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A. Bolivia asks Chile for a concrete solution regarding maritime
A. Foreign Minister of Bolivia David Choqueuanca said yesterday
that Bolivia and U.S. will announce on a new agreement based on political
dialogue, trade, and cooperation in the next months.
A. Spanish Foreign Minister Miguel Angel Moratinos, representing
the EU, will meet in Paris on Thursday with Cuban counterpart Bruno
Rodriguez, two months after talks stalled, officials said.
A. Cuba has told the United Nations special investigator on
torture that he cannot visit the island on a fact-finding mission despite
an invitation issued to him last year, the official said on Wednesday.
A. Cuba plans to split the province of Havana into two provinces
in an effort to make local government more efficient, the state-run news
media said Tuesday.
A. Chile ambassador in Buenos Aires resigns after remarks on
A. Chilea**s central bank will raise its benchmark interest rate
for the first time since September 2008 this month, a bi-weekly survey of
traders and investors showed.
Bolivia pide "fraternalmente" a Chile la creaciA^3n de una soluciA^3n
concreta al contencioso marAtimo
LA PAZ, 9 Jun. (EUROPA PRESS) -
El ministro de Exteriores boliviano, David Choquehuanca, solicitA^3
"fraternalmente" este martes a su homA^3logo chileno, Alfredo Moreno, el
establecimiento de una hoja de ruta que permita alcanzar mediante el
diA!logo una soluciA^3n a la "restituciA^3n de la cualidad marAtima" de
"Bolivia hoy plantea fraternalmente a Chile la reparaciA^3n histA^3rica
de la restituciA^3n de su cualidad marAtima, en el contexto en que surge
en el continente un sistema democrA!tico empeA+-ado en procesos de
integraciA^3n que abarca diversas A!reas", dijo el canciller boliviano
durante la Asamblea General de la OrganizaciA^3n de Estados Americanos
(OEA) celebrada en Lima.
El presidente de Chile, SebastiA!n PiA+-era, se comprometiA^3 en la
reuniA^3n mantenida hace tres semanas con su homA^3logo boliviano, Evo
Morales, a retomar la denominada Agenda de 13 Puntos, establecida durante
el gobierno de la ex presidenta chilena Michelle Bachelet para tratar el
reclamo boliviano de contar con la salida al mar que perdiA^3 durante la
Guerra del PacAfico, en 1879.
Durante la Asamblea de la OEA, el ministro de Exteriores chileno
afirmA^3 que Santiago "no cesarA!" en su "firme propA^3sito" de "ampliar
los niveles de confianza y entendimiento" entre Bolivia y Chile.
"Aprovecho esta importante tribuna para reiterar el respeto y afecto que
el gobierno de Chile siente por el gobierno del Presidente Evo Morales y
por todo el pueblo boliviano", aA+-adiA^3 Moreno.
"Es evidente que hoy enfrentamos una nueva etapa en el acercamiento
bilateral. El Gobierno de Bolivia saluda las manifestaciones del nuevo
gobierno de Chile en el sentido de continuar nuestro trabajo en el marco
de la agenda bilateral vigente", apuntA^3 Choquehuaca en declaraciones
divulgadas por la OEA en un comunicado.
PerA-o, que ha presentado una demanda internacional contra Chile por el
control de 100.000 kilA^3metros cuadrados de aguas marAtimas en el
PacAfico, expresA^3 en la Asamblea de la OEA que harA! todo lo posible por
no bloquear las negociaciones entre La Paz y Santiago, informA^3 la
Agencia Boliviana de InformaciA^3n, que aA+-ade que el diA!logo bilateral
entre Chile y Bolivia sobre la cuestiA^3n marAtima se reanudarA! a
principios de julio.
El Canciller anuncia un nuevo pacto con EEUU
Hizo el anuncio tras una reuniA^3n en Lima con Hillary Clinton
El canciller David Choquehuanca anunciA^3 ayer un "acuerdo marco" entre
Bolivia y EEUU "en los prA^3ximos meses" y reconociA^3 que el Gobierno
estadounidense tiene una nueva actitud "de respeto" hacia Bolivia. En una
rueda de prensa, durante las sesiones de la 40 Asamblea de la OEA, dijo
que ese acuerdo estarA! estructurado en tres ejes: diA!logo polAtico,
cooperaciA^3n y comercio. Choquehuanca se reuniA^3 ayer con la secretaria
de Estado de EEUU, Hillary Clinton.
"En el pasado, la relaciA^3n era de intromisiA^3n en los asuntos internos,
una relaciA^3n de dependencia, (pero) en esta nueva relaciA^3n queremos
agradecer a las autoridades y el pueblo norteamericano porque ellos van
comprendiendo, poco a poco, que las relaciones deben ser de respeto
mutuo", indicA^3.
Surprise EU-Cuba meet in Paris Thursday
09 June 2010, 14:46 CET
a** filed under: Cuba, Spain, diplomacy, rights
(BRUSSELS) - Spanish Foreign Minister Miguel Angel Moratinos, representing
the EU, will meet in Paris on Thursday with Cuban counterpart Bruno
Rodriguez, two months after talks stalled, officials said.
The ministerial meeting was originally scheduled for Madrid in early April
but was postponed after the death of leading Cuban political prisoner
Orlando Zapata who died after a long hunger strike.
"There will be a meeting in Paris" between the two foreign ministers,
spokeswoman Cristina Gallach told AFP, adding that the French capital had
been chosen for "logistical" reasons.
The Cuban minister will be in the French capital on his way back from a
visit to East Timor, the Spanish foreign ministry said.
The discussions will include human rights as well as bilateral
cooperation, climate change and the situation in Haiti, a spokeswoman for
Ashton said.
The surprise meeting comes just weeks as Spain, a strong advocate of
normalising EU relations with Cuba, readies to hand over the reins of the
EU's rotating presidency to Belgium on July 1.
Moratinos, who will represent EU foreign affairs chief Catherine Ashton at
the talks, and Rodriguez will discuss the state of relations between the
former Spanish colony and the 27-nation bloc ahead of the annual release
of the EU's "common position" on Cuba which sets out the basis for
Spain argues the bloc's common position -- which insists that Cuba makes
progress on human rights -- has yielded few results since it was adopted
in 1996 and should be abandoned altogether.
Madrid wants to replace it with a bilateral cooperation agreement, but
many other EU nations like Sweden and the Czech Republic have opposed
taking a softer stand on Cuba.
Their opposition was reinforced following Zapata's death in February and a
wave of prison sentences for dissidents.
The EU suspended ties with Cuba after a major roundup of 75 dissidents in
March 2003, but resumed aid cooperation in 2008.
Spain's policy on Cuba shifted in 2005 after Jose Luis Rodriguez Zapatero,
a socialist, came to power the previous year.
His conservative predecessor as prime minister, Jose Maria Aznar, had
adopted a policy of isolating the island. Spain and Cuba renewed ties in
The latest version of the common position on Cuba will be agreed by EU
foreign ministers at a meeting in Luxembourg on Monday.
It will be the fourth such EU-Cuba meeting. The first was in October 2008.
U.N. torture investigator says Cuba blocked visit
Wed Jun 9, 2010 2:41pm BST
GENEVA, June 9 (Reuters) - Cuba has told the United Nations special
investigator on torture that he cannot visit the island on a fact-finding
mission despite an invitation issued to him last year, the official said
on Wednesday.
Austrian lawyer Manfred Nowak, known for his frank talking to both
developed and developing countries on the issue, said Havana had told him
it could not receive him before his mandate runs out at the end of October
this year.
"I regret that, in spite of its clear invitation, the government of Cuba
has not allowed me to objectively assess the situation of torture and
ill-treatment in the country by collecting first-hand evidence from all
available sources," he said in a statement.
Cuba invited him to visit in February 2009, but since then had failed to
agree on a date, his statement said.
Diplomats at the council -- now holding a three-week session -- said
Havana was showing special sensitivity over its jailing of dissidents, one
of whom died in prison in February. Cuba says it has no political
prisoners and jails only criminals.
Nowak has been six years in the post, formally titled special rapporteur
to the world body's Geneva-based Human Rights Council, and has already
made clear he will step down when his mandate is over.
Earlier this year, he told reporters he had been frustrated by the lack of
cooperation he had received in his investigations from many governments --
including some, like communist-ruled Cuba, who are members of the
47-nation council.
Another investigator, Australian lawyer Philip Alston, said last week that
the council -- where a developing country bloc that shields its members
from criticism holds a clear majority -- was ignoring killings in
countries like Iran and Sri Lanka.
Alston, who reports on extra-judicial executions and has just authored a
report strongly critical of U.S. unmanned rocket attacks on suspected
terrorists in Pakistan and Afghanistan, said the Council had a
single-minded focus on Israel. Nowak, who also angered the former U.S.
administration of George W. Bush with criticism of conditions at the
Guantanamo detention centre on Cuba, has made no secret of his disillusion
with the council itself.
For more than two decades Cuba refused to allow in special investigators
on rights violations appointed by the council's predecessor, the Human
Rights Commission, abolished in 2006.
But in 2007, it admitted the investigator on the right to food -- a
leftist former politician in Switzerland widely known for his sympathy for
the island's communist system and critical of the West's treatment of
developing countries.
Cuban officials have made no comment on the effective barring of Nowak.
Cuba: Government Plans to Split Havana Province
Cuba plans to split the province of Havana into two provinces in an effort
to make local government more efficient, the state-run news media said
Tuesday. The division would cut travel distances for provincial employees,
make services more accessible and add local political clout by giving each
province its own capital, according to Granma, the newspaper of the
Communist Party. The plan for the two provinces, to be called Mayabeque
and Artemisa, requires approval by the national Parliament and appears to
be part of President RaA-ol Castroa**s drive to improve productivity,
according to Granma.
Dimite el embajador de Chile en Buenos Aires tras sus polA(c)micas declaraciones
en defensa de Pinochet
El embajador de Chile en Buenos Aires, Miguel Otero, ha presentado su
dimisiA^3n tras la polA(c)mica suscitada en su paAs por unas declaraciones
en las que aseguraba que "la mayor parte" de los chilenos no habAa sufrido
durante la dictadura de Augusto Pinochet y que, en caso de que "no hubiera
existido el pronunciamiento militar" contra el Gobierno de Salvador
Allende, "Chile hoy serAa Cuba".
El ministerio de Exteriores chileno ha confirmado en un comunicado que
el Gobierno del presidente Salvador PiA+-era "acepta y respeta la
decisiA^3n del embajador Otero y agradece la labor desarrollada al frente
de nuestra misiA^3n diplomA!tica en Argentina", informA^3 la ediciA^3n
digital del diario 'El Mercurio'.
"La mayor parte de Chile no sintiA^3 la dictadura. Al contrario, se
sintiA^3 aliviada (...) De la noche a la maA+-ana empezA^3 a encontrar lo
que no habAa. GanA^3 el pueblo", habAa indicado Otero en una entrevista
publicada el pasado domingo por el diario argentino 'ClarAn'. Asociaciones
de vActimas y desaparecidos de la dictadura y la oposiciA^3n chilena en
bloque habAan solicitado en las A-oltimas horas la renuncia del
Chile May Raise Rate to 0.75% This Month, Survey Says (Update1)
June 9 (Bloomberg) -- Chilea**s central bank will raise its benchmark
interest rate for the first time since September 2008 this month, a
bi-weekly survey of traders and investors showed.
Policy makers will increase borrowing costs 0.25 percentage point to 0.75
percent on June 15, according to the median forecast of 36 money-market
traders, pension and mutual fund managers and insurance companies. The
survey was published on the central banka**s website today.
The central bank may start tightening this month after keeping its
benchmark interest rate at a record low of 0.5 percent since July of last
year. Surging consumer spending and a lag in output caused by an
8.8-magnitude earthquake in February may help push inflation to 3.2
percent in 12 months, the survey said. The bank targets inflation of 3
Policy makers, led by President Jose De Gregorio, may raise rates to 2.25
percent by year-end, 3.75 percent by June 2011 and 5 percent by the end of
next year, the survey said.
The peso will strengthen to 540 per U.S. dollar in seven days, according
to the median of 35 estimates. The peso gained against the dollar today,
rising 0.9 percent to 543.05 per dollar at 9:33 a.m. New York time.
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SimpleTankFrames is a small addon designed to look like the oRA2 tank frames of yesteryear. It plugs directly in to oRA3 to get a sorted list of main tanks. Configuration is provided through the interface options. Please note that any changes to the options requires a interface reload. If you want to request a feature or report a bug, please visit the ticket tracker for SimpleTankFrames on wowace.com. If you want to help translate SimpleTankFrames, you can do so at the project page on... | |||||
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About SimpleUnitFrames SimpleUnitFrames is an extension to the default WoW Unit Frames. Rather than a complete unitframe replacement, this addon adds further information and features to the existing frames and allows a greater degree of customization to enhance their usability. The v2.x.x series of SimpleUnitFrames involved a complete re-write of the code, however credits go to Rophy and xan for their original work on the v1.x.x series. All configuration for SimpleUnitFrames can be performed... | |||||
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SUF focuses on a simple configuration while maintaining the flexibility that most users will care about, preventing unnecessary bloating of the addon that sacrifices performance. While you aren't going to be able to set the health bar to be exactly 3.14 pixels outside of the unit frames, you can change options you actually care about such as bar height, ordering, frame height and so on. To speed up configuration, you can configure multiple units at the same time through the global... |


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14 I thank God that I baptized none of you except Crispus and Gaius, | 14 I am thankful that I did not baptize any of you except Crispus and Gaius, |
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Your friends are idiots. You've probably had your suspicions for a while, but Rock Band's going to confirm them. Getting a game going in a room full of drunk people is like trying to organise a chimp's tea party where the Darjeeling's laced with smack - everybody keeps prodding buttons and accidentally flicking through menus and quitting out, and it's all you can do not to shout at them to just STOP TOUCHING ANYTHING. Grr.
The hardest bit of Rock Band is explaining to the people who've never played games before that they need to press q to start even if they're only on the mic. Clods. It's worth persevering, though, because once you get into the game it'll bring you all together better than going on a road trip to Tijuana and finding a dead body. It's brilliant like that. There are moments - loads of them - where you honestly feel like a proper band, putting those back-to-back moments from Guitar Hero to shame.
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Guitar first, then. This is a contentious one, since it's directly comparable to a game that's already out - and the comparison doesn't always work in Rock Band's favour. Basics are exactly the same - five buttons (although you only use four in Medium), a whammy bar for scoring extra when you hold notes, multipliers for playing ten notes in a row. Star Power's been renamed Overdrive, but one sweet addition is that you can carry on building it up after it's activated - keep hitting those phrases and you can keep your bonus time going for ages. The display also goes blue to show when you're in a solo and ticks off the percentage you've managed so you know how long you've got to survive in the tricky bits.
These are nice touches, but they're minor adjustments to the near-flawless system Harmonix developed for Guitar Hero - and other changes don't work quite so well. Instead of GH's friendly circles, Rock Band shows notes as little metal bars, and ever-so-slightly thinner ones to show where you can do hammer-ons. Weirdly, early screenshots showed a layout much closer to Guitar Hero's - it's like EA's lawyers panicked at the last minute and insisted on new graphics that look a bit placeholder. It doesn't really matter - the system still works fine - but it feels a little bit sterile.
Drumming's the next stop, since it's new and comes with the nicest toys. And the drum kit really is lovely - solid and chunky, the legs on the kit are like scaffolding and the foot pedal puts DrumMania's to shame. One warning - the drums are solid plastic, so unless you wrap your (wooden) sticks in something they'll drown out the TV. Drums are also by far the trickiest instrument to play - getting your foot and hands to work independently is absolutely brain-twanging at first, and you'll sometimes have to stop mid-song, take a deep breath and start tackling bits of the beat one at a time.
This is probably a good place to point out that Rock Band's difficulty is slightly different from Guitar Hero's - it'll kick you out of the game faster if you start scuffing things, but it's also quicker to get your energy bar back to full with a quick flurry of perfect notes. If you're really messing things up on drums, you can afford to just concentrate on the snare and bass pedal, which give up more energy than the others. By the higher difficulty levels, playing drums on Rock Band is probably about as hard as playing them in real life - it's a very different feeling from the lightning-fingered fun of riffing through a guitar solo, but satisfying in a different way.


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Even as I love the autumn season, it is full of anxiety for me.
I start to mourn the ending of summer when I hear the cicadas grow louder the last two weeks of August and when I feel the crispness in the air at that time, which brings less sunlight and longer nights. Then the back-to-school craze: buying shoes, supplies, backpacks, etc. and trying to catch up on the homework we didn't do during June and July. By the time I make it to the parent-teacher conferences in early September, when I hear about all the things I'm supposed to be doing with the kids, I'm well into panic mode.
The other day, my therapist and I talked about a few coping exercises to keep my anxiety from disabling me this time of year.
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I think water calms many of us down. We build waterfalls as part of our landscaping business and when we return to check on them we hear stories of how neighbours also now sleep with their windows open so they can listen to the soothing sound of our waterfall. It is an awesome sound – as long as it doesn't sound like a tap left on or someone taking a leak – lol!
I find fire calming. At night we sometimes build a fire in our little fireplace on our back patio and I find staring at the dance of the flames to be comforting – it takes me back to childhood camping trips and I find it mesmerizing. I love listening to the crackle and pop and sizzle of the wood. The flames dancing on and around and consuming the wood, the hot red glow of the embers – perfect for marshmallow roasting. And I love the heat.
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text: Technology See Inside How to Teach Computers to Learn on Their Own New techniques for teaching computers how to learn are beating the experts By Yaser S. Abu-Mostafa SCIENTIFIC AMERICAN A couple of years ago the directors of a women's clothing company asked me to help them develop better fashion recommendations for their clients. No one in their right mind would seek my personal advice in an area I know so little about—I am, after all, a male computer scientist—but they were not asking for my personal advice. They were asking for my machine-learning advice, and I obliged. Based purely on sales figures and client surveys, I was able to recommend to women whom I have never met fashion items I have never seen. My recommendations beat the performance of professional stylists. Mind you, I still know very little about women's fashion. Machine learning is a branch of computer science that enables computers to learn from experience, and it is everywhere. It makes Web searches more relevant, blood tests more accurate and dating services more likely to find you a potential mate. At its simplest, machine-learning algorithms take an existing data set, comb through it for patterns, then use these patterns to generate predictions about the future. Yet advances in machine learning over the past decade have transformed the field. Indeed, machine-learning techniques are responsible for making computers "smarter" than humans at so many of the tasks we wish to pursue. Witness Watson, the IBM computer system that used machine learning to beat the best Jeopardy players in the world. This is only a preview. Get the rest of this article now! Select an option below: Buy Digital Issue Customer Sign In *You must have purchased this issue or have a qualifying subscription to access this content It has been identified that the institution you are trying to access this article from has institutional site license access to Scientific American on nature.com. Click here to access this article in its entirety through site license access. ADVERTISEMENT


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CORPUS CHRISTI - Corpus Christi police pepper sprayed a suspect and the suspect's father after the suspect was accused of assaulting his common law wife early Sunday.
At 2:01 a.m., police responded to a family disturbance on the 2800 block of Irma Drive. The police attempted to arrest Anthony Zaragosa, 41, for assaulting his common law wife who has a protective order against him. According to police, Zaragosa resisted arrested and they attempted to pepper spray him. When they did, police said family members tried to interfere and backup was called. Zaragosa and his father were pepper sprayed.
Zaragosa was arrested for assault, violation of a protective order and resisting arrest. He was out of Nueces County jail on an unknown bond by Monday morning. His father was not charged.


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The year is AD 7000. The human species is nearly extinct-for the fourth time-due to its fragile nature.
Krina Alizond-114 is metahuman, descended from the robots that once served humanity. She's on a journey to the water world of Shin-Tethys to find her sister Ana. But her trip is interrupted when pirates capture her ship. Their leader, the enigmatic Count Rudi, believes that there's more to Krina's search than meets the eye.
He's correct: Krina and Ana each possess… (more)
Agreeable characters, a fascinating backdrop and brilliant plotting, with a further outlook of lengthy grins and occasional guffaws.
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Blackbird Vineyards Proprietary Red Wine Paramour 2009
Blackbird Vineyards
- California
- United States
- Napa Valley
- Oak Knoll District
Despite less than ideal climatic conditions, featuring storms which threatened an otherwise perfect year, most parts of California had an excellent year for viticulture. Chardonnays and Sauvignon Blancs were picked at optimum ripeness, and Californian white wine was just about as good as it could be. Surprises and overcoming difficulties summed up much of the United States' wine industry in 2009, and many of the results from Oregon, Washington State and all over California speak for themselves, with the flagship Cabernet Sauvignon grapes having developed healthy, thick skins and thus plenty of character and distinction. Elsewhere in the New World, South Africa had a very good year in 2009, and wineries across the cape of the African continent are proclaiming it a truly great vintage. In most of Europe, fine weather and punctual ripening periods produced some excellent wines, with many of the best coming out of France's Bordeaux and the surrounding regions. Merlot had an exceptionally good year in France, and wineries are proclaiming that the 2009 Merlot harvest was one of the best in living memory. Indeed, across most of France, ripening was relatively even, and red wine grapes such as Cabernet Franc, Syrah and others were reportedly highly characterful, with plenty of the required tannin levels with which to make high quality wines. Italy, too, had a very good 2009. Piedmont reported extremely favorable conditions throughout 2009, and their signature Nebbiolo grapes were more or less perfect when harvested, having benefited from the slight drop in temperature at the end of their ripening period. Veneto, too, had an enviable year, producing superb Pinot Grigio and Chardonnay wines in 2009.
When it comes to New World wine regions, it is widely agreed that many of the finest wines are grown and produced in California. The long stretches of coastline and the valleys and mountainsides which come off them are ideal areas for vine cultivation, and for over a century now, wineries have found a perfect home in the hot, dry state, with many of the wines produced here going on to reach world class status. The state is greatly helped by the brisk oceanic winds which cool the otherwise hot and dry vineyards, which hold mineral rich soils covering vast areas and featuring many established wineries. The state is split into four main regions, the largest by far being the central valley which stretches over three hundred miles in length.
For three hundred years now, the United States has been leading the New World in wine production, both in regards to quantity and quality. Wine is actually produced in all fifty states across the country, with California leading the way by an enormous margin. Indeed, as much as eighty-nine percent of all wines to come out of the United States are produced in California, where the fertile soils and sloping mountain sides, coupled with the long, hot summers provide ideal conditions for producing high quality, European style red, white and rosé wines. With over a million acres of the country under vine, the United States sits comfortably as the fourth largest wine producer in the world, where imported grape varietals from all over the Old World are processed using a successful blend of traditional and contemporary techniques.
Anybody with an interest in New World wines is surely in agreement with the fact that Napa Valley in California is now, without much doubt, one of the world's premier wine regions. With an ideal climate for viticulture, fertile and mineral rich soils, and a dedication for quality and expression of terroir, Napa Valley wines consistently impress on the world stage with their flavors, aromas and overall character. The wineries of the valley have had plenty of success with a wide range of grape varietals, which flourish in the heat and ripen fully in the Californian sunshine each year, and the innovation and experimentation undertaken by the vintners of the region has helped create a wine culture and reputation in the valley which is unique, yet classic a perfect blend of the new and the old.


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Hello, I'm juke48, but you can just call me juke.
I've never looked at these forums until now, I usually just look (or lurk) at memes on 4chan and this website.
My favorite meme is Milhouse.
My least favorite meme is Milhouse is not a meme.
(just joking)
I will try to add to this community.
Anyways, thanks for reading! Hope we get to be good friends!
edit: Other things I forgot to mention!
I love TF2, I watch alot of youtube but haven't made an account yet, my steamID is Juke48 also.


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Brain trust: Coach: Al Dhembe (31st season, 219-114-7 record). Assistants: Adam Jenkins (offensive coordinator), Tony Salvaggio (offensive/defensive line), Rocky Thompson (receivers/defensive backs), Mike Lavin (running backs/defensive ends), Mark Sansoucy, John Selen, Mike Salvaggio, Tom Connor.
Returning starters: 8 (4 offense, 4 defense).
Captains: Sr. C Scott Borowy, Sr. WR/LB Zack Huard (15 carries, 214 yards), Sr. WR/DB Justin Sherman (15 carries, 197 yards).
Top players: Jr. T Will Shedd, Sr. G Jon Dones, Sr. LB Ray Beaudry, Sr. LB Zack Merchant, Sr. DT Jeff Sousa, Jr. G/DL Andrew Thibeault, Jr. RB/DB Vinnie Sherry.
Out with the old: The Minuteman graduated four Division 6 all-stars, WR Anthony Baez (22 catches, 434 yards, 7 TDs, 9 INTs), DT Andrew Pelc, DB Justin Sherman and LB Tyler Barrie.
In with the new: Jr. T/DT Joe Dabrowski, Jr. WR/DB Ty Simons, So. QB/S Tucker Hetherman, Jr. TE/DE Justin Scott, Sr. TE/DT Josh Burdett, So. TE/DE Nick Hackett, So. FB/DE Jon Bowlin, So. G/LB Jeremy Rabidou, Jr. DT Jake McCart, Jr. FB/LB Devon Weidman, Fr. RB/LB Matt Pecore.
When the Minutemen have the ball: Multiple-I formation.
Scored 365 points in 2012 (28.1 ppg).
Sherman will compete with Hetherman for the quarterback position.
The backfield is new, with Bowlin, Sherry and Pecore expected to get the bulk of the carries.
Sherman returns to lead the receiving corps, while Huard and Simons will help out.
When their opponents have the ball: Multiple 4-4.
Allowed 140 points in 2012 (10.8 ppg).
The linebacking corps is strong with the returns of Huard, Beaudry and Merchant.
Sherman leads the secondary, while Simons and Sherry slide in
Sousa, Thibeault, Bowlin and Hackett lead a rotation on the line.
In the trenches: Should be a strength for Bay Path, with Shedd (5-foot-10, 245 pounds), Dones (5-11, 240) and Borowy (5-10, 205) back in starting roles.
Newcomers Dabrowski (6-2, 215) and Thibeault (6-0, 225) step in and provide a size boost.
One to watch: Huard is the top returning tackler (40 tackles) for the Minutemen and had three picks last year. Hell be relied on to keep the defense on track as the younger players adjust to the system.
Sept. 14
at Valley Tech, 1
Sept. 21
Nashoba Tech, 2
Sept. 27
at Monty Tech, 7
Oct. 5
Keefe Tech, 2
Oct. 11
at Assabet, 7
Oct. 19
at Worcester Tech, noon
Oct. 26
Quaboag, noon
Nov. 1
Nov. 8
Nov. 15
Key game: Oct. 19 at Worcester Tech.
If things go according to plan, this game could decide a playoff spot in Division 6. Both teams have tremendous young players, and they should be playing at their peak as the postseason picture evolves.
2012 results:
Bay Path 34
Oxford 7
West Boylston 13
Bay Path 7
Bay Path 27
South 14
Bay Path 27
Burncoat 7
Bay Path 39
Monty Tech 6
Bay Path 41
Quaboag 7
Bay Path 48
Keefe Tech 0
Bay Path 42
Nashoba Tech 14
Valley Tech 13
Bay Path 12
Bay Path 34
Assabet 20
Bay Path 39
Worcester Tech 22
Bay Path 14
Littleton 12
Valley Tech 6
Bay Path 0
Jims take: After graduating 19 seniors, the Minutemen are young this year (seven seniors), but they have a seasoned coaching staff, and that should pay dividends as the season progresses. Dont be surprised to see Bay Path in the postseason mix.


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Former top Mossad operative David Kimche, one of Israel's top diplomats
and a classic intelligence and spymaster, died Monday at the age of 82.
Kimche, the youngest of nine siblings, was born in 1928 to a Zionist
family in London. He immigrated to Israel at the age of 18 and shortly
after joined the War of Independence as a combat fighter.
After the war, he studied at the Hebrew University in Jerusalem and later
co-authored a book titled "Both Sides of The Hill, with his brother John,
detailing the diplomatic and military developments of the war.
Their take on the war was the first of its kind, lending the perspective
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Kimche joined the Mossad spy agency in the early 1950s, and was in essence
one of the organization's founding fathers, among those who designed its
doctrine and modus operandi.
He was involved in just about every aspect of the Mossad over the course
of his service, eventually reaching the position of deputy head of Mossad.
While serving in the Tsomet department responsible for running agents, he
recruited and operated agents which were sent to infiltrate Arab
While in the Mossad's Tevel Unit - serving as liaison with foreign
espionage agencies - Kimche was involved in enhancing cooperation with
Mossad's counterparts throughout the world.
He was sent by the unit to serve in Africa under a borrowed identity, -
presenting himself as a journalist - during the 1960s, an era when the
continent was extremely important to Israeli diplomacy.
Kimche also was involved in operations of the Mossad's Bitzur Unit, which
is responsible for the security of Jews around the world, and for their
immigration from Arab states.
He was also one of the founders of the Mossad's research department.
Kimche was a classic intelligence man, similar to the style of the
characters described by the British author John le Carre in his spy
He was a man of soft words, who was known for his elegant English accent
and courteousness. These qualities would sometimes deceive people, as he
could be very cunning, determined, and even cruel.
During the 1950s Kimche was involved in exposing Avri Elad, an Israeli
intelligence officer who betrayed his comrades, enabling the Egyptian
security services to Arrest a network of local Jewish youth working for
the Israeli intelligence. Two of them were hanged.
In 1957 Kimche was in Germany, attempting to recruit a German with Nazi
background in order to send him to Egypt to spy for the Mossad. Kimche
learned of Elad's relations with the Egyptian military attache in Germany
and this expose lead to Elad's investigation and eventually he was
arrested and sentenced to ten years in prison.
In 1965 a coup occurred in Zanzibar, an Island off the coast of Africa,
which was at the time ruled by a Muslim minority, decedents of Arab slave
merchant. The rulers maintained a pro-Arab policy. So it happened, Kimche
was in Zanzibar during the coup, and rumors started circulating that he
was involved in assisting the rebels.
A decade later, Kimche played a central role in establishing Israel's
secret ties with the Christian Phalangists in Lebanon, which provided the
groundwork for Israel's military invasion of that country in 1982. Like
other Israelis, he was eventually disappointed by their performance and
Kimche left the Mossad in 1979, after almost 30-years, due to a quarrel
with the then Mossad Chief Yitzhak Hofi. Shortly after his retirement,
Foreign minister Yitzhak Shamir, who he knew from their Mossad days,
appointed him the foreign ministry's director general.
Kimche was Israel's point man in the Iran-contra affair, in which
Washington authorized Israel to sell U.S. weapons to Iran in violation of
an international embargo. The sales were an attempt to induce
Iranian-backed guerrillas in Lebanon to free American hostages, but some
of the proceeds went to fund anti-communist Contra rebels in Nicaragua.
Kimche left the foreign ministry after six years turned to private
business, amongst other places in Africa and the Persian Gulf, and
continued to serve in various public capacities.
In his last years, Kimche was involved in initiating peace talks with the
Palestinians, he was the president of the Israel Council of Foreign
Relations, and two years ago he signed a petition supporting talks with
the Hamas.
He was married twice, and is survived by his wife and four children. He
will be buried on Wednesday at 2PM in Kibbutz Shefayim cemetery in a state
Daniel Grafton
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THE agent of MaCaulay Culkin has denied that the once child star is now a heroin addict with a $6,000-a-month drug habit.
The actor, who is now 31-year-old, has according to a US report become addicted to heroin and the painkiller oxycodone, and spends most of his days in his New York 'drug den'.
However a representative of the actor, who was a close personal friend of Michael Jackson, has issued a statement saying the report in the national Enquirer is untrue.
Culkin split from actress Mila Kunis 18 months ago, she is now dating Ashton Kutcher, but it is reported that his drug abuse spiraled out of control after they broke up.
Culkin's publicist told the Daily Mail: "The report in the National Enquirer that Macaulay Culkin is addicted to heroin and assorted hallucinogenics is not only categorically without merit, but it is also impossibly and ridiculously fictitious."
Someone who claims to be close to actor told the magazine: "Mac is surrounding himself with junkies and lowlifes. It's a real tragedy."
In February, The 31-year-old actor's publicist responded to entertainment site ETOnline, after it published a photo of the former Home Alone star looking gaunt.
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IRVINE, Calif., Feb. 28, 2013 /PRNewswire/ -- CoreLogic ® (NYSE: CLGX), a leading residential property information, analytics and services provider, today released its National Foreclosure Report, which provides data on completed U.S. foreclosures and the overall foreclosure inventory. According to CoreLogic, there were 61,000 completed foreclosures in the U.S. in January 2013, down from 75,000 in January 2012, a year-over-year decrease of 17.8 percent. On a month-over-month basis, completed foreclosures rose from 56,000* in December 2012 to the January level of 61,000, an increase of 10.5 percent. As a basis of comparison, prior to the decline in the housing market in 2007, completed foreclosures averaged 21,000 per month between 2000 and 2006. Completed foreclosures are an indication of the total number of homes actually lost to foreclosure. Since the financial crisis began in September 2008, there have been approximately 4.2 million completed foreclosures across the country.
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- The five states with the lowest number of completed foreclosures for the 12 months ending in January 2013 were: District of Columbia (96), Hawaii (458), North Dakota (508), Maine (538) and West Virginia (602).
- The five states with the highest foreclosure inventory as a percentage of all mortgaged homes were: Florida (10.0 percent), New Jersey (7.2 percent), New York (5.1 percent), Nevada (4.7 percent) and Illinois (4.6 percent).
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High Voltage: On the 30th anniversary of Ride the Lightning, Kirk Hammett talks about the making of Metallica's electrifying album that changed metal and put a jolt in the band's career.
Tucked in a nondescript industrial tract north of San Francisco near San Pablo Bay, Metallica's headquarters is an oasis for both thrash fanatics and gear heads of every stripe. The massive studio—dubbed HQ by the band—has been Metallica's base of operations for writing, rehearsals, demoing and all-purpose hanging since late 2001. In a rare case of reality trumping fantasy, it is a place that exceeds expectations.
We've been invited to HQ to talk with Kirk Hammett about the 30th anniversary of Metallica's classic sophomore album, Ride the Lightning. Released on July 27, 1984, the album showcased their growing musical maturity and willingness to take chances.
With brazen disregard for convention, Metallica delivered the pure thrash attack for which they were known while simultaneously branching into progressive, melodic and, ultimately, more marketable territory. Ride the Lightning didn't just change the band's trajectory—it reset the course of metal itself.
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Today, Ride the Lightning ranks as a classic album in the metal genre. Looking back through the lens of the past 30 years, how has your view of the Ride the Lightning era changed?
It's interesting. Just this morning I was telling my kids what I was going to do today. I'm like, "These people are taking a picture of me in an electric chair!" They're both young, so of course they said, "Why?" I explained it's because we have a song called "Ride the Lightning" and that's another way of saying, "You're getting electrocuted in an electric chair!" Then I had to play them the song and sing them the lyrics. They're sitting there looking at me, like, Wow. [laughs]
So I'm sitting with them, listening to that "Ride the Lightning" guitar solo, and I was like, I have absolutely no recollection of putting all those harmonies on there! [laughs] When we were putting that song together, we had the intro riff, the verse, the chorus, and a part of the instrumental bridge. When the whole thing slows down and there's that solo section, I remember I pretty much played that solo as it is off the bat.
When I recorded that in 1984, I was 21 years old. That's crazy. In 1984, a guitar solo like that was something. If you put it into context of what was going on back then, it was very modern sounding. Of course, if you put it into today's context, it sounds like classic rock. [laughs] It's not like today's norm, with sweeping arpeggios and 32nd notes everywhere. I also have to say that when I listened to it this morning, I realized that the actual sound of the album is still good. After all these f---ing years, it still holds up sonically.
Did you guys do a lot of writing in Denmark? Or did you have most of the tracks finalized before you arrived?
I remember "Fight Fire with Fire" and "Fade to Black" were finished in the basement of a friend's house in Old Bridge, New Jersey. I think it was this guy called Metal Joe [Chimienti]. Before we went to Europe to tour and eventually record in Denmark, we stopped on the East Coast to play some shows. We knew we needed to finish some of these songs.
We had most of "Fade to Black," except the end part were the solo happens, and I came up with that there. I remember we were writing "Trapped Under Ice" there too. We were using that fast Exodus riff, and James came up with the chorus and I added that whole middle instrumental part. Ride the Lightning was written in a few places: the house in El Cerrito, New Jersey, Copenhagen, and down in L.A. before James and Lars moved up to San Francisco.
Were you writing the stuff in El Cerrito around the same time you were taking lessons from Joe Satriani?
Yeah, absolutely.
Do you remember any specific techniques that he showed you that ended up on Ride the Lightning?
All the stuff I learned from Joe impacted my playing a lot on Ride the Lightning. He taught me stuff like figuring out what scale was most appropriate for what chord progressions. We were doing all sorts of crazy things, like modes, three-octave major and minor scales, three-octave modes, major, minor and diminished arpeggios, and tons of exercises.
He taught me how to pick the notes I wanted for guitar solos as opposed to just going for a scale that covered it all. He taught me how to hone in on certain sounds and when to go major or minor. He also helped me map out that whole chromatic-arpeggio thing and taught me the importance of positioning and minimizing finger movement. That was a really important lesson.
You guys made a pretty serious jump in songwriting and style between Kill 'Em All and Ride the Lightning. Lars has said that Cliff Burton was an important force in pushing Metallica in this new progressive direction. What was your experience like working with Cliff during this time?
Cliff was a total anomaly. To this day, I'm still trying to figure out everything I experienced with him. He was a bass player and played like a bassist. But, f---ing hell, a lot of guitar sounds came out of it. He wrote a lot of guitar-centric runs. He always carried around a small acoustic guitar that was down tuned.
I remember one time I picked it up and was like, "What is this thing even tuned to, like C?" He explained that he liked it like that because he could really bend the strings. He would always come up with harmonies on that acoustic guitar. I would be sitting there playing my guitar and he'd pick up his bass and immediately start playing a harmony part. And he would also sing harmonies. I remember the Eagles would come on the radio and he would sing all the harmony parts, never the root.
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The Obsessed with Candy photoshoot revolves around two things that will tempt many women easily: dessert and fashion. Although the two have been paired together before, this time around the photographer has decided to take a darker turn instead of focusing on bright lights to bring attention to the pastel wares.
Shot by photographer Marko Arsic and art directed by Teodora Petrovic for NeWave project, the Obsessed with Candy photoshoot shows that indulgences do not necessarily occupy the realm of good. That said, models Isidora and Neda appear to be enjoying themselves immensely. Beautifully decked out in lavish pearls and lace by stylist Sofija Musicki, they enjoy their cupcakes and macarons in style. The dresses and shoes were designed by Ana Ljubinkovic.


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