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About the News-Register
We are a semi-weekly community newspaper serving McMinnville and the surrounding Yamhill Valley.
About the News-Register
The News-Register Publishing Co. is a closely held corporation owned by members of the Bladine Family of McMinnville, OR. We are a semi-weekly community newspaper serving McMinnville and the surrounding Yamhill Valley. Our official corporate name is Oregon Lithoprint, Inc., but that name primarily refers to the web printing division of our company.
The newspaper traces its family tree through two branches, back to 1866.
First Branch: The Lafayette Courier started in 1866, and by 1872 became the Yamhill County Reporter based in McMinnville. In 1905 the Reporter merged with the McMinnville News (founded 1901) to form the News-Reporter.
Second Branch: The Oregon Register started in 1881 in Lafayette, and the West Side Telephone was founded in 1886 in McMinnville. Those two newspapers merged to form the Telephone-Register, which was purchased in 1928 by Lars Bladine of Iowa. His eldest son, Jack, came first to McMinnville to begin family operation of the newspaper.
Branches Merge: In 1953, Jack and his brother, Phil Bladine, purchased the News-Reporter and merged it with the Telephone-Register, forming the News-Register. They published that newspaper six days a week until 1958, then published twice-weekly. In 1976 the paper became a tri-weekly, later twice-weekly and back to tri-weekly before settling on its current schedule of Tuesday-Friday delivery via U.S Postal Service. A "total market coverage" publication, "The Post," is mailed to all non-subscribers in the local market.
Family Leadership
Lars Bladine was publisher of The Telephone-Register until his death in 1941. Under his leadership, and with Jack Bladine as editor, the paper was named Oregon's best weekly in 1931 and 1935, and was named the nation's best weekly newspaper in 1939.
Jack followed his father as publisher. Phil became editor, and became publisher in 1957 following his brother's death. In 2001, Phil was inducted into the Oregon Newspaper Publisher Association's Hall of Fame.
Phil's son, Jeb Bladine, became editor in 1974 and assumed the role of publisher in 1991. Like his father, uncle and grandfather, he has served as president of ONPA. The News-Register was named Oregon's best community newspaper in its category for 2000, and in 2005 won its seventh consecutive "Sweepstakes Award" from ONPA as the state's most honored non-daily newspaper.
Jeb's son, Philip Ossie Bladine, became news editor in 2011 and, in September 2014, became a fourth generation of the Bladine family to assume the title as editor
In recent years, the newspaper has won General Excellence honors from ONPA and from both the National Newspaper Association and Inland Newspaper Association.
Members of the company board of directors include Jeb and Michelle Bladine, Pam Bladine of San Angelo, TX, Chelsey B. Nichol of McMinnville, Philip Ossie Bladine of McMinnville, OR, and Guy Everingham of McMinnville.
Community Newspaper Mission
Excerpts from the News-Register's Mission Statement:
"As we discover, report and comment on local people and activities, we maintain a diversity of connection points to the community. We produce a scrapbook of shared experiences, values and norms; we highlight the strengths, assets and resources that exist – or are needed – for local people to built a stronger community; we provide recognition for those efforts.
"In these ways, our content fosters loyalty to the community. Loyalty to community is an important characteristic of our readership base. Surveys show that more News-Register readers feel positive toward their community and their city/school governments, by a 2-to-1 margin over non-readers. Our newspaper plays an important role in those beliefs."
"Our content should provide readers with positive connections to their families, friends and neighbors; to their clubs and organizations; to their environment and their government. That connectivity is essential to the strength of our community, and we are the principal provider of information that helps build community."
"We retain trust and credibility in the community by fulfilling our "watchdog" role. We value our reputation of publishing the news without fear or favor."
"We provide the public with an outlet for community opinions. We "prime the pump" for such opinions through our newspaper editorials and columns, and we are a caretaker of the opinions that are published."
Newspaper Facilities / Personnel
The newspaper operates from offices at 611 Third Street in downtown McMinnville. In 2000, the company completed remodeling of its offices and the historic O'Dell Building, which serves as the front entrance and holds the large news department.
There are about 45 employees at the newspaper, including corporate offices. The complex also serves as leased space to related telecommunications companies.
Internet Connections
The News-Register has become an industry leader in the field of Internet journalism. Its website was named best in the nation for 2002 and 2004 among community newspapers, and third in 2006.
The company helped create McMinnville's largest Internet access provider, McMinnville Access Company, dba OnlineNW.
Today, as an independent company, OnlineNW leases a portion of the O'Dell Building from the News-Register and maintains an operational partnership with the newspaper. OnlineNW provides Internet access; web site design services; business telephone systems; and local and long-distance business telephone services.
The newspaper also helped launch Oregon Interactive Corporation, a company that operates www.Oregon.com, the state's leading tourism web site.
The newspaper's Digital Media Division provides Internet-related services to other newspapers and publications, including online content management systems and website maintenance sevices.
Thus, Internet operations continue a tradition of state-of-the-art technological advancements in a company that now traces its history through three different centuries.


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Midcontinent Communications Signs on to be Denny Sanford Premier Center Sponsor
Midcontinent Communications will be the first official 'Signature Partner' sponsor for the new Denny Sanford PREMIER Center, the Sioux Falls Convention Center, and the Sioux Falls Arena.
City officials say the partnership, part of a ten-year, $1.6 million sponsorship agreement, will provide fan enhancements and will allow Midcontinent to integrate its brand throughout the property.
Community Development Director Darrin Smith says Midcontinent will be the official provider of public Wi-Fi and business Internet, phone, and television services for the complex.
Its Signature Partner sponsorship agreement includes a significant presence of Midcontinent's brand on the center-hung scoreboard, other signage throughout the Denny Sanford PREMIER Center, as well as at the existing Arena and the grand ballroom of the Sioux Falls Convention Center.
The Denny Sanford PREMIER Center is scheduled to open in the fall of 2014.

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Ben Heine is a magician.
Like David Blaine and Criss Angel before him, he has a special talent for blurring the line between reality and fiction. But instead of utilizing sleight of hand or his indomitable will to delight his audience, Heine keeps it simple by using just a pencil and camera to create his illusions.
Heine's incredible art series Pencil vs Camera combines gorgeous landscapes and city scenes with hand-sketched drawings. The otherworldly images that result are both whimsical and intriguing, with a bit of mind-bending magic thrown in for perspective.
"I always try to express what I'm feeling," Heine told Cult of Mac, noting that most of his inspiration for drawings come "mainly from people around me — friends, family, even strangers — and from every experience I live."


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Up the "Creek" – S2e2, Beefcakes, Boats and SuperSoakers
Joey and Dawson are totally making out during an infomercial for an at-home sausage maker. That is not a euphemism.
They show a lot of these close-ups of sausage. I feel uncomfortable. Anyway, then the Leerys come in and turn off the sausage show and stare at Joey and Dawson on the bed. Joey has been sleeping over for years and the Leerys have never popped in to check on them, so I'm not sure why it's happening now or why Mr. Leery is wearing a wifebeater to do it. Maybe the Leerys actually do come in to Dawson's room every night and stare at the two of them sleeping, which probably makes more sense, given the personality disorders of every character on this show.… Read More »


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The Raiders problems have more to do with their play than the calendar.
Following a winless November, the Raiders fell 20-10 Sunday to the Cleveland Browns at O.co Coliseum in a battle between teams with identical 3-8 records and both desperate for a win.
The Raiders, 3-9, looked to be putting themselves in position for a chance to steal the game in the fourth quarter until Carson Palmer threw a deep sideline pass to Juron Criner that was intercepted by Sheldon Brown at the 6-yard line.
Oakland trailed 13-10 at the time and was coming off its best offensive and defensive sequence of the game, scoring on a 64-yard lightning bolt from Palmer to Rod Streater and then forcing a Browns punt at the 45-yard line.
The Raiders maneuvered to the Cleveland 33-yard line and had a first-and-10 when Palmer took a shot at Criner.
But instead of putting the ball high and toward the outside where only Criner could get it, Palmer's pass was underthrown and to the inside, making it an easy interception for Brown with 9:31 remaining.
The Browns, 4-8, then took the ball at their own 6, got out of trouble with a third-and-3 pass from Brandon Weeden to Josh Gordon for 11 yards to the 24, and later had a 22-yard hookup from Weeden to tight end Benjamin Watson to the 46-yard line to kill precious time off the clock.
The Browns eventually finished off a 94-yard, 14-play drive with a 3-yard run by Trent Richardson with 3:27 left in the fourth quarter and consumed 6:04 in elapsed time.
The Raiders scored on a 17-yard pass from Palmer to tight end Brandon Myers with one second remaining. It was Myers' 14th reception, tying Tim Brown for the franchise record for catches in a game.
For the Browns, it snapped a 12-game road losing streak that began last Oct. 16 wit a 24-17 loss to the Raiders at the Coliseum.
The 64-yard touchdown pass to Streater came after defensive tackle Desmond Bryant got his hand on a 28-yard Phil Dawson field goal attempt, redirecting it to miss to the left.
Dawson had field goals of 41 and 35 yards. Oakland only score other than the Streater touchdown was a 51-yard field goal by Sebastian Janikowski in the second quarter.
The Raiders' problems giving up big plays on defense continued unabated, as Weeden completed 25 of 36 passes for 364 yards and a 44-yard touchdown to Josh Gordon. He had two interceptions, one by Matt Giordano and the other by Phillip Adams.
Running backs Darren McFadden and Mike Goodson each missed their fourth consecutive game after being declared inactive.
With a short week coming up and a Thursday night game at home against division-lading Denver, there is no guarantee they'll be ready to play in the next game.
Quarterback Terrelle Pryor, who was active for the first time this season, did not get in the game for any specialty plays or packages.


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Narihira: The Mirror Scene (Narihira kagami no dan), from the series Famous Scenes from Japanese Puppet Plays (Yamato irotake)
大和色竹 「業平かがみの段」
Edo period
about 1705–6 (Hôei 2–3)
Artist Okumura Masanobu (Japanese, 1686–1764), Publisher Sudô Gonbei (Yamaguchiya) (Japanese)
Catalogue Raisonné
Mutô, Shoki Ukiyo-e to Kabuki (2005), no. 1799; Clark, Morse, Virgin, and Hockley, Dawn of the Floating World (2000-1), #47; Gunsaulus, AIC cat. I (1955), p. 117, #3; Shibui, "Masanobu no sumi-e," Ukiyo-e no kenkyû VI.3 (March 1929), #B-2
Horizontal ôban; 26.1 x 36.7 cm (10 1/4 x 14 7/16 in. )
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Medium or Technique
Woodblock print (sumizuri-e); ink on paper
Not On View
On the final sheet in the series: Yamato eshi Okumura Masanobu zu
By 1911, purchased by William Sturgis Bigelow (b. 1850 - d. 1926), Boston [see note 1]; 1911, gift of Bigelow to the MFA. (Accession Date: August 3, 1911)
[1] Much of Bigelow's collection of Asian art was formed during his residence in Japan between 1882 and 1889, although he also made acquisitions in Europe and the United States. Bigelow deposited many of these objects at the MFA in 1890 before donating them to the Museum's collection at later dates.
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William Sturgis Bigelow Collection


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Scott retained his composure admirably, but must have been devastated inside.
"I'm pretty disappointed," he said. "I had it in my hands and managed to hit a poor shot at each of the closing four holes.
"I'm very, very disappointed, but I played so beautifully for most of the week I certainly should not let this get me down.
"Surprisingly I was incredibly calm and I still am. I thought I could roll that last putt in, but I didn't and that's golf."
Scott was on the verge of becoming the sport's tenth successive first-time winner in the Majors, but while that has now ended another run goes on - Els is the 16th different winner in a row.
Now with two Opens to go with his two US Opens, his front nine contained bogeys at the second and ninth and not a single birdie.
That left him six back, but he hauled himself back into things with birdies at the tenth, 12th and 14th to set up the remarkable climax.
McDowell was always playing catch-up and could not recover from bogeys at the second and sixth, the second of those seeing him take two in the same bunker that gave Woods so many problems.
The 14-Major champion - still to add to that tally since the 2008 US Open - almost hit himself as his first attempt to escape came back off at him.
Officials checked the video to make sure there was no contact, but he then had to play his next crouched on the grass way above the ball.
He did wonderfully well not to leave it in again, but the ball shot across the green off the face and from there he triple-bogeyed to fall seven behind.
It was the first time he had dropped three shots on one hole in a Major since he lost his opening drive at Sandwich in 2003.
The real killer blow for McDowell came with a six on the reachable long 11th - he lost his second in the bushes - that put him six adrift.
Woods and Els were up into joint second at that point, but the former found bunkers on the 14th, 15th and 16th and that ended his hopes.
For Els it was a different story. A very different story. An unbelievable one, in fact.


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A new generation, of all races, is leading the way to a future where our growing diversity is experienced as a great benefit, not a threat.
Is socialism, like the communism of old, fundamentally inconsistent with Christian faith?
An interview with Andrew Wilkes on Christianity and socialism.
To be prophetic preachers, we must understand the blues.
Ten years after the release of his best-selling book, Irresistible Revolution, Shane Claiborne talks with Jim Wallis about nonconformity, ending the death penalty, and cutting his hair.
The mayor of Allentown, Pa., opens town doors- but not without pushback.
From churches to the FDIC, there's a new financial environment where responsible lending can flourish.
Tracking immigration reform in the U.S. courts and its impact on families.
Culture Watch
Hip-hop, spoken word, and the voice of prophetic ethics.
From The Study Quran: A New Translation and Commentary by Seyyed Hossein Nasr, editor-in-chief. Published by HarperOne (2015).
Courage was sometimes in short supply among the mainstream media.
Four February culture recommendations from our editors.
Here are my picks for the best films of 2015.
The Armor of Light, directed by Abigail E. Disney. Fork Films.
Felicity: Poems, by Mary Oliver. Penguin Press.
Down at the Cross
Reflections on the Revised Common Lectionary, Cycle C.
The damage Exxon has done will keep on accelerating for centuries to come.
It's winter. So snuggle up, and tune out.
I came home from the hospital feeling deep appreciation for all the blessings in my life.
But now is the time to dream and plan and begin to build the world we want.


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LONDON (MarketWatch) — European stocks fell Friday, and logged losses of more than 2% for the week in which geopolitical tensions and regional growth concerns took their toll.
The Stoxx Europe 600 SXXP, +0.56% dropped 0.6% to 324.91, the lowest close since March 24, FactSet data showed.
European markets followed Asian declines overnight, coming after U.S. President Barack Obama on Thursday authorized targeted airstrikes in northern Iraq targeted against Islamist militants. In Japan, the Nikkei Average NIK, -0.16% sank 3%. The Pentagon said Friday the U.S. military began its airstrikes.
The pan-European index pulled lower by 2.1% this week as investors fled risk, in part as a trade war between Russia and the West escalated over Russia's support of separatist forces in Ukraine. The Stoxx 600 came off intraday lows Friday following a Russian news service report that Russia was looking to de-escalate its conflict with Ukraine.
With investors concerned about the impact of the trade war on Germany, Europe's largest economy, the DAX 30 DAX, +0.49% this week dropped 2.2%, and marked a 10% fall from its all-time high hit on June 20. The DAX closed Friday's session down 0.3% at 9,009.32.
European Central Bank President Mario Draghi on Thursday acknowledged that risks to the region's economic outlook tilt to the downside. His comments came after the central bank decided to hold its key lending rate steady at 0.15%, and maintain its deposit rate at minus 0.10%.
Draghi "needs to be more proactive," said Stephen Pope, managing partner of London-based Spotlight Ideas, on Friday. "Once we get toward October, we need to see ... aggressive [quantitative easing] coming through."
But one of Friday's advancers on the DAX and the Stoxx 600 was Allianz SE ALV, +1.86% , up 0.5% after the insurer and Pimco parent reported second-quarter profit that topped expectations on Friday.
Bucking the downward trend in stocks Friday, Russia's MICEX index XX:MCX rose 1.1% to 1,348.21. Italy's FTSE MIB XX:FTSEMIB rose 0.3% to 19,193.48, in part after the Italian government late Thursday approved measures aimed at pulling the country out of recession.
Stock in Banca Popolare di Milano IT:PMI leapt 6.9%. Banca Popolare dell'Emilia Romagna BPE, +1.03% surged 11.7% after Italy's stock market regulator banned short selling of the lender's shares, according to Dow Jones Newswires. The stock fell nearly 14% on Thursday after the lender reported loan-loss provisions that were higher than expected.
In Paris, the CAC 40 PX1, +0.67% shed 0.1% to 4,147.81. It closed the week lower by 1.3%.
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2013 has seen some massive outages. And given our heavy reliance on technology today, there is more at stake than ever before. Outages affect not only internal users, but a company's customers and partners – and impact revenue, credibility, trust, reputation and productivity.
With all of this in mind, Neverfail wanted to put together its own list of the year's top outages – placing them on a scale based on overall impact of their downtime. The criteria used to assess the scale ranges across multiple factors:
Expansive reach – Businesses increasingly depend on the cloud for applications and access to data, so there's more at stake today than before. In today's interconnected world, an outage can have a rippling effect across a company's user base, the country and even the globe.
Damaged reputation – No one is perfect. But as customers become increasingly dependent upon the cloud for applications and access to their data, perfection is exactly what those customers demand. So, big outages draw a lot of media attention and can quickly put a company under attack. Not to mention the fact that user forums and social media platforms like Twitter have become the automatic and all-encompassing soap box for all irritated customers to expound on their complaints. Companies that rely on other cloud platforms to provide their own products and services may also see their reputation adversely affected if the cloud provider has an outage.
Lost revenue – It is nearly impossible to determine the exact cost of downtime, since so much depends on the organization, the industry, the number of people impacted, etc. For example: A Standish study estimated that credit card applications lose around $2.6 million for every hour of downtime, whereas this year's 49-minute Amazon.com outage reportedly cost the online retail website nearly $5 million in deferred revenue.
It also appears that the cost of downtime is increasing. According to Gartner, in 2005 organizations lost $42,000 every hour of downtime. In 2011, it was estimated that IT downtime costs $26.5 billion in lost revenue each year and another study suggested that the average cost of data center downtime across industries is approximately $5,600 per minute.
By that estimate, the top 10 outages equal a whopping $31,214,400 in lost revenue – and that only accounts for the providers themselves, not their end customers. Ouch!
This slideshow summarizes the top 10 outages identified by Neverfail. We actually reviewed over 30 major outages; we'll publish that list and some additional analysis next month.
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Hi I'm new
I tried one forum once and posted a video of my brand new birds. I was immediately bombarded by negative comments about their clipped wings. The bars in the cage ect. Where I live they clip them in the store and you really have no choice. If it would have been some random posters it might not have bothered me but it was four of the people overseeing the site.
I never wrote back on that forum the vibe was too negative.
I tried a second forum, a bird forum. For a while I was amazed at the knowledge they had about birds. I have a multi pet household and 30 years experience (with vet bills) with dogs and cats. When it came to any other animal then birds the information was so ridiculous that it was sad.
I really think a forum needs a mix of people. I read the thread on here about outdoor or indoor cats. I loved the approach the way people wrote their answers. To me if a forum just perpetuates myths and does not help people come closer to understanding anything then it's useless.
I don't want to come on to a site to be humored. If I show you a picture of my Sheppard or Labrador and tell you what a great pure bred wolf he is and how he walks off leash. I expect someone to challenge me. This for the simple reason that so many animals suffer each year from people perpetuating myths about them. It saddens me to see so many people humor someone and say yes "what a lovely wolf you have".
This type of reaction hurts society. I inadvertently bought a wolf mix years back. He killed a rat with ease at six months of age. I could not believe a neighbor who told me he just killed that rat. We were talking along the edge of a lake. Later he killed the neighbors cat and didn't have a scratch on him.
At the end he got loose and tried to single handily take down a farmer's cow. He had many great qualities and in the end we signed his papers back over to the breeder who's black husky line had perished. My last memory of him was the terrible howling he was doing as we drove the 300 meter driveway to leave. It has haunted me ever since. Just a question of money. We took him in no knowing, not ready for what came. It saddens me to think of how often this plays over and over.
Many years of experience with animals should have some value. Trial and error shows us the way. I suffered a stroke some years back and had blind spots on my vision. I am not always able to express myself to the same degree. It took years to get back to where I am today. It's pretty easy to say something that will offend someone. No two people have the same experience. Even the same person at different times in their life can change opinions drastically. I fed my cats what they wanted. Bought different brands and just gave them whatever they liked. Now they may be paying the price. One has mega collin and the other was just hospitalized for such a bad tummy ache that she couldn't walk. She is home now and they said she has a bit of cholesterol. What I could tell myself of twelve years ago might have saved my cats these problems, who knows.
It's so easy on a forum to get into a debate that is sterile. Look at the question about indoor or outdoor cats. One person says indoor live longer and another replies (on the old forum) my uncle had 20 outdoor cats, they lived till 16 they never had medical problems. In my country there is no feral cats. We don't have mange here or any cat diseases because all the feral cats are caught and homed... In seconds a research on the internet tells me they have over 2 million feral cats. The cats are eating and bringing certain species to extinction...Nobody calls them on it. I really want to be a part of something that helps society and myself evolve not just a bunch of false argumentation built on a house of cards.
Well my introduction is long and without a doubt lacks structure. Like I said I had a stroke and this is as good as it is going to get for me after the long road back uphill.
welcome I do not think any one will jump on you
The moderators here in my opinion are excellent
As for your post lacking structure. it is one of the more literate and coherent thing I have read this week.
Good luck on your recovery enjoy your chirpers
Not too long for me to read. Welcome to pets. I hope that you find answers to any questions you have and I that you can contribute knowkwedge to us.
One thing that we really must have though is pictures of your pet family!
It Is What It Is
Welcome to the forum!
Your post was well written and you'll find our members to be very smart and very generous with advice.
This forum, like many others does have hot threads...but generally they work out OK.
Hope you enjoy your stay and would love to see some pix!
Please tactfully EDUCATE or IGNORE posters you don't agree with.
Please PM me & Include URLs and post #'s for any issues and it's my pleasure to help.
I'm firm - but fair. Mind the Rules and enjoy your stay.
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Adding my welcome to the pile!
Would love to see some pics of your critters. What kind of birds do you have? When I was a kid, my mom had an amazing African Grey parrot that was learning to talk, and we also had a pair of Peach-faced Love Birds. Wish I could have birds again, but right now I have 5 cats so it won't be anytime soon.
"To close your eyes will not ease another's pain." ~ Chinese Proverb
We must not refuse to see with our eyes what they must endure with their bodies. ~ Gretchen Wyler
Welcome to the board! Sorry for the late reply, weekends and summer in general it gets slower on the board....
As the others have said, we love pics! I like your attitude, it's very important to always have an open mind and not get easily offended. You're right, we don't always all agree on any one thing. Take from it what works for you and let the rest go.
Yes, weekends are a bad time for new posts, especially in the summer. Everyone comes back on Monday and catches up, so a belated WELCOME!
I hope your experience on pets.ca is much better than the one you had on the other forums.
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Ugh. Why?
Apparently there will be a sequel. Another Sex & the City movie. Us Weekly is reporting that while contracts have yet to be signed, it's simply a formality – for all intents and purposes, all four women are on board, and have accepted their financial deals, with each earning pay raises to come back.
Great. More dress porn.
But what else?
What else is there to do?
Maybe babies?
More mute Asian babies! Carrie has a baby! Carrie joins the MiniVan Majority!
Like the sucking of the first movie wasn't enough. Can't wait for Michael Patrick King to write more scenes with Carrie Bradshaw, the sex columnist, refusing to talk sex with her 3 best girlfriends. Yay!


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COLLEGE PARK, Md. - The Yale gymnastics team finished fourth with a score of 188.700 against top-level competition at Maryland in a meet won by No. 17 Auburn, which finished with a score of 196.225. The host Terrapins finished second with a 195.825, while George Washington placed third with a score of 192.100.
The Bulldogs began the day on the floor exercise, which is typically their strongest event, as it was at Maryland. Senior Brigitte Kivisto, the three-time defending ECAC Gymnast of the Week, led the way with a 9.825, finishing seventh. Talis Trevino placed 13th with a 9.750, a career record, and she was followed shortly by Freshman Tara Feld's 9.700. Freshman Stephanie Goldstein and junior Sherry Yang scored a 9.575 and a 9.475 respectively.
On the Vault, Yale was paced by Feld's 9.700, good enough for eighth place. Kivisto finished in 15th with a 9.600, and fellow senior Allison Mak placed 19th with a 9.500. Freshman Chelsea Savit scored a career high 9.150, and Goldstein produced a 9.150.
On the uneven parallel bars, Kivisto finished 11th with a 9.725, while freshman bars specialist Lindsay Andsager scored a 9.375m placing 17th. Feld and Goldstein scored a 9.250 and a 9.100 respectively, while Mak scored a 9.000.
On the balance beam, Mak scored a 9.800 for sixth place, Yale's highest individual event finish of the day. Right behind her in eighth place was Kivisto, who scored a 9.750. Goldstein and Yang scored a 9.450 and a 9.350 respectively.
Yale entered three gymnasts in the all-around competition, with Kivisto finishing highest with a fourth-place 38.900. Goldstein placed ninth with a 37.275, while Feld finished 10th with a 37.000.
The Bulldogs resume competition with the ECAC Championships at 12:00 p.m. next Saturday, Mar. 27. The conference championship will be hosted by Temple.
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Follow Start > All Programs > DVDVideoSoft > Programs > Free Video to MP3 Converter or just click the DVDVideoSoft Free Studio icon on the desktop.
The interface is very simple and self explaining. There is a field for input files, a field for an output path, and the list with preconfigured profiles. If you want to change default theme, go to Options → Theme.
Click the the Add files... button to select an input video file(s) from your computer.
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Click OK to switch back to the main program window.
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Dec 27th, 2017
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Quick Facts
- butter for baking dish
- 1 Tbs mild-flavored honey
- 2 Tbs Kirsch or fruit liqueur (my favorite is Amaretto), optional
- 4 large egg whites
- 2 large egg yolks
- 1/4 cup plus 2 tablespoons sugar
- 1 tsp vanilla extract
- 1/2 tsp almond extract
- 1 cup sifted unbleached flour
- 1 1/2 cups fat-free plain yogurt
- pinch of salt
- 4 cups fruit, such as strawberries, blackberries, blueberries, pitted cherries, sliced peaches, or plums
- 2 tsp chopped dried apricots, soaked in water to soften
- 2 tsp confectioners' sugar for dusting (optional)
- Preheat the oven to 400°F (200°C). Lightly butter an oval 6-cup (1.5-liter) ovenproof dish.
- In the bowl of an electric mixer, beat together the honey, liqueur (if using), egg whites, egg yolks, sugar, vanilla extract, and almond extract. Slowly beat in the flour, then add the yogurt and salt and mix together well, but gently.
- Spread the fruit and the softened apricots in the baking dish. Pour the batter over the fruit and place on the upper rack of the oven. Bake for 30 to 40 minutes, until golden. Place a doily over the top of the dish and sprinkle with confectioners' sugar to decorate, if using.
Variation: Sprinkle 1/2 cup sliced almonds over the clafouti after it has been in the oven for 15 minutes.
Homemade Apricot Sauce: Chop 6 dried apricots and soak them in 1 cup (240 ml) water for 1 hour; puree to serve as a fruit sauce over the clafouti.
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The information presented here is for informational purposes only and was created by a team of US–registered dietitians and food experts. Consult your doctor, practitioner, and/or pharmacist for any health problem and before using any supplements, making dietary changes, or before making any changes in prescribed medications. Information expires December 2019.


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So, here it is Friday again and time for another New Game Stuff post.
Whoa, what?
Fridays are Comic List Highlights, not New Game Stuff! What's happening! My world's crumbling! My brain is melting! Fire is raining from the skies! MAKE IT STOP! MAKE IT STOP!
Whew, okay, ready to go. Yes, you can now expect Fridays to be home to the New Game Stuff posts while Saturdays will become Comic List Highlights.
And for the inaugural gaming item, a new supply to one of our favorite deck building games, Resident Evil. If you haven't played it, the Resident Evil Deck Building Game is akin to Dominion and Ascension, featuring a play style centered around selective purchasing and playing of cards. Anyway, the official playmats for the game are now in stock. That's playmats with original game art on them as well as designated spaces for key cards in the game, like the mansion, ammunition cards, combat knife, and handgun.
Oh, 'ello, chappy. Are you a discerning Arkham Horror player? Ah, yes, I can see that. Well, then you surely have a collection of Litko Game Accessories Arkham Horror compatible accoutrements? Oh, you don't! I wouldn't spread that around town, if I were you. It's okay, though, because we can provide assistance. In that I mean, Pulp only today received a vast assortment of various markers, tokens, and bases to accompany the game. These include Iron Gate Markers (able to display in-game iron gate tokens), tentacled Monster Bases (also helpful to display monster tokens), as well as larger, transparent blue Sealed Gate Tokens (improve the small sealed gate tokens that come with the game), among other niceties. Improve your horror experience, gents and ladies, improve it.
Are you ready for a Blood Bowl! A Friday night Blood Bowl!
Ehhhh, too soon? You don't have to be Bocephus (actually, you'd probably prefer not to be) to enjoy a the new card game from the makers of Blood Bowl, Team Manger. Basically the original game in card form, Team Manager runs two to four players through a season of the hard hittingest, blood spillingest, bone crunchingest game ever, as they battle over players, train their team, and via for fans on top of playing each other. If it hasn't occurred to you, the fitting pun here is fantasy football as your player options are dwarfs, elves, orcs, and the like. Lets just say, Hank Williams, Jr.'s recent comments may actually be appreciated in this game.
Summoner Wars enacts their master plan this week by dropping not only a Master Set edition, but two new Reinforcement Decks, Goodwin's Blade and Hawk's Strike. Unlike in the game, you don't have to use mystical forces to call forth these packs of warrior-y might. But if you do use the magic of your wallet, you might find some dangerous allies at your finger tips. For instance, the Hawk's Strike pack expands upon the Jungle Elves and Cloaks factions while Goodwin's Blade expands Vanguards and Fallen Kingdoms. But maybe the most valued of these three is the new Master Set. Unlike what you might think when you hear that phrase, the Master Set provides six entirely new faction decks! Not only is this enough to start a prospective player off on the game, but a premium game board is also included, giving players a perfect setting to play their game.


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My wife cornered me yesterday, demanding that I tell her which week I have available this summer so we could take a family vacation.
We haven't taken a family vacation in four years. Not coincidentally, that was when I landed my first book deal.
My family deserves a vacation. Hell, I deserve a vacation too. But Hyperion hasn't planned the tour yet for DIRTY MARTINI (the release date looks to be the end of June) so I don't know where I'm going to be or what I'm going to be doing this summer.
My wife said that we need to take a week where we can rent a cabin on a lake, go fishing and swimming, and just hang out and relax.
I explained that I'm working my butt off so some day we can buy a cabin on a lake, and go fishing, swimming, and just hang out and relax every day for the rest of our lives. Remember the grasshopper and the ant? Work now, relax later.
My wife reminded me that my son will only be nine once, and we should enjoy him at this age.
I said that I have two distinct memories from being nine years old, neither of them involving my parents.
My wife called me an idiot. I couldn't argue with that.
But we do need a vacation, so I am going to find some time. I still haven't fully recovered from my 500 bookstore tour last summer. Since getting home I've written a screenplay, a novel, eight short stories and articles, attended seventeen events, and visited another 112 bookstores. I need to finish another book this month (which will be my 15th novel) but then I'll have a little bit of free time.
So I'm going to do it. I'm going to go on vacation. I don't want to be planning for a future with my family and find out---when the future arrives---that my family isn't there to share it with me because they got tired of waiting and left.
Am I the only insane workaholic who has this problem?
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The Expanding Light Echo of Red Supergiant Star V838 Monocerotis
This image shows a time sequence of Hubble Space Telescope images of the light echo around V838 Mon, taken between May 2002 and October 2004. All six pictures were taken with Hubble's Advanced Camera for Surveys using filters sensitive to blue, visible, and infrared wavelengths. The apparent expansion of the light echo, as light from the early 2002 outburst of V838 Mon propagates outward into the surrounding dust, is clearly shown.
All of the images are shown at the same scale. Moreover, the images are also shown as they would appear for the same exposure times throughout the sequence. Thus the background stars appear constant in brightness, while the surface brightness of the light echo steadily declines. The fading of the light echo is primarily due to the light-scattering properties of interstellar dust. Consider a street lamp on a foggy night. The halo around the lamp is brightest right next to the lamp, while out to the side it is much fainter. Similarly, in the first V838 Mon image, taken in May 2002, the light echo was very bright and compact. At later times, we are seeing dust out to the side of the star, rather than dust that is immediately in front of the star, so the amount of light scattered in our direction is smaller. Hubble astronomers expect the light echo to continue to change its appearance and brightness over the next several years.


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Blackfoot wrote:He carried a shitty Magic team to the finals. That's all I really need to know other than he is a top four player when healthy.
was it the finals or ECF?
Moderators: Mr. Crackerz, JREED, Guybrush, 32
8th ave wrote:We have a hall-of-famer on our hands. We make ONE big move to get another superstar caliber player and we're in contention. Yeah I said it.
Blackfoot wrote:The loss coincided with Klay foulling out and Jackson not finding rest for Curry. Not because Curry played well until his legs were jello.
32 wrote:Are we still over-valuing Curry, 8th?
I put him 4th midway through the season... and I stick by that claim. To me, there's no one better, save for Paul, Westbrook, and a healthy DRose.
migya wrote:The way he's played the last month and a half at least, he's the best PG there is.
32 wrote:migya wrote:The way he's played the last month and a half at least, he's the best PG there is.
Based on his numbers in the playoffs thus far, no question.
But taking more than the post-season into account, I'd still say Paul and Westbrook are better. Curry would have been the starting PG in the all-star game in the East this year.


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The Women's Chamber Choir of Hope College, along with the college's Luminescence and 12th Street Harmony vocal ensembles, will perform on Monday, April 15, at 7:30 p.m. in the sanctuary of St. Francis de Sales Catholic Church.
The public is invited. Admission is free.
The popular close-harmony groups 12th Street Harmony and Luminescence will perform a mixture of a cappella selections, both modern and traditional.
The Women's Chamber Choir will sing in French, Italian and Tamil, accompanied by piano, oboe and horn, and including words from the Song of Solomon, Dante's "Purgatory," and maritime folk songs celebrating beauty, the afterlife, and a beloved pet duck.
The Women's Chamber Choir, established in 2001, is an auditioned group of 20-25 Hope students. The group is directed by Jennifer Wolfe, adjunct assistant professor of music.
St. Francis de Sales Catholic Church is located at 195 W. 13th St., on the corner of 13th Street and Maple Avenue.


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HANG TIME HEADQUARTERS — Perfection doesn't last forever. Not in the NBA. So this dazzling start to the season for the New York Knicks does have an expiration date.
That doesn't mean Knicks fans shouldn't enjoy the ride, though. They not only have the only unblemished (5-0) record in the league, but also a group that has the makings of a legitimate contender for a top-four playoff seed in the Eastern Conference.
Again, it's early. And the true tests will present themselves in the coming days and weeks. Specifically, Thursday night's tilt against the best team in the Western Conference (San Antonio) and a potential Friday night slugfest (in Memphis) will be key. The early overall returns, however, show a much-improved defensive team capable of winning even when their shots aren't falling at a ridiculous clip.
Their effort last night showed us that they have the intestinal fortitude to come back from a late challenge as they dumped the the Magic in Orlando to preserve their perfect record. (And for you armchair historians out there, the last time the Knicks started a season 5-0 was the 1993-94 season — a campaign that ended in Game 7 of The Finals).
Credit for this turnaround should be spread all around, starting with Knicks coach Mike Woodson and All-Star forward Carmelo Anthony, who has embraced the change without so much as a hint of displeasure. Having the oldest team in the league doesn't always translate to having the wisest crew. But veterans like Raymond Felton and, more specifically, Jason Kidd, bring an element of understanding to every game in the natural grind of a season that you don't get from a younger and inexperienced point guard (like … don't say it … Jeremy Lin).
All that said, perhaps no player epitomizes the Knicks' mini-metamorphosis better than the oft-embattled swingman J.R. Smith, who has become a consistent force off the bench for the first time in his career while leading the league in 3-point shooting (72.2 percent). With Kidd on one end of the spectrum and Smith on the other, Woodson has found a way to make it all work, as Nate Taylor of The New York Times pointed out after last night's game:
"At halftime, Coach really got on us about our defense," J. R. Smith said. "We played harder, we got through the screens and we closed out on shots. I think that was the difference."
Smith provided the Knicks with the offense they desperately needed, scoring 21 points (12 in the third quarter) and shooting 9 for 14. He also had 2 steals and 4 rebounds.
By playing more aggressively, the Knicks held the Magic to 36 points in the second half.
The Knicks have yet to allow an opponent to score more than 40 points in the second half.
"We have active hands," Kidd said. "You have guys who understand where to be on defense. Sometimes it's not always going to be perfect, but guys were making the second and third effort. That just comes with trust."
Trust isn't a word you heard tossed around a whole lot with these Knicks last few seasons. And it's a word that will no doubt be tested when Amar'e Stoudemire returns from injury (knee). He'll have to trust Woodson and his staff if and when they ask him to assume a role outside of the superstar one he's used to playing.
But he'll have to trust that they are doing what's best for the Knicks if/when they ask him to come off the bench and work himself back into form with the reserves rather than starting and altering the chemistry for a group in a groove.


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TradeWithPrecision necesitaba un nuevo diseño de logotipo y lanzó un concurso de diseño en 99designs.
Un ganador ha sido elegido entre 237 diseños de 56 diseñadores freelance.
An education company requires a logo which oozes 'Precision'. Trade With Precision is an education company which teaches people how to trade the financial markets, primarily through live and online seminars. We need a generic Precision Logo which can be used across a variety of different educational fields such as trading, golf and business.
Trade with Precision
Precision Trader was formed just over 18 months ago and is now rebranding. Management's intention is to extend the company's activities into other fields of education, such as golf and business entrepreneurship (in addition to trading).
For such extensions, the name "PRECISION" will remain and will provide the basis of the name for the extended companies eg:
- Trade with Precision
- Golf with Precision
- Business with Precision
Current company websites http://www.tradewithprecision.com and http://www.tradingsymposium.com.
Logo Requirements
The new logo must be made up of 2 elements:
1. A graphic image (discussed below) which includes the corporate name "Precision". This will essentially be the umbrella / family logo
2. Text which identifies the specific company e.g. "Trade with", "Golf with", "Business with".
Virgin is an example of how this concept should work: "Virgin" being the family logo with its own distinct charactersitics. The "Wines", "Atlantic", "Media", "Mobile" logos achieve differentiation but are still clearly part of the "Virgin" family brand.
Logo Requirements
Three versions of logo required with essentially the same design, just different text e.g. Trade with Precision or Golf with Precision. Please keep submissions to just Trade with Precision for now although on completetion Business with & golf With logos will also be required.
It is important the logo look elegant and simple.
The logo would also need to be reversable i.e. it should work against both light and dark backgrounds. It does not matter if this is achieved by a single logo or a (modified) second version of the logo with appropriate colour changes to satisfy this requirement.
The colour scheme must incorporate metallic GREEN and SILVER and maybe black. Additional suitable colours are at the designer's discretion. See colour scheme for logo at http://www.tradingsymposium.com
The words used in the logo i.e. "Trade With" and "Precision" can be in different fonts for distinction and standout. Again – Virgin is a good example of this style of treatment.
Image Ideas
The image must be a graphical component which represents Precision. This could be in the form of something such as a spiral or something to do with fibonacci perhaps. This is at the designers discretion provided that Precision is graphically represented.
Open to all possibilities provided requirements above are met
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part of a group of teacher/student "Voices" writing for the Dallas Morning News this year. I think I also mentioned to anyone that would listen that I was having difficulty thinking of ANYTHING to write about. I've never experienced any form of silence before, in my thoughts, in my daily life, in the presence of a speck of dust, it's just not in me to not jabber without ceasing. Sure, I can be quiet, and I TRY to be quiet and share the air, I said "I try," but if I'm 'being quiet' you should see how noisy things are inside my brain.
So, after a month, I made myself start aimlessly writing, and I decided my first article would be a little off the controversial road, it would be my way of saying thank you, in some small way to someone I truly admire in the teaching field, a volunteer. And just like I tell my brother he's my favorite (guess how many siblings I have?), I can honestly say this is the best article I've ever had published (hint: I have the same number of siblings as I do articles published).
Here is a link to the article. This post is more for a personal record, but just in case you volunteer at schools, I heart you. Seriously, on the list of things that have meant the most to me, it's those parents that sent little 'just because' gifts or stopped to say 'thank you,' the church members that mentor the students I've spent 9 hours trying to dissect, and cure, and some days, survive, and the volunteers that were willing to brave the field trips, or Thursday envelope jungle.
As far as the actual writing process, my original article was 850 words. I asked my Mom, an English major, to edit. We went back and forth many times as I put things back in I couldn't live without, took her suggestions on things that were bothering me, and pondered the concept of world peace, world domination, and world domino tournaments. I then turned my article in with 50 extra words (700, as requested by the sections editor). He then reworked it/took some things out, and 200 fewer words later, it was my words, rearranged, adjusted, and a little less wordy thanks to the help of eagle eyed editor, who also happens to be really funny, encouraging, and really nice. It was strange to look at something I remember writing, seeing my voice, but wondering were that 'excess' went. It went where it was supposed to-away. I want a permanent editor! I also want a puppy.
In other 'news,' I have a little idea of what I'm writing about next, and it's still not very controversial, but....it's a big deal to me, and this assignment might as well be something I like writing about, controversial can wait until #3, right? ....and #4 may get me booted. Kidding. Kinda.


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The development of analytical methods to elucidate the chemical forms of Cu, Zn, Cd and Pb in soil contaminated by sewage sludge and other effluents. Park, John Scott (The Robert Gordon University School of Pharmacy and Life Sciences, 1990-07)The contents of this thesis describes the development of an analytical method to determine the chemical speciation of heavy metals in soils contaminted by sewage sludge and distillery wastes. Chapter one serves as an ...


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Full Homeland Security Affidavit To Seize Domains Riddled With Technical & Legal Errors
from the this-just-gets-worse-and-worse deptAnother day and even more evidence that Homeland Security's decision to have its Immigration & Customs Enforcement (ICE) group seize a bunch of domain names without any warning or adversarial hearing was a colossal screw up. We haven't heard too much about the sites seized concerning trademark infringement, but there were five that were the focus of copyright infringement -- including a bunch of hiphop blogs (which were regularly used by artists and record labels alike to promote their songs) and a search engine. Last week, we went through a partial affidavit from a newly minted ICE agent named Andrew Reynolds, which showed numerous technological and legal errors in explaining why the domain of the search engine, Torrent Finder, was seized. Yesterday, we wrote about how some of the "evidence" used against the blogs included songs sent by the labels for promotional purposes.
A few different folks have since sent over the full affidavit which you can see below. So now we can see the "details" of the evidence put together by Agent Reynolds that was (literally) rubber stamped by magistrate judge Margaret Nagle, and it's looking worse and worse for Homeland Security. Basically, all of the sites in question had some forums and in some of those forums, some users posted links to other sites, which hosted some content. In other words, under these conditions, an awful lot of domain names on the internet can be seized by ICE.
Just for fun, I went through most of the files found in the document and searched for them all in Google. In every case, Google popped up plenty of links to sites hosting that content. Now, it's entirely possible that a copyright holder could make the argument that some of these sites reached the level of "inducing" copyright infringement, but, as both Agent Reynolds and Judge Nagle should know, inducement of copyright infringement is a very dynamic area of law, which has multiple factors needed to establish whether or not inducement occurs -- most of which Agent Reynolds did not bother to present. Furthermore, inducement is supposed to be determined in a court of law following an adversarial trial -- not because some recent college grad ICE agent asked a movie or recording industry exec their opinion on the matter.
At no point, does it appear that any effort was made to establish that seizing an entire domain based on a small fraction of what occurred on the site does not violate the First Amendment. This is going to present a pretty serious problem for Homeland Security, because there's a fair amount of legal precedence saying that you need to take into account the First Amendment implications before seizing forms of expression.
Of course, one response to this, that we saw in the comments, was a claim that since ICE only seized the "domain name," speech wasn't prevented, since the speech could still live on on the server itself. This explanation fails for two reasons. First, domain names themselves can be considered speech as has been highlighted in a few different cases. Second, and more importantly, Agent Reynolds' own affidavit makes it clear that the seizures of domain names was because of the content found on those domains (though, he repeatedly, mistakenly seems to think that content on other servers is the responsibility of those domains). If Reynolds was only seizing the domain names to avoid stifling speech of the content on the rest of the servers, his entire argument fails. In his affidavit, he clearly states that he wants to seize the domain names because the domain names are "property used, or intended to be used to commit or facilitate criminal copyright infringement." But, if we're really going to argue that the domain names and the content on the servers are separate, then this argument makes no sense. The domain names themselves are not being used to commit or to facilitate criminal copyright infringement. Only some of the content on the servers.
Furthermore, Agent Reynolds' explanation for why the domains need to be seized rather than allowing an adversarial hearing to take place are laughable at best:
Neither a restraining order nor an injunction is sufficient to guarantee the availability of the SUBJECT DOMAIN NAMES for forfeiture. By seizing the SUBJECT DOMAIN NAMES and redirecting them to another website, the Government will prevent third parties from acquiring the names and using them to commit additional crimes. Furthermore, seizure of the SUBJECT DOMAIN NAMES will prevent third parties from continuing to access the five websites listed above.In other words, in yet another moment of technological ignorance on the part of Agent Reynolds and the judge in question, they seem to really believe that seizing the domain names prevents people from accessing the content in question. Of course, that was quickly proven false by the fact that most of these sites reappeared within hours on different domain names. But it also highlights how Reynolds really did mean to shut down the entire website (he was just somewhat clueless in how to actually do so) with zero regard (as required by the law) for the First Amendment implications.
On top of that, his claims of why the domains need to be seized, rather than allowing a court to issue an injunction or a restraining order, don't make sense either. Did he really think that with an injunction or a restraining order and an actual case going to court that "third parties" would magically acquire the domain names in question? And, even if they acquired the domain names, what would that have to do with the content on the servers? Is Agent Reynolds really basing his claim that these domains needed to be seized prior to an adversarial hearing based on a series of highly improbable events: (1) that a lawsuit would be filed against these domain holders, (2) that the court would issue an injunction and (3) that, for some reason, it would also not instruct the domain holders not to get rid of the domains in question, and (4) that not having happened, that the domain holders would simply decide to sell off or to give away those domains, and (5) that those domains would then fall into other hands, and (6) that those others might possibly use it to commit "additional crimes"? Really? The first two steps in the chain could be reasonable, given certain conditions, but the following four steps are beyond improbable.
Is Homeland Security really basing its already First Amendment-questionable seizure of domain names, for sites the industry used to promote its own works with no notice or adversarial hearing, with questionable and error-riddled evidence on a series of six hypotheticals, many of which are highly improbable?
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Luke Bryan, Darius Rucker Unintentionally Duet 'Jingle Bells' [Watch]
Although Luke Bryan and Darius Rucker didn't actually sing 'Jingle Bells' together, they still contributed to an unintentional duet, turning the Christmas classic into a decidedly country carol!
Bryan, wearing a cozy gray fleece, baseball cap and a huge grin starts the song off with the opening line, "Dashing through the snow." As he sings, he looks as giddy as a little kid on Christmas morning.
All of a sudden, the video switches to Rucker, also donning a baseball cap and fleece as he belts out the lyrics. He adds a bit more seriousness to Bryan's goofy rendition, but as the carol continues, he begins swaying along with a tiny smile.
As the video changes from spotlighting Bryan to Rucker and back again, it's amazing how the two singers both stay on tune -- even though they weren't singing side by side.
The two country crooners were filmed singing the song separately during the 'CMA Country Christmas,' taping, but were later melded together, blending their vocals and verses into a fantastically festive, albeit unintentional, duet.


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Like many others, Toronto public relations manager Megan Vickell is sitting on the real estate sidelines dreaming of bargains to come.
The 28-year-old has never owned a property and is hoping to scoop up a discounted Toronto condo when prices fall off today's frothy record highs.
"I'm waiting for that bubble to pop that everybody is talking about so I'm not sitting there owning a condo in the city that later everybody else has for a much cheaper price," said Ms. Vickell. "I mean look at everything that's being built, who is going to live in all those? There's lots of beautiful spots out there."
You can't blame her for wanting to wait. Research firm Urbanation Inc. says Toronto's average condo prices climbed to as high as $407 per square foot in 2012, a sharp rise from the $229 per square foot fetched in the first quarter of 2003.
The picture is not much different nationally. The average sale price across the country was $364,260 over the first 11 months of 2012, according to the Canadian Real Estate Association. Compare that to beginning of this boom when the average sale price across the country was $158,303 in 1999.
But what if the crash never comes?
Urbanation says preliminary condo results for the fourth quarter show prices are down 0.8% in Toronto year over year and Canada-wide home prices were also down 0.8% in November from a year ago. But, so far, that's about it.
The one thing missing from the market, for all those people looking for a crash, is a catalyst or an event that will force people to reduce their asking prices. Before this housing market burns up in flames, it needs some type of spark.
And, if you talk to some people, that key event — two that come to mind are a spike in interest rates or job losses — is not happening any time soon.
"Crashes don't just happen in a vacuum, you need a trigger," says Benjamin Tal, deputy chief economist with CIBC World Markets. "I can't point to any crisis in the history of crashes that didn't have a trigger."
In the United States, the trigger proved to be a sub-prime market and the expiry of teaser rates that jumped as much four percentage points on some mortgages. Overnight, people couldn't afford their homes.
"If you have a gradual increase in the rates this doesn't happen," says the economist, who predicts a decline in prices but only in the 5% to 10% range. The real estate industry is on the same page, continually calling for a soft landing.
What has people like Ms. Vickell excited and looking for a major decline in prices is the massive drop off in sales activity in some major markets. Nationally, sales were down almost 12% in November from a year ago. Vancouver remains the leading example where sales were down 22.7% in 2012 from a year earlier.
So you're sitting on the sidelines, not buying at what many consider ridiculously high prices — the product of a 14-year boom that has only seen one mild pullback during the recession in 2008. But what if sellers simply refuse to lower their price, something that has happened so far in the markets where sales are drying up very fast. What's next?
"I think stagnation is a good word for what will happen, it's what we saw in the market from 1992 to 1997," says Mr. Tal.
The CREA stats show the market nationally — albeit real estate can be a very regional story — did not move all that much in the 1990s before it took off in 1999. There were some corrections in the 5% range on a yearly basis but average prices from a bottoming out of $142,091 in 1990 had climbed to $154,768 by 1997 — an 8% increase that is paltry by today's standards for such a long period.
"We are going to see a correction and the question is 'what will emerge from that,'" said Mr. Tal. "The scenario is the market will not be strong, it will be stagnant."
In this scenario, instead of people of people selling in a panic, they pull their homes off the market, waiting for a better day, refusing to sell at distressed prices. New listings and active listings will start to shrink.
"In the U.S., you had to sell your house because you were delinquent. If you tell me tomorrow the unemployment rate [in Canada] will jump to 12%, we will have a crisis," said Mr. Tal.
Don Lawby, chief executive of the Century 21 Canada, and a charter member of the club that doesn't see home prices dropping anytime soon, can't see any desperation from sellers.
"The economy continues to be okay, people have jobs, interest rates are low," said Mr. Lawby. "Historically, anytime when prices dropped it was tied to high unemployment and interest rates. It's not the case today, people are not forced to sell, they are staying with their price."
Still, Ms. Vickell's patience may pay off. Even Mr. Lawby concedes that the condo sector may be hit. Developers who already have buildings under construction may be forced to scale down projects or lower prices on unsold units.
"They are going to be throwing in packages to sell," says Mr. Lawby. "But the average homeowner, without an economic event, they have no need to sell."
David Madani, Canada economist with Capital Economics, takes a more extreme view, predicting a price-drop of 25% in the next year or two across the country. Rapidly flagging sales are a sure sign his prediction will come to fruition, he says.
"We have to tell our clients 'you don't necessarily need a trigger.' You reach a threshold point where people get afraid, where valuations have lost touch with fundamentals," he says, adding there is a standoff between buyers and sellers before any crash. "Sellers eventually realize the market has shifted beneath them and they capitulate and drop their asking price."
But Mr. Madani's calls for a crash are being largely drowned out by the real estate industry's steady calls for a soft landing.
Gregory Klump, chief economist with CREA, says history supports the notion that some sort of major event is needed to create a housing market collapse.
"In the late 1980s, it was a case of a spike in interest rates, in late 2008 and early 2009 it was a massive layoff," said Mr. Klump. "You need a massive and extended economic shock and none of that is in the forecast."
In the interim, people waiting for a decline a major decline in price will have to keep waiting, says Mr. Klump. Only time will tell if it ever materializes.
Are stubborn sellers killing the real estate crash?
Like many others, Toronto public relations manager Megan Vickell is sitting on the real estate sidelines dreaming of bargains to come.