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UNITED NATIONS (AFP) - Moscow's ambassador to the United Nations told an emergency meeting of the Security Council on Thursday that Russia does not want war over the Ukraine crisis.
"Russia does not want war and nor do the Russians," ambassador Vitaly Churkin told the Council following an address by visiting Ukrainian interim Prime Minister Arseniy Yatsenyuk.
His speech came after Western powers delivered a stinging rebuke of Moscow's actions in Ukraine and condemned a planned referendum in Crimea on Sunday to decide whether to join Russia.
Mr Churkin hit back with a scathing attack on his counterparts' assessment of the crisis and reiterated Moscow's position that Ukraine's president had been unconstitutionally deposed.
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They played once before, in Rosmalen in 2011 (I'm not entirely sure about the year), I think I was the only person on the centre court supporting Sara.
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VENTURA, Calif. — When it comes to caring for the world's rarest coldblooded animals, few places match the pampering and security provided to hundreds of critically endangered turtles and tortoises at a secret compound in the foothills of Los Padres National Forest.
In paddocks and aquariums protected by surveillance cameras and electric wire, Okinawa leaf turtles feast on silkworms and mulberries in a temperature-controlled greenhouse. Nest-building Burmese black mountain tortoises relax in piles of freshly cut oak, sycamore and bamboo. Forest-dwelling impressed tortoises dine exclusively on organically grown oyster mushrooms. Philippine pond turtles spend the night in snug tunnels made of cork bark.
But VIPs there this month were eight ploughshare tortoises flown in from Hong Kong in padded crates. Among them is a female of breeding age, which Eric Goode and his associates at the nonprofit Turtle Conservancy's Behler Chelonian Center hope to mate with the only male ploughshare tortoise of breeding age in North America.
"That male, which is en route from a zoo in Texas, hasn't seen a female ploughshare tortoise of breeding age in more than 25 years," Goode said. "We're hoping for the best."
Some would call that an understatement. With fewer than 300 left in the wilds of Madagascar, the ploughshare tortoise holds the dubious distinction of being the rarest tortoise on Earth. They are heavily targeted by global animal traffickers, and the high-domed creatures fetch tens of thousands of dollars on the Asian black market, conservationists say.
Until recently, attempts to breed the ploughshare tortoise outside of Madagascar failed. In the early 1980s, a male died shortly after zoo workers in Honolulu used an electric device to procure semen. A female that it was supposed to have mated with lost her ovaries during a botched operation.
"Given their plight and scarcity, it took more than a decade of hard work by us, the Durrell Wildlife Conservation Trust, and Hong Kong authorities and conservationists to get these eight tortoises into our compound," said Paul Gibbons, managing director of the Behler Chelonian Center. "But, then, a lot of the animals in our pens have similar stories to tell."
Many of the species found at the compound are nearing extinction because of habitat loss, wildfires, hunting and black markets.
"International animal trafficking is a dark and dangerous subculture," Goode said. "Certain dealers will go to great extents to get their hands on these animals. That is why, although we are certified by the American Zoo and Aquarium Association, we are not open to the public."
There is no sign outside the facility, nor is it listed in the phone book. "The only visitors are turtle biologists from around the world," Goode said.
The conservancy was established in 2005 with 250 rare turtles transferred from a Bronx Zoo collection that had been housed at Saint Catherines Island off the coast of Georgia. Today, the conservancy mostly manages animals seized from illegal trafficking operations, or bred in its outdoor pens.
The conservancy's primary mission is to maintain "assurance colonies" of endangered tortoises and turtles.
It also lends some of its reptiles to zoos around the world, and collaborates with conservationists to protect the rarest species from extinction.


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In a recent interview with Wisconsin Eye, Lt. Governor Rebecca Kleefisch said that a vote for Walker was "the biggest consumer household decision you will ever make" because it "affects how much you pay for gas, how much you pay for groceries."
Pssst... Rebecca: A state governor doesn't really have much control over the prices at the grocery store or gas pump.
But, even if Walker did have some sort of control over gas and grocery prices, the cost of both have gone up, not down under Walker. (Consider the Wisconsin gas price chart above.) And during Wisconsin's propane crises last winter, Walker could have done much more to prevent price gouging that was rampant across the state-- so, maybe not the best talking point.
When it comes to Republican scandal-mongering, the case is never closed. Answer one GOP charge and the party mouthpieces simply skip off to the next "scandal" they pretend to have uncovered, which is often a theme-and-variation riff on their original screed. It happened again after Jefferson County District Attorney Susan Happ, Democratic candidate for attorney general, was cleared this month of wrongdoing in a case investigated by an office of the state Supreme Court. On October 10, the court's Office of Lawyer Regulation dismissed a complaint against Happ filed by a victim of accused molester Daniel J. Reynolds. In the complaint, the victim alleged that Reynolds benefited from a land deal involving Happ and her husband, who in 2009 sold property to Reynolds under a $180,000 land contract that was paid off in 2012. After that, the Happ case came to the Jefferson District Attorney's office. Reynolds was charged in 2013. Earlier this year, the DA's office and Reynolds reached a deferred prosecution agreement. In the subsequently filed complaint, Reynolds' victim claimed Happ failed to shift the Reynolds case from her office to a special prosecutor, and that Happ signed charging documents against Reynolds.
It's time for the second Gubernatorial Debate in Wisconsin. It's also the final gubernatorial debate. I expect it's possible that this debate will be a little less civil than the last in view of the fact that Mary Burke clearly held her own against Walker, which seems to have surprised a lot of Republicans. So tune in for the debat at 7 PM on PBS, or any of a whole SLUG of on-line and television spots. Or watch it here, thanks to Wisconsin Public Television.
In case you need a refresher, here's the debate from last week. Watch it as a warmup.
Governor Scott Walker's latest attempt to confuse voters about the severity of Wisconsin's job crisis is to claim that Wisconsin, in fact, has "plenty of jobs" and one need only look to the state's jobs website to see that there are "over 70,000 job openings."
The reality is that in any given month, Wisconsin has tens of thousands of job openings and tens of thousands of job closings-- the key to job growth is that openings outpace the closings. And, as has been discussed numerous times, like nearly every state, Wisconsin does have job growth, its just much, much slower than the rest of the country and behind our midwest neighbors.
However even using Walker's misleading metric of job openings in the state, Wisconsin is still behind our neighbors. Illinois boasts "over 200,000 jobs," Minnesota has nearly 90,000 and Iowa has 50,369. Adjusting for population, Wisconsin is behind way behind and isn't really a statistic to brag about.
That "giant sucking sound" you hear is the sound of people leaving Wisconsin and moving to Minnesota.
According to the latest U.S. Census state-to-state migration report, 9,352 more people moved out of Wisconsin than moved into Wisconsin and a large share of those leaving-- 1,972 to be exact-- are going to our next door neighbor, Minnesota.
Most people in Wisconsin would hate to suffer the embarassment of becoming a Gopher and this bucks a national trend of people moving from colder to warmer states. In other words, people in Wisconsin are so hard-up that they're willing to move to Minnesota!
In dribs and drabs, the sordid story of Gov. Scott Walker's baby, the Wisconsin Economic Development Corporation, has trickled out over the past couple of years. Even compared to the state Department of Commerce that Walker dissolved to create it, WEDC (whose chairman is Walker himself) has badly underperformed, wasted millions of tax dollars and has spent a lot of resources on a relatively few firms offering few if any new jobs (and, in at least one case, provisions allowing the firm to get the money even if it ends up with fewer jobs!).
Worse yet, many of the firms receiving Walkerbucks tend not only to be based in politically "red" counties, but have given large sums in campaign donations to Walker's own campaign, sometimes not long after getting a WEDC loan or grant.
This is old news for many of us, but a new report by the Center for Media and Democracy puts it all together in one concise telling. And that report makes for awful reading. Pay to Prey: Governors Facilitate the Predatory Outsourcing of America's Public Services covers a number of governors and their economic outsourcing around the country. Walker is among them.
U.S. DIstrict Judge Rudolph Randa, despite having been recently overruled on a similar ruling, has demanded that Wisconsin stop enforcing it's election laws on collaboration between candidates and third parties.
This is disheartening. In the previous case Judge Randa was fairly seriously smacked down when his ruling was overturned, and told that this was a state matter. Yet, Citizens for a Responsible Government has taken this to the Federal court in an attempt to get the state law killed off before the election. The sort of "no holds barred" electioneering that CRG wants is not in the tradition of Wisconsin politics - the legal issue still remains to be determined, and it would seem wildly inappropriate for a Federal judge to be ruling in this way. This is all made more difficult because Randa has given the GAB and Chisholm a week to respond, but since our Republican Attorney General has decided not to defend them, they are at the moment still without legal representation. Real soon now.
This continued attempt to ram legal decisions through the Federal system and thereby bypassing the state courts is an embarrassment (and I would argue that CRG is an embarrassment onto itself for doing it). Like it or not, the election is coming in three weeks, and between the legal wrangling over Voter ID and these suits, it has become difficult for voter and politician alike to understand what the law is today. It would be great if we could just get through the election under the current laws and sort this all out in court afterward.
Don't hold your breath.
Around the time that Act 10 passed, Governor Scott Walker justified his actions by saying that we can't live in a society where teachers, snowplow drivers and other public servants are "the haves and the taxpayers are the have nots."
Yesterday, he was asked by Wisconsin Eye if he still held those "haves-versus-have nots" sentiments and, in a nutshell, yes:
It's the classic chicken and the egg question: Did Wisconsin's job crisis come from lack of good jobs or is the problem that there simply aren't enough qualified people to fill the jobs?
Governor Scott Walker says "there are plenty of jobs," but suggests that most job applicants are hopped-up on drugs-- a dream job is within their grasp, only to lose it when they fail the drug test.
U.S. Senator Ron Johnson chimed in last week and downplayed the notion of a skills gap, saying the problem was that people would rather sit home and collect unemployment: "I think its more of a willingness to work gap." (see below)
Thanks to ProPublica for the rights to re-publish this behind-the-scenes look at how secret money passed the mining bill in Wisconsin
by Theodoric Meyer ProPublica, Oct. 14, 2014, 5:45 a.m.
This story was co-published with The Daily Beast.
When billionaire Chris Cline's company bought an option to mine a swath of northern Wisconsin in 2010, the company touted the project's potential to bring up to 700 well-paid jobs to a hard-pressed part of the state.
Governor Scott Walker likes to refer to himself as the state's CEO and is always going on about private sector this and private sector that, but the reality is that he has spent nearly all of his life outside the private sector-- as a government employee or working for the non-profit Red Cross.
In fact, his longest stint in the private sector was when he worked for McDonalds for three years during high school.
Despite this history, Walker made the strange statement in 2012 that his wife would like it if he "went back to the private sector and made some real money."
Back to the private sector? That's like a polar bear saying he's going back to the desert.
Meanwhile, Walker's opponent, Mary Burke, has a MBA from Harvard and spent nearly 15 years as an executive for one of America's top corporations.
...and, indeed, instead of giving him that respect, Democratic candidate Mary Burke, has been socking it to our poor governor. Just socking it!
You say you don't believe that? Well, Team Walker and his conservative supporters talk like they do. They seem to think (based on their posturing) that the big shocker at Friday's debate wasn't the way she mopped the floor with him over the issue of how to fix Wisconsin's economic problems but instead Burke's disinclination to bow to Walker as the passive-aggressive narcissist he more and more acts like. For instance:
BOO-HOO! According to the Milwaukee Journal Sentinel, Walker again insisted to reporters over the weekend that "out-of-state big government union bosses" are targeting him for defeat this fall. Apparently, we are to regard whatever modest support Burke is getting from rank-and-file labor unions (whose power national Republicans have for years successfully worked to erode; and whose "bosses" are in fact union members freely elected by other members) as way more noteworthy and troubling than the tens of millions of unmatched, out-of-state dollars spent on Walker's behalf by billionaire bosses of industry. Ignore that Koch brother behind the curtain!


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New images for Harry Potter sets
Posted by Huw,As part of my ongoing commitment to improve the quality of the resources here, I've uploaded high quality scans of every Harry Potter set [1] instruction cover, which are available at the usual width to fit on the page and also at 1200px wide in the additional images section of the set details pages.
In doing so I replaced the official LEGO images, those on the white background, of last year's sets. What is your view on this? Which do you prefer as the main image on the set details pages? The official images or the instruction covers? Personally I prefer the latter as long as the former is available as well, but I'd like to hear your views.
This is the first of this week's Harry Potter related enhancements I'll be making, so stay tuned...
[1] Update: Thanks to Will for providing the last missing image, of 4758, and also to Jon and James of the Brickish Association for providing a couple of others that I was missing. We now have a complete set!
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i prefer the boxart images, the ones with white screen look very boring
+1 to the boxart/instructions pics. Like was mentioned, the white backgrounds had prelim imagery, usually not reflecting what the final minifigs would look like (for example, the latest Hogwarts castle shows a green-robed Voldemort rather than the black one it finally ended up being)
I think that the instructions pictures are superior, good work with that.
Some of the pictures don't seem to link to a zoomed version of the same image. Eg I clicked on the small picture of the Sirius Black's Escape set (the pic of the box/instructions) but the enlarged picture came up as a version without the set number or Lego logo on.
On a different note, what do people think is the best version of Hogwarts castle? The current one is the easiest to get hold of, but is it the best one?! Thanks.
Nice work with the pictures!
The first Hogwarts Castle looked best from the outside, but the new one has the best interior. The third hasn't really been re-done(except for the obvious Gryffindor Tower) and is a nice addition to any castle.
I see there are some new sets announced as well, "The Forbidden Forest" and "The Battle of Hogwarts" sounds interesting, but the Knight Bus didn't need a remake(it's great for new fans though). "The Forbidden Forest might have centaurs in it, which would be awesome!
@Jonny 2 Scarves
I have the two newest castles, and while I like them both (especially the greenhouse in the OOTP castle, as well as Umbridge's office), the current one is my favorite simply because of the sheer number of little bits (Filch, Dumbledore, Snape, Flitwick AND McGonagall, sorting hat, the tiles of the newspapers, the map, etc.). I do think they should have put in Fawkes just because he is so hard to find, and it would have made an awesome addition to what I can only assume is Dumbledore's office. I also like the looks of the POA castle though too and want to get it some day. My plan this summer is to sort of combine both my castles along with the other sets and my own pieces and make a giant Hogwarts. I am fortunate enough to have found minifigs like Moody and Lupin on Bricklink too. The thing I don't like is that Ron isn't in the castle but I guess that's cause he's in the train and Hermione isn't. Also annoyed that we get Luna (train) and Ginny (burrow) but no Neville. And my friends are arguing over whether the cat is Mrs Norris or Crookshanks. Have to say...if there is ever a UCS Hogwarts, I'm buying it. Can't wait until spring break when I get to go buy Diagon Alley!
The "Harry and the Marauders' Map image is squished."
I prefer the boxart / instruction covers. I'm tired of the white promo pictures.
For anyone having 'issues' with the images, forcing a page refresh (e.g. ctrl+F5) should sort you out ... they all work fine for me after I did it.
Is dumbledore's outfit correct? My friends and I don't think so! Why can't Lego put out flesh color face all the time?
I prefer official images because their background blends into that of the Brickset pages and makes it look like it's supposed to be there.
The white screen images are boring and sad. I very much so prefer the Instruction Covers.
Oops, forgot to say thanks!
I much prefered the white background images. Besides, if you are going to use the background images, use the box! The Instructions might either have "Book 1/2" or "Book 2/2". Or the instructions with the number on them.
P.S. My username is Combusti49, because I tried to write Combustix49, but I didn't press "X" hard enough.
I must say, i don't care for Harry Potter, so i'll only comment on the new pictures. No offense to the HP fans :D
I think it's a great idea to use instruction cover scans, the advantage of this is that most people keep their instructions, and tend to put them in a safe place. This way, if it's made the standard procedure, older sets are much easier to get into the database in good quality, I do for example have several 3 numbered sets, that i could post HQ instruction cover scans of.
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l was at my prefered gun shop the other day looking for options for a rifle/shotgun to raffle off this fall for a fraternal non profit I am involved in. We were discussing the options that were available for a cost to the group of less than 500 bucks, so we can actually raise some funds. (BTW, the group chose a circuit judge, I only got one vote.)
Anyway, up on one wall was a bunch of lever guns in various configurations that he had come in a couple of weeks earlier. Anything from brass receiver octagon barrel to stainless, to simple blued ones. They were considered for the raffle, and of course got the itch going in the back pocket. We talked about using the 44-40 for cowboy shooting ect, and possibly for a woods/deer/hog or even defensive gun. I ran out of time that day so I headed back home.
That night I got to looking at ballistic tables ect and comparing the 44-40 vs 44 mag. It didn't take long for me realize that 44 mag was the way to go since I usually carry a Redhawk in 44 mag when in the woods anyway. If I do decide to shoot cowboy action, I can still use a 44 mag in the rifle and my 44-40's in the pistol portion. So yesterday I called to see which ones he had in stock. Just so happens he had the 44 mag stainless version in the shop, which is what I was leaning towards. If he only had the blued version I would have gone with that to let him turn some inventory. This month has been sort of slow at the shop.
After lunch yesterday I went through the ammo box and picked out some cast lead 240 gr, and some JSP 240 gr loads that I had in there along with some JHP factory ammo that I had, then I headed down to the gun shop. He was super busy, so I hung around till things cleared out being that I wasn't in a hurry and I figured he would want to shoot it after I was done with the paperwork, since he said he hadn't had a chance to shoot the newer Rossi 92's. After about an hour, the shop cleared out except for regular customers, we finished the paperwork and then all went outside to the range to shoot it.
It shot a bit high for everyone at 60 yds. I am going to have to decide if I want to swap out for a taller front sight or just adjust the and keep the front sight at the bottom of the rear V. Before we were done the shop owner and I had dialed it in and were hitting stuff at 60 and 100 yds or so shooting from a standing position. We put about 50 or so rounds through it between the 5 of us that shot it. Everyone seemed to like the feel and operation of the gun, but it was about 102 outside yesterday afternoon so we didn't stay out very long. It fed all three types of ammo we ran through it.
For the money, I am satisfied with the gun. Fit and finish is fair, accuracy with the factory sights is good after you get your sight picture adjusted. When I get time to put some rounds through it off of a bench I will decide if I want to modify or replace the sights on the gun. I am curious to see how tight of groups I can get out of it. I will also have to chrono some various rounds out of it, and see what it produces. But I think this will be a viable gun for its intended purpose of woods/hog/deer or even home defense gun that I don't have to be overly worried about if it gets dirty or in the weather.
This gives me a common pistol/rifle caliber gun in 44 mag. The wife already has a 9mm pistol/rifle setup, but I fear that after she shoots this a bit, she may want one of her own to go with her GP100 in 357 mag. It wouldn't hurt my feeling any to add another lever gun. I don't think the Marlins will mind sharing space in the safe.
Anyway, so far I am happy with it we shall see how it goes in the future.


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True Collaboration Could Make 'The Mortal Instruments: City of Bones' a Genre-Buster
Books on Film By Allison Loring on April 24, 2013 | Comments (1)One of the most anticipated (and packed) panels during this year's Los Angeles Times Festival of Books was the "Mortal Instruments on Page & Screen" which featured the author of The Mortal Instruments series, Cassandra Clare, and the director of the upcoming The Mortal Instruments: City of Bones film, Harald Zwart, to expand on the process of bringing this beloved novel to life. Moderated by Los Angeles Times movie writer Nicole Sperling, Clare and Zwart explained the challenges and differences between writing a novel and creating a film, how they collaborated with one another, and what fans (and non-fans) can expect from the movie. Sperling began the panel by asking Clare about the process of turning her book into a film and Clare explained that the big question was, "Who do you sell your rights to?" And then, once those rights are sold, it becomes a process of letting go. Clare was shopping her book before the Twilight and The Hunger Games films had been released, so studios were mainly concerned with taking on a property that had a girl for the main character because it had not yet been proven that films with female heroines could become successful franchises.
'The Mortal Instruments: City of Bones' Fills More Main Roles With Attractive Young Actors
Casting Couch By Nathan Adams on July 27, 2012 | Be the First To CommentCasting is currently at a fever pitch regarding the next great hope in the Young Adult film franchise arms race, The Mortal Instruments: City of Bones. The most recent news we had about director Harald Zwart's series-launcher is that Game of Thrones and Mad Men vets Lena Headey and Jared Harris had landed roles as two of the adult characters, and today comes news that two of the teenage roles that make up most of the primary cast have also been filled. The thrust of the City of Bones story, again, is that a girl named Clary Fray (Lily Collins) becomes suddenly involved in the hidden world of Shadowhunters (powerful beings who hunt demons right under our noses). The first Shadowhunter that she comes across is dreamboat Jace Wayland (Jamie Campbell Bower), a troubled orphan who comes complete with a foster family. Said family is most importantly made up of two siblings who Jace lives and hunts demons with, Isabelle and Alec Lightwood. These are the oh-so-important roles that have now been filled.
Hilary Duff Replaced by 'True Blood' Actress in 'The Story of Bonnie and Clyde'
Casting Couch By Nathan Adams on September 20, 2011 | Comments (2)A new Bonnie and Clyde movie from writer/director Tonya S. Holly has been in the works for a while now. It seemed like smooth sailing for the project, because not only does it have a strong Hollywood legacy to build off of because of 1967's Bonnie & Clyde starring Faye Dunaway and Warren Beatty, it also had a known star attached with Hilary Duff signed on to play Bonnie Parker. A remake and a famous face? That's as good as gold in executive eyes. But these days things don't seem to be so sure. Joining Duff as Clyde Barrow was going to be Gossip Girl and Air Bud: Seventh Inning Fetch actor Kevin Zegers, but due to scheduling conflicts, both Duff and Zegers have had to drop out of the film. Okay, so maybe the loss of Duff hurts a bit more, but you get the point. This movie has gone from a surefire hit to a big question mark, and all because of scheduling problems. So why couldn't the people in charge jostle around the schedule and make this work? A joint statement from Holly and producer Tom Rogers said, "Due to our obligations with investors and international buyers, it is imperative that we stick to our current schedule. Therefore we are forced to explore other options for the two lead roles. Unfortunately this happens all the time in the world of filmmaking." Ah, good old bureaucratic red tape sabotaging things that would be in its best interest to […]
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Feb. 17 (Bloomberg) -- All Nippon Airways Co., Asia's largest listed carrier by sales, plans to slash costs by 100 billion yen ($1.3 billion) and expand international flights as it gears up for rising competition at home.
The carrier, the world's only operator of Boeing Co.'s 787 plane, plans to boost international capacity by 22 percent in the two years starting April 1, the company said in a statement in Tokyo today. The cost savings are planned by the end of March 31, 2015, it said.
ANA, which has 55 of the Boeing 787s on order, plans to use the new planes to expand overseas service, including flights to Seattle and San Jose from Tokyo. Rival Japan Airlines Co. also said this week it is buying more of the fuel-efficient planes to expand international operations as three new budget carriers that start flying this year adds to domestic competition.
All Nippon rose 2 percent to 251 yen as of the 3 p.m. close of trade in Tokyo today.
ANA said it expects to have 20 of the Dreamliners by the end of March 2013 and a total of 27 a year later. The carrier, the biggest airline customer for the jet, has said the 787 fleet will save it 10 billion yen in fuel costs.
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The carrier began flying the plane domestically in November and added flights to Frankfurt last month. It uses a two-class configuration of 264 seats on local routes with the plane, while long-haul flights will have 158 seats.
The initial order of 50 planes in 2004 was worth about $6 billion at list prices. Japan Airlines has ordered 35 of the aircraft.
All Nippon said it is also considering plans to change to a holding company in April 2013. Two of the three new discount carriers starting flights this year are backed by the airline.
AirAsia Japan Co., a venture between ANA and AirAsia Bhd. intends to start flying from Narita this year. Peach Aviation Ltd., backed by ANA and Hong Kong-based Far Eastern Investment Group, will start flights from Kansai airport next month.
Jetstar Japan Co., a venture between JAL and Qantas Airways Ltd.'s Jetstar unit, will begin flights from Narita later this year using three planes.
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Monta Ellis is co-represented by Happy Walters of Relativity Sports and longtime agent Jeff Fried, industry sources told RealGM. Ellis had an apparent split with Fried out of frustration in mid-July, before signing a three-year contract with the Dallas Mavericks. Nevertheless, Fried told RealGM that reports of him separating with Ellis are "incorrect." "Monta and I are together for a lifetime," Fried said. "He is family to me." RealGM
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Sources told ESPN.com that Harris is now likely to have surgery on toe by month's end to put him in line for a return to the court by the start of the NBA's regular season. Upon learning of Harris' need for surgery, Dallas reached terms Friday on a three-year deal worth at least $25 million to sign Milwaukee Bucks free agent Monta Ellis. The money Dallas is no longer spending on Harris, sources said, has been earmarked for the signing of a big man, with Milwaukee free agent Samuel Dalembert ranking as the Mavericks' clear-cut preference after team officials spent all day Thursday meeting with him in Dallas. ESPN.com
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Made my skin so oily after using it.
The only good comments I have with this is that the beads were quite refreshing.
I do not recommend this product.
The scent is very strong and stays on your face for a while, but it doesn't bother me. My sister borrowed it one day and hated it because the scent was so strong. I feel like this takes too much oil off my face and makes it shiny, and I feel like i really need to hydrate my face afterwards, but that wasn't until a couple months after buying it. Overall, I would not buy this product again, but it really does wake you up. It's average, it cleans just fine but I don't think I want a product that is so strong in scent.
I use this face wash (and rotate it with the blue and orange washes in the morning burst line). Its perfect! Rinses clean, leaves my skin feeling refreshed and residue free. I'll never deviate from the morning burst line, I love their face washes!
before my skin got used to it, the cleanser worked very good. i have combination skin, but excess dead skin. the worst possible combination for acne. this product gets rid of oil very well, though not recommended for extremely oily skinned people, but really those types are rare. Anyways, this gets rid of shine and gently exfoliates too. i wouldn't buy it again only because my skin got used to it and it will never work again on my face. but that has nothing to do with the product, cos every cleansing product gets that way with me.
This cleanser is ok
not the best not the worst
I didn't feel it cleaning my skin from dead skin cells, dirt, oil, or dust
I used this every morning and it did actually wake me up
nice tingling sensation that kinda energizes you
Smells citrusy and cute
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can find something more useful
but it was on sale!
I am on the search for a new facial cleanser as my old standby is being discontinued. Being that this was fairly cheap I thought I would try it out. It's okay, it does the job, I don't mind the smell and it doesn't break me out. As far as the microbeads, they don't burst anyway and I could do without them. Will I buy again, maybe but will probably keep looking for something better. I give it between a 3 & 4.
This product is horrible! It smells awful, the little beads won't burst, it leaves my skin extremely dry, I'm broken out all over, and it stings not only eyes if you accidentally have it slide down into them (which it will I promise!) but your pores nose and lips too. I've used many many products over the years and I have to say this is one of the worst I've ever bought. Detoxifying? Not so much. More like pore clogging mess. As for waking you up? Yeah it will when it gets in your eyes and you're temporarily blind.
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I got a free sample from Johnson&Johnson brazilian website and used after a bad night of sleep. It really gave me a "burst of energy". The smell is so good and my face felt really clean and refreshed after i used. Since i only had one sample i don't know how would it be to use on a daily basis, that's why i rated 4 stars ;)
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What Objectum Sexuals Can Teach Us ALL About Love
On June 6th, the National Geographic Taboo show, Forbidden Love, will air an episode called "In Love with the Berlin Wall." This episode features Erika Eiffel, one of the world's foremost activists for the Objectum Sexuality (OS) community. Because I've done some research and written about OS, I was filmed as one of the program's "experts." I had the easy job of making rather academic comments while sitting in front of a green screen.
Unlike Erika, I was not asked to bare my soul on camera.
This is the third time I've been paired with Erika on national television. I was asked for comments on Good Morning America (April 9, 2009) which was pre-taped, and I lost my live talk show virginity to the Tyra Show (Oct. 2, 2009). Appearing on national media is a kind of reputation-teetering exercise not necessarily condusive to heightening self-esteem. I mean, you may confront yourself on the screen and find yourself thinking: "my hair sucks, my lipstick isn't even noticable... why did I wear that? I look terrible!" And there's not a darn thing you can do to change it. I am at least happy that I've always liked how I've sounded. There's a real art in learning how to put across a collection of decent sound bites - never knowing what will actually be chosen for public consumption. So far, as a novice, I've been fortunate.
There's also the cruel aftermath to worry about. When programs about Objectum Sexuality air (or are posted on YouTube), there is an inevitable spewing of vicious commentary. It can be unnerving. I've been referred to as a "nutcase" and worse. The people who really hate me always put "sexologist" in quotes, as if I've simply concocted the title and my degree out of thin air. I've learned to not take this stuff personally and to examine the commentary as if I were taking the pulse of a profoundly out of whack culture. Which it is. But the comments about Erika and other OS people are far, far worse - and would not be tolerated (in most civilized circles) if they were directed at queer folk, ethnic minorities, or people with disabilities. Portrayals of OS seem to really trigger misogyny and other forms of hatred and fear in a lot of people, male and female alike.


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Jan. 26 (Bloomberg) -- Banco Sabadell SA will anticipate a government order to banks to clean up real estate on their balance sheets by completing the job this year, Chairman Josep Oliu said.
"We have in our plan to do it all in 2012," Oliu said in a news conference in Barcelona today. "I don't know if they're going to give us two, three or four years, but to be sure our plan is to do it in one year."
Spain's government is pushing banks to recognize losses on real estate assets amid a property-market crash, while coaxing stronger lenders into mergers with weaker companies. Sabadell said in December it would buy Caja de Ahorros del Mediterraneo, a failed lender seized by the Bank of Spain, for 1 euro in a deal financed and guaranteed by other commercial lenders. The merger will create the country's fifth-largest bank.
Sabadell has 7.8 billion euros ($10.3 billion) of what it terms "potentially problematic" assets linked to real estate on its books with provisions set aside to cover 36 percent of that amount, the bank said today in an earnings presentation. The number includes 4 billion euros of foreclosed or acquired real estate and 1.16 billion euros to cover those assets, Sabadell said.
Spanish Prime Minister Mariano Rajoy has pledged to enforce a cleanup of the balance sheets of the country's banks and also wants more of them to merge to cut capacity in Spain's financial system. Banco Espanol de Credito SA, a Spanish retail banking unit of Banco Santander SA, posted a 173.3 million-euro fourth- quarter loss on Jan. 12 after taking a 280 million-euro charge for souring real estate.
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Sabadell said today fourth-quarter net income fell 38 percent from a year earlier as it booked more charges to cover the declining value of real estate.
Profit dropped to 24.47 million euros, the bank said in a filing to regulators. Earnings compared with the average 21.97 million-euro estimate in a Bloomberg survey of 10 analysts.
Bad loans as a proportion of total loans climbed to 5.95 percent in December from 5.72 percent in September, the bank said in the filing to regulators.
Provisioning costs for bad loans and assets rose to 281.6 million euros from 154.2 million euros a year earlier. Of that, 106 million euros was for real estate, up from 41.2 million in the third quarter, and 32 million euros was for its stake in Banco Comercial Portugues SA, a Portuguese lender.
Net interest income rose 15 percent to 384.1 million euros from 332.8 million euros in the same period a year earlier, Sabadell said. Gross lending increased by 0.8 percent from a year earlier as deposits rose 6.1 percent.
Sabadell shares fell 0.1 percent to 2.93 euros at 12:17 p.m. in Madrid, valuing the bank at 4.73 billion euros.
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Arlington Home Inspector Agrees to Five-Year License Suspension
As a home inspector for Black Paw Home Inspection, Inc., Mr. Gera prepared and signed a report for a Lexington client in which he indicated there was "no visible evidence of a wood destroying insect infestation". Subsequently, an exterminating company representative observed evidence of terminates in the home. Mr. Gera's license was suspended for five years, effective November 11, 2004. He may petition for license reinstatement no earlier than November 11, 2009.
"Consumers rely on home inspectors in making one of the most important purchases of their lives. I urge house hunters to check our website for disciplinary histories and consumer tips before hiring an inspector," said Anne L. Collins, Director of the Division of Professional Licensure.
The Board of Registration of Home Inspectors ("Board") licenses over 450 home inspectors throughout the Commonwealth. In fiscal year 2004, the Board resolved 33 complaints, resulting in ten consent agreements, seven license probations and fines totaling $6,575.
Consumers are urged to visit the Division of Professional Licensure's website at www.mass.gov/reg and select the "check a license" option to determine whether a professional they are considering doing business with is licensed and in good standing.
The Division of Professional Licensure is an agency within the Office of Consumer Affairs and Business Regulation. It is responsible for ensuring the integrity of the licensing process for 43 trades and professions regulated by 29 boards of registration, the updating and renewal of approximately 330,000 licenses and the maintenance of databases for licensing, enforcement and revenue collection. In fiscal year 2004, the Division of Professional Licensure imposed record levels of enforcement, including 829 disciplinary actions, $128,000 in fines and the return of more than $25,000 to consumers.


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Finally I have decided to replace my floors. My foyer entry area has marble floor and my kitchen has some white beigish dingy tiles both have broken tiles. Rest of the first floor is hardwood oak medium stain and we have oak trim. We have been slowly updating the house. With floors we debated between hardwood and tiles. However tiles won because of cost and no we will not do engineered/ vinyl. Also when we do that, we are thinking of replacing the backsplash in the kitchen. Please see pictures of the granite and cabinet and trim. Can you guys please suggest a tile that will look good with our trim and wood and granite which is too busy. Also if you can suggest some ideas for backsplash. I am very clumsy and need something that is not to high maintenance. Thanks for your help. |
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I think you're asking too much. Considering that your taste may be far different from that of others, and that products others might like may not be available where you live, you're not giving people enough to work from. I'd suggest you shop locally, borrow some samples, post the pictures then ask for opinions. |
Just put in a nice, matching wood-look ceramic tile and sin no more..... |
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The deadly coronavirus that's killed 38 people, mostly in Saudi Arabia, sickened four more in the world's biggest oil exporter, including three health-care workers in the city of Taif, near Mecca.
The four patients have all recovered, Saudi Arabia's health ministry said in a statement late yesterday. The ministry has tested 308 other samples over the past three days that were all negative for Middle East respiratory syndrome coronavirus, or MERS-CoV, according to the statement.
The cases among female health-care workers in the Taif governate in the west of the country is at odds with the virus's pattern so far, with most reported cases among middle-aged men with underlying health conditions who were receiving treatment in hospitals in the eastern region of al-Ahsa.
"It's always concerning when health-care workers get infected, because they're the entry point of emerging infections into the community," said David Heymann, a former senior World Health Organization official who was in charge of the agency's response to SARS, and is now head of the Centre on Global Health Security at Chatham House, a London-based foreign policy research group.
The statement didn't specify whether the health-care workers had contact with two other cases in Taif reported last week. Researchers monitoring the outbreak don't know where the virus came from or how it's spreading, hampering efforts to control it.
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The four cases disclosed yesterday bring the global tally of people infected with the virus to 68, when added to the 64 confirmed infections the Geneva-based WHO has reported since September. Fifty-three of the cases and 32 of the 38 deaths have been in Saudi Arabia. Other cases have been identified in France, Germany, Italy, the U.K., Jordan, Qatar, Tunisia and the United Arab Emirates.
Millions of visitors are expected in Mecca for the annual Muslim Hajj pilgrimage in October. The Saudi government this week asked visitors to postpone traveling to the country for Hajj, citing construction at the city's Grand Mosque, according to Arab News.
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