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It seems like not so long ago Nissan pulled the Z-car out of retirement and gave us the 350Z. Now, that vehicle has been thoroughly gone over, getting smaller and sharpening its fangs in the process to become the 370Z. Outwardly, it's extremely great to look at, and there are echoes of the 240Z cooked into the styling. The 370Z is rippling with muscle and beautiful in a way its predecessor was not.
Backing up the tightly flexed styling is hardware that delivers true sports car performance. Nissans VQ engine has been punched out to 3.7 liters for this application (hence the 370 in the nameplate) and delivers 332 horsepower - a hefty number for a V6. A six-speed manual rests easily at hand and snaps tightly through the gears - if I could only figure out how to drive the Z smoothly. It does seem to beg for manhandling, rewarding brutal gear-slamming with a racy exhaust note feedback and much forward motion. Handling and braking are phenomenally good, the Z is a stellar performer that is sublime to bend into a corner. When it's time to lay back and cruise, it can feel a little brusque, though the new interior in the $35,000 Touring-trim Z is leather trimmed and comfortable. The Z might be a little hardcore for everyday driving, tasks where a Mustang GT might be more forgiving, but when it comes to heroic driving, the Z is better mannered and is really a different thing from the Mustang's neo-retro Ponycar trappings.
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Publisher Desc. Enniscorthy was a small town in Ireland when this carol appeared. Wexford, the name of the county, claimed the carol as its own. Emil Alwyn sets the record straight with this creative, quietly rhythmic arrangement of a perennial favorite. With English horn, cello and finger cymbals you will be hard pressed to fashion a warmer musical atmosphere for Christmas.


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My wife gets on me saying I only look at the Bad side of any subject, that really isn't true. When I worked it was for One Company that lasted Twenty-five years, (I'm now disabled) My Boss taught me one valuable lesson. He said, when looking at a project, a worker or any piece of paper, have in mind there is a mistake somewhere.
I always used that lesson evey day on the job. Only once did I use it doing the opposite. I did it that way looking at President Bush. I wanted to find something Good that either he did or came out that way. I failed miserably.
Anything he started, any Bill he approved, any Appointment he chose, any Speech he made, any Visit anywhere, Not one thing stood out deserving praise. There wasn't a thing worthy of any mention except to ridicule or play down. In the Six years of being in office, he wrote nothing, no Book, no Statement, nothing that could show any intelligence. Even his vocabulary is limited, he makes up words, he mumbles over parts of Speeches, at best, his vocabulary is at High School level.
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ELIQUIS® (apixaban) Demonstrates Consistent Reductions In Stroke And Systemic Embolism, Major Bleeding And Mortality Compared To Warfarin In Patients With Nonvalvular Atrial Fibrillation At Varying Risk For Stroke And Bleeding
Bristol-Myers Squibb Company (NYSE: BMY) and Pfizer Inc. (NYSE: PFE) today announced that the reductions in stroke or systemic embolism, major bleeding and mortality demonstrated with ELIQUIS ® compared to warfarin in the ARISTOTLE trial were consistent across a wide range of stroke and bleeding risk scores in patients with nonvalvular atrial fibrillation. These results of a subanalysis from the ARISTOTLE clinical trial were published today in The Lancet.
Stroke and bleeding risk were based on the CHADS 2, CHA 2DS 2VASc, and HAS-BLED scores, which are patient assessment tools used by physicians to help predict the risk of stroke and of bleeding in patients with atrial fibrillation. Physicians can use these risk scores to help inform decisions regarding the selection of anticoagulation therapy.
The ARISTOTLE trial evaluated the efficacy and safety of ELIQUIS, an investigational compound for the prevention of stroke or systemic embolism in patients with nonvalvular atrial fibrillation, compared with warfarin. This subanalysis evaluated data from 18,201 patients in the ARISTOTLE trial, based on patients' risk of stroke (CHADS 2 1, 2, or ≥3, or CHA 2DS 2VASc 1, 2, or ≥3) or risk of bleeding (HAS-BLED 0-1, 2, or ≥3). Across prespecified and post-hoc analyses that evaluated CHADS 2, CHA 2DS 2VASc, or HAS-BLED categories, this subanalysis demonstrated that irrespective of a patient's risk of stroke or bleeding, treatment with ELIQUIS resulted in a consistent reduction in stroke or systemic embolism and mortality, compared to warfarin. There were also consistently lower rates of major bleeding and of intracranial bleeding with ELIQUIS compared with warfarin across all evaluated CHADS 2, CHA 2DS 2VASc, and HAS-BLED score categories. These findings are consistent with the primary results of the ARISTOTLE trial, which demonstrated that ELIQUIS, as compared with warfarin, significantly reduced the risk of stroke or systemic embolism, major bleeding, and mortality. In addition, results of this subanalysis showed that, in patients with nonvalvular atrial fibrillation, the reduction in intracranial bleeding with ELIQUIS compared to warfarin tended to be greater in patients who had the highest risk of bleeding (HAS-BLED score ≥3) than the reduction in patients with the lowest risk of bleeding (HAS-BLED score of 0-1).
"It's encouraging to see that the findings of ARISTOTLE are consistent across patients with atrial fibrillation and different risks of stroke and bleeding," said study lead author Dr. Renato Lopes of Duke University Medical Center in Durham, North Carolina. "These findings suggest that, due to the consistent benefit of apixaban versus warfarin, current risk-scoring systems for selecting anticoagulation therapy may be less relevant when using apixaban than they are for warfarin, at least for patients with CHADS 2 scores ≥1."
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Finding the Time, Part 1: Teachers Must Preserve Their Most Valuable Resource
If I were to ask you what the most valuable resource that teachers have at their disposal is, what would you answer?
You might consider the teacher's knowledge or skills in teaching as his or her most valuable resource. You might think support from the school administration, a well-written curriculum, sufficient teaching aids, varied strategies, or perhaps even the students themselves would be the most valuable resource to an educator. Amazingly enough, though, it is the resource that we often pay the least attention to and end up abusing (wasting) more than any other. I contend that the most valuable resource that a teacher has is time.
In many states, teachers have only about 180 days (177 days in my district) in which to get their students to acquire the knowledge and skills state requirements dictate. Add in numerous activities that may be worthwhile but that still chip away at those 180 days. Some activities -- such as sports, band, drama, and special celebrations -- do so in large chunks:. But there are also the small time wasters that add up: morning announcements, classroom business, students being summoned to the office, and other classroom interruptions.
The most important aspect of time for educators is the amount students spend actively engaged in the learning process, not simply the amount they spend on school grounds. In a previous post, I discussed some ways to develop a sense of urgency and how to provide a reason to do things now in the classroom. How teachers and schools spend their time is the critical issue in establishing urgency.
I see three aspects to a teacher's time: preparation time, instruction time, and professional-duty time. I would like to discuss instruction time and how to reclaim it.
Instruction time begins the moment the teacher greets his or her students in the hallway and ends the moment the young people leave the campus. Wait! Is that really the end of instructional time? No. Most schools employ a simple trick to extend the instructional time of the classroom: homework. (Unfortunately, homework is sometimes otherwise known as busywork.) So, if students view homework as a review and extension of what they learned in class, learning time can and should extend into the home.
During a typical lesson, a teacher employs the professional teaching-and-learning cycle: study, select, plan, implement, analyze, and adjust. You can read a brief explanation of the cycle in a comment I made to another previous blog entry. During the implementation phase (Madeline Hunter would be proud of me), the teacher spends time introducing the lesson, giving direct instruction, and modeling the lesson. The teacher then gives the students both guided and individual practice, followed by a final closure activity.
Of all of those time segments, which one is the most important? To answer that question, I'll ask another question: When are the students learning the most? Wouldn't that be when students are practicing? Looking at this issue more closely, in a traditional class, are all students learning if they are simply listening to the teacher talking?
Not likely. Even though some students may be able to retain the information in short-term memory, the rest will have difficulty remembering what the teacher said without notes or aids. The only ways to push knowledge or comprehension-level information and skills into long-term memory is practice, memorization, or participation in varied higher-order thinking activities. (See Bloom's Taxonomy.) These activities are, by their very nature, engaging activities. A student cannot easily sit by while all of the other students are actively engaged in a project.
Please share your thoughts, and read part two of this entry.
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I am a first year teacher and time is always my problem. After reading this article, I realize that time is an issue for teachers as a whole. I have learned quite a few time savers as the school year comes to an end. I think that getting your students to help is a great time saver. Students can help with activities such as taking attendance, changing the calendar, collecting folders, etc. The help gives the teacher more time to deal with students either individually or as a whole. Getting your students to help not only saves time but it also teaches the students responsiblity. Two birds with one stone.
Many great ideas floating around. If you have not read Harry Wong's book The First Days of School, it is a must! He gives some great ideas on time savers and classroom management to help with this. I still don't implement all of his ideas (though I would like to), but I think if you are consistent with whatever you do that is the key--consistancy. Always have a visible list of things to do and the students will have no "in-between time" to be wasted. That has helped me. I always try to have the day's agenda on the board of what to do next. Then they don't come up to ask me, and they go right from one thing to the next without delay. This works well in Language Arts class. I still need to work on smoother transitions between subjects and at the beginning and the end of the day. The end of the day students are supposed to do their jobs, and get ready to go. It is always chaos and noisy and we are always late getting out. I need some way to make this go quicker.
For six years prior to this school year, I taught in a Spanish Immersion school in which the students sped half of their day learning in English and the other half learning in Spanish. This essentially meant that I had half the time of the average teacher to teach the same curriculum, and repeated that cycle twice during the school day with two groups of 25 students. Time was definitely more precious than gold.
Some of the tricks employed by my colleagues were simple ways to extend learning that were also highly effective. From the moment we picked our students up in the morning from the gym, teachers would begin practicing vocabulary, phonemic awareness, math facts, etc. learned the previous day with their line. Sometimes students were each presented with a question in line order, other times whole classes would be singing songs or chanting consonant blends quietly. In this way, learning began literally the moment the students began to approach the classroom. We also did this during hallway transition times, to and from lunch and recess, to and from special area classes, and to and from restroom breaks.
Students enjoyed the "games" and teachers were grateful for a few extra minutes of time with their classes.
I too struggle with never finding enough time for everything that needs to happen in the day. I have noticed that creating a routine of daily activities has been key for keeping things moving. This routine is started on the first day of school and continued all year. I also make sure that substitutes are on board with it as well.
One suggestion that was made at our school in hopes to save our precious learning time, was to put all assemblies at the end of the day. This way, the students are finished with the day as the assembly ends, rather than having an interuption in the middle of the day that causes you to lose even more time refocusing your students after the excitement.
I really began to think about the time wasted during our school day. I started to brainstorm ways to use every minute of instructional time I am given. I really liked the idea of group bathroom break while asking standard based questions as mentioned in the second part of this article.
I must say though while reading this I begin to ponder how administration is supportive to using every ounce of instructional time. In our district we have several assemblies which fall during math time. I have expressed concern during staff meetings about considering other times throughout the day or rotating with other grade levels.
I was impressed with all the ideas shared.
I agree with you. There is definitely not enough time to do everything a "great" teacher is supposed to do. I have also learned this year to depend on the students to do more and not do everything for them. With each activity, I consider what they can do and allow them to help out. This helps save me time preparing the many materials.
One of the hardest things I deal with in teaching is time management.I teach every moment that I can and there are times when I still cannot get to everything.I teach the first grade, and I think sometimes in the lower grades there are more interruptions than in other grades.A recent topic of discussion in my Masters Course has been the characteristics of novice to expert teachers.I agree that Expert teachers or those that have been teaching the longest and have more experience can manage time in the classroom more effectively, but even expert teachers deal with the everyday time busters that can get teachers off track.It is imperative to keep students continually engaged in learning and have a structured learning environment.
There are several ways that we fight "time robbers" at my school. We have teachers stationed at their classroom doors. They ask students Core Content questions as they pass by in the morning on their way to class. They give them peppermints if they answer the question correctly. This is a great start to the day! It is proven that peppermints help you think. We also use central bulletin boards to play interactive games during non instructional time. We have a board titled "Great Grammar Game" where the students pick the correct sentence out of two choices. The students put their answer and name on a slip of paper. The winners are announced on the morning announcements each Friday and receive a pencil. We also use a central board titled, "Be A Mathlete". The students must guess the mystery number based on five clues. If they answer the number correctly, they are also announced and win a pencil. These are great ways to honor students for their thinking during non instructional moments. Try it! Please let me know what you think!
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I completely agree with this article. You mentioned that the most important aspect of time for educators is the amount students spend engaged in the learning process, which is extremely important. I believe it's solely up to the individual educator to have a set routine, so when "time robbers" do take up your time it doesn't affect your classroom as much. The key is to find away to eliminate as much distractions as possible. A solution might be to have students help with taking roll, lunch counts, and passing out papers. You can also create smooth transitions between classes or subjects to have things move at a faster pace. Always plan ahead. If you establish routine everything should run smoothly and you will have more time to teach.
I teach 1st grade and we take bathroom breaks at the same time. All the students can not go into the restroom together. While the students wait for their turn, I quiz them on spelling words; counting by 5s, 10s, 2s, 100s; rhyming words; or anything that we have covered recently or in the past. The kids loved this! It also helped cut down on discipline problems.


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MSI has just announced their Adora24 All-in-One PC. As you can guess it is a 24-inch unit that is made for both professional as well as personal use. For starters you have two processor options: Intel Core i3-3120M 2.5Ghz and Intel Core i5-32300M 2.6Ghz as well as NVIDIA GeForce GT 740M graphics.
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It looks like MSI has posted a trailer (see below) for their upcoming GeForce GTX 780 Lightning graphics card. This card will be the highest factory overclocked card that MSI will be offering in their GTX 780 series of cards. It is also speculated that the card featured a redundant BIOS and a feature that lifts many of the BIOS-level limits, protections and fail-safes. If that is true it will be the first GK110-based graphics card to feature over-voltage beyond NVIDIA's limits.
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NVIDIA's GeForce GTX 760 is set to launch tomorrow, but ahead of launch many non-reference models have been leaked. These models come from MSI, ASUS, Inno3D, Colorful, Zotac and Gigabyte! Many people are excited for these cards as they are targeted at users who want great gaming performance without breaking their wallet.
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MSI has just officially unveiled its newly high-end custom version of NVIDIA's GTX 780 GPU. The MSI Gaming GTX 780 comes with MSI's latest Gaming App tuning utility that lets gamers to swap between high performance OC mode, gaming mode and silent mode. MSI also possesses the advanced Airflow Control Technology, dual over-sized 10cm fans, and Propeller Blade Technology which ideally complements the Twin Frozr IV Advanced and its inspiring cooling functioning. For your information, under complete load the GPU strikes 67 degrees only at 25.7dBA which is quite impressive.
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It looks like another non-reference NVIDIA GeForce GTX 760 card has been revealed. This time it is the MSI GeForce GTX 760 Gaming OC Edition. This card will feature a non-reference PCB and the latest Twin Frozr IV cooling solution which allows for faster clock speeds and more stable overclocking. The card also has the same MSI red gaming color scheme as we have seen on other MSI gaming cards.
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NVIDIA's upcoming GeForce GTX 760 is rumored to be announced very soon and we have seen some early pictures and listings of the card that show us just some of the models that will be released by AiB partners. These models include the Galaxy's GeForce GTX 760 GC, MSI's GeForce GTX 760 Gaming Edition, and ASUS's GeForce GTX 760 DirectCU II OC.
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MSI has announced their latest gaming laptop in the GE40. It is the perfect combination of Ultrabook portability and deadly gaming capability. The portable gaming laptop features a Intel Haswell Core i7 processor and NVIDIA GeForce GTX 760M. What's even better is that the unit itself only weighs 4.4lbs and measures less than 1-inch thick.
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MSI has a little teaser at their booth at Computex. While all of their other graphics cards are displayed on the wall the upcoming GeForce GTX 780 Lightning card is covered in a clouded clear box so you really cannot see it. We do not know when MSI will be releasing this card, but it should be their best GeForce GTX 780 offering to date.
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The Mini-ITX form factor has been extremely popular lately since it is so compact, but still offers great features. MSI has introduced three new LGA1150 Haswell mini-ITX motherboards that are basically the same, but they will be running on different chipsets. These motherboards include the Z87I, B85I and the H87I.
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Photograph made in Artis, Amsterdam Zoo, the Netherlands
How majestic he was sitting there, aware of his strength – gaze on infinity :)
More information: Griffon Vulture – wikipedia
The Griffon vulture is listed on the IUCN Red List of threatened species – status: least Concern
Photograph made with Pentax K10D camera.
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This photo won first place in the challenge best of V and was featured in the group Alphabeth soup (Oct 23, 2009)
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Thank you so much to the host of these marvellous groups, and to all who voted :)
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Her main area's of interest are Nature Photography, Street photography and Photojournalism. Recently she also explores different digital art techniques, mainly based on her own photographs.
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:D – thank you!
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ohh so majestuous ! and I like how everything is soft. beautiful capture my friend =D
:aww: Thanks a lot dear… yes, doesn't he just look like a cuddle-bird? – don't think he would like it though! :)
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and isn't he just handsome! the only thing that makes him so different then our eagles is that he has no head-dress……….otherwise they are so similar…..(well…except i don't think eagles will urinate on their legs to keep them cool…lol)………LOVE the vulture world though
yes they are gorgeous birds too! (O_o what is that about their keeping the legs cool? – never heard that story ROFL )
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lol….vultures will urinate on their legs to keep their temperatures down! they'll also vomit their food if threatened? then come back to re-eat it….yummmmmy!
Yuck… makes them a lot less hugable for me, suddenly LMAO
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lol….i was at a local festival this fall……..and they had a bird show going on. just as they brought out this great African vulture….someone ELSE walked by with his bull mastiff pup…….the lady holding the bird was like 'ooooh, siruh….could you PLEASE remove u'r great beast before my bird vomitith on me?'………it was a Renaisance Festival of course…wouldn't have matched the costuming if the bird had chucked on her. lol
Hilarious! I can 'see' the scene ROFL
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These birds are scarry looking! Great shot and title!!
Thank you so much for the feature and kind compliment! I really appreciate!
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Great image, well done and congratulations on being featured.
Thanks a lot, David! much appreciated!
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Congratulations on your well deserved feature in Alphabet Soup
Thank you so much, Sheila for the kind comment! :)
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congratulations on your feature
Thank you so much, GL! :)
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i dont know if he looks majestic or lost???? daydreaming of a time before.. wondering where he is meant to be…
either or… it is a marvelous image congrats on your feature…xo
Thank you for your visit and for this marvellous comment, caradione, I really appreciate. (Check the title, I adapted it to cover your impression of the image ;) ) Thanks a lot!
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Longview, Tx (Fox 51) — A fatal wreck kills two Monday night.
According to the Department of Public Safety the wreck occurred around 8:25 p.m. on Loop 281 and near FM 968 in Longview.
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Lauryn Hill Released From Prison, Releases New Song |
By: Sara Haile-Mariam Friday October 4, 2013 3:05 pm |
She's seemingly emerged from her time on the inside with even more to say. In a newly released track called Consumerism – which appears to be from an album called "Part 1: Letters from Exile"- she addresses a host of "isms" ranging from hedonism to capitalism to skepticism.
Engelhardt, The Last Empire? |
By: Tom Engelhardt Tuesday May 7, 2013 12:10 pm |
It stretched from the Caspian to the Baltic Sea, from the middle of Europe to the Kurile Islands in the Pacific, from Siberia to Central Asia. Its nuclear arsenal held 45,000 warheads, and its military had five million troops under arms. There had been nothing like it in Eurasia since the Mongols conquered China, took parts of Central Asia and the Iranian plateau, and rode into the Middle East, looting Baghdad. Yet when the Soviet Union collapsed in December 1991, by far the poorer, weaker imperial power disappeared.
Abrupt Climate Change and the Dead End of Eco-Consumerism |
By: cassiodorus Sunday February 17, 2013 7:00 am |
A number of recent written pieces have reflected actual interest in doing something about abrupt climate change. Abrupt climate change is now stalling the gulf stream. Barack Obama mentioned climate change in his recent State of the Union speech. Canada dumps its Kyoto targets, but perhaps Barbara Boxer and Bernie Sanders are now interested in climate change legislation. "John Crapper" suggests we ought to declare war on fossil fuel. Agathena tells us more about Canadian tar sands.
Generally speaking, none of the suggested solutions to have reached mainstream respectability does what it takes.
The Decline and Fall of an American Empire |
By: cmaukonen Tuesday January 15, 2013 6:10 pm |
The American Empire was not like other historical empires, for from the very first it has been made up of various different ethnic and cultural groups. Initially French and Spanish. Then Dutch and British. With other nationalities coming later. Irish and German and Russian and (in my case) Finnish.
Disposable America |
By: cmaukonen Thursday January 10, 2013 5:36 pm |
Before the industrial revolution everything you got was made by hand one at a time. There very likely were apprentices and helpers involved but it was one at a time. Each unique in some way from the the others. made by craftsman an artisans who learned and honed their skills and trade over the years.
Then the industrial revolution got underway big time.
The Show So Far ……… |
By: cmaukonen Sunday December 30, 2012 7:00 pm |
Working toward the kind of society we envision is never a lost cause. And passing on this vision – even in the family structure – is what will bring about any real and lasting change. And put a halt to this sick, dark comedy we have been living for the last few thousand years. Where teachers and guides replace leaders, and wisdom and enlightenment and virtue and altruism are cherished and valued.
Live Blog for #Occupy Movement: Black Friday |
By: Kevin Gosztola Friday November 25, 2011 11:30 am |
One person was arrested and two others hospitalized after a melee in Rome, New York. Pepper spray was used by police to break up a fight in Kingston, North Carolina. Gunfire was heard in Fayetteville, North Carolina. A shooting at 1 am injured a woman in the leg in Myrtle Beach, South Carolina. A fight broke out in San Leandro, California, and a man was shot. And, a woman pepper sprayed a crowd around her injuring twenty people.
This is not an excerpt from a conservative blog post on the latest incidents of violence to occur as a result of the Occupy movement. This is what happened late last night and early this morning when shoppers were pushing their way through crowds to get the best deals from Big Box stores like Best Buy or Walmart.
Late Night FDL: When Did Black Friday Become a Holiday? |
By: Jane Hamsher Thursday November 24, 2011 8:00 pm |
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Hi all. I'm a rookie season ticket holder. Sure got a good year to be picked off the waiting list! I joined in the hopes in finding a good Patriots bar to watch the big game not too terribly far from Milford. I'm in that part of the state where things are pretty 50/50, but I'd rather be with all friendies if anyone knows of a good bar.
Welcome from a member in Milford in Mass. Hope you find a good bar. I'm from Southwest CT originally so I'm familiar with the NY fan base. Sucks.
It gets worse. I work in Manhattan. They're already talking smack to me. Two weeks of hear about how great big blue balls are is going to be hell.
Well my father worked in Manhattan for many year too. It was wasn't always pretty. His come back was always I'll take 3 to your ZERO (Jets Fans) or ONE (Giants). This is of course in reference to the Brady years. For the most part that would shut them up. Just don't read the papers. lol. That is unless you want to see that they are already preparing for a parade. I hated living in that mix of NY/NE fans. It so much better living up here what 30-40 min from Foxborough!
I'd happily move back to real New England if I ever get a chance. I grew up in Stonington, CT, so everyone was Patriots/Sox fans. Someday... In the meantime, I need to find a Patriots bar to watch the big game over here in little New York.


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Viacom, DirecTV and a Corporate Takeover That Makes Sense
NEW YORK ( TheStreet) --It often shocks me to realize the incredibly important role television plays in so many people's lives.
The other night, my wife and I had to deliver some perspective to our daughter.
We just so happened to be watching Nickelodeon when Viacom (VIA.B) fired salvo number one at DirecTV (DTV - Get Report). When she read the notice on the screen that DirecTV would have to remove Viacom programming, including Nickelodeon, from its channel lineup due to a contract dispute, she actually became emotional.
While we did not go completely old school on her, our response was sort of like the age-old parent line -- There are people starving in Africa and you ... !.
She seems to have already gotten over the loss of Nick. Like the fickle pre-tween that she is, she replaced Nick's iCarly with Walt Disney's (DIS) A.N.T. Farm in short order. I'm sure the couch potatoes obsessing over the Viacom-DirecTV fight on Twitter could find something beyond Nick at Nite, MTV, Spike and BET for stimulation and fulfillment as well. Investors should pay less attention to the outcome of this latest network/content owner versus delivery system squabble in favor of a focus on the larger issue.Premium Content/Appointment Viewing
It took 48 days, but earlier this year Madison Square Garden (MSG) and Time Warner Cable (TWC) settled a similar fight that affected viewers most in New York State. MSG pulled its networks -- various regional sports stations and the Fuse music television channel -- off of Time Warner Cable, leaving the cable services' subscribers without New York Knicks basketball during the Jeremy Lin "Linsanity" period and the National Hockey League during the run to the playoffs. I'm surprised Time Warner Cable held out as long as it did. But with nearly $3 billion in cash and $20 billion in annual revenue, TWC could afford to take a stand. At day's end, however, it needs MSG and it knows it. If this thing did not get resolved subscribers would have dropped cable and headed for satellite to secure convenient access to one of the few remaining important pieces of content -- live sports. Viacom does not have this type of leverage. Going forward, expect others to challenge the media giant in precisely the same way DirecTV has.Check Out Our Best Services for Investors
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The Kansas City Star, Oct. 6
Brownback's tax cuts cause another revenue hit:
As Kansas Gov. Sam Brownback remains locked in a tight re-election race with challenger Paul Davis, cheerleaders for Brownback's costly income tax cut experiment have taken on full-time pom-pom duty.
Consider Revenue Department Secretary Nick Jordan.
Just days ago, Jordan celebrated the fact that the state's corporate income tax collections had soared $21.5 million higher than expected in September. "We've worked hard to create a good business climate in Kansas," he said.
But then came this oh-by-the-way addition in the press release: "As anticipated, individual income tax receipts fell short of expectations primarily because of people calculating their estimated payments, the third of which are due in September."
So how far "short of expectations" were those income tax revenues? Try $42.5 million — or a whopping 17 percent lower than state budget experts had predicted.
As a result, Kansas in September actually took in $21 million less in total revenues than expected. Yet that grim news wasn't in the press release. So much for fully informing the public.
The statement also was misleading in contending that officials had "anticipated" that individual income tax revenue would be down for the month. Fact is, the state had published an official projection of $250 million, yet collected only $207.5 million for September.
As for that mumbo-jumbo about people "calculating their estimated payments" in September and thus throwing the state numbers off, The Star reviewed individual income tax receipts to see what had happened during Brownback's first three years in office.
In reality, the state collected $15 million more than expected in September 2011, $14 million more in that month in 2012 and $2.2 million less in September 2013.
The plunge in individual income tax revenues this September was way outside the norm.
Brownback, Jordan and other tax-cut boosters are on edge these days, especially as Davis pounds away at the folly of the governor's plan to keep reducing income taxes in the future. Davis correctly wants to postpone that move.
Brownback is trying to spin every bit of good news into a huge success story — ignoring the reality that the lower income tax rates that took effect in January 2013 haven't brought a dramatic surge in revenue from the bonanza of new jobs Kansas was supposed to enjoy.
This matters a great deal to Kansans. The state can't run a deficit. So if receipts keep coming in under projections, public services will have to be cut.
With three months now gone in the current fiscal year — July, August and September — the negative effects of the tax cuts on state revenues are coming into clearer focus.
According to state figures, Kansas collected $1.436 billion in 2011 for that three-month period and $1.507 billion in 2012 for the same time span.
But after the tax cuts took effect, overall revenues slid to $1.369 billion in 2013 for those three months and to $1.351 billion this year.
True, some of this slump was predicted, but it's been worse than projected. When the most recent fiscal year ended last June, state revenues were a stunning $334 million short of projections. Now, Kansas is already $22.4 million underwater for the first three months of the new fiscal year.
Blame the tax cuts for most of these problems in 2014. For example, the state's own numbers show individual income tax receipts from July through September this year were down a whopping $186 million year from their high point of the same period in 2012.
No amount of cheerleading can drown out that sobering fact for Kansans.
The Wichita Eagle, Oct. 3
Senate race finally set:
So the legal battle over the U.S. Senate race in Kansas ended where it started a month ago — with Democrat Chad Taylor out of the race, his state party looking pathetic, and Secretary of State Kris Kobach seeming more partisan agent than impartial election overseer. At least the absentee ballots can go out now.
Kobach's court losses mounted during the fight. They included the Kansas Supreme Court's unanimous Sept. 18 ruling overturning his decision to keep Taylor on the ballot and the Shawnee County District Court's Oct. 1 decision that Democrats need not replace him. Nor would the district judges allow Kobach to intervene in the latest case, which seemed to fizzle out when its plaintiff, a Kansas City, Kan., Democrat, failed to show up for the Sept. 29 hearing. In the end, the judges decided the voter lacked legal standing and even ordered him to pay the costs of the proceeding.
Both the petitioner and Kobach had focused on the word "shall" in statutory language saying that "when a vacancy occurs after a primary election in a party candidacy, such vacancy shall be filled by the party committee. ..." But the court pointed to "full five distinct meanings" of the word in Black's Law Dictionary and concluded "that the legislative and case history falls in favor of a limitation on the use of the word 'shall' ... to who has the authority to fill a vacancy and/or otherwise how such a vacancy is to be filled. The statutory framework mandates the who and the how, not the whether."
In the process of losing again in court, Kobach lost some credibility among Kansans as well. By working so hard to keep a Democrat on the ballot, Kobach appeared to many to be trying to help Sen. Pat Roberts, on whose honorary campaign committee Kobach serves, by splitting the votes against the three-term Republican. Not coincidentally, recent polls indicate that Kobach now has his own tight race against Democratic challenger Jean Schodorf.
Meanwhile, Kansas Democrats satisfied with the Shawnee County court decision should be ashamed instead. The 65,000 Democrats who voted in the primary for U.S. Senate just saw their voices muted and their state party subjugated — apparently by national-level Democratic operatives who are gambling that when independent candidate Greg Orman says "I won't answer to either party," as he does in a new ad blaming Democrats and Republicans equally for the mess in Washington, D.C., he's actually pledging allegiance to Senate Majority Leader Harry Reid, D-Nev.
Only the courts are due praise, for how they sorted through some legitimate legal questions in unusually rapid fashion while under fierce political fire.
With Kobach's legal ploy having played out, voters can now focus on the candidates and their stands, and decide which would best serve Kansas and the country as a U.S. senator.
Lawrence Journal-World, Oct. 5
Drone threat:
Drone technology is cool, but it's also pretty creepy.
The first introduction most Americans got to remotely operated drones was when they began being used to strike military targets in the Middle East. Now, smaller versions of those drones are popping up all over — including at Kansas University's Memorial Stadium, before the Texas-KU football game on Sept. 27.
The KU Public Safety Office is justifiably concerned about the unauthorized drone that flew over the stadium for about 15 minutes. Officials focused their concern on the fact that the drone could have interfered with an authorized flight by a group of planes that entertained the pregame crowd with a display of multicolored smoke. However, that is only one of many concerns the public might have about drones flying over the stadium — and who knows where else.
The drone at KU appeared to be carrying a camera, which could have been keeping an eye on anyone who was in the stadium that day. People in a football stadium may not feel like a drone is invading their privacy, but what if a drone was flying over your back yard?
KU officials were worried that the drone might be a hazard for authorized pilots flying over the stadium, but that certainly isn't the only potential threat it posed to the safety of people in the stands. Amazon is experimenting with the idea of using drones to deliver packages to its customers' doorsteps. If they can do that, they certainly could deliver some dangerous cargo — explosives or dangerous pathogens, for instance — to Memorial Stadium or about anywhere else.
Federal regulations prohibit the use of drones for non-military purposes, but that obviously isn't stopping people from using drones in unauthorized ways. The recent incident at KU and the drones reported at other football stadiums probably are completely harmless, but they point out the potential these devices have to threaten the safety and privacy of both individuals and large crowds anywhere in the country. It's something that federal regulators need to get a handle on sooner rather than later.
The Manhattan Mercury, Oct. 5
KSU is helping to feed the world:
It is fitting that the largest single grant Kansas State University has ever received will support research into ways to meet the world's increasing demands for food.
The grant, announced in late September, is for $50 million over five years. It comes from the U.S. Agency for International Development (USAID), and will help the university establish Feed the Future Innovation Labs for Sustainable Intensification. Feed the Future is a U.S. government initiative to address global hunger and food security.
This grant is a big deal not because it vaults Kansas State University further into the forefront of international agricultural research — though it certainly does that. More important is the opportunity it creates to boost agricultural production in parts of Asia and Africa that are both heavily populated and poor.
Sustainable intensification involves increasing the amount of food that can be produced on existing agricultural land while taking into account the environment as well as the economic and nutritional needs of the people working the land.
As news stories on the grant explained, the "labs" won't look like labs. Rather, they will involve farms in Tanzania, Ethiopia, Senegal, Myanmar, Bangladesh and Ghana. More specifically, researchers will seek ways to help small-holder farmers in those areas improve the management of their land, water, soil, crops and livestock while improving harvests and sustaining natural resources.
That this grant is the fourth Feed the Future grant K-State has received from USAID speaks to the university's reputation and the expertise of its agricultural researchers. The focus of other grants is on sorghum and millet research, applied wheat genomics and reducing losses after harvest.
As John Floros, dean of the KSU College of Agriculture, said, "USAID is making a nearly $100 million investment in Kansas State University's ability to provide leadership to the global food systems research, teaching and extension efforts."
At present there are some two dozen innovation labs led by 15 U.S. universities and involving dozens of American colleges and universities nationwide.
Their collective endeavor isn't just to help people in other countries tap the potential of their respective lands, it's also to help scientists, graduate students and farms gain a better appreciation of ways to make agricultural land in this country and elsewhere more productive while respecting the environment.
It's working. According to USAID, Feed the Future has reached more than 7 million farmers and other food producers with new management practices and technologies on almost 10 million acres. What's more, the program's high-impact nutrition efforts to improve human health and development have reached more than 12 million children.
We're confident that with the expertise at K-State and other U.S. participants, Feed the Future labs will help entire populations benefit from growing nutritious crops on increasingly productive lands in sustainable ways.


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The 2009 Baseball Bash at Ray Jewell Park Saturday drew hundreds of players and their families for an end of the season celebration.
"It was hot, but it turned out to be great. We probably had 600 to 700 people there," said Daniel Cole, president of the Spencer County Youth Baseball Association.
The annual fundraiser brought in an estimated $5,000 that will be used toward dirt, brick dust conditioner and possibly even lights.
With 32 baseball and softball teams, scheduling games can be difficult, said Cole.
Spencer County 14U team Young Gunz placed second in the first annual Summer Slam Classic last weekend. The two-day tournament was held in London June 13-14. The team came from behind to win two games but, dispite their grit, were named runner-up.
Team members seen below are: Coach Brent New, Austin Gabrie, Chaz Goodlett, Logan Hall, Josh Talley, Coach Billy Talley, Dylan Boone, Austin King, Coach Jonathan O'Dell, Westin Pittman, Jordan Hardin,Travis O'Dell, and Landon New, Josh Ferency and Austin Heilman.
Spencer County Soccer Association (SCSA) will be holding registrations at Taylorsville Dairy Queen on June 20, 10 a.m.-3 p.m. and on Sunday June 21, 1 p.m.-3 p.m. Deadline for registrations is midnight June 30. For more information you can email SCSA at firstname.lastname@example.com.
The day started out cool – hovering around the low 50s – and gradually warmed to a comfortable high of 80 degrees with barely a cloud in sight. Event organizers could not have ordered a better day for the 4th Annual Spencer County Habitat for Humanity Golf Scramble.
Whether it was the picture-perfect day or the chance to help out for a good cause, a record number of golfing enthusiastists turned out to participate in the yearly fundraiser.
News & Views.
In a time of tweets, twitters, instant messaging and breaking the cell phone-while-driving law, a few reflections.
NEWS. Three and done, Jodie Meeks decided to move on.
The Spencer County Soccer Association (SCSA) will be holding their Annual Meeting on July 19 at 4 p.m. at Ray Jewell Park above the concession stand. We will be holding Elections at this time.
SCSA will be holding thier monthly meeting on June 14 at 4 p.m. at Ray Jewell Park above the concession stand.
Wow, what a great day for the Spencer County Invitational Trap tournament with the rain passing through early in the morning making for a great day. Seven counties attended the tournament May 16, which was held at the Spencer County Fish and Game club. Over 50 youth, ranging from nine to 18, experienced the excitement of competition trap shooting. Some experienced the joy of victory with others experiencing the agony of defeat, but everyone experienced the happiness of fellowship, camaraderie and just plain fun. With this combination everyone was a true winner.
Upset favorites. A list of unforgettable shockers in sports. We all have them.
This week, in order, 10 favorites of mine.
10. 1958. Seattle, Temple, Kansas State were 1-2-3 favorites to win the NCAA basketball championship. At the Final Four in Louisville, Seattle ripped K-State by 22 points, Kentucky beat Temple 61-60.
Seattle was favored to beat Kentucky in the title game. Instead, John Crigler frustrated Elgin Baylor and UK won and made popular, The Fiddlin' Five.
Free sports physicals will be held at Spencer County Physical Therapy on Saturday from 9 a.m.-noon. Also,during the physicals, Dr. James Ransdell and Elk Creek Dental Care( located in the Physical Therapy Building) will be offering free custom sports mouthguards to the first 50 Spencer Co. athletes. Parents must be present to receive the free mouthguard. If anyone has any questions, please call Spencer County Physical Therapy at 477-0300 or Elk Creek Dental Care at 477-5800.
A week after Matt Powenski resigned as head football coach at Spencer County High School, his chief assistant was named to replace him at the helm of the Bears' program.
Wes Napper was named last week officially as the new head football coach and inherits a program that Powenski helped guide to three straight playoff appearances.
SCHS Athletic Director Brian Higdon made the announcement this week, calling Napper the "obvious choice."


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Wood Lily
If the wood lilies are not blooming near you, they should be soon. They are perhaps the showiest wildflower in the state. They grow to a height of around 1-2 feet, and at the top of the stem are 1-3 bright burnt orange flowers about 2 and a half inches across with six reddish-orange petals that are yellow at the base with dark spots. Actually there are petals and sepals that look alike, or what botanists call tepals. At any rate, the size and color of this member of the lily family can turn a wet meadow into riot of color.
Wood lily (Lilium philadelphicum), sometimes called wild lily or wild tiger lily was described by Linnaeus in 1762, apparently to honor Philadelphia or perhaps because it was first collected in that area. It is native to much of the United States and Canada. Here in North Dakota it may be found across the state with perhaps the exception of the far southwest part of the state. Its habitat includes low prairie and wet meadows as well as brushy hillsides and open woods. It may also be occasionally observed in road ditches particularly where the ditch is composed of mainly native vegetation.
The showy color of wood lily has led many people to transplant them to gardens. However, they do not transplant well, and no doubt many populations of wood lilies have been decimated by collecting as well as other factors such as overgrazing and the conversion of prairie to cropland. The species is now considered threatened or endangered in several states. Thankfully North Dakota is not one of them. But for those of you interested in adding this colorful and interesting wildflower, there is good news. Seeds and plants are now available from nurseries and also online.
Although the most widely used common name for this plant in North Dakota is wood lily, it is often called western red lily in parts of Canada, particularly in Saskatchewan where it has been designated the Provincial floral emblem. As such, the species has been given legal protection from being picked, uprooted, or disturbed in any way.
Chuck Lura
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Clock tics so smoothly Whilst celebrants big bang came Past out new hopes in.
Rippling sound melting One's inner being outward Unite its fragments
Dawn comes On the silk route; Sun sparkles Tour trip explores Vistas of China; Old and new transits So much to see: Lovely landscapes; Crowded cities morphing Words in my journal, Thoughts on my journey; Miracles and mysteries Mötley tourist crowd Eagerly guzzling down All things China in spring rain We take our time, Explore the edges; Collect instant memories My darling translates Classical Chinese tongue: Basic English field trip! Beauty in nuances Cryptic language profound: Where the Middle Kingdom reigns Memories on record, Thought distiller in word motifs; Celebrate and anchor Eventful sojourn, Spring sensations -- Mystic revelations Just the other day, My darling said to me: Take another China trip? Leon Enriquez 19 Feb 2014 Singapore
A void of Facebook Creativity dies here... Procrastination!
It's been a good run To the back side of sixty, The short side of time. First Hollywood kiss Behind a pink crepe myrtle. Thanks, Patsy Werner. High school was okay. Didn't help me to focus; So, my mind wandered. Surfed Bonzai Pipeline, Big waves break into lava. What made me do it? Vietnam jungles. I wondered why I was there. America lost. Smoking pot. Stereo. Good fun in the seventies. Psychedelics too. And three wives later, I finally found true love. We're still together. My destitute heart, Saved by the sweetest angel. I love you, Sandy. Sooners are my team. Most winning football program In the Modern Era. I am retired now. But I have plenty to do. Golf, primarily. I've been writing more. Perhaps I will write a book. I have many tales. I'd chase young girls; but, Girls with a "grampa" fetish Are so hard to find. If I am lucky, I will just drop dead one day. With my peace of mind. Yes, made a good run To the back side of sixty, The short side of time.
Omniscient guy Yet he lets bad things happen How can he exist?
Beauty of nature Why condense it down to God? Isn't life enough?
God made all people But some better than others? Stop being silly.
A silver lining Painted on a dull, gray sky By courage and faith.
The body: sacred We're all made in God's image Hence... circumcision?
Captain Cook's letter; ocean witnesses alone
Play The Radio Get Up And Dance All Night Long Music Heals The Soul
Gathering grey clouds Whip crack of frothing thunder Is this Africa?
Rough, Wild, Dangerous Sinking the Sailors and Ships Breaking Hearts alas!
Journey From On High rocks under water tree roots grasping mother earth mountain stands so tall Robert J. Lindley 08-22-2014
Blossoming Effulgent sun proffers love Clambering… Ascending Above the undergrowth…of Thorns and weeds Furtively The moon unravels wonders Glimmering
Water licks your feet Far cry from the beating sun Desert sand to sea
Yesterday, big bites Time flog the sweat to attempt Killing lullaby Today, chased the waves Sprint lost towards to the sea Swam and freely dove Tomorrow, treasures The time penned another page Get ready to serve 11th place Your own favorite haiku. Sponsored by: Poet Destroyer A
The English weather: Rainclouds follow us from home There is no escape.
Stumblin' as one alone, Seldom signs, only trees and stones, Night fatigue beckons.
An azure ocean Displaced by mighty blackness The horizon dies
Precipitation: Culminates in a washout Stuffed camels get soaked
I'm mysterious No one can see through my mind Discovering me
motorcycle roars penetrating the quiet night shattering the silence aircraft on the runway jet engines scream before lift off to the clouds above on the waterfront ocean liner calling her flock - the loud blaring horn
Things feel the same way, Life must go on anyway Do not die inside!
1. It's loving Blossom merrily day Caption to a beloved reign And applauding way. 2. It's catchy Schetchy scatchy love Not catching on for far long Just dawn to night love. 3. It's Fun Powerful grace for peace And reiterating Romance Be mine tonight please?
nomad's caravan--- detours on an unknown place taking new chances Haiku On Probabilities For Marvin Celestial's Contest
Dunes now flowing Blow spring air Sandblasts love ...
steering wheel takes me to destinations unknown for happy reasons....
The Med between us The gusts make me think of you Storms... it's just like home.
I found the New Year weak Laden cumberland and amber Weeping snow from the spicy sweet shrubs Beg as if it is a teen to absent spring To emerge somewhere with its perfect Beauty delight; But when I sought to it for you, Ah the New Year grows in front of my eyes Like those plum-blossoms from the old garden! PS: To all my colleagues from Poetry Soup: Have you a great beginning year!
Life Extensions - Haiku squirming on the pole worm knows his place in nature line extends, fish bites
night journey's mirage water on the road ahead flashes through car's light
there is a large star that shines so bright; way up there what if I follow…?
Penetrating deep, Beneath rocks, beyond light, Carbide blazing night.
From "The Defiant Haiku" I wonder in what dream one hundred Years from now he can write Dragonflies In meadows my little boy – who is fall asleep!
Unscramble knowledge Rearrange and calculate Time is against you
Predictable Porcupine Porcupine strolls by spikes glowing only at dusk always the same route © Shane Cogan, 2013
Born to innocence We stretch for reason An epiphany out of reach 16 August 2014 Marvin Celestial's Contest: Haiku on Enlightenment
Incandescence floods my senses as familiar silhouettes beckon --------- (C) John C Michaels, 2014
Today I stepped back Instead of stepping forward Never mind...Get up!
radiant sun shines laurel of meadow sage glows fragrant flowers rise across swooning bay voice settled in the woodland good morning Fresia a lullaby flew In the Morra nightingales dancing in the trees 1/13/2014
My Shoulder My shoulders Hold the care of someone else No warning Heavy weight Responsibilities grow Caregiving Tasks for two Now are mine to meddle through Keep Control Remember All appointments and the meds Important I can feel The stress upon my shoulders It grows now No easy task I strain to make the effort Rewarding Not easy either Daily challenges await Days go by My love too Struggles with both walk and talk Stroke attack Together We face all the days ahead Not I alone Changed views now Our tired eyes do see the world Moving On Rearranged And with it much confusion Sort it out Love is strong Any other seems so wrong Find a way Yesterday The days with fun and flare Are dreams now My shoulders Grow strong with all they carry Tomorrow Look forward Work now toward better days Promising
Who sets the standard? Who accepts this? We all do. What is good enough? My 'good' is your 'bad' My best is 'mediocre'. What is good enough? What is good enough, Is your best, your very best. That is good enough
(Note: I am going on a journey to Yunnan, China from May 18 to 28 -- to explore the wonders there. My poetry posting will resume when I come back.) ~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~ This tour trip Special iterinary; Yunnan beckons Journey into Mysterious realms; Places in time China gateway Manifold possibilities; Fragrant surprises Here we go again, My sweetheart and I; Cheer enters sweetly Spring time Old China moments; Modern settings Lovely momento Fleeting scenes; Formal entrance Wonder awaits Our wandering; China expose As we leave For the airport; Thoughts of home This hiatus From ordinary days; So much to pack Hiatus like escape Forfeits daily routines; Holiday diversion toil Hiatus from posting No online e-poetry; Just words on paper On the road tour Good writes will come; Ink stains on parchment Till then my friends "Thank you. Be well. God bless." More poetry 11 days forth! Silk Air flight Sunday wee hours; Off we go then Leon Enriquez 17 May 2014 Singapore
on an excursion students are seen glorious their auras speak dreams few have no complain at the time of taking seats few do politics whistling train moves on talking many to other few reserve silence in all their coaches few are busy with own games few sing and few clap faces are tired now as stamina is finished journey is complete Written on 8th Januay2015
I guard … Ready Looking at him sleeping The night-start kiss keeps on!
I began to be a reader since I was in the womb and I thought it was heaven From which I remained still.
away from the norm her and i become big kids in a bigger world....
January juxtapose More cold now Beyond hot heat! Cold cold air Windy surprise; Minus heat therapy? Winding way whirls Shiver seeding shiver January jostling juice Lotus sunbathe -- Muddy pond flavours Mid-afternoon glare Misdirected Whim and fancy; Windy detours New year in late January, Oozing days forfeit; Scent of the times! Why do I Reason with reason; To justify nothing Wind chimes Breezy orchestra Sparrow salute Stillness Silence sways calmly; Usher enlightenment? Haiku Hokku How To? Vivid wonder In nothing new; Only fresh eyes One by one Images flash by; Like old friends Memory swirls Round and round; Circles to devour! My darling dearest Sleep-talking again; Smiles pay tokens So many curves: Drop-dead gorgeous; No time to sip! Deep deep dark Catch curvy craze Sense stillness shout No need for nice, Just pay the price; Indulge sheer surprise! Here by Lovely, lonely shore No one but me! New expressway Halting jam frustration; Missing clear detour! When I speak Words do not come; Silence stays Happiness: Fleeting dry ice, Carbon dioxide complex Sublime Subdued Sensations Glow in your eyes Hint of sexy ideas -- Measured in your smile! Love looks lovely Rain running rowdy Sheer shifting sights Splendour courts, Grandeur tiptoes , Silence succumbs Igloo atmosphere Air-con ice cold Shivering skin tones Tales awaiting Weary bones; Fireside conversations Nature nurtures Quaint restraint; Silence raptures haiku Sanguine rapture, Observe the scenario; Can you see now? Pulse of new morning Glow in your eyes; Heart to heart Moon glow Aqua aura Familiar wink Somnolence Scattering sensations Swift spread sweetening Slow morning edging Indulgent Indulgence Wake-up call Early morning darkness Drowsy in dim light Fumbling footsteps Pre-dawn precursor Tentative waiting Drowsy Dreamy Discovery Oil painting self-talk Kostabi's imagery Passageway decor Mind the view Pending rapture In-transit here Feelings surge Raw word fumbling Echoes in reprieve Listen The wind calls Whispers your name Look to your self As best you can; Then understand When and where And how and why Say who and what Frozen time Thaws to water Down the drain Time equals life Oozing away Does it matter? Love plays A game; Only fools smile gleefully! Leon Enriquez 09 Mar 2014 Singapore
Sand castles Seashore artifacts; Seagulls for company Morning fitness run Winding jogging track; Pulse of adrenaline Salty sea breeze Coconut palms sway; Stray voices unfurl Flower carpet Yellow and red hues; Jogging track surprise Seaside horizon Sun and sand and mist; Nature makes pictures Piquant conversations Seafront gathering; Message in skyline
Saturday tour Fine arts exhibits; Innovative textures Meeting here With art and buffet; Small talk punctuates Look deeply now So much passion; Well-endowed Faces in the crowd I seek you; Finder's keepers Now I can see Your beauty smile; My heart swells Surge of rush Adrenaline flood; Fight or flight Listen now My lover speaks; Heart to heart I grow old Older than time; Ageless spirit From booth to booth We explore beauty; Facets of delight Small talk, Chit-chat waters; Big deal in small things Leon Enriquez 12 May 2014 Singapore
my navigation is the best thing in the world for our grand entries....
The landscape. No blame. Should have been designed downhill. Thumping could be fixed.
Land Ho! It's in sight Illusion, it's far away That's quite the insight. From the bird above I find the insight to recite The feel incites me. Look closer inside We are there, we've arrived But where have we gone? The boat is stagnant But we are up and about That's quite the insight.
driving through cities i never heard of before will inspire more miles....
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Krispy Kreme sets its opening date in Delco
The "hot" light goes on April 9.
Krispy Kreme sets its opening date in Delco
Krispy Kreme makes its foray into the western burbs at 6:30 a.m., Tuesday, April 9 when it flips on the "Hot" light at its new shop in Havertown at Eagle Road and Route 3 (West Chester Pike) in the Manoa Shopping Center.
This location wil hire 30 locals. (That's locals, not lo-cals.)
Hours will be 6 a.m. to 9:30 p.m. Monday to Saturday, 7:30 a.m. to 9:30 a.m. Sunday.
The first customer in line will get one dozen doughnuts every week for a year. (At $8.99 a dozen plus 63 cents tax, that's worth 500 bucks.)
The next 99 people in line will get one dozen doughnuts every month for a year.
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Life is expected to return to normal in Haryana as Jats, who were on a rail blockade in Haryana for over three weeks, demanding government jobs under the Other Backward Classes (OBC) quota, have decided to suspend their stir after agreements with the government.
Jats started leaving the tracks on Friday night after Chief Minister Bhupinder Singh Hooda agreed to set up a 'Haryana Backward Classes Commission' within a month. In a statement, the Chief Minister said the Jats agreed to lift all blockades and dharnas with immediate effect.
The commission will consider the demands of Roar, Jat, Jat Sikh, Tyagi, Bishnoi and any other community which wishes to be included in the backward classes list in the State.
The Supreme Court on Thursday took strong exception to the Uttar Pradesh and Haryana Chief Ministers' 'support' to the Jat stir for quota in central jobs and asked the two States and Rajasthan to ensure that the supply of water and other essential commodities to Delhi was not affected.
The Punjab and Haryana High Court too had directed the Haryana government to immediately get the rail and other blockades cleared to restore normal movement of trains.
However hours after Mr. Hooda's statement, Jat leaders said they would seek a written assurance on reservation before calling off their stir.
"We had a meeting with Mr. Hooda on Friday night. He assured us that all our demands would be met in the coming days but still we have not ended our stir," Hawa Singh Sangwan, president of the Haryana Jat Arakshan Samiti said. "We are still evaluating the situation and waiting for a written assurance from the government," Mr. Sangwan added.
The protesters, including women, children and the elderly, had blocked rail tracks at 15 points across Haryana. The worst affected were the districts of Hisar, Bhiwani and Jind. Thousands of passengers were put to inconvenience as the authorities cancelled several trains passing through Haryana in the last three weeks. The Jat leaders had earlier announced that they would block the Delhi-Ambala-Amritsar rail track if their demand was not met by March 25. The deadline ended on Friday. The leaders also warned that if their demands were not met by March 28, they would block all roads and rail tracks in Haryana, including those going to Delhi.
On the rampage in U.P.
PTI reports:
Jats in U.P. went on the rampage blocking roads, indulging in brick-batting, opening fire, torching vehicles and holding government officials captive at separate places in Gautam Buddha Nagar district prompting the police to resort to lathicharge and arrest 12 protesters, officials in Lucknow said.
Around 250 members of the community blocked road in Mirzapur village under Rabupur police station in GB Nagar district on Saturday afternoon, they said.
When Additional Superintendent of Police Rakesh Jolly and Additional District Magistrate O.P. Arya reached the spot and asked the protesters to lift the blockade, they allegedly indulged in brick-batting and opened fire, sources said.
In retaliatory action, police resorted to lathi-charge, fired tear gas shells and arrested 12 persons.
Meanwhile, in Nilauni Shahpur village, adjacent to Mirzapur, officials and members of the divisional task force led by executive engineer Krishna Kumar were held captive by the trouble-makers.
The agitators also torched four vehicles including a truck and three jeeps, sources said.
While all members of the task force were rescued by police, deputy director of welfare department A.K. Verma could not be traced, they said.
Keywords: Jats agitation, Jats reservation, Backward Class


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The 2011 Dodge Durango has been redesigned for this model year, and it looks better than ever. I used to wonder why the Durango was so popular with its odd angles, protruding hood and bulging eyes, I mean, headlights. Now, with softer edges and a more uniform body, I get it. The interior has also been redesigned and offers a no-frills, yet attractive design.
This three-row SUV is big, makes some noise and has an engine that won't quit, but it's ultimately likeable and seems like it just might be able to handle anything, including a family.
With all of this new styling, I think 2011 is the year that the Durango is finally growing into its own skin. This is the genesis that I've been waiting for, turning the Durango from an otherwise brutish vehicle into an almost charming one.
I write "almost" because the Durango is not a car for everyone. Driving the 2011 Durango is a trucklike experience. Like a Mack truck. A new V-6 engine is the standard for 2011, but my test car had the optional V-8. While the V-8 was powerful, it never let me forget it was there, which was a good thing when I needed some extra power and a bad thing when I wanted some extra quiet.
Despite the noise, I must admit that the Durango's V-8 engine was extremely capable. Acceleration came easily to it, and plowing up hills, over gravel and dirt, and around city streets were all easily accomplished.
The Durango starts at $29,195, and my test car, an all-wheel-drive Crew trim, had a price tag of $46,975.
After my weeklong test drive, I decided the 2011 Durango is a double-edged sword. It looks better than ever both inside and out, and the size can work to your advantage when hauling lots of people and things. However, its large size can be problematic for people with small children or people who are just small themselves.
The 2011 Durango is better looking than its predecessors, with its soft, Rubenesque edges. It seems more put-together than in years past. The 2011 Durango shares its unibody design with the 2011 Jeep Grand Cherokee; it's easy to notice the similarities between the two, though the Durango is still almost a foot longer than the Cherokee.
The Durango's size is also evident in terms of pure heft. The car's curb weight is around 5,000 pounds, which makes for heavy doors and a heavy liftgate. Of course, the standard power liftgate helps alleviate any strain in getting it up and down.
None of my children could open the Durango's doors on their own, but this was both a product of their size, the door-handle height and the door weight. The step-in height was also reflective of the size of the Durango. My 4-year-old could climb into the SUV with some struggle, but needed a lift to get in the third row, and my 2-year-old needed a lift either way. My infant always needs a lift, so her experience, in this case, was irrelevant.
My test SUV had the optional 360-horsepower, 5.7-liter V-8 that uses regular gas. There's also a standard 290-hp, 3.6-liter V-6. If you need to tow anything, the V-8 can haul up to 7,400 pounds. The standard V-6 can haul up to 6,200 pounds.
The V-8 was one of the more conspicuous engines I've driven in recent memory. It grumbled and roared as if we were having a constant conversation about how powerful it was. I never doubted its power, but did wish it would silence itself occasionally.
Of course, all of this grumbling and power comes at a price. A high gas price, that is. A two-wheel-drive Durango with the V-6 gets 16/23 mpg city/highway and the V-8 gets 14/20 mpg. An all-wheel drive Durango with the V-6 gets 16/22 mpg. With the V-8, it gets 13/20 mpg. In light of rising gas prices, these fuel-economy numbers are brutal.
Family Friendly (Not Really, Fair, Great, Excellent): Great
Fun-Factor (None, Some, Good Times, Groove-On): Some/Good Times
I wouldn't call the 2011 Durango's new interior indulgently luxurious, but I really liked it. It's got some black plastic surfaces that don't offend, and silver-colored trim finishes things off with simplicity. What's more is the center stack's layout is simple and functional. I didn't once have to refer to the owner's manual, which I detest doing, but it happens more often than not in today's high-tech, multi-buttoned interiors.
The interior is also where the Durango's size earns kudos. Once you get yourself in this car, which can be difficult if you're petite, there's ample shoulder, head- and legroom. Even with three large child-safety seats installed, everyone still had plenty of space to stretch out. With the third row in use, cargo space was 17.2 cubic feet, which isn't enormous, but was enough to hold my small stroller and several bags of groceries. Furthermore, since I only had one car seat installed in the third row, I was able to have one side of the 50/50-split third row down, which provided more cargo space.
With the entire third row down, storage space becomes almost cavernous, and with the second row folded down, you'll probably start losing things because there's so much room in the Durango. The front passenger seat even folds flat to allow you to carry really long items, too. There's also a hidden storage compartment in the rear, as well as a tiered center console in the front row and various cubbies throughout the cabin. The storage options are endless and practical.
Speaking of options, my test car was loaded with a slew of options that are worth mentioning. Heated front- and second-row seats were toasty and switched on with the press of a button. The Sirius Backseat TV, a subscription service that delivers Nickelodeon, Disney Channel and Cartoon Network, provided good entertainment for the kids. I'm still at philosophical odds with the necessity of in-car television, but my children find it enthralling.
Beyond that, the seats were comfortable and supportive, the iPod/USB port was accessible and there was a handy flashlight in the rear cargo area. The Durango's 10 cupholders were always close by. Tri-zone air conditioning and steering-wheel-mounted audio controls were also nice standard features.
Storage Compartments (Puny, Fair, Ample, Galore): Ample
Cargo/Trunk Space (Puny, Fair, Ample, Galore): Ample
In this large, seven-passenger SUV, there are only two sets of lower Latch anchors. As of mother of three kids who are all in child-safety seats, I'd love to see Dodge add another set or two of Latch anchors to the Durango.
The two sets of anchors were thankfully easy to find, access and use. Given the size of this SUV, it's no surprise that all three of my car seats — a rear-facing infant-safety seat and two convertible seats — fit fine, leaving plenty of legroom for other passengers when installed. Depending on the size of your car seats, you might be able to fit three of them across the second row. However, I ended up putting my children's car seats in both the second and third rows. Read MotherProof.com's Car Seat Check of the 2011 Durango here.
The Durango comes replete with a bevy of standard safety features. The full complement of airbags comes standard, including side curtains for all three rows. A stability system with anti-roll control, traction control, four-wheel-disc antilock brakes with brake assist, a backup camera and rear parking sensors are also standard. For those of you who would like to use this beast to haul things, there's even standard trailer-sway control.
My test car also came with a host of optional safety equipment that I could get used to having in my arsenal. SmartBeam automatic high-beam headlights and rain-sensing wipers came as part of the $5,000 options package, which also includes 20-inch wheels, navigation system, and heated front- and second-row seats. A forward collision warning system with adaptive speed control and a blind spot warning system and rear cross-path detection system made up the almost $1,200 Technology Package and worked like charms.


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Turkey season just around the corner
Friday, Mar, 15 2013
Turkey season 2012 is just a few weeks away. With winter still hanging on it could make for an interesting first couple of weeks. The turkeys are bunched up and looking for food. Try to get out and scout where the turkeys are feeding. As the weather gets better old picked over cornfields will fill with birds I suggest you try to get out and sight in you turkey gun. You don't want to wait until the season starts. Make sure you have all your required licenses and tags as well. I can't wait for the warmer weather to get here.
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It's time to get out
Friday, Mar, 1 2013
Well it seems winter just doesn't want to let go. But there is plenty to do in the outdoors. Ice fishing is still in full swing, there is plenty of snow to get out and snowshoe and of course my favorite shed hunting. Most of the bucks have shed their antlers by now and it's time to get out. With this much snow I concentrate on trails located between bedding and feeding areas. Try to look in the food sources as well. Also with spring just around the corner don't forget to purchase your new license that expires on March 31. Turkey season and the spring walleye run are not far off. MAke sure to get the latest on outdoor activities every Wednesday at 5 on Living The Outdoors.
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Egypt saves face with today's prisoner swap
The prisoner exchange is taking place today at Taba, on Egypt's border with Israel.
The Egyptian military, by holding Grapel for more than four months and using him as leverage to secure the release of 25 Egyptians imprisoned in Israel, is able to champion its own success. Israel did Egypt's military council a favor by giving Egypt a way out of the situation without losing face, says Dr. Gad.
It also allows Egypt to close the file on several issues that have plagued relations with Israel.
Israel-Egypt relations hit a low in August, when Israeli soldiers killed six Egyptian border guards after a terrorist attack in the Sinai. Several weeks later, an angry crowd breached the Israeli embassy in Cairo, leading Israel to withdraw its ambassador and nearly all its diplomatic staff.
By patching up relations since then, the military council is also sending a message to the West that it will maintain Egypt's ties with Israel, Gad says. The February overthrow of former President Hosni Mubarak, who maintained Egypt's unpopular peace treaty with Israel, has caused some in the West to worry that the Israel-Egypt relationship could rupture.
Why the deal is in Israel's interest
Israel's decision to exchange prisoners for what it claims is an unjustly imprisoned citizen in a nation with which it has diplomatic relations is unusual. But had Grapel truly been a spy, says Gad, Egypt would have exacted a much higher price for his release.


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quote:here in Oxford I was listening to local sports talk this morning and they were talking about how the US Olympic folks contacted Memphis about hosting and they were talking about how excited they were (while neglecting to mention like 30 cities were reached out to)...talking about how great a Memphis Olympics would be
quote:Jerryworld as the Olympic Stadium?
quote:Miami FTMFW!
quote:Regarding Seattle, doesn't it get a good amount of rain too? I know you hear about how rainy it is and that they get it almost every day. I'm assuming it's nothing like the torrential downpours you get in the south on a summer afternoon, though.
quote:Would they really give it to Denver due to its elevation? Something tells me long distance runs and the marathon would be disasters waiting to happen in the thin air.
quote:I could see it doing well in San Fran. Other options that might work are Chicago, Indianapolis or Boston.
quote:Between downtown and the U of Washington, I can't think of anything Seattle doesn't already have. And the rowing sports would be awesome in the bay. Find a real river for the kayaking though. That course in London was lame.
quote:I'd love to see DC/Baltimore get a real look from the committee. They have the facilities and infrastructure to accomodate something like the Olympics.


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Daily iPad App: GeoMaster Plus HD
I tried the original GeoMaster app from French mobile developer VirtuaMobile a long time ago, but the HD version is well-suited to the bigger iPad screen. GeoMaster Plus HD is a geography quizzing game. It is simple enough, flashing text on the screen and asking you to tap the appropriate locat...
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