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Hi Mike,
I can't wait to read that book!
Oh! How I love the loving BookShare! lol.
Pat Ferguson
The Winter seeking: a Novella by Vinita Hampton Wright
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Here is the long synopsi:
Experience the Holiness? and the Humanity? of the Christmas Story.
One Mary is young, pregnant, and living out the greatest assignment ever given to a woman of faith. Another Mary is single, torn between her divorced parents, and worried about her mother's battle with a life-threatening illness. Though their lives are separated by years and distance, the challenges they face are surprisingly similar?and the story they share will bring you into the mysterious, joyous reality of Christ's birth as never before.
The book is edited, spellchecked, with all pages accounted for. A near 100% k1k spell score. this should be an easy validation.
amd oh yes, Christmas is6 months from this coming Saturday!1


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Clarinetist, percussionist and vocalist Akira Sakata performs a disturbing rendering of "The Tale of the Heike", an epic account of the 12th century struggle between the Taira and Minamoto clans for control of Japan.
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Format: 2 LPs
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Released: 2016
Country: Austria
Packaging: Double Vinyl LP in a Gatefold Sleeve
Recorded by Yoshiaki Kondo on August 4th 26th, 2011 at GOK Sound, Kichijoji.
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3. The Matter of the Six Paths 5:21
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2. The Death of Atsumori 12:02
SIDE C 1. The Death of Kiso 3:19
2. The Battle at Dan-no-ura (The Drowning of the Former Emperor) 9:19
3. The Chapter Of The Battle (live Version From Dvd)
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2. The Death Of Kiso (live Version From Dvd)
3. Sea Chanty Of Ondo (live Version From Dvd)
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"An epic concept album narrated and performed by Akira Sakata, Heike Monogatari ("Tale of the Heike") is the most disturbing entry so far in the DoubtMusic catalogue. This work is an expression of the philosophy of impermanence. It's also a vision of Hell. Woodwinds signify madness. Bells accentuate silence. And Sakata's voice unleashes a phantasmagoric torrent of shomyo (Japanese Tantric Buddhist chanting), death metal growls, and pure pandemonium. Is he serious? Or not? One thing is certain: This heavy, doom-laden, historical-picture-scroll of an album isn't likely to get any play at a fashionable jazz bar or café! DO NOT let children listen to this CD - it may cause serious trauma. Featuring liner notes by Jojo Hiroshige (Hijokaidan).
"This is the kind of album Osaka natives might describe as do-aho ("totally insane"). Super do-aho. Do-aho to the max. Play it loud and children will shriek, monkeys will dance, mice will run, horses will whinny, cows will drool, lions will roar, dragons will rage, and the sky will split and the earth will crack and the seas will burn, and every listener's soul will be shaken, and musicians all over the world will experience agonizing jealousy. It's an incredible masterpiece that will make you cry a river of tears. The hidden Great Demon of classical Japanese art has been unleashed. Oh, how I waited so long for a work like this. Anarchy!!!"-Hirofumi TanakaAlso available on CD.
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The Tale of the Heike [VINYL 2 LPs]

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Tommy Lee Ford, 84, of Pine Bluff, Arkansas, died, Friday, July 4, 2014, at St. Vincent Hospital.
Tommy Lee Ford, 84, of Pine Bluff, Arkansas, died, Friday, July 4, 2014, at St. Vincent Hospital.
He was born November 23, 1929, in Chicot, Arkansas, to Lucian Atkins and Lula Moody Stuart Ford.
Mr. Ford was reared and educated in McGehee, graduating from McGehee High School in 1947.
He had worked for Arkansas Power and Light, now known as Entergy, for 42 years, before retiring in 1992, as a Division Stores Assistant.
He was a member of South Side Baptist Church.
He was preceded in death by his wife, Rheba Mize Ford, whom he married on December 28, 1969, in Pine Bluff; an infant daughter, Christine Ford; his parents; a step son, Tommy Harrell; a sister, Dorothy Lou Gilliam; brothers, Bob Ford and Dr. Lucian Ford.
Survivors include his step sons, Donnie Harrell of Kearney, Missouri, Jimmy Harrell of Pine Bluff, Lonnie Harrell of Pine Bluff, Ronnie Harrell of Pine Bluff; fifteen grandchildren and numerous great-great grandchildren.
Visitation will be 5 to 7 PM, Tuesday, at Robinson's.
A graveside service conducted by Ralph Robinson & Son will be, 11 AM, Wednesday, July 9, 2014, at McGehee Cemetery with Reverend John Bean officiating.
Memorials may be made to South Side Baptist Church, 2309 Poplar Street, Pine Bluff, Arkansas, 71601.
Online register at www.ralphrobinsonandson.com


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A MUCH-loved Spa shopkeeper has decided to retire at the age of 94.
Amy Thawley will be closing her shop in Tagwell Road, Witton, Droitwich, after serving customers for 45 years.
She has left the store, which is named Amy, following a party with family, friends and regular customers on Saturday (October 6).
The popular pensioner has been selling ladies fashion, wool and haberdashery from the premises since 1967.
She opened the shop after working for her husband Gerald. She helped him run Maison Gerald hairdressers in High Street before he died. She has worked in the town centre since the age of 14 and is well-known by residents and regular visitors.
Her daughter Sue Wilson said: "Customers have been in all week to say goodbye and to wish her well. I think she would carry on even longer if it wasn't for her arthritis.
"We held a party for her and one friend even made a cake for the occasion. It went really well and was a lovely send off."
Speaking of her time serving the town's residents for so long, Amy Thawley said: "I have had a wonderful time meeting and serving all of the customers over the years. I have put a sign in the window to thank everyone who has come to the shop.
"Now i'm retiring I will be able to do more things around the house. I can do all those things I have put off because of running the shop."


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|Pantoll Trailhead,
Mount Tamalpais State Park/Marin Municipal Water District,
California State Parks/Marin Municipal Water District,
Marin County
4.3 mile loop to West Point Inn and back, with fantastic views south.
Distance, category, and difficulty:
This 4.3 mile loop hike is easy, with about 600 feet in elevation change. Trailhead elevation is around 1500 feet. This hike climbs to about 2000 feet, and spends plenty of time on a mostly level course. It's an easy hike, but you can extend it, or choose a more difficult loop or out-and-back hike; from Pantoll there's miles of parkland in every direction.
A mixture of shade and full sun.
Trail traffic:
Trail surfaces:
Dirt trails and fire roads.
Hiking time:
2 1/2 hours.
Nice all year, although hot in summer.
Getting there:
From US 101 in Marin County, exit CA 1/Mill Valley/Stinson Beach and drive on Shoreline Highway to the junction with Almonte, about 1 mile. Turn left, remaining on Shoreline, and drive about 2.5 miles to the junction with Panoramic Highway. Turn right on Panoramic and drive about 1 mile to the junction with Muir Woods Road; stay straight on Panoramic (right lane). Continue about 4.5 miles to the junction with Pantoll Road. Turn right onto Pantoll, and immediately look for the small (6-8 car) pullout on the right side of the road. If this area is full, carefully turn around and park at the official Pantoll lot (parking fee of $6 charged) which is across Panoramic from the Pantoll/Panoramic junction.
Get driving or public transit directions from Transit and Trails:
GPS coordinates* for trailhead:
(* based on Google Earth data, shown as degrees, minutes, seconds)
Gas, food, and lodging:
Gas, restaurants, and stores in Stinson Beach, about 4 miles west, or in Mill Valley, about 6 miles east. You can camp at the Pantoll walk-in campground, or hike to West Point Inn.
Trailhead details:
No entrance fee charged if you park in the pullout ($8 to park in the Pantoll lot). There are designated handicapped parking spots at the Pantoll parking lot, but trails on the north side of Panoramic are not wheelchair accessible (unless you have a brigade to help you cross Panoramic). Maps available (for a fee) at the Pantoll Ranger Station. Restrooms, water, and pay phone next to ranger station. More water and restrooms at West Point Inn. West Marin Stagecoach offers public transportation to this trailhead.
Park is open from 7 a.m. to sunset (except for overnight campers, who must park in the official park lots). Bikes and horses are permitted on some trails. Dogs are not allowed on this hike: they are not permitted in the state park, but are permitted on leash on water district trails.
The Official Story:
CSP's Mount Tam page.
Pantoll Ranger Station 415-388-2070
Map Choices:
Tamalpais sometimes feels like the bay area's Yosemite
National Park. Awe inspiring, beautiful and all that, but most of all,
crowded! I prefer to hike Mount Tam when it's relatively quiet, so
in the summer I stay away from the heart of Tam, and hike around the edges,
selecting trails on the north slope near the lakes, and the harder-to-get-to
neighborhood trailheads in Mill Valley. Most visitors seem to focus
on the trails right off Panoramic, near Pantoll, and around the summit. When
autumn rolls around, I itch for the south slopes of Tam, and it's a wonderful
time of year to hike here. Golden light filters through the trees onto
fallen pine needles, the breeze is soft, and views are often clear.
Total distance: 4.31 miles


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Sean Abbott had his week planned out - kick back on the central coast before storming into action with the Sydney Thunder in the Big Bash League.
What the all-rounder didn't count on was hitting the winning runs for NSW in a thrilling end to the Sheffield Shield match against Queensland at Manuka Oval.
The Blues survived a late collapse to beat the Bulls outright by three wickets to revive their first-class title hopes, moving to within six points of the competition leaders.
Resuming at 4-48 and needing 98 for victory, veteran wicketkeeper Brad Haddin was on track for a triumphant Canberra homecoming when he steered the Blues to within 11 runs of victory.
But when captain Stephen O'Keefe and Haddin departed in successive balls to leave the Blues teetering at 7-89, the Bulls were back in the contest. However, late call-up Abbott and debutant leg-spinner Adam Zampa did enough to guide the Blues past the victory target.
Abbott was called into the Blues team at the 11th hour after paceman Josh Hazlewood was seconded to the Test squad on Monday night and he hit the road to Canberra at 5.30am on Tuesday.
''I was supposed to have this week off and I thought I'd get a couple days away to relax with my girlfriend before the Big Bash season,'' Abbott said.
''I was really hoping Adam up the other end would get [a single] so I could have a go at hitting the winning runs. It's a special feeling after the boys have worked so hard on a flat wicket to get to that stage of the game.''
It was NSW's second outright win of the season and moves it to 14 points, six behind joint competition leaders Queensland and Victoria.
Queensland paceman Ben Cutting picked up another wicket on Friday morning to finish the second innings with 4-30.
Steve Smith showed intent from the outset with a cracking pull shot to the boundary off Cutting, only to fall in the final ball of the first over for 22, edging a ball to wicketkeeper Chris Hartley to give the Queensland paceman his fourth wicket of the innings.
But just as the Blues appeared shaky, Haddin steadied the ship with some great counter-attack batting. The 35-year-old clobbered four boundaries to take the fight to the Queensland bowlers.
Haddin and O'Keefe combined for a 35-run partnership before O'Keefe was run out after mid-pitch mix-up. The Blues plunged further into strife when Haddin holed out to an amazing catch from Luke Feldman at mid-off for 33. Then Zampa joined Abbott in the middle with the score at 7-88.
Queensland coach Darren Lehmann lamented his side's second-innings batting performance where they were bowled out for 173 after 243 in the first dig.
''We shot ourselves in the foot batting-wise, basically,'' Lehmann said. ''The good thing about our boys is we just competed the whole game. That's what I'm really proud of. I'm disappointed we didn't play as well as we would have liked here but full credit to NSW, they deserved the victory.''
The two teams meet again in a limited-overs Ryobi Cup match at Manuka Oval on Sunday.


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Friday 21st March
10:00-12:15 Registration
12:30-14:00 Keynote 1: Melissa Lane (Princeton University), 'Aristotle on the ethics of communicating climate change'
14:00-14:15 Short break
14:15-15:30 Paper 1: Merrick Anderson (Princeton University), 'Antiphon and Socrates: A Methodological Comparison'
15:30-16:45 Paper 2: Eduardo Saldaña (University of Geneva), 'Reason, Charms, and Appearances in Plato'
16:45-17:15 Tea Break
17:15-18.30 Paper 3: Anna Izdebska (University of Warsaw), 'Ways of Speaking about Pythagoreanism in the Medieval Arabic World'
18.50 Conference Dinner
Saturday 22nd March
09:30-11:00 Keynote 2: George Boys-Stones (Durham University), 'From History of Philosophers to History of Philosophy: Approaches to the Post-Hellenistic Age'
11:00-11:15 Short Break
11.15-12:30 Paper 4: Gabriele Meloni (University of Edinburgh), 'Plato on Poetry and Popper on Television: Who was Right on What (And Wrong on Who)'
12:30-13:30 Lunch
13:30-14:45 Paper 5: Kevin Tobia (University of Oxford), 'Ancient Ethics and Philosophical Insulation'
14:45-16:00 Paper 6: Sebastian Greve (Birkbeck, University of London/University of Oxford), 'How to Write Like Socrates Spoke'
16:00-16:30 Tea Break
16:30-17:30 Round Table discussion (Chaired by Dr. Myrto Hatzimichali, University of Cambridge)
The conference is free and open to all. The organisers would appreciate it if you could register in advance here.
For more information visit our website or our Facebook group page.


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If you've attended an auction, you've no doubt been struck by the performance of the auctioneer. With enviable verbal skills and a quick wit, the auctioneer keeps the crowd focused and sale moving at a steady clip.
And they make auctions fun, too. Couple that with bids for seemingly astounding amounts, and auctioneering starts to look like a viable and lucrative profession.
Can you make a living as an auctioneer? Yes.
Can you become wealthy in the auction industry? Yes.
But succeeding in the auction industry isn't a sure thing. Like any business venture, a combination of training, skills and determination are essential to the success of an auction business. In addition, auctioneers should adhere to a standard of professional conduct and often need to meet local and state licensing requirements.
Here then, is a brief overview of the duties of an auctioneer and the path one might take to establish an auction business.
What an auctioneer does
The most common public perception of an auctioneer is that of a man or woman, holding a gavel, spitting out a torrent of words and yelling "Sold!" as one lot after another crosses the auction block.
The chant, that often-indecipherable string of words, is a crucial, but minor aspect of an auctioneer's job. From the moment they've been contracted, an auctioneer fills several roles: office manager, public relations manager, accountant, traffic coordinator and janitor to name a few.
The single most important role an auctioneer takes on is that of marketing expert. Auctioneers are adept at marketing a client's property through the appropriate media and reach a specific audience. In large part, their livelihood depends upon being able to attract those individuals most interested, and therefore, most willing to buy a particular item.
The ability to market auctions and merchandise effectively comes from an intimate knowledge of the specific types of merchandise, its value, the demand for such merchandise, and the targeted market.
Beyond being able to juggle a number of duties, the prospective auctioneer needs to be personable and work well with a variety of people. During the course of organizing a sale, the auctioneer consults with the seller, field questions from potential buyers and, on occasion, mediates disputes.
The majority of auction companies are independent ventures, although there are some larger regional and national auction houses. Building and maintaining an auction business can be time-consuming endeavor, with dozens of hours of preparation for every hour of the actual sale. Auctioneers often call on family members to help handle sale logistics and staff auctions.
In addition to long hours, an auctioneer's annual income depends upon the effort and time devoted to the business. There are auctioneers who have become wealthy after establishing their business. But, often, beginning auctioneers get their start working as a part-time auctioneer and holding down another job. Like any business venture, the return in income is largely dependent upon the amount of time and effort spent making a go of the business.
How do you learn the auction business?
Many auctioneers got their start working as a clerk or bid caller for the family auction business. Some NAA members now run businesses that have been in their family for two or three consecutive generations. Many auction companies continue to be family-held endeavors, with extended family members helping organize and staff sales.
If you haven't been involved in a family auction business, there are two other ways to learn the trade. First, there are dozens of auction schools and programs, either independent institutions or programs that are affiliated with a community or four-year college.
Schooling can last for a couple weeks or as long as a college semester. You can expect to learn the trademark auctioneer chant, how to market your services and sales and how to get started in the auction business. The NAA has developed a growing list of auction schools from across North America.
A second option is to gain practical experience as an apprentice under an experienced auctioneer. Apprentice auctioneers assist in organizing and running sales, and learn many of the crucial day-to-day operations of running an auction business.
Either option also includes holding a high school diploma or a GED. Some auctioneers find completing some additional education, either through a local community college or four-year institution, helpful.
Your choice of education could largely depend upon the licensing requirements for auctioneers in your state. Many states that require licensing for auctioneers only accept educational credit from specific auction schools or programs. Often licensing boards will waive the educational credits if an applicant served as an apprenticeship under a licensed auctioneer. Required apprenticeships can range in length from conducting a few auctions under an auctioneer's guidance to one or more years. Call your state government offices to determine if your state has auctioneer licensing laws and educational requirements.
Courtesy of : The National Auctioneers Association


text: Led by Andy Stern of the SEIU and James Hoffa of the Teamsters, four key unions boycott the AFL-CIO convention, with plans to withdraw from the organization in short order (The Teamsters have already left.) Early word seems to be that this bifurcation could spell trouble for the Dems in 2006, but, frankly, the House of Labor has needed serious renovations for a good long while. Perhaps this schism won't be as profitable for labor as that of the CIO in 1935, but how much harm could it really cause? Old-School Big Labor couldn't even get Gephardt past third in Iowa last year. I don't know the details of the power struggle, but I get the sense that Stern & co. are advocating some tough-minded reforms, including consolidating smaller unions, while AFL-CIO president John Sweeney is attempting to protect various union fiefdoms in tried-and-true calcified-leadership fashion. Let's see what the Young(er) Turks have to offer. Update: The SEIU's officially out now, too.


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Orange County bans smoking in public places
Posted November 21, 2012
Orange County, N.C. — Orange County has officially banned smoking in public places.
The Board of County Commissioners voted 6-1 on Tuesday to approve the smoking ban for property owned by county and municipal governments, including parks and sidewalks. The ban also extends to private property where the public is invited.
The University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill and other state-owned facilities will continue to operate under existing smoking regulations, officials said.
"This is about education and empowerment," said Dr. Colleen Bridger, director of the Orange County Health Department. "What we really want is to make sure that we're helping people understand where smoking is allowed and where smoking isn't allowed."
The idea of the ban first surfaced two years ago, when a group of high school students approached the Board of health with the request. A public hearing on the issue was held Oct. 24.
"I am just grateful that the citizens of Orange County will have fresh air to breathe when they are in public places," County Commissioner Steve Yuhasz said.
The ban will take effect July 1, with a six-month educational period beginning Jan. 1. The fine for violating the ban will be $25.
Learn more about the ban online.


text: MEGADETH bassist David Ellefson has issued the following update:"Just arrived home from our best-ever tour of South America, and our first-ever for Central America. I had a great time documenting the trip via video blogs, all of which can be seen in the MegaFanClub [official MEGADETH fan club]. "What an amazing journey! "Of course our bright beam from the tour's glow was dimmed today when we learned of the passing of Ronnie James Dio. He was truly one of the 'good guys' in this business and a consummate pro, someone we can all take a que and learn from. We are all fans of his and he did many great things for MEGADETH and its members, starting starting as far back as his 'Dream Evil' North American tour in which we were the support band during the 'So Far, So Good...So What' tour. . . I'm very thankful to have gotten to know and tour with him in both MEGADETH and with Tim 'Ripper' Owens [former JUDAS PRIEST and current YNGWIE MALMSTEEN vocalist]. Wendy Dio [Ronnie's wife/manager] looked after Ripper's European tour where we played several shows with HEAVEN & HELL and we got to have many good moments with Ronnie during that tour. He is missed by us all. "Our prayers go out to him and his family at this time. "Other than that, time to rest before the European trek starting end of May in Lisbon, Portugual. "See you then!"


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Hertha look to take over at the top
Hertha Berlin will be without striker Marko Pantelic when they bid to go top of the Bundesliga at Arminia Bielefeld on Friday.
The Serb, who has a prickly relationship with coach Lucien Favre, scored both goals in a 2-1 win over Eintracht Frankfurt last weekend but also sustained an ankle injury that keeps him out against lowly Bielefeld.
"We want to get used to being top," Hertha manager Dieter Hoeness told the league's official website (www.bundesliga.de). "At the end of the season we definitely want to be among the top five or six."
With at least five teams locked in a tight title chase, consistency could be the key to success and Hertha have hit form at the right time, chalking up six wins in seven matches to move within two points of surprise leaders Hoffenheim.
Breathing down their necks are Hamburg SV, on the same points as the Berlin club and with an inferior goal difference.
Hamburg travel to relegation-threatened Karlsruhe on Saturday hoping to build on their win over Bayern Munich last week.
With six new signings in the January transfer window, Hamburg have been busy strengthening their midfield and defence and will need to raise their game on their travels after picking up only one win in the last five away matches.
Hoffenheim have a seemingly easier task when they visit bottom club Borussia Moenchengladbach on Saturday and with the league's most potent attack facing the worst defence it could be a high-scoring affair.
Fourth-placed Bayern, three points off the pace, host Borussia Dortmund on Sunday needing to bounce back from last week's defeat.
Bayer Leverkusen and Dortmund are lurking just behind Bayern, waiting for them to slip up again.
In-form Leverkusen, who have signed talented young midfielder Toni Kroos on loan from Bayern, host VfB Stuttgart on Saturday. The visitors have yet to lose in the league since coach Markus Babbel took over in November.
Pre-season favourites Schalke 04 and Werder Bremen, ninth and 10th respectively, meet on Saturday with both teams having been hit recently by player indiscipline, suspensions and a string of poor results.
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Have a Tax Question? Ask a Tax Expert
If someone gives you the money without charge or consideration - that is considered a gift.
Gift is an income, but not taxable income. Please see IRS publication 525 page 33 for reference - http://www.irs.gov/pub/irs-pdf/p525.pdf
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So - the recipient does not need to claim it on his/her tax return and does not owe any taxes. There is no limit on the gift value.
The donor - may need to file a gift tax return if the gift amount is above $13,000 per person per year (for 2009) , but there would not be any gift tax unless the lifetime limit of $1,000,000 is reached.
Refer to Form 709, 709 Instructions and Publication 950.
Let me know if you need any help.


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The charging kiosk adopts a pre-paid system. When prompted by the screen instructions, please pay by placing your Octopus card near the Octopus card reader.
Once payment is done, the charging process will start at once.
In case the plug is accidentally pulled out and disconnected from the charging port, the power supply will be cut off immediately. However, you can re-connect the plug into the charging port inlet, and use the same Octopus card to reactivate and continue the charging process.
EV Charging System - Terms & Condition of Use
The following is a step-by-step guide to show you how to use CLP dual-mode charger to charge up your electric vehicles at the designated locations.
*Applicable to following CLP charging stations: HK International Airport, Choi Yuen Plaza, Cheung Fat Plaza, Yau Lai Shopping Centre


text: Last night I completely drained the battery by having a call and never shutting it off. I slept on them. Oops. This morning I woke up to find it completely dead. I hooked it up to a wall outlet, turned it on, and now it won't go past the Motorola dualcore screen. It's stuck Help? Oh, also, this phone is NOT rooted. I'v only used this phone for like less than a week.


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Speak Better, Yoda Does in Edited Video
Master Yoda is known for many things, but none is more legendary than his notoriously bad grammar.
It's one of pop culture's greatest mysteries. How can someone with such a heavy grasp of metaphysics and philosophy have such lousy syntax? One 'Star Wars' fan has tried to rectify that.
In this clever video, the Jedi master's major scenes from the 'Star Wars' prequels have been re-edited to give Yoda better subject and verb placement in his dialogue. If you're the kind of 'Star Wars' nerd who just can't bare the thought of another classic character being railroaded into an image change (cough! Anakin Skywalker! cough!), then we advise you not to proceed any further.
As fellow 'Star Wars' fans, we have to admit that we've been through a lot these last few decades. We've had to deal with learning that Darth Vader is the same whiny, greasy, overly dramatic teen that we were in high school. We've had to endure endless re-edits of our favorite scenes from the 'Star Wars' re-releases to the re-re-re-releases. We've had to try and understand Jar Jar Binks. But at least now we know what it's like to hear Yoda speak like a normal person. Well, as normal as a little green being who can utilize the mystical energies around us to levitate objects can be.


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Valerie Harper is continuing to live her life to the fullest after going public with her diagnosis of terminal brain cancer.
The TV icon visited Access Hollywood Live on Tuesday, where she chatted with Billy Bush and Kit Hoover about her fight to continue living.
"I'm feeling good and I wanted people to see that and to know that… and telling people, 'Don't go to the funeral before the day of the funeral. Live each day, each moment even,'" Valerie, 73, said.
The Emmy-winning actress was diagnosed with leptomeningeal carcinomatosis, a rare form of cancer that affects the fluid-filled membrane surrounding the brain, in January.
"I have great doctors and I have a wonderful, wonderful husband, who has been there just incredibly," she continued, referring to her spouse, husband Tony Cacciotti. "I thought I need to share this now – and it's in the brain area – and I didn't want to start having problems with speech or anything else."
The actress is using her illness as an opportunity to help others facing medical scares.
"I want [the public] to know that I'm there and I'm fighting this thing and that death is a part of life and it's almost a privilege or advantage to know because a lot of us push death away, don't look at it, don't want to think about it… You shouldn't spend time morosely looking at it, but you do have to face it," she explained. "None of us are getting out of this alive, we are all terminal. It just depends when."
Valerie has been busy tying up the loose ends in her life, while still enjoying her time with her loved ones.
"I'm cleaning out closets, I'm getting rid of junk. I took the Emmys out of the garage and brought them into the house to make sure I know where they were. I'm going to the movies, I'm cooking dinner, I'm running, I'm lifting weights, I'm doing everything I did because of [my] wonderful team [of doctors]," she continued.
"I'm living a normal life and the new era of cancer is not, 'Kill the cells! Kill the cells!' and you ruin the person, it's new. It's managing the cancer… You can die with cancer, but not of it, that's really true," Valerie said.
The actress and author of "I, Rohda" is even eyeing job offers.
"I've been asked to do some jobs, which is wonderful and I would be pleased to do it," she said.
Despite her extremely positive outlook, Valerie admitted that she's still facing her fears daily.
"I get terrified at night sometimes… and if I feel like crying, I do. If I feel like walking around the house taking deep breaths, I do," she said. "It's not crazy to be afraid of death, no one wants to embrace it, I'm just saying, don't let your fear of death rob your living now. That's your real key, stay in the moment the best you can."
One of her greatest fears is leaving behind husband Tony, whom she has been married to since 1987.
"He is the love of my life and I don't want to leave him, but I have to face what may be ahead," she told Billy and Kit. "He's my beloved, beloved heart, he's just my heart."
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rating: 5.10c 6b 20 VII 20 E2 5b
|This route is pretty tough and scary for the grade given -- one of those "Eldo 10c's" that could be 11a and the "s" could be "vs," depending, of course, on if you fell and if all the nuts and tcu's you spent an hour tinkering in behind loose flakes and in chossy cracks actually held (OK placements, not so good rock). The crux is pretty commiting and reachy, but the holds get better and good gear comes just when you really need it.
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rating: 5.10b 6a+ 19 VII- 19 E2 5b PG13
|This is a great climb!! I felt comfortable with the gear, but I placed a lot of pro and spent a lot of time perfecting each placement. Having Mastercams and C3s plus a set of small nuts made it feel pretty reasonable, even with the couple short sections of suspect rock. If you're solid at the grade in Eldo, get on this one!


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Home » Middle East » Israel » Day Tour - Jerusalem Scavenger Hunt
Jerusalem Scavenger Hunts participants often say that their morning or afternoon discovering Jerusalem the Scavenger Hunt way was the highlight of their tour to Israel! Great for kids, teens and adults! So on your next trip to Jerusalem, don't forget to schedule a Jerusalem Scavenger Hunt!
We're Israel-Educators who love Jerusalem and want to share with you some of her best kept secrets! We passionately believe that the best way to discover Jerusalem is to do it with a map in hand, racing along with your team to answer the questions on your Scavenger Hunt Mission pack! Great for families, and fantastic for college and adult groups!
If you've never visited the Nachlaot Neighborhood or the Old City Jewish Quarter, or you've visited it a million times – The Jerusalem Scavenger Hunt is sure to be a fantastic and different way to spend a morning!
What will I experience? A thrilling and educational adventure.
Race through the Nachlaot Neighborhood or Old City Jewish Quarter: You will learn about the local Jerusalem neighborhoods in an experiential way. After a quick introduction and background history, your team will receive a map and mission pack, and head off to answer question, meet people, discover places and earn points at different stations along your route. All the teams will meet at the final station, and you will report back on your finds, and hear about the real treasure of Jerusalem!
How early should I have my coffee? Rise n' shine for the incredible day ahead.
We meet any morning at 9:30 am, but ultimately it's up to you.
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Now now now...I did not say that. I pointedly did not say that...
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When I first heard The Arrows would be performing tomorrow at the venue Live, I was stoked and extremely eager to watch them for the third time. As a huge fan of the talented duo, I have to say these princesses of alternative pop are brilliant artists who have the ability to mesmerise their audiences, leaving them wanting more.
The Arrows – Pam de Menezes on vocals and Christie Desfontaine on drums – chatted to Tonight about their gig at Live and their future plans.
"We're very excited about playing at Live. Durban has certainly lacked a venue that's so good and gives musicians that platform to perform, so we're stoked about it. We haven't done a show in Durban in a very long time so we're glad to give our fans something very special," said De Menezes.
Speaking of their music and the way in which it has changed over the years, De Menezes said: "It's a little more aggressive with a lot more attitude, but still has a lot of pop to it."
The Arrows are much more than just a two-piece girl band. In fact, they're so close, they consider themselves family.
"We're really close. We've known each other for more than 10 years and even though we're both married now, we're still very close. We still do life together, it's just two boys are around now," laughed Desfontaine.
Not only are these artists talented, but the girls are some of the most humble people I've met. With their success, it was surprising to hear they don't really consider themselves famous.
"I guess we work too hard because it doesn't feel like we're famous. Our focus is on quality and feeding our fans the best material.
"Our merchandise is what's most important to us, not the fame. In fact, I think if you feel that way, that you're so popular, then your ego just inflates and it means you're just not working that hard. People who have that high an opinion of themselves are not really working as hard as they should be.
"I mean, I remember when we opened for the Script in SA, they are such nice guys, so humble and down to earth and they're major superstars. We always relate to humble people and steer away from all the people who think they are all that (famous)", explained the duo.
With smash hits such as No Robots and Lovesick, The Arrows have proved to be authentic artists unafraid to take risks. And by the look of it, they have lot more in store for their fans.
According to Desfontaine, they're working on their second album, set to be recorded in New York City in September.
Then there's The Arrows' Neutrics Tour in Cape Town next month. Also, they plan to do more US tours and have also embarked on a KZN school tour in association with Shout SA.
"We just want to give back to the community and we plan to perform in schools all across KZN, we would like to do local schools as well," said De Menezes.
• The Arrows are at Live, Matthews Meyiwa (Stamford Hill) Road, at 8pm. They will perform on their Cape Town tour on July 13 at Zula Bar, at 7pm. Visit www.thearrowsband.com


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A BLUEPRINT that will shape Kington for the next fifteen years will be discussed on at the town's Marches Access Point on Monday (June 30).
The group will begin outlining how residents want housing to be developed in the future, and the responses will be included in the Neighbourhood Plan – a key document Herefordshire council refers to when deliberating on planning decisions.
A meeting in July will focus on transport, and more sessions planned through Autumn will help round out the plan.
The Neighbourhood Plan will cover the town, Kington rural and Huntington Parish Council.
Councillor Martin Fitton, the Neighbourhood Planning Group's chairman, said: "Those who live and work in Kington and the surrounding area will all be affected by the Neighbourhood Plan and we need to know what they want.
"We hope to gather opinions, knowledge and expertise of as many people as possible."
Monday's meeting will feature a short presentation, before the floor is opened up for a discussion.
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Glock 30SF......WOW!
What a gun! I mentioned before that I was torn between the 30SF and the 36. Held both, weighed all options with both...and finally picked up the 30SF today. I was ready to make the CCW jump from my G26 in 9mm to a .45acp for carry.
Blasted through a box of 50 PMC Bronze 230gr FMJ's and it was out of the box accurate as hell.....as we all have come to expect from our little Polymer wonders. The first magazine took some adjustment to get used to....but my remaining 40 rounds were dead balls accurate at 15 yards, for me, which were groups of about 7-8" with a flier or two.
I am EXTREMELY impressed with this gun and will be posting more about it soon. Now Ive got the ultimate package that Ive been working towards....2 Glocks in different calibers and sizes (a subcompact and a compact)....and 2 1911's in both 9mm and 45acp in 2 different sizes.
Congrats on your new G30SF, I agree with ya on it, its one great gun thats for sure I love mine and its my EDC, with around 2000 rounds down range with it now gets better each time I shoot it... Its my Favorite Glock...
Ive been thinking about it all day at work....is that weird?
Nope nothing wrong with that LOL i think everyone does when they get a new toy.. LOL...
Behind the G19, the 30 is the best Glock imo.
What's your carry load? I did some desert testing awhile back and I prefer the Ranger T's over anything else for the 30
I carry my G30 occasionally and I use Hornady Critical Defense. I will get some Hornady Critical Duty soon. Love the ammo and the G30 is one of the most accurate guns I own. Had a G36 and had to send it down the road. I loved the feel of the "little" gun but it just would not run. I had it to 9 different armorers all along the East Coast at different matches and sent it back to Glock twice. It still would not run. Then I found out they had a recall on the guns but mine fell just outside the serial number range for the recall, but still exhibited the same problem. Traded for the G30 and did I ever get the better end of that deal. My son liked it so much that I got him the G30SF.
Thanks guys, my favorite target ammo has been the PMC Bronze 230gr FMJ and my carry load is my personal favorite due to the large cavity, distinct serrations, smooth casing and accuracy......the Remington Golden Saber 230gr JHP +P.
Its a bit pricey but 100% worth it.
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Join Psych Central at Alternatives 2011 in Orlando
We're proud to be an exhibitor at Alternatives 2011 in Orlando, FL October 26 – 30, 2011 at the Caribe Royale. This conference bills itself as the "oldest national mental health conference organized by and for mental health consumers/survivors." This will be our first consumer conference we're exhibiting at, and we're looking forward to talking to attendees about their needs for online support and recovery resources and communities.
Registration is a hefty $450 for the entire conference, or $165 for one day. Here's the conference program if you're interested in more information.
So if you're one of the expected 700 people who come out to this conference every year, please be sure to stop by and say, "Hi!" to us in the exhibitor's area. We're giving out a free stress relief tool — a squishy brain! — as well as educational information.
We'll also be recording video of consumer and survivor's stories for posting online, so if you have a story you'd like to tell, we'd love to hear. Come to our booth for more information. We look forward to seeing you there!
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I often hear people say they are going to do a detox or a green smoothie challenge, and I think, wouldn't it just be easier (and healthier) to eat well and treat your body well all the time instead of feeling the need to take extreme measures in the name of health?
I believe balance and moderation are key to happy, healthy beings. I also believe those of us requiring a special diet for celiac disease need to be particularly prudent when it comes to what we put into our bodies on a regular basis. Taking good care of our bodies through a balanced, healthy diet can go a long way toward gut healing, which in turn promotes all-over good health.
Use these tips to promote gut healing if you have celiac disease.
1. Don't cheat your health by cheating on your gluten free diet.
Consuming gluten, no matter how small the amount, damages the small intestine of an individual with CD. Research indicates it takes weeks for antibody levels (indicating gluten damage in those with CD) to return to normal after consumption.
This is true even for those without obvious outward negative symptoms of CD.
Even in the absence of outward symptoms, damage to the villi (small finger-like projections) of the small intestine occurs. This damage leads to other serious health issues like poor nutrient absorption, which puts the entire system in jeopardy.
On a gluten free diet, the villi do heal and return to normal; however, recovery time varies among patients. Every time a celiac patient ingests gluten – by accident or knowingly – that healing process must begin again.
2. Understand cross-contamination and how to avoid it.
For some of us, diligently adhering to our gluten-free diet is not a problem; however, we too can be at risk of ingesting gluten. That's because of the risk of gluten cross-contamination in foods we eat.
This is especially true with processed foods. Read about the 3 Common Ways Gluten Cross-Contamination Occurs in Food Manufacturing.
Use these tips to avoid cross-contamination in processed foods:
- Read labels diligently every time, even if you have safely eaten a product in the past. When in doubt, always phone the manufacturer before consuming a questionable food to ask about their processing practices and gluten.
- Select products manufactured in a dedicated gluten-free facility if possible. Most packaging will indicate if the facility is dedicated.
- If you know a food is processed in a non-dedicated facility, call to ask the manufacturer about how processing lines are used and cleaned (and sanitized) in their facility. Most are willing to share this information.
3. Eat outside the box.
Even if we never cheat on our gluten-free diet and only choose foods produced in a dedicated gluten-free facility, we may still be preventing our gut from healing as quickly and efficiently as possible.
Sometimes, after a diagnosis with CD, it is easy to fall into the Box Food Trap. For some, when hit with a life-changing diagnosis like CD, it feels comforting to be able to have cookies, cakes, brownies, bagels, etc. that are gluten-free.
In fact, I've talked with many individuals who confessed they ate more "junk" foods after their celiac diagnosis than before… just because those foods existed.
Relying heavily on processed foods can lead to problems like:
- Nutrient deficiencies leading to health issues like anemia, osteoporosis and even depression.
- Weight gain
- Lack of energy
This is true whether one has CD or not; however, it is especially important to be mindful of nutrition when our bodies are in need of healing.
Instead of turning to packaged gluten-free foods often, embrace the bounty of naturally gluten-free foods like fresh fruits and vegetables, lean proteins (eggs, fish, meat, poultry, or plant-based proteins if you do not eat animal products) and gluten-free whole grains (brown rice, quinoa, millet, amaranth, etc.) and enjoy preparing meals at home in your gluten-free kitchen!
I hope this information helps you as you journey right along with me on the path to gluten-free optimal health!
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Is Sarah Palin about to go Hollywood?
The former Alaska governor and Republican Vice Presidential candidate is taking meetings in Tinseltown to produce a TV docudrama about her home state, Entertainment Weekly reports. Palin's partner in crime is Mark Burnett, the successful TV producer behind Survivor, The Apprentice and other blockbusters. One source claims the show would be a "planet-Earth type look" at the chilly state.
EW reports that Palin has already met with executives at ABC, Fox and CBS, with Thursday plans to pitch her show to NBC.
"She's pitching a sequel to Commander in Chief," one executive joked (referring to the defunct ABC series starring Geena Davis as a female President.)
Palin told jokes during a Monday night appearance on The Tonight Show; E! News reports that she also stopped by an Oscar gifting boutique on Tuesday.
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Maryland's Question 1 & Question 2: Both approved
These amendments required the Orphans' Court (read: probate court) judges in Prince George's & Baltimore Counties, respectively, to be attorneys. Because of a quirk in the state constitution regarding amendments affecting only a single county, the Questions required majorities both statewide and in the county at issue itself. Both Questions met with 85%+ approval, about what a similar initiative applying to the City of Baltimore got in 2010 (83% statewide, 88% in the City itself).
The upshot is that in 2 of the state's 4 counties with a population over 500,000 (plus the autonomous and independent City of Baltimore, population ~620k) attorneys of the probate court must be lawyers. The other counties: Montgomery & Anne Arundel.
New Jersey Constitutional Amendment 2 was approved 83% to 17%
The provision changes the state constitution's prohibition on diminishing of judicial salaries while in office to provide it may not occur "for deductions from such salaries for contributions, established by law from time to time, for pensions as provided for under paragraphs 3 and 5 of Section VI of this Article, health benefits, and other, similar benefits."
It is not clear what this means for future moves in New Jersey and it remains to be seen if the amendment, adopted after the state supreme court struck down a 2011 law that required judges pay more for their benefits and retirement, will be held to be prospective only, requiring the legislature re-pass the 2011 law.
New Mexico Constitutional Amendment 1 was approved 60% to 40%
The amendment adds magistrate judge and additional member of public to Judicial Standards Commission. The result is that the majority of the commission remains laypersons. I mentioned in 2011 there's be a great deal of legislative interest in changing these commissions, mostly to add more lay persons or to convert the bodies into quasi-appellate courts in order to "punish" judges who reach the "wrong" opinions. While the New Mexico amendment did not appear to come with that sort of freight weighing it down, 2013/2014 legislatures may take (and in the case of Minnesota, will take) the subject up.
Oregon Measure 78 was approved 72% to 28%
Cleans up some confusing language that references two "branches" of the state legislature while the judiciary is referred to as both "the judicial department" and "judicial branch". The very definition of a technical amendment, it still keeps at least a few references to "judicial department" in the document. It is not at all clear if there's any interest in going back in for another clean-up bill and as I noted earlier in the election cycle it's not at all unusual for state constitutions to refer to the judiciary as a "department".


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Singing Crow Farm blends faith, nature supplying organic vegetable plugs across Southeast
Amy BeVille is a local songwriter whose Singing Crow Farm — the former Young's Mill Farm between Rome and Kingston — produces certified organic vegetable "plugs" for farmers in six Southeastern states including Georgia. The trays of starter seedlings range from tomatoes and melons to lettuce, broccoli, kale and herbs.
She also happens to be an ordained minister in the Christian Church, Disciples of Christ.
Last Tuesday and Wednesday night, BeVille didn't get a whole lot of sleep because heaters in her greenhouses had gone out, and she was out every two hours as the temperature dipped into the mid-20s.
She had to use smaller propane heaters to regulate the heat inside her greenhouses, and she was looking for air leaks to make sure her plants didn't freeze.
The Chattanooga, Tenn., native, however, has a well-honed understanding of how to cope with things beyond her own control.
Especially the weather.
Before moving to Georgia in 2011, BeVille lived in Texas, where she was the co-founder of the National Disaster Interfaith Network.
She worked as a liaison between the Federal Emergency Management Agency and victims of Hurricane Katrina, and later helped FEMA during natural disaster situations in Alaska, Mississippi, Kentucky and Maryland.
But BeVille's roots — and branches — are firmly planted in the soil.
Her grandfather, Doug BeVille Sr., had a farm on Signal Mountain and was a well-known butcher in Chattanooga. Her father, Doug BeVille Jr., helped with the butchering and the deliveries on weekends.
Her son, Chris Elder, runs a 30-acre organic farming operation near Bellingham, Wash., and serves as a consultant to his mother's operation east of Rome.
Hearing nature's song
BeVille said she named her land Singing Crow Farm because it combines images that are precious to her.
As a child she spent two weeks every summer at a YMCA camp, where she would lay in her cabin and listen to the crows. Today, she's both a singer and a songwriter, with membership in the Cartersville Songwriters Association and plans to join the Rome songwriters group.
"That's my balance to farming," she said. "I'm an old crow and I sing."
The Singing Crow Farm sells its certified organic seedling trays to farmers in Georgia, Tennessee, Alabama, Mississippi, South Carolina and North Carolina. BeVille said her primary goal is to make sure families are putting good food in their bodies.
"Especially our young people — they really want to learn how to be sustainable," she said.
What makes her vegetable plugs organic? BeVille said the U.S. Department of Agriculture now has rules governing what producers must do for the label.
"The main thing is that we want to make sure that our soil is good; that it's not contaminated," she said. "There's an organic protocol and I'm very careful that, if I do add something to my soil, that it's okay to do it."
Organic producers deal with a lot of the same issues affecting their plants as conventional farmers, but their responses aren't always the same.
"If we need to control some problem, we have to look at a list of things. We can't use conventional fertilizers, we can't use conventional pesticides, because in them are things that we believe are not healthy for our bodies," BeVille said. "We look for things that are natural and naturally occurring, to let nature lend a hand."
BeVille said she pays close to attention to insects and how they thrive in certain conditions. She has learned that if she starts out the healthy plants with the right kind of nutrients the insects will go somewhere else.
Unlike her son, who is working on a master's degree in organic farming and nutrient management at Washington State University, BeVille said she's learned a lot from the past — from her father and grandparents who didn't necessarily understand the science of what they were doing, but knew what worked and what didn't.
"We want to provide a plant that uses the nutrients naturally, that will grow into a strong healthy plant. For me, it all has to do with providing rich healthy soil," BeVille said. "Then if we water properly, we provide a really good, strong, healthy plant that's ready for the farmer to put into the ground."
Turning practice into produce
The Singing Crow Farm has an extensive product list, primarily vegetables, with a few herbs on the side.
"Coming into the spring we'll be starting with broccoli, kale, cabbage, things that we do in the fall too," BeVille said. "Lettuce will be real popular, and then people will start real quick on the tomatoes."
From tomatoes, the list expands to peppers, squash and melons.
"We do lots of varieties of basil and we do rosemary and oregano," she said.
Currently, BeVille is preparing for her final shipments of the fall. The last shipments will be leaving her greenhouses in the next two weeks.
She's also working on equipment in one of the large greenhouses, which helps jump-start the germination of seed. This time of year, BeVille tries to clear out her greenhouses for maintenance and cleaning. This past week, heaters have been out in two of the greenhouses.
During the spring and summer months, BeVille has a crew of five who help with the potting and planting.
"Some of them are more full-time than part-time," she said. "About 30 hours is the most that somebody can work around here."
All of her plugs are grown to fill orders.
"Even for retail we have a specific order, but we do try to grow some extra," BeVille said.
The average farmer orders 10-12 trays of plants, although some of her larger customers order upward of 600 trays. The typical tray sizes are 128 plants or 200 plants, depending on the size of the root cell the farmer wants.
During the heart of the planting season BeVille's farm has a goal of putting out 200 trays of produce plugs each day.


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Lyra Resort Hotel in Kizilagac has 399 rooms, spread over 5 floors. The hotel is located 250 m from the sandy beach. The closest cities to the hotel are Side (15 km), Kizilagac (1 ... Continue reading
Lyra Resort Hotel in Kizilagac has 399 rooms, spread over 5 floors. The hotel is located 250 m from the sandy beach. The closest cities to the hotel are Side (15 km), Kizilagac (1 km) and Manavgat (10 km). To make your stay more comfortable a lobby, air conditioning, a mini market, shops, a hairdresser, a reception, a lounge and a conference room are available. The staff in this 5 storey hotel speaks German, English and Russian. For guests who wish to be mobile, car rental can be arranged. A playground for children is available. 2 fresh water swimming pools, seasonally open with a separate children's pool are available. A poolside bar is on site at the hotel where guests can unwind with a drink. Sunshades and sunbeds are available free of charge at the beach and at the pool. The hotel is within easy reach of shops and city centre. Distance from the hotel to: Side (15 km), airport AYT (75 km), Perge (90 km) and Aspendos (53 km). For your entertainment the hotel features a disco and cinema. *The room type Villa (residence) is located 800 meters away from the resort and have the following features: 2 bedrooms (+/- 80sqm) 1 bathroom 1 living room with American kitchen Refrigerator ( once daily filled with soft drinks & beer ) Split air conditioner, electronic safe box, Ceramic ground Complimentary tea / coffee setup LCD TV, satellite broadcast Shower bath, WC Maximum capacity: 6 persons Total number: 30 Free shuttle service every half hour
- Billiards
- Children's playground
- Darts
- Entertainment staff
- Evening entertainment
- Fitness centre
- Games room
- Hammam
- Indoor pool (seasonal)
- Kids Club
- Massage
- Nightclub/DJ
- Private beach area
- Sauna
- Spa and wellness centre
- Table tennis
- Tennis court
- Water park
Other facilities
- Outdoor pool (seasonal)
- Terrace
- Air conditioning
- Barber/beauty shop
- Facilities for disabled guests
- Family rooms
- Free WiFi in public areas
- Gift shop
- Lift
- Mini-market on site
- Non smoking rooms
- Room service
- Safety deposit box
- Shops (on site)
- Shuttle service (surcharge)
Food and Drink
A snack bar is also available throughout the day. Evenings can be spent at the lobby bar. All-Inclusive: All-Inclusive includes coffee and tea (Service Hours: 09:00 - 00:00), softdrinks (Service Hours: 09:00 - 00:00), midnight snacks (Service Hours: 00:00 - 07:00), late breakfast (Service Hours: 10:00 - 10:30), beer (Service Hours: 09:00 - 00:00), snacks (Service Hours: 12:00 - 16:00), cake and pastries (Service Hours: 16:00 - 17:00), local spirits (Service Hours: 09:00 - 00:00) and wine (Service Hours: 09:00 - 00:00).
Other Information
Payment facilities include Euro/Master Card and Visa Card. Additional fees may apply for certain facilities, amenities or activities.
To make booking a holiday at Lyra Resort and SPA in Side easier for you, we provide a range of different payment options. To find out if you can book Lyra Resort and SPA with a low deposit holiday option, please click the "Price and Availability" button above.
Situated on a peninsula and flanked by two stretches of golden beach, the pretty holiday resort town of Side is a jumble of old and new, with an extensive range of tourist accommodation, shops, late-night bars and restaurants mixed in among the ruins of the ancient city. In the centre of town is the magnificent 2nd-century theatre with beautiful views towards the sea, and the remains of the Roman Baths houses an impressive collection of artefacts.
Resort Rating
Side is full of antique ruins, but the Aspendos theatre and Apollon Temple are the most popular. The harbour is full of interesting boat tours and activities, including trips around Side or to neighbouring towns. The turtles can be visited on a daily tour, and the white sand beaches provide activities like scuba diving, parasailing, horse riding, and swimming. Nearby Manavgat has some beautiful natural sights, including a beautiful waterfall.
Side has a variety of restaurants, ranging from Western style food to local delicacies like dolmades and kebabs. Anatolia Cafe is a popular place for English breakfasts and roasts.
Most of Side's nightlife is concentrated along the beachfront. There are a few lively bars and clubs, but they don't stay open very late.
The shopkeepers in Side have a reputation for pestering tourists, especially in the city centre. Many shops will not display prices, so be prepared to ask and haggle. Busy streets that lead down to the sea are lined with souvenir shops selling typical Turkish handicrafts like carpets, jewellery and leather goods. You can take a bus to the Manavgat market on Thursdays, which has the usual souvenir options like t-shirts and leather goods. The main markets are fun and have a lively atmosphere, but the best deals can usually be found in quieter areas.
Side can be very crowded on weekends, when many local tourists visit.
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Hotel address : Kizilagac Turizm Merkezi, Side, Antalya, Turkey, 07600
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Do we have to book the Resort resturants in advanced while booking or can choose on the day? 1 Answer
Th erestaurants can be booked at the hotel
Added 1 year, 5 months ago.
By Karen.Blackburn, loveholidays.com team member
Does the hotel have a heated pool? 2 Answers
Hello Jarvis
They have an indoor pool which will be heated in winter
Added 1 year, 11 months ago.
By Zara.Drant, loveholidays.com team member
The outdoor pool is not heated but the indoor pool is.
Added 1 year, 11 months ago.
By Lisa.Weldon, loveholidays.com team member
are the family rooms all in one room or separate please 1 Answer
This is the description of the family room on the hotels website:
We offer the beauty of Blues Mediterrian at your feet in > Family rooms< … Approximately is 36 m².In additional to this for staying with comfort, rooms are designed as sliding door . In all family rooms are consisting of 2 twins bed.
Room Properties
1 French bed+ 1 Single bed( 36 m² par)
1 bathroom
Sofa (It can be use as bed)
Added 2 years, 1 month ago.
By Lisa.Weldon, loveholidays.com team member
Does this hotel have a chidrens "fun" pool? 1 Answer
There are 2 outdoor swimming pools, an indoor swimming pool, 2 children's pools, water slides and sun terrace with loungers and parasols.
Added 2 years, 2 months ago.
By Zara.Drant, loveholidays.com team member
Please can you let me know if you offer a beach/pool towel service? 1 Answer
Hi Jon, Pool towels are available at this hotel. Regards
Added 2 years, 2 months ago.
By Leanne, loveholidays.com team member


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any advice
so here is what im doing i just had a question about cardio:
im dong the 5x5 i found on this website which is
Olympic Squats 5x5
Benching 5x5
JS Rows 5x5
***Weighted Dips (I added Those)
low volume tris n abs
Olympic Squats 5x5
Standing Mil Press 5x5
Deads 5x5
Pull Ups 5x5
Low volume bis n abs
Olympic Squats 5x5
Benching 5x5
Rows 5x5
***Weighted Dips (I added those)
low volume tris n abs
now my question is should i do cardio in between im scared if i do it then my legs wont have enough recovery time, and i wont beable to preform to full capacity on my lift days, i was thinking of just walking 30-60 minutes inbetween three days a week
here is my diet (i try my best im in Afghanistan and have to eat at the chow hall)
it usually looks like this though
Breakfast: (always the same)
5 eggs---1 cup oatmeal w/ raisins---Black coffee---water
Snack:Banana and Penut Butter (usually that)
Lunch: Whatever meat i can find (never Fried) Chicken Breast, Steak, Baked Fish, Turkey etc....i try to have a double portion of meat, and a salad, with only a sprinkle of cheese and one serving of dressing.
Snack: Whey (20 grams) or Albacore Tuna
Dinner: Same as lunch
Post Workout: Whey (40-50 grams)
(never any bread sometimes milk)
---im scared thats not enough protein, but how does it sound....what do u think about the cardio???
-----and just some info im not to weak, just on legs, i had to do my 5x5 squats w/ 185, i was stronger but broke my jaw and was out for 2 months....
thanks for the help!
Considering the fact that you're in Afghanistan, I think you're doing pretty good with the diet. You might be a little short on protein. Aim for 1.5gr per lb of body weight. I did the same program that you're doing. I did high intensity interval training (HIIT) on the same days that I lifted so I could have Tue/Thur strictly for recovery. The HIIT kept it short and sweet...20 min of that was all I needed.
Make sure the squats on Wednesday are at 70-80% of Monday's weight. I figure you already know that, but just want to make sure.
Good advice there, or even do Hiit on your off days.
Walking is fine, it won't interfere with your recovery. I wouldn't do HIT though.
Your diet seems a little low on cals. What are your goals? Strength? Cutting?
Why would you not do HIIT?
^^ interesting, for me its more taxing to do long duration cardio then Hiit as far as muscle recovery goes. Cardio vascular effects are obviously different.
basically im trying to put on some Mass, i lifted for a long time (2 years) the wrong way, doing all my body parts separate, neglecting legs, and barley touching Deads....but now im REALY serious about lifting, i love it, and now i know i need those big body lifts for mass and thats why i wasn't gaining mass, i did get stronger, WAY stronger, just not bigger, guess i need to add some more whey to my diet cause that's all i can do out here....so maybe i'll just walk two days a week after my Monday and after my Friday sounds like that should be ok, right?? i really really appreciate the support in the Forums here, thanks to everyone!!
forgot to ask what exactly is the difference between the JS Row on Monday and Row on Friday, thanks again.
any one know what a JS row is, i just started week four and i've been doing bent over Rows..
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by Amy L. Hatch
Unless you've been living under a rock, you've heard about the now-notorious essay in the Wall Street Journal by Amy Chua, "Why Chinese Mothers Are Superior."
Chua asserts that her hard-line parenting style is just the antidote the West needs, even when her own husband objects.
I'm not going to critique Chua's point of view — which we'll all be able to read about in her just-released book, "Battle Hymn of the Tiger Mother" — because better thinkers than I have already tackled that.
In fact, one of the responses to Chua's excerpt is what inspired me today. Lisa Belkin of The New York Times' "Motherlode" blog posits that Chau's publisher is "…banking on her message finding wide resonance among American moms worn out from trying to do everything right for kids who mimic Disney Channel-style disrespect for parents, spend hours a day on Facebook, pick at their lovingly prepared food and generally won't get with the program."
While I don't necessarily agree that modern mothers are searching for the magic forumla for dealing with their media-saturated brats, I do agree with this: "Kids who mimic Disney Channel-style disrespect for parents."
Can I get an amen?
There was a brief period when Emmie was allowed to watch some of the tweener shows that pass for programming on the Disney Channel.
Shortly thereafter, she started indulging in an awful lot of sassy back-talk.
Even a simple request to pick up her shoes was met with the toss of her head, a palm in the air, and "I'm outta here!"
And so on, and so forth.
Finally, one afternoon, she threatened to kick someone in the head. I don't remember who received the threat or what it was in relation to, but I do remember the reckoning that took place.
We demanded to know where she heard such a thing, and, finally, she wailed, "I saw it on 'Good Luck Charlie!' It was funny!"
Memo to the writers over at Disney: It's never funny for a child to threaten to kick anyone in the head.
Period, the end.
I know this makes me come off like a goody two-shoes, like a helicopter parent who monitors every minute of media consumed by her precious blank slate — and I know that my sister is somewhere in Rochester, N.Y., rolling her baby-blue eyes back into her head.
But the fact of the matter is that those shows are written to entertain adults — adults who understand the difference between a cheeky joke and full-on disrespect.
My 6-year-old — and, I imagine, most 6-year-olds — isn't capable of making that fine distinction. I'd much rather my kid watch the cartoon violence of "Tom and Jerry" than learn to use her words as a weapon.
Since the "Good Luck Charlie" incident, we have a strict ban on any non-animated Disney TV show.
It's not a popular stance — especially with Emmie — but it's one of the few aspects of parenting that we can actually control.


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For example, Eden Prairie, MN-based Stellent is easily the smallest of the pack in terms of annual revenues ($106 million in fiscal year 2005), yet it continues to make plenty of RFP shortlists and win its fair share of deals.
Stellent's flagship product is the Universal Content Management (UCM) suite, but despite the moniker it tends to be purchased to solve specific business problems such as managing intranet documents, achieving regulatory compliance or supporting multiple Web sites.
Stellent's core repository, called Content Server, provides base services — versioning and version control, workflow, security and access control, and repository search — to a variety of applications that ride on top. The Content Server is comprised of four repositories:
Stellent exposes a variety of APIs here, including Java and COM, but developers are likely to find a deeper set of interfaces in competing products from EMC|Documentum, Vignette and IBM. Stellent is shooting for ease of customization over lower-level depth. Like competitor Open Text, Stellent uses its own proprietary scripting language, "iDoc." Developers use iDoc in Content Server to manipulate input screens, develop content output templates and define workflows beyond the simpler browser-based configurations. iDoc is easy to learn, but on complex implementations, developers may long for a more sophisticated, open toolset.
For repository search, Stellent uses a customized version of Verity that indexes both content and metadata. Here again, Stellent has favored expedience over scalability. The Verity implementation works well out of the box, but collections tend to hiccup or experience substantial performance limitations as the content store grows — a problem some customers address by upgrading to the full version of Verity.
In short, Content Server is easy to customize, but offers less of a development platform than many competing offerings. Where Stellent shines is in delivering content applications that fix specific business problems out of the box. Two of the company's more noteworthy products — Multi-Site Management and Sarbanes Oxley (SOX) — reflect the solutions-oriented approach.
Compliance with SOX requires solid, auditable processes. In particular, Section 404 requires documentation of key control procedures, presenting a document management problem to corporate CFOs and comptrollers. The Stellent SOX application encapsulates process elements — rules, issues, tests and documentation — as objects. Organizations can actively manage these elements by creating versions, spawning workflows, archiving where necessary and reporting on activity.
For users, action centers around schedules of risks, which are entered into the system as part of initial configuration, and processes with associated documentation, which are managed through a control-panel interface.
Compliance demands reporting, so the SOX application offers a broad set of internal reports, including dashboards with "heat" reports and drill-downs highlighting risks. Stellent also OEMs tools from Cognos that provide ad hoc reporting and drag-and-drop analytics.
Sarbanes-Oxley also requires control testing, for example, that an assertion that a CFO makes in a quarterly filing has been adequately documented. That test itself generates documentation and results that can be managed in the SOX tool. If a test fails, the system can kick off a new "issue" for the process owner, invoking new workflows as necessary.
SOX is relatively straightforward to use, providing a "one-stop shop" for Section 404 compliance, according to Chris Schneider, CIO at Stellent customer First Industrial Realty Trust, a provider of industrial real estate. Previously, the firm's Word and Excel documentation about financial controls was scattered. "Now we have one place to go for everything," Schneider says.
The flow among SOX interface tabs won't be intuitive to all. Early adopters are auditors who have a strong understanding of compliance concepts. As companies extend the application to business process owners or beyond SOX compliance, they'll have to do more employee hand-holding on the Stellent user interface.
Note that SOX doesn't manage instances of a process, just the process itself. Individual transactions — say from within accounts payable — can be tracked in Stellent's separate imaging/business process management (BPM) suite, but exceptions in that system can't be logged automatically into the SOX product. Stellent says it's working on this integration.
Similarly, there's no prepackaged integration with Stellent's Records Management product. The company says there's little demand to do so, but this may simply reflect today's desire for expedient compliance solutions. In the long term, process documentation, tracking and related records management regimes should be intertwined.
Stellent SOX customers say the application meets their needs more or less out of the box. "We hardly had to customize it all," notes Schneider of First Industrial, "and I can't think of any other product where we can say that."
With its Multi-Site Management application, Stellent recognizes that the typical enterprise produces more than one intranet or Web site — often a lot more. So the ideal Web content management system for a distributed company should let some system aspects be centrally controlled while others are distributed to site authors. That is what Stellent has done, with good success.
Like the SOX application, Multi-Site Management is built atop Stellent's core Content Server, but it also delivers several additional products:
Site Studio provides a user-friendly overlay for managing content across multiple Web sites. Authoring, editing and access privileges management, for example, can be delegated to individual administrators rather than maintained by a master gatekeeper, as many other products require. Users can also create new content types (such as press releases) without the aid of developers — a plus in distributed environments.
Stellent offers a variety of choices about which interfaces to expose to which users at what times — a choice that some customers find confusing. Content Server lets you build custom forms interfaces. Site Studio delivers prebuilt interfaces as well as in-context editing, meaning contributors can browse to a page, log in and pop up a form to edit the content. Moving between interfaces sometimes inconveniently requires reauthentication.
Developing page templates in Site Studio seems simple at first blush but can get complicated. Graphic designers can drag in components and build Web page templates, but the underlying logic is complex enough to require developers. The templating system is quite powerful in that developers can set various permissions and triggers at the element level, and here again you can delegate authority. Once templates are built, authorized business managers can modify which templates are applied to any set of content items. They can also alter some site structure, all via a browser interface.
Stellent is a nimble vendor that has focused on solving business problems — SOX and Multi-Site being two cases in point. However, the company's small size isn't without drawbacks. Stellent lags in building international users networks and lacks the large-scale developer networks and deep integrator ties that help larger ECM vendors sustain their more complex offerings.
Do enterprises require an ECM platform on which to build custom content applications, or simply a manageable collection of functional products? The Fortune 100 may be looking to standardize on a single ECM infrastructure, but most other enterprises buy piecemeal to fix specific problems. In this market, Stellent is not always going to win on technical elegance; but the company has held its ground by focusing on easy-to-implement products.
• The Stellent Content Server is priced per server and per user, starting at $50,000. SOX implementations run from $100,000 to 200,000, including the Content Server. Multi-Site Management packages start at about $200,000, including the Content Server.
Tony Byrne is founder of CMS Watch (www.cmswatch.com), which evaluates major content management, search and records management products.


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That success was confirmed last month when the SAU event was named Best New Dance Marathon of the Year at the national Dance Marathon Leadership Conference in Salt Lake City.
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As deputy, Scott will step in to fill mayor's role at ceremonial functions and chairing council meetings when Mayor Tom Swisstack can't be present.
"I'm very honored and humbled that councilors put this trust in me. I'm excited to get to work," Scott said.
Scott was elected to the District 4 council seat in a runoff election April 17, sworn in on Monday and attended his first meeting as councilor on Wednesday.
Councilor Tamara Gutierrez first nominated Councilor Patty Thomas for the deputy mayor's position, saying Rio Rancho needed someone with city government experience who had a flexible work schedule. Thomas has represented District 2 since 2001 and is retired.
When no one seconded Gutierrez's nomination, Councilor Chuck Wilkins nominated Scott. He said the city needed someone who was energetic, outgoing and business friendly. Councilor Tim Crum seconded Wilkins' proposal.
There were no other nominations.
Councilors voted 5-1 for Scott. Gutierrez cast the no vote.
In other matters, the council voted unanimously to:
♦ Use $300,000 left over from the project that extended Paseo del Volcan from Iris to U.S. 550 for landscaping a 200-foot section of median on Paseo del Volcan near U.S. 550. The landscaping will include a "Welcome to Rio Rancho" sign, trees, plants and irrigation. ($240,000 comes from the state Department of Transportation and $60,000 was city money from the 2009 voter-approved road bonds.)
♦ Terminate Special Assessment District 9, which was to provide flood control improvements on three roads in northern Rio Rancho. The project would have allowed the city to recoup the cost of the improvements from property owners who benefited. Changes that reduced the scope of the project made it cost prohibitive, according to a council briefing memo. The city has already spent $320,000 from impact fee funds to conduct preliminary appraisals and other work for the proposed improvements.
♦ Approve a $3.3 million contract to Anderson-Brown Inc. to expand the capacity of the Cabezon wastewater treatment facility from 0.6 million gallons per day, to 1.2 million gallons per day to accommodate future growth. Funding comes from a loan from the state Environment Department.