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Governor Charlie Crist recently announced University of North Florida senior Arielle Schneider is among the members of the sixth class of the Gubernatorial Fellowship Program. Students participating in the program will gain first-hand experience in how state government operates.
“I commend these outstanding students for their achievements in the classroom and their enthusiasm for serving the people of Florida,” said Gov. Crist. “Public service is an honor, as well as a great responsibility, and the Gubernatorial Fellows program is a unique way for students to gain valuable on-the-job experience while learning about the positive impact public service has on the lives of all Floridians.”
Schneider, a Jacksonville Beach resident, has a double major at UNF in English/Political Science and is among 13 students selected for this prestigious program. She was the only student picked from the Northeast Florida area and is only the second UNF student to be selected as a fellow.Her role in the fellowship program will be to provide analysis and recommendations for the Independent Living Program as a part of the Department of Children and Families in the Office of the Assistant Secretary for Operations.
“I am delighted to have been chosen as one of Governor Crist’s Gubernatorial Fellows and to start my work in public service even as I complete my undergraduate studies at UNF and begin law school,” said Schneider. “This opportunity is unique and unrivaled, as it provides the impetus and path to become intricately involved in the inter-workings of governance and legislation that affects Floridians of today and looks into the future for the Floridians of tomorrow.”
Schneider has served as the president of the Pre-Law Students Society; president, Students for International Progress; vice president, University Honors Scholar Society; vice president, Kappa Alpha Theta; and associate chief justice, Student Government Association. Schneider recently returned from Egypt as a Rotary Cultural Ambassador Scholar and will begin law school in August 2011.
Students were selected for the fellowship through a competitive application process that evaluated their ability to show strong leadership, written and oral communication skills, community activism and a desire to serve the people of Florida. These Fellows will work in the executive office of the Governor or in state agencies, depending on their areas of study and interest.
Fellows will be expected to work a minimum of 20 hours each week and will receive an hourly wage for their time on the job. To broaden the Fellows’ exposure to state government and enhance their experience, they will also meet weekly as a group to participate in educational activities such as presentations, press conferences, budget briefings and policy briefings.
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Drug-related crime and sentencing policies from the perspective of the United Nations crime prevention and criminal justice programme
United Nations activities
Fifth United Nations Congress on the Prevention of Crime and the Treatment of Offenders
Penal sanctions and sentencing policies
Measures against drug crimes
Committee on Crime Prevention and Control
United Nations Secretariat and institutes
Future United Nations activities
Preparations for the Seventh Congress on the Prevention of Crime and the Treatment of Offenders
Divergencies in sentencing policies
Recent trends in sentencing policies
Author: H. HANREICH
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Drug-related crime and sentencing policies from the perspective of the United Nations crime prevention and criminal justice programmeH. HANREICH*
Owing to the incompleteness of available data, there is no conclusive evidence on the effectiveness of sentencing policies in various countries. Insufficient data at both the regional and international levels also make it difficult to draw any firm conclusions on general trends in sentencing policies for offenders convicted of drug-related infractions. Regional, and particularly national, circumstances influence the pattern of penal measures against drug offences in any given country. Thus, drug legislation reflects the socio-cultural, religious and other values of a nation. There is a growing tendency to apply measures of treatment and social reintegration to drug-addicted persons who have committed minor offences rather than to impose prison sentences on them. Drug addiction is increasingly recognized as a disease, which should be cured in an appropriate treatment setting, but the data available indicate that the application of this measure to drug offenders is rather restricted. Another apparent tendency is the move to decriminalize the simple use of drugs and, at the same time, to provide more severe penalties for drug trafficking. In certain countries, however, there is a trend towards increased penalties for illicit drug use as well.
The growth of illicit traffic in drugs and the continuing spread of drug abuse are among the most pressing problems encountered by societies in many countries of the world. The extent to which drug problems are correlated with criminal activity has not yet been sufficiently clarified, owing to the multifaceted nature of the subject. Drug problems tend to affect social development and are associated with social disintegration and increasing criminality. The interrelation between drugs and crime is complex. A worsening of the drug-abuse situation may aggravate crime in a given community. Drug addicts are often prepared to do anything to procure their daily dose and a growing demand for illicit drugs can lead to an increase in the number of those handling and selling the drugs.
* In co-operation with the United Nations Secretariat, Crime Prevention and Criminal Justice Branch, Centre for Social Development and Humanitarian Affairs.
In discussing the interrelation between drugs and crime, the first task is to establish whether the phenomena involved are drug-related. Violence or traffic accidents that are directly induced by drug consumption may be defined as drug-related, as may crimes committed to maintain the functioning of drug-distribution channels and income-generating crimes committed by addicts to finance their drug habits ( , pp. 44-45).
Different types of drugs may be related to different criminal activities. The main distinction in this respect is made between opiate and non-opiate drugs. For instance, research does not seem to have clearly confirmed the correlation between cannabis use and delinquency. Delinquency patterns for both cannabis users and abstainers frequently run parallel ( , p. 50). There appears, however, to be a closer interrelation between criminality and the use of opiates, which regularly leads to physical dependence ( , p. 51).
It is still not fully clear in which way drug-use habits affect patterns of criminal behaviour. In this respect, further research is still needed to give adequate consideration to environmental factors, such as unemployment, social disadvantage and ethnicity, within the context of the addict's behaviour. Drug crimes may be seen as the result of an interaction of different factors. Such interaction is often based on the particular addict's background and the situation in which the crime is committed.
Crime and illicit traffic in drugs transcend national boundaries and it is obvious that these problems cannot be considered as purely national or local anywhere in the world. For this reason, co-operation between Governments of Member States, through the United Nations system, is indispensable if such problems are to be tackled effectively. Continuous co-operation is therefore needed within the United Nations system, particularly in matters of crime prevention and criminal justice on the one hand and international drug control on the other. The priority areas for such co-operation have been identified by the United Nations policy-making bodies in the fields of both drug control and criminal justice as well as by the United Nations congresses on the prevention of crime and the treatment of offenders and special ad hoc meetings. The United Nations congresses on the prevention of crime and the treatment of offenders and the Committee on Crime Prevention and Control are the central bodies assisting the Economic and Social Council in matters of crime prevention and criminal justice.
The common location of the Crime Prevention and Criminal Justice Branch (within the Centre for Social Development and Humanitarian Affairs), the Division of Narcotic Drugs, the International Narcotics Control Board and the United Nations Fund for Drug Abuse Control at Vienna favours a mutually beneficial collaboration between these units of the United Nations Secretariat.
The United Nations quinquennial congresses on the prevention of crime and the treatment of offenders are world-wide conferences designed to promote the exchange of expertise and experience among Member States and to strengthen international and regional co-operation in the field of crime prevention and criminal justice.
The Fifth Congress, held at Geneva in 1975, addressed itself to the different cultural, economic, social and political situations in various countries and pointed out that drug-related problems and policies to cope with such problems were both dependent on those situations and their particular stages of development. It was noted at the Congress that "combating drug abuse... might sometimes require changes in the social, economic and cultural structure of a country" in order to reduce drug abuse and remove the reasons for such abuse ( , para. 76). Governments were urged to co-operate with the United Nations Fund for Drug Abuse Control in order to enable the United Nations to provide technical and financial assistance to Governments requiring it in order to help them to fight effectively against drug-abuse problems and related criminality ( , para. 28).
The Fifth Congress laid special emphasis on sentencing policies and, in this context, on the distinction between minor offences, such as possession of small quantities of a drug for personal use, and serious offences such as drug trafficking or illegal drug producing, as stipulated in the Single Convention on Narcotic Drugs, 1961 , the 1972 Protocol amending the Single Convention , and the 1971 Convention on Psychotropic Substances ( , , paras. 69 and 70).
Although participants were aware of the difficulties in distinguishing clearly between drug abusers and traffickers, it was pointed out that under the above-mentioned conventions, penal provisions should be limited to serious offences. Persons involved in minor offences were considered to require measures of treatment rather than stringent punishment, as non-penal forms of social control might sometimes be more appropriate and effective against drug abuse. Attention was drawn to the need to distinguish between illicit producers and traffickers on the one hand and illicit possessors and consumers on the other hand ( , para. 70). Concerning minor offences, the Congress regarded drug abuse as part of the general health problem. Emphasis was given to measures of treatment and the social reintegration of drug abusers. Penal sanctions and sentencing policies should in no way prevent the application of such measures and should be restricted to ensuring their application, if appropriate. The Congress did not, however, elaborate on the different forms of treatment and noted that very little evidence of the success of treatment was available ( , para. 74).
The Fifth Congress considered measures to be taken against drug offences and identified the following priority areas:
The drafting of an international convention on judicial assistance and the improvement of extradition procedures at both the bilateral and multilateral levels by reviewing and amending existing extradition treaties or by concluding new treaties which would include drug offences as extraditable offences;
Consideration of illicit drug traffic as a transnational crime, which should be included in a list of such crimes to be drawn up by the United Nations;
Ensuring, in conformity with national legislation, that drug offenders, having been convicted in one country but having escaped, serve the sentence in the country in which they have taken refuge or have been found, if extradition is not feasible;
The sharing of knowledge in the drug law enforcement field and the exchange of relevant information, in particular concerning new methods and routes used by illicit traffickers;
Improvement of the mechanisms for expeditiously disseminating and receiving evidence concerning drug offenders;
Strengthening of all forms of border control;
Ensuring by every possible means that convicted drug traffickers can not take refuge in other countries;
Consideration of the desirability of increasing penalties for illicit traffickers and of decreasing penalties for users or possessors of small quantities of drugs for personal use if a Government considers use and/or possession as punishable offences;
The possible destruction of seized drugs and relevant material connected with illicit activities and not needed for legitimate purposes, under strict supervision;
Ensuring that any national drug policy, such as the decriminalization of activities concerning cannabis, do not adversely affect drug control in neighbouring countries and at the international level.
The Committee is a subsidiary body of the Economic and Social Council, to which it reports directly. The main function of the Committee is to assist the Council in matters of crime prevention and control and, in particular, to prepare the quinquennial United Nations congresses on the prevention of crime and the treatment of offenders.
In accordance with the policy described above, the United Nations Secretariat, and specifically the Crime Prevention and Criminal Justice Branch of the Department for International Economic and Social Affairs, has reflected in its work programmes the need for more effective ways and means of coping with the increasing problems of drug-related crimes. One of its main functions consists in assisting the Committee on Crime Prevention and Control in the preparations for the quinquennial congresses. In this context, it has produced a number of working papers on drug-related crimes. Crime, in general, and drug crime in particular has been considered to be understandable only within the context of a given social situation and its unique and specific characteristics. Thus, priority has been given to crime prevention strategies which consider the socio-economic and cultural context of the development of a country, including such efforts as preserving healthy family structures, enlisting the help of the mass media and improving the quality of relevant information. The interrelated activities and functions in such areas as legislation, law enforcement, the judicial process and the treatment of offenders are viewed in a dynamic perspective to ensure coherence and consistency between national planning and crime prevention and criminal justice planning.
This general view of the crime problem was also adopted by the United Nations Social Defence Research Institute at Rome, when it addressed itself to the problem of the illegal use of drugs. In 1972, the Institute began its work on drug abuse, suggesting an integrated approach to research planning and activities. This work took into account the specific cultural characteristics of each individual country, such as the values, traditions, political structures and the social responses to problems - . The Institute continued to carry out its research studies and in 1983 published a comprehensive report on the impact of the various national control systems on the relation between drugs and criminality .
Several regional institutes, affiliated with the United Nations, are also actively involved in dealing with drug-related crime. For instance, the United Nations Asia and Far East Institute for the Prevention of Crime and the Treatment of Offenders (UNAFEI) was established in 1961 to promote regional co-operation in the joint fight against crime and delinquency through the training of criminal justice personnel and through research carried out in Asia and the Pacific. The Institute, in its annual Resource Material Series, has published valuable contributions to drug-abuse control in the region .
The United Nations Latin American Institute for the Prevention of Crime and the Treatment of Offenders (ILANUD) was inaugurated at San Jose, Costa Rica, in 1975. Its aim is to collaborate with Governments of the region in achieving harmonious social and economic development through the formulation of policies and programmes for crime prevention and criminal justice and their incorporation in national development plans. Like UNAFEI, ILANUD has paid considerable attention to the prevention and control of criminality associated with drug abuse and illicit drug traffic.
The Helsinki Institute for Crime Prevention and Control, affiliated with the United Nations (HEUNI), which was established in 1981, provides for the regular exchange of information and expertise in crime prevention and control among European countries. The Institute is also expected to collect and disseminate information on drug-related crime.
The activities described above clearly indicate that there are many areas in which the goals and objectives of the United Nations crime prevention and criminal justice programme and the United Nations drug abuse control programme meet. A further strengthening of co-operation in this sphere and the development of a long-term strategy with regard to international crime and drug control are, therefore, of great relevance to both programmes in the future, in accordance with General Assembly resolutions 34/177, 35/195, 36/132, 36/168, 37/198 and 38/122. Similarly, the Commission on Narcotic Drugs in its resolution 3 (S-VIII) of February 1984 requested the Secretary-General "to continue, within available resources, to develop all avenues leading to further improvement of regional and international co-ordination of activities against drug trafficking and related serious illegal activity, including the illicit traffic in firearms, subversion, international terrorism and other organized criminal activities, especially through the development of co-ordination mechanisms where these do not already exist, bearing in mind, in particular, the need to alleviate the special problems of transit States" ( , chap. VIII).
Co-operation within the United Nations is likely to be particularly important and fruitful for the preparation of the Seventh United Nations Congress on the Prevention of Crime and the Treatment of Offenders, to be held from 26 August to 6 September 1985 at Milan, Italy. The United Nations drug abuse control programmes and the specialized agencies and intergovernmental organizations concerned are expected to make significant contributions to the Congress regarding the control of drug-related crime. The main topics of the preliminary agenda of the Congress are listed below:
New dimensions of criminality and crime prevention in the context of development: challenges for the future;
Criminal justice processes and perspectives in a changing world;
Victims of crime;
Youth, crime and justice;
Formulation and application of United Nations standards and norms in criminal justice.
The Secretariat organized a number of preparatory meetings in 1983 and 1984, which made significant contributions to these topics from a regional and interregional perspective. In accordance with the Caracas Declaration ( , chap. I, sect. A), adopted by the Sixth United Nations Congress in 1980, it was suggested at all the regional meetings held since then that crime prevention and criminal justice should be considered in the context of economic development as well as in the context of the new international economic order. More concentrated and systematic efforts to intensify technical and scientific co-operation and co-ordination of policies for crime prevention were proposed to counteract certain criminogenic influences, such as economic recession, unemployment, poverty and the lack of social and economic justice. It was also proposed that much greater attention should be given to drug-related crime.
At the African regional preparatory meeting, a recent increase was reported in the abuse of drugs, which had brought in its wake many drug-related crimes; intergovernmental co-operation to deal with such problems would seem to be required (A/CONF. 121/RPM.4, para. 13).
At the Asia and Pacific regional preparatory meeting it was pointed out that the most noticeable increase in criminogenic activity and crime throughout the region in the last decade was in the traffic in and abuse of drugs (A/CONF. 121/RPM.2, para. 13). The problems were related mainly to narcotic drugs, such as heroin, opium and cannabis, but also to psychotropic substances such as amphetamines. Drug-related crime was considered to be particularly complex because of the two quite different types of activities involved: trafficking and abuse. Several countries of the 54 region were producers of various kinds of drugs, especially opiates, much of the production being under official control and supervision. The controls limited supplies, with consequent increases in prices on the illegal market (up to as much as 1,000 times the original price). This encouraged illicit trading, which could not be stopped unless illicit demand and supply were reduced simultaneously. In turn, drug trafficking gave rise to organized smuggling, often involving violence against, and corruption of, the authorities.
Particular concern for the future of the young drug user was expressed by participants in the Western Asia regional preparatory meeting (A/CONF. 121/RPM.5, para. 66). Special legislation in the region had been adopted to deal with drug-related problems. In some countries an attempt had been made to adopt a treatment rather than a purely penal sanction approach to the drug addiction of the young. A distinction was, however, being made between drug abuse and drug trafficking. Heavy penal sanctions, including capital punishment, had been prescribed by legislators in some countries for illicit trafficking in drugs.
At the Latin American regional preparatory meeting it was emphasized that, in some cases, drug traffic had "reached such proportions as to constitute a threat to the established authorities, since the profits of such activity were so high that criminals corrupted the police and even the judiciary through substantial bribes. Even where the law was applied impartially, judges tended to impose lenient measures because prisons did not have the capacity to house additional offenders" (A/CONF.121/ RPM.3, para. 50).
In summary, at all the regional preparatory meetings there was general agreement on the urgency of finding appropriate measures to counteract an increase in drug-related problems. Corruption of the authorities and misleading of the young were seen to be the essential threats to the societies represented at those meetings.
Under the agenda item entitled "Criminal justice processes and perspectives in a changing world", the Seventh Congress might consider the possibilities for improving the systems of drug control and promoting the exchange of expertise at an international level. The Seventh Congress is expected to address itself to current criminal patterns and trends in respect of drug production and trafficking, as well as national and international efforts to enhance co-operation between drug-law enforcement officers and other sections of society involved in combating drug-related problems ( , pp. 22-24; , p. 43). The regional institutes for the prevention of crime and the treatment of offenders might be able to contribute to the Congress by designing appropriate preventive educational and training programmes. It is therefore hoped that the Seventh Congress will provide a useful platform for closer regional and international co-operation, and for exchanges of meaningful information about preventive programmes and sentencing policies that can help to combat drug-related crime.
The evaluation of research findings on the effectiveness of sentencing policies for offenders convicted of drug-related crime is affected by considerable discrepancies in the information available on the subject from different countries. Such discrepancies hamper the collection of reliable data and make it difficult to obtain conclusive evidence on the effectiveness of different sentencing policies. Because of the scarcity of relevant information, it is not possible, therefore, to give preference to any of the sentencing policies adopted to combat drug crimes in any particular country. In effect, the cultural, social, religious and even linguistic differences in the Member States lessen the comparability of the information that is available.
There is an obvious need for more conclusive evidence to be derived from comparative studies on the effectiveness of national sentencing policies. Two reports seem to have provided useful models for such studies, one referring to comparative research carded out by the United Nations Social Defence Research Institute , and the other to penal sanctions for narcotics offences, prepared by the Division of Narcotic Drugs . These two reports underline the divergence in existing practices, which inhibit the harmonization of legislation in different countries and prevent the formulation of international standards. For example, in some countries, such as Australia , the use of cannabis is regarded as a relatively minor offence in relation to other narcotic drugs; in others, such as in Italy, possession of a small quantity is not punishable by law ( , pp. 34, 35), while in some others the law does not distinguish between the use of cannabis and opiates. In Japan, drug legislation is divided into three parts, namely, the Stimulants Control Law, the Opium Law and the Cannabis Law .
There is also a considerable diversity of legal approaches to different types of drug offences. A review of legal systems and practices reveals a general tendency to differentiate drug users from drug traffickers. There is also a move to decriminalize the simple use of drugs and to increase the penalties for illicit drug trafficking. In this respect, a radical change has taken place over the past 10 years in some countries . Drug addicts are subjected to treatment and rehabilitation measures rather than being sent to prison. Most of the legislation reviewed provides for measures of treatment and social reintegration of drug abusers. A further distinction may be noted between the application of treatment measures in addition to and as an alternative to prison sanctions; these two measures are both applicable under the laws of some countries, for example Australia, Brazil, Czechoslovakia, France, Mexico, Sweden and the United States of America . Some other countries put emphasis on deterrence, imposing statutory punishment for any kind of drug-related crime, with a view to combating violations against drug legislation. Capital punishment has been prescribed in several countries, such as Malaysia, Egypt (only in connection with murder), Burma and Turkey (mainly for trafficking in or producing illicit drugs); the Islamic Republic of Iran has prescribed capital punishment in the case of personal use or possession of a certain amount of drugs of any kind .
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R. Blum, J. Kaplan and R. Lind, "Elements for drug policy: international implications for crime and justice", International Review of Criminal Policy No. 32 (United Nations publication, Sales No. E.76.IV.3).019
"Penal sanctions for narcotics offences: a comparative study of selected countries", unpublished paper prepared by the Division of Narcotic Drugs in November 1982.020
Laws and regulations promulgated to give effect to the provisions of the international treaties on narcotic drugs and psychotropic substances: Japan, Law No. 252 of 30 June 1951 - Stimulants Control Law (E/NL. 1979/15, 8 July 1981); Law No. 14 of 17 March 1953 - Narcotic Control Law (E/NL. 1979/16, 8 July 1981); Law No. 71 of 22 April 1954 - Opium Law (E/NL. 1979/17, 8 July 1981). | <urn:uuid:d9736d7f-e09e-49ca-a019-6129744e07ce> | CC-MAIN-2013-20 | http://www.unodc.org/unodc/en/data-and-analysis/bulletin/bulletin_1984-01-01_3_page009.html | 2013-05-23T11:56:07Z | s3://commoncrawl/crawl-data/CC-MAIN-2013-20/segments/1368703298047/warc/CC-MAIN-20130516112138-00000-ip-10-60-113-184.ec2.internal.warc.gz | en | 0.943143 | 5,336 | null | null | HuggingFaceFW/fineweb |
small town just past the middle of no where PA where the deer population outnumbers the people...a town with two streetlights yet residents still complain about heavy traffic...whose movie theater plays one movie a week only after it has come out on video...where the term "clubbing" involves a crowd of people going out and hitting animals on the head. also the headquarters of ladybug infestation.
kid: mom are we there yett?
mom: we just passed coudersport two minutes ago.
kid: i didnt see it!
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To promote Python's use in New Zealand the NZ Python User Group (NZPUG) is holding the first Kiwi PyCon conference in Christchurch at the Canterbury Innovation Incubator on November 7th and 8th.
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150 delegates are expected from across New Zealand and Australia and registration for the conference is now open with limited numbers. For more information visit http://nz.pycon.org. | <urn:uuid:bd50a3f4-809a-4f73-8a6e-9f0d813e2686> | CC-MAIN-2013-20 | http://www.workingwithrails.com/forums/general-discussion/881-kiwi-pycon-2009-christchurch-november-7-8 | 2013-05-23T12:02:21Z | s3://commoncrawl/crawl-data/CC-MAIN-2013-20/segments/1368703298047/warc/CC-MAIN-20130516112138-00000-ip-10-60-113-184.ec2.internal.warc.gz | en | 0.943463 | 144 | null | null | HuggingFaceFW/fineweb |
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It seems I’m starting a theme on flight. It gets good at about 1:40
An Ornithopter is a machine which flies by flapping its wings like a bird, and may stem from that old Greek story about Icarus, the kid who escapes Crete with his dad’s homemade wax-and-feather wings, and then flies too close to the sun and plummets to his death.
A lot of folks have pondered on making an ornithopter, including Leonardo da Vinci; but it was widely believed to be impossible without some kind of help. Today we’ve got toy ornithopters, but all of these have a motor or engine for power, and rarely have a person aboard.
This is the first human-powered ornithopter to achieve sustained flight, with that same human on board. It’s not a human on Mars, or a fusion power plant, but it’s definitely engineering history. The project website, and the place I heard about it.
These folks up in Canada made a really cool man-powered bird, and it looks very graceful as it flies. But it wasn’t without its setbacks. Success is nothing but a string of failures, etc. | <urn:uuid:bf857b15-beb0-423a-ba1d-ae6a4b979f32> | CC-MAIN-2013-20 | http://blogs.oregonstate.edu/getreal/2010/09/da-vinci-eat-your-heart-out/ | 2013-05-25T20:02:01Z | s3://commoncrawl/crawl-data/CC-MAIN-2013-20/segments/1368706153698/warc/CC-MAIN-20130516120913-00000-ip-10-60-113-184.ec2.internal.warc.gz | en | 0.963688 | 259 | null | null | HuggingFaceFW/fineweb |
The west interchange of I-44 and I-244 was built in the late 1970s as part of the final segment of I-244 in west Tulsa, which also included upgrading I-44 to interstate standards between the Turner Turnpike and 33rd West Avenue. Prior to the project, I-44 between 33rd West Avenue and the Turner Turnpike had grade-level intersections, including a railroad crossing between this interchange and 33rd West Avenue (now spanned with a bridge). The small (lower) bridge at right carries westbound I-44 traffic to merge with I-244. Eastbound I-44 traffic exits to the right (no bridge) while eastbound I-244 traffic exits to the left and passes, at ground level, through the interchange. The two tall bridges eventually will be part of the Gilcrease Expressway, which will terminate at this interchange upon completion of the loop through north and west Tulsa. The bridges presently connect to 51st Street via a short spur that includes bridges over 49th West Avenue. Although U.S. 66 has been eliminated through Tulsa, signs in the interchange still show the route. Downtown Tulsa is visible above the tall bridges. This photograph was taken October 1985.
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LOCAL AND PERSOHAL
. v V., connecting with Day Exp.
' t.". Fhil. Exp. West.
. ,t p connecting wita raui- xxp.
Yi-i Mail Train West.
LXA A cr ca departure cf rhil.
I t f M-, or oa departure of Fhi.a.
y" IiT-ciS East.
c-j Monies. With the present nuu
rs exclude the r?t half jear of 77.?
"vL: since it came under cur
" .ect. The measure of success
-.-lire our eSorts has teen all we
r-:tel, and possibly more than we de-
rTf2cf the latter, we stak a.cv? cur
i-r:z$ tD judge. "We heartily tnan our
-Via for their support, and vr:!l labor
r : renewed vigor to deserve a cintlnu
rtereof. "c-i'.e - Jge prepcriien of carsutscri
advertisers have upaidvp" there
t t i camber who are m arrears.
-rt the latter will be prompt in
the amounts due. Our expen-
r: c:n:iderable, and we must have
::t::iij money to meet then.
''m:?.ania. A young man named
: wa5 drowned In the Cooercaugh
mt, near Blairsville, on Saturday even-:t-eek.
He was from Ashtaba;a count v,
:.; .....Elder Ailen, frcm Illicd-, has
o.-feded Elder Johnson as pastor cf the
;-:'.e3 Church, of Johnstown.... Messrs.
Mcrrell & Co. have taken pesses
. : :f tfceir new tore building in Jcbns
. ,v nd Lave tiled it frcm cellar tD
. t. :?h general merchandize. The
- tie largest and most princely
:: C .-s i:;"intments in western Penc-
t5;;j...A teil-ovr ramea jo?epn ccort-
-'rfr.Nvl pTteneirelv in this
, 1 i
wweeVs -go, wa arreted m ;
:-::z the ether day and c:mmitted j
.v.. i :.v v tt 1
t Indiana c:unty A tridow
.ri3 named Tttter Las teen arrested in
.hijtcTn on the charge cf infanticide.
The siliiers' monument in Alt yona was
;va:ei. w;th much pomp and parade,
::iz 4;h....The store cf Mr. Jobo Q
in Belsano, this ccunty, was en
:ii cn the right cf the cd ictt., and
'-.fT rf 1 oTjan!:fT cf rcerchsn :e ...
irff-rrun 3vs tnat seven ci tee nice j
'::: zrt cripples. If so, then it not j
: :: expected that they will be able to
v. well. (Olscrra'i-jn ly cur cec'f:
may be able to rn bchiid pret.j
'.. Apropos cf this crrty Kepubli
ire epposed to cur nominating a
.ket this fall. They say they don't
:o: tj bt cripples ...J. D. Hicks, cf j
"tLT.his been appointed Good Templar
I-strict Deputy for Cambria ccunty Wa
tT8 htird ecd judges of tobacco say
:tt Mr. F.e:i Jno. Lloyd, at the P. O.,
the best brands cf cigars in town,
ft'.: u:king a specimen box cf the
i.'ro.'y presented us by Mr. Lloyd,
r--'a. 00 hesitation in eencurrin in the
If the reader would go and try
rcf tbe same kind, we know he too
f:-i concur... .Several Japanese are now
rtiog at Cretson Springs.. ..Nicholas
-ieviodcr ehct and killed Lis scn-in-
Join 13. Bower?, in Canoe township,
t-ua ccunty, on tfce 1st icst. Cauie,
-oei harsh treatment ct the tirt of
vers toward V&ndevtuier. TLe mur
"f is arrested and committed... A
c:;niy" meeting was held in Johns
" cn Friday erening last. We did
:t: what was done thereat.. .."Look
z ' ' bargains !" See advertlment ol
Ibeneburg Foundry... .The weather
y ten quit cool dariDg the past week,
normal whix)l opened out in this
tn l!c iiy promises to be a success,
ittecdaroe u already quite lare....
cu.s ilis wees:.
cced;l.--A Normal School,
S-t h U a Cs.'sabia A. Heme, under
fi.-T.ia of tie CoaDy Saperin-
r - wts cp-eael ia tbe Public School
r ensbur.on Mcnda .Tnl ih
Itstructiccf given ia Onhocrasbv.
;:-:? Penmanship, Mental and Prac-
V -itbmetic, Physical and Descrin-
: jeosraphy, Grammar, History, Com-
-3f nd the Theory cf Teaching.
-ss Home is & Udy cf thorough edu- !
axi larM exrience ia Ktoo!s of !
charterer, aS j tle t fc -ieP !
- special reference to h- -a an I
-Ctcr r,? tV- j.
" -t-igLicg to prepare
'g. This school, in addIlicQ t0
- peculiar facilities to teachers and
-.u 10 ceccae teach
- k 105M.V, Co. SopL J
rejSSBCKO AND CHESSOX KAIXaOAD.
.j sfter Moaday, ApL 2rS, 1667, trains
will &s follows :
"'Xx'IIeatrtforuperiar! "WoMrsV Wor.K in the Civil
-d 0 9 0lft"V AH ""I ar." In car notice ot this excellent
- are crent-y advicced to ; bok. two f-rVe i-AA iMi.u,,
--c.a-se;. Terms ieaiocsK?P U...v. n , , . . ..
Base Ball. Since the last issue of
The AUcjhanian, the first nine of the
Mountaineer club of Khensburg have
phyed three match games- The first was
the return game with the Mountain Club
of Altoona, and was played in that place
on the 4th instant. The following was
the score :
MorsTAiys- o. a. icoramis. o. -C.
Roberts, lb. 3 D. Caldwell, c... 2 7
F. Barker, rf. 5 3:Galbraith rf. 4
A. Jones, c 3 4 J. Milliken, lb.... 6
E. Dunnegan, 3b. 7 IA. M Donald, cf O
G- Robinson, 2 ,W. Hunt s, ss 2
T.Enickinsoa,2b 3 5 Worrel, p 2
H. Darragh, cf 2 CM. Howe, 3b 5
V. Barker, If. 1 7 Snyder, If- 4
W, Eutchinscn, p 1 C'Pettit, 2b - 2
Total 27 431 Total 27 32
CSS ACH I55IS3.
1. 2. 3. 4. 5. 6. 7. 8. ?.
Mountaineer.... 7 0 4 11 2 10 0 1 & S3.
r-r,?a;n l n 1 1 0 10 10 0 8 32.
Erb. Tie of game, 3i tonrs.
On Saturday, Ctb instant, the Juniata
Clab cf Uollidaysburg visited Ebensburg
to measure strength with the Mountain
eers. Play waj called at 1 o'clock. In
the rst inning, the Mountaineers scored
5 runs to the Juniata3 4. The Moun
taineers then went to the bat, and bad
scared 5 runs, with one man cn third base,
and one can out, when "gami" was called
cn account of a heavy rain which set in
at that juncture. Umpire, W. S. Humes,
of the Mountain Club cf Altoona.
On Saturday, 13th instant, the Moun
taineers went to Johnstown to play the
return game with the Kickenapawling;.
The score resulted as follows :
MOrSTAIXSES. E.. O. EICXS. B.
Jones, c 4 3 Hunt, cf. 4
Robinson, ss 4 3 Cramer, 3b - 5
D jnnegan, 2b 2 5 Young, rt
IV. Hutcbitson.p 4 0 Ramsey, lb....
F. Barker, rf. 3 4 Farren.p
V. Barker.lf. 4 2 Rceris,2b
G. Roberts, 3b.... 2 4 Osbnrne, c...
T. Hutchinson, cf2 3 Whire, ss
C. Egberts, It 2 3 Tittle, If.
. .. 1
r-rxs each isyryG.
1. 2. 2. 4. 5. . 7. S.
Hountr- 1 1 3 C 6 4 16
Kicks. 2 7 0440 10 0
, Umpire V. R. Jcnes, of Iron Club, Johcs-
Scorers fur Mountaineer. S. W. Da-
Vis; for Kicks H. V.". ReeX Time of Z---
Thi is a game apiece for each of the two
c'.ui?. Tb date for the tbirdand deci
sive "game has not yet been fixed upon.
The Independents cf Johnstown played
the Vi"estmore!2nd cf Oreensbnrg in
Johnstown on the oth July. Sccre, 29
fcr Westmoreland? to SO fcr Independents.
The Monitor cf the Summit played the
Hich!aud cf Ileralock at Sammit on the
i. - .l r- cr. c A : c -r .v
The junior Independent? of Jchcstown
went to Indiana cn the 4:h, and were
beaten by the Monitors.
Tire Kicks played the Irons in Johns
toff cm Monday last. Score, S4 for
Ki:k ID 3 fcr Irons.
The Geeat Question Hog3 at
ege, Hogs Penned Up? The
following proclamation fully explains it
feoclah iTics !
Tn.r-ts-t, Oa the 2 lit day of Jcne, 1S57, an
ordinance wm duly passed by the Burgess
tnd Town Council of tbe borough of Ebens
burg, prexenting the running at large cf hogs
within the Lmit3 of said borough ;
And Khertze, At the request of certain cit
izens, complaining of the injustice cf said
criinance, the said borough authorities de
clined to f-nforce the provisions thereof, natil
the sense of the Toters of the borough might
be takea in relatisn thereto;
And tchtreat, Oa the 2d day cf July, 1SE7,
the said Council did by resolution authcriie
and empower the said Burgess to order an
election of the rcters of said borough, to de
cide whether or not a majority thereofre ia
frer of sustaining the provisions of the afore
said ordinance ;
Xots therefore, I, T. Blair Moore, Burgess,
as aforesaid, do, ia pursuance and bv Tirtue
cf said resolution, hereby proclaim an:
known that an election of and bT the cuali
fed voters cf the said borough of Ebensburg,
will be held at the Court House ia said ber
ough, ca Saturday, the 20th day of July,
U'J7, tetweea the hours cf two and seven
o'clock, p. n., to determine by ballot print
wi oa the outside -Ordinance" and on the
insid, resectiTely, '-For the Ordinance," and
"Against the Ordinance," whether or not a
majority of such qualiSed roters are in fror
cf the provisions of the ordinance aforesaid.
T. BLAIR ilOORE, Burgess.
To the pol's, freemen of Ebensburg, to
the polls 1
New Stock cf Shoes. Mr. John D.
Thomas ha.3 just replenished bis shoe
store with the largest and best assortment
of ladies', misses' and children's shoes
ever brought to Ebecsburg. It is worth
a visit to see his stock, while hi3 prices
will astonish as well as delight. We ad-
l"e T-3ies, and especially that portion
'hem who delight in a nice-fitting and
good shoe, to patronize Mr. Thjmai.
V'J YCU T' Kobsrts at b13
tcre c HiSh trect tls i1 received a
tw ht cf bocts ct aI1 kinds beaTJ
i:git iiteratcre, eencot t-ooki,occ, &c. It
you are in need of mental pabulum, go to J
him aod buy. He alio keeps stationery, j
pen?, ick, lead pencils, &c.
u'',Jeil l aiI me bookstores- e euouic
have fcaid it is sold only by subscription.
Umpire, L. L. Christy, of tbe Jansaiaciao,
of Ho'.lidaTsburf. Scorers for Mountain
eers, Lew.'Boders ; for Mountains, J. M.
The annnal meeting of stockholders
and election for President and six Directors
of the Cwson Springs Company will be held
at Cresson on Monday, the 5fA day of Av?mt,
1S67, at 10 o'clock, au nu
jylS A. S. BELL, Secretary.
The undersigned. Auditor, appointed
by the Orphans' Court of Cambria coanty, to
hear and report npon the exceptions led to
the account cf John Richards, gnardiaa ot
the miser children cf George Richards, de
ceased, hereby notifies all persons interested
that he will attend to th dntiea of his ap
pointment at hi3 oSce, ia Eben-burg, on
Tut-tday, the 13A day of A?ut, 1867, when
and where al parties interested may atteaa.
SAMUEL SDCGLETOX, Auditor.
Jalr 18, l57.3t.
And no-sr, 12th June, lc7, F. A. Shoe
maker appointed Auditor to report .distribn
tion of the fand3 ia the hands cf Catharine
Dougherty, administratrix of John Dougher
ty, late of Chest township, deceased, as shown
in her f rst aad final account. By the Conrt
Extract from the record.
f s. JAMES GRIFFIX, Clerk.
In pursuance of the above appointment, I
will attend to the daties thereof at my tc
ia Etensbnrg. oa Jfcnory, the 5th Isiwr, at
1 o'clock, p. m., whea an J where these inter
ested mar attend.
jTl$.3t r. A. SEOZyAKXII. A -d iter.
4 UDITOR'S NOTICE.
J, The rncersigned. Auditor, appointed
by the Orphans' Conrt cf Cambria coumy, to
report distribntloa of the fnds ia the hands
of'Robert H. Singer, trustee to sell the rel
estate cf Dennis Dougherty, late of Allegha
ny township, deceased, hereby notifies all
persons interested that he will attend to the
duties of said appointment at his of: ce, in
Etersburg, oa i'n'J.7, the 2i day of Avj-jji,
next, at 2 o'clock, p. tn , whea and where
ther must present their claims, cr be debar
red" from cominr in fcr a share cf said fund.
;y4-St GEO. W. OATMA Auditor.
OOK OUT FOR BARGAINS !
Being desirous of retiring frcm tusi
ne3, I oSTer fcr sal the
BEXSB UR G FO USBR I",
with all it3 appartetacce, including all the
real and personal property thereto belong
ing, the Engine, Patterns. Flasks, &c. Also,
j all the stock, manufactured and nnmasufac-
I tured, consisting of
CASTINGS cf various kids.
As I am determined to if
I the above
:ay re:y nr on getting any cr
named ankles cherer than ttev can be had
itTwhere e.se m i f-nnTir2.n:a. ite paoiic
i are invited to cs.II and judge for tbmselres.
Ju!r 1. IScTtf E. GLAbS.
The subscriber calls attention to the fact
that he ha-s received and opened cat, at his
j Store, on Iligb street, (opposite the Bank,)
the largest and best selected stock cf
ever brourht to Ebensbur-g.
FLOUR, CORN MEAL, CHOP FEED, ERAN,
BACON, CHEESE, CRACKERS,
SUGAR. COFFEE, TEA. STRUTS. MOLAS
SES, RICE. SPICES, ESSENCES,
HERRING, MACKEREL, iKD COD FISH,
CASTOR a CAREOX OILS. DRUGS, MEDI
CINES, PERFUMER T,
SALT, CANDLE?. SOAPS, WASHING SO
DA, FAMILY DYE COLORS. LOG
WOOD. BLUE VITRIOL,
TOBACCO iSD CIGARS lest Itrvdr,
EARTHENWARE asd STONEWARE, IRON,
NAILS, GLASS, PUTTY,
POWDER, 3 HOT, LEAD, iss G UN-CATS,
CLOVES, MACE, PEPPER, CINNAMON, AL-
LI, UKIED PEACHES, HOMINY,
BAKING SODA, 4:., c.
Arnold's Writing Fluid,
Checkers and Checker Beards,
Pea and Pocket Knires,
Horse Brushes and Cards,
Currycombs, Rope, Twine,
Chalk, Chalk Lines,
Horse Shoa Nails,
Tacks and Thread.
Wood and Willow Ware,
Tubs. Buckets, Brocms,
Wash Boards, Clothes Pins,
Eed Ccrds, Store Brushes,
Scrub and Dusting Brushes.
The f nest stcck ia town of
Fcr the children :
TOYS ! TOYS ! TOYS ! TOYS S
The latest strles of
HATS a CAPS.
sjqj Keeps constantly ca hand Bologna
Sausage, Sardines, Fresh and Spiced Oyster?,
and ererything ia the Eating aj weH as ia
the Drinking line.
XiaJ"" The public ure requested to giT him
a trial. He pledges himself to sell cheaper,
and to sell a better article, thaa aar other
dealer iu town. GEORGE GURLY.
Et ensburg, March 14, 1S7.
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L I T tie K. H. St AfTSrs2erl mrr (
it! Tiz, ia Kak.B. SpC 3U, lii.
Tegeteble Hair EestoratlTe
Boterca Ormy Umir to Hi Kataral Color i r-.
t Dues ul Bum 1 4M
Hail fKmg mt t m espenor Drusreg.
IM n tot moct Mr
'J. ft. BARRETT & CO., PrepriHr
jckscszsns, k. a.
Sold by Druggists Generallj.
UEES J. LLOYD, Ebexebceg, Pjl.
May 30, 1SS7.
Xi All persons knowing thernselrts in
debted to me by Note er Book Acccant of
ever six months standing, are requested to
pay up within thirty days from this date, or
they wili nd their accounts ia the hands
of an officer for immediate collection. A
strict adherence to notice wiil save costs.
Ebensburg, Jane 20, lSwT.
JETr GOODS! SEW GOODS!!-
GREAT ATTRACTIONS IX
jrsr opExiXG at
Y. S. BARKER'S
CHEAP CASH STORE!
.ew Dress Goodi,
At $2.50, worth $3.00.
At $1.25, worth $2.00.
10 to 20 cents.
At 20 cents.
Heavy Bro. 3Inslinsv
At 20 cents.
At 20 & 25 cents.
At reduced prices.
At low prices.
At 25 cents.
At reduced prices.
40 to CO cents.
23 aad 25 cents.
At $20 per auit.
Fur & Straw Hats,
Cheapest ia town.
Si. 00 to $1.50.
Hakes and Forks,
At 25 cents.
Ia great Tariety.
ALL AT SEDUCED PRICES,
THE CHEAP CASH SIP RE.
nronisr rxiczs paid for wool, I
LVTTEI2, EOGJ cy ALL K.Y1S j
A SMALL PBOHTS r
XEW AND CHEAP 1
NEW AND CHEAP !
XEW AND CHEAP I
GO AND SEB
GO .'ND SEE
GO AND SEE!
The sntscriter would rerpectfally an
nounce to the citiiens of Ebensbnrg aad
vicinity that he has just received, at h;s em
porium, oa High street, the largest axd most
complete assortment cf
Tf inter Goods!
J ever troaght to this townvall cf which he
pledges himse J to sell cheep for euk. -
DRESS GOODS, WOOLEN GOODS,
DRY GOODS. WHITE GOODS,
HOOP SKIRTS, HOSIERY,
HOUSEKEEPING GOODS, 4c
The largest, best and cheapest assortment cf
READY-HADE CLOTHIXG !
to be found within the limits of Cambria co.
Aa excellent assortment cf
&c, ic, i.
A large stock cf
Flc'r, Eicon, Cheeie, Syrvpt. tfolatttt, Hrr
rinr, ilatkrrel, and Cod F-th, Iron and
Aat.V, Cedar end Wdlov? Ware, OZe,
Drujt and 2edicinet, &c, 3rc.
Ia fct, he keeps anything aad evesxthiKi
usually kept in a No. 1 Country Store all
wnicn w:u ce disposed cz at prices to suit
Buying twice as Urge a stock as any other
merchant in to-wn, he buys cheaper, aad caa
therefore tell cheaper, thaa any competitor.
CALL AND EXAMINE GOODS !
CALL AND EXAMINE GOODS I
CALL AND EXAMINE GOODS !
The public is inTited to call before pareha
sing elsewhere. No charge for showing
goods, bur or not buy.
Customers waited oa by p-olite and atten
Cherry, Pcplar, Spruce, Pine, aad
other Lumber, Butter, Eggs, and Country
Produce generally, taken ia exchange for
Goods. jax.24 A. A. BARKER.
QLOCK AND WATCHMAKER !
C. T. Rclertt has constantly ia his store a
well selected aad Taried assortment cf arti
cles, which he ofers cheap Uz cash ; tax:
A Silver American WATCH fcr $23.00.
CLOCKS cf every style and finish, &t reduced
JEWELRY cf the very best material, war
ranted. An:h-r and Lepine WATCHES, one-third
cheaper thaa in IScS.
Geld Finger RINGS, one-third cheaper thaa
Morton s Go!J PENS, at the manufacturers
Gold, Silver, Steel, and Plated SPECTA
CLES, cheaper than eTer.
PIf.ted FORKS, Tea and Table SPOOS, es
good as Silver.
Plated CASTORS, Card and Cake BASKETS,
GOBLETS, and MUGS.
RIFLES tad SHOT GUNS, that will kill at
REVOLVERS and PISTOLS, with CAR
TRIDGES to suit.
PIPES of Gutta Percha, Wood, and China.
Lockwood'a COLLARS, the best yoa caa
SCHOOL BOOKS, cheaper thaa elsewhere.
TOYS and TOY BOOKS, for & mere song.
Singer s SEWING MACHINES, with Cottoa,
Silk, and Oil.
PHOTOGRAPH ALBUMS, to hold from 12 to
ACCORDIANS, VIOLINS, FLUTES. FIFES,
Violin ECWS, STRINGS, and KEYS.
' Drums, Whistles,
Horns, Jews harps.
Neck ties, Canes,
Checkers a Boards,
Razors and Stress,
Gun Caps, Purzles,
Arnold's best Writing
Red aai Black Ink.
Ink Stands, Pea Rack;,
Miscellaneous a Blank
Pass Books. Diaries,
And many other article.
CALL AXD GET BARGAIXSr
t Clocks, Watches, and Jewelry re
paired ia the test style of workmanship, and
Thankful for past favors, the subcribr
hopes by strict attention to business to merit
a continuance of public patronete.
i-! C. T. ROEERTS
OOT and SHOE EMPORIUM ! "
The subscriber tegs leave to inform
the public that he has opened out a Boot and
Shoe Store ia the rooms formerly occupied
by Davis & Evans, oa Center street, Ebens
burir. where he will csj-jt on t. Vr-
j an extensire scsile.
j READY-MADS BOOTS asi SHOES
Fvr tcU at CUy Prist .'
BOOTS isb SHOES nae to or&r
On tlortu: notice!
ts?i,The public are invited to give me &
call. I vrill sell chesp as tbe ctes-rit. mi
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We are partnering with May Arts this week on Tombow. I LOVE their ribbon! It is so gorgeous and so much fun to work with. This was a fun project for me to create. Other than needing to use May Arts ribbon and Tombow products, we were free to create whatever we wanted.
I had planned to alter an envelope, went to get one and saw a peat pot sitting on the shelf just calling to be altered and just went from there. I didn't have any plan of what I was going to do, so it was fun to just create as it came to me.
First I spray painted the peat pot black and while that was drying, painted white polka dots on some crepe paper streamers using the cap of Gamsol (it was the perfect size and stitting on the table in front of me Ü).
Now while that dries, the black paint has dried on the peat pot. Add a bead of Mono Multi Liquid Glue around the top edge.
Now this takes a little while to dry, so go mix up a batch of cookies. Ü When it dries it will be clear-ish. I forgot to take a picture of that. Adhere May Arts ribbon handle. The crepe paper should be dry by now, so just center it over the glue and pinch pleat it as you go all around the edge.
I used Mono Adhesive Dot, Roller to adhere the lace to the center of the streamer. The May Arts lace was white and I colored it with a permanent marker to make it black. To adhere the tiny May Arts tiny ric rac I used the Mono Multi letting it dry first and then adding it to the center of the lace.
Now it was cute like that, but I thought it needed a little something extra, so tied a bunch of orange buttons with black embroider floss and added them with Power Tabs cut in fourths.
Be sure to stop by the May Arts blog to see the fun creations by their Design Team. Thank you May Arts for the lovely ribbon you sent! I have more goodies I created to share with you this week if you would like to stop by.
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Parents are here
What that means to you, my dear readers, is probably less updates on the blog, and less swearing, and less talk about sex and violence.
What that means for me, is their wonderful company, home-cooked meals, laundry service and ironed clothes!
4 packs of curry powder (the ones here suck), 4 cups of kaya (including the ones in the plastic cups!), carton of Indomie Mee Goreng, Maggi, dried mushroons, anchovies, shrimp, coconut candy, Brahim's pastes, Portugese fish curry sauce, sambal sauce, dark soy sauce, ikan bilis paste, chicken stock. Enough booty to last me a year or more. In fact I still have that 2 huge packs of Milo from 2 years ago. Her shining moment was probably when the customs officer suspiciously eyed the kaya container, which had large pictures of chicken eggs on them (poultry products apparently aren't allowed in), and asked her if this contained eggs and what it was. Her answer was a convincing "It's just bread spread". Never argue with a mother.
And that was food alone, not counting my sister's stash of things. Unfortunately, her most precious, a Christmas gift from her boyfriend in Malaysia, was lost in transit. Mom had packed the beautifully wrapped box into her main luggage. But it was gone by the time it got her. Caryn was close to tears when she heard. I spent about 30 mins on the phone, talking to airport info, lost & found, Northwest Airlines info, TSA lost & found. Airlines these days can be so unreliable. But strangely enough though, like the mystery of the Bermuda Triangle, that package reappeared in Mom's bedroom in Malaysia. When we videoconferenced with family in Malaysia and vented about the missing package, my siter-in-law picked up a parcel and showed it on the camera and asked, "You mean this package?"
So much for mom having packed it.
The parents met up for drinks and dinner last night. Kristin's parents and mine, I mean. We all had a wonderful evening. I have to admit, I was initially nervous about mom and dad sharing baby stories, like the time I had a checkerboard seared onto my fat ass when I was 2. Digression: Was in the hospital for a case of gastroenteritis. After cleaning the toilet, they had neglected to wash away the corrosive chemical detergent which then collected in the spaces between the tiles. After pooping, I slipped and fell and suffered severe chemical burns on my tush (in retrospect, this is pretty good lawsuit material against the Seremban Hospital). Because of the pattern of the tiles, the burns I suffered looked like a checkerboard. For years after that, the scars remained and you could use my butt for checkers or chess if you wanted too. My mom would make me show that to their friends whenever they told that story. Thankfully, I didn't have to show my hairy butt to Kristin's parents. And the scars are gone. Though I imagine it'd be a lark to say, Hey Mrs. Olsen, wanna have a game of checkers? Anyway, they got along well, my parents and hers. I suppose that's a great start, for someday we might have to talk about dowries. On that note, I'm not taking anything less than 2 cows, 5 chickens, 4 goats and a dozen eggs. After all, I've been told doctors are high commodities these days. Even ugly ones. | <urn:uuid:feec6b76-2232-499c-bea7-e5914c8dcea6> | CC-MAIN-2013-20 | http://doctorslife.blogspot.com/2006/12/parents-are-here.html | 2013-05-25T19:55:44Z | s3://commoncrawl/crawl-data/CC-MAIN-2013-20/segments/1368706153698/warc/CC-MAIN-20130516120913-00000-ip-10-60-113-184.ec2.internal.warc.gz | en | 0.971921 | 738 | null | null | HuggingFaceFW/fineweb |
Anybody else like this place? I had it for the first time in December when I was downtown, then discovered they deliver to my job and now I'm totally addicted.
It is kind of like chipotle in that they have an assembly line and you get to choose what goes on your plate. There are lots of vegan options, all clearly listed here, that change every so often: http://dl.dropbox.com/u/269312/Dig%20In ... n-Info.pdf
Everything I've had so far is really tasty. It is just like I would make it at home.
Today I had a big veggie plate with brown rice, lentil soup, spagetti squash, moroccan cauliflower, indian spiced carrots and sauteed brussel sprouts with almond red pepper sauce. Om nom nom. | <urn:uuid:3dfaf8a1-88e1-48e9-b78e-29c4b3325b5e> | CC-MAIN-2013-20 | http://forum.theppk.com/viewtopic.php?p=507293 | 2013-05-25T20:03:28Z | s3://commoncrawl/crawl-data/CC-MAIN-2013-20/segments/1368706153698/warc/CC-MAIN-20130516120913-00000-ip-10-60-113-184.ec2.internal.warc.gz | en | 0.968561 | 178 | null | null | HuggingFaceFW/fineweb |
Our new Indie Games subforum is now open for business in G&T. Go and check it out, you might land a code for a free game. If you're developing an indie game and want to post about it, follow these directions. If you don't, he'll break your legs! Hahaha! Seriously though.
Our rules have been updated and given their own forum. Go and look at them! They are nice, and there may be new ones that you didn't know about! Hooray for rules! Hooray for The System! Hooray for Conforming!
So i'm gonna buy a lil' big brother for my ibook G4 (whose only fault atm seems to be his lack of HD space).
i'm a graphic designer/ illustrator.
i had been looking into mac pro's, but since i'm not officially registered as a designer, i can't put it in as a business cost. So spending 4000 dollars on a top notch mac that'll last me 10 years seems less interesting than spending 2000 on a mac that'll give me 5 good years.
So i'm thinking the sweet'n sexy new 27" imac.
with 2TB disk and one of the highest processor options. Only problem is, i'm doubting between the i5 and i7. Will there be a noticable difference/ a difference in the long run. I've been readind up on these, and i still can't seem get a descent opinion.
I mainly use Photoshop and Illustrator. I'll probably be doing some light video work once i have kids in a year or two. Very much into photography. A wee bit of music recording could happen. And since i just head Steam/ valve are coming to mac, i'll probably pick up some games, but i don't forsee a hardcore gaming career.
Can anyone help to bring some clarity into the situation?
Oh, and also, How does its video card, ATI Radeon HD 4850 512MB, hold up to the current gen of video card. Any good? The last time i invested in a seperate "great" video card, it was a voodoo 2, so i'm a bit out of the loop. (haven't gamed in ages...) | <urn:uuid:7df5947f-7298-47a1-9a47-b6b375f119a6> | CC-MAIN-2013-20 | http://forums.penny-arcade.com/discussion/114548/new-imac-i5-or-i7-vid-card-question/p1 | 2013-05-25T19:41:50Z | s3://commoncrawl/crawl-data/CC-MAIN-2013-20/segments/1368706153698/warc/CC-MAIN-20130516120913-00000-ip-10-60-113-184.ec2.internal.warc.gz | en | 0.961355 | 468 | null | null | HuggingFaceFW/fineweb |
For Immediate Release
Office of the Press Secretary
December 19, 2005
Presidential Message: Kwanzaa 2005
I send greetings to those observing Kwanzaa.
African Americans and people around the world reflect on African heritage during Kwanzaa. The seven days of this celebration emphasize the seven principles of Nguzo Saba -- unity, self-determination, collective work and responsibility, cooperative economics, purpose, creativity, and faith. These values contribute to a culture of citizenship and compassion, and Kwanzaa activities help pass on African values and traditions to future generations.
As families and friends gather for Kwanzaa, Americans remember the many contributions African Americans have made to our country's character and celebrate the diversity that makes our Nation strong. May your commitment to family, faith, and community thrive during this holiday season and throughout the coming year.
Laura and I send our best wishes for a happy Kwanzaa.
GEORGE W. BUSH
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Drones come in many shapes and sizes, but now they can also be 3d printed! To make these drones, the [Decode] group used a selective laser sintering process which is pretty interesting in itself. Once the printing process is done, these little planes are built with only five structural and aerodynamic components. Because of their simplicity, these drones can reportedly be assembled and ready to fly with no tools in only ten minutes!
This design was done by the [Engineering and Physical Sciences Research Council] at the University of Southampton in the UK by a group of students. Besides this particular plane, they concentrate their efforts on building autonomous drones under 20 Kilograms. Using a 3D sintering process with this design allowed them to make this plane how they wanted, regardless of the ease of machining the parts. | <urn:uuid:98555d96-1256-4e4c-8311-50f38423d2a6> | CC-MAIN-2013-20 | http://hackaday.com/2011/08/03/a-3d-printed-aerial-drone/?like=1&source=post_flair&_wpnonce=ea0388e61b | 2013-05-25T20:09:52Z | s3://commoncrawl/crawl-data/CC-MAIN-2013-20/segments/1368706153698/warc/CC-MAIN-20130516120913-00000-ip-10-60-113-184.ec2.internal.warc.gz | en | 0.951919 | 168 | null | null | HuggingFaceFW/fineweb |
We’ve all heard of the Third World’s debt crisis, of hopelessly poor nations unable to pay their debts, and of the human suffering and environmental consequences of their desperate predicament. Amid emotional calls from some to forgive the debt outright come the sober solutions from bankers and bureaucrats, with their seemingly unending stream of Brady and Baker Plans, and bewildering variants of them.
Yet despite the raging world-wide controversy over the Third World’s debt, no one has posed these most elementary questions: who lent what and to whom, where did the money go, what did it do there, and where is it now.
In this brilliant hybrid of detective work and policy analysis, Patricia Adams has unraveled a rats’ nest of Third World lending to describe the debt crisis in its startling simplicity. Her conclusions are equally startling — not what many might have expected from a prominent environmentalist heading an outspoken advocacy organization.
Through a straightforward exposition of the facts, you will come to see the debt for what it is — the sum total of thousands of loans, some illegitimate, justifying repudiation, others legitimate, meriting repayment. Surprisingly, you will learn that the Third World’s environment — so ravaged through decades of degradation — has often been spared by virtue of the debt. And that legal mechanisms — first used by the U.S. to repudiate Cuban debts after the Spanish-American War — are in place to resolve the debt crisis far more equitably than political solutions cooked up in Washington and the capitals of Third World countries. Odious debts are well established in international law; through this doctrine Chase Manhattan, the World Bank, and other lenders would collect on their debts — not from the people of the Third World but from the Marcoses and Mobutus who would be liable.
Patricia Adams is an economist and the author of In the Name of Progress: The Underside of Foreign Aid. She lives in Toronto and is the Executive Director of Probe International, a think-tank concerned with Third World aid and trade policies.
- Introduction: The Tragedies of the Commons
- Chapter 1:The Environmental Legacy of Yesterday’s Loans
- Chapter 2: The Environment Strikes Back
- Chapter 3: The Economy
- Chapter 4: The Asset Sale
- Chapter 5: The Debt Crisis’ Silver Lining
- Introduction: The Queen Comes to Sicartsa
- Chapter 6: Bankers to the World
- Chapter 7: A Credit Union for Countries
- Chapter 8: The New Mercantilists
- Chapter 9: Givers and Takers
- Chapter 10: The Petrodollar Recyclers
- Introduction: Ponzi Writ Large
- Chapter 11: The Business of the State
- Chapter 12: Money for the Military
- Chapter 13: Despots on the Dole
- Chapter 14: Corruption in High and not-so High Places
- Chapter 15: The Nether Borrowers
- Chapter 16: Unchecked Governments
- Introduction: Illegitimate Debts
- Chapter 17: The Doctrine of Odious Debts
- Chapter 18: Mercantile Law Versus the People
- Chapter 19: The Virtues of Taxation
- Conclusion: Tragic Commons No More
To order a copy of Loose Lending, Corruption, and the Third World’s Environmental Legacy by Patricia Adams, 1991, 256 pages, Earthscan, $15.95 soft cover,
please e-mail Probe International or visit Amazon.com.
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Andy Wilson Financial Services Ltd is a new company based in North Hykeham near Lincoln, Lincolnshire. The company specialises in providing Equity Release for the retired, Mortgages of all kinds and Life & Income Protection.
The company is owned and managed by Andy Wilson, a well-respected and experienced financial adviser. Working from his offices in North Hykeham Andy is building on over 30 years’ experience providing his clients in Lincolnshire and surrounding counties with sound financial planning.
Visit Andy Wilson FS ›. | <urn:uuid:abc93c3a-13f9-4026-837c-e2a7eda9df01> | CC-MAIN-2013-20 | http://laserred.co/portfolio/andy-wilson-financial-services/ | 2013-05-25T19:35:33Z | s3://commoncrawl/crawl-data/CC-MAIN-2013-20/segments/1368706153698/warc/CC-MAIN-20130516120913-00000-ip-10-60-113-184.ec2.internal.warc.gz | en | 0.956371 | 105 | null | null | HuggingFaceFW/fineweb |
In part one of the Creating a User Follow System tutorial series, we are going to take a quick look at how our final product may be implemented into a real live site, and the basic functionality it will contain.
Watch the video above for a demonstration of a live site utilizing the final product of this series.
Once complete, the plugin will give us the ability to follow and unfollow users, view content from the users we are following, view the total number of users we (or anyone) else is following, and the total number of users following any particular user. We will also be implementing ajax in the complete plugin so that everything works smoothly without page reloads.
File and Folder Structure
If you have watched or read any of my other extended tutorials about create complete plugins, you will know that I always advocate a good file/folder structure for your plugin files. Tom McFarlin recently wrote a great article on WP Tuts+ that covers the importance of file organization, and I’d highly recommend that you read it.
Main Plugin File
Every plugin has a “main” file, which is usually named the same thing as the plugin’s folder. In this case, our main plugin file will be called user-following.php. Inside of this file we will have our plugin headers (used to make WordPress recognize it as a plugin), a couple of constants, initialization for plugin translation, and also some file includes.
The complete contents of our file are below: | <urn:uuid:084b86ad-9b29-4b63-bf47-845dc93a8188> | CC-MAIN-2013-20 | http://pippinsplugins.com/user-follow-system-part-1/ | 2013-05-25T20:09:22Z | s3://commoncrawl/crawl-data/CC-MAIN-2013-20/segments/1368706153698/warc/CC-MAIN-20130516120913-00000-ip-10-60-113-184.ec2.internal.warc.gz | en | 0.922179 | 309 | null | null | HuggingFaceFW/fineweb |
71,000 New Yorkers: “Rise Does Matter!”
Superstorm Sandy produced record storm surge levels for locations in and around the NY City metropolitan region. One way that global warming made Sandy worse is because global warming is causing sea levels to rise. Sea levels have risen more than a foot in the New York City region since the Industrial Revolution. So what difference did this extra foot make for the citizens of New York City? Quite a lot. 6,000 more people impacted for each inch of rise!
70,929 more people and 30,551 more homes flooded.
I asked storm surge expert Dr. Ben Strauss to reflect on what this extra foot meant for New Yorkers. His reply appears below (with permission):
According to NOAA’s preliminary tide gauge readings, Sandy peaked at 9.15 ft above Mean High Water (MHW, the average high tide line) at The Battery in NYC. Surging Seas uses the same elevation reference, MHW. So from our tool you can see we estimate that in NYC alone, ~633k people live on, and ~273k homes sit on, land that’s less than 9 ft above MHW. Compare that to 8ft, or one foot less: ~562k people and ~242k homes. So, yes, Sandy’s damage would absolutely still have been unthinkable without the extra 8 inches or so we might attribute to warming since the late 19th century. But you add about 6k people per vertical inch in this 8-9 ft elevation range. I think we all would have been happy to see just a few percent less damage here!
A few other thoughts:
- flood damage increases more steeply than flood depth
- how many pieces of infrastructure might have been saved if the water were a bit lower?
- a relative of mine heard a CBS news radio report that the water got 1.5 ft higher than anyone at Con Ed had ever imagined/planned for — I don’t know the exact wording. Would the 14th St transformer station that exploded and left so much of lower Manhattan in the dark — would it have exploded with 8 inches lower water? (est. global sea level rise since 1880) 15 inches? (est total NYC SLR since 1880, including local land subsidence)
Sea level rise is certainly not the main story line here, but it contributed to the total damage from flooding and surge without any doubt. Furthermore, Sandy provides an illustration of flood levels that could be common — say, once a decade or worse toward the end of this century — if the upper end of sea level rise projections for NYC are realized.
Dr. Ben Strauss serves as Chief Operating Officer and Director of the Program on Sea Level Rise at Climate Central. In the latter capacity, he has published multiple scientific papers, testified before the U.S. Senate, authored the Surging Seas report, and led development of the SurgingSeas.org coastal flood risk tool, leading to front-page coverage in the New York Times and Washington Post, appearances on NBC, ABC, CBS, PBS and NPR national programming, and extensive coverage nationwide, from AP, Reuters, Bloomberg, USA Today and the LA Times, to many hundreds of local news outlets, to numerous editorials and op eds.
In the future, we will look back at the one foot sea level rise as “the good old days”. According to the New York State Sea Level Rise Task Force Report, it is very possible that seas will rise an additional 2.5 ft by the 2050s and 4.5 ft by the 2080s. Imagine what a Sandy would do then? It is pretty clear that New York City planners have much work to do to avoid future catastrophes. City officials did not endorse many of the recommendations of the Task Force in 2010. Perhaps they will reconsider their position now? | <urn:uuid:73f6be06-b453-4419-82be-684d6003b14f> | CC-MAIN-2013-20 | http://profmandia.wordpress.com/2012/11/05/71000-new-yorkers-rise-does-matter/?like=1&source=post_flair&_wpnonce=18b5244a97 | 2013-05-25T20:01:23Z | s3://commoncrawl/crawl-data/CC-MAIN-2013-20/segments/1368706153698/warc/CC-MAIN-20130516120913-00000-ip-10-60-113-184.ec2.internal.warc.gz | en | 0.94183 | 796 | null | null | HuggingFaceFW/fineweb |
May 23, 2013
Patsy got her first real break at age 20, playing with a regional country bandleader named Bill Peer, who was married and a father but still fell in love with her. It was Peer who suggested she call herself Patsy, from her middle name, Patterson. Their affair was well known and whispered about, and the indignity probably pushed her toward Gerald Cline, a 28-year-old heir to a construction fortune who wooed her whenever the Peer group stopped at the Moose Lodge in Brunswick, Md. They married in 1953, then fought bitterly for years because she refused to stay off the road and have children. By 1957 Patsy had split from Peer, then from Cline, but also had fought her way on to one of the most popular television shows in the country. It’s accurate, though diminishing, to call Arthur Godfrey’s Talent Scouts the American Idol of its day; a greater percentage of the country watched Godfrey’s talent show than have ever watched Idol. A win could make a career, and that’s what happened for Patsy when she sang her third single, “Walkin’ After Midnight,” in 1957, and the impressed host deemed it a “wam-doodler.”
Takuma Nakahira, Untitled, 1971, courtesy Yossi Milo Gallery, New York (via Paris in the Seventies)May 20, 2013
May 14, 2013
I like beer. Wherever I teach, it is one of the first things I need to find. Where is the coffee, where is the beer, where is the burger. The beer I find early on, at what becomes my local spaetie, the German version of a bodega, and run by Arabs who are studying translation at the University of Leipzig. Most German stores close around 6 or 7, but this is open until midnight, and has a fridge of single beers by the front door with beers from all over Germany. Most are pilsners and lagers, and I begin a kind of taste test, one by one. By the time I leave, my favorite is the Augustiner Brau, from Munich. There are no real losers, though, and it seems to me part of the reason is the German beer purity law, which requires that German beers have no more than four ingredients. This law succeeds beautifully. I can’t tell you enough about how good the beer is, or how inexpensive, except to say I will miss being able to go to the spaetie and buy a fantastic beer for .75 cents Euro or less. You can keep your fancy spiced whatevers, your ridiculous flavors. Give me a pils or a schwarzbier.
Some areas around the river feel almost rural—the vegetation, the pace of life. It’s these little pockets that interest me most. I met people who have lived in D.C. for decades, people who were born here and whose grandparents taught them to fish here. Real estate is already extraordinarily expensive in D.C., and even in the most “affordable” areas, rent is still outrageous. Some of the yacht clubs on the west of the river have been there for over 50 years, but they can only hope to hold on to their land with rising property taxes and the looming threat of the city seizing land through eminent domain. I will be surprised if they are here in 10 years.
Becky Harlan, via AnacostiaMay 13, 2013
Summer of 1976 I stayed with my cousin whose stepfather ran a restaurant called Ma Bell’s in Tulsa. A telephone on every table and you called your order into the kitchen, nice gimmick at the time. The minimalist T-shirt had the name in a pleasing sans-serif, canary yellow on a blue tee. I recall the city only as sprawl, incomprehensible to my sense of urban compression. My cousin and I played golf in the horizontal blaze of a hundred-degree August afternoon, cowed after three holes. He was thirteen, I was fourteen. The next summer he visited me in New York City. I reciprocated for horizontal bafflement with the best verticality on offer. We visited the World Trade Center. Instead of taking the elevator to the tourist level at the top and paying for the view, we decided to sneak our way to the highest level we could through office corridors, to see how high a level we could attain and still get to a window for a view. I think we topped out somewhere in the eighties. It hadn’t hit me until writing that last sentence that Oklahoma and Manhattan are cousins-by-terrorism. Ma Bell’s is gone (broken up, I’m tempted to say) and so is his mom’s marriage, and a lot of other things, but my cousin remains my cousin and he still plays golf.
“Ma Bell’s,” by Jonathan Lethem (Imaginary Oklahoma) via South by Midwest, illustration by J.P. MorrisonMay 7, 2013
I’m not the kind of photographer who takes thousands of images. I work slowly and methodically on one or two images. Most of the work takes place in planning and pre-visualising the image, and sometimes not taking a shot is part of that process.
(via Alex Boyd, Point of Deliverance)May 6, 2013
Hendrick Avercamp, “A Scene on the Ice Near a Town” (c. 1615).May 5, 2013
The noise and the honking don’t usually prevail at night. The night is a silent, eerie, and almost otherworldly kind of space, one that is largely deserted and absent of the crowds of people who are around by day. That is one of the reasons I prefer working at night, and part of my intention is to look at these silent places that lie at the edge of a borderland of sorts and to disclose what the darkness holds, in order to find a sense of sentience.
Dhruv Malhotra (via India at Rest)Apr 29, 2013
While the internet aids the perception that band names are harder to come by (they’re also changing, says Chris Johnson, who’s noted fewer one-word band names than multi-word ones), it’s not because English is running out of words. There are still vast numbers of words that can be stuck together, as well as a number of patterns or templates, some of which haven’t been become institutionalized as genre cues yet, that can be used to expand the permutational choices. Surely your one-word choice (Blue) will be taken, so modify it (Big Blue, Super Blue, Pink Blue, Really Blue, the Blue) or build a phrase (Big Blue Fly, Big Blue Road, Big Blue Popsicle, Big Blue Big). From a little bit of recursion, you could name a million bands and still bequeath a list of a million more to your rock-and-roll grandchildren (though those names will probably be longer).
(via Like a Lead Balloon by Michael Erard)Apr 26, 2013
Buying a gun in our times, especially for self-defense, seems to me an aggressive or defensive act—a statement by the purchaser about how he feels about his community, his neighbors and his country. It means he doesn’t feel safe in his bed at night, that he doesn’t trust the police to stop the criminals, and he doesn’t trust his fellow citizens not to attack. You can mask it with talk of freedom or the Constitution but underneath it all is fear. Firearms have become a manifestation of a massive distrust of both government and the wider society, a physical manifestation of a deepening societal and political divide. I don’t mean to ignore the millions of hunters and target shooters, for whom guns carry none of this loaded symbolism. Partisans on either side unfairly dismiss these people, but, rightly or wrongly, guns have become a symbol for currents deeper in our national soul than discussions on hunting and skeet shooting, and we need to talk about guns, if just to work out where we want this country to go.
(via Bad Land)Apr 22, 2013
John Weeks (New Zealander, 1886–1965)Apr 17, 2013
“I spent so many hours, days, and weeks outside, waiting for the sun to come out, waiting for new snow, waiting for the clouds to go by or come in, depending on the photograph. So much time we spent just waiting, waiting, waiting.” - Thomas Stöeckli
(via A Sense of Snow)Apr 15, 2013
“Photography is a lot like memory, which is to say it’s a very unreliable witness. Not the physical lenses and light of a camera (photography is good at depiction), but our relationship to images. I love photography but I definitely do not trust it at its word.”
William Miller, via Elegy to the Polaroid SX-70Apr 8, 2013
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Efrat Dotan and Matanel Bitton are two of SHALVA's young adults with special needs. Efrat is 26 years old and has Down syndrome while Matanel Bitton is 19 years old and has developmental disabilities. For a year and a half, they toured Israel and interviewed well-known personalities. Asking original and sometimes challenging questions, both Matanel and Efrat prove that charisma and personal charm can effortlessly close the gaps that separate individuals with disabilitiies and individuals without disabilities.
Among the personalities that have faced the Bitton/Dotan microphone are Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu, U.S. Ambassador to Israel James Cunningham, President Shimon Peres, Philanthropist Shari Arison and supermodel Bar Rafaeli. The Israel Press Association has presented them with press credentials and Minister of Foreign Affairs, Danny Ayalon, appointed them as Israel’s ‘Good Will Ambassadors’. The concept is a joint initiative of SHALVA and the popular Ynet news website.
Efrat and Matanel hit the international scene on a recent trip to the AIPAC Conference in Washington DC. These two young people were able to ask questions about the America-Israel relationship and make it one step closer to getting to the White House. A documentary film about this project is being produced and, without a doubt, the resulting footage will be both dramatic and powerful.
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Most companies today have a bunch of IT-related projects stuck on the back burner, due a shortage of people, infrastructure, funding, or a combination of these. HP wants to help its customers break through those backlogs by making people and infrastructure more efficient and allowing them to focus instead on their businesses, said Nick van der Zweep, Director of Business Strategy for HP’s Industry Standard Servers and Software group, at HP Discover this week.
That’s one reason cloud computing is at the top of HP’s agenda.
“For example, a business might want to deploy an entire service immediately, with cloud servers, storage infrastructure, VMs, and physical machines,” van der Zweep told SiliconAngle.com founder John Furrier in the Cube. “They want to deploy rapidly because they want to get their service out into the market and collect checks.”
Cloud computing will help with deployment and on-going operations by making infrastructure available on-demand. “HP CloudSystem will let customers, if they choose to, automatically reach out to a service provider when they run out of resources, and pull virtual machines into that service,” he said. “The customer of course wasn’t looking for a virtual machine, they were focused on their advertising campaign, for example.”
To enable capacity on-demand, or cloud-bursting, van der Zweep said, “You can connect up with HP or our partners and get a private cloud in your data center. It can be green-field, or you can pull in your current equipment you’ve bought from us in the past and build a private cloud – then if you want, we’ll flip the switch and that cloud will be able to pull in capacity from public cloud service providers.
“We just introduced local bursting as well – HP will deploy extra capacity at the customer site, and customers can burst over to that and pay as they use it. They don’t have to go into the public cloud,” van der Zweep said. “Once the customer has their equipment deployed on-site, HP would put another 20% of additional capacity on-site – an internal cloud.”
HP believes that there isn’t an endpoint of everyone moving to public cloud, or private cloud, or IT infrastructure disappearing, he explained, because “there are pluses and minuses to each.” HP’s approach is to try to simplify management of these options so that customers don’t need a team of people for each option, which scares people off, van der Zweep noted.
Right now, about 70-80% of customers are trying to turn their infrastructure into a private cloud, he said. In a private cloud solution, “we think about absolute security, multitenancy, keeping customers’ data segregated – we can make 3PAR storage multitenant, with complete separation of customers. We have to do this with every aspect of infrastructure, to bring it up to cloud level. We’re investing heavily in this.”
Looking ahead to the next five years, IT processes need to change significantly to make cloud take off, van der Zweep commented. “Right now we talk internally about being at Stage 0 of the cloud – a lot of investment, but evolution must happen, especially in software, to glue this together holistically, to tie back into traditional IT processes.
“It’s complicated because right now there’s no common definition of what cloud is. Our strategy is to be very heterogeneous, and provide customers with a simplified view of IT, across traditional private and public environments, and drive it to make it really simple to tap into any of the options in the marketplace,” he said. | <urn:uuid:717e106c-a818-4834-91e3-de7df3641ce2> | CC-MAIN-2013-20 | http://siliconangle.com/blog/2011/06/09/hp-wants-to-make-cloud-simple-and-accessible-for-customers/ | 2013-05-25T19:47:51Z | s3://commoncrawl/crawl-data/CC-MAIN-2013-20/segments/1368706153698/warc/CC-MAIN-20130516120913-00000-ip-10-60-113-184.ec2.internal.warc.gz | en | 0.94482 | 797 | null | null | HuggingFaceFW/fineweb |
July 3, 2011 Bell Center - Montreal
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Learning Through the Arts uses arts-based, creative learning techniques to teach core subjects. As part of our continuing education efforts, Women & Their Work has made the following lesson plans available for download.
The lesson plans are divided up by subject. Each subject list indicates the grade level of the lesson plan under the title. Click "show" to see a list of lessons under the subject, and then "view" to see the complete lesson, which will open in a new window. Feel free to use these in your classroom, and we appreciate any feedback you can offer us.
5 Sense Settings
Classifying Invisible Objects
Coffee Mountain: Painting Landscapes Using Color Words!
Complete Sentence Dance
Create Your Own Bingo!
Devising Hooks from Images and Creating Illustrated Books
Enchanted (root) Word Forest: Prefix and Suffix Poet-Tree!
Magic Carpet Character Bag of Conclusions
Make your own soundtrack
Multiple Meanings Pictionary
P.I.E. Throwing Contest!
Quotation Clouds - MLK jr.
Show Your Point of View!
Silly Sentence Charades and Comic Strips!
Steps of a Process
Transitional Word Plays
Treasure Hunting for Complete Sentences
Two Ways to "Draw" Similes!
Valentine's Day Storytelling
Veteran's Day Postcards
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Erica K. Bane, 28, of Tiffin, was charged with criminal trespass Thursday.
A vehicle in the 200 block of Circular Street was reported to have been shot with a BB gun Thursday afternoon.
A caller reported Thursday afternoon kids were throwing apples at cars in the 200 block of Hudson Street. Police were unable to locate the kids.
A caller in the 1900 block of West Market Street reported Thursday afternoon a man was asking people for money. The man was later located and told to stop asking for change and cigarettes.
A 200-block West Perry Street man requested to speak to an officer Thursday evening about his cats being poisoned.
A fight in a front yard in the 100 block of First Avenue was reported Thursday night.
A first-block North Sandusky Street person reported a loose dog and a break-in Thursday night.
A first-block North Sandusky Street caller reported Thursday night property had been taken from the house.
Andrew T. Joseph, 20, of Tiffin, was charged with disorderly conduct Thursday.
Robert L. Steiner Jr., 40, of Tiffin, was charged with disorderly conduct Thursday.
Julia M. Cap, 21, of Tiffin, was charged with possession of a dangerous drug and possession of drug paraphernalia Thursday.
A first-block Madison Street woman reported Friday morning someone was threatening to beat up her 12-year-old son.
Cole D. Blake, 21, of Newark, was charged with disorderly conduct Friday.
Anna M. Scherting, 19, of Tiffin, was charged with underage possession/consumption Friday.
Mary E. Brass, 51, of Fostoria, was charged with selling to a minor Thursday.
Rebecca Childres, 56, of Fostoria, was charged with selling to a minor Thursday.
An 8000-block West CR 28 man reported Thursday afternoon a neighbor was threatening his child and wife.
An 8000-block North TR 105 woman reported Friday afternoon guns had been taken from her residence.
A 300-block South Poplar Street woman reported Thursday afternoon her son's vehicle window had been broken.
A caller in the area of Columbus Avenue and South Town Street reported Thursday evening 15 people were fighting. No one involved wanted to pursue charges.
A 200-block North Union Street caller requested to speak to an officer Thursday night about a stolen bicycle.
A break-in was reported early Friday morning at The Fabrication Shop, 1395 Buckley St.
Renae A. McLaughlin, 45, of Tiffin, was cited with operating a vehicle while intoxicated, a seat belt violation and failure to control Oct. 20. | <urn:uuid:850112ac-04ac-4118-b2bc-0b668b6e7ed8> | CC-MAIN-2013-20 | http://www.advertiser-tribune.com/page/content.detail/id/550431/Daily-log--Oct--27.html?nav=5261 | 2013-05-25T20:10:16Z | s3://commoncrawl/crawl-data/CC-MAIN-2013-20/segments/1368706153698/warc/CC-MAIN-20130516120913-00000-ip-10-60-113-184.ec2.internal.warc.gz | en | 0.977992 | 543 | null | null | HuggingFaceFW/fineweb |
The Springer Annual Christmas Parade is set for 1 p.m. Saturday and after parade highlights include refreshments and Santa visits at the Community Center, located behind City Hall at 166 Angus St.
Organizers said parade participation is open and includes: cars, bicycles, animals, even tractors. The entry fee is one unwrapped toy. Those entering the parade should arrive in the south parking lot of Springer Schools at 12:30 p.m.
Volunteers are also "welcome and greatly appreciated."
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Social Media & Legal Ethics - Part 2 of Law Practice Management Series 2013
Tuesday, May 21, 4:30 pm – 6:30 pm
Event provided by CCCBA
Elaine Betts—Owner, Go Far Consulting
Gail Nott—Nott Ltd Solutions
Randy Wilson, Esq.
This program is designed to provide you with practical advice on how to engage in social networking with prospects and clients within the ethical parameters required by the California Rules of Professional Responsibility. The panel will also address the time-management and technological challenges that social media efforts pose.
You will learn:
- How to make sure your blog conforms to appropriate ethical considerations
- How to handle the issue of legal disclaimers for your social networking activities
- What to watch out for in the use of LinkedIn, Facebook, Twitter etc.
- Whether the proposed new rules of professional conduct address social networking issues
- What kind of blog or website graphics could violate rules against deceptive or misleading advertising
Stay after for a hands-on demonstration of effective uses of Social Media - what you can do to make LinkedIn, blogging, etc more effective. Bring your laptop or mobile device.
Presenter Randy Wilson Esq., co-founder of DSD Law Site Solutions, has spoken to lawyers in the Alameda, Contra Costa and Stanislaus County Bar Associations on emerging ethical issues surrounding social media in law practices through out California.
Gail Nott is a social media strategist with Nott Ltd Solutions. She consults and manages internet marketing campaigns for local businesses & entrepreneurs in the U.S., Canada & Europe.
Elaine Betts, a contributing author to New York Times best seller Master of Sales and demonstrates how self-management is a key to success. She is an experienced business and management consultant, entrepreneur and the owner of Go Far Consulting.
We will be meeting in room S312.
Second in a 6 part Law Practice Management Series to be held on the 3rd Tuesday of each month April - September from 4:30 - 6:00 pm. Discount for signing up for the entire series! Please contact Theresa Hurley at firstname.lastname@example.org or (925) 370-2548 for more information.
The Contra Costa County Bar Association certifies that this activity has been approved for 1 hour of General MCLE credit and .5 hours of Ethics credit by the State of California, Provider #393
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Doing Business with the CSU Bookstore
Presented by: Joey Hill, Retail Coordinator
This course will expose you to how the CSU Bookstore can be used a resource for many needs that you may not have considered. Learn about what the bookstore has to offer and how you can affectively do business
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Mila Kunis named Sexiest Woman Alive
Los Angeles - Mila Kunis has been named the Sexiest Woman Alive by Esquire magazine.
The 29-year-old actress - who is currently dating her That 70s Show
co-star Ashton Kutcher - has taken the magazine's title for 2012 replacing last year's winner Rihanna.
Mila is pleased to receive the accolade but she insists she doesn't take her pin-up status too seriously.
The brunette beauty told the publication: "What I do and who I am are two different things. And they always will be. What happens with people is they lose sight of who they are, and they become either who they want to be or who they are perceived to be. 'Made me feel safe'
"But whatever it is, it is no longer who they are. So much of who you are in this industry is based on what that critic says, what that director says, what that actor says. People start believing all that, and they become what everybody else wants them to be. And I think that I've consciously separated my two lives."
While Mila - who recently starred in Ted
and is the voice of Meg Griffin in hit animated comedy Family Guy
- enjoys her career, she plays down her success and always tries to make her parents "proud".
She added: "I love what I do. I couldn't imagine doing anything else. But when I'm done with work, I'm done with work.
"I think that if I bought into the hype, I would lose all sight of who I am, and so much of who I am is what my parents went through and instilled in me. And I never want to lose that. Ever. Because I would be so disappointed if I didn't make them proud."
Mila insists she owes everything to her mother and father after they took her away from her native Ukraine in 1991 during the fall of communism when she was just eight years old.
She explained: "I feel awful talking about it, because my parents should sit down and talk about it. They're the ones who went through hell and back, who gave everything up. I didn't do anything. I was eight years old, and I tagged along. And my parents made me feel safe. I didn't make those decisions. So I can't take responsibility for it. Every immigrant has a story." | <urn:uuid:a78062e1-bc3b-4097-b1a6-3baa172d191b> | CC-MAIN-2013-20 | http://www.channel24.co.za/Gossip/News/Mila-Kunis-named-Sexiest-Woman-Alive-20121009 | 2013-05-25T20:10:07Z | s3://commoncrawl/crawl-data/CC-MAIN-2013-20/segments/1368706153698/warc/CC-MAIN-20130516120913-00000-ip-10-60-113-184.ec2.internal.warc.gz | en | 0.991972 | 498 | null | null | HuggingFaceFW/fineweb |
Havelange likely to miss IOC session in SAfrica
Wednesday, June 29, 2011
SAO PAULO (AP) -- Former FIFA President Joao Havelange is not expected to attend the International Olympic Committee session in South Africa next week.
As the IOC looks into corruption allegations against the committee's longest-serving member, his spokesman tells The Associated Press that it's "almost certain" that Havelange won't make the trip to Durban for the IOC meeting that will decide the host of the 2018 Winter Games.
Sergio Martins says the 95-year-old Havelange will stay in Brazil because a family member is scheduled to undergo surgery in the coming days. Martins did not elaborate.
The BBC reported that Havelange received a $1 million kickback in 1997 when he was FIFA president.
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Today's card is made using the Celebrate With Flourish Cricut Lite cartridge. I think there is a lot of great Christmas images on it. This card is very simple and would be very easy to mass produce. I let the cuttlebug folder do a lot of the work for me. The cuttlebug folder I used is called Season's Greetings and it is a must have!
|The card is A2 size.|
|I cut the wreath at 3 1/2".|
|This cuttlebug folder means no stamping a sentiment...woohoo!|
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Jathika Sampatha lottery introduced
The National Lottery Board yesterday introduced a new lottery to the
market named Jathika Sampatha with attractive prizes and a super draw of
Rs 10 million.
The first lottery ticket of the Jathika Sampatha after its
inauguration was handed over to Prime Minister Ratnasiri Wickramanayaka
at an auspicious time at the
The first lottery ticket of the new Jathika Sampatha being
handed over to Prime Minister Ratnasiri Wickramanayaka at the
Prime Ministerís Office by National Lottery Board Chairman
Chaminda Athuluwage. Minister Athauda Seneviratne also looks on.
Picture by Nishani Liyanage
Prime Ministerís Office by National Lottery
Board Chairman Chaminda Athuluwage. Prime Minister Ratnasiri
Wickramanayaka wished the lottery success and a bright future.
The first draw of the new lottery Jathika Sampatha will take place on
March 3, 2010. The lottery will be drawn each Wednesday and Saturday.
Ten percent of the income of the Jathika Sampatha lottery draw on
Wednesday will be allocated to the Health Ministry.
A similar percentage will be allocated to the Labour Fund of the
Labour Ministry out of the income of the lottery draw on Saturday.
The Super Draw of the Jathika Sampatha will be Rs 10 million. There
are Rs two million first prizes and a large number of prizes of Rs
100,000, Rs 10,000, Rs 1,000 Rs 100, Rs 50 and Rs 20.
The Suwasetha Lottery which is drawn on Wednesday and on Sunday and
the Shrama Wasana Lottery drawn on Sunday will be replaced by the
Jathika Sampatha lottery draws.
Labour Relations and Manpower Minister Athauda Seneviratne explained
that the money channelled through the lottery would be utilized for the
welfare of workers and the members of their families. Previous
government allocations were not adequate for these purposes.
Healthcare and Nutrition Ministry Additional Secretary Dr. Nihal
Jayathilake stated that it was better if there were a mechanism to get
funds for the Ministry to maintain the free health service and the
lottery would fill the vacuum to a certain extent.
National Lottery Board Working Director H.G. Sirisena and Directors
U.R. Seneviratne, Ravi Abeywardene, J. Sri Warnasinghe, P.D.
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View Full Version : Mind Maps --> Task dependencies
12-08-2008, 06:15 PM
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It struck me today why I get frustrated with Mind Mapping software and To-Do list software; they both seem to do half the job.
I visualize projects and tasks in a Mind Map format and can get all my thoughts down into a Mind Map pretty quickly and logically. But then I'm staring a map that has no clear path of the sequence in which I need to do Tasks (other than working in from the outer edges); the map doesn't tell me what I need to do NEXT.
To-Do lists seem OK for generating a linear series of tasks - but it isn't easy to capture dependencies.
Is there any software available that lets me brain-dump into a Mind Map but then automatically generate a Task List in the correct order of dependencies?
12-09-2008, 03:34 AM
Your own intelligence, experience, and knowledge of the subtleties required should enable you to determine the dependencies better than any software.
12-09-2008, 06:20 AM
Yes, I understand that software cannot determine dependencies. I meant that, when I have generated a Mind Map, the dependencies are - for the most part - documented within the map, in that child ideas/tasks generally need to be completed before their parents can be completed.
But, in the graphical mind map format it is hard - well, easy but laborious - to extract that those dependencies into a hierarchical Task List that helps me identify what tasks I need to be focusing on in order to work towards my project goal.
It sees like it should be technically easy for Mind Mapping software to AUTOMATICALLY produce a hierarchical task list based on the dependencies inherent within the structure of the map. It could essentially start in the middle and create a sub-task list for every branch in the map (every branch that has tasks on its leaves).
Have you looked at ResultsManager from Gyronix?
12-09-2008, 06:52 AM
I think many mind mapping programs can export text output, so that the branches of the map are converted to a hierarchical list.
You would still need to manually sort that list to determine which task is the true "next action".
12-11-2008, 09:02 AM
As Cike suggested, ResultsManager, an add-in for Mind Manager, will do this.
With that said, I used this combination for a while and ultimately found that mind maps are too difficult to maintain to be useful for task management. (As opposed to project planning, where they excel.) YMMV.
12-12-2008, 07:12 PM
The new version of MindManager 8 has a task roll up feature that should be a powerful feature to use in a situation like this:
12-14-2008, 08:46 AM
The reason you may find it frustrating to have multiple dependent steps on your task lists could be because you have not restricted the items on your "Next Action" list to those that are truly NEXT.
You could have a project support file and list ALL of the steps in a given project in order (which considers the dependencies), and then with that ordered list, simply come over to that file once a week when you do your weekly review, and pull over the next step to your trusted GTD system.
Just a thought...the bottom line is this: I think you need to ask yourself if your problem is being driven by a lack of software, or a lack of process discipline.
12-14-2008, 10:53 AM
I think you need to ask yourself if your problem is being driven by a lack of software, or a lack of process discipline.
Kent, this observation can be universally applied to much of GTD. Thank you.
12-22-2008, 08:22 AM
....yep, you're right!
12-29-2008, 08:35 AM
Another Mind Map application that handles tasks (including assignments) is called Mind Genius
Link between maps, files and generate a tasklist or webpage.
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What's the most neglected theme related to personal sanctification? Kevin DeYoung says it's our union with Christ. In our recent discussion over his new book, The Hole In Our Holiness: Filling the Gap Between Gospel Passion and the Pursuit of Godliness (Crossway, 2012), he explained (6 minutes):
Kevin DeYoung is a plenary speaker at our National Conference in Minneapolis (next week!). Visit the event page to learn more and register while there’s still time.
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Magoo wrote:Johnny, obvioulsy you are perfectly entitled to your view so I have no problem with that. But if 100 million Buddhist in the world made a collective decision to not eat meat, it would then have an impact on the meat/slaughter trade?
Taking oneself as an individual in the grand scheme of things, then you are right, your decision to eat meat will not have an impact and more particular would not have meant that a particular chicken you had eaten would not have been killed anyway..
It is personnel choice, but it also could depend on the conditions of the landscape in which one lives. Some places dont have good soil or climate for growing vegetables and thus meat is a staple of the diet. Other places such as Australia, where I am from have easy access to every food imaginable. Therefore there is a choice of what to eat?
I may be wrong here, and probably am once again, but maybe the part of India that the Buddha lived, there was not much choice but rice and meat for sustainance?
if ALL of them did then yes. however this is never going too happen. if this were a possibility, i too would stop eating meat. i will eat meat as long as it makes no difference. and please don't try too say that if i get on the band wagon then everyone else will or some version of that, like if everyone thinks the same it will work. look at the green initiative, a tiny fraction of people actually "go green" the majority do whatever is easiest. this is the way of man and always will be.
if the pali canon said "no meat" then there would be hope, but it does not, so a massive amount of buddhists will never stop. and that's just pali canon buddhists! the mahayana sutras specifically speak out against meat eating. so that's not too mention all the lay mahayana buddhists who are not that dedicated too all of this. many meditate once a month or not at all, drop a stick of incense on a statue once a week and call it a day. other than that they do what they please and are no more "buddhist" than your average person who claims no religion. heck i know at least five "buddhists" personally who don't even drop the incense or meditate! they do nothing! they drink alcohol and party, they just say "i'm buddhist" because they were raised that way and their parents and grandparents were "buddhist", probably in the same way. these categories of buddhists actually constitute a large amount of people who call themselves "buddhist". as long as this is the case, your idea has ZERO hope. actually it might be in the negative. totally impossible. although it is a beautiful idea just the same and i appreciate the thought
too be clear, i have nothing against these types of buddhists, the ones i know personally are very close friends actually, but as a demographic they are a big part of the reason there will never be enough buddhist vegetarians too make a difference and so it was necessary too mention them.
The time would not pass. Somebody was playing with the clocks, and not only the electronic clocks but the wind-up kind too. The second hand on my watch would twitch once, and a year would pass, and then it would twitch again.
There was nothing I could do about it. As an Earthling I had to believe whatever clocks said -and calendars.”
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This is a great recipe. It's so easy to change and make it your own. For example, I changed the amount of garlic to 3 cloves. I made it ahead of time and the flavors melded together beautifully. Did not have to spend time cooking when my guests arrived. Used Pace medium Salsa which is a perfect replacement for canned tomatoes that have a lot of sugar. Great for diabetics. | <urn:uuid:d27fd32d-e207-4c77-b7b0-346608d75c2c> | CC-MAIN-2013-20 | http://www.eatingwell.com/recipes/beef_bean_chile_verde.html?page=0%2525252C7%25252C15%252C7§ion=comments | 2013-05-25T19:38:51Z | s3://commoncrawl/crawl-data/CC-MAIN-2013-20/segments/1368706153698/warc/CC-MAIN-20130516120913-00000-ip-10-60-113-184.ec2.internal.warc.gz | en | 0.965741 | 84 | null | null | HuggingFaceFW/fineweb |
©2013 Eden Foods, Inc.
Black Soybeans with Bok Choy & Ginger
Serves 4 |
Prep Time 5 minutes |
Cook Time 5 minutes
Place the soybean liquid in a large saucepan and add the ginger, shoyu, mustard, and sesame oil. Bring to a boil, then reduce heat and simmer, covered.
Meanwhile, trim the bok choy and cut it into 1/2 inch slices, keeping white and green leafy parts separate. Rinse thoroughly and drain.
Add the white parts of the bok choy and scallions to the simmering liquid. Cover and cook over medium heat for 1 minute. Add the bok choy greens and soybeans and cook uncovered until the greens are tender, about 1 to 2 minutes. Add the scallion greens and more shoyu, if needed. Serve in shallow bowls over Eden Soba or Udon.
6g Fat (41% calories from fat),
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Holiday Flourish 5 - Winter Flowers - Black/Gold
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White, Sage Green, Evergreen, Crimson, Burgundy, Hunter, Scarlet, Black, Gold Metallic
Poinsettias are the flower of the winter season, and these dramatic, large scale, scarlet blossoms are a perfect representation. Floating snowflakes and shimmering gold metallic highlights complete this elegant picture of seasonal beauty. Larger flowers are about 5", with gold metallic, from the 'Holiday Flourish 5' collection by Peggy Toole for Robert Kaufman Fabrics. | <urn:uuid:67ad2bf2-7c6d-4d97-8cf2-0cf4e5ae99ce> | CC-MAIN-2013-20 | http://www.equilter.com/cgi-bin/webc.cgi/st_prod.html?p_prodid=160635 | 2013-05-25T20:11:16Z | s3://commoncrawl/crawl-data/CC-MAIN-2013-20/segments/1368706153698/warc/CC-MAIN-20130516120913-00000-ip-10-60-113-184.ec2.internal.warc.gz | en | 0.822391 | 136 | null | null | HuggingFaceFW/fineweb |
|Death Ponders Life, the Universe and Everything
Author: CarinaHelix PM
Death is tired of being misunderstood and misinterpreted. He decides to publish his journal.Rated: Fiction T - English - Supernatural/Spiritual - Chapters: 3 - Words: 921 - Reviews: 2 - Favs: 1 - Follows: 1 - Updated: 06-29-12 - Published: 06-28-12 - id: 3036827
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Despite all the changes in human civilisation over the millennia, it seems that war is the one constant. You will always find something to fight about, and if you can't then it seems you will make something up. Sometimes I wonder if you actually enjoy war, given humanity's apparent addiction to it. I, however, find war rather tiresome.
It goes without saying that wartime is when I am busiest. I remember the good old days; there was once a time when the only casualties of war were soldiers, and the deaths were confined to the battlefield. Unfortunately, as humanity's technology evolved, so did their ability to kill each other. The deaths became more frequent and more widespread, and my workload increased.
I find it fascinating how war can bring out the best in some people and the worst in others. Take Adolf Hitler, for example. He only lived as long as he did due to my self-restraint. There were numerous times when I was standing right behind him, ready and waiting to strike. I stopped myself, though. It wasn't his time yet, and it certainly wasn't my job to interfere in the affairs of humans. I could only take them when it was their time to go, and not before.
However, there is nothing in The Rules about stopping people dying. Oscar Schindler had a few close calls, I can tell you. But he wasn't ready to go and I wasn't ready to take him, so I pulled a few strings and allowed him to live. It didn't go down well with the Boss, but I prolonged the lives of countless Jews so he wasn't too angry. Even though I am Death, I am still capable of at least some good.
I mustn't brag, though. War forces me to do many more evil deeds than good. I always loathed having to take children, from either side. Actually, taking any civilian was hard. In my humble opinion, war should be confined to the military. However, I can't see that happening any time soon. | <urn:uuid:d9aab3e4-1c72-4ea2-8009-ac7726d22b77> | CC-MAIN-2013-20 | http://www.fictionpress.com/s/3036827/3/Death-Ponders-Life-the-Universe-and-Everything | 2013-05-25T19:35:02Z | s3://commoncrawl/crawl-data/CC-MAIN-2013-20/segments/1368706153698/warc/CC-MAIN-20130516120913-00000-ip-10-60-113-184.ec2.internal.warc.gz | en | 0.98204 | 528 | null | null | HuggingFaceFW/fineweb |
SimCity beta coming next weekend
by Steve Watts, shacknews.com, Jan 18, 2013 8:15AM PST
SimCity isn't coming until March 5, so you'll have to wait for the flowers to bud before you can start your urban layouts. But you might get your chance to play a snippet of the game as early as next weekend, when the beta kicks off.
You can register for the beta now. According to an SimCity's Twitter, the beta will start next Friday, January 25, and last through Monday, January 28. It will feature a "one hour slice" of the game, but the announcement isn't clear on just how many eager city planners will get in on this round of beta invites. March is still quite a while away, though, so it seems likely we'll see more waves coming leading up to launch. | <urn:uuid:d8694cb2-8c5d-42bf-bc29-4c50a1720011> | CC-MAIN-2013-20 | http://www.gamefly.com/news/article/216932/simcity-beta-coming-next-weekend/ | 2013-05-25T19:35:10Z | s3://commoncrawl/crawl-data/CC-MAIN-2013-20/segments/1368706153698/warc/CC-MAIN-20130516120913-00000-ip-10-60-113-184.ec2.internal.warc.gz | en | 0.972548 | 175 | null | null | HuggingFaceFW/fineweb |
The Jewish Defense League was founded in 1968 by Rabbi Meir Kahane. Kach, which means "Thus," was a fundraising vehicle for Rabbi Kahane; it was never an activist organization in the United States. Stated goal is to restore the biblical state of Israel. Kach (founded by radical Israeli-American Rabbi Meir Kahane) and its offshoot Kahane Chai, which means "Kahane Lives" (founded by Meir Kahane's son Binyamin following his father's assassination in the United States), were declared to be terrorist organizations in March 1994 by the Israeli Cabinet under the 1948 Terrorism Law. This followed the groups' statements in support of Dr. Baruch Goldstein's attack in February 1994 on the al-Ibrahimi Mosque--Goldstein was affiliated with Kach--and their verbal attacks on the Israeli Government.
Organize protests against the Israeli Government. Harass and threaten Palestinians in Hebron and the West Bank. Groups have threatened to attack Arabs, Palestinians, and Israeli Government officials. They also claimed responsibility for several shooting attacks on West Bank Palestinians in which four persons were killed and two were wounded in 1993. The legacy of Kahane Chai is the Judean Voice, a Jewish news service and periodical published by Mike Guzofsky
Location/Area of Operation
Israel and West Bank settlements, particularly Qiryat Arba' in Hebron.
Receives support from sympathizers in the United States and Europe.
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Sonic.net plans 1Gbps fiber service to San Francisco homes
- — 15 December, 2011 12:35
Internet service provider Sonic.net unveiled an ambitious plan on Wednesday to build a fiber network that would reach most residences and small businesses in San Francisco with 1G bps Internet access.
The so-called fiber-to-the-home network would be the first such citywide system in San Francisco and would dramatically exceed the current residential speeds offered by AT&T and Comcast, the city's major ISPs. It could draw avid interest in the city, which is a hub for Internet startups and home to many Silicon Valley technology workers. But such a project would pose daunting costs and regulatory hurdles for any service provider, let alone a small operator such as Sonic.
"I'll certainly concede that it's an ambitious project," said Dane Jasper, CEO and co-founder of Sonic, which has just 60,000 subscribers. Those customers are spread across 13 states, but most are in the San Francisco Bay Area, he said.
The company's main business is offering DSL (Digital Subscriber Line) service over leased copper lines, but earlier this year it began rolling out a fiber network in Sebastopol, California, that is similar to the one planned for San Francisco. There, on a trial network reaching 700 homes, it offers 100M bps unlimited broadband for US$39.95 per month and 1G bps for $69.95 per month. Both plans include voice service for one or two lines with unlimited domestic calls. Sonic also has been selected by Google to build a fiber network for a neighborhood near Stanford University.
Sonic plans to offer similar plans in San Francisco. It has no plans to serve large businesses with the network, nor to offer TV, Jasper said.
Sonic announced on Wednesday it has applied for permits to build the San Francisco network, which would start with a pilot area of 2,000 homes in the largely residential Sunset district and expand over the course of five years to cover the city of about 800,000 residents. The company hopes to begin work next year. The trial will require one utility box, and a full deployment would require an estimated 188, Jasper said.
The last carrier that tried to roll out a significant new network in San Francisco was AT&T, which proposed in 2007 to deploy its U-Verse high-speed Internet and TV service there. Some parts of the city are now covered by U-Verse, but much of the project is tied up in a legal dispute over whether an environmental impact report is required to understand the overall impact of the estimated 728 utility boxes it would require.
Led by an organization called San Francisco Beautiful, neighborhood groups raised concerns about AT&T's plan to install the boxes on sidewalks. A lawsuit over the proposal is expected to be heard next year. San Francisco Beautiful said it has not yet taken a position on Sonic's proposal.
AT&T's travails will be a key factor in Sonic's deployment schedule, according to Jasper. Sonic won't press the city for approval of its application while the suit over the U-Verse boxes is pending, he said.
Sonic can build its network with fewer boxes because it is using all fiber instead of a combination of fiber and copper, Jasper said. Fiber can carry a given speed of access farther than copper can, and it can also scale up to much higher speeds over time as new generations of network equipment become available.
"The investment in fiber is a 50-year infrastructure," Jasper said.
Laying fiber all the way to subscribers' homes can be an expensive, time-consuming task. Verizon Communications, which offers its FiOS data, voice and video service over fiber to the home, has faced some complaints about torn-up front yards. But Sonic has an advantage in San Francisco in that much of the city is still served by utility wires on poles instead of in the ground, Jasper said. Deploying fiber over those poles is easier and less expensive than laying it in the ground, he said. | <urn:uuid:acd9e7aa-abd8-4d75-8b05-38e439c82db5> | CC-MAIN-2013-20 | http://www.goodgearguide.com.au/article/410368/sonic_net_plans_1gbps_fiber_service_san_francisco_homes/ | 2013-05-25T20:09:56Z | s3://commoncrawl/crawl-data/CC-MAIN-2013-20/segments/1368706153698/warc/CC-MAIN-20130516120913-00000-ip-10-60-113-184.ec2.internal.warc.gz | en | 0.962654 | 830 | null | null | HuggingFaceFW/fineweb |
All about Roasting
A New Approach to a Classic Art
By Molly Stevens
(W. W. Norton & Company, Hardcover, 9780393065268, 592pp.)
Publication Date: November 2011
Categories: Methods - General
Culinary scholars and serious home cooks share their hard-won wisdom in 11 new cookbooks. They've spent years toiling in the kitchen, and now these experts are here to help you perfect your roast, indulge your sweet tooth or feed your 12-year-old. More at NPR.org
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Easy Cake Stand Centerpieces
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elevated display for a simple
While the display changes with the seasons, the stand remains the same. Display items in a triangular configuration with the tallest item in the center of the plate, then progress down in layers. Here, a short pillar candle holds center stage, surrounded by green leaves and a few fresh kumquats. For a casual look, let some leaves hang over the edge of the plate.
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Accessories: Additional (2) ComfortSeal Eartips, (1) ultra-sensitive Diaphragm and (1) ID tag.
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Rosalind Williams has a special place in the struggle against discrimination by European police forces against people of color and ethnic minorities. Twenty years ago, she was stopped and asked for her identity papers by Spanish police in a railway station. An African-American who had acquired Spanish citizenship by marriage, she was travelling with her husband and son; they were left alone by the police. The police officer explained he was obliged to stop people “who looked like her,” due to an order from the Ministry of the Interior, aimed at detecting illegal immigrants under the discriminatory assumption that Spanish nationals could only be white. Thus, the Ministry ordered that people of color must produce their identity documents to the police whenever asked.
Rosalind was rightly shocked and angry. She filed a court complaint, which went all the way to the Spanish Constitutional Court, where it was finally ruled upon in 2001, nine years after the stop. In the majority’s view, the stop was not discriminatory, as “specific physical or ethnic characteristics can be taken into consideration as reasonably indicative of the national origin of the person who has them.” Thus, Spain became the only country in the EU to have its highest court sanction the use of ethnic profiling. Represented by lawyers from the Open Society Justice Initiative and Women’s Link Worldwide, she then complained to the UN Human Rights Committee, which in 2009 agreed that she had been subject to discrimination and urged the Spanish government to change its policy and issue a public apology to Rosalind.
The HRC’s findings were echoed in subsequent reports from regional and international human rights bodies, including the European Commission against Racism and Intolerance, the UN Committee for the Elimination of Racial Discrimination, or the European advisory Committee for the protection of national minorities.
Twenty years since she was stopped, we asked Rosalind Williams whether she thought anything has changed in Spain. She said she thinks that “there is a greater awareness and a greater concern” about ethnic profiling, but that police officers have adapated by looking for “more subtle ways to ask people for their identification.” As a result, she concluded, “I do not think ethnic profiling has stopped.”
This January, Mutuma Rutureere, the U.N. Special Rapporteur on contemporary forms of racism, racial discrimination and xenophobia, agreed with Rosalind’s conclusion, after conducting an official visit to Spain, where he met government and police officials and civil society groups. The information he received included a submission from the Justice Initiative highlighting the continuing problem of ethnic profiling by the police, and offering recommendations to remedy the situation. At the end of his visit, Mr. Rutureere reported his concern regarding the on-going “problem of identity checks by the police targeting particular ethnic groups, including minorities and migrants.” He urged the state and police authorities to adopt specific measures to avoid and prevent these discriminatory practices. He will issue a full official report in June.
Last year, in response to the international pressure, as well as the demands of an increasing number of civil society organizations and grassroots groups, the Spanish government issued an official directive urging police to avoid actions based solely upon ethnic criteria of a suspect. But although the directive, known as Circular 2/2012, marked a positive first step, it is not legally binding; nor has it failed to fully stop the practice. Further, Spain remains the only country in the EU where its highest court has sanctioned ethnic profiling. Continued international attention is needed to support domestic efforts to encourage meaningful action.
Rosalind Williams’ view that not much has really changed is born out by evidence gathered by the Brigadas Vecinales de Observación de Derechos Humanos, a civil society group that attempts to document identity checks through public observation. According to their 2012 report on “Racist identity controls in Madrid” the organization documented 225 discriminatory police stops in Madrid alone that occurred in the seven months since the issuance of the Circular. This is especially troubling as the Spanish National Police reported nearly nine million identity checks in 2011 alone and the number of checks observed by the Brigadas Vecinales represents only a small percentage of those occurred. As Spain becomes a more multiethnic country—today more than 12 percent of the population is of foreign descent—ethnic profiling increasingly stigmatizes and marginalizes a large and important growing part of Spanish society.
When asked if she regrets the 17 years of legal procedures she undertook to seek justice, Williams responded: “The short answer is no. The long answer is that there have been times of disappointments of course. Sometimes I wanted to take my Spanish passport and my U.S. passport and buy a one-way ticket to San Francisco and never come back. But Spain is home, just like the United States. Madrid is home just like San Francisco is home… and in both places I have tried to be part of the society.”
And as part of the Spanish society, Rosalind Williams thinks that “there has to be a solution, but it is not going to change by itself. There has to be some form of pressure on the government” from the outside.
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There are so many great reasons to implement an email marketing campaign. It’s very affordable. You get an immediate response. You can easily measure the results of your campaign. It’s flexible in terms of creating customized messages for different target audiences. And it can be highly effective in building and maintaining long-lasting relationships with your customers.
But if you’ve never reaped the benefits of email marketing, we have a few tips to help you get started.
Creating emails that get read
The last thing you want is for your audience to think of you as a spammer. Email marketing is based on getting permission from your recipients. This is easy enough to get by adding a feature on your website that allows people to sign up to receive email notifications, promotions or e-newsletters from you.
There are also some basic rules of thumb when it comes to your email creative:
- Have a benefit-oriented subject line or one that clearly conveys what your email is about. Avoid capital letters or words like “free”, “XX% off”, “subscribe” or “call now” that will most likely land you in a spam or junk folder.
- Make the body of your email scannable. Keep copy short and to the point.
- Don’t use images that are too large and take a long time to load.
- If you’re not much of a designer, there are a lot of industry-specific email templates out there that you can use and modify depending on your needs.
The most successful email campaigns are the ones that are personalized and contain information or offers that are most relevant to your target audience. It’s very easy to create targeted email campaigns using email lists of various target segments.
When to email and how often
While there aren’t really any set rules as to how much or how little you should email, once a week or a couple of times a month would probably be acceptable to most of your subscriber base. It really depends on how interesting and relevant your content is — some customers may welcome hearing from you more often if they’re getting a lot out of them. You might actually want to take the guesswork out of it by asking people upfront when they sign up for emails how often they’d like to hear from you.
As far as what days are best to email and what time of day they’re most likely to get open, it’s best to analyze past campaign reports to determine exactly when most of your customers click on your emails.
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Wednesday 8 May 2013, 2:00pm BST.
The law recognises that redundancies will cause employees great distress and accordingly requires employers to give all staff affected by potential redundancies ample warning and an opportunity to be consulted. A f More...03 May 2013 14:04
Acas has published guidance on how employers should handle collective redundancies, in the light of legislative changes made on 6 April 2013.
Employers that are proposing to make 100 or more redundancies now have to start consultation at least More...08 April 2013 13:57
Important changes to the law on collective redundancy consultation come into force on 6 April 2013 - or do they? The implementation order for these new rules creates considerable confusion about exactly when the new regime applies, leaving employers mak More...05 April 2013 15:03
This April sees a number of employment law changes come into effect that will have an impact on all employers. HR departments should ensure that they update their policies and procedures in accordance with the new laws. Personnel Today sets out More...27 March 2013 11:17
This line manager briefing covers a number of challenging situations that may arise as a result of an employee's pregnancy or maternity leave, but will not be relevant to every pregnancy or period of maternity leave. A second briefing, Line More...26 March 2013 00:01
The Government has published draft legislation that will set out to reduce the consultation period required when 100 or more employees are to be made redundant.
Under the Trade Union and Labour Relations (Consolidation) Act 1992, if an employer plan More...06 February 2013 15:01
David Cameron’s speech this morning on the future of the UK’s relationship with the European Union (EU) has made the prospect of the UK Government operating outside the legal systems of the EU a distinct possibility. The Prime Minister pledged More...23 January 2013 15:44
Two long-running religious discrimination cases are among those pending for 2013, alongside other important employment law decisions pending on redundancy, TUPE and disability discrimination. We round up 10 of the significant legal decisi More...02 January 2013 06:03
Government sets out timetable for employment law changes
Friday 15 March 2013 14:42
The Government has set out a number of forthcoming legal amendments due to take place as a result of its employment law review, which set out to an More...02 January 2013 05:57
Large-scale collective redundancies will no longer require a 90-day minimum consultation phase, after the Government announced its decision to reduce the period to 45 days.
Employment relations minister Jo Swinson, pictured, confirmed that a new 45- More...18 December 2012 12:27
A video guide has been launched by Acas to help managers tasked with delivering news of redundancies to their employees.
Acas has coined the term "redundancy envoy" to describe those whose role involves communicating news of redundancies to other st More...17 December 2012 13:21
Around 100 fixed income traders based at the London office of the Swiss bank UBS suffered the embarrassment of arriving at work for a normal day only to be told, out of the blue, that their services were not needed and they were being sent on "special l More...12 November 2012 08:41
Many companies face making redundancies. Nick Robertson and Michelle Last look at ways to save costs when cutting staff.
More...05 November 2012 00:01
Companies experiencing a downturn in business are increasingly looking for alternatives to redundancies. Recruitment freezes, unpaid sabbaticals and secondments have all been used to avoid making job cuts. In addition, employers often ask employees More...26 October 2012 14:50
Imagine a typical redundancy scenario. Employee A is about to be told they are losing their job. Employee B is the person doing the telling. Who would you rather be?
For most people, the choice would be an easy one. When I told a friend about new re More...04 October 2012 15:29
R (on the application of Bakhsh) v Northumberland Tyne & Wear NHS Foundation Trust
Mr Bakhsh was employed as a mental health nurse by Northumberland Tyne & Wear NHS Foundation Trust from 1998 to 2008. He was dismissed in 2008 and More...03 September 2012 10:33
Mitchells of Lancaster (Brewers) Ltd v Tattersall FACTS Mitchells of Lancaster (Mitchells) is a brewer and owner of public houses. Mr Tattersall was employed as its property manager from 1998 until his dismissal in October 2010. Mr Tattersall was More...20 August 2012 16:55
Norman Lamb, the employment relations minister, has today announced the Government's proposals to reform the rules for consulting staff about large scale redundancies.
According to a statement from the Department for Business, Innovation and Skills, More...21 June 2012 16:30
Bon Groundwork Ltd v Foster
Mr Foster was employed by Bon Groundwork from 1997. He was laid off without pay on 15 April 2009. On 27 April, Mr Foster wrote to his line manager stating that the company was not entitled to lay him off and he More...22 May 2012 13:47
In the current economic climate, many employers are under pressure to cut costs. Departmental reshuffles and changes in job duties are often used to improve the efficiency of teams and these may lead to reductions in headcount.
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News and Conferences
Health news from around the world delivered by the BBC.
Weekly journal of the British Medical Association.
News from the field of dentistry.
The Department of Health's news desk.
News, opinion and careers issues for doctors working in secondary care.
Round-up of medico-legal and dento-legal news from the Medical and Dental Defence Union of Scotland.
A US web service that provides news, literature reviews, lists of conferences and other resources.
NetDoctor.co.uk is written by doctors and health care professionals. The web site includes information on medications, diseases and conditions, health services, support groups and important medical news.
A monthly newsletter for all operating theatre staff.
News on NHS services and health in general.
A health news service set up by the Reuters Group.
Newsletter for surgeons produced by the Royal College of Surgeons of Edinburgh
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News & Media
News and Media
Photo composition from the IPCC's SREX Generic Presentation slide deck.
The SEI researchers answer questions about the SREX findings and its implications for the UNFCCC process, for climate finance, and for individual countries.
Richard Klein, a senior research fellow at SEI in Stockholm, is a lead author of the chapter “Managing the Risks: International Level and Integration Across Scales” of the new IPCC Special Report, Managing the Risks of Extreme Events and Disasters to Advance Climate Change Adaptation. Lisa Schipper, a senior scientist at SEI-US, is a lead author of the chapter “Determinants of Risk: Exposure and Vulnerability.”
Q: Are we wasting our time when we try to parse just how much disasters can be attributed to human-caused climate change?
RK: The climate scientists involved in this report have tried to separate out the human contribution to any observed trends in changing climate extremes and disaster losses, but they have concluded that this is difficult due to the very nature of extremes (they happen only rarely so data is scarce), and in the case of losses, because population and wealth in exposed areas is increasing and this overrides any climate signal.
Q: Does this focus on causality make us how much we can do to reduce disaster risks?
RK: It is clear that much can be done to reduce vulnerability to climate extremes by addressing socio-economic determinants of vulnerability. This may well be more effective in the short run than reducing greenhouse gases – which is not to say that we don’t also need to do that. However, the policy discourse of adaptation, in the UNFCCC and in many countries, still focuses on addressing climate risk and not on promoting socio-economic development.
LS: Development is key to reducing disaster risk. This means we have to focus on reduction of vulnerability through sustainable development. This way we will be able to reach many of the development goals while also reducing risk and thereby helping to ensure the sustainability of development efforts.
But don’t be fooled – controlling social systems is by no means easy, even if we think we would have more control over social systems than over natural systems. Humans do not function rationally; for example, people do not always make decisions that leave them less at risk – if there are other things that they prioritise, they may decide the risk is worth the possible gain.
Q: Many of the disasters we’re seeing involve water – from extreme precipitation, to drought. How can we deal with those risks?
LS: Humans traditionally have a lot of experience dealing with variability in water availability. I think we can learn a lot of lessons from places that have traditionally had a dry or wet climate that can be useful for teaching us what our future will look like. For example, people in flood plains in Latin America who have been able to control floods but now are unable to can learn from communities in, say, the Mekong or the Ganges that have always lived with lots of water.
Q: Lisa, you’re working with El Salvador right now on this very issue. What does this report say about what countries like El Salvador need to learn and do about disaster risk reduction?
LS: One thing that the report showed is that we have few longitudinal studies of reconstruction processes after disasters, and it’s hard to identify which are the most significant drivers of change in attitude and policy with regard to disaster risk.
The report also says that moving toward adaptation requires transformation, and not just business as usual. Current disaster risk reduction institutions are likely to be unable to transform the country, so the transformation has to come from the development approach in each country.
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The queen of Serbian tourism
Vrnjacka Spa is the most famous spa and the most visited tourist destination in Serbia.
Visitors have been coming to Vrnjacka Spa for already 135 years for health reasons as well as cultural, sports and other events. The spa got its name after the village of Vrnjci where springs of mineral water were found. The first written document about Vrnjacka Spa is baron Zigmund Herder's report, who did a research on the national treasures of Serbia on the directive of prince Milos Obrenovic. He considered Vrnjci mineral water to be of great quality and compared it to the famous mineral water springs in Karlovy Vary in the Czech Republic.
The medicinal waters of the spa, considered the queen of Serbian tourism, are good in curing diabetes, gastrovascular and gynecological diseases. The spa water called Vrnjci Water is good against cardiovascular diseases.
Vrnjacka Spa is situated in central Serbia, 200 km south from Belgrade on the slopes of mount Goc and in the valleys of the Vrnjacka river and the Lipovacka river. It lies at 220-300 m above sea level. It is characteristic for its mild continental climate with temperately warm summers (average temp. 20ºC) and temperately cold winters (average temp. 8ºC).
Sports and recreation center «Raj» has three football pitches, an aethletic track and terrains for smaller sports. Other facilities include saunas, bowling, indoor and outdoor swimming pools and fitness centers. Ski tracks on Goc attract a great number of winter sport lovers. Also, mount Goc has ideal hunting conditions in a well arranged hunting area. Podunavac ponds on the Zapadna Morava and only 10 km from Vrnjci Spa are perfect for those who love rivers and sports fishing.
Many manifestations are held here all year round such as «Cultural Manifestations of Vrnjacka Banja», «Film Scenario Festival», «Book Festival» etc.
How to get there?
By major road Belgrade-Kraljevo and high-way Belgrade-Nis-Skoplje via Pojat.
What to see?
A program called „The Culture Trap“ is a unique institution consisting of a gallery, a museum, a music hall and an art academy where many exhibitions are held as well as music and drama programs.
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So! Gemma survived her arrhythmia, much to the inconvenience of everyone who now has to explain why they didn't come clean about the whole Abel-kidnapping thing. After Gemma tears a few strips off Jax and Tara's backs, she informs them that Abel's in Belfast. Jax and Clay decide to talk to Maureen to confirm this, and after they do, they decide to go to Belfast.
(It may be messy when they get there: Trinny's stuck her nose in the whole thing courtesy of fielding Jax's first call, she tipped off McGee, who happens to be Maureen's old man, and now McGee's flipping out over the repercussions.)
Gemma made a deal with Stahl to turn herself in, telling Clay she did it because, "I'm too old to run." Stahl has the bad grace to show up in the hospital room and tell Gemma the deal is off the table because Gemma did not, technically, turn herself in, on account of being all unconscious in the hospital. The deal might be back on the table if Gemma can get Tara to talk about the Irish. So Gemma has a rather pointed conversation with Tara -- something along the lines of "And why didn't you throw yourself in front of the gun to save my grandson?" -- which is where we find out that Tara knows nothing about the Irish and she's six weeks pregnant. (How she's not passing out from exhaustion is God's private mystery -- or the writers' room's. Whichever.) Then Stahl comes back to gleefully tell Gemma the deal's off the table. An angry Jax tracks Stahl to her house and offers her a deal: He'll hand-deliver Jimmy O and his Real IRA contacts, along with a sworn statement about the gun-running, in exchange for "my mother, my son and my club." And as a good faith gesture, he hands over Luke (Jimmy O's number two) and some illegal weaponry. Stahl is an amoral moron, but even she can see that this is a deal which will put her back on the ATF fast track.
Also going on this week: The non-Teller SAMCRO guys are tasked with raising money for the Canadian road trip, and they decide to do so by unloading the drugs they took off the hill people during last week's adventures in gun play. Juice screws it up with a moment of bad judgment and gets jumped by the Mayan puppet club, who take his cut. At least Tig and Chucky (!) managed to find out that indeed, the Mayans are manufacturing heroin and shipping it off to Stockton regularly.
Exchange of the week: There really wasn't one. But on the bright side, nobody's off on a fool's errand to Canada anymore.
Gemma Teller lives! And she still has on her flawless eye makeup. Truly, she's setting the benchmark for invalids everywhere. She's in a bed at St. How Does The Tiny Charming Taxpayer Base Swing This Hospital?, and she slowly comes to and looks over at Clay. In what is my favorite shot of the episode, he's sitting bedside, wearing his cut and a pair of reading glasses and intently plowing through the local paper's A-section.
"Hey, baby," she says, and Clay looks over with a big, gentle smile before wishing her good morning. Then he comes over and kisses her hand, careful not to disturb the IV port taped to it. Awwww! These two kill me. (By the way, Gemma's other hand is cuffed to the hospital bed.) Gemma asks if she had a heart attack. Nope, just bad arrhythmia which, in Clay's words, "knocked you on your ass." He asks if she's stopped taking her meds. (And oh my God, if my text editor does not stop auto-correcting "meds" to "meeds," I am going to hunt down whomever was responsible for porting over the typo-to-dictionary macro and do things that will require their next year's meeds to pay for their meds.) Gemma says, "They make my face swell. Can't get into my boots." Clay replies, "Fashion before health -- that's my girl." He knows he can't bust her non-swollen chops too badly, as he's the one who refuses cortisone shots from all but her. Anyway, Gemma's health will be fine in a few days. Her temper has already recovered: "Where's Jax? I want some answers!"
Jax is busy pouring enough sugar in his coffee to fuel the inevitable moment where he has to escape Gemma by vibrating through a wall. The rest of the SAMCRO boys are all in the waiting room with him. Given how much time this MC spends at this hospital, they should just throw a chunk of money at the administration and get their own dedicated waiting room. Chuckie's coffee service and Crow-Eaters optional, of course. Bobby Elvis mutters that they need to talk, and SAMCRO takes over the chapel. The deal is this: Bobby Elvis needs to confirm the tracker with Serge. Jax is okay with this: "Pull the trigger, send the ten grand. I'm making sure my mom's okay, then I'm heading north." Opie and Chibs say they're coming too. Bobby Elvis is touched by this fraternal display, but all the leather-clad biker hugs in the world aren't going to underwrite this little road trip. They need cash. Tig immediately suggests selling the drugs they got off the hill people last week, and Juice estimates that "steroids and Adderall we can dump on the street, the rest of it's that HIV shit. It's got to be peddled to the clinics." He's tasked with going to someone named Lumpy to unload the steroids, then calling "the Chicken Man" to dispatch the Adderall. | <urn:uuid:d9fb7468-2728-4d69-9e1f-7a7ee3c556b8> | CC-MAIN-2013-20 | http://www.televisionwithoutpity.com/show/sons-of-anarchy/turning-and-turning-1.php | 2013-05-25T20:04:09Z | s3://commoncrawl/crawl-data/CC-MAIN-2013-20/segments/1368706153698/warc/CC-MAIN-20130516120913-00000-ip-10-60-113-184.ec2.internal.warc.gz | en | 0.971484 | 1,251 | null | null | HuggingFaceFW/fineweb |
I haven't counted errors in a long time, but I am glad you still try to bring it up. But knowing that we both got broke at love and they held at love, it wasn't tough to do the math. I realize that math might not come that easy to you, so I will help you. 3 times 4 is 12. And then knowing that they won the previous game before they tore us a new one for 3 straight games, you can add at least 1 point to 12. If you need an Advil for your headache, I understand...
OSU and I fired it up proper last night. We played a well fought first set staying on serve to 5-5 in the first set. We did not have any break point to that point in the match, they served well and we just weren't grooving yet. I was on the deuce side and I almost never play the deuce side, so returning serve over there is always a challange for me at first. OSU had his normal side, so I had mad confidence in his returning ability. Surprisingly in the first set OSU struggled to get the return past Jamesdster and he made us pay. But in the first set at 5-5 they tore in at least 3 return winners and I forget what happened on the other point but they still won it. OSU was serving in that game. I never get broken at love (see first game, second set).
I tried to keep the last game simple in the first set to get the break, but we still couldn't even get a point. By this point OSU was not a happy camper. He looked like a big limp noodle.
We start the second set and I was still pumped. Heck, the first set was close so i thought we could give them another good fight for the second set. They break me at love to start the second set, that sucked. I am not really sure what happened in that game, but it only made OSU even worse off. I knew he could snap back at any time so I tried to stay positive with him. They hold for 2-0 and then they break OSU again for 3-0. They get up 3-0 and 30-0 on their service game. Who the hell knows what happened. But OSU came back alive and we started getting our returns back and putting on some more pressure.
We get one break back and then I get a hold. Just down a break now. Jamesdster was missing a lot of first serves and that helped a ton. Although I was returning his 1" long first serves better than I was returning his seconds...
We somehow get the break on Jamesdster's serve and get to 3-3. We were pretty much down and out and scratched and clawed to get to this point. We all hold to the tie-breaker. I started the tie-breaker with an ace and Jamesdster and his partner both donated a double fault in the tb and we sealed the deal 7-4.
We started out the second set strong with a break of Jamesdster's serve. We started returning everything at this point in time. I didn't keep track, but OSU said I missed 2 returns in the third set and OSU missed 3. Not bad stats at all. Especially since (and I have failed to mention this until now, Jamesdster's partner was serving well all night). I made a huge adjustment by standing inside the baseline to start returning serves, makes it a lot easer to get to the net after the return too.
We pretty much went on a tear in the 3rd set. They were down 1-5 and 0-40, we had 4 match points in that game but they still held. I started the last game serving down 0-30, but we managed to pull it out 6-2 for the win.
Jamesdster is hell to play but somehow we got out fo the match alive and with the "W".
OSU and I both volleyed well. I hit some smooth volley lobs over Jamesdster's head. I covered some tough lobs off of the baseline too that I had to run down from being at the net. I was able to get around them and load up the topspin and throw them back for winners. Mainly because they let them go by at the net thinking they would go out. Come to think about it, I won a handful of points by just scrambling some shots down.
Fun stuff. My first official win against Jamesdster while we all had good partners... It has been 5 years coming. Now if only I could beat him at singles... | <urn:uuid:86259e10-e00e-4fb8-8c88-972f8243dc13> | CC-MAIN-2013-20 | http://www.tennis4you.com/forum/index.php?topic=3659.msg76262 | 2013-05-25T19:35:08Z | s3://commoncrawl/crawl-data/CC-MAIN-2013-20/segments/1368706153698/warc/CC-MAIN-20130516120913-00000-ip-10-60-113-184.ec2.internal.warc.gz | en | 0.986531 | 963 | null | null | HuggingFaceFW/fineweb |
Hayes faces milestone with an eye on the flag
Lenny Hayes at St Kilda training in Seaford yesterday. Photo: Wayne Taylor
ST KILDA may have had a patchy start to the season but midfielder Lenny Hayes believes the Saints' premiership window is still open in possibly his last year at the club.
Hayes, who is preparing to play his 250th game on Saturday, against Sydney at Etihad Stadium, missed most of last year after rupturing his anterior cruciate ligament early in the season.
The 32-year-old said while the knee injury had reignited his passion for the game, it had also led him to question his future.
''I haven't thought too much about it over the past nine weeks, but I suppose I know the end is near,'' Hayes said yesterday.
''When you get to my age you know I could be another serious injury away from retirement, so I'm not taking anything for granted. At the moment I'm pretty much a week by week proposition.''
Hayes said he also didn't want to ''hold back'' any of the Saints' younger players by staying past his use-by date. But the statistics show his form is still good. He has averaged 22.3 disposals a game since his debut in round five against North Melbourne in 1999, as well as rebounding from two knee reconstructions.
But Hayes, one of the league's most respected footballers, played down his efforts.
''I think with a lot of injuries you need a bit of luck as well. I haven't had a lot of swelling in the knee, I've been able to play a role for the team, which has been good. I've been able to sort of back up each week and get a bit of training in as well, which is important.
''I still love the game more than ever and when you do have a year out you realise how much it does mean to you and how much enjoyment you have. 'I wouldn't want to be doing anything else. I still love it and will keep playing as long as the club wants me around.
''But I don't want to go on too long and hold anyone back at the same time.''
After coming close to ultimate success, losing the 2009 grand final, before drawing with Collingwood in 2010 then losing the decider in a replay the following week, Hayes said the Saints were still capable of winning a flag.
He admitted that the club had been ''a bit off the mark'' so far this season, sitting ninth on the ladder, but said the team had what it takes, particularly after vanquishing Carlton, then the flag favourite, two weeks ago.
''I probably wouldn't be playing if I didn't think we were a chance to make that final weekend.
''I still have a lot of faith in this team and where we are going. I think we've added a bit this year. We have still got that core group of players.
''It's just about consistently performing, and I think every team is in that boat. It's a pretty open year I think.''
Hayes played down suggestions the Saints were facing a salary cap crisis, with himself, Brendon Goddard, Stephen Milne and Leigh Montagna heading a list of players coming out of contract.
''You don't think about it too much as players. You are always focusing on the next game so you don't have too much time to sit around and talk about that stuff,'' Hayes said. | <urn:uuid:8b80ad3b-1587-43eb-bd35-37e489b9a866> | CC-MAIN-2013-20 | http://www.theage.com.au/afl/st-kilda-saints/hayes-faces-milestone-with-an-eye-on-the-flag-20120523-1z5iv.html | 2013-05-25T19:51:08Z | s3://commoncrawl/crawl-data/CC-MAIN-2013-20/segments/1368706153698/warc/CC-MAIN-20130516120913-00000-ip-10-60-113-184.ec2.internal.warc.gz | en | 0.99085 | 726 | null | null | HuggingFaceFW/fineweb |
The Great Outdoors: Exploring the Sam Ristich Trail System in North Yarmouth
From the North Yarmouth Town Office near the junction of Route 9 and Route 115 in North Yarmouth, four trails connect to provide a peaceful four-mile round-trip walk through a beautiful forest landscape.
Plan for a three-hour walk if you bring your binoculars and are intent on enjoying a wide variety of bird sightings as we did on our 6 a.m. start from the Town Office parking lot.
As we walked down the Old Railroad Bed Trail toward the turnaround point out near Route 231, we heard the piercing call of a hawk up ahead. The call got closer and closer. We suddenly looked up into a trail-side oak and saw a majestic hawk sitting on a dead branch peering down at us. It kept calling as we zeroed in on it with our binoculars.
Suddenly a flock of blue jays descended into the branches around the hawk and started an absolute racket, all the while flitting about the hawk. Bothered by all the commotion the hawk swooped off into a nearby tree, and the jays seemed happy for a few minutes. Then we heard another hawk calling from a tree 20 yards off the trail. The jays began hounding our original hawk again and it flew to yet another perch. There might have even been a third hawk. With all the hawk calls, the screaming of jays, and wings beating through the trees it was hard to keep track of the players.
We have always been used to seeing hawks at the edge of open fields or soaring over meadows looking for prey. But what a surprise to see them in a deep, dark forest. We imagined how excited Sam Ristich would have been at our discovery.
The “Mushroom Man” to many, mycologist Ristich inspired children and adults alike to discover the fascinating treasures of forest and fen over his many years of living in the Yarmouth area. Check out the Ristich website (samristich.com) for more information about this remarkable man.
The Old Railroad Bed was originally part of the Maine Central Railroad system, but in 1911 it was abandoned for today’s current route near the Royal River. A slight rise coming out of Walnut Hill village required the consumption of more coal and of course more money as the price of coal increased. The flatter route allowed more profitability.
Note the granite culverts placed along the railroad bed to direct the flow of water. This area also had a thriving granite industry for many years. You will see evidence of two small quarries on the Sam Ristich Loop Trail just south of the Old Railroad Bed Trail. The gray granite from the Yarmouth and Pownal areas was used to help build the New York State Capitol in Albany and the Pillsbury mills in Minneapolis, as well as the Cribstone Bridge to Bailey Island.
From the railroad bed you will pass by a beaver flowage filled with the sounds of bullfrogs, and a few hundred yards later reach the end of the mowed rail corridor, the turnaround point. We spent 40 minutes here munching on succulent sweet raspberries, and scanning the marshy area to the west for birds. Goldfinches were everywhere, perched on the tops of dead trees, boldly outlined against the milky early morning sky. Unlike most birds goldfinches start their families in August and September because they are seed-eaters and must wait for the seeds to finally appear in late summer to feed to their young. Tree swallows darted here and there in search of insects. Cedar waxwings, red-winged blackbirds, and a number of sparrows were also seen.
We headed back through the two white-blazed Ristich Trails, eventually walking out the Parsonage Road to sit awhile in the Veterans Memorial Park at the corner of Route 9. A granite bench provided by the Cole Land Transportation Museum was inscribed with “All Gave Some – Some Gave All.” A beautiful morning walk, warmth and sun, a breeze rustling through the trees – we felt extremely lucky.
Many large white pine tower above the open forest floor throughout the trail system. Beech trees with their smooth gray bark are in great abundance as well. Oak, birch, and hemlock round out the dominant species along the trails. Benches are placed at peaceful spots along the way for rest and reflection. To the west of the Sam Ristich Nature Trail you will note a gigantic sand pit through the trees, evidence that there was a lot of water flowing through and over this area from the melting ice 12,000 years ago.
The North Yarmouth Historical Society was of great help in preparing this article. Be sure to check out their website for history and pictures of the North Yarmouth area that will help you better appreciate all the wonderful things you will encounter on your walk. A detailed trail map and interpretive brochure can be downloaded from the town of North Yarmouth website. Click on “Park Facilities” and go to the bottom of the page. Once you walk this system of trails you will be back this fall to enjoy the foliage colors and again this winter with your snowshoes. Peace and quiet, and great beauty reside here – all seasons. | <urn:uuid:916747af-bd44-4f60-8d77-aad8464ea101> | CC-MAIN-2013-20 | http://www.theforecaster.net/node/97576 | 2013-05-25T19:57:11Z | s3://commoncrawl/crawl-data/CC-MAIN-2013-20/segments/1368706153698/warc/CC-MAIN-20130516120913-00000-ip-10-60-113-184.ec2.internal.warc.gz | en | 0.957353 | 1,107 | null | null | HuggingFaceFW/fineweb |
Posts Tagged ‘Domain Name’
Many people who are new to social media can be intimidated by foreign terms, acronyms and other up-to-the-minute lingo. This new language may be confusing enough to keep some people and businesses from fully embracing social media. The following is a list of some of the better known and most-used language in social media.
Blog – A regularly updated website or “web log” that allows a company or individual to post content and interact with readers through commentary, subscriptions, widgets, and syndicated RSS feeds.
Dashboard – The administrative area on blogs and social-media sites that allows you to edit your information, manage comments, monitor traffic, upload files, etc.
Domain Name – The identifying name or address of an Internet site.
Hashtag – Used on Twitter and Instagram, a hashtag is a keyword or phrase preceded by a “#” that helps organize posts, making them easier to find in searches.
Hyperlink – A navigational reference that embeds a link to a document or page on the Internet.
News Feed – Your news feed is where friends or followers share their current status.
Profiles and Pages – The pages on social-networking sites where a person or business displays their contact information, pictures, posts, and files.
RSS Feed – RSS (Really Simple Syndication) is a family of web-feed formats used to publish frequently updated content such as blogs and videos in a standardized format. Content publishers can syndicate a feed, which allows users to subscribe to the content and read it when they please, and from a location other than the website.
Subscribing – Signing up for a site’s feed, which automatically sends you new content from that site.
Tags – Keywords associated with a blog post or other content making them more easily found through searches.
Traffic – This term pertains to how many guests are visiting your social media site.
Trending – A popular phrase, word, or topic that is being used or shared habitually.
Viral Marketing – Viral marketing refers to marketing techniques that use pre-existing social networks to produce increases in brand awareness or to achieve other marketing objectives through self-replicating viral processes.
Wall or Timeline – The shared portion, or discussion board, displayed on a social-media profile.
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Everyone likes a bonus. Whether it’s an extra check before the holidays or the surprise in a box of Cracker Jacks, getting something for nothing is always a welcomed development. When it comes to social media, most sites offer bonuses in the form of applications, or apps. Apps provide extra function and are, in most cases, free.
Here are four free apps available on LinkedIn that will add function to your professional profile …
SlideShare: Any application that counts The White House, IBM, and the United Nations among their users must have something to offer. SlideShare is the world’s largest community for sharing documents, PDFs, videos, and webinars. Using the free application on LinkedIn, you can upload presentations and documents to your profile and make them available to anyone visiting your page. You can also upload YouTube videos. And, if that wasn’t enough, SlideShare also allows you to sync your LinkedIn and Facebook accounts, so anything you share will instantly appear on both pages.
Polls: You may think polls are only for research centers and presidential campaigns but they’re also a handy and convenient way to gather information that will boost your business. Use the poll application on LinkedIn to pose a question to your connections and the millions of other professionals on LinkedIn, then use their answers to better your services. In addition, the poll application allows you to embed that voting module on your website or blog.
WordPress: If you have a business blog and haven’t added it to your LinkedIn page, you should. The WordPress application on LinkedIn allows you to easily update your profile with your most recent blog posts, provided you’re using WordPress. And, if embedding your blog on your LinkedIn profile sounds like it may be beyond your technological abilities, it’s as easy as entering your domain name into the application. Everything else is automatic.
Events: Social media is great for networking, but even better when you integrate your online efforts with old-fashioned, face-to-face functionality. The events app allows you to see what industry events and regional functions your connections are attending, in addition to providing you with recommend events based on your profession. Learn more about the conferences and industry seminars that are coming to town and let your network know where you’ll be and when.
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If you’ve ever thought enough not to wear overalls to a business meeting, you know something about personal branding. Which is to say, branding isn’t just for corporate logos, high-profile advertising campaigns, and big-budget marketing efforts. At its root, branding is about how you present yourself, whether you’re a multinational corporation or in business for yourself. And these days, the Internet and social media provide professionals with more control over their personal brand than ever before.
Here are some tips for building your brand online …
Use Your Name: Buy a domain name in your name. In other words, www.yournamehere.com. Whether you’re setting up a static website or a blog, having your own domain name – or something close to it – gives you a home base. Generally, blogs rank higher in search engines and provide an ability to communicate regularly with your contacts. But whatever you do, put it in your name. Setting up a blog, Twitter or Facebook page under your company’s name means, if you switch jobs at any point, you’ll have to reestablish your brand with new pages and profiles. Setting up a network of pages in your name will allow you to build your own brand and provide potential clients and partners a place to form a first impression.
Create Some Content: Once you’ve created the destination, you’ll need to create a reason for people to visit. That means content. And content, in this case, should be thought of in terms of presentation. Before you post anything consider how it’ll be viewed by potential business that may stumble upon your blog or Facebook page. Use your online properties to promote your professionalism, expertise, and attention to detail. That means, in addition to posting relevant and interesting, industry-related information on your blog, you should also have a professional photo and bio, along with easily located contact info.
Sweat The Small Stuff: Building your personal brand means paying attention to even the smallest details. Keep things linked and consistent. Setting up pages under your own name and making sure your contact, bio, and photo are updated – and the same on each page or profile – will prevent guesswork. Litter the Internet with multiple email addresses, out-of-date web pages, and 12 separate phone, fax, and cell numbers and risk losing possible business contacts to confusion. Also, if you have a business blog, use its RSS feed to send your posts to any of your other business-related social media sites. Having a network of online properties that present a consistent representation of who you are personally and professionally will establish your brand, along with your business, online.
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New initiative aims to bring small traders in to Blackburn Market
7:00pm Saturday 1st September 2012 in News
A NEW initiative to bring small traders into Blackburn Market in the hope they will blossom into full stallholders is taking off.
Already more than a dozen of 20 small units have been taken offering shoppers the opportunity to buy everything from Indian snacks through to flowers, home made cakes and gas fires.
Mark Smith, owner of Exchange Coffee company, set up the Artisan Row project as part of efforts to reinvigorate the growth of the new market a year after it opened its doors.
He said: “It’s really exciting and really refreshing. We have already let 12 of the 20 available stalls, including two yesterday (fri).
“Lots of people are asking about it. It’s a way for people to come into the market and set up cheaply. Hopefully some of these small businessmen and women will make a success and then go to the council and take a full stall with them.”
The scheme, under the umbrella of Mr Smith’s company Freshapproachin Ltd, offers fledgling retailer entrepreneurs the chance to try their hand at running a market stall for just £50 a week for 1.5 metre plot on a three month licence for up to a total of nine months.
The entrepreneurs then get the chance to take a bigger stall for £100 a week for a further six months as a preparation for hopefully taking a full size pitch which are available on three to six year leases from £500 a month.
The success of the new scheme was praised at this week’s full forum of Blackburn with Darwen council by regeneration chief Dave Harling after it was revealed that 98 of the 127 stall, 77 per cent, were now occupied.
He said: “We have a programme of promotional events for the next few months to increase footfall and improve the shopper experience. This includes stalls being offered under the Artisan Row banner.
“This gives budding traders the chance to try their hand at retailing in a market environment without having to make a huge investment.”
Conservative opposition leader Michael Lee asked what the council was doing to boost take up of market stalls and if they had a plan B if the latest raft of initiatives failed, Fellow Tory Alan Cottam said: “We need to encourage small shop owners. They are the market traders and shop owners of the future. It is a great market.” | <urn:uuid:0f55c0e3-af68-41dd-be7d-a211a694d435> | CC-MAIN-2013-20 | http://www.thisislancashire.co.uk/news/9905631.New_initiative_aims_to_bring_small_traders_in_to_Blackburn_Market/ | 2013-05-25T19:55:54Z | s3://commoncrawl/crawl-data/CC-MAIN-2013-20/segments/1368706153698/warc/CC-MAIN-20130516120913-00000-ip-10-60-113-184.ec2.internal.warc.gz | en | 0.968859 | 513 | null | null | HuggingFaceFW/fineweb |
Chase suspect arrested
A 22-year-old Wichita Falls man was arrested Thursday after leading city police on a brief vehicle and foot pursuit.
Sonny Dewayne Slay, address listed on Vicki Drive, was charged with evading arrest in a vehicle, according to Sgt. Joe Snyder, police spokesman. Slay also had outstanding warrants for theft more than $1,500 and burglary of a vehicle, Snyder said.
According to police reports:
Officers were looking for Slay, who they knew to have outstanding felony warrants. They saw him driving in a pickup truck in the 1600 block of Harrison, and they attempted to stop him near Collins Street.
That's when Slay began to evade the officers, according to the reports, driving south on Van Buren, west on Pearl, south again on Harrison and west on Kell. He eventually took officers near Avenue M and Taylor, where he stopped the vehicle then took off on foot.
Slay was chased down in a nearby alleyway by officers and arrested.
Drug raid nets arrest
Wichita Falls police arrested a 49-year-old woman following a drug raid earlier in December at a city home.
Rebecca Kramer, address unknown, was charged with manufacture/delivery of a controlled substance over 4 grams in a drug free zone, according to a probable cause affidavit. Kramer's bond was set at $25,000.
According to the affidavit:
On Dec. 12, officers with the WFPD's organized crime unit and SWAT team raided a home in the 2100 block of Jones. Kramer was found trying to flee the residence.
Kramer was said to have had a baggie of methamphetamine in her pocket, as well as four more baggies in her purse. Officers also found several more bags of meth, a weight scale and money in the house Kramer was suspected of fleeing from.
In all, the drugs weighed about 49 grams.
The home was located within 1,000 feet of Wichita Falls High School — designated a drug-free zone.
The following were taken from Wichita County court records:
■ Jerry Ray Najera, 36, address unknown, was charged with injury to a child in connection with an incident Oct. 20. Najera's bond was set at $10,000.
■ John Gill, 30, address unknown, was charged with prohibited substance/items in a correctional facility in connection with an incident Nov. 1. Gill's bond was set at $10,000. | <urn:uuid:c61fced1-1124-494d-a9ac-091ba7a75091> | CC-MAIN-2013-20 | http://www.timesrecordnews.com/news/2011/dec/24/crime_beat_12-24/ | 2013-05-25T19:35:20Z | s3://commoncrawl/crawl-data/CC-MAIN-2013-20/segments/1368706153698/warc/CC-MAIN-20130516120913-00000-ip-10-60-113-184.ec2.internal.warc.gz | en | 0.986302 | 505 | null | null | HuggingFaceFW/fineweb |
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Gene Simmons to Cameo on Castle
Castle is getting ready to rock.
Sources confirm to TV Line that legendary KISS frontman Gene Simmons will make a cameo as himself on an upcoming episode.
The installment will find Castle and Beckett pursuing a lead, which takes them to the residence of that week's victim. He/she happened to be crashing in the guest house of Simmons, who will portray himself and speak to the author and detective briefly in his fictional backyard.
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Euglobulin lysis time (ELT) is a blood test that looks at how fast clots break down in the blood.
Euglobulin clot lysis; Fibrinolysis/euglobulin lysis; ELT
A blood sample is needed. For information on how this is done, see Venipuncture
The laboratory specialist will run tests on the blood sample to see how fast blood clots dissolve. The dissolving of blood clots is called fibrinolysis.
No special preparation is usually needed.
When the needle is inserted to draw blood, some people feel moderate pain, while others feel only a prick or stinging sensation. Afterward, there may be some throbbing.
This is one of the best tests to tell the difference between primary fibrinolysis and disseminated intravascular coagulation.
The test can also be used to monitor patients who are on streptokinase or urokinase therapy for acute MI (heart attack).
A normal value will range from 90 minutes to 6 hours. Euglobulin clot lysis is normally complete within 2 to 4 hours.
Note: Normal value ranges may vary slightly among different laboratories. Talk to your doctor about the meaning of your specific test results.
A longer-than-normal ELT time may be due to:
A shorter-than-normal ELT time may be due to:
The test may also be done to diagnose or rule out:
There is very little risk involved with having your blood taken. Veins and arteries vary in size from one patient to another and from one side of the body to the other. Taking blood from some people may be more difficult than from others.
Other risks associated with having blood drawn are slight but may include:
Heavy exercise can cause a shorter-than-normal ELT time.
Increasing age and certain medicines, including corticosteroids, ACTH, streptokinase, and urokinase can cause a longer-than-normal ELT time.
Lijnen HR, Collen D. Molecular and cellular basis of fibrinolysis. In: Hoffman R, Benz EJ Jr., Shattil SJ, et al, eds. Hoffman Hematology: Basic Principles and Practice. 5th ed. Philadelphia, Pa: Churchill Livingstone Elsevier; 2008:chap 119.
Schafer A. Hemorrhagic disorders: Disseminated intravascular coagulation, liver failure, and vitamin K deficiency. In: Goldman L, Ausiello D, eds. Cecil Medicine. 23rd ed. Philadelphia, Pa: Saunders Elsevier; 2007:chap 181.
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25th Schermerhorn Awards celebrate spirit of volunteerism
By Lin Lofley
The winners of the 2012 Schermerhorn Scholarship Award are all students in the UT Southwestern School of Health Professions, and all have made their mark at the medical center and Dallas.
Jenna Buckman in Physical Therapy, Kristin Martin in Radiation Therapy, and Erin Tenney in Physician Assistant Studies were honored recently for academic excellence, leadership, and volunteer work.
The late Dr. John Schermerhorn, for whom the award is named, served as Dean of the School of Health Professions – then known as the UT Southwestern School of Allied Health Sciences – from 1971 to 1986. This year’s awards marked the 25th year that they have been bestowed on outstanding students in the school that Dr. Schermerhorn long led.
Each year, three outstanding students are selected to receive the award. Each student receives $500 and an arrangement of flowers, and has his or her name engraved on a plaque that hangs in the School of Health Professions.
A graduate of Bishop Lynch High School in Dallas, Ms. Buckman – now 24 – is a graduate of Furman University whose prowess in chemistry caused Georgia Tech to recruit her to its doctoral program. While working as a chemist at Georgia Tech, she spent her weekends volunteering with physical therapists in a hippotherapy program for people with a variety of disabilities.
Hippotherapy is a program of therapeutic riding that has proved to be helpful to almost everyone involved. The movement of the horse is an effec tive treatment tool. “The horse supplies the magic,” said Dr. Patricia Smith, Chair of Physical Therapy, “and therapists and volunteers work tirelessly to acquire the results. “
"Jenna started with a love for hippotherapy, and from that grew a love for the field of physical therapy.”
As with all three of the students who were recognized, Ms. Buckman has made extra-curricular activity an integral part of her educational career. In addition to working as a full-time student and volunteering in North Texas physical therapy programs, she had coordinated fundraising and volunteer participation for nonprofit organizations such as the Muscular Dystrophy Association and for upcoming medical mission trips.
Ms. Martin, 28, who grew up in Flower Mound and graduated from Hardin-Simmons University in Abilene, has made an impact on the Radiation Therapy Program since virtually day one.
In the first semester, when students are introduced to the basics of radiation therapy such as linear accelerator function, medical imaging, and patient care, she distinguished herself in the labora tory and in the clinic.
“She’s always willing to try the exercises and to complete them correctly,” said Marissa Johnson, Assistant Professor of Health Care Sciences. “If she has a problem, she is quick to ask questions, receive clarification, and attempt the exercise again.”
Ms. Martin’s determination emerged partly from personal experience. She watched as her husband, Brandon, was treated with radiation therapy at UT Southwestern. That experience led her to consider changing from a career as a high school teacher to a student of radiation therapy at the School of Health Professions.
“After seeing her husband treated successfully with radiation for a benign condition, she is determined to become a radiation therapist,” Ms. Johnson wrote in a letter of nomination. “She was a successful teacher, and now she has chosen to pursue a new career.”
Ms. Martin’s primary extra-curricular focus is as a member of Colleges Against Cancer (CAC), a nationwide collaboration of students, faculty, and staff dedicated to eliminating cancer. CAC works to implement the programs and mission of the American Cancer Society.
A product of Richardson, Ms. Tenney was recruited to UT Southwestern, and that wasn’t the first time she had experienced the sensation of being recruited.
An All-American soccer player at Rice University, she won an NCAA Post-Graduate Scholarship and was a member of Phi Beta Kappa.
“In addition to her academic accomplishments, Ms. Tenney is one of the most recognized national scholar-athletes of her applicant-year peer group,” wrote Dr. P. Eugene Jones, Chairman of Physician Assistant Studies. “Her collegiate and professional accomplishments in soccer were outstanding by all measures, and the leadership skills she acquired as an athlete fueled her success in the classroom and in community service involvement.”
Ms. Tenney, 24, continues to be active in the Fellowship of Christian Athletes. While in school at Rice, she coordinated student-athlete volunteers at Houston’s Texas Children’s Hospital and was codirector of the Student Athlete Community Service Subcommittee.
Now back in the Dallas area, she has become involved in the Physician Assistant Program’s Community Service Student Committee, which has led to her participation in volunteer service at the Union Gospel Mission Homeless Shelter. She is also a student member of the Texas Academy of Physician Assistants.
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One of the reasons why traditional video conferencing has never really taken off the way Web conferencing has is that it was designed for a very different world than the one in which we find ourselves today. Unlike the web, with its vast distributed computing power, traditional video conferencing relies heavily on centralized Multipoint Control Units (MCUs), dedicated high-bandwidth lines, and special conferencing facilities. Reminiscent of the mainframe era, these video conferencing systems are painfully out of place in our Web-powered world.
When people think about video conferencing today, they think in terms of universal connectivity, with the ability to call from anywhere to anywhere from their everyday desktop or mobile devices. Productive collaboration demands the ability to create ad-hoc meetings including users who may be connecting from corporate video conferencing rooms or over the Internet from remote branch locations or home offices. This sort of flexibility and affordability has never been associated with traditional video conferencing. It comes with technology innovation.
Innovation requires perspective and experience, which is what makes Vidyo a natural leader in the video revolution. Before founding Vidyo™, Ofer Shapiro invented the RADVISION Gatekeeper and MCU, yet even as that technology had its success, Ofer was already considering a new approach to high-quality video conferencing that would leverage general-purpose networks in a cost-effective way. He became an early advocate for a new Internet Protocol (IP) video compression algorithm to provide for high-quality video at relatively low transmission bit rates and eliminate the need for dedicated lines. This vision was realized with the creation and adoption of the Scalable Video Coding (SVC) extension to the H.264 video coding standard.
In his role as CEO of Vidyo, Ofer Shapiro guided the release of the industry’s first video conferencing products designed to take full advantage of SVC technology. This disruptive innovation has opened new doors for industry evolution and growth. Welcome to the world of Vidyo.
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University of Miami president Donna Shalala watches players during warmups before the start of a game against South Florida on Nov. 17. / Wilfredo Lee, AP
One member of the Florida State Senate is taking the steps needed to begin a full investigation into the NCAA, which issued last week a notice of allegations to Miami (Fla.) in the case involving former booster Nevin Shapiro.
Joseph Abruzzo, a Democrat who represents Florida's District 25, covering part of Palm Beach County, told the South Florida Sun-Sentinel he has a meeting scheduled with state attorney general Pam Bondi to discuss a potential state inquiry into the NCAA's case against the Hurricanes.
The planned meeting comes on the heels of a letter Abruzzo wrote to Bondi requesting she look into the NCAA's handling of its investigation.
"The NCAA's admittedly corrupt investigation has now dragged on for more than two years, and the University of Miami has suffered through this abuse of power," Abruzzo wrote in his letter to Bondi. "While the NCAA has been paying off a criminal and his lawyer for forbidden fruit, the University of Miami has tried to work cooperatively with the NCAA and has even self-imposed serious sanctions that included a two-year bowl ban and a conference football championship game.
"I strongly feel that the NCAA's abuse of power and payoffs must be scrutinized to the fullest extent, especially considering the NCAA's role as a regulatory institution of more than 400,000 students across the nation. Thank you for your consideration."
Abruzzo is a graduate of Lynn University in Boca Raton, Fla. He told the Sun-Sentinel that he has no official ties to Miami and would have questioned the NCAA's tactics regardless of the university involved.
In January, the NCAA revealed that its enforcement staff had hired Shapiro's lawyer to gain access to Shapiro's bankruptcy proceedings, violating its own protocols.
As a result, the NCAA announced in January an external review of its enforcement staff. While NCAA president Mark Emmert said portions of the NCAA's findings in the case would be thrown out â?? roughly 20 percent of the case â?? it still delivered the allegations to Miami and will eventually proceed to the sanctions phase of the investigation.
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BUFFALO, NY (WKBW) - One year ago, Mark Croce's partially remodeled Statler City hosted its first wedding.
This past weekend, six couples celebrated their nuptials at the downtown landmark.
After investing $6 million of private money, the first three floors of the 89-year-old building have been completely restored.
"We've made a substantial private investment. There's been no public subsidy yet to date," said Croce, who is asking the city and state for his first public handout. Almost $6 million to refurbish the building's crumbling façade.
"We're working on a program to eliminate the scaffolding in front, working with city and state leaders to try to identify a funding source for infrastructure that was deteriorated long before we took ownership of the property," he said.
Croce will once again host New Year's Eve festivities at Statler City. Tickets for the Ice Ball are on sale now.
Last year's debut suffered from bad reviews, but Croce said he will issue just 1,500 tickets for this year's event. Compare that to the overcrowded 4,000 people who attended last year.
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Investigation underway into child's death
Police are trying to find out how an 18-month-old toddler who was found dead in the driveway of his Otisco home died.
Police said his death appears to be a tragic accident.
An autopsy Thursday morning confirmed he died from head injuries consistent with being hit by a car, but there are still questions about how that happened and who was behind the wheel.
"Mom called, said there was traffic coming in and out, sirens and stuff. Then a friend of hers has a scanner, and she called her and told her what was gong on," said neighbor Dave Johnson.
Johnson's family has lived across from the victim's home on Leon Prall Road for decades.
"They're real good neighbors. Quiet, they don't bother nobody, and they're there if you need them, anytime," said Johnson.
The Clark County Sheriff's Office first went to the home about 6 p.m. Wednesday and found the toddler dead in the driveway.
Officers impounded a vehicle from the home but said they are investigating this as an accident, and foul play is not suspected.
The child's death hit home for Johnson.
"I thought about how hard it's going to be on them because I went through the same thing, except my son was a lot older. And I just know how hard it's going to be on them," said Johnson. "I still sometimes grab the phone to call my son, and I know they're going to be checking on the baby and stuff. It's going to be rough."
Johnson's son died in a fire six years ago just before his 26th birthday. He said nothing he could say to his grieving neighbors right now will ease their pain.
"If my son would've died at that young of age, I would've lost it. Hard time not losing it now, but if he'd been a little kid like that, I couldn't have stood that not at all," said Johnson.
The family is very upset and declined to speak to WLKY on Thursday.
Police said no charges are expected to be filed.
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INDIANAPOLIS — Gina Hackman, a math teacher at Jennings
County High School, was honored as Indiana Rural Teacher of the Year at Indiana
Farm Bureau’s annual convention.
As part of her reward for this honor, she also received from
Farm Bureau a check for $1,000.
The award itself is presented by the Indiana Small and Rural
Hackman, who has taught at the high school for more than 30
years, also is an elected member of the Brownstown Central School Board.
“She is an extraordinary teacher who richly deserves this
award,” said IFB President Don Villwock in presenting the award.
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At the 2013 Vascular Annual Meeting® , a new session will be offered, the International Forum. It will be held as a concurrent session on Wednesday at 5:00 pm, May 29, 2013. International authors are encouraged to consider this opportunity and submit an abstract by the Jan. 3, 2013 deadline.
Cast Ballot for Nominating Committee Member
Voting is now open for the at-large position on the 2013 Nominating Committee. Thirteen SVS members have been nominated to serve in this role; the nominee obtaining the highest number of votes shall serve so vote by Dec. 7.
Seminars Editor Needed
SVS is seeking applications for Editor-in-Chief for Seminars in Vascular Surgery. Responsibilities include developing thematic issues, reviewing submissions prior to acceptance, and assuring a scientifically excellent and intellectually stimulating publication. A modest annual honorarium is provided. Previous editorial experience and/or publication in Seminars are essential. A growing focus on the electronic edition of the journal and its possibilities is also strongly encouraged. Please send letters of interest By Nov. 23, along with your vision for Seminars to Rebecca Maron at email@example.com.
SVS Recruiting Coding and Reimbursement Leadership Trainee
SVS is seeking applicants for a "trainee" position to work with SVS socioeconomic leadership on coding and reimbursement issues. This position will focus on the CPT code creation process. The trainee position is expected to last three years. The time commitment will require 10 to 20 hours of work per month, conference calls, and at least three 2 to 3 day meetings per year. A modest honorarium will be offered in addition to reimbursement of routine travel expenses. To apply, please submit a letter outlining your qualifications and interest in this position to firstname.lastname@example.org by the Nov. 30 deadline.
Abstracts Due for VRIC Meeting
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Story by Chris Graham With AFP Audio It was a cover of Roy Orbison’s “Crying” that landed Jimmy Fortune in the Statler Brothers. That’s why a cover of “Crying” is in Fortune’s new CD, “Windows,” which is being launched this weekend with a release party in Harrisonburg. “Lew Dewitt heard me sing that song at [...]
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Portable baby crib review by Tiffany C.
My baby crib review story started out with a recommendation from a friend. And, the BabyBjorn travel crib was the one recommended by her. I was telling her about the hours of research that I had done and that I was having a hard time choosing one when she told me that she had the Baby Bjorn. Since I had already read so many wonderful reviews ( BABYBJÖRN Travel Crib Reviews ) I immediately ordered one for myself. If only I had talked to her before spending all that time doing research… but, on the other hand, it was nice to see so many other positive reviews as well. It really made me feel at ease.
Naturally, I was a little slow to decide on spending this much money on travel cribs. I paid about $220, which included free shipping. What can I say? This has to be some of the best money I have ever spent!
Here’s why I love (love, love) this crib:
Weight, Size & Mattress:
OMG is it ever light! I am not a very strong person, but even for me it is so easy to lift and carry. Add to this the design is just amazing, it folds up to the size of a large brief case or very small suitcase. I hope that you can get the idea. With any mattress, you want one that is going to be soft, without being too soft for a newborn. this one is perfect.
Setting it up:
If you have ever tried setting up other style travel cribs, you will know what a pain most are to set up. This one is able to be set up in literally seconds.
Here is a link to a video on setting up the BabyBjorn. The video is linked in the upper left hand area with all the pictures.
BABYBJÖRN setup video and pictures
Here is how simple it is to set this one up. Just remove it from the bag. Then you unfold it. Then you turn it over and before you can know it the legs and everything simply fall into place. That’s it, insert the mattress and you are done. Since it is so light, you do it standing up. Taking it down is just as easy but will take you 30 seconds instead of the 10 seconds required for setup. Simply remove the mattress and turn it over. Next pull each of the legs out and fold them to the center. Next you will fold the crib in half and you are finished.
I know what you are thinking, “if it is so light, will it be sturdy and safe?” The answer is YES. My friend’s 2 year old can’t tip it when standing inside.
I really hope that this travel crib review is helpful. I really did tons of research on this and wanted to share it with everyone. You’ll love it!
Thanks to Tiffany C for this review!
What are people saying about the Baby Bjorn Travel Crib?
Best Travel Crib on the Market!
This is amazing! We tried setting up a pack-n-play, what a fiasco.
worth the money, great for air travel
We recently purchased this travel crib for our 3 month old since we have several out of town weddings coming up that require flying to our destinations. It’s lightweight, super portable, and really easy to both assemble and put away (like ridiculously easy!).
Best travel crib ever!
I had a Graco travel lite that worked well but got too small really fast. This travel model is perfect for my 20 month old daughter.
Wish I had discovered this sooner!!
I love it, I love it, I love it, I love it! If you are at all a road warrior like we are, and hope to take the baby to places for overnight trips.. this is for you.
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Brewers players and coaches got a treat Wednesday morning when boxing legend Muhammad Ali visited Maryvale Baseball Park.
The visit was coordinated by the Brewers Community Foundation and Athletes for Hope, a nonprofit founded in 2007 by an elite group of philanthropic athletes who inspire other pros to find a charitable cause and support it. Ali’s wife, Lonnie, addressed the team before players and coaches posed for photos with the champ.
“His wife said this, that with the personality that he had, he’s recognized around the world maybe more than any other person,” manager Ron Roenicke said. “[Players] are all getting their photos. Hey, this guy was incredible.”
Here are some more images from team photographer Scott Paulus. Look for some video of the visit later on Brewers.com.
Thanks to Scott Paulus for the shots. That’s Ali’s wife, Lonnie, in the orange blouse, watching Ron Roenicke present Ali with a Brewers jersey. And, of course, Hall of Famer Robin Yount shaking Ali’s hand in the final photo. | <urn:uuid:f6114c7a-8481-4e43-8cc9-942a7faa6b0c> | CC-MAIN-2013-20 | http://brewersbeat.mlblogs.com/2011/03/09/champ-visits-brewers-camp/?like=1&source=post_flair&_wpnonce=b467bcc1c8 | 2013-06-20T08:44:49Z | s3://commoncrawl/crawl-data/CC-MAIN-2013-20/segments/1368711005985/warc/CC-MAIN-20130516133005-00000-ip-10-60-113-184.ec2.internal.warc.gz | en | 0.953078 | 236 | null | null | HuggingFaceFW/fineweb |
WordNet-like concept network developed at MIT
ConceptNet aims to give computers access to common-sense knowledge, the kind of information that ordinary people know but usually leave unstated.
The data in ConceptNet is being collected from ordinary people who contributed it on sites like Open Mind Common Sense. ConceptNet represents this data in the form of a semantic network, and makes it available to be used in natural language processing and intelligent user interfaces.
ConceptNet is an open source project, with a Python implementation and a REST API that anyone can use to add computational common sense to their own project. A great tool to help you use ConceptNet in your software is Divisi.
Licences: Creative Commons 3.0 Attribution (data set) GPL 3.0 (data + tools)
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ConceptNet. No author.
Retrieved 09:03, Jun 20, 2013 (UTC).
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Is It Time To Buy These U.S. Treasury Bond ETFs? (TLT, SHY, SCHR)
Slowing economic growth is usually a positive for bonds. Bonds are bought as a safe haven when global stock markets are in corrections.
My technical indicators have reversed from a timely sell signal on bonds last November to a buy signal.
Bill Gross, founder and manager of PIMCO’s giant Total Return fund, said this week that he is negative on U.S. debt and has dumped all U.S. treasury bonds from his fund. And even that may be a buy signal.
On slowing global economic growth, reports this week from China, the world’s 2nd largest economy, and Japan, the world’s 3rd largest economy, were discouraging.
Japan’s economic growth for the 4th quarter of last year was revised downward to a negative 1.3%. It will not be improved by the devastating earthquake and Tsunami.
China’s economy has been sitting on a real-estate bubble for some time, with 64 million empty housing units created by speculators taking advantage of easy money policies and rising real estate prices. The Chinese government has been aggressively tightening policies and raising interest rates to cool off its economy and ward off rising inflation, with little effect so far. That has raised global concerns that China will have to tighten so much to prevent an inflationary spiral that it will bring its economy in for a hard landing, into a recession. Those fears gained credibility when China shocked global markets with the report Thursday that its economy experienced a surprise trade deficit in February, as the cost of imports, influenced by surging commodity prices, exceeded the value of its exports.
Meanwhile, the world’s largest economy, that of the U.S. is not free of concerns. After months of improving economic conditions, reports this week were of an unexpected 15% increase in the U.S. trade-deficit, a sizable decline in consumer confidence, and oil prices that have spiked up to the level reached in October, 2007 ($96 a barrel), when the U.S. economy began slowing into what became the ‘Great Recession’ of 2007-2009.
Bonds are also attractive as a safe haven in stock market corrections, and many important global stock markets, including China, Brazil, Hong Kong, and India, topped out in November and have been down 12% to 17% in corrections since. The major markets in Europe, which had been holding up well along with the U.S. market, have been down 11 of the last 15 trading sessions, now down about 5% from their levels of three weeks ago.
Our technical indicators, which triggered a timely sell signal for bonds in November reversed to a buy signal a few weeks ago, and indicate that money is flowing back into bonds.
Yes, Bill Gross, known as ‘the bond king’, the famed founder and manager of PIMCO’s $237 billion Total Return Fund, received a lot of media attention this week when he revealed that he had dumped all the fund’s holdings in U.S. treasury bonds as of February 28.
But even that could be a buy signal. Bonds have had an uncanny way of often moving opposite to Gross’s public prognostications.
For instance, four years ago, in June of 2007, Gross predicted U.S. treasury bonds were in trouble and headed for a bear market. Instead, as shown in the chart, June, 2007 was an excellent time to buy bonds. The 30-year bonds had been in a 7-month correction, and in June reversed into a 9-month rally in which they gained 17%.
More recently, in an interview in Time magazine in early 2010, Gross predicted interest rates were about to begin rising. Bonds move opposite to interest rates, so a rise in rates would be a big negative for bonds. However, once again bonds had already been in a big correction, this time from their highs in early 2009. And instead or rising, interest rates and the yield on bonds began to decline, and as shown in the chart in early 2010 Treasury bonds launched into an impressive six-month rally in which 30-year treasury bonds gained 20%.
So now, after the 30-year bond has declined 15% in another six-month correction, Gross is bearish on bonds again, and says he dumped all of his fund’s treasuries as of February 28.
He might be right this time. But it’s interesting that the 30-year bond reached what has so far been the low of its recent correction on February 8, and has rallied up 4% since.
So in spite of Gross’s warnings on U.S. treasury bonds, and the general bearish investor sentiment against them, I believe treasury bonds are oversold again, and are presenting investors with another buying opportunity.
If you agree, bond ETF’s to consider include the iShares Lehman 20+ Year Treasury Bond ETF (NYSE:TLT), the iShares Lehman 1-3 Yr Treasury bond ETF (NYSE:SHY), and the Schwab Intermediate-term U.S. Treasury ETF (NYSE:SCHR).
In the interest of full disclosure I and my subscribers have a position in TLT.
Sy Harding is editor of the Street Smart Report, and the free market blog, www.streetsmartpost.com. The Street Smart Report Online includes research and analysis on the economy and markets, and provides charts and buy and sell signals on the major market indexes, sectors, bonds, gold, individual stocks and etf’s, including short-sales and ‘inverse’ etf’s. It provides two model portfolios as guides. One is based on our Seasonal Timing Strategy, one on our Market-Timing Strategy. | <urn:uuid:083a1a2c-40d2-4b6d-bd94-aacacaf0818d> | CC-MAIN-2013-20 | http://etfdailynews.com/2011/03/15/is-it-time-to-buy-these-u-s-treasury-bond-etfs-tlt-shy-schr/ | 2013-06-20T08:38:24Z | s3://commoncrawl/crawl-data/CC-MAIN-2013-20/segments/1368711005985/warc/CC-MAIN-20130516133005-00000-ip-10-60-113-184.ec2.internal.warc.gz | en | 0.968782 | 1,217 | null | null | HuggingFaceFW/fineweb |
Hegberg’s run to end at 22 years
County commissioner from Forest Lake has served seven terms
Fran Miron will have a transition to make when he takes office as the Washington County commissioner for District 1 in January. The Hugo farmer has served as that city’s mayor for 16 years and will now prepare to serve a larger base of constituents.
His opponent in last Tuesday’s election also faces a significant change. Dennis Hegberg will be vacating a seat he has held for over 22 years.
Making His Mark
After a brief stint working in town, Hegberg came to Forest Lake for good in 1975 to work at Lincoln Federal Bank, but eventually grew weary of the ups and downs of the full-time banking industry. As a politically active father of four school-age children, he threw his hat in the ring for a special election upon the death of District 1 Commissioner John Jergens in 1989. That would turn out to be the closest race of his career – Hegberg topped May Township farmer Lester Rydeen by less than 10 votes.
At first, he felt he had bitten off more than he could chew.
“Being a county commissioner was eye-opening,” he said. “I had blinders on. I had always been a Republican, but I realized that life was more complicated than my 30-second, four-word solution to problems.”
Still, Hegberg won election to his first full term in 1992, beating Richard Becker in a fairly close race with very high turnout.
“I supported [building the county] jail and got re-elected and people that didn’t support it, or hoed and hummed and finally voted for it were defeated,” Hegberg recalls. “It was sort of like now; people were looking for a change but they didn’t know what it was.”
That election brought significant turnover to the county board, and Hegberg became board chair in 1993.
From there, he found stability and won re-election without a major scare in 1996, 2000, 2002, 2004, and 2008. Along the way, he has served on a plethora of regional, state and federal boards.
In addition to the jail, Hegberg looks back with pride on the construction of the county service centers, including in District 1 the center in southern Forest Lake. He also facilitated the transfer of Forest Lake’s library to the county and the construction of that new facility near the service center.
He developed a particular interest in transit, even traveling to Hong Kong in 2000 to study its system. Accordingly, Hegberg touts the recently completed improvements to Broadway Avenue.
“Transportation is the county’s responsibility for economic development,” he said. “If you can have good systems, whether it be the metro or Forest Lake, it helps development and I think the Broadway project, over time, will cause that corridor to improve and change.”
On a related note, he helped bring about the Hardwood Creek Regional Trail, a pedestrian favorite in Forest Lake and throughout the northern part of the county.
Then there is the transit tax issue. Hegberg drew heat from his own party for his support in 2008 of a quarter-cent county sales tax to support transit needs. And even though he figures that still hurt his chances four years later in this election, he stands by his position.
“We got the busses in Forest Lake and now they are going to Minneapolis and St. Paul,” he said. “It gives transportation options to residents and I’m very proud of that even though it probably was one of the things that [hurt my cause].”
Hegberg sees the ebb and flow of time when looking back on his storied tenure. He recalls flooding being a chief concern in his early terms. One area involved was Hugo’s School Section Lake, which, years later, is now down by about 12 feet from its normal level.
“I used to have to deal with flooding all the time,” Hegberg said. “That took care of that and now we have droughts.”
The county has also seen phenomenal growth in population, and that will continue to be a challenge but also an opportunity, Hegberg said.
End of the Road
Hegberg expected a tight race this year from the moment he heard of Miron’s filing. What he could not have foreseen, however, is that Miron would carry two precincts – 4 and 5 – in Forest Lake. Early reports showed Hegberg leading, but that was before any precincts in Hugo were counted. Miron won his home territory in a landslide and pulled away for a 13,038-10,458 win, claiming 55 percent of the total vote.
“I thought Forest Lake would come out stronger for me than it did,” Hegberg said. Besides the transit tax, he figured he lost votes for supporting road projects and his stance against putting county funds towards 4-H.
Hegberg has no set plans for life after the county board, but vows to stay busy.
“I’m too healthy not to do something,” he said, noting that whatever venture he finds will have to fit around his desire to spend time with his six grandchildren.
A calculated gamble of leaving the mayor’s office paid off for Miron, who said his choice to run for county office was eased by his confidence in the council he leaves behind.
“I feel real comfortable with where the City of Hugo is at right now, with both the leadership on council and the staff present, and with Tom Weidt stepping in as mayor,” he said. “…Regardless of how the outcome would’ve been, I felt really comfortable about that.”
As Miron prepares to promote his platform of keeping the county tax rate low while supporting economic development and building unity on the board, he knows he has big shoes to fill.
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Advanced Internet Technologies once took Google to court over click fraud. But that was small potatoes. Now, the Fayetteville, North Carolina web hoster is locked in litigious combat with a net-happy local newspaper that allegedly hit the company with a click scam from inside its own data center. And alleged click fraud is just …
Adverts v's content
what with this and the 'problems' with Ad block it just goes to show that t'internet is all about advertising revenue and no-one gives a toss about content.
Content is just to lure unsuspecting punter to adverts - not much else matters.
Social networking? social engineering is more like it.
a new mental disease has just been coined... SCO-ism, and just like SCO this company will sue itself right out of business...
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Our Mission is to change life as we know it through the love, loyalty and friendship of Jesus Christ
Much like the Celtic Christians who were led by St. Patrick in the early 5th century, we are a community of Christ-followers that welcome everyone to belong. Sit at the table, join the conversation, enter into community life, was Patrick’s (who was just imitating Jesus) way. We don’t demand people to believe, but first invite people to belong, knowing and trusting God to work belief in a person’s heart. Belief doesn’t happen instantaneously for everyone. But when someone does believe, it brings the beginnings of metamorphosis, transformation, and growth, shaping us into the likeness of Jesus Christ (yet still keeping our God-created uniqueness). We just don’t gather ancient/new spiritual information for an intellectual high, we actually become Christ-followers.
Too many of us journey alone. God has said it isn’t good for mankind to be alone- we agree.
So we offer our HANDS of friendship to hold or to help or to pray.
We offer our HEART of love and kindness and forgiveness to be glad about the truth that can set you free. We will want the best for you and Jesus and will work to that end.
We offer our CROWN of loyalty- our treasures, our time, our talent. We believe they all came from God and belong to Him. We offer to you all that Jesus first offered to us.
We can all sit at the table of Jesus Christ. He is the Son of God – the Savior of the world – the Lord of our hearts. He has invited us – our passion is for all to know the love, loyalty, and friendship of Jesus Christ. Jesus offered us his servant hands nailed to the cross, his Fathers heart pieced with love, his Holy head crowned with thorns. There is no greater picture of love.
This truth of Jesus Christ will set you free -
- free to love the beautiful and the bound,
- free to forgive yourself and your enemies,
- free to laugh with the comic and the child,
- free to cry as a sinner and a saint,
- free to live a life unbound, free to become
for many people to connect with God through Jesus Christ and be transformed by his powerful love and life
for many spiritually homeless people to connect and grow with spiritual family; people grow when they do life together
for many people who have been transformed by Christ’s love and impacted by spiritual family to ask, “How can I bless (help) those around me in my world (neighborhood, workplace, school).”
Answering the right questions to stay on course
Wrong question: “How do we ‘do church’ better?”
The right question: “How do we deconvert from churchanity to Christianity?”
Wrong question: “How do we develop church members?”
Right question: “How do we help develop Christ-followers?”
Wrong question: “How do we grow our church?”
Right question: “How do we transform our community?”
Wrong question: “How do we turn members into ministers?”
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Previously on Final Fantasy 5 Four Job Fiesta 2012 Fridays, I beat up a bunch of bosses, transported to another world, got abducted (bullshit!), broke out of a castle, beat up some dudes on a big bridge, and got stranded on some unknown continent. Last week was probably the most exciting episode yet, what with meeting Gilgamesh, who is a true badass, and one of the most memorable things about this game, and other stuff. Anyway, this week’s episode (for the record, I’m retroactively relabeling these posts to be “episodes”) will be a tad shorter than usual, since I’ve been rather busy, and haven’t found time to sneak in enough play. I’ll try to make it up to ya sometime. Anyway, enough of a preface, let’s throw some more money at the game and hope I kill some things!
So, stranded on another continent as I am, I’m in quite a bit of danger. I have no clue how strong some of the random encounters are, and I have no place to rest (at least, not yet). However, if that’s ever deterred me, I wouldn’t be much of a gamer. Charging ahead, I soon learned that some of the random encounters could be quite tough.
Anyway, after fighting a few battles, and running from a few battles too, I find myself a town (yes!). It seems like quite the ordinary town. They have new magic and equips and stuff, and another piano for Bartz to grind piano skills on. This town is also quite… strange. You see, they haven’t seen strangers in a while, so uh, I get some really weird privileges. Sure, staying at the inn for free for a night is cool and all, but then, well… two old dudes asked Bartz to dance on stage.
That’s not all though, they even pay you!
Anyway, as much as I’d like to dance for the rest of my life, I’ve got a world to save. After leaving town and proceeding south for a bit, I find myself across the bridge from a derelict castle. Feeling the adventurous spirit in me, I decide to go scavenge and take everything I can from the castle. However, this game had a lesson to teach me.
Well, I’ve learned my lesson. This time, I ignored the castle, and kept on heading south. Thinking I was heading the right way, the game decided it had to teach me another lesson.
Third time’s the charm, I suppose. After trekking through this continent for a while and miraculously not getting absolutely murdered, I reached a square shaped forest, which surely means Square wanted me to go here. And what do you know, I meet a moogle. Moogles are pretty important, you know, so for the sake of the plot, I decided to approach it. Apparently, moogles this time around are scared of humans, so this one runs off… and falls into an underground cave. For the sake of the plot again, my party decides to jump right in. Rather, I should say dive right in, since we landed in an underground river. Hey, at least this means the moogle is alive, and not a red stain on the ground.
This cave is also full of enemies I’d rather not fight, since some of them have really high defenses and take a while to kill. They also take a while to kill via magic, but that might just be my shitty red mage magic level cap. Also, I met yet another tough enemy. Said tough enemy was in the same league as those two life lessons from earlier, as it wanted my party just as bad as those Moogle Eaters wanted that moogle. Making liberal use of the !flee command sure helped my ass though.
I found the moogle though! Yay! It’s being attacked by a skeleton though! No! But it got killed instantly by a Phoenix Down! Yay! Ever the grateful moogle, it shows me the way to its village. The party makes its way to the elusive village, and finds a bunch of moogles that run away in fear. Except for that one moogle I saved earlier, who gave me a bunch of free shit. All the other moogles came out though, and decided to continue on frolicking. I also found a moogle suit.
Which leads to some weird shit.
Anyway, the moogles are pretty awesome, since they have telepathy and shit, so they get Krile to come pick me up with her drake (Krile, in case I haven’t established it, is Galuf’s daughter), and take me back to Galuf’s castle, where I exploring the castle and get my ass handed to me.
For a completely anticlimactic ending to this week’s episode, I go outside to continue the story. However, I seem to like getting ambushed.
Now I’m stuck outside the castle though, with only an objective to point me towards my next objective. Regrettably, that’s it for this week! | <urn:uuid:6f316c22-6351-4c1d-9a73-39cdaf8b4ab7> | CC-MAIN-2013-20 | http://moarpowah.com/2012/08/03/final-fantasy-5-four-job-fiesta-2012-fridays-episode-6/ | 2013-06-20T08:44:59Z | s3://commoncrawl/crawl-data/CC-MAIN-2013-20/segments/1368711005985/warc/CC-MAIN-20130516133005-00000-ip-10-60-113-184.ec2.internal.warc.gz | en | 0.96615 | 1,103 | null | null | HuggingFaceFW/fineweb |
Tuesday, February 5, 2013
A Walk in the Woods
As I was driving home this morning after dropping G & D off at school, I could just feel all the tenseness of too much anxious thinking and too little movement humming through my body. And so before heading inside, I grabbed my camera and headed the opposite way on the path into the woods. I've been reminded a number of times lately how good for the spirit the outdoors is, and this was another confirmation.
I came across so many tracks - rabbits and deer, at least, those being the only ones I know how to identify. Mostly they cut through in purposeful lines, but in a few places, several rabbit tracks converged into a snowy muddle, and it makes me smile to think about the rabbit play that ensued.
Almost halfway along the path I came to a sight I wondered if and hoped I would see: a large oval impression in the snow where a deer had curled up to sleep. And just a short way further, two more, cozied up together. Simple, but these discoveries raised my spirits: a glimpse into a secret and beautiful world.
Later, before the dinnerbedtime rush, I told the boys to grab their coats and boots and out we went, no camera, snow dusting our pants legs, air fresh and cold. I loved sharing my discovery with them, and was so thrilled that they figured out what these impressions were. Then they ran ahead laughing and I walked behind, holding all of it in my heart, and waited for them as they ran around the loop again; them giddy and proud of their aloneness in the woods, me smiling and watching for their return. | <urn:uuid:7d573174-cb40-4ab2-923c-84db42eac158> | CC-MAIN-2013-20 | http://mooninthewindow.blogspot.jp/2013/02/a-walk-in-woods.html | 2013-06-20T09:09:30Z | s3://commoncrawl/crawl-data/CC-MAIN-2013-20/segments/1368711005985/warc/CC-MAIN-20130516133005-00000-ip-10-60-113-184.ec2.internal.warc.gz | en | 0.979848 | 346 | null | null | HuggingFaceFW/fineweb |
Energetics of the moult fast in female macaroni penguins Eudyptes chrysolophus
Green, Jonathan A.; Butler, Patrick J.; Woakes, Anthony J.; Boyd, Ian L.. 2004 Energetics of the moult fast in female macaroni penguins Eudyptes chrysolophus. Journal of Avian Biology, 35 (2). 153-161. 10.1111/j.0908-8857.2004.03138.xFull text not available from this repository.
The metabolic rate of moulting macaroni penguins Eudyptes chrysolophus was investigated using three techniques in order to test two hypotheses concerning the energetic cost of the moult fast in penguins. First, that energy expenditure during the moult is greater than that while penguins are onshore during the breeding season. Second, techniques that do not measure energy expenditure throughout the moult fast do not accurately determine the true cost of the moult. Mass loss calculations, measurement of the rate of oxygen consumption and estimation of the rate of oxygen consumption from heart rate in the field were used with captive and free-ranging penguins. Comparison of the results from these techniques suggest that metabolic rate is higher in the field than in a respirometer due to an increase in thermoregulatory costs. Furthermore the average metabolic rate of female penguins during the moult at 5.04±0.85 W kg−1 was not significantly different from that of female penguins on-shore during the breeding season at 6.27±0.38 W kg−1. Metabolic rate in the field changed during the moult fast as feather loss and increased vascularisation of the skin caused increased heat production, illustrating the importance of determining energy expenditure from animals in the field throughout the whole of the moult fast.
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What is Your longest time spent watching anime without taking a break ^^
For me, it would be around 10 hours
22 hours. slept for 3 hours then continued watching for another 20 hours. After the whole event, I realized I shed some skin and grew a small butterfly wings at my back. XD
hmm... iv watched the entier first series of Shakugan no Shana in 1 sitting, then went on to watch 5-6 episodes for SNS Second, not sure how long that is though.
~~~i think not more than 10-12 hours...
Ah...This is a nice community, it makes me feel normal xD
My longest was around 15 hours I think, was watching Full Moon wo Sagashite. It depends on the anime I'm watching cause I normally don't hunt for new anime right after finishing a series unless its a short one >.<
Mine I think it was 15-17 hours, I was watching Kyo Kara Maoh s1 and s2. o.O
mine is only would be 3 or 4 hrs at the most, now i only watch 1 or 2 ep of anime every 2 or 3 days
uhmmm.... The longest is around about ..... 17 hrs... non-stop .....
i did bout 14 , that's my max -_-
i guess 12 hours,,lol
ALL HAIL OS~!!
Man..I thought my 13 hours was awesome, but you guys are monsters :D
10 hours, nonstop anime
actually i was multitasking
half of the screen watching anime, with the other window open playing Runescape (this was back when i was in 6th grade)
I feel ashamed. I should have just said 10 hours or something. haha
I spend the whole day watching Naruto (Not a total fun but it was ok) watched 220 episodes in 1 week. thats about 15.5 hours/day, but I also had to wait it to buffer cause my Internets a bit slow cause of my address so I ended up watching from 8am - 2am in the morning.
I never skip an episode cause that's my rule. It's either watch every episode or I don't watch it at all.
mine would be 19 hrs....nothing but one piece...lol
Probably 8-10 hours but usually it's during the holidays...
Hmm, not sure of the longest time I've spent non-stop... probably around 20-30 hours with breaks for cooking/napping/ and stuff. Was also around the time I was still into WoW... so probably a whole long weekend of being in front of a computer... good times.
"Now now my good man, this is not the time to be making enemies"
-Voltaire on his deathbed, in response to a priest asking him to renounce the devil
12 hours, but it looks like i have a record to break this weekend
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Posted Date : 19 Jul,2012 | Result Id : 32480
Sambalpur University, Orissa has been declared +3 Second University and +3 Final Year (Arts, Science and Commerce) Examination Results 2012.
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20 years of Carbon Sequestration on a 10-acre tropical farm.
By Stephen (Esteban) Bartlett
Subtitle: Only Small-Scale Community-Based Agriculture can Cool the Planet and Care for the Earth’s Fertility
El Guao, Dominican Republic
It was in 1990 that I first saw (and decided to buy) the 10 acres of land that was to become the source of life and livelihood for my then young family and for the families who would work with us and for us. In rolling hills of dark red sandy loam mixed with caliche rock, overlooking the Atlantic ocean about 2 miles distant and 650 feet above sea level, an ageing widower lived and worked on this land (now for sale) amidst a community of struggling families and individuals. There was no retirement for this gentleman as long as his children did not send him the support he needed, so he decided to sell the farm and move to a small house in town. He was getting tired and his body was getting too old for the physical rigors of subsistence farming and forestry. He had a daughter in town who wanted to support him there.
Absentee landholders then owned and in 2010 own even more today of the pastured fields of these coastal hills. These urban owners live in nearby towns or cities or in the capital city of Santo Domingo four hours drive to the south. For at least three generations, the land supported a fairly dense settlement of family farms, whose abandoned homesteads were in 1990 only in evidence by clusters of fruit trees and perennial herbs and flowers surrounded now by open stretches of pasture grasses and scattered royal palms, bordered by the living fences strung with barbed wire known as ‘piñon´(gliricidia sepium). The grandchildren or great-grandchildren of the original settlers on this once dense tropical forest were to be our neighbors, who today have been largely replaced by Haitian immigrant agricultural workers, a phenomenon with its own roots in international capitalism and neo-colonial economic policy. The dozens of Haitian young men living in El Guao in 2010 occupy the old houses built by Dominican family farmers who have moved to the cities or died off.
In looking at the transformations that have taken place in the community of El Guao from 1990 to the eve of 2010, I am convinced anew, and with greater clarity, of this essential truth as expressed by the Via Campesina movement: without small-scale community-based farming there will be no solution to the fatal downfall of humanity due to natural calamity related to global warming and climate shock. The reason for this is simple: short of eliminating all humans from the face of the Earth, or returning human presence to small bands of hunters and gatherers, only small-scale farmer-foresters in communities rooted to the land are capable of practicing the agro-ecological farming methods that are proven to allow the Earth to store the excess CO2 released into the atmosphere by deforestation and fossil fuel burning, a long-term calamity that is currently threatening our species´ collective future. And there is a corollary to that conviction: only small-scale community-based farming can provide for a wide and equitable distribution of the wealth derived from the productive capacities of the land under human labor. Hence, social justice and the sustainability of flourishing communities also depend on the restoration of small-scale farming. The restoration of family farm economies is an essential win-win solution for all but the shareholders and executives in the world’s largest corporate monopolies.
In 1990 this 10 acres that was to become our family farm was owned by Isidro Santo and, by inheritance law, the children of he and his deceased wife Candida Alvarez, who had to sign off on the sale. The land was mildly forested with a shaded coffee grove (about an acre), a crop field (conuco) and many fruit trees around the palm board house and also scattered among the mostly sloping pastured fields, surviving from previous garden plots turned to pasture now. About half of the farm consists of a rocky expanding slope bordering the road to the north (facing the ocean horizon) and a back southern half of fairly flat wedge where one of the crop fields and coffee grove are located. A natural waterhole that has never dried up in living memory, bordered by a huge piñon and a giant mango tree, collect the rainfall runoff from much of the pastured hills. Isidro the ageing farmer was primarily a bee keeper and a wood sawyer, a member of those breed of men who use 7 foot long two-person saws to cut planks and beams for the construction of houses and outbuildings. Isidro had planted many orange trees over the years which were now in their late years of productive life and his small and mature coffee grove likewise produced a couple hundred or so pounds of coffee each year. There were also a wide variety of edible fruit trees, ranging from tropical plums to jobo de la India, nispero, tamarindo, and several others. The farm is surrounded by a 500-acre cattle finishing ranch owned by one of the largest landholders of the area, who also own a slaughterhouse in the capital, from which beef is exported to the U.S.
A typical pattern of tropical land use that allows for the maintenance of soil fertility over time is shifting cultivation. When virgin or mature forest stands are first cut down, the cycle begins. On the land where the forest has been cut, and often burned as a means of removing the considerable mass of fallen wood, crops like corn, beans, squashes, peppers, followed by cassava, cocoyams, bananas, plantains, etc… are planted in the new layer of ash and the ¨rested¨ soil that has lain under forest for many years. After the first year or two of corn and bean crops, the farmer will also plant a scattering of avocado, lime, mango, breadfruit, orange, coconut tree seedlings and allow for the growth of a few volunteer royal palms (for the oil seed to be fed to pigs and the thatch for the roofs of the dwellings). Some farmers with an eye for diversity and wood products, like Isidro, will also protect valued timber tree species here and there, for use over time in maintaining or building structures on their land. In our area species such a cigua, cabirma, cuerno de buey, roble, Juan Primero, mahogany were planted or allowed to grow after sprouting naturally through bird droppings most often. Once the land has begun to lose its fertility for crops like corn and sweet potatoes, it may be used to cultivate leguminous crops like peanuts, which was a widespread crop in these light soils supported by the peanut processing plant in Abreu (about 4 miles down on the coastal highway). After a number of seasons of peanuts or two or three seasons of corn and beans, the exposed soils are typically in need of a rest, so the farmer switches over to cassava, or pigeon peas. By then some of the fruit trees are starting to flower and bear fruit, and some of the palms have begun to grow into trees and shoot skyward. In the sandy loam the heavy rainfalls of this once rain forest leach many of the nutrients in tilled and cleared soils down into deeper subsoil layers, unavailable by the annual crops but reachable by the roots of fruit trees. If a farmer decided to plant coffee or cocoa trees in a former ´conuco´(the name of the area where food crops are grown), they would traditionally also plant tree species known to favor coffee with their shade and physiological complementarity, like amapola, guama, and also breadfruits or castaño.
My approach to the problem of exhausted soils was a system of agro-forestry within the fields. I planted leucaena trees grown in nurseries with the symbiotic root fungi in long north-south rows. The forage of these trees, once established, would provide a steady diet of green manure (from the 21% protein leaf) to the soil and/or food for cattle who would in turn manure the soil. After the establishment of those trees and the re-introduction of cattle into those fields, our cows had the unusual distinction of producing more milk during times of drought, when we were primarily feeding leucaena leaf forage to make up for the loss of pasture grasses.
As I have just alluded, another shifting rotation scheme short circuits the longer cycle through coffee and cocoa and involves growing corn on plowed or herbicided ground and then planting grass for pasture. In the case of Isidro and many of the local farmers of the area, local milk and cheese production has encouraged people to raise milk cows because of the ready market for dairy products. So old crop and orchard areas are sometimes planted in grass too, which accounts for the many fruit trees dotting our pastures, a development that has, as a side effect, demonstrated that cows love fruits, from avocados to mangos to grapefruits to jaguas to sour oranges. Cows love a diverse field as much as anyone, for shade and sweet snacks! The milk fat (cream) that rises to the top of the pot when pasteurizing milk from our cows has an orange and dark yellow hue, due to the high levels of beta carotene in the cow’s diets. Absolutely delicious and highly nourishing, particularly when processed into yogurt or soft farmer’s cheese!
Once these fruit and forest trees grow tall enough and the cocoa or coffee crops come in, the farmer needs to keep pruning the shade trees back so that the shade does not become so deep that the coffee or cocoa no longer produce. Ultimately, as the coffee or cocoa trees grow old, the farmer allows the canopy to close in with the shade trees and any other tree species that now fill in any gaps. Woody vines also grow up in such canopies. We had a huge old amapola tree with a thick woody vine growing up into it, allowing a person to climb up and up the tree trunk like a ninja and rest high in the canopy on a tree branch overlooking the coffee grove. Snakes, iguanas and many insects and wild plant species, including many considered to be medicinal, would come to inhabit such old groves or the borders of those groves. On the edges of such groves food crops like tall bananas, cocoyams (the tropical taros that tolerate shade), African yams and a native root crop similar to yams called mapuey (whose vines climb up into the canopies) can continue to be cultivated.
The pastures are typically bordered by living fence trees. The gliricidia sepium tree is incredibly beneficial to farmers and ranchers. Branches of this tree can be pruned off the tree and with a point cut in their lower end, jammed into the ground. With barbed wire then stapled to them, the tree will take root and become part of a living fence line. As long as the pruned limb is tall enough so that cows cannot graze the highest leaves, these trees will typically survive the pruning and vegetative planting and set roots. The leaves are a valuable forage crop for cattle and the flowers of the piñon bring on the biggest honey flows for beekeepers. Those wanting to make some extra cash, can use piñon prunings to make a high quality charcoal. The leaves of piñon are also medicinal, serving to calm skin irritations by mixing in a bath. The older, thicker specimens with their extremely hard heartwood are carved with an axe and used as corner posts when buried in the caliche-rich soils with the aid of a coa, a Taino name for a hardened digging lance, typically a steel-headed one in modern times.
The combination of living fence lines and forested groves either for coffee or cocoa, with pastures dotted by scattered fruit trees and palms was the typical agro-forestry scenario of the generations of farmers leading up to our purchase of Isidro´s 10 acres of land. What we then did, and did not do, on the land led to a further increase in forest cover and overall biomass over the 20 years of living and working on this land, the last 13 years as absentee owners ourselves, coming for periods of time to live and work but mostly administering the land use of a Dominican farm overseer and his young family. The overseer of our farm had a low impact style of land management and was oriented toward the forest species mentioned here, and he was highly motivated to cultivate a variety of forest-friendly food crops.
During the six years we lived on the land from 1990 to 1996, we adapted to the local economic realities. We bought 3 heifers from good stock and milked them daily once they became full-fledged cows after giving birth. This provided us with a steady stream of income. To increase that income, we processed a portion of the milk into yogurt which we sold by the gallon on our twice weekly trips to town in our pickup truck (a vehicle that we had shipped from the US but that 10 acres could not economically support in the long run unless it was used for other income generating activities). About 4/5 of the land was in pasture, the rest in conuco/orchard and coffee grove. To maintain the pasture that brought in cash from milk cows or beef cattle required a difficult choice: one either had to hand weed the pastures on a regular basis, hiring temporary workers to assist us, or use herbicides to control the weeds. Weeds and an occasional drought would also cause a lot of the pasture grasses to die, which would then have to be replanted on cleared ground. At the time, this was done by cutting the African pangola grasses from thick stands or from neighbors plots, or where grass was being removed to plant a conuco, and transplanting the grasses into our land with pickaxes after a heavy mowing and weeding operation. Plowing could also be used to try to remove and kill weeds, but much of our pasture was too hilly and rocky for plowing. Without exception, all of our neighbors had come to rely on using herbicides like Round Up (Gliphosate) or Gramozon and other woody plant herbicides to provide space for the grasses to flourish. Vines like bejuco caro were constant headaches, since even herbicides could not kill them, and they had to be dried, piled and burned. In our area most of the pastures were heavily stocked and most were overgrazed, despite the high rainfall-high growth conditions. The more successful ranchers who were buying up the lands of the less successful (or less capitalized or less able financial managers) would sell off cattle at strategic moments to allow the grasses to rebound from heavy use, thus avoiding weed infestations or heavy erosion over time. On lands constantly grazed, as with milk cows that cannot be sold off periodically, the reversion of pastures to less productive grass species like saladillo or gramma was commonly observed. In fact, I believe that it was the advent of herbicide use in pasture establishment and maintenance that allowed for large land owners to expand their holdings economically. They could pay for a backpack spray pump, and the chemicals and train a worker or two to do the spraying, with a donkey to carry the water. Otherwise hired labor costs would have made such expansions far more expensive, and less competitive with households that were providing much of that labor from within the family (ie unpaid). In a few seasons of timely and focused herbicide use, most of the weed species become greatly decimated, allowing for easier pasture maintenance. From our own experience, trying to maintain pastures manually was a never ending, toilsome and expensive activity accomplished by hiring several workers armed with machetes, pickaxes, and scrupulous enough to make fires to kill off the difficult-to-kill vines or thorny invasive species. For more than 15 years we tried to maintain our pastures non-chemically, and since we were not present for 9 of those years and since our farm overseer was getting old and less able to do months of backbreaking, 8-hour days, we had to make a change. In recent years we have made judicious use of herbicides and newly available grass varieties that we could plant by broadcasting purchased seeds, to re-establish pastures overgrazed by 15 years of the lives of our three productive cows and their offspring. During that period our oldest and best Cebu-Swiss cow, Chocolate by name, gave birth to an astonishing 16 healthy calves in her productive life! (The modern industrial milk cow on average does not even reach past her second birth and many do not reach completion of a second pregnancy.)
In addition to shifting cultivation and periodic reforestation of land, pasture grazing patterns are critical in maintaining the fertility of soils (and their ability to store or sequester carbon). Tall stands of grass with well developed root systems hold large amounts of carbon and prevent leaching and erosion of the carbon in soils, as well as the valuable soils themselves. Well-maintained herds who do not overgraze likewise deposit over time carbon in the form of manure, thus bringing more nutrients and organic material (grass mulch and humis) to the surface layers of the soil and to the roots of the grasses. In the same way, shifting cultivation of the kind I described above allow for the land to be put to a variety of productive uses while maintaining an overall density of carbon in the vegetation growing. On a given piece of land in shifting cultivation only in the first year or two is the field fully cleared of vegetation, for the first planting of corn, beans, squashes, peanuts, etc… After two or three years, shifting to cassava, cocoyam, banana cultivation, plowing or uprooting all the vegetation is no longer necessary and would only accelerate the loss of fertility, and the volume of vegetation increases in the 3-dimensional, multi-layer intercropping. The weeds are cut by mowing machetes in what is called ´chapeo´or ´pic a tierra´ work. This does not disturb or turn the bare soil. Root stocks of the bananas and root crops are planted directly into the mowed ground. One or two weeding passes follow to remove or weaken encroaching weeds and vines. The fruit tree seedlings, meanwhile, once mature provide avocados, mangos, breadfruits, coconuts, for many years to come, and continue to increase their biomass over time. They also signify food security for farm families even in times of drought that wither annual crops or heavily-grazed pasture grasses.
I estimate that the overall forest cover of our farm has increased by 30 to 40% due to tree seedling planting and stewardship of volunteer tree seedlings dispersed naturally (ie by birds, bats, etc…), with an increase in vegetative dry weight of approximately 1,500 tons minimum. In addition to the shifting cultivation pattern we have followed, we have planting hundreds of timber, leaf forage and firewood tree seedlings, on plots formerly part of the shifting cultivation cycle, or in open pasture. In particular we have planted about 1,000 acacia mangium trees and perhaps 300 leucaena trees. Hundreds of other trees we protected from vines after their volunteer appearance as tiny seedlings. Despite the unfortunate fact that perhaps 60% of all the timber trees have been damaged by passing wind storms and hurricanes, nevertheless their biomass is still stored in their living mass, or in the humis they are contributing to the soil as they decompose on the shaded forest floor.
Given our restoration of thick pastures to the land, I estimate our pasture biomass has increased by at least 80 to 100%, despite having less total area devoted to pasture (some previously in pasture is now in timber, forage or firewood tree species in whose shade grass cannot grow). I estimate that the total biomass of the farm has possibly doubled or even tripled, when all the timber, firewood, and increased pasture grass biomass is accounted for. The actual dry weight of that biomass increase must be in the order of at least 1,200 to 1,500 metric tons.(One metric ton is 1,000 kilograms, or 2,250 pounds), and it is possibly significantly larger than this. This calculation is based on the following: one mature timber tree yields usable lumber and sawdust and unusable wood weighing more than a metric ton total, not including the weight of the roots. A 40% increase in forest cover consists of, say, some 800 timber trees averaging ¾ of a ton each grown over a total of 10 to 20 years, that would yield 600 tons, plus at least another 150-200 tons in root mass. Increased pasture biomass, including leaf and roots could weigh 6 to 8 tons every 3 months on, say, the 7.5 acres (about 3 hectares of pasture or 24 to 32 tons per year as it is grazed). Over 20 years the amount of biomass consumed by cattle could reach 100 to 130 metric tons, with most of that returning to the soil as manure or trampled grass. The biomass in wood and leaf forage of, say, 3,000 piñon and leucaena trees that line our pastures and grow in north south rows within some pastures must weigh somewhere in the range of 300 tons. A total of 1,500 tons increase to a biomass that must have amounted to at least 2,000 metric tons to begin with in 1990 thanks to the tree planting propensity of the former farmer/forester Isidro Santo. Interestingly, some of the palm boards and two by fours of lumber hewn by Isidro still grace the structure one of the houses on the farm. They are highly durable which conserves their CO2 sequestration for many years.
Please keep in mind that this is entirely a rough extrapolation based on the weight of a single tree after 10, 15 or 20 years, the numbers of trees planted and growing and the estimated weight of a mass of grass mowed from a field based on some literature on the subject.
But the point is this, only through a highly diversified use of the land could such increases in total biomass by achieved, compared to a starting point of an already diverse and significantly forested land use. Small-scale farmers without the support of government extension, infrastructure and marketing cannot afford to plant large areas of their land in forest trees (as we did) whose benefits will only accrue after 10 to 15 years of growth. But given the opportunity to rationally manage land in terms of shifting cultivation, including timber trees, farmers would stand to benefit economically to a large degree, reaping considerable benefits from the sale of valuable lumber, not to mention increased income from charcoal making using the waste wood of a small-scale lumbering operation. Forest management extension programs and support by governments around the world should be a key component for improving farm production, soil fertility and carbon sequestration, as with support for the production of important staple foods for their populations combating hunger both rural and urban. As we know, the larger the land holding, the more likely the production of that land will be destined for exportation, and the profits therefore accruing to the exporter-importers, food processors, and distributors of that food, money that flows away from the farm, rural community and country of production.
A farm and economic policy that would stimulate the circulating of that wealth at the local, regional and national levels, would be a motor for economic development, and a sure vehicle for redistributing wealth and for returning and retaining workers on the land, as independent, autonomous farmers or as decently paid field workers. Agrarian reform is a vital need around the world, if we are to reverse global warming caused by deforestation and loss of CO2 from the land. Agrarian reform that makes land accessible to as many farmers as possible is essential. Such agrarian reform could provide rural communities the kind of support that would allow and encourage them to practice diversified agro-ecological farming and forestry.
The 20 years of tree planting on our farm in El Guao is now yielding excellent lumber for the making of furniture and the building of homes, cut by the low-carbon one man saw techniques. The land now yields large amounts of wood prunings or wood fall that can be (and is) used directly for cooking or processed in rustic but efficient charcoal pyramids into saleable charcoal for cooking food, a renewable form of energy whose CO2 is returned to the forest over time as new trees are grown for future meals to be cooked over. It yields increased soil fertility (and therefore carbon storage) in the pastures heavy with waist high grass, and in the fertility that accrues with shifting cultivation as soil is restored by the gradual restoration of vegetative and forest cover over time, producing edible and useful products throughout the cycle. It yields increased food supply on the farm and in the communities, more resilient to drought or flooding due to increased root mass and depth.
Our former coffee grove still has some coffee plants, sprouted from fallen seed from the mature old trees. But what that grove now yields after hurricanes knocked down the older shade and volunteer timber trees (long ago turned into soil humus or charcoal) is a crop of African yams, cocoyams (tropical taro root) and plantains that is feeding several families in the community. Our farm overseer Vitelbo understands shifting cultivation and he understands the nutrient cycles of land necessary for the food crops that can be grown on land. Yams love the edge of the forest and grow well interplanted together with cocoyams and bananas, as well as wild plants some of which are used as medicines. Yams take a year to yield, but the yield of each plant is a highly nutritious root that can weigh 20 to 50 pounds or more, and once dug up, the semi-perennial vine will continue to grow a new root to be eaten in a year to come. Yam tubors consist of a creamy and dense potato-like root with good protein content, whose taste is beloved throughout the African diaspora, considered the King of Tubors in West Africa. The African Yam, to my mind, is the quintessential crop for tropical humanity: it nourishes like little else can, and it grows in the forest, or at the edge of the forest. Together with bananas and plantains, cocoyams and breadfruits, coconuts and ¨green cheese¨ /avocados, these are the staffs of life for the small-scale tropical farm community, their true wealth and security in a time where forests are being razed across the world. Yams, plantains, coconuts, avocados, breadfruits in local markets are typically signs that the forest continues to grow, as yams need the forest to climb upon. Plantains produce their delicious abundance in small clearings in the forest. Avocados, coconuts and breadfruits ARE part of the forest. African yams for breakfast with free range chicken eggs or for supper with fish or guinea fowl, is the earthy nectar of the Gods, glorious meals of the present and the future for tropical farmers. These forest clearing dwellers are bulwarks against hunger and deprivation. This kind of diversified farming with shifting cultivation represents a low-carbon solution to global warming, with humans still in the picture.
Remember: around the world family farmers are, with the slightest cushion from want, the world´s foresters who cool the planet even as they feed and house themselves and their communities and nations so well! Let´s support them and keep them healthy and on the land through agrarian reform! Help them share their best practices with each other. Help them grow old on their land with their children motivated to continue those practices and lifestyle-culture and to market their excellent food locally. Push for Agrarian reform! Away with corporate food agribusiness and commodity dumping! In with good healthy food and employment for all, with autonomy and dignity! It is not just a ¨good idea¨; it is humanity’s tried and true pathway to survival and well-being. | <urn:uuid:2cfe3d0c-fbfc-4424-b00c-72eee0a1b84f> | CC-MAIN-2013-20 | http://sustainableaglouisville.blogspot.jp/2010_01_01_archive.html | 2013-06-20T08:44:18Z | s3://commoncrawl/crawl-data/CC-MAIN-2013-20/segments/1368711005985/warc/CC-MAIN-20130516133005-00000-ip-10-60-113-184.ec2.internal.warc.gz | en | 0.964404 | 5,865 | null | null | HuggingFaceFW/fineweb |
November 12, 2008
Scouting the Buffs: Rough '08 for CU
At the very beginning of the season, the Oklahoma State-Colorado matchup was seen as a vital swing game for the Cowboys, possibly the difference between a seven-win or eight-win season.
But with the game between the Cowboys and Buffaloes only three days away, this game has an entirely different feel. For one, OSU is a solid favorite. Secondly, the Pokes ride to Boulder with eight wins already in the bag. Thirdly, the Buffaloes didn't live up to preseason expectations of being a darkhorse in the Big 12 North. The Silver and Gold are one win away from bowl-eligibility, with this game and a road trip to Nebraska still to come. The season has largely been a disappointment, with key injuries on the offensive line torpedoing things and poor quarterback play only making offensive woes worse.
This will mark the Pokes' first game at Folsom Field since a 42-14 walloping of the Buffaloes in 2004. Can this OSU team match that this time around?
BUFFALOES AT A GLANCE
Location: Boulder, Colo.
2007 record: 7-6 (4-4)
Game time: 7 p.m. Central Time (TV: ABC)
Current record: 5-5 (2-4)
Last week: 28-24 win over Iowa State in Boulder
Current ranking: None
Fact of the week: Not counting the non-military schools in the United States, Colorado ranks in the top five in the number of astronauts who have flown in space, with 17.
THE BIG THING YOU NEED TO KNOW ABOUT
the Buffalo offense: Ranked 97th nationally (322 yards per game) and last in the Big 12, the Buffs are very anemic bunch with the football. They rank 103rd in scoring offense (19.3 points per game) and have scored 30 points in a game only twice this season - against Colorado State and Eastern Washington. Meanwhile, CU has scored 17 points of less in a game six times. Their quarterback situation is confused, oscillating between Cody Hawkins and Tyler Hansen, who had his redshirt pulled mid-way through the season because of Hawkins' lack of production. For the season, the son of the head coach has 1,472 yards passing, 15 touchdowns and seven interceptions. Before his four-TD outburst against Iowa State last weekend, Hawkins had gone scoreless in the last three games. Hansen didn't play until CU's seventh game and has 280 yards, one score and four picks in four games he's played in. The running game is just as unsettled. Rodney Stewart, a true freshman, appeared to show flashes of becoming a reliable Big 12 running back. Until he broke his fibula against Texas A&M. Up to that point, he had 622 yards and two touchdowns - including three 100-yard games. His backup, Darrell Scott, has zero 100-yard games. On the season, Scott has 344 yards and one touchdown (which came against CSU in the season opener). Hansen has some wheels, gaining 250 yards since taking to the field. Scotty McKnight (410 yards, four TDs) and Josh Smith (333 yards, three TDs) are the two top receivers on the year.
the Buffalo defense: Ranking 72nd nationally (372 ypg) and fifth in the Big 12, the Buffs have been mediocre at best. CU is 72nd (213 ypg) in pass defense, 78th in rushing defense (159 ypg) and 83rd in scoring defense (28 ppg). The unit has eight interceptions on the year and six fumble recoveries. Linebacker Brad Jones leads the team with four sacks while Jeff Smart leads the tackles category with 91. This unit allowed 58 to a good Missouri team and 24 to a bad ISU squad.
the coach: Now in his third season at CU, Dan Hawkins directed a huge turnaround for Ralphie's crew last season, jumping up to a 7-5 regular-season mark and Independence Bowl appearance after a 2-10 campaign in 2006. This season was supposed to build on the successes of 2007, but that hasn't happened. He has a young team and is still rebuilding after the disastrous ending to the Gary Barnett years. While some fans and alums are likely getting antsy with Hawkins, he'll likely have another season or two to bring his young team along.
Remember when this game was in doubt for OSU? Much has changed since before the season when this game looked like one of those toss-ups that meant the difference between a lower bowl and say, the Alamo. The Pokes have exceeded just about everyone's expectations in 2008, while the Buffaloes have largely been a disappointment. So the Pokes head to the Flatirons in an enviable position: taking on a weak team on (mostly) national television. If you liked 2004, you'll love Saturday: OSU 49, CU 16.
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SHREWSBURY, Mass. — Forecasters are expecting the current storm slamming Central Massachusetts to intensify before tapering off on Saturday.
"We have a dangerous and crippling storm on our doorstep, and all precautions should be taken to safely get through this potentially historic event," said Shrewsbury Weather Analyst Jim Arnold.
The National Weather Service has posted a blizzard warning until 1 p.m. for our area and for many coastal sections between Newark, N.J. to the Maine/Canada border.
Conditions at Worcester Regional Airport at about 2 p.m. Friday included snow and freezing fog with temperatures at 22 degrees. Heavy snow is expected to continue into Saturday, with a 100 percent chance of precipitation.
Arnold said snowfall will occur at 2 to 3 inches per hour. However, should a winter thunderstorm occur, the so-called "thundersnow" could drive accumulation to nearly 6 inches per hour. Forecasters have predicted total snowfall in Massachusetts at between 18 inches and three feet.
Northeast winds Friday night will blow at 20 to 25 mph, and may gust up to 60 mph, Arnold said.
"Drifting will become a problem as the light and fluffy snow will be easy to blow around," he said. "As a result, there is the possibility of some drifts reaching 6 to 10 feet in depth in exposed areas."
Temperatures on Friday will be in the 20s for most of the day, falling to around 20 degrees by early evening, and to around 12 by Saturday morning.
"Wind chills will be extreme, and there is the real danger of hypothermia for anyone out in those conditions for an extended period of time," he said. "There will be some tree damage in central Massachusetts which will contribute to some power outages, but the worst of the power problems will be along the coast."
The NWS has posted coastal flood warnings for much of the northeast.
The heaviest snow should be over by late Saturday morning. West and northwest winds will continue to blow up to 20 to 30 mph, with 50 mph gusts with continued drifting.
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Watch: Surreal and Super Hairy Music Video for Breach's "Jack"...
Jun 19, 2013 1:22pm | The Daily Swarm
“I want your body, everybody wants your body, so let’s Jack.”
If you’re not ultra-familiar with that mantra by now, well, you’re probably just not that into house music. But if you are into house music, or good music in general, you’re going to want to recite that ad nausuem.
Luckily, it just got even easier, because Breach, the artist behind the dank and sexy groove, just released the official “Jack” music video. It’s completely absurd, you’re going to love it.
Jun 19, 2013 1:20pm | Cosequence Of Sound
In Wavves’ new video for “That’s On Me”, a businessman takes out his aggression by slicing up soda bottles, fruit, and animal heads with a samurai sword. This sure as hell beats binge eating, especially if you’re one to count calories.
“That’s On Me” is off Wavves’ excellent third album, Afraid of Heights. We featured Wavves’ mastermind Nathan Williams in a recent Cover Story, which you can revisit here.
watch a video from Black Tusk's new EP ++ tour dates
Jun 19, 2013 1:18pm | Brooklyn Vegan
by Fred Pessaro
Black Tusk at The Studio at Webster Hall, May
2013 (more by Keith Marlowe)
Ready for this one? Black Tusk only have four tour dates right now, and none are in NYC. I know thats a hard pill to swallow considering the hard-touring nature of this Savannah swamp metal band.
But Black Tusk still isn't taking a true break though, readying the release of Tend No Wounds, a new six-song EP via Relapse on July 23, 2013. Head below for the video for "In Days of Woe" along with a shockingly small amount of tour dates.
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Beat Club (WUDR) And Wax Children (KSPC)
Jun 19, 2013 1:13pm | CMJ
Wax Children playing live at the Constellation Room in Santa Ana, CA – Photo by Wax Children
Each week the CMJ staff sifts through thousands of radio playlists that contribute to our weekly charts. In the Chart Discovery column, we highlight exciting artists, albums and songs brought to our attention by the charts of our reporting panel of college and non-commercial radio stations. This week’s favorites come from WUDR in Dayton, OH and KSPC in Claremont, CA.
Beat Club on WUDR
The two-year-old L.A.-based trio Beat Club caught our attention when it snuck up to the Number 30 position on WUDR’s playlist this week. Named for a German TV show that aired in the ’60s and ’70s, the trio makes dance punk with a distinct pop sweetness. They blend ’80s hip-hop rhythms with a flurry of synths, prominent base lines, the occasional jangly guitar, and plenty of playful vocals.
Wax Children on KSPC
Coming in at Number 29 on KSPC’s Radio 200 playlist is Safe Hands from the L.A.-based Wax Children. The experimental garage group’s sound features a vast, psychedelic sonic landscape full of fuzz and reverb, but not without the occasional burst of noise-rock power and soothing melodies. A little surf rock in the guitar and clear ’60s influences round out the foursome’s sound.
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Mikal Cronin, Fat Tony & more played the Bruise Cruise during NXNE (pics); watch Mikal Cronin play P4K offices today
Jun 19, 2013 1:12pm | Brooklyn Vegan
photos by David Andrako
We already posted pictures of the Mikal Cronin/Shannon & the Clams show from day 3 (6/15) of Toronto festival NXNE, and that same day we also caught Mikal on the annual M for Montreal / Panache Bruise Cruise during NXNE with Toronto locals Odonis Odonis, Montreal's We Are Wolves, and rapper Fat Tony (who also played Yonge-Dundas Square). PIctures from that Bruise Cruise are in this post.
Mikal Cronin and Fat Tony both play NYC soon too.
Mikal Cronin is currently in NYC and will be playing live at the Pitchfork offices at 3 PM today (6/19) which will be webcast live. WATCH IT BELOW.
If you haven't been keeping up with our NXNE coverage, check out pictures of day 1, day 2, more day 2, day 3, and day 4. More pictures from the Bruise Cruise on day 3 below...
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Debbie Harry and Chris Stein Remember Raw New York City...
Jun 19, 2013 1:08pm | The Daily Swarm
Blondie is most definitely one of the best punk-meets-dance bands of the ’70s and ’80s, and it’s one of the most iconic musical faces of the New York City scene. Now, singer Debbie Harry and guitarist Chris Stein sit down with Redbull’s Music Academy to discuss the beautiful insanity of their, and that city’s, golden years. Via a press release:
Watch Neil Young & Willie Nelson Perform
Jun 19, 2013 1:01pm | StereoGum
CMT Crossroads is a series of specials that aims to connect country-music luminaries with friends from across musical divides, but it usually just combines different flavors of cheese. (The last episode, for instance, paired Rascal Flatts with Journey.) But the show’s next episode promises to be something special. Willie Nelson taped his Willie Nelson & Friends special at Jack White’s Third Man Records, and he brought a roster of guests that included Jamey Johnson, Sheryl Crow, Leon Russell, Norah Jones, and Ashley Monroe. And in what must’ve been a show-stopping moment, Nelson’s fellow free-spirited reedy-voiced legend Neil Young joined Nelson onstage to perform an absolutely shattering acoustic version of the 1976 Stills-Young Band classic “Long May You Run,” with no further accompaniment. Watch it below, and try not to let that hug at the end absolutely destroy you.
David Lynch to direct Nine Inch Nails
Jun 19, 2013 1:00pm | Cosequence Of Sound
tonight's $1 J. Cole show is at Irving Plaza
Jun 19, 2013 12:58pm | Brooklyn Vegan
J Cole at Pier 36 in 2010 (more by Andrew St.
As mentioned, rapper J. Cole released his new album, Born Sinner (listen on Spotify), this week and is celebrating with $1 shows in select North American cities. The venue for each show is being announced day-of, and it's been announced that tonight's NYC show will be at Irving Plaza, and the only way to get in is to go down to the venue and pay the $1 at the door, starting NOW (2 PM). Wristbands are being given out - first come, first served.
(UPDATE: this post originally said there were two shows tonight, and while you never know what might happen, we are now being told it's actually just one show for now).
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Miley Cyrus reveals bonkers video for Mike WiLL Made It-produced
Jun 19, 2013 12:56pm | Fact Magazine
The strangest video you’ll see today, complete with twerking, body horror, and a piñata full of hot dogs.
The video for Miley Cyrus’ ‘We Can’t Stop’ is what happens when a teen pop star makes a hip-hop party video in the age of Tim and Eric. Directed by video veteran Diane Martel, the clip features a scantily-clad Cyrus toying with a few hip-hop tropes (grills, twerking) and some out-there imagery, from taxidermied animals wearing jewelry to a skull made of french fries.
See for yourself below. The controversy-courting single was reviewed by the FACT Singles Club, who alternately called it a “dead-eyed ode to MDMA written by people who don
Beloved and Influential Jazz Guitarist Johnny Smith, 90, Passed Away...
Jun 19, 2013 12:46pm | The Daily Swarm
He lived a long and fulfilling life full of professional success and quality family time, and for that, he was a blessed man. But at the round, old age of 90 years, legendary Jazz guitarist Johnny Smith has passed away.The revered innovator will be remembered fondly for his clear tone and quick, ascending melodies.
A virtuoso of sorts, he taught himself to play the guitar as a boy sitting in pawnshops, and by 13, he was already teaching others. He learned to read music while playing in the U.S. military band, after which his career took off as a member of the Birdland jazz club and in the orchestral pit of the New York Philharmonic.
A decorated musician, he gained high critical appraise with albums including Moonlight in Vermont, and his most famous original tune “Walk Don’t Run.” He retired in the 1960s and moved to Colorado so as to spend more quality time with his family. He’s also been the inspiration and designer for a number of designer guitars, including the Gibson Johnny Smith and the Heritage Johnny Smith.
Smith is survived by a daughter and two sons, a brother, three grandchildren and four great-grandchildren.
Shigeto releasing a new LP, touring w/ Beacon (dates, stream)
Jun 19, 2013 12:46pm | Brooklyn Vegan
by Andrew Sacher
Ann Arbor beatmaker Shigeto (aka Zach Saginaw) is set to release his new album, No Better Time Than Now, on August 20 via Ghostly. Album single "Detroit Part 1," is Shigeto's typical nu-jazz-meets-hip-hop style, but the other cut he's released, "Ringleader," is new ground for him. Sparkling and multi-layered, the track that feels fuller and more beautiful than most of his work to date. You can check out "Detroit Part 1" below and listen to "Ringleader" over at NPR. The artwork and tracklist are below too.
In support of the new album, Shigeto will be heading out on a co-headlining tour with Ghostly labelmates Beacon. Another Ghostly artist, Heathered Pearls (who plays a collaborative set with Dirty Beaches in NYC soon) will be joining them as a support act for the first North American leg, which includes a NYC show happening on August 31 at Bowery Ballroom. Tickets for that show are on AmEx presale now and general on-sale begins Friday (6/21) at noon.
All tour dates are listed, along with the tour flyer, album artwork, trackist, and that song stream, below...
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David Lynch will direct the video for Nine Inch Nails
Jun 19, 2013 12:44pm | Fact Magazine
The video will reunite the Lost Highway collaborators.
The video for Nine Inch Nails’ comeback single ‘Came Back Haunted’ will be directed by David Lynch, according to Pitchfork; NIN mastermind Trent Reznor produced the soundtrack for Lynch’s 1997 film Lost Highway. Reznor just tweeted a photo of himself and the legendary director with the caption “tr;dl” (below).
‘Came Back Haunted’ will appear on Hesitation Marks, due out on September 3, and received a middle-of-the-road score by FACT’s Singles Club. The album will be followed by a huge tour, the band’s first since 2009. For his part, Lynch will release “modern blues” album The Big Dream on July 16.
Read our alternate history of Reznor’s career, and watch the Mark Romanek-directed video for Lost Highway‘s ‘The Perfect Drug’ below.
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Jun 19, 2013 12:41pm | Chart Attack
Freddie Gibbs stays defiantly posted on the outskirts of rap’s mainstream, and with each successive release he makes a strong case that maybe it’s the industry who needs to change. His verses are jacked with a fight-or-flight delivery, as if delivered two inches away from your face, and even on the blog friendly beat for
Listen: No Age Release Opening Track To An Object,
Jun 19, 2013 12:33pm | CMJ
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STATE COLLEGE - Former U.S. Sen. George Mitchell will serve as the independent athletics integrity monitor at Penn State for the NCAA.
The NCAA announced Mitchell's five-year appointment on Wednesday. He begins immediately.
The NCAA says Mitchell will evaluate Penn State's compliance with NCAA sanctions and the integrity agreement with the NCAA and Big Ten. College sports' governing body says Mitchell will have "broad access to campus, personnel and records" and make any recommendations necessary for Penn State to comply with its requirements.
The NCAA last week levied strict sanctions against the school for the Jerry Sandusky child sex abuse scandal, including a four-year postseason ban, significant scholarship reductions and a $60 million fine.
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Online Surveys are not a new concept, several companies have come, closed and still existing. In another way Online Paid Surveys is a part of make money online. In this method companies provides surveys which are filled by answering certain question on particular topic and companies pays certain incentives to the users. Online Paid Surveys system is very lucrative and its hard to predict when it turns to be scam.
One such online survey company is Star Panel from Star India Pvt. Ltd which owns Star Plus, Star One, Star Bangla, Star Gold, Star World, Star Movies and Channel V TV channels.
You need to be a registered member which can be done easily by following sign up procedure by providing few basic details like your name, email address, address and few more details. At the third step of registration, you would be asked for six questions which would be asked to you while you fill the survey. Once done you have to confirm your account by checking the mail for confirmation link at your inbox for the Email ID provided during the registration.
The surveys provided to you cover various interesting topics and products. It would be like one LCD or LED Television or Good and bad about TV Shows. Certain Surveys have multiple-choice questions only. You will get 1 to 6 surveys depending upon your choice of participation. For each surveys successfully completed by you, you will get incentives which you can either withdraw to your PayPal account or donate it to charity organizations or shop online.
Being a member at Star Panel is free of charge and you can leave the panel whenever you want to leave without any permissions or prior notice.
Star Panel Incentives
The incentives for panelist or the members vary accordingly to the length of the surveys. So for smaller length survey it would be quite less and it would be equal in proportion for the surveys. When your survey income reaches 3 USD you can withdraw the money through PayPal or shop it online or donate it to charity. Once you have your balance reflected in PayPal than you can withdraw it your bank account.
Star Panel vs Speak Asia Online
As we have covered Speak Asia Online with Star News alerting people about it but altogether Star Panel is comparison with Speak Asia Online has same business module but a different concept. For Speak Asia Online you need to pay 11,000 Rs for being a member but membership at Star Panel is free of cost. Speak Asia Online shows you big dreams of you being capable of earning lacs but there is no disclosure for Star Panel.
Speak Asia Online moreover has many points which can make you feel it scam but it is somehow running the show as of now. Star Panel is not as that famous since there are so such big terms. The value of each survey does you might be less than half a dollar but Speak Asia Online pays $10 per survey and much more. The guidelines and terms mentioned by Speak Asia Online are not clear but Star Panel terms looks to be very clear.
All in together, if you want to stay away from the risk of robbing your money then Star Panel is worth a program to join and the option of donating it to charity is good one. Now lets see which of these two ie Star Panel or Speak Asia Online is going to sustain in the long run and is going to offer the best for their members. | <urn:uuid:f5e2dc92-44d1-4564-98e8-8f04e9bfa98c> | CC-MAIN-2013-20 | http://www.amitbhawani.com/blog/star-panel-surveys/ | 2013-06-20T08:50:34Z | s3://commoncrawl/crawl-data/CC-MAIN-2013-20/segments/1368711005985/warc/CC-MAIN-20130516133005-00000-ip-10-60-113-184.ec2.internal.warc.gz | en | 0.961468 | 665 | null | null | HuggingFaceFW/fineweb |
'Kinfauns' - 1960s Mod Round Collar Beatles Shirt
'KINFAUNS' - EARLY SIXTIES MOD ROUND COLLAR BEATLES STYLE SHIRT
Take a trip back to the early Sixties and the days of a suited and booted Fab Four, where this Mod Round Collar Shirt found its fame. When Brian Epstein put four young Scouse lads in to suits and Chelsea Boots, he also put them in to some smart and stylish tailored style shirts - often with the Mod favoured Round Collar (as opposed to the usual pointed collar).
As Chelsea Boots became known as Beatle Boots, so during the days of Beatlemania this style of shirt became known as a Beatle Shirt. Here we have a traditional vintage Sixties style Button Down Round Collar shirt in a very Mod Blue narrow pinstripe. A fab fitted look gives this shirt an Indie Clothing edge, making it suitable for any Retro or Modern Indie Look.
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Runningbacks still a part of Tiger’s game
Wednesday, 31 October 2012 by David Tuma
Belton's backfield had to replace Donavan Williams, one of the best running backs the Tigers have had in the past 20-years. Belton this season has used a variety of backs to replace Williams. At quarterback Peter Shelburne has excelled for the second straight season. Not many quarterbacks from Belton sport a 12-3 record but Shelburne does.
"We have a diverse backfield with lots of different weapons. The offensive line has worked really hard improving," said Camron Meyers. "That freshman offensive lineman on a sweep jumped over the pile to bock somebody."
"It helps when you get into the regular season. Nobody in our games hit as hard as Tyler Santellana and Ryan Stinson," said Brandon Rhoads. "It has helps our offensive line having to play against our d-line very day in practice," said Meyers.
"They have picked up the offense well. Camron has really improved. In the Round Rock game we had five different players score touchdowns. Last year they stuffed the box trying to stop Donavan," said Shelburne.
"Shelburne is the captain out on the field. He knows every position from running backs to wide receivers. He knows the blocking assignments and the adjustments each receiver may make. He has worked so hard in the weight room and off season track he is somebody you know you can count on," said Tigers offensive coordinator David Brewer.
"Stafford is the back up quarterback but he can play so many positions from receiver to running back. Learning the qb position is a process that Shelburne went through. Our success comes from hard work and the weight room. Running offseason track helps our players. Rhoads is somebody we knew about when he was in junior high. He has those extra moves that most backs don't have. He has great hands and is one of our fastest players," said Brewer.
Adamson was injured and will return at some point but is a key feature on the team because of his size and speed. Meyers may be the most improved player this season and his emergence has been a huge plus for the offense.
"You can do a lot with Meyers because he is smart and can do so many things. He runs the ball well and has great hands. Adamson is big strong and fast for his size. He is just a physical player. Ryan Vincent came on late after missing a few years and we use him in our three-back sets. He can flat out run. Kavan Johnson is a sophomore and we have used him on junior varsity and varsity. He is a future back for us. A key for us is building depth and you can't have enough of it. It isn't just one back like last year and we always have fresh legs back there," said Brewer. | <urn:uuid:268c76ac-9af5-4882-83a5-ae04aa1bcf18> | CC-MAIN-2013-20 | http://www.beltonjournal.com/index.php?option=com_content&view=article&id=2047:runningbacks-still-a-part-of-tigers-game&catid=36:sports&Itemid=430 | 2013-06-20T08:38:51Z | s3://commoncrawl/crawl-data/CC-MAIN-2013-20/segments/1368711005985/warc/CC-MAIN-20130516133005-00000-ip-10-60-113-184.ec2.internal.warc.gz | en | 0.988577 | 600 | null | null | HuggingFaceFW/fineweb |
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- Sector: Materials
- Industry: Chemicals
- Sub-Industry: Agricultural Chemicals
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CF:US189.7700 USD 1.1400 0.60%
As of 20:04:01 ET on 06/19/2013.
Company Profile for CF Industries Holdings Inc (CF)
CF Industries Holdings, Inc. manufactures and distributes nitrogen and phosphate fertilizer products globally. The Company's principal products in the nitrogen segment are ammonia, urea, urea ammonium nitrate solution, ammonium nitrate, diesel exhaust fluid and aqua ammonia. The principal products in the phosphate segment are diammonium phosphate and monoammonium phosphate.
CF Industries Holdings Inc
Key Executives for CF Industries Holdings Inc (CF)
|Stephen R WilsonChairman/President/CEO||Dennis P KelleherSenior VP/CFO|
|Douglas C BarnardSenior VP/Secretary/Gen Cnsl||Wendy S Jablow SpertusSenior VP:Human Resources|
|Philipp P KochSenior VP:Supply Chain||Bert A FrostSenior VP:Sales & Market Dev|
|W Anthony WillSenior VP:MFG & Distr||Richard A HokerVP/Controller|
|Lynn F WhiteVP:Corporate Development||Daniel Swenson "Dan"Senior Dir:Investor Relations| | <urn:uuid:9b309da0-e22b-4288-9597-d1b430af9cd5> | CC-MAIN-2013-20 | http://www.bloomberg.com/quote/CF%3aUS/profile | 2013-06-20T08:53:48Z | s3://commoncrawl/crawl-data/CC-MAIN-2013-20/segments/1368711005985/warc/CC-MAIN-20130516133005-00000-ip-10-60-113-184.ec2.internal.warc.gz | en | 0.719081 | 298 | null | null | HuggingFaceFW/fineweb |