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Oxford United begin their pre-season fixtures this afternoon (2) with head coach Michael Appleton urging the players to keep it simple.
Conference South side Farnborough host the U's, four weeks before the Sky Bet League Two campaign kicks off.
It is the first chance for United's players to show Appleton, who only started work with the squad on Monday, what they can do in action.
The new boss is aware there will be a desire for individuals to make a good impression, but at this stage his priorities are on avoiding injuries and gaining fitness.
He said: "Sometimes it's a little bit different when a new manager comes in and obviously some of them want to impress.
"I think the biggest message I've been saying to them is show me you're a good player, but do it at the right times.
"Don't do it when you don't need to, when there's an opportunity to pass the ball to better areas.
"Hopefully they will do that on Saturday and one or two will impress."
United will aim to give everyone 45 minutes at Rushmoor Stadium and could include a couple of triallists.
One is likely to be a goalkeeper, providing back-up to Max Crocombe while Ryan Clarke is injured.
Aside from Andy Whing, who is also recovering from surgery, there are two other players ruled out from today's trip.
Callum O'Dowda has a minor hamstring problem, while Jon Meades is also struggling.
The Welshman missed the whole of last season after rupturing ankle ligaments in pre-season.
Appleton's own career was blighted by injuries and thinks after such a long lay-off Meades is bound to encounter issues as he gets back up to speed.
He said: "Meadesy's having all sorts of little problems because of last season, which is natural.
"I did have five minutes with him this week and he's going to have niggles probably up until his body gets used to the contact."
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Indeed, only 5 of the CRB's 26 members are female. Black and Cuban-American men are statistically over-represented, relative to county demographics; and of the board's thirteen Hispanic members, only one is not Cuban. (The board also counts among its members at least one felon: Alfredo Hidalgo-Gato, a former Metro-Dade police officer and an appointee of Commissioner Bruce Kaplan, who pled guilty in state court to charges of grand theft and insurance fraud in 1989.) Overall, the CRB more closely conforms to the Metro Commission's demographics than to those of the community at large.
After that first meeting, Tribie decided she would show up as an informal Haitian presence when the board convened every month. As it happened, one of the board members, a Hispanic woman appointed by Commissioner Javier Souto, resigned soon after.
It seemed like a golden opportunity for a commissioner to take a step toward remedying the CRB's ethnic imbalance and for Tribie to become a more active advocate for her community. Board Chairman Manny Crespo submitted to Souto a list of names of qualified black women interested in serving (including Tribie's), and Lloyd Major says he spoke with Souto's chief of staff at least twice about appointing a black woman. Tribie wrote to and phoned the commissioner's chief of staff, and at one point she introduced herself, in Spanish, to Souto at a public gathering -- all to remind him she wanted the appointment. In early April, Souto's office announced the appointment. It was neither a woman nor a Haitian. It was a another Cuban man.
Souto says he appointed Mario Martinez Malo to the seat because Martinez Malo is "an old friend from the Brigade," referring to Brigade 2506, the Cuban contingent that invaded the Bay of Pigs in 1961; he adds that Martinez Malo had been visiting his office to express interest in the position. No one ever told him about any black women, Souto insists, nor did he see any letter from the CRB.
Martinez Malo joins a vocal Cuban contingent that in December attempted to unseat the board's officers, who had been elected before the November revamping. "The board was controlled by a certain group in the last two years; they want to maintain control, and the only way is to go back to the old system, so now they're creating the issue of Haitians not being represented, someone else not being represented," argues Alfredo Hidalgo-Gato, who also sits on several City of Miami advisory committees.
Tribie got a second chance at the CRB in June, when a Kaplan appointee was removed from the board for failing to attend meetings. Tribie went to speak with Kaplan's chief of staff. The office already had received a form letter from the CRB that was sent to all commissioners advising of the absence of black women on the board. Kaplan appointed Tribie on June 23, making her the first Haitian woman ever to sit on the board. "I'm ecstatic," she says. "I can fill in some gaps for my sisters until some others get onboard."
Non-Cuban Hispanics also are becoming more vocal about their lack of representation on the CRB. Victor Pinz centsn, president of a nonprofit organization called the Hispanic-Latin Foundation, attended the most recent meeting to complain that the board ignores the Colombians, Nicaraguans, Argentinians, and other Latin nationalities that make up a sizable presence in Dade.
Board member and erstwhile business-card toter Gustavo Adolfo Marin doesn't see what the problem is. "We are designated by the county commissioners," he explains. "You don't expect an Anglo commissioner to recommend someone from Colombia, or a Cuban to recommend people from Bosnia -- what is the point? If they want to be represented, they need a commissioner from Haiti, one from Nicaragua. You know what I mean. If they can be involved in community affairs, we are very glad, but we represent the commissioners.


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Leadership: So abysmal is the president's job-creation record that, according to a new study, he'd have to create 280,000 every month just to get out of the cellar among modern presidents. Where are the jobs?
Presidents actually don't create jobs, but their policies and programs can stand in the way of those who do. According to a chart produced using figures from the Bureau of Labor Statistics and compiled by the good folks at the Mercatus Center at George Mason University, President Obama has made even former President Jimmy Carter look like Adam Smith.
The chart shows the total job growth during the tenure of each president since 1945 and the ending unemployment rate. Listed first is Bill Clinton, credited with creating 22.6 million jobs during his two terms, a time when Republicans took control of the House for the first time in four decades, helping to balance four budgets and passing welfare reform.
Listed second is Ronald Reagan, credited with creating 16.1 million jobs. After inheriting a genuine mess from Jimmy Carter that included inflation raging at 12.5%, policies like across-the-board tax cuts and oil-price deregulation, and policies that helped create the "dot-com" tech boom that fed Clinton's numbers, inflation was a paltry 4.4% when he left.
Under Carter, poverty and unemployment were rising, incomes were falling, productivity was stagnant, and economic growth had ceased. Reagan not only reversed the malaise of Jimmy Carter but fueled an economic boom that lasted 92 months without recession. Unemployment sank from 7.1% to 5.5%, and the prime interest rate eased from 15.3% to 9.3%.
During this boom, the economy grew by one-third and tax receipts doubled as we added the equivalent of the West German economy to our own.
Trailing Clinton and Reagan in the rankings are Presidents Johnson, Carter, Nixon, Truman, Kennedy, Eisenhower, Bush 41, and Ford and Bush 43. Dead last and the only president in negative territory is Barack Obama. Even Gerald Ford in his short, post-Watergate term created a net 2.1 million new jobs. Obama is listed at a minus 318,000.
The Mercatus analysis acknowledges differences in term length and "that population grows and labor participation varies over time." But it notes Obama's numbers are appalling even though the data are "probably slightly biased in (his favor) for both the job numbers and unemployment rate."
As Mercatus analyst Veronique de Rugy notes in explaining the chart, the current so-called recovery is the slowest of all time, and 280,000 jobs would need to be created each month to get President Obama out of last place among post-World War II presidents and into positive territory.
President Obama says he inherited a mess from President George W. Bush. So did Reagan. But when the ship of state was taking on water, Reagan trimmed the sails, patched the holes and went on to build a bigger boat. President Obama's program was to drill more holes to let the water out.
He would raise taxes, burden us with costly job-destroying regulations and "invest" in green energy failures like Solyndra while keeping plentiful fossil fuel resources in the ground. He would fundamentally transform Reagan's shining city on the hill into a shantytown.
The mess President Obama inherited was in a very real sense a mess of his own making, since as a community organizer working with and for groups like Acorn he pushed the Community Reinvestment Act, which led to lending money under government duress to people who couldn't pay it back. The market collapse was straight out of the Cloward and Piven/Saul Alinsky playbook.
The next job President Obama causes to be lost should be his.
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What a weekend! Just when you think that you have everything planned out with this 50 states business, something is inevitably not going to go your way. For many of my states, there is just no compromise on which race I am going to do! Arizona is (was?) one of those states. I have been literally dying to run the Sedona Marathon since 2013! Why, you ask? Eh, it's Sedona. Google some pictures. My original plan was for 2014, but it conflicted with something else, so I moved it to 2015. I tried my best to make this as quick of a trip that I could but with Sedona being a few hours drive from the closest airport (Phoenix) and Phoenix being the location of the Super Bowl the same weekend as the race (making flights ridiculously expensive), I chose to fly in and out of Las Vegas (about 4.5 hrs from Sedona) and extend my trip by a day.
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I met up with my friend GK in Vegas Thursday night. I got an awesome deal on a hotel for Thursday night ($25!!!!). We noticed that a large majority of patrons of this casino/hotel (and all other subsequent casinos that we visited throughout the weekend) walked with a distinct limp (which we'll call the Casino Shuffle - SPOILER ALERT: I fit right in after the marathon). Friday morning we made our way out of Vegas and down to Sedona. We drove 4.5 hours in heavy rain. Halfway there, GK reads his email and announces that due to the rain the marathon portion of the Sedona races had been "shortened" and the marathoners would all be moved to the half marathon. Hold up! How the hell can you "shorten" a marathon? It's not a marathon anymore. Just say it's cancelled. Skeptical, I continued on to Sedona to investigate, all the while scheming up a Plan B. The Sedona races are all out and back along the same stretch of road. Why on earth couldn't the marathoners just run the half marathon route twice? It just seemed like such a simple solution.
The drive down the canyon into Sedona. Photo cred to GK. |
We got to Sedona (the drive down the canyon was beautiful, but once in Sedona all the red rocks were covered by fog), stuffed our holes with hot dogs (vegan for me), and ventured to the expo to grab our stuff. We asked about running the half twice but to no avail. So now we were on to our Plan B. I absolutely was not leaving this state without running a marathon and lucky for me, AZ had 3 (well 2 I guess after Sedona cancelled) marathons all on the same day. Our choices were the Desert Classic Marathon near Phoenix (about 2 hrs from where we were in Sedona) or the Yuma Territorial Marathon in Yuma (about a 5 hr drive from Sedona). Phoenix just seemed like too "easy" of a choice. Yuma sounded like more of an adventure so we obviously chose that one! Plus, fellow 50 Stater (and Sedona Marathon Reject) BM was heading to Yuma too so we had someone to hang with and share hotel expenses with there! We were able to register for the race upon our arrival to the host hotel in Yuma and all of the volunteers were so nice and helpful. We even got to speak to the race director (David). He was super nice and very excited that we drove all the way down to Yuma to run his marathon.
Sedona Marathon Rejects! |
Race morning was different in Yuma than what we were expecting in Sedona - we all got to wear shorts and tank tops. Yay. This is a very small marathon (less than 50 finishers this year) that starts and finishes right in front of the host hotel. The marathoners started about 20 minutes before the half marathon (my kind of race).
Pre-race selfie. |
For the first few miles it was still dark, so we couldn't see much. Early on, GK decided to play it safe and only run/walk the half, so it was BM and me for the 26.2 miles. This is a straight out and back course - so run 13.1 miles and turn around. If you remember from my last post, my leg has been an asshole lately. Between the Blues and this race (3 weeks), I had "run" a collective 6 miles (2 miles at a time and half of that was walking hence the " "). So this race had the potential to be quite ugly. Leg hurt pretty much from the start but nothing too terrible until later on in the race. BM and I kept a good walk-a-minute-every-mile strategy (which turned out to be at every aid station) for the first 10 or so miles.
Course starts past some desert landscape (litter included free of charge). |
Can't believe we missed the Chihuahua races by a week. No fair. |
Part of the course runs through a small town. |
Oh yeah. More farms. |
And just when you think you couldn't see anymore lettuce. |
Halfway done with being halfway done. |
The course is FLAT and (as you can see) mostly run next to lettuce. Apparently Yuma is a giant salad bowl. If you know me, you know that I love small, rural races. This marathon fit the bill perfectly. Now don't get me wrong. Sedona would have been lovely, but the Yuma Marathon was a suitable replacement. We hit the turnaround at about 2:25, which I was ok with. My leg was getting progressively worse, so I figured there would be a significant slow down in the second half. We pretty much knew exactly what to expect for the 13.1 miles back to the finish - lettuce (see above pictures in reverse order). We took our time for the next several miles and walked a bit more.
I have no idea. |
By mile 20, my leg was hurting more when I would start to run after walking, so I decided to venture on ahead and keep "running" as much as I could (with my definition of running being very loose). After not running for 3 weeks, it's pretty hard to traverse more than 20 miles. I walked miles 24-25, but tried my best to "run" for that last 1.2 miles. I shuffled my way to the finish line in 5:21:40 and crossed off my 25th marathon state! I'm halfway there baby!
Oooohhhhhhh we're halfway therrrrrrreeeee! |
One of the perks of running such small marathons is that you are likely to win an age group award! Once I crossed the finish line, the RD told me that I was 3rd in my age group, with the 2nd place woman passing me in the very last mile (it was apparently an exciting race in Yuma for the women aged 30-39). The 2nd place winner was so nice and I found out it was her very first marathon. She said that BM and I helped to push her along.
I hope this sweet girl doesn't mind her picture on the interwebz. |
Let's take a picture next to this cactus. |
We talked a little more with David (RD) and you could really tell that he loves this race and puts a lot into it. He also said that profits from the race go directly back into the community (he mentioned score boards at schools).
Selfie with RD David and cactus. |
Even though the Yuma Territorial Marathon wasn't what I came for, I'm glad I did it. It is a very low key, community-directed, small, rural marathon. My perfect kind of race. The course is FLAT. Aid stations were plentiful (about every mile) and the volunteers were amazing (at a few aid stations, the volunteers were actually running towards us to give us some water). The aid stations had water, Gatorade, and fruit (bananas and oranges). Some had candy. Don't expect huge crowds and a bumping after party, but do expect a lovely, peaceful run through farmland.
So here are the travel deets:
- Sedona Marathon registration: $81 (I had a $10 discount; this was the introductory rate since I registered probably the day it opened) - unfortunately, I lost this :(
- Yuma Territorial Marathon: $85 at packet pickup (I had a $10 discount)
- I flew into Las Vegas (it's actually only about 5 hrs from Yuma). The flight was $300.
- I rented a car from Thursday night through Sunday morning. It cost $95 total and my portion was $55. My portion of gas for the trip was about $25.
- Hotels:
- Thursday night - Arizona Charlie's Boulder Casino in Las Vegas ($25)
- Friday night - Original plan was Sedona so I had already paid for the hotel there (Days Inn Kokopelli - $61). In Yuma we stayed at the Cocopah Casino and Resort ($77).
- Saturday night - Royal Resort in Las Vegas ($31) - This hotel was a great location (right off the strip) and I would definitely stay here again when visiting Vegas.
- I had room shares all 3 nights. I lost the $61 for the hotel in Sedona since I booked that through Priceline, but my hotel total for the 3 nights was about $117.
- I spent way way way too much on food - about $100. I need to work on that.
- So total was about $770. A bit more than I like, but I actually had to pay for a flight and I ate the Sedona Marathon entry fee and the hotel fee in Sedona.
As for my leg, it's still being an asshole, although slightly less of an asshole than after the Blues. I could actually bend my leg the next day, but I still had the Casino Shuffle going on as I walked through the casinos and down the strip in Las Vegas. No one noticed though as this is the standard walk in Las Vegas. My next marathon that I'm signed up for is the Mississippi River Marathon on February 14, but may drop to the half. I did go to the doctor today and got a steroid shot right in the IT band. I'm hoping that will help some. I've been doing hip/glute strengthening exercises the past few weeks and have also been getting active release therapy a few times per week. Doctor has me starting some PT next week. I will back out of all races that are not new states if I have to, but backing out of new states would be a last resort.


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The sparkling Mediterranean beckons as you touch down at Beirut airport. Pulsating lights from nightclubs give the capital a joyous, constant rhythm. Glamorous people drive fancy cars.
That was Lebanon during the free-wheeling 1960s when Marlon Brando and Brigitte Bardot used to stop by at the Saint Georges yacht club.
Lebanon is reliving that glamour in 2010, trying to shed a past marred by civil wars, assassinations and conflict with Israel.
While fears of war with its southern neighbor Israel are always simmering, for now the tiny country is trying to make the most of this window of peace.
Once-warring politicians have put aside their sectarian differences to work together to change the image of Lebanon into one of a country of prosperity and tolerance.
Reuters correspondents with local knowledge help visitors get the most out of a 48-hour visit. Western passport holders can get a visa at the airport, but make sure you don't have any stamps from Israel, still in a formal state of war with Lebanon.
2pm - Drop your bags and head downtown where the Ottoman-era Grand Serail governmental palace stands regally on a hill top.
To get an idea of Lebanon's diverse religious demographics, stop by the St. George Maronite cathedral right next to the blue-domed Mohammed al-Amin mosque.
Explore the parking lot-turned-mausoleum in Martyr's Square where assassinated former Prime Minister Rafik al-Hariri is laid to rest.
Hariri and 22 others were killed in 2005, sparking four years of political turbulence in Lebanon.
Walk along the boulevards lined with cafes and smoke a narguileh -- a flavoured waterpipe -- as you watch locals and tourists flock to designer stores.
If you're still feeling energetic, head westwards toward the corniche where you'll see a stark remnant of the 1975-90 civil war, the bombed-out Holiday Inn. Continue on to Hamra and explore its artsy street cafes.
The splendid campus of the American University of Beirut also lies there.
8pm - Lebanese cuisine is one of the country's main attractions. There are hundreds of restaurants to choose from which serve staples such as tabbouleh, hummus and mixed grills.
If you're feeling adventurous, try kebbe neyye, a type of minced raw meat, or chicken livers with pomegranate molasses.
Abdelwahab, Karam and the Armenian Mayyas are among the favorite venues.
If you want to experience a different part of Beirut, head to the southern suburbs, a Hezbollah bastion, and try the as-Saha restaurant, themed around an Arab village.
10pm - Trawl through Gemmayze, a street lined with dozens of bars, and the place of choice for weekend drinking.
Bar-hopping is an ideal way to experience the most of what Gemmayze has to offer, from bars with a laid-back ambiance to those oozing modernity.
The street has bumper-to-bumper traffic on weekend nights when the glitterati arrive in chic sports cars.
Midnight - No trip to Beirut is complete without partying in Music Hall, an old cinema converted into a cabaret-style venue.
Local and international artists perform a wide range of music, from folklore to the Beatles to Abba to hard metal to Beyonce's latest singles.
House music plays in between acts and by the end of the night, people are dancing on tables. A nightspot favourite, book a week or two in advance to guarantee a table near the stage.
10am - Lebanon occupies a mere 6000 square kilometres, making day trips outside the city fairly easy.
Head east and stop at Chtoura, a town in the eastern Bekaa valley. Order a manoucheh, a thick, doughy bread, on which cheese or thyme, a staple herb, and sometimes vegetables are spread.
Still hungry? Try Knafe, a sweet made of vermicelli hardened by syrup and filled with cheese. While traditionally a dessert in much of the Middle East, Lebanese also have it, wrapped in bread, as breakfast.
Noon - Next stop by the Ksara vineyards, one of the country's famous local wineries.
Ksara boasts a wine of "rare balance of dry fruitiness, of delicacy and coarseness, and of freshness and vigor," according to its website. Though a small producer, Lebanon traces its wine industry roots back 4000 years when Phoenicians sold wine around the Mediterranean.
Have lunch at the restaurant overlooking the vineyards.
3pm - The Roman ruins of Baalbek include the largest Roman temples of Jupiter and Bacchus dating from the first century B.C. The temple of Jupiter's six columns stand a breathtaking 23 metres high.
The temple of Bacchus is said to be the most beautifully decorated in the Roman world.
One of the mysteries surrounding the ruins are the huge foundation stones that support the temple of Jupiter. Archaeologists have put forward many theories as to how the Romans could have moved such massive stones.
There are several guides who will be happy to take you around the spacious courtyard.
Once you've soaked up the sights, be sure to check out souvenir shops which are heavy on Shi'ite paraphernalia, since Baalbek has a sizeable Hezbollah constituency.
If you happen to visit in the summer, make sure to catch one of the shows at Baalbek's music festival that takes place among the ruins.
8pm - Back in Beirut, head to Barometre in Hamra, a favorite of leftist intellectuals as well as those who love dancing to Arab tunes.
Barometre's mezze, especially its sausage soaked in pomegranate molasses are a staple.
Dance till dawn while drinking arak, quintessential aniseed-flavored Lebanese alcoholic drink.
11am - Peer into the St Georges Yacht Club where Hollywood stars used to lounge in the 1960s.
Across the road you'll see a statue commemorating the late Hariri as well as a sign pointing to where the suicide bombing happened leaving a huge crater in the ground at the time.
11:30 - Walk upwards toward Casablanca, one of the best restaurants to have brunch in Beirut.
The 19th century building allows you to overlook the Mediterranean as you feast on eggs and pancakes, served with seasonal fruits.
Their brunch is extremely popular so make sure you book early in the week and ask if you can get a table near the window.
1pm Digest your food by taking a stroll by the corniche until you reach the pigeon rock landmark and have a mint tea at one of the many seaside cafes.
2pm - Head north to Byblos, said to be the oldest continuously inhabited city in the world.
The port town has lovely views of the Mediterranean.
Have lunch at one of the many seaside restaurants serving the catch of the day.
Pepe's Fishing Club is a traditional favorite where photos of celebrities from Frank Sinatra to Jacques Chirac take pride of place -- reminders of Lebanon's heyday.
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A day after the FTC took action against an organization accused of distributing Trojan viruses using celebrity-themed screensavers, Microsoft has filed its own lawsuit against the company under Washington state's anti-spyware laws.
Microsoft announced Nov. 14 that it has filed a lawsuit against an organization believed to be responsible for attacking users with spyware programs hidden in celebrity-themed screen savers, including some bearing pictures of pop singer Jessica Simpson. One day after the United States Federal Trade Commission took its own legal action against ERG Ventures, its affiliates and its operators in the companys home state of Nevada, Microsoft brought its own lawsuit against the firm accusing it of violating the Washington Computer Spyware Act and the Washington Consumer Protection Act.
Specifically named in the lawsuit was Timothy P. Taylor, the alleged chief of ERG, along with affiliate company Media Motor.
In its suit, Redmond, Wash.-based Microsoft claims that Taylor and other parties used screen savers, including those featuring pictures of popular celebrities, to surreptitiously install unwanted software on users computers. Applications delivered in the ERG screen savers included so-called Trojan horse malware programs that loaded spyware onto infected machines, according to the lawsuit. Microsoft alleges in its lawsuit that the defendants distributed their programs through sites built to end users, including a site that uses the brand name of well-known golf equipment manufacturer Taylor Made.
Once installed, the Trojan applications would reportedly dial out and download numerous other programs that would saddle users computers with pop-up advertisements, track their Web usage habits, redirect infected browsers to suspicious URLs, add desktop icons to Windows and change the registry settings on Windows PCs, Microsoft said. The software giant said the applications also violated Washingtons laws by installing themselves without giving users sufficient notice, or gaining their consent. Microsoft said the programs installed themselves when users took appropriate steps to stop them from being downloaded onto their machines. Calls to a number listed by ERG in Nevada seeking comment on the lawsuit were not immediately returned. The Microsoft action comes a day after the FTC announced that Judge Howard McKibben of the U.S. District Court for the District of Nevada issued a temporary restraining order against ERG and its affiliates. The court said in its ruling that ERG tricked consumers into downloading programs that degraded the performance of their computers, spied on their activities and exposed them to disruptive ads. The Nevada case specifically charges that the Media Motor programs were responsible for acting as the Trojans for downloading other attacks. The FTC asked the court to order a permanent halt to the "deceptive and unfair" downloads, and to order the outfit to give up any profits related to the controversial programs. The FTC contends that ERG and Taylor violated the law by failing to disclose to users that its programs were bundled with malware, along with the use of a deceptive EULA (end user license agreement).
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I'm not German, so others might be better qualified to answer your question about what political propaganda works best there, but I suspect it's "Don't blame us, blame them" just like in any other country.
As I asked above,why not Joachim Gauck??I'd rather meet my OWN president than some other country's....unless I knew with certainty that he'd been a despicable person.....Anyway,I'm off to work,so we'll continue this later
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Going to get a lot of flack over this. Have you looked at the Taurus PT709 slim in 9mm? I have one and carry it every day. Have put untold rounds though it, with at most 5 or 6 failures, and they were because I let it get too dirty before cleaning. Never failed when clean. Here's another opinion:http://firearmfun.blogspot.com/2010/03/review-taurus-pt709-slim.html
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The comedian Russell Brand will present a film about addiction treatment around the world for BBC Three.
The one-hour documentary, titled Give It Up, follows his 2012 programme From Addiction to Recovery, and will show Brand interviewing political decision-makers. He has spent the last 18 months making the film and also travelled to Switzerland to find out more about the country's approach to treatment.
His documentary is one of seven factual and current affairs commissions from the youth-focused channel, which will see the Bafta-award-winning series Our War return with footage from the end of the UK's involvement in the Afghanistan conflict.
Channel controller Zai Bennett said the new programmes "demonstrate the range and quality that BBC Three viewers expect from our top-flight factual content like recent agenda-setting documentary Life and Death Row".
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Raw materials, the sector which pulls stuff out of the ground and turns it into something that consumers or manufacturers need, often comes with great environmental costs.
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From all the TV previews and special supplements in the newspapers, I see that it's going to be a Big Summer of Sport. And of Pop Festivals. How nice. I'll deal with the pop festivals first.
Why? Or to put it another way: why oh why? In my own experience, rock concerts are risky and sordid enough indoors. I went to see The Who at the Empire Pool Wembley about a quarter of a century ago (well, Keith Moon was still alive).
I remember only two things about the evening. The first was that my younger brother, who was about 11, had wanted to bring a piece of fruit along with him and, instead of something sensible like an apple or a banana, brought a pomegranate.
This was about as practical as bringing an artichoke or a dozen oysters. By the time the band had reached "My Generation", we were sitting in a pile of pomegranate shell and pips and that stringy, plasticky stuff that surrounds the pips.
Then somebody lit a firework and shoved it under my seat. "Har! Har! Har!" I heard from behind me. I turned and gave them a withering look, or rather I would have done if I hadn't been worried that they might have another firework left over.
At around the same time, I went - for some baffling reason - to see a concert in a student hall by Man (dire Welsh rock band). The hall was so full when my friend and I arrived that for two hours we sat three inches from a man lying in (and I hope choking on) a pool of his own vomit.
Pop festivals have all that and mud and the distinct drawback that nobody has ever invented a way of providing lavatories for 50,000 people. A ticket for my nearest festival costs £76 "with camping". Camping? Haven't people seen the photographs? That bit on the second day when the audience stops avoiding the mud and starts rolling in it for fun?
I had few moments of clarity in my teenage years, but one of them was sitting with a wet bum on the grass in Hyde Park watching a second-rate pop star and pondering the interesting truth that the nearest lavatory was about two hours away. Never again, I vowed.
And then there is the sport. Sport is one of those things, like Christmas and half-term holidays and brightly coloured breakfast cereal, that dropped out of my life during my adolescence and only returned with children in my mid-thirties.
My stepson is currently incoherent with excitement at the riches in store, almost gibbering as he flicks through the latest sports guide: "There's football, right? And there's Wimbledon, right? And isn't there the Olympics? Are they all going to be on at the same time or are they one after another? Can I watch, like, a real lot of them? I mean a real lot?" Occasionally, he fixes me with a glare and asks me which team I think will win Euro 2000.
Curiously, I've never had any particularly bad experiences watching sport (unless you count getting into Pseuds' Corner for writing about it). Participating is another matter.
My daughters are all remarkably good swimmers. The other day, I was sitting at a junior swimming gala when I had an experience of recovered memory syndrome.
After successfully repressing the memory for 25 years, I remembered my only direct experience of a swimming gala. I was swimming the front crawl, and not only did I come last, but I actually got tangled up in one of the ropes dividing the lanes. This is quite understandable because the swimming lanes are very narrow. It could happen to anybody, although, funnily enough, I have never seen anybody else do it.
Is sport character-building? Remember the stirring Henry Newbolt poem: "There's a breathless hush in the Close to-night,/Ten to make and the match to win,/A bumping pitch and a blinding light,/An hour to play and the last man in." And the boy cricketers do it not for fame, but for the sake of playing the game. The poem ends in India, where "the voice of a schoolboy rallies the ranks" defending the regiment: "Play up, play up and play the game."
A friend of mine was watching a recent London marathon. The female frontrunner went past, a few miles from the finish, and he saw that she had shat herself - there was shit actually running down her legs. Nevertheless, she went on to win, which was impressive, in a way. But, for me, the summer is a good time to sit in the shade with a good book. Or a bad book.


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Mali signs peace deal, rebels want more time for consultation
ALGIERS (Reuters) – Mali's government signed a preliminary peace deal on Sunday meant to end fighting with northern separatists, but the Tuareg-led rebels asked for more time for consultations before agreeing to the accord.
The United Nations-brokered deal seeks to tackle decades of uprisings and instability in northern Mali, where Western and regional powers worry Islamist militants could return two years after French military intervention drove them out.
Mali, Tuareg-led rebels agree to cease hostilities for peace talks
ALGIERS (Reuters) – Mali's government and an alliance of Tuareg-led northern rebels agreed to cease hostilities on Thursday to ease tensions during U.N.-sponsored peace negotiations aimed at ending decades of uprisings.
The talks hosted by Algiers, the fifth round of recent negotiations, must now turn to the tricky questions over identity, a form of limited self-rule and more rights for the northern desert region the rebels call Azawad.
Islamic State lays claim to North African outpost
ALGIERS/CAIRO (Reuters) – The images match the worst of Islamic State's atrocities: black-clad fighters and an English-speaking jihadist taunt the West before slaughtering their victims in orange jumpsuits on a Libyan beach.
Their masked leader turns to the Mediterranean and points a bloodied knife towards Europe, declaring, "We will conquer Rome, God willing."
Mali peace talks resume in Algiers, no end to hostilities
ALGIERS (Reuters) – Mali's government and Tuareg-led rebels resumed U.N.-sponsored peace talks in Algeria on Monday in pursuit of an accord to end uprisings by separatists seeking more self-rule for the northern region they call Azawad.
Decades of mistrust and recent intensified fighting between rebels and government-allied militias have complicated attempts to reach a comprehensive deal on Mali's desert north.
U.N. sees Mali, rebel peace talks in 'last stage'
ALGIERS (Reuters) – Peace talks between Mali and Tuareg-led separatist rebels are in the last stage with both sides preparing to work on questions of identity and local authority for the northern region, the United Nations mission chief said in an interview.
A fifth round of negotiations sponsored by Algeria is scheduled to start on Monday in Algiers, seeking to end decades of uprisings by the north over the political status and form of self-rule for the area Tuaregs call Azawad.
Algeria walks economic tightrope as oil falls
ALGIERS, Jan 26 (Reuters) – For months, Algerian officials
repeated their mantra that large foreign exchange reserves would
shield the country from collapsing oil prices. Last week, Prime
Minister Abdelmalek Sellal took to state television to announce
what most already knew – that crisis was at the door.
With crude prices having more than halved since June,
Algeria must plot a precarious path of curbing high public
spending without eating into a generous welfare budget that has
helped stave off widespread social unrest.
Veteran Essebsi wins Tunisia's first free presidential vote
TUNIS (Reuters) – Veteran Tunisian politician Beji Caid Essebsi won the country's first free presidential election, in the final step of a transition to democracy after an uprising that ousted autocrat Zine El-Abidine Ben Ali in 2011.
Essebsi beat rival and incumbent Moncef Marzouki with 55.68 percent of the vote against 44.32 percent in Sunday's run-off ballot between the two men, according the results released on Monday by the electoral authorities.
Essebsi declares win in Tunisia election, rival contests
TUNIS (Reuters) – Veteran politician Beji Caid Essebsi declared victory in Sunday's presidential run-off vote, seen as the last step in Tunisia's shift to full democracy four years after an uprising ousted autocrat Zine El-Abidine Ben Ali.
Official results are not due until Monday and his rival, the incumbent president, Moncef Marzouki, refused to concede defeat.
Tunisians vote in historic presidential run-off
TUNIS (Reuters) – Tunisians voted on Sunday in a presidential run-off election that completes the country's transition to full democracy nearly four years after an uprising which ousted autocrat Zine El-Abidine Ben Ali. With a new progressive constitution and a full parliament elected in October, Tunisia is hailed as an example of democratic change for a region still struggling with the aftermath of the 2011 Arab Spring revolts. The North African nation avoided the bitter post-revolt divisions troubling Libya and Egypt, but Sunday's election pits a former Ben Ali official against an incumbent who claims to defend the legacy of the 2011 revolution. Frontrunner Beji Caid Essebsi, a former parliament speaker under Ben Ali, won 39 percent of votes in the first round of voting in November with current president Moncef Marzouki winning 33 percent.
Polling opened at 8 a.m. local time (0200 ET) with a heavy security presence but morning turnout looked thin at stations around the capital. Official preliminary results were not expected until Monday.
Tunisia's old regime hopes makeover can win it the election
TUNIS (Reuters) – In the corner of his office, Tunisian presidential candidate Beji Caid Essebsi keeps a bust of Habib Bourguiba, who led the country in 1957 after its independence from France. It is a symbol, he says, of the kind of statesman Tunisia now needs.
The 88-year-old was a minister in Bourguiba's government and is now standing for President himself. To win however he must convince voters to look past his more recent job — speaker for the autocratic Zine El Abidine Ben Ali, who rigged elections to rule for 24 years until the country threw him out in 2011.


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Belkin TuneBase FM adds ClearScan, more
Belkin has introduced the new TuneBase FM, the company's combination iPod mount, charger, and FM transmitter, which is now equipped with ClearScan technology. With the push of a button, ClearScan automatically finds the clearest frequency on which to play your music. Other features include line-out for connecting to direct audio inputs and cassette adapters, a "pro" setting that optimizes audio and boosts volume, multiple cradles to fit any docking iPod including the recently released iPod classic, iPod touch, and third-generation iPod nano, and a flexible neck for easy repositioning of the iPod. The new Belkin TuneBase FM will be available in mid-October and will sell for $90.
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Looks nice.. but too pricey aint it? And that neck isnt too long or me to reposition to my liking…
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Bulls want to fly with Boeing By David Russell, reporter at OptionMonster
NEW YORK -- The bulls are betting that Boeing (BA) gets cleared for takeoff.
OptionMonster's tracking programs detected the purchase of about 10,500 January 90 calls for $1.71 and the sale of an equal number of January 100 calls for 52 cents. Volume exceeded the previous open interest at each strike, indicating that these are new positions.
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Boeing's shares rose 0.53% to $76.29 Wednesday. The aerospace giant's stock has been moribund for months, but the chart has been quietly lining up for a potential rally. While worries remain about problems with its Dreamliner jet, the company has bullish tailwinds from secular growth in global air travel and outperformance in the transport sector. Based on Wednesday's closing price, BA needs to appreciate 31% to reach $100. If it hits that level by January expiration 11 months from now, the spread will expand and the trader will stand to earn a profit of 740% based on the cost--illustrating the kind of leverage that options can provide. Calls outnumbered puts by almost 3 to 1 Wednesday, a reflection of the session's bullish sentiment. (Russell has no positions in BA.Check Out Our Best Services for Investors
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Today's weather will start off mostly cloudy but gradually become sunny with a high near 85. West-southwest winds around 5 mph will become east-northeast in the afternoon. On Sunday night, expect a low around 62 and mostly clear skies. Winds from the east at 5 to 10 mph will become south after midnight. Learn more about what's ahead for the local forecast by heading to weather.gov.
On Saturday, we'll have a 20% chance of showers and thunderstorms, but cloudy skies and warmer temperatures with a high near 78. Winds from the north from 5 to 10 mph will become light and from the northwest in the afternoon. Saturday night will be mostly cloudy with a low around 60. North winds around 5 mph will become calm after midnight. We should have mostly cloudy skies and a 20% chance of precipitation as well. Weather.gov is where you'll learn more--check it out.
AVONDALE BAPTIST CHURCH Greetings to everyone from the Avondale Baptist Church family! We would like to invite you to come and visit us If you are looking for a loving church family. We welcome you to come and worship our Lord and Savior, Jesus Christ with us. We have Sunday school classes for all ages and we have great teachers for all of the classes. We are located at 1405 Hoyt Street.
On Sept. 11, 2012, a group met to finalize the steps necessary for starting a Republican Women's organization in Nolan County. Officers were elected at the meeting and a name for the club was adopted: "Republican Women of West Texas." The next scheduled meeting is set for Oct. 2, 2012, at the law office of Lance Hall at 119 East Third Street in Sweetwater, Texas. The time is set for 6 p.m., with refreshments at 6:30 p.m. for the installation of officers. Anyone interested in attending the meeting is more than welcome. For further information, call 325-235-3623 or 325-260-7741.
Whitney Ashford and Molly Thomas with the Hoyt House made a presentation at the local Kiwanis Club meeting on Wednesday, September 12 at Bee's Lunch Bucket in downtown Sweetwater. Thomas is the new Wellness Director at the assisted independent living facility and noted that the Hoyt House is working on providing different activities for their residents. One of their upcoming projects is a Trunk or Treat to be held on Tuesday, October 30 from 5:30 to 7 p.m.
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Chemicals Northwest (the cluster support organisation for the chemicals industry in the north west region) is pleased to announce that its bid to the North West Regional Development Agency for funding to support companies in mitigating the effects of REACH has been successful. Chemicals Northwest has secured around £100,000 of support to help companies unable to access the ERDF funded "DESIRE for REACH" (D4R) program because of eligibility criteria.
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Regional bodies, Trade Associations and Government have played a strong role in developing awareness of REACH legislation and its potential impact. Currently there is limited quality support available to companies wishing to assess the demands and opportunities placed before them.
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