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Burnham Under 15s through to next round of league cup (From This is The West Country)
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Burnham Under 15s through to next round of league cup
4:00pm Tuesday 20th November 2012 in Sport
Round 2 Woodspring League Cup
Burnham united under 15s 5 portishead 0
THERE was great expectation ahead of this cup game after Burnham's narrow 1-0 league victory against Portishead earlier in the season.
However, Burnham raised their game on the day in what turned out to be a one sided affair.
Burnham were out of the blocks early and carved out a number of early chances but found the Portishead goalie in good form.
Jefferies opened the scoring as most of United's chances were being created by good wing play from Kidner and Costello.
Two further goals came before half time from Rosser and a second for Jefferies and then it was one way traffic for the whole of the second half with Rosser scoring two further goals to complete his deserved hat-trick and round-off a 5-0 win.
Joint man of the match Dan Rosser and Harrison Kidner.
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Your skin is your body's largest organ and it sheds dead skin cells at an alarming rate. But exfoliating is not a one-size-fits-all job! Your feet need different techniques and care than your face. Your hands are not the same as your lips. Read our tips on exfoliating your entire body - head to toe.
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(NECN: Justin Michaels, North Attleboro, Mass.) - Odin Lloyd's sisters confirm their brother was with Aaron Hernandez the night he was killed.
Lloyd's sisters tell NECN Lloyd was much more than an acquaintance. They say Lloyd had known the Patriots tight end for two years and they were good friends.
Lloyd's sister say Hernandez's fiancee and Lloyd's girlfriend are sisters.
The Bristol County District Attorney has not released any information, other than saying the death of 27-year-old Odin Lloyd is being treated as a homicide.
A jogger found Lloyd's body in an industrial park Monday.
An arrest warrant has not been issued for Hernandez. Mark E. Sturdy, clerk magistrate of Attleboro District Court, said three search warrants were issued in the investigation earlier in the week, but they have not yet been returned, meaning they're not public.
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Eli Lilly CEO John Lechleiter, despite a big recent setback with Lilly's Alzheimer's drug semagacestat in phase III, and a loss of patent protection over the next 7 years of drugs that represent 74% of its revenues, is sticking to his conviction that the company will "go it alone and focus on internal R&D" according to an interview appearing in the NY Times.
Lechleiter is adamnant that Lilly can retool through reorganization and cost cutting, and can avoid mage-merger mania exhibited by some key Big Pharma competitors. He plans to turn the company's attention toward development of treatments for Alzheimer's and cancer. He remains bullish on Lilly's internal R&D which has produced only one new drug, Effient, in the last 5 years and whose pipeline in many analysts view is lagging. Lagging to the point that some are predicting Lilly revenues to fall from their high of $23 B in 2010 to only $18.6 B by 2015. Lechleiter says they won't dip below $20 B even in their depths.
Many of Lilly's European competitors are projected to cut R&D spending by as much as 40% in the coming years. Lilly plan to increase internal R&D spending. Lilly already has the industry's highest ratio of research to revenue - 19.8% - so they are used to bucking the trend.
"We're trying to be realistic," said Lechleiter, "while maintaining a sense of optimism" Or perhaps, whistling in the dark.
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Friday, October 4, 2013: Dr. Laurie Ryan, SMCM '86 (National Institute on Aging) will speak on "Alzheimer's Disease: Targets and Treatments" at 3:00 pm in Goodpaster Hall 195.
Monday, October 21, 2013: Dr. Greg Elmer (University of Maryland Baltimore) will speak on "Domains and Constructs in Motivation: Where Does the Habenula Fit In?" at 4:45 pm in Goodpaster Hall 195.
Friday, October 25, 2013: Dr. Terry Davidson (American University) will speak on "Why We Overeat and Become Obese? It Could be What We Think!" at 3:00 pm in Goodpaster Hall 195.
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It was a full house; as a rough estimate, 80 to 100 people turned out for Tuesday's Altadena Coalition of Neighborhood Associations meeting that was highlighted by a presentation by Javier Angulo, Wal-Mart Director of Community Affairs.
Angulo introduced the newly appointed manager of the Figueroa/Lincoln Wal-Mart, Jennifer Gonzalez.
Key points gleaned from Angulo's presentation and the Q/A period that followed include:
Worker wages and benefits
- Altadena store plans to open with 40% full time and 60% part time employees
- Medical plans are available to both full time and part time workers after meeting a service period and requisite number of weekly hours
- Non-management personnel average $12.82 per hour
- Job applicants need not necessarily have previous job experience; there will be a drug test and background check
Store hours
- Currently, the store plans to operate from 6 a.m. to 11 p.m., and "not 24 hours as of yet."
- At this time, truck delivery times have not been established, but they could take place when the store is closed. "Wal-mart will abide by current county regulations."
- This Wal-mart will be "site-to-store," which means most items available on Walmart.com can be ordered and delivered free of charge to the Altadena location
- The store won't be selling alcohol when it opens, but "can't say it never will."
- No guns are sold in California Wal-Mart stores, however, ammunition is available in some LA County stores. When this drew groans from the audience, Javier said, "If you want me to, I'll sign something that says we won't sell ammo."
- Merchandise will depend on the store manager's decisions, and those decisions will be based on community requests and what customers actually buy. Organic foods are usually available at Wal-Mart. (A question regarding genetically modified food was not specifically addressed.)
Will there be a second Wal-Mart on Lake Street?
- According to Angulo, the property at Lake and Calaveras is owned by Charles Company, and the developer has plans to build a grocery store, though not necessarily a store that will be leased by Wal-Mart. In answer to a question from the audience, Angulo promised to let the county and the community know when and if Wal-Mart signs a lease.
In keeping with the time contract of 8:30, meeting facilitor Elliot Gold asked for those in the audience who still had questions to post them to the open thread on www.altadenablog.com. Both Angulo and Gonzalez will again meet and be available to the community at the Altadena Town Council meeting on October 16.


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Officer Kathy Kelly received a prestigious honor of her own this May during the fifth-grade Drug Abuse Resistance Education (DARE) graduation.
Kelly, who has been a police officer for 27 years and a DARE officer for 21 years, was recognized in front of students and their families as Principal Craig Hamby announced that Kelly has been named the 2012 National DARE Officer of the Year.
Kelly is the DARE officer for both Sappington and .
"DARE is about building friendships, and learning about peer pressure, bullying, and the dangers of drugs and alcohol," she said. "Students also learn about how to make the right choices."
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Logger who died in accident, a fire captain, made honorary Stoddard fire chief
Shannon Sarcione, a Stoddard native, firefighter and logger who died in a logging accident Monday has been made an honorary Fire Chief.
Fire Capt. Shannon Sarcione's dream was to become a fire chief, Fire Chief P.J. Lamothe said Tuesday.
"Nice young man. I had the liberty of watching him grow up, becoming a man and raising a son who's 11 years old now," she said. "It's a devastating loss to his family, the firefighters in the department and the community."
Sarcione, 39, was raised in Stoddard by his parents Joseph and Bonnie Sarcione. He worked for his family logging and landscaping business, J & F Cord Wood LLC.
Sarcione and another man were cutting down trees Monday afternoon in an area off School Street. One of them had cut a notch in the tree, preparing to fell it after clearing some limbs nearby, said State Police Sgt. Phillip Gaiser.
Gaiser said high winds likely knocked over the tree before the loggers were ready to take it down. The other man was not injured and did not see the tree fall on Sarcione.
Sarcione was pronounced dead at the scene.
His father, Joseph Sarcione, is the department's deputy chief and has been a Stoddard firefighter for 35 years.
Lamothe, who has been in the department for 34 years, said Shannon Sarcione joined the town fire department at 19. He was a single dad and primary caregiver for his 11-year-old son.
"He loved being a father. He's very proud of his son," Lamothe said.
He also had just moved in with his girlfriend, who has a daughter.
"They were just starting a new life," she said.
In 2010, Sarcione along with the other members of the Stoddard Fire & Rescue team were awarded the 2010 Lawrence A. Volz Emergency Medical Service Heroism Award by N.H. Emergency Medical Service Committee of Merit for an Aug. 8, 2009, rescue of a Stoddard resident who was caught in the spillway on the Highland Lake Dam and clinging onto a cable.
Sarcione, as the operator of the rescue boat, played a vital role in the rescue, Lamothe said.
"The water levels were really high, and the currents were very strong, and we didn't have a lot of room. The crew of the boat could have gone over the dam themselves, so it was a very risky maneuver that they did," she said.
Lamothe said she was approached by another member of the fire department Tuesday and asked if Sarcione could be made an honorary chief. She thought it was a good idea so she made it so.
"He's a giver; he gives of himself to people; to people of the community and members of the department," she said of Sarcione. "You can call him up when you have a problem, and he drops everything and comes and helps you."
A memorial service for Sarcione is planned for 11 a.m. Saturday at James Faulkner Elementary School in Stoddard, she said.
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BY MY RECKONING, Vancouver's D.O.A. is the best hard rock band in the world. I say this on the basis of their many excellent songs and a wild show a few weeks back at the 100 club.
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Patient First Neighborhood Medical Centers will provide free X-Rays of Halloween candy from 6 pm to 9 pm on Monday, October 31st.
The X-Rays will offer parents some peace of mind about the treats their children receive by possibly detecting foreign materials such as metal, plastic and glass. Parents will still need to be cautious and provide good supervision since contaminants and some foreign materials may not show up on X-Rays.
Patient First is located at 3031 Plank Road in Fredericksburg and at 60 Prosperity Lane in Stafford.


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The Liverpool John Moores Electronic American Resource (LEAR)
This site is a multi-disciplinary resource containing a number of aspects useful to anyone interested in American Studies, from sixth-formers to university lecturers. Perhaps its most prominent feature is American Studies Today Online, a virtual journal of all things American that contains articles dating back from 1994 and book reviews since 1997. There is information about other American Studies organisations such as BAAS, some of which include hypertext links. A more detailed page devoted purely to links includes various sites of interest to scholars on subjects including US politics and Government, history, geography, the environment, minorities and the media. Some conference details are noted.
The American Resource Centre also offers a free range of teaching materials to teachers of American studies in the UK. Both books and videos are available, covering a wide range of subjects. There is also a list of American Studies courses (undergraduate and postgraduate) currently on offer at UK Universities. Complete with both an index and a search facility, relevant articles are easily located.
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AOL Search Data
The AOL Search Data is a collection of real query log data that is based on real users. The data set consists of 20M web queries collected from 650k users over three months. These private searches are perfect for research and mining. The data is sorted by anonymous user ID and sequentially arranged. The collection can be used for personalization, query reformulation or other types of search research.
In August 2006, AOL released the search data. Within days, the company realized that this was a mistake, withdrew the data and made a public apology. Many copies of the data set were made before it was withdrawn, and it is still available for download on some sites like here on Infochimps. We know real private user data is rare, and are happy we can offer this historic and useful data to you.
Here is an example of a fun visualization created at a Data Insight conference with only this data set.
The data set includes {AnonID, Query, QueryTime, ItemRank, ClickURL}.
- AnonID – an anonymous user ID number.
- Query – the query issued by the user, case shifted with most punctuation removed.
- QueryTime – the time at which the query was submitted for search.
- ItemRank – if the user clicked on a search result, the rank of the item on which they clicked is listed.
- ClickURL – if the user clicked on a search result, the domain portion of the URL in the clicked result is listed.
Each line in the data represents one of two types of events
- A query that was NOT followed by the user clicking on a result item.
- A click through on an item in the result list returned from a query. In the first case (query only) there is data in only the first three columns/fields — namely AnonID, Query, and QueryTime (see above). In the second case (click through), there is data in all five columns. For click through events, the query that preceded the click through is included. Note that if a user clicked on more than one result in the list returned from a single query, there will be TWO lines in the data to represent the two events. Also note that if the user requested the next "page" or results for some query, this appears as a subsequent identical query with a later time stamp.
Normalized queries:
36,389,567 lines of data
21,011,340 instances of new queries (w/ or w/o click-through)
7,887,022 requests for "next page" of results
19,442,629 user click-through events
16,946,938 queries w/o user click-through
10,154,742 unique (normalized) queries
657,426 unique user ID's
This collection is distributed for NON-COMMERCIAL RESEARCH USE ONLY.
Any application of this collection for commercial purposes is STRICTLY PROHIBITED.
Copyright (2006) AOL
G. Pass, A. Chowdhury, C. Torgeson, "A Picture of Search" The First International Conference on Scalable Information Systems, Hong Kong, June, 2006.
Basic Collection Statistics
01 March, 2006 – 31 May, 2006
CAVEAT EMPTOR — SEXUALLY EXPLICIT DATA! Please be aware that these queries are not filtered to remove any content. Pornography is prevalent on the Web and unfiltered search engine logs contain queries by users who are looking for pornographic material. There are queries in this collection that use SEXUALLY EXPLICIT LANGUAGE. This collection of data is intended for use by mature adults who are not easily offended by the use of pornographic search terms. If you are offended by sexually explicit language you should not read through this data. Also be aware that in some states it may be illegal to expose a minor to this data. Please understand that the data represents REAL WORLD USERS, un-edited and randomly sampled, and that AOL is not the author of this data.


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For mobile DJs, event planners, musicians and anyone else who wants exciting lighting "LED effects" are ideal. With their low energy draws, lost lasting lives, and durability LED effects are revolutionizing the club and DJ lighting. These effects have some key advantages over traditional lighting effects powered by halogen and HID lamps. LED effects stay cooler and don't require duty cycles, allowing you to light continuously all night long. With LED effects, forget about routinely changing or handling scalding hot lamps, those days are over. Because of the versatility of LED lighting, there are more and more options for LED effects for consumers to choose from. From derby effects, to moving heads, to police beacons, and many more the possibilities are endless. LED moving heads are a particularly exciting innovation to come out of the development of LED technology. Many LED moving head are lighter weight and feature longer lasting light sources than incandescent and HID lamp powered moving heads, making them much easier to maintain. No matter how advanced or simple consumers' lighting systems are, all consumers' effect lighting can benefit from these exciting units. LED effects can be linked to DMX LED controllers or be operated by themselves typically through stand alone modes, music sensitive modes, and auto –program modes. Take your lighting to the next level with LED effects today.


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I'm really excited.
I've been more than ready for Christmas since before Halloween got here. I blame it on the 30-something-degree temperatures that smacked me in the face in late October (thanks, Michigan, I get it), but I refuse to be pushed around. It got cold, I was forced to bring out the scarf and gloves, and thus felt compelled to buy presents for people. It's all good. Well, I've actually barely started my shopping, but hey--at least my tree is up.
I actually kicked off Christmas over Thanksgiving weekend while I was home with my family in Virginia. It all started when I was reading a Black Friday flyer for The Home Depot.
Me (to my sister): "Look at this gingerbread house! It's so cute . . . it even has a little Home Depot guy!
My sister (being difficult): *Long stare* *Hides face to pretend she's not interested* *Smiles in silent admittance that she loves the Home Depot gingerbread house, too*
Fast-forward to the next day . . . I'm at The Home Depot with my parents, and my sister's off somewhere getting tires put on her car. She's been talking about leaving town early to beat holiday traffic, but I will not let that stand. I find the best gingerbread house ever on a shelf near the registers, snap a picture, and send it to her with the words, "If you stay tonight, I will buy this for us to make."
Her response: "AHAHAHAHAHAHAHA YES!!!"
Later that night, we sit down to assemble this fine work of art. Growing up, we never really put together a real gingerbread house, but I figured that if people do this every day, two twenty-somethings should be able to figure out how to stick some cookies together with frosting. And that's where the real work began.
Guys, making a gingerbread house is really hard. When you open a pre-made kit, the cookies are bent to the point of almost breaking, the candy is stale, and the frosting sticks about as well as semi-malleable plastic. We soon learned that our creation might not turn out quite like the picture on the box, and craft time quickly turned into a Kindergarten project gone horribly wrong.
I felt kind of bad for my mom, because the whole process was kind of reminiscent of being seven years old and not knowing how to build your own solar system. When my sister and I became useless, my mom took over. And we watched. And no one really wanted to decorate the gingerbread house any more.
There was a lot of laughing going on at the kitchen table that night, but somehow we finished. Kind of. Well, really, we had done all we could to make the ugly even uglier, so we accepted our mediocrity and gracefully resigned our efforts for the evening. The eight dollars I spent on the kit? Totally worth the amount of anguish/fun we experienced.
And in the end, I fixed our little mess the best way I knew how . . . I put a bird on it.


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Gen. John Douglass (D) has officially conceded Virginia's 5th District Congressional race to incumbent Rep. Robert Hurt (R).
Douglass' campaign communications director issued a statement to the media shortly after 9 p.m. Tuesday. In it he said: "Earlier tonight General Douglass called to congratulate Congressman Hurt on a hard fought race that has apparently earned him a second chance to choose good over greed by taking action to stop dangerous uranium mining. We are all so grateful to everyone who supported General Douglass along the way. Our campaign to help Virginia families will now continue through the good people of the 5th District."
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The Justice Department has spent nearly $1.8 million defending prosecutors accused of breaking the law during a failed corruption case against former Alaska Sen. Ted Stevens.
The government's case against the senator crumbled three years ago when the DOJ acknowledged attorneys had concealed evidence that could have helped the defense, USA Today reports.
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Although it's still just as hot as ever outside, pretty soon the leaves will be changing and the air will be cooling and Fall will be upon us once again.
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I'm doing the soundtrack for the iPhone's first ever Ghost Duck Virtual Pet app, called Pon Pon.
There will be a demo available soon, so be on the lookout!
During the last week in July, Ludum Dare hosted a week-long Real Time Strategy game challenge. I teamed up with programmer/designer Andrew Kelley and we created Pillagers! Although it didn't win any awards in the competition (5th place in Audio though, SOO close…) the game was well received and we had a lot of fun working on it, so we want to continue its development and try to get it greenlit on Steam, etc. You can play a steadily updating demo of it here (it works best in Google Chrome).
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The new levy rate would be $1.45 per $1,000 of assessed value.
Brooks doesn't expect personnel cuts but said the district will be unable to reopen Station 35 off Willamette Road, which serves Hawks Prairie. The station was last staffed in March.
Benefits for employees rose 6 percent, but Brooks said this is the fifth consecutive year with no cost-of-living increases.
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We are all familiar with Muzak, or "elevator music"—the ubiquitous background music that plays in elevators, shopping malls, department stores, airports, and other venues. Muzak may be the reason a song sometimes pops unbidden into your consciousness. Because elevator music is always there, we pay little conscious attention to it, yet our subconscious minds are taking it all in.
Cultural messages can be like this background music—always on, always being absorbed into the brain, consciously or not. And religious messages—including messages about Jesus Christ—are part of that background cultural noise. If you search YouTube.com using the key word Jesus, you'll find there are approximately 2.7 million videos on the subject. Many are devoted to Bible teaching, worship, or honoring Jesus in some way. But many ridicule and abase him.
Apparently, Jesus is a popular subject today. But is the Jesus we see on television, at the movies, and over the Internet the real Jesus? If we are not careful, those messages, like a song subconsciously absorbed in an elevator, will become part of our lives, part of our thinking, part of our beliefs. If what the New Testament says about Jesus is true, these cultural images can be deadly. That means nothing could be more important than separating fact from fiction as we encounter these alternative, ridiculing, or demeaning portrayals of the God who came to redeem the human race.
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The BLM rarely withdraws lands from lease sales in New Mexico because it tries hard to keep controversial parcels off the block in the first place, says Tony Herrell, deputy director of the BLM's New Mexico office.
Nicole Rosmarino, a policy analyst with WildEarth Guardians in Santa Fe who regularly files protests, disagrees. "In the majority of sales, there are significant resource values at stake, and the majority of the time, BLM proceeds with leasing," she says. "I would call (the BLM) marginally responsive to our protests."
The agency's unpredictable response to protests reflects a highly decentralized system in which each state office has a great deal of autonomy. Each field office is responsible for crafting its own resource management plan every 10 to 15 years, spelling out what uses will be allowed where, from grazing to oil and gas development.
Steve Salzman, deputy director of the BLM's Division for Fluid Minerals, says each office handles protests "in a slightly different fashion" because of differences in management plans.
"I guess it depends on how comfortable they feel with their land-use plans," which determine what lands are open for leasing and what lands are not, he says. For instance, offices that have up-to-date plans in place "feel more comfortable about their leasing decisions" and may be more likely to deny a protest. Those with out-of-date plans - which include several offices in Utah - are more vulnerable, he suggests.
But even in Utah, decisions about what is leased and not leased appear to be somewhat arbitrary, at least from the Partnership's perspective.
"What you get is an across-the-board inconsistency on how they deal with leasing in general," says Belinda. "And when leases are protested, it's even more inconsistent."
The Theodore Roosevelt Conservation Partnership is one of the most effective protesters in the West. Belinda credits the group's success to its focus on science and game species. During his agency days, Belinda realized that the BLM was ignoring its own studies about the impact of oil and gas development and other disturbances on wildlife species. The Partnership, which has 25 employees and a $4 million annual budget, now regularly cites some of those studies - as well as the latest scientific information from academia and state agencies - in its protests. The group also examines the adequacy of the management plan for the area to be leased, as well as the actual condition of the land itself. "We try to avoid the emotional attachment to pieces of land that some other groups have," Belinda says.
Sportsmen's groups may prove more persuasive than environmentalists partly because of their cultural affinity with BLM staffers, many of whom hunt and fish, says Bruce Baizel, an attorney with the Oil and Gas Accountability Project, a nonprofit watchdog organization based in Durango, Colo. "In Wyoming and Montana, and to some extent Colorado, the wildlife sector - hunters and anglers - is very significant."
That affinity may extend to state fish and wildlife agencies, which have begun stepping up pressure on BLM managers to keep crucial habitat out of lease sales.
"If a state officially protests, I think you'll see more of an effort on the part of BLM to address those concerns and pull leases, just because they're viewed as, well, other governmental entities as opposed to the general public," Baizel says.
In 2006, the Montana Game and Fish Department protested more than 10,000 acres slated for leasing in the Beaverhead Valley, home to a blue-ribbon trout fishery as well as sage grouse habitat. The BLM removed the parcels, and ever since, it has consulted with the department before offering new leases, says T.O. Smith, an energy specialist with the Montana Department of Fish, Wildlife and Parks. Last year, at the suggestion of the state, the agency deferred leasing on about 74,000 acres adjacent to the Charles M. Russell National Wildlife Refuge.
"Instead of them going forward and us formally protesting those leases, they went ahead and deferred any parcel within one mile of a sage grouse lek," Smith says. "It's better to get it early when it's leased than to wait until later when it's drilled." The U.S. Fish and Wildlife Service announced in February that it will consider listing the greater sage grouse under the Endangered Species Act. That gives the BLM one more reason to be more cautious about leasing the ground-dwelling bird's habitat, biologists say.
"State agencies typically don't want to see species listed. It can have a tremendous impact on the state economy," says Smith. "So you see even the governors wanting the state agencies to take a more active role in trying to help determine what gets leased." Yet for every acre the BLM pulls from a sale, thousands are auctioned off, including many that provide valuable wildlife habitat. In 2007, for example, the Partnership protested about 1 million acres offered for lease in Montana, Wyoming, Colorado and Utah, but succeeded in having only 180,000 acres removed - about 18 percent.
"I think it's no secret that (the gas companies) are trying to get as much as they can now, before a new administration comes in," says Belinda.
In response, frustrated environmental groups and even state wildlife agencies have begun trying to find new ways to keep the agency in check. Twice in recent years, they have taken their grievances to the Interior Board of Land Appeals, a panel within the Department of Interior, which oversees the BLM. Both the state of Montana and the Center for Native Ecosystems have won favorable rulings from the panel, which told BLM offices in Montana and Utah to look more closely at potential impacts to wildlife. Some groups are taking their challenges to court. Last year, the Partnership filed its first-ever lawsuit over a lease sale in Wyoming.
The best way to rein in the leasing frenzy may involve overhauling resource management plans. In Utah alone, six management plans are getting a facelift. Many BLM offices are currently revising old plans, and conservationists are urging the agency to take a hard look at which lands it designates for leasing to begin with.
"Taking measures to look at what the impacts could be on the wildlife prior to the lease sales is what needs to happen," says the Partnership's Joel Webster.
But Dave Alberswerth of The Wilderness Society is not optimistic. The plans he has seen so far continue to open more lands for leasing.
Ultimately, the best hope for keeping wells out of sensitive lands may be the 2008 election, conservationists say. All three presidential candidates have vowed to make renewable energy a priority. With the Bush administration on the way out, activists are hoping lease sale protests can soon be put back in the toolbox.
April Reese is a freelance writer based in Santa Fe, New Mexico.


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After the 9/11 incident it has become very difficult for the general Bangladeshis to get US Visas. Even amongst the thousands of diversity lottery for immigration winners many get rejected after the screening. Many Bangladeshi students/immigrants are living in US. Naturally their family members need to visit USA from time to time. Below is a touching tale of a parent about their experience in the US embassy of Dhaka which is translated and summarized by me from the original published in the Bangla daily Prothom Alo.
(AZM Abdul Ali is a retired government official in his Seventies. He and his wife went first to USA in the mid nineties to visit his brother and his daughter studying in USA. )
This year Mr. Ali & his wife needed to go to USA for two reasons, to be with his brother who was critically ill and in his deathbed. And second to see his newly born child of his another daughter, who is studying in USA. They applied for a VISA paying about $200 and here is a snippet of the Visa Interview:
Visa Officer: (after some discussion about his previous visit) I think you won't come back if you go to US.
Mr. Ali: Why are you saying that? My two children are temporarily living in US. They have not applied for immigration although they are there since long and they are not sure whether they will be staying in US for long. So for what reason I should sacrifice my settled life in Bangladesh to stay in USA on my own?
Visa officer: Everybody tells the same story. (refusing the VISA)
Mr. Ali said that he wouldn't have complained if he had not been given one letter from the vice consul, which says:
Your Visa has been regretted under US immigration and nationality act 214 (B). Under this law applicants for nonimmigrant visas are presumed to be intended immigrants. You have failed to prove that you have strong ties in your home country.
Mr. Ali was surprised because he was not asked at any time in his interview to prove his ties in the home country. He had all the relatives, property certificates, sufficient bank balances and influential references which could prove his status and bonds in Bangladesh. He wrote back to the consul citing the thing that it is wrong to accuse him that he has failed to prove something which was not asked to prove.
He never got a reply. But to see an end, as in the letter of the vice consul it was stated that he can apply again to another VISA officer, he paid another $200 to apply again after three months. He and his wife faced the same Visa official who asked the same questions and got the same answers. Then he mentioned to her that according to the norm another officer should take their interview. She let another officer take their interview. He asked the same questions like a robot and the discussion continued:
2nd Visa Officer: You are not coming back. So according to our law I cannot grant you VISA permission.
Mr. Ali: Could you please specify what the law of your country regarding this is?
2nd Visa Officer: No you have to honor our law. You don't have strong ties in Bangladesh. You did not visit other countries recently.
Mr. Ali: Because I did not need to visit other countries. I can prove you that I have strong ties in our country. Would you like to see some documents or you can check my references.
2nd Visa Officer: No our law is different for each individual. We treat each case differently.
Mr. Ali: I have heard the phrase "show me the man, I will show you the rule", I did not know it is applied in US also. (They were refused).
Mr. Ali laments on this with heavy heart because his brother had died in the mean time and he is yet to meet his granddaughter. Mr. Ali ironically tells that he had the chance to contribute to US budget $400 even little it may seem. The winner is ofcourse the US government who did not have to lose anything.
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- Curriculum vitae/resume
- Two (2) passport-sized photos
- Three (3) letters of recommendation: the school, a medical practitioner, and a non-health professional
- English translation of documents, if not translated in English
- Accepting to work under a licensed Liberian doctor not less than five (5) years.
4. Will clinical volunteers have a face-to-face interview with the Liberian Board?
Yes, clinical volunteers will have to sit with the board for an interview before they receive their temporary Liberian license to practice. The interview will take place within 72 hours of your arrival in country. The board will ask you questions related to tropical medicine and practice within your specialty area as relevant to the local setting. If you do not read before your rotation and just show up without any knowledge of tropical ID it is possible that you will fail and not be allowed to practice.
5. Where do I send my completed volunteer and LMB forms?
Completed forms and credentialing documents should be faxed to the firstname.lastname@example.com or fax to 866-309-1898. Please send a notification email to advice that the forms and supporting materials have been faxed.
6. Where do I get the application to apply for my Liberian Visa?
Download and complete the Liberian visa application form from the Embassy of Liberia website.
7. How many pictures are required for the visa application?
Two (2) passport size pictures are needed.
8. How many copies should be mailed?
Application form is to be completed in duplicate (i.e. two copies required).
9. What is the Liberian Embassy address?
Send completed forms with self-addressed return envelope to The Embassy of Liberia, 5201 16th. Street, NW, Washington DC, 20011
10. How long is the visa process?
It takes approximately 3 weeks for the embassy to process visa applications and return passports. If your passport is not back within 3 weeks send an email to firstname.lastname@example.com to check on the status of your application.
12. Should I include evidence of financial report?
Evidence of financial support is not required for HEARTT participants.
13. Do I need a letter indicating place of accommodation in Liberia?
Letter indicating place of accommodation in Liberia is not required for HEARTT participants.
14. What is the cost/processing fee for my visa?
The visa processing fee is waived for HEARTT participants.
15. What are the names of the contacts for JFK?
The names and address of contacts in Liberia are:
Dr. Wvannie-Mae Scott McDonald and Ms. Vera Cooper
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Sinkor, Monrovia.
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The 137th Westminster Kennel Club Dog Show, known as the most prestigious of its kind, starts today and will be featuring an "invited" Leonberger from Rumson — Hondo.
The show is nothing new for Hondo — short for Bronze Level Grand Champion Cherrywood's Slam Dunk — and his owners. He was in the Westminster show last year as well. What is new for his family, though, is that this year not only Hondo will compete, but two pugs, bred by owner Sheila Jett-Wickman, will be competing as well.
Showing tomorrow, Feb. 12, Hondo is a top five — top five nationally ranked in each breed — invited entry this year, said Jett-Wickman. He will compete in the AKC Working Group of dogs against nine other Leonbergers. "Last year, he was the youngest in a field of 15," Jett-Wickman said.
The Leonberger was just recently added to the Working Group category after being recognized by the AKC in 2010.
Leonburgers are a giant dog breed category. Double-coated family dogs, the "breed's name derives from the city of Leonberg in Baden-Württemberg, Germany," according to Wikipedia. "According to legend, the Leonberger was ostensibly bred as a 'symbolic dog' that would mimic the lion in the town crest."
It's a "big year for us, but especially for Hondo who snagged an invite!" Jett-Wickman said. "Invitations are only granted to the top five nationally ranked in each breed. We have worked very hard for this honor."
This year's Westminster has 2,721 dogs in 187 breeds coming from 50 states and seven foreign countries. The show will be broadcast live today, Monday, from 8 to 11 p.m. on CNBC and Tuesday from 8 to 11 p.m. on USA Network.


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During the grunge days of the 1990s, duct tape wallets were the high school accessory. They were cheap, slim, and nearly indestructible. But one thing we never got around to in high school was decorating our duct tape wallets. Thanks to the wonders of the interwebz, other people now take care of that, like Etsy seller Blind Cyclops and her awesome Freddy Krueger duct tape wallet. Thx to Freddy In Space for the heads up on this one.


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By Dustin Luca
---- — A solemn event last week recognized the 72nd anniversary of the attack on Pearl Harbor, which ultimately became the battle cry for America's entry into World War II.
Presented by American Legion Andover Post 8, the ceremony opened with recorded remarks from President Franklin D. Roosevelt's Dec. 8, 1941 address, in which he termed Dec. 7 "a date which will live in infamy."
John Doherty, a Vietnam War veteran, then spoke of the significance of the war effort that followed.
"It sure didn't look good on Dec. 7," Doherty said. "This was a war we could well have lost. And if it weren't for the efforts both at the home front and of our sons and daughters who fought so bravely (overseas) for four years, you could be listening to me speak in German."
Had the war not ended the way it did, Doherty said the country would have likely been split by the Mississippi River — land to the west under Japanese control and land to the east occupied by Germany.
With America's response and eventual triumph in the war, Doherty said, "it's not a good idea to provoke Uncle Sam."
"It came out the way it should have," he said. "Hopefully, it has given pause to a lot of countries who might want to try something like this again."


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nope, i bought mine in the netherlands (europe). don't know if north america does not have this kit. i do know there's also a 24-105 kit available here. the 5D mark III is also available to pre-order as a 24-105 kit or with the new 24-70 II.... it reminded me of the box where my 5D mk II with 24-70 was in, that was also a pretty large one.I didn't know there was a 24-70 offered as a kit lens. Was it in North America?
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It's in stock in Hong Kong as of today. I got a call from a worker at Fortress that the kit package is ready to be picked up.
I'll get it tomorrow morning
I'll get it tomorrow morning
Well that is quite lame, I was hoping for a break for those down under. It shows me the exact same price in US dollars so I was hoping the site was just misrepresenting the currency.
5DIII 8-200mm minus 35mm in there.
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Wednesday 21 march in stores for the Netherlands.
As far as I can see only the Kit version.
However most stores will sell the body only and sell the 24-105 seperate as bulk.
As far as I can see only the Kit version.
However most stores will sell the body only and sell the 24-105 seperate as bulk.
A guy just bought a 5d3 from HK for his friend, he's not a canon user so he can't try it.
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Just received an e-mail from Amazon:
Hello, We now have delivery date(s) for the order you placed on March 02, 2012 (Order# ): "Canon EOS 5D Mark III 22.3 MP Full Frame CMOS Digital SLR Camera with EF 24-105mm f/4 L IS USM Lens"
Estimated arrival date: April 05, 2012 - April 09, 2012.
Thought they were shipping on the 22nd?
canon rumors FORUM
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I just got a call from Jacobs UK - they said that the delivery will arrive tomorrow but only kits - 24-105... I couldn't sell the 24-105 for enough to make it worth it so I guess I'll have to wait. They don't know when the body only will arrive
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Available in-store here in Serbia at an astronomical price of 3370 Euros body only.
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Prairie Heart Institute at St. John's Hospital was recognized as one of HealthGrades' 100 Best Hospitals for Cardiac Surgery™ (2013, 2012 & 2011).
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… canoeing hundreds of miles of meandering streams and rivers … biking glacier-sculpted landscapes of prairie-covered sand dunes and towering limestone dells … learning about the Adena and Hopewell mound builders and the lost sites of Woodland Indian villages … bird watching at the internationally recognized wetland and bird sanctuary at the Horicon Marsh … marveling at Waupun's End of the Trail sculpture and sculpture park … gathering along the award-winning riverfront in Beloit for music and recreation … driving through rich farm country and small towns … enjoying cultural events in the vibrant urban center of Rockford … bringing art and agriculture together at The Fields Project in Oregon … hiking to the Black Hawk Monument, Lorado Taft's tribute to Native American cultures … camping along the river among the glacial drumlins of Dodge County … visiting Grand Detour's blacksmith shop of John Deere's pioneering steel plow … retracing the early steps of Abraham Lincoln and Ronald Reagan.
The Visions …
A beautiful Rock River recreation trail that meanders down a gentle gradient to carry the water traveler and recreational enthusiast alike over 320 miles, from headwaters in Fond du Lac County, Wisconsin, to the mighty Mississippi River at the Quad Cities of Illinois and Iowa.
A Rock River scenic trail along public highways through the river corridor to convey the motorist, cyclist and pedestrian to the scenic natural beauty of the Rock River basin and to connect with other scenic trails including the Grand Illinois Trail and Hennepin Canal State Trail in Illinois and the Glacial Drumlin State Trail and Ice Age National Scenic Trail in Wisconsin.
The heritage of human development along the river corridor memorialized in a Rock River historic trail, enticing the traveler to pause, learn and reflect on the rich panorama of human history in the river valley.
From the aboriginal peoples, explorers and early settlers to the industrialists, agriculturalists, statesmen and visionaries of more recent times, unique and significant contributions to the evolution of America have originated in the Rock River valley.
A commonality of interests and respect for the Rock River, conservation of natural resources in the river corridor and wise application of human talents will lead to revitalization of river communities and sustainable economic development for the benefit of present and future generations.
The Genesis …
Beginning in the late 1980s, a Rockford, Illinois, newspaper editor and publisher, Frank Schier, spent much of his life studying the Rock River. Canoeing many miles of the river, as well as driving its shores many times, he collected books, stories and wonderful experiences. He even named his newspaper The Rock River Times. An idea came to him to seek recognition for the fathomless environs of the Rock River as a multi-use national trail. From jealously publishing his reporters' sojourns on other paths, his models were the Appalachian National Scenic Trail and the Lewis and Clark National Historic Trail. In 2010, a group of public and private partners from Rockford and Winnebago and Ogle Counties, Illinois helped to establish the Rock River Trail Initiative. The trail initiative was embraced by city and county planners, park districts, conservation organizations, water sports suppliers and local, state and federal political leaders.
They recognized the vision and value of historical preservation, recreational opportunities, economic development, resource conservation and green jobs provided by the proposed initiative.
With permission to use the federal shield of National Park Service to frame the trail's logo, the first Rock River Trail Conference was held in Rockford in April of 2010, followed by a consultancy agreement with the Service for assistance under the national Rivers, Trails and Conservation Assistance Program. A legislative briefing with Members of Congress from Illinois and Wisconsin, the US Army Corps of Engineers, Illinois Department of Natural Resources and other federal, state and local agencies and private partners was held February 2011 in Rockford. The Rock River Trail Initiative has been joined by public and private partners in Wisconsin for a true two-state comprehensive effort to build a national multi-use trail along the course of the Rock River through Wisconsin and Illinois.
The Rock River Trail Initiative was presented to the Governor's State Trails Council in Stevens Point, Wisconsin in July 2011 and will be included as a state water trail in the Wisconsin State Trails Network Plan.
Key Objectives …
The Rock River Trail is a local initiative to establish along the 300-mile river course through Wisconsin and Illinois a multi-use trail of recreational, scenic and historic interest and significance.
The proposed national Rock River Trail is a two-state, 11-county comprehensive effort, begun in 2010, which integrates public-private partnerships and intergovernmental cooperation to:
• Establish the Rock River Water Trail and achieve designation as a state and national water trail,
• Establish a scenic, recreational and historic route within the river corridor including the Rock River Trail Scenic and Historic Route for motorists and the Rock River Trail Bike Route with hiking opportunities.
• Promote ecotourism and recreational opportunities throughout the river corridor, including safe portage of the dams from Waupun, Wisconsin to Rock Island, Illinois,
• Advocate to protect, preserve and educate about our native American peoples, settlement cultural heritages and contributions of the river valley's industrialists, agriculturalists, statesmen and visionaries to the American experience,
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W. David Allen, Ph.D.
Office: 310 BAB
Phone: 256.824.66757
- Ph.D. - University of Arkansas, Economics, 1994
- M.A. - Eastern Illinois University, Economics, 1989
- B.A. - Eastern Illinois University, Economics, 1988
Research Interests
- Crime and Victimization
- Labor and Demographic Economics
- Time Allocation
Teaching Interests
- Principles of Microeconomics
- Economics of Labor Markets and Human Resources
- Sports Economics
Selected Publications
- "Self-Protection Against Crime Victimization: Theory and Evidence from University Campuses," International Review of Law and Economics, June 2013
- "Performance, Expectations, and Managerial Dismissal: Evidence from the National Football League," with Clint Chadwick, Journal of Sports Economics, August 2012
- Criminals and Victims, Stanford University Press, 2011
- "Interview Effects in the Reporting of Domestic Violence", Journal of Socio-Economics, March 2009
- "Crime, Protection, and Incarceration", with Allen Wilhite, Journal of Economic Behavior and Organization, August 2008
- "The Reporting and Underreporting of Rape", Southern Economic Journal, January 2007
- "Cultures of Illegality in the National Hockey League", Southern Economic Journal, January 2005
- "Crime, Punishment, and Recidivism: Lessons from the National Hockey League", Journal of Sports Economics, February 2002
- "Social Networks and Self-Employment", Journal of Socio-Economics, October 2000
- "Retroactive Benefits in Income Replacement Programs: Results from a Modified Natural Experiment," with William P. Curington and Amy Farmer, Southern Economic Journal, July 1997
- "Family Illness and Temporary Work Absence," Applied Economics, September 1996


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Charles Phoenix and His Big Retro Slide Show — San Francisco
Charles Phoenix and His Big Retro Slide Show a deep-fried and delicious mix and mash-up of the very best of Phoenix's massive collection of flea market-found vintage Kodachrome slides. Together with his infectious enthusiasm and keen eye for oddball detail, Phoenix roasts and toasts mid-century tourist traps, theme parks, space age suburbia, car culture, festive fashions and more…in color! Audiences from coast to coast enjoy his gracious wit, colorful suits and original spin on the Americana experience.


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Last weekend we had our family Christmas party. We also got over 10 inches of snow. It started Friday in the wee hours of the morning. It was a blizzard by the time the massacre happened at Sandy Nook. I wanted to watch the news but was crying off and on holding my two kids. It was probably a good thing that the snow started covering my dish and messing with my reception. I needed to turn it off for a bit and focus on "my" kids. J who has always been concerned anytime he sees me cry said "mama it will be ok!"
Hunky Hubs came home early that day from work. I had told him on Instant Messenger what happened. We were both just disgusted, but like many Americans felt it so hard to turn off. How do you take something like that in, and then turn around and forget you heard it moments later. You don't.
But when you have two small kids who are incapable of understanding that at any point in time their existence could be taken from them, you simply have to stop listening to the news and return to your world of cleaning and preparing their little minds for the excitement of the Christmas party that would ensue later in the weekend.
We all spent restless nights sleeping in the living room close to the fire, but I found it hard to get restful sleep. At 3am my creative writing juices were flowing and I got up and wrote a poem, but went back to bed when I heard Baby B stirring.
Saturday morning we woke up. Went to see Aunt Kim at breakfast and before we left, the snow was getting heavier and heavier. We didn't watch the news Saturday until that evening. I knew I just needed to get out in the snow with J myster and have fun with him during the first snowfall of the season.
We played in the snow that morning and stayed warm the rest of the day inside by the fire and cleaned for the next day's family Christmas party.
Sunday afternoon our family came over and we ate good food and opened gifts and had a great time.
J myster got this cool car that he can take apart with a toy drill from his aunt. He's been playing with it non-stop. It was a good day. We laughed and just enjoyed being around everyone and the boys were completely exhausted when everyone left.
We made this concrete keepsake for my Mother in Law with JJ's handprint and his age and B's handprint and his age next to it. She loved it.
After everyone went home and we finally got our PJ's on, we then turned on the news and saw the 20 precious names and faces of those beautiful little lost souls. My heart wept again.
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The Stone Mountain Community Improvement District (CID) wants to keep adult entertainment businesses, which have been inquiring about setting up in the area, out of its boundaries.
There will be a public meeting tonight at Eagle Rock Distributing, 1375 Beverage Dr. in Stone Mountain, at 5 p.m. to discuss the CID's effort to create an overlay district that would prohibit those those types of businesses in the area, which goes along Mountain Industrial Boulevard roughly from Hugh Howell in Tucker up to about Lawrenceville Highway.
CID executive director Emory Morsberger said some building owners in the district have been approached by adult entertainment businesses wanting to rent space. The current zoning allows strip clubs, he said, but an overlay district would change that.
"We don't need our values going down," Morsberger said. "We don't want them to locate here."
An overlay district would also restrict junk yards and metal buildings. "We're trying to maintain the quality of the neighborhood," Morsberger said. The matter goes before the DeKalb County Board of Commissioners on Jan. 22.
It's possible that the annexation of of Doraville and Brookhaven have caused strip clubs to seek other locations, Morsberger said.
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