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A federal judge has handed the pro-life Susan B. Anthony List a major free-speech victory in a two-year battle with a former congressman who alleged the organization cost him his job and "loss of livelihood" when it educated constituents on his voting record.
"While we're pleased with the outcome, this was a protracted legal battle that was taxing on our resources and should never have happened in a country that enshrines free speech," said Marjorie Dannenfelser, president of SBA List. "The blatant disregard for the First Amendment and the constitutional right of people to speak out against the actions of those elected to represent them is unacceptable."
Former Democratic U.S. Rep. Steve Driehaus was defeated in his 2010 re-election campaign by U.S. Rep. Steve Chabot. It was during the campaign that the Democratic Party even pulled its financial support for television ads for Driehaus when he fell behind.
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After his loss, Driehaus first filed a criminal complaint with the Ohio Elections Commission under a statute that carried the possibility of a jail time. He later decided to pursue a defamation claim.
But U.S. District Judge Timothy Black dismissed his claims.
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"The concomitant principles of free speech and truth collide most violently in the arena of political speech. During the recently passed national elections, citizens were bombarded with political advertisements that the targets of which daily denounced as lies. Who then shall be the arbiter of political truth? Ultimately, in a free society, the truth of political back and forth must be adjudicated in the 'marketplace of ideas,'" the judge wrote.
"Notwithstanding all of this, the court's prior analysis is sound to a degree; when one walks through the elements of a claim for defamation, the required allegations are present here.
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"However, that precise and robotic analysis of each of the factors required for defamation caused the court to focus only on the trees and ultimately not to see the forest. Here, the forest is the right to free speech under the First Amendment, even false speech, when it applies to politics," he continued.
The organization had complained of Driehaus' support for taxpayer funding of abortion in Obamacare, but the former congressman contended that it did no such thing. That, however, is fact these days with the Obamacare mandate's requirement that even business owners of faith pay for abortifacients, a determination that has prompted dozens of court challenges.
SBA officials said since Driehaus filed his lawsuit, the organization's arguments have gained widespread support. For example, the ACLU of Ohio said, "The people have an absolute right to criticize their public officials, the government should not be the arbiter of true or false speech, and the best answer for bad speech is more speech."
Organization officials said they wanted voters to be aware of the congressman's words and votes, and where he once stood on the issue saying, "Driehaus was originally opposed to the health care bill because it did not contain specific language preventing the funding of abortion, and that has not changed. The bill still lacks the necessary safeguards Driehaus said needed to be in place for him to support the legislation, and yet he voted for it. We made the voters in his district aware of his vote and there is nothing defaming about that."
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Black noted the U.S. Supreme Court has said, "Speech on public issues occupies the highest rung of the hierarchy of First Amendment values, and is entitled to special protection."


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A spike in the number of homicides, robberies, rapes, blackmail and kidnapping cases has forced the Colombian National Police to form an elite group of officers known as the G.I.C. to investigate and solve the toughest cases. Lead by Colonel Monica Umaña after her predecessor is killed on the job, Umaña uses her quick wit and exceptional deductive skills to prove that she is the right person for the job. But she must balance the unparalleled talents of her staff with the complicated personal relationship within the department, including her former lover, Major Ramon Garcia, a psychologist and criminal profiler; Captain Antonio Salgado, the electronics and computer; Santiago Murillo, a master of disguises who is able to infiltrate any group; and Lieutenant Paulina Angarita, whose close ties to the underworld in her previous life informs her knowledge of gangs and drug lords and the inner workings of the criminal mind.

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Here's a Ron Paul widget, showing Ron's total donations having surpassed $9 million.
(Thanks to Daily Paul for its coverage of that.)
Thursday, November 22, 2007
Nine Million and Counting
Here's a Ron Paul widget, showing Ron's total donations having surpassed $9 million.
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Ron Paul Bad for Libertarianism?
Self-described "militant moderate" and political hack Jason Steck of The Van Der Galiën Gazette mimics the Ron Paul bashfest that was provoked by prominent "libertarian" Eugene Volokh of the Volokh Conspiracy. Both Steck and Volokh claim that Ron Paul is "bad for libertarianism," simply because he isn't as libertarian as he claims to be.
Both of them take issue with Ron's position on the war, but more importantly, their biggest beef with him is his views on free trade, immigration, and school choice. While I find their issue with him on the immigration matter is a valid one, their issue with him on the other two stands are simply moronic and do not dignify a response.
Here's what Volokh and Steck say about Ron in their prospective blogs:
As the Club for Growth describes here, Ron Paul has opposed virtually all free trade agreements. Few ideas are more fundamental to libertarianism than free trade. As the Club has documented, Paul also has opposed school voucher programs. In both of these cases, in fairness, Paul claims that his position is based on the idea that some other approach - unilateral free trade or home schooling - is even more libertarian than what he opposes. Even if he is correct on these points, I see no libertarian virtue in supporting the far less libertarian status quo against free trade agreements and school vouchers respectively. Even if trade agreements and vouchers are not the optimal libertarian policies, they are surely superior to the status quo of tariffs and government monopoly schooling.
Perhaps worst of all, Paul has bought into the conservative nativist line on immigration. He not only favors a massive crackdown on illegal immigration but even seems to endorse the view that immigration should be "reduced, not expanded" whether legal or not. To my mind, the freedom to choose where you live and the right to move to a freer and more prosperous society are among the most important of all libertarian principles. From a libertarian perspective, our relative openness to immigration is one of the most admirable aspects of America.
Unlike in the case of free trade and school choice, Paul doesn't even pretend to argue that his position is based on the idea that there is some other policy that will be even more libertarian than the one he opposes. Instead, he clearly endorses the big goverment option of a "allocat[ing] far more resources, both in terms of money and manpower" to cracking down on illegal immigration and perhaps reducing legal immigration as well.
While I do disagree with Ron on the immigration issue (I concede that, to a minor degree, he has embraced the nativist line on immigration), I find it intellectually dishonest of these men to paint Ron as being against all free trade (all because he oppose free trade agreements that are managed by government) and education freedom (all because he opposes government-subsidized vouchers). Their grievance with him on the war in Iraq is also moronic, because the war itself was unconstitutional, illegal, and unjustified, and the American people were lied to about the war and snowed into supporting it (even though it's an unwinnable one) in the first place.
Finally, even though Ron hasn't adopted the neolibertarian line that these liberventionists prefer him to do, what Steck and Volokh fail to understand is that libertarianism is a political philosophy that advocates the absence of government intervention in all of our lives, foreign and domestic. By selectively supporting certain interventionistic policies and opposing a few others, these two men are hypocritical for criticizing Ron for being anti-libertarian on the issues, when they are far more anti-libertarian than Ron ever will be. By adopting the conservative mindset and mixing it with their libertarian ideology, these men are not libertarians, but actual conservatives who talk the talk but never walk the walk.
While Ron isn't exactly the most perfect candidate in this race and most certainly not one in the libertarian movement, he is far more libertarian than most of the hucksters that we seen in both the Libertarian and Republican camps (Wayne Allyn Root comes to mind). He may be 97 percent libertarian on the issues, and 3 percent anti-libertarian on several issues, but I'd rather take a candidate who is 97 percent right as opposed to a candidate who is 20 percent right (or worse yet, 2 percent right).
One more thing: Volokh pulls the "guilt-by-association" scheme on Paul by criticizing him for not publicly distancing himself from certain dubious parties who have come to endorse him and his campaign, parties such as the Stormfront neo-Nazi racists, 9/11 Truthers, and other loopy groups. While he is correct that Ron has not publicly spoken against these groups, he has no control of what groups flock to him. As long as he doesn't adopt their dubious and racist rhetoric, Ron has no formal and official associations with them, other than the fact that he has received donations from them.
UPDATE (11/23/2007): My good friend Chris Kemp has wanted me to correct one part on here. It turns out that he's right: Ron has spoken out publicly against Stormfront and other groups just like it. He has denied any kind of relationship with the group whatsoever. Therefore, the statement made by Volokh is out of line. My apologies for any misleading statements or misunderstandings on my part.
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New York Times' Paul Krugman: 'Ron Paul Is A Friend of Corporate Fraud'
New York Times' columnist and Democratic shill Paul Krugman writes a short hit piece on Ron Paul in his Times' blog today. He claims to have done some research for tomorrow's column (possibly on Ron Paul?) and discovered a horrifying revelation that Paul opposes one of the most diabolical, vile, and putrid anti-free enterprise, anti-business regulations known in America: (gasp!) the Sarbanes-Oxley law. (Horrors!!!)
Krugman block quotes a paragraph of an April 2005 Times piece, in which it stated, in part, that Ron Paul, in his official capacity as a Republican congressman from Texas who outright espoused his opposition to the provisions of the act, introduced a bill to repeal Section 404 of the law completely. Ron was quoted as saying in the piece:
[The provision] has raised the costs of doing business, thus causing foreign companies to withdraw from American markets and retarding economic growth.
Section 404 states:
Section 404 requires companies and their auditors to assess the companies' internal controls, which are the practices or systems for keeping records and preventing abuse or fraud.
Krugman then proceeds to sandbag Paul with the following:
Ron Paul, enemy of the Iraq war — and friend of corporate fraud?
This is the same Krugman who hints that Ron Paul supporters just "doesn't know about" these "scathing" skeletons in Ron's closet.
Krugman would have a clue if he had done his homework by learning that:
- Ron Paul supporters, who are fairly libertarian/intellectual on the issues and honest to a fault, know exactly the destructive effects of Sarbanes-Oxley and are far more knowledgeable about this matter and other things than the Mitt Romney and Billary groupies who don't know a thing about the law. After all, those who are not affected by Sarbanes-Oxley have no clue as to what the law is about and how it hurts businesses and their employees from the top down.
- Anti-totalitarian, anti-statist, anti-collectivist, anti-social engineering, and pro-freedom people support Ron Paul because he opposes Big Government and does dare to speak out against the establishment's pet programs.
- Sarbanes-Oxley is totally unfair, unjustified, and ridiculous, considering it micromanages private management by forcing them to do costly internal audits of their financial operations, when most of them can find ways around them or just ignore them altogether. Plus, it is terribly convoluted and very vague in specifics. Moreover, it has led to significant stock decline and utter bankruptcy for companies, some big and mostly small.
If Krugman thinks that companies should and must be regulated, especially when their financial reporting must be closely watched by the government, then perhaps he's forgotten that the SEC has been outed as a failure for efficiently auditing its financial operations and keeping itself under financial control.
(Special thanks to KD for her look into Krugman's nonsense as well.)
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Democrats Push Bill That Will Not End The Iraq War
The cowardly spineless and gutless Democraps, who never opposed a pro-Iraq War bill they didn't like, are at it again. They are touting a bill that will rescind a majority of the troops on Iraqi soil; however, the bill, if passed by both Houses of the Congress and signed into law by Herr Bush, will ensure that tens of thousands of the U.S. forces remain assigned to Iraq.
Here's a snip of the first paragraph of an article from AP Google News:
WASHINGTON (AP) — The Democrats' flagship proposal on Iraq is aimed at bringing most troops home. Yet if enacted, the law would still allow for tens of thousands of U.S. troops to stay deployed for years to come.
Of course, the proposal has come under fire from anti-war groups that want the troops out of there. As Tom Andrews, national director of the anti-war group Win Without War and an ex-congressman from Maine, appropriately put it:
[Y]ou've got more holes in here than Swiss cheese.
The story continues further:
The Democratic proposal would order troops to begin leaving Iraq within 30 days, a requirement Bush is already on track to meet as he begins reversing this year's 30,000 troop buildup. The proposal also sets a goal of ending combat by Dec. 15, 2008.
After that, troops remaining in Iraq would be restricted to three missions: counterterrorism, training Iraqi security forces and protecting U.S. assets, including diplomats.
It is terribly pathetic that the Democrats, who were elected to Congress on an anti-war platform in November of 2006, have long since cowardly backpedaled on the issue, considering they are deathly afraid of being pegged as "anti-American," "unpatriotic," and "pro-terrorist" by the neoconservative hawks in the GOP. Moreover, they refuse to show a backbone to their Republican counterparts, despite mouthing off their anti-war rhetoric. Why? Because they are as pro-war as the Republicans, proving furthermore that they never intended to pull the troops out of the war.
Interestingly enough, the Party of Jefferson and its cowardly sycophants, who keep making excuses for their unprincipled, self-serving leadership, have publicly noted in recent months that they weren't elected to bring the troops home from Iraq but to change the war strategy because of their dislike of how Bush managed the war. That certainly shows that they snookered the American people into voting for them in office, all the while remaining entirely loyal to the imperialists running the show in Washington.
Additionally, because of their true intentions having come to light by their own actions, it is a sign that they have betrayed their very own anti-war base. It goes without saying that most of them, with the exception of Dennis Kucinich and maybe Mike Gravel, have no convictions whatsoever. However, it is good that many others from that camp have turned to Ron Paul because of his consistent, principled record on the war, one that neither any of the top-tiered Democratic presidential contenders (including Hillary and Obama) doesn't have.
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Things I Am Thankful For
A pro-freedom blogger sounds off on the things that she is thankful for on Turkey Day.
This is a great Thanksgiving post for freedom lovers of all stripes.
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The Government Ruins the Lives of Families Blessed by Extreme Makeover Home Edition
The American Empire and its state regimes are destroying millions of lives of families helped by the hit ABC show Extreme Makeover Home Edition.
So much for the Bush regime's much-touted, much-beloved "ownership society" racket that Dubya was pushing as part of his unpopular "partially-privatized" Social Security program.
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Happy Thanksgiving, Pro-Liberty Patriots
I want to wish my fellow pro-liberty patriots a Happy Thanksgiving today. Remember, as we celebrate Thanksgiving Day today, we must never forget the evils of the state.
Enjoy this holiday while it lasts!
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Invade Pakistan?
Antiwar.com's anti-Big Government columnist and Washington watchdog Justin Raimondo on the American Empire's quest to invade Pakistan.
(Hat tip to RRDN for providing the link to the op-ed.)
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Fed-Induced Crisis Spreads to China and Korea
The Federal Reserve's self-induced, self-created crisis has metastasized to China and Korea, thanks to former Fed chief Greenspan and his imperial cronies.
It must be pointed out that the lion's share of the blame goes to all those government-worshiping sycophants -- economists, politicians, think tanks (like CATO, AEI, Heritage, etc.), media (False News, CNN, MSNBC, etc.), financial firms (J.P. Morgan for one), banks (Bank of America, Citibank, etc.) -- who have defended and justified the diabolical, vile, and coercive actions of the Fed. Milton Friedman, despite his great defense of the free market, also shares the blame, as his long-lasting legacy will showcase his propaganda and support for the money counterfeiter that we all know to be the Fed.
(A nod and a round of applause go to LR for bringing this up.)
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Another Incredible YouTube Video of Ron Paul
Here's another incredible Ron Paul video that people should look at. It's absolutely fabulous in my honest opinion. Watch it, and you'll see what I mean.
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Just wonder if there is any known results on the transitive metacyclic groups of $AGL(4,3)$?
Sorry, I should elaborate a bit here. I am working on a graph $\Gamma$ which admits a metacyclic group transitive on its vertices. By some other restricted conditions, I have reduced that $Aut\Gamma$ is contained in $AGL(4,3)$. So it turns out that I need to work on the following problems:
- Check whether there exist such metacyclic subgroups in $AGL(4,3)$.
- If exist, what are they?
One of my attempt was to inspect subgroups of $AGL(4,3)$ and rule out those impossible cases. But it seems tedious and somehow I still have to seek help from machinery search...
Alternatively, I am hoping to do it on a more elegant and efficient way. That is, to find the generators of the metacyclic groups. We know that a metacyclic group can be generated by two elements. Hence if we can find all the possible generators, then we can construct the groups and verify if these groups are transitive or not. There are some helpful information we already know: written $AGL(4,3)=\mathbb{Z}_3^4{:}GL(4,3)$, so a transitive metacyclic group $G=\langle(a_1,b_1),(a_2,b_2)|a_i\in\mathbb{Z}_3^4,b_i\in GL(4,3),~\mbox{and}~o(b_1),o(b_2)~\mbox{divisible by}~9\rangle$. Then the next question is which exact generators we should choose?
Another thought is that if it is possible to do a pure computer search? as the group is not too big, but I am not too sure how to write up the codes...
Any suggestion would be much appreciated.


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Located in Port Royal. 2 Bedrooms. Amazing open floor space overlooking the lagoon and across to the 8th green of the Barony Golf Course.
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The Daring Baker's October 2011 challenge was Povitica, hosted by Jenni of The Gingered Whisk. Povitica is a traditional Eastern European Dessert Bread that is as lovely to look at as it is to eat!
I was excited to learn how to make Potica, which is what we have always called this bread dessert. My mom and dad have made it for a few years and my grandmother before that. We usually serve it during the holidays.
Povitica (pronounced po-va-teet-sa) is traditional Eastern European dessert bread that is traditionally served during the holiday season. It is also known as Nutroll, Potica, Kalachi, Strudia, just to name a few. Family recipes, and the secrets on how to roll the bread so thin, was passed down through generations of families.
My dough wasn't rolled thin enough. I thought it was, but in looking at others, wow, theres is really super thin looks so cool.
I completely forgot that I froze two loaves to take out tomorrow as my parents are here before they head out for South Texas tomorrow for the winter. Here I made Oreo Brownies and Spider Cupcakes, too. I guess we can never have enough dessert!
Be sure to visit Jenni athttp://thegingeredwhisk.blogspot.com/ to see the recipe and her Povitica.
We all thought this was delicious!
Thursday, October 27, 2011
Friday, October 07, 2011
I Feel Good
Whoa-oa-oa! I feel good, I knew that I would, now
I feel good, I knew that I would, now
So good, so good, la la la …
I feel good, I knew that I would, now
So good, so good, la la la …
Yes indeed. I feel so much better than I have in the past 10 weeks. I can't believe it has been that long since I ran. Or lifted. Or swam. Or biked. Yikes. I've been living a sedentary lifestyle since this herniated disc business.
I often ask myself what in the hell do people do all day long if they aren't being active, training for something, participating in sport? Other than family, work, etc.
I have WAY too much time on my hands. Over the years I've become quite a great scheduler. I've become very organized and have never had the problem of not having enough time to do all that I want to. I have the same 24 hours as others do, I fit all that I want to into them. I never feel stressed out or rushed for time.
By not training 20+ hours a week recently I have had an excess of time on my hands. I have enjoyed attending ALL of Troy's football games, I've even worked the sidelines as part of the chain gang. He plays three games a week, it's been a blast. He's also playing fall baseball so I've been able to attend all of the Sunday double headers as I haven't traveled to any races. I've loved it! This Sunday is the last of fall ball. Boo!
A few weeks ago I decided I wanted to start quilting again. I have purchased all of the material and have cut it all out. I'll begin to sew it this weekend.
Happily, I finally ran last Saturday. Yup, a full 5 miles. I didn't have any pain, I didn't hurt afterwards, it was awesome. Although I had entered Twin Cities Marathon I didn't run it on Sunday. See, I'm being smart. I didn't go from 5 miles to 26 in a day. I am also entered in the Team Ortho Half Marathon the end of the month, I don't know whether I'll be attending or now. Slow but sure. I'm not pushing anything this time around. I really pushed after my hysterectomy recovery to run the ½ a few weeks after my first run. Not this time.
Tomorrow I'll head over to Gold's. I haven't lifted in 10 weeks. I'll lift full body and light light light. I won't rush right into the 90 lb DB shoulder shrugs or the 500 lb leg press. Slow and sure and smart, right.
I still feel a bit of tingling and numbness in my arm and hand but it is only off and on during the day, it isn't constant and it doesn't bring me to my knees.
During the past few weeks I've tested grains and my inflammation theory and it proves my theory every time. I imagine once I am fully healed I won't notice the inflammation as much, but I do now. I'm sticking to a paleo diet, the past 30 days has been a breeze and it makes me feel good, so good, like I knew that I would now….
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Lady Spartans hammer their way into state tournament
SOLON– When that last point fell against them, tears streamed down the faces of the Lady Spartans' volleyball team.
They hugged, then they wiped their eyes and stood with the runner-up trophy in the center of the Cedar Rapids Ice Arena.
Solon, ranked No. 6 in Class 4A, had taken on the top three seeds in the tournament and had almost run the table, just running out of points to play against the No. 1 team, Charles City, in the 4A final Saturday in Cedar Rapids.
Charles City defeated Solon to claim its first-ever volleyball title, but the Lady Spartans gave them a run for the money, and came away with a trophy just as big for second place. The Comets bested the Lady Spartans in five sets, 16-25, 18-25, 25-14, 25-23, 15-13.
It was a thrilling ride for Solon, beginning with a 12-point run against No. 3 Harlan in the quarterfinal and ending with a point-for-point battle against a No. 1 team that had not lost a three-game match all year.
And it happened in the school's second appearance at the state tournament.
Solon made an early exit from the 2011 tournament, falling in the first round to Union of LaPorte City.
This time, the Lady Spartans not only made it past the first round, they rode the rollercoaster all the way to the final point of the 4A tournament.
The voyage began with a delayed start Wednesday (Nov. 7) against the third-ranked team in 4A, Harlan.
"We had the perfect game plan and executed it flawlessly most of the night," said Solon head coach Peter Gustin. "Rylee Smith set the tone for us immediately with two huge digs on (Harlan all-stater Jess) Schaben, followed by a Jordan Runge block. It immediately rattled their hitters and allowed us to push the game open to a 12-point lead."
Those 12 points came while Kelsey Hinrichs was serving.
Solon triple-teamed Schaben, closed out the first game with a 25-11 win and went on to sweep Harlan out of the quarterfinals, 3-0 (25-11, 25-20, 25-20). Kelsey Cave, Jordan Smith and Jordan Runge all had 10 kills to lead the Spartans, while Hinrichs had nine.
As a team, the Spartans hit .364 of its kills, while forcing Harlan to hit .036 with 20 attack errors.
Rylee Smith had 15 digs and Emma Rickels had 36 assists to lead Solon. Hinrichs was 20-22 from the service stripe with three aces, while Rylee Smith was 16-17 with two aces.
"Our girls were relaxed, poised, and aggressive throughout the match, which probably stems from last year's trip to state," Gustin said. "Of course, we discussed the enhanced crowd noise and the pressure usually felt on the bigger stage, but we remained focused on the volleyball portion."
It was a much tighter match in the semifinal Friday afternoon against No. 2 Bishop Heelan of Sioux City.
Heelan and Solon traded the serve back and forth throughout the first set, including some long volleys, but Solon was down by two points late in the game. A Vik Meade block tied things at 19, but the Lady Spartans couldn't wrestle away the lead for good until some extra points had been played.
Solon took the first game, 27-25, but Heelan responded in another fairly tight second set, although Solon miscues helped, winning 25-21.
"Heelan presented a very difficult matchup for us due to their height across the net," Gustin said. "We're a particularly strong team up front, but they were just as skilled and gave us some fits. We didn't treat ourselves as an underdog in this match."
In the third set, things were starting to go south for the Lady Spartans.
Solon fell behind, and soon it was a 1-9 score on a Heelan service ace.
"I just told our girls that Heelan was feeding off our negative body language," Gustin commented. "They weren't outplaying us, and it wasn't that we were playing poorly. We just weren't fighting with a spark. When the girls got back on the court, it took one point to turn it all around."
After Solon's Meade made a tap play at the net, the Lady Spartans began to climb back, and soon it was tied, 10-10.
Solon captured the lead, and kills from Cave, Hinrichs and Jordan Smith sealed the deal, 25-23.
"This team grew mentally tough throughout the year and it just took a little bit of perseverance and belief to get back in it," Gustin noted. "We were able to capture that set and use the momentum to finish the job in the fourth."
That lead in that game bounced between the two teams until Jordan Smith came to the service line for Solon. Smith helped the Lady Spartans rattle off five unanswered points and take the lead for good, finishing Heelan off, 25-20.
Cave had 16 kills to lead Solon, while Runge and Hinrichs added 15 and 12 each. Rickels had 53 assists and Rylee Smith had 28 digs.
The win earned Solon a spot in the championship game against Charles City less than 24 hours later.
The top-ranked Comets were led by senior Jessie Sindlinger, and it was again Solon's plan to concentrate on making her uncomfortable.
And it worked for the first two sets.
The Lady Spartans rolled in the first two games, 25-16 and 25-18, with all the Solon hitters contributing.
"In the third set, they began shifting her (Sindlinger) back to the pins on serve receive and we weren't able to pull together enough blocks on her to make runs," Gustin observed. "They are the toughest serving team we've seen all year, and just about the most all-around dynamic team we've seen as well, regardless of being a bit shorter up front."
It turned the tables on Solon.
"In the last two sets, our hitters were tentative, arching high roll shots and tips that ended up being hit back at us," Gustin said. "We were reluctant to use their blockers and hit the deep corners of the court."
Charles City climbed back in with a 25-14 third set and from then out it was neck-and-neck through the final two.
Hinrichs started the fourth with two aces and Solon kicked off with a three-point lead, but the Comets tied the game at 10 and the teams then traded the lead or were tied until the final two points and a 25-23 win for Charles City.
The final set was similar, with the Lady Spartans nudging out to a modest lead early, and then battling with the Comets through ties and lead changes until Solon was down to its final two points, tied at 13.
"During the last two timeouts, I reminded the girls about what the face of a champion looks like and just told them to smile," Gustin said of the closing moments. "I said look around and soak it all in, because this is an experience for a lifetime. Regardless of the result, as long as they played their hardest and gave a total effort, that's all we could ask for as coaches and they wouldn't regret that."
The Comets scored the final two points, and took the match, 3-2.
Jordan Smith had 22 kills to lead Solon, with Cave adding 13, Hinrichs 12 and Runge 10. Rickels had 49 assists, while Rylee Smith and Hinrichs combined for 20 and 19 digs respectively.
Rylee Smith and Cave were named to the 4A 1ll-tournament team.
"There was a very solid foundation implemented for the girls in this program. We were able to develop the mental toughness and hardiness necessary to play with pressure and achieve our goals," Gustin said of his team. "I am so grateful for this experience and in all candor, I could not be more proud of the girls and our coaching staff.
"Each night, in more than a literal sense, when we arrived to a gym, we arrived together. When we left, we left together– win or lose," he continued. "In my mind, winning is the ultimate on-court goal, but there is something so inimitable to be said for the amazing life lessons that come from not being the top dog in the end."
The Lady Spartans ended the season with a 33-5 record.
"The seniors have helped develop a precedent for this program that is synonymous with success, pride, respect, and teamwork," Gustin concluded. "I believe the younger girls will use this experience to help propel this program to the next level. This won't be the last time Solon's name is announced at the state volleyball tournament."


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Sony Ericsson's Walkman-branded handsets and its focus on high-end camera phones pushed the company into a record quarter during the final three months of its 2005 fiscal year, the phone-maker said today.
For the three months to 31 December 2005, Sony Ericsson reported pre-tax profits of €206m ($249m) - up 36.4 per cent on Q3 FY2005's figure and 47.1 per cent higher than in the same period for 2004 - on sales up 15.2 per cent year-on-year to €2.31bn ($2.8bn).
Net income for the period was €144m ($174m), up 38.5 per cent sequentially and 161.8 per cent year-on-year.
For the full fiscal year, Sony Ericsson saw sales of €7.27bn ($8.80bn), up 11.4 per cent on FY2004's total, €6.53bn ($7.90bn). Net income for the year came to €356m ($431m), up 12.7 per cent on the previous year's €316m ($382m).
The company shipped 16.1m handsets during the quarter - three million of them Walkman-branded phones - up from 13.8m in the previous quarter and 12.6m in Q4 FY2004.
Sony Ericsson said its operating profit margin was approximately nine per cent during the quarter. The average selling price of its handsets was €143.5 ($174), down from €149 ($180) in the previous quarter.
However, rising shipments - the company said it expects world phone sales to rise 10 per cent in 2006 to 858m units - will allow it to maintain its profit margins, company president, Miles Flint, said today.
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The Working Group consists of independent experts and members of the Sub-Commission - one from each of the geopolitical regions of the world. The Working Group is open to all representatives of indigenous peoples and their communities and organizations. The openness of the Working Groups' sessions, which also includes the participation of representatives of Governments, non-governmental organizations and United Nations agencies, has strengthened its position as a focal point of international action on indigenous issues. The Working Group is today one of the largest United Nations forums in the field of human rights.
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Alberta's connection queue has seen a significant fall in wind energy projects since the last quarter of 2009, when the Alberta Electric System Operator (AESO) offered companies a chance to drop off and receive back what had been a non-refundable C$50,000 application fee.
Thirty-seven projects totalling 5.7GW cancelled their applications, leaving 52 wind energy projects with a combined capacity of 7.5GW in line for connection.
Most of the cancellations came from developers who had filed applications for multiple projects they'd hoped to bring on over time, says Kelly Gunsch, AESO's vice-president of market services.
"In the interim, they've compiled wind resource data and have chosen to focus on specific projects," she says. "So they were actually removing projects from the queue that perhaps did not have as strong economics as others."
Jana Mosley, programme director for customer interconnections at AESO, says transmission constraints in wind-rich parts of the province helped prompt developers to stake out a spot in the queue for projects that were still at an early stage of development.
"We saw a rush for people to apply without real project plans," she explains.
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But the economic climate has changed since the current interconnection process was implemented in 2006. "When customers applied back in 2006, things were really fired up, especially in regard to wind," says Mosley. "Investors were chomping at the bit to invest in wind projects and then we saw, obviously, a sudden shift late in 2008."
The queue clean-up will provide AESO with a far more accurate and realistic picture of the number of projects and megawatts looking to gain access to the grid. "A clearer queue helps us with planning. There's no question," says Gunsch.
A concern some wind developers have had is whether the project cancellations will affect planned transmission upgrades in southern and central Alberta, but Mosley says nothing has changed. "Right now, any of the active phases of those projects are still very much needed," she says.


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Over the hill: Baby punks go for the devil
After years of close-calls, the one thing a member of the counter-culture like me fears most finally occurred. Last Friday, August 30, at the "Rock and Roll Will Kill You" show at Tokyo Rose, my friends and I were the oldest people there.
As anyone who knows me will tell you, my claim to be a card-carrying member of the aforementioned group is way more than half jest (I've never even committed an act of eco-terrorism), but it was a bit of a shocker when the only other "oldies" in the crowd were the bartender and the sound-guy.
For All Time was the first band in the Rose's questionably all-star lineup. I wish I could say more about the band, but I was participating in a birthday-related sushi eat-off upstairs, and only caught a smidgen of the group. They were hard and scream-based, I can say that, in an At The Drive In-minus-the-hooks sort of way.
Next up was the act that all the youngsters seemed to have come to see– the Deadbeats, a band not much older than the young audience. They played exuberant punk rock– hard hitting drums, power chords, and the like. Their singer and lead guitarist bantered with the crowd in a relaxed fashion– he seemed to possess a stage manner beyond his years.
Their set list included punkified covers of "Blue Suede Shoes," sung in an extremely non-Elvis fashion, a Chuck-Berry cover, and a song by harder-than-hard punkish band the Misfits. Definitely the crowd pleaser from their own stock was "Fuck You, Baby," with a sung/shouted chorus that the crowd easily emulated, "Fuck you baby, fuck you baby, no moreeeeee."
Forty five minutes of setting up what appeared to be just three guitar stacks (amps), and a drum set did not endear the next act, the Devil Tones, to me to begin with, and their act did not make up for the affront– they were hard-hard very loud rock without much melody to speak of– not exactly my cup of tea.
I had come to see RPG, the last act up, mostly because their name is the acrnoym for "role playing game" (whether this was intentional, I cannot say). I pictured mid-20 year olds in thick rimmed glasses and other assorted geek-rock wear– the sure sign of a great, or at least hilarious, band. Unfortunately, the Devil Tones went on so late that RPG would not have been able to play for long anyway, so I decided to save my inner-ear hair-cells for more shows and give the group a rain-check.
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Mixed media 3D original artwork, created by Rouzbeh Tahmassian. This unique piece contains actual beetroot, red wine, coffee and beeswax in it. The top layers are made of UV resistant epoxy resin, which makes the work last forever.
The base of his work is photography. The photograph is extensively manipulated with many mixed media techniques. "I use sturdy wooden panels which are handcrafted by myself. The materials I use in my artwork are endless, such as acrylics, oil, pastel, encaustics, watercolours, sanguis, beeswax, gold(24K), copper, Damar resin and epoxy resin. I feel there is no limit in materials and techniques I can use. I'm intensely drawn to the unknown: an unknown effect, an unknown material and an unknown twist of work. It's what keeps me motivated to fabricate new work".
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The streetlight outside number 12/14 Tamarisk Gardens is still broken and not illuminating. This is causing safety and security concerns due to the poor illumination in the culdesac. Please can this be escalated for repair. Thanks
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The HLCM Vice-Chair introduced the agenda item, recalling that during its 27th session in April 2014, HLCM discussed a paper presented by DSS titled "Reconciling the duty of care for UN personnel while operating in high risk environment" and established a strategic group chaired by the USG DSS to undertake a comprehensive review of the issues raised in the DSS paper.
The Co-Chair of the Strategic Group (UNHCR) presented the final report on behalf of the USG for DSS, noting that in the current global security environment, Duty of Care has become a widely resonating issue for employers, and that UN staff members are more often operating in dangerous and volatile security environments. She referred to recent developments such as the first judicial ruling against a Norwegian INGO on the basis of duty of care which have heightened the need to strategically address this complex issue.
In her overview, the Co-Chair explained that Duty of Care can be found at various levels: organizational, managerial, and personal. She noted that the report mostly addressed the duty of care responsibility at the organizational and managerial level, but it should be recognized that there is also a "duty of self-care" and an obligation of staff to comply with institutional rules and regulations.
The Co-Chair noted that exercising proper duty of care to UN staff working in high risk environments has major strategic level implications, and that it is therefore essential to keep the momentum and address the multitude of cross-cutting issues raised by the Strategic Group in the report, in order to provide a coordinated and systematic response. In general, the report indicates inconsistencies between organizations; between various categories of personnel, especially international and locally-recruited staff; and, between countries or duty stations. In many areas, the report shows a lack of information, coordination, cooperation and communication and lack of understanding of current measures and resources. It also demonstrates that the current duty of care system, in particular with regard to medical and psychosocial support, focuses on mitigation rather than prevention.
With regard to security, the Co-Chair noted the gaps identified had been reviewed and addressed by the IASMN through departmental or system–wide IASMN priorities, and they cover various security issues from security reporting, contingency planning, staff security training, and the application of UNSMS security standards and policies.
With regard to the Psychosocial, Health, Human Resources and Administration, the report concluded that there is a lack of mission-specific pre-deployment care and preparedness. A recurring theme was the frustration of staff with their inability to obtain accurate, updated information about the risks in their new role and duty station. As a result the Strategic Group made recommendations for the development of a pre-deployment management package for staff, creation of a system-wide resilience mandatory briefing, and specific training for managers in high risk environments.
Throughout Phase One of the study, many high risk environments were described where medical support was inadequate or unavailable, with erratic standards of medical care and overreliance on external medical providers. The Strategic group therefore recommended developing and mainstreaming an Occupational Health Risk Management Approach, through the adoption of a Health Risk analysis and mapping methodology and the implementation of systematic health support planning. In addition, inadequate psychosocial services and inadequate number of stress counsellors were reported in all environments and the report demonstrates the need to strengthen psychosocial support to staff in high risk environments in several manners.
The Strategic Group also observed the need for strengthening various administrative support mechanisms in particular with regard to the processing of insurance, and reinforced the long standing issue of the differences in the allowances, benefits, and entitlements between internationally-recruited and locally-recruited staff.
The HLCM Vice-Chair commended the Strategic Group for the important work. Strong appreciation and support for this work was also expressed by many organizations, and it was noted that the focus should now be placed on how best to implement it.
There was general agreement on the need to ensure continuation of collaboration between duty of care issues, IASMN and the HR network, with several speakers noting the need to devise approaches to deal with cross cutting and thematic topics. It was observed that in general, the HLCM session had discussed many cross functional topics, including duty of care, and that while traditionally HLCM has been established on functional grounds with HR, Finance and Budget, Procurement, IT and Security Networks, as the Committee moves forward with operationalizing the Duty of Care recommendations, consideration should be given as to whether the current functional set-up is sufficiently cluster based and aligned to the goals of the 2030 Agenda. It was suggested that the way forward on duty of care could be a test case to see how best to work across networks for future activities.
The representatives of Staff Federations indicated that the report was an important step towards a corrective action to ensure better protection for staff and their families, and confirmed their commitment to facilitate a cultural shift, particularly with regard to psychological services.
Comments on behalf of UN Cares were conveyed to the Committee by the representative of UNFPA, indicating the availability of UN Cares to be a partner in developing communication and learning tools at the global level related to reducing mental health stigma, and to health and wellbeing in general. UN Cares also noted that due to the difficulties experienced in establishing ongoing teams of UN Cares volunteers in high risk environments, it would be difficult for UN Cares to be a reliable delivery partner for many of the services identified in the paper.
The HLCM Chair concluded the discussion by thanking all members of the Strategic Group, and noted that the relevance between psycho-social and other challenges was very important. She emphasized the need to review how the report recommendations could be linked to other areas of work, looking at how to deal with cross cutting and thematic topics across networks. The Chair requested the CEB Secretariat to follow up with further consultations, with a view to establishing a clearer implementation plan for consideration at the next HLCM meeting.
The Committee:
Thanked the members of the Strategic Group for their excellent job, and decided to:
A. Ask the CEB Secretariat to undertake consultations among HLCM members with a view to continuing the work of the Task Force on duty of care under the chairmanship of an HLCM member, and with composition at the appropriate level reflecting the different stakeholders (HR Network, medical, security, etc.).
B. Ask the Task Force to present a proposal for a way forward, with a prioritized list of concrete and achievable deliverables for consideration by the HLCM at its fall 2016 session, for subsequent inclusion in the new HLCM Strategic Plan.


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H.R.3197 - Restoring Overtime Pay Act of 2019116th Congress (2019-2020) |
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Ala. town mourns for bus driver amid standoff
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Law enforcement officials continue to work the scene of an ongoing hostage crisis in Midland City, Ala., Friday, Feb. 1, 2013. Local, state and federal officers wait out a man accused of shooting and killing a school bus driver, then snatching a 5-year-old child. Suspect Jimmy Lee Dykes has been holed up in a bunker on his property with the child since the late afternoon shooting on Tuesday, Jan. 29, 2013. (AP Photo/al.com, Julie Bennett)


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United Kingdom (July 9, 2012) – Hayden Amps will release the High Five - a new 5W all-tube guitar combo – at this year's Summer NAMM show.
Built for guitarists who want to spend more time playing and less time endlessly tweaking knobs, the High Five takes a minimal approach yet remains rich in tone and response. The amp harkens back to simpler times with its straightforward bass, treble and volume controls, and features a single 10" speaker in a beautiful retro-styled cabinet. An ECC83 preamp tube and an EL84 output tube are employed.
Players on a restricted budget seeking pure tube tone at sensible volume levels will find what they're looking for in the High Five.
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Sunday, September 18, 2011
The Incredible Book Eating Boy
Last week was the first time I've taught a Literacy Launchpad lesson in over a year (visit my other blog here to get a peek at WHY I've been gone for a while)! It felt WONDERFUL to be back at it. You have no idea how much I was missing it!
We kicked it all off with The Incredible Book Eating Boy by Oliver Jeffers. It's a fun book, and it works really well to begin a year of incredible reading. The kids all seemed excited about being dubbed "Incredible Book Reading Boys/Girls."
We played a game where we fed Henry's mouth books, and then when that didn't go so well (made our "Henry" sick) we fed his brain books instead. Of course, we first had to create some good books to fill up that brain of his. We ended up with books about dinosaurs, tornados, rainbows, and pumpkins to name a few.
This week it will be fun to see their reaction to getting to go to "reading class" again now that they know what it's all about.
Here are a few photos of us feeding Henry's brain.
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Memo to: Seth Macfarlane
Nothing ever seems to get in your way, Seth, whether the field of combat is TV, film, music, animation or even standup. Typically, when you sold yet another TV show to Fox last week, it was a straight-to-series order, not one of those pedestrian pilot deals. I don't want to rain on your parade, Seth, but I'd like to remind you of one looming problem: It's called the Oscar show, and it's less than a month away.
The late Gil Cates (who produced 14 of them) once told me that these final weeks were the most exasperating. This is when the network crunchers shot down his best ideas and the Academy's fussy functionaries vetoed changes in format.
Now I realize you're just the host for the Oscar show, Seth — Neil Meron and Craig Zadan are the producers — but you will play a key part in the evening and, to put it bluntly, you already have one strike against you: Tina Fey and Amy Poehler presided over the Golden Globes with the sort of pace and panache sorely missing from Oscar shows of recent vintage.
Make that two strikes: Many Academy members winced at your clumsy pre-dawn presentation of the Oscar nominees. Who wrote your material — Brett Ratner?
I doubt if Meron and Zadan were thrilled when, in announcing "Amour," you joked that the last German-Austrian co-production was Adolf Hitler (leave Hitler jokes to Mel Brooks, Seth). Or when, in listing filmmakers, you explained that directors were people who sat around "watching other people make a movie." Or when you congratulated the five women nominees because they no longer had to be attractive to Harvey Weinstein.
I realize it was early in the morning, Seth, that you'd just learned that your car had been towed and you're new to the Oscar game, indeed to the movie game. But, you seem ubiquitous in Hollywood lately and your first film, "Ted," turned millions of kids against their Teddy bears because they don't talk dirty.
Further, you've got to understand that myriad ghosts hover over the Oscar show. There's Allan Carr, whose promising career came crashing down after he tried to liven up the 1989 show with a Snow White number starring Rob Lowe. Then remember what happened to Jimmy Franco in 2011. (OK, not even Jimmy can remember.)
Your role as master of ceremonies was immortalized by Bob Hope and Johnny Carson, but their successors have proven to be accident-prone.
Meron and Zadan, the producers of "Hairspray" and "Music Man," have been dreaming of producing an Oscar show for 10 years and they do not intend to put that dream into turnaround.
I realize that things come easy to you, Seth, and that you've shown your prowess in many arenas. You can write jokes and tell jokes and even draw jokes. Not only did you co-write, co-produce and direct "Ted," but you even picked up an Oscar nomination for co-writing the song. And in TV you've been responsible for hits like "Family Guy," "American Dad," "The Cleveland Show" and now your new show, "Dads," in which washed-up dads live together with their thirtysomething sons.
We don't worry about you being washed up, Seth, but we do remember two non-award-winning animated projects you worked on, "I Am Weasel" and "Cow & Chicken." Not everything turns out to be a home run in show business, and that rule especially applies to Academy Award shows.
This was a pretty good movie year, Seth, and there is genuine suspense as to the winners. Questions about what you'll do as host adds further suspense.
So pay attention this time — and remember that the ghosts of Oscars past are watching.


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City Code authorizes a special charge when it takes meter readers more time than usual to read a meter. This may include situations where customers park vehicles or deposit debris over the meter or allow landscaping to cover or obstruct the meter box.
Meter obstructions are identified many times a month. After a blocked meter is discovered, Portland Water & Sewer Utilities Customer Services informs the customer that access to the meter box must be restored immediately.
If the customer does not accomplish the task within 24 hours, Customer Services will send a bill that is estimated based upon prior usage and advise that a city crew will remove the obstruction from the property if the meter is still blocked during the next billing cycle. The City charges $105.00 for the service based on cost of service. A vehicle blocking a meter is subject to tow at the owner's expense.


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Vintage clothing, furniture and music are all hitching a ride back to modern society to help fulfil our ever-elusive desire for individuality. Language missed that revival train, something I only realised from the puzzled expressions of my peers as I churned through my similes. From this a thought sprang – what if these sayings were taken literally? And this work was born, mixing literal images with the sayings of old. My old soul wants to preserve in a world too busy to learn. Using digital manipulation, I proved you can teach an old-souled dog new tricks.
Influencing artist: Marta Gola
Can you recognise the sayings in Maddison Maloney's body of work? Do they still have literal meanings or mean something more? Respond to this work and form an opinion about the relationship between text, culture and meaning.
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The attempt of man to fly and slip the surly bonds of Earth is reflected in an absolute way in the adventurous sky sports. Like the legendary hero Icarus, sky sports enthousiasts in Greece get excited by the thrill of flying that offers them unique freedom in conjunction with spiritual tranquility and absolute concentration. This is an adventurous, authentic and quite romantic way to see the natural beauties of Greece from above, moving with the air currents as your guide.
Greece has the ideal climate for gliding, hang gliding and parapente (paragliding) flights, since the drier the climate of a region or a country is, the better it is for the development of the above-mentioned sports, which utilize the upward currents in the atmosphere to help the glider, the kite-glider or the parapenter to fly for quite a while. The period between April and October is the best time to fly.
Gliding (also known as soaring) is a sports activity in which the pilot seeks to maintain or gain altitude in unpowered flight (aided by the rising air) by flying unpowered aircrafts – the gliders or sailplanes. When soaring conditions are good enough, experienced pilots can fly hundreds of kilometres before returning to their home airports. Gliding has been active in Greece since 1935, pioneered by the Athens Gliding Club under the auspices of the Hellenic Aero Club, while one of the oldest and more experienced is the Tripolis Air Sports Center that has been operating since 1956.
In hang gliding, the pilot "hangs" (tied in a special harness) underneath the glider (a flying machine consisting of Dacron fabric and aluminium tubes of aircraft alloy), in such a way that his/ her body hangs in the air like a pendulum. By shifting his/ her weight in the appropriate way and by taking advantage of the rising air currents, the pilot follows the desired direction moving along three axes: longitudinal, transversal and vertical. Depending on the degree of training, the pilot can reach a height of 5,000 metres and stay in the air for up to 10 hours.
The sport started in the '70s in the USA and Australia where it became quickly popular. In the years to follow, it became known all over the world; in Greece hang gliding first appeared in 1978 and in 1999 was incorporated into the Hellenic Air Sports Federation (HASF). The sport today is very popular, and the result is that many Greek clubs are now involved in training any and all interested parties.
Parapente (paragliding) acquired its name from the French words "parachute" and "pente" (mountainside), since it was established in the mid 1980's in France.
This sport requires good physical condition, excellent technical, psychological and metal alertness, perceptiveness, as well as knowledge of meteorology and aerodynamics which are taught by special instructors. Taking into account weather conditions, the parapente can reach a height of 4,000 m and can travel a distance of 2.0-2.5 km. Flights may last several hours, with speeds ranging from 48 to 60 kph. It was introduced in Greece in the early 1990's mainly by persons involved in hang gliding -flying by kite-, which was already quite popular as a sport.
The first competitions took place in Plataies in the beginning of the 1990's. A national championship has been organized and a national team has been created, while local competitions are being held in many regions throughout Greece, organized by the Hellenic Paragliding Committee, which is part of the Hellenic Air Sports Federation
Parapente (paragliding) flights take place in Attica (Kandili, Megara), Viotia (Plataies Thivon), as well as in many other regions in Greece, such as Konitsa, Agrinio, Arta, Ioannina, Edessa, Thessaloniki, Patras and Crete). Training requires around 4-5 weekends and includes flight theory, meteorology lessons and a practical exercise. However, when flying, the beginner will be accompanied by an instructor for a period of time.
For more information regarding gliding, hang gliding and parapente (paragliding) in Greece, local clubs and the various events held all over the country, contact the:
Hellenic Air Sports Federation (HASF)
P.B. 70262 Glyfada, 166 10 - Athens
Tel: +30 210 9649 788, +30 210 9649 876
Fax: +30 210 9649 547
Website: http://www.elao.gr
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Intro to Homebrewing
January 23, 2018 @ 6:30 pm - 8:00 pm$25
An intro to homebrewing your own delicious beer.
- Designed for beginning through intermediate brewers
- Learn key terms
- Overview of the ingredients and what they contribute
- How different beer styles are created
- The basic brewing process
- Tips and Tricks for a successful brew day
- Emphasis is on partial grain AKA extract AKA extract with grains brewing.
- Saving the universe through homebrew!
- Class Length – 1.5-2 hrs
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Betty Ward Cain is a published author, musician and retired teacher. Mrs. Cain taught kindergarten
students for 30 years. She comes from a long line of ministers, musicians, teachers and song writers.
Mrs. Cain grew up in a minister's home. Her father, grandfather, and several uncles were ministers. She desires to pass on her Christian
heritage and bring the values she learned during her childhood to children today.
Mrs. Cain lives with her husband, Jay, in Cleveland, TN. They have one son, Jeremy, who is married to Beth Grabensteder Cain and the
couple has three children. The delight of Mrs. Cain's life is her three grandchildren. Madelin is a loving, sweet, and kind young lady who desires to please. Sophie has a great zest for life. She is intelligent and observant and loves to give and receive hugs.
Madelin and Sophie were baptized just recently which thrilled their parents and grandparents. They are growing into graceful, loving, Christian young ladies. Sammy is highly intelligent for a child so young. He loves life and loves people. He also loves to make his grandmother laugh. He followed his sisters' example by being baptized a few years later.


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How To Dress Well is the stage name of songwriter and producer Tom Krell. Krell's burgeoning career began in 2009 when, having just moved from Brooklyn to Berlin, his songs began to emerge online via a hugely prolific string of free, digital EPs posted in anonymity on his blog. Combining a gorgeous falsetto with fractured R&B-influenced beats, an instinctive ear for subtly devastating melody and elements of noise, sound collage and avant-garde composition, Krell's debut album Love Remains offered a beautiful window into a startlingly realised artistic imagination.
Praised for both its conceptual strength and immediate emotional resonance, Love Remains duly garnered vast critical acclaim and highlights such as "Ready For The World" and "Decisions feat. Yuksel Arslan" saw Krell accredited with having given birth to a new, narcotized strain of R&B that has since spawned a host of imitators.
Since Love Remains, Krell has toured the world, recorded with an orchestra (the Just Once EP, with proceeds going to raise awareness about mental illness) and, always prolific, written and recorded a lot of new music - all whilst continuing work on a philosophy doctorate. September 4th 2012 will see him share this new body of work with the world with the release of Total Loss, his new album.
"I made Total Loss over the course of a long year, 15 months or so. These songs were written in Brooklyn, Chicago, Nashville, and London, between September of 2010 & January 2012", explains Krell. "I spent a lot of this long year very unhappy and confused. I always want to live gracefully and wistfully and with love and possibility: I found myself feeling stranded, left alone and depraved, and generally run the fuck down. Mourning people who have passed and – even more horrifying –mourning people still alive, still in my life. While writing these songs I was trying to learn to lose in a meaningful way and to sustain loss as a source of creative energy. I have learned that optimism and mournfulness are not opposed moods or modes of life: for me, for whatever reason, this was a hard lesson to learn. I feel like I've learned so much and continue to learn so much and this makes me very, very happy."
Whereas Love Remains was a study of love in its darkest hour, Total Loss is an attempt to find one's way out of darkness, even when there seems to be no light ahead. Co-produced by Rodaidh McDonald (the XX), the album touches on many of the same sounds as Love Remains but incorporates a range of other influences and showcases Krell's evolution as an artist. The increased fidelity of these recordings also highlights Krell's arrangements and graceful voice in ways which Love Remains had only hinted at. All the elements of Love Remains that enraptured are still present here – the noisiness, the moodiness, the layers of swarming voices – but stand alongside other complex elements: the elegant weeping arcos and pizzicatos of neo-classical music, the rude drums of trap-rap, and the sweet, special and sentimental moments of Janet Jackson's Velvet Rope are all swept up and embraced in the deep beauty of Total Loss.
Krell states that Total Loss is "an opening-up", describing it as an "album about sharing." Where Love Remains was damaged and hurt, about losing oneself in the noisiness of the songs and becoming trapped in melancholia, Total Loss is wounded but healing, about re-emerging like Persephone, or like Mariah Carey post-Glitter and after her breakdown. Remember? She wrote that she "never told her fans this, but 'guess what, I don't take care of myself'"--- Total Loss is a 'love yourself' and 'change yourself' kind of album. So, where Love Remains was an expression of intense and maybe isolating intimacy with pain, Total Loss is about the rare sharing that can go on between people that pierces through the undeniable, sometimes unshakable struggle and pain of life--- I'm trying to use this sharing to orient my life--- call it true hope, or love."


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Have Ruthbridge been chasing you for debts? Ruthbridge are debt collectors who are authorised by their client to collect money on their behalf.
If Ruthbridge have been in touch, contact us immediately for independent, free and confidential advice. We will look at all of your options and try to stop the debt collectors from taking any further action. Act quickly to avoid repossession and possible entry to your property.
Ruthbridge have a company number of 02920861.
Their mailing address is:
13 Princeton Court, 53-55 Felsham Road, London, SW15 1AZ
Important: Don't let Ruthbridge into your property, no matter what they tell you about their rights. Contact us immediately and we will try to stop them before the matter escalates.
Your rights against debt collectors:
- Bailiffs are not allowed to push past you.
- They can not enter your property between certain times.
- They can only enter through a door, no windows.
A debt collector can make a visit to your property when you do not pay your debts on time. Their usual collections are for council tax arrears, court fines, county court judgements, criminal fines, credit cards, loans, payday loans and many more.
Ruthbridge Frequently Asked Questions
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If may be possible to write off a portion of your debts through a formal arrangement called a Scottish Trust Deed. This depends on how the people you owe money to handle the proposal you submit. You should seek independent financial advice to see the best way for you.
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In certain situations, it is possible that your lenders get a court order to allow them access to your property. This is usually for criminal offences such as: parking fines, council tax arrears, benefit fraud and unpaid parking fines.
What is a Scottish Trust Deed?
A Scottish Trust Deed is a formal way to consolidate all of your unsecured debts in to one affordable monthly payment, starting from £80 per month.


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Barely a week after I have written about the powerful Vaisravana – Dzambhala Wealth Amulet and my email has been bombarded by queries and interest to get the wealth amulet.
As of now the writing of this post there are more than 30 people who has acquired the said powerful wealth amulet. Although I expect that it will take some time before we start getting testimonials about the Vaisravana – Dzambhala Wealth Amulet only because, as Guru Lama explained, the said wealth amulet gives you the kind of wealth luck or money luck or financial luck that is more stable. If you don't have wealth luck it creates it for you, and if you have wealth luck it help pull it and create sustainability and make it stable so that it becomes permanent, steadily increasing and more sustainable.
One of my readers who got the wealth amulet called me last Sunday, two days after getting her Vaisravana – Dzambhala Wealth Amulet and said that it is already working for her. I'm happy for her but have to caution her that maybe what she is having is not yet from the wealth amulet, only because there are 7 – Day Ritual before one can wear the amulet. She was only on her second day.
Note: THE VAISRAVANA – DZAMBHALA WEALTH AMULET COMES WITH A SEVEN – DAY RITUAL PACK.
But there is no question that the Vaisravana – Dzambhala Wealth Amulet is a powerful amulet, because my Guru Lama has made this amulet several times for different Sangha member of the temple where he serves as the Chief Abbot.
One of those stories is about Shi Ai Mi (SAM). SAM is an employee of one of the Sangha member of the temple where Guru Lama serves as the Chief Abbot. Her boss is a rich businessman who is also a devout Buddhist.
Her boss is very fond of SAM, and maybe she also took pity on her because SAM is a hardworking young woman who is the sole breadwinner of her family. Both of her parents are now invalid. She sent some of her siblings to school, and she is striving to straighten up his brother who has fallen into bad company.
SAM's employee is a believer of Feng Shui and out of pity she hired one of the most famous Feng Shui in Taipei to check out SAM's bazi chart (paht chee chart). They were also told that no Feng Shui charm would be powerful enough to change her fate. SAM's employee decided to bring her to see Guru Lama. She told Guru Lama about SAM's bazi and also she told Guru Lama how she has become fond of SAM and considers her as her own grandchild and would love to see her fate change.
After doing some divination, Guru Lama realized that he could make the Vaisravana – Dzambhala Wealth Amulet for her. She would have been the 7th person to receive the amulet. This was 9 years ago.
I have personally met SAM at the temple. In fact, she is the first person who mentioned to me about the Vaisravana – Dzambhala Wealth Amulet, although her Vaisravana – Dzambhala Wealth Amulet looks slightly different because Guru Lama used a different holder but still made of cylindrical metal.
I met SAM at the temple during one of the retreats five years back. Although "useless" talking was not allowed inside the temple, we had an afternoon off, and while other went to different stores we decided to stay in a teahouse and we got to chat about how we met Guru Lama. She said when she was brought by her boss to see Guru Lama was the first time she met Guru Lama, and although she was Buddhist since birth, her Dharma practice became stronger after meeting Guru Lama.
It was then when she told me about the Vaisravana – Dzambhala Wealth Amulet and she mentioned that it really reversed her fortune. She is now an entrepreneur and has 4 different companies. She truly believes that it was really the Buddhas and Bodhisattvas who thru the Vaisravana – Dzambhala Wealth Amulet that she was given wealth luck.
She now pays it forward and sponsors some people to attend the retreat.
You can read the following posts to know more about the Vaisravana _ Dzambhala Wealth Amulet:
- The Four Heavenly Kings: Getting to Know Four Powerful Buddhist Gods that Helps Bestwo Wealth, Success, Peace, and Protection.
- The Vaisravana – Dzambhala Wealth Amulet: An Introduction to A Very Powerful Wealth Amulet.
- The Creation of Wealth: Is Wanting to Get Wealthy A Sin and A Vaisravana – Dzambhala Wealth Amulet Miraculous Story Shared by My Guru Lama!
- Why "Creation of Wealth"?: Vaisravana – Dzambhala Wealth Amulet Is An Amulet That Creates Wealth for You and Other Questions, Answered.
- The Creation of Wealth (2): The Taiwanese Employee Devoid of Financial and Wealth Luck on Her Bazi Turned Into a Rich Entrepreneur (A Vaisravana – Dzambhala Wealth Amulet Miraculous Personal Testimony Shared by A Co – Sangha Member).
- The Creation of Wealth (3): The Illiterate Son Whose Only Wish Is For His Parents to Have a Good Life – Another Miraculous Story About the Vaisravana – Dzambhala Wealth Amulet!
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Kansas Senate votes to expand conceal-carry
Licensed gunholders could carry in government offices, schools
The Kansas Senate has approved a bill expanding the number of public buildings where concealed weapons are allowed and letting public school and college employees carry concealed firearms.
The 35-5 vote Wednesday sends the measure to the House.
The bill backed by gun-rights advocates comes as federal officials consider new gun-control measures following a deadly mass shooting at a Newtown, Conn., elementary school in December.
The House already has approved its own version of the same measure, allowing local school boards and state colleges to designate employees to carry concealed weapons.
Also, state and local governments couldn't prohibit holders of state concealed-carry permits from bringing their weapons into public buildings unless those places had security measures. Officials would have until 2018 to get those security measures in place.


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text: This was The Beatles' 13th show at the Tower Ballroom in New Brighton, Wallasey. The Tower Ballroom shows were promoted by Sam Leach, for whom The Beatles played a number of events in the early 1960s. This appearance, billed as a "Mad March Rock Ball", came on the same night as a show at St John's Hall in Bootle.Tower Ballroom was on the New Brighton promenade, and was capable of holding up to 5,000 people. The New Brighton Tower opened in 1900, and at 567ft was taller than Blackpool Tower. A 1,000 tonne lattice-steel observation tower overlooking the Wirral Peninsula, it was the tallest building in Britain when it was completed.It was short-lived, however. Following closure during World War One, its structure began to decay and the tower was dismantled between 1919 and 1921.The ballroom underneath fared better, however, and was used for nearly 50 years. However, the building was destroyed by fire in 1969. The area was later redeveloped as River View Park.The Beatles played at the Tower Ballroom on 27 occasions. The other dates were 10 and 24 November; 1, 8, 15 and 26 December 1961; 12, 19 and 26 January; 15, 16 and 23 February; 2 March; 6 April; 21 and 29 June; 13, 21 and 27 July; 17 August; 14 and 21 September; 12 October; 23 November; 1 and 7 December 1962; and 14 June 1963.


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Falcom Media is very pleased that David Cronenberg's COSMOPOLIS is in this year's competition at the Cannes Film Festival to celebrat its world premiere and to compete into for the Palme d'Or. In addition, at the end of May David Cronenberg and lead, Robert Pattinson will come to Germany to present COSMOPOLIS in Berlin.We'll update when we have more info!
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First Aid Kit
Anaconda's rescue mode is useful for getting a rootfs mounted and then dropping you to a shell, but for less experienced users, a more streamlined experience with choices of things to do would help in rescuing their system. You can checkout the wiki and other cool stuff at https://fedorahosted.org/firstaidkit/
- Name: MartinSivak / JoelGranados
Current status
- Targeted release: N/A
- Last updated: 2008-07-20 (version 1.2.1 is in rawhide)
- Percentage of completion: 95% . The only thing that keeps me from putting 100% is the fact that we keep doing small changes to the backend. Additionally lots of plugins are still to come, but most, if not all, the backend work is done.
Detailed Description
For a long time, people have asked for a task based approach to rescuing their systems. Rescue mode is an okay start, but we can do a lot better by automating simple and common recovery tasks. Obvious things would be
- dmraid rebuild and recovery
- reinstall bootloader
- recreate the initrd
- reinstall some "base" packages
Implementing these as individual pieces rather than entirely tying them to anaconda would be the most beneficial way to do it. Then we can tie them together with a relatively simple "Fix my System" menu and also make use of them from a graphical version of the same on the LiveCD.
Benefit to Fedora
Makes it easier for users to rescue their systems in case of problems
FirstAidKit is planned as a package. It will be a pluggable application that can house all kinds of plugins. Each plugin will be one automated recovery task.
Test Plan
- test features from old "rescue" mode to see that they still work or have equivalent functionality
User Experience
In case of any mishaps with the user's system. He/she should be able to run the rescue environment or livecd and use the FirstAidKit environment. Either by running an automated "Fix whatever is wrong with my system" process, or specific tasks from specific plugins for the more advanced user.
None for now.
Contingency Plan
Pydoc generated from the code to ease the plugin developer experience and user documentation.