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One of the things I am really guilty of is seeing something in real life fashion and wishing it was made in Second Life. It's always awesome when wishes come true…..check out ma boots!
I saw the real life versions of these boots posted on Plurk a while ago now and I craved them more than was healthy so I nearly wet myself when I stumbled across these, they are so full of sparkly goodness. As I went on a bit of a shopping spree the last few days I threw on all the other goodies I bought including this very cute new hair from Elikatira. Make sure you go check them all out!
Jacket: erratic / vanity – leather jacket / black open
Shirt: Gawk! Rose Glitter Lips T-Shirt
Jeans: -tb- Juju Jeans – Worn Out
Boots: Redgrave – Sequin UGG Boots – Black –
Necklace: MG – Necklace – Baroque Teardrop – Long – Silver *Only available at faMESHed
Ring: KOSH– NODA RING
Hairbow: booN velvet bow headband SYURI black
Hair: [e] Sound – Blonde 02
Skin: Glam Affair – Amberly – Europa Frostbite 01 D *Only available at Collabor88
Eyeliner: Dead Apples – Thick Liner Raven (Strong)
Eyes: .ID. City Lights / Mesh Eyes / Gray /
Lashes: Maitreya V.I.P. Group Gift – Mesh EyeLashes
Nails: [PM]Pixel Mode – Diamond Edt. Mesh Nails : Long
Pose: Exposeur


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Book your room at An Lam Ninh Van Bay Villas
Get an overview of this hotelResort with private beach, full-service spa
Collect 200 points
Simply enter your Nectar card number when prompted. Your points will be credited 30 days after you return from your trip.*Offers may apply
Offering direct access to the beach, this resort is near the bay in Ninh Hoa, within easy reach of scuba diving and snorkeling. Regional attractions also include Vinpearl Land and Po Nagar Cham Towers.
Resort Features
Catch some rays on An Lam Ninh Van Bay Villas's private white sand beach, pamper yourself at the full-service spa, or enjoy water skiing.
Room Amenities
All 33 individually decorated rooms provide free WiFi, free wired Internet, and pillowtop beds. Guests can enjoy private plunge pools, and other standard amenities include furnished patios, living rooms, and LCD TVs.Information missing or incorrect? Tell us!
Hotel Amenities
Hotel Amenities
Unwind on the resort's private white sand beach. Lie back and work on your tan with relaxing beach amenities like umbrellas and sun loungers. Pamper yourself with a treatment at the full-service spa and enjoy amenities at An Lam Ninh Van Bay Villas like an outdoor pool and complimentary bicycles.
The resort offers a restaurant. A beach bar is on site where guests can unwind with a drink. High-speed wireless Internet access is complimentary.
- 24-hour front desk
- Concierge services
- Beach umbrellas
- Beach sun loungers
- Pool sun loungers
- Beach towels
- Luggage storage
- Year Built 2011
- Spa treatment room(s)
- Pool umbrellas
- Dry cleaning/laundry service
- Limo or Town Car service available
- Airport transportation (surcharge)
- Total number of rooms - 33
- Barbecue grill(s)
- Breakfast available (surcharge)
- Business center
- Fitness facilities
- Full-service spa
- Gift shops or newsstand
- Tours/ticket assistance
- Free WiFi
- Laundry facilities
- Library
- One meeting room
- Multilingual staff
- Parking (limited spaces)
- Picnic area
- Beach bar
- Restaurant
- Private beach nearby
- Direct access to private beach
- Train station pickup (surcharge)
- Outdoor pool
- Wedding services
Family Friendly Amenities
- Outdoor pool
- Separate living room
- Free Wi-Fi
- Laundry facilities
Available in all rooms: Free WiFi , Free wired high-speed Internet
Available in some public areas: Free WiFi
Parking (limited spaces)
Room Amenities
- Designer toiletries
- Bathrobes
- Free toiletries
- Furnished patio
- Premium bedding
- Climate control
- Ceiling fan
- Air conditioning
- Phone
- Minibar
- Coffee/tea maker
- Free bottled water
- Daily housekeeping
- Turndown service
- Private bathroom
- Hair dryer
- Separate bathtub and shower
- Slippers
- Rainfall showerhead
- Desk
- In-room safe
- Blackout drapes/curtains
- Satellite TV service
- Free WiFi
- Free wired high-speed Internet
- Separate living room
- Private plunge pool
- Room service
- Down comforter
- Individually furnished
- Individually decorated
- Pillowtop mattress
Where to Eat
Buffet breakfasts are available for a surcharge and are served each morning between 6:30 AM and 9:30 AM.
An Lam Villas - This beachfront restaurant specializes in international cuisine and serves breakfast, lunch, and dinner.
Room service is available.
Nearby Things to Do
Recreational amenities at the resort include an outdoor pool, a fitness center, and complimentary bicycles.
The recreational activities listed below are available either on site or nearby; fees may apply.
- Surfing/boogie boarding nearby
- Motor boating on site
- Rowing or canoeing on site
- Water skiing on site
- Beach yoga on site
- Boat tours on site
- Sailing nearby
- Scuba diving nearby
- Snorkeling nearby
- Free bicycles on site
- Mountain biking nearby
- Yoga classes/instruction on site
- Kayaking on site
Spa Services
Guests can pamper themselves with a trip to the onsite spa, which has 2 treatment rooms. Massages are available on the beach and in the spa; other services include facials, body scrubs, and body treatments. The spa is equipped with a spa tub. A variety of treatment therapies are provided, including aromatherapy.
- Number of treatment rooms 2
- Massages on beach
- Body scrubs
- Aromatherapy treatments
- Spa tub in spa
- Massages
- Body treatments
- Facial treatments
Hotel Policies
Minimum check-in age is 18
Check-in time starts at 2 PM
Check-in time ends at 6 PM
Special check-in instructions:
Check-out time is noon
Payment types
You need to know
Extra-person charges may apply and vary depending on hotel policy.
Government-issued photo identification and a credit card or cash deposit are required at check-in for incidental charges.
Special requests are subject to availability upon check-in and may incur additional charges. Special requests cannot be guaranteed.
- The name on the credit card used at check-in to pay for incidentals must be the primary name on the guestroom reservation.
No elevators
- Christmas Eve (24 December) Gala Dinner per adult: USD 139.00
- New Year's Eve (31 December) Gala Dinner per adult: USD 174.00
- Rollaway bed fee: USD 75 per night
We should mention
Local laws may restrict unmarried guests from sharing rooms. Guests are responsible for providing proof of marriage, if requested by the hotel. Guests must transfer via boat to the property. Guests must contact the property at least 72 hours before travel, using the contact information on the confirmation received after booking. This property offers transfers from the airport and train station (surcharges may apply). Guests must contact the property with arrival details before travel, using the contact information on the booking confirmation. Reservations are required for massage services and spa treatments. Reservations can be made by contacting the resort prior to arrival, using the contact information on the booking confirmation. Children 11 years old and younger stay free when occupying the parent or guardian's room, using existing bedding. Only registered guests are allowed in the guestrooms.

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text: Religion or science, the problem that we have is that only a fraction of people actually understand what's going on and try to work for the common good. In both cases the signal either gets jacked around by people who don't understand and get it wrong like a bad game of telephone or it gets hijacked by assholes who don't care what happens to everyone else as long as they get their own power and privilege. It's the institutions that grow up around both that become corrupt and are corrupted.


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When the torcedor arranges the leaves, he also arranges his mind and the mind of the person smoking the cigar.
- Adaptation of a Zen saying
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The Cheroot by La Flor Dominicana
Size: 5 ½" x 38 Vitola: Pyramid (Cheroot style) Wrapper: I'm assuming Ecuadorian… Origin: Dominican Republic Age: 2 months or so I'm taking a break from my break (?) to write this review (what a trooper). The Cheroot is a … Continue reading
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text: Check out WIRED 2013's speaker list in detail - only two months to go | Promotion Wired Blog 06 August 13 by Wired.co.uk Staff There are just over two months to go until our flagship WIRED 2013 conference, featuring speakers such as Bjork, Lord Martin Rees, Jonah Peretti and Eben Upton.For WIRED 2013 we are gathering pioneering thinkers from across the world, all of whom are pushing the boundaries of what's possible in their fields. Taking place on 17 and 18 October at London's Tobacco Dock, the event is our third annual celebration of the people and ideas shaping the WIRED world. Book now to avoid disappointment (the event sells out every year)!The amazing line-up of speakers confirmed so far for WIRED 2013 include:Bjork: Icelandic singer-songwriter and music innovator, who turned an album into the world's most interactive digital app. Lord Martin Rees: British cosmologist and astrophysicist who has been Astronomer Royal since 1995. Kevin Ashton: technology pioneer and creator of a popular fake online persona, also known for inventing the term "The Internet of Things". Lang Lang: leading Chinese concert pianist who partnered with Google and YouTube to assemble to first-ever online collaborative orchestra, the YouTube Symphony Orchestra. Rosalind Picard: MIT Media Lab expert on how computers can read human emotions. Jack Andraka: inventor, amateur scientist and cancer researcher who, at just 15, devised the diagnostic test for pancreatic cancer. Carl Bass: President and CEO of Autodesk, a world leader in 3D design, engineering and entertainment software and services. Suneet Singh Tuli: creator of India's groundbreaking £25 Akash tablet computer. Joshua Davis: US Wired Contributing Editor with 6 Wired stories optioned for movie treatments. David Edwards: Founder of Le Laboratoire, Paris and Harvard Professor who has developed new ways of eating by creating Le Whif and Le Whaf -- breathable food and drink. Linda Stone: writer and consultant on attention, play, technology and trends, who coined several phrases including "continuous partial attention" and "email apnea". Dr Beau Lotto: globally renowned neuro-scientist from University College London who specialises in perception research and wows the world of science with work that blurs the boundaries between neuro-science and the arts. Nick D'Aloisio: Summly founder who started writing apps aged 12 in 2008, and became one of the youngest ever self-made millionaires when he sold Summly to Yahoo in March this year. Deb Roy: Chief Media Scientist of Twitter and a tenured professor at MIT, Roy is an expert in exploring people's behaviour and preferences in real time from Twitter data Jonah Peretti: co-founder of The Huffington Post and founder and CEO of BuzzFeed, the extraordinary news organisation which attracts over 50 million unique monthly visitors through its mastery of social sharing. Liam Casey: having set up PCH International in 1996, Casey now has a vast business manufacturing products in China for all the big tech companies. Deepak Ravindran: his fast-growing mobile company Innoz has created India's " offline search engine" to connect millions to the internet. Moran Cerf: a neuroscientist who went from hacking banks to hacking brains and has shown how to project patients' thoughts onto a screen in front of their eyes. Walter de Brouwer: Founder of Scanadu, Brouwer is building a real-life Star Trek Tricorder device to give us control of our health. Mike Gunton: creative director of the BBC Natural History Unit, the world's largest production unit dedicated to wildlife film-making. Adam Sadowsky: entrepreneur and former actor who makes extraordinary Rube Goldberg machines, as seen in OK GO's music video for " This Too Shall Pass". Jane ní Dhulchaointigh: the inventor who created a new self-setting material, Sugru, which is helping people in 138 countries hack their products; specialist in human altruism, morality and value-based decision making. Molly Crockett: neuroscientist who believes that understanding the brain can enable us to design environments that promote cooperation instead of selfishness. Oren Yakobovich: human-rights activist who uses video to powerful effect. Marco Tempest: cyber-illusionist who combines magic and technology to produce astonishing illusions. Eben Upton: inventor of the £16 Raspberry Pi computer, a global phenomenon which sold a million in less than a year. Natascha McElhone: British actress who is working with Wired on finding ways to inspire teenagers about innovation. Evan Grant: technologist, artist and inventor who works with cymatics, the art of making sound visible, as well as the latest smart performance technology Isabel Behncke Izquierdo: A primatologist who studies the social behaviour of wild bonobos in the Democratic Republic of the Congo Brad Templeton: A software architect, civil rights advocate, entrepreneur and consultant on self-driving cars, who is also the current Chair of Networks & Computing at Singularity University Kathryn Myronuk: Director of Research at Singularity University and a knowledge sommelier who researches and forecasts with emphasis on rapidly changing technologies As well our main event, we will be inspiring, educating and motivating a new generation of disruptors at our WIRED 2013: Next Generation event on 19 October.Speakers at WIRED 2013: Next Generation will include some from our main event, including:Marco Tempest: cyber-illusionist who updates magic for the digital age, building his illusions around current technology including YouTube and iPads, and who is currently training robots in magic. Kyra Maya Phillips: writer and author who will be exploring the topic of her book The Misfit Economy which asks what gangsters, pirates and hackers can teach us about innovation, and also asks how young people should embrace their inner misfit. Deb Roy: associate professor at the MIT Media Lab who teaches robots to speak and researches language, games and social dynamics at the intersection of artificial intelligence and cognitive psychology. Mike Gunton: creative director of Factual at the BBC, who specialises in science and natural history output at the BBC and BBC Worldwide. Nick D'Aloisio: Entrepreneur who, at age 15, founded Summly, a company that developed an algorithm to automatically summarises lengthy text for mobile devices. (D'Aloisio was the youngest person in the world to have raised VC funding from investors, including Rupert Murdoch, Ashton Kutcher and Yoko Ono.)Plus a designer from Aardman Animations, the Bristol-based, Oscar-winning animation studio behind Wallace & Gromit, Chicken Run and, most recently, Pirates!.WIRED 2013: Next Generation will also include workshops from Young Rewired State; Apps for Good; Decoded; "Think Big School" by O2; Code Club and 3Doodler in the interactive zone.---- WIRED 2013 together with Telefónica will be held on 17-18 October, 2013 at London's Tobacco Dock. The standard ticket price is £1,590, but WIRED subscribers receive a 10 percent discount. For more information and to purchase tickets, visit wired.co.uk/13. WIRED 2013: Next Generation will be held at London's Tobacco Dock on 19 October, 2013. Tickets are on sale now and priced at £60 per person or £96 per pair. WIRED is also offering school children aged 12-16 years old the opportunity to win two tickets by designing an app that solves any problem on any device, with a deadline of 13 September, 2013. For more information and to purchase tickets, visit www.wired.co.uk/nextgen Comments Latest on wired.co.uk


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How to Add File Types to the PHP Editor
Zend Studio for Eclipse has a number of pre-defined file extensions associated with a specific content type and editor. For example the .html extension has the Text/HTML content type and is by default opened with the Eclipse HTML Editor. However, not all possible file extensions have pre-defined associations in Zend Studio for Eclipse. If you are trying to open a file with an unknown extension, the Eclipse platform doesn't know how to handle such a file. At this point the behavior differs, from error messages to total lockup of the program. The behavior basically depends on the environment (operating system and its configuration).
This article explains how to associate a new file extension with PHP Editor. The example is based on associating .tpl extension with PHP content type and PHP Editor. To enable Zend Studio to open *.tpl files as regular PHP code, proceed as follows:
- In Zend Studio go to Window | Preferences (on MacOS – Zend Studio for Eclipse | Preferences)
- In the Preferences dialog open the hierarchy General | Content types
- On the Content Types page select Text | PHP Content type
- Click Add
- In the Add Content Type Association dialog enter *.tpl and click OK
- In the Preferences dialog open the hierarchy General | Editor | File Associations
- On the File Associations page click the Add button next to the File types list
- In the Add File Type dialog enter *.tpl and click OK
- To verify that the procedure was succesful, verify that the *.tpl files are associated with the usual set of PHP editors on the File Associations page.
From now on the *.tpl files can be opened in Zend Studio for Eclipse. Similar procedure can be applied to other file types, for example *.template and *.module.


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Cooking is hard work, but I have also realized that it is my job to keep my kids healthy and if you do it all the time it somehow becomes less of a burden as it is woven into your everyday life. You stop thinking about it and just do it. Sort of like putting on a shirt or your shoes when you are getting dressed. You just stop thinking about how difficult it is if it something you make a part of your routine life. What has helped me is embracing the new home cooked, old fashioned lifestyle we have found being gluten free.
GF Burgers with Butternut Squash Puree
inspired by Jessica Seinfeld's book...but DIDN'T WORK with GF breadcrumbs and turkey. I am leaving it in my blog so you can get an idea of the recipes in her book, with a disclaimer that while I thought it was yummy, my kids actually prefer plain old hamburgers with salt. "Deceptively Delicious", Jessica Seinfeld's new cookbook, is interesting. It is sort of homemade processed food where you are hiding pureed vegetables in food instead of chemicals. If it gets people to cook homemade food for their kids without additives and preservatives--I think it is a huge success. But, the recipes are a little too gluten and casein loaded to translate to GFCF.
1/2 pound ground organic beef
1 cup gluten free breadcrumbs (3 rice cakes and a handful of potato
chips in the cuisinart)
1/4 c. butternut squash puree (cut squash in half, bake face down on
cookie sheet until soft, then puree in food processor or blender)
3 clove garlic, minced
1/2 tsp salt
1/4 tsp black pepper
1. Cut squash in half. Bake flesh side down in 400 degree oven for 1
hour. Puree in food processor.
2. Make breadcrumbs in cuisinart by breaking up rice cakes to smaller
pieces into the food processor. When they are finely ground, add a
handful of potato chips.
3. Mix ground turkey, breadcrumbs, squash puree, garlic and salt and
pepper together. Form into six small burgers.
4. Cook in skillet over medium high heat in a little bit of oil for
4-5 minutes. Turn burger and put the pan in the over to bake for 5 more
French Fries
Unlike baking, cooking can be more of a free for all without all the
fuss of measuring and being so careful.
2 potatoes
1. Peel potatoes
2. Cut 1/2 inch rounds and then cut 1/2 inch fries from rounds.
3. Put potatoes in mixing bowl and add 1 T. of oil to coat
4. Carefully line potatoes on baking tray so that they will brown nicely. Sprinkle salt on top.
3. Cook in 350 degree oven for 40 minutes turning once to get crispy.


text: Jan is based in Abu Dhabi and leads PwC's Global Sovereign Investment/Wealth Funds practice. He works closely with the PwC teams serving the sovereign wealth and investment funds around the world including Canada, Norway, Kazakhstan, the Middle East, Libya, Africa, China, Malaysia, Korea, Australia and New Zealand. Jan is a member of the firm's Global Private Equity and Deals Executive, Global Financial Services Leadership Team and the PwC Market/Sector Executive. He has over 20 years of international experience advising in business and operational strategies, corporate governance, risk management, external and internal audit, IT projects, operational systems reviews and systems audits, due diligence and remuneration strategies. He has worked with clients from various industries including financial service, asset management and public sector services.


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'Banner year' for Yarmouth Clam Festival
YARMOUTH — Last weekend's 49th annual Clam Festival, with its 6,000 pounds of clams and 145 craft show booths, attracted one of its biggest turnouts in recent years.
According to Yarmouth Chamber of Commerce Executive Director Carolyn Schuster, there were 130,000-150,000 people at this year's festival. Usually the chamber expects around 100,000 people.
"I think it was a very good year," Schuster said. "Anytime we get weather like that, we get crowds."
Ben McNaboe, the assistant director of the festival, agreed, saying the warm, sunny weather played a big role in the success of the three-day event.
"The weather was great for us," McNaboe said. "Compared to last year when it was really really hot, we had a great year."
In addition to attracting new guests, the festival also featured new booths in the craft show. One was manned by Holly Hagen of Creative Capes, a company based in Maryland.
Nestled among booths of paintings and photographs depicting nature scenes in Maine, Creative Capes stood out with its bright colors and flashy fabrics. Hagen, who said she attends about two dozen craft shows a year, brought 750 capes for her first time at the Clam Festival. On Saturday, about halfway through the festival, she said she had already sold hundreds.
These numbers reflect how Hagen's business has been doing since its start in 2010.
"The cape business just kept growing and growing," Hagen said. "I left my job to do Creative Capes full time."
Hagen said she sews all the capes herself; each one has a letter on it to represent the wearer's first initial. She also makes cape accessories, such as eye masks, wrist cuffs, and belts. Hagen creates various sizes, making the capes available for children and adults of any age.
"You're never too old to be a superhero," she said.
Many children who entered Hagen's booth demonstrated what she said she hopes to achieve with her company. Wearing the capes, which come in various color patterns, children at the festival became excited, with many striking "superhero poses."
"(Wearing capes) gives kids self-esteem," Hagen said. "They feel very powerful when they put them on."
Hagen also makes limited-edition capes each year. This year she has camouflage capes for boys, and blue glitter capes for girls, inspired by the movie "Frozen."
The Disney-themed cape was a hit at the festival with 4-year-old Ella Williams of Hudson, Massachusetts, who exclaimed that she wanted to be Queen Elsa as she walked by the booth. Her excitement prompted her mother to buy her a full cape set with the accessories.
Hagen said watching kids find happiness in the capes is what makes the business so enjoyable.
"It's very rewarding to interact with the kids and bring joy to them and bring empowerment to them," she said.
While many people explored the Clam Festival craft booths, just as many were checking out the other things the festival had to offer. Between road races, musical acts, a clam-shucking contest, and a firefighters' muster, the thousands of attendees were provided constant entertainment.
But the biggest draw of the weekend, of course, were the clams. The money raised from the sale of the food benefits charitable organizations. McNaboe said the chamber won't know how much it raised until the end of the week, but he said the numbers are making them happy.
"It was definitely a banner year," he said.


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When I woke up this morning, I didn't think that I would ever be slightly turned on by a video of an older woman dancing to "Ice Ice Baby." But I was, and I'm OK with that.
What can I say? She doesn't just dance to Vanilla Ice, she dances well. I thought I'd maybe watch a minute of this and get bored, but nope — her hips are hypnotizing. My only concern is that her risotto is going to turn out horribly (for some reason I assume she's cooking risotto).
Also, in a somewhat related story, when I was in college, Vanilla Ice came to my school to perform literally one song. My job while he was there was to get his microphone after he was done. After he blew the roof off of the arena, I went up to him and said "Hey Rob (his real name), can I get that mic back?" and he said "Sure thing man." Then he gave me the mic back.
Long story short, we're kind of friends now.
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SaskTel Acquires Wireless Spectrum from Wind Mobile
SaskTel is acquiring two chunks of wireless spectrum from Wind Mobile.read more
SaskTel is acquiring two chunks of wireless spectrum from Wind Mobile.read more
Looking for something tech-related to do in the next few weeks?
We've chosen a few of our favourite upcoming tech events happening across Canada.read more
Despite a growing number of new entrants into the cloud accounting market, accounting software maker Sage says the market isn't getting more competitive.read more
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In the late 1970s, when Silicon Valley was still young, an equally youthful entrepreneur named Steve embarked on a long and fruitful technology career. No, not that Steve.read more
It's no secret that the technology industry is a boy's club—and a white boy's club at that—but TechGirls Canada is challenging this.read more
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The federal government says it will put an additional $142.6 million into its anti-cybercrime strategy over the next five years.read more
Where do startups draw that innovation-fuelling inspiration from? Where do they find the support to make their ideas a reality? What do these companies need to do to expand globally?
GoToMeeting in Canada asked the hottest startups across the country to share their thoughts on growth and what is means to be innovative.read more
It's a complex and exciting thing to be an entrepreneur these days, but there are plenty of challenges that go along with this lifestyle.
If you are thinking of starting a business, this article provides important insights into some of the issues startups face and plenty of resources on how to address them.read more
Since the start of 2013, technology and innovation has been the fastest growing sector on the TSX and TSXV. Since the beginning of last year, over 65 tech companies have gone public on the exchanges, with nine moving from the earlier-stage-oriented TSXV to the more senior and stringent TSX. Tech companies listed on these exchanges have collectively raised over $15 billion in equity capital in that time.read more
Shopify generated $45 million during its first quarter as a public company.read more
Telus has added more than 30 new solutions to its Internet of Things Marketplace since its December 2014 launch, the company said this week.read more
Canada's private capital community believes current economic conditions are favourable for investment, though venture capital and private equity activity are trending in different directions.read more


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By Jim GaramoneAmerican Forces Press Service
WASHINGTON, Jan. 20, 2001 George W. Bush assumed office as the 43rd President of the United States saying that what Americans do is as important as anything government does.
Bush stressed citizenship in his Inaugural speech. I ask you to be citizens, he said. Citizens, not spectators; citizens, not subjects; responsible citizens -- building communities of service and a nation of character.
Before Chief Justice William Rehnquist swore in Bush at noon, he also swore in former Defense Secretary Dick Cheney as Vice President. The ceremony took place under cold, drizzly skies. More than 5,000 U.S. service members took part in the Inaugural festivities.
Bush said in his speech that he would build U.S. defenses beyond challenge, lest weakness invite challenge.
He said the United States would confront weapons of mass destruction. The enemies of liberty and our country should make no mistake: America remains engaged in the world by history and by choice, shaping a balance of power that favors freedom, he said. We will defend our allies and our interests. We will show purpose without arrogance. We will meet aggression and bad faith with resolve and strength. And to all nations, we will speak for the values that gave our nation birth.
Bush said that he would work to unify the country. While many of our citizens prosper, others doubt the promise, even the justice, of our own country, he said. The ambitions of some Americans are limited by failing schools and hidden prejudice and the circumstances of their birth. And sometimes our differences run so deep, it seems we share a continent, but not a country.
We do not accept this, and we will not allow it. Our unity, our union, is the serious work of leaders and citizens in every generation. And this is my solemn pledge: I will work to build a single nation of justice and opportunity.
Bush kept returning to the theme of American citizens responsibility. America, at its best, is a place where personal responsibility is valued and expected, he said. Encouraging responsibility is not a search for scapegoats, it is a call to conscience. And though it requires sacrifice, it brings a deeper fulfillment.
Bush said Americas public interest depends on private character, civic duty and family bonds and basic fairness, on uncounted, unhonored acts of decency which give direction to our freedom.
He listed the convictions that will guide him in the White House. I will live and lead by these principles: to advance my convictions with civility, to pursue the public interest with courage, to speak for greater justice and compassion, to call for responsibility and try to live it as well, he said.
Immediately after the ceremony, Bush went to the Presidents Room in the U.S. Capitol and signed his list of nominees for cabinet posts. The Senate met at 3 p.m. and confirmed Donald H. Rumsfeld as the next Defense Secretary.


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Why don't your prospects buy?
By JHLynch
Sales First Aid
Why don't your prospects buy? They have the problem and you have the solution, so why don't they buy? There are many reasons why, but generally it boils down to a few simple dynamics.
First and foremost, when a prospect has a significant problem and we have the solution but they don't buy, the first thing we should do is look in the mirror. When we should make a sale but don't, it's our fault. It's not the prospect.
For starters, too many advisors are focused on their presentation. Their presentation is the focal point of the meeting and they fail to listen and hear the problem the prospect is detailing. This leaves the prospect with that "piece of meat" feeling. They feel that all that's important to the advisor is the advisors agenda.
In addition, when advisors focus on themselves and their agenda they miss vital details that can many times make or break the sale. Secondly, who was in control of the interview? Who asked most of the questions? Who gave most of the answers? He who gets his questions answered is in control.
The advisor should be the one asking all the questions and the prospect should be the one doing most of the talking. If it is in reverse order, the prospect is in control. One thought to keep in mind is this; If we are spilling all of our knowledge, experience and expertise out on the floor for all to see, hear and take, we run a very high risk of unpaid consulting.
The last time I checked, I didn't find any advisors who had won the noble peace prize for unpaid consulting. Yet many still do it. Last but not least, how did we behave? Did we act like every other sales person? Did we act like we needed to make a sale? Did we talk too much, launch into a presentation too fast or did we ask lame, canned, predictable questions that most likely the prospect has heard before?
The bottom line is this: everything matters. We can truly only control one thing in the prospect interview, our behavior. If we act like a sales person we will be treated like one. If we aren't truly prospect focused, we can't build a mutually beneficial relationship. If it is not a relationship, it is merely a transaction. There is no future in simple transactions; the future depends on relationships.
It's not rocket science. It's simple communication and relationship dynamics that make our sales careers either a success or a colossal failure. The choice is yours.
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hola! queria saber por favor a que parque tiene trasporte.. a los de disney? a los de universal? sea world? wet n wild? gracoas
Next week I will be there with you!, My reservation number is 460628216.
Just to reconfirm! My daughter is going to stay with us in our room. I know that I'll have to share my bed with her. My question is, there is no extra cost for she isn't it? and, what do I have to do to get the breakfast for her?!. She's 6 years old. Thanks a lot.
Hi! The shuttle service to parks is free? Or have some charge or fee? Shuttle service to AirPort too?
Hola; visitare el próximo mes Orlando, quisiera saber si este hotel tiene servicio de transporte a los parques y aeropuerto. Y cuanto cuestan estos servicios o son gratuitos. Gracias!!
Hello, I'm about to reserve a double queen bed room. I would like to know, if in the booking site says maximum occupancy is 4 adults, but we are 4 adults and 1 child (6 years old), Could I use that room?
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Urban is smart. I think believe/hope he'll utilize the talent at hand in the correct capacity. If we have a Carlo Hyde, big bruising running back that earns the number 1 spot, then he'll use Carlos Hyde as a big bruising running back. If we have a small elusive Jordan Hall that earns the starting spot, then he'll use Jordan Hall as a small elusive running back. I hope to see more Carlos Hydes than Jordan Halls in feature though...
a major factor of why braxton is holding on to the ball for an eternity is due to ignorant, foolish bollman calling unrealistic passing plays that send the wide recievers on 6 mile long sprints down field and they aren't getting open. They aren't even getting open on shorter pass routes either...
i sure didn't. i do not have any desire to see the buckeyes get steem rolled in another bcs game... florida and LSU were more than depressing...
disagree about miller, he continually bales the coaching staff out by converting 3rd & longs in clutch situations... he's gonna be an outstanding quarterback and he's already showing that.
anybody have direct tv? i just got it and the last few times, including now, that i set a recording on the BTN, it doesn't record. just wondering if BTN blocks recording like some movie channels do.
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good point
lol, not winning enough? he has 409 wins... more than any other coach in the history of college football... ignorant people make me angry
good article, thx for sharing
That's a good point, you may be right. I hope you're not though... also, 2 of penn state's top recruits are "reconsidering." one tweeted something along the lines of not wanting anything to do with that. half of a week into this becoming public, it already has had a neggative impact on recruiting
for an offensive minded coach such as urban, i would like to believe that coming into an already successful defensive system and (im assuming) having full support to start from scratch on the offensive side, ohio sate would be much more appealing. also assuming that penn sate faces some of the heaftiest ncaa sanctions seen since smu's "death penalty"
should know sometime between monday and november 21st
if we were to be handed a 10 sholarship reduction, that wouldn't be over 1 year would it? they would spread it out over a few years?
i knew this was bad, but this sounds like it could really be getting crazier than i could have imagined...
is it saturday yet? of course not. why else would seeing how small we can get the reply boxes be entertaining?
i believe hall's role at the #2 spot at running back is to be a change of pace runner. if this is true, in theory, it's not a bad idea in my opinion. but statistics show that hyde has been more productive at running back and when common sense kicks in, hyde deserves the #2 spot... imo...
if i were a victim, later than the 2002 incident, i would sue every memeber of the Penn State that is mentioned in this case, including joepa. all of these people were given an oportunity to stop sandusky from raping 8 to 13 year old little boys. all of their selfish, tiny attempts failed. when their attempts became an obvious failure, they did nothing... just sat on it & kept quiet, allowing sandusky's freedom and ability to claim more victims. pathetic...
thank you very much. i doubt i'll there's any other sites than can compare to 11W's buckeye coverage... i'm an 11w addict...
I read the grand jury report and other articles during the entire second half of the "game of the century" last night. The articles were more entertaining...
I'm tryign to find a good cleveland brown's fan site, anybody have a suggestion?
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So, I worked on this Kitchenaid fridge awhile ago.
The customer initially wanted to change the food door gasket, there was a little gap, and they also complained about water spilling on the floor.
I checked the drain pan under the fridge and it was filled pretty high with water, there is a drain heater that was a little warm, but not so hot, I'd imagine it was part of the seal system, it was covered in lime scale, so I dont know if that has an effect on it.
When I went back to install the door gasket, I discovered that the icemaker liner has been leaking, so I ass-u-me-d that, thats were the extra water was coming from. So I disconnected power from the icemaker so they couldnt use it.
Its been months and havent heard anything from the customer, until the other day, now shes saying the temp in the fridge was 52 degrees.
It sounds like a nightmare that I dont want to go back on, but Im going back tomorrow. Im a bit concerned about the Temp, although I think I can figure that out. Im trying to figure out where all this extra water is coming from??
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Supposed debug leak shows iPad 3 with quad-core A6 chip and LTE
The iPad 3 could be coming packed with a quad-core A6 chipset and support LTE speeds according to a source who claims to have access to the unannounced, unreleased device. BGR reports:
From the data in the photos, which contain the output from an iPad 3 using a development and debug tool called iBoot, we can infer plenty of information about the upcoming iPad 3. [...] The new processor will also apparently be a quad-core model, making the upcoming iPad 3 the fastest iOS device ever, we have been told.
The veracity of the data is, of course, uncertain. Previous rumors have claimed that iPad 3 production has started, as well as Foxconn issuing plans to build 5 new iPad production facilities in Brazil.
The A6 chipset noted in the debug tool carries a model number of S5L8945X with the iPad units themselves carrying model numbers of J1 and J2 (iPad 3,1 and iPad 3.2 respectively). This falls in line with what was uncovered in iOS 5.1 beta code. The rumor calls for one model being WiFi-only, and the other adding full support for LTE/CDMA/GSM. This should allow for Apple to release just one SKU across data-equipped iPad units for all major carriers, rather than a special LTE model for the limited markets that currently support it.
As far as rumors of when the iPad 3 might hit the streets, speculation of a March 2012 seem likely with Apple sticking to their historical release cycle, but we won't know for sure until Apple makes the announcement.
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Beethoven, Piano Concerto No. 5, Emperorbiography | programme note
Nielsen, Symphony No. 4, The Inextinguishablebiography | programme note
Nielsen's sound-world is filled with the forests, seas and mesmerising shore-lines of his native Denmark. He penned his Inextinguishable Symphony in 1916, formed against the backdrop of the First World War. Alongside, Beethoven's Emperor Concerto is famous for its spellbinding slow-movement and the imperial majesty of its three opening chords.
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Team Adam's Melanie Martinez took a big chance by picking Cee Lo's song — Gnarls Barkley's "Crazy" — but it all paid off on The Voice Season 3 live show tonight, Dec. 3, 2012.
The young singer debuted her new hair as she took the stage with a tiny pink piano, surrounded by creepy, faceless mannequins. She "Melanie-ized" the hit song (according to her coach) with a soft, haunting tone and little to no instrumental accompaniment.
Cee Lo bopped his head throughout the performance, immediately exclaiming, "Wow, Melanie, you and Adam have such great taste in music!" All joking aside, he added, "In many ways, we're cut from the same cloth, honey. I think you did a great job." Adam agreed, noting that it was "a little pitchy," but he "didn't care" and loved it! He told a nice story about his friend's daughter wanting a "Melanie dress," which helped ease the pain of Xtina's harsh "lullaby" comment.
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Seattleite TJ Cowgill, a.k.a. King Dude, sings in a certain dry-throated, baritone groan that the term "deathly" can't even do justice. "Hyper-ominous" would be closer, though on his latest effort Burning Daylight, it occasionally ranges from something like Johnny Cash with an electrolarynx to something like Tom Waits after inhaling a helium balloon. Consider also that Cowgill fronts a death metal band called Book of Black Earth and that he runs this clothing line, and you'd probably be surprised that "folk" is his attribution of choice for King Dude – and not even in a "consider this an invitation to never ask what 'genre' I am again" manner a la Frank Ocean.
No, King Dude makes a truly unrivaled brand of pitch dark, occult-inspired music centered on traditional American folk and country arrangements. While that might sound a bit novelty or even kitschy at first, it makes more sense once the initial discord wears off – when Cowgill bellows about "Jesus in the courtyard, tellin' lies," it's not so hard to hear him drawing equally from the books of both Robert Johnson and Black Sabbath. "If you really do have a message – and I feel like I do – why not get it out further than just the same circle of black metal or heavy metal people who don't really listen to the lyrics anyway?" he thought aloud recently.
Cowgill's efforts to veer from esotericism shine through most on the penultimate track, "You Can Break My Heart", which comes off something like Leonard Cohen's "Hallelujah" as sang by Lou Reed and played back in slow motion. If it is somewhat novel, give Cowgill some credit – it at least has some wide-appealing merit too.
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Marina west platinum sponsor at Bipex 2008
Marina west platinum sponsor at Bipex 2008
Marina West, Bahrain's first gated beachfront residential and lifestyle community located in tranquil and idyllic surroundings of the Kingdom's west coast, are to be the Platinum Sponsor of the fifth coming Bahrain International Property Exhibition "BIPEX 2008", which will be held from 23rd to 25th October 2008 at Bahrain International Convention Centre. Marina West will also be exhibiting at the exhibition to showcase the Marina West development.
Mr Mahmood Janahi, managing director of Marina West said of the decision to sponsor: "BIPEX has become one of the most important events in the real estate calendar. More than 10,000 people visited last year and we expect attendance to be even greater this year. This sponsorship shows our investment in and dedication to the real estate market Bahrain, but also provides an outstanding opportunity to market Marina West to home buyers and investors from across the region, following our sales success at Property Arabia, Cityscape."
He added :"During BIPEX 2008, we are delighted to be in a position to launch "Tower
8", one of the strategically located towers being close to the hotel and having both sea and lagoon view which comprise 136 luxury apartments from 1,2,3and 4 bedrooms."
"You do not only purchase a residence where you buy one of Marina West's apartments, you also buy a lifestyle that is unique in Bahrain. The way the development is designed, no matter what your preference is in terms of location, size or height, you can find something to suit you and your needs. Also, purchasing a unit is made easier by the allowance of expatriate ownership, Marina West's internal finance scheme, and the various mortgage providers we have partnered with to make buying a marina lifestyle accessible to everyone.," concluded Mr. Janahi.


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Yahoo recently released an update to their Mail app on iOS, and now they've done the same with the Flickr for iOS app. The Flickr app for iOS hasn't been updated since its release and no one really cared, because it wasn't very well designed. The company has pushed out a new and major update for the Flickr iOS app and it's amazing to say the least.
Flickr for iPhone and iPod Touch gets a complete redesign, camera filters similar to Instagram and Twitter and a couple of other cool features. The most important one is undoubtedly the redesign of the app, which gives it the look and feel it deserves. Flickr's new app is fast, basic, beautiful and is much improved compared to the previous one. You can take any number of photos and upload them to your Flickr account, edit them using the in-built camera filters, crop, correct etc.
Yahoo has done a very good job with this update and concentrated more on photos, sharing and people. You can see all your photos right on the home page, tilt your iPhone to see it in fullscreen, Pinch to zoom, comment, like photos and find out all the details about a photo such as place, time and camera used. Create groups, sets, tag people and add places using Foursquare. Watch the awesome introductory video below:
The Contacts tab and Explore tab have been improved as well, giving you more. With the new Contacts tab, you can keep yourself updated with the latest photos from people you follow. Scroll through a contact's timeline easily and comment, like the ones you think are amazing. Groups is finally available on the iPhone and iPod Touch, a feature that was only present on the web. You can upload, share, comment and like all the photos in a Group.
The Explore tab is another new thing that photographers shouldn't miss. Explore your way through some of the best photos from all around the world, every day. With all the new features and Instagram-like filters, it looks like Yahoo wants to go all mobile. Twitter too released new photo filters to their service recently to compete with the popular photo sharing service Instagram. Flickr for iOS is available for free in the App Store. Try it out and let us know what you think of the new Flickr for iOS in the comments.
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Bio - Benjamin Hewett
Benjamin Hewett
Ben (B.Arch (hons. 1st class) UNSW) is a registered Architect and Director of Offshorestudio. He has had extensive design and practice experience in a large variety of project types, with past roles in the NSW Government Architect's Office, private practice, various collaborations, and as a Design Director with Crone Partners Architecture Studios. Currently Ben is a Lecturer with the School of Architecture at the University of Technology in Sydney, as well as a Design Consultant to Crone Partners. He joined Offshorestudio in 2007.
As Design Director with Crone Partners, Ben designed a large variety of project types including luxury apartments to high-density residential, small scale retail/commercial buildings to 40 storey twin towers, as well as masterplans, exhibition centres and luxury houses. Sites range from Sydney's CBD, Manly, Victoria Park, and Rhodes in Sydney, to country New South Wales, Newcastle, Brisbane, Dubai, Pakistan and China.
Ben has worked with the Government Architect Design Directorate [now Government Architect's Office] between 1991-2001, during which time he worked on the award winning Sydney Conservatorium of Music, the Redevelopment of Circular Quay, and Parramatta Children's Court. Ben was also a leading member of the design team for Manly Hydraulics Laboratory (RAIA Architecture Award for Public Buildings, Commendation, 2000), various schemes for cultural facilities for Pier 2/3 in Walsh Bay (working directly with Philippe Robert and Chris Johnson, NSW Government Architect), as well as a number of schools, hospitals and art galleries. In various periods of private practice Ben has worked on a variety of houses and small commercial feasibility studies.
Ben has tutored and lectured design part-time since 1999 . In 2005 he joined UTS as casual tutor in 5th Year Architecture, before starting 2006 in a full-time role. His current roles at the University of Technology, Sydney involve the coordination and lecturing of senior level design subjects.


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Surviving the Zombie Apocalypse: Cheese Making
Duke Campus Farm
Friday, February 17, 2012 from 4:00 PM to 6:00 PM (EST)
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Location: Smith Warehouse Kitchen – Bay 6, Room 265
Instructor: Anna Willoughby
Life without cheese is hard to imagine. Learn to make delicious cheeses like mozzarella and various hard cheeses.
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Aug. 31, 2012
New Mexico at Tulsa Play by Play
TULSA, Okla. - The University of New Mexico men's soccer team's 23-game unbeaten streak would come to an end Friday night at the hands of Tulsa University (2-0-0) in the first day of the Tulsa Invitational. The Golden Hurricanes walked away with the 2-1 victory after scoring less than two minutes into overtime to secure the win.
It marked the first time the Lobos have lost a match since losing to Creighton in the NCAA Tournament on November 18, 2010. The 2011 season ended officially in the Sweet 16 of the NCAA Tournament with a tie, but USF would advance on penalty kicks.
Head Coach Jeremy Fishbein would describe Friday night's loss as "gut-wrenching".
For the first time this season, after two exhibitions and one regular season game, the Lobos would be the first team to find their way to the scoreboard. The goal would come off the head of sophomore defender Matthew Gibbons. Gibbons would tally his second career goal off an assist from senior Blake Smith on the header from five yards out.
Unfortunately for New Mexico, Tulsa's equalizer would come just two minutes later. The Golden Hurricanes converted a penalty kick after UNM's Travis Campbell earned a red card. The senior was whistled for an intentional handball in the box after a New Mexico mis-clearance. It would be Akeil Barrett that tied the match up in the 28th minute on the penalty kick. It also meant the Lobos would have to play a man down.
"We played 60 minutes a man down and in that time we did great. We out-shot them ten to four and corner kicks were in our favor five to nothing as well. We played really well and had really good chances to score a second goal to finish it," Head Coach Jeremy Fishbein commented.
The pair of goals minutes apart would be the only scoring action of the first half as the teams went into intermission tied at one goal apiece. The Lobos held the shot advantage on Tulsa with the Golden Hurricane keeper, Mark Pais, recording three saves to UNM's Patrick Poblete's two saves.
Neither side captured a game-winning goal in the second half, as both keepers would keep their opponents off the scoreboard in the 45-minute span. The Lobos were attacking with a furious pace to close out the game's first 90 minutes. New Mexicoregistered three shots in three minutes leading up to the final exchange in regulation. That action saw Nick Miele's header miss high off the Michael Calderon corner in the 89th minute.
Poblete recorded three saves in the second half (five for the match) as the Lobos once again held the shot advantage, 10-4, in the half. Tulsa's goalkeeper Mark Pais recorded five saves in the first 90 minutes of action.
However the fortunate of the match would tilt in Tulsa's favor just 1:42 into overtime. Bryce Follensbee put away the rebound from Matt Boullt's shot to give Tulsa the overtime victory.
"Then in overtime, it was a bit unlucky. They took a shot from distance and Pat Poblete, who I thought had a really solid game, gave up a rebound (after an initial save). Then they followed it in to beat us," said Coach Fishbein. "There were a lot of positive for us in this loss. We reacted well to going down a man, but now we need to refocus on Sunday's game."
The loss puts the New Mexico record at 1-1-0 in the young 2012 season. The Lobos will face #20 SMU on Sunday afternoon at 12:30 p.m. (MT) on the campus of Tulsa University.
- Gibbon's goal was the second of his career with his first goal coming October 7, 2011 in Lobos' 3-2 victory at Denver University.
- The loss is the first regular season defeat for the Lobos since a 3-2 loss to Air Force on October 10, 2010. It's the first regular season non-conference loss since UNM's 1-0 defeat at the hands of Dartmouth on September 25, 2010.


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Hero of Fiesta sniper shooting gets long-deserved recognition
By Lomi Kriel, Staff Writer : April 17, 2013 : Updated: April 17, 2013 3:28pm
Photo By Courtesy Photo/Institute of Texan CulturesTwo people were killed and 51 injured on April 27, 1979, when Ira Attebury opened fire from inside his mobile home on a festive crowd gathered to watch the Battle of Flowers Parade at the intersection of Broadway and East Grayson Street.
PHOTO: T.J. Lapping is comforted by his aunt Dianne Wick while his mother, who was shot in the neck by Ira Attebury, is treated nearby on Friday, April 27, 1979, in San Antonio.
Photo By Al Ransom/San Antonio LightFiesta sniper victim Dianne Wick is stunned after her left temple was "creased" by a shot fired from a sniper's gun Friday, April 27, 1979.
Photo By Al Guzman/San Antonio LightThe last remaining spectators scramble away from hiding places at the parade scene on Broadway while local law enforcement officers attempt to secure the area on Friday, April 27, 1979.
Photo By Al Guzman/San Antonio LightLocal SWAT team members enter the vehicle of the sniper on Friday, April 27, 1979.
Photo By Gloria Ferniz/San Antonio Express-NewsKathi Sikes and her son T.J. Lapping hold clips of pictures taken of them during the sniper shooting at the Battle of Flowers Parade in 1979. The two were at Sikes' home Sunday, April 11, 1999.
Photo By William Luther/San Antonio Express-NewsRetired officer James Middleton wipes a tear from his face Friday afternoon, Jan. 11, 2007, at Municipal Auditorium after receiving the San Antonio Police Department's Medal of Valor award, the department's highest honor, for his actions during the 1979 Fiesta Sniper shooting.
Photo By Bob Owen/San Antonio Express-NewsSan Antonio Police Chief Albert Ortiz (right) places the Purple Heart Medal around the neck of Sgt. Louis Grassmuck for his outstanding police work during the 1979 Fiesta parade sniper incident, Tuesday, March 4, 2003.
Photo By Lisa Krantz/San Antonio Express-NewsCecilia Penix holds a photograph of her mother, Amelia Castillo, at Penix's home in San Antonio on Thursday, April 23, 2009. Cecilia was shot in the hand and her mother was killed by the sniper, Ira Attebury, during the 1979 Battle of Flowers Parade.
Photo By Helen L. Montoya/San Antonio Express-NewsGary Nagy was the first person shot by Ira Attebury at the 1979 Battle of Flowers Parade. He was an SAPD lieutenant at the time. His former wife, Gayla, and his children were also shot that day. His son Shane (left) was 6 years old at the time of the incident, and was shot in the foot.
This story was originally published January 12, 2008.
It's been almost 30 years since the hot April morning when a crazed sniper fired dozens of shots into Fiesta's Battle of Flowers Parade. But the memory of it was enough to reduce a grown man --- and a hardened police officer -- to tears Friday, as he accepted a long overdue reward for his bravery.
Retired officer James Middleton was a young father in 1979, a hard-working traffic officer doing off-duty crowd control work for the parade when dozens of shots began ringing out near his post at the corner of Broadway and Grayson.
Armed with a shotgun and a rifle and fueled by the street drug PCP, Ira Attebury turned the celebration into chaos.
Attebury, a retired truck driver and veteran, had horded an arsenal in his parked motor home and, within seconds, Sgt. Ben Donahoe was shot, lying wounded in the middle of Broadway. Panicked, the crowd tried to scatter but Attebury showed no signs of stopping.
In an act that earned him the Police Department's highest award, the Medal of Valor, Middleton climbed into a police car and maneuvered it into the space between the shooter, the wounded officer and the crowd, all as Attebury kept firing.
"He created a buffer of safety allowing the citizens to escape, " Deputy Chief Steve Barrera said at the department's annual award's ceremony Friday. "He drove into the line of fire to protect and to shield others."
Middleton grabbed Donahoe, pulled him into the police car, and resumed shooting at Attebury. The gunman was later found dead of a gunshot wound inside his trailer, but he'd already left an indelible black mark on the city: Two women died, 17 people suffered serious wounds, including five police officers, and dozens of others were injured.
At the time, the police department had no award system in place and Middleton, 61, retired before one was implemented. Since then, all officers who committed acts of bravery in that incident have received awards -- except for him.
Along with Middleton, Officer Jeremy Swindells was awarded the Medal of Valor Friday for his role in saving a woman from a burning home on the far West Side last year. Nine other officers received the Lifesaving Award, and 14 civilians were given various certificates for their roles in emergency situations over the past year.
Police Chief William McManus said all the award recipients "have shown leadership, and they have shown courage, and they have shown all the things it takes to be a San Antonio Police Officer."
"No matter what anybody says, no matter what incidents occur, we need to remember we are out there every day saving lives, " he said.
As the audience gave Middleton a standing ovation, his daughter wiped tears from her face and flashed a smile.
"It's about damn time, " said Christine Haag, who was a first-grader at the time of the attack. The award, she said, "means the world to my father. He deserves it more than anybody."
In characteristic humble fashion, Middleton gruffly insisted, "Anybody would have done the same thing. I was just the first one there." Then the police officer turned his face, struggling to hide his tears.


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Aaron Hernandez on being at practice without Rob Gronkowski:
"I'd say it's a little boring, but he'll be back out there soon.
Sterling Moore on what it's like to cope with receivers like Hakeem Nicks, Mario Manningham and Victor Cruz when they're all healthy:
"It's a challenge. It's a big challenge but that's what we want. Going into this game, we want them all to be healthy; we want them all to be at their best. That's just the type of game we want. It's going to be a struggle but that's what the films are for. We're going to have to do a great job on the film and go out there and play them tough."
Vince Wilfork on the improvement the defense has made, and what it says about the team.
It lets me know these guys listen – through the coaches, through the guys, the veterans who have been around the game for awhile. It's not like we talk to them every day about certain stuff. No, they get it. They knew how important it was for us to get better as a team and what we needed to do to get better as a team. We made those changes, we made those progresses and we moved forward. Like I said, it's a special bunch. At the end of the day, it's going to be a special team. I think everybody in this locker room, they love this game, they love one another, they have the passion. That's one thing to have a football player not have the passion for what they love and what they do but I can honestly tell you that these guys have every passion, everything that you need in a football player, they have and they love it.
Bill Belichick on "one of his favorite topics – injuries".
That would actually be number one. If you had to rank them, I'd move that up there as number one.
How would you describe the progress of Rob Gronkowski?
Good, good.
How optimistic are you that Sebastian Vollmer will be able to go?
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Anyone know how the crawfish season is going and any rec's on where to eat them
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I am searching for a new favorite place. Crab Trap was hands down the best, but is now gone.
Seither's, like most places in town, doesnt purge their mudbugs. They also dont pull out the ones whose tails dont curl.
A lot of places will serve you a tray of 3lbs or 5lbs. My objection is, they dont boil them when you order, so a lot of the time, they have been sitting in boil liquid quite some time. This leaves their crawfish mushy and waterlogged. Als, many times a claw or two will have fallen off during the boiling process.n When they scoop up your order, you get a lot of lose claws as a result.
These complaints are not limited to Seither's - they apply to Castnet, Today's Ketch, etc. Will have to wait till I get to go back to Acadiana - Hawk's and Cajun Claws remain my two favorites.
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Believe it or not, I have heard people...visitors for the most part...rave about someplace they found on, oh I don't know, say Franklin (Almonaster)Avenue or somewhere under the Interstate where the shrimp and crawfish are left in the boil all day and they" pick up the seasoning"....go figure.
I've noticed an acceleration of a depressing trend lately, to wit, making the stuff thermonuclear. Three times last year--one of them up in Baton Rouge--I had crawfish that were simply too goddamn hot. It seems to be a macho "thing." I had a Latvian friend boil some up in his preferred way (with dill, of course) and they were wonderful, far better than burn-the-house-down stuff although my friend noted that Lousiana crawfish tasted more of swamp than the European ones and so he thought that some spiceiness was needed.
It would be nice to have someone try the old method of starting shellfish live in cold water.


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Eudoris "Newt" Pennington, 78, of Hallie, Ky., died Sunday, May 12 at the Hazard ARH medical center.
He is survived by sons Terry D. Pennington and Kevin Clark, both of Indiana; daughters Marlena Walton and Sonya Faye Carr, also of Indiana; brothers Carl Pennington of Indiana, Andy Pennington of Kentucky, Jay Pennington, Dale Pennington, and Donnie Pennington, all of Indiana; sisters Ruby Harley of Ohio and Ruth Randolph of California; along with 15 grandchildren and six great-grandchildren.
Arrangements are being handled by Brashear-Callahan Funeral Home of Viper, where the visitation will be held from 6 to 9 p.m. on Wednesday, May 15. Funeral services will begin at 10 a.m. on Thursday, May 16 at the Mt. Olivet Baptist Church in Cornettsville. Burial will take place at the Griffie Family Cemetery in Hallie.


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Beijing, China - January 5, 2012 — The University of Maryland's Dingman Center for Entrepreneurship at the Robert H. Smith School of Business awarded $10,000 to winners of the 2012 China Business Plan Competition, in partnership with the Guanghua School of Management at Peking University in Beijing. The January 5 contest to present the best business plan pitch also included Chinese teams from Tianjin and Zhejiang Universities and Smith's Israel partner school, the Technion—Israeli Institute of Technology.
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The executive MBA program at the University of Maryland's Robert H. Smith School of Business is ranked #17 in the world by Bloomberg Businessweek. The Businessweek rankings are based on surveys completed by recent alumni and EMBA program directors across the world.
The University of Maryland's Robert H. Smith School of Business today named Mark Holifield – senior vice president of global supply chain for the Home Depot – as the 2010 "Person of the Year."
College Park, Md. – Oct. 6, 2010 – The Supply Chain Management Center at the University of Maryland's Robert H. Smith School of Business is bringing together top industry and government leaders to address inefficiencies in today's supply chain and come up with innovative ways to manage risk.
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By Jim GaramoneAmerican Forces Press Service
WASHINGTON, April 12, 1999, April 12, 1999 President Clinton told service members gathered at Barksdale Air Force Base, La., that Yugoslav President Slobodan Milosevic "should be under no illusions that we will end [the air campaign] from weariness. We are determined to continue on this mission, and we will prevail."
Clinton praised the military members for their efforts over Yugoslavia and their efforts on behalf of the more than 500,000 ethnic Albanian Kosovar refugees forced from their homes. Clinton traveled to the base April 12.
Clinton said the United States must stand firm with the 18 other NATO allies to ensure the 21st century does not match the 20th century for blood.
"We would like to nip this conflict in the bud before it destabilizes all of Europe," Clinton said. "And we don't want American soldiers, sailors, airmen and Marines to die on distant battlefields in large numbers because we walked away from these ethnic, religious and racial atrocities."
Defense Secretary William S. Cohen, Chairman of the Joint Chiefs Army Gen. Henry Shelton, Acting Air Force Secretary Whitten Peters, Air Force Chief of Staff Gen. Michael Ryan and a congressional delegation from Louisiana and Texas accompanied Clinton.
The president said all those in positions of responsibility are committed to supporting service members, not only in their efforts against Milosevic, but in other areas.
"I listened very, very carefully today when the crew members talked to me about the challenges of maintaining a long-term career in the military today," Clinton said. He said the aircrews were candid about the challenges they and their families face. He understands the pay, medical care and housing problems service members have.
"We are working on that," Clinton said. "We know that now that we have downsized the military, and the economy in the civilian sector has picked up, we're going to have to work harder to get and keep good people. Our new budget provides for an increase in pay and more money for housing and other quality of life supports, for more support and training and equipment."
Clinton told the service members he is signing an executive order granting 1999 tax benefits to Americans serving in/or in support of combat operations in the former Yugoslavia. He also announced an automatic extension for those involved in Operation Allied Force for filing 1998 taxes. Defense officials said later they will have more details in a few days.
The president praised NATO members for sticking together to confront Milosevic. "There are a lot of people who didn't think that an alliance of 19 countries could do what we have done and could stay together as we have stayed together," he said. "But when American B-52s like the ones here at Barksdale take to the skies, they're joined by British Harrier jets, German and Italian Tornadoes, French Mirages, Canadian and Spanish F-18s, Dutch, Danish, Belgian, Norwegian, Portuguese and Turkish F-16s. We are united in this effort."


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Jonjo Shelvey insists Liverpool didn't get what they deserved following the 2-1 defeat by Tottenham Hotspur on Wednesday night - but claims the team can take a lot of heart from their performance.
After goals from Aaron Lennon and Gareth Bale had put Spurs 2-0 up, Liverpool's No.33 came on in the second half and almost inspired a late comeback.
His corner saw Bale deflect into his own net to give the Reds a lifeline, but despite the late pressure Tottenham held on to seal the three points.
"I thought we deserved more than what we got from the game and to be honest we dominated the game for long periods," Shelvey told Liverpoolfc.com.
"I thought we played well and had a few chances to score but we didn't take them and paid the price in the end.
"We also felt a little hard done by. It was frustrating when they got the free-kick for the second goal because I thought Jordan [Henderson] won the ball and we could have had a penalty with Stevie.
"That went against us which it does sometimes in football and we just have to keep going and keep playing our football and try and get the three points against Southampton on Saturday."
The England international has now turned his attention to Saturday's Anfield meeting with the Saints, and after an impressive appearance off the bench at White Hart Lane the midfielder is hoping to get the nod to return to the starting XI.
He added: "You want to start every game and it was a bit frustrating not to start tonight, but all you can do is show the manager what you can do when he brings you on.
"I will be training as hard as I can to try and get in the team on Saturday and impress the boss, because we need the three points and I want to do my best for the team.
"Southampton are a good footballing side and they have had some good results recently, but if we play like we did against Wigan in our last home game then there is no reason why we can't get the three points."
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The European Defence Agency (EDA) has given a green light to an ambitious development project under the leadership of Rheinmetall Defence of Dusseldorf, Germany.
The EDA has contracted with Rheinmetall Defence and three other companies (Diehl BGT Defence, ECA and Thales Optronique) to develop an unmanned vehicle platform and construct a demonstrator version that should show the potential of systems of this kind. In particular, the project seeks to demonstrate the future role that unmanned vehicles could play in protecting troops deployed in hazardous operations.
The EDA development contract is an important strategic coup for Rheinmetall, which has been placed in charge of this groundbreaking research and development project. In monetary terms, the order is worth some Ђ4 million.
The Semi-Autonomous Unmanned Ground Vehicle System Demonstrator (SAM-UGV), as it is tentatively known, will be a wheeled, all-terrain vehicle weighing between 300 and 400 kilos, roughly the size of a quad bike. Thanks to its built-in navigation system and sophisticated computer technology, it will be able to conduct a variety of missions by remote control as well as operating autonomously. The vehicle is to have a range of 400 kilometres, and be able to operate for periods of up to 24 hours.
As well as performing long-range patrolling and monitoring missions, the SAM-UGV will be able to carry out NBC reconnaissance operations in potentially contaminated terrain. The system's suitability as a means of searching for improvised explosive devices will also be studied, responding to the acute threat these currently pose to forces deployed in global conflict zones. Besides a satellite-supported inertial navigation system, the vehicle will feature a 3D laser radar, a camera system and ultrasonic sensors, enabling it to cope with its surroundings and avoid obstacles.
Today, in an era of mounting cost pressure, creating a sophisticated system of this kind would be all but impossible for a single, company-financed research and development programme. To develop the SAM-UGV system, Rheinmetall Defence is pooling its knowledge and experience with the capabilities of three other defence contractors; this cooperative endeavour was brokered by the European Defence Agency, which also arranged financial backing. This project is thus a good example of the way the European defence industry is bundling its strengths – one of EDA's prime objectives.
In terms of content, this development project is strongly oriented to current and future military scenarios involving significant operational risks such as out-of-area deployments of the German Bundeswehr, whose troops are now subject to continuous, low-intensity attack by insurgent elements. Be it in Afghanistan, Iraq or elsewhere, forces operating in crisis regions face an array of operational risks that are now as familiar as they are unpredictable: conflicts without clearly defined frontlines, where enemy combatants are generally difficult or impossible to identify, and whose callous, indiscriminate attacks often draw innocent civilians into the conflict.
Furthermore, nations taking part in international peacekeeping and peace enforcement missions are understandably eager to keep casualties as low as possible to avoid losing public support at home. One way of meeting this challenge is to use unmanned systems which operate autonomously and can perform a variety of missions, making sure that friendly personnel are not exposed to danger unnecessarily.
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Television - Robert Hughes is icily polite and seriously damning. By Andrew Billen
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Television - Robert Hughes is icily polite and seriously damning. By Andrew Billen
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One of the greatest shocks the old can deliver is to confer their approval on the new. Robert Hughes, who will be 68 this month and has been in the wars, was in no mood to shock us like this on Saturday night. In The New Shock of the New (3 July, 9.05pm), a grouchy, one-off follow-up to The Shock of the New, his superb BBC2 series on modernism 25 years ago, he surveyed the art of the years that had followed and found it wanting. Hughes dished praise only upon those practitioners who were approaching or had reached old age themselves: Paula Rego, Anselm Kiefer, David Hockney and Sean Scully, artists who keep alive the traditions of, respectively, narrative painting, political engagement, figurative technique and numinous abstraction. The man who taught us to embrace Picasso and Braque clung to the rock of the OAP.
But Hughes had always believed we were at the fag end of a good run. In the first of the original series, now being repeated on BBC4 on Thursdays, the 48-year-old Hughes, in stripy shirts and floppy hair, confidently predicted that modern art had begun in 1880 and had ended by 1980. But what a century it had been! Despite his programme's clever title, Hughes's aim had not been so much to recall the shock that the new art had caused as to explain how it had itself been a reaction to the shocking new age mankind found itself in, a mechanical, industrial, democratic age, visually dominated by still and moving photography. In such confusing days, the avant-garde believed that art "in the most disinterested and noble way, could find the necessary metaphors by which a radically changing culture could be explained to its inhabitants". It resulted in "some of the most challenging, beautiful and intelligent works of art that have ever been made, alongside a great deal of superfluity and rubbish".
Since 1980, he told us on Saturday, the superfluity and rubbish had taken over, seducing even the art market with its vulgar demands for attention. The artist's supreme purpose was now to be noticed, although this was getting harder, as newness by itself was not only no longer shocking, but museum policy. In their ignorance, the new artists frequently failed even to be very new. "Shit, man," cried Hughes before a garish mural at the Whitney Biennale in New York, "this is what they used to do in Notting Hill in 1964!" It was as if, he sighed, western art had begun with Andy Warhol.
He implied, however, there was so much that modern art could tackle if only it could raise its game. Just as the original Shock began with pictures of the Eiffel Tower, that icon of the new mechanical spirit, so did this programme, but it was now juxtaposed with film of the fall of the twin towers. Hughes did not directly ask why art had failed to address this disaster but he did wonder how Turner would have painted the H-bomb's mushroom cloud, how Goya would have depicted Belsen or David the assassination of Kennedy. The last important artistic statement about war was, he noted, Picasso's Guernica.
Damien Hirst had refused to allow Hughes to film his work, far less interview him. Less wisely, given Hughes's previous dismissal of his "porcelain inanities", Jeff Koons welcomed him in and so found himself smugly talking the critic through his Woman in Bath Tub, in which a half-decapitated Playboy Playmate grasps her breasts in horror as a snorkel surfaces before her at bathtime. Koons, nattily dressed in a suit and tie, enthused away about the relationship between cultural guilt and masturbation. During this embarrassment, Hughes was icily polite, saving his put-downs for the voice-over. (Personally, I preferred the icy politeness to the ingratiating, patronising tone he applied to his heroes - Hockney: "I've got a big project coming up." Hughes: "You've always got a big project coming up - it's called the world, mate!")
What the counsel for the defence would have argued at this point was that the Nineties art Hughes damned offers its own pleasures. It is ironic, funny, knowing and playful, qualities under-represented at the National Gallery but in superabundance at the Saatchi. You can, as Hughes does, see these works as additions to our fast-food visual culture - mind-rotting eye candy to spit out - or you can regard them as sly commentaries on it. At the least, in the context of a gallery, they give us a chance to slow down and contemplate what has happened to it. Held up, however, to Hughes's tyrannical, mystical definition that art must provide "a transcendent understanding", Hirst, Emin, Koons and company were doomed to fail dismally.
This confidently made programme (despite Hughes's injunction that art needs to slow down, the producer, James Runcie, wisely sped up the visual tempo established in Lorna Pegram's now leisurely-looking 1980 series) will, unfortunately, have given every ignoramus in town, and many more in the suburbs and shires, permission to dismiss what shocks them. It is dangerous permission to grant. It is unlikely, after all, that not one YBA has something interesting to say; and even Hughes acknowledged the melancholy power and craftsmanship of Ron Mueck's Dead Dad. But Hughes talks so well, with an Australian intellectual's gift of matching erudition with common sense, that I ended concluding he was probably 90 per cent right about 90 per cent of it.
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Wow! Doesn't Gisele Bunchen look incredible in this new photoshoot? The supermodel shows off her killer body while posing in a trenchcoat and not much else — although you may be wondering just where her pregnancy is hiding itself. Not to worry, it's been digitally removed to, um, respect her privacy. Say again?
"Nobody is sexier or more beautiful than Gisele Bundchen in nothing but a London Fog trench coat, even with her visible baby bump. Although Gisele was photographed while pregnant, most of the shots have been retouched to respect her privacy during this wonderful and personal time in her life," said Dari Marder, Chief Marketing Officer of London Fog.
Eh? What "visible baby bump"? Perhaps if Gisele's privacy was of such paramount importance, she wouldn't have posed in just a pair of heels and a come hither look? Hard to see how a little few pounds of extra bumpage on show would affect this. We're just sayin'. [Photo: Splash News Online]
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