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A 1st in 52 years: Co-champs at the Spelling Bee
OXON HILL, Md. (AP) — When the confetti flew, the two boys stood in the center of the stage and shook hands. They held up the trophy together. Both were champions, a Spelling Bee finish unseen in more than half a century.
After all, it wouldn't have seemed right for one of them to finish second. Sriram Hathwar and Ansun Sujoe had essentially used up the entire list of words the Bee had to offer. The one time Sriram misspelled, Ansun did too. Then they were spot on for their final 12 spellings combined, acing dark-corner-of-the-dictionary stuff like "thymelici," ''encaenia," ''skandhas," ''sdrucciola" and "holluschick."
Sriram had been a favorite to win. Ansun had come out of nowhere. When it was all done, 14-year-old Sriram from Painted Post, New York, and 13-year-old Ansun from Fort Worth, Texas, had each won $30,000 in cash as co-winners of the 87th Scripps National Spelling Bee.
"I think we both know that the competition is against the dictionary and not against each other," Sriram said. "I'm happy to share this trophy with him."
Not since 1962 had the Bee ended in a tie. It came about because the rules state that only 25 words remain once the competition is down to two or three spellers. Sriram thought he was a goner when he stumbled on "corpsbruder" (a close comrade), but Ansun then couldn't handle "antigropelos" (waterproof leggings).
So they kept going, the spelling celebrity and the upstart, and the doomsday bell never sounded again.
Sriram was competing in the Bee for the fifth time and had finished third last year. He had received the full ESPN star treatment. Ansun, looking fashionable in a red bowtie, failed to get out of the preliminaries in his only previous appearance — and was one of Sriram's fans.
"Definitely — I'd seen him in the finals," Ansun said. "And I wanted to be like that."
Turns out they're exactly alike — at least in the final rankings.
"A veteran and, let's say, a rookie," Sriram said with a smile long after the confetti had settled. "It's pretty cool."
Sriram likes swimming, skating, playing basketball and the oboe and wants to be an ophthalmologist. (Both of his parents are doctors.) Ansun is a gifted musician and wants to be an engineer, like his father. Both are Indian-American, making it seven years in a row and 12 out of 16 that a speller of Indian descent has taken home the trophy. The run began in 1999 with Nupur Lala, who was featured in the documentary "Spellbound."
The Bee is always good for colorful moments as bright kids enjoy their turn in the spotlight. This week, a new word was coined — "spellfie" — as spellers, family and fans took photos of themselves in addition to the usual rush to collect each other's autographs. The week began with the annual barbecue, when Sriram was inducted into an oddly-named group of spellers that hang out online.


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Damage received on skill activation; stacks intensity.
— In-game description
Confusion is a condition that deals damage each time the affected target begins to activate a skill. Confusion stacks in intensity.
Characters suffering from confusion can be identified by twirling, purple tinted spiral over their heads. Additionally, the same effect will appear alongside damage dealt by confusion when using a skill.
The formula for confusion's damage is:
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10 + (1.5 * Level) + (0.2 * Condition Damage)per stack
130 + (0.2 * Condition Damage)per stack at level 80
65 + (0.075 * Condition Damage)per stack
Confusion damage is applied on every skill activation, whether activated manually or automatically. For example, necromancers will take confusion damage when they create a Mark of Blood after dodging while equipped with the Mark of Evasion trait.
Related skills[edit]
- See also: Condition#Related skills
Weapon skills that confuse[edit]
Underwater weapon skills that confuse[edit]
Utility skills that confuse[edit]
- Corrupt Boon (when removing retaliation)
- Well of Corruption (when removing retaliation)
- Pain Inverter
Skills with special conditions that confuse[edit]
- Concussion Bomb (with Bomb Kit)
- Confusing Speech (tool belt skill with Technobabble)
- Pry Bar (with Tool Kit)
- Sonic Shriek (with Reef Drake)
- Throw Gunk (Warthog pet)
- Throw Gunk (Stolen skill)
- Cry of Frustration (shatter)
- Magic Bullet (with Illusionary Elasticity)
Downed skills that confuse[edit]
Combos that confuse[edit]
- Combo Field: Ethereal × Combo Finisher: Physical Projectile
- Combo Field: Ethereal × Combo Finisher: Whirl
Skills that remove confusion[edit]
Healing skills that remove confusion[edit]
Skills with special conditions that remove confusion[edit]
Related traits[edit]
- See also: Condition#Related traits
Traits that apply confusion[edit]
- Distracting Strikes (on foe interruption)
- Blinding Befuddlement (upon blinding foes)
- Confusing Combatants (upon destroying an illusion)
- Confusing Enchantments (upon entry or exit of a Glamour skill)
- Illusionary Retribution (upon shatter)
- Bewildering Ambush (when stealing)
Traits that increase confusion[edit]
- Master of Misdirection (increases duration by 33%)
Related effects[edit]
Effects that confuse[edit]
- Chaos Armor (randomly)
Related equipment[edit]
- See also: Condition#Related equipment
Upgrade components that apply confusion[edit]
- Rune of Perplexity (rank 4 & 6)
Upgrade components that affect confusion[edit]
- Rune of Perplexity (rank 2 & 6 – increase duration)
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When confusion is applied to a character they will occasionally shout out one of the following lines, depending on their race and gender.
|My mind is scrambled!
|Where am I?
|I can't remember my orders!
|Can't remember my orders!
|Where am I?
|What's going on?
|Is this... a dream?
|How many ales have I had?
|Everything's so blurry.
|Oh, what's happening?


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"Crimes against humanity are best carried out in secret."
That's the first line of an article I recently wrote for Spare Change News -- a Boston bi-weekly newspaper that is mostly by and produced for the homeless to provide a source of income and dignity. And no, I am not homeless. The new editor asked me to write something for the paper, and I am honored to do so.
Showing what the rich and the powerful would rather we not see is the stuff of great human rights activism -- and sometimes great journalism too. It is wonderful to see a newspaper by the homeless help to reveal the atrocities committed half a world away; atrocities that have made even more people homeless.
Here are some excerpts from my short piece which you can check out in its entirety here: Sudan and the Anti-Genocide Paparazzi.
Crimes against humanity are best carried out in secret. Terror can be inflicted, ethnic cleansing can be waged, torture can be committed, and if it is not an official hot spot that the whole world is already watching then who in the world will even know? That is the way it has pretty much always been. But brutal regimes are now on notice that human rights activists with satellites may pop up at any time to document their crimes and haul them before the court of world opinion — and possibly even the International Criminal Court.
For two years the Washington, DC-based Satellite Sentinel Project (SSP) has been methodically exposing military build-ups and aggression, as well as war crimes and shocking crimes against humanity, in a remote part of Africa. At the same time they are demonstrating the worth of one of the most promising advances in human rights work in the history of the world.
SSP is the brainchild of actor George Clooney and human rights activist John Prendergast, who wanted to use high-resolution satellite imagery to document military aggression and attendant atrocities and to bring them to world attention. Historically access to such tools has been limited to governments, militaries, and large corporations. SSP is the first sustained private use of satellites for peace and human rights work. In its first two years the organization has focused on volatile areas in Sudan and the new nation of South Sudan. From 300 miles over the earth its satellites have peered into places where the international media and even humanitarian aid groups cannot go — places that the genocidal Khartoum regime would rather the world not see.
Among other things, SSP has exposed the the work of death squads in the town of Kadugli. Combining satellite images with eyewitness testimony, SSP published satellite images of piles of white body bags; the trucks and clean-up crews; the disposal of the bodies in mass graves; and bulldozing over the corpse-filled pits. SSP has also shown military buildups such as the massing of troops and and the deployment of attack helicopters and Antonov bombers. In December 2012 SSP published horrifying images of vast tracts of land that were once home to thousands of people in 26 villages, as well as crops, and cattle, now burned black. The UN reports that more than 200 thousand Nuba people have been displaced — driven out of their homes and homeland by the Khartoum regime — and are now living in refugee camps.Of course, the problem of homelessness, while not exactly a secret, is usually well obscured from our vision. Spare Change News and similar papers around the country are advocates for the homeless and keep their concerns neither out of sight nor out of mind.


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Anyways, judging by the reaction here, we've both done great, and I can't wait for NOL for that match, and all the others.
oh yeah, and did I mention...6-0 ;)
Favorite Moment: NEW SHOW
Best Match: Last match
Best Promo: Malcolm and Hawk
Best Piece of Booking: NEW SHOW!!!!
Best Debut *when applicable*: nope
Any Piece of Booking You Didn't Like: No pardy promo or match... haha maybe a bit bias there
Any Matches and/or Promos That Could've Been Improved:nope
Any Other Positives:Jackson and Doom closing the show. That feud deserves it both men are working their tail ends off on that feud. Congrats SouthernBlood and CM Rock-Austin
Anything else that fell below your expectation : no
How would you improve the negative comments (if any): MORE PARDY! :)
Overall Show Grade: B+ well written show guys!
Cheers, Den.
Favorite Moment: The new show and Smokey actually taking the 100 dollars.
Best Match: Main Event Duh.
Best Promo: I'll have go this to Hawk. I just simply love his work.
Best Piece of Booking: The announcing of the new show that we all knew would be coming sooner or later.
Best Debut *when applicable*: N/A
Any Piece of Booking You Didn't Like: Nah. Nothing I could really pick point out, but I'll check again later on.
Any Matches and/or Promos That Could've Been Improved: Mine. I don't know. I just feel like a CM Punk now. I feel like I'm never satisfy with my work like ever.
Any Other Positives: I really like how even without Bear or Jman around their feuds are still entertaining me personally.
Anything else that fell below your expectation: Not really.
How would you improve the negative comments (if any): Again my promo, but you can call me CM Punk.
Overall Show Grade: A solid B. Can't wait to the PPV.:D
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Fire Emblem: Awakening
So who is more powerful story wise? Ike or Robin. (SPOILERS)
Jstretch19 posted...
EchoPhoenix posted...I don't recall any lines saying that the reflections are any weaker in a combat sense than the originals.
So Hubba saying Ike was the strongest doesn't count 'cause it's a reflection?
Aphoph posted...
So Hubba saying Ike was the strongest doesn't count 'cause it's a reflection?
Depends on whether or not he was referring to the actual Ike or the Einherjar Ike.
from what we have seen in their respective stories, it is easy to say ike. in awakening, many times robin would say something along the lines of 'we need our strongest leading the charge so that would be you chrom'. this, to me, implies chrom is stronger than robin in the story also. storywise, we dont even see or hear of robins prowess on the battlefield, only prowess in tactics. the strongest character storywise from awakening is probably walhart anyways. in fe9 and fe10, all we hear about is ike being the strongest in the whole world out of the beorc.
Late response because i went to bed. Anywho, how is DLC from awakening even remotely relevant? Its 1.) Not canon 2.) Recycled stories with random text. 3.) Who even reads what they say at this point with said recycled stories anyway?
Yap, IS implies Ike is the strongest. But this obviously doesnt apply to the rest of the DLC, because its DLC. IS just wanted to throw out the statement of their opinion on Ike and make you feel special defeating a false copy of him. He doesnt even resemble his look in RD in the DLC, it looks much more like PoR Ike where he hardly had any real experience as RD. Obtw, did i mention him being a reflection(fake)?
Like i said before, Ike has Ragnell, blessing of a goddess, and has "invincible" swordsmanship like his father. By saying that isnt relevant to his character, you are very wrong because when you take certain factors away from a character, youre distorting the character and bending the argument to your favor with empty reasons because the fact is that Ike has all of these things and you can't change that.
tl;dr - Ike > Robin
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Literally in every DLC chapter all Hubba says is Ike is the strongest hero of all time
Literally the end of RD does it too
It is implied by IS that Ike is the lord(vanguard haaaa) of all lords.
Chrom and Robin are seen as fighting geniuses by much of the army.
Chrom and Robin > most of the army
Chrom admits that Walhart is a stronger fighter than he is.
Walhart > Chrom and Robin > most of the army
Priam is the only fighter in the army that Walhart considers an equal.
Priam = Walhart > Chrom and Robin > most of the army
Priam's goal is to match his ancestor, which means he's weaker than Ike is.
Ike > Priam = Walhart > Chrom and Robin > most of the army
Fwahm posted...
Chrom and Robin are seen as fighting geniuses by much of the army.
To be fair, Robin is more "tactical genius" than "fighting genius". In a straight up fight, Ike is pretty much confirmed to be one of the strongest lords in Fire Emblem, and Robin's physical prowess is never brought up to be particularly strong. So yeah, in a straight up one-on-one fight, Ike would probably crush Robin, but Robin's strategic ability would probably prevent that from happening.
Although the fact that every scene where Robin is fighting in a cutscene has him as a spellcaster (seemingly specializing in thunder spells), and most Lords (uncluding Ike) have almost legendarily low RES.
Correct me if I'm wrong, but Ike can't wield magic right? As a Lord, he probably doesn't have access to the rediculously diverse class tree that Robin has either right? I haven't played POR, but this seems like a no-brainer to me.
In a 1v1 Robin could just use mire from a distance, then Aversa's night/cecilia's gale once Ike gets close. And if you say Ike has tome breaker and aegis, I'll say Robin has swordbreaker and pavise. I'll admit this is more a comparisson 'gameplay wise' as opposed to 'story wise', although story wise you would think the ability to weild any magic tome in the history of magic tomes, as well as nearly any other weapon, would give Robin an edge.
d(^o^)b ~ And then I ate the bowl!
Robin can use tomes and swords, that's it. Class changing isn't canon.
You guys keep forgetting that the topic is about story mode... ~.~
Comparing mechanics is inaccurate and irrelevant. Theyre two whole different equations that cant be compared. Awakening(fail OP char mechanics) vs RD(excellent game, etc).
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Craft a Halloween invitation with matching party favors in a candy corn theme. The card, favor box and treat bag are simple paper crafts that create a cute and coordinated Halloween theme. For more craft ideas, tips & projects please visit Creative Home Arts Club.
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- Scrap silver paper
- 20" silver baby rickrack
- Punches: 5/8" star, 1/4" star, 5/8" swirl
- Four small rhinestones
- Black acrylic paint
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- 4" x 5 1/2" blank white card & matching envelope
- 4" x 5 1/2" (without handle) blank white gift bag
- 16" black baby rickrack
- Halloween-themed buttons*: spider, spider & web, 2 bats, headstone
- Natural raffia
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- Optional: wire cutters
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*The following products were used for this project: Beacon Adhesives Fabri-Tac, Gem-Tac, and kids choice glues • Blumenthal Lansing Halloween Night buttons • Loew-Cornell American Painter 4300 paintbrush • Making Memories repositionable letters.
4" x 5 7/16" Card
4" x 5 1/4" x 2" Treat Bag (without handle)
2 1/2" x 3 1/2" Favor Box
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Favor Box
- Paint box. Paint inside and outside of box with black acrylic paint.
- Add rickrack. Cut two 10" pieces of silver rickrack. Use fabric glue to attach to top and bottom edges of box.
- Finish. Punch four swirls from yellow cardstock. Punch four large stars from orange cardstock. Punch 22 small stars from silver paper. Use gem glue to attach rhinestones to center of orange stars. Use craft glue to attach stars and swirls to box as shown.
- Prepare card base. Cut one 1 13/16" x 4" piece of yellow cardstock. Cut one 1 7/8" x 4" piece of orange cardstock. Use craft glue to attach yellow paper to bottom front of card and orange paper directly above it as shown.
- Decorate card. Use a fine-tip black marker to draw a dotted line around edges of card. Cut two 4" pieces of black rickrack. Use fabric glue to attach rickrack along top of orange and yellow paper. Use repositionable letters to spell out "BOO TO YOU" on orange section of card. For spider web, draw a 1" black line down from top right of card. Note: Use wire cutters to remove button shanks as needed. Use jewelry glue to attach spider button to card at bottom of black line. Glue headstone button to lower left of card.
- Finish. Tie two strands of raffia into a bow. Trim ends to desired length. Use craft glue to attach bow to top of card.
Treat Bag
- Make Treat Bag in same way as card, changing lettering to "TREATS ONLY." Attach two bat buttons and a spider & web button as shown. Tie raffia in bow around one handle.
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I had not thought about extended warranty on fuel system components..............
My tank started cracking after about a year, I waited till just inside the 3-year warranty period to have it replaced,
having been told that BMW-parts warranty was 2-years from date of purchase. The new one has cracked also,
so far not very badly ... hopefully it will be cracked badly enough to not get into a fight about having it replaced next fall........ pity they can't get this right .......
The shop I go to is very honest and they seem to know their sh*t. He was telling me it is an ethanol issue where it is absorbed by the tank plastic causing expansion, swelling and eventually the cracking. It is affecting primarily US and Canadian bikes. Ducati is also badly affected he tells me - worse than BMW. He is on his third tank.
The good news is that it is purely a cosmetic issue and apparently no one has had a failure leading to leaking gasoline. Most likely if that were to start happening BMW would be recalling the tanks. How the swelling and cracking only affects the outer cosmetic wall of the tank I have no idea.
The bad news is that BMW won't likely be changing the tank and any replacement tank is the same part number, same problem. The switch will "buy you a couple years" I'm told.
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Sorry not been about much . Life as always has got in the way and rankly I am astonished that it's July already! Seems like it wasn't that long ago we had snow.
Becoming increasingly obsessed with photography so thought I'd share a few snaps.
We are all well and the boys are growing at an alarming rate - absolutely no hope of a Florida trip at any point I'm afraid :(
My obsession with the macro stuff is growing - especially as I am learning so much about all thge beasties that visit the garden, genuinely had no idea.
O ring is a cheap plastic ( very cheap - think chocolate box quality plastic) £30 diffuser that nestles around your falsggun and reflects the light in a circle around the lens to give a cheap alternative to a proper macro ring flash.
Well it sort of works - I have anxieties that it wont hold out for long, and even greater anxieties that it will amke me want the real thing.
A few from the weekend -looks better n the original and large good eye detail
Ladybirdframe by Sidleydoc, on Flickr
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The eyes and head on this one were really clear on the original - unfortunately shrinking has lost a lot of detail
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Kid Brings Weed Brownies To School, Instantly Becomes Most Popular Student
Ok so I have no idea if this kid actually became the most popular student in the school but I know I would definitely want to hang out with him after he had the balls to bring weed brownies to school and feed them to his classmates and teacher. Judging by the reactions of the parents and people who they interviewed (except for the tight ass with the tie on) it shouldn't have even been considered a big deal. It would have been a pleasant surprise for me.
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Around the Grounds - Team News Round 23
A quick whip-around all the traps as we look at who's in and out for Round 23 of the 2011 NRL Telstra Premiership.
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Reynolds To Start, Roberts Back For Bulldogs
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The brakes may begin to squeak at about the 50 percent wear point. This is due to the size and material used for the brake pads and rotors. The brake rotor surfaces become uneven, causing a lip to form at the outer edge. This will generally require replacement of the rotors when the pads are worn (pad life varies depending on driving style and terrain).
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Seasonal screenings
This is the time of year to don your cutest yuletide pjs and pour some hot cocoa. After all, what's a holiday without a little couch time?
No matter who you're snuggling these days -- be it your momster, the kids, your honey or your BFFs -- cinematic gems abound. Usher in the holidays with a seasonal favorite. Go ahead, make a night of it.
And you thought you'd never find an occasion to wear those reindeer boxers Aunt Edna sent you last year.
Hangin' with the fam
Recommendation: 'Christmas Vacation' (1989)
Another installment in the National Lampoon canon, this chapter chronicles dopey family man Clark W. Griswold Jr. (Chevy Chase), the well-intentioned host famous for organizing family trips that derail into hilariously unanticipated consequences.
In "Christmas Vacation," his plans for a "fun, old-fashioned family Christmas" are thwarted by a dastardly boss and unexpected houseguests. The obligatory scatological gags, of course, prevail. Add performance anxiety involving 25,000 imported Italian twinkle lights and an impromptu squirrel chase, and you have a barrel of laughs certain to elicit giggles from even the angstiest of teenage cousins.
Rated E for everyone
Recommendation: 'A Christmas Story' (1983)
Whether you're hosting Movie Night with your peeps or stuck at Uncle Rico's, this flick is a guaranteed crowd pleaser. Featuring a cherubic 9-year-old obsessed with his one-stop Christmas list, the film has garnered so much popularity that it generally is replayed for 24 hours on Christmas Day. The film, set in 1940s small-town Indiana, follows the protagonist, Ralphie Parker, in his efforts to clinch his Christmas morn fate. Ralphie tears through a series of strategies designed to ensure that Santa brings him the requested Red Ryder Carbine Action 200-Shot, Range Model Air Rifle. The movie is full of fun pre-adolescent exaggerations, including classroom triumphs and parental punishments.
Screening with your sweetheart
Recommendations: 'While You Were Sleeping' (1995), 'Serendipity' (2001)
Break out the mistletoe, mister. The bumbling antics of adorable funnymen Bill Pullman and John Cusack are sure to put your special someone in the mood for a little smoochie-smooch. Sandra Bullock and Kate Beckinsale are not too shabby, either. From the quadrangle of suitors in "Sleeping" to the ethereal glow of "Serendipity," love is in the pine-scented air. Dim the lights and snuggle up for an evening of together time.
But wait -- not a fan of the starry-eyed?
Don't despair. Both films offer comic relief from a trove of hilarious costars: the late Peter Boyle of "Everybody Loves Raymond" as the oafish patriarch in "Sleeping;" smug "Entourage" gem Jeremy Piven as requisite sidekick and SNL alum Molly Shannon as a New Age peddler in "Serendipity."
Maybe they will make you smile.
Single and lovin' it
Recommendation: 'Home for the Holidays' (1995)
If the slew of Christmas cards from your married friends makes you want to spike the eggnog and yell, 'Bah humbug!,' then cue up for stag classic "Home for the Holidays."
Holly Hunter plays a cynical single mom who returns home for her family's annual (and dysfunctional) Thanksgiving fete. OK, so Thanksgiving is over, but the film sports all the trimmings of a traditional holiday: sibling rivalry, gobs of food, eccentric relatives and, oh yeah, snow.
Claire Danes and Anne Bancroft costar. Robert Downey, Jr. steals every scene as the jokester younger brother with a penchant for videotaping his family's humiliation. Now, a potential love interest is in the mix, but who can hate when it's the dreamy Dylan McDermott?
TV for tots
Recommendation: 'Rudolph the Red-Nosed Reindeer' (1964)
Bullies, high-altitude stunts, body-image issues -- and it's only rated G?
Ah yes, the stop-motion animated classic spawned from the legendary poem and song, 'Rudolph the Red-Nosed Reindeer' is a must-see for tykes and tender hearts alike.
The glowy-nosed aspiring navigator is a beacon for social outcasts everywhere. Laughed out of town by the jeering reindeer for his light-emitting schnoz, Rudolph joins Hermey, an elf fleeing anti-dentites.
The two narrowly avert the Abominable Snowman and seek refuge on the Island of Misfit Toys.
Despite the bizarre story line, the film packs a powerful message about tolerance and self-acceptance -- two elements we all could stand to be reminded of around the holidays.
Festivus for the rest of us
RecommendationS: 'Eight Crazy Nights' (2002), 'Seinfeld' and 'The O.C.' DVDs
Holiday-themed films and TV episodes seem to dominate the airwaves this time of year. Mainstream pickings for other cultures appears fairly slim. But a few alternative offerings rise to the surface.
Satisfy your inner frat boy with Adam Sandler's animated Hanukkah tribute, "Eight Crazy Nights."
If Sandler's bathroom humor fails to charm, the faint of heart can turn to TV staples such as "The O.C." and "Seinfeld." Both popular programs are available on DVD for rental or purchase.
Check out the episode in season nine of "Seinfeld" featuring Jerry Stiller's Frank Costanza, the resident curmudgeon who popularized Festivus, a Christmas alternative celebrated Dec. 23 with an aluminum pole and based on airing grievances and committing feats of strength.
Or perhaps you prefer a more attractive cast of celebrants? Hop over to the video store and pick up the 2003 holiday episode of 'The O.C.' in which Seth Cohen (played by Adam Brody) creates a faux holiday -- Chrismukkah -- that blends elements from both sides of his Jewish-Protestant family. These California kids prove there's nothing a sunshiny demeanor and preternatural good looks can't accomplish, be it weathering post-pubescent dramas or creating a new holiday.
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Perfect for an indoor-outdoor dining space, this Rook dining chair with cushion is crafted from beautiful natural gray rattan. The straight, tapered back and rounded arm rests lend comfort and support while an upholstered seat cushion will entice guests to hang out and relax long after the meal is complete. With the look of driftwood, this dining chair is also a great choice for beach houses and casual dining areas with a light and bright decor.
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Humanitarian action – saving lives, alleviating suffering and maintaining human dignity during and in the aftermath of crises – remains a clear priority for DAC donors. Over USD 11.2 billion of public funds were disbursed as humanitarian aid in 20091 by the 24 members of the OECD Development Assistance Committee (DAC), representing nearly 9% of the total allocation for official development assistance (ODA). Volumes are important, of course, but it is the quality and effectiveness of development assistance that the DAC peer reviews seek to assess and improve.
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"La Bête" on Broadway
Tuesday, November 23, 2010
David Hyde Pierce, Joanna Lumley, and Mark Rylance discuss their roles in "La Bête." The Olivier Award-winning play pits high-brow against low-brow in 17th-century France when two artists vie for a royal endorsement. "La Bête" is playing at the Music Box Theatre through January 9.
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If you're planning a trip to Neverland Ranch, don't get too excited about visiting the petting zoo, because there aren't any animals left. Jackson was this close to losing the entire property, but found a way to make it work last minute. But the animals had to go. They're all kicking it right near the Grand Canyon now. Voices of the Wild Foundation, a non-profit based in Arizona that provides sanctuary to abandoned exotic animals (random), has adopted Jacko's giraffes, parrots, pythons, and whatever else he had living on the compound.
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U.S. won't head up new manned moon landings
NASA's focus is on human missions to asteroids and to Mars.
Mon, Apr 08, 2013 at 04:11 PM
Astronaut James B. Irwin, lunar module pilot, gives a military salute while standing beside the deployed U.S. flag during the Apollo 15 lunar surface extravehicular activity at the Hadley-Apennine landing site in 1971. (Photo: Wikimedia Commons)
NASA chief Charles Bolden says the space agency won't be sending astronauts to land on the moon any time soon, according to press reports.
The U.S. space agency won't lead the way back to the moon in the foreseeable future in order to maintain its focus on manned missions to an asteroid, and eventually Mars, Bolden said during a joint meeting of the Space Studies Board and the Aeronautics and Space Engineering Board last Thursday (April 4), according to a SpacePolitics.com report by Jeff Foust.
"NASA will not take the lead on a human lunar mission," Foust quoted Bolden as saying. "NASA is not going to the moon with a human as a primary project probably in my lifetime. And the reason is, we can only do so many things."
Instead, he said the focus would remain on human missions to asteroids and to Mars. "We intend to do that, and we think it can be done," Bolden said. [Most Amazing Moon Missions in History]
Bolden's comments on new manned moon missions came in response to a suggestion that the scientific community, as a whole, is not enthusiastic about pushing ahead with a manned mission to an asteroid by 2025 — an idea endorsed by President Barack Obama in 2010.
In April 2010, Obama called on NASA to pursue the manned asteroid mission as a precursor to sending astronauts to Mars in the mid-2030s. That new space vision, unveiled just after Obama canceled NASA's moon-oriented Constellation program, which sought to send astronauts on new lunar landing missions, in favor of the asteroid and Mars plan.
During the April 4 meeting, Bolden apparently made it clear that NASA does not plan to lead the charge back to the moon's surface.
"I don't know how to say it any more plainly," Bolden said, according to Foust. "NASA does not have a human lunar mission in its portfolio and we are not planning for one."
With Obama now in his second term, Bolden also warned that if the next presidential administration chooses to make another major course change in NASA's human spaceflight program, such a change would mean "we are probably, in our lifetime, in the lifetime of everybody sitting in this room, we are probably never again going to see Americans on the moon, on Mars, near an asteroid, or anywhere. We cannot continue to change the course of human exploration."
NASA made history on July 20, 1969 when Apollo 11 astronauts Neil Armstrong and Buzz Aldrin became the first humans ever to walk to on the moon. Five more successful moon landings would follow until 1972, when the series ended with NASA's Apollo 17 mission.
Since then, NASA has launched many unmanned missions to the moon, including the prolific Lunar Reconnaissance Orbiter, which has actually photographed the Apollo moon landing sites and is still active today. In the last decade, Japan has explored the moon with its Kaguya orbiter, while India explored the lunar surface from orbit with its Chandrayaan 1 spacecraft. China has launched two orbiter missions to the moon, Chang'e 1 and Chang'e 2, and is preparing to launch a third flight — the Chang'e 3 mission — later this year that is expected to include an orbiter, lander and rover.
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PERRY COUNTY - County Sheriff Bob Glenn knows more problems exist at the county jail than were identified in a recent inspection report, and said Wednesday a committee is being formed to look at all of them.
"They didn't even look at the issues that are issues," he said.
TELL CITY - Our nation's leaders should set goals of slowing global warming in ways that won't unfairly burden Midwest ratepayers, Tell City's common council concluded last Monday.
Members signed a resolution endorsing a least-cost cap-and-trade approach to limiting carbon dioxide emissions. Such a plan would allow utilities to reduce emissions without having to pass on huge increases in costs.
PERRY COUNTY - Perry County's Dogwood Tour returns April 25-26, extending a spring tradition into a 47th year.
The Dogwood Tour originated in 1962 as a way to invite residents to visit other areas of the county, and to view white dogwoods so noticeable in the greening landscape of early spring.
This year's festival returns to many of the towns on the 1962 tour as well as attractions in other communities.
PERRY COUNTY - Thanks to a $3,000 grant, Perry County Memorial Hospital will soon have two nurse examiners trained to care for victims of sexual assault.
The Perry County prosecutor's office received the grant from the Perry County Community Foundation to fund the Sexual Assault Nurse Examiner Program at the hospital.
TELL CITY – Perry County commissioners amended in their regular meeting April 6 a three-year economic-development income-tax plan, which includes highway-construction and -re-construction projects.
County attorney Chris Goffinet said the EDIT plan was left vague at first until county officials could figure out what was going to happen with incoming stimulus dollars.
TELL CITY – "I'm very proud of the 28 individuals who represented Tell City Junior High School in ISSMA choir competition at Tecumseh Junior-Senior High School," teacher Randy Roccia said Wednesday.
They came within half a point of the Indiana State School Music Association's top gold rating, he said.
TELL CITY – Would you like to have fresh vegetables but don't have a location or equipment needed to break ground? Then a container garden may be for you. Containers allow gardeners to grow vegetables in pots that can be kept on patios.
The advantages of this type of garden are that gardeners don't have to have a tiller or even a hoe, there is less weeding required and fewer disease issues. There are some guidelines, though, to finding success.
LEOPOLD – Perry County residents interested in improving their health and wellness can find lots of help at the annual Perry Central Health Fair from 5:30 to 8 p.m. Thursday. This fair is co-sponsored by Perry County Memorial Hospital and includes booths and activities like health screenings, information booths, immunizations, healthy snacks, safety demonstrations and fire trucks and rescue vehicles to tour. A free soup-and-salad supper will be offered until 7 p.m. in the cafeteria.
TELL CITY - Hoosier National Forest officials began burning approximately 750 acres in the Mogan Ridge area Wednesday. The prescribed burn was announced to local fire departments, Perry Central Community School and residents who asked to be notified.
This week's burn is concentrated on the south side of Mogan Ridge Road. The north side was burned last fall. For more information call the Tell City Ranger Station at 547-7051.
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ALTHOUGH I HAD BEEN WARNED ABOUT the abominable man-made islands of Laguna Madre, seeing them up close was a jolt. It was mid-January and I was traveling the Corpus Christi—to—Port Isabel stretch of the inland Gulf Intracoastal Waterway, the final piece of the remarkable and controversial 1,300-mile aquatic superhighway that parallels the Gulf of Mexico coast from St. Marks, Florida, to Brownsville, connecting major ports with the Mississippi River and the vast inland waterway system of the United States. This was also the last leg of my journey along the Texas portion of the Intracoastal Waterway. By now I'd seen numerous examples of how the waterway has changed the dynamics of the Texas coast—such drastic erosion at Sargent Beach that the Gulf is one storm away from breaching the waterway, shrimping grounds destroyed in Matagorda Bay, whooping crane habitat lost at the Aransas National Wildlife Refuge. But nothing in my previous travels was more dramatic or otherworldly than the islands.
The islands are heaps of bottom sediments known as spoil, created by the U.S. Army Corps of Engineers, which dredged this final segment of the 125-foot-wide, 12-foot-deep waterway in the late forties. There are a few islands on the upper coast, but they tend to be obscured by the flurry of traffic and commerce. Between Port Arthur and Corpus Christi the Intracoastal weaves a stealthy path, crossing unseen in deeper bays and inland lakes, firmly defined only when it cuts through private property. Not so down here. The Intracoastal runs through the primal heart of Laguna Madre for nearly 150 miles, and the islands, ranging in size from five acres to more than fifty, line both sides of the canal, protruding from the shallow, watery moonscape like a string of gigantic reddish-brown boils.
For years the only people who have paid attention to the islands are a cult of a few hundred squatters, who built cabins that they use as fishing camps. (In this remote part of Texas, the best fishing areas are miles from the nearest road or boat ramp.) The islands are the result of a congressional mandate requiring that the Corps dispose of dredge material in the least costly manner. The Corps has always contended that the cheapest and easiest way is to dump the spoil to one side as the dredge moves along, a technique called open bay disposal. Tides and currents are constantly carrying sand back into the bed of the canal. To keep it navigable, the dredge needs to rework a given section about every eighteen months. Open bay dumping never ends.
Over the past decade scientists have discovered that the maintenance dredging is destroying sea grass, the basis of all life in Laguna Madre. Years ago there was sea grass up and down the coast, but today about 80 percent of it grows here. The grass is the reason that Laguna Madre is the breadbasket for sea creatures along the Texas coast. It's also the reason that Laguna Madre has become the epicenter of a legal and political battle, matching on one side environmentalists, landowners, and biologists from state and federal agencies and on the other side the Corps, barge companies, chemical plants, and port authorities. In the upper part of Laguna Madre there are almost one thousand acres of dry ground that used to be water—and sea grass. It's all from dredge disposal.
IN STARTLING CONTRAST TO LAGUNA MADRE, the nearly three hundred miles of the Intracoastal Waterway that follows the upper Texas coast is busy, noisy, and unforgiving. It is a passageway of big shoulders and vested interests, largely hidden from public view by the bays and lakes that it transverses. Nearly half of the nation's refineries and petrochemical plants have located on this part of the Gulf Coast, specifically to take advantage of the waterway. Shipping lanes, harbor channels, and barge and feeder canals crisscross like tracks of a railroad switching yard. Mountains of dredge material and slag and bauxite from industrial plants loom on the shoreline. Tankers and freighters inch across the horizon. Endless streams of barges, crew boats, and fishing and recreational vessels flit along the various shallow-draft canals. Everywhere, monster-size dredges work around the clock, digging new canals or cleaning silt from existing ones. This part of the Intracoastal never sleeps.
The upper part of the waterway is so heavily trafficked that it accounts for 68 percent of all barge traffic between the Rio Grande and the Atlantic Ocean. Roughly 35,000 barges move about 77 million tons of bulky, often hazardous cargo over the Texas link of the waterway each year—more safely and cheaply than any other avenue of transportation. To transport that same amount of cargo by highway or rail would require more than 2 million semitrailer trucks or 535,000 railroad cars. Of the more than four thousand spills of hazardous materials in Texas between 1976 and 1984, only six involved transportation by water. Not everyone is convinced that the Intracoastal Waterway is such a sweet deal, however, particularly in the Laguna Madre portion. Mary Kelly, the executive director for the Texas Center for Policy Study, has written that the only reason barge transportation is cheaper is that the federal government is subsidizing barge transportation by paying for the cost of operation and maintenance of the waterway. The Laguna Madre link costs taxpayers about $2.5 million a year—a drop in the federal bucket. For that matter, highways are subsidized too, and the railroads got their land for free a century ago.
The Intracoastal is one of those grandiose public works that the Corps of Engineers executed so ably during the first half of the twentieth century, when engineers were universally admired as problem solvers and words like "ecology" were not in the public discourse. Back then, marshes and tidal flats were dismissed as wasteland. Though the islands of Laguna Madre are the most jarring reminder of how a project can have unintended consequences, there are hundreds of other reminders up and down the waterway. Large sections of the original channel have been


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Vale of Siddim or Valley of Siddim (Hebrew: עֵ֖מֶק שִׂדִּים 'ê-meq haś-Śid-dîm; "Salt Sea",[1] "sea of the Arabah",[2] "east sea",[3] Arabic: Bahr Lut (the Sea of Lut), "Lake Asphaltitus",[4] "Dead Sea"[5]) is a Hebrew Bible place name mentioned in the Book of Genesis Chapter 14: 'And the vale of Siddim was full of slime pits'.[6]
The text of Genesis explains that during the days of Lot, the vale of Siddim was a river valley where the Battle of Siddim occurred between four Mesopotamian armies and five cities of the Jordan plain.
Siddim is thought to be located on the southern end of the Dead Sea where modern bitumen deposits have been found in respect to the tar pits (asphalt, slime pits) mentioned in Genesis 14:10. This scripture indicates that the valley was filled with many of these pits that the armies of Sodom and Gomorrah fell into during their retreat from Mesopotamian forces. It has been suggested by theologians that the destruction of the cities of the Jordan Plain by divine fire and brimstone may have caused Siddim to become a salt sea, what is now the Dead Sea.[5]
- ^ Genesis 14:3
- ^ Deuteronomy 3:17
- ^ Ezekiel 47:18; Compare Joel 2:20
- ^ Josephus
- ^ a b Freedman, Myers, and Beck. Eerdmans dictionary of the Bible, 2000, (ISBN 0802824005, ISBN 978-0-8028-2400-4), p. 1218, Siddim, Valley of
- ^ Genesis 14:3, 8, 10


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5 If any of you lack wisdom, let him ask of God, that giveth to all men liberally, and upbraideth not; and it shall be given him.
6 But let him ask in faith, nothing wavering. For he that wavereth is like a wave of the sea driven with the wind and tossed.
from Holy Bible (KJV) – James 1 on Genius
In these lines, James is saying that if any man should have a reason to lack wisdom sophia then you should turn to God, as he can help you. However, verse 6 also says that you shall ask in full faith, with no doubt, otherwise you're synonymous to a wave that's in the ocean, who is blown and tossed by the wind.
New International Version Translation
If any of you lacks wisdom, you should ask God, who gives generously to all without finding fault, and it will be given to you. 6 But when you ask, you must believe and not doubt, because the one who doubts is like a wave of the sea, blown and tossed by the wind.
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On 5 March 2014, the 171 page-long text of the proposed Dutch Remote Gambling Act ("Act") was notified to the European Commission. Now that the three-month standstill period at the European Commission has passed, the bill is to be sent to Parliament soon. At present, it is up to the Council of state to provide its advice, after which plenary debates will follow. Although the Netherlands is still aiming for the 1st of January 2015 for the Act to enter into effect, the expectation is that this estimated timeline might not be achieved.
Meanwhile: regulator sets requirements future operators have to comply with
Although the Netherlands is waiting for the bill to pass Parliament, the Dutch Games of Chance Authority ("KSA") is currently working on detailed requirements with respect to the minimal level of processes and standards that have to be met by future online operators to ensure a safe gaming environment. The intervention and care of KSA will mainly focus on the prevention of gambling addiction and consumer protection. Considering this, operators will be required – amongst other things – to monitor and analyze gambling behaviour of their players. As soon as all such requirements are ready, KSA will make this, together with the license application form, public.
In order to make such technical and organizational requirements as practical as possible, KSA has announced that it aims to work together with operators to create a workable market in the Netherlands. To that end, KSA intends to hold public consultations with operators in autumn 2014 to consider whether the requirements set by KSA will be practicable in the future.
KSA announced that it intends to be very open towards the industry and that dialogue with the online operators will become key. KSA currently already cooperates with other EU-authorities to harmonize procedures and requirements where possible. This cooperation is necessary to execute the supervisory task in the online world as adequate as possible.
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|4 - 7 nights
Hawaii Licensed: W30600959-01
Picturesque views of the Pacific are yours the moment you enter Milowai 105. The unique oceanfront setting, just steps away from the beach, offers unsurpassed views of the bay, the islands of Molokini and Kaho'olawe, and the gently sloping silhouette of Haleakala Volcano. Enjoy superb whale watching in the winter months and sea turtle viewing year-round.
This condo's convenient location affords you easy access to the airport, shopping in Kahului, Lahaina, and Kihei and is walking distance to major attractions such as the Maui Ocean Center and Aquarium, whale-watching and snorkel tours, or sunset dinner cruises from Ma'alaea Boat Harbor. Walk for miles along the white sands of Sugar Beach, arguably the best beach in Hawaii.
No expense has been spared to make your Hawaiian retreat comfortable, relaxing, and enjoyable. From the carefully chosen artwork, area rugs and granite counters to the hotel quality linens, a true escape from the everyday has been created just for you.
John and Nancy Norman live in Juneau, Alaska. John, a retired secondary school principal with over 40 years of experience, has also worked as adjunct faculty at the University of Alaska Southeast in Juneau, mentoring and coaching graduate students of education. Nancy is an education consultant and former classroom teacher. They enjoy meeting new people and sharing their experiences in both Alaska and Hawaii. John and Nancy have been Alaskans since 1975 and have 3 children and 7 grandchildren.
John & Nancy Norman purchased this condo in 2011
John and Nancy have vacationed on Kauai, Big Island, Oahu, and Maui, but they love Maui best, and particularly Maalaea Bay. They keep choosing Maalaea Bay as a place to vacation because it is quiet, serene, romantic, and relaxed. They purchased Milowai 105 in 2011 and have completely renovated it. They are active owners who are constantly upgrading their unit to make it a special vacation experience for their guests.
A beautiful view out the lanai and so many bonuses! We happened to be there around whale and calf watching season and we saw whales every morning and evening. They supplied us with great binoculars and we used those to see the whales and the sea turtles. We also got to see the sunrise every morning.
The kitchen was fully equipped and the knives were nice and sharp. I love to cook on holiday and there wasn't anything that I wished they had but didn't! It was all high-quality supplies and they made it easy to cook.
The condo is very updated and extremely clean. The place was well maintained and the cleaning lady was so nice and thoughtful. They had extra bonus items like boogie boards, snorkeling equipment and beach chairs and an umbrella. They couldn't have been more thoughtful! The pool area and outdoor barbecues were great and it was a great area to sit and relax. I even did some yoga out on the lawn every morning.
We would definitely stay here again on our next trip back to Maui.
Definitely worth 5 star rating! We loved everything about this condo - location: not too far from most places we wanted to visit. Condo: very updated, very clean, very nice place to whale watch right from your private lanai-they even supply the binoculars. Well stocked: simply the best stocked condo we have ever rented - top of the line cookware & knives. Very clean - unit was very clean and well taken care of. Bed: very comfy. Within a short walk to restaurants, shops & marina. Need I say more?
Aloha! I was so happy I had chosen this condo. It was everything I had expected and more!! The ocean front view was fabulous. Seeing the sunrise over Haleakala was so peaceful, and having breakfast and dinner on the lanai was wonderful, overlooking the ocean. The condo was very pretty and clean. Fully equipped and I met the cleaning lady when I checked in and she was so pretty and so helpful. She made sure nothing was misssing.
The owners provided me with precious details on tours available etc. etc.
Very good restaurants at the Maalea Harbor. Perfectly and centrally located, 20 min from airport, near Lahaina. I would certainly love to come back to Maui in the future. Thank you to the owners for an awesome place. I would definitely recommend the condo. Mahalo! (Sorry for being late in doing the review)
My wife and I stayed 10 days Oct 28-Nov 7, 2014 then we spent another 10 days on Oahu. Our only regret is that we did not stay at this condo the entire time. We loved every second. This was our third time to Maui and I honestly feel this unit is hands down the best of everything! Great Location, beautiful views, and safe. The grounds keeper is a really nice man it was a pleasure talking with him (Mike?) It was so nice to be able to walk along the beach to Kehei each day, along the way we saw beached green sea turtles, beautiful ! The condo is exactly as shown in photos, ultra clean is not a strong enough word to describe it. Every detail has been carefully thought of, and there is nothing missing. A perfect home away from home. Over the years we have spent our vacations on Kauai, Oahu, Maui, and Hawaii both sides Kona, and Hilo. We believe, Maui is the perfect balance of all the islands in one. Regardless of your vacation interest, Maui has it all. And this unit is right in the middle of it.
Its really too bad, it is going to be much harder to rent this condo in the future with all the great reviews :(
Aloha and Mahalo until next time, 2016. Tim and Heather.
waking up the sunset, and sound of the ocean is so relaxing. This ocean front condo is absolutely stunning with all the essentials that made our stay perfect. A beautiful kitchen of granite, and stainless steel appliances - shows care of ownership, and cupboards stocked with all kitchen essentials. It is located in a quiet area off the Maalaea Harbor, but a quick walk to the General Store for cappuccinos, a quick supper at Beach Bums, and of course, the many little shops located around the Oceanview Centre. A quick drive into Kahului - or Kehei for that matter in under 1/2 hour. A quiet complex, but located close to all amenities. Beautiful!
My adult son and I stayed in this very well-appointed condo (with everything we needed and more) for five days at the end of June 2013. The unit was ultra-clean and chic with granite countertops, modern appliances, kitchen utensils, stylish flooring, lovely furniture and even a Jacuzzi tub and pool (which neither of us had time to use). The view out the living room area was spectacular, and the location in a quiet complex was oh-so convenient, centrally located on Maui, with restaurants and stores within easy walking distance. A washer-dryer, beach supplies, games and very useful tourist information (especially the blue book on Maui) were on hand in the unit. We enjoyed walking to the harbor, eating at Buzz's and the Beach Bum and doing grocery shopping at the store within walking distance. The wonderful aquarium is also within walking distance. My son really liked the Maui Built stores (in Lahaina and Kahului) for t-shirts that are unique and can only be bought in the store (not online). We toured the ecological Ocean Pacific vodka company, bought bags of delicious coffee at the coffee roaster in Lahaina and had great pizza in Paia (names are in that blue book). The unit owners were great to deal with. The only problem we had was not having enough time to enjoy Maui!
P.S. I have dallied too long in writing this review. The date of arrival should be June 26, 2013, but this review site would not allow me to use a date of arrival over a year ago.
Conveniently located central location allows easy access to the airport, dining, shopping, and major attractions. This condo, Milowai 105, on Maalaea Bay is walking distance from the Maui Ocean Center and Aquarium, snorkel and whale-watching tours that depart from the Maalaea Boat Harbor, and only a few minutes walk to Maui's longest beach, Sugar Beach, between Maalaea and Kihei - 5 miles of uninterrupted sand. The award-winning Waterfront Restaurant is a short walk away.
Other Activities: Whale & sea turtle watching, kayaking, snorkeling, sunset dinner cruises, biking Haleakala crater, take a walk on quiet Sugar Beach - 5 mi. of uninterrupted sand.
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Aug 3 2015 - Nov 12 2015
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Peak Season
Dec 15 2015 - Apr 30 2016
5 night minimum stay
Off Peak Special
May 1 2016 - Nov 18 2016
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Until confirmed, rates are subject to change without notice.
• A $300 deposit required to secure reservation; balance due 60 days prior to arrival.
• Refunds for cancellations made 90 days or more in advance of your arrival date are subject to a $50 cancellation fee.
• Refunds for cancellations less than 90 days in advance of your arrival date are dependent upon rebooking.
Payment is usually accepted in the quoted currency (USD) unless the currency and the amount is specifically agreed in advance with the owner / advertiser.
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Spindrift Inn -
Welcome to beautiful Manzanita on the north Oregon Coast. Manzanita is a quiet getaway... a quaint alternative to the tourist towns farther North. The weather is just a little nicer here.... often we are bathed in a bit of sunshine, while they sit in fog or mist. The Natives reportedly called this location "Hole in the Sky."
Located a block from the sea, Spindrift Inn offers you a retreat at a slower pace. Bask in the sunshine and refreshing ocean breeze. Renew yourself with the serene pace of life at the beach. Depending on the season, you can visit the Farmer's Market, watch the mighty whales from your perch on top of Neahkahnie Mountain, surf and kayak, bird-watch, fish and storm-watch. Always there is browsing the six mile beach from State Park to State Park. As our guest, we provide a list of hiking trails you will enjoy.
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Allstream's IP sales continue to generate momentum as year-end approaches
Thursday, December 22, 2011
Allstream's IP sales continue to generate momentum as year-end approaches11:49 EST Thursday, December 22, 2011Stock Symbol: MBTTORONTO, Dec. 22, 2011 /CNW/ - Allstream continues to make strong progress executing its Internet Protocol (IP) strategy with significant sales in the mid-market, particularly with its suite of IP connectivity products and services. Allstream's strong progress in the IP market is in keeping with the company's focus on IP sales and the accelerated expansion of its fibre network in major urban centres across Canada.Some of the customers that recently signed contracts to take advantage of Allstream's suite of IP connectivity services include Total Energy Services Inc., Airports Council International, PetroBakken Energy, MacKay LLP, Prestige Telecom, Avigilon, Advanced Energy and Concord Steel Centre."As the year comes to a close, we are pleased that our strong IP sales continue to generate momentum, which reflects the success of our strategy of focusing on mid-market on-net sales," said Dean Prevost, President of Allstream.About AllstreamAllstream is a Canadian leader in IP communications and the only national provider that works exclusively with business customers of all sizes. For more information on Allstream services and solutions, please visit www.allstream.com.Allstream is a division of MTS Allstream Inc. ("MTS Allstream"), a wholly-owned subsidiary of Manitoba Telecom Services Inc. As one of Canada's leading national communication solutions companies, MTS Allstream provides innovative communications for the way Canadians want to live and work today. The Company has more than 100 years of experience, with 5,500 employees across Canada dedicated to a mission of delivering true value as seen through the eyes of our customers. MTS Allstream has nearly two million total customer connections spanning business customers across Canada and residential consumers throughout the province of Manitoba. The Company's extensive national broadband and fibre optic network spans almost 30,000 kilometres. Manitoba Telecom Services Inc.'s common shares are listed on Toronto Stock Exchange (trading symbol: MBT). Customers, stakeholders and investors who want to learn more about MTS Allstream are encouraged to visit: www.mtsallstream.com.Forward-looking Statements Disclaimer This news release includes forward-looking statements and information (collectively, the "statements") about our corporate direction, business opportunities, operations, financial objectives, planned activities, future financial results and performance that are subject to risks, uncertainties and assumptions. As a consequence, actual results in the future may differ materially from any conclusion, forecast, anticipation or projection in such forward-looking statements. Examples of statements that constitute forward-looking information may be identified by words such as "believe", "expect", "project", "should", "anticipate", "could", "target", "forecast", "intend", "plan", "outlook", "see", "set", "pending", and other similar terms.Factors that could cause anticipated opportunities and actual results to differ materially include, but are not limited to, matters identified in the "Risks and Uncertainties" section and elsewhere in our most recent annual MD&A and any subsequent quarterly MD&As, as well as our most recent Annual Information Form, all of which are available on SEDAR at www.sedar.com.Please note that forward-looking statements reflect our expectations as at the date hereof. We disclaim any intention or obligation to update or revise any forward-looking statements, whether as a result of new information, future events or otherwise except as required by law. For further information: Media: Jessica Poitras Corporate Communications (204) 941-7823 email@example.com


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A real friend is one who walks in when the rest of the world walks out.
~ Walter Winchell (April 07, 1897 - February 20, 1972)
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With New York Fashion Week finally over, the stylish set jetted across the pond for the Fall 2010 London shows.
And while some brands are just getting the hang of the whole "Net" game, Henry Holland of House of Holland is keeping up with the times, showing a Twitter-inspired T-shirt collection at London Fashion Week.
The 26-year-old designer is no stranger to the slogan tee -- Holland rose to fame with his cheeky, screen-printed sayings like "I'll Show You Who's Boss Kate Moss."
But for the Fall 2010 runway, Holland combined his online prowess -- he blogs for Vogue UK -- and marketing chops with tweet-generation abbreviations such as "I.Y.F." (In Your Face) and "H.M.L." (Hate My Life) emblazoned on tees and letterman sweatshirts.
Though the collection may have puzzled more than one seasoned editor, surely the front row, which was full of the UK's bright young things, was pleased with Holland's updated take on technology and fashion.
Style paramours Alexa Chung, Pixie Geldof and Little Boots had some of the best seats in the house. And for her part, Little Boots tweeted her own two cents: "HOH show was really fun."
If beauty's more your thing, Henry Holland's recent fragrance launch is creating quite the stir.


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Solution to broken justice system is reform, not death squads
In his column titled "Summary killings: Who's complaining?" ("On Target," Metro, 5/24/14), Ramon Tulfo criticizes Human Rights Watch for its recent report on death squad killings in Tagum City, which implicates former mayor Rey Uy. The report details the extrajudicial executions of alleged drug dealers, petty criminals, and street children, and is based in part on interviews with and affidavits from three self-proclaimed members of the death squad that carried out the killings.
Tulfo asks: "If Uy was indeed responsible for the killings of bad elements … so what?" He says the people of Tagum are not complaining because they "slept well in their homes at night and walked the streets without fear of getting mugged."
His vision for the rule of law in a democratic society seems to be that "bad elements," including 9-year-old children, should be subject to summary execution without due process or trial, so that citizens can "sleep well" at night. That in itself is a very troubling vision. But apart from the large body counts—not exactly a sign of a safe city—death squads invariably continue their murderous ways beyond the original mandate. In Tagum, Human Rights Watch documented how, by 2005, the death squad had morphed into a "guns for hire" criminal enterprise that targeted businessmen, police officers, and a judge, among others.
Tulfo claims that Human Rights Watch is biased because we "looked the other way" when US forces in Afghanistan and Iraq "kill innocent civilians" and when then Mayor Rudolf Giuliani was "uprooting weeds in New York City" in the 1990s.
Had Tulfo gone to our website, he would have found the numerous reports we have produced on US abuses in Afghanistan and Iraq, including on shootings and air strikes by US forces, and abuses by US soldiers against detainees. He would also have found Human Rights Watch's reporting on police brutality during the Giuliani era.
Human Rights Watch has also conducted research on CIA (Central Intelligence Agency) torture and secret prisons, detentions at Guantanamo, and poor prison conditions and the mistreatment of immigrants in the United States.
Tulfo may be partly right to suggest that the Philippines' "corrupt judiciary is responsible for the spread of criminality." Human Rights Watch has long reported on serious problems in the country's criminal justice system. I authored a 2007 report on bombings and beheadings by the Abu Sayyaf, which noted the judiciary's poor record even in terrorism cases.
The solution to a broken justice system, however, is reform, not death squads, which violate not only the laws and Constitution of the Philippines but also the human values that lie at their foundation.
Asia Advocacy director,
Human Rights Watch
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Whether you are a brewery that just opened your doors or you are a big player in the craft beer industry, Garvey Corporation has product handling solutions designed to maximize your production. We've been engineering bottle and package handling systems for decades and actually developed the first accumulation systems for the wine industry over 30 years ago. Our commitment to efficient, reliable and easy to use and maintain machines has made us a leader in providing these solutions.
Above is a video of our Infinity Accumulation Table. This buffer system can be placed before and after your constraint machine in your production line. The constraint machine is the one that experiences the most downtime and/or has the lowest products per minute speeds. The idea is to protect the constraint from the rest of the line, this way it can run at it's most efficient, and the rest of the line doesn't have to shut down when the constraint goes down. This addition of Accumulation to a production line can increase throughput up to 30% which means not only a fast ROI but a more profitable and efficient facility for you!
If your operation is smaller or slower, that doesn't mean it too couldn't benefit from accumulation. We also supply Bi Flo Accumulation tables and rotary tables. The Bi Flo in the above video provides a large amount of accumulation time within a small foorprint.
We also supply Packing stations, multi-laning systems, combiners and conveyor systems, so whatever it is you are looking for, Garvey can handle it.
Our engineers would be happy to help you get the most from your production line, so feel free to contact us with any questions.