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Rushing through daily obligations,
only to obsessively labor
to grow a social media presence:
twittering, Facebook updating, formspring.
I’m even thinking of joining LinkedIn
as another venue for connecting.
Relentless, compulsive participation
in communion with writers,
working through the writing process
at breakneck speeds
to meet overlapping deadlines.
All for fun, or just because
on direct contemplation
I find in my quiet times,
between different things and writing sprints
I
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’m scared out of my wits that mine
may not be enough time
to say all that burns in me to get out
in places where I’ll be heard
and instead the flames will just consume me.
© 2010 Shari Lynne Smothers
This poem is for the napowrimo prompt #
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Released last month was this anthology from creator Howard Shum. His name might be familiar to some as an inker for various Marvel, DC and Dark Horse titles over the years as well as the writer of Image series such as Gun-Fu, and Gazillion. Here, he’s the writer of 8 short stories, all illustrated by different artists. That’s a good idea, especially as he’s chosen well (from all over the world), making sure every story is a visual delight.
Don’t be fooled
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by the kinetic, and charming art though, as it’s not an all-ages book, with its occasional blood letting and profanity.
My favourite tale is Water Lily with art by Antonella Dalena. It focuses on two young, attractive strangers on a
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ASHLAND — Stirring up clouds of black ash, Dan Thomas used an excavator Friday to demolish the remains of his home — burned in last month's Oak Knoll fire — and prepare to rebuild.
The single-story house at 897 Oak
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Knoll Drive held 10 years of memories for the Thomas family, and watching the charred walls fall was difficult, he said.
"I've done a lot of house building and some demolition, but it's a little weird to be tearing my own walls down," said Thomas, who owns Circle T Construction Inc. "There
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Online video advertising and video monetization network Tremor Media
released a series of products which aim to improve video advertisers' ability to
drive response and brand engagement.
Six new formats and features have been released, most noteworthy perhaps is
the Pre-Roll Plus Overlay which invites users to interact with a clickable
overlay that appears over the publishers content immediately following a
Additional features and formats include:
- vChoice Select: Allows user to choose which video ad
they’d like to see before it’s delivered, enhancing relevance and brand
- vChoice Rotator: Provides advertisers the ability to
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rotate multiple brand videos in a single creative unit. Advertisers with
multiple video assets can present fewer options as thumbnails within the
vChoice menu, and rotate the options each time an impression is served to
the same user.
- Data Feed: Dynamically populates brand or location
specific data within the ad unit to drive relevance and response. Data can
be fed automatically into the unit, or via a user input such as zip code.
- Sequencer: Ens
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Pedagogy, Agency, and Media Culture
I recently attended a conference and participated in a panel on the relationship between digital humanities and media studies. It seemed like the intention of the panel was to discuss the topic at hand while including the audience as part of the discussion. I prepared a short list of bullet points concerning what I find most problematic about much of the discussion around the digital humanities. One of my main concerns arises from what seems like a naive suggestion that using quantitative data in relation to texts is an innovation. Of course, a quick look at the historical underpinnings of DH brings forth several earlier iterations focusing on computers and
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the humanities all of which brought quantitative data to bear on texts (although, admittedly, not always with the same tools or techniques that are being used currently). But, a more problematic gap seems to arise when discussing the power of big data
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Microsoft is set to trial a new type of Wi-Fi this week, which uses the white space spectrum to bolster wireless connectivity for smartphones.
The computing company will use frequencies within the 470MHz to 790MHz range – a spectrum which was initially given to digital TV companies but has so far not been used.
The trial will see if pushing a Wi-Fi signal through a spectrum so close to digital TV will harm television signals and is being seen as an alternative to
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both LTE and current Wi-Fi.
The trials are taking place in Cambridge this Wednesday and will be closely watched by a consortium that includes the BBC, BSkyB and BT.
"Spectrum is a finite natural resource. We can't make more and we must use it efficiently and wisely," said Microsoft's Dan Reed to the
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May 28th, 2008. Florida.
Dear Diary Post #3,
I think the lines between him and me are growing more blurred. The separate identity I carved out is still there, but I’ve reached an equilibrium in the way I come forward. It’s not always necessary to use the entire body, just the fingers and sometimes the mouth. And let’s face it, what other part of the male body do you really need? I used his fingers to write chapter 14 of my novel over the holiday weekend. I was quite pleased because this was the first time I did extensive writing at home, rather than at his workplace. The novel is up to 35,000 words and working on the next chapter this week. I figure if I can keep a pace of 4,000 words a week, I’ll be fine.
I cannot match his production though without drastic measures and those would probably not be warranted. Unless he
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quits his job, which of course means no money and thus no house, no food, etc, etc. So the whole starving artist routine is not going to happen. Little progress on my memoir, I’m waiting to get re energized with that book and to get it edited by others. With the economy the way it is, that may be years down the road, if ever. I
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VADODARA: The act of Maharaja Sayajirao Gaekwad III showing his back to King George V during Delhi Durbar in 1911 is still discussed by citizens fervently. But, barring a handful of citizens, most have never seen the courageous act.
The photographs of Sayajirao's act, too, are rare. However, citizens will soon be able to view the incident on screen. A rare film shot during the Delhi Durbar will be screened in the city by the royal Gaekwad family.
It will be for the first time that the video
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of the defiant act will be screened in the city. "We are planning to screen the video on March 11 that is the birth date of Sayajirao. We have planned several events for the day and the film is one of them. We are still working on the logistics," scion of royal Gaekwad family Samarjitsinh Gaek
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42:1351(94)NG - - AFGE, Dept. of Education Council of AFGE Locals and Dept. of Education - - 1991 FLRAdec NG - - v42 p1351
[ v42 p1351 ]
The decision of the Authority follows:
42 FLRA No. 94
Before Chairman McKee and Members Talkin and Armendariz.
I. Statement of the Case
This case is before the Authority on a negotiability appeal filed under section 7105(a)(2)(E) of the Federal Service Labor-Management Relations Statute (the Statute). It concerns the negotiability of three proposals submitted by the Union during negotiations for a new collective bargaining agreement.
Proposal 1 concerns the procedures to be followed by the parties to resolve disputes over Agency disapprovals of local supplemental agreements under section 7114(c) of the Statute. Proposal 2 requires the Agency to notify the Union of: (1) Agency solicitations of contracting out bids under the Office of Management and Budget's (OMB) Circular A-76 and (2) bid opening times and locations so that a Union official may attend. Proposal 3 concerns the Agency's obligation under the requirement of OMB
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Circular A-76 that all contracts awarded include a provision requiring that Federal employees adversely affected or separated as a result of contracting out be given the "right of first refusal" for employment openings with
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Clinigene International Ltd, the clinical research arm of Indian biotech major Biocon Ltd, has entered into a partnership with Spaulding Clinical Research, LLC of the United States for providing early clinical solutions to pharma and biotech clients.
Clinigene International, an India-based central and bioanalytical laboratory, undertakes Phase I to IV clinical research while Spaulding, based in the US, is a leading-edge clinical pharmacology, cardiac core lab, and medical device manufacturer.
"This partnership establishes a reliable, trustworthy, and cost-efficient global footprint for clinical pharmacology services, providing an opportunity for both organisations to engage pharmaceutical clients strategically and accelerate first-in-human to proof-of-concept clinical development," the two companies said in a joint statement.
"Pharmaceutical clients globally are increasingly seeking strategies to exped
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ite their early clinical development, streamlining processes while maintaining high quality. Our strategic partnership is designed to deliver this in a very cost-effective manner," Dr Abhijit Barve, chief operating officer of Clinigene, said.
"The strengths of both companies are very complementary with Clinigene providing the preclinical development (through sister-company Syngene),
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1. Acquiring the console MAC address:
- Plug in the blue network cable into the back of your
Playstation 3 and power it on.
- After a few moments please navigate to: System > Network
Settings > Connection details. Note down the MAC
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address
and power off the Playstation 3.
2. Register the console:
- Connect your computer to the network cable and log onto the
following page: https://8200ap.yorksj.ac.uk/registration/RemoteReg.jsp
- Agree to the Acceptable Use Policy
- Select the option to register your games
- Enter your username, password and MAC address in the
- With the device Type list, make sure you select the
3.Finalizing the connection:
- Your console is now fully registered on the network and
is ready for
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QM5 Yagi for 2 meters band
- The QM5 antenna is a simple 5 elements Yagi with 1.88 m boom length for the lower 144 MHz SSB/MGM band, I used it mainly for Sporadic-E and MS contacts. It exhibits a forward gain of 9.17 dBd; i.e. 11.3 dB forward gain over the isotropic radiator, while the F/R is about 11.5 dB. Elements
A magnetic loop antenna for HFpop
- Able to cover all frequencies between 3.5 and about 10 MHz, the loop described here is directional, does not require a radial system, and stands just 1.8 metres tall. Most parts needed can be purchased at a hardware shop. The antenna can be put together in an afternoon and requires only hand tools to assemble. It should cost less than sixty dollars to build.
by Peter Parker VK3YE ex VK1PK
80M Vertical antenna with capacitance hatpop
- Simple wire antenna cheap to make, using readily available
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materials, Low angle radiation, with rejection of high angle signals Wide bandwidth, with resonance at the 80M DX window (3.790-3.800 MHz); and Maximum height is 40 feet
Antennas for HF mobile operationpop
- The following description should give you guidance on how
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02/09/13 - The Militant - 1 of Cuban 5 wins transfer out of Miami prison
Vol. 77/No. 6 February 18, 2013
1 of Cuban 5 wins transfer out of Miami prison (feature article)
BY LOUIS MARTIN Ramón
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Labañino, one of five Cuban revolutionaries framed up
and jailed by the U.S. government for more than 14 years, recently won his
demand to transfer from a Miami prison where he was sent in mid-January.
The Bureau of Prisons
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2009 Minneapolis Municipal Election Results: Council Member Ward 13
Ranked-choice Voting Tabulation Center Summary Statement
Total votes cast
for the office:
Note: Total votes counted in the first round.
Does not include undervotes or partially defective, totally defective, or spoiled ballots.
|Number to be elected:||1|
|Threshold:||2991||Note: Half of total votes cast for office + 1, disregarding fractions.|
|Undervotes:||78||Note: Voter did not rank any candidates for the office.|
|Partially defective ballots:||0||Note: Unable to determine voter's intent with respect
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to the office being counted.|
|Totally defective ballots:||0||Note: Unable to determine voter's intent for any office on the ballot.|
|Spoiled ballots:||246||Note: Ballot spoiled by voter at polls.|
|Candidate||Round 1||Final Round Percentage|
|First preference votes||May not sum to
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AccessMyLibrary provides FREE access to millions of articles from top publications available through your library.
BYLINE: Peter T. Leach
Orient Overseas Container Line said it will seek a rate increase of $200 per 20-foot container of dry cargo on
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its service from Asia to North Europe as of April 8.
It called the tariff rate increase the "first measure towards the restoration of a sustainable level of freight rates."
The Hong Kong-based carrier said further tariff increases "would be necessary to maintain the integrity
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BlackBerry creator Research in Motion just made 70 million BlackBerry customers very happy. In efforts to smooth over the recent worldwide Blackberry service disruptions, RIM is offering users free BlackBerry apps valued at over $100.
Starting October
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19, BlackBerry users across the globe will notice over a dozen free apps available for download at BlackBerry App World. The free games and applications will be available until December 31, 2011.
Now BlackBerry users can get their fill of free Bejeweled, SIMS 3 and iSpeech Translator Pro, just to name a few. This smart marketing move will soon have BlackBerry apps users comparing high scores instead of moaning about the prolonged service interruptions experienced
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Subject: Narr jester
Culture:German, central European
Setting: Reformation, Europe 16thc
* Oppenheimer tr. 2001 p lx
"Vagabonds and wayfarers were well known in Europe since at least the eighth century, when Charlemagne issued an edict against'magones et cogciones qui sine omni lege vagabundi vadunt' [peddlers and hucksters who wander about lawlessly as vagabonds], tricking and deceiving people right and left. Undeterred by Charlemagne's attitude, vagabondage increased hugely. By 1250, it was an organized way of life. By
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1400, it had become an established, if risky, profession of sorts, especially east of the Rhine, with masses of itinerants, many of them rogues, knaves, thieves, and mendicant friars, as well as quack doctors and idle mercenary soldiers, flooding the roads. They benefitted from obligatory religious alms-giving and also... from rustic innocence"....
* Oppenheimer tr. 2001 p lxiv-lxv
"Enid Welsford distinguishes neatly betwen the professional buffoon, the court fool, and the mythical
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There are two things, or should I say, three things, that I find fascinating about Emily Maynard: her iconoclastic breast implants, and her duplicitous relationship with Bachelorette host, Chris Harrison. Perhaps one has to do with the other, though, as rumors swirl that Emily and newly divorced (consequently divorced?) Chris had some sort of affair. The latest on that front is that Emily doesn't really want Chris to contact her.
Us Weekly reports that Chris has great relationships with all the other Bachelor and Bachelorette stars, but Emily only wants to correspond with him over the occasional text or tweet.
Listen, assuming Emily didn’t sleep with Chris, forcing his divorce, only to get her way and more control over her season of The Bachelorette, she doesn't owe him anything. They’re coworkers and if she doesn't want a relationship off set, she doesn't need to have one.
Also
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, Chris Harrison rivals Slade Smiley for creepiest mo fo on reality TV and I would not want him contacting me, either. There's something about him that's not entirely trustworthy, if not completely
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Al also proves that getting older is really just a state of mind, because Big Station provides vibrancy and fun that you only really expect from wide-eyed, up-and-comers. Many have already paralleled the songs of Big Station and its overall vibe to Escovedo’s early punk-rock roots. And, that’s fair to say. From the fre
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ewheeling guitar riffs of the lead-off rocker “Man of the World” and feel good, jangly “Party People” Big Station is as spirited as we’ve heard Escovedo is years. Where his last album, Street Songs of Love, was admittedly more of a personal collection of songs, Big Station is a bit more adventurous and quite simply rocks a little more!
Once again on Big Station, Escovedo is working with a lot of the same folks. Friend and fellow songwriter Chuck Prophet is a big part of the creative process on Big Station. And producer Tony Visconti (David Bowie) has
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The plus size cowboy costume includes a brown duster coat that is made from polyester. It has an attached collar and remains open in the front to reveal the light brown vest. The vest has the appearance of suede and has faux bronze buttons on the front. It ties behind the neck and waist to secure it in place. The coat and vest is accented with a red bandana and brown cowboy hat. The hat has a circumference of 23 1/3" and a brown cord
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secures it in place. Complete your costume with our toy cowboy guns!
Plus Size Gunslinger CostumeProduct # RU17760
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In Heck Of A Guy 2006: Part I, I made a stumbling attempt to begin answering the question, “Why publish the Heck Of A Guy blog?” This exercise has already proved enlightening to me – which does not, I realize, preclude it boring the bejesus out of everyone else. I’m going to ask the readers’ indulgence for a bit more of this before returning to our irregularly scheduled programming.
To recapitulate the earlier post, Heck Of A Guy, at least as I perceive it, doesn’t function primarily as a diary or journal (AKA private confessional), one of the broad categories of blogs. Nor does it routinely serve as a nexus connecting readers with the author and each other in a conversation.
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1
If a blog isn’t a dairy or a conversation, odds are that it falls into the dreaded informational grouping.2 Of course, this genre is so all-encompassing as to be meaningless, including blogs dealing with quantum physics
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There could be genetic reasons why some women succumb to pressure to be thin, while others maintain a positive body image, according to US researchers.
“We’re all bombarded daily with messages extoling the virtues of being thin, yet intriguingly only some women develop what we term thin ideal internalisation,” study author Jessica Suisman from Michigan State University said in a press release.
“This suggests that genetic factors may make some women more susceptible to this pressure than others.”
Suisman and her colleagues studied more than 300 female twins aged 12 to 22 to see whether genetic factors influenced how vulnerable women are to societal thin ideals.
They measured how much the participants wanted to look like people from TV, movies and magazines, then compared identical twins, who share exactly the same genes, with fraternal twins, who share 50 percent of their genes.
The researchers found identical twins had closer levels of thin idealisation, which suggested genetics plays a part in determining body image.
“We were surprised to find that shared environmental factors, such as exposure to the same media, did not have as big an impact as expected,” Suisman said.
“Instead, non
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-shared factors that make co-twins different from each other had the greatest impact. The broad cultural risk factors that we thought were most influential in the development of thin-ideal internalisation are not as important as genetic risk and environmental risk factors that are specific and unique to each twin."
Megan O'Connor, from Eating Disorders Victoria, told ninemsn that experts are becoming increasingly aware of the potential genetic link.
"There are often examples of a mother and two of her daughters having eating disorders –– anecdotally we are hearing of
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ChordWizard SongTrix Gold 3.0f
Songtrix Gold 3.0 supports musicians in the same flexible
and open-ended way that a word processor supports
Compose a chord
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sequence and apply styles to produce a
professional musical arrangement in seconds.
Or create your own masterpiece from scratch, using intuitive
events like strums and drum rolls for rapid drafting and
ref
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We have had a very wet and cold winter so far. The pintos have on their winter coats, but Thunder for some reason never seems to develop a thick
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coat.
Little Lady, who will be two in May, looks pretty shaggy here. She is
a sweet horse with beautiful markings.
Luna is getting very big - she is the one on the left and she is eating with her
parents, Moonbeam and Suki. Her
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Step 1: In the garden
Spent coffee grounds can be mixed with lye to make a great composting agent, you can even throw in the coffee filter, too!
Worms in compost like to eat the bacterium that grows on the facets of coffee grounds, though the grounds themselves are a a food source it also adds grit to the worms' digestive system allowing them to digest better.
Small amounts of coffee grounds can be added directly to top soil, especially on plants that like high acidity in the soil like azaleas or roses. Coffee is high in nitrogen, calcium, magnesium, potassium and other trace minerals, spreading around a thin layer of coffee grounds on your soil will allow a slow release of these minerals into your plants.
Be aware of which plants like acidic soil (roses), and which plants don't (tomatoes).
Coffee has a very strong odour
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'Whiter than White' ANC?
South Africa's Daily Mail and Guardian reports on wilting criticism by journalist John Pilger against the ruling African National Congress. In his new book, Pilger accuses the one-time liberation movement of selling out to corporate bosses.
"It was as if the ANC aspired to be whiter than white in its relations with the rulers of the world," Pilger writes. "Low tariffs would entice foreign imports; low inflation would preside over low wages and high unemployment... and the rand would be subjected to the vagaries of the market."
Even pro-business economists have
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questioned such fiscal austerity in the face of pressing social needs, notes The DM&G. But the government says that wealth cannot be redistributed if it is not generated and that macroeconomic stability
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I'm Back... at Carnival Time
CAT # 11661-2094-2
1. Carnival Time 2:41 2. Bon Ton Roulet 2:55 3. Iko, Iko 3
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:42 4. Shallow Water Oh Mama 5:00 5. Golden Crown 3:52 6. Tipitina 3:48 7. I'm Back 4:04 8. Meet De Boys On The Battlefront 3:14
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Jackson braces for heavy rain, flooding
Up to 8 inches of rain possible
The city of Jackson has been preparing for flooding and heavy rain.
The first round of rain moved into central Mississippi late Tuesday night and will continue throughout the day Wednesday and Thursday. The rain will return Sunday and continue through the early part of next week, the 16 WAPT Weather Team said.
In areas like Mill Street, folks were preparing for the worst.
Scott Williams knows what he's in for as the city prepares for a possible 5 inches of rain by the end of the week.
On Christmas Day, heavy rains flooded his neighborhood in the area of Laurel and St. Mary's streets in Belhaven.
“It gets out to where the driveway is. And it’s easily thigh deep down there at the creek itself," said Williams.
Mayor Harvey Johnson asked residents to help clear debris from drainage areas.
“We recognize that all of the flooding does not occur just from clogged-up drains and that we have some other issues that are going to be long-term in nature to resolve, but there are
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some flooding that can be resolved by us simply taking the right precautions," said Johnson.
Earlier in the day Tuesday, city crews checked out problem areas, trying to get rid of anything that might make the water rise any faster.
Williams said he spent $4,000 repairing his car after the creek flooded over the summer.
“I had to pay the deductible twice to get it fixed. Cause it’s, it’s a pain. It’s very frustrating," said Williams.
He said this time
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Gordon Brown has arrived at the Iraq inquiry. Unlike Tony Blair, he’s chosen to come in through the front door, flashing a bit of a smile.
I expect he might have been a little disappointed by the lack of demonstrators. This time they are not only outnumbered by the policeman, they’re struggling to top the numbers of photographers. Nevertheless a few of them are still making an almighty racket with the help of their trusty megaphones. Read more
General Sir Graeme Lamb was once described to me by a senior officer as the “closest thing the British army has to a pirate”. With his latest scathing and brutally frank speech on Britain’s armed forces, he has certainly lived up to his reputation.
In one long blast, he has taken on Gordon Brown, the Treasury, defence officials, and the top ranks of the armed forces over the past decade. The complaints on equipment are timely given Brown’s Iraq inquiry appearance today. But his criticisms of the defence chiefs paint a more complicated picture than ‘Brown is to blame’. Anyway, before turning
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to exactly what he said, it’s worth reviewing his career.
Fondly known as “Lambo” by the troops, the former head of the SAS had a reputation for desert rollerblading, colourful turns of phrase (in his world Taliban commanders tend to “bleed from the eyes”) and fighting in the shadows
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Judge David Johnson is a role model to millions of youngsters around the world. He can't handle the pressure.
Our review of Role Models, published March 10th, 2009, is also available.
They're about to get more than they plea-bargained for.
One of my favorite comedies of last year scores a top-notch Blu-ray release. Let me save you the time of reading through this whole thing: Go get it!
Facts of the Case
Best friends Danny (Paul Rudd, Knocked Up) and Wheeler (Seann William Scott, Mr. Woodcock) live immature, empty lives, as a pair of salesmen pitching energy drinks to local high school kids
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. Danny is especially miserable, having been recently dumped by his long-time girlfriend (Elizabeth Banks). One day he snaps, causes a massive amount of property damage and, along with Wheeler, lands a 30-day jail sentence.
But they're given an opportunity to
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Boffins identify ‘gas pedal’, ‘brake’ for uncontrolled cell growthAugust 2nd, 2010 - 5:10 pm ICT by ANI
London, Aug 2 (ANI): Scientists have found a new way to regulate the uncontrolled growth of blood vessels, a major problem in a broad range of diseases and conditions.
The findings of the study
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, conducted by researchers at the University of California, San Diego School of Medicine, have appeared in the online edition of Nature Medicine.
Blood vessels grow and expand in association with a number of diseases. In particular, new blood vessel growth (known as angiogenesis) occurs during the growth of tumors, enabling them to expand and metastasize or spread to other parts of the body.
Uncontrolled vascular growth can lead to vascular malformations and hemangiomas
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Hear ye! Hear ye! This Saturday is Independence Day and although America is turning 233, our breasts are still as perky as ever! Today's Worldwide Wednesday is unlike any other that has come before it because it's about more than just acknowledging beautiful women---it's about capturing the American spirit. It's about things like rejoicing in the freedom to eat greasy fast food until you have to wear Costco sweatpants, or in this case, celebrating the liberty to gawk at scantily-clad women you'll never be able to sleep with.
So, to honor the Fourth of July, we've put together a list of honey dips from all 50 states who not only please the eyes, but also exemplify what it means to be a beautiful woman from the best country in the world. For those of you with short attention spans, you best pop an Adder
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all 'cause this list is a biggie. As for the rest of you, sit back with a cold sixer from Wisconsin, a bag of something sweet from California, and behold: the hottest women in the United States of America (in alphabetical order, of course)...
ALASKA: Sarah Palin (Wasilla, AK)
ALL-AMERICAN CRED: What's more American than running for vice-president? If all else fails at least she can fall back on royalty
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Fountain has constellations with human pronounceable names, unlike most other 0.0 regions, is there some lolrp explanation of this.
I don't think there's a reason other than Angels have names that invoke spirituality (for lack of a better word) and Serpentis have animals from Greek mythology. Serpens or Serpentis is the name of a real life constellation which are often named after mythological characters.
Originally Posted by indi
1. My Google Fu is crap and I can't find that picture of those lemmings running into Sansha infested waters dying. Anyone have the link to it?
2. Having a bunch of drones around a gate 12-15km to keep cloakers from cloaking is ok as long as it is not so many it causes lag? Just want to be sure before me and my guys start doing what I see of a lot in low sec these days.
2. Pretty sure they relaxed a load of that crap as long as it doesn't appear to cause lag. Like the bullshit with 40+ bubbles being '
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ok'. Although it appears to be inconsistent so you may face some petition aggro until a senior clears it up? Personal recommendation, dont be a bad and rely on bs manipulation of rules but meh... you will probably get away with it if its not inducing server strain.
[–]bam_strokerCaldari 6 points 18 hours ago
Your command of deliberate, convincingly bad English is amazing.
Do off-grid
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According To The Knee-Jerk Market, South Africa Mines Silver
Moments ago, a stray headline crossing Bloomberg was the catalyst for violent selling across the precious metal complex. The headline in question is this:
- SOUTH AFRICA GOLD PRODUCERS TO CONSIDER BRINGING FWD WAGE TALKS
The reason
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for the puke in PMs is the goalseeked as follows: since miners are willing to negotiate wage hikes, the miner strike may soon be over. Well, they said that last week, when the Lonmin Maricana mine strike ended. All that happened next was for every other miner in South Africa to
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Create a feel-good festive home
Choose a bold natural tree
Choose a big and bold natural tree and cover it with gorgeous fabric doves, hearts and stars finished with pretty blanket
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stitch. Make friends and family comfortable by dressing sofas and armchairs with nordic-style felt cushions in cheery Christmas colours.
For similar fabric decorations and stocking try Jan Constantine
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Fantasy is the subtext of every issue of Visionaire, but with this issue we pushed the boundaries to the fantastical. A round box housed round, unbound artwork. Each of the cover elements-photographed by Inez van Lamsweerde and Vinoodh Matadin-was produced exclusively for FANTASY: The dress was designed by Nicolas Ghesquiere for Balenciaga, Viktor & Rolf made the banner, and Jeremy Scott created the gold porcelain doll
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's head and hands. It was the first issue time we published Tim Burton, Gregory Crewdson, and Marcus Piggott and Mert Alas and there was a special section curated by Isabella Blow featuring, among others, David LaChapelle, Mariko Mori, and Tim Noble and Sue Webster. Each issue included an Hermes mask that many wore to the masquerade ball launch party.
Limited Edition of 600
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Banks urged to support SMEs
The Minister of Trade and Industry, Francois Kanimba, has called on commercial banks that are expected to finance the Hanga Umurimo programme to be proactive in identifying business plans they are interested to fund, as there is little time left to the end of the project.
Hanga Umurimo is a programme initiated by government to reward prospective entrepreneurs with the best business plans, and it was introduced in the spirit of nurturing Small and Medium Enterprises, which are seen as key drivers of the economy.
Kanimba made the remarks on Friday during his meeting with representatives of the commercial banks, who wanted to update the ministry on the progress in financing people or companies that were linked to them.
“Banks should solve the internal bureaucracy and confirm which business plans they have decided on financing because we have little time left,” said Kanimba.
Under the programme, competitions for the best business plans were held countrywide and
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20 business plans were chosen from each district.
In total, 135 business plans are currently being scrutinised for possible financing.
After banks approve the respective plans that they want to finance, government, through Rwanda Development Bank will provide collateral equivalent to 70 percent of the capital which the beneficiary will be asked to provide the remaining part to present before they get the money from the bank.
With the project scheduled to end on 28th June, this year, none of the financial institutions has funded or confirmed funding any project to-date as most of
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The planned change comes in the wake of the nation's largest beef recall. It would shut down an exception — which critics call a loophole — that allows a small number of so-called "downer" cattle into the food supply if they pass veterinary inspection.
Downer cows pose increased risk for mad cow disease, E. coli and other infections, partly because they typically wallow in feces. They are already mostly banned from slaughter, but under current rules can be allowed in if they fall down after passing an initial veterinary inspection, and then are re-inspected and pass that second inspection, too.
Some lawmakers and the Humane Society of the United States have lobbied Schafer to eliminate that exception, and the meat and dairy industry last month reversed its opposition and endorsed the change too.
Schafer announced the planned new rule to reporters following a 60-day review of conditions at the nation's slaughterhouses. The department hopes to finalize the
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rule within several months.
The review was prompted by a 143 million-pound beef recall in February, ordered after the Humane Society released undercover video showing employees abusing downer cows at Westland/Hallmark Meat Co. in Chino, Calif. Downer cows at the plant were forced to slaughter without the required second veterinary inspection, which is
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In its own little way, perhaps this bit of propagandizing is as much demonstrative muscle-flexing as the rape of Georgia itself. For as Europe's dependence on Russian petroleum has convinced Putin of his local invincibility, so perhaps arts organizations' reliance on Russian talent, attendance, and support will keep them from responding to this grossly --
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and offensively -- political gesture.
Gergiev no longer has any official position at the Met (his tenure as Principal Guest Conductor ended with a concert this spring) and as far as I can see has not been engaged for any of this upcoming season's performances. But it will be interesting to see what, if anything, other companies do.
(It will also be interesting to see
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A Hot Summer Night
Nishinomiya, Japan – This is the Mother Church of Japanese baseball, and there is no place I’d rather be on a hot summer night.
Koshien Stadium in this Osaka suburb is the home of the Hanshin Tigers and their passionate – and often inebriated – working-class supporters decked out from head to toe in Tigers’ yellow and black.
For decades, it also has been the stuff of dreams for Japanese boys, as it also hosts
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the finals of national high school baseball tournament, a riveting event known only as “Koshien.” All high school teams throughout the entire nation start out as equals in the tournament, but only the survivors get to march into the stadium. So all over Japan, boys dream of making it to Koshien. Business and commerce in Japan often come to a halt in August as Japanese businessmen – little boys who dreamed once themselves – crowd around to see the nationally televised high school games.
Bult in 1924, Koshien is revered as a sacred ground,
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Ranveer Singh: I was a Casanova!
In 2010, a chap from Delhi came, saw and conquered. Exactly a year later, that young man, Ranveer Singh, is back with more experience, pressure, excitement and a new story in Ladies Vs Ricky Bahl
When Band Baaja Baaraat
released, no one expected the film or its unusual hero to create an impact in B-town. But Ran
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veer Singh astounded everyone with his performance and simpleton charm. He now returns with a new film to increase his fan following tenfold as he dives in to the character
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Actually we met Dr. McDougal at a Save the Earth Food fair here in
Seattle. My wife felt that his diet, while certainly better for one's
health was socially isolating. She told him so, so he got a "bit
defensive." I don't blame him. But the fact is...that our diet on this
web page, even though it is the "only way to go" and I would never
change...is socially isolating.
Apparently some here have criticized Dr. McDougal for "selling" or
attempting to sell at his seminars. Folks, this is America. Selling is
as American as fatfree apple pie. I would never criticize him or anyone
else for selling. He and his wife are in business to make money from
prosyltizing their dietary position, and of course his books. I think
that is wonderful, and I am not put off by their business efforts at
all. I always enjoy success, even when other people get it, and am
delighted when I see it.
I also hope that Michelle gets some success (and money) through her web
site. I'm sure that she works hard on it and spends many hours.
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I'm not
certain how she would go about it, but if she decided to start accepting
some advertising, I would NOT criticize her at ALL for doing it. I'd
say: "More
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Giorgio Serafini is in talks to direct “Rush”, an L.A-set crime thriller headlined by Dolph Lundgren.
The Voltage Pictures production has also enlisted Randy Couture, Lundgren’s co-star in “The Expendables” films, and Vinnie Jones, currently in “Fire with Fire” starring Bruce Willis, for roles in the film.
The movie, said to be in the tradition of “To Live and Die
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in L.A.”, we’re told is a sexy, action-packed crime-thriller in which the people and places of Los Angeles are as much a focus of the film as the action sequences will be.
Deals with Serafini (“Game of Death”) and the actors are being made, with an official announcement on “Rush” expected to be made at AFM later this week.
Lundgren next appears in the science-fiction actioner “Battle of the Damned”, before appearing in R. Ellis Frazier’s contract-killer thriller “Repeater” opposite Michael J
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Digg users, however, gave the story a big yawn, at least so far. On Digg today, only five people have “dugg” Valleywag’s observations. But when Adelson’s interview went online two days ago, 1,243 people “dugg” it. And according to the counter on YouTube, 12,579 people have watched the video.
The Digg community is a fairly self-referential lot, so you’d think they’d take more notice when someone like Nick Denton takes a swipe at them.
Adelson noticed, posting on the Digg site
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a rejoinder that calls Valleywag’s analysis “misleading.” “If Comscore wishes to analyze our weblogs and stats directly, we’d be glad to share our data with them,” Adelson wrote. “They can send a team
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DECEMBER 15, 1997
Tyrrell's windtunnel is scrapped
THE Tyrrell team's plans to build its own half-scale rolling-road windtunnel have been scrapped following the takeover of the team by British American Racing. The original plan called for Tyrrell sponsor European Aviation to build the facility in a spare hangar at Bournemouth International Airport. The facility was also going to house a Tyrrell museum.
The sale of the team, however, left European Airlines's boss Paul Stoddart with a problem, as Reynard said
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that it intended to build a half-scale rolling road tunnel at the BAR base at Brackley. Stoddart has thus decided to scrap the entire project.
European Airlines is expected to continue as Tyrrell's Official Airline for the 1998 season, although it remains to be seen whether Stoddart can be bothered to
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Saudi Arabia retains high credit rating
January 15, 2010
Global financial ratings agency Fitch Ratings confirmed the soundness of the Saudi economy on Tuesday, releasing a statement announcing that it is renewing the
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Kingdom’s AA credit rating. Minister of Finance Dr. Ibrahim Al-Assaf expressed satisfaction over the designation, describing it as a culmination of the prudent fiscal and monetary policy pursued
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"Best Mo Contest"
1. ELIGIBILITY. Minnesota Wild’s “Best Mo Contest” (the “Contest”) is only open to entrants who, as of the entry date, are permanent legal residents of the States of Minnesota, North Dakota, South Dakota, Iowa, Illinois or Wisconsin who are at least eighteen (18) years old. The Contest is void outside the States of Minnesota, North Dakota, South Dakota, Iowa, Illinois or Wisconsin and where prohibited or restricted by law. Employees, officers and directors of Minnesota Wild Hockey Club, L.P. (“Sponsor”), their respective parents, subsidiaries, affiliates, divisions, advertising and promotion agencies, and the immediate families (defined as parents, spouses, children, siblings, grandparents, and their
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respective spouses) or members of the same household (whether related or not) of each such employee, officer and director, are not eligible to enter. The Contest, and any website pages and advertisements relating thereto,
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|Canto 9: Liberation||Chapter 15: Paraśurāma, the Lord's Warrior Incarnation|
Bhaktivedanta VedaBase: Śrīmad Bhāgavatam 9.15.10
tad viditvā muniḥ prāha
patnīḿ kaṣṭam akāraṣīḥ
ghoro daṇḍa-dharaḥ
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putro
bhrātā te brahma-vittamaḥ
tat — this fact; viditvā — having learned; muniḥ — the great sage; prāha — said; patnīm — unto his wife; kaṣṭam — very regrettable; akāraṣīḥ — you have done; ghoraḥ — fierce; daṇḍa-dharaḥ — a great personality who can punish others; putraḥ — such a son; bhrā
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Welchol Statin Drug, Memory Loss, Night Sweats, Joint Pain, Gall Stones
All this talk of HAIR LOSS, POSSIBLE GALL STONES, ANEMIA etc.
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Workers' compensation claims can happen in the weirdest ways. However, they are not always compensable.
Recently, Florida 1st District Court of Appeals opined that the Judge of Compensation Claims was right in denying a lock technician’s claim for workers' compensation benefits while being "on call." The case was about an employee whose employment required him to be in an 'on call waiting to be engaged' status during his shift. The employee was only compensated for the time spent responding to a call and could pursue his own interests between calls. Apparently, one of his own interests between calls is answering to nature's call and going to the bathroom. On the date of accident, claimant testified he was on the way to a service call when he stopped at a vacant lot to relieve himself. He contends that during his return to his vehicle, he stepped into a hole, fell to the ground and sustained the injury which was the subject of the workers' compensation claim. The employer denied that the injury occurred within the scope of the employee's employment.
The Judge
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of Compensation Claims was apparently provided evidence of a sophisticated computer monitoring and dispatch system which generated service logs for the date on which claimant alleged the accident occurred. The logs contradicted the injured employee's suggestion that he was on the way to a service call at the time of accident. Based upon the evidence presented, the Judge of Compensation Claims ruled that injured worker was not in the course and scope of his
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The president of the European Central Bank, Mario Draghi, calls for EU leaders to demonstrate vision (Report, 1 June), but the bold thinking needed for that is unlikely to be found among political classes advised by technicians indoctrinated in the anti-inflationary rhetoric of the banking establishment over some 30 years.
A small decline in output in a rich economy, even over a sustained period, need not lead to the distress now facing European countries in recession. The reason is that small declines are not shared evenly. Even a small fall in national output of less than 1% is often accompanied by double-digit increases in income of the strong and powerful and double-digit decline in the living standards of the less well-off. Some industries and regions take a much bigger hit than others, some of which may even prosper. If austerity is the only prescribed cure, a point may be reached when those losing out rebel in ways that can
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When the unwritten social contract that evolves at a time of sustained prosperity, when we come to believe that we are in it together – whether or not we are
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Stars coach Glen Gulutzan said that it took Jamie Benn a couple games to get into "battle form."
Benn got off to a sluggish start after missing training camp and the beginning of the season as a restricted free agent. However, he was dominant on Monday with two goals and an assist in Dallas' 3-2 win over Colorado. "The way he
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"Stepan Safaryan's fellow villagers know him well," said leader of "Heritage" Party Raffi Hovhannisian as he introduced deputy candidate Stepan Safaryan at the Nor Nork district today. Stepan Safaryan is running through the majoritarian electoral order at precinct N 1.
Raffi Hovhannisian didn't have to make great efforts to introduce the deputy candidate because the residents of Nor Nork
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attending the meeting assured that they were aware of Stepan Safaryan's activities in parliament.
Today's meeting was also attended by Stepan Safaryan's fellow villagers who currently live in the Nor Nork district and are his voters. Stepan Safaryan is originally from Noyemberyan.
Stepan Safaryan today presented what he would do, if elected. "We will ensure a dignified life with a dignified job and salary."
The deputy candidate called on
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Seeking Alpha Portfolio App for iPad
Dividends & Income
Recent graduate from Bulls on Wall Street and a full time day trader. I have been an investor in the stock market for over 20 years. It wasn't until Stocktwits and Twitter came out that I realized I was missing the boat in the market.
I was your typical Buy and hold kind of guy and I had some fantastic wins. However, I also had some mammoth losses with that strategy. I read hundreds of books, went to investment seminars, subscribed to the Wall street Journal. IBD, Barron's and countless other financial publications. I spent thousands of hours studying and reading about the macro economy and companies I wanted to invest in. I studied company financials, read every article about them, listened to conference calls,
looked into management, checked out their product or service all in the hopes of investing in the next Apple, Microsoft, Walmart, early and becoming an overnight millionaire.
Then I started following day traders on Twitter and Stocktwits and I watched these traders make some pretty impressive profits holding a stock for literally 10 minutes
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or an hour. I actually watched one individual make an obscene amount of money in one stock both on the way up and then on the way down in about 4 hours. The kicker for me was when he concluded his trading in that stock he asked " Hey does anyone know what
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(ARA) - Does maintaining a lush, healthy and green lawn to enjoy with friends and family seem daunting? It's often a task that is easier said than done for homeowners. But take heart, a simple watering routine can help grass thrive.
Natural grass has been cultivated to endure a wide variety of conditions and has the added benefit of being capable of self-repair. Remember, there's no need to create a complex system to maintain your lawn. In fact, it only takes a little planning and monitoring to not only keep your lawn in tip-top shape, but reduce your water use and save money.
Are you ready to get your lawn in perfect condition? Grass Seed USA, a coalition of American grass seed farmers, has developed a set of six tips to help homeowners conquer watering fears and get the most out of their yards. Follow these simple watering tips:
1. Water only when necessary. Many homeowners over water their lawns, which does more harm than good. A simple trick to determine whether your lawn needs watering is to insert a screwdriver into the grass
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. If it enters the soil easily, your lawn has plenty of water already. If you have trouble getting the screwdriver into the ground, it is time to give it a drink.
2. Mow grass to a height of 2 to 2.5 inches. Keeping grass slightly taller in hot and dry conditions provides shade to the roots and soil surface, reducing the water lost due to evaporation.
3. Water throughout the season. Grass needs a consistent watering schedule, and starting
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The real threat to the United States is not terrorism. Andrew McCarthy argues that the real threat is Islamism, whose sophisticated forces have collaborated with the American Left not only to undermine U.S. national security but also to shred the fabric of American constitutional democracy – freedom and individual liberty. In The Grand Jihad, he offers a harrowing account of how the global Islamist terrorist movement’s jihad involves far more than terrorist attacks.
For years, McCarthy warned of America’s blindness to this threat, but in The Grand Jihad he argues there is a more insidious peril: the government’s active appeasement of Islamism and its ideology. With the help of witting and unwitting accomplices in and out of government, Islamism doesn’t merely fuel terrorism but spawns America-hating Islamist terrorist enclaves in our very midst, gradually foisting the repressive concepts of sharia law on American life
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. The revolutionary doctrine has made common cause with an ascendant Left that also seeks radical transformation of our constitutional order.
Andrew C. McCarthy is a former federal prosecutor who prosecuted the “Blind Sheikh” Omar Abdel Rahman and eleven other jihadists for bombing the World Trade Center in 1993. He is a Senior Fellow at the Foundation for Defense of
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Another Abraham Lincoln feature film has arisen and it is set to star Diane Kruger (Inglourious Basterds). The Green Blade Rises will see Kruger play the 16th President’s stepmother, Sarah Lincoln. This summer has already seen the rise and fall of Abraham Lincoln: Vampire Hunter and we’ll see Steven Spielberg’s effort, Lincoln, this November with Daniel Day-Lewis in the title role. Produced by Ter
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rence Malick and written/directed by A.J. Edwards, The Green Blade Rises will focus on the formative days of Lincoln, the tragedy that ended his life and the women who guided him along the way. Hit the jump for
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Melissa Manchester in Concert
Thursday, 02/28/2013, 08:00 pm – 10:30 pm
Dave and Mary Alper JCC – Robert Russell Theater
11155 SW 112 Avenue,
Miami, Florida 33176
Melissa Manchester the legendary singer/songwriter and actress, returns to the Robert Russell Theater for a command performance. The celebrated career of this dynamic talent began when Bette Midler and Barry Manilow discovered her. Manchester went on to become a Grammy-Award winner, and has
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had Oscar nominated movie scores, recurring roles in the television series Blossom, and combined her acting and singing talents starring on Broadway in numerous shows. Melissa Manchester performs – one night only – at the Alper JCC in Kendall.Be sure to tell them Soul Of Miami sent you!
Click here to sign up for the Soul Of Miami email list.
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Mrs. Smiling's... interest was her collection of brassieres, and her search for a perfect one. She was reputed to have the largest and finest collection of these garments in the world. It was hoped that on her death it would be left to the nation.Tootsie Farklepants recently posted about the frustrations of bra-shopping. A lot of commenters agreed.
She was an authority on the proper cut, fit, color, construction, and proper functioning of brassieres; and her friends had learned that her interest, even in moments of extreme emotional or physical distress, could be aroused and her composure restored, by the hasty utterance of the phrase:
"I saw a brassiere today, Mary, that would have interested you..."
Bra shopping is discouraging, demoralizing, and
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humiliating for most women. A garment so formidably engineered, with such a complex system of sizing, and such an exacting standard of proper fit is intimidating.
Back when I was a young mother, I wore plain and utilitarian bras - the kind of thing that springs to mind when you hear the phrase "durable goods" in the financial
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Dear paranoid foreigner working at a state-owned enterprise,
My Chinese husband and I have a terminally ill eight-year-old daughter and are trying to make her last days in China as comfortable as possible. She’s been diagnosed with leukemia and we’ve discovered that there is a Chinese version of the Make a Wish Foundation for deserving children for which she might qualify.
Her simple wish is to go to Hong Kong Disneyland or perhaps Ocean Park as she dearly loves sea animals. However, we’ve been told that these “wishes” are not “relevant.” She’s instead been offered the opportunity to make bricks for a Hope School in Sichuan Province or the honor of performing in an “ethnic minority” costume revue for visiting bureaucrats and officials wearing a pint-size qipao with cowboy boots.
My husband says he has heard of an adult “Make a Wish Foundation” for terminally ill bureaucrats, which offers far more exciting wish fulfillment. I was wondering whether you might be able to use your influence and expertise to contact one of these foundations
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and possibly see if this little child-in-need’s wishes could be met before she dies in six months?
Blessings for Better Wishes
Paranoid foreigner working at a state-owned enterprise says:
Quiet! Did you hear that? Just then: listen! That clicking sound… you heard it too, right?
I used to work at my college newspaper, then spent another two years as assistant sports and arts editor at the prize-winning Perth, Nebraska Advertiser, so obviously they’re listening and watching everything I say and do now I work in China.
I even had a box of
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An illegal alien who became a citizen and multi-millionaire grocery tycoon is in trouble with “activists” because he is using the federal E-Verify program to check whether prospective employees are illegal aliens.
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Juvenal Chavez, who own the Mi Pueblo grocery chain in California headquartered in San Jose, faces protests because, “activists” say, he has betrayed his “undocumented roots,” the San Jose Mercury News recently reported.
They, apparently, want the Mexican Hortaio
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Ultra-Reliable, Extra-Capacity & Smooth Feeding Of All The Rounds
Wilson Combat applied 30 years of experience building high-performance 1911 magazines to develop this ultra-reliable magazine for combat, competition, or self-defense. Made with state-of-the-art materials using the latest manufacturing technology, these single-stack magazines are built tough to keep running in unforgiving, real-world conditions. The body formed from extra-thick stainless steel, with the radius of each curve engineered to minimize stress points, virtually eliminates
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Cost, rationale for county's logo should be exposed
I read Barry Paschals column from this past Sunday (Ol Saint Nick isnt in office, Dec. 7). As the column indicates, the impact
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the recession has had on county and state tax receipts continues to be a serious issue. Two pages further into the paper there is an article concerning the new Columbia county logo contest.
Board approves school calendar
After two parent surveys, the Columbia County Board of Education last
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Swedish-born songstress and self-described one-woman-band Theresa Andersson played San Francisco’s Hotel Utah on 1/13, charming and moving the audience absolutely, and in my opinion making a great case for the continued ascension of her solo career. With a great voice, an athletic juggling of instruments and an extremely skillful use of electronic looping equipment, Andersson does more than I would’ve thought possible for a solo musician, and she does it all well. Her album Hummingbird, Go! is an effortless pleasure, rhythmic, lush and beautiful. Better yet the listener, who hasn’t seen her actually play, could be completely unaware that each track is also a minor miracle of staging and execution.
Andersson lives up to her one-woman-band self-description through a precise and absolutely innovative use of electronic looping and layering. She’ll play a riff on one instrument, record it, and loop it back later while she’s playing a different instrument, using the pedals of a huge, and what looks to me extremely confusing, looping machine. This requires timing, athleticism, musical chops, and, according to Andersson, dance
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lessons. I kept expecting her to lose a thread somewhere, or to sound distracted while she’s searching for the right pedal or dropping her guitar for her violin, because remember, she’s also singing at the same time. But she never did. She looked like she was in complete control and was having a great time, and she sounded like it. Beyond her instrumentalism
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COLUMBIA S.C. residents could be forgiven in 2012 for wondering how their institutions would fail them next.
Hundreds of candidates were thrown off the ballot for filing
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paperwork at the wrong place. Thousands of voters stood in line for four hours or more to cast ballots because an elections director in Richland County decided she needed fewer voting machines during a presidential election. And millions of taxpayers had their Social Security numbers stolen by a hacker.
In each case, people
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As is well known by now (1, 2), Nemeroff appears to have not been particularly forthcoming about the huge amounts he was making while moonlighting for every drug company on the planet (see below) despite requirements that he do so. According to psychiatrist Danny Carlat:
From 2000 to 2006, GSK paid Nemeroff a total of $960,488. Note that this was not research grant money, or money for Emory's psychiatry department. These were fees that went into his personal bank account, which he earned by either sitting on GSK's Advisory Board, or speaking to doctors about GSK products. His typical fee for a talk was $3500 plus expenses, but sometimes he made more.According to a
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GSK document hosted by Senator Charles Grassley, Nemeroff took in over $20 grand in one month from speaking engagements for GSK. Not bad work if you can get it, eh? And this month doesn't seem unusual for Nemeroff. These are only his speeches for G
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Republican Sens. John McCain and Lindsey Graham have vowed to hold up a full Senate vote on CIA Director nominee John Brennan until they get answers about the U.S. Consulate attack in Benghazi, Libya.
"I'm not going to vote on a new CIA director until I find out what the CIA did in Benghazi," Graham said Sunday on CBS's "Face the Nation."
After delaying a vote on Brennan twice, the Senate Intelligence Committee is scheduled to hold another vote on Tuesday.
Graham specifically wants to see the interviews of the survivors. While transcriptions were provided to the Senate Intelligence Committee - of which Graham is not a member - Graham said "everything was blacked out."
Graham and McCain have been leading voices on the charge against the administration over the attack, which killed four Americans, including the U.S. ambassador. Republican Sen. Rand Paul has also threatened to stall a vote, saying he wants an answer to the question of whether the president has the authority to order a drone strike against an American citizen in the
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For his part, Graham wants more information on why the initial talking points about the cause of the attack were changed. The CIA's original draft linked people associated with al Qaeda to the attack, but the final version changed al Qaeda to extremists.
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Botanical Name : Smilax lanceolata
Family : Smilacaceae
Gender : Smilax
Species : S. laurifolia
Division : Magnoliophyta
Class : Liliopsida
Order : Liliales
*Parillax laurifolia (L.) Raf.
*Smilax alba Pursh
*Smilax hastata var. lanceolata (L.) Pursh
*Smilax lanceolata L.
*Smilax laurifolia var. bupleurifolia A.DC.
*Smilax reticulata Std.
Common Name :Red China Root
Habitat : Smilax lanceolata is native to South-eastern N. America – New Jersey to Florida and Texas.It grows on swamps and low ground. Moist woods and thickets. Bays, bogs, pocosins, swamp margins, marshy banks.
Smilax laurifolia is an evergreen Climber growing to 6 m (19ft 8in). It is a vine that forms extensive colonies wo
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This is actually a surprisingly hard post to write. It’s strange to have big news, though, and not be sharing it with this community, so, having just finished dinner, with J and Bram upstairs in the bath together, and with absolutely no desire to do what I should be doing – which is still.working.on.my.almost.due.dissertation – I thought
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this might be the right moment.
So, here’s the thing.
With my body. A baby we’re calling (for reasons I’ll explain) Love Child.
Why this is hard to write. For most of our readers, this will be nothing but joyful news. And I love that. And I’m grateful for that. But I know that some of our readers found their way here because they
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September 9, 2008
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We live in the most innovative time in history. That, coupled with pressure from a global economy, means our corporate stories need to be told well and resonate deeply. In this session you'll learn how to step away from your traditional content development process, fold in compelling stories and deliver presentations in your own uniquely human way.
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Design since 1990, Nancy Duarte passionately pursues the presentation development and design niche. One of the largest design firms in Silicon Valley and listed as a top woman-owned business in the area, Duarte Design is one of the few agencies in the world focused solely on presentations, whether they are delivered in person, online or via mobile device. Nancy's twenty years of experience working with global companies and thought leaders has influenced the perception of some of the world's most valuable brands and many of humanity's common causes.
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The completely mad are different from you and me. Or, maybe not: they have hopes and dreams and lives. When Muriel Axon, who we know (but the authorities do not) has murdered both her baby and her mother arrives at an institution after her mother’s death, one of the residents asks her if she’s mad or stupid
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. Both, she answers. But Hilary Mantel ultimately settles on another word to describe Muriel, whose true character she unveils slowly in the course of her wickedly funny social satire “Vacant Possession.”
Suzanne Sidney, 18 year old daughter of Colin and Sylvia, is pregnant. Her amour is Jim Ryan, husband of Isabel Field, who was once the lover of Colin Sidney. The Sidneys have bought Muriel’s former house, even though they know, since it is around the corner from Colin’s mother’s house (now occupied by Colin’s sister Florence), that it was not a
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Maureen Connors Badding arrived in Wauwatosa 22 years ago via Buffalo and Phoenix. She's a freelance writer and habitual volunteer who enjoys book clubs, travel
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ALLEN PARK -- Detroit Lions receivers coach Shawn Jefferson laid into offensive coordinator Scott Linehan during yesterday's game against the Green Bay Packers.
However, Lions coach Jim Schwartz downplayed the incident when asked about it on Monday.
"I'm not going to address the issue, but I think that, number one, we certainly don't want to let our emotions get the best of us on the sidelines," Schwartz said. "Football is an emotional game. We've seen players have conflict, coaches and players, and in this case, coaches and coaches. They've been a part of the NFL for a long time and there's very rarely a game that goes by that something is not said, usually over the headset, that somebody takes offense to, interprets the wrong way, or whatever you want to call it.
"Usually it's done quickly. I think in this case it was done very publicly and that's regrettable. But then also, it was the frustration of the game situation."
The teams' frustrations hit a breaking point on Sunday.
Detroit faced first-and-10 on Green Bay's 10-yard line, but the
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Lions were forced to settle on Jason Hanson 27-yard field goal in the fourth quarter. Detroit only led 20-14 with 4:25 remaining.
Packers quarterback Aaron Rodgers threw a 22-yard touchdown pass to Randall Cobb on his team's ensuing possession to give Green Bay a 21-20 lead. The Packers eventually pulled off a 24-20 victory.
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View Full Version : Asian guys
2002-04-09, 07:48 AM
Well if you ask me I think Asian men are way WAyyy more masculine than foreign guys. They rock!
2002-06-14, 05:01 PM
I agree that there are handsome Asian boys, I married one.......Nakata, Ichiro......I am a fan of these handsome blokes.........but there are handsome foreign boys too just as there are beautiful Japanese girls and beautiful foreign girls.........Kkano
2002-07-04, 04:32 PM
Wow other non-Asians think Asias can be hotties too? Awesome! Too many muscles is gross-like what many white ppl have - it gets all veiny and gross! Asian men who are wirey or average toned are more attractive. What's dissapointing is when Asian guys are caught up in the stupid Western idealism that to have muscles is to be attractive - they work out the arm muscles and get all ridiculously gross-buff and top heavy - just be yourself and you'll attract the women who are worth it and aren't shallow - I've seen this happen among so many of
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my Asian male friends and my Taiwanese-Amer boyfriend (Japanese and other Asian ethinicities). American and Western society body form idealisms are stupid (and definately don't reflect my own preferences) but I'm not completely innocent myself of
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Improved her time in every event during the cross country season.. lowered her time from 22:50 to 22:47, to 22:11, to 22:02, to 21:37.
Earned third team all-conference honors with a 15th place finish at the C-USA Championships in Tampa... covered the 6K course in 22:02 to help the Frogs finish second among the 14 teams.
Turned in her best performance at the South Central Regional Meet... finished the 6K course in 21:37 to finish third on the TCU squad
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Twice-convicted killer Warren Lee Hill was granted final-hour stays of execution on Tuesday, his attorney said.
The stays came from the 11th U.S. Circuit Court of Appeals and the Georgia Court of Appeals.
"I think we were within about a half hour of the execution," said Brian Kammer, an attorney for Hill, whose supporters say is mentally disabled.
The Georgia Court of Appeals acted on a appeal of a challenge to the way the prison handles the lethal injection drugs used in executions, while the federal appeals court issued a stay "ordering a further briefing on the issue of mental retardation," Kammer said.
Earlier Tuesday, the U.S. Supreme Court denied a stay of execution, as did the state Supreme Court, while the Georgia State Board of Pardons and Paroles similarly denied a request for clemency.
The execution had been scheduled for 7 p.m. ET at a state prison in Jackson, about 45 miles south of Atlanta.
Hill was sentenced to death for the 1990 killing of Joseph Handspike, another inmate in a Georgia state prison.
He was convicted of beating Handspike to death with a nail-studded board while serving a life sentence in the
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1985 killing of his girlfriend, Myra Wright.
His lawyers have argued that Hill's IQ of 70 means he should be spared under a 2002 decision that barred the execution of the mentally disabled. But a string of state courts has said Hill doesn't qualify under Georgia law, which requires inmates to prove mental impairment "beyond a reasonable doubt."
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THE GUARDIAN, REUTERS, AFP
Heavy fighting continues between Syrian rebels and government security forces in Damascus on Thursday, as the country reels from yesterday's bombing that killed three top regime military officials, including President Bashar al-Assad's brother-in-law. The attack has plunged Syria into perhaps its deepest state of uncertainty since the uprising began last year, with Assad's whereabouts unclear and reports from activists of violence engulfing the Syrian capital.
Reuters reports that Damascus residents have witnessed rebels fighting pro-regime army forces within sight of the presidential palace and government headquarters. Residents also say that several neighborhoods are being heavily shelled by the government forces, and that some are arming themselves. The following amateur video purportedly shows rebel forces overtaking government security posts in the Syrian capital.
The Britain-based Syrian Observatory for Human Rights told the AFP that hundreds of Damascus residents were fleeing the clashes as the military gave them two days to leave. The Observatory also said that 214 people were killed across Syria on Wednesday, including 124 civilians.
Assad has not made any public apperances since Wednesday's bombing, fueling speculation on
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his whereabouts (Latakia is Syria's main Mediterranean port).
Russia Today, citing As-Safir, citing "official Syrian sources": Assad "is in his Damascus office and proceeding with work as usual." Liz Sly (@LizSly) July 19, 2012
The Guardian reports that Major General Robert Mood, the head of the United Nations monitoring mission in Syria, announced his departure from the country. "It pains me to say, but we are not on the track for peace in Syria and the escalations we have witnessed in Damascus
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A surveying crew checking into sea lamprey populations in a few Presque Isle County streams found no surprises in a recent survey, and efforts to keep the parasite from breeding in the upper reaches of one river continue to show positive results.
Aaron Jubar, U.S. Fish and Wildlife Service fish biologist, said surveys conducted between Sept. 11-20 in Northeast Michigan showed populations of sea lamprey larvae to be mostly under control.
"We did not find anything that would need a treatment sooner than what we might be expecting," he said.
While in Presque Isle County, crews checked the lamprey populations in Ocqueoc River, Ocqueoc Lake and Schmidt Creek,
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Jubar said. Schmidt Creek is north of Rogers City, while the Ocqueoc empties into Hammond Bay, north of Onaway. Crews also surveyed Long Lake Creek, which drains its namesake lake into Lake Huron, north of Alpena.
To determine this, crews used a combination of techniques involving electrofishing and using a slow-release chemical known as bayluscide, Jubar said. The chemical, which affects lampreys almost exclusively, dissolves and breaks down rapidly, but not before aggravating
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Kandy, May 15 ó Sri Lankaís plans to better the
lot of over five million poor battered by the tsunami and the
ethnic conflict are the highlight of a ground-breaking study to
be released this week at the first-ever aid forum to be hosted
Persistent problems dogging the plantation
sector, the embattled regions of the north and east and other
rural areas are set against a backdrop of steady progress in
lowering infant and maternal mortality and achieving significant
education goals for children.
"There are about five million people living in
poverty in Sri Lanka, perhaps more," says the report, noting
that if statistics from districts affected by the decades-long
separatist war had been available, poverty figures would be much
The Millennium Development Goals Report
spotlights the disparity in development and the growing poverty
in inland rural areas and the coastal belt affected by the 26
December 2004 sea surges.
Despite the slow pace
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of development on some
fronts, the island boasts of high literacy rates with some 85
percent of youngsters between 6 and 10 years enrolled in school
and high numbers of both girls and boys having access to free
primary and secondary education.
The analysis, the first of its kind to be
drafted by the government under the co-ordination of the
National Council for Economic Development, assesses the United
Nationsí target of halving poverty in Sri Lanka by the year 2015
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Here at LBS, we often offer you the finest in athletes and managers getting carried away during competition. A manager gets upset, kicks dirt on home plate, says something unfavorable about the umpire’s mother, occasionally spits, and if you are lucky throws a chair. Usually when you look back it’s funny
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. But sometimes athletes cross the line.
Rangers soccer player Jose Pedroso clearly crossed that line when he earned himself a 27-game suspension for choking referee Marcelo Miranda during a match between
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I cant show any of the piece I have been working since it is a surprise gift and I have no idea if the recipient looks at my blog. I want to show everyone so that I can get some feedback but alas I cannot. So in lieu of this I will discuss our Thanksgiving menu.
The desserts have been made, you will have to wait to see the beautiful plated versions but I will show you a little of the process and for starters here are some almond cookies to tide you over.
I did make a delicious flan and a pumpkin pie in this style but for now you can have a look at a pear tart....
...and individual pear bites with
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pomegranate arils!
Tri-color sweet potatoes are also on the menu and this about sums up the'made in advance' stuff. Tomorrow is a big ol' Shadybrook Farms turkey with stuffing (dressing) thyme mashed potatoes and oodles of little tasty bites like mini crab cakes and chevre stuffed olives just to tease a bit. More to come maybe late Thursday or Friday
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Failed trucking company's assets auctioned
Administrators of failed trucking company 1st Fleet say unsecured creditors are not likely to get any of the money recovered by selling off the company's vehicles and machinery.
The trucking company had operations in Queensland, New South Wales, Victoria and South Australia and went into liquidation earlier this month.
The first of six auctions of about 800 items will be held today in Melbourne.
Auctioneers expect all the sales to recoup about $12 million
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But the administrators say that will fall short of the tens of millions of dollars the company owes.
Administrator Antony DeVries says the money netted from the auctions will go to the companies that financed the purchase of the assets.
Mr Devries says extra money will go towards paying outstanding employee entitlements.
"The balance of the company's creditors will be the unsecured creditors and unfortunately I don't think there will be any funds coming their way from the sale of the equipment," he said.
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PARAGUAY: SIGNS OF UNCONTACTED INDIANS SEEN AS FOREST IS CLEARED AROUND THEM
Signs of the last uncontacted Indians south of the Amazon basin have been spotted by other members of their tribe in Paraguay.
Footprints and a still-burning campfire were seen by members of the Ayoreo-Totobiegosode tribe last week in the western half of their territorial heartland.
The news has alarmed the Indians' supporters, as the area is the scene of rapidly increasing deforestation.
The Ayoreo-Totobiegosode have been trying to protect the last substantial part of their ancestral forest since 1993. Many of their relatives still live in this area, resisting all contact with outsiders. All members of the tribe, including those who have had contact with outsiders for many years, depend on this forest for their livelihood.
Although Paraguay's government is legally obliged
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to title this area to the Ayoreo, only a small part has so far been handed back to the Indians, and now illegal deforestation is rampant.
Last month Survival handed to the Paraguayan authorities a 57,000-signature petition calling on the Ayoreo's land to be titled to them without delay.
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Narrows - New Distances
Record Label: Deathwish Inc.
Release Date: May 12, 2009
I'm in no sense of the word a metal guy, which is why I've always wondered why I like feedback, driving guitars, heavy drumming and more brutal than br00tal screaming. I love post-hardcore, or something like it. I love that many of the bands intertwine members and create something new - from the ashes of something produces a new, coarse material wall of fury. I am a sucker for angry sirens.
Narrows is my next infatuation. Taking what they've started with their self-titled EP, New Distances expands, and gives the listener more return for their ears. Off the bat: Yes. Dave Verellen (formally of Botch) has brought his screams back from the ashes. But don't jump on the bandwagon because of Verellen's part, members Jodie Cox and Ryan Frederiksen's guitar work and counterpoint to each other is just as great as the rhythm section of drummer
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Sam Storhers and bassist Rob Moran.
The album isn't without it's calming numbers. After two blazing opening tracks, "A Restoration Effect" is a smooth instrumental that still feels as cold as its preceding tracks. Broken up by the infuriating "I Give You Six Months" and classic hardcore styling of "Changing Clothes," "Newly Restored" picks up where "Effect" left off, the driving
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Chamber Ballet Taipei’s (台北室內芭蕾舞團) founder and artistic director Allen Yu (余能盛) has crafted a nice little work in Romance — The Music and The Destiny of Tchaikovsky (羅曼史～柴可夫斯基的音樂與人生), which was performed to packed audiences at Metropolitan Hall over the weekend.
On Saturday night the young company, accompanied by the Taipei Symphony Orchestra (台北市立交響樂團), looked in fine form, with several of the dancers having notably improved over the past year. The two Romanian guest soloists, Christina Alexandra Dijmaru and Bordan Stefan Canila, were a perfect fit for the company; although technically more advanced than the other dancers they weren’t so flashy that they stole every scene.
The first section, set to Tchaikovsky’s Serenade for Strings in C,
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Op.48 focused on Tchaikovsky’s platonic relationship with his patroness for 13 years, Nadezhda von Meck, whose passion was expressed only through letters.
In the second half of this section, two birdcages appear — one with a nude man in it, the second a nude woman — setting off a tortured duet that suggests the physical passion that the pair could
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Dum, dum, dum duuuummm, before you even start humming that melody, you’d better understand what it is that makes a woman marriage material. What makes a man want to marry a woman is about to be revealed, so hold on to your hats and let’s dive in.
Nothing is more attractive to a man than the woman who has self integrity and pride in her own being. I know that sounds deep but it’s the truth. Sure, you can be submissive and iron his clothes, make him dinners, show up to the door with slippers and a brandy in hand, but what does that show your guy? That you’re a Stepford Wife (and we all know what happened to them and it wasn’t the nicest end). No, we’re in the 21st century and you need to play by a different rule book. Here’s a little example for you. You have a job interview and you get dressed up in your
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best suit and heels and apply professional looking makeup. On your way out the door, your guy stops you and says well, maybe you should change into a longer skirt or wear less makeup. Instead of complying with his requests (hello pushover!), you tell him (in nicer terms of course) to take a long walk off a short cliff. Now that’s being assertive and your man will find that wildly attractive.
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Happy Cinco de Mayo! It's May 5th, and in honor of the Mexican holiday that may actually be more important in the States than elsewhere, we're going to nevertheless look at Mexican and other Latin American flavors.
We're still looking at cooking without recipes, here in the last two weeks of the Kitchn Cure, and Latin American ingredients and flavors are one of our favorite food families to improvise with. It's just so easy to make up new things with a little rice, beans, corn, tomatoes, and herbs. These staples of Central and South America are wonderfully delicious and nutritious, and we turn to them frequently.
Of course, like the Asian, Indian and even Italian ingredient and flavor lists we already posted, there's a huge range of regional flavors and diversity. We in no way mean to disregard that; one of the really pleasurable things about cooking is discovering unique and authentic specialities native to very specific areas.
These are just a few of the broad flavor strokes common to much of Latin America, and as such they can
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help you mix, match, and improvise as you look for new inspiration and ideas for your homemade meals.
Flavors and Ingredients
• Chile pepper, such as chipotle
• Pineapple and other tropical fruits
• Bananas and plantains
• Sweet potatoes
• Tortillas - Corn and wheat
• Black
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If you look at a modem, with it's small central processing unit and special-purpose digital signal processor, and then look at a modern PC, with it's large CPU and general-purpose DSP on the sound card, you may wonder if the hardware duplication of an external modem is necessary.
A "WinModem" incorporates the CPU and DSP of the modem into the slightly-enhanced fabric of a PC. They are called "WinModems" because they originally only shipped with Microsoft Windows device drivers. These device drivers presented the illusion of a serial port attached to a Hayes AT
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-style modem. For a long time only Windows versions of these drivers where available. Some manufacturers now provide Linux versions of their device drivers as well, these modems are jokingly called "LinModems".
It is probably possible to use a LinModem as a Linux console. At the most this would require altering the source code to dumb-down the AT command emulation of the modem and recompiling the kernel.
Boot loaders, however, work in a very confined software environment and struggle to support a simple serial chip. Considering that some boot loaders do not even
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Trigger warning. This post includes narrative descriptions of sexual violence, sexual coercion, assaults, stalking, and harassment by police officers against women, men, and children, including several cases of extreme violence. It may be triggering for past experiences of sexual assault. It is certain to be extremely grim reading for anyone.
All of these news stories appeared in my feed reader at
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some point within the past month and a half. There are actually about four or five more on my list that I could have included (mostly domestic violence assaults), but I had to give up because I’ve been working on this for about twelve hours now and I cannot stand to type up even one more case tonight.
1. Officer Thomas Tolstoy, Philadelphia, Pennsylvania. (Cont’d.)
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|About the presenter: Patricia M. Roberts, Ph.D., CCC-SLP, SLP(C), currently Associate Professor in speech language pathology at the University of Ottawa, in Canada's capital. She holds degrees from Queen's University (Kingston, Canada) and Florida State University and obtained her Ph.D. from the Universite de Montreal.In her first career as a clinical SLP, she worked with many bilingual clients and was privileged to have the late Marie Poulos as colleague and mentor. She is spending much of her 2nd career as a professor and researcher trying to understand the many unsolved puzzles of bilingual stuttering.|
In this presentation, I will focus on four mysteries (things we do not yet know) about
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stuttering in bilingual children and adults and some of the myths associated with these gaps in our current knowledge.
To make this essay easier to read, I won't say "bilingual or multilingual" each time the word "
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Reactions to Aristide's Impending Return - by Stephen Lendman
After receiving his diplomatic passport to return, Haitians eagerly await his arrival. For them and millions of global supporters, it can't come a moment too soon. Reactions express varying views.
On February 18, AP headlined "Aristide backers march amid talk of Haiti return," saying:
In Port-au-Prince, thousands rallied in support "as people close to the former leader say he plans to return soon from (US-forced) exile in South Africa."
Marchers "seemed largely festive, with loudspeakers blaring music and young men drinking beer in the hot sun." Eugene Mirthil, an unemployed worker, spoke for others saying:
"We must have the return of Dr. President Aristide as a simple citizen to help us get better as a country as a people."
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8th ave wrote:32 wrote:hobbes wrote:I wouldn't mind Robin Lopez as long as it doesn't take an outrageous contract to get him. I wish we had used the amnesty on Biedrins, what a waste.
Do you believe either RLopez or Udoh can start?
I believe he'd be more serviceable than Biedrins.
As would I, but that was not the question.
If we're going to spend over $20 million on a multiyear deal for a center, I'd first and foremost like to target players that I can envision in the starting lineup. Lopez, while addressing our rebounding woes, is a redundant piece if we plan
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on keeping Udoh. Both are plus options coming off the bench, but are serviceable (at best) as a starting center. Udoh is a natural PF (and undersized), while Lopez is foul prone and completely offensively inept.
Just because Biedrins has fallen out of grace doesn't mean we should stockpile backup centers. That was the issue this year: neither Bied
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An acclaimed production (Emmy Award winner as Outstanding Special) in which Sally Field won an Emmy as Best Actress for playing a young woman so disturbed by childhood experiences that she develops sixteen distinct personalities. A third Emmy Award went to Stewart Stern for his teleplay, and a fourth was given for the score by Leonard Rosenman and Alan and Marilyn Bergman. Of interest is that Joanne Woodward, here playing the psychiatrist, gave her own Oscar-winning performance as a similar multi-personality woman in "Three Faces of Eve" (1957), and was Emmy-nominated for her role here, losing to her co-star. Cinematographer Mario Tosi also received an Emmy nomination.
''THE FIVE OF ME,'' tonight's movie on CBS-TV at 9 o'clock, is the story of a multiple personality whose true case history, we are informed at the outset, spanned 37 years. The production has several substantial ingredients - imaginative direction by Paul Wendkos; a carefully constructed script by Lawrence B. Marcus, who wrote the screenplay of the ''The Stunt Man,'' and, especially,
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a strong performance by David Birney in the lead role. But ''The Five of Me'' either ignores or refuses to deal with too many nagging questions. Henry Hawksworth is first seen as a 7-year-old child being threatened with castration by his
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Solar electrical power is the particular conversion of sunshine into electricity, either straight making use of photovoltaics (PV), and / or indirectly utilizing concentrated solar electric power (CSP).
Commercial concentrated solar force vegetation were 1st developed within the 1980s. The actual 354 MW SEGS CSP installing the components is actually the biggest solar electrical power plant throughout the globe, placed within the Mojave Desert of California. Some other big CSP plants include the actual Solnova Solar Power Station (150 MW) plus the Andasol solar electric power station (150 MW), both throughout Spain. The actual 214 MW Gujarat Solar Park inside India, is actually the entire globe s biggest phot
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ovoltaic plant.
Solar force typically is the conversion of sunshine into electricity. Sunshine is converted straight into electricity applying photovoltaics (PV), or simply indirectly with concentrated solar force (CSP), that normally concentrates the actual sun's stamina that would boil water that is afterward
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Father Roger, the old clerk still holding the lantern behind him, writing something in a little vellum book, asking her the date of her birth and her full name, which, as he had been present at her christening, she thought strange. Then her husband signed the book, using the altar as a table, not very easily for he was no great scholar, and she signed also in her maiden name for the last time, and the priest signed, and at his bidding Emlyn Stower, who could write well, signed too. Next, as though by an afterthought, Father Roger called several of the congregation, who rather unwillingly made their marks as witnesses. While they did so he explained to them that, as the circumstances were uncommon, it was well that there should be evidence, and that he intended to send copies of this entry to sundry dignities, not forgetting the holy Father at Rome.
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On learning this they appeared to be sorry that they had anything to do with the matter, and one and all of them melted into the darkness of the nave and out of Cicely’s mind.
So it was done at last.
Father Necton blew on his little book till the ink was dry, then hid it
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