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Rep: Lily Allen "Definitely Not" Retiring From Music
Lily Allen is setting the record straight: She's not retiring from the music biz.
Rumors that the 24-year-old British pop singer -- known for her hits "Smile" and "Oh My God" -- has ditched her career are completely untrue.
"[Lily] is definitely not retiring. It's all been taken out of context," the singer's rep told Usmagazine.com in a statement Friday.
The reports surfaced after the singer posted a blog entry on her anti-music piracy site, It's Not Alright, telling fans she did not re-up her contract with EMI Records.
"Just so you know, I have not renegotiated my record contract and have no plans to make another record. I do however remain a fan of new music, so this is not some selfish crusade," Allen wrote in a post that has since been deleted.
Allen's triple-platinum second album, It's Not Me, It's You, hit store shelves in February, and the singer has been touring the record overseas.
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to experience the hometown mountain atmosphere of Western
North Carolina’s second largest farmers’ market!! Conveniently located in downtown Waynesville, you’ll enjoy interaction with the area’s premier farmers and other vendors. Monthly “special event” days often feature complimentary lunch/refreshments prepared with seasonal produce. Local musicians volunteer their time to entertain you on Saturdays.
The 2012 Season:
Saturday April 14 through Wednesday October 31
Wednesday and Saturday mornings
8 a.m. until 12 noon
FIND US in the parking lot of HART Theater and the Museum of
North Carolina Handicrafts at:
250 Pigeon Street (276S) in Waynesville.
Haywood’s Historic Farmers Market is located just three blocks from Waynesville’s historic Main Street and a short distance from the Frog Level National Historic District.
This producer-only market offers the freshest local products including . . .
FRUITS & VEGETABLES * LOCAL MEAT * GOAT CHEESE & MILK * EGGS * HONEY * PLANTS & HERBS * BAKED GOODS *
JAMS, JELLIES & PRESERVES
NC SEAFOOD, delivered overnight from Kitty Hawk!
The finest of Western North Carolina HERITAGE CRAFTS including . . .
BROOMS * ANIMAL FIBERS & WEAVINGS * POTTERY FURNITURE & WOODWORKING * SOAP * CANDLES and GARDEN-RELATED PRODUCTS | <urn:uuid:8bdef66b-fabe-48a4-9624-8ae223f529d8> | CC-MAIN-2013-20 | http://www.visitncsmokies.com/see/attractions/448 | 2013-05-18T21:07:54Z | s3://commoncrawl/crawl-data/CC-MAIN-2013-20/segments/1368696382892/warc/CC-MAIN-20130516092622-00050-ip-10-60-113-184.ec2.internal.warc.gz | en | 0.853823 | 330 | null | null | HuggingFaceFW/fineweb |
Posted: Aug 19, 2010 3:41 PM by Stephanie Ryan
Updated: Aug 19, 2010 6:51 PM
The No Problem Raceway in Belle Rose can't quite live up to its name these days. That's because it sits empty, filled not with fans but with fumes of oil and natural gas that have been spewing from a blown out well for nine days.
Local officials cancelled races last weekend and officially shut the raceway down Monday, leaving drag strip manager Paul Cartwright and his wife without an income and living in a fishing cabin several miles down the road.
The Cartwrights' home is just yards from the raceway within the mile radius that has been evacuated, leaving the Cartwrights and their neighbors unable to live in their homes.
September begins one of the busiest times of year for the raceway, a bridge Cartwright says he will cross when he comes to it. He does not plan to file a claim for lost income but hopes the oil company will, as he says, "do the right thing" and re-imburse him.
The raceway remains closed indefinitely, though Cartwright is optimistic he will be able to re-open the track by September. One of the track's biggest events of the year is the second weekend in September. | <urn:uuid:ad5831d5-d079-4953-aa05-8540a10dd413> | CC-MAIN-2013-20 | http://www.wbrz.com/news/oil-shuts-down-paincourtville-raceway/ | 2013-05-18T21:08:13Z | s3://commoncrawl/crawl-data/CC-MAIN-2013-20/segments/1368696382892/warc/CC-MAIN-20130516092622-00050-ip-10-60-113-184.ec2.internal.warc.gz | en | 0.97627 | 263 | null | null | HuggingFaceFW/fineweb |
I hate to love you. [x]
Sometimes we are meant to fall in love with someone we shouldn’t love or break up with someone we can’t break up with.
Meet Troy Flores (Daniel Padilla), a playboy turned lover when he met Gabriella Dos Santos (Kathryn Bernardo). He seems to have a normal life. His best friend is Jake Andrada (Khalil Ramos)and his relationship with his cousin Jessica Ambrosio (Julia Montes) seems to be going well. The problem is, he finds out he has to move in with his real father, Ronny Manrique and his half-brother, Miggy Manrique (Sam Concepcion). Now, Troy promised his mother he wouldn’t get into any trouble with Miggy, until he finds out Miggy seems to be pursuing Gabriella. Will Troy risk breaking his relationship with his half-brother to be with the girl he loves? Or will he lose Gabriella, keeping his half-brother and a broken heart in the process?
Yey! Expect it soon. =) Either today or tomorrow.
[regardless of the picture, kath doesn’t play a princess, hehe. c:]
Daniel Padilla as Troy Jose “TJ” Ambrosio Flores
Kathryn Bernardo as Gabriella “Gabby” Elaine Santiago Dos Santos
Julia Montes as Jessica “Jess” Ann Cruz Ambrosio
Khalil Ramos as Jacob “Jake” Drew Castro Andrada
Sam Concepcion as Miguel “Miggy” Lawrence Rosario Manrique
Binaba niya ako sa kotse, siguro kanya to, kahit sinipa sipa ko siya palabas ng kotse e malakas pa din siya kaya nasarado niya pa din yung pinto, nagkakanda untog untog na ko sa loob , pagkabukas ko naman nung kabilang pinto e nakalock na, wala na, kulong na ko dito.
“Buksan mo yung pinto.”
napasmirk naman siya, dahil sa sobrang likot ko e tinrap na niya yung legs ko sa legs niya tapos gamit lang yung isang kamay e hawak niya yung magkabilang kamay ko, bwisit, nacorner na ata ako ng isang to,
“Bakit ba ang gulo mo?! Gusto ko lang makipagusap ng ayos ahh!”
tiningnan ko naman yung mukha niya, poker face lang, wala talagang emosyon, siguro sobrang naguguluhan na siya sakin,
“Hindi mo ba magets? Ayokong makipagusap sayo!”
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Romania Utility Grants Water Contract to Hidroconstructia
Feb. 18 (Bloomberg) — The Romanian utility Compania de Apa SA awarded a 63.5 million-lei ($19 million) contract to the Hidroconstructia SA construction company for water infrastructure works in Buzau County.
The utility received 12 offers for the contract, according to the European Union procurement document. Hidroconstructia will be upgrading the water and sewage networks in the towns of Pogoanele and Patarlagele.
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Motion Potion: Just hop in and go
After all, isn’t that the beauty of a hybrid? Just turn the key, fill up at any of the thousands of gas stations on nearly every corner in America. Press the gas to go, and the engine paired with the Continuously Variable Transmission (CVT) is ready instantly to take you on your way with only the barest hint of any hesitation. Ready to rise to the occasion, whether it’s merging onto highways or taking the twisty back roads, it’s a good ride with nary a complaint from the back or front seat passengers, although Christine found the ride to be firmer than she prefers in the backseat—but then again, Scott was enthusiastically trying out the country road slalom—and she prefers a more genteel ride. After a week of traveling in the Civic, Christine found the smoothest, most satisfying seat to definitely be the driver’s seat.
As regular readers know, Scott likes to explore the nooks and crannies of our review cars, and this hybrid threw him for a loop. That’s right, he wasn’t able to find a way to look at this hybrid’s battery pack. While the battery compartment is sealed up tight as a drum, this hybrid offers impressive trunk space to the tune of 10.4 cubic feet—lots of space for a full load of groceries—with little difference from the conventional Civic sedan’s cargo space of 12.0 cubic feet. In fact, there’s no difference in seating volume from the DX and LX--unsuspecting souls may even think this is a conventional car—just don’t let them see those hybrid badges.
The Enviro-meter: More bang for your buck
Anytime a car shuts off when it would otherwise be idling away makes it a winner in our book. Gotta just love the surprised look on startled passers-by when the Civic shuts off. No, our car didn’t stall—that’s Auto Stop—contributing to peace, quiet and living up to that AT-PZEV (Advanced Technology-Partial Zero Emissions Vehicle) certification with a smog index of less than 0.1. Compare that to a regular new vehicle average of 0.4. Honda’s combination of an ultra-efficient engine that just sips fuel combined with the Integrated Motor Assist that allows for horsepower boost certainly fuels this hybrid’s popularity.
The Civic Hybrid can be fueled up at any standard gasoline station with a 12.3-gallon tank that gives a range of about 490 miles. Our mileage fell a bit below of the EPA range at 41.4 mpg, driving a combination of urban and country. Compare that to a 29 average mpg for a regular Civic, with a range of 382 miles. According to fueleconomy.gov, the Civic Hybrid’s petroleum oil consumption is about 8.2 barrels of crude annually—compared to 11.8 barrels for the conventional Civic. Driving an average of 15,000 miles per year, greenhouse gas emissions for the hybrid tally up to 4.4 tons/year, where the regular Civic will spew out a higher 6.3 tons/year.
The Civic Hybrid is also an Advanced Technology-Partial Zero Emissions Vehicle (AT-PZEV) and models for sale in CA, NY, VT ME, MA and CT meet those standards. It is for sale in all 50 states.
When it’s all said & done: One tidy li’l package
Want fun to drive? Check. Want economical? Check. Want comfort? Check. Want to choose the latest in modern options? Check. Want to forget it’s a hybrid? Check. Want to remember you have a hybrid—especially when it’s time to pay the fuel bill? Double check.
This car’s a deal no matter which way you slice it. It’s really one sporty and fun drive with an economical price tag that’ll keep savin’ you for as long as you own it. Drive fast and furious, you’ll get good mileage; drive like the average motorist and you’ll get better mileage. Drive with an eye for economy and a lighter foot and you’ll get excellent fuel economy. Yes, there’s good reason why 31,253 Civic Hybrids were sold in 2006, and why 17,141 were sold halfway into 2007. Honda pulls together a smart package, and we bet it will continue to be popular as fuel prices continue their upward spiral—with even more potential if it were dressed out in full hybrid regalia. But in the meantime, go ahead. Treat yourself to a Civic.
- Excellent fuel economy
- Fun to drive
- Nice price
- Very firm ride in backseat
- Not a lot of luxury options
- Low rear head-room clearance for tall passengers
Who Should Buy the Honda Civic Hybrid: The thrifty driver who likes tight handling and practicality—and also likes getting 40+mpg.
Who Should Not Buy the Honda Civic Hybrid: Drivers looking for more of a luxury car-feel who like a few more bells and whistles and customized perks.
The 2007 Honda Civic Hybrid is built in Suzuka, Mie, Japan. Parts content breakdown: 55% from United States/Canadian and 40% from Japan.
Rebate & Credit Run-down:
Buy the Civic Hybrid and you’re qualified for a $2,100 tax credit. This, coupled with the hybrid’s first year’s fuel savings of $455-500 (compared to driving 15,000 miles in a similar Civic) will negate the $3,090 hybrid price premium (as compared to a similarly-equipped Civic EX) in the second year of ownership. After that it’s smooth sailing as your fuel budget stays small, your savings account grows, plus your contribution to earth’s carbon load is slashed.
Details and Specs:
Technical Features: 1.3-liter, i-VTEC 4-cylinder engine with Integrated Motor Assist, Continuously Variable Transmission
Safety Features: driver’s and front passenger’s dual-stage airbags, driver’s and front passenger’s side airbags, side curtain airbags, anti-lock brake system, LATCH system for child seats
Interior Features: Honda Navigation System with Voice Recognition, remote entry system with trunk opener, 160-watt Am/FM/CD Audio System with 6 speakers
Exterior Features: 15” x 6” lightweight alloy wheels, P195/65 R15 89S all-season tires
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I had an opportunity to moderate a panel at the Data 2.0 Summit this week in San Francisco entitled "Why You Should Join the API Economy". There was a considerable amount of thought leadership on the panel, including Chris Moody, President of Gnip; Gaurav Dillon, CEO of SnapLogic; Chris Lippi, VP Products of Mashery; Peter Kirwan, Entrepreneur-in-Residence of Neustar; and Tim Milliron, Director of Engineering at Twilio.
We explored several topics including where success is occurring now within various API ecosystems (what is working), where money is actually being made with APIs, what some of the adoption challenges are moving forward, and how people can begin moving down an API path (both publishing APIs and finding relevant and valuable ones to consume) - all of these topics I plan to cover in future blog entries.
However, one area we explored that I thought was especially interesting is the adoption of API-centric business models within larger enterprises. Sure, high tech companies like Cisco and Salesforce have been utilizing APIs as significant parts of their business models for years. But where it is becoming especially interesting and demonstrates APIs moving into the mainstream is the traction of APIs and DAAS (data-as-a-service) in traditional vertical industries.
For example, many government entities are now opening up data channels to enable citizens to create innovative applications, such as San Francisco's open data portal, on the publishing side of data and APIs. Opening up this data to the masses can drive all sorts of innovation that bring benefits to entire communities.
On the consumption side, Mohawk Paper's (a company founded in the late 1800's) inspirational data integration case study that Gartner published was discussed as evidence of an enterprise pulling data together from multiple third parties to create a custom solution in the Cloud. One of these services is StrikeIron's real-time foreign exchange rate service API. And of course, among our 1800 customers there are several Fortune 500 companies that are leveraging our various API's and DaaS products at increasing rates, all evidence of expanding adoption in the enterprise.
As we see API-centric and DaaS-centric business models emerge that find traction in the enterprise in addition to all of the smaller entrepreneurial innovators and startups, we know we are getting closer and closer to mainstream adoption, which is where some of the biggest opportunities are yet to be realized.
A lead, as we all know, is an individual or company that has indicated some level of interest in potentially buying a product or service. This is an important first stage categorization of any sales process.
Technically, a lead is represented by data, and the potential value of that lead is dependent on the level of accuracy, how current the contact information is, and the comprehensiveness of the data that constitutes the lead. In other words, a lead is only as valuable as the data that comprises it within a CRM application or other sales-driving system.
Fortunately, lead value ROI is generally pretty easily obtained as a function of the sales line. It is very measurable, and one can see over time that the more accurate, complete, and timely leads are likely to drive the most revenue and have the greatest value to the sales organization. Therefore, investing in the quality of lead data can have a measurable and rewarding payoff.
This is one of the primary reasons many organizations come to StrikeIron - to enhance the value of their lead data. Our real-time customer data quality offerings can validate email addresses, physical addresses, and phone numbers to ensure a lead is accurate, and it can even correct missing or inaccurate contact lead data where possible.
We can also add a sizable list of additional data points, including company demographic data points, residential information (from sources such as the Census Bureau), latitude and longitude coordinates, and other data points that add some additional value to the lead and optimize it for the purposes of a sales organization.
Best of all, our easy-to-integrate APIs are available out in the Cloud (meaning no reference data maintenance and a flexible subscription model), making it easy to plug into just about any CRM, marketing automation, or other lead management system via the Internet.
So as we are in the sweet spot of need for a large number of attending organizations at LeadsCon, we have found much success in the past with this conference. As a result, we will have a pretty sizable contingent of folks at the event in New York City this week.
Drop by and say hello (booth 202) and learn more about how to rev up the value of leads. Oh and by the way, we will be giving away some iPad2's. Hope to see you there!
I attended the Data 2.0 Conference this week in San Francisco. There is a lot to be excited about in this emerging, growing and quickly-accelerating industry. However there are still some significant obstacles that have to be overcome for the vision of the data-driven world and the “great data highway in the sky” to truly be realized.
First, there is the exciting stuff. New companies continue to emerge and grow in the space in multiple categories, including broad data sharing sites (FluidInfo, InfoChimps), purveyors of proprietary and hard-to-capture data (Navteq, Metamarkets), API infrastructure providers (WebServius, Apigee, Mashery), specific data category providers (SimpleGEO, Rapleaf, Socrata, DataSift), providers of API-based solutions (StrikeIron, Xignite) and slick data visualization tools (too numerous to list).
Also, the companies that have been in this space for five or more years are becoming larger, more sophisticated and are in many cases continuing to raise significant amounts of capital from investors looking to capitalize on the data megatrend. Even the stalwarts such as Microsoft with their DataMarket are eyeing future fruitful harvests in this space. Twitter also announced the commercial licensing of its entire “fire hose” of Tweets at the event, a move that the providers of analytics tools are hailing.
More and more public, government-sourced data is coming online everyday as fodder for this machine-to-machine information feeding frenzy. This data is coming from every level of government too; cities such as San Francisco (datasf.org), state governments such as Oregon (data.oregon.gov announced two weeks ago), and the federal government's data.gov initiative(rumors that funding might be cut are false according to keynote speaker and the charismatic, sometimes controversial industry-insider Vivek Wadhwa).
All of these government-sourced data assets are being made available to the general public in the hopes of civically engaging the creativity among us to innovate and create public value without the traditional budgetary costs. This has already led to a proliferation of applications such as online live maps of San Francisco municipal transportation schedules (including for the iPhone and Android platforms), as well as municipal vendor contracts available online for public discussion (it's amazing how many vendors consistently come in late and over-budget get rewarded new contracts over and over) like Chicago’s citypayments.org site.
Finally, the platforms (the fertile Cloud and all that is happening there with the Google AppEngine, Microsoft’s Azure, and Amazon’s various cloud offerings) and especially the devices (like smartphones and the iPad) that can make use of this data are also marching forward at a breathtaking pace.
This is all very exciting for those of us whom data represents a livelihood.
However, the significant challenge around the accessibility and usability of these vast seas of data is that it is still largely a complex, IT-oriented developer's world. Most of the access to these data sources is either via API, or available in structures and formats as varied as the data itself. This limits the applicability of these valuable data sources to a very small group of dedicated engineers and leaves us all with only a modicum of the true potential of this space.
Sure, there are API protocol standards such as REST and SOAP, but these only scratch the service. Most single-API vendors introduce a new set of behaviors, data structures, response codes and a new business model with each new API. This adds greatly to the complexity for anyone looking to put these data sources to use, both initially and ongoing. Until we can find a way to normalize the great data highway, it's going to be a bumpy road. Those that know me know I’ve been preaching this for years and have applied much of it to StrikeIron’s various data and API offerings; however it can be a difficult proposition to get adopted across the industry.
The consumption complexity issue is demonstrated by the term "mashup". Several years ago, this was the term-du-jour by an industry claiming that non-developers could combine datasets in interesting and exciting new ways without the assistance of their IT organizations. This term however has all but shriveled and died. Why? Because non-developer's couldn’t do it. The tools were cumbersome, complex, and represented whole new learning curves that most people simply don't have the time or patience for, as well as the lack of standards surrounding the datasets themselves. In fact, I never heard the term mentioned a single time at the event. A few years back, it would have been in nearly every discussion. May the term “mashup” rest in peace.
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ASLA created a new online resource guide on using low-impact materials in sustainable residential landscape architecture. The guide contains lists of organizations, research, concepts and projects related to plants and sustainable landscape architecture, and includes sections on: permeable materials, certified woods, reclaimed and recycled local materials, recycled content, reflective materials, and adhesives, paints, coatings and sealants. Developed for students and professionals, the resource guide contains recent reports and projects from leading U.S. and international organizations, academics, and design firms.
This sustainable residential design resource guide is the third in a new four part series. See earlier guides in the sustainable residential design series: increasing energy efficiency, improving water efficiency and maximizing the benefits of plants.
The guide is separated into five sections:
- Permeable Materials
- Certified Woods
- Reclaimed and Recycled Local Materials
- Recycled Content
- Reflective Materials
- Adhesives, Paints, Coatings and Sealants
As an example, the section on “permeable materials” includes Chicago’s Green Alley handbook, as well as studies from the U.S. EPA and city of Portland on using permeable pavements to manage stormwater. There are also links to projects that have successfully incorporated these concepts in a residential context.
See earlier resource guides:
- Combating Climate Change with Landscape Architecture
- Livable Communities
- Sustainable Design and Development
- Sustainable Transportation
- Sustainable Urban Development
- Improving Skills During the Economic Downturn (career resource guide)
Go to the Resource Guide
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[Milkymist-devel] NOR corruption analysis 3/4, a subtle gotcha
xiangfu at sharism.cc
Thu Oct 13 20:05:20 PDT 2011
please update your reflash_m1.sh. the new version reflash_m1.sh have fix wrong lockflash command.
we can also use
./reflash_m1.sh --lock-flash for lock the rescue partition without reflash images.
On 10/14/2011 09:54 AM, Xiangfu Liu wrote:
> On 10/13/2011 02:37 AM, Werner Almesberger wrote:
>> Table 7 has the correct wording: "[...], all of the Block lock bits
>> that are set are cleared in parallel." Interestingly, section 10.1
>> calls the command "Clear Block Lock Bits".
>> Practical implications of this:
>> - UrJTAG has a subtle failure mode in the sense that explicitly
>> unlocking a block or writing a block (with hard-coded implicit
>> unlock) will unlock the entire NOR.
>> - if Flickernoise unlocks any NOR blocks during an update and
>> doesn't lock everything that's meant to be read-only afterwards,
>> this would also remove the protection.
> good news is: there is no 'unlock' used in flickernoise(rtems driver)
>> - the protection we get is a little weaker than expected, because
>> any random occurrence of the two-byte unlock sequence could unlock
>> the NOR, after which it would be vulnerable to regular NOR
>> corruption. This may still be a very unlikely event, though.
>> - the process for setting up the M1rc3 being shipped should be
>> checked if the lock bits are really set at the end. At least my
>> version of reflash_m1.sh issues the "lockflash" before the last
> bad news is: if this is true all M1rc3 is unlocked :(
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Becky prays in a bathroom stall she has fashioned into an altar because I mean where else are you going to pray. Jenna has to remind her that Adam is a boy, not a girl, but Becky's like, "Pretty sure since God wants me to save him. Gonna leave my holy toilet now. Peace be with you and stuff."
Degrassi Recap: “Scream, Part 1”
August 16, 2012
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I overheard a disturbing conversation a couple of weeks ago. Two parents were discussing when it is considered “ok” to hit a child. Just like that, in a public place, they discussed negative behaviors that would justify corporal punishment.
It turned my stomach. I distanced myself in an instant. The thought of ever laying an aggressive touch on an innocent little child makes me want to vomit. Truly, I can’t even handle the thought.
Those two parents are not alone. Studies show that up to 65% of parents still use spanking as a form of discipline in this country. The age of child most likely to be spanked? Three. Years. Old.
I have tears in my eyes just thinking about it.
I have a three year old. He is sweet, funny, talkative, energetic, and always very busy. He has never once made any choice that ever caused me to even consider laying an aggressive hand on him.
Toddlers and preschoolers can be challenging. If you have one, this comes as no surprise. They test limits, get over-stimulated quickly, and have some very large meltdowns. It’s what they do.
Managing emotions is difficult for many adults (hence my profession), so it stands to reason that it is difficult for small children as well.
It’s our job to teach our children how to manage and cope with overwhelming emotions. It’s our job to teach them right from wrong and help them learn to make good choices. If we don’t teach them, who will?
Here are a few things that don’t work:
- Spanking or hitting (or whatever else you want to call it)
- Sarcasm (they might not understand the context, but they understand that it’s meant to hurt)
- Teasing (in private or in public)
- Making them write “I won’t hit again” over and over until their arms hurt
All of these behaviors fall under the umbrella of “bullying”. All over this country people are fighting to put an end to bullying that occurs in schools. Here’s the catch: More often than not, bullying is learned at home.
If you don’t want your child to bully others, why on Earth would you bully your child?
Children who are disciplined aggressively can suffer devastating long terms consequences: Anxiety, depression, substance abuse, and use of aggression to cope with difficult emotions. They are also more likely to hit their own children in the future.
Are you with me now?
Below are some strategies for using positive discipline to help your children learn and grow. Because hitting is never ever ok…
1. Structure & Limits: I often have parents complain that their kids don’t follow any rules or listen, but when I ask them if the house rules are understood and visible the answer is always no. Create reasonable limits and adjust by age. Make sure your children understand those limits. Make a copy of the house rules (using pictures for pre-readers) and place it in the kitchen. You can’t expect them to internalize your house rules if you haven’t clearly explained them and repeated them often. Structure your days. Young children respond well to a predictable environment. This doesn’t mean that you have to eat every meal at the exact same minute every single day, but try to stay on schedule as much as possible so that your kids know what comes next.
2. Positive Reinforcement: Positive energy is contagious (as is negative energy). Why not go with a positive vibe? Children respond well to praise. They tend to want to please their parents and make good choices. When you praise positive behaviors and choices, you empower your child to repeat those behaviors and choices. It’s much easier to point out positives then to spend your days saying no.
3. Relaxation Breaks: Kids make poor choices at times. It’s part of growing up. That doesn’t mean that they need to lose a week of TV because of it (which, by the way, is also a punishment for you). Reframe the concept of “time out” and call it a relaxation break. Have a box of quiet time toys stored away for those occasions when your child needs some time alone. Set a timer (the minute by age thing works for ages 3+). Try not to think of the quiet time toys as a reward. The point is that your child is taking a break and calming down. When the timer runs out, talk to your child about what went wrong and what he should do the next time.
4. Time Ins: Often young children act out when they need more attention. When the negative behaviors start, try to stop the action for a moment and come up with an activity that you can do together. This is also known as distraction. Sometimes young children need to shift their focus and have some 1:1 time with mom or dad. I often talk to parents about increasing the amount of “special time” they spend with each child. Life is busy and work, chores, and smart phones can get in the way of quality time. Try to be aware of your child’s needs and make time for good old-fashioned play time.
5. Toy Time Outs: Are you kids fighting over toys or are certain toys simply too over-stimulating? Have your child choose a special place to put the toy and just give that toy a rest for a while. Find a quiet activity (puzzles, drawing, and play doh are always good choices) to help de-stress your child. Regulating emotions is difficult work. When Liam gets too excited while playing with certain cars, we usually just agree to put those cars in their special place and try something else. He is generally as relieved as I am when the action slows down for a little while.
6. Natural Consequences: Believe it or not, often your children are so upset by the natural consequences of their actions that no further intervention is necessary (aside from maybe a little empathy). In a calm and unemotional voice, help your child understand that throwing toys might cause those toys to break, refusing to share will cause others to refuse to share, and yelling will cause people to walk away. Be quick to help them choose a positive replacement behavior instead. They know when their choices have negative results. Repeatedly stating this in an angry voice will only cause children to feel worthless or “bad”. Help them problem-solve ways to fix the situation (toys can be glued, apologies can be made, etc.) to relieve that feeling of helplessness.
7. Rewards: Kids like to earn stuff. When Sean recently tried to buy something for Riley at Target she said, “No; I’m earning those instead”. They take pride in reaching their goals. Consider using a simple reward chart to increase positive behaviors such as sharing, completing chores, using kind words, being friendly (versus teasing), etc. Intermittent rewards work best. Give your child a sticker when you catch them working on that goal, and a small prize after 3 to 5 stickers (based on age). Parents often tell me that this is bribery and they don’t want to reward their kids for things they should just have to do. It’s hard being a kid. It’s fun to earn rewards and it’s nice to hear praise. If it’s not hurting anyone…what’s the downside? And please don’t say performance for treats. Just take it from the expert on this one. Rewards work.
8. Parent the Personality: All children respond well to structure and limits. That’s a fact. But all children are different. You might have to tailor your intervention style to each child. Liam is very sensitive, and cries when he hears the word “no”. Riley stops in her tracks when she hears it. Two different personalities. Figure out what works best for each child. While positive reinforcement tends to work across the board, time ins might work better for one while relaxation breaks work for another. Choose what works for each child.
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CASTEL GANDOLFO, Italy, Thursday, Oct. 9 -- Pope Pius XII, the 260th successor of the Apostle Peter on the Pontifical throne of Rome, died at 3:52 A. M. today (10:52 P. M. New York time, Wednesday). | <urn:uuid:9d0cdffe-037e-4d7f-b966-fa6a104a1599> | CC-MAIN-2013-20 | http://select.nytimes.com/gst/abstract.html?res=9806E7D61E31E73BBC4153DFB6678383649EDE&n=Top%2FReference%2FTimes%20Topics%2FPeople%2Fb%2FBenedict%20XVI | 2013-05-21T20:05:22Z | s3://commoncrawl/crawl-data/CC-MAIN-2013-20/segments/1368700497024/warc/CC-MAIN-20130516103457-00050-ip-10-60-113-184.ec2.internal.warc.gz | en | 0.838678 | 163 | null | null | HuggingFaceFW/fineweb |
May 21st, 2013
Starting yesterday and for the next 4 days, we will be crunching on Ugly Baby. That means Amy, Dave, Ichiro, Jonathan, Michael and Rohit all working on the game all the time.
We will attempt to stream some of the action on Twitch. Come by and check out the madness that is Indie game development. (ignore the DRP related title below)
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Are you hungry? Amy apparently wants you to be. What’s that, you say? Staying away from the carbs? Well, hopefully this update is just as delicious.
- GRAPHICAL USER INTERFACE: Michael went all crazy with the UI! Brand spanking new graphics to tickle your eyes. He’s a perfectionist, so he says he’s not done yet. How do you think it’s coming along? What can you figure out from it? What doesn’t make sense?
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- VISUALIZER: Dave’s research continues to pay off. Play level one with some fast/heavy music. Dubstep, Rock, Death Metal, EDM. That’s all I’m sayin’.
We’d like to personally call out, the progress bar feature in this recent update was due in part to a user suggesting it. I’m an awful person and can’t remember who did originally, so if it was you, thank you, keep ‘em coming!
As always, tell us what you love, what you hate, and where you think Michael’s running off to next week. He won’t tell us. | <urn:uuid:ce406a00-155a-4788-a621-dd6bcec5f541> | CC-MAIN-2013-20 | http://store.steampowered.com/app/15540/?cc=us | 2013-05-21T20:09:42Z | s3://commoncrawl/crawl-data/CC-MAIN-2013-20/segments/1368700497024/warc/CC-MAIN-20130516103457-00050-ip-10-60-113-184.ec2.internal.warc.gz | en | 0.944548 | 472 | null | null | HuggingFaceFW/fineweb |
Called to Follow
The Rev. Robert Watkin speaks to The Falls Church from Mark 1:16-20, about the call to be and the cost of being a disciple.
Scripture: Mark 1:16-20
- Occasion: Worship Services, Sunday 11am Service, Sunday 11am Traditional Service (archive), Sunday 9am Service
- Scripture: New Testament, Colossians, Chapter 1, Luke, Chapter 14, Mark, Chapter 1
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The Rev. Robert Watkin
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Today, US Representative Sue Myrick (NC-09) voted in favor of The Violence Against Women Act (VAWA) Reauthorization. The bill reauthorizes VAWA for five years and makes critical reforms to funding streams for grant programs to ensure the effective and responsible use of resources.
The reauthorization passed today:
Increases resources for sexual assault investigations, prosecutions and victim services
Strengthens penalties for sexual assault and abuse, including a mandatory 10 year penalty for forcible rape
Enhances dating violence, sexual assault and stalking prevention programs on college campuses
Requires that 75% of funding under the DNA Analysis Backlog Elimination Act is dedicated to reducing current backlog of rape kit testing
Increases maximum penalties under federal stalking laws by five years
Improves accountability and transparency of grant administration by requiring an annual audit of at least 10% of VAWA grantees
Directs grantees to coordinate grants to reduce duplication and overlap
"The provisions passed by the House today are essential to protect victims and help them recover from the physical and mental effects of abuse," said Rep. Myrick, an original cosponsor of the legislation. "VAWA will help the victims of violence get the care they need and justice they deserve".
Enacted in 1994, VAWA provides federal funding for programs and organizations that help assist women who are victims of domestic abuse, stalking and sexual assault. It also established a number of grant programs within the Department of Justice and the Department of Health and Human Services for state, local and tribal governments and victim service providers. | <urn:uuid:0585df64-8b15-4bf5-8e2c-a9c24f83307b> | CC-MAIN-2013-20 | http://votesmart.org/public-statement/693602/house-reauthorizes-violence-against-women-act | 2013-05-21T20:32:35Z | s3://commoncrawl/crawl-data/CC-MAIN-2013-20/segments/1368700497024/warc/CC-MAIN-20130516103457-00050-ip-10-60-113-184.ec2.internal.warc.gz | en | 0.926244 | 317 | null | null | HuggingFaceFW/fineweb |
Uh oh: Certain people who care about such things have caught wind of Michael Steele’s semi-successful Michael Steele-impersonation grift! Charging speaking fees is not even “outside the game” or “what up,” but this did not stop a disgruntled couplet of former RNC chairmen from slagging off on Steele in the Washington Times today.
Some other human from the RNC explains to the Times that charging colleges $20,000 to listen to a 51 year-old man improvise David Simon-inspired koans is just gauche—and actually sort of brilliant—but not actually verboten. And yet:
- “Holy mackerel, I never heard of a chairman of either party ever taking money for speeches,” said Frank J. Fahrenkopf Jr., RNC chairman under President Reagan and CEO of the American Gaming Association.
- “It just doesn’t look right using RNC resources and trading on the title of chairman to make outside money,” said Rich Bond, another former Republican national chairman. “When I became chairman, I was surprised some organizations paid honoraria,” Mr. Bond said. “There were no written rules about taking money back then. Still, I decided accepting the money would get me in trouble.”
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The recent very serious edition of the Washington Post tackled the question of Retards: what of this word, “retard”? Are there perhaps pros and cons to the word “retard,” and can we divide the competing arguments into two page-filling columns, from “retard” experts? What can the art department gin up for a “retard” debate?
Okay, got it: for the pro-retard, bring out the ol’ eternally-missing-the-point stock column, “[This word], too, is protected under Free Speech.” The word in this case will be “retard.” If “retard” is a word (presumptuous?), and we are allowed to say any word, because of the Constitution, then what are people so worked up about?
For the anti-retard, get Tim (it’s Tim, yes?) Shriver to fax over one of his “Why retard is a mean word” columns that he keeps by the toilet.
Objectivity remains key, and interactivity is also a thing: get a poll that asks people: Should we outlaw a really mean word, or would the Constitution make that unconstitutional? Because there’s no clear answer. And why won’t Obama bomb Iran anyway?
Illustration: This is how “retards” would write out the word “retard.” Vertically, unaligned, scratchy, and with little snow bullets clamoring at the gates. | <urn:uuid:ec466729-ccc1-4b51-87dd-72e5840184db> | CC-MAIN-2013-20 | http://wonkette.com/413714/washington-post-opiners-debate-what-about-retards | 2013-05-21T20:31:13Z | s3://commoncrawl/crawl-data/CC-MAIN-2013-20/segments/1368700497024/warc/CC-MAIN-20130516103457-00050-ip-10-60-113-184.ec2.internal.warc.gz | en | 0.929824 | 331 | null | null | HuggingFaceFW/fineweb |
I've had trouble with the SW flicks on my Sony S470, just like the Alien set and Avatar CE. No in-playback issues as such, just a random failure to load the disc which needs the power plug pulled and the machine restarted.
Oh, when I play the UK discs in Region A mode I get the usual FBI warning and MPAA rating screens. It's a good bet that they're the exact same platters (only with better disc art) as the ones you guys will be getting this week. The UK packaging only lists the English language options, but there are actually several more audio languages and even more subtitles. | <urn:uuid:5c8e5b85-7d7c-4604-a5eb-5cf53f04f95d> | CC-MAIN-2013-20 | http://www.avsforum.com/t/1359931/star-wars-blu-ray-release-thread/30 | 2013-05-21T20:33:47Z | s3://commoncrawl/crawl-data/CC-MAIN-2013-20/segments/1368700497024/warc/CC-MAIN-20130516103457-00050-ip-10-60-113-184.ec2.internal.warc.gz | en | 0.952283 | 132 | null | null | HuggingFaceFW/fineweb |
Marlins Organization Report
Prize of the Package
FORT LAUDERDALE--Of the many arms the Marlins brought into their organization during last winter's massive rebuilding project, Anibal Sanchez
seemed the one most likely to show up at the All-Star Futures Game in Pittsburgh this summer.
The fact Sanchez, 22, was not invited says less about his present talent and projected ceiling than it does about the uneven first half he experienced at Double-A Carolina.
Despite being bothered by minor elbow problems, the righty was 3-6, 3.15 through 15 starts. He had two complete games and 92 strikeouts in 86 innings.
The Futures Game snub might have carried less significance for Sanchez when he was summoned to Yankee Stadium in late June to make his big league debut in an emergency start in the second game of a doubleheader. He pitched into the sixth innings, scattering seven hits without allowing a run or a walk. He picked up his first major league win, but was expected to return to Double-A,
"It's just minor stuff in the elbow," Carolina manager Luis Dorante
said. "It seems like it goes away after a couple of days. We haven't skipped him but we do try to give him an extra day here or there."
Still, considering Sanchez missed the 2003 season after nerve transposition surgery on that same elbow, the Marlins were wise to use caution.
Sanchez was part of a four-piece package the Marlins received in last November's trade that sent Josh Beckett, Mike Lowell
and Guillermo Mota
to the Red Sox. Sanchez landed at No. 3 on one of the deepest Top 30 Prospects lists in the game this winter.
Besides shortstop Hanley Ramirez
, who quickly became a fixture in the big leagues, the Marlins also received Class A relievers Harvey Garcia
and Jesus Delgado
in the deal.
But it's Sanchez for whom the Marlins have the highest hopes.
"We've been working on trying to keep his poise," Dorante said. "He's one of those guys who is so intense, he gets mad on the mound because things are not going this way. That could be affecting his concentration a little bit."FISH BAIT
• Double-A righthander Jose Garcia
was the organization's only selection for the Futures Game. The 21-year-old Dominican earned a first-half promotion by going 6-2, 1.87 in 77 innings at Jupiter.
• Missouri State righthander Brett Sinkbeil
signed for $1.525 million after the Marlins took him with the 19th overall pick. Only sandwich pick Chris Coghlan
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Events supporting the Chinese Canadian Miracle Weekend:
- Mandarin Miracle Weekend Telethon
- Golf for Kids Tournament
- Love in Action Banquet
- Love and Peace StarQuest Talent Show
Mandarin Miracle Weekend Telethon
This fundraising initiative, broadcast on LS Times TV and Shaw Cable, is part of the Chinese-Canadian Miracle Weekend. The objective is to educate the Mandarin community on the work at Children's Hospital and how their support benefits young British Columbians, and to inspire support. This two-hour educational and entertaining program features inspiring patient vignettes, hospital family interviews and will highlight different community supporters.
This past year, the 2012 Mandarin Miracle Weekend celebrated its success with a fundraising dinner at Shiang Garden Seafood Restaurant. With the generosity of sponsors and donors and the tireless supports of volunteers, $123,888 was raised towards the Operation Superhero Campaign for the construction of an oncology inpatient unit at the new Children’s Hospital.
Get involved! Find us on Facebook.
Golf for Kids Tournament
The annual Golf For Kids Tournamen" will be held on Friday, May 24, 2013 at Mayfair Lakes Golf & Country Club. This annual golf tournament provides participants with the opportunity to enjoy a day of golfing, networking with colleagues while supporting the child health.
Last year this fun tournament hosted 144 golfers for a day of golf followed by an evening reception and dinner. Like us on Facebook
Love in Action Banquet
The Love in Action banquet is a partnership between five fine-dining restaurant sponsors and BC Children's Hospital Foundation. Tickets are on sale now until the end of June, and are valid immediately until November 30.
Our 2013 participating restaurants are:
Here's how it works:
Purchaser pays for one dinner ticket: $ 50.00
Net cost of dinner for / Restaurant receives: $ 25.00
Donation eligible for tax receipt / Children's Hospital receives: $ 25.00
Purchaser pays for one dinner ticket: $ 398.00
Net cost of dinner for / Restaurant receives: $ 218.00
Donation eligible for tax receipt / Children's Hospital receives: $ 180.00
Patrons are required to make reservations at their chosen restaurant when using the Love in Action Banquet tickets. Please contact Kitty Cheung at 604-875-1513 or email@example.com for ticket purchase.
Love & Peace StarQuest
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The Advisory Board Co. remains in a buying mood, announcing a deal Wednesday to acquire 360Fresh Inc., a Palo Alto, Calif.-based clinical analytics provider.
360Fresh is another in a long line of small tech firms acquired by the Advisory Board Co. as it continues to expand its hospital-support suite of products, which first grew out of a traditional consulting business.
CEO Robert Musslewhite told me last year the company is committed to a steady growth trajectory, with the goal of either launching a new product internally or buying a new company every quarter. Only a few days before the 360Fresh deal was consummated in November, we broke the news about the Advisory Board buying a Philadelphia firm.
The 360Fresh website promises it "transforms large medical records data into actionable knowledge for improving patient quality while actively reducing costs and improving productivity." Under the Advisory Board umbrella, 360Fresh will be paired with the company's Crimson product, a physician management tool it bought along with its founding company in 2008.
Terms were not disclosed.
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Meet Windows Phone 8, a Windows telephone 8 over view from Microsoft
Yesterday was another big day for Microsoft, because the business is launching the newest full suitable Windows Phone 8 mobile platform. plus this might be the very first time ever the hot Microsoft Mobile OS getting greater addons plus more qualities. so aren’t we little eager to recognize whats new inside the Windows telephone 8 OS. plus what occurred inside the event. how to go look at the movie review below from Microsoft it self. | <urn:uuid:5ed637d0-07a3-4f98-869c-cfbb6dc723ce> | CC-MAIN-2013-20 | http://www.dailygadgets.net/meet-windows-phone-8-a-windows-telephone-8-over-view-from-microsoft/15055/ | 2013-05-21T19:56:20Z | s3://commoncrawl/crawl-data/CC-MAIN-2013-20/segments/1368700497024/warc/CC-MAIN-20130516103457-00050-ip-10-60-113-184.ec2.internal.warc.gz | en | 0.86238 | 99 | null | null | HuggingFaceFW/fineweb |
Summer's officially here, and unless you're lucky enough to live above the 55th parallel, you'll probably see some scorching hot days between now and Labor Day. If you're like me, there are few things as miserable as being stuck inside without an air conditioner during the hot humid Summer months, but I realize that not everyone is fortunate enough to have access to a nice cool oasis of a/c. However, with a little ingenuity, and some spare cash, you could be chilling out to your very own DIY personal air conditioner in a matter of hours.
has a great tutorial on how to roll your own a/c unit. Granted, it's not a very compact, or even efficient system, but when it comes to cooling down in the dog days of Summer, you should take what you can get. The original tutorial goes into a lot more detail, so I'll just lay out the basics.
- An electric fan
- A big container (the bigger it is, the longer your air conditioner will run)
- Lots of salt
- Zip ties
- 20-25 feet of both copper and vinyl tubing
If you don't already have most of these items, you should be able to purchase all of them for around $30. Once you've got all the necessary pieces, the rest is fairly easy.
- Fill your big container with lots of ice and water. Mixing a little salt into the water will help lower the freezing point of the ice, which will in turn keep the water cooler for longer.
- Attach the copper tubing around the back, or the front, of your electric fan with zip ties. Try to use as much as you can, while leaving space for the warm air to move through and over the tubing.
- Chop your vinyl tubing into two pieces. One will be used for water intake, and the other will be used for water waste.
- Connect one end of the intake tube to the copper tubing on the fan, and submerge the other end in the bottom of your big container, which should be filled with salty water and ice.
- Connect one end of the waste tube to the open end of the copper tubing, and run the other end somewhere that is significantly lower than the bottom of your big container. Since this is where the water will exit the system, it would be best if the tube ran outside, or at the very least, into a drain.
- Kick start the system by siphoning water through the open end of the waste tub. Keep sucking until you taste water.
- Turn on your fan and enjoy the cool breeze from your very own DIY air conditioner.
Over time, the author of the original tutorial has developed improvements to his design, but the most interesting modification
was made by another guy who hooked up an aquarium pump to the waste tube, thus creating a closed loop system. If someone could modify an aquarium pump and fan to run off a solar-charged battery, this would be a great way to turn your beverage cooler into an outdoor air conditioner during your next summer campout. BRILLIANT! | <urn:uuid:911f5d60-28c0-45f7-bd9e-049fc9ac0d59> | CC-MAIN-2013-20 | http://www.diylife.com/2007/07/12/beat-the-heat-and-stay-cool-for-30/ | 2013-05-21T19:55:58Z | s3://commoncrawl/crawl-data/CC-MAIN-2013-20/segments/1368700497024/warc/CC-MAIN-20130516103457-00050-ip-10-60-113-184.ec2.internal.warc.gz | en | 0.953134 | 640 | null | null | HuggingFaceFW/fineweb |
I decided to particiate in my girl Eboni from Fashionista Next Door Style Me Friday link up! Now I know it's Sunday and all but you guys still have until tomorrow to link your Floral and Leather looks! I opted for a floral maxi dress my other floral dress options were slim :/
But the beauty of Style me Fridays is that it's not literal, you cater it to your style and what's in your closet!
Entire Outfit: Thrifted
Enjoy the rest of your Sunday. I'm about to hobble over to the TV and try to do my 3rd day of Insanity. I hate Shaun T. Hate him. | <urn:uuid:a408bae5-8c6b-40a9-bd66-0db141105854> | CC-MAIN-2013-20 | http://www.fashiontorouge.com/2013/01/floral-and-leather-link-up.html | 2013-05-21T20:19:10Z | s3://commoncrawl/crawl-data/CC-MAIN-2013-20/segments/1368700497024/warc/CC-MAIN-20130516103457-00050-ip-10-60-113-184.ec2.internal.warc.gz | en | 0.97143 | 137 | null | null | HuggingFaceFW/fineweb |
Product Info - Wholesale Grabber Mycoal: Foot & Toe Warmers
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Shoelaces, which are also called shoestrings, shoe laces, or boot laces, are a system, commonly consisting of pairs, used to secure shoes. The shoelace can be untied and loosened, permitting the shoe to open wide to admit the wearer's foot; it can then be tightened and knotted into a bow-shaped knot, called the bowknot. Shoelaces did not become widely popular until the 20th century. Previously shoes were slip-on, buckled, or buttoned. Our boot laces make great replacements for your new or used boots or sneakers. Cold weather heavyweight insoles are created for warmth and comfort. They are to be placed inside shoes or boots to give your feet that extra warmth sometimes necessary in cold weather. We also offer foot powder which helps neutralize foot odor, absorbs excess moisture that can breed athlete's foot fungi, and contains a special cooling ingredient to help keep feet comfortable and refreshed. We offer both official government issued products and government issued type. Insoles, Laces & Accessories are also known as leather hiking boots, long black laced shoes, extra shoelace combat footwear, antifungal military toe warmers, powdered tan women’s zipper shoes, etc. Insoles, Laces & Accessories are commonly misspelled as shoelaced and feetware, etc.
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Hug gives high growth companies the opportunity to outsource sales lead generation and allows sales teams to focus on winning more new business.
Hug is a direct marketing business, dedicated to driving the sales growth of client companies. Our practical, instant solutions deliver high impact campaigns and our focus is always on activity that converts into new business.
Whether you need more face to face sales meetings with prospects or to drive more business through your website, Hug delivers on a paid on results basis.
We believe passionately in fearless marketing and are intensely loyal to our clients. We understand that our contribution to a business is easily measured in terms of bottom line results.
Hug provides your business with a stream of fresh sales opportunities and first class marketing promotions that result in hugely increased new business wins.
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Avo' Nice Day!
Serving Size: 1 burger (entire recipe)
PointsPlus® value 7*
HG Alternatives: Instead of the 70-calorie Boca burger, use any meatless patty with reasonable stats that you like. Can't find 80-calorie light hamburger buns? Try a 100-calorie flat sandwich bun, like an Arnold/Brownberry/Oroweat Sandwich Thin. Just adjust the calorie count accordingly!
Guess what, specialty burgers... We can rebuild you. Better, lighter, and lower in calories than you were before. So, fast-food chains, keep churning out these crazy burgers -- we'll keep whipping up guilt-free versions. No problem!
1 wedge The Laughing Cow Light Creamy Swiss cheese
1 oz. (about 2 tbsp.) mashed avocado
1 tsp. fat-free mayonnaise
1/8 tsp. garlic powder
1/8 tsp. onion powder
1 slice center-cut bacon or turkey bacon
1 Boca Original Vegan Veggie/Meatless Burger (or HG Alternative)
1 light hamburger bun with about 80 calories (or HG Alternative)
1 slice tomato
2 tbsp. shredded lettuce
In a small bowl, stir cheese wedge until smooth. Add avocado, mayo, garlic powder, and onion powder. Stir until uniform.
Cook bacon until crispy, either in a skillet over medium heat or on a microwave-safe plate in the microwave. (See package for cook time.) Break bacon in half.
Bring a skillet sprayed with nonstick spray to medium heat. Cook burger patty for about 4 minutes per side, until cooked through.
Split bun into halves, and place patty on the bottom half. Top with cheese-avocado mixture, bacon halves, tomato, and lettuce. Add the top of the bun, and dig in!
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Loren Petrich has long been interested in various aspects of science. He has a Ph.D. in astrophysics from Cornell University. More recently, he has worked on various data-analysis and data-compression projects.
The "Intelligent Design" movement claims that the scientific community has neglected the possibility that the features of living things are the product of intelligent design. Although the intelligent-design hypothesis is sometimes viewed as a Trojan horse for introducing certain theological hypotheses into science, intelligent design can be performed by entities that are both nonhuman and nontheological, and the scientific community has actually dealt with several important examples of these.
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This week I came across two items that I think are worthy of being in Outside the Box, so I am going to give you both. The first is an essay by good friend Paul McCulley, Managing Director of PIMCO, called "Saving Capitalist Banking from Itself." The second is a recent speech by Paul Volker...
John Mauldin's Outside the Box
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Use Cases for new Registry search interface
rplante at ncsa.uiuc.edu
Mon Jun 6 07:14:10 PDT 2011
On Mon, 6 Jun 2011, Pierre Le Sidaner wrote:
> I don't realy see the point, why tap ADQL to the registry ?
Personally, I have not formed a strong opinion on this, yet, but I do see
a motivation. In a VO where both server and client libraries are
ubiquitous, it's not unreasonable to want a TAP interface to the registry.
For example, Topcat recently added support for pulling data from TAP
services. If the registry had a TAP service, it would be trivial for
Topcat to also use it to find TAP services.
It's also worth pointing out that a TAP interface would satisfy a key
requirement requested by app developers: ability to request a few
selected pieces of information--that is, what the select clause gives you.
I will note that in my initial write-up, I did not explicitly mention TAP
as a requirment. Rather, I would rather this choice either flow directly
from requirements or from requests from apps developers.
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By Gooberheadgirl | 5 years ago | 0
- Release Date:April 27th, 2007
- Starring: 20 more cast & crew »
- Meter: 75% 48%
- Director:Gregory Jacobs
- Writer:Joe Gangemi, Steven Katz
- Studio:TriStar Pictures
- Genre:Horror, Thriller
- Official Site:sony.com/WindChill
- On iTunes: for $9.99
Two students sharing a ride home for the holiday season, break down on a deserted stretch of road and are subsequently plaugued by the ghosts of the people who have died there. More »
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In a five-part series, NBC News' Jay Barbree lays out a vision of spaceflight in the 20-teens for the 2012 presidential candidates.
CAPE CANAVERAL, Fla. — Forty-three years ago, Neil Armstrong moved slowly down the ladder. He was in no hurry. He would be stepping onto a small world that had never been touched by life. A landscape where no leaf had ever drifted, no insect had ever scurried, where no blade of green had ever waved, where even the raging fury of a thermonuclear blast would sound no louder than a falling snowflake.
Across a vacuum-wide 240,000 miles, billions of eyes were transfixed on black-and-white televisions. They were watching this ghostly figure moving phantomlike, closer and closer, and then, three and a half feet above the moon's surface, jump off the ladder. Neil Armstrong's boots hit the moon at 10:56 p.m. ET, July 20, 1969.
All motion stopped. He spoke: "That’s one small step for a man — one giant leap for mankind."
Lunar module pilot Buzz Aldrin stayed aboard Eagle to keep watch on all the lander's systems. The LM was Aldrin’s responsibility, and as soon as it was safe for him to leave their lander, he came down the ladder and joined Armstrong.
Space news from NBCNews.com
Teen's space mission fueled by social media
Science editor Alan Boyle's blog: "Astronaut Abby" is at the controls of a social-media machine that is launching the 15-year-old from Minnesota to Kazakhstan this month for the liftoff of the International Space Station's next crew.
- Buzz Aldrin's vision for journey to Mars
- Giant black hole may be cooking up meals
- Watch a 'ring of fire' solar eclipse online
- Teen's space mission fueled by social media
“Beautiful, beautiful! Magnificent desolation,” Aldrin said with feeling. He stared at a sky that was the darkest of blacks. No blue. No green. No birds flying across an airless landscape. There were many shades of gray and areas of utter black where rocks cast their shadows from an unfiltered sun, but no real color. And there was the lack of gravity. They seemed to weigh a little more than nothing. In spite of their cumbersome spacesuits, both astronauts found moving about in the one-sixth gravity exhilarating and described the experience as floating.
They wanted to run and make leaps that would be impossible to do on Earth, where they would each weigh 360 pounds with their suits and life-support backpacks. On the moon, in its one-sixth gravity, they weighed only 60 pounds, but they still possessed body mass that restricted their ability to move. If they started to jog, the mass and velocity created kinetic energy, and stopping quickly was impossible. They soon discovered that "bunny hops" in the suits worked well.
Neil had the camera and while Buzz went about setting up the experiments, he turned and looked for Earth, the true oasis of shifting colors in the solar system. It appeared far larger from the moon than did the moon from Earth. And it was many times brighter. Sunlight made it so by splashing off the bright clouds and blue oceans. It was hope. It was the warmest port in this corner of the universe.
Twenty-one hours after they landed on the moon they fired Eagle’s ascent engine and headed home.
They were back on Earth three days later.
It has been 43 years since Neil Armstrong became the first human to walk on the moon. Ten more astronauts would follow him and Buzz to the lunar surface.
Today, Neil Armstrong — first to walk on the moon, first to fly an emergency landing from space, a man with experience as a test pilot as well as an engineering professor — is concerned about America’s space program.
He simply thinks that NASA is going nowhere fast. He's worried that the space agency is outsourcing thousands of high-tech jobs to Russia, leaving no direct way for astronauts to go from the United States to the International Space Station. He fears that the space station could experience a catastrophic failure with little support from the country that assembled it in orbit.
Neil thinks we should not only fly our own rockets and spacecraft, but use those vehicles to return to the moon in affordable, incremental, cumulative steps. Here's his congressional testimony on the subject, updated in an email he sent me last week:
"Americans have visited and examined six locations on Luna, varying in size from a suburban lot to a small township. That leaves more than 14 million square miles yet to explore.
"The lunar vicinity is an exceptional location to learn about traveling to more distant places. Largely removed from Earth gravity, and Earth’s magnetosphere, it provides many of the challenges of flying far from Earth. But communication delays with Earth are less than two seconds, permitting Mission Control on Earth to play an important and timely role in flight operations.
"In the case of a severe emergency, such as Jim Lovell’s Apollo 13, Earth is only three days travel time away. Learning how to fly to, and remain at, Earth-Moon Lagrangian points would be a superb precursor to flying to, and remaining at, the much farther distant Earth-Sun Lagrangian points.
"Flying to farther away destinations from lunar orbit or lunar Lagrangian points could have substantial advantages in flight time and/or propellant requirements as compared with departures from Earth orbit.
"Flying in the lunar vicinity would typically provide lower radiation exposures than those expected in interplanetary flight. The long communication delays to destinations beyond the moon mandate new techniques and procedures for spacecraft operations. Mission Control cannot provide a Mars crew their normal helpful advice if the landing trajectory is nine minutes long but the time delay of the radar, communication and telemetry back to Earth is 19 minutes.
"Flight experience at lunar distance can provide valuable insights into practical solutions for handling such challenges. I am persuaded that a return to the moon would be the most productive path to expanding the human presence in the solar system."
'Spaceflight in the 20-teens':
- Part 1: Space needs a place on to-do list
- Part 2: It's decision time for future spaceflight
- Part 3: Handicapping the commercial space race
- Part 4: Neil Armstrong still chooses to go to the moon
- Part 5: Small steps toward a giant leap in space
Cape Canaveral correspondent Jay Barbree is in his 55th year with NBC News. Barbree wrote the New York Times best-seller "Moon Shot" with Alan Shepard, and was a finalist to be the first journalist in space. His space team received an Emmy for broadcasting the Apollo 11 moon landing in 1969. Barbree broke the news about the cause of the 1986 Challenger shuttle accident on NBC Nightly News and is a recipient of NASA’s highest medal for public service. An updated version of "Moon Shot: The Inside Story of America's Apollo Moon Landings," published by Open Road Integrated Media, is available from Apple iBookstore, BarnesandNoble.com, Amazon.com, Sony Reader Store and Kobo Books.
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Peace Corps Information Session at Illinois Wesleyan University!
Illinois Wesleyan University
6:30 p.m. to 7:30 p.m.
Center for Natural Sciences Building, Room 102
1312 Park Street
Bloomington, IL 61701
Serving in the Peace Corps is a great way to immerse yourself in a new culture, learn a new language, and have the experience of a lifetime. Join us at this Information Session to learn about Volunteer experiences, have your questions answered, and gain tips to guide you through the application process.
About the Peace Corps: Read more or watch a video about what it's like to be a Volunteer including what Volunteers do, where they go, and the many benefits of Peace Corps service. Or apply now to begin your life-defining experience.
For questions about this event contact Rok Teasley
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Career Profile Questionaire
Tell us about your work - what do you do?
I am an economist. Working in the Library of Congress in Washington, I research questions affecting economic policies on request from members and committees of the Congress. My job is to help Congress make use of information in its library, augmenting it with my own training and experience in interpreting how the world economy works. I have written reports evaluating proposals to reform Social Security, to cut or increase taxes, and to liberalize or restrict trade. I give personal briefings for members of Congress and their staff on such issues and organize seminars for them with outside experts. I have served as assisstant chief of the Economics Division of my agency, coordinating the work of other economists in the division, evaluating their performance, and hiring new people to replace those who depart or retire. I participate in discussions to help colleagues define and refine their research projects. Occasionally, I am asked to travel abroad for the U.S. Information Agency to talk about U.S. economic policies to audiences in other countries. Other economists teach in universities, work in state governments, work in large corporations and banks, or contract with such institutions as independent consultants.
What skills are needed?
Above all, patience to work through the complex and often confusing issues that are often like pieces of a jigsaw puzzle that must be fitted together to bring a research report into clear focus. Such projects can take several months to complete. Good writing skills are essential to boil complex explanations down into prose that will be read and understood by people who are trained in other fields (most members of Congress are not economists). Likewise with speaking skills. One also needs training in using statistical methods and evaluating other people's use of them. Also important is familiarity with a wide range of research literature in various areas of economic policy.
What was your major?
I was an economics major as an undergraduate student, although I could have proceeded to graduate study in economics with a mathematics degree. I had a minor in English and creative writing. Courses in history (including economic history) and political science are very useful in my particular application of economics to politics and public policy.
How did you get started in your career?
After college, I went to graduate school for a doctorate in economics. I studied international economics, money and banking systems, government finance, industrial organization, and statistics among other subjects. I wrote a Ph.D. dissertation on industrial development in post-World War II Austria. My first work experience involved comparing the cost-effectiveness of various approaches to rapid expansion of U.S. military forces in Europe in the event of a Soviet attack. I then worked on the economics of producing a U.S. supersonic airliner comparable to the Concorde and served as an "industrial development officer" with the United Nations Industrial Development Organization in Vienna, Austria, undertaking industrial development missions to third-world countries. I also taught economics at the university level.
What experience do you need in this job?
Some economists specialize in narrow aspects of the economy, such as consumer behavior or corporate finance and do so using "models" to develop theories about them. Because of the wide variety of subjects I am requested to research and the "real world" to which I must relate them, my approach in conceptually broader and less theoretical. A background of varied experience in many areas of economics‹market analysis, international economics, public finance and so on‹permits me to take such a broad view. This experience was obtained by carrying out a variety of projects for a variety of employers, including "think tanks", international organizations, universities, and the federal government.
Describe your "typical" workday:
My typical workday depends upon the phase of the project I am working on at that point. At the outset of a project I consult with other people who have worked on the subject and gather relevant data, documents and literature. Then I draft an outline of the study to be conducted and consult with colleagues and experts on my approach. The actual drafting of my report may require several months of reading, thinking, writing, re-writing and calling people to discuss analytical approaches and conclusions. This phase of the work is not for people who do not enjoy solitary contemplation. In the meantime, of course, I participate in running the agency by serving on committees, for instance, to choose new computer software or to evaluate applicants for open positions. I may also be called upon to "brief" a congressman's staff on the outlook for the economy, the implications of a recent rise in energy prices, or the cases for or against a tax cut.
What is the most difficult aspect of your job?
On e difficulty is in maintaining confidence that a project in the making can be finished successfully. Many times I have doubted I could bring it to a satisfactory conclusion. But I have never failed to do so in the end. Another hard part of my job is to see how difficult it is to enact good public policies. Even a member of Congress is only one voice among 535 members, and we "advisors" compete with many others to influence their thoughts. Passage of laws and implementation of policies are the results of pull and tug among many people and interest groups, most of them very parochial, self-interested and sometimes downright shameless. Only in exceptional circumstances does the long process of deliberation and compromise yield policies that a social scientist would see as "optimal" or even as moving in the right direction, and even then such "victories" are not always permanent.
What is the most rewarding aspect of your job?
The most rewarding part of the job is the intellectual satisfaction of unraveling complex issues, achieving a degree of understanding, even expertise, and then sharing it with the world in a published report and through briefings, speeches and lectures. A well formulated presentation is a thing of beauty.
What are your suggestions for someone considering a career in this field?
A bachelor's degree in economics, math, statistics or political science is essential. The proper choice of post-graduate studies depends on how you wish to apply your knowledge. A person interested in a career in business might be well advised to pursue an M.B.A. which includes economics along with management training. A person wishing to do research of the kind I do needs at least a master's degree in economics (a degree in law and economics offered by some universities is a great combination). Such a person will have much better job prospects with a Ph.D. If you want to teach and do research at the university level, a Ph.D. is essential.
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In Days Gone By
Kittson County Enterprise
28 July 1999
1899 - 100 years ago
Hon. Alex. McKinnon has accepted the appointment made byGov. Lind as the Red River member on the board of appeals for the inspectionof grain.
Jack Gillie brought in quite a curiosity in the shape ofa large, live mud turtle and made lots of fun for the small boys.
Married July 24 was Louis Parker to Miss L. O. Davos, bothof this county. Mr. Parker is a son of Mrs. Peters, wife of ex-Supt. Petersof this county, while Miss Davis is the daughter of Hon. E. N. Davis, Donaldson.
A big fire at Donaldson destroyed the stores and stockof Lund & Solem and A. Bloomsness, also the blacksmith and carriageshop of Martin Hannum, the hotel, furniture and barn rented by Frnk Halberg,together with other smaller buildings, so that the entire loss will footup to nearly $50,000.
In the electric storm this week, the Carney House at Emersonwas struck and set afire, but the quick action of the citizens put out theflames before they got beyond control.
1949 - 50 years ago
The village has employed experts to kill rats with poisongas at the city dump grounds. Rat infestation is not great in Hallock butthere are some and the condition could run wild.
Mr. and Mrs. John Moe, who reside east of Hallock, returnedfrom a several weeks motor trip when they recorded a total mileage of over7,500 miles.
During the fair, 10 years old Gary, the son of Mr. andMrs. Glen Stewart, Hallock, is probably credited with saving the fair barn,which at the time was filled with blooded stock. Several small boys hadbeen playing in the barn with firecrackers which started a blaze.
Robert Younggren, manager of the Younggren Airport in Hallock,has accepted a position with the Northwest Airlines.
The Lancaster Olaf A. Bergquist Legion Post is just completingits new Legion hall, a structure 24 x 60 feet in size. The cost of the structurewill be approximately $8,000.
Miles and Lois Stenquist, motored here from Coronado, Calif.They are guests at the home of Mrs. Stenquist's parents, Mr. and Mrs. J.N. Lang. They plan to locate in Hallock permanently. Mr. Stenquist willbe associated with the Orleans elevator and will buy grain.
Bob Krumholz was injured in the baseball game played atWinnipeg when the Hallock Indians met their Canadian cousins in a doubleheader game. Bob plays second base and was spiked in the right hand by arunner. He needed 12 stitches to close the wounds.
The marriage of Doris Ryden, daughter of Mr. and Mrs. GunnarRyden, Hallock and S. Arthur Romano, the Bronx, New York, was solemnizedJuly 21 in Minneapolis.
Sheldon Fertig, Lake Bronson, and Alton Johnson, Hallock,passed their senior life saving course at Lake Bronson State Park.
Charles Matthew had the misfortune to break a bone in hisankle at the Humboldt-Hallock baseball game.
1974 - 25 years ago
Fred Chounard, son of Mr. and Mrs. Ed Chounard, Hallock,enlisted in the army. He scored high in the Army electronic-mechanics entranceexam.
Pam Pieper, daughter of Mrs. Doris Pieper, Hallock, willattend the All-State Choir Camp at Bemidji.
On their return trip to Arizona from Lancaster, Don andDiane Fischer and Denise drove to Aberdeen, S.D. where they visited relativeswhich included the home of the Fischer quints, where Denise spent one dayand one night with the quints who are about the same age as she. Deniseis Elliot and Delphine Hunter's granddaughter.
Mr. and Mrs. Jean Hunt returned from an 1800 mile tripthrough beautiful country. They visited near Swan Lake, Saskatchewan, thenon to Amisk Lake, Flin Flon and the Pas in Manitoba.
1989 - 10 years ago
A baby girl was born to Tracey and Brian Pantzer July 7.She has been named Alice Marie. Grandparents are mr. and Mrs. Kenneth Pantzer,Hallock, and Mr. and Mrs. Jim Richardson. She has a sister, Jennifer, five.
Evelyn Anderson attended Donnafae Anderson's retirementparty at the Lake Bronson Park Shelter.
Clarence Beck was honored as Mr. Baseball for all his hardwork and devotion to the Lancaster baseball program. Beck coached the LancasterIndependent team for 13 years and the Legion team for seven.
1994 - 5 years ago
Marcus and Matthew Steien welcomed a sister to their family.Marissa Louise was born July 12 at Grand Forks. Marissa's parents are Mitchand Michele Steien, Karlstad. Grandparents are Roger and Beverly Pagnac,Stephen, and Larry and Sharon Steien, Karlstad.
Gordie Bernstom's fairly new pickup caught fire from electricalwiring July 17 and was totaled out.
Carol Visness, Kittson Central girls basketball coach,was selected to the Minnesota Girls Basketball Coaches Association Hallof Fame. She was the first female coach to achieve 300 wins and her careerbasketball coaching record is 321 wins to 116 losses.
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Are you new to the area? Maybe considering moving into our community?
Hopefully we will soon be able to welcome you to our shul.
To get a flavour of Mill Hill, this website is a good starting point.
Our Home and News pages give an outline of the many activities and events that are happening in the community and we maintain a full online calendar.
You can use the menu or "quick links" at the top of the pages to browse through all the different sections of the website.
If you have any questions or would just like to talk to someone about any aspect of the shul, please see the Contact page. | <urn:uuid:660ac89d-5303-4be2-953f-6445f51ce525> | CC-MAIN-2013-20 | http://www.shul.co.uk/readArticle.php?article=681 | 2013-05-21T20:04:25Z | s3://commoncrawl/crawl-data/CC-MAIN-2013-20/segments/1368700497024/warc/CC-MAIN-20130516103457-00050-ip-10-60-113-184.ec2.internal.warc.gz | en | 0.936127 | 131 | null | null | HuggingFaceFW/fineweb |
LibertyControl (For Palm)
LibertyControl (For Palm) 1.2.1
LibertyControl (For Palm) general info
Use your Bluetooth-enabled Palm device to control PowerPoint, Browser, WMP, Mouse and more on your Desktop or Laptop computer. View your presentation slide notes directly on the PDA, view slide warnings, and much more!
Windows 95/98/ME/2000/XP Platform :
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Free to try; $19.95 to buy License :
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LibertyControl (For Palm) Full Description
Imagine having the liberty to remotely control your laptop or desktop with your Palm PDA or SmartPhone. This is exactly the power that LibertyControl gives you, allowing you total control of your desktop using bluetooth technology. While LibertyControl gives you a world of opportunity to control anything such as your media player or web browser, version 1.0 focuses on controlling PowerPoint presentations. With LibertyControl 1.0, you can now give outstanding presentations with confidence by turning your mobile device into your presentation remote control.
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Terraces and plants make the most of a downhill garden. Here are 4 great ideas you can adapt in other sloped yards
Designing a sloped yard can be difficult. Click through our gallery to see how the right plants can make all the difference.
Flagstone pavers set on a gravel base with spaces between allow rainfall to seep into the soil, rather than run off into the pond at the patio's far end.
Basalt rocks nestled into the slopes base are perfect foils for Sedum 'Autumn Joy'. They also help hold the soil and provide deep planting pockets behind. | <urn:uuid:d8a10065-e880-461a-8a7b-7d15e0067fdc> | CC-MAIN-2013-20 | http://www.sunset.com/garden/landscaping-design/slope-solution-garden-00400000049094/print-index.html | 2013-05-21T20:17:25Z | s3://commoncrawl/crawl-data/CC-MAIN-2013-20/segments/1368700497024/warc/CC-MAIN-20130516103457-00050-ip-10-60-113-184.ec2.internal.warc.gz | en | 0.925693 | 124 | null | null | HuggingFaceFW/fineweb |
Estate Vintage Diamond Ruby Wedding Band Ring Deco Gold
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|A Gorgeous Classic Estate Vintage Diamond Ruby Wedding Band Ring in 14K White Gold. This lovely estate ring is adorned with twenty nine (29) sparkling white diamonds and French cut genuine rubies. The use of the French cut rubies and the diamonds in white gold give this band an Art Deco feeling. The setting is composed of 14K white gold. The entire ring measures about 5/16 inch wide and about 13/16 inch from side to side. Ring Size: about 9 (could be resized by your jeweler or ask me about using mine before shipping). A lovely estate ring in beautiful vintage condition.| | <urn:uuid:e3151591-d8bc-4dfa-9eba-8ab1bc21ae65> | CC-MAIN-2013-20 | http://www.trocadero.com/stores/aawsomantiquejewelry/items/962231/item962231.html | 2013-05-21T20:12:20Z | s3://commoncrawl/crawl-data/CC-MAIN-2013-20/segments/1368700497024/warc/CC-MAIN-20130516103457-00050-ip-10-60-113-184.ec2.internal.warc.gz | en | 0.791141 | 196 | null | null | HuggingFaceFW/fineweb |
Red Dragon persicaria is versatile perennial
Posted: Tuesday, May 31, 2011 8:01 pm
By: By Jimmy Williams
If my memory serves me correctly (a big if), I don’t believe I have ever written here, except perhaps in passing, of persicaria Red Dragon.
It has, throughout the years (10 or so), come to be one of my favorite foliage perennials, but with small baby’s breath-like white flowers late in the season that are nothing to sneeze at either.
This is a variety of Persicaria microcephala and is not invasive as many other persicarias are. I have, for instance, another persicaria, Persicaria amplexicaulis Firetail, which will run out anything in the vicinity if not diligently controlled at the root.
I had great hopes for Firetail, after reading the description of its flowers.
Most information calls the little narrow pokers of florets red or scarlet, and I planted it in a red border.
There are precious few red perennials, and I try every one I can find. To make a long story not as long, the flowers are not red, but a muddy ersatz crimson, diluted with something like pink.
I have put up with it, reluctantly, only because I haven’t found anything better, but that will come.
Red Dragon is another story and a horse of another color indeed. The leaves of this plant are its femme fatale, an alluring deep red (really maroon), pointed and some three inches or so long. Each leaf has a chevron of a darker or lighter color.
The foliage is brightest in spring. On first emerging they are brilliant, and, though dulling somewhat with heat and maturity, stay wonderfully fresh until frost.
Red Dragon will attain three feet in shaded or crowded conditions, two feet with more sun. I pinch some of my clumps back to control size, which delays flowering.
That is no significant loss; the flowers simply come later and, in fact, in more abundance.
Those little white flowers begin to appear about now on unpinched plants, but not until late summer on plants that have been cut back.
Each one is perhaps a half inch across, and they are presented in loose clusters at the tips of the stems, somewhat above the foliage. Definitely nice, but not sensational.
Red Dragon makes an unusually notable summer pot plant, alone or with other ingredients. It is particularly intriguing with chartreuse foliage and would be smashing with one of Rita Randolph’s chartreuse ferns — contrast of both foliage form and color.
For a harmony, plant it up with flowers of pink, mauve or red. Best of all, it is free, if you have already have it growing it in your ground garden. Simply dig out a small piece early on and stick it in your pot. Even a cutting will root forthwith if stuck in a pot or in the ground.
Though early literature rated Red Dragon as hardy into zone 4, it has never overwintered for me in a pot outside. That is of no consequence, since I have abundant ground plantings to pick from for potting up.
On the other hand, it has never been hurt in the ground.
Editor’s note: Jimmy Williams is production superintendent at The Paris Post-Intelligencer, where he also writes this column.
Published in The Messenger 5.31.11
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A first of its kind Grand Canyon Skywalk cost the Hualapai tribe $30 million to build, but the tribe hopes to draw more than a half million tourists to the glass skywalk over the Grand Canyon in its first year of operation. The structure sounds frightening, but officials say the skywalk is strong enough to hold 71 Boeing 747s.
Little horse, big bucks
For a one-trick pony, Thumbelina puts on a pretty good show. Instead of jumping over fences, the fully grown 17.5-inch dwarf horse sneaks under them. But owners of the 5-year-old, 57-pound horse see big things ahead for Thumbelina. They hope to parlay Thumbelina's recent title of "World's Smallest Living Horse" from Guinness World Records into a charity moneymaker. So far, Thumbelina has helped raise about $10,000 for children's charities, but her owners hope to raise close to $1 million.
Contraband sniffing dogs Lucky and Flo won't be seeing action anytime soon. Officers in Malaysia's anti-piracy unit have stashed the star DVD-sniffing dogs in a safe house until they can investigate claims that bounties were placed on each dog's head. In March, Lucky and Flo sniffed out more than 1 million pirated DVDs while on loan from the Motion Picture Association of America. Reports did not disclose the amount of the bounty. The MPAA says its members lost over $1 billion in sales due to pirated Asian discs.
Getting a handout
Finally, some good news for the catfish. State conservation officials are thinking about ending their five-year noodling experiment three years early, saying hand fishers are catching too many breeding catfish. Explanation: Some Missourians were thrilled when a few years ago the state began issuing licenses for hand fishing-an old-timey practice of attempting to catch catfish by hand in rivers, lakes, and ponds. Noodlers, as they're known, shove their hands into the murky depths in hopes that a catfish will latch onto a wiggling finger. Ideally, the noodler then manages to slip his hand into the mouth of the fish and out the gill before bringing it out of the water. But often enough, noodlers say, it's not catfish latching on but snakes and snapping turtles. "If you don't come up bloody," one noodler said, "you ain't hand fishing."
Downtown Minneapolis is going into forced blackout. But the air raiders forcing skyscrapers in Minnesota's largest city to dim in the evening are made of feathers, not steel. Bird conservationists have convinced officials to turn out the lights at the 57-story Wells Fargo Building and the 33-story Accenture Building downtown to help prevent migratory songbirds from crashing into windows. Conservationists say most birds know to avoid the buildings, but some are fatally attracted to the lights.
Apparently having never played Barrel of Monkeys, Marlon Brown didn't know that when you take on one monkey, you take on all of them. Police say Brown was part of a group that attempted to break into the Chessington World of Adventures & Zoo in the United Kingdom last year to steal a well-known Bolivian squirrel monkey named Spongebob. But when Brown made the snatch, the rest of the monkeys in the cage attacked. Brown made away with the monkey (which his group later abandoned) but left blood used by police to track him down. Brown stood trial in March. | <urn:uuid:8ade0922-ceb4-48a6-86ef-4d5dbac83e32> | CC-MAIN-2013-20 | http://www.worldmag.com/2007/04/quick_takes | 2013-05-21T20:30:53Z | s3://commoncrawl/crawl-data/CC-MAIN-2013-20/segments/1368700497024/warc/CC-MAIN-20130516103457-00050-ip-10-60-113-184.ec2.internal.warc.gz | en | 0.957981 | 731 | null | null | HuggingFaceFW/fineweb |
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This paper discusses ideas relative to the construction of emotional artifacts that have to interact in a social world, and in particular with humans. It first examines some of the ways in which emotions can enhance social interactions with artifacts, and some of the challenges posed to the designer. After considering the debate that opposes "shallow" versus "deep" modeling, it sketches some ways in which we can anchor emotions in the architecture of artifacts in order to make emotional interactions meaningful not only to the human, but also to the artifact itself. It finally outlines some of the cognitive capabilities that artifacts should incorporate for their emotions to be properly grounded and to give rise to rich social exchanges with humans. | <urn:uuid:f117b5c1-2ebb-4f77-9305-2758f83c897a> | CC-MAIN-2013-20 | http://aaai.org/Library/Symposia/Fall/2001/fs01-02-006.php | 2013-05-24T04:54:56Z | s3://commoncrawl/crawl-data/CC-MAIN-2013-20/segments/1368704179963/warc/CC-MAIN-20130516113619-00050-ip-10-60-113-184.ec2.internal.warc.gz | en | 0.943245 | 148 | null | null | HuggingFaceFW/fineweb |
Duckweed Quacks Volumes of Potential
Since the late 1960s, scientists have studied duckweed for animal and human consumption because of its high protein content. Researchers are now tapping into the plant's innate environmental benefits, from desalinating wastewater to exploring its potential as a viable starch-based feedstock for ethanol production.
Duckweed has traditionally been studied because of its inherently rich protein content at 30 percent to 35 percent on a dry-weight basis. The purpose was to explore whether duckweed could be a protein source for animal and human food. A growing interest in sustainable ethanol feedstock development, however, has researchers exploring the plant's starch content.
North Carolina State University researchers Anne-Marie Stomp, associate professor of forestry, Jay Cheng, professor of biological and agricultural engineering, and Mike Yablonski, post-doctoral research associate, are discovering that duckweed can be used to clean up animal waste at industrial hog farms and could be used to make ethanol. They have determined that duckweed grown on swine wastewater can produce five to six times more starch per acre than corn, according to Stomp, who co-authored the research with Cheng.
The research, funded by the Biofuels Center of North Carolina, was presented at the annual conference of the Institute of Biological Engineering in March in Santa Clara, Calif.
"The original investigations focused pretty much entirely on the protein side," Stomp says. "At the time all of that work was being done, there was no compelling economic reason to domesticate this plant because we had plenty of other plant protein sources in grain and legumes. Back then, the prices of those grains and legumes were low and the market was fully supplied."
The one challenge that has impeded duckweed's progress in becoming a sustainable, dedicated energy crop for biofuels production or being used as a bioremediator for farm or city wastewater treatment operations is the fact that it wasn't domesticated. "The trick to domesticating duckweed is going to be how much it will cost per ton to grow this stuff," Stomp says, adding that data on economic feasibility will be released later this year. "That number provides a threshold for commercial viability," she adds.
Cheng and Stomp are currently developing a pilot-scale project to further investigate the best way to establish a large-scale system for growing duckweed in animal wastewater, and then harvesting and drying the plant. "We're actually exploiting a lot of existing technology used in the food industry, because duckweed is like a slurry," Stomp says. "You can pump it, sieve it and do other things."
In the meantime, duckweed will remain of interest to scientists as a viable synergistic component to the renewable fuels/energy sectors, possibly even being used with corn in existing ethanol operations, according to Stomp. "We're not saying we're going to replace corn," she says. "It's just another option out there for ethanol producers. It's the idea that if we're going to solve this energy crisis we're going to need a bunch of ideas. One idea isn't going to save us."
Water Purification Potential
Propagated in agricultural and/or municipal wastewater, duckweed naturally extracts nitrogen and phosphate pollutants. This could benefit large-scale hog farms where animal waste is stored in large lagoons for biological treatment. Duckweed's bioremediation properties allow it to capture pollutants and prevent their release into the air. The plant could save farmers money because they wouldn't have to purchase expensive desalination equipment for their lagoons. "Duckweed is exquisitely good at recovering low levels of nutrients from water," Stomp says. "It gets the water clean enough for reuse naturally, and it's virtually cost-free for farmers."
Duckweed can also reduce algae growth (by shading), coliform bacteria counts and mosquito larvae on ponds, while concentrating heavy metals, capturing or degrading toxic chemicals and encouraging the growth of other aquatic animals such as frogs or fowl. Additionally, duckweed is one of the fastest growing plant species on the planet. Scientists are also beginning to unlock duckweed's potential as a player in carbon cycling and carbon sequestration.
Duckweed bioaccumulates about 99 percent of the nutrients contained in wastewater and produces a valuable protein-rich biomass as a byproduct, which can be fed to certain fish and added to poultry feed. Duckweed can also assimilate small hydrocarbons such as glucose and sucrose and, as a result, perform heterotrophic growth from the wastewater. The nutrients can be removed permanently from the system as the plants are harvested.
Due to its high affinity for absorbing pollutants in wastewater, Stomp posed a hypothetical scenario where the use of duckweed by farmers could mutually benefit a city willing to provide wastewater effluent for fresh water reuse. For example, a farmer could pay the city or municipality for its wastewater and have it transported to his farm, a concept that some people refer to as duckweed-based wastewater treatment, Stomp says. The farmer could take that wastewater and mix it with his livestock wastewater to dilute it so that it can be used to grow duckweed, which would clean the water and the farmer could sell it back to the municipality for reuse.
Calling on Genome Sequencing
The duckweed family, or Lemnaceae, is a family of flowering plants. Specifically, Lemnaceae is an aqueous monocot-similar to grasses and palms-and is divided into five genera: Lemna, Spirodela, Wolffia, Landoltia and Wolffiella. Of these five genera, Spirodela is the largest and Wolffiella is the smallest.
Researchers at Rutgers University's Waksman Institute of Microbiology-a research facility on the Busch Campus of Rutgers University in New Jersey-channeled its resources in July 2008 into sequencing the Spirodela polyrhiza genome. The Spirodela has the least DNA per cell compared with its genera counterparts. The team aims to investigate duckweed's potential for sustainable sequestration of carbon dioxide, ecosystem carbon cycling and biofuel production.
In related research, the U.S. DOE's Joint Genome Institute announced in July 2008 that its Community Sequencing Program would support the genomic sequencing of Spirodela polyrhiza as one of its priority projects this year directed toward new biomass and bioenergy programs.
Preliminary findings by the Rutgers research team found that, through high-throughput sequencing, specific duckweed varieties obtained from 50-year-old sterile duckweed cultures shipped from Switzerland are comprised of Bradyrhizobium-a nitrogen-fixing bacteria that forms nodules on host plants. Bradyrhizobium also have symbolic relationships with legume plants, which can't live without the bacteria's essential nitrogen-fixing processes, according to Todd Michael, a member of the Waksman Institute and an assistant professor of plant biology and pathology.
"This was really surprising to us because we didn't expect to find this microorganism," Michael says. "There's still a chance this could be one level of contamination. Now the question is: Is this bacteria DNA actually affixing nitrogen for the Spirodela? This is a totally new relationship that we didn't expect, but this could explain why the plant grows so fast."
Michael said the research team is also developing methods to exploit the Wolffia gene. "This would give us the potential to do things like enhancing the DNA of genes to uptake specific types of heavy metals or modulate how fast we control growth rate," he says.
By harnessing the naturally occurring ability of plants to transform genes by way of various DNA interactions in their own natural habitats, Michael's research team intends to continue researching these specific duckweed varieties in sterile culture environments to determine what the ecology of each looks like in different locations and the behavior of each with an array of other microorganisms. "We can then use that information to go back and maybe suggest specific varieties for different locations, and maybe utilize the genetic makeup we already have to target specific applications," Michael says.
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Rex Ryan humble, but New York Post takes shot at Bill Belichick
Posted By Jerry Spar On November 20, 2012 @ 11:39 am In General | 10 Comments
Jets coach Rex Ryan has been abnormally subdued this week, leading up to Thursday’s Patriots-Jets game at MetLife Stadium. Ryan, known for his brash behavior, has been complimentary of the Pats and said he needs to worry about his 4-6 team that trails New England by three games in the AFC East.
“We can only focus on ourselves and just find a way to punch out,” Ryan said Monday. “We earned where we are, and we just have to find a way to punch our way out. That’s it. I’m not even worried about tweaking New England or anybody else. It’s to the point where we have to focus on us.”
Added Ryan: “We put ourselves in this spot. Without question [the sense of desperation], it’s there. Again, it’s not a panic thing, it’s just the fact that we just have to be focused and tight, and whatever the next challenge is, to face it head on. That’s what we’ll do.”
Ryan said he would not tell his players to avoid any bulletin-board material, but he’s not planning to offer any himself, especially considering the limited preparation time this week.
“We’re just trying to punch our way out, so I don’t know how much of that there will be,” he said. “But it’s not something I’ll bring up to the team.”
Jets linebacker Calvin Pace said his team needs to avoid the errors that have played New York this season.
“We know them. They know us,” Pace said of the Pats. “I’ll say this until I’m not in the league anymore: You have to beat New England, because they’re not going to beat themselves. We’ve just got to limit our mental mistakes and our turnovers. We’ve got a good chance if we do that.”
Considering the lack of headline material, the New York Post created some on its own, taking a shot at Belichick for sending Rob Gronkowski in for an extra point late in Sunday’s rout of the Colts. Gronkowski reportedly suffered a broken forearm and is expected to miss 4-6 weeks. The Post pictured Belichick as a turkey and referred to the situation as “butterball Belichick’s brainlock.”
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An unparalleled team of Cleveland Clinic physicians, surgeons, basic and clinical research scientists, bioethicists and support staff have combined their expertise to launch the Center for Reconstructive Transplantation. With seed money from government and private sources, the center is endeavoring to improve services, access and care for patients who have experienced extensive and complex tissue loss due to disease or trauma.
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William Owens, Jr.
December 10, 2009
Whether or not you believe in Him, God must be considered.
It would be good advice for a nation on the brink of destruction from within itself to reconsider its course and attitude towards God. Dealing with evil without acknowledging God is like playing football without a helmet. It is complete denial of compelling evidence, historical proof, as well as the testimony of our Founders who drafted our Constitution. Should one continue to engage in such a potentially harmful game of football without a helmet, not only will that individual suffer serious injury, but if such an idea remains unchallenged, eventually, a permanent injury such as a broken neck will occur, followed by the threat of paralysis or even death. Perhaps the comparison shines light on why so many of us seem unable to move in truth, and even worse, why some are just flat out unmoved because of injury we are therefore afraid to tackle that which is evil head on.
We can come to a resolve and adjust our ways through acknowledging our errors. However, unless we resolve that there is no compromising with truth we do so in vain. One truth we must accept is that arrogance is rooted in evil.
The Fear of the Lord is to hate evil: pride, and arrogancy, and the evil way, and the forward mouth do I hate. -Proverbs 8:13
I have no time or desire to be philosophical regarding this issue. You either get it or don’t, you either will or you want. You are open to possibilities as to what is threatening our sovereignty as a nation, or you are convinced that the political process alone will fix this evil that is encroaching—or rather has encroached—upon America. Likewise, many religious people believe that prayer alone is going to supernaturally fix this diabolical scheme that is rooted in a darkness many of us would not believe currently exists within the corridors of the political process, and behind the pulpits of our day.
What God fearing, American loving citizens do within the coming hours and days will determine the course of the entire world. It used to be weeks and months. However, with the maturation of this current evil, we are way past that. Whether or not God has handed us over to the will of wicked men can be argued to no end. There are those who would suggest we subjugate ourselves to the bastards who seek to destroy our land, and simply wait for Judgment Day. You think I speak harshly when I call them bastards? Think again:
But if ye be without chastisement, whereof all are partakers, then are ye bastards, and not sons. -Hebrews 12: 8
These are not sons of liberty and freedom. They are imposters whose mother is the whore of bondage and evil. They emanate from a father whose origin is evil; whose name is the Devil. Do I go too far? Again:
Ye are of your father the devil, and the lusts of your father ye will do. He was a murderer from the beginning, and abode not in the truth, because he speaketh of his own: for he is a liar, and the father of it. -John 8:44
Others suggest we take issues in our own hands and duke it out, perhaps even literally. Was not that what the Founders hand in mind when they gave us right to bear arms? Both are the important ends of the pendulum and will not by themselves effectively neutralize (if even possible) this black cloud of evil upon America. They must play their role together with as much fierceness that can be mustered by God fearing Americans. I must be cautiously optimistic because so many of us are “paralyzed” with fear—of which God has not given us.
For ye have not received the spirit of bondage again to fear; but ye have received the Spirit of adoption, whereby we cry, Abba, Father. -Romans 8:15
For God hath not given us the spirit of fear; but of power, and of love, and of a sound mind. -II Timothy 1:7
As a Christian living in a nation whose Constitution is founded upon Christian values, it is imperative that we closely examine arrogance from a historical view that is supported by a biblical perspective. It is not a time for us to be politically correct. It is time to be straightforward and simply speak the truth based upon evidence and providence.
Having said that, it is no longer acceptable for us to speak of the Constitution of these United States without speaking of the Bible upon which many of its positions are founded. If it is true about the Founders’ countless statement regarding Judeo-Christian’s grand role in the Constitution, how is it we could be so amazed at evil’s role in wanting to overthrow it? It only affirms that God’s hand was in the Constitution, and according to how it has been written, His hand is still, and will always remain, in it.
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I say we repent and return to the truth and with a renewed vigilance fight with pen and if necessary with sword to over throw this show of Arrogance of Power that seeks to take away what God has given us in America.
William Owens is the Author of: Obama: Why Black America Should Have Doubts
© 2009 William Owens, Jr. - All Rights Reserved
William Owens is a husband of twenty-four years to Selena Owens, and also a father of their four young adult children. He is President and co-founder of the Multi-cultural Conservative Coalition, a non-partisan conservative coalition comprised of people of various ethnicities and cultures who espouse conservative and patriotic ideologies, and translate those beliefs within society through a variety of platforms.
He is the author of seven books including, Divine Protocol-The Order of God’s Kingdom, Warriors Arise – Spiritual Life, Spiritual Warfare, Spiritual Maturity, and the controversial work, Bastards in the Pulpit. His latest, Obama: Why Black America Should Have Doubts is Owens’ first politically themed work and is experiencing great success in this hour of political transformation in America.
William Owens is also founder of iTouch Publishers, celebrating sixteen years of publishing relevant messages through books and newspapers to specialized markets since 1994. His wife, Selena, is also an author. To date, they have published a combined seventeen titles, and will be releasing their national newspaper, Christian Life News, A Christian Worldview Publication on the West Coast prior to year’s end.
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9 TIMES OUT OF 10 THEY ARE OUT OF BREAD!!!.
I love subway. It is great to be able to eat healthy for a reasonable price. However they rarely have bread at this location. And yes you could say they must be really good if they are consistently running out of bread. But being a sandwich shop your main ingredient to make a sandwich is bread. And this is not the only thing they are out of sometimes it will be certain vegtables or other things. I have never visited any other subway and them to be out of bread or any part of the ingredients that you would put on a sandwich. It is just consistent they are out of something. And lets not mention the employee attitude and rudeness at this paticular location. My suggestion as what I will be doing going forward if you really want subway visit a different location.
Sandwich chain offers healthy alternatives for diners on the go.. In Short Subway's health-conscious menu is built around greaseless deli sandwiches--turkey, chicken, roast beef, etc.--made on soft rolls baked daily in-house. Customers pick white, wheat or a specialty bun, name the length, choose the toppings and watch as the sandwich moves down the assembly line. Wraps, melts, salads and chips by the bag diversify the streamlined menu. And despite the bread factor, Subway boasts numerous successful weight-loss stories and low-carb menu items. | <urn:uuid:fd3b4b5d-fb43-4515-8734-f747966e79ef> | CC-MAIN-2013-20 | http://oklahomacity.citysearch.com/profile/8290146/oklahoma_city_ok/subway.html | 2013-05-24T04:33:10Z | s3://commoncrawl/crawl-data/CC-MAIN-2013-20/segments/1368704179963/warc/CC-MAIN-20130516113619-00050-ip-10-60-113-184.ec2.internal.warc.gz | en | 0.94782 | 292 | null | null | HuggingFaceFW/fineweb |
My office is in a building with lots of other offices and some stores. It's not uncommon that friends will mention they've been in the building for a reason, or they might say they're going to be there and might drop by. I generally suggest that they not do that-- I see patients back-to-back most days, it's more than a bit awkward to have my personal life intrude on my professional life, though I don't want my friends to think I don't love seeing them, just not during the work day.
Yesterday, between sessions, I got this text message from a friend, "I'm in the building. U there?"
I called and said, "I have to see a patient quickly, come up in a little bit."
It felt like a funny, meant-to-be sort of thing set up by the cosmos. I didn't tell the friend all the details, but I did have a patient scheduled that hour only the night before she'd called and said she forgot what time the appointment was. I told her (same time as friend showing up), but as an afterthought I added that I had another time available later if that was more convenient. It was, she took it, thereby freeing the cosmic time slot. And you know I don't do "med checks" but the patient I'd scheduled into that time is the only patient in my entire practice that I see for brief med checks-- a patient who came to me completely stable with no symptoms or side effects, no desire for psychotherapy, who could easily be managed by an internist (and has been told that) but he wants a psychiatrist to write his prescription.
Friend came up and we chatted. He sat where the patients sat, I sat where I sit. I'm not the quietest of therapists, but when I'm doing psychotherapy, it's all about the patient. I got to talk about me. He looked around, asked about the position of the clocks. Why doesn't the patient get to see a clock? Why don't I have a desk? We talked about some other stuff. I didn't ask if he needed more meds. He left when the hour was up. I wondered if he felt funny that the patient in the waiting room must have thought he was a patient.
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Now, how shall we discuss this delicately? We can't. I'm just forging ahead.
If you are the mother of a boy between the ages of 2 and 12, then you know that the wall behind your kids' toilet smells like a fraternity house. Evidentally "aim" is one of the last developmental skills little boys master.
Having three boys in our household means that our bathrooms sometimes smell downright nuclear, so I've come up with a solution. It's not as effective as coating the whole room with CONCRETE (which I've threatened to do many times), but still, it's better than nothing.
Once every day or two, spray down that wall behind the toilet with Febreeze or some other brand of fabric freshener. It actually seems to help neutralize the odors better than cleaning alone.
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My parents live in Arizona and have no less than nine citrus trees in their yard. They have a grapefruit, two lemons, a lime, and five different types of orange, along with a pomegranate, a couple peach trees, and I think an almond. Whenever we're down there, I wake up in the morning, walk out in the yard, and pick a grapefruit for breakfast. Can't do that in Minnesota!
This year we won't be going down for Christmas, but if we were I'd whip up a bunch of these ornaments! They're so easy...and pretty...and I'd love to experiment with all the different types of citrus fruit. Find instructions on how to make them here.
Anyone else out there decorating tiny rosemary bushes with fruit? (We really need to get a tree!) Do you have any "edible" decorations on your tree? I'd love to make a popcorn string but I know a certain little boy who would eat it right off the tree! Oh well... Find some kid-friendly ideas, and lots of other holiday projects and tree decorations right here. | <urn:uuid:c6209c3a-6300-40ff-906f-b42cf4a6dfa2> | CC-MAIN-2013-20 | http://rustsunshine.blogspot.com/2012/12/12-days-of-christmas-ornaments-day-5.html | 2013-05-24T04:19:36Z | s3://commoncrawl/crawl-data/CC-MAIN-2013-20/segments/1368704179963/warc/CC-MAIN-20130516113619-00050-ip-10-60-113-184.ec2.internal.warc.gz | en | 0.9558 | 232 | null | null | HuggingFaceFW/fineweb |
Gender: Male Age: 19 Location: N/A
this is my first story... please post some positive comments so that i may make it better
Jamz sighed as he stood before the front doors of the building that would turn his life around. As a young adult dragon hybrid walked through the doors of the Sub-Space Travel Agency for a flight to a space station in the Reptilian Nebula. For he was starting as the Head Chief for a luxurious space cruise ship that was currently in The Reptilian Nebula and was about to dock with a station so that it may pick up and drop off passengers. The work may seem a little dull to most people but the pay was to good to pass up. As he was walking towards the front desk he was thinking of how proud his mother would be, but with her disaperrence during his juvenile years(a pre-teen according to human standards about 26-50 humans years old) for witch he has always found unsettling since he remembers that his mother told him that when he becomes of age it will be a rather suttle process of him having to leave the nest. Though he may have to leave the nest, most dragons who leave the nest stay in contact with their mothers. He never met his father, nor did he know what species he was since fate has deemed that hybrids like him-self looked more like thier mothers than their fathers, rarely they have more than just a couple similarities to their fathers, he was not one of them. According to his mother he didn't have simularites of his father. She once explained that he disappeared mysteriously a few days after he was born. Witch meant that his father didn't leave because of him. Also he remembered the stories of his parents planning to have a child. During his young-ling years(6-25 years old for humans) he remembered the nights he'd wake up to find his mother away from the nest crying. The morning after he would surprise her with a gift to make her feel better. But he always had a feeling that she was hiding an emotion to protect him.
He was snapped out of his flashbacks when the clerk at the front desk asked for him to show some identification and the ticket redemption slip. When he handed the items over to the clerk he noticed that it was a feline hybrid that he knew many years ago. He noticed it first cause she handed back the ID and ticket redemption slip with out saying anything else other than " Thank you for using the Sub-Space Travel Agency we hope that we see you again soon." He continued to stand there until she looked back at him and said in a rather annoyed voice " Can I help you sir" "Well you can tell me how you've been. I bet you dont remember me do you, Shara?" he replied. She sat there for a couple of moments and realized whom she was looking at. "JAMZ!!!! O BY THE GODS I HAVENT SEEN YOU IN YEARS!!!" She exclaimed " It has been a while since I have seen anyone from the old group. Not since Balmung went to Relax-utopia. So how have you and Korek been? I've herd that you two are still together." he asked as he moved to the side so that she can continue helping people." Good, is it alright if we talk later? I go on break in a half an hour." she said within the small gaps between customers. "Sure" he replied " I got to go rent a room for the night anyways, my departure isn't until tomorrow and I know how busy this place is on holidays so I wanted to guarantee myself a good seat."
"Your telling me. Meet me in the garden area just out side the food court and we'll catch up." she said quickly while a customer was rumaging through thier bag for the items that Shara had asked for. He waved as he walked to the hotel part of the building.
As he was walking he noticed the many different kinds of species, full-blooded and hybrids. One thing he noticed that there was a low number of reptile species. He spotted only a handful himself included. Which made him think how alone he was in the universe. He never had a temporary mate(Girl Friend). Though through his best friend Balmung(a member of the Panda species) was able to find some one that was willing to give him Bliss through the act of "sex" is what he believed the humans called it. Though over the years he hasn't experienced the bliss again since he spent most of his energy to school so he know that he would need to know the experience to get a good paying job.
After renting a room for the night he headed off to the food court. He grabbed some food and decided to eat in the garden section that Shara was talking about. The sunlight that shone through the trees sparkled of his black scaly body sending little reflected light beams onto many surrounding plants. Witch filled with a small spurt of happiness thinking that among all the species he was lucky enough to be among the prettiest of them. Yes he was quite a sight but for some reason he was shunned my most individuals. Yea he had a number of friends and but none was suited to be a mate, temporary or not. Again Shara snapped him out of his day dreaming once she called his name. He looked up to see Shara and Korek walking towards him. He stood up and greeted them both. Korek was a member of the Canine species. Their fur shone in the sun light. Thought Shara's light brown, and Korek's red fur where nice enough to seduce a number of individuals of their own species he knew that he had a greater sheen than most species, even many members of his own. But he always attributed that to him being a young adult to dragon standards(about 51-100 human years yet still quite young by dragon standards)
Over the next couple of hours the three of them caught up on the last number of years, including that Korek was now the head mechanic at the ship-docks here at the agency and Shara was accurately the head of accounting of the entire company and was working as the desk clerk as a side job so that she and Korek could house together. Jamz explained that he had been at the best culinary schools for each species that way he would have the best chance of getting a good paying job. When it was getting late, the weather was getting chilly and they all decided to go inside, though the cold didn't bother Jamz, in fact it was quite invigorating, it reminded him of the winter days in the swamp where his nest was before his mother disappeared. The three of them went and had a few drinks at the bar located in the food court. Since he was a dragon hybrid the drinks he ordered where meant for full-blooded dragon's and where strong for him and it wasn't long until his head was spinning. So he headed to his room with the help of Shara and Korek.
After they made sure he was going to be fine they headed off to their own room but not before saying their goodbyes and wishes to see him again soon. A few minutes passed and he began to wash himself, and opened a window to clear his head after he was clean. He soon realized that the room he rented was not to his specifications that he requested to the desk clerk. As if by signal there was a rapping at the door, he looked through the little hole through the door to see who it was.
It was the most beautiful black dragon hybrid female he has ever seen with amazingly bright emreld eye's and in his opinion the most perfect sized breasts, he found the eye's extremely fetching. Since he has not seen many black dragons full-blooded or hybrid considering for a great number of years they where hunted down for reasons that escaped him and the breed was considered endangered, some believe that full black dragons no longer existed, which he did not believe since he had a strange itching feeling in the back of his head that his mother was out there somewhere.
As he opened the door he noticed a tantalizing aroma coming from the female but dismissed it as soon as he felt a sexual desire arise in his groin so he would not embrace himself. "Hello I'm Rio, I am here to change your room to your likings." she said as she walked through the doorway. Again, as she walked by the slight breeze of her movement he smelt the same tantalizing aroma and felt the same sexual desire that he felt before when he first opened the door. She murmured a quick stream of words which meanings escaped him, and then a haze like mist contorted the room yet Rio's outline stayed sharp and crisp. and a moment later the room rematerialized to look just like the swamp where he grew up. But without the "HOME SWEET HOME" feeling that humans referred to when they got home from long trips. "If there is anything else just call this number." Rio said as she offered him a card with a series of numbers on it. " Its my pager number" she said as she saw the quizzical look upon my face. He's heard of "phones" and "pagers" and all that but never really got into it. As if to get rid of the look of confusion on his face, she strolled over to the phone that was in the room and asked him to come over so that she could show him how to use it. As he stood next to her again he smelt her tantalizing scent that wafted from her, and couldn't help but to take some in, just to remember the smell. He noticed that she was staring him in the eye's.
"When Dragons, even hybrids, stare at each others eye's they can read the emotions that is running through the other at the moment. But it only works when they are staring at each others eye's. It won't work if one dragon is staring at a scale in between the eye's" he remember his mother telling him not to long before she disappeared. Now he finally realized why he never know what his mother was feeling even when he gave her a gift to make here feel better.
Remembering that he concentrated on a scale in between her eye's so that she could not see what emotions was running through him. At a glance she seemed somewhat disappointed, and for a reason he later came to the fact that it was that he saw the same pain of loneliness that he saw in his face every morning when he looked in the mirror, and looked her in the eye's. The flood of emotions that he saw was much the same one's he felt when he was around his friends and saw them with their mates(at the time it would have been Girlfriends or Boyfriends, remember its from a dragons point of view) and out of some desire he embraced her in a hug also covering her with his wings, he hoped that the embrace could ease her pain, letting her know that she was not the only one that feels that pain. Even through his rough chest scales he felt her relax, as if before he hugged her, she was threatened by him for some reason.
" I know what is going through you right now" she whispered in his ear " it is the same feeling that is going through me right now. I know that you smell a tantalizing aroma coming from me. Because i can smell a just as tantalizing aroma coming from you."
" I didn't know how to react, I apologize for what I did. There has never been many females of our species or of any species in my life. There is only one that comes to memory and that was my mother." he said softly. Emotions running high he suddenly felt extreme sadness remembering his mother, and the realization that there is no hope of him ever seeing her again, though his heart told him that she was still out there, some where.
" I have feel the same pain, but I never knew my mother, she was obvious black dragon for my father was of the Bird species, and he died in my arms while I tried to save him after he was attacked by owl-bear that had that disease that makes hybrids go crazy." When she finished he recognized the same pain that he felt when remembered his mother.
Again as the embrace continued the gaps between their gentile sobbing the both recieved a waft of each others tantalizing aroma's.Through the both of them their emotions and hormones where running wild. He felt the same sexual desire as from before in his groin, since they where they where still looking at each others eye's he saw that she was feeling the same thing in her groin.
A few moments passed and then instinct kicked in the both of them and started to grind each other hips to one another. Slowly his penis slid out of it's sheath hidden underneath a long scale that was like the underbelly scales of full dragons that ran from about his stomach down his tail. Their tails slowly began wrapping around each other and they slowly moved to his nest. Soon enough she presented herself to him, a sign that said she was willing to become his mate. So the Courtship began. He began slowly, moving inside her clit with little resistance and pushed himself as far as her body would allow and then slowly moving back out. Not quite all the way out he thrust his penis back into her. He slowly started trusting faster and faster. She too began to trust her hips in to his to match his thrusts to gain the most pleasure out of it. This continued until he felt the growing orgasm approach and at a slight glance he saw into her eye's and saw she was feeling the same. He began trusting as fast as he could and she quickly matched the speed. Then it was unbearable and the thrust hard into her and she back at him and he released his load at the same time she was orgasming. Her slick warm vaginal walls clamped down on his penis milking all that he had. This lasted for a few moments and then as his penis softened and withdrew back in to its sheath they laid there until it was back in it's sheath. They fell asleep in a lover's embrace, forever now bonded in the most intimate way dragons could be. In the back of his head he knew that she was his mate. When he awoke she was still asleep, but it wasn't long until she was up. she turned her head, and through the reflection of her jewel like eye's he saw his reflection.
"You know that you can leave with me. I am the new Head Chef on the Galactic Cruise Ship that is currently in The Reptilian Nebula. I will be making enough money for the both of us." Jamz told Rio as he was preparing his possessions for the trip later today.
"But I don't have the money for a ticket. Most of my income goes towards my room here. I use my tips to buy my self food. How can I go with you?" she said as she was sitting in the nest watching him.
"Don't worry about that I have more than enough money to buy you a ticket. Besides, you know Shara?" he said as he was preparing to getting ready to bathe himself
"The front desk clerk?" she inquired
"Yes, she is an old friend of mine. I am sure she can squeeze you in on the same flight as me. She is the head of accounting for the entire company. She uses the desk clerk for a little extra cash and so she can be here with her husband Korek, the head mechanic for the docks here."
"Well...... let me finish some business and I'll find you when I'm done." she said as she joined him in the shower.
After showering he grabbed his things and they left the room before they parted in the hall way they embraced each other and kissed and parted. He headed towards the desk clerk for the hotel and turned in his key. He inquired about the mechanic bay so that he could inquire Korek about Shara, since he noticed she was not at the front desk.
The doe cheerfully answered his question and pointed in the general direction. A few minutes later he reached the repair bay and inquired for Korek. A min later he came walking up.
"What's up?" he asked wiping the grease from his paw's
"I need to talk to Shara. I need to get another ticket." Jamz said while simultaneously taking in the sights
"She's up in our house unit. Here." he gabbed a piece of paper and wrote the house number down." She should be there. If she's not it won't be long until she's back. She does all her accounting crap in the house."
So with a quick handshake and a pat on the back they said their goodbyes and Jamz when towards the housing unit wing. A few minutes later he made it to the right room. He knocked a couple times and waited for a few seconds and knocked again. Just as he was about to knock again the door opened. Shara was standing in the door way looking extremely tired.
"Are you alright? You look as if you just ran a marathon." he asked with a hint of worry in his voice
"Yea I'm fine, I had a lot of paper work last night and finished a few minutes ago. I was about to give myself a bath" she replied with a sound of extreme exhaustion in her voice.
She invited him in and asked him to take a seat.
"Would you like something to drink?" she asked as she stood up looking over the fridge door
"No thank you, I am fine." he replied
"So Jamz, what do you need?" she asked "Korek just called and said you needed something."
"I need another ticket for the same flight that I am scheduled to take later on this evening.'
"If I may ask, y?" she said walking back in to the den and taking a seat across the coffee table.
If he had skin or another color of scales she would have seen him blush."If you don't mind I would like to keep that to myself for a while and reveal it when I am comfortable with revealing it. If you catch my meaning."
"Then don't bother, say something when your good and ready." she said with what looked like to him a smirk. She then got up and grabbed a laptop from a desk and brought it back to the chair and began typing. A few minutes later she printed something.
"All you have to do is hand this to the boarding clerk." she said as she signed it and handed him the slip of paper "With my signature its as good as a ticket. Your lucky you know me cause there was only one more open spot in your class."
With that he got up and gave her a hug goodbye. He then left and when he turned around after she closed the door he saw Rio walking up hall with a few bags in hand. Jamz walked over and grabbed a couple of them and they started heading down to the boarding bay to wait for thier flight. The whole time his tale was wrapped around her waist and her's around his waist.
When they arrived at the bay they still had a number of hours till boarding time and they decided to go over to the food court and grab some food. They did so and once finished took a short stroll through the garden until it was announced that thier flight was boarding and headed off for their flight. While waiting for take off they fell asleep and then felt the flight take off and in a half sleep dreams he know that his life would no longer be the same. When he woke up he noticed that they were getting close their destination and kissed Rio to let her know that they where almost there.
"I love you, and by the gods may we never part" he said to her as the ship was docking.
"Same here my love, I hope for the same thing" she replied
After departing the vessel and leaving the terminal they kissed and headed off towards the cruise liner, and with the blessings of the gods, a long and wonderful relationship.
To Be Continued.....
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InfoCom says Global Top-10 paid-for TV groups secure ranks despite decreasing subscribers
US Direct TV still world largest provider - Carriers experiencing decreasing subscriber base in mature markets - Indian Essel and MII China encounter strong growth - Top-3 groups to retain leadership in the next years.
- (1888PressRelease) September 08, 2011 - Stuttgart, Germany - According to InfoCom most recent release of the Quarterly TV Monitoring, the top-10 largest groups, at World level, collectively posted 145m paid-for* TV subscriptions, 54% of which attributed to satellite TV (2Q10). The top-10 ranking is lead by US-based satellite TV player, DirecTV, with 25m subscriptions, of which 25% from its Latin American subsidiaries (Argentina, Brazil, Chile, Colombia, Mexico, Puerto Rico and Venezuela). DISH Network, another US-based satellite TV player, is ranked 4th, with 14.3m subscriptions, attributable solely to domestic operations. BSkyB, the UK-based satellite TV provider, has 9.9m subscriptions from its operations in UK and Ireland.
News Corporation is ranked 7th, with 11.6m subscriptions largely from satellite TV - attributable to its subsidiaries in Austria (Sky Austria), Germany (Sky Deutschland) and Italy (Sky Italy), as well as interests in BSkyB (News Corporation launched a bid to take full control of BSkyB). The group has also minority interests in 2 subsidiaries offering cable TV, Australia-based Foxtel and Hathway Cable, based in India. Should News Corporation be successful in its bid to acquire BSkyB, the company would become the third largest player. The French-based giant Vivendi is ranked 8th, with about 70% of the group's total base (10.6m) estimated as coming from satellite TV operations in France and Poland. Over 85% of TV paid-for subscriptions of India-based Essel are from Dish TV, the satellite TV subsidiary. The group provides also cable TV through Wire and Wireless (WWIL).
Liberty Global, owning the UPC brand, had around 15.6m cable TV customers - most of which from their Western European operations in Austria, Belgium, Germany, Ireland, Netherlands and Switzerland. The group's satellite TV base is only 7% of the total base, originating from Eastern European operations (Czech Republic, Hungary, Slovenia and Slovakia) under the UPC brand; as well as the Australian subsidiary Austar.
Providence Equity Partners has interests in both cable and satellite TV - the most significant of which are Kabel Deutschland (also called KDG - Germany) and Com Hem (Sweden). These carriers contribute with 10.3m (78%) subscribers to the group's total base. Providence has also significant interests in BCE, DigiTurk, Volia Cable as well as a minority interest in TDC, contributing with some IPTV subscriptions.
*InfoCom Quarterly TV Monitoring service monitors paid-for monthly contractual subscriptions to TV packages and services from providers using four distribution platforms - broadband Internet (IPTV), cable, satellite and terrestrial, including both pay-TV as well as basic subscriptions to cable TV.
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A Republican victory won’t erase party’s problems
GOP still faces divisions, woes as base shrinks
WASHINGTON - For Republicans, an election win of any size today would be a blessing. But victories in Virginia, New Jersey, or elsewhere won’t erase enormous obstacles the party faces heading into a 2010 midterm election year when control of Congress and statehouses from coast to coast will be up for grabs.
Republicans still have a long way to go because of their party’s own fundamental problems - divisions over the path forward, the lack of a national leader, and a shrinking base in a changing nation.
The GOP would overcome none of those hurdles should Republican Bob McDonnell win the Virginia governor’s race, Chris Christie emerge victorious in the New Jersey governor’s contest, or conservative Doug Hoffman triumph in a hotly contested special congressional election in upstate New York.
Still, one or more wins would give the Republicans a jolt, and a reason to rally in the coming months. Victories certainly would help with grassroots fund-raising and candidate recruiting. And they might just be enough to reinvigorate a party that controlled Washington through much of this decade, only to lose control of Congress in 2006 and then the White House in 2008.
Viewed from the other side, a GOP sweep would be a setback for Democrats. It could be seen as a negative measure of President Obama’s standing and could signal trouble ahead as he seeks to get moderate Democratic lawmakers behind his legislative agenda and protect Democratic majorities in Congress next fall.
Yesterday, New Jersey’s candidates for governor darted through the state on the last day of a campaign being billed as a vote on Obama’s popularity. Obama has made five appearances in New Jersey to make his case for Jon Corzine, the only Democratic governor seeking reelection, who is facing a tough challenge from Christie, a former prosecutor.
Republicans have not won statewide in New Jersey in a dozen years. Polls show the race a tossup heading into today, and a victory would sting the president in a state he carried by 15 percentage points a year ago. Third-party candidate Chris Daggett, a former Environmental Protection Agency administrator, could influence the outcome.
While Obama urged 11,000 cheering supporters Sunday to give Corzine the same level of commitment given him, Christie has also sought to tap into Obama’s support, suggesting that he is the candidate who will bring change to New Jersey.
The only other governor’s race this year, in Virginia, appears to be headed for a Republican victory.
Proof of the GOP divide is in the special election in New York’s 23d Congressional District. Potential 2012 presidential hopefuls trying to solidify their conservative credentials, Sarah Palin and Tim Pawlenty, endorsed Hoffman, a conservative third-party upstart, over the GOP-chosen candidate, moderate Dierdre Scozzafava.
Badly trailing in polls, she dropped out over the weekend and - in a slap at the GOP - endorsed Democrat Bill Owens.
While downplaying whether today’s races are a referendum on Obama, the White House is suggesting that the New York race shows that hard-liners are taking over the GOP and that the trend will affect the 2010 elections. Indeed, there are similar tensions in Senate primaries in Florida, California, and elsewhere, where conservatives are challenging establishment-backed candidates.
At an Owens rally yesterday in Watertown, N.Y., Vice President Joe Biden said conservatives’ view is narrow and a reflection of failed Bush-Cheney policies, espousing a philosophy that “you are either absolutely right or morally wrong.’’
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A La Carte (11/15)
This is the last day you can enter the November giveaway right here at this site…
Buzzard on Bell
Justin Buzzard went out to see Rob Bell on his “The Gods Aren’t Angry” tour and brings an interesting report.
Reformed Conference Directory
I have done a long-overdue update to the Directory of Reformed Conferences.
Amy Has a Baby
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View Full Version : Strange buzzing?
all day there has been a really high pitched buzzing noise in my living room. We turned off all the power and it was still there. Right now its thundering and lightning like mad and raining really hard. Could this all be connected?
Presume its not a wasp:scratchchin:
noooooo... its really high pitched and really starting to do my head in. It sounds like something eletrical!
:happyno: no idea what it could be, but have you found it yet?
no and it seems to be getting louder!
Sounds like a speaker that hasn't been turned off or a light that's gone faulty. Check and see if it's coming from a light fixture.
its not... checked already! cant be speaker either like i said we turned power off at mains and was still buzzing... Tell you what though... my boiler is being a bugger again... could it be a coincidence???
Did you find out what it was in the end?
my boiler breaking! cant fix it till monday. I just had a bath using boiled water from pans and kettle and there was rice floating in it! :zombie:
Miss SC... crossed replies
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Originally Posted by Yobyot
I'm so sorry for betraying how American I am, but a freakin' diesel station wagon? In M sport trim?
C'mon, this is a car for guys who are, ahem, managed by females and who think all that M sport trim can wash away the fact that a diesel dies at 5000 rpm.
. For us in Europe it's a little different. If we could get gas at $4 to $5 a gallon, I guess we would agree. But at $8/gal things change a little. And car companies even say that the station wagons are the more sportier looking model they build. I don't completely agree with that but some models look better as a "station wagon" as you call it. | <urn:uuid:4f2fd6f1-538e-4fc7-bb91-e8a61fb83ed3> | CC-MAIN-2013-20 | http://www.f30post.com/forums/showpost.php?p=13231535&postcount=15 | 2013-05-24T04:25:27Z | s3://commoncrawl/crawl-data/CC-MAIN-2013-20/segments/1368704179963/warc/CC-MAIN-20130516113619-00050-ip-10-60-113-184.ec2.internal.warc.gz | en | 0.978714 | 160 | null | null | HuggingFaceFW/fineweb |
Rosice (Jihomoravský kraj, Czech Republic)
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Rosice (German, Rossitz), a small market town and manorial estate ten miles west of Brno, Moravia (49° 10′ 0″ N, 16° 23′ 0″ E). In the 16th century it belonged successively to the noble lords of Pernstein (1522-1549), of Lipa (1549-1560), and of Zierotin (1560-1628). In 1527 Anabaptists under the leadership of Gabriel Ascherham, of Silesia, began to settle there, and in 1529 started a communal Bruderhof in Rossitz where they flourished until they were expelled in 1535. Then they returned to Silesia. In 1527-1529 Philip Plener of Baden, and his group, known as the Philippites, also lived in Rossitz together with the Gabrielites, but they separated later and set up their own Bruderhof in Auspitz, 12 miles east of Brno. The third group, the Tyroleans, since 1533 called Hutterites, settled in Auspitz and Austerlitz but not at once in Rossitz. In 1533 a serious conflict arose between the Hutterites and the two other groups. Ascherham thereupon called a conference of all three groups to Rossitz, which however ended negatively in a complete break of fellowship between these groups, at least for the time being. After the exodus of the Gabrielites and the cessation of persecution about 1536-1537, the Hutterites began to settle in Rossitz under the tolerant lords. This Rossitz Bruderhof then existed uninterruptedly until 1622, when Anabaptists were expelled completely from all of Moravia.
According to Beck, Bohemian Brethren or Piccards had also settled in Rossitz, but nothing is known about contacts between Hutterites and Bohemian Brethren. This may be due to two reasons—the language barriers (German and Czech) and the differing genius of the two groups.
Beck, Josef. Die Geschichts-Bücher der Wiedertäufer in Oesterreich-Ungarn. Vienna, 1883; reprinted Nieuwkoop: De Graaf, 1967: 69.
Hege, Christian and Christian Neff. Mennonitisches Lexikon, 4 vols. Frankfurt & Weierhof: Hege; Karlsruhe; Schneider, 1913-1967: v. III, 549.
Zieglschmid, A. J. F. Die älteste Chronik der Hutterischen Brüder: Ein Sprachdenkmal aus frühneuhochdeutscher Zeit. Ithaca: Cayuga Press, 1943.
Adapted by permission of Herald Press, Harrisonburg, Virginia, and Waterloo, Ontario, from Mennonite Encyclopedia, Vol. 4, p. 362. All rights reserved. For information on ordering the encyclopedia visit the Herald Press website.
©1996-2013 by the Global Anabaptist Mennonite Encyclopedia Online. All rights reserved.
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I do not know how old I was when I learned to play chess. I could not have been older than eight, because I still have a chess set on whose side my father inscribed with a soldering iron: "Saša Hemon 1972." I loved the board more than chess – it was one of the first things I owned. Its materiality was enchanting to me: the smell of burnt wood that lingered long after my father had branded it; the rattle of the thickly varnished pieces inside, the smacking sound they made when I put them down, the board's hollow wooden echo. I can even recall the taste – the queen's tip was pleasantly suckable; the pawns' round heads, not unlike nipples, were sweet. The board is at our old place in Sarajevo, and, even if I haven't played a game on it in decades, it is still my most cherished possession, providing incontrovertible evidence that there once lived a boy who used to be me.
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The branded board was the one Father and I always played on. It would be my job to set up the pieces, after he offered me to choose one of his fists enclosing a black or a white pawn. More often than not, I'd choose the hand with the black piece; whereupon Father would dismiss my attempt to negotiate. We'd play and I'd lose, each and every time. My mother objected to his never letting me win, as she believed that children needed to experience the joy of victory to succeed. Father, on the other hand, was ruthlessly firm in his conviction that everything in life had to be earned and that wanting victory always helped achieve it. As an engineer who had faith in unsentimental reasoning, he believed in the hard benefits of knowledge acquired by trying and failing – even if, as in my case, it was exclusively failing.
I would not have admitted it then, but I did crave his furtive encouragement; that is, I wanted Father to let me win, but I didn't want to know that. I was not capable of thinking more than one or two moves in advance (my preferred activities were always soccer and skiing, where you make decisions improvising inside a vanishing moment). My father prodded me to think about chess in a focused manner – and, by extension, think thoroughly about everything else: life, physics, family, homework. He gave me a chess textbook and, move by move, we analysed the games played by the great grandmasters like Lasker, Capablanca, Alekhine, Tal, Spassky, Fischer etc. Going over the grandmasterly games felt too much like school – occasionally interesting, often straining my mind in unpleasant ways. Even so, when alone, I'd try to study chess, hoping that I could glean a simple trick or two before the next game and catch my father by surprise. Instead, I constantly and quickly hit the low ceiling of my abstract-thinking abilities. It didn't help that grandmasters like Capablanca, Alekhine and Fischer appeared to be obsessive hermits; I was not a writer yet and could not appreciate the devout artist producing painfully inapplicable art. And the world around me was nothing if not an infinity of distractions: cute girls, novels and comic books, my budding record collection, neighbourhood boys whistling from the playground under my window, beckoning me to a soccer game.
I could never separate the game from our relationship and everything surrounding it: his knee jumped at a rapid speed, jerked by his compulsive foot; his big hands with flat, wide thumbs moved the pieces with defeating confidence; he nodded as he was discovering the opportunities fully invisible to me; the smell of food floated from the kitchen; my mother lingered on the horizon, imploring my father, yet again, not to checkmate me. Whereupon he would checkmate me.
Naturally, I reached the point of always declining his invitation to play – I claimed I was still training, learning, getting ready. But when he played against Čika-Žarko, his college friend, I'd kibitz and listen to their trash-talking. Somewhat guiltily, I'd root against my father. I wanted to witness his defeat, so that he could understand how I might have felt when we played. While he wanted to teach me what he knew, I wanted him to see what it all looked like for me – perhaps love is a process of finding a common vision of reality. I wanted us to share the sense that the number of wrong moves far exceeds the number of good moves, to share the frightening instability of the correct decision, to bond in being confounded. These days, of course, I don't remember either his defeats or his victories; nor do I remember enjoying his being humbled. On the screen of my memory, he is perpetually pouting over the pieces, jerking his foot at a speed commensurate with his difficult position on the board. He loves being inside himself, I imagine; he loves solving problems in the laboratory of his engineering mind; he loves the space in which reason and logic rule. He loves me.
After a few years of feeling stuck right between my mother tongue and my DP language and being incapable of writing in either of them, I finally began writing in English. In doing so, I delimited a new space, where I could process experience and generate stories. Writing was another way to organise my interiority so that I could retreat into it and populate it with words. My need for chess was dissipating, as it was being fulfilled with writing.
Now it seems to me that the last game I ever played was against my father, though that is almost certainly not true – it was just the last one that mattered. I was visiting my parents in Hamilton, Ontario, sometime in 1995, and I challenged Father to a game. Having settled in Canada, my parents were at the nadir of their refugee trajectory, and, it seemed at that time, at the end their rope. Tormented by the brutal Canadian climate, short on friends and family, they were prone to devastating nostalgia and hopelessness.
I was not capable of helping them in any way. During my visits, we argued much too often: their despair annoyed me, because it exactly matched mine and prevented them from offering comfort to me – I suppose I still wanted to be their child. We argued over the smallest things, hurtfully remembering and bringing up the unresolved fights and unforgotten insults from before the war, only to make up a few minutes later. We missed each other, even while we were together, because the decaying elephant in the room was the loss of our previous life – absolutely nothing was the way it used to be. Everything we did together in Canada reminded us of what we used to do together in Bosnia. Hence we didn't like doing any of it, but had nothing else to do. I spent entire days on the parental sofa (donated by a kind Canadian), watching reruns of Law and Order. I would snap out of TV coma with the urge to scream at somebody.
One of those hopeless days, I challenged my father to a game. I admit I was burning to beat him; I was ready to discard his shadow after a few decades of not playing against him. I could now redress the long-lasting imbalance between us by winning and putting him in a position to feel what I felt as a boy. I offered him my fists, each clenched around a pawn, to choose; he picked the black one. We set up the pieces on a tiny magnetic board; we played; I won; I found no pleasure in it. Neither did he. It is possible that he finally let me win. If he did, I didn't notice it. We shook hands in silence, like true grandmasters, and never again played against each other. | <urn:uuid:558b813e-c4e7-474d-86c7-e24a408f74da> | CC-MAIN-2013-20 | http://www.guardian.co.uk/books/2013/feb/23/book-of-my-lives-aleksander-hemon-extract?utm_source=feedburner&utm_medium=feed&utm_campaign=Feed%3A+theguardian%2Fbooks%2Frss+%28Books%29 | 2013-05-24T04:48:32Z | s3://commoncrawl/crawl-data/CC-MAIN-2013-20/segments/1368704179963/warc/CC-MAIN-20130516113619-00050-ip-10-60-113-184.ec2.internal.warc.gz | en | 0.989494 | 1,639 | null | null | HuggingFaceFW/fineweb |
The legislative logjam continued on Sunday after the Assembly passed one bill and amended another aimed at funding the school budget and raising about $820 million in taxes.
The 26-14 vote came after a group of holdout Republicans failed to reach a breakthrough with Democrats on the size of the tax increase.
But that plan seemed to be jettisoned when lawmakers returned to work later Sunday to continue wrangling, and perhaps cement a new deal that could get a two-thirds vote in both houses.
The Senate convened briefly Sunday evening, but was unable to accomplish anything other than a status report.
"There have been ongoing discussions all day long," said Senate Majority Leader Bill Raggio, R-Reno. "I am cautiously optimistic that we are very near an agreement. It is essential that we have the legislators here tomorrow. Hopefully we can reach an accord. I'm not going to make promises we can't keep."
Impatient Assembly Democrats bided their time after forging ahead earlier in the day to break the impasse, which included dumping the two-thirds vote.
The Democrats said the constitutional requirement of a two-thirds vote on tax increases was obviated because they reduced taxes. Democrats said the bill and the amended one lowered the new tax increases from $873 million to $820 million.
Assembly Majority Leader Barbara Buckley, D-Las Vegas, said just before the bill passed that it was time to act.
"We can do it now and try to reverse some of the damage done to our schools," she said. "Let's get it done."
Buckley's brief speech failed to persuade the Republicans to vote for the bill, which included a modified business tax and a 3 percent bank franchise fee.
Some Republicans have said the fees will drive business out of Nevada. Business lobbyists also have put heavy pressure on the Republicans to resist the fees. Democrats accuse the Republicans of "shielding" the banks.
Republicans say they'd support a tax increase of about $700 million, which would have guaranteed a two-thirds majority vote in the Assembly.
The man keeping the Republican holdouts together, Assembly Minority Leader Lynn Hettrick, R-Gardnerville, vowed not to support the bill. Hettrick said he knew he was taking a chance in not voting to fund the $1.6 billion education budget.
"As much as I'd like to vote for this bill ... I remain uncomfortable," he told the Assembly as people heckled him. "I will take the risk that I have to take to do what I believe is right in terms of this."
Hettrick's caucus did not relent, and the vote passed. Two Assembly members were absent.
Assembly Democrats said the tactics they used to outmaneuver the Republicans were above board.
"This wasn't a sneak play," said Assembly Speaker Richard Perkins, D-Henderson. "This was a procedural play."
Hettrick didn't disagree.
"It's using the process to its limit," Hettrick said. "That's not against any rules or laws. We anticipated it some time ago."
Some Democrats said the Republicans had no choice but to vote against the bill after stubbornly refusing to compromise for months.
"We had them on the run," said Assemblywoman Sheila Leslie, D-Reno.
Legislators in both parties and both houses have refused to budge over the taxes needed to balance the nearly $5 billion two-year budget they passed in their regular session.
Two special sessions since the regular session adjourned June 2 have proved useless.
The Republicans still hope to overturn the Nevada Supreme Court's ruling that said funding education was more important than the two-thirds vote required by the state constitution.
The U.S. 9th Circuit Court of Appeals in San Francisco denied a preliminary injunction late Friday that sought to block lawmakers from passing a tax plan without a two-thirds vote.
But the court has agreed to expedite the case for briefing.
Hettrick has said he'll appeal to the U.S. Supreme Court if necessary.
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Voters in Glendale said "no" to a measure that would have stopped a temporary sales tax increase meant to balance the city's budget. [Read Proposition 457 in full]
Now that the initiative has failed, the increase will remain in place.
Faced with a $25 million budget deficit in June, the Glendale City Council approved raising the city's sales tax from 2.2 percent to 2.9 percent for a period of five years.
"On a purchase of $50, you're looking at a 35-cent difference," said Glendale city spokeswoman Jennifer Stein.
The increase went into effect Aug. 1, 2012, and will expire on Aug. 1, 2017.
If Prop. 457 would have been approved, the extra sales tax would have ended and the city would have had to find other ways to shore up its budget.
"To date, the first three festivals of the year have been 26 percent of my income," said Linda Moran-Whittley, who owns Papa Ed's Ice Cream in downtown Glendale.
She told CBS 5 News businesses like hers depend on the festivals to attract new customers.
"It's needed for me to survive and continue to grow," Moran-Whittley said.
The city said if Prop. 457 would have passed, it would be forced to eliminate 250 jobs, including police officers and firefighters.
"This is going to have a tremendous impact on our ability to serve the community," explained interim Glendale police Chief Debbie Black. "It's going to eliminate all of our crime prevention programs."
The city wanted residents to vote no on Prop. 457 and keep the temporary sales tax in place.
City officials point out this is the first time in nearly 20 years that Glendale has raised its sales tax, despite the fact its population has grown more than 41 percent during that time, along with the need for more city services.
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Partner with Paisley on the web:
Paisley.org.uk (Paisley on the web) has partnered with some key organisations in the Renfrewshire and Paisley area.
Our aim is to be inclusive of organisations and not exclusive. We will work with everyone who wishes to promote the town of Paisley to a wider audience and we will partner with these organisations to achieve the overall aim of promoting the town of Paisley.
Our Key Partners are:
- Renfrewshire Chamber of Commerce
- Anchor Mills Studio
- PACE Youth Theatre
- Renfrewshire Council
- Engage Renfrewshire
- Paisley Daily Express
- Paisley Development Trust
- Paisley Past Project
- Old Paisley Society
- Paisley 2020
- Paizza Shopping Centre
- Paisley MOD 2013
- Create Paisley
- Hamishes Hoose
- Kwang Tung Restaurant
- Saint Mirren Football Club
- My Paisley
- Renfrewshire Creative Network
- Paisley Rotary
- Plan for Paisley
- Whats on Renfrewshire
- Accord Hospice
- Paisley BIDs
- St Vincent’s Hospice
Links to other Paisley related websites:
If you wish to be included you must link back to our website with a simple link back to http://www.paisley.org.uk or using our logo
You can also use some html code (contact your web admin if unsure)
<a title=”Paisley, Scotland” href=”http://www.paisley.org.uk/” target=”_blank”><img title=”logo” src=”http://www.paisley.org.uk/wp-content/uploads/2011/08/logo3.png” alt=”" width=”163″ height=”63″ /></a>
- new list to come very soon (if you have linked to us let us know and we will add you asp)
We are always looking to increase our partnership with organisations in the Paisley area. We find it essential for the growth of not only our social enterprise but the business and organisations we are associated with, everyone gains from a partnership with us. We will be running various courses soon and our partners get a discount.
What does partnership with us mean? Well it means we should essentially be in contact and share a common goal, we can help each other with experience or pass on details of someone who could help further.
How do you become a partner? Simply contact us at email@example.com and in the title just put ‘Partner’. Tell us a wee bit more about yourself and your organisation.
How much does it cost to be a partner? Well it’s free, yes it really is, if you wish to make a donation then that’s fine by us but primarily we want to talk to as many people as possible and take it from there. We are centrally based in the town and in an ideal position for meeting up with other groups informally or formally, just give us a shout.
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The greater men's fondness for learning about things that are famous and the greater the number of men who have talked about them, the greater the censure, if one is not master of the historical facts. For example, in his Collection of the Rivers
, Callimachus says that it makes him laugh if anyone makes bold to write that the Athenian virgins "draw pure liquid from the Eridanus,"1
from which even cattle would hold aloof. Its sources are indeed existent now, with pure and potable water, as they say, outside the Gates of Diochares, as they are called, near the Lyceium;2
but in earlier times there was also a fountain near by which was constructed by man, with abundant and excellent water; and even if the water is not so now, why should it be a thing to wonder at, if in early times the water was abundant and pure, and therefore also potable, but in later times underwent a change? However, it is not permitted me to linger over details, since they are so numerous, nor yet, on the other hand, to pass by them all in silence without even mentioning one or another of them in a summary way. | <urn:uuid:1ee3cebe-1d9e-44aa-bb92-18fad0bc43b0> | CC-MAIN-2013-20 | http://www.perseus.tufts.edu/hopper/text?doc=urn:cts:greekLit:tlg0099.tlg001.perseus-eng1:9.1.19 | 2013-05-24T04:54:22Z | s3://commoncrawl/crawl-data/CC-MAIN-2013-20/segments/1368704179963/warc/CC-MAIN-20130516113619-00050-ip-10-60-113-184.ec2.internal.warc.gz | en | 0.986639 | 249 | null | null | HuggingFaceFW/fineweb |
Experienced Trial Lawyers With a Reputation for Excellence
For more than 40 years, our attorneys at Furr & Henshaw have been dedicated to providing the most thorough legal attention to complex cases. If you need a lawyer, you have many options to choose from. We cannot tell you which law firm is right for you, but we can tell you a little bit about who we are and the kind of quality you can expect from us.
Dedicated to Making a Difference in Our Clients' Lives
At Furr & Henshaw, we believe that life offers no greater reward than making a meaningful difference in the quality of another person's life. To ensure that our clients receive the very best representation possible, we devote our firm's resources to a select few cases, particularly those involving complex issues such as medical malpractice and catastrophic injuries.
One of the reasons behind our success is we always work from a position of strength. We fully prepare every case to go to trial, hire the proper experts, do the proper investigation, research every point, and take depositions of all people with information. Defendants and their insurance companies are fully aware of our years of experience and successful track record.
Recognized by and Engaged in the Legal Community
Our partners, Fayrell Furr Jr., and Charles L. Henshaw Jr., have been admitted to practice before the United States Supreme Court, have been named in the 2010 edition of South Carolina Super Lawyers, and are AV Preeminent Peer Review Rated by Martindale-Hubbell.*
In an effort to ensure that our clients receive the highest standard of legal representation, we encourage continuing professional development, and we regularly participate in continuing legal education seminars and activities. Members of our firm have served in key positions within the legal community, including the presidency of the South Carolina Association for Justice.
Handling Cases With Compassion, Communication and Care
We are not just legal representatives; we are caring human beings with compassion for the people we represent. We know that, when recovering from a serious injury or the loss of a loved one, you face many challenges. If you choose us as your attorneys, we will make certain that the negligent behavior that caused your worries does not go unchallenged.
Throughout your case, you can expect to receive clear answers to your questions and straightforward explanations of the options available to you so you can make sound decisions about your case. We will respond to all phone calls and other inquiries as soon as possible, and we will keep you up to date and involved in the process as your case progresses.
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To learn more about our practice or to discuss a specific incident, contact us today. Based in Myrtle Beach and Columbia, we represent clients throughout the state of South Carolina. Your initial consultation is free of obligation and charge, and you will pay us no attorneys fees unless we are able to recover compensation in your case.
* AV Preeminent and BV Distinguished are certification marks of Reed Elsevier Properties Inc., used in accordance with the Martindale-Hubbell certification procedures, standards and policies. Martindale-Hubbell is the facilitator of a peer review rating process. Ratings reflect the confidential opinions of members of the bar and the judiciary. Martindale-Hubbell ratings fall into two categories: legal ability and general ethical standards. | <urn:uuid:f0baba5d-9857-4209-8a2c-5c56ebc6febe> | CC-MAIN-2013-20 | http://www.scmedicalmalpractice.com/Firm-Overview.shtml | 2013-05-24T04:27:16Z | s3://commoncrawl/crawl-data/CC-MAIN-2013-20/segments/1368704179963/warc/CC-MAIN-20130516113619-00050-ip-10-60-113-184.ec2.internal.warc.gz | en | 0.942436 | 692 | null | null | HuggingFaceFW/fineweb |
Hotel Seiyo Ginza suites feature carefully coordinated interiors and modern facilities to make your stay indulgently enjoyable. Each of the elegantly appointed rooms offers guests a spacious bathroom with separate bath and shower. And for the ultimate in luxury and comfort, all mattresses are designed by Sealy Co. Posturepedic with the latest orthopedic technology.
Weight is distributed evenly along the surface of the mattress so as to eliminate pressure points. Sophisticated in-room communications technology includes AV, faxing and high-speed internet access.
Sakura Suite／60 m²
Seiyo Suite／73 m²
Ginza Suite／115 m²
Premier Suite／159 m²
Internationally acclaimed, Hotel Seiyo Ginza offers exquisite
rooms to suit the tastes of a wide array of guests, from
Hollywood stars to business executives alike.
52 m² - 59 m²
The most popular accommodation at the Hotel Seiyo Ginza, the
Deluxe Room is lavishly decorated to create a feeling of
relaxation and sheer indulgence. This suite offers queen-,
king- and twin-sized beds (two queen-sized beds), a bright
and airy separate boudoir dressing room and a spacious
45 m² - 48 m²
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Before reaching the midway point of the first half Monday, Western Hills’ girls soccer team trailed Woodford County 3-0.
It looked as if it might be a long night for the Lady Wolverines.
Turned out it wasn’t.
Trailing 3-0 at halftime, WHHS scored a goal early in the second half before to pull within 3-1 before Woodford added three second-half goals, two in the final 10 minutes, for a 6-1 victory.
“We talked a lot at the half about intensity,” WHHS coach Alisha Wildermuth said. “We told them they had to choose. It was their choice to pick up the intensity.”
And that’s what the Lady Wolverines did.
Woodford (5-3-2) got two quick goals off headers by Jodi DeJohn in the first half, one coming with 31:43 left in the half and the other at the 27:58 mark.
About 6½ minutes later Kenna Boyd slipped past the WHHS defense to score, putting the Lady Yellowjackets ahead 3-0.
The score stayed 3-0 at halftime.
Western Hills (3-5-2) struck quickly in the second half, cutting Woodford’s lead to 3-1 when Harper Jones connected on a long shot that found the back of the net.
While the Lady Wolverines didn’t score again, they kept the ball on their end of the field more than they did in the first half.
“Before the game we stressed the importance of possessing the ball and not just passing it,” Wildermuth said. “We said that would be our saving grace, if we focused on possessing the ball to get around Woodford.
“I thought in the second half with the exception of a couple of minutes here or there our intensity stayed up for the most part.”
Boyd picked up her second goal of the night with a chip shot that went over the outstretched arms of WHHS goalkeeper MacKenzie Jones, giving Woodford a 4-1 lead.
The Lady Jackets closed out the scoring with two goals in the final 8:16 of the game.
Lindsey Sizemore gave Woodford a 5-1 lead with a shot directly in front of the net, and L.J. Phelps had the last goal on a crossing shot with 6:59 remaining.
MacKenzie Jones was in goal for WHHS for the entire game. Stella Adams started as Woodford’s goalkeeper, and Ramsey Adams came on in the second half and finished the game in goal for WCHS.
Monday’s game was the start of a busy week for the Lady Wolverines, who play at Bryan Station tonight and Sayre Friday. | <urn:uuid:53890a70-19b7-42fd-bce3-46cba66f06d4> | CC-MAIN-2013-20 | http://www.state-journal.com/sports/2012/09/18/girls-soccer-woodford-beats-whhs | 2013-05-24T04:28:34Z | s3://commoncrawl/crawl-data/CC-MAIN-2013-20/segments/1368704179963/warc/CC-MAIN-20130516113619-00050-ip-10-60-113-184.ec2.internal.warc.gz | en | 0.961059 | 589 | null | null | HuggingFaceFW/fineweb |
He’s dated the likes of Jennifer Lopez and Gwyneth Paltrow. He has the gorgeous Jennifer Garner for a wife. But guess who Ben Affleck is currently crushing on? Brad Pitt!
The actor-director — who is busy bagging all the awards for his political thriller Argo — has confessed that he has a “crush” on Angelina Jolie’s partner — and not just for his professional talents.
“I love Brad Pitt. I think he’s amazing. I love the way he looks, I’m not going to lie! I think he’s awesome,” the father-of-three raved. “If I could be somebody, it’d definitely be Brad Pitt.”
Ang Lee alert: ‘Brokeback Mountain 2’ with Ben and Brad?
liberty reveals all post-split
She (unwillingly) shot into the limelight when pictures of husband Rupert Sanders cosying up with Twilight star Kristen Stewart were splashed worldwide. And now the newly-single Liberty Ross has posed nude for a fashion glossy in which she tells all — from how she coped with the devastating pictures of Rupert and Kristen to how she doesn’t regret filing for divorce. “I gave the marriage my all, but clearly it wasn’t enough,” says the former model. While Liberty has clearly moved on, it is Rupert who has got a raw deal with Stewart running back into the arms of beau Robert Pattinson. | <urn:uuid:09054f12-c711-4dfc-bdf0-ee0bef8fc505> | CC-MAIN-2013-20 | http://www.telegraphindia.com/1130130/jsp/entertainment/story_16497464.jsp | 2013-05-24T04:28:17Z | s3://commoncrawl/crawl-data/CC-MAIN-2013-20/segments/1368704179963/warc/CC-MAIN-20130516113619-00050-ip-10-60-113-184.ec2.internal.warc.gz | en | 0.962949 | 322 | null | null | HuggingFaceFW/fineweb |
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EAST COUNTY El Cajon is believed to be trying to purchase the abandoned Salvation Army building on the city’s most prominent downtown corner, using redevelopment funds.
The City Council met in closed session Tuesday to give guidance to negotiators on acquiring the building at Magnolia and Main.
After the Salvation Army pulled out, saying there was not enough foot traffic to support even a thrift store in central downtown and no parking close by, Mayor Mark Lewis proposed purchasing the building, tearing it down and putting up a parking structure.
The move is widely seen as a rescue effort for developer Daryl Priest. The city used more than $6 million in redevelopment funds to purchase land for Priest’s commercial project, then unwisely allowed him to erect three structures with little to no parking. Those buildings have sat vacant for two years. The city turned Priest down for a $3.5 million rescue loan.
Is purchasing a tear-down building for parking the best use of redevelopment money? Is El Cajon doing this to benefit its citizens, or a struggling developer?
The redevelopment money pot – public money – may seem limitless to Mayor Lewis and Co., but that’s not the case. On the table is a proposal to spend $4.3 million on the East County Performing Arts Center and the current unknown amount on a building the Salvation Army gave up on. There’s the $6 million sunk into the Priest Building land, which currently is producing no return for the city. Once the new police station is finished, the old one will need to be renovated – with redevelopment money.
With Redevelopment Director David Cooksy now retired, there’s no one watching the redevelopment store, no one able to say “Hands off!”
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Conflict of Interests; Confidences and Secrets; Referral Network Composed of and for Use by Bar Association Members for Legal Advice Concerning Cases Presented in Hypothetical.
June 9, 1995
A bar association of Virginia attorneys wishes to maintain a question referral network for its members, through which any member may seek legal advice, from other volunteer members, about a client's legal matter without disclosing the names or identities of any parties involved.
Under the hypothetical, the attorney rendering advice will not be a member of the requesting attorney's firm and will be given only as much information about the underlying facts as the requesting attorney deems appropriate. The attorney rendering advice will not receive confidential or secret information without his or her advance consent. Also, attorneys requesting advice will be admonished not to disclose any confidence or secret of a client without the client's informed and express consent given in advance of the consultation.
1. Revealing Confidences and Secrets During Consultation.
You have asked the committee to consider whether Attorney A acquires confidences or secrets of Attorney B's client, or of Attorney B himself, if Attorney B relates specific facts underlying his client's case to enable Attorney A to answer Attorney B's question(s)?
The Disciplinary Rule that governs this question is DR:4-101(B)(1) which requires that a lawyer shall not knowingly reveal a confidence or secret of his client. In addition, EC:4-2 gives further guidance by stating:
A lawyer must always be sensitive to the rights and wishes of his client and act scrupulously in the making of decisions which may involve the disclosure of information obtained in his professional relationship. Thus, in the absence of consent of his client after full disclosure, a lawyer should not associate another lawyer in the handling of the matter; nor should he, in the absence of consent, seek counsel from another lawyer if there is a reasonable possibility that the identity of the client or his confidences or secrets would be revealed to such lawyer. Both social amenities and professional duty should cause a lawyer to shun indiscreet conversations concerning his clients.
The anonymous hypothetical is regarded as an ethically acceptable form of consultation because the consulting attorney is discreet in asking for guidance and discussions about abstract questions of law do not compromise client confidences or secrets. See, G. Hazard & W. Hodes, The Law of Lawyering, §§ 1.6:202 and 1.6:203 (2d ed. 1990). However, the anonymous hypothetical approach to consultation encounters difficulties as more details are revealed during the consultation, and seemingly innocuous information may be harmful to the client if revealed to others. See, Kershen, The Ethics of Ethics Consultation, 6 Professional Lawyer, Vol. 3 at 3 (May 1995). Thus, the committee opines that Attorney B should obtain client consent before seeking advice from Attorney A, where particular details or facts about the client or his or her case must be revealed in order to obtain such advice.
Regarding Attorney A's duties to Attorney B and Attorney B's client, the committee recognizes that no attorney-client relationship arises between Attorney A and Attorney B, nor does such relationship exist between Attorney A and Attorney B's client. The consultation described in the hypothetical creates a special relationship between Attorney A and Attorney B which is not easy to define but which the committee will endeavor to describe.
The relationship between Attorney A and Attorney B is best described as a simple consultation of an attorney in his professional capacity by another attorney which, under the circumstances given in the hypothetical, would give rise to a reasonable expectation of confidentiality. The committee has previously opined that an ethical duty to keep the confidences of another person can arise even before the actual beginning of an attorney-client relationship. (See LE Op. 1453 and LE Op. 1546.) In those opinions the hypothetical presented concerned prospective clients who were consulting attorneys before hiring them and the committee found the consultations created expectations of confidentiality. Similarly, in LE Op. 629 the committee opined that an attorney who was consulted in a professional capacity at a social engagement was obligated to keep confidential the contents of the consultation. Again in LE Op. 1601 the committee found that a professor who was also an attorney would violate DR:4-101 if she were to disclose to the administration of her school the confidences and secrets of academic colleagues or students who requested her legal advice. The expectation of confidentiality that the committee has previously recognized can be attributed to the widespread understanding that attorneys provide confidential advice and counsel. Thus, the committee recognizes a duty to keep confidential those consultations that occur outside formal attorney-client relationships which nonetheless create an expectation of confidentiality. Attorneys can avoid this situation by making it clear through a disclaimer given to the inquirer, that the attorney cannot keep the information confidential. The committee believes this applies with equal force when attorneys consult attorneys and cites the concept with favor in LE Op. 1601. Thus, the committee believes it would be improper under DR:4-I01(B) for Attorney A to reveal the contents of Attorney B's inquiry. Attorney A may not reveal the fact that Attorney B consulted him, the nature of the consultation, what was asked and what was discussed.
II. Attorney A Representing a Party Adverse to Attorney B's Client.
You also ask the committee to consider whether, if Attorney A has rendered advice to Attorney B, an independently practicing attorney, about a hypothetical question based on facts underlying a real dispute involving Attorney B's client, and Attorney A did not know the identities of the parties to the dispute at the time Attorney A rendered such advice to Attorney B, may Attorney A ethically represent a party adverse to Attorney B's client?
The Disciplinary Rule that is controlling is again DR:4-101(B) which requires that a lawyer shall not knowingly (2) use a confidence or secret of his client to the disadvantage of his client; and (3) use a confidence or secret of his client for the advantage of himself or a third party Also appropriate is DR:5-105(D) which prohibits an attorney who has represented a client from representing another client in the same or a substantially related matter if the interest of that person is in any way adverse in any material respect to the interest of the former client unless the former client consents.
As stated above, Attorney A does not enter into any formal attorney-client relationship with Attorney B's client merely by answering Attorney B's questions, whether or not these questions revealed to Attorney A any of the client's confidences and secrets. Nevertheless, while no attorney-client relationship arises out of the consultation, the prior legal ethics opinions cited above would clearly prohibit Attorney A from representing a party adverse to Attorney B's client, having obtained confidential information as a result of the consultation with Attorney B, unless Attorney B's client consents to Attorney A's representation of such adverse party. See LE Op. 1453, LE Op. 1546 and LE Op. 1601.
Therefore, as a precaution to avoid possible disqualification of Attorney A or Attorney A's firm, Attorney A may want to require that Attorney B disclose the identity of his or her client, so that a conflicts check can be made, before obtaining any further information from Attorney B. This is simply a prudent precaution and not an ethical obligation. Attorney B will need his or her client's consent in order to disclose the client's identity. See LE Op. 1270, LE Op. 1284 and LE Op. 1300.
[DR:4-101(B)(1), DR:5-105(D); EC:4-2; LE Op. 629, LE Op. 1270, LE Op. 1284, LE Op. 1300, LE Op. 1453, LE Op. 1546, LE Op. 1601; G. Hazard & W. Hodes The Law of Lawyering, §§ 1.6:202 and 1.6:203 (2d ed. 1990); Kershen, The Ethics of Ethics Consultation, 6 Professional Lawyer, Vol 3 at 3 (May 1995)]
Committee Opinion June 9, 1995
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I agree with Daniel Indiviglio about half of the time; I think he is a bright guy, but I disagree with him over certain principles. He recently wrote a piece called Why We Need the Fed. I am here this evening to take the opposite side of the argument.
We need to divide the argument, because there are two things being argued about:
- What do we use as a currency? Should currency have intrinsic value (privately determined), or is it just a social convention, a forcible notional unit of account (legal tender)? If it is notional, should we let a bunch of largely unaccountable bureaucrats manipulate its value, ostensibly for our good, but more often for the ends that the bureaucrats prize?
- How do we regulate banks? Credit policy is more important than monetary policy. How does a free society rein in the ability of financial companies from making financial promises that average people don’t realize that they can’t keep.
The second question is more important, because that is what drives our credit booms and busts. If banks did not engage in maturity transformation, borrowing short and lending long, we would have almost no banking crises. Crises happen because there is a run on liquidity. Banks rupture when they don’t have liquidity to pay depositors or repo lines. Banks that are matched have the short-term assets to liquidate to repay exiting lenders/depositors.
The thing is, we have rarely regulated our banks well in US history, whether we have a central bank or not, and whether our currency is backed or not. We allow for too much leverage, and too much asset-liability mismatch.
I can hear a banking executive say, “But if you do that, we won’t be able to earn decent returns. Our ROEs will be in the single digits.” To which I would say, “Yes, in the short run, until enough excess capacity in banking exits, and your ROE gets into the low single digits because pricing power improves. This would parallel what happened to the life insurance business when it improved its risk management.”
Indiviglio cits four core functions of the Fed, from the Fed website:
1. Conducting the nation’s monetary policy by influencing the monetary and credit conditions in the economy in pursuit of maximum employment, stable prices, and moderate long-term interest rate
2. Supervising and regulating banking institutions to ensure the safety and soundness of the nation’s banking and financial system and to protect the credit rights of consumers
3. Maintaining the stability of the financial system and containing systemic risk that may arise in financial markets
4. Providing financial services to depository institutions, the U.S. government, and foreign official institutions, including playing a major role in operating the nation’s payments system
Let me take them out of order. On point 2, the Fed played a leading role in the various banking regulators not doing their jobs during the booms in the 1920s, late 80s, and 2000-2007. As I argued in my piece Who Dares Oppose a Boom?, the incentives are wrong unless regulators are willing to be tough as nails, and stand in the way of a wave of liquidity-driven seeming-prosperity. And in times of moral laxity, like the 20s and the last 30 years, regulators go with the flow.
On point 3, the Fed added to systemic risk again and again 1984-2007 by always loosening rates to defuse the unwinding of some area of overleverage. This gave the markets a sense of complacency, such that in the last wave of speculation, almost everything was overlevered. The name for this was the “Greenspan Put;” if the Fed is always willing to provide more liquidity to financial players after a crisis, guess what? The financial players will take advantage of that.
If I had the power to change the mandate of the Fed, I would change its mandate to restraining leverage in the economy. Ignore price inflation and labor unemployment — there is little evidence that the Fed has much direct influence there. Faster growth happens when leverage is low; more disasters happen when leverage is very high, like in the 20s and today. Debt-based systems are inherently inflexible; equity based systems deal with volatility better, and force managers to seek out organic growth opportunities, as opposed to financial engineering.
Thus on point 1, because the Fed allowed a borrowing bubble to build up twice, in the 20s and today, they ended up poisoning labor employment, because in a period of debt deflation, few companies want to hire on net. We would have been better off if the Fed had allowed prior minor crises (LDCs, Continental Illinois, Commercial Real Estate, RMBS, Mexico, 97 Asian Panic, LTCM, Tech Bubble) to break ugly, so that bad investments would be liquidated, and capital released to more profitable ventures. Then the crises would not have grown, and there would have been sufficient fear in the markets to restrain undue speculation.
The bust phase of the credit cycle has to be given the opportunity to do its work, and deliver losses to speculators without the Fed interfering. If so, there will be less of a tendency to make money through speculation, and more made through organic growth.
Finally, on point 4, you don’t need the Fed to provide those services. The Treasury could do it itself, or, as in much of US history, it could contract with a private commercial bank to do it for them. That’s not all that important of a reason for the Fed to exist anyway.
If Not the Fed, Then Whom?
Commodity standards have problems, but so does fiat money. And the problems are two-sided. Why should we favor debtors over savers, or vice-versa? If we view it this way, there is no answer, it only becomes a question of what do we favor as policy? Hard money and savers, or easy money and debtors? Is it just a class war thing, because the wealthy have assets and the poor don’t?
Yes it is partly that, but the poor don’t benefit from instability, and instability flows from high overall debt levels, which stem from easy money. My view is that everyone benefits in the long run from hard money, whether we have a currency board, a tight central bank following a Wicksellian mandate, or yes, a commodity standard.
The nice thing about any of the prior three, is that the currency becomes inelastic, a store of value, allowing for rational calculations by businessmen, allowing the economy to grow more rapidly in the long run, so long as we don’t let bank credit get out of control.
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Unless you are Stephen Hawking, there is a good chance that Brian Eno is smarter than you. But that’s O.K., because rather than using his intellect for nefarious purposes or taunting you with his superior exam grades, Mr. Eno, the musician, producer and multi-hyphenate, channels his powers into artistic pursuits. To promote his new album, “Small Craft on a Milk Sea,” he has started a series of videos, titled “Seven Sessions on a Milk Sea,” documenting improvised performances at his London studio with the musicians Jon Hopkins and Leo Abrahams. An entry, titled “Signal Success,” can be seen above, and subsequent videos will be posted at Mr. Eno’s official Web site, brian-eno.net/seven-sessions. Now leave him be so he can play six simultaneous chess games and prove the existence of cold fusion. | <urn:uuid:36dd892f-c997-4dfb-b462-32abd7155c87> | CC-MAIN-2013-20 | http://artsbeat.blogs.nytimes.com/tag/brian-eno/ | 2013-06-18T06:26:00Z | s3://commoncrawl/crawl-data/CC-MAIN-2013-20/segments/1368706964363/warc/CC-MAIN-20130516122244-00050-ip-10-60-113-184.ec2.internal.warc.gz | en | 0.964052 | 192 | null | null | HuggingFaceFW/fineweb |
Can the Washington Wizards Learn How To Win?
The Washington Wizards have yet to figure out how to avoid injury, but if they ever do, they will be one step closer to their next mission:
Learning how to win.
A losing streak this early in the season is certainly not worthy of home crowd booing, but what can you expect from Redskins transplants deciding if the Verizon Center is a safe asylum from the Snyder Plague? We’re talking about a Wizards team with a new head coach, two new starters, a missing all-star forward and its best player recovering from injury.
Yeah, it is as difficult as that last sentence made it out to be.
The players and coach need to master rotations, lineups, and on-the-court tendencies before the Wizards can even consider how to best position to win games. Are they going to be slashers or jump shooters? Will the post players need fewer or more shots?
Will they buy into playing defense instead of trying to out-athlete their opponents on offense ?
They’re young, they’re new and they are in transition. The Wizards aren’t good, but the tall order of determining the direction of the team shouldn’t be served up in such a short time.
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Kelley Blue Book announces the “coolest” cars for less than $25,000
When you start looking for a new car, there are many fun yet affordable vehicles to choose from, and this is imperative for those who are looking to take out a new or used car loan before their search begins. Kelley Blue Book recently announced the top 10 "coolest" cars that are priced under $25,000. Editors of Kelley Blue Book drove and reviewed every new vehicle to determine which were the most fun for the best prices.
Taking the top spot was the 2012 Scion FR-S. This two-door vehicle is complete with a full fun-driving experience – from the high-revving engine to a sleek appearance, it can hang with cars that cost twice as much. The 2013 Ford Focus ST came in right behind the Scion for its 252 horsepower on tap and its 2.0-liter EcoBoost 4-cylinder engine. This car is among the most popular in America due to its ability to keep up with the best of them. The 2013 MINI Cooper Coupe, 2013 Jeep Wrangler and 2013 Volkswagen GTI rounded out the top five. The MINI Cooper earned its spot for its stellar reputation and fun driving experience, whereas the Jeep is perfect for those who want to go off the beaten path. The Volkswagen was selected because it mixes fun with practicality.
The bottom half of the top 10 started with the 2013 Ford Mustang, which came in at number six due to the fact that this American classic is still popular – and enjoyable to drive. The 2012 Chevrolet Camaro took seventh, and there are a number of reasons why this car was included in the top 10 such as its overall aesthetically pleasing appearance to its 323-horsepower direct-injection V6 with a six-speed manual transmission and a six-speaker audio system.
The list finished off with the 2013 Mazda Miata MX-5, 2013 Toyota Prius c and the 2013 Dodge Dart. Mazda took number eight for its amazing appearance that is perfect for public roads. Even though others have more power, this one is just fun. The Prius took the next spot for appealing to the eco-friendly individuals, as it mixes exceptional city fuel economy with a starting price of $20,000. The Dodge took high style and mixed it with practicality for a fun, cool – and affordable – ride.
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Calcurse is a text-based personal organizer which helps keep track of events and everyday tasks. It has a calendar and a "todo" list, and puts your appointments in order. The user interface is configurable, and you can choose between different color schemes and layouts. All of the commands are documented within an online help system.
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MEANS OF SAVING OPEN SPACES
such immediate hurry; and I thought of seeing a member of the Commons Preservation Society, with whom I have been in communication, learning what they are doing, and what they see before them of definite work. Also whether they would care to enlarge their work, so far as to appoint some one to examine into the provisions for every part of London, district by district,—the possible central small open spaces, the nearest available larger ones. If they won't do it, I will, or will get it done, and then bend my energies to whatever direction help is most needed. Isn't this best? Then, please God, we shall get that silly clause repealed, which prohibits the proceeds of the grain dues set aside for open spaces from being applied in the district of the Metropolitan Board of Works. And, if that is done, we shall have a fund yearly coming in, and may buy and buy as opportunity serves. Last year it came to £10,000, and was spent in a Park at Stratford; but, on most sides, except the east, the Metrop. Bd. of Works has jurisdiction for fifteen miles round London. Fancy debarring the City money for open spaces being spent in that area! In short, Janey dearest, I will assuredly go and see your farm. But I must, I think, review the whole area, and see where and how space will tell most. And I ought now at once to go and finish my holiday in Ireland. I go with a tenfold lighter heart for the love and generosity and sympathy of your letter; and you need not fear that nothing will be done, because we don't act at once. For the moment I am a little broken by the loss; and it would be difficult to begin just at once to work again; but, please God, if I live, I will see something efficient done, if power of mine, first or second hand, will do it; I promise you that. | <urn:uuid:3977fac0-adc6-4689-a087-788f8e5eaf18> | CC-MAIN-2013-20 | http://en.wikisource.org/wiki/Page:Life_of_Octavia_Hill_as_told_in_her_letters.djvu/359 | 2013-06-18T06:26:49Z | s3://commoncrawl/crawl-data/CC-MAIN-2013-20/segments/1368706964363/warc/CC-MAIN-20130516122244-00050-ip-10-60-113-184.ec2.internal.warc.gz | en | 0.954699 | 430 | null | null | HuggingFaceFW/fineweb |
The Nobel committee said the three had been chosen “for their non-violent struggle for the safety of women and for women’s rights to full participation in peace-building work”.
It said: “We cannot achieve democracy and lasting peace in the world unless women obtain the same opportunities as men to influence developments at all levels of society.”
“Declaring women’s rights vital for world peace, the Nobel Committee awarded its annual Peace Prize on Friday to three indomitable female campaigners against war and oppression — a Yemeni and two Liberians, including that country’s president.
Ellen Johnson-Sirleaf, the first woman freely elected as a head of state in Africa, shared the award worth $1.5 million with compatriot Leymah Gbowee, who promoted a “sex strike” among efforts to end Liberia’s civil war, and Yemen’s Tawakul Karman, who called her honour “a victory for the Arab Spring”.
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Around 30 people turned up on Saturday for the 4th Sheffield SketchCrawl: some old hands, several brand new faces. The Sheffield Telegraph article brought at least a couple more closet-sketchers out of the woodwork (thanks David!).
We drew in 3 venues this time. Above is my quick rendition of the coffee stall in the foyer of the library where we met.
Somehow I couldn't find a long view to settle on, so I drew a detail of the old fittings from the 1930s:
But I still felt rather stiff, so I got out a fat, 6B graphite stick and warmed up on my usual fave: drawing people. There were plenty to go at in the reference library reading room:
At lunchtime, we crossed the road to the Winter Gardens (where we drew on our first ever SketchCrawl).
I'd reserved a load of tables in the window at Zooby's (thanks Wendy for shooting over in advance and reminding them!) and we rather took over the cafe.
It was perfect: it's very hard to find places where an indeterminate number of people, anything from 10 - 30, can arrive and eat together, especially on a Saturday lunchtime.
When we'd finished tucking into the excellent sandwiches they do at Zooby's, we of course set to, drawing each other:
St Marie's, the Catholic cathedral we visited in the afternoon, was a bit dark, but we still managed pretty well. It was so quiet, we crept around, speaking in whispers, but most of the time we were the only ones there.
The stained glass windows were beautiful. I had a crack at one, but got a bit frustrated that the colour intensity was impossible to achieve, and wished I'd brought a pen for the black lead.
Standing at the railing of a little side balcony, doing battling with my window painting whilst trying to juggle palette, brushes, conte stick and A5 book, standing up, I very nearly dropped my sketchbook over the upstairs railing - what an echoing crash that would have made!
Just about everyone drew this big, carved angel at some point:
The church seemed warm when we first arrived, but we started to feel cold as time went on. When we got so chilly that our fingers were getting stiff, we snuck down the road to the Crucible Corner bar. We had to move the furniture around, because so many sketchers stayed the course.
It was, as usual, absolutely fascinating passing round the sketchbooks to see how various people had tackled the same venues.
As usual, I will post more photos and other folks' sketches in the Picture Gallery as they come in. In the meatime, I have just posted the photos from the recent SketchJam at The Grapes.
If you would like to join us the next time we go out, do email me and I'll put you on my mailing list. If you have a venue that you think would be good, do please let me know!
In the meantime, if you want to hear more about how I draw, take a look at one of my short videos, or take a peek inside some of my other sketchbooks, such as those from my travels, to countries like China, Namibia, Vietnam, Australia and various other places all over Europe. | <urn:uuid:8b7d604f-0e19-4249-b6c1-339bb7e53ad6> | CC-MAIN-2013-20 | http://lynnechapman.blogspot.com/2011/01/house-of-books-and-house-of-god.html | 2013-06-18T06:32:51Z | s3://commoncrawl/crawl-data/CC-MAIN-2013-20/segments/1368706964363/warc/CC-MAIN-20130516122244-00050-ip-10-60-113-184.ec2.internal.warc.gz | en | 0.973876 | 687 | null | null | HuggingFaceFW/fineweb |
Good Feet Complaint - RUN - Don't Walk - AWAY - Foot Insoles
Foot Insoles - Complaint
WESTMINSTER, COLORADO -- I have been suffering from heel pain and thought I would check out Good Feet.
The guy didn't even know how to use the Brannock device (metal plate that measures foot length & width). There were 4 people in the store and he couldn't figure out anyone's shoe size, mainly because he had the wrong foot on the wrong side of the device. hmmmm
He kept on trying to tell me I'd need to be in more pain before I would feel relief.
That's when I ran out of the store.
Perhaps if there was someone working who actually had intensive training and could read and knew what they are doing for the very simplest of foot problems, this may be a solution. But for $300 my advice would be to see a podiatrist.
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Merger Control: Key International Norms and Differences
D. Daniel Sokol
University of Florida - Levin College of Law; University of Minnesota School of Law; George Washington University Law School Competition Law Center
Clifford Chance LLP
January 8, 2012
INTERNATIONAL RESEARCH HANDBOOK ON COMPETITION LAW, Ariel Ezrachi ed., Edward Elgar, 2012
More than ninety jurisdictions have some form of merger control regime under their antitrust or competition laws. Numerous other jurisdictions lack a formal merger control mechanism, but reserve the right to review and challenge mergers under their general competition laws, sector-specific laws, or regional trade agreements. Observing the substantive approaches to merger analysis across jurisdictions, one sees many commonalities, but also some important areas of variation. The procedural approaches across merger control regimes are even more varied.
This chapter seeks to identify and catalog the key substantive and procedural norms and differences in various systems, to provide a sense of the direction of the academic scholarship on various issues and to offer some analytical underpinnings for optimal merger enforcement based on the reality of merger control in recent years. We conclude with suggestions regarding the future direction of merger control.
Number of Pages in PDF File: 36
Keywords: antitrust, mergers, merger control, competition law, international antitrust, comparative antitrust
JEL Classification: K21, L49, G34Accepted Paper Series
Date posted: January 9, 2012
© 2013 Social Science Electronic Publishing, Inc. All Rights Reserved.
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Like we didn't see this one coming!
Megan Fox and Brian Austin Green have called off their engagement.
The couple met in 2004 and got engaged in November 2006, but an insider told Us Weekly, "The relationship had run its course. It's completely amicable, and they are remaining friends" and added that they "are both focusing on their careers."
In other words, Miss Fox's career has potential. While Green…not so much.
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A Black Belt at 50′s latest post got me to thinking about hip replacements and martial arts.
The doctor’s first reactions: “That looks like it hurts. And we’ve replaced hips that looked a lot better than that.”
Those of you hailing from the kicking arts may not know it but hip replacements are pretty common. Examples: Bill Wallace had both hips replaced whereas Chuck Norris replaced one. Both of these martial artists are famous for their high kicking ability. Even a quick search on Mr. Google reveals a variety of martial arts styles and martial artists who have gone through this procedure.
I know one prominent martial arts blogger and one taekwondo master from my old group of TKD schools that have both gone through hip replacements. Is the hip damage indicative of kicking arts or does it have something to do with hard arts and high impact activities? I’m thinking the latter but the kicking can’t help!
The only unfortunate part of training in hard systems so long is the toll it inevitably takes on your body. After two shoulder surgeries, one knee surgery and two hip replacements I feel fortunate to be living in a time when these parts can be fixed or replaced.
My wife has an uncle who is active in golf and tennis. At a family gathering a few years ago he and I chatted about hip replacements (lame topic). Many of his friends who bike, run, golf, and play tennis have gone through hip replacements. Apparently the peddlers of hip replacements get famous athletes to endorse their products. So, one of his pals has the “Arnold Palmer” while another has the “Jack Nicklaus”. Incidentally both Palmer and Nicklaus have had hip surgeries.
Why am I thinking about this? I’m 45 and, largely due to 18 years of running, in 2001 I had to have the “Peyton Manning” done to my neck. Also, five years ago during my black belt run in taekwondo, my right hip was giving me a lot of warning signs and pain. I’m sure all the prior years of running did not help, however, taekwondo’s high kicks only made things worse.
Since having retired from taekwondo the right hip has been eminently better. Preying Mantis kung fu bothered my hip half as much as taekwondo. This largely due to the fact that our kicking focus was waist or lower. During my brief time with that reality self-defense system group and cardio kick class we’d occasionally take the kicks higher. Naturally, when we did my hip would bother me more.
My at-home bag work and mook jong work is almost exclusively low kicks now. Occasionally I’ll throw a high crescent or front snap kick but that’s about it. For sure I’ve taken high round kicks off the table. Also, at best, I review these kicks bi-monthly which is far less than the ridiculous amount of kicking we did in taekwondo.
Where does that leave me? Most likely looking for a softer art. The only challenge here will be what this new city offers. If traditional tai chi, chin na or baguazang was offered in this region I’d be in like flint. Unfortunately the area is lousy with hard arts. While aikido is not without it risks, I do know from the dozen or so lessons I experienced that it did not bother my hip at all.
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Bobcats Hold Off Kent State
While the stat sheet would indicate that Ohio dominated Saturday’s game against Kent State, the final score read otherwise.
The Bobcats’ inability to put the Golden Flashes away in the fourth quarter kept the score close, as Ohio defeated Kent State, 17-10.
“It was a tough, physical football game,” Ohio coach Frank Solich said. “It seems to be that’s always the case when these teams lineup. A little frustration but our guys played well enough to be 4-1.”
Ohio outgained Kent State 391 to 217 and picked up eight more first downs. However every time the Bobcats had a chance to put the game out of reach, a stalled drive or offensive miscue gave the ball back to Kent State.
One lost fumble, a blocked punt and a blocked field goal also helped to keep the Golden Flashes within striking distance.
“Special teams cost us,” Solich said. “Those two plays were very costly. We’re capable of being a very good special teams team, so I’m not satisfied when it turns out like it did today.”
After going up 3-0 on a Matt Weller field goal in the second quarter, a Tyler Tettleton fumble deep inside Ohio’s territory led to Kent State’s only score.
The Bobcats answered with a four-yard touchdown pass from Tettleton to LaVon Brazill to take the lead for good.
Ohio made it a two-score game late in the third quarter when Tettleton connected with running back Ryan Boykin for a seven-yard touchdown in which Boykin ran through a defender on his way to the end zone.
Despite countless opportunities, the Bobcats could not extend their lead any further.
“We had to find our footing,” Boykin said. “They were sending a lot of blitzes. We were trying to figure out what they were doing to maintain the drive.
“We knew that had a good defense. They were ready for us as much as we were ready for them.”
Part of Ohio’s struggles might have stemmed from the loss of multiple starters. Defensive back Neal Huynh and corner back Omar Leftwich both left the game in the first quarter and did not return.
Tettleton also left the game late in the fourth quarter and was unable to return.
“We had our problems as the game went on losing two of our starters.,” Solich said. “That had a little effect on us. You can’t replace those guys easily.”
The win was the first for Ohio over Kent State since 2008.
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^^^On a two button coat you do up only the top button, on a three button coat the rule is (top down) sometimes, always, never. The button stance is a bit high for my taste though on that 2011 photo.
I don't think WTF 2012 suits are tailored as they have belt loops (not always a no-no if requested, but traditionally a tailored suit will have side adjusters rather than be worn with a belt (shows it is a bespoke garment)). That's traditionally the Savile Row way. That, and a few of the guys sleeves are too long. I also think they are all slightly different, Murray's looks more like a chalk-stripe, whereas Fed and and Novak look to be more pin-stripe (although it could be the lighting in different photos)
I tweet - @ashtennis guru (no spaces)
I Shoot - www.flickr.com/photos/ashtennis guru/ (again no spaces! grrr)
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Bryce Covert’s recent post on The Nation’s website got me thinking today. It’s about an Accenture survey of Gen Y working women which found that
-they have the most positive outlook for women in the workplace of any other generation.
-when it comes to their careers, they’re less likely to proactively manage their career or ask for a raise than their male counterparts.
-they feel underpaid,
-and have found that their careers take a bigger hit than their male counterparts’ once they become parents.
Whew. That’s one hell of a disconnect, wouldn’t you say? While I’m generally an unrepentant optimist, the type to blow sunshine up even the crankiest of derrieres until I get a smile, a study like this makes me question my approach. A positive attitude is well and good, but, when young women declare themselves optimistic about women in the workplace in the very same survey in which they point out gender-based inequities, you kinda gotta worry. Sunshine is good; complacency, not so much.
The trouble is the message we women have been fed: that feminism’s work is over; the battle won. That’s where that sense of optimism comes in, I’d argue. I myself went to an all-girls high school, not too (too too) terribly long ago, and spent my four plaid-skirted years surrounded by the enthusiastic and inspiring message that girls could do anything boys could do. Which is good, of course–because it’s true. Save for peeing one’s name in the snow.
But there’s a little bit of trouble with that approach. One: that you enter the real world largely unprepared for the injustices you will, (yes, I said WILL) come up against as a woman. And two: that when you do come up against them, you will assume they have only to do with you. That the situation–your lesser paycheck; your unwillingness to “proactively manage your career or ask for a raise” for fear of bias or judgment; your employer’s subtly shifting opportunities away once you’ve become a mom or the discrimination you’ll face if you don’t have kids–and the fact that your male counterpart in either of those scenarios will likely be rewarded, seen as either a dependable family man or a guy who has the time to devote to his job, where you’ll be perceived a flight risk or cold and odd, respectively; the realization that if you want a killer career and your husband wants a killer career and you want kids you’re in for a daily struggle that may well lead to one of you “opting” out; that if, against these formidable odds, you do make it to the very top, you will find yourself wildly outnumbered–is merely your problem. That it is personal, and not political. When, of course, it is exactly that. It is collective and it is political–and change happens when we’re willing to see it that way.
Don’t get me wrong: We have come a long way (baby). Think about this: when my mom graduated from college, it was still totally legal for employment want-ads to be segregated by gender. A company could list a managerial job in the men’s want-ads, a secretarial one in the women’s. This was not the dark ages; this was the 1970s. So clearly we’ve come a tremendous way since disco inferno.
But the fact that we’ve come so far does not mean that our work here is finished. The fact that we have much to be grateful for in no way precludes the many things we should be angry about. Take that pay gap, for example:
U.S. Department of Education data show that a year out of school, despite having earned higher college GPAs in every subject, young women will take home, on average across all professions, just 80 percent of what their male colleagues do… Motherhood has long been the explanation for the persistent pay gap, yet a decade out of college, full-time working women who haven’t had children still make 77 cents on the male dollar.
April 17 of this year is Equal Pay Day. Don’t let the delightful sounding name fool ya, though: that’s the day that a woman’s salary catches up to a man’s… from last year. For doing the same job. Another way to look at that is like this: taken as a whole, from January through April 17, women are working for free.
So, clearly, we still have a hell of a way to go.
Or, I suppose, maybe I should rephrase: the world still has a hell of a way to go.
But who is going to be responsible for steering it in the right direction?
It occurs to me that perhaps these young women are right in their optimism–or here’s my Pollyanna side’s spin, anyway: for centuries, men’s roles have not changed. Whether buffalo or bacon, they were to bring it home. They were the hunters. They were to provide.
Women, on the other hand, have always adapted–whether when acting the gatherers, surveying the environment to see what it had in store and shifting the game plan accordingly, or to a male-dominated workplace in which we nevertheless were able to ascend, bit by bit, to the point where we are today. We had to fight for the right to wear pants, for craps sake. Now, how many pairs of jeans are in your closet? Change is in our DNA. The office, corporate culture, political institutions — these things aren’t going to change themselves.
The angry part of me and the Pollyanna part come together in the faith that these women will eventually get angry on their own behalf: and once that happens, they’ll see the rest of us, and they’ll join us. And then we’ll do what we’ve always done. We’ll change things. A little anger will help. And so will a little optimism. | <urn:uuid:fe460141-ba56-4a76-8105-592805a17009> | CC-MAIN-2013-20 | http://undecidedthebook.wordpress.com/tag/bryce-covert/ | 2013-06-18T06:17:55Z | s3://commoncrawl/crawl-data/CC-MAIN-2013-20/segments/1368706964363/warc/CC-MAIN-20130516122244-00050-ip-10-60-113-184.ec2.internal.warc.gz | en | 0.966546 | 1,318 | null | null | HuggingFaceFW/fineweb |
“When does 670 + 670 = 680?” When ATi slaps two RV670 together that is! Twice the graphical ability on a single slot. Sounds cool? Not till you overclock it, like a true-blue VR-Zone reader. Now includes a new memory voltage modification, as well as el-cheapo tricks to maximise performance.
Multi-GPU technology has come a long way in consumer graphics acceleration. A while ago, we looked at 3-Way SLI (courtesy of Asus) and emphasised the importance of system power in driving the Multi-GPU graphical subsystem. Multi-GPU systems also often necessitate the use of specific motherboard chipsets that support a particular brand of multi-GPU solution. This is understandably, an anal situation for consumers who seek to upgrade their graphics without switching chipsets. What use is the constant marketing blabber on the goodness of HD gaming when upgrading graphics acceleration for HD displays is an issue?
While industry watchers may comment that the discrete graphics acceleration market is far from saturated, two strongholds are all it takes for an almighty pixel warfare to break out. The need for a single-card, motherboard chipset independent graphics acceleration product becomes apparent. Previously, Asus, Galaxy and Sapphire have pushed out products utilising two GPUs on a single expansion card, yet these unacknowledged products were merely the technological equivalent of a warhead parade – taunts that instilled fear in enemies and drew new allies.
This creates the niche for multi-GPU (read: dual-GPU) solutions which don’t require hardware upgrades other than the graphics accelerator itself. Before the GeForce 9800GX2 hits the market (or NDA for that matter), AMD has already sneaked it’s 3870X2 into stores around the globe.
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20 July 2011
Ethical classes, ethical politics
It is with considerable regret that I find myself drawn into further debate with the Reverend Fred Nile about the future of special ethics classes in NSW State Primary Schools - regret (shared with many parents), because we had thought that this matter was settled.
However, I suppose that it is one of the new realities of balance-of-power politics that those with a vote to trade will seek maximum advantage whenever the opportunity arises. In this case, the Reverend Nile has indicated that the NSW Government, led by Premier Barry O'Farrell, cannot rely on his vote in support of Industrial Relations reform unless the government backs his call to scrap ethics classes currently offered to children attending NSW State primary schools, whose parents have chosen for them not to attend classes in special religious education (SRE or 'scripture').
I suppose that the Reverend Nile is taking a leaf out of the Greens' Federal play book - hoping to force Premier O'Farrell to break his February 2011 promise to maintain the special ethics classes if elected. The O'Farrell Government campaigned on a platform of integrity and there is every indication that it will not be drawn into the mire of broken promises. To do so would see Barry O'Farrell copping the same kind of flak that has been exploding around Julia Gillard ever since she agreed to put a price on carbon. Gillard and O'Farrell would then make an unlikely pair - each pleading 'unexpected electoral outcomes' and 'political necessity' as the justification for their broken word. I just cannot see this happening - as no amount of spin would cover the breach of faith. Rather, I hope that the NSW Government might be able to find a way to ease the Reverend Nile's stated concerns - perhaps by reinforcing the position of faith groups offering SRE - but not at the expense of the rights of children and parents to have meaningful choices in accordance with their consciences.
But what are the Reverend Nile's principal objections? First, he objects to Special Ethics Education classes being scheduled at the same time as Special Religious Education classes - largely because he fears that this will draw children away from SRE. These fears are unfounded. The ethics classes have only ever been intended as an option for children whose parents have already decided that their children will not to go to scripture. And this is how things actually work in practice. There are now around 2,700 children attending ethics classes in 128 schools. As far as we can tell, the classes have had little, if any, effect on the numbers of children attending SRE. Indeed, the inclusion of special ethics classes has been achieved in a constructive and harmonious manner - with many representatives of faith groups welcoming the volunteer teachers of ethics classes.
There has been some speculation that the NSW Government might seek to resolve this first issue by allowing ethics classes to continue - but at a different time to that allocated for SRE. If this is done, then we will once again find ourselves with the problem of catering for these 100,000 children who will be denied meaningful activity during SRE. And then there will be the problem of dealing with the vastly greater number of children who will need similar care if not attending ethics classes. This will be no solution at all - just a recipe for extending injustice to all. If ever there was a way of alienating the whole parent body, then this would be it.
Reverend Nile's second objection is that the new classes are not really ethics classes at all. I suspect that this criticism is based on a misunderstanding of what is being taught. Reverend Nile seems to be operating under the false impression that the classes are founded on some kind of crude relativism that denies that there are any standards for discerning 'good' from 'bad' or 'right' from 'wrong'. I think that Reverend Nile is confusing a reluctance to tell children what to think about every issue with relativism. The whole program is, in fact, based on a rich ethical base that draws on a skein of traditions starting with Socrates and passing through the work of thinkers like Aquinas. The core idea is captured in Socrates' famous dictum that "the unexamined life is not worth living". Any reasonable person would see that this is a pretty solid position that allows anyone to conclude that unthinking custom and practice is wrong. There is not space here to flesh out the whole argument - that would take the same amount of space needed to flesh out the sophisticated theology that stands behind the simple stories told to children in many Sunday Schools. However, there is simply no way that any child attending Special Ethics Education classes could come to believe that lying, cheating, bullying, etc. is right. However, these children will also be better equipped to understand the reasons for this conclusion and be sensitive to the very real dilemmas that form part of every person's life - even a child's.
Given that there is clearly a measure of confusion about what is being taught in Special Ethics Education classes, it has been suggested to me that there may be some value in conducting a further review of the curriculum. I tend to agree that this could be a useful thing to do. However, I would argue that if there is a genuine interest in the quality of learning in this broad area, then any review should include the curriculum being employed by faith groups teaching SRE - an area that is equally perplexing to many in the community.
There are about 100,000 children in NSW State Primary Schools who do not attend SRE. Many are from religious families unable to be offered SRE because their faith group is not able to provide teachers. Some simply choose not to have their faith espoused outside of the family setting. And then there are those children whose parents are not at all religious. In the end, I hope that the legitimate interests of these parents and children will take precedence over other, unrelated political considerations. After all, what are the ethics of holding to ransom the welfare of 100,000 children for the sake of a single vote? | <urn:uuid:6c34bd50-e6b5-4b0d-88c9-460e37df1dcf> | CC-MAIN-2013-20 | http://www.abc.net.au/unleashed/2802984.html | 2013-06-18T07:25:30Z | s3://commoncrawl/crawl-data/CC-MAIN-2013-20/segments/1368706964363/warc/CC-MAIN-20130516122244-00050-ip-10-60-113-184.ec2.internal.warc.gz | en | 0.971727 | 1,224 | null | null | HuggingFaceFW/fineweb |
The two Super Bowl ads that GoDaddy ran this year were roundly chastised for being stupid, immature, silly and just plain dumb. Well the last laugh is on the haters because those two ads delivered GoDaddy its biggest sales day in the history of the company.
According to the company, domain registration were up 40 percent, hosting sales were up 45 percent and mobile customer jumped 35 percent.
Take that, haters!
When Budweiser ran its Clydesdale Super Bowl ad, viewers were asked to submit names for the featured horse. More than 60,000 suggestions were sent through Twitter, Facebook and other channels.
Submitted names included Stevie, Star, Buddy and Spirit but the winning submission was Hope.
Catch any of the Super Bowl last night? I mean the football game and not the commercials you have been anxiously waiting for all year. The Super Bowl may be the biggest time of the year for football fanatics, but believe it or not, sports fan or not, you may find yourself glued to the TV watching the latest and greatest commercials from our favorite brands.
A recent study by market research company Lab42 shows that 39% of respondents look forward to the commercials more than the football game. That's 44% of women and 41% of men according to the study. So what makes these commercials so much more appealing than other times of the year?
Whispr Group looked at all publicly available Tweets about the Super Bowl posted from January 25, 2012 - February 3, 2013 to determine the main drivers of Twitter traffic across several categories including: The Super Bowl, Advertisements, Brands, Commercials, and Hashtags. Here are the highlights.
Ram Truck's beautiful So God Made A Farmer ad as voiced by the late Paul Harvey topped the HGulu AdZone ranking of most liked ads. Rounding out the top five were Budweiser Brotherhood, Taco Bell Viva Young, VW Get in Get Happy and, WTF, Universal Pictures Fast and Furious 6.
Fan votes were tallied for all Super Bowl XLVII commercials on Hulu's AdZone and the results reflect all votes that were in as of 8:00pm PT / 11:00pm ET Sunday, Feb. 3. For the first time ever fans watched, voted, shared, tweeted and "liked" their favorite ads on iOS and Android supported mobile devices.
Anheuser-Busch took the top spot in the 25th annual USA TODAY Super Bowl Ad Meter for its Baby Clydesdale ad. Panelists gave the ad a score of 7.76 (on a scale of 0 to 10).
In celebration of the 25th anniversary of Ad Meter, USA TODAY expanded the vote to thousands via a password-protected site. More than 7,600 panelists voted on the more than 50 ads that ran during the game.
We have to say we're in complete agreement with Tim Nudd over at AdWeek whose top five Super Bowl ad picks mirror ours exactly. Now, picking the top five Super Bowl ads, of course, is pure speculation and opinion because, of course, the only thing that really matters is did the ad sell any product. And we certainly won't know that for a while, if ever.
That minor detail aside, here are our (and Tim's) top five Super Bowl advertising picks for 2013.
This year's Super Bowl will be dubbed The Year of the Kiss. Why? Well two always makes a trend, right? We had Bar Refaeli suck face with a geek in a GoDaddy commercial. And we had Will Ferrell, seemingly on his way home from basketball practice, sucking face with an Asian lady on a bus.
The spot aired in Sherman, TX; Ardmore, OK and Glendive, MT. In true clandestine form, the spot isn't even on Old Milwaukee's YouTube channel. A few viewers captured it on their own after, perhaps, being tipped where and when it would air.
In what will perhaps (and should) ultimately be dubbed this year's best Super Bowl commercial, the late Paul Harvey's famed So God Made A Farmer speech was incorporated into a Ram Truck ad.
The words come from a speech Harvey gave in 1978 at the National FAA Convention. The speech is moving and the images that accompany truly encapsulate the message; there are some people out there who work really hard for little money and out of love for their craft.
The ad, created by The Richards Group, is brilliantly crafted and carries a powerful message. Likely, it won't rank as high as some of the more humorous spots in the game but that doesn't make it any less great.
Acting quickly during the 35 minute partial power outage during the Super Bowl, Oreo wipped up an ad which carried the headline You Can Still Dunk in the Dark. Brilliant and quick thinking.
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pic solutions opens second middle east office
PIC Solutions, the largest credit risk management consultancy in the Middle East Africa region has opened an office in Bahrain, their second presence in the Arabian Gulf.
As one of the fastest growing financial centres in the Middle East, the demand for locally based credit risk management consulting expertise and software solutions has increased significantly in Bahrain. This prompted PIC Solutions to open the new office in Manama, which is more accessible to the ever-growing client base in the region.
PIC Solutions offers consulting services across the entire spectrum of the credit life cycle, and provides extensive consulting experience and an in-depth understanding of local and international best practices to optimise the Bahrain bank’s credit risk management operations.
These services range from credit bureau score consulting, predictive modelling, and the popular HealthCheck service, where PIC consultants are contracted to focus on optimising clients’ lending operations and deliver practical solutions with a focus on delivering measurable benefits to clients. PIC Solutions experts also deliver seminars to credit risk professionals all over the world, which have also become popular in the Middle East region.
Ian Read, PIC Solutions General Manager for the Middle East region, comments, “We will continue to invest and expand in the Middle East to meet client demand. Along with the existing PIC Solutions office in Dubai Media City, our new office in the National Bank Tower in Bahrain is just another indication of our commitment to providing leading edge credit risk solutions to our clients. We approach every assignment with clients not on a project basis, but as a long-term relationship, and this ethos is mirrored in how we approach the region.”
Stephen J. Leonard, Managing Director of PIC Solutions, adds, “We have been highly successful in expanding our presence in the Middle East region and the Bahrain office will be conveniently located for clients utilising our consulting expertise and solutions. This new office will ensure that we continue to provide complete solutions and best practice advice as needed. Our Middle East clients will certainly benefit from our locally based support and our goal is to deliver services that will allow them to become more competitive and increase their profitability.” | <urn:uuid:dcad1866-86a8-4551-8481-ccff7ed92d06> | CC-MAIN-2013-20 | http://www.albawaba.com/print/news/pic-solutions-opens-second-middle-east-office | 2013-06-18T06:21:27Z | s3://commoncrawl/crawl-data/CC-MAIN-2013-20/segments/1368706964363/warc/CC-MAIN-20130516122244-00050-ip-10-60-113-184.ec2.internal.warc.gz | en | 0.945065 | 438 | null | null | HuggingFaceFW/fineweb |
Parasite Control - Introduction
Effective and timely parasite control on farm has significant impacts on animal health, farm productivity and the processing industry. Reduced feed conversion due to parasite burdens, and decreased overall animal health on farm can be minimised with a strategic approach to tackling parasites on farm. The changing weather patterns and combination of housing and grazing systems used in Irish farms necessitate a tailored approach for many farms, which is best designed by individual farmers working closely with their vets.
A three pronged approach is recommended by AHI’s Parasite Control Technical Working Group to tackle parasites on Irish farms.
- Strategic Treatment
This approach is a move away from the older ‘continual and repeated blanket treatment’ approach previously endorsed on farm, and aims to combine good grazing practices with effective testing to achieve the best results on farm. It is designed to be a more sustainable approach, aiming to minimise Anthelmintic Resistance and minimise treatments on farm.
Reducing parasite burdens on farm will increase productivity and result in increased profitability. | <urn:uuid:eefa577c-0c64-4e71-878c-48d6427ff78d> | CC-MAIN-2013-20 | http://www.animalhealthireland.ie/page.php?id=28 | 2013-06-18T07:24:02Z | s3://commoncrawl/crawl-data/CC-MAIN-2013-20/segments/1368706964363/warc/CC-MAIN-20130516122244-00050-ip-10-60-113-184.ec2.internal.warc.gz | en | 0.926139 | 212 | null | null | HuggingFaceFW/fineweb |
Bruno Pretto & Paula Vopni
bpretto at io.org
Thu Jul 13 08:05:50 EST 1995
My next door neighbour was in Syria on an archeologigal expedition. At the
market he was able to locate some desert truffles for me. He returned with one
specimen weighing approx. 500 grams, for which he paid $ 10.00. It has a
smooth outside skin unlike the french truffles. I plan to take some
photographs of it before consuming it and I will post them on the net.
Can anyone tell me the latin name for this truffle.
Bruno Pretto, Fun Guy Farm (Toronto,Canada).
Home page http://www.io.org/~bpretto
NAMA Trustee for Toronto Mycological Society.
Secretary Oak Forest Mushroom Association (outdoor shiitake growers).
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The face of the current Subaru Impreza and Impreza WRX, with its wide eyes, could most kindly be described as "hopeful." Next year, though (perhaps May or June), we'll get the scowling car pictured here, which was introduced at the Paris auto show. Well, not exactly the car pictured here—it's the high-performance STi version of the WRX, with big brakes, big tires, a big wing, big horsepower, and six forward gears. Subaru still hasn't announced officially when the STi will arrive in the States, so expect it no sooner than late next summer. The new front end reduces aerodynamic lift at speed, says Subaru. The rear end has modified taillights compared with those of the current car. Other than cosmetics, nothing much has changed on the standard 2004 WRX and Impreza. There's a new gauge package with a center-mounted tachometer, new colors, and slight suspension tweaking. | <urn:uuid:e078ce44-c1b2-458e-b0fe-7239038b23ea> | CC-MAIN-2013-20 | http://www.caranddriver.com/news/subaru-impreza-wrx-sti-car-news | 2013-06-18T06:38:04Z | s3://commoncrawl/crawl-data/CC-MAIN-2013-20/segments/1368706964363/warc/CC-MAIN-20130516122244-00050-ip-10-60-113-184.ec2.internal.warc.gz | en | 0.96774 | 201 | null | null | HuggingFaceFW/fineweb |
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I just took the virginity of my brand spanking new Ruger LCP.
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y organization has been using VMware and Xen virtualization products for a few years for several purposes, including testing of new software configurations, development, and consolidation of production servers. We use VMware Workstation to test software, and we use VMware GSX Server to consolidate server software onto fewer physical machines. We also use Xen for some of our hosted services that run on Linux servers. Based on that experience, I have seen the advantages that virtual machines can provide. Although quite a few virtual machine benefits explain why interest and usage have seen a strong uptick of late, virtual machine technology is not without its flaws.
This article discusses the pros and cons of today's virtual machine technology to help you determine whether the cost of implementing virtual machine technology is worthwhile. Should the VM benefits outweigh the drawbacks in your multi-server datacenter, virtual machine technology can provide more reliability, easier manageability, and lower overall cost for your organization.
Features and Benefits
The following sections explain the key benefits of virtual machine technology: isolation, standardization, consolidation, ease of testing, and mobility.
One of the key reasons to employ virtualization is to isolate applications from each other. Running everything on one machine would be great if it all worked, but many times it results in undesirable interactions or even outright conflicts. The cause often is software problems or business requirements, such as the need for isolated security. Virtual machines allow you to isolate each application (or group of applications) in its own sandbox environment. The virtual machines can run on the same physical machine (simplifying IT hardware management), yet appear as independent machines to the software you are running. For all intents and purposesexcept performance, the virtual machines are
independent machines. If one virtual machine goes down due to application or operating system error, the others continue running, providing services your business needs to function smoothly.
Another key benefit virtual machines provide is standardization. The hardware that is presented to the guest operating system is uniform for the most part, usually with the CPU being the only component that is "pass-through" in the sense that the guest sees what is on the host. A standardized hardware platform reduces support costs and increases the share of IT resources that you can devote to accomplishing goals that give your business a competitive advantage. The host machines can be different (as indeed they often are when hardware is acquired at different times), but the virtual machines will appear to be the same across all of them.
Virtual machines also increase utilization and promote consolidation. Consolidation of servers results in easier management and decreased hardware costs. The drawback of consolidation is increased susceptibility to hardware failures and increased impact from those failures. However, the risk and negative impact can be mitigated with failover setups where virtual machines on two different physical machines monitor each other with each one ready to take over for the other.
| For all intents and purposesexcept performance, the virtual machines are independent machines.|
Using virtual machines should not require more physical machines and usually will result in fewer physical machines. This is a great boon because setting up and maintaining physical hardware is messy and time-consuming. On top of that, physical servers consume power. With electricity rising in cost, power savings translate into larger and larger financial savings.
Ease of Testing
Virtual machines let you test scenarios easily. Most virtual machine software today provides snapshot and rollback capabilities. This means you can stop a virtual machine, create a snapshot, perform more operations in the virtual machine, and then roll back again and again until you have finished your testing. This is very handy for software development, but it is also useful for system administration. Admins can snapshot a system and install some software or make some configuration changes that they suspect may destabilize the system. If the software installs or changes work, then the admin can commit the updates. If the updates damage or destroy the system, the admin can roll them back.
Virtual machines also facilitate scenario testing by enabling virtual networks. In VMware Workstation, for example, you can set up multiple virtual machines on a virtual network with configurable parameters, such as packet loss from congestion and latency. You can thus test timing-sensitive or load-sensitive applications to see how they perform under the stress of a simulated heavy workload.
Virtual machines are easy to move between physical machines. Most of the virtual machine software on the market today stores a whole disk in the guest environment as a single file in the host environment. Snapshot and rollback capabilities are implemented by storing the change in state in a separate file in the host information. Having a single file represent an entire guest environment disk promotes the mobility of virtual machines. Transferring the virtual machine to another physical machine is as easy as moving the virtual disk file and some configuration files to the other physical machine. Deploying another copy of a virtual machine is the same as transferring a virtual machine, except that instead of moving the files, you copy them. Multiple deployments of a single virtual machine are much easier to achieve than multiple deployments of an operating system on a physical machine. | <urn:uuid:e68bf9b7-ee16-461a-a703-14f2e24ef55e> | CC-MAIN-2013-20 | http://www.devx.com/vmspecialreport/Article/30383 | 2013-06-18T06:31:06Z | s3://commoncrawl/crawl-data/CC-MAIN-2013-20/segments/1368706964363/warc/CC-MAIN-20130516122244-00050-ip-10-60-113-184.ec2.internal.warc.gz | en | 0.918244 | 1,018 | null | null | HuggingFaceFW/fineweb |
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Traditional hand sewing is time consuming and painstaking. When this handicraft is married with technology, it becomes more efficient and even more creative.
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Ms. Emily Adams video-instructing how to 'quilt' the girls' dance tutus so that the layers stay together as the dancers jump during a performance... Use blunt-end needle (tapestry or needlepoint type) and White Embroidery Floss (six strand DMC brand for example) Cut the embroidery floss into manageable lengths and separate into two-strand sections. You want to steam the tutu prior to your needlework. The first work on the video is on the lower layers (underside) --- so work with the tutu upside down. You will be hand-tying and knotting at the beginning and ending of your 'quilting' basting style stitching...leaving enough slack in the running stitches so that the tuille netting will not tear during movement, keeping the layers connected but loose enough to flow. The tacking of the upper layers (see video) is hand-tying small knots, alternated between top two layers and second and third layers of tutu... resembling zigzag or star pattern around the inner and outer circumference of the tutu.
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Elizabethan Embroidery, Gold flower petal, hand embroidered, using Elizabethan 'Flying' Needlelace technique. Stitched with Detached Buttonhole (corded).
This is the RIGHT HANDED method of the metal thread version I posted last year. The stitch looks different with whatever thread you use. Its particularly beautiful when worked in gold thread. The earlier video has a little more information and it shows you how to end the stitch off. We have a duty never to forget how to do these amazing stitches from hundreds of years ago. With all the tools we now have at our disposal that make it so much easier to analyse and decipher ancient embroideries, not least with aid of high definition photography, what are we waiting for, let's get sewing & creating ! Beth Lea
Single Detached Buttonhole is uncorded and it worked back and forth. It has a much finer mesh than Corded Detached Buttonhole. However, a lot of people try this stitch worked flat and soon abandon it because they find it to be too 'lumpy'' or 'uncontrollable'. To compensate for this, they'll use a long straight stitch return row along the back. This video demonstrates that you don't have to do that, and you can make the stitches point the same way, as can be achieved by working it spirally, WITHOUT the need for a wasteful return row at the back. This method of working has also assisted me in achieving better, more regulated stitch formation with other Buttonhole family of stitches, eg Ceylon stitch, that you can see an example of in this video. In fact, worked this way, you might be mistaken for thinking its actually ladder stitch. Furthermore, this method saves on precious thread which is in keeping with the Elizabethan principles of embroidery.
www.coreybarksdale.com Call to All Youtube Artist. Please submit a video response. Mixed media art creation by Atlanta, Georgia artist Corey Barksdale, Modern beadwork is often used as a creative hobby to create jewelry, purses, coasters, and dozens of other crafts. Beads are available in many different designs, sizes, colors, and materials, allowing much variation among bead artisans and projects. Simple projects can be created in less than an hour by novice beaders, while complex beadwork may take weeks of meticulous work with specialized tools and equipment. 3D beading Bead knitting on double-pointed knitting needles 3D beading is less common than 2D beading, largely because free 3D beading patterns are not well distributed on the internet. Resources are scarce and difficult to find. It is mainly an oriental art form, and most 3D beading resources are written in oriental languages, such as Japanese and Chinese, further impeding wide access to English-speaking countries. 3D beading is also associated with the stigma of being "too complex" for most beaders to manage, although this sentiment is largely due to the apparent complexity of many oriental beading diagrams. It is a challenge for beading pattern designers to create 2D beading patterns that portray 3D beaded objects. However, there are resources available that facilitate this process by offering free instructions on how to draw a 3D beading diagram using free software available from inkscape.org ...
This I did as a labour of love. It was NOT intended to actually be embroidered (with almost 1.8 million stitches, it would be just a "little" impractical) (Note: Each little square of the grid indicates 1cm) I digitised it by hand and it took more than just a few hours to get all the detail looking just right. It was fun to do, and I think it's fun to watch the video... It's played at an average of 4000 stitches/minute, so that should give you some idea.
www.dailywebtv.com - Embroidery, embellishments and decorative stitches can make garments, linens, towels and home décor items extraordinary. Traditional hand sewing is time consuming and painstaking. When this handicraft is married with technology, it becomes more efficient and even more creative. A basic sewing machine is a starting point, offering a few decorative stitches. For more elaborate projects, there are embroidery machines that in addition to embroidery, can be used for many other decorative stitches.
Say it in Stitches is a full service, high-volume contract embroidery facility. We have been providing hundreds of promotional products companies, screen printers and marketing agencies nationwide with outsourced contract embroidery services since 1994. Our state-of-the-art factory is located in Fort Lauderdale, Florida. Our production staff and in-house digitizers use the latest software, combined with years of experience, to ensure embroidery work of the finest quality. We are committed to exceeding the high digitizing, embroidery, quick delivery, and customer service standards that our clients and theirs have come to expect...all at terrific value. All of our contract embroidery work is produced in-house under the direction and supervision of our professional and experienced team. Each and every garment is hand trimmed, folded and inspected. We employ only Tajima machines, considered the "gold standard" of the embroidery industry, with a total of 66 computerized embroidery heads. And because we have several different sizes of machines we have the capacity and flexibility to accommodate any of your volume requirements...from one piece to thousands! Our machines allow us to sew up to 12 thread colors per logo, in addition to an exclusive 270-degree hat frame that allows us to embroider hat fronts and side logos in one operation. We have extensive experience embroidering bags and other difficult to embroider items, and we are even versed in specialized embroidery ...
Hand Embroidery, Sindhi kadai, Kacchi, Cross Stitch. Making a beautiful embroidery with a thread in 4 simple steps. Used DMC Mouline Special 8m Thread, or any simple thread, Needle and piece of cloth. This embroidery is traditionally used in INDIA on Dress, Tops, Frocks, Pockets, Hand napkins, Table cloths, Pillow covers, Bed sheets.
A 30 Days Training session on Hand Embroideries of the Southren Punjab was conducted by AHAN for the capacity building of the rural craftswomen in the vicinity of Multan. On the final day there was a display of the best of the work produced by the trainees. here is a short vdo for you guys to share a few... hope you like the work...
Here is another way to work this stitch, lets call it Version II. Its better suited in many respects to use with metallic thread, however, the previous version (see my other video) may be seen to produce flatter and possibly, prettier results. If you want to find out more about this stitch and the history behind it etc, please see the internet link mentioned at the end.
Jacobean Double Plaited Braid Stitch - Hand Embroidery instructional video. Although I am a left-handed stitcher, you can see from this video the important stages in the construction of the stitch, crucially how to begin the stitch, how to look for the 'cross shape of the previous half of the stitch and how to keep the working thread out of the way while you locate the two lower 'feet' of the previous stitch to keep the woven surface structure of this classic design, in what appears to be 2 adjascent rows of 'purl stitches'. I've been promising on my blog to upload this film for ages. Hope its clear, you like it and its not too long.. Comments welcome. Remember, its actually a fast stitch to work and interesting plus it works well round curves. You can see examples of it produced in gold thread at the V&A Museum in London on Elizabethan sweetbags. It was a very popular stitch then. NB Sorry about my little slip of the tongue right at the beginning....lol (you couldn't plan a better Fraudian slip, could you?). Happy stitching !! I'll be posting more embroidery videos - only difficult stitches though... (if you're interested, the other example of hand stitching on my hoop here is 'Trellis' stitch, hope to do a video of that one soon).
For more than four decades, Donna Jo Copeland has raised the raw materials for her fiber art. Today her small farm is home to seven sheep, two angora goats and 30 bunnies, and she can introduce them all by name. Using their fur and wool, as well as fleece from nearby farms, Donna Jo spins, dyes, knits, felts and weaves one-of-a-kind textiles and eclectic yarns. The designs originate from her memories and from the land. Her most recent felted tapestries recreate images of farms, pastures and barns from her past. Donna Jo adds embroidery, beaded ornamentation and quilt stitches for depth. I like for people to look at my work and think thats Donna Jos. Anything handmade should have its own flavor, Donna Jo explains. Each of Donna Jos pieces begins with shearing season. She washes and cards the fibers, all by hand except for her largest blanket projects. She also does her dying, often using natural elements such as grass and flowers. You can get four or five different colors from dandelions, depending on the time of year, Donna Jo says. Farms have their own rhythms and time frames. I honor Mother Nature and her seasons. As a 15th generation farmer, Donna Jo describes her farm as an old-fashioned kind of place. Donna Jo shares the history of her land and her community through her art as well as a series of programs and workshops at the farm, attracting school groups and other artists all year. indianaartisan.org
Unwashed, huddled by candlelight and sewing lavish gowns using only a needle, thread and her own worn fingers, a University of Alberta student has recreated the working conditions of a typical 18th-century seamstress and the fine garments she would have turned out for more fortunate women. "It was long, and hard, sometimes grueling, sometimes painful, and very, very tiring," said Carolyn Dowdell, a master's student in the Department of Human Ecology. "My hands got really sore. The set of stays, those were really tough. It's a really high concentration of sewing, and you're sewing through several layers. The stays are made up of wool satin, and behind that there are two layers of a linen canvass. So, you're making the boning channels through all those three layers. Then the bottom of the stays is bound with leather, and that's sewn through all of those layers. I was using pliers to pull the needle through." Driven by a self-admitted obsession with sewing, Dowdell has spared no detail for her thesis project, authenticating six 300-year-old ensembles and the harsh working conditions of their makers. Even so, producing the complicated outfits in five months would have landed her in hot water during the period she was replicating-between 1750 and 1770. "If I had been a seamstress back then, working at this pace, I would have been fired," Dowdell laughed. "One of these individual ensembles would have been done in about a week, so all these outfits would have been done in about ...
allmost all the stitches i tred... visit sadalas.blogspot for more tutorials and completed projects
When learning to cross stitch, mount the fabric in the embroidery hoop to keep it taut, pull the needle and thread from underneath and stitch small X-stitches right next to each other. Follow the design or create a unique cross stitch design with information from an experienced pattern maker in this free video on sewing. Expert: Daniel King Contact: www.angelfire.com/falcon/design_icon Bio: Daniel King has been working in fashion design for decades, and he is experienced in all areas of apparel development and production. Filmmaker: Christopher Rokosz
In hand sewing, to design a cross stitch, draw out an image or print out an image from the computer, lay it over the fabric and embroidery hoop and stitch on top of the design with different colors of thread. Create a unique cross stitch design with information from an experienced pattern maker in this free video on sewing. Expert: Daniel King Contact: www.angelfire.com/falcon/design_icon Bio: Daniel King has been working in fashion design for decades, and he is experienced in all areas of apparel development and production. Filmmaker: Christopher Rokosz
Embroidered motorcycle patches can easily be stitch onto a jacket by hand using a heavy duty needle to pierce through denim or leather. Stitch on an embroidered patch, anchoring the starting and ending points, with information from an experienced pattern maker in this free video on sewing. Expert: Daniel King Contact: www.angelfire.com/falcon/design_icon Bio: Daniel King has been working in fashion design for decades, and he is experienced in all areas of apparel development and production. Filmmaker: Christopher Rokosz
For hand sewing, cross stitch craft kits can easily be ordered through crafts stores, and they generally include a fabric pattern, an embroidery hoop and different colored threads. Order a cross stitch craft kit for a variety of decorative designs with information from an experienced pattern maker in this free video on sewing. Expert: Daniel King Contact: www.angelfire.com/falcon/design_icon Bio: Daniel King has been working in fashion design for decades, and he is experienced in all areas of apparel development and production. Filmmaker: Christopher Rokosz
This is how to hand sew a blanket stitch to get even lengths and widths. Oh, btw, I said that I was using crochet thread but I meant embroidery thread. I didn't catch that until I uploaded it to YT.
Couch stitches are a hemming technique, simple and invisible on the front side. Learn to hand sew couch stitches from a fashion designer in this free sewing video. Expert: Lauren Bradley Bio: Lauren Bradley is a professional fashion designer with many years of experience in various parts of the fashion industry. Filmmaker: Nili Nathan
State of the Arts visits with Alpa Thakkar, an Indian skilled at traditional Gujarati Kutchi embroidery. Alpa is by profession a jeweler, however, in her off time, she enjoys making the colorful embroidered clothing worn by Indian women for Navrati and other festivals. (Excerpt from the State of the Arts special, Culture in Context). Find out more about traditional artists in New Jersey at www.cultureincontext.org or visit the State of the Arts website www.njn.net
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Demonstration of Kutch embroidery, an ancient form of Indian embroidery with its roots from the region of Kutch,Gujarat,India. Taught at Mridula's School of Embroidery www.mridulas.com
Learning embroidery stitches is now easy with demonstration videos. Watch over the shoulder of an expert as they demonstrate hand embroidery stitches. More helpful information can be found at www.stitchingcow.com
Make It Mine Magazine editor Linda Augsburg demonstrates how to do a stem stitch.
Here's a quick and easy way to blind stitch the binding to the back of your quilt and how to stitch the mitered corners. www.embtreasures.com
Learn how to use hoops for cross stitching in this free embroidery video lesson. Expert: Vickie Pavone Bio: Vickie Pavone is a wife and mother of 8. She also teaches Cross Stitching at her church. Filmmaker: Christopher Rokosz
Zari Indian Embroidery is noted for its flowing curved lines. Learn how to do curvy line stitches for this unique craft with the help of an expert in this free video on Zari Embroidery. Expert: Ruchi Bio: Ruchi is a well known fashion designer and works in a designer boutique called The Citrine. The Citrine is famous for its ultimate collection and specializes in all kinds of designer work. Filmmaker: Jitin Tuli
There are several basic stitches in Zari Indian embroidery, and our expert is here to teach you about the criss cross stitch for a piece of Zari work, in this free craft video. Expert: Ruchi Bio: Ruchi is a well known fashion designer and works in a designer boutique called The Citrine. The Citrine is famous for its ultimate collection and specializes in all kinds of designer work. Filmmaker: Jitin Tuli
DVD Title: Creative Machine Embroidery with Alison Holt Alison Holt is a world-class machine embroiderer who devoted nearly 30 years to creating, teaching and writing books about the art of free-hand Machine Embroidery. In this DVD, we explore creating flowers, foliage and landscapes with Alison as she provides step by step instruction in how to create the magnificent flowers and photo-like landscapes that have made her famous. In "Basic Stitches" she explains how the sewing machine is used to create the myriad of shapes and effects essential to the craft.
Thimbles, how to use; all this andmore in this free video series on sewing by an expert seamstress. Expert: Shawna Schaurs Bio: Shawna is a custom dress maker, who specializes in wedding dresses, heirloom, home decorating, alterations and what ever her clients are in need of. Filmmaker: Danno Nell
How to sew your digital embroidery machine designs in this free sewing video taught by an expert seamstress. Expert: Anne Beckett Contact: www.myspace.com/annesembroiderytx Bio: Anne Beckett is a professional embroiderer & seamstress. She has done work for such well-known directors as Quentin Tarantino, Robert Rodriguez and Richard Linklater. Filmmaker: Murlin Evans
Learn how to embroider. Discover how to thread a needle the easy way, how to use an embroidery hoop and how to finish off your work. More helpful information can be found on my website www.stitchingcow.com
Welcome to the future of sewing machines. Our Singer Futura Embroidery and Sewing Machine with Digitizing CD has the capability of an advanced sewing machine, plus an embroidery machine for a fraction of the cost of other models. Sample any of the 129 stitch functions, including 89 built-in stitches with the touch of a button. Among them you'll find utility, stretch, construction, decorative, hand look quilt, heirloom, blanket, serge type, satin, and more. General purpose, embroidery/darning and buttonhole snap on presser feet expand your options. Program your needle up/down to round corners and curves with precision and harness extra power when working with heavier fabrics using the Optimum Power... | <urn:uuid:9b27e42d-3f6e-485a-ba13-b5bc072a25ea> | CC-MAIN-2013-20 | http://www.dipity.com/timeline/Hand-Embroidery-Stitches/ | 2013-06-18T07:26:08Z | s3://commoncrawl/crawl-data/CC-MAIN-2013-20/segments/1368706964363/warc/CC-MAIN-20130516122244-00050-ip-10-60-113-184.ec2.internal.warc.gz | en | 0.919241 | 5,264 | null | null | HuggingFaceFW/fineweb |
The East Hampton Town Zoning Board of Appeals will hear an application on Tuesday night at 7 to challenge a decision that will allow a convenience store at 148 North Main Street, East Hampton, next door to an existing Empire gas station.
Tom Preiato, senior building inspector, determined that the buildings there are pre-existing and nonconforming, and therefore granted a certificate of occupancy. Retail establishments have historically used the buildings.
The owners of the property, Ali Yuzbasioglu and S&A Petroleum Group Inc., want to build and open a store on a plot where an automobile-rental agency once stood. There is a small beauty shop there now.
In a letter to the Z.B.A., Jeffrey Slonim, the applicant, who lives at 152 North Main Street with his family, said, “There is a code in East Hampton that expressly prohibits having a business that sells food and beverage next to a filing station.” Noting that the certificate of occupancy states the buildings predate the zoning code, Mr. Slonim said it was “the use of those buildings that must predate the code, not the buildings themselves. And neither food nor beverage has ever been sold at that site.”
Mr. Slonim also expressed concern in his letter over the increase of traffic and parking difficulties that the proposed store could cause. He referenced the recent North Main Street traffic study that concluded that no businesses should be allowed to expand here. “Traffic is already terrible on North Main. Parking, nil,” he said. | <urn:uuid:01584b65-aa8e-48f5-a385-f959398b5364> | CC-MAIN-2013-20 | http://www.easthamptonstar.com/?q=Government/2011915/North-Main-Challenge | 2013-06-18T06:19:44Z | s3://commoncrawl/crawl-data/CC-MAIN-2013-20/segments/1368706964363/warc/CC-MAIN-20130516122244-00050-ip-10-60-113-184.ec2.internal.warc.gz | en | 0.961372 | 323 | null | null | HuggingFaceFW/fineweb |
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