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A traffic report conducted by Hampton and Alexandria Village neighborhoods shows that traffic on Seburn Drive and Walden Lane exceeds 3,600 vehicles per day.
As a result of this evaluation, the Community Association, acting on the request of the board of directors, installed signage barring commercial traffic on Walden Lane and Seburn Drive. The board also encourages residents to begin using the main connector routes such as Colonel Thomas Heyward Road, Sun City Boulevard and Argent Way to help extend the life of association roads.
According to Pulte, Walden Lane and Seburn Drive were designed and constructed as neighborhood streets for residential use and limited commercial traffic. The updated traffic study shows the current level and kind of traffic on these roads far exceeds the design and construction of these neighborhood roads.
"If traffic on these roads continues at current levels, they will wear out much sooner than the association's financial reserve schedule," said Todd Doupona, member-at-Large of the board of directors. The reserve schedule allocates money each year to pay for what will be the expected cost of replacing the road once its useful life has exhausted.
Roads such as Colonel Thomas Heyward Road and Sun City Boulevard are designed and constructed as "collector roads" to handle higher volumes and heavier traffic loads.
The committees studying the traffic said many residents believe using Seburn Drive and Walden Lane are short-cuts to get to the Lake Somerset Gate, Back Gate near Bull Hill Plantation, Hidden Cypress, Sports Park and other facilities on Red Dam Road. That traffic also affects Hampton Circle and Fenwick Drive. The study showed something different.
The neighborhood committees timed the routes and found that residents who live in the neighborhoods west of Redtail Drive can save time by using Colonel Thomas Heyward Road rather than using Walden Lane to get to the Sports Park, Dog Park or exit the back gate.
Also, the committees determined that there was no travel time saved in using Seburn Drive and Hampton Circle to get to Sun City Boulevard to access the Main Gate or Lake Somerset Gate. Drivers using Seburn Drive and Hampton encounter more stop signs and lower speed limits.
Residents and contractors are encouraged to use those routes to alleviate traffic on side streets and to help extend the life of the association roads.


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Kitchen Gallery: Deeply Colorful International Kitchens
Small Cool 2009 is in the voting stage now (have you voted for your favorite small cool space yet?) and as we reviewed some of the entries we realized that the international entrants often have the most vibrant, vividly colored kitchens. Here are a few that struck us, with colors that run from wildly bright to deep and intense, and locations from Paris to Singapore to India.
• 1 Lisa and Jeremie's Parisian Open Space Paris, France
• 2 memerika's Restrained Palette Cluj Napoca, Romania
• 3 Mujiri's Green Field Singapore (The kitchen can be seen at the back of the living area.)
• 4 Bernard's Light and Bright Home Regina, Saskatchewan
• 5 Rajiv's's Amalgam of Styles Bangalore, India
• 6 Angie's Bedroom Cinema Shanghai, China
• 7 Bonnie's Former Hotel Room Sydney, Australia
• 8 Mark and Stephanie's Colorful Compact Calgary, Alberta
• 9 Susan's Open Plan Victoria, BC
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|Dev: Spiders
|Pub: Focus Home Interactive
|Release: May 9, 2014
|Players: 1
|Screen Resolution: 480p-1080p
|Blood, Strong Language, Suggestive Themes, Violence
In fact, the graphics are probably the worst part about Bound By Flame. I encountered slowdown, random clipping errors, enemies that wigged out and didn't know what to do, and tons of other graphical hang ups that really took me out of the action. I usually feel that graphics are entirely secondary to gameplay but they really do step between you and the action here.
But if you can get through the graphics, there's quite a bit to see here. The world is a decent size and is fun to explore. The enemy designs are really interesting and aren't just your standard fantasy faire. The quests are fulfilling and getting one more point to spend in a skill tree is satisfying, even if it is basically just plain old Skinner Box train of watching numbers go up so other numbers go up.
Bound by Flame also doesn't overstay its welcome. If you mainline all the story quests, you can blow through the game in about 10 hours. Doing all the side quests will increase your playtime to about twice that. If you were anything like me, you'll probably get tired of the combat system a couple hours in, but will happily pick up the game again after a break to have another go at it.
In reality, there isn't much to say about Bound By Flame. It's not a horrendous travesty that all action RPG players should avoid, and similarly it's not a stellar blockbuster that all Dark Souls addicts should pick up. It just feels very mediocre and generic. Nothing stands out about the game and nothing really holds it down aside from its graphics at points. It's a simple fantasy action RPG that won't replace any of the big names out there, but will keep you amused for 10 hours if you have some money to burn.
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Lumadot LED Umbrella
Raindrops on roses and whiskers on lolcats
- Glows with fiber optic light dots covering the canopy
- Three modes: off, blinking lights, solid lights
- Light in handle illuminates the ground in front of you
This umbrella is one of our favorite things. For starters, like all good umbrellas should, it keeps you out of the rain. Well, not really. It doesn't actually teleport you from a rainy location to a non-rainy location. Our inventing monkeys are hard at work developing that technology, it may be a few months before we get it perfected. Sadly, we've lost a few Customer Service temps during product testing. We really hope we'll bump into them again on whatever plane or timeline we accidentally sent them.
But what this umbrella does (besides keeping you dry) is pretty awesome. With the flick of a switch, it is transformed from a boring black umbrella to a black umbrella with glowing blue raindrops all over it. Flick the switch further and those raindrops will blink! It's deliciously geeky (what geek doesn't like LEDs?) but it's also pretty, which makes it a great gift for the lady in your life who may not be geeky. Buying yourself some cool gadgets and witty t-shirts and don't feel like making a separate purchase for Mother's Day or your girlfriend's birthday? The Lumadot LED Umbrella comes to the rescue! Stay dry, stay safe, and look cool doing it.
Product Features
- Futuristic black umbrella glows with fiber optic light dots covering the canopy
- Keeps you dry while in rain; cannot teleport you to dry locations (yet)
- Three modes: off, blinking lights, solid lights
- Light in handle can be turned on/off and illuminates the ground in front of you
- Geeks will love the LEDs (what geek doesn't?)
- Non-geeks will just think it's a cool umbrella
- Requires 3 x AAA Batteries (not included)
- Dimensions: 32.5" long; 41" opened diameter


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A winner was selected from 88 designs submitted by 32 freelance designers.
This logo is for a conference being produced for innovative church leaders based around the 'multi-site church' movement. Multi-site ministry is the practice of one church meeting in multiple locations (thus 'multi-site').
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Connacht 22-14 Biarritz, Heineken Cup
Connacht claim Biarritz scalp
December 7, 2012
Connacht's defence stood firm against Biarritz's attack to record the win
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Dan Parks steered Connacht to a famous 22-14 victory over French giants Biarritz at the Sportsground on Friday night.
Parks kicked 17 points, including the conversion of Fetu'u Vainikolo's early try, to seal the province's second win in Pool 3 that keeps their quarter-final hopes alive. Dimitri Yachvili kicked three penalties to leave the visitors 10-9 behind at the break, but Biarritz were decidedly brittle as Connacht's younger forwards outworked them. Although Imanol Harinordoquy came off the bench to score an injury-time try, Yachvili missed the conversion for a losing bonus point.
It was a tremendous result for Eric Elwood's men, with Parks guiding a hard-running back-line and Mike McCarthy marshalling the young guns up front. With Gavin Duffy, John Muldoon and Nathan White heading the province's 13-man injury list, Parks skippered Connacht and varied the play superbly early on.
After Yachvili nudged Biarritz ahead, Vainikolo struck for a superbly-taken try that really lifted his team-mates and the vocal home crowd. David McSharry intercepted a pass from Charles Gimenez near halfway and offloaded for the Tongan winger to charge away for a score against the run of play. Parks converted to put Connacht 7-3 ahead and the westerners missed out on a second try when Ireland lock McCarthy failed to spot Robbie Henshaw looping around him in plenty of space.
A series of penalties failed to budge the scoreline with the wind-backed Yachvili missing two shots at the posts, and Parks drifting a long-range attempt wide. The Biarritz talisman was back on target at the midway point of the half, his second successful penalty following a decent bout of territory for the visitors.
Connacht looked the more dangerous of the two sides off limited ball and Takudzwa Ngwenya had to concede a lineout as Tiernan O'Halloran chased hard. The hosts pressed and Parks took the drop-goal option, in front of the posts, to reopen the four-point gap.
Biarritz looked lacklustre in thought and deed, and tigerish tackling from the likes of Willie Faloon, Michael Kearney and Eoin McKeon helped Connacht keep their defensive line intact. However, the penalty count took its toll. Number eight McKeon was sin-binned for taking an airborne Iain Balshaw out and Yachvili snapped over a classy penalty to make it 10-9 at the interval.
Despite their greater experience and strength up front, Biarritz failed to hammer home their numerical advantage and Parks restarted the scoring in the second period with a penalty.
Connacht countered again moments later, tournament debutant Danie Poolman punching down towards the 22. Parks hung up a cross-field kick which O'Halloran was inches away from collecting. Biarritz introduced the fit-again Harinordoquy as they tried to reassert themselves, but strong carries from McSharry and Henshaw preceded another Parks three-pointer.
Parks and company kicked cleverly to keep Biarritz pinned back and McCarthy and hooker Jason Harris-Wright kept the home forwards on the front foot. They forced a scrum penalty that Parks missed to the right, yet further chances came and in the final 10 minutes the former Scotland fly-half landed an inspirational drop goal and a third and final penalty.
Biarritz's game descended into niggly phases, with their questionable attitude and temperament resulting in a couple of scraps between the forwards. They did lift the tempo late on, powerhouse Harinordoquy piling over after O'Halloran was sin-binned during some desperate Connacht defence. But Connacht deservedly failed to cough up the losing bonus point and they will head to south-west France for next week's return encounter with renewed confidence.
For Connacht coach and former captain Eric Elwood, who is leaving the province at the end of the season, picked out the young charges that he threw into the fray after a number of seniors players were ruled out with injury and helped the team to only their third ever Heineken Cup victory.
"It is a huge scalp for us," he said. "Biarritz had a full squad out there tonight and we had a lot of guys missing," he said, referring to a Connacht injury list that includes Michael Swift, regular captain Gavin Duffy, John Muldoon, Nathan White, Frank Murphy and George Naoupu.
"A lot of credit must go our young guys, particularly in the forward pack. The platform from our forward pack was terrific. To get scrum penalties against Biarritz was magnificent and Dan (Parks) kept the scoreboard ticking over, so all in all it was great. Thankfully it finished in our favour and they got nothing out of the game. That is a good feeling, it would have been awful if they had got a bonus point [with the conversion] at the end."
The defeat came as a big shock to the winners of last year's Amlin Challenge Cup and a club that has twice reached the final of the Heineken Cup. They will now have to quickly find for ahead of the return fixture in the Basque country next weekend. They are still capable of reaching the knockout stages, but the defeat has meant that they will now need to be at their very best to do so.
"It is bitterly disappointing," fullback Iain Balshaw said. "Mathematically there is a chance we can qualify, but it will be very tough. Presumably we will need to get five points from every match here in. I don't know how many turnovers we made, probably three times as many as Connacht and at this level you cannot win rugby matches [playing like that], not just in the Heineken Cup but in the Top 14," he said. "Unfortunately, we just do not have the consistency at the moment."
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A Truth Journal: Late Night Jokes, Funny Videos About Obama Scandals: IRS, Benghazi, AP: From Denny: Come on; you knew this was coming. The jokes are too good and the funny photos of Tea Party protesters who just can't spell their own language in sign after sign is shocking. OK, unbelievable. America needs to increase our public school education and reteach these folks their own language: English.
It's no wonder the IRS sought to investigate the Tea Party groups who were demanding tax exempt status. Their paperwork was probably so filled with spelling errors they weren't sure what was going on. If these Tea Party signs are any indication of the lack of intellectual caliber of these political groups the IRS tried to check out, it isn't any surprise as to why they felt compelled to do so.
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I don't know how old the company is but I think I remember that the letter "I" was often changed over to "J" (or vice versa) in the Victorian times and earlier. Or am I dreaming again. :roll:
Dansk is the company name, Quistgaard (two 'a's, my mistake) was a designer there. Or possibly artistic director, as he does seem to have his stamp on an awful lot of Dansk designs. Anyway, as far as I can tell, his tenure ran from possibly the late 50s until the 70s. But that's just guesswork from the styles of the pieces I've seen.After a quick Google, there are some indications that he owned Dansk.
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So help me, I like the early history of the automobile. There was seemingly infinite optimism and ambition and more than that, just so much going on. I thought it would be fun, at least for me, to take a single day a century ago as a snapshot. Then as now, it was the Sunday after Thanksgiving and I thought that a holiday weekend wouldn't have that much to offer, a dozen notes on the industry, maybe. Easy peasy.
Not even close. It's impossible to overstate just how much was happening. There were, what, 30 or 40 major makes? And who knows how many small manufacturers, racing everywhere, hundreds of clubs, unions, dealers, garages, tours. It would, in fact, be too much to list – someday, someone may want to know when F. S. Gassaway was transferred from the New York branch office of the Willard Storage Battery Co. to the main office at Cleveland, but they're going to have to figure that out for themselves.
Maybe it's only interesting to me, but this is how we got where we are today, and we forget Coggswell at our peril.
- Under the auspices of the New York Automobile Trade Association, a two-day Endurance Run around New York, New Jersey and Connecticut began.
White Steamer, National, REO, Stearns, Stoddard-Dayton, Maxwell, Columbia, two Pullmans, Matheson and others line up for the Endurance Run on November 28.
- Charles Yale Knight arrived in New York aboard the Mauritania.
- The Cotta Transmission Company, of Rockford, Illinois, maker of the "Cotta Transmission," announced they had reorganized and resumed operation under new management
- Dr. Charles G. Percival and Montague Roberts' 100,000-mile Abbot-Detroit trip stopped in Boston (mile 17,000), met with Mayor Fitzgerald, and headed for Maine.
- Croxton-Keeton took over New York sales of Parry, and their 1662 Broadway showroom.
- Italian engineer Carmine Basile formed the Basile Automobile Company in Boston to market his inventions.
- Coggswell Motor Car Company of Grand Rapids announced their first model, the OHV, slant-four 1911 Coggswell 35. Series production was not achieved.
- Potter & Johnston Company, of Pawtucket, Rhode Island, and Grant & Woods of Chelsea, Michigan, announced their consolidation into the largest automatic machinery company in the world.
- E-M-F General Manager David Hunt, Jr., was killed in a car accident in Yale, Michigan.
- A world-circling Hupmobile left Denver, Colorado, for points west.
- Ray F. McNamara's transcontinental Premier finally reached Los Angeles after a series of extraordinary misfortunes.
- Philadelphia's Nance announced their new 35hp, $1,900 six-cylinder automobile.
- W.W. Ker lectured on gasoline automobiles at Lafayette Hall, Alexandria Avenue and 137th Street, New York.
- The first annual Chalmers dealers convention convened in Detroit. More than 225 people attended.
Chalmers dealers, salesmen and guests at their banquet, 1910.
- The Chevalier G. Agnelle, the head of the Fabbrica Italiana Automobil Torino, Turin, Italy, gave a dinner to the New York officers of the company at Martin's.
- Day two of the two-day meet at the Los Angeles one-mile board track was dominated by Joe Nikrent in his Knox (as had day one). James Fouch's Staver also did well, helping convince Nikrent to race a Staver in 1911.
- Three hundred automobiles gathered in Hiawatha, Kansas, for a jackrabbit hunt.
- The highest temperature on A.L. Westgard"s transcontinental route was measured, 106 degrees at Mecca, California.
- Omaha Automobile Dealers' Show Association announced an extensive lineup for their February, 1911, show. Milwaukee, Pittsburgh, Oakland, St. Louis, Cleveland, Washington, D.C., Syracuse, Hartford, Connecticut, and Chicago also announced their shows.
- Sheffield Car Company debuted their 30hp railroad automobile, a replacement for the velocipede.
Sheffield railroad automobile.
- Angeleno Harry Seymour on a Reading Standard (motorcycle) lowered the track record at Newark's Olympic Park to 1:10.
- At its annual meeting in Philadelphia, the North Wildwood Automobile Club decided to continue racing and to extend their three-mile beach track to five, completely encircling the island.
- The Chauffeurs, Automobile Drivers and Automobile Workers' Association of Syracuse was formed.
- The automobile clubs of Richmond and Newport News, Virginia, showed their plan for a road to connect the two cities, and planned to begin construction in the spring.
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2013-06-05 / Obituaries
Brian K. Gast, Massapequa Fire Department volunteer
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Our little house was built in 1927 with lumber milled from the La Sals, the adobe chimney made from local earth. Star Hall was built over 100 years ago from locally cut sandstone blocks and adobe bricks still held together with mud mortar. The same goes for the Schafer House at the Youth Garden Project. There is no cement foundation, no imported steel in Star Hall or the Schafer House, only rocks, dirt and trees from where we live.
Nature bestows these gifts to us freely. And she will continue to do so if we carefully manage her forests, water and the very earth beneath our feet. Knowing the trees and the people that make my home fosters appreciation for the unique place in which I live.
This relationship is severed when we become dependent on purchasing all our goods from some place far away, made by people we do not know. It also denies us the opportunity to cultivate true community prosperity. Or what I call Ecological Up-sizing.
If the foundation of my house is made from the stone cut from the local stone quarry (and sandstone slab countertops, sinks and windowsills) the walls and earthen floor made from the local adobe yard, the roof cut from the local mill, my cabinets and furniture made from Russian olive, piñon, juniper, the tile made from fired local clay, wild willows, tamarisk and grapevines pruned from local vineyards into hand-woven chairs, baskets and woven fences, then I am supporting a whole community of craftsmen. Prosperity is defined as "A successful flourishing or thriving condition." We just Up-sized our community prosperity.
I see many opportunities for Up-sizing in Moab:
Development of interdependent cooperative enterprises, each benefiting from the success of the other. For example, a weavers cooperative that relies on local craftsmen to build their looms, local farmers for their wool, plant fibers and natural plant dyes displayed in a cooperative-run gallery. A local brewery that relies on locally grown grains, the spent grains cultivate mushrooms, the mushroom waste goes to feed chickens (poultry and eggs) the chicken poop is turned into methane to power the equipment that runs the brewery, wastewater from the brewery is alkalized by farming nutritional algae, the alkalized water provides clean water for fish ponds that syphon the fertile fish water to hydroponic green houses that produce vegetables and waste that feed the chickens and any solid waste to fertilize local gardens ... and the party never ends.
Supporting local agriculture is one of the most effective ways to create prosperity. The more we grow and sell locally the more jobs we create while providing real food security. Imagine a cooperative marketplace with many shops under one roof selling all local goods; a bakery (we already have a source for local wheat), dairy and cheese shop (got that too), tamales and pasta shop (fresh made daily – who can resist?) meats and eggs, fresh produce, prepared produce, dried, canned, and frozen.
Utilizing "waste" materials is another abundant local resource. Turn wood pallets into furniture or reconstruct them into ladder roof trusses (the engineering is already approved for this); glass can be re-melted into tiles and blocks, glassware, plates, bowls, vessels – a local grocery store features beautiful recycled glassware made in Spain! (We could be doing the same and spare the shipping costs!) Turn waste paper into insulating "papercrete" blocks and panels, (we use shredded paper as a primary ingredient in our clay plasters).
Tires! I visited this shop in a tiny town in New Mexico where a father-and-son-team were turning tires into woven floor mats. They were making so many they had a contract with Target! (I bought one 10 years ago – still in perfect condition). The transfer station is an abundant source for recycling steel, smelted into whatever it can be remade into. Hey guys! We need your ingenuity! Solar steel-smelting ovens? Solar hot water heaters? Solar cookers! Solar driers! Super-efficient wood burning masonry stoves! Designs for rainwater catchment systems, greywater systems for landscaping, attached passive solar capturing green houses! Learn to eco-vate with what we have! If our school curriculums included sustainable living skills then maybe more of our kids would remain in Moab.
Remember when Americans prided themselves on making things that were of such high quality you could pass it on to your great-grandchildren? Remember when we used to make things, period?
I think real prosperity has less to do with profit and more to do with realizing we are our wealthiest resource.
I know. We need seed money. With the help of local government tax incentives, private investors, grants and loan agencies that offer reduced rates for entrepreneurs committed to using 25-100 percent local resources, we can diversify our economy and become a more prosperous, secure community.
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Researchers Launch The Survey Bay; Largest Database Of Information On Users Of The Pirate Bay
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It's fascinating to look at, and gives you an interesting way to explore what different people who use The Pirate Bay think about various topics. Some people talk about accessing content that isn't available anywhere else. Others discuss the importance of internet freedoms. Certainly some discuss how they use it to get free content, but many of the discussions are a lot more thoughtful and nuanced than that. Obviously, there are limits to the results of a survey. The data clearly has some level of bias to it, and no one is claiming that it's a comprehensive look at file sharers -- but it is a way to look at what many users of The Pirate Bay are thinking, and recognizing that the arguments are a hell of a lot more nuanced and thoughtful than "yay, free stuff," as the MPAA/RIAA's of the world insist is the driving force behind those sites. I'm looking forward to more interesting analysis being done on this information.


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SOURCE: Acura Pharmaceuticals, Inc.
February 22, 2013 10:00 ET
PALATINE, IL--(Marketwire - Feb 22, 2013) - Acura Pharmaceuticals, Inc. (NASDAQ: ACUR), a specialty pharmaceutical company developing products intended to address medication abuse and misuse, announced today that the Company will present at the Cowen and Company Health Care Conference at the Boston Marriott Copley Place on Tuesday, March 5, 2013. Bob Jones, Acura Pharmaceutical's Chief Executive Officer, will provide a company update at 8:40AM Eastern Time. In advance of this presentation the Company plans to report financial results for the fourth quarter and fiscal year ended December 2012 following the close of markets on Monday, March 4, 2013.
A live webcast of the presentation will be available through the "Investors" page of Acura's website: www.acurapharm.com. An archived version of the presentation will be available for 30 days after the event.
About Acura Pharmaceuticals
Acura Pharmaceuticals is a specialty pharmaceutical company engaged in the research, development and commercialization of product candidates intended to address medication abuse and misuse, utilizing its proprietary AVERSION® and IMPEDE™ technologies. AVERSION contains polymers that cause the drug to gel when dissolved; it also contains compounds that irritate the nasal passages. IMPEDE is designed to disrupt the processing of pseudoephedrine from tablets into methamphetamine.
In June 2011, the U.S. Food and Drug Administration approved OXECTA® (oxycodone HC1 tablets) which incorporates the AVERSION® technology. The Company has a development pipeline of additional AVERSION® technology products containing other opioids.
In December 2012, the Company commenced commercialization of Nexafed® [pseudoephedrine hydrochloride (HCl)], a 30 mg immediate-release abuse-deterrent decongestant. The next generation pseudoephedrine tablet combines effective nasal congestion relief with IMPEDE™ technology, a unique polymer matrix that disrupts the conversion of pseudoephedrine into the dangerous drug, methamphetamine.
The trademark OXECTA® is owned by Pfizer Inc.
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What a difference a month makes. About 4 weeks ago the European crisis was "over" - French President Sarkozy exclaimed that: "Today, the problem is solved!" Christine Lagarde, former French finance minister, and current IMF head following the framing of DSK, added that "Economic spring is in the air!"... Fast forward to today when following the inevitable end of the transitory favorable effects of the LTRO (remember: flow not stock, a/k/a the shark can not stop moving forward), the collapse of the Spanish stock market, the now daily halting of Italian financial stocks, the inevitable announcement that shorting of financials in Europe is again forbidden, and finally the record spike in Spanish CDS, Europe is broken all over again. Which brings us again the Sarkozy and Lagarde. The Frenchman who is about to lose the presidential race to socialist competitor Hollande (an event which will have major ramifications for Europe as UBS' George Magnus patiently explained two months ago), no longer sees anything as solved, and instead is openly begging for the ECB to inject more, more, more money into the system to pretend that "problems are solved" for a few more months. Incidentally, so is Lagarde, for whom in an odd change of seasons, economic spring is about to be followed by a depressionary winter. The problem is both will end up empty handed, as the well may just have run dry.
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In effect ripping up a deal to shelve public differences over the ECB reached in November at the height of the eurozone crisis with Ms Merkel and Mario Monti, the Italian prime minister, Mr Sarkozy said the matter of ECB support for growth was "a question we cannot avoid"
He said: "If the central bank does not support growth, there will not be enough growth . . . I know the difficulties that surround this subject but we have the duty to reflect on it because it is a major problem for the future of Europe."
Mr Sarkozy said: "Europe must purge its debts, it has no choice. But between deflation and growth, it has no more choice. If Europe chooses deflation it will die. We, the French, will open the debate on the role of the central bank in the support of growth."
In other news, remember that so very "friendly" relationship between Merkel and Sarkozy? Kiss that goodbye.
And while Germany may or may not have had enough of bailing out everyone (between the ECB funding all peripheral banks, and TARGET2 funding all peripheral current account deficits), the IMF just can't get enough. Unfortunately, unlike the ECB, it does not have its own printer. Enter panhandling. Literally:
Holding up her Louis Vuitton handbag, the new managing director of the International Monetary Fund (IMF) turned to her fellow power brokers in one session and said: "I am here, with my little bag, to collect a bit of money."
The joke broke the ice and the room rippled with laughter. But, beneath the disarming charm, Lagarde was deadly serious. For months now, the IMF has been trying to coerce its 187 members into committing as much as $600bn (£378bn) more to the fund to build what she described at the Brookings Institute in Washington last week as a "global firewall" to defeat once and for all the European sovereign debt crisis.
The problem, as is glaringly obvious, is that the IMF's piggybank really is the US. And no US, no "big bazooka", no "giant firewall"
Ever since "the Greek problem" flared up again in July last year, the talk from Brussels to London to Beijing has been about "big bazookas" and "giant firewalls" – a vast bail-out fund available to rescue any struggling nation from bankruptcy.
It has been a baptism of fire for Lagarde, France's former finance minister who was appointed after the disgraced Dominique Strauss-Kahn stepped down in the wake of rape allegations. Just nine months into the job, she has the unenviable task of trying to build a co-ordinated global strategy on the shifting tectonic plates of domestic politics.
At the IMF's key spring meetings in Washington this week, she faces her first real test. If Lagarde can strike a big deal on resources, she will be garlanded with praise. If she can't, the jury will remain out. Either way, the pressure is now on.
Sorry, but with a US debt ceiling fiasco due in 4 months just ahead of a critical presidential election, the fire is about to be turned up a notch. Or ten... and be sulfur based. Because the math no longer works... And it never did.
Tellingly, all the US Treasury could muster in response to the eurozone agreement was the weak recognition that it "reinforces a trajectory of positive efforts to strengthen confidence in the euro area". UK sources said that, privately, the US was bitterly disappointed, and adamant that no further US taxpayer money would be put at risk of more euro bail-outs.
Normally, US opposition would be enough to kill any plan to increase resources. But Lagarde has other ideas. She hopes to corral the rest of the major non-eurozone players – the UK, Canada, Japan, Australia, China and India – into a joint agreement. But she has already begun managing down expectations.
Having previously indicated that she wanted as much as $600bn more, she said at Brookings: "The needs now may not be quite as large as we had estimated earlier this year."
UK sources said she would be lucky to secure $400bn. Of that, the eurozone members have committed to contributing €150bn – on top of their own bazooka – leaving just $250bn to be gathered from other members.
Even at $400bn, the extra resources would be a retreat from earlier ambitions. Lagarde wanted to increase the IMF's available resources from the current $400bn to $1 trillion, while global policymakers had hoped for a total bazooka of €2 trillion to allay concerns about Europe. The IMF and the eurozone's combined funds will fall well short of that.
Forget bazooka: IMF will be lucky to get a peashooter. In the meantime, Spain will not wait:
As markets have lost faith in Spain, questions have resurfaced about whether the eurozone firewall is big enough. According to CEPS, "even if the [firewall] only had to cover half of the financial needs of Spain and Italy", it would need another €400bn.
Even securing €250bn from non-eurozone members excluding the US could prove difficult.
So now that Europe is broken all over again, and with elections, riots, strikes, tumbling markets, hundreds of sovereign bond auctions, and no promise of free liquidity from anyone despite daily rumor otherwise... what happens next?


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Tordek in the Dragon's Lair with the Flaming Battle Axe.
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- 6 metal player tokens and 6 metal weapons included.
- Special Monster Cards shake up game play even more.
It's a dark night, when the group assembled at the Archmage's castle. What started as a wonderful dinner party has turned into a ghastly scene. The Archmage has been murdered (by a doppelganger, no less). The doppelganger hides amongst the group hoping to escape, but it didn't count on two things. First, the castle is magically sealed until the murderer is caught. And second: you're on the case! So it goes, with Dungeons & Dragons Clue.
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Jan. 31, 2007
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NORTON, Mass. - Senior Brian Zukowski played a hand in nine straight points during a 14-0 second-half run as Wheaton College broke open a two-point game en route to a 71-52 victory over MIT in New England Women's and Men's Athletic Conference (NEWMAC) men's basketball action, Wednesday evening, in Emerson Gymnasium. The Lyons moved to 10-9 overall and 3-5 in the league, tying MIT for fourth place in the NEWMAC standings. The Engineers fell to 10-10 overall.
Lyon freshman Jaxon Leo scored the first basket of the game just 34 seconds in before Wheaton missed its next 12 shots and MIT's offense began to click. The Blue and White trailed by just a 6-4 margin four minutes in, but the Engineers reeled off the next 11 points during a 3:10 stretch, keyed by a pair of three-pointers from senior Alex Krull, to forge a 17-4 lead.
MIT held a 24-15 advantage with 9:11 left in the first half on junior Barnett Koryan's jumper, as the Engineers started the game 10-of-14 from the field, before the Lyons slowly rallied.
A quick 7-0 run over 2:43 made the score 24-22 following sophomore Mark Sullivan's three-pointer at 5:58, and Sullivan countered a Krull long-range hoop with another three at 5:10. Zukowski was key late in the half, connecting from beyond the arc at 1:34 to knot the game at 30 and dishing off on sophomore Kristopher Pedra's go-ahead bucket at 1:04. However, Krull canned a three to give MIT a 33-32 edge with 33 seconds to go, and the Lyons' final two attempts were off.
Wheaton shot only 39.4 percent in the opening half but held close thanks to an 18-11 advantage on the boards, recording 11 off the offensive glass. Junior Brent DiGiovanna nabbed eight caroms, including seven offensive. MIT shot 61.9 percent, hitting 5-of-7 three-point attempts, while being led by 14 points from Krull.
The second half proved to be a different game, as the hosts used 58.3 percent shooting to outscore MIT, 39-19. The Engineers shot 38.1 percent, as Zukowski locked down on Krull, whose only second-half bucket came with 16 seconds remaining. Junior Eric Johnston scored Wheaton's first eight points of the second half and ignited a 9-2 run that broke open a 35-all game with consecutive fast-break hoops, the second of which ended in a three-point play that put the Lyons up, 42-35 at 17:06.
MIT trimmed its deficit to 44-42 on freshman Erich Bracht's three-pointer at 12:07 before the Lyons put the game away with the crucial 14-0 run, which occurred over a 5:09 span. While playing a part in nine consecutive points during that time, Zukowski picked up a fast-break hoop, dished to DiGiovanna, hit a jumper and then found Sullivan, who buried his third three. Johnston capped the run with another breakaway bucket to make it 58-42 with 6:37 remaining.
Johnston and Zukowski each led the Lyons with 15 points, as Johnston shot 6-of-8 in 15 minutes, and Zukowski went 5-of-8 from the floor and 4-of-5 from the charity stripe while adding five assists. DiGiovanna was only one rebound shy of his career high with 11, while Pedra provided stifling defense off the bench with four steals and a block and added nine points.
Krull notched 16 points thanks to four three-pointers, while sophomore Jimmy Bartolotta provided 16 points, six rebounds and five assists. Bracht had 12 points, four assists and three blocks.


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A relief center for storm-ravaged residents of Staten Island, New York, was vandalized and looted overnight on Christmas by thieves who stole donated supplies and destroyed items intended for victims of Hurricane Sandy.
The Midland Beach center on Midland Avenue has been an oasis of hope for those who lost their homes in the storm nearly two months ago. The supplies are housed under a tent, which is blocked off with barricades and manned by volunteers, but the workers left the center unattended on Christmas night.
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Losing those items is "a punch in the stomach," said Mike Hoffman, who heads up the Staten Island volunteer team known as Boots on the Ground.
"I had a couple leftover propane stoves that were donated," Hoffman said. "One was just ripped open, they didn't even take it. They just ripped it open and destroyed it. So that's one less family now that can cook a warm meal."
And with a winter storm hitting the area again on Wednesday, the center had been stocking crucial supplies.
"People are here struggling, suffering," said Erick Slick, a victim of Hurricane Sandy.
Staten Island official critical of response to hurricane
The people who broke into the center stole supplies from the shelves, ripped open bags of dog food and swiped jackets off hangers.
Volunteers running the site say they think the thieves plan to return the merchandise to stores for money.
The volunteers are now looking to relocate the relief center indoors.


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MIDDLEBURY — Local lawmakers served notice on Monday that they will need to raise revenues and cut some programs in order to draft and pass a responsible fiscal year 2014 state budget.
At a Legislative Breakfast at the American Legion in Middlebury, Rep. Willem Jewett, D-Ripton, said this is the toughest financial year he has seen since being elected to the House 10 years ago. The House majority leader noted the federal government was able to cushion some of the financial blow of the recession through millions of dollars in stimulus funds.