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Wow, I just heard 5 minutes ago of Phil's passing:kater2:
Such a shame. been a fan of the band since 1982 or so, and finally got to see them in 2009 with Phil and again a few months ago without him.
Ar dheis Dé go raibh a h-anam dílis. As we say in Ireland. Think I'll have a drink to honour his passing.
My sympathies to the band and to his family. Rock on Phil. :party06:

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Adam has been writing and producing music for over a decade and was a founder member of hip-hop group Arkane. The album War Of Nerveswas released under the name Mr Ronz on Skipping Beat Records in September 2006. The album was described by influential magazine Hip-Hop Conection as 'DJ Shadow level cinematic with added humanity'.
After co-writing the title theme to British movie Kidulthood, Adam has honed his craft scoring several short films by NFT students and also by writing the music to a number of theatre productions, including The Trojan Women (Teatro Technis, Camden), and Eskimo Sisters (The Pleasance Theatre, Islington). Since then, Adam has gone on to write scores for Noel Clarke's feature film, 184.108.40.206; The Well, a four part teen horror series for Conker Media for the BBC, The Knot, a rom-com feature film directed by Jesse Lawrence from a script by Noel Clarke, and collaborated with Andy Price scoring 3 series of Law & Order:UK, an adaptation of the long-running US TV series. Adam has also scored series 2 of BBC Wales favourite The Baker Boys having won a 2012 BAFTA Cymru (Original Music) for his score to series one.
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Video: Pa. cop, gunman hit multiple times in violent shootout
Man struck officer twice before police returned fire, hitting the man several times in the upper torso
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PITTSBURGH, Pa. — A Homewood man who shot and wounded a Pittsburgh police officer pleaded guilty Tuesday to several charges.
Dante Bonner, 20, faces up to 42 to 84 years in prison when he's sentenced on Sept. 4 by Allegheny County Common Pleas Judge Beth A. Lazzara.
Bonner pleaded guilty to attempted homicide, recklessly endangering another person, carrying a firearm without a license, receiving stolen property, unlawfully possessing a firearm and assaulting a law enforcement officer. The last charge carries a 20- to 40-year mandatory sentence.
Police said Bonner was among a group of people causing a disturbance at the Sunoco gas station on Frankstown Road in Homewood while officers Christopher Kertis and Charles Thomas were working a traffic detail about 3:45 a.m. on March 17, 2013. Bonner and three other people got into a blue Dodge Avenger, which the officers later pulled over in a parking lot at the Port Authority East Busway near the intersection of Fifth Avenue and McPherson Boulevard. Bonner ran from the car, and Kertis ran after him.
During the chase, Kertis tripped over a parking barrier, breaking both of his wrists, and Bonner fired a gun and struck the officer twice in the left leg. Kertis and Thomas returned fire, hitting Bonner several times in the upper torso. Kertis, who joined the force in 2011, received the "Above and Beyond" award for heroism for his actions.
Kertis returned to duty last week after District Attorney Stephen A. Zappala Jr. declared that he used justifiable deadly force when he shot and killed Adrian Williams, 29, of Beechview on April 21 in Wilkinsburg. A police spokeswoman said Kertis is now assigned to the robbery squad.
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We had our custom home built last year with a 2000 sqft unfinished basement. We are about to start the project to finish. We installed 10 foot walls expecting to have to drop the ceiling but the HVAC can run through the upper floor joists.
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Any drop ceiling basement, says, "this is a basement." Install drywall on the ceiling if you do not want a basement look. Everyone tried to convince me that I needed access, wrong! After 15 years, I have had no reason to access my sheetrock ceiling. I measured where everything was located in case the need did arise. |
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Arizona State's James Harden, the Pac-10's player of the year, wasn't able to match his season scoring average in his two NCAA games combined.
Men's live scoreboard | ASU eliminated by Syracuse | Despite loss, Devils tally a successful season | Wildcats beat Cleveland St., 71-57 | Harden: No decision yet on NBA draft | Too-on-One: Jeff Pendergraph
Harden averaged 20.4 points this season on 49.5 percent shooting, including hitting 36.7 percent from 3-point range. He was nowhere near those numbers in his first NCAA appearance.
In Friday's win over Temple, the sophomore had nine points on 1-of-8 shooting and he made one of three shots from beyond the arc. In Sunday's 78-67 loss to Syracuse, he had 10 points — all in the second half — on 2-for-10 shooting while missing five 3-point attempts.
"My teammates talked to me in the locker room (at halftime). They said they needed me. I shouldn't have waited until the second half. I should have been aggressive in the first half as I was in the second half. But I was trying to be more aggressive, create more open shots in the middle of the zone. You know, that was basically it," Harden said.
He said Friday's poor shooting didn't carry over to the second round.
"You know, (Saturday) when we had our practice, shooting a lot of shots and making a lot of shots, so definitely that confidence, the shots just weren't falling today," he said. "I had a lot of good looks, and like I said, I didn't make shots. We just didn't make shots that we needed to cut the lead closer or even win the game."
TWELVE TO GO: The 5-12 matchups have become one of the fun things to watch in the first round with the lower-seeded teams winning three of the four matchups this year.
Of the three that did keep the 12s' tradition going, only Arizona will be playing when the regional semifinals get under way.
The Wildcats, who beat fifth-seeded Utah in the opening round, moved on with a 71-57 victory over No. 13 Cleveland State on Sunday.
"You know, I think the thing is in the NCAA tournament, seedings are, I think they get them right probably 99 percent of the time, and in our case with our record coming in, it's probably correct," Arizona interim coach Russ Pennell said.
"But once you start playing the games, seeding, I think you can throw it out a lot of times, because it really comes down to one-game seasons, who's playing well on that particular night. And for the two nights that we've played here, you know, we've played pretty well."
Wisconsin, which beat fifth-seeded Florida State on Friday, lost 60-49 to Xavier on Sunday. Western Kentucky, a 12 seed which won two straight years, lost to Gonzaga on Saturday night in the second round.
Northern Iowa was the only 12 seed not to advance, losing to Purdue in the opening round.
TRIPLE-DOUBLES: Kansas sophomore Cole Aldrich had 13 points, 20 rebounds and 10 blocked shots in the Jayhawks' 60-43 victory over Dayton on Sunday. It was the sixth official triple-double in the NCAA tournament, a list that started in 1986 when steals and blocks were formally added as statistics. Two year earlier, assists were added.
Aldrich joins Gary Grant (Michigan, 1987), Shaquille O'Neal (LSU, 1992), David Cain, St. John's (1993), Andre Miller (Utah, 1998) and Dwyane Wade (Marquette, 2003) on the official list.
Aldrich made his more special because he did it in his hometown of Minneapolis.
"I'm just so proud of him," teammate Tyrel Reed said. "He has been playing this way all year. And for him to get this on the biggest stage, I think it's just awesome for him. Especially in his hometown."
The unofficial list has eight triple-doubles, three by Cincinnati's Oscar Robertson and two by Magic Johnson of Michigan State.
The first triple-double was also by a Kansas player. B.H. Born had 26 points, 15 rebounds and 13 blocks for the Jayhawks in their 69-68 loss to Indiana in the 1953 championship game.
THREE TURN: Cleveland State was the lowest-seeded team to win a first-round game and the 13th-seeded Vikings went 6-for-14 on 3s in their 84-69 victory over fourth-seeded Wake Forest, a very good outing considering they shot 31.9 percent from beyond the arc during the season.
On Sunday, Cleveland State struggled to a 3-for-23 effort on 3s in a 71-57 loss to 12th-seeded Arizona.
Cedric Jackson, who hit Cleveland State's biggest 3-pointer of the season when he made a 60-footer at the buzzer for a 72-69 victory over then-No. 11 Syracuse at the Carrier Dome, went 3-for-4 on 3s against Wake Forest then missed all five of his attempts against Arizona.
"I thought Arizona's zone was really tough today. That's been our nemesis all year, the zone, because when people play us man to man, we really execute well," Cleveland State coach Gary Waters said. "But the zone, you've got to hit shots, and if you don't hit shots, sometimes it's difficult to handle. We went 3-for-23, and it's hard to beat a team going 3-for-23 from the 3-point line."


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New England fishermen rally for reliefBy STEVE LeBLANC
THE Associated Press | April 30,2013BOSTON New England fishermen and their political allies rallied at a Boston fish pier Monday to make an urgent call for relief from deep and imminent cuts to their catch limits.
As of Wednesdays start of the 2013 fishing year, fishermen who chase bottom-dwelling groundfish such as cod and flounder will absorb a series of cuts that regulators acknowledge will be devastating, and fishermen say will ruin them.
The worst of the reductions is a year-to-year cut of 77 percent in cod in the Gulf of Maine while the catch limit for cod on Georges Bank will be cut 61 percent. Regulators have said the cuts are mandated under the nations fishing law because key stocks are in bad shape and recovering too slowly.
But fishermen question the science behind the cuts, saying its too unreliable to use as a basis to bury the centuries-old industry. They note that theyve fished within the limits recommended by science for a decade, and things have only gotten worse.
Gloucester fisherman Vito Giacalone said years of sacrifice, forced reinvestment and compliance with every catch limit should not be rewarded with bankruptcy and apathy.
By continuing to knowingly sacrifice fishermen and their shore side support businesses while we wait for science to catch up to the realities of this ever-changing ecosystem, we are destroying the future of our fisheries, said Giacalone, policy director of the Northeast Seafood Coalition, who was joined by scores of other fishermen at the rally.
U.S. Sen. Elizabeth Warren called for federal disaster relief, arguing Washington should be as quick to respond to a disaster for fishermen as it is to respond to disasters that strike farmers.
A disaster is entitled to relief, and thats true whether were talking about crops or whether were taking about fish, Warren said. Washington rushes in to help our farmers. Washington needs to rush in to help our fishermen.
Besides disaster relief, fishermen and their political allies are pushing NOAA to extend an emergency interim measure enacted last year, which would significantly reduce the size of some of this years cuts.
But the Northeasts top regulator, John Bullard, has said extending the emergency measure is not only illegal, but also ill-advised because fish stocks are in such poor shape that tough measures are needed for them to rebound.
He adds the science indicating stocks are struggling is backed by the 2012 catch, which was significantly down on several species around New England.
Since announcing the cuts, NOAA has pushed ways to ease the hit on fishermen, such as allowing them to carry over a portion of their uncaught 2012 quota or allowing them to catch more of the healthier fish stocks.
We are continuing to work with fishermen, federal agencies and others with an interest in preserving this industry to identify other ways to help fishermen find a bridge while stocks rebuild, said Bullard, who attended the rally.MORE IN NewsHARTFORD, Conn. Full Story -
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Toyota's output tops 10 million units
Comment on this storyTokyo - Toyota Motor Corp said Wednesday that it had become the world's first carmaker to produce more than 10 million vehicles in a year.
The Toyota group, including Daihatsu Motor Co and Hino Motors Ltd, saw its global output grow 2.1 per cent from the previous year to 10.1 million units in 2013.
The group's domestic production climbed 2.9 per cent to 4.3 million units, while its overseas output rose 6.1 per cent to 5.8 million units, Toyota said.
The world's largest carmaker said the group's global sales grew 2.4 per cent to a record 9.9 million in 2013, although its domestic sales dropped 6.4 per cent to 1.59 million.
Toyota expected its global group sales to reach a record 10.3 million units in 2014, which would make it the world's first carmaker to go above 10 million units. - Sapa-dpa
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Behind my face, below my hair, between my ears and just above my throat
There is a factory. But it is upside down.
It's working fine though. It is big and busy.
All the machines inside are powerful, precise, robust, fast and efficient.
The stuff is skilled, well organized and working day and night.
Its products are the finest on the market.
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The products it produces are also upside down.
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In Development By Nathan Adams on May 13, 2013 | Comments (1)So, there's no way to ignore the fact that this bit of news is going to make a lot of people unhappy. As much as movie nerds like to pretend that they're the sort of folks who are always looking for new voices and new ideas, like anyone else, we're really just the sorts of little greed monsters who want to keep getting more of the stuff we like. That's why film geeks have been calling for a third film in legendary director Joe Dante's Gremlins series for years. Unfortunately for those who've been beating the Dante drum all this time, today the news broke that a Gremlins 3 isn't likely going to ever happen. There has been a development for the property that's either going to play like a consolation prize or a slap in the face though, depending on your perspective.
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In Development By Nathan Adams on September 20, 2012 | Comments (2)Given the shoddy treatment Jim Henson's Muppets characters got through much of the '90s and the '00s, last year's refresher of their property, The Muppets, was welcomed as a huge breath of fresh air. Finally somebody with true affection for these beloved characters gave them a big screen vehicle that skillfully treated them with the respect they deserve. Things are arguably looking worse for Warner Bros.' Looney Tunes franchise than they ever did for the Muppets though. The last time these characters hit the big screen was in 2003's already-forgotten Looney Tunes: Back in Action, and the last time they felt remotely relevant was when they appeared in Space Jam in 1996. Here is a stable of characters that was beloved for decades, whose earliest animated works are still held up in knowledgeable circles as being enduring pieces of modern art, and we can't even get them a decent Space Jam sequel? What gives? Hopefully all this is about to change, because the brothers Warner are putting together a new feature for Bugs, Daffy, and crew, and it sounds like they're taking the The Muppets approach that resulted in that property enjoying newfound relevance. What are the similarities here? Well, according to THR [via Slashfilm], the studio is looking outside the insular animated world and giving the job of putting this film together to people who are known for doing other things, but still have a deep, abiding affection for animated weirdness.
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Movie News By Nathan Adams on January 13, 2012 | Comments (1)When it was first reported that David Katzenberg and Seth Grahame-Smith were going to begin their producing partnership by working on a sequel to the Tim Burton film Beetlejuice, it didn't really sound like a good idea to me. At first glance it seems like Beetlejuice is a very specifically Tim Burton movie, and the idea of somebody else working in that universe feels strange and off-putting. Why would you even want to make another Beetlejuice unless you were Tim Burton? That would be like somebody who wasn't Quentin Tarantino saying they were going to make a sequel to Pulp Fiction. But when Grahame-Smith said that he would only do the movie if he got Burton's blessing and if Michael Keaton came back to star as the titular ghost with the most, the idea started to sound less crazy. I mean, seeing somebody else working in this world that is so visually Burton's vision would still be a little weird, but who wouldn't be interested at the possibility of Keaton slipping back into one of his most outlandish and iconic roles? I've found my skepticism about a Beetlejuice sequel waning over time. And that continues now that there's some confirmation that Burton is, in fact, going to be involved with this movie in some way. While talking to the people at MTV about his current projects Dark Shadows and Frankenweenie, Burton took a minute to address his own feelings about the developing sequel. On doing another Beetlejuice he said, "I […]
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Movie News By Nathan Adams on October 28, 2011 | Be the First To CommentAfter it was announced that David Katzenberg and Seth Grahame-Smith were forming a production company whose first order of business was to develop a sequel to the Tim Burton comedy Beetlejuice, the biggest question on everybody's mind was whether they would be casting a newer, younger actor in the title role and treating this film as something of a reboot, or if they would be getting Michael Keaton to once again don the zombie makeup and green hair of the iconic ghost with the most. As it turns out, Katzenberg and Grahame-Smith are very wise men who understand that Michael Keaton, quite frankly, is Beetlejuice. It didn't even feel right when somebody else voiced him for the animated series and I was 8 when I watched that.
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In Development By Nathan Adams on September 6, 2011 | Comments (16)David Katzenberg and Seth Grahame-Smith, now together known as Katzsmith Productions, have signed a new feature producing deal with Warner Bros. Who are these guys? Katzenberg wrote and directed a short film about a teenage nerd with a big unit that he later developed into the MTV series The Hard Times of R.J. Berger, and Garahame-Smith is the guy who wrote Pride and Prejudice and Zombies and Abraham Lincoln: Vampire Hunter. The two have been working together for a while, and Warners likes what they see; so much so that they're expected to be handed the reigns of a sequel to the 1988 horror-comedy Beetlejuice as their first project. Warner Bros. production president Greg Silverman explains the new deal, "We first got to know Seth through his fantastic work on Dark Shadows, and it immediately became a priority to expand our relationship with him. Seth introduced us to David, who greatly impressed us with the vision for KatzSmith from the very first meeting. We firmly believe in their talents and are extremely excited to welcome them to the Warners family."
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Say what you want about the schedulemaker: he certainly has a flair for the dramatic.
The Leafs host the Bruins, Thursday night in the most meaningful game Toronto has played since May 14.
Yes, that May 14, the three goals in 10-minutes May 14 Game 7 loss in Boston.
Here is the recipe for the season, Leaf fans. You need both the Leafs and the Bruins to be the teams they seemed destined to be when Nazem Kadri popped home a two-on-one goal to put the Leafs up 4-1 early in the third period of Game 7.
Since then, the Leafs have proven they are not quite as good as they looked in that first round and the Bruins have showed they are much better.
Boston blew away the Rangers in five games in the second round, swept the top-seeded Penguins and fell two goals short in Game 6 of a winner-take all finale. They are staggeringly efficient with a 52-17-6 record this season.
"They don't really change," Leafs coach Randy Carlyle said Wednesday. "They do what they do and they do it as well as anybody in the league."
The Leafs did change. Eight members of the Leafs squad in Boston that night are gone: Clarke MacArthur, Ryan O'Byrne, John-Michael Liles, Joe Colborne, Matt Frattin, Leo Komarov, Mikhail Grabovski and Ben Scrivens.
The cast of players coming in, Bolland, David Clarkson, Morgan Rielly, Paul Ranger, Troy Bodie, Jonathan Bernier, Mason Raymond is far superior to the list of players that left.
The Leafs should be better. Instead they rocketed to an illusory 10-5 start built largely on the remarkable play of Dave Bolland and Jonathan Bernier. Then Bolland tore up his leg, the Leafs won six straight in January, Bernier went out with a groin injury, Bolland came back at three-quarters speed, the team lost eight straight. Pretty standard really.
That there is a bit of humour in this was helped along by the Leafs 3-2 win over Calgary, Tuesday. Was there any game that was particularly painful, someone asked Tyler Bozak after Wednesday's optional skate. "They all kind of sucked," Bozak said.
True enough.
Sitting out of the playoffs with four games after Boston feels like a remarkable comedown from last season.
It isn't really.
As galling, as agonizing as Game 7 was, a Leafs' win would have been one of the great upsets in franchise history. It would have been an acceleration of two or three seasons in the maturation of the team.
What this calls for is some history.
First, the Leafs are on average two years younger per player than the Bruins. Look at Boston's oldest significant (though not necessarily premier) players compared to the Leafs.
Boston forwards: Iginla 36, Thornton 36, Kelly 33, Campbell 30.
Leaf forwards: McClement 31, Clarkson 30, Lupul 30, Kulemin 27.
Boston Defence: Chara 37, Seidenberg, 32, Boychuk, 30.
Leaf Defence: Gleason 31, Ranger 29, Phaneuf 28.
The unpalatable truth is the Leafs are in radically different stage of the winning arc than are the Bruins.
You can trace the turnaround in Boston's fortunes back to the 2008-2009 season. That season marked the first time in eight years the Bruins won a playoff round. In four of those seasons they failed to make the playoffs. It was a run of futility not unlike the one the Leafs ended by qualifying for the post season last spring.
The 2008-09 Bruins were led by veterans such as Marc Savard, 31, and 40-year-old Mark Recchi. But look at the age of the players who are now key contributors to the present Bruins team in 2008-09 compared to the key contributors to this year's Leafs team.
2008-2009 Bruins:
Chara 31, Savard 31, Ryder 28, Wideman 25, Bergeron 23, Krejci 22, Lucic 20.
2013-2014 Leafs
Phaneuf 28, Bozak 28, Franson 28, Kessel 26, vam Riemsdyk 24, Gardiner 23.
Put this another way. Five of the Leafs top players, Morgan Rielly, Gardiner, Kadri, JVR and Bernier have yet to reach their 26th birthday. Another, Phil Kessel, just missed the cut at 26. The current edition of the Bruins have two prominent 25-year-olds, Lucic and Brad Marchant. That's it.
If the Leafs aren't ready yet, they are following the same route charted by the Bruins.
I'm not saying the Leafs will be Stanley Cup contenders in a few years. I am saying that where the Leafs are now is comparable to where the Bruins were before the team became a Stanley Cup contender.
At any rate, a win over the Bruins and its game on. A loss and it looks like game over. For the second time in 11 months, it falls to the Boston Bruins to define the Leafs' progress.


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Brendan Gormley might lead an organisation that has just raised £72m to help relieve famine in East Africa, but the Disasters Emergency Committee's (DEC) chief executive freely admits that he finds asking people for money difficult. "I don't enjoy doing it," he says. "That's why I have enormous respect for fundraisers."
Gormley says he is now "paying his dues" after a career in charities spending the money. He heads up a team of 10 people that runs and manages a budget worth millions of pounds funding the work of 15 aid charities working to alleviate the effects of humanitarian disasters.
The DEC East Africa Crisis Appeal has just passed its 100 day milestone and has now raised the third highest total of any appeal in the charity's 45-year history. Only the 2004 Tsunami Earthquake Appeal with £392m and the 2010 Haiti Earthquake Appeal with £107m raised more.
The £72m is also largest total ever raised by the DEC for a food crisis and the largest for any African appeal. Gormley reveals that the East Africa Appeal has been particularly challenging because of the difficult context into which it launched.
He acknowledges a "chronic disenchantment" with Africa's problems, not helped by the role conflict played in the crisis. But the domestic news agenda has also proved a challenge: "When we launched it was wall-to-wall phone hacking and it was difficult to get our message out. Fortunately, the BBC especially stayed with us. What in some senses has helped the appeal is that the story has not gone away."
That same afternoon it was announced that two aid workers from the charity Médecins Sans Frontières were kidnapped close to the Kenyan-Somali border. Gormley says the "miserable, gloomy news" like this story, as well as the kidnapping of tourists in northern Kenya, could be a turn-off for donors.
"What we as fundraisers, or supporters of humanitarian effort have to do is use those hooks to tell a slightly different story – that there are huge unmet needs, that something can be done about it. Our main job is to make it easy to give."
Encouraging new ways of giving is becoming an important part of the DEC's work. It has established a platform with all mobile phone operators allowing people to donate £5.
Following the broadcast of 'text to give' details on ITV, the charity saw a dramatic increase in donations raising £1m through text giving alone. This compares with the £180,000 raised through text donations during the Haiti appeal. The DEC is hopeful that these statistics suggest that it is reaching a younger audience who might not previously have donated at all.
Gormley says previous appeals have helped the DEC learn how to deliver its messages more effectively to different audiences. "The biggest breakthrough for east Africa is identifying those audiences better, especially the young. It's about adapting your message and adapting the way to give to those audiences."
A further innovation from the East Africa appeal has been the purchase of Google Adwords, which has helped the DEC to increase its income through online donations.
With a rate of return of 43:1 on this investment, Gormley says it has proved "hugely valuable". A key audience for the DEC is business. Gormley says he would like to see more charitable giving from companies, although he admits that the DEC is in the privileged position of having a profile that allows it to benefit from staff pressure on bosses to help out at the time of an appeal.
Gormley adds that while DEC is essentially a "pop up brand" at the time of disasters, it also does a lot of long term work with companies including banks, Royal Mail and major broadcasters. This work, Gormley says, includes preparing companies between appeals so that they their corporate social responsibility programme can quickly swing into action when disaster strikes.
The DEC has developed a relationship with a group of companies who help spread its message and assist it in imaginative ways. Gormley says in any other circumstances the DEC would be seen as the "client from hell" because it expects people to respond within 24 hours and give their services for free. "For example, BT handles all of our web-based giving for free," he explains.
Gormley welcomes the generosity of the British public, who have continued to support DEC appeals throughout the recession. "Over the past two or three years, you would anticipate that life for fundraisers would be incredibly tough, yet we've had three of our four largest appeals. We are always amazed about how generous our donors are and our average donation is stunningly high."
But again, Gormley stresses that DEC is in a fortunate position. He sees a danger of charities becoming "like soap powders" and trying to be all things to all men.
For him, many of the charities worst hit by the recession are the ones that fell back on "easy" methods of fundraising rather than developing their cause, campaigns and a set of dedicated supporters.
"The real future is building a constituency one by one," he says. "If you are in trouble go back to what was the heart of the mission or your vision. Go back to the people who really trust you and regalvanise." In a world where charities compete for donors, volunteers and prominence, the DEC is a refreshing example of collaboration around a cause. As well as being a one-stop-stop for fundraising, the DEC also monitors how the money is being spent and the co-ordination of humanitarian aid.
Like others in the sector, Gormley would like to see more collaboration between charities around a common cause. "I've always argued that it is in the interests of a cause to have a portal for people to give. So if you are moved to want to do something about cancer, you've got a way in and if you want to benefit Leukaemia charities specifically you can drill that money down."
"Charities' need to show that they are different and special sometimes
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The Tyler Professional Fire Fighters Association (TPFFA) "Turned Tyler Pink" on Tuesday, Oct. 5, 2010 when they welcomed the Pink Heals Tour back to the downtown square as part of the second annual event to raise awareness of women's cancer.
The Pink Heals Tour features pink fire trucks that travel across the country to raise awareness of women's cancer. Each truck is signed by thousands of people who have been affected by cancer.
"The inspirational messages written on the trucks about the ravages of this disease and the spirit of those who are fighting it is something everyone should see," said Tyler Mayor Barbara Bass, a breast cancer survivor. "This event was an opportunity for the entire community to come out and honor those who have been affected by cancer. We were particularly excited to welcome "Tonya" (a Tyler Fire truck given to the Pink Heals Tour in 2009) back to Tyler, showing off her new pink paint and messages from cancer survivors from around the U.S."
Area public safety officers, businesses, schools and citizens were urged to wear pink on this date to show that "Tyler cares enough to wear pink".
The Tyler Firefighters' sale of the pink shirts began in 2008 when the wife of a fellow firefighter was struck with cancer. To raise funds to help the family, the department raised $12,000 by selling pink shirts. In 2009, the effort grew significantly with an event held on the Downtown Square that attracted more than 500 people who wore pink in support of women who are fighting cancer.
Funds raised this year as part of the shirt sales and the Turn Tyler Pink event are being donated to local cancer organizations and to assist firefighters and their families battling cancer. Tyler fire fighters raised $20,885 that will be disseminated to:
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Impact of potential federal shutdown on Washington state
As the House and Senate continue to battle over a budget compromise, the impact of a potential government shutdown on Washington state would be varied.
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As the House and Senate continue to battle over a budget compromise, the impact of a potential government shutdown on Washington state would be varied.
Here's a look at how services in the state would or would not be affected if Congress fails to reach an agreement by midnight Monday.
In spite of the fact that funding of the health care law is at the center of the budget battle in Congress, implementation of key parts of the law begin Tuesday regardless of whether there is a shutdown or not. The Democratic-led Senate on Monday rejected conditions House Republicans had added to a temporary spending bill, and stripped a one-year delay in President Barack Obama's health care law from the bill.
Deliveries would continue as usual. The U.S. Postal Service relies on income from stamps and other postal fees to keep running and receives no tax dollars for day-to-day operations.
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http://www.cnn.com/2013/06/24/justice/lebron-sneaker-store-shooting/index.html?hpt=hp_t2 In Atlanta, a man with a gun was attempting to rob a bunch of people who were waiting in a long line to buy the new Lebron sneakers($180/pair) when a guy in the line pulled out his own gun and shot the would be robber. My opinion, 1. Chances are pretty high that some(perhaps many) of those waiting in line to buy $180/pair Lebron sneakers probably-- ----have a closet full of pairs of similar 'absolutely essential for their survival'(sarcasm) $180/pair sneakers. ----that many probably complain about living in financial poverty. Yet find it more important to buy such shoes instead of food, books, health insurance, etc ----probably dump a lot of money in other such essentials for life as bling, I-Pods, X-Box's, cable TV(with every channel) while not saving money for their kids education, rent, etc -----a good portion of their money probably goes for drugs, alcohol, guns. I am sure a lot of cons on this board will cite the above as an example of liberal inner city behavior. I cite it as irresponsible behavior, etc. A good many of such people no doubt vote Democrat. However, similar behavior in regards to putting non essentials ahead of food, education, etc can also be found among rural redneck populations(who likely put guns, alcohol, their dog, their pickup with all the trimmings, a super equipped recreational boat, etc ahead of saving for education for their children, food on the table, alimony, etc. Likely a lot of them bitch about being in poverty and bitch about Obama. Some have food stamps, etc...but not likely as high a percent as inner city lowlifes/thugs. they are opposite sides of the political spectrum but do seem to share behavior that is selfish to the detriment of their family and community.
This is why these thugs need to be careful in public with their probably illegally attained guns. The public will shoot back. :grin:
chance that both the shooter and the robber were carrying illegally. If a con had posted my entire first post I doubt any would call the poster a racist. So far I haven't read any disagreement regarding my premise of irresponsibility of both inner city types who put $180/pair sneakers, bling, etc ahead of family/community and the same sort of behavior in regards to many rednecks. Such poor character is seen in many groups--regardless of race, etc solution is not from the outside. The solution lies within the inner city with good people there putting pressure on the low lifes. And good people in rural America putting pressure on low lifes in their community. There is some that can be accomplished by govt(local, state, fed) but there are limits. And no matter how much effort is given from the outside, unless the community itself makes a stand against low lifes within the community there is little chance change will occur.
So the thread premise was to use an example from an implied minority setting, to then dis rednecks and cons as equally culpable ? Are you kidding me ?
are you saying that there aren't rednecks just as irresponsible in regards to family/community by putting things(such as blinged up pickup trucks, blinged up recreational boats, alcohol, etc) ahead of their own family well-being and future? We see folks in inner city with Caddy's with $1000 rims owned by a guy whose family is living in a dump of an apartment. We also see many folks in rural America with blinged up pickup trucks with $1000 rims, blinged up recreational boat who have their family living in a dump of a mobile home or shack. Same mentality. Different ends of the political spectrum.
Lawdog calls you out on taking an example from an inner city setting and use it to call out rural people and conservatives. Your response? You make the claim over again. And I thought you were going to take that shooting as an opportunity to show your support for stand your ground laws -- which is what the take-away from this shooting should be.
Yeah, our strict gun laws in places like Chicago are working great. Most homicides there come from registered legal guns.
Biggest difference is the inner city scum gets their money from stealing and robbing, welfare, Obama-aid, drug sales, all sorts of illicit activities. Redneck rurals who like to trick out their trucks, buy nice expensive huntin' guns, cases of Skoal, and other things which seem frivolous, get theirs with money they EARN from working at a plant or as a lumberjack, farmer, etc. Hence--the rurals have JOBS and use THEIR money. Inner city thugs use OURS or whomever they rob. Not a difficult thing to understand really. May be hard for the left to grasp since the concept of it being THEIR money to do with as they please falls outside of the realm of accountability and responsibility.
My wife and I went to Atlanta last weekend to go to a few places we haven't been like World of Coca Cola and Atlanta Underground. One thing, even on a Sunday morning, you get the feeling you need to carry. There are so many homeless pandering that you can't enjoy even walking around Centennial Park without having to duck them. And forget going to Atlanta Underground alone.


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- Distributed by: National Film Board of Canada
- Voice Actors: Brady Moffatt, Jacqueline Van De Geer.
- Directed By Co Hoedeman.
- Produced By Laurie Gordon, Peter Lindhout, Julie Roy, Francine Langdeau, René Chénier.
- Animated By Co Hoedeman.
- Written By Co Hoedeman, Ad Van Liempt, Joyce Ryckman.
- Awards: Platinum Goats Award. ALE KINO/International Festival of Films for Children, Poznan, Poland, 2011.
- Music: Chiwawa, Laurie Gordon, Cameron Wallis, Krassy Halatchev.
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1 avocado - peeled, pitted and diced
1/2 cup sour cream
1/2 cup crumbled blue cheese
1/2 cup cottage cheese
1 tablespoon lemon juice
1 teaspoon Worcestershire sauce
1 teaspoon onion salt
1/2 teaspoon garlic powder
salt and pepper to taste
I was out of dressing and had some avocados I needed to use, so I found this recipe! I didn't have a few of the items so I substituted mayo for sour cream, red wine vinegar for lemon juice, and feta cheese for cottage cheese. The only problem I ran into was it wasn't creamy enough for the blender to blend so I added a little bit of water and milk (if I'd have thought of it first I just would've added milk). I just finished my salad, it was deelicious!!
I used Feta cheese instead of Blue Cheese for this and chopped a bit of an onion instead of using onion salt. This was good, but at first the consistency was more that of a dip no matter how much I blended it, so I had to add milk. I tasted it after adding a tiny bit, and decided that I would use it as a dip after all, instead of a dressing because I didn't think it'd taste good on my regular garden salad. Would be great for a taco salad, though!
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this was very good over all, i am not a fan of blue cheese so next time i will not be adding as much of it.
I found this recipe too thick to blend in a blender...I added some vanilla yogurt to thin it down and it was still too thick for salad dressing. The flavor was ok. I will probably not make this again.
I like avocados and I like blue cheese. But I was disappointed with the recipe because I felt that the taste of the blue cheese completely overpowered the avocado. I'm glad I just sprinkled the blue cheese on my salad because I enjoyed the remaining dressing much better as a dip with tortilla chips. I'd make this again in dip form without the blue cheese.
Fabulous dressing! I did decrease the blue cheese to 1/4 of a cup, but only since I knew some of my kids don't like blue cheese much. They gobbled this dressing right up! So delicious! I added a few TBSP of milk to thin it a bit, but this dressing is also delicious without any changes. Thank you!
Excellent recipe! Left out the cottage cheese because we don't keep it around and I didn't want to buy a whole pint just for this recipe. We didn't miss it as the recipe still turned out amazing. The one thing I found though was that "makes 8 servings" is very true. Perhaps even 10. I wasn't paying attention to that and had way too much left over for just 4 people. My bad.
I was looking for a regular blue cheese dressing recipe because I didn't want the ready-made dressing and I came across this recipe. Since I'm trying to eat more healthy, I thought I give this a try especially because avocado is an ingredient. I really like this dressing. The only con to this dressing is that it's a little too thick particularly when it was in the blender. I added a little milk to liquify the mixture.
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Maybe someone can help me figure out what caused this burnt rubber smell. I have a 2010 SR5 4 Cyl 4X4 with 15k on it. No yellow wire mod yet.
We received about 12 inches of snow in Sequoia Natl Forest 4 days ago. The road is a steep grade which climbs from 2000 ft to 6000 ft in 7 miles with several icy s curves. The road had around 6 vehicles on it prior to ours so we had somewhat of a packed trail fo follow. The temp was in the low 20s so we had ice as well, it was dark. I have Bridgestone Blizzacks DMV1s and they had about 200 miles on them. I had two sand bags and two cinder blocks over the rear wheel wells strapped to the cab side of the bed extender.
I was in 4Hi with VSC and Trac active but spinning slightly off and on. At one point when we started to slide and the truck took over trying to take us straight into a giant granite boulder just off the road I applied the brakes to stop the vehicle. (Hell of an idea huh?) I backed up a few feet to get going straight up the road again and the smell of burnt rubber was very evident as was the black cloud of smoke that whizzed passed us after we came to a stop. I couldn't imagine the rubber on those snow tires heating up on ice and snow but we had been spinning off and on mostly on for about two miles. They certainly did not feel hot to the touch.
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I'm installing landscape block as a border on the side of my house. The house is 24' wide. The area I'm running the block slopes from the back of the house to the front. Over the 24' the land slopes 19 inches. The block are not acting as a retaining wall, simply a border. I'm going to mulch about 5' out from the house up to the border. The block are 12"L x 4"H x 4"D. If I make the top of the block at the highest point level with the top of the block at the lowest point I will have 5 block at the bottom of the slope. Since the area I'm mulching slopes the same I would have to fill that in 19". I would rather not do that. Will it look ok if I just use 1 block high (possibly 2) the entire distance and just gradually slope each block? Is there an easy way to setup a string to follow to make sure I'm sloping each block about the same? Any other suggestions are welcome. Thank you |
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The main problem with raised block borders is that people rarely install them with great care (tops of stone perfectly in line, straight or uniform curvature edges, or so that they'll stay perfectly in place over time, etc.) Because they're raised and imperfect, they usually tend to be a little junky looking, and sometimes a LOT junky looking. Installing a border flush with the lawn instead (as a mowing strip) almost always looks classier, so long as it, too, is done with care. Either of these borders look better if the material is min. 8" front-to-back depth (the "width" of the border band. Narrower material looks very skinny and emaciated -- cheap -- in the typical landscape.) In the case described, it would not be desirable to stack blocks several high. (It would become a de facto retaining wall!) A single row of blocks should flow with the grade. If the grade is uniformly sloped, establish the first and last block elevations along the row and run a taught string between them. In order to have the block line be perfect, use two strings ... one for each block edge. Attach the string to stakes firmly pounded in place outside of the blocks. Then place each block so its edges touch those strings. Keep in mind that the blocks need to be set on a tamped granular base (like what would be used for setting pavers, about 3" thickness) so that they don't squish around and settle unevenly over time. |
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So after much research here at TW, phone calls to suspension parts shops, and finally pulling the trigger on a lift.... I'm not so sure I like what I've done.
I wanted to lift/level the front, (on a budget) so I stayed with the stock springs all the way around, and had heard Billy 5100's was a far superior way to go over spacers. I installed them @ the 1.75 setting and it did bring the front up to perfectly match the rear, but the ride definitly suffered.
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A 22-year-old Monticello man has died after crashing his ATV Saturday, according to the Wright County Sheriff's Office. The Sheriff's Office said at 2:37 a.m. they were notified of the ATV crash near the intersection of Haug Avenue Northeast and 96th Street Northeast in Monticello Township.
5-Year-Old Boy, Grandpa Die In Wright Co. Tractor Accident
A 5-year-old boy and his grandfather are dead after a tractor ride in Clearwater, Minn. turned tragic, according to the authorities. Wright County officials received a call around 5:45 p.m. Friday that a tractor that had flipped over in a ditch near the intersection of County Road 104 and Huber Avenue Northwest in Clearwater. Officials arrived on scene and found the man and his grandson, both of Monticello, Minn., pinned under the tractor. Rescue and ambulance personnel worked to free the victims but the man was pronounced dead at the scene.
Charges: Man Drunk, High On Coke Before Crash Injuring Father, Son
A man faces six felony counts for allegedly robbing a bar at gunpoint while drunk and high on cocaine, and then crashing into a car during the ensuing police chase, injuring a father and his 1-year-old son.
Dad, Son In Hospital After Crash With Alleged Drunk Robbery Suspect
A high-speed chase involving an armed robbery suspect and police resulted in a crash which seriously injured a father and his infant son in Monticello Monday night. Investigators believe the man who caused the crash had also been drinking.