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Tuesday, 18 January 2011
He Shall Spurn Fate, Scorn Death, and Bear His Hopes 'bove Wisdom, Grace and Fear.
19 comments:
- Diane said...
Such clarity!
And now...."Perhaps no point is the biggest point of all."
- 19 January 2011 at 15:18
- No One In Particular said...
Thanks Diane.
- 19 January 2011 at 16:07
did you know peter graves and james arness (matt dillon of gunsmoke) are brothers? arness is still alive.
saw a segment on 60 minutes about many of these dead celebrities have agents who sell their images to print and media. most are making far more than when they were alive. like elvis, james dean, marilyn monroe etc etc.
- 19 January 2011 at 19:29
"What you are, truly, is timeless. This is comforting. The ego laps it up eagerly."
Spot on. I get the image of a slobby bulldog following behind me, eagerly snuffling up all the bits n pieces I "drop" and regurgitating them in my lap. Coincidentally, I was reading a bit that went something like: If you want a little waking, give up a little, and if you want it fully, give up everything. The absurdity is that on inspection, there really isn't anything there that is mine and could even give up. But that is the way this business is.
- 19 January 2011 at 22:18
- No One In Particular said...
Hey Anonymous, yes I did know that Peter Graves and James Arness are brothers. It's definitely the kind of thing I'd know. And there's that immortality theme again...we're worth more dead than alive, and interest in our personality is sparked when we die. If nonduality isn't your thing, this is ironically comforting!
- 20 January 2011 at 05:35
- No One In Particular said...
Hey Chris, the good news is, you can't get it wrong because 1) There is no one to get it wrong and 2) Everything is perfect in its apparent unfolding. Let's all relax, shall we?
- 20 January 2011 at 05:36
so if there's no afterlife, reincarnation etc how are ghosts explained? jackie o'keeffe dealt with ghosts for a time of her life. richard rose cast an entity out of a guy.
other 'dimensions' but ultimately just appearances as much as this one?
- 20 January 2011 at 18:35
Beyond perfect and imperfect; neither perfect nor imperfect said by no-one.
- 21 January 2011 at 00:15
- No One In Particular said...
Hi Anonymous no. 1 - the story can indeed be extremely interesting.
- 21 January 2011 at 06:07
- No One In Particular said...
Hi Anonymous no. 2 - nicely put.
- 21 January 2011 at 06:07
Relax, yes. As the movie trailers in the olden days suggested: "Sit back, relax, and enjoy the show".
And to anon1, if you want to get a feel for the nature of ghosts and such, have a read of Flatland (from 1884!) - http://www.ibiblio.org/eldritch/eaa/FL.HTM.
Suzanne - thanks for your clarity.
- 22 January 2011 at 23:30
- No One In Particular said...
Hey Chris, you're welcome, and is Flatland a good plane book? Going to the States on the 7th and am looking for a good read in vain.
- 24 January 2011 at 06:01
Flatland is both a parable on the nature of perception and a social critique. While it is a fascinating read, at a scant 100 pages it would only get you to about Iceland.
Care for "speculative" fiction? As you are a literary sort, Gene Wolfe, Dan Simmons, China Mieville would all get you to the heartland.
Speaking of which, are you sure you want to come this way? It's crawling with crazy people who think they are independent entities! And many are armed.
- 24 January 2011 at 18:04
- No One In Particular said...
Hi Chris, No One is armed here. It doesn't matter what I read as long as it's well written!
- 24 January 2011 at 19:10
One flew over the cuckoos nest.
Zorba the Greek.
Best wishes to you and all your kin.
- 26 January 2011 at 18:08
The movie Forbidden Planet,a sci-fi classic from the 1950's era starring Leslie Nielsen and Walter Pidgeon. This movie when I first saw it in the late 60's,I must have been around 5 or 6 at the time,made a lasting impression.The eerie vastness and the sense of ambiguity of this alien landscape triggered my passion for the fantastic and mysterious.Would be decades later that I came to know that Leslie Nielsen,master of parody with his signature deadpan humor,had a key role in this auspicious(to me anyway) movie.Thanks for writing what you write.
- Suki
- 3 February 2011 at 17:22
- No One In Particular said...
Hey Suki, I trawled the internet in vain to get an embeddable clip of Forbidden Planet. It would have gone so well with Peter Graves and co. coping with aliens!
- 4 February 2011 at 12:02
- Darla said...
Wonderful turn of phrase . . . "Our self-awareness married with the instinct to survive concocts a brew of grand imagination . . . "
- 5 March 2011 at 21:50
- No One In Particular said...
Thanks Darla.
- 6 March 2011 at 10:27


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BELLEFONTE, Pa. (AP) — A central Pennsylvania state prison employee who told her superiors she didn't feel safe doing her job claims alleges she was punished for voicing her complaints.
The Centre Daily Times said today the lawsuit brought by counselor Melissa Reed alleges that supervisors at the State Correctional Institution at Rockview in Centre County never acted on complaints that she first raised in October 2011 until August 2013.
That's when investigators came to examine safety protocols after police said an inmate raped a clerical employee in July.
Reed says she was punished by being transferred to a lower-level job that required her to work in isolated groups with inmates and had fewer safety protocols than the counselor job.
A Corrections Department attorney says Reed has offered no evidence of wrongdoing.
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October 2013 – One in two American children will be on the USDA's Supplemental Nutrition Assistance Program (SNAP) at some time in their lives; one in four goes to bed hungry every night. In 1980 there were 200 food banks in the US; today there are 40,000. Fifty million Americans live in a state of "food insecurity" – undernourished and unsure where their next meal is coming from.
That is the message of a remarkable 2011 documentary, A Place at the Table, in which filmmakers Kristi Jacobson and Lori Silverbush introduce us to hardworking people caught in a food crisis. A young mother in Philadelphia struggles to stretch her SNAP benefits to feed her two children. Overjoyed when she lands a job, her pride turns to despair as she realizes her paycheck leaves her with even less food for her children. A short order cook in Mississippi takes home $128 every two weeks, too much to qualify for food assistance.
A Colorado schoolteacher volunteers at a food bank. Sensitive to the embarrassment many feel about receiving charity, she discreetly places the bags of food in their cars or on their porches. She feels guilty because she knows that much of what she's delivering is processed and junk food, not good nutrition.
We watch in 2010 as Congress passes the Healthy Hunger Free Kids Act, which increased school lunch funding by $4.5 billion over 10 years (about 6 cents per meal) and raised nutrition standards. Lost in the ensuing back-patting is the fact that all of the increased funding came from cuts in SNAP. Out of the $2.68 budgeted per child for the school lunch program, only $0.95 goes to the actual purchase of food; the rest is administrative costs.
The problem is not food scarcity – we live in a land of abundance. But for a huge number of Americans, hunger is framed in failed food policy, a misguided system of federal farm support and extraordinary misconceptions about who needs help, and why. It's not only a question of quantity, but of the quality of food we are feeding our children, and the enormous health problems that result.
US agribusinesses spend $124 million a year lobbying. Since 1995, we have spent $250 billion in farm subsidies, and 70% of that support has gone to just 10 agribusinesses that control what foods are available. The result: 84% of subsidies go to commodity crops like corn, soy and wheat; virtually zero to fruits and vegetables.
Our fellow citizens are caught in a spiral of poor nutrition, chronic anxiety and ill-health. Most disgraceful is the way we are shortchanging our children. Poor nutrition is directly linked to a range of physical, emotional and developmental issues. Our current system of food subsidies supports bad nutrition at the expense of our children's health and ability to succeed.
Most people remain on SNAP for less than a year. They are there because of layoffs, family disruptions or medical emergencies. As they move to work they need a transition period of support. Charity is admirable, but it can't be a permanent solution, and the logistics of food charity make it difficult to provide fresh fruits and vegetables. We need a living wage. We need a comprehensive food policy that moves from food charity to fair access and puts nutrition first.
I can't imagine an issue in which sustainability and social justice are more closely intertwined.
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damienApbt wrote:Chris wrote:How do you find out what someone is about and up to if you don't ask questions? It bugs me that so many of the people running the board act like the only reason anyone does anything wrong regarding Pitbulls is that they don't know any better. Plenty of folks just don't care
This is a GREAT board. But it is not a great board because of the moderators/regulators. It is a great board because some of the giants of the Pitbull world(non-dogfighting version) post on it. It is the Leslie H's, The Diane Jessups, Hartagolds, Dawgdays, ect, ect ect that make the board great.
You can't on one hand accept back yard millers and on the other promote positive pitbull ownership. To try to do so is particuarly insulting to those people who do rescue.
those you listed add to the quality of this board, they dont make the board. what makes this board great is everybody. we're here to help poeple learn. if we alienate all the people we disagree with and dont give them a chance to stick around than that defeats the purpose.
this is an introduction forum.. not an interrogation room. there are good ways to ask questions w/o being rude, granted it may take longer to word a post like that we just urge you to do so.
Seriously, NO, internet playpens and fun rooms are a dime a dozen. What makes this forum special is that some very old hands with a ton of dogsmarts share their wisdom on here. One of the few places on the net that I'm aware of that so many old hands who really know their stuff post regarding Pitbulls.
And if you guys end up running those folks off because you want a playpen so bad that is a folly of the worse sort.
Whether or not someone is a GOOD breeder is fairly clearcut. And there is no way to know without asking.


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CHRIS Bowen was guest speaker at the federal parliamentary press gallery dinner last night. He had been asked to address the function when it was set for early in the year, but it had to be deferred. That's a metaphor for Bowen's political life. Whatever can go wrong, generally does.
It's a measure of his keep-on-keeping-on style that he was willing to front up at the rescheduled event.
When the time came, it must have been the last thing the Immigration Minister wanted to do. The journalists like these speeches to have a good quotient of levity, a challenging task for the minister just now.
The paradox of Bowen is that most Canberra observers would say that he is a good minister, but clearly his area of asylum-seeker policy is now a shambles.
In the latest iteration, which Bowen announced this week, arrivals coming after August 13 - when offshore processing was announced - who are processed in Australia and judged to be refugees will have to live on welfare for up to five years. This response to the influx of boats is because the offshore processing that Labor made much of simply can't cope with the numbers.
The latest step applies the ''no advantage'' test (asylum seekers won't get settlement quicker by paying a smuggler) to people whether processed onshore or offshore.
But the measure is flawed. Apart from being extremely harsh on the individuals, it may not be a strong enough deterrent and it could be dangerous for the domestic consensus that is so important for refugee policy generally and immigration broadly.
Take the deterrent issue. Current asylum seekers can be divided into two categories. Those from Iran, Afghanistan, Pakistan and Iraq form one; in the other are the Sri Lankans, whose numbers have increased dramatically from midyear. In October, about 1250 of more than 2200 arrivals were Sri Lankans.
The government dubs many of the Sri Lankans (notably the Sinhalese) economic refugees, who don't pass the test as ''genuine'' refugees. Since offshore processing was announced, 565 Sri Lankans have been repatriated, including 40 on Thursday.
The Sri Lankans so far have not got the message that they are likely to be sent home. They may or may not understand that even if they do manage to get through the process, they will not be able to earn any money in Australia.
Whether they will be deterred will depend substantially on the effectiveness of the government's propaganda efforts, which have not so far succeeded.
With the approach of the bad weather season, which causes some slowing in boat traffic, the government needs in this lull to make a huge effort to get its message out.
If the Sri Lankans could be discouraged, the problem would be more manageable. But there would still be a sizeable inflow (Iranians have recently been the most numerous of other nationalities - in August, September and October more than 400 arrived each month).
Will the prospect of several years on welfare be a strong deterrent to those genuinely fleeing persecution? While it is heartless to deny someone the opportunity to make a proper living, if the choice is between being on welfare in Australia or languishing in an Asian refugee camp, the Australian option is likely to be attractive.
And attractive as it may seem to asylum seekers, domestically it would be politically problematic.
Imagine what the shock jocks, who earn big dollars by fanning prejudice, would be saying about these people - especially in an election year when boat arrivals will be a big issue. A laudable part of the government policy has been to expand the general refugee intake. It would be a tragedy if the no-work policy created a backlash against that program.
One positive aspect in the Howard years was that despite the divisiveness of the asylum seeker issue, at the individual level, people who had arrived on boats were often well received as diligent workers, especially in regional areas. Howard's temporary protection visas threatened people with eventual return to their home countries, but did allow them to get jobs.
If the refugees are not able to work, it will be easier for those who are unsympathetic to demonise them. Just as politicians try to do with asylum seekers.
Tony Abbott consistently refers to ''illegal'' arrivals, basing it on some wording in the refugee convention. But that wording cuts two ways. Article 31 does make a reference to ''illegal entry'', but says a country shall not impose penalties on this account.
In the Australian debate, the word ''illegal'' just serves a political purpose. Labor attacks the Liberals for using it; the Liberals dredge up Julia Gillard's 2010 speech to the Lowy Institute when she referred to the Australian Federal Police working with regional neighbours to prevent ''more than 5000 foreign nationals coming to our shores illegally''. The United Nations High Commissioner on Refugees says it does not use or encourage the use of the term ''illegal'' arrivals - the politicians should follow its example.
The handling of asylum seekers by both sides of politics has tarnished Australia's reputation abroad. Many countries, with much larger influxes, believe Australia has grossly overreacted.
Be that as it may, the arrival numbers pose a hugely difficult issue for the government. In trying to deal with it, Labor has firmly in mind the negative perceptions of voters in western Sydney. In pursuing Labor, the Liberals have in their nostrils the strong smell of political advantage.
It is easy to find holes in what the government has done this week. But it's another matter to say what policy adjustment would best meet the three criteria of humanity, effectiveness and community acceptability. If you find that comment too inconclusive, try the exercise of coming up with a good balance yourself.
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Did you change channels when you saw that the early exit polls gave Mitt Romney a semi-comfortable win in Mississippi Tuesday night?
If so, you missed a little news. Here are ten things that didn't happen on Southern Tuesday in Alabama and Mississippi:
1. Mitt Romney didn't wrap up the nomination.
Indeed, he took a couple of steps back. Third place. Twice. Not exactly a ringing endorsement of the "inevitable" one. "It's clear that conservatives across the country are sending a clear message to the Republican establishment: 'nothing is over until we decide it is,'" said conservative strategist Keith Appell.
2. Rick Santorum didn't pull out of the race.
Before the votes were counted, a cocky Romney told a TV interviewer that Santorum was at "the desperate end of his campaign." Wrong, rich man! Santorum's not gonna leave the race. He's leaving for Louisiana instead. And Puerto Rico And Missouri. And Illinois. Mano a mano.
3. Newt Gingrich didn't sweep the South, as he'd promised.
That old Southern firewall has been breached. Now Newt's got plenty of nuttin'.
4. The exit polls didn't get it right.
At least in Mississippi. Remember, dear readers, that there's always a margin of error in exit polls. The networks never talk about that. Maybe we should have Governor Barbour pardon the pollsters. And Wolf Blitzer.
5. Mitt Romney didn't order grits for breakfast.
Cheesy or otherwise. As clever Austin wag Harold Cook noted, "Southern strategists theorize that Romney's in trouble because when asked 'hominy grits,' he answered 'a couple hundred, please.'"
6. Mitt Romney didn't win the grits-eater vote.
Mitt won the mimosa crowd. More folks ♥ grits.
7. Romney didn't really do well among evangelicals.
Some of the pundits were punditizing that Mitt ran first (or close to first) among evangelical Christians. But getting 32 percent of them means that he DIDN'T get 68 percent. In a three-way race, that's good for a tie. If he ever goes one-on-one against Rick Santorum, that's bad news. Really bad news.
8. Newt Gingrich didn't pick Rick Perry as his running mate.
Despite the Fox News report, Perry's spokesperson says talk of a Gingrich-Perry general election ticket is "premature." Well, duh.
9. Alabama didn't know how to count votes.
We're not sure those Alabama jail prisoners in stylish stripes were the way to go. We think those prisoners' sentences might be over before Alabama officials finish counting the votes. Maybe the wrong folks are behind bars.
10. Ron Paul still didn't win a state.
Boy, oh, boy, is he trying. He gave it the old college try in Hawaii. With lots of college students on spring break.


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Continuing the Italian tradition, Rustico is also a wine bar, where you can get to know Italian varietals. On Mondays and Wednesday, most bottles of wine are half-priced.
Like Best of the Bay-winning sister restaurant Luna Blu in Annapolis, Rustico offers a four-course, prix-fixe deal for only $35. Bargains are served every day in the bar, in the form of half-priced food and drink specials.
7 to 8 cups shellfish stock
1/4 cup extra virgin olive oil
1/2 cup finely chopped onion
3/4 cup sea scallops
3/4 cup mussels
3/4 cup little neck clams
3/4 cup calamari
3/4 cup shrimp
3 cups Arborio rice
1 cup dry white wine
1 tsp. minced parsley
2 tbs. unsalted butter
salt and freshly ground pepper to taste
In a sauce pan over medium heat, bring the stock to a gentle simmer
In a large saucepan heat oil over medium heat. Add the onion, sautéing for 4 minutes. Add scallops, clams, mussels, calamari and shrimp. Cook two to three minutes until all shells are open. Add the Arborio rice to the same pan and stir about three minutes. Add the wine and stir until completely absorbed.
Add the stock from the other sauce pan ladleful at a time, stirring frequently after each addition. Wait until stock is completely absorbed before adding next ladleful.
Cook the rice on simmer about 20 minutes. Season to taste with salt and pepper, and spoon into warmed shallow bowls. Garnish with parsley and serve. Buon Appetito!


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Eleven Hope College athletic teams will receive the 2011-12 GPA Team Award from the Michigan Intercollegiate Athletic Association (MIAA). The MIAA Team GPA Award is presented to conference teams that achieve a 3.300 or better grade point average for an entire academic year.
This program is administered by the Faculty-Athletic Representatives (FARs) of the MIAA member colleges. The FARs at Hope College are Lynne Hendrix, professor of accountancy, and Dr. Mark Pearson, assistant professor of mathmetics.
Hope teams receiving the award and the coach of that team are: volleyball (Becky Schmidt), 3.739; women's swimming & diving (John Patnott), 3.706; women's golf (Greg Stafford), 3.692; women's tennis (Nate Price), 3.633; women's basketball (Brian Morehouse), 3.615; men's tennis (Steve Gorno), 3.598; women's cross country (Mark Northuis), 3.548; women's soccer (Leigh Sears), 3.525; men's swimming & diving (John Patnott), 3.464; women's track & field (Kevin Cole), 3.444; and men's golf (Bob Ebels), 3.367.
The women's cross country team, coached by Dr. Mark Northuis, has the distinction of receiving the honor all 14 years since the award program was instituted in 1998-99.


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Judith G. Knight, 65, of Beardstown, died Tuesday, March 26, 2013 at her home.
Judith G. Knight, 65, of Beardstown, died Tuesday, March 26, 2013 at her home. She was born May 10, 1947 in Carmi, the daughter of Harold and Lois Duvall Knight. She married Leo Savage July 26, 1997 at Our Redeemer Lutheran Church in Jacksonville.
Judith graduated from Carmi Township High School in 1965. She retired as executive secretary at Elliott State Bank in Jacksonville after more than 20 years of service. She was an active member of Our Redeemer Lutheran Church in Jacksonville. Judith enjoyed photography, reading, and corresponding with friends and family on a weekly basis and she unconditionally loved and cherished her grandchildren.
Surviving is her husband Leo Savage of Beardstown; her son Ryan Edwards of the Philippines whom she dearly loved; two step-sons Justin Savage of Beardstown and Gary Savage of Nevada, Mo.; three grandchildren Dannielle, Skyler, and Libby; her step-mother Joyce Mercer of Carmi; one sister Kim (husband Charlie) Jacobs of Crossville; five brothers Mike (wife Beth) VanHorn of Goldsboro, N.C., Kevin Knight of Merritt Island, Fla., Randy Knight of Carmi, Jeff (wife Jammie) Knight of Mt. Carmel, and Kerry Farney of Tenn.; and numerous nieces and nephews.
She was preceded in death by her parents.
Funeral services will be held at 4:30 p.m. Friday, March 29, 2013 at Our Redeemer Lutheran Church in Jacksonville. The family will meet with friends from 2 p.m. Friday until the time of the service at the church. Cremation rites will follow the funeral service.
Memorials have been suggested to St. Jude Children's Research Hospital.
Sager Funeral Home in Beardstown is in charge of arrangements. Condolences may be sent to the family at airsman-hires.com.


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HONOLULU (Reuters) - A Hawaii big wave surfing competition has been called off due to unfavourable weather, as state officials warned on Tuesday that swells projected to be the biggest in a decade to hit the island of Oahu could pose risks to beachgoers.
The potentially dangerous giant waves, forecast at 40- to 50-feet (12-15 meters), are expected to hit the island of Kauai at midnight local time on Tuesday and arrive on Oahu shores at 2 a.m. or 3 a.m. on Wednesday morning.
Organizers of a prestigious big wave surf contest that had been planned for Wednesday said they were postponing the event despite the once-in-a-decade wave heights, citing unfavourable wind conditions.
"The wave quality will be very poor because of the strong sideshore and onshore winds, which dramatically deteriorate conditions," said Jodi Wilmott, an organizer of the event, Quiksilver in Memory of Eddie Aikau invitational.
The event requires wave heights of at least 35 feet to 40 feet (10-12 meters), she said.
"But it must be a clean and decent ride for the surfers, and when you get these kinds of winds it's horrible," she said.
An intense storm in the north Pacific Ocean with a large area of strong winds has generated the large ocean swell heading for Hawaii, said Chris Jacobson, a forecaster with the National Weather Service.
Mike Cantin, the warning coordination meteorologist for the National Weather Service in Honolulu, characterized the waves as potentially life threatening.
"If this swell pans out we're expecting one wave every 20 seconds. The last time we had these types of conditions was 2004," Cantin said, adding that the winds would also increase risks for those on shore, by pushing water further over land.
"We're expecting water over roads and infrastructure," he said. "Those waves will have the potential to cause problems to homeowners. People need to stay away from these waves. They will be big enough to wash over cliffs."
Organizers of the big wave surfing event hope to hold it before the end of the winter season, which is when the state sees its largest waves of the year.
The event is named after a Native Hawaiian big wave surfer who disappeared while at sea en route to Tahiti on a Polynesian voyaging canoe in 1978. The contest only occurs about every four years on average due to its wave size and quality requirements.
"But that's what makes it so special when it does" take place, said Wilmott, who expects the event's defending champion, Greg Long of California, and 11-time world surfing champion Kelly Slater from Florida to compete this year.
"We're just over the four-year mark from the last one, and it's been a very active winter for big waves. It looks like that pattern is going to persist for the next month and we're really optimistic," she said.
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Friday, March 01, 2013
Common sense is one-for-two
(UPDATE: The Breeders Cup announced its new policies hours after this column was published. Updates within.) The Breeders' Cup appears on the verge of backing off its edict that Lasix will not be allowed in any race during the 2013 renewal. This is a sensible example of discretion being the better part of valor. Prohibiting Lasix in the juvenile races last fall resulted in more than a 20 percent drop in entries for those races. A similar decline throughout the card would jeopardize Breeders' Cup. Unfortunately, common sense is an also ran in South Florida, where Gulfstream and Calder remain on a collision course that will have the two tracks racing head-to-head on weekends year round.
Common sense apparently is going to rule at the Breeders' Cup.
Alas, the same is not the case in South Florida.
The Breeders' Cup, at a meeting on Feb. 22, gave indications that it is considering backing away from its edict that Lasix will be banned throughout the card at this year's renewal. The catalyst was what happened last year when the anti-bleeding medication was not allowed in the 2-year-old races. Entries were down more than 20 percent from the previous year and handle dropped correspondingly. (Update: the ban in 2YO races remains in effect. Older horses can continue to race with Lasix. Try explaining the logic of that in 50 words or less.)
Similar declines in the non-juvenile races this coming November would be catastrophic to the bottom line, already hurting from diminished stallion and nomination fees. Lesser fields also would detract—or detract further--from the event's status as a season-ending championship. When that goes, television's interest in covering the event will go into a freefall, too.
The Breeders' Cup intentions were noble, a pushback toward a return to the days of thoroughbreds racing on hay, oats and water, as they do in most of the racing world—at least theoretically. The thinking, or hope, was that If horses had to race "clean" in the championship events, this policy would filter down to the rest of the season.
With few exceptions, this hasn't happened. Juveniles raced up to the Breeders' Cup on medication, got off it for the one race, then immediately got on it again. Or they just skipped the Breeders' Cup.
This figures to also be the case if the Breeders' Cup stands firm and enforces the Lasix ban on all races. (Update: Which is why they haven't.) Horsemen's organizations across the nation have argued vehemently against the Breeders' Cup decree. Owners and trainers could make a solidarity statement by skipping this year's Breeders' Cup. So what's the point of endangering one of the best things to happen in racing during the past century in pursuit of an unattainable goal?
This isn't even an example of protecting the public. Lasix use is noted on the program and in past performance publications. Bettors learned to deal with it years ago. There were inexplicable form reversals when the medication first came into vogue but now that its use is commonplace, bordering on universal, it's a minor handicapping factor.
In fact, having horses who have been racing with Lasix their entire career come off it for one race is actually a diservice to fans. Besides, as every player knows, it isn't the medications on the program that produce form reversals.
Whether or not the Lasix ban is lifted there is likely going to be undeserving casualty, the Juvenile Sprint. (This has happened.) If so, it will be an over-reaction made in haste. The Breeders' Cup is dismayed that the inaugural running last November produced only five starters. As a result, it generated the least handle of the 15 races. (Duh!)
To argue that this was a product of lack of interest on the part of horsemen is disingenuous. It can be traced almost entirely to the Lasix ban.
There is widespread consensus that there are too many "Breeders' Cup" races, and that this cheapens the ones that matter. However, a sprint for 2-year-olds makes far more sense than the Marathon. For every race in America at extended distances (anything beyond 10 furlongs on dirt), there are hundreds, if not thousands, of sprints for young horses. The Juvenile Sprint deserves at least one more chance to establish itself without the ban.
LUNACY IN SOUTH FLORIDA: Getting back to South Florida, the deadline for amending dates requests for the year that starts July 1 came and went on Feb. 28 without Calder or Gulfstream blinking. As of now, this means the tracks will engage in a suicidal head-to-head confrontation on weekends starting in July.
Gulfstream initiated this conflict, its primary motivation being an attempt to save a dying mall on the racetrack grounds, which is a ghost town outside the racing season. This is a classic case of sending good money after bad. The mall is unsalvagable and South Florida racing has been put into jeopardy. There simply aren't enough horses or fans to support two tracks racing simultaneously.
Phil Combest, president of the Florida HBPA, was quoted in the Blood Horse saying, "The idea of racing head to head is crazy and nobody will benefit…The future of Florida racing is at stake."
Although the tracks are now legally committed to racing the dates they requested, there is still hope that sanity can be restored. Loopholes in the law allow Calder and Gulfstream to re-petition the state if an agreement is reached in the coming months. The drawback is Gulfstream owner Frank Stronach, who is behind the dates grab. People who tell him things he doesn't want to hear have a tendency to get fired.
However, the Florida legislature meets in the spring and can come up with any remedy it so chooses to save the sport. To borrow a line from another business crisis, thoroughbred racing in Florida, a multi-billion dollar industry that employs tens of thousands, is too big to fail.
The idea that the state will allow it to fall into peril to save a doomed shopping mall is unthinkable.
An obvious solution is to have the state resume setting racing dates as it used to do until the 1980s. When the new way doesn't work, it's time to return to the old way.
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Eclipse DemoCamps Luna 2014/Zurich
Engage in the Eclipse community this Summer at the Luna DemoCamp in Zurich. If you are interested in Eclipse Topics, this is the event to attend in Switzerland.
We have invited a list of top speakers to talk about their pet projects. The scheduled talks cover a wide variety of topics. Be prepared to hear the latest news on the Java 8 Support for Eclipse, the Xtext, 3D visualisation of EMF models, mapping of EMF models to SQL data bases, Scout, and last, but not least see a flying shark in the ETH lecture hall!
The demo camp will take place in the ETH lecture room HG D 1.1 located in the main building of the Swiss Federal Institute of Technology in Zurich. For details see
Date and Time
The DemoCamp Zurich will take place on Monday, June 23rd.
- 16:30 - 17:00 Meet and Greet
- 17:00 - 17:10 Welcome/Intro: Matthias Zimmermann, Serano Colameo
- 17:10 - 17:30 Ein kleiner Reiseführer durch die Eclipse Welt, Ralph Müller, Eclipse Foundation
- 17:30 - 18:05 Eclipse und Java 8, Daniel Megert, IBM Schweiz
- 18:05 - 18:30 Xtext: What's new with Luna, Sven Efftinge, itemis AG
- 18:30 - 18:50 EMap - Map your EMF-Models to an SQL-Database, Tom Schindl, BestSolution GmbH
- 18:50 - 19:20 Soft drinks and snacks (break)
- 19:20 - 19:45 Visualizing EMF-models in 3D, Torkild Ulvøy Resheim, Itema AS
- 19:45 - 20:05 Crowd-Sourcing, Code-Snippets, and more: What Eclipse Code Recommenders has been to up for Luna, Marcel Bruch, Codetrails
- 20:05 - 20:25 Eclipse Scout: Cloud Backend, Automatic Documentation and other Luna features., Andreas Hoegger, Matthias Zimmermann, BSI Business Systems Integration AG
- 20:30 - 21:00 Flying sharks and m2m, Klemens Edler, Florian Pirchner, Lunifera GmbH
- 21:00 - 22:00 Networking: More beverages, beer and food
- Most talks will be held IN GERMAN
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Hill's Ferry
Hill's Ferry, from before the Revolutionary War and into the early twentieth century, was a crossing point on the Roanoke River along the road from the Rocky Mount and Tarboro area northeast to Suffolk and Tidewater Virginia. The 1733 Moseley map shows the road from "Tarburg" crossing the Roanoke at this location, as do the 1770 Collet and 1775 Mouzon maps. Most later maps of this area give the name Hill's Ferry (even into the 1920s), although Solomon Cherry's 1877 map incorrectly locates it several miles upriver.
The ferry was built and operated by wealthy revolutionary Patriot and legislator Whitmel Hill (1743-97) on his lands in what were then Martin and Bertie Counties. It was located at the tip of a large western bend of the Roanoke, about a half mile east of the present-day town of Palmyra and about seven miles from Scotland Neck near the modern boundary between Martin and Halifax Counties. Hill's grandson, Whitmel Hill Anthony (1810-51), owned a large warehouse and shipping business in the area, and for a few years it was called Anthony's Ferry (remains of the warehouse were still visible in the 1930s). There is a written record of army movements at Hill's Ferry during both the Revolution and the Civil War.
The Roanoke River at the site of Hill's Ferry is deep enough for commercial boat traffic. Hill operated a commercial fleet between the coastal plain fall line upstream at Weldon and the Albemarle Sound, and some vessels could even sail on to the West Indies. In 1785 the General Assembly acted to establish the town of Blountville with a public wharf on land east of the Roanoke donated by Hill. The town was named to honor the family of his wife, Winifred Blount, whose roots led back to the Anglo-Saxon King Alfred the Great (871-99). But the settlement never had more than a few structures, and its name is rarely found in written records. Today, the community of Palmyra, named for Hill's plantation there, sits on or near where Blountville was laid out.
There are likely two major reasons why Hill's Ferry and Blountville did not prosper beyond their immediate area. There is no evidence of mail routes crossing the Roanoke there, and no sizable towns arose anywhere to the east of the ferry in Bertie. Most commerce with the Tidewater areas of North Carolina and Virginia passed north of the region, while commerce with Edenton and other North Carolina ports went farther south. With these patterns set by the end of the eighteenth century, the railroad lines that later followed passed the area by. The state's highway system has never found the need to maintain a bridge or road at the site, which today is accessible only by walking through planters' fields.
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Whitmel Hill, NC Highway Historical Marker E-48: http://www.ncmarkers.com/Markers.aspx?ct=ddl&sp=search&k=Markers&sv=E-48%20-%20WHITMEL%20HILL
1 January 2006 | Joyner, Whitmel M.
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Fibromyalgia is a chronic, widespread pain in muscles and soft tissues surrounding the joints throughout the body. The disease is fairly common, affecting approximately 2 to 4 percent of the U.S. population, mostly middle-aged women.
Although its symptoms are similar to other joint diseases, such as arthritis, fibromyalgia is actually a form of soft tissue or muscular rheumatism that causes pain in the muscles and soft tissues.
Although the cause of fibromyalgia is unknown, researchers believe there may be a link with sleep disturbance, psychological stress, or immune, endocrine, or biochemical abnormalities. Fibromyalgia mainly affects the muscles and the points at which the muscles attach to the bone (at the ligaments and tendons).
Pain is the most common and chronic symptom of fibromyalgia. Pain may begin in one area of the body, such as the neck and shoulders, but eventually the entire body may become affected. The pain ranges from mild to severe and may be described as burning, soreness, stiffness, aching, or gnawing pain. Fibromyalgia usually is associated with characteristic tender spots of pain in the muscles. The following are other common symptoms of fibromyalgia. However each individual may experience symptoms differently. Symptoms may include:
The symptoms of fibromyalgia may resemble other medical conditions or problems. Always consult your doctor for a diagnosis.
There are no laboratory tests that can confirm a diagnosis of fibromyalgia. Instead, diagnosis is usually based on reported symptoms and physical exam findings. The American College of Rheumatology has published diagnostic criteria that help your health care provider make the correct diagnosis. The criteria define fibromyalgia as widespread pain for more than three months and describe 18 tender points on the body. The criteria suggest that to confirm a diagnosis you must have at least 11 tender points on exam.
Specific treatment for fibromyalgia will be determined by your doctor based on:
Although there's no cure for fibromyalgia, the disease can often be successfully managed with proper treatment, as fibromyalgia doesn't cause damage to tissues. Treatment may include:
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2012 is the 40th anniversary of the World Heritage Convention – this book is a memorable way to commemorate forty years of promoting, supporting and highlighting the wonders of the world.
The prestigious list includes some of the most celebrated and breathtaking places on earth, for example, the ancient Nabatean city of Petra in Jordan, the legendary Acropolis in Athens, the Great Barrier Reef in Australia and Machu Picchu (the 'Lost City of the Incas'), in Peru. The 25 new sites added to the List in 2011 are included in the book. For instance, the Persian Garden in Iran, the Coffee Cultural Landscape of Colombia, Selimiye Mosque Complex in Turkey and the Citadel of the Ho Dynasty in Vietnam.
The World Heritage is the ultimate book for those interested in the world's spectacles, those wishing to traverse the globe, and for those who would like to understand the planet better.
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Are Justin Bieber + Miley Cyrus Hooking Up?
This has got to be some of the juiciest gossip we've heard in awhile! Justin Bieber and Miley Cyrus were spotted out on the town in Los Angeles on Saturday night/Sunday morning. No big deal, right? WRONG.
Apparently these two pop stars, who are both in somewhat serious and public relationships, were seen partaking in some pretty heavy duty flirting at a club. Oh snap, you guys. Oh. Snap.
TMZ reports that the Biebs and Miley met up at Beacher's Madhouse in the City of Angels and flirted pretty hardcore before heading out together around 2AM. The two didn't head at da club for very long seeing as Bieber got there at quarter to 2 and then he and his friend (or friend with benefits!) headed out after hanging for 15 minutes. Maybe they left to participate in one of their favorite shared past times -- lighting up the sticky green. They both deny they do it, but we all know the truth.
Maybe these two got super close when Miley was busy lecturing the Biebs about his bad behavior. Or maybe she's just keeping him close so he doesn't get into anymore trouble.
Either way, Cyrus was very quick to deny any shenanigans. She told radio station Hot 99.5 (via Gossip Cop), "I'm engaged. I'm engaged. [It's] impossible." Well, it's not impossible, but it's certainly improbable!


text: LINGUIST List: Vol-12-2137. Thu Aug 30 2001. ISSN: 1068-4875. Subject: 12.2137, Review: Landau, Dictionaries: Art of Lexicography Moderators: Anthony Aristar, Wayne State U.<aristar at linguistlist.org> Helen Dry, Eastern Michigan U. <hdry at linguistlist.org> Andrew Carnie, U. of Arizona <carnie at linguistlist.org> Reviews (reviews at linguistlist.org): Simin Karimi, U. of Arizona Terence Langendoen, U. of Arizona Editors (linguist at linguistlist.org): Karen Milligan, WSU Naomi Ogasawara, EMU Lydia Grebenyova, EMU Jody Huellmantel, WSU James Yuells, WSU Michael Appleby, EMU Marie Klopfenstein, WSU Ljuba Veselinova, Stockholm U. Heather Taylor-Loring, EMU Dina Kapetangianni, EMU Software: John Remmers, E. Michigan U. <remmers at emunix.emich.edu> Gayathri Sriram, E. Michigan U. <gayatri at linguistlist.org> Home Page: http://linguistlist.org/ The LINGUIST List is funded by Eastern Michigan University, Wayne State University, and donations from subscribers and publishers. 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Then contact Simin Karimi at simin at linguistlist.org or Terry Langendoen at terry at linguistlist.org. =================================Directory================================= 1) Date: Tue, 28 Aug 2001 23:14:28 +0200 From: Andrzej Zychla <zychla at zibico.com.pl> Subject: Review: Landau, Lexicography -------------------------------- Message 1 ------------------------------- Date: Tue, 28 Aug 2001 23:14:28 +0200 From: Andrzej Zychla <zychla at zibico.com.pl> Subject: Review: Landau, Lexicography Landau, Sidney I. (2001) Dictionaries: The Art and Craft of Lexicography, 2nd ed. Cambridge University Press, 493pp. Hardback ISBN 0-521-78040-3, $69.95; paperback ISBN 0-521-78512-X, $27.95. Previously announced on Linguist List (12.360). The book gives an up-to-date, comprehensive overview of English lexicography, both synchronic and diachronic. The author's many years of experience in the field gave the work an insider's expertise. Due to its exhaustive treatment of the subject, it may well be considered (and has indeed been so) a textbook introduction to lexicography - its vivid, non-arcane language makes it of interest not only to aspiring or practising linguists and lexicographers, but to everyone interested in dictionaries. A brief description of the book contents follows, my critical comments listed below. Introduction -- looks at the major changes that have been made to the first (1984) edition (more focus on pedagogical lexicography; a new chapter on computers in lexicography [Chapter 6] and the chapter on legal issues [Chapter 8] thoroughly revised and rewritten). 1. What is a dictionary? -- a detailed taxonomy of dictionaries (according to various aspects such as: number of languages covered, language variety described, form of presentation, manner of financing, age of users, period of time covered, size, etc.). 2. A brief history of English lexicography -- an overview of English lexicography from the Middle Ages until now (pedagogical and machine-readable dictionaries included). 3. Key elements of dictionaries and other language references -- a look at the dictionary macro- and microstructure (entry organisation) with particular attention paid to the latter. The chapter discusses the treatment of homonymy and polysemy, run-on entries and scientific nomenclature in dictionaries, problems related to alphabetisation and entry counts. It also considers the entry sections: grammatical information, pronunciation, etymology, synonyms and illustrations. 4. Definition -- an introduction to definition and defining (good defining practice discussed), full of practical advice. 5. Usage -- usage-tags such as currency (whether a word is still in use or has become obsolete), regional variation, specialised terminology, taboo, slang, style and status discussed; historical overview of approaches to usage given. 6. The corpus in lexicography -- a description of how corpora have changed language analysis and how they can be used to lexicographer's advantage (certain drawbacks pointed out, though); a brief overview of available corpora and examples of corpus queries added (key-word in context concordancing). 7. Dictionary making -- practical issues concerning: (1) planning the dictionary; (2) writing the dictionary; (3) producing the dictionary and (4) revising and abridging a dictionary. 8. Legal and ethical issues -- insights on: plagiarism, trademarks and giving credit to lexicographers (plus a full text of a proposal presented by the author to the Dictionary Society of North America). Bibliography and index to dictionaries mentioned in the text, from Johnson (1755) to the present. A selective bibliography of non-dictionary sources. Since the first edition became available, many people (some of whom are listed in the preface) have sent the author specific comments, many of which he decided to include in the second edition. He also decided to rewrite everything rather than just amend it. I found the book very interesting because of its very practical approach (a lot of interesting data reproduced) and its information on American lexicography (other introductions to lexicography I am familiar with tend to focus on Great Britain). I have a few tiny remarks, though: p. 15 (middle) -- I found no evidence in dictionaries that British people 'agree a proposal' - they seem to 'agree to/with it', which, the author suggests, is American English. I do not think this particular phrase is a good example of the differences between the two varieties in question; for examples of grammatical/lexical differences see for example Swan (1996:41-45) p. 15 (bottom) -- I do not think the author's suggestion that '(...) all English dictionaries should acknowledge (...) which variety [of English] is primary [in them] (...)' will be universally accepted for at least two reasons: a) EFL dictionaries (at least those published in the UK) strive to give a more-or-less equal coverage of both British and American varieties of English; b) the more specific the title of a dictionary is, the smaller its audience and commercial dictionaries (especially EFL ones) try to appeal to as many potential buyers as possible. p. 26 (bottom) It is not 'some' but, in fact, 'most' of British EFL dictionaries that use controlled defining vocabularies (Longman did introduce it but other pedagogical dictionaries followed suit). p. 37 -- Well's Longman Pronunciation Dictionary is not concerned with British English only, as Landau seems to suggest, it gives two standard pronunciations: British Received Pronunciation (BBC English) and General American. p. 76 (middle) -- it is a pity that the author failed to mention at least some of the many changes that Oxford Advanced Learner's Dictionary has undergone over the years. p. 97 (middle) -- recorded pronunciations are not the only improvement of machine-readable dictionaries: such dictionaries have plenty of room for information not usually included in paper dictionaries, may include hypertext links and multimedia and many other features (users can decide which elements of an entry are to be shown). p. 107 (bottom) -- I would call 'shed/throw light on sth' a collocation rather than an idiom. p. 258 -- the author's comments about Webster's Third's treatment of usage labels and capitalising are purely tentative and can be thus challenged easily. p. 293 (bottom) -- learner's corpora have been used not only to spot the most frequent errors that all learners, regardless their L1s make; Cambridge International Dictionary of English, for example, includes L1-specific usage notes on a number of languages (based on the results of the Cambridge language proficiency exams), those troublesome words (mainly false friends) have also been assembled in one place, in one of the dictionary's appendices. p. 399 -- I believe that the new technology may make it easier for users to detect and report mistakes in machine- readable dictionaries or even update them (through e-mail). And some critical comments about the whole book: References to Chapter 6 (The use of corpora in lexicography) are far too frequent (there are, I believe, a couple of dozen of them, sometimes a few within a chapter/section). The audience of the book seems to be too broadly defined and not all of its readers will be catered for equally well. Some of the technicalities of dictionary production may prove to be beyond some of the less motivated, non- specialist readers. The author gets a bit too specific and sentimental about his former employer, Funk and Wagnalls, and some of the culture-specific examples may soon become obsolete unless the book is 'updated' more frequently than every 20 years! BIBLIOGRAPHY: Swan, M. (1996) Practical English Usage. Oxford University Press. The author of this review is an assistant at the Teachers' Training College in Zielona Gora. He defended his MA thesis (a critical evaluation of one of the Polish bilingual dictionaries) in 1998. 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In a new song, Drake raps about the brazen shooting at an east-end Toronto block party last summer that left two people dead and more than 20 wounded.
The shootings at a neighbourhood barbecue outside a Toronto Community Housing complex on Danzig Street killed Shyanne Charles, 14, and Joshua Yasay, 23, both of whom police have said were innocent partygoers.
As a featured artist on rapper-turned-reggae artist Snoop Lion's new track No Guns Allowed, the 26-year-old Drake raps about the "one summer day that went horribly wrong."
In the song, the Grammy winner remembers receiving a tearful phone call from a friend in Toronto after the killings.
The emotional verse ranges from a critique of the justice system to a condemnation of gun violence.
"Told you no guns and you didn't listen/ Life is so heavy with that on your soul/ Dedicate this to Shyanne and Josh/ And pour something out for the lives that they stole," raps the locally reared rap star, who ends the verse by calling out Toronto's three-digit area code: "416."
The conscious song is expected to be the second single from "Reincarnated," the upcoming album from the artist formerly known as Snoop Dogg.
The disc, Snoop's first foray into reggae, will be released on April 20.
Drake, meanwhile, will release his third album, Nothing Was the Same, this summer.
First single Started From the Bottom has reached No. 6 on the U.S. Billboard chart.


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WGCI's Big Jam
WGCI's Big Jam will feature many of the top R&B and rap artists listeners hear daily on the Clear Channel station. Headlining the show will be rapper Rick Ross, with Keyshia Cole, Wale, Future, Fat Joe and Kelly Rowland also performing. Why go: The promo for the Jam says there will be a "special cameo appearance" by Usher; a hologram or video stream of the pop and R&B singer with Michael Jackson-like dance moves is worth a ticket. Reconsider: You can't come up with a handful of favorite songs from the lineup. 7 p.m. Friday at Allstate Arena, 6920 N. Mannheim Road, Rosemont; $55-$150; 800-745-3000, ticketmaster.com
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Greystar buys Danbury 10-acre parcel for apartment complex
DANBURY -- Hailed as a cornerstone of downtown Danbury's redevelopment efforts, a $70 million housing complex is moving forward.
Officials with Greystar, the largest manager of multifamily housing in the nation, confirmed Wednesday they have purchased a 10-acre site off Kennedy Avenue this week for $7 million.
The company plans to begin construction next month on 375 apartments ranging from studios renting in the mid-$1,000s to townhomes that will fetch rents in the high $2,000s range, according to Greystar Director Daniel Lee. That would result in some of the highest rents in the city.
"Greystar is fully committed to this project," Lee said Wednesday. "The deal is fully capitalized, and our investment partners are thrilled to be a part of it. It's incredibly rare to find a 9.5-acre site in the middle of a downtown, and we believe that the location, visibility, and walkability of the site make this a truly unique and exciting opportunity."
CityCenter Chairman Tom Devine said he expects additional downtown investments and improvements will begin moving forward with finalization of the Greystar deal.
"This will be a huge catalyst for future growth in the downtown," Devine said.
He said others interested in investing in downtown have been waiting to see if the Greystar deal would succeed before opening their checkbooks.
"Not only will we see new blood in the downtown, but we will also see existing landlords reinvest in their properties," he said. "A national developer like Greystar does their homework. They know the market they are getting into and the opportunities that exist in downtown Danbury."
Dan Bertram, a principal with BRT Corp. who sold the property, said it is important to see the deal move forward in a way that would benefit the city.
"We worked very hard to attract a company with Greystar's caliber to make a substantial investment in downtown Danbury," he said. "They will be building 375 apartment units in an aggressive and impactful way that we felt almost obligated to enable because of the positive effect it will have on the area."
Bertram said the nearby BRT-built Brookview Commons was a sort of prototype during negotiations with potential developers to show what is possible in downtown.
The market-rate apartment building, Bertram said, has attracted affluent young professionals because it is close to the train station and other downtown services.
"There really isn't a lot of product like that in the region that's been built on any kind of large scale," Bertram said. "Brookview shows that people who have a choice are exciting about living downtown."
Mayor Mark Boughton said the city's land-use departments will work with the developer to ensure permits and finalized site plan approvals are expedited so the project can begin soon.
"They are hoping to begin some site work by the end of September," Boughton said. "We are working with them as fast as we can to move this forward."
Lee said residential units could be ready by the spring of 2016 with a completion of the project by the end of 2016.
"Our construction sequencing will enable us to deliver apartments to the market during the course of construction," he said.
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