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Northampton Center for the Arts announces its final events as it continues to search for a new home
NORTHAMPTON — While it continues to search for a new home, the Northampton Center for the Arts is preparing to bring down the curtain after a nearly 30-year run in the Sullivan Square building on South Street.
Penny Burke, the longtime director of the arts organization, said programming at the center will end March 22, 2013, with a concert by classical guitarist Peter Blanchette, his annual “Bach Birthday” show. After that, Burke and other staff will prepare for leaving Sullivan Square, as their lease will be up on June 30.
“We had to make a decision on when to wind things up,” said Burke. “It was becoming too difficult to plan events and make commitments to groups and artists, knowing the clock was ticking.”
The center has been actively searching for a new location for the past few years, knowing the lease on the Sullivan Square building would not be renewed. It was signed in 1984 when the center formed a public/private partnership with the city of Northampton and rented space from the developers of the Sullivan Square property, a former city school.
Working with the Northampton Community Arts Trust Inc. (NCAT), a separate nonprofit group formed to create and conserve downtown arts space, the center looked in recent years at a number of local properties as potential new locations, including the Roundhouse building and the former St. John Cantius Church on Hawley Street. Neither of those locations panned out.
In fall 2011, the center held promising initial talks with officials from the First Churches about relocating there, even doing a preliminary architectural and cost study on how some parts of the property might be reconfigured for arts use. But both groups eventually realized they would not be able to make the arrangement work, and talks were abandoned this past spring.
Richard Wagner, president of NCAT, said his group has continued “to talk with everybody” about finding a downtown community arts space that could also house the Center for the Arts.
“What’s critical is not just that we get a space, but that we get a space that’s affordable and sustainable and that will be around 200 years from now,” Wagner said. He added that the Center for the Arts has the most pressing need at the moment but that NCAT ideally wants to buy a property that would in turn become “Northampton’s arts space — a real place for the community.”
For her part, Burke, who is also a member of NCAT, said she and other panel members have been involved in recent weeks in frequent talks about purchasing one potential site, though she said she could not provide further details.
“Half of me is very hopeful that we’ll have something to announce fairly soon, and half of me is prepared to do what we have to do to close,” she said.
The center has put out the word on its website about its situation. Staff recently announced that a Nov. 30 to Dec. 1 production of the Thornton Wilder play “Our Town” will be the last play the organization produces at its Sullivan Square home.
Following the center’s biggest annual production — Northampton’s First Night celebration on New Year’s Eve — a limited number of public and private events are scheduled up until March 22. Art exhibitions will end after January; some regular activities such as art classes will still be held into March.
In the meantime, Burke and her staff will begin looking at the possibility of storing important items like sound and lighting equipment and the center’s grand piano, as well as “all the other stuff we’ve accumulated over 30 years,” Burke said.
She said Mayor David Narkewicz has offered to help the center find temporary office space from which she and her staff could still produce shows in other area venues.
But, Burke noted, regardless of whether the center finds a new physical location or exists for some time just as an administrative office, there’s likely to be a certain “quiet time” down the road. “There’s going to be a period when we’re not active. How long that will be, I don’t know,” she said. “Hopefully not that long.” | <urn:uuid:b8e9ff2d-055d-4da8-bcb4-f05152127647> | CC-MAIN-2013-20 | http://www.gazettenet.com/artsentertainment/artstheaterdance/2715016-95/center-arts-northampton-burke | 2013-05-24T23:42:28Z | s3://commoncrawl/crawl-data/CC-MAIN-2013-20/segments/1368705284037/warc/CC-MAIN-20130516115444-00000-ip-10-60-113-184.ec2.internal.warc.gz | en | 0.97346 | 913 | null | null | HuggingFaceFW/fineweb |
August 29, 1915
August 29 ,1982
I made so many films which were more important, but the only one people ever want to talk about is that one with Bogart
In 1949, Ingrid became the centre of a major scandal when it was revealed that she had abandoned Pia, her ten year old daughter, to live with the Italian film director, Roberto Rossellini.
Ingrid was born in Stockholm, Sweden. Despite shyness she enrolled in the Swedish Royal Theatre but decided that stage acting was not for her. Her screen debut in Munkbrogreven, The Count of the Monk's Bridge (1935), was followed by challenging roles in such Swedish films as the original Intermezzo (1936) and En kvinnas ansikte, A Woman's Face (1938).
Bergman went to the USA to reprise her role in Intermezzo opposite Leslie Howard. The film's critical and commercial success instantly established Bergman as a star. She achieved tremendous popularity through a series of critical and commercial successes that included Casablanca (1942) with Humphrey Bogart1, For Whom the Bell Tolls (1943), Gaslight (1944) and two thrillers directed by Alfred Hitchcock2, Spellbound (1945) and Notorious (1946).
She fell in love with the Italian director Roberto Rossellini, while performing in his film Stromboli (1950). Bergman left both her husband and daughter for Rossellini. The ensuing scandal3 led to her ostracization from the US film industry and forced her to return to Europe, where she appeared in Italian and French films. Ingrid returned to the Hollywood scene4 in 1956 to play Anastasia (1956).
Her last role was that of Golda Meir, the Israeli prime minister, in A Woman Called Golda (1981). She was posthumously awarded an Emmy Award in 1982.
- Casablanca (1942)
- Notorious (1946)
- Spellbound (1945)
- Gaslight (1944)
- Höstsonaten (1978)
- For whom the bell tolls (1943)
- Anastasia (1956)
1979 Nominated Best Actress for: Höstsonaten (1978)
1975 Won Best Actress for: Murder on the Orient Express (1974)
1957 Won Best Actress for: Anastasia (1956)
1949 Nominated Best Actress for: Joan of Arc (1948)
1946 Nominated Best Actress for: The Bells of St. Mary's (1945)
1945 Won Best Actress for: Gaslight (1944)
1944 Nominated Best Actress for: For Whom the Bell Tolls (1943)
Bibliography » Books:
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- Bergman signed an important contract
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This Athens hotel is 100 meters from Athens City Hall and Kotzia Square, and Omonia Square is 400 meters away. The National Historical Museum and the Museum of the City of Athens are 500 meters away. The metro and train stations of Omonia and Monastiraki are nearby. Plaka and Monastiraki are a few minutes' walk from the hotel.
The Fresh Hotel features a lobby fireplace and a first-floor restaurant serving breakfast. The hotel’s bar, located on the ninth floor, next to the seasonal outdoor pool, offers lunch, dinner, afternoon tea, and cocktails. Reservations required. This Athens hotel includes a concierge desk and a 24-hour business center. Wireless Internet access is available (surcharge), and the hotel offers computer rental, secretarial services, and multilingual staff, as well as dry cleaning. The hotel also includes a steam room, a sauna, and fitness equipment.
The 133 guestrooms and suites at The Fresh Hotel feature balconies and offer high-speed Internet access (surcharge) and plasma TVs with pay movies and satellite channels. Bathrooms have showers only, and guestrooms provide hair dryers, minibars, and in-room safes. | <urn:uuid:3030420b-1604-4dca-80c6-19fbd5259199> | CC-MAIN-2013-20 | http://www.hotels.com/ho201062/fresh-hotel-athens-greece/ | 2013-05-24T23:29:34Z | s3://commoncrawl/crawl-data/CC-MAIN-2013-20/segments/1368705284037/warc/CC-MAIN-20130516115444-00000-ip-10-60-113-184.ec2.internal.warc.gz | en | 0.945301 | 255 | null | null | HuggingFaceFW/fineweb |
Soda ash Asia Transcript
The weekly Asia Soda Ash report has wide acceptance in the region and is viewed by many players as an important reference price indicator.
It includes three price quotes for the dense grade, covering exports out of China and imports into North East and South East Asia.
For the light grade, there is one quote which tracks exports from China.
The focus on China is primarily because of it’s emergence as the biggest Soda Ash producing country in the world. Exports out of China, which are mainly directed at Indonesia, Korea and Thailand, are contained in the FOB China price quote.
These trade flows are also reflected in the North East Asia and South East Asia price quotes.
India has also emerged as a significant producer and consumer of Soda Ash in recent years. Information on the Indian market is regularly reported in the commentary section of the report.
The Asian Soda Ash market tends to be quite sluggish and extracting price information can be quite challenging. Thanks to its deep relationships with market players in Asia, ICIS manages to provide extensive information of pricing trends week after week. This includes deals, bids and offers as well as production information on shut downs and start ups. | <urn:uuid:0bcac1f1-f191-4a5a-94ef-4ee874587945> | CC-MAIN-2013-20 | http://www.icis.com/chemicals/soda-ash/asia/?tab=tbc-tab4 | 2013-05-24T23:22:09Z | s3://commoncrawl/crawl-data/CC-MAIN-2013-20/segments/1368705284037/warc/CC-MAIN-20130516115444-00000-ip-10-60-113-184.ec2.internal.warc.gz | en | 0.972809 | 242 | null | null | HuggingFaceFW/fineweb |
3/20/2012 - Summer came early!!! It's been 80 degrees every day for the last few weeks, so what does that mean?? Jeff Caron and the Thunderfoot band is already in full force playing around Tennessee, just got back from Minnesota (What a show!!!) and there's plenty more shows coming up. Also Jeff is working with Jake Thomas for another "Flip Flop, Tank Top, Dock Tour" starting very soon, stay tuned!!
7/27/2011 - Back by popular demand!! Attention all Mainer's - October 8th, 2011 come on out to the Sabattus American Legion! If you were at last years show, you know it's not a huge venue and there's a limited amount of tickets! There were a ton of people who couldn't get tickets because it was sold out, so get them early. Click on Jeff's Store and buy them now!
12/04/2010 - Jeff has joined forces with the Tennessee Thunder Band. They are a long-time established band who started out in East Tennessee and made the move to Nashville 17 years ago. Their Rockin' Country sound blends great with Jeff's style and they compliment eachother very well! I personally got to hear them together over New Year's Eve weekend and for their 4th show together, they sounded very tight! I see great things in 2011 for them, stay tuned!!!
10/3/2010 - from Jeff: "I want to thank everyone in the great state of Maine who came out to the September 18th show. We had a blast!! I want to thank some people...
I want to thank everyone who volunteered at the Sabattus American Legion, you busted your butt's for a good cause. Thank you to Big T for the sound equipment, thanks to L/A Music (Jeff St. Amand) for the great sound, thanks Mr. Sea's Lobster shack for the Lobsters & Clams, Grid Iron for the great time Friday night, the Beauchesne's for the rehearsal space, April Littlefield for all the help with the show and for being the best Fan Club President anyone could ask for!, Hunter for the "Awesome" song, Gary & Tina for the space to crash, Old Port Tavern for the great lunch, Shipyard Brewery, Jay Forgues for all the help, you were like a one man road crew! Thank you very much Ryan Tripp for performing with us - that rocked! And a VERY special thanks to Jim Caron for all your hard work and dedication in making this a big success!"
6/13/2010 - "Hi everyone! If you are from Maine or going to be in Maine in September I've got some great news. I will be performing a special show at the Sabattus American Legion (Post 135) September 18, 2010. I grew up with strong ties to the Sabattus American Legion and I chose this location to help them out. Please come join us and we'll have a great time making this an awesome event! Tickets will be going on sale in July and will be limited so be watching for them. I will let everyone know the date the tickets go on sale Via Facebook, Myspace and right here on www.jeffcaron.net Stay tuned!"
8/29/2009 - Come join Jeff for a special acoustic performance in Mt. Juliet, TN. Jeff will be performing songs off his CD Twist of Lime along with other original material. The location is Wow Cafe & Wingery in the Providence Maket Place in Mt. Juliet, TN. Jeff will start at 9:30 and play for a couple hours on Friday September 11th. If you already have a copy of Twist of Lime, bring it and have him sign it and if you already have a T-Shirt, show your Jeff Caron spirit and wear it! See you then!
Wow Cafe & Wingery
Mt. Juliet, TN
Friday September 11, 2009
4/5/2009 - Jeff will be playing a series of shows all summer long in Ten Mile, TN at the Euchee Marina. Some will be full band shows and some will be solo performances. Here are some of the dates;
April 25 @ 8pm
May 22 @ 7pm
June 20 @ 8pm
July 25 @ 8pm
Aug 14 @ 7pm
1/5/2009 - The Jeff Caron Band just played 5 nights at Roper's Saloon in Superior, WI. New Years Eve they played for 9 hours straight - all through the night!!! Jeff threw his voice out so Frank, Charlie and Clay had to sing the next night!
12/29/2008 - LCO Casino in Hayward, WI was a blast!! Before the show we ate at the original Famous Dave's and yes... got to meet the man himself! Dave also happens to be a big fan of Trop Rock and now owns a copy of Twist of Lime! Thank you Dave for talking with us and we'll see you next trip!!
7/5/2008 - Great show at Charlie Daniels Park!!! It was great playing in Mt. Juliet once again for all my friends! The weather was hot and the humitity was strong but we sure did keep it cool Rockin' & Rollin!!! I want to say thanks to my sister and her family for coming down and being at this event and to all my friends - Thank you!!
4/7/2008 - Minnesota Rocks!! I just want to personally take a minute and let all of you folks who came to Saturday nights show in Stillwater, MN that I had a GREAT time! You all rock, you know how to party and you sure know how to dance! On behalf of the Twisted Lime Band and myself - Thank You! We can't wait to make another trip up there, it was a blast! Thanks to the Eagles 94, Curt Wilson, Chris, Karen, JoAnn, Greg, Danny, Amanda and everyone else who made that night a success! See you all again soon!
2/2/2008 - ATTENTION MINNESOTA FANS!!!!! Jeff is officially heading to
Minnesota April 5th, 2008. Jeff will be performing at the Eagles in Stillwater, MN.
The show starts at 8pm and tickets are on sale NOW!!
Seating is limited so try and get your tickets right away by clicking on "Jeff's Store"
at the top of this page. This is a full band, Nashville produced show - don't miss it!!
9/26/2007 - Look for Jeff Caron and the "Maine Band" on Vinalhaven Island, off the coast of Maine Saturday night 9/29/07!!! They will be perfoming at "The Sandbar" right in the heart of Vinalhaven from 9-12am!!
Also, listen in Friday the 28th to Real Country 103 at 4pm for an interview with Jeff Caron and a live acoustic performance on-air. Jeff will be talking about his show Sunday the 30th at Mid-Coast Recreation Center in Rockport, ME sponsored by Real Country 103!
9/17/2007 - Jeff is gearing up for a busy winter on the road. Stay tuned for dates in your area!
Jeff has shows coming up in his home state of Maine, along with shows all over the SouthEastern US
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DES MOINES, Iowa (AP) - Five weeks to Election Day, President Barack Obama seems within reach of the 270 electoral votes needed to win a second term.
If the election were held today, an Associated Press analysis shows Obama would win at least 271 electoral votes, with Ohio and Iowa now among the states he would carry.
To overtake Obama, Mitt Romney would need to quickly gain the upper hand in nearly all of the nine states where he and Obama are competing hardest.
New Jersey Gov. Chris Christie is conceding it's been a "tough couple of weeks" for Mitt Romney. Christie tells CBS' "Face the Nation" there's no way to "sugarcoat" the Republican presidential candidate's setbacks. But he's predicting Romney will "shine" in his first debate against President Barack Obama on Wednesday night. Christie says every time Romney was backed into a corner during the GOP primaries, he "came out with a great debate performance."
But Romney's running mate is playing down the importance of the debate. Paul Ryan tells "Fox News Sunday" that the race is close and he doesn't think one event "is going to make or break" the campaign. Ryan calls President Barack Obama "a very gifted speaker" who's been on the national stage for several years, and notes that Romney has never participated in a one-on-one presidential debate.
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Every artist keeps a collection of ideas somewhere that for one reason or another have never been realised, because they are too expensive, too simple, too complex, too much like something that has been done before, inappropriate in a certain context or so out of this world as an idea, that it would lose all value once it has been realised. For those artistic left-overs, there are two options: either they die a lonely death or the person who came up with them passes them on to someone else who breathes new life into them. This latter is possible thanks to an auction of absurd and utopian ideas. An evening where ideas change owners and the public is very welcome to put in a bid. You may well take a unique rough diamond home.
With ideas by Rimini Protokoll, Mette Edvardsen, Myriam van Imschoot, Bas Schevers, Stijn van Dorpe, Tim Etchells, Ief Spincemaille, Lea Martini, UgoDehaes, Dora Garcia, Michikazu Matsune, Lars Siltberg, Jimmy Robert and Benjamin Verdonck
the great public sale of ideas werd bedacht en ontwikkeld door performancekunstenaar sarah vanhee. met de steun van de mondriaan stichting
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I'm a outdoor person. I love camping, hiking, golf, fishing, rifle shooting, but not hunting not much of a fan of killing animals. I'm a shy person at first then after a little bit of time I become very outgoing. I also really love the Gospel can't live without it. um... I work a lot and am going to school full time. | <urn:uuid:b33a387e-d558-411c-9cc2-7c909b79c3b5> | CC-MAIN-2013-20 | http://www.ldssingles.com/view-profile.html?u=Bryant801 | 2013-05-24T23:47:23Z | s3://commoncrawl/crawl-data/CC-MAIN-2013-20/segments/1368705284037/warc/CC-MAIN-20130516115444-00000-ip-10-60-113-184.ec2.internal.warc.gz | en | 0.983695 | 76 | null | null | HuggingFaceFW/fineweb |
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It didn't hit me at first.
Not to be disrespectful, but I didn't know any of the victims, although I know someone who knows someone who did. I suppose most of us who live here can say the same thing.
Five years ago last Thursday, I was returning home from running errands and I turned on the TV. To my shock, every channel was reporting a shooting on the campus of Northern Illinois University. Six people were killed, including the gunman, and 21 more were wounded. It was, at the time, the fifth-deadliest university shooting in U.S. history.
Actually, the thing I remember the most happened the day before. I was giving blood in a mobile unit at my church. I was sitting next to my new minister, and we were discussing, of all things, the shooting at Virginia Tech and how we didn't know what the world was coming to. "It can happen anywhere," I remember him telling me.
How little did either of us know.
Last Thursday, I stood outside in the cold and wind, covering the fifth-anniversary memorial service outside Cole Hall, where the NIU shooting took place. While others were being stirred by the remarks of Illinois Gov. Pat Quinn and retiring NIU President John Peters, I was busy recording their comments and looking for pictures.
It wasn't until it was over, when almost everyone had gone and the only ones left were a handful of security guards, maintenance people and media photographers, that the whole thing really began to sink in.
For me, Peters had the most poignant line when he said, "We must learn to cherish one another, because tomorrow is not promised to any of us."
Maybe because I'm getting older, or maybe because I've lost people close to me, it's a line I can't get out of my head.
Looking around last Thursday, I was struck by something else. Now that the police tape and the wooden boards are gone, Cole Hall isn't the same, ominous-looking place it was right after the shooting. In fact, if you didn't know what happened there, it looks pretty much like any other building on campus.
I can't imagine what it must have been like in that classroom. I never liked school, but it was one place, like home and work and church, where I always felt safe. It never once dawned on me that something tragic could happen there. Especially on Valentine's Day, when red is supposed to symbolize love and romance, not blood and broken hearts.
Instead of gloom, however, there's this sense of triumph in a way. Not over what happened, but over the way the community has rallied together and grown strong from the lessons learned from it.
As I was walking back to my car, I overheard a college-age woman utter what has become the unofficial battle cry of this generation: "This is happening too much. It's got to stop."
It was essentially the same message the President of the United States made in his State of the Union address two days earlier.
But until someone can come up with a way to disconnect mentally-disturbed people from semi-automatic weapons, I don't know how we can avoid similar, future memorial services in communities we've not yet heard of.
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British starlet Johanna Konta had a dream debut at the US Open, defeating Timea Babos in straight sets to progress to the second round
Johanna Konta flew the British flag in New York last night with a victory over Timea Babos.
Konta marked her US Open debut with a 6-1 7-5 first round win against a player ranked 145 places above her. She raced through the first set, although Konta lost her way in the next as the Hungarian led 5-1.
But Konta, 21, reeled off six games on the bounce to join fellow Brit Laura Robson (right) - who beat American Samantha Crawford - in round two.
Anne Keothavong, 28, blamed a lack of confidence as her tournament lasted 54 minutes.
The British No.2 was swept aside 6-2 6-0 by German sixth seed Angelique Kerber. Keothavong said: "She has won more games on tour than anybody else this year and confidence reflected the outcome."
Robson, 18, now faces Belgian legend Kim Clijsters. She said: "This is Kim's last tournament, she's going to be pumped up." | <urn:uuid:e71fe041-4a22-46de-a015-80ccbac951a0> | CC-MAIN-2013-20 | http://www.mirror.co.uk/sport/tennis/us-open-tennis-jiohanna-konta-proves-1285286 | 2013-05-24T23:35:54Z | s3://commoncrawl/crawl-data/CC-MAIN-2013-20/segments/1368705284037/warc/CC-MAIN-20130516115444-00000-ip-10-60-113-184.ec2.internal.warc.gz | en | 0.951477 | 251 | null | null | HuggingFaceFW/fineweb |
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A Forum reader asked this question:
"I'm trying to set Login Expiration Time from XSLT. Should I declare the type as time or as string?"
And here's the reply from Jeff Johnson ...
This may help - here is how I set password expiration time to 120 days.
<do-set-dest-attr-value name="Password Expiration Time" when="after">
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Disclaimer: As with everything else at Cool Solutions, this content is definitely not supported by Novell (so don't even think of calling Support if you try something and it blows up).
It was contributed by a community member and is published "as is." It seems to have worked for at least one person, and might work for you. But please be sure to test, test, test before you do anything drastic with it. | <urn:uuid:835cbe50-cd75-4278-96a0-44ed992dce75> | CC-MAIN-2013-20 | http://www.novell.com/communities/de/node/4321/setting-login-expiration-time-xslt | 2013-05-24T23:44:25Z | s3://commoncrawl/crawl-data/CC-MAIN-2013-20/segments/1368705284037/warc/CC-MAIN-20130516115444-00000-ip-10-60-113-184.ec2.internal.warc.gz | en | 0.934194 | 194 | null | null | HuggingFaceFW/fineweb |
> I'd pretty much go with what Bob and others have said. I do however
> have one exception; That being the BIG CF cards. I have yet to do it
> myself, but I have seen others accidentally do an /erase all/, or a
> /formatting/ of a card when that was not their intention. Now, the
> images in many cases can be recovered, but not in the field, and
> without spare cards, their shooting is done. So I feel safe with only
> around 80 - 90 images on a card. As the cameras have more pixels and
> the files sizes get larger, I get larger cards and try to keep to my
> safe image limit comfort level on them. Suffice it to say, thats only
> my suggestion.
> As another tip, if you should be like me, and have a number of cards
> in a wallet; I use a system to track exposed versus unexposed cards.
> All cards are in-camera reformatted before a days worth of shooting,
> and placed face side up in the wallet. After they have been exposed,
> they are placed into the wallet face down.
In some situations, like a daughter's soccer game, picking through the
CF cards and making sure the one going in is empty plus the actual time
to swap the cards, you could miss the 'shot of a life time'. With
larger cards that still exists but the chance of it happening are
reduced....... I once carried a few 1G cards, but now I have a 2G and
2 x 4G. I bought a Tamrac neoprene strap that came with two 'pockets'
attached. The two cards not in the camera are in these pockets.
As Tom P said, CF card capacity is almost a religion, and so is how to
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Sarna Ultra, Anti-Itch Cream & Skin Protectant
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- Dermatologist Recommended
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05-01-2013, 07:51 AM
My name is Mark, and I'm organizing a gaming convention in Buffalo, NY. I'd like to invite everyone at Pen & Paper Games to join us for a weekend of gaming.
You can find the main website for the convention at http://www.QueenCityConquest.com
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The conservation and wise development of our natural resources - our water, land, and air - is not a California problem. It is not a Western problem. It is a national, indeed, a worldwide problem.
I have seen the arid lands of the Middle East. Water is the key there to riches and poverty, to peace and war. Men and women spend a third of their working days fetching water from distant wells.
Even in the United States, some areas are desperately short of water - and at the same time other areas are ravaged by floods. And our forests are vanishing, our wildlife is vanishing, our streams are polluted, and so is the very air we breathe.
Yet America is rich in natural resources. Our impending resource crisis is not due to scarcity. It is due to underdevelopment, despoilment, and neglect.
Water is the key to the American future. In 1900 we Americans used 40 billion gallons of water daily. This year we will use 312 billion, enough to cover Rhode Island a foot deep. By 1975, the Commerce Department estimates, we will use 453 billion gallons a day. For we are in the midst of a population explosion. By 1975 there will be over 230 million Americans. And their needs for electric power in all-electric homes, all-electric factories, all-electric farms, will be three times as great as it is today. We consumed 144 million kilowatts of power in 1958. By 1975 we will need nearly 500 million. We must expand our generating capacity to meet the need. We have the potential - an estimated potential of 117 million kilowatts. But we have developed only 26.5 million kilowatt only a fraction of our most powerful resource.
Great leaders of the past understood these facts of national life. It was a great Republican leader, Gifford Pinchot, who said:
A nation deprived of liberty may win it, a nation divided may reunite, but a nation whose natural resources are destroyed must inevitably pay the penalty of poverty, degradation, and decay. Under Franklin Roosevelt the Federal Government launched a grand endeavor to develop our river basins - TVA, Bonneville, the Central Valley project of California - models for all the world to admire - proof that a free people, acting through their own freely chosen government, can put the people's rivers to the service of the people.
Today, in a close-knit tumultuous world, the development of our natural resources is not only vital to the survival of our Western States and the survival of our Nation. It is vital to the survival of the entire free world. But that survival has been endangered by shortsighted Republican policies at Hells Canyon, at TVA, here at the Trinity Dam project, and across the Nation - by a policy of "no new starts," a policy of do-nothing, stand-still status quo.
It is time to start.
First, we must reverse the defeatist policy of "no new starts" and move ahead with full development of our natural resources, including the extension of the Central Valley project.
Second, we must reassert the public's rights in the public domain which the so-called partnership policy has undermined; maintain the public preference clause against monopoly; defend the integrity of TVA, the Columbia Basin, and the Central Valley; and recommence the forestry, reclamation, antipollution, recreation, and public lands programs begun by the New Deal.
Third, we must get on with reclamation and basinwide river development across the Nation.
Fourth, we must appoint a Federal Power Commission that will uphold the public interest, and not serve private interests alone.
Fifth, we need a whole new concept of resource development. So vast, so complex, and so neglected are our resources that their wise development cannot be parceled out piecemeal. Nothing less than comprehensive basin-by-basin, valley-by-valley planning on a nationwide scale can do the job. And nothing less than leadership, Presidential leadership, can do the job. We must establish a Council of Resource and Conservation Advisers in the Office of the President himself - a council which will engage in overall resource planning - which will assess the national needs of an expanding population - and recommend national programs to meet them.
Sixth, we must bring to bear on our natural resource problems the best scientific brains, the best ideas, and the best modern technologies that are available. New methods of retaining snowpacks, of preventing surface evaporation of stored waters, of controlling floods and managing watersheds, of cloud seeding and long-range weather forecasting and weather control - above all a crash program of research how to convert salt water to fresh water - all these and many more tools must be summoned to the task. We have the technological know-how. What we need to do now is remove the bureaucratic and political roadblocks - and forge ahead.
In the long-ago dim past around the world, other great nations have wasted and devoured their priceless heritage of land and water - and their temples and palaces lie buried in the jungle and desert sand.
Mr. Khrushchev has said:
Electrification of the national economy has always been regarded by our party as the cardinal task. Measured by installed capacity, the Communists were 28 years behind us in 1950 - but unless we speed up or they slow down, in less than 28 years from now they will have passed us by.
I don't want a second-rate America.
This is no time for retreat and defeat. This is a time for strength, for development, for greatness - a time for bold ideas and brave new programs. And as we face the awesome challenges of the future, we would do well to remember the words of faith that Franklin Roosevelt wrote down on the day before he died:
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Brooke Mueller is placing all media outlets on notice ... publish her naked photos and she'll SUE YOUR PANTS OFF!!!
Sources close to Charlie Sheen's ex-wife tell TMZ, she's FURIOUS someone is attempting to sell her intimate photos to the media -- and if anyone tries to publish them, she has promised to file a lawsuit so fast their head will spin.
As for the veracity of the pics -- we're told Brooke knows they're real ... because she took them for an ex-boyfriend.
TMZ broke the story ... Brooke believes a former disgruntled assistant is responsible for swiping the pics ... and now, Brooke's saying she plans to enforce a confidentiality agreement the assistant signed in order to bring the assistant to justice. | <urn:uuid:cc07199c-a268-49e3-a087-a26e1e4a1508> | CC-MAIN-2013-20 | http://www.q1075.com/index.php/news/tmz-exclusives/19801-brooke-mueller-on-the-war-path-over-naked-pics | 2013-05-24T23:20:30Z | s3://commoncrawl/crawl-data/CC-MAIN-2013-20/segments/1368705284037/warc/CC-MAIN-20130516115444-00000-ip-10-60-113-184.ec2.internal.warc.gz | en | 0.968109 | 153 | null | null | HuggingFaceFW/fineweb |
The other day I was looking for an obituary for a recently deceased cousin when I came across an article on her marriage in the 1970s in GoogleNews. Apparently they've updates their offerings to include the Lodi News-Sentinel among others. I also found my great-great-grandmother's obituary in the Berkeley Daily Gazette from 1932. I don't know how many newspapers they've added or even if they added any outside of California but if you haven't checked GoogleNews' newspaper archives lately, I suggest going over there and looking again.
Thanks to Greta, I also found out the Library of Congress' Chronicling America has been updated. Of interest to me are the Sacramento papers they've added, the new San Francisco paper they've added and the Canfield, Ohio paper which is also new to me. It seems like they've mostly added Texas papers but none for the area I'm interested in (Fannin Co.). This database from the LoC has and continues to be a favorite for me, it is great that they are continuing to add to it.
While newspaper articles aren't without errors, I like them a lot because they usually give clues and tidbits which can jumpstart my research. It is because of that that whenever I hit a slump in my research I look for relatives in newspapers first. | <urn:uuid:84e3fa8b-1744-414c-8f18-a13111059144> | CC-MAIN-2013-20 | http://www.shbwgen.blogspot.com/2010/01/free-newspaper-databases-updated.html | 2013-05-24T23:46:34Z | s3://commoncrawl/crawl-data/CC-MAIN-2013-20/segments/1368705284037/warc/CC-MAIN-20130516115444-00000-ip-10-60-113-184.ec2.internal.warc.gz | en | 0.984042 | 273 | null | null | HuggingFaceFW/fineweb |
From the Fat Wreck page:
On August 14, 1986, errr, 2012, we’ll be releasing a brand new NOFX single called Ronnie & Mags. The 7” features two brand new songs, one from the upcoming full-length and one exclusive to this limited edition 7”. And it’s available for pre-order now! Check out the art of Ronnie grabbing Maggie’s cheek below and you’ll get an idea of the context of the a-side, Ronnie & Mags, a real throwback to 80’s punk. The b-side features a demo version of a new song NOFX have been playing live, I Believe in Goddess. This 7” is limited to 5000 copies total, including a limited color pressing available while supplies last. And from the Fat webstore, you’ll receive a digital download a week prior to release date with your 7” order. If you just want the music but don’t care about the plastic, you can pre-order the digital version for only $2. | <urn:uuid:b535fb68-7b96-4ddc-a916-884246461b3b> | CC-MAIN-2013-20 | http://www.skatepunkers.net/2012/07/new-nofx-7inch-ronnie-mags.html | 2013-05-24T23:47:35Z | s3://commoncrawl/crawl-data/CC-MAIN-2013-20/segments/1368705284037/warc/CC-MAIN-20130516115444-00000-ip-10-60-113-184.ec2.internal.warc.gz | en | 0.88079 | 225 | null | null | HuggingFaceFW/fineweb |
Keep away from noisy firecrackers for ear’s sakeNovember 4th, 2010 - 6:19 pm ICT by IANS
New Delhi, Nov 4 (IANS) Avoid noisy firecrackers this Diwali, for your child’s sake. The loud noise and impact can have long lasting effect on childrens’ ears, even damage their ear drums, doctors have cautioned.
“During Diwali, with continuous bursting of crackers, the noise level is very high. This can leave a lasting effect on the ears, even damaging the ear drums,” says Kanwar Sen, Ear Nose Throat (ENT) consultant in the capital’s Ram Manohar Lohia Hospital.
“Children, excited about bursting crackers, are not prepared to defend themselves against the noise and thus become victims,” he added.
Human ears can tolerate sounds of upto 80 decibels, but anything above that can cause problems.
Yash Malik, hearing consultant from capital’s leading hearing aid center Decibel Clinic, said: “Normally, sounds of 90 to 100 decibels are harmful for human ears.”
“The worst kind of sound is created from the chain crackers, as they create continuous noise. Any loud cracker which bursts close to children is harmful, especially if the sound is being created continuously.”
Malik added that the impact is long lasting.
“The human ear takes 12 to 24 hours to get back to normal once it is exposed to very loud sound,” he said.
According to estimates, the average noise limit in the national capital during Diwali is above 100 decibels. Some firecrackers are even louder, producing sounds of more than 125 to 130 decibels.
“Though the sound may not have immediate effects, they cause problems in the long term,” said Arvind C. Kacker, senior consultant with ENT Hospital Delhi, one of Asia’s largest ENT specialty hospitals.
“The ear drums are affected by sound pressure, any damage that may occur can later lead to infection and discharge from the ear, and in extreme cases even deafness,” he said.
As the ear is directly connected to the brain, any infection may also reach the brain, thus making it highly dangerous, he added.
According to Sen, it also causes irritation and mental stress.
“Though it happens to adults as well, children are more prone to it. In addition, it may also affect digestion, as the stomach creates more acid when exposed to loud noises,” he said.
With a long list of possible damage, experts say people need to take precaution.
Malik said: “Firstly, children should not be allowed to burst crackers alone and the kind of firecrackers they use should be strictly monitored.”
“Firecrackers should not be burst close to ears, and the chain crackers which emit sound continuously should be avoided,” he said.
Sen pointed out that “Just like ‘green trees’, children have ‘green ears’ which are more sensitive. It’s best to cover your ears while bursting crackers.”
He added that stuffing cotton wool, or ear plugs is the best way.
Kacker stressed that avoiding noisy firecrackers is the best option as it helps individual as well as society and environment.
- No crackers after 10 p.m.: Delhi Police - Nov 04, 2010
- Popular toys could damage hearing of children - Dec 19, 2011
- Firecrackers go green this Diwali - Oct 23, 2011
- Diwali quieter this year in Mumbai, says NGO study - Oct 28, 2011
- Dikshit, Delhi Police call for safe, pollution-free Diwali - Nov 05, 2010
- This Diwali, be wary of that anar and chakri - Oct 24, 2011
- Delhi to monitor pollution levels on Diwali - Nov 03, 2010
- West Bengal celebrates Diwali, Kali Puja - Nov 05, 2010
- Most Brits risking hearing with MP3 volumes louder than pneumatic drill - May 03, 2011
- Tiny tots in Siliguri say no to crackers - Oct 10, 2009
- Kolkata gears up to battle Diwali noise, air pollution - Nov 04, 2010
- Old theory could help in noise protection - Dec 04, 2011
- Rock concerns lead to impaired hearing? - May 23, 2012
- Doctors, Delhi police offer safety tips for a safe Diwali - Oct 16, 2009
- Woman demands $9 mn from Bieber for deafening gig - Jul 15, 2012
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Editorial: House kicks the debt ceiling down the road
BY World's Editorials Writers
Thursday, January 24, 2013
1/24/13 at 7:13 AM
As much as Republicans say they detest "kicking the can down the road," that's just what they did Wednesday by delaying a vote on the debt ceiling for at least four months.
The Wednesday vote in the House of Representatives will allow the country to continue paying its bills, but the same issue will have to be voted on again in four months and another fight is likely then. Wednesday's vote probably avoided a stock market tumble and global economic problems.
The Republicans in the House made somewhat of a grandstanding move by including a provision in the measure that docks the pay of lawmakers if one of the chambers of Congress fails to pass a budget by April 15.
Of course, constitutionally, it has little effect. The provision would simply impound lawmaker salaries until a budget is passed or the 113th Congress ends, whichever comes first.
The country has, indeed, gone without a budget for far too long. Both houses of Congress need to set aside petty squabbling and present budgets that can be debated, modified and sent to the president.
Before Congress can get to those two issues, it has to deal with the expiration on March 27 of the stopgap financing measure it passed late last year to keep the government running.
Republicans have insisted that they are willing to let the government shut down and force deep spending cuts or changes to Medicare and Social Security. Without some sort of resolution, the country is facing $110 billion in automatic across-the-board spending cuts to defense and domestic programs.
The country's immediate debt ceiling crisis has been kicked down the road. And the 113th Congress is off to its predictable start.
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Meet and Greet and Valet Parking Tips and Advice
1. Compare the cost of a taxi to and from the airport
Do a quick comparison of the airport parking cost compared to taking a taxi to and from the airport and you'll be surprised by how cost effective parking at the airport can be. Most people find they can save half their taxi fare by booking their airport parking online. Add that with the convenience of driving your own car and the fact that you don't have to rely on someone else to get you to the airport on time.
2. Avoid booking directly with the car park
We process upwards of 10,000 airport bookings every month. As such, we negotiate bulk rates from the car parks and can often pass better prices onto our customers.
3. Book parking in advance
Not only will you save money (up to 60% cheaper than just turning up at the airport and paying at the gate), but you'll also save time as you will have a reserved parking space (during peak holiday periods, the majority of car parks are full)..
4. Choose the right product
At each airport you will find a selection of car parks. There are many products to select from, so ensure you choose one that suits you - on airport, off airport, long-stay, short-stay, or a personal meet and greet service. If you are unsure check out the ratings for each car park, which are generated solely from reviews that our clients send to us about the car park that they have recently used..
5. Allow plenty of time
Always allow yourself extra time on top of your airport check-in time to drop your car off, especially if the car park is offsite and you need to catch a shuttle bus - you don't want to miss your flight!.
6. Arriving home
Make sure you know where to go on your arrival at the airport to collect your car. If there's a shuttle bus, make note of where it will pick you up as it may be a different place to where it dropped you off.If you follow the above guidelines, you won`t go far wrong!. | <urn:uuid:32e6f716-f972-4ff4-aaf7-aa2ee02cf02d> | CC-MAIN-2013-20 | http://www.ukmeetandgreet.com/advice.html | 2013-05-24T23:39:48Z | s3://commoncrawl/crawl-data/CC-MAIN-2013-20/segments/1368705284037/warc/CC-MAIN-20130516115444-00000-ip-10-60-113-184.ec2.internal.warc.gz | en | 0.966 | 435 | null | null | HuggingFaceFW/fineweb |
The Radiation Laboratory fosters interdisciplinary academic activity to support faculty and student research for UML and the entire UMASS system. The laboratory supports existing UML degree programs in sciences, engineering, and other disciplines through faculty and student research, academic course use, student work-study, and student tours. The laboratory is typically used annually by six UML departments and in over 13 courses.
One of the most successful educational endeavors at the laboratory is an outreach program sponsored by the Department of Energy. This program, which started at the University in 1985, is popular with area schools, grades 7-12. The goal of this program is two-fold: to motivate student interest in nuclear science and technology, and to utilize the reactor facilities to expand education and outreach opportunities. The program is comprehensive in that it includes lectures, hands-on experiments and tours of the laboratory. Students and teachers may also participate via interactive two-way cable and satellite television. The lectures cover topics on basic radiation physics, the uses of radiation, and nuclear technologies in general.
By taking full advantage of digital data acquisition and control systems in use at the laboratory, remote access to experimental facilities is now possible. Digital neutron radiography can be performed and viewed remotely, for use as both a teaching and research tool.
Another unique capability is a link to real-time and archived data from the UML research reactor. Professor John White has established a website (nuclear101) to serve as an educational resource for students, instructors, and working professionals interested in the nuclear engineering field. The primary focus is on reactor physics, operations, and the modeling and analysis of nuclear systems. The accessible measured data (power level, flow rate, various temperatures, etc.) allows the illustration of many basic concepts needed in the design and operation of any nuclear system.
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Campus nurses and principals in schools across San Diego County have been put on alert following a deadly outbreak of meningitis in Tijuana.
Since January, Tijuana has been hit with at least 17 confirmed cases of meningococcal disease, including six deaths, according to the San Diego County Health and Human Services Agency. Those who contracted the disease ranged in age from 1 to 27, with the median age at 13.
Last week, a 36-year-old man died in San Diego County from meningococcal disease and a 1-year-old recovered from the disease after being hospitalized in February. Neither had been to Tijuana, but they were in contact with people who did.
County health officials have urged schools to take precautions by educating their staffs and parents about how to spot symptoms and by providing information about the meningitis vaccine that is recommended for children and adolescents 11 to 18 years of age.
“We are following closely this unexpected increase in cases in Tijuana,” said Eric McDonald, deputy public health director. “San Diego has not had an increase in cases, but we are raising awareness. This is a vaccine-preventable disease.”
The health warning comes at a time when many families in the region plan spring break trips to Mexico to visit relatives or vacation.
Jeanne Salvadori, who oversees nursing services for the San Diego County Office of Education, said schools are working diligently to reach parents, especially those who may be traveling to Tijuana.
“This is the first outbreak of this magnitude that I have ever seen,” said Salvadori, who has been working with the county’s 42 school districts to get the word out. “Because we are a border county and there is a lot of cross-border travel, we want to make sure that families are informed.”
Meningococcal disease can cause meningitis, an inflammation of the lining around the brain, and septicemia, (also known as blood poisoning), according to the U.S. Centers for Disease Control and Prevention. The disease is caused by the bacterium Neisseria meningitidis.
Symptoms of bacterial meningitis include fever, intense headache, lethargy, stiff neck, and/or a pinpoint rash that does not blanch under pressure. Anyone experiencing symptoms should seek immediate medical care.
Health officials have reminded schools that routine hygiene recommendations should be reinforced at schools. For example, schools have been directed to promote hand washing and use of hand sanitizer as a defense against diseases — from the serious illness to the common cold. Since bacteria can spread through coughing and sneezing, students have been taught to sneeze or cough into a tissue or their own elbow or sleeve.
Schools have also been directed to discourage students from sharing food, beverages, eating utensils, lipstick, or lip balm since saliva can spread bacteria that causes disease. Meanwhile, adults are reminded that sharing cigarettes and pipes can also spread bacteria.
The San Diego Unified School District, the largest in the county, has notified principals and school nurses of the health alert. The district plans to send a letter — in English and Spanish — to parents by next week before spring break begins next Friday, said spokeswoman Linda Zintz. | <urn:uuid:4620fda3-2996-45b1-8784-af08cd5db5e8> | CC-MAIN-2013-20 | http://www.utsandiego.com/news/2013/mar/20/schools-warned-about-meningitis/ | 2013-05-24T23:29:09Z | s3://commoncrawl/crawl-data/CC-MAIN-2013-20/segments/1368705284037/warc/CC-MAIN-20130516115444-00000-ip-10-60-113-184.ec2.internal.warc.gz | en | 0.973338 | 678 | null | null | HuggingFaceFW/fineweb |
WORLD readers seem to value our annual back-to-school issues, but we've heard a complaint: You emphasize Christian schools and homeschools but don't pay enough attention to public schools. So in this issue we're highlighting trends in public schooling: We'll come back to Christian education throughout the fall.
In describing public-school rates of change, "trends" may not be the right word: Change takes so long that we should call them "oozes." One public education ooze: tighter budgets in most states, but not the radical cuts that appeared in newspaper scare headlines this spring. Educational budgets have expanded so much that schools often have as many administrative personnel as teachers, as our article, "Money for nothing," shows.
Is all that extra expense the result of educators' empire-building? Much certainly is, but schools do face more behavioral problems than they did a generation ago, in part because of the growth of single-parenting and the burdens children bring with them to school. The sidebar called "Problem parents" notes that fixing education begins with fixing marriage.
A second ooze: corruption. Some public schools have great Christian teachers-we profile one. See "'Their lives have value.'" Others have corrupt administrators and teachers. In "Looking for integrity," we have a column on Atlanta's sad story, but throughout the summer similar tales of administrative cheating on tests emerged from Pennsylvania, Washington, D.C., and elsewhere.
A third ooze: the growth of charter schools, which offer alternatives within public-school systems. Although severely hampered because teachers cannot talk about Christ, charter schools have the potential to innovate, and some emerge from surprising backgrounds: In "Soft sell" we profile a chain of Muslim-originated ones.
One lesson I derive from these varied stories is that researchers have found little correlation between spending and educational success. For example, last year the affluent Carmel (Calif.) Unified School District spent almost $16,000 per student, three times more than the middle-class Norris School District, yet the students had similar test scores. Similarly, the Center for Investigative Reporting found that Oakland spent about $3,000 more per student than the demographically similar Moreno Valley Schools. Students in both districts had similar test scores.
That money can't buy wisdom is even more evident in the higher education realm. More parents are angry about college costs, but so far plenty still are willing to write checks (see "Higher idols"). Many parents and students think that a college degree virtually guarantees a good job, but that's no longer the case (see "Career crisis"). Students may increase their employability by majoring in economics or finance, but parents who think those fields are spiritually safe havens are over-optimistic (see "No safe havens").
We do have some good news. The poor quality of math education has been an oozing story for decades, so in "Math - tears = Khan academy," we tell the story of a free, online math-teaching program, Khanacademy.org, that has caught on both among some public-school teachers but also homeschoolers. No bells and whistles, and its inventor doesn't have a teaching degree, so it's great that America still allows clever innovators to make a difference. | <urn:uuid:b9c63666-781e-4c9b-a6f3-617983c74cab> | CC-MAIN-2013-20 | http://www.worldmag.com/2011/08/educational_ooze | 2013-05-24T23:12:49Z | s3://commoncrawl/crawl-data/CC-MAIN-2013-20/segments/1368705284037/warc/CC-MAIN-20130516115444-00000-ip-10-60-113-184.ec2.internal.warc.gz | en | 0.966722 | 674 | null | null | HuggingFaceFW/fineweb |
Saving and Creating Jobs and Reforming Education
A Slideshow Presentation
U.S. Department of Education
April 3, 2009
This slideshow looks at guiding principles and funding availability for programs funded by the American Recovery and Reinvestment Act. The Act provides over $100 billion for education and is a historic opportunity to stimulate the economy and improve education. | <urn:uuid:d5e22db6-53b2-4e28-af10-a6158c4fc89e> | CC-MAIN-2013-20 | http://www2.ed.gov/policy/gen/leg/recovery/presentation/index.html?exp=2 | 2013-05-24T23:21:42Z | s3://commoncrawl/crawl-data/CC-MAIN-2013-20/segments/1368705284037/warc/CC-MAIN-20130516115444-00000-ip-10-60-113-184.ec2.internal.warc.gz | en | 0.895523 | 73 | null | null | HuggingFaceFW/fineweb |
When you need to change an internal set of bearings, there’s no need to pay someone else to do this job for you. Instead, pick up a Slide Hammer and Bearing Puller Set from Harbor Freight (SKU 95987). This internal puller can turn hours of tedious work into an easy task that only takes a few seconds. With a little practice, using a slide hammer and bearing puller will become second nature. Let’s take a look at why this is the right internal puller to help you get the job done:
A Tool that Truly Pays for Itself
A typical bearing job at an auto repair shop generally costs much more, and you may need to replace these items several times if you like to keep your favorite truck for years on end. Almost every type of small engine includes one or more pilot bearings.
The Versatility of the Harbor Freight Slide Hammer and Bearing Puller Set
Once you’ve added the Slide Hammer and Bearing Puller Set to your arsenal of tools, there’s virtually no limit to what you can do. To see just how versatile this tool actually can be, take a look at this list of projects homeowners just like you have taken on with this internal puller:
- Replace wheel bearings in a vintage motorcycle
- Rebuild the water pump on a snowmobile
- Replace the gimble bearings in a motor boat
- Complete a rear-axle bearing job on a 4WD truck
Whether you enjoy browsing through the interesting selections that fill the shelves at your local Harbor Freight outlet or you prefer to do your shopping online, take a look at this Slide Hammer and Bearing Puller Set. This tool is a must-have for most types of engine or wheel repair. Why not pick up one today to make sure it’s ready and waiting for your next big project? Or check out this 3-Jaw Pilot Bearing Puller, which removes sleeve-type bearings between 3/4" and 1-1/2" (19mm - 38mm) inside diameter quickly and easily. | <urn:uuid:4fd9ea0f-df19-41d6-a9ce-46d40b26f104> | CC-MAIN-2013-20 | http://blog.harborfreight.com/slide-hammer-and-bearing-puller-set/1004/ | 2013-06-19T13:34:17Z | s3://commoncrawl/crawl-data/CC-MAIN-2013-20/segments/1368708783242/warc/CC-MAIN-20130516125303-00000-ip-10-60-113-184.ec2.internal.warc.gz | en | 0.918937 | 427 | null | null | HuggingFaceFW/fineweb |
The Social Life of Information
I remember well the first time someone told me that the paperless office was coming. It was 1987, and I was a young manager in a customer service department of a Fortune 500 company talking to a records management expert. We were in the process of setting up a new office, and I was sketching out the locations of the file cabinets and quick-access racks that would hold customer files and copies of the myriad of forms required for taking and completing orders.
My company RME told me not to spend too much time worrying about where I was going to keep years and years of paper data. The paperless office was coming, she assured me. Everything would be kept on the computers - only the computers - and all of my paperwork would soon be a thing of the past. | <urn:uuid:34203e30-af5f-4668-885b-1255286612f7> | CC-MAIN-2013-20 | http://blog.lib.umn.edu/bjohnson/grad/references/books/ | 2013-06-19T13:01:39Z | s3://commoncrawl/crawl-data/CC-MAIN-2013-20/segments/1368708783242/warc/CC-MAIN-20130516125303-00000-ip-10-60-113-184.ec2.internal.warc.gz | en | 0.984383 | 163 | null | null | HuggingFaceFW/fineweb |
Archive For The “Parenting” Category
Mother’s day is this Sunday. I only found out because my eldest has been rehearsing a mother’s day song in his children’s choir. So they are planning a surprise to moms this Sunday. So sweet! My son has already greeted me way in advance. I hugged him and thanked him for his thoughtfulness. Whoever invented [...]
Father and son spent a day bonding with each other at Z’s school field trip. It was tiring but was a day well spent. I’m glad they spent quality time together before our new baby is born. I’m sure this would be something they would cherish even in the years to come.
I failed at breastfeeding my firstborn so it’s only natural that I’m so nervous that I’m going to fail again the second time around. That’s why I want to attend the breastfeeding workshop organized by Latch Inc. WHAT: A workshop for pregnant moms and their partners WHERE: 4th Floor Conference Room, The Medical City (Starbucks [...]
As parents, we do our best to keep our children from harm’s way. Some of us have become overly protective and the situation have escalated to safety latches, gates on staircases, electrical outlet covers and we constantly have to yell for them to play indoors. This is actually not a bad thing; this makes us [...]
I’ve put on a hold to my schooling that started at the end of June when my daughter got sick and we had a dengue scare. I had to choose between me and her well-being, basically where to spend my money on, and decided that it should go to her laboratories, check-up and medication. I [...]
New theme for Blogaholic Mom! I so love it and this is made possible by Cei of Finkalixius. I was visiting Rosa’s baby blog and my curiosity led me to Cei’s website and learned that she offers wordpress theme creation for a very affordable price. I just did a little tweaking on the css to [...]
My teacher on two subjects is on paternal leave, his wife gave birth today and he has to attend to her. While I don’t have problems with him doing his fatherly roles, but wasting my time and effort fixing myself going to school is not something I appreciate. He could have at least assigned another [...] | <urn:uuid:f3e8296c-0887-49d3-a140-a3d6f78b912f> | CC-MAIN-2013-20 | http://blogaholicmom.info/category/parenting | 2013-06-19T13:07:19Z | s3://commoncrawl/crawl-data/CC-MAIN-2013-20/segments/1368708783242/warc/CC-MAIN-20130516125303-00000-ip-10-60-113-184.ec2.internal.warc.gz | en | 0.983516 | 511 | null | null | HuggingFaceFW/fineweb |
The babble about web-to-TV keeps increasing. Noticed a story today on NPR, then an industry report in my e-mail. While the numbers are creeping up ever so slowly, it still seems a long way off for average couch potatoes.
The latest survey: Leichtman Research Group data shows that just over 24 percent of all U.S. homes have a Web-to-TV connection, while 5 percent of adults are watching YouTube and Hulu on their TV screens each week.
That’s not nothing. But it’s not enough to make most of us run out and buy new set-top gizmos. | <urn:uuid:c1c4d2d7-5baa-43c6-ab91-df51ebb8cb66> | CC-MAIN-2013-20 | http://blogs.denverpost.com/ostrow/tag/funny-web-content/ | 2013-06-19T13:28:13Z | s3://commoncrawl/crawl-data/CC-MAIN-2013-20/segments/1368708783242/warc/CC-MAIN-20130516125303-00000-ip-10-60-113-184.ec2.internal.warc.gz | en | 0.91103 | 133 | null | null | HuggingFaceFW/fineweb |
DAUPHIN ISLAND, Ala. (AP) -- High winds have forced the shutdown of the ferry linking Dauphin Island with Alabama's main tourist beaches.
Mobile Bay Ferry operators said they had to suspend service on Wednesday because of gale-force winds.
The National Weather Service has issued a gale warning for the coast. Winds blowing to about 35 mph can churn up Mobile and make ferry operations hazardous.
The service should reopen on Thursday.
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Which jobs use electromagnets?
In today's world almost all jobs other than a goat herder use some type of electromagnet. They are everywhere. Electric motors are a type of electromagnet. Cars have dozens of electromagnets that move things or generate electricity. There are all sorts of interesting applications for larger electromagnets. The most obvious and biggest example is electricity. There are some interesting applications like dumping shredded garbage through powerful magnetic fields to sort out and recycle metal bits. At Jefferson Lab we do something similar when we shoot our particle beam through very powerful magnetic fields. The particles neatly sort themselves out by mass.
One area that I would really like to see more of is the development and use of electric cars. Electric motors are actually much better suited to the type of driving most people do than internal combustion engines. Contrary to what most people believe, electric cars are not zero pollution. The electricity comes from somewhere and it's usually generated by a big power plant. The motors used in electric cars are very advanced though. It would be great if scientists could do more research on energy storage systems, batteries for example.
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Sunday, August 9, 2009
Howard's game growing in stature at Everton
Tim Howard arrived at Everton as not exactly a broken man but one certainly bent out of shape.
Everton staff believe Tim Howard can become the best goalkeeper in the world. (GettyImages)
Three summers on and he is being touted as having the potential to make himself the world's No 1 goalkeeper.Everton manager David Moyes already insists the American is as good as it gets in the Premier League. "Tim is now on the same level as Pepe Reina and Petr Cech," Moyes said. "They are considered to be the two best in England. I would not swap either for my man."Moyes is backed in his view by goalkeeper coach Chris Woods, himself a former England international, who, it could be said, will be as biased as his boss.But he is not and never has been one for hyperbole. Nor indeed can Moyes ever be accused of overstating the talents of his players.Quite the opposite, in fact.Moyes prefers to play down the role of his stars but in the case of Howard he is finding that just about impossible to do.The U.S.'s top goalkeeper recently showcased his brilliant abilities as he backed up a superlative performance against the MLS All-Stars with three penalty shoot-out saves to make Everton the first British club to win the annual clash."Since we signed Tim he has worked to prove that what happened to him at Manchester United was only a learning experience as opposed to what might have led to the downfall of his career," Moyes said. "He simply gets better and better. He works harder than any goalkeeper I have employed."He is the last off the training ground," Moyes continued."Tim does whatever it takes to improve himself and his commitment is fantastic."Can he become the best in the world? You bet he can," he said."Even now I don't see anyone better than him. And at the age of just 30, which is not even a goalkeeper's prime time, he has many seasons ahead of him to grab that No 1 spot and keep it."The transformation in Howard, with 43 international caps now firmly established as Kasey Keller's successor, has been remarkable.North Brunswick, New Jersey-born Howard arrived at Old Trafford for $4 million at the start of the 2003-04 season and made himself an instant hit with the decisive save in a Community Shield shoot-out against Arsenal.By the end of his first campaign he was named the EPL's goalkeeper of the year, but the success was not to last.Mistakes started kicking in and his appearance figures declined dramatically. He did sign a new long-term contract but fumed over the fact Sir Alex Ferguson also brought in Dutchman Edwin van der Sar.He ended up initially on loan at Everton, some newspapers even cruelly suggested that as a sufferer of Tourette syndrome who refused to medicate himself against the neurological disease, he had lost Ferguson's confidence.He certainly had lost some of his own, admitting he hadn't realized what he was getting into when he first joined perhaps the biggest and most well-known club on the planet."I thought I did," Howard said. "After a year, I was sadly mistaken. "It was bigger than I could have ever expected in every way," he said. "The magnitude of each game, the pressure in every training session, the responsibility that's put on you by the club, by yourself, by the players. It's bigger than you can expect in any aspect."Moyes, who was looking for a replacement for retiring veteran Nigel Martyn, decided to take a chance on him. "While his ability, or at least his potential, was unquestioned, we knew his confidence was down," Moyes said. "He was the Manchester United No. 1 and then he was out. Of course it would be difficult for him."But the way he has developed since has been great. For Tim as well as us. I look all over the world and I just don't see anyone better now."
Woods, 10 years into coaching and having himself suffered the very special isolation and rejection goalkeepers experience when they are dropped -- "It's much worse than being an outfield player, believe me" -- cannot praise Howard highly enough for the way he responded to being ditched by Ferguson.
The Englishman spent many years rated behind the legendary Peter Shilton and David Seaman at international level, Shilton's presence as the country's preeminent No. 1 at Nottingham Forest forcing him out of there, too.
Woods, who spent a 23-game spell with the Colorado Rapids in 1996 and who ultimately played 43 times for his country -- ironically the same number that Howard now sits on for the U.S. -- thinks that Howard has unlimited potential.
"I think Tim has trusted me and I think that trust has helped him become better and better," Woods said. "He can see a sort of kindred spirit because he knows how difficult it was for me back in the day."We have a great relationship, one that I think has helped Tim see what is possible," he said."And with him anything is possible. His level of consistency is amazing, his workload on the training field second to none."There are many great goalkeepers around, not just in England. Iker Casillas of Real Madrid, Gianluigi Buffon of Juventus to add to the likes of Cech, Reina and Van der Sar."But I know my boss wouldn't swap Howard for any of them. Come to that, neither would I, either. Tim's going to be the best there is."Ken Lawrence is a British sports journalist based in Los Angeles. He can be reached at email@example.com. | <urn:uuid:fdae5fcc-cb19-4e3c-9789-70dfde7e3d41> | CC-MAIN-2013-20 | http://espnfc.com/print?id=666242&type=story | 2013-06-19T13:23:38Z | s3://commoncrawl/crawl-data/CC-MAIN-2013-20/segments/1368708783242/warc/CC-MAIN-20130516125303-00000-ip-10-60-113-184.ec2.internal.warc.gz | en | 0.991224 | 1,193 | null | null | HuggingFaceFW/fineweb |
What kind of message do you think this sends?
White House press secretary Jay Carney congratulated the Venezuelan people on their recent election, despite exit polls showing the opposition to President Hugo Chavez winning.
“We have our differences with President Chavez,” Carney told reporters traveling on Air Force One. “But we congratulate the Venezuelan people,”
We officially, from the White House, congratulated the people of Venezuelan people on again electing Hugo Chavez. Who’s Hugo Chavez:
This from The Threat Closer to Home: Hugo Chavez and the War Against America:
A chilling account of Hugo Chávez’s shadow war on the United States
The American government has shrugged off South American politics for nearly forty years. In the meantime, our neighbor to the south has grown into an unprecedented threat. Hugo Chávez, the current president of Venezuela and a self-proclaimed enemy of the United States, commands what even Osama bin Laden only dreams of — but few Americans see him as a true danger to this country. This book argues that we should.
Chávez has the means and the motivation to harm the United States in a way that few other countries can, and he has declared an “asymmetric war” against America. He runs a sovereign nation that is the fourth largest supplier of oil to the United States. He enjoys annual windfall oil profits that equal the net worth of Bill Gates. He has more modern weapons than anyone in Latin America. He has strategic alliances with Iran, North Korea, and other enemies of America, yet he has duped many Americans — from influential political and cultural leaders to ordinary citizens who benefit from his oil largess through his state-owned oil company — into believing that he is a friend.
And our White House congratulates the Venezuelan people on re-electing this crumb bum. What kind of message does that send to not only Venezuela, but the rest of the world?
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Women Who Rock – Loni Rose of King’s Bullet
“It’s fun to tell the story, because it’s one of those things that just happened”, Loni Rose says when asked about how King’s Bullet (her partnership with hit songwriter and producer, Trey Bruce) came to be.
“Some of the best things in life happen when you least expect it. All of a sudden, you turn a corner, and there’s a gift just waiting for you.”
Loni originally met Trey through a mutual friend to do some songwriting together, but the pair quickly realized that what they had was something extra special. The result is the debut EP of King’s Bullet; eight songs shot straight from the heart. From the opening lines of the eccentrically titled “Watermelon Sun” to the rawness and energy of songs like “One Brick Shy”, “Blood On the Floor” and the title track, the power of their partnership is on full display.
I had the chance to speak with Loni about the new album and her partnership with Trey. We also discuss her musical background as well as the day she had an epiphany, and discovered the real secret of songwriting.
goJimmygo (gJg): Tell me about the genesis of King’s Bullet.
Loni Rose (LR): Trey and I met a few years ago in Nashville by a mutual friend (Eli Ball) just to meet and possibly do some writing together. One of the things Eli had told me before I moved to Nashville and started co-writing was, “You’re going to meet and write with a lot of people. There will be situations where you will really click, and then there will be times when you don’t. But every once in a while, and maybe only once, you’re going to meet someone and there’s going to be magical chemistry.” And that’s what happened with us. I’ve been a solo artist for a long time and Trey’s always been a hit writer and producer. So this is a major thing for both of us. It’s cool!
gJg: What were those early writing sessions like?
LR: Trey had hired me to sing the demo for a song he had written called “King’s Bullet” (which we ended up calling the duo). It was such a great demo and we received really great feedback on it. So we started writing material together that felt like that. The songs we found that were special were the ones that had a disregard for the typical format of a song. I mean, who would write a song called “Watermelon Sun”? [laughs]
gJg: That’s one of my favorite songs from the record!
LR: Thank you! Sometimes we’ll start with just an idea or a title. Sometimes we won’t even have a concept; like with “Watermelon Sun”. I said, “That title (Watermelon Sun) is so cool! I don’t even know what that means, but I like it.” [laughs]
gJg: One Brick Shy
LR: I was going through some things when I showed up at the co-write and that was kind of how that song was born. Trey and I discovered as we got to know each other that we both had gone through a lot of things in love and life that were similar. We both channeled that feeling and got really raw about it; which was new for me. I was always more comfortable with writing music that lifts and lights up a room. I wasn’t used to writing songs that had a darker edge or a tragic, sad quality to them. It wasn’t easy for me to get comfortable about talking and writing about it. That has been a huge evolution for me.
gJg: Blood On The Floor
LR: It was Eli Ball who once said, “When you guys write together, you leave your blood on the floor!” I immediately texted Trey and said, “This is our next song title!” [laughs]. We actually wrote “Blood On The Floor” the day before we went in to the studio to cut the EP.
gJg: Tell me a little about your musical background.
LR: My parents both played guitar and I grew up listening to them play in the house. When I was in third grade, I started taking piano lessons and got really into it. There actually came a point where I really got lost in playing. I would practice my piano in the morning, but then when I came home from school, I’d just play and make things up.
I remember that even before I had actually written a “real” song with lyrics, I had about fifty or so pieces of music that I created and would just play for hours.
When I was 16, my parents gave me my first guitar. By then, my parents both knew that I wanted to be a singer, but my Dad told me something that’s been so powerful to me ever since the day he said it. He challenged me and said:
“Singers are a dime a dozen, you need to write your own songs.”
It wasn’t until I was in a piano room in my high school trying to write a song with words that I finally realized where they come from. Songs come from inside of your heart, inside of you. It was a place to be expressive.
Ever since that clicked in my head and I wrote that first song with lyrics and melody, I was able to write, and I’ve been writing ever since. I’ve been fortunate to have had a lot of my music placed in TV and film. It’s given me nice exposure which helped when I moved to Nashville.
gJg: Now that the album has been released, what’s next for King’s Bullet?
LR: We’re definitely interested in going out on tour and supporting the new record. We’re on this amazing ride and have no idea where it’s going to go. It came from such an authentic place, and we’re having so much fun just throwing it at the world and seeing what’s going to happen next.
For more information on Loni and King’s Bullet, check out their official website by Clicking Here
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We hear it often, “Jesus is the reason for the season.” Though true, is not our stating this old memorized cliche not mere lip service in a lot of ways? It is easy to say, “Jesus is the reason for the season,” only to continue with our long list of to dos, cookie baking, and gift wrapping.
The truth is, we won’t make Jesus the center of our celebrations if we don’t intentionally prepare our hearts daily, starting right now. Jesus can quickly become a by-product, an afterthought, as we become distracted by the glittery lights and sparkly boxes. Jesus is not just the reason for this season, but He is the reason for all the seasons.
So what is life, this season, asking you to memorize? To write on your heart? To make a priority?
What does it mean to make Jesus the reason for the season in your heart? In your words? In your actions?
One of the Pharisees asked [Jesus] to eat with him, and he went into the Pharisee’s house and took his place at the table. ~Luke 7:36
We say, Jesus, you’re the reason for the season. Come to our home, eat our food, and watch us open our presents. We’ve made you a priority. We said you’re welcome to come here. But so did the Pharisee.
And behold, a woman of the city, who was a sinner, when she learned that he was reclining at table in the Pharisee’s house, brought an alabaster flask of ointment, and standing behind him at his feet, weeping, she began to wet his feet with her tears and wiped them with the hair of her head and kissed his feet and anointed them with the ointment. ~Luke 7:37-38
A vastly contrasting scene ensued upon the arrival of Jesus to the Pharisee’s house. This lady, a great sinner, knelt at the feet that had traveled many roads and alleyways that day –before sanitation was an understood concept. She was weeping and her tears fell on Jesus’ feet. Do you understand what that means? She wasn’t merely sitting behind, or at the table. She knelt so near her tears were literally able to wash Jesus’ feet. It was a deliberate and an intentional portrayal of her humility and understanding of who Jesus is, and for the reason he had come.
Then, we see her throw caution to the wind, as well as her money, to shatter her alabaster flask at the feet of Jesus. She gave freely. She gave abundantly. She held nothing back for herself. She gave him everything.
As we continue to gaze through the window of this captivating scene, we see her use her hair, long and beautiful, to wipe the feet of Jesus clean. She did not care that her hair was now sticky and holding the dirt that was meant for someone’s feet. She did not care that her beautiful hair was now matted and needed washed. She cared so little that she then bent over the worn feet of Jesus and kissed them.
This woman, this sinner, was a woman of humility, gentleness, and courage who loved deeply and profoundly. She loved more than the Pharisees were capable because she realized the magnitude of her sin. She saw herself as she rightly was – unworthy.
Therefore I tell you, her sins, which are many, are forgiven – for she loved much. But he who is forgiven little, loves little. Luke 7:47
Love – complex in all its meaning. To grow in love, we must grow in our understanding of the Cross. We must plummet the depths of its meaning and grasp the truth of what it accomplished. The mysteries of the Cross are profound, but the mysteries of the Cross are essential for us to be able to love deeply and sacrificially. We need new eyes to see so we may love like this dirty, wretched sinner of a woman.
So I think this Christmas season, life is asking you to memorize the Cross of Christ. May it not be said of us that we are women who speak one thing and do another. May we exude love this season because we have been forgiven much.
May we each kneel daily at the Cross, give of our time and money freely, and sacrifice all for the Kingdom. | <urn:uuid:751d4713-3312-4a62-97c8-c1ae51312c07> | CC-MAIN-2013-20 | http://intentionalbygrace.com/2012/12/04/what-life-is-asking-you-to-memorize-today/ | 2013-06-19T13:00:21Z | s3://commoncrawl/crawl-data/CC-MAIN-2013-20/segments/1368708783242/warc/CC-MAIN-20130516125303-00000-ip-10-60-113-184.ec2.internal.warc.gz | en | 0.983156 | 934 | null | null | HuggingFaceFW/fineweb |
My end of year resolutions are simple. In fact I don’t really think of them as being resolutions, and I’ve never made new years resolutions before because I feel like you’re just doomed to fail anyway, but this is a short and sweet list of what I hope for myself for the coming year ahead. I guess these are more goals, things I am aiming for as far as personal growth etc goes. A little list that I can keep handy, short enough to memorise and to tuck a copy into the cover of my bible. A list of prayer points to focus on for me and my heart. This list feels very important to me which I admit is kind of strange since as I said, I’ve never made a list of resolutions (or the like) before and have never felt motivated towards it before either. My lists consists of only three things, and these three things have been clamouring around inside my head for the past few weeks, waiting for me to pay attention. Seems like now is as good a time as any.
(Prov 141:3, Titus 3:2 )
(1 John:4:16, Matt 22:37-39)
(Heb 13:5, Phil 4:6)
My ugly hand-written list now prettified by my husband’s much nicer writing with sepia markers, and taped to my mirror where I will have no choice but to read it at least a few times a day and where it will stay for a little while at least until it sinks into my head. Maybe I should add “clean mirrors more frequently” to the list. Or not. Soft focus is flattering after all.
We are having a super laid back New Years Eve this year. Just our family, a few sparklers when the sun goes down, followed by a decent bedtime for the kids. Originally we were going to go to a friends place or my sisters in laws, but after a week of late nights and early mornings, the kids are just, well, crazy and tired and over the top so staying home seems like the better option.
And now for a little cuteness to end the year. The kittens are four weeks old today and while I have a backlog of photos I want to post up sometime, I took these ones this afternoon.
This little one is my favourite. She is the quietest and snuggliest of the four so she has been getting a lot of camera time lately.
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Results from my last poll: I asked, "What do you think is the main cause of decreased movie theater attendance?" You overwhelming selected "Bad Movies" as the primary reason. The runner-up was "Expensive Tickets." Tied for third place was "3D Backlash" and "Competition from Other Media Content." Next up was "Home Theaters Are a Better Experience." Tied for the next excuse slot were "Poor Marketing by Theater Chains" and "Other." In last place, but still to blame by some was "Poor Marketing by Hollywood Studios."
Thanks to everyone for voting. | <urn:uuid:1c391edb-e7c8-404e-a571-b413770ed43b> | CC-MAIN-2013-20 | http://open.salon.com/blog/kikstad/2012/01/31/new_poll_favorite_award_shows | 2013-06-19T13:03:40Z | s3://commoncrawl/crawl-data/CC-MAIN-2013-20/segments/1368708783242/warc/CC-MAIN-20130516125303-00000-ip-10-60-113-184.ec2.internal.warc.gz | en | 0.986154 | 123 | null | null | HuggingFaceFW/fineweb |
- Ages 2-12
Sand & Water Play
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- Weight: 48 lbs (22 kg)
- Size: 3' 4'' x 1' 0'' x 3' 4'' (1,02m x 0,3m x 1,02m)
- Capacity: 1
- Install Hours: 2
- ASTM F1487
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Harnessing the pitching brilliance of Native Americans and intergalactic tubbies, Joba Chamberlain appeared to be the savior the Yankee fans, Girardi and Hankenstein needed for their pitching staff. So it was a terrific blow when Joba Chamberlain left yesterday’s game rubbing his shoulder. The only thing worse would be if Joba hurt it in a fight with The Drunken Ghost of Billy Martin. (Fortunately, he’s in a cloud lined with sawdust, boozing it up with Mickey Mantle.) Fantasy baseball owners can’t be thrilled either. Pitcher leaves game rubbing shoulder? Fantasy baseball owner leaves seat walking funny. It’s too bad they can’t trade for Jar Jar on the Braves. Anyway, here’s what else we saw yesterday in fantasy baseball:
Cliff Lee – I figured since I hadn’t watched him in over two months, it was time to jinx him. I was so close in the 2nd when I got him to walk a few and load the bases. Alas, he pitched well in every other inning. Never fear, non-Cliff Lee owners, I will grab him like some friggin’ floating astronaut and drag him back to earth.
C.J. Wilson – Wilson says he’s feeling fatigued, maybe he got mono from a Kotchman open-mouth kiss. Either way, Eddie Guardado should be owned in all leagues because he would step in if C.J. pulls a Prince Valium.
Jason Bartlett – Won’t be able to throw a baseball for a few days, maybe Kotchman kissed his hand.
Kerry Wood – Word out of Wrigleyville is Wood can close again, but he’s going to get a bit of work in the middle innings then move into the closing role by the end of the week.
Gil Meche – Everyone mocked KC for signing him to that ridiculous contract but who’s dancing now. That’s right. Good ol’ Gil. 9 Ks in a 6 IP win against the Sox. 10-9 for an awful team – including 9-5 with a 3.27 ERA since May.
Ryan Zimmerman – Zimmerman says he should be able to avoid the DL with his bruised hand, so he can just clog up your bench instead.
Eric Chavez – Shut down for the year. Maybe they could build a healthy 3B out of the spare parts of Chavez and Blalock? Those A’s don’t have a long shelf life, do they? Mulder, Hudson, Chavez, Byrnes… Who’d have thought Harden and Giambi would be the poster children of durability?
Jay Bruce – 3 HRs in 4 games. That’s the Bruce we know and love. He obviously idolized Griffey Jr. and was emulating the current version. Now that he’s out of Cincy, he’s back to emulating the 90′s version.
Bronson Arroyo – 6 IP, 1 ER, 6 Ks. This on the heels of Zito besting Peavy yesterday. Guess it’s premature for both to retire and start a rock trio with Slow Hand Pete called Baked Zito and the Republic of Bro-Yo, featuring Slow Hand Pete.
Roy Halladay – 8 IP, 1 ER. Queue the projector. It’s time for another installment of Out of Contention Run For Cy Young in Toronto. (see Clemens, Hentgen, Halladay…)
Tyler Yates – Third of an inning, 5 ER. This works out to a 135 ERA, 15 WHIP and 1 less closer on all of my teams.
Manny Parra/Prince Fielder – Hit hard by the Reds, hit harder by Fielder in the dugout. I haven’t seen anything this lopsided since Andre took on this guy. “Stop talking about meat and I mean it!” | <urn:uuid:c47fe3e2-fd6d-4e44-8685-5794d73b77e5> | CC-MAIN-2013-20 | http://razzball.com/joba-the-hurt/ | 2013-06-19T13:28:39Z | s3://commoncrawl/crawl-data/CC-MAIN-2013-20/segments/1368708783242/warc/CC-MAIN-20130516125303-00000-ip-10-60-113-184.ec2.internal.warc.gz | en | 0.942898 | 834 | null | null | HuggingFaceFW/fineweb |
After installing AT&T wireless I cannot connect to any websites on Firefox. I do get toolbars, tabs and a white screen and can connect to Safari.
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You can try to reset (power off/on) the router. | <urn:uuid:09321cbe-187a-462c-9a95-5fb2e6b6218e> | CC-MAIN-2013-20 | http://support.mozilla.org/en-US/questions/950658?mobile=1 | 2013-06-19T13:35:28Z | s3://commoncrawl/crawl-data/CC-MAIN-2013-20/segments/1368708783242/warc/CC-MAIN-20130516125303-00000-ip-10-60-113-184.ec2.internal.warc.gz | en | 0.849366 | 63 | null | null | HuggingFaceFW/fineweb |
I'm posting a very simple tutorial on how to model and apply shaders to get realistic eyes, the "windows of your character's soul". A lot of times, bad eyes can "kill" your character literally, even if it has the most perfect modeling of the world. The importance of the eyes is exactly this: give life to your character. Therefore, don't underestimate this very important step of CG character construction... if not, you've only created "puppets".
There is a quite big camber in the cornea, in the iris area. That irregularity, that all of us have, can become a great problem for a CG character. When rotating the eye, this area unfortunately would invade the eyelids faces, causing strange results. For that reason, I decreased this camber to avoid a probable future problem.
Create a sphere with few segments (in this case, 8):
If you prefer, delete the half and use a NURMS/Symmetry (MAX) or CPS Script (MAYA):
Here, we see the approximate size proportion of the iris in relation to the eye. It occupies an area a little larger than 2/4 of the height but not 1/3. Create 2 new loops according to the indications in red, exactly where the iris borders will be:
Here, the perspective view, after a small polygon "relax":
Model the small camber until getting a close result of this (side view):
We will transform the extremity triangles...
...in quads, cutting the mesh this way:
SubD wire version...
...shade mode. Observe that the camber is minimum, different than it happens in the real eye:
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The ex-wife of embattled AGT contestant Timothy Michael Poe says the aspiring country singer who stole America’s hearts with his touching story of being injured in combat is really an abusive liar, who she once had jailed for domestic violence.
Kelly Ballard — an Air Force veteran — says Tim, 35, even got another woman pregnant while she was deployed for ten months to Iraq in 2003!
“He ended up marrying her,” she tells AGTNews.com. “They got divorced in March of this year.”
During Monday night’s auditions — taped in April in Austin, TX — Poe, a one time magazine salesman, told the judges he had volunteered to help clear wounded people out of buildings in Afghanistan when he was hit by a grenade.
“It broke my back and gave me a brain injury,” he said. “That is the reason I stutter a little bit.”
But according to Ballard, none of that is true.
She tells The New York Post that Poe’s injuries came during training exercises in Mississippi and that “I have never heard him have a stutter like (he had on the show).”
“My son (Isaac) is 11,” she says. “He knows everything out of (Tim’s) mouth is a lie.”
Ballard says she caught her husband cheating in 1991 and after that the relationship headed straight down hill. “I had him arrested in June 2002 for domestic violence. After that, he vanished to Minnesota. He didn’t help out with our son at all.”
She also claims Poe has lied about his education.
“The whole time I have known him, I have never known him to be enrolled in any college,” she tells us. “There is a possibility he may have an associates degree from before I met him. On his Facebook page he says he has a Masters degree in project management.”
Oh, and that bit about how he never sang before a speech patholigist suggested it to help with the brain injury?
B.S., she says: he was the lead singer of a band in Rochester, Minnesota for four years.
So far, Poe has still declined to make any comments to the press. | <urn:uuid:226db61c-faa8-46c9-9f88-865a667661b7> | CC-MAIN-2013-20 | http://www.agtnews.com/exclusive-tim-poes-wife-says-he-is-a-deadbeat-cheater-and-abusive | 2013-06-19T13:19:47Z | s3://commoncrawl/crawl-data/CC-MAIN-2013-20/segments/1368708783242/warc/CC-MAIN-20130516125303-00000-ip-10-60-113-184.ec2.internal.warc.gz | en | 0.988663 | 485 | null | null | HuggingFaceFW/fineweb |
Special Membership Categories
The American Ornithologists' Union has three classes of special membership. Individuals are elected to these categories in recognition of their contributions to ornithology and to the AOU. The following are descriptions of these classes as given in Article I of the Bylaws of the American Ornithologists' Union.
Honorary Fellows shall be limited to 100. They shall be chosen for exceptional ornithological eminence and must at the time of their election be residents of a country other than the United States of America or Canada.
Fellows shall be chosen for exceptional and sustained contributions to ornithology and/or service to the Union. Fellows at the time of their election shall be Honorary Fellows, or Elective Members in good standing who are residents or citizens of a political subdivision of the Western Hemisphere.
Elective Members shall be chosen for significant contributions to ornithology and/or service to the Union. Elective Members at the time of their election shall be Members in good standing who are residents or citizens of a political subdivision of the Western Hemisphere.
Members who have been elected to any of these categories are identified by special membership codes in The Flock, the membership directory of the Ornithological Societies of North America (OSNA). Lists of the names of individuals in these special membership categories are available in PDF format, and can be viewed or printed using Adobe Acrobat Reader. Click on the appropriate category below to download a specific list. If you are unable to download these lists, they are available in various electronic formats or as hard copies; contact the AOU Secretary (), indicating your requirements.
Newly Elected Fellows and Elective Members for 2012
Honorary Fellow: Professor Regina Macedo (Universidade de Brasília, Brasília) and Andrei V. Zinoviev (Tver State University, Russia)
Fellow: David E. Andersen, María Coro Arizmendi, Rauri C.K. Bowie, Daniel A. Cristol, Hugh Drummond, John P. Dumbacher, James R. Herkert, Steven L. Lima, Kevin G. McCracken, Scott R. McWilliams, Bruce G. Peterjohn, Pamela J. Pietz, Jeffrey Podos, Abby N. Powell, Christopher C. Rimmer, W. Douglas Robinson, Ricardo Rodriguez-Estrella, Jean-Pierre L. Savard, Mark T. Stanback, and Tony D. Williams
Elective Member: Melissa S. Bowlin, Christopher J. Butler, Renée A. Duckworth, Bruce D. Dugger, Katie M. Dugger, John P. McCarty, Timothy J. O’Connell, Brian J. Olsen, Michael A. Schroeder, Margaret A. Voss, and Noah K. Whiteman
Nominations for Honorary Fellow are made by the Committee on Nomination of Honorary Fellows, and subsequently voted on by the Fellows at their annual meeting. However, suggestions for individuals deserving of such election can be made to the chair of this committee.
Nominations for Fellows and Elective Members are made by current Fellows and Elective Members, following the Instructions for Nominations. However, nominations are also generated by the Committee on Nomination of Fellows and Elective Members, and suggestions for individuals deserving of such election can be made to the chair of this committee.
Information on general and student memberships is available on the Membership page. | <urn:uuid:5209e158-1a56-4174-9839-0c3b63f464c9> | CC-MAIN-2013-20 | http://www.aou.org/membership/special.php | 2013-06-19T13:33:55Z | s3://commoncrawl/crawl-data/CC-MAIN-2013-20/segments/1368708783242/warc/CC-MAIN-20130516125303-00000-ip-10-60-113-184.ec2.internal.warc.gz | en | 0.911915 | 719 | null | null | HuggingFaceFW/fineweb |
This is not your average 32 page picture storybook. It is the same size as one and has the same pages and the illustrations are just as engaging for children to enjoy a book, its pictures and a storyline. However, the content is like a travel guide for W.A. with an adventure story intertwined with the quick tour of the state. So it would really appeal to anyone in W.A. who wants their children or students to learn more about their state or for any other child in the rest of Australia who is about to go on a holiday there or simply has been given the task to learn more about Western Australia.
The text on the page is about 30 to 50 words so there are many more than a child's picture book and a first level chapter book. So one would expect an older child to read it from the age of 8 to 10 or a parent to read it to a child if they were younger.
There are very few books around that cross between a travel guide, a kids adventure story and a picture story book and this one seems to have covered all of those areas extremely well. Highly recommended for anyone that feels the content is appropriate and relevant to your child or children.
Reviewed by Tony Nash, Booktopia's CEO
From Kalgoorlie to the Bungle Bungles, this fifth picture book in Roland Harvey's holiday adventure series takes us across landscapes and towns and introduces us to the people of Australia's west. A companion to the CBCA-shortlisted To the Top End.
Uncle Kev is lost. Can you help us find him? He's looking for the rare Bearded Night Parrot, and we're looking for him! Pack up and join us on another trip of a lifetime, across the Nullarbor and all over Western Australia.
Come with us on our other family adventures: To the Top End, In the City, In the Bush and At the Beach.
About the Author
Roland Harvey is one of Australia's best-loved illustrators. In 1978, he established Roland Harvey Studios and began designing and producing greeting cards, posters and stationery with a distinctly Australian flavour. Ventures into publishing quickly followed. Some of his best-loved books include My Place in Space (with Joe Levine), Burke and Wills, The First Fleet, Sick As (with Gael Jennings) and The New Roland Harvey Christmas Book, reincarnated by Allen and Unwin in 2008 as Roland Harvey's Big Book of Christmas. His recent books include the best-selling At the Beach, In the Bush, In the City and To the Top End and his brilliant illustrations are also a feature of It's True! Burke + Wills Forgot the Frying Pan by David Greagg and the Bonnie + Sam series - the Horses and Ponies of Currawong Creek, in collaboration with Alison Lester.
'This fun way for kids to learn more about Australia is sure to inspire a thirst for travel and the highly detailed pages will withstand many readings.' Sun Herald
'Roland Harvey is the master of detail - give him a page and he will create a city teeming with life...Harvey's wonderfully chaotic books always surprise.' Frances Atkinson, The Sunday Age
For Ages: 6 - 10 years old
For Grades: 1 - 4
Number Of Pages: 32
Published: 1st November 2011
Dimensions (cm): 25.0 x 24.0 x 0.8
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Welcome to the Future Home of Chalk-Off, the World's Leading Pool Table Cleaner.
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Niels Albert stormed to the solo win. © Bart Hazen
Belgian Champion Niels Albert (BKCP-Powerplus) stormed to an authoritative win in Sunday’s Superprestige in Zonhoven.
Albert’s desire to dominate the race showed early. He took advantage of his competitors’ inability to match his flawless riding through the sand, forging a lead based as much upon his handling skills as his output of watts.
Bart Wellens (Telenet-Fidea) took the holeshot, but was passed by World Champion Zdenek Stybar (Quick Step) before the first descent of Zonhoven’s steep and sandy berg. Stybar’s tactics proved to break apart the race, although the Czech racer lacked the prowess of Albert needed to capitalize on his positioning at the front of the group. Gaps quickly started appearing in the field; be unfortunate enough to need to dismount through the technically demanding sand sections, or stuck behind a recently dismounted rider, and your chance of a podium place disappeared.
Albert was the only rider able to plow through a long uphill drag that lead out of a rutted hairpin. It was through this process that Albert forged his advantage at the head of the race, as lap by lap further seconds were added to his lead. After forty-five minutes of racing his lead had topped 26 seconds over Nys, which he maintained until the end.
Jonathan Page climbs but didn't have his best finish. © Bart Hazen
The remnants of Albert’s short lived-group of Sven Nys (Landbouwkrediet) and Kevin Pauwels (Sunweb-Revor) held on for second and third places respectively. The technical course prevented a concerted chase, and riders worked individually to consolidate their positions. Stybar eventually escaped Wellens to secure fourth place.
Albert leads the Superprestige cyclocross series with 30 points after two rounds, closely marked by Nys (26 points) and Klaas Vantornout (23 points).
The famed descent of Zonhoven caused many spectacular crashes throughout the day’s action, including that of Rabobank’s Bart Aernouts and Telenet-Fidea’s Tom Meeusen. Aernouts collided with the bike of the recently floored Meeusen. He was then propelled over his own handlebars before landing on the bars of his competitor, catching his lower back on a railing for good measure. He laid prone for a short while before recovering to an eight position finish. Other notable crashes of the day, prompting equal amounts of mirth, derision and concern from the commentators included those of American David Quist (Team Clif Bar Cycling) and Xirogiannes Konstantinos (Greece). Konstantinos’s very early crash presumably caused a mechanical, as he spent much of the first part of the race forlornly pushing his bike to the pits.
1. Niels Albert (Bel) BKCP – Powerplus 0:58:30
2. Sven Nys (Bel) Landbouwkrediet 0:00:28
3. Kevin Pauwels (Bel) Sunweb – Revor 0:01:02
4. Zdenek Stybar (Cze) Quickstep Cycling Team 0:01:27
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On the Trail, Obama's Basic Bargain Not Nearly Enough
by Charles P. Pierce
BOSTON The president of the United States came here on Monday night at the beginning of what should be a most interesting week. His opponent was still hopelessly floundering on the issue of immigration. (On the afternoon of the president's visit, a Romney aide gave an impromptu press briefing in which he attempted to describe his candidate's stand on that issue and came off sounding like one of those farmers who see a UFO late one night in Oklahoma.) The Supreme Court had handed him something more than a partial victory in his administration's fight against a draconian anti-immigrant statute in Arizona. Yet, at the same time, that same court seemed poised to hand his administration its head later in the week on its signature policy achievement, the embattled Affordable Care Act, while, elsewhere, a renegade oversight committee was still seeking his Attorney General's head on a plate. He stepped onto the stage at Symphony Hall, amid the gilt and fine wood and all the marble naked people in the niches in the wall, during a time of extraordinary dissonance in the country that, four years ago, he had so hoped to bring into harmony.
"In 2008, we came together, not just to support a candidate it wasn't just about me; when you support a guy named Barack Obama, you're not just doing it because you thought it was a sure thing," he said. "The reason we came together in 2008 was that we had a shared vision of what's best in this country. We wanted to reclaim the basic heart of what was best in America, that built the laregst middle-class in history, that compact that binds us together as a people, that binds us together as citizens. We believe that, in America, your success shouldn't be determined by the circumstances of your birth."
The speech was of a piece with a lot of those he's given in recent weeks. It was overlong to no good purpose. It was themeless in that it had too many themes the old Hope-and-Change rouser, the long description of How We Got Here, the even longer description of what his administration had accomplished, a still longer section of How Far We Still Have To Go, some solid whacks at Willard Romney for wanting to backslide all the way to How We Got Here again, and all of it threaded on what he says is his continued firm belief that Americans are a good people who are up to the challenge of protecting the common good. He got his biggest ovations when he spoke out strongly and unequivocally in defense of Planned Parenthood and a woman's right to make her own health-care decisions, and in defense of his executive order of two weeks ago that essentially decriminalized Being Here for nearly a million undocumented immigrants who'd been brought here as children, and a strong pre-emptive defense of the health-care reform act "because it was the right thing to do" in advance of the adverse ruling everyone expects on Thursday from the nine wise souls in Washington.
(He also was badly briefed. He made a joke about the trade of Red Sox infielder Kevin Youkilis to his hometown Chicago White Sox and, when the crowd responded with the traditional Fenway "Yoooooouk!," the president clearly thought the crowd was booing. Bad staff work all around.)
But still, there was something at once pale and unfocused about what he was saying. He seems to have settled on something he calls The Basic Bargain between Americans, which he says is threatened by a return to the failed policies of the previous administration. But his denunciation of them remains academic and removed. The fire in his rhetoric remains banked carefully into his ongoing appeals to the better angels of our nature, who, it seems to me, have been largely AWOL since the day he was inaugurated. Instead, he settles for some finely honed mockery, as when he chaffs Romney for a spokesman's attempt to explain the difference between "outsourcing" and "offshoring" when it comes to Bain Capital's pioneering role in shipping American jobs out of the country. This may well turn out to be the most effective play, since Romney has the sense of humor of a handball, but a dollop of authentic outrage wouldn't have been totally out of place.
"Just last week it was reported that Mr. Romney and his company were 'pioneers' that's not my phrase; that's what the report said in business of outsourcing jobs to places like China and India," the president said. "Yesterday, his advisers tried to clear this up by telling us there was a difference between 'outsourcing' and 'offshoring.' You can't make that up. If you're a worker whose job went overseas, you really don't need somebody explaining the difference between outsourcing and offshoring."
But, then again, he went on, "We all believe in the free market. We all believe in rewarding the risk takers." And the guy whose job got shipped to Bangalore, does he really believe that, anymore than he believes that his plight can be explained by business-school semantics?
(By contrast, Elizabeth Warren, the senatorial candidate who introduced the president on Tuesday night and who, it should be recalled, he declined to appoint to head the Consumer Financial Protection Bureau, a job she practically invented has developed a killer riff in her own stump speech centered on Romney's famous "Corporations Are People, Too, my friend" moment back in Iowa. "Mitt Romney tells us, in his own words, he believes corporations are people," she says. "No, Mitt. Corporations are not people. People have hearts. They have kids. They have jobs. They get sick. They dance. They work and they live and they die. Learn the difference.")
And why, in front of this audience, in this state, the president still felt compelled to reassure us all that he wasn't a wild-eyed liberal most of the people here had figured that one out on their own, thanks is beyond me. "We don't expect government to solve all our problems," he said. "This notion that, somehow, there's been some heavy tilt to the left in the Democratic party, well, in the past three years, I've cut taxes for the typical working family by $3800, cut taxes for small business 18 times, eliminate billions of dollars in regulation that didn't make sense. I don't believe we should be in the business of helping people who refuse to help themselves. I don't think government can solve all our problems. But I do share a belief held by our first Republican president, Abraham Lincoln, who said, through government, we can do that which we cannot do as well for ourselves, that there's a common good we can invest in."
Then he went on to describe a whole list of big things that "we" did as Americans interstate highways, the G.I. Bill, the Hoover Dam that would not have been possible without the progressive impulse he had just reassured us he has carefully banked within himself. It's a strange, narrow road he's set himself on.
"Money we're no longer spending on war, use it to put people back to work," he said. "Rebuilding our roads. Rebuilding our ports. Building high-speed rail. All those ingredients that made us an economic superpower." And then, when he had them all ginned up, in the space of a paragraph, he pivoted to The Deficit: "I'm running for president because we need to reduce our deficit. We need to manage our debt." And, the air went out of the room as he called upon the patriotism of the wealthiest of our citizens, something that has not been in evidence in our politics for a very long time.
"There are plenty of patriotic, successful Americans out there who would be willing to make this contribution again because they understand there is such a thing as the common good," he said. "Mr. Romney disagrees with this vision. His allies in Congress disagree with this vision. That's the biggest source of gridlock in Washington these past three years. Which brings me back to where I started. The only way to break that gridlock is through you."
To listen to the president these days is to hear an unmistakably rueful sub-theme about the difference between the promise of 2008 and the hard realities of 2012. The country has gotten better, but it hasn't gotten better enough, and the reason for that is that the political opposition looked at his election and determined that it was in many ways illegitimate. (They had a dry run on this during the eight years Bill Clinton was president.) It was enough to make you wonder whether or not, somewhere deep within him, he realizes how very much he had overrated us as a political commonwealth, and whether or not he has the gift for navigating dissonance as the order of things in an age stubbornly resistant to the kind of harmony he still groping towards in the way he talks to the country, and that he still insists exists somewhere out there in the din.
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ASUS just unveiled the quad-band P835, a Windows Mobile 6.1-powered smartphone with a 3.5-inch WVGA (800-by-480-pixel) touchscreen and an HSDPA 7.2 data radio.
Engadget Mobile reports that the handset comes with Opera Mobile, a trackball that seems oddly redundant with the touchscreen, a 528MHz Qualcomm 7201A processor, and six to seven hours of talk time on a single charge, according to the company.
There’s also a 5-megapixel camera with auto-focus, 4GB of internal storage, Bluetooth 2.0 with EDR (Enhanced Data Rate), and an A-GPS radio. Interestingly, the phone can double as a WiFi access point to share its cellular data connection with up to ten other wireless devices, according to the report. No word yet on a price, carrier support, or release date, but it’s coming. | <urn:uuid:adb8e849-d510-42c3-b755-ae8cc1f83dd1> | CC-MAIN-2013-20 | http://www.geek.com/mobile/asus-unveils-p835-smartphone-1368397/ | 2013-06-19T13:30:06Z | s3://commoncrawl/crawl-data/CC-MAIN-2013-20/segments/1368708783242/warc/CC-MAIN-20130516125303-00000-ip-10-60-113-184.ec2.internal.warc.gz | en | 0.909525 | 199 | null | null | HuggingFaceFW/fineweb |
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"In great deeds something abides. On great fields something stays. Forms change and pass; bodies disappear; but spirits linger, to consecrate ground for the vision-place of souls"
- Major General Joshua Lawrence Chamberlain.
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1994 Chevrolet Camaro Z28
1983 Chevrolet Camaro Z28
Head to Head
My first and only car. My dad has had nothing but Chevys since I was a little girl (He's got a killer '68 Vette!) and I knew that when I got my license I wanted a Chevy too. A Camaro. A red one. And that's what I got!
A guy i worked with had told me of this car that his father in law and him had bought and unseized the block with coke and automatic tranny fluid after filling the entire engine with diesel for a month. He told me the starter went out and that they had it for sale for 2,500 obo. So i took a starter with me to check it out and test drive it, no big deal to change a starter on a 80's camaro (between me and my GF we had three) but it had some back woods engineered exhaust so it couldn't just pull the old one out. So i said i would consider buying it once the starter was put in, leaving my starter there i went home empty handed..... :( but about a week later while on the jobsite my buddy gets a call from his father in law wanting to know how much i would give for the car, cash money right then and there without hearing it run or driving it. I said 600 bucks and he said ok. so with some excitement i went over there with a buddy and a trailer and brought it home. Once it was home i took advantage of it being an open bottom trailer and dropped the entire hill billy exhaust and changed out the starter, changed the oil and bolted it all back together. While i was under there i noticed it had a 200R4 tranny with a pieced together torque arm mount (ugliest welding i ever laid eyes on) and what looked like 3" fence piping used as exhaust pipe..... i put a new battery in it and tried to start it. Cranked like crazy but no fire! so i pulled a plug, found the problem to be extremely fouled plugs, so i just cleaned them all and it fired up super easy. Once my Gf Kayleigh got home we took it for a test drive (i followed in my truck) and she got on it a lil and it had some salt to it. But on the way back it brakes faded bad, so bled them out that night and figured we try again the next day. Brakes didn't fade but she said one side would grab alot harder than the other, so i test drove it and the opposite side grabbed hard.... so i went to bleed the brakes again and noticed the fluid look funny, so i dipped my finger in it and it was automatic tranny fluid! needless to say Kayleigh wasnted to sell the car, but i liked it so just bought it from her. After 1500.00 bucks in replacing the entire brake system i had pretty decent Z28. But the motor's started declining in power quickly (i'm assuming because the rings were never replaced after breaking it loose) but i kept driving it, then once night after drill weekend the headlights and tail lights went out.... thankfully the sheriff let me drive it home (i was fixing to deploy, was in uniform with my bags packed in the backseat!) so now it is sitting in the drive way awaiting a motor swap, but the good news is i am buying a 396 400 combo from my cousin for my Chevelle so Haywire is getting the very salty 350/350 combo!
Specs for “Baby”
V8, automatic, FAST!
Specs for “Haywire”
It has a carbed 305/ 200r4 combo in it right now that is all but dead, but it is getting my race prepped 350/350 out of my chevelle so it will be getting some susp upgrades like sub frame connectors, adjustable coil over shocks and what not.
Factory Options for “Baby”
Z28 package, T-tops, Power steering, Power brakes, Power locks, Power windows, and, oh yeah, POWER!!!!!
Factory Options for “Haywire”
LOL Factory options on a Z28? everything! AC, Power window,locks, steering, brakes, though mine didn't get the power hatch release. It also has T-tops, so have to do extra reinforcing.
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Illumination of Extraordinary Things: An Interview with Andrew Carroll, Editor of Operation Homecoming
Washington writer Andrew Carroll is the founder of the Legacy Project, a national, all-volunteer project to seek and preserve wartime correspondence. Carroll taught several Operation Homecoming workshops in addition to editing the published anthology.
NEA: What was your initial reaction to the Operation Homecoming program?
ANDREW CARROLL: When I first heard of it, I thought it was a great idea but nothing was going to come of it. You're talking about a group of people [the military] that's reserved and reticent. It's anathema to military culture to express individual opinions and emotions. But as I learned more about the project and got immersed in it, I thought it was one of the most brilliant ideas ever.
NEA: Given the reticence associated with military culture, why do you think the workshops were so successful?
CARROLL: I asked that question myself quite a bit. There's one answer I remember in particular, from a group at Fort Bragg. Someone said, "It's the first time anyone's asked [to hear our stories]."
NEA: What was it like to lead a writing workshop for military personnel?
CARROLL: I was thunderstruck by how open the troops were. Usually, when you're hearing [war] stories, it's been years or decades since the troops have served. This was so immediate. I prefaced my workshop by talking about my first visit to a military base, to say that we're all new to something. I told them, "A lot of you are new to writing -- don't be shy about asking questions and don't get frustrated if the writing gets hard. You all have extraordinary stories, you have amazing discipline, and you're intelligent -- that's what you need to be a writer."
NEA: What makes the Operation Homecoming anthology so different from other collections of war literature?
CARROLL: There's been no anthology like this before. This anthology contains the work of active duty troops, but also work by relatively young people who have retired from the military. This is their first-hand experience. This anthology is also significant because the NEA has focused on many different genres, not just letters. There are poems and short stories and memoir and e-mail.We've never had this kaleidoscope of genres before.
I think this anthology is also significant because it gives people an idea of what these troops are sacrificing, not just physically but emotionally. It helps to bridge the disconnect between the military world and the civilian world. If this book can help us appreciate who these men and women are and what they're called to do, that's a good thing.
The reader gets to know these individuals, not just as statistics, not just as faceless soldiers or airmen or sailors or pilots. They have a background, a biography.Words like courage and honor and camaraderie are kind of hollow if you don't understand the nitty gritty of warfare. It helps us to better understand what these troops [are] going through.
NEA: Why do you believe it's necessary and important to publish war literature?
CARROLL: In any historic event, it's not the generals or the politicians, it's the individual men and women in the eye of the storm, it's those voices that most need to be preserved and that are the most fascinating. I think there's a feeling that we've heard everything about the conflicts, there's nothing we can be surprised by. Every piece [in the anthology] surprised me for one reason or the other. For all of us who think there's nothing left to see or learn about the war, these pieces illuminate extraordinary things.
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UC Riverside Highlanders vs CS Northridge Matadors Odds
Highlanders open as college hoops underdog vs Matadors Odds Preview
OddsShark Staff - A key college battle sees the visiting UC Riverside Highlanders travelling to CS Northridge Thursday to take on the Matadors.
This season, the Matadors are 9-4 overall and 9-2 ATS ATS, while the Highlanders are 3-10 and 3-8 ATS against the number. As for the totals, CS Northridge boasts a 3-2 on the OU, and UC Riverside is 2-4. | <urn:uuid:bc19ba86-b147-4439-93f3-c920f8f234c9> | CC-MAIN-2013-20 | http://www.oddsshark.com/ncaab/uc-riverside-cs-northridge-odds-january-3-2013 | 2013-06-19T13:35:45Z | s3://commoncrawl/crawl-data/CC-MAIN-2013-20/segments/1368708783242/warc/CC-MAIN-20130516125303-00000-ip-10-60-113-184.ec2.internal.warc.gz | en | 0.862976 | 125 | null | null | HuggingFaceFW/fineweb |
By Kathy Bond-Borie, Guest Columnist
Storm water runoff can be a big problem during heavy thunderstorms. As the water rushes across roofs and driveways, it picks up oil and other pollutants.
Municipal storm-water treatment plants often can’t handle the deluge, and untreated water ends up in natural waterways in many areas. The U.S. Environmental Protection Agency estimates as much as 70% of the pollution in our streams, rivers and lakes is carried there by storm water.
To reduce excess water runoff, many towns are encouraging businesses and homeowners to install rain gardens in their yards: specially constructed gardens located in low areas of a yard where storm water can collect. The idea is to have the water funnel naturally to this garden, which collects runoff and stores and filters it until it can be slowly absorbed by soil.
Sizing Up a Rain Garden
A rain garden’s size and location depends on your yard.
If you’re the type of person who likes precise measurements, there are guidelines you can follow for estimating the ideal size for your particular situation.
For example, you’d want to measure the area of your roof that will be draining into the gutter leading to the rain garden, as well as the size of any paved areas that will be contributing to runoff into the garden.
If your soil is sandy (which drains quickly), you’d want your rain garden to be about 20% to 30% of the area that will be draining into it (roof plus driveway, etc.). If you have clay soil, your ideal rain garden would be 60% of the drainage area.
But don’t let these numbers intimidate you. Any size rain garden is better than none at all.
The ideal spot for a rain garden is in a natural depression. You can also funnel water from downspouts or gutters into the garden. The soil should be well drained so the water doesn’t sit in the garden for more than 2 days.
A special rain garden soil mix of 50% to 60% sand, 20% to 30% topsoil, and 20% to 30% compost is recommended. You can dig this mixture into the soil to a depth of 2 feet before planting.
The most difficult part of building a rain garden can be plant selection.
The plants in a rain garden must be able to tolerate sitting in water now and then, so native plants and wildflowers are good choices because they’re so adaptable. You probably already grow many of them: ferns, ornamental grasses, sedges, iris, milkweed, asters and black-eyed Susans (right), to name a few.
The idea is to create a naturalistic planting that’s easy to maintain (no fertilizer needed) and welcoming to butterflies, bees and other creatures.
A former floral designer and interior plantscaper, Kathy Bond-Borie has spent 20 years as a garden writer/editor, including her current role as horticultural editor for the National Gardening Association. She loves designing with plants and spends more time playing in the garden—planting and trying new combinations—than sitting and appreciating it.
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Fresh air, breath taking mountain views, unlimited outdoor activities, and a chance to get away from the daily grind are all part of traveling to The Blue Ridge Mountains in Central Virginia. Today’s article features The Shenandoah Valley, a popular vacation destination in the mountains of Central Virginia, along with vacation cabin rentals in the area.
Enjoy the Outdoor Wonders of Central Virginia
People who love outdoor activities will not find a better place to vacation – or to live – than Central Virginia. There are so many things to do and natural wonders to explore, you’ll never tire of the Shenandoah Valley and the Blue Ridge Mountains.
When Stan Horst moved to Central Virginia 20 years ago, he found the perfect place to live. Stan and his wife, Debbie, a Virginia native, own and operate Cabin Creekwood, a vacation rental business near Waynesboro.
Novice and expert hikers alike will find trails to suit their preference for a walk in the woods or a serious hike while taking in views from a mountain top or a cascading waterfall. Some of the options for hiking are:
• The Appalachian Trail covers over 2100 miles from Maine to Georgia and is the nation’s longest marked footpath. The Appalachain Trail in Central Virginia crosses the Blue Ridge Parkway a number of times and can be easily accessed just two miles from Cabin Creekwood.
• Humpback Rocks Trail leads to Humpback Rocks, to Humpback Mountain and to the Humpback Rocks picnic area. From this trail, ambitious hikers take a spur trail to a strenuous 700 foot climb providing amazing views of the Rockfish and Shenandoah Valleys. Continuing one more mile, hikers reach the summit of Humpback Mountain with views of the mountain ridges to the north.
• Spy Rock Trail is one of the Horst’s favorite hikes just for the incredible views offered. According to legend, Confederate Soldiers used Spy Rock as a lookout for Union Troops. Once you reach Spy Rock you’ll understand why.
• Crabtree Falls is said to be one of the most beautiful waterfalls in Virginia and the highest cascading waterfall east of the Mississippi. This natural wonder with five cascades is definitely a must-see for visitors to the area. Anyone can enjoy Crabtree Falls as the first cascade is handicapped accessible. After walking to the bottom of the lowest falls, the trail becomes dirt and you are on one of nine switchbacks that take you to the top of the Falls. With guardrails on the steeper parts, the trail is well maintained and there are railed observation points for the most scenic overlooks. It may be tempting to climb over the stone wall to the uppermost falls but resist the urge as the rocks are covered with algae and are very slippery.
• Torry Ridge Trail is 7 miles long and follows the crest of Torry Ridge, providing great views of wilderness areas.
Caverns are a popular tourist destination in the Shenandoah Valley. The closest caverns to Cabin Creekwood, Grand Caverns, are less commercialized than many similar cavern attractions perhaps due to being operated by a regional park authority. Stan often recommends Grand Caverns as his personal favorite. The Cathedral Hall, which is 289 feet long and over 70 feet high, is an awesome sight with its massive columns, rippling flowstone, and rare “shield” formations. This cave was visited by both Confederate and Union Soldiers and has over 230 verified signatures of Civil War soldiers.
Luray Caverns are perhaps the best known caverns in Virginia attracting people from all over North America and more than 50 foreign countries. Well-lighted walkways wind through huge chambers with breathtaking stalactites and cathedral sized rooms then lead to mirror-perfect pools of water. Guides at Luray share stories about the science behind the natural wonders and how the caverns were discovered. This is the home of the world’s only “stalacpipe organ” which plays haunting music on natural formations.
Cabin Creekwood, located in Lyndhurst, is a great Blue Ridge Mountain vacation rental company. They offer a variety of Shenandoah Valley vacation rental cabins. From historic log cabins, to Virginia cabins for rent that are perfect for families with children, Cabin Creekwood has a mountain accommodation that is perfect for your holiday getaway. Their is a nice pool that is available for guests as well. While the cabins are secluded, Lyndhurst’s central Shenandoah Valley location means you’re only a few short miles from exciting attractions like Wintergreen Ski Resort, the George Washington National Forest, and Sherando Lake. The cabins are two hours from Richmond, three hours from Washington DC, and four hours from Norfolk.
Stan’s website www.CabinCreekwood.com is a fantastic resource for people interested in traveling to the mountains of Central Virginia. Let Cabin Creekwood be your guide for popular and exciting outdoor activities like fly fishing, hiking, mountain biking, horseback riding, and more. If golfing is always part of your vacation plans then check out golf courses near the area.
Cabin Creekwood also provides kayak rentals & canoes for rent which can be delivered to guests or picked up for use at one of The Shenandoah Valley’s many lakes, rivers and streams: Sherando Lake, South Fork Shenandoah River, Tye River, James River, Mossy Creek, St. Mary’s River, Staunton Dam, Elkhorn Lake, Lake Nelson, South River, and Back Creek.
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The summer is just one week old and already we have very high temperatures here in the Netherlands. On hot days such as today I’m not hungry for food but I do scream for ice cream. And I have the feeling I’m not the only one so here are some cute finds for all you ice cream lovers!
Pink Grapefruit and Lime Time Soapy Pops handmade by Soapylove. These soaps not only look great but they have a candy-sweet scents as well.
This kawaii ice cream monster is called Mizoo and made by Swiedebie. Mizoo is made out of felt and adorned with buttons and brads. So cute!
The ice cream cupcakes from Hello Naomi are just too cute to eat. Very well made and such pretty colors. And look at those cherries on top, yummie!
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Well - here we have arrived at our new house on the Western Isles (Na h-Eileanan Siar.) John happily surveys his new territory, while James is just glad to be out of the car. The neighbouring sheep seems a bit indifferent, mind you, and the tray of lettuce plants look a bit travel sick. Happily they have recovered, and we have had a very productive couple of weeks getting to know this house and land and beginning the transformation into what will become our home.
James especially loves his new playground.
It was such a special place to be at the solstice. The druids were very much in evidence on Midsummer's Eve (photo taken around 10 pm)
But, you know - if this is the view from the kitchen sink, well it is going to be fairly special at any time.
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Carrie Preston--portraying Grace in this episode--is the real-life spouse of Michael Emerson, who portrays Finch. So the off-screen relationship of these actors has been translated to the characters that they play.
Finch: Are you following me?
Reese: Financial analyst. It's riveting.
Finch: Well, they can't all be babies and Mafia Dons.
Finch: If something ever happens, I have... a contingency.
Reese: Well, sooner or later, you're going to have to let the cat out of the bag, Finch.
Finch: Curiosity kills cats, Mr. Reese.
Reese: All right, Finch. Peck just got home. Time to see what our spy does at night. And so far... not much.
Finch: Not everyone is a social butterfly, Mr. Reese. For some of us, human interaction is... difficult.
Reese: Not calling it "human interaction" might help.
Finch: Go and live your life. Find some secrets of your own. And if you really need a mystery, I recommend the human heart.
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September 17, 2012
CNS PHOTO | JAMAL SAIDI, REUTERS
Workers hang a poster of Pope Benedict Sept. 4 in Jounieh as part of the preparation for the pope's Sept. 14-16 visit to Lebanon.
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When Sen. Mark Begich looks at the next two years, he says he is not concerned about the tough votes he is bound to have to make that could have an impact on his re-election in 2014.
The moderate Democrat from Alaska even laughs a bit when he says, "Every vote we take here is tough."
"My strategy has always been to do what I am going to do and focus on my issues," Begich said in an interview with CNN.
Begich is one of six moderate Democrats from "red" states whose terms ends in two years. Max Baucus of Montana, Kay Hagan of North Carolina, Tim Johnson of South Dakota, Mary Landrieu of Louisiana and Mark Pryor of Arkansas are among the 20 Democrats whose terms will be up in 2014; Republicans will defend 13 seats.
Though no Republican has declared a run against Begich, speculation in Alaska is that Gov. Sean Parnell will challenge the first-term senator. Since 2008, when the former Anchorage mayor narrowly defeated incumbent Republican Ted Stevens, Begich has voted as a moderate and has shown willingness to work with the other party.
At times, he says, that can get lonely: "You feel like a Lone Ranger sometimes."
Asked about positions he has taken on oil and drilling or on transportation in the 112th Congress, Begich said, "Sometimes I feel like I look around and I look behind me and there aren't many national Democrats there. But that is the way it goes."
Though fiscal cliff and budget issues are likely to dominate Congress' lame duck session -- and likely the new Congress -- there are any number of issues that could emerge in President Barack Obama's second term that could test moderate Democrats.
Much has been made of liberal Democrats Elizabeth Warren and Tammy Baldwin elected to the Senate last week and both parties being pulled away from the middle, but Begich points out that moderate Democrats Heidi Heitkamp of North Dakota and Joe Donnelly of Indiana also were elected.
Senate votes will be heavily scrutinized in midterms
But Begich's optimism may not be well-founded -- the reality, says Nathan Gonzales from the Rothenberg Political Report, is that even the most benign votes Begich and his fellow moderates make will be used against them in 2014.
"Senators that are up for re-election are up under a larger microscope. Their votes will be dissected even more closely when they are in cycle," Gonzales said.
Joe Manchin of West Virginia fired a warning shot -- literally -- to his fellow Democrats when the former governor was running against Republican businessman John Raese in the special election to fill the remainder of the late Sen. Robert Byrd's term.
In a 30-second statewide TV ad, Manchin fired a bullet through a symbol of the House-passed cap-and-trade legislation -- a bill incredibly unpopular in his coal-rich state -- thereby both highlighting his opposition to the proposal and trumpeting his support of Second amendment rights.
Democrats may also be emboldened by the way voters in some states last week supported Democrats in the Senate even while voting for GOP presidential candidate Mitt Romney.
"We learned from Tuesday's results that voters are willing to split their tickets," Gonzales said.
In Indiana, Missouri and North Dakota, all states in which Romney outran Obama by more than 10 points, Democrats won Senate seats. Though ill-chosen comments on rape by Todd Akin in Missouri and Richard Mourdock in Indiana helped the Democrats in each case, Landrieu's chief of staff, Jane Campbell, is encouraged.
Though she did not guarantee victory -- "I am not telling you that it is going to be easy. Her races have never been easy," Campbell said -- she did sound confident.
Landrieu "has run three times in a state that has always had a Republican lean, and her numbers have gone up every single time," Campbell said. Every election "she has always been among the top targets and she has always shown the people of Louisiana and they have asked her to come back."
Campbell noted the senator focuses on issues that her constituents care about, singling out protecting the state's bayous, holding BP oil company responsible for recovery from the 2010 Gulf of Mexico oil disaster, and education.
Focusing on issues important to constituents
Begich took the same tack -- listing issues like oil and natural gas, drilling in the Arctic National Wildlife Refuge and transportation -- as his selling points to Alaskan voters. Throughout the conversation he mentioned issues most Democrats wouldn't touch, like auditing the Federal Reserve, strengthening gun rights and lowering the corporate tax rate.
Begich's strategy seems clear -- focus on issues that matter to Alaskans for the last two years of his term.
"I always run like I am 15 points behind. You always run hard," Begich said. "I am focused in the last several years on the issues that matter to Alaska."
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Or rather, not so much.
There are a lot of folks out there who love Burnet Ridge wines. If any of you are in Kentucky, buy up now. I had two retailers tell me over the weekend that what you see on the shelves is the last. Burnet Ridge will no longer be distributed in Kentucky. Whether this is the winemaker’s decision, or the distributor’s, I’m not sure.
If you’re just in Northern Kentucky, you can still get your Burnet Ridge fix by crossing the river into Ohio.
Burnet Ridge has released a new wine, Lou’s American Red NV, which you can find locally at Liquor Direct and Cork and Bottle. Kentucky jumped on this wine, perhaps because it’s named for wine rep Lou Schnier. Ryan at Cork and Bottle told me they purchased 30 cases and Kevin at Liquor Direct blogged that they purchased 40 cases. There were only 100 cases made, so go try Lou’s Red and see what you think.
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- n. The material that is supposed by Haeckel and others to enter into the composition of female cells and give them their distinctive character, and to be unlike anything that enters into the composition of male cells. See quotation under androplasm.
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But with each new week another new hope arises, this time it is in Longville, where Iota will travel Friday night to take on the South Beauregard Knights.
“The kids are still working hard,” said Bulldogs Head Coach Neal Legé. “It’s like I told them, we need to put four quarters together and come out with a ‘W’. That would solve a lot of our problems and give us a little bump heading into district.”
An interesting task awaits the Bulldogs this week as the Knights’ year has not gone according to plan either so far this season.
South Beauregard enters the game with a 1-2 record opening with a 18-2 victory over 4-2A’s DeQuincy before dropping decisions to 4-2A’s Rosepine (22-20) and 4-2A’s Welsh (36-14).
Things haven’t been going according to plan outside of just wins and losses either. Coming into the season Knights Head Coach Dwight Hudler expected his offense to put up points against its foes, especially with quarterback Zack Brady, tailback Joe Ledet and two other skill position players returning, but instead, South Beauregard is only averaging 17.3 points per game.
Brady, a member of the second-team All-District offense last season, recorded 1,200 yards in the air, but Iota kept Brady in check most of the night allowing him to complete only six of his 17 pass attempts for 64 yards. Ledet, meanwhile, ran for 1,014 yards and scored a team-high 11 touchdowns last year, and early word is he has only improved in speed and gotten bigger. Ledet had 26 carries against the Bulldogs last year and gained 132 yards and scored three touchdowns.
“Not only can [Brady] pass it, but he can throw it also,” said Legé. “They just execute real well on offense, so again this week we’ll have our hands full.”
But that doesn’t mean Iota’s defense, which has asserted itself well in its first three games, will not be kept busy by Brady, Ledet and company.
“They have the same quarterback, tailback and return one big time wide receiver and they run the spread offense,” said Legé, “so we will have to get ready as we do every week and be sound on assignments.”
“Our defense has played really well. Brett (Fusilier) has done a really good job with them. They have been sound throughout.”
The Bulldogs defense has given up 27.7 points per game through three games. Excluding the Vinton game, however, the number drops to 20.5 points per game. But, still Iota’s points have trended downward since week one, while South Beauregard’s offensive output has not been overly consistent, hitting the 20-point mark only once.
On the other side, Iota will look to continue to improve and find its own consistency on offense. The group, which has put up an average of only 12 points per game this year, only scored once against Lake Arthur, but fumbled away the opportunity for another six points and what could have been its first win of the season.
“If we can cut down on our turnovers and play smart and hold onto the ball, we’ll always give ourselves a chance,” said Legé.
But, South Beauregard’s defense appears to not be impervious itself allowing on average 20 points each game this year, 29 excluding its week one victory which only allowed DeQuincy to score a safety. The numbers are a little shocking as the Knights returned six defenders to the squad this year, led by senior nose guard Cody Cormier and safety Pryce Fontenot. The duo has garnered a lot of praise from Hudler who in the preseason dubbed Cormier the best defensive lineman he had ever been around and pointed out Fontenot’s play-making ability.
“They try to give him (Fontenot) every opportunity to get to the ball as much as they can,” said Legé. “You just have to be aware of where he’s at.”
The Bulldogs’ injury situation remains as it was last week. Most players are nursing minor injuries, mostly bumps and bruises, but with junior quarterback J.T. LeJeune still listed as day-to-day with his concussion, sophomore Timothy Lunson could see his second start.
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WASHINGTON — After members of Congress fled the Capitol in fear of a terrorist attack on Sept. 11, 2001, Republicans and Democrats earnestly promised to pass laws ensuring that the legislative branch could function in the aftermath of a catastrophic strike.
More than 2 1/2 years later, the once-bipartisan issue has become mired in political infighting, with various "continuity" initiatives buried in bickering. The latest proposal for replacing members of Congress, should dozens die in an attack, was voted down last week by an overwhelming margin, most likely ending any chance that Congress will change the system this year.
"It is a shame that a great, honorable debate about how we continue the traditions our founding fathers gave this great House ... has descended into sort of a partisan roughhouse here," Rep. Tom Feeney, R-Orlando, told his colleagues.
Legislators have contemplated doomsday scenarios since the Cold War, when some feared a nuclear attack could hit Washington. But the need for a continuity plan gained urgency after the Sept. 11 attacks, as a hijacked plane that crashed in Pennsylvania was thought to be heading for the Capitol.
Only the House faces a continuity problem. Under the 17th Amendment, governors appoint individuals to fill Senate vacancies in their states until elections are held.
House seats, in contrast, are filled only by special elections that can take months to complete, and the seats remain empty in the meantime. That presents few problems if an individual House member dies, but if 100 or more are killed by a bomb or some other attack, Congress could be crippled.
Republicans and many Democrats contend the House should never abandon direct elections, saying they are a crucial part of the chamber's tradition of being close to the people.
But they agree the elections need to be speeded up in emergencies.
Last month, the House approved a bill that would require elections to be held within 45 days if more than 100 House members die in a catastrophe.
But the Senate -- which must approve the bill also, even though it affects only the House -- shows little sign of doing so.
The bill does not appear to be a high priority for Senate leaders, and some senators think it does not go far enough.
Opponents say the proposal would still leave a dangerous 45-day gap when Congress could not function. After the Sept. 11 attacks, they noted, Congress quickly started work on the USA Patriot Act.
So some suggest amending the Constitution to allow governors to choose temporary replacements for killed or injured House members until special elections can be held -- in other words, adopting the Senate approach.
To some degree, this has become a partisan issue, with Democrats pushing for gubernatorial appointments and Republicans content simply to expedite special elections.
That may be in part because Democrats are more suspicious of presidential power, at least during the tenure of a Republican president.
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BRONXVILLE, N.Y. – Authors are often few and far between, but the Bronxville Women's Club is giving community residents an opportunity to meet two local writers in one day.
On Thursday, the Bronxville Women's Club is hosting an afternoon tea and book signing for two of its members, Alexandra M. Burckhardt and Jackie Kingon.
"Everybody adores both Alexandra and Jackie," said Joyce Balint, the club's vice president for communications. "They are both wonderful members who help an awful lot. They're always helping out, they don't just sit back. So it's good to do something for them."
Kingon's book, "Chocolate Chocolate Moons," is a comic novel about a plus-sized woman whose body weight drops from 287 pounds to 47.6 pounds when she wins a university scholarship and travels to the moon.
"This novel is a verbal cartoon for sophisticated readers tired of counting and calories and hungry for a good laugh," reads the book's summary.
Kingon is a professional artist whose writing has been published in several notable publications, including The New York Times.
Burckhardt's book, "Navigate Life's Journey," gives practical advice and insight on how to cope with life's troubles and joys.
"Navigate your life's journey on the high seas of life with a three dimensional compass of encouragement, enthusiasm and inspiration," reads the book's summary. "Keep your vessel on course with the skillful navigational devices of perpetual hope, trust and divine inspiration."
According to Balint, Burckhardt often writes about etiquette and likes to travel in her spare time.
Balint described both authors as lovely and talented, yet very different from each other. Burckhardt's book was released nearly a year ago; Kingon's is less than a month old.
As the Bronxville Women's Club approaches the end of its fiscal year, the members felt that it was a good time to do membership drive, Balint said. Anyone who attends the book signing can fill out a membership application, if desired.
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First some background from the WSJ.
IMF chief economist Olivier Blanchard, in a recent paper, said maybe the U.S. central bank’s future inflation goal should be 4% instead. John Williams, head of the San Francisco Fed’s research department, argued last year that higher targets might be needed to provide a cushion for future crises.
The proposals underscore a broader rethink that is rumbling through the economics profession in the wake of the financial crisis. Many of the things economists thought they knew turned out to be wrong.
Ludwig von Mises addresses these points in his Economic Freedom and Intervention. Mises on what economists know (pg. 127)
The fanatical supporters of inflationism, unbalanced budgets, and reckless government spending have, it is true, succeeded in banning sound theory from universities and textbooks. And they have founded special research institutions whose main purpose it is to put the monetary theory into oblivion. But their triumph is always shortlived.
Then Mises on inflation as a solution to economic problems (pg. 274).
The interventionists, however, ascribe to the government the power to prevent or, at least, to mitigate considerably the harshness and duration of the slump by measures which they call “anti-cyclical.” Under this high-sounding name they recommend, for the emergency in which government revenue is shrinking on account of the depression, tax abatement, on the one hand, and, on the other hand, a huge increase in government spending through gigantic public works and an increase in unemployment compensation. Though the crisis is the inevitable outcome of the creation of additional quantities of money and money substitutes, the interventionists want to cure it by still further inflation. They blithely neglect to take cognizance of the teachings of both theory and history concerning the final outcome of a protracted inflationary policy.
Speaking of what economists know and Mises my RMIT colleague and Catallaxy blogger (soon to return now that he’s back from his summer travels) Steve Kates will be seminaring this Friday on the topic ‘Why Your Grandfather’s Economics was Better than Yours’. This is a dummy run for when he presents the Ludwig von Mises Lecture at the Austrian Scholar’s Conference to be held at the Mises Institute in Auburn Alabama March 11-13, 2010. | <urn:uuid:3ce4e860-e32b-4424-a06a-c675147dd637> | CC-MAIN-2013-20 | http://catallaxyfiles.com/2010/02/24/mises-on-inflation/ | 2013-05-20T03:35:41Z | s3://commoncrawl/crawl-data/CC-MAIN-2013-20/segments/1368698222543/warc/CC-MAIN-20130516095702-00000-ip-10-60-113-184.ec2.internal.warc.gz | en | 0.934526 | 490 | null | null | HuggingFaceFW/fineweb |
Updated 6:05 p.m. | The New York taxi industry has struggled to find support in Albany as it tries to block a Bloomberg administration plan that would make it easier for livery cabs to pick up passengers outside crowded parts of Manhattan.
Former Governor Cuomo is a longtime board member at Medallion Financial, one of the industry’s most powerful companies. The company is a prime opponent of the bill — and a generous supporter of Andrew Cuomo’s political career.
Governor Cuomo and his office have yet to publicly state a position on the proposal, which easily passed the Assembly but has been held up in the Senate. If the bill lands on his desk for a signature, the governor may be in an awkward spot that could raise conflict-of-interest issues.
Last year, Medallion Financial, which has a financial stake in thousands of the city’s taxicabs, donated at least $49,000 to Andrew Cuomo’s campaign for governor. Previously, the company and its president had donated $37,000 to Mr. Cuomo’s bids for attorney general.
Josh Vlasto, a spokesman for the governor, denied that there would be any conflict of interest if the bill came to the governor’s desk. He said Mario Cuomo’s position was “irrelevant and would have no bearing on the governor’s decision.”
“We’re reviewing the bill, and the governor has been focused on closing down the key issues of his agenda with the legislative leaders,” Mr. Vlasto said.
It remained unclear on Wednesday night whether the Senate would take up the bill, which is still the subject of long negotiations among the mayor’s office, the Senate leadership and industry representatives.
The sponsor of the bill, Senator Martin J. Golden, Republican of Brooklyn, said, “The concerns expressed by the medallion owners and liveries as well as those who provide the financing will need to be part of any agreement.”
One sticking point is the potential boundaries of the territory in Manhattan where livery cabs would be allowed to make street pickups. The original bill said anywhere above East 96th Street and West 110th Street in Manhattan would be fair ground for liveries that had obtained a $1,500 permit to stop for a hailing passenger.
Far fewer yellow cabs make pickups in Upper Manhattan than other parts of the island, but some fleet owners want the dividing line to be farther north. One suggestion floated on Wednesday was 168th Street, which would essentially allow yellow cabs to maintain their dominance in all neighborhoods below Washington Heights.
Many big yellow taxi fleets bitterly oppose the plan, arguing the change would eat into their lucrative business.
Medallion Financial, whose Madison Avenue office sits one floor above the Rockefeller Family Fund, primarily lends money for the purchase of New York taxi medallions; it says it has $1 billion in assets. The company’s board of directors also includes Hank Aaron, the Hall of Fame baseball player, and Lowell P. Weicker Jr., the former governor and senator from Connecticut.
The company’s president, Andrew Murstein, has been on the phone with legislators for the last few days, trying to sway them against the mayor’s plan, which passed the Assembly easily on Tuesday. Mr. Murstein declined to comment for this article.
Mario Cuomo joined the company’s board in 1996, shortly after he left public life; his daughter Madeline Cuomo was doing legal work for Medallion Financial at the time. Mr. Cuomo receives about $53,000 a year in compensation from the company.
It was unclear whether Mr. Cuomo had joined his company’s efforts to stop the bill. An assistant to the former governor did not respond to several questions about his involvement, writing only that Mr. Cuomo had spent the last few days working on the mediation talks between the Wilpon family, owners of the New York Mets, and Irving H. Picard, the trustee for the victims of Bernard L. Madoff’s multibillion-dollar Ponzi scheme.
One person familiar with the former governor’s thinking said Mr. Cuomo was hopeful that the taxi legislation would not reach a point where it would pose a conflict of interest. The person spoke on the condition of anonymity so as not to strain a relationship with Mr. Cuomo.
In a company biography, Mr. Cuomo is described as bringing “valuable skills to the board of directors that he acquired through his extensive career in the public sector, such as his expertise in the areas of government relations and external affairs.” | <urn:uuid:97542475-2b9b-4032-bf83-dfc4026f360f> | CC-MAIN-2013-20 | http://cityroom.blogs.nytimes.com/2011/06/22/taxi-bill-has-potential-foe-in-cuomo-mario-cuomo/?ref=todayspaper | 2013-05-20T03:28:57Z | s3://commoncrawl/crawl-data/CC-MAIN-2013-20/segments/1368698222543/warc/CC-MAIN-20130516095702-00000-ip-10-60-113-184.ec2.internal.warc.gz | en | 0.974539 | 957 | null | null | HuggingFaceFW/fineweb |
Bones (2001 film)
Theatrical release poster
|Directed by||Ernest Dickerson|
|Produced by||Rupert Harvey
|Written by||Adam Simon
Michael T. Weiss
|Music by||Elia Cmiral
|Editing by||Michael N. Knue
|Distributed by||New Line Cinema|
|Release date(s)||October 26, 2001|
|Running time||96 minutes|
In 1979, Jimmy Bones (Snoop Dogg) is a numbers runner who is respected and loved in his neighborhood as its respected member and protector. When he is betrayed and brutally murdered by a corrupt cop and drug pusher, who is trying to expand his business, Bones' elegant brownstone building becomes his own tomb, and is closed since then.
The timeline flashes forward to 2001, where the neighborhood has become a black ghetto and Jimmy's brownstone building is a condemned ruin. Four teens buy the property and they want to renovate it as a nightclub. In the process, they find a black dog who is actually the spiritual manifestation of Jimmy's tortured spirit. As the dog starts to eat, Jimmy is slowly resurrected.
Patrick (Khalil Kain) meets Pearl (Pam Grier), Jimmy's old girlfriend, and her daughter Cynthia (Bianca Lawson). Patrick develops a romance with Cynthia. Patrick wanted to open a nightclub at the old ghetto neighborhood in hopes of making the neighborhood great again, and also to make a profit. While exploring the basement, Patrick and the gang find Jimmy Bones' body and they realize that he was actually murdered. Patrick and the others decide to keep quiet for Jimmy's murder or they won't be able to open the nightclub, and they bury the remaines.
Later, Jeremiah, Patrick's father (Clifton Powell), finds out about Patrick and the gang's plan to open the club at Bones' old building, and he freaks out and demands that Patrick and the others leave the building. Patrick refuses his request and opens the nightclub in spite of his father's objections. On opening night Maurice (Sean Amsing), one of the teens, is lured into an upstairs room where he is mauled to death by the spiritual black dog.
Once he is fully resurrected, Jimmy sets the club on fire, and he is intent on getting revenge on those responsible for his death, those who betrayed him, and anyone who gets in his way. Pearl and her neighbor felt that they should have burned the building down a long time ago. After the incident, Pearl admits Cynthia that Jimmy Bones is her father, as she had a relationship with him.
Patrick confronts his father Jeremiah and demands to know if he murdered Jimmy Bones 22 years ago. His father admits he betrayed Jimmy Bones to make money to leave the neighborhood. Also, he got fed up living in Bones' shadow and he wanted to be as popular and successful as him. Jeremiah allowed drugs into the neighborhood as long he got paid for it. Later, Jimmy kills the drug pusher (one of his murderers), a corrupt cop named Lupovich (Michael T. Weiss), and later takes Jeremiah back to the building. Jimmy sends Lupovich, and the drug pusher to hell for all eternity while Jeremiah begs for his life.
Patrick, Cynthia, Bill (Merwin Mondesir), and Pearl goes underground to find that Jimmy Bones' body has disappeared. Pearl know that they have to burn the dress that was buried with Jimmy because the blood on the dress is actually what is keeping Jimmy alive the whole time. As they look for Jimmy, Pearl steps in the elevator which closes and goes up. Meanwhile, Jeremiah asks Jimmy what he wants. He asks Jeremiah if he could give him his life back. When Jeremiah says no, Jimmy sends him to hell for eternity.
Pearl gets off the elevator and walks into a room that is filled with ignited candles. She has a flashback and Jimmy appears, and puts the bloody dress on her. Patrick, Cynthia, and Bill head to the second floor where they see a ghostly Maurice, who leads Bill in the wrong direction where he is captured and killed. Patrick tries to reach him but is too late.
Patrick and Cynthia make their way to the room where Pearl and Jimmy are at. Patrick knows it's a trap. As Cynthia is lured to Pearl and Jimmy, Patrick hears his father's voice in a mirror begging for help. When Patrick hesitates, Jeremiah chokes him. Patrick uses his knife to chop Jeremiah's arm off and he disappears into hell. Patrick goes after Jimmy, who disappears and reappears behind Patrick's back much more demonic-looking. He grabs Patrick by his throat, as Cynthia begs him to let go. Pearl, realizing what is happening, tells Jimmy she loves him then grabs a candle and burns the dress.
Jimmy tries to stop her but he dies with Pearl, causing the whole building to collapse. Patrick and Cynthia try to get to the exit before the building comes down. They jump down the elevator shaft before escaping. As Cynthia rests, Patrick finds an old picture of Jimmy and Pearl together. He then hears Jimmy's voice say "dog eat dog, boy." He turns around and sees Cynthia, smiling, with maggots in her mouth. As she spits them at Patrick, the end credits begin.
- Snoop Dogg as Jimmy Bones
- Pam Grier as Pearl
- Bianca Lawson as Cynthia
- Clifton Powell as Jeremiah Peet
- Khalil Kain as Patrick Peet
- Michael T. Weiss as Lupovich
- Ricky Harris as Eddie Mack
- Merwin Mondesir as Bill Peet
- Katharine Isabelle as Tia Peet
- Deezer D as Stank
- Sean Amsing as Maurice
- Ronald Selmour as Shotgun
The soundtrack to the film was released on October 9, 2001 on Doggystyle Records and Priority Records. It peaked at #39 on the Billboard 200, #14 on the Top R&B/Hip-Hop Albums chart and #4 on the Top Soundtracks chart.
Review aggregate website Rotten Tomatoes reported that 22% of critics gave the film postitive write-ups, based on 65 reviews, with a 23% rating from selected "notable" critics. At the website Metacritic, which assigns a normalized rating out of 100 to reviews from mainstream critics, the film has received a rating average of 42, based on 21 reviews.
Box office
The film opened at #10 at the U.S. box office, earning $2,823,548 USD in 847 theaters its opening weekend. It grossed $7,316,658 in the U.S. and $1,062,195 in foreign markets for a total gross earnings of $8,378,853, falling $7,621,147 short of its budget.
See also
- Bones at the Internet Movie Database
- Bones at AllRovi
- Bones at Box Office Mojo
- Bones at Metacritic
- Bones at Rotten Tomatoes
- Bones script at the Internet Movie Script Database
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This October, directors and project managers from the nodes of the Advanced Research Consortium (ARC) met in Raleigh, North Carolina to discuss the expansion, implementation, and sustainability of ARC as a digital infrastructure for the future of humanities scholarship. Representatives from ARC, including the IDHMC’s own director Laura Mandell, Nineteenth-Century Scholarship Online (NINES), 18thConnect, the Medieval Electronic Scholarly Alliance (MESA), the Renaissance English Knowledge Base (REKn), and Modernist Networks (ModNets) were in attendance.
The last day of the meeting, scholars and independent software developers from the research triangle travelled to North Carolina State University for DH Day. A storify of the days events and discussions can be found here (and thank you to NCState’s Barry Peddycord). The NCSU libraries and scholarly community also graciously video archived the days events, and those videos can be found below.
Thank you to NCSU’s College of Humanities and Social Sciences, Tim Stinson, and Rachel Hodder for bringing us all to North Carolina State University, and thank you to all the ARC nodes for making these productive discussions possible.
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From the U.S. Government Printing Office (GPO):
The U.S. Government Printing Office (GPO) recently enhanced the U.S. Statutes at Large collection on FDsys by adding descriptive metadata for public laws, private laws, concurrent resolutions, and presidential proclamations. For approximately 32,000 individual documents, the enhancements allow researchers improved searchability and retrieval by searching such metadata fields as title, SuDocs classification number, date, category, etc. The U.S. Statutes at Large collection includes volumes 65-115, covering the 82nd -107th Congresses, from 1951-2002.
The additional descriptive data was added by both manual and automatic processes. A team of GPO staff members from Library Services and Content Management (LSCM), including catalogers and automation librarians, added descriptive metadata for titles, public law numbers, and dates.
In 2011, GPO announced the release of digitized volumes of the U.S. Statutes at Large, in partnership with the Library of Congress. The U.S. Statutes at Large is the permanent collection of all laws and resolutions enacted during each session of Congress.
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Keogh steals Cirque with bike throw
PORTLAND — Quinn Keogh’s never-say-die attitude got put through its paces Saturday night at the Cirque du Cycling criterium in North Portland. But it eventually paid big dividends as the Rubicon-Orbea rider won the race from a small break group.
Keogh hopped into the winning breakaway after crashing hard on the unique eight-corner course, then fought for the win all the way to the line even though it looked like Gentle Lovers’ Sam Nicoletti had the race sewn up. Nicoletti’s premature celebration opened the door for Keogh to sneak past by less than a tire width to win in a photo finish.
The pair joined Donald Reeb (HPChiro/Scott’s Bicycles) and Austin Arguello (Team Exergy) off the front during the last half of the race and quickly started building a gap that grew to more than 30 seconds by the finish. Nicoletti appeared to have the advantage as the quartet barreled over the slightly downhill closing straightaway. But when he threw his arms up for a traditional salute about 10 feet from the line, Keogh kept pushing and made up the margin — and just a little bit more — with a bike throw .
Nicoletti, the reigning OBRA Criterium Champion, explained his costly over enthusiasm in the finale. “Everyone always asked me why I never threw my arms up,” he said. “I was going to do it this time.”
Although Nicoletti’s poor timing opened the door for the win, Keogh’s all-day effort probably propelled the lead quartet into position to win in the first place. But before he could do that he had to endure a crowd-induced crash on the northern end of the course.
“There was a spectator who was tossing water,” Keogh said. “We were coming through once and I think she lost the cup or bottle she was tossing from. It went into somebody’s bike and they stopped it up. I was on my front wheel long enough to remember it distinctly, and then I tumbled over somebody’s bike.” …
After taking a free lap and getting pushed back in at the rear of the bunch, Keogh moved back to the front and countered off a move by teammate Aaron Tuckerman, Gentle Lovers’ Steven Beardsley (also taken down later in a crash) and several others.
“I just kept on it for a couple laps really hard,” Keogh said. “Guys kind of fell off and came up, and I just kept sitting up there and holding a high pace until some guys came up who would roll through. We started working together well, got a good gap and held it at about 30 seconds for the last 15 laps.”
Crashes in the field also slowed the chase and added to the leaders’ advantage. Then as the 60-minute event began winding down, Keogh said, riders in the breakaway started thinking about what it would take to win.
“Sam Nicoletti didn’t need to work too hard, so he was pulling a little soft,” Keogh said. “Austin Arguello was pulling a little soft. I think he just wanted to make sure he saved some legs. Reeb and I were both pulling really hard.”
Keogh said the more obvious cat-and-moue games started playing out several corners from the finish before Nicoletti finally jumped before the last corner.
“Sam was the first to go,” Keogh said. “Austin got on his wheel. Sam held it, but I took Sam in the throw at the finish.”
It wasn’t quite that matter-of-fact for those watching, but after a look at the photo finish, officials gave the win to Keogh.
In the 45-minute Cat 3 race that started an hour before the Pro/1/2 event, LifeCycle Bike Shop’s Scott Hill outsprinted Ironclad Performance Wear riders Jeff Harwood and Andrew Willis and the rest of the bunched field for the win.
Cirque du Cycling Criterium
Saturday, June 12
1. Quinn Keogh (Rubicon-Orbea)
2. Sam Nicoletti (Gentle Lovers)
3. Austin Arguello (Team Exergy)
4. Donald Reeb (HP Chiro/Scott’s Bicycles)
5. Pete Groblewski (Gentle Lovers)
1. Scott Hill (LifeCycle Bike Shop)
2. Jeff Harwood (Ironclad Performance Wear)
3. Andrew Willis (Ironclad Performance Wear)
4. Steven Hunter (Portland Bicycle Studio)
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Graham Wagner, Vera Santamaria join two NBC series
Canadian screenwriters Graham Wagner and Vera Santamaria have jumped on board separate NBC primetime series on Thursdays.
Toronto sketch comedy vet Wagner will be a producer on season nine of The Office.
“I’ll be the new guy on a wildly popular series. Imagine trying to wedge yourself into a really good conversation that’s been going on for eight years, one that you’ve been eavesdropping on the whole time. So…it’ll be a little awkward at first,” said Wagner in a statement, adding, “but it’s both exciting and a huge relief to be able to work on a show that is extremely well made and very popular. That almost never happens.”
Wagner’s Canadian credits include The Cream of Comedy and Hotbox on the Comedy Network and Men With Brooms.
More recently, he landed in the U.S. as supervising producer on HBO series The Life and Times of Tim.
Santamaria joins Up All Night, which stars Christina Applegate, Maya Rudolph and Will Arnett, as a producer.
She has worked on Little Mosque on the Prairie and Degrassi: The Next Generation, and co-created and exec produced How To Be Indie before moving to L.A. two years ago.
Santamaria last year worked as a producer on Community, after serving as a co-producer on NBC’s Outsourced.
Wagner and Santamaria are both repped by ICM and managed by Meridian Artists.
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Went down to scout around one hour earlier while shopping for some things. Now safely snuggled back into the office finishing some overdue paperwork before I join the crowd.
Anyway, most of the setup was done in the afternoon (mobile toilettes, etc) but i will attempt to describe what it looks like.
The setup is pretty sparse. Several rigs have been raised along Bukit Bintang, only every other one carries a multiple-LCD displays. At least the France and Italy booth were correctly placed where they should be --- just outside the building where I am working. So quick chat with the promoters and I walk off with plenty of goodies.
At one end of Bukit Bintang, we have our good old Giant LCD screen, which Maxis outfitted with a billboard size football backdrop that fits the football displayed on the screen from time to time.
Pretty smart of Hotlink and Maxis to grab Bukit Bintang so soon.
I am probably hearing Flipsyde 'some local hip-hop act channelling the wrong pitch over the buzz of my office equipment and computer. I heard that they will be bringing in the 'Crazy Frog' later on.
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Yesterday I shared a tip for brides including photos from Katie and Luke’s grand entrance. Today I’m going to share some additional favorites from the wedding!
I just love the pretty lighting at Crane Cottage for pre wedding photos!
And here is Katie and Luke as newlyweds! I love working with Brent because we have such a great system worked out where one of us can get the “main” moments, while the other one can get the little moments like the one on the right below.
Katie and Luke had a horse drawn carriage after the wedding ceremony to take them (and us!) out to all the different photo locations we had selected!Such a lovely couple!Happy Wednesday! | <urn:uuid:5b87ca47-4e1b-4fbf-a247-d82b8eedb075> | CC-MAIN-2013-20 | http://sarahdeshawblog.com/2012/05/jekyll-island-wedding-photography-katie-and-luke/ | 2013-05-20T03:02:37Z | s3://commoncrawl/crawl-data/CC-MAIN-2013-20/segments/1368698222543/warc/CC-MAIN-20130516095702-00000-ip-10-60-113-184.ec2.internal.warc.gz | en | 0.932289 | 148 | null | null | HuggingFaceFW/fineweb |
Rainout pushes Humber's debut to Monday
Righty to start against Orioles; Danks to start Wednesday
CLEVELAND -- The White Sox dodged the rain in Texas on Sunday night, completing a 5-0 loss between storms, but couldn't avoid that same inclement weather Tuesday at Progressive Field.
Game 2 of this three-game set with the Indians was postponed due to adverse conditions, with no makeup date announced. Wednesday's game, scheduled for an 11:05 a.m. CT first pitch, remains on target. But with snow and rain in the forecast until later in the afternoon, that start time could be pushed back.
Both teams have off-days on Thursday, but it's highly unlikely Tuesday's cancellation will be played on that open date.The White Sox return to Cleveland on May 7-9 for three night games, and Oct. 1-3 for three night games to close out the season.
Philip Humber was set to complete the club's opening turn through the starting rotation, matched on the mound by Cleveland's Jeanmar Gomez. But the White Sox will stay in rotation, with John Danks pitching on Wednesday and Jake Peavy starting Friday's home opener. Humber was bumped back to Monday night's series opener against the Orioles at U.S. Cellular Field.
As a spot-starter and a member of a six-man rotation for part of the 2011 season, Humber went as many as six or seven days between trips to the mound. So he took Tuesday's news in stride with that past experience behind him.
"That's one of the things that last year prepared me for," Humber said. "I started the year in the bullpen and also having a couple of times where I had six, seven, eight days in-between starts. That would be good to use that experience for this time. You aren't going to stay around this league very long if you are not able to adapt to a change of circumstances."
"You hate to do it because you want [Humber] to pitch and start the season, but sometimes you have to sacrifice one for the four other ones," White Sox manager Robin Ventura said. "I don't want [Danks] going out there after seven days. John will start tomorrow."
Danks pitched the season opener in a 3-2 loss Friday afternoon against the Rangers. Moving everyone back one day would have also given Danks the home opener, but it would have meant six days between starts for the left-hander.
"I'm not worried about it," Humber said. "I know John is going to go out there tomorrow and pitch a good game."
Humber will throw a bullpen Wednesday and kind of use it as his game day, before getting ready like normal for Monday's contest. Because of the sketchy forecast for Wednesday, though, both teams' starters could be hampered by any sort of lengthy delay.
So, Humber stays on call in long relief along with Zach Stewart.
"It's something that happens early in the season quite a bit," Humber said. "You see it, especially in our division, because of the weather and everything.
"I feel good and I know it's not going to affect me. I'm usually pretty good, even if I have time in-between starts. Last year it happened a couple of times where I had time in- between starts more than usual, and I felt fine."
In June of last season, when Humber made three starts on six days' rest and one on regular rest, the right-hander finished 3-1 with a 2.48 ERA over 29 innings pitched.
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I always get a little twinge of anxiety when I hear that classic brands are doing things like this. It's rare see something that looks an improvement on the classic that preceded it. I know there are always reasons within businesses that we on the outside don't get to know about. But mostly these refinements don't seem to serve any purpose other than vanity on the part of those currently in charge.
Also, it's worth remembering that what we consider to be classic designs tend to have always evolved over time (as the advert below illustrates, in the the case of Jack Daniels). So why should we stop evolving them now?
The problems come when the evolution starts to lose what we have come to know as the character of the brand. Part of what gave Jack Daniels its character was the overly wordy label, and the almost unnecessary level of detail. That style is a relic of another time compared to most modern brands and labels.
|Before the latest redesign|
|The new label|
And on a purely selfish level, the new design just looks just that little bit less interesting and characterful on the shelf.
Edited to ad: We quite like the new bottle shape (on the right, below), so it just goes to show, not all change is bad. Probably because it is more idiosyncratic and different to competitors than the old one , which in our opinion is a good thing. And of course, it is the exact opposite of smoothing-off. | <urn:uuid:508b3914-4af1-4402-958b-979de5b916f6> | CC-MAIN-2013-20 | http://sellsellblog.blogspot.com/2011/07/smoothing-off-jack-daniels.html | 2013-05-20T03:36:08Z | s3://commoncrawl/crawl-data/CC-MAIN-2013-20/segments/1368698222543/warc/CC-MAIN-20130516095702-00000-ip-10-60-113-184.ec2.internal.warc.gz | en | 0.969357 | 300 | null | null | HuggingFaceFW/fineweb |
4:30 PM ET, January 2, 2006
Sun Devil Stadium, TEMPE, AZ
TEMPE, Ariz. (AP) -- Troy Smith outplayed Brady Quinn and Jim Tressel outfoxed Charlie Weis.
Fourth-ranked Ohio State jumped on No. 5 Notre Dame with big play after big play Monday night in a 34-20 Fiesta romp, sending the Irish to their eighth consecutive bowl defeat.
"I been hearing a lot about how are you guys going to beat a Notre Dame team when you give Charlie Weis four weeks to prepare for it," Buckeyes senior linebacker A.J. Hawk said. "That kind of upset me because I thought, 'What about giving coach Tressel four weeks to prepare for you?''
So make it four straight bowl wins for the Buckeyes, three of them at the Tostitos Fiesta Bowl.
Suspended from last year's Alamo Bowl for taking $500 from a booster, Smith earned a measure of redemption with an offensive MVP performance, hooking up on a pair of long touchdown passes.
Santonio Holmes set a Fiesta Bowl record with an 85-yard TD catch, then said he was forgoing his senior season to enter the NFL draft. Ted Ginn scored on a 68-yard end around and caught a 56-yard touchdown pass for the Buckeyes (10-2).
Darius Walker scored all three touchdowns for Notre Dame (9-3). The Irish fell to 13-14 overall in bowls, a disappointing end for Weis in his first year as their coach.
Smith also sat out this year's opener, but has improved steadily since then. He completed 19 of 28 passes for a career-high 342 yards and ran for another 66 in 13 attempts.
"As you watched Troy throughout his career, every day in practice, he learns a little something and gets better, and he learns from every ball game," Tressel said. "He's very passionate about being a great quarterback, and each day he's taking a step closer to it."
The junior from Cleveland capped his performance with a pair of third-and-long completions on the Buckeyes' final scoring drive. Antonio Pittman, who rushed for 136 yards in 21 carries, broke free on a 60-yard touchdown run to seal the victory with 1:46 to play.
"First of all, I want to let you know that sitting out of last year's bowl, I didn't think about that as much as you probably think I did," Smith said. "To me, this year"s seniors, this group of guys on the field, that's what it was about. I don't like taking a lot of credit for what goes on on the field because it takes 11 guys."
Forget the stereotype of plodding, but powerful Ohio State; the Buckeyes won with sheer speed.
Ginn caught eight passes for 167 yards. He zigzagged into the end zone on his long run to help the Buckeyes take to a 21-7 halftime en route to their third Fiesta Bowl victory in four years. Holmes caught five passes for 124 yards.
Ohio State had a Fiesta Bowl-record 27 first downs. The Buckeyes' 617 yards were third-most in the bowl's 35-year history.
The intricate, efficient offense that Weis brought with him from the New England Patriots sputtered early before the Irish mounted a comeback that cut the lead to seven in the fourth quarter.
Hawk, Ohio State's Lombardi Award-winning linebacker and the game's defensive MVP, sacked his girlfriend's brother, Quinn, twice. Hawk also ran down Quinn to stop a third-down play early in the fourth quarter.
Quinn, a third-team all-American behind Matt Leinart and Vince Young of Texas, completed 29-of-45 for 286 yards but no touchdowns. He was sacked Walker gained 90 yards in 16 attempts.
The teams met for only the fifth time in their storied histories, and for the first in a bowl game.
The Irish gave up a 617 yards, third-most in Fiesta Bowl history 275 on the ground.
A crucial play came when a video replay nullified what would have been an Ohio State turnover in the third quarter.
With Notre Dame trailing 21-13 and the Buckeyes driving, Smith threw over the middle to Anthony Gonzalez, who dropped the ball at the Irish 12. Tom Zbikowski picked it up for Notre Dame and ran 88 yards to the end zone. An illegal block would have brought it back to the Buckeyes' 21, but a video review of the play determined Gonzalez juggled the ball and it was ruled an incompletion.
"That was THE play," Weis said. "What I said to the official on the field is I hope your guy upstairs was right because that changed the whole complexion of the game."
Josh Huston kicked a 40-yard field goal and Ohio State led 24-13 with 2:20 to go in the third quarter.
Huston's 26-yard field goal with 10:12 to play made it 27-13.
Notre Dame mounted its best drive, 80 yards in 13 plays, to cut the lead to 27-20. Walker's 3-yard run was ruled a touchdown after another video review with 5:27 left.
Soon, Ohio State's speed took over.
Ginn took Smith's pitch on an end around and raced for a touchdown, leaving three Notre Dame defenders sprawled on the ground with a cutback from the sidelines 10 yards from the end zone. The Irish led 14-7 with 14:16 left in the first half.
Later in the quarter, Ohio State took over at its own 2. No matter. Smith scrambled from the 6 to the 15, then connected with Holmes for an 85-yard scoring play.
The previous record for longest pass in the Fiesta Bowl was 79 yards from Tennessee's Tee Martin to Peerless Price against Florida State in 1999 and Oregon's Joey Harrington to Samie Parker against Colorado in 2002.
It was the final Fiesta Bowl in Sun Devil Stadium. The game moves to the Arizona Cardinals' new stadium in the west Phoenix suburb of Glendale next year.
"There are two ways you can go after a loss," Weis said. "One way is you sit there and feel sorry for yourselves. The other way is to take that bitter taste in your mouth and say I don't want to have that taste a year from now."
It was over when... Antonio Pittman raced 60 yards for a touchdown with 1:46 left after the Irish had rallied to within a touchdown of the Buckeyes.
Gameball goes to... Troy Smith. The OSU quarterback passed for 2 touchdowns and a career-high 342 yards. Smith also ran for 60 yards and helped the Buckeyes convert 8 of 12 third downs.
Stat of the game... 85. Smith hooked up with Santonio Holmes on an Fiesta Bowl-record 85-yard TD pass.
The Fan Pick
49.6% of Bowl Pick'em players picked Ohio State to win the game.
Team Stat Comparison
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|4th Down Conversions||1-2||0-0|
|TD||12:59||DARIUS WALKER 20 YD RUN (D.J. FITZPATRICK KICK)|
Drive info: 6 plays, 72 yards.
|TD||10:02||TED GINN JR. 56 YD PASS FROM TROY SMITH (JOSH HUSTON KICK)|
Drive info: 7 plays, 82 yards.
|TD||14:16||TED GINN JR. 68 YD RUN (JOSH HUSTON KICK)|
Drive info: 6 plays, 86 yards.
|TD||2:21||SANTONIO HOLMES 85 YD PASS FROM TROY SMITH (JOSH HUSTON KICK)|
Drive info: 4 plays, 98 yards.
|TD||4:25||DARIUS WALKER 10 YD RUN (MISSED KICK)|
Drive info: 10 plays, 71 yards.
|FG||2:20||JOSH HUSTON 40 YD FG|
Drive info: 5 plays, 42 yards.
|FG||10:12||JOSH HUSTON 26 YD FG|
Drive info: 10 plays, 60 yards.
|TD||5:27||DARIUS WALKER 3 YD RUN (D.J. FITZPATRICK KICK)|
Drive info: 13 plays, 80 yards.
|TD||1:46||ANTONIO PITTMAN 60 YD RUN (JOSH HUSTON KICK)|
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This news should concern a lot of us here, I’m going to assume. For one, if the police are involved, and not some anti-piracy watchdog like MediaDefender, it suggests that the post-OiNK investigations are criminal in nature (as opposed to civil).
Just as troubling, the arrested user’s crime was the seeding of a single album. A show of hands: how many of you are seeding at least one album right now?
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Well I thought the younger versions of Renesemee were going to be CGI like Benjamin Button. BUT a tweet today makes me think otherwise. | <urn:uuid:b66cb2ce-fa40-4516-ac3f-56d2691455ff> | CC-MAIN-2013-20 | http://twifans.com/profiles/blog/list?tag=renesmee&user=1yusimhvs0trh | 2013-05-20T03:14:45Z | s3://commoncrawl/crawl-data/CC-MAIN-2013-20/segments/1368698222543/warc/CC-MAIN-20130516095702-00000-ip-10-60-113-184.ec2.internal.warc.gz | en | 0.966985 | 198 | null | null | HuggingFaceFW/fineweb |
Office Bullying In Singapore Caught On Hidden Camera!
"I had just started an internship and noticed my supervisor constantly bullying my co-worker in the workplace. The abuse were often physical. I confronted him about his behavior, but I felt his explanation was insincere. I fear that his appalling behavior would continue should I not be around to witness it.
There is no justification for hitting someone!"
Apapun bisa menjadi peluang usaha jika dibekali keinginan kuat dan ide krteatif. Hal itulah yang mengantarkan Dyah Rachmalita menjadi seorang pengusaha rumahan yang sukses. Ia memanfaatkan limbah kaca, botol kaca menjadi karya seni yang unik dan menarik. | <urn:uuid:68f6ab84-0ab8-4d4c-ab6f-456c008290d1> | CC-MAIN-2013-20 | http://video.plasa.msn.com/watch/video/demo-mahasiswa-blokade-jalan/2afhg9ml2?cpkey=7c6479b5-763f-46b1-9eac-a792c1958357%257c%257c%257c%257c | 2013-05-20T03:22:44Z | s3://commoncrawl/crawl-data/CC-MAIN-2013-20/segments/1368698222543/warc/CC-MAIN-20130516095702-00000-ip-10-60-113-184.ec2.internal.warc.gz | en | 0.69083 | 184 | null | null | HuggingFaceFW/fineweb |
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"There are no differences between Jordanians, Palestinians, Syrians and Lebanese. We are all part of one nation. It is only for political reasons that we carefully underline our Palestinian identity, because it is in the interest of the Arabs to encourage a separate Palestinian identity in contrast to Zionism. Yes, the existence of a separate Palestinian identity is there only for tactical reasons. The establishment of a Palestinian state is a new expedient to continue the fight against Zionism and for Arab unity
Trouw (Dutch newspaper) March 31, 1977
One always finds in Palestine Arabs who have been in the country only a few weeks or a few months...Since they are themselves strangers in a strange land, they are the loudest to cry: 'Out with the Jews!...Amongst them are to be found representatives of every Arab country: Arabs from Transjordan, Saudi Arabia, Morocco, Egypt, the Sudan and Iraq.
(Ladislas Farago, Palestine at the Crossroads (New York: Putnam 1937) p17
The Jordanian Foreign Minister said (Adwa'min pp. 4-5):
Jordan is Palestine and Palestine is Jordan, and Jordan hails every Palestinian who seeks to do his duty to his cause and his country
Declaration of the 8th Palestinian National Congress
Jordan is linked to Palestine by a national relationship and a national unity forged by history and culture from earliest times. The creation of one political entity in East Jordan and another in Palestine would have no basis either in legality or as to the elements universally accepted as fundamental to a political entity.
(R. Hamid (ed.) Muqararat al-majlis al-watani al-filastini 1964 Resolutions of the PNCs 1964-1974, Beirut, PLO Research Centre, 1975, p178 Declaration of the 8th Palestinian National Congress)
This (Jerusalem) for them (the Arabs) was not in 'Palestine'. For the Arabs (And the Turks) the whole of the region lying between the Taurus Mountains and the confines of Egypt, and between the Mediterranean and the edge of the desert, was 'Syria' a term which had been in use since remote antiquity.
(Sir Geoffrey Furlonge, Palestine is My Country, The Story of Mussa Alami (New York, 1969) p. 7
Abdul Malik Dahamshe, an Israeli Arab Knesset member, said
at a solidarity visit in Damascus, Syria [David Makovsky, Jerusalem Post,
January 24, 1995]:
Palestine and Syria are one homeland. The Arab people will win by the
sword; the victory will be won by the Jihad of the Arab world.
In Jaffa in May 1919, a Christian-Muslim assembly had convened and demanded a cessation of Jewish immigration, a prohibition on Jewish land purchases, and a representative government of Muslims, Christians and Jews - something that would preserve a permanent Arab majority and Jewish minority. But the assembly was not calling for an independent Palestine; on the contrary, its resolution declared that Palestine was part of Syria and that the government should have autonomy in "Greater Syria under the rule of Prince Faisal."
There is no such country as 'Palestine'; 'Palestine' is a term the Zionists invented!"
Arab MK, Abdul Darawshe said [Jerusalem Institute of Western
Defence, Bulletin 3, August 15, 1997]:
There is no difference between one Palestinian and another. We are all
Palestinians and we are all Syrian Arabs.
It is common knowledge that Palestine is nothing but southern Syria
Salah Khalaf (Abu Iyad) number two in the PLO leadership (Al Sachrah, Kuwait, Jan. 6, 1987)
We will take Palestine and turn it into a part of the greater Arab nation.
The following is a letter submitted to the New York Times in 1975 which the New York Times did not see fit to print (Arthur Kahn and Thomas Murray, The Palestinians: A Political Masquerade, Published by Americans For A Safe Israel)
Your newspaper frequently uses the term "Palestinian" to describe a section of the Middle East population which is Arab, to differentiate it from Israeli Jews. As the holder of a Palestinian Identity Card and a Certificate of Discharge from a Palestinian Unit of the British army, I find this practice annoying and certainly untrue...
We Palestinian Jews wore the uniform of the British Army, and on our shoulder epaulettes the single word, "Palestine" in English. We tried to get permission to wear Hebrew insignia, fly the Jewish flag and be recognized as Palestinian Jews, but-no, Palestinian meant Jew and Arab, and who cared if there were fewer than 3000 Arabs as compared to 36,000 Jews in khaki? In British army nomenclature, the equivalent of a GI is BOR, meaning British Other Rank. We were formally known as POR , Palestinian Other Ranks.
So we fought the war as Palestinians, set up the Jewish Brigade as Palestinians, and I'll be damned if I agree that only Arafat and his assassins are Palestinians.
As a Palestinian, I was arrested by the British on suspicion of smuggling immigrants into the country. As a Palestinian, I had the honor of commanding the 329th Palestinian Companyof the Royal Electrical and Mechanical Engineers (all Jews). There were no equivalent Arab units. Once a British general said to me, "Migawd| I have so many things to dislike you for, for being a Jew, American born, a Palestinian-and you don't even know how to handle a knife and fork!
So cut it out, please. Call them what you will, but not Palestinians.
Palestine has never existed...as an autonomous entity. There is no language known as Palestinian. There is no distinct Palestinian culture. There has never been a land known as Palestine governed by Palestinians. Palestinians are Arabs, indistinguishable from Jordanians (another recent invention), Syrians, Lebanese, Iraqis, etc.
Keep in mind that the Arabs control 99.9 percent of the Middle East lands. Israel represents one-tenth of one percent of the landmass. But that's too much for the Arabs. They want it all. And that is ultimately what the fighting in Israel is about today...No matter how many land concessions the Israelis make, it will never be enough.
From Myths of the Middle East, Joseph Farah, Arab-American editor and journalist, WorldNetDaily, 11 October 2000
ESTABLISHING A FIRM DIVIDE
by Boris Shusteff
FREEMAN CENTER FOR STRATEGIC STUDIES
P.O. Box 35661
Houston, Texas 77235-5661
The Arab-Israeli conflict is so replete with lies, fictions, myths and half-truths that one might write a book just enumerating them. The hard facts that used to be common knowledge at the beginning of the twentieth century are today completely distorted and obfuscated. One of these myths pertains to the "struggle" of the "Palestinian people" for self-determination. The common misconception in this case is that Israel "owes" the Palestinian Arabs a state. Therefore the terrorist activity of the Arabs is to a certain extent excusable, since they are "fighting for their rights." However, nothing can be more remote from the truth. In reality, any land to which the Palestinian Arabs can claim any rights is already held by other Arabs. And the "struggle for self-determination against Israel" is simply a way for the Arabs to murder and maim more Jews.
The point of this discussion is not to prove or to disprove the existence of the so-called "Palestinian people." For our purposes it is sufficient to know that Palestinian identity did not exist before World War I, as convincingly demonstrated Professor of history Rashid Khalidi, himself a Palestinian Arab. He admits that "Palestinian identity" was the last garb that the Arabs of Palestine tried on when all other possibilities where exhausted. It was shared "by a relatively restricted stratum, and among them as well as among the rural and illiterate majority of the population, the new sense of Palestinian identity competed and overlapped with Ottomanism and Arabism, as well as older religious, local and family loyalties" (1).
The term "Palestinian entity" was introduced by the Arabs for the first time at the Arab League meetings in 1959. However, it was not recognized by the world and was not even mentioned in UN Resolution 242 after the Six-Day War. Moreover, the confusions associated with it became obvious during the voting for UN General Assembly resolution of November 5, 1970. "Among the aspects of this resolution, which split the United Nations and indeed the Arab world itself and marshaled the support of only 57 out of 127 UN members, was the reference to 'the Palestinians' as 'an indispensable element' of a Middle East Settlement" (2).
All this points to the fact that at the time of the distribution of formerly-Turkish territories, which encompassed the whole area of the Near and Middle East there was no distinctive "Palestinian people." Julius Stone wrote in 1970 a must-read paper entitled "Self-determination and the Palestinian Arabs." His arguments are so clear and convincing that it is most effective simply to quote him in abundance. He explains that "it twists and parodies both history and justice to present the Palestine issue as a struggle between the Jews of the world on the one hand, and the Arabs of Palestine on the other, in which the Jews seized the major share" (2).
The struggle was rather between the Arabs of the Middle East region (including some hundred thousand living in Palestine) and the Jews of the world, in which the Arabs took the lion's share from which in due course a dozen and more Arab states emerged. Neither at the time of distribution, nor for decades later, moreover, was there any identifiable Palestinian Arab people, much less any center of Arab cultural or political life in Palestine" (2).
Reverend James Parkes reminded in his book "Whose Land?" that during the time of the Islamic conquest Palestine was never exclusively Arab or Muslim. Its Christian and especially Jewish elements of population were always present. The Jews never completely left it, even at the height of persecution and destruction. Parkes writes that,
Jewish settlement had always been accepted by Moslem rulers until the end of the nineteenth century; and the Jewish population of the country had always been as large as its political and economic conditions made possible.
Therefore, at the end of the World War I, "when conditions made it possible," Jewish nationalism, or Zionism, proudly raised its head. This occurred at the time when a distinct "Palestinian people" did not exist. As Stone puts it,
It is clear that Jewish nationalism and Arab nationalism, each embracing its own cluster of scattered populations, each sharing specific cultural, religious, traditional, and historical experiences deeply rooted in the Middle East region, came simultaneously as claimants, the former to the part, the latter to the whole, of the territories liberated by World War I from the Turkish sway (2).
Stone clarifies further that "in historical fact the Arab claimants after World War I embraced Arabs of the WHOLE ARERA of whom the Arabs in Palestine were merely a peripheral and in no way a 'distinctive' segment, whose interests as such were taken into account" (2). This statement completely coincides with Khalidi's comment that "Arab nationalism appeared to be the obvious successor to Ottomanism as the hegemonic ideology throughout the former Arab provinces of the now-defunct Ottoman Empire" (1).
Even if we assume, as Stone writes, that a specific "Palestinian" consciousness associated with the idea of establishing a "Palestinian entity" has recently arisen, "this factor could not now be a decisive one for judging the rights and wrongs of events which took place half a century or even a generation before, in 1917 or 1922, or 1948" (2). Actually the Arab falsifiers of history have been trying to eliminate the element of chronology from it. If we compare the situation to a sport, it is as if in the middle of the game one team puts an extra player on the field. However, whereas in hockey, for example, this leads to a penalty for the offending team and a power play for the opposing team, in our case the Arabs instead of receiving punishment demand a reward for the "extra player." Stone writes,
A nationalism hypothetically just emergent cannot be treated as if it had emerged decades before, for the purpose of facilely overriding entitlements then fixed and acted upon. To ignore chronology in such a way would be an arbitrary reconstruction of events and rights of peoples (2).
Stone emphasizes several times that the Arabs and the Jews came forward with their claims to the land simultaneously. Therefore it is absolutely wrong to say that the Jews "invaded" a previously Arab estate.
During the time of land distribution, on January 3, 1919, Feisal, Emir of Mecca, one of the most prominent and influential Arab leaders, signed an agreement with Dr. Chaim Weizmann, the leader of the Zionist movement. The agreement specified conditions for the establishment of the Arab and the Jewish states. Although ten years later, when he became King of Iraq, Feisal was "unable to recall" the conditions stipulated in the agreement, the fact relevant to this discussion did not change. In all the articles of the agreement the future Jewish state was called "Palestine." Thus Article 2 of the Agreement stated, "Immediately following the completion of the deliberations of the [San Remo] Peace Conference, the definite boundaries between the Arab State and Palestine shall be determined by a Commission to be agreed upon by parties hereto."
This fact is extremely important. It proves without the shadow of doubt that at the time of the Peace Conference, when the Jewish and the Arab sides came forward with their claims, the Arab claimants identified the Jewish side with Palestine. Thus confirming again that a separate "Palestinian people" did not exist at the time. The emergence of Palestinian nationalism - a new Arab claimant - many years after the fact of the original land distribution, does not give it any right whatsoever to demand its "share" from Israel. The part of land that the Palestinian Arabs might lay their claim to has been, for more than 80 years, firmly in Arab possession. The Arab share of the land that was distributed at San Remo is a hundred times bigger than the sliver of Jewish land. The lands of Judea, Samaria and Gaza were from the very beginning incorporated into the Jewish share of the land and were never destined to become part of an Arab state. By ignoring this truth the Arabs mix up two issues that must be clearly and thoroughly divided. Only by establishing a firm divide will it be possible to find a solution to the Arab-Israeli conflict. The issue of Palestinian Arab self-determination has nothing to do with the Arab murderous policy towards the Jews. When the Arab terrorists brutally murder the Israeli Jews they commit acts of despicable barbarism, nothing else.
Arab terror must be viewed completely outside of the context of the struggle of the Palestinian Arabs for self-determination. It then becomes obvious that terror against Israel is unleashed simply for the sake of murdering Jews and destroying a sovereign state. Thus, Israel and the world community are obliged to declare War on terror against Israel just as they have declared it on terror against America. The PLO, Fatah, Tanzim, Hamas, Islamic Jihad, Hezbollah and their infrastructure must be completely destroyed. Terror should be unequivocally condemned and ruthlessly rooted out. The Palestinian Arabs, manipulated and deceived by their leaders for several decades, must learn the unfortunate truth: they cannot legitimately lay claim to a single inch of Judea, Samaria or Gaza, nor any of Israel proper, since these territories, according to international law, were already allocated to the Jews in 1920. They have as much right to this land as they do to America, Russia, Spain or Germany. If we are to forget that the Palestinian Arabs already exercised their right to self-determination on the territory of Jordan, we might speak of the need to give the Palestinian Arabs one more chance. However, it should be an internal issue for Arabs, and the Jews and Israel should have nothing to do with it.
1. Rashid Khalidi. Palestinian
Identity. Columbia University Press, 1998.
2. Julius Stone. Self-Determination and the Palestinian Arabs. From the book "Israel, the Arabs and the Middle East," Bantam Books, 1972.
What is a Palestinian? What's the definition?
Well, here are a few possibilities:
Before 1948 and the creation of the new state of Israel, the term generally referred to Jews, ironically enough. The Jerusalem Post was called the Palestine Post. Since most of the people living in the region then, as now, were Jews, it was only natural to think of Palestinians as Jews.
As I've written before, there never has been an autonomous, self-governing Arab state in the history of the world never.
There is no distinct Palestinian Arab culture or language. Most of the people we call Palestinians today actually have their roots in other Arab countries.
The United Nations and others tried to address the definition of a Palestinian early in the refugee crisis. There were various efforts. Sometimes, according to Joan Peters' milestone book, "From Time Immemorial," the U.N. categorized as Palestinian anyone who had been in the region for two years or even less.
The Arab population of the region continually climbed along with the Jewish population as economic and living conditions improved. Workers came from Egypt and Jordan and even non-Arab countries to capitalize on the opportunities Jewish immigration brought.
There were some 50 different languages spoken among the "Arab" population in pre-1948 "Palestine." By definition, Arabs speak Arabic. These non-Jewish Palestinians who spoke languages other than Arabic were, in most cases, as new to the area as any recent Jewish immigrant.
The so-called Palestinian leadership, from Arafat on down, are known for inventing the most creative stories about their families' long histories in Palestine. They tell you where they went to school. They tell you where they lived. They recall fond memories of the scents and flavors of Old Jerusalem. Yet, when you dig beneath the surface, you find most of the stories are fanciful myths worthy of the spinners of Arabian Knights legends. | <urn:uuid:e4e5d68e-f398-4f20-b5ea-46e48dfd4ac5> | CC-MAIN-2013-20 | http://www.afsi.org/MEDIA/newsLinks/shockers/m100.htm | 2013-05-20T03:21:38Z | s3://commoncrawl/crawl-data/CC-MAIN-2013-20/segments/1368698222543/warc/CC-MAIN-20130516095702-00000-ip-10-60-113-184.ec2.internal.warc.gz | en | 0.959203 | 3,797 | null | null | HuggingFaceFW/fineweb |
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Then the king perceives, in clear vision acquired by the blessings of Virtue, that lord Kausika, in order to try his virtue, deprived him of his kingdom and placed the government in the hands of his own minister. The Chandal, who is his master, is not a real character but virtue incarnate.
The Brahmin and his wife, who were the master and mistress of the queen, were not ordinary persons. The Brahmin was Siva, the god of gods, incarnate. The Brahmani was the goddess Durga incarnate. By order of virtue, the king and queen annoint, on the banks of the Ganges, Rohitashya as king-associate or Yuvaraja, and return to the capital, amidst the wild rejoicings of the subjects.
After a short stay there, the happy couple repair to the heaven of Brahma.
The secret loves of Usha, the daughter of the Asura Bana, and Aniruddha, the grandson of Krishna, are intense. The sage Nareda apprises Krishna and Balarama, that Indra is again in dread of the demons, and especially of Bana, who has acquired the particular favour of Siva, and who is therefore not to be easily subdued. The conference ends by Nareda’s going to Sonapur, the capital of the demon, to endeavour to impair the friendship between Bana and Siva, whilst Krishna and his brother await the result.
The excessive arrogance of Bana, in his anxiety to match himself with Vishnu, has offended the latter, who has accordingly departed for Kailas, after announcing that Bana’s anxiety shall be alleviated whenever his banner falls. Parvati has also gone to Kailas, after announcing to Usha that she will shortly behold her lover. Usha is impatient for the boon conferred by the goddess.
Aniruddha is violently enamoured of a damsel he has seen in his sleep, and despairs of discovering who she is, when Nareda comes opportunely to his aid, and informs him that she is the daughter of Bana; on which Aniruddha determines to go to his capital, first propitiating Jwalamukhi by penance, in order to obtain the means of entering a city surrounded by a wall of perpetual flame. The goddess is the form of Durga, worshipped wherever a subterraneous flame breaks forth, or wherever jets of carburetted hydrogen gas are emitted from the soil.
Bana’s banner has fallen. His minister and wife endeavour to prevail on him to propitiate Siva, in order to avert the evil omen, but he refuses.
Bringi, a servant of Durga, precedes Aniruddha to prepare the goddess to grant his request. As he proceeds in his aerial car, he notices the countries of Orissa, Bengal, Behar, Oude or Ayodhya, Prayaga, Hastinapur or Delhi and Kurujangal or Tahneser, whence he comes to Jwalamukhi.
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Over the next week or so, you’ll read about a host of new digital devices that will transform our lives forever. Or not.
Get ready for the annual Consumer Electronics Show (CES), kicking off next week in Las Vegas. There, the world’s leading tech companies will introduce “world-changing” products, many of which probably won’t change a thing.
Some are clearly absurd — Internet-connected refrigerators? But others contain the germ of a good idea, just imperfectly realized.
Over the years, many showpiece technologies from the electronics show have utterly flopped.
These products aren’t doomed — just stifled. And each has a fighting chance to catch on, eventually.
Here are four of my favorite examples from years past:
3-D TV: They were among the most hyped products of our time. So how are 3-D television sets doing?
Lousy. Just 2 percent of us own one, according to IHS Screen Digest; that’s 6.9 million of America’s 331 million TVs. What went wrong?
Plenty. Would 3-D really improve “Two and a Half Men?” Apart from sporting events and a few movies, most shows don’t use it.
Besides, tens of millions of Americans upgraded to HDTV in the past few years. These great-looking sets have a life expectancy of a decade or more; it’s too soon to buy new.
All TV’s will eventually be 3-D compatible, whether we ask for it or not.
But you don’t have to use this feature. And without more and better programs, you probably won’t.
Smart TV: Build a computer into a TV, and you can stream online movies, play games, or browse the Web while lounging on the living room sofa.
Surely we would all want to do that. Except that we don’t. NPD Group, a technology research company, found that 60 percent of smart-TV owners use them to stream Internet movies, and about 15 percent listen to online music streams. But hardly anyone uses the other smart features, such as gaming, social networking, and shopping.
Who would want to run Google searches or peck out a Twitter message on a TV remote control, when they can use a mobile device instead? About 40 percent of Americans who own a tablet computer or smartphone use it while watching TV, according to Nielsen Co.
Smart TVs should add speech-recognition software so you can control them with your voice. I was unimpressed with a voice-controlled TV from LG Electronics that I recently tested. But as the technology improves, our TVs might become smart enough to compete with our phones.
Video calling: Your smartphone, tablet, or laptop computer almost certainly has a small front-facing camera. Throw in a broadband Internet connection and software like Microsoft Corp.’s Skype, Google Inc.’s Hangouts, or Apple Inc.’s FaceTime, and you can look at your friends while you chat.
A 2011 survey from the Pew Internet and American Life Project found that 37 percent of Internet-connected teenagers make video phone calls. Microsoft calculates that Skype users worldwide generated 50 billion minutes of video calls in the first three months of 2012. Clearly, video calling is beginning to get some traction, after years of unfulfilled promises.
But the technology still falls far short of its potential.
The leading video calling programs don’t talk to each other. It is as if AT&T phones wouldn’t connect to Verizon Wireless customers. Besides, you need a high-speed Internet connection, and about one-third of Americans don’t have one at home.
And if you video-chat via smartphone, you can quickly burn through your data plan. Fix these problems, and video calling will truly catch fire.
Ultrabooks: Thin, lightweight, and powerful, these elegant computers running Microsoft’s Windows operating system were supposed to revitalize the laptop market. Not quite. Research firm IHS iSuppli expected sales of 22 million Ultrabooks in 2012. By year’s end, they had cut that estimate in half.
Ultrabooks skimp on features — a lack of USB ports and the absence of an optical drive are common complaints. Their use of flash memory instead of traditional hard drives means they can carry less data. And Ultrabooks generally cost $900 or more. You can easily find bulkier but more capable Windows machines for $300 less.
The success of Apple’s MacBook Air proves there is a market for sleek, driveless laptops. But Apple fans don’t mind paying extra; Windows users think differently. Ultrabooks will do just fine, but only if the price comes down.
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Nov. 7 (Bloomberg) -- The U.S. poverty rate was 16 percent in 2010 measured under an alternative method, up from the official rate of 15.2 percent released earlier, according to the Census Bureau.
Today’s data, called the Supplemental Poverty Measure, is based on how much families spend on food, clothing, shelter and utilities. It represents a shift from the method the bureau has used since the 1960s, which determined the official poverty line by tripling a family’s annual food budget.
The annual income at which a family of four -- two adults and two children -- is considered living in poverty was $24,343 in 2010 under the supplemental measure calculations. That compares with the official figure of $22,113 for the same year.
The supplemental measure put the percentage of Americans under 18 living in poverty at 18.2 percent, a drop from the 22.5 percent official rate. Among those 65 and older, the supplemental rate was 15.9 percent, an increase from the 9 percent official rate.
The bureau reported the official numbers in September. They showed the proportion of people living in poverty climbing to 15.1 percent last year from 14.3 percent in 2009, the highest level since 1993. The official numbers use a method based on U.S. Department of Agriculture statistics showing that about a third of the average American family’s income is spent on food, according to a 2006 article in The New Yorker.
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After a miserable start decimated by injuries, the Wizards are coming on strong. They've won 7 of their last 9, one of those losses coming against the Pistons. Meanwhile, the Pistons are reeling. The best they could muster in a two game set against the Pacers was a 28 point loss, and only Jonas kept Monday's game against the Hawks from being aesthetically unpleasant. The Situation Geez-o-wiz Bradley Beal. If you didn't realize that since returning full force from his latest injury he's put up 20 points per game on 62% TS with 5 rebounds, 3 assists, a steal and a block over the past six games, I'm right there with you. He's tearing stuff up and could be a ROTY force to be reckoned with down the stretch. But there's quite a bit else that the Wizards have going for them as well that might have gone under the radar. Did you know that since swapping spots at the starting small forward role Trevor Ariza's TS has jumped from 43% to 56% while starter Martell Webster is putting up 62.4% for the season? That Emeka Okafor has quietly turned his season around, putting up 11 and 11 over the past 20 games? And that Nene is back to his deadly efficient self, putting up 13/8/3 with 54% from the field over the past nine games?
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Same here and MR feature not working. Had someone here last weekend who changed some splitters, updated power supply, checked everything and all was working as normal.
Last night, same thing - lost MR and response on all boxes (7216, 7232s) was intolerable.
I was a first gen adopter in VHO7, as soon as it was available, but this is a dealbreaker.
Calling tonight for service on Sat. I don't care if they have to rewire the whole house and put in all new equipment. I pay a lot for this and if they can't maintain proper operating conditions I (and we) can go elsewhere).
This thread is going on 3 weeks old. Where is the light at the end of the tunnel? Can't FF, RW, change channels, etc.
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