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WASHINGTON (MarketWatch) -- The next shipment of natural gas to arrive at Dominion Resource Inc.'s import terminal in Maryland will be used to cool down pipes and storage tanks at the terminal that aren't being used as often as they should.
The Cove Point facility, which imports liquefied natural gas, is suffering from a steep decline in imports in the wake of a boom in U.S. gas production. With the equipment not getting used on a regular basis, Dominion is having to take the special step of importing LNG just to keep the terminal operating.
"We need three shipments a year to keep [the equipment] cold," Dominion spokesman Dan Donovan said. "Except for this one, we have none others scheduled."
A recent increase in U.S. natural gas production, fueled by advances in drilling technology for shale gas, has nearly squashed the market for gas imports. Just a few years ago, this market was bracing for a considerable rise in activity.
Struggling to come to grips with a new reality, companies that recently planned to build new import terminals are quickly ditching their proposals. Others, like Dominion, are having to take steps to stay open for business or expand their terminals to handle exports. (Please see the related story "Companies Seek To Export U.S. Gas In Wake Of Production Boom".)
"It's kind of like turning around a battle ship," said Jeff Wright, director of the Federal Energy Regulatory Commission's energy projects office. "These are big capital projects and shale gas pretty much took the whole market away."
The U.S. imports natural gas from Trinidad, Egypt, Nigeria and Norway, among other countries. Before crossing the ocean, the gas is cooled to minus 260-degrees Fahrenheit and transformed into liquefied natural gas, or LNG. The process shrinks the gas to 1/600th of its volume.
Just a few years ago, the market for LNG imports was strong and expected to get stronger. New environmental rules were prompting power plants to switch from coal to gas and hopes were high for natural gas vehicles. U.S. production was limited and demand was on the rise.
In 2006, government officials thought the U.S. would be importing 2.3 trillion cubic feet of LNG in 2011. Today, they think the U.S. will import just 480 billion cubic feet -- less than 25% of earlier projections, according to the Energy Information Administration.
The discovery of shale gas eliminated a lot of the need for imports and drove down prices in the U.S., leading exporters to reroute LNG shipments to Asia, Europe and other parts of the world where natural gas prices remain high.
"Shale gas is putting downward pressure on the U.S. price," Hess LNG Chief Executive Gordon Shearer said. "Attracting supply [to the U.S.] is a very difficult undertaking right now."
LNG terminals that were built in anticipation of higher imports are doing much less business than they planned. Of 11 terminals operating in the U.S., only seven received shipments in the first quarter of 2011. In this environment, other LNG terminal owners might have to follow Dominion's lead and import gas just to keep their tanks and pipes cool and operational.
Meanwhile, energy companies that once planned to build new LNG import terminals are also ditching their plans.
Hess said in June it was dumping plans to build an LNG import terminal known as Weaver's Cove in Massachusetts, citing "unfavorable economics" for LNG. AES Corp., meanwhile, is shelving plans for a facility known as Sparrows Point in Maryland, pointing to the amount of domestic gas coming out of nearby Marcellus shale formation.
Royal Dutch Shell and TransCanada Corp. were pursuing the construction of a terminal known as Broadwater Energy in Long Island Sound. But they encountered opposition and have decided not to pursue it any further.
The Federal Energy Regulatory Commission has approved more than a dozen proposals to build or expand LNG terminals, but only two of those projects are under construction. The construction of more terminals would be "problematic" given the weak demand for LNG imports, Wright said.


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The city won't be going ahead with a youth centre as it planned.
Council had committed in principle to an $8.1 million partnership with the Indian Friendship Centre to turn the former Port Arthur Prosvita into a new home for the IFC and a youth centre. While the city backed that with $2.5 million, the federal and provincial governments weren't willing to match. That's what it boiled down to city clerk John Hannam, who's also responsible for the Aboriginal Liason Office, said.
"We weren't able to secure sufficient funds to do that," he said after the city made the announcement early Tuesday.
The city had a $57,000 hold on the High Street building until the end of the month in order to keep up operating costs while the city tracked down funding. The money will be lost.
"That was a risk that we knew going out there," Hannam said.
Mayor Keith Hobbs said the city had discussions with federal and provincial ministers, put a proposal together and even had dollar figures to show but it wasn't enough.
"We did our homework on it," he said. "We made an honest effort and the funding's just not there."
The partnership with the IFC is still in place. As for the youth centre, a report will come to council Apr. 7 to start discussing options.
Hobbs said a youth centre is a priority for the city. Whether that means using community centres, breaking ground on a new building or even funding existing organizations like the Boys and Girls Club. He wants to see a plan before this term of council is up.
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(Note: General Bradshaw appears via teleconference from Kabul, Afghanistan.)
CAPT John Kirby: OK. Good morning, everybody. Welcome here to our briefing room, and good evening, sir, out in Kabul. I'd like to welcome the deputy commander of ISAF, Lieutenant General Adrian Bradshaw, to the Pentagon briefing room.
He assumed duties as ISAF deputy commander in November of last year. During his more than 30 years of service in the British Army, he has been a tank troop leader, intelligence officer and helicopter pilot. He commanded the King's Royal Hussars, a cavalry regiment of the British Army, in the mid-1990s, a tour that included operations in Bosnia.
General Bradshaw was deputy commander of Task Force West during operations in Iraq in March 2003 and then took charge of 7th Armored Brigade during initial stability operations in April of that year. By 2006, he was director of Special Forces. In March 2009 he was appointed commanding general of the 1st Armored Division of the British Army.
This is the general's first time with us here in the briefing room. We very much appreciate his time on what is a very busy, busy day there in Afghanistan. He'll provide some brief opening comments and then take your questions.
As we've done in the past, I will moderate the questions. So I will call on you. Please identify your name and who you're with before you ask the question. We've got about 30 minutes, and we'll get started.
So with that, General, sir, welcome, and we open up -- we'll turn it over to you for any opening comments, sir.
LT. GEN. ADRIAN BRADSHAW: Well, thank you very much indeed, and good morning to all of you there in Washington. It's a great pleasure to speak to you.
What I want to do this morning is just give you the message very loud and clear from here in Kabul that the campaign is in a good place right now. In 2011 we saw the momentum of the insurgency reversed for the first time in a number of years. Their ability to be able to deliver attacks on the ground was reduced by about 10 percent, which was a significant achievement. All the things that they really wanted to do -- to regain ground in Kandahar and Helmand, to get attacks into the capital, to disrupt the major activities of the capital -- all of those things they failed to do.
They did manage to get some trouble into Kabul, but the major events of the year -- the loya jirga, the opening of parliament, the opening of the Ghazni stadium -- all those sorts of events were undisrupted. And we saw them effectively having their momentum reversed for the first time in a number of years.
At the same time, across the theater we saw Afghan national security forces increasing in strength, capability and confidence -- planning, leading sophisticated brigade-level operations, well coordinated with -- between police and army, well coordinated with the civil authorities, with ISAF troops more and more stepping back into the background and providing advice and assistance but letting the Afghans get to grips with the major combat operations. And they have surprised us and I think they've surprised themselves with how well they've performed in a whole range of different sorts of operations across the theater.
I've been out on the ground in the last couple of weeks with U.S. troops up in Kunar, on patrol, meeting ALP, Afghan local policemen, in their sites, and I can attest to their high morale and confidence. I've been on foot patrol with British forces down in Helmand, and again, morale is high, they're well equipped, they're confident, but they -- (audio break) -- I've been out with attack aviators from Italian forces, and again, the same there -- high morale, an awareness of the threat, but a confidence that we are on track.
So with that, I'll welcome your questions.
Q: Hi, General. Jon Harper with the Asahi Shimbun. Thanks for speaking with us today. I was wondering if you've seen any increased Iranian activity in Afghanistan since the strategic partnership with the U.S. was signed?
LT. GEN. BRADSHAW: Yeah, thanks very much for that question. Clearly, the strategic partnership agreement has been a major achievement of the past few weeks. It's put the campaign in a very good place, with much increased confidence amongst our Afghan partners that we're going to be here supporting them into the future after 2014. It sets a very good baseline for the Chicago conference, where we hope and expect that nations will come forward and commit funding to the Afghan forces for beyond 2014. And so it's a major achievement.
Clearly, Iran may not be completely comfortable with some aspects of a continued Western presence here. But I think for them, it's important to understand that what we're here for is to deliver peace and stability in a neighboring country to them, which can only be of benefit for them. Of course, there are shared interests. They have a serious narcotics problem. And it's one of the things that we would hope that the government of Afghanistan will more and more get to grips with. So I think they have nothing to fear from this agreement. And in a direct answer to your question, no, we haven't seen any increase in hostile activity.
CAPT KIRBY: Lalit.
Q: Yeah, Lalit Jha from Pajhwok Afghan News. Recently two senior U.S. congressmen went to Afghanistan, and they had a different feedback than you are saying right now, that this setback for the Taliban -- according to them, Taliban is much stronger than ever, and there is a possibility that they might come back. So how do you -- how do you view the assessment of the situation there?
LT. GEN. BRADSHAW: Well, thanks. That's a good question. I haven't seen the material that the congressmen saw. We had a little flutter of interest late last year when a report came out from the debriefs of some Taliban detainees, which gave, I think, a completely false impression of their position. And it was based, of course, on the questioning from the most hard, the most determined, the most committed of the Taliban, who happened to be in our captivity. So one would hardly expect them to say anything other than that they were on a roll.
I'm afraid the evidence -- I'm afraid for the Taliban, the evidence is rather different. As I say, in 2011 we've seen their ability to deliver attacks on the ground here in Afghanistan reduced by just under 10 percent, and we're seeing a similar trend early this year. We get reporting -- reliable reporting of Taliban commanders feeling under pressure, with lack of weapons of and equipment, with lack of finance.
Now, we recognize they're still a force to be reckoned with. They are still posing a challenge that has to be addressed. But I would say that we have clear evidence that the momentum has been reversed.
And so I think that the line taken by the congressman is actually contrary to everything that we're seeing on our reporting.
Q: General, I'm Carl Osgood; I write for Executive Intelligence Review. Two questions about Pakistan. One is what's this -- you've talked about the Taliban, but you haven't mentioned the Haqqani networks and operations in the East. Secondly, my understanding is that the supply routes are still closed through Pakistan. Can you comment on those?
Q: You just lost the -- (audio break) --
LT. GEN. BRADSHAW: -- the Haqqani network has been trying to do over the past 12 months is get attacks into Kabul and, in that, they've manifestly failed for most of the vast majority of their efforts. We did have one attack into town -- a complex attack on the 15th and 16th of April, which I think people know about it. I think they also know how well the Afghan national security forces contained what was a largely ineffective attack and dealt with it very efficiently. But I think the point to note is that -- (audio break) -- and they either fizzled out of their own accord or a very large number of them were disrupted by the Afghan intelligence services and by a combination of Afghan national security forces and coalition efforts, resulting in the capture of over 300 people, the deaths of over a hundred insurgents.
So I would say that, again, we still have to deal with the Haqqani threat, and we treat it very seriously, but they are not succeeding in doing what they're attempting to do.
STAFF: And you had a second question?
Q: Yeah, we got cut off. I had a second question on the NATO supply routes through Pakistan, if there's anything you can tell us about the status of that situation.
LT. GEN. BRADSHAW: Yes. I can tell you that we're currently in talks with our Pakistan colleagues on how we might get those routes open. Clearly we're managing very well without them, but on the other hand, it would be extremely helpful for us if we had access to them. And clearly, the Pakistanis would derive some financial benefit from that as well. So between us, we hope to get through the problems that we've encountered which caused the closure, which were highly regrettable, and get back on an even keel.
But I have to tell you that in our talks -- our ongoing talks with our Pakistan military colleagues, there is, you know, the rebuilding of a very good relationship there. We've got a common interest in addressing the terrorist insurgent problem that crosses the Pakistan-Afghanistan border. And things are moving in the right direction there.
CAPT KIRBY: Carl, were you OK?
Q: Yes, I got what -- yeah.
CAPT KIRBY: Mathieu.
Q: I'm wanting to know -- Mathieu Rabechault from AFP.
The president-elect of France said he would withdraw all the French troops from Afghanistan by the end of this year. What would be the consequences on the ground in the Kapisa province, where they are deployed? And are you concerned about a disorderly withdrawal of some other ISAF members?
LT. GEN. BRADSHAW: Well, can I just start by praising my French colleagues for the fantastic job that they've been doing within this coalition. Soldier to soldier, we have an excellent relationship between us, across the force. We respect them hugely, and they've been doing an outstanding job in Kapisa, which, as you know, is an important area in terms of approaches into Kabul city.
They will take the decisions that they have to take based on their political requirements. We very much hope that they will find a way to remain active participants in this coalition through to the end of 2014. And we think that still remains a strong possibility. But if they have to make another decision, well, we respect that, and we thank them for their fantastic efforts and for the sacrifices that their soldiers have made. But right now they are still on the job doing a superb job and strong members of the coalition.
I would say across the coalition, cohesion is very, very good. And all I hear from chiefs of defense, foreign ministers and others that I brief here in Kabul when they come to visit is an absolute commitment to stay with the job until December '14. And many of them are talking about contributing thereafter.
As I say, the French will make the decisions they have to make, and we respect their decisions.
CAPT KIRBY: Richard.
Q: Sir, Richard Sisk, The War Report Online. One of the factors influencing the French is -- has been attacks on their troops by Afghans in uniform. There was another incident this week in Helmand province, a Marine shot in the back by an Afghan in uniform. How is that affecting the confidence of the troops? Going forward towards 2014, are there any other initiatives under way to try to root out this problem?
LT. GEN. BRADSHAW: Yeah, thank you for that very important question.
Well, of course the death of any of our troops is a tragedy, and if it's a loss to one of our fellow Afghans, especially so.
But I would say that the numbers of this sort of attack, when you consider that we've built a force very, very rapidly of a third of a million strong over recent years, the numbers of these attacks are very, very small. Nevertheless, we treat everyone with extreme seriousness, and I can tell you that our Afghan partners do as well.
And regarding measures that have been taken to address this problem, the Afghans, our colleagues in the Afghan National Army and Police, have really seized this issue and are out to root out this problem with great determination. We've had several hundred National Directorate of Security counterintelligence operatives now join the Afghan National Army on attachment. They are embedded down to battalion level, and they are carrying out rigorous counterintelligence operations. The commanders are taking great note of where their people go on leave, whether their families have come under pressure.
The vetting process for recruits has been sharpened up considerably, and there is retrospective vetting of people in the force, and there's a pretty ruthless approach to anybody who shows signs of not being a hundred percent committed. Also, our Afghan partners have taken steps to ensure better communications security from their troops in the field. So a number of effective measures have been taken, and we continue to bear down on this problem very seriously indeed.
CAPT KIRBY: Do you have a follow-up?
Q: Yes, sir. If I could follow, what do you mean by a ruthless approach taken to any individuals who might be showing signs of complicity with the enemy?
LT. GEN. BRADSHAW: Well, potential complicity with the enemy. I would give you the example that the commander of the Afghan National Army has told his people who have family in Pakistan that they need to get their families into country and that his commanders are to take note of any possible linkages with insurgents, if people have come under pressure when they go on leave, that sort of thing. And if there's any doubts -- as I say, people are interviewed thoroughly. And if there are doubts, they're after -- then they're asked to leave the service.
CAPT KIRBY: That help, Richard?
Q: Yes, sir.
CAPT KIRBY: Craig.
Q: General, Craig Whitlock, Washington Post.
I wanted to get back to your comments about how the Taliban's capability has been reduced. And as you said, the momentum's clearly been reversed. How far do you think those trend lines can be extended? Do you think that the insurgency can be defeated militarily in some parts of the country where it's now active, or is the goal just, again, to weaken the insurgency to bring them to the negotiating table?
LT. GEN. BRADSHAW: Yeah, that's a very important question. Well, regarding whether we can keep this trend line moving in the same direction, I said that during the early the early part of this year we've seen a similar scale of reduction over last year. So we seem to be hitting the same trend line and further reducing the momentum of the insurgency. And we keep them under ruthless pressure, as you know, from framework operations on the ground, ruthlessly going after their commanders and facilitators through special forces raids, and they are feeling this pressure. We get this from the feedback of people who've joined the reintegration process.
But for as long as they can operate with relative impunity from sanctuaries outside the country, it's quite difficult to defeat them militarily. I would argue that in a counterinsurgency campaign, it's got to be a combination of military, economic, political and other measures anyway to effect a total elimination of this problem.
But we're heading in the right direction. And with the growth in confidence and capability of the Afghan national security forces, we have full confidence that by the end of 2014 they will be able to take on a reduced counterinsurgency campaign and execute it with efficiency and to good effect, which will deliver security to the major population centers, the major routes; but I would say that the insurgency we wouldn't expect by the end of 2014 to be completely eliminated.
Of course, if we take -- if we make advances in the area of reconciliation, we could see the progress dramatically improve. But, even without that, we're heading in the right direction.
Q: Follow up, though, are you seeing -- given the progress you cite, are you seeing any signs or indicators that the insurgents are more willing to come -- to reconcile than they were a year ago?
(Audio break.)
LT. GEN. BRADSHAW: -- of course, they see security being delivered by the government of Afghanistan and the Afghan national security forces and the situation in those areas much improved.
They also said they were fighting to get the foreigners out of the country. And of course, the face of security now in those sorts of hard areas is more and more an Afghan face. And so they've decided to join the program. And I think this is quite significant in terms of an indicator for where we might go.
CAPT KIRBY: Hate to ask you this, but if you could please repeat your last answer, we dropped the signal just after Craig finished asking his question of you, and we did not get to get your answer. So if you wouldn't mind please repeating your answer back to Craig on the reintegration.
LT. GEN. BRADSHAW: Yeah, the point about reintegration is that whilst a lot of the reintegration activity has been in the north and the west of the country, which is good news for the north and the west, we're particularly interested in seeing more reintegration progress in the south, the southwest and the east, which is -- (audio break) -- the program from the Zhari-Panjwayi area of Kandahar, west of Kandahar, which was a hard Taliban insurgent area until quite recently, when security has improved considerably.
They joined the program, and what they said was quite interesting. They said that they were afraid of the strike operations carried out by ISAF forces, which shows that the relentless pressure being applied there is having a devastating effect.
But they also said that they had been fighting to deliver security in their home area, and of course what they're seeing how is more and more very effective security being delivered by the government of Afghanistan and the Afghan national security forces.
They also said that they were fighting -- they had been fighting to get rid of foreigners. And now the face of the security of the ground is more and more an Afghan face. And they appear to be considerably less willing to attack their Afghan brothers than they are ISAF forces. So overall, the combination of transition to Afghan lead and the maintenance of relentless pressure on the enemy seems to be delivering.
CAPT KIRBY: Craig, did that take care of it?
Q: Yeah, thank you very much.
Q: General, Karen Parrish, American Forces Press Service. I've been reading reports of, again, increased attacks on civilian populations rather than -- I mean, and we saw this trend last year, going after a softer target of the civilian population and creating terror and insecurity in that sense. What trends do you see in that area this year and what's being done differently to counter those attacks?
LT. GEN. BRADSHAW: I take it that you're referring to insurgent attacks on civilians. And whilst, of course, the insurgent focus is on coalition and Afghan national security forces, the fact is that the way they go about their business, using essentially terrorist means and largely indiscriminate terrorist means at that, does cause a huge number of civilian casualties.
In recent figures, 93 percent of the civilian casualties caused over a recent period of survey were caused by Taliban or insurgent violence.
What are we doing about it? Well, the overall drive to improve security across the country is how we bear down on that.
And I would say also that, very regrettably, from time to time in the past we have caused civilian casualties ourselves. We hugely regret that. We feel very badly for the families those -- of those who have been killed. But I would say that we're making strident efforts to bear down on that problem, which is very, very difficult to avoid the sort of circumstances that we face. And over the last year we've seen a 65 percent reduction in ISAF-caused civilian casualties, which, as I say, are a tiny proportion of those caused by the insurgency.
CAPT KIRBY: OK. I think we have time for one more, if there's any more.
All right, sir. I think that's all the questions that our folks have here today. But I would like to turn it over to you for any last comments you might like to make, sir.
LT. GEN. BRADSHAW: Well, thank you very much for the opportunity to talk to you this morning. As I say, the campaign is in a good place. We've got plenty of work still to do. We've got to continue building the capability, the institutional depth, I would say, of the Afghan national security forces, but they're showing great confidence, capability in a range of different combat operations across the theater.
The momentum of the insurgency has been reversed over 2011. We're seeing a similar reduction in the early part of 2012. The campaign is moving in the right direction for our Afghan partners to take over a reduced counterinsurgency task and take full responsibility for combat operations at the end of 2014. And by that time we expect to have considerably enhanced their logistics capabilities, their leadership, their capabilities across a range of areas which are being built right now. And we have great confidence that they'll be able to take on the job and maintain security for the government of Afghanistan.
CAPT KIRBY: Thank you very much, General. We appreciate your time this evening, and we hope that we can have you back here in the Pentagon briefing room again in the near future. Thank you very much, sir.
LT. GEN. BRADSHAW: Thank you. I'll look forward to it.


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Sikhism was established by Guru Nanak over the period of 1469 to 1708. Most of the Gurus were born in Northern India, although they traveled extensively from as far west as Iraq to Assam in the east and Sri Lanka in the south. Guru Nanak, the first Guru was born in modern day Pakistan, and Guru Gobind Singh, the tenth Guru was born in Patna, Bihar. Before his death, Guru Gobind Singh nominated the Sikh holy scripture, the Guru Granth Sahib as the final and eternal Guru of Sikhism. All Sikhs are required to follow the teachings of the Gurus, which upon meditation leads to salvation. The Gurus are considered as a path to reach union with God.
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After reading the article about that boy sperms swim faster than girl sperms so avoid bd on the day of O (if you want a girl), I was wondering how many actually had a girl after bding on/after O day. Or did you bd before or after O and what did you have?
DS 6/2002, DD 5/2006, DS Feb 2009
DD was conceived directly after O. I had lots of EWCM the night before the procedure (and had a positive OPK that day). By the time I was inseminated the next morning, the NP who did the procedure was sure I had already O'd , due to cervical position and thick/creamy CM.
There is some debate as to whether IUI itself alters the chances of conceiving a boy or a girl, either due to timing or the possibility that washing sperm kills some of the weaker male sperm. My RE tells me that the data doesn't really support this . . . . And certainly my post O baby girl is indication that timing isn't everything!
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mumma to sweet 7 year old girl
and darling 2 year old guy
Well, DS was conceived after DTD FIVE (!!) days before O. For that reason, I was sure he was going to be a girl. Nope.
isn't it funny how sometimes you can dtd right around ovulation, and NOT get pg, and other times... 5 days BEFORE ovulation and get pg?!!!
i'm freakin out (in a good way) about dh possibly having an oops 3 days before and 1 day after ovulation, but it occurred to me that that means nothing, as we tried for months to have #1, and dtd all the time. i guess you never know, huh?!
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If decomposition persists please see your necromancer.
If your curious you can go to fertilityfriend and search the charts. You can select having a boy or girl and then look at their BDing.
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And THEN twins: Matt 11/14 and his guardian angel Billy 11/18/14 - 11/28/14
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There are plenty of factors that can "break" the rule. Some men just produce more "female" sperm than "male", perhaps due to environmental factors. There's a preponderance of girls in some farming communities where chemical pesticides are heavily used - I don't know if it alters the percentages of the sperm or just provides a toxic environment in which only the stronger "girl" sperm survive, but it's a curious phenomenon. I believe the pH of the vagina is said to have an effect on sex selection as well.
My two DS were conceived when DH and I were DTD a LOT. So it would have been every day including before and after O. With DD I was kind of trying to do Shettles for a girl but then said "screw it! I want to up my chances of a baby regardless of the gender!" So we also DTD the day after O. I know people who did Shettles with success and without and since everyone has a 50/50 chance anyway, I think it's pretty impossible to tell. I say try it and pray a lot!
Super crunchy Mama to DS1, DS2, DD and wanting a bunch more! We homeschool, bed share, homebirth and baby wear. We're attached, we only cloth diaper and we don't vax. There's a lot more to us than that, but it won't all fit.
stellamia: Sorry, just noticed this! My source is pretty much anecdata - another MDCer mentioned that her husband had had a sperm analysis and produced about 75% "girl" sperm and 25% "boy" sperm. I just did a quick Google and found this article, which included the statement: "On a larger scale, the number of men with more X sperm compared to the number of men with more Y sperm affects the sex ratio of children born each year." Very interesting read actually, the whole article.
As one of six girls, I find this all very interesting. :)
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My first was conceived three days after seeing EWCM. A girl.
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By Stephanie Ciccarelli
November 19, 2009
Beyond Luke Skywalker, Mark Hamill has built quite an impressive career in character voice acting!
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Real Housewives of Atlanta
NeNe Leakes Tweets During Entire Real Housewives Reunion Show
If you saw parts one and two of the The Real Housewives of Atlanta reunion show, you saw NeNe in an atypically stone-faced state. There were no violent outbursts, no verbal assaults, no significant amounts of trash talked, and certainly no wigs yanked. In fact, NeNe barely even looked at Kim and spoke to her only through Andy Cohen, who bravely took the seat between them in the tense, but kind of snoozy, reunion show.
With all that frustration pent up, NeNe was certain to burst, right? Right. And that's why Twitter was invented. In 140-character-or-less increments, NeNe vented her way through the reunion specials by revealing her true feelings via Twitter.
"I'm soooooo happy it's over," NeNe tweeted with respect to the season being over. And, it looks like she's taken a page out of Star Jones Book of Cryptic Hate Tweets, because she had a few vague digs to throw some of her fellow H'Wives ways.
"There are people who much rather see you down than up. Stay on top of your game and never let them see you sweat," wrote NeNe in response to her castmates. She added, "Everybody has something to say about the other at some point. It's all good because I feel like these girls are my publicist so let them talk."
Inspirational tweets included: "Still going strong," "The greatest form of revenge is success," and "What doesn't kill you makes you stronger."
But, of course, she wouldn't be NeNe if she didn't call out at least one H'Wife by name. "Phaedra is 40 so I really don't understand??? She's acting as if she's 25!" wrote NeNe of Ms. Parks and her claims that NeNe is "quite a bit" older than she. NeNe adds, "That's what lawyers do. Lie. Bless her heart."
Ultimately, though, NeNe tweets for the fans, and to the fans, she wrote, "Thanks for the love and for the hate because at the end of the day, it all works for me."
Wow, NeNe, we totally believe that you don't care when you tweet up a storm of rebuttals.
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Lesson: Innovation for Good
Quick Look: Students will engage in a discussion in small groups to create a "virtual innovation for the good," and present ideas to the class.
Grades: 6-12
Time: One to two 50-minute class periods
Materials: Internet connected computer with enabled sound, projector, computer lab if students are to conduct research on innovations (see resources below)
Learning Goals
- Students will generate a definition of the difference between innovation, creativity, and invention.
- Students will understand the historical significance of innovation.
- Students will consider innovations around them.
- Students will create a "virtual innovation."
MCREL Science Standard Level III - Grades 6-8
Knows that scientific inquiry and technological design have similarities and differences (e.g., scientists propose explanations for questions about the natural world that are always tentative and evolving, and engineers propose solutions relating to human problems, needs, and aspirations; both science and technology depend on accurate scientific information and they cannot contravene scientific laws)
MCREL Science Standard Level IV - Grades 9-12
Knows that science and technology are pursued for different purposes (e.g., scientific inquiry is driven by the desire to understand the natural world and seeks to answer questions that may or may not directly influence humans; technology is driven by the need to meet human needs and solve human problems)
Knows ways in which social and economic forces influence which technologies will be developed and used (e.g., cultural and personal values, consumer acceptance, patent laws, availability of risk capital, the federal budget, local and national regulations, media attention, economic competition, tax incentives)
Knows that technology can benefit the environment by providing scientific information, providing new solutions to older problems, and reducing the negative consequences of existing technology (e.g., monitoring a habitat or measuring greenhouse gases, improving renewable energy sources, and creating scrubbers to improve coal-burning facilities)
True innovators not only create something new, they create something that contributes to the creation of other new things. Creativity may generate art, and add ideas to a project. An invention can be anything new, like a toaster that can hold bagels, or a hand-powered flashlight — but innovation provides the materials or ideas for more innovations. Its results are exponential. Often it is a small idea, or an iteration of an earlier idea, but either way an innovation is quickly recognized due to its force of impact and broad application. Innovations are often small (batteries, microchips) they can often be found as parts of things instead of the thing itself. Also, consider that innovations can be processes, not always things.
Imagine using microchips only for computers, or batteries only for radios … would that make sense? The innovations of microchips and batteries launched hundreds of new products and ideas — that is innovation.
True innovators recognize potential — they see ideas. They adapt what is good and make it better. Also, they don't wait for the right time or place; they make it the right time. This lesson explores: What does it take to be an innovator? How do you recognize a good idea?
- Discuss with students the ideas of innovation, creativity, and invention. Create a definition for each with the class that is mutually exclusive. Find out where the three words diverge from each other.
- Teachers may decide to have students spend part of the class doing Internet research, looking at some of the invention and innovation sites listed below, exploring the historical significance of innovation as well as finding examples. Create a class list of innovations that everyone recognizes and that are all around them.
- Consider: A light bulb is a kind of innovation, but the real innovation is what's inside that enabled many kinds of light bulbs and light-emitting devices to be created.
- Another example of an innovator: David Green established Aurolab in India, one of the largest manufacturers of intra-ocular lenses in the world. Aurolab sells lenses for $4-$6 that are priced at over $100 in the United States, thereby helping countless patients who otherwise could never afford such treatment to preserve their sight and ability to work. Following the success of these eye care models, Green turned his attention to developing similar solutions for the hearing impaired.
- What was the innovation that allowed David Green to produce items so cheaply?
- Have the students read more about Aurolab online. http://www.indiamart.com/aurolab/
- Listen to the David Green interview clips.
- Discuss the kinds of innovations that do good. Can the students identify other innovations that were intended to improve social, environmental, or economic conditions? (Suggestions: Microlending, see the "Power of Enterprise" episode of THE NEW HEROES; Braille, implementing bottle deposits to encourage return.)
- Put students in groups of three or four students. Using the class-generated list of criteria for "what is an innovation," ask groups to create a "virtual innovation." Describe the problem it is designed to solve, and how it works. Why is it innovative? What are its results? How does it create potential for other innovations? Is it a thing or a process?
- Share the ideas with the class in presentations.
- Additional activity: Students could choose one to invest in, based on quality of innovation and potential. This would generate higher-level thinking including analysis and critical thinking.
Key Concepts and Vocabulary
- Innovation
- Iteration, to iterate
- Creativity
- Invention
- Exponential power, impact or growth
- Applying an existing idea to a new situation
- Recognition of potential
- Adaptation
- Look at challenges as opportunity
The Lemelson Center
- The Lemelson Center for the Study of Invention and Innovation: http://invention.smithsonian.org/home/
- Resources for Teachers: http://invention.smithsonian.org/resources/sites_teachers.aspx
- Resources for Inventors: http://invention.smithsonian.org/resources/sites_inventors.aspx
- Virtual Exhibits: http://invention.smithsonian.org/centerpieces/
The Tech Museum, San Jose California
- Home Page: http://www.thetech.org/
David Green's site on medical innovations
- Home Page: http://www.project-impact.net/
- An example of his innovations: http://schwabfound.org/schwabentrepreneurs.htm?schwabid=307
Suggested Extensions
If starting with this lesson consider the connections to the unit titled "Bringing the Future to People" drawn from THE NEW HEROES episode "The Technology of Freedom."
About the Classroom Content
These teacher resources were developed by the Learning Innovation and Technology Consortium (LITC). LITC develops educational programs and materials in support of problem solving, innovation, and social entrepreneurship.


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Antennae 3-segmented, with an arista; vein Rs 2-branched, frontal suture present, calypters well developed. Medium-sized flies with black and gray longitudinal stripes on the thorax and checkering on the abdomen. Arista commonly plumose on basal half; bare in a few species. Four notopleural bristles (short, long, short, long, from front to rear). Hindmost posthumeral bristle located even with or toward midline from presutural bristle.
The family contains three subfamilies, the Miltogramminae, the Paramacronychiinae and the Sarcophaginae, containing between them 108 genera. Flesh-flies are quite closely related to the family Calliphoridae, which belongs to the same (large) infraorder, the Muscomorpha, and includes species such as the blow-fly that have similar habits to the flesh-flies.
Flesh-flies, being viviparous, frequently give birth to live young on corpses of human and other animals, at any stage of decomposition from newly dead through to bloated or decaying (though the latter is more common).
The life cycle of flesh-fly larvae has been well researched and is very predictable. Different species prefer bodies in different states of decomposition, and the specific preferences and predictable life cycle timings allows forensic entomologists to understand the progress of decomposition and enables the calculation of the time of death by back extrapolation. This is done by determining the oldest larva of each species present, measuring the ambient temperature and from these values, calculating the earliest possible date and time for deposition of larvae. This yields an approximate time and date of death (d.o.d.) This evidence can be used in forensic entomology investigations and may assist in identification of a corpse by matching the calculated time of death with reports of missing persons. Such evidence has also been used to help identify murderers.
Flesh-flies can carry leprosy bacilli and can transmit intestinal pseudomyiasis to people who eat the flesh-fly larvae. Flesh-flies can also cause myiasis in animals, mostly to sheep, and can give them blood poisoning, or asymptomatic leprosy infections.


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Japanese Evergreen Oak
Utility friendly tree. Branches droop but resist breakage. Diseases and Pests not well studied.
Sawtooth Oak
Attractive, large, deciduous tree.
Coast Live Oak
Susceptible to oak moth. Sudden Oak Death manifested as a canker.
Swamp White Oak
Underside of leaf is silvery-white.
Texas Red Oak
Branches droop but resist breakage. A spectacular cold hardy landscape tree.
Turkey Oak
Branches don't droop and resist breakage.
Canyon Live Oak
A California native tree. Growing range between South West Oregon and Baja, Californi…
Scarlet Oak
Best in deep, rich soil. Outstanding fall color.
Scrub Oak
Utility friendly tree. Very drought tolerant. Found in Western California and Northern Baja, California. Som…
Leather Oak
Utility friendly tree. Very drought tolerant. This shrubby oak likes serpentine soils. Often found in dense …
Emory Oak
This live oak, typically grows in dry hills at moderate altitudes. In the red oak gro…
Engelmann Oak
This native tree is wide-spreading.
Southern Red Oak
Branches don't droop, and resist breakage.
Oregon White Oak
Underside of leaf is rusty or downy. Similar to valley oak, but found more commonl…
Ring Cupped Oak
Branches droop and are susceptible to breakage.
Shingle Oak
Branches droop but resist breakage.
California Black Oak
Golden fall color contrasts nicely with dark green conifers. Occasionally a reddish …
Laurel Oak
Branches droop and are susceptible to breakage.
Valley Oak
A massive but graceful tree.
Overcup Oak
Branches don't droop and resist breakage.
Burr Oak
Large acorns form in mossy cups.
Chinquapin Oak
Branches don't droop, and resist breakage.
Japanese Live Oak
New leaves are purplish.
Pin Oak
May become chlorotic in alkaline soil. Brown leaves tend to hang on the tree in fall…
Willow Oak
Fine textured foliage, yellow fall color. Dead, brown leaves tend to hang on the tre…
Quercus prinus
* see Quercus muehlenbergii
English Oak
Similar to valley oak but not native to California. Requires a moderate amount of wa…
Upright English Oak
Narrow and upright when young. Branches out as it matures.
Skymaster English Oak
Deciduous tree. Half as wide as it is tall. Tolerates various soil conditions.
Westminster Globe Oak
This deciduous tree grows to 50 feet. Tolerates a range of soil conditions.
Red Oak
Best in deep, fertile soil. Outstanding fall color. Leaves are lobed (7-9 lobes).
Shumard Red Oak
Tolerates acidic and poorly drained soil.
Cork Oak
Underside of leaf is light gray. Leaf drop in spring may seem abnormal, but is typic…
Island Oak
This evergreen Oak is a desirable landscape tree in southern California. Smooth gray …
Southern Live Oak
Underside of leaf is white. Attractive tree. Best in deep, rich soil, but widely ad…
Interior Live Oak
Susceptible to oak moth.
Soapbark Tree
Soapbark is famous for the medicinal and commercial use of its inner bark, an abundan…
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July 7 2015 Latest news:
Dan Grimmer
Monday, June 2, 2014
Twenty eyesore city homes, which have stood empty and boarded up for five years, are finally set to be demolished.
Norwich City Council, which owns the homes, moved out the tenants living in them in 2009 after tests showed the properties were at risk of subsidence.
Not everyone who was moved out of the homes in Argyle Street, off Rouen Road, wanted to leave.
Some had said they would have preferred the city council to take action to repair the problems.
But the council pushed ahead with the move, with the tenants who were moved out eligible for home loss payments of around £5,000 to £6,000.
The council said at the time that it hoped to sell the properties to a housing association.
But such a deal never materialised and the homes have become an eyesore, with overgrown gardens and boarding covering the windows.
However, the council has now revealed that the fate of the homes will be decided later this year.
A council spokesman said: "Due to ground conditions we have been unable to find a partner to develop the site in its current state.
"Plans are in place to flatten the existing structures to create a more attractive business proposition which we hope will enable us to find a suitable development partner.
"We are currently in the process of procuring a contractor to carry out the demolition work, which is programmed to take place this financial year."
Meanwhile, the city council has defended its record after statistics showed the number of empty homes in Norwich had gone up.
Research by national charity the Empty Homes Agency recorded that there were 385 empty homes in the city as of October last year, an increase of 53 on same time 12 months previously.
A city council spokesman said: "We're doing everything we can to bring empty homes back into use. An increase of around 60 properties in the whole of Norwich over the past year could be down to any number of factors in the current climate.
"We brought 142 empty homes back into use between April 1, 2013, and December 31, 2013, against a target of just 20 – a fantastic achievement."
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My comment was also removed with no reason given. Its a fa.ilure and oversight of Norwich City council who knew that these chalk works existed. New houses were built without considering the past and its not surprising that they can find nobody who will deal and pay for the City's concerns.
Wednesday, June 4, 2014
Why would two different flats not have a satellite dish each - duh?
Monday, June 2, 2014
Full circle this time without the squatters, they want to demolish and replace with affordable housing the affordable housing they built to replace demolished housing 30 years earlier. And so it goes on
Monday, June 2, 2014
No doubt the private sector will have no problem building expensive rabbit boxes on the site. Oh, did I say rabbit boxes? I meant to say luxury dwellings LoL
Monday, June 2, 2014
I thought the Argyle street area is riddled with unplotted chalk workings-tunnels and pits etc which makes any development risky without a full geophysical survey. Buses falling in holes is one thing, wasting money on underpinning and piling for a site for cheap housing is silly. Better to let it be a car lot, or a site for businesses in portable structures which do not require heavy foundations.Or an open play space.And build where houses are not going to crack up.
Monday, June 2, 2014
Indeed, whenever you see a report on CH4 news about the poorneedy you always seem them in their living room with the 47" TV, Xbox, iPhone and Sky box. "Can't buy my kids food but I won't deny them entertainment (if it stops them bothering me while I have a smoke)!" If people got their spending and lifestyle priorities right, they might find they are not to so poor after all. Take some responsibility (I know, that's asking too much isn't it).
Monday, June 2, 2014
Why was my comment about there being no surprise about a shortage of partners for an area riddled with chalk workings removed? I thought it was entirely sensible to suggest that development could be non permanent dwellings or businesses which might not be so susceptible to subsidence. Just because the site was built on in the past, does not make it a sensible option now.Oh-I know-it was because I referred to the EDP pet campaign of the moment- homes built in daft places on the coast.
Monday, June 2, 2014
I think the bigger question here is why has the council given away between £5,000 to £6,000 in so called 'home loss payments'? These were tenants in cheap social housing subsidized by the tax payer and presumably they were re-housed in other similar council owned property – the only loss here seems to be to the tax payer. Interesting that the picture shows not one but two Sky satellite dishes – says it all really!
Monday, June 2, 2014
Wherry Housing Association recently auctioned 2 empty houses off because they couldn't afford to upgrademodify them. Where is all the local councils money going?????? Oh yes I know silly me.
Monday, June 2, 2014
The truly shocking thing about this is that these modern houses were built on the site of some perfectly decent Victorian terraces, many of them the old squats, which had been emptied, squatted, and then demolished - because of SUBSIDENCE!! So did the council do nothing to stabilize the ground before they built the new houses, and if not why not? How did their engineers get it so wrong?
Monday, June 2, 2014
Norwich City Council destroyed a wonderful community in Argyle Street that people from all over the world once came to see and film. It was a beautiful street full of happy people, children and dogs that lived together in peace and happiness. So the council came one day and throw everyone out then attacked it with bulldozers and diggers until there was nothing left of the last real happy community left in Briton, then they replaced it with the isolated abandoned lonely eyesore that it is now. There was a sign on the wall once in the original Argyle Street, a street that had been a community for centuries, that read, "Don't fight each other, fight the council".
Monday, June 2, 2014
An ancient hippie curse lies on this site so that all falls into limbo.......
Monday, June 2, 2014
While they are at it can they knock down Howard House on King Street too? Let's not kid ourselves, it's an eyesore that has passed its time. Let it go. I'm sure the residents won't mind at all. If it was that important something major would have happened already.
Monday, June 2, 2014
Five year for a council to make a decision is quite speedy. Business premises instead of homes? Particularly when immigration is still running unchecked is not the wisest of decisions.
Monday, June 2, 2014
It's incredible to think that a council can take five years to make a decision, no wonder this City and County are in such a state,what do they do all day. Then when questioned they seem to think they do a great job, to busy trying to justify their jobs so doing lots of little jobs to make the figures look good. Stat's rule OK
Monday, June 2, 2014
If the ground under Argyle Street is riddled with chalk workings, as it appears to be, surely underpinning is a waste of time.I am not surprised the council has not found development partners.. If the excavations are not mapped how can they know when the next collapse will come or how expensive the few houses are going to be to build safely.Better then perhaps to develop the site as an opportunity for accommodation of a less permanent kind or for businesses based in constructions which are not permanent and less likely to be affected by subsidence. Or even as an open play space for the area. There are more stable sites in the city-previous development is no guarantee of common sense or practicality ( as we see so often on the coast).
Monday, June 2, 2014
They look quite modern houses. I am surprised they weren't worth repairing or underpinning.
Monday, June 2, 2014
Five years ... to get part way to a bit of a decision, maybe? Madness. Wasted time and money.
Monday, June 2, 2014
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SNK vs. Capcom: Card Fighters DS moves the trading card game from the NeoGeo Pocket onto the Nintendo DS with an even larger stable of familiar characters from both SNK and Capcom.
Japanese compilation of KoF games '99 Evolution, 2000, and 2001 - arcade and Dreamcast versions.
Blast your way through jungle infested, nazi-esque worlds in this compilation of the Metal Slug franchise. Includes every arcade Metal Slug game, which makes this game Metal Slug 6's Western debut.
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Sixth installment of the Metal Slug franchise and the first to leave the Neo-Geo hardware. Introduces two new characters from the Ikari Warriors/King of Fighters franchises.
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Mess around with Neo Poke-kun in his apartment and get him to build you a bunch of weird minigames in this Japan-only release.
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I'm noticing that adding a gallery to a page now just lists the ID's of images, slightly different to before, and reordering the images just amends the order of the ID's listed in the gallery short-code.
So this...
[gallery order="DESC" link="file" columns="4"]
It's now this...
[gallery ids="3439,3440,3444,3443,3445,3453,3457,3458,3456,3461,3452,3468,3467,3470,3464,3459,3463,3462,3460,3466,3454,3450,3449,3448,3451,3447,3446,3442,3441,3438,3471,3469"]
Which is fine, and old galleries created in previous versions still appear to work. My problem is I have a summary page grabbing the first image of every child page. The code is something like this....
$args = array(
'post_type' => 'attachment',
'post_parent' => $page->ID,
'orderby' => 'menu_order ID',
'order'=> 'asc',
'numberposts' => 1,
$attachments = get_posts($args);
This now doesn't work (I'm guessing because gallery order is now based on the ID's) Any way to fix it? Thanks


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The Hong Kong Flower Show 2012, organised by the Leisure and Cultural Services Department (LCSD), will be held at Victoria Park from 9am to 9pm daily from tomorrow (March 16) until March 25.
This year's flower show features the hyacinth as its theme flower and "Floral Delights" as its main theme.
More than 350,000 flowers, including over 30,000 pots of hyacinths representing some 20 cultivars, will transform Victoria Park into a colourful wonderland throughout the show period.
Over 200 organisations from 21 countries, namely the Mainland, Australia, Belgium, Canada, Estonia, France, Germany, Indonesia, Italy, Japan, Korea, Malaysia, the Netherlands, New Zealand, Pakistan, the Philippines, Singapore, South Africa, Spain, the United Kingdom and the United States, will showcase exotic flowers, landscapes and floral art displays.
The LCSD will also present a spectacular exhibit made up of over 16,000 pots of flowers in the display "Colourful World", whose design is based on the metamorphosis of Hong Kong from a fishing village into a metropolis of international renown. A traditional Chinese-style wooden junk symbolising Hong Kong moves around a globe representing planet Earth. Under the globe, a water feature with a silhouette of the city's impressive skyline will make visitors feel like they are looking at Victoria Harbour. Special lighting effects add to the silhouette, showing that Hong Kong is an attractive place full of vigour and energy by day and night. Surrounding the globe are thousands of hyacinths.
A spectacular sea of flowers comprising more than 15,000 tulips and measuring 290 square metres adds colour and fragrance to the showground, while a colourful floral wall depicting a junk celebrates the 15th anniversary of the establishment of the Hong Kong Special Administrative Region.
Other main attractions include a mosaiculture display entitled "Tropical Delights", with tropical fruits from around the world decorated with the local costumes of their main country of production; a fun display on the park's main lawn featuring flowering plants and agricultural produce in the shape of a 4-metre high windmill; and a wish-making corner in the shape of Hakka "tulou".
Special plant exhibits including Aquilaria sinensis and Synsepalum dulcificum are also on display.
Displays from the Mainland are equally spectacular, including "Vitality Abounds in Spring" by Beijing Municipal Administration Center of Parks and "The Way to Go, in the Year of the Dragon" by Shenzhen Urban Management Bureau.
The hyacinth is a perennial herbaceous monocotyledon of the genus Hyacinthus in the family Hyacinthaceae. Native to the eastern Mediterranean from northwestern Syria and Lebanon to southern Turkey, the hyacinth is now widely grown all over the world and extensively cultivated in the Netherlands.
The hyacinth has numerous cultivars, with single or double-petalled flowers of various sizes, colours and varieties. The densely packed florets, in shades of red, yellow, white, blue and purple, normally bloom from March to April.
Hyacinths are especially suitable for growing indoors, where their colourful flowers will brighten the house and fill it with a delightful fragrance. Hyacinths can be grown as potted plants, cultivated in water or used as ornamental cut flowers. Small and regular in size and outline, the hyacinth is an excellent choice of bulbous flowering plant for flower beds in spring.
A rich diversity of educational and recreational fringe activities will also be organised for the enjoyment of visitors of all ages, including music and cultural performances, floral art and cooking demonstrations, plant maintenance workshops, green stalls, guided visits, recreational programmes and fun games.
Admission tickets to the Hong Kong Flower Show 2012 are available from now until March 25 at the LCSD's District Leisure Services Offices and leisure venues with Leisure Link services. Tickets will also be sold at the entrance to the Victoria Park showground throughout the show period. Octopus cards can be used to pay for admission.
Admission fees for the flower show are as follows:
* Normal rate: $14
* Children, students and senior citizens aged 60 or above: $7
* Persons with disabilities and minders (each person can enjoy the concessionary rate with one minder only): $7
Concessionary rates from Monday to Friday:
* Free admission for senior citizens aged 60 or above.
* Free admission for persons with disabilities and minders (each person can enjoy the concessionary rate with one minder only).
* Adults in a group of 30 persons or above will be admitted at half rate.
For enquiries, please call 2601 8260, fax 2691 7264 or visit the LCSD webpage at www.lcsd.gov.hk/green/hkfs/2012/en/index.php.
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The Leisure and Cultural Services Department's spectacular exhibit "Colourful World".
A colourful floral wall depicting a junk celebrates the 15th anniversary of the establishment of the Hong Kong Special Administrative Region.
The mosaiculture display "Tropical Delights".


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SUMMIT offers the industry's widest variety of refrigerator-microwave combination units, with sizes that fit your space and designs to serve your needs.
Model MRF41ES combines a mid-sized microwave with SUMMIT's popular compact ENERGY STAR qualified FF41ES refrigerator-freezer. The complete unit has a conveniently slim under 19" width for an easy fit in any tight setting. A reversible door with door storage for large bottles adds placement flexibility.
Automatic defrost operation saves users the work and mess of the manual defrosting process. Additional refrigerator features include a clear crisper, adjustable thermostat, and adjustable shelves.
The MRF41ES's top unit contains variable functions and power settings for quality microwave cooking. All of SUMMIT's combination refrigerator-microwaves are shipped fully assembled and ready to use. Plug the microwave, refrigerator-freezer, and a third appliance (such as a coffee maker) into our power allocator box and use its cord for safe one-plug operation. This system protects your circuit breaker and power line by limiting overall power use to 10 amps.
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I find it surprising Rogers is not offering the new BlackBerry Z30. Despite less than stellar sales, BlackBerry out sells other manufacturers Rogers carries, particularly in Canada. Surprising, as a Canadian company, BlackBerry is a big supporter of the Rogers owned Blue Jays and Canadian universities. BlackBerry takes out a significant amount of ad space with Rogers, yet Rogers promotes American and Asian phones!
Perhaps most surprising, Rogers and other Canadian cellular carriers have an aggressive ad campaign against American company Verizon wanting to compete in the Canadian market. Arguing Rogers has Canada's best interests at heart.
Not only does Rogers have poor regional coverage in Saskatchewan, they are now turning their back on a Canadian company, one who has apparently wasted their ad budget on Rogers. And, most surprisingly, evil American company Verizon IS carrying the new BlackBerry Z30 super-phone, which critics are saying is quite slick with large HD display!
Guess Canadian Rogers customers have to wait for Verizon to show up to get a Canadian Z30?
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Poverty alleviation and modernisation of agriculture in 23 districts in Ghana are to receive major boost soon following Ghana's readiness to access the Millennium Challenge Account (MCA) of $547 million over a period of five years.
Ghana's qualification for the fund, an initiative of the United States government, was as a result of its commitment to practicing good governance and sound economic practices.
You may refer to the links to read the simplified version of proposed projects to be carried out in the beneficiary districts.


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News about frogs with missing limbs and other abnormalities has regularly been featured in newspapers and on the evening news for the past four years, nationally and here in Vermont. Field surveys conducted at 20 sites within the Lake Champlain Basin between 1997 and 2000 found that of 7,227 young northern leopard frogs examined, 7 percent suffered from external malformations.
The U.S. Geological Survey National Wildlife Health Center performed external and internal examinations on normal and abnormal frogs collected in several states. Examinations performed by this lab support current theories that many of the abnormalities are caused by primary errors in development, rather than later physical damage.
The Agency of Natural Resources will conduct a federally-funded study in the spring of 2001 to learn more about the causes of these malformations in the Lake Champlain Basin. The study will include diagnostic examinations of northern leopard frogs, chemical characterization of water and sediment from sites, and other laboratory and field studies. To date, there are still numerous possible explanations for the frog abnormalities, and it's certainly possible that several factors may be acting together.


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December 14, 2006 9:42 AM PST
Microsoft, Baidu form paid-search partnership
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Under the terms of this agreement, Baidu's paid search listings will appear on the search results pages of the Chinese versions of Microsoft sites such as MSN and Live Search. This is expected to go into effect later this month.
Baidu, which recently announced a decision to expand its reach to Japan, is the largest Chinese-language search engine. According to Web traffic-ranking site Alexa, it's also the fourth-most-visited site in the world. Microsoft is by no means the first United States-based company to show an interest in partnering with such a major player in China's growing Web market: indeed, Intel's Chinese division inked an agreement with Baidu earlier this year.
Other companies, as well as venture capitalists, have taken a financial stake in Baidu's promising future. Among these was search king Google, which invested in Baidu prior to the Chinese company's August 2005 initial public offering. Google later sold its 2 percent stake, citing its own China ambitions.
"We have disposed of our modest investment in Baidu," Google spokeswoman Debbie Frost confirmed in July. "It has always been our goal to grow our own successful business in China, and we are very focused on that," she said.
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Yep, it is that time of year again. It is that time when Hallmark gives a preview of their new ornaments for this year and people complain about how early it is. It is important to remember that these ornaments are not out yet. This is just the first look at what will be available later this year. Here is a link to Hallmark's Ornament website.
Rather than post direct links to my favorites, I'll let you all go through and discover them for yourself. Have Fun.


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1. As the Commission recommends strengthening the cooperation between health, education and sport sectors in order to define and implement coherent strategies to reduce overweight, obesity and other health risks, in this context, S²-PORT encourages public authorities to examine how to promote the concept of active living through the regional and national training systems, including the training of teachers and elderly people. One of the first objectives of this proposal will be the joint reflection among different territorial levels and between different actors of civil society, on how to design a methodology to introduce physical activity as a new lifestyle to prevent disease.
2. The second objective of the proposal will be based on transnational exchanges put forward by public bodies or civil society organizations in order to identify relevant practices and test suitable European experiences, in the field of sport and the use of sport as a means for prevention and healthy ageing. The analysis and subsequent identification of relevant practices will take into account two variants: the scope of practices identified and the context of practices identified. The scope of practices will be extended to the different thematic areas covering healthy ageing, giving priority to good practices exercising a profit on palliative care, disease prevention, improved quality of life and social welfare, cares and prevention on cardiovascular and metabolic depression, among others. The context of practices will be provided, depending on the tool used to contribute to the goal of healthy aging: good practices in training, good practices in holding awareness or good practices in exploitation of results.
3. The third objective is demonstrating the potential of the most diverse actors participating in the project– within the public sector and civil society alike – that allows the development of a Holistic Methodology based on Sportive practices as substitute of medical assistance and palliative care and promoting a more physically active daily lives. The Methodology should be as practical as possible to be adaptable to each context and if possible to other target groups that could use it in the future.
4. Finally and as a main objective foreseen by the Preparatory Action and therefore by this proposal,the Methodology aims to be not only a theoretical exercise but a real and practical tool to prepare future EU actions in this field by involving stakeholders in health sectors, sportive training sectors and overall policy sectors that allow to define new political programs. The Holistic Methodology should reach the practicality and becomes a useful tool for all kind of organizations and entities involved in the promotion of Healthy Aging. Thereby the methodology should be validated not only by the technical teams involved in the project but also and mainly by the stakeholders that later should use it.


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With very few exceptions, movie-to-game titles haven't exactly been triumphant in the past, but developers keep trying to make them and publishers keep spitting them out. Now SouthPeak Interactive has joined the ranks of the ideologues in introducing Men in Black: The Game.
The MiB 3D action/adventure title is loosely based on the premise of the recent movie: During the mid-50s, the US Government created a small, under-funded agency to moderate close encounters of the extraterrestrial kind, sub rosa, of course. The few individuals who worked with these agents came to know them as the "Men in Black," referring to the simple, inconspicuous suits they wore. Years later, in 1961, alien beings contacted the MiB, hence moving the agency forward in its work - independent of the government and left to its own devices. Well, it's been at least 35 years, the organization is still alive, and this is where the game begins.
You assume the role of James Edwards, better identified as Will Smith from the film. Your first mission follows the movie most precisely in that you are not yet an MiB agent, but rather a piquant New York City detective dispatched to investigate a robbery in progress at 83rd and Broadway - a task that ends up proving your alien-hunting merit. Once you finish this stage, learning most of the skills you'll need throughout the game, you'll be brought to the MiB Headquarters.
Inside HQ, you're briefed on your mission, and then you select one of three characters for the duration: Agent J, the New York City detective (Will Smith); Agent K, the most decorated agent (Tommy Lee Jones); or Agent L, the first female agent and former coroner (Linda Fiorentino). At this point, the game abandons the movie plot by introducing three new missions with two sub-missions for you to accomplish. The first takes place in an Arctic weather station, the second within the Amazon, and the third at the estate of Skip Frales, a computer expert who made a fortune at a young age manufacturing PCs (not another Bill Gates parody... sigh). Within each level, you'll run through a series of mission-based tasks such as finding key cards, deactivating security systems, picking up idols, reading messages and clues, solving puzzles, and battling aliens in the form of Manitobas, large bugs, spore frogs, and grays and even those appearing as humans, all with the goal of piecing the story together toward an end. However, while the environments in which these activities take place change, the action pretty much stays the same.
The perspective, graphics, and gameplay of MiB are similar to Capcom's Resident Evil, yet only the look is nearly as polished. The basic fighting engine, with an obviously deficient AI, often has you repeatedly kicking an enemy at several-second intervals while he mostly remains stationary, occasionally moving backwards or forwards, half-heartedly blocking your hits. And during many encounters, continuously applying only the high kick will eventually disable your rival with very little damage to yourself. So wherein lies the frustration? The monotony of hand combat and the lethargic gun battles. The unresponsiveness and general sloth of the controls (the game can only be controlled through keyboard input, no gamepads allowed) will really get you when you have more than one gunman to attack and you have anything less than a powerful Series 4 De-Atomizer or Pulsar Blaster. They'll fire upon you at will, alternating turns, and not until their actions have ceased will you be able to cap off a shot or hit your inventory to use a health kit and restore your crushed physique - unlike in Resident Evil where combat is actually real time, giving you a fighting chance.
MiB would perhaps be more fun to play if you could at least run quickly. Compared to the ease with which your enemies move you'll likely be quite incensed that you appear to be running through molasses while they're closing in on you fast. Also, the controls are extremely flaky and unreliable when you attempt to quickly pull out your gun, or put it away, in the event of an alien being too close to shoot, but close enough to punch. There's no challenge in being handicapped by the lack of speed and unresponsiveness of the controls; that's merely frustration. The poor interface places MiB on par with the tedium of data entry, as many of your strategies will require nothing more than patience, as you repeatedly hit the fire button, waiting to shoot within the window of time when your enemy is finished firing at you.
Besides slow-motion running and shooting, your character will be equipped to jump, dodge, punch, kick, as well as examine objects, open doors, and so forth. But herein lies another problem. Unless you are lined up directly in front of your object, you can't act. And jumps are quite improbable even once you align yourself; for example, you can't hop up on a box unless you're right in front of it. And yet you can execute a standing jump across building rooftops?
All in all, it's quite obvious the time and energy went into set design and mediocre character animations, not into actually making the game work. On the positive side, in the beginning, the sound is fairly interesting. The New York City apartment building seduces you with excellent street sounds of hollow urban ambiance. But then it too goes downhill, with your character's insistent one-liners and the endlessly looped "climatic moment" music churning in the background. In addition, the perspective is flaky, in that when your character is far away, it's difficult for you to see the action taking place in front of him or her. But all of these points aside, what seems to differentiate a good game from a bad game is that in the former, a challenging section may inspire you to move on, but also teaches you skills you'll use later, luring you deeper into play. A bad game tends to leave you glad to be finished with one part and questioning whether it's worth it to even continue. MiB lands on its face in the latter category, giving, at its best, some nice-looking environments to gaze at while cultivating a bothersome case of carpal tunnel syndrome, leaving you begging for a "neuralizer" to forget you've ever played this game in the first place.


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