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HR and SEO Consulting Services
Believe it or not, the HR and SEO consulting services work hand in hand when it comes to making a company grow. The thing is that while the HR consulting department is in charge for finding the best people for the job, the SEO department is responsible for the implementing of the status of the firm and making the company more popular and more appreciated. When you decide to open a new company, these are the two most important departments you should take care of. Although there might not be any obvious relation between the two, you need to know that the people in the HR department are responsible for hiring the best people for the SEO department.
Once you have understood the relation and the importance of having two such departments in your firm, you will see that it will soon start to grow. The SEO department is the one responsible of making the company become more popular and to otpimize the company website, as it has already been stated. It is formed by people who have a certain experience in the field and who are able to think creatively and analytically, so as to be able to promote the firm in the best way. Together with the marketing consulting department, the SEO people are able to implement an online marketing strategy. The SEO department can easily come up with great ideas regarding the design of the company's website and other big ideas related to how the website's ranking can be implemented. Sure, it is easy to set up a website, but it's never easy to get people to visit it and buy your services, that's what SEO people do, help you get more visitors and more sales.
Although it sounds like an easy job, you should know that it is not that easy. And, if you are looking to hire people for the SEO department, you should not pick the ones who tell you that they can make your website rank the first in any Internet searching engine. This is not possible, especially not in a short period of time.


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BEACH FRONT condo with stunning views of the Gulf of Mexico in South Padre Island
- bedrooms 1
- baths 1
- sleeps 4
- pool yes
- hot tub no
- pets considered yes
- type Condo
rates (USD)
/ night
$ 650 - $ 1,500 / week
$ 2,000 - $ 5,000 / month
vacation rental description
This beautifully remodeled condo is directly on the beach - walk down the stairs, and 20 paces to put your feet in the sand. You will be lulled to sleep by the the ocean, and gently awake to the songs of the birds and the light of the sun as it rises over the Gulf of Mexico. Watch the sunrise while lounging in bed - The bedroom and living room each have sliding patio doors which open out onto a 20 foot balcony. The views from this 3rd floor unit are stunning. The kitchen features custom cabinets, granite counter tops, and stainless steel appliances including a dishwasher. The bathroom features granite countertops, custom cabinets and a tiled, walk-in shower. The living room has vaulted ceilings, flat screen TV and stunning views of the beach and ocean. The master bedroom has a king size bed, vaulted ceilings, an in-room safe, and a flat screen TV. The complex also has 2 heated swimming pools, beautiful landscaping, free WI-FI and cable TV. Coin laundry facilities. Come relax in paradise!
**Building is not handicapped accessible: This is a 3rd floor unit, with no elevator.**
vacation rental location
property availability
- dates with deals
- unavailable dates
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condo rental amenities
Property Type
- condo
- floor area 750 sq. ft.
- floor 3
- guests provide their own meals
Location Type
- beach
- waterfront
- This unit is directly on the beach. Patio doors in living room and bedroom make for stunning views of the gulf and beach.
- This condo is directly on the beach.
beach view
- Beach is 20 paces in front of our condo. The balcony is a great place for relaxing with a great beach view.
ocean view
- Open the curtains and enjoy stunning views of the Gulf. We especially enjoy the sunrise with coffee on the balcony.
- family
- away from it all
- romantic
- sports & activities
- tourist attractions
- living room
clothes dryer
- Coin Laundry on Property
- Free local calls.
parking for rv/boat/trailer
- There is normally room for trailer/boat parking in the Tiki parking lot.
washing machine
- Coin Laundry on Property
parking off street
- The Tiki has private parking. A parking pass is available at the office and should be displayed.
- sofa bed
wireless internet
- Free wireless internet.
- telescope
- air conditioning
- heating
- linens provided
- internet
- towels provided
- iron & board
- alarm clock
- hair dryer
- local maps
- paper towels
- local restaurant guide
- shampoo
- basic soaps
- toilet paper
- iron & board, coffee maker, 4 burner stove/oven, blender, toaster, stainless steel appliances including dishwasher and microwave
- stove
dishes & utensils
- dishes, glasses, silverware, serving dishes
cooking utensils
- pots and frying pans, pizza pans, cookie sheet, baking pans
- coffee maker
- toaster
- blender
- 4 ring stove
- dishwasher
- refrigerator
- oven
- microwave
- kitchen
- dining area
Pool / Spa
communal pool
- (2) 2 heated pools on premises. Located in lush landscaped area between the buildings that protects them from the wind.
- in ground pool
- heated pool
- communal pool
- Bathrooms
- 1 bathroom
- bathroom 1: toilet, shower, Tiled walk-in shower; granite countertop
- Custom built vanity and linen closet, granite countertop.
- Bedrooms
- 1 bedroom, sleeps 4
- bedroom 1: 1 king
- bedroom 2: 1 sleep sofa /futon, in living room
- 13'x15' bedroom, with king size bed, large dresser, clock/alarm; flat screen TV on wall; 2 large open face closets for your clothes and shelves for storing your luggage. There is also an in-room safe.
- There are some children's beach toys in the beach closet
video library
- DVD player supplied along with a few DVD's
- television
satellite / cable
- Free cable TV. 42' flat screen in living room and 32' flat screen in bedroom. Both have RCA and HDMI hook ups.
- dvd player
- toys
- deck furniture
- beach umbrellas
- beach chairs
- beach towels
- small cooler
- courtyard
- walkway to water
outdoor grill
- Grilling area on the 1st floor, on the North side of the building. NO GRILLING ON THE BALCONY
- Large ( 6' x 20' ) balcony with lounge chaise and pub height table and 4 chairs. The higher table and chairs make it easier to see over the railings for great beach and ocean views!
children welcome
- The kids will love the Turtle Rescue Center across the street. There is a large water park, The Schlitterbahn, on the South end of the island. Go carts and bungee jumping for all ages near Louie's Backyard on the bay.
- wheelchair inaccessible
- non smoking only
pets considered
- Pets under 25 pounds considered for additional fee.
minimum age limit for renters
- renters must be age 23.
- children welcome
- Notes
- **THIS IS A 3RD FLOOR UNIT - NO ELEVATOR** Dining area has pub height table and chairs for spectacular views while dining. The balcony has a lounge chair, as well as a bar height table and 4 chairs, which allow you to relax and watch the beach goers from your private balcony. A small cooler, 4 beach chairs, beach umbrella, 4 beach towels, straw beach mats, boogie board, children's sand toys, and beach tote are included for our guests' comfort at no charge.
activities and attractions in South Padre Island Texas
- bay/sound
- botanical garden
- churches
- cinemas
- marina
- museums
- water parks
- restaurants
- zoo
Leisure Activities
- luaus
- scenic drives
- sight seeing
- beachcombing
- bird watching
- horseback riding
- walking
- shopping
Sports & Adventure Activities
- cycling
- snorkeling/diving
- swimming
- sailing
- fishing
- golf
- wind-surfing
- paragliding
- scuba diving or snorkeling
- surfing
- equestrian events
- snorkeling
- sound/bay fishing
- surf fishing
- deepsea fishing
- hiking
- jet skiing
- pier fishing
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Teen Summer Reading Volunteer Training
Time: 5:00pm-6:30pm
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Call them bedroom music, or quiet storm, or mood setters, if you really want to be polite about it. But basically what they are is sex songs, songs about getting a little somethin.' Unlike other romantic songs, these R&B songs aren't talking about love - they're all about good old-fashioned lust. So if you're looking to put together a mix CD of songs that convey that emotion, your Guide has some suggestions, which include tunes by Usher, Aaliyah, Trey Songz and other artists known for sensual and sexually-charged music.
'Dive,' Usher
Just like another song on this list, Trey Songz' "Dive," Usher's tune uses a water metaphor to convey a message about sex. A sample of the lyrics: "It's raining inside your bed, No parts are dry, Loving makes you so wet, your legs, your thighs/And ever since we first met I knew that I, I knew I was ready baby, to take that dive."
'Play,' Goapele
Although she's more known for her social, political and message-minded music, Goapele really switched things up here, and the mid-tempo "Play" is probably the sexiest, most sensual song she's ever recorded: "I wanna play, play around, tell me if you think that you can get down/'Cause this is what I'm dying for, I mean this is what I'm dying to do," she sings in a breathy, alluring tone.
'Adorn,' Miguel
In an interview with People magazine, Miguel said he was inspired to write this sexually charged song after he'd been on a long trip and was anxious to get home to see his girlfriend. As the lyrics indicate, the song's about a strong desire for physical intimacy. Key lyrics: "These lips, can't wait to taste your skin baby, And these eyes, can't wait to see your grin, Just let my love, Just let my love adorn you."
'So Anxious,' Ginuwine
If you plan on listening to this Ginuwine song in bed with that special someone, make sure you have good springs in your mattress, ones that won't wear out easily after frequent usage.
'Rock the Boat,' Aaliyah
It was the video for the very sensual "Rock The Boat" that Aaliyah had just filmed in the Bahamas in August 2001 when her plane crashed on the way back to the U.S. Despite the tragedy associated with it though, "Rock the Boat" went on to become a hit on the charts as well as a mainstay on late night "Quiet Storm" radio. (By the way, the 'boat' Aaliyah sings about in the song is actually a metaphor for part of the female genitalia.)
'Dive In,' Trey Songz
On the sexually-drenched "Dive In," Trey Songz uses suggestive metaphors to equate lovemaking to taking a swim. Here's some sample lyrics: "I'm about to dive in, baby girl hold your breath, we about to get so we swimming in your body, let me dive in, you know ain't no runnin' 'round this pool, goin' under just for you."
'Sex Never Felt Better,' TGT
"Sex Never Felt Better" is pretty much what you'd expect from the trio of Tyrese, Ginuwine and Tank: a seductive jam about the joys of lovemaking: "Bring it over here, turn your phone off, leave them heels on, take them clothes off, I wanna see no one else, 'cause I'm yours tonight," Tyrese sings at one point. "Sex ain't never felt better, I wanna swim in it all night, Girl your body belongs to me, belongs to me."
'PDA (We Just Don't Care),' John Legend
"PDA (We Just Don't Care)" is John Legend's ode to public displays of affection. On this song, Legend lets his inner freak out by singing lyrics like "I see you closin' down the restaurant, let's sneak and do it when your boss is gone, everybody's leavin, we'll have some fun, oh maybe it's wrong, but you're turnin' me on."
'Sweet Pain,' Anthony David
This is a straight-up S&M sex jam, with Anthony David seducing the listener with lyrics like "I been watching, waiting, hoping, wishing we could get it on together, let me introduce you to some sweet pain." The song's from his Love Out Loud album.
'Let's Lay Together,' The Isley Brothers
This tune, which was originally featured on the soundtrack to the 1996 Wayans Bros. comedy "Don't Be a Menace...," is about a man coaxing a woman to give up the goods in bed. Or as Ronald Isley puts it in the song: "Your body is warm but you're still unsure, I'll have you know that I have the perfect cure, yeah, Step in my room and I'll take your fears away, Put your trust in me and all that I say, Tell me, can we lay?"


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'Battlestar Galactica: Blood & Chrome' to Premiere Online Before Debuting on TV
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And is it continuing afterward in webisode form? Or are they basically abandoning it entirely after airing the pilot?
Why, what did you hear? I assumed it was dead when they announced that Singer was directing the next
. But I haven't actually heard anything (nor was I expecting to at this point).
Hi, Sam,
As far as I know, for B&C, it's just the seven 12 minute episodes. I don't know if there are any plans for anything else beyond Blood and Chrome. Would be nice though. I loves me some Galactica, from either the Larson or the Moore productions.
As for the Galactica big screen project, I think it's pretty much dead, and a couple of friends of mine (hardcore Classic Galactica fans) who seem to have some inside information are saying that those sources are pretty much saying it's dead. Bryan Singer always says: "Yes, we're getting ready to do Galactica" and then another more high profile project comes along and he gets signed onto it.
Hi, Kevin,
Sadly, that report is about a year old, and in conjunction with the recent events, I think it's safe to say that a big screen Galactica project is dead and gone. Much to my dismay, but that does seem to be the case.
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From Texas A&M Athletic's Department:
Aggies Host Arkansas Wednesday to Open SEC Play
Aggie Basketball Game #14:
Texas A&M (10-3; 0-0 SEC) vs. Arkansas (9-4; 0-0 SEC)
January 8, 2013 · 8:00 p.m. (CT)
Reed Arena (12,989)
College Station, Texas
Dari Nowkhah, Play-by-Play
Dino Gaudio, Commentary
-Check with your cable provider for channel number/availability in your area
RADIO: Texas A&M Radio Network
Dave South, Play-by-Play
Al Pulliam, Commentary
Local: WTAW-AM 1620 (College Station/Bryan)
LIVE AUDIO/STATS: AggieAthletics.com
TICKETS: Available at the door or online at tickets.12thManFoundation.com
COLLEGE STATION, Texas — The Texas A&M men's basketball team begins its inaugural run thought the Southeastern Conference on Wednesday night when the Aggies host Arkansas inside Reed Arena at 8 p.m.
The contest will be televised nationally on ESNPU with Dari Nowkhah (play-by-play) and Dino Gaudio (commentary) calling all the action. Additionally, the game can be heard on the Aggie Radio Network (1620 AM locally in Bryan/College Station) as well as streamed online at AggieAthletics.com.
Texas A&M (10-3) will be looking to start off league play on a winning note as well as claim a third consecutive victory after defeating Houston Baptist 67-59 at Reed Arena on Jan. 3 during its last outing.
The HBU win featured a game-high 17 points from senior guard Elston Turner, who is in the midst of an impressive run of scoring constancy to begin the 2012-13 campaign. The Sacramento, Calif., native leads the Aggies in scoring with 15.5 points per game after reaching double figures in each game this season to give him 10 or more points in 36 of 45 games wearing an A&M uniform.
In addition to Elston, teammate Ray Turner has begun to ratchet up his level of play heading into league action. The 6-foot-9 forward paces the Aggies in rebounding with 86 on the year while also contributing 12 points per contest.
Junior guard Fabyon Harris has also been a solid scoring option for the Aggies during his first season in the program after transferring from the College of Southern Idaho. The Chicago native scored 11 points against HBU to give him seven games of double-figure scoring this season.
Wednesday will not only be the first SEC contest for the Aggies but it will mark a reunion with former Southwest Conference runningmate Arkansas. The two schools shared a spot in the SWC from 1915-1991 when the Razorbacks joined the SEC.
The two schools have faced off 147 previous times on the hardwood during the series, which dates back to the 1923-24 season. Most recently, the two schools met up on Dec. 18, 2010, at Dallas' American Airlines Center ... The 71-62 overtime victory by the Aggies marked the first meeting between the two schools since the break-up of the SWC.
Arkansas (9-4) comes to Aggieland riding a five-game winning streak after earning an 86-51 victory over Delaware State in Fayetteville on Saturday.
The Razorbacks are led by second-year head coach Mike Anderson who returned to Arkansas, where he was an assistant coach from 1985-2002 after successful head coaching stints at UAB and Missouri. A&M fans will also recognize another familiar face on the Hogs' bench as former A&M head coach Melvin Watkins serves as associate head coach.
On the court, Arkansas is highlighted by sophomore guard B.J. Young, who garnered preseason First Team All-SEC honors by the league's coaches and ranks third in the SEC in scoring with a 17.7 point per game average.
Junior forward Marshawn Powell leads the Razorbacks in rebounding with an average of 5.6 points per contest while chipping in 15.2 points per game.
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Rush deosn't compromise when it comes to technicality, even if they're letting the synths do the heavy lifting. Each member or Rush makes a contribution to each song with his instrument, and all the parts never get drowned out or lost in the rich sound.
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Luxury Condo - Courtyards in City Place in West Palm Beach
- bedrooms 1
- baths 1
- sleeps 4
- pool yes
- hot tub yes
- pets allowed no
- type Condo
- community CityPlace Courtyards
- rates (USD) $ 1,500 - $ 2,350 / month
vacation rental description
City Place is an exciting Downtown destination in beautiful West Palm Beach, Florida.
RENTAL LICENSE (City of West Palm Beach) : 000025621
In the center of it all! Walk to live entertainment, restaurants,
night clubs, Kravis performing arts theater, art galleries, shops,
churches, movies, comedy club, intracoastal waterway, and the
beautiful Palm Beach Island just a couple miles away. Bike to the
beach or drive to the many beaches and parks on this part of the
coast. Short drive to Orlando theme parks, Fort Lauderdale or Miami.
5 minutes to Palm Beach International Airport.
This condominimum has many amenities including: private courtyards,
pool, spa and fitness center, 24 hour security, clubhouse and
private movie theater, and a private walkway to adjoining City
3rd floor Courtyard Condo overlooks the Kravis Center for the
Performing Arts and is directly across the street from the Palm
Beach Convention Center. This comfortable, furnished condominium has
one bedroom with a Queen size bed. The den can be used as a second
bedroom. The den has a queen size sofa bed.
The kitchen has the ususal (refrigerator, stove, dishwasher, garbage
disposal, microwave, coffee maker, blender, all pots, pans, dishes,
flatware, etc.)
There is one designated parking space in the covered garage, with
covered, secure walkway into the building. A key card is required to
enter the garage, the grounds, and the building.
There is a mandatory $250 to register your pet during your stay (condo association policy)
vacation rental location
property availability
- dates with deals
- unavailable dates
Last modified on 06-13-2014 at 7:54 PM.
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Benoit Huot 514-915-0763
condo rental amenities
1 Bedroom, 1 Bathroom
Bedroom has a Queen Bed
Den has a queen size sofa bed
Sleeps up to 4.
WIFI INTERNET in the condo
Carpeted Living room, dining room and bedrooms
Comfortably decorated
Central A/C, ceiling fans, stove/oven, microwave, dishwasher,
refrigerator, washer, dryer. All appliances
are full size.
Plasma TV with cable!
Tropical lush Resort style swimming pool and hot tub
Fitness Center
Gated garage with assigned parking space
Business center with computer and fax
activities and attractions in West Palm Beach Atlantic Coast South
Courtyards in City Place
Walk to:
The Harriet Himmel Theater - a renovated historical church - 1 block
Historic School of the Arts - 1/2 block away Kravis Center of the
Performing Arts - across the street Palm Beach Convention Center -
across the street The Palladium at City Place - 1 block - includes
Dancing Fountains, Sunday Jazz, Live performances, Stores (Macy's),
Boutiques, Restauramts (Cheescake Factory) Cafes. For the Night owl -
Martini Bars, Coffee shops, Muvico theater, Improv Comedy Club
Downtown Trolley service, Horse and Carriage rides
Minutes to:
The famous and beautiful Palm Beach Island, Public beach
access/Atlantic ocean - 1 mile.
Intracoastal waterway - 1/2 mile
Worth Ave. shopping and dining 1.5 miles.
Gold - Many golf course around
Rapids Water Park - 20 minute drive
Clematis Street - a few blocks away for more Dining and Nightlife
Office Depot Center-Home of the Fla. Panthers hockey Team, see an
NHL Ice Hockey game or a Concert - 1 hr 15 min.
Beautiful Delray Beach/Atlantic Ave.- nice antique shops, dining,
clubs, public beach access - 20 minute drive.
Palm Beach Princess - floating Casino - 20 minute drive.
1 mile to I-95
5 miles to Fla. Turnpike
10 minutes from/to Palm Beach International Airport
A bit longer but worth the drive:
45 minutes from/to Ft. Lauderdale International Airport and Port
1.5 hours from/to Miami International Airport and Port of Miami
1.5 hours to Miami's famous South Beach and the Art Deco District
2.5 hours to Orlando
vacation rental rates
City Place Courtyard rates:
May thru Sept. = $1500 USD Month
Oct. and Nov. = $1700 USD Month
Dec. thru March = $2350 USD Month
April = $1800 USD Month
Yearly = $1400 USD Month
(Month = 4 weeks)
Seasonal Rates, as well as long term and Corporate relocation rates
available. Please inquire by phone or e-mail.
50% Deposit upon reservation
Balance due 15 days prior to arrival
Check in 3:00 p.m., Check out 11:00 a.m.
Cancellation Policy:
91 to 180 days notice - 25% Cancellation fee.
46 days to 90 days notice - 50% Cancellation fee.
Less than 45 days - no refunds.
$500 Damage deposit - refunded within 15 days of departure and
Additional fees may apply for mailing of the key and the pass if the reservation of the condo was completed 15 days before arrival and the payment was delayed.
Cleaning fees : $85
There is an additional 11% tax (6% Fl.Tax & 5% Tourist Tax)
PET: There is a mandatory $250 to register your PET during your stay (condo association policy)
Only non-toxic and environment friendly cleaning products used.
Includes all utilities:
fitness center, clubhouse, private theater room, pool, jacuzzi,
covered parking
Benoit Huot 514-915-0763
payment methods
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Shabazz Palaces Raises the Bar on "Lese Majesty"
"Lese Majesty" is a standout album because it meets and exceeds the high standard of creativity to which Shabazz Palaces challenges the entire genre to rise.
Lewis is Cleverly Emotive on "The Voyager"
Lewis's folksy vocals, clever writing, and upbeat instrumentation have come together magnificently to create an album equal parts emotionally affecting and irresistibly fun.
Dark Themes Dominate "Nobody's Smiling"
Not only has Common added a fresh sound to his brimming catalog of records, but he has also delivered an inspiring and apposite socio-political charge to the community dearest to him.
"Trouble in Paradise" No Trouble On the Ears
An album that cleverly draws from other genres and refuses to take itself too seriously, "Trouble in Paradise" proved that Elly Jackson is singlehandedly capable of laying down a fantastic pop album.
Morrissey Shows His Teeth on "World Peace"
"World Peace" is almost one-dimensional in its charged character. The result is an unrelenting odyssey into the self-assertive character that is Morrissey—a world that while initially fascinating becomes exhausting.
Sia Sells Pop on "1000 Forms of Fear"
Regardless of whether she's comfortable with it or not, fame has set its sights on Sia, and it's likely that "Fear," far from innovative, yet still accomplished, will elevate the star to even higher strata.
Beverly's Debut an Underwhelming Summer Jam
Beverly might be Frankie Rose's main focus moving forward, or a one-off side project, but "Careers" doesn't ask a lot of questions that feel like they need answering in a follow-up.


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Catalogue Number: Y35-L2RG
- Author: Vince Flynn
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- Publisher: Simon & Schuster Ltd
- Published: 13 November 2012
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The four dead guards didn't concern Mitch Rapp as much as the absence of the man they'd been paid to protect. Joe Rickman wasn't just another foot soldier. For the last eight years Rickman had run the CIA's clandestine operations in Afghanistan. It was a murky job that involved working with virtually every disreputable figure in the Islamic Republic. More than a quarter billion dollars in cash had passed through Rickman's hands during his tenure as the master of black ops and no one with a shred of sense wanted to know the details of how that money had been spent. At first glance it looks as if Rickman has been kidnapped, but Rapp knows certain things about his old friend that cause him to wonder if something more disturbing isn't afoot. Irene Kennedy, the director of the CIA, has ordered Rapp to find Rickman at all costs. Rapp must navigate the ever-shifting landscape of Afghanistan as the Taliban, Iranians, Pakistanis and Russians all plot to claim their piece of the war torn state. With Afghanistan crumbling around him, Rapp must be as ruthless as his enemies and as deceitful as people in his own government if he has any hopes of completing his mission.
Author's Biography
Vince Flynn is an international No. 1 bestselling author. His fourteen thrillers thrillers, including most recently Kill Shot and American Assassin, have been published in twenty countries. He lives in the Twin Cities with his wife and three children. Visit his website at www.vinceflynn.com


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Not saying I'm in favor of it but throwing it out there anyways: Bucs trade #4 for Grant and #27. This will allow us to take the best Safety left on the board or Kalil if still available and fill two holes instead of one. And we would still have 2 2nd rounders. Not that bad of a scenario if you think about it logically.
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Robots and Empire
Cover of first edition (hardcover)
|Isaac Asimov
|Cover artist
|Barclay Shaw[1]
|United States
|Robot series
|Science fiction novel
|Doubleday Books
Publication date
|20 September 1985
|Media type
|Print (Hardcover & Paperback)
|383 pp
|813/.54 19
|LC Class
|Preceded by
|The Robots of Dawn
|Followed by
|Isaac Asimov's Caliban
Robots and Empire is a science fiction novel written by the American author Isaac Asimov and published by Doubleday Books in 1985. It is part of Asimov's Robot series, which consists of many short stories (collected in I, Robot, The Rest of the Robots, and The Complete Robot) and several novels (The Caves of Steel, The Naked Sun, and The Robots of Dawn).
Robots and Empire is part of Asimov's consolidation of his three major series of science fiction stories and novels: his Robot series, his Galactic Empire series and his Foundation series. (Asimov also carried out this unification in his novel Foundation's Edge, and its sequels, thus unifying the three series of fiction into a single future history).
In the novel, Asimov depicts the transition from his earlier Milky Way Galaxy, inhabited by both human beings and positronic robots, to his Galactic Empire. The galaxy of his earlier trilogy of Robot novels is dominated by the blended human/robotic societies of the fifty "Spacer" planets, dispersed over a wide part of the Galaxy. While the Earth is much more populous than all of the Spacer planets combined, its people are looked down upon by the Spacers and treated as second-class citizens. For a long time, the Spacers have forbidden immigration of people from the Earth. But Asimov's later Galactic Empire is populated by many quadrillions of human beings on hundreds of thousands of habitable planets; and by very few robots (such as R. Daneel Olivaw). Even the technology to maintain and upgrade robots exists on only a few out-of-the-way planets. (R. Daneel Olivaw undergoes some of these upgrades, especially to his positronic brain, over a period of more than 10,000 years.) Therefore, Asimov's novel attempts to describe how his earlier Robot series ultimately connects to his Galactic Empire series.
Plot summary[edit]
The Earthman Elijah Baley (the detective hero of the previous Robot books), has died nearly two centuries earlier. During these two centuries, the balance of forces in the galaxy has changed dramatically. Inspired partly by Baley's adventures in space (on the "Spacer" worlds of Solaria and Aurora), Earth-people have overcome their stagnation and agoraphobia, and embarked on a new wave of space colonization, using faster-than-light drive to reach distant planets throughout the Milky Way Galaxy, beyond the earlier "Spacer" worlds. These newly colonized worlds are clearly distinct from the earlier "Spacer" ones, and their inhabitants, calling themselves "Settlers" rather than "Spacers", revere Earth as their mother-world.
Meanwhile, Baley's memory remains in the mind of his former lover, Gladia Delmarre, a "Spacer", who has a centuries-long lifespan, as opposed to the seven or eight decades that Earth people (such as Baley) live. It is discovered that Solaria, the homeworld of Gladia, and the 50th-established of the Spacer planets, has been abandoned and has become empty of all inhabitants (except for millions of robot servants, which have been left behind). Gladia then meets a seventh-generation descendant of Baley's, Daneel Giskard (or D.G.) Baley, a Settler-Trader. He asks for Gladia's help in visiting Solaria, in order to unravel the mysterious destruction of several "Settler" spaceships making landings there, and also with the mission of reclaiming the abandoned robots. Gladia agrees to go, and is accompanied by the positronic robots R. Daneel Olivaw and R. Giskard Reventlov. [R. Giskard has secret telepathic powers about which only R. Daneel knows.] These robots are both the former property of their creator, Dr. Han Fastolfe, who bequeathed them to Gladia in his will.
At the same time, Daneel and Giskard are engaged in a struggle of wits with Fastolfe's bitter archrivals, the roboticists Kelden Amadiro and Vasilia Aliena, Fastolfe's estranged daughter. Whereas Fastolfe supported the expansion of the "Settler" population from Earth, Amadiro detests all Settlers - as do most "Spacers", who consider all Earthlings to be little better than barbarians. Amadiro wants to see the Earthlings destroyed, so that the descendants of the Spacers alone can inherit the Milky Way (There are no other intelligent beings in Asimov's fictional galaxy).
However, for many decades Amadiro has been continually thwarted in introducing an anti-Settler policy into the governments of the Spacers. These blockings of Amadiro's plans have been largely caused by the telepathic manipulation of key people by R. Giskard. Frustrated by his series of failures, Amadiro decides to accept an ambitious and unscrupulous apprentice, Levular Mandamus. Mandamus develops a cruel plan to destroy the population of the Earth, using a newly developed weapon, the "nuclear intensifier". Amadiro and Mandamus intend to kill the population of the Earth and to make the Earth uninhabitable for human beings by using radioactivity. They intend to use the nuclear intensifier device to speed up all of the natural radioactive decay processes in the upper crust of the Earth, thereby making the surface of the Earth massively radioactive.
While Amadiro schemes, R. Daneel and R. Giskard slowly assemble the pieces of the roboticists' genocidal plan for mass murder. The robots, sharing Fastolfe's humane vision of a unified Settler/Spacer Galaxy - or, failing that, a Galaxy where Settlers can thrive in spite of Spacer domination - attempt to stop Amadiro. However, Daneel and Giskard are hampered by the Three Laws of Robotics, in particular, by the First Law of Robotics,
"A robot may not injure a human being, or through inaction, allow a human being to come to harm."
which prevents them from making any direct attack on Amadiro. Daneel, meanwhile, has formulated an additional Zeroth Law of Robotics:
"A robot may not injure humanity, or through inaction, allow humanity to come to harm."
Giskard thinks this might help them to override the First Law, and to save the population of the Earth. The robots must work their way through the ramifications of the First Law and the Zeroth Law, in a race against time, before they face a confrontation with Amadiro and Mandamus.
Fastolfe's brilliant daughter Vasilia has long coveted the valuable Giskard, and she finally determines to take him away from Gladia. Then, when Vasilia deduces that Giskard has telepathy, she confronts him with this fact. Giskard is compelled to manipulate her mind telepathically in order to make her forget about his telepathic powers. This leaves the two positronic robots free to deal with Amadiro.
The two robots locate Amadiro and Mandamus on Earth, where they find the two Spacers debating the best way to use the nuclear intensifier for their ghoulish purposes. (They just happen to be at the site of Three Mile Island in Pennsylvania). After Amadiro admits to the robots their plans to carry out mass murder on the Earth, Giskard decides that it is necessary to tamper with Amadiro's brain (using the newly created Zeroth Law). Unfortunately, the way that Giskard does this causes irreversible damage to Amadiro's brain - and thus harm to him, as is forbidden by the First Law. Giskard is mentally "skating on thin ice" in this regard - and he is not far from suffering the consequences of such action.
Now standing alone with the robots, Mandamus claims that his intentions regarding the nuclear intensifier were more benign than Amadiro's. Mandamus wants to draw out the radioactive catastrophe over many decades, rather than the mere years that Amadiro wanted, so that Amadiro could draw evil pleasure from the destruction of the Earth's population within his own lifetime.
Giskard decides that it would be best for humanity to abandon the Earth, hence he allows Mandamus to adjust the settings of the nuclear intensifier. He extends the time scale of the radioactive catastrophe to 150 years, allowing humanity to evacuate the Earth (though a significant population still dwells there at the time of the novel Pebble in the Sky).
Next, Giskard tampers with Mandamus's mind as well, ensuring that Mandamus will have no memory of what has happened. Giskard predicts, correctly, that by forcing humanity's hand into leaving the Earth, vigor will be reintroduced into mankind and the new Settlers will spread out across space at a rate never before seen. This will continue until all the governments of the interstellar colonies decide to unite into one "Galactic Empire".
However, by allowing Mandamus to proceed with his original plan, Giskard becomes instrumental in creating a very radioactive planet Earth, and hence placing the inhabitants of Earth under grave threat of death. This contradicts the First Law of Robotics. The Zeroth Law does not prove to be enough, to Giskard at least, to justify harming humans for the sake of a hypothetical future benefit. Under the stress of changing the course of humanity, R. Giskard himself suffers a cascading and soon-fatal malfunction of his positronic brain. This is because he is not sure whether his actions will bring about an ultimate victory for the Spacers, leading to the final death of humanity.
However, before R. Giskard's brain freezes, he confers his telepathic ability upon R. Daneel, and Daneel takes on the heavy burden of guiding the entire burgeoning Galactic civilization.
In his memoir I. Asimov (1994), Asimov explained that following his commercial and critical success with The Robots of Dawn, he decided to write Robots and Empire with the intentions of making Daneel, "the real hero of the series," the novel's protagonist; and that Robots and Empire would create a bridge to the later volumes of his future history. About this second aim, Asimov said that he was persuaded against it by Lester del Rey and Judy-Lynn del Rey, his long-time friends and the editors of Del Rey Books, who thought that the fans of Asimov's series of novels would rather that Asimov kept the Robot and Empire/Foundation universes separate. On the other hand, his editors at Doubleday Books - his hardcover book publisher - encouraged Asimov to do what deep-down he wanted to do. From then on, Asimov proceeded with his plans for unifying the two series.
Asimov wrote Robots and Empire in a nonlinear fashion (other examples of nonlinear plot-structuring in Asimov's novels can be found in The Gods Themselves and Nemesis). Flashbacks by the major characters alternate with the present-time storyline. The story starts on the Spacer planet Aurora, where the heart of Amadiro's conspiracy against Settler civilization is developing. Meanwhile, aboard a starship, Gladia, Daneel, and Giskard visit the planets Solaria and Baleyworld before reaching the Earth, where this novel's climax takes place.
Asimov used this planet-hopping itinerary most notably in most of the volumes of the Foundation series from Foundation and Empire onward. Unlike the detective fiction methods of the previous Robot novels where Baley assembles the clues to a crime that had been committed, in Robots and Empire, a murderous conspiracy developing against the Earth, and its discovery by the robots, keep pace with each other right up through the final confrontation with Amadiro on the Earth. Then, the robots have only moments to spare in terminating Amadiro's evil plan for a quick death to all Earthlings.
As well as linking the two series into a single future history, the present book served to address a criticism leveled against the largely radioactive Earth as depicted in Pebble in the Sky and mentioned in several other books. Though not explicitly stated, there was the clear implication the world being mostly radioactive and humans precariously surviving in the uncontaminated areas in between was the result of a nuclear war hundreds or thousands of years before the time of the plot. This would have made "Pebble in the Sky" part of the post-nuclear war sub-genre common in the 1950s. It was, however, pointed out by critics that such an extensive use of nuclear weapons as to leave persistent and widespread radiation even after centuries would have completely destroyed all life on Earth at the moment when it took place. Therefore, in the present book Asimov provided a different origin for the future Earth's radioactivity.
- ^ Publication Listing. Isfdb.org. Retrieved on 2013-11-02.
External links[edit]
- Robots and Empire title listing at the Internet Speculative Fiction Database
- Robots and Empire at Worlds Without End


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Production from Virginia Tech TE's has fallen off a cliff in recent years. Why? The answer's not what you think.
What Virginia Tech beat writers, bloggers and columnists and national writers are saying about the changes Frank Beamer has made to his coaching staff.
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The change in playcalling duties will purely be a cosmetic one in terms of Virginia Tech's offensive philosophy.
Frank Beamer said changing playcalling duties from Bryan Stinespring to Mike O'Cain will help in Logan Thomas' transition to full-time quarterback.
The Hokies have a new playcaller in quarterbacks coach Mike O'Cain. But how much of an improvement will he actually be over Bryan Stinespring?
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|Excellent book. Thorough coverage of JMS, MOM and how to do it all with ActiveMQ. Highly recommended.
ReviewManning was kind enough to provide me with an EAP (Early Access Program) copy of ActiveMQ in Action for review. The copy only contains chapters 1-6, 8, 12 and 14 (the other chapters are in-progress). The book offers a soups-to-nuts coverage of ActiveMQ - starting out with the assumption that the reader has no knowledge of Message-Oriented-Middleware (MOM) and progressing through the background, installation, setup and configuration, persistence and security for ActiveMQ. Word of warning: MOM and JMS and related technologies have dozens of 3 and 4 letter acronyms, so be prepared. Since ActiveMQ is primarily used with Java, the book devotes an entire chapter to writing Java applications that use ActiveMQ. However, the authors also give example code for Ruby, Python, PHP, perl, C#, C++ and information on building RESTful applications with ActiveMQ. The remaining chapters cover tuning, administration, and monitoring of ActiveMQ.
The introductory chapters are important for those who are relatively new to MOM and provide a good overview of the Java Message Service (JMS) API, covering both point-to-point and Publish/Subscribe messaging. The book explains Enterprise Messaging, and some of the problems it is designed to solve. The authors then dive into JMS, explaining the concept of a the JMS Provider and the anatomy of a JMS message, both the headers and the properties. There is then the explanation of the difference between point-to-point and Publish/Subscribe messaging. The difference between Durability and Persistence is described. Finally, there is a list of the steps needed to send and to receive a message, followed by sample code for a message producer and two consumers: (1) a standard message receiver and a Message Driven Bean (MDB). This is followed by an explanation of how ActiveMQ implements the JMS 1.1 specification and provides some reasons for using ActiveMQ (compliance, support for any JEE compliant application server, and the ability to use it with any of the languages listed above. The download and setup information could have gone into an appendix - since it is mostly boiler-plate and can be skipped if you already have the software downloaded and installed. The authors then work through a couple of examples, so that by the end of chapter 2, you have ActiveMQ installed and a couple of straightforward example programs running.
The authors then explain Connectors and how you configure them. This topic is often omitted entirely when talking about JMS and its inclusion is welcome. Client-to-broker, broker-to-broker and even broker-discovery in a clustered environment. Here the configuration of particular transports is covered (TCP and UDP) and higher-level transports like SSL and how to generate a certificate for use with SSL. By the end of this chapter, you know how to set up ActiveMQ brokers and know how to configure them to talk to one another and to clients.
Message persistence is also covered in extreme detail. This various methods supported by ActiveMQ are described, along with great detail on exactly how to configure persistence. This is another topic that is often glossed over, or only one option is discussed. Here, all of the options are thoroughly explained. The same goes for Security - a good coverage of the basics and details on configuration.
Chapter 6 pulls all of the previous topics together into an application. The example shows setting up a BrokerService and gives a Java example of the configuration and startup. If you use the Spring framework, you will also find some sample code on integrating ActiveMQ and Spring - including the Broker and Clients. Another good touch of a full example is good.
The final chapters talk about Tuning, Administration and Monitoring. These are very useful, since tuning can be a black art - especially where JMS is concerned. The various ways you can tune ActiveMQ and the trade-offs you can make in performance. This also dovetails nicely with Administration and Monitoring, since we need to implement our tuning and then measure it to ensure that we are getting the desired effect. The details on Java Management Extensions (JMX) and writing Managed Beans (MBeans) are welcome.
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There are several advanced topics that the authors should really cover. One is replacing app-server implementation of JMS with ActiveMQ. The authors (on the message board for the book) do make the point that that would require going deep into JTA and app-server internals -- which would require a lot more pages to cover than they have. But it was originally in scope for the book and I would like to see it covered. This is beyond what the average book on Messaging would cover, but someone who is already conversant with JMS and Message Queuing would need that information to integrate with a particular application server.
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When Facebook Inc. boss Mark Zuckerberg announced first-quarter results, he didn't break the news with a Facebook post. He stuck with an old-fashioned news release.
Across the U.S., earnings season came and went with few signs that companies are taking advantage of the Securities and Exchange Commission's green light to tweet or post market-moving information.
On April 2, the SEC announced that companies "can use social media outlets like Facebook and Twitter to announce key information…so long as investors have been alerted about which social media will be used to disseminate such information."
Since then, only about a dozen firms have said they might break news on Facebook, Twitter and the like. And few of those companies make much noise online.
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A Facebook spokesman said the company plans to "disseminate information as broadly as possible, and that will include using Facebook." He wouldn't say when that would begin or if Facebook will ever use its own site as the primary place to report earnings.
On Wednesday, Zillow Inc. Z +1.24% Zillow Inc. Cl A U.S.: Nasdaq $146.85 +1.81 +1.24% Aug. 22, 2014 4:00 pm Volume (Delayed 15m) : 1.04M AFTER HOURS $147.78 +0.93 +0.63% Aug. 22, 2014 7:58 pm Volume (Delayed 15m) : 14,999 P/E Ratio N/A Market Cap $5.93 Billion Dividend Yield N/A Rev. per Employee $314,048 08/21/14 Strategies for Setting a Price... 08/05/14 Zillow Posts Higher Revenue an... 07/31/14 Real Estate's Twitter Stars More quote details and news » took questions submitted via Facebook and Twitter during the real-estate website's earnings-related conference call. Zillow got questions from 11 accounts, mostly using tweets, according to a company spokeswoman.
Some securities lawyers say the tepid response shows some corporate executives still are concerned they might get in trouble because of their tweets. One reason: The SEC's guidance was more general than specific, leaving the agency wiggle room to pursue enforcement action.
As companies and their lawyers dug into an eight-page report laying out the agency's logic, some were bothered by the sentence, "Every case must be evaluated on its own facts." The SEC also said that social-media channels need to clear the same hurdle of "broad and non-exclusionary distribution to the public" as other media in order to comply with the 13-year-old rule known as Regulation Fair Disclosure.
Amy Goodman, a partner at law firm Gibson, Dunn & Crutcher LLP, says the agency's guidance on the use of Facebook and Twitter suggests that companies "could still be vulnerable to enforcement action if that channel has very few followers and it's used as the sole means" to disclose financial information.
The SEC has taken 13 enforcement actions against companies and executives for alleged earnings leaks and other rule breaches of Reg. FD, according to an analysis by Stanford University law professor Joseph Grundfest. One way to land in hot water is by tipping favored analysts to market-moving information. The same thing could happen now if a company's tweets are read by just a few investors.
"I don't think the SEC is trying to trap people," says Steve Quinlivan, a lawyer at Leonard, Street and Deinard PA in Minneapolis. "But if they think somebody crossed the line, they're not going to wait five minutes to bring an enforcement action."
The SEC declined to comment on the minimum number of Twitter followers needed for a company to safely tweet its earnings. "We do not comment on specific situations," Lona Nallengara, acting director of the SEC's corporation-finance division, wrote in an email to The Wall Street Journal.
In 2008, the SEC issued guidelines on how Reg. FD applies to corporate websites. Mr. Nallengara says companies "were able to figure out how to disclose information on their websites using our 2008 guidance," and so "we believe they should be able to do the same with social media" using last month's announcement.
For now, though, "companies are still taking a wait-and-see approach," says Broc Romanek, editor of TheCorporateCounsel.net, a website for corporate lawyers.
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Some senior SEC officials had misgivings about the potential Netflix lawsuit, and at least one of the agency's five commissioners questioned whether the agency should punish the company when there were no clear and up-to-date guidelines, no evidence the company acted in bad faith and no apparent harm to investors, people familiar with the probe say.
The concerns were exacerbated when Mr. Grundfest, a former SEC commissioner, published a paper saying the agency faced a "significant risk" of losing to Netflix. Meanwhile, Netflix refused to enter settlement talks, arguing it had done nothing wrong, said the people familiar with the probe.
George Canellos, the SEC's acting enforcement director at the time, recommended that the agency resolve the matter with a report that sets out the agency's thinking without taking enforcement action.
In contrast to the SEC's typical practice, last month's announcement on the use of social media was made without any input from Netflix or a heads-up to the company, people close to the probe said.
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All right, it's that time again! With hours to go before the 2012-13 Euroleague season tips off, BallinEurope breaks out its first power ratings for the big league.
Whereas normally a disclaimer to the effect of "the following ratings are based on current trending only and are not necessarily based on the overall quality of the teams" runs here, this year BiE's switching things up a bit. To wit: For this edition of Euroleague power rankings, the teams *will* be run based on BallinEurope's totally subjective viewpoint. (Mainly because BiE couldn't figure out what to do with Barcelona…)
Get your arguments ready and read on for this season's first power rankings, with Official BallinEurope Fearless Predictions™ for the upcoming season peppered throughout. Enjoy the games!
The favorites
1. Olympiacos Piraeus. The usual reserved spot for the defending champion comes with some justification this year, as Vassilis Spanoulis & Co. show no signs of letting up on their 2011-12 season-ending 22-4 run. In the off-/preseason, Olympiacos' foursome of Spanoulis, local hero Georgios Printezis, Kostas Papanikolaou and Evengelos Mantazaris suited up for a disappointed Team Greece – all but Mantazaris acquitted themselves nicely, with 50-of-89 (56.2%) overall shooting and Spanoulis dishing out just under six assists per game in three Olympic qualifiers.


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Grilled Marinated Asparagus Recipe
Freshly harvested asparagus says spring is in the air, and on your table. Eating the tender spears right off the grill is pure pleasure.Lessie Sites, Livingston, Montana
- 3 tablespoons balsamic vinegar
- 2 tablespoons lemon juice
- 1 tablespoon olive oil
- 1 tablespoon soy sauce
- 1/8 teaspoon pepper
- 1 pound fresh asparagus, trimmed
- In a large resealable plastic bag, combine the first five ingredients. Add the asparagus; seal bag and turn to coat. Refrigerate for up to 1 hour.
- Drain asparagus, reserving marinade. Moisten a paper towel with cooking oil; using long-handled tongs, lightly coat the grill rack.
- Grill asparagus, covered, over medium heat for 6-8 minutes or until crisp-tender, turning and basting occasionally with reserved marinade. Yield: 4 servings.
Originally published as Grilled Marinated Asparagus in Country Woman April/May 2011, p38
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1. Green Bay Packers: Giants now provide biggest hurdle for Pack's route to 16-0.
2. Baltimore Ravens: Likely expected more than three 100-yard rushing games from Rice.
3. San Francisco 49ers: Luckily for San Fran, not a lot of Ravens-like defenses in NFC.
4. Pittsburgh Steelers: Not a good sign to get shut out by K.C. in second half.
5. New Orleans Saints: Not many cupcakes left on schedule with Falcons on heels.
6. New England Patriots: Third-string center, backups in secondary — no problem.
7. Houston Texans: One of worst parts of Leinart injury? Have to hear the name "Favre."
8. Dallas Cowboys: Romo overcomes early miscues, continues November success.
9. Atlanta Falcons: With 267 receiving yards in two games, Roddy White is hitting his stride.
10. Cincinnati Bengals: The Dalton-Green-Benson trio keeps Cincy in playoff picture.
11. New York Giants: Who shows up vs. Pack: team that beat Patriots or lost to Seahawks?
12. Oakland Raiders: Legs of Janikowski, Lechler keep them atop AFC West.
13. Chicago Bears: Hanie's first start didn't give many glimpses of hope for Bears fans.
14. Detroit Lions: Suh stomps, team gets stomped on. Lions are unraveling.
15. New York Jets: Mark Sanchez had one of the worst four-TD, one-INT games of all time.
16. Denver Broncos: Miller-Dumervil combination comes up big in yet another win.
17. Tennessee Titans: CJ2K had a monster game; four fumble recoveries by "D" also huge.
18. Buffalo Bills: If Stevie is going to celebrate like that, he can't drop potential game-winners.
19. Philadelphia Eagles: "Fire Andy Reid" chants might be result of 1-5 record at home.
20. San Diego Chargers: Getting Tebowed at home isn't going to help Norv's job security.
21. Seattle Seahawks: Think Pete Carroll has been watching Matt Barkley this season?
22. Washington Redskins: Helu hurdles Redskins back into the win column.
23. Arizona Cardinals: Time for Peterson to get the Hester treatment from punters.
24. Tampa Bay Buccaneers: A Week Six win over the Saints seems ages ago.
25. Miami Dolphins: Playing inspired ball in the spoiler role.
26. Cleveland Browns: Short on weapons for McCoy and without a clear No. 1 back.
27. Kansas City Chiefs: Will Orton be ready to play his former team in Week 13?
28. Carolina Panthers: Finally got run game going without relying solely on Cam.
29. Jacksonville Jaguars: A benching is the latest in Gabbert's rookie-year adversity.
30. Minnesota Vikings: Ponder-Harvin connection could be a good one for the future.
31. St. Louis Rams: Have a No. 1 receiver in Lloyd, but there are holes everywhere.
32. Indianapolis Colts: Must be pleased that game vs. Patriots was flexed out of prime time.


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In what has been challenging times for the auto industry, Hero managed a 10 per cent year-on-year growth in net sales and profits in the June quarter.
Hero has benefited from customers down-trading to lower segment bikes, as higher petrol costs and interest rates began to pinch. It has also improved average realisations due to price hikes and has seen stabilisation in raw material costs. In the current scenario of high interest rates and petrol prices, Hero may continue to outperform due to its product mix being tilted towards 'value' offerings in the two-wheeler space.
Hero has about 73 per cent market share in the 75-110 cc bikes ( CD Dawn, CD deluxe, Splendor, Passion) and about 32 per cent share in the 110-125 cc segment bikes (Super Splendor, Glamour). The Ignitor and Passion Xpro will soon join the offerings in these segments. The robust demand for scooters also adds in its favour. Beyond the Pleasure and Maestro, a third scooter will be added to its portfolio shortly. The monsoon deficit could dampen rural demand a bit, but this could be offset by the festival season demand in the next two quarters.
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From about 14.5 per cent a year ago, Hero witnessed an expansion in operating margins in the first quarter to 15 per cent.
However, Bajaj Auto's margins are consistently 3-4 percentage points higher, courtesy its focus on exports and premium segment bikes.
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BEEKMANTOWN — Though the governor's budget shows a state-aid increase of about 3 percent for Beekmantown Central School District next school year, that figure is still 11.5 percent less than in 2008-09.
"Some of how the district has absorbed that and made up for it was to spend down the excess fund balance that was on the books back in 2008-09," School Business Executive Mary LaValley Blaine told the School Board at a recent special meeting held to go over that preliminary information on projected revenues and expenditures.
According to Gov. Andrew Cuomo's budget, she said, the district expects about $472,000 more in state aid for 2013-14.
For the upcoming budget year, the School Board has approved the allocation of $1,065,000 in fund balance.
BCSD has not yet determined its state-mandated tax-levy limit, as it is awaiting further information about exclusions to the formula used to calculate that figure.
On the expenditures side, Blaine told the board, the district's Teacher Retirement System contributions are projected to increase by about 4 percent in 2013-14, while Employee Retirement System contributions will rise around 2 percent.
In addition, she said, Plan A health-insurance premiums are projected to rise 7 percent.
Plan B premiums, which only cover three employees, aren't expected to increase.
The district, Blaine said, is also estimating a 10 percent increase in general-property and liability insurance expenses in 2013-14.
Champlain Valley Educational Services costs are proposed to increase 2.3 percent; special-education services, 2.9 percent; and CV-TEC services, 3.9 percent.
In addition, Blaine said, the cost of administrative and capital fees paid by the district to CVES is also expected to go up next school year.
But Beekmantown Central Superintendent Scott Amo said the district has been spared some additional expenses because it has been providing some of those services internally in recent years.


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News: Jermaine Dupri Names The Top 5 Hottest Club Anthems
Friday, Nov 4, 2011 10:00PM
Music mogul Jermaine Dupri recently revealed what top five club smashes are a must-play heading into 2012, ranging from Jay-Z and Kanye West's "N*ggas In Paris" to Meek Mill and Rick Ross' "I'ma Boss."
In addition to rap no-brainers, JD also said R&B cuts from Beyonce and Rihanna get club love.
1. Future feat. Drake "Tony Montana": "Since I DJ, of course you got to have the 'Tony Montana' record. Future's got 'em right now." 2. Beyonce feat. J. Cole "Party": "I just heard it in the car the other day and that's a hot record. I don't know, it's just a crazy record." 3. Jay-Z and Kanye West "N*ggas In Paris": "Definitely the Jay-Z and Kanye West 'Paris' record. There's just no question." 4. Meek Mill feat. Rick Ross "I'ma Boss": "Oh my God! I can't forget about 'I'ma Boss." That's might be the biggest record in the club right now. I played that the other night in Atlanta before the club ended and it looked like the security was going to have to fight the kids to get 'em out of there." 5. Rihanna feat. Calvin Harris "We Found Love": "That new Rihanna single is stupid in the club. That song pops off in dance clubs where people want to really go crazy. You want to see the sparklers and the champagne bottles come out. (Billboard)
Outside of club smashes, JD and Da Brat's "Look At Me Now" remix hit the Internet a few months ago.
So So Def is back in the building. Fresh from prison, Da Brat makes her triumphant return to rap, ripping through a remix of Chris Brown's "Look at Me Now." "Well I'm feelin' like a winner 'cause I'm free, I ain't gotta walk around as an inmate/ And I been off the scene for a minute, but I'm back in effect and the fact is I'm great/ Couldn't wait for the parole board to go and gimme a release date," she spits. "Prepare yourself for a So So Def summer," adds J.D. (Rap-Up)
Following her February jail release, Brat hinted at working on new music with Dupri.
"I'm getting some beats sent to me right now from JD," Brat added. "I wasn't really motivated in there to write. I need to be able to hear some fire beats and I need to hear it loud. I got two and a half years of sh*t built up that I need to talk about. I'm ready to get it in. I can't wait." (XXL Mag)
JD is currently on a nationwide tour hitting up clubs in various popular cities.
This past weekend, Jermaine Dupri announced a North America tour that will have the DJ mixing tunes in various popular clubs throughout the U.S. with stops in New York, New Orleans, and Atlanta. The 1414 tour, which kicked off Monday in Chicago, will take Dupri through 14 cities in 14 days before ending on the 13th in Miami. (BET)
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A Cassadine by Birth
Alexis Davis was born with the name Natasha Bergman, but raised with the name Alexis Davidovitch. Her mother was an opera singer, Kristin Nilsson, and the mistress of Mikkos Cassadine. Kristen and Mikkos also had another daughter, Kristina. Helena killed Alexis' mother. As a teen, Alexis attended Briarton Griggs Academy. Law school followed college. Alexis arrived in Port Charles in 1996 in order to defend Kevin Collins when he was accused of stalking Felicia Jones. Alexis found herself in demand as an attorney.
Alexis had always been told that she was a cousin to Mikkos' children. On coming to Port Charles, she saw Katherine Bell, who was involved with Stefan, as a threat. Alexis believed that Katherine did not love Stefan. She tried to convince Stefan that Katherine was actually his half-sister, the long-lost Natasha, once believed to be deceased. When Stefan discovered Alexis' motives, he cut off his connection to her. Alexis then learned that she was actually Kristina.
Helena threatened to kill Alexis if she did not defend Tony Jones for kidnapping Carly's baby, (later named) Michael Corinthos Jr.). The baby was believed to be Jason's son; in actuality, he was the son of A.J. Quartermaine. Alexis was counsel for ELQ and involved with Tracy Quartermaine's son, Ned Ashton. Ned broke up with Alexis when she took over Tony's defense.
The Plot to Murder Helena
Alexis colluded with Luke Spencer to murder Helena. Their plan failed when Katherine Bell fell against a loose railing intended for Helena on a parapet and crashed to her death. Stefan was accused of murdering Katherine, and Alexis defended him. Stefan found out that Alexis was his half-sister, and Ned found out why she defended Tony. Alexis and Ned reconciled.
When Alexis learned that her nephew Nikolas was not the Cassadine prince after all, she was angry that Stefan had never told her the truth. This meant the Cassadine money was there for the taking, and Alexis decided to go after it, For this, she enlisted the help of Jasper Jacks. Alexis abandoned her plan when Helena tried to kill her. She decided to separate herself from the Cassadines.
Alexis Marries Jax to Help a Friend
When a relative of Lila Quartermaine's, Chloe Morgan, came to Port Charles, she and Alexis became friends. Chloe started seeing Jax. A talented clothing designer, Chloe was about to lose her company if she didn't marry immediately. Her Uncle Herbert had given her start-up money, but if she wasn't married within five years, she forfeited the company. Ned, her distant cousin, with Alexis' urging, agreed to marry Chloe. Alexis, Ned, Chloe, and Jax went to Las Vegas. However, Herbert's widow, Gertrude, showed up, claiming that the loan provision said "happily married," and she wasn't buying this sham.
As a cover, Ned and Chloe denied they were there to marry. It was Jax and Alexis who were going to tie the knot. So Jax and Alexis got married. To keep up the appearance of marriage, Alexis moved into Jax's penthouse apartment. It worked out quite well, as Jax and Alexis grew even closer as friends during their union. Chloe and Ned married. However, Aunt Gertrude found Chloe and Jax together, realized Chloe's marriage was false, and took her company. Ned and Alexis became officially engaged.
Ned decided to return to his double life as businessman Ned Ashton and musician Eddie Maine. He agreed to be filmed for "A Day in the Life of Eddie Maine." While on tour in Detroit, he brought the camera crew back to his hotel, not realizing that Alexis was on the bed wearing a teddy and holding a rose in her teeth. Thereafter Alexis was known as "Eddie's Angel," and her photo was downloaded all over the Internet. Ned arranged a private wedding in Belize, hoping to stop the media attention, but the wedding site was discovered.
Ned changed tactics and decided on a huge wedding with media allowed. Nikolas escorted Alexis down the aisle, but Alexis had visions of marriage to a Quartermaine and became a runaway bride. Meanwhile, Stefan returned from faking his death, and Nikolas became so angry with him, he made Alexis the trustee of the Cassadine holdings instead.
Alexis and the Zander Smith Case
Then a member of the Quartermaine family needed Alexis' help. Emily asked Alexis to be the attorney for her boyfriend, Zander Smith. Zander was in trouble, not only with the law, but with a rival of Sonny's, Joseph Sorel. Zander agreed to give testimony against Sorel, and Sonny promised to protect him. He posted bail for Zander. The night that Zander was released, Emily, Alexis, Sonny, and Zander left the PCPD and were shot at by two thugs disguised as police officers. Sonny shielded Alexis and was injured. Ned was still unhappy about Alexis ditching him at their wedding, but he was happy that she was unhurt. The two agreed to work on their relationship. Their resolve was short-lived; Ned believed that Alexis put her career first. Alexis was shying away from commitment. They broke up. Alexis devoted herself into defending Sonny against various charges. The two lived across the hall from each other and became friends.
The Search for Kristina
Alexis began to search for her sister Kristina. The day her mother was killed, she sent Alexis and the baby Kristina out to the stable to hide when she saw Helena coming. Alexis left the baby in the stable and went to check on her mother, whom she found dead. Kristina was gone when Alexis returned to get her. Her father, Mikkos, had taken her and sent her to be raised by a family named Carter so that Helena couldn't find her. Alexis was thrilled to find her sister and have her back in her life.


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Wings Etc. eyeing new location in Dunlap
The Goshen City Council is expected to decide whether to annex 2 acres off of U.S. 33 into the city for a new Wings Etc. location.
GOSHEN — A new location for Wings Etc. will be up for review at the next Goshen City Council meeting.
The council is expected to decide Tuesday, April 9, whether to annex a property off of U.S. 33 into the city. The property owners have filed a petition for the annexation of roughly 2 acres of land near Meijer in the Dunlap area.
Owner Jim Weaver opened the first Wings Etc. restaurant in 1994 in Mishawaka. The restaurant chain has grown to include more than two dozen locations in Indiana, Illinois, Michigan, Missouri and North Carolina.
The meeting will begin at 7 p.m. at the city council chambers, 111 E. Jefferson St. in Goshen.


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10-30-2013 03:37:46 | More by jenray
3.98/5 rDev +0.3%
Went here last night after getting too frustrated at the Pub Hub. Looking back, we should have gone here first.
Small little place in a strip mall with simple furniture and a couple of dart boards. Decent band playing pretty much all night long. Not many beers on tap to choose from, but more than enough bottles to keep you happy all night long (which are shown to everyone in a glass case). The owner was a really cool guy, he let us walk behind the bar to examine the bottle selection with him and discuss what beer to go for. Definitely an older place, based on the appearance and the crowd that was there (they even used an old manual credit card slider machine, I didn't even know anyone still had one, let alone still use it!). So if you're looking for a good old place to chill, sit back and have a few good ones, try this place out.
03-27-2011 02:13:50 | More by mdunman
New York
3.41/5 rDev -14.1%
Atmosphere - This is a dark dank locals type of place. L shaped bar as you walk in on your right and seating and a stage to the left.
Quality/Selection - They have around 25 taps and a couple of coolers full of bottles so you'll find something thats worth drinking. However this isn't the place to go if you want to find something unusual that the other beer bars don't have.
Service - During my visit it was very slow so the bartender was quick with my groups beers and talked to us during our stay.
Overall if you want a different place to have a few beers this is a decent place to change things up.
10-27-2010 23:34:42 | More by armock
3.8/5 rDev -4.3%
An unpretentious hole in the wall and neighborhood bar. Kind of dirty and grimy, and some people still smoke here (I don't have a problem with that, but some might). Very dimly lit with a long L shaped bar. There is a stage for bands, tables, and some dart boards. There are lots of old tap handles that decorate the bar, along with some old growlers. The service is great. Just an old couple that seems to run everything, and they serve everyone. That is not bad because there are just a handful of regulars to take care of. They are fun to talk to and very enthusiastic.
They have about 25 taps, and some bottles in the cooler. There is a good mix between macro, good local micros, and some imports. Highlights for me are several Real Ale, and Saint Arnold beers. Belhaven Twisted Thistle, and Fullers ESB for imports. From what I had, the quality of the taps are hard to beat. Maybe the freshest Fullers I have had in town. Unlike the crappy pseudo Irish bars around town that always advertise it, but never take care of the lines or kegs (I am looking at you Bull and Bear). Not the best selection in town, but you will be able to find something good. They also rotate beers out regularly as well. This is a really good place to grab a beer and relax with some friends. It is hard to beat that.
09-26-2009 02:01:02 | More by champ103
4.28/5 rDev +7.8%
I hadn't been here in a while and stopped in a few weeks ago when a friend came to town. It looks like the interior has been updated and it has a nice warm, cozy atmosphere. As has always been the case, they have a nice selection on tap and lots of bottles. I had a Real Ale Full Moon Pale Rye and an Avery IPA. Both on tap and both very fresh. Their are a few dart boards in a little partioned room and my buddy and i were able to have some good beers and catch up on old times. A great place to get away from the crowds and enjoy some nice conversation with good beers.
12-03-2008 19:44:58 | More by Rustoleum
4.24/5 rDev +6.8%
This place has a very quiet and enjoyable atmosphere, but definitely not the place if you're looking for a party atmoshere. It is the place to have a good beer with good friends and sit down and enjoy good conversation. They sometimes have an open mic night or a band, always interesting music. The beer memorabilia around the place is fascinating and fun.
The beer selection is great! One of the best in west Houston. They seem to favour Texas brewed beers on draft, which is nice to have some good microbrewed drafts. They also rotate them regularly, always giving you a good new sellection.
01-20-2006 22:31:49 | More by paganbeast
4.36/5 rDev +9.8%
I was really impressed when I walked into this bar.
The ambience was really to my liking. It had a dive-bar feel, in a good way. Very dark (took a minute for my eyes to adjust) and then the crowd of obviously-regulars greeted my friends and I en masse. The bartender was taciturn but helpful.
The beer selection was truly impressive compared to my expectations. This bar is on the outskirts of what I consider civilization (being a diehard downtowner), and yet they had a nice selection, draft and bottled. Real Ale Full Moon Rye and Bridgeport IPA, both on draft, are only available at a handful of bars even in my part of town.
Found their last bottle of New Belgium's Transatlantique Kriek, which has been off the market for about a year. They had a few bottles that have been off the market for a while, which I guess shows slow movers -- and yet, I was confident in my ability to identify beer that can and can't stand up to that kind of age, and we enjoyed the Transatlantique.
I was perhaps most impressed by the collection of tap handles lining the walls -- not attached to kegs, but on display. They had tap handles that are discontinued in Texas, breweries that have shut down, etc. Easily over 100, maybe over 200? I am not good at estimating numbers. A regular caught me leaning to examine them and pointed out where I could hop behind the bar for a better look.
I was sorry to leave and look forward to returning. Check it out. Also, there was an outdoor patio section that looked really cool (although empty in the nasty hot weather when we were there.
09-14-2005 02:26:38 | More by texashammer
4.41/5 rDev +11.1%
Great selection of beer!! About 30 beers on tap and around 150 bottled beers. If you are looking for hard to find Texas beers (Live Oak, Real Ale) you can find them here. I was quite impressed with the selection.
The atmosphere is very quiet so if you are looking for a party atmosphere, go elsewhere. The owners are very quiet and reserved. It appeared to host an older crowd. There are about 10-12 bar chairs but many tables with plenty of seating. The inside is mostly wood and dark. There are about 100 or more old tap handles decorating the bar and paper cut-outs of potatoes hanging from the ceiling.
I went on a Thursday so there were not very many people anyways. It appeared that they have a lot of business on Fridays and Saturdays, just judging by the list of live music and activities on their calendar.
We were served promptly every time we got a beer. When we asked if we needed to open a tab, the owner just smiled, "I can find you." Very nice people.
Eat before you go since the only food they had was popcorn.
Finally, I am very surprised and pleased that an establishment with such a great selection is located in the suburbs of Houston. You normally only find this calibre of beer selection "inside the loop." So it's nice to stay on my side of town, not have to drive into town, and go to a place with this quality of beer selection.
08-27-2005 18:48:23 | More by dungaree
JP Hops House in Houston, TX
- out of 100 based on 8 ratings.


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