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While its camera isn't best-in-class and Windows Phone's underwhelming app selection still stings, the elegant and sophisticated HTC One M8 is an enticing alternative to Nokia models.
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Verizon subscribers can't beat the polished-metal HTC One Remix for value and style.
The One E8 offers the high-end HTC experience in glossy colors and a plastic case, but without a unique selling point, there's little reason to buy this expensive device.
The HTC Desire 610 may be affordable, with an iPhone 5C-style plastic body, but its mediocre specs and poor screen resolution mean it's still not a good buy. For much less money you can grab the 4G Motorola Moto G, which has the same processor, Android KitKat software and a higher resolution display.
With its slick metal body, the HTC One Mini 2 is among the most luxurious compact phones around. HTC, however, has given it a set of specs that put it more alongside the dirt-cheap Moto G than the One M8. This is definitely not the flagship One M8 in a more compact form. If style is of the utmost importance, it's worth checking out, but the Moto G is much better value.
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Synthetic Large Mustache Assortment (12 pc)Make your costume look even snazzier with a silly mustache from this Synthetic Large Mustache Assortment. These silly mustaches come in a variety of shapes and styles, making them perfect for children. Hand out next Halloween or as a fun carnival prize! One dozen per set. Assorted shapes and styles. Mustaches Measure about 4 Inches. Self Adhesive. Learn More
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The death of a Ralls native is making headlines in the music industry.
Billy Walker was a legend of the Grand Ole Opry. He was killed Sunday in a wreck along the Alabama interstate. He died along with his wife and two band members, when their van veered off the road and overturned. His 21-year old grandson remains in critical condition.
Walker's name can be seen on the Buddy Holly Walk of Fame in downtown Lubbock. He was born on a farm in Ralls, back in 1929, but raised in an orphanage after his mother's death. At the age of 11, he reunited with his father, who taught him to play the guitar after seeing a Gene Autry film.
At the time of his death, Walker was returning to Nashville after performing a show over the weekend. He was 77-years old.
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It will take about 3,000 man hours to construct the eight floats in this year's inaugural parade. The second inauguration of President Barack Obama will be Jan. 21.
"We started with Truman 1949," Earl Hargrove Jr., founder of Hargrove Inc., said. "That was the first one and we've been involved in every one since." Hargrove is a trade show, special event and custom exhibit company based in Md.
"Each president gives us a theme," said Fred Strickland, executive director of production at Hargrove.
The 2013 parade will include eight custom-designed floats commissioned by the Presidential Inaugural Committee. "Four floats will represent the First Family and Second Family's home states, and four floats will honor the extraordinary progress we've made as a nation," the committee said in a press release.
One float will include a donated 2/3 scale replica of an authentic P51 Mustang, in honor of the Tuskegee Airmen, Strickland said.
The eight floats are:
- The Hawaii State Float – Hawaii is the birthplace of President Obama. The float features a large volcano modeled after the famous Diamond Head Volcano and a tribute to the late Senator Daniel Inouye.
- The Illinois State Float – Illinois is the birthplace of First Lady Michelle Obama. The float features American flags, the state flag and a panorama of the Capitol.
- The Pennsylvania State Float – Pennsylvania is the birthplace of Vice President Joe Biden. The float includes a replica of the Liberty Bell and the Pennsylvania State Seal.
- The Delaware State Float – Delaware is the home state of Vice President Joe Biden and Second Lady Dr. Jill Biden. The float includes a replica of State Capitol Bell Tower.
- The Martin Luther King Jr. Float – The float's design features an image of Dr. King and a representation of his quote "out of the mountain of despair a stone of hope."
- The Civil Rights Movements Float – The Civil Rights float features images representing historic struggles of many of the civil rights movements in our country. The images represented include Immigration, Women's, LGBT, Civil and Labor Rights. The float also includes Martin Luther King's quote "The Arc of the moral universe is long but it bends toward justice."
- The Tuskegee Airmen Float – The float is a tribute to the brave young men who were the first African-American military aviators in the United States Armed Forces. The float features a model North American P-51 Mustang.
- The Inaugural Theme, "Our People. Our Future." Float – The American people are the focus of this float. Riding on the float are the citizen co-chairs for the National Day of Service.
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Digital SLR's, as I have mentioned elsewhere, produce a flatter image than your original film SLR or digital point and shoot. With film, these kinds of corrections were done for you at the processing lab and because "point and shoot" cameras are aimed at the mainstream market (who want nothing to do with the processing), they produce instant, bright and bold images straight from the camera.
When you get into the realms of the Digital SLR, you are heading towards a more professional style of photography and so more of the post processing is left to you. Many people complain of images looking bland and lifeless or colourless when they first buy a DSLR and this is why.
By manipulating the levels and curves of an image, you can quickly and easily replace the brightness and colour to your images with great effect. Let me illustrate this for you.
On a recent trip to Seville, I came across this amazing artwork graffiti on a wall by the river (Fig.1). I took quite a few shots with both a Canon EOS 20D and an EOS 1D MKII and with both cameras the images were ok, if not a little bland. For those of you interested, the exif data is;
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- Aperture - F9
- Focal Length - 22mm
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Here is the image opened in Photoshop CS
As you can see I have chosen a subject for this section with bright colours and a fine, sharp detail to enhance the importance of levels and curves.
Once you have opened your image in Photoshop, go to;
Image - Adjustments - Levels...easy.
A box will appear as in Fig.2.
As you can see, a histogram will appear that looks like a mountain range and in this case there is a small gap to the left and a slightly larger gap to the right. The left part of the histogram is the dark side and the right, the light side.
The larger gap on the right means that the image was slightly underexposed and this is rectified by moving the white slider on the right, back to the base of the "mountain range" or histogram as in Fig.3. Don't overdo it or you will blow out some of the detail in the lighter areas of your image.
When you move the slider, you will instantly see the image brighten up, as a test, I always click the preview button on and off a few times to see the effect. "before and after"!
With the black slider on the left, you have a choice. You can either bring this also to the base of the "mountain range" or histogram to the right, or if you bring it to the centre of the first peak as I have in Fig.3, the blacks will turn pure black for a real "punchy" and contrasty image. This is personal preference and you will know what works by using the preview button and having a play, but again, don't overdo it.
Another "quick fix" way of adjusting the levels is to use the 3 eyedropper tools that appear in the levels box just above the preview button. Select the left eyedropper, or black one and then use this to click on a black part of the image. Then select the white eyedropper and do the same on a white part of the image. You can use the centre or grey tool but you have to be fairly accurate with part of the image you choose or you may get some colour cast appearing. (This is similar to using a grey card when taking a light exposure reading at the point of exposure).
Ok, that is levels covered to a degree, now for curves.
I won't go into full detail of adjusting each individual colour separately, as this is meant for beginners and general workflow. We will make minor adjustment to the full RGB spectrum.
I personally use the curves tool quite sparingly as overuse can lose a lot of the detail in an image. As I do a lot of sunny, bright and colourful work, the curves tool enables me to add some extra punch and boldness to the colours of my images.
Go to;
Image - Adjustments - curves
The box that appears is very similar to the levels box except that the histogram is replaced by a straight line from bottom left to the top right. This is the curves line. See Fig. 4.
Quick note while I remember - If at any point you get to the stage where you dislike your adjustments, press Ctrl and Alt together and the "cancel" button in either the levels or curves box becomes a "reset" button. Click on it and you will revert back to the image before you started to play.
If you look at the very minor adjustments that I have made in fig.4, that is almost the extent of how much I personally use the curves tool. It is a kind of "S" shape with the top adjustment adding brightness to the image and the bottom adjustment darkening the shaded areas. This, or near to it, is normally enough to add a bit of contrast to your images.
Obviously as each image differs, the adjustments will also differ. Don't use this tool all the time such as with "misty" looking shots as you will lose that pastel effect by adding too much contrast. Experiment with fine adjustments to each of your shots but remember, again, not to overdo it.
If you are feeling really adventurous and are looking to make some weird and wonderful effects, they can be done using the curves tool to the extremes. Try it and see what happens. It is a good way to begin to learn how light and pixels work together.
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The 5th annual Mean Machine Dream Team Youth Football Camp opens next week at Cape Central Junior High School. The camp runs form July 15-20, going from 6-8 p.m. Monday through Friday, and 10 a.m. to noon on Saturday.
The camp teaches football skills and conditioning, as well as life skills.
"It's about sports, but it's about us as a community, getting back to what's right and it's got to start somewhere, and it's got to start with our youth," said Mean Machine coach George Foster. "So I stay with the younger guys and one of the reasons, the main reason I do this, is for our kids and our community."
The camp is free to attend and open to boys and girls grades 3rd through 6th. Foster says the camp is always looking for donations to help with cost.
Several Southeast Missouri State football players will also be on hand to help coach the camp, including Lennies McFerren, Ron Coleman and Kyle Snyder.
For more information on how to register for the camp, Foster can be contacted at 573-275-1332.
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The Nehalem River rose six feet in less than a day, as the first major winter storm of the season rolled through Monday.
Police officers and Columbia County sheriff's deputies visited people living in low-lying areas to warn them of the possibility of flooding.
"I'm ready to go," said Mark Luciani, who is staying in an RV at Anderson Park, feet from the Nehalem. "Twenty minutes and I can be out of here."
Luciani said he spent the day prepping his RV in case he had to leave. He planned to spend the night checking river levels.
"I'm going to be watching, definitely," he said. "I might catnap every 10 minutes and come out here, as I've been doing every 30 minutes or so."
By Monday night, it appeared Luciani and his neighbors could stay put.
According to the National Weather Service, the Nehalem River crested near Vernonia at 13.39 feet just after 5 p.m. Monday and began receding.
Flood stage is 12 feet. In the winter, the river rarely drops below six feet, according to the city administrator.
That is well below the 19 feet the river reached in 2007, when Vernonia experienced devastating flooding.
But for some people, the rising water on Monday stirred memories of the 2007 flood.
"Every time I drive by and the river is up, if it's up to the chair, then I'm starting to get worried," said John Romaine. "And it's happened a few times, but then it always stops."
Romaine eyed a wooden lifeguard chair at Rock Creek, just off the Nehalem River. Water had climbed within inches of the seat by afternoon.
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Does Advertising Still Need Television?
The watchword today in advertising is personalization—using digital media to deliver highly targeted ads. So why is television's share of the global advertising market actually rising? Because TV is still better than the rest at engaging consumers.
Even as TV habits evolve, ratings in most countries are steady and ad rates are as hot as ever, particularly for the biggest shows. Contrary to the fears of many, the Internet—and social media, in particular—hasn't yet cannibalized TV advertising. In fact, it may even be improving the TV experience for viewers and advertisers alike.
While so many technology evangelists proclaim that personalized advertising is the way forward and that traditional mass media has no future, for now television remains advertising's most appealing medium.
TV: Still the Standard
There are many valid reasons marketers are so excited about the potential of personalized advertising. The ability to pinpoint target audiences is one. Using data gathered from Facebook profiles, a sports team can target young men while a fashion magazine finds young women readers, and a retailer can send targeted coupons to mobile Internet users in a specific area.
Internet advertisement is also affordable, especially in comparison to TV advertising. An online video can be quite effective, particularly when you consider that the ad space costs about $30 per thousand impressions. Compare that to hundreds of thousands of dollars for 30 seconds on the most popular prime-time network television shows. Additionally, Internet and mobile ads have a sense of immediacy—users can respond immediately by clicking on a link to an online store.
At the same time, there are plenty of reasons to doubt TV's future as an advertising behemoth. Consumers' viewing habits are evolving rapidly. "Non-linear" television services, including digital video recorders (DVRs) and on-demand websites such as Hulu and Netflix, are growing increasingly popular, accounting for 12 percent of total television viewing worldwide in the third quarter of 2011 (see sidebar: The Fate for "Thematic" Channels). In 2011, the number of homes with a television in the United States dropped for the first time in two decades.
Still, TV's share of the overall market remains strong—it rose 3 percent between 2006 and 2010 (see figure 1). Meanwhile, the gains in Internet advertising have come mostly at the expense of print. If digital advertising is the wave of the future, television is still the leader of the present.
Why is that? Quite simply, the power of television—the moving image on a large screen, high-quality video and audio, the ability to stimulate emotion and engagement—is hard to beat. Amid a constant barrage of advertising messages, TV still offers a brand the way to stand out: an exclusive spot in the middle of a TV program that draws millions of relaxed viewers waiting to be entertained. A banner ad across a webpage or a text-based ad accompanying a Google search can't match that. And the spread of high-definition televisions has made the in-home viewing experience that much better.
The medium is only part of why TV advertising remains so attractive. Few websites can offer the large, engaged, national audiences of leading television programs. In some countries, the most popular television programs, such as the Super Bowl in the United States, reach more than 30 percent of the population, giving advertisers a prime opportunity to build or revitalize their brands. Even as personalized media takes hold, many people still enjoy watching TV together with family and friends. For advertisers seeking to build or revitalize brands quickly, what better way to do that than to tap into the 20 million Americans watching American Idol or the 10 million U.K. viewers tuning into The X Factor?
In many countries, ad space for the most watched TV programs is more expensive today than it was a decade ago. In France, TF1, Europe's number one channel, has created "FIRST" screens—best-of-the-best advertising slots during high-quality programs with large audiences,sold at a net price, regardless of the advertiser or the volumes it purchases. Tellingly, even Internet specialists spend much of their marketing budgets on television; in 2011, Google spent millions on U.S. TV ads.1
A study of the French market by Havas Media and analytics firm Concentric found that paid advertising generates 87 percent of "earned media"—that is, the media coverage you don't pay for, such as word-of-mouth, blogs, Facebook posts, and tweets. Within that total, TV is responsible for 53 percent, and online advertising only 13 percent.
Combining Old and New
While overall traditional TV audiences remain strong and relatively steady, and TV advertising spending remains strong, part of that is due to the fact that older people are watching more TV than ever. More viewers, especially younger ones, are watching shows on the Internet, through their DVRs, and via mobile phone. As viewing habits change, advertisers must take note and adapt.
These changes don't necessarily mean the death of TV; rather, they point to the need for traditional broadcasters and their advertisers to embrace interactive media to support traditional TV. The rise of "dual-screen viewers"—watching TV while simultaneously using a computer or smartphone—is in many ways enhancing the TV experience for both viewers and advertisers alike. For example, in the United Kingdom, 48 percent of "tech-savvy" consumers (those who own and are medium-to-heavy users of digital TV and broadband Internet) watch television while using the Internet, according to a survey of 3,011 people by Thinkbox and the Internet Advertising Bureau. These viewers are 50 percent more likely to buy or use an advertised product when they use TV and the Internet together.
These changes are leading to the rise of what some are calling "social TV," where viewers connect via social media to "share" the TV experience. Leading television broadcasters and advertisers are already tapping into this, using websites, Facebook and Twitter, smartphone apps, and other interactive services to connect with viewers before, during, and after programming. Compelling television commercials can lead dual-screen viewers to look up information on their computer or smartphone—and even spur them to make purchases. In essence, television and interactive advertising can complement and reinforce each other. Nielsen recently reported that increased social media "buzz" surrounding a show can lead to an increase in ratings, especially for season premieres and finales.2
Many of today's most effective campaigns combine use TV commercials to build the brand and create buzz, and the Internet to allow consumers to follow up and make purchases. Kraft Foods combined TV and online advertising in promoting its chocolate brand Milka in Poland. Television commercials directed Poles to an online campaign to vote on how funds to preserve wildlife in Poland's Tatra Mountains should be spent. The campaign attracted more than 600,000 online votes. Polish broadcaster TVN said that 71 percent of the Polish consumers it surveyed said they remembered the campaign. Milka, which uses mountainous imagery in its branding, saw its market share in Poland rise almost 3 percent in 2010 to 17.8 percent.
TV Stays Strong
Yes, personalized and mobile advertising has a major role to play, but the big-budget television commercial still reigns supreme. For brands, television is evolving from a role in which ads merely seek to sell a product to a "trailer to engage" model in which ads tease a story that consumers can continue following in other touch points. Brands need television as much as ever, both to build awareness and to tap into people's emotions. TV's large screens, high-quality audio, and engaging content still reach consumers in a way that mobile phones and personal computers can't.
1A.T. Kearney's Tim Bradshaw, "Google turns to television to lure consumers," The Globe and Mail, 29 December 2011. http://www.theglobeandmail.com/news/technology/tech-news/google-turns-to-television-to-lure-consumers/article2285371/
2Simon Dumenco, "Believe the Hype? Four Things Social TV Can Actually Do," Advertising Age, 13 April 2012. http://adage.com/article/the-media-guy/hype-things-social-tv/234134/


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"Asana" and "gynarchy" were the magic words for the winner of the 2013 RESA 7 Regional Spelling Bee.
Louis Aldridge, 11, of Bridgeport beat out more than 50 students from nine counties to win the title Wednesday night at the Bridgeport Conference Center.
The competition was for students in grades 4 through 8.
Aldridge, who is homeschooled, had big shoes to fill. His siblings have won the competition for the last three years.
Up next for Aldridge: a trip to Washington, D.C. for the National Scripps Howard Spelling Bee in May.


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Had a look over at ESPN tonight and scanned through their INSIDE EDGE "In-Depth Major League Baseball Reports" in which each player is assigned a grade on various categories of performance. To spare you all the agony of having to go over there and look at these incredibly slow-loading pages, and also save you all a puke or two, I've summarised ESPN's grades of our players here:
(overall grades)
C+ Garret Anderson
C- Erick Aybar
C+ Vladimir Guerrero
C Torii Hunter
C+ Maicer Izturis
C+ Howie Kendrick
C+ Casey Kotchman
D+ Jeff Mathis
D+ Gary Matthews Jr
C+ Mike Napoli
D+ Robb Quinlan
C- Juan Rivera
C- Reggie Willits
(overall grades)
A- Jose Arredondo
NA Chris Bootcheck
NA Kelvim Escobar
C+ Jon Garland
A- John Lackey
B Darren O'Day
B+ Darren Oliver
B- Francisco Rodriguez
B+ Ervin Santana
B Joe Saunders
B Scot Shields
B- Justin Speier
D- Rich Thompson
B Jered Weaver
The criteria appear to be:
Offensive players are graded on (overall effectiveness, location performance, fastball performance, offspeed performance, plate discipline, clutch tendency, and 2-strike tendency).
Pitchers are graded on (working ahead in the count, command, finishing off hitters, offspeed effectiveness, overall effectiveness, dominance, efficiency, and battle tendency).
OK ... here's my point. Grades, like all stats, are to be chucked out with the rubbish. The only thing that matters on a baseball field is how players perform, individually and as a unit. Managers, to this day, are still the best judges of how their players are performing.
The Angels are tied for the best record in baseball, but based on these player grades you would almost have to assume we are mediocre at best.
Also, there is no mention of a player's value in terms of defense, speed, hustle, leadership, teamwork, ability to operate within an organisational framework, or anything else that all my former baseball coaches counted on extremely highly.
No mention of Chone Figgins either. Apparently because our most dynamic offensive catalyst and leadoff man has been sidelined a few times because of a bad hammy, knee infection and bereavement leave, he does not exist. There is no mention of any of our fill-ins (Moseley, Adenhart, Brown, Wood, S Rod), but it is enlightening to see that the man who has blown away the MLB record for most saves before the All-Star break, Francisco Rodriguez, is just as bad as Justin Speier and our worst graded reliever other than Rich Thompson, who has thrown all of like ... two baseballs for us and is a freaking Aussie.
And apparently, John Lackey and Jose Arredondo are the only two players worthwhile keeping. If you trusted ESPN's weird ranking system, we'd get rid of the lot of the rest of them.
If any of you stat-oriented folks out there want to have a crack at working out this obviously flawed system of player performance rating, feel free and let me know. Until then, I'll leave you with these 3 thoughts:
1) Baseball stats blow, 2) fuck ESPN, 3) and it's going to suck when ESPN's reporters are writing their playoff previews in October and they have to explain away all this horseshit.
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Proven Treatments for Tinnitus
Those who suffer from tinnitus are always desperate for a proven tinnitus treatment. There is a lot of information floating around out there about the many cures and remedies for tinnitus. The truth is that there really is no cure in the mainstream medicine to treat tinnitus. However, there are treatments for relieving tinnitus symptoms.
Are There Any Proven Tinnitus Treatments?
The question becomes, are there any proven treatments for tinnitus?
Probably one reason there is no cure is that tinnitus is usually a symptom of some other condition rather than a disease in itself. If that condition is cured, then the tinnitus may go away as well. If the tinnitus is caused by damage to the ears by some excessively loud noise, then it may be difficult to cure that. The person then needs proven treatments for tinnitus. Many prescription drugs cause tinnitus so it is advisable to beware when taking these fro the treatment of tinnitus.
Masking devices are the most obviously proven treatments for tinnitus. They are devices, sometimes hearing aid type devices, which disguise the ear noises of tinnitus. They work well for immediate relief of symptoms. They also present a residual inhibition by which ear noises are temporarily diminished for minutes or even weeks after the patient removes the masking device. This is not a cure because the ease of symptoms eventually goes away and the person eventually has to go back to using the masking device. It is still a proven treatment for tinnitus.
Proper diet and healthy habits have been known for years to ease the suffering of people with tinnitus. A diet rich in vitamins, especially the B vitamins, and minerals, especially zinc, is best to alleviate tinnitus. Quitting smoking and beginning exercise definitely have an affect on circulation, so they help with the blood flow to the inner ear structures. These are all proven treatments for tinnitus.
The use of Ginkgo biloba has been shown in studies to help tinnitus sufferers significantly. It is considered by most to be a proven treatment for tinnitus. It is easy to obtain and fairly inexpensive. However use of the cheaper, lesser known brands has been found to be less effective. A drawback to this therapy is that it shouldn't be used by people on blood thinners such as coumadin.
There have been a number of studies on the efficacy of Tinnitus Retraining Therapy (TRT). It would seem after most of these studies that TRT is a proven treatment for tinnitus. It uses a sound generator that sends a special broadband signal that is adjusted over time to habituate the person to his or her tinnitus. Specialized counseling is also used.
Tinnitus Miracle – Proven Techniques to Cure Tinnitus
Unless an underlying condition can be cured which will completely relieve tinnitus symptoms, there probably is no cure, at least not right now. That is why it is important to go for these proven treatments for tinnitus, which can relieve the patient of tinnitus symptoms. And, this authoritative guide about treating Tinnitus – Tinnitus Miracle – offers proven methods to cure Tinnitus permanently.


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Photo Assumption Articles
Younger with a kiss
Can a kiss make you younger? Can a kiss from a younger woman make you feel younger? Can a kiss from a younger woman make you believe you're still young? Johnny Depp leaned in for a kiss from his fiancée the other day in New York before flying out. It's the happiest we've seen her with him. Full Story
Ben's squat car
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Ben Affleck loves his car a lot. The problem with this car? When he has to take it to the gas station, because of the where the tank is located, he always has to squat…which why whenever he gets papped there, he always looks like he's in the most awkward positions. Ben's in a good mood for photographers, non? All smiles, like he has some kind of street cred for being a card counter in Vegas. Full Story
Selena & Orlando
They were seen together at the Chelsea Handler performance this weekend. So now everyone is calling it "revenge sex". After all, Justin Bieber allegedly hooked up with Miranda Kerr when she was still officially with Orlando Bloom. A couple of days and twenty years difference? Ahem. If JB is sh-tting over this…good. Full Story
Is your back OK?
Ben Affleck and Jennifer Garner went for back massages together yesterday. Maybe not Ben's most attractive sighting. Check the way he's getting out the car. That's a pretty un-sexy dismount, right there. It's a half squat. With turned out feet. Yeah, not sexy. And what happens when he bends down isn't cute either. Full Story
Weekend Girl Sh-t: Taylor Swift & Selena Gomez
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Selena Gomez and Taylor Swift broke up (click here for a refresher)…even though Swift had her people tell Gossip Cop that those reports were bullsh-t. Really? Selena Gomez just happened to hook up with Kendall Jenner for lunch the other day. Full Story
The Jolie + a member of the GOOP crew
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Sky Captain And The World Of Tomorrow, did you see it? Probably not. The only reason I'm mentioning it is because the film features both Angelina Jolie and Gwyneth Paltrow. So, an excuse to post these old photos of them, with Jude Law and Bai Ling (!!!) at the premiere September 2004, just 4 months after G gave birth to Apple. Full Story
Ralph Notaro/ Canham/ Splash
All smiles, here's Selena Gomez in California today hitting the gas station for snacks and smokes. Someone looks relieved she wasn't in Miami. Or, is that another emotion? Like, smug. Like, hey motherf-cker, this is why I broke up with you again last week. Yeah but are you getting back together with him next week? Because his managers will probably be begging her to put on a united front with him next week, just like that f-cking smile in that mugshot. Full Story
Family time with Charlize & Sean
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Can we play Photo Assumption with this shot of Sean Penn and Charlize Theron's son Jackson at the grocery store this week? I wish we could get a look at the boy's face. But his shoulders, to me, are side-eyeing the sh-t out of his mom's boyfriend. This is why Photo Assumption isn't an exact science. Full Story
Mrs Johnny Depp?
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Amber Heard went out the other night. She made a point of covering up one of her hands. Apparently there was a ring on her engagement finger. Again, she went out of her way to hide it, even getting the valet to open the car door so that she wouldn't have to expose it. And now several mainstream outlets, including PEOPLE Full Story
Catching up with JLO & Leah
Leah Remini went to see Jennifer Lopez on the set of her new movie The Boy Next Door. I feel like there were some serious faces happening on this visit. Photo Assumption says I know this face. That's the face of a girlfriend who's come to give some advice. That's the face of a girl who gets the call – I need to talk, I need to figure something out, can you parachute and bring a bottle of wine with you? Full Story
Photo Assumption: Anna Wintour watching Kanye West
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This post is for Sasha. She sent me this shot yesterday with the message: "you better be doing a picture analysis on this!!! look at (Kanye West's fiancée) and then to the leeeeeeeffffffftttttttttttttt" To the left? Everything you own in a box to the left… Thank you, Beyonce. Full Story
Photo Assumption: Scarjo & Rooney
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Remember, it's photo assumption – highly UNscientific conclusions based only on one photographic moment that could be interpreted a million ways. Scarlett Johansson and Rooney Mara were together at the premiere of Her at the Rome Film Festival. Scarjo is "Her", the voice. Full Story
Best Twi-Hard Halloween
How was your Halloween? Did you go to a party? Did you make memories with your friends? Did you Instagram the sh-t out of your costume? Was it the best time ever? I promise you, no matter how great your night was, every Twi-Hard in the world was having a better time than you. Because new photos were released yesterday of Kristen Stewart and Robert Pattinson together. Full Story
I know that look…
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Katy Perry's been in London the last couple of days promoting her new album Prism. John Mayer is with her on the trip and the two partied at Shoreditch House last night though they tried not to be shot together while they were leaving. Let's play Photo Assumption, our favourite game of baseless conclusions. Full Story


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(Except, of course, for Las Vegas, Atlantic City, dozens of Indian reservations, riverboat casinos, state lotteries, Wall Street, horse-racing, and other Congress-approved forms of gambling, which continue to go gangbusters.)
Fortunately for citizens of the world, if not the United States, companies like the UK's Betfair are now facilitating gambling online. And they're making great money doing it.
Betfair, which generates revenue of $500+ million a year, just set the valuation range for its IPO to £1.2 - £1.5 billion. Some folks think it will trade for more than that.
Betfair is the 9th most valuable private digital company in the world, according to the Digital 100 >


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By Dave Rogers
---- — NEWBURYPORT — Acting on an anonymous tip that at least one Newburyport High School student was selling alcohol to other students, police last October began what turned out to be a months-long investigation into under-aged drinking in and around the High Street school.
In December, the investigation bore fruit with the arrests of two teenagers outside a Crow Lane address. Both teens accepted responsibility and were sentenced earlier this month. Their records will be cleared if they follow the court's orders.
The arrests are part of the department's and the city's continuing efforts to curtail under-aged drug and alcohol use. Founded in 2006, the Beacon Coalition is a multi-faceted group that looks to find solutions to reduce under-age use and abuse of alcohol, tobacco and other drugs. Its members include the police department and Newburyport Youth Services.
Through a combination of outreach programs and grant money, the coalition has been effective in combating not only under-aged drug and alcohol use, but public drunkenness, overserving at bars and adults who purchase alcohol for minors. In recent months, police have made a series of high profile arrests and busts as a result of party patrols and alcohol compliance checks inside and around pouring establishments.
Newburyport police are also hoping the addition of the department's new school liaison officer Gregory Whitney inside the city's schools will make a dent in not only combating under-aged drinking, but drug use and other hot-button topics.
City Marshal Thomas Howard said he has been very pleased with Whitney's first few weeks inside the district's schools especially considering his role has been tailored or redefined since the last time the department was able to deploy an officer there. Whitney has benefited with additional training thanks to a Beacon Coalition grant.
But Howard said it is too early to tell how effective Whitney has been at curtailing under-aged drinking as he has been resolving issues happening in the schools on a daily basis.
"Since he's been in there, unfortunately it's been non-stop," Howard said.
Andrea Egmont, director of Youth Services for the city, said under-aged drinking on high school grounds was uncommon, pointing to a 2012 study that showed only 6 percent of students claimed to have consumed alcohol while at school within 30 days of the time they were interviewed. The poll was conducted in 2011 as part of a Youth Risk Behavior Survey.
"It's not a majority of the kids by any means," Egmont said.
But when asked if they had taken illegal drugs on school grounds over a one-year period, 23 percent of students said yes.
Parents have begun stepping up as well. Recently, a Newburyport mother began a parent support group aimed at offering parents a place to pool their ideas and vent their frustrations with other parents. Another group, looking into the growing problem of K2 abuse, is also in the works. K2 is a legal substance similar to potpourri, which can be smoked to produce a hallucination high.
Egmont said Youth Services is also exploring non-punitive measures that will focus on getting students the help they need rather than punish them for past transgressions. The Newburyport School District has been working closely with Youth Services, she said.
Last week, one of the two teens, Christopher Gallagher, 18, of 314 High St., Newburyport, avoided jail time when he pleaded out to being a person under 21 in possession of alcohol charge. Gallagher admitted to sufficient facts to Judge Allen Swan, who then ordered his case continued without finding for three months. Should Gallagher remain out of trouble and pay $100 in court costs, the charge against him would be tossed.
The other teen, Cameron Beaulieu, 17, of 142 Crow Lane, chose to enter Essex County District Attorney Jonathan Blodgett's youthful diversion program. The program gives first-time nonviolent offenders between 17 and 21 years of age the opportunity to receive services in lieu of being prosecuted through the traditional court process. If Beaulieu completes the program, Blodgett's office will dismiss the charge against him and he will not have a court record. If he doesn't successfully complete the program or voluntarily withdraws from the program, the case will go forward in court for prosecution, according to the Essex County District Attorney's office.
According to Newburyport police Sgt. Stephen Chaisson's report, Beaulieu was suspected of pouring vodka into bottles of spring water and selling them to students. The vodka was purchased by Beaulieu's father, Ernest Beaulieu, at a Seabrook liquor store. The father then gave it to his son. As a result, Ernest Beaulieu was also investigated by police.
On a late December evening, Chaisson noticed the younger Beaulieu leaving his Crow Lane residence and entering a car driven by Gallagher. Chaisson watched them for about 10 minutes before walking over to the parked car. Beaulieu was spotted with a marijuana pipe on his lap and a bottle of spring water by his side. A search of Gallagher resulted in the seizure of a glass pipe and a lighter. Both teens were charged with alcohol-related offenses and a civil marijuana violation, according to Chaisson's report.


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If you live in the U.S. you will not find Testosterone Cypionate for sale on the black market as commonly as you will many other testosterone forms; especially when it comes to pharmaceutical grade. The vast majority of Testosterone Cypionate is manufactured in the U.S. by Upjohn and Watson, and very little ever finds its way to black market suppliers. Of course, outside the U.S. things begin to change as there are quite a few pharmaceutical companies that make it. Further, numerous underground labs across the globe manufacture the product.
Regardless of the brand you choose, most Testosterone Cypionate comes dosed at 200mg/ml or 250mg/ml. There are a few exceptions; however, most high dosed Testosterone Cypionate normally falls under the category of buyer beware. Such products are commonly under-dosed and are only provided by low-grade underground labs. Of course, regardless of the dosing, you must be very careful when making any anabolic steroid purchase. Contaminated products are not uncommon, and when it comes to human grade Testosterone Cypionate this is one of the most commonly counterfeited testosterones.


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Dancing on Walls is a fabulously woven story which takes the reader through an incredulous journey keeping them riveted through the entire story.
The story of a little girl, Shirvi, from a small village tucked in the hills of Sahyadari near Mumbai, it is set on the night before the harvest moon with Shirvi busy cleaning her home in preparation of the big festival. Little Shirvi wanted to surprise her family with all the chores done…but the task ahead was daunting.
What transpires next is most enthralling, the arrival of little magical moon creatures who not only solve Shirvi's dilemma, but also lead to the inception of Warli Wall paintings, a popular art form of India.
Dancing on the Walls is an apt name for the book as the story and the art form literally bring the wall alive with the dancing of magical creatures imbuing vivid imagination in the young readers mind.
The illustrations are magnificent - bold and colorful which helps build and retain the interest of the reader. The illustrator displays her skill giving careful attention and detail to the plot of the story.
A story that brings Indian culture alive, critical in today's global world where in the pursuit of being international one tends to lose sight of one's own roots.
A must read for kids who love a little fantasy and also enjoy art and culture.
This book is also available in Hindi, Tamil, Kannada, Telugu, Marathi, Gujarati, Bangla
Dancing on Walls is a very well conceived book. While the content is indeed appealing to children, story and imagery wise, it will indeed succeed in arousing a curiosity to know more about Warli art.
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By Patricia H. Kushlis
Also see Peter Van Buren "An Example of Petty Corruption and Cronyism at State", January 23, 2013. Van Buren worked on Congressional Relations for State's Bureau of Consular Affairs at the time of the passport fiasco.
It wasn't all that long ago that Maura Harty, State Department darling – and Congressional bête noir – somehow received a Presidential rank (the US government's most prestigious civilian) award. This happened in 2010. But for what? Staying home after being fired for causing such a mess with the normally routine issuance of passports to American citizens for the first six months of 2007 that members of Congress finally summoned her to the Hill to testify - to her and the Department's chagrin?
We remember it all too well since WhirledView became the "go-to" website for advice on how to circumnavigate the interminably long delays caused by incompetent bureaucratic decisions because, well the mainstream media and most everyone else had largely been ignoring this very human story. Perhaps as importantly we made it possible for applicants to share experiences and for those successful in navigating the Passport Agency's rocky shoals to offer practical advice.
Presidential awards are rare and special.
These awards are normally reserved for a very few US government officials successfully employed and in responsible positions who had performed their duties in exemplary fashion for the previous three years. This, we pointed out in 2010, Harty had not been or done because she had been let go – not just moved to another position in the Department - in early 2008 for incompetence in the passport affair. She submitted her resignation on November 21, 2007 effective February 29, 2008.
How is it that no one in authority in the Department noticed Harty's Presidential award nomination and questioned its propriety - before it was announced? Shouldn't this have come from Nancy Powell then Director General of the Foreign Service?
Or what about – let's fast forward to the present – Harty's far more recent reemployment by the Department – this time in the Office of the Inspector General? Didn't Linda Thomas-Greenfield, the current Director General think more than once about rehiring someone who had been let go for cause just a few years earlier? Guess not.
While Harty herself is now back at State in the Office of the Inspector General, we understand that her husband (different last name) is employed in State's Consular Affairs Bureau front office. Guess they can carpool together. Wonderful.
There's one thing about bringing someone back on contract or into the Foreign Service who performed well, left of his or her own volition or was forced out because of the Foreign Service's antediluvian up-or-out promotion system despite the individual's sustained superior performance. But face it Harty does not meet those criteria. And employing her non-State Department husband in the front office of the bureau she formerly headed (before she became a public embarrassment) simply smacks of a weird form of questionable cronyism.
But why the Office of the Inspector General (OIG)? How can the Department hire someone for a position in the Inspector's Office with this track-record? Should she really be allowed to make judgment calls as to how others perform their jobs?
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Albany - If you love Christmas music, tune your radio to 107.7FM. The Albany radio station is playing Christmas music 24-hours a day until December 25th. The station normally plays a mix of past and present top 40 hits, but it will be nothing but Jingle Bells and White Christmas this month.
"Stations who played Christmas music constantly last Christmas season showed a peak in listeners," said Gena Davis, Mix 107. "So far, most of our listeners love the holiday tunes."
Mix 107 carries the "Delilah" radio show each night, and this is the only time non-holiday music will be played.
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This is the home page of the Glasgow-based band, Force Four. The band reformed in 2008 after a 40-year break. The site contains about 40 songs (finalised and draft) written and recorded by the band over the period 1965-2013.
The band writes and records songs of various styles and genres, using low-cost home studio equipment and software. If you would like to hear the songs - and read the lyrics as the songs are playing - click any of the first three links below or the tabs above.
The songs are available to other bands for performance, with permission. Please click the Contact tab.
The web site currently contains three pages of songs:
- Page 1: selected complete songs with lyrics
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BOSTON (AP) - The Bruins tried every tactic possible to avoid the dreaded "Stanley Cup Hangover."
They didn't work.
Different lineups, different travel schedules, extra rest, you name it. But Boston still slumped through certain times of the regular season, and though they won the Northeast Division and snagged the No. 2 seed in the Eastern Conference playoffs, there they were on Friday, packing up at the TD Garden after a first-round loss to Washington some 10 months after hoisting the Stanley Cup.
"I think the best way to say it is it almost felt like one long season. It almost felt like a baseball season," Bruins forward Milan Lucic said. "Obviously, we've almost played 200 games here in the last two years. Obviously that's a good thing, you want to be playing as much as you can, as long as you can.
"But, this is an opportunity for us right now to get some rest."
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Speed Hold'em Poker tables are easily found in the Titan Poker software, and they can be saved in a player's Favorites, or accessed with the Quick Seat feature. Players can play up to 4 times more hands per hour and can also multi-table with multiple entries into the playing pool.
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Yes, Harvey Keitel is starring in a Lifetime movie -- that's what we've come to. Although, in this case, we don't blame him for taking a trip to enjoy the warm weather of the Gold Coast, Australia.
Keitel will star opposite local up-and-comers Zoe Ventoura and Amber Clayton in the tragic true story of a honeymoon that ended in the death of Alabama woman Tina Watson with husband Gabe later standing trial on a first-degree murder charge, accused of tampering with his new wife's scuba equipment to pocket in excess of $200,000 insurance money. An emergency room physician, husband Gabe was allegedly spotted clutching and releasing his wife before ascending to the surface alone. Another diver then recovered the body and attempted to resuscitate her as the husband watched on from another boat. He was eventually acquitted for a lack of evidence.
No word on what roles Ventoura and Clayton will take on but Keitel is slated to play the father of victim Tina Watson. A Lifetime movie is certainly a far cry from height of his career but he does have some better fare on the horizon. He's got "Waltz With Bashir" director Ari Folman's long-developing "The Congress" in the works and may be part of Marty Scorsese's return to gangsters with "The Irishman" if/when that happens. However, with "The Wolf Of Wall Street" at the forefront of Scorsese's mind and "Silence" still on the horizon, who knows if the Frank Sheeran biopic is still on Scorsese's cards (last we heard, Robert De Niro said they're still "working towards making it happen"). [HeraldSun/GoldCoast/Reuters]
Theresa Warren | May 24, 2012 7:50 PM
So this is what his career has come to, making a movie about someones life, someone that was, and is greatly loved, without their consultation or consent. Some people would stoop to anything for a buck, and how does he propose to play someone he has never met? Or as the tone of this article suggests, isn't their life story important enough for that to matter. Sickening, Vultures.
TSV | May 7, 2012 11:45 PM
Just correcting an inaccuracy in your blog above regarding the statement that Tina Watson's husband Gabe Watson was "an emergency room physician''. Gabe Watson is NOT an emergency room physician - he is a bubble-wrap salesman with his father's packaging company. Any reference to an "emergency room physician'' in this case pertains to American Dr Stanley Stutz, who was the eye witness who allegedly saw a male diver "clutching and releasing his wife before ascending to the surface alone''.
micheal | May 2, 2012 2:02 PM
Hopefully they use www.michaelmcfadyenscuba.info/viewpage.php?page_id=791 and www.dontdivequeensland.com for their research. The Queensland site shows the dangers of diving the gbr from Queensland and michaelmcfadyenscuba actually proves Gabe did not kill Tina.
Lou | May 2, 2012 12:34 PM
I so love Keitel... He still looks great. Joe Pesci and he are fantastic actors who deserved a smashing career. Scorsese has been myopic and MUST make amends.


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As Didier Drogba stepped up to the penalty spot on Saturday evening, he looked unaffected by the gravity of the situation. If he made his penalty, he would capture the trophy that he was brought to Chelsea to win ... in 2004. Whether or not he made the spot kick, it was likely to be his last kick of the ball as a Chelsea player. It was far and away the biggest moment of his professional footballing career and the biggest moment in the history of Chelsea FC. He looked unaffected.
Bastian Schweinsteiger failing to convert his penalty was the biggest moment of the final. From then until the match's conclusion, there wasn't really any suspense. It never felt like Chelsea still had work to do after Petr Cech tipped Schweinsteiger's shot onto the post. That was the match's defining moment, because everyone knew who was up next.
Drogba stepped up, sent Manuel Neuer the wrong way and rolled a simple shot into the lower left corner. His teammates went wild. He just smiled. He both expected to score and knew that he had to. It didn't look like the game meant any more to him than a random league match in the middle of the season.
Unsurprisingly, this was not the case. After the match, Drogba spoke about his thoughts before he took the penalty.
"I was confident, but before I went to take it I started thinking about what happened in the African Cup of Nations when I could have won the final for my team [Ivory Coast] and missed. It was very hard but at the same time I was thinking I had to score when Petr Cech had made all his saves. When we have this guy in goal you have to believe. I wanted to score for him and my other team-mates. I wanted to make Chelsea smile compared to the other time when we were all down and crying."
This is a lot to think about in a short walk-up from the halfway line to the penalty spot, and it's surprising to hear that all of these thoughts were running through his head. During that walk-up, it didn't appear that he was thinking about anything. Maybe he has an excellent poker face and he felt like it was important to put one on in that moment, but it's a bit stunning to read that any previous failures ran through his head before he took his penalty.
The two failures that Drogba referred to in that quote were probably the two lowest moments of his career. His penalty miss in the Africa Cup of Nations final this January was shocking, and it was even more shocking that his team couldn't find a goal from open play. Drogba redeemed himself by scoring in the penalty shootout, but Gervinho missed the decisive penalty as Zambia won the shootout 8-7.
In 2008, Drogba cost himself a chance to win the Champions League for Chelsea by getting sent off in the 116th minute of the final against Manchester United. John Terry and Nicolas Anelka both missed penalties in that shootout as Manchester United captured the trophy. If Drogba was still on the pitch, it's possible that neither Terry or Anelka would have taken a spot kick.
For someone who has played for so long and accomplished so much, these career low points aren't that low. The 34-year-old has won 10 major trophies since he arrived at Stamford Bridge in 2004. He's scored 280 professional goals and 100 Premier League goals. He's willed his team to multiple trophies.
Drogba was easily the story of this year's Champions League with his goal in the first leg of the semifinal against Barcelona, then his equalizer in the final to force extra time against Bayern Munich. Neither goal was remotely surprising. They both generally elicited a reaction of "yep, that's Drogba". As incredible and dramatic as the 88th minute equalizer against Bayern was, it kind of just felt like the eighth time Robert Horry hit a game-winner in the NBA Playoffs. No one was going to go crazy over that goal unless it came on a bicycle kick or a 40-yard screamer. But a powerful header to the top corner from 10 yards? Been there, done that.
The 2007 FA Cup final was absolutely drab, and Drogba rescued it from penalty kicks, scoring a winner after 115 minutes of awful football. Neither team looked terribly interested in attacking and everyone assumed that both teams would settle for penalties a couple of minutes into extra time. In the 25th minute of extra time, Drogba and Frank Lampard appeared to simply decide that they didn't want to go to penalties. They were good enough that they could make that decision.
Drogba's 2009-10 season, in which he scored 29 Premier League goals in 32 appearances, was a series of clutch moments over and over again. In Chelsea's two league victories over Arsenal, Drogba scored four of Chelsea's five goals. He had two assists in Chelsea's 2-0 home win over Liverpool and scored in a late-season 2-0 win at Anfield. In the season's decisive game at Old Trafford, Drogba came off the bench in the 70th minute and scored in the 79th minute, helping Chelsea to a 2-1 win and eventually, a Premier League title.
While Saturday's game-tying goal and penalty from Drogba were fantastic, they were not exceptional. They were almost standard for him. After Thomas Müller put Bayern Munich ahead, no one would have been surprised if they were able to hold on for the win, but it would have been shocking if Drogba didn't at least manage to hit the woodwork or force a save out of Neuer in the final 10 minutes of normal time. Failure to make an impact would have been more 'exceptional' for Drogba than a goal.
If Drogba has played his last game for Chelsea, he will leave as possibly the greatest player in the club's history. Frank Lampard and John Terry will probably be remembered as the faces of this Chelsea team, if only because they were at the team before Roman Abramovich purchased the club and because they are English, but they have never matched Drogba for pure talent and ability to take over a game. Chelsea won a UEFA Champions League title with Terry out of the squad and Lampard playing a less prominent role than in years' past. They are past the point where they are able to take over games against top sides, and they are past the point where they are far and away better than their backups at the club. Drogba, at 34, is still the Chelsea player most capable of taking over a game by himself. Even when Lampard and Terry were at their best, he was Chelsea's biggest talent.
If Drogba left Chelsea without a European Cup, he might have felt like something was missing from his career. With Chelsea's victory on Saturday, this is no longer an issue, and Drogba's legacy as a Chelsea (and general football) legend is secure.
Eight years after Drogba arrived, Chelsea have the trophy he was brought to the club to win, and he was the man who won it for them. If he leaves for big money in the Middle East, the United States or China, it can no longer be considered a cop-out. His work at Chelsea is done.
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Elizabeth Bay Rd
Elizabeth Bay, Sydney-Eastern Suburbs, NSW
- Guests: 4
- Bedrooms: 2
Bedroom breakdown
Bedroom 1 - 1x Queen
Bedroom 2 - 1x Double
- Bathrooms: 1
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Just renovated modern two bedroom apartment with balcony & poished timber floor is close to cafes,shops, and large harbour bay park . Near Bus or train for quick access to city centre or famous Bondi
There is no air conditioning in this apartment though there are heaters
This smartly renovated & decorated two bedroom apartment with attractive polished timber flooring features a large livingdining area with a 3 seater suede louge to watch the large plasma TV together with a Hi-Fi and DVD. The lounge outlook is of lush green trees off the lounge running the full length of the apartment balcony creating plenty of privacy overlooking the street. Access is via a security key to the building. No smoking is permitted inside the apartment. The re is a smart glasstop round dining table with modern comfortable chairs overlooking the balcony.…
The kitchen is extremely modern with new refrigerator, microwave and dishwasher with a lovely treed view making cooking a pleasure.
A secure car parking space is available - however Potts Point is just around the corner offering numerous eateries, the hospitals such as St Lukes or St Vincents plus plentyof shopping. It is just opposite the entry to the lovely Rushcutters Bay Park where you can stroll around Sydneys famous harbour edge and its yachts or picnic & play in the large park which also has a cafe and kids play area..
Stroll to a quick last train stop connection to the city; which takes about 5 minutes or catch from in front of the building the city bus - this apartment is great for an alternative CBD accommodation option. Offering two bedrooms the second bedroom with built in cupboards has a double bed and the main bedroom has a queen bed plus built in cupboards. There is just one bathroom which has a separate shower and bath with a separate toilet .The internal laundry incorporates a separate modern clothes washing machine,and dryer
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- Minimum Stay 7 Nights
- Bond $1,000
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- Bath Towels provided
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- Heaters provided
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- Bedroom 2 – 1x Double
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The Manchester-born pair are currently engaged in Milk Cup action with Paul McGuinness' young Reds and have helped the team reach the semi-finals of the prestigious youth event.
England will take on Italy, Turkey and Portugal in the competition with games based at Burton between 28 August and 1 September.
Current Reds trialist Fisayo Adarabioyo's brother Tosin, who is with Manchester City, is also in the 18-man party.


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Indian River Adult Education to offer water exercise classes this fall
Water Exercise (Arthritic)
If you are bothered by arthritis or other aches and pains our water exercise class may be just for you. Class will be held on Tuesdays and Thursdays from 4 to 5 p.m. Oct. 18 to Dec. 13; class will be held in Wabasso and the cost is $55. Call 564-4970 for more information or visit the office to register.
Art Workshop
In the art workshop, students will explore art and techniques using acrylic painting, creative surfaces and various medium combinations developing the creative spirit. Students will attend class 1 to 5 p.m. Tuesdays from Oct. 30 to Dec. 11. The cost is $82 and students are responsible for their art materials. Students may register now at the Adult Education office. Call 564-4970 for more information.
Saturday Sign Language Class
Adult Education will offer a Sign Language class on Saturdays. Students will attend class 10 a.m. to 2 p.m. Oct. 13, 20 and 27. The cost is $61 and interested people may register now at the Adult Education office. Call 772-564-4970 for more information.
Patient Care Technician/CNA Evening Class
Adult Education is offering an evening Certified Nursing Assistant course. This is a 215-hour course and students who successfully complete this program are prepared to take the Florida State Certification test. Class will meet from 3:30 to 9:30 p.m. Monday to Thursday. Class will begin on Oct. 15 and run through Dec. 20 and is held at the Gifford Medical Academy site. The cost of the course is $894. Students should register as soon as possible as space is limited. Visit the office to register or call 772-564-4970 For more information.
English and Citizenship Classes
Do you know someone whose native language is one other than English? Is he struggling to learn English? Adult and Community Education can help. We have an ESOL program at Adult Education from 9 a.m. to noon Monday, Tuesday and Wednesday mornings. The class also is held from 6:30 to 8:30 p.m. on Monday and Wednesday evenings. In addition, citizenship classes are held from 6:30 to 8:30 p.m. at the Freshmen Learning Center. The cost is $30 per term ($90 per year). For more information, call 772-564-4970.
Consult a full course schedule for times, dates and course fees. The course schedule is available at the office, at area libraries and on the web at indianriverschools.org. Gift certificates are available. Adult Education, a division of the Indian River County School District, is at 1426 19th St., downtown Vero Beach. Call 564-4970 for more information.
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Wednesday, Oct. 2
Executive Breakfast Forum, 7:15 to 9 a.m., DoubleTree by Hilton Hotel, 50 Ferncroft Road, Danvers. The North Shore Chamber of Commerce forum will feature a talk by Massachusetts State Auditor Suzanne Bump. Networking begins at 7:15 a.m., followed by the program from 8 to 9 a.m. $35 chamber members, $55 nonmembers. Details and registration at www.northshorechamber.org or 978-774-8565.
After hours at Brightview, 4:30 to 6 p.m., Brightview of Danvers, 50 Endicott St., Danvers. Join the Beverly Chamber of Commerce and Brightview for a networking event with food, door prizes, and beer and wine. Reserve a spot at email@example.com or 978-232-9559. Visit www.beverlychamber.com for details.
Thursday, Oct. 3
Recruiting Job Applicants in an Internet Environment, 8:30 to 10:30 a.m., Enterprise Center, Salem State University, 121 Loring Ave., Salem. How can nonprofit organizations attract the best candidates in a rapidly changing online environment? Jeffrey Berman, lead consultant of Executive Service Corps of New England, will lead a workshop designed to familiarize nonprofit leaders with today's best practices in recruitment through a review of website design, online advertising, database searches and social media strategies. Suggestions for monitoring critical issues such as cost, information system management and legal requirements will also be shared. Free. Details and registration at http://enterprisectr.org/workshops/recruiting-job-applicants/.
Friday, Oct. 4
North Shore Business Forum: Etiquette for Business, 7:30 a.m., Danversport Yacht Club, 161 Elliott St., Danvers. Jodi Smith of Mannersmith will speak on etiquette in business. $11 admission includes continental breakfast. www.nsbforum.org.
Saturday, Oct. 5
Salem Chamber's Haunted BizBaz Street Fair, 10 a.m. to 8 p.m., Essex Street Pedestrian Mall, Salem. Salem Chamber presents the Haunted BizBaz street fair showcasing more than 100 vendors selling products that are unique to Salem. Salem-Chamber.org.
Sunday, Oct. 6
Salem Chamber's Haunted BizBaz Street Fair, 10 a.m. to 6 p.m., Essex Street Pedestrian Mall, Salem. Salem Chamber presents the Haunted BizBaz street fair showcasing more than 100 vendors selling products that are unique to Salem. Salem-Chamber.org.


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Posted by Tasha Weiss on April 25, 2012 at 9:09 AM.
AceCad Software, an international supplier of software solutions for the structural steel industry, has introduced BIMReview, a new collaborative BIM project review tool for design, procurement and construction teams. The product was launched at the 2012 NASCC: The Steel Conference last week in Dallas and is AceCad's first release in BIM solutions for managing supply content from the design stage to the construction site.
BIMReview enables collaborative review and visual communication and features tools for decision support; clash verification; enquiries; mark-ups; construction sequencing; and planning. The product is able to import models and associated Meta data from various BIM design authoring tools to provide a consolidated model for project review.
To learn more about BIMReview, visit www.acecadsoftware.com/products_bim-revi


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Highgate hold W'House in opener
DRAX HALL, St Ann — Highgate United held former champions Waterhouse FC to a 0-0 tie in their Red Stripe Premier League opener at Drax Hall on Sunday.
Both teams started tentatively before Highgate, through Dwayne Holmes, Carlos Barrett, Jerome Wedderburn, Gawayne Speed, Severo Murphy, settled into a rhythm.
The hosts came close to scoring when they caught the Waterhouse defence napping and Holmes' shot beat goalkeeper Richard McCallum, hitting the left upright.
The Highgate supporters thought their team had scored, but the rebound fell to McCallum who immediately initiated a counter-attack through Jermaine Anderson and Peter Keys. However, an alert Maurice Evans got off his line in the nick of time.
Just before the half ended, Waterhouse's Troy Reid weaved his way into the penalty box, but unleashed a tame effort.
Waterhouse took the offensive on the resumption through Troy Reid and Keys, but key striker Jermaine Anderson was closely marked by Andre Dyce.
Though present at the game, Waterhouse coach Donovan Duckie was not on the bench as he faces the competition's Disciplinary Committee.
Assistant Junior Francis was happy for the draw.
"I must congratulate my team for coming out with a point as the ground was not that conducive to our type of play... it was a bit bumpy and rough and we did not get that vital goal," he said.
Calvin Lewis was happy with the point earned by Highgate.
"The entire team worked real hard. It was very challenging as we try to build a unit. It was a good showing for us as we did not play any practice games," he said.
Highgate — Maurice Evans, Anthowe Dawkins, Andre Dyce, Gawayne Speed, Dwayne Holmes, Andre Thomas (Reon Nelson 80th), Jerry Walters, Severo Murphy, Jerome Wedderburn (Donovan Davis 69th), Roberto Fletcher (Shamir Stewart 80th), Carlos Barrett
Subs not used: D Henry, D Boswell, J Hutchinson, D Neish
Booked: Dwayne Holmes (8th)
Waterhouse — Richard McCallum, Victor Thompson, Rohan Amos, Hugh Howell, Nicholy Finlayson, Damarley Samuels (Hughan Gray 70th), Jermaine Anderson, Peter Keys (Juvaune Benjamin 53rd), Romaine Barnes, Jahmeel Thompson, Troy Reid (Jason Watson 87th)
Subs not used: G Gayle, M Ricketts, D Oliver
Booked: Jermaine Anderson (54th), Troy Reid (75th)
Referee: Valdin Legister
Assistants: Richard Washington, Lloyd Edwards
Fourth Official: Hugh Rankine
Match Commissary: Neil Campbell
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Celebrating the 200th Anniversary of the Battle of Queenston Heights. This book is about the re-enactment of that battle that took place on October 13, 2012 two hundred years to the day.
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