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PAINT A PICTURE IN YOUR MIND of 5,000 pounds of glass, plastic, and metal. That's what is recycled each week at the Hilton San Francisco.
Now imagine if it weren't.
Or 50 tons of food, which is the average amount wasted each year at your typical 200-room hotel. Then multiply that by all the 200-room hotels in the world.
Or 2,500 pounds of cardboard boxes. That's the trash from just the packing material from exhibitors at Rite Aid's Health and Beauty Expo at Pittsburgh's new David L. Lawrence Convention Center. Fortunately, this meeting was held at a convention center that has become a model for its green practices — the cardboard was recycled.
The waste that meetings and conventions create is far from being at the top of the minds of most planners. But it's hard to think about images such as these and deny that it somehow needs to become a priority.
Green Means Savings
For one thing, environmentally sound meeting practices can translate into savings for a company.
"If you take a look at a trade show floor after the attendees are gone, you see the tremendous amount of waste left behind — brochures and collateral material, tchotchkes that people take and toss, signage, and food and beverage," says Kathleen M. Ratcliffe, president, Jacksonville & The Beaches Convention and Visitors Bureau. "Look at those as hard dollars littering the floor."
At a meeting organized by Meeting Strategies Worldwide Inc., event planners took the simple step of replacing bottled water with thermos-type containers and bulk dispensers. Conservatively estimating one bottle a day per attendee, the planner saved the client $12,187 — not counting the plastic that wasn't consumed.
"It's easy to afford the two extra hours of labor required to handle serviceware instead of disposables if [a group] has saved thousands of dollars by serving water in bulk dispensers," says Nancy J. Wilson, CMP, partner, Meeting Strategies Worldwide Inc.
Companies can learn from organizations with sustainability policies, such as the Ecological Society of America, that are at the forefront of green meeting practices. The 3,000-plus attendees at the ESA's annual meeting are very conscious of recycling and "green" linen policies. "They insist we hold meetings in 'green cities,'" says Ellen R. Cardwell, meetings manager, "and they are very vocal about the priority they place on resource conservation and wise use practices."
In the spotlight these days is the Coalition for Environmentally Responsible Conventions, a group that was founded two years ago to promote green practices at large conventions, beginning with this summer's Democratic and Republic National conventions. Made up of almost 70 environmental, community, and religious groups and businesses, CERC is working with the organizers to adopt green habits at these highly visible events, as well as to publicize their recycling efforts. For example, at the DNC, CERC arranged for renewable energy certificates (tradable units of energy, some of which comes from renewable sources) to power the event; got a commitment from the convention's main contractor to re-use the building materials from the stage and media center once they were dismantled; and organized volunteers from Walk Boston, a local group, to encourage visitors to walk around town rather than use taxis or buses.
Practice What You Preach
Aveda Corp. is one company that is a model for environmental sustainability, from its mission statement to its meetings. The goal of its recently established "green meeting team," which includes in-house meeting and show planners and environmental sustainability staff, is to "green" every Aveda event — from large industry shows to corporate training programs, global sales seminars, and task-force meetings at its headquarters near Minneapolis. A core objective is to create a central resource of suppliers, such as a company that makes binders from post-consumer waste and pencils produced with sustainably harvested wood.
At its most recent biennial Aveda Congress, the company arranged for all the hair cut by salon professionals on stage, in prep rooms, and in training sessions to be swept into compost containers. It hired recycling haulers, and encouraged the facility to work beyond its current processes. "We were firm, and the facility was a little unwilling at first," says Tara Wesely, outreach and education program manager, environmental sustainability for Aveda. "But we saw it through end-to-end, and the facility is more willing to work with us on this in the future." Similarly, Aveda walked the host hotels through the company's and attendees' expectations of green linen and other environmental policies. Some hotels went above and beyond these practices, even changing types of toiletries.
Trying to do the right thing hasn't been trouble-free. On the first day of a recent Aveda sales meeting, a new caterer prepared box lunches using clamshell and interior packaging rather than Aveda's preferred "low" packaging (brown paper bag). Well aware of the company's strong convictions about environmental sustainability, salon owners and distributors "had a fit," Wesely says. On day two, the lunch food was served banquet-style — a decision that cost Aveda $2,000 more in extra staff and reusable china and serviceware.
Aveda also has struggled with water service at events. "It's a tricky thing," says Wesely. "You're not sending the right message if you provide multiple plastic bottles." Instead, "very expensive" polypropylene bottles were set out, along with places for recycling them. However, the best solution, she believes, is giving attendees larger water bottles and providing resource stations with filtered water in meeting rooms, which is being planned for the next congress.
Where to Start
What to do about waste at meetings can be overwhelming for a meeting planner. A good place to explore options is the recently released recommended guidelines produced by the Convention Industry Council. (See "Green Links," at left.) This online resource provides a baseline measure and business proposition for planners and suppliers.
"States like California and cities like Portland, Ore., have passed laws requiring buildings to be sustainable, but without defining what that means. It could be difficult to live with the new laws if the industry didn't help define sustainability," says Mary E. Power, CIC president, explaining the genesis of the project. "What's doable and practical? It's better for more planners and venues to do something green rather than a few to do a lot."
She offers examples from the guidelines: "It's just as easy for meeting planners to order reinforced paper cups, rather than Styrofoam, when one is biodegradable and cheaper and the other isn't. And if you do box lunches, where half of the attendees will walk just across a hallway to eat, why not put food out on trays? It's less intrusive on the environment and less labor-intensive."
Meeting industry organizations are trying to lead by example. Meeting Professionals International posted its "How Green Are You?" guide online, and included a session on green meetings at its 2004 World Education Congress.
As for assistance with donation of excess food, planners for years have turned to Network for the Needy, an initiative of the Professional Convention Management Association. The recent merging of CharityDirect into Network for the Needy expands the food program to include excess goods.
Planners can also take their first step to reduce the environmental impact of their meetings with their RFPs. A clause can outline standard preferences for sites that have a comprehensive sustainability plan, programs to recycle and reduce solid waste, programs that conserve energy and water, environmentally responsible systems that treat solid and liquid wastes, and environmental initiatives above and beyond those listed.
RFPs can also ask facilities and destinations for newly emerging certifications, such as Green Globe 21. This worldwide program recognizes environmentally and socially sustainable performance by travel and tourism entities through independent auditing and benchmarking measurement. Similarly, the Green Hotels Association designates properties that institute programs to save water and energy and reduce solid waste while saving money. These range from adding "drinking water served on request only" to menus to installing new HVAC systems.
Learn from Hotels
Hotels have been onto the savings that environmentally sound practices can realize for several years. For these reasons, linen reuse, compact fluorescent light bulbs, and low-flow showerheads and toilets are making their way into more properties.
"Many things are extremely cost-effective for hotels, but they need the impetus from the customer," adds Tedd Saunders, president, EcoLogical Solutions Inc., and executive vice president, environmental affairs, The Saunders Hotel Group.
Also, corporate management and an active team within the hotel or convention facility must be committed to a recycling, reuse, or reduced consumption program in order to make it successful. That has been the case for the Hilton San Francisco, which is now in its ninth year of recycling discarded supplies on the hotel loading dock. Through the San Francisco Hotels/Nonprofit Collaborative, hundreds of thousands of tons are harvested annually and redirected from the landfill to the surrounding community.
"It is in the best interest of properties here to keep as much out of compactors as we can, especially with garbage collection being so expensive," says Jo Licata, community projects manager for the initiative. "Every convention that comes in knows we will take anything they don't want to ship home. At least 10 percent of groups take some action, and I see more every year."
Advocates of green meeting practices such as these believe that each small step has a positive effect in an industry as large as meetings and travel.
"Tourism is about to become the world's largest industry, and it will attract the same intense media scrutiny as mining and forestry," says Rick Antonson, Tourism Vancouver president and CEO. "We will be held accountable for environmental behavior as leaders, meeting-goers, and travelers. If we're not responsive, others will force us into best practices that make political sense, not business sense."
Maxine Golding has been writing and reporting about meetings and conventions for more than 20 years.
Green Links
BEST PRACTICES FOR GREEN MEETINGS were recently formulated by a Convention Industry Council task force. Minimum and "strongly recommended" best practices are outlined separately for planners and suppliers. Find them and links to other green meeting resources at www.conventionindustry.org.
GREEN MEETINGS POLICY, developed and adopted by the National Recycling Coalition in 2001, presents guidelines on including recycling and waste prevention in RFPs, plus a contract addendum on green meeting policies. Go to www.nrc-recycle.org/resources/resources.htm or www.bluegreenmeetings.org.
THE GREEN MEETINGS INDUSTRY COUNCIL (www.greenmeetings.info), still in development, aims to provide a single base of information to help planners source their reduction, reuse, and recycling needs, and to develop a certification process for planners, meetings, and suppliers.
The nonprofit OCEANS BLUE FOUNDATION promotes initiatives for environmentally responsible tourism and hosts www.bluegreenmeetings.org. The site features tips on getting started, an assessment tool, resources, and links for planners and suppliers, plus case studies on successful initiatives. Its activities are temporarily on hold because of the departure of its president, but the Web site is still active.
THE ENVIRONMENTAL PROTECTION AGENCY'S GREEN MEETINGS/CONFERENCE INITIATIVE was developed and is supported by the agency's Pollution Prevention Division. Access www.epa.gov/oppt/greenmeetings for a checklist for minimizing the environmental effects of meetings, contract language for obtaining "greener" conference planning/support services, and links to related initiatives. Among EPA's 26 Partnership Programs (www.epa.gov/partners2/comments.htm), the most applicable to the meeting industry are Energy Start, Green Lights, Green Power, Waste Wise, and Water Efficiency.
"HOW GREEN ARE YOU?" is a resource and reference guide produced in January 2000 by Meeting Professionals International. It outlines activities that support green meetings, 10 easy ways to be green, and recommendations for accommodations, transportation, F&B, facilities, and exhibitions (www.mpiweb.org/village/greenmeetings/).
GREEN HOTELS ASSOCIATION brings together hotels that are interested in environmental issues and instituting programs to save water and energy and reduce solid waste. Its 110-page "Guidelines and Ideas" helps members to identify how to reduce bills and the property's effect on the destination (www.greenhotels.com).
GREEN SEAL (www.greenseal.org/greeninglodge.htm) promotes environmentally responsible products and practices within lodging properties. It has developed a purchasing and operations guide, "Greening Your Property," and initiated a certification program to help travelers and planners identify environmentally responsible lodging properties (www.greenseal.org/certproducts.htm#lodging).
GREEN GLOBE 21. Launched a decade ago by the World Travel & Tourism Council, this membership and commitment-based program was expanded in 1999 with the introduction of a standard and independent auditing. It now includes measurement of environmental improvements through annual benchmarking. Participants are based in 50 countries (www.greenglobe.org).
THE COALITION FOR ENVIRONMENTALLY RESPONSIBLE CONVENTIONS was formed to promote environmental best practices at the 2004 political conventions. Find "5 Easy Steps to Making Your Hotel Greener" and "The Green Events Guide" for properties and event hosts at www.cerc04.org.
EPA Speaks Out on Meetings
RUSSELL CLARK, a specialist with the Environmental Protection Agency, works closely with the meeting industry on environmentally responsible initiatives, participating most recently with the Convention Industry Council in developing best practices.
CMI: How did the EPA target the meeting industry to become more environmentally responsible about the waste produced at events?
CLARK: We realized that an incredible amount of energy, products, and resources goes into a meeting, from beginning to end. With a factory or car, you see the pollution; it's hidden behind the scenes at meetings.
CMI: What are the objectives of the EPA's Green Meetings/Conference Initiative?
CLARK: The initial hope was to consolidate information about recycling and energy- and water-saving at meetings in one place online (www.epa.gov/oppt/greenmeetings). Fortunately, we came across Meeting Professionals International's white paper and started collaborating. Rather than organizing material by environmental issue, it made far more sense to divide information by destination selection, lodging, meeting space selection, and food and beverage. Now, I think the newly created Green Meetings Council, a collaborative industry group, will become the one-stop shop.
CMI: What areas of meeting management can benefit from reduced consumption, reuse, and recycling?
CLARK: Although a trade show or exhibition may not be a component of all meetings, it is one of the most overwhelming examples of extreme waste. While a lot of materials are packaged up and taken away, live trees, plants, carpeting, and one-time-use items go into the trash.
CMI: What is the thorniest issue?
CLARK: The lack of standardization of any kind. For example, what does it mean to be a green hotel? CIC's best practices are pushing things in that direction. In Canada, in the absence of accepted national standards, Green Seal is playing that role. But many people don't understand that actual procedures and processes need to be followed to gain credibility and national or international acceptance. Since we're hung up sometimes on the term green, maybe we should call them "smart" meetings.
7 Small Steps Bring Big Results
Request basic recycling (paper, plastic, glass, and cans) and visible bins at hotels and convention centers.
Require a linen and towel reuse program at contracted hotels, and encourage attendees to use it.
Curb energy use by asking facilities to moderate air conditioning and heat and to turn down lighting.
Plan to use china and serviceware, not disposables, at your food functions.
Don't overprint paper and meeting materials, and make sure that they are properly shredded and disposed of.
Arrange for beverages and condiments to be served in bulk dispensers during food breaks, minimizing individual servings.
Consider including foods that will keep longer or that can be donated as excess.

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Ace has been adopted!
Ace is a cute little Yorkie/Something mix. He was brought to us because his owner had a stroke and is no longer able to care for him. Ace is housetrained and a delightful lap dog. He is a confident little guy that plays well with other dogs and takes his "watchdog" responsibility seriousl.. It's hard to find any not to love about Ace.


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Battle Formation: Ino–Shika–Chō!!
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(無敵のフォーメーション!いのシカチョウ!!, Muteki no Fōmēshon! Ino–Shika–Chō!!) | |||
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Episode | Naruto #33 | ||
Next | Akamaru Trembles: Gaara's Cruel Strength! | ||
Arc | Chūnin Exam Arc | ||
Manga | Chapter #55, Chapter #56 | ||
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Battle Formation: Ino–Shika–Chō!! (無敵のフォーメーション!いのシカチョウ!!, Muteki no Fōmēshon! Ino–Shika–Chō!!) is episode 33 of the original Naruto anime.
Team 10 battles the Otogakure genin, and Ino possesses Kin Tsuchi, rendering both of them unable to fight. However, the Oto genin still manage to hold their own. Just as Lee's team-mates appear to join the fight, Sasuke awakens, the cursed seal given to him by Orochimaru engulfing him. Noticing Sakura's wounds, Sasuke begins attacking Zaku in retaliation, eventually breaking both of his arms. As Sasuke turns his attention to the final Oto genin, Dosu Kinuta, Sakura thinks to herself that this is not the real Sasuke and that he is somehow possessed. She then runs to him and embraces him. Sasuke's curse marks disappear and he falls to the ground. The terrified Dosu then leaves their scroll and retreats, vowing to be back.
- The title of this episode is share a similar name with Naruto Shippuden: The Complete Ino-Shika-Chō Formation


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Study: Babies Mistake Robot For A Human
Wow, what a picture. Somebody must've opted for the deluxe package at Sears Portrait Studio!
A study at the University of Washington's Institute for Learning and Brain Sciences took a sample of 64 18-month-old babies, who were all tested individually. The experimental test had the babies sit on their parents' laps, facing a remote-controlled humanoid robot. Sitting next to the robot was Rechele Brooks, one of the researchers on the study. Brooks and the robot (controlled remotely by an unseen researcher) would then engage in a 90-second skit, in which Brooks interacted with the robot as if it was a child, asking questions like "Where is your tummy?" and "Where is your head?" The robot would in turn point to its different parts. The robot would also imitate a few arm movements, like waving back and forth.
The babies who watched this skit looked back and forth between the robot and Brooks as if "at a ping-pong match," said Brooks. After the skit, Brooks left the room, leaving the baby and the robot alone. The robot would then beep and shift slightly to get the baby's attention, and then turn to look at a nearby toy.In 13 out of 16 cases, the baby would follow the robot's gaze, suggesting that the baby sees the robot as a sentient being, that what the robot looks at might be of interest to the baby as well. Babies at that age distinguish between, say, a swivel chair's movement and a person's movement, and will only follow the person. But in following the robot, the study suggests that the baby has decided that robot is a human being.
I'm not gonna lie, that doesn't even sound like a well-designed experiment. What it does sound like is child abuse. But what do I know? I'm just a man who was raised by super-intelligent beings from another galaxy to come save your sorry asses from the robots when the time arises. And you better hope I'm not on the john at said time. Because I sit there until my legs go numb and I'll be in no shape to fight robots for at least 20 minutes. 30 if I decide to make a snack after because I just cleared some room.
In New Study, Babies Think A Silvery Robot Is Human, As Long As It Acts Friendly [popsci]
Thanks to Mih0, Jeff and Kelly, who's babies will never mistake robots for people because they've got a little something I like to call Anti-Robot Intuition.
Note: Probably NSFW video is after the jump because I don't want any crying robot babies popping out and slopping on the front page. This is a video of a robotic vagina giving birth complete with the most terrifying sounds I've ever heard in my 29 years of existence (not even ... / Continue →
Just like lions attack in the wild, robots are planning on taking out the weakest of our proverbial herd first. Namely, children and old folks. All thanks to a little service class robot named ApriAttenda, by Toshiba. At just one meter tall, the robot can open doors, handle ... / Continue →
Like being a father, just the very thought of it makes me sick to my stomach. And the only thing that makes this redeemable is the fact that "my robe and wizard hat" also made the cut (bloodninja, high-five!). Oh, and "my Robert Pattinson". God that's pathetic. Listen Twi-H... / Continue →


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When I was in graduate school in the late 1970s, I remember the cliche of the day that I was taught to emulate. I would be a "hard-charging" person who had "lots of energy" to devote to a cause. In the 1980s the cliche had changed to "having a passion for" something, and by the 1990s, we were taught to put our energy to use in "win-win situations." All of these images, however, suggest that life is to be lived in energetic exertion--which I interpreted to mean ceaseless activity. Praise was heaped on those who had lots of civic activiites or whose every moment was taken up with the demands of people and the day. No one ever asked the person with a 20-page resume, "Well, when do you have a chance to think?" It would have been perceived as a small-minded or impertinant question.
Yet, what arrested me in opening the pages of Bill Moyers' book of a series of interviews of American poets, entitled The Language of Life, is how the first person interviewed (W.S. Merwin) describes the purpose of art in precisely opposite terms:
"Any work of art makes one very simple demand on anyone who genuinely wants to get in touch with it. And that is to stop. You've got to stop what you're doing, what you're thinking, and what you're expecting and just be there for the poem for however long it takes (p. 2)." Frost
"Any work of art makes one very simple demand on anyone who genuinely wants to get in touch with it. And that is to stop. You've got to stop what you're doing, what you're thinking, and what you're expecting and just be there for the poem for however long it takes (p. 2)."
Merwin's comment drew me immediately back to one of Robert Frost's most beloved poems, one that seems to reflect a tension between stopping and acting. The poem is "Stopping by Woods on a Snowy Evening." Note the claims of both stopping and moving on us.
"Whose wods these are are I think I know./ His house is in the village though;/ He will not see me stopping here/ To watch his woods fill up with snow./ My little horse must think it queer/ To stoop without a farmhouse near/ Between the woods and frozen lake/ The darkest evening of the year./ He gives his harness bells a shake/ To ask if there is some mistake./ The only other sound's the sweep/ Of easy wind and downy flake./ The woods are lovely, dark and deep./ But I have promises to keep,/ And miles to go before I sleep,/ And miles to go before I sleep."
Even Frost's horse must think it is queer that he would stop, with no "purpose," and simply watch the woods fill with snow. What goes through the mind as you stand and watch the snow fall, as you see a few flakes gently nestle on a rock and then realize that others are joining them, gradually piling on and seemingly erasing the hard form of the stone? Life freezes before you. You get the sense that time has stopped, and everything consequential in the world is wrapped up in that time of silence.
But then there is another claim on your life. You know that your destiny is not to stand in the woods, even if they are "lovely, dark and deep." You still must move on to the day's destination.
Stopping and Moving Today
Merwin says that art makes us stop. Art speaks to us while we are stopped and brings us into its world. It enriches and refines the world we bring to the work of art. But is art supposed to be a "break" in life, a kind of "time out" from the vigorous pace of living? Or, is it possible to integrate art into the central core of one's being, to be living as if always "stopped?" I suppose the Buddhist would say that to live in a "stopped" state would be to cultivate the characteristic of "mindfulness." And, perhaps that is what I am getting at.
But what would a life look like that truly "stops" and looks at the world so that you can "just be there for the poem for however long it takes"? And can we afford that? Can we trust ourselves enough to allow ourselves to stop? I have friends that seemingly want to develop a daily mindfulness or "stopped" attitude toward life, but they still fill up life with endless activities. I think that it takes courage to stop, to learn to notice the lines of the snow or the creases in another's face, to look at the rain as it falls or to contemplate the blueness of the sky. It takes courage for two reasons. First, after we have "stopped," we really have nothing to "show" for it. No essays, no books, no sales made, no clients contacted, to tasks crossed off the list. Second, we are afraid of the ridicule that will come our way from people who might see us in our "stopped" condition. What will they think? We get in the way if we stand on a city street and just contemplate the building in front of us. Worried homeowners call the police if they see us outside their home taking notes on the shape of the house. Task-oriented bosses think that we are working inefficiently if they catch us "daydreaming." And so we say we want to "stop and smell the roses," or "be more mindful" in life, but we don't live that way.
What would the world look like if we paid more heed to the gentle invitation of life to stop and examine? What would happen if we stayed with the arresting thing for "however long it takes?" I think we fear we might end up as failures and starve to death at the same time. That must be what holds us back. Perhaps we also fear that we might not notice anything and that this might really confirm our worst fears that we are completely uncreative people. Maybe, too, we don't stop because we then might have to face a different set of voices to the ones telling us to "press on" to the task. But stopping sounds very, very good to me these days. Even if I starve to death.


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1st Annual Ashland State Park Trail Race
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Sat 06/08/2013 | 08:00 AM | Two Loops (10K) | 10k |
*All proceeds will go to Boston Children's Hospital League*
*Custom awards to Top 3 Male and Top 3 Female Runners*
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Tia Norfleet is another hoax that fooled everyone
Only two months after the Manti Te'o saga provided a compelling example of how big media outlets can be suckered by a false story, another case has shown up that may reflect even more poorly on the sports media. That would be the case of Tia Norfleet, who's been profiled for years everywhere from ESPNw to The Washington Post to FanHouse/The Sporting News to The Huffington Post, often in such glowing terms as "the only black woman to be licensed by NASCAR."
The problem? As Viv Bernstein wrote in The New York Times last Wednesday, Norfleet's record comes nowhere close to what she's claimed; she has not been approved by NASCAR, only has a license to compete at the lowest level of stock-car racing (which doesn't come with a vetting process), and has only entered one low-level sanctioned race (where she completed a grand total of one lap). She also reportedly has a criminal record in Virginia and Georgia for assault and drug-related offenses.
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By Gene Kershner
We're only two weekends away from the 154th running of the Queen's Plate, the first jewel of Canada's Triple Crown, which will be held at Woodbine Racetrack just outside Toronto on Sunday, July 7. The mile and a quarter Canadian classic, restricted for 3-year-olds foaled in Canada should once again have a big field of competitors looking to win the Gallop for the Guineas.
Let's look at some of the top contenders vying for a piece of the $1 million purse:
Dynamic Sky - This Sky Mesa colt spent some time on the Kentucky Derby trail finishing second to Falling Sky in the Sam F. Davis at Tampa Bay Downs and followed that up with a distant fourth place finish in the Tampa Bay Derby behind Verrazano, Java's War and the aforementioned Falling Sky. He will be among the race favorites for trainer Mark Casse and owner John C. Oxley after finishing first in the $150K Plate Trial Stakes, the predominant prep race for the Plate. Super jockey Joel Rosario was in the irons for the Plate Trial.
His Race to Win - The son of Stormy Atlantic finished a nose behind Dynamic Sky in the Plate Trial after finally breaking his maiden after six tries. Connections will lose jockey Eurico da Silva who will likely ride Up With the Birds, winner of the $168K Marine Stakes. He has never missed the board in four tries on the all weather Woodbine surface.
Midnight Aria - The son of Midnight Lute, two-time Breeders' Cup Sprint champion, fetched $80K in the Keeneland September 2011 sale. The colt running for Fort Erie-based trainer Nick Gonzalez finished third in the Plate Trial after giving up the lead at the sixteenth pole. He finished third in the Wando behind talented colts Pyrite Mountain and Uncaptured. If he peaks at the right time he could be a win threat.
Nipissing - The filly's connections are pondering whether to enter the race after winning the $500K Woodbine Oaks two weeks ago over Spring in the Air, a filly who has a Grade 1 win on her resume. The daughter of 2004 Plate champion Niigon out of a Dixieland Band mare looks to have the credentials to compete. Two years ago the filly Inglorious won the race coming out of the Oaks. Trainer Rachel Halden will likely have veteran rider Steve Bahen in the irons, who won the 2002 Plate aboard T J's Lucky Moon, should they choose to enter.
Pyrite Mountain - Finished fourth in the Plate Trial after being caught four wide and was only 2 1/2 lengths behind the eventual winner. The Wando winner is trained by Mark Frostad and will likely be ridden by Luis Contreras, winner aboard Inglorious in 2011.
Spring in the Air - This Casse-trained filly won the Grade 1 Alcibiades at Keeneland in October with Patrick Husbands aboard. Rosario rode her in the Oaks, but will likely opt aboard Dynamic Sky opening up the mount for Husbands. She's just as dangerous as Nipissing and has the speed figures and pedigree to handle the classic distance. It will be interesting to see if the Casse/Oxley connections will enter her along with Dynamic Sky.
Up With the Birds - the Marine Stakes winner also placed second in the Grade 3 Transylvania Stakes on the turf on the opening day of the fall Keeneland meet. Another son of Stormy Atlantic out of a Seeking the Gold mare will be close to the top of the tote board on Plate day.
Belmont TV Ratings
The final television ratings for the Belmont Stakes were down overall when compared to 2012. The Belmont had a 4.5 national rating with a 11 share and 7.0 million viewers. This compared to 4.8/11 and 7.7 million viewers in 2012.
Once again, Buffalo finished with a strong showing, finishing third overall and completing a top 10 finish in all three Triple Crown races. Here's a look at the ratings for the top 10 cities for the Belmont
City |
Rank |
Rating |
Share |
1 |
9.3 |
18 |
2 |
8.9 |
17 |
3 |
8.8 |
18 |
4 |
8.6 |
17 |
5 |
7.6 |
15 |
6 |
7.1 |
18 |
7 |
6.9 |
12 |
8 |
6.7 |
13 |
9 |
6.6 |
15 |
10 |
6.2 |
15 |
Gene Kershner, a Buffalo-based turf writer, is a member of the National Turf Writers and Broadcasters Association, and tweets @EquiSpace.
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Corn declined, set for a weekly loss, after the U.S. government maintained its outlook that the country's farmers will boost acreage to the most since 1944, adding to global supply as Ukraine forecasts higher shipments.
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Comment: Context is odd that way. (Score 3, Insightful) 102
Boy, when you remove context from misleading headline excerpts, things sure do get wacky!
You know those jokes that sometimes aren't funny from old movies, that your relatives laugh real hard about? A large number of those came from the same logic - taking a topical story, removing the context, and applying hyperbole to the idea. They know the idea is misleading, and are 'in' on a joke that they just can't explain to you and still be funny.
Just bundling some of those together with a 'technology' theme isn't making a point - its bungling a joke. Not as bad as that whole 'beta' attempt, but still, a bad attempt at a joke.
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COVINGTON - A 13-year-old girl was killed in a one-car crash just before noon Saturday on Spring Road in Newton County, just east of the Rockdale County line.
According to Georgia State Patrol Trooper B. Marx, the girl was a passenger in an eastbound Chevrolet Malibu driven by her 19-year-old brother. "The car dropped off the shoulder of the road, he over-corrected ... hit an embankment and the 13-year-old was ejected and the car rolled on top of her," Marx said. The trooper said speed was a factor in the crash, but no charges are anticipated at this time. The 13-year-old was not wearing a seat belt, he said.More like this story
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Definition of demonolatry in English:
Syllabification: de·mon·ol·a·tryPronunciation: /ˌdēməˈnälətrē
- The worship of demons.More example sentences
- The grounds for this counter-claim are that if the judgment is a moral judgment, as I assumed, then demonolatry - the worship of evil spirits - would be self-contradictory.
- It should be mentioned that even practitioners of demonolatry are misled in their perceptions of the nature of demons.
- I'd just like to say demonolatry is generally separate from Satanism even when it's Satanism in which worship is involved because normally then only one demon is being worshipped.


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Trading up to the next iPhone? Gazelle has a deal for you
Gazelle is offering to lock in prices for used iPhones until October 1, after the next iPhone is rumored to hit stores.
For those planning on upgrading to the next iPhone model in September, Gazelle is taking the gamble out of early trade-ins with an extension of its price-lock guarantee.
Consumers who plan on selling a used iPhone to Gazelle can get a price quote locked-in now, but don't have to mail in their iPhone until October 1. It's widely rumored that the next iPhone model will go on sale September 21. If rumors are true, this would give sellers enough time to hold onto their current iPhone before replacing it with a newer model.
The extension only applies to quotes made on Gazelle between today and August 31. There's no obligation for sellers to go through with the trade-in, but it's a safe to bet that gadget-buyback sites will pay less for iPhones by October 1. The used value of iPhones tends to decrease as a new iPhone launch day approaches.
The Massachusetts-based electronic trade-in site has extended its typical 30-day quote guarantee to encourage more trade-ins from consumers looking for the best deal but skeptical about Apple's launch rumors. Rival buyback site NextWorth requires gadgets to be mailed in 21 days from the order date.
Anthony Scarsella, Gazelle's chief gadget officer, says the site began to see a spike of iPhone trade-ins last week. But that means sellers would have to go without their phone, or use an alternative phone in the meantime.
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As of Monday, Gazelle offered $277 for an AT&T iPhone 4S 16GB model in "good" condition. Scarsella said that offer could lower to $100 by the end of September.
"We're buying so many phones and it floods the markets," Scarsella said. "That tends to drop pricing."
Those planning to sell another type of phone, like an Android or BlackBerry, won't see the same price fluctuation as iPhones, Scarsella said. Despite the typical launch-day dip, Apple products do hold their value longer than most gadgets.
This is the first time Gazelle has extended its price guarantee, and there are no plans to repeat this offer for iPad sellers.
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Control a ship through 3 stages by moving him with the arrow keys and shooting bullets with x. Shoot everything you see to get the highscore in the scoretable and can you beat the game? NG Medals included/achivements included. Good Luck!
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The game looks interesting, but I can't shoot!!! I can move the ship with the mouse, but clicking doesn't make the ship shoot and neither do any of the buttons on the keyboard. The only time the ship shoots is at the beginning of the level, just when the ship appears. Please fix this.
Also, I would suggest taking out the arrows keys and x button on the screen if they are useless and you should update your "author comments" section to let the players know that you are suppose to use the mouse.
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It doesn't seem to be entirely free of glitches. The controls work, and so does shooting, but at the start of each level the shots appear only at the top of the screen, only through repetetive clicking do they start appearing where the ship is. Apart from that it's a fun game. The levels are all varied and challenging to play, though it gets easier once you settle in the 'flow' of the game and find the pattern. :) It's a fun shooter though, with crispy pixel graphics. A great play!
I have completed a great game.
Where is musics. I want musics.
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U.S. Department of Transportation Office of Public Affairs Washington, DCwww.dot.gov/affairs/briefing.htm
FMCSA 14-02 Wednesday, July 31, 2002 Contact: Suzy Bohnert Telephone: 202-493-0189
Continuing its efforts to improve the safety of trucks and buses, the U.S. Department of Transportation's Federal Motor Carrier Safety Administration (FMCSA) today issued a final rule that significantly strengthens the licensing and sanctioning requirements of the commercial driver's license (CDL) program for truck and bus drivers required to hold a CDL. The rule is effective Sept. 30, 2002.
This final rule, which implements provisions of the Motor Carrier Safety Improvement Act of 1999, combines two CDL rulemakings proposed in 2001.
"These comprehensive requirements for those who want to drive trucks and buses will help ensure that our highways are safer," U.S. Transportation Secretary Norman Y. Mineta said. "Only safe drivers should operate trucks and buses, and this rule will help make that happen."
With this final rule, FMCSA intends to make the CDL program more effective in preventing dangerous truck and bus drivers from continuing to drive. It strives to improve safety by improving the performance of drivers and removing unsafe drivers from the road.
Within three years after the rule's effective date, FMCSA will penalize states not in substantial compliance with licensing and sanctioning requirements of the CDL program by withholding Motor Carrier Safety Assistance Program (MCSAP) money. MCSAP funds provide financial assistance to states through federal grants.
The new rule allows FMCSA to prohibit states that do not comply with this rule from issuing, renewing, transferring, or upgrading CDLs and from issuing hardship licenses to truck and bus drivers who lose their driving privileges. States that comply with FMCSA CDL requirements will be permitted to issue non-resident CDLs to drivers living in states that have lost that privilege.
As a result of this final rule, FMCSA may now disqualify commercial motor vehicle (CMV) drivers who have been convicted of traffic violations while operating a passenger vehicle that result in their license being canceled, revoked or suspended, or of committing drug and alcohol-related offenses while driving a passenger vehicle. It also adds the following two new disqualifying offenses: driving a CMV after a CDL was revoked, suspended or canceled for operating a CMV; and causing a fatality through the negligent or criminal operation of a CMV.
The regulation expands the list of serious traffic violations to include drivers who fail to obtain a CDL, driving a CMV without a CDL in the driver's possession, and operating a CMV without proper class of CMV being driven or type of cargo being transported. The regulation authorizes FMCSA's Chief Safety Officer to disqualify, on an emergency basis, CDL drivers who pose an imminent hazard, a condition that presents a likelihood of death, serious personal injury or substantial danger to the public.
The final rule requires that applicants obtaining, transferring, or renewing a CDL tell their state driver-licensing agency where they previously held motor vehicle licenses. This enables the issuing agency to obtain a candidate's complete driving record.
A new requirement in the rule creates a new endorsement. Applicants wanting to operate a school bus must pass knowledge and skills tests before receiving a CDL for that purpose. States with school bus licensing programs that currently meet or exceed FMCSA requirements may continue to test and license school bus drivers.
The Commercial Vehicle Safety Act (CMVSA) of 1986 established the CDL program and the Commercial Driver's License Information System (CDLIS) to serve as a clearinghouse and repository of CDL information and traffic-conviction data. The CMVSA also requires state personnel to ensure that drivers convicted of certain serious traffic violations are prohibited from operating a CMV.
The final rule is on the Internet and can be viewed by searching for docket numbers FMCSA-2001-9709 and FMCSA-00-7382 at http://dms.dot.gov/ .
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Metropolitan State University of Denver offers a number of student services including nonremedial tutoring, women's center, placement service, day care, health service, and health insurance. Metropolitan State University of Denver also offers campus safety and security services like 24-hour foot and vehicle patrols, late night transport/escort service, 24-hour emergency telephones, and lighted pathways/sidewalks. Alcohol is permitted for students of legal age at Metropolitan State University of Denver.
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SAC Faces the Music: Preet Bharara Goes Nuclear on Hedge Fund—Is Cohen Next?
Last Thursday, when the government charged SAC Capital with perpetrating an insider-trading scheme from 1999 through 2010, the move answered a lot of questions people had been asking of late. The main one: given the fact that the Feds had yet to charge SAC's founder, Steven Cohen, with any crimes, was he going to get off scot-free while an ever-growing number of his henchmen were charged with—and convicted for—crimes committed under his watch? Was it the same old story, in which another of Wall Street's powerful avoids punishment for something he quite likely encouraged and most definitely profited from? The refreshing answer: not this time. The U.S. attorney for the Southern District, Preet Bharara, plays hardball, and he just threw a fastball right at Mr. Cohen's chin. Read More