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A project calling for a transoceanic fiber-optic cable running through the Arctic between Japan and the United Kingdom -- one that could also lead to higher Internet speeds and capacity across much of Alaska -- is taking steps to secure landing licenses to tie into portions of Alaska and Canada.
The Canadian company driving the 9,500-mile main line, Arctic Fibre Inc., has applied with regulators in that country for landing licenses, according to a press release from Arctic Fibre. Seven landing points have been selected in the Canadian Arctic, including Cambridge Bay.
Meanwhile, the Alaska affiliate for the project, Quintillion Networks, has finished conducting preliminary surveys to determine the location of landing sites in the 49th state. So far, spurs off the main line are planned for the oil-field facilities at Prudhoe Bay atop Alaska, the U.S. Air Force base at Shemya in the Aleutian Islands, as well as the villages of Barrow, Wainwright, Kotzebue, Nome, and possibly Unalaska, a statement said.
The remote Alaska villages currently receive slow, unreliable Internet over clunky satellite. If the project comes to fruition, that capacity would improve dramatically. Cell phone service on a fiber-optic backbone could leap from sluggish 2G to speedier 4G, and improvements could come in key areas, including to telemedicine that is practiced in villages without doctors, and to distance education offered in communities without professors.
Quintillion plans to submit applications for landing licenses to federal and state regulators in the first six months of 2014.
Technical engineers have been studying site landings for Quintillion, said Elizabeth Pierce, CEO of Quintillion. To reach the main fiber-optic line, the company plans to drill horizontally from land, extending a spur 15 feet beneath the sea floor.
"It allows us to take the fiber much deeper than trenching would to protect against risks like ice scouring, ship traffic, or Nome gold miners," Pierce said.
A planned marine survey of the route around Alaska and Canada experienced delays this summer because of excess sea ice, said Pierce. That effort -- to determine things like sea floor conditions -- will be conducted next summer, she said.
Among other challenges are changes to the Universal Service Fund -- a federal subsidy that helps telecommunications companies provide service in remote, costly areas like rural Alaska. Reductions to the subsidy could hurt companies such as Arctic Slope Telephone Association Cooperative, a small telecom serving Barrow and other Arctic communities, and threaten their ability to tap into the line.
As for the overall project, the Alaska and Canadian segments will be completed by January 2016, the Arctic Fibre release said. Arctic Fibre plans to operate as a wholesaler, selling bandwidth to Internet Service Providers and cable TV and telecommunication companies. It will not directly provide service to end-users, except perhaps to governments and large developers.
A key landing station in Canada will be at Cambridge Bay, adjacent to the Department of National Defense facility. "It will be well-positioned to meet the substantial bandwidth requirements of the scientists who will be stationed at the Canadian High Arctic Research Station (CHARS)," the statement said.
The Nunavut Planning Commission said the Canadian portion of the project complies with its planning requirements.
The project has qualified for an exemption from further environmental impact screening by the Inuvialuit Settlement Region.
Though most of the line will run on the ocean floor, part of it will run across the Boothia Peninsula in Canada. To make that happen, Arctic Fibre will submit its application to the Kitikmeot Inuit Association this week for land-based easements.
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The arguments for or against allowing video lottery terminals, or VLTs, or high-tech slot machines, at racetracks in Ohio has usually boiled down to this:
Those opposed — "gambling is a sin." (But I hear no calls to outlaw horse racing, the state lottery or bingo).
Those in favor — "it's my money and you don't tell me how to spend it." (Good point, but I'm glad I'm not married to you).
A lead story in the Syracuse (N.Y.) Post-Standard on Aug. 6 should be required reading for Ohio voters. It presents a stark portrait of what racing would look like if our state had the video slots at the tracks.
On the one hand, the VLTs at the New York tracks (now called "racinos") are a rousing success for the horse racing industry. There are eight racinos in the Empire State. Six of them are the harness-racing only tracks, one (Finger Lakes) is thoroughbreds. One (Saratoga) has both.
The tracks are awash in revenue. Purses for horse races are way up, benefiting the owners, breeders, trainers and riders as well as the tracks themselves (and public education, which gets half of all VLT earnings).
The parking lots at these racinos are always full. Not so, however, are the grandstands. Betting on races is way down. That's right — purses are higher, handles are lower. It doesn't make sense, right? It doesn't take much of a leap to realize the patrons are coming to play the VLTs and not the ponies.
The story quotes one racetrack operator as saying the four upstate harness tracks — Buffalo, Batavia, Vernon and Tioga — wouldn't be in business today without the VLTs.
The touch-screen one-armed bandits are propping up a dying sport. Of course, one reason it's in its death throes is the presence of the slots. Were they not around, there would be a few more folks at the track actually betting on the races. But the VLTs, the story said, are more attractive because, unlike wagering on a sporting event, playing the video slots requires no thinking.
So there's a side of the debate that's relevant and leaves emotion out of the equation. Do we in the Buckeye State want the popularity of one form of gaming used to make a not-so-popular form of gaming survive when it otherwise would go belly up? Is that right, either morally or from a business standpoint? Do we believe it's necessary?
Maybe the source who said wagering on horses requires thinking is giving horse players a little more credit than they deserve. Sure, to wager the right way requires thinking, and perhaps a bit of research.
Yet the story is accompanied by a photograph of a bride, still in her wedding gown, at the rail at Vernon Downs celebrating her horse's victory. She bet on No. 5 because "five is my lucky number."
So much for deep thoughts.
Get the party started
Northfield Park's golden anniversary celebration starts Monday night with 50-cent hot dogs, soft drinks and programs. Cleveland Cavaliers players Daniel Gibson and Donyell Marshall come to the track Wednesday for an autograph session. Friday is Ohio Lottery Access to Fun Night. Saturday is the drawing for the Pontiac G6 giveaway.
• "Northfield Park — Images In Sports," a book documenting the track's first 50 years, will be on sale next week for $14.99, which is $5 off the regular price.
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Perfectly Played scored an upset victory in last Friday's $50,000 Cleveland Kindergarten Stakes at Thistledown. The gelding paid $23 on a $2 wager.
Perfectly Played, a Jeff Radosevich-trained gelding, beat Buzz Bunny by 2½ lengths. Take Ahike Mike, the favorite, finished sixth.
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Still in pain as well as they still look terrible.After Doctor was mean & unprofessional & found a reconstruction dr to remove drains & stitches. I never felt so humiliated in all my life. I was a 600 cc above muscle before & wanted to go 700 cc & he put in 500 cc with no warning. So I'm deformed looking & smaller. This has been a night mare. Why am I still in so much pain & why do I look like this- Please help me. I can not go on looking so deformed & in such pain. Please tell me if I have any options.
I Had Under the Muscle Memory Gel Implants on Jan. 8th 2013. They Looked Wrong from Right After Surgery? (photo)
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Subglandular to Submuscular and Decrease in Volume
A switch from subglandular to submuscular is the reason for the increased pain, common after submuscular. In addition, the implants will have to drop when the muscles begin to relax. Massage can be helpful with this. In general, the switch from subglandular to submuscular and the reduction in implant volume tends to make the breasts look droopier.
Revision Breast Augmentation
I can tell that you are very upset and hurting. But I do want to give you hope! If you switched from over the muscle to under the muscle (which I'm guessing you did from your story and the use of drains) then that is why you have more pain. Lifting up the muscle stretches it and dissecting the bottom is uncomfortable. Some women feel a little pain and some are really uncomfortable for a couple of weeks - it's just different for everyone. Right now your implants look higher than your breast and it really takes a full month for the implants to relax down into the proper location when you first put them under the muscle. I also think you will probably want a breast lift. If you are unhappy with your size, you will likely want a larger implant - memory gel implants do look smaller under the muscle than over as your pectoralis muscle pushes them down. You may ask your doctor for a muscle relaxant for the discomfort and hang in there for a full month before you decide on your results. Good luck!
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Unhappy right after surgery!
One early post-op photograph and your obviously-upset description (key words: "looked wrong," " looked terrible," "mean and unprofessional," "humiliated," "deformed," "nightmare," "deformed & in such pain") are insufficient to try to be of assistance. There has been (and still appears to be) a significant gap in your surgeon's and your ability to convey and/or understand what was requested, what was done (and why), and just what to expect.
Assuming you had surgery by an ABPS-certified plastic surgeon experienced in secondary breast surgery, there is much additional information needed, including your surgeon's input. One solution to your being upset is to see another surgeon, which you apparently have done for suture and drain removal. Yet, even if you were/are upset with your surgeon, this was part of the job you paid him for, and if one of my patients took it upon themselves to interrupt my care without a good reason (lots of secondary breast surgery patients don't look "perfect" immediately after surgery), I might be upset at my patient (who would then perhaps consider my response as "mean and unprofessional.")
Truly, at this point it's only conjecture at to the exact truth of events, but my best advice would be to obtain your surgeon's operative report, a copy of your pre-operative photos, and seek additional information from an ABPS-certified plastic surgeon experienced in revision breast surgery. You can then explore your going-forward options as your breasts heal from this surgery. Time and implants dropping into place may actually make things look not so bad at all. Re-operating precipitously and in a reactionary fashion while tissues are not yet healed may only create new or more severe problems!
Perhaps you can rebuild your relationship with your present surgeon (if he's one of the aforementioned ABPS-certified plastic surgeons you SHOULD be dealing with), but you must approach him without anger or blame in a collaborative and accepting tone. Even doctors tend to get defensive when attacked, especially when it's not deserved and based on lack of understanding or awareness of "WHY" you look the way you do. BTW, that's not entirely your fault--your surgeon should have informed you better, explained more clearly, outlined reasons for the decisions made, and communicated this to you in a way that was understandable. Once that's done, then it's your job to listen, learn, and continue with the trust you placed in your surgeon when you chose him to do your surgery in the first place.
Otherwise, your surgeon is out of your present loop, you have no way of knowing what your surgeon did or intended, no way of receiving proper post-op instructions to optimize your results, and a "new doctor" who has to try to pick up mid-stream without this critical information or awareness of your surgeon's thought process, decision-making, and plans. (An experienced ABPS-certified plastic surgeon would have had this prepared BEFORE operating--but the present surgeon is trying to come-on-board after the fact.)
I am truly sorry you are so unsettled and upset; perhaps you can proceed along the lines I've drawn and this will all work out. Best wishes! Dr. Tholen
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Sorry that you are unhappy. It is difficult to know exactly how to respond without having more information. I think the first thing you need to do is talk with your surgeon.
They Looked Wrong from Right After Surgery?
Sorry to hear about your course and your dissatisfaction. There is not quite enough info to go on here. For example, I don't know why you had the repeat surgery. If it was primarily to get larger implants, this is really hard to understand! What would be most useful to the surgeons here at Realself would be to see some pre-op photos,and better post-op photos. These appear to have been taken from above and would be more useful to us if taken level.
Certainly getting you at least back to your original volume or larger is in order. It may be that a breast lift would also be recommended.
Thank you for your question and for the posted photos. Best wishes.
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Air conditioning helps reduce the amount of airborne pollen from trees, grasses and weeds that finds its way indoors. Air conditioning also lowers indoor humidity and can reduce your child's exposure to dust mites. If you don't have air conditioning, try to keep your windows closed during pollen season. Keep dust to a minimum. Reduce dust that may aggravate nighttime symptoms by replacing certain items in your bedroom. For example, encase pillows, mattresses and box springs in dust-proof covers. Consider removing carpeting and installing hard flooring, particularly in your child's bedroom. Use washable curtains and blinds. Clean regularly. Clean your home at least once a week to remove dust and allergens. Reduce your child's exposure to cold air. If your child's asthma is worsened by cold, dry air, wearing a face mask outside can help. Coping and supportIt can be stressful to help your child manage his or her asthma. Keep these tips in mind to make life as normal as possible: Make treatment a regular part of life. If your child has to take daily medication, don't make a big deal out of it — it should be as routine as eating breakfast or brushing teeth. Use a written asthma action plan. Work with your child's doctor to develop your child's action plan, and give a copy of it to all of your child's caregivers, such as child care providers, teachers, coaches and the parents of your child's friends. Following a written plan can help you and your child identify symptoms early, providing important information on how to treat your child's asthma from day to day and how to deal with an asthma attack. Be encouraging. Focus attention on the things your child can do, not on the things he or she can't. Involve teachers, school nurses, coaches, relatives and friends in helping your child manage asthma. Encourage normal play and activity. Don't limit your child's activities out of fear of an asthma attack — work with your child's doctor to control exercise-induced symptoms. Be calm and in control when facing asthma symptoms. Don't get rattled if you see asthma symptoms getting worse. Focus on your child's asthma action plan and involve your child in each step so that he or she understands what's happening. Talk to other parents of children with asthma. Chat rooms and message boards on the Internet or a local support group can connect you with parents facing similar challenges and let you know that you and your child are not alone in dealing with asthma. Help your child connect with others who have asthma. Send your child to "asthma camp" or find other organized activities for children with asthma. This can help your child feel less isolated and help him or her gain a better understanding of asthma and its treatment. PreventionCareful planning and steering clear of asthma triggers are the best ways to prevent asthma attacks. Limit exposure to asthma triggers. Be proactive in helping your child avoid the allergens and irritants that trigger asthma symptoms. Don't allow smoking around your child. Exposure to tobacco smoke during infancy is a strong risk factor for childhood asthma, as well as a common trigger of asthma attacks. Encourage your child to be active. As long as your child's asthma is well-controlled, regular physical activity can condition the lungs to work more efficiently. See the doctor when necessary. Check in on a regular basis. Don't ignore signs that your child's asthma may not be under control, such as needing to use a quick-relief inhaler too often. Asthma changes over time. Consulting your child's doctor can help you make any needed treatment adjustments to keep symptoms under control. Help your child maintain a healthy weight. 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This week on the Store you can purchase the newest version of Devil May Cry — DmC. The ever-popular Angry Birds also launches onto the Store with Angry Birds Trilogy, which comes with 19 exclusive levels. If you enjoyed the PSP game Corpse Party you'll be happy to hear that Corpse Party: Book of Shadows is now available for you to download on either your PSP or PS Vita.
PS Plus members will receive Darksiders for free this week along with a discount on Stardrone Extreme.
As always, please leave your thoughts in the comments below. You can also chat about this update in the PlayStation Community Forums.
Back in April, we unveiled a host of new applications coming to PS Vita, including Wake-up Club, a new interactive way to start your day with other PS Vita owners. Next Tuesday, the application will be available to download for free on the PS Vita PlayStation Store in North America!
Let's face it: getting up in the morning isn't something we usually look forward to, but Wake-up Club adds some social fun into the mix to make getting out of bed more bearable. In addition to adding alarm clock functionality to PS Vita for the first time, including the ability to personalize your alarm tone and background theme, Wake-up Club matches 12 randomly selected players who set their alarm clock at the same time into a—you guessed it—wake-up club!
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Castor Oil For Moles
Castor Oil For Mole Control Moles are cute furry animals, but not when they started to create underground tunnels in your yard. Typically, moths spent most of his time underground network of tunnels and building in search of food, such as white larvae and earthworms.
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Nursery rhymes are a great way to introduce babies to literacy and make for a wonderful bedtime reading ritual. Rhymes are usually short, sweet, and fun! Plus, the rhyming rhythm has been shown to be very pleasing to baby's ears. It really is fun to read nursery rhymes to your baby and as he becomes a toddler, you'll notice he'll learn the names of some of the nursery rhymes you read and may even join you in reciting his favorites! My baby boy has recently begun to ask for a few nursery rhymes by name or I'll find him repeating them to himself throughout the day. Here are a few of my son's favorite nursery rhymes that I'm sure your baby will love too!
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5 of My Son's Favorite Nursery Rhymes
- Star Light, Star Bright
- Jack Be Nimble
- Hickory Dickory Dock
- Diddle, Diddle, Dumpling
- Hey, Diddle, Diddle
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Statement of Faith
- The divine and full inspiration and authority of the Holy Scripture as the supreme and sufficient rule of faith and practice, and the duty of the believer to engage with the Word of God.
- The unity of the one true God who lives eternally in three persons—the Father, the Son and the Holy Spirit.
- The fall and sinful state of men and women, who without Christ incur divine wrath and judgement.
- The sacrifice of Christ on the cross: dying in our place, paying the price of sin and defeating evil.
- The bodily resurrection of Christ, his ascension to the Father, and his reign and mediation as the only Saviour of the world.
- The justification of the sinner by faith alone in the Lord Jesus Christ; a faith that works by love and produces holiness
- The work of the Holy Spirit, who leads us to Christ, unites us with Christ through new birth, makes us holy, brings spiritual revelation, empowers our discipleship and enables our witness.
- The personal and visible return of the Lord Jesus Christ according to his promise to fulfil the purposes of God.
- The baptism of believers' by immersion. Athough not essential to Salvation, believers' baptism is an act of obedience to the Lord's will and required for completeness of discipleship.
As such baptism is not regarded as a condition of membership, however it is a matter upon which each person should prayerfully consult the baptismal teaching in Scripture and be fully persuaded in his or her own mind before the Lord.


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Barcelona and star player Lionel Messi achievements at the seventh edition of the Globe Soccer Awards in Dubai on Sunday, taking home the rewards for best team and best player. Messi had travelled from Argentina to be present at the ceremony. "It's very nice to receive these awards, but I always say that the team… Read More »


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The Scottish Falsetto Sock Puppet Theatre are the comedy double act that has to be seen to be believed. Absolutely stupidly hilarious!
Taking on anything from James Bond to Star Wars, these guys bring you a brand new show full of songs, sketches, socks and violence.
The stars of BBC 3's Comedy Shuffle and Upstaged, and MTV's Best Show Ever, and the darlings of YouTube bring you songs, sketches, socks and violence. Including an entire Shakespeare play in its entirety (slightly abridged)!
'The unparalleled pinnacle of comedy puppetry' (Venue)
'Had every single audience member... laughing until they cried' (Edinburgh Evening News, Aug 2012)
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Patrick Monahan
Winner of ITV's Show Me The Funny, this half-Iranian, half-Middlesborough comic is a rising star on the comedy circuit. Full of an insatiable lust for life, his exuberant comedy greets the audience like a sex-starved spaniel would greet a trouser leg.
In 2012 he took part in Let's Dance for Sports Relief on BBC, won Best Newcomer at the Loaded LAFTA Awards and Forth Radio Best Stand-Up People's Choice Award for his hit show 'Hug Me I Feel Good'. He played the role of the dastardly Captain Hook in 'The Pantomime Adventures of Peter Pan' at the Worthing Pavilion from December 2016 to early Jan 2017.
A natural-born performer, he exudes charisma from the stage (and often off it, when he scuttles into the crowd...!)
'High energy and conviction, his material is great; he's going to go far' (The Sunday Times)
'Omid Djalili meets Dave Allen' (Daily Mail)
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'The same mix of control and on-stage charisma as a young Alan Davies' (The Herald)
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Patrick Monahan was placed in Ents24's top 5 hardest-working comedians 2016.
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Alfie Moore
Alfie is an original and distinctive comedian with his niche area as a serving police sergeant. He came slightly later to comedy and brings a wealth of insights and comedy moments from his eighteen years on the beat, where a keen sense of humour has been the key to his success and survival!
Born and raised on a council estate in Sheffield he was an apprentice in the steelworks before joining the Police. Early on in Alfie's career he finished runner up in a national stand-up competition and was well and truly hooked. He subsequently served a whole new apprenticeship, honing his craft at comedy clubs all over the country. Alfie has an observational comedic style, which lends itself to witty, and sometimes gritty, anecdotes based on everyday modern policing.
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'His is a higher form of wit. delivered with lashings of good spirits and an effective slither of self-deprecation' (Chortle)
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Gary is a regular guest on Mock The Week and has also appeared on Dave's 'One Night Stand', Comedy Central's 'Comedy Blue' and on Channel 4's 'Robert's Web' as well as Radio 4's 'Loose Ends' and Radio 2's 'Russell Kane's Whistle-Stop Tour'. His debut show 'Purist' was a big hit at the Edinburgh Festival in 2010, selling out every night and receiving many four and five star reviews.
'Gary Delaney has more quality jokes in this hour than many comics have in their entire careers… Quite brilliant' (The Scotsman).
'I laughed and I laughed and I laughed! A master craftsman' (The Times)
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Durham, N.C. — Jury selection began Monday in the trial of Joseph Anthony Mitchell, accused of murdering his 4-year-old son and trying to kill his two other children more than four years ago.
Mitchell, who faces one charge of first-degree murder and two charges of attempted first-degree murder, has pleaded not guilty, and defense attorney Jay Ferguson plans to claim that he was not aware of or culpable for his actions.
The defense, called "automatism," is sometimes referred to as a "sleepwalking defense," where defendants argue they are not guilty of a crime because they were sleepwalking and were not aware they had done anything wrong.
Blake Mitchell was suffocated on Sept. 22, 2010, in the family's Durham home, at 17 Thistle Trace.
Joseph Mitchell's 10-year-old son and 13-year-old daughter told investigators that they awoke to find their father trying to cover their mouths or faces, and they had to fend him off, according to court documents.
Joseph Mitchell was found with stab wounds and cuts that authorities said were self-inflicted.
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One of the first pieces of legislation the newly minted Senate plans to take up is the Violence Against Women Act (VAWA), which previously failed to pass the last Congress because of Republican opposition in the House.
The law, originally passed in 1994 as part of a larger crime bill, has been reauthorized twice but since its expiration in September 2011, there's been a gap in legal protections and services for women from abusive domestic partners, stalkers and sexual. It easily passed the Senate last year with the support of 15 Republicans but never made it through the Republican-led House.
Proponents introduced a new version of the bill this week that aims to ease Republican concerns. The authors of the new bill included expanded protections for immigrants, members of the LGBT community and Native Americans, but dropped one of the GOP's most pressing concerns: an expansion of the U visa program. The visa would give legal protection to illegal immigrants who are victims of domestic violence and sexual crimes. Last year, a Republican alternative that stripped the U visa provision, as well as the LGBT and Native American provisions, passed the House before stalling in the Senate.
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November 18, 2008, 04:32 PM
do you own one, or have u shot one and how do u like it.......pics of mods would be cool too
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November 20, 2008, 12:20 AM
Sorry that no one has answered you thread. I have not had the fortune of shooting one of Saga guns, guess I'm letting down on the job. Good luck on your quest. Gabe Suarez is a great proponent of these guns and the Saga forum has lots of saga stuff.
Suarez International @ http://www.warriortalk.com/index.php
you could also try http://forum.saiga-12.com might be a good place to find Saga stuff
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I'm very happy with my Saiga-12. I bet the 20s are nice also, but your magazine choices may be even more limited than with the 12.
Saiga shotguns have about the best fun to $ ratio possible in a firearm.
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i was gonna but it for $50 from a guy that didn't know what he had but the inlaws beat me to it and gave it to me for x-mas
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ive shot the 12, loads of fun.
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(CBS/WBZ) WESTFIELD, Ma. - Police have made an arrest in the killing of Ozzie the duck, a much-loved Stanley Park resident for the last three years.
The Republican reported that a 15-year-old boy was arrested Tuesday morning in connection with the killing. According to Westfield Police Capt. Hipoloto Nunez, the teen was charged with cruelty to animals and killing a domesticated animal.
In Massachusetts, killing a domesticated animal is a felony carrying up to five years in prison and as much as $2,500 in fines.
The suspect's identity is not being released since he's a minor.
CBS station WBZ said the park posted on its website that Ozzie the duck was killed on Friday around 4:30 p.m. by a group of teenagers who were seen stomping the bird to death by a jogger.
"Ozzie came to Stanley Park a few years ago and has been a special member of our duck, geese & swan family ever since," said Robert C. McKean, park director.
The Muscovy duck has been a favorite at the park for years, even though the breed prefers tropical climates.
McKean said he is happy with the police department's work and everyone who helped in the investigation.
Officials hope to use the good will generated by the duck to help tighten security.
"We're also setting up an Ozzie fund so we can have surveillance cameras down here and actually put it on the web so everybody can watch the park and be our own security even though we might be closed."
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Chris Hemsworth would prefer to take a girl on a date that involves an "unusual activity".
The Australian actor is known for his role in action-packed films, such as Snow White and the Huntsman and Thor. It seems Chris is also a thrill seeker in everyday life as when asked what his perfect date would be, the heartthrob threw in a combination of a romantic dinner and an adrenaline-packed activity.
"A good meal and some kind of exciting, unusual activity, like skydiving!" he told Heat magazine.
Chris is married to Spanish model Elsa Pataky and the pair have 15-month-old daughter India Rose together. It was the blonde beauty's accent which seduced the 30-year-old star and he believes his Aussie twang also helped to win her over.
When asked what language he would like to be seduced in, Chris laughed: "Well, my wife did, in Spanish! For her, it was obviously Australian. There, it's 'Ahhh, I love ya, mate!'"
While he may be confident about his flirting skills, Chris finds he often has to change his body according to his next film role.
For his latest movie Rush, in which he plays Formula 1 driver James Hunt, Chris had to drop weight.
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sig 226 in .40
I have always liked Sig, and rarely have I heard a negative about how they perform. I am considering buying a 226 in .40 cal for SD/HD and maybe CCW.
Would appreciate some thoughts. Most of the nitpicky crap some people look at do not matter much to me.. like mag cap, how it looks and size of weapon. I like bigger guns as i am a bigger guy.
If you like the feel, a P226 is one of the best HD pistols on the planet IMO.
I wouldn't choose it as a CCW, but that's 100% about my own preferences and typical attire. And it doesn't lack capacity by any means...MecGar makes 13rd antifriction flush fit mags that you'll probably find are an upgrade to the one that comes with the gun. And you can get 'em for about $25.
Be sure to try it on the range to see for yourself. Check to see if you will like how it operates if you haven't done so already. Good choice
i like Sigs, i know they ae very well made weapons. Shot a friends and it was like butter smooth and my happy place grow a few inches. I also like that i can configure a kel tech sub 2000 to use the same mags and ammo. So it makes it very duel use for me.
Thanx folks.
But do yourself a favor: just get a KelTec S2K that accepts Glock 17/22 mags, even if you never intend to own a Glock. Those guns are a lot easier to come by and Glock magazines are both reliable and affordable. Your S2K will also be far more marketable with Glock mags, should you ever decide to part with it. You'll get more money for it and have an easier time selling it if its Glock compatible (I say this as someone who owns both a Sig P226 & a Sub2000 in 9mm/Glock).
As an added bonus, Glock makes very reliable high capacity (31rd) mags in 9mm at least. And 9mm out of a 16in barrel essentially becomes a 357sig, which is ample defensive firepower. It's a nifty gun inside of about 150yds...sort of a tamed down AK. There are also Korean 40sw hi-caps available, but they're a little less reliable in the S2K from what I've seen.
Here is the one I carry but after buying it i put a 357 Sig barrel in it The mag & Recoil spring are the same for both. I love it Extremely dependable.
I bought the 226 TacOps in .40 and it's sweet. It's accurate, smooth and came with 4 15-Round SCT mags. I did buy the Bedair stainless steel guide rod to replace the stock rod, and the .357 Sig conversion barrel.
You can't go wrong with the any of the 226s. Enjoy!
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This really stinks for cigarette smokers who bought cigarettes online.
They didn't pay a state sales tax in their state and now the government is coming to them demanding the tax payment
This is happening years after the sales were made and a lot of people don't even smoke any longer but still are asked to pay what is owed.
Some companies offered cigarettes online and they avoided the state tax through this kind of sale but not really.
In Arizona for example the Department of Revenue claims that people who bought this way still owe $20 for every carton of cigarettes they bought online since 2006.
A nice lady from Arizona,
Who thought she would save a few bucks, got a bill for $4,299.20 just for buying cigarettes for a two year period.
Buyers never expected this reaction from the state and are trying to determine how to act.
Some even got phone calls concerning this fiasco.
The problem is if it is only cigarettes then it is limited, but if they expand into all of the sales for various products made by Amazon, EBay etc., then it will become an unbearable fiasco for the whole country.
The Arizona cigarette mess adds up to a luxury tax of 10 cents per cigarette and that means $2.00 a pack, therefore $20.00 a carton.
On top of that they are hit with a use tax of around 6% of the regular sale price of a carton.
The law is a gruesome thing for most folks who can't afford to be hit this hard. Are people now going to avoid all online sales? If you get hit for every purchase that you made online or shipped from one state to another with no sales tax, it could add up to a fortune for some folks.
If you are in business and bought a lot of your tools or product out of state, online, and did not pay tax, that could end up being as high as tens of thousands of dollars and as high as hundreds of thousands of dollars in some cases.


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NCTE has a long history of commitment to the teaching of literature in connection with the teaching of reading, to the use of children's and adolescent literature in a balanced curriculum, to the benefits of a print-rich environment for all students, and to appropriate and thorough preparation of teachers. A disturbing trend, confirmed by a recent Children's Literature Assembly survey, is the elimination of separate courses of study for children's and/or adolescent literature in some teacher education programs.
Teacher education programs must provide the chance for prospective teachers to study a wide selection of books for children and adolescents, including texts from diverse cultures, genres, and historical periods. Such preparation should also involve a broad view of the appropriate and effective uses of this literature in classrooms (e.g., aesthetic appreciation, reader responses) and an understanding of the issues associated with such a curriculum (e.g., challenges to materials, appropriateness of selections, relations to media representations).
To have a meaningful impact on the inclusion of children's and adolescent literature in teacher preparation and certification, NCTE must coordinate its efforts with state education agencies, other professional organizations, and institutions of higher education. Various groups within NCTE have expertise about children's literature, adolescent literature, and teacher preparation. Working together, these groups can draw on the considerable research and scholarship on children's and adolescent literature to craft an effective position statement on preparing and certifying teachers in the use of children's and adolescent literature. Be it therefore
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"The 8th edition of the Lishui Photography Festival and the 2nd edition of the International Photography Seminar will take place from 11 to 15 November 2017 in some twenty venues in the city of Lishui, in the coastal province of Zhejiang, in the south-east of China. Lishui becomes the epicenter of the international photography scene during this five-day event, and attracts thousands of Chinese and international photographers, professionals and amateurs alike, who come here to exhibit their work, to visit, create and exchange with fellow photographers."
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"This group exhibition showcases eerily beautiful photographs by Edward Burtynsky, Mishka Henner and Yvon Lambert, which tell a spooky tale about the exploitation of nature by humankind. "If we destroy nature, we destroy ourselves!", argues Burtynsky. In Artnews, Alex Greenberger sums up Mishka Henner's work "The scariest thing about Mishka Henner's "photographs" is that they are so beautiful". Yvon Lambert's photographs of "industrial sculptures" portray remnants of Luxembourg's steel industry…"
Galerie Clairefontaine, Espace 1
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"This exhibition will feature the series System by Jens Liebchen in dialogue with Hiroyuki Masuyama's series Flowers. In 2014, Hannes Wanderer wrote about System: "Nature only delivered the material for the trees. Position, growth, size and shape have been defined by people and designed down to the smallest detail." In his series Flowers Masuyama creates images that unite all seasons and thereby overrides the cycle of spring, summer, autumn and winter, which has shaped human life for centuries."
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"The images submitted for this competition utilized a wide range of alternative methods, including, albumen, cyanotype, Van Dyke brown, platinum/palladium, photogravure, salt print, tintype, and wet-plate collodion, among others. "
Soho Photo Gallery, 15 White Street, New York, NY 10013
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"memymom is a collaboration between two artists, mother and daughter, who work and live in Brussels. Since 2004, Lisa and Marilène work as adults together under the name memymom. Their cooperation actually started with what they call The Umbilical Vein, when Lisa was still very young and Marilène started to encourage her to express herself theatrically. This resulted in an image archive that contains half-staged dreamscape portraits that developed into a mature conversation that deals not only with metamorphosis and personal identity, but also emerging themes of sensual analysis and tragic romanticism. It reveals both the foundations of the close mother-daughter bond and the professional career of these two artists."
Schilt Gallery Amsterdam
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"Alison Marchant presents a collection of found archival photographs dating back to the 1970s. They depict the interiors of dilapidated stately homes and country cottages.The aged, mottled surface of the photographs echoes the walls and ceilings of the interiors. The dressing table has lost its mirror image, its reflection. These derelict buildings of decaying grander, symbols of inherited prosperity in ruins, also exist as a metaphor for homelessness, swatting and sleeping rough."
The Room
33 Holcombe Road Tottenham Hale London N17 9AS
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Reception: Wednesday, September 13th from 6 to 8pm
"Photographically, we are now talking about far more than we are saying, and envisioning far more than we are seeing. BEYOND SEEING takes us, well, beyond the forms of each composition–although those, too, are always more than meets the eye, transmogrified by the lens into the surreal–to the unconscious recognition that undergirds them. "
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190 Orchard Street
New York, NY 10002
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"No Man's Land offers rarely-seen female perspectives on the First World War, featuring images taken by women who worked as nurses, ambulance drivers, and official photographers, as well as contemporary artists directly inspired by the conflict. Commemorating the First World War Centenary, No Man's Land features photographs by three women of the epoch, alongside three women making work a century later."
Impressions Gallery
Centenary Square, Bradford, BD1 1SD
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"Stephane Dessaint is a photographer, currently based in Ibiza and travels extensively across the world to capture almost all of these beautiful beaches. Names like Ipanema, Copacobana or Cala Valdella and Cala Saldala lead him to photograph intimate and open-ended imagery."
Gate Village 02, DIFC, Sheikh Zayed Road, Dubai, United Arab Emirates
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I Love This!Heaps of fun to watch the foam and feel the grains scrub away the muck on my face! It's definitely the old-school kind of scrub with visible grains, and you don't have to use much - a pea-sized squeeze suffices. It's my Sunday treat and my skin feels very smooth, and my face stays matte for longer. — 7 years, 6 months agodomncroxd | 24 reviews
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Awesome Possum!This exfoliator is the bomb! Very suitable for combination/oily-in-the-T-zone skin. It works well with medium-sized granules that smoothen your pores and eliminates your blackheads as well. My skin feels soft and supple after exfoliating and the smell is sweet ! Worth buying! — 7 years, 5 months agoLavender21 | 1 reviews
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seaweed exfoliationBecause I bought the whole seaweed line, trying out this facial scrub was a must. It comes in a tube, an upside down squeeze tube so ideally I can squeeze all the product out when it's nearly finished. The website says that it isn't soap, so ideally their seaweed exfoliator is less harsh. The first thing I noticed when I was lathering it up on my face was the pleasant smell. The smell was soft...read more and not overwhelming. It doesn't smell like rubber or old paper like their seaweed mattifying day cream. The texture of this facial scrub is light and only the brownish peachy beads give it color, or at least to me it seemed like it. The beads on this exfoliator are bigger and alot more of them compared to the tiny and fewer beads I found in my total effects cream cleanser. Because the beads are bigger and are more in number I don't feel that all of the beads slowly rolling away from may face and go towards the spaces in between my fingers down to my palms like the beads in the olay facial cream cleanser's beads do. The lather isn't too thick either, it's more of the beads that I move around my face until I feel that the wetness is slowly disappearing. I use it about two to three minutes especially around my t zone are where I get alot of black heads, where I am oily, and where my pores are quite visible. The feeling I get after I rinse is a very soft and velvety clean on my face. I am not sure about the exfoliation I actually get because every so often I use a pore tape on my nose to try and lift off black heads. If anything this exfoliator cleanser is a good cleanser. It takes my make up off and if I forget and go over my eyes, it takes off the sticky eyeliner and mascara, too. So I don't see any left over dark gel-creamy crud at the outer corners of my eyes which would be the remnants of my eyeliner and mascara from today's make up. So compared to the olay cream cleanser (with only some beads), I don't do a do over on my eyes to clean any remnant make up, besides, the most exfoliator instructions say not to use this exfoliator on your eyelids anyway. I like the price, too, for once. Because comparing it to Lancome's Exfoliance Clarte, this body shop exfoliator is less than half Lancome's price. Comparing it to olay's cream cleanser's price which is around $9, paying extra for an exfoliator is ok since the product lasts me a great deal, a little goes a very long way. I just write on the bottle the date I opened it so that I know if a year has passed already. The tube tells you how long it is ok to use it by since they put 12M for twelve months on the label for it's expiration. If scrubbing either with loofa or jojoba beads like what the product has, then a few minutes of rubbing this on your face would make it a good scrub or exfoliator. The size of the beads that are on my fingers and face tell me that I am getting a good scrub just like the beads from the St. Ive's apricot scrub only this body shop exfoliator feels softer and more soothing on my face. The body shop exfoliator is not soap based so I like that because it isn't too harsh on my skin. It's a good cleanser, the exfoliation would be up to you depending how long you rub it on your face and neck. — 8 years, 8 months agohathor2 | 18 reviews
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Best exfoliator out thereI use the whole seaweed line, which is produced with community trade seaweed. I use this twice a week and it is the perfect pick me up to dull skin. Smells great and you can actually feel it working. — 8 years, 11 months agoAmberT1327 | 29 reviews
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The Body Shop never fails...I haven't found a product yet that I didn't like from The Body Shop. The seaweed Exfoliator left my skin freshlooking and feeling, reduced the size ofmy pores and gave me a healthy glow. I really liked it. — 9 years, 6 months agojstjme65 | 4 reviews
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Glowin SkinEach time i use this scrub it leaves my face glowing. Its help my dark spots appear lighter and my pores appear smaller. I use the whole line of seaweed products from teh body shop in alteration w/ the tea tree oil line. Majority of the body shop products are great. — 9 years, 10 months agovvelez | 3 reviews
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Elgin's municipal electric aggregation contract with Dynegy is expiring in January 2017. The city will be taking a six-month hiatus to review the municipal electricity market during those months to ensure Elgin residents and small businesses can obtain electricity at the lowest possible cost.
ComEd's supply rates are currently lower than competing municipal electricity suppliers. Elgin residents and small businesses will automatically be switched to ComEd's lower rates in January. Residents and small business owners will experience no changes in their electricity service. Bills will still come from ComEd, but residents will notice a lower rate.
Municipal electric aggregation has been extremely effective in forcing ComEd to reduce its electricity supply rates to competitive levels. When first introduced in 2012, municipalities secured rates beating ComEd's by up to 50 percent. ComEd responded to the market forces, so that just two years later, 102 of the 725 municipalities tracked by the Citizens Utility Board (CUB) had ended their aggregations programs because ComEd supplied electricity at the lowest rate. This past summer, ComEd lowered its June-September supply rates by another 12 percent, making ComEd the lowest cost provider in virtually every market.
CUB was quoted in a Chicago Tribune article from earlier this year, stating, "the alternate suppliers were previously able to undercut ComEd, but the utility shed some high-priced power contracts in recent years and the competitive advantage enjoyed by alternative suppliers were short-circuited. There was a time when it was easy to secure significant savings with an alternative electricity supplier," CUB said, but "the era of easy savings is over in Illinois' electric market."
Elgin residents and small businesses participating in the current aggregation program with Dynegy are paying 6.798 cents per kilowatt-hour for one hundred percent renewable energy. ComEd's current rate is 6.388 cents per kilowatt-hour (kWH) until May 2017. Current one-year market pricing for one hundred percent renewable energy is as high as 11.304 cents per kWh with most suppliers clustered in the 7.00 to 8.50 cents kWh range.
The city will be closely monitoring the municipal electric aggregation marketplace in the coming months in anticipation of a decision on whether ComEd will be able to continue maintaining the competitive advantage it has established over its competitors since 2014.
For residents interested in green energy options, there are still alternative suppliers they can receive services from. According to CUB, this energy typically comes at a higher price. Those suppliers with "Renewable Energy Certificates" produce power from renewable sources like wind. This does not mean the actual power you use comes from a renewable source. Instead the company delivers an amount of renewable energy into the electricity system equal to what you consume.
Background on Elgin's municipal electrical aggregation initiatives:
The city's first municipal electric aggregation program involved a two-year agreement with Direct Energy for 2013 and 2014. The city entered into a two-year agreement at that time because the al-ternate energy market pricing was considerably lower than what ComEd was charging its custom-ers during that time period. At that time, the city was able to save residents approximately 2.5 cents per kilowatt-hour, which was for one hundred percent renewable energy. From the period of August 2012 through March 2014, that generated a savings of $7.6 million in the community.
When the Direct Energy services agreement concluded, the city entered into a one-year agreement with Constellation Energy for 2015 that was the extended for an additional two months, making it a fourteen-month agreement. A shorter length agreement was determined to be the best course of ac-tion with Constellation because of changing market conditions in which ComEd was anticipated to become more competitive in its pricing. The city did not want to lock its electricity rates for a longer period at price levels that did not produce the greatest savings for its residents and small businesses.
Following that, an additional one-year agreement with Dynegy Energy services with the option of one hundred percent renewable energy began in January 2016, with its contract expiration at the end of December 2016. Once again, the city entered into a shorter length agreement because the pric-ing offered by the alternative suppliers was not as significant as it had been before.
If you are still interested in having an alternate supplier other than ComEd, you will need to enter into a contract with an Alternate Retail Electric Supplier (ARES), approved by the Illinois Commerce Commission.
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In 2011 the state legislature passed a law allowing municipalities to "pool" the buying power of their communities to seek lower cost suppliers on behave of their residents. In the spring of 2012, the voters of Elgin voted on and passed a referendum allowing for Elgin to begin a municipal electric aggregation program. As a result of the City Council's interest in saving the citizens money, we began our first contract in the fall of 2012.
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This easy ride follows the historic Paeroa to Waihi rail line passing old mining relics and buildings and through a 1kilometre rail tunnel.
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South Africa Trade Liberalization and Poverty in a Dynamic Microsimulation CGE Model
South Africa has undergone significant trade liberalization since the end of apartheid. Average protection has fallen while openness has increased. However, economic growth has been insufficient to make inroads into the high unemployment levels. Poverty levels have also risen. The country's experience presents an interesting challenge for many economists that argue that trade liberalization is pro-poor and pro-growth. This study investigates the short and long term effects of trade liberalization using a dynamic microsimulation computable general equilibrium approach. Trade liberalization has been simulated by a complete removal of all tariffs on imported goods and services, and by a combination of tariff removal and an increase of total factor productivity. The main findings are that a complete tariff removal on imports has negative welfare and poverty reduction impacts in the short run which turns positive in the long term due to the accumulation effects. When the tariff removal simulation is combined with an increase of total factor productivity, the short and long run effects are both positive in terms of welfare and poverty reduction. The mining sector (highest export orientation) is the biggest winner from the reforms while the textiles sector (highest initial tariff rate) is the biggest loser. African and Colored households gain the most in terms of welfare and numbers being pulled out of absolute poverty by trade liberalization.
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- François Bourguignon & William H. Branson & Jaime de Melo, 1989. "Macroeconomic Adjustment and Income Distribution: A Macro-Micro Simulation Model," OECD Development Centre Working Papers 1, OECD Publishing.
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First-time novelist Michael Thomas won the 'world's richest literary prize' for his novel, "Man Gone Down." The author (pictured, photographed by Ben Russell) won 100,000 Euros in the International IMPAC Dublin Literary Award yesterday.
The Boston native now lives in New York with his wife and three children, and his book faced stiff international competition with 145 titles, nominated by 157 public libraries from 41 countries.
The judges had this statement: "We never know his name. But the African-American protagonist of Michael Thomas' masterful debut, "Man Gone Down," will stay with readers for a long time. He lingers because this extraordinary novel comes to us from a writer of enthralling voice and startling insight. Tuned urgently to the way we live now, the winner of the International Dublin IMPAC Prize 2009 is a novel brilliant in its scope and energy, and deeply moving in its human warmth."


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There's this weird meme that keeps popping up on Twitter where a bunch of pictures of bread products are placed next to pictures of animals that look like them.
NPR reports that the meme was created by Karen Zack, who tweets under the name @teenybiscuit.
The first one we saw, "muffin or chihuahua?" seems to have been created by Zack:
chihuahua or muffin ? pic.twitter.com/LzZ1lwoVrP — karen zack (@teenybiscuit) March 10, 2016
puppy or bagel ? pic.twitter.com/OMse97hlTn — karen zack (@teenybiscuit) March 8, 2016
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