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Hey folks, just dropping in with some horror tidbits before my busy weekend gets even busier. Enjoy!
I found a great poster website the other day called Poster Perversion. It has all manner of posters, lobby cards and other promotional items from films all over the world. As you would expect, my attention immediately to the horror/thriller section. Check out these samples below.
|City of the Walking Dead (French)|
|Cat O' Nine Tails (German)|
|Food of the Gods (German)|
|The Beyond (Thai)|
I find it hilarious that last one for possession slasher Satan's Blade is clearly just a zoomed-in section of the classic poster for Maniac.
Poster Perversion, curated out of Warsaw, Poland by Derrick Ogrodny is visual ecstasy, so check it out by going here.
In Death It Ends.
Colin Geddes recently turned me onto a British band called In Death It Ends. Most striking about them - or perhaps “him” as I what I could dig up leads me to believe this is a pet project of Rosetta Stone's Porl King - are the music videos. Don't get me wrong, I like the music, as it is the exactly the kind of drony, darkwave - is that what the kids are calling it these days? - I listen to while writing, but the videos are deliciously dark short films. Here are some examples below.
I found this poster in my inbox a few days ago.
After disappearing following its premiere at Sundance last year, I'm glad to see Black Rock is getting some sort of release in May. I am a big fan of comedy power couple Mark Duplass & Katie Aselton, so it's cool to see them branch out into other genres. Despite the trailer being one that shows you pretty much everything in two minutes, I have put it below to watch at your discretion. | <urn:uuid:8e1b2129-a3a2-49c9-ab16-f4ff98551530> | CC-MAIN-2013-20 | http://thehorrorsection.blogspot.com/2013/02/dktm-171.html | 2013-05-18T05:25:29Z | s3://commoncrawl/crawl-data/CC-MAIN-2013-20/segments/1368696381249/warc/CC-MAIN-20130516092621-00000-ip-10-60-113-184.ec2.internal.warc.gz | en | 0.950874 | 404 |
Jim Lundholm-Eades is Director of Services and Planning for the National Leadership Roundtable on Church Management.
Previously he was Director of Parish Services and Planning for the Archdiocese of St. Paul and Minneapolis. Jim has also been Associate Director of Catholic Education for this Archdiocese and Director of Catholic Social Services (Like the American Catholic Charities) in a diocese in his home country, Australia. His ministry has covered multiple fields in both Australia and the United States over 36 years. Jim holds graduate degrees in Pastoral Counseling, Counseling, Educational Administration and Business Administration. He is a Minnesota licensed teacher and superintendent. He has published works include areas such as best practices in Church management (America), diocesan strategic planning (video for The Leadership Roundtable), effective presbyteral councils (Touchstones), and effective parish pastoral councils (video).
He has been a national speaker on Catholic Church and Catholic school planning for several national Catholic organizations. He teaches graduate level courses including Strategic Planning for Catholic Parishes and Schools, Administration and Stewardship and Catholic School Finance for the Murray Institute at the University of St. Thomas in Minneapolis.
About the Leadership Roundtable
The National Leadership Roundtable on Church Management is dedicated to promoting excellence and best practices in the management, finances and human resource development of the Catholic Church in the U.S. The Leadership Roundtable exists to strengthen the temporal affairs of the Church by harnessing the expertise and resources of Catholic senior-level executives from all sectors (including the financial, corporate, governmental, philanthropic, charitable, judicial and educational) in service to the Church.
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Re: Club GappingIf you are replacing all your clubs, including your irons, you will have to see what the loft of your new PW will be... many modern PW are 45 or 46˚ where as older PW were between 48 and 50˚. This will affect the gaps in your wedges. You don't want a have a 45/46˚ PW then your next club be 56˚.
From what you've described a 45/46 PW, 52/58 combo might work well in your situation. Just some food for thought.
I prefer my irons with a more traditional loft, so I have a 48˚ PW. I only carry two other wedges, a 54, and a 60. The 6˚ gap between my wedges is fine with me as I don't have much problem feeling my yardages.
It's not that I think Pelz is full of it, I just don't want to have to think that much on the golf course | <urn:uuid:cc5238ba-9d49-4b7a-8048-9060457f8e26> | CC-MAIN-2013-20 | http://thesandtrap.com/t/21469/club-gapping/18 | 2013-05-18T06:31:18Z | s3://commoncrawl/crawl-data/CC-MAIN-2013-20/segments/1368696381249/warc/CC-MAIN-20130516092621-00000-ip-10-60-113-184.ec2.internal.warc.gz | en | 0.985976 | 205 |
Hi, I'm Rochelle. I'm nineteen and food is just really great. This blog is for images of food, recipes, pictures of what I bake/cook, and I'll be taking submissions also. If you want to see a specific food item, you can request it in the ask box.
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So, we have news! After two weeks of extensive research and many hours on Amazon, we are the proud owners of one enormous cage (designed for ferrets), occupied by one very small hamster.
We went out in the snow this morning (I know - it's mad - nearly the end of March) to choose a Syrian hamster, clutching the Minimals small animal carrier that had arrived earlier in the week in one of the (many) boxes from Amazon.
We meant to choose a male hamster, as the hamster book says males are less bitey than females, but the guy in the shop suggested we look at this girl who was a little older than the others (13 weeks) and very friendly. So we all took it in turns to hold her and she seemed a bit more robust than the tiny jumpy males and not freaked out by Willy so we brought her home and now we have our first family pet.
She has her own covered toilet, which she seems to be using - apparently they are very clean animals who like to choose a specific place as a toilet. In any case hamster poo is just small black pellets and not offensive at all.
We quickly discovered she can climb right to the top of the cage so we may have to string up some hammocks to avoid her injuring herself if she falls. (Clearly I have been spending too much time on hamster forums!)
Tomorrow we will be getting her out to handle her and hopefully not losing her around the house...
Thursday, February 21, 2013
So we're back from our adventure in Finnish Lapland and we can all say we've seen the Northern Lights. I know this isn't the steadiest photo you've ever seen but somehow it's the most atmospheric and it was taken just on the path outside our cabin.
We left home at 7 am on Saturday and spent most of the day getting there - flying first to Helsinki then on to Ivalo and then getting a minibus to Kakslauttanen. In my mind, I'd thought that it was a romantic exaggeration to say that the resort was just a collection of log cabins in the forest and that really they'd all be clustered together around the restaurant complex with covered walkways but actually they are dotted about in the trees. Here's a shot of ours, complete with sledding inhabitants.
Friday, January 18, 2013
This doesn't really do justice to just how heavy the snow is at the moment, and I have to go and pick up William soon (which I will be doing by train).
If anyone is wondering why I'm not blogging:
We have no bathroom.
Or living room.
Or dining room.
The shutters were finally coming today but the van went into a railing and decided to go home to Brighton.
I have had eight cold sores. Four remaining.
And a bacterial infection requiring antibiotics.
We have to move out again next week so the hallway ceiling can come down.
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SCIENCE announced that it is taking viewers further inside NASA's latest mission to Mars with the exclusive world premiere of i.am.mars: REACH FOR THE STARS tonight, September 19, 2012, at 10 PM ET/PT. The special documents the artistic and technical process behind "Reach for the Stars," will.i.am's newest single that became the first song ever to be broadcast from another planet to Earth.
In what is being hailed as "the most complex Mars mission to date," NASA's Curiosity spacecraft successfully landed on the red planet on August 6, 2012. Since then the Curiosity rover has returned stunning photographs and valuable information about the Martian surface that is helping scientists determine if it has the ability to support life.
Recently, Curiosity also returned will.i.am's new song "Reach for the Stars" as - for the first time in history - recorded music was broadcast from a planet to Earth. i.am.mars: REACH FOR THE STARS profiles will.i.am's passion for science and his belief in inspiring the next generation of scientists through STEM (Science, Technology, Engineering and Math) education.
i.am.mars: REACH FOR THE STARS also gives viewers a window into his creative process, as well as the recording of the song with a full children's choir and orchestra. In addition, viewers also go inside the engineering challenges NASA faced in uploading the song to Curiosity, and the hard work required to make the historic 700 million mile interplanetary broadcast a reality.
"Between MARS LANDING 2012: THE NEW SEARCH FOR LIFE and i.am.mars: REACH FOR THE STARS, SCIENCE is consumed with the bold exploration of the red planet," said Debbie Myers, general manager and executive vice president of SCIENCE. "We hope our viewers are as inspired as we are by the creativity, imagination and daring of both will.i.am and NASA."
i.am.mars will be distributed to schools nationwide through Discovery Education's digital streaming services. SCIENCE and Discovery Education will also work with Affiliates to promote i.am.mars' educational resources for use in schools and with community organizations, brining the magic of Mars to life. | <urn:uuid:cc8f8d73-112d-4456-ae20-1bdc4072b3b4> | CC-MAIN-2013-20 | http://tv.broadwayworld.com/article/william-Featured-in-Sciences-iammars-REACH-FOR-THE-STARS-919-20120918 | 2013-05-18T08:03:04Z | s3://commoncrawl/crawl-data/CC-MAIN-2013-20/segments/1368696381249/warc/CC-MAIN-20130516092621-00000-ip-10-60-113-184.ec2.internal.warc.gz | en | 0.950739 | 463 |
ESPN has NBA action right through the Playoffs and The Finals in June, all in stunning HD.
Regular Season Games, Prime Time Christmas Day Action, Slam Dunk Monday, NBA All-Star Weekend, NBA Playoffs and The Finals – All Live and in HD
Missed a game? Fear not… Catch NBA Tonight on ESPN and ESPN America delivering highlights and news from around the league, including a recap of the past day’s on-court action and stats as well as a flavorful delight of top 10 dunks, plays, blocks, assists, steals and more…..
Check out the “Live NBA” tab to the right for upcoming live fixtures!
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August, 2009The North Texas Food Bank has announced that the 2009 Food4Kids Campaign has resulted in a record number of donations totaling $291,331. At the same time, the 2010 campaign has kicked off strongly with $60,000 in lead donation commitments. The letter writing campaign, begun three years ago by long time NTFB supporter Pam Beckert, relies on a Host Committee of community members, who open their address books and write letters of solicitation to their friends. This years campaign was chaired by Joanne & Charles Teichman and Sallie & Brown Plummer.
Lead donors (Super Backpackers) in 2009 who donated $10,000 include: Pam & John Beckert, Jenny Birge, Diane Buchanan & Rick Andrews, Lauren Embrey, Galleria Dallas, Lisa & Peter Kraus, Carol Marvin, Vicki & Hicks Morgan, Joanne & Charles Teichman and Frito Lay.
Included in the results are 100% of proceeds of the sale of an exclusive charm ('Chip for Charity') designed by Catherine Michiels for Ylang 23. The charm can be purchased online at ylang23.com.
The 2010 Food4Kids Campaign was kicked off at a reception at the Goss-Michaels Foundation, and incoming chairs Joyce & Tim Goss and Joanne & Charles Teichman announced that they have already received commitments for $60,000 in lead gifts and are anticipating another record campaign.
About the North Texas Food Bank
The North Texas Food Bank (NTFB) is a nonprofit hunger relief organization that distributes donated, purchased and prepared foods through a network of feeding programs in 13 North Texas counties. The NTFB supports the nutritional needs of children, families and seniors through education, advocacy and strategic partnerships. Founded in 1982, the NTFB is a certified member of Feeding America (formerly America's Second Harvest - The Nation's Food Bank Network). Last year, 26 million meals were distributed. Each month, agency pantries distribute food to more than 50,000 families and on-site meal programs serve 435,000 meals/snacks. Every dollar donated to the NTFB provides four meals for the hungry. Out of every dollar donated, 97 cents goes directly to hunger relief programs. Quotes Jan Pruitt, Director of the North Texas Food Bank, in referencing the economy and need: "There is an urgent need for funds and food right now."
About the Food4Kids Back Pack Program
The Food4Kids Back Pack Program was created because of concerns about children not having enough to eat at home. According to a report by Feeding America, Texas has the highest rate of child hunger in the nation, as one of every four children does not have consistent access to food. North Texas Food Bank officials have received reports from schools of children eating food off the cafeteria floors and out of the garbage. The North Texas Food Bank trains teachers to look for other signs of chronic hunger including short attention spans or behavioral problems. The Food4Kids packs are loaded with easy-to-fix snacks including peanut butter and jelly, pudding and fruit cups, because some kids spend time at home alone while their parents work. Thank you notes from recipients are numerous, including Abigail: "You are so kind to help my family with extra food", and a Carrolton, Texas mom: "If it weren't for this place, I wouldn't know what to do."
How You Can Help
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|Uncharted 3: Drake's Deception|
|Publisher(s)||Sony Computer Entertainment|
|Release date(s)||NA November 1, 2011|
EU November 2, 2011
JP November 2, 2011
|Genre(s)||Action-adventure, third-person shooter|
|Mode(s)||Single-player, online multiplayer, online splitscreen, offline splitscreen|
Uncharted 3: Drake's Deception is an action-adventure third-person shooter game and the sequel to Uncharted 2: Among Thieves. The game is the third installment in the Uncharted series. It was released on November 1st for North America, November 2nd for Europe and Japan, and November 3rd for Australia. The game is the first in the series to support high-resolution Stereoscopic 3D. It also received the "Best PS3 Game" award at the 2011 Spike TV Video Game Awards. The main plot of the game involves Nathan "Nate" Drake and Victor "Sully" Sullivan trying to find the legendary Atlantis of the Sands.
The story begins with a phrase read by Nathan "Nate" Drake (Nolan North) by T.E Lawrence. The scene then changes to Nate and Victor "Sully" Sullivan (Richard McGonagle) entering a pub in London to meet with a man named Talbot, who is interested in purchasing Nate's ring. During the meeting, Nate and Sully accuse Talbot of offering them counterfeit banknotes, and a fight ensues. After fighting their way past Talbot's whores, Nate and Sully emerge in an alleyway, where they are surrounded and subdued by Charlie Cutter (Graham McTavish), Talbot's cohort. They are then approached by Talbot's client, Katherine Marlowe (Rosalind Ayres), who steals Drake's ring. Nate attempts to go after her, but Cutter guns him and Sully down, seemingly killing them.
The story flashes back to 20 years earlier. A teenage Nathan Drake (Billy Unger) explores a museum in Cartagena, Colombia, in search of Sir Francis' ring, but is thrown out after guards suspect him of being a thief. Intrigued by the actions of Victor Sullivan, who he does not know at this point, Nate follows Sully to a keymaker and pickpockets him. Nate anticipates that he has succeeded until he unintentionally comes across Sully. Sully states that Nate's moves were telegraphed the entire time and threatens Nate to give back his wallet or he'll call the police. Nate then threatens Sully that he'll do the same knowing that it would not look good if middle aged men were following young boys. Sully considers this but still asks for his wallet back. Nate returns it to him before leaving. The scene then changes to Nate on the roof holding the key saying 'Telegraphing my moves, huh,' before returning to the museum. He steals the ring, but before he can leave he is caught by Marlowe, her henchmen, and Sully, who was working for her. Sully tells Nate calmly to give them the ring but Nate refuses. Marlowe attempt to grab the ring by grabbing Nate's closed fist. Nate then opens his fist, with no ring, asking 'What ring?" Marlowe laughs with no humour then slaps him. She makes a second attempt in slapping him but Sully grabs her arm to stop her, appauled by her behaviour. Nate makes a run for it, jumping on roofs, on walls and even someone's apartment! The henchmen attempt to shoot him but Sully either tackles them or shoots them himself. Nate finally comes to a dead end and one henchmen is about to shoot him. Nate grabs a nearby gun but collapses to the ground and shivers violently. A gunshot is fired and it came from Sully's gun. Sully then takes him to a sort of cafe and, with Nate still unsure if he could trust him, says that it was just a job and he doesn't ask his clients questions as well claiming that he's pretty sure he's fired. Sully asks to examine the ring but Nate is still unsure then Sully convinces him that if he wanted to steal the ring he would have taken it from Nate by now. Nate gives him the ring explaining that Francis Drake's motto was 'Greatness from Small Beginnings'. Nate then explains Drake had sailed for six months but he was a professional sailor so it would have taken him a month. Nate says that Drake was hiding something and at that point Sully offers to mentor him. From there they become friends.
Returning to the present day, it is revealed that the meeting was an elaborate set-up by Nate and Sully to get closer to Marlowe, with Cutter being an old friend of theirs. Avoiding the police, the threesome sneak back to the van where Chloe Frazer (Claudia Black) awaits. Chloe spyed on Marlowes car to see where they could get the thing that Nate has been wanting for twenty years. After discovering a sort of passage way mechanism, they travel underground to Marlowe's hidden library. They find Marlowe and Talbot discussing the ring then Marlowe enters the ring in the mechanism, only to discover that the ring was a fake. Talbot then realises that Cutter was a traitor. Marlowe sends mercenaries to find them, therefore leaving the library. As well as discovering T.E. Lawrence's notebook , Nate, Sully and Cutter discover the code on the mechanism, Lond Hidden, then Nate discovers that it's an anagram. The answer was Golden Hind where they find hung on the wall. Nate climbs to retrieve it just when the henchmen come in. Nate falls with the Golden Hind, breaking it, and finds a map showing Francis Drake's secret voyage where he was commissioned by Queen Elizabeth I to search for the lost city of Ubar which is only mentioned in the Quran. The three quickly get out of the underground trainstation where Chloe saves them in time by arriving with the van. Using the items they retrieved, Nate works out that clues to the city's location lie in Crusader crypts in a French chateau and a Syrian citadel. Nate decides that he and Sully will go to the France chateau and Chloe and Cutter will go to the Syrian citadel. Nate and Sully head to eastern France and locate the long-abandoned chateau in a dense forest. The first clue of finding something weird, after being ambushed by Talbot's men, is finding one of Talbot's dead men dried out and green on the ground even though they only arrived moments earlier. After setting a mechanism, Nate and Sully enter a passage way where they find a lab. Pushing the table, they find another passage and set of another mechanism. They find one half of an amulet inside the crypt, but the two are ambushed by Talbot. Talbot sends 'Harriss' to get the half of the amulet. Nate attempts to grab the gun, only getting shot on the side of his shoulder for his reward. Suddenly, these scarabs suddenly ambush everyone, only fearing light which is the only thing protecting them, apart from Harriss who wasn't in the light. Talbot abandons them and Nate and Sully quickly get out. They then find Talbot's men setting the whole place on fire and Nate and Sully make a quick exit. Sully questions Nate about the situation but Nate just says he's not going to abandon it but then he suddenly realises that Chloe and Cutter are in trouble because they may have been followed aswell.
In Syria, Nate and Sully's suspicions are confirmed once they find that the chain is cut and once Nate discovers mercenaries, whom he kills. After fighting a few more henchmen in the old well, Nate and Sully meet up with Chloe and Cutter. After Nate claims that they were 'rescuing them' the old plan off sneaking in then out is abandoned once Cutter shares valuable information about Marlowe being in an order that dates back four centuries.The order seeks to gain power by exploiting the fears of their enemies. The group realise that they need to go on the highest vantage point to search for a particular symbol to locate the crypt. After fighting more mercenaries, getting thrown out of towers, they reach the vantage point. Nate and Cutter locate the symbol and the door but they are suddenly shot by several RPGs. Nate and Cutter are split up from Chloe and Sully but continue to reach the door. To their disappointment, it is only storage but then they locate the symbol on the ground again and find pillars to be their entrance. The group reunite and try to find an entrance to the pillars. Nate, Sully and Chloe go around a corner but the Cutter, being on the other side, is shot by a dart containing hallucinogens by Talbot. Under his influence, Cutter gives Talbot the journal and his gun and Talbot whispers in Cutter's ear to not trust Drake. The rest of the group return to find Talbot holding Cutter. Sully chases Talbot into a corner but Talbot had disappeared. The group find the dart inserted in Cutter's neck, with Cutter repeatedly saying 'Don't Touch Me'. With Cutter struggling, the rest try to figure out the entrance. Chloe then figures it out, it being the middle pillar, and they all enter. Drake volunteers to look after Cutter as they go through a tight space. When they are in the open, Cutter begins to fight Nate. At the end of the fight, Cutter is choking Nate and Sully and Chloe return just in time. Chloe tells Sully, as he was willing to shoot Cutter to save Nate, not to shoot and convinces Cutter that he is killing Nate. Cutter let's go leaving Nate spluttering and coughing on the ground. Cutter is back to his normal self also asking Sully if he really was going to shoot him with Sully replying "Like a Rabid Dog" After operating a mechanism, the group find the crypt where they find second half off the amulet. Nate then reveals that Talbot has the first half of the amulet. Suddenly, they hear Talbot's henchmen and they quickly get out of the place by pushing a loose wall, crushing one henchman in the process. They are ambushed by Talbot himself then suddenly Cutter seemingly reacts to the drug again, pointing it at Nate. Nate, Sully and Chloe are forced to drop there guns but Talbot still gives the command to shoot them. Cutter replies 'My Pleasure' and insteads shoot Talbot and his henchmen. The group flee but when the three of them, Nate, Sully and Chloe cross a bridge it collapses leaving Cutter trapped. He is then approached by Marlowe and amazingly Talbot who was supposedly shot down yet no wound and they set the place on fire as well as grabbing the amulet half. Cutter is forced to jump of but he breaks his leg in the process. Nate and Chloe shoot down the men while they make their way out as Sully supports Cutter. They exit the Citadel and hijack a bus. Chloe says to Nate that it was too close and it's not worth it, therefore backing out. Cutter is forced to back out but tells Nate not to let them win. Because of this Nate and Sully are to travel to Yemen on their own yet Sully knows where to get help.
Drake reluctantly follows Sully's advice to meet with his wife Elena Fisher (Emily Rose), recently enstraged. Though the two argue over the fact that Elena is still wearing her wedding ring, and how Nate seems to be obsessed with his quest, Elena still helps Nate and Sully, giving them a tour of the city. They eventually locate the underground tomb where they discover the location of the lost city, as well as evidence that Sir Francis Drake had also found the tomb, and that what he learned there caused him to abandon his mission. Back above ground, Nate is shot with a dart containing hallucinogens. After stumbling away alone, Nate wakes up outside a café with Marlowe and Talbot. Here, Marlowe comments on his past and his relationship with Sully, and even threatens Elena if he does not cooperate. When Talbot gets news of Sully's location, Nate breaks free and gives chase to Talbot throughout the city; however, Nate is then knocked out by Rameses, a pirate working with Marlowe. Rameses interrogates Nate for information about Iram of the Pillars. When Nate refuses to cooperate, Rameses claims to have captured Sully. Nate manages to escape captivity and eventually reach the cruise ship where Sully is captured.
Nate discover Sullivan sitting on a chair in the cargo hold with a fabric bag on his head, but discovers it is a dummy. Rameses and his men appear, and reveal that Rameses never had Sullivan. Rameses stumbles to safety after being shot by Nate. Nate then throws a grenade in the ensuing battle, which results in a large explosion rupturing the ships hull. Eventually the excess water causes the whole vessel to roll 90 degrees and begin sinking. After navigating through the capsized ship, Nate finds himself in the over-turned ballroom. A mortally wounded Rameses re-appears and shoots the glass roof, resulting in water rapidly flooding in, killing himself in the process. Nate escapes the overturned ship and washes back onto the shore.
He is reunited with Elena, but she informs him that Sully was captured by Marlowe's men and was taken on a convoy into the Rub 'al Khali desert; but they may be able to rescue him if they stow away on a cargo plane due to deliver supplies to Marlowe's convoy. At dawn, the two of them infiltrate the airstrip, where they eventually reach a high wall. Nate gets to the other side but refuses to help Elena up, and claims he doesn't want to risk losing Elena again. She understands and accepts this, and eventually leaves using a nearby jeep. Nate tries to reach the plane as it begins its take-off run, but ultimately fails. Elena re-appears in the jeep and picks him up, allowing him to enter the plane through one of the landing-gear bay doors just as the plane lifts off. Nate is soon discovered by Marlowe's men on board, and a shoot-out ensues, resulting in a massive decompression, which tears the plane apart and sucks Nate out. Falling through the sky, Nate collides with a falling supply crate and deploys the crate's unused parachute; he is able to land safely on the desert floor. Nate finds a weapon in the wreckage and starts to journey through the desert.
After wandering the desert, suffering from heat exhaustion, severe thirst and experiencing hallucinations and mirages, Nate arrives at a ghost town in the desert where he is attacked by Marlowe's men. A troop of men on horseback, led by Salim (TJ Ramini), appear and ride to Nate's rescue. At the horsemen's encampment, Salim tells Nate that the city of Ubar was doomed thousands of years ago by King Solomon when he imprisoned evil Djinn within a brass vessel and cast it into the heart of the city. He agrees to help Nate and leads him to the convoy spotted by his scouts. Nate and Salim destroy the convoy and rescue Sully. Salim then instructs Nate and Sully to follow him into a nearby sandstorm, but the pair lose him amidst the dust and they realise that they have arrived at the gates of Ubar.
Upon entering Ubar, Nate and Sully come across a sophisticated water fountain that Nate drinks from. Suddenly Talbot appears and shoots Sully, apparently killing him. Overcome by rage over Sully's death, Nate gives chase and has to fight more of Marlowe's men, who seem to have been possessed by the Djinn, engulfing themselves in flames as well as showing the ability to teleport. Nate eventually comes to his senses and finds Sully alive. The true mystery of what happened to the people of Ubar thousands of years ago becomes apparent: when King Solomon cast the brass vessel into the depths of the city, it fell into the water and began to taint the water with a powerful hallucinogenic agent. The people were subsequently driven mad, and civilization within the city collapsed. Nate realises that the vessel is what Queen Elizabeth had sent Francis Drake to find, but after learning the consequences of his quest, Drake abandons his mission and returns to England. Nate and Sully search the city and locate Marlowe, who is using a winch to pull the brass talisman from the water. Nate and Sully destroy the winch and the explosion sets off a chain reaction throughout the entire city, causing it to collapse. Nate and Sully attempt to escape the crumbling city, and encounter Marlowe and Talbot shortly before the floor collapses, throwing Marlowe into a pit of quicksand. Nate tries to save her but is unable to pull her out, and Marlowe is submerged in the sand, taking Drake's ring with her.
After desperately trying to reach the edge of the giant sinkhole that the city has now become, Nate and Sully are intercepted by Talbot, close to the exit. An enraged Talbot attempts to kill Nate and Sully, but after a brutal fight, he is shot by Nate and falls out of sight. At the city gates, Salim rides in on his horse and leads Nate and Sully to safety as the city is engulfed by the desert sands. Nate and Sully return to the airport in Yemen, where Sully explains why he took such an interest in the young Nate. He then gives back Nate's wedding ring, which he secretly kept safe when Drake and Elena separated. Nate turns to see Elena joining them. The two embrace each other, and the three fly back home on Sully's new sea plane.
Voice Actors/Characters Edit
Main article: Uncharted 3: Drake's Deception characters.
- Nolan North - Nathan Drake
- Richard McGonagle - Victor Sullivan
- Emily Rose - Elena Fisher
- Claudia Black - Chloe Frazer
- Graham McTavish - Cutter
- Rosalind Ayres - Katherine Marlowe
Uncharted 3: Drake's Deception upgraded the features from previous installments, but included new elements, such as an advanced melee combat system that allows Drake to face multiple opponents at once. Players are able to make use of Drake's surroundings to take down foes, such as smashing a bottle into an opponent's face, pulling the pin on a grenade attached to an enemy's waist. The aim reticule seems to have increased its size, there is also a hit marker when Drake shoots an enemy. Naughty Dog has added automatic pick up for any weapon the player is holding.
Uncharted 3's multiplayer will expand on Uncharted 2 in both cooperative and competitive play. New weapons and gametypes have been revealed, as well as both weapon and character customization. Naughty Dog confirmed the maps will be more dynamic and interesting. Co-op has again been split into three modes, Hunter, Adventure and Arena. Medal kickbacks and power plays are both new features for the Uncharted franchise.
Sony ran a competition to find a new character for the multiplayer game. Combining 6 finalists from America with 10 finalists from Europe, Amy Hennig, Justin Richmond, Emily Rose and Nolan North mad up the judging panel that auditioned the finalists at Sony Studios on 28th March 2012.
The special editions of the game were revealed on June 2, 2011.
Collectors Edition Edit
The collectors edition will cost $99.99 and will contain:
- A Sideshow Collectibles Nate statue
- A replica of Nate's belt buckle
- A replica of Francis Drake's ring and necklace strap
- A "Steelbook" game case
- A "travelling case" for storage
Special Edition Edit
The game box is designed like Nate's diary and will contain illustrated pages and artworks. Inside is a PSN voucher which gives access to the following:
- Multiplayer skin and weapon - "Suited Drake and Pirate AK-47"
- Multiplayer Upper Cut Taunt
- Cash Multiplier
- Special Edition Decals Pack
Explorer Edition Edit
A hybrid of the "Collectors" and "Special" editions, featuring the "Special Edition" as described above, and the "Collectors Edition" as described above, excluding the "Travelling Case." A case is being designed for this edition, although it is unknown if it is the same case that will be used for the "Collectors Edition."
Collector's Pack Edit
According to EB Games Australia if you pre-order the special editions in Australia you will have an exclusive "Collector's Pack" that includes the following:
- PS3 Console Decal
- The "Creepy Crawler Kickback" Multiplayer DLC
- "Callout Mod" for the AK-47
- A Nathan Drake Replica Ring with Necklace Strap
Limited Edition DualShock 3 EditOn November 2, the same release date for the game releasing in Japan, a limited edition DualShock 3 was also released, but the controller is only available in Japan.
Game of the Year Edition Edit
On April 24th, 2012, Sony announced the Game of the Year edition of Uncharted 3: Drake's Deception, but no release date. When released, the Game of the Year edition include the full game as well as all downloadable content released for it as a free add-on. A full list of the 14 DLC packs can be found at the link above.
Uncharted 3: Drake's Deception received universal critical acclaim, receiving numerous "Game of the Year" and "Best Visuals" awards. The game holds 91.76% on GameRankings, based on 70 reviews, and 92/100 from MetaCritic, based on over 90 reviews.
The first review of Uncharted 3 came from the Spanish magazine Playmania, who awarded it 9.9/10, the highest review score they have ever awarded to a game. Greg Miller from IGN awarded the game a perfect 10/10 in all aspects, earning the title: "Masterpiece". Official PlayStation Magazine UK gave Uncharted 3 10/10 and a gold award , stating "Welcome to the new platinum standard". The Guardian magazine gave the game a perfect score of 5/5, stating "Uncharted 3, perhaps for the first time, represents what we all hoped games would eventually evolve into. Its production values are sky-high, and it puts you at the centre of a gloriously rich and irresistible world, controlling a character who is heroic, but also convincingly human. It's also mildly didactic, and feels less dumbed-down than any mainstream movie we've come across in years." Destructoid gave the game 10/10, stating "Uncharted 3 jumps from one extraordinary set piece to the next, pushing the way a videogame narrative can be presented. Equal parts exhilarating and emotional, I can't say I have ever played a more perfectly paced game." GamePro gave a 10/10 too, stating "Overall, the combination of a robust multiplayer, a surprisingly compelling co-op adventure, and a thrilling ten-hour single-player campaign add up to a title that is, quite simply, a must-own."
Edge magazine gave the game a 9/10, stating "The present console cycle is expected to last nearly a decade, and there will inevitably be developers advocating the need for more sophisticated tools. But just like Machu Picchu, the Pyramids and every other engineering marvel of antiquity, Uncharted 3 will stand as a reminder to future generations of gamers that enough problem-solving imagination can turn any old trowel into a magic wand." Eurogamer gave the game a much lower score of 8/10, stating "As a slice of one-view entertainment, Uncharted 3 is peerless... As an expression of all that a video game could be, however, Uncharted 3 is narrow, focused and ultimately shallow."
- Eliza Dushku announced Uncharted 3: Drake's Deception and Uncharted 2: Among Thieves at the Spike VGA's in their respective years.
- In an interview on August 17th 2011, Arne Meyer of Naughty Dog revealed that Uncharted 3 was currently over 50Gb in size, above the maximum capacity of a blu-ray disc and more than twice the size of Uncharted 2.
- The teaser premiered on the Entertainment Weekly's Popwatch exclusive reveal of Uncharted 3, however that version is ten seconds longer than the Spike VGA trailer with an updated Naughty Dog logo introduction.
- In an October entry to the PlayStation Blog, it was revealed that all retail copies of Uncharted 3: Drake's Deception will include a voucher code to access the Starhawk multiplayer beta early. The Starhawk beta will be released sometime in early 2012.
- This is the first and so far only game in the series not to feature extra singleplayer bonuses such as an in-game store, or medal tracker. (Although they could possibly be added later.) It does, however, still retain the treasure list and bonus features. (The movie cutscene viewer, however, was added as part of Update ver. 1.02 on November 28)
- Everyone in the game has a more movie-like appearance than in any other game.
- Many old weapons have a shorter role, such the AK-47 and the Wes-44, it also occur to some new weapons, such as the new M9.
- Some weapons from the previous games have been replaced with different weapons such the M4 replaced with the M9 or the Desert-5 replaced with the Mag-5.
- Unlike the first two games, this is the only Uncharted game where it cannot change the single-player character appearance.
Released Content Edit
- A dynamic theme, a static theme and two avatars have been released. The Dynamic Theme and Drake Avatar are available on the PSN store, while the static theme and Uncharted 3 avatar are available through a code which is received when you sign up for updates at the game's official site.
- In December, shortly after the announcement of Uncharted 3, Naughty Dog released part one of a behind the scenes video. Part two has not yet been released.
- On March 8th 2011 Naughty Dog released a cutscene which introduced Uncharted 3's Villain, Katherine Marlowe.
- On April 18th,a multiplayer trailer was released as well as an interview showing off some of the new features that will be available in the Uncharted 3 multiplayer.
- During E3 a new trailer was released, showing us Elena and Chloe's return.
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By Richard Wolf and Richard Willing, USA TODAY
WASHINGTON A new intelligence estimate that reverses previous U.S. claims that Iran is developing nuclear weapons will not change the Bush administration's policy of tough sanctions and diplomacy.
"That was our policy … and that's our policy going forward," said Stephen Hadley, the president's national security adviser. "We have the right strategy."
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Iran ceased its secret nuclear weapons program in 2003 and has not resumed work toward building nuclear arms, a National Intelligence Estimate released Monday says. The estimate reverses claims the intelligence community made two years ago that Iran appeared "determined to develop" a nuclear weapons program.
The new estimate did not explain why the intelligence community did not know Iran had stopped its weapons program before the 2005 estimate was released.
The estimate, reflecting the collective judgment of the nation's 16 intelligence agencies, also concludes that Tehran probably is "keeping open the option to develop nuclear weapons" by continuing to build missiles and pursue a civilian nuclear power program.
Iran, intelligence analysts concluded, halted weapons development in response to international scrutiny and the threat of increased sanctions.
U.S. officials are still trying to enlist more nations to bring sanctions against Iran. On Monday, Undersecretary of State Nicholas Burns said he met with Chinese officials to agree on key issues involved in imposing a third set of United Nations sanctions on Iran for continuing a nuclear weapons program.
Shortly after Burns' comments in Singapore, the intelligence community released its estimate saying Iran had stopped its nuclear weapons program in 2003.
Despite the differences from the 2005 analysis, intelligence officials thought it was important to set the record straight by making public that "our understanding of Iran's capabilities have changed," said Donald Kerr, deputy director of national intelligence.
Monday's estimate was a double "good news story," said Sen. Kit Bond of Missouri, the ranking Republican on the Senate Intelligence Committee.
"The intelligence community was willing to reconsider an important intelligence judgment," Bond said. "Iran doesn't appear to be currently working on a bomb."
Sen. Joseph Biden, D-Del., who chairs the Senate Foreign Relations Committee, said the estimate undercuts the administration's "obsession with regime change and irresponsible talk of World War III." Last month, President Bush said the U.S. policy toward Iran was aimed at avoiding "World War III."
"The NIE makes clear that the right combination of pressure and positive incentives could prompt Tehran to extend the current halt to its nuclear weapons program," said Biden, a Democratic candidate for president.
Mordechai Kedar, who served in Israel's military intelligence for 25 years and is a researcher at the Begin-Sadat Center for Strategic Studies in Tel Aviv, said Israel's intelligence community disagrees with the latest estimate.
"This is a matter of interpretation of data. I do believe that the U.S. and Israel share the same data, but the dispute is about interpreting the data. … Only a blind man cannot see their efforts to put a hand on a nuclear weapon. They are threatening the world."
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By Carol Felsenthal
Representative Joe Walsh and Tammy Duckworth are scheduled to face off tonight in their first debate in the battle for the 8th District. The race, which pits Tea Party favorite Walsh against the Democrat and Iraq war vet Duckworth, is expected to be one of the most watched of the congressional races this year.
I sat down with Duckworth last week for a wide-ranging interview in which she talked about the campaign, her family, her friendship with Bob Dole, and more. The former director of the Illinois Department of Veterans' Affairs--who lost both of her legs and tissue from the back of her right arm when the Black Hawk helicopter she was copiloting was hit by a rocket-propelled grenade--also told me about November 12, 2004, the day of her horrific injuries. After months of rehab and being fit with two titanium legs, the Purple Heart recipient can get around, and after surgeries, her arm is partially usable. When she met me at the Chicago offices last Friday, she was using a wheelchair and accompanied by her campaign manager, her spirit and contagious laughter intact. Below is an edited transcript of our conversation. [Disclosure: My husband has contributed to Tammy Duckworth's campaigns.]
CF: As a youngster and young woman, you lived in both Hawaii and Indonesia. Your life is oddly similar to President Obama's.
TD: I lived in Hawaii from age 16 through graduation from the University of Hawaii. I also lived in Indonesia as a child for seven years. I speak fluent Indonesian. I think the connection really that we share is an understanding of international cultures. Having grown up overseas as an American, I saw a lot of the privileges I had as opposed to the people around me who didn't have those privileges. I also lived in Cambodia until two weeks before the Khmer Rouge took over because my dad was working for the UN. I saw some devastating things. Some of my earliest childhood memories are of that.
CF: Your mother is a native of Thailand and your father a descendant of Mayflower people.
TD: Yes. I spoke Thai before I spoke English. [Duckworth was born in Bangkok.]
CF: Was your family politically liberal?
TD: No, very conservative. My dad [whose military service spanned World War II to Vietnam] was from Virginia--lifetime member of the NRA, a marksman. My brother is also a lifetime member of the NRA [signed up by their father when he was a child]. My dad loved Ronald Reagan. My brother lives in Nevada. He is a Harley Davidson motorcycle mechanic. He's a Coast Guard vet; did eight years as a navigator on C-130s rescuing fishing boats and iceberg patrol. When he got out he had a really hard time finding a job. He did pest control for years trying to find a job and finally he took the GI bill to go back to school to become a mechanic. So he's living the dream. My father is no longer alive. My mom lives with me in Hoffman Estates about six to eight months of the year to save costs. She lives part of the year in Hawaii.
CF: Your dad didn't sign you up for the NRA?
TD: No, but I grew up shooting guns. I've never been a member of the NRA.
CF: Your husband?
TD: He's from Maryland. I met him [Bryan Bowlsbey] in D.C.; we were both ROTC cadets. He's on active duty [an Army Major] and he's stationed at Fort Levenworth, Kansas.
CF: Will he campaign for you?
TD: No, no; because he's active duty, he can't. When he gets a pass, say for Memorial Day weekend or the 4th of July, he gets to come home. If he's there [say, at a parade] it's more to support me physically with my wheelchair and stand next to me. He was there on election night standing with me as a family member.
CF: You talk about how much you love the Midwest. How did you end up here--specifically in graduate school at Northern Illinois University?
TD: I was working at the Smithsonian Institution in D.C. while getting a master's in international affairs at George Washington University. I wanted to take the foreign service exam, but then I got this wonderful job working for the Smithsonian curator for Asian history and started working on anthropological exhibits on Asia, and I decided I might think about doing my PhD. [The curator] said if you want to specialize in Southeast Asia, you need to go to NIU. And I said, "Go where?" I had applied to Georgetown, George Washington, University of Virginia, Johns Hopkins, and he said, `No, no, the best in the country is Berkeley, Cornell, and NIU." So he gave me a week off of work and said, "You will go to DeKalb and check out NIU." I went and fell in love. I did not know I was a Midwesterner until I got there. I just fell in love with the people. It was the summertime; I'd not seen the snow yet. I was writing my proposal [for my dissertation] on international political economy--I'm very interested in how political decision making affects economic development--when I was deployed.
CF: Later, after your war injuries, the university granted you an honorary degree?
TD: They did. When I came back, I said, "One of the greatest disappointments in my life is that I ran out of time; I just didn't finish," and they said, "Well you have a good excuse." So I applied to re-certify. Now I need to write a new proposal and try to work on my dissertation again. The PhD would be in political science, but I am now going to switch my topic, and I'm very much interested in how disenfranchised groups are able to use social media. Amazonian tribes are getting law firms to provide pro bono services [to] fight logging companies. In Haiti a lot of local groups after the earthquake were able to use social media to access American prosthetics companies and get free artificial limbs mailed to them. I also started a PhD in health and human services [while she was Assistant Secretary of Veterans Affairs] at Capella University, which is on-line.
CF: What are you going to do differently in this campaign than you did six years ago? [Duckworth ran for Congress in the 6th District and lost to Peter Roskam.]
TD: I'm a different candidate because I have a lot more experience. And I've learned that I can be effective by just being myself. In 2006 I spent a lot of time reacting to the dynamics that were going on at the national level, a lot of the fights that were going on. This time I'm just going to stick to the issues. I'm going to talk to the constituents, and I'm not going to jump on any carnivals or crazy trains. Like last night, talking to voters about Medicare in somebody's living room in Schaumburg. She invited all of her neighbors. I sat and listened to all of the neighbors in a particular cul-de-sac. I'm going to do a lot more of that and not focus on a lot of a craziness.
CF: Have you ever met Joe Walsh?
TD: Not officially on the campaign trail, but if I had been home last night I would have met him. He door-knocked my house. I have a neighbor who's a state trooper who watched him for a while and came over and [Walsh] said, "Hi, I'm Joe Walsh," and handed [my neighbor] a flyer. My neighbor said, "You know this is Tammy Duckworth's cul-de-sac right here, and you're very nice but I'll give you back your brochure. I'm going to just throw it away." Joe Walsh said, "Will you take a picture with me?" And my neighbor said no.
CF: Joe Walsh told me he challenged you to a debate a month, but you agreed to four?
TD: Yes, there are five months left of the campaign. I agreed to four debates. First one [this Friday] on [CLTV's] Politics Tonight, Paul Lisnek and [Tribune reporter] Rick Pearson.
CF: Joe Walsh has said that you're the handpicked candidate of David Axelrod and Rahm Emanuel. For starters, how important was Rahm in your decision?
TD: Not much, actually it was Senator [Dick] Durbin. I was in the hospital. I was injured on November 12, 2004. I woke up in the hospital on November 22 or 23. They had kept me in a medically induced coma because I was so badly wounded, for 11 days. Senator Durbin was the only member of Congress, House or Senate, that year, 2005, to invite wounded warriors to attend the State of the Union address. He called Walter Reed and said, "Do you have any Illinois wounded warriors there who are physically capable of attending the SOTU address?" It was my first trip out of the hospital after I'd been wounded. That's when I met Senator Durbin. I got the cards of some of his constituent services staff members, and he gave me his personal contact information. I went back to the hospital, from January through June. I started getting into a different role in the hospital. I was the highest-ranking amputee there, and a lot of the other service members were having problems with different things, administrative things; the care was fantastic. They were having trouble negotiating the system. These 24-year-olds started coming to my husband and me, saying, "Can you help me with this?" Patients took care of each other, and I started calling some of the Durbin staffers and started emailing him and said, "Look I've got another guy, hasn't been paid in months, what's going on?" The one that broke my heart: the wife, 19 or 20, came to my husband. Her husband had been unconscious for I don't know how many months, and at some point, the Army had been paying him just combat pay, realized that they had erroneously been paying him combat pay and took it all back, and she was sitting there in Washington D.C. with no money. The senator called me and said, "Tammy, if you feel strongly as you have demonstrated for the last [several] months that veterans are not being taken care of properly, then you should think about running for Congress, and there's an open seat in your hometown, Hoffman Estates--Henry Hyde's seat." It took my husband and me about four months to decide to do it.
CF: I've always heard that it was Bob Dole who inspired you to seek elective office.
TD: This whole time when I was thinking about whether or not I was going to run, [Dole] was a patient at Walter Reed as well. He had fallen and had dislocated his shoulder; he was coming down to the therapy room and sitting next to all of us fellow vets and going through his therapy. He would talk to the young kids. I had no idea who he was. It was Lieutenant Dole, World War II vet who had wounded his arm in Italy and was going through the crappiness of having to recover, and he would just talk to the kids and bond with them, and they were like, "Man, if this 80-year-old guy can do this, therapy then I'm going to do the therapy." I started chatting with with Bob Dole. A lot of the conversation was, "You know my friend Dan and I . He served in World War II and he recovered, and we did this and we did that." And after a while I realized he was talking about [Democratic Hawaii] Sen. Dan Inouye. I felt just so inspired by Senator Dole's life, and he was sitting on a hospital bed next to everyone else going through therapy, and so I think for me that was the clincher. I saw in him a path. At the time I couldn't use my right arm at all. I had the one arm that I could work and I'm learning to walk and trying to figure out what to do with my life. I've been asked to consider running for Congress and I'm talking to a gentleman that I admired so deeply who had lived his entire life of service. I talked to him a lot about the bills that he passed. He co-authored the Americans with Disability Act with Teddy Kennedy. We developed a little bit of a friendship. I don't talk politics when I'm in a military setting . I just talked to him about serving. I see him from time to time. Every time I see, him he says, "If you told me you were running I would have made sure you run as a Republican, Tammy."
CF: Did you feel bad when Dole endorsed Peter Roskam in 2006?
CF: Do you think he'll endorse Joe Walsh?
TD: I don't know. He's gotta do what he's gotta do. It doesn't change how I feel about him. It doesn't change my admiration for the amazing service that he continues to provide for his country. He is the embodiment of these guys, the Greatest Generation, and the fact that if he did nothing else than what he did in Italy and came home and went on with his life, he would have done more for his country than so many other people ever done. He lived an entire 60 more years of nothing but selfless sacrifice for his country.
CF: Back to Axelrod. How important is he this time? And Rahm last time?
TD: He's a little busy with the presidential campaign right now. He was not a factor in my decision, but he is certainly someone whose counsel I seek. If I have a question about something, I'm free to email him. Rahm Emanuel in 2006 didn't call to push me to run, but once I decided to run he did push me to be the best candidate I could be. I got a lot of phone calls about, "What are you doing for field strategy? What's your fundraising plan?" I got very frequent calls from Rahm about the structure of running, but my decision to run was really Senator Durbin.
CF: In 2006 the Tea Party wasn't a factor. Will it be a factor this time?
TD: The impact I'm expecting is the money that's going to come from all sides. Joe, in his last filing, reported contributions from both the Koch brothers and Citizens United. I offered a pledge [to put conditions on accepting Super PAC money] three times, and he said no. Elizabeth Warren and Scott Brown have a pledge in Massachusetts. My pledge is based on theirs. If Liz Warren and Scott Brown can do this [in a Senate race], c'mon, we can do this in a little congressional race.
CF: Is there somebody currently serving in Congress who you see as a role model?
TD: Obviously on the Senate side, Durbin and Olympia Snow; unfortunately she's leaving. I worked a lot with [Republican] Senator [Johnny] Isakson from Georgia on veterans' issues. He's a guy who has really done amazing things. [Republican] Senator [Lisa] Murkowski in Alaska has been fantastic as well. I'm now talking a lot to Mike Quigley; our districts neighbor each other. When we talk about businesses, I think a lot of time Democrats spend way too much time talking about punishing companies that send jobs overseas, we and don't spend enough time talking about rewarding companies that keep jobs here. In my district we have a lot of small manufacturers who can't manufacture here, but they do have jobs here and they need to be rewarded for those jobs they keep here and investments they continue to make in the district. There's the understanding that if they have to do some manufacturing in China or India, that's part of their being competitive, but what are we doing to encourage and reward them for keeping jobs here?
CF: Why do you want to go to Congress anyway? It seems more acrimonious and rigid than ever.
TD: I've got nothing to lose. I was sitting in my office last spring when we were about to shut down government because we couldn't agree on a continuing resolution. I literally was in the VA at midnight, and I had this great office that looked over the White House; getting ready to send out communications to VA hospitals across the country and to veterans, "You're not going to get these benefits and services," and it just made me mad. It made me mad that I was in a place where [government was going to shut down] because of a manufactured political crisis. That's when I started thinking about what was happening. Joe Walsh was my congressman then. All this was sort of percolating over time, and then when Melissa Bean said she wasn't going to run, I just thought it is so bad in Washington we need to just do something different. I had successes at the VA. I had successes here in Illinois, where we did a lot of bipartisan things at a time when Rod [Blagojevich] and Mike Madigan were arguing about all sorts of stuff. I was working with all these folks in a bipartisan way to pass legislation, first in the nation programs for veterans. We passed the post 9/11 GI bill--the largest increase in veterans benefits in 30 years. That was done in a bipartisan manner. Maybe we can come together.
CF: Do you worry that if you do make it to Washington you'll be disappointed and disillusioned?
TD: This is a bonus time in my life I never received a tourniquet; I never received first aid. They started evacuating everyone and then they came back to pull my body out mainly because they wanted my family to have something to bury, and it was only when I was transferred to a MedEvac helicopter at the insistence of my crew chief that he thought I may still be alive. I finally got lifted out 20 minutes after having my legs blown off; my arm was essentially detached, severed, and I happened to still be alive. So, for me, everything that I do now has to be in honor of that. So as bad as it's going to be in Washington, I don't owe those people anything. Joe Walsh can come knocking on my door all he wants, and the craziness can happen, but it's never going to be as bad as getting blown up. And at the end of the day what I owe isn't to Barack Obama, isn't to [House Speaker John] Boehner, isn't to anyone. It's to the guys who I see once a year to thank them for saving my life. Every year on November 12, we get together, and every year I have to look at these men and say, "This is what I've done with my life this year; this is what I've done with what you've given me."
CF: You lost to Roskam in November 2006. Did you get together with your crew that year?
TD: Eight days after losing the election, I crawled out of the bathtub where I had been crying for three days and flew to St. Louis and met with my crew and had a reunion there. The last two years, we met in D.C., and I was able to treat them the first year to a tour of the White House. I was so proud.
CF: How many casualties on that crew?
TD: Three casualties and one with burns. So I was the worst. My crew chief almost lost his life; he was sitting directly behind me, so the same explosion. He's having a really difficult time right now. They were able to save his legs. The other pilot in command--the real hero of the mission who really landed the aircraft--he was scorched with a fireball, but the fireball was on me and it scorched him a little bit.
CF: Were you right-handed?
TD: I am right handed. My arm is stuck in this position, and I cannot turn it so I cannot eat with this arm. I had to learn to use chopsticks with my left hand, talk about traumatic. When you write you know how you turn; I can't do that. I can control my left hand just enough to be able to write. I have always had very poor handwriting, but now I have a really good excuse.
Correction: After a complaint from Tammy Duckworth's campaign manager, Kaitlin Fahey, I re-listened to the tape of our interview in two places and agree that I mis-heard the following:
About Bob Dole, the sentence should read:
They had no idea who he was.
About Duckworth's crew chief the answer should read:
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Barrie D. Collins, 73, died September 29, 2012 at the West Shore Health Center. He was the beloved husband for 50 years of Helina (Corcoran) Collins.
Barrie was an engineer and worked various companies before opening B&E Production Sales Co.
He was the brother of Brian and Tony Collins, both of England.
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I eloped, as the world all knows. I said my vows in a hushed college chapel in New Hampshire under the loveliest stained glass window I have ever beheld, barely lit by the very full and silvery moon outside.
The bachelor party consisted of watching Finding Nemo with my betrothed at his mom’s house and the honeymoon was barely a day long before we had to head home for work on Monday morning and yet, and yet, it was perfect.
We ‘hit the ground running’, as they say, having to wake up at an ungodly hour on Monday, there was work to go to, groceries to be bought, all of my stuff that needed to be moved, and I think we were both still quite dizzy from the fact that we were actually, factually, hard-core, absolutely, till-death-do-us-part MARRIED. Delirious happiness- does that exist? Because I think we may have found a new species of it if it does, and if it didn’t exist- then it sure does now!
Monday was the best day of work of my entire life. I claimed our little diner as a my own private hall, and every customer was my personal guest to the wedding reception, it was wonderful. The more I told people the reason for my joy- the happier I got. People were laughing and even crying as I rehearsed the details of my special day over and over again- heck, I was laughing and crying as well! My heart thrilled as person after person told me their love story in return, from our regular people who know me well to tourists who’ve never seen me before in their lives. I became thoroughly convinced that people don’t let themselves be in love *nearly* enough. People don’t talk about it enough, people don’t celebrate it enough. People should buy strangers coffee in the name of the ones they love best, not only does it feel absolutely *amazing*, but it makes the person on the other end a little happier as well. I couldn’t help but feel that this- *this* is how our wedding, our Love should be celebrated, not with pomp and circumstance and production, but by taking the sacred bliss and sharing it with the moments of everyday; over coffee, while eating scrambled eggs, in between doctor’s appointments and on road trips. What could be more fitting for a cop and his waitress?
“My love,” I told my husband when I got off that day, “The entire town is happy for us and everyone left that diner absolutely in love because of our story- isn’t that incredible?”
It is incredible. I am in no way incredible as a person, but the Lord has given me an incredible Man, and an incredible story and as I sit down in our kitchen at the end of this first week of marriage, I am stunned by the weight and the glory of what has been given me.
“Andi,” my boss said to me, “Do you realize that you have what every body is looking for? Isn’t that what every one wants, what every one is looking for- to be loved absolutely unconditionally, committedly, determinedly, utterly, with no strings? And you’ve got it. That’s quite a gift.”
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U.S. reaches agreement on Chen
5/3/12 9:33 PM EDT Updated: 5/4/12 9:06 AM -- Politico
Chinese dissident Chen Guangcheng may make it out of China soon as it turns out.
The U.S. and China have been in a diplomatic stalemate for several days already.
It looks like the man can become eligible for a student visa.
His family can join him while out of country.
Obama may be off the hook this time.
The Chinese foreign ministry and State Department have reached an agreement to get Chinese dissident Chen Guangcheng out of the country, a sudden
resolution Friday for the Chinese dissident whose case had created a diplomatic stand-off for the two countries.
Circumventing a showdown with the U.S. over giving Chen asylum, the Chinese foreign ministry released a statement on its website saying, “If he
wants to study abroad, he can apply through normal channels to the relevant departments, according to the law, just like any other Chinese citizen.”
Shortly after, the State Department announced a fellowship at a U.S. university that would allow Chen, his wife and two children to quickly leave
“The Chinese Government has indicated that it will accept Mr. Chen’s applications for appropriate travel documents. The United States
Government expects that the Chinese Government will expeditiously process his applications for these documents and make accommodations for his current
medical condition. The United States Government would then give visa requests for him and his immediate family priority attention,” State Department
spokesperson Victoria Nuland said in a statement.
The Chen case had caused a major problem diplomatically for the U.S. and China, and created mounting political pressure at home for President Barack
(CNSNews.com) -- The Rev. “Bob” Xiqiu Fu, founder and president of the human rights group ChinaAid and a personal friend of Chen Guangcheng,
the blind human rights activist, called on Thursday for Secretary of State Hillary Clinton to help Chen.
Hillary and Timmy have been busy with some other business too !
"Hillary Clinton, this is the time to deliver," Fu told a hearing of the Congressional Executive Commission on China on Thursday.
Chinese Rights Activist: 'Hillary Clinton, This Is the Time
(CNSNews.com) - China has agreed to join the Global Alliance for Clean Cookstoves, after touring a cookstove exhibit with Secretary of State
Hillary Clinton in Beijing on Thursday.
It's one of several new U.S.-China "eco-partnerships" announced during Clinton's visit, which has been overshadowed by human rights concerns
involving blind dissident Chen Guangcheng.
Clinton launched the Global Alliance, a public-private partnership, two years ago. The stated goal is to save lives, improve livelihoods, empower
women and combat climate change by bringing "clean and efficient cooking solutions" to families around the world. The total U.S. commitment to the
cookstove project so far is $105 million.
China's participation will help the Global Alliance meet its goal of having 100 million homes adopt clean and efficient stoves and fuels by 2020.
In China, an estimated 80 percent of households rely on solid fuels such as wood or dung to burn the fires that heat their food. The World Health
Organization estimates that burning those solid fuels accounts for more than 540,000 premature deaths in China each year and various chronic and acute
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03/29/2007 - James WhiteWhen I checked on the link I have used a number of times recently for my Nicea article in the CRI Journal of July/August, 1997, I discovered it had gone dead. So I contacted CRI, and they contacted their webfolks who are busy migrating their website to a new format. They jumped my article to the head of the line and it is now available again, here. The text is there, but if you want to appreciate how well the Journal originally presented the article (art work and the like), you'll have to get the back issue.
I would like to invite Jonathan Prejean, Patrick Madrid, Dave Armstrong, and the rest of that group of RC apologists, to post links to the paper as well. Why? Well, they are all claiming the paper is a glowing example of how unscholarly I am, how ignorant I am, and why no Roman Catholic should ever listen to anything I have to say. So, how about posting this link along with the Envoy article, and my brief response (which was limited, by the way, by publication word limits)? That way, you can let your audience find out if Hugh Barbour was actually dealing with what I wrote, or was doing as I have said, writing nothing but a shameless hit piece that mocks the very nature of sound scholarship? And would it not be a great benefit for Madrid and Prejean and Armstrong to post my article as an example of just how dull I am? I mean, each of them should be able to provide a far superior summary of the main issues at Nicea, Constantine's role, the primary personalities involved, and make it all understandable to the interested layman, and do it all in 4500 words, right? I mean, since I failed so miserably at it, they should be able to pull it off, right? So I look forward to their demonstrating their integrity and honesty by posting the link along with their far superior articles.
In passing, I'm wondering if someone can help me find the in-depth, full refutation of the Talpiot Tomb claims by these Roman Catholic apologists? I mean, I would think the fact that they are so far beyond me in scholarship (especially Mr. Prejean), that they would have been providing information on the Acts of Philip and mitochondrial DNA and the like far faster than I have. So could someone direct me to their rebuttals?
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Jasper's favorite book was about a cowboy, so it seemed like the ideal theme, particularly for an outdoor BBQ!
The colors were kraft paper brown with blue highlights because blue is Japer's favorite color! There were other touches of red like in the red bandana napkins and red checkered table cloths. I made all of the decorations myself, including the drink and food labels and the banner that we hung under the pergola. This was a fantastically easy project because I just bought 8x10 sheets of a card stock paper called "brown bag" that I bought at the craft store and printed directly on the card stock from my printer. Hanging the letters with clothes pins to twine took merely seconds! I also designed the custom invitations, thank you cards and the "Wanted" posters which we hung on the front door and one above the drink table.
The cake had white buttercream frosting and I made marshmallow fondant the night before to cut out little "cowprint" shapes to make it look theme appropriate. The cupcakes and toppers were a last minute project when I panicked that the cake might not feed all of our guests!
I set up a photobooth complete with boas, hats and props, and made sure to get a picture of every guest. I included a 4x6 print with the thank you cards.
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Tuesday, October 16, 2012
New data released today by the American Society of Civil Engineers (ASCE) and TRIP show the deteriorating conditions of the surface transportation infrastructure system in Ohio is worsening, and drivers and businesses continue to feel the impact. Closing the investment gap in the state’s surface transportation infrastructure will grow Ohio’s economy, save jobs and protect personal income.
“Failing to invest in Ohio’s roads, bridges and transit systems has a dramatic negative impact on the state and national economy,” said Andrew W. Herrmann, P.E., president of ASCE. “This data underscores the need for state and national policymakers to make smart, long-term investments in infrastructure.”
By 2020, ASCE projects the consequences of these conditions will cost the U.S. economy $897 billion in lost Gross Domestic Product and $28 billion in exports as transportation costs rise. The recent surface transportation bill adopted by Congress addresses spending in only the next two years, and it doesn’t fill the current funding gap.
“While addressing Ohio’s need for a safe, efficient and well-maintained transportation system will require a significant boost in investment, failing to act will result in even greater costs,” said Will Wilkins, executive director of TRIP. “Smart investments in transportation policies relieve traffic congestion, improve road and bridge conditions and enhance economic productivity.”
Due to the underinvestment in transportation in the Great Lakes region, data from ASCE shows that by 2020 productivity losses will cause the region to underperform by $104 billion and 102,000 jobs will be lost resulting in a drop in personal income of almost $108 billion if no action is taken.
“Ohio’s roads, bridges and transit systems keep our economy moving,” said Chris Runyan, President, Ohio Contractors Association. “Investing in key projects not only improves highway conditions in our state, but also creates good paying jobs.”
The latest information from the Federal Highway Administration (FHWA) shows pavement has severe deterioration in Ohio, and the effects of the conditions are acute:
- Vehicle travel on Ohio’s highways increased by 29 percent from 1990 to 2010. Ohio’s population grew by seven percent between 1990 and 2010.
- Forty-five percent of Ohio’s major urban highways are congested, and
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- Driving on roads in need of repair costs Ohio motorists $2.5 billion a year in extra vehicle repairs and operating costs – an average of $315 per motorist.
- Twenty-four percent of Ohio’s bridges (6,381) are structurally deficient or functionally obsolete.
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"Great SEC Game Coming Up"
Nov. 6, 2012
Opening statement… “It’s another great SEC game coming up with the oldest rivalry in the South. It’s going to be a great night game, and I want to encourage all the fans to come out and really support our guys. It’s a great challenge for us. What Georgia has to play for coming in here, with the possibility of clinching the East, and just the history of the game and how important the history of this game has been over the years and how close these games have been, I think our players are extremely excited about playing in the game. Our coaches are excited about coaching in it. We’re looking forward to a great challenge. It’s a very physical football team on both sides of the ball. They’re very talented and have really been playing well of late. It’s going to be a great challenge for us.”
How was practice after the win… “As I’ve said before, there’s only one remedy to what was week after week occurring there for a while, and that is a win. It was great to see our guys in the locker room very excited about getting a win and what that feels like again. It had been a while. Practice Sunday, I thought it was very energetic. We have a lot of guys up and down the hallways this week watching film on their own, excited about playing in a game like this as well. I think it’s carrying over. I know it did yesterday, and my expectation is that it’ll carry over to today’s practice.”
Is there motivation to try to stop Georgia from winning the SEC East… “We have been on the other side of that, and there’s a lot of motivation. No question about it. They’re playing for the ability to clinch the division and play in the SEC Championship game. When you play in rivalry games like this that have been going on this long, and there’s so much just involved with the game regardless of where each team is at and where they’re at in their season, it just makes for a great game. Our guys are going to be excited just because it’s Georgia. A lot of our players are from the state of Georgia and certainly close by if they’re not from the state. Georgia recruits a lot of the same guys, and these guys are playing high school football together or against each other. I think the history of the game, proximity and geographically how close we are and with our guys just enjoying the chance to play in a rivalry game like this 6 p.m. ESPN game, I think all those things together, we’re going to be very excited to play Saturday.”
Does his team want to be the “spoiler”… “I think that’s kind of what anybody in that situation realizes, whether you say it or it’s in the back of your head, that you have an opportunity to play in a great game and if you play well and if you do end up winning the game, that’s the result, but that’s not what we’re feeding on. We’re feeding on the opportunity to have another great SEC game and have the opportunity to play on national TV against a great football team and have an opportunity to go out there and compete. That’s more of what we’re focused on -- and trying to build on what we did last week as well.”
Does it help that Brian VanGorder and Willie Martinez previously coached at Georgia… “I think so. I think that over the last however many years, I think Georgia’s changed some in what their ideas are philosophically on offense, but not that much. Those guys spending that much time there, I’m sure that there’s things that are coming back that as you watch the film and you say ‘I remember that in practice,’ that certainly can’t hurt you.
“I think it’s a little bit both ways. The bottom line is, when you watch this many games, 10 games, you know what they’re going to do. They know what you’re going to do. It’s just a matter of executing and being in the right position to make plays. Defensively, they’ve seen the last nine or 10 games. They know what we’re going to do, and they’ve been around those two guys as well. I think it’s probably kind of a push.”
What does Georgia do well offensively and defensively… “Defensively, they’re very multiple because they have their 3-4 stance, meaning their philosophy of 3-4 defense, which gives you problems offensively; it’s giving quite a few people some problems right now in terms of who to block. There are going to be so many different looks in there. They have some really good talented players who are very productive in terms of sacks and tackles for loss. They have a huge defensive line. They have some safeties back there that are extremely physical, and their corners, if they decide to play man coverage, are very good at what they do. I just think schematically, all the way around, they have good players. They’re coached well, and that’s why they’re where they’re at.
“Then offensively, they’ve been so explosive. They have a very big physical offensive line. The two young running backs are very explosive. I think they’ve really complemented each other well because one guy doesn’t have to carry it 35 times a game. They’re a little bit of a change-up. One’s a little bit bigger than the other, but they’re both extremely fast. Obviously, with the quarterback being as efficient as he is and throwing for 21 touchdowns and receivers that -- even though they’ve had a couple of injuries -- the next guy just steps up to the plate. I think everybody understands that they are where they are offensively because they do have explosive guys, and they’re very efficient at what they do.”
On Georgia’s defensive players, specifically Jarvis Jones… “I think you start with trying to always find out where he’s at. He’s going to move around some, and they do a really good job with that. He’s definitely a tackle-for-loss hazard, whether it be sacks or in the run game. They don’t have any problems with pressuring him from wherever. You always have to know where he is, and then on top of that, he’s just a very physical player. He’s made plays against pretty much everybody they’ve played. You have to know where he is, and you have to have a way to account for him in both the run game and the pass game because he has great penetration from wherever he’s coming from.”
Does Georgia’s pressure challenge players like Brandon Fulse and Jay Prosch to help more in blocking… “Absolutely. There’s no question. Combined with the fact that when you’re in a 3-4 defense that really creates just protection, it’s a tough scheme protection-wise. That’s why a lot of people bounce in and out of it. Even if they’re not a 3-4 defense, they’ll bounce in and out of it just because the protection issues that (Jarvis Jones) gives you. All of that becomes a factor.”
Did he think Jarvis Jones had All-America potential when Jones was in high school… “He was coming out right when I had gotten here, so I knew somewhat about him, but I think at the time he was committed to USC, if I’m correct. I thought he was a very good player, and I thought he was a big good-looking physical specimen. I didn’t know enough about him at the time of exactly how good he would be as a football player, but I watched enough film on him to know he certainly had a chance to be. Him transferring and being this productive, I’m sure that the people who were around him for three years aren’t surprised, but I just didn’t know that much about him when I got here.”
Will the speed of this defense change compared to what Jonathan Wallace saw last weekend… “It’s night and day. It’s going to be a completely different issue, and that’s what we’re preparing him for. The bottom line is he’ll study it, and he’ll know where they’re coming from. The speed and intensity with which they blitz and pressure and move around will be completely different than last week.”
Is it important to get the run game going to help Wallace… “Getting the running game going is an imperative; there’s no question about it. Anytime you’re going out there with a young quarterback, the number one priority is to run the ball enough to protect him where you’re not so much drop-back, or you’re not in that many drop-back situations. First and second down and manageable third downs is really the key, and obviously the key is first and second down and being able to run the ball on some of those downs; even being able to run the ball on third down, too, is really critical when you have a young quarterback. I think that’s always the case.”
On Philip Lutzenkirchen (who spoke to reporters earlier about his progress)… “He’s just a solid guy -- a guy that comes out to practice, and he’s always around the team -- a very positive, upbeat guy. He was obviously one of the first guys that we recruited when we got here. I’ve just gotten real close with his family, and I just believe and trust in him and his family and what they stand for off the field, as well as everybody has pretty well documented what he’s done on the field. He’s just a young man that I have a high level of respect for in a lot of ways.
“I think he is a very selfless guy, and I think that is what is going to make him be successful whatever he does after this because it’s never really about him, and it’s never really been about him. He could stand up and beat his chest for a lot of things that he’s accomplished that most people would dream about accomplishing in his career here, but he never does that. He’s always going to talk about somebody else, and he’s always going to be one of those guys that steps up to the plate and tries to help somebody else; again, that’s why I talk about what he represents off the field as well as on.”
Does Lutzenkirchen’s game-winning TD catch in the 2010 Iron Bowl come to mind when recalling his career… “It’s one of the first ones that comes to mind. He’s had so many great catches out there. He’s had so many one-handed snags. He really came on as a blocker as his career unfolded, because when he came out of high school, he was primarily a glorified wide-out. He had to learn the blocking game, and he had to learn how to do all of those things. It was very important to him to be able to try to improve in that regard, and he did.
“He’ll always be remembered for certain catches that he made and some spectacular ones at that and some that the timing was impeccable as you just mentioned in the Iron Bowl two years ago, but his blocking and just everything that he has brought to the table other than the things that you even visibly see him do as a player what he’s like in the locker room, what he’s like in encouraging young guys, what he’s like bringing young guys in that want to play and he wants to help them. He wants to help them learn the offense or just learn what college football is all about. He’s just always been one of those guys, and I think that’s why most of our guys on our team have a very high level of regard very similar to me on Philip. It’s because he’s a different guy.”
On the conversation Chizik had with Lutzenkirchen about having surgery… “Well, he was very distraught. My number one goal always is for doing what is in the best interest of our student-athletes, particularly when it comes to injury; I try to treat everything like I would if it were my own son. (Lutz) was at a place where, when it all went down, nobody was really sure exactly what direction this was headed. I just told him, ‘I know there is a lot on your plate because you’re thinking about wanting to finish this season out and making sure that you do all that you can to help Auburn win’ because that’s who he is. Then on the other side of that, you’ve got him thinking about a career beyond this. I just said, ‘at the end of the day, when you really sit down and think about this and you really soul search and pray on it and do whatever you have to do, you’ve got to end up doing health-wise what is the best for you, not 10 weeks from now, but 30 years from now.’ One of the things that happens with an injury like that is you don’t want to walk around with a limp for the rest of your life, just so that you could finish what you started -- I think those are hard decisions to be made sometimes. When all of the evidence came back, it wasn’t hard. He had to get it done, but in the interim, we had to have that conversation.”
Injury updates for Auburn players… “C.J. (Uzomah), it doesn’t look like he is going to be able to end up playing this weekend. Chris Davis is still on the bubble. Jeff Whitaker I think has got a chance. He practiced Sunday night; obviously, we’ve got to take some baby steps with him. A couple of those other guys like Chris will be a little bit later in the week as we move forward, but it’s very unlikely that C.J. will play.”
Is Dee Ford to the point where he can start… “We played him between 30 and 40 plays the other day, which was good to see. I feel like he held up well. We’re getting to the point where we’re looking at getting him back to that, but, again, I think it just depends on how this week unfolds, certainly tonight at practice.”
On the significance of C.J. Uzomah being out… “Well, I just think when you’ve lost your two top tight ends, it certainly doesn’t help. I think he had gained a good amount of confidence with the last couple of games that he had played, and so he was becoming somebody that we were starting to really feel good about him catching the ball. Again, he was kind of like Philip. He was a different position coming out of high school, so he really needed to learn the world of blocking and blocking the edge, but he was coming on as a tight end just being able to do all of it a little bit better. So, again, I feel bad for him. It was kind of a freak deal on Wednesday night, but he will continue to try to get back before the season ends; it’s going to be touch and go as whether that will happen or not.”
Has Corey Lemonier’s production changed since the beginning of the season… “I think early in the season, boy, you could really see him -- his very quick first step -- and I think that people knew all the preseason talk, and then the first few games, the pressures he was getting on the quarterback. Early in the year, he was getting some good pressure and there were actually three or four sacks that he had missed. I think protection-wise, every offense is going to take what is considered to be your best guy and they are going to have schemes for them. So, I think it is a combination of all of that.”
On Jonathan Wallace stepping in as Auburn’s starting quarterback as a true freshman… “Well, I said it earlier in the week. I was very proud of some of the things that he was able to do, but if you look at how the game unfolded, early in the game he was slow in terms of just kind of getting a rhythm and just kind of getting into it. Typically, what you look for in a young guy is that you are able to do that and recover. So, I felt like he did that. I felt like as the game went on he kind of calmed down a little bit. He hit some throws that he should have hit, and, overall, ended up managing the offense well and throwing some nice balls out there. So, hopefully, he can pick up where he left off, but, again, this is a different defense this week with a different caliber of guy, but he won’t go out there and be fearful in any way, shape or form. I know that. He’ll go out there starting today and really try to improve on everything that he knew were the things that were responsible for a slow start. So, I have no question that he is going to go out there and compete very hard.”
On Clint Moseley’s status… “I think he is coming along. Tonight we will see at practice how he is moving around, but I think he has gained in the last two or three days a little bit more movement, but we’ll know more tonight. He moved around a little bit Sunday, but even then we’ve had a little bit of time off since then, and I think that he will be in a little better place tonight, but we won’t really know until after practice.”
What threat does Georgia quarterback Aaron Murray pose… “Well, Aaron Murray made plays and so did his wide receivers. They had kind of a high pass on a third-and-one and he hid it behind his back and there is nobody within 15 yards of the wide receiver that was a touchdown pass very well executed. You’re looking at a quarterback that’s pretty much seen it all, done it all. If you look at him just when people decide to pressure him, he’s going to be somewhere in the high 70s in terms of percentage of completions, so that doesn’t faze him. I mean he’s pretty much seen it all.
“They’ve got a great scheme, and they can get the ball to one side or the other. Back to the receivers, even right before the half, here he is he’s scrambling around -- Ole Miss is playing well; they had sacked him three or four times on the drive -- and he escapes out of it and he throws the ball just about the only place you could put it before the safety came over, and they score right before the half.
“So, I think that pretty much sums it up. He’s a very efficient quarterback with very, very capable wide receivers, and I think they are all on the same page and you can tell the timing. Even though Marlon Brown is going to be out, you’ve still got some receivers -- Malcolm Mitchell and (Tavarres) King and some other guys -- that I think are all very, very synchronized and on the same page.”
What is his appreciation for the Auburn-Georgia rivalry… “Just incredible. It’s incredible. That’s why I say that, regardless of what the situation is for either team right now. It’s very important for the other team to go out there and play extremely hard because it’s a game as a little guy, if you grow up wanting to play college football as a little kid, these are the games that you dream of playing in.
“I have got a great appreciation for this rivalry. There are a lot of similarities in the schools, and of course everybody knows the similarities over the last 100 and some odd years between scores and just the results of the game.”
On the impact freshmen in the SEC this season… “I think this is a little bit of a unique year. I think that from the running backs at Georgia to the quarterback at (Texas) A&M to just so many young guys that have come in and played very, very well, I think it goes back to the level of talent that people are recruiting in this league. Pretty much every week you play somebody that has got a young guy that’s contributed and contributed very well; again, I think it just goes back and everybody knows the level of the skill in this league and it’s not just skill. It’s offensive linemen. It’s defensive linemen. I think the level of play and the level of skill from some of these guys coming out of high school in this league talent-wise is why the SEC is what it is.”
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Rolando Laurio Deegan, 40, seven-year Wal-Mart employee in Independence, Kan., passed away, Sunday, Nov.18, 2012, in Wichita.
Visitation will be held from 9-11 a.m. with family greeting friends on Wednesday, Nov. 21. Funeral service will be at 11 a.m. also on Wednesday, Nov. 21, both at Dunsford Funeral Home, Augusta. Interment to follow in Elmwood Cemetery, Augusta.
Rolando was born May 11, 1972, in Masbate, Philippines to Rogelio and Salvacion (Lusanta) Laurio. They preceded him.
He graduated from high school and attended two years of technical engineering school.
He is survived by: his sons, Jacob and Elijah Deegan; daughter, Michaela Deegan all of Neodesha; adoptive parents, Dennis Deegan of Eureka and Nenita Deegan of Durham, North Carolina; brother, Marcelo Deegan, Manila, Philippines; sister, Lorena Canedy of Augusta; mother of his children, Amy Deegan, Neodesha; half-brother, Bernard Haller, Durham, North Carolina; half sisters, Angie Butler, Durham, North Carolina and Mariteas Deegan of Emporia.
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September 28, 2010
2010 Season - Bowman pulls down CCIW honor
|Matt Bowman was named CCIW "Runner of the Week" after his fourth place finish at the Brissman-Lundeen Invitational in Rock Island, Illinois on September 24.|
Augustana senior Matt Bowman (Geneva HS, Elburn, Ill.) was selected as the “Runner of the Week” in the College Conference of Illinois & Wisconsin. Bowman’s strong performance helped the Vikings finish second at the Brissman-Lundeen Invitational at Augustana College in Rock Island, Illinois on Saturday, September 24. It was an impressive second place finish for head coach Paul Olsen’s crew as they beat four nationally ranked teams.
Augustana, ranked sixth in the latest U.S. Track & Field/Cross Country Coaches Association Division III Mideast Regional poll, was one of three teams ranked in the top 10 to compete at the meet. Wisconsin-Stevens Point, ranked fifth, took the team title with 23 points. Augustana finished second with 55 points while Wisconsin-Whitewater, the seventh ranked team in regional poll, placed third with 88 points. Olivet Nazarene took fourth (138), Truman State was fifth (150) and Greenville placed sixth (263).
The field also included a couple of ranked teams in the Division III Central Regional poll. Cornell College, ranked ninth, finished tenth in the team scores with 307 points. Grinnell, the number one ranked team in the Central region, finished 16th with 415 points.
Bowman led the way for Augustana with with a fourth place finish and a time of 25:10 over the 8,000 meter course. The Vikings had ten runners run a time of 26:01 or faster. Tim Thornburg of Wisconsin-Stevens Point won the individual race with a time of 24:58 while teammates Terry Witkowski and Joel Heroux finished second and third with times of 25:00 and 25:10, respectively.
Earlier this year, Bowman finished second overall at the Western Illinois Invitational in a time of 26:11 leading the Vikings to a team victory over a field that included Western Illinois, a Division I school. The next week Bowman was the second Viking runner to cross the line at the Illinois Intercollegiate Championships. He finished in a time of 25:49, which was good for a 26th place finish in a field made up of the top college runners in the state of Illinois.
Augustana, which has only lost to two NCAA Division III schools this year –North Central at the Illinois Intercollegiate meet on September 17 and this past week to Wisconsin-Stevens Point at the Brissman-Lundeen Invitational on September 24 – will have a weekend off before they head to Waverly, Iowa to run at the Wartburg Invite on Saturday, October 9.
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Although Arlington Park’s Grade III Stars and Stripes Handicap was moved from its traditional Fourth of July weekend spot this season, there will still be plenty of American flags flying when Chicago’s classic turf marathon is contested for the 78th time on Labor Day Monday over Arlington’s world famous turf course.
Fred Bradley’s Brass Hat, suddenly a solid turf horse as an 8-year-old, is expected to make his first appearance in Chicago to run in the mile and a half grass race after a distinguished career mostly on the main track in earlier seasons.
Although he is an altered son of 1989 Breeders’ Cup Turf hero Prized, the top portion of Brass Hat’s résumé is underlined by wins on the main track in the Grade I Donn Handicap in South Florida and the Grade II New Orleans Handicap in Louisiana during the winter of 2006. Following those back-to-back wins, Brass Hat journeyed to the United Arab Emirates to finish second under the wire in the Grade I Dubai World Cup, but was subsequently disqualified.
However, in his most recent trip to the post Aug. 15, Brass Hat rallied wide late to finish third in the Grade I Sword Dancer Invitational – Saratoga’s traditional marathon turf test. In his previous start at Monmouth July 4, the Buff Bradley trainee rallied on the inside late to finish third in the Grade I United Nations Handicap over the grass course on the Jersey Shore.
Also expected for Labor Day’s Stars and Stripes Handicap is its defending champion Silverfoot, a 9-year-old owned by Chrysalis Stables and trained by Dallas Stewart. About a month after winning the 2008 renewal, Silverfoot finished fourth in the last season’s Grade I Arlington Million, and earlier this summer took down winning honors in Arlington’s $54,100 The Tin Man Stakes on June 6.
Another 9-year-old who captured the 2006 Stars and Stripes – Jim Messineo’s Major Rhythm – is also expected to seek a second victory on Labor Day. Major Rhythm was most recently second by a neck in Arlington’s $54,200 Rossi Gold Stakes June 6.
Major Rhythm, who finished ninth in the 2006 Arlington Million, breezed five furlongs over Arlington’s Polytrack in 1:02.20 Aug. 26.
Also expected to contest the Stars and Stripes is James Glenn and William Patterson’s Rumor Has It, who beat Major Rhythm to win the Rossi Gold after capturing Arlington’s $52,500 Polar Expedition Stakes here at a mile and three-quarters on June 27.
Thomas Fedro Sr. and Team Block’s Free Fighter, who breezed five furlongs in 1:01 on Aug. 26 at Arlington after winning his last start in an allowance race here Aug. 15, is another probable starter in the Stars and Stripes, as is Brenda Jones, MarMac Farms and Marc Sharp’s Up to No Good, who won his last start in the allowance ranks at Presque Isle Downs on Aug. 13.
Derby Daze Farm and Mark Hoffman’s Hooh Why, heroine of Keeneland’s Grade I Ashland Stakes April 4 and Woodbine’s $150,000 La Lorgnette Stakes May 17, is expected to make her first start on grass in Arlington’s Grade III Pucker Up Stakes on Labor Day, the second of two Monday racing programs at Arlington this season.
The Pucker Up Stakes, restricted to sophomore members of the distaff set, is one of four grass stakes on the holiday program – billed as Arlington’s Turf Showcase for the third successive local season.
Also slated for the Pucker Up is the British-bred filly Hameildaeme, owned by Newmarket Thoroughbred Racing, who finished fourth, while beaten a length and a half for the win, in the Grade I Del Mar Oaks Aug. 22. The daughter of Storming Home (first under the wire in the 2003 Arlington Million before being disqualified) was previously beaten a length and a quarter for the win in Del Mar’s Grade II San Clemente Handicap Aug. 1.
Frank Calabrese’s Romacaca, heroine of the $55,800 Hatoof Stakes on Arlington Million Day, is also expected to run in the Pucker Up, as is Glen Hill Farm’s Prytania, fourth in the Hatoof but gaining at that shorter distance.
Two Bucks To Show Stable’s Cumulonimble, Nelson McMakin’s Hot Cha Cha and Martin Racing Stable’s Malibu Win are also expected to compete in the Pucker Up.
Jockey James Graham, currently runner-up in the Arlington jockey standings, rode three winners on Saturday’s Arlington Park program.
Graham began his riding triple in Saturday’s fourth with Louie Roussel III’s Superior Attitude, continued it in the sixth astride Passion Tamer, owned by Bryton Racing LLC, and concluded it aboard Midwest Thoroughbreds’ Cure in the finale.
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A few things that jumped out to me while looking over the NCAA tournament brackets:
Probable Marquee Mound Showdowns:
1. Connecticut's Matt Barnes vs. Coastal Carolina's Anthony Meo: a tantalizing battle of two first-rounders-to-be, both from lower New England.
2. Texas State's Carson Smith vs. Kent State's Andrew Chafin: a pair of tenacious power arms with checkered medical histories go at it.
3. Creighton's Jonas Dufek vs. Georgia's Michael Palazzone: feel for pitching galore in this Corvallis regional matchup
4. Maine's Jeff Gibbs vs. North Carolina's Patrick Johnson: upset special? Gibbs can run his fastball up to 96 mph, and he beat North Carolina in Chapel Hill in his second career start last February. The fearless Johnson is the consummate winner (he's 11-1).
5. Arkansas' D.J. Baxendale vs. Charlotte's Andrew Smith: great matchup between competitive strike-throwers—the well-known Baxendale, already named to USA Baseball's college national roster for 2011, and the A-10 pitcher of the year in Smith.
Most Intriguing Potential Super Regional Pairings
1. Clemson at South Carolina: The Gamecocks have Clemson's number in Omaha, but the two bitter rivals have never met in a super regional, where the intensity would be magnified even more in an on-campus setting.
2. UCLA at Virginia: potentially the top three pitchers in the draft all in one spot (UCLA's Gerrit Cole and Trevor Bauer, Virginia's Danny Hultzen).
3. Arizona State at Texas: two traditional powers, who last met in a memorable Omaha game in 2009, when the Longhorns stormed back to beat Mike Leake.
Deja Vu All Over Again
1. St. John's is the No. 3 seed at the Charlottesville Regional for the second straight year.
2. Stanford is the No. 2 seed in the Fullerton Regional for the second straight year.
3. UC Irvine is the No. 3 seed in the Los Angeles Regional for the second straight year.
1. Georgia Southern: The nation's leading home run hitter (Victor Roache) leads the Eagles to Carolina Stadium, a home run park.
2. Austin Peay State: The Ohio Valley Conference champs are young but well rounded, and they could upset a few apple carts at the Atlanta Regional.
3. Bethune-Cookman: always a dangerous No. 4 seed, the Wildcats force Florida State to consider throwing ace Sean Gilmartin in the opener. If FSU does not, it could be in for a rude awakening.
Cinderella, Your Carriage Is Waiting
1. New Mexico: The Lobos carried a seven-game losing streak into the Mountain West Conference tournament—their fifth losing streak of five or more games in 2011. But they caught fire at the perfect time, beating juggernaut TCU twice en route to the MWC title. They head to regionals—for the second straight year, after a 48-year absence—with a 20-39 record.
2. Arkansas-Little Rock: After going 18-32 in the regular season, and 10-20 in the Sun Belt Conference, the Trojans beat SBC powers Troy, Western Kentucky, Florida Atlantic and Florida International to win the conference tournament and reach their first regional.
3. Belmont: The Bruins started A-Sun play just 3-8 and had to win back-to-back games at powerhouse Stetson in the final weekend just to make the conference tournament as the sixth and final seed. Four straight victories later, Belmont is headed to regionals for the first time.
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|ABOUT THE BCCSA|
The BCCSA as an Independent Judicial Tribunal
The Broadcasting Complaints Commission of South Africa ("BCCSA") was established by the National Association of Broadcasters ("NAB") in 1993. According to the BCCSA's Constitution it is a body corporate, capable of suing and being sued in its corporate name, and of performing all such acts as are necessary for or incidental to the carrying out of its objects, and for the performance of its functions and duties under its Constitution.
The BCCSA shall be based in Johannesburg but the Chairperson may, when he or she deems it appropriate, decide to hold a session of the Tribunal of the Commission at any place in South Africa. The BCCSA was recognized by the Independent Broadcasting Authority ("IBA", now ICASA) in 1995 in terms of section 56(2) of the IBA Act 1993. During these hearings before the IBA, the IBA emphasized that the BCCSA must be an independent judicial tribunal so that it could, without fear or favour, adjudicate complaints from the public against the broadcasters, which are members of the NAB.
The BCCSA has no jurisdiction as to election complaints. Such jurisdiction resides with the Complaints and Compliance Committee ("CCC") of the ICASA, The CCC also has jurisdiction to hear complaints about content against broadcasters which are not members of the NAB. Complaints other than those which relate to content of broadcasts, all fall under the jurisdiction of the CCC.
Although the NAB provides the funds for the BCCSA, the BCCSA is, as a body corporate, entirely independent from the NAB. The BCCSA has an enforceable ongoing contract with the NAB, according to the BCCSA Constitution, to provide the BCCSA with its reasonable expenses. If the NAB does not provide the reasonable expenses, which would include all complaint sessions of the BCCSA, the BCCSA may take the matter to an independent arbitrator who will enforce the contract. If it is found that the NAB is or has omitted to provide such reasonable expenses, it is bound in law to do so.
Other features of the Constitution which uphold the BCCSA's character as an independent judicial tribunal in terms of section 34 of the Constitution of the Republic, are the following:
1. The Commissioners are appointed by an independent panel chaired by an independent person (up to now by a retired Judge of Appeal) plus other persons appointed at an AGM of the BCCSA. Although it was, initially, the thinking that half of the Commissioners would be appointed from persons nominated by the NAB, the Constitution was amended at the insistence of the IBA so that all candidates would be nominated by members of the public.
2. The Chair is elected at an AGM without any intervention from the appointment panel or the NAB and may be a person from outside the Commission. So as to ensure the independence of the Chair he or she is in no way answerable to the Commission in so far as the judicial work is concerned. He or she appoints each Tribunal from the Commissioners and has, in any case, the right to appoint ad hoc Commissioners where Commissioners are not available or where it is in the interests of representivity.
3. The BCCSA is not, in any manner, accountable or answerable to the NAB.
4. Only the BCCSA may, at an AGM or SGM, amend its Constitution and it does so independently from the NAB.
5. Only the BCCSA may dissolve the BCCSA and the NAB has no right to do so or withdraw its funding of reasonable expenses.
6. The BCCSA appoints its own Registrar. The Chair appoints other staff members, including the accountant. The Chair is also in the sole control of the Office of the BCCSA.
7. All salaries or fees are paid by the BCCSA, which has its own bank account and appoints its auditor annually.
8. The BCCSA may impose sanctions, which include fines. It has an internal appeal procedure.
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What a Knockout!
Just 2:59 into the sixth round, boxer Juan Manuel Marquez knocked out Manny Pacquiao on Saturday night, closing out the competitors' fourth official meeting.
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Dortha Ruth Ickes, 91, died Oct. 25 in Custar. She was retired from banquet services at the University.
Barbara Ketner, 72, died Oct. 30 in Bowling Green. She worked at BGSU for 35 years, first as a secretary for basketball coach Harold Anderson and later in the payroll department, retiring in 1993.
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I think you're wise to let this go through to the next service/ oil change. I would get them to properly document the paperwork to show the quantity & type of oil they used as well as the quantity of DEF.
Originally Posted by firstbimmer
You have a very good and valid point. Actually, I initially went to my salesman to complain about the situation since he was on vacation when the whole thing went down. He was very clear that next time this happens, or if I have a problem with service on this issue at the time of the oil change, that I should come see him and he will make sure all is right. He agreed that the 6000 miles didn't seem appropriate and that this should be addressed and under warranty.
The conversation continued and he knows I almost bought an M3 when I bought the 335d, but didn't because of my commute. I mentioned my upcoming transfer and we got into the M3 discussion. I was just saying maybe that all this happened for a reason to nudge me in to maybe making a change. Believe me, I'm not going to just blindly upgrade if I got a bad deal. It is already a bad enough financial decision to trade in a car in the second year of ownership, if they tried to fleece me, the deal wouldn't happen. I didn't get to a point of being able to afford an M3 by just throwing money away or rewarding bad service.
No matter what, I'll still have the 335d come the next oil change at my rate of mileage so we'll see how service treats me when the time comes. I won't hesitate to get my sales advisor involved, plus he's probably more likely to come in heavy if there's a potential sale riding on it
One other consideration... if you are thinking about an M3....I recall reading somewhere that M3s require more maintenance than the everyday 335. If this dealership is falling short on maintaining your D how are they going to do with an M3?
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David & Gwen Coffin
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I would like opinions on fitting CIC's on various losses, specifically the
maximum sloping loss that can be fit, and maximum precipitous high frequency
losses (i.e., normal through 2K or 3K and dropping) that can be fit.
I have routinely been fitting patients with moderately severe to severe
gradually sloping losses. Is anyone _routinely_ fitting worse losses? What
is the cutoff for the high frequency losses? I have tried a few that are
normal through 2K and drop to 60dB or so at 3K with about a 50% success rate.
Realizing that a good impression is crucial, I would also like opinions
about manufacturers . Does anyone feel that one company does better than
others? I have tried 3 different companies, Argosy, Lori, and Telix. Each
seems to have their own quirks, but Lori has been the most reliable and
Thanks for your input.
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NES-ZIONA, Israel, Oct. 3, 2012 /PRNewswire/ -- PROLOR Biotech, Inc. (NYSE MKT: PBTH) today announced that it has received a notice of allowance from the U.S. Patent and Trademark Office (USPTO) for a new patent application covering the company's long-acting CTP-enhanced human growth hormone (hGH-CTP). Upon issuance, the new patent would provide PROLOR with additional intellectual property protection covering methods for the induction of growth in growth hormone deficient patients.
This new patent is the fourth hGH-CTP patent that has been allowed by the USPTO. The expanding hGH-CTP patent estate is expected to provide additional protection for PROLOR's hGH-CTP compound, in addition to a number of CTP platform patents that have already issued.
"Upon issuance, this new hGH-CTP patent will be a significant addition to PROLOR's intellectual property portfolio," said Shai Novik, president of PROLOR. "We have several other CTP-related patent applications that are currently pending, and we believe that this growing patent portfolio will reinforce our existing patent estate for our CTP-enhanced compounds in development, as well as for our CTP platform technology generally."
This new U.S. patent is expected to issue in the next few months.
Previously reported data from the company's Phase II trial of hGH-CTP in growth hormone deficient adults showed that a single weekly injection has the potential to reduce the required dosing frequency of human growth hormone from the current standard of one injection per day to a single weekly injection. In this trial, hGH-CTP demonstrated a good safety and tolerability profile. A Phase II trial in growth hormone deficient children is currently enrolling patients.
About PROLOR's CTP Technology
PROLOR's CTP technology is based on the naturally-occurring human carboxyl terminal peptide (CTP). When attached to a therapeutic protein, CTP significantly extends the length of time the protein remains active in the body. Clinical and preclinical studies have shown that the CTP technology appears to be safe and effective in extending the duration of all proteins tested to date. CTP's safety and efficacy have also been validated by the marketing approval of Merck's long-acting CTP-enhanced fertility drug Elonva® (FSH-CTP). A single Elonva injection replaces a regimen of seven daily FSH injections. Results from a Phase II trial of PROLOR's CTP-modified human growth hormone (hGH-CTP) in growth hormone deficient adults show that a single weekly injection of hGH-CTP has the potential to replace seven consecutive daily injections of currently marketed human growth hormone. CTP was identified by researchers at Washington University in St. Louis and is exclusively licensed to PROLOR for all proteins and peptides, except for four endocrine proteins that are licensed to Merck. CTP is manufactured using standard industrial biotech processes.
PROLOR Biotech, Inc. is a clinical stage biopharmaceutical company applying unique technologies, including patented CTP technology, primarily to develop longer-acting proprietary versions of already approved therapeutic proteins that currently generate billions of dollars in annual global sales. The CTP technology is applicable to virtually all proteins. PROLOR is currently developing a long-acting version of human growth hormone, which successfully completed a Phase II clinical trial. It also is developing long-acting versions of Factor VIIa and Factor IX for hemophilia and a GLP-1/Glucagon dual receptor agonist peptide for diabetes and obesity, all of which are in preclinical development. For more information, visit http://www.prolor-biotech.com.
Safe Harbor Statement: This press release contains forward-looking statements, which may be identified by words such as "expects," "plans," "projects," "will," "may," "anticipates," "believes," "should," "would", "intends," "estimates," "suggests," "has the potential to" and other words of similar meaning, including statements regarding the results of current clinical studies and preclinical experiments and the effectiveness of PROLOR's long-acting protein programs, which are made pursuant to the safe harbor provisions of the Private Securities Litigation Reform Act of 1995. Investors are cautioned that forward-looking statements involve risks and uncertainties that may affect PROLOR's business and prospects, including the risks that PROLOR may not succeed in generating any revenues or developing any commercial products, including any long-acting versions of human growth hormone, erythropoietin, interferon beta, GLP-1 and other products; that the long-acting products in development may fail, may not achieve the expected results or effectiveness and/or may not generate data that would support the approval or marketing of these products for the indications being studied or for other indications; that ongoing studies may not continue to show substantial or any activity; that the actual dollar amount of any grants from Israel's Office of the Chief Scientist is uncertain and is subject to policy changes of the Israeli government, and that such grants may be insufficient to assist with product development; and other risks and uncertainties that may cause results to differ materially from those set forth in the forward-looking statements. The results of clinical trials in humans may produce results that differ significantly from the results of clinical and other trials in animals. The results of early-stage trials may differ significantly from the results of more developed, later-stage trials. The development of any products using the CTP platform technology could also be affected by a number of other factors, including unexpected safety, efficacy or manufacturing issues, additional time requirements for data analyses and decision making, the impact of pharmaceutical industry regulation, the impact of competitive products and pricing and the impact of patents and other proprietary rights held by competitors and other third parties. In addition to the risk factors described above, investors should consider the economic, competitive, governmental, technological and other factors discussed in PROLOR's filings with the Securities and Exchange Commission. The forward-looking statements contained in this press release speak only as of the date the statements were made, and we do not undertake any obligation to update forward-looking statements, except as required under applicable law.
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Rather than let money problems interfere with your studies, the Student Funding Office administers a scheme designed to help lighten the finanicial burden some students may experience.
Access to Learning Fund (ALF)
The Access to Learning Fund (ALF) is the most prominent of the financial support schemes administered by the Student Funding Office. ALF is a discretionary grant, funded by the government, to help students in financial difficulty whilst they are studying at university. ALF grants do not need to be paid back and can range from £100 to £3,500. This fund is intended to assist with general living and course-related costs, not tuition fees or 'lifestyle choices'.
ALF is only open to UK students who have taken up all statutory support available to them or, in the case of postgraduate students, are able to demonstrate that they have made adequate realistic provision for their studies before embarking on their course.
You can only apply for ALF support once you have arrived at the University and are registered as a student. All applications are means-tested, therefore some applications will be unsuccessful.
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LILLIAN RUSSELL'S DIED!" Jill made the dramatic announcement and waited for her sister to comment. When Julie continued to wash the dishes and drop them in the rinse pan, she said, "All the wonderful women in the world are dying. First Nellie Bly and now Lillian."
"Where did you hear that?"
"Ruby May told me last night. Lillian was so beautiful, so elegant. All the men loved her." Jill lifted her arms in a circling motion. "I'm going to be just like her."
"You'll have to grow some," Julie said dryly. "She had quite a bosom. They were out to here." Julie held her cupped, wet hands out six inches from her slender body.
"And a tiny waist."
"Helped by a tight corset."
"She was beautiful--"
"And old enough to be your grandma. Dry the dishes while you're grieving for her."
Jill took a plate from the hot rinse water, dried it and set it on the table.
"The men who gave her diamonds must have liked a woman with a big bust. Diamonds show up best lying on soft white flesh."
"Soft white flesh? Glory be! Well, don't worry about it. You've got a good start for a fifteen-year-old." Julie slid a greasy skillet into the sudsy water.
"Jack said they were like half an orange stuck up there."
Julie looked at her sister and frowned. "Why would Jack be making a remark about his sister's breasts?"
"I asked him."
"Justine Jill Jones!"
Jill rolled her eyes on hearing her full name. "I hate it when you call me that."
"It's the name Mama gave you."
"I'll never know why she added Justine to it."
"She didn't. She added Jill."
"Kids at school laugh about our names. They say if Mama'd had more kids, she'd probably have named them Jericho and Jerusalem."
"And what did you say to that?"
"Nothing. Kathy Jacobs said she should've named two of us Jenny and Jackass." Jill giggled.
Julie's shoulders shook with silent laughter. It didn't bother her that all their names started with a J. She rather liked it.
"I never asked Jack about my bosom," Jill said after she placed a stack of clean plates on the shelf. "I asked him if the boys at school thought I was pretty."
"And what did he say?"
"He said... oh, he was so mean!" Jill flipped her long blond curls over her shoulder and tilted her freckled nose. "He said only the dumb ones thought I was pretty. He said my hair was like straw, my nose was so turned up he was surprised I didn't drown when it rained."
Julie laughed in spite of the serious look on her sister's face.
"Never ask your brothers if you're pretty. If you were a raving beauty they'd not admit it."
"That's when he said my breasts were the size of a half an orange."
"It's a pact made between brothers to tell their sisters that they are ugly as a mud fence even if they are as pretty as Mary Pickford."
"I hate brothers!"
"Mable Normand is pretty."
"She's in Molly O at the Palace. I want to see it, but Papa said picture shows cost almost as much as a pair of stockings and I needed stockings more." Jill sighed heavily.
"Julie, Julie, guess what?" Ten-year-old Jason came into the kitchen, letting the screen door slam behind him. He always shouted when he was excited--and at times when he wasn't. Since their mother's death four years before, Julie had become the person her brothers and sisters came to with news, hurts and needs.
Jason stumbled onto the back porch, yanked open the screen door and bounded into the kitchen, shutting the door just in time to keep the shaggy brown dog, his constant companion, from following him. Besides being small for his age, Jason had been born with a deformed foot that made it necessary for him to wear a special shoe.
U.S. ebook sales up in 2012, but rate of growth is slowing(May 16 2013) In 2012, trade book sales (i.e. non academic book sales) rose 6.9%, to $15.049 billion, and e-book sales continued to grow, although the rate of growth... | <urn:uuid:adeea8f6-0e53-4f16-ae3e-f8f6ee676f51> | CC-MAIN-2013-20 | http://www.bookbrowse.com/excerpts/index.cfm/book_number/822/the-edge-of-town | 2013-05-18T06:50:32Z | s3://commoncrawl/crawl-data/CC-MAIN-2013-20/segments/1368696381249/warc/CC-MAIN-20130516092621-00000-ip-10-60-113-184.ec2.internal.warc.gz | en | 0.987339 | 967 |
Description: Over the last thirty years, scholars have begun to explore the implications of an ancient Jewish and Christian tradition that referred to the “Minor Prophets” as “the Twelve,” “the Twelve Prophets,” or the “Book of the Twelve.” Scholarly work on the Book of the Twelve in the last quarter century has focused on two issues in particular:
1) Developing models regarding how the Book of the Twelve came to be recorded on a single scroll, and
2) Isolating unifying elements that transcend the individual writings and take on new significance when the Book of the Twelve becomes a single collection rather than twelve distinct writings.
Dr. Nogalski’s comprehensive and accessible commentary offers an overview of the ancient traditions concerning the Book of the Twelve that lay the foundation for understanding these recent developments.
Subjects: Bible, Hebrew Bible / Old Testament, Prophetic Literature, Book of the Twelve, Literature, Micah, Nahum, Habakkuk, Zephaniah, Haggai, Zechariah, Malachi
Review by Lena-Sofia Tiemeyer
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Citation: Lena-Sofia Tiemeyer, review of James D. Nogalski, The Book of the Twelve, Review of Biblical Literature [http://www.bookreviews.org] (2012).
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Since hitting the market a quarter-century ago, cholesterol-lowering statin drugs have become one of the most popularly prescribed medications. Giant trials have shown that the medications not only effectively lower “bad” LDL cholesterol in those with elevated levels but more importantly, lower the risk of having a heart attack or dying from heart disease or a stroke.
Where researchers once worried that statins might increase the risk of cancer, they’ve now found that statin users have a 15 percent lower risk of dying from cancer as well as other causes. In a study published Wednesday in the New England Journal of Medicine, Danish researchers examined medical records of all cancer patients in their country diagnosed between 1995 and 2007 and found that those who took statins had a smaller likelihood of dying over a 2.5 year period than those who didn’t.
But as potent as statins are to lower high cholesterol and reduce inflammation associated with heart disease and cancer, they don’t work for everyone. About 30 to 50 percent of patients with high cholesterol can’t get their LDL levels down to a healthful level with statins, according to Dr. Robert Giugliano, a cardiologist at Brigham and Women’s Hospital.
Some patients can’t tolerate them because they have liver side effects or severe muscle aches, while others find that their cholesterol levels drop on the maximum dose of the most potent statin but not enough to get them to the recommended level needed to lower their heart risk.
Giugliano and others have been conducting preliminary trials with a new class of experimental drugs that could be taken along with statins or on their own to lower cholesterol levels. Several of the early results indicate that the medications -- injections given weekly, biweekly, or monthly -- have no (as of yet) significant side effects and work well to lower LDL levels.
Amgen, Pfizer, and Sanofi/Regeneron have all developed compounds -- in a class of drugs called monoclonal antibodies -- that bind to a protein called PCSK9 circulating in the blood, which normally attaches to LDL receptors on liver cells and prevents these receptors from removing LDL cholesterol from the blood. Without PCSK9, liver cells soak up LDL cholesterol and effectively remove excess amounts from circulating in the bloodstream.
In a manufacturer-sponsored trial published online this week in the journal Lancet, Giugliano and his colleagues administered various doses of Amgen’s monoclonal antibody injections or placebo injections to 631 patients with high cholesterol levels who were already taking statins. Those who had the injections every two weeks for nearly three months experienced a 42 to 66 percent reduction in LDL cholesterol levels, compared to the placebo, with a greatest effect occuring with the highest dose; those who had the injections monthly had a 42 to 50 percent drop in their LDL levels compared to the placebo.
Other researchers found similar results when using the Amgen injections in those who weren’t taking any statins. Sanofi/Regeneron and Pfizer have also had similar success with their PCSK9-targeting injections in early clinical trials that were presented at the American Heart Association’s annual meeting this week in Los Angeles.
What’s needed now, Giugliano said, are much larger studies involving thousands of patients who are given these injections for at least five years to study their long term safety and efficacy. Sanofi and Regeneron Pharmaceuticals announced this week that they’re beginning a Phase 3 trial involving 18,000 heart disease patients, which is necessary to receive approval from the US Food and Drug Administration. Amgen will start its own Phase 3 trial next year.
The manufacturers haven’t yet determined the cost of each injection, which even if administered on a monthly basis, will no doubt be pricier than daily statin pills--most of which are now available as generics.
“These new monoclonal antibodies present a huge opportunity for many new patients to reach their cholesterol goals,” Giugliano added, “but first we have to see if there are any real safety problems.” | <urn:uuid:32695bc7-b039-477d-aac5-66838a54647f> | CC-MAIN-2013-20 | http://www.bostonglobe.com/lifestyle/health-wellness/2012/11/08/new-drugs-lower-cholesterol-horizon/MPkppCSbhQw3otUhEwEThL/story.html | 2013-05-18T06:31:12Z | s3://commoncrawl/crawl-data/CC-MAIN-2013-20/segments/1368696381249/warc/CC-MAIN-20130516092621-00000-ip-10-60-113-184.ec2.internal.warc.gz | en | 0.953377 | 850 |
Software version number no guarantee of security
Prediction ... 2.3 billion computers, tablets and smartphones will be using Android software in 2016. Photo: Reuters
The message is simple: don't trust Android version numbers in vulnerability assessments.
Enterprises that rely on Android version numbers to determine if bring-your-own mobile devices are patched and secure for enterprise use should think again, according to new research.
Usually, when a new version of Android or any software is released, it is expected that flaws detected in older versions are fixed. For example, devices running Android 4.04 should not contain flaws identified in 4.03.
But according to Jon Oberheide, chief technology officer at US-based enterprise security and authentication company Duo Security, that's not happening with Android, and old bugs are being carried forward, hiding behind what should be secured versions.
The company earlier this year released XRay.io, a free Android vulnerability scanner, which looks for software vulnerabilities in the core of Android in a similar way the Metasploit project works for desktops and servers. A probe of 26,000 Android devices across 140 countries revealed more than 60 per cent were vulnerable to just eight publicly available attack tools. In cross-referencing his data with Google data, Oberheide estimates about 50 per cent of devices were vulnerable to these same eight attack tools.
The flaws were often unique to a particular version of Android, such as a remote wiping vulnerability discovered last month, which affected a range of devices and versions of Android.
A security-conscious enterprise could manage the risk by excluding known vulnerable versions from accessing corporate networks, but this method was unreliable, Oberheide said.
"We came across a lot of examples where there was a later version number present on the device. Say, it was 2.3.7, yet there were still un-patched vulnerabilities ... from 2.3.4 and so on."
Oberheide had not discovered why old flaws were being carried forward, but said a likely candidate was the Android patch distribution model. Software patches are implemented by Google, shared with device manufactures but only released to end-devices by network carriers. He said one explanation could be device makers were distributing new "patched" versions of the operating system without actually including the fixes Google had implemented.
The underlying problem is the sheer number of device models hindering incentives for the Android ecosystem to deliver patches. According to a recent study by OpenSignal, an Android-based network signal monitoring service, there are some 4000 Android devices on the market. Carriers often struggle to release updates due to the cost of testing them against each configurations. Testing is needed to ensure the patches don't break the devices and create a technical support nightmare for the carriers.
Android reached the market only in 2008, but is now the dominant smartphone platform, controlling two-thirds of that global market. It has taken the No. 2 spot in the fast-growing tablet computer market.
So should Android be simply banned from the enterprise? No, said Oberheide, but organisations should weed out vulnerable devices.
"If you are using Duo or some other two-factor authentication product that offers the ability to use mobile devices as an authenticator, we can display that risk to you, we can allow you to define group policy," says Oberheide. | <urn:uuid:ba06eddd-2da1-403b-918e-dc05fe19500a> | CC-MAIN-2013-20 | http://www.brisbanetimes.com.au/it-pro/security-it/software-version-number-no-guarantee-of-security-20121026-289m4.html | 2013-05-18T08:08:41Z | s3://commoncrawl/crawl-data/CC-MAIN-2013-20/segments/1368696381249/warc/CC-MAIN-20130516092621-00000-ip-10-60-113-184.ec2.internal.warc.gz | en | 0.952113 | 683 |
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A supply of single-use diapers that will last from birth to potty training will cost between $2500-$3000. A stash of cloth diapers that can be used for the same 2 1/2 year period can cost as little as $300. Phenomenal savings, even after you factor in an extra 2-3 loads of laundry per week. Use those diapers for more than one baby and WOW! even bigger savings.
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While Aston Martin is preparing the current generation DBS for its last hurray before it reveals a replacement model, aftermarket specialist Anderson Germany has crafted a new styling and performance package named after the twenty-first film in the James Bond film series, Casino Royale.
Based on the DBS Platinum Grey Edition, the British sports car combines a matte grey paint job for the body with shiny gray accents for the window borders, tailgate surround and the grille.
Other details worth mentioning are the new 21-inch wheels in a shiny black finish, the carbon fiber trim kit and the special black and bronze logos.
For the interior, Anderson Germany prepared a carbon fiber accent package that covers the air vents, cup holders, door handles, ashtrays, door sills, steering wheel, handbrake handle and the center console, while the rest of the interior is dressed in black leather and alcantara with bronze stitching.
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According to LaFayette Police Department:
Priscilla Ann Oliver of Ga. 193 was arrested Oct. 20 as she fled the residence where she stabbed a man that she had an “estranged relationship” with, according to police captain Stacey Meeks.
The situation began as a verbal dispute over a dog and escalated to a physical confrontation at 9:30 p.m. Oliver got a steak knife from the kitchen and stabbed the man once in his back and once in the abdomen.
After the stabbing she called 911, then fled the scene, a residence on Glenn Street in LaFayette.
Oliver was arrested on West Main Street, only a short distance from the residence, because she drove off in a vehicle that had two flat tires, according to Meeks.
“Due to the (condition) of the car she was traveling at a low rate of speed. Officers were able to catch up with her quickly,” Meeks said.
The victim remains in stable condition at Erlanger Hospital in Chattanooga.
Oliver has been charged with two felony counts of aggravated assault, plus possession of the knife while committing a crime.
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February is National Teen Dating Violence Awareness & Prevention Month
Did you know that in a recent national survey, 1 in 10 teens reported being hit or physically hurt on purpose by a boyfriend or girlfriend at least once in the 12 months prior to the survey? And nearly half of all teens in relationships say they know friends who have been verbally abused.
Before violence starts, a teen may experience controlling behavior and demands. One partner may tell another what to wear and who to hang out with. Over time, the unhealthy behavior may become violent. That's why adults need to talk to teens now about the importance of developing healthy, respectful relationships.
Dating violence can have a negative effect on health throughout life. Victims of teen dating violence are more likely to do poorly in school, and report binge drinking, suicide attempts, physical fighting, and current sexual activity. Teens who perpetrate dating violence may also carry these patterns of violence into future relationships.
CDC's Division of Violence Prevention is leading the initiative, Dating Matters™: Strategies to Promote Healthy Teen Relationships. Dating Matters™ aims to promote respectful, nonviolent dating relationships among youth in high-risk, urban communities. The comprehensive approach will build upon current evidence-based practice and experience to reduce the burden of teen dating violence in these communities. The initiative will support communities as they implement prevention strategies in schools, with families, and in neighborhoods.
Over the next five years, Dating Matters™ will be implemented in middle schools and neighborhoods across Chicago, Illinois, Baltimore, Maryland, Ft. Lauderdale, Florida, and Oakland, California. For more information about each of these communities, view the Dating Matters™ grantee profiles.
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February 14, 2010
Whitney Elizabeth Lusby and Tyler Patrick Wilemon were married Sept. 12, 2009, at the First Presbyterian Church in Aberdeen. The bride is the daughter of Mr. and Mrs. David Floyd Lusby. She is the granddaughter of the late Mr. and Mrs. Claude Edwin Tharp Sr., and Mr. and Mrs. Floyd Lusby, all of Aberdeen. The bride was escorted by her father and given in marriage by her parents. She wore a designer gown of café French tulle over satin, featuring a strapless bodice and modified mermaid skirt trimmed with exclusive vintage lace accented with Swarovski beading, and a chapel length train. She wore a finger tip veil. Her jewelry was from her two grandmothers. Her bouquet was of hand-tied mixed orange roses. Courtney Lusby Hill, sister of the bride, of Aberdeen, served a matron of honor. She wore a chocolate brown gown that featured a halter neckline. She carried a hand-tied mixed bouquet of sunflowers, red-seeded eucalyptus and berries. Mary Lindley Tharp of Jackson served as flower girl. She wore a tangerine shantung gown tied with a chocolate brown sash. The groom is the son of Mr. and Mrs. Bob Ludwig of Amory, and Mr. and Mrs. Billy Wilemon Jr. of Starkville. He is the grandson of Mrs. Grace Easter and the late Junior Easter, and Mr. and Mrs. Bill Wilemon Sr., all of Aberdeen. Billy Wilemon Jr., father of the groom, served as best man. Mike Wilemon, brother of the groom, of Bainbridge, Ga.; Brent Wilemon, brother of the groom, of Aberdeen; and Shawn Hill of Aberdeen served as attendants. Cooper Hill, nephew of the bride, served as ringbearer. After a trip to Key West and the Bahamas, the couple resides in Tupelo, where the bride is a psychometrist with the Mississippi Department of Rehabilitation Services and the groom is a territory manager for Pennington Seed.
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NOAA scientists agree the risks are high, but say Hansen overstates what science can really say for sure
Jim Hansen at the University of Colorado’s World Affairs Conference (Photo: Tom Yulsman)
Speaking to a packed auditorium at the University of Colorado’s World Affairs Conference on Thursday, NASA climatologist James Hansen found a friendly audience for his argument that we face a planetary emergency thanks to global warming.
Despite the fact that the temperature rise has so far been relatively modest, “we do have a crisis,” he said.
With his characteristic under-stated manner, Hansen made a compelling case. But after speaking with two NOAA scientists today, I think Hansen put himself in a familiar position: out on a scientific limb. And after sifting through my many pages of notes from two days of immersion in climate issues, I’m as convinced as ever that journalists must be exceedingly careful not to overstate what we know for sure and what is still up for scientific debate.
Crawling out on the limb, Hansen argued that global warming has already caused the levels of water in Lake Powell and Lake Mead — the two giant reservoirs on the Colorado River than insure water supplies for tens of millions of Westerners — to fall to 50 percent of capacity. The reservoirs “probably will not be full again unless we decrease CO2 in the atmosphere,” he asserted.
Hansen is arguing that simply reducing our emissions and stabilizing CO2 at about 450 parts per million, as many scientists argue is necessary, is not nearly good enough. We must reduce the concentration from today’s 387 ppm to below 35o ppm.
“We have already passed into the dangerous zone,” Hansen said. If we don’t reduce CO2 in the atmosphere, “we would be sending the planet toward an ice free state. We would have a chaotic journey to get there, but we would be creating a very different planet, and chaos for our children.” Hansen’s argument (see a paper on the subject here) is based on paleoclimate data which show that the last time atmospheric CO2 concentrations were this high, the Earth was ice free, and sea level was far higher than it is today.
“I agree with the sense of urgency,” said Peter Tans, a carbon cycle expert at the National Oceanic and Atmospheric Administration here in Boulder, in a meeting with our Ted Scripps Fellows in Environmental Journalism. “But I don’t agree with a lot of the specifics. I don’t agree with Jim Hansen’s naming of 350 ppm as a tipping point. Actually we may have already gone too far, except we just don’t know.”
A key factor, Tans said, is timing. “If it takes a million years for the ice caps to disappear, no problem. The issue is how fast? Nobody can give that answer.”
Martin Hoerling, a NOAA meteorologist who is working on ways to better determine the links between climate change and regional impacts, such as drought in the West, pointed out that the paleoclimate data Hansen bases his assertions on are coarse. They do not record year-to-year events, just big changes that took place over very long time periods. So that data give no indication just how long it takes to de-glaciate Antarctica and Greenland.
Hoerling also took issue with Hansen’s assertions about lakes Powell and Mead. While it is true that “the West has had the most radical change in temperature in the U.S.,” there is no evidence yet that this is a cause of increasing drought, he said.
Flows in the Colorado River have been averaging about 12 million acre feet each year, yet we are consuming 14 million acre feet. “Where are we getting the extra from? Well, we’re tapping into our 401K plan,” he said. That would be the two giant reservoirs, and that’s why their water levels have been declining.
“Why is there less flow in the river?” Hoerling said. “Low precipitation — not every year, but in many recent years, the snow pack has been lower.” And here’s his almost counter-intuitive point: science shows that the reduced precipitation “is due to natural climate variability . . . We see little indication that the warming trend is affecting the precipitation.”
In my conversation with Tans and Hoerling today, I saw a tension between what they believe and what they think they can demonstrate scientifically.
“I like to frame the issue differently,” Tans said. “Sure, we canot predict what the climate is going to look like in a couple of dcades. There are feedbacks in the system we don’t understand. In fact, we don’t even know all the feedbacks . . . To pick all this apart is extremely difficult — until things really happen. So I’m pessimistic.”
There is, Tans said, “a finite risk of catastrophic climate change. Maybe it is 1 in 6, or maybe 1 in 20 or 1 in 3. Yet if we had a risk like that of being hit by an asteroid, we’d know what to do. But the problem here is that we are the asteroid.”
Tans argues that whether or not we can pin down the degree of risk we are now facing, one thing is obvious: “We have a society based on ever increasing consumption and economic expectations. Three percent growth forever is considered ideal. But of course it’s a disaster.”
Hoerling says we are living like the Easter Islanders, who were faced with collapse from over consumption of resources but didn’t see it coming. Like them, he says, we are living in denial.
“I think we are in that type of risk,” Tans said. “But is that moving people? It moves me. But I was already convinced in 1972.” | <urn:uuid:f9441dcc-dc2a-4077-aac8-1b49394182e2> | CC-MAIN-2013-20 | http://www.cejournal.net/?p=1590 | 2013-05-18T05:23:48Z | s3://commoncrawl/crawl-data/CC-MAIN-2013-20/segments/1368696381249/warc/CC-MAIN-20130516092621-00000-ip-10-60-113-184.ec2.internal.warc.gz | en | 0.964949 | 1,273 |
Here’s an idea: post a sign identifying the current owner of a foreclosed
property, to let neighbors know who’s responsible for the high weeds and
That’s the notion of Town Council Member Jim Ton, R-1st, who suggested at
Tuesday’s meeting that a little shame can go a long way. “I like the idea of
making it public who owns the property,” he said.
But as Building Commissioner Dave Novak and Fire Chief Mike Orlich noted,
the problem still remains: chasing the paper trails back to the owner, which
in many cases is a bank and in many of those cases an out-of-state bank.
Novak told the council that he’s working to expedite the identification
process, while Orlich added that citations have been issued.
Yet citations don’t always exert enough pressure on the banks to get results
and in those cases the town is trying to mow yards itself. To recoup its
costs, Town Attorney Chuck Lukmann said, the town will file liens on the
properties but that process itself takes time.
The message to the neighbors of a vacant property: be patient, the town is
working on it.
In other business, the council voted unanimously to authorize Police Chief
Dave Cincoski to apply for a grant which could reimburse the CPD up to 50
percent of the cost of replacing six bullet-proof vests about to reach their
expiration date and be taken out of service.
It’s a no-match grant, Cincoski said, and if awarded the CPD could save
between $3,300 and $3,500 in its purchase of six new vests.
Meanwhile, the council also voted unanimously to adopt a resolution
re-establishing the Cumulative Capital Development Fund at the same
property-tax rate: $0.04 per $100 of assessed valuation.
That vote followed a public hearing at which no one spoke in favor of the
resolution and no one in opposition to it.
The CCD is used exclusively for the purchase of emergency vehicles.
Last year the council raised the CCD’s dedicated tax rate from $0.0017 to
$0.04. Fifteen years ago or thereabouts, the CCD’s rate was all of 12 cents
per $100 but the state reduced that rate.
Park Superintendent Bruce Mathias reported that the tennis courts at
Chesterton Park are being painted this week.
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Cinema Sewer: The Adults Only Guide to History's Sickest and Sexiest Movies!
The best of the first twelve, long-out-of-print issues of the celebrated underground smash magazine Cinema Sewer. A mind-melting compilation of gonzo writing, illustration and comics about the most insane, sexy, awkward, cheesy, hilarious, upsetting and jaw-dropping movies in the history of film, Cinema Sewer joyously celebrates the sleaziest aspects of the moviegoing experience, while delving deep into bizarre cinematic history. Bougie's distinctive writing style has made him famous among a loyal following of cult film fans. Includes: ?Graphic illustrations by Bougie and associates? Bizarre film trivia? 100 pages of never-before-seen interviews, rants, comics? Rare genre film ads? DIY 'zine aesthetic. Price: $15.25
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Reflections on a controversial essay and its legacy.
How the justices should decide.
An audacious, and wrong, argument about the American Revolution.
The short story for May
A review of Cass Sunstein's Simpler
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A review of Robert H. Bork's Saving Justice
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Responses to Robert S. Wistrich's "The Changing Face of Anti-Semitism"
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My favourite book is Catch 22…and thinking about it, I haven’t read it for a while so I must dig it out. I remember reading it for the first time when I was about 16 and laughing out loud in my bedroom so much that my sister had to come down the corridor at home and check that I wasn’t having some kind of mental episode.
As a child, Roald Dahl was always my favourite. I still feel the same mix of fascination and fear when I glance over a copy of The Witches. Quentin Blake’s illustrations are fantastic.
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COLORADO SPRINGS -- Colorado athletic director Mike Bohn promised nearly a year ago to deliver a plan for "transformational" facilities upgrades in and around Folsom Field and Wednesday he and chancellor Phil DiStefano finally delivered.
In a briefing presented to the athletics subcommittee (six of nine members) of the CU Board of Regents at its meeting here on the CU-Colorado Springs campus, the two men outlined a plan for approximately $170 million in upgrades at Folsom Field but did not provide a specific timetable for when the projects will begin.
However, according to a release from the school, CU is challenging donors to raise $50 million toward the project and will begin construction when that figure is met by donations.
No tuition, student fees or state funding would be used to fund the project. It will be paid for entirely through private fundraising and money the athletic department earns through television contracts and future revenue from the Pac-12 Network.
The plan includes both renovations to current facilities and new construction, including a new student-athlete academic center, a new permanent indoor practice facility and eventually a new soccer and lacrosse field.
According to the university's release, the first phase of the project would be building the academic center beneath the east side club level of Folsom Field and also taking precautions against shifting ground beneath the north side of the east stands.
The second phase would tackle the expansion of the Dal Ward Athletic Center. The third phase would be building the permanent indoor practice facility adjacent to the outdoor practice fields already located north of Boulder Creek. Redevelopment of the west side stands at Folsom Field is part of the final phase of upgrades.
"I think it's a very reasonable plan of $170 million," DiStefano said. "Other places might be talking about $200 or $300 million. I think for Boulder and for our fundraising patterns that we've had and our history of fundraising this is very realistic. And I would much rather deal with realistic projects than pie-in-the-sky projects."
Regents seemed to respond favorably to the presentation. The board won't have to approve anything until a program plan is completed, which the school hopes to do by December. It's likely the project will be brought before the board in stages as funding becomes available.
"It is my sense that the board, without exception, would like to see us push the envelope on this as much as we can," regent Jim Geddes (R) Sedalia said.
Coach Mike MacIntyre also participated in the briefing telling the board it is important to move forward as soon as possible. MacIntyre referred the board to competitors around the Pac-12 Conference who have either recently completed major facilities upgrades or are in the process of doing so. He specifically mentioned USC, California, Arizona and Washington.
"Our facility is good, but to do what we want to do consistently and what you all want to do, we've got to do something," MacIntyre said. "We're going to give everything we have on the field and we're going to improve and we're going to keep getting better, but to do what we want to do ... all of this has to start moving forward and to be frank with you, it has to start moving forward pretty fast."
Both the practice facility and new soccer/lacrosse field projects would be built near the current football practice fields down the hill and across Boulder Creek from Folsom Field.
In the past year, during the process of evaluating its options, CU learned there isn't enough space to locate the practice facility immediately next to Folsom Field in the northeast corner as originally planned.
Locating the practice facility and the soccer/lacrosse field near the current football practice fields will require moving all or part of the family housing units located in that area now. DiStefano said officials have talked in the past about moving family housing, though it hasn't been included in the 10-year master plan at this point.
"I think now we're going to look at maybe speeding up that process," DiStefano said. "...We're working together on this to make sure we're not displacing our graduate students and married-family housing students, and at the same time trying to move on a trajectory that will get us the indoor practice facility, especially if we start raising more than $50 million, which is my goal."
CU's plans also include expanding the Dal Ward Center on the east and west sides and enclosing the north end of the stadium, which would add to the capacity of the stadium, which currently seats 53,613.
Improvements to the Coors Events Center are not included in the $170 million plan outlined Wednesday, but are also planned. Some of the highlights of construction planned at the events center include: expanding the concourse, adding more premium seating areas, building a new weight room, new visitors' locker room and new locker rooms for officials.
The school has already acknowledged it will likely pay for a substantial portion of the project by borrowing against future revenue expected from the growth of the Pac-12 Network.
MacIntyre is expected to name Boulder native Toby Neinas CU special teams coach as early as Thursday. Neinas, the son of Boulder-based consultant and former interim Big 12 Conference commissioner Chuck Neinas coached the secondary at Montana State in 2012 and has coached at five Football Bowl Subdivision schools since 1995. MacIntyre confirmed to the Board of Regents on Wednesday that he has hired the final member of his staff, but he was unable to talk publicly about the new assistant until the hiring process is complete.
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'Climber' coffee table by Frans Schrofer for Leolux
A Dutch designer Frans Schrofer has collaborated with Leolux on this series of coffee tables called ‘Climber’. The collection encompasses three simple tables which will be available in April in three different heights and variety of finishes such as lacquered MDF, oiled or stained solid oak and American walnut. (more…)
Henning Koppel's 'BUBI' pendant light, relaunched by Danish lighting manufacturer Pandul
Danish lighting manufacturer Pandul has brought a striking piece of classic Scandinavian design back to life by relaunching Henning Koppel’s ‘BUBI’ pendant light. Designed in 1972 and produced by Louis Poulsen until 1980, the reedition by Pandul sees the original brass component of the lamp substituted with chrome, whose brilliance acknowledges the designer’s renowned body of work in silver for, among others Georg Jensen. Koppel’s ‘Silver Fish Platter’ from 1954 is perhaps his best-known work in this metal. | <urn:uuid:74811cf8-e7f9-4f0d-b898-77fd127c75e0> | CC-MAIN-2013-20 | http://www.dailytonic.com/tag/chrome/ | 2013-05-18T05:30:46Z | s3://commoncrawl/crawl-data/CC-MAIN-2013-20/segments/1368696381249/warc/CC-MAIN-20130516092621-00000-ip-10-60-113-184.ec2.internal.warc.gz | en | 0.917817 | 231 |
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In 1987, Dean Mead attorney Michael Minton returned to his hometown of Fort Pierce to open an office in what is known as Florida’s Treasure Coast region. He and managing shareholder, Joel Zwemer, worked to expand the Fort Pierce office where our attorneys represent a diverse client base from Palm Beach County to Indian River County and conducts business under the name Dean, Mead, Minton & Zwemer.
Dean Mead featured in Florida Trend magazine’s Treasure Coast special section.
Dean, Mead, Minton & Zwemer and the firm’s Fort Pierce office are featured in the February 2012 edition of Florida Trend magazine in the Treasure Coast Community Portrait. To see the cover story, and our firm’s “Commitment to Community” ad, please click here.
Treasure Coast Connections
The Treasure Coast derives its name from the many treasure ships that wrecked off the coast during the 17th and 18th centuries. Spanning from Indian River County south to St. Lucie County and Martin County, the region is shielded from the Atlantic Ocean by narrow sandbars and barrier islands that protect the shallow lagoons, rivers, and bays.
Today, Fort Pierce, Port St. Lucie and the Treasure Coast are home to some of Florida’s most pristine beaches and recreational fishing communities. The region offers a relaxed atmosphere for residents and tourists alike.
In recent years, the communities of the Treasure Coast have made efforts to rebrand the region as the “Research Coast” in order to spotlight the area’s world-class research institutions such as the Harbor Branch Oceanographic Institute, the University of Florida Institute of Food and Agricultural Sciences, and Florida Atlantic University. The region has also become home to a growing number of biotechnology and life research companies including the Oregon Health & Science University Vaccine & Gene Therapy Institute and Torrey Pines Institute for Molecular Studies in Port St. Lucie.
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In November of 2010, we were honored to be selected as the 2010 Outstanding Corporate Philanthropists of the Year from the Association of Fundraising Professionals Treasure Coast chapter. Dean Mead has donated more than $1.3 million of financial support to education, children’s services and other philanthropy for the region over the past two decades.
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Firm President, Michael Minton, is a strong champion for education. He has served on the boards of several educational institutions, including the Indian River State College Foundation Board of Trustees and the University of Florida College of Law Center Association Board of Trustees, and as Co-chair of the University of Central Florida College of Medicine Charter Class Scholarship Fundraising Committee. Following his example, key shareholders within Dean Mead are making a difference.
Shareholder Lee Dobbins served as President of the St. Lucie County Chamber of Commerce, as a founding member of the Board of Directors of the St. Lucie County Economic Development Council, and served on the Board of Directors of the St. Lucie County Education Foundation and the St. Lucie County Council on Aging.
Shareholder Dennis Corrick served as Chairman of the United Way of St. Lucie County in 2008 and helped the organization exceed its campaign goal by raising $1.88 million for United Way agencies in St. Lucie County. He’s also been instrumental as a member of the Board of Directors of the St. Lucie County Chamber of Commerce since 2005, and was appointed by Governor Crist to the Children’s Services Council of St. Lucie County.
Shareholder Joel Zwemer has been helping to steer growth in St. Lucie County as a member of the Board of Directors of the Economic Development Council since 2009, and as a member of the Treasure Coast Builders Association. In addition, he has served as a member of the Board of Directors for the Education Foundation of Indian River County
Shareholder Brad Gould served as Chairman of the Board of Directors of Big Brothers Big Sisters of St. Lucie, Indian River and Okeechobee Counties and has been a director since 2005. In addition, he currently serves as Chairman of the Parent Academy of St. Lucie County.
For 16 consecutive years, Dean Mead has partnered with Indian River State College to support the “President’s Challenge to SOAR/Take Stock in Children” scholarship program. This beneficial program works to break the poverty cycle by giving at-risk eighth and ninth graders in Indian River, St. Lucie, Martin and Okeechobee Counties the promise of a full scholarship at a Florida college or university if they stay out of trouble, maintain a decent GPA and graduate from high school. To date, more than 800 scholarships have been awarded.
Dean Mead played a key role in the restoration and reopening of the 1920s-era Sunrise Theatre in historic downtown Fort Pierce. We donated over $100,000 while also helping to raise the remaining funds needed to revitalize the theatre as a place all can enjoy. In November 2010, the Sunrise Theatre was the location of the firm’s 30th anniversary celebration with more than 100 clients and local business leaders in attendance. Through hard work and community support, the Sunrise Theatre has once again become a focal point for economic development and entertainment in downtown Fort Pierce. | <urn:uuid:3380f88b-ca86-4289-898f-79336232e29d> | CC-MAIN-2013-20 | http://www.deanmead.com/offices/fort-pierce/ | 2013-05-18T05:53:51Z | s3://commoncrawl/crawl-data/CC-MAIN-2013-20/segments/1368696381249/warc/CC-MAIN-20130516092621-00000-ip-10-60-113-184.ec2.internal.warc.gz | en | 0.952485 | 1,261 |
As an integral part of Dedicated Micros Video Management System, the DV-IP Decoder is a viewing and control client for multiple video images transmitted from the range of NetVu Connected products.
Using an attached control solution such as the Pick-A-Point Video Management Solution, the DV-IP Decoder can view and control cameras attached to DVRs and servers from across the system, regardless of geography – displaying the selected cameras on its monitor wall. A range of DV-IP Decoder models are available with composite and composite/HD outputs, allowing you to build fl exible video walls using any combination of analog or digital feeds.
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The Deloitte Consumer Tracker: Q2 2012
We are pleased to present the fourth quarterly edition of The Deloitte Consumer Tracker Q2 2012, a forward-looking economic update, focusing on consumer spending attitudes and behaviours based on our proprietary consumer survey and predictive analysis.
Our Tracker provides you with detailed insight into the patterns of consumer spending on a category-by-category basis and looks into the underlying drivers of spending behaviour.
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- Although still weak, consumer sentiment shows tentative signs of improvement. Consumer sentiment in disposable income remains negative but less so than at any time in the last year.
- Consumers plan to continue reducing debt and rebuilding balance sheets.
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viniketa wrote:Signing the petition to Karzai doesn't hurt, but I doubt it will help.
And the Blessed One addressed the bhikkhus, saying: "Behold now, bhikkhus, I exhort you: All compounded things are subject to vanish. Strive with earnestness!"
This was the last word of the Tathagata.
And when the Blessed One had passed away, simultaneously with his Parinibbana, Brahma Sahampati spoke this stanza:
All must depart — all beings that have life
Must shed their compound forms. Yea, even one,
A Master such as he, a peerless being,
Powerful in wisdom, the Enlightened One, has passed away.
And when the Blessed One had passed away, simultaneously with his Parinibbana, Sakka, king of the gods, spoke this stanza:
Transient are all compounded things,
Subject to arise and vanish;
Having come into existence they pass away;
Good is the peace when they forever cease.
so we should just give up
If you bothered reading the article or watching the video you would have learnt that it is a Chinese mining colossus which is going to destroy the Budddhist archaeological site so they can dig up a huge hunk of copper, not the Afghans.lobster wrote:Send a thank you to the Afghans for this wonderful teaching on impermanence
gregkavarnos wrote:If you bothered reading the article or watching the video you would have learnt that it is a Chinese mining colossus which is going to destroy the Budddhist archaeological site so they can dig up a huge hunk of copper, not the Afghans.lobster wrote:Send a thank you to the Afghans for this wonderful teaching on impermanence
Good morning everyone! I have GREAT news to report.
We are now 80% funded!!! VERY EXCITING!
Thank you for all the wonderful support!
As I am preparing to head out to Mes Aynak next month, I am hearing that the Thai government, Smithsonian and US State Dept. (with help and video from this campaign) has been making inroads with the Afghan government to protect Mes Aynak.
So let's keep it up!
Now is the time to RAMP UP international support for Mes Aynak. We really need an international organization like UNESCO to get involved to preserve Mes Aynak for future generations.
But the odds are still against us due to $100 billion dollars of copper directly under the Buddhist city, the volatile Taliban presence in Logar, and the 2014 US troop pullout that could leave Afghanistan in chaos.
So we still have a lot of work to do!
Please continue to help spread the word and support the Kickstarter campaign.
We are $6,000 away from our goal of $30,000!
http://www.kickstarter.com/projects/472 ... -mes-aynak
Since the campaign has been SO SUCCESSFUL, we are looking at potential STRETCH GOALS.
If we reach $40,000, we want to include a Thai section of the documentary that interviews ALL the key supporters in Thailand that have fought so hard for Mes Aynak.
So let's try to keep the campaign going above and beyond the Kickstarter goal!
Again, thanks for reading and for all the AMAZING support!
JohnRammy wrote:Which is even worse. The Chinese government (which controls the mining operation) hates Buddhism.
Zen Dude wrote:Good news - They have postponed demolishing the site for another 6 months, to enable further archaeological excavation. With more media coverage and exposure, perhaps it is not impossible for it to be saved.
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Private Integrated Services Networks
- Addressing (PTNA-2)
2nd edition (June 1997)
This Ecma Standard defines the requirements for the handling
of network addresses for the identification of entities which
use or provide telecommunication services offered by Private Integrated
Services Networks (PISNs). This Standard covers numbering, including
the requirements for the support of a Private Numbering Plan,
the addressing of network service access points for open systems
interconnection (OSI NSAP addressing), and the support of subaddressing.
This Standard is applicable to Private Integrated Services Network
Exchanges with broad-band and narrow-band capabilities (PINX)
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Solutions Expand in Europe and Latin America with Orange M2M communications
WASHINGTON, D.C. (Dec. 3, 2012) – At the 2012 mHealth Summit in Washington, D.C., Toronto-based remote health provider Ideal Life announced that it has chosen Orange Business Services to expand its remote monitoring solutions for wellness and chronic conditions to an international audience. Orange will provide seamless machine to machine (M2M) wireless connectivity for Ideal Life in Europe and Latin America, promoting comprehensive remote care to the home and preventing non-critical re-admissions of patients to hospitals.
“As an established and comprehensive provider of global M2M solutions, Orange Business Services provides us with the perfect platform to deliver our remote health monitoring services to a greater number of caregivers and insurance providers from around the world,” said Harvey Goldberg, CEO of Ideal Life. “For healthcare enterprises in these regions, our expanded services will lead to better regulatory compliance, improve their migration to electronic medical records (EMR) and reduce costs. For patients, we can offer a better quality of life with comprehensive and reliable care to more homes, thereby reducing hospital stays and providing around the clock, non-obtrusive preventive care.”
Ideal Life will be offering new medical hubs containing Orange SIM cards. These hubs will reside in the home, collecting data from a variety of health-related devices, from blood pressure monitors to glucose, oxygen saturation and heart rate meters. Once collected, this information is transmitted in real time over the Orange network to physicians who can access it using a variety of devices such as tablets, smartphones and traditional PCs. The application can also format the data into a standardized EMR, improving compliance with recent legislation requiring such records.
“Technology is the gateway for transforming healthcare and improving quality of life,” said Thierry Zylberberg, executive vice president, Orange Healthcare, a division dedicated to developing e-health solutions. “Combining our expertise in e-health with our global M2M solutions, Orange is well placed to deliver advanced m-Health services to our customers like Ideal Life, and in turn to their patients, health professionals, caregivers and insurance carriers, with the goal in part to offer patients and their families peace of mind.”
About Orange Business Services
Orange Business Services, the France Telecom-Orange branch dedicated to B2B services, is a leading global integrator of communications solutions for multinational corporations. With the world’s largest, seamless network for voice and data, Orange Business Services reaches 220 countries and territories with local support in 166. Offering a comprehensive package of communication services covering cloud computing, enterprise mobility, M2M, security, unified communications, videoconferencing, and broadband, Orange Business Services delivers a best-in-class customer experience across a global landscape. Thousands of enterprise customers and 1.4 million mobile data users rely on an Orange Business Services international platform for communicating and conducting business. Orange Business Services was awarded three of the telecom industry’s highest accolades at the annual World Communication Awards 2012 – Best Global Operator, Best Cloud Service and the User’s Choice Award. Orange Business Services is a five-time winner of Best Global Operator. Learn more at www.orange-business.com
France Telecom-Orange is one of the world’s leading telecommunications operators with sales of 45.3 billion euros for 2011 and has 170,000 employees worldwide at June 30, 2012. Orange is the Group’s single brand for Internet, television and mobile services in the majority of countries where the company operates. France Telecom (NYSE:FTE) is listed on Euronext Paris (compartment A) and on the New York Stock Exchange.
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Orange Healthcare, new Orange technology for healthcare services
For more than a decade, Orange has gained substantial experience in providing integrated and customer centered technology solutions for health professionals, health providers and patients. This has been done through close collaboration with health professionals and providers – ensuring that the technology brings improved quality and efficiency for all. In 2007 Orange signaled its commitment to the health sector with the creation of Orange Healthcare, its new Health Division.
On the strength of its position as an integrated services operator, Orange has technological know-how to be able to develop solutions which are not only simple, reliable and effective for medical and personal care services, but which also contribute to bringing innovation to patients and an enhanced experience in managing their health and illnesses.
New technologies will play an essential role in the modernization and improvement of health care, in the hospital, local clinics and surgeries and in the home. Orange can provide the technology to meet the needs of all stakeholders in the health sector – professionals, managers and IT administrators, patients and public and private health providers. Orange has unrivalled access to the resources of the France Telecom group with leading edge R&D as well as unparalleled commitment to wellness, e-health and improving efficiency and return on e-health technology investment.
For more information visit: www.orange.com/healthcare
About Ideal Life
Ideal Life, the industry leader in remote health management solutions, has created an innovative platform that addresses many of today’s most challenging and costly healthcare issues. Guided by a medical advisory panel of experts, the Ideal Life program makes proactive prevention more realistic than ever as it is instrumental in gauging health issues before chronic conditions manifest themselves into acute events. For people managing chronic conditions such as congestive heart failure, hypertension, diabetes, asthma or obesity, Ideal Life provides relevant, real-time, reliable and actionable data from a person either at home or while on the go. It delivers interactive, personalized communication to incorporate feedback to the knowledge base, allowing individuals to become more engaged and active participants in their own health.
The easy-to-use Ideal Life system utilizes digital, wireless, secure two-way communication, allowing for a more personalized and cost-effective wellness experience. The FDA-cleared and HIPAA-compliant products have, for example, been proven to reduce congestive heart failure hospital admissions by 57 percent, demonstrating they can significantly reduce healthcare costs. For more information, visit www.ideallifeonline.com. | <urn:uuid:64a3051b-4470-451f-a37f-bfec54fdeb22> | CC-MAIN-2013-20 | http://www.emrandehrnews.com/tag/2012-mhealth-summit/ | 2013-05-18T07:19:51Z | s3://commoncrawl/crawl-data/CC-MAIN-2013-20/segments/1368696381249/warc/CC-MAIN-20130516092621-00000-ip-10-60-113-184.ec2.internal.warc.gz | en | 0.925316 | 1,294 |
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I'm Tymmerie Thorne - a woman who is finding myself and finding wonder in Second Life®.
Friday, March 7, 2008
In the details...
OMG. Satan moved next door. It is true. And he built a monstrosity of a castle there, complete with a blood filled hot tub, fleet of bats, rainstorm and a completely paved yard (because Satan does not have time for yard work, don't you know...).Yes - the new neighbor actually told Jerremy that he was, in fact, Satan.
Jeebus - don't you think that someone claiming to be Beelzebub would move to a place with a tougher sounding name than Wonderful Land? And what? Satan doesn't want Mainland? All the Prince of Darkness could afford was a medium sized parcel here? It isn't even a corner lot. You cannot tell me there is not a sim somewhere where his blood soaked castle would fit in better and his neighbors would welcome his bats. To tell the truth, I would not care that Evil Incarnate lived here if he had better taste and his home fit in better with the rest of the gardens and lovely buildings in our sim.
So I put up some rainbows and a butterfly emitter. I did a quick sign of the cross over the water that courses through our sim and...A-La Peanut Butter Sandwiches! It's Holy Water! (Hey, I grew up Catholic - I know how these things work.)
And he paid $30k for the parcel next to mine. Satan got screwed. I got my same-sized parcel for $15kL.And I am going to tell him that. It should make him feel really good...heh! | <urn:uuid:07d1478c-2467-4d39-a655-8ffe1b4288cd> | CC-MAIN-2013-20 | http://www.girlwonderspeaks.com/2008/03/in-details.html | 2013-05-18T05:24:47Z | s3://commoncrawl/crawl-data/CC-MAIN-2013-20/segments/1368696381249/warc/CC-MAIN-20130516092621-00000-ip-10-60-113-184.ec2.internal.warc.gz | en | 0.98167 | 358 |
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For me, the baking bug tends to hit in the morning, especially on my days off. Many a morning I've been found in the kitchen, stirring together a mixture, before even having coffee or changing out of my pajamas. It also hits when my eye hits an ingredient on the shelf that's been long ignored, and I feel this strange compulsion to USE IT UP RIGHT THIS VERY MINUTE!
Today, this means currants. I bought dried currants two months ago to make Irish Soda Bread for St. Patty's (which was fantastic!), and have been stuck with half a box of (carefully-stored and therefore easily-ignored) currants ever since. My brain matched these currants with my recent cardamom obsession (after the cardomom coffee cake I had at Table Local Market), and these delectable scones were born.
Orange-Cardamom Currant Scones
- 1 3/4 cups unbleached all-purpose flour
- 2 1/2 teaspoons baking powder
- 3 tablespoons unrefined cane sugar
- 1/2 teaspoon ground cardamom
- 1/4 teaspoon salt
- 6 tablespoons unsalted butter, very cold, cut into small cubes
- 1 teaspoon orange zest
- 1/3 cup dried currants
- 1 egg
- 8 tablespoons heavy cream (more as needed)
Whisk together the flour, baking powder, sugar, cardamom, and salt. Add the butter and work it into the flour mixture with your fingers or a pastry blender, until it resembles a coarse meal. (I cheated and used a food processor.) Stir in zest and currants.
In a small bowl, beat the egg and heavy cream together with a fork. Add to the flour mixture and mix with your hands until the dough just comes together. (If the dough seems dry add the extra tablespoon of cream.) Turn the dough out onto a lightly floured work surface. Pat or roll the dough to a 3/4 inch thickness. Cut into squares, then halve into triangles, or cut out rounds with a circular biscuit cutter.
OPTIONAL: Use a pastry brush to clean out the small bowl of egg and heavy cream, and use it to brush the top of the unbaked scones. Sprinkle with sugar.
Bake for 15-17 minutes, until golden brown. Try not to eat them all at once.
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[54% Off] 2 Bars of Premium Organic Handmade Soap (100gm each) with Golden Organza Scrub Bag + Free Nationwide Delivery for RM29 instead of RM63.30 (Only RM14.50 per bar)
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A Humane Society of the United States (HSUS) follow-up investigation has found that Petland stores are still supporting puppy mills, including some of the largest and most notorious in the country. The documented problems of puppy mills include: overbreeding, inbreeding, minimal veterinary care, poor quality of food and shelter, lack of human socialization, overcrowded cages and the killing of unwanted animals. The new intensive study analyzed thousands of pages of public interstate health documents in multiple states, revealing that almost every Petland store in the country is buying from puppy mills, either directly from commercial breeding facilities or indirectly through middleman brokers.
The new investigation of Petland’s puppy sources also traced shipments of puppies from out of state brokers to more than 95 percent of Petland’s domestic stores, revealing once again that the chain is supporting puppy mills. More than 80 stores were linked directly to the Hunte Corporation alone, a massive Missouri broker that resells about 80,000 puppies a year and has documented Animal Welfare Act violations.
If you want to know where your local Petland stores get their puppies, find out here.
To learn more about HSUS’s investigation and what you can do, visit HSUS Stop Puppy Mills.
To stop Petland from profiting on the suffering of dogs, don’t shop there. | <urn:uuid:6aef051e-358e-4627-984b-99e36606c648> | CC-MAIN-2013-20 | http://www.happydogsplay.com/blog/?tag=puppy-mills | 2013-05-18T05:58:15Z | s3://commoncrawl/crawl-data/CC-MAIN-2013-20/segments/1368696381249/warc/CC-MAIN-20130516092621-00000-ip-10-60-113-184.ec2.internal.warc.gz | en | 0.941589 | 276 |
|Facility Type:||Full Service Restaurant|
|Inspection date:||March 27, 2012|
|Number of critical violations:||3|
|Number of non-critical violations:||3|
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|2-201.11(A)(1)-(5)|| Critical Repeat Upon discussion with the person-in-charge, one or more of the elements of an effective employee health policy is either missing or incomplete. A complete employee health policy is required to be in place at the food establishment. At the time of this inspection, the Health Department provided and reviewed handouts and resource information to be used by the person-in-charge to develop a complete employee health policy.|
A complete employee health policy must have the following elements: 1) Employee training on foodborne illness, particularly symptoms of illness and prevention of the Big Five illnesses (see "The Big Five Foodborne Illnesses Information Sheet" handout); and 2) Documentation that employees have been instructed of their responsibility to report symptoms of, diagnosis of or exposure to foodborne illness to management (see "Employee Health Agreement" handout); and 3) A management plan to restrict or exclude employees, as applicable, who have symptoms, diagnosis or exposure to foodborne illness (see "Employee Illness Decision Guide for PIC/CFM" handout). The information provided at the time of this inspection will help you develop and implement this policy. Handouts are available in the following languages: English, Chinese (traditional), Korean, Spanish, Thai, and Vietnamese. If you have any questions about your employee health policy, please contact your area inspector or contact the Health Department at 703-246-2444, TTY 703-591-6435.
|2-301.15||Corrected During Inspection Two food employees were observed cleaning their hands in three compartment sink.|
ALL food employees shall wash their hands in ONLY a designated handsink.
|3-301.11(B)||Corrected During Inspection Critical A food employee was observed handling the following ready-to-eat food using their bare hands: bean sprouts and spring rolls.|
Except when washing fruits and vegetables, food employees may not contact ready-to-eat foods using their bare hands. Employees shall use suitable utensils such as deli tissue, spatulas, tongs, or clean disposable gloves to handle all ready-to-eat foods.
|5-205.11(A)||Corrected During Inspection Repeat The handwashing facility located in the kitchen is blocked by a rolling cart with meat slicer, preventing access by employees for easy handwashing.|
A handwashing sink shall be maintained so that it is accessible at all times for employee use.
|3-501.16(A)(2)(a)||Corrected During Inspection Critical The following food item(s) were observed cold holding at improper temperatures using a calibrated food temperature measuring device: bean sprout (56F) - moved to cooler. Manager will ice bean sprouts to keep temperature at or under 41F.|
Potentially hazardous foods (time/temperature control for safety food) shall be held cold at a temperature of 41°F or below unless the permit holder is using "time as public health control" as specified under 3-501.19 to limit bacteria growth.
|3-305.11(A)(3)|| Food stored on the floor and/or food stored less than 6 inches off the floor: in the freezer. |
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Australia's “exceptional” heatwave has produced record-breaking temperatures, with at least six of the first seven days of 2013 among the top 20 hottest days in the past century.
The extreme January heat has prompted the Bureau of Meteorology to issue a special climate statement, with further updates planned as the scorching temperatures continue.
Data for Monday is still to be fully analysed by the weather bureau, but it may be the hottest of the series and could generate a record average maximum beyond the 40.17 degrees reached on December 21, 1972.
Such a result would make it six days in a row when the national average has been above 39 degrees; tomorrow is expected to make it seven. Prior to this series, the longest run of 39 degrees or more was four days, in 1973.
“This event is ongoing with significant records likely to be set,” the bureau statement said. “A particular feature of this heatwave event has been the exceptional spatial extent of high temperatures.”
The final four months of 2012 were the hottest on record for Australia and January is making an early run at adding to the sequence of especially hot weather.
“Australia-wide, and for individual states, we are currently well above average by many degrees,” said Aaron Coutts-Smith, the bureau's NSW manager for climate services.
Sydney is set to cop its first major blast of the searing heat that has grilled much of Australia for the past week, with 43 degrees forecast.
Today's 40-degree prediction for Perth is one sign that any relief for the bulk of central and southern Australia from the current sweltering temperatures will be shortlived.
“We are seeing that re-intensification” of the heat, said Dr Coutts-Smith.
Melbourne, which is expecting 31 degrees today will feel chilly on Wednesday with a maximum of just 20 degrees before the mercury starts climbing back to 37 degrees on Friday, the bureau predicts.
The data for national averages shows the maximum reached 39.2 on January 2, 39.6 on January 3, 39.3 on January 4, 39.3 on January 5 and 39.6 on January 6.
Interestingly, none of the states has broken individual maximum highs, at least in the data until January 6, underscoring how large in size the overall weather pattern is. The weather bureau's manager for climate monitoring, Karl Braganza on Monday described the event as a "dome of heat" over the continent.
NSW, which is likely to endure extreme temperatures today, has to exceed 44.1 degrees on average to beat the record set on January 14, 1939. This year, the hottest day was on January 5 when maximums averaged 41.1 degrees, with Hay Airport hitting 47.9 degrees, according to data up until January 6.
For Victoria, the hottest day on record was 44.5 degrees on Black Saturday, February 7, 2009, when bushfires left 173 people dead. In the current spate of heat, the hottest day was January 4 when temperatures across the state averaged 41.2 degrees.
Up until January 6, Yarrawonga had posted the hottest temperature in the state at 45.7 degrees on January 5, while Portland's 42.1 on the previous day was a new daily maximum for that location, the bureau said.
Nationwide, the hottest single temperature recorded during the heat - up to January 6 - has been the 48.6 degrees reached at Red Rocks Point in WA on Jauary 3. That's about 2 degrees below the 50.7 degrees all-time record set on January 2, 1960. | <urn:uuid:23156681-3a82-4757-a6c9-f172faa662dd> | CC-MAIN-2013-20 | http://www.hillsnews.com.au/story/1222764/exceptional-heatwave-challenges-records/?cs=2452 | 2013-05-18T05:11:39Z | s3://commoncrawl/crawl-data/CC-MAIN-2013-20/segments/1368696381249/warc/CC-MAIN-20130516092621-00000-ip-10-60-113-184.ec2.internal.warc.gz | en | 0.962593 | 751 |
- Category: Tuberculosis (TB)
- Published on Tuesday, 11 September 2012 00:00
- Written by Liz Highleyman
More than 40% of people with multidrug-resistant pulmonary tuberculosis in a multi-country study were found to be resistant to at least 1 second-line anti-tuberculosis agent and 7% had extensively drug-resistant disease, researchers reported in the August 29, 2012, advance online edition of The Lancet.
Multidrug-resistant tuberculosis (MDR-TB), or Mycobacterium tuberculosis resistant to at least the 2 standard first-line drugs isoniazid and rifampicin, is now widespread throughout the world. Extensively drug-resistant tuberculosis (XDR-TB), referring to bacteria resistant to the usual second-line agents as well, is a growing concern.
Resistance typically develops when people do not compete a full course of therapy, which can last 6 months. Treatment options are limited for people with highly resistant TB, and the cost is much higher, duration of therapy is longer, and side effects are more problematic.
Tracy Dalton, PhD, from the U.S. Centers for Disease Control and Prevention (CDC) and fellow investigators with the Global Preserving Effective TB Treatment Study (PETTS) team prospectively analyzed resistance to second-line anti-TB treatment in 8 countries.
Between January 2005 and December 2008, the researchers enrolled a total of 1278 adult patients in Estonia, Latvia, Peru, the Philippines, Russia, South Africa, South Korea, and Thailand. The CDC centrally tested sputum samples for susceptibility to 11 first-line and second-line agents.
Participants had confirmed pulmonary MDR-TB and were about to start second-line treatment. About two-thirds were men and the median age was around 30 years; 13% were HIV positive.
- 44% of participants showed resistance to at least 1 second-line TB drug, with rates ranging from 33% in Thailand to 62% in Latvia.
- 20% had evidence of resistant to at least 1 injectable second-line agent, with rates starting at 2% in the Philippines and again topping off at 47% in Latvia.
- 13% were resistant to at least 1 drug in the fluoroquinolone class.
- Overall, 7% of patients had evidence of XDR-TB -- defined as resistance to both an injectable agent and a fluoroquinolone -- with rates ranging from just under 1% in the Philippines to 15% in South Korea.
- Previous treatment with second-line drugs was the strongest risk factor for developing resistance to these drugs, and this increased the risk of XDR-TB by more than 4-fold.
- Fluoroquinolone-resistant TB and XDR-TB were more common among women compared with men.
- Other factors consistently associated with resistance to second-line TB drugs included unemployment, incarceration, heavy alcohol use, and smoking; other risk factors varied across countries.
Rates of XDR-TB seen in this study were higher that previously thought, the study authors noted. Prevalence in South Korea and Russia (15% and 11%, respectively), for example, was twice as high as the global World Health Organization (WHO) estimate of about 5%.
"Previous treatment with second-line drugs is a strong, consistent risk factor for resistance to these drugs, including XDR tuberculosis," they concluded. "Representative drug-susceptibility results could guide in-country policies for laboratory capacity and diagnostic strategies."
"Information remains insufficient to give a clear view of the worldwide distribution and true magnitude of XDR tuberculosis," Sven Hoffner from the Swedish Institute for Communicable Diseases wrote in an accompanying editorial. "Updated information on MDR tuberculosis and investigation of the trends are urgently needed, especially since the true scale of the burden of MDR and XDR tuberculosis might be underestimated and seem to be rapidly increasing."
T Dalton, P Cegielski, S Akksilp, L Asencios, et al. Prevalenceof and risk factors for resistance to second-line drugs in people with multidrug-resistant tuberculosis in eight countries: a prospective cohort study. The Lancet. August 29, 2012 (Epub ahead of print).
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Both actresses were romantically linked to Justin Timberlake during the beginning of 2007, although Johansson, who appeared in the pop star's steamy "What Goes Around, Comes Around" video, has recently denied she dated the singer.
But if the rumors were true, Timberlake was dating the two top women in the world, according to men's magazine Stuff.
The top 10 are:
1. Jessica Biel
3. Jessica Alba
4. Eva Longoria
5. Katharine Mcphee
7. Olivia Wilde
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This Sept. 15 image purports to show smoke rising over Camp Bastion in Helmand Province, Afghanistan, after what a Taliban media unit said was an attack at the base. / SITE Intel Group via AP
The Taliban terrorists who pulled off one of the most damaging attacks of the Afghanistan War were probably trained for the plot in Pakistan, illustrating how the U.S. ally threatens to jeopardize a successful withdrawal, military experts say.
The attack on the heavily defended Camp Bastion in Helmand province destroyed six U.S. aircraft and killed two Marines on Sept. 14. One of the attackers survived and has revealed that he received some of his training for the plot in Pakistan, a senior U.S. military official told USA TODAY. The official requested anonymity because of the sensitivity of the issue of U.S.-Pakistani relations.
The Pentagon has long complained to the Pakistani government and military about sanctuaries in Pakistan that put Taliban leaders outside the reach of the U.S. military. The latest intelligence on the Camp Bastion attack shows little has changed, experts say.
"Unless the Pakistanis do more about those insurgents crossing the border into Afghanistan, you're going to have a critical security challenge," said Mark Jacobson, a former NATO official in Afghanistan at the German Marshall Fund. "It makes the situation post-2014 more precarious than it would be otherwise."
Most U.S. combat forces will withdraw from Afghanistan at the end of 2014. U.S. and Afghan officials are negotiating over a residual force that would stay behind for counterterrorism missions and support for Afghan security forces.
Coalition and Afghan forces have weakened the Taliban throughout southern Afghanistan, and the group's financing and leadership inside Afghanistan have been devastated, according to NATO. However, many Taliban leaders remain safely in Pakistan, and fighters regularly slip cross the border to launch attacks.
The attack on Camp Bastion displayed an uncommon amount of planning and training, said Marine Maj. Gen. Charles "Mark" Gurganus, commander of Regional Command Southwest.
"It was months in the planning," Gurganus said. "This was not a bunch of local yahoos who were just thrown together and said, 'Hey let's go attack Camp Bastion.'"
Camp Bastion is part of a sprawling coalition complex in Helmand province; its security is the responsibility of British forces. On a moonless night, the insurgents used seven bolt cutters to open a hole in a perimeter fence.
Dressed in U.S. military uniforms, they split into three five-man teams and used a dry streambed to creep toward the flight line in sight of guard towers, armed with assault rifles, rocket-propelled grenades and machine guns.
They were able to keep up a nearly four-hour firefight, destroying six Marine AV-8B Harrier jets, damaging two others and three refueling stations, sending flames high into the air. A coalition counterattack killed all but one of the insurgents.
The jets cost $24 million apiece, and total damage to the base was estimated at $200 million, according to Arizona Sen. John McCain, ranking Republican on the Armed Services Committee. He called the attack "perhaps the most brazen and least-reported attack this year."
The dead insurgents had spray-paint residue on their faces, suggesting they used the spray as an inhalant to deaden their senses and get them high for a suicide mission.
"They came here prepared to die," Gurganus said.
More than 100 servicemembers responded to the attack, using numerous weapons at the base, including a machine gun taken from the rear of an Osprey, a tilt-rotor aircraft. Helicopter gunships fired hundreds of rounds at insurgents from the air.
One of the Marines killed in the attack was the Harrier squadron commander, Lt. Col. Christopher Raible. He helped lead the counterattack, charging at the insurgents with only his sidearm, McCain said.
Copyright 2013 USATODAY.com
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Meet an Indian model who none of you may have heard of. Yet, this dusky Indian beauty has posed topless in innumerable photo shoots. Her name is Kristna Saika and she gained fame after posing for one of the top photographers of our time, Yatin Dandekar. Check out Kristna's raunchy topless photos and drool over this hot babe.
Vidya Balan, the new bride of Bollywood has stunned her fans by going bold again. After her bold role as Silk Smitha in Dirty Picture, the Oh La La girl has turned into a bold seductress at a recent photo shoot. Vidya has recently tied the knot with CEO of UTV Motion Pictures, Siddharth Roy Kapur.
Over the months we have watched Sonam Kapoor step out in different styles and outfits that have most of the times left us in awe and jealous although some of her outfits left us puzzled but lets not go into that today.We have put together a Jan to Dec gallery for you all Sonam Kapoor fans to drool and admire. Sonam Kapoor dazzles in some of her gowns and even manages to look cool in casual wear.
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CentOS 4.6 Server Setup: LAMP, Email, DNS, FTP, ISPConfig (a.k.a. The Perfect Server) - Page 2
On to the network settings. The default setting here is to configure the network interfaces with DHCP, but we are installing a server, so static IP addresses are not a bad idea... Click on the Edit button at the top right. In the window that pops up uncheck Configure using DHCP and give your network card a static IP address (in this tutorial I'm using the IP address 192.168.0.100 for demonstration purposes):
Set the hostname manually, e.g. server1.example.com, and enter a gateway (e.g. 192.168.0.1) and up to three DNS servers (e.g. 22.214.171.124, 126.96.36.199, and 188.8.131.52):
I want to install ISPConfig at the end of this tutorial which comes with its own firewall. That's why I disable the default CentOS firewall now. Of course, you are free to leave it on and configure it to your needs (but then you shouldn't use any other firewall later on as it will most probably interfere with the CentOS firewall).
SELinux is a security extension of CentOS that should provide extended security. In my opinion you don't need it to configure a secure system, and it usually causes more problems than advantages (think of it after you have done a week of trouble-shooting because some service wasn't working as expected, and then you find out that everything was ok, only SELinux was causing the problem). Therefore I disable it (this is a must if you want to install ISPConfig later on).
Click on Proceed:
Select the default language for the system and add further languages, if necessary:
Choose your time zone:
Give root a password:
Now we are to select the package groups we want to install. Select Editors, Text Based Internet, Server Configuration Tools, Web Server, Mail Server, DNS Name Server, FTP Server, MySQL Database, Development Tools, Administration Tools and System Tools and click on Next:
Click on Next to start the installation:
The hard drive is being partitioned:
The installation begins. This will take a few minutes:
Finally, the installation is complete, and you can remove your CD from the computer and reboot it:
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Unionists lodge complaint over flag
Belfast City Council could face legal action over its decision to restrict the flying of the Union flag, the Democratic Unionist Party said today.
The change to only hoisting the flag on designated days like royal birthdays was endorsed by nationalists and the cross-community Alliance Party at the start of December.
Since then dozens of police officers have been injured by missile-throwing loyalists as ugly scenes erupted in Belfast and other parts of Northern Ireland. The DUP opposed the change and has now lodged an equality complaint with the Council. John Hussey, DUP secretary on Belfast City Council, said the party has submitted a formal complaint to the council that it is in breach of its equality scheme.
“We believe that, both in its processes and in its decision over the removal of the Union flag, Belfast City Council made multiple breaches of its published and legally required equality scheme,” he said.
“This is the first step towards a formal complaint to the Equality Commission and ultimately possible legal action.”
Until last month, the flag flew every day of the year from the City Hall. Disputes over flags and symbols have been a regular occurrence in Northern Ireland and the shift to flying the flag on 18 designated days a year has sparked some of the most sustained unrest since the signing of the Good Friday Agreement in 1998.
A council spokeswoman confirmed it has received a formal complaint from the DUP about an alleged breach of its equality scheme.
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Together, Laura, Mary, and Carrie play games, find mischief, and explore the wild as they travel and settle throughout the Midwest. Join in the fun with everyone's favorite pioneer sisters!
Laura Ingalls Wilder was born in 1867 in the log cabin described in Little House in the Big Woods. She and her family traveled by covered wagon across the Midwest. Later, Laura and her husband, Almanzo Wilder, made their own covered-wagon trip with their daughter, Rose, to Mansfield, Missouri. There, believing in the importance of knowing where you began in order to appreciate how far you've come, Laura wrote about her childhood growing up on the American frontier. For millions of readers Laura lives on forever as the little pioneer girl in the beloved Little House books. | <urn:uuid:e50b286f-7f88-4455-8888-afc6e6dd949c> | CC-MAIN-2013-20 | http://www.indiebound.org/book/9780064420464 | 2013-05-18T05:21:39Z | s3://commoncrawl/crawl-data/CC-MAIN-2013-20/segments/1368696381249/warc/CC-MAIN-20130516092621-00000-ip-10-60-113-184.ec2.internal.warc.gz | en | 0.970573 | 166 |
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|Scientific Name:||Phoebastria albatrus|
|Species Authority:||(Pallas, 1769)|
|Red List Category & Criteria:||Vulnerable D2 ver 3.1|
|Reviewer/s:||Butchart, S. & Taylor, J.|
|Contributor/s:||Balogh, G., Chan, S., Hasegawa, H., Peet, N., Rivera, K. & Suryan, R.|
This species is listed as Vulnerable because, although conservation efforts have resulted in a steady population increase, it still has a very small breeding range, limited to Torishima and Minami-kojima (Senkaku Islands), rendering it susceptible to stochastic events and human impacts.
Phoebastria albatrus breeds on Torishima (Japan), and Minami-kojima (Senkaku Islands), that are claimed jointly by Japan, mainland China and Chinese Taipei. Historically there are believed to have been at least nine colonies south of Japan and in the East China Sea (Piatt et al. 2006). Its marine range covers most of the northern Pacific Ocean, but it occurs in highest densities in areas of upwelling along shelf waters of the Pacific Rim, particularly along the coasts of Japan, eastern Russia, the Aleutians and Alaska (Piatt et al. 2006, Suryan et al. 2007). During breeding (December - May) it is found in highest densities around Japan. Satellite tracking has indicated that during the post-breeding period, females spend more time offshore of Japan and Russia, while males and juveniles spend greater time around the Aleutian Islands, Bering Sea and off the coast of North America (Suryan et al. 2007). Juveniles have been shown to travel twice the distances per day and spend more time within continental shelf habitat than adult birds (Suryan et al. 2008). The species declined dramatically during the 19th and 20th centuries owing to exploitation for feathers, and was believed extinct in 1949, but was rediscovered in 1951. The current population is estimated, via direct counts and modelling based on productivity data, to be 2,364 individuals, with 1,922 birds on Torishima and 442 birds on Minami-kojima (G.R. Balogh in litt. 2008). In 1954, 25 birds (including at least six pairs) were present on Torishima. Given that there are now c.426 breeding pairs on Torishima (G.R. Balogh in litt. 2008), the species has undergone an enormous increase since its rediscovery and the onset of conservation efforts. In addition, in 2010, one nesting pair was observed on Kure Atoll (Hawaii, USA), but was probably female-female and unsuccessful, and one chick was produced on Midway Atoll (M. Naughton pers. comm. 2011). A tsunami which hit Midway Atoll in March 2011, did not impact on the single pair nesting on Eastern Island (U.S. Fish & Wildlife Service 2008).
Native:Canada; China; Japan; Korea, Republic of; Mexico; Russian Federation; Taiwan, Province of China; United States; United States Minor Outlying Islands
Present - origin uncertain:Northern Mariana Islands; Philippines
|Range Map:||Click here to open the map viewer and explore range.|
|Population:||At the end of the 2006-2007 breeding season, the global population was estimated to be 2,364 individuals, with 1,922 birds on Torishima and 442 birds on Minami-kojima (Senkaku Islands). This estimate is based on: direct observation of breeding pairs on Torishima; an assumption on numbers of non-breeding birds; an estimate for the Minami-kojima population that is based upon a 2002 estimate and an assumption of population growth rate (which, together, puts the Minami-kojima population at about 15% of the global population [G.R. Balogh in litt. 2008]). More recently, Brazil (2009) estimates the population in Japan at c.100-10,000 breeding pairs and c.50-1,000 individuals on migration. The population is taken here as likely to number 2,200-2,500 individuals based on these estimates, roughly equating to 1,500-1,700 mature individuals.|
|Habitat and Ecology:||Behaviour Phoebastria albatrus is a colonial, annually breeding species, with each breeding cycle lasting about 8 months. Birds begin to arrive at the main colony on Torishima Island in early October. A single egg is laid in late October to late November and incubation lasts 64 to 65 days. Hatching occurs in late December through January. Chicks begin to fledge in late May into June. There is little information on timing of breeding on Minami-kojima. First breeding sometimes occurs when birds are five years old, but more commonly when birds are aged six. It forages diurnally and potentially nocturnally, either singly or in groups primarily taking prey by surface-seizing (ACAP 2009). During the breeding season, individuals nesting off Japan forage over the continental shelf (Kiyota and Minami 2008). Habitat Breeding Historically, it preferred level, open, areas adjacent to tall clumps of the grass Miscanthus sinensis for nesting. Diet It feeds mainly on squid, but also takes shrimp, fish, flying fish eggs and other crustaceans (ACAP 2009). It has been recorded following ships to feed on scraps and fish offal.|
|Major Threat(s):||Its historical decline was caused by exploitation. Today, the key threats are the instability of soil on its main breeding site (Torishima), the threat of mortality and habitat loss from the active volcano on Torishima, and mortality caused by fisheries. Torishima is also vulnerable to other natural disasters, such as typhoons. Introduced predators are a potential threat at colonies. Environmental contaminants at sea (oil based compounds) may also be a threat (G.R. Balogh in litt. 2008). Threats at sea (fisheries, oil pollution) are exacerbated by the fact that birds concentrate into predictable hotspots (Piatt et al. 2006). Modelling work has showed that even a small increase in low level chronic mortality (such as fisheries bycatch) has more of an impact on population growth rates than stochastic and theoretically catastrophic events, such as volcanic eruptions (Finkelstein et al. 2010). Phoebastria albatrus has the greatest potential overlap with fisheries that occur in the shallower waters along continental shelf break and slope regions, e.g., sablefish and Pacific halibut longline fisheries off the coasts of Alaska and British Columbia. Although, overlap between the distribution of birds and fishery effort does not mean that interactions between birds and boats necessarily occur, P. albatrus are known to have been killed in U.S. and Russian longline fisheries for Pacific cod and Pacific halibut. In addition, birds on Torishima have been observed with hooks in their mouths of the style used in Japanese fisheries near the island (ACAP 2009).|
Conservation Actions Underway
It is legally protected in Japan, Canada and the USA. A draft recovery plan has been developed (USFWS 2005). Mitigation measures have been established in the Alaska demersal longline fishery and in the Hawaii-based pelagic longline fishery (NOAA 2008). Streamer lines (both heavy weight lines for large boats and lightweight lines for smaller vessels) have been designed to keep birds from longline hooks as they are set, and these are being distributed free to the Alaskan longline fleet (USFWS 2005), though they are not deployed in near-shore waters. In 2006, the Western and Central Pacific Fisheries Commission passed a measure which requires large tuna and swordfish longline vessels (>24m long) to use a combination of two seabird bycatch mitigation measures when fishing north of 23 degrees North. Torishima has been established as a National Wildlife Protection Area. In 1981-1982, native plants were transplanted into the Torishima nesting colony in order to stabilise the nesting habitat and the nest structures. This has enhanced breeding success, with over 60% of eggs now resulting in fledged young. Decoys have been used to attract birds to nest at another site on Torishima since 1993 and the first pair started breeding at this new site in November 1995. The number of chicks fledged from this new colony has increased from one chick in 2004; four chicks in 2005; 13 chicks in 2006; 16 chicks in 2007. In October-November 2007, 35 eggs were laid at this new site (Sato 2009). In 2007, the Japanese government approved a project to translocate chicks from Torishima to Mukojima, 300 km away. All ten chicks of the first translocations in March 2008 fledged (Jacobs 2009). If successful, this project will translocate at least ten chicks per year for five years. Conservation Actions Proposed
Continue to promote measures designed to protect this species from becoming hooked or entangled by commercial fishing gear. Re-establish birds within historic range as insurance against natural disasters on primary breeding colony. Promote conservation measures for the Minami-kojima population. Continue research into the at-sea distribution and marine habitat use through satellite telemetry studies. Continue land-based management and population monitoring.
|Citation:||BirdLife International 2012. Phoebastria albatrus. In: IUCN 2012. IUCN Red List of Threatened Species. Version 2012.2. <www.iucnredlist.org>. Downloaded on 18 May 2013.|
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Ahh, the pincer grasp! It's an important evolutionary milestone that nobody knows about until they become parents. (Why should opposable thumbs get all the attention?) The ability to pick up small objects using your thumb and pointer finger usually kicks in around 9 months -- and, the bonus for parents is that it allows infants to feed their own darn selves. So put down the spoon and serve up these great finger food ideas.
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