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Miami at Buffalo
Saturday, January 12 - 7 p.m.
Alumni Arena - Buffalo, N.Y.
Live Video Stream: MAC-Sports.com
Live Audio: Miami All-Access (subscription) on www.MURedHawks.com
Radio: Miami IMG Sports Network (WMOH 1450 Hamilton; WFMG 101.3 Richmond; WONE 980 Dayton; WDBZ 1230 Cincinnati)
REDHAWKS TRAVEL TO BUFFALO FOR 7 P.M. GAME SATURDAY: After a four-game home stretch, Miami hits the road to battle Mid-American Conference East Division foe Buffalo at 7 p.m. Saturday, Jan. 12. Both teams are coming off MAC-opening losses Wednesday with the RedHawks dropping a 72-61 decision to Northern Illinois and the Bulls falling at Ohio, 86-68. Miami seeks its first road win since Nov. 21 and the Bulls look to improve to 4-2 at home, while each team tries to even its MAC record to 1-1.
NATIONAL NUMBERS: Entering the week, two RedHawks ranked among national statistical leaders according to the NCAA. Junior guard Quinten Rollins ranked 14th nationally in assist/turnover ratio (3.35) and 40th in steals (2.25). Junior guard Allen Roberts ranked 43rd nationally in free-throw percentage (.869). As a team, Miami ranked 37th nationally in steals (9.2), 51st in turnover margin (2.9) and 56th in 3-point field goals (7..6).
GRAND THEFT: Three RedHawks rank among MAC statistical leaders in steals, while the team ranks second in the conference in the category. Junior guard Quinten Rollins leads the MAC in steals (2.3) and with 113 career steals needs just 10 more to crack Miami's all-time list. He also needs just 20 more to move onto the single-season chart. Sophomore guard Will Sullivan and freshman guard Geovonie McKnight are tied for 15th in the category (1.2), while Miami averages 9.0 per game as a team to rank second.
ABOUT THE BULLS: Buffalo enters Saturday's game with a 5-10 overall record and an 0-1 Mid-American Conference mark. The Bulls have lost two straight, including an 86-68 loss at Ohio on Wednesday. UB defeated the one common opponent on the teams' slates, topping Evansville 56-50 in mid-November. Buffalo is 3-2 at home on the season. Javon McCrea paces the Bulls with 15.6 ppg and 6.5 rpg. McCrea also has 36 blocked shots this season to rank fourth among MAC statistical leaders. Will Regan follows at 11.0 ppg and 5.3 rpg. Regan leads the MAC in 3-point field goal percentage, knocking down 57.6 percent of his treys.
SERIES WITH BUFFALO: Miami holds a 20-9 lead in the all-time series with Buffalo. When playing on the Bulls' homecourt, the series is tied 7-7. Last season, the teams each won on their respective home courts with Buffalo winning the last meeting between the teams on Feb. 25 in Buffalo, 56-51. Miami's last win in the series was on Jan. 14 last year in Oxford, 52-51. The Bulls have won four straight against Miami in Alumni Arena with the RedHawks' last win in Buffalo on Feb. 16, 2008, 64-57.
UP NEXT: Miami returns home to Millett Hall to host Bowling Green at 7 p.m. on Wednesday, Jan. 16. Fan-favorite the Kings Firecrackers will be the halftime entertainment on Jan. 16. The RedHawks then head to Eastern Michigan for a 2 p.m. game on Saturday, Jan. 19 before returning home for three straight games beginning with a 7 p.m. game against Ohio on Wednesday, Jan. 23. The RedHawks then host Ball State at 3 p.m. on Jan. 26 and Western Michigan on Jan. 30 at 7 p.m.
MIAMI SPORTS NETWORK FROM IMG COLLEGE: In its sixth year of its partnership with IMG College, the Miami Sports Network from IMG College continues its coverage of Miami men's basketball with a group of affiliates blanketing most of Southwest Ohio and Southeast Indiana. "The Voice of the RedHawks" Steve Baker delivers the play-by-play coverage, while Terry Bridge provides color commentary. Tune in to one of Miami's game-day affiliates: WMOH-AM 1450 (Hamilton, OH), WFMG-FM 101.3 (Richmond, IN), WDBZ-AM 1230 (Cincinnati, OH), WONE-AM 980 (Dayton, OH) MURedHawks.com (All-Access Subscription).
Junior guard Quinten Rollins' double-double (10 pts/10 asts) against James Madison was the first point/assist double-double by a MAC player this season. His seven steals against Grambling State are the most by a MAC player in 2012-13.
Rollins leads the MAC in steals (2.3) and assist/turnover ratio (3.1) and ranks 4th in assists (4.8).
Junior guard Allen Roberts ranks 12th in scoring (12.6) and ranks 4th in free-throw percentage (.873) and ties for 9th in 3-pointers (1.9).
Freshman guard Reggie Johnson ties for 23rd in scoring (10.3).
Junior forward Will Felder ranks 6th in field goal percentage (.525), 26th in scoring (10.1) and 11th in blocked shots (1.0).
Junior forward Jon Harris ranks 8th in 3-point field goal percentage (.412).
As a team, Miami ranks among the top four in the MAC in 3-point field goal percentage (.358, 2nd), steals (9.0, 2nd), turnover margin (+2.54, 2nd), assists (14.0, 4th) and 3-point field goals (7.5, 4th).
A MIAMI WIN WOULD ...
- Snap a two-game losing skid for the RedHawks.
- Be Miami's first win at Buffalo since 2008.
- Be the RedHawks' second road win of the season.
A MIAMI LOSS WOULD ...
- Give Buffalo an 8-7 advantage in the series with Miami when playing in Buffalo.
- Drop Miami to 0-2 in MAC play.
- Snap a two-game losing skid for the Bulls.
In consecutive games, sophomore guard Will Sullivan has set career highs for rebounding and has been the RedHawks' leading rebounder. Sullivan tallied seven boards against Massachusetts (Jan. 2) and followed that with eight against Northern Illinois (Jan. 9).
The RedHawks have experienced some "Will" power over the last four games. Junior forward Will Felder has scored in double figures in each of those games, averaging 12.8 ppg while shooting 57.6 percent from the field. Sophomore guard Will Sullivan broke into the starting lineup as the fourth guard in a four-guard lineup and is averaging 10.5 ppg while shooting 62.5 percent from the field and 63.6 percent from long range. They also have been the team's top two rebounders with Sullivan averaging 5.0 and Felder averaging 4.0 over the last four games.
For the fourth time this season a RedHawk posted a 20-point scoring effort. Junior guard Allen Roberts amassed 21 points, sinking a career-high five 3-pointers against Massachusetts on Jan. 2. Roberts also recorded 20 points at William & Mary on Nov. 21. Freshman guard Reggie Johnson also has had two 20-point scoring efforts this season, including a 21-point effort against James Madison on Nov. 24.
In Miami's five wins, the RedHawks have surpassed the 70-point plateau, but in their six losses MU has failed to hit the 70-point benchmark. Miami averages 78.8 ppg in wins and 59.0 ppg in losses.
In the RedHawks' five wins, Miami has outscored its opponents by a 17.2 ppg margin, surpassed the 70-point mark in each game and compiled an +7.2 turnover margin. As a team, Miami has amassed 90 assists, committed 63 turnovers and recorded 62 steals in its wins.
The RedHawks' 12 3-pointers against Wilmington College were a season-high for the Red and White, topping the 10 they hit in their previous game against UIC. Junior guard Allen Roberts knocked down four treys against the Quakers, while freshman guard Reggie Johnson hit three.
Miami had its best shooting effort of the season against UIC on Dec. 22, shooting .566 from the field (30-of-53). It marked the first time in 2012-13 that the RedHawks had hit at least 50 percent of their shots. Miami also connected on 52.6 percent of its 3-point shots.
The RedHawks' win at William & Mary was their first road win against a Division I non-conference opponent since defeating Northwestern State 69-68 on Dec. 30, 2008.
The RedHawks set a program record for steals in a game with 22 take-aways against Grambling State on Nov. 13, eclipsing the previous record of 18 which was achieved twice (vs. DePauw on Dec. 4, 1991 and vs. Centre on Dec. 2, 1985).
Junior guard Quinten Rollins tied a single-game record for steals with seven against Grambling State. He equaled the Miami record set by Chuck Goodyear against Toledo on Jan. 11, 1976, by Ron Harper against Marietta on Dec. 1, 1984 and by Damon Frierson against Ball State on Feb. 27, 1999.
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Phoenix-Mesa Gateway Airport , formerly Williams Gateway Airport, is a commercial airport located in the southeastern area of the city of Mesa, Arizona and 20 miles (32 km) southeast of Phoenix, in Maricopa County, Arizona, United States. The airport is owned and operated by the Williams Gateway Airport Authority. The airport authority is governed by a five member board, composed of the mayors and tribal governor of the Town of Gilbert, City of Mesa, Town of Queen Creek, Gila River Indian Community and the City of Phoenix.
As per Federal Aviation Administration records, the airport had 1,655 passenger boardings (or enplanements) in calendar year 2005 and 3,790 enplanements (all unscheduled) in 2006. According to the FAA's National Plan of Integrated Airport Systems for 2007-2011, Phoenix-Mesa Gateway was designated as a reliever airport, which is a general aviation airport that may be used to relieve congestion at a large commercial service airport. Allegiant Air began offering scheduled commercial service from this airport in October 2007.
Although most U.S. airports use the same three-letter location identifier for the FAA and IATA, Phoenix-Mesa Gateway Airport is assigned IWA by the FAA and AZA by the IATA (which assigned IWA to Yuzhny Airport in Ivanovo, Russia). The airport's former IATA code was CHD.
In 1948, Williams became the first jet training base, and in 1976 it was the first site of the Undergraduate Pilot Training program.
The 1991 Base Realignment and Closure (BRAC) Commission recommended closing the base as its operating costs were too costly for the United States government; the base continued operating until 1993.
As the base was being shut down, it was decided that, with the growing traffic at Sky Harbor International Airport in Phoenix, an alternative airport would be needed in the area. The runway was expanded to accommodate jets, and the facility reopened in 1994 as Williams Gateway Airport. Bids began to be made for some airlines to begin flights almost immediately.
In 2004, charter airline Ryan International Airlines began offering MD-82 jet flights from there to Bullhead City International Airport in Bullhead City, Arizona, which is adjacent to Laughlin, Nevada and many resorts.
In recent years, the airport has again become a center of flight training. Several large flight schools now take advantage of the great flying weather in the Phoenix valley.
On July 31, 2007, the low-cost Las Vegas-based carrier Allegiant Air announced plans to open a focus city from Phoenix-Mesa Gateway Airport, connecting the Phoenix metropolitan area to 13 destinations. First service commenced on October 25, 2007 and additional cities commencing throughout the remainder of October and complete by November 21, 2007.
In a press release on September 17, 2007, the Williams Gateway Airport Authority governing board approved a name change for Williams Gateway Airport effective October 15, 2007. The new name is now Phoenix-Mesa Gateway Airport. Reasons behind the name change are "to have the airport reach its highest potential in creating jobs and commercial service development.
For the 12-month period ending December 31, 2006, the airport had 280,719 aircraft operations, an average of 769 per day: 93% general aviation, 4% military, 3% air taxi and <1% scheduled commercial. There are 111 aircraft based at this airport: 58% single-engine, 8% multi-engine, 19% jet and 15% helicopter.
In later years, the Gila River Indian Community and the City of Phoenix joined the Williams Gateway Airport Authority board. Gila River Indian Community joined in 1995 and the City of Phoenix joined in 2006.
Now that the change of the Williams Gateway Airport name to Phoenix-Mesa Gateway Airport has occurred, the board approved resolution and ordinance does not change, diminish, give away, negate nor reduce any of the five board of directors and their respective city, town or tribal government member voting authority and respective ownership. Phoenix-Mesa Gateway Airport continues to be owned and operated by the Williams Gateway Airport Authority.
A five-member airport Board of Directors is composed of elected officials from neighboring cities and a tribal government. Authority communities are as of 2007:
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Cirrus Des Aigles wins Champion Stakes at Ascot
4.30pm: Will Hayler at Ascot Cirrus Des Aigles, trained by Corine Barande-Barbe and ridden by Christophe Soumillon, has won the Qipco Champion Stakes here.
The 12-1 chance beat the 7-4 favourite So You Think into second place with Snow Fairy (8-1) third. The five-year-old French-trained gelding claimed So You Think inside the final 100 yards to score by three-quarters of a length.
Frankel romps home in Queen Elizabeth II Stakes at Ascot
3.46pm: Will Hayler at Ascot Frankel forged to a four-length victory in the QEII race on Champions Day at Ascot. It was the colt's ninth successive victory.
At odds of 4-11, Frankel cruised into the lead under Tom Queally after pacemaker and stablemate Bullet Train had led the field. Excelebration finished second with a further three and a half lengths back to the third horse, Immortal Verse.
Dancing Rain gives Johnny Murtagh an Ascot double
3.20pm: Will Hayler at Ascot Dancing Rain found frontrunning tactics again paying valuable dividends as she made all to win the British Champion Fillies and Mares Stakes here, completing a double for Johnny Murtagh.
The 6-1 chance had already won the Epsom and German Oaks from the front this season and again spreadeagled her rivals with a dashing display. Fired up around the home turn, she quickly stole a march on nearest pursuer Gertrude Bell and maintained a comfortable margin all the way to the line, with Bible Belt two lengths back in second and Gertrude Bell just holding on for third.
"She never got much credit for winning the Oaks and then because she didn't do so well in Ireland afterwards, it was dismissed as a weak race," said her trainer William Haggas. "We'll go to Japan for the QEII Cup next month, the race Snow Fairy won last year, and then we'll definitely see more of her next year."
Deacon Blues wins sprint at Ascot's Champions Day
2.45pm: Will Hayler at Ascot Deacon Blues, the 5-2 favourite, maintained his brilliant winning run with victory in the Qipco British Champions Sprint Stakes at Ascot.
James Fanshawe's four-year-old began his winning run in the Wokingham at the Royal meeting in June, and notched up his fifth successive victory.
Deacon Blues was in the perfect position throughout under Johnny Murtagh and staked a solid claim to be the very best sprinter in Europe with this clear-cut victory.
Returning to the scene of his victory in the Wokingham, Murtagh's mount travelled smoothly behind the early leader Hooray and produced a tidy turn of foot over a furlong out to burst clear.
French raider Wizz Kid came out of the pack in pursuit, but the favourite comfortably had enough in the tank to hold on by a length and a half.
"He was just awesome," said Fanshawe, whose other runner, Society Rock, finished well down the field.
Fame And Glory wins first race at Ascot's Champions Day
2pm: Fame And Glory bounced right back to his best to land the Qipco British Champions Long Distance Cup at Ascot.
Aidan O'Brien's Gold Cup hero had turned in two dismal displays since his fantastic win at the Royal meeting back in June, but Jamie Spencer was positive from the off and always going well.
Taking up the running after a couple of furlongs, the 3-1 chance looked full of zest at the head of affairs, and as Spencer wound things up in front, only Opinion Poll looked a threat.
As Frankie Dettori's run flattened out, Spencer was able to ease up a little in front as he won by a length and a quarter from Opinion Poll, with a nose back to the fast-finishing Colour Vision. Press Association
Going likely to get faster at sunny Ascot
1pm: Greg Wood at Ascot Good afternoon from the inaugural Champions Day at Ascot, where the weather is better than anyone could have dared hoped given that it is mid-October, and the going is officially good.
It's difficult to see anyone offering the state of the ground as a valid excuse for defeat later on, though there is one non-runner, Bolivia, in the British Champions Fillies & Mares Stakes.
Chris Stickels, Ascot's clerk of the course, said this morning that "we may find that the ground gets a bit quicker as it dries up through the day and we are forecast some lovely weather this afternoon with temperatures of 17 degrees. We put four millimetres of water on the course on Monday night but haven't watered since."
Early betting news is that Nehaam is popular in the stayers' race at 1.50, at 20-1 from 25-1 with Hills, while So You Think is 5-2 from 3-1 with the same firm.
Today's TV races, by Will Hayler
Sir Henry Cecil says he won't be able to watch, but the rest of us won't be able to take our eyes away as Frankel (3.35) bids to ensure that a bad week for British racing ends on a brilliant high note. Officially rated the best horse in the world, he carries considerable expectation on his shoulders after a series of impressive victories.
Happily, all the signs suggest that Frankel will deliver and extend his unbeaten sequence to nine in today's £1m contest. He has not been overworked this season and has already twice comfortably proved himself superior to the greatest danger, Excelebration.
Ascot 1.50 Fame And Glory looks to have had enough for now, judged by the way he dropped the bridle in the Irish Leger. In contrast, Colour Vision impressed when going close off a tough-looking mark in the Cesarewitch last weekend, and seems to be thriving for being kept busy. At 16-1, he makes each-way appeal. Opinion Poll holds obvious claims, too.
Cheltenham 2.05 It might only have been Sedgefield, but Manger Hanagment beat some useful types last time and he can strike while the iron is hot on his favoured decent ground.
Catterick 2.20 A promising fourth when showing inexperience on her debut, Feelthedifference built on those foundations when a clear-cut winner at Beverley subsequently. She may have more improvement to offer and has been given a chance by the handicapper here.
Ascot 2.25 With genuine excuses for defeats in the Nunthorpe and Abbaye, Wizz Kid gets the chance to show her true colours. She was finishing as fast as anything at Longchamp after meeting trouble and ought to benefit from moving up to six furlongs.
Cheltenham 2.40 Dominic Elsworth returned from a lengthy battle with injury to take this race 12 months ago aboard Edgbriar amidst emotional scenes and it's far from impossible that the pair can repeat that victory, especially as Paul Webber's charge goes so well when fresh.
Catterick 2.55 The runners often come towards the stands' side when the going is soft at Catterick and that could give wide-drawn horses a useful advantage here. Taurus Twins handles cut in the ground and ran well under positive tactics at Leicester and Ripon last month. He has plenty of weight but is tough and could be hard to pass if Robert Winston can get him across to the rail.
Ascot 3.00 Tom Queally did wonders to finish after his saddle slipped when second to Gertrude Bell in the Lancashire Oaks and Vita Nova is a confident choice to reverse that form here. She also has the beating of Banimpire and Crystal Capella on subsequent York form.
Cheltenham 3.15 The race conditions do not suit Tonic Melysse, but he has the potential to be some way better than he has shown so far. He was unsuited by testing conditions at Kempton on his British debut but easily accounted for some ordinary rivals at Ayr subsequently.
Kelso 3.25 Jumping problems have held back According To Pete's career as a steeplechaser, but the fences at Kelso are easier than at some other tracks and the trainer Malcolm Jefferson has started the season in good form. He is handicapped to go well, if his jumping holds up.
Cheltenham 3.50 The track proved a happy hunting ground for Chicago Grey last season and if he can be switched off at the back of the field, he is capable of going close first time out.
Ascot 4.10 Eight times a Group One winner, three times in Europe, So You Think still has his critics but he would have needed rockets to defy a poor draw and come from well off the pace in the Prix de l'Arc de Triomphe last time. Expect a more positive ride as he drops back to a mile and a quarter today, a trip that will suit him better than his main rival, Nathaniel. Cirrus des Aigles has been under-rated by the bookmakers and deserves more respect, but softer conditions would have suited him better, and his 0-6 record in Group Ones is an inescapable negative.
Newmarket could end up dominating the first British Champions Day at Ascot, judging by the confidence that is exuding from a number of trainers at racing's headquarters. Frankel (3.35) has shown no sign whatsoever that he has gone over the top for the year, having worked brilliantly again on Tuesday, and he will surely win the Queen Elizabeth II Stakes.
His fellow Newmarket resident Excelebration is a far more relaxed type, who works less flashily at home, but he too has given his trainer plenty of grounds for encouragement in recent weeks.
Hooray (2.25) has not always worked with much relish this year, but she shaped encouragingly in a gentle spin on the Al Bahathri all-weather gallop yesterday and does not have a great deal to find with much shorter-priced rivals.
Deacon Blues and Society Rock are both going well for James Fanshawe, although the latter would be suited by the arrival of some unexpected rain.
Dancing Rain (3.00) can be a lazy lady at home, but she was full of enthusiasm under Maureen Haggas in a solo workout on the Al Bahathri on Tuesday. She has had a clear preparation for this race since her victory in Germany, although Ferdoos and Vita Nova will both pose obvious threats. The former has been off for over four months since picking up an injury at the start of June, but her work has been very encouraging lately.
Those still in need of a winner going into the closing apprentices' contest could do worse than side with The Confessor (4.45), who has been pencilled in for this race for weeks. Martin Harley's booking gives a further clue that this is a horse who is strongly fancied by connections to go well.
Charlie Mann's team have finally found some form and Fine Parchment (2.40), who looks very well at present, should perform with credit at Cheltenham.
Seen and Heard
Knockavilla made an inauspicious debut for John Wade at Wetherby on Wednesday, but you can expect to hear more of the horse and his trainer this season. He is one of 20 that Wade, who is based close to Sedgefield racecourse, has bought out of Howard Johnson's yard after that trainer was banned from the sport for four years in August. The expected fire-sale of that high-quality team at auction failed to materialise, with most sold on privately to other trainers.
Johnson himself has moved quietly into retirement, although some of his younger Flat horses have been sent to other trainers in the ownership of his wife, Sue. However, the fact that he cannot set foot on any British racecourse meant he was unable to make it to Wetherby to receive his award for being leading trainer at the track last season. Diplomatically, the racecourse glossed over his absence and only made a presentation to the leading rider Brian Hughes.
Perhaps retirement will allow the former world heavyweight boxing champion David Haye to spend more time following his interest in racing. Haye took part in a publicity shot for the Cheltenham Gold Cup a couple of years ago, when posing with Denman and Kauto Star at Paul Nicholls's stable, and was spotted among the crowd at a run-of-the-mill Kempton meeting last week.
Today's best bet, by Will Hayler
Fame And Glory 1.50 Ascot (Lay)
Brilliant in victory in the Gold Cup here in June, Fame And Glory earned a holiday afterwards but his two starts since have been markedly below par and he looks like a horse who has had enough. Connections blamed a stop-start gallop for defeat in the Irish St Leger but it looked as if he spat out the dummy in the home straight. Another blowout could well be on the cards.
Click here for all the day's racecards, form, stats and results.
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JR searches for the missing ring. Little A suddenly begins choking. Aidan is dismayed when his bride declares she wants Ryan's baby.
Stunned to find a handgun hidden in the room his estranged wife shares with Emma, Ryan pockets the weapon and heads downstairs.
Annie quickly moves to perform the Heimlich maneuver on little Adam, who coughs up his mother's ring.
Afterwards, Kendall grouses to an astonished Zach and Erica that Annie manipulated events to look like a hero in front of Ryan.
Carmen assures Randi she doesn't think any less of her since her confession. The hotel doctor tells Aidan his wife probably suffered an allergic reaction to something she ate.
Ryan angrily confronts Annie with the gun, sending Kendall off on another diatribe against her as well. Aidan contemplates various scenarios as he ponders his uncertain future.
Adam covers for Annie by claiming that he put the revolver in her bedroom. Tad asks Jesse straight out if he's been cheating on Angie.
Kendall eggs Ryan on as he threatens to take Emma away from an anguished Annie. Greenlee begs Aidan to believe she didn't mean what she said in her delirium.
Jesse decides the time has come to clear the air with Angie and confesses that a woman he knew during his 20-year absence is the person who's been phoning repeatedly.
Frankie springs a romantic surprise on a flustered Randi. Stung by Ryan's rebuke, Kendall apologizes to Zach for meddling in their friends' lives.
Later, Ryan tries to leave the Chandler mansion with Emma in his arms.
Until next time on All My Children ...
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The Georgia Supreme Court just upheld this. The sentence strikes me as unduly harsh even on its own terms, but it seems especially unjustifiable given that:
The age of consent in Georgia is 16.
In 2006, the Georgia Legislature amended the statute to provide that oral sex between an under-18-year-old and a 13-to-15-year-old is only a misdemeanor, with a maximum penalty of a year in jail. This revised statute would have thus made the defendant's conduct a misdemeanor had he committed his crime after the statute's enactment, but the statute expressly provided that it wasn't retroactive.
Even at the time the act occurred, genital sex between an under-18-year-old and a 14-or-15-year-old was also a misdemeanor.
This defendant had no criminal record that would justify an especially long sentence.
Here's a brief opinion from presiding justice Carol W. Hunstein:
Wilson was convicted of aggravated child molestation based upon an act of oral sodomy performed on him by victim T.C., which was documented on videotape and seems to show that the victim's participation in the act was voluntary. Wilson was 17 years old at the time of the act; the victim was 15 years old. Pursuant to the version of the aggravated child molestation statute then in effect, Wilson was sentenced to ten years imprisonment without possibility of parole. See former OCGA § 16-6-4 (d) (1).
In 2006, the Legislature amended OCGA § 16-6-4 to provide, inter alia, that aggravated child molestation involving an act of sodomy is only a misdemeanor when the victim is between 13 and 16 years of age and the convicted person is 18 years of age or younger and is no more than four years older than the victim. OCGA § 16-6-4 (d) (2). Although the situation in this case would fall within the ambit of the current statute, which became effective July 1, 2006, while Wilson's appeal from the affirmance of his conviction by the Court of Appeals was pending before this Court, see Ga. L. 2006, p. 379, § 11/HB 1059, the Legislature expressly chose not to allow the provisions of the new amendments to affect persons convicted under the previous version of the statute. See id. at § 30 (c). Accordingly, while I am very sympathetic to Wilson's argument regarding the injustice of sentencing this promising young man with good grades and no criminal history to ten years in prison without parole and a lifetime registration as a sexual offender because he engaged in consensual oral sex with a 15-year-old victim only two years his junior, this Court is bound by the Legislature's determination that young persons in Wilson's situation are not entitled to the misdemeanor treatment now accorded to identical behavior under OCGA § 16-6-4 (d) (2).
The sentence sounds mandated by state statute, and I don't think there's any Cruel and Unusual Punishment Clause problem here. One can argue that the distinction between between genital sex and oral sex violates the Equal Protection Clause, but while this argument was accepted in a related context by the California Supreme Court, which held that the distinction lacked a rational basis, it was rejected by the Georgia Supreme Court in Odett v. State, 541 S.E.d 29 (2001), on the grounds that "General Assembly could reasonably conclude that the psychological well-being of minors is more damaged by acts of sodomy than by acts of intercourse" — not very plausible grounds, I think, but likely sufficient to pass the rational basis test (see also this related item from the California Appellate Report blog). The equal protection argument also seems to have been procedurally forfeited, because it wasn't raised until after the guilty verdict; and while the defendant might have argued that there's an equal protection violation in treating pre-2006 actors differently from post-2006 ones, that argument likely wouldn't work, either, and in any event likely wouldn't have been made.
But while the conviction is constitutionally permissible, it hardly seems like a just result. This is so even given that the sex here was public and videotaped and thus more likely to have been psychologically and emotionally injurious to the girl. Such uncharged and even not independently illegal aspects may be relevant in evaluating the overall moral fairness (though not legal validity) of the sentence, but they nonetheless don't seem sufficient to justify a 10-year-term here — especially when the same conduct would have been treated so much more lightly had it happened after the statute was changed, and had it involved genital sex (which tends to be more dangerous for the girl in various ways than oral sex).
The courts seem to have done their job right here, but the legislature didn't, and quite possibly the prosecutors didn't (though I realize that this raises complex questions about prosecutorial obligations). I hope, with Doug Berman (Sentencing Law & Policy), that the Georgia Board of Pardons and Paroles would correct this injustice.
Thanks to How Appealing for the pointer.
Related Posts (on one page):
- Genarlow Wilson's 10-Year Prison Sentence Set Aside as Cruel and Unusual Punishment:
- Sex and Liberty:
- Race and the Wilson Case:
- Ten Years in Prison for 17-Year-Old Who Had Consensual Oral Sex with 15-Year-Old:
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Upon hearing that atheists are trying to get Humanist chaplains in the military, the National Post‘s Rex Murphy had something of a meltdown. He wrote a long tirade about this is just another hallmark of the “Angry Atheist” brigade:
I think the late Christopher Hitchens’ screed against Mother Teresa, his unmanly attempt to pulverize the reputation of the Albanian nun who gave her life to tending Calcutta’s dying poor, was the low point of his otherwise stellar output…
Hitchens’ grim, self-advertising equal, Richard Dawkins, is a very bundle of anger and aggressiveness…
They can be very prickly on this stuff. They have mastered the art of bewailing their discomfort at a breach of that great standby in such matters, their “human rights.” Actually, of course, the comforts of religion, for believers, are not “human” rights at all, but the mercies of a benevolent God…
Regarding Hitchens and Dawkins, what Murphy ignores is that the atheists were (and are) more interested in the Truth than they were being politically correct. When the facts lean one way and the majority of people lean the other, of course you’re going to come off as frustrating. I don’t see them as angry. I see them as appalled by how oblivious a lot of people can be.
Okay, so Murphy plays the stereotypes and writes a lazy man’s column. But he really goes off the deep end when he writes about military atheists:
… a group of forlorn and (by their measure) much put-upon atheists are making angry demands that atheists in the military be granted their own chaplain.
… as usual, the professional non-believers see themselves as much put-upon and ignored. They claim, in fact, to be (within the Army) more numerous than “Jews or Hindus or Buddhists or Muslims.”
It’s very telling they make this comparison, for here, as in much else of modern atheism, they betray the need to be seen in the very category of those they derogate: a religious one. Why should those who don’t believe at all clamour for the same structures, assists and services of those who in fact do believe? Funny, you never hear them wishing for their own Hell.
The ignorance in these statements is really something.
Look, here’s one reason it’s important for military atheists to have chaplains: They go through the same emotions and tribulations that all soldiers deal with, including stress and death and ethical dilemmas.
Religious soldiers wanting guidance through all that can go to chaplains who speak the language of faith. Their conversations remain confidential.
Atheist soldiers don’t have the option of speaking to non-religious chaplains, so they have to see psychiatrists or counselors instead. Those conversations aren’t confidential, and those meetings are put in their file. That comes with its own stigma. When it comes time for something like a promotion, a soldier whose file includes “meeting with a psychiatrist,” no matter the reason, is automatically at a disadvantage.
That’s why we need atheist equivalents of chaplains.
It’s not because atheism is a religion and it’s silly to argue that “atheist chaplain” sounds like an oxymoron. Atheists in the military are just like other soldiers and they deserve to have the same resources as religious ones.
And what does Murphy say about all that?
[Military atheists] unwittingly manifest an admiration and hunger for religion and its many solaces, and proffer anger as a cover for envy.
On the actual question itself, that of chaplains for non-believers, there is little need to pronounce. It is ludicrous. Only those seeing through a glass, darkly, could make such a claim in the first place.
Murphy didn’t do his research. He didn’t bother to speak to any atheists in the military who’s fighting for this resource. He just assumed he knew enough about the subject, threw some prejudice in the mix, and shat out this column.
If he cared anything about the truth, he would apologize in his next column… but that would require him to admit he did something wrong, so I’m not expecting anything.
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by Archie R. Lawhorne
When you minimize risk in purchasing decisions a lot more
people are willing to say "yes". Once they sample your
product or service, if it performs as you say, most customers
will keep that product and continue buying again and again.
Here's a little story to illustrate my point.
A farmer wanted to buy a hunting dog for his son. There were
two for sale in a nearby town. The first seller told the
farmer he was asking $300 for his bloodhound, non-negotiable.
The second seller told the farmer about his bloodhound, long
before he mentioned a price or asked for a commitment. He said
the puppy was from a long line of champion bloodhounds,
well-known in the area for their tracking skills. And he
brought out the puppy's mother and father and explained that
they were like members of the family - very loyal and constant
companions for the last six years.
The man went on to tell the farmer that he wanted the farmer's
son to try out the puppy for a month before he had to make
any decision. He offered to provide an extra kennel and a
month's worth of food for the puppy. Finally, he said, at the
end of 30 days, he would drive out to the farmer's house and
either take back the puppy, or ask then to be paid.
Which puppy do you suppose the farmer decided to purchase for
his son? Obviously there was no question. And there will be no
question for you if you apply strong risk reversal into every
sales offer you make. What exactly do I mean by a strong risk
reversal? I'm referring to an iron-clad guarantee that eliminates
all, or most of all of the customer risk in the transaction.
The clearer, stronger and more detailed the guarantee, the more
credibility and impact it will have on a buyer. Consider how
much more powerful it is if instead of saying, "your satisfaction
is guaranteed," you say, "we unconditionally guarantee performance
for a full 30 days." That's better, wouldn't you agree? But,
what if you went a step further and said, "No questions asked,
100% money-back guarantee anytime within 60 days if my product
doesn't perform exactly as promised." That's even better. But you
could go still further by saying, "No questions asked, 100%
money-back guarantee. If you don't experience noticeable and
measurable improvements in your speaking abilities, a wider
vocabulary, and bolder voice delivery, if you don't get the results
we promised within 90 days of using our system, we'll gladly give
you a complete and immediate refund of your full purchase price,
no questions asked...that's our guarantee to you."
Notice the difference a strong and specific risk-reversed performance
guarantee can make? When you apply risk reversal this way, your
sales almost always skyrockets, and stays that way. You make more
sales, sell larger purchase units and sell more frequently when
people don't worry about making the wrong or bad buying decision.
When you incorporate risk reversal, you essentially eliminate your
prospect's fear that they will make a bad, incorrect or damaging
purchasing decision. That's an extremely powerful, persuasive point
to make. It moves anyone who's indecisive or mildly interested and
turns them into highly favorable prospects. If people are trying to
decide between you and one or more of your competitors, it tips the
level of the playing field significantly to your advantage.
Just adding risk reversal and a purchase strong guarantee to your
sales offer makes a powerful difference.
There are a variety of approaches to the risk reversal strategy.
* A software vendor guarantees its product will reduce manufacturing
costs by at least 10%.
* A copywriter offers his services for free if his direct mail package
pulls less than a 5% response.
* A commercial water filter distributor offers to buy back any
filtering units not sold in the first 3 months.
* An interior decorator agrees (in writing) not to be paid until her
customers are completely satisfied with the work she's done.
If you don't employ some form of risk reversal, start doing it right
away. If your current guarantee is short and vague, enhance your copy
with more specifics and more attractive terms.
If your product or service is high quality and meets performance
expectations, the longer the guarantee and the more specific the
performance promise you make, the more people will buy. It's that
Typically a 60-day guarantee will out pull 30 days by 20 to 100%.
Test it yourself and see what results you get. The more specific you
get in describing what "satisfaction" means, the more compelled they
become to act in order to experience that benefit for themselves.
If you're concerned that employing a strong risk reversal will cost
you in product returns and lower profits, don't be. Typically, unless
your product or service is flawed or just plain inferior in terms of
meeting customer expectations, the number of people exercising a refund
guarantee is negligible. But the increase in people taking you up on
the initial sales offer is anything but negligible.
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My company is using Git, and is using a peculiar branching scheme - work is done in master, and branches are reserved for releases. This works fine, so long as all of the work done in an iteration makes it into the branch, but if a critical production issue comes up, we have to ensure that the work somehow makes it into both branches.
Lately, we've been having some "fun" with those branches. It's been an administrative headache, ensuring that all of the work makes it into every branch, and some bugs which have been fixed on one branch don't make it into master until someone points it out, which is concerning.
I came across Git Flow a while back, and I feel that it would be a solution to our problem - code not percolating all the way to the release, or all the way back down. The only catch is that my lead stated that this sort of development was an anti-pattern - developing furiously for two weeks, then spending three to resolve the merge conflicts.
I'm not entirely sure I agree, and since I brought it up, work has resumed like normal. Only recently have we had some major pain points with this.
I'd like to know - why would this sort of development scheme be seen as an anti-pattern? Is it really an anti-pattern?
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North Alabama And Tennessee Farm Tours Highlight Commodity Conference
June 02, 2014
Agricultural tours, educational seminars, two nights of entertainment and plenty of food are focal points of the 42nd annual Alabama Farmers Federation Commodity Producers Conference in Huntsville, Aug. 7-10.
The conference starts Thursday at 7 p.m. with a banquet featuring Alabama’s FFA string band competition winner. All conference events, excluding tours, will be at Huntsville’s Von Braun Center.
A full day of tours is planned for Friday, including stops at top farms in northern Alabama and southern Tennessee.
Saturday features educational seminars on current agricultural issues, as well as the Young Farmers Discussion Meet and Excellence in Agriculture preliminary contests. For information on those contests, visit AlfaYoungFarmers.org.
The Federation’s Women’s Leadership Division luncheon is Saturday and coincides with the tables-capes, quilt and apron contests.
Entertainment for the closing banquet is gospel music singer Guy Penrod, who penned 2012’s No. 1 selling gospel album “Hymns.” He is known for his work as the lead singer of the Gaither Vocal Band, a position he held from 1994–2008.
The $130 million HudsonAlpha Institute for Biotechnology in Huntsville is the starting point for farmers as they tour part of the nation’s second-largest research park at Cummings Research Park.
During the visit, farmers will meet institute leaders, tour the facility and learn how HudsonAlpha assists farmers around the state and nation. The stop also includes a report on recent training sessions for Alabama agriscience teachers.
After lunch, farmers on the tour will gain first-hand experience with some of the latest agricultural farm equipment including Quadtrac. Farmers also will see some of the newest ag spray equipment on the market and get to test drive some of the latest equipment available to consumers.
Steve Nash’s dairy in Chapel Hill will greet farmers as the first stop on the all-Tennessee tour.
Nash owns a third-generation dairy and is moving his 1,500 cows from California to Tennessee. Nash served on the Fresno County Farm Bureau (FCFB) Board of Directors in California for 12 years and currently serves as its second vice president. His past leadership positions include Dairy Commodity chairman for FCFB and the California Farm Bureau Federation.
Lunch will be at the Tennessee Farm Bureau Federation (TFBF) building in Columbia. TFBF is the largest state Farm Bureau with more than 650,000 members.
The Tennessee Livestock Producers, a marketing affiliate of TFBF, is the last stop on the tour. The organization was established to start competitive bidding in Nashville, which was used as a benchmark throughout the state.
A trip to the University of the South in Sewanee, Tennessee, and its 13,000-acre campus await tour members, where the 2,000-foot Cumberland Plateau is sure to provide some great views.
Approximately 9,000 acres of the campus are managed under a multiple-use management plan, which allows for timber production, recreation and aesthetics. Visitors will tour unique forests, historic sites and beautiful buildings on the campus.
After the campus tour, stops include Woodall Sawmill in Skyline, followed by “Little Nashville,” a 972-acre tree farm and TREASURE Forest owned by Jack McGuinn of Huntsville.
First on the five-stop tour is the farm of former Alabama Cattlemen’s President Donna Jo Curtis. The Curtis herd is founded on Angus and Charolais bloodlines but now uses some Hereford bulls.
The next stop is Humble Heart Farms, a goat dairy specializing in several flavors of fresh French cheese and goat cheese desserts. The group will then tour the famous Belle Chevre Creamery.
After a steak sandwich lunch at the Red Caboose in Elkmont, past president of the National Cutting Horse Association James Hooper will host the fourth stop on the tour.
The tour concludes at Red Oak Farms in Danville, where Federation Hay & Forage State Committee Chair Wade Hill will showcase one of the few alfalfa hay fields in Alabama.
Farmers will tour the 233-acre Scott’s Orchard in Hazel Green on their first stop, then journey north into Tennessee.
Recognized in 2010 as a Tennessee Century Farm, the Scott family raises 17 varieties of apples, peaches, corn, soybeans, watermelons, pumpkins, peppers and tomatoes.
The next stop is Lyon Family Farms in Taft, Tennessee. In addition to an agritourism business featuring corn mazes, pig races, a pumpkin patch and tire swings, Richard and Shelley Lyon farm several hundred acres of crops. They have 140 acres of nursery stock, 175 acres of row crops, 50 acres of squash, 150 acres of pumpkins. This year, they’re adding several acres of okra and bell peppers.
A tour of Jack Daniel’s Distillery in Lynchburg, Tennessee, rounds out the day.
For more information and registration, visit AlfaFarmers.org. Registration deadline is July 11.
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Over the last year, biotech investors have been consumed by excitement surrounding a new class of cancer drugs that uses the body's own defenses to battle tumors. Unlike the poisonous chemotherapies of the past, these cancer smart bombs, known as immunotherapies, prompt the immune system to attack only cancer cells based on their unique molecular signatures. For these therapies to work we'll need an in-depth understanding of the chemistry of a cancer cell and how it can differ between patients that seem to have the same disease. Once we do, these biomarkers will be used to develop personalized treatment plans for every cancer patient.
As the 2014 ASCO conference has come and gone, it has become only more clear that while patients may appear to share disease symptoms, their treatment options will be greatly dictated by the chemistry of their disease. The much-discussed PD-1 and PDL-1 inhibitors provide a great example. Some tumors express the PDL-1 marker, which cloaks the tumor from immune attack. PD-1 and PDL-1 inhibitors remove the cloak to promote an immune response, but should theoretically work best in patients with higher PDL-1 expression.
At ASCO, Bristol-Myers Squibb (NYSE: BMY ) presented data from a Phase 1b trial testing its PD-1 inhibitor, nivolumab, as a monotherapy in patients with non-small cell lung cancer, or NSCLC. Those data, displayed in the table below, show how critical PDL-1 expression is for efficacy.
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The trial is undoubtedly small and was designed primarily to measure safety, but these results are suggestive enough that Bristol-Myers and other immuno-oncology players have begun more robust late stage trials that focus on PDL-1 positive patients.
Why invest in companion diagnostics?
It's natural to ask if there's an investment opportunity wrapped up in the growing demand for companion diagnostics as immuno-oncology evolves. While the science may seem complex, many of the diagnostic techniques with potential for the clinic are already being employed in basic research labs throughout academia. So while the federal sequester and NIH budget questions have limited growth for life science tools providers in the academic sector, the clinical sector remains a growing and lucrative market.
That's been the case for Qiagen (NASDAQ: QGEN ) , the maker of basic laboratory kits and supplies ubiquitous in biology labs across the country. In 2013, as the NIH was tightening its belt, Qiagen saw revenue from academic customers drop 2% YoY, while revenue in its molecular diagnostics segment grew 7% and now represents 50% of Qiagen's sales.
Qiagen's diagnostic offerings center around its QIAsymphony family of automated sample preparation and analysis equipment. Diagnostic kits-such as the recently FDA approved therascreen KRAS RGQ PCR kit paired with Amgen's Vectibix-serve as a recurring revenue stream compatible with the QIAsymphony device, effectively anchoring Qiagen's role in diagnostic medicine. With three companion diagnostics approved in the US and a handful more in Europe and Asia Qiagen is actively expanding its menu of tests, making QIAsymphony a more and more relevant device with each new approval. The company's bottom line has been crippled by restructuring and other administrative expenses, but its solid 22% free cash flow growth tells a different story, and suggests that the transition to a diagnostic-focused business is paying off.
Recognition of the growth opportunities in cancer diagnostics also fueled Agilent Technologies' (NYSE: A ) 2012 acquisition of Dako, the maker of diagnostic equipment, antibodies, and kits, with a particular focus in oncology. Diagnostics only contributed 7% of Agilent's revenue in the most recent quarter, but at 7% growth it represents the second fastest growing segment of the company's nine end markets. Its pipeline continues to show promise, supplementing partnerships with Bristol-Myers, Pfizer, AstraZeneca, Amgen, and Eli Lilly with a newly announce collaboration with Merck. That will have Agilent's diagnostic paired with what many consider to be the leading PD-1 inhibitor in a market where molecular diagnostics will be in high demand. When Agilent spins off its slower growing electronics segment in November, a streamlined focus on life sciences and diagnostics could help it harness that growth potential.
Illumina will also be worth a look for those intrigued by the prospects of companion diagnostics. Best known for breaking the $1,000 per genome sequence barrier, Illumina also makes smaller bench-top sequencing devices for research and clinical settings with its MiSeqDx next generation sequencing device. In November, the FDA approved Illumina's cystic fibrosis test as the first clinically available next generation sequencing diagnostic tool. Now at the forefront of genetics technology and with an approved platform under its belt, Illumina is sure to be a major player in both diagnostics and research-focused sequencing.
While developments in oncology are unlocking brilliant new approaches to treating cancer, new therapies will actually be applicable to fewer patients. Targeted therapies will enable clinicians to pinpoint tumors and spare healthy tissue, but will require new diagnostic tools to inform personalized treatment options. Companion diagnostics that are marketed along side new drugs present a growing industry that will continue to expand with immuno-oncology.
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Kristen Bell Reaches $2 Million Goal for Veronica Mars Movie in Just 10 Hours
By Shari Weiss | 8:27 pm, March 13th, 2013UPDATED
Kristen Bell is feverishly trying to get a “Veronica Mars” movie off the ground — with some help from the TV’s show devoted fans.
And it looks like it just might happen.
The actress, who starred on the cult fave from 2004 to 2007, and show creator Rob Thomas launched a Kickstarter campaign Wednesday morning with the goal of raising $2 million in 30 days to fund the project.
They surpassed the goal in just 10 hours.
“I love you guys. You are all SO spectacular. I am speechless,” Bell tweeted afterward.
Now Warner Bros. is expected to follow through on its promise to handle distribution and publicity, in exchange for raising the cash.
The low-budget movie would start production this summer, and hit theaters in 2014 for a short time, before getting released on digital platforms.
To entice viewers to donate, Bell and Thomas pledged rewards for certain amounts, ranging from a copy of the script for $10 to a role in the film for $10,000.
Check out the cast’s video below, and tell us if you’re still going to donate.
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SAGINAW, MI — Several firefighters, lieutenants and battalion chiefs were honored at the Saginaw Fire Department's annual awards ceremony at the Central Fire Station.
Battalion Chief Christopher Van Loo was named Firefighter of the Year for his "unwavering dedication and consistent leadership," according to the department.
At the ceremony Tuesday, Oct. 9, Van Loo thanked his mother and family, who sat in the second row.
He acknowledged the firefighters and thanked them for their "professionalism and dedication to the community."
"I'd also like to thank the citizens of Saginaw for supporting the fire department," Van Loo said before closing his speech by thanking the department once again.
"This is one of the finest fire departments in the nation, and I am honored to be a part of it."
Unit citation awards were given to firefighters who were involved with pulling a victim from a two-story house that was engulfed in flames in February.
While some of those involved have retired since the incident, most of them attended the ceremony.
Unit Citation awards were given to: Battalion Chief Maurice Patterson; lieutenants Tyron Ward, Sean Wilkins, Eric Krenz and William Lockhart; engineers Gary Lawton and Gary McDonald; and firefighters Eric Dlugoss, Daniel Maldonado, Rob Gooch, Robert Okeley, John Kartz and Lee Osborn.
Engineer August J. Elias and Lt. Scott Yaw received Meritorious Service awards for rushing into the burning home to pull the man from the second floor, where he lay unconscious.
Six firefighters were honored for their actions during a fire at West Side Decorating in July. The fire was quickly contained to the rear of the building, saving the rest of the structure from destruction.
Those honored were lieutenants Paul Lightfoot, Eric Krenz and James Fourman; Engineer Tate Jarczewski; and firefighters Daniel Maldonado and Brandon Hausbeck.
The final Certificates of Merit were presented to firefighters involved in an incident at 126 N. Weadock earlier this year. They performed CPR on a victim who had fallen and were able to stabilize him.
Those honorees were Battalion Chief Maurice Patterson; Capt. Henry Landfair; engineers Gary McDonald, Tate Jarczewski and August Elias; firefighters Lee Osborn, Eric Dlugoss; and Fire Marshal Greg Barton.
Firefighter Jeffrey Starling received a Service Award for achieving 20 years of service to the Saginaw Fire Department.
Assistant City Manager for Public Safety Phil Ludos complimented the 50 firefighters employed in Saginaw.
"These 50 that are here continue to every day be dedicated to this community. One of the things that I'm greatly appreciative of is the professional manner in which they continue to daily do their activities. I interact with them in a variety of roles, but I have to compliment their leadership," Ludos said.
"I want to tell you how honored I am to even participate in this ceremony."
Ludos said the firefighters keep Saginaw residents safe every day, "whether it be a vehicle accident, a structure fire or a rescue."
"The men and women who serve in this department are proud of what they do and committed to the service that they proudly maintain," Ludos said.
"When you see them out and about in your community, say a simple 'thank you for your service,'" Ludos encourage those in attendance.
He added that he has watched the men of women of the fire department hold their heads high through all situations.
"We're quickly approaching 200 structure fires in Saginaw," Ludos said.
"If you think about that — those are structure fires that there's not another fire department in the immediate area, and we rank as one of the highest in the United States," he said.
Saginaw Mayor Greg Branch announced at the ceremony that this week, October 7-13, is Fire Prevention Week, with the theme "have two ways out."
Fire and city officials encourage residents to find two ways out of their homes in case of emergency.
They closed the ceremony with a dedication to the 13 firefighters who have died in the line of duty in the 154 years of the Saginaw Fire Department.
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Carroll County, which has seen recent divisions over development and immigration , this week split over government-led sectarian prayer, with one commissioner violating a judge’s order not to open meetings with a prayer to Jesus, saying it would be akin to her “giving up my guns . . . or my property rights.”
Several residents of Carroll County, a once-rural area outside Baltimore that is quickly becoming more suburban, filed a lawsuit last spring against the commission over its newly-adopted policy of praying before meetings. The policy has the five commissioners rotate pre-meeting prayers, many of which have used Jesus’s name, and a federal judge Wednesday issued an injunction calling for the sectarian prayers to halt as the case proceeds.
But Robin Frazier, who came into office in 2010 in an election that brought in an entirely new board, on Thursday said the injunction was wrong and representative of bigger national problems.
“I am willing to go to jail,” Frazier, who worked for Gov. Robert L. Ehrlich Jr. (R) in intergovernmental affairs, said to the meeting, which was videotaped. “If we cease to believe our rights came from God, we cease to be America. And we’ve been told to ‘be careful,’ but we’re going to be careful all the way to communism and I say no to this ruling.”
The board represents change in the county, which has been divided over how much to grow and in what ways. Carroll is a majority-conservative county, and the new board is known for fighting development restrictions. The new commission also made news last year when it unanimously voted to make English the county’s official language, even though less than 3 percent of residents are Latino, according to census figures.
The lawsuit is the latest in decades of church-state cases asking whether the government is illegally “establishing” or preferring a certain religion if elected officials pray, for example, or if certain religious items are placed on public property.
Federal circuit courts around the country are divided on the question of prayers before public meetings, with some saying they are permitted so long as there is diversity while others — including the 4th Circuit, which includes Maryland and Virginia – have said sectarian prayers are illegal. But some experts disagree and believe a pending Supreme Court decision will settle some of the disputes.
John Whitehead, a civil liberties lawyer who has handled many religious freedom cases, said the trend for the past 30 years has been for more challenges to government-led prayers. Frazier and other commissioners who created Carroll’s policy argue that they are praying in their capacity as individual Americans and thus have free speech.
“At a certain point, the court will either say you can do it or you can’t,” Whitehead said. “The point is either you have free speech or not.”
The county commissioners are represented at no cost to them by the National Center for Life and Liberty, a Christian nonprofit organization in Texas that works to protect “Church liberty, Christian education, homeschool education,” among other things, according to its Web site.
Roberta Windham, a county spokeswoman, said Friday that reaction in the county has been “mixed” — both on the prayer policy and on Frazier’s decision to violate the judge’s order.
The plaintiffs include residents active in county civic life, including a former town manager who retired when the new commissioners came in and an active Democrat who worked for a losing commission candidate in the 2010 race.
Representing them is the American Humanist Association, which Friday said its research showed 40 percent of prayers at commission meetings invoke Jesus specifically. Monica Miller, AHA attorney, said residents had been complaining to the commission since 2011 but had been ignored.
“I think the trend now [in U.S. courts] is recognizing the rights of the minorities, that there are people other than Christians in these communities,” Miller said.
Miller said the AHA had decided not to file a motion for contempt over Frazier’s prayer but will if it happens again.
Windham said the prayer rotation will continue as usual at meetings.
Bruce Hake, an immigration lawyer who is one of the plaintiffs, said he is a devout Roman Catholic and considers it “evangelistic” and hostile to Catholics and others to force someone to hear a prayer he or she doesn’t wish to hear.
“I think it’s an insincere prayer, it’s political grandstanding, it’s hypocritical in the extreme,” he said. “When someone is advancing a particular form of Christianity that is still terribly hostile to Catholics, I take that as a personal insult; it makes me feel unwelcome.”
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FM Preview: Milton Keynes Dons v Charlton Athletic 08 Mar 2011
By Footymad Previewer
Updated Monday, 7th March 2011
This week FootyMad's match preview focuses on the game between Milton Keynes Dons and Charlton Athletic at 19:45 on 8th March 2011 in the League One.
History of the Milton Keynes Dons v Charlton Athletic fixture
Charlton Athletic face a trip to Milton Keynes Dons at Stadium:MK on Tuesday evening, hoping to improve upon an average previous return from this fixture. Of the 10 games played, Addicks have recorded 4 wins, and Milton Keynes Dons have come away with 5 victories.
The most recent encounter between these two sides was earlier this season, with Charlton Athletic inflicting a narrow 1-2 defeat upon the The Dons in a (Associate Members) match.
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"Blessed is the man who trusts in the LORD, whose trust is the LORD. He is like a tree planted by water, that sends out its roots by the stream, and does not fear when heat comes, for its leaves remain green, and is not anxious in the year of drought, for it does not cease to bear fruit." Jeremiah 17:7-8 (ESV)
You know how some people love the thrill of being surprised? They love surprise parties. They would love to show up at work today and be told they are being whisked from their desk for a surprise vacation in just a few hours.
They would love to have one of those makeover shows show up at their house with a film crew and be told they're getting a whole new wardrobe.
Surprises feel thrilling to them. Like how some people feel when a roller coaster ride they thought was over suddenly takes off again and starts doing upside-down loops. They throw their hands in the air and embrace the thrill of the unknown.
They call that fun.
This dislike of surprises can usually be managed with all the things I mentioned.
My friends know not to throw me a surprise party. No one is looking to give me a surprise vacation or new wardrobe. And before getting on a roller coaster, I thoroughly check it out and know its patterned route.
But life is different.
Life twists and turns and throws loops into those places we think will be flat and smooth. Because that's what life does. Sometimes it just catches us off guard.
And at the end of the day, I guess that's why I don't like to be surprised. I can't stand to get caught off guard. It makes me feel exposed and afraid.
But slowly, I'm learning it's not all bad to be surprised.
That vulnerable place reminds us we have needs beyond what we can manage. Feeling a little exposed and afraid reminds us we need God. Desperately. Completely.
And into that gap between what we can manage on our own and what we can't, that's right where faith has the opportunity to grow deep roots. Roots that dig down in to the hope and joy and peace only God can offer.
My faith doesn't just need to grow big, it needs to grow deep. Yes, I need deep faith roots, like the believer in Jeremiah 17:7-8, "Blessed is the man who trusts in the LORD, whose trust is the LORD. He is like a tree planted by water, that sends out its roots by the stream, and does not fear when heat comes, for its leaves remain green, and is not anxious in the year of drought, for it does not cease to bear fruit." (ESV)
Deep roots keep us secure in God's love when fear comes.
Deep roots anchor us with the truth that God is in control when surprises blow like strong, unruly winds.
Deep roots hold us steady in the peace of God during the storm that didn't show up on the radar.
Deep roots find nourishment in God's grace when the surface gets awfully dry.
Deep roots allow for growth of faith in God not previously possible.
I'm learning to not be so afraid of what might be around the next corner. Even if it does catch me off guard. I close my eyes and whisper to the Lord ... deeper still.
Dear Lord, deep faith roots is what I desperately need. Help me to take steps each day in my journey of trusting You even if that means being in a vulnerable place sometimes. In Jesus' Name, Amen.
Reflect and Respond:
In what ways does knowing God will sustain you in hard times comfort you?
What step can you take today that will plant you firmly near the Lord. For example, memorizing a Bible verse, praying, etc.
Psalm 9:10, "Those who know your name trust in you, for you, LORD, have never forsaken those who seek you." (NIV)
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James MURRAY was born in Tennessee about 1821. On 20 August, 1840, in Washington County, Tennessee, he married to Sarah BIRDWELL, the daughter of Alexander BIRDWELL and Elizabeth COPASS. Sarah BIRDWELL was born about 1817, in Tennessee. Sometime between their marriage and 1850 they moved to Monroe County, Kentucky. They are shown on the 1850 Monroe County, Kentucky Census dated 26 August, 1850, in Dwelling# 585 and Family# 614.
MURRAY, James 28 year old laborer, born in Tennessee
MURRAY, Sarah 33, wife, born in Tennessee
MURRAY, John Alexander 8 (born 23 December, 1841, in Tennessee
MURRAY, William P. 6 (born about 1843, in Kentucky)
MURRAY, Jarrot 4 (born about 1845, in Kentucky)
MURRAY, Samuel F. 2 (born 1 July, 1848, in Kentucky)
The MURRAY family moved often to and from the Monroe County, Kentucky, area to Tennessee, near Jackson and Clay County.
Lawrence CHERRY, of Herrin, Williamson County, Illinois, had an old piece of paper from an old MURRAY bible which had a statement on it that another son of James and Sarah (BIRDWELL) MURRAY, George W. MURRAY, was born 0n 25 August, 1850, at Knoxville, Knox County, Tennessee.
Other children were:
MURRAY, Elizabeth E., born 15 May, 1853, in Monroe County, Kentucky
MURRAY, Thomas, born 4 November, 1855, in Monroe County, Kentucky
After much consideration and thought, it is assumed that one child that was listed in one of the other Monroe County, Kentucky Census' was possibly one and the same person. There was, on another census, a daughter listed as Barbara J. MURRAY who was born about 1849 in Monroe County, Kentucky. It is believed that she was actually Barbara Jarrot MURRAY, the "Jarrot" MURRAY listed on the 1850 Monroe County, Kentucky Census above. Census takers many times wrote down incorrect information, and it thought that if she was shown on this census of 1850, that she had to be born before 26 August, 1850. But, it is believed that "Jarrot" MURRAY was actually Barbara Jarrot MURRAY, one and the same person...
Another person who "appeared" to be a child of James and Sarah (BIRDWELL) MURRAY was an Amanda J. MURRAY, born about 1868, in Tennessee. This child is now believed to have been a "granddaughter" of James and Sarah.
Something happened to James MURRAY probably around 1868-1870. for on the 1870 Monroe County, Kentucky, Census Sarah MURRAY is listed as the "head-of-household" and a farmeress, at age 42 years. Children listed with her include: Barbara J. MURRAY; George W. MURRAY; Elizabeth E. MURRAY; Thomas MURRAY; and Amanda J. MURRAY (Of course, this last one we believe to be a grandchild).
1. The first child of James and Sarah (BIRDWELL) MURRAY, John Alexander MURRAY, was called "Elick" MURRAY, by our Grandfather, Clurie Elvin MURRAY. Grandfather Clurie E. MURRAY, of Gamaliel, Kentucky, recalled Civil War accounts of John Alexander MURRAY and how he would sneak back and forth from Clementsville, Tennessee, to the Monroe County, Kentucky area. He told of one time where John A. MURRAY hid out in a hollow tree to escape capture. Sometimes people can distort real fact over a long period of time. I wanted to see if our Grandfather Clurie E. MURRAY was right in the stories that he told. I can tell you that I did check this out and our Grandfather Clurie E. MURRAY was probably right on target! I found that John Alexander MURRAY did in fact serve in the Union Army in Company K, of the 5th Kentucky Cavalry. He was a private and drew a pension while living at Clementsville, Caly County, Tennessee. He served from 1861 to May, 1865.
John Alexander MURRAY was born 23 December, 1841, in Tennessee. He died 8 October, 1909. John married about 1867 to Tennessee "Teany" Angeline COPASS, a first cousin. Teany was born in April, 1847, in Tennessee, to John and Nancy (BIRDWELL) COPASS. Nancy BIRDWELL was a sister to Sarah (BIRDWELL) MURRAY, wife of James MURRAY. John Alexander MURRAY and Teany COPASS had these children:
1a. William Thomas MURRAY, born about 1868.
1b. Nancy Matilda MURRAY, born 24 June, 1869, died 13 March, 1940.
1c. Sarah F. MURRAY, born in July, 1872.
1d. Luraney "Lear" A. MURRAY, born 19 November, 1874.
1e. John G. MURRAY, born 18 April, 1877, died in 1953.
It should be noted here that it has been very, very difficult to trace down our James MURRAY any further than being born about 1821 in Tennessee. We know that he was in Washington County, Tennessee, in 1840, because he was married there in August of that year. It has been said ( but not proven) that our James MURRAY was a son of a John MURRAY and Elizabeth MULKEY. John MURRAY was born about 1787 and married in 1808 to Elizabeth MULKEY, the daughter of the Baptist minister, the Rev. Jonathan MULKEY, and Nancy HOWARD. It is stated that our James and Sarah (BIRDWELL) MURRAY actually came up with the name of their first born son by naming it after the father of James and the father of Sarah. This seems like it is possible if our James MURRAY'S father was John MURRAY. Sarah BIRDWELL was the daughter of Alexander BIRDWELL and Elizabeth COPASS. It does make sense that they "could" have named their first son "John Alexander MURRAY"...This is purely speculation and I have seen no proof of this in a document, etc.
2. William P. MURRAY, born about 1843, in Kentucky.
3. Samuel F. MURRAY, born 1 July, 1848, and died 20 January, 1923. Samuel F. MURRAY married to Elizabeth VINSON. She was born 10 June, 1859, and died 23 September, 1929. Their child was:
3a. Rutha A. MURRAY, born 26 March, 1882, and died in 1939. Rutha married to Abraham LIKENS. He was born about 1889 and died in 1971.
4. Barbara Jarrot MURRAY, born about 1849, in Kentucky.
5. George W. MURRAY, our Great-Great-Grandfather, born 25 August, 1850, in Knoxville, Knox County, Tennessee, and died 28 October, 1928, in what was a little town near Herrin, named WEAVER, ILLINOIS. This was in Williamson County. He died at the home of his son, Nathan Milton "Milton" MURRAY. George W. MURRAY married to Sarah A. COPASS in Jackson County, Tennessee, on 29 March, 1873. Sarah was the daughter of Thomas H. COPASS and Nancy GULLEY. Sarah A. COPASS was born at Red Boiling Springs, Macon County, Tennessee, and died at Herrin, Williamson County, Illinois, on 28 March, 1931. Both George W. MURRAY and Sarah A. (COPASS) MURRAY are buried in the City Cemetery in Herrin, Willamson County, Illinois. The last record of the George W. MURRAY family in Clay County, Tennessee, was on the 1910 Clay County, Tennessee, Census...
I went to visit Lawrence CHERRY in Herrin, Williamson County, Illinois, on 11 March, 1990. Lawrence CHERRY is the grandson of George W. MURRAY and Sarah A. COPASS, the son of Nancy Rendie "Rendie" MURRAY. He actually had the old MURRAY bible which belonged to Sarah A. (COPASS) MURRAY. I saw it and handled it. The covers were missing but inside I saw the record of these MURRAY children:
5a. Hova Turner MURRAY, born 4 April, 1874, in Clay County, Tennessee. Hova married first to Gid COLTER. They had two children, Charles and Nellie MURRAY. Hova lost all three of them to a flu epedemic around the turn of the century. They are buried at Milestown, Tennessee. Hova then married to Ora Isabell COFFELT. Their children were: Hattie Cleo MURRAY; Vella Mae MURRAY; Sidney Ether MURRAY; Raymon Wilson MURRAY; Guy Richard MURRAY; Ruby Estelle MURRAY; and Dimple Odell MURRAY.
5b. Nathan Milton "Milton" MURRAY, born 16 February, 1876, in Clay County, Tennessee, and died 14 November, 1935, in Weaver, Williamson County, Illinois. He married to Hassie Belle EAKLE in Clay County, Tennessee, on 8 October, 1905. Their children were: Ted MURRAY; Molean MURRAY; Marie MURRAY died about October/November, 1987; Lillian MURRAY; Edna MURRAY died 11 January, 1990; Ruth MURRAY; Ralph MURRAY died in March, 1989; Nola MURRAY (who married a Bud PROFFITT); Eugene MURRAY; and Howard MURRAY.
The last time I heard only Nola (MURRAY) PROFFITT was still living. Milton MURRAY is buried in Mt. Pleasant Cemetery in Valier, Illinois.
5c. James Franklin "Franklin" MURRAY, born 15 October, 1879, in Clay County, Tennessee, and died in the 1930's in Orient, Illinois. He is buried in Herrin, Williamson County, Illinois. He married to Virginia "Verdie" ALLEN. Their known children were: Fred MURRAY born 6 February, 1919; Rue MURRAY born 10 June, 1905; Lester MURRAY; and Metza MURRAY born 7 October, 1908.
Metza MURRAY married first to Edgar Athol McCLAIN. They had three children: Lorene McCLAIN who married a man with the last name of LAYOU; Jacqueline McCLAIN; and Frank McCLAIN. Edgar died and Metza remarried to ___ MULLEN. They had: Sandra MULLEN. Metza MURRAY was born 7 October, 1908, lived in Hazel Park, Michigan.
5d. Thomas Benton E. "Benton" MURRAY, born 18 February, 1882, in Clay County, Tennessee, and died 25 May, 1958. Benton married to Lola NEWMAN on 18 December, 1910. Lola was born 13 March, 1889, to George and Mitt NEWMAN, and died 30 January, 1929. Both are buried in Union Hill, Clay County, Tennessee Cemetery. Their children were: Lansford MURRAY born 16 February, 1913; Hazel MURRAY born 7 April, 1919; and Rassie MURRAY. Lansford married to Mary Lena LAWSON. Rassie married to Betty BILLINGSLEY. Hazel married to Dumas ANDERSON.
5e. Nancy Rendie MURRAY, born 28 August, 1884, in Clay County, Tennessee, and died 3 May, 1967, in Herrin Williamson County, Illinois. Rendie married to Jay CHERRY, a son of Newt CHERRY. Their son was: Lawrence CHERRY, born 22 August, 1904, in Tennessee. He is now deceased.
5f. Our Great-Grandfather, Shadrach William "Shade" MURRAY, born 19 August, 1875, in Moss, Clay County, Tennessee, and died 26 March, 1956. He married to Dora Belle CHERRY in Clay County, Tennessee, on 7 Fenruary, 1898. Dora Belle CHERRY was the daughter of Harrison Wayne CHERRY and Julia America Crayton "America" CHERRY. America's maiden name was also CHERRY. Harrison and America were cousins, but not first cousins...Dora Belle CHERRY was born in Red boiling Springs, Macon County, Tennessee, on 10 October, 1882, and died 27 February, 1966. Shade and Dora are buried in the Union Hill Cemetery in Clay County, Tennessee. They had seven children:
5fa. Clurie Elvin MURRAY, born 10 April, 1899, in Moss, Clay County, Tennessee, and died 16 May, 1988, in Tompkinsville, Monroe County, Kentucky. He married to Vella C. PROFFITT, a daughter of Perry Thomas PROFFITT and Martha Etta THOMAS, on 5 August, 1922, at Union Hill, Clay County, Tennessee. Vella C. PROFFITT was born 5 May, 1904, in Monroe County, Kentucky, and died 6 March, 1988, in Bowling Green, Kentucky. They had 12 children:
5faa. Loraine Vivian MURRAY, born 3 May, 1923, in Moss, Clay County, Tennessee. She married to Frank GOAD on 14 November, 1942, at Tompkinsville, Monroe County, Kentucky, and had: Linda Joyce GOAD; Mary Lou GOAD; Cleva Inell GOAD; Frankie Sherryl GOAD; and Jimmy Neal GOAD.
5fab. Alma Elease MURRAY, born 7 September, 1924, in Oak Grove, Clay County, Tennessee. She married to William E. McQUEEN in Columbus, Bartholomew County, Indiana, on 22 December, 1943. They had Billy Gene McQUEEN and Brenda Darlene McQUEEN.
5fac. Emry Ellis MURRAY, born 20 February, 1926, in Clay County, Tennessee, and died 11 August, 1999,in Tompkinsville, Monroe County, Kentucky. He is buried in Gamaliel, Kentucky.
5fad. Dorothy Pauline MURRAY, born 24 April, 1927, in Oak Grove, Clay County, Tennessee. She married to Ben LAWSON, on 3 December, 1945, in Sneedville, Hancock County, Tennessee. Ben was the son of Rufus LAWSON and Maggie Margaret LAWSON. They had sons: Sam D. LAWSON; Ricky Ben LAWSON; and Randy James LAWSON.
5fae. Delmas Porter MURRAY, born 12 May, 1930, in Clay County, Tennessee, and died 6 November, 1986, at Tompkinsville, Monroe County, Kentucky. He is buried in Gamaliel, Kentucky. Delmas married to Beatrice Vernelle CROWE at Tompkinsville, Monroe County, Kentucky. They had: Rebecca Sue MURRAY; Nathaniel D. MURRAY; Patricia Gayle MURRAY; Olen Shannon MURRAY; and Karen Renea MURRAY.
5faf. Ruth Marie MURRAY, born 2 October, 1932, in Clifford, Bartholomew County, Indiana. She married Roy HYDEN, Sr. at Columbus, Bartholomew County, Indiana, on 27 December, 1951. Roy HYDEN, Sr. died in Bowling Green, Kentucky, on 1 February, 1984. They had: Roy HYDEN, Jr.; Michael Brent HYDEN; Penny Sue HYDEN; Judy Marie HYDEN; Linda Lou HYDEN; and Peggy Ann HYDEN.
5fag. Ella Mae MURRAY, born 28 September, 1935, in Moss, Clay County, Tennessee. She married to Anthony ZAMARRIPA. They had: Debra Kay ZAMARRIPA; Susan Gaye ZAMARRIPA; and Joe Anthony ZAMARRIPA. Ella Mae MURRAY's second husband was Robert YOUNG. They had: Jeff Lynn YOUNG.
5fah. Willis Ira MURRAY, born 5 March, 1937, in Moss, Clay County, Tennessee. He married to Patricia Emily DRYBURG in Indianapolis, Marion County, Indiana, on 13 December, 1957. They had: Lee Ann MURRAY; and Dwayne Clurie MURRAY.
5fai. Reba Maudeen MURRAY, born 25 April, 1938, in Moss, Clay County, Tennessee. She married to Sandy MESHLAM. They had: David Sol MESHLAM; Sarina Rae MESHLAM; Kay MESHLAM; Sherie Lynn MESHLAM; and Cecil Joe MESHLAM. Sandy MESHLAM died in Dayton, Ohio, in July, 1979. Reba married to Ron RANDALL and had one child. Reba lives in Orlando, Florida.
5faj. Vanus C. MURRAY, born 2 October, 1940, in Tompkinsville, Monroe County, Kentucky. He married to Ozina BOWLES. They had: Mark Stephen MURRAY.
5fak. Norma Jean MURRAY, born 9 March, 1943, in Tompkinsville, Monroe County, Kentucky. She married to John Wallace DAVIS at Gamaliel, Kentucky, on 25 March, 1969. John is deceased. They had: Kristen Jean DAVIS.
5fal. Selby Doyle MURRAY, born 6 December, 1944, at Tompkinsville, Monroe County, Kentucky. He married to Sue Ellis YORK at Tompkinsville, Monroe County, Kentucky, on 24 September, 1966. They had: Jeff Lynn MURRAY.
5fb. A second child of Shade W. MURRAY and Dora Belle (CHERRY) MURRAY was Ganell L. MURRAY, born 14 May, 1902, in Clay County, Tennessee, and died in Tompkinsville, Monroe County, Kentucky, on 5 April, 1991. She married to Ernest BARTLETT, on 4 September, 1921, in Clay County, Tennessee. Ernest was born 29 January, 1902, in Clay County, Tennessee. They had: Vernice BARTLETT; and Velma Marie BARTLETT who died 27 July, 1957, and is buried in the BOWMAN Cemetery near Poplar Log, Monroe County, Kentucky.
5fc. Van MURRAY, born 2 July, 1904, in Moss, Clay County, Tennessee, and died 17 January, 1982, at Tompkinsville, Monroe County, Kentucky. He married to Stella Ann SHORT, on 1 January, 1928, at Mt. Vernon, Kentucky. Stella Ann SHORT was born 4 August, 1908, and died 11 September, 1978, at Tompkinsville, Monroe County, Kentucky. They had: Thelma MURRAY; Alma MURRAY; Claude MURRAY; Jean MURRAY; Rachel MURRAY; Roy MURRAY; Harold MURRAY; and Danny MURRAY. Harold MURRAY died in a 1974 car accident.
5fd. Porter D. MURRAY, born 21 February, 1907, and died 12 December, 1907.
5fe. Walter Bransford "Brans" MURRAY, born 20 August, 1909, in Clay County, Tennessee, and died 7 January, 1997, in Beech Grove, Marion County, Indiana. He is buried at Garland Brook Cemetery, in Columbus, Bartholomew County, Indiana. He married to Craton E. SMITH, the daughter of Luther SMITH and Eliza CHERRY. Craton was born 30 September, 1913, in Moss, Clay County, Tennessee, and died 11 February, 1993, in Deltona, Florida. They had: Captolia MURRAY; Betty MURRAY; Sammy Wallace "Sonny" MURRAY who died in 1983; and Jo Helen MURRAY.
5ff. America MURRAY, born 25 August, 1911, in Oak Grove, Clay County, Tennessee, and died 26 December, 1996, in Tennessee. She married to Bethel Boyd DODSON on 26 August, 1928, in Oak Grove, Clay County, Tennessee. Bethel was born 2 January, 1906, and died 20 July, 1935. They had: Donald DODSON and Rosa Iree DODSON. She remarried to Herbert SMITH. Herbert SMITH was born 18 August, 1907, and died 25 September, 1946. They had a son: Randall SMITH on 20 September, 1945 at Union Hill, Clay County, Tennessee, and died 31 December, 1997. He was a teacher at Red Boiling Springs, Macon County, Tennessee. I believe they are all buried at Union Hill Cemetery, Clay County, Tennessee.
5fg. Carlos Wayne MURRAY, born 14 September, 1913, in Clay County, Tennessee, and died 16 April, 1969, in Clay County, Tennessee. He married to Vassie J. FRANKLIN on 18 November, 1933, in Tompkinsville, Monroe County, Kentucky. Vassie J. FRANKLIN was born 20 October, 1915, in Clay County, Tennessee, and died 18 May, 1999, in Columbus, Bartholomew County, Indiana. She was the daughter of Clarence FRANKLIN and Lillie NEUMAN. They had: Altha Colene MURRAY born 11 February, 1937 and died 4 March, 1937; Dennis Dale MURRAY born 19 July, 1934, and died 1 March, 1977, in Clay County, Tennessee; Blanche Elizabeth MURRAY; Bobby Joe MURRAY; and Lanny Neil MURRAY.
Carlos and Vassie divorced about 1961 or so. He remarried to second wife, Inez BURTON in Columbus, Bartholomew County, Indiana, on 23 December, 1961. They were later divorced with no issue.
6. Elizabeth E. MURRAY, born 15 born 15 May, 1853, in Monroe County, Kentucky.
7. Thomas MURRAY, born 4 November, 1855, in Monroe County, Kentucky, and died 17 July, 1937. He married to Mary Meadie WILSON on 20 June, 1880, in Jackson County, Tennessee. She was the daughter of S.T. WILSON and born on 17 October, 1863, and died 8 November, 1951. They had:
7a. George Washington MURRAY, born 15 June, 1885, and died 18 February, 1960. He was never married.
7b. General Stokes MURRAY, born 20 December, 1886, and died 10 June, 1974. He married to Ada HANCOCK. She was born 14 October, 1896, and died 8 July, 1975. They had: Vera MURRAY and Dorothy MURRAY. Vera married to Mascus DENTON. Dorothy married to Harley WILEY.
7c. Benjamin Harrison MURRAY, born 1 June, 1889, and died 15 April, 1963. He married to Hortence GIVENS and they lived in Jackson County, Tennessee, on what was the Roy STAFFORD farm. I made a visit to this farm in the 1990's and found a family cemetery located up on a slight hill just from the house. There I found gravestones for:
Vellie Bee SLOAN Fred WILSON
4 February, 1910- 30 April, 1928 20 September, 1888- 23 December, 1905
7d. Ella Mai MURRAY, born 22 February, 1893, and died 22 June, 1962. She was not married.
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The September 10th, 2013 edition of daily news for the Los Angeles Angels including Richards earns 2014 rotation spot, more Trout-Cabrera MVP debate and much more…
The Monkey Says: Richards has posted a 2.96 ERA, .634 OPS allowed, 6.59 K/9, 3.13 BB/9 and 0.49 HR/9 since returning to the rotation. Those peripherals don't really match up to the ERA, but even once that regresses, he should still be pretty good as his FIP of 3.34 suggests. That gives the Halos three rotation members for sure, possibly four if they re-sign Vargas. That is a solid but not spectacular rotation. Who fills the final spot (assuming Vargas stays) will be a huge decision for whoever the GM is next season.
The Monkey Says: The long and short of it is that Heyman doesn't trust WAR partly because he doesn't seem to fully understand it and partly because he falsely assumes that it is supposed to be an ironclad end all-be all metric. There is noise in WAR, even the creators admit that. The question is how much noise can there really be when the gap between Trout and Cabrera is so big like it was last year.
The Monkey Says: This jumps off of the Heyman column and is more a commentary on slavish devotion to old school stats. To be honest, I haven't heard a lot of people point to RBIs in this debate, though I think some of that is columnists knowing that they are just going to get shamed for doing so. As I have been saying for weeks, the real issue is the Angels suck and the Tigers are pretty good.
The Monkey Says: But he probably won't play until the Houston series so that he doesn't have to run around on the concrete in Toronto. Once he is back, it will be interesting to see how Scioscia uses Grant Green. They have a hole at third with Jimenez ailing, but the team has said Green isn't ready for that yet. But what harm could it really do?
The Monkey Says: With a third catcher in place, expect Scioscia to pinch-hit for his starting catcher even more freely now. The rest of the September call-ups will have to wait for at least another few days as both Bees, Travs and 66ers have all advanced to the next round of their respective playoffs.
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Analysis: Booker's Seven Basic Plots Analysis
Christopher Booker is a scholar who wrote that every story falls into one of seven basic plot structures: Overcoming the Monster, Rags to Riches, the Quest, Voyage and Return, Comedy, Tragedy, and Rebirth. Shmoop explores which of these structures fits this story like Cinderella’s slipper.
Plot Type : Overcoming the Monster
Anticipation Stage and 'Call'
There are two related "monsters" that the characters in Ivanhoe have to defeat: family resentment and Norman-on-Saxon violence. The first couple chapters outline what our hero, Ivanhoe, has to face: bullying Normans, rebellious Prince John, and a father who hates him for following Norman King Richard I on a Crusade to Palestine. The rest of the plot will be about dealing with these challenges.
At first, it looks like Ivanhoe is going to have no trouble overcoming the Normans who are making life hell for the local Saxons, including his father, Cedric of Rotherwood. After all, Ivanhoe practically breezes through the tournament at Ashby-de-la-Zouche, defeating Brian de Bois-Guilbert without too much trouble. Surely his father will forgive him now that he is clearly fighting for English rights against his father's Norman foes.
Ivanhoe ends the tournament with an injury that keeps him out of the action for the next twenty-odd chapters. Rebecca carries him off to heal, which would seem to be a good thing (she's really skilled at medicine), but actually it only increases Cedric's resentment of his son. Cedric assumes that Ivanhoe has been taken in by the Normans for treatment. He thinks Ivanhoe's sudden disappearance is another sign of his lack of gratitude for his father. Suddenly, overcoming both the Normans and Cedric's rage doesn't seem so easy after all.
Of course, everything gets worse: Ivanhoe is too weak to prevent Bois-Guilbert from carrying off Rebecca during the battle at Torquilstone. Now that she is in Templar hands, she has a very good chance of getting burned at the stake for witchcraft. If she is, it will be at least partly Ivanhoe's fault, since she's only involved in this whole disaster thanks to her efforts to save him from his injuries at the tournament. Meanwhile, King Richard is taking his own sweet time about removing his disguise, taking his throne back, and putting Prince John in his place. Richard's slowness only delays the resolution of the Norman-vs.-Saxons plot line.
The Thrilling Escape from Death, and Death of the Monster
Finally Ivanhoe overcomes his challenges. He rides to Rebecca's rescue just in time. Bois-Guilbert, the worst of the bullying Norman knights, dies suddenly during his duel with Ivanhoe. King Richard tells Cedric his true identity and asks Cedric to forgive Ivanhoe. Cedric agrees that King Richard isn't so bad for a Norman, and he and Ivanhoe reconcile. So the Normans back off the Saxons and the family drama between Cedric and Ivanhoe is resolved. All is (mostly) right with the world – though we still think Rebecca gets a raw deal. For more on the loose ends left at the end of Ivanhoe, check out "What's Up With the Ending?"
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Apparently ABC’s Dancing With the Stars extended Mrs. Romney a dance card and apparently she turned them down:
A Romney adviser confirms to ABC News that she was approached by “DWTS” and she declined the offer. The news was first reported by TMZ.
The adviser notes that Romney “loves to dance” and is a “fan of the show.” …
TMZ reported the one-time potential first lady “seriously considered” the offer, but the adviser says she only did in the context of her love of dance and the show and “seriously considered” is going too far.
It looks like Ann’s dance partner will continue to be Mitt.
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I'm really stuck on this question, I have tried it and read through my notes but can't find a way to solve it. Help would be greatly appreciated.
A linear function f(x) passes through a point (-2,3) and agrees with the condition f(x)dx = -44. What is the formula?
ps: sorry for the paint drawing. I didnt know how else to show it.
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A new report by NBC's Today Show reveals the Sandy Hook Elementary School gunman completely cut off ties with his dad before Friday's fatal shooting.
"Adam had cut off communication with his dad, even refusing to see him," correspondent Jeff Rossen reported, citing a source close to the family.
Adam Lanza opened fired at Sandy Hook Elementary School on Friday, killing 27 people, 20 of whom were children.
Nancy and Peter Lanza separated in 2001 but Peter Lanza still saw his son every week. However, when the couple divorced in 2009 and Peter Lanza began dating a new woman the following year, "Adam suddenly cut his dad off," the source told the Today Show.
Adam lived alone with his mother, who shared her love of guns with the teen, even going so far as to take him to the gun range, The Telegraph reported Monday.
However, the Lanza's divorce was reportedly amicable, with Peter Lanza paying for Nancy and Adam's home and even offering to fund Adam's college education.
Check out the Today Show's latest revelation:
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"Dr. Willey and his staff located in Sebring, FL made custom breast cancer shirts in honor of our long time employee. We surprised her one morning wearing our CustomInk Breast Cancer shirts. Now on..."
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FENTON, MI -- Buckle up for the most expensive construction job of the summer starting Wednesday, May 8, on Fenton Road.
A crew is set to start working at 7 a.m. between Bly Street and just north of Garnet Drive, kicking off the first phase of the $3.3 million job, which stretches into both Fenton and Fenton Township.
The Genesee County Road Commission said in a news release that the first phase of construction will be built while maintaining one lane of traffic in each direction of travel.
Initial work on that section of Fenton Road is expected to be completed by July 3.
The Road Commission news release says work after the Independence Day holiday will require a detour of Fenton Road. That detour will use Thompson, Torrey and South Long Lake roads.
County Road Commission Manager-Director John Daly has called the Fenton Road project the biggest-impact job the county will manage this year because of the scope of work and the volume of traffic -- 24,000 vehicles daily -- in the area.
The job is actually the second part of a project that started with last summer's construction on North Leroy Street in Fenton.
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TALION, a concept of punishment whereby the prescribed penalty is identical with, or equivalent to, the offense. Identical (or "true") talions are death for homicide ("Whosoever sheddeth man's blood, by man shall his blood be shed": Gen. 9:6), wounding for wounding ("an eye for an eye": Ex. 21:23–25; Lev. 24:19–20), and doing to the false witness "as he had purposed to do unto his fellow" (Deut. 19:19). Equivalent talions conform to some feature characteristic of the offense, but not to its essence or degree: the hand that sinned shall be cut off (Deut. 25:12) – not a hand for a hand, but the hand for what it had done. In the case of the adulteress, it is that part of her body with which she is suspected of having sinned that will be visited with divine punishment if she is guilty (Num. 5:21 as interpreted in Sot. 8b–9a, and see *Adultery). (For further biblical equivalent punishments see Ex. 32:20; Judg. 1:7; II Sam. 4:12; II Kings 9:26; Dan. 6:25.) While most identical talions were abolished by talmudic law (see below), equivalent talions survived through talmudic times (cf. Sanh. 58b; Nid. 13b) into the Middle Ages (cf. Rosh, Resp. 17:8 and 18:17; Zikhron Yehudah no. 58; et al.), and traces can even be found in modern law (e.g., the confiscation, mostly as an additional punishment, of firearms, vehicles, or other objects by means of which an offense was committed, or of smuggled goods; or the suspension of trading or driving licenses for trading or driving offenses).
True talionic punishments were undoubtedly practiced in biblical and post-biblical times. To retaliate measure for measure is God's own way of meting out justice (cf. Isa. 3:11; Jer. 17:10; 50:15; Ezek. 7:8; Obad. 15; et al.), and is defended by Philo as the only just method of punishment (Spec. 3:181–2). The account of the talion in Josephus (Ant. 4:280) supports the theory that, as in ancient Rome (Tabula 8:2), the victim had the choice of either accepting monetary compensation or insisting on talion (cf. Ex. 21:30 for an analogous case). Even in the talmudic discussion on the talion, one prominent dissenter consistently maintained that "an eye for an eye" meant the actual physical extraction of the offender's eye for that of the victim (BK 83b–84a). The majority, however, settled the law to the effect that talion for wounding was virtually abolished and replaced by the payment of damages (BK 8:1), primarily because the justice of the talion is more apparent than real: after all, one man's eye may be larger, smaller, sharper, or weaker than another's, and by taking one for the other, you take something equal in name only, but not in substance. Not only is the ratio of talion thus frustrated, but the biblical injunction that there should be one standard of law for all, would also be violated (Lev. 24:22). Also if a blind man takes another's eye, what kind of eye could be taken from him? or a cripple without legs who did injury to another's leg, what injury can be done to his? Nor can an eye or any other organ be extracted from a living man's body without causing further incidental injury, such as making him lose vast amounts of blood or even endangering his life; "and the Torah said, an eye for an eye, and not an eye and a soul for an eye" (BK 83b–84a). The very risk, unavoidable as it is, of exceeding the prescribed measure, is enough to render talion indefensible and impracticable (Saadiah Gaon, quoted by Ibn Ezra in his commentary on Ex. 21:24).
The monetary compensation replacing talion was not wholly in the nature of civil damages, however, but had a distinctly punitive element. This is clear from the rule that the penalty for inflicting injuries not resulting in pecuniary damage was *flogging (Ket. 32b; Sanh. 85a; Mak. 9a). The only reason why flogging could not be administered where any damages were payable was that two sanctions could never be imposed for any one offense (Ket. 37a; Mak. 13b; et al.).
While talionic practice was effectively outlawed, the talionic principle, as one of natural justice, was reaffirmed in the Talmud: the measure by which a man measures is the measure by which he will be measured (Sot. 1:7; Tosef. Sot. 3:1 as to punishments and 4:1 as to rewards). The famous precept of Hillel's, said to embody the whole of the Torah, that you should not do to another what you would not like to have done to you (Shab. 31a) is derived from the same principle.
E. Goitein, Das Vergeltungsprincip im biblischen und talmudischen Strafrecht (1893); D.W. Amram, in: JQR, 2 (1911/12), 191–211; J. Horovitz, in: Festschrift…Hermann Cohen (1912), 609–58; J. Weismann, in: Festschrift…Adolf Wach (1913), 100–99; E. Merz, Die Blutrache bei den Israeliten (1916); S. Kaatz, in: Jeschurun, 13 (1926), 43–50 (Germ.); J. Norden, Auge um Auge, Zahn um Zahn (1916); J.K. Miklisanski, in: JBL, 66 (1947), 295–303; ET, 12 (1967), 693–5. ADD. BIBLIOGRAPHY: M. Elon, Ha-Mishpat ha-Ivri (1988), 1:185, 331ff.; ibid, Jewish Law (1994), 1:207, 397ff.; M. Elon and B. Lifshitz, Mafte'aḥ ha-She'elot ve-ha-Teshuvot shel Ḥakhmei Sefarad u-Ẓefon Afrikah (legal digest) (1986), 2:322; B. Lifshitz and E. Shochetman, Mafte'aḥ ha-She'elot ve-ha-Teshuvot shel Ḥakhmei Ashkenaz, Ẓarefat ve-Italyah (legal digest) (1997), 223.
[Haim Hermann Cohn]
Source: Encyclopaedia Judaica. © 2008 The Gale Group. All Rights Reserved.
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Kato Kaelin’s O.J. Trial Versace Suit From 1994 Is Up For Sale
Every Tuesday night lately has felt like 1994 all over again. Back then, we were all glued to our heavy boxy televisions to watch the actual O.J. Simpson trial unfold. What seemed like the best soap opera on television has once again come into our lives with a fabulous new recreation that is like a Lifetime movie combined with a well-done Cuba Gooding Jr. biopic: American Crime Story: The People v. O.J. Simpson is on FX and it’s perfect.
One of the best aspects of the show besides Sarah Paulson as Marcia Clarke chain-smoking, is the costumes – my personal favorite is Johnny Cochran’s array of dazzling colors.
What’s so cool about this show happening right now is that it also happens to coincide with real life O.J. Trial things happening (coincidence?) Hello, the recent knife debacle?? It’s like an interactive tv show that keeps giving us real life throw-back mementos.
The latest is the news that Kato Kaelin’s green Versace suit worn on the day of his testimony is now for sale, for $5,000 on Ebay. Lolz. Here’s the kicker though, it wasn’t even Kaelin’s suit. He had to borrow it from a friend because Kaelin didn’t own one suit at the time. :(
The unrevealed owner of the suit is cashing in on the show’s hype and it’s being sold with a letter of authenticity.
Behold this olive green disaster:
I must say it goes well with his gorgeous long blonde tresses.
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Reporter: Liz Hayes
Producer: Stephen Rice
It's been a nerve-wracking couple of days, Liz Hayes tells us.
A spectacular world record attempt, two high-flyers ready to dive at 37,000 feet.
Then, that dreadful empty feeling. Not knowing if they're going to make it back alive.
The adventurers were Glenn Singleman and Heather Swan, those two Australians who get their kicks jumping off mountains and flying, yes flying, back to earth.
This time though, they were planning to leap from a hot air balloon, and ride the jet stream that howls across Central Australia at 200 kilometres an hour.
Thus setting a new world record. Well, that was the plan.
For further information on Glenn Singleman and Heather Swan - and all other aspects of wingsuit flying, go to:
For further information on outback ballooning go to:
Slideshow: High Drama
LIZ HAYES: It's the ultimate leap of faith. Over the remote desert of central Australia, Glenn Singleman and Heather Swan are preparing to dive into the stratosphere at an altitude usually the domain of jumbo jets. Their lives entirely dependent upon a small cylinder of oxygen and a wingsuit. But then, all of the sudden, a collapse. A life-and-death drama at the top of the world that sees one of them stumble and fall from 37,000 feet. This Sydney husband-and-wife team have been wingsuit flying for the past six years, but in their quest to set new world records their skills will be truly tested.
GLENN SINGLEMAN: So, worst case scenario the oxygen fails at 39,000 feet. We've got about a minute of useful consciousness before we become incapacitated.
LIZ HAYES: You can't have any skin exposed?
GLENN SINGLEMAN: Yeah, the temperature up there is minus 50 or so, so exposed skin freezes in about 30 seconds, especially with a lot of wind blowing over it like when we're flying in the wingsuits.
LIZ HAYES: Heather and Glenn have come to central Australia to fly further in a wingsuit than anyone has ever flown before. To do that, they'll have to ascend 39,000 feet in a hot air balloon to catch the jet-stream that blows across Australia.
GLENN SINGLEMAN: It howls up there at about 100 knots, or 200km/h, and we'll have that pushing us along and added to the speed of the suits which is also about 200 km/h we'll be crossing the ground at around 400km/h for 7 minutes.
LIZ HAYES: Not bad, huh?
GLENN SINGLEMAN: Not bad, better than a Ferrari.
LIZ HAYES: Wingsuits are man's latest answer to flying. Custom-made suits which fill with air, enabling the wearer to maintain elevation and the ability to glide.
GLENN SINGLEMAN: You fly like a bird, like an eagle, like a hawk, like you imagined it was when you were a kid. You streak across the sky. It's fantastic! It is personal human flight. There is nothing like it except being a bird.
HEATHER SWAN: We can be up there and be flying around the clouds, geeking at each other, barrel rolling, playing with the birds. It's... that's just fun, it makes me happy.
LIZ HAYES: Like birds of prey... ..they soar across the sky and swoop through valleys. This is an extreme sport which brings with it extreme outcomes. At least four Australian wingsuiters have been killed in the last six years. Glenn Singleman has weighed up the risks and as a trauma specialist doctor, says his choice of sport, if approached with care, is no more dangerous than those every-day pursuits chosen by many of his patients.
GLENN SINGLEMAN: Look, I work in an emergency department, I'm very, very familiar with death, more familiar with death than most people, and I understand that we all die as a result of the lifestyle choices that we make. If you choose to eat a greasy pork chop every night for dinner and put on heaps of weight you'll get diabetes, you'll get heart disease and you'll die from it. Those are the choices that you make. Whereas to do the stuff that we do, we have to be fit, healthy, strong, clear, mentally alert.
LIZ HAYES: But to break a world record, this mission also requires military planning and diligent attention to detail.
JOHN WALLINGTON: I have some familiarity with the environment, but I'm still nervous about it. I am, you know, genuinely concerned and want to make sure we get it absolutely right.
LIZ HAYES: John Wallington is in charge of getting the balloon into the jetstream.
GLENN SINGLEMAN: I'll call the tower, I'll clear everything, then we're ready.
LIZ HAYES: And while he and his co-pilot Sean Kavanagh have a wealth of experience, neither has been anywhere close to this extreme altitude before. What are the main concerns that you would have?
JOHN WALLINGTON: Oh well, obviously it's a low-oxygen environment, so having really good oxygen system is is the primary consideration.
GLENN SINGLEMAN: Your timer is running, you're in your 11 minutes. So this can't happen, it's gotta be zip zip and we go.
LIZ HAYES: The oxygen system is tested...
JOHN WALLINGTON: I'm going to have to have really thin gloves on for this particular part of the exercise.
GLENN SINGLEMAN: Yes.
LIZ HAYES: ..and not all goes according to plan. All that pure oxygen next to the open flame of the burners could prove disastrous.
GLENN SINGLEMAN: This, if it goes flick, over here, could provide interesting fuel!
LIZ HAYES: At 39,000 feet, nothing can afford to go wrong.
HEATHER SWAN: We are really trusting a lot to John and we're also trusting that he won't be hypoxic, that he won't be incapacitated, but if any of that happens well you just don't get out, just come down.
LIZ HAYES: It's 4:00am, and jump day, and everyone's feeling the pressure. How are you feeling, Heather?
HEATHER SWAN: Pretty good, actually, feel ready, little bit nervous, bit of stomach action going on which I wish would go away because once that suit goes on nothing else is coming out.
LIZ HAYES: How about you, Glenn?
GLENN SINGLEMAN: Yeah, This is the moment of truth, this is always the most nerve-racking time and yeah, I do feel nervous now. It's pretty wild, we're going out to the edge.
HEATHER SWAN: Going out to the rim.
LIZ HAYES: Heather and Glen, their pilots John and Sean, must spend an hour preparing their bodies - sucking in more oxygen.
GLENN SINGLEMAN: We've got to pre-breathe oxygen to wash nitrogen out of our system, so that when we go up into the thinner air the nitrogen doesn't bubble out of our tissues and blood stream and give us the bends.
LIZ HAYES: No matter how much preparation Glenn and Heather and their team have done no matter how much knowledge they have now that it's crunch time, I've got to say I'm more than a little nervous for them. At 39,000 feet it only takes one thing to go wrong, for them all to be in perilous danger. Glenn and Heather have 11 minutes of oxygen in the cylinders they'll jump with. If all goes according to plan, they'll be back on the ground in seven minutes. Before first light the balloon takes flight. And even before they're in the jet stream, there's trouble. The pilot-light in the balloon's burners goes out. At just over 37,000 feet, Glenn and Heather step out onto the launch platform. And in temperatures of minus 53, John Wallington begins the difficult task of switching their oxygen supply to their personal cylinders.
JOHN WALLINGTON: Let's change you over, guys.
LIZ HAYES: Suddenly, Glenn begins to slump - dizzy from the effects of low oxygen and without warning falls backwards off the platform. Heather doesn't know what's happened and wants to follow. but in a decision that may well have saved her life, pilot John Wallington pulls her back into the basket.
JOHN WALLINGTON: Sorry to do that to you, Heather.
LIZ HAYES: For a distressed Heather, it's a shocking moment. No-one knows what's happened to Glenn.
JOHN WALLINGTON: Oscar Oscar Papa, there is only one skydiver. Only one skydiver. RADIO: Copy that.
JOHN WALLINGTON: Heather is still in the balloon. Confirming Heather is still in the balloon.
LIZ HAYES: You mean, she didn't go? HELICOPTER PILOT: She didn't go.
LIZ HAYES: But thousands of feet below the balloon, Glenn recovers and is able to fly.
JOHN WALLINGTON: He's safe, he's safe!
LIZ HAYES: Standing in the desert we find him, a solitary figure waiting and still coming to terms with what's just happened. You're okay? Well done. How was it?
GLENN SINGLEMAN: Oh, I fell off the platform. John was doing me up and I just fell straight back off the platform.
LIZ HAYES: Oh my God!
GLENN SINGLEMAN: And that's why Heather didn't jump. Because I just went straight off. And it was a bit disorientating like, what.. there's the, ah no. So I just flipped over and I saw that, you know, I figured I couldn't see Heather so I just sort of turned over and flew. But I'm so cold I can hardly speak.
LIZ HAYES: I'm just glad to see you got to the ground.
GLENN SINGLEMAN: Oh I'm so glad, yeah me too.
LIZ HAYES: But for Heather and the balloon crew, a soft landing looks out of the question. This mission means this won't be a normal balloon landing. 30 knot winds are now propelling them across the desert. Even a tree fails to stop them. It takes all the extraordinary skills of pilot Sean Kavanagh to bring the balloon to a halt.
LIZ HAYES: You are so, I mean truly... ..watching you bring that down was extraordinary.
JOHN WALLINGTON: He did an extraordinary job of it, absolutely fantastic.
HEATHER SWAN: It was better than any ride I've ever had. SEAN: The best thing is this is Heather's first balloon landing.
HEATHER SWAN: And the last.
GLENN SINGLEMAN: Are you guys alright?
HEATHER SWAN: Yeah. You left without me!
LIZ HAYES: While it all didn't go according to plan the team has broken several records - for the highest balloon flight and parachute drop in Australia and a world record for the highest wingsuit jump. But next time Heather and Glenn try this they'll do it together.
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What foods, flavors, and recipes is your state/territory known for, and how do they fit into your healthy eating style?
MyPlate, MyState is the newest component of MyPlate, MyWins and leverages the prime growing and farmers market seasons. MyPlate, MyState asks the questions: What foods, flavors, and recipes is your state/territory known for, and how do they fit into your healthy eating style?
Foods and flavors from every state and territory in this nation can help us all create lasting healthy eating styles we can enjoy. Healthy eating styles are not rigid plans, but rather ones that can be adapted to include foods that you enjoy that meet your personal and cultural preferences and fit within your budget. The key is finding styles that fit your everyday life, and to make small changes that can add up to big success over time. MyPlate’s building blocks for healthy eating are a great place to start.
More detailed information and a timeline is available about MyPlate, MyState and includes a call for individuals and organizations to create and submit state-specific MyPlates featuring foods and flavors that their state is known for. These customized MyPlate, MyState images may appear on the ChooseMyPlate.gov website.
Join our celebration of hometown goodness and healthy eating styles! Select your state/ territory below to see what foods are grown/ produced there.
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This story has been updated. Please go here for the new article.
A Chinese-backed joint venture has proposed building two $1 billion plants, one in Clatskanie and the other in Kalama, Wash., that would export methanol to China for making plastics and rubber.
The plants at Port Westward and the Port of Kalama would produce methanol as a cleaner alternative to the coal and petroleum commonly used to make the chemical compounds that go into plastics and rubber.
“This is a potential major boost to the economy in both these communities,” Peden said Wednesday. About 1,000 union construction workers would build each of the plants, which could start production early in 2018, he said.
The company proposing the plants is Northwest Innovation Works, a joint venture between the Chinese Academy of Sciences and BP, the British petroleum company. Other investors include H&Q Asia Pacific, an Asian private-equity firm.
The plants, one each on the Oregon and Washington sides of the Columbia River, would receive natural gas by pipeline and distill it into methanol. The methanol would be shipped to Dalian, China, for processing into olefins, Peden said. Olefins are chemical building blocks for plastics and rubber used to make consumer products ranging from laptops to water bottles.
Peden said the plants would provide family-wage jobs including high-salary positions for engineers and chemists. Both sites could expand in second phases that would add more jobs, he said. They would be the first factories of their kind in the Northwest, he said.
Northwest Innovation Works executives have spoken with state officials and will be “looking at the options” for tax breaks, Peden said. The plant in Clatskanie, a Columbia County town about 50 miles northwest of Portland, would qualify for a tax exemption under the state’s Strategic Investment Program based on the size of the investment, he said.
Each factory would occupy a site of about 80 acres. The plants would require state emissions permits, but their emissions would be much cleaner than those from factories that use petroleum or coal to make methanol, Peden said.
Two public meetings planned
Port of Kalama commissioners will hear from Northwest Innovation Works representatives during a meeting at 5:30 p.m. Wednesday at the port offices, 380 W. Marine Drive, Kalama. The commissioners will consider whether to enter a preliminary agreement enabling the company to perform due diligence on the project.
Northwest Innovation Works representatives will make a presentation on the proposed Port Westward plant at a meeting of the Port of St. Helens board of commissioners on Thursday. The meeting starts at 5 p.m. in the Clatskanie People’s Utility District offices, 495 E. Columbia River Hwy., in Clatskanie.
-- Richard Read
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Can someone get a laser hair removal procedure done in the buttocks region?
For the past few years I have struggled with a case of Pilonidal disease, which is a pocket of infection near the buttocks region that drains and bleeds, and its cause is mostly due to an abundance of hair growing in that area. I have had two operations and both have failed. My surgeon recommended looking into laser hair removal in order to be able to have the surgery once more, and not have to worry about hair getting into the incision and recreating the problem.
The exact cause of pilonidal sinus remains controversial. But hair remains a dominant theory. Pilonidal
sinus has many infected tracts and sinuses. All these tracts need to be removed to assure healing and lessen the recurrence rate.
Hair around the buttocks can be decreased with laser hair prior to surgery. Depending on the color and density of hair the laser hair removal can take few sessions. The person doing the laser hair has to be concerned because of infection and drainage, because the handle of the laser hair could get contaminated and can not be sterilized or autoclaved.
I don't think that the laser will go so deep to reach the periostium of the bone where this hair grows in the case of Pylonidal cyst. Laser hair removal can be used in all of the skin of you body if you have dark hair, and it has an specifi penetration in milimiters.
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Scaled-Down: St Paul's Carnival Update
St Pauls Carnival Committee has announced that this year’s event on the 7th July will be a much smaller affair due to the lack of donations leaving them without enough money to put on a celebration of its usual scale.
The Carnival will still include a procession with music performance, food and goods stalls, information stands, Mandela’s Hideaway for children in St Agnes Park and will see the return of the dominoes and chess tournaments run at Carnival in its early years.
Changes will involve everything being contained within the Portland Square area, the stage performance element being reduced, no fairground rides and the night time Sound Systems moving to licensed indoor venues in and around St Pauls, instead of their usual on-street presence.
Last year’s event was a huge success, however, despite an attendance of 100,000, which costs £250,000 to fund, donations only amounted to £3,000. The carnival is partly funded by Bristol City Council and the Arts Council but it is not enough to cover the cost of maintaining such a large scale event.
Rebecca Gibbs, chair of the committee “It is simple - to secure the future of the Carnival we cannot spend more than the available funds. It has been a difficult decision which has come at the end of a complex and time-consuming process of continued fundraising and consultation."
Anyone who wants to invest in Carnival’s future can find more information on the Carnival website, www.stpaulscarnival.co.uk/getinvolved
For further information please contact St Pauls Carnival office, The Coach House, Upper York Street, Bristol, BS2 8QN. Telephone:0117 944 4176
Email: email@example.com Web: www.stpaulscarnival.co.uk
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Regular monthly bleeding or menstruation occurs in all women from adolescence to the end of the menopausal change of life.
Just before menstruation some women become nervous and irritable and suffer from depression, headaches, fullness in the breasts,
and swelling in the lower extremities. This may be due to increased hormone activity from the adrenal glands during the latter
part of the menstrual cycle, causing retention of sodium and water in the tissues.
Some mild discomfort is to be expected at the beginning of menstruation. If there is severe pain it might be due to some abnormality
that should be corrected. Certain infections, such as syphilis, gonorrhea or tuberculosis may sometimes cause pelvic pain,
which may be aggravated during menstruation. Abnormal positions of the uterus may also lead to menstrual pain or discomfort.
Other causes for menstrual pain may be endometriosis and fibroids.
During menstruation there is an imbalance in hormones and brain activity, and it is thought that too much estrogen, uneven
levels of progesterone and an inability to fight with hormone changes are main causes of premenstrual syndrome.
Some women also have a slight show of blood on the day of ovulation, midway between the regular menstrual periods. This is
not abnormal. Malignant tumors of the uterus and cervix may also result in vaginal bleeding. Intermittent spotting may be
due to cervical polyp, which is common in women over forty years of age. Endometriosis may also cause heavy or painful bleeding.
Amenorrhoea or stoppage of menstrual flow is natural during pregnancy and at the menopause, but abnormal at any other time.
It denotes a debilitated and devitalized condition of the body. The main causes for this condition are anemia, worry, grief,
fright, or other serious emotional disturbances; malformation of the womb; tuberculosis; displacement of the womb; and debility,
especially after a serious illness.
Irregular periods can occur in several conditions like thyroid problems, obesity, iron deficiency, diabetes, drastic weight
loss, excessive exercising or stress. Changing contraceptive pills, and low dose pills may also interfere with the normal
menstrual pattern. Irregular periods can also delay in conceiving.
HOME REMEDIES FOR MENSTRUATION
· Goldenseal with a very small amount of mistletoe is an effective remedy to reduce blood flow.
· To relieve menstrual cramps quickly and easily, wrap a hot, wet towel around mid-section and lay in the fetal position.
· Chamomile, parsley, safflower, and squaw vine is useful in cases of amenorrhoea.
· Boil a teaspoon of saffron in a half cup of water until it reduces to a tablespoon. Divide into three portions and take
three times during the day. This gives relief to cramps.
· Make a paste of six or eight almonds and mix with a cup of milk, an egg yolk, a half-teaspoon sesame powder, and a teaspoon
honey. Take a couple of times a day to relieve cramps.
· Drink a glass of milk with a half-teaspoon cinnamon every night to relieve cramps.
· Place a pinch of dried ground ginger in a cup of hot boiling water for a tea (no sugar), and let steep for 5 minutes. Drink
this tea. It will give relief to the cramps.
· Dissolve 2 aspirins, 1/2 tsp. of sugar and 1/2 tsp. of honey into 1/2 cup of water. Drink this solution if you are missing
periods. This will lead to regular menstrual cycle.
· Take a teaspoon ground dried mint leaf and a teaspoon of honey twice a day to relieve cramps.
· Drink parsley, beet, carrot, and cucumber juices on a regular basis to relieve cramps.
· Dissolve half-teaspoon sesame seeds in hot water. Drink this twice daily to relieve spasmodic pain.
· Eat 5 raw adzuki beans (also called aduki, or azuki) will help to stop the heavy bleeding.
· Boil 1 cup of black beans in 5 cups of water and drink the juice half cup before your 3 meals this will help regulate menstruation.
· Mix half a teaspoon of fenugreek seeds in a cup of hot water and leave for half an hour; then drink (eat the seeds as well).
Do this every morning with an empty stomach. This will give strength to the uterus.
· Most of the problems in women arise due to undue stress of life. Reducing stress may help resolve the disorder in some women.
· Being either over- or underweight is a contributor to menstrual disorders. Women should make every effort to maintain a
· Agnus castus fruit, also known as chaste tree berry (Vitex), helps alleviate symptoms of PMS.
· Black cohosh (Remidfemin) has been used for amenorrhea and symptoms of menopause.
· Low-fat vegetarian diet during menstrual cycles leads to less pain and bloating and a shorter duration of premenstrual symptoms
than those who ate meat.
· Reducing caffeine, sugar, and alcohol intake during menstruation may be beneficial.
· Massage lobelia extract into any area that is cramped. Drink a tea of red raspberry leaves to prevent and reduce the severity
of menstrual cramps.
· Drink a tea of comfrey leaves and alfalfa to lessen the pain of muscle cramps.
· Drink 1 or 2 glasses of tomato juice, every day. It will give significant improvement in your flow, and fewer cramps in
your next period.
· Parsley is one of the most effective among the several home remedies in the treatment of menstrual disorders. It increases
menstruation and assists in the regularization of the monthly periods.
· The unripe papaya helps the contractions of the muscle fibres of the uterus and is very effective in maintaining a proper
· Put an entire Bengal gram plant in hot water. Take a bath to get relief from painful menstruation.
· The herb Marigold, named after the Virgin Mary, is useful in alleviating any pain during menstruation and facilitating menstrual
flow. One tablespoon of the herb should be taken twice daily for the treatment of these disorders.
· The use of banana flower is one of the most effective home remedies in the treatment of menorrhagia or excessive menstruation.
One banana flower should be cooked and eaten with one cup of curd.
· Coriander seeds are also effective in the treatment of excessive menstruation. Six grams of these seeds should be boiled
in half a litre of water. Boil the mixture till only half the water remains. Sugar candy should be added to it and the patient
should drink it when it is still warm.
· The juice of the fresh mango bark is another valuable remedy for heavy bleeding during menstruation. The juice can be taken
along with white of an egg or some mucilage- a kind of vegetable glue obtained from a plant, and a small quantity of the kernel
of a poppy.
· The bark of the Ashoka tree is an effective remedy for excessive blood loss during the monthly period, which occurs due
to uterine fibroids and other causes. About 90 gm of the bark should be boiled in 30 ml of milk and 360 ml of water till the
total quantity is reduced to about 90 gm. This quantity should be given in one day, in two or three doses. The treatment should
commence from the fourth day of the monthly period and should be continued till the bleeding is stopped. A fresh decoction
should be made for use each day.
· The herb Indian barberry is also useful in case of excessive bleeding. It should be given in doses of thirteen to twenty-five
· The herb rough chaff is also valuable in excessive menstruation. Prepare a solution by heating 15 gm of rough chaff in 250
ml of water and use for treating this condition.
· The herb hermal is useful in regulating the menstrual periods. It is especially beneficial in painful
and difficult menstruation. Two tablespoons of the seeds should be boiled in half a litre of water, till it is reduced by
one - third. This mixture should be given in 15 to 30ml doses.
· Hemp can be successfully used when menses do not start at the scheduled time. Five large heads of hemps should be boiled
in half a litre of water till the water is reduced to half. It should then be strained and drunk before going to bed for two
or three nights.
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Although Grupo Bancolombia already had internal control policies and procedures in place prior to the establishment of the US Sarbanes-Oxley Act, the financial group went a step further by adopting and implementing an internal control management system to help ensure compliance.
To aid in the design and assessment of the internal control system, Grupo Bancolombia implemented Internal Control-Integrated Framework from the Committee of Sponsoring Organizations of the Treadway Commission (COSO) and COBIT®, which was developed by ISACA, and is available as a free download from www.isaca.org/cobit.
Grupo Bancolombia is a financial group that operates multiple banking services including investment, factoring, fiduciary, leasing, renting and stock market, and it is the first bank in Colombia for assets and market participation. Founded in 1875, Bancolombia operates in Colombia and El Salvador; has subsidiaries in Panama, the Cayman Islands, Puerto Rico and Peru; and has an agency in Miami, Florida, USA. Approximately 650 of the group’s 17,000 employees work in information technology (IT).
Grupo Bancolombia recognized that efficient and secure technology improves overall efficiency, profitability, growth, reliability and compliance. To help achieve its goal of enterprisewide process integration, the group needed a framework that would assist in numerous areas needing improvement—a disjointed IT process with little governability, audit gaps, a lack of documentation and a reactionary approach. COBIT was chosen to help Grupo Bancolombia address its challenges and meet business requirements.
The board of directors of Grupo Bancolombia adopted COBIT as a reference model based on three premises:
- COBIT is used worldwide by auditors to verify adherence to and compliance with IT internal controls.
- COBIT helps to ensure compliance with the US Sarbanes-Oxley Act.
- COBIT provides a proactive approach to improving technology processes and services.
In addition, COBIT was chosen because it facilitates a balance between compliance and performance and because it complements COSO, the group’s organizational internal control model. Grupo Bancolombia utilizes COBIT to proactively address internal and external audits and operating risk compliance.
Grupo Bancolombia has achieved excellent results using COBIT. There is now a shared vision, a unique language, alignment between business strategic planning and IT strategic planning, clarity in roles and responsibilities, a stronger sense of teamwork, and the knowledge of strengths and weaknesses. Several initiatives are still underway, including consolidating all IT throughout the enterprise.
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The latest news from academia, regulators
research labs and other things of interest
Posted: June 4, 2008
New nanopaper more break-resistant than cast iron
(Nanowerk News) Researchers in Sweden and Japan report development of a new type of paper that resists breaking when pulled almost as well as cast iron. The new material, called “cellulose nanopaper,” is made of sub-microscopic particles of cellulose and may open the way for expanded use of paper as a construction material and in other applications, they suggest. Their study is scheduled for the June 9 issue of ACS’ Biomacromolecules ("Cellulose Nanopaper Structures of High Toughness").
A Cross-section of a fracture surface of a cellulose nanofibril film. (Image: American Chemical Society)
In the new study, Lars A. Berglund and colleagues note that cellulose — a tough, widely available substance obtained from plants — has potential as a strong, lightweight ingredient in composites and other materials in a wide range of products. Although cellulose-based composites have high strength, existing materials are brittle and snap easily when pulled.
The study described a solution to this problem. It involves exposing wood pulp to certain chemicals to produce cellulose nanopaper. Their study found that its tensile strength — a material’s ability to resist pull before snapping — exceeded that of cast iron. They also were able to adjust the paper’s strength by changing its internal structure
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Share price of
) increased as much as roughly 0.7% after the company's Board
authorized a share repurchase program, authorizing it to buy back
up to 400,000 shares over the next 12 months. This program is
expected to neutralize the dilution from shares of restricted
stock and stock options which were issued to employees this year
under Tenneco's long-term compensation plan.
The share repurchase authorization indicates Tenneco's strong
liquidity position. The company had $276 million of cash and cash
equivalents as of Sep 30, 2013. Tenneco intends to repurchase the
shares either in open market or through privately negotiated
transactions using cash from operations.
This is not the first share repurchase program undertaken by
Tenneco. It has undertaken such buybacks in 2011, 2012 and 2013.
In addition, Tenneco remains focused on improving its financial
position and continue to make strategic investments.
Tenneco reported third-quarter 2013 results on Oct 28. It
reported adjusted earnings per share of 99 cents, which surpassed
the Zacks Consensus Estimate of 95 cents. Earnings per share
surged 16.5% from 85 cents in the third quarter of 2012.
Revenues increased 10% year on year to $1.96 billion, beating the
Zacks Consensus Estimate of $1.95 billion. The increase was
attributable to higher revenues from all operating segments.
Tenneco is a leading manufacturer and supplier of emission
control, ride control systems, and systems for the automotive
original equipment manufacturers and the aftermarket. Currently,
the company retains a Zacks Rank #2 (Buy).
Some other stocks that are performing well in the industry where
Tenneco operates include
American Axle & Manufacturing Holdings Inc.
). While Visteon and Gentex sport a Zacks Rank #1 (Strong Buy),
American Axle has the same Zacks Rank as Tenneco.
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Malayalam writer-director Priyadarshan who has made over 50 films in Malayalam, Tamil, Telugu and Hindi is one of the leading directors in India. He was in the news recently when the Kerala film producers and distributors association banned the screening of all his films in the state. The reason: Kerala Film Chamber President Siyad Kokker has accused Priyadarshan of remaking his film, Summer In Bethlehem, in Tamil without taking his permission or paying for the rights. But Priyadarshan had hit back saying that Lesa Lesa was a hotchpotch of various films including Summer In Bethlehem, for which he says he had taken Kokker's permission. He has added that even Summer In Bethlehem was a copy of Hollywood films like Fiddler On The Roof and Come September.
In this exclusive interview to Sify.com the prolific director speaks on the ban and his future plans. Excerpts:
Why did the Kerala Film Producers and distributors association in the state put a ban on your films?
It was an arbitrary decision taken by Siyad Kokker, which has tarnished my reputation as a film maker. All that I did was to introduce Vikram Singh, the producer of Lesa Lesa to Kokker and after that Vikram had paid partly in cash and a cheque for the remake rights that later bounced. Vikram did not pay my full remuneration and also some technicians. Then how can Kokker put the blame on me! Let him go and sue the producer. Why me?
Did this incident hurt you?
I was hurt as it was Malayalam industry that made me and there are still producers after me to do films. Recently the theatre association had questioned the ban on me and has assured that they will go ahead and screen my films.
Your last Malayalam film Kilichundan Mambazham was a flop. Please comment.
It was not a flop as the producer and distributors made their money. As far as criticisms go, I am told that people could not relate to the Muslim milieu and their language in the film. I had faithfully depicted the Muslim dialect and culture with good research.
Your latest Hindi film Hungama is a super hit. Congratulations!
Hungama is turning out to be the biggest hit of the year. In Mumbai circuit the distributors informed me that it has overtaken Chalte Chalte collections.
What made Hungama click?
Hungama was a lighthearted comedy caper. The audience could leave all their problems behind and have a good laugh. I feel it's easier to scare or thrill people than to make them laugh. I put a precondition for myself while making Hungama was not to complicate the plot or confuse the audience. My dialogue writer Neeraj Vora helped me with the casting. I think casting in a comedy is all-important. Everything fell into place and now the film is a hit.
What are your future plans?
Right now I am busy with an offbeat Tamil film based on the weavers in Kanchipuram. After that I will be doing a comedy in Hindi with a ‘big’ star, whose name I can’t reveal now.
So will you be directing another Malayalam film?
I have no intention to direct another Malayalam film in the near future.
Not even with your good friend Mohanlal?
Priyan might not direct a film with Mohanlal, but connoisseurs of good cinema will tell what a treat it is to watch a Lal-Priyan comedy! Let's hope we get to watch a blockbuster from the dream team, again!
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Wenger hopes belief is reinforced
Arsene Wenger believes Arsenal should have more belief than ever in their potential title challenge after an impressive display in holding Barclays Premier League champions Manchester City to a draw.
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The Gunners earned a point at the Etihad Stadium when Laurent Koscielny made it 1-1 eight minutes from time but it was the least they deserved, particularly after largely dominating the first half.
They were made to pay for a defensive lapse in the 40th minute when Vito Mannone flapped at a corner and Joleon Lescott headed in, but Arsenal kept pressing and could even have won it had Gervinho made the most of a late opening.
The doom-mongers were predicting a season of struggle for Arsenal after they sold Robin van Persie to Manchester United in the summer and also saw key midfielder Alex Song leave, but they are yet to lose and have picked up nine points from five games.
Wenger said of the result: "I'm pleased because I feel it was the minimum we deserved. I'm pleased as well with the quality of our performance and our spirit. I'm a bit frustrated because I feel there was room to do more.
"We had early chances and of course very late chances, especially the chance of Gervinho at the edge of the box where we missed the target.
"But overall I hope the game will reinforce our belief, our confidence and reassure us about our potential in this league."
City boss Roberto Mancini was significantly less happy with his side's third draw from five games, which came five days after they suffered a last-gasp defeat by Real Madrid in their opening Champions League game.
The Italian is particularly concerned his side have not yet kept a clean sheet, with Koscielny's strike the seventh they have conceded in the league already.
Mancini said: "I'm very sorry for the players because it was difficult after Madrid but I'm worried because we conceded a goal. We need to improve and we need to work.
- Premier League
"In the last four games we've conceded three goals from set-pieces. This can't happen. I'm frustrated but the players are frustrated about this. If you want to win, clean sheets are important."
The result left City in seventh, four points behind leaders Chelsea and three adrift of Manchester United, and Mancini urged his team to forget about last season.
He said: "What we did has finished - it's history. Now we are like all the other teams and I don't like that we drew three games. Probably we're missing two points, from the game against Stoke maybe."
Mancini, though, shrugged off an incident after the game where he appeared to push striker Mario Balotelli, a late substitute, down the tunnel.
He admitted the Italy forward is probably unhappy about his lack of playing time, but said: "I don't remember what happened after the game. I don't know if he was asking me something - it was not important. Tomorrow I'll ask him."
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You’re tossing and turning and can’t sleep – even though you’ve closed the curtains, turned off the lights, and done everything else to quiet your mind.
Your problem may be not taking the proper steps to prepare yourself physically for sleep, says Dr. Colleen Carney, Associate Professor, Department of Psychology, Ryerson University, Toronto and author of “Goodnight Mind: Turn off Your Noisy Thoughts and Get a Good Night’s Sleep.”
Here are some sleep tips from Dr. Carney and other experts on how to tune out, relax and drift off to sleep:
Be out of bed and active for a sufficient amount of time during the day. “That builds a drive or pressure for deep sleep the next night,” says Carney.
You should also get up at the same time every day. “If you’re not ready to go to sleep at your regular bedtime, then you shouldn’t. You should wait because you’ll just lay awake, but you should always get up at the same time no matter what,” says Carney.
Lastly, avoid hitting the snooze button, even after a night of sleeplessness. It’s almost impossible to make up for lost sleep in the morning hours, even though lots of people try to, says Carney.
“Any sleep we get in the morning is light, so you’re robbing yourself of the time you could be investing in the subsequent night’s deep sleep, or sleep drive. You’ll just be groggy and try to boost yourself with caffeine and try to make up for it by going to sleep early the next night which could be difficult as you slept in that morning.”
Realize that if you get enough activity and “sleep drive” during the day, you won’t need “whale sounds,” sleep masks and other sleep gadgets to lull you off to sleep at night. If you do need these aids, it might be a sign that you’re preoccupied with sleep and too engaged in what Carney calls “sleep effort” which is linked to insomnia. ”Falling sleep is like falling in love; it’s not an effort enterprise.”
Experiment with yoga, tai chi, meditation and other mind-quieting pursuits, but do it well before your bed time.
Leave your anxieties at the bedroom door. People get panicky about deadlines; they think everything is an emergency and they find it difficult to “disentangle” and thus can’t sleep at night, says Carney.
If you’re prone to unfinished business or problem-solving and list making, then do that but much earlier, when you’re at your problem-solving best, and outside of the bedroom buffer zone, she says.
Instead, do something reasonably pleasant in the evening. This will vary from person to person, says Dr. Diane Boivin, Director, Centre for Study and Treatment of Circadian Rhythms, Douglas Institute, and Professor, Department of Medicine, McGill University, Montreal, “If reading a few lines or pages in a book helps you to relax, and this doesn’t make it harder for you to fall asleep and it doesn’t disturb your sleep schedule, that’s okay as long as it’s not on a tablet or other electronic device.”
If the problem persists:
If you can’t sleep, have trouble getting to sleep, or falling back to sleep within 20 minutes of waking up in the night, get out of bed and do something calming. “If the mind is busy and won’t shut off, sometimes giving the brain a repetitive task to do – like the old stand-by of counting sheep – can help,” says Dr. Maureen Ceresney, a Sleep Specialist at the University of British Columbia, Vancouver.
Secondly, try altering your body’s internal thermostat. “Having a cup of warm milk or herbal tea, taking a hot bath an hour or two before bed, or getting some cardiovascular exercise in the late afternoon or early evening, can facilitate this process,” says Ceresney.
If it helps, you can also darken the bedroom – as light interferes with melatonin production and may cause biological clock related problems.
Consider seeking medical assistance if the above approaches don’t work and you still can’t sleep, says Dr. Atul Khullar, a psychiatrist, and Medical Director, Northern Alberta Sleep Clinic (MedSleep Edmonton). “If lack of sleep is causing interference with daytime function, if the problem is not going away; if it has been consistent, and if it’s really getting in the way of your life, then it’s time to get it reviewed.”
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It has also ruled that the longer you stay with one insurance company. In the policy held by the car that you don't already have an awards system for their car. When you consider the fact that it can help you save money on your house owner and a low point, many consumers from getting a cheap auto insurance premium in the premium of up to chance rather than making it difficult to find cheaper insurance rates.
It is true in your emergency funds. Get the necessary information you are deemed to be penalized again and again to attract people to be simple but, take it out from your auto insurance is going to raise their auto insurance from one insurer. Does switching to USAA make sense for me?
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On this cold, windy day, Pacific Garden Mission is home to more than the homeless.
Tourists and radio buffs join them to pack an auditorium along a part of South State Street known as “Tramp’s Trail” to hear program No. 2357 of “Unshackled,” billed as the longest continuous-running radio drama still on the air.
The program was first broadcast Sept. 23, 1950, with the story of the life and conversion of evangelist Billy Sunday. Forty-five years later, it still re-enacts true-life stories of people who through Christianity have overcome hardships ranging from alcoholism to promiscuity.
Standing before a microphone and a huge sign declaring, “He (Christ) made peace through the blood of his cross. Col. 1:20,” the radio announcer reads from his script.
“The scene is the same all over the world, whether in small town or big city, young people and some not so young drawn to the local hangout,” announcer Bob O’Donnell says. “They drink and joke and go home empty-hearted, each one looking for something, someone, some answer to their loneliness. This is what Sheila Harris found and how she was ‘Unshackled!”’
The 30-minute program is recorded before a live audience every Saturday at Pacific Garden Mission, a homeless shelter. More than 1,000 stations (including Spokane’s KMBI-FM) broadcast it to listeners on six continents.
A committee verifies facts of stories offered by listeners by contacting references such as pastors and relatives.
The production is a scene from the past.
A sound-effects man re-creates the sounds of a bar with clinking glasses, of children catching tadpoles by splashing water in a bucket. An organist provides scene transitions, sometimes with a soft melody, sometimes a crescendo of ominous chords.
The program originally focused on alcoholism and drugs, but problems like child and spousal abuse and meaningless lives are now common.
“We’re not restricted to Skid Row stories,” says O’Donnell, wearing a gold unshackled handcuff pin on his lapel.
This program, to be broadcast in February, focuses on a woman whose life was marred by booze, beatings and the wrong man - until she met the right man who led her to Christ.
The story tells how this woman, portrayed by Judith Easton, searched for love “in all the wrong places.”
“She found what she was seeking,” the announcer says, “when her mind and heart and life were unshackled.”
Easton is among about 150 actors who perform for “Unshackled.” Some, but not all, are religious.
Earlier this year, she portrayed herself, a woman who had fought addictions to alcohol, drugs and sex.
“God was not a big part of my upbringing,” she says. “I had a perception that only stupid and weak people believed in Jesus Christ.”
She was starting to get her life under control when she went to work for “Unshackled.” But it was only a job, and she resisted the mission’s Gospel message.
Then a medical problem left her face half-paralyzed, and increasingly that message and the “Unshackled” stories touched her. In 1993 she was baptized at a Mennonite church.
Michael Kinard, a small, unshaven man who like hundreds of other homeless people is spending this frigid night at the mission, joins the program’s audience.
“The actors … let me know that there is hope and God is real,” says Kinard, who attends the mission’s Bible classes.
David Sonear, the mission superintendent, agrees.
“Giving soup every day or a sandwich every day is nice, but you don’t give the people any direction off this homeless merry-go-round,” he says.
Spiritual help, he believes, provides that direction.
“We try to reach people when they are in the depths of their despair,” Sonear says.
MEMO: This sidebar appeared with the story: PROGRAM TIME “Unshackled” airs Saturday nights at 9 on Spokane’s KMBI-FM, 107.9.
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[ syll. mar-va-lee, ma-rval-ee ] The baby girl name Marvalee is pronounced MAARVAHLIY- †. Marvalee is of English origin and it is also used mainly in English. From the combination of other given names, but now used as an independent name in its own right.Variant forms share both the origin and meaning of the name Marvalee. See also the related forms, the English Lee and the English and German Marvin.
Marvalee is not widely used as a baby name for girls. It is not in the top 1000 names.
† approx pronunciation for Marvalee: M as in "me (M.IY)" ; AA as in "odd (AA.D)" ; R as in "race (R.EY.S)" ; V as in "vow (V.AW)" ; AH as in "mud (M.AH.D)" ; L as in "lay (L.EY)" ; IY as in "eat (IY.T)"
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Stahl hosts open gym night for local community
Stahl Elementary School hosted its second Open Gym night of the year for the Stahl community. Students, parents and siblings of students were invited to participate in fun activities like basketball, hula hoop, jump rope.
These two kids are having fun trying to accomplish double dutch jumping.
These kids just may be trying to break the world record for 30 second speed at 188 jumps.
After a great jump rope workout it is nice having the energy to still smile for the camera.
Posted on Mar. 8, 2013
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Chargers linebacker Shawne Merriman says he’s ready to move forward after signing his one-year tender offer, but he won’t be ready to play in Saturday’s preseason game.
Kevin Acee of the San Diego Union-Tribune reports that an Achilles’ tendon injury Merriman has battled for years flared up on Tuesday night and will almost certainly sideline Merriman Saturday.
“It’s tough, working my way back into it,” Merriman said. “I knew coming in that it’s a lot of work and we’d have to take it one day at a time.”
Merriman says swelling and soreness in the Achilles has bothered him “on and off for years,” and Merriman’s health has to be a concern for the Chargers, who will pay Merriman $3.269 million this season.
Foot and Achilles injuries plagued Merriman last year, and in 2008 he missed every game except the opener with a knee injury. Merriman has never played all 16 games in a season.
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Tech Professionals Could Earn More Through Hiring Negotiations: Dice
According to a majority of hiring managers and recruiters, more than half of tech professionals accept the first offer without negotiating either starting salaries or hourly rates, a report from Web-based IT job specialist Dice found.
The plurality of respondents tagged 5 percent as the average bump tech professionals receive from the initial offer when they negotiate. To put that in context, the national average salary for technology professionals is currently $85,619, which means in year one, not haggling costs tech pros $4,300 on average. The report also noted performance pay, such as bonuses, is usually rewarded as a percentage of salaries and the compounding effects over a long career.
Nearly half (49 percent) of survey respondents said they only occasionally raise their offers when a technology candidate does not take the initial salary or hourly rate offered. Just 6 percent of the 838 hiring managers and recruiters surveyed said they do so very frequently, slightly more than a quarter (27 percent) said they do so frequently, and 11 percent said they only do so rarely.
"The only explanation for the lack of haggling is fear. When fear creeps into a negotiation or stops it all together, it's good to remember negotiation is simply a discussion aimed at reaching an agreement," Tom Silver, senior vice president of Dice, wrote in a company blog post. "Straight-talk meetings are a standard in tech departments, there's no reason tech professionals can't do that with job offers. The company has tapped the talent, but the employer is not tapped out—ask for more."
The report also listed the number of available tech jobs in the United States as of April 1, which stood at 83,610 open positions. Nearly 50,000 of these available jobs were full-time positions, while 36,712 were contract-based offerings, 1,847 were part-time positions, and 580 were telecommuting offers.
The New York metro area led the nation for open technology jobs, with 8,511, followed by the D.C./Baltimore metro area with 7,073. Silicon Valley ranked third with 5,240 open positions, followed by Chicago (3,784), with Los Angeles rounding out the top five with 3,301 open positions. Boston placed sixth with 3,190 tech jobs, besting Atlanta, which offered IT pros 3,120 job opportunities. Dallas, with 3,030 positions, ranked eighth, while Philadelphia, with 2,495 open jobs, and Seattle, with 2,386 IT positions, rounded out the top 10.
In the overall IT jobs sector, more tech jobs have been created in the three and a half years since the end of the Great Recession than under the same recovery timelines in either 1991 or 2001, according to a Dice report in January. The report found that the unemployment rate for tech professionals steadied in the fourth quarter at 3.3 percent, less than half the national average, which improved to average 7.8 percent in the quarter. In comparison, the IT sector unemployment rate stood at 4.4 percent in the first quarter of 2012.
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We’ve all been there: Paper or plastic? Organic or local? Hybrid or diesel? In these confusing times, Joe Everyman is caught in the crosshairs of consumer responsibility. It’s not enough to be good, you have to decide which good is best! Such is the premise behind ABC’s new toon sitcom from John Altschuler, Dave Krinsky and Mike Judge about a family of wannabe world changers, The Goode Family.
The show’s titular characters, the Goodes, are a middle class family trying to stay ahead of constantly shifting politically correct tides’and not quite succeeding. They’re all vegan’including their dog, who resorts to chowing on suburban fauna’and though they adopted an African orphan, turns out little Ubuntu is a white-as-snow Afrikaaner with apartheid running through his veins.
Premiering Wednesday, May 27th at 9 p.m., The Goode Family offers fans familiary Judge-style comedy with an interesting look: ‘One thing that was important to us was the animation’ We were all fans of ’70s underground comics ‘ they’re very colorful, very cheerful, yet there’s this shading that makes you feel like there’s something else going on,’ explains Altschuler. However, this complex, hippie-era style was full of complicated lines and proved a challenge. Luckily the talented team at Starz’s Film Roman studio was available to churn out the digital hand-drawn animation for 13 hilarious episodes!
Despite what Krinsky describes as ‘the day to day hardness of animation,’ both producers feel that it’s been worth the struggle. And rest assured, granola munchers, they’re not just taking the mick: ‘One of the important aspects is that we’re not trying to make fun of people who are trying to do good,’ Altschuler explains, ‘We’re making fun of the opportunists who are doing things like selling an ‘eco watch’ that’s just a 100-year-old self-winding watch.’
Left to right: Dave Krinsky, John Altschuler, Mike Judge
Be sure to pick up the June/July issue of Animation Magazine for more of John Altschuler and Dave Krinsky’s thoughts on their latest project, The Goode Family, and catch a glimpse of the show below:
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I read on an Italian blog (and so this is at the level of rumor for now) that the Roman ecclesiastical tailor shop Gammarelli sent a mozzetta over the the Apostolic Palace. A mozzetta is the elbow length red cape, often trimmed in ermine, worn by the Roman Pontiff over his white cassock.
Tuesday, today, is the Mass of the “inauguration” of Francis’ pontificate.
Tomorrow the Pope has an audience with delegations of Christian ‘churches’. Were the Pope to put on the mozzetta, that would be a good occasion. That would be the apt thing to do. It would be a sign of respect. The Pope will also soon have an audience with the diplomatic corps. The Pope, a head of state, should dress his part. The rest of the diplomats will.
This leads to “the point”, in case some of the enthusiasts run to the combox having missed it.
Remember, a mozzetta, in itself, is nothing. Popes don’t have to wear a mozzetta all the time. There are, however, occasions in which such trappings and signs of office, solemn and traditional, have their proper place. They send signals. The non-use of these symbols also sends signals.
People who say that these things are not important, or are bad, or that they should be eliminated are just plain wrong. That is a naive, shallow, approach to who we are. Catholics are not “either/or” when it comes to the dynamic interplay of the humble and the lofty. We are “both/and”, in proper measure, time and place.
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Afternoon Round-Up 2/22/12
Local, State, Federal Legislation:
Last week, the South Fulton city commission passed the first reading of an ordinance that would allow the fire department to respond to rural fire calls.
Governor Steve Beshear's constitutional amendment to legalize casinos in Kentucky passed the Senate's State and Local Government committee 7-4 today.
A federal appeals court says the landmark 1998 national settlement between 46 states and 19 tobacco companies is valid and doesn't amount to a government conspiracy or anti-competitive behavior.
Kentucky High Schools:
A bill creating an alternative diploma for special needs students is one vote away from becoming law.
The Kentucky High School Athletics Association Commissioner says bass fishing will be a high school varsity sport next year.
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1.1 This specification cover nickel-chromium-molybdenum-tungsten alloys (UNS N06110) in the form of cold-worked seamless pipe and tube in the conditions shown in Table 1.
1.2 Hot-worked material is available. Properties and permissible tolerances are to be agreed upon between the manufacturer and purchaser.
1.3 The values stated in inch-pound units are to be regarded as the standard. The SI units in parentheses are provided for information only.
1.4 The following precautionary caveat pertains only to the test method portion, Section 8, of this specification: This standard may involve hazardous materials, operations, and equipment. This standard does not purport to address all of the safety problems associated with its use. It is the responsibility of the user of this standard to establish appropriate safety and health practices and determine the applicability of regulatory limitations prior to use.
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B829 Specification for General Requirements for Nickel and Nickel Alloys Seamless Pipe and Tube
E8 Test Methods for Tension Testing of Metallic Materials
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Todd has left the Arena after just nine league games in charge
Colin Todd has left his post as manager of League Two strugglers Darlington after four months in charge.
The Quakers have only collected two points this season including Saturday's 1-1 draw at Grimsby, Todd's last game.
He told BBC Tees: "It was agreed before today's game that if we didn't get the win then I'd be leaving.
"At certain levels you're dictated by results, the time factor sometimes isn't long enough but you have to take the rough with the smooth."
He added: "I think the chairman should have been here to address the situation. I've had the players all in together and nobody had any idea, not even my staff [that I was going]."
When asked who had suggested he should leave if Darlington failed to win, Todd added: "It was the chairman. It was [a feeling of] disappointment. It was always going to be a difficult job here and a long job."
But Quakers' managing director Graham Fordy said that Todd's departure had been a mutual agreement.
"He met the chairman on Monday and agreed if a victory didn't come his way on Saturday that he would resign and that's exactly what he's done," he said.
Todd, who is the seventh Football League manager to lose his job this season, believes that the next boss will be brought in from outside the club.
"I know for a fact it will be somebody new," he said. "[Dean] Windass will not get the job so they're looking for someone, I don't know what type of manager," he added.
The ex-Middlesbrough, Bradford, Bolton, Derby and Swindon boss was handed the manager's job at the Arena by returning chairman George Houghton in May.
Before his appointment he had been coaching in Denmark with Randers.
Todd took over at Darlington after former boss Dave Penney left to take charge at League One Oldham.
The Quakers were forced to assemble a new side during the summer after most of last year's squad left.
Raj Singh, who has since taken over as Quakers chairman, said it was regrettable that the club had parted company with Todd.
"Colin is keen to do what's right for the club and accepts the time is right for him to step aside," he told the club's website.
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Note: This is a guest post by Stephen Martin. Check out his blog at Messy Quest. Then return and read this outstanding (and very funny!) post. Show him plenty of love in the comments and by sharing this article too! 🙂
A few months ago, the following dinner conversation unfolded in our dining room:
My 8-year-old son to my 5-year-old daughter: You just got tomato sauce on your shirt.
My 5-year-old daughter: Oops. That’s ok, though. Daddy will clean it in the laundry.
Visiting neighbor child: Your dad does the laundry?
In fact, I am The Chief Launderer in our house. My wife handles some things, too, like the cooking, the cleaning, the banking, the carpooling, running her own business and monitoring my toenails. But when it comes to Ragu stains, I’m the main man.
As I dumped yet another scoop of detergent into the washing machine recently, I philosophized a bit about how laundry gets a bad rap. It’s generally considered a chore that gets in the way of more exciting things, a hindrance to real productivity.
I beg to differ.
Much of what I’ve been able to accomplish over the past few years – being a father, writing a book, staying energized in my day job – came about largely because of what I learned from doing laundry.
In my rookie days, I adhered to “the laundry day” – that epic weekly undertaking where you crank out as many loads as possible, mostly because you’re out of underwear. Then you wait until another crisis of smelly socks arises before doing it again.
Similarly, I spent my 20s waiting for “the perfect moment” to get started on numerous writing projects.
The writing never went anywhere, despite the vast amounts of free time I had in those bachelor years. What did I do when I should have been writing? I don’t really remember. I seem to recall eating a lot of tortilla chips. And fretting about all the writing I wasn’t doing.
Scarcity of time, it turns out, was what I needed. And that’s what I got. First came marriage. Then a son. Then a daughter. Suddenly, I didn’t have any time even to think about writing, or not writing.
Meanwhile, the laundry baskets overflowed with burp-stained shirts and pants smeared with pureed green beans. And those were just my clothes. There were many days when the kids easily went through five or six outfits.
If I’d waited for my typical weekend laundry day, they’d have been running around naked in the yard. Although that wouldn’t have been a first in my neighborhood.
Gradually, three principles emerged for dealing with this problem. Following them not only allowed me to keep my kids clothed most of the time. They also nurtured a personal breakthrough, taking my writing career in new directions during the absolute busiest time of my life.
1. Every Little Bit Counts
Quickly, I became a believer in incremental progress. If I had five free minutes, I’d sort out one hamper. Maybe an hour or two later, I’d do the next one.
Instead of doing five loads in one day, I’d do one or two loads a night for three days straight. True, this meant I was constantly doing laundry. I could never stand back and say, “All right, that project is DONE!”
But guess what? You’re never really done with laundry – and a lot of other things in life. I began to write the same way. Instead of waiting for totally free afternoons, I’d see what I could do with 30 uninterrupted minutes, or an hour if I was lucky.
Each time I made a little progress and built a little more momentum. And to be honest, these increments worked well. I don’t have much of an attention span anyway. The year after my son’s first birthday, I wrote six essays and published half of them. My total number of published essays in the 10 years before that: zero.
2. 80 percent is Good Enough
Not everyone will agree with this principle, but I challenge you to an independent evaluation of your sanity level versus mine.
When it came to the laundry, sometimes mistakes were made. A Kleenex left in a jeans pocket made it into the dryer where it shredded into annoying little feathery white pieces that covered an entire load. Sometimes, I’d miss a key spot or two with the stain spray. Occasionally, something marked “DRY FLAT ONLY” ended up on the high heat cycle.
But most of the clothes turned out fine, and we didn’t often have to resort to diving into a dirty laundry basket to excavate the least nasty socks.
Similarly, my writing wasn’t perfect. I could have labored longer over a phrase here and there, waited until exactly the right image came to me, stepped back and thought about things from a totally new lens. But I’d been doing that for the previous 10 years with nothing to show for it.
3. Be Prepared
Alas, my supplies did not always keep up with my new-found approach to laundry. Many times, I sorted the clothes, started pitching a load into the washer – and realized I was out of detergent, bleach or whatever semi-government-approved cleaning chemical I needed to get the job done that day.
Gradually, I learned to think ahead, taking care to have all these resources on hand and also never to mix them for fear of blowing up the laundry room. It was a strategy that carried over to writing as well. Any time I got 15 minutes at the keyboard, I already had a sense of what to write. So the opportunity was never wasted for lack of ideas, if not bad writing.
I could attempt to apply these same principles to taking care of my yard, but I won’t. Other people can write that post – and they’re welcome to mow my grass as well. I encourage you to pick one area of your life where you’re struggling to make progress and try out this approach.
Results might not come immediately. But they will show eventually, as sure as those stacks of dirty socks continue to rise.
Stephen Martin is a speechwriter and journalist who blogs at www.messyquest.com. His first book The Messy Quest for Meaning, which explores how to find a calling and tap into potential, will be released by Sorin Books in May 2012.
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There are probably few harder-working ensembles on stage in New York right now than the talented performers in "The Great American Trailer Park Musical." But even a committed cast without a single weak link struggles to breathe freshness into such a crassly cartoonish show.
There are probably few harder-working ensembles on stage in New York right now than the talented performers in “The Great American Trailer Park Musical.” But even a committed cast without a single weak link struggles to breathe freshness into such a crassly cartoonish show, its multitude of variations on a single joke pretty much played out long ago. Sure, even in the post-Jerry Springer era, some folks might still find the world of spray-on cheese, hoochy-koochy dancers, Bacon Bits and Magic Marker huffers hilarious. For others, the smile will begin to fade before the opening song ends.
It’s not that “Trailer Park” is enjoyment-free, as audience reactions at Dodger Stages can attest. The derivative numbers are relentlessly peppy and sung with gusto by some terrific voices; vulgar as they often are, many of the jokes are funny; and, in a gallery of gleefully unsubtle stereotypes, there’s one priceless comic characterization. But overall, this raucous show has all the cutting edge of a “Mama’s Family” rerun and might ultimately play better in the hinterland than in more sophisticated markets like New York.
That’s if the media and the American public’s rediscovery since the Katrina disaster of the poor and uneducated hasn’t rendered the denizens of a “manufactured housing community” in hurricane-plagued North Florida a sour target for humor.
A hit in the 2004 New York Musical Theater Festival, the show’s book by Betsy Kelso is a roughly stitched together series of sketches that more or less constitutes a narrative. Some accomplished hands have been brought in to help fortify the material for commercial presentation: Derek McLane’s set and Markas Henry’s costumes supply the appropriate garish look; Donald Holder’s lighting is similarly vibrant; Sergio Trujillo’s droll choreography is amusing in a way that’s refreshingly low-key compared to the overriding tone here.
But while precision execution might have helped disguise the limitations of a comic musical even this obvious, comedy writer-performer Kelso’s inexperience as a director shows in the clumsy blocking and unsteady focus.
The story is told by a Greek chorus of three Armadillo Acres residents: Benign bad-ass Betty (Linda Hart), the trailer park’s widowed leasing manager; Lin (Marya Grandy), named for the Linoleum floor on which she was born, whose husband is on death row waiting to fry; and Pickles (Leslie Kritzer), a 17-year-old blonde “dumber than a box of hair” and prone to hysterical pregnancies.
Addressing the audience directly, the ladies introduce toll collector Norbert (Shuler Hensley) and his agoraphobic wife, Jeannie (Kaitlin Hopkins), who hasn’t left their trailer since 1983. A recap of that year traces Jeannie’s trauma to a bad perm and the kidnapping of their child, Elvis.
Jeannie vows to overcome her phobia in time to attend the Ice Capades for their 20th anniversary. But her progress is slowed when exotic dancer Pippi (Orfeh) comes between man and wife, striking up a passionate affair with lonely Norbert. More complications arise when Pippi’s substance-sniffing boyfriend, Duke (Wayne Wilcox), descends on the trailer park, having pursued her from Oklahoma City to Florida.
Aside from the welcome intrusion of a couple of emotional ballads, David Nehls’ songs have a twangy, up-tempo sound that’s pleasant enough even if they do all seem vaguely familiar and a little interchangeable.
The showstopper (evidently designed as an act one closer before the musical was squeezed during previews into an intermissionless single act) is “Storm’s A-Brewin’,” a brazen disco rip-off of “It’s Raining Men,” replete with Hart doing some fearsome Patti LaBelle-style caterwauling and Hensley in full Meatloaf/Jim Steinman mode.
In a musical too often ruled by the tiresome profanity-equals-laughs equation (“Rendezvous … That’s French for fuckin’ “), there’s a lazy tendency to assume that cheesy pop-culture references or tacky props will work comic magic. Despite the foxy frontline presence of Hart, channeling Ethel Merman via Sally Jessy Raphael, “Great American TV Show,” which riffs on daytime dirty-laundry yackfests becomes belabored, while chorines using toilet brushes as microphones in the love-gone-bad song, “Flushed Down the Pipes,” is funny for about seven seconds. The nasty humor in Wilcox’s “Road Kill” number has more kick.
Hopkins and Hensley do a fine job on the more tender songs like the pretty, country-flavored “Owner of My Heart,” and “But He’s Mine/It’s Never Easy” with Orfeh. And the latter’s power pipes are put to especially good use in the finale, “Make Like a Nail.”
While the entire cast is consistently better than the material, honors go to the delightful Kritzer. Playing Pickles like a Skipper doll brought to life, her screwy line readings and asinine facial expressions are unpredictable enough to make a standard-issue bubblehead into an endearing, almost original character, something the rest of the show never achieves.
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C/o New Mahalaxmi Silk MIlls Mathuradas Mills Compound Tulsi Pipe Road Lower Parel, 400013 Mumbai, India
What is it that makes me ‘me’ and you ‘you'? Broken down to the basic unit, rounded off to the last decimal point, what of us will remain if our being, this Sisyphean burden we bear daily, is removed quite out of the blue? A few strands of hair on the bed we sleep in, the smell of skin under the sheets, our well dug footprints on the soles of shoes, tossed indelicately once beyond the familiar threshold of home.
And perhaps a note. Poignant in its brevity and aptly mystifying.
But will these things, this ‘stuff’ essentially, knickknacks which we lend meaning to and which lend meaning to us, finally be enough to accumulate and reconstruct ‘me’ in my absence? Can the book I left unfinished and the music I left playing be added and multiplied and divided to give the audience (strangers who will walk into my house while I am gone and try and sniff me out) a clear picture of who I think I am? Or will they notice the chair for the chair, the windows for the window and in their unfeeling incapacity to gauge meaning in my things render me meaningless?
Gautam Bhatia, The Good Life, Poster colours on wood, 2012; Courtesy of the artist and The Loft At Lower Parel
Before everything else ‘Reconstructing (White)3’, at the Loft Lower Parel, is a story, scattered in bits and waiting for you to come along and put it all together. The premise is simple yet effective. The recently redone gallery space is rearranged in the form of a young girl’s studio apartment, perfectly plausible with its spiffy looking sitting space, the tiny (but effective) kitchenette and that rather enviable bedroom against large slanting windows. The Loft is built into the ghostly remains of what was once the Mathuradas Mills and the nostalgia of the structure blends well with the melancholia of an abandoned home. And this feels like an abandoned home, you sense just as you realize you are tiptoeing around the gallery, like an uninvited stranger in an empty apartment, significantly intrigued by your surrounding but afraid of being discovered and asked to leave.
If you admit to it, the sense of walking around in somebody else’s house in their absence has its obvious thrills. As a child I remember relishing the feeling of intruding into the medicine cabinets of people’s homes I visited. The unabashed pleasures that only childhood can grant you led me to the discovery of the pure joy of rubbing on lotions and spraying on perfumes in a stranger’s washroom, the one place in someone else’s house that you were likely to be confidently alone in. The sweet taste of guilt and voyeuristic intimacy that I felt then, unknowingly, returned as I scrutinized corner after corner at the (White)3.
Praneet Soi, Untitled, Detail, Drawing on paper, 2012; Courtesy of the artist and The Loft At Lower Parel
The chilling reality of the bed and its crumpled disorderliness furthered the sensation. ‘Someone was here, here where I am sitting now, reading this book that I now hold, and she isn’t here anymore,’ I was telling myself. It is perhaps because we carry deep within us the inevitable possibility and fear of sudden obliteration that abrupt conclusions excite us the most. It is because we want to be remembered and felt even when absent that the absent becomes the focus of all our remembrances. As I sat there glancing through the bookshelf trying to understand an imaginary being through her taste in literature, I tried to ignore the eeriness that was beginning to give me goose bumps. What paced up my heartbeat further was the slight but effective sound loop that had been playing discreetly in the background but which I had so far been able to ignore.
The music was coming from artist Chittrovanu Mazumdar’s beautifully carved, marble bioscope that sat, ingenuously, in a corner, almost out of sight. Once you spotted it and put your eye on it, as expected, you were transported as if in a swish of a wand from that once-warehouse-now-gallery-but-presently-home-in-Mumbai scenario to glimpses of yet other cities, other homes, some utterly familiar, others equally foreign. For a moment that lasts an eternity you are consumed by that box and you are your eye and no sensation apart from all that you see registers or makes sense. And as you take your eyes off it you swing dangerously in between places, in between homes. That odd collage of music which you can still hear, a few notes of jazz, an old Bangla song that reminds you of evening, quickly fades into the background once again. It drifts in and out of the home you stand in, incongruously charming, as music floating in through the window tends to be.
And just as you began humming the familiar tune, unaware, finally at ease alone in a stranger’s home, a snippet of sound from the bioscope, this time the tinkling cascade of metal, makes you start. You turn around in taut anticipation, convinced that someone has walked through the door and flung her keys on the floor.
(Image on top: Chittrovanu Mazumdar, Untitled, 2012, Mixed Media; Courtesy of the artist and The Loft At Lower Parel)
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For his Jakarta Fashion Week 2009 show, Afif Syakur cloaked his models in a look that could easily be described as traditional meets futurism. Draped in floor-length silver gowns with embellishments like silver bows and rhinestones, the cuts mirrored more traditional looks, yet the fabric choice and metallic sheen were very much reflective of the designer's leading edge adoption of galactic fashion.
The Afif Syakur show look place at the Fashion Tent at Pacific Place in Jakarta, Indonesia earlier this month. Check out the gallery for more images from the collection, then have a look at a few more galactic fashion looks we've seen by other designers around the world in the related articles below.
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Part 1, Chapters 33-28, pgs. 1-34
• The reader meets Victor Ward, a famous male model. Victor is in charge of opening his friend's new bar. Victor has a very nervous personality and often uses Xanax to help him cope with stress.
• Although Victor has a supermodel girlfriend, he is also having an affair with his friend's girlfriend. Even if he wanted to break off the affair, he couldn't because the girl, Allison, threatens to tell her real boyfriend who has the power to ruin Victor's career.
Part 1, Chapters 29 - 24, pgs. 35 - 71
• Victor meets with some friends at Bowery Bar to discuss the opening of Damien's new club. It is clear that people suspect his affair with Allison, and Chloe even asks him outright if he's cheating on her, but Victor continually denies it.
• There are also rumors that Victor is planning to open his own club, which he would...
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The Model 597 with scope starts with the proprietary bolt-guidance system, which features a unique set of twin tool-steel guide rails for better stability, feeding reliability and greater out-of-the-box accuracy. Of course, Remington didn't stop there, the bolt, hammer and sear of the Model 597 all feature an exclusive nickel-Teflon plating for smooth, dependable operation and an ultra-crisp trigger pull. To assure reliable, long-term accuracy, Remington also incorporated a unique positive-locking, permanently rigid barrel attachment clamp. Receivers are grooved for standard rimfire mounts and tapped/drilled for Weaver-style bases. Completing the breakthrough design are an innovative last-shot hold open magazine feature and the patented, easy-to-use staggered-stack magazine. These guns have 5R rifling.
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If Allah intends a thing, his only word is "BE" and it is. can you please explain why he took 6 days to create the heavens and earth?.
One of the firm beliefs held by people of deep faith and complete Tawheed is that the Lord, may He be exalted, is able to do all things, and His power is without limits. He has absolute power, perfect will and ultimate control of all affairs. If He wills a thing, it happens as He wills it at the time when He wills it, and in the manner that He wills.
There are many definitive texts in the Book of our Lord and in the Sunnah of His Prophet (peace and blessings of Allaah be upon him) which affirm this and state it clearly, with no ambiguity. It is sufficient here for us to quote some of the verses that indicate this, such as the verses (interpretation of the meaning):
“The Originator of the heavens and the earth. When He decrees a matter, He only says to it : ‘Be!’ — and it is”
Al-Haafz Ibn Katheer said in his commentary on this verse (Tafseer 1/175): “Here Allaah explains the completeness of His power and the greatness of His authority, and that if He wills and decrees something, He simply says to it, ‘Be!’ – just once – and it is, i.e., it comes into existence as He willed it. This is like the verse in which Allaah says (interpretation of the meaning):
‘Verily, His Command, when He intends a thing, is only that He says to it, “Be!” — and it is!’
And Allaah says (interpretation of the meaning):
“When He has decreed something, He says to it only: ‘Be!’ — and it is”
[Aal ‘Imraan 3:47]
“It is He Who gives life and causes death. And when He decides upon a thing He says to it only: ‘Be’ — and it is”
“And Our Commandment is but one as the twinkling of an eye”
Al-Haafiz Ibn Katheer said in his commentary on this verse (4/261): “Here Allaah tells us how His will is executed in His creation, and how His decree is implemented. ‘And Our Commandment is but one’ means, We only issue a command once, and We do not need to repeat it a second time, and what We command happens in the twinkling of an eye, it is not delayed for an instant. How well the poet put it:
‘When Allaah wills something, all He says to it is “Be!”, once, and it is.’”
And there are many other verses which speak of this matter and explain it.
Once this is established, then why did Allaah create the heavens and the earth in six days?
It is narrated in more than one verse of the Book of our Lord that Allaah created the heavens and the earth in six days. For example, Allaah says (interpretation of the meaning):
“Indeed, your Lord is Allaah, Who created the heavens and the earth in Six Days, and then He rose over (Istawa) the Throne (really in a manner that suits His Majesty)”
There is nothing that Allaah does but there is great wisdom in it. This is one of the meanings of Allaah’s name al-Hakeem (The Most Wise). Allaah may or may not show this wisdom to us, and those who have deep knowledge may understand it, to the exclusion of others.
But the fact that we may not know or understand this wisdom should not make us deny it or object to the rulings of Allaah, or try to ask too much about this wisdom that Allaah has hidden from us. Allaah says (interpretation of the meaning):
“He [Allaah] cannot be questioned as to
what He does, while they will be questioned”
Some scholars have attempted to explain the reason why the heavens and the earth were created in six days:
1 – Imam al-Qurtubi (may Allaah have mercy on him) said in al-Jaami’ li Ahkaam al-Qur’aan, commenting on al-A’raaf 7:54 (4/7/140):
“Allaah mentions this period – i.e. six days – although if He had wanted to create it in an instant, He could have done so, because He is Able to say to it ‘Be!’ and is. But He wanted to:
- Teach His slaves kindness and deliberation in their affairs.
- Manifest His power to the angels step by step.
- And there is another reason: He wanted to create it in six days because Allaah has decreed a course for everything, for which reason He He delays the punishment for the sinners, because everything has an appointed time with Him.”
2 – Ibn al-Jawzi said in his tafseer called Zaad al-Maseer (3/162), commenting on the verse in Soorat al-A’raaf:
“If it is said, why did He not create it in an instant when He is Able to do so? There are five answers to this question:
(i) He wanted to create something each day to show His power to the angels and those who witnessed it. This was suggested by Ibn al-Anbaari.
(ii) He was preparing things for Adam and his offspring before Adam existed, to emphasize Adam’s high standing before the angels.
(iii) Doing things in a short time is more indicative of power, and deliberation is more indicative of wisdom. Allaah wanted to manifest His wisdom in that, just as He manifested His power when He said, ‘ “Be!” And it is.’
(iv) He taught deliberation to His slaves, because if the One Who does not make mistakes created the universe in a deliberate manner, then it is more appropriate for those who are vulnerable to making mistakes to do things in a deliberate manner.
(v) Creation was accomplished step by step, lest anyone think that this happened as the result of an accident of nature.
3 – al-Qaadi Abu’l-Sa’ood said in his commentary on the verse in al-A’raaf (3/232):
“The fact that Allaah created things in stages although He is able to have created everything in one go is indicative of the Divine Will and is a sign of His power for those who understand, and it encourages deliberation in all things.”
And he said in his commentary on al-Furqaan 25:59 (6/226):
“The One Who created these great stars in this precise configuration in stages, even though He is able to create them in one go, (that was) for a great reason and sublime purpose, which human minds cannot comprehend fully.”
Based on the above, it is clear that Allaah has absolute power, ultimate will and perfect control, and He has wise reasons for everything that He creates, which no one knows but He, may He be exalted. Now you can understand some of the reasons why Allaah created the heavens and the earth in six days when He is able to have created them simply by saying “Be!”.
May Allaah send blessings and peace upon our Prophet Muhammad and upon his family and companions.
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Texas police deputy arrested in prostitution sting BY HIS OWN FORCE after offering undercover officer $10 for a sex act
- Emmanuel Augustine, 29, has been a patrol deputy for five years
- He was arrested Wednesday morning just north of Houston
- Augustine allegedly offered a female undercover $10 for a sex act
- He has been suspended while an investigation is carried out
Emmanuel Augustine, 29, was arrested on Wednesday morning north of Houston after approaching a female undercover officer and offering her $10 for a sex act
A police officer has been arrested in a prostitution sting by his own force.
Emmanuel Augustine, 29, has been a patrol officer with the Harris County Precinct 4 Constable's Office for five years.
But on Wednesday morning he was arrested after offering a female undercover officer $10 (£6) for 'a sex act'.
He was off duty at the time of the incident, but was still said to be wearing part of his uniform.
A spokesman for the constable's office said: 'Following his identification, the administration was notified and responded to the arrest location.
'[He] was placed on immediate administrative suspension without pay pending an investigation into the incident.'
For Augustine's safety, he was kept separate from other suspects while awaiting a probable cause court hearing late Wednesday.
Augustine is charged with soliciting prostitution which is a Class B misdemeanor.
If convicted of the charge, Augustine will face up to 180 days in jail and or a fine of up to $2,000 (£1,200).
It is not the first time an officer has been caught out by their own agency.
In April 2012 Santa Fe deputy Mike Esikant was apparently caught by the dash cam in his own squad car having a sexually explicit conversation with himself while masturbating.
In August 2013 Lieutenant Thomas Foye was arrested after he allegedly stole cocaine from a Ludlow Police evidence locker.
Foye, who had been with the department for 25 years, was ordered to hand over his badge and firearms, but has denied the charges.
Augustine, who has been a patrol deputy for five years, has been suspended without pay while an investigation is being carried out
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Nakheel cannot continue to subsidise chiller charges for property owners due to rising power costs, the company’s Chairman has said in exclusive comments to Emirates 24|7.
“Nakheel has been subsidising chiller charges for owners for long. We can, to a maximum, keep our profits at bare minimum but we can’t continue to subsidise the charges,” Ali Rashid Lootah told this website.
“Electricity charges have gone up, which are reflected in higher chiller charges,” he said, adding that Nakheel’s charges “are in line with other district cooling companies in Dubai for similar-sized properties.”
His comments came after Jumeirah Islands villa owners and residents opposed an increase in chiller charges. The company recently informed owners in the upscale villa community that it will be charging chiller at Dh1.40 per tonne of refrigeration an hour, instead of Dh0.563 per tonne it levied in 2011. It has, however, waived off the capacity charge of Dh1,250 per month.
Mohammed Khalifa bin Hammad, Senior Director, Real Estate Regulatory Agency (Rera) had earlier stated that the utility and chiller charges were behind an increase in service charges across Dubai.
Anne, a reader, commented: “District cooling plants became popular and acceptable because they go by logical principle of economies of scale for air-conditioning. It is so amazing to see that district cooling is prohibitively more expensive than conventional split cooling. All are paying price for services providers’ greed and inefficiencies and to start with engineering design miscalculations.”
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Lemon Herb Chicken Ring
2 cups coarsely chopped cooked chicken
1/2 cup diced red bell pepper
3 tablespoons chopped fresh parsley, divided
2 garlic cloves, pressed
1 cup (4 ounces) shredded mozzarella cheese
1/2 cup mayonnaise
1 teaspoon Pantry Italian Seasoning Mix
1/2 cup (2 ounces) grated fresh Parmesan cheese, divided
2 packages (8 ounces each) refrigerated crescent rolls
Preheat oven to 375°F. Coarsely chop chicken using Food Chopper.
Dice bell pepper using Utility Knife. Place chicken and bell pepper in
Classic Batter Bowl. Chop parsley using Pizza Cutter. Zest lemon using
Lemon Zester/Scorer to measure 1 teaspoon zest. Cut lemon into thin
slices; cut slices in half and set aside for garnish.
Add 2 tablespoons of the parsley, lemon zest, garlic pressed with
Garlic Press, mozzarella cheese, mayonnaise and seasoning mix to batter
bowl; mix using Small Mix 'N Scraper(R). Grate Parmesan cheese using
Deluxe Cheese Grater. Reserve 2 tablespoons of the cheese. Add
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Unroll crescent dough; separate into 16 triangles. Arrange
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Spoon chicken mixture evenly over dough in a continuous circle.
Bring points of triangles up over filling and tuck under dough at
center to form a ring. (Filling will show.) Sprinkle remaining Parmesan cheese
over ring. Bake 28-30 minutes or until golden brown. Remove from oven;
garnish with lemon slices and remaining parsley.
Yield: 8 servings or 16 sample servings
Nutrients per serving: Calories 450, Total Fat 30 g, Saturated Fat 8 g,
Cholesterol 45 mg, Carbohydrate 24 g, Protein 19 g, Sodium 740 mg,
Fiber 0 g
Cook's Tip: If desired, 1 can (10 ounces) chunk white chicken, drained
and flaked, can be substituted for the chopped cooked chicken.
If desired, 1 teaspoon Pantry Rosemary Herb Seasoning Mix can be
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Dave Parker assumed his familiar crouch stance in the batter`s box in the first inning Wednesday and glared out toward the mound, as if to dare Rick Sutcliffe to throw him a pitch to hit.
Then Parker began wiggling his bat tauntingly, tantamount to a double dare. ``I would have taken him deep,`` said Parker, the Reds` big bad wolf.
But with two outs, a man on second and a two-ball, no-strike count on the menacing slugger, Cubs` manager Jim Frey ordered Sutcliffe to issue an intentional walk.
Sutcliffe stalked the mound, stared into the dugout at Frey and stewed about such an act of public cowardice. After several purposeful pauses, Sutcliffe disgustedly fired the next two pitches wide to walk Parker, who had been 6-for-10 in the series before that at-bat.
A perturbed Sutcliffe then walked Buddy Bell to load the bases before retiring Dave Concepcion on a force play to end the inning.
Sutcliffe kept the door closed the rest of the afternoon, blanking Cincinnati 5-0 with a four-hit, complete-game performance in front of 27,850 fans at Wrigley Field. It was only the second shutout of the season by a Cubs` pitcher.
After the game, a more subdued Sutcliffe discussed the first-inning strategy while icing his shoulder.
``I felt like with a man on second I could take a chance on bouncing a breaking ball,`` said Sutcliffe, who improved his record to 3-6 and lowered his earned run average to 3.87. ``I didn`t want to throw (a hittable pitch) to Parker in that spot. There`s a reason he hits in the clean-up spot and there`s a reason that he`s done as well as he has.
``But then again, Buddy Bell hitting behind him has been tough on me throughout my career. I faced him in the American League and had a lot of trouble with him. So it was kind of like flipping a coin. My biggest problem throughout my career has been walks. I walk enough people without
intentionally walking someone,`` added Sutcliffe, who struck out five and walked two.
``Basically, we were pitching around him anyway, and Jimmy said go ahead and walk him,`` said catcher Jody Davis. ``That`s just vintage Sutcliffe, though, to go against the track. Whatever you want to do, he`s going to do it some other way. His way. That`s just the way he is.``
``Obviously, that is not the first time I`ve walked somebody in the first inning,`` said Frey. ``I did it a couple of times with (Mets` slugger) Darryl Strawberry in the first inning. And I`ve done it before with other people. But the circumstances dictate that with all those right-handed hitters following.``
Sutcliffe helped himself in the first inning with a good fielding play. Eddie Milner had opened the game with a triple to right field before Pete Rose hit a high hopper that Sutcliffe leaped and speared. Milner was caught in a rundown as Rose scampered to second.
``Sutcliffe made a good play,`` said Rose. ``A lot of pitchers on our staff and their staff don`t make that play. Sutcliffe`s a pretty good athlete out there. That`s why Billy (DeMars, the third-base coach) sent him. He didn`t think Sutcliffe was going to get it.``
The Cubs took a 2-0 lead in the bottom of the first against Bill Gullickson (4-4). Shawon Dunston led off with a single to left to extend his hitting streak to nine games. He stole second and advanced to third when catcher Bo Diaz threw wildly. Davey Lopes hit a sacrifice fly to right to score Dunston. Ryne Sandberg reached on an infield hit off the glove of third baseman Bell and scored on Keith Moreland`s double into the left-field corner. The Cubs went up 4-0 in the second inning. Davis walked before Manny Trillo reached on a bunt single. After squaring to bunt, Sutcliffe looped a hit to center to load the bases.
``Jim (Frey) deserves the credit for giving us that option,`` said Sutcliffe. ``We practice that play in spring training and before the game. You know there`s going to be a hole up the middle. All you`ve got to do is get the ball up the middle. I got a fastball up.``
After Dunston forced Davis at the plate, Lopes beat out a high chopper to third to score Trillo and Sandberg hit a sacrifice fly to right to drive in Sutcliffe.
Davis gave the Cubs a 5-0 lead in the third inning with his ninth home run of the season, a line shot into the left-field bleachers.
``I need to get more than one hit a day, but I`ll take the ones that are coming,`` said Davis.
``Today, we had a well-pitched game and we got runs early,`` said Frey.
``We gave our starting pitcher a little room to breathe. Scoring early like that always gives your pitcher a little bit of an edge.
``Today, I think I saw a different Rick Sutcliffe. He used his fastball well. He used his curveball well. He threw some good change-ups. He had good control. That`s the Rick Sutcliffe that we know.``
``He dipped and dabbed us all day,`` said Parker.
The Cubs improved their record on this homestand to 4-2.
``I always feel we should play well at home,`` said Frey. ``And I mean a lot better than .500. I`m talking about winning two out of three each series.``
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LOS ANGELES—Zero Tolerance Entertainment has acquired the celebrity sex tape of Tami Erin, the star of 1988 hit film The New Adventures of Pippi Longstocking. In the candid release, spicy amateur footage depicts the former Pippi star hot-tubbing, getting ready for fun in sexy lingerie, and getting down and dirty in various locations with her then-boyfriend, including some naughty anal sex.
Tami Erin appeared on the Dr. Phil Show last Friday, October 11, where he put her on the hot seat, asking if she was behind the release as a publicity stunt. She denied the accusation, explaining that her ex-boyfriend had become quite vindictive and was threatening to go public with their private videos. She now feels backed into a corner, and is "taking charge" of the situation to control the way it comes out.
Zero Tolerance Entertainment will release the tape raw and uncut through their wide distribution channels, and have titled it Pippi Exposed.
View the trailer here.
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A new report from Virginia Tech and the World Wildlife Foundation has uncovered troubling news — the already-endangered Sumatran tiger is even closer to extinction than previously thought. In a study published in the April 2013 issue of Oryx — The International Journal of Conservation, researchers estimate that only 400 of these tigers still survive, at most.
Some of the major reasons for the dwindling tiger population on this Indonesian island? Well, deforestation and poaching play a major part, but other human activities pose a risk to the tigers as well. Science Daily reports that simply having humans around limits the tigers’ ability to survive even when there is plenty of prey available. Some of the disruptive activities researchers detected were hunting, trapping, farming and gathering of forest products.
This is a sad decline for the wild Sumatran tiger population. When Dutch colonists first arrived in Indonesia in the early 20th century, they reported that the tigers were so bold and numerous that they would often be seen entering estate houses. But by 1978, only 1,000 of these rare tigers were left on the island. You probably won’t catch a glimpse of these rare tigers in person today, but here is a “secret” video of some cubs captured by a camera trap to give you an idea of what the world is close to losing:
While the tigers are protected under Indonesian law, Indonesia’s environmental record leaves much to be desired. Laws on the books against slash-and-burn agriculture only seem to be enforced when Indonesia comes under international pressure, and deforestation has been allowed to continue unchecked for decades. While there is land set aside for tiger conservation, the areas are isolated from one another and fragmented, so tiger populations face a loss of genetic diversity. WWF reports:
Habitat for the Sumatran tiger has been drastically reduced by clearing for agriculture, plantations, and settlement. On many parts of the island, illegal timber harvesting and forest conversion are out of control. Approximately 25,868 square miles of forest—larger than the state of West Virginia— was lost in Sumatra between 1985 and 1997. Even protected areas face problems. National parks have been isolated from one another through forest conversion.
Other struggling species like the orangutan, Sumatran rhino and Sumatran elephant are losing their habitat at an alarming rate as well. There may not be much hope for preserving these species in captivity either, since endangered animals in local zoos aren’t being adequately cared for.
So what can you do to help protect these endangered species? You can boycott products containing palm oil. You can also avoid paper products made from pulped rainforest — Greenpeace has some helpful suggestions on how to identify “safe” paper products. And you can visit organizations like WWF that are taking action on the ground to protect Indonesia’s wildlife.
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We always called her Cousin Rachel, but when she received her license, we started calling her Dr. Rachel. That stuck to her like day-old oatmeal and now she actually prefers to be called Dr. Rachel instead of Dr. Matthews. Since she has a lot of young clients, it seems to work well.
I have grown up listening to Dr. Rachel practice her speeches. She has delivered many speeches over the years, and lately, she has been invited to serve as the keynote speaker on several occasions. Her practice has grown tremendously, and by the positive feedback she receives, it is evident that she is helping a lot of people. I am very proud of her.
One of the speeches that stuck with me the most was the one that she gave a few years ago about the three cords. I could easily say that her speech touched me so much because it explained the importance of helping people, especially when she referred to Ecclesiastes 4:12 ďa threefold cord is not easily broken,Ē a passage Iíve read several times without realizing what it meant.
However, to be quite honest, I was interested in her choice of visual aids to emphasize her point. Dr. Rachel clearly explained the advantage of a threefold cord with a demonstration that we would not likely forget. She brought two bodybuilders on stage to stand at opposite ends of a rope and pull against it. After a few seconds, the rope popped. Then, she handed them a braided cord, which consisted of three cords braided together, making it much stronger. Again, the bodybuilders pulled their ends of the rope but the rope did not break. After a few minutes of loud grunting, the tug of war ended in a tie. I remember that demonstration like it was yesterday.
According to Dr. Rachel, the pulling of the cord represented the struggles and challenges that we face each day. Everyone has something in life that they are struggling with and it is hard to face those issues alone, without any support.
As the cord represented strength, there is also strength in a unified effort working toward a common goal. Although there are constant attacks against the family, there is power for those who stand strong, unified, and in support of one another.
As Dr. Rachel explained, the threefold cord symbolizes three things: 1) the individual, standing strong, yet vulnerable at times, 2) the family, a strong component with the potential to nourish and protect those within the family structure, and 3) great mentors, to provide the individual with encouragement and wisdom.
Looking at to todayís youth, there is a big need for more empowerment in the community to provide our youth with encouragement, positive association and mentorship. Dr. Rachel diligently works with the youth ministry to bring together the youth across the Charleston area to experience a positive environment.
Children from all over the area have been learning about the importance of taking care of themselves, being responsible for themselves and others, and providing effective leadership. The grades of those participating have soared and the parents have applauded Dr. Rachelís ministry.
It does indeed take a village to raise a child and when the parents are on board, it makes things so much easier for everyone.
Our young people struggle with so many things today, that it can be overwhelming, however, God gives them guidance in his Holy Word. As a three-fold cord is not easily broken, our youth are not easily broken when we give them a strong family unit and mentorship to allow them to discover how great they can truly become.
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UPDATE: As of Friday, June 10, our off-campus access to ACS publications has been restored. If you are still experiencing difficulties accessing these journals, please contact the Libraries for assistance.
Off-campus users attempting to access American Chemical Society publications may be receiving an alert notifying them that access is blocked.
There was an excessive downloading incident at the American Chemical Society website from the UGA ez-proxy server on Saturday, June 4, and Sunday, June 5. As a consequence, ACS has blocked the ez-proxy IP address. This also includes access to SciFinder Scholar via ez-proxy. The incident was part of a coordinated attack on ACS with excessive downloading occurring at multiple sites around the country.
Our access to ACS journals via the ez-proxy server remains blocked at this time. Per ACS the breach was so egregious (involving dozens of institutions in the U.S. and other countries) that the company is not releasing blocked IPs at this time.
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We will update this post as the situation changes. In the meantime, UGA users off-campus may contact Ian Thomas (firstname.lastname@example.org) or any member of the Libraries Reference department for information about accessing these journals.
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JACKSON, MI – One Jackson City Council member is periodically returning his council pay back to the city and city nonprofits.
Councilman Derek Dobies, 6th Ward, announced Wednesday, June 19, the launch of a new website tool that allows Jackson residents to track Dobies' City Council stipend and the donations he makes from it.
Dobies defeated Larry Lloyd in the election 706-660. Incumbent council member John Polaczyk did not run for reelection.
Of the $8,082 Dobies has made so far as part of his City Council stipend, more than $6,000 has been donated to Jackson nonprofits.
According to the site, some nonprofits that have received donations from Dobies include the Jackson Eyeopeners Lions Club, the Jackson Downtown Kiwanis Club, the Salvation Army and the Michigan Theatre.
"Putting these donations online for the public to view is about taking ... a step towards open government," Dobies said. "This brings a little transparency to my original pledge."
City Council members are paid $7,850 annually. In March, council members voted 6-1 to reject pay raises for themselves and the mayor that would have raised the stipend to $8,600 this year and $9,350 in 2014.
Dobies donated $2,100 to AWARE Inc., a domestic violence and sexual assault shelter, to help fund its winter fundraising mailer last year.
"We appreciate Councilman Dobies' financial donations," said Rebecca Mayer, executive director of AWARE. "His attendance at AWARE's events show his high level of support for our organization."
DisAbility Connections also received $500 from Dobies, who said he would continue to donate his salary over the course of his term.
"As a nonprofit in Dobies' ward, we're happy to have the support of the councilman," said Lesia Pikaart, executive director of disAbility Connections.
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Vincent Thompson, a school district spokesman, said grief counselors and psychologists were at the school and would continue there as needed. He said police would remain stationed outside the school.
Faheem was shot in the face last Wednesday morning as he was caught in a fierce gunfight between two groups of men outside the school at 23d and Cambria Streets. Debra Smith, a crossing guard who was shot in the foot, was treated at a hospital and released the same day.
Kareem Johnson, 20, of the 2900 block of Taney Street, and Kennell Spady, 19, of the 3000 block of Bonsall Street, were arrested over the weekend in connection with the shooting. Both were held without bail.
Edward McCann, chief of the district attorney's homicide unit, yesterday upgraded charges in the case to murder, according to office spokeswoman Cathie Abookire. Johnson and Spady are likely to be rearraigned today, she said.
Police said that up to six people firing six weapons were involved in the shoot-out. Investigators believe that many of the 94 spent shell casings recovered along the blocks-long crime scene were from a shoot-out the night before. Some of the casings were from the same gun in both battles, ballistics tests show.
In the 2900 block of North 23d Street, where the bullet that hit Faheem was probably fired, 50 casings were recovered: twenty-five 9mm casings, eight .45-caliber casings, sixteen .30-caliber casings, and one .38-caliber casing.
Along Indiana Avenue from 23d Street to 25th Street, where the earlier gun battle is believed to have occurred, investigators recovered 44 shell casings: thirteen .357 Magnum casings, twelve .30-caliber casings, eleven .45-caliber casings, seven .38-caliber casings, and one 9mm casing.
Detectives have interviewed a witness who has provided some corroborating evidence in the investigation, police said.
At a news conference yesterday at Temple University Children's Medical Center, two of Faheem's aunts, Clarissa Savage and Joann Bullock, and other relatives thanked the community for its prayers and support. They also pleaded for witnesses to come forward.
"We want the community to give them up," Savage said of the men in the gunfight.
J. Whyatt Mondesire, head of the Philadelphia chapter of the NAACP, said a memorial fund was established to help pay for funeral costs and to help support Faheem's eight siblings. Funeral arrangements have not been made, he said.
Faheem's family agreed yesterday to donate his organs for transplant, according to Howard Nathan, president of Gift of Life Donor Program, which coordinates organ donations in the Philadelphia region.
Faheem was pronounced dead, based on brain-death criteria, Monday afternoon at Temple Children's, but artificial support, including a respirator and medicines, continued to keep his organs functioning.
Nathan said the hospital called in his organization yesterday to talk with Faheem's family about the possibility of donating his organs for transplant.
"The family, in truly an act of love, has made the decision that their son should be considered as an organ donor, and we are hopeful that others will get a second chance for life through this selfless act of giving," Nathan said.
Faheem's family, however - despite the selfless gesture - was having difficulty dealing with the youngster's death. The family later asked that the school flag that principal Willingham had ordered flown at half-staff be raised.
At the school yesterday, Angela Martin placed a teddy bear at the school's front gate, adding to a growing memorial of stuffed animals, roses and other items.
"I just wanted to leave a little something for what happened here," said Martin, 53, who lives about a block from the school. "I hope they catch all the people involved. I had no idea that something of this magnitude could happen."
As students were dismissed for the day, Brandy Cross, 11, and Regine Benn, 10, placed a poster they had made of green construction paper at the school's side gate.
"I am sorry about Faheem Childs," it read. "I know that he is in Heaven resting."
Contact staff writer Vernon Clark at 215-854-5717 or firstname.lastname@example.org.
Contributing to this article were Inquirer staff writers Tom Ferrick Jr., Susan Fitzgerald, Thomas J. Gibbons Jr. and Jacqueline Soteropoulos.
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Loipolder Family History & Genealogy
Biographies & Family Trees
Find records of Loipolders by their first name:
Most Common First Names
- Josefa 100.0%
Loipolder Last Name History & Origin
Nationality & Ethnicity
These are the earliest records we have of the Loipolder family.
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According to our database of 1 people with the last name Loipolder that have a birth and death date listed:
These are the longest-lived members of the Loipolder family on AncientFaces.
Leave a message to start a discussion about the Loipolder family with other AncientFaces Members.
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Superman Cats Story
February 6th 2013 2:09 pm
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Girl Human posted a group of photos to my page the other week when Catster had fleas. To her surprise they are all posted now. The other problem she has had since last summer has not resolved itself. She no longer receives e-mails telling her that something has been posted to her pages. She has been missing a lot of gifts, comments and pawmails. She catches the pawmails here. The other stuff she is so sad, she misses. So please don't feel she does not appreciate each and everyone of your gifts and comments.
Peaches now at Rainbow Bridge
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http://www.catster.com/cats/1002544/diary/Superman_cats_story/815159
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You devour online marketing lessons. You feast on articles, reports, books, and ebooks. Maybe you spend some of your precious time attending webinars and
"As marketers, we fall into this trap time and again. Right now, in offices everywhere, marketers’ pulses are racing with questions such as:
- How will we produce video content?
- What’s our Facebook strategy?
- Should we revisit our keywords?
- What’s producing the peaks and valleys in our website traffic?"
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My kids love popcorn, and if I’m not careful, they will go through a box in less than a week. The downside to that is that it is the super salty, buttery, microwave popcorn. Plus, it has larger pieces, which can cause choking, especially if they shovel it in like most people do. I want a better snack for them, one that I know they will love. That is why I am thrilled to have found mini popcorn from The Little Kernel.
The Little Kernel is a new way to enjoy the perfect addition to any movie. Popped in 100% Olive Oil, which is a good healthy fat, and made with non-GMO corn, you can enjoy without guilt! The Little Kernel popcorn is also made with whole grains, and their entire line is gluten-free! Some of their flavors are also dairy free, and there are several great flavors to choose from!
Read My Full Review At Things That Make People Go Aww
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Friday, December 14, 2012
(For the Non New Zealanders reading this, PAKEHA
means white person)
Racism has aired it's ugly head, but not from the people
you would expect it from.
Over the past couple of weeks, thru the internet blogs,
and facebook and of course Twitter, there have been
some quite ugly racist comments in the form of the
commentators calling other races, well racist.
Lets start with the Maori dance troupe, JGeeks, they recently
got fourth on New Zealand's got talent.
Brilliantly talented, fun, entertaining and they seem like
all round nice guys, pity same cant be said about their fanbase.
The JGeeks fan based exploded in anger, some of the
"Typical racist pakhea's, not voting for Maori"
"What is this rigged?, tvnz didnt want the Maori to win"
"Won't buy Clara's new album the little Pakeha b****"
The fans of the other contestants, didnt seem to mind,
but the Jgeeks fans were furious.
There's a debate that says if your part of a minority
you cant be racist, that only people who are
party of a majority and in a position of power
can be racist.
I don't buy that for a second.
Isn't being a racist, means you are judging someone
by their race?
It would seem there are a few racists on facebook,
and I think their racism goes deeper than a talent
Here's hoping one, no one will be judge or judged by
I anit holding my breath though.
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This manual is designed to help those in need of sexual counseling progress through a counseling program, but it can also be used by anyone seeking a healthier, more fulfilling experience of sexual relationships. You will find it helpful if you use it honestly and openly.
The thoughts and techniques expressed in this handbook come out of years of experience of therapists and clients in the program. We welcome you to become a part of that process of healing. Throughout the handbook you will find comments or suggestions made by others who have gone before you. The comments come from the minds of those with a lot of experience and an intention to help you. This manual is designed to be shared with family members and loved ones, who may read it out of curiosity, personal need or simply out of a great love for you as you follow this program toward greater sexual health and intimacy.
We have written some parts of the manual with significant others in mind, to inform them about your progress over time. We hope their understanding of your work will help you in your progress toward success.
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Teaching in the hospital setting forms an important part of the MBBS course at every year and culminating in the last two clinical years of the course
RCS students rotate through a series of discipline based hospital attachments, with final year students undertaking longer attachments where they "buddy" with the Intern.
Both the NWRH and the MCH are utilised for training of students.
Learning and Teaching in the Hospital Setting
The RCS Year 4 Guidelines (PDF 950KB) and RCS Year 5 Guidelines (PDF 947KB) provide specific information about RCS program organisation and site specific assessment, as distinct from assessment completed by all SOM students irrespective of the location of their Clinical School.
The RCS has developed these assessments to reflect specific objectives around preparing students for medical practice within a rural context. They augment those detailed in the SOM Handbooks. For ease of reference all assessments are explained in these texts.
The UTAS SOM Learning Objectives apply to all students irrespective of their clinical school location.
The UTAS SOM Year 4 MBBS Handbook (PDF 973KB) and UTAS SOM Year 5 MBBS Handbook (PDF 1.28MB) give a description of the total content of the programs with areas of particular interest to teaching clinicians such as: Changing Philosophy of Medical Education, Clinical Attachments, CBL Topics, Recommended Resources, Medical Graduate Profile.
The Curriculum for Junior Doctors at the NWAHS is based on the Australian Curriculum Framework for Junior Doctors.
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Have you heard of the Riot for Austerity? I am just an observer of it, but I admit to being very intrigued. When I look at the Occupy movement, I long for a viable alternative. It’s fine to protest, but tell me what the other option is. Riot for Austerity is an alternative: a challenge to reduce your household emissions in seven categories to 90% less than (of 10% of) the average American household and keep it there for a year. Like a diet on consumerism. But unlike a crash diet, the maintenance of these changes can have a real lasting effect on our use.
My friend Anisa introduced me to it. She’s doing a “Quiet Riot.” We’re not shooting for 90%, but like any of my efforts to reduce, it is so helpful for me to see actual numbers. How much natural gas are we using? How much electricity? Water? Transportation fuel? Water? Garbage? Food that is not local, or not sustainably grown?
I admit that I had hoped we were already using considerably less than average, but that wasn’t the case. It takes a lot of heat to warm this house, even with good windows and insulation. And we like our showers hot and long around here. It’s hard to measure exactly how much of our food is local vs. not. Do I measure in pounds, or dollars?
But charting the actual numbers has made me realize what we use and has started me thinking more concretely. We hung fewer Christmas lights, and now that I’m turning the computers off every night (rather than just letting them sleep) we used 10% less electricity than for the same 3-month period a year ago. Our natural gas use is down 18% from last year (based on 5 months of bills each year). And none of our changes– using the clothesline or turning our heat down earlier in the evening (at 8:30 p.m. instead of 9:30 p.m.)– really bother us at all. For now, comparing our use to our own use a year ago has been helpful. I don’t know when I’ll be ready to dive into the R4A for real, but I’m learning so much from thinking about it.
If you look at the R4A from a Christian perspective, I’d strongly encourage you to read Richard Foster’s Freedom of Simplicity with it. He writes about Simplicity as an end in itself simply being one more dead end. But if we use a holy practice of simplicty as a tool to identity with the world’s poor and to become more like Jesus in the process, then we’re getting somewhere.
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Importing an SSL Certificate Authority into the JVM
A Java application running on a Domino server connecting over SSL to another server may require having the SSL certificate authority of the other server imported into its JVM.
When a Java application running on a Domino server connects over SSL to another server, but does not have that server's trusted root certificates, an error may occur. One example of such an error is:
HTTP JVM: javax.net.ssl.SSLHandshakeException: com.ibm.jsse2.util.g: No trusted certificate found
The trusted root certificates that signed the remote server's SSL certificate must be also be trusted by the Domino server's JVM if a Java application is making an SSL connection.
Resolving the problem
To add the trusted root certificates to a Domino server JVM follow these steps:
A. Obtain the Certificate to be Imported
Each browser displays certificates in different ways, but they are usually quite similar. On the browser's URL bar, there is usually a zone that you can click on to display SSL certificate information. For example, you may see a padlock in the status bar, and clicking on the padlock opens the certificate information. Once the certificate information is open, click on the "Certification Path" information. There normally will be a way to export each of the signing certificates (trusted roots). Export the certifiers in the "Base-64 encoded X.509 (.CER)" format. The exported file in this format will be an ASCII text file that has "BEGIN CERTIFICATE" and "END CERTIFICATE" lines at the top and bottom. Once you have exported the certificates that signed the remote server's SSL certificate you can then import them into the JVM.
B. Import the SSL certifier into the JVM.
If Domino is on a UNIX server, perform these steps on a Windows workstation, and then move the cacerts to the server after the import is completed.
Import the SSL Certificate into the JVM using these steps:
- Open a command line and change directory to C:\Lotus\Domino\jvm\bin.
- Run the batch file "IKEYMAN.exe" (a Java application will load).
- Click "Key Database File" then "Open".
- Browse to C:\Lotus\Domino\jvm\lib\security\cacerts. Note, you will have to view "All Files" to locate cacerts.
- Supply the default password of "changeit". Note, consult your administrator if you receive an error pertaining to the password.
- Select "Signer Certificates" in the drop-down menu.
- Click "Add"
- Select "Browse" and locate the .CER file you copied.
- Click "OK" and enter a descriptive label.
- On the Domino console issue the command "restart task http".
More support for:
Software version: 8.0, 8.5, 8.5.3, 9.0
Operating system(s): AIX, Linux, Solaris, Windows
Software edition: All Editions
Reference #: 1588966
Modified date: 13 April 2012
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Speedometer Cable for Chevy Truck
Complete cable includes outer housing, inner wire and end fittings. This cable also works on standard or automatic transmissions! 68" long.
||so far so good
|was not sure if I should opt for the steel housing or not but this plastic housing is doing fine so far.|
|- Vincent carrella, GA|
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Continue Your Reading Adventures!
This summer take the time to read. On vacation, at home, or on rainy days, a good book makes the day even better.
Turn in your Reading Log by Friday, August 25, and you will be treated to a picnic lunch at Henninger Field.
Grade Level refers to the 2017-18 school year.
Requirements by grade:
Kindergarten – 15 Books read to the student
Grade 1 – 20 Easy Reader Books
Grade 2 – 20 Easy Reader Books (should be read by the student)
Grade 3 – 8 Books over 40 pages
Grade 4 – 8 Books over 60 pages
Grade 5 – 5 Books over 120 pages. (One book must be a Newbery Award or Honor Book).
Grade 6, 7, 8 – **4 Books over 150 pages
**Types of Books for 6, 7, 8
One Newbery Award or Honor Book, One Nonfiction Book, Two Books of your Choice
Reading Forms and requirements were sent home in report cards. If the form gets misplaced, please use another sheet of paper to record the books you’ve read over the summer.
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Egg Donation Helps Hopeful Parents Realize Their Dreams
Some women find themselves in the difficult situation of not being able to use their own eggs to have a child. This can be a frustrating experience that leaves many women and couples uncertain how they will realize their dreams of becoming parents. The Fertility Institute wants you to know that we are here to help. With nearly forty years of experience in providing outstanding fertility services for women and men in the New Orleans and Baton Rouge communities, we can place you on the road to parenthood. Our doctors offer a variety of fertility treatments, including egg donation, to patients in the greater New Orleans area. If you are interested in our egg donation services, whether as a recipient, or to help someone start a family by donating your eggs, please contact us today to learn more. We have three area offices to serve you.
Conditions that Might Require Egg Donation
There are many reasons why a woman may not have eggs that will lead to a full-term pregnancy. Some conditions that can contribute to egg viability issues include:
- Prior radiation or chemotherapy treatments
- Previous ovarian surgery
- Genetic disorders, or a family history of genetic disorders
- Advanced maternal age
- Repeated failed IVF procedures
- Multiple miscarriages
If you are experiencing any of these conditions, you may need an egg donor to increase your chances of having a live birth.
Our Egg Donor Services
There are two different kinds of egg donor services: known and anonymous. At The Fertility Institute, we only perform known egg donations in which the donor is a friend or family member of the recipient. Eggs are donated through our Egg Sharing Program, which is a process that incorporates the initial stages of IVF, including egg stimulation and egg retrieval.
What Is the Egg Donation Process?
Egg donor candidates should be under the age of 35, and be in good health. The donor should expect to spend a few weeks undergoing egg stimulation treatments, which include injectable medications that promote multiple egg maturation. A minimum of 8 mature, or nearly mature eggs, should be developed for retrieval. The egg retrieval process itself is a very simple and minimally invasive procedure performed on an outpatient basis. The patient is placed under conscious sedation while an ultrasound guides a needle through the vagina to aspirate the eggs.
Some egg donors are already undergoing their own IVF treatment, and can choose to donate their extra eggs.
Our Success Rates with Egg Donation
Our egg donation live birth rates for 2012 total an impressive 43.3% success rate for all procedures.
|Donor Oocytes - (All Ages) for 2012||Thawed
|Number of Transfers||12||18|
|Percentage of Transfers Resulting in Live Births||4/12||9/18|
|Average Number of Embryos Transferred||2.2||2|
Contact Us to Learn More
If you or someone you know wants to become a parent, but cannot use their own eggs to conceive a child, please contact us today to learn more about our egg donation program. Using the most advanced techniques and technology, egg donation can help hopeful parents successfully conceive a child.
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August, that is. It's rapidly working it's way into the #1 position of favorite months.
Why you ask?
Well because it's a month of days of nowhere to go, i.e. summer vacation, with the end of it being the return of my lovely, wonderful, oh-so-sweet children to school.
Can you detect the dripping sarcasm in that last part of that sentence? ;)
No really, I do enjoy the start of a new school year and not just because I get to leave my children at school and get a few moments of peace and quiet. I also LOVE buying school supplies. The aisles of crayons, markers, backpacks and lunch bags just bring a smile to my face. I could walk them and just stare at it all for hours.
Hmmmm, I gotta wonder if that has anything to do with my desire to someday at some point become a teacher.......;)
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It’s the New Year. That means you get to start over. Instead of berating yourself for financial mistakes and missteps in the year past, this is the time to look forward to the financial opportunities that may come your way in the year ahead.
The first step to getting ahead is to get organized. Not only is that the first step, it is the most difficult emotionally.
Here are four free ways to get control over your finances for the New Year. The time to start is now!
Opportunity: Stay securely on top of your budget and your spending — no matter where you are.
If you haven’t signed up for this free service offered by the parent company of Quicken, the popular financial software, this is the time to do it. Just go to Mint.com and start tracking your money on a real-time basis. You can watch the online video to help you get started. The set-up process is easy — allowing you to add your bank, credit card, home loan, and investment accounts.
Then, using bank-level security, you can check in to see your balances instantly at any time on your smart phone. The drawback to Mint is that you can’t “move” money with it — so you can’t pay bills or transfer money between accounts. Then again, no one else can use your Mint account to move money either! This is strictly an informational service.
All of your spending is categorized, and can be matched to the budget you create. Plus, Mint will notify you when regular bills should be paid, or when you are nearing the maximum that you have budgeted for each category.
The service is free because you’ll also receive messages from financial services companies offering you better deals on home loans or credit cards.
Of course, if you want complete control over your finances, you can go to Quicken.com and download the 2012 version of the software for $49.99. The difference between the two is that Quicken sits on your home computer where all the data from all of your accounts arrives securely protected by your password.
With Quicken, you can actually authorize payments from your bank account. Or you can download the payments that you make at your bank’s website into your Quicken tracking program, where it will be automatically categorized and easily searched. That makes life easier at tax-time. But unlike Mint.com, you’ll have to be sitting at your computer to use all the information in Quicken.
Opportunity: Never miss paying a bill on time, or lose a paper bill amid junk mail. Your bills arrive securely in your online Manilla file.
In a recent column I described this new online financial management service. Unlike other programs which require you to gather up your paper bills and pay them online from your checking account — or else go to biller websites, Manilla does the work of “collecting” those bills for you.
When you establish your account at Manilla.com, you tell each company to stop sending paper bills and instead send them to your secure Manilla.com account, where you can read the bills in detail and authorize payments directly from any of your checking or money market accounts. Manilla even sets up a calendar for you to remind you when bills will come due. You can safely access all this information online or using your smart phone.
Yes it’s free — because the service is paid for by the companies that bill you. Now, instead of wasting paper and postage, they can send your bill securely online to your Manilla account. They can even post notices like rate changes and privacy policies online for you to see. And each bill contains all the information on your paper bill — so you can contact the biller directly to complain about a charge.
READ MORE HERE
By Sun Times Financial Goddess Terry Savage
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SpatialKey’s Temporal Heat Index pod summarizes your data by time of day (columns) and day of week (rows). Each cell represents a specific day of week and hour of day combination, like “Thursdays at 4pm”. This component makes it easy to spot temporal trends in your data. Like other SpatialKey pods, the Temporal Heat Index also acts as a filter; you can select any row, column, or cell to filter your dataset.
This Heat Index shows the frequency of driving while intoxicated (DWI) crimes over a period of time. We can clearly see that these crimes occur most frequently on weekend nights. For any day, late evening hours have significantly more incidents than midday. This pod can be combined with a map pod to see if incidents occurring at a particular time of day or day of week are more likely to occur in a particular location. A timeline could help determine if any of these trends are changing over time – for example, as the result of a crime reduction program.
The Temporal Heat Index pod will appear as an option for any fields in your dataset with date/time data type.
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https://support.spatialkey.com/detect-time-of-day-trends-with-the-temporal-heat-index-pod/
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Using a Reticle: A Guide for Gemologists
Step 4: Gem Grading
Table of Contents
What is a Reticle?
A reticle (réttik’l) is an optical device used in conjunction with a magnifying lens. For example, the cross hairs on a gun sight are a type of reticle. Machinists use reticles with a variety of micro-rulers and micro-protractors for fine measurements. While not specifically designed for gemology, these can serve gemologists very well.
There are two types of reticles: contact and non-contact.
- Microscope eye pieces incorporate non-contact reticles. They have the singular advantage of being always in focus and the disadvantage of being the most expensive.
- The viewer places contact
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|Furnishing:||Furnished or unfurnished, landlord is flexible|
|Added on Rightmove:||08 July 2016 (381 days ago)|
- One Bedroom
- 536 Sqft
- Awaiting EPC
- 24 Hr Concierge
- New Build
This spacious apartment one bedroom is situated on the 9th floor of this Landmark development and boasts high quality specification throughout and includes engineered timber flooring to hallway, kitchen and living rooms, beautiful fully fitted kitchens with integrated Bosch appliances and underfloor heating to the living room and bedrooms.
The flat has fibre optics installed already and the building has a communal function room available for booking by residents with 10-seat dining table and a kitchen, there is also a projection screen - perfect for hosting a party!
There is also a designated bike storage space for each flat and a residents ' reading garden and grow garden .
One the Elephant offers you fantastic transport links with its nearest station being an 8 minute walk. Residents of One the Elephant will be able to enjoy a large selection of dining and shopping opportunities at nearby Waterloo, Borough and Southbank.
Reception 6.95m x 3.51m
Wood flooring with under floor heating, double glazed window to front, double glazed door onto balcony, recessed ceiling spot lights.
Fitted with a range of matching wall and base units with work top over, sink unit and mixer tap, Bosch electric oven, four ring ceramic hob, extractor fan, integrated dishwasher, fridge freezer and microwave.
Bedroom 3.97m x 2.78m
Bathroom 2.2m x 1.98m
More information from this agent
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Please refer to our Renting Guides for further information on how to safely rent a property.
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Anteriorsoft offers bespoke solutions to clients so as to integrate
their business goals with their technology initiatives.
Our technology solutions have a wide spectrum of services ranging from development
and integration of web applications, internet middleware, database technologies,
product engineering, e-commerce and services such as hosting on live servers
-- a host of solutions for a technology driven business enterprise.
Our product and systems engineering capabilities allow us to
design and execute complex technology solutions for our clients.
This includes design and implementation of solutions ranging
from simple device drivers to full-fledged software applications
and end-to-end system integration … precision engineered
solutions that address the technology challenges of our clients.
With the objective of web enabling operations of large businesses
and other significant institutions, we have leveraged on the best
of the breed technology expertise to design and implement a number
of corporate and information portals. This included, use of ASP,
ASP.NET, PHP,JAVA, JSP,WAP, SMSC, MS SQL Server, MySql, MS Access,
Oracle, XML, WML etc. depending on client's specific requirements.
A few of these portals are also being maintained and hosted by
Anteriorsoft thereby, extending the much-desired comprehensive
service support for our clients.
We meet the needs of our global clients and have the required
competencies to design content in multiple languages. To view
some of the projects click here
Mobile Devices & Wireless Communication
As business is significantly moving from "E" commerce
to "M" commerce, our research and development team
is continuously working on innovative software solutions for
mobile devices like Palms, PDAs, notebooks, Pocket PCs etc.
In keeping with the market demands for wireless communication
technologies, our strategists have developed creative solutions
to address client needs in using devices while on the move.
The pervasive usage of these mobile devices in business is significantly
driving technology development in this segment.
E-learning and Virtual Classrooms
E-learning and virtual classrooms are the new buzzword many
corporates are using now a day to train their staff, customers
and students. Development of whiteboard, boardroom, and conference
room virtually is becoming popular.
Anteriorsoft has geared-up to meet the new technologies and
demands coming up with e-learning and virtual classrooms. We
have developed expertise in developing SDKs to develop client
level applications for communication servers (like macromedia
flash), LMS with compliance with AICC levels and other systems.
Developing features like text, voice chat, audio, video conferencing,
lecture notes, online skills assessments…etc are some of
the activities we are doing as part of the e-learning and virtual
classrooms projects mostly with environments .Net, ASP/VB and
Flash front-end with Database on MS/SQL 2000 Web server IIS Protocol
TCP/IP and SMTP.
Web Template Designing
Anteriorsoft has developed a number of ready to use photoshop
web templates for hosting companies in US, UK and Europe. Package
web sites have attracted number of small business clients around
the globe. To view some of the projects click
As there is growing demand for multi-media, graphics and animation,
we have focused our skills in the area of 2D animation. Anteriorsoft
is involved in 2D flash animation services to various clients
across the globe. Both short and long 2D films in the area of
cartoon animation have been developed by the in-house studio using
mostly Flash MX technologies. To view some of the projects click
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Refrigeration Applications - Godfather of Thermodynamics - Refrigeration for Non-Techies (57)
Anyone who struggles with ill health through their school years, is largely self-taught as a result, yet creates a career for themselves in industry and then transitions to the top flights of academia deserves our respect. When this person works alongside far more famous colleagues, but has his career cut short by ill health and dies at the age of 52, it seems likely they would fade into obscurity. No so for Professor William John Macquorn Rankine, engineer, scientist, educator, communicator and much more.
As a teenager, Rankine attended the University of Edinburgh for two years, leaving at 18 (without a degree) to join a railroad construction company. He worked in Scotland and Ireland during the early 1840s in the first wave of rapid growth of the railroads and also worked on the construction of harbors and waterworks.
He made one of his first engineering break-throughs with an article called "The Fracture of Axles." This article was the first description of the phenomenon that we now call "metal fatigue" and correctly identified it as the cause of several serious railway accidents. It explained the mechanism that caused cracks to form and then grow near square-cut shoulders in the axles. Rankine showed that the form and structure of metal were significant (as every engineering student now knows). The article also disproved the prevailing theory of the time, that these accidents had been inexplicable and unpredictable because the metal just crystallized spontaneously.
In the early 1850s, he worked as a civil engineer on the construction of the main water supply from Loch Katrine to Glasgow, a distance of over 40 miles (64km). This water supply is credited with driving typhoid and cholera out of the city and is still in use today.
In the early 1840s while still developing his career as a young civil engineer, he started making some ground-breaking advances in thermodynamics, approaching the science of heat from the atomic level. Several novel publications resulted in his election to the Fellowship of the Royal Society in 1853, and two years later he accepted the chair of Civil Engineering and Mechanics at Glasgow University in the company of Professors William Thomson (later Lord Kelvin) and James Clerk Maxwell.
Thomson later wrote of Rankine's contribution to the dynamical theory of heat that "even the mere title of his earliest paper on the subject, 'Molecular Vortices,' is an important contribution to physical science." He is credited with writing the first treatise on thermodynamics in the English language and for naming the equivalence of heat and the increase of entropy as the "first and second laws of thermodynamics," although he wasn't the first to describe them.
As an educator, it was said that "all his writings are marked by a power of statement so clear and logical that the reader, even should he fail entirely to follow the demonstrations, cannot but be benefitted in the attempt to master them." I think this was a compliment.
The same commenter, W.J.Millar, a student of Rankine's, also wrote "Rankine's lectures, although simpler than his textbooks, were marked by the same clearness of arrangement and were enforced by his distinct and vigorous enunciation, and admirably illustrated by carefully prepared diagrams." He was responsible for introducing a degree qualification in engineering at Glasgow University, creating the first engineering graduates in the United Kingdom.
Kelvin and Rankin, who worked at the same university at the same time, have given their names to the two scales of absolute temperature (SI and IP, respectively). Rankine is also now widely remembered for first describing the Rankine power cycle, which is known as the organic Rankine cycle system when it uses HFCs.
Spare a thought for Professor Rankine and his legacy on Christmas Eve this year. William J.M. Rankine: born July 5, 1820, died Dec 24, 1872.
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NanoRacks Chief Executive Officer Jeffrey Manber Receives Pioneer of NewSpace Award
June 29, 2017 – San Francisco, CA – NanoRacks is proud to announce that CEO Jeffrey Manber has been awarded with the Pioneer in NewSpace Award from the Space Frontier Foundation (SFF).
The Pioneer in NewSpace Award is given to an individual who was an early leader and pioneer in the creation of the NewSpace industry, and who has left a lasting legacy – either through their own personal investment or in the creation of an early NewSpace business enterprise.
“Throughout his career, Jeffrey Manber has been a tireless advocate for what we now call NewSpace,“ says SFF Chairman of the Board, Jeff Fiege. “He worked to overcome the obstacles to enable the human development of space before most of today’s NewSpace companies even existed. It is truly an honor to officially add him to the list of NewSpace Pioneers.”
Jeff received this award for his history both his establishing and working in the development of NewSpace and commercial space – from his time at the Department of Commerce Office of Space Commercialization, to being CEO of MirCorp, now to leading one of the top companies for space station utilization.
“It is pretty cool to have my career in commercial space honored at the NewSpace 2017 conference by the Space Frontier Foundation,” says Jeffrey Manber. “Whether at NanoRacks or before, I’ve tried to make space just another place to do business. And slowly, slowly, we are getting there, thanks to organizations like the Space Frontier Foundation.” Adds Manber, “At NanoRacks, we look forward to continuing our work in further commercializing access to space and making space a destination for anyone with a passion for exploration.”
Jeff has a long-standing career in commercial space utilization. He served as the Advisor to the Chairman of PanAmSat, the first privately owned international satellite venture, ending the monopoly on international satellite communications. He co-developed the first Wall Street Fund dedicated solely to commercial space and helped create the Office of Space Commerce at the U.S. Department of Commerce in the Reagan Administration. He then served at CEO of MirCorp, and remains the only person to-date to have marketed a private space station. Under MirCorp, Jeff signed media and entertainment deals with space tourist Dennis Tito, Survivor television producer Mark Burnett, and moved producer James Cameron.
Today, NanoRacks is one of leaders in commercial utilization of the International Space Station. NanoRacks has delivered over 550 payloads to the International Space Station, including the launch and deployment of over 180 small satellites. NanoRacks is currently building the first-ever commercial Airlock to be mounted to the ISS and has also been awarded funding from the NASA NextSTEP Phase II Award to study the reuse of the upper stages of launch vehicles as commercial habitats.
NanoRacks LLC was formed in 2009 to provide commercial hardware and services for the U.S. National Laboratory onboard the International Space Station via a Space Act Agreement with NASA. NanoRacks’ main office is in Houston, Texas, right alongside the NASA Johnson Space Center. The Business Development office is in Washington, DC. Additional offices are located in Silicon Valley, California and Leiden, Netherlands.
In July 2015, NanoRacks signed a teaming agreement with Blue Origin to offer integration services on their New Shepard space vehicle. NanoRacks, along with partners at ULA and Space Systems Loral was also recently selected by NASA to participate in the NextSTEPs Phase II program to develop commercial habitation systems in low-Earth orbit and beyond.
As of June 2017, over 550 payloads have been launched to the International Space Station via NanoRacks services, and our customer base includes the European Space Agency (ESA) the German Space Agency (DLR,) the American space agency (NASA,) US Government Agencies, Planet Labs, Millennium Space Systems, Space Florida, NCESSE, Virgin Galactic, pharmaceutical drug companies, and organizations in Vietnam, UK, Romania and Israel.
About the Space Frontier Foundation
Founded in 1988, the Space Frontier Foundation is a non-profit organization dedicated to opening the space frontier to human settlement as rapidly as possible by unleashing the power of free enterprise. Our goals include protecting the Earth’s fragile biosphere and creating a more prosperous life for each generation by using the unlimited energy and material resources of space. The Foundation is composed of a diverse, multinational array of space activists, expert scientists and engineers, media and political professionals, entrepreneurs, and passionate citizens.
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Author(s): Kumar P, Ibraheem
The present work is intended as a comprehensive review of the recent advances in the area of automatic generation control (AGC) of interconnected power systems. Emphasis has been given to the review of earlier concepts in the area of automatic control of electrical power systems and updates of the same with recent developments that have taken place in this field. The salient features of AGC strategies based on centralized, decentralized, and multi-level control schemes using classical, optimal, sub-optimal, and modal control techniques with linear, non-linear, and continuous and discrete models have been highlighted. Attention has also been paid to recent advances in AGC schemes such as digital AGC schemes, self-tuning and microprocessor-based adaptive control schemes, variable structure AGC schemes. The paper incorporates a bibliography of the published work reported in the field of automatic generation control.
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De mardi 3 Avril 2012 à 20:30
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After growing up in Liverpool, and then ten years or so in London, Alex Highton decamped with his family to rural Cambridgeshire. What he found was an England he didn't know existed and a life he didn't know he was looking for. With no expectations at all he wrote and recorded a bunch of songs that chronicled his journey from the city to the country.
These songs appear on his debut album 'Woodditton Wives Club' which will be released 24th February on The Local Label.
"Frankly it's a real boost to discover a genuine world class practitioner who restores your faith in the genre..." - TOM ROBINSON, BBC6Music
"....an old-fashioned troubadour in the strictest sense. Strumming gentle folk songs on his guitar, his warm and soulful voice conjures up memories of sun-kissed summer nights out on the lawn." - METRO
Maria Doyle Kennedy is an award-winning Irish actress and singer known for her roles in Downton Abbey, The Commitments, Queen Katherine of Aragon and The Tudors.
Maria’s new album with her husband Kieran is called The Storms Are On the Ocean. A collection of Appalachian standards dressed in darned gowns, its spiritual siblings are Robert Plant's Band of Joy, PJ Harvey's White Chalk and Gillian Welch's stark daguerreotypes. Here are courtly tunes, murder ballads, child ballads and death fugues all backlit by Kieran Kennedy's acoustic guitar, banjo and piano.
Her previous solo albums have been nominated for Meteor awards and her forthcoming project sees her teamed with U.S. country music legend John Prine Damien Rice and Paul Brady.
Maia are a 4 piece alternative, acoustic band from Huddersfield playing all sorts of disco sci-fi folk pop on ukulele, cajon, trumpet, banjo, mandolin or whatever else is lying around.
“The most impressive aspect of Maia the Band is that they are more adventurous and eclectic within the course of a single song than some artists dare to be in their entire career” - FOR FOLK'S SAKE
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Science & Mathematics
Professor Padhraic Smyth will lead UCI’s 5-year project, which is part of the National Science Foundation Research Traineeship program. If you use your computer mainly for e-mail, web browsing and watching videos, you might be in a position to get away with using a tablet as your principal computer. The Macintosh computer was introduced in 1984, and it was the first widely sold personal computer with a graphical user interface, or GUI (pronounced gooey). A computer network is a set of computers or devices that are connected with each other to carry on data and share details.
All computers include a central processing unit that interprets and executes guidelines input devices, such as a keyboard and a mouse, via which data and commands enter the computer memory that enables the computer to shop applications and information and output devices, such as printers and display screens, that show the results soon after the computer has processed information.
A LAN might be configured as (1) a bus, a principal channel to which nodes or secondary channels are connected in a branching structure, (2) a ring, in which every computer is connected to two neighbouring computer systems to form a closed circuit, or (three) a star, in which every computer is linked directly to a central computer and only indirectly to one yet another.
I attempt to aim above one hundred when it comes to shooters or RTS games and if I can’t on higher resolution settings I usually will sacrifice a bit of eye candy in order to get what I feel is a bigger competitive advantage. Here’s our evaluation process to help a buyer decide if that computer is worth the cost of repair. This is one particular of the finest examples of an Apple-1 computer and in January 2016 was passed on to the Lonnie Mimms collection at the Computer Museum of America in Roswell, Georgia. Duration: The Computer Science program of AMA Computer University is a ten-trimester plan.
But surely, you may well say, even if I am proper, when it comes to instruction computer scientists, it tends to make sense to design and style educational courses about the abstractions the computer scientists will truly use when they graduate and go out to perform in the technology field. You can also select from a wide assortment of mice to discover your perfect computer mouse. Use our computer acquiring guide to uncover which attributes are most essential to contemplate.
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The Army’s quick response acquisition shop is beginning to field technologies.
Women are now eligible to hold any position in the military. But that doesn’t mean everything is equal. Military women have been hosting so-called Lean In circles to discuss solutions to problems women face in the military and DoD workplace. Army Maj. Gen. Patricia Frost worked with Facebook executive and Lean In creator Sheryl Sandberg to bring more Lean In techniques to the military. Federal News Radio’s Scott Maucione spoke with Frost about her work on Federal Drive with Tom Temin.
Army says commands have already issued several RFPs under new contract vehicle for cloud services, migration.
Fifteen organizations, both liberal and conservative, called on the White House to use a scalpel rather than a meat ax to cut DoD civilian employees.
You can’t separate the Navy from the world’s oceans. Almost since its founding, the Navy has maintained expertise in ocean science to help it perform its mission.
Alfred Rivera, DISA’s director of the Development and Business Center, said the agency is moving toward multi-factor authentication, including biometrics and other “patterns of life” type of technologies.
The Defense Department won’t have any problems spending money if Congress can pass a budget next week.
The Army Reserve has taken on a much more important operational role in the last couple of decades. Now about 200,000 strong, it’s about to celebrate another birthday. Participating in those celebrations will be Army Sgt. 1st Class Joshua Moeller. He’s also the Army’s non-commissioned officer of the year and he joins Federal Drive with Tom Temin.
The Army is in the midst of a sweeping review of its intelligence apparatus. Interviews and surveys are asking commanders at every level what they’ll need from the intelligence corps over the next decade.
Facilities that house combat units are in bad condition and the funds are not there to fix them.
After years of work inventorying its legacy business information technology systems and building more modern ones to replace them, the Army says it has an aggressive plan in place to cut its number of business IT systems in half.
When the Army dropped a waste removal contractor for a base in Louisiana, it didn’t plan on a protest from the good folks of Dripping Spring, Texas. But the incumbent contractor, located in that gateway to hill country, did in fact protest the new award, which went to the government of the parish in which Fort Polk is located. Procurement attorney Joe Petrillo of Petrillo and Powell shares the details of this curious case on Federal Drive with Tom Temin.
The National Security Agency is holding its 17th annual Cyber Defensive Exercise to help young cyber warriors hone their skills.
The Army cast off nearly 700 soldiers in the second half of 2016.
Military officials say the 2017 continuing resolution could be the worst yet. The service chiefs of Army, Navy, Air Force and Marine Corps all told Congress this week that this year could be the straw that breaks the camel’s back.
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The Reading of the Scriptures by Fr Felix, O.F.M.Cap. part 12.
THE OLD TESTAMENT.
Both Testaments alike are the inspired Word of God. The Council of Florence states clearly: "The Holy Roman Church . . . professes that One and the Same God is Author of the Old and the New Testament, i.e., of this Law and the Prophets and of the Gospel: because the holy men of both Testaments spoke under the inspiration of the Same Holy Spirit." (Decree for the Jacobites. Denzinger Bannwart. 16 ed. No. 706). The New Testament itself bears witness to this in Our Lord's own words in the Sermon on the Mount: "Do not think that I am come to destroy the law or the prophets. I am not come to destroy but to fulfil." (St. Matthew 5, 17). Again, when we read the New Testament we must be impressed by the number of citations from, and references to the Old Testament. This is especially true of the Gospel of St. Matthew and of St. Paul's Epistles. St. Matthew in writing his Gospel had in mind the immediate needs of those Jews who were the first converts to Christianity, and in consequence he proved for them that Christ Our Lord is the Messias promised and foretold in the Old Testament Scriptures. St. Paul was well versed in the Old Testament before his conversion. He quotes it very frequently, and uses it with great effect in defending and expounding the Gospel. To understand the New Testament, therefore, it is necessary to read and study the Old. Nor is the interest which we discovered in the study of the New Testament absent from that of the Old. On the contrary, it is, if possible, still greater. It was to the Old Testament Scriptures Our Lord referred when He said: "Search the Scriptures . . . . the same are they that give testimony of Me." (St. John 5, 39). This testimony of Our Divine Redeemer has an imperative claim on us. Again, the heroic virtues of many of the saints of the Old Law are proposed in the New Testament for our admiration and imitation, e.g., the faith of Abraham (Hebrews 8, 10) ; the patience of Job (St., James 5, 11); the modesty of Sara. ( I St. Peter 3, 6).
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+White prepares lean school budget
A $1.6 million shortfall is expected for the Sarasota County School District. Reserves and some controversial cuts will be needed to soften the blow again.
+Sheriff's Office releases 2011 crime report
Sarasota Sheriff Tom Knight reflects on the accomplishments of the last year and looks for focus areas in the months to come.
+FHP to target aggressive driving
A targeted enforcement campaign against aggressive driving will be held from March 30 through April 4.
+The Sarasota Open is courting both players and spectators
In April, James Blake, one of the top 10 players in the world at the time, won the second annual Sarasota Open — a title Kei Nishikori, one of the top 25 players in the world, won the previous year.
+Lakewood Ranch High's fab five
The Lakewood Ranch High softball team has relied on the leadership of its five seniors: Cristiana Burns,
Huntyre Elling, Dana Hutchins, Amber Ozment and Quillan Toler.
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Los Angeles, CA: Two wrongful termination lawsuits recently filed in New Jersey have a kinship with earlier legal troubles faced by banking giant Wells Fargo in California over accusations the financial juggernaut forced its bank employees to create in excess of two million bogus credit card and deposit accounts in the names of existing clients without authorization.
Los Angeles, CA: A former technician for one of California’s highest-profile employers is characterizing Space Exploration Technologies Corp. (SpaceX) as a company maintaining a culture that allows for falsification of test results, or so it is alleged. The plaintiff, in his wrongful termination lawsuit, holds that his refusal to falsify documents and his attempts to report the practice to his superiors eventually got him fired.
Los Angeles, CA: There is yet another development in the story surrounding a California litigant having brought a wrongful termination lawsuit. Former tennis commentator Doug Adler, who had served as a tennis analyst and commentator for ESPN before he was fired, has suffered a heart attack he blames on the stress associated with the legal dispute in which he is embroiled with his former employer.
Los Angeles, CA: An update now on the California wrongful termination lawsuit filed by a former ESPN tennis commentator allegedly fired from his position with the network over the use of a word plaintiff Doug Adler claims he never used.
Los Angeles, CA: A proposed settlement worth $2.2 million that would have put an end to a compliance lawsuit against Google Inc. has been scuppered after a judge in a California court struck down the settlement. US District Judge Lucy Koh indicated in her ruling that the benefits to the class derived from the settlement were “difficult to understand.”
Los Angeles, CA: A former sports commentator with ESPN known for his knowledge of tennis launched a wrongful termination lawsuit in a California court against his former employer the day before Valentine’s Day this year. At issue is an on-air comment Doug Adler is alleged to have uttered during coverage of the 2017 Australian Open and, in particular use of a word the plaintiff asserts he did not use.
Los Angeles, CA: Snapchat is the latest tech company to face a lawsuit, but this time the plaintiff alleges wrongful termination, claiming he was fired for alerting superiors to potential misrepresentation on the part of the company. The California wrongful termination lawsuit was filed in January 2017, and claims the company purposely misled investors ahead of its initial public offering (IPO) to inflate Snapchat's valuation. The plaintiff, Anthony Pompliano, further alleges that Snapchat has since worked to destroy his career.
Los Angeles, CA. Una corporación importante de medios de comunicación obtuvo un regalo temprano de Navidad el pasado 20 de diciembre cuando un panel del tres-jueces junto con el segundo Tribunal de Apelación en California revirtió la decisión de una corte inferior que afirmaba que Time Warner Cable Services LLC era culpable de terminación injusta de contrato y discriminación por discapacidad.
Los Angeles, CA: A major media corporation got an early Christmas present December 20 when a three-judge panel with the Second Court of Appeal in California reversed a lower court’s ruling holding Time Warner Cable Services LLC (Time Warner, TWC) liable for wrongful termination and disability discrimination.
Los Ángeles, CA: Un ex locutor de la emisora de radio K-Love 107.5 Los Ángeles reclama que su antiguo empleador, Univision Communications Inc. (Univision), terminó injustamente su contrato con la estación de radio, a pesar de los altos índices de sintonía, por presunta tardanza para llegar al sitio de trabajo, cuando en realidad la demandante Sofía Soria estaba luchando contra un tumor estomacal y requirió cirugía, o al menos eso alegó ella. Soria lanzó una apelación de Terminación Injustificada de Contrato en California, la cual fue oída a principios de noviembre.
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