough to have a passive OS-fingerprinting tool after relying on Nmap and Xprobe2 for the longest time. OS fingerprinting is a very important part of a pen-test during the information gathering stage. P0f v2 is a […]
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OS Fingerprinting is an important part of any penetration test or hack as it allows you focus your efforts a lot more effeciently when point testing, rather than throwing everything at a machine like a script kiddy would. So let’s introduce a new option, other than p0f and xprobe2. SinFP uses the aforementioned limitations as […]
1. Nmap I think everyone has heard of this one, recently evolved into the 4.x series. Nmap (“Network Mapper”) is a free open source utility for network exploration or security auditing. It was designed to rapidly scan large networks, although it works fine against single hosts. Nmap uses raw IP packets in novel ways to […] | <urn:uuid:8138d24d-a1c6-44fa-9a33-71f14347ad3c> | CC-MAIN-2014-52 | http://www.darknet.org.uk/tag/p0f/ | 2014-12-19T06:29:58Z | s3://commoncrawl/crawl-data/CC-MAIN-2014-52/segments/1418802768276.101/warc/CC-MAIN-20141217075248-00126-ip-10-231-17-201.ec2.internal.warc.gz | en | 0.957553 | 241 | [
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Popularity growing for deer hunting
White-tailed deer season started this weekend, kicking off one of the most popular hunting seasons in the state.
By Vianna Davila : November 8, 2009
PEARSALL - The men marveled at the trophy - and contest entry - in the pickup bed.
They admired the impressive crown atop its head, lifting it slightly to get a better look at what a fellow hunter had bagged - a buck whose antlers scored an impressive 197, a figure unlikely to be surpassed anytime soon.
But with the weekend opening of white-tailed deer season, many wild-game enthusiasts were gunning to try.
That's right, hunters - it's time to start your engines.
To the uninitiated, hunting is a foreign world of trophy jackets, deer blinds and antler size.
But to the owners of Los Cazadores, a one-stop hunting superstore in Pearsall where the recent trophy buck was brought, hunting is a long tradition that brings together friends and families, and a sport that continues to grow both in popularity and as a business.
Bagging a trophy deer isn't even half of it.
"Shooting is 1 percent of the experience of being down here," said Steve Mabery, one of seven partners who now own Los Cazadores and a contest by the same name that started in Cotulla in 1986.
The store features just about everything a hunter could want, need or dream about - $200 coolers, roomy deer blinds and a deer attractant called C'mere Deer, plus taxidermy, meat processing and feed services. The competition draws 2,500 to 3,000 entries every year.
Contestants enter categories that range from bow and archery to a youth division in which all kids under 12 can compete for free and will win a prize for whatever they harvest.
"It teaches them traditional values that it seems like a lot of kids have lost," Mabery said.
Bulverde resident Steve Anthony took his 13-year-old son Mason out of school early Friday so they could get a start on the season. They popped in at Los Cazadores to buy deer corn, get Mason's license and enter the youth contest.
Mason started hunting at age 7, the first year children in Texas are required to get a hunting license. Before that, they must be accompanied by a licensed hunter but otherwise are free to harvest as much game as they please.
"I've already killed tons of deer," Mason said, including three 10-point bucks, according to his father.
It's not just about killing, said Mark Lyssy, an insurance adjuster who lives outside San Antonio. He stopped by Los Cazadores and recalled hunting as a child with his father and siblings in the Hill Country. When he's in the field with friends now, they hardly discuss hunting itself, he said.
"It's about being out, having that camaraderie, renewing friendships, that sort of thing," Lyssy said.
It's also not a bad place to share a good barbecue recipe, he added.
But hunting has changed dramatically since Lyssy and Mabery were young.
For one, the Texas white-tail population has skyrocketed over several decades, numbering around 4 million today, Mabery said. That's roughly 17 times more deer than in 1938, according to an article Mabery wrote for Los Cazadores magazine.
And it's a much bigger business, in which some enthusiasts will pay large sums of money to hunt in controlled spaces and shoot large game that were specifically bred for that purpose. Buck semen can go for a pretty penny, as can the price tag for a prize deer.
So to accommodate these breeder deer, Mabery created a new "open" category in the Los Cazadores contest.
To those who accuse hunters of cruelty or haphazard killing, the owners of Los Cazadores shake their heads. They consider themselves conservationists who believe a healthy deer population can't thrive if its population is unchecked, especially as development continues to encroach on their habitat.
"We need to keep the deer population in balance with the availability of feed," said Gary Machen, another Los Cazadores owner.
Everyone is affected by their first hunt.
"I think when you first start hunting, you get nervous," Anthony said. "Then you go through the emotional thing of killing the animal."
Anthony wasn't necessarily expecting a trophy for himself or his son this early in the season, because the weather is still warm and the moon is full, both bad conditions for hunting. Two years of drought haven't helped.
Recent rains likely will result in fatter deer this season, but even more so next year, said Craig Wingrove, another Los Cazadores partner.
The best time to bag a deer usually is mid-December, during "the rut" - the animals' mating season, hunter Edward De Arkos said.
The bucks get so frenzied in their pursuit of the ladies, De Arkos said, that they are very likely to make a mistake - which just might make them the next big Los Cazadores contest entry. | <urn:uuid:c2d6baeb-6199-405e-8c5e-f22db802fbc9> | CC-MAIN-2014-52 | http://www.mysanantonio.com/default/article/Popularity-growing-for-deer-hunting-843357.php | 2014-12-19T06:40:40Z | s3://commoncrawl/crawl-data/CC-MAIN-2014-52/segments/1418802768276.101/warc/CC-MAIN-20141217075248-00126-ip-10-231-17-201.ec2.internal.warc.gz | en | 0.971421 | 1,102 | [
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I was thinking about MLK Jr today and suddenly found myself scrambling to dig out the notebook I kept during treatment.
I was reminded that I, too, had a dream:
I am saddened to recognize the lack of progress I’ve made in reaching this vision of recovery.
I am saddened that I have spent the past months watching as my hopes dimmed into a hopelessness.
Yet, I am grateful. Today I remembered that I had a dream.
The reality is, it’s still my dream.
As I read over my journal entry, I suddenly recalled that yesterday the poem “Harlem” by Langston Hughes ran through my head. (I was vacuuming my closet if you want to how random this was. #IgetitGod.)
What happens to a dream deferred?
Maybe it just sags like a heavy load.
Or does it explode?
My deferred dream, my hopes have sagged into the heavy hopelessness that’s been weighing me down.
I want my hopes and dreams to EXPLODE with renewed fervor. I want to be on FIRE again.
Maybe deferred dreams can turn into an explosive, passionate drive.
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The identity score product can also determine false identities, flagging them at the transaction point. According to WhitePages data most (85% to 90%) of merchant orders are processed automatically with the new product; only about 15% are put into a review process to determine customer IDs. However, businesses using the platform have seen the number of review orders decrease by as much as 40% with no increase in fraudulent orders.
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When planning a picnic on the beach, start by making a list of all of the things you need to bring. Incorporate the theme colors (mine are turquoise, yellow, and orange) into the beach blanket, beach chairs, plates, and napkins. Fill a big bucket with ice and cold beverages and toss a few throw pillows on the blankets so when night falls guests can lay back and gaze at the stars. Have one floral arrangement of vibrant lilies. Instead of regular votives purchase cheap candles in sea shell votives. Enclose your party space by sticking several tiki torches in the sand. Arrange the blankets around the fire pit/grill, set up an area for dancing and food. Oh and, don't forget to pack the kites! | <urn:uuid:67ee3127-53a3-4d8d-a940-6cd72e02cdd5> | CC-MAIN-2014-52 | http://www.popsugar.com/food/Come-Party-Me-Beach-Picnic---Look-Music-333548 | 2014-12-20T17:22:14Z | s3://commoncrawl/crawl-data/CC-MAIN-2014-52/segments/1418802770060.91/warc/CC-MAIN-20141217075250-00030-ip-10-231-17-201.ec2.internal.warc.gz | en | 0.918338 | 159 | [
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The combative midfielder enjoyed a two-season spell at the Lane after joining us from West Ham in 2011 and made 63 appearances in our colours.
In his first season he was voted Player of the Season by the supporters as the team finished the campaign in fourth place.
"I'm thrilled to be coming back to the Lane to play in this game for Ledley and it will be really special to pull on a Spurs shirt again for such an occasion," said the Fulham player today.
"Right from the day I joined, Ledley never ceased to amaze me with his incredible ability, not to mention how he managed to reach such levels of performance given the circumstances with his preparations for games.
"He was an unbelievable captain for us, a combination of being a great leader, player and person - something you do not find too often."
Scott's former Spurs teammate Louis Saha, who played for us in 2012 after joining from Everton, will also take to the field against our first team on Monday night in a Ledley side that includes the likes of Edgar Davids, David Ginola, Teddy Sheringham, Darren Anderton, Peter Crouch, Paul Robinson and Dimitar Berbatov, as well as the King himself.
"I'm so happy and honoured to be part of Ledley King's testimonial," said the striker capped 20 times by France.
"I'm glad to have the opportunity to thank him for the help he gave me during my adaptation at the Club.
“Ledley is a real gent, a real leader, a real captain and a true legend whose immense talent always shone through."
A limited number of tickets are still available to purchase for Ledley’s big night by visiting https://www.eticketing.co.uk/tottenhamhotspur/default.aspx or calling 0844 844 0102 (Option 1) * A per ticket booking fee of £1.75 (online) or £2.25 (phone) will apply.
Alternatively, you can buy your tickets in person at the Ticket Office both on matchdays and non-matchdays.
Our former skipper's chosen charities Tottenham Hotspur Foundation’s Skills project, The Willow Foundation and Bowel Cancer Awareness UK will all benefit from monies raised from Ledley's Testimonial Match, with the Tottenham Tribute Trust also set to receive a contribution of the funds received.
Tickets are priced as follows:
Adults - £20.00
Seniors (65+) - £10.00
Junior (U16) - £5.00
Family Package (Two Adults and Two Juniors) - available in all areas at £40.00
Hospitality packages are still available for the game. Contact the Tottenham hospitality team on: 0208 365 5010 or E Mail [email protected]
See the latest line-up.
KING OF THE LANE
Our dedicated Testimonial microsite - exclusive videos, Ledley's diary, Ledley's top five games, Testimonial line-ups and interviews - it's all on King of the Lane...
OFFICIAL TESTIMONIAL PROGRAMME
Don't miss our special A4-size, 68-page Testimonial programme featuring tributes from a host of Ledley's former team-mates including Gareth Bale, Jermain Defoe, Robbie Keane, Luka Modric, Glenn Hoddle and Teddy Sheringham plus, of course, Ledley's life and times at the Lane in words and photographs. | <urn:uuid:ef876589-b517-4860-9d88-d96a178af7ff> | CC-MAIN-2014-52 | http://www.tottenhamhotspur.com/news/parker-back-for-leds-testimonial-090514/ | 2014-12-20T17:16:48Z | s3://commoncrawl/crawl-data/CC-MAIN-2014-52/segments/1418802770060.91/warc/CC-MAIN-20141217075250-00030-ip-10-231-17-201.ec2.internal.warc.gz | en | 0.946315 | 732 | [
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Filmmaker opens up on the making of The Wayman Tisdale Story
A few days ago, I had the opportunity to talk to filmmaker Brian Schodorf, who produced a soon-to-be released documentary on the life of former Sacramento Kings great Wayman Tisdale. Here a few excerpts from the Q&A, which you can read in its entirety over at SLAM.
Schodorf on what compelled him to make a documentary on Tisdale:
I get that question a lot. And it’s interesting because I really didn’t know that much about him. I really wasn’t a jazz guy. I didn’t follow his career. I remember he had been in the NBA and he was a pretty good player. But when I saw a little bit about what he was going through with his leg, I just felt like that’s a story I had to tell, and I just had to do it.
On telling Tisdale’s story:
I think in the history of my life – I’m not going to say in the history of the world – but in the history my life, I’ve never came across a more flawless person with the coolest life. I mean the guy lived 44 years. He had nine records – many of them went number one. He played 12 years in the NBA. He was a three time All-American. He was (an Olympic) gold medalist. And there wasn’t any one person who had anything bad to say about him. Going from Michael Jordan to Toby Keith – and that’s a pretty tough crowd to impress [laughs].
On Michael Jordan’s participation:
For Michael Jordan, the PR person with the Bobcats told me he gets 300 interview requests a day. Not a week. Not a month. A day. [laughs] That just shows you how rarely he does interviews. But once he saw Wayman Tisdale’s name, he said “I’ll do that one”.
The documentary is set to debut nationally on NBA TV next month on November 10th. But the Kings are having a special screening of the film this Wednesday night at 7 pm at Power Balance Pavilion. You can get tickets for the event here.
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Slow-Cooked Lamb with a Zinfandel Mole
Yield: 6 portions
I love the taste and texture of a good mole. This adaptation pairs well with Zinfandel. You can make your sauce as mild or as spicy as you’d like, by adding more chilies to the recipe. This version is fairly mild, but remember, as the mole sits, the flavors will expand. It is best to make the mole a day ahead then combine it with some of the lamb “jus” the next day.
- 1 each Dried Chili Negra
- 1 each Dried Pasilla Chili
- 1 each Dried Chili Mullato
Remove the stem and seeds from the peppers and chop the remaining peppers roughly. Place in a small sauté pan and toast over medium heat until the peppers just begin to toast and color. Remove from the heat and place the peppers in a small bowl.
- 1 1/2 Tablespoons sesame seeds
Wipe out the sauté pan used for the peppers and toast the sesame seeds until light brown. Add to the peppers.
- 3/4 cup Zinfandel
- 2 Tablespoons Dried Cherries
- 2 Tablespoons Golden Raisins
- 1 Tablespoon Juniper Berries, crushed
Place the wine, cherries, raisins and juniper berries in a small sauce pot and reduce over medium heat until there is less than a ¼ cup of wine left.
- 1/3 each ripe plantain
- 10 each animal crackers
- 3/4 disk Chocolate “Abuelita”
- 1 1/2 cups water
- Pinch salt
Add the chili-sesame mixture, plantain, animal crackers, Chocolate Abuelita, water and salt into the sauce pot with the wine and fruit. Simmer over medium heat for approximately 10-15 minutes, and allow it to thicken. Place in a blender and blend until smooth. The mole is ready. Place in a glass jar and allow to “bloom” overnight.
This mole recipe makes more than you will need for the lamb, so use it freely on other dishes as well. It holds for a couple of weeks in the refrigerator.
Slow-cooked Lamb Shoulder with Zinfandel
The shoulder has plenty of fat (which is rendered out as it cooks) to keep it moist and tender through long slow cooking. The result is flavorful and tender, with a Lamb broth that is enhanced later on by the addition of the mole.
- 3-4 pounds Lamb shoulder, boneless
- 1 cup Zinfandel
- 4 each garlic cloves, peeled and sliced
- 2 sprigs rosemary, fresh
- 1/4 cup olive oil
- To taste salt and pepper
Ask your butcher to remove the bones from the lamb shoulder for you and to tie it up as a roast. If they use a “net” for tying the roast, can remove the roast from the net and marinate “open” for best flavor.
Combine all the ingredients and marinate the lamb “open” overnight (if you were able to remove the net) by placing it in a large zip lock bag or by placing it in a baking dish and turning it a few times.
The next day, place it back in the net, or leave it “as is” if you’ve left it tied. If you have a rotisserie on your grill, skewer the shoulder on the spit and cook it over slow heat for 3 or 4 hours with a pan to catch the drippings under it, until the meat is tender enough to be easily pulled apart. It should be golden brown and nicely crisp on the outside.
If you have a grill with a cover, you can start a small fire of coals (or gas fire) on the outer ends of the BBQ and place the meat in the middle with no flame directly below it and cook for the same amount of time as above with the same basic instructions.
The final option is to slow cook it in your oven at 250 degrees. Place the lamb with the marinade in a baking dish, covered for the first 2 hours. Remove the cover and turn the temperature to 300 degrees and cook it until very tender. There should a small amount of lamb “jus” left in the pan. If it looks like it is going to completely evaporate, add a 1/4 cup of water and continue cooking until it is ready (adding water as needed).
The meat should be moist and tender any way you’ve done it if you’ve kept the temperature low enough. Remove the pork form the heat, allow to cool just a bit and “pull” the meat apart. Remove the fat from the drippings pan and save the juice that has accumulated. Cover the meat and keep warm for serving.
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(PhysOrg.com) -- A new study by the Department of Exercise, Nutrition and Health Sciences that examines how physical activity fits into family life has found families rarely take part in physical activity as a family because of the demands of work, school and the different interests of family members.
Little is known about what factors influence families to share in regular physical activity and if and how families are physically active together. A new study that examines how physical activity fits into family life has found families rarely take part in physical activity as a family because of the demands of work, school and the different interests of family members.
The paper, Physically active families - de-bunking the myth? A qualitative study of family participation in physical activity, by Professor Janice Thompson and colleagues in the Department of Exercise, Nutrition and Health Sciences at the University of Bristol is published in Child: care, health and development. The study has been funded by a grant from the British Heart Foundation.
The health benefits of regular physical activity for adults and children are well known. In addition to reducing the risks for chronic diseases such as obesity, type 2 diabetes and heart disease, taking part in regular physical activity can also help with mental health and well being.
Janice Thompson, Professor of Public Health Nutrition, said: "Despite the many benefits of regular physical activity, the majority of children and adults living in westernised countries such as the UK and the USA do not meet current recommendations for physical activity."
Semi-structured interviews were conducted with 30 parents (26 female, four male) of 10- to 11-year-old schoolchildren who attended low, middle or high socio-economic schools in Bristol.
The majority of parents rated family engagement in physical activity as important, and identified benefits such as increased parent-child communication, spending time together, enjoyment, enhanced mental health, weight control and physical fitness. Despite these benefits most parents reported their families did little or no physical activity together as a family unit during the week, and any activities performed together were usually sedentary in nature.
They reported increased family physical activity on the weekends but rarely including the full family unit all together. Parents in two-parent households commonly paired off with one or more children because of complexities of schedules. Commonly reported barriers were busy lifestyles, diverse ages and interests of children and adults, bad weather, and lack of access to facilities, transportation and money to support activities.
Dr Russ Jago, Senior Lecturer in the Department of Exercise, Nutrition and Health Sciences, said: "Family-based interventions might be more effective if they are designed to accommodate the complex demands and needs of two-parent and single-parent families and provide affordable, diverse activities appealing to a wide range of interests."
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November 12, 2013
GTP will be hosting the 2014 Spring Conference on Using Multiple Modes for Teaching & Learning on Thursday and Friday, January 9 & 10, 9:00 am - 4:15 pm at the Hale science building.
CUBoulder, a Research Extensive institution, supports the development of graduate teaching scholars and future professionals through the Graduate Teacher Program. Please take advantage of this opportunity to hone your teaching skills and to meet your peers, professors, staff, and our invited guest.
The workshops are designed to help you teach more effectively, to provide you with professional development opportunities, and to expose you to non-academic job possibilities. Visit us in 201 ATLAS, call (303) 492-4902 or view the schedule on our website.
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I liked the scent better than the usual chemical acne or dark mark products
Roll on app is nice no fingers on the tube and easy, smooth to apply
Cheap for the amount you get
My only reason for not giving it full rating value is I do not see any marks lightened up yet maybe in time but that was one reason for buying it.
I would buy again just to keep skin clear.
I have been using this product for a few weeks now and I am noticing a definite change already. This is to help fade acne marks and discoloration. The packaging is very nice and looks high end. The main ingredient is salicylic acid but it hasn't dried out my face the way the acid has in the past. Yes my skin did break out at first, but I kept using it and it's definitely working - my marks are getting lighter. I am using this in conjunction with other Avon products which are probably helping as well.
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Football: Pencil in Boren
BuckeyePlanet tracks OSU recruiting like a hawk with OCD, which is always handy when Michigan goes up against the Bucks for a recruit. As per usual, the two rivals are battling for a number of recruits, and one of the most important is Justin Boren. Boren is the top offensive lineman in Ohio and the state's second-ranked player overall according to Rivals. Reading the tea leaves over there... well, let's let them say it. Nevadabuck qualifies as an insider over there. Here's Nevadabuck on 2/23:
Boren will be a Buckeye.
just rehashing what I've been saying for over two months...Boren will be a Buckeye...
do you think I'm just guessing??? LOL
any more doubters out there?? LOL My info is pretty solid......
(and yes, this was a feeble attempt to boost my flagging post count)
well thanks for insuring that I won't be thrown off the site if a 18 year old kid changes his mind.....LOL
I'll stand by my predictions(they are A LOT more than just informed guesses--but I guess inside info does have its privileges, doesn't it???)
I think my "batting average" with these kids speaks for itself...LOL
Boren will be a Buckeye.
I will state on April 25th at 8:10 pm Pacific Time that Boren will be a Buckeye--
This is a very very savvy young man who is also looking at life after football---and is there ANY better business position to be in, living in Columbus, then ex-OSU football player???
He is well aware of this fact, and will make the right decision.
Hey, NevadaBuck... how do you feel today?
I'm trying to decipher between what might have been said publically(ala Farrell) with what might have been said privately--
its not exactly jiving....
What's that? A classic "insider CYA" post? What happened to "Boren will be a Buckeye LOL LOL I am so 31337"? Read between the lines, kids... Boren won't be a Buckeye. Boren is only considering one other school: Michigan.
Is this a big deal? Yes. My recruit Spidey-sense tells me that Boren is the kind of kid who can come in, redshirt, and then start for four years like Jake Long. Michigan's interior line is a crowded place for the next few years but Boren might be the best prospect of all of them. Boren--son of Mike Boren, who was a LB for Bo in the 80s--was on Rivals' initial top 50 list and will probably stay there after doing 40 reps of a Honda Civic at the AA Nike Camp. He'll definitely be ranked as one of the top five interior linemen in the country--maybe number one. To boot, his little brother is 7'8", 450 pounds. Or something like that. He's a big dude.
Celebrate, for recruitin' news has come again.
(Thanks to reader TheMile for the tip.)
Update: NevadaBuck's latest: "Just got off a phone call that was not the least bit encouraging..."
Also, another site-moderator type guy called Boren and interviewed him tonight: "In my opinion, it seems that this great lineman is going to follow in his fathers footsteps and play for Michigan."
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You Are What You Share, So Thr!veOn!
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Two of the postings below - the one about drawing analogies from history, and the one about ‘great betrayal’s’ in history - came to mind when I spotted an article by Michael O’Connor in the November 2008 Quadrant Magazine called Faith, Hope, but not much Charity.
The article, which assesses Australia’s treaty partners in defence terms: makes a good point (which I have been baiting New Zealander’s with for years): when it comments that New Zealand has given up on self defence, and restructured its military forces for police action only in the immediate region. Their preference of course, is that their limited military budget be expended on small-scale, and easily quantifiable tasks - such as propping up collapsing civil order in Pacific island nations. As a result, the capacity of the military forces to engage in any serious war fighting has been largely abandoned.
The justification to this, in the minds of New Zealand’s political leaders and population, is that they have no serious need of military forces. They are relying on their big neighbour and good friend to look after them. As one New Zealand Prime Minister apparently commented to Michael O’Connor, “as long as Australia is secure, New Zealand is secure”.
This has an amusing correlation to my point made in the posting below, about 'great betrayals'. Australian politicians in the 1920s and 1930s frequently convinced themselves and their electorate that they could undercut defence spending, because Australia could not be threatened as long as Britain was secure.
As World War II reveals, when you’re great and powerful friend is busy fighting for its life, it cannot always guarantee the complete security blanket that you have been looking forward to. The screams from Curtin’s government about betrayal when it proved impossible to hold Fortress Singapore (the word ‘fortress’ being political speak, whereas the correct military term was ‘naval base’ Singapore): being a classic example of attempting to hide your own guilt by denouncing the behaviour of others.
It will no doubt be amusing, although somewhat terrifying, if and when the New Zealand politicians and population discover that a future major conflagration in the Asian Pacific area leaves Australia just a little bit too over committed to provide the security blanket that New Zealand feels it deserves. I expect that after the next war, pompous and fatuous New Zealand politicians and historians will express bitter complaints about Australia’s ‘betrayal’ of New Zealand.
O’Connor does not reveal which Prime Minister made the comment to him, but it he has all the hallmarks of ‘bread and circuses now, let the future take care of itself’, that has been the home stomping ground of New Zealand and Australian Labor Party politicians for the past century. (Which is not to say, that leaders from other political parties have not been equally willing to play the same game occasionally, even against the long-term tendencies of their own parties.)
New Zealand’s head in the sand attitude is only a small part of the article. It is however, reflective of the strong historical analysis that makes the bulk of the article. By contrast, the analysis of possible future threats in the article is somewhat less convincing.
Australians have long had a weird fixation on potential threats from countries that we do not understand, while completely underestimating the threat from countries that we believe (until too late) that we can take the granted. This goes right back to the Russian invasion scares at the time of the Crimean War while we ignored the Americans – until commerce cruisers actually arrived in our largely undefended ports during their civil war. Then we had the ‘yellow peril’ threat (where Britain’s modern looking ally Japan was, at least part of the time, on our side). Later Indonesia, as it attempted - in its own view - to tidy up its post-imperial borders: also managed to look like a threatening expansionary power to many Australians. Was Indonesia ever a real threat? No. Is it? Not really (at least not at the moment). Now the big boogie man on the horizon is China, which many people see as a great power, the great unknowable threat, of the future.
There are two problems with the China threat concept. The first is the obvious one, which is nonetheless completely ignored by many military, political and economic analysts, who you would think would have more sense. The most basic glance at the results of China’s one child policy should reveal to anyone with even a passing knowledge of the concept of demography, that China is going to get old before it gets rich. You do not need to go as far as the sort of analysis which led Hitler to believe that Germany must attack the Soviet Union in the early 1940s, when Germany is early 20s manpower peaked, rather than leave it until later when the Soviet Union’s available manpower would climb rapidly. You just need to accept that a modern industrial economy does not function particularly well when the number of retired people starts becoming too excessive a burden the number of workers.
The second problem is less obvious, but carries even more convincing weight. We saw in the last century, the outcome of a monolithic state-controlled superpower – the Soviet Union, trying to supplant a sometimes chaotic but usually vibrant free-market democracy – the United States. So what do you imagine will be the result, when a monolithic state-controlled China battles for supremacy with a sometimes chaotic but increasingly vibrant free-market democracy like India?
20 years ago, while undertaking a scholarship at the Strategic and Defence Studies Centre at ANU, I drafted a paper on India and the Search for Great Power Status. Even then India was greatly expanding its military forces; interfering in the internal condition of states such as Sri Lanka; and threatening to intervene, if necessary, in the internal affairs of its ‘near neighbours’… “such as Kenya and South Africa” (Quote by the then head of the Indian Navy). Those who have a hard time imagining military aggression by states such as India, should perhaps take a quick glance back at the Falklands War, which was started by an unstable government trying to distract a lively population with what it imagined would be a quick and easy victory on a popular issue.
The point was eloquently made by another article in the same copy of Quadrant by Paul Monk - How to think about Strategic Futures. He quotes several writers, such as Philip Bobbitt and Philip Tetlock, who reinforce the point that too much human planning is based on blindly accepting comfortable assumptions. “ The dominant danger, Tetlock concluded, regardless of the methodology we adopt, is hubris: the close mindedness that leads us to dismiss dissonant possibilities too quickly, or not see them at all.” (Quoted from Monk's article.)
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NEWS- Myanmar, UN Discuss Drug Erad (r)
> NOTE: We MUST contact Pino Arlacchi of the UNDCP to tell/show him the
> errors of his ways.
> 1) If the people had a better plant other than poppies to make money
> with so they can buy food, this would help lessen the problems.
> 2) Many groups make money to buy weapons to fight the SLORC/ SPDC. If
> the SLORC/ SPDC gives up and creates a peaceful country, then the money
> from the drugs wouldn't be needed as it is now.
> Myanmar, UN Discuss Drug Eradication
> YANGON (May 12) XINHUA - Visiting United Nations officials
> are exploring with Myanmar counterparts ways for
> eradication of narcotic drugs.
> Assistant Secretary General of the U.N. and Executive
> Director of the UNDCP (United Nations Drug Control
> Program) Pino Arlacchi and his party are now on a visit to
> Pino and Major General Soe Win, secretary of the Myanmar
> Central Committee for Drug Abuse Control and Director
> General of the Police Force, held discussions on the matter
> Monday, official The New Light of Myanmar newspaper
> reported Tuesday.
> The UNDCP plans to draft a 10-year project for the
> elimination of poppy cultivation and development of opium
> substitute undertakings in Myanmar, which was also
> discussed during the visit of another UNDCP mission, led by
> project planning senior consultant John Leake, in March,
> according to an earlier official report.
> Myanmar has been cooperating with the UNDCP in drug
> elimination in four projects of integrated rural development in
> remote eastern Shan state's Mongyang and Tachilek and
> Southern Wa region's Wan Ho Tao since 1994. Three of the
> projects were completed in 1996 and 1997 and the
> remaining one is to be implemented this year.
> The UNDCP has also been involved in some multilateral
> anti-drug cooperation projects between Myanmar and its
> neighboring countries.
New Yorkers were kidnapped by Burmese Government
By U Thaung
The Burmese military government has kidnapped a huge number of New Yorkers
and is demanding millions of dollars as ransom from the US Government. It
appears that the US Government might surrender in the near future.
The blackmail diplomacy of ransom for irradiating opium fields was first
introduced by Golden Triangle Drug King Khun Sa a few years ago by
demanding millions of dollars from the American Government for wiping out
the opium fields. Perhaps Khun Sa the lord of drug, now residing at May Kha
road military elite quarters in Rangoon is advising the Burmese Generals
for this cruel scheme.
Nowadays the Burmese military government's top priority is to fight drug,
even though all the generals are sharing the wealth of drug monies from the
two drug warlords. They are aiming for the forthcoming UN Drug Conference ,
that will introduce a plan to aid billion of dollars from World Bank to the
drug producing nations to substitute other crops in the opium fields.
Action started with inviting newsmen from New York Times, Newsweek and
other journalists and showing how sincerely they want to fight the drug.
They are planning to invite America senators too.
Col. Kyaw Thien, the chief of Myanmar's counternarcotics program,
explained "This drug problem is not only the problem of the United States.
It's our problem too. We know that we cannot fight this alone" when he met
"We think we can get rid of 60 percent of the heroin going into the U.S.
in 12 months' time if the U.S. cooperates with us," said Lieut. Col. Hla
Min, the deputy director of the Office of Strategic Studies, a planning
branch of military intelligence.
The reason behind these offerings is that the Burmese Government wants to
perpetuate itself in power. For that they want to change their image and
they need money. Because of heavy military spendings and high theivings of
the generals, the nation's coffers are totally empty today. Thay cannot
continue their repressive rule without American dollars.
For the purpose of prolonging their power, the generals would do anything,
even really irradiating the drug fields. What would the US Government do?
The United States had cut off counternarcotics aid to Burma following the
coup in 1988.
Restoring such aid could undercut other American economic sanctions and lend
legitimacy to a dictatorship that stands accused of widespread abuse of
Even yesterday in Geneva the UN Human Rights Commission unanimously
adopted a resolution attacking widespread human-rights abuses in Burma.
Forget human rights. The American Government will first have to save
it's sons and daughters from drugs. We can see that the US would surrender
the Burmese generals soon.
If the Burmese generals succeeded in this blackmail diplomacy and collect
ransom from the US ,the fate of 45 million Burmese would be enslaved for
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Re: Calculate "downward force" on an impeller25 September 2007 at 1:29pmThe axial force on an impeller can be calculated from the horizontal force [lbs] = torque (63025 x horsepower/rpm) divided by 85% of the impeller diameter [inches] (typical equivalent load point on the blade). Then, resolving the horizontal force to the axial direction by dividing by the tangent of the blade angle with respect to the horizontal. | <urn:uuid:cf2be1c9-8d63-4ef0-be12-ee61facdae4d> | CC-MAIN-2014-52 | http://www.chemicalprocessing.com/experts/mixing/show/249/ | 2014-12-19T11:10:41Z | s3://commoncrawl/crawl-data/CC-MAIN-2014-52/segments/1418802768404.109/warc/CC-MAIN-20141217075248-00070-ip-10-231-17-201.ec2.internal.warc.gz | en | 0.838994 | 170 | [
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Some mob of aggressive floggers of Kiwisaver to uninformed lower socio-economic families has indulged in a bit of comparative advertising by e-mail.
(God knows why they pursue this business so hard as there's no money to be made out of it. The broker principal no doubt expects to make a fortune out of trail commission paid on accumulated account balances. Well Adolf has news for him. It won't take too many more episodes such as this for him to have his agency agreement cancelled. Goodbye trail commissions. If this is the same outfit which has been running around door to door then I'd say he is close to being sacked.)
This has upset the victims of their apparent perfidy, ASB and ANZ - both of whom are notable for lamentable historical investment performance - resulting in complaints to the Securities Commission. It's at about this stage that the Herald repeater starts to bend the story away from the truth.
The astute reader will note that the response to the complaint by the Securities Commission is muted, to say the least.
"The email claims Fidelity's KiwiSaver funds are "rated number one across the board" with the best performance of all providers across its conservative, balanced, growth and aggressive funds and includes an attachment comparing investment returns with those of Huljich Wealth Management, ANZ Bank and ASB Bank. Under the figures for ANZ and ASB it states: "They are losing your money."A spokeswoman for the Securities Commission said it was not illegal for providers to talk up their investment products or compare their performance to others as long as the promotion was not misleading, deceptive or confusing."
That's because the idiot salesmen used information which was not inaccurate even though it was not authorised for publication. Technically they were not in breach but ethically they leave much to be desired.
The astute reader then moves to the last paragraph in which the repeater piously quotes Morningstar figures which would have you believe that the fund manager being pilloried is telling lies. Not so. It is the Herald which is telling lies by insinuation and omission.
"A Morningstar report released last week found Fidelity's conservative fund was 10th out of 14 funds, its balanced fund was third out of 20, its growth fund was second out of 17 and its aggressive fund was third out of nine over the two years to September 30."
You see, dear friends, the figures used by the salesmen were the investment performance figures for Kiwisaver fund for the last three months. The Morningstar figures published in the Herald were for the past two years' investment performance.
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France wishes to further relations with Vietnam
He informed Hai that French businesses had the capacity to assist HCM City’s development, especially in urban infrastructure, transport, water management, energy and financial services.
He affirmed that the French Government would continue to encourage the business circle to invest in Vietnam. “We wish for Vietnam to become a gateway through which French businesses may enter Asia and for France to become Vietnam’s gateway to Europe,” he said.
PM Fillon also attached importance to non-governmental cooperation, as well as that directly between localities. Such cooperation has been focused on socio-economy, especially in education and language learning.
Hai stressed that cooperation projects and programmes between HCM City , Lyon city and the Rhone Alpes region have had a noticeable effect. He thanked France for its donation of 30 million EUR to the City Development Fund and affirmed that the money has been being effectively used to improve local people’s living conditions, especially the poor.
The city’s Party official hailed French investors for participating in projects to develop HCM City ’s infrastructure and transport.
He asked the French Government to facilitate cooperation projects between HCM City and French localities and said that the city will give priority to construction of a French school for children of the French community in the city in District 3.
The same day, the French PM visited a resettlement project in District 10 and the Institute for Cultural Exchange with France./.
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[QUOTE=Triple8Sol;563666]Sounds just like Baker. Overhyped.
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What do mean by 'respective ends' for Squaw and Northstar? They are pretty much in the same corner of the lake... The drive between them is a little inconvenient but still only 20-30 minutes IIRC?/QUOTE]
You're right they're both pretty near each other in North Lake. I was reading someone's post about Heavenly when I posted.
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Moshi Monsters Arrives at London's Finest Toy Store SuperCheats News
As a kid growing up in London, UK one of the highlights of one's youth was the occasional visit to what was the biggest toy store in England, Hamleys on Regent Street. Although no longer the biggest it is still a unique store held with high affection and regard by millions of people of all ages.
So here is some news which will be a good excuse to take another visit to this store. Hamley's has been invaded by Monsters as a Moshi Monsters themed window display was unveiled this morning for a summer-long stint.
The display - which brings the monsters firmly out of their online home and into the heart of London's best loved toy-store - marks the ever-increasingly popularity of the brand and the beginning of a long-term retail partnership Moshi Monsters and Hamleys.
The summer campaign, launching today and running to the end of the school holidays will see Hamleys stocking the full toy range from master toy partner, Vivid (including feature plush, small plush and collectibles) and also trading cards from Topps. Alongside the window display, Hamleys will offer in-store promotions including floor and escalator vinyls driving footfall to the Moshi Monsters range. From July 25th there will also be a gift-with-purchase promotion whereby for each Moshi Monsters item purchased, consumers will receive an exclusive Golden 'Mini Ben' moshling character trading card featuring an exclusive code that unlocks a cool item within the game.
The ongoing partnership will see the installation of a dedicated Moshi Monsters themed retail space in-store, which is anticipated to include the full cross-category Moshi Monsters range and will launch later this year.
Darran Garnham, Head of Global Licensing for Moshi Monsters, commented: "We are delighted to partner with one of the UK's most prestigious and internationally renowned toy stores. This partnership is a fantastic compliment to the brand and testament to its huge popularity."
Suzie Howes, Senior Brand Manager at Vivid added: "We've been thrilled by the success of the Moshi Monsters toy range since its launch in January this year and securing a permanent retail space at one of the most prestigious toy stores in the world is the icing on the cake".
The Moshi Monsters toy range from Vivid has been a sell out success since its launch in January and continues to go from strength-to-strength, rising up the ranks in the NPD charts. Latest figures reveal the Moshi Monsters collectable figures are the number three best-selling toys across the whole industry and the talking plush featured at number six within the plush category (June NPD). Hamleys recently voted the Moshi talking plush range within its top toys for Christmas list. | <urn:uuid:260760de-858e-4864-95b9-37c13aa5d03a> | CC-MAIN-2014-52 | http://www.supercheats.com/news/2147/Moshi-Monsters-Arrives-at-Lond.htm | 2014-12-22T07:19:05Z | s3://commoncrawl/crawl-data/CC-MAIN-2014-52/segments/1418802774894.154/warc/CC-MAIN-20141217075254-00054-ip-10-231-17-201.ec2.internal.warc.gz | en | 0.948337 | 572 | [
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The compilation to create Thunderstorm for ambience. 10 minutes long. A compilation of sounds found here on Freesound and Youtube. This is the 1st draft of this project.
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I think I need to upgrade my headphones to fully appreciate this, and I intend to do that, but I'm already impressed. Thanks.
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Welcome to the Journalism Program
York’s BA in Journalism comes at a time when media is radically changing the whole way news and information are collected and disseminated. The program addresses the growing emphasis on Interactive media delivery methods, ethics and legal issues, and more localized news coverage. But it does not ignore the demand for strong traditional writing and reporting skills. There is currently no other public college in Queens with the bachelor’s degree in this discipline.
The Journalism Major offers concentrations in News Writing & Reporting, Broadcast Journalism, and Book & Magazine Publishing. The degree program combines a strong liberal arts and general journalism education with specific training in these areas of media -- all centered right here in New York City. Students majoring in journalism are given at least one hands-on Fieldwork experience. York’s Bachelor of Arts in Journalism also prepares students for more advanced study at the prestigious CUNY Graduate School of Journalism, among other institutions.
Multimedia Opportunities at York College
A series of multimedia opportunities within the Journalism program.
All Journalism Majors can become reporters, writers or editors for York College’s student newspaper, Pandora’s Box. This award-winning publication appears in both print and online. It covers a wide range of topics from school politics, arts, entertainment and sports to community and university issues. The paper is an excellent platform for student reporters and photographers to see their work in print and to compile clips for a resume. Pandora’s Box has won dozens of major college newspaper awards from the Society of Professional Journalists, The New York Press Association and Columbia Scholastic Press Association, among others.
York College operates a web-based radio station which offers students interested in the field of radio journalism a forum to learn and practice the craft. Students can cover breaking news and sporting events, or engage in long-format talk shows or documentaries. Radio reporting opportunities are built into Broadcast Journalism courses.
Students interested in television or web-based broadcast journalism can access fully modernized audio and video recording equipment and editing software at the York College television studio facilities. York is constantly updating its equipment, software and training capabilities to keep students current on the techniques and technology used by the professional media.
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I have to share this “letter” I received from Elaine Cooper of Toronto, Canada. What a great idea and a lot of fun…
Last weekend my friend Mitch Rotman and I held a “Bread and Jam” afternoon soiree/salon. Mitch has been making a variety of jams and jellies for many years and we thought that it would be great fun to invite a group of friends to a “tasting”. Invitees were asked to bring either wine or cheese and a poem that relates to either bread or jam. They were also told that there would be a silent auction for breads and jams. It was a huge success. The money raised from the silent auction was to be given to a charity that we are all involved with.
I baked 10 varieties of no knead bread: the rye, multigrain, cranberry and pecan, the olive and Parmesan, seeded sour, corn bread with sun-dried tomato, seeded roasted barley, and a seeded multigrain with 20 grams of Cabernet grape flour. I baked about 18 loaves: one for the salon and the others for the auction. We started both the jams and breads at $20.00 cdn… Mitch’s wife insisted… yes they all went for much more than asking price.
Mitch had made his own labels and I made a label “Artisan Breads from Mizelaineous Bakery: a branch of Cooking for My Friends Catering.
All breads from organic flours and filtered water. They do not contain oil, sugar or eggs. Some do contain seeds or nuts.
It was a fabulous event.
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Q: Should I roll over my traditional IRA to a Roth IRA this year, before taxes go up?
A: It might be a good idea, but it depends on your individual situation. If you are retired and expect your tax bracket to be higher in coming years, or if you are working toward retirement and you expect your tax bracket to be high during retirement, then you should consider it, provided that you have enough money available to pay the taxes that result from the conversion.
The money you use to pay the taxes shouldn't come from an IRA account, because it too will be taxed, pushing your break-even point far into the future.
Roth IRAs have some tax advantages. They grow tax-free. The IRS considers withdrawals from a Roth IRA as "qualified" and therefore tax-free starting five years after the first day of the year in which you first contribute to a Roth and after you have reached age 59½.
Nonqualifed withdrawals can also receive favorable tax treatment because the IRS assumes that withdrawals from Roth IRAs come first from contributions, which have already been taxed.
Only after you have withdrawn all of your original contribution amount will you be subject to tax on a nonqualified distribution.
Having a Roth IRA in your investment portfolio during retirement may help you minimize taxes by giving you the flexibility to combine the right mix of taxable IRA distributions and tax-free Roth distributions with your other income to keep your adjusted gross income below the thresholds for the 3.8 percent Affordable Health Care Act tax and current and forthcoming limitations on deductions.
Q: I'm considering transferring a partial amount of Wellesley Income Fund Admiral Shares from my Roth IRA, which is currently with Vanguard, to open a new Roth account with Dodge & Cox by purchasing Dodge & Cox Income Fund. Is it legal to have two Roths? I no longer work so I won't be adding new shares to a Roth.
A: You can have as many different Roth and traditional IRA accounts at as many different mutual fund companies, different banks, and different brokerage firms as you want.
There can be advantages to having different accounts. In your case, you will be able to diversify your mutual fund managers. You could also have a CD in a Roth account at your credit union and own stocks, bonds, and mutual funds in a Roth account at a brokerage firm.
You can designate a different beneficiary for each IRA account, making it easier to pass your IRA onto your children or others and making it easier for them to set up their inherited IRAs once you're gone.
When you turn 70½ and the IRS says you must start taking withdrawals from your traditional IRAs, you simply add up the year-end value of your various traditional IRA accounts and divide by the appropriate IRS Table number to determine your required minimum distribution.
You do not include your Roth IRAs in the calculation because there is no required distribution from a Roth, unless it is an inherited Roth IRA. Beneficiaries of inherited Roth IRAs must take annual minimum distributions that are calculated using their age and an IRS life expectancy table.
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I was quite thrilled to find one of the Saint movies airing on TCM this weekend and was thrown back into memories of a couple years ago when I watched probably all of the films in the series. The Saint Strikes Back is the either the first or second in a series of five films (The Saint in London was released the same year) George Sanders did about Simon Templar, a rogue detective who goes by the nickname “the saint”.
Sanders does a superb job as our charming and witty sleuth. In a similar vein as the Thin Man movies, the Saint is a somewhat reluctant detective. He is an amateur in the profession –though you wouldn’t know it from his attitude– but is often roped into participating in cases. Nevertheless he will end up working with and against the police in each of these films, usually getting himself incriminated in the murders along the way.
I guess Templar, who was created in the novels of Leslie Charteris, was called the Saint because his initials are ST. He also has a logo of sorts seen to the left that he draws and leaves behind in various places along his detecting. Although his origin is generally unknown, it seems he probably has a criminal past that allows him superior skills in solving cases.
Sanders also did a number of Gay Falcon movies playing Gay Lawrence, a detective known as, you guessed it, “the falcon”. These were similar to the Saint stories but of a lower quality. In both series, Sanders’ characters are either dating or engaged to a girl throughout but manage to entangle themselves with other women along their mystery-solving way.
The actor made a fine detective, especially one not restricted by lawful employment. He is highly believable as the smart, sexy sleuth and one can’t but wish he was poking around in her affairs today. The stories are also very funny and Sanders delivers the dialogue well.
Sanders was far from the only actor to play the Saint, however. Sixteen films were produced in the U.S., France and Australia, most recently with Val Kilmer in 1997’s The Saint. Needless to say, I’ll never be seeing THAT one, thank you.
Tragically, neither the Saint movies nor the Falcon ones are available on DVD. The novels too for the Saint are not readily available through a mainstream retailer, from what I can tell. So, the best we can do is watch The Saint Strikes Back and hope TCM comes through with some more.
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'Rafters' nabs award for most popular TV drama
Ray Meagher, who plays Alf in sudser “Home and Away,” won Aussie TV’s highest kudo, the Gold Logie, on Sunday.The 52nd kudocast gave the aud-voted award to the veteran thesp, his first nom after more than two decades on the show, which bowed on the Seven Network in 1988. The runner up Silver Logies — for most popular actor and actress — went to Hugh Sheridan and Rebecca Gibney who star in Seven’s family skein “Packed to the Rafters.” The skein also won most popular drama. Ten Network, Oz’s third-ranked web, had a better night than in past years with “MasterChef Australia,” the Blighty import, winning most popular reality program, and its star, food critic Matt Preston, taking the Graham Kennedy kudo for outstanding new talent. Ten’s generational quizzer “Talkin’ ‘Bout Your Generation” won the outstanding and most popular light entertainment program awards and host Shaun Micallef won a Silver Logie for most popular presenter. Seven won the night with eight wins, Ten took home seven and Nine just a single kudo for sports program with “The Footy Show.” Multicultural pubcaster SBS won the peer-voted best drama for interracial cop drama “East West 101.”
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Verses with the word asmodeus in the Apocrypha (2 verses):
Because that she had been married to seven husbands, whom Asmodeus the evil spirit had killed, before they had lain with her. Dost thou not know, said they, that thou hast strangled thine husbands? thou hast had already seven husbands, neither wast thou named after any of them.
And Raphael was sent to heal them both, that is, to scale away the whiteness of Tobit's eyes, and to give Sara the daughter of Raguel for a wife to Tobias the son of Tobit; and to bind Asmodeus the evil spirit; because she belonged to Tobias by right of inheritance. The selfsame time came Tobit home, and entered into his house, and Sara the daughter of Raguel came down from her upper chamber. | <urn:uuid:ee2c094a-bdc3-44ab-bd78-7d8cb4155b43> | CC-MAIN-2014-52 | http://www.artbible.info/concordance/a/14398-3.html | 2014-12-21T01:06:22Z | s3://commoncrawl/crawl-data/CC-MAIN-2014-52/segments/1418802770554.119/warc/CC-MAIN-20141217075250-00094-ip-10-231-17-201.ec2.internal.warc.gz | en | 0.97918 | 174 | [
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Certification and verification schemes can be powerful tools for value addition, access to a fast-growing market segment and the dissemination of good agricultural, environmental and social practices.
Consumers are demonstrating an increasing interest in the economic, social and environmental aspects of coffee production. As a result, coffee covered by the various initiatives is estimated to constitute 8 percent of world exports of green coffee (see wcc2010-giovannucci-e.pdf) and is the fastest growing market segment in traditional (developed country) markets.
The main sustainability programmes are:
Fairtrade Certified - Fairtrade Labelling is an international system of standards for producers and terms of trade for their goods that ensure the world’s most marginalised farmers, workers and their families in 59 developing countries are adequately protected and can build a more sustainable future. The FAIRTRADE Mark gives assurance to retailers and consumers that Fairtrade producers in the developing world are getting a fair deal for their work. Fairtrade certification also ensures adherence to strict social standards that foster healthy working conditions and prohibit child labour. Their environmental standards ensure that natural ecosystems are not degraded and cultivated land is used sustainably.
Organic certification - International Federation of Organic Agriculture Movements (IFOAM)
IFOAM’s basic standards should be considered as a baseline reference standards for organic agriculture worldwide. Although many people understand organic agriculture as the prohibition of synthetic agrochemicals, the organic standards also include nature conservation through the prohibition of clearing primary ecosystems, biodiversity preservation, soil and water conservation, a prohibition on the use of genetically modified organisms, diversity in crop production, maintenance of soil fertility and biological activity, among others. Since 1996 there has also been a basic chapter on social justice, which is implemented by IFOAM accredited certification bodies.
Rainforest Alliance Certified - Many coffee farms are in areas regarded as high priorities for conservation. The Rainforest Alliance and its partner groups in the Sustainable Agriculture Network (SAN) have demonstrated that traditional, forested coffee farms are havens for wildlife. Rainforest Alliance certification aims to maintain biodiversity in the production areas, while at the same time striving for sustainable living conditions for farmers, plantation workers and the local population. The certification also guarantees that farmers are assisted with improved farm management, negotiation leverage and access to premium markets; farm workers are treated with respect, paid fair wages, are properly equipped and given access to education and Medicare. By implementing the SAN sustainable farm-management system, farmers can control costs, gain efficiencies and improve crop quality.
SMBC “Bird friendly” - The Smithsonian Migratory Bird Center’s shade-grown coffee certification program promotes the growth of coffee that is economically, environmentally and socio-culturally viable. Coffee grown in the shade of tree canopies, rather than on land cleared of other vegetation, provides a habitat for a number of species, including not only migratory birds but also orchids, insects, mammals such as bats, reptiles and amphibians. Shade trees protect the coffee plants from rain and sun, help maintain soil quality, reduce the need for weeding and aid in pest control, while organic matter from shade trees reduces erosion, contributes nutrients to the soil, and prevents metal toxicities. Shade-grown coffee is given the Smithsonian's Bird Friendly label if the growing conditions meet organic standards, as well as other criteria such as canopy height, foliage cover and number of bird species. The Smithsonian trains certification agencies to recognize these criteria and carry out Bird Friendly evaluations at the same time as they inspect farms for organic standards. Farmers volunteer for the inspection and pay nothing to the Center.
UTZ Certified - The UTZ CERTIFIED Code of Conduct establishes a set of social and environmental criteria for responsible coffee growing practices and efficient farm management, including standards for recordkeeping, minimized and documented use of agrochemicals for crop protection, protection of labour rights and access to health care and education for employees and their families. Coffee producers who are UTZ CERTIFIED are subject to annual inspections by independent certifiers to ensure they comply with the requirements of the Code of Conduct. A web-based Track and Trace system follows the UTZ CERTIFIED coffee through the chain from grower to roaster. This gives buyers insight into where their coffee really comes from.
The Common Code for the Coffee Community (4C) - The 4C Association is an open and inclusive membership association involving coffee producers, trade and industry and civil society. The 4C Code of Conduct embraces 28 social, environmental and economic principles for all players in the green coffee supply chain - farmers, plantations, producer organizations, estates, mills, exporters and traders - establishing baseline requirements for the sustainable production, processing and trading of coffee and eliminating unacceptable practices. The code facilitates a dynamic improvement process by providing guidance for and commitment to continuous improvement. 4C helps growers, especially small-holders, and their Business Partners to step up from the sustainability baseline to more demanding standards.
Nespresso ecolaboration - Nespresso has been working to protect coffee ecosystems by promoting sustainable agricultural best practices in ecosystem conservation, wildlife protection and water conservation. Sustainable agricultural training for farmers is provided by Nespresso agronomists, coffee suppliers and experts from the Sustainable Agriculture Network (SAN) - a coalition of leading conservation groups. The Nespresso AAA Sustainable Quality Coffee Program sets out to ensure the cultivation of highest quality coffee in ways that are environmentally sustainable and beneficial to farming communities.
Starbucks C.A.F.E Practices - Starbucks defines sustainability as an economically viable model that addresses the social and environmental needs of all the participants in the supply chain from farmer to consumer. The Starbucks C.A.F.E. program evaluates the sustainable production of coffee according to four categories: Product Quality, Economic Accountability, Social Responsibility, and Environmental Leadership. The programme was designed to establish quality criteria for growers, processors, and vendors in order to encourage cooperation and shared responsibility throughout the supply chain. It addresses critical issues such as water conservation, worker conditions, including hiring practices and policies, and conservation of biodiversity amongst others matters.
However, reservations have been expressed about several aspects of the functioning of these programmes, including:
- Common denominator approach
Questions have been raised as to the homogenizing “common denominator” approach that is built into the checklist-based compliance methodology of the different certifications, which fails to take into account differences in local conditions.
- Industry structure and social equity
Many producing countries are concerned that the costs of compliance with certification schemes are beyond the means of smallholders and compatible only with larger and comparatively well-organized producers. This concern is especially acute in regard to schemes designed for the mainstream market, which might become a barrier to market access for those unable or unwilling to comply.
- Cost vs.
In addition to the direct benefits in terms of improved market access, especially price premiums, participation in certification schemes is thought to improve performance in a variety of social, economic and environmental indicators. However, these benefits have associated costs: apart from those related to the actual certification/verification procedures, compliance with standards may require considerable investments and also entail reduced yields. The evaluation of overall costs and benefits is complicated by factors that are specific to a certain site and the time lags involved. As a result, a high degree of uncertainty still exists as to whether the benefits of participation in a specific scheme outweigh the costs. Further research in the field is required.
- Multiplicity of certification bodies
The large number of different bodies, each with its own differing standards, involved in the certification of coffee may lead to confusion in the mind of consumers. Furthermore, limited space exists on packaging for certification logos and other information not directly related to the brand in question. The need to comply with more than one certification scheme also raises costs for producers. For this reason, some certification schemes have been discussing ways in which to achieve multiple certifications in order to achieve economies of scale and cost savings. Questions have been raised as to the long-term viability of the large number of existing certification schemes.
- Supply and demand balance
Consumer interest in making ethical purchasing decisions of coffee has grown in recent years. However, a willingness to buy ethical products may not translate into actual purchases. For a majority of end-users, price and intrinsic quality are more important than certified compliance with a code of conduct or standard. Therefore, the potential size of the market for certified coffees is restricted. At the same time, the supply of such coffees is not necessarily always demand driven and may result in oversupply. Therefore, while certification definitely adds to a coffee’s image and may enhance its value, certification by itself is not a guarantee of premium prices in the longer term. Producers must also bear in mind that the overall levels of premiums are likely to decrease as availability grows.
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Chris Kreider also scored for New York (36-28-4).
Dustin Byfuglien and Andrew Ladd scored for the Jets (30-29-9), who haven't won a game since Mar. 1 and are fighting to keep their playoff hopes alive. This time, the Jets failed to pick up a point as they have in three of their last six losses which went to overtime or a shootout.
It was a run-and-gun night for both teams. The Jets outshot the Rangers 32-23 but couldn't get past Henrik Lundqvist in the New York net after the first period.
The Rangers were wrapping up a three-game road trip and coming off a 2-1 loss in Minnesota Thursday, but came out fast and scored on just their third shot of the game.
Hagelin deflected his first past Winnipeg netminder Ondrej Pavelec at 1:15. The goal had barely been announced when Byfuglien evened things up at 2:33 as he batted Blake Wheeler's rebound past Lundqvist.
Less than a minute later, Ladd celebrated his 600th NHL game by putting the Jets up 2-1, when he found the upper corner of the New York net with a wrister from the faceoff circle on Lundqvist's stick side at 3:26.
Winnipeg was cycling the puck in the Rangers' zone until Kreider broke away and scored at 11:28 with Winnipeg defenceman Zach Bogosian on his heels.
Neither team managed a shot during their one power play each in the first period and the Jets outshot the Rangers 11-8.
Al Montoya took over for Pavelec in the Winnipeg net at the start of the second and the team reported that their starting netminder had an unspecified lower-body injury.
The Rangers and Jets traded plenty of scoring chances in the second and Winnipeg outshot New York 11-7. But with eight seconds left, Martin St. Louis fed Hagelin from behind the net and he flipped in a backhander.
He put in his third at 8:50 of the third period off a pass from Brad Richards on a two-man Rush that beat Montoya through the five hole.
Notes: This was the second meeting this year between the Rangers and Jets. Winnipeg won the first 5-2 at Madison Square Garden Dec. 2.
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David from Chuluota, FL
You’ve talked about how players in the past didn’t look like they were carved. I think some people interpret that to mean they were less athletic, slower, weaker. I recently saw some footage of Don Hutson; that dude could fly. I don’t know if they measured 40 times back then, but he appeared to be every bit as fast, if not faster, than any modern receiver I’ve ever seen. Being cut and being athletic are two completely different things.
I never said the players in the past weren’t carved or cut. Some of the most athletic-looking bodies I’ve ever covered came from the teams I covered in the 1970’s. Jack Lambert was cut. L.C. Greenwood had the hard, lean body of a wide receiver. Weightlifting isn’t new to the game. The players of the past did plenty of weightlifting. The difference between the players of the past and the players of today is that the players of the past looked like they lifted weights, the players of today look like they ate the weights. The players of yore were every bit as athletic and fast as the players of today. Please, don’t tell me about 40 times. There was no combine back then; no sprinters starts or time training for an event that would be timed electronically and run on an indoor surface. Gale Sayers got his 40 time on a football field while wearing a football uniform. I had a scout tell me Tony Dorsett is the fastest player he ever timed and they could never get a true time on Dorsett because he eased up at the end of his run. Why? Because it was a way of protecting his 40 time for when he got older and lost a step. How would they know? Paul Warfield, Lynn Swann, Bob Hayes, Homer Jones, Roger Carr, Bobby Mitchell, Jim Brown, etc., could run with the best of them from any era, but to be successful in today’s game, they would’ve had to become bigger and stronger, and they would’ve. Hutson would’ve been a great player in any era.
Liz from Madison, WI
You say wide receivers are a dime a dozen, while the big guys on the line are much rarer. It seems the receivers get big bucks on their contracts but the linemen get much less. Is that really true and, if so, why is it?
Wide receivers are important. You can’t win in today’s game without having play-making receivers, and that’s why the good ones are paid handsomely. What I mean by dime a dozen is that you can find those guys in the later rounds of the draft. The top left tackles, however, are at a huge premium and they make quarterback money. Left tackles are paid so much that they lift the franchise tag for all offensive linemen, which includes the other four lesser paid positions, to nearly $10 million. That’s why you rarely see an offensive lineman franchised that isn’t a left tackle. Big guys are at a tremendous premium; any GM would confirm that fact. In a draft heavy with tackles, they go off the board in panic picking. For example, the 2008 draft is the great tackle draft. Eight were selected in the first 26 picks, including Jake Long, Ryan Clady and Brandon Albert. You can find centers, guards and right tackles in the later rounds of the draft, but history suggests you better get your left tackle early.
Tadd from Salt Lake City, UT
Vic, you talked about the AFL back in the day planting teams into growing markets where the NFL was absent. Do you think the NFL will ever do this kind of thing in the future?
I don’t think there are any new frontiers in the continental United States. Before the AFL, there were wide expanses of open territory not exposed to professional football. The Redskins, for example, were the team of the South. There was no other NFL team south of the Redskins, which is one of the reasons college football has always been the game of the South. I think Europe is the next frontier for the NFL.
Eric from Lubbock, TX
Vic, I always like seeing guys that don’t fit the mold getting the job done in the NFL. Do you see any prospects that have bad measurables that show a knack for getting it done?
There aren’t many players in the game today with bad measurables. You might find a guy who’s a step slow or a little undersized but, for the most part, the guys in an NFL locker room look the part. It’s called having an NFL body. If you don’t have one, you won’t hang around for long. The Don Nottingham days are over.
Terry from Springfield, MO
As a former Wisconsinite, I appreciate a good snow blower. Were those regular khakis, or the all-weather type with flannel lining?
I assure you, Terry, I am not a flannel-lining khakis kind of guy. That’s where I draw the line.
Jerry from Palmetto, FL
Have you seen Fred Taylor’s son Kelvin Taylor play? Do we have another Fred Taylor coming?
I’ve seen tape of the kid. He runs just like his dad. I have one question: Can he catch a football better than Fred? If he can, Fred might find himself in Canton someday presenting his son for induction.
Derrick from Milwaukee, WI
Vic, nfl.com posted an article stating their top five picks at each position. I noticed they don’t even have John Jenkins on the list. Did you see something they didn’t?
When I look at defensive line prospects, I’m looking for 3-4, hold-the-point guys, for the obvious reason that I cover a team that uses the 3-4 scheme, and those usually aren’t the guys that top the rankings. The rankings are usually heavy at the top with 4-3 linemen that offer pass-rush potential. That’s not what a 3-4 guy does. Linemen in a 3-4 defense are two-gappers; they’re human plugs. Jenkins has the kind of squat girth that makes him a natural nose tackle. That’s easy to see. What I also saw at the Senior Bowl is a prospect with the quickness to pursue down the line and to be used in a surprise penetration scheme. Hey, the more things you can do, right?
Jim from Menomonee Falls, WI
I did some checking. The average weight of the offensive line in 1942 was 239 pounds. In 1963 it was 245 pounds. This year it was 315 pounds. Are we growing bigger, weight training, diet or what?
I think the explosion in size can be traced back to the advent of the cheese nacho.
David from Whitesboro, NY
Am I mistaken or were you blowing snow off your pool/backyard patio?
My boys need some privacy.
Daniel from Central Valley, CA
Giovani Bernard and Eddie Lacy seem to be the two best running backs in the draft. Which one’s game would benefit the Packers most? What are the pros and cons of each?
Bernard has legit game-breaking ability, but he carries injury concerns. Lacy is a true power back, but he’s a straight-line runner. I like Stepfan Taylor.
Alan from Buckinghamshire, England
I have been watching the NFL since 1989 and feel the best team of each season usually doesn’t win the Super Bowl. Do you agree and, if so, why?
I would agree the best team in the league doesn’t always win the Super Bowl and it’s because we’ve reached a point of parity that, frankly, every team is the same except for the quarterbacks. They draft the same way, they train the same way, they run the same plays, they play on the same high-grade fields, have similar indoor facilities wear the same equipment, etc. It’s difficult to find uniqueness from one franchise to the next. In the old days, that wasn’t so. When I went from covering the Steelers to the Jaguars, the difference was huge. The Steelers ran nine-on-sevens ad nauseum; the Jaguars’ practices were passing camps. The game has reached the point of perfection. Nobody does it wrong anymore. So why do some teams lose? Because they don’t have “The Man.”
Samuel from Cedaredge, CO
I think the Packers need to draft a left tackle first. What do you think?
I think 51 sacks are too many and that has to be addressed, one way or another.
Kris from Las Vegas, NV
Vic, I was looking over the 2012 Packers salaries. My question is why do they still have to count players on the cap that are no longer on the team?
Teams must account for every penny they spend. If you don’t want dead money on your cap, then don’t pay signing bonus, which is divided evenly over the life of the contract, pay roster bonus which, in most cases, is declared in full in the year it’s paid. Roster bonus is, in effect, salary, which disappears from a team’s salary cap the moment the player is no longer on the team. A conscientious team, such as the Packers, structures its players’ contracts with a blend of salary and signing bonus so one protects the other. For example, if you’re afraid an older player might not make it to the end of his contract, then spike his salary in the final year, which then creates a cap savings when balanced against his signing bonus amortization. It’s a way of prepaying on your cap and it’s smart business. If teams were permitted to dump bonus amortization when they cut a guy, teams would be pushing money out beyond their players’ life expectancies and the cap would be a meaningless figure nobody would have to respect.
Ben from Milwaukee, WI
It seems this class is loaded with defensive talent. A great defensive lineman is bound to fall to 26, but is the pool deep enough to get an impact lineman at the Packers’ spot in the second round?
Yes, I believe it is. If a team has defensive line needs and they don’t address them in this draft, they’re going to regret it. You have to take what the draft gives you, and this is the year to take defensive linemen.
Jack from Wisconsin Rapids, WI
I can tell you are not too high on Ahmad Bradshaw, but I can’t help but love the guy.
Good, then find the next Bradshaw. It’s how you stay young and it’s how you protect your salary cap. The health of a team’s salary cap is every bit as important as the health of the team’s quarterback. I’m going to continue banging away on cap questions between now and the start of free agency because I want everyone to understand that if you don’t know the salary cap, you don’t know pro football. The cap runs your team.
Jay from Leo, IN
Vic, do you see any difference between a tough guy and a cheap-shot artist? I think the Lions’ Suh is a cheap-shot artist who ultimately hurts his team with penalties, but some might view him as simply tough. I want tough but not cheap. How about you?
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Manager of Television & Broadcast Services SeaMobile
THIS JOB HAS EXPIRED GENERAL PURPOSE: Manages the daily operation of MTN-TV. This includes maintaining schedules, logs, and accounting for all programming. Oversees remotely the Operations group in Holmdel to include the scheduling of the Ops Tech Team. Provides administrative support to the Sr. Managers on the MTN-TV Broadcast Consultant team. Liaison for MTN-TV with all internal partners at MTN.
? Manages and updates the MTNTV Active Ships Report
? Manages content package changes as requested by customers
? Generates MTN TV Content Payable Reports based on Contract with Cruise Lines and Content Providers
? Distributes MTN TV Content Payable Reports and Subscriber Reports to internal and external customers
? Sends RFI to the Sales Department when applicable
? Receives and coordinates activation of Amino transmissions, including request of Bandwidth.
? Manages Cisco receivers? inventory, installed and warehouse equipment.
? Responsible for booking transmission services with Arqiva, Level 3, Globecast, etc.
? Approves invoices from transmission service providers. Generates RFI - if applicable.
? Communicates the Special Events calendar to HES Technical staff (event, start time, end time, technical information, customers authorized). Works closely with Technical Staff to finalize list of events.
? Maintains a close relationship with content providers to properly authorize the transmission of Special Events (ESPN International, IMG, Pitch International, Oceans TV, T.E.A.M., Over The Line, NFL, NBA, etc.)
? Verifies with HES and Santander the availability of antennas, satellite receivers, converters, Sencore, Encoders, etc. for 24/7 channels and Special Events.
? Coordinates various tests with content providers and teleports (HES, Santander)
? Informs upcoming MTNTV installations to Technical Staff
? Coordinates daily activities of the transmission service function on the network.
? Accurately maintains all necessary information on program media and various systems.
? Follows all Standard Operating Procedures to ensure effective results on all workflows.
? Schedules listing service, conditional access, automation and subscription management information.
? Reviews service level reports and takes appropriate action to maintain.
? Schedules recording and playback of live broadcast events.
? Generates reports identifying the media status during various stages in the life of a program, ensuring all program media is accurate and available for broadcast.
? Establishes good working relationship with internal/external departments to ensure timely completion of various tasks.
This description is not an exhaustive list of all duties, responsibilities or qualifications associated with this job. G1
? Actively participates in group discussions and meetings.
? Disseminates appropriate information to direct report and department as needed.
? Oversees Program Preparation and Quality Control tasks of media content.
? Any other tasks/responsibilities as may be assigned.
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This position reports to the Director of Broadcast Services and interfaces with the following: Programming Acquisitions, IT, Network Control Center, Operations, Contractors and Vendors.
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? College or technical school degree.
? 5 -7 years experience within the broadcast industry required (preferably in Operations, NOC and Transmission) or equivalent duties in Cruise Industry.
? Proficient in Microsoft Office.
? Strong troubleshooting skills with the ability to analyze relationships between problem components.
? Capacity to identify and prioritize issues.
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More than 41 per cent of residential landlords in the UK expect their rents to rise in 2011, says recent research by Paragon Mortgages. And most predict that they will increase the monthly rent when their rental property is vacated by a previous tenant.
Last year landlords profited greatly from rent increases due to a lack of supply in the rental sector. Rental prices for UK properties increased by 0.9% in the final quarter of 2010, which pushed rent levels to their highest level since October 2008.
According to Paragon’s survey, 45 per cent of landlords expect that demand for rental properties will increase over the course of the coming months and that demand will continue to be several steps ahead of supply in 2011, much like it was for most of last year.
But how do you raise the rent on your rental property? With Lawpack’s Rent Increase Notice (Section 13), no landlord need feel apprehensive about the process of giving a tenant notice of a rent increase.
Raising the rent from time to time is something that has to be done. As with everything else, landlords’ costs go up from year to year; so increasing the rent from time to time should be routine with all residential tenancies.
An annual adjustment is the norm and it’s recommended that rent increases are phased at frequencies of not less than every two years.
It’s possible to raise the rent during the fixed term of a tenancy if the landlord and tenant can come to an agreement over the matter. But the tenant is under no obligation to make such an agreement and cannot be forced to do so.
If the tenant agrees to the rent increase, it’s important to get their consent in writing and Lawpack’s Rent Increase Notice can help. The notice includes a Rent Increase Agreement download – written by a landlord and tenancy specialist solicitor – which can help you to record the tenant’s agreement to the rent increase.
If the tenant doesn’t agree to a raising of the rent, one tactic the landlord can use is to serve a Section 21 Notice to terminate the tenancy and, therefore, give the tenant a choice of either signing a new tenancy agreement at a higher rent or vacating the property at the end of the fixed term.
Landlords often increase the rent when they come round to renewing a tenancy agreement, as this makes it easier for them to evict a tenant if they disagree with the new rent terms. At the start of a new fixed term agreement any rent increase should be agreed by both landlord and tenant.
After the initial fixed period has ended, if the landlord hasn’t served a Section 21 Notice, but the tenant is allowed to stay and continue paying rent on a monthly, fortnightly or weekly basis, then the tenant is renting through a periodic tenancy agreement and the tenancy continues as a ‘statutory periodic tenancy’.
During this periodic tenancy there is another statutory method for landlords raising the rent – by serving a Section 13 Notice.
A Section 13 contains information on the rent increase and the starting date for the new rent proposed. Lawpack’s Rent Increase Kit includes the Section 13 Notice, plus expert guidance notes on how to complete the form. All contents of the Rent Increase Notice have been approved by landlord and tenant solicitor David Smith.
The key part of the Section 13 Notice is the date of the rent increase. This date must be at least 12 months after the date the tenant first moved into the property and must also be at least 12 months after the last rental increase.
Therefore, if a tenancy was for an initial fixed term of six months, then after the fixed term, if no Section 21 Notice was served, it would continue as a statutory periodic tenancy. But it would not be possible to use the Section 13 process immediately after the fixed term came to an end; you would have to wait until the periodic tenancy had been running for six months before the Section 13 Notice procedure could be used.
In the case of weekly, fortnightly or monthly tenancies the notice period must not be less than one month’s notice from the date of service of the Section 13.
It does help maintain good relations with the tenant, however, if you give as much notice as possible of a proposed increase in rent.
The date of the rent increase must be at least one month from the date of service of the Section 13 Notice and must be on the first day of a period of the tenancy. This is normally a day that the rent is due. Therefore, if the tenant pays his rent on the 5th day of the month, the date of the rent increase on the Section 13 Notice must be on the 5th day of a month.
For all weekly tenancies the law requires that the landlord provides the tenant with a rent book. This should be amended when any new rent comes into effect.
Once the Section 13 has been served the tenant has until the date of the rent increase, which will be specified on the Section 13 Notice, to take action. If the tenant takes no action before the date of the rent increase specified on the Section 13 Notice, then the rent will automatically increase on that day by law and the tenant has no further chance to do anything about it.
If the tenant wishes to contest the level of the increase, they can apply to the Rent Assessment Committee (RAC) to ask it to determine if the increase requested on the notice is a fair market increase.
If the landlord doesn’t follow the correct procedure and issue a Section 13, the tenant can continue paying the set amount of rent. The tenant may even be able to recover extra rent paid in response to the landlord not following the correct legal procedures.
But if a tenant disputes the rent increase, this could lead to them being evicted if the initial fixed period has ended.
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Today is my little sister’s birthday and I just found out that she’s 30, which seems much too old for a little sister, especially this one. Katherine, as far as I’m concerned, will always be 10-years-old, with wild hair and chubby cheeks, looking up at me with what can only be described as wonder and awe. Unless you want to describe it as fear and disgust. It seems I had a habit of tormenting her as a child. Nothing violent, mind you, just subtle things I would do to disturb her otherwise peaceful times with her Barbie Dream House or her Care Bears. There is the distinct possibility that I am responsible for at least some of her neuroses, but I prefer to think those are someone else’s fault, though I’m not sure whose.
I remember when she was born and how exciting it was to have another little sister in the house and the first baby I would remember. I was six-years-old when she showed up and her chunkiness then was no end of amusement. She was a good kid. She moved to Florida with our parents and grew up with lots of friends on the white sand beaches of the Gulf Coast into a smart, beautiful, fun-loving young woman. She married a good man and, this year, will become a mother for the first time to her very own daughter. We’re all very excited and couldn’t be more proud of her. Katherine’s first 29 years have been exemplary, except the thing with the teeth when she was a kid … and the thumbs, of course.
I miss being around her on a regular basis, but we do stay in near-constant communication, keeping tabs on each other’s lives. She’s a wonderful aunt to The Quartet, a good daughter, and great sister to her three brothers and one sister. I look forward to her next 30, watching her family grow and seeing how she handles the next phase of her life, which I’m sure she’ll do with as much laughter, care and compulsiveness as she does everything else.
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Hezbollah leader Sheikh Hassan Nasrallah remains popular in Lebanon
Britain says it is re-establishing contacts with the political wing of the Lebanese movement Hezbollah.
The move follows "positive political developments" in Lebanon, officials from the UK Foreign Office said.
It comes about 10 months after Hezbollah signed a unity accord in Lebanon and joined the government.
Only last year, the government put Hezbollah's military wing on a list of proscribed organisations over its alleged training of insurgents in Iraq.
"We are exploring certain contacts at an official level with Hezbollah's political wing, including MPs," said a spokesperson for the Foreign Office.
The spokesperson said the UK was doing "all it can" to support Lebanon's unity government, of which Hezbollah's political wing is a part.
"Our objective with Hezbollah remains to encourage them to move away from violence and play a constructive, democratic and peaceful role in Lebanese politics, in line with a range of UN Security Council Resolutions."
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Since 1927, the majestic Chinese Theatre has stood in Hollywood, a symbol of the motion picture industry's glorious past as well as a totem to cinema's enduring hold on the cultural imagination. Take a five-minute walk west on Hollywood boulevard, however, and you'll find a company that aims to have a significant say in that industry's future.
That's where CJ E&M America houses its 4DX system, an immersive screening experience that it hopes will soon become the preferred way to see the latest blockbuster. “So much of premium cinema-going is related to [serving gourmet] food, which doesn't literally relate to what's on screen," says Angela Killoren, CJ E&M America's Chief Marketing Officer. “At the end of the day, you're like, ‘I could sit on my couch and also have a very nice meal.' Everybody's trying to create something special that is a driver for audiences."
Since 2010, the Seoul-based CJ has been equipping theater auditoriums around the globe — from Brazil to Mexico to Ukraine — with its 4DX technology, which features seats that rock and roll in motion to the action on the screen, as well as offering smells, lighting effects and smoke. The United States is CJ's next big target: Plans are underway for the first American 4DX screen to open in the Regal Cinemas L.A. Live multiplex by the end of June.
Killoren recognizes that there's skepticism in the States because of past theater gimmicks like Sensurround and Smell-O-Vision. Speaking in the 4DX offices, surrounded by posters for films like Divergent and Man of Steel that have screened in 4DX overseas, she says, “The U.S. audience does have a slightly more puritan ethos: They want their movie the way they've always wanted their movie. But over time, moviegoing and moviemaking have changed so much. Even the digitalization of films itself is partly what makes this possible because it's so highly synchronized. It's not a kid in a projector room pushing [buttons]; everything's synched with the data of the film, and so it's much more tightly integrated.”
Most U.S. journalists have only participated in brief 4DX demos, but Rolling Stone was given the opportunity to test-drive a full feature — thus it's appropriate that our film was a 4D-enhanced version of Need for Speed, the car-crazy Aaron Paul action-thriller. We were curious how the high-octane/low-IQ movie would work with a 4DX upgrade. Here are 8 takeaways from the experience:
It's incredibly jarring to be in a seat that jerks around
Need for Speed's first major action sequence — an illegal nighttime drag race — kicks off with a foot slamming down on a gas pedal, and just then your chair lurches back, creating the sensation that you're in the car. From there, the motion of your chair mimics every turn of the racers' steering wheels. There's no escape; you're part of the film.
4DX really forces an active viewer experience
After viewing a fully 4DX-enhanced feature, we found ourselves feeling more tired but also more wound up than after a regular night out at the movies. You can't just let the movie happen to you; the chair demands that you be engaged in an active way with what's happening on the screen….
…But that's not always a good thing
Need for Speed is not a great movie per se, and the bad action scenes are incredibly irritating in 4DX. You're being kicked around and assaulted in sequences that were practically intolerable in two or three dimensions, much less "four." However, as the film starts to pick up steam near the end as Paul competes in the dangerous De Leon race, the 4DX adds some adrenaline to the experience.
You may have to relearn how to watch a movie
Most viewers tend to lean back in their seats. 4DX, however, is incredibly disorienting if you sit that way — you feel at the mercy of the chair, which can go side to side, up and down, and forward and backward. Eventually, we discovered that it was best to sit up straight and almost lean forward a little bit. It's not unlike a rollercoaster: Leaning into it is better than laying back.
4DX-enhanced movies don't feature 4DX from beginning to end
“People [worry], ‘Oh, I can't deal with [4DX's motion] for two hours,'"Killoren notes. “Well, it's not that for two hours — the movie's not that for two hours. 4DX is supposed to be in service of immersion in the story."In Need for Speed's case, it's mostly reserved for action scenes. However, the technology was occasionally utilized to enhance random moments of comedy or horror. (For example, when a scary dog startles Paul, the chair briefly jolted.) Gimmicky? In a word, yes. You're being goosed into a response.
On the whole, being shaken isn't very fun
We love rollercoasters because of their speed, not because we want them to rattle our brains until they're purée — and Need for Speed in 4DX has a little too much brain-rattle for our taste. (It's worth noting: The film's producers oversee the implementation of 4DX elements. CJ merely makes suggestions and then works off the producers' notes.) When the 4DX seat simply rumbles, the sensation is akin to sitting in one of those Brookstone massage chairs. But watch out: that usually signals something ominous, such as a rumbling in the background or a car revving up.
There are currently eight smells utilized by 4DX
Different floral scents and coffee are available, but during the Need for Speed presentation, the scents were relegated to burning rubber and gunpowder. In general, pungent odors make viewers nauseous, but here, the burning scent enhanced scenes of cars in flames, adding an extra layer of immediacy.
The best part of 4DX: the fans
During scenes when cars or planes are zipping through space, the overhead fans kick on, and it's like you're zooming down the highway with the wind in your hair. It's an oddly liberating, freeing feeling. The representative almost managed to secure a 4DX-enhancced screening of The Amazing Spider-Man 2 for the demo; we're now wondering how Spidey's Manhattan skyline sojourns would have been in 4DX. | <urn:uuid:c6a96fc0-d5b2-4ecf-921b-0112bb7239cd> | CC-MAIN-2014-52 | http://www.rollingstone.com/movies/news/8-things-you-need-to-know-about-the-4dx-theater-experience-20140519 | 2014-12-28T10:22:08Z | s3://commoncrawl/crawl-data/CC-MAIN-2014-52/segments/1419447556362.51/warc/CC-MAIN-20141224185916-00022-ip-10-231-17-201.ec2.internal.warc.gz | en | 0.965904 | 1,375 | [
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Watch Tha Dogg Pound Feat. Snoop Dogg "L.A. Here's 2 U" Video, the latest video from Tha Dogg Pound, which dropped on Sunday, March 31st, 2013. Tha Dogg Pound's horizons are broadening with each new release, and Tha Dogg Pound Feat. Snoop Dogg "L.A. Here's 2 U" Video is no exception. It's a worthy addition to a catalogue that has seen much growth since Tha Dogg Pound stepped foot in the rap game. We're looking forward to hearing more.
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Jax Artist, Lee Harvey Recognized by Academia News4JaxMarch 25, 2012 0 comments Print Article
For the past couple of years, one of Jacksonville's most dynamic and controversial artists has been quietly getting absorbed into museum collections and public art projects around the country. Now, the University of St. Lawrence's Richard F. Brush Gallery has installed one of Lee's satirical political stickers into its collection. Check out the details after the jump.
Lee Harvey has produced genuine and important art in many different mediums. His paintings, spectacularly colorful, can be divided into three main groups: Non Objectivist, Political Satire, and Faux Decorative.
Some of his art shows have involved the police or worse, and his gallery in Five Points created a volcano of activity credited with emasculating the local censorship movement when it was raided by police in the 90s.
His political art has been scathingly satirical and challenging to both the Right and Left of political center, leading to some very amusing moments in journalism both here and abroad. During exactly the same time that the Chicago Tribune was excoriating Lee's work as the most offensive art in the country in an article entitled "Republican Nazis?", here locally FolioWeekly was handing out the brickbats to Lee because they had mistakenly been given the impression that Lee himself had come out of the closet as a Nazi. (apparently the telephone technology which would have allowed them to fact check their brickbat before publishing had not yet been developed at Folio prior to 2004.)
Similarly, his constant production of political stickers has been noticed on more than one occasion, and in 2009, the political commentary associated with his work has merited inclusion in an academic museum at St. Lawrence University.
From the Techfest 2009 Show:
January 5, 2009 in Permanent Collection.
As part of SLUs Techfest 2009, Bart Harloe (University Librarian), Rhonda Courtney (Library Assistant), and Cathy Tedford (Gallery Director) will present a session on Whats Fair with Digital Images? A list of references is available on SLUs Digital Collections Web site.
Specific images from the Gallerys CONTENTdm Web site will be presented, including:
Wall Street, New York photograph by Paul Strand
Altar inside the Norbulingka, Tibetan Buddhist Monastery photograph by Alison Wright
My Squad, Quang Tri Province photograph by Patrick T. Stearns
FOX News sticker by leeharveyinc.com
A selection of 63 Vietnam War-era photographs from the United States and Vietnam that are part of the Universitys Permanent Collection will also be presented, as well as a larger selection of 211 photographs from the Permanent Collection.
This is the second time that one of Lee's political stickers have been included in a national collection of political street art.
Here is the listing of the work and why it was included in the collection:
Title CIA Approved Fox News Illuminati Mind Control
Time Span November 10-11, 2004
Geographic Location New York, New York
Subject commerce, entertainment, fear, media. politics
Dimensions 5 1/2 x 4 1/4 in.
Description + etc. Critics of Fox News, such as FAIR (July/August 2001) and Media Matters for America (July 14, 2004), consider the network to be the mouthpiece of conservative values and the Republican Party. --DLA, January 11, 2008.
Pedagogical Applications Dr. John M. Collins, assistant professor of Global Studies at St. Lawrence University writes,
"The powerful role of the mass media in shaping popular attitudes is undeniable.
Media studies scholars refer to the process in terms of "ideology" and the creation of "hegemony" (or what Noam Chomsky and Edward Herman, following Walter Lippmann, call "manufacturing consent").
Media institutions, of course, do not have 100 percent control over anyone's ideas; we always have some room to maneuver even as our ideas are being shaped by our location in a mediated world.
At the same time, the case of Fox News--which systematically participated in the Bush administration's disinformation campaign in the months leading up to the launching of the Iraq war--suggests that we should not underestimate the ability of media institutions to shape "reality" when working in combination with governmental and other powerful institutions. In such cases, it may not be inappropriate to speak of a "conspiracy"; the convergence of interests among the institutions is obvious, as is the intent to achieve a particular policy outcome.
The use of the phrase "mind control" in this sticker, therefore, is a way of calling attention to the ideological role of the mainstream corporate news media in taking aggressive, militaristic policies and rendering them more "acceptable" in the eyes of the general population. The artist does so through exaggeration ("mind control" instead of "ideology") and humorous allusion to other existing "conspiracy theories" (e.g., "C.I.A. APPROVED, " "LEEHARVEYINC.COM"). [January 23, 2008.]
Acquisition Notes Collected in NYC, November 10-11, 2004
Notes-Miscellaneous From Wikipedia, January 12, 2008: [The phrase] "lluminati is often used in reference to a New World Order (NWO). Many conspiracy theorists believe the Illuminati, or the "Illuminated ones", are the masterminds behind events that will lead to the establishment of such a New World Order. Confusing the issue further is the fact that there are also several modern fraternal groups which include the word "Illuminati" in their names."
The image itself was turned into a successful line of t shirt that are sold both by www.quelquesoit.com and Jello Biafra.
Its fascinating to see Lee's street art work get recognized in so many places. Congratulations to Mr. Harvey.
Check out Lee's latest work at www.leeharveyinc.com.
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In The Morning Rise
Category: Outdoor Scenes
Photo and caption by Thanh O'Kelley
The sunrise behind the Tufa looks like a torch which guides you to a wonderful world.
Location: Mono Lake, California
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City planners consider Baylor's growthOct. 6, 2000
Officials focus on residents' needs
By ALANA LYONS
City officials are seeking improved communication between Baylor and the city of Waco. City Council member Alice Flores recently expressed her concerns over the effects Baylor's growth has on residents in District 2.
'I understand the growth and support it, but we have to be cognizant that there are homeowners that have a right to live in peaceful and quiet neighborhoods,' Flores said.
Flores, who has represented District 2 since 1991, said she has received numerous complaints from residents concerning Baylor students' parties and speeding. Problems, she said, will only increase as more apartment complexes are built to accommodate Baylor's growing student population.
'I don't know what to tell constituents about the intrusiveness of Baylor into their area,' Flores said. 'I understand that students need housing, but we need to consider residents who aren't going anywhere.'
Because most of the residential areas in the district are specified to be low in density, residents said they are also concerned that Baylor's growth will cause the city to alter these plans to allow for more apartment complexes.
'Neighborhoods know they cannot disrupt progress,' Flores said. 'So, we need to be more careful of what we are doing to the community when we approve construction.'
At a recent city council meeting, City Manager Kathy Rice suggested a comprehensive effort to help solve these problems.
'We need to have a plan around Baylor,' Rice said. 'We also need to have their plan. If they're going to grow, they need to make an orderly plan.'
Mayor Linda Etheridge suggested changing the city's current plan to take into account Baylor's growth.
Ken Simons, assistant vice president and business manager, said Baylor is currently building on land owned by the university, and there are no plans to expand farther than Ninth Street.
'It is hard for us to control how many rental buildings are constructed,' Simons said. 'It is a matter of supply and demand.'
Flores, however, said awareness is the key to helping relations between Baylor and local citizens.
'If students are aware of the concerns, maybe one out of 10 will respect them, and that's more than we have now,' Flores said. 'My concern is my constituents, and whether Baylor likes it or not, I represent them,' she said.
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Boy or Girl??? Give me your best guess!
This is baby #3 but pregnancy #6 and we are so, so thrilled for a healthy baby!
Unexpected ultrasound today at 10w6d.
Boy or Girl???
What theory did you use? Can you see a nub at all?? Lol I'm not to educated on the nub theory. I know a little about the skull theory.
Thanks for any guesses! I am so excited!!!
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(DUBAI, United Arab Emirates) — Scotland’s Stephen Gallacher won the Dubai Desert Classic championship on Sunday by one stroke over Emiliano Grillo of Argentina. Gallacher becomes the first player to successfully defend the title in the tournament’s 25-year history.
The 39-year-old Gallacher opened the final round with four bogeys over the first eight holes. He found his game on the back nine, when he birdied 11, 13, 16 and 17.
Two-time tournament winner Tiger Woods finished tied for 41st at six under while two-time Major champion Rory McIlroy was at 12 under.
For Gallacher, it’s only his third victory in 18 years and 431 events on the European Tour.
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The dude abides. A hat cocked at a rakish angle, a jacket and tie; were the only way to walk out your front door for past generations. My dad (B.1899-D.1971) wore a suit, albeit an old one, to mow the lawn. Commenters to your blog regularly complement the more elegantly dressed; are they indicators of a return to a more formal fashion sensibility?
Pretty sure this was snapped very close to the time of the war. Londan endured nightly bombings. All of Europe was in great distress. Fabric, socks, shoes, hats in and of theirselves were scarce luxuries, as all went to the war effort. So to dress with such great panache with what was at hand involved enormous inventive style. Your uncle does you proud, from the jaunty slant of his hat, the casual placement of the scarf, to his rolled up pants and rolled down socks. And that rakish smile. Just Wonderful!
Remember that trend you were tracking last year with the rolled formal or dressy trouser? Has EVERYTHING been done? Just saw the Bill Cunningham documentary & enjoyed it immensely! I love how he used to call designers on their efforts to conceal appropriated looks on the runway!
This may be my favorite photo ever on this blog. I am seriously in love with dotted scarf and would really love to know its color. I'm guessing a faded red. The park-like setting is also poetic and evocative. Just delightful!
Ah….and notice the length of his coat sleeves :) The thought I had immediately upon seeing this shot is, how wonderful the relationship between the photographer and your uncle, because this picture is so natural and expressive. I absolutely love the glimpse of ankles! Thank you for sharing this photo. It's obvious talent runs in the family.
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I remember the cover of the book had a woman with black hair laying down wearing an emerald colored dress and a blonde man on top of her. The book started out with her mother dying and the town claiming she was a witch. I beleive the womans name started with an A. She meets a captain of a ship and falls head over heels for him but the first mate wanted her and told her that she was more or less being used. She wanted to leave the town that she lived in because she was also being accused of being a witch. Does this book sound familiar to anyone? | <urn:uuid:82f8edc1-b1a2-4642-bdeb-fe39bd824301> | CC-MAIN-2016-18 | http://community.harlequin.com/showthread.php/270-I-am-and-have-been-looking-for-a-book-for-years-now!!!!!!!?p=3892 | 2016-05-05T08:39:08Z | s3://commoncrawl/crawl-data/CC-MAIN-2016-18/segments/1461860126377.4/warc/CC-MAIN-20160428161526-00108-ip-10-239-7-51.ec2.internal.warc.gz | en | 0.994721 | 121 | [
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The Walmart on Atlantic Boulevard in Canton, Ohio is collecting food for employees who can’t afford Thanksgiving dinner.
“This store has been doing this for several years and (the food) is for associates that have faced an extreme hardship recently,” Walmart spokesman Kory Lundberg told Business Insider.
Meanwhile, Walmart turned a profit of $15.7 billion last year, and the stock market closed above 16,000 today—a new record high. It is the best of times. It is the worst of times.
In the best of times, people with buying power make conscious decisions about what to buy, and where to buy.
“Small Business Saturday has really resonated with consumers who are eager to show support for their neighborhoods,” said Susan Sobbott, president at American Express OPEN.
Together with the National Federation of Independent Business, American Express OPEN found that 77% of those aware of Small Business Saturday plan to “shop small” this year. Here’s why and where they will be shopping:
- Part of the reason consumers are attracted to small businesses is because they are able to find gifts for people who are hard to shop for (70%);
- One fifth (21%) of consumers said one of the main reasons they patronize small businesses is because they offer better prices; and
- The top five places that consumers plan to shop on Small Business Saturday are food stores (38%), restaurants (37%), clothing stores (35%), bakeries (34%) and gift/novelty stores (31%).
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