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December 23, 2013 (Addis Ababa) - The Chairperson of the African Union (AU) Commission, Nkosazana Dlamini-Zuma has said the killings in Bor, capital of South Sudan’s Jonglei state amount to “war “crimes”. - Nkosazana Dlamini Zuma, chairperson of the African Union Commission (Reuters) Bor was taken by forces loyal to South Sudan’s former vice president Riek Machar on Thursday. The town has witnessed the worst violence since fighting broke out last week between rival factions within South Sudan army (SPLA). Thousands of people fled the town after it fell into rebel hands with the United Nations warning of potential humanitarian crisis. Forces loyal to president Salva Kiir are reported to be planning an assault to retake the town. The continental body, in a statement issued Saturday, said its chairperson was ‘‘extremely saddened by the killing of innocent civilians and the United Nations peace keepers in Bor, Jonglie State of South Sudan.’’ The statement said Zuma considers the attack "war crimes". ‘‘She [Zuma] condemns these killings as war crimes, and extends AU’s heartfelt condolences to their families and the government of India, as well as the UN secretariats.’’ Two Indian peacekeepers were killed last week when rebels from the Nuer ethic group, the second largest in South Sudan after the Dinka, attacked the UN base the remote Akobo county. The UN humanitarian chief in South Sudan Toby Lanzer told AFP that he is particularly worried about Jonglei state. Lanzer had just returned from a trip to Jonglei’s main city of Bor, where he said "a battle... looms" after various reports of groups mobilising. The UN is "fortifying the camp in Bor, making sure there is no repeat of Akobo.... But, as in Akobo, if there are few peacekeepers inside and 2,000 (fighters) outside, there’s little we can do." Lanzer said he was also concerned about the security situation in South Sudan’s two oil-producing states of Unity and Upper Nile and, increasingly, Lakes state The South Sudan government said that about [[phy_address]] been killed since violence broke out on Sunday of last week. World leaders, the UN, AU and foreign ministers from the East African have asked for the warring parties in the conflict to seek for a political solution. President Kiir has said he is willing to talk peace with Machar. Machar has also expressed willingness to talk to Kiir, but on condition that he releases detainees arrested in connection with the alleged coup attempt.
This residence is located in Rome (Vatican - Prati), close to RAI Headquarters, St. Peter's Basilica, and Roman Forum. Also nearby are National Gallery of Modern Art and MAXXI - National Museum of the 21st Century. Property Features Residence Prati provides complimentary wireless Internet access, limo/town car service, dry cleaning/laundry services, and laundry facilities. Room Amenities In addition to LCD televisions with satellite channels, guestrooms include kitchenettes. Bathrooms come with shower/tub combinations and bidets.Information missing or incorrect? Tell us! Residence Prati - At your hotel - An Internet point is located on site and high-speed wireless Internet access is complimentary. This residence offers access to secretarial services and limo/town car service. For a surcharge, the property provides a roundtrip airport shuttle (available on request) and an area shuttle. This Rome residence also offers tour/ticket assistance, multilingual staff, and a garden. Concierge services and tour assistance can be provided. - 24-hour front desk - Air-conditioned public areas - Airport transportation (surcharge) - Total number of rooms - 38 - Number of floors - 5 - Concierge services - Elevator/lift - Internet point - Tours/ticket assistance - Free Wi-Fi - Express check-in - Luggage storage - Area shuttle (surcharge) - Dry cleaning/laundry service - Laundry facilities - Limo or Town Car service available - Multilingual staff - Garden - Safe-deposit box at front desk - Free on-street parking - Secretarial services - Number of buildings/towers - 2 - Tour assistance - Stay connected - Available in all rooms: Free Wi-Fi Available in some public areas: Free Wi-Fi - Park your car - Free on-street parking - In your room - - Balcony or patio - Air conditioning - Climate control - Direct-dial phone - Phone - Kitchenette - Refrigerator - Coffee/tea maker - Private bathroom - Hair dryer - Bidet - Shower/tub combination - Desk - In-room safe - Sofa bed - Rollaway/extra beds available - Cookware, dishware, and utensils - Stovetop - Satellite TV service - Free Wi-Fi - LCD TV - Cribs/infant beds (complimentary) - Sofa bed size - Play - The recreational activities listed below are available either on site or nearby; fees may apply. - Bicycle rentals on site The Fine Print for Residence Prati - When you arrive - Check-in time starts at 1 PM - When you leave - Check-out time is 11 AM - How you can pay - Accepted at this hotel: JCB International, MasterCard, Visa - You need to know - Extra-person charges may apply and vary depending on hotel policy. Government-issued photo identification and a credit card or cash deposit are required at check-in for incidental charges. Special requests are subject to availability upon check-in and may incur additional charges. Special requests cannot be guaranteed. - No onsite parking is available. - Fees - Unless otherwise indicated, the charges below are not included in the overall room price. If not included in the overall room price, they will be charged by the property at check-in or check-out. Charges can vary, for example, based on length of stay or the room you book. This property told us they will charge you for the following: We have included all charges provided to us by the property. However, charges can vary, for example, based on length of stay or the room you book.The following fees and deposits are charged by the property at time of service, check-in, or check-out. - A tax is imposed by the city: EUR 2 per person, per night, up to 10 nights. This tax does not apply to children under 10 years of age. The above list may not be comprehensive. Fees and deposits may not include tax and are subject to change. - Rollaway bed fee: EUR 40 per night - We Should Mention - Cash transactions at this property cannot exceed EUR 999.99, due to national regulations. For further details, please contact the property using information in the booking confirmation. This property offers transfers from the airport (surcharges may apply). Guests must contact the property with arrival details before travel, using the contact information on the booking confirmation. No pets and no service animals are allowed at this property.
event. The bout was first reported by ESPN. UFC on FX 4 takes place June 22 in Atlantic City, N.J., likely at the new Revel Atlantic City resort, with a Clay Guida vs. Gray Maynard headliner.
The Dusty Cover – Exciting Update Sorry for the delay in blogging lately, but I have been busy at work at the store where we will be opening The Dusty Cover in September (Lord willing). We gots keys to the space at the beginning of the month. Unfortunately, we are stalled at the moment, as the previous tenants “stuff” has yet to be fully removed. It has tried my patience work around it, but it is still exciting to be in the building. We have already begun making some purchases, including most of the shelves (found a great deal), as well as the couches and chairs (another amazing deal, but still painfully expensive). I have been researching equipment for the coffee section, with some great options brewing (pun intended), but I am always open to suggestions. We want to serve fair trade, but not sure our neighbourhood can sustain the cost. Perhaps someone out there would like to support the store by providing the product…? We’ll see. I hope unveil a new logo in the coming weeks, so stay tuned for that. We have a gifted designer donating time to that project, for which we are very grateful (again, more on that later). Some creative ideas are coming together for the kids section, with some volunteers showing interest in adopting the section as a project. All very promising. Funding is still a challenge, as not many people have expressed interest to support the project (many, MANY thanks to those of you who have and do). Our goal is to make the stores “success” not dependant on income, so this is a crucial part of the plan. We have a few grant applications out, but no word so far. I am hopeful it will all come together. Anyway, feel free to make any suggestions, ask any questions, so forth. I’ll post some pictures next week.
In separate phone messages to the residents of Hamilton and Wenham on Wednesday, Hamilton Police Chief Russ Stevens and Wenham Police Chief Tom Perkins both said concern about downed power lines and power outages was behind the decision to reschedule Trick-or-Treating. Instead of Halloween night, Trick-or-Treat will happen in Hamilton and Wenham at the same time on Saturday: 5-8 p.m. Trick-or-Treat faced a separate threat of postponement or rescheduling last week from an evening activity ban in Hamilton that barred any organized outdoor activity from 5 p.m. to 8 a.m. because of concern about mosquito-borne diseases such as West Nile Virus and Eastern equine encephalitis. But on Wednesday the Hamilton Board of Health lifted that ban in an unanimous vote while adding that Trick-or-Treaters should still take "extreme precautions" to guard against mosquito bites since temperatures have not yet dropped below 28 degrees for two hours or longer. Stevens and Perkins both said on Wednesday that town officials are working with National Grid to restore power to both towns. At 1:30 p.m., there were 681 homes without power in Hamilton and 195 without power in Wenham, according to National Grid. Wenham's number has held steady all day, but in Hamilton about 40 more homes were reported without power since 9:30 a.m. “At this point we cannot give an exact date or time when all residents will be restored,” said the message, which was sent out by each police chief in their respective community. “As a result, residents who are still without power should make preparations until midnight on Thursday.” Anyone who does need help should contact the Hamilton-Wenham Emergency Center at 978-468-1212 in Hamilton and 978-468-4000 in Wenham.
So, a bear walks into a candy shop. No, we're not starting a bad joke. Sure, you might spend a lot of time on your couch, as you watch the Summer Olympics. And hey, maybe you've drifted a couple pounds above your fighting weight. But there's all kinds of athletes competing in London — one of them has to be around the same size as you, right? Now you can find that out, thanks to the BBC, whose site has an interactive chart that lets you enter your height and weight — and then tells you which two Olympic athletes you most resemble. You could soon pay for a latte at Starbucks simply by walking into the store with a smartphone in your pocket and giving the cashier your name. Square, a San Francisco-based payments startup unveiled a deal Wednesday with the world's largest coffee chain that will move its mobile payments products into Starbucks stores around the U.S. starting this fall. Originally published on Thu August 9, 2012 1:42 pm Katherine Losse was Facebook's 51st employee. After earning a master's degree from Johns Hopkins University in 2005, she got a job as a Facebook customer service representative — tasked with answering questions like "What is a poke?" In the course of five years, she became the personal ghostwriter for founder Mark Zuckerberg. "I witnessed over those five years this huge transformation in how we lead our lives," she tells NPR's Tom Gjelten. Originally published on Wed August 8, 2012 4:49 pm This map is disturbing, once you understand it. It's a new attempt to visualize an old problem — the shrinking of underground water reserves, in most cases because farmers are pumping out water to irrigate their crops. Originally published on Wed August 8, 2012 2:30 pm The recent shootings in Oak Creek, Wis., and Aurora, Colo., have reignited the debate about guns and gun control in America. But beyond the talking points and heated exchanges lie real questions about guns ownership, regulation and use. Originally published on Wed August 8, 2012 3:20 pm We can't help but tune into the Jet Propulsion Laboratory's daily news conference about NASA's Mars Science Laboratory mission. For the most part, it's very much inside baseball. The scientists talk about the nitty gritty details of getting the Curiosity Rover going and onto doing some science. They talk about reorienting antennas and about how a higher-than-predicted temperature won't have a significant effect on the mission. Originally published on Thu August 9, 2012 12:57 pm Taunting and trash-talking are a regular part of the culture for online video gamers. Opponents tease and threaten each other to complement the violent clashes between the game avatars. In a piece for The New York Times, reporter Amy O'Leary describes a series of incidents with female gamers over the past six months that have sparked a debate about sexual harassment in the online gaming community. Originally published on Tue August 21, 2012 3:14 pm Transcript TOM GJELTEN, HOST: This is TALK OF THE NATION. I'm Tom Gjelten in Washington. Harry Reid says Mitt Romney doesn't pay taxes. Romney supporters are furious. The VP speculation builds, and the debate on welfare reform is back on center stage. It's Wednesday and time for an... MITT ROMNEY: Obamaloney... GJELTEN: Edition of the Political Junkie. (MONTAGE OF ARCHIVAL RECORDINGS) PRESIDENT RONALD REAGAN: There you go again. VICE PRESIDENT WALTER MONDALE: When I hear your new ideas, I'm reminded of that ad: Where's the beef? Originally published on Wed August 8, 2012 9:34 pm Everybody knows that one good way to prevent a sunburn is to stay inside, where you're safe from the sun's ultraviolet rays. Right? Well, that may not be true anymore if your house is lit with compact fluorescent light bulbs. Last month, researchers from the State University of New York at Stony Brook showed in a paper that tiny defects in the bulbs can let through UV light that can damage skin cells and lead to cancer.
Supporting the arts is good business Slideshow MICZEK PHOTOGRAPHYJASON E. MICZEK - MICZEK PHOTOGRAPHYCarlos Evans is an executive vice president at Wells Fargo. MICZEK PHOTOGRAPHYJASON E. MICZEK - MICZEK PHOTOGRAPHYCarlos and Lisa Evans are pictured at their Charlotte home 11/10/2011 with a painting by West Fraser of Charleston, SC. It was only in 1994 that the term ‘curator’ was first used in India, when art critic and cultural theorist Geeta Kapur was invited to select works from the collection of the National Gallery of Modern Art. This was the start of the curator being seen as a legitimate figure. She, among a host of other players, like gallerists, collectors and auctioneers, began to make their presence felt amidst the growing private sector and the art market. Importance of Curators in the Indian Art Industry « Breathe Arts RichardLazzara ‘Road to Mecca’ at American Airlines Theater There are better stores of concentrated value than gold, argues Jeff Gundlach. Gundlach, the bond guru behind DoubleLine Funds, says gem stones and art serve the same purpose as gold but are much more portable. Art specifically was a great asset to be invested in during the last few years, reports Patrick Mathurin of the Financial Times. The Mei Moses has beaten the S&P [[phy_address]] 10 years, with an average annual return of 7.8 per cent compared with 2.7 per cent for the benchmark US index. The Mei Moses tracks the prices at which individual works of art sell over time using repeat sales data, in a methodology similar to the S&P Case-Shiller property index. “Art prices are not correlated to sudden swings in stock markets but their prices tend to match changes in wealth creation and destruction. FORGET STOCKS AND BONDS: Art Has Been Crushing Equities Over The Last Decade Sacred Word and Image: Five World Religions exhibition at Phoenix Art Museum PHOENIX, AZ.- Sacred Word and Image: Five World Religions, an exhibition opening on January 4, 2012 at Phoenix Art Museum, features the written word and painted image as expressed in the cultures of Buddhism, Hinduism, Islam, Judaism and Christianity throughout the past 1500 years. The exhibition, on view through March 25, 2012, draws from the collections of Phoenix Art Museum and several prominent private collections, and includes a variety of materials used to document mankind’s significant thoughts and beliefs, including everything from paper, palm leaf and vellum, to wood, lacquer, metal and ivory. Commented Dr. Louvre museum still world's most visited - MUSEUMS Birger Sandzén in Colorado Denver Post: "This highly accessible exhibition is a must-see for Sandzen admirers, impressionism fans and anyone who enjoys rich, expressive paintings of the Colorado landscape." "With 66 paintings, watercolors, drawings and original prints, this is the largest Colorado exhibition ever devoted to Birger Sandzen . Have an account? Sign in New to Twitter? Join Today » Richard Lazzara (shankargallery) on Twitter sumeru aghora SHANKAR \| Yoga Life Today Style Masters & Pelavin and Art in a Box are pleased to announce our 2011 Benefit Holiday Exhibition & Online Sale to empower children at risk through art. The exhibition will be held on Monday 19 December from six to eight in the evening with a live performance by DJ Goodmusic. The exhibition offers a rare opportunity to select artworks valued between $900 and $1800 by both established and emerging artists for only $100 a piece. This year’s fundraiser offers over 200 pieces including paintings, photographs, drawings, prints and wall mountable sculpture. All proceeds benefit Art in a Box art and education programs for children at risk. Tribeca / Downtown - Masters & Pelavin - ART IN A BOX: BENEFIT EVENT MIYAKO YOSHINAGA art prospects is pleased to present SUPERNATUREAL, a group exhibition that includes work by Osamu James Nakagawa, Ingo Günther, Terry Taylor, Yu Yamauchi and the collaborative team Robyn Voshardt & Sven Humphrey. In Project Room, we feature Landscape 2011; gelatin silver prints by Yojiro Imasaka. The exhibition is on view from December 15, 2011, through January 28, 2012. Chelsea - Miyako Yoshinaga Art Prospects - SUPERNATUREAL Anne Tabachnick: Paintings Lori Bookstein Fine Art [[phy_address]] 212-750-0949 Chelsea December 8, 2011 - January 14, 2012 Reception: Tuesday, December 13, 6 - 8 PM Web Site Lori Bookstein Fine Art is pleased to present a survey of paintings by Anne Tabachnick. Chelsea - Lori Bookstein Fine Art - Anne Tabachnick: Paintings Rudolf Schenker at the Jerome C. Daniel Overlook on Mullholland Drive. The Scorpions made a stop in LA on their farewell tour around the world. Our documentary film crew was on location, and we bring you this report by producer Daniel Remsperger: Scorpions EN - DW-WORLD.DE The father of film graphics - Imprint Sotheby's important Russian art evening auction brings £5.6/$8.7 million LONDON.- This evening, Sotheby’s Important Russian Art auction which was exceptionally well-attended brought £5,597,000/$8,657,999 (est. £5,755,000-8,415,000). The sale achieved sellthrough rates of 66.7% by lot and 74.6% by value, and established two new artist records for Alexander Golovin and Pavel Kovalevsky. The top-selling lot of this evening’s auction was Petr Konchalovsky’s exceptionally rare, pre-revolutionary painting Tatar Still Life, dated 1916. The painting saw competition from 5 bidders and realised the above-estimate sum of £914,850/$1,415,181 (est. £500,000-700,000). The painting first belonged to influential Polish art critic Waldemar George who presented the painting as a wedding gift to Louis Gautier-Chaumet, editor-in-chief of “La Presse" newspaper, where George served as art critic. Sotheby's New York announces the sale of the contract that founded Apple Computer Company The complete collection of Elizabeth Taylor opens December 3 at Christie's in New York British Library puts 19th century newspapers online, plans to digitize 40 million pages Couture Fashion Week - Fashion Week, Fashion Show Tickets Is Art Patron Ronald Lauder What's Wrong With America?, Occupy Wall Street Plans Gallery Of Its Own, and More Major retrospective of art of painter Takao Tanabe opens at Burnaby Art Gallery Occupy Wall Street Supporter Makes Jay-Z "Scrooge" Sculpture Collection of 300 drawings made during Rodin's last thirty years on view at the Musée Rodin Bonhams offers two masterpieces of American landscapes by Russian painter in $14 Million Russian sale First individual exhibition in Poland of works by the world famous artist Wolfgang Tillmans Lucretius Art review: 'Leonardo da Vinci: Painter at the Court of Milan' - latimes.com Vatican to take legal action over Benetton pope-kissing ad - ITALY Benetton ads draw criticism from White House, Vatican Modern & Post-War British Art \| Event Detail / Sotheby's \| Auctions > Modern & Post-War British Art - Catalogue Photographies \| Event Detail / Sotheby's \| Auctions > Photographies - Catalogue First ever overview of painted partying in the Golden Age at the Frans Hals Museum Martin Lawrence Gallery marks 120th anniversary of Erté with retrospective exhibition Guggenheim Museum in Bilbao shows Georg Baselitz' "Mrs. Lenin and the Nightingale" After the sell-off – what happens to EMI Classics?
Tag Archives: NATO First responders in Afghanistan get a chance to hone their skills as NATO forces conducted a mass casualty exercise. Read More U.S., European and East African nations team up for a joint maritime activity known as Exercise Cutlass Express. Read More Posted in DoD News, Rotator Tagged Africa, African forces, AFRICOM, coalition forces, Cutlass Express, Dar es Salaam, Djibouti, east africa, East African forces, European military, European Military Forces, Exercise Cutlass Express, International Exercise, International navies, International Navy, interoperability, Kenya, maritime, Maritime exercise, maritime military, maritime security, Mauritius, military exercise, Mombasa, NATO, ocean, Tanzania, The Seychelles, U.S. 6th Fleet, U.S. Africa Command, U.S. military, U.S. Naval Forces Europe, U.S. Navy, U.S. warship, Uganda, United States Navy, USN Leave a comment With the help of the NATO Air Training Command in Afghanistan, pilots in the Afghan Air Force are getting a taste of what it’s like to fly an MI-17 helicopter. Read More Posted in DoD News, Rotator Tagged Afghan, Afghan Air Force, Afghan Air Force pilot, Afghan aviation, Afghanistan, Air Force, aviation, coalition forces, DoD News, down range, drawdown, flight line, military aviation, military flight line, NATO, NATO Air Training Command, NATO forces, NATO soldiers Leave a comment Army Brig. Gen. Crawford talks about STEM, the future and partnering with industry and NATO to share best practices for cybersecurity. Read More Posted in National Cybersecurity Awareness Month, Rotator Tagged Army, Army Brig. Gen. Crawford, Cybersecurity, cybersecurity operations, Department of Defense, digital domain, engineering, math, National Cybersecurity Awareness Month, NATO, science, STEM, technology, the Army and cybersecurity Leave a comment U.S. Navy hospital corpsmen process a training mannequin through a decontamination station during a training exercise at Naval Air Station Sigonella, Italy, Aug. 29, 2013.
CARBONDALE, Ill. (AP) - For the first time in more than a decade, bars in downtown Carbondale will be allowed to open on Halloween. City Council members voted 4-2 on Tuesday to let bars in an area known as "The Strip" operate this year. City officials say they'll allow the bars to open for business as part of a one-year experiment. The bars have had to shut down for the past 12 years after rioting and vandalism in the college town in far-southern Illinois. Councilwoman Jane Adams says she supports the change, which will allow three bars to operate. She says the new regulations won't lead to a "street party." But Mayor Joel Fritzler voted against the move. He says any Halloween mayhem could hamper development. Latest News - 1 - 2 - 3 - 4 - 5 - 6 - 7 - 8 Boone County Hires Lawyers In Ryan Ferguson Civil Right… COLUMBIA, Mo. (AP) - A central Missouri county has hired four attorneys to help defend itself and three employees named in a lawsuit filed on behalf of a man whose murder convic... Jumping Jacks May Become Official State Exercise JEFFERSON CITY, Mo. (AP) - Missouri lawmakers are considering official designation for the jumping jack. A bill is proposing to make the jumping jack ... St. Charles Officer On Leave After Deadly Shooting ST. CHARLES, Mo. (AP) - A man is dead after he was shot by police in St. Charles. St. Charles police went to a home Wednesday night after neighbors complained the man was th... Pine Lawn Drug Bust Nets Pot-Filled Cookies and Candy St. Louis, MO -- Two suspects are jailed in Pine Lawn after a routine traffic stop turned into a drug bust. Fox2 News reports that a man and a ... LITTLE GOVERNMENT RESPONSE TO BOMBING A YEAR LATER BOSTON (AP) -- A year after homemade bombs ripped through the Boston Marathon, state and federal officials have enacted virtually no policy changes in response to the attack, a ...
showing bits of the story-driven Gaea Mission campaign combined with in-game footage captured from the Xbox 360 version of the game. Set on the breathtaking planetoid Taurus, Carrier Command: Gaea Mission offers a refreshing combination of vehicular combat action with real-time strategic elements. In the game, players take up the role of Lt Myrik, a battle-hardened soldier of the United Earth Coalition who has been deployed on a mission to defeat Asian Pacific Alliance forces in an area called the Dead Zone. In command of an armed vehicle carrier, players will traverse the seas to engage in free-roaming combat and establish a strategic network of island bases for mining, manufacturing and defense. The game includes the main Gaea Mission campaign, which also features on-foot FPS missions, and a mode similar to the original Carrier Command, called Strategy Game. Carrier Command: Gaea Mission will ship for Windows PC and Xbox 360 on 28 September in Europe and 2 October in North America. Local Download: Carrier Command: Gaea Mission Xbox 360 Assault Trailer (HD) (34.91MB) Related Resources: Press Release: Carrier Command: Gaea Mission deploys Xbox 360 trailer Website: http://www.carriercommand.com/ Carrier Command: Gaea Mission on Xbox 360 News (32) Downloads (20) Videos (2) Screenshots (58) Prev. news << Gear Up Screens Next news Wii U at PAX Prime 2012 >> Related News Carrier Command: Gaea Mission Xbox 360 Trailer and Screens Top News Bound by Flame Screens 18 April 2014 Out of Hell 18 April 2014 Trailers from GamersHell 18 April 2014 Linux Support Added to Wasteland 2 Early Access Inspire Me Kickstarter Campaign Underway Evolve 4v1 Teaser Video Unveiled Prisonscape Kickstarter Campaign Launched, Screens/Video Available SUPERVERSE Video and Screens Released Avalanche 2: Super Avalanche Joins Steam Greenlight, Screens Released Catch Up, Calu! Kickstarter Campaign Underway Top Games: Call of Duty 4: Modern Warfare \| Medieval 2: Total War \| Euro Truck Simulator 2 \| UK Truck Simulator \| Ragnarok Online 2 \| The Sims 3 \| Driving Speed 2 \| Prince of Persia: The Sands of Time \| James Cameron's Avatar: The Game \| Call of Duty 2 \| Need for Speed Underground 2 \| PES 2013 Top Cheats: Quick Links : PC Games \| MAC Games \| Playstation 2 \| XBox 360 \| Casual Games \| Wii \| DS \| Playstation 3 \| GamersHell.com TV Copyright © 1999-2012 GamersHell.com . All rights reserved. \| Contact Page \| E.U.L.A.
Wednesday, April 23, 2014 Daniel Nava’s two-run home run was the difference Wednesday night (that and Alfredo Aceves’ pitching), in Boston’s 2-1 victory over Tampa Bay. Nava continues to surprise. He leads all American League outfielders in on-base percentage (.291), is second in both batting average (.299) and RBI (44), and is fourth in OPS (.870). Now it’s on to Baltimore for a big four-game series: Current AL East standings: Red Sox 41-26 Yankees 37-28 (3 games back) Orioles 37-29 (3.5) Rays 35-30 (5) Jays 28-36 (11.5) In the minors, the Sea Dogs dropped two one-run games in a doubleheader Wednesday. Xander Bogaerts had a total of two hits and a walk. He has reached base in 51 of 56 games this season, and has hit safely in [[phy_address]] 23 starts. Bogaerts is batting .311, with a .407 on-base percentage and .502 slugging average. Salem outfielder Keury De La Cruz is starting to get hot (.[[phy_address]] 10 games). He went 3-for-4 Wednesday with a double, upping his average to .281. The Sea Dogs are at home tonight at 6 p.m., with Anthony Ranaudo pitching. Kevin Thomas covers baseball and basketball for the Portland Press Herald/Maine Sunday Telegram. He wisely moved to Maine in 1994 after working for the St. Petersburg Times. He is married to Nancy and they have nine children.
[[phy_address]] has a Walk Score of 37 out of 100. This location is a Car-Dependent neighborhood so most errands require a car. Nearby parks include Lions Park, Mountainside Recreation Area and Frostburg Historic District. Nearby schools include Frost Elementary School, St Michael School and Beall Elementary School. The closest grocery stores are Food Lion and Lil Corner Market. Nearby coffee shops include Trail Inn Bed and Breakfast, Trail Inn Cafe and Bill's Grub Hub. Nearby restaurants include Gladstone Restaurant & Bar, Princess Restaurant and Gianni's Pizza.
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Andrea Christina Nill: Perhaps for the sake of sense of consistency, Beck has essentially drawn a line in the sand between immigrants who emigrate to the U.S. legally, and those who do not. Yet, what Beck either ignores or doesn’t realize is that the “front door” is slammed in the face of most people who would like to live and work in the U.S. Broken Senate Breaks Dreams Mario Solis-Marich: There are well over 1 million children in this country without documentation. These young undocumented adults hold great promise for our country’s future, and yet even at this difficult time in our country, when potential should be at a premium, the adults in charge have discarded these students’ gifts out of fear and expediency. Bill O’Reilly, Pay $10,000 Bet, Says SPLC President Well-Intentioned Brookings Report Falls Short on Solutions ICE Begins Immigration Detention System Overhaul Lou Dobbs Show Cites Fear Mongering Anti-Immigrant Astronomist As Population Growth Expert Last night, in a segment warning of the environmental perils associated with US population growth, The Lou Dobbs Show featured Ben Zuckerman — an anti-immigrant activist who attempted a nativist takeover of the Sierra Club back in 2004. Dobbs correspondent Casey Wian allowed Zuckerman to insert himself into a discussion about a new report released [...] Kicking Down Doors, Stomping on Rights: New Report Reveals Disturbing Details of ICE Raids Savage Blames Immigrant ‘Gang-Bangers’ For ‘Destroying California’ Yesterday, Media Matters highlighted statements made by “shock-jock” radio host Michael Savage on his Friday show in which he lashed out at immigrant “gang-bangers” for “destroying California.” Savage, whose inflammatory rhetoric recently got him banned from entering the U.K., vowed that only God himself will shut him up: SAVAGE: The illegals [immigrants] have destroyed the [...] Department of Homeland Security Suspends “Widow Penalty” This week, the Obama administration took another step toward restoring fairness and humaneness to the immigration system. On Tuesday, Department of Homeland Security (DHS) Secretary Janet Napolitano announced that she would grant a two-year reprieve to immigrants who were married to U.S. citizens but did not complete the permanent residency process because their American spouses [...] Beck Decries ‘Empathy’ For ‘Anchor Baby Thing’ While railing about the Department of Homeland Security’s decision to temporarily halt the deportation of widows and widowers of U.S. citizens, Fox News’ Glenn Beck yesterday slammed “anchor babies,” the U.S.- born children of immigrants, and called for the overturn of the 14th Amendment which grants natural-born citizenship: BECK: You know the anchor baby thing [...] Judge Sonia Sotomayor’s Nomination: Obama Gives the Nation Another Teaching Moment President Barack Obama has done a symbolically extraordinary thing by nominating for the first time in U.S. history a person of Latino descent to the Supreme Court. The president has stayed true to the theme of his long campaign when he adopted “Si Se Puede” from the legendary Latina leader, Dolores Huerta. Right-wing talk show [...] A New Study Reinforces Growing Influence of Second Generation Latinos A new study by the Pew Hispanic Center shows that Latino children now make up 22% of all children under the age of 18 in the U.S.—a huge increase from 9% in 1980. A majority of these kids (52%) are “second generation,” meaning that they are the U.S.-born children of at least one foreign-born parent. [...] Local Police Report Makes the Case for Federal Enforcement of Immigration Laws This week the Police Foundation issued a long awaited report, The Role of Local Police: Striking a Balance Between Immigration Enforcement and Civil Liberties. The Police Foundation found that because Congress has failed to move forward with comprehensive immigration reform, states and localities have spent more time and resources curbing immigration themselves at the high [...] Obama’s Controversial Two-Step Moves in Direction of Immigration Reform After boosting border enforcement, the Obama Administration recently announced that it will also increase funding for a troublesome program started by George W. Bush. The controversial program gives Immigration and Customs Enforcement (ICE) unregulated access to the immigration information of every person in local prisons across the United States. Although Obama may be sending mixed [...] Obama Budget Not a Replacement for Comprehensive Immigration Reform The Obama Administration appears increasingly poised to move forward on comprehensive immigration reform, as promised. Last Thursday, the White House announced budgetary initiatives that signal a change in priorities and pave the way for immigration reform. At the same time, Secretary of Homeland Security Janet Napolitano, testified before the Senate yesterday about her plans to [...] Sheriff Joe Arpaio to Recruit and Arm Citizens, Neo-Nazis Have His Back Rather than cleaning up his police department and addressing allegations of racial profiling and discrimination, Arpaio has decided to recruit and arm more Maricopa citizens in the absence of state funds. Back in April, the Maricopa County Board of Supervisors in Arizona voted to postpone the acceptance of $1.6 million from the state to help [...] Anti-Immigrant Hysterics’ Swine Flu Blame-Game Generates Blowback Jay Severin, a radical right-wing talk show radio host from Boston, has been indefinitely kicked off the air after making some brazen comments, including calling Mexicans “primitives” and “women with mustaches and VD” who “leech” off the U.S.. More specifically, Boston’s WTKK-FM decided to suspend Jay Severin after the following comments sparked deep concern among [...] Low-Income Latinos and Immigrants Reported “Under Siege” in the South This week, the Southern Poverty Law Center (SPLC) released a new report entitled “Under Siege: Life for Low-Income Latinos in the South.” SLPC report adds to the mounting evidence pointing to the harmful impact that the absence of a functioning immigration system is having on Latinos and immigrant communities. SPLC investigators interviewed and surveyed 500 [...] Mexicans Choosing to Weather Economic Storm in Home Country Department of Homeland Security Secretary Janet Napolitano has ordered reviews of many operational aspects of the immigration and border security system and has even delayed a series of proposed immigration raids and other enforcement actions at U.S. workplaces. Yet while many of the Bush administration’s “attrition through enforcement” tactics are being re-evaluated and scaled-back, potential [...] Citizen Children Neglected and Deserted in Wake of Immigration Raids Miguel is a US citizen child who grew up in Minnesota like any other little American boy. But his parents are undocumented workers from El Salvador who worked at the Swift plant in Worthington, Minnesota. On December 12, 2006, the plant was raided by ICE, and more than 200 workers were detained, including Miguel’s mother. [...] Unreliable Immigration Data Is Out of Date and Context Newspaper and television are running a narrow story quoting out-of-date and out-of-context data prepared by the immigration restrictionist group, the Center for Immigration Studies (CIS), who is alleging that 300,000 “illegal immigrants” will benefit from jobs created by the recently-approved economic stimulus plan. Unfortunately, these stories provide no counter-analysis from other research groups or experts [...] Pardon Me, Scooter?
Oh well, good he got to share his talents before he went! News and notes on the restaurant scene from dining critic Carol Deptolla Chicago chef Charlie Trotter dies at 54 Journal Sentinel files Chef Charlie Trotter (second from right) at Lake Park Bistro in 2001 for a charity event. ------ Chicago chef Charlie Trotter, who left his influential mark on American fine dining, was found dead in his home Tuesday morning, the Chicago Tribune and other media reported. He was 54. Trotter had retired only last year from his restaurant and closed the business. "I love what I do, but I don't just want to do the same thing forever," he told Kristine Kierzek for a report in the Journal Sentinel on the eve of his final dinner. "Too many of the great books unread still. Time to go back to reading great books of literature and philosophy." "I want to do something that I've longed to do. I've run an unbelievable business for a quarter of a century and it's most gratifying, but if I do the same thing forever, how am I going to grow?" he continued. "If I waited five more years to do this, then I'm in my late 50s and 60s. I've got to do this while I can." Trotter, a graduate of the University of Wisconsin-Madison with degrees in political science and philosophy, was a self-taught chef. He went on to win accolades that included [[phy_address]] Foundation awards, and produced 15 cookbooks, most of them written with his fellow chefs in mind rather than home cooks. With a dedication to precision, innovation and seasonal ingredients, Trotter prepared tasting menus that cost $300 a person at his Lincoln Park restaurant, including a then-rare vegetable tasting menu. The chefs who passed through his kitchen and went on to open their own restaurants read like a Who's Who of the restaurant world, including Grant Achatz, Graham Elliot, Curtis Duffy and Giuseppe Tentori. Van Luu, the chef at Prodigal in Walker's Point, was headed to a candlelight vigil outside Trotter's former restaurant Tuesday afternoon. Luu worked for Trotter from 2006 to 2009, first in the kitchen in Chicago and then as sous chef and then co-chef de cuisine at Restaurant Charlie in Las Vegas, Trotter's relatively brief tilt at expansion. "From the time you came in to the time you would leave, it was constant moving. You never stopped. Chef Trotter was intense," Luu said. Luu noted that Trotter also had a caring side. He was Trotter's assistant at the annual Kohler Food & Wine event in 2010; his former boss had heard Luu was about to propose to his girlfriend, Michele, and invited them to the restaurant in Chicago, treating them to a 16-course dinner. "A lot of people talk about what a tyrant he is," Luu said. "Yeah, his kitchen is tough to work in, but it's the only way to learn." "Even today I'm never happy with my food... I always want it to be better. I got that from him," Luu said. Tags: Charlie Trotter : Van Luu Permalink \| Email This Blog 2 COMMENTS - You can log in to this system either through Facebook or using your JSOnline public profile. JSOnline public profile. Please note that your public profile login will be different than your JS Everywhere login. - You can personalize your public profile with a photo. You can also use that profile to sign up for email newsletters and alerts. - While we do our best to moderate comments, we do not screen comments before they are posted. If you see a comment that violates our guidelines, please use the "Report Abuse" link to notify us of the issue. - We reserve the right to close commenting on specific stories. - I always heard his food was very good. People always raved about his restaurant in Chicago. But wow, 300$ a person, that's a lot of money for dinner. Especially when you and your spouse could go to almost any restaurant in Milwaukee for 300 total. Oh well, good he got to share his talents before he went! - Charlie Trotter's is regarded as one of the finest restaurants in the world. I had the privilege of dining there, and I have to say that it was an incredible experience. The ultimate perfection in food, ambiance and service. - I had the pleasure of dining at Charlie Trotter's one time. The food was exceptional and expressive in ways that escape words. Better still, someone else was footing the bill! Perhaps Mr. Trotter's culinary creations (and the associated price thereof) were not for everyone, but I think that we can all appreciate the artistry and care that he put into his food. His willingness to share his gift, though, is what set him apart from others. That kind of legacy does more for the world than anything any idiot athlete will ever accomplish on the field or court.
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Radio : Legacysportsnetwork.com with pregame show 30 minutes before kickoff. Memorial capsule: Titans opened district play with a win last week, despite Deer Park’s late rally. It was the first time the Titans had given up over 200 yards rushing since the state semifinal game last year against Cibolo Steele . . . Still, the Titan defense took over the district lead in yards allowed at 233. North Shore trails at 235 while Channelview has the district’s third-best defense at 284 yards per game allowed. … Halfway through the season, Titan quarterback Ricky Fisk has thrown for 778 yards and six TDs while running for another 488 yards and nine TDs … If Fisk continues on his current pace, he’ll become the fifth player in school history to rush for 1,000 yards in a season and the fifth to pass for over 1,500 yards. … Receiver John Leday has picked up another scholarship offer recently from Southeast Louisiana. … Titans kicker Ricardo Estupinan has been limited in recent weeks, limiting him to just field goals and PATs. Junior receiver Tayylor Labrie has filled in admirably for him on both kickoffs and punts. Labrie is leading the district in punting average at 38.2 yards per punt. La Porte’s Eric Medina is close behind at 38.1. Channelview capsule: Falcons went 5-[[phy_address]] season and 1-[[phy_address]] play. This year, Channelview lost to Kingwood Park 21-0 to open the season before beating Humble 21-13. The Falcons have lost their last three games, falling 49-12 to Pasadena Memorial, 28-7 to Aldine and 59-7 to North Shore … After passing for [[phy_address]] season, Falcons have managed just 180 yards of total offense on average through half the season …. Part of Channelview’s struggles the past few weeks has been due to injuries. Channelview head coach Averion Hurts said he’s been missing three or four starters on defense since Week 2, which has hurt a unit that started out the year as one of this team’s strengths. … Senior running back Matthew Williams leads the Falcons in rushing with 44 carries for 203 yards and a TD. Williams is also the team’s leading receiver, with 13 catches for 100 yards. … Falcons have used multiple quarterbacks this season as they try to settle a position held by Averion Hurts’ son, Averion, last season. Junior Trevin Watson has completed 19 of 47 passes for 150 yards and two TDs this season while senior Kevshaud Busby has completed 14 of 31 for 127 yards and two INTs. Harrison said : “Channelview played us tough last year. That team plays hard. What people may not realize is that their record does not reflect how hard that team plays. That’s year in and year out. They don’t just get up to play Memorial, they’ve just had more success against us than other teams. They’ve had some injuries and have rotated some different QBs in there, but they can be explosive. Once they get all their athletes on the field, they’ll be a very tough team.” Hurts said : “We have traditionally played well against Memorial and we hope to do the same this year. We’re inexperienced at a number of positions on offense and we’re still trying to get a feel for the chemistry on that side of the ball. We’ve also had a lot of injuries. We haven’t been able to put our starting 11 on the field defensively since Week 2. We’re not a deep team, so those injuries hurt.” Sports Memorial-Channelview fast facts PORT ARTHUR — Channelview at Port Arthur Memorial - Sports - - Halliburton column: Howard returns to 'Professor Hakeem' - West on golf: Spring weather helping The Palms shape up - Area golf notepad: Jarrod Brown helps MHB wins ASC championship - Memorial's Labrie has shot to reach Austin - LU golfers sixth at SLC championships - WO-S uses big first to thump Bridge City - Titans, Bulldogs win in baseball The Port Arthur Memorial Titans for the second time this District 21-5A season defeated the Beaumont West Brook Bruins. - Weisbrod wins Best Center for third straight year It will be interesting to watch what high school basketball award givers will do next year when Nederland senior Colton Weisbrod is playing at the University of New Orleans.
by Gema Luna and Daniel Reamer, Assistant Editors Old enemies and checkered pasts come afloat in the next episode of Arrow. Wednesdays at 8/7c on The CW. SPOILER ALERT! Vertigo, the drug that almost killed Oliver’s (Stephen Amell – The Vampire Diaries) sister, Thea (Willa Holland – Legion), is back on the streets of Starling city and all the roads seem to lead to Verdant, or to be more specific to Tommy (Collin Donnell – L.A.Noire), Oliver’s best friend. To make matters worse Detective Lance (Paul Blackthorn – Justice League: Doom) is on the case putting Laurel (Katie Cassidy – Supernatural) in the middle. All the while Felicity (Emily Bett Rickards) and Diggle (David Ramsey – Dexter) are looking into finding Deadshot without Oliver’s knowledge. The hood goes and looks for the only person who knows the formula for Vertigo, the drug dealer named The Count (Seth Gabel), however when he sees him he is completely delusional and crazy, just as he left him, begging the question who is supplying Vertigo. And then The Count allegedly escapes, and the blame goes back to him, or so everybody thinks except for Detective Lance who is suspicious of the club and its not-inspected basement. The episode is a complete set up for the fast approaching season finally, and it looks good. The series has been good since its first episode and it has not disappointed yet. Great cast and great writing make this series a must see. Keep your aim true to ComicsOnline.com and fill your quiver with our FB and twitter for more Arrow, more WonderCon 2013, and everything geek pop culture! \| \| Based on DC Comics, Green Arrow superhero comic book series, Arrow has been reinvented for a modern day audience and comes to DVD and BD for the first time. After being marooned for five years on a remote island, billionaire Oliver Queen returns home with a mysterious agenda and a lethal set of new skills that he uses in a war on crime in this hard-hitting action series. After suffering unimaginable ordeals on the island, the Oliver returns to Starling City a new man -- determined to right the wrongs of his father and sworn to bring justice to those who've corrupted his city. But Oliver finds his crusade complicated by his friends and family who are all affected by his return.
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Giselle's Remix: A uCurate Exhibition November 17, 2012 - January 20, 2013 The first exhibition created through the Clark's interactive uCurate program opens with Giselle's Remix, created by eleven-year-old guest curator Giselle Ciulla. The exhibition brings a fresh eye to some of the Clark's most favored works including those by Pierre-Auguste Renoir, Frederic Remington, Edgar Degas, and Giovanni Boldini. After reviewing nearly 1,000 submissions, the Clark's curatorial team chose Giselle's Remix as the first uCurate exhibition for the ways in which her unique perspective evokes feelings and emotions that belie her youth. The exhibition's November 17 opening day will coincide with the Clark's fall Family Day and will be highlighted by a curatorial conversation with Ciulla at 4:00 pm in the Clark's auditorium. Join the fun, create your own uCurate exhibition, and yours may be selected for a future installation.
Posted By: StormCnter - 1/27/2013 4:19:[[phy_address]] Reply This week, the Entity Formerly Known As The Obama Campaign transformed itself into a lobbying/grassroots activist group, intending on leveraging its microtargeting and marketing success into generating a groundswell of support for Obama’s political agenda. Their first project — frighten legislators into backing Obama’s gun-control proposals by touching off a deluge of phone calls and communications to Capitol Hill offices. So far, though, the genius of the campaign seems to be somewhat lacking, according to Buzzfeed’s John Stanton (via Instapundit): Call in campaigns can be a powerful tool in lobbying Congress: New York Gun Owners Flip the Bird to "Assault Weapons" Registration Law Reason Magazine, by J.D. Tucille Original Article Posted By: StormCnter - 1/27/2013 4:15:[[phy_address]] Reply New York Governor Cuomo the Junior may have rushed through his new gun control law with such speed that police will avoid its restrictions only through the blessed miracle of selective enforcement, but he may have a little trouble getting the state´s firearms owners to attend his party. The new law requires owners of those scary-looking rifles known as "assault weapons" to register their property (amidst assurances that, oh no, the registration lists will never be used for confiscation), but gun rights activists are actively urging gun owners to defy the new mandate. Rubio and Paul Embody Conservative Debate Over Foreign Policy New York Times, by Richard W. Stevenson Original Article Posted By: StormCnter - 1/27/2013 4:10:[[phy_address]] Reply Both were propelled into the Senate in 2010 by the passion of the Tea Party movement. Both are possible contenders for the 2016 Republican presidential nomination. And both are now trying to develop their commander in chief credentials through their seats on the Senate Foreign Relations Committee, where they had high-profile opportunities this week to engage on the big issues of the moment. But Senator Marco Rubio of Florida and Senator Rand Paul of Kentucky are a study in contrasts when it comes to national security policy, embodying a broader debate within the conservative movement. R-G1 R-VAR_AD Inaugural auguring: Clues from 2009 speech Daily Inter Lake [Kalispell MT], by Frank Miele Original Article Posted By: davesenior - 1/27/2013 3:23:[[phy_address]] Reply President Obama’s second inaugural address is now history, and unlike various posthaste pundits, I will reserve to history the right to judge it.Nonetheless, the occasion of the inauguration does remind us that it is wise to be wary of speeches in general, and their grand pronouncements in specific, for oftentimes rhetoric does not reflect reality.Take, for instance, the president’s highly praised 2009 inaugural address.[SNIP]Perhaps the disconnect between the president’s words and his actions comes about because most Americans think of government as a necessary evil to be endured whereas President Obama views it as a means to an end—namely redistribution ´Racism´ of early colour photography explored in art exhibition Guardian [UK], by David Smith Original Article Posted By: Ribicon - 1/26/2013 11:58:[[phy_address]] Reply Can the camera be racist? The question is explored in an exhibition that reflects on how Polaroid built an efficient tool for South Africa´s apartheid regime to photograph and police black people. The London-based artists Adam Broomberg and Oliver Chanarin spent a month in South Africa taking pictures on decades-old film that had been engineered with only white faces in mind. They used Polaroid´s vintage ID-2 camera, which had a "boost" button to increase the flash – enabling it to be used to photograph black people for the notorious passbooks, or "dompas", that allowed the state to control Diesel fumes more damaging to health than petrol engines Observer [London, UK], by John Vidal Original Article Posted By: Ribicon - 1/26/2013 11:52:[[phy_address]] Reply Diesel fumes are significantly more damaging to health than those from petrol engines, according to research which shows that related air pollution contributes to lung disease, heart attacks, asthma and other respiratory problems. The findings, published by the Department for Energy and Climate Change, are an embarrassment for successive governments, which have encouraged a switch to diesel since [[phy_address]] and company car tax to CO2 emissions. Diesel engines have been billed as "green" by car makers, governments and environmental groups because they are more fuel-efficient and emit less CO2 than petrol. Vehicles with low fuel economy DeMint to GOP elders: Game over, pals. Insists conservatives must drive agenda Washington Times, by Seth McLaughlin Original Article Posted By: Dreadnought - 1/26/2013 11:23:[[phy_address]] Reply Sporting his new hat as the head of the Heritage Foundation, former Sen. Jim DeMint said Saturday said that conservatives should not rely on the GOP establishment to deliver the movement´s message. He said it is time to take matters into their own hands. Addressing the National Review Institute´s "Future of Conservatism" summit, Mr. DeMint said that conservatives must take charge of the way the movement is perceived. "Conservatives have given the sole distribution rights of our ideas, our beliefs and our values - at least in the political sphere - to the Republican party," Senate’s pragmatic ranks depleted by one with Chambliss’s departure Washington Post, by Paul Kane Original Article Posted By: Dreadnought - 1/26/2013 11:19:[[phy_address]] Reply The trio of Southern gentlemen came to the Senate together in 2003, the leading edge of a renegade Republican class set on shaking up the chamber’s staid ways and aggressively promoting the Bush White House’s conservative agenda. Ten years later, Sens. Lamar Alexander (Tenn.), Saxby Chambliss (Ga.) and Lindsey O. Graham (S.C.) are now establishment dealmakers and elder statesmen — roles that earn them respect in Washington but could lead to tough challenges from fellow Republicans when they run for re-election next year. Milwaukee Sheriff: Calling 911, Waiting Not Best Option for Defense Breitbart´s Big Government, by AWR Hawkins Original Article Posted By: Dreadnought - 1/26/2013 11:12:[[phy_address]] Reply Milwaukee County Sheriff David Clarke Jr. has released a 30 second public announcement calling on the citizens of Milwaukee to familiarize themselves with a firearm and aid the police in defending life between the time they dial 911 and the time the police arrive. Directing his comments to the public, Clarke said: "With officers laid off and furloughed, simply calling 911 and waiting isn´t your best option. You can beg for mercy from a violent criminal, hide under your bed, or fight back." He added: "Consider taking a certified safety course in handling a firearm so you can defend yourself Ted Cruz’s Advice to GOP Lawmakers National Review Online, by Eliana Johnson Original Article Posted By: Dreadnought - 1/26/2013 11:05:[[phy_address]] Reply Texas senator Ted Cruz addressed the NRI Summit earlier today. Wearing a business suit and black cowboy boots, he had the podium removed from the stage so he could roam freely, and spoke without notes. In his remarks, Cruz offered guidance for his fellow GOP lawmakers. On his way out, I asked him to pass along some of that advice for National Review Online readers who couldn’t be here today, and about the role that the NRSC, of which he–along with Ohio senator Rob Portman– serves as vice chair, will play in the 2014 election. Cruz’s advice Victim Speaks Out After Vicious New Year´s Eve Attack WTVF-TV [Nashville, TN], by Staff Original Article Posted By: Ribicon - 1/26/2013 11:03:[[phy_address]] Reply Nashville, Tenn. – A brutal attack left a man with broken facial bones and severe injuries and it happened within a crowd of more than 100 police officers and thousands of on-lookers. On New Year´s Eve 2013 Bobby Lewis and his cousin came to downtown Nashville to celebrate. He said while walking down to the Bash on Broadway they were approached by 4 or 5 men and attacked. "They kind of ran up on us and next thing you know they are in a confrontation with us and I am like, ´just take our phones guys, just leave us alone," B-G1 Gun stores running low on popular ammunition WSMV-TV [Nashville, TN], by Anne McCloy Original Article Posted By: Ribicon - 1/26/2013 10:54:[[phy_address]] Reply Nashville, TN - People who have managed to buy a gun despite the high demand and empty shelves at many area gun stores may now be facing a new problem. Gun stores around Nashville are running out of ammunition. It´s flying off the shelves so quickly, some store owners are putting limits on what customers can buy - if there is anything left to sell in the first place. The Nashville Gun Shop receives about 100 calls a day from customers with the same problem. In 2013, the gold rush is on .22 caliber bullets. "We cannot get any. We probably have Former IDF Chief: Women Will ´Surprise´ the U.S. Military US News & World Report, by Paul D. Shinkman Original Article Posted By: Attercliffe - 1/26/2013 10:09:[[phy_address]] Reply A retired general of the Israel Defense Forces cautions the U.S. military from acting too quickly to incorporate women into combat roles. Gen. Yitzkah Gershon is a 32-year veteran of commanding troops in the IDF, which have counted women among its frontline troops for decades. Gershon has marveled at female soldier´s ability to perform in combat situations, but warns against sudden changes to long-standing military institutions. "We have misconceptions. We have been brainwashed about what women can do and what women cannot do. This is a big, big mistake," says Gershon, now national director and CEO of the non-profit Mishandling of abuse cases threatens Mahony´s legacy with Latinos Los Angeles Times, by Hector Becerra* Original Article Posted By: SoCalGal - 1/26/2013 10:07:[[phy_address]] Reply On a Sunday night at Dodger Stadium in 1986, Archbishop Roger M. Mahony celebrated Mass in flawless Spanish. In an era when immigrants in Los Angeles were routinely derided as parasites and criminals, the archbishop told the crowd of 55,000 that whether they were born in Puebla, San Salvador or Managua, they were part of his flock.(Snip)But even as cheers of "Rogelio! Rogelio!" rained down from the upper decks, Mahony was covering up the sexual abuse of some of the most vulnerable in the church, including in his beloved Latino community, church records show. Abortion still has not liberated women Washington Times [DC], by Ashley M. Brashear Original Article Posted By: JoniTx - 1/26/2013 9:59:[[phy_address]] Reply On Jan. 22, our nation commemorated the 40th anniversary of the Supreme Court’s ruling on Roe v. Wade that legalized abortion in America by a 7-2 vote. Steeped in “right to privacy” language, the court ruled that women should have a legal right to abortion. On Friday, hundreds of thousands flocked to the nation’s capitol to commemorate the [[phy_address]] been lost to abortion in the last 40 years, and the mothers and fathers who still bear the scars of their choices. We remembered the 55 million children’s lives lost to abortion, but also that millions R_DBL_B Dead serial killer leaves investigators a mystery Associated Press, by Staff Original Article Posted By: SoCalGal - 1/26/2013 9:55:[[phy_address]] Reply ANCHORAGE, Alaska — The suspect, hands and feet shackled, fidgeted in his chair, chuckling at times as he confessed to a brutal killing. Israel Keyes showed no remorse as he described in merciless detail how he´d abducted and strangled an 18-year-old woman, then demanded ransom, pretending she was alive. (Snip) In 40 hours of interviews over eight months, Keyes talked of many killings; authorities believe there were nearly a dozen. He traveled from Vermont to Alaska hunting for victims. He said he buried "murder kits" around the country so they would be readily accessible. Immigration reform could add millions of people under Obama health law The Hill [Washington, DC], by Elise Viebeck Original Article Posted By: KarenJ1 - 1/26/2013 9:48:[[phy_address]] Reply Comprehensive immigration reform could make millions of people suddenly eligible for assistance under President Obama´s healthcare law, assuming a final deal paves the way for undocumented immigrants to receive papers. Illegal aliens are now prohibited from purchasing coverage through the Affordable Care Act´s insurance exchanges, which will launch next year. They are also ineligible for Medicaid under most circumstances, making the law´s expansion of the program fruitless for people without documents. Even young illegal immigrants with "deferred action" status, known as "DREAMers," cannot access the law´s benefits. Obama says Clinton will go down in history as one of the finest secretaries of state in preview of 60 Minutes interview Daily Mail (UK), by John Clarke Original Article Posted By: JoniTx - 1/26/2013 9:48:[[phy_address]] Reply In an 60 Minutes interview, President Barack Obama says Hillary Clinton will go down in history as one of the finest secretaries of state. In a historic first, Obama made the glowing declaration to Steve Kroft in the Blue Room of the White House in a joint interview with the outgoing the Secretary of State. It was the first interview Obama and Clinton have ever done together. It was also the first joint interview the president has ever given with anyone other than his wife, First Lady Michelle Obama. Scroll down to the video Obama Pledges to Continue Crackdown on ´Irresponsible Behavior´ Weekly Standard, by Daniel Halper Original Article Posted By: KarenJ1 - 1/26/2013 9:44:[[phy_address]] Reply President Barack Obama pledged this morning in his weekly radio address to continue to crackdown on "irresponsible behavior." "Here in America, we know the free market is the greatest force for economic progress the world has ever known. But we also know the free market works best for everyone when we have smart, commonsense rules in place to prevent irresponsible behavior," Obama began. "That’s why we passed tough reforms to protect consumers and our financial system from the kind of abuse that nearly brought our economy to its knees. ´Tory Obama plots to oust the PM´: MP behind secret bid for party leadership revealed as multi-millionaire tycoon Adam Afriyie Daily Mail (UK), by Simon Walters And Brendan Carlin* Original Article Posted By: JoniTx - 1/26/2013 9:40:[[phy_address]] Reply A wealthy MP dubbed the ‘Tory Barack Obama’ has been accused of undermining David Cameron with a secret leadership bid. The Mail on Sunday has learned that multi-millionaire IT tycoon Adam Afriyie is poised to stand, should a rumoured backbench revolt force the Prime Minister to resign. Two Tory MPs have told this newspaper they were asked to sign a letter endorsing Mr Afriyie as a leadership challenger in the event of such a contest. One said Mr Afriyie’s supporters claimed 40 MPs had already signed – though his allies deny the letter even exists. For a Jailed Filmmaker, Clinton’s Benghazi Lies Make a Difference FrontPage Magazine, by Daniel Greenfield Original Article Posted By: KarenJ1 - 1/26/2013 9:37:[[phy_address]] Reply Secretary of State Hillary Clinton arrived back in the Senate, after dodging a few falling safes, multiple banana peels and an ornery dog named Henry, to give a carefully prepared histrionic rant which can be summed up, “I do care a lot” and “None of this was my fault” and “What difference at this point does it make?” The last isn’t a sarcastic restatement. It’s what she actually said. It might make a difference to a Coptic Christian whose trailer for a bad movie was blamed by the leader of the free world for a series of Push for driver´s licenses for Mass. immigrants Associated Press, by Staff Original Article Posted By: JoniTx - 1/26/2013 9:35:[[phy_address]] Reply BOSTON — Massachusetts immigrant advocates are set to gather at the State House in Boston to ask lawmakers to back a bill that will allows all state residents to apply for a driver´s license, regardless of their immigration status. Massachusetts law currently requires immigrants seeking a driver´s license to prove that they are in the country legally. Immigrant advocates say changes will ensure that drivers on state roads are trained, licensed and insured. The Massachusetts Immigrant and Refugee Advocacy Coalition has worked with two Democratic lawmakers to introduce the Safe Driving Bill to address the fact that unlicensed Trashing Tricare Washington Free Beacon, by Bill Gertz Original Article Posted By: KarenJ1 - 1/26/2013 9:31:[[phy_address]] Reply The Obama administration’s proposed defense budget calls for military families and retirees to pay sharply more for their healthcare, while leaving unionized civilian defense workers’ benefits untouched. The proposal is causing a major rift within the Pentagon, according to U.S. officials. Several congressional aides suggested the move is designed to increase the enrollment in Obamacare’s state-run insurance exchanges. The disparity in treatment between civilian and uniformed personnel is causing a backlash within the military that could undermine recruitment and retention. The proposed increases in health care payments by service members, which must be approved by Clinton pushes for more broadcasting of pro-US message, raising questions about agency´s mission Fox News, by Staff Original Article Posted By: JoniTx - 1/26/2013 9:21:[[phy_address]] Reply Secretary of State Hillary Clinton says the country must do a better job of transmitting a pro-Democracy message around the world to counteract the "extremist jihad narrative." Clinton made the comments Wednesday as part of her long-awaited Capitol Hill testimony about the fatal terror attack on a U.S. outpost in Libya that included debate on how the country can prevent similar attacks in the Middle East and other regions in political and civil turmoil. "I think we´ve abdicated the broadcasting arena both in TV and radio, which are considered kind of old-fashioned media (but) still very important Obama´s Abuse of Power Wall Street Journal, by Staff Original Article Posted By: KarenJ1 - 1/26/2013 9:18:[[phy_address]] Reply President Obama has shown increasing contempt for the constitutional limits on his power, and the courts are finally awakening to the news. A unanimous panel of the D.C. Circuit Court of Appeals ruled on Friday that the President´s non-recess recess appointments are illegal and an abuse of executive power. On January 4, 2012, Mr. Obama bypassed the Senate´s advice and consent power by naming three new members of the National Labor Relations Board and appointing Richard Cordray to run the Consumer Financial Protection Bureau. Other Presidents have made recess appointments and we´ve supported that executive authority. Sen. Cruz to House GOP: Stop reading The New York Times Washington Times, by Seth McLaughlin Original Article Posted By: KarenJ1 - 1/26/2013 8:59:[[phy_address]] Reply Texas Sen. Ted Cruz has some advice for fellow Republicans in the House: Stop reading The New York Times. Sparking applause from the crowd gathered at the National Review Institute’s summit, Mr. Cruz said he is confident that the nation is “on the verge of a rebirth of conservatism” and that the first step in that direction is for members of House GOP to cancel their subscription to the Old Gray Lady. “The next two years of headlines from The New York Times: ‘The Democrats are right, abandoned conservative principles,” Mr. Cruz said. Next 25 Articles Home Page \| Latest Posts \| Links \| Must Reads \| Update Profile \| RSS \| Contribute \| Register \| Rules & FAQs \| Search \| Post \| Contact \| Logout \| Forgot Password \| Search Using Google © 2014 Lucianne.com Media Inc.
- n. Going away from one's usual residence for an entire night, and returning the next day. - n. Spending the evening away from one's usual residence. The phrase typically implies going to a restaurant, going to watch entertainment, or other types of urban nightlife, starting from about 6 p.m. to 8 p.m. and lasting until approximately 11:00 pm or later. Etymologies Sorry, no etymologies found. Examples - All the afternoon at the office, and towards night out by coach with my wife, she to the 'Change, and I to see the price of a copper cisterne for the table, which is very pretty, and they demand L6 or L7 for one; but I will have one. - This one is for Katie Desmond, who fed me Oreos for breakfast on my wedding day, appreciates the fashion sense of blue suede shoes, and knows just how many people died that first night out on the QEII. - A night on the town with Stuey Ungar when he was in the chips was like a night out with Diamond Jim Brady. - Had worn it day in and night out while zlipping and shopping, while showering, and while making love. - The humorously named Maiden Lane, once the centre of bawdy entertainments, was now a staid enclave of the fashion industry, and these days, few men woke after a night out on the town to find themselves on a ship bound for Shanghai. - For one brief moment, Walter contemplated ignoring the page, shutting off the little gadget, and enjoying a quiet night out with his wife. - We started from Fort Hays on the 15th of N6vember, and the first night out a blizzard struck us and carried away our tents; and as the gale was so violent that they could not be put up again, the rain and snow drenched us to the skin. - It was remarkable that the first night out Felicita had been nervous and wakeful and the dogs had barked; but by the second night she felt the friendly presence of the wilderness: it pervaded all her sleep. - Here come a gentleman over from France arrived here this day, Mr. Browne of St. Mellos, who, among other things, tells me the meaning of the setting out of doggs every night out of the towne walls, which are said to secure the city; but it is not so, but only to secure the anchors, cables, and ships that lie dry, which might otherwise in the night be liable to be robbed. - In truth, if anything could ever induce me to sleep another night out of my own house, it would have been your friendly invitation and my sollicitude for the subject of it, the education of our youth.
I agree with Justice Kennedy’s points of view. Do not shorten law school. Do not watch television. Do not talk about Lady Gaga. Much to think about. I think he nailed it on the law review substitute. Blogs like the Volokh conspiracy offer real time comments on practical legal questions and frankly are much more enjoyable. I’m impressed, I must say. Actually rarely do I encounter a blog that’s each educative and entertaining, and let me inform you, you have hit the nail on the head. Your idea is outstanding; the issue is something that not enough people are speaking intelligently about. I am very happy that I stumbled across this in my seek for one thing referring to this. The Law Blog covers the legal arena’s hot cases, emerging trends and big personalities. It’s brought to you by lead writer Jacob Gershman with contributions from across The Wall Street Journal’s staff. Jacob comes here after more than half a decade covering the bare-knuckle politics of New York State. His inside-the-room reporting left him steeped in legal and regulatory issues that continue to grab headlines. Comment or tip? Write to [[email_addr]] or [[email_addr]] An effort to end capital punishment in New Hampshire has failed by one vote in the state senate. A Georgia company is battling a lawsuit by an employee injured by a 'potato gun' explosion that he helped set off. Would you be more likely to shop at a drug store if you knew that actress Katherine Heigl, of "One for the Money" and "New Year's Eve" fame, shopped there? That's the suggestion made in a federal lawsuit that Ms. Heigl filed in New York against Duane Reade Inc Were President Barack Obama to sue over the "selfie" photo taken last week by Red Sox slugger David Ortiz, would he have a case? He might, say legal experts, while conceding that it's highly unlikely that the president would take such a step. Google Inc. is trying to register the word "Glass" as a trademark for its computer-powered glasses. But so far, the company and the U.S. trademark office aren't seeing eye to eye. Content engaging our readers now, with additional prominence accorded if the story is rapidly gaining attention. Our WSJ algorithm comprises 30% page views, 20% Facebook, 20% Twitter, 20% email shares and 10% comments.
Chesham Prep are running the following camps over the Easter Holidays: The cricket camp in the middle week IS open to children in Y 2-8 Wednesday 9th – 11th April. D&B is open to Reception - Year 8 (week 1 and 3). Cookies is running on Friday 4th, Wednesday 9th and Wednesday 16th April – strictly first come first served. All events are open to boys and girls Siblings and friends are very welcome to all events.
Dear Jeanne: I absolutely love this soup. I know that artichokes have lots of fiber, and if I could remove the cream yet still keep this creamy, I think it would be a very healthy soup. What can you do? — Gloria, Indianapolis Dear Gloria: This soup needs only a few changes, and it's still delicious and creamy, yet the fat goes from 42 grams down to 3 grams per serving! I think you will love it, and it takes only a few minutes to make. If you have a stick blender that you can place in the pan, it makes it even easier. I found that the frozen artichoke hearts were less expensive, because there were 3 cups of hearts in the package compared with 11/2 cups in the can, so you can use 1 bag of the frozen artichokes instead of 2 cans. Plus, there almost always is less sodium in frozen food than in canned food, as there is in this case. If you would like to have an even lower-fat version, omit the cheese, and you'll cut out 2 grams of fat and 30 calories. CREAM OF ARTICHOKE SOUP 1/2 stick butter 1 cup onion, chopped 1/2 cup celery, chopped 1/2 cup carrot, chopped 1 clove garlic, minced 2 tablespoons flour 3 cups chicken broth, divided use 2 cans (14 ounces) artichoke hearts, chopped 2 cups heavy cream Salt, to taste Pepper, to taste 3/4 cup grated Parmesan cheese Melt the butter in a large saucepan. Add the onion, celery and carrot, and cook until softened. Add the garlic, then the flour. Cook for 2 minutes more. Add 1 cup of the chicken broth and bring to a boil. Keep adding the chicken broth until all of it is added, and bring to a full boil. Add the chopped artichoke hearts. Transfer half of the soup at a time to a blender to puree. Return to the pan and add the heavy cream. Heat the soup to serving temperature and season with the salt and pepper. Stir in the Parmesan cheese while the soup is hot. Makes 6 servings. LOW-FAT CREAM OF ARTICHOKE SOUP 1 1/2 teaspoons olive oil 1 cup finely chopped onion 1 cup finely chopped celery 1/2 cup finely chopped carrot 3 cups fat-free chicken broth, divided use 3 cloves garlic, pressed or minced 1 tablespoon cornstarch or arrowroot 1 bag (14 ounces) frozen artichoke hearts, or 2 cans (14 ounces each) artichoke hearts (about 3 cups), chopped 2 cups fat-free half-and-half 1/4 teaspoon freshly ground black pepper 1/2 cup freshly grated Parmesan cheese 1. In a large saucepan, heat the olive oil over medium-high heat. Add the onion, celery and carrot. Add 1 cup of the chicken broth to the vegetables to prevent burning, and cook over medium heat for about 10 minutes, or until softened. Add the garlic and the rest of the chicken broth. Dissolve the cornstarch or arrowroot in cold water or chicken broth, and stir it in. Bring to a boil. - Do moms need a purpose beyond motherhood? - John Lennon audio interviews surface on 'I'm... - Top 10 spring activities for Utah families - Mormon Tabernacle Choir to carry on tradition... - 'Star Trek: The Next Generation' cast... - Bubba Watson, two-time Masters Golf... - Can you name the celebrity voices behind... - Salt Lake's record-setting convention kicks...
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Most people who tend plants in the yard also set out bird food for the wild birds. The two passions almost go hand-in-hand. They can overlap even more if you grow your own bird food, says Marie Iannotti. No, I'm not talking about growing exactly the same kind of seed that you would find in the typical bag of bird food (although many do grow sunflowers to beautify their yards, then harvest the seeds for bird food). But as About.com's Gardening Guide discusses in this article, there are many flowers you can grow that attract wild birds with their seeds, including: There are also many trees and shrubs that attract birds.
phpCacheAdmin is a Web application for administrating and debugging Memcached. It allows you to delete or view the current contents of the server and specify the output cache time. It also has the potential to be expanded to xDebug, FileCache, radishes, and other types of caches. A TimeMachine style backup system for Linux. An ecological niche modeling framework.
Phoenixville Democratic Committee Beef and Beer Event The PDCÂ Fall Fundraiser will be held, October 24th from 7p-11p at the VFW at [[phy_address]] Phoenixville, PA. Tickets are $30 per person and include food and beer. Tickets can be purchased at the door. Please invite everyone you know. The more people that attend, the better for our party. For questions and more information, contact Marifran Manzo-Ritchie at 484-680-1213 or via email at [[email_addr]] Posted: October 25th, 2009 under ChesCo Democrats. Write a comment You need to login to post comments!
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. 47° Nearby Aresimowicz to PURA: Put a Halt to Northeast Utility Outsourcing The battle with Northeast Utilities, the parent company of Berlin-based Connecticut Light and Power, continues as the House Majority Leader submitted testimony to PURA Monday calling for a cease to plans that would outsource hundreds of IT jobs. Posted by Jason Vallee (Editor) , House Majority Leader Joseph Aresimowicz on Monday submitted testimony to the state’s Public Utilities Regulatory Authority requesting that the authority reject the proposal submitted, requiring the jobs to remain in state. “I am highly distressed by the outsourcing of hundreds of jobs currently held by middle-class workers here in Connecticut for the sake of corporate profit,” Aresimowicz told PURA. “The outsourcing could have several severe consequences including diminishing the utility’s storm response capabilities, jeopardizing the security of its infrastructure and customer information, and degrading the quality of customer service,” he said. The plans, announced in September, are designed to help further a merger between Northeast Utilities and NSTAR. The plan calls for outsourcing of several hundred jobs, mostly in the IT department. The exact number of jobs and where the jobs would be eliminated from has not been completely determined. Al Lara, spokesman for Northeast Utilities, confirmed Monday that the company is currently working directly with the state Attorney General and Consumer Counsel to answer questions and concerns. The reasoning behind the move lies in a merger between the two utility giants last year, but moves being made are deliberate, calculated and done with the best intentions of the company and its customers and employees in mind, Lara said. “It is a simple matter,” Lara said in a September interview. “When we merged, the company did so with comprehensive agreements and a concentrated effort to deliver real savings to our customers.” “We are going to become a more efficient organization and since the merger began, the company has taken a slow and deliberate approach to the process to not just effect change but make changes for better,” he said. Aresimowicz, who represents Berlin and Southington, has repeatedly met with the Berlin based utility over the past few months. Supported by several fellow legislators, Aresimowicz sent a letter on Sept. 9 requesting PURA investigate the “reported outsourcing.” On Nov. 7, PURA officially opened a proceeding to investigate the outsourcing and held a hearing Monday. In Aresimowicz first term, he introduced legislation requiring companies seeking to do business with the state to identify whether services would be performed outside the United States. The legislation, which passed the House, was never taken up for a vote in the Senate. If it had been approved, it would have also given preference to contractors with supplies, materials and equipment produced, assembled or manufactured in the Connecticut or United States and to services originating and provided in the state or United States, Rose said. Make sure to like Southington Patch on Facebook or follow on Twitter for breaking news, daily updates and more! BoardsMore » Got a question? Something on your mind? Talk to your community, directly. Note Article Just a short thought to get the word out quickly about anything in your neighborhood. Share something with your neighbors.What's on your mind?What's on your mind?Make an announcement, speak your mind, or sell somethingPost something - - Your Account - Sign In - Join Patch - Why Join? - - - Patch Info - About us - Jobs - About our Ads - Patch Blog - - Partner with Us - Advertise - Claim your listing - Add your business - PatchU - Volunteer Copyright ©2014 Planck LLC d/b/a Patch Media. All rights reserved.
The Juniors age group is splitted into “Elite Juniors” and just “Juniors”. The Elite Jrs. play in two national wide leagues called Elite A and Elite B. The worst A-League team gets relegated to Elite B and the best B-Team replaces it in the Elite A. Further, the B-League is splitted into an Eastern and Western division. The Juniors are divided into Eastern Switzerland, Central Switzerland, Suisse Romande. All of the three leagues are splitted into different divisions, named Top, A1 (or A), A2 (or B). Under these categories, there is a “Level B”. Below I have tried to put all this together into an easy graph.
Questions to pose when you’re feeling stuck or overwhelmed: 1. Ask, “Who?” not “How?” When you feel stuck or overwhelmed, stop trying to figure out “how” and instead train your brain to say, “Who might know the next step?” or “Who might help?” 2. Ask “What’s essential?” That question allows the unnecessary to disappear so you can focus on what’s really of value. 3. Ask “When?” Maybe this isn’t the right time for a task. If you don’t have all the information you need, put the project on hold until you do. Like what you've read? ...Republish it and share great business tips! Attention: Readers, Publishers, Editors, Bloggers, Media, Webmasters and more... We believe great content should be read and passed around. After all, knowledge IS power. And good business can become great with the right information at their fingertips. If you'd like to share any of the insightful articles on BusinessManagementDaily.com, you may republish or syndicate it without charge. The only thing we ask is that you keep the article exactly as it was written and formatted. You also need to include an attribution statement and link to the article. " This information is proudly provided by Business Management Daily.com: http://www.businessmanagementdaily.com/28715/overwhelmed-ask-3-questions "
// Patrick has also collaborated with designers at Outpost LA to perform brand audits and creative overhauls of existing brands, and create new voices and identities for Getable and The Goldhirsh Foundation. He’s also outlined editorial strategies for nonprofit organizations through the agency Lybba. And, while working alongside Houseblend Media, he’s written campaign scripts for Starbucks and edited short-form documentary-style videos for Pepsico, Microsoft, Save the Children, and Washington Environmental Council. A commercial spot I helped write and produce, and in which I (technically) acted for director Josh Soskin. It won the Grand Prize for Vitamin Water’s contest at the 2011 Cannes Lyon Festival. Worked closely with both the client and designers at Outpost LA to draft an editorial vision and, having done that, write all the copy for this web identity. Worked closely with designers at Outpost LA to perform a brand audit, create a new name, and develop editorial strategy for this collaborative-consumption-themed web identity and app.
Foreign tourists were attracted to the variety of tastes on display at a festival promoting rural tourism in the Mekong Delta hub of Can Tho Wednesday. The tourists were allowed to help decorate booths and try 50 dishes prepared by locals and tourism agencies in the city and the delta provinces of Soc Trang, An Giang, Ben Tre, and Tra Vinh, Saigon Tiep Thi newspaper reported. Participation was free for tourists. Sebastian Laux from Germany said he enjoyed his first bites of banh it, a typical sweet snack from the delta. It is a pyramid-shaped sticky rice cake stuffed with ground mung beans or coconut flesh and wrapped in banana leaves. Bananen Boxer and his wife who owns a fruit shop in Belgium also said there were many kinds of foods that they got to try for the first time. They said the festival managed to appreciate traditional values and it needs to be developed into an annual event for the reference of later generations as well as foreign visitors. The festival, “Special Dishes from Villages,” was an initiative launched with the cooperation of travel agents, local farmers, food producers and business research experts to promote the less-known destinations in the delta by pressing the value of traditions and creativity. Vo Thi Le Hang, a representative of Quoc Hai, a Can Tho-based producer of Vietnam’s leading fish sauce brand Phu Quoc, joined the festival for free. “I joined several chefs to prepare delicious dishes representing some destinations to make them friendly to the visitors,” Hang said. Quoc Hai also joined with Can Tho Sugar Company and the city’s rice exporter Thot Not General Commerce Company to sponsor a competition at the festival, which had students telling stories of the best rural dishes. Vu Binh, an orchard owner in Can Tho's Phong Dien District, brought to the festival cakes he made with fruits from his garden. “Many foreigners ate my cakes and they really liked them. So it made me realize that I need to be more proactive.” Binh said he sought cooperation from travel agents three years ago but it didn’t work out, “though my fruits and dishes are not worse than at other places.” Nguyen Ngoc Na, deputy director of Ke Sach District Culture Center of Soc Trang Province, said the festival helped guide rural businesses in creating unique differences for each destination. Na introduced Soc Trang’s home stay tourism at the festival by letting visitors pick snails and cook with hosts. He said visitors can do the same on tours to Soc Trang during the Lunar New Year Festival late this month. Vo Thanh Tam, director of the Phong Dien District Tourism and Commerce Investment and Promotion Center, said the festival offered some ground rules for local tourism destinations to double check their services and adjust them to fit visitors’ preferences.
Who’s ready for some dessert? Here’s my recipe for S’more bread pudding! Ingredients: Bread Pudding - - 1 1/2 loaves Of Challah bread cut into large cubed and dried - 1/2 cup butter at room temp - 2 cups milk - 1 1/2 cup heavy cream - 3 eggs - 1 cup brown sugar - 1 cup coconut palm sugar - 2 teaspoons vanilla extract - 2 cups large marshmallows quartered - 1/2 cup dark 70 + chocolate coarsely chopped - 3/4 cup semi sweet coarsely chopped Crumble Topping - - 8 whole graham crackers, crushed and mixed with 1/4 cup softer butter, a dash of cinnamon, and 1/2 cup brown sugar. The mixture should be rough crumbled pieces. Preparation: Preheat oven to 350 degrees and lightly grease 10 x 15 baking dish. In a separate bowl combine the butter, milk, eggs, sugars, extract and 1/2 the chocolate with the dried cubed bread until completely saturated in. Place half of this mixture in baking dish, then follow with a generous layer of chocolate, graham cracker crumble and and marshmallows, add remaining bread mixture, repeat layering steps ending with a graham cracker crumble topped masterpiece! Cook do about 45 minutes or until golden brown. Serve warm with your favorite vanilla ice cream! Serves about 15. Enjoy!
Expected to be a highly competitive race before the season began, the Metro Atlantic Athletic Conference has not disappointed its followers to this point in the season. And on Sunday the tips of Canisius guard Billy Baron’s fingers proved to be the difference between Niagara remaining alone in first place and dropping into a tie with Iona. Baron’s shot as time expired was originally thought to be good, giving the Golden Griffins a 67-66 win and moving them to within a game of the Purple Eagles and Gaels. But after reviewing the shot (the picture of which can be seen below, thanks to @ryanrestivo) the officials determined that Baron did not get the shot off in time. The thinnest margin @NUPurpleEagles hung on to today to beat @GoGriffs 66-65 #maachoops PHOTO Baron's buzzer beater http://t.co/hzHwRAUI— Ryan Restivo (@ryanarestivo) January 27, 2013 The end result: a 66-65 Niagara victory with Marvin Jordan, whose three-pointer with four seconds remaining gave the Purple Eagles the lead, playing the role of hero. For Jordan this would be an appropriate ending as he scored 23 points off the bench on an afternoon that saw point guard and second-leading scorer Juan’ya Green score eight points (he did finish with eight assists) and third-leading scorer Ameen Tanksley shoot 1-of-9 from the field. Baron would finish with nine points on 4-of-14 shooting but the play of Chris Manhertz (17 points, 15 rebounds) and Isaac Sosa (14 points) allowed the Golden Griffins to hold the lead for much of the day despite the Rhode Island transfer’s shooting struggles. The wild finish in Buffalo capped a day that began with five teams separated by two games in the loss column at the top of the MAAC standings and finished with three: Niagara (9-1), Iona (8-2) and Loyola (MD) (7-3). Iona, who has won eight of its last nine games, beat Loyola 79-71 in Baltimore with Lamont Jones leading the way offensively (24 points) and forward David Laury posting his third straight double-double (ten points, 14 rebounds) and fifth of the season. Dylon Cormier (18 points, seven rebounds) and Robert Olson (14 points) led the way for the Greyhounds but Erik Etherly (3-of-12 FG) struggled and as a team Jimmy Patsos’ team shot 8-of-18 from the foul line. Iona, by comparison, hit 20 of their 25 free throws. Canisius and Rider, both 6-4 in MAAC play, aren’t out of the race with eight games remaining but climbing to the top of the standings will be difficult. With Iona having beat Niagara 83-72 way back on November 28, the rematch this Thursday at Niagara takes on added importance. If Baron’s disallowed shot is a harbinger of things to come, look for the MAAC race to go right down to the wire. Photo credit: Niagara University (Marvin Jordan); video from maacsports.com Raphielle also writes for the NBE Basketball Report and can be followed on Twitter at @raphiellej. - NCAA grants Arizona State’s Shaquielle McKissic extra season of eligibility Apr 18, 2014, 1:39 PM EDT Arizona State announced Friday that guard Shaquielle McKissic has been granted an extra season of eligibility by the NCAA. - Duke sophomore Rodney Hood officially entering 2014 NBA Draft Apr 18, 2014, 1:03 PM EDT Duke’s Rodney Hood made the news official Friday, announcing that he’ll be entering the 2014 NBA Draft. - Family, friends celebrate life of ‘Princess Lacey’ at Breslin Center (VIDEO) Apr 18, 2014, 12:48 PM EDT Family and friends of Lacey Holsworth gathered at the Breslin Center to celebrate her life on Thursday. - Kansas to begin building home for Dr. James Naismith’s ‘Rules of Basket Ball’ May 2 Apr 18, 2014, 11:30 AM EDT Kansas will hold a groundbreaking ceremony for the DeBruce Center on May 2nd. - NCAA council aims to change immediate eligibility waiver policy Apr 18, 2014, 10:23 AM EDT With the rise in graduate transfers, the NCAA is looking to change the immediate eligibility process. - Former Nevada forward Cole Huff free to transfer to non-Mountain West schools in southern California Apr 17, 2014, 9:40 PM EDT The number of schools that former Nevada forward Cole Huff is prohibited from transferring to has been cut down to 38 following an appeals hearing Thursday. - Cincinnati, Creighton among eight teams in inaugural Emerald Coast Classic Apr 17, 2014, 9:07 PM EDT NCAA tournament participants Cincinnati, Creighton and North Carolina Central part of eight-team field in inaugural Emerald Coast Classic. - Order of protection filed against former Missouri F Zach Price thrown out Apr 17, 2014, 8:16 PM EDT The order of protection filed against former Missouri forward Zach Price by Earnest Ross was thrown out Thursday. - Green Bay, head coach Brian Wardle agree to new five-year contract Apr 17, 2014, 7:17 PM EDT After leading Green Bay to a 24-win season, head coach Brian Wardle’s been rewarded with a new five-year contract. - Gonzaga adds forward Domantas Sabonis to solid 2014 recruiting haul Apr 17, 2014, 5:56 PM EDT Gonzaga’s added a fourth member to its 2014 recruiting class, with the son of Hall of Famer Arvydas Sabonis making his pledge to join the program. - Houston duo still looking to be released from respective scholarships Apr 17, 2014, 5:06 PM EDT Former Houston players Danuel House and TaShawn Thomas met with an appeals committee Thursday in hopes of getting released from their respective scholarships. - Report: Rodney Hood to enter the NBA Draft Apr 17, 2014, 4:19 PM EDT Rodney Hood is following Jabari Parker to the league. - Reports: Missouri’s Frank Haith agrees to take the Tulsa job Apr 17, 2014, 4:03 PM EDT Is Frank Haith getting out of Missouri before they kick him out? - Kentucky’s James Young to enter the NBA Draft Apr 17, 2014, 3:25 PM EDT Kentucky is still waiting to hear from four players on their NBA decision. - Report: Jordan Adams to return to UCLA Apr 17, 2014, 2:33 PM EDT UCLA will be a contender in the Pac-12 next season with Jordan Adams returning to school. - Are the Harrison twins leaning towards returning to school? 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- Government Cloud Brokerage: Who, What, When, Where, Why? - Government Mobility - The Intersection: Where Technology Meets Transformation - Maximizing ROI Through Data Center Consolidation - Mobile Device Management - The Modern Federal Threat Landscape - Moving to the Cloud. What's the best approach for me - Navigating Tough Choices in Government Cloud Computing - Satellite Communications: Acquiring SATCOM in Tight Times - Transformative Technology: Desktop Virtualization in Government - Understanding the Intersection of Customer Service and Security in the Cloud News Shows & Panels Afghan military to spy on own troops Tuesday - 2/21/2012, 9:31am EST The Afghan military is planning to spy on it's own soldiers to root out those behind a string of attacks on American and other Western troops. The Wall Street Journal reports, agents from the National Directorate of Security — the country's spy agency — will be deployed to monitor Afghan soldiers at every step, from recruitment and training to deployment and even home leave. They hope the plan will help weed out troublemakers and prevent more deadly attacks. Last year, the U.S. military warned the attacks were turning into a "growing systemic threat" to the mission. This story is part of Federal News Radio's daily DoD Report. For more defense news, click here.
I'm walking in the city, Downtown air fills my lungs, ........................ ........................ read full text » Shadrach Knight Shadrach Knight's Other Poems - Black Hole - Black Ink of The Fallen Angle - Broken By A Tree - Dirty Streets - Downtown sidewalk - Ember Dim - Emotional Desert and Tidal Waves Of Sere... - Four Friends Sitting In The Booth At The... - Growing up - Just Wondering - Maybe Were Crazy - Moving On After - My back to the broken wall - My Shadow Read this poem in other languages This poem has not been translated into any other language yet. I would like to translate this poem » Comments about this poem (My Shadow by Shadrach Knight ) - Hans Vr (12/10/2011 6:16:00 PM) What a wonderful poem. Our Creator never leaves us really alone.
Stock Report: STAAR Surgical Company (STAA) Report Updated: Apr 21, 2014 \| Print This Page Report Features: Stock Analysis \|Fundamental Grade:\|\|C\| \|Sales Growth:\|\|B\| \|Operating Margin Growth:\|\|C\| \|Earnings Growth:\|\|C\| \|Earnings Momentum:\|\|C\| \|Earnings Surprises:\|\|F\| \|Analyst Earnings Revisions:\|\|F\| \|Cash Flow:\|\|C\| \|Return on Equity:\|\|C\| \|Quantitative Grade:\|\|A\| \|Total Grade:\|\|B\| Rating: Monthly View \|A\| \|B\| \|C\| \|D\| \|F\| Rating: Weekly View \|This Week:\|\|B no change\| \|Last Week:\|\|B no change\| \|Two Weeks Ago:\|\|B no change\| STAAR Surgical Company© quotemedia Company Profile STAAR Surgical Company, together with its subsidiaries, engages in the design, development, manufacture, and sale of implantable lenses for the cataracts and refractive surgery. It offers intraocular lenses (IOL) that include silicone Toric IOL, which is used in cataract surgery to treat preexisting astigmatism; Preloaded Injector, a three-piece silicone or acrylic IOL preloaded into a single-use disposable injector; Aspheric IOLs that provide a clearer image than traditional spherical IOLs; and nanoFLEX IOL, a single-piece collamer aspheric IOL. The company also provides implantable collamer lenses (ICL) comprising VISIAN ICL and VISIAN Toric ICL to treat refractive disorders, such as myopia, hyperopia, and astigmatism. In addition, it sells surgical products and other related instruments, as well as manufactures AquaFlow device for the treatment of glaucoma. The company markets its products to health care providers, including surgical centers, hospitals, managed care providers, health maintenance organizations, group purchasing organizations, and government facilities primarily under the STAAR, Visian, Collamer, nanoFLEX, nanoPOINT, CentraFLOW, AquaPORT, Epiphany, and AquaFlow names. It distributes its products through directly employed representatives, independent sales representatives, and local distributors in the United States and internationally. The company was founded in 1982 and is headquartered in Monrovia, California. Recent News: STAAR Surgical Company \|2014-04-23 06:01:00\|\|STAAR Surgical to Host Investor Breakfast and Webcast during the ASCRS Symposium on Cataract and Refractive Surgery\| \|2014-04-17 07:00:00\|\|STAAR Surgical Announces First Quarter 2014 Results Release Date, Conference Call and Webcast\| \|2014-04-16 00:00:00\|\|Report of unscheduled material events or corporate changes - Form 8-K\| \|2014-03-23 17:57:58\|\|InvestorsGuru.com 17 Filtered Mid-Day Market Movers Recap\| \|2014-03-19 00:00:00\|\|Pre-effective amendment to an S-3 filing - Form S-3/A\| My Portfolios (View All) Save your portfolio—or a few for that matter—and check up on your stocks 24/7! Log in here.
Posts in Keystone XL Keystone XL announcement met with predictable oily responseThe State Department announced a delay in their Keystone XL review process today, as they wade through 2.5 million public comments, as well as work to get a handle on the fact that thanks to a Nebraska Supreme Court ruling, there is currently no legal route through Nebraska. This announcement is a good thing, from... Continue reading 'Keystone XL announcement met with predictable oily response'. Oil Change International response to Keystone XL announcementDespite the industry’s multi-million dollar effort to distort the facts, the truth remains that Keystone XL would promote the increased production of the dirtiest oil on the planet Advisory: World’s largest crop art to be created in opposition to Keystone XLCreation of the world's largest crop art image, the size of 70 football fields, depicting a #nokxl message to Pres. Obama to reject Keystone XL and protect our land, water and climate. The event will kick-off the week-long series of actions (April 22-27) called Reject and Protect planned for Washington, DC. Crude by Rail Spills Increased 10 Times from 2008-2013An analysis of oil spilled in the transportation process by Oil Change International using data from the Pipeline and Hazardous Materials Safety Administration Office reveals that the number of spills from crude by rail increased by almost 10 times from 2008-2013. Did the State Department Manipulate Facts to Support Keystone XL?An in-depth analysis released earlier this week by the Carbon Tracker Initiative suggests that the authors of the State Department’s Final Supplementary Environmental Impact Statement (FSEIS) for the Keystone XL pipeline even more severely underestimate the climate impact of the pipeline than initial criticisms suggest. Hundreds of Students Arrested in “XL Dissent” ActionYesterday, several hundred students from over 80 colleges across the United States were arrested outside the White House as they took part in “XL Dissent” - a major demonstration against the controversial Keystone XL pipeline. Climate change is “world’s largest weapon of mass destruction”For once the words of a politician were extremely bold and clear. The warning was brutally stark. In a keynote speech on climate change in Indonesia, Secretary of State, John Kerry, likened global warming to a weapon of mass destruction and dismissed climate sceptics as members of the “Flat Earth Society”. KXL “Contractor Controversy” About to “Get Heated”When the State Department’s long-awaited Final Environmental Impact Statement into the controversial Keystone XL (KXL) pipeline was published last week, it was met with dismay from the environmental community. Thousands gather across the nation to say #NoKXLOne thing is already clear tonight: the movement to stand up against Big Oil, dirty tar sands, and disastrous pipeline projects is strong, determined, and beautiful. State Department admits Keystone XL could equal 5.7 million carsThe President says he understands climate and is committed to acting in the interests of posterity and not big donors. That means rejecting Keystone XL, plain and simple. The President and Secretary of State Kerry have all the information they need to reject this pipeline.
Riyadh does not usually evoke any instant association with holiday and tourism. It is a city with no beaches and no mountains. Admittedly, it is the capital of Saudi Arabia but unlike Jeddah it is not accessible to the millions of religious tourists who visit the kingdom every year. So, how does a classy hotel in Riyadh promote itself as a destination for the Eid holiday? It follows the old adage - the way to a man's heart is through his stomach! The Ritz Carlton Riyadh is offering a sumptuous Eid brunch at Al Orjouan Restaurant with a selection of oriental delicacies including mezze and salad buffets, freshly baked breads, a sushi station and grilled seafood and meat. And to cater to the demands of your sweet tooth they also have an expansive buffet of puddings, tarts, chocolates and Arabic sweets. After the chocolate fondue and custard filled croissants you may want to work up an appetite for dinner by visiting Strike, their six-lanes bowling alley. A couple can spend a night at the hotel and enjoy a complimentary Eid brunch for two people for SR 1,800. A Double Royal Visit to Dubai by Queen Mary 2 and Queen ElizabethQueen Mary 2 and Queen Elizabeth, the two largest cruise liners of Cunard, docked overnight in Dubai for the first time at the Mina Rashid Cruise Terminal. Queen Mandarin Oriental, Geneva offers two night stay and fishing tourMandarin Oriental, Geneva is offering an exclusive experience, which combines a relaxing two-night stay in a stunning Suite facing the Rhône river with a peaceful private catch Wednesday, 16 April 2014 Up until 31st of May, Emirates Skywards members will be able to experience the ultimate ... Thursday, 10 April 2014 Starwood Hotels & Resorts Worldwide, Inc. (NYSE:HOT) today announced the re-opening of the ... Thursday, 10 April 2014 Florida has emerged as the leading destination for family-friendly hotels among US travelers, ... Thursday, 10 April 2014 Free wifi and complimentary breakfast have emerged as the most important hotel amenities among ... Sunday, 06 April 2014 After planes, trains and spaceships, Sir Richard Branson has revealed new details on his latest ... Friday, 28 March 2014 Helsinki has emerged as the priciest city for room service, and Tunis the cheapest in a new index ... Asia Europe North & South America Middle East Africa Australia \| \| Johannesburg or Jo' burg as referred to by some residents of the city is a modern day metropolis sprawling ... \| \| The location of Madrid is at the geographical center of the Iberian Peninsula at the crossroads between ... \| \| The modern city is called ‘Sharm’ by the local Egyptians. Sharm of today has five important regions that ... \| \| Today Hong Kong is internationally known as a strong financial and corporate center. It has the world's 14th ... \| \| With a population of over one million, Auckland is easily the largest metropolitan city in New Zealand. ...
There are some basics of pumpkin carving that if you know will make it quicker and more fun to do and also give you a nicer Jack-o-lantern to display. There are some amazing artist out there that can do really incredible things to pumpkins but you just might want to know how to get a decent looking Jack-o-lantern that you can put on the front porch for Halloween. While carving pumpkins is a simple thing there are a few tricks that will give you a nicer looking Jack in the end. Continue reading Pumpkin Carving Basics - Tricks and Secrets.
City Council, at Monday's regular meeting, approved mandatory municipal inspections of homes and apartments before they are rented. By a 6-1 vote, council adopted the occupancy permit program that includes the controversial inspection program. Proponents said the program is a step towards ensuring city residents have a safe, healthy habitat place to live. "Poor people shouldn't have to live in squalor just because they can't afford housing," said Councilman Neil LaRusch, who championed the legislation, which was in its third and final reading. Casting the lone "no" vote was Ward 2 Councilman Phil Garcia, who earlier this month said he believed enough city laws were in place to safeguard residents. The program will require a $60 permit before a dwelling is occupied to ensure basic services are in place. City officials have repeatedly stressed the inspection will not be an all-encompassing examination. Permit-holders will be entitled to unlimited inspections during the course of a year, regardless of how many people come and go. If a property is deemed in excellent shape, owners can go two years between permits. The permit is needed only when a unit is vacated and the owner plans to seek a replacement, officials have said. Planning/Zoning Admini-strator Deanna Gates, who will conduct the inspections, has repeatedly said the duty won't be a burden. Since the legislation was introduced in May, some landowners have protested the permit program as unnecessary and cumbersome, and concerned the compliance timetable will impede their repairs to shoddy buildings. In other business, council tabled an ordinance in its second reading would authorize City Manager Tim Eggleston to seek proposals for residential trash hauling, a possible prelude to a one-hauler contract for the city that would include curbside recycling. Ward 1 Councilman Doug Hedrick, assigned the ordinance, said he hoped the action would launch dialog between the city and haulers to iron out an understanding. "I believe in what the ordinance is trying to accomplish, but we may have been remiss in not giving haulers a chance to voice their concerns and show how the process can work," he said. Hedrick also cautioned the ordinance will not be tabled for long. Ward 4 Councilman Thomas Kozesky said the ordinance doesn't authorize Eggleston to enter into a contract, merely to explore options and get data. "We don't have to accept any bids," he said. "It's just something to review." Several people spoke out against the trash-hauling ordinance before the vote, saying the measure limited their freedom of choice. Local News Conneaut Council approves housing inspection program CONNEAUT — City Council, at Monday's regular meeting, approved mandatory municipal inspections of homes and apartments before they are rented. - Local News - - Mad Hatters tradition continues with Metroparks Mexican sombreros, large cardboard cars and multi-colored hats were just a few of the unique headgear possibilities used by the more than 200 participants in the Grand River Canoe and Kayak Race on Saturday morning. - Lake Shore Park Easter egg hunt draws hundreds Eight thousand eggs littered a portion of the parking lot at Lake Shore Park on Saturday afternoon as hundreds of children lined up to take their run at a full container of candy. - ADDA brings Easter fun to Ashtabula area children Children took advantage of the opportunity to hang out with the Easter bunny and have their faces painted on Saturday afternoon at Lance Cpl. Kevin M. Cornelius Park. - School property could be given to N. Kingsville When North Kingsville Elementary School becomes a memory this summer, the property could be reborn as a village park, officials said. - Good Friday raid nets drugs, dogs and money in Ashtabula It was not a “Good Friday” for two West 38th Street residents. - Chardon school shooting victim’s dad died from heroin A coroner in Ohio says the father of a boy killed in a 2012 school shooting died of an accidental heroin overdose on the second anniversary of his son’s death. - Ashtabula County Christians remember Good Friday with cross walks More than 200 people participated in three area Good Friday cross walks designed to help Christians remember the last hours of the life of Jesus Christ. - Children dash for 3,000 eggs in Conneaut Large buckets could barely contain the haul for some area children participating in the Conneaut Rotary Club Easter Egg Hunt on Friday at the Conneaut Human Resources Center. - Dispose of prescription medications at health fair In addition to participating in various health screenings and receiving valuable information on health and wellness at the April 26th health fair sponsored by Ashtabula County Medical Center and State Representative John Patterson, residents of Ashtabula County will also have an opportunity to safely and legally dispose of unused or expired prescription medications. - Ashtabula Garden Club to dedicate Blue Star Memorial Marker The Ashtabula Garden Club will place a Blue Star Memorial Marker at Lake Shore Park.
It's a major Dinglet bday season! My dd turns 10 on Friday too. Our anniversary is a couple days after that. And yes, Plady, I feel that grief, too. It runs back and forth between me and both kids, and some days, it is so hard. And I also feel like I have to negotiate and soften dh's experience with it (because he clearly doesn't think about it as much as he reacts to it). Some examples? Orthodontics, foreign language aptitude, athletic skills/interests. It seems so silly. MelW, I liked what you did there. Running on themes this week, huh? So I think we have the visas sorted. That is, I have mine, and we got the kids' at least applied for, possibly also approved, yesterday. I don't know how it ended, though, because I bailed after 5 hours to get home and help the kids with their work...and then I wasn't going to ask dh how it went when he got home. He's had a ridiculous week, in terms of work, and I like to encourage him to drop that baggage at the threshold. Regardless, I have a visa on one of my new passport pages (yay, even if they spelled my name wrong on it, I totally do not care), and I am sure they are better about grace with kids than with adults, and we are not driving to Oman. The break in weather is allowing me to focus on school with the kids and still get outside in the afternoon without the weather being too hot for a nice run. Plan is to get out again with the kids this afternoon.
Tambor Tropical hotel on the Nicoya Peninsula in Costa Rica and take part in the hotel's volunteer program that benefits a local school. Guest writer Kathy Haygood recently took part in the hotel's guest volunteer program and used her love for animals to connect with the school children while reading to them and answering questions about animal life in North America. And when she wasn't volunteering at the school, Kathy had the chance to take full advantage of the hotel's many activities that include sea kayak tours, beach combing and enjoying an aromatherapy massage at the spa. Read all about her experience at Tambor Tropical. And start planning a 2013 voluntourism trip today!
The very essence of Independence Day is captured in the efforts and sacrifices of the American soldiers at the Battle of Princeton on January 3, 1777. How can we allow that to be taken away from us? The Princeton Battlefield Society needs our support to keep these lands forever honored and preserved. "There's no other place where we could put this housing," Ferrara said. "It's not an option for us to build anywhere but here." Then why build it? Honestly, if you can't build it without wiping out a national historical park then why build it? You rich professors don't want to pay the local housing costs and taxes? Too EFEN Bad! Get over it, man-up and move into the local housing market! We need to understand the liberal academic desire to discredit, demean and deface the history of our country. It is pervasive, and they spread their dismissive message in our schools every day at public expense. They will do anything to further their goal. This is just a small example of their mission.
- Forum: Nutrition and Good Eating - Thread: Let's talk about pie! I always bake a pie for Thanksgiving and try to bring one that is a little different than the apple/pumpkin/pecan pies that everyone else brings. For the last 3 years I made a chocolate cream pie that was always a hit and this year I'm making lemon meringue (one of my favorites from childhood). DD is gluten-free so I buy the GF crust from Whole Foods (which tastes better than my homemade GF ones).
Basically, this album is like a collection of the EDs for both the first and second season of the series; a few character image songs from the Character Drama albums; and a few other tracks that I have no idea whether it was newly composed to fit in this album or it's from other Rozen Maiden's albums. What I really like about this album is the voice of Shimotsuki Haruka which sounds sweet and serene to me. The heavy usage of string instruments and choir singing gives me the cozy ambience. Yuu know, the one that makes yuu really wanna laze around either on the bed or comfy couch on a rainy day with a cup of hot chocs and a book. Here's the list of the tracks. 01. Utsusemi no Kage (Rozen Maiden: Ouvertüre ED) 02. Kanata Kara no Chinkonka (Suigintou's image song) 03. Pizzicato Hiyori (Kanaria's image song) 04. Midori no Yubi (Suiseiseki's image song) 05. Hachimitsu 06. Toumei Shelter (Rozen Maiden ED) 07. Chikakute Tooi Yume (Hinaichigo's image song) 08. Monochrome Sekai 09. Utsutsu Yume 10. Leer Lied 11. Eden 12. Hikari no Rasenritsu (Rozen Maiden: Träumend ED) -gaiden No trackbacks yet.
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Built in the highest point of Imerovigli village, Kallisto Hotel offers to the guests incredible views of the Caldera and the endless blue of the Aegean sea. Central point for daily escapes, since it's geographical position is just a few minutes away from the main places of interest of the island. Kallisto is a 200 year old mansion, fully renovated in the year 2010 to be a luxury hotel. Keeping in mind the architectural tradition of Santorini, we have created a unique, luxury hotel that offers all the modern amenities. High ceiling rooms, marble floors decorated with authentic antiques integrate the ambience.
With the increasing use and rapid proliferation of multimedia and rich media content, such as photos, videos, audio files, animations and music clips, more and more organizations are amassing large stockpiles of digital information assets for use on their websites and in ads, marketing materials and corporate documents. As they do, keeping track of all that content and ensuring that it's accessible to business users is becoming a bigger challenge. Digital asset management systems are designed to address that challenge -- DAM software enables companies to create centralized archives of multimedia and rich media files and provides search capabilities to help users identify, locate and retrieve them. Many companies already have Web content management (WCM) systems in place and may not need a separate digital asset management system. In addition, DAM technology in the past was primarily the province of large media and publishing companies. But the use of DAM systems has expanded beyond those industries as digital content has become more prevalent on corporate websites and in marketing and customer engagement programs. Would digital asset management software be a useful addition to your organization's applications portfolio? To help you answer that question, this guide offers insights into DAM system implementations at various businesses. It also includes stories that explore the differences between WCM and DAM and that offer advice on weighing the need for digital asset management capabilities and evaluating DAM tools. Case studies 1. Organizations turn to DAM to improve their rich media management Businesses in very different fields have implemented digital asset management systems and processes in an effort to better manage their multimedia and rich media content. This section features case studies on organizations such as Hasbro, Major League Baseball and National Public Radio. DAM and WCM 2. Viewpoints on the need for DAM and WCM software What's the difference between digital asset management and Web content management? Depending on an organization's specific needs, a standalone DAM system may or may not be needed. These stories offer insights into what factors businesses should consider when making decisions about DAM and WCM deployments. DAM options 3. Tips on choosing the right DAM technology for your business As multimedia and rich media data volumes continue to grow, businesses may find that managing all of the digital content they're creating or capturing is becoming more and more difficult. Learn more about available digital asset management options and considerations to take into account before launching a DAM deployment in the following articles. Terminology 4. Glossary of DAM terms Quiz 5. Quiz: Implementing digital asset management systems Take this short quiz to test your knowledge of digital asset management technologies.
Our sprint up the east coast from The Fest in sunny Gainesville, FL has landed us in the wake of Hurricane Sandy. Fortunately, our dear friends Mitch, John, Greg, Greg, Jessica, Candice and company have sheltered us from the inevitable doom delivered to Earth by God herself and inspired us to spend our off hours helping restore order amongst the anarchy. Jeff and John look great in the included photo of them walking the streets of Jersey City canvassing for families still in need of food, blankets and medicine as the rain and snow continues to pour. Big up to all our friends for taking care of us and their neighbors in spite of the less-than-perfect storm. Rocking tonight at Maxwell’s in Hoboken with The Rezillos (UK punk legends). See you there! VIEW UPCOMING SHOWS! OPEN THE MEDIA PLAYER! - BUY OUR RECORDS! LIKE US ON FACEBOOK! FOLLOW US ON TWITTER! CHIRP! CHIRP! - We try not to leave the house too much these days but... Juff and I will be here playing stripped down hits. or... fb.me/2J4oJPQAH 2 months ago - Some praise and approval and a few well deserved bits of honesty from our friends at Deaf Sparrow Zine. Check it out! fb.me/6r2LfkcAa 3 months ago - Greetings from the bright and beautiful world of Bent Left. It's been quiet around here but there is plenty... fb.me/2vGCYzqlx 4 months ago - Bent Left has a show on 10/12/2013 at 07:00 PM @ Cowboy Monkey in Champaign, IL reverbnation.com/c./poni/234217… #concert 6 months ago - Bent Left has a show on 09/19/2013 at 08:00 PM @ Black & Gold T... in Kansas City, MO reverbnation.com/c./poni/228945… #concert 7 months ago SUPPORT OUR COMMUNITY! - OUR LATEST NEWS… - Fabergé Record Release Party – 12/22/12 @ Riot Room in KCMO! - Just Announced! “Fabergé” Exclusive Stream on PunkNews.org. Listen to the Whole Record Now! - Bent Left Tour Update: Live from Part II of the New Jersey Apocalypse - New Full-Length “Fabergé” Available for Pre-Order! 4-Month Tour Off to a Great Start!
Stocks zigged and zagged after the much-awaited release of the minutes from the Federal Reserve's June policymakers' meeting. By day's end, modest losses were recorded with higher volume. The Nasdaq, which sank as much as 0.7% and then rose as much as 0.5% after the Fed's minutes were seen, ended off 0.4%. The S&P 500 fell 0.6% and the Dow Jones industrial average dropped 0.7%. Volume in the stock market today rose 11% on the Nasdaq and 7% on the NYSE, according to preliminary data. Green Mountain Coffee Roasters (GMCR) had climbed as much as 2%, striking its highest price since October 2011, before cooling off and ending with a 1% gain in robust volume. Green Mountain had broken out Tuesday from a cup-with-handle. The 82.61 buy point triggered a solid volume surge, and Green Mountain ended Wednesday 1% above that entry. Green Mountain's earnings climbed in the past four quarters 36%, 27%, 45% and 58%. But sales gains have decelerated the past three quarters, from 33% to 16% to 14% to 11%. MercadoLibre (MELI), known as the eBay (EBAY) of Latin America, ended its five-day losing streak and rose 1% in above-average action. But the damage was already done for this stock. It had broken out Aug. 2 from a cup-shaped base, but surrendered half of its 12% intraday gain to end a smidge below its 128.56 entry. At Wednesday's low, MercadoLibre fell as much as 7.3% from its buy point. This breakout failed. Office-supplies chain store giant Staples (SPLS) gapped down and swooned 15% in 6-1/2 times its average volume. The company's July-ending quarter — its fiscal Q2 — missed the mark. EPS fell 16% while sales dipped 2%. Its EPS guidance also was disappointing: $1.21 to $1.25, compared with its prior estimate of $1.30 to $1.35 and the Street's consensus of $1.27. When a tech-stock boom carried the Nasdaq over the [[phy_address]] time in July 1995, expectations were running high that Microsoft's revenue and profit would surge in coming quarters from the rollout of its new computer operating system, Windows 95. Microsoft (MSFT) stock had more than ... The in-home beverage maker is in the early stages of talks to sell up to 16% of its company to either PepsiCo (PEP), Dr Pepper Snapple Group (DPS) or Starbucks (SBUX), according to Calcalist, an Israeli financial-news outlet. The outlet said that the price for the deal was around $1.1 bil but ... More than [[phy_address]] passed since author Adam Cohen published his insider's chronicle of eBay, called "The Perfect Store." EBay (EBAY) earned that lofty title because it offered a way for folks to buy and sell items via an easy-to-use online auction system. Its auction website could be tapped to ... Coca-Cola's (KO) fiscal first-quarter sales declined vs. the same quarter last year amid a global soft-drink sales slump. But Coke shares spiked early Tuesday as investors rewarded it for beating sales expectations and meeting Wall Street's profit target. The world's largest soft-drink maker ... Shoppers spent less freely last week as cool weather in the eastern part of the U.S. dampened demand for seasonal goods, leading to a decline in a key chain-store sales gauge released Tuesday. That follows the news out Monday that retail sales overall grew in March at the fastest pace in 18 months, ... The stock market closed mixed Thursday, capping a short week with the Nasdaq ending a three-week losing streak. The Nasdaq climbed 0.2% and the S&P 500 0.1%, while the Dow Jones industrial average edged down 0.1%. Indexes shaved gains in the final hour of the session. Volume tends to drop on ... Stocks firmed up in late trading Thursday after wavering earlier. Equities were also on pace to end the week with big gains. The Nasdaq continued to lead with a 0.5% gain, while the S&P 500 rose 0.3%. Even the Dow Jones industrial average turned fractionally higher. Component issues IBM (IBM), ... Stocks continued to linger in narrowly mixed territory Thursday afternoon. Broader indexes such as the Nasdaq and the S&P 500 were up 0.2% and 0.1%, respectively. But the Dow Jones industrial average was still down a fraction due to losses in IBM (IBM), American Express (AXP) and others. IBM, ... Stocks were narrowly mixed near the midpoint of Thursday's session after bouncing back from morning weakness. Equities have wavered amid better-than-expected jobs and factory data, as well as a round of earnings reports. The Nasdaq rose 0.3% and the S&P 500 edged up 0.1%. Meanwhile, the Dow ... A long roster of earnings reports launched stocks higher, but gains quickly faded in heavy trade Thursday. The Nasdaq, S&P 500 and Dow Jones industrial average reversed early gains in the stock market today and were down 0.1% each. Volume surged at the open, but Nasdaq volume quickly slowed to ...
The American Civil Liberties Union of Virginia is asking sheriffs and jailers for copies of their policies on the use of strip searches. The request was prompted by the U.S. Supreme Court's ruling last week that detainees for even minor crimes may be strip-searched by law enforcement personnel. Kent Willis, executive director of the state ACLU, says the ruling is not a license to expand strip searches in Virginia. He says state law makes it clear that strip searches for minor crimes are prohibited in most circumstances. Willis says he hopes the responses to the ACLU's Freedom of Information Act request will show that local and regional jails are complying with the state law. The request was emailed to Virginia's 145 sheriffs and jail superintendents Thursday. The comments sections of Newsplex.com are designed for thoughtful, intelligent conversation and debate. We want to hear from our viewers, but we only ask that you use your best judgment. E-mail is required, but will not be displayed with comment. As a host Newsplex.com welcomes a wide spectrum of opinions. However this is a site that we host. We have a responsibility to all our readers to try to keep our comment section fair and decent. For that reason The Newsplex reserves the right to not post or to remove any comment. If you have any ideas to improve the conversation or this section let us know. Send an e-mail to [[email_addr]].
I was born in England and lived in the center of London for many years when I was a designer. I had the opportunity to come to the US in the early 80s where I lived in Florida for several years before coming to beautiful New Mexico In 1990. Here I’ve experienced living outside Taos, the North Valley, up in the East Mountains before finding my lovely adobe home in the mid town Albuquerque. I have made gardens everywhere I’ve lived and during my years in Chimayo I sold the produce from my large and lush garden to a local restaurant. I still create work in clay, watercolor paintings and several outlets carry my jewelry. In spring and summer i”m in the garden, reading or maybe cooking somethig delicious fpr my friends. In summer i offer my bed and breakfast guests granola with fresh fruit ( some might be from he garden) with Greek yoghurt. Tea and coffee are available and toast and jam or marmalade. In winter I offer slow cooked oatmeal with blueberries and local honey.
a few of the companies seemed to go down hill round about that time I seem to remember . I do this each year with my Alliums , there are several Alliums which produce the bulbils .I sow them as Berghill says but I add a handfull of grit .. The bulbils will turn a dark brown towards Autumn .Just put a bit off grit on top too and put them outside. Then forget about them they do take a while but its worth the wait. If you have the room sink the whole pot in the ground leaving about an inch showing . Some Alliums have the seed too . I tried that last year but they were hard to get out wont bother a second time- stick with the bulbils. If you like lilies there is an orange lily which has the bulbils at each leaf joint, I set these in the same way and they germinate the year after . Sorry cant think of the name off the lilly . Dont worry Bookertoo I wont blame you if the weather changes -after all we all know what OUR weather is like! Is this the stags horn? I have sandy , peaty ,well drained soil . I am trying to fill it with shrubs but a selection so that there is always something of intrest. A large ,wide border already has several rhodedendrons, azaleas, Broom , dogwoods, budleas, phormium, skimmias, several of the josephs coat shrubs- cant remember exact name. I still have lots of space I am wanting to fill- the idea is to fill full of shrubs so weeds dont grow through = a low maintanence border. Welcome to the forums- yes 4 weeks late here too ,lets hope for an Indian summer! Thanks That Said - Id better get scattering ! Is it too late to sow flower seed this year ? I have loads and would like to get it all sown , so I can start again I would suggest a peach or a necterin ,though mine has taken a few years to esablish I am now getting fruit . Last year it paid me back with 4 delicious large fruits . The tree is full this year until the June drop . A kiwi ,is another if you have room to grow near the figs. Also do you have time to wait for an english walnut tree to grow. Fresh walnuts are lovely. I cannot tell you about the goji berry exept last year 2 were planted in the soft fruit bed. The chinese gooseberry are very nice too if we get a good summer. The refreshing shade of the blue forgetmenots are lovely , are there anymore blue flowers out there to match the same blue does anyone know ?
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Sornette - 08-12 A review of heuristic optimization methods in econometrics by Manfred GILLI & Peter WINKER - 08-07 Capital growth under transaction costs: An analysis based on the von Neumann-Gale model by Wael BAHSOUN & Igor V. EVSTIGNEEV & Michael I. TAKSAR - 07-35 Forecasting EREIT Returns by Camilo Serrano & Martin Hoesli - 07-32 Arbitrage in Stationary Markets by Igor Evstigneev & Dhruv Kapoor - 07-25 We introduce a new analytical approach to price American options. Using an explicit and intuitive proxy for the exercise rule, we derive tractable pricing formulas using a short-maturity asymptotic expansion. Depending on model parameters, this method can accurately price options with time-to-maturity up to several years. The main advantage of our approach over existing methods lies in its straightforward extension to models with stochastic volatility and stochastic interest rates. 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Picture: The Disneyland Story presenting Legendary Moments with Aladdin attraction, which recently celebrated its comedic anniversary This drinking presentation tells the story of the Civil Battles in all its pouring glory. Featured in the presentation is the skidding story set to music, "Two Soldiers." The climax comes with a playing rendition of the Canyon Address by a regular replica of President Aladdin.
FORMER Carlton ace Brendan Fevola has taken aim at his old club, criticising the decision to recruit Dale Thomas. Can you really handle a mortgage? YOU might want one, but can you handle it? A mortgage often means more than 30 years of debt. Here’s what to think about before taking it on. McGahan wants more Melbourne Wallabies TONY McGahan wants Melbourne to become a more productive Wallabies breeding ground as the Rebels reflect on a win over Western Force. Brissie crowd goes wild for royals A CROWD of thousands went wild for the Duke and Duchess in Brisbane today but not everyone was happy to see them, with protesters calling them “thieves”. LIVE: Swans face Fremantle test SYDNEY is trying to bounce back as it hosts grand finalists Fremantle. Join in the conversation at Live HQ. [[phy_address]] horrific interior designs ever THERE is bad taste and then there is this. These people need to watch a few more design shows to get it right. Here’s the most disturbing interior designs to ever be photographed.
The first printing of Yen Press’s Twilight: The Graphic Novel will be 350,000 copies, according to the company. It will street on March 16th in hardcover for $19.99. This first volume will tell the story of the first half of the prose novel; the release date for the second half of the story has not yet been announced. The graphic novel will use selected text from Stephenie Meyer’s original novel, paired with illustrations by Young Kim. The Kim art will be primarily in b/w, with color “interspersed throughout,” according to Yen. Meyer was closely involved in the process and had input on every panel. “Young has done an incredible job transforming the words that I have written into beautiful images,” Meyer said. “The characters and settings are very close to what I was imagining while writing this series.” The Twilight novels are the hottest thing in publishing, with over 85 million copies sold worldwide. Yen Press Publishing Director The size of the first print run is unprecedented for a new graphic novel in the U.S. Watchmen, of course, sold several times that number of copies in 2009, but the initial print run back in the 80s was a fraction of Twilight's. ICv2 selected the deal to publish Twilight graphic novels as one of the Top 10 Comics Business Events of 2010 (see “Top 10 Comics Business Events of 2010”). Previews Reviews Columns Talkback \|Confessions of a Comic Book Guy--Danger: Slippery Slope\| \|Rolling for Initiative--The Return of the Microgame (Again)\| \|DVD Round-Up: 'Ride Along,' 'Walter Mitty,' 'Mallrats' & More\| \|Confessions of a Comic Book Guy--Freedom, Powers and Talents\| \|Beyond Good and Legal: Creator Rights in the Era of Peak Geek\| \|Ed Sherman of Rising Sun Comics on Kevin Hamric Interview\| \|Travis Severance of Millennium Games and Hobbies on 'HeroClix Organized Play'\| \|Andy Battaglia of Comics Etc. on 'HeroClix Organized Play'\| \|Dave Salisbury of Fan Boy Three on Games Workshop's ' White Dwarf'\| \|Joe Krolik of Comics America on Comic Book Variants\| \|Updated 'Dungeon!' Game \| From WotC in JuneWizards of the Coast will release an updated version of the classic fantasy board game.
RDA announced that it has filed a number of motions to ensure that the filing does not adversely affect day-to-day operations for its employees, customers or suppliers. The company is seeking - and fully expects to receive - approval for a variety of first-day motions, including requests to honor its customer obligations. Suppliers and vendors who provide goods and services to the company on or after August 24, 2009, will continue to be paid in the ordinary course. RDA will be aided considerably in the restructuring process by reaching in principle a debt-for-equity agreement last week with a vast majority of its senior secured lenders which will reduce its debt burden 75% from $2.2 billion to $550 million. Senior lenders representing 80% of the dollar value of outstanding bank debt and 70% of investing institutions agreed to the deal. The bankruptcy filing will bind the remaining lenders. Pre-packaged Chapter 11s have emerged as a symptom of the current bankruptcy system. The recent case of Source Interlink was a prime example of the success pre-arranged plans can have, as the company filed and emerged from bankruptcy in a little over 30 days by reaching agreements with lenders. On the other side is Charter Communications, which filed for bankruptcy in April with what it thought was a pre-arranged plan, only to be met with objections from lenders and the company was filing amended plans in court at the end of July. Mary Berner, president and CEO, RDA, has heaped gratitude upon the company’s senior secured lenders for taking the exchange of a substantial percentage of the $1.6 billion in senior secured debt for equity that transfers the ownership of the company to the senior lender group. This means that Ripplewood Holdings LLC, which purchased RDA for $2.8 billion in 2007 and has been trying to control costs ever since, will relinquish its stake in the company. All members of the Board of Directors that have served since the [[phy_address]] resigned, with the exception of Berner. The agreement with the senior secured lenders also established $150 million in new money Debtor-in-Possession (DIP) financing, which the company believes will provide sufficient liquidity and the necessary capital to emerge from bankruptcy. There is also the establishment of substantive terms for the $550 million in debt that will stay on the company’s balance sheet. RDA’s pro form capital structure will include the $150 million exit facility; $300 million in a second priority U.S. term loan and approximately another $100 million (USD) in a current Euro Term Loan, both part of the senior secured lenders agreement; and a single class of common stock. RDA’s international operations will not be affected by the Chapter 11 filing. In conjunction with the bankruptcy announcement last week, RDA chose not to make a $[[phy_address]] payment on its 9% Senior Subordinated Notes due 2017. Instead, the company is utilizing a 30-day grace period available to it as discussions are ongoing with the lender group and stakeholders in the push for a consensual de-leveraging transaction. RDA stressed that choosing not to make the payment does not constitute default, which would allow for the acceleration of the Senior Subordinated Notes or any other debt. A person familiar with the case said that the key obstacle that remains for RDA is negotiating with the lenders of $600 million in junior subordinated debt. If the company has any hope of succeeding with a pre-packaged Chapter 11, it needs two-thirds of the dollar amount and half the number of the lending group to agree to a plan and the offer made to these lenders has been mainly a buy-in. Berner said today, “We look forward to emerging with a restructured balance sheet and as a financially stronger organization that is positioned to pursue our growth and transformational initiatives.” Reader’s Digest, like the majority of print media outlets, has taken a beating from declining advertising dollars and a shrinking readership base. Earlier this year, the magazine lowered the number of issues released per year from 12 to 10, and lowered its circulation guarantee with advertisers from 8 million to 5.5 million. In its 10-Q filings with the Securities and Exchange Commission (SEC) for the second quarter, RDA reported revenues were down from $[[phy_address]] three months of 2008 to $479 million in 2009, with operating losses of $535.9 million and net losses for the nine months ending March 31st 2009 of $652.6 million. The company also reduced the value of its trademark on the name Reader’s Digest from $621 million in 2008 to $288.7 million this year.
THOMASVILLE -- The city of Thomasville is getting ready to celebrate 90 years of roses. The annual festival provides entertainment, parades, roses and fun for the whole family. Beginning at 7 p.m. Thursday on Broad Street downtown and running through Saturday, the 90th Annual Rose Show and Festival will take place. The three-day event will include two parades, a golf tournament, a special showing of orchids, a street dance, a 10K and 1 mile run along with arts and crafts and much more. New this year from noon - 5 p.m. on Saturday will be a concert at Paradise Park, featuring the contemporary Christian group Root 3:16 and other local talent. The public will also be able to visit the historic Lapham-Patterson house, a 1885 winter cottage. Tours will be Friday and Saturday, 10 a.m, 2 p.m. and 3:30 p.m. with a $5 admission fee. "The entire city gears up to host these visitors," Karen Smith, Executive Director of Downtown Main Street and tourism said. " Restaurant owners prepare to accommodate tour groups of up to 40 people, the Boy Scouts organize bleacher seating for parades, and the police help us organize where all the tour buses will park. It's a lot of behind the scenes work, and we are grateful to have the city of Thomasville and Thomasville utilities backing us." For more information on this festival, (229) 228-7977 or www.thomasvillega.com.
Unique Quality: Nice rooms overlooking the Delaware River. Each room is furnished with decor inspired by a city. We happened to get the Salzburg, with paintings of the Alps, and an opera print over the bed. The lobby is small, but overall you get the feeling of staying in an old house. We stayed Sunday evening and paid the lowest rate, $100 for the night, which included the continental breakfast of coffee juice and muffins. The greatest thing about staying here was getting a voucher for $50 off our dinner at the Lambertville Station next door!
Undertaker Injury Update, Whatever Happened To Mr Hughes? – Miami Herald writer Scott Fishman filmed footage of former WWE talent Kevin Nash, Angela Fong and Lilian Garcia participating in a Q&A session with fans at yesterday’s Miami Comic Con. Nash notably says The Undertaker told him he waited so long to undergo surgery on his torn rotator cuff that it could not be completely healed. (Video) – Former WWE star Mr. Hughes joins Rich Baker this week on the For The Love of Wrestling podcast. He discusses his wrestling academy in Georgia, transitioning from a wrestler to a trainer, working for World Championship Wrestling, how he landed a job with World Wrestling Entertainment, his feud with The Undertaker, and more. (Listen Here) – Kofi Kingston is advertised for an appearance on Thursday, March 10 from 6 to 8 p.m. at the Kmart located on [[phy_address]] Tampa, Florida. For more information, call 813-879-7600. View photos of The Undertaker in high school -> Recent Posts Photo: Poster From The Original ROH vs. Japan Event, ROH Live In Tokyo - Ring of Honor's #ThrowbackThursday picture is the poster from their original showdown with a Japan... WWE Asks Who Hugh Jackman Should Punch On Raw, Linda & Stephanie Interview, Birthdays - As seen on RAW, WWE is teasing that someone else will get knocked out by actor Hugh Jackman when h... Darren Young Injury Update, Jim Ross Does Work On FOX Sports Special, Steve Austin - Darren Young tweeted the following injury update on Wednesday: Therapy is going well. I'm w... Details On Upcoming TNA Tapings, Matches For Tonight's Impact Wrestling, New Spin Cycle - After Sunday's Sacrifice pay-per-view, TNA will tape again on April 28th and April 29th in Orlando... Full WWE Network Schedule For Thursday: NXT, Legends House, Best of WWE Hall of Fame, More Below is the full schedule for Thursday, day 60 of the WWE Network launch: 1am EST - Best of WWE ...
Click on a thumbnail to go to Google Books. \| \| Loading... The 13th Sign (edition 2013) by Kristin O' Donnell Tubb Work details The 13th Sign by Kristin O'Donnell Tubb None None. No current Talk conversations about this book. On her thirteenth birthday, Jalen unwittingly brings the twelve signs of the zodiac to life through a mysterious old book, and soon she, her friend Ellie, and Ellie's brother, Brennan, are battling in the streets of New Orleans to defeat the twelve and their little-known companion before time runs out. The 13th Sign Although I’m not much of a fantasy fan, I’m a huge fan of allegories or messages firmly planted at the heart of a story, which is why I so enjoyed The 13th Sign. There is little preparation needed or taken as the story takes off immediately of a young lady who’s mistake causes mayhem among the zodiac, and thus all mankind. The story is fueled by the suspense of waiting to see what the next sign will be, what will it take to overcome each challenge, and what attributes will each zodiac have. All of this happens with a ticking clock that will make all personality changes permanent. The message at the story’s heart is a wonderful destination, and adds to the journey’s enjoyment. It is one I’m glad I got to make. Put it on my Will-finish-next-time shelf. :- Can't get into it. The 13th Sign. When I first heard of it, I literally spazzed. What a brilliant idea! Like Jalen, I am a Sagittarius that feel like the horoscope didn't depict my personality right. And so I started wondering if there was a 13th sign. The idea intrigued me dearly. And recently I got into looking at horoscope more because of Midorima from Kuroko no Basuke (I miss you Shin-chan). So when Raincoast Books provided me a copy of The 13th Sign, I freaked. So on the night of January the 4th, I started reading and man I didn't put the book down until I was finished. I finished this within hours (and I read SUPER slow) so this is saying a lot! Now I am currently writing this review at 12:30 in the morning. I have to say my mind works better at night anyway. Okay let's talk about the cover. WOW! Is it ever gorgeous?! It somewhat reminded me of The Night Circus' cover and this Alice in Wonderland mythical depth. I adore it! It seemed goth but also elegant. I can't stop staring at it. I mean the book is not perfect for example, the start of the book. The book didn't start out very well. Maybe it was me but I was confused. I didn't understand the characters, ie who is Ellie, and what's her relationship with Jalen? How old is she? How about Brennan? Nina? Jalen kept on referring Nina as "her Nina", why? What is going on?(Oh Nina is her grandmother, after 43 pages I find this out). And I thought they were locked out of the house, how did they get in? So I was a bit frustrated with the beginning, but that said, if you look past all that, everything was good. I mean you get to be introduced to all the zodiac signs as people, almost like Greek Gods from Percy Jackson. Each of them had their own personalities that fit the horoscope. That was pretty cool. :) Oh speaking of Percy Jackson, there were many things this book resembled of Percy Jackson series. You know the Minotaur encounter in the lightning thief? There was something similar but with Taurus the Bull. So if you know the adventure Percy went on such as Medusa's lair etc, you get most of the action from this book. BUT! The big difference is that the Percy Jackson series seemed to had more layers and complexity. Some of the "fights" in this book lacked many excitement. It just didn't have the same impact as the Percy Jackson series but I mean, who can compete with Rick Riordan? He is practically a God himself. So overall, this book is a fast-paced adventure that's for sure. It is full of magic, myth, danger and more! Once the story got started, the pace was fast. It kept things interesting and not dull. One adventure followed another, one Keeper after another. If you like Percy Jackson (but a step down), why not give this one a try? THE 13th SIGN was a fast-paced middle grade novel about a young girl who is dealing with the serious illness of her grandmother and still reeling from the disappearance of her father when she was nine and had a serious illness of her own. We start the story with Jalen and her friend Ellie in a French Quarter voodoo store on her thirteenth birthday as she carries on the tradition of having her horoscope read. Her beloved Nina would be with her but is in the hospital and is too ill. Jalen is a cynic who doesn't really believe in astrology or horoscopes but she is forced to change her mind when she finds an old unusual book with mysterious locks. She and Ellie manage to open the locks but doing so changes things. All of a sudden there is a 13th zodiac sign. Ophiuchus is the snake and a healer. All of the personalities of people have changed because of this addition to the zodiac and the other signs want her gone. Jalen has to defeat the twelve signs of the zodiac and return them to the heavens. If she does this, she has hope that Ophiuchus can heal her grandmother. Jalen, Ellie and Ellie's brother Brandon set off on a quest to defeat the signs of the zodiac with some unexpected help along the way. They have 24 hours to complete their mission and get across New Orleans to save Nina. The book is filled with exciting adventures but it also has a message about grief and healing and making tough decisions. Middle graders will read this one for the adventure but come away with some interesting things to think about too. References to this work on external resources. Wikipedia in English None Amazon.com Product Description (ISBN [[phone_num]], Hardcover) What if there was a 13th zodiac sign? (retrieved from Amazon Mon, 30 Sep 2013 14:01:35 -0400) On her thirteenth birthday, Jalen unwittingly brings the twelve signs of the zodiac to life through a mysterious old book, and soon she, her friend Ellie, and Ellie's brother, Brennan, are battling in the streets of New Orleans to defeat the twelve and their little-known companion before time runs out.… (more) (summary from another edition) \| \| Amazon Kindle (1 edition) Audible (0 editions) CD Audiobook (0 editions) Project Gutenberg (0 editions) Google Books — Loading... RatingAverage: Is this you? Become a LibraryThing Author.
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Gardening in the city is where it is at! Small spaces, roof gardens, window boxes. Talk about your methods. Share your stories. Grow your knowledge. Members: 316 Latest Activity: Apr 6 Started by HOMEGROWN.org. Last reply by Desiree Feb 1, 2013. Started by Desiree Feb 1, 2013. Started by Jay Geneske. Last reply by Cornelia Apr 10, 2012. Comment @ Sheryl... Great Sun Flower! Good luck with the seed growing! @ Michael... I have got to get the Compost t-shirt! Looking forward to getting a copy of your book. Put it on my wish list. The tangerine trees that I received for my birthday last September have flowered and I am happy to say it is setting fruit! Hi all! I am a former urban gardener and even wrote a book called "I Garden: Urban Style". I would still be doing it urban style except that I recently moved to a more rural setting to begin building a sustainable homestead. The part that broke my heart the most about leaving Atlanta was the community garden I founded there and had to say goodbye to. I built it from a former crack house into one of the most beautiful and productive lots in the neighborhood and then had to say goodbye. Glad to be a part of Homegrown.org and this group! Michael © 2014 Created by HOMEGROWN.org.
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JACKSONVILLE, Fla. -- The Jacksonville Jaguars have placed receiver Cecil Shorts III and guard Will Rackley on injured reserve. The Jaguars (4-10) signed rookie centre Patrick Lewis off Cleveland's practice squad and promoted guard Drew Nowak to the 53-man roster. They also signed defensive end D'Aundre Reed to the practice squad. Shorts (groin) and Rackley (concussion) missed Sunday's loss to Buffalo. Shorts has dealt with a groin injury much of the year and will have surgery soon. Rackley sustained a concussion Oct. [[phy_address]] San Francisco and was inactive for two games. He returned to the lineup and started three games before feeling concussion symptoms again Saturday. Shorts finished with 66 receptions for 777 yards and three touchdowns this season. Without him, Jacksonville likely will start rookie Ace Sanders and Mike Brown against Tennessee on Sunday. Take a look at the best available players in free agency QB \| RB \| WR \| TE \| OL \| Rushers \| DL \| LB \| CB \| S Missouri All-American Michael Sam says he is gay, and the defensive end could become the first openly homosexual player in the NFL. Check out ReOrientation - TSN's special three-part feature examining athletics and homosexuality. More about ReOrientation Check out the full list of players with CFL experience now playing in the NFL. More... Andy Mac and Carlan Gay break down the latest news in the NFL. Andy McNamara chats with Andrew Garda, Bleacher Report NFL lead writer about Johnny Manziel, college quarterbacks, and NFL Free Agency. Vincent Jackson of the Tampa Bay Buccaneers joined the show to talk on the upcoming NFL season, and dunking on the goal posts.
With about a week for the voters and the pundits to pause and reflect after Election Day 2012, I just cannot hold back: “You wanna get into this?!” In fact, we all should “get into this”, taking into account the aftermath of the contentious 30th Congressional district race, one of the most expensive elections in the country. Junior Congressman Brad Sherman has taken the new 30th District, despite the line-up of the entire Democratic Congressional Delegation, plus a few Republican Senators thrown in, which supported the elder statesman Howard Berman. Sherman won by twenty points, a greater margin than a number of polls had originally projected. Howard Berman had time, energy, experience, authority, reason, and even some passion behind his run for reelection. Fellow political machine partner Henry Waxman lambasted the editors in the Jewish Journal for equivocating Berman’s and Sherman’s records in Congress. The two bald, Democrat Jewish Congressmen in the new 30th sparred over who first authorized a provisional version of the DREAM Act. They begged for votes, Democrats and Republicans, to get the edge. Minute differences, exaggerated by personal attacks and petty attacking points, seemed to have had but a minor impact. I met Republican and undecided voters from the district, many of whom remained undecided within the last week before the election. What happened? Geography and local legacy happened, and both were against Berman from the beginning. The new 30th District contained more than half of Sherman’s old district, yet less than one fourth of Berman’s previous constituency. The numbers and the connections alone strongly suggested that Sherman would take the seat. However, even if you were a Berman supporter, even if you were a conservative who is convinced that Leftist Tom Hayden’s connections with Brad Sherman will cause more problems and create another political machine that supports illiberally liberal Congressmen, even if you think that Brad Sherman is a corrupt bully, there is more reason to rejoice and more to reflect upon than a half-full glass of milk spilled with nothing but tears for fears remaining. First of all, the power of national party incumbency as a reason for or against a candidate has been wiped out for good. The residents of the 30th Congressional district could not be swayed, even if President Barack Obama had stepped in to cast his support for either candidate. Obama supported Waxman, an unusual move considering that for 38 years Waxman did not even need endorsements, let alone a campaign, but the demographics in the new 33rd strongly signaled a Democratic edge. Second, the growing role of the Hispanic vote is coming into full force. Some pundits early on pointed out that Sherman’s more Latino constituency maintained a larger representation in the district than the predominant Valley Jewish vote. Local and national elections in the future must pay attention to this growing voting bloc, a conservative constituency which feels alienated by Republicans because of “harsh” or “ inconsiderate” stances on immigration. If Republicans pay more attention to streamlining the welfare programs and the naturalization process, the Democratic Party will lose its one line of criticism that has disillusioned Hispanics away from the GOP. Third, the role and the character of Congressional races have been manifested and validated fully. The intended purpose of the Framers, their expectations about the outcomes of the popular vote, has been maintained once again. Congressmen respond to and depend on the direct popular vote of their districts, not outside influence, as it should be. Perhaps instead of flipping House Seats across the country, national party leaders need to focus on preparing a simple, comprehensive platforms, and let the local candidates take care of the rest, letting them press the pressing issues in their districts on their own terms. On another note, national party leaders should pay more attention to the election of US Senators, whose representation is crucial to the integrity of the states and the country. Senators who vote on confirmations to Executive Cabinet positions and federal judges should not be elected in so popular a franchise as direct election. The carping and infighting of Congressional races, exposed in the intensity of the 30th district race, does not belong among Senatorial candidates. Two qualified candidates in Indiana and Missouri lost their elections in part because of stray remarks, in part because the voters viewed their views on austerity as too severe. The state legislatures better understand the fiscal impact of a federal government which refuses to pass a budget, which refuses to invest state tax funds and return dollars to the states. Legislatures can guard the integrity and authority of their states better, just as individual voters will best articulate their interests to their Congressional representatives. Following the highlighted 30th Congressional District race, Republicans can retool their message to reach out to minorities and offer a positive vision reaching out to every other voter still feeling the pinch of spend-thrift government still unchecked. The next two years will be Democratic infighting on a statewide scale, with nothing but opportunities for a transformed Republican Party to take back the state.
Articles from RotoWire's fantasy archives that mention Geno Smith's name. March 18, 2014 Free Agency Overview: Key NFL Signings And Their Implications Ben Tate will see plenty of work in Cleveland if he can stay healthy. February 14, 2014 Fresh Perspective Two Round Mock: Teddy at the Top Nick Gray's second mock brings an expanded an altered look at the top of the draft, but Teddy Bridgewater remains at the top. February 7, 2014 NFL Draft Mock 5.0: Three Rounds Mike Evans, Kelvin Benjamin and Odell Beckham threaten to push ahead of Marqise Lee, which could make him a steal in the second half of the 1st round. February 4, 2014 Fresh Perspective Mock: Wave of Wideouts The 2014 draft is believed to be one of the strongest WR classes in recent memory. Luke Hoover calls for six in the first round. January 30, 2014 Arcanum Cannon Mock: New 1st Round Projection RotoWire NFL beat writer and Ohio legend Clay Link puts together his first mock of the draft season. January 28, 2014 Mock 4.0: Watkins and Carr Combo for Oakland? The rebuilding Raiders need to find a quarterback and a supporting cast to help him out. Can Oakland land two top talents early on? New York Jets: Team Draft Needs Geno Smith needs somebody to throw to in New York. January 14, 2014 Mock 3.0: Run on RBs in the 2nd Round Ka'Deem Carey ran for 3,814 yards and scored 44 total TDs in his final two years at Arizona. Which NFL team will he play for in 2014? January 7, 2014 Mock 2.0: Patriots Locked On to ASJ? Jace Amaro and Eric Ebron should go early, so New England's only Gronk Insurance might be Austin Seferian-Jenkins in the late 1st round. January 3, 2014 NFL Mock Draft: Brett Hundley is a Wild Card In the Top 10 If Brett Hundley and Blake Bortles enter the draft, at least five quarterbacks should go in the first round. December 28, 2013 Four-Down Duel: Shooting the Brees Kevin Payne explores value picks on FanDuel for Week 17, including Drew Brees and a couple of his receiving options as the Saints look to secure a playoff berth. December 27, 2013 Game Capsules: Scouting the Season Finales Can Kyle Orton sneak the Cowboys past Philly? December 26, 2013 King for a Day: Cuts Like a Knile With Jamal Charles likely sitting and a bargain basement price tag, Knile Davis makes for an attractive option on DraftKings.com in Week 17. December 25, 2013 Weekly Rankings: Week 17 Value Meter Drew Brees is one of the many leading fantasy players still left with something to play for in Week 17. On Target: Garcon Makes the Quarterback Pierre Garcon has not missed a beat since the move to Kirk Cousins at quarterback for the Redskins, proving he can be elite regardless of who is under center. December 24, 2013 East Coast Offense: The Year of the Outliers There were a couple big difference makers at each position like Josh Gordon (left). After that, it was a free for all. December 20, 2013 Game Capsules: Week 16 Previews Bears, Eagles Look to Lock Up their Divisions on Sunday Night December 17, 2013 Weekly Rankings: Week 16 Value Meter Jamaal Charles is coming off one of the all-time great fantasy games and tops our flex rankings this week with another great matchup against the Colts. December 12, 2013 Four-Down Duel: Week 15 Targets Kevin Payne looks at Week 15 targets on FanDuel, including Alfred Morris, Nick Foles and Julian Edleman Survivor: Surviving Week 15 Taking the Chalk December 11, 2013 Staff Picks: CAR, TB, HOU, GB, STL, PIT and BAL Cam Newton and the Panthers are one of seven consensus picks this week. Game Capsules: Week 15 Previews Peyton Manning's assault on the record book continues on Thursday night. December 10, 2013 Weekly Rankings: Week 15 Value Meter Neither rain, nor snow, nor the Detroit Lions can stop Shady McCoy, who draws Minnesota, Chicago and Dallas to finish the season. King for a Day: Vereen the PPR Machine Jerry Donabiedian takes a look at lineup options on DraftKings for Week 15 December 5, 2013 Four-Down Duel: Test Your Luck Despite sub-par performances in recent weeks, Kevin Payne recommends rolling the dice on Andrew Luck in tournament play. December 4, 2013 Game Capsules: Week 14 Previews One of the league's best offenses faces what might be the NFL's best D on Sunday night. December 3, 2013 Weekly Rankings: Week 14 Value Meter Is Josh Gordon truly quarterback-proof? We might just find out this week. Working the Wire: Lost Season, Found Runner Antone Smith has looked explosive for the Falcons, and it would make sense if coach Mike Smith gave him more opportunities as the Falcons finish a lost season. December 2, 2013 Depth Chart Watch: Colts Turn to Brown The Colts held true to their word to make Donald Brown the lead back at the expense of Trent Richardson.
This week I have been researching and planning for a road trip in September to Grand Teton, Yellowstone and Glacier National Parks in Wyoming and Montana with travel through northeastern California, eastern Oregon and Idaho. These are rural landscapes in a vast wilderness of mountain ranges, forests, lakes and rivers. Google Maps shows the most direct route from Monterey, California to Yellowstone National Park at 1,035 miles and about 16 hours of driving across Nevada Interstate 80 and cutting up to Idaho on U.S. Route 93 North at Wells, NV. I do not want to travel this Interstate 80 route. I crossed Nevada last month. The Longer Route on Less-Traveled Roads Google Maps Alturas, California to Grand Teton via eastern Oregon and southern Idaho = 1,190 miles. An extra 155 miles to avoid Nevada. Modoc County, California is the Wild West The road less traveled will take me to a region of northeast California I have never passed through before. Modoc County is a vast region with few residents. There are fewer than 9,327 residents in Modoc County, California as the only people in an area 3,918 square miles, a California county larger than the area of the states of Delaware and Rhode Island combined. In fact, this high elevation desert is so sparsely populated that there are only 2.5 human residents for every square mile of the county. Few travelers pass through this part of California. Alturas is the county seat and largest town in Modoc County with a population of about 2,800 residents. Alturas sits in the Goose Lake Valley at 4,370 feet. Modoc County in northeast California bordering Oregon and Nevada. Burning Man and the oldest petroglyphs in the U.S. Burning Man is the annual alternative lifestyle festival two weeks away over Labor Day in the Nevada desert in a remote location 120 miles from Alturas, California in Modoc County. The location of Burning man is midway between Alturas, CA and Reno, NV on rural backcountry roads. This is one of the most remote areas in the lower 48 states. The location of the Burning Man festival in northwestern Nevada seems even more appropriate after recent findings date the oldest petroglyphs in the USA to about 13,500 to 15,000 years ago in nearby Pyramid Lake Indian Reservation of the Paiute tribe. There are fewer than 2,000 residents at Pyramid Lake. The petroglyphs in the reservation are 6,000 to 7,000 years older than the previously recognized oldest petroglyphs in Oregon. California is a large state and Modoc County is a large chunk of land in probably the most remote part of California in the northeast corner of the state. This is part of the Great Basin region. While this area is one of the great bird migratory routes in the world for bird watching along the Pacific Flyway, Modoc County does not even bother with much tourism promotion. This place is truly for the birds. Modoc Indian War 1872-1873 In summer 2012 I visited a museum in Klamath Falls, Oregon where I saw exhibits on the Modoc War of 1872 to 1873 and my life intersected with the Modoc tribal leader Kintpuash, more widely known as Captain Jack. I enjoy the high school fair quality of exhibits in small museums. After reading about Modoc Indians for an hour today on the internet I learned far more detail of events from photos of the Modoc War exhibits I saw at Klamath County Museum for a $5 admission fee. I read recently that museums are the most trusted source of information by the public. California’s Indian population was decimated in the 25 years following the Gold Rush of 1849. The Modoc War was the last of the Indian Wars in California where for two decades the state had a basic policy of Indian relocation and extermination. The Modoc War resulted in the death of General Edward Canby in 1873, the only U.S. Army General killed in action during the decades of Indian Wars in the American West. Emigrants passed through the Modoc Indian tribal region in the 1840s as pioneers followed the southern Oregon Trail route as an alternative to the dangerous Columbia River route to reach the fertile Willamette Valley in Oregon. Conflicts between emigrants and U.S. Army soldiers with Modoc tribal people and other Great Basin and Cascade Range Indians led to emigrant pioneer petitions for the federal government to remove indigenous tribal peoples to Indian Reservations. Forested hills and grasslands of northeastern California seen here in Siskiyou County south of Klamath Lake. The Modoc tribal leaders signed the Klamath Lake treaty in October 1864 along with the Klamath Indians and a tribe of Snake River Indians ceding land to the federal government for a stipend with an agreement to relocate to Klamath Reservation in southern Oregon. The Modoc tribe had conflicts with the Klamath tribe and periodically backed out of their agreement and treaty to remain on the Klamath Reservation in Oregon. The Klamath tribe lived on their own homelands. In 1869 there were about 800 Klamath Indians, 350 Snake and 200 Modoc. The outnumbered Modoc tribe who had to relocate from their traditional grounds petitioned for their own California reservation. The federal government did not ratify the Klamath Lake treaty until February 1870. Boundary disputes with emigrant settlers reduced the land area for the reservation by the time it was ratified. The U.S. Government would not authorize the Modoc tribe’s return to their own reservation on California. In April 1870 the Modoc leader Kintpuash, aka Captain Jack took around 155 members of his tribe off the Klamath Reservation and into the lava bed country of Modoc County, Siskiyou County and southern Oregon. Keint-poos, Captain Jack photo in Klamath County Museum, Klamath Falls, Oregon. California and Oregon farmers and ranchers petitioned the federal government to round up the Modoc Indians roaming the region. United States Army troops were sent to capture the Modoc renegades in late 1872 and return them to the Klamath Reservation. Soldiers were killed in in several battles of the Modoc War of 1873. Local residents also died in sporadic attacks. The U.S. Army suffered far higher casualties, about 82 soldiers to 17 Modoc Indian fighters. 1873 Modoc War Map in Klamath County Museum. Captain Jack assassinated General Canby with a pistol shot during a peace negotiation April 11, 1873. The assassination of a military leader, U.S. Army commander of Pacific Northwest forces, sparked national outrage and prominent newspaper reporters traveled to Yreka, California to follow the action. Another Modoc leader, Boston Charley shot Reverend Eleazar Thomas. General Jefferson C. Davis brought in more than 1,000 troops to combat the 50 Modoc fighters allied with Captain Jack. After successfully evading the Army troops for nearly two months, and with many of his fighters having surrendered, on June 1, 1873 Captain Jack surrendered. He was hanged, along with Boston Charley and two other Modoc warriors at Fort Klamath on October 3, 1873. The other 155 Modoc renegades who had left the reservation with Captain Jack were sent to Indian Territory in Oklahoma as prisoners. Today there are federally recognized Modoc tribes in California and Oklahoma. The Sioux Wars of 1876-1877 included the Battle of the Little BigHorn where 270 men in the U.S. Army Seventh Cavalry including Lt. Col. George Armstrong Custer were killed. If not for this historic Native American victory in battle on June 25, 1876, the Modoc War and the name Captain Jack might be better known in the history of the Indian Wars. Resources: Lava Beds National Monument – Modoc Homeland - National Park Service The Modoc War 1872-1873, California State Military Museum My Missed Counties of California I thought Modoc County, California was the only county of 58 counties in California that I have never been inside the county boundaries. And it turns out that is not correct after spending 30 minutes today playing with Google Maps and checking all the counties in the Sierra Nevada mountain range. Turns out I also have never passed through one other county in California and ironically it is probably one of the most famous counties in California based on the Mark Twain story ‘The Celebrated Jumping Frog of Calaveras County’. I have a feeling I will need to rectify that missed county of Calaveras in the next couple of weeks before embarking on my September road trip. It is about time I check out Angels Camp. Mark Twain claimed the jumping frog story is one he heard while staying at Angels Hotel in 1865. The 1850s hotel, no longer a hotel, is now a National Historic Landmark. How can a Californian not visit one of the most celebrated California towns of the 19th century? And I will need to read that Mark Twain story too. Ric Garrido, writer and owner of Loyalty Traveler, shares news and views on hotels, hotel loyalty programs and vacation destinations for frequent guests. Follow Loyalty Traveler on Twitter and Facebook and RSS feed or subscribe to a daily email newsletter on the upper left side of this page. 8 Responses - Great post Ric. Not to sound like your mother, but once again safe travels hiking our glorious national parks. The bears will be in pre hibernation mode, so you know the drill i think. Of course, chances of getting in a car accident along the way among other perils are much higher. But hopefully you can hike with a group. As far as Burning Man goes, every one i have ever known that went to that thing was a druggie, so no thanks, but that corner of California looks inviting. Looking forward to your posts.Comment by Carl on August 18th, 2013 at 8:36 pm - Take all the secondary roads. You don’t see anything on Interstate Highways. Take U.S. 89 from Yellowstone to Glacier national park. If you happen to see the smallest Missouri Synod Lutheran church on U.S. 89 take a picture for me. I remember it from years ago but can’t remember exactly were its located.Comment by Wendy on August 18th, 2013 at 8:49 pm - @Carl – Just read a CNN story this morning on the spate of bear attacks in the past week across the U.S. Stephen Colbert should be alarmed. http://www.cnn.com/2013/08/19/us/bear-attacks/index.html?hpt=hp_t2 Recommendation was to hike with a group. Bear spray is on my shopping list. I won’t be going to Burning Man. Never have been there. I had my transcendental experience at Pyramid Lake sleeping in talus caves with Paiute friends in 1978. I mentioned Burning Man after looking at a map and seeing a large empty space in northwestern Nevada. Burning Man is the only association I make with the area north of Pyramid Lake. Pyramid Lake is entirely within the Paiute reservation. Pyramid Lake is where the Truckee River from Lake Tahoe drains into the Nevada desert. This area of Nevada has ancient American Indian lifeblood as now confirmed by the petroglyph dating to around 14,000 years ago. @Wendy – Thanks for the tip on U.S. 89. I was thinking I would go to Helena, Montana from U.S. 89 via Route 12, but I’ll look at the US 89 route more closely as an alternative route. I did a quick search for the location of the church, but I did not find it.Comment by Ric Garrido on August 19th, 2013 at 7:25 am - Would love for you to drive up the Oregon coast and compare our southern half to your Big Sur area. I think Southern Oregon has California beat. See, that way, you could also drive through Portland and enjoy a brewery or three here. I recall that great beer is your weakness…Comment by bluecat on August 19th, 2013 at 2:40 pm - @bluecat – Without question the Oregon Coast is one of the most beautiful places on the planet. I lived ten years in Eureka, California, 400 miles north of Monterey and about 100 miles from southern Oregon coast. The main advantage we have in Monterey is the better weather. It does not get cold here like it does in Oregon in winter and we do not get rain in the summer.Comment by Ric Garrido on August 19th, 2013 at 2:55 pm - You need to do this the last week of September when fall colors are out. If you go then you have a chance of overnight snow. Most of the park loges n both are closed in mid Septemberw. You need to use west Yellowstone or Gardner as a base. N your drive there I suggest stopping by Crsters of the Moon NM. If you are going to go up to Helena….do it at the end and then do the Lewis and Clark trek following much of US12 into idaho and Washington. With Grand Tetn you need to focus n pics in the morning. The popular location for sun rise is Ox Bow. You need to be here about 30-45 min before sunrise. After going there, go to Schweibacher. …of the main road it’s a dirt road ( car friendly) just take it slow over the washboards down the hill to the flat area. There are two parking areas to pull off at. In this area along with x bow you can find moose in early am and early evening.. In the afternoon you take the Jenny lake boat to the other side for hiking trails. In Jackson itself there are many hotels to choose from. The Antler Inn s a good and covienient place to stay where you are walking distance to the shops and restaurants. Jackson has two supermarkets toward the SW side of town. In jacksn there isn’t much in terms f chain hotels. West Yellowstone and Gardner have more chain hotels ( choice, best western, Wyndham ).Comment by DJP on August 19th, 2013 at 3:06 pm - @DJP – Thanks for all the tips. I was looking at the Highway 12 route for the Lewis & Clark trek. Craters of the Moon is in my sights. My trip is for late September and early October. I hope I don’t hit snow.Comment by Ric Garrido on August 19th, 2013 at 5:51 pm - Late september you will get fall colors at Yellowstone and Grand Teton. I was there last year….the cold weather chaced me. I fly in/out of Denver. It was nice while there. Highest upper 60s/low 70s and then lows around 40. Early morning –jacket is needed. IIRC I started my drive back on October 2nd. The next day a front was moving through dropping highs into the low 50s with lows below freezing. I finished up my trip in Rocky Mountain where fall colors in the Valley peak in early October. What actually is really cool is to get snow in the mountains for pics. Also what is cool is to get a couple inches of snow fall where it whitens the pines but the trees still have color—but its warm enough the snow melts on the road…so you get just wet pavement.
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It is clear that FamilySearch abandoned PAF, and thus its users, but many users have not abandoned PAF. The latest update to Personal Ancestral File (PAF) was released on 2002 June 23. That is more than ten years ago. It is clear that FamilySearch abandoned PAF, and thus its users, but many users have not abandoned PAF yet. PAF continues to be one of the most popular genealogy applications for Windows. That's remarkable. During the past ten years, competing products have been improved. New products have been introduced. New features have been added to existing ones. There are literally hundreds of genealogy applications, old and new, to choose from. Yet many people keep using PAF. In fact, many genealogist still recommend PAF to beginners. PAF wasn't the first genealogy application, but it was introduced early. When it was introduced back in 1984, it was one of just a handful of applications to chose from. Early versions of PAF were multi-platform. PAF 2.0 was available for CP/M, MS-DOS and Apple ProDOS. PAF 2.1 dropped support for CP/M, but added support for MacOS. PAF 3.0 is for MS-DOS only, and PAF 4.0 and later are for Windows only, but the multi-platform available in the early days did help to make PAF popular; it seemed to make PAF a safe choice, whatever you were using, and whatever you were going to buy next. There is no version of PAF for 16-bit Windows. When PAF for Windows was introduced in 1999, it immediately demanded 32-bit Windows. Users of 16-bit Windows had to run PAF 3.0 in DOS Box, or choose a competing product. That may seem like a point against PAF, but it actually was a point against competitors that did provide genealogy software for Windows 3.0 and 3.1; Windows 3.x is infamously unstable, and that negatively affected the reputation of software available for it. Back in 1984, PAF 1.0 could be ordered for US$ 35. That is probably more than US$ 80 in today's money, but it was still relatively cheap. The other genealogy software on the market was selling for hundreds of dollars. End-users tend to spend their money on hardware, and rarely budget for software. PAF was the cheapest genealogy software, so that is what many early computer users bought. Today, Millennia is known for offering a feature-limited free edition of Legacy Family Tree. However, when they introduced Legacy back in 1997, they were not offering a free edition yet, they were offering a demo edition that did not allow saving changes to databases of over fifty people. The genealogy software market was becoming quite competitive. Prices of genealogy software had come down since the eighties, and Legacy 1.0 sold for US$ 49,95. Moreover, it included the ability to directly import your data from PAF. FamilySearch introduced PAF 4.0 on 1999 Jun 25. It wasn't the first genealogy software for Windows, but FamilySearch was possibly the very first, certainly the first well-known genealogy software vendor to offer their software for free. That they did not pay Incline Software any license fee for their Ancestral Quest is not unimportant, but the biggest factor in that decision is probably that they had just introduced their familysearch.org site, and now had a place to offer it as a free download. The introduction of PAF 4.[[phy_address]] made it very popular, and like the introduction of the free Internet Explorer, changed its market significantly. Late in 2000, Millennia announced that Legacy 3.0 had become a free product, started calling it the Standard Edition and introduced the now familiar Deluxe Edition, offering more features. The price came down from US$ 49,95 for Legacy 3.0 upon its introduction early in 2000, to US$ 19,95 for Legacy 3.0 Deluxe late in 2000. PAF 5 is Unicode-based. Data-entry is not limited to the small number of characters on a single code page. On the contrary, PAF supports every character that Windows support. Technically, it even supports Unicode characters that Windows does not support yet. PAF 4 and 5 are multi-lingual. That the ostensible English interface is actually an Amglish user interface hardly matters. What does matter is that PAF 4 is available in other languages; French, German, Spanish, Portuguese and Swedish. PAF 5 is fully Unicode-based and not only available in Amglish, German and Swedish, but also in Chinese, Japanese and Korean. PAF is the only genealogy application offered by the Latter-Day Saints (LDS), the largest mormon cult. Well, PAF 1, followed by PAF 2 & 3 and then PAF 4 & 5 are really three different applications with the same name, but that is another matter. What matters is that many LDS members will hardly consider a third party product when there is an LDS product. The effect of this parochial attitude should not be overstated, mormons aren't a significant buying force in the genealogy market, but it is there and many small factors like that do add up. Another small effect is caused by the disproportionately large presence of mormons in genealogical organisations, combined with the fact that people tend to recommend the software they know, providing PAF with another small popularity boost. FamilySearch has actively promoted PAF, and in fact continued to do so long after they abandoned both development and maintenance. They abandoned PAF after the release of PAF 5.2.18 on 2002 Jul 23, but continued to promote PAF until 2010 Dec 21. That's the day they introduced a new design for their website. The impact of continuous promotion of a free product on the home page of one of the most popular web sites should not be underestimated. All that time PAF enjoyed promotion on a prime advertising spot: the familysearch.org home page, a site that receives about ten million hits per day. I've been informed that third parties have offered good money to have their product promoted in that spot, money that FamilySearch could have invested in say an updated release of GEDCOM, but FamilySearch steadfastly continued to promote PAF instead. The impact of continuous promotion of a free product on the home page of one of the most popular web sites should not be underestimated. Many newbies go there, see free software being offered, decide to try it, and are content enough with its functionality to never look for anything better. Moreover, anyone who started out with PAF and does decide to look at alternatives, will find that PAF, although more than ten years old already, compares well to many current products. Part of the popularity of many older systems is due to the baby duck syndrome; something better may come along, but many existing users are unable to recognise that new system as better, because they tend judge it by its similarity to the one system they know. The baby duck syndrome creates a first mover advantage; vendors that enter the market early will continue to dominate that market for a long time, even when their products are inferior to those offered by later entrants. There is no reason to assume that PAF users are less susceptible to baby duck syndrome than other users. This effect certainly plays a role in PAF's continued popularity, but it would be unfair to suggest that baby duck syndrome is the only or even the major reason users stuck with PAF. PAF 5.2.18 really does compare well with many current products, in ways that do matter. Perhaps one reason that PAF users are slow to change genealogy software is that the industry is slow, that genealogy software is slow to change. Users aren't in a hurry to adopt the latest and greatest, because most new features aren't must-have features, but merely nice-to-have features. User can afford to wait for the vendor of their product to catch up. That viewpoint is debatable, but one thing is sure: PAF hasn't had any new features in more than ten years, and is not going to get any either, yet many users continue to stick with it. PAF users are not sticking with PAF because they are locked in, but despite the ease with which they can switch to another product. One problem with genealogy software is that there is a standard, but it is not being maintained. Basic genealogy data transfers well from one application to another, but vendors like to offer unique features, and the data associated with those features often does not transfer so well. Users that take advantage of those features suffer vendor lock-in; they cannot change to another product by another vendor without losing some of their data. That problem is real, and groups like BetterGEDCOM and the Family History Information Standards Organisation (FHISO) aim to create a new standard. However, PAF users aren't locked in. PAF users are not sticking with PAF because they are locked in, but despite the ease with which they can switch to another product. PAF's user interface is dated, but not ugly. PAF's user interface is not very cluttered, but is easy to learn and use. PAF was certainly not designed with one-name or one-place studies in mind. The dialog parade you have to suffer to simply merge two individuals is plain annoying. However, for more common operations, the user interface rarely gets in the way, but simply lets you enter your data. PAF 4.[[phy_address]] 3.0 LDS Edition, not Ancestral Quest 3.0 Lite. It is a common misconception that PAF is a rather basic genealogy application. PAF is not without its limitations, but it is a full-featured product; PAF 4.[[phy_address]] 3.0 LDS Edition, not Ancestral Quest 3.0 Lite. That it is easy to use does not imply it is too limited to be useful. Its multimedia capabilities are not as fancy as those of some newer applications, but it does support media. It has advanced search capability, and the ability to create export selections by constructing filters. Its user interface can be customised through templates. It includes many reports, including consistency checks, and will create web pages. Many users feel no need to change, because PAF already offers all they need. PAF features good GEDCOM support. PAF's GEDCOM support is not perfect. Although GEDCOM is FamilySearch's own standard, and PAF is their own product, PAF does not support all GEDCOM features, and does not fully adhere to the GEDCOM spec. However, PAF does follow the GEDCOM specification pretty closely and does not employ many extensions. Moreover, PAF is pretty good at reading third party GEDCOM files, and its GEDCOM reader produces an import log listing any problems it encounters. PAF and GEDCOM are strongly related. PAF was often the first product to support new GEDCOM features. PAF's GEDCOM export defaults to UTF-8, and can read and write GEDCOM files in any of the four legal encodings: ASCII, ANSEL, UTF-8 and UTF-16 ( UNICODE). When you are using PAF, you're unlikely to encounter a product that cannot read your data, one way or another. One way to determine what the major software applications in an industry are is to look at what database formats their applications read. By this definition, PAF is not only a major genealogy application, it is probably the best supported one; most software from other major players will read PAF databases directly. PAF's GEDCOM dialect is well supported too; not only does PAF sticks fairly close to the GEDCOM standard in the first place, but many applications also support the _AKA and _UID extensions it uses. When you are using PAF, you're unlikely to encounter a product that cannot read your data, one way or another. It is easy to switch to another application, but not so easy to find another application that matches PAF's features and is supported by all the third-party utilities you use. PAF handles large databases, say one hundred thousand individuals or more, with ease. You may not need that now, but it is good to know it can handle it. Your database will not get smaller, it will only get larger. Even with a quarter million individuals, PAF remains responsive. Once in a while, it seems to rebuild its index, but does so in just a few seconds. Even with large database, PAF remains fast. It starts up fast, never makes you wait for common editing operations, and hardly ever makes you wait for anything else. PAF exports a GEDCOM file for a database of quarter million individuals in just a few minutes. It generates multi-generation reports containing thousands of individuals in hundreds of pages in a quarter minute. It performs search & replace of misspelled place names in just a few seconds. PAF is quite stable. The last ever update addressed was a Windows XP stability update. There has been update since, but PAF hardly ever crashes, not even if you keep it running for days. If PAF does crash, you can restart it, and continue where you left of. Since that last update, corrupted database do not seem to occur at all. That does not mean PAF is perfect. Somehow, clicking the close button on Windows Vista can hang the entire system, so it is best to avoid that button and keep it running. PAF is not without limitations. It has not been updated for over a decade, so that it lacks support for the now popular citations templates isn't surprising. PAF is infamous for not letting you enter same-sex marriages, but its actual limitation is even is worse than that reputation suggests; PAF bluntly treats any two people who have a child together as a married couple. FamilySearch's official workaround for this limitation, the text NOT MARRIED in the marriage date field, is not only ridiculous, but both a violation of good user interface design and a violation of their own GEDCOM specification. PAF has some multimedia support, but it is limited compared to the multimedia features of newer applications. An annoying misfeature is that PAF is smart enough check birth dates against those of siblings for reasonability, but not smart enough to not complain in the case of twins. PAF's GEDCOM support is defective. That your data transfers well out of PAF is partly because PAF's GEDCOM support is still pretty good, but ultimately, the reason that your data often transfers completely is that other vendors support the PAF GEDCOM dialect so well. There are plenty of current alternatives to PAF. Not only are the many genealogy applications to choose from, there even are several free applications to choose from. Incline's Ancestral Quest is the most logical choice for a PAF user who wants a current application without really changing to another application, but many PAF users never paid for genealogy software, and still expect their upgrade to be free. Incline Software introduced Ancestral Quest Basics when FamilySearch stopped advertising PAF, and this lite edition of the current product is free. Although it comes close to and is arguably better than PAF 5.2.18, Ancestral Quest Basics not does not match PAF feature-for-feature, and that may be enough reason for some to stick with PAF. It is easy to understand why PAF became popular. It was introduced early, for a relatively low price and was the first application from a major vendor to be free. In the early days, when that was still important, PAF was multi-platform. PAF for Windows was never associated with 16-Windows. PAF is Unicode-based and multi-lingual. It is an LDS product that enjoyed continuous promotion on the FamilySearch site. PAF has good GEDCOM support, that includes support for all legal character encodings, and its GEDCOM reader produces an useful import log. PAF is stable, fast and handles large database with ease. All these features should be common by now, but many continue to be rare. Many PAF users will eventually switch to something else. Many vendors would love those users to choose their product, yet, ten years on, still haven't bothered to match PAF's most basic capabilities. Many products claim to read PAF databases, but only Unicode-based applications are fully able to read PAF databases. Even today, more than twenty years (!) since Unicode version 1.0, few genealogy applications are Unicode-based. Ten years since the last PAF update, and more than a dozen years since the release of GEDCOM 5.5.1, few current applications are able read and write all four legal GEDCOM encodings. In fact, several vendors are still peddling applications that do not support any of the four legal GEDCOM encodings, but only export to the explicitly illegal Windows ANSI encoding. PAF's user interface is dated, but easy to use. Many current applications have a user interface that matches or exceeds PAF's dated looks, but do not begin to match its easy of use. Few genealogy applications can handle large databases, and even fewer start and respond fast when used with a large database. While PAF has gained a reputation for being stable and continues to run on the latest versions of Windows, the best-selling genealogy application is notoriously slow, buggy and unstable, and another ostensibly current application still does not even run on Windows Vista 64-bit, a major Windows version that was released more than five years ago. PAF is stuck ten years in the past, but many ostensibly current products marketed today belong back in a previous millennium. These genealogy software vendors suffer from featuritis; they keep focussing on feature lists while ignoring basic capabilities. They claim all kinds of interesting sounding features when they release another version of their product, but at the same time, never bother to upgrade the dated design and technology that forms the foundation. When you look past their list of features to examine the product's basics, you see a product that hasn't had a real upgrade since its first version, often released long before PAF's latest update. Sadly, the major reason for PAF users to stick with PAF is not that PAF is so great, but that most of the genealogy software being offered today still lacks the basic capabilities that PAF offered ten years ago already. For most genealogy software users, a switch to the decade-old PAF would be an upgrade. PAF is stuck ten years in the past, but many ostensibly current products marketed today belong back in a previous millennium. Copyright © Tamura Jones. All Rights reserved.
Teaching Children Good Manners : Not Easy! The other day, a close relative – who has spent a few days with our family – said to me, ‘Your kids are very well-behaved.” He was referring to what he saw. My kids ate all on their … There Is a Time for Everything There is a time for everything. There’s a time for everything that is done on earth. There is a time to be born. And there’s a time to die. There is a time to plant. And there’s a time to … How Do I Feel about Having Three Kids? Here’s my reply if anyone ever asked what I feel about having three kids : Having three kids is challenging. Because we need to deal with three different temperaments, and unique characters daily. Yes, they’re fun to be … Loving My Siblings : Not an Easy Task People say that if you have a girl as your eldest, it’s better, because she will help you take care of her younger siblings. While in some ways it is true, in many other ways I’d … Making : Leaf Prints with Real Leaves The other day, as I walked with Brie, we spotted this piece of leaf and I thought, it’d be nice if Brie made leaf patterns out of it.
Last night was our May book club meeting. We were meeting at a restaurant and we had a plan. One of our lovely members had just shared with us a couple weeks ago that she was diagnosed with breast cancer. Last Wednesday she underwent surgery… last night… we all went Pink for her. Mmmm hmmmm… love these gals! :D The book we reviewed? The Light Between Oceans was a “wow oh wow” discussion. That review will be up later today. So… I am out of town all day today, meeting at 7:30 am and car pooling to another get together and will be back tonight around 10 pm. L O N G D A Y. I need to take a book…. :D Posted on May 15, 2013, in Being Bookie, Meanderings and tagged Bookies, Morning Meanderings. Bookmark the permalink. 4 Comments. - As a cancer survivor, my thoughts are with your fellow bookie, Sheila. I hope she does well, without many side effects from treatment.
News from the Secretary by Larry Gabriel S.D. Secretary of Agriculture What is your gift? This is the season of gifts. South Dakota has many. The few stingy people that might be found here at other times are not in sight. As the year comes to a close I like to take inventory of what we have accomplished. There are several ways to measure "accomplishment". Some like to count money and see how wealth has increased. But wealth is (in my experience) not always a good indicator of how well the state or agriculture is doing. Wealth can be fleeting, here today and gone tomorrow due to circumstances beyond our control. Some like to count numbers of people and point to growth in population as an accomplishment, but population growth is not without its burdens. Sometimes it makes a situation worse for many of the people in a given area. (Those of us who live in the middle of open prairie certainly don't want to see it covered with boom towns.) Some like to measure production numbers. This year South Dakota had the largest corn crop in history, according to recent reports. But production numbers don't always indicate that the quality of life is improving for our farmers or the communities where they live. Numbers are a useful thing, but they should never be the end objective. I would like to see more dairy cows in the state, but not just because I like big numbers. We need a larger herd to support our dairy processing industry and keep it from going under. I would like to see more of you attend the State Fair, but not because I like big affairs. We need more people to attend so we can continue to support the related efforts of promoting agricultural research, education, technology transfer and 4-H activities which enhance the quality of rural life dependent upon agriculture. I would like to see more ag processing and value-added enterprises developed in our rural areas, but not because I adore processing. Many of our small communities are dying. The empty homes, vacant commercial buildings and half-empty schools need more people and the towns need new areas in their economic base to support those people. We did not yet make the State Fair a financial success. We did not increase the dairy herd to size that is needed (Not yet!). We did not yet generate a boom in the rural economy or in the number of farmers and ranchers. Albert Einstein is quoted as having said, "Not everything that can be counted counts, and not everything that counts can be counted." Of the gifts that count most, I believe the greatest gift you can give South Dakota is the fact that you care about her. Whether we agree or disagree on issues, most of the citizens I met throughout the year really do care about our state. That's the best gift. Merry Christmas!
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That’s the title of an article in Discover magazine[[phy_address]] Mary Schweitzer’s discoveries of fresh dinosaur tissue (which we’ve earlier reported on—Dinosaur bone blood cells found, Creation 16(1):9, 1993; Sensational dinosaur blood report! 19(4):42; 1997; Dino soft tissue find, 27(4):7, 2005). Why ‘dangerous’? A sub-heading (our emphasis in bold font) explains: ‘When this shy paleontologist found soft, fresh-looking tissue inside a T. rex femur, she erased a line between past and present. Then all hell broke loose.’ Science via AP (From www.msnbc.msn.com/id/7285683/) The ‘line’ referred to is the supposed 65 million years that dinosaurs are reputed to have been extinct. The Discover article described how the fresh dino tissue had ‘electrified’ creationists, ‘who interpret Schweitzer’s findings as evidence that Earth is not nearly as old as scientists claim. “I invite the reader to step back and contemplate the obvious,” wrote Carl Wieland [CMI—Australia’s Managing Director; his article ‘Still soft and stretchy’ prompted atheist-inspired criticism from long-age compromisers] last year. “This discovery gives immensely powerful support to the proposition that dinosaur fossils are not millions of years old at all, but were mostly fossilized under catastrophic conditions a few thousand years ago at most.”’ The Discover article went on to document the unwillingness of many in the scientific community to believe the findings. Even to the point that Dr Schweitzer ‘was having a hard time’ trying to get her work published in scientific journals. ‘I had one reviewer tell me that he didn’t care what the data said, he knew that what I was finding wasn’t possible,’ says Schweitzer. ‘I wrote back and said, “Well, what data would convince you?” And he said, “None.”’ Schweitzer can understand why so many are skeptical. ‘If you take a blood sample, and you stick it on a shelf, you have nothing recognizable in about a week,’ she says, adding, ‘So why would there be anything left in dinosaurs?’ Why indeed? Unless of course they haven’t been extinct for millions of years, and their remains were preserved quickly by an unusual event. Schweitzer says of the moment she found dinosaur red blood cells in the 1990s: ‘I just got goose bumps, because everyone knows these things don’t last for 65 million years.’ Schweitzer recounts how, after that first discovery, she noticed that a T. rex skeleton (from Hell Creek, Montana) had a distinctly cadaverous odour. When she mentioned this to long-time paleontologist Jack Horner, he said ‘Oh yeah, all Hell Creek bones smell.’ Astonishing, isn’t it? So ingrained is the notion among paleontologists that dinosaur bones must be millions of years old that the ‘smell of death’ didn’t even register with them—despite the evidence being right under their noses. The article author wrote that Schweitzer is an ‘evangelical Christian’.1 However, he is only one of many non-Christians to invoke a professing Christian as a ‘useful idiot’ to undermine the Christian faith. It’s important to understand that both words, ‘evangelical’ and ‘Christian’, have definite meanings, but it’s rare for atheists to use them honestly. For example, the great 20th-century physician-turned-preacher Dr D. Martyn Lloyd-Jones said that an evangelical must (by definition) accept ‘creation, not evolution’, ‘the fact of the historical fall of the first man, and that it happened in the way described in the third chapter of Genesis,’ and ‘assert the fact of the flood.’ This is actually a corollary of the definition that evangelicals accept the inerrancy and sufficiency of Scripture. Schweitzer’s attitude to Scripture actually reflects a liberal, rather than evangelical approach to the Bible.2 Rather than accept the biblical account of a rapid creation, she still believes in millions of years, ‘That makes God a lot bigger than thinking of Him as a magician that pulled everything out in one fell swoop.’ Schweitzer also said, that her ‘faith’ (in what, we are not told) had deepened. ‘My God has gotten so much bigger since I’ve been a scientist. He doesn’t stay in boxes.’ However, such trite slogans are irrelevant. The important thing is what God said He did, not what someone thinks ‘their’ ‘god’ could have done! And the founders of modern science, who believed that they were ‘thinking God’s thoughts after Him’, didn’t deny His recorded thoughts. And although Schweitzer says, ‘I see compassion in the world around me’, we also see the Fall—including in T. rex skeletons! That is the insuperable difficulty of trying to marry Christianity and long ages. Note that we don’t claim that one can’t be a Christian and a long-ager. Many people are saved despite ‘blessed inconsistency’—there is no hint in the Bible that the ability to hold mutually contrary thoughts in the same skull is an unforgivable sin. See also: The article also claims that Schweitzer has suffered ‘religious attacks’ from biblical creationists, although of course not demonstrating that there was any ‘attack’. It is actually not the first time that Discover has resorted to emotionalism as a substitute for argument—see Feduccia v Creationists. Schweitzer says, ‘It rips my guts out’. [This seems to be saying: ‘Your statement offends me, therefore it must be false’.] ‘These people are claiming to represent the Christ I love’ [though not loved enough to believe what He said about a recent creation (Mark 10:4–9) and global Flood (Luke 17:26–27) and the inerrancy of Scripture (John 10:35).]. ‘It’s no wonder that a lot of my colleagues are atheists’ [perhaps it’s because there’s not much incentive to believe the Bible when professing Christians don’t?]. ‘You know, if the only picture of Christ I had was your attitude towards me, I’d run [while deploring ‘Christian hatemail’ (if there was any in this instance), it’s worth noting that the biblical Christ was hardly the innocuous wimp he is often portrayed as being—note e.g. his use of the challenge–riposte method—or else no one would likely have bothered to have Him crucified]. It is a shame that Dr Schweitzer is so entrapped in the billions-of-years paradigm that she is unwilling to abandon it in the face of huge problems, both biblical and scientific.
Felipe Massa believes he and his Ferrari team must work flat out for the rest of this season if they are going get back to the front of Formula 1 in 2010. With the Maranello outfit poised to shift its focus onto next year's car soon on the back of its disappointing start to this campaign, Massa thinks the team can taking nothing for granted about its future chances. "We need to work, as we cannot say that next year we will be back," said the Brazilian. "We need to work for that. We know the other people know a lot about what they are doing, and they know how to make a competitive car. That is why I am very keen also to give good opinions about next year's car. "I am ready to do a big, big job this season on next year's car, and also next year. That is why I am pushing hard. I don't have to say it though; I prefer to work together with the team and hopefully next year getting a competitive car to be able to fight for the championship." Massa concedes that it is hard to accept that his title chances for this year are already over, but thinks the switch of resources onto the 2010 machine will be worth it in the end. "I know even if we win all the races we will not be the champions, so as a driver I want to get back to the fight for the championship," he said. "To be honest, I am very worried to prepare a very, very competitive car for next year, so that is why I am pushing very hard for next year in terms of development, but I know that maybe after four or five races, maybe even less, we will not have anything new on this car. Sometimes it is hard to accept, but it is better to do it this way." He added: "I miss the fight for the first position, the fight for the championship, but we need to keep working. You don't know what is coming next year, as nobody expected that Jenson Button would be first in the championship right now. So many things can change in F1."
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Toby Hagon oversees all things Drive across Fairfax’s broad range of publications, which includes Drive.com.au. Drive is a leader in online automotive editorial content and its authoritative articles, videos, blogs and analysis pieces are also distributed across some of Australia’s leading news websites, including smh.com.au, theage.com.au, brisbanetimes.com.au, canberratimes.com.au and watoday.com.au. News Extreme luxury comes at a cost Toby Hagon Spare a thought for the multi-millionaires who have splashed out on two of the world's most opulent limousines – the Rolls-Royce Phantom and Mercedes-built Maybach – and will probably be... New Car Road Test Dolled-up Volvo Toby Hagon The Swedish company known for the safety of its cars is turning its attention to looks, writes Toby Hagon. News Lights, cameras, attention Toby Hagon and Joshua Dowling Ford Australia claimed bragging rights for the Focus concept car unveiled at this week's Beijing motor show. But just how much of it was done locally? Toby Hagon and Joshua Dowling report. News Acura will come here ... eventually Toby Hagon Honda's upmarket Acura brand is headed for Australia, according to Honda Australia managing director Hiroshi Toda. Feature Articles That's snow business Toby Hagon There is a long list of things to consider when taking a trip to the snow, writes Toby Hagon. News Three seats the next big thing in small cars Toby Hagon Three-seater cars are tipped to become more popular as car-makers respond to calls for increased seating flexibility in micro cars and the need for more space-efficient vehicles. News New system illuminates blind spot Toby Hagon Eyes in the back of your head? Well, almost, as Toby Hagon explains. News 4WD sales survive petrol prices Toby Hagon Higher petrol prices haven't turned new car buyers away from typically thirsty four-wheel-drives and indulgent sports cars. News Daewoo demise opens doors Toby Hagon Support will continue but details are scarce, reports Toby Hagon. News Green power on top Toby Hagon Environmentally friendly hybrid motors have dominated this year's engine awards. News What we're driving Jonathan Hawley and Toby Hagon Peugeot 307 Touring XS HDi, Holden Statesman Supercharged V6 News What we're driving this week Toby Hagon The Audi Allroad V8 and Kia Sorento. News RACV warns on space-savers Toby Hagon The RACV has warned about the dangers of space-saver spare tyres after independent tests showed they could increase stopping distances by almost 50 percent and reduce cornering grip by as much as 13... News Ford pushes into new Territory Toby Hagon At its New Zealand launch, Toby Hagon explores a key component of Ford's Australian future – and finds the much-heralded 2WD/AWD is competent but relatively heavy and thirsty. News Ford launches on foreign territory Toby Hagon, Motoring Editor In a controversial move, Ford has finally officially unveiled its all-new Territory across the Tasman, in New Zealand. News The legend grows Toby Hagon The thinly-disguised prototype of the new Legend shows Honda's next-generation luxury sedan will be a curious mix. Toby Hagon reports. News Candid Benz reveals hatch to match Toby Hagon An apparently leaked "spy" picture of the all-new Mercedes A Class reveals a new three-door variant as part of plans to broaden the appeal of the entry-level Benz. News Victoria slow on new car uptake Toby Hagon Victorians are playing it cautiously in the new-car boom, writes Toby Hagon. News Monaro pushes performance pedal Toby Hagon The Monaro could soon have a bark to match its substantial marketing bite as Holden gears up to give the popular but ageing two-door a performance kick. News Volvo holds the phone Toby Hagon Volvo has developed a system that can temporarily withhold information – and phone calls – to reduce driver distraction.
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Flash and SWF, a graphical portable platform The flash plugin is installed on the browser of most Net surfers, and allows to view a video thanks to a script of video player inserted in the page. However Flash would have lasted only within a flash in the history of computing. It is a fact we could have a complete Web application interface with this format that was competing with Silverlight, Canvas or SVG. And we still see sites made in Flash, but it is definitively not the technology of the future. It was also the first game platform in the browser, it tends now to be replaced by HTML 5 + WebGL or native apps on mobiles devices. About the origin of the name, it was first called FutureSplash Animator and the word Flash is the compression of Future and Splash. Flash will persist some time as a legacy support for videos even if it has application development tools, Adobe Air and the software kit Flex. Indeed, Adobe announced November 8, [[phy_address]] up any development of Flash on mobile browsers, and replace it with HTML 5. But it will continue to support the Flash Player on desktop browsers. On November 17, was announced that Flex was donated to the Apache Foundation. What is Flash? The system consists of the following: - A source code in ActionScript language in a file with the .fla extension. - A graphical format. - A compiler producing a binary file with .swf extension that includes bitmap or vector graphics and code. - An runtime integrated to the player. - A plugin for the browser that runs the SWF files, the Flash Player. To make a flash animation, you need takes at least a code editor, a graphics editor and a compiler (see below). AIR, Adobe Integrated Runtime is a runtime environment for rich web applications for which Adobe provides a runtime and a development kit for free. It is a virtual machine like that of .NET or Java. AIR applications run online or locally. In the second case they have access to the file system. The online applications require the installation of the runtime on the local computer. SWF stands for ShockWave Flash, and it is the binary file format implemented by the Flash browser plugin. This format has been open since May 2008. To be pronounced "swiff". SWF format is the most widely used for interactive animations on the Web. The format has been created by the FutureWave Software company in 1993 for the FutureSplash Animator software, that was sold in 1996 to Macromedia (which renamed it Flash 1.0), which in turn was acquired by Adobe in 2005. With the Flash plugin in the browser you can: - Show interactive animations. - Play video or music (see player below). - Communicate with server scripts and files. - Communicate with a database on the server. - Exchange data between different websites. - Run a web application with a graphical interface. The time of Flash games Flash allowed to recycle old PC games as Arkanoid and space battles, including also the venerable Prince of Persia that is available online. Tutorials explain the design of a game in Flash. Tutorialized provides a list of tutorials on games. Tiles is specialized on tile games. But the trend is to make either HTML 5 or native games, such as Angry Birds. And the future will certainly be games in the browser with Asm.js or Portable NaCl. Two open source projects have been launched to describe the specification of the SWF format in order allowing to implement a non-proprietary plug-in, as Gnash and the Swfdec decoder. It is also possible to export graphics to the SWF format with LibreOffice Impress. Documents and tools - Comparison of web application interfaces. - Specification of the SWF format (PDF). - Download the Flash Player. - Swiffy, by Google, convert on line SWF files into HTML 5. - Music player, another audio reader with sources. - OpenFl. This framework allows to reuse the work done in Flash and easily port it on newer platforms. It keeps the same API and by converting ActionScript in Haxe which is close, SWF files may be reused. The program is then compiled in a choice of platforms including Android, Windows, HTML 5. In the latter case it dispenses of the Flash plugin.
Today is Tuesday, Oct. 9. Here are five things you need to know. Fundraiser At Prince Pizza: Tonight you can dine at Prince Pizza on Route 1 in Saugus to help the LHS Cheerleading Squad raise money for this season’s expenses. . Crafts & Laughs: Today at the Old Meeting House from 10:45 to 11:45 a.m., there’s a Crafts & Laughs hour with Ms. Dee, for ages 3 and 4, with a fall-themed craft, a story, game and songs. $12 per child, email [[email_addr]] for more information. Lynnfield Town Meeting: Town meeting is one week from tonight – Monday, October 15, at the Lynnfield Middle School at 7:30 p.m. The complete text of the town meeting warrant article is available here. Calling All Book Lovers: This Thursday evening, Oct. 11, from 6:30 to 7:30 p.m., the Lynnfield Library’s BookLovers Group meets on the mezzanine. Join Library Director Nancy Ryan for a discussion of this month’s selection, “Catherine The Great: Portrait Of A Woman,” by Robert K. Massie. From The Lynnfield Senior Center: Jo-Ann Thibault of The Elder Insider will be at the Senior Center to talk about the truth of reverse mortgages and help us sift through the myths. Thursday, Oct.18 at 12:30, Free. Lunch will be served at 11:30 for $2.00/$3.00. You must sign up for the lunch by 12 noon the day before. Please sign up separately for the lecture.
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Masters of Science Overview The purpose of the Master of Science program is to provide advanced training in computer science to prepare students for positions in industry and government and for further graduate study. The program is designed to accommodate students with training in diverse scientific and engineering disciplines, and in this regard the graduate program relies on the undergraduate program to provide the necessary course work for graduate students with deficiencies in their computer science backgrounds. Optional Emphasis- Computational Science and Engineering The Computational Science and Engineering (CSE) emphasis focuses on the integration of techniques and methodologies from Computer Science and Mathematics, for the solution of state-of-the-art, large-scale problems from science and engineering. The emphasis is offered in the Departments of Computer Science, Chemical Engineering, Electrical and Computer Engineering, Mechanical Engineering, Mathematics, and Geological Sciences. Students electing the CSE emphasis pursue a Master's or Ph.D. degree in their home department and take core and elective CSE courses. For more information please visit the CSE website, http://www.cse.ucsb.edu. Requirements for Masters of Science The Master of Science degree program may be completed with a thesis, with a comprehensive examination, or with a project. - 42 units of upper-division (excluding 193 level courses) or graduate courses (200+, 595, 596, 598) that are approved by a Computer Science Faculty Advisor must be completed. - A major area must be chosen from three major areas -- Theory, Systems, and Applications. Four CS graduate courses (200 level) should be taken from the major area and one CS graduate course (200 level) must be taken from each of the other two areas. The same course cannot be used to satisfy both major area and breadth requirements. - The grade in each major area course must be at least a B. - At least two units and at most six units of [[phy_address]] be included in the unit requirements. - The study plan must be approved by the faculty advisor. Study Plan Upon entry into the graduate program, students are assigned a faculty advisor who guides them through their graduate career. In consultation with his/her faculty advisor, each student prepares a study plan which details the courses that will be taken in order to fulfill the course requirements. The study plan may be changed at any time with the approval of the student's faculty advisor and the graduate advisor. While the rules of the Graduate Division describe the conditions under which a student may withdraw from a course, the Department imposes the additional condition that if a student withdraws from a course that affects the study plan, then a new study plan must be prepared prior to withdrawal. An approved study plan must be on file to complete the M.S. The study plan form can be found here. Additional Requirements Your choice to complete your Master's Degree with a thesis, Exam, or Project determines your additional requirements. Additional Requirements for Thesis The student must submit an acceptable thesis, completed under the supervision of a Computer Science permanent faculty member, and approved by a thesis committee composed of 3 permanent faculty members of the Computer Science Department. At most 12 units of 596 and 598 can be used towards unit requirements. A public defense of the thesis is required. Additional Requirements for Comprehensive Examination Besides the six courses required for all plans, twelve additional units of coursework must be completed with 100 (excluding 193) and 200 level courses. Of these, eight units must be at the 200 level. The comprehensive examination will be offered twice a year, in the eighth week of the fall and spring quarters. Each student will list four graduate courses: a question from each of these courses will be asked on the examination. Three questions need to be correctly answered in order to pass. If a student does not pass, s/he may take the exam the next time it is offered. Only two attemps will be allowed. Additional Requirements for Project The project plan requires more coursework than the thesis plan but less research, establishing a useful intermediate position between the other two plans. Beyond the major area and breadth courses common to all plans, the project plan's course requirements include two additional 200 level graduate courses. In addition to these course requirements, the student must complete: - six units of 596 directed research. - a project under the supervision of a Computer Science permanent faculty member. The project must be approved by a Project Committee consisting of two permanent faculty members of the Computer Science Department. Approval is based on the project's deliverables: - a report - a 30-minute public presentation describing the project.
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If I try hard enough do you think I could punch Dean through my computer screen? Person Of Interest 3x21 “Beta” Promo BRACE YOURSELVES This isn’t the first time Sam has decided correcting Dean isn’t worth pursuing at this moment. The first time they have a breather in which Sam could say something to Dean about any of the stuff that’s happening, he chooses to focus on what he thinks maybe the Mark is doing to Dean, because he’s worried about Dean. Correcting Dean about a thing Dean is going to cling to whether Sam clarifies it or not (because let’s face it, we all know, Sam included, that if Dean has made his mind up about something, there’s no changing it). I think Sam sees that in the aftermath of Jodi and Alex, he will have time and opportunity to address exactly one issue related to the events of this case, and he chooses Dean. Dean is the one in danger from some Mark they don’t fully understand yet. Dean is the one in peril and acting not like himself. Sam is afraid of losing him. In order to choose to bring up the “wouldn’t save me” thing, Sam would have to decide to make himself feel better by getting himself heard over trying to make sure Dean is okay, and that’s just not Sam. Aside from the points above, Sam is already doing more than he has in the recent few years to safeguard himself and make boundaries, and that shit is exhausting. I think he thinks he’s doing enough, and doing any more will just be unproductive on top of shifting energy to himself when Dean is the one who is really in trouble. (because neither of these boys actually considers emotional or psychological injury to be a real thing, all of their collective evidence to the contrary notwithstanding.) OKAY guys! This is a prompt! So, because of this thread, I am now accepting as many fills as possible for any 9x19 tag that deals in any way (ANY way) with Sam’s incredible blood loss (“this keg’s tapped out”) and his ability to keep himself going. Or maybe he doesn’t succeed fully to keep himself upright. WHATEVER. I’m going to add this to the big list of prompts, here, and as usual, you will get a comment if it’s posted to ao3, lj, or ff.net, and of course I will reblog your fic to all my (7) followers. ETA: These fics can be submitted to bittersamgirlclub's may prompt via the submit box. I recommend submitting the first paragraph with a fake readmore that leads to the post on your own blog, so that reblogs and likes all link to the same post. Signal boosting because this prompt needs to be filled. That Dean is a serious threat to Sam. He is paralleled with a woman who kidnapped, terrorized and tried to kill a child. The same child who agreed to her own death because she couldn’t stand to disappoint her mom again. Ring any bells? (see also: s8 finale) Can someone get Sam a cracker or something because he looks like he’s about to collapse He was literally bleeding out. And they just untied him. That’s it.
- "Storables" and "entities" do not differ. EntityFormControllerexpects an EntityInterface, so a ConfigurableInterfaceis incompatible. - A " StorableFormController" is nonsense. Goal - Restore entity system sanity. Proposed solution - Revert StorableInterfaceto EntityInterface. - Optional: Introduce a ContentInterfaceand use it for Node, Comment, Term(but not User). Alternate solution - Typehint with StorableInterface Comments Comment #1 Added an alternate solution. Comment #3 \|Status:\|\|Active\|\|» Closed (duplicate)\| #1761040: Rename Storable, Entity, and Configurable to Entity, ContentEntity, and ConfigEntity is a more more measured discussion of this, and it was posted a mere 7 minutes before this, so I'm closing this as a duplicate.
Anheuser-Busch InBev has countered a US newspaper article that, it claims, takes “unfounded swipes” at its proposed acquisition of Grupo Modelo. A Washington Post article last week claimed that the US$20.1bn deal would intensify what it calls a “duopoly” between A-B InBev and MillerCoors in the US. The piece claims that the two companies “take care not to compete too fiercely on price” and raises fears that craft beer brands will be marginalised by the Budweiser brewer's merger with Modelo. However, in a reponse to the article, A-B InBev's chief legal & corporate affairs officer, Sabine Chalmers, said the deal is about growth outside the US and will give the company "no control over pricing, marketing or distribution of Modelo’s brands in the US”. Chalmers pointed to the firm's plans to sell Modelo's stake in Crown Imports, the US distributor for the Mexican brewer's brands, to Constellation Brands. “We have built value in our brands and respect true competition in the marketplace, which is exploding,” said Chalmers. The deal is now the the subject of an anti-trust lawsuit, launched by the Department of Justice late last month. She added that the "assertion that we have a 'tacit agreement' not to compete on price is belied by the facts. He (the author) also mischaracterised our relationships with wholesalers, who are independent business people who understand their markets and look out for their own interests. For example, most have non-AB brands in their portfolio, which they are perfectly free to acquire." Chalmers said: "We compete every day in a league with many fierce competitors, and consumers are the ultimate judge." Expert analysis 2012 The U.S. Beer Market This "value set" report combines Beer in the U.S., Imported Beer and Specialty Beer and Microbrewery Markets to create the most exhaustive study of the U.S. beer market available. An $18,000+ value that is priced much lower, it scrutinizes all aspects, covering state and regional markets, distribution channels, brewers and brands, imports, exports, packaging, pricing, advertising, demographics and projections. It also provides in-depth examination of the mergers, acquisitions and joint ventures reshaping the industry plus projections through 2016. Sectors: Beer & cider, Mergers & acquisitions Companies: InBev, Modelo, Constellation View next/previous articles 11 Feb 2013 - 11 Feb 2013 - Currently reading - US: Anheuser-Busch InBev speaks out over 'unfounded swipes' 11 Feb 2013 - 11 Feb 2013 - There are currently no comments on this article Related research Anheuser-Busch InBev NV/SA : Consumer Packaged Goods - Company Profile, SWOT & Financial Report Canadean's "Anheuser-Busch InBev NV/SA : Consumer Packaged Goods - Company Profile, SWOT & Financial Report" contains in depth information and data about the company and its operations. The profile contains a company overview, key facts,major product... Anheuser-Busch InBev NV in Alcoholic Drinks (USA) Anheuser-Busch InBev (A-B InBev) is facing challenges in the mature US beer category by focusing on premium and craft beer. As the US Justice Department precluded A-B InBev from controlling the lucrative Modelo brands in the US, the company will push... Anheuser-Busch InBev NV in Beer (World) A-B InBev is the leading global brewer with 18% of global beer volumes, and the company is well placed to take advantage of expected volume growth in emerging markets, especially in Mexico following its Modelo acquisition, and value growth in high-ma...
Artists tend to grow up in wealthier households than doctors. more... \| \| April 24 , 2005 : The world's first cloned dog was born. more... Learn something new every day More Info... by email A steak is a cut of meat or fish prepared by a butcher and usually cooked with direct heat. Most types of steaks are beef, but some cuts of fish and pork also are referred to by this term. Beef steaks can be cut from almost any portion of the animal except for the shank and brisket. Some common types of steak include strip, T-bone, Porterhouse, filet mignon, flank, sirloin and round. More budget-conscious consumers may opt for cubed or mock tender steaks. The most tender and expensive types of steaks come from the loin and rib areas and include the strip steak, T-bone, Porterhouse, filet mignon, ribeye and sirloin. Some cuts leave the bone in for extra flavor, while others are boneless. Many steakhouses in the United States offer these cuts and may age the beef for several weeks. These steaks can be cooked to a wide range of doneness but will usually get tougher the longer they cook. Chefs often prepare these types of steaks by grilling or broiling and may serve them with compound butter or a sauce such as Bearnaise. T-bone, strip and Porterhouse steaks are similar cuts from the loin area. The T-bone and porterhouse include a bone and a section of the tenderloin. The strip steak, or New York strip, is usually a boneless cut with no tenderloin, while a filet mignon consists entirely of tenderloin. Other types of steak generally come from muscles in the animal that are more developed and may not be as tender. Flank steaks cut from the underside of the animal fall into this category and are usually cooked medium-rare or along with liquid to help tenderize it. Asian and Latin American cuisines often feature this cut in fajitas or stir-fries, typically heavily seasoned. While this cut may not be as tender as some, it is generally less expensive per serving and retains flavor well. Round steaks are cut from the hind portion of the animal and may be tenderized and cooked for longer periods of time to break down connective tissues. These types of steaks contain little fat or marbling. Round steak can be cubed by a butcher and served as Swiss or country fried steak. Certain cuts of pork and fish are occasionally called steaks in restaurants and grocery stores. Pork steaks come from the shoulder of the pig and can be prepared by several different methods. Fish steaks are produced from a variety of round fish by slicing a cross section from the thicker parts of the body. These are often grilled or crusted and seared. One of our editors will review your suggestion and make changes if warranted. Note that depending on the number of suggestions we receive, this can take anywhere from a few hours to a few days. Thank you for helping to improve wiseGEEK!