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Ahmed Djoghlaf highlights linkages between biodiversity and climate change.
9 September 2010: On the occasion of the 15th World Clean Air Congress, organized by the International Union of Air Pollution Prevention and Environmental Protection Associations (IUAPPA) from 12-16 September 2010, in Vancouver, Canada, Ahmed Djoghlaf, Executive Secretary of the Convention on Biological Diversity (CBD), highlighted the linkages between biodiversity and climate change.
Djoghlaf stressed that pollution and climate change are two of the main drivers of biodiversity loss. He noted that ecosystems can play a significant role in mitigating climate change through enhanced carbon sequestration and storage, and provided examples of land management practices that can effectively contribute to mitigation. [The Statement]


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Pistons take UNT's Tony Mitchell in 2nd round
University of North Texas forward Tony Mitchell was taken by the Detroit Pistons with the 37th overall pick - the seventh selection in the second round - in Thursday's NBA draft.
Mitchell, 21, attended the draft in Brooklyn with North Texas head coach Tony Benford, a move usually made by players anticipating a first-round selection. Second round picks do not receive guaranteed contracts.
After the selection was announced, Mitchell, who was sporting a black suit, with a black tie and black dress shirt, shook hands with NBA deputy commissioner Adam Silver on stage at the Barclays Center, the home of the Brooklyn Nets.
Mitchell became the highest draft pick in Mean Green history and the first UNT player selected in the NBA draft since the Mavericks took John Horrocks in the fourth round in 1984.
The 6-9, 236-pounder chose to leave North Texas after his sophomore season, averaging 13.7 points and 9.3 rebounds during two seasons in Denton. Mitchell also set the Mean Green's career blocked shots record with 157.
Mitchell was a finalist for the Lou Henson Award for the mid-major player of the year in 2011-12, when he averaged 14.7 points as a freshman. That season, he was one of two freshmen to average a double-double - the other was Kentucky's Anthony Davis, the No. 1 pick in the draft in 2012.
The former Pinkston star was named SportsDay's 2010 high school player of the year.

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Successful and committed charities require an equally successful and committed board of directors. The YMCA of Simcoe/Muskoka has fourteen unique, committed and remarkable people, all volunteers, drawn from the communities we serve. Each work to ensure our Y fulfills its mission and achieves its work for our constituent communities and for the region of Simcoe Muskoka.
The YMCA of Simcoe/Muskoka Board of Directors
Diana Vangelisti, Chair – Registered Professional Planner
Andrew Lorriman, Vice Chair – Wealth Management Advisor & Branch Manager, National Bank Financial
Ian Veitch, Past Chair – Owner, IV Life Financial
Brianna Brickles – Housing clerk, County of Simcoe
Anna Cheaney – Associate Advisor, RBC/Dominion Securities
Caitlin Foisy – Account Manager, Switch Video
Stella Gan – Part Owner and Director of Sales and Marketing for Liberty Hospitality Corporation
Norah Holder – Vice President of Patient Care and Chief of Nursing at Collingwood General and Marine Hospital
Pat Hurley – CFO, Orillia Power Corporation
Jeff Long – Registered Social Worker
Richard Kelly – Retired VP, Human Resources
Lynn Strachan – Project Manager, Barrie Pathways to End Homelessness
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Pregnancy: What to Expect Week 26 -- Momnesia
It's been called "mommy brain" and "momnesia" and at week 26 of your pregnancy, you might be experiencing it – that forgetfulness of everyday things. Whether it's real is a matter of some debate. Some offer biological explanations, others blame pregnancy insomnia. Dawn Siff explains how you can combat it in this Parenticity: Growing and Glowing segment.


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Chico >> School districts throughout California, including the Chico Unified School District, are facing major changes in how the state is funding education, and this week the Chico school board will devote a workshop meeting to understanding a significant element to the system.
Wednesday the CUSD board of trustees will meet in the Pleasant Valley High School library for a community session on the "Local Control Accountability Plan."
According to the state Department of Education, the previous K–12 funding system has been replaced by a program called the "Local Control Funding Formula," which creates a base revenue amount for a district.
Each district is required to show how funding will meet certain standards and particularly serve "targeted students," including those classified as English learners, individuals eligible to receive a free or reduced-price meal, foster youth, or any combination of these factors.
Part of the process includes the creation of an LCAP by the school district.
Wednesday's workshop will be "a full community meeting, with community members, certificated staff, classified staff" and the trustees, according to the agenda.
The LCAP is supposed to identify what the district will do to meet the state's eight priorities, which include "student achievement, pupil outcomes, parent involvement, student engagement, school climate, basic services, implementation of academic content and performance standards, and course access."
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I found this ref looking up pics of homeless people. I think it is terrible that there indeed homeless people. Think my next job I will work with the homeless.
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Well drawn Jeanette - It is very sad. Those of us who have a home are very blessed indeed. Thanks for bringing this to our attention! To appreciate what we have and try to help those who do not have.
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The California Department of Transportation will begin a five-month improvement project Monday along the Santa Ana (5) Freeway south corridor as part of a $380 million expansion project in Santa Fe Springs.
The work on the High Occupancy Vehicle lanes and the Carmenita Road Bridge entails setting about 2,500 steel piles into the ground.
The work schedule will be 7 a.m. to 5 p.m. each weekday and will continue through April 2013, weather permitting, officials said.
The staging area for the project equipment and crane will be within a Caltrans construction zone at the intersection of Firestone Boulevard, west of Carmenita Road, adjacent southbound I-5.
According to officials, the piles will provide structural support for the new 10-lane concrete Carmenita Road Bridge. Workers will construct one car-pool and one general purpose lane in each direction from Alondra Boulevard to Shoemaker Avenue, realign and upgrade adjacent frontage roads, construct new diamond- style ramps, and reconstruct the bridge from its existing two lanes to 10 lanes.
Although the pile-driving work does not require any freeway lane, ramp or local street closures at this time, commuters are encouraged to allow extra time to reach their destination. Carmenita Road and the Carmenita Road Bridge will remain open during construction.
For more information about this project, call the I-5 toll- free hotline at 855-454- 6335 or go to I-5info.com.
For traffic information and travel times, go to Caltrans Quick Map http://quickmap.dot.ca.gov/.


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Police are actively investigating five burglaries, which occurred at various locations in the borough during daytime hours, when residents were not at home.
Homeowners should be sure to lock doors and windows and secure valuable items in a secure place, if possible.
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> Ed Brown wrote: > > Thanks for any guidance on the following issue: > > I am running PostgreSQL 7.2.1 on redhat, accessing from Windows 2000 > Professional. I installed ODBC psqlodbc-07_02_0001.zip off the web > site. I have a data upload application written in Delphi which moves > data from an Access table. I've used it at least ten times with an > Interbase database, and have run something on the order of half a > million records through it without apparent errors. It composes a > statement of the form. > > Insert into <Table> Fields<Field1,Field2,Field3,...> Values > (?,?,?,...); > > It prepares the statement and then executes it for each record in the > Access table. On one table with about 33,000 record and twenty-some > fields it works fine. On another table with 11 fields and about 6,000 > records it fails. It fails to execute the query, and returns an error, > usually of the form > ERROR: parser: parse error at or near "(" Could you check the server side log(debug mode if possible) and see what query issued exactly at the error ? > Also: does anyone know, am I saving any time by using a prepared > statement? It appears that the driver is just holding the statement > and inserting the parameters, then passing to the server. Is that > correct? Yes. Unfortuantely there's no prepare functionality in PostgreSQL yet and so the psqlodbc driver has little to do with SQLPrepare. regards, Hiroshi Inoue http://w2422.nsk.ne.jp/~inoue/
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EUGENE MARTIN, for many years one of the best known and most highly esteemed citizens of Carlinville, Macoupin County, died at his home in this city on March 6, 1902, his death being mourned sincerely as a loss to the community. He was born near Leon, France, February 14, 1834, and was a son of Epolite and Julia Martin. His father was a mill owner in that country and a prosperous man, although his death occurred at a very early age.
Eugene Martin was but seven years of age when his father died. He obtained his intellectual training in the schools of Paris, then learned the trade of a miller which he followed in his native country until 1854. In that year he came to the United States, being the only member of his family to locate in this country. He landed in New Orleans, then came up the river by boat to St. Louis, Missouri. On account of ill health he returned to France, but again came to this country during the Civil War. As transports were not allowed up the Mississippi River to St. Louis, Mr. Martin was compelled to remain in New Orleans. He obtained employment as an engineer and continued at that work until the war was at an end, then immediately came up the river to St. Louis. There he met and married Amelia Forney, and they continued to reside in that city for two and a half years, Mr. Martin during this time following engineering. They later moved to Trenton, Illinois, where they lived little more than a year, and in 1868 came to Carlinville, where he thereafter lived until his death. For a period of 20 years he was engaged as engineer for the Weir Milling Company, the plant being later acquired by the firm of Yeager & Cupless. It was while in the employ of the last-named firm he met with an accident, which was ultimately The cause of his death. He was a man much respected by all who knew him, and was highly skilled in his line of business, always having the confidence and good will of those who employed him and were associated with him. Although a Republican in politics, he was broad and liberal minded, and in local politics was free to vote for the man best qualified for the particular office, irrespective of parties.
Mr. Martin was a prominent member of Mount Nebo Lodge, No. 76, A.F. & A.M., and his last wishes were that he be buried under the auspices of that order. His relict who now resides in her pleasant home on West Main street is a woman of many virtues and is well loved by her many friends in Carlinville. She is a devout member of St. Mary's Catholic Church. To Mr. and Mrs. Martin was born one son, Oscar E. S., who died while his parents were living at Trenton, Illinois. They adopted a son, George Lenhart, who now bears the name of Martin. He married Minnie Clark, a native of Macoupin County. He is a traveling salesman and is also manager of the Carlinville Opera House, and is a young man who has many friends in this section of the State.


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Canada-based Artificial Mind & Movement (A2M) announced today it has changed its name to Behaviour Interactive and confirmed development of Wet 2 and Naughty Bear 2.
The change is a return to the name the company was formerly known by when it was a small upstart developer of PlayStation games in the 90s.
More interesting to gamers is confirmation of Wet and Naughty Bear sequels.
"Wet 2 (multi-platform), Naughty Bear 2 (multi-platform), Doritos Crash Course (XBLA) as well as Rango (multi-platform), which was announced by EA and Paramount Digital Entertainment on November 4th, are all currently in development at Behaviour," said Jamie Leece, senior vice president of business development. "We have just completed Sims 3 (Wii), and are also working on several unannounced games for Xbox 360 video game and entertainment system, PlayStation 3 computer entertainment system, Nintendo's Wii and DS systems, Xbox Live Arcade, PlayStation Network, next generation handhelds, a Facebook game to be launched in November and a Casual MMO to be launched early next year."
There's no info on Wet 2 and Naughty Bear 2 at this time.
Wet, published by Bethesda, was released in September 2009 and debuted at No.6 in the All Formats UK video game chart. The game was awarded a 6/10.
Naughty Bear was released in the summer to widespread criticism - 3/10 here on VideoGamer.com - but the game proved a solid seller for publisher 505.


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Consider child's best interest when starting new relationships
Q: I'm newly divorced, having split with my ex-husband just over a year ago. He told me this week that he is considering dating one of my closest friends ("Anne") who is a huge part of my 5-year-old daughter's life, practically an aunt to her. They've been spending a lot more time together, with my daughter, and he said they've discussed dating.
Setting aside the fact that I feel like I would be losing a very close friend (on whose shoulder I cried when we split), I am really concerned about my daughter. He doesn't have a great track record; I was wife No. 2. If they don't work out, my daughter would lose someone she adores. As long as she could talk, it was always "My Daddy," "My Mommy" and "My Anne."
I want both of them to be happy, but I feel like he's being selfish and not thinking about our daughter, let alone my feelings. I'm internally screaming at him while externally saying, "Be careful, don't tell our daughter yet," etc. Any suggestions on how to handle it?
A: Yours is an extreme case, but it is fairly common that when you're struggling the most to do something the right way — raise your child, do your job, manage your home, etc. — that's when people do something that makes you want to say, "A little help here, please!" I mean, for your ex and your best friend to throw you an emotional sucker-punch and a new parenting challenge just as you're trying to get a 5-year-old through her parents' divorce? Wow.
Yet no matter how desperate you are for an ideal outcome, you're still stuck without any control over anything except: 1. your actions; 2. your reaction to others' actions; 3. your ability to articulate what you want while respecting the boundaries set out by 1 and 2.
From your question, it sounds as if you haven't talked to Anne about this. You are entitled to explain to her: "I can't tell two adults what to do with their feelings, but I can, as (daughter's) mom (let's call her Boo, a la Monsters Inc.), ask you to make your choices with Boo's needs in mind."
One reason to keep beating back your rancor is that Ex and Anne might well go the distance — who knows, right? — and that would give Boo three adults who love her. If past is indeed prologue, these three would be willing to work together to raise her.
This willfully adult approach would also give Anne a blueprint for doing the same, which is the best chance she'll remain your friend through this. Complicated dances are much easier with instructions, right?
Finally, don't let the understandable agony of this distract you from your main job, which is to provide steady, loving care to Boo. You can't control external (flak) storms, but you can give your child a model for how to weather (flak) storms, which is one of the most valuable gifts you can give.
That's why none of this is to be mistaken for a mandate to be perfect and/or unemotional. You can have and show feelings during a tough time. Just be sure also to show that feelings don't have to control you.


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- Finding the position of tumor inhomogeneities in a gel-like model of a human breast using 3-D pulsed digital holographyMaria Del Socorro Hernandez-Montes
Centro de Investigaciones en Optica, A C, Loma del Bosque 115, Col Lomas del Campestre León, Guanajuato, México 37150
J Biomed Opt 12:024027. 2007..Depth position is found with an error smaller than 1%. The inhomogeneity and its position within the gel can be accurately found, making the method a promising noninvasive alternative to study mammary tumors...
- Optoelectronic holographic otoscope for measurement of nano-displacements in tympanic membranesMaria Del Socorro Hernández-Montes
Worcester Polytechnic Institute, Department of Mechanical Engineering and Center for Holographic Studies and Laser micro mechaTronics, Worcester, Massachusetts 21202, USA
J Biomed Opt 14:034023. 2009..Representative time-averaged and stroboscopic holographic interferometry results in animals and human cadaver samples are shown, and their potential utility is discussed...
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STEVE CHIOTAKIS: Let's get some reaction to today's big sell-off. Josh Brown is a financial adviser at Fusion Analytics. He's with us live now from New York. Good morning Josh.
JOSH BROWN: Hey, how's it going?
CHIOTAKIS: You tell me? Has Wall Street decided we're in a recession again?
BROWN: Wall Street hasn't, and they never will until we're about half-way through. But some of us have begun to tick-up our expectations for a recession.
CHIOTAKIS: What's going on?
BROWN: Well, it's not really a shock because the data -- deteriorating for months if not quarter now -- but it all of a sudden started to matter very recently. Jobs aren't coming back. In the meantime, every major Wall Street firm is starting to slash their expectations for 2011 GDP and the Euro headlines continue to get worse. So between those three factors it's just become a full-on panic.
CHIOTAKIS: But, we've been hearing this over and over again, right? Is this just been bubbling under the surface and then wham?
BROWN: Well, it's funny, people say why does Europe matter all of a sudden? Weren't we worried about this in the summer of 2010? The answer is, in 2010, Greece was able to sell bonds for an 8 percent interest rate -- now Greek bonds are yielding 30 percent. There is a huge deterioration that took place between then and now. We were able to ignore it, because the Fed was injecting liquidity directly into the banks -- directly into asset prices. So we were able to kind of skate by. Now the Fed is not doing that any longer -- and what you're seeing on your screen today is what the market looks like, beyond that intervention.
CHIOTAKIS: Josh Brown from Fusion Analytics in New York. Josh, thanks.
BROWN: My pleasure.


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Well I had earlier been on CC freaking out about the prospect of having to try and pull off soimething similar to the amazing cross cake attached that I am donating to our church for a celebration. Anyway, I have informed them as I am a novice they shouldn't have their hopes up to high as my skills aren't in the same league!
Anyway, the latest is that they have decided that they want it all brown - we discussed that maybe the piping (which I am terrible at) might be able to be in a different colour, they thought maybe cream, I was thinking maybe pale pink or blue? What do you guys think? Your input would be appreciated
I think if it were pastel pink or blue, I would think more of a baby's christening or something. I think I would stick with cream.
BROWN!!!!! How ugly would that be! I also think that pink or blue would look like a baby shower, etc. Cream with taupe or beige and white would be elegant. BROWN?????
I would think that with all that piping on there if done in a light color, on a brown background any "flaws" will be very noticeable. And if I were unsure about my piping skills, which quite honestly I am, I would try to steer them more in the direction of 2 colors that are pretty close like Peridot suggested...cream with taupe or beige and white. Just my opinion.
Good luck
Besides many rows of a beaded border, it is just vines with random flowers. I don't think the piping is going to be as hard as you think. Icing that monster is! Good luck. Agree with blue or pink looking like a baptism or shower cake. I like the entire cross being cream. Looks very GRAND and elegant.
I vote for cream. (Maybe a very very light yellow)
I know what ya mean about the brown - the lady who I was dealing with was horrified but she said she was out-voted by the rest of the committee. Was kinda funny! The celebration is in honour of Mary McKillop (who our church is named after) who is being made a saint and was in a group of nuns called the "brown joeys" in Australia I think, called so because they all wore brown. Hence them wanting the cross to be brown.
I'd have the silly inclination to incorporate a 'Roo into the overall cake design. But I'm weird like that.
Voted cream, also. Although brown's an important color to them it's more elegant to have cream.
I think it would be gorgeous in chocolate on chocolate scrollwork.
Voted cream, also. Although brown's an important color to them it's more elegant to have cream.
I am going to definately do it brown because it has special meaning to them but its just the piping that I wasn't sure about - just wondered if I could incorporate a little bit more colour into it somehow that way. I thought maybe if I did cream piping on the brown and maybe make some wee cream roses to put around the base or something??? But maybe brown on brown would be better. Ever get that sinking feeling that the cake is doomed look horrendous LOL!!!!
I would do the cross in a light brown (it's still brown ) with cream or taupe piping. If they haven't specified the shade, just make it a bit paler. I think brown on brown might be a bit dark.
I think it would be gorgeous in chocolate on chocolate scrollwork.
I am with Nancy on this one! Chocolate brown, with chocolate scrollwork and even a chocolate candy clay bow would look amazing! Or to add the cream color in, do a cream candy clay bow!It is all in the way you decorate it. Good luck and can't wait to see the pics!
I agree that chocolate on chocolate is beautiful. The texture of the piping will show up fine and the overall effect will be very appealing -- chocolate always looks wonderful.


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Well, he did in 1987. Remembering back to what I was thinking about in 1987 (needless to say, it was not computers), none of this stuff would have even been remotely on my mind. Four years later I would be buying a car that had the kind of windows you had to crank up and down. Hey! I was still worried about trying to pay the rent...or finding a place to rent and then worrying about how to try to pay for it. Finding a job and then finding a place to rent and then...nevermind.
Would you have even known the words to use to describe your predictions? Words like "online". I'm sure I had never uttered it in 1987. Plat panel. This all would have sounded very sci-fi to me then. Now it sounds kind of quaint and some of it pretty accurate.


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Gretchen Wilson's 'Last' Thought Could Mine Grammy Gold
Gretchen Wilson is thankful for a woman's right to change her mind.
The country songbird released 'I Got Your Country Right Here,' her first album on her own label, Redneck Records, last year. The 11-track CD includes the song 'I'd Love to Be Your Last,' which was a last-minute addition to the album — and has now earned the singer a Grammy nomination for Best Country Song.
"It wasn't originally on the album," Gretchen tells Nashville's Tennessean newspaper. "We listened to the mastered version of the record and we thought it was missing something."
The song, penned by hit tunesmith Rivers Rutherford, had been stuck in Gretchen's head for years, while she waited for the right opportunity to put it on one of her recordings. While it may seem an unlikely placement — the final song on the CD, positioned immediately after an aggresive, rock-infused tune — the singer-songwriter says that's what made it the perfect place.
"It's an acoustic [guitar] and a vocal and we put one cello part on it later," she explains. "I believed the lyric was all it took to make that song. It just tickled me pink to know that the lyric carried it all the way to a Grammy nomination. It didn't have to be dazzling, and it didn't have to have a bunch of reverb or 400 tracks on it or spend 12 weeks at No. 1 at radio. It didn't even have to be released as a single. It just amazes me. I'm just so shocked and overwhelmed."
Gretchen's song is the only Best Country Song nominee this year that wasn't a single. Others in the category include 'The Breath You Take,' by George Strait, 'Free' by the Zac Brown Band, Miranda Lambert's 'The House That Built Me,' 'If I Die Young' by the Band Perry and Lady Antebellum's 'Need You Now.'


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Selena Gomez will be picking up the mic for this year's WE Day.
The songstress has been announced as the 2017 host for WE Day California, while a bevy of famous faces, including Demi Lovato, Alicia Keys and Miss Piggy, will be in attendance to honor the special day. The organization aims to bring together thousands of local change-makers, speakers and performers on April 27 to celebrate their commitment to advocating for social issues. For Gomez, who has attended before, the inspirational event has had a lasting impact.
"My first WE Day experience was 3 years ago and to say I was impressed is an understatement," she said in a statement. "The electricity of an arena full of thousands of young people who are making real change in the world is like nothing I've ever experienced. I am grateful to be a part of such a supportive community and hope I can inspire the kids at WE Day just as they continue to inspire me."
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Miss Piggy is also excited to attend for a variety of reasons. "On WE Day, moi gets to be a role model and meet all of the incredibly strong, smart and dedicated youth who are changing the world. It's a chance for us to come together, celebrate their accomplishments, inspire others...and, of course, pose for selfies," the muppet said in a statement.
In addition to uniting inspirational youth, WE Day also supports the efforts of students participating in WE Schools, an educational program that encourages students to take social action and affect change locally and abroad.
"By pushing themselves and others to find their inner voice, young people at WE Day are finding a collective strength, realizing that together We have the power to make a difference," Keys said in a statement. "This is the dream realized!!"
For more information on the event and how to participate in WE Day, visit the program's website here.


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The Winter Thief
Set in 1888, White's gripping third thriller to feature Turkish detective Kamil Pasha (after The Abyssinian Proof ) will appeal to fans of Laura Joh Rowland's Japanese historical series. Like Rowland's hero, Kamil serves as a special investigator for his country's ruler (in his case, the sultan of the Ottoman empire), and he must compete for influence with a ruthless and powerful rival. The discovery of a shipment of illegal arms and an explosion and robbery at the Imperial Ottoman Bank compound the sultan's fears about threats to his rule. The challenges mount for Kamil when Vahid, the vicious head of the secret police, frames him for murder before Kamil can go to the Choruh Valley to find out whether a socialist commune is actually a base for revolutionaries. Vahid plots to gain even more control over the empire by being put in charge of a new intelligence service. While there's no mystery about who committed the crimes, the atmospherics and period detail are first-rate. (Mar.)
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You carry around your twig on game days like it's a newborn child - you stare at it, tape it, shave it - you love your stick, it's a part of you and your game. Off the ice in the summers, you put down the stick for a new weapon - your golf driver. You take care of it the same way you would your twig - and you don't even hesitate for a moment to protect it with a classy hockey head cover with your favorite team colors represented in your golf bag - just an all around beauty.


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This past weekend I attended the memorial for a very dear friend and amazing individual, Richard Twiss. Richard, who was a descendent of the Sioux and Lakota tribes of South Dakota, was a scholar, writer, speaker and thought leader. Richard was also a follower of Jesus.
Richard was both one of the most personable and charismatic individuals I've ever met. He had a way about him. I've never known someone so authentic and full of love as to make everyone he spent time with feel unique, special and valuable. Richard was also one of the sharpest prophetic voices I've ever heard. He was unyielding with logic and his respect for truth. He was hard as nails when it came to excuses from others who would try to compromise truth. Truth, for Richard, was unwavering.
If I was able to ask Richard today how best to honor him, I know that — after talking about his concern for his wife, kids, and grandkids — he would expect me to use my voice to speak truth.
In fact, I think it would confuse Richard if I, or any of his other friends, left unspoken his arguments, his call and his critique of modern American Christian culture on behalf of indigenous people and other people groups who have been marginalized or oppressed.
One of these areas of injustice where Richard helped open my eyes and shape my thinking is the problem of power structures and the differences in opportunity within the evangelical world with white males on one end of the spectrum, and minorities and women on the other.
An area where this shows up prominently is in the lack of diversity on the main stage and on the roster of teachers and presenters at Christian conferences and events. In fact, Richard and my relationship began on this issue as he challenged and exhorted me with regard to The Justice Conference when it was in its infancy.
All one has to do to see the lack of diversity at conferences is to open up the latest of any number of Christian magazines and look at the full-page conference ads. It won't take long and you won't have to look far for the lack of diversity in speakers to become apparent.
It can be hard for organizers to include other voices in planning as well as get outside their comfortable circle of friends (who often look and think a lot like they do) and find a diversity of voices who can also speak on issues of theology, justice, leadership, and any host of religious and evangelical topics.
Speaker diversity was never an issue I felt was my responsibility to champion. I'm not Hispanic and my kids, who watch "Dora the Explorer" on TV, know more Spanish than I do. I'm not Native American, even though I live an hour away from one of the largest reservations in the Northwest. At the end of the day, even though I'm the son of an immigrant, I'm still western and white. As much as I have cared about this issue and wanted to support my friends, I've always felt like my lack of ethnicity made this a topic to which I couldn't authentically speak.
I don't feel that way anymore.
In addition to reflecting on Richard's legacy in my life, I've grown increasingly aware in the last few days of the sheer magnitude of conferences without diverse representation. I look at the ads online or in magazines and am beginning to understand in a deeper way how this hit Richard and how it appears to many of my ethnic friends.
I've begun to realize that this needs to be my issue, not simply in support of my friends or because it is true, but also because I am a white man. I'm realizing, like has always been the case with civil rights and public equality, there needs to be a plurality of voices speaking to the issue of diversity including voices who are learning and being challenged as they go. To acknowledge truth, Richard might say, comes with the ethical imperative to join its chorus.
Helping build diverse speaker platforms is something I need to work harder on. It is something we all need to work harder on. For most of us, this is a topic we've never really thought much about.
Ultimately, however, the lack of diversity in conference planning, speaking, and organizational leadership isa justice issue. It reaffirms and reinforces the stereotype that only white faces are smart enough, creative enough, and powerful enough to teach, lead, and inspire the body of Christ.
Neglecting ethnic and gender diversity as a predetermined and responsible value is a subtle way of creating or perpetuating a form of class distinction whereby non-white men and women by implication, come off as inferior or "less than." Not only does it deprive young people of various ethnicities and young girls of heroes to learn from and aspire to, it also robs white Christians from being exposed to countless heroes and heroines from different cultures and backgrounds they need to see and learn from. Lack of diversity hurts some and affects everyone.
In this conversation, the push back can sound something like: "What about the great number of quality white male voices that people need to hear from that will have to be eliminated if we limit how many white speakers can be at a conference?" The answer is, what about the great number of people of color and women who we need to hear from who have already been eliminated because we haven't given them the same opportunities for exposure? To perpetuate a system we inherit is the same as creating the system anew for those who come after us. To pass along is to create. We are either building a diverse representation of leaders for a diverse church or we are facilitating a poor and unjust representation of a dominant culture church.
Richard Twiss taught me a lot this way. He argued that after 400 years of missions work with Native American communities, most evangelicals can neither name a single Native leader nor have ever seen or heard a Native speaker at a national level conference. This, by any and all standards, would seem like a failure of leadership development and empowerment. Such epic bottom-line failure certainly couldn't last in the business world! The simple logic of this still haunts and challenges me. What is it about the structures and the nature of the conversation that would either preclude or discourage the development of prominent Christian voices from within the Native American Christian community or any other ethnic minority?
The truth, for many white male evangelicals, like myself, is that this conversation is scary. It means an increase in competition for speaking engagements or leadership opportunities. It can feel unfair. The truth, however painful, is that the increase in competition and difficulty to be heard will only feel the way it has for all other groups till now.
I'm not trying to be down on white men. I'm trying to be up on equality. It's not that white men with something to say are bad. It's not that all conferences get it wrong, either. It's that I'm learning as a conference organizer, the need to seek diverse representation in decision making and leadership as well as the necessity to avoid the mistake of looking only to one subgroup of people when slotting speakers. To the degree we do, we are consciously or unconsciously discriminating and thereby doing a disservice to the Kingdom.
Of course, diversity doesn't trump competency, character, or having a message. All leaders and teachers have and should have a high bar of accountability with regard to teaching and influence. It's just that we need to operate with the theologically confident belief that God has developed and will surface credible, diverse, and dynamic voices to lead us into a fuller, more equitable, and more representational picture of the body of Christ.
I'm not an expert on race. My background isn't in diversity or reconciliation. I am personally growing and being challenged in these areas. I can, however, as much as anyone else, use my voice for what is right and just. Like Richard, we all need to be willing to speak straightforward truth and stand alongside our brothers and sisters made equal in the image of God saying, "We can do better. We must do better!"
Ken Wytsma is the founder of The Justice Conference and author of Pursuing Justice: The Call to Live and Die for Bigger Things.
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A second man has been found guilty of the murder of Grimsby pensioner Alf Wilkins.
The jury at Hull Crown Court returned a majority verdict on 40-year-old Ian Lawless on Wednesday.
Lawless, of Conway Avenue, Grimsby, was found guilty by a ten to two majority of the murder of Mr Wilkins.
The 67-year-old died in a fire at his flat on Grimsby's Yarborough Estate in February 2001.
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Earlier this week Lawless's godson Gary Lawson was found guilty of starting the fire in Arundel Walk, and convicted of murder.
Mr Wilkins had been cleared of an indecency charge against a young girl, but the court was told he had been harassed by local people because of the accusation.
The jury will now resume its deliberations on a charge of incitement to commit murder against Gary Fairbanks.
Mr Fairbanks, 43, of Ludlow Avenue, is charged with incitement to murder and threats to destroy property.
Retired merchant seaman Mr Wilkins had been cleared of indecent assault charges against a nine-year-old girl but been subjected to taunts and abuse following his trial.
Lawson's girlfriend, Chantelle Day, 17, of Haven Gardens, Grimsby, has been convicted of conspiracy to cause grievous bodily harm in the case.
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Chart Check: Where are We At After Recession's End
Now that the high priests have spoken, officially dating the death of the recession in June 2009, we can compare exactly where the market is in this stage of the recovery, with previous post recession performances.
And by "we," we mean the good folks over at Birinyi Associates, who put together a nice little chart on how the stock market is doing.
It's a simple chart just showing where the stock market was 14 months after the "official" end of some of our recent recessions. (We're currently about fourteen months away from our most recent trough.) The takeaway, from Birinyi:
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Councillors visiting Burnham Water Recycling Centre queried whether proposed new homes would overload the sewage works.
Visiting the Wick Road site on May 29, Councillors Neil, Matthew and Louise Pudney, Una Norman and Ron Pratt raised questions about why 18 tankers travel up Station Road, between Burnham and Tilbury, each week.
According to owners Anglian Water, transporting the waste to Tilbury makes the treatment process the most efficient possible.
Mayor Ron Pratt said: "It was a brilliant trip, they showed us the entire place, it allayed a lot of my fears about there being sufficient capacity for sewage if we get the new homes.
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In the CONCACAF Gold Cup Final, Mexico and USA contest a widely predicted final, the Mexicans bet365's 6/4 jollies in Pasadena.
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Technologically advanced, with extensive electronic control systems for traction and dynamics, yet still focused and track-bred, the 2012 BMW M3 straddles the grand touring and sports car genres. Despite the high-tech equipment, the 2012 M3 carries forward the E92 and E93 Coupe and Convertible, even though the next-generation F30 3-Series is available in non-M form. No M3 sedan is offered this year.
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At one point, I was 80 lbs heavier than now, but I lost the weight slowly and have kept it off for 4 years. If I pinch an inch of skin towards my underarm, the tops of my arms look somewhat normal. Any ideas for treatment? Even when it's 100 degrees out, I wear long sleeves.


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If you read any of the update posts from the second case study – the Community Marketing Challenge – you probably already know that I'm a big fan of blog commenting as a way to build your initial readership quickly. So today, I want to go a little more in depth on this topic to show you why I love it so much and how you can implement this technique effectively into your own affiliate marketing business.
First things first, for those of you who are new to the industry, blog commenting means visiting related blogs in your niche and leaving comments on posts with a link back to your site. The idea is that leaving helpful, insightful comments on someone else's work will encourage readers to come back to your site through the link to your site. At the same time, you're building backlinks to your website from relevant websites that will help your off-page SEO.
Now, a couple of cautions right off the bat. Blog commenting isn't a "quick and easy" way to get visitors to your websites. Although there are programs you can use that will auto-submit blog comments for you, it's best to do them yourself, by hand, from an ethical standpoint. But doing them yourself involves searching out related, authority blogs, reading and digesting the content, writing and leaving the comment, and then following up to be sure it was approved (if you're commenting on a moderated blog).
Yes, you can speed some of this up – maybe you only look for blogs that auto-approve comments, or maybe you identify a set of blogs that you always comment on so that you're not spending time searching for new places to post. But at the end of the day, it's still one of the most time-consuming, labor-intensive promotional methods out there.
So why bother? Well, in my opinion, blog commenting is one of the best ways to get your site in front of actual eyeballs for as little financial investment as possible. Think about it – if your primary traffic generation strategy is to build up backlinks in order to get your site ranked high in the SERPs, there's likely going to be a delay until you can get your site to the top spot. If you rely on this strategy exclusively, it could be a long time until visitors actually start showing up on your site.
When you post a comment on a popular blog, people will see the link to your site right away. And if you leave a good comment, you've created even more of an incentive for these readers to click away and come to your site. In a single day, you can grab the same number of readers that you could pull in after several weeks of working on improving your rankings.
Two other great things about blog commenting – it's completely free to do and it results in the backlinks that will help your site get noticed in the long term.
Personally, when I'm first starting out with a website, I'm wary of pouring a ton of money into it until I know that it's going to convert. I don't want to buy backlinks (or pay a VA to create them for me) or invest in traffic generating tools until I'm sure I'm going to be able to get that money back out of the site. So I love that blog commenting is a free way to start building an audience before I invest financially in the site.
And finally, I love blog commenting because it's like killing two birds with one stone. Not only are you gaining early visitors from your comments, you're also building the backlinks we discussed earlier that'll help you to improve your SERP rankings and generate even more traffic in the long run. It's a win-win 🙂
So, if you want to take advantage of this strategy, follow the general process I described above:
* Find relevant blogs. You can use tools like Alexa.com to be sure you're targeting authority sites in your niche that receive good traffic every day to get the most out of your comments.
* Read their content. I find it's easiest to add the commenting sites to my RSS reader so that I can be one of the first to comment whenever they post new material.
* Leave comments. If you only take one piece of advice from this article, please let it be the importance of leaving valuable comments. Take the time to think through the author's content and leave a comment that expands on the topic in some way. It doesn't have to be long, but at least make it clear that you've read the post and thought about it. Your comments will be more likely to get approved, and the other people reading the site will see you as more of an authority figure (making you more likely to get clicks through to your site).
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That's really it. The beauty of blog commenting is that you can just go out and do it. You don't need to do a ton of research or buy special tools – chances are you already know of at least one website in your niche where you can leave comments. So go do it, and then come back and let me know how it's going for you 🙂
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As to be expected I use CCleaner to keep my pc clean, but I also have some folders that I don't want to clean out as often as I normally run Ccleaner.
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(The rigid base is necessary so that the trackpad has something to click against.)
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At least I can get online via my Nexus One in the meantime. Sigh.
Annoyingly enough, Comcast was supposed to call me to warn me, rather than just shut me off outright. Meh.
Also, having previously been dissatisfied with a compact Logitech keyboard and a Wacom Bamboo Touch, I bought the Bluetooth keyboard and Magic Trackpad, and while it's weird to spend $140+tax on a mouse and keyboard, these are actually quite comfortable, and I have them on a little Ikea lap desk and it's much more comfortable on my wrists than trying to put up with my horrible keyboard tray. Hopefully this will help a lot. Unfortunately, the lap desk is a bit thicker and squishier than I'd like, so I'll have to try a couple others out, but still, not a bad setup, and altogether costs way less than a proper keyboard tray (and a desk that can hold a proper keyboard tray).
We must stop supporting M&M Mars until the day that they remove the blue M&Ms from ALL versions of them around the world.
So really, when there's a scene from the perspective of someone who is without the translation conceit, it seems like everyone should just sound like squealing, growling, baby babble, and the like.
Not that it matters or anything. I'm much more interested in the potential for getting noticed on Amazon's retail distribution channel, although that also seems fairly unlikely. Maybe I should make my music, you know, good first.
Meanwhile, I'd still appreciate getting reviews on the CDBaby page (or even on the Amazon page, when it finally goes live).


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We're getting down to the nitty gritty as far as the playoff races go. The Niners get a big win on the road, but there were some big surprises in the AFC this week.
San Diego Chargers 10
Detroit Lions 38
Who was playing some of the best football in, well, football? Up until this week you could say the San Diego Chargers. But not in this one. Matthew Stafford threw for three TD's and 373 yards to help make sure the Lions secured their first playoff birth since 1999. Hard to believe it was just three years ago Detroit became the first NFL team to go winless at 0-16.
As for San Diego, the Chargers will miss the playoffs for the second straight year, which will most likely mean an exit for head coach Norv Turner.
Denver Broncos 14
Buffalo Bills 40
Uh oh. Would the real Tim Tebow please stand up?? Well, I guess Tim has always been Tim; a less than mediocre quarterback up until the 4th quarter, when he puts on his best Superman impression to lead the Broncos to yet another improbable comeback. Hard to make the improbable comeback however when you toss four interceptions, two of which are returned for touchdowns.
And that was the story of the day. Tebow was awful, but so was the Denver defense. Bills running back C.J. Spiller rushed for 111 yards and a score. Ryan Fitzpatrick was serviceable, completing 15 of 27 passes and 196 yards; 92 of those yards to Stevie Johnson.
The Broncos can still get into the playoffs, or "tournament," as Tebow put it, with a win against Kansas City next week.
Oakland Raiders 16 OT
Kansas City Chiefs 13
Darrius Heyward-Bey is fast. Very fast. And Oakland, of course, knows this. On the first play of overtime they proved it, sending him down the left side of the field as quarterback, Carson Palmer, connected with him on a 53 yard pass that would set up the game winning field goal.
It was an ugly win for Oakland, who had a whopping 15 penalties, but the win kept them alive for playoff contention with one more week to go. The funny thing is, the Raiders will need help from the Chiefs (who need to beat Denver next week), and then need to defeat San Diego themselves to lock in the AFC West championship.
Arizona Cardinals 16
Cincinnati Bengals 23
The Cardinals couldn't pull it off one last time; make a dramatic, last second comeback. But they sure made it interesting.
The Bengals dominated this entire game, up until the 4th quarter. Arizona, down 0-23 at the start of the last quarter, came back and nearly won the game. In fact, they easily could have won if Early Doucet wouldn't have gotten tangled up by his own feet. To put it simply, Doucet be trippin'! And unfortunately, that was the difference maker.
After two fumbles by Bengals running back Cedric Benson, and two touchdown passes by Cardinals quarterback, John Skelton, Arizona had a chance to tie the game within the final seconds. From the Cincinnati 17-yard line, the Bengals ran an 'all-out' blitz on fourth down, leaving wide receiver, Doucet, literally wide open….. only to trip over his own feet and watch Skelton's lofted pass fall into the end zone.
So luck have it or not, this game puts the Bengals into possible playoff contention. To clinch their playoff birth next week they will need to steal a win against Baltimore, which will be no easy task.
Bengals quarterback, Andy Dalton, continues to play well ahead of his years, as he became only the fourth rookie to have 20 touchdowns in a season, joining Peyton Manning, Charlie Conerly and Dan Marino.
St. Louis Rams 0
Pittsburgh Steelers 27
The Rams are quietly waiting for the season to end. Possibly attempting to go down like 'gentleman' on the Titanic?
Steven Jackson ran his little heart out, topping 100 yards once again, but quarterback Kellen Clemens wasn't superb, to say the least, completing only 9 or 24 passes.
Charlie Batch was solid, subbing in for injured Ben Roethlisberger. But then again, just about anyone looks solid against the Rams defense.
San Francisco 49ers 19
Seattle Seahawks 17
It's not easy to win at Seattle, but the Niners pulled it off. In fact, this was San Fran's first win at CenturyLink Field since 2008. And a huge win it was. The Niners now only need to knock off St. Louis in the last week to secure a home playoff game and a first round bye.
Marshawn Lynch didn't make it easy for them though, he had 107 yards rushing and scored the first touchdown the 49ers defense have surrendered on the ground all season. Lynch should be a virtual lock for the pro bowl in what has been a career year for the former Bills running back.
It took David Akers' foot on Saturday (four field goals) to keep San Fran in contention, including a 39-yard field goal with 2:57 to play to clinch it. Akers broke the all-time NFL record for most field goals in a season, with 42.
It was San Francisco linebacker, Larry Grant, who had the key play of the game; a tackle of quarterback Tarvaris Jackson that popped the ball loose to be recovered by his 49ers teammate, Donte Whitner with only 1:07 left on the clock. Seattle only had 72 total yards in the second half, and their only points came following a blocked punt.
This was much needed for San Francsico, who could really use that bye week to start the playoffs. They're still playing solid football after two straight wins, but are a little banged up. Guys on the short list who were either inactive or injured during the game this past Saturday include Ted Ginn Jr., Delanie Walker, Kyle Williams and Patrick Willis
Offensive Player Of The Week
Marshawn Lynch (RB) Seattle– 107 yards, TD
Defensive Player Of The Week
Calais Campbell (DE) Arizona – 4 Tackles, 3 Assists, 1 FF, 2 PD
Division Standings
AFC West
Denver Broncos 8-7
Oakland Raiders 8-7
San Diego Chargers 7-8
Kansas City Chiefs 6-9
NFC West
San Francisco 49ers 12-3
Arizona Cardinals 7-8
Seattle Seahawks 7-8
St. Louis Rams 2-13