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Super Stella says it with flowers (From The Oxford Times)
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Super Stella says it with flowers
2:00pm Tuesday 3rd September 2013 in News
A HUSBAND and wife team were a force to contend with at the Ardley and Fewcott annual flower and produce show.
Keith and Stella Brogdale, from Leach Road in Bicester, clocked up eight first prizes between them at the show on Saturday.
The annual event at the Ardley village Hall in Ardley Road, raised £200 for the Thames Valley and Chiltern Air Ambulance Trust.
Mrs Brogdale, 66 said: "It was fantastic. It was a lovely day. Our grandchildren came down and I think it was very successful.
"And it looked wonderful. People did really well – it was a very good display attended by a lot of people with a great atmosphere."
Mrs Brogdale's mixed garden flowers won first prize, cheese scones won second and spiced apple, pear and pomegranate chutney came third.
Mr Brogdale won seven first prizes across the 87 categories, which included flowers, vegetables, fruit, crafts and home produce.
There were 246 entries.
Secretary for the Ardley and Fewcott Gardening Club Jean McGarry said: "We were very pleased with how it went, and the standard on show."
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The ship was great. Room was perfect for two, w/o wasted space. The steward was perfect. Ate 1st seating & had a great table. Enabled us to have evenings free or to crash. Loved watching movies under the stars. The dining was great so we never went to the specialty restaurants. And, the "tea" was perfect but make certain you ask for scones! Wine tasting events were fun. Expect to pay for any booze, but quality good & servings as expected. Spanish lessons were beneficial &fun! Worth doing! Shows o/b are varied & everyone seemed to like them..we did a couple & were happy.
Tours are rushed no matter get off the ship! Macau tours online very good for Nic.. Nicaragua is very pooor..wish we had bought more there than C Rica but choices were few. CR is an amazing country & well worth seeing. Used 6 in 1 Odyssey tours online and loved it! Sail/scuba in Aruba was fun but that boat is FULL..might look for private tour there..if you shop then don't do tour..little time! Cartagena is a busy place, go on a tour as Spanish is needed and lots of rip off if you are unaware. Attend tour lectures as they help orient you before you go. Overall it ws a great trip we will long remember!!!Video of Canal trip worth getting.
Panama Not mentioned as a Port but it is a very impt day!! Try to see all and fix a poster so you can be seen in video..it helps. Look around as you lock thru as I saw a family of Lemurs in grass and noone else was looking. Use your binoculars!

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These Dark Death poems are examples of Death poems about Dark. These are the best examples of Dark Death poems written by international PoetrySoup poets
Three Hundred
The wraiths were ringing dead wrought bells
while closely passed the shady shapes
of woods in dusk, where red indwells
communion made from ghostly grapes.
He ran amidst the winds and passed
across the side where grapevines grew,
it was her presence that amassed
small leaves and droplets of fog's dew.
Inside the winds' lone strings accord,
his Bell full-face, was dropped along
the streamlets and horizon's board,
untamed his scopes, they don't belong.
The Astral Chords! He knew this debt;
the skies demand and kill and draw,
the darkened paths his thought beget,
rose thorny droplets on his brow.
Persephone shall be his wed,
subsiding dew the mist regales,
the stringing roar that reaches red,
his greatest bride resigns his trails.
Shall be the threading of winds' howls,
her plea arises from the shades,
homecoming queen from astral halls,
he harks the northern swashing blades.
Ablution's her enjoining black
"Enfold me in the rising dawn
enfold your sadness in the dark
with magistral the curtains drawn".
Acute of wounds she heals and mends
the asphalt of the mists awaits
pristine her bridal thorns amends
while passing through the Hades gates.
Three hundred reasons drew the drapes,
three hundred strings of diligence;
The winds regaled the bride's agape,
his celebration to commence.
© 10-14-2013, George Venetopoulos
(Iambic Tetrameter - Epic)
Three Hundred = 300 Kilometers per hour. The final speed a super-bike of 1,000cc engine is able to outreach.
I cannot compete with something as painstakingly glorious as you
Envy is but a humbling tumble down a steep, rocky hill
I am crushed in your fits of glory—your screaming for passion
My approaches are absolutely wrong
Therefore my communication is a weak, ransomed victim
Your poison arrow frog skin rubs against my exposed body
I happily accept my fate
For your beauty surpasses the ephemeral pain of the infectious reign
My erroneous, inevitable downfall
I hold you up—I feel the need to keep you tall!
Michael the Archangel did not insult you once, Lucifer
How then will I?
How can I possibly be higher than you?-
Why would I want to?
I admire your freedom
I simply disregard your macrodomes of ever-worshiped flaw
If I could allow myself, I would share in your glory
Only to add to it further
But as I am poisoned with the truth
I can only be your grounded pedestal
And though you flee from humility in its wake upon my brow
I realize everyday you are living for the grounded now
And I merely look to the unknown future
A place I dread where you unwillingly hold me up
Bonded in the ground with Death and Hades
You become my pedestal, and the worms my vineyard
My parasitic feet seer your glory
I am ever so sorry
I never wanted this renown
There was a time I do recall
When you overtook me in my sleep
I cried aloud in helpless acceptance
But soon I was forced in a croak of laughter
I felt your bitter poison
I felt pride at last
I thank you for it
I thank you for showing me
What I will never be
Dear Lucifer,
Provoke me no longer to praise your eternal existence
Generations of Evening take a hold of me now
And the fruit must be shared
Where cradled canyons sing
Of ebony wood in the forest
There lies a gurgling spring
Where cockcrows sing their chorus
To the melody of singsong birds
There I've concealed my sensuous words
Filled with befitted signs
The saccharine whiff of my designs
Come to me my mortal youth
To the wild realm of your truth
Where nymphs and gnomes abound
For the earth is filled with weeping
And only your tears be found
Where the fogs of night are fountains
Spills of glistened moon ignite
By distant silhouette mountains
We dance with passion of fight
Entwining ancient stance
Mingling hand in hand we dance
Till the mountains smile on high
Near and far we spring
To pursue the realest of dreams
While the world cries at its seams
Anxious in trouble to cling
Come to me my mortal youth
To the wild realm of your truth
Where nymphs and gnomes abound
For the earth is filled with weeping
And only your tears be found
To where the ridges merry make
From the beaks of wooden bright
In sparkly pools the ghouls awake
That scarce to stir our night
We watch for seekers down under
Muttering secrets in their soul
We bid them lucks of shivers
Dipping gently in
From reeds that hide a tear of a foal
Under the gentle rivers
Come to me my mortal youth
To the wild realm of your truth
Where nymphs and gnomes abound
For the earth is filled with weeping
And only your tears be found
Far away she shall ever churn
The taciturn eyed
She'll listen no more to turn
To the working mills beside
Or the scrubbing of the barn
May peace weave in her song
She shall wave in the yarn
To a haven known as Belong
Come to me my mortal youth
To the wild realm of your truth
Where nymphs and gnomes abound
For the earth is filled with weeping
And only your tears be found
For she comes, the mortal youth
To the wild realm of her truth
Where nymphs and gnomes abound
For the earth is filled with weeping
And only her tears be found
In the cemetery I walk, so dark it is this night.
Hoping that the Ghouls won't start to bite.
I feel the tug of the dead, as each grave I pass.
Thankful this nervous tension won't last.
Armed with my Animation supplies,
I stare out at all the green glowing eyes.
A chicken for my blood sacrifice,
Raising the dead, there's always a price.
The salt keeps the dead inside.
Using the machete our magic, we'll ride.
Salt is for everybody's protection.
Cold steal seals out any deception.
To prime the earth so the dead will rise,
cast the blood and create our ties.
Focus my energy and the ground starts to shake.
Winds whip through the area and the on-lookers quake.
I command all that is at least 3 days dead.
Just enough time for the soul to move ahead.
Born with this power as a Necromancer,
When I will my power all the dead have to answer.
I look to Sandra Hudson, who hired me,
to raise the dead and hear their screams.
I call Illyanna De La Keur from her deep, dark grave.
Her words are scary so be very, very brave.
For John Loving III's "Haunted Poets Society"
The Ship (Her Soul, the Sea)
Foreshadowing the dusk, appeared immense,
magnanimous the skylines sent the ship,
its blackened sight embossed the thought and sense
of sailors that imagined its long trip.
The ship's black smoke ascended to the skies
from supercilious tall funnels, smog
bestowed its sacrificial offing size
to sovereign Gods that lived inside the fog.
In front of us, the ship's displacement thrilled
approaching thus magnificent the moors;
Her Soul, the Sea, and eulogy that killed,
relentlessly enticed, through dark allures.
The night descended when the ship's steel gaze
examined curious and measured me,
proposing wedlock and a fate of blaze,
my competence, demanding, in the sea.
Across the Straits, young Lady Sadness kissed
with ripping cold my twenty years and eyes,
resembling Her Soul, the Sea, amidst
the Northern winds that howled and life's demise.
© 10-15-2013, G.Venetopoulos, All Rights Reserved
(Iambic Pentameter)
Nyx - Ode -
The shadows know the
scent of clove
as Nyx devolves her
orphic code;
her odes address the
stars above,
inviting so, the
Morpheus' bode.
Her darkness strings
the scenic
her laughter waves
inside the ether,
small hours submit
erotic bleakness,
advancing 'mid the
sage and heather.
The creatures glance
- with eyes of amber
beneath the blinking
starry flare,
while Nyx, the
infinite advancer,
inflicts her
thralldom and
The blanching moon,
in ventured glory,
embraced by Erebus
at night,
unfolds her mane of
black graphite,
distributing her
daunting dowry.
She meekly bids to
worlds of blooms,
the mortals on the
breezes' breath,
bestowing grand the
kiss of death,
with fates to weave
the orchard looms.
Suggesting darkened
deeds and dismal,
with sovereignty she
guides - abysmal,
the chanted souls to
follow thence,
her clouded callings
© G. Venetopoulos,
26-03-2014 - (date
the poem was
© G. Venetopoulos,
(Iambic Ode)
Nyx = Night
Paintings of Nyx:
The story on
Nyx ("Night" in
Greek) – Roman (in
Latin): Nox – is the
Greek goddess (or
personification) of
the night. A shadowy
figure, Nyx stood at
or near the
beginning of
creation, and was
the mother of other
personified deities
such as Hypnos
(Sleep) and Thanatos
(Death). Her
appearances are
sparse in surviving
mythology, but
reveal her as a
figure of
exceptional power
and beauty. She is
found in the shadows
of the world and
only ever seen in
glimpses. }
"LADY DEATH" ------Chaos!!!
Craving life was all of 'HOPE' desire.
Torturing her into the odyssey of Hells fire.
Ending her in heartbreak by her own insane,
cruel father Matthais.
A demon so obsessed with dark power.
Head demon to all hells devour.
Matthais allowing his beloved 'HOPE' to be burned.
In a hellish death as a witch.
Pleading for her life.
All 'HOPE' is lost,
in a pit of endless broken bones.
The supernatural appeared in front of 'HOPE'.
'HOPE' complied and renounce to give up humanity.
Tricked by demons who lied.
Manipulated that this would save her sanity.
A power bestowed with a creation so rare.
A Demi Goddess of destruction.
Chaos soon will inflict every hour.
With death in her place, she turns in to,
a cold blooded Diva of Death.
Reliving in the plague of dark ages.
Angels and Demons flow through her blood.
With contradiction of many stages.
Many evil forces out to end her existence.
Betrayed by all she knew.
Now she is locked in a demonic resistance.
Defeating Lucifer herself.
Blading the neck of the prince
Death lusting for power in an epic battle.
Lost forever in the era of judgment.
Revenge she claims on her throne.
Making Lucifer's power her own.
A forever endless graveyard.
Restoring into the blood of her new home.
Making hell tremble, many slay to death's assault.
Death arising to all her faults.
Declaring the lost of 'HOPE'
A mans worst nightmare in the sweetest form.
Over throwing her one time dream.
Obsessed with his Lady'''
Evil Earnie.
Rides by her side.
A domino of all killers.
In a blood bath stream.
Killing everyone in his & her path.
Killing for her love, his Lady Death love.
Pondering about her lifeless soul.
"All HOPE is gone!"
all that is left is death.
"Lady Death"
Lord of hell
On a mission of Mega Death.
To conquer all of earth.
Men killing for her demonic way.
Evil Earnie matching to the depth of her Odyssey.
With the belief .
That behind every good man, (EVIL EARNIE)
is a good women.. (LADY DEATH)
((Lady Death is a character in her own CHAOS ))
That disturbed child
The teen girl with no friends,
and is rejected by her loved ones
She feels broken inside,
like theres no other choice
She takes the iron razor,
she puts it to her arm and hopes the pain will fade,
but in the end it only makes her feel worse
She does this to herself not because she is sad,
but because she doesn't think any one cares
She thinks
What if I put this razor to my throat,
and ended my life
Would they care then?
She feels like no one cares
What she doesn't realize is,
if she died a river of tears would come,
even faster then the blood would run from her
If she only knew life can be brighter
If she would only see,
that she is loved
That disturbed child,
We miss her
and theres no getting her back
What could we have done
Was there any changing her mind
Only God knows
Once bloomed a rose so young and fair
With dark brown eyes and long black hair
Beside her be a tall dark tree
Whose branches stretch to smother thee
Too close beside the shadowy bark
That soon begins to leave its mark
She cries for help, but none shall hear
Her thorns too sharp, who'd dare go near?
To save this rose, who'd risk their life?
With naught to gain but pain and strife
Alone, afraid, she lays to rest
Her heart beats low inside her chest
And with the hour growing near
She sheds her final grieving tear
And so the rose soon falls asunder
Her final day, eternal slumber
She lies beside the old dark tree
The only one who mourns for thee
I, a Red Skin dog, as some may delight to call me,
I have heard the tales of horror, from my dark skinned foes.
I have heard the tales of terror, from others who became my friends.
And I have walked with a dark skinned woman of their tribe.
We walked in the beauty of her courage, together. Tearless.
Tearless we both were as she spoke, for tears, only gods could cry for her.
I am a Red Skin dog.
And yet we walked together and we talked – together, fearless,
I and this swaying ebony sapling, sprung from the roots of my foes tribe.
We talked of the pitiless reality of that life she left behind, of that time
That she has left, far, far behind, like a useless scar
That has toughened over. And made her stronger.
I learned from this daughter of my foes
That true courage is never fearless, but always stronger. Victorious,
Stronger she was by far, to this Red Skin dog
Than the thousand sons who died, in her honor. So they say. Ridiculous,
But I have heard the balance of their sins.
And for all the tales I have heard from those angry young men, and their vengeful fathers
Her horror was a thousand times more sinister. A thousand times more callous.
Horror took up residence in her home but never in her heart.
But for others, I cannot speak.
"…splinters and bursting fragments…in my mind
Ai! Tearing! Memory of tearing flesh, swallowing tears and mucus, blood and bile
…bruising and ripping garments…off my body
…filthy, familiar hands tearing at my dress…
…my legs split and broken like a wild pig slaughter, my screams smashed from my lips,
With the butt of a rifle, just used to kill a Red Skin dog…
Aieee! Clean this floor mama, mop up this spew!
It cannot be mine!
This child is not mine!
It is not mine! It is the devils own creation born in hell fire!
Born in my death!
Aieee! I am dead, I cannot be alive.
I am dead and the Red Skin dogs have eaten my corpse.
Those spirits in their wingless chariot flew over the land and sea, to rescue me?
Rescue me from that black devil who said he was like Jesus to me.
I thought you were my uncle-brother…
Who else could have found us here?
Hidden away from the Red Skins and their Wingless Angels.
Only you my uncle-brother
Only you could have found us
Only you could have killed us.
And now the progeny of your evil deed suckles at my breasts
As I lie dead in the home of those Red Skin dogs you fought."


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DECATUR- Duchenne Muscular Dystrophy: it's a disease that rapidly degrades muscles. But the disorder has brought two central illinois families together to give each other help and hope.
Video games can offer an escape from reality, but for 14-year-old Alex Johanning, they offer more than that.
"It is kind of hard to go upstairs," Alex says. "It's hard to go up big steps."
Alex might never experience driving fast on his own.
"It was very heartbreaking," says Vicki Moore is Alex's grandma and caretaker. "The hardest thing is to see him not go out and do some of the things other kids can do."
They learned when he was five years old, he has Duchenne's muscular dystrophy.
"As they progressively get older, the muscles progressively get weaker and eventually it does start to effect their heart and their lungs," says Allen Hunt. Hunt knows all about it. His son Jacob had the disorder.
"There wasn't really anything we could do. There's no known cure."
At the age of 18 Jacob died this past October. After Jacob's death hunt reached out to Alex to offer help. Now when Alex has trouble getting around he can use Jacob's electric wheelchair.
But Alex doesn't need it all the time. He's still walking at age 14, when most boys with Duchenne's can't by age 10.
"It has very much slowed down the progression,"says Moore.
A clinical drug trial through the Muscular Dystrophy Association is helping him move forward.
"(It) helps me keep walking and helps me a lot," Alex says.
But he dreams of the day they find a cure.
"(I'd be) very, very happy. I would jump around all over the place,"Alex says.
The Muscular Dystrophy association is sending Alex to camp this summer and as we've mentioned funds research into medicine like the one that keeps Alex walking and one day a cure.
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"There are only two people who can tell you the truth about yourself - an enemy who has lost his temper and a friend who loves you dearly."
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This scary male jester costume includes double knit polyester shirt with a black and white diamond geometric print to one side and plain black to the other. The top is pulled on over the head, has elasticated sleeves for comfort and a jagged hem. All the seams on the top are over-locked in a striking red thread.
This male Evil Jester costume comes with mirroring patterned trousers and a jagged hemline. They are fully elasticated around the waist and ankles for versatile fit. A separate waist sash is included.
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Finishing off the male Evil Jester look is a separate jester skull half face mask which is fastened at the back with elastic. It has both eye and nostril holes. This outfit is ideal for Halloween or as an alternative scary circus clown costume or a scary skeleton costume.
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It's the most wonderful time of the year! With the World series coming to a close last night, Hot Stove season is officially upon us. The Phillies are in first (and last) place among every single team, and the phones will start ringing, the texts and emails will be sent and replied to as Ruben Amaro looks to do something, ANYTHING to improve on last season.
For those interested, there are two must read links. The first is MLBTR's free agent tracker and guide to key dates This is a detailed explanation of everything you need to know about how things will go down.
The second, is this absolutely phenomenal breakdown of the Phillies expected payroll and AAV situation by Crowhop. Just great stuff there that shows you just how difficult a time Ruben will have as he tries to both improve on last year and stay under the luxury tax limit of $189,000.
For those who DON'T want to click through Crowhop's piece, here's the joecatz cliff notes:
- the Phillies should have about $138,000,000 committed to players under contract, including arbitration eligible players that should be retained, and low salary players, plus 40 man salaries and insurance. That number does not include Ruiz and Kendrick. So if the Phillies were to decide to increase payroll to the luxury tax limit, they have roughly $51mm to spend on 2 starting pitchers, a catcher, a corner OF, a bench bat to replace Mayberry, and one relief pitcher.
- Should they retain Kendrick at $7,000,000 and resign Ruiz at $7,500,000 they'd have roughly $37,000,000 to spend.
- Ruben Amaro inquired on Giancarlo Stanton. He got no response.
- Quiet Period ends, and free agents are free to negotiate at 10:59 CT.
- Qualifying offers are due by 4PM CT Monday as well.
- Any contract options must also be decided by then. So basically, next Tuesday you know who's a free agent for sure.
- Ruben calls again on Stanton. Still no response.
- Qualifying offers must be accepted or declined. So free agents tendered a QO have one week to gauge the market interest. We do not expect any Phillies to be offered a QO. But players declining cost a draft pick.
- GM/OWNERS Meetings begin (through the 13th) in Orlando. This is where a majority of the legwork for trades are discussed, and usually one deal goes down as well.
- Ruben corners Jeffrey Luria at the sushi bar at Bluezoo. Offers Dom Brown, Jesse Biddle, Maikel Franco, Ben Revere and Chase Utley's dog for Giancarlo Stanton. Luria politely declines.
- Ruben pops up behind a counter at a Miami Best Buy and offers Luria "everything I offered before plus Mayberry and Frandsen AND a chance to cut in line for the discounted 72 inch Mitsubishi black Friday flat screen" for Giancarlo Stanton. Luria heads to Target.
- Non Tender deadline for arbitration eligible players. Basically, anyone eligible for arbitration must be tendered a contract, or the team must decide to go to arbitration, or as in the case of Nate Schierholtz, Ruben will make the first bad decision of the off season that sets off a catalytic shitstorm.
- The Phillies players eligible for arbitration (with Matt Swartz expected figures) are Kyle Kendrick ($6.6mm) Antonio Bastardo ($2mm) John Mayberry ($1.7mm) Kevin Frandsen ($1.3mm) Ben Revere ($1.5mm)
- Of the above players only Revere is a 100% guarantee, and Bastardo and Kendrick are very likely to be tendered. Mayberry and Frandsen are tougher calls. Don't be surprised if Frandsen or Mayberry are traded before December 2nd, as both have value. But their contracts become guaranteed as of this date.
- Ruben bribes the general manager of the Swan hotel to give him a connecting suite with a non locking door to the Marlins War Room.
- Winter meetings (also in Orlando). This is where a lot of stuff gets done. The Ben Revere trade went down at the meetings last year, and the Michael Young trade was all but finalized as well.
- Jeffrey Luria returns to his suite on the evening of the 11th to find Ruben sitting on his couch, with a bottle of scotch. He refuses to budge until they can "get something done" . Luria finally breaks down.
- Ruben trades Ryan Howard, Jonathan Papelbon and 90% of their remaining salary including options, Domonic Brown, Maikel Franco, Jesse Biddle, Roman Quinn, Ben Revere, Chris Wheeler and the Phanatic to the Marlins for Giancarlo Stanton, the horrible thing in centerfield and their entire latin broadcast team. He also agrees to a clause in the trade never allowing Giancarlo to play against the Marlins.
- Ryne Sandberg resigns. Larry Bowa is named manager.


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In Diablo II: LoD Updater X, the Lords of Terror, Hatred, and Destruction lurk once more in the bowels of the world, their vile blood galvanized with the thirst for revenge against the Heroes who have thwarted their dark reign.
Can the stalwart Paladins, lightning-quick Assassins, and ferocious Barbarians rise to this new challenge? The call has been made, so come join the adventure once again!
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The type of event can be the biggest determining factor in price, and also has the widest variability. Does the event require substantial service staff (a served dinner), medium staff (passed hors d'oeuvres), or light staff (dining stations)? Is the menu simple or complex? The following are rough estimates as to what you can reasonably expect to pay for your food costs:
Light Hors d'oeuvres $16 – $23 per person
Heavy Hors d'oeuvres $20 – $36 per person
Dining Stations $24 – $38 per person
Plated Dinner $29+ per person
Simple BBQ $18+ per person
Gourmet To-Go Lunch $9 – $15 per person
Dinner Pick-Ups & Deliveries $12 – $25 per person
(Staff, rentals, taxes and fees are not included in these estimates)
Often people forget about the cost of rental items. Consider if your event can be done with paper and plastic or if you need glass and china. Do you need tables and chairs? Cloth Napkins? You can expect the following prices for standard items.
Glass and China $6 to $10 per person
Table and Chairs with Linen $8 to $15 per person
Cloth Napkin $.40 per person
Most events require rental items. Gourmet Bay has a close relationship with our local vendors and can bring you rental items of high quality at standard prices, while we handle all the arrangements and transportation.
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Having a professional serving staff can make a world of difference. The number and type of servers at your function depends upon the number of guests, the menu, and the size of the facility. Most events require service staff. Please contact Nicole for more about staff fees.
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Latest Firefox Version: 6.0
There were some great commercials this year, especially the Snickers/Betty White commercial.
Here are a couple of my favorites:
Twas the night before Christmas
and all through the house
not a device was active
except my DVR and my mouse
All servers were off,
the gaming consoles were humming
downloading their updates
to keep the gamers running.
As I went upstairs
for a good nights sleep
I realized I forgot something
so I can't make a peep.
There's a reason I tagged this as humor. :-)
I love mixing technology with humor. This is one of those jokes that can definitely mess with the intruder signing into your network through Wi-Fi.
Welcome to the Upside-Down-Ternet!
Looking for that specific humorous computer comic strip for the office?
I bet you'll find one in here...
Awesome consulting jokes I found on the Internet.
Joke 1 (There are tons more at this site)
A shepherd was herding his flock in a remote pasture when suddenly a brand-new BMW advanced out of the dust cloud towards him. The driver, a young man in a Broni suit, Gucci shoes, Ray Ban sunglasses and YSL tie, leaned out the window and asked the shepherd... "If I tell you exactly how many sheep you have in your flock, will you give me one?" The shepherd looked at the man, obviously a yuppie, then looked at his peacefully grazing flock and calmly answered "sure".
If you are a programmer/developer, here's a list to find out how you know your addicted to coding.
Good Friday diversion.
Rinkworks has a humorous post on Computer Stupidities regarding Programming.
Definitely great to read for developers.
An update to the list of gag Successories inspirational posters I've already collected.
And if you are interested in creating your own inspirational posters...
Ever since Successories came out with their inspirational posters, people have wanted them to match their personality.
But lately, everyone has been creating an inspirational poster on something dealing with an noun, adjective, or emotion. Before, I reported on a site that does this for you.
Here is a complete list of the inspirational poster sites that I've seen over the past three months. Enjoy!
Wow, and here I thought my Mountain Dew had a lot.
EnergyFiend.com posted a Caffeine Database of how much caffeine is in each beverage.
Go Starbucks! Whoa! LOL.


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Sourcing and Procurement
Spending less to make more
Where can you improve the bottom line without taking it out on either customers or headcount? In the category that accounts for between 40 and 70 percent of the average company's cost structure – external spending. From cost of goods sold to outsourced services to administrative supplies, every form of sourcing and procurement is under the microscope. Yet business leaders who do find savings are also finding it hard to sustain them. The costs have a way of creeping back into the system. How can you save a sourcing dollar today in a way that won't force you to go out and save it again a year from now?
At Deloitte, our Sourcing and Procurement team offers clients the experience and skills needed to drive down the bottom line. Our professionals have a demonstrated track record of measurable, sustainable results because they deliver the category knowledge it takes to identify savings opportunities across the entire source to pay process – and the holistic thinking to help our clients achieve those savings not only while we're there, but long afterward. By providing a broad, deep skill set, Deloitte can provide category knowledge, effective processes, benchmarking capabilities, organization and process design and technology selection and implementation skills to organizations in every industry. With our deep understanding of procurement, we can help clients transform from being transactional to strategic procurement organizations. Learn more about the offering.
Case studies
Paper profits
Improving supply chain operations and procurement at a major paper company.
Saving the pennies that save lives
Helping a non-profit with strategic sourcing.
Featured insights
Charting a new course: How procurement will be transformed by 2020
Watch the Dbriefs webcast replay to learn about the procurement renaissance taking place and how your company can take advantage of these changes.
The Deloitte Global CPO Survey 2013
The Deloitte Global CPO Survey report presents the findings from our 2013 survey, comprising of over 180 responses across 18 countries.
Make savings real — The secret to ending the CPO failure cycle
A new approach for procurement and CPOs to create meaningful and lasting impact on the P&L with full Finance and executive backing.
The procurement services alternative
Deloitte's Procurement Enablement Services can bring rapid, flexible and on-demand capability to help achieve savings, process effectiveness and compliance objectives.
Charting the course
A fresh perspective on how to build on past successes, prepare for changing external forces, develop internal capabilities, and drive towards successful procurement outcomes in 2020.
Supply chain resilience
Supply chain resilience provides a framework for identifying and analyzing all forms of supply chain risk.
The promise of advanced supply chain analytics
Read the article.
Tapping value in spend management
Assessing management processes to control costs.
Optimizing value from your business relationships: Trust, but verify
How a risk intelligent approach to managing the extended enterprise can help companies preserve the value of their contracts and optimize business performance.
A practical guide to green sourcing
Read more.
Procure-to-pay and commercial card programs: Next generation profits
Presenters' responses to select questions submitted by participants during the Webcast.
Merging manufacturing and sourcing strategies: The global factory (Manufacturing)
Read our point of view.
Commodity management: Profiting from volatility (Process & Industrial Products)
Read the white paper.
Breaking down the barriers to sourcing services (Aerospace & Defense)
Unlocking the tremendous savings potential in services spend.
Meet our people
- Brian Umbenhauer, Principal, Deloitte Consulting LLP
- Jerry O'Dwyer, Principal, Deloitte Consulting LLP
- Ryan Renner, Senior Manager, Deloitte Consulting LLP
Related Offerings
- Supply Chain Transformation
- Supply Chain Strategy
- Supply Chain Planning
- Product Development
- Manufacturing Strategy and Operations
- Logistics and Distribution
- Deloitte Analytics
- Global Benchmarking
- Sustainability
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- Anti-Fraud Consulting
Learn more about the offering
Reset the context
The answer begins with a realigned view. When you look for savings from each business unit, each fiefdom circles the wagons. But when a company turns to category sourcing – all the labor, all the office supplies, all the electric motors and so on – the internal barriers fall away, and it becomes possible to structure contracts in logical patterns that invite competitive bidding from the supplier market. End-to-end management of the spending lifecycle and the internal demand that drives it can promote similar efficiency. When a company exerts strong governance over its spending, it saves dollars and keeps them saved. And when that money is tracked and reinvested, a sound procurement strategy can fund improvements elsewhere in the company.
Realizing benefits like those takes a team and a structure many companies don't have. It also requires a view beyond unit cost, contracts and invoices. It requires a comprehensive approach to define and execute against an organization's procurement strategy. Organizations must gain visibility into the behaviors that drive spending, so they can address it at the root and become nimble in how they manage their bottom line.
How we can help
At Deloitte, our Sourcing and Procurement team offers clients the experience and skills needed to drive down the bottom line. Our professionals have a demonstrated track record of measurable, sustainable results because they deliver the category knowledge it takes to identify savings opportunities across the entire source to pay process – and the holistic thinking to help our clients achieve those savings not only while we're there, but long afterward. By providing a broad, deep skill set, Deloitte can provide category knowledge, effective processes, benchmarking capabilities, organization and process design and technology selection and implementation skills to organizations in every industry. With our deep understanding of procurement, we can help clients transform from being transactional to strategic procurement organizations.
The breadth of Deloitte's services allows our Audit and Enterprise Risk Services practice to conduct contract audits and supplier risk assessments, our Tax practice to help clients recognize additional savings opportunities and strategies, and our Advanced Analytics team to help clients gain better visibility into their organization's performance. We can also help define the policies and controls to enforce consistency, drive supplier and buyer compliance through contracting and procurement solutions, and assess supplier risk along the way too.
Our services include:
- Category expertise for both direct materials as well as indirect goods and services
- Procurement strategy
- Procurement organization design
- "Source to Contract" and "Procure to Pay" process design and technology enablement
- Low cost country sourcing
- Supplier risk assessments
- Benchmarking and KPI capabilities
We also use a repository of proprietary tools such as target costing models, maturity models, sourcing-on-demand technology and in-house analytics to speed each client's path to an effective solution.
Bottom-line benefits
We help our clients generate benefits such as:
- Cost savings due to reduced non-personnel costs
- Typical return on project costs by a factor of 4 to 5 times
- Improved forecasting and visibility to category spend
- Purchasing and procurement organizations shifted from a tactical to strategic focus
- Potential self-funding of related business investments
Five ways to get more value now
We've helped many companies around the world in their efforts to improve their sourcing and procurement capabilities. Some key lessons we've learned along the way are:
Look elsewhere in your industry. It can be difficult to gain a better perspective on your organization's performance without first knowing how others are tackling similar issues. You may not be as unique as you think. Your competitors won't open their books, but you can engage your major suppliers to more effectively understand how their customers might be tackling similar issues.
Picture what your vendor base should look like. Your organization should have the right suppliers providing the right scope of services at the right price. Price is only one component of a larger strategy. Making sure your organization engages the right supply base helps keep tabs on risk as well as performance.
Learn from the initiatives others are taking. Many organizations are developing new cost-benefit strategies. For example, we are seeing more companies include savings levers such as energy consumption in their savings estimations. Price reduction is only part of the picture when evaluating savings opportunities.
Approach the procurement model that's right for you. Procurement organizations aren't one-size-fits-all. Companies vary in procurement maturity as well as culture within which they have to work. You need to understand where your organization falls on the curve, understand the operating model for centralized vs. decentralized decision making – then develop the procurement operating model and appropriate organization structure that will work in your culture.
Use technology to understand your spending performance. Gaining visibility can be the most obvious approach for moving your organization forward. Technologies that provide spend analysis functionality are quickly incorporating greater tools for visibility, while also expanding their tools for proactive compliance issues.
Sourcing and Procurement in action
- A large non-profit relief organization with hundreds of local chapters throughout the U.S. wanted to reduce costs and improve efficiency. But the organization wasn't taking advantage of its scale or brand to maximize savings across spend categories. Deloitte worked with business functions and local chapters on organization design, strategic sourcing processes and governance structures to drive compliance and sustain savings. Sourcing improvements are expected to reduce non-personnel costs by 30 percent, saving the organization more than $40 million a year.
- A major global packaging systems and paper manufacturing company wanted to solidify its competitive position and reduce costs. Our team included specialists in direct and indirect procurement, supply chain management and process manufacturing and key cost categories such as wood, chemicals, maintenance and repair operations, contract labor, packaging and freight. We helped the company develop a sourcing strategy, facilitate supplier negotiations, outsource multi-site freight management and monitor cost savings targets. Overall, the company reduced ongoing procurement costs by more than six percent, saving nearly $40 million a year. Significant reductions were achieved in all cost categories, with savings exceeding 50 percent of original spend in some areas.
As used in this document, "Deloitte" means Deloitte & Touche LLP, which provides audit, assurance and risk management related services, Deloitte Consulting LLP, which provides strategy, operations, technology, systems, outsourcing and human capital consulting services, Deloitte Tax LLP, which provides tax services, and Deloitte Financial Advisory Services (FAS), which provides financial advisory services. These entities are separate subsidiaries of Deloitte LLP. Please see www.deloitte.com/us/about for a detailed description of the legal structure of Deloitte LLP and its subsidiaries.


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The Statistical Abstract of the United States is a great compilation of national statistics from many sources -- government and private. It also is used as an index, or finding tool, to find the source of the statistics.
The Green Book is the standard reference for social policy and federal entitlement programs. It includes descriptions of the program descriptions and historical data on a wide variety of social and economic topics.
Looking for data about children? Kids Count Data Center from Annie E. Casey provides additional data not covered in Factfinder -- such as rate of substantiated child abuse and number of hours of television watched. You can drill down on some of the indicators to county and city level data.
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Excerpts from recent editorials in newspapers in the United States and abroad:
March 17
The New York Times on unfairness in the foreclosure settlement favoring banks over homeowners and taxpayers.
On March 12, the foreclosure settlement between the big banks and federal and state officials was filed in federal court, and it is now awaiting a judge's all-but-certain approval. The next day, the Federal Reserve announced the much-anticipated results of the latest round of bank stress tests.
How did the banks do on both? Pretty well, thank you -- and better than homeowners and American taxpayers.
That is not only unfair, given banks' huge culpability in the mortgage bubble and financial meltdown. It also means that homeowners and the economy still need more relief, and that the banks, without more meaningful punishment, will not be deterred from the next round of misbehavior.
Under the terms of the settlement, the banks will provide $26 billion worth of relief to borrowers and aid to states for anti-foreclosure efforts. In exchange, they will get immunity from government civil lawsuits for a litany of alleged abuses, including wrongful denial of loan modifications and wrongful foreclosures. That $26 billion is paltry compared with the scale of wrongdoing and ensuing damage, including 4 million homeowners who have lost their homes, 3.3 million others who are in or near foreclosure, and more than 11 million borrowers who are underwater by $700 billion.
The settlement could also end up doing more to clean up the banks' books than to help homeowners. Banks will be required to provide at least $17 billion worth of principal-reduction loan modifications and other relief, like forbearance for unemployed homeowners. Compelling the banks to do principal write-downs is an undeniable accomplishment of the settlement. But the amount of relief is still tiny compared with the problem. ...
March 18
The Akron (Ohio) Beacon Journal on federal transportation legislation:
Seventy-four senators, Republicans and Democrats, joined together in a real accomplishment. They approved a two-year, $109 billion transportation bill... Authorization for federal highway spending ends on March 31. Without action, construction, repair and maintenance will halt across the country. ...
What will the House do? It should take the cue of the Senate, and quickly approve the legislation that won bipartisan support.
The Senate bill has many appealing aspects. It protects the money for public transit. It consolidates 196 transportation programs to a dozen or so. ... It requires spending at least 60 percent of the money on highway repair, a more efficient and effective investment.
Since 2009, and the expiration of the previous transportation bill (signed in 2005), Congress has approved eight temporary measures. Passage of the Senate bill would avoid an embarrassing ninth. ... The need is real. Borrowing is relatively cheap. So are materials. Heavy unemployment afflicts the construction industry. The overall economy could use the bolstering.
All of this isn't to overlook the flaws in the Senate legislation. Most striking is the failure to deal with a Highway Trust Fund on a path to going broke by 2014. The reasons for the funding troubles are plain, Americans driving less and often at the wheel of more fuel-efficient cars, diminishing the level of gas tax revenues flowing to the fund. ...
Rather than raise the gas tax, at 18.4 cents since the early 1990s, the Senate applied an assortment of gimmicks and diversions to patch funding shortfalls. ...
So a big job looms for Congress. What can be achieved now? Surely, enough House Republicans and Democrats can recognize what is possible, and give their approval soon to a Senate bill that is much better than another temporary measure.
March 21
Los Angeles Times on the House Republican proposed budget:
For the second time in as many years, the House Republican leadership has put forward a deficit-cutting budget plan that's more of a political statement than a governing blueprint. The proposed budget for fiscal 2013 promotes a long list of conservative policies that are only tangentially related to the federal fisc -- for example, repealing new federal restrictions on Wall Street and ending the moratorium on offshore oil drilling. Even the proposals that are purely fiscal in nature rely on changes in law that Senate Democrats won't support, such as repealing the 2010 healthcare reform law.
But then, the annual budgets proposed by the White House are largely political documents too. Besides, the author of the Republican resolution, Budget Committee Chairman Paul D. Ryan (R-Wis.), has said it isn't intended to become law. The whole point of the exercise, Ryan said, was to give voters a clear choice of paths forward in November. At some point, however, lawmakers will have to set the politicking aside and come up with a long-term fiscal plan that both parties can support. Ryan's proposal is not that plan.
Democrats are already focusing their protests on the big changes Ryan proposes for Medicare, starting in about a decade. ...
More problematic are Ryan's proposals to require states to pick up a growing share of the cost of Medicaid ... which eventually would force painful trade-offs between honoring the increasing obligations to retirees (in the form of Social Security and Medicare benefits) and maintaining other federal programs. It's also worth wondering why the House would spend time on a budget for 2013 when Congress enacted a 10-year spending plan last year that, unlike a budget resolution, has the force of law.
... As ambitious as his plan is, it seems fated to wind up in the same dustbin.
March 19
San Angelo (Texas) Standard-Times on repealing a relic of the Cold War:
The Soviet Union did not much believe in letting its citizens emigrate. After all, what sane person would want to leave the "workers' paradise"? And it especially did not believe in letting its Jewish citizens emigrate for reasons ranging from ingrained anti-Semitism to fear of a brain drain to the West.
Nonetheless, Soviet Jews began clamoring to leave, especially for Israel, which with its law of return allowed Jews immediate entry and accelerated citizenship.
But the Kremlin did its best to discourage them from even trying, with petty harassment, voluminous red tape and regulations that limited the amount of money and other possessions they could take with them. In addition, successful emigrants were socked with a huge fine, ostensibly to repay the state for their education.
Obviously, this did not sit well with the United States. Two Democratic lawmakers, Sen. Henry "Scoop" Jackson of Washington state and Rep. Charles Vanik of Ohio, won unanimous passage of an amendment to the Trade Act of 1974 that denied trade benefits to countries with nonmarket economies that restricted emigration and other human rights.
It took a while for the amendment, and other pressures on the Soviet Union, to work, but even before the fall of the Soviet Union in 1991 Russians were emigrating with few restrictions.
The now-pointless amendment, however, remained as a continuing source of irritation and ill will with the Russian Federation, especially because unreconstructed "Cold Warriors" wanted to keep it on the books in case they needed to punish Russia for some other transgression. ...
The Senate Finance Committee is considering legislation to eliminate the amendment as an impediment to trade...
American farmers and manufacturers stand to lose valuable markets to our competitors because of this Cold War anachronism. It's past time to let it go.
March 19
Loveland (Colo.) Daily Reporter-Herald on why federal programs need reform to account for more baby boomers retiring:
As the U.S. unemployment rate has dropped over the past year, a persistent refrain from many quarters has been that part of the drop can be chalked up to people removing themselves from the labor force. And conventional wisdom says that, as the economy continues to improve, many of those people will return to the job hunt, causing the unemployment rate to tick up again.
Well, maybe not, says Barclays Capital economist Dean Maki.
Maki, in a recent report titled "Dispelling the Urban Legend," contends that the labor force is shrinking mostly because more baby boomers are retiring. His report predicts that demographic will keep the labor force rate down, along with unemployment figures, even as discouraged workers jump back into the labor market.
Even if Maki's conclusions are solid and come true, they won't be known for some time. But here's something that is known: The growing number of retired baby boomers, coupled with a potentially smaller labor force, will put an even greater strain on Social Security and Medicare, two federal programs that are already in trouble. ...
Implicit is the need for long-term solutions, something Congress and the Obama administration have been unable to agree on. ...
... As we've said numerous times, everything needs to be on the table in Washington when it comes to getting the government, and the economy, back on track, and reform of the tax code would be the best place to start. And lawmakers cannot continue to put off reforms of Social Security and Medicare. The growing number of baby boomer retirees highlighted in Maki's report, and a demographic problem we've known about for years, should make speedy reform of those two programs a priority.
March 18
The Augusta (Ga.) Chronicle on campaign finance:
Super PACs have become this year's super-villains.
Thanks to a 2010 U.S. Supreme Court ruling allowing them, "super" political action committees that are independent but support certain candidates can raise unlimited amounts of money -- and individuals are allowed to give unlimited amounts to them.
Technically, the Super PACs aren't allowed to coordinate their activities with the candidates they support. But it's naive to think they would ignore a candidate's wishes. ...
The public, though, is deadly serious about wanting Super PACs banned, by a margin of nearly 70 percent in an ABC News/Washington Post poll -- an astounding consensus crossing party lines. ...
We do wonder how one goes about banning Super PACs under the First Amendment. While the current incarnation of PACs is obnoxious and unsettling, one of this nation's most cherished liberties and greatest assets is the freedom to form associations -- including those that promote political causes and candidates. How to rein in Super PACs without stepping on that vital freedom is a tricky task.
While we sort that out, however, there's another election practice that is a ton more dangerous to the body politic: The profligate support of candidates by public-sector labor unions. ...
But the danger isn't a partisan one; it's a practical one. If public-sector unions -- often using cash supplied by taxpayers, in the form of mandatory dues paid by workers -- are successful in essentially hiring their own bosses, who are in turn beholden to them, the upward pressure on public spending only increases. This, at a time when most states are bowing under the weight of public-employee benefits and retirements. ...
Super PACs are fun to hate. But the real action, the real potential for lasting harm, is elsewhere.
March 15
The Miami Herald on justice for Holocaust survivors:
Against formidable odds and a range of powerful opponents, including the White House, Holocaust survivors are finally starting to make progress in their fight to win the right to sue European insurance companies for benefits they have been denied for more than half a century.
The refusal to honor those obligations is bad enough, but the denial of the right to sue adds further injury. It violates a principle that every American considers a fundamental birthright -- the ability to go to court to seek redress of a legitimate grievance.
This unusual provision was part of an agreement to create the International Commission on Holocaust Era Insurance Claims, which came into being in 1998 with the blessing of the Clinton administration. The agreement has been upheld by the courts, including the U.S. Supreme Court, and strongly defended by both the Bush and Obama administrations down to the present day.
But that doesn't make it right. Holocaust survivors -- an aging and diminishing population, many in their 80s and 90s -- have not been treated fairly. ...
The International Commission on Holocaust Era Insurance Claims paid out about $305 million, and an additional $200 million went to humanitarian programs for survivors. This is less than 3 percent of the amount owed to victims and their families -- estimated today at $20 billion. ...
Recently, a bipartisan effort led by Rep. Ileana Ros-Lehtinen, R-Miami, was unanimously approved by the House Committee on Foreign Affairs, which she heads. ...
The bill should be passed by Congress and signed by the president, to redress a grievous harm and serve as a reminder that it's wrong to deny legal rights to an entire class of citizens and should never be tolerated.
March 18
The Post-Crescent, Appleton, Wis. on congressional travel:
You may have heard this phrase: "You can't get something for nothing."
Or you surely have heard this one: "There's no such thing as a free lunch."
And there's no such thing as a free, privately funded trip for our members of Congress.
Congressional travel became a hot topic with the Jack Abramoff scandal, in which the lobbyist plied congressmen with trips, gifts and meals in exchange for political favors. After Abramoff, in 2007, Congress passed a new ethics rule that says its members can't accept trips that last more than one day from organizations that retain lobbyists.
But that rule has been subverted by another phrase: "Where there's a will, there's a way."
Organizations are still paying for congressional trips but have separate but affiliated lobbying organizations. And members of Congress are still going on trips. ...
Members of Congress, or their mouthpieces, say these types of trips are educational. And probably, they are. But they're intended to educate the trip-takers on the organization's point of view. ...
There really is no such thing as a free lunch. The thing is, we're paying for it, too, when our representatives are getting their "education" from these organizations.
March 17
The Guardian, London, on collective knowledge:
In the decade since Wikipedia showed how it could be done, there has been an extraordinary democratization of knowledge. According to the free encyclopedia's own wiki page (of course), its hundreds of thousands of volunteers have created 21 million articles in 283 languages. The sniffy caveats about the absence of professional expertise have long been eclipsed by the obsessive exuberance -- and utility -- of fact-sharing by numbers. The global accessibility of instantaneous general knowledge is one of the wonders of our age.
We are now seeing this principle of mass engagement extended into just about every corner of human inquiry, echoed by a hunger for learning and discussion that sees thousands turning out to listen to fresh ideas being debated... We've reported on the crowdsourcing of scientific research, the ways in which tasks that might once have taken years can now be achieved in hours and days by enlisting armies of willing research assistants equipped only with a laptop and a desire to be involved in increasing the sum of understanding. Galaxy Zoo, with its global community of avid stargazers, leads the way in this endeavor, but its model has been applied to other disciplines -- from the curious souls who spend their evenings categorizing whale music to those who translate papyri, analyze oil paintings or map the spread of invasive species. ...
The Internet provides the opportunity for that spirit of observation and engagement to be shared and focused. It also makes the argument for the power of collaboration over competition, for openness over secrecy, which might begin to break down some of the guarded and protective behaviors that have long characterized professional science. Open science, the free sharing of research, has a long way to go, but citizen science begins to show what working together might achieve.
March 18
The Globe and Mail, Ottawa, on gay marriage and the Catholic Church:
According to Britain's Cardinal Keith O'Brien, countries -- such as Canada -- that legalize gay marriage are "shaming themselves" by defying natural law. This prince of the Church went so far as to use the word "grotesque" in his recent comments. While his language was harsh and his views regrettable, they are unsurprising.
The Pope recently denounced what he termed powerful political and cultural currents seeking to legalize gay marriage in the United States, where eight states now permit it.
The Roman Catholic Church has a rich theological and doctrinal tradition on which to base its opposition to gay marriage, and to condemn it, as O'Brien did, even as an "aberration" contributing to immorality. What is odd, and disturbing, however, is that the Cardinal did not justify his views only on the basis of church teaching, but also on the Universal Declaration of Human Rights.
Responding to the current debate in Britain over gay marriage (the country permits civil unions between homosexuals, but not marriage), he said: "We're taking standards which are not just our own, but standards from the Declaration of Human Rights of the United Nations, where marriage is defined as a relationship between man and woman, and turning that on its head."
The wording of the Declaration is not so clear as the Cardinal implies. To begin with, it does not say "man and woman," but rather "men and women," which allows for a broader interpretation. ... There should, however, be no room for ambiguity left in a document that is at the foundation of our concept of human rights. If the United Nations' statement of fundamental principles of human rights can be used to promote inequality for homosexuals, then it is failing in its duty to humanity. ...
Far from shaming themselves, countries such as Canada are fulfilling the Declaration's noble purpose.
March 21
China Today, Beijing, on Apple's Chinese copyright violations:
Apple is in hot water yet again after 22 Chinese authors accused the U.S. tech-behemoth of selling unlicensed versions of their books via its online store and demanded millions of dollars in compensation.
This is not the first time the big-A has been accused of such copyright violations, a Chinese writer and several publishing agencies filed a similar suit in August, and in September six writers demanded 6.5 million yuan ($1 million) in compensation for copyright infringement of 23 books.
According to its guidelines Apple requires the developers to secure the rights to any material and certainly the finger of blame should first be pointed at the independent software developers in China who pirated the books in the first place.
Yet it remains to be seen whether Apple will successfully be able to totally pass the buck their way.
Apple likes to portray itself as a lifestyle leader, but it should also play a leading role in promoting copyright protection in China. Unfortunately at times like this, it seems it is focused solely on the ends rather than the means.
If Apple had conducted stricter examination regarding copyright affairs before purchasing the independent developers' applications the dispute would never have arisen. ...
Although the authorities at various levels have made remarkable efforts to strengthen law enforcement and supervision, China still has a long way to go. ...
To fulfill its commitment to protecting intellectual property rights, Apple needs to take timely and effective measures to root out the pirated products in its online store and should use its undoubted clout to be a role model safeguarding intellectual property rights in the digital era.
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The Jerusalem Post on the death of John Demjanjuk:
In 1986, John "Ivan" Demjanjuk was deported from the U.S. to Israel to stand trial for committing murder and acts of extraordinary violence against humanity during the years 1942 and 1943. Dozens of Israeli Holocaust survivors identified Demjanjuk as "Ivan the Terrible," a notorious prison guard at the Treblinka extermination camp. ...
Clearly, an effort was made to publicize the proceedings, which, like the 1962 Adolf Eichmann trial, was used as a means of confronting the horrors -- and the moral lessons -- of the Holocaust.
Like Eichmann, Demjanjuk was found guilty under the Nazis and Nazi Collaborators (Punishment) Law of 1950 and sentenced to death by hanging -- the second case of capital punishment in Israel's history.
But Demjanjuk appealed and in 1993 the Supreme Court, sitting as an expanded five-man panel of judges, overturned the lower court's decision. ... (The justices) -- basing themselves in part on new evidence that became available after the disintegration of the Soviet Union -- ruled that a reasonable doubt remained as to whether or not Demjanjuk was in fact Ivan the Terrible.
Holocaust survivors and others brought at least 10 petitions demanding that Demjanjuk be tried for lesser war crimes while serving as a guard in other concentration camps including Sobibor and Majdanek. ...
While the Jewish state passed on the opportunity to convict Demjanjuk, it was Germany of all places that decided to pursue the matter, eventually convicting the Ukrainian in May 2011 for helping to murder 28,000 Jews as a guard at the Sobibor extermination camp. ...
Demjanjuk died March 17 outside prison walls in a German retirement home while waiting for his appeal to be heard. Understandably, many -- particularly Holocaust survivors -- were disappointed by Demjanjuk's ability to avoid justice. ...
But even within the framework of justice all is not lost. ...
According to Germany's Demjanjuk decision, even serving as an accessory to murder is a punishable crime.


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"We didn't like the way that was handled," Matthews said, referring to school superintendent Jim Merrill's budget proposal, which was presented to school board members and included a request that county commissioners provide an additional $29 million to raise teacher pay across the county.
Matthews said he first learned of the proposal when a reporter called him about it. "I didn't know what to say. I hadn't heard anything about it. The county manager and staff hadn't heard anything about it. We felt like we had gotten thrown under the bus," Matthews said.
Matthews also said the school system was sitting on money it could use to boost teacher pay. "We learned they have $88 million in fund balance that's not going anywhere," Matthews said.
He was referring to the school system's unreserved fund balance, which is a savings account set aside for unbudgeted expenses. School officials disputed that number at last week's school board meeting, pointing out that $52 million of that amount is actually reserved for specific expenses such as school construction and can't be spent for other needs.
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looking at your code i will assume : .entry is your container
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which is the best choice depends on what you have already coded and what you intend to add.
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if you inner element will get some sort of background adding margin works ( fortunately horizontal margins behave simpler than vertical margins)
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According to the 2010 census, the Per Capita income in Victoria county is $23,219.00. What do you suppose the average income of Victoria College employees might be?
Any increase of taxes on the citizens of the county should be stopped. The Victoria College Board of Trustees needs to have more than a "quick meeting", to figure out how their institution can operate without more tax money being confiscated.
Forget the Advocate's favorite '$4.00 per $100,000' analogy and call this what it is. It is taking money away from some ... and giving it to (a very privaledged) few. There is no justification. The board does it ... just because they are allowed to do it.


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3.55/5 rDev +21.2%
appearance- brown and red in color with a half finger head that stays for most of the time. minimal lacing.
smell- traces of hops and sweet smells.
taste and mouthfeel- mainly mild hops and roasted flavors with a dry mouthfeel. a bit too thin.
drinkability- easy to drink. when i lived in Edmond, me and my friends would drink this all night at Old Chicago's.
02-17-2009 15:33:46 | More by heath1agnew
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2.7/5 rDev -7.8%
Part of a sampler at the brewery - full body, poured a dark red-brown color. It smelled great - lots of chocolate malt and sweet tones, but was very bitter and bland on the taste. I didn't really taste any of the malts at all - more just the bitterness of the hops.
03-12-2007 19:13:08 | More by kdoc8
2.7/5 rDev -7.8%
Sampler, from 2001 notes. Their menu describes the use of chocolate malt. Really? Looked more to me like a pale ale, as there was more of a hop overtone than anything else. Other than that, I can't call it much more than average. Still, a nice beer to have in a pleasant converted warehouse brewpub setting.
09-01-2004 15:36:20 | More by DrunkMcDermott
2/5 rDev -31.7%
06-09-2013 00:56:03 | More by shamrok
3.13/5 rDev +6.8%
On tap at the brewery. Pours a dark amber color. Medium bodied with a decent carbonation. Sweet caramel malty smell. Taste is of sweet malt and spicy with a hint of black pepper. Finished with a decent hop bite. The brewery pours this beer too cold. Had to let it warm up a bit to enjoy the full flavor of it. Not bad.
01-23-2005 23:40:38 | More by beerceller99
New York
3/5 rDev +2.4%
01-28-2012 06:21:11 | More by DoubleSimcoe
3.5/5 rDev +19.5%
01-04-2013 22:02:31 | More by mhaugo
2.5/5 rDev -14.7%
01-03-2012 03:18:26 | More by ThirstyHerf
New York
2.68/5 rDev -8.5%
A - Poured an amber color with an off white head that leaves some lacing behind
S - Is fairly light bit some caramel malt comes through
T - Is mostly of caramel malt and a dirty finish
M - This beer has a thin light body with medium carbonation to it
D - Another mediocer beer if the finish was better it would be a lot better If you like reds you might like this
02-20-2010 21:53:35 | More by armock
3.1/5 rDev +5.8%
Hazy dark amber with thin covering of light tan head.
Pretty evenly balanced between the darker crystal malt notes of caramel, toffee, and plum and the floral/citric flavor and lingering bitterness of Cascade hops.
Fairly full in the mouth considering the ABV. Not a terrible beer by any means, and it's not a bad session ale at $1.75/pint at happy hour.
05-01-2010 17:30:07 | More by bump8628
2/5 rDev -31.7%
09-24-2012 00:03:11 | More by alva7172
3.68/5 rDev +25.6%
I am really unsure about this one. It reminds me of Abita's amber, drank this one with pizza at Old Chicago restaraunt. Not to bad but it did have a bitter feel to it, which I tend not to like with my ambers. Overall this one had mixed feelings for me.
12-30-2007 07:18:31 | More by skeetermoses
2.75/5 rDev -6.1%
11-14-2013 00:48:01 | More by sneezye
3.53/5 rDev +20.5%
This was one of my favorites from Bricktown Brewery for a long time. Still good, just not my favorite anymore. This is essentially the same as the Copperhead Amber Ale, only with a darker roasted malt, and some caramel. Also, named after the red bricks that make up the streets in Bricktown, a small area of Oklahoma City. Pours a nice reddish brown color, minimal head, but again, mostly due to the server pouring it out in favor of more beer. Minimal lacing. Smelled of bready and roasted malts, some caramel hints there. Tasted is bready malts upfront with a light hoppiness in the middle. Some light fruitiness and roasted malts make up the finish. Full bodied and creamy mouthfeel. All around a decent brew. I would recommend that you at least try this.
12-14-2003 06:40:42 | More by Nytemare
3/5 rDev +2.4%
06-30-2012 19:34:15 | More by Amp
New York
3.35/5 rDev +14.3%
A. Poured a nice clear amber with a two finger off white to beige head, ample lacing on the glass
S. Malt, leaves, earthy
T. Light malty sweetness, carmel, lasting bitterness, slightly dry
M. Medium bodied, nice carbonation, chalky
D. Alright at best, nothing really popping but a decent brew.
11-11-2010 22:18:33 | More by smibroncos
2.1/5 rDev -28.3%
Tried on tap at the brewery 6 Jun 2009. clear bright ''brick red'' color. aroma is light. carmel malts but that's about it. dry roasted nuts, almonds, filberts. no lingering finsh, medium to light body. Almost flat too. not much else to say, pretty bland beer.
06-06-2009 20:07:23 | More by htomsirveaux
3.5/5 rDev +19.5%
06-05-2012 00:11:57 | More by 59rockabilly
Red Brick Ale from Bricktown Brewery
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A.Myron Ferguson, a
drywall contractor in Galway, N.Y., and moderator
of the JLC Online drywall forum, responds: The
paperless drywall I've used —
DensArmor Plus
(gp.com) —
cuts and fastens just like regular drywall, but
instead of an organic paper face it has an
inorganic fiberglass mat covering. Cutting it sends
bits of fiberglass into the air and onto the skin,
so I always wear a long-sleeve shirt and a dust
mask when I'm hanging it.
To reduce the potential for mold growth and
maintain a completely paperless wall surface, the
maker recommends using fiberglass mesh joint tape
with a setting-type compound for at least the first
coat. Vinyl corner beads are recommended for inside
Earlier versions of DensArmor Plus seemed to
have a very rough surface texture. Although the new
versions are smoother, they still feel a little
like 200-grit sandpaper if you rub your hand across
them. Applying a skim coat of joint compound over
the entire surface after all of the joints and
fasteners have been taped and sanded to a Level 4
finish leaves a thin film that fills in all of the
little nooks and crannies in the facing. Once
everything is sanded smooth, you have a Level 5
If this sounds like a lot of extra work, keep in
mind that — with both paper-faced and
paperless drywall — the taping and sanding
process produces a lot of different textures. Areas
that are covered with compound — like
seams, fasteners, and inside corners —
become very smooth after sanding. Areas where the
face of the drywall has been sanded (usually along
the edges of taped areas) have a rougher texture,
since the sanding process raises the fibers of the
paper or fiberglass facing. If the sandpaper used
is too coarse, the difference in textures becomes
even greater. Plus there may be untouched areas of
drywall, which have yet another texture and
porosity. All of these differences can become much
more noticeable when the walls or ceilings are
finished with a paint that has some sheen,
especially if the light hits it just right.
Mold-resistant paperless drywall is a specialty
product that costs 10 to 15 cents per square foot
more than standard drywall. Whether I'm
using paperless or paper-faced drywall, I usually
charge about 25 cents more per square foot to
upgrade from a Level 4 to a Level 5 finish on large
areas. For small jobs, I usually don't
charge a premium, since it only takes a few minutes
to skim-coat a sheet of drywall.
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