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CP Farming in Chapter 8
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This is the most beautiful and extensive beach of the archipelago, formed by white coral. The Jungle is a quiet place to stay in contact with nature.
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We are pleased to invite you at the Jungle Hostal, located 50 m from the beach of Puerto Villamil, Isabela, Galapagos.
This is the most beautiful and extensive beach of the archipelago, formed by white coral. The Jungle is a quiet place to stay in contact with nature.
We are located on the beach, and very close to 'Centro de crianza de Tortugas'
We have doubles, twins, and family rooms available. All rooms have private bathrooms with 24 hrs hot shower.
Check in time. 18.00pm
Check out time 11.00am
Only cash accepted as payment upon arrival
Breakfast in shared rooms is not included.
Cancellation Policy: 3 days, in other case you will be charged with the first night of your booking.
To get to Hostal The Jungle you need to fly from either Quito o Guayaquil to Baltra Island.
A bus from the airline will transport you to the channel where you board a ferry, the ferry only take you to the other side in 5 mins. Cost 0.80 cents.
Once you get off, a local bus awaits to take you the rest of the journey to Puerto Ayora. Cost 1.80 USD and this take around 40 mins. The bus leaves you at the dock. Another option it's to take a taxi for about 18 USD.
From the dock you can take a boat, that takes arounds 2 hours to go arrive in Puerto Villamil -Isabella's island. Cost 30 USD.
When you arrive at the dock in Puerto Villamil you can take a taxi to the property for 1 USD or walk 20 min.
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Local students looking to pursue an education in medicine can now apply to an accredited medical school in their own backyard.
UC Riverside officials, students and community leaders today will celebrate the UCR School of Medicine as officially open to prospective students.
The campus received word Tuesday that the Liaison Committee on Medical Education -- the national accrediting body for programs geared to medical degrees in North America -- had given preliminary approval to UCR's proposed courses.
The decision paves the way for the university to begin accepting applications for its charter enrollment of 50 students in the fall of 2013.
"This is momentous ... for Inland Southern California and for UC Riverside," said UCR Chancellor Timothy P. White.
An informal celebration in recognition of the accreditation milestone is planned for 5:30 p.m. at Rivera Plaza, adjacent to Hinderaker Hall.
The LCME withheld accreditation approval in 2011, when it became clear the state would not be making annual funding available to UCR because of California's gaping budget deficit.
However, over the last year, the university has secured tens of millions of dollars in private donations, government grants -- including $20 million from Riverside County -- and UC system appropriations, enabling it to move ahead with opening its doors next fall.
"Working together, the community and the UCR campus simply persevered because expanding access to healthcare is one of the most pressing issues for Inland Southern California," UCR Medical School Dean Dr. Richard Olds said. "This milestone enables us to ... begin expanding and diversifying our region's physician workforce."
Efforts toward establishing a medical school have been ongoing since 2006. The school will be the sixth in the UC system, which hasn't inaugurated a new campus M.D. program since the 1960s.
Riverside County First District Supervisor Bob Buster – who represents Lake Elsinore and Wildomar – has been a big supporter of the medical school. In December 2010, the supervisor presented UC officials with a $100,000 check for the purpose of securing $10 million in state funding and another $10 million from the Kaiser Permanente Foundation.
"The medical school will serve as an important economic and academic cornerstone for Riverside County and the entire region," Buster said in a released statement. "It will play a pivotal role in helping our region attract and retain quality physicians and healthcare professionals, while creating new jobs and business opportunities for those who live here."
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ST HELENS amateurs Pilkington Recs and Thatto Heath are in the hat for tonight's second round draw of the Tetley's Challenge Cup.
Recs overcame Abderdeen Warriors 46-4 in the first round on Saturday, while Heath's tie away at Shaw Cross was postponed and will be played this weekend.
Lance Todd Trophy winner Kris Radlinski and the owner of Salford Red Devils, Dr Marwan Koukash will conduct the draw.
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CHAPEL HILL — The West End Wine Bar has almost always been a dream in a making.
Twenty-seven years ago, a young Jared Resnick started jotting down ideas for a business after visiting a bar in Italy.
Bottles of wine and tapas were accents in an atmosphere filled with people talking, tasting and sharing, Resnick said.
"It wasn't just about slamming home as much alcohol as you could get in your gullet," Resnick, 44, said.
Over the years, Resnick continued to add ideas to his list.
"It got to the point, where it was almost like it had fermented enough and was getting ready to pop," Resnick said.
So in 1997, with the help of research, a small venture capital group, and a push from his wife, Resnick and a friend transformed that old list of ideas into West End Wine Bar on Chapel Hill's West Franklin Street.
"We opened it on a shoestring," Resnick said. "We did all the work ourselves."
At the time, West Franklin Street was kind of a "no-man's-land," and Chapel Hill bars consisted of music venues and beer joints, Resnick said.
"There really wasn't anything like this in the Triangle area," Resnick said.
Resnick, who bought out his West End business partner in 1999, learned early on, he said, that he needed to understand the nuts and bolts of running a business, such as payroll, taxes and insurance. So he turned to an attorney, his insurance agent, his accountant and other business owners.
"I know I lost money along the way because I wasn't careful on how I was spending," Resnick said. "I wasn't a business owner yet, but I had a lot of great teachers."
However, in 1998, Resnick made a hire at West End that would lead him to a new list of ideas and a second location.
Kevin Eastin, 41, quickly worked his way up from barback to manager and to eventual co-owner of one of Durham's West End Wine Bar.
"It was very apparent early on that working with him was very, very different from anybody else that was working here," Resnick said.
Since joining forces, Resnick and Eastin have developed a yin and yang type of business relationship. Resnick is creative, and Eastin keeps Resnick grounded while pushing him to take chances.
For example, Eastin pushed Resnick to expand the West End Wine Bar, and Resnick pushed Eastin to buy into its second location on West Main Street in Durham.
"You see it from a brand new point of view," Eastin said of his co-ownership role. "You care ten times more about how sales were this night and how your employees are doing."
Together, Resnick and Eastin also transformed West End's basement into a dive bar called The Cellar. "I jokingly say it's the two sides of Jared. There's a part of me that loves to drink wine," Resnick said about The Cellar. "There's a part of me that loves a Miller High Life and a shot of Jack Daniels and a pool table."
The business partners continue to expand and keep each other balanced. In 2011, Resnick opened an event space, West End Public, on West Franklin Street. Eastin manages the bars and event space while Resnick focuses on the business aspect of his various ventures, which also includes West End Billiards and West End Wine Tours.
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LEGISLATIVE ALERT6/9/2008Moratorium on the TCM Rule is in DangerDon't Let Congress Drop It!The moratorium on the targeted case management (TCM) rule is in grave danger of being dropped from the House supplemental war appropriations bill. We have come a long way in this fight to delay seven harmful Medicaid regulations, including rules on Rehabilitative Services and TCM that threaten the continuance of services for children and youth in foster care. Both the House and Senate included amendments with strong bipartisan votes to their war supplemental appropriations bills that delay all seven restrictive Medicaid rules. But in negotiations going on right now, there is a possibility that the moratorium on the TCM rule, as well as on other rules, may be dropped. We cannot allow our momentum to be stopped at this critical time!ACTION REQUIREDCall the Capitol Switchboard to be connected with your member of Congress!U.S. Capitol Switchboard 1-800-828-0498If your House Representative is a Democrat: Urge your member to contact any or all of the following members of House leadership with the message below: - Speaker Nancy Pelosi (D-CA)- Majority Leader Steny Hoyer (D-MD)- Majority Whip James Clyburn (D-SC)- Caucus Chair Rahm Emanuel (D-IL)- Appropriations Committee Chairman David Obey (D-WI)- Rep. Xavier Becerra (D-CA)- Rep. Chris Van Hollen (D-MD)- Rep. Rosa DeLauro (D-CT)- Rep. George Miller (D-CA)MESSAGETHE MESSAGE for your Democratic Representative to TELL HOUSE LEADERSHIP: - Keep all seven Medicaid rules, including the TCM rule, in the FY 2008 war supplemental appropriations bill. - If the TCM rule remains in effect, vulnerable children in foster care may not receive the care and coordination of services that they need.THE MESSAGE for your Republican House Representative:- Urge them to contact White House Chief of Staff Joshua Bolton, and urge him to accept a bill with the TCM moratoria.BACKGROUNDOver the last year, the Administration has proposed a series of regulations that would threaten access to health care and other needed services for our most vulnerable citizens, including children and youth in our nation's foster care system, people with physical and developmental disabilities, and those with mental illness. The regulations would also shift significant cost to states and localities in a time of serious economic downturn. These regs must be delayed and reconsidered. It is especially vital to delay the TCM rule, which is largely already in effect, because it is controversial and already wreaking havoc on state agencies and organizations that care for abused, neglected, and otherwise troubled children and youth. Attempting to read through the haze of that particular rule and properly interpret it, states anticipate or are already beginning to eliminate effective services and programs, shut down treatment centers, and/or cut caseworker positions, where severe shortages already exist.Please stay tuned to the Children's Monitor for the latest updates!We have come a long way with your help to get a moratorium on these harmful regs - this could be our last chance! Call TODAY!
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I watched an episode of Persons Unknown the other day on Netflix. For those of you that don't know, and I wouldn't blame you, Persons Unknown was a Lost-wanna-be drama about a group of strangers that wake up in a very small fake town and don't know how or why they ended up there. It's an interesting concept created by Chris McQuarrie (The Usual Suspects, writer) and I had very high expectations for this show before it premiered a year or two ago. Re-visiting the series the other day helped confirm what I had already felt and then some:
Persons Unknown is without a doubt one of the worst shows I have ever seen. It is one of the worst productions of anything I have ever seen. It's absolutely terrible, a black mark on the progress of television as a serious medium for drama over the last decade. Persons Unknown is what would come out of you if you ate LOST, took a dump, vomited on your dump, ate the domp/vomit mixture, and dumped it out again. The acting alone would make it one of the worst things I have ever seen (the ONLY person you'll probably recognize is Cameron from Ferris Bueller's Day Off) but the writing, the bad production, all of it… a complete mess.
What else should we come to expect from NBC these days?
Once the gold standard, NBC has turned out bad show after bad show and then pushed aside any good show (Community, Parks and Rec) that they happened to pick up, which could have only happened by accident. It's gotten so bad that at one point NBC was actually behind UNIVISION in the key 18-49 demographic if you just didn't count Sunday Night Football.
Outside of Law & Order: SVU, which was started in 1999, the longest-running drama on the network is Parenthood, which started in 2010. Think about that for a second. As The Office and 30 Rock begin their swan songs, and as they push away Parks and Community, what will NBC even be left with? Things are so bad that Whitney is coming back.
I really have nothing left to say. NBC is bad and it only looks like its going to get worse, but they've got a whole crapload of new shows coming in the fall and midseason and thank God that Persons Unknown will never air again. (As a huge Usual Suspects fan, I was supremely disappointed in McQuarrie. I later found out that he basically ditched the show in the very early stages and of course they continued to use his name. You're forgiven.)
Here are the shows that are currently on NBC.
Law & Order: SVU
The Firm
Saving Hope
While it's very entertaining, SVU is really damn silly. How could anyone sit through an SVU marathon and not giggle for hours on end, even without being high? SVU once peaked at 15 million viewers per episode, but as of last season (without Christopher Meloni) it did about half of that. How much longer before SVU joins regular Law & Order on the cancelled list?
Smash dominated much of the promo season and here's what I can tell you from reports because of course I never watched it: Quality declined rapidly after the pilot and so did the ratings. Still, its NBC's #1 drama… and no that doesn't mean it's doing good overall. (#47)
I saw the first episode of Grimm and thought it seemed promising, so there's that.
The Office
30 Rock
Parks and Recreation
Up All Night
The first four are rather groundbreaking comedies. Let's break down the update on that: Steve Carrell is gone. More have left or are leaving The Office. 30 Rock is entering it's final season. Parks and Recreation is possibly the best sitcom on television, but admittedly low ratings threaten it's lifespan. If it suffers the same fate as Community, it will wind up on Fridays with Whitney, one of the worst comedies on network television. And Community has lost its creator and showrunner, Dan Harmon.
Up All Night is pleasant.
The top four once could have constructed the best comedy lineup in ALL of television, but somehow they never seemed to wind up on Thursdays at the same time with half-seasons for shows like Parks, Community, and 30 Rock so that they could push new shows like Outsourced. Still, Outsourced was somehow not as bad as Whitney.
As we've seen recently, NBC has no problem cutting out quality for laugh-tracked, mass-pleasing CRAP. Damn it America, stop watching shitty shows and pay attention to the good ones.
Animal Practice: Meet Dr. George Coleman, a top-dog New York veterinarian. With an unorthodox style of operating, George's success comes from his undeniable gift with animals of all kinds. That is, all but the human kind.
I just watched a two-minute preview of Animal Practice, and while I never laughed out loud, chuckled, or laughed on the inside, at least I find Justin Kirk (Weeds), Tyler Labine and Bobby Lee to be fun to watch. It looks terrible but we'll see.
Go On: All you need to know is that everybody loves Matthew Perry, especially the networks that keep bringing him back for more. None of his shows have worked since Friends, but I admit that I'm always slightly interested.
The New Normal: A woman becomes a surrogate mother so a gay couple can start a family.
I'm guessing that this show will last about as long as the pregnancy.
Guys With Kids: "A show developed by Jimmy Fallon…"
Moving on.
(I know how harsh I am being. I am really not trying to be. I thought that the trailer for Community looked stupid as heck and thought a show with Joel McHale would NEVER work. It works pretty well. But to be honest, NBC sees its best shows as its failures and so I can only assume that they'll continue to add shows like Whitney, Outsourced, and The Paul Reiser Show, and many more that I'm forgetting that sucked, believing that they'll do better. You'll only do better if you start adding more quality because you're about to lose a bunch of it after this fall.)
Revolution: Revolution takes place in a post-apocalyptic future. Fifteen years earlier, an unknown phenomenon permanently disabled all advanced technology on the planet, ranging from computers and electronics to car engines and batteries. People were forced to adapt to a world without technology, and due to the collapse of public order, many areas are ruled by warlords and militias. The series focuses on the Matheson family, who possess an item that is the key to not only finding out what happened fifteen years ago, but also a possible way to reverse its effects.
Revolution is possibly one of the most interesting and compelling upcoming shows of the fall and debuts on September 17 (Mondays) at 10 PM, and not only because of the interesting premise. The show is created by Eric Kripke (Supernatural), JJ Abrams is attached as Executive Producer, Jon Favreau directed the pilot, and Giancarlo Esposito (GUS FRING!) is in it, though he's deep on the cast list.
There have been many shows (HI PERSONS UNKNOWN, AGAIN!) that have disappointed me. Maybe Revolution will be one of those, but I'm still interested to see it and see where it goes.
Chicago Fire: Do you actually need me to tell you the premise of this show? You get it. Another cop, fire, or doctor show set in Chicago, where all of the people in civic duty are sexy.
I'm not going to go over all of the shows NBC has set for midseason debut, because there are TEN of them. That's like 8 more new shows than I have seen on other networks. Basically, NBC is cleaning house completely now that it's scraping the bottom of the network barrel.
Not so promising: there's a show starring Dane Cook, a show bringing back Howie Mandel as host, a show with Jenny McCarthy, and a reality "finding love" show produced by Eva Longoria. Expect NBC to clean house again next year.
The Apprentice
The Biggest Loser
America's Got Talent
The Voice
Love in the Wild
Betty White's Off Their Rockers
I watched a few seasons of Loser and it's interesting to watch people lose weight but now I would rather just watch HEAVY or Extreme Weight Loss in order to see the transformations all at once and not have Subway pushed down my throat.
America's Got Talent is like the most contest reality show ever. You'd be amazed at how amazed Nick Cannon is at stuff.
The singing competition shows like The Voice seem to be the lowest common denominator on getting ratings. "We're struggling, copy American Idol QUICK!"
NFL, Sunday Night Football
The Olympics
Notre Dame Football
PGA Tour
French Open Tennis
Horse Racing
Tour de France
Despite the fact that ABC is owned by Disney, which owns ESPN, or whatever, NBC really has a leg up on the sports competition. They've got Sunday Night Football, PGA golf, some tennis, the Triple Crown, and the Tour de France, all of which boost their ratings and keep people tuning in. They've also go the upcoming Super Bowl, which they'll use to launch some shows and whatever.
But most important right now is The Olympics, which is going to probably save NBC from borrowing money from The CW. I'm excited for the Summer games, for sure.
The Golden Globes
Saturday Night Live
Jimmy Fallon, Carson Daly, Jay Leno
Dateline NBC
SNL is still on the air after almost 40 years, which is an amazing accomplishment. Variety/skit shows just aren't supposed to last this long, but even through their down years they've managed to stay alive long enough for another string of funny comedians. I'm not sure what the future holds for this cast as more of the funny people leave the show, and it's not the funniest thing I watch anymore, but it's still got its moments.
I love my Dateline Mysteries.
Jay Leno has long been the least-funny person on late night shows, but nobody seems to care. Jimmy Fallon is very impressed with Jimmy Fallon.
NBC is in the shitcan with most of it's programming. Their strongest lineup was the Thursday night lineup and a year from now you'll see just how far away from funny that has gone from it's prime. 30 Rock is leaving, The Office is probably next, and Community is going to die on Fridays. Will any of their new programming be funny or will it be like most of the crap they've put on in the last two years?
The dramas are terrible, but maybe Revolution could save the day.
Then again, maybe it's the next Persons Unknown.


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Smart Financial Moves for Fall
Prepare for winter with a seasonal money check-up.
As the weather turns chillier and pumpkins decorate porch steps, it's time to start thinking about money moves to make before the end of the year. After all, there's just a few months left to take advantage of open enrollment season, use up certain types of flex-spending dollars and make contributions to some tax-deductible accounts.
U.S. News surveyed top financial experts to get their advice on financial steps you should be taking now – before the mercury plummets any further. Here's what they said:
Give yourself a financial checkup. Liz Pulliam Weston, author of the e-book "There Are No Dumb Questions About Money," says fall is the perfect time for a tuneup, since there's still time to take action before the end of the year. Using a free online budgeting and money management tool like Mint.com can make it easy, she says, or you can also just sit down with recent bank and credit card statements and review them.
[Read: What Can You Afford: House, Car or Vacation?]
Weston suggests looking for areas of overspending as well as opportunities to change health care plans during fall's open enrollment period. "If you're not spending much, you could consider a higher deductible plan. If you're spending a lot, perhaps an HMO plan might be a better fit if you can stay in the network," she says.
Get on top of flexible spending accounts. Open enrollment time also gives employees an opportunity to revisit their flex spending plans and other optional benefits, says Manisha Thakor, CEO of MoneyZen Wealth Management in Santa Fe, N.M. If you underestimated your 2012 health care costs, you might want to consider putting more into the flex account for next year. Just make sure to spend down the money that's set aside to avoid losing it.
Check up on your life and disability insurance coverage. "Unfortunately, insurance is for those 'what-if' moments that we don't like to think about, and it doesn't exactly make for exciting, motivating conversation, but think of it more as protecting those who love and depend on you," says personal finance expert Carmen Wong Ulrich. Since employer-provided coverage doesn't stick with you if you move or lose your job, it's important to double check that you have enough outside coverage, she adds.
[See: 10 Things to Watch When Interest Rates Go Up.]
Prep for performance reviews. Many employees get a review at the end of the year, so now is the time to start considering what accomplishments you can emphasize to your supervisor, says Laura Vanderkam, author of "All the Money in the World." "As you're thinking of that, start asking yourself what you'd like to say in next year's review. What are your big professional goals? How can you make those happen?" she adds. Coming up with a specific plan you can work toward will increase the chances of landing a raise or promotion next year, she says.
Get ready for the holidays. Writer and stay-at-home mom Emily Harris says, "Do all your holiday shopping now to avoid last-minute panic, which almost always leads to spending more than planned." Spreading out purchases also makes it easier to pay off any credit card debt each month, instead of waiting for a massive December bill.
Thakor suggests setting a specific dollar amount now that you plan to spend on the holidays. "I recommend going narrow and deep, with great gifts for a few close loved ones, or wide and shallow, with less pricey gifts for more folks in your life," she says. Too many people make the classic mistake of going both deep and wide – spending a lot on many people. "By setting your overarching strategy and a total dollar amount before the holiday season kicks in, you'll be in a better position to make informed, rational decisions for your household," she says.
Funnel more money into retirement accounts. "Regardless of what else is happening in your financial world, you need to be putting money into those retirement accounts," Weston says. You can contribute up to $17,500 to your 401(k) in 2013; for those age 50 or older, the limit is $23,000. (You can contribute up to the 2013 limit until April 15, 2014.)


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George Lucas Loses Stormtrooper Court Battle
July 27th, 2011 8:47am EDT
George Lucas has lost his court battle with a British designer over the rights to make and sell replica Star Wars helmets.
Andrew Ainsworth made the headgear for the original movies and started selling the Stormtrooper helmets in 2004, to fans who wanted to wear them for fancy dress parties.
The creator of the hugely successful sci-fi series attempted to sue Ainsworth for $20 million after he sold some items in America, but Lucas lost the legal battle in the U.K. because a judge rejected claims the helmets are sculptures.
He hoped to overturn the decision by taking the case to the Supreme Court, but a judge has now upheld the 2009 decision after agreeing the designs are functional costumes and therefore not subject to copyright laws.
The decision allows the designer to continue making the helmets, which cost around $2,950.
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Annual Flushing Bay Shore Line Clean Up - Riverkeeper Sweep
Riverkeeper Sweep, an annual day of service to clean up the shores of the Hudson River, takes place on Saturday May 11, 2013. Riverkeeper has joined recycling pioneer TerraCycle's Cigarette Waste Brigade to recycle cigarette butts and related cigarette waste during the cleanup. According to Keep America Beautiful, cigarette butts are among the most commonly littered items, with an estimated 65% improperly disposed of. TerraCycle will be able to turn the butts into industrial products such as pallets or railroad ties. Events are planned throughout the state, including two in Queens.
For more info about the Riverkeeper Sweep cleanup sites in Queens, please click here http://www.riverkeeper.org/news-events/events/rvk-events/sweep2013/. For more information about TerraCycle, please visit http://www.terracycle.com.
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Dancing With the Stars dance pros Maksim Chmerkovskiy and Peta Murgatroyd have been dating for a few months now and things are going well. They are also facing-off on the new "All-Stars" season of DWTS, which just completed its second week. How are the two balancing romance and competition?
Maks and Peta chatted with People about competing against one another yet being happy together off-set. Peta says, "We don't take work home with us. We leave it here. I think that's the best thing to do." Maks adds, "We're not competing against anybody. We're competing against each other," pointing to his partner Kirstie Alley. Fans know that Maks and Kirstie have a very playful dynamic, but they do have their squabbles. For the most part, the two seem to truly adore one another and Maksim says his focus is on Kirstie, not on the other couples.
Peta Murgatroyd is partnered with Gilles Marini this season, and the expectations are sky-high for this pair. Gilles says that he has really gotten to know Maks and his brother Val Chmerkovskiy this season and he loves them both. At the end of the day, though, everybody is focused on the mirror-ball trophy waiting at the finish line. Peta says it's a healthy competition and she and Maks are keeping their personal feelings off the dance floor. She says, "I want to win again. [Maksim] wants to win. But you know, I don't care about that. He doesn't care that I want to win. We all want to win!"
So, just who will win Dancing With the Stars: All-Stars this season? After the Week 2 elimination many would say that this season is going to be full of shocking and painful eliminations. It's an incredibly talented cast and many think it is quite likely some of the favorites will cancel one another out when it comes to getting the votes. Do Maksim Chmerkovskiy and Kirstie Alley have a shot at sticking around for a bit? Can Gilles Marini overcome his injuries and lead Peta Murgatroyd to a back-to-back win? Tune in to DWTS Monday nights on ABC to see who stays and who goes.


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Last night to vote for the winners of this week's CMT Awards
Tonight is the last night for country music fans to vote for the videos they hope will win at the annual CMT Awards, which air at 7 p.m. this Wednesday. Click on this link to submit your vote before 5 a.m. Tuesday.
The award show, which serves as the unofficial kick-off of Nashville's annual country music fan fair, is hosted by July 3 Summerfest headliner Kid Rock. In addition to the awards, the show will feature performances from Big and Rich, Keith Urban (coming to the Bradley Center Oct. 6), Lady Antebellum, Luke Bryan, Rascal Flatts and Summerfest performers Toby Keith, Jason Aldean, Sugarland and Sheryl Crow. Green Bay Packer Clay Matthews will also be making an appearance on the show.
Kid Rock and Crow share the upcoming Summerfest bill and a nomination in the Best Collaborative Video category. Watch "Collide" below:
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Twenty sites reporting this week. The second flight of European corn borer has started with nine sites reporting ECB-E and six sites reporting ECB-Z. Only three sites reporting corn earworm (CEW), but two of these were over threshold, indicating a need for a spray, please see the chart at the bottom of this page. Ten […]
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The hotel let us crash the billiards room to practice recepting. I had fun playing with the groom's gift from the bride—a Nikon D90. I need a speed light.
This is just an iPhone shot. But is this how billiard balls are stored? We were confused.
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Found Uncle Sam at Brown's in downtown Troy.
Asked the waitress what Brown's was between now and when it was Brown and Moran's. She said, "My mom still calls it Brown and Moran's."
I have never felt so old.
I have missed this place. I missed the Cherry Rasberry Ale. I missed the Spiedes. I missed walking into the kitchen thinking it was the bathroom.
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20 Nov
I don't have jetlag, but I got a late start painting my fingernails and toenails tonight, so I'm waiting for them to dry. So I'll catch you up on what I'm doing here in Schenectady, NY.
Two of my good friends, TOK and Vision Guy, are getting married. I'm the MoH (Maid of Honor), so I came a few days early to help prepare. You'd think that with all the weddings I've been to lately, I'd be better at this. But I'm not. Lucky for me, TOK has everything ready to go, so I have been helping with all the errands, watching the kids, and providing a small amount of entertainment.
One of the errands involved stopping by a facility for memory-loss patients. Of course, the first thing that happened was that I almost let one escape! When the staff buzzed TOK and I in, there was an elderly man standing by the door. As I walked in, he tried to slip out. The look on his face told me he wasn't supposed to be doing that, so I pulled the door shut behind me. But it wasn't quite fast enough and he opened the door up. The alarm sounded. A staff member came and coaxed him back inside.
The facility was pretty nice and the staff were helpful, but it was tough seeing everyone there looking kind of lost. I could only imagine what it must be like for the patients during those rare moments of lucidity when they recognize family members, realize where they are, and comprehend their situation.
TOK was amazing. Gentle, but persuasive. Incredibly caring. And I was useless. I didn't know what to do or say. Besides, it didn't seem like it would make any difference if I explained who I am. So as I sat there silent, I was thinking about how patient the staff must be, and how hard it is on family members when their loved one doesn't remember who they are any longer. And when TOK explained for the third time that she will be marrying this woman's son on Saturday, and the woman looked kind of confused and shocked, TOK joked again that maybe they should have mentioned the wedding sooner. And I tried to nonchalantly wipe away my tears.
7 Nov
I have a friend who has a theory, that the best hookups are at weddings. So I've been trying to test this theory by attending a lot of weddings. Of course, this is the same friend I tried to pick up at a wedding. I failed, but he has some very good points that validate my attempt:
1. Location, location, location!
Weddings are in cool places with great ambiance and music that you can talk over and dance to. The venue is beautifully decorated, well lit, and romantic. And sometimes you find some really great dancers. I do love a good lead…
Weddings are not in loud, smokey bars full of drunks where your shoes stick to the floor, the neon signs are flashing their way to certain death, strangers grind up against your ass, and you get caught gasping in horror in the morning when you see your hookup in natural light.
2. Appropriate attire is required
Everyone is dressed to the nines and looking pretty damn pimp. This is what your hookup looks like at their best. People spend hours primping and prepping and ironing and curling. No detail is missed.
So even if your hookup dresses like a slob in every day life, you know that if you put some effort into him, you can get him to look more like this on a regular basis.
3. Attitude
People are in a good mood and ready to party. The only tears are usually joyful and not into a beer. Mostly (see #5). Funerals are not particularly good places for hookups. Those are usually done out of desperation and despair. Not that I know any of this personally…
4. Veni, vidi, bibi vino
I'm not even going to paraphrase my friend on this one. He says:
Everyone is always drinking wine. Sure, there's beer, but wine just makes people want to take off clothing and get some skin on skin. (Sure, hard liquor makes folks wanna get naked too, but it's different. You wanna bone and get raw when you're boozing. With wine, you want naked skin on skin for hours, not just a quick "get me off" thrill like you want with booze.)
How can you dispute that?!
5. Timing is everything
My friend's theory on this:
[Weddings] always end like, at 10pm or 11pm. Rarely do they go to midnight. It's simply more difficult to find the energy to go get laid at 2am when you've been pounding swill. When it's 11pm and you've had three glasses of wine, there's plenty of time and energy left in the night to get it on.
Although I have been to a few weddings that lasted until the wee hours of the morning. One of those ended with me in my bridesmaids gown, sitting on the dance floor at 2am while Brother K pulled the hundred bobby pins from my hair as Meine Schwester's ex cried about his broken heart.
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5 Oct
Check out the full set of Civil Sarah and Rollerboy's wedding photos in mygallery.
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5 Oct
I arrived at the airport early, so I've already filtered through the photos. Seems someone thought it was a good idea to put wifi on the plane, so here are some teaser photos from Civil Sarah and Rollerblading Boy's wedding. The rest of the photos will be up as soon as I have more bandwidth.
These were on the groom's cake. Aren't they cute?
The Bride and Groom. Are you sure they are old enough to get married? What is the age for marriage in Texas anyways?
What are you looking at, Buster? Just because I was taking a photo of your wife's bum doesn't mean you can be a bum looker, you cheeky monkey!
Uh oh. What did she get herself into?
Do fathers ever look as proud as they do during the father-daughter dance at their daughter's wedding?
The rest of the California crew—my partners in crime.
They were making fun of me saying that all the photos of me are with a camera in front of my face. This is nothing new!
I hate using the flash. As a result, many of my photos are way too fuzzy to be any good. But I like the effect of movement. And I don't like the harsh light my flash produces. The problem is worse when I hand my camera to someone else. However, you can see the dress I bought today. Decided I wanted something new to wear to the wedding, so I found a mall on the GPS and bought a dress within an hour. Cut off the tags and put it on in the bathroom. I actually bought two dresses because they were on sale. Now I have to find a reason to wear the other one.
3 Oct
I'm headed to Dallas for a wedding. I'm one of those crazy people who takes the 6:20 am flights, so I've been up since 3 am. I was a little confused when my alarm clock went off, but other than going to bed at 8 pm on a Friday night, it's not so bad. Of course it would have been better if I had packed before going to bed. Oh well.
I am looking forward to taking a nice nap on the plane!
Posted from my iPhone
21 Jul
Here are a couple more teasers, but you can find the whole set in My Gallery.
20 Jul
Okay, okay, so that was all the polite side of the weekend. Here is what really happened in my imagination at the wedding.
To start, I put on the Magic Dress. You really have to see the Magic Dress in person to appreciate it. I don't actually understand it myself. But to give you some idea, one of the older ladies at the wedding came over to me specifically to say, "You look amazing!" That was it. She walked off.
The Magic Dress has one problem though. The possibility of a wardrobe malfunction is highly probable, and increases exponentially if I dance. Some people don't think of this as a problem, but lucky for me I had Physics Goddess to warn me of impending doom. Yes, once again, women are stopping other women from doing things that men would appreciate.
The wedding, really was as amazing as I said, you can see the photos once I post them. During drinks and appetizers, I was taking a lot of photos and people mistook me for the wedding photographer. That is okay. I'm not offended at that. I did get some good photos since people assumed that is who I was. Hope they didn't think poorly of the wedding photographer with a camera in one hand and a margarita in the other.
At the table, I made fun of Physics Goddess and as she pretended to pour her glass of wine on me, the glass mason jar with the candle in front of me spewed a large chunk of glass onto my plate. People were then afraid to clink my glass after that. They thought I was possessed.
Speaking of Physics Goddess, we had this whole imaginary storyline going this weekend. It started with our rented Subaru from Washington. We made up a story about us being a lesbian couple from Seattle. I work at Microsoft, she is a home maker and cares for our pet Chihuahua. Some day I'll bring a real date to a wedding.
Since I didn't have a real date, I was in search of one. So when we got up to get our food—it was buffet stations, and a brilliant way to do it!—I saw a cute guy sitting alone at a table. I stepped out of line and invited Lonely Guy to our table if he would bring with him the bottles of wine at his table. Minnesota Girl asked a few minutes later if that was flirting. She married the first guy she ever dated and isn't sure she would recognize it if she saw it. It was flirting all right. I thought I was going to get some. At least for a moment. Until that moment. The one where I saw his wedding ring. Fail.
But he was cute, and appreciated my sarcasm, and was kind enough to talk to me. He explained that he was seated at the table for the people working the wedding. Great. I'm hitting on the hired help.
Physics Goddess can corroberate my story. She watched me from afar as the flirting began and the flirting ended as soon as I realized he is married. She can also confirm that at the time, I didn't know he was the lead singer of the band. Which, by the way, made him even hotter. And harder to behave myself.
But I did behave myself. I talked with him more throughout the evening because he is a pretty cool guy, but I turned off the serious flirting. Too bad because I really miss flirting. Really. There is a big difference with what I normally do and when I'm seriously flirting. It all has to do with intent.
So the evening continued. I danced. I danced a lot. I got other people to dance. We were all hurting by the end, but I love dancing at weddings. Especially when I only know a few people and they swear not to tell everyone how clumsy I am.
And it is easy to dance when you have a kick-ass band. The Clintons were awesome! Music was great and they are really fun. If you ever have a chance to see them play, do. Or download their music on iTunes .
I met the grooms friends and almost convinced them to do a photo titled "Big Sky, Full Moon," but there were too many little kids running around. I tried hooking up PhD Math Major Barbie with Stifler, but she ended up with one of the less boisterous ones. She says that she wants to hook me up with her brother, but her friends thought her brother is gay. That would be typical for me.
I didn't realize it, but I did take a couple photos and talk to Margot Kidder. Lois Lane was at the wedding! No, Superman didn't show up.
Speaking of photos, this morning when I looked through the photos, I noticed that subconsciously I knew that Lonely Guy, aka John McLellan of The Clintons, played guitar because I have pictures of him playing for the wedding. So maybe I wasn't as innocent as I thought!
At the end of the evening, I did introduce myself to John and told him what I do. Suddenly instead of me being his groupie, he became my groupie. I try to use my powers only for good. At least I waited until I was leaving before I weilded my secret weapon. Female engineers are hot! Not quite as hot as lead singers of bands, but whatever.
Why am I single again?
Oh yeah, I hit on the wrong guys.
Before my bus turned into a pumpkin and the engine into horses at midnight, I made my exit.
But not before John gave me a pick.
Maybe I am a groupie. ;-)


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We just got out of Iraq and we're on our way out of Afghanistan. Wouldn't it be nice to not be at war for once in a decade? Think of the things we could put our efforts to if we weren't fighting in some foreign country!
Boots on ground is a possibility? Why?!
I've seen the photographs of the damages.
Hundreds of bodies without visible wounds or blood.
That screams chemical warfare.
An unidentified object entered our air space and unfortunately as a result it was brought down. It was understood only later that it was a Turkish plane. There was no hostile act against Turkey whatsoever. It was just an act of defense for our sovereignty.
Syrian Foreign Ministry spokesman Jihad Makdissi speaking with Turkish news channel A Haber about the incident. Turkey has threatened retaliation as Faruk Celik, the Turkish Labor and Social Security Minister stated, "The incident is unacceptable. Turkey cannot endure it in silence." (story)
I cannot see how this will end easily.
It is time for countries of influence to raise the level of pressure on the parties on the ground, and to persuade them that it is in their interest to stop the killing and start talking. The longer we wait, the darker Syria's future becomes… I have made it quite clear that I believe Iran should be part of the solution.
Marie and Remi died bringing us the truth about what is happening to the people of Homs. Governments around the world have the responsibility to act upon that truth – and to redouble our efforts to stop the Assad regime's despicable campaign of terror in Syria.
The deaths of veteran Sunday Times correspondent Marie Colvin and French photographer Remi Ochlik, and the rising toll of civilian dead inSyria, has prompted renewed calls for an end to the regime of Bashar al-Assad.
Their deaths came on a day in which, according to activists, more than 80 people were killed in the besieged district of Bab al-Amr in the city of Homs, which has been under daily attack by the Syrian army for the past three weeks. (source)
Uh-oh. White people died. Shit is about to go down.
My pen is Russia and its red ink, China.
The pages of my book, Tunisia, its lines, Syria.
Blame, blood, and guilt all come in crimson.
But so does hope.
A new history will be written
If old guards refuse to stand watch
And leave their mark
On the side of defined civil lines.
I am History; and so too will be tyranny.
The suffering citizens of Syria must know: we are with you, and the Assad regime must come to an end.


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SAN ANTONIO (AP) A former Army sergeant has been sentenced in federal court to 28 years in prison after pleading guilty to a charge that she recorded herself having sex with her 3-year-old son.
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Ever wonder where the idea of the number seven as lucky came from? More likely than not, the idea of good luck associated with seven comes from the number 7 in the Bible.
Both Christian and Jewish traditions have used numbers to interpret the Bible, although the practice is more common to Judaism. The interpretation of scriptures by using numbers is known as "gematria," a Greek word meaning "calculations." Many cultural traditions of interpretation or good luck, such as the number 7 in the Bible, come from the practice of gematria.
The following glossary of some examples of the meaning of the number 7 in the Bible and other numbers is from The Encyclopedia of Jewish Mysticism, Myth and Magic by Rabbi Geoffrey Dennis.
1 The number one means divine unity, as shown by God.
3 Three means completeness and stability, as shown in several examples such as the Three Patriarchs recognized by Judaism: Abraham, Isaac and Jacob.
4 The number four recurs in many Jewish practices based on historical traditions, such as the Passover Seder, which is built around fours: Four Questions, Four Sons and four cups of wine.
5 Five is the number of protection, as symbolized by the chamsa, a talisman or charm in the shape of a hand.
7 The number 7 in the Bible is considered one of the most powerful and lucky numbers in scripture, according to the practice of gematria. A prime example is the Creation of the world, accomplished by God in seven days according to Genesis. The Hebrew word for "luck," gad, equals seven in gematria.
8 Eight represents completion, such as the eight-day festival of Chanukah.
10 Ten is considered another major symbol of power and good fortune, based on the Ten Commandments.
12 Twelve is thought to symbolize wholeness and the completion of God's purpose. There are 12 tribes of Israel, descended from the 12 sons of Jacob, as well as 12 months in a year.
24 The number 24 represents abundance in gematria. Its meaning is linked to the height of Jerusalem as a city, when it had 24 main roads, 24 side-streets, and 24 alleys leading to 24 houses.
40 The number 40 represents a time of radical transformation, such as the 40 days of the Great Flood in Genesis 7.
70 The number 70 symbolizes the world as represented by the 70 nations, each with its own princely angel, in Jewish mystical imagination.
Lastly, in gematria, odd numbers such as the number 7 in the Bible are considered lucky, while even numbers, particularly pairs, are thought to bring misfortune.
Source for the Meaning of Numbers in the Bible
Dennis, Rabbi Geoffrey W., The Encyclopedia of Jewish Myth, Magic and Mysticism (Minnesota, Llewllyn Publications, 2007), and his blog site, http://ejmmm2007.blogspot.com/