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Redskins cornerback DeAngelo Hall took a big pay cut to return to Washington for another season. In an interview with Andrew Siciliano of the NFL Network, he said that he doesn't mind that he was released and sign to a lesser contract because he's made enough money in his career. "I've been blessed," Hall said, per ProFootballTalk.com. "I've been in this league a long time, I've made a lot of money – I got $8 million to play eight games in Oakland. So for me this time around it wasn't about the money." Hall feels like they have something special going on in Washington. "We started something here in Washington with coach [Mike] Shanahan," Hall said. "That was the biggest thing I wanted to stress. I felt like my contract along with Haynesworth was the reason we were in the situation we were in. So for me it wasn't about the money. I wanted to come back here, I wanted to finish something I started; I grew up in the Virginia Beach area, I'm a local kid, went to Virginia Tech so I wanted to be a part of this football team. I've been a part of it when we weren't so good so to finally be on the cusp of being great, I want to be a part of that. I was willing to take that pay cut and get back on this football team and help us win." The other reason Hall returned to the Redskins is because they were likely the only team willing to pay him the $1.25 million he's scheduled to make in 2013. Need NFL Tickets? The post DeAngelo Hall says he doesn't need money after making $8 million in eight games with the Raiders appeared first on Pro Football Zone.
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|Sun, 03-07-2010 - 11:56pm
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|Mon, 03-08-2010 - 4:40am
what a year! no matter what board you are on, im sure everyone can relate with hard times. i can totally relate with having a crappy finacial situation. ive been trying to get a job for a while now but it's really tough when you are a foreiner. i speak the language here but my accent puts most people off. ive actually been told by 3 different retail stores that they wouldnt hire me because no one would buy from me cuz of my american accent :-/ i thought i had got a job doing promotional work like a month ago but then they told me that i am too short...it's kinda true, im only 5'6. anyway, DH does seasonal work and that's ending in 3 weeks so im really hoping to get a job soon or im not sure what we are going to do.
i can also relate with not having anyone near me for support...family wise anyway. i came to Athens on vacation in 2003 and i kept delaying my return to the U.S. because i was having such an awesome time...then 6 months turned into 1 year, and 1 year into 2 years...and so on and now ive been here 6 1/2 years and i have a husband and a baby,lol.
you should be really proud of yourself for not putting up with domestic violence. that's a really good example to set for your children.
what are you studying? im desperately trying to get my BA in Internationl Business but it's going really slow cuz i go part time. ive still got like 12 classes left, grrr.
so you made your own moby wrap? that's awesome. i bought mine but i guess it cant be too hard to make since it is only once piece of fabric.
|Mon, 03-08-2010 - 12:39pm
it is discrimination but there isnt much i could do about it really. i could sue but it's my word against theirs and the hearing would probably be in 5 years from now,lol. they have a really screwey judicial system here.
i think employers in the U.S. discriminate too though, they just dont say it out loud like the Greeks do,haha!
|Thu, 03-11-2010 - 10:40am
You've had a crazy year and you're doing amazing! You definitely did the right thing with your ex and your girls well benefit from that. I think a lot of moms can understand different aspects of what you're going thtough.
I am with DH and love him dearly but I work FT out the home as well and between work, school (I'm finishing my Masters), the kids and DH I still need something just for me. I think every has that need for me time.
I hope the playgroup goes well and I'm sure you'll meet someone you connect with soon. It's always difficult moving to a new place.
We also have a couple single mom's on this board who I'm sure will reach out to you as well.
Hang in there! You're doing great and welcome aboard!

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Police fire teargas on China village after land grab protest
HONG KONG (Reuters) - Chinese security forces fired tear gas and beat protesters in a village in southern China on Sunday to quell a grassroots protest movement over a land dispute, residents said.
Dozens of villagers were taken to hospitals in Mianhu town and Jieyang city and five people were arrested, witnesses said.
A large contingent of riot police and other security personnel moved into Shangpu village in southern Guangdong province early on Sunday morning, said several residents contacted by Reuters by telephone and on microblogging sites.
"They didn't say a thing and started firing teargas and beating villagers with truncheons," said a young villager who witnessed the incident.
"They had torches on their helmets, like miners, and were hitting some old people with truncheons who were sleeping in tents. They gave no warning."
Gongs were sounded and hundreds of villagers charged out to help those being beaten but were forced back by some 3,000 security personnel and volleys of teargas, villagers said.
The unrest in Shangpu was triggered over a land deal involving some 33 hectares of rice paddies on the outskirts of the village that were leased cheaply to a firm called Wan Feng for 50 years to build an electric cable factory.
The deal, made without majority village consent, was brokered by Shangpu's village committee chief Li Baoyu, according to a signed contract seen by Reuters.
The villagers want the contract scrapped, their land returned and Li fired.
In late February several hundred men, armed with steel pipes and spades, threatened the 3000-strong village to accept the land deal. Villagers, however, retaliated, chasing the men away and destroyed over 20 of their jeeps and cars.
The villagers refused to allow authorities to clear away the gutted vehicles, demanding the land deal be scrapped first.
But early on Sunday, however, tow trucks cleared away most of the vehicles from a highway outside the village. A small number remained on the main street.
"We tried to stop them from doing this...If they tow away the cars, they won't do anything anymore," said a villager.
A senior villager, who delivered a written indictment against the land sale to provincial leaders including Guangdong governer Zhu Xiaodan, said he was shocked and disappointed with Communist Party authorities for cracking down in this manner.
Authorities in nearby Jieyang city have verbally agreed to scrap the land deal, senior villagers say, but they have not yet been offered written proof of this.
The situation in Shangpu is similar to that of another high-profile standoff over land seizures in Wukan village, about an hour's drive away - that openly revolted for several months over murky land sales in 2011. Like Wukan, Shangpu villagers are also calling for elections to vote in a new village leader.
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Oichi over at Versus City came through like a solider today, translating a monster interview with Daigo from the Gods Garden staff. What's so special about this interview, is that all the questions were taken from the Shoryuken.com forum, so Daigo gives a lot of feedback about overseas play and tournaments among other things. Very interesting read!
Here are a couple excerpts, head over to Versus City for the complete interview.
Right now the Japanese scene is stronger than the American and European scenes, but how do you think those scenes can evolve?
I think that the overseas scenes can grow stronger than the Japanese scene, and I think that it's possible that the Japanese can be influenced by the overseas scene. Japanese players don't really have any information on what's going on overseas, so if we want to improve everyone else has to improve as well. Right now the level of the Japanese players is really high, but who knows how long that's going to last.
I think if you look back five or six years ago, the level of overseas players was really low. There weren't any arcades around so it was a major handicap for them, but once the strong US players are able to play against each other several times, overtaking the Japanese players becomes only a matter of time.
However, one of the weak points that the overseas scene has is their "professional mentality". Leveling up your game goes hand in hand with the professional mentality, but in reality it can also have an adverse affect, and people will stop sharing information, and stop becoming humble, and it tends to turn into a situation where you won't be able to amass a lot of strong players to play against each other. That can lead to a situation where you actually take away from your scene.


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Odd Future's Hodgy Beats recently discussed their "F*ck the Police" record and denied speculation of the song being part of a arranged plot to take down law enforcement.
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"Yeah. I was going through Left Brain's beats and when I got to that one, and I was like, 'D*mn.' He was like, 'Yo, this song should be 'F*ck the Police'.' I started thinking about it, and then I wrote my first verse, and he wrote his verse right there. Later on, Tyler [the Creator] came in and heard the song and was like, 'Yo, I gotta get on that sh*t.' Half the things that happen around Odd Future are pretty random– just dragged out of thin air. It's not like some big-a** plan to f*ckin' take over the world and all the sh*t that people think it is. The world is f*cking fabricated with a bunch of bullsh*t." (Pitchfork)
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"I mean television, news, the f*cking food that we consume," he added when asked what specifically is fabricated in the world. "Everything. It's just a f*cking setup. I see it. I'm starting to travel and see the world. You can tell that America does not even f*cking love their people. I'ma move the f*ck out of America, I don't give a f*ck." (Pitchfork)
Last month, Odd Future's Tyler the Creator made headlines after getting arrested in California.
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The first step in performance or load testing a web application is to create a realistic test script. This script, representing a specific type of end user, contains steps that are fully automated transactions flows. Often, complex behaviors need to be emulated as part of these flows. To incorporate the needed behavior or to handle complex scenarios, testers need to customize these load scripts. The question is whether you utilize a tool that takes a GUI driven approach for script customization/manipulation, or whether you choose a tool which requires the use of a programming language.
As Performance testers, we typically evaluate several load testing tools before diving into a project. Some of us prefer the GUI driven approach to creating load scripts because, being results driven, we want to get the test up and running as quickly as possible. The GUI approach saves us time and there is no programming involved thus the learning curve is also extremely fast. These GUI scripts are typically easily modified by having their parameters and values organized in a visually obvious format. And just because a tool is easy to use, doesn't mean that it's only for beginners. Remember the good old days of MS-DOS? Eeek, thank goodness for GUI driven DOS (Windows).
Some testers (mistakenly) dismiss the GUI driven approach as being too limited for complicated behaviors. Old school testers insist on only utilizing program-based scripts because past experience has led them to think that this is the most flexible or the only choice for handling complicated behaviors. All too often, the perception is that GUI driven scripts limit the level of customizations possible to emulate a real user. This opinion is likely based on experiences with rudimentary GUI tools on the market that are too basic and limited in their capabilities such as handling dynamic content and varying the transactions flows.
However, there is a new breed in load testing solutions, designed and built to handle the most complex advanced scenarios. These are true enterprise-class solutions which provide a hybrid approach by containing both GUI and programming features. The power behind this hybrid approach enables the user to emulate even the most complex behavior but it also includes time saving features which can only be offered by a GUI solution.
Let's get really technical for a minute to highlight an example: Some tools provide the common "programming" tools like loops and conditions. Recorded values of parameters are easily replaced by variables with a click of the mouse. NeoLoad, an example of a modern enterprise solution, goes further to provide even more advanced features. Some specific examples include: 1) "Wait Until" Action to the current execution thread until certain conditions have been verified 2) "Shared Queue" Action to use values from one VU's response as input in an entirely different VU execution 3) a "While" Action allows various transactions, such as web pages, to be iterated while a condition remains false 4) "Try ...Catch" Action to break out of the script based on Validation or Assertions and go to the End phase. The use of nested actions creates even more complex behaviors. All of these advanced scenarios are accomplished without programming! PUSHtechnology which is rapidly being deployed in today's RIA's adds even more complexity. With asynchronous updates pushed to/from the page independent of complete page refreshes...imagine this programming nightmare! NeoLoad has a way to solve this problem using cutting edge technology that can "listen" for PUSH behavior (all polling or streaming requests) and wrap all these asynchronous requests into a GUI fork Action, even calculating the average time interval between execution, then presents you with a newly modified script to emulate these load pattern characteristics. Again, all of these GUI centric features allow further manipulation without the need for programming.
As the script becomes more complicated, it's nice to have this hierarchical GUI-type view.
New breed solutions not only allow for complex behaviors...the GUI approach has other time saving embedded assets. To handle dynamic parameters, NeoLoad is delivered with an ever evolving list of known architectural framework dynamic parameters which are automatically detected and handled by a wizard. The search and replace feature finds strings embedded in any request (body, header, URL's, XML tree, partial matches, etc.) and replaces or concatenates to the string with any data or variable - choose to replace entire string or just part of the string. There's an automatic extraction feature to take data from any response and use it to populate the value of a variable. You can enable/disable specific transactions at a page level or embedded request level which a click of the mouse to isolate transactions of interest. Target an entirely different QA/Performance/Production environment - change the Servers field from host where you initially made the recording to the new server name and port. Debug scripts easily using the side-by-side comparison feature with a tab isolating only the differences of recorded vs. replayed values.
From this perspective, the great debate over choosing a GUI driven or programming approach is over...eliminate the tradeoffs and choose a hybrid which has a powerful GUI and also extends the flexibility for programming. Skip most of the manual programming and only use coding where it's required. Both experts and beginners can agree there is now a solution which meets all of the load & performance testing challenges of your own unique web application. Introducing the "GUI hybrid".
The 3rd International Internet of @ThingsExpo, co-located with the 16th International Cloud Expo - to be held June 9-11, 2015, at the Javits Center in New York City, NY - announces that its Call for Papers is now open. The Internet of Things (IoT) is the biggest idea since the creation of the Worldwide Web more than 20 years ago.
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The security devil is always in the details of the attack: the ones you've endured, the ones you prepare yourself to fend off, and the ones that, you fear, will catch you completely unaware and defenseless. The Internet of Things (IoT) is nothing if not an endless proliferation of details. It's the vision of a world in which continuous Internet connectivity and addressability is embedded into a growing range of human artifacts, into the natural world, and even into our smartphones, appliances, and physical persons. In the IoT vision, every new "thing" - sensor, actuator, data source, data con...
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The Internet of Things is tied together with a thin strand that is known as time. Coincidentally, at the core of nearly all data analytics is a timestamp. When working with time series data there are a few core principles that everyone should consider, especially across datasets where time is the common boundary. In his session at Internet of @ThingsExpo, Jim Scott, Director of Enterprise Strategy & Architecture at MapR Technologies, discussed single-value, geo-spatial, and log time series data. By focusing on enterprise applications and the data center, he will use OpenTSDB as an example t...
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One of the biggest challenges when developing connected devices is identifying user value and delivering it through successful user experiences. In his session at Internet of @ThingsExpo, Mike Kuniavsky, Principal Scientist, Innovation Services at PARC, described an IoT-specific approach to user experience design that combines approaches from interaction design, industrial design and service design to create experiences that go beyond simple connected gadgets to create lasting, multi-device experiences grounded in people's real needs and desires.
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Enthusiasm for the Internet of Things has reached an all-time high. In 2013 alone, venture capitalists spent more than $1 billion dollars investing in the IoT space. With "smart" appliances and devices, IoT covers wearable smart devices, cloud services to hardware companies. Nest, a Google company, detects temperatures inside homes and automatically adjusts it by tracking its user's habit. These technologies are quickly developing and with it come challenges such as bridging infrastructure gaps, abiding by privacy concerns and making the concept a reality. These challenges can't be addressed w...
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2282 – "…Grave psychological disturbances, anguish, or grave fear of hardship, suffering, or torture can diminish the responsibility of the one committing suicide."
2283- "We should not despair of the eternal salvation of persons who have taken their own lives. By ways known to him alone, God can provide the opportunity for salutary repentance. The Church prays for persons who have taken their own lives."
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10. No snake handling.
9. You can believe in dinosaurs.
8. Male and female God created them; male and female we ordain them.
7. You don't have to check your brains at the door.
6. Pew aerobics.
5. Church year is color-coded.
4. Free wine on Sunday.
3. All of the pageantry – none of the guilt.
2. You don't have to know how to swim to get baptized.
And the Number One reason to be an Episcopalian:
1. No matter what you believe, there's bound to be at least one other Episcopalian who agrees with you.
The Tragic Death Of The Funeral
Like most people, I don't particularly relish encounters with death. But, welcome or not, I've had my fair share. I've clasped a woman's hand as her breathing slowed, became sporadic, and finally ceased. Through the cramped hallways of an ancient farmhouse, down which no stretcher could be maneuvered, I helped heft the sheet-wrapped body of a family's matriarch to carry her to the waiting hearse. When a small Oklahoma church mourned a member who'd fallen asleep at the wheel, late at night, early in life, I was there, thinking of the joyless "Joy the World" the band of believers had choked out the day before that December 26th funeral. In each of these situations, the death of the young or the old, there was within me a desire to lighten the load of grief borne by the survivors, to shine a ray of life into the gloom of death.
Because of that desire, when I first heard about families opting to have a so-called "Celebration of Life" service for their departed loved ones, instead of a funeral, my interest was piqued. Perhaps here was a viable alternative. The name alone effuses a positive, uplifting appeal that "funeral" or "memorial service" can't begin to match. Celebrations are good, right? And, life, well, who can possibly have any qualms about that? Perhaps this approach to confronting death, at least the ceremonial part of saying goodbye, would help alleviate some of the pain associated with, and expressed in, a more traditional rite. Maybe it was time to have a funeral for the funeral.
So what makes a Celebration of Life different? Rather than a focus upon the loss of a loved one, this service rewinds the present into the past, to draw the mourners back into the life lived by the deceased. It's like a miniature, enacted biography of the person, with a focus upon those qualities, interests, and achievements that his family and friends found most endearing about him. Whereas a traditional funeral is structured around a liturgy, in this ceremony stories about the person—serious or lighthearted—take center stage. It is his funeral, after all, so shouldn't it be about him?
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Women Bishops Approved By Church Of England
The General Synod of the Church of England voted today that women can be consecrated as bishops, 18 months years after a similar measure was controversially voted down.
The vote required passage by a two-thirds majority in the synod's three houses of bishops, clergy and laity. The House of Bishops approved of women bishops 37 to 2 with one abstention, the House of Clergy approved 162 to 25 with four abstentions, and the House of Laity approved 152 to 45 with five abstentions.
In an interview with BBC prior to the vote, Archbishop of Canterbury Rev. Justin Welby, who supported consecrating women bishops, said there's a "good chance of the first woman bishop being announced very early in 2015, possibly been chosen before that."
In 2012, a vote to approve allowing women bishops passed among bishops and clergy but failed by six votes among lay members.
Like the vote that year, more traditional Anglicans, including evangelicals and Anglo-Catholics, argued in front of the synod that having women as bishops would go against the teachings of Jesus. If Jesus intended women to be among the top church leaders, he would have had a woman among the Twelve Apostles, some of the traditionalists said. But a higher number of more conservative Anglicans were swayed to vote for women bishops this year, ending two decades of controversy over the role of women in leadership since the church started allowing women priests in 1994.
"Today marks the start of a great adventure of seeking mutual flourishing while still, in some cases disagreeing. The challenge for us will be for the church to model good disagreement and to continue to demonstrate love for those who disagree on theological grounds," Welby said in a statement.
The high-ranking Archbishop of York, where the synod had met, called the outcome a "moment of joy."
"To those who ask 'what took you so long?" my answer is that every decision has a cost and there will be those within our body who will be hurting as a result of this decision," Rev. John Sentamu of York said in a statement. "Our answer to the hurting should not be 'get over it' but rather 'we will not let go until you have blessed us.'"
The Church of England, which is the considered the mother church of the worldwide Anglican Communion, counts among it 80 million members in more than 160 countries. The church traces its history to Henry VIII, under whom the church split from Roman Catholics. All Anglicans share the same basic tenets of faith but views on gender, sexuality, worship style and other issues vary widely by region.
For example, the communion includes the two-million member Episcopal Church in the United States, one of the most liberal denominations in the country and as well as in the Anglican communion. Its current top leader, Rev. Katharine Jefferts Schori, is a woman. Episcopalians also ordain gay priests and voted in 2012 to bless same-sex marriages and ordain transgender priests. In 2003, the church voted to elect its first gay bishop.
Anglican Communion members in Australia, Canada, and New Zealand also consecrate women bishops.
And South Africa…
The news is on the Archbishop of Canterbury's Official Site here.
First Church of England Women Bishops Could Be Appointed by Christmas
It's a foregone conclusion.
Members of the Synod are expected to authorise the admission of women to the episcopate in what is being billed as a historic vote in York on Monday .
The ordination of women bishops could be fast-tracked through its first parliamentary stage within just over a week, if the Church of England's General Synod finally approves the change.
Members of the Synod are expected to authorise the admission of women to the episcopate in what is being billed as a historic vote in York on Monday.
The legislation would then need to be accepted by Parliament before receiving royal assent meaning that the first women bishops could be appointed as soon as Christmas.
Sir Tony Baldry, the MP who speaks for the Church in Parliament, disclosed that plans are being drawn up for the Ecclesiastical Committee of Parliament to sit on July 22, just before the summer recess, to approve the measure.
That would then mean it could be considered by the Commons and Lords in September…
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If the Episcopal Church is the American Component of the Anglican Church, Why Are There Anglican Churches in the US?
It's a new question being asked at Yahoo (NZ) answers, with some of the strangest of responses…
The Episcopal Church is generally pro-gay. Many don't like that, so they left to become Anglican. Some are recognized by other Anglicans, but some are not. They're working on it.
Wade in and help them over there.
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Longboat Key resident develops as an artist
Date: December 2, 2009
by: Robin Hartill | Community Editor
Tommy James Mannausa was wearing new white jeans, a black T-shirt and brown high-top shoes. He put on a brown sports coat as an afterthought. It was August, and Mannausa, 51, a Longboat Key and Bay Harbor, Mich., resident, was on his way to Lionsgate Studio to meet the director of the Starz Network's TV show, "Crash." His friend and music partner, Rick Derringer, who has a small part in the show, had arranged for the meeting.
Maybe it was the brown sports coat he added at the last minute. Or the fact that he had grown his hair long three years earlier, much to his mother's dismay. Or the glowing review that Derringer gave of Mannausa as a songwriter. Or the fact that when the director asked Mannausa if he had ever acted before, Mannausa leaned over his desk, shoulders square, and declared: "I've been acting all my life."
Whatever the reason, Mannausa didn't end up on the "no wall" filled with photos of hundreds of rejected actors. Instead, he landed a small non-speaking role in the series, playing an executive to the show's main character, a billionaire who decides to donate $1 billion in a community serving 100,000 homeless people.
The first episode featuring Mannausa aired Friday, Nov. 27. He had approximately seven seconds of screen time.
Acting is a new role for Mannausa, who has worked in real-estate development and management for the past 32 years and continues to serve as president of T. Mannausa & Co., AMO, Realtor. Now that he is semi-retired, he can focus on his creative endeavors, which extend beyond acting.
He has written more than 90 songs, 11 of which will debut on his 2010 CD, tentatively called "Time Keepers," a collaboration between Mannausa and Derringer, of the Rick Derringer band.
Mannausa never knows when a song will hit him.
"It's spontaneous," he said.
For example, one day he was driving to Derringer's house in Rio Rancho, N.M., with his car top down and his hair blowing in the wind. A few hours later, he wrote the song "Tattoos, No Teeth, Long Hair," about a tough-looking guy riding into town.
"Pretty much, it all starts with lyrics," he says.
Mannausa's experience in music goes back even further than his real-estate career. When he was in second grade, his mother told him, "Whatever you do, Tommy, do not play that piano in the basement."
Looking back, he knows that she was using reverse psychology. Clearly, it worked.
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R2 is a great case - if you have one of the first batches. If not, well, then good luck, as QA got lost somewhere and most of the cases they ship now have bad quality.
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Loving the array R2, 6 HDDs!
the R3 seems based on the coolermaster 690 (bottom and backside) , just like many other cases.
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Fractal Design Define R3 reminds me very much of the inside of a Coolermaster Dominator case
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The first time we looked at a Fractal Design case was when we reviewed the R2 at the start of the year, and it excited plenty of interest - 177 comments might just be a record for a case
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the R2 looks like a cross between a Antec P182 & Coolermaster Centurion 590 *yawn* need moar originality pls
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Majalah Siantar - Once upon a time, there lived as neighbours, a bear and a rabbit. The rabbit is a good shot. In contrary, the bear is always clumsy ad could not use the arrow to good advantage.
One day, the bear called over the rabbit and asked the rabbit to take his bow and arrows and came with bear to the other side of the hill. The rabbit was fearing to arouse the bear's anger so he could not refuse it. He consented and went with the bear and shot enough buffalo to satisfy the hungry family. Indeed he shot and killed so many that there was lots of meat left after the bear and his family had loaded themselves and packed all they could carry home.
The bear was very gluttonous and did not want the rabbit to get any of the meat. The rabbit could not even taste the blood from the butchering as the bear would throw earth on the blood and dry it up. The poor rabbit would have to go home hungry after his hard day's work.
The bear was the father of five children. The youngest child was very kind to the rabbit. He was very hearty eater. The mother bear always gave him an extra large piece of meat but the youngest child did not eat it. He would take it outside with him and pretended to play ball with the meat. He kicked toward the rabbit's house and when he got close to the door he would give the meat with such a great kick. The meat would fly into the rabbit's house. In this way, the poor rabbit would get his meal unknown to the papa bear.
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- Anonim19 September 2014 13.21
fotonya bsw aja tp kok sox cantik yha?BalasHapus
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- Anonim19 September 2014 13.24
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Feb. 1 (Bloomberg) -- South African government bonds are having their best start to the year since 2003 on speculation the central bank will keep interest rates on hold to support the economy even as inflation remains above its target.
Government fixed-rate debt returned 2.2 percent in January, the most for that month since 2003, according to Bank of America Merrill Lynch indexes, compared with 0.9 percent for inflation- linked securities. The bonds returned more than inflation-linked notes for the first month since October, the indexes show.
Investors are adding to bets the South African Reserve Bank will leave its benchmark rate at a 30-year low of 5.5 percent this year, maintaining a yield advantage over the U.S. and euro region. The Federal Reserve signaled last month it will leave interest rates low through 2014 and may embark on a third round of asset purchases, while the European Central Bank cut its benchmark rate twice last year to 1 percent, fuelling demand for higher-yielding assets, including South African bonds.
"With the economy looking fragile, the Reserve Bank would be extremely reluctant to hike rates," Ian Cruickshanks, head of treasury strategic research at Johannesburg-based Nedbank Group Ltd., said by phone. "Also, there is a promise of greater liquidity from the Fed and the ECB, and with that in mind our bonds look very attractive at 7 or 8 percent."
Recession Concern
The central bank left its repo rate unchanged for a seventh consecutive monetary policy meeting on Jan. 19, citing concern that the euro region is facing a recession, which would hurt exports from Africa's biggest economy. Forward-rate agreements starting in 12 months have dropped 18 basis points, or 0.18 percentage point, to 5.84 percent in the past week.
The yield on South Africa's 6.75 percent notes due 2021 dropped 24 basis points to 7.74 percent in January. The securities yielded 7.75 percent as of 10:10 a.m. today.
South Africa's economy will probably expand less than 3 percent this year as a possible recession in Europe, which buys about a third of South Africa's manufactured exports, saps demand for exports, Finance Minister Pravin Gordhan said on Jan. 26. Gordhan, who will give updated growth forecasts in his budget speech on Feb. 22, said in October the economy will grow 3.4 percent this year. The euro area will contract 0.5 percent as a result of the worsening debt crisis, according to the International Monetary Fund.
Inflation remained above the central bank's 3 percent to 6 percent range for a second month in December and will probably stay outside it for the rest of the year, Reserve Bank Governor Gill Marcus said on Jan. 19. It was 6.1 percent last month, according to the statistics agency.
"For offshore investors, local-denominated bonds can earn attractive yields plus the possibility of additional positive return on the rand's recovery," Michael Grobler, a Cape Town- based analyst at Afrifocus Securities Ltd., said by e-mail. The rand strengthened 4 percent in January, its best start to a year since 2006, according to data compiled by Bloomberg.
Foreign investors were net buyers of 6.2 billion rand ($795 million) of South African bonds in January, compared with 2.8 billion of purchases in December and net sales of 12.4 billion rand in January 2011, according to the JSE Ltd., which runs the nation's bond and stock exchanges.
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Former NIC-10 star helps lead Butler to Final Four
By Matt Nestor
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In Indianapolis, the Butler Bulldogs making it to the Final Four as the host city is a great story. And their local success reaches to local success here as well.
One of Butler's lead guards is senior Willie Veasley, a former standout for the Freeport Pretzels.
Veasley, who is averaging 10 points per game for the Bulldogs, has been vital to Butler's run to the Final Four. In the regional semifinal game, he hit a late 3 to help Butler regain the lead and hold on to beat the top seed Syracuse.
"It was more relief because we kind of struggled a little bit in the second half to shoot," Veasley said of his big shot. "It got us sparked again on defense because we knew we had to get stops after that."
The Bulldogs followed that win up with a second upset over the second seed Kansas State to make it to the Final Four. Butler coach Brad Stevens said they really felt their guards, including Veasley, could shut down Kansas State's greatest strength, which is guard play.
"It's harder to make shots when you're open if you've had a rough day for 30 minutes," Stevens said. "We got Willie, Shawn (Vanzant) and Ron (Nored), guys that you can put on guards that can score and play."
Butler is a small school with an enrollment around 4,500 students. Stevens said the closeness of the student body helps the team stay focused and not look too far ahead and lose track of their goals.
"Butler basketball is based on a lot of values off the floor," he said. "While we're on the floor, it's also based on winning the next possession."
Butler is the first team since George Mason to make the Final Four from outside the power six conferences in the NCAA. But this is an experienced Butler team, led by seniors like Veasley, who came into the season with aspirations of being where they are at.
Stevens said that at the end of the day, what conference you are from doesn't matter. He said you can call his team a mid-major or Cinderella, but they are good and will come to play.
"It's more about matchups than league affiliation," Stevens said. "It's all about who you're playing."
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Title: Tenchi Universe - The Last Battle
Volume: DVD 8 / 8
Running time: 100
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Atlantic Wind, LLC and its parent company, Iberdrola Renewables of Spain, are seeking approval from the state's Site Evaluation Committee for the 75.9-megawatt, 23-turbine Wild Meadows project. Company officials say it will produce enough energy to power 30,000 average homes each year and 90,000 homes at peak production.
"Iberdrola has signed a fifteen-year contract under which all of the energy generated by the Wild Meadows Wind Project will be sold to Massachusetts utilities, and all or most will be used to satisfy the requirements of the Renewable Portfolio Standard in Massachusetts, not New Hampshire," it states. "... New Hampshire will bear all of the environmental, economic, and other impacts of the Wild Meadows Wind Project, primarily in Danbury, Alexandria, and the Newfound Lake Region ... suspending consideration of the Wild Meadows Wind Project until after the SB 99 process is complete would be in the public interest."
"We just received the motion at the end of the week, and once we've had a chance to thoroughly review, we will respond accordingly," said Iberdrola's Paul Copleman.
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CRC Credit Fund Ltd., Lehman Brothers Inc. and Lehman Brothers Finance AG can have access to billions of dollars deposited with Lehman Brothers Holdings Inc.'s U.K. unit that wasn't protected in separate accounts, a London appeals court ruled on Aug. 2.
CRC and the Lehman affiliates appealed a December ruling that Lehman Brothers International Europe clients whose money wasn't properly separated into "client money" accounts when the bank collapsed in 2008 would be treated as unsecured creditors in the U.K. insolvency case, likely giving them only a fraction of what they are owed.
LBIE's insolvency administrator, PricewaterhouseCoopers LLP, will have to identify all client money which wasn't properly segregated from the bank's other funds and pool it with the accounts that were kept separate, according to the judgment. Clients whose money wasn't kept separate will be able to claim from the expanded pool. The case was brought by PwC, which asked for the court's direction on how to deal with the claims.
The decision is "a boost for investor protection," said CRC's lawyer, Robert Turner at Simmons & Simmons in London.
"It means that the U.K. client-money rules in fact work better than people thought following last year's judgment," Turner said. "That judgment said if you put your money with a prime broker who failed to do what it said it should do under the rules, your client money protection fell away. The court of appeal has now said that's not right, the protection applies even if the firm hasn't done what it should have."
The December judgment criticized LBIE's failure to segregate client money and the U.K. Financial Services Authority for not sufficiently overseeing the accounts.
The affiliates of New York-based Lehman have made claims seeking more than $3 billion from LBIE, according to the December judgment. CRC, a fund of New York and London-based Christofferson Robb & Co., is seeking $76 million that should have been put in separate accounts. LBIE held $2.16 billion in segregated accounts when it went into administration in September 2008.
Oaktree Agrees to Dubai-Led Debt Restructuring Plan for Almatis
Oaktree Capital Management LLC has agreed to support Dubai International Capital LLC's plans to restructure the debt of German alumina-products maker Almatis.
Oaktree, the largest lender to Almatis with 46 percent of the company's senior debt, had vied for control of Almatis since its $40 million default last year. Los Angeles-based Oaktree will drop efforts to take over Almatis after its competing debt proposal was rejected, two people familiar with the matter said yesterday.
Almatis said the U.S. bankruptcy court has granted it permission to prepay senior lenders in full and enhance recoveries for junior lenders, according to a statement. Under the plan, Dubai International, the emirate's investment fund, will inject $100 million of equity into Almatis.
The agreement ends the "uncertainty that the business and its stakeholders have faced over the past 18 months," Dubai International Chief Executive Officer Anand Krishnan said in an e-mailed statement. "All stakeholders now support a smooth refinancing process."
Dubai will prepay senior lenders with about $600 million of new debt financing to be provided by JPMorgan Chase & Co., Bank of America Merrill Lynch, Blackstone Group LP's unit GSO Capital Partners LP, GoldenTree Asset Management LLC and Sankaty Advisors LLC.
Dubai International paid about $1.2 billion for Almatis in 2007, using $970 million of loans underwritten by banks including UBS AG and Bahrain-based Arab Banking Corp., Bloomberg data show.
The U.S. bankruptcy court has scheduled a hearing to consider a settlement agreement between Almatis and Oaktree on Aug. 23.
Latvia's Bankruptcy Legislation Signed Into Law by President
A Latvian personal bankruptcy law that will require lenders to forgive debt for private borrowers declared bankrupt after a maximum of three and half years, was signed into law by President Valdis Zatlers.
The president decided to sign the law, which was passed by parliament on July 26, according to an e-mailed statement today. Zatlers had returned the law to parliament on June 22.
Loans late by more than 90 days in Latvia reached 19 percent of the total in May, according to the country's banking regulator. Borrowers have struggled to service their debt after a real estate-fueled economic boom turned to bust and the country's economy contracted 18 percent last year.
"The final variation is always a compromise and one of the reasons the law was sent back for a second review was that such a compromise between borrowers and lenders did not exist," said Zatlers today, according to a second statement.
Latvia's banking industry is dominated by Nordic lenders led by Swedbank AB, SEB AB, Nordea AB and DnB Nord AS, which accounted for about 64 percent of total lending in the first quarter, the Association of Latvian Commercial Banks says.
"We do not expect the law to have any significant impact on the Nordic banks" because they have already taken large provisions in the Baltics, Maths Liljedahl and Pawel Wyszynski, Sweden-based analysts at Nordea, said in an e-mailed note on July 27. "Also, the banks themselves have taken part in establishing new rules."
The law allows borrowers declared bankrupt to write off their debt after two years if they repay 35 percent of what they owe. A debtor who can repay 50 percent of what he owes is entitled to have his debt written off after one year.
One.Tel May Pursue Claim Against CGU, Australian High Court Says
One.Tel Ltd., the bankrupt Australian phone company, may pursue a claim against CGU Insurance Ltd. for A$20 million ($18.3 million) that a former director was ordered to pay, the country's top court ruled.
The High Court of Australia today partly overturned an appeals court ruling, which said a bankruptcy trustee's time limit to pursue the claim had expired.
"The effect of these arguments, if sound, would have been to give CGU an adventitious windfall," the five-member court wrote in today's judgment.
One.Tel collapsed in 2001 owing more than A$1 billion after the board canceled a A$132 million stock offer to shareholders. Publishing & Broadcasting Ltd., which had been controlled by Kerry Packer, then Australia's richest man, and Rupert Murdoch's News Corp. were the biggest shareholders in the company and lost a combined A$1 billion on their investment.
The High Court ruling didn't deal with the merits of the case and CGU maintains the directors' policy wasn't valid, Iwona Polski, a spokeswoman at the insurer, said in a phone interview. One.Tel failed to meet disclosure requirements, which invalidated the policy, she said.
Wind Hellas Says Greek Phone Operator Draws Investor Offers
Wind Hellas Telecommunications SA said it received offers from a "number of potential investors" for the Greek phone company, which put itself up for sale after delaying payments on 1.8 billion euros ($2.4 billion) of debt.
Buyers have until Sept. 15 to make a binding offer for the company, Wind Hellas said in a statement on Aug. 2. It didn't provide the bidders' identities.
Egyptian billionaire Naguib Sawiris, who owns Greece's third-largest mobile phone operator through Weather Investments SpA, said he hasn't made a decision about whether to invest more funds.
"We are considering it but there's no decision as yet," Sawiris said in an interview. "It will depend on discussions with creditors."
The company is also exploring a share sale, an investment with a debt restructuring, or a combination, according to the statement.
Wind Hellas, hurt by falling consumer confidence and spending after the implementation of austerity measures to ease the Greek budget deficit crisis, is seeking a seller and an agreement to write off some of its debt less than a year after emerging from bankruptcy.
Creditors to the firm agreed to freeze payments until Nov. 5 while it tries to sell itself, Wind Hellas said last month. The company deferred a 17.5 million-euro interest payment on its 250 million-euro revolving credit facility. It also missed a 23 million-euro coupon payment on 1.2 billion-euros of floating rate notes due July 15.
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Schaelyn McFadden of New Berlin and MacKenzie Howard of Hales Corners of the University of Wisconsin-La Crosse were among eight University of Wisconsin-La Crosse gymnasts who earned All-America honors during the National Collegiate Gymnastics Association (NCGA) Individual Championships at Hamline University in St. Paul, Minn.
McFadden tied for fourth on the uneven parallel bars (9.600) Saturday to earn her first career All-America honor. Howard placed ninth on the uneven parallel bars (9.350) and ended her career with four All-America honors.
The top-six finishers (including ties) in each event Saturday earn NCGA First-Team All-America honors while the seventh- through 12th-place finishers earn NCGA second-team recognition.
UW-L captured its 13th NCGA championship with a team score of 186.875. The national title is the program's eighth in the last nine years and 10th in the last 13 seasons. The Eagles' 13 overall national crowns are the most in NCGA history.
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