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As riders and online shoppers, we know it can be tough to buy a new bridle or pair of boots without trying them on. That's why we moved the fitting room to your living room (or barn)! From breeches to blankets, if you or your horse can try it on, you can return it, free! Just use the pre-paid return label included in your order within 60 days from the purchase date. And of course, please make sure the item is in like-new condition with original packaging (we said 'fitting room', not 'war room'!).
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When I went to T.O., of course I made a quick stop at H&M. I put myself on a super-low/no-buy this month, so to avoid temptation (yes, I know I shouldn't even be in the store anyway), I didn't try much on despite seeing some really interesting pieces.
I tried on this nude colored dress that is sort of similar to the last H&M nude dress I tried on here:
I tried it on in a size 4, but it seemed rather large when I put it on. I probably could have gone down to a 2. It was just too large around the shoulders and the bust. Compared to other nude dress, I just didn't like this one at all despite the really pretty pleating. I forgot to take a picture of the price tag, so I have absolutely no idea how much it cost. If I had to guess, it was probably $39.95CA.
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LINCOLN — While workers are scrambling to finish the Devaney Center renovations about a month before it becomes the new home of Nebraska volleyball, the building already is having an effect on the program's future.
Husker recruits are buzzing over the team's new digs, which are undergoing a $20 million renovation to turn the former NU men's and women's basketball facility into the nation's finest college volleyball arena.
"I saw it before it was finished. I saw the modeled pictures and everything. It's awesome. It's huge. I can't wait to see it when it's done," said Kenzie Maloney, a 2015 Husker libero commit out of Louisville, Ky.
"Just how many people can fit in there and how many people will be watching. You can walk upstairs and there's this whole area you can walk up and look down on the court."
Maloney, one of the nation's top defensive specialist recruits for 2015, said the revamped Devaney Center helped Nebraska stand out among recruiting pitches from some of the country's top programs.
"It definitely made a difference," she said.
Nebraska already had an electric home court at the perpetually packed NU Coliseum, and NU's 2013 freshman class was ranked No. 1 nationally by PrepVolleyball.com. But Husker coaches have been fishing for future top-ranked classes by showing recruits models and computer designs of the Devaney renovations.
Since construction on the arena began following basketball season, NU targets have been able to see the Huskers' new home for themselves. A trip through the Devaney Center has been a regular feature for visiting recruits, Nebraska coach John Cook said. Even though the tours require everyone to don a hard hat, Cook said recruits' eyes get noticeably bigger when they see the results taking shape.
"It's a mess, but my jaw dropped when we walked in," Cook said. "You just look up, and it's really cool.
"Our recruiting is on fire."
The highlight, Cook said, is the arena's redesigned south side, which will feature five luxury boxes. Adjacent to the boxes are the coaches offices, where Cook said he can see the state capital to the south and the playing court to the north.
The luxury boxes are believed to be a unique feature among college volleyball arenas.
"The thing that surprised me the most was the skyboxes," said 2014 outside hitter commit Maddie Haggerty, sister of NU sophomore Meghan Haggerty. "I've never even heard of a place that has skyboxes (for volleyball)."
Aside from new concourses, restrooms, video boards and concessions areas, the remodeled Devaney Center is being reconfigured to hold about 8,000 seats, with 2,000 on the floor. The floor seats will include a student section that should be noticeably larger than the one at NU Coliseum, which set aside about 100 seats.
The team will also have a new weight room and locker room in the arena with a number of high-tech bells and whistles that made Maloney take notice.
"The locker rooms are going to be high-tech with iPads so you can play your own music," she said.
Cook said the Huskers intentionally scheduled a road tournament in St. Louis to open the season in order to give workers an extra cushion to complete renovations. But last week, the Nebraska athletic department announced the Devaney renovations were on schedule to be completed by late August. Cook is hoping work is done in time to hold the team's annual Red-White scrimmage there Aug. 24 so a large crowd can provide a match-like environment for his young club, which will feature 10 newcomers in 2013.
"Red-White will be a big night for a lot of kids," Cook said. "That's why I hope we have a big crowd. That will be about as much pressure as they can feel in one night."
In other NU volleyball news:
>> Cook said Monday the entire 2013 team is now on campus for summer workouts and classes. Libero Justine Wong-Orantes, middle blocker Melanie Keil and walk-on defensive specialist Alexa Ethridge had not previously been in Lincoln this summer.
>> Redshirt sophomore walk-on Alicia Ostrander has been moved to middle blocker from outside hitter, where she had played sparingly during her first two years in the program.
>> Cook said freshman outside hitter Kadie Rolfzen is fully recovered from shoulder soreness that kept her from taking full-speed swings this spring. Rolfzen played libero during Nebraska's spring indoor exhibition matches to rest her arm.
>> Two Husker commits have made the U.S. Girls Youth National Team that will compete in the U-18 World Championships from Thursday to Aug. 4 in Thailand. Maloney and West Point, Iowa, middle blocker Mikaela Foecke, both 2015 commits, were among 16 players training with the team in Anaheim, Calif. The team was recently trimmed to 12 players, with Foecke and Maloney making the final roster.


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Good for him; unfortunately, a lot of people see a gay person as weak. It will be hard in an NFL locker room. Gay slurs will be heard on a daily basis, not to mention opponents trying to get under your skin. The team that signs or draft this guy should expect a media circus.
Michael Sam's teammate: 'Proud of my bro Mike for finally coming out'
Donovan Bonner played alongside Michael Sam for five years at Missouri. Sunday, after Sam announced he is gay, Bonner took to Twitter to offer his support.
"Proud of My bro Mike for finally coming out man takes a tremendous amount of courage!" tweeted Bonner, a linebacker for Missouri who, like Sam, is eligible for the upcoming NFL Draft. "We knew of his status for 5 years and not one team member, coach, or staff member said anything says a lot about our family atmosphere."
Missouri head coach Gary Pinkel released a statement shortly after Bonner's tweet, also offering Sam words of encouragement.
"We're really happy for Michael that he's made the decision to announce this," Pinkel said, according to ESPN's Brett McMurphy, "and we're proud of him and how he represents Mizzou."
Multiple sources told Sports Illustrated he came out to his Missouri teammates just prior to the 2013 season. He then delivered 11.5 sacks as the Tigers ripped off 11 wins, including a Cotton Bowl victory over Oklahoma State. Sam will participate at the NFL scouting combine later this month.
The league responded to Sam's news with this brief statement:
"We admire Michael Sam's honesty and courage. Michael is a football player. Any player with ability and determination can succeed in the NFL. We look forward to welcoming and supporting Michael Sam in 2014."
Update: Another of Sam's former Missouri teammates, linebacker Kentrell Brothers, echoed Bonner's earlier remarks:
It takes a lot of courage to do what he did. And we are behind him all the way.
— Kentrell Brothers✈✈ (@Kentrell_Mizzou) February 10, 2014
The University of Missouri's official Twitter account added the following:
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Now let's just hope a Sail Barge is on its way, too!
Whatever happened to all the folks getting pissy about certain people inquiring with Hasbro about playsets over the past couple years? These are the same folks who said that other sites were wasting questions by mentioning playsets? That there was no way in hell that more playsets were coming as there is not a market for them, because Hasbro said so.
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Located in the Financial District, this is the second branch of Les Halles—a French bistro made famous by its globetrotting-chef, Anthony Bourdain. Inside, the bustling French café vibe comes alongside classics such as cassoulet, coq au vin, steak au poivre and steak frites. If you're craving moules frites, you won't be starved for choice: the mussels come in any one of six different broths.
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Of the four whiskies in the Soloist series, this one definitely stood out; it's a bold, fruity sherry without any sulphur which hits my sweet spot for sherry pretty well (though it's on the sweet side of my sweet spot).
Heavy fino sherry on the nose, unmistakeable. Palate is pretty sweet and again heavy on the fino flavors -- and I don't tend to like stuff that actually tastes like fino -- but here it's good. Long finish.
Everything behind the very sweet sherry is mild and typical, and the sweetness is nearly too cloying at times. But it's still pretty darn tasty and I'd be happy to own a bottle.


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There was a time when I would never shoot in harsh, hard light. Bright, strong, contrasty light tends to have deep, black shadows and no color subtlety. As a garden photographer, when the sun came into the garden I would retreat to the shadows where the light was soft.
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An Earth System Project shows the interaction between the Geosphere, Hydrosphere, Atmosphere, and Biosphere. The project is fully described with ready-to-copy materials, including student handouts in table form and ...
Earth System Science Unit Overview
Erin Bardar; Nick Haddad
The lab activities in this module were adapted by Erin Bardar of TERC for the EarthLabs project. These activities are based on the Exploring the Connections activities in the Earth as a System chapter of the GLOBE ...
Earth and the Solar System
Sara Harris, University of British Columbia
This is high enrollment science course for non-science students in which we examine the evidence for how geological, biological, atmospheric, oceanic, and climatic processes work and interact here on Earth. We then ...
Using GLOBE Data to Study the Earth System
Nick Haddad; Tamara Ledley, TERC
DATA: Student-collected environmental data TOOL: GLOBE Online Graphing Tool - Explore, graph, and compare data from the GLOBE (Global Learning and Observations to Benefit the Environment) Program.
Take A Hike Assignment
Anne Jefferson, University of North Carolina at Charlotte
Students are assigned to take a hike in a location of their choice and write a concise summary of their observations of Earth Science features and processes. This assignment is used near the end of an Earth Systems ...
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Steven Semken, Arizona State University at the Tempe Campus
Students are provided with equations and geological data to estimate the velocities and impact effects of volcanic bombs that were ejected during the last eruption of Sunset Crater, a young cinder cone volcano in ...
Florida River Project: Semester-long group project
Kim Hannula, Fort Lewis College
This is a semester-long group research project that uses a local river to integrate several lab and field activities. The project covers topographic maps, rock and mineral identification, measuring data in the ...
Time Series Analysis of Lehigh Valley Instrumental Climate Records
Zicheng Yu, Lehigh University
In this lab activity the students will learn basic statistical and graph skills by analyzing real world climate data sets.
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This lab uses "ant farm" groundwater models to demonstrate groundwater flow and the behavior of wells. The lab is organized so that students have to predict the behavior of the model before observing it.


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Today is tax day and President Barack Obama revealed last week that his family was taxed at an effective rate of 20.5 percent on an adjusted gross income of $789,674. However, his secretary, who makes about $95,000 annually,...[more]
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Want to show your digital snaps to friends without you all having to gather around a tiny LCD screen or mess around hooking up the camera to a big screen? Nikon has the answer. It's the world's first camera with a built in projector.
Dubbed the Nikon Coolpix S1000pj, it lets you project your digital images and video footage onto any surface in an instant. Simple to operate, just press a button and the images can be displayed onto any flat surface up to 40inches (100cm) across – whether it's the wall for a presentation or the ceiling for a bedtime slideshow!


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When Jake returned home, he told his father, Roland Brown, who has been pastor of Golden Springs Baptist Church in Anniston for nine years. Roland — known by all to be a straight shooter — offered some hard-won words of wisdom.
"If you can do anything else," Roland told his son, "do it."
Jake Brown was in the seventh grade. Like his father suggested, he didn't tell anyone about God's call to become a preacher. Instead, he wrestled with it for several years until he was 16 years old, when he again told his father what could no longer be denied.
"Dad," Jake said, "I can't do anything else."
"I know," was his father's response.
From that point on, Roland Brown became more than a father. He became a mentor — a "godly example," Jake said — guiding his son down a path that, despite all of its rewards, can be incredibly demanding.
With 35 years in the ministry, Roland Brown understands the challenges of leading a church; what it means to be on the receiving end of a phone call in the middle of the night, knowing instinctively that a congregation member has died; what it means to be there in times of spiritual crisis and rejoicing.
"To be a pastor is a wonderful gift from God," Roland said. "At the same time, it's one of the heaviest burdens and responsibilities I've ever experienced."
Jake Brown now understands those burdens and responsibilities firsthand, having accepted his first job as interim pastor of CrossRoads Baptist Church in Wellington.
Jake is 23 years old, four years older than his father was he when he took his first job leading a church.
"Coming in as a pastor at only 23 has been … interesting," Jake said with a laugh. "God opened this door, and I just walked through it."
It was October 2011. Jake had graduated from Auburn University. He was teaching jobs readiness classes at the Calhoun County Department of Human Resources when CrossRoads called, asking if he could fill the pulpit for a few weeks while they searched for a full-time replacement.
"He left the house in November," Roland remembered, "and never came back."
The leadership at CrossRoads was quickly impressed. Jake "displayed a loving spirit and a level of maturity and leadership seldom found in a young man his age," church officials stated in a press release announcing his appointment as pastor.
Jake was ordained in February at CrossRoads. Roland and his son met with the deacons of the church, and Roland wanted to make one thing clear — they weren't just getting Jake, they were getting Jake and his father.
"To have that kind of support is such a blessing for me," Jake said. "A lot of young pastors don't get that. I know that my father will be there to help me whenever I ask for it."
But Jake must ask. His father isn't the type to stick his nose where it's not wanted.
"I try to provide advice only when it's sought," Roland said. "I'm a safety net. The kid's on a high wire all by himself, but I'm there to catch him if he falls."
As Roland knows from experience, there are times when Jake will fall. When Roland first heard of Jake being offered the pastorate at CrossRoads, he was both exited and fearful.
"This is my son, so I have all those fatherly feelings," Roland said. "I want to protect him. But since he was little, I've told him, 'Stand on my shoulders, son. I want you to go higher.'"
Jake has done just that. But now he's also standing on his own two feet.
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Yes I noticed the image a bit flat on the camera display, I made it brighter during PP.
Only had a chance for a couple of shots with this dress, she was already late to go get into another outfit, I had a softbox left of camera and a light towards the background to try and give some separation between the dark hair and the background
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the ringflash, I suppose on the other side of the soft box ?
I use tonal contrast, so easy to get carried away , it was used on the dress, default settings, except saturation which was turned to zero.
Elsa, we were three photographers, taking turns, I was there making comments on do this , or do that, and the guys were following my "advice", then when it is my turn I have at times some sort of idiotic lapse that turns on, and since before I didn't kept my mouth shot they considered me the expert and made no comments
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Maryland's New State Curriculum
Maryland was one of the first States in the nation to adopt the Common Core State Standards in mathematics and reading/English Language Arts. In June 2010, the State Board adopted the standards by unanimous vote. These standards form the foundation for Maryland's new state curriculum.
Maryland launched a broad-based, year-long process to revise its curriculum to align with the new standards. Hundreds of classroom educators, instructional leaders, administrators, and higher education representatives helped State officials develop the new Maryland Common Core State Curriculum. The curriculum Framework, the foundation of the new curriculum, was presented to the State Board in June 2011, and the completed curriculum will be implemented in Maryland schools in the 2013-2014 school year.
Mary Cary, former Assistant Superintendent, Division of Instruction, explains the process of transitioning to Maryland's new curriculum. "We are bringing together approximately 6,000 educators from across Maryland to engage in professional development that will prepare them to make the transition to the new curriculum. Every school in the state brings a team that includes the principal, an English Language Arts/reading teacher, a math teacher, and a STEM teacher. Five members of each system's central office staff also participate."
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Since the adoption of the standards, educators from around the state have met to determine the Essential Skills and Knowledge associated with these standards. The draft frameworks that follow are the result of this work. It is important to view these frameworks in color. The Common Core State Standards appear in black and the Essential Skills and Knowledge added by Maryland educators appear in red. These draft frameworks were introduced to teachers and administrators at the Educator Effectiveness Academies. Over the next several years, the Maryland Common Core State Curriculum will be developed by Maryland educators to support the implementation of these new standards.
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In the Tel Aviv District Court, a lawsuit of a total of $11.75 million against Asseco Poland SA company and its owner and president, Adam Goral, is conducted, dealing with a bad faith breach of contract regarding a share purchase agreement of Israeli Oz M.E.H.
Asseco Poland SA is part of Asseco Group, which is one of the ten biggest software companies in Europe. The group owns many companies traded in Warsaw, Tel Aviv and New York stock exchange markets. The group specializes in providing software solutions to different sectors, such as banks, insurance companies, health institutes and international organizations such as NATO and the European Union.
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Asseco's representatives expressed again and again their determination and commitment in carrying out the agreement, both before the plaintiff and before third parties.
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According to the lawsuit, in light of the fact that the plaintiffs relied on the agreements that were reached with Asseco and damages that were expected to be caused to them as a result of a bad faith breach of contract, Góral offered the plaintiffs compensation according to which, Asseco would buy only 20% of the shares for a sum of $5 million. Eventually, it turned out Góral wasn't planning on executing the compensation offer as well.
According to plaintiff's allegations, as a result of this breach of contract, the plaintiffs suffered an estimated $11.75 million damages and additional damages in a scope that hadn't been estimated yet.
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West Georgia captured the team championship with a 651 total, while Columbus State was second with 660 and Birmingham Southern finished just one shot behind CSU for third place. Montevallo took fourth with a 665 and North Georgia rounded out the field with a 725 after rounds of 363 and 362.
The race for the individual title came down to the wire as Montevallo's Emily Gibson found herself deadlocked with Columbus State's Nikki Crowley after 36 holes with a 14-over-par 156, but Gibson's lower round on the final nine holes gave the Falcon senior the victory.
CSU's Kimesha Anthony finished third and just one shot off the lead, while West Georgia's Lauren Giambastiani and Birmingham Southern's Jennifer Commander finished fourth and fifth respectively.
Catalina Olarte paced North Georgia for the third straight event, finishing alone in 9th place with rounds of 86 and 79 for two-day 23-over-par 165. Casey Truelove recorded a 22nd place finish, firing an opening round 82 and final round 96 for a 178 total.
Erica Breeden put together rounds of 96 and 90, good for a 186 and 26th place overall, while Jodie Borchert finished in a tie for 28th place with a 196. Courtney Hall rounded out the team with a 212 to take 31st place in the event.
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Coffee can give you a jump-start to the day but numerous studies have shown that it also may be protective against Type 2 diabetes.
Now, researchers at UCLA have discovered a possible molecular mechanism behind coffee's protective effect. A protein called sex hormone-binding globulin (SHBG) regulates the biological activity of the body's sex hormones, testosterone and estrogen, which have long been thought to play a role in the development of Type 2 diabetes. And coffee consumption, it turns out, increases plasma levels of SHBG.
Reporting In the journal Diabetes, first author Atsushi Goto, and Dr. Simin Liu, a professor of epidemiology and medicine with joint appointments at the UCLA School of Public Health and the David Geffen School of Medicine at UCLA, show that women who drink at least four cups of coffee a day are less than half as likely to develop diabetes as non-coffee drinkers.
When the findings were adjusted for levels of SHBG, the researchers said, that protective effect disappeared.
Early studies have consistently shown that an "inverse association" exists between coffee consumption and risk for Type 2 diabetes, Liu said. That is, the greater the consumption of coffee, the lesser the risk of diabetes. It was thought that coffee may improve the body's tolerance to glucose by increasing metabolism or improving its tolerance to insulin.
Liu stated that, "Although we now know that this protein, SHBG, is critical as an early target for assessing the risk and prevention of the onset of diabetes."
Earlier published work by Liu and his colleagues had identified two mutations in the gene coding for SHBG and their effect on the risk of developing Type 2 diabetes; one increases risk while the other decreases it, depending on the levels of SHBG in the blood.
A large body of clinical studies has implicated the important role of sex hormones in the development of Type 2 diabetes, and it's known that SHBG not only regulates the sex hormones that are biologically active but may also bind to receptors in a variety of cells, directly mediating the signaling of sex hormones.
"That genetic evidence significantly advanced the field," said Goto, "because it indicated that SHBG may indeed play a causal role in affecting risk for Type 2 diabetes."
"It seems that SHBG in the blood does reflect a genetic susceptibility to developing Type 2 diabetes," Liu said. "But we now further show that this protein can be influenced by dietary factors such as coffee intake in affecting diabetes risk -- the lower the levels of SHBG, the greater the risk beyond any known diabetes risk factors."
For the study, the researchers identified 359 new diabetes cases matched by age and race with 359 apparently healthy controls selected from among nearly 40,000 women enrolled in the Women's Health Study, a large-scale cardiovascular trial originally designed to evaluate the benefits and risks of low-dose aspirin and vitamin E in the primary prevention of cardiovascular disease and cancer.
They found that women who drank four cups of caffeinated coffee each day had significantly higher levels of SHBG than did non-drinkers and were 56 percent less likely to develop diabetes than were non-drinkers. And those who also carried the protective copy of the SHBG gene appeared to benefit the most from coffee consumption.
When the investigators controlled for blood SHBG levels, the decrease in risk associated with coffee consumption was not significant. This suggests that it is SHBG that mediates the decrease in risk of developing Type 2 diabetes, Liu said.
And there's bad news for decaf lovers. "Consumption of decaffeinated coffee was not significantly associated with SHBG levels, nor diabetes risk," Goto said.
Source: http://www.diabetesincontrol.com/index.php?option=com_content&view=article&id=10397&catid=53&Itemid=8, Diabetes, Jan. 2011
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What is Arthritis?
Arthritis is a group of conditions that causes pain and inflammation to joint cartilage in the body. Joints are the areas where two bones meet such as the knee, hip, shoulder or elbow. They allow our bodies to move in many different ways. Damage to the joints can result in joint weakness, instability, decreased movement and visible deformities.
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As part of an ongoing commitment to improving its range of supports for artists, the Arts Council has announced a significant increase in the Cnuas, the payment made to some Aosdána members to allow artists to devote themselves full time to creative work. The annual sum will rise from €12,180 to €20,000 over the next three years. The Cnuas forms an important part of the Arts Council's support for artists at key levels of their careers.
Mary Cloake, Director of the Arts Council, said: "Partnership for the Arts sets out a programme to improve the working environment within which artists contribute to society. We are very pleased to be able to announce this increase in the Cnuas. It underscores the Arts Council's commitment to encouraging and supporting individual artists and represents an investment in the arts for the future."
This is the first increase in the Cnuas since 2004. The Arts Council recognised that both the current payment and the earnings cap over which an artist may not receive the Cnuas are relatively low. The decision to stagger the increase over three years was made due to budgetary constraints.
Members of Aosdána are eligible to receive the Cnuas - an annuity for a term of five years - to assist them in concentrating their energies full-time to their art. A member may apply for a Cnuas at any time, but must provide both an outline of the art work proposed, and documentation of income. No Aosdána member with an income of more than one and a half times the value of the Cnuas - until now €18,270 - can receive the Cnuas.
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The UK's most beautiful boutique festival continues its eclectic musical tradition as it announces the line up for its 6th glorious year. With a fusion of indie pop Brit nominees Scouting for Girls and 'Belle de Jour' Imelda May, the stage is shared with inimitable girl group The Sugababes and Chrissie Hynde's legendery rock outfit The Pretenders.
'Cornbury is a unique experience in all manner of ways', says promoter Hugh Phillimore. 'We're immensely proud of our musical diversity and family friendly ethos. Where else could you see The Damned and the Sugababes on one bill?'
The festival embraces the 'something for everyone' approach. From alt rockers The Magic Numbers and rising stars Teddy Thompson and Ava Leigh, to the retro classic chic of Sharleen Spiteri, Cornbury attracts festival goers from all age ranges and with all manner of tastes.
Cornbury is about its beautiful Cotswold location, fantastic food, hot air balloons, the madness of the many morris dance pageant, children's theatre workshops, great festival shops and a huge fairground all held together by a carefully selected spectrum of top music talent. Typically English – eccentric, eclectic and inclusive – a farmers' market with a dancefloor, a county fayre with a rock 'n' roll twist indeed!
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Magic Numbers
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The Damned
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Joe Jackson
Imelda May
Ava Leigh
Laura & The Tears
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Mary Coughlan
Eddi Reader
Coute Diomboulou
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· Cornbury Festival is promoted by Hugh Phillimore and is produced by Cornbury Music Festival Ltd and Music Producers Sound Advice Ltd
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The Near East
This 1952 map by the Army Map Service of the U.S. Army Corps of Engineers provides a broad overview of the Near East, the geographic region traditionally thought of as encompassing the countries of southwest Asia, including Turkey, Lebanon, Syria, Iraq, Israel, and Jordan, and the countries of the Arabian Peninsula. In addition to political borders, the map shows lakes, rivers, and other bodies of water, marshlands, cities by population, pipelines, railroads, and pumping stations. Above the key is a glossary of topographic terms with transliterations and translations into ...
Map of Northern Arabia: in Illustration of Lady Anne Blunt's Journeys
This map shows the routes of two Arabian journeys taken in the late 1870s by Lady Anne Blunt (1837–1917) and her husband, the poet Wilfrid Scawen Blunt (1840–1922). Lady Anne was a skilled equestrienne and horse breeder, who purchased Arabian horses from Bedouin tribesmen, which she then had transported back to England. Her work did much to establish the Arabian breed in Britain. In 1878, Lady Anne journeyed from Beirut, across northern Syria, and south through Mesopotamia to Baghdad. From there she traveled north along the Tigris River ...
Map of Persia, Turkey in Asia: Afghanistan, Beloochistan
Samuel Augustus Mitchell (1792–1868) was a renowned American geographer and cartographer. The majority of his work focused on the United States, but he also made maps of other parts of the world, including this 1868 map of the Ottoman Empire, Persia (present-day Iran), Afghanistan, and Baluchistan. The main territorial units that Mitchell shows are Turkey, meaning the core of the Ottoman Empire comprised of present-day Turkey, Iraq, Syria, and Lebanon; Persia; Afghanistan; and Baluchistan (mainly present-day Pakistan). Egypt and much of the Arabian Peninsula were at that time technically ...
The Eastern Question in Europe and Asia
In the late-19th century, European politics were troubled by what had come to be called the "Eastern Question," the fate of the 600-year Ottoman Empire. Once encompassing the Ottoman heartland of Anatolia (present-day Turkey), most of the Arab Middle East, and the Balkan Peninsula, by 1886 the empire had shrunk dramatically as a result of wars with European powers, Russia in particular, and revolts by subject peoples. This 1886 map, published in London, shows the Turkish Empire as comprised mainly of Albania, Thrace, Crete, Anatolia, and parts of the Arab ...
Persia, Arabia, Tartary, Afghanistan
This map by Thomas Gamaliel Bradford (1802–87), depicting parts of the Middle East and Central Asia, appeared in Bradford's A Comprehensive Atlas: Geographical, Historical & Commercial, which was published in Boston in 1835. Bradford was born in Boston of a distinguished New England family. He made maps of both U.S. states and foreign countries and became the assistant editor of the Encyclopedia Americana, the first significant encyclopedia produced in the United States. The map uses colored lines to delineate the boundaries of the Persian Empire, Afghanistan, Arabia, and ...
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Middle East Countries: Syria, Iran, Iraq, Afghanistan, Jordan, Saudi-Arabia
This map of the Middle East, originally published in August 1950 and revised in February 1955, was issued by the Aeronautical Chart and Information Center, Air Photographic and Charting Service, Military Air Transportation Service (MATS), of the United States Air Force. In addition to Syria, Iran, Iraq, Afghanistan, Jordan, and Saudi Arabia, it shows the eastern parts of Egypt and the Anglo-Egyptian Condominium of Sudan as well as parts of Eritrea and Ethiopia. Many borders on the map, particularly on the Arabian Peninsula, are shown as still undetermined. Territories shown ...
The Historical Theater in the Year 400 AD, in Which Both Romans and Barbarians Resided Side by Side in the Eastern Part of the Roman Empire
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Map of Asian Turkey, Persia, Afghanistan, Balochistan, and the Khanate of Bukhara, with Some of the Neighboring Countries
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Colton's Persia, Arabia, Et cetera
This map of Persia (present-day Iran), the Arabian Peninsula, and neighboring countries originally appeared in the 1865 edition of Colton's General Atlas. It extends from a part of Egypt (the Nile Delta) in the west to Afghanistan in the east and reflects the general level of geographic knowledge of the Middle East in mid-19th century America. Coloring is used to indicate borders and certain provinces or settled areas. The map shows cities, mountains, and roads, and includes some notes on topographical features. J.H. Colton & Company was founded in ...
Central Asia: Afghanistan and Her Relation to British and Russian Territories
This 1885 map shows Asia from the eastern littoral of the Mediterranean to western China and the Indian subcontinent. An inset in the upper right depicts the region in the broader context of Asia, Europe, and Africa. A focal point of the map is Afghanistan, where, in what was called "the Great Game," the Russian and British empires competed for influence throughout most of the 19th century. The British feared that the Russians, who annexed large parts of Central Asia in the 1860s and 1870s, would use Afghanistan as a ...
A Map of the Countries between Constantinople and Calcutta: Including Turkey in Asia, Persia, Afghanistan and Turkestan
This 1885 map shows the region between Constantinople, capital of the Ottoman Empire, and British India, an area of intense imperial rivalry between the British and Russian Empires in the late-19th century. British possessions are colored in red and include British India, Cyprus, the Aden Protectorate (present-day Yemen), Socotra Island (Yemen), and the northern littoral of the Horn of Africa, which became the protectorate of British Somaliland (present-day Somalia) in 1888. The map shows railroad lines and submarine telegraph cables. The railroad network is at this time more developed in ...
France and the Levant
In preparation for the peace conference that was expected to follow World War I, in the spring of 1917 the British Foreign Office established a special section with responsibility for preparing background information for use by British delegates to the conference. France and the Levant is Number 66 in a series of more than 160 studies produced by the section, most of which were published after the conclusion of the 1919 Paris Peace Conference. The book is mainly an historical survey of French military, political, and cultural influence in the ...
Syria and Palestine
In preparation for the peace conference that was expected to follow World War I, in the spring of 1917 the British Foreign Office established a special section responsible for preparing background information for use by British delegates to the conference. Syria and Palestine is Number 60 in a series of more than 160 studies produced by the section, most of which were published in 1920, after the conclusion of the 1919 Paris Peace Conference. At this time part of the Ottoman Empire, Syria was a vaguely defined entity that included ...
This mid-19th-century British map shows the Arabian Peninsula and neighboring parts of Africa, including Egypt, the Sudan, and Abyssinia. The traditional Greek and Roman division of Arabia into the three parts of Arabia Petraea, Arabia Deserta, and Arabia Felix is used. Qatar is shown as Catura. Also indicated are Oman, Bahrain, and the territories of Mecca and Medina. The map emphasizes the vast, empty interior of the peninsula with such annotations as "great space covered with sand" and "deserts very barren and continued between Mekka and Oman." Four different caravan ...
Colton's Persia, Arabia, Et cetera
This map showing the Arabian Peninsula, Persia (present-day Iran), Afghanistan, and Baluchistan (present-day Iran and Pakistan) was published in 1855 by J.H. Colton & Company of New York. Coloring is used to indicate borders and certain provinces or settled areas. The map shows cities, mountains, and roads, and includes some notes on topographical features. The old Qatari city of Al Zabara is shown. The map is accompanied by a one-page summary of the geography, people, principal places, and recent history of Afghanistan and Baluchistan. The map later appeared in the 1865 edition of Colton's General Atlas and reflects the general level of geographic knowledge of the Middle East in mid-19th-century America. J.H. Colton & Company was founded in New York City, most likely in 1831, by Joseph Hutchins Colton (1800–93), a Massachusetts native who had only a basic education and little or no formal training in geography or cartography. Colton built the firm into a major publisher of maps and atlases by purchasing the copyrights to and republishing other maps before it began creating its own maps and atlases ...
Northeast Africa and Arabia Drawn to the Scale of 1:12,500,000
This map of North Africa and the Arabian Peninsula is from the sixth edition (1875) of Stieler's Hand-Atlas über alle Theile der Erde (Stieler's portable atlas of all parts of the Earth), edited by August Heinrich Petermann (1822−78) and published by the firm of Justus Perthes. The map reflects the high quality of German cartography in the latter part of the 19th century and the advances made by German mapmakers in incorporating into their work findings from geology, hydrography, ethnography, and other scientific fields. The map uses ...
Arabia: According To Its Modern Divisions
"Arabia According to Its Modern Divisions" shows the Arabian Peninsula with the three-part division traditionally used in European sources into Arabia Petraea, Arabia Deserta, and Arabia Felix. Deserts, seaports, and the pearl beds along the coast are indicated. Qatar is shown as Catura. Four different distance scales—Arabian miles, Turkish miles, Persian parasangs, and British miles—are provided. Published in 1794, the map was compiled and drawn by Samuel Dunn (circa 1723−94), a teacher of mathematics and navigation who made original contributions to solving the problem of determining longitude ...
Maps of the Middle East and the Near East
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Pritchett was born in Wellington to J. C. and Ruth (Bryant) Pritchett. His family moved to Asberry when he was in first grade. He attended Roy Webb School. The Pritchetts moved to the Angel community when he was in second grade. There, he attended Cedar Springs School. That's when his life changed. He met Eileen Holden.
Pritchett's family moved several more times, but he never forgot his Eileen.
"We were just children," he said. "I never did fall out of love with her, and I still love her. She was beautiful."
His father was a Baptist preacher, and he and Eileen would occasionally see each other at churches where his father pastored.
His father got into the saw mill business, and the family moved to Allgood, near Oneonta. Then, they moved to Chulafinnee in Cleburne County. Their next move was to Wellington where his parents bought a mom and pop grocery store. Pritchett graduated from Alexandria High School when he was 17. He was also 17 when he and Eileen married. She was 15 and still in school.
Most of their dating was in Pritchett's father's car.
"Sometimes Dad would loan me his car, and I'd take her out and buy her an ice cream or chewing gum," he said "I'd hug and kiss her. She was as sweet as she could be."
They often double dated with Eileen's brother, Alford Holden, and his girlfriend, Elizabeth. The two couples decided to go to Mississippi to marry, because a blood test wasn't required in that state.
"We didn't elope," said Pritchett. "Our mothers and daddies knew it. We didn't have time to wait on blood test because Alford was in the Air Force at that time. He was on furlough and was getting ready to have to go back."
They drove to Columbus in Pritchett's 1941 Ford. He remembers the wedding well.
"The preacher that married us was telling us before he married us that it would cost $5," said Pritchett. "He married us and I was so thrilled that I got married, we started out the door and he said, 'Hey, buddy, you owe me $5.' They wanted to call our mothers and daddies, but back then they didn't have telephones and they couldn't call them."
Alford stayed in the Air Force and was killed in Vietnam in 1964.
For the first two years of their marriage, Pritchett worked for his brother-in-law, Eugene Turner, who was a building contractor. During the winters, he worked for Joe and Sophie Steinberg at their clothing store on the square. Then, he and his father bought a service station at Pecan Grove in Alexandria.
"At that time, the only thing there was our service station, cotton fields, pecan groves and Saxon's Candy Kitchen," he said.
In 1955, Pritchett bought a dump truck and went to work with Hodges and Co., building roads. Four years later he went to work at the Coca-Cola Co., and worked there until 1971. That year, he went to work at Draper Oil Co., in Anniston, and in 1985, he opened his own business, Pritchett Oil Co. He kept his company until 1995.
It was also in 1985 that he opened a service station on Alabama 204 in the West Point area.
"We stayed there until 2000 when the government pulled out all the old gas tanks and shut me down," he said. "In 2000, the government put moms and pops out of business all over the country. Gas used to be 60 cents a gallon. The government took over and now it's $4 a gallon."
In 1991, he and his son, Mark, bought their first tow truck. Now, they have nine trucks. Mark's son, Henry Taylor Pritchett, has one of the trucks in Chelsea, which is on Alabama 280 near Birmingham.
The Pritchetts will be married 60 years on Nov. 30. They have five children. Mark, and his wife Katelyn, live next door. Their daughters and their husbands, Vicky and Dwight Roper, Tina and David Bryant, Janice and Johnny Frank and Donna and Joel Nash, don't live far away. The Pritchetts have 16 grandchildren and 17 great-grandchildren.
The family enjoys camping together.
"We all have motor homes, and we like to go camping," said Pritchett. "We love to go to Guntersville State Park, Pigeon Forge and just different places. Sometimes we go to Gadsden and camp on the river or Noccalula Falls. We just visit around."
He and Eileen have ridden motorcycles for 40 years.
"We don't advertise it," he said, "but sometimes we just go. She rides with me. I still have one, It's a 1200 Honda, and it's pretty heavy, so we don't ride much anymore. We're still young at heart."
Pritchett said his favorite things are attending West Point Baptist Church, where he's been a member since 1947. His father pastored that church in 1947-48. He was baptized in Boozer's Lake.
"The Lord has been so good to me," he said. "He has really blessed me over the years."
Pritchett has several plans when full retirement comes. He mentions three.
"I'm gonna cut my grass and rake up pine straw around here and just keep on lovin' Eileen."
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PORTSMOUTH, Va. — The ship's engineer was seasick and spitting up his medication. A deckhand had been tossed past the mainmast, breaking three ribs. The captain had been slammed against a cabin table, wrenching his back. He could barely walk.
The HMS Bounty, a 180-foot sailboat, is shown submerged in the Atlantic Ocean during Hurricane Sandy approximately 90 miles southeast of Hatteras, N.C., on Oct. 29, 2012.
U.S. Coast Guard photo by Petty Officer 2nd Class Tim Kuklewski
Deckhand Anna Sprague describes sitting on the deck waiting to abandon ship as she testifies during the U.S. Coast Guard's February hearing into the sinking of the HMS Bounty during Hurricane Sandy.
Capt. Robin Walbridge, sailing the tall ship Bounty from Connecticut to Florida, was trying to outflank Hurricane Sandy, which was roaring toward New York. But instead of slipping around the storm, the ship had crossed directly into Sandy's path.
It was after dark on Oct. 28, and the three-mast vessel pitched and rolled in the Atlantic 90 miles off Cape Hatteras, its 16 crew members fighting to keep the ship afloat.
The 180-foot Bounty took on water through its leaky oak and fir planking faster than the failing bilge pumps could keep up. Fuel was leaking. The foresail was shredded. The port engine and generator were failing. The Bounty's lights flickered in the gloom.
The chief mate pleaded with the captain to make a distress call to the Coast Guard. No, Walbridge said, they just needed to get the generators cranking again.
Sometime before dawn on Oct. 29, the Bounty pitched violently on its starboard side and the crew tumbled into the cold Atlantic.
Outlined against a stark black curtain inside a hotel conference room in Portsmouth last month, three Coast Guard officers convened a formal hearing to seek answers to the sinking of one of the world's best-known ships. Was there, as the Coast Guard phrased it, "any act of misconduct, inattention to duty, negligence or willful violation of the law?"
The Bounty, described as "a wooden sailing ship of primitive build," was a leaky money pit for its owner, Robert Hansen. He formed HMS Bounty Organization, LLC to handle the ship's affairs and had put it up for sale last year. Hansen invoked the Fifth Amendment and did not testify.
The ship was moored in New London, Conn., in October. Walbridge was eager to sail it to St. Petersburg, Fla., where it was scheduled to be on exhibit. A replica of an 18th century sailing ship, the Bounty was built in 1960 for the Marlon Brando film "Mutiny on the Bounty" and starred in two "Pirates of the Caribbean" movies.
The Bounty wasn't licensed to carry passengers at sea. Tourists paid $10 to visit the moored ship in ports in the U.S. and Europe.
A shipyard manager testified that during an overhaul of the ship in Maine last September, workers found widespread rot in the frames and planking. But only two planks were replaced, and the rotting frames were simply covered with recaulked planks.
Crew members declined requests for interviews, but their detailed and often emotional testimony described a beloved and dedicated captain so confident in his sailing abilities that he sent his compromised ship into a hurricane, convinced that he could outsmart any storm.
As Sandy grew more dangerous, crew members received panicked phone calls from family and friends. Walbridge called his crew together and gave them a chance to go home. Everyone decided to stay.
There was little talk of remaining in New London to ride out the storm, though Walbridge himself described Sandy as a "Frankenstorm." Chief mate John Svendsen, 41, a Bounty veteran, told Walbridge that high seas and devastating winds were predicted; the captain said the Bounty would handle the hurricane just fine.
Walbridge planned to get on the far southeastern sector of Sandy to take advantage of favorable winds, which would blow the Bounty safely away from the hurricane. He said ships in hurricanes were safer at sea than in port.
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Chief mate of the HMS Bounty John Svendsen, answers a question after pointing out where the Bounty was taking on water at a federal safety panel hearing on the sinking of the ship on Feb. 12, 2013, in Portsmouth, Va.
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Matthew Sanders, second mate of the HMS Bounty, is sworn in during the U.S. Coast Guard hearing into the sinking of the ship off North Carolina during Hurricane Sandy. One member of the 18th-century replica ship's crew died and Capt. Robin Walbridge was never found after the ship sank about 90 miles off Cape Hatteras, N.C.
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Jessica Black, former HMS Bounty ship's cook, talks about an electrical switch shorting out because of moisture from the hurricane and causing smoke inside the galley of the vessel, as she testifies during the U.S. Coast Guard hearing into the sinking of the ship.


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Today, October 30, 2013, The Joint Commission named Sibley Memorial Hospital a Top Performer on Key Quality Measures in their 2013 annual report. Sibley was recognized for accomplishments in pneumonia and surgical care. This is the first time Sibley has received this recognition and is the only top performing DC hospital.
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On Tuesday, October 15, the District of Columbia Hospital Association (DCHA) held their annual banquet, where they announced the 2013 awards. Sibley Memorial Hospital was presented with the DCHA Distinguished Service Award and the DCHA Environmental Excellence Award.
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Designed for participants with early dementia or mild cognitive impairment, Club Memory started with 10 people last year. Now, membership is about 70, and 40 or so come to each event. The group meets every other Wednesday in a large, sunny room at the Metropolitan Memorial United Methodist Church in Washington, D.C., not far from Sibley Memorial Hospital. It is free to members of the Sibley Senior Association and their companions/caregivers.
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The Sibley Memorial Hospital Environmental Services (EVS) Team entered artwork in Johns Hopkins Medicine's Hopkins Clean Hands Contest and took second place with the entry titled, "EVS Graffiti Art."
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Aug 20, 2013
Deborah McDonough, Director of Quality, Sibley Memorial Hospital presented Sibley's HARM Across the Board (HAB) story and improvement journey at the 21st Annual Health Forum and the American Hospital Association Leadership Summit. This poster presentation was selected among numerous hospitals nationwide based on its excellence and improved outcomes for reducing harm and/or readmission rates.
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Jul 25, 2013
Sibley Memorial Hospital's Renaissance Skilled Nursing and Rehabilitation Facility has earned a Five-Star Quality Rating from the Center for Medicare and Medicaid Services (CMS) for excellence in three key quality performance domains: quality measures, staffing and annual health inspections.
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YouTuber channel Camels And Friends are regular purveyors of video adorable, serving up footage of goslings, hornbills and - would you believe it - camels.
But today's dose of cute revolves around lambs, however, as you may well have guessed. The essence of it is this: there's a lamb, and it bounces. In a very cute way.
This clip has since sent us on a cute lamb video spiral, and the result is this video gallery we've got for you below - which may well make your head melt from all the adorable-ness. Which is a word. We've just made up.
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Michael Tidser bagged a second-half brace as Morton eased to a 3-0 replay victory over Albion to secure a fourth-round trip to Turriff United in the Scottish Cup.
The sides played out a 1-1 draw in the original tie and Albion's David Crawford drew a sharp save from Morton goalkeeper Derek Gaston in the 19th minute.
David Graham should have put the hosts ahead when he volleyed wide on the stroke of half-time, but a dominant second-half display meant he would not rue his profligacy.
Graham was the provider in the 51st minute, crossing from the left for Martin Hardie to plant a header high beyond Matthew McGinley.
Barely a minute later, Tidser converted Fouad Bachirou's pass to leave the visitors reeling.
And Tidser completed Albion's misery 19 minutes from time when David O'Brien teed him up to crash home emphatically from the edge of the box.