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Fifty years ago this week, an aspiring actor turned songwriter named Bobby Pickett reached the top of the Billboard charts under the moniker Bobby "Boris" Pickett and the Crypt-Kickers with his song, "Monster Mash." The novelty track spent two weeks at #1 on the charts in October of 1962 and, to this day, displays remarkable staying power: A quick look at the iTunes Singles chart this morning shows the track sitting in the #40 position, likely being purchased by children whose parents were not even alive when the song was first written during the music industry's dance craze phase of the early 60s (think "The Twist," think "The Mashed Potato," think "The Loco-Motion").
S-Curve Records founder Steve Greenberg penned a fascinating tribute to the "Monster Mash" on his record company's website this morning, and it got us thinking a bit. Why is a song that is 50 years-old, written as a parody of (if you're generous) or a cash-in on (if you're more cynical) a long-forgotten dance craze, and pegged to an (admittedly awesome) impression of a film star who rose to fame in the 1930s still relevant to today's youth?


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During the summer months, churches along America's Gulf Coast join together in a prayer that humbly acknowledges their precarious position in the world. It is "A Prayer for Hurricane Season": "We live in the shadow of a danger over which we have no control: the Gulf, like a provoked and angry giant, can awake from its seeming lethargy, overstep its conventional boundaries, invade our land and spread chaos." The destruction caused by Hurricane Katrina may be shocking in its magnitude, but for those who lived in its path, it should be no surprise. The Deep South has long been subject to disasters of biblical proportions. New Orleans alone can list flood, fire, plague and famine in its 300-year history. Parallels for modern horrors are all too easy to find, and natural catastrophes have proved essential for the political, social and cultural development of this unique region of the United States.
New Orleanians looking for someone to blame for the hardships they are facing might as well start at the beginning. Jean-Baptiste le Moyne, Sieur de Bienville, founded New Orleans in 1718, confident that its position near the mouth of the New World's greatest river would inevitably guarantee prosperity. Though the site had much to recommend it, its early inhabitants soon realised that life on the Mississippi would not be so easy. In 1719, the river inundated the town, and frantic work began on the first of New Orleans's artificial levees. Undeterred, in 1722 Bienville successfully pushed to remove the colony's capital from Biloxi to the new settlement. That same year, as another taste of things to come, New Orleans faced its first hurricane. A third of the town was destroyed, including the hospital.
The threats of flood and hurricane have been a constant, recurring fact of life along the Gulf Coast, but two catastrophes have particular resonance with contemporary events, not least because they demonstrate the degree to which politics has always had a part to play in the unfolding of disaster and its aftermath. Sanitary and climatic conditions in 19th-century New Orleans meant that disease was always a threat. Cholera carried away 6,000 in 1832. In 1853, it became evident that yellow fever was taking hold of the city in similar fashion. Civic leaders were initially reluctant to announce the epidemic and take public steps to limit its progress, for fear that the adverse publicity would damage commerce. At the end of the summer, 10,000 people were dead, a near-decimation. Anti-slavery campaigners declared the outbreak to be the visitation of God's wrath, but the widespread death of poor labouring whites only led to an increased reliance on slavery.
Social tensions were also prominent in the 1927 flood - to date, America's greatest flood disaster. Early in the year, the Mississippi River Commission had announced that the levee system was "in condition to prevent the disastrous effects of floods". By April, the Mississippi had climbed above its banks and spread to a width of between 50 and 100 miles along 1,000 miles of its course to the Gulf. Though white and black people suffered alike, racial conflict ran high about who was to undertake the necessary labour to rebuild the levees, and about the way in which aid was distributed. Violence erupted and lynchings proliferated.
The "Great Migration" of blacks to the north predated the flood, but the events of 1927 pushed it forward with a new impetus. When New Orleans itself was threatened by the flood waters, intense politicking and the power of the city produced a bold solution. A levee was dynamited to relieve the pressure on the city, destroying much of the St Bernard and Plaquemine parishes and leaving 10,000 homeless. Politicians should take note, however: anger in Louisiana at the handling of the crisis propelled Huey Long into the governor's chair.
In the late 20th century, New Orleans proved relatively lucky in the face of natural disaster. Even now, it appears that the final death toll of Katrina will not come close to rivalling the hurricane that hit Galveston, Texas in 1900, killing at least 8,000. In 1947, a hurricane hit the Mississippi Gulf Coast hard and caused tidal surges from Lake Pontchartrain to flood parts of downtown New Orleans, as did Hurricane Betsy in 1965. Improvements to the levee saved the city from Hurricane Camille in 1969, but now the long-feared inundation of New Orleans has happened and only two things are certain. First, that Katrina will bring new chickens home to roost: acts of God and their consequences involve, to a large degree, man's own handiwork. Second, as the Mississippian author Richard Wright described the eternal truth of the Gulf Coast: "When the flood waters recede, the poor folks . . . start all over again."
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Prosecutors told the Anti-Corruption Court in Jakarta that the defendant had been proven guilty of graft in the procurement of sewing machines, cattle and sarongs that were supposed to be distributed to the victims of natural disasters by his ministry between 2004 and 2008.
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Bachtiar said after the hearing that Amrun Daulay, the director general of social security assistance at the ministry at the time of the alleged corruption, was responsible for the procurements but had escaped prosecution because he was a member of the ruling Democratic Party.
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Currently Distinguished Professor in the Practice of Diplomacy at the Edmund A. Walsh School of Foreign Services at Georgetown University, Lake served as Assistant to the President (Clinton) for National Security Affairs from 1993-1997.
The main focus of Lake's talk will be the Marshall Legacy Institute (MLI), a Virginia-based, non-profit international humanitarian organization working to rid severely affected countries of their scourge of mines, where he sits on the board of directors.
"Having Lake on campus brings tremendous awareness of a critical need to demine warring nations," says Bill Hunter, director of the office of international students and scholars. "And, what a tremendous opportunity to have Mr. Lake here to discuss the recent testimony by current National Security Advisor Rice."
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MLI uses highly-trained dogs to detect landmines, and Lehigh recently raised funds to sponsor a dog, "Lehigh," who is currently sniffing out mines in Sri Lanka. The university hopes to raise enough funds for a second dog to locate more mines and save more lives.
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- Develop Research Ideas: Take classes in which you will have the chance to write scholarly papers and get to know professors. As you take classes, start a file of ideas that might become articles. It is advantageous, although not essential, that there be some intellectual relationship among your different articles, so as to form a coherent research agenda. This doesn't require that they all deal with the same subject matter (e.g., environmental law). They could instead share a common set of concerns (e.g., distributional fairness; the (dis)incentive effect of legal rules on individual behavior; the litigation process) or a common set of methodological tools (e.g., historical, qualitative empirical investigation, experimental, econometric, philosophical) that you are applying in different substantive areas. But the most important thing is to get writing done, and on subjects you care about, even if the various papers don't obviously cohere.
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- Unlike other disciplines, in law the book review essay is often article-length and gives the author space to develop independent ideas. At the same time, book reviews are easier to write than conventional articles because they typically don't require extensive independent research or a freestanding thesis. They count less than articles, but are much better than no publication.
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Many students think that law review membership or editorship is a prerequisite to academic careers. This used to be true, but no longer is. Traditionally, employers (including law school hiring committees) valued membership on law review primarily because it correlated with very high grades, or provided the only opportunity for law students to familiarize themselves with the scholarly side of the enterprise. At many law schools, including Stanford, law review membership is no longer connected to grades, a fact well known to most hiring committees. Moreover, if hiring committees care about grades, they can just look at them directly. And there are now a wealth of other opportunities for law students to engage with the scholarly enterprise.
As a result, many law schools recruiting new faculty place no weight on membership or officership on law reviews. Once again, this is more likely to be true the more prestigious the law school. On the other hand, some law schools still value it, it will give you some exposure to current legal scholarship, and it is unlikely to hurt you anywhere. But these possible benefits of law review should be weighed against the costs. If you do law review, chances are you will be spending a lot of time doing routine work editing other people's articles. If you would use that same time instead to do more of your own writing, or even work as a research assistant for a professor, those alternative uses of your time will in many cases be more advantageous.
The above advice, however, goes only to the direct value of the bare credential of law review membership or officership on the academic market. There are two collateral benefits that may flow from membership that may have some independent value on the academic market. The first is the opportunity to publish a student note. Most student-run law reviews will publish student work only if the student is a member of their own editorial board. You should not overvalue that opportunity, however. In most cases, having a good idea and turning it into a good article is the hard part. Finding a place to publish it is relatively easy. Specialty journals and faculty-run (peer-reviewed) journals will publish student work. In addition, you can write while a student, but wait until you graduate to send it out to conventional law reviews for publication as an article.
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Sheldon Ungar, Ignorance as an Un-Identified Social Problem, British Journal of Sociology , 2008, Vol. 59, Issue 2, pp. 301 – 326.
This article uses as its starting point the idea of the persistence of ignorance in the knowledge society and deplores the fact that ignorance is an understudied topic in sociology. Therefore, there is a need for a sociology of ignorance using two central concepts: functional knowledge deficits (FKD… I can see why the author would not use that shortcut) and the knowledge-ignorance paradox (KIP).
"[The article] argues that we have at best a knowledge economy byt not a knowledge society, and that conflating the two is a serious source of confusion and error. Functional knowledge deficits are not so much a result of the shortcoming of individuals as they are expectable products of the knowledge revolution and the social organization of contemporary societies." (302)
Indeed, Ungar argues that ignorance, like knowledge, is socially produced and constructed and diffused throughout the social structure. In this sense, it is possible to establish a social ecology of ignorance that outlines its different forms and separates it from other attitudes (such as stupidity).
Ungar's main point though is that we need to distinguish between knowledge economy and knowledge society. We have a knowledge economy with more and more specialized fields and sub-fields and ever more specialized and narrow fields of knowledge. Each sub-field and type of knowledge defines an area of expertise, that is, a class of actors who possess, or are expected to possess, that specialized knowledge. But deeper and narrower knowledge means also fields of ignorance.
In this sense, according to Ungar, we can certainly talk about knowledge economy, but speaking of knowledge society is a bit premature as ever more specialized knowledge necessarily breeds corresponding ignorance, especially in general knowledge pertaining to social, practical, political and personal issues. It is indeed possible to indetify different types of ignorance or varieties of functional knowledge deficits, such as political, historical, scientific or economic that are often lumped together as part of what is often defined as a social problem: youth ignorance when ignorance-as-problem is mixed with the culture war and takes on moral dimensions.
"Behind the idea of the knowledge society is the sense that there is so much more to know than in the past. This idea is coupled with the expectation that people will be better informed, as widespread knowledge is integral to the idea of the knowledge society (Castells 1996: 20-1; Ungar 2003a; Webster 1993: 218). However, research monitoring knowledge reveals a host of significant illiteracies beyond the political realm. For virtually any knowledge domain, survey results reveal considerable gaps between what people know and what researchers presume they should know." (308)
So what is the knowledge-ignorance paradox (KIP)?
"[KIP] captures how the growth of specialized knowledges implies a simultaneous increase in (general) ignorance. The theoretical unfolding of the KIP suggests that pockets of observed public knowledge – rather than ignorance – are exceptional and require specific explanation." (311)
Rather than treating knowledge as the norm and ignorance as a disappearing exception, KIP reverses that logic and takes ignorance as the norm and as a Durkheimian social fact that should be treated as such, that is, object of sociological investigation. In this case, the "new economy" requires more and more specialized knowledge at the expense of general Schützian stock of knowledge. When one's knowledge is more and more limited to expertise in a narrowly-defined sub-field, then, the probability of knowledge overlap or at least general knowledge of related domains diminishes and ignorance grows.
"Whether the knowledge demands of specific occupational roles are onerous or not, increases in the volume and complexity of information have escalated the entry costs to virtually every other knowledge domain. (…) But the narrowing and differentiation of specialties means that the sheer number and diversity of conceptual anchors continue to multiply. As proliferating technical terms and ideas (or what librarians call 'twiggings') are overlaid with new facts and frequent revisions, specialty knowledge domains become forbidding to outsiders. All but the most persistent non-specialists are effectively precluded from keeping up with developments." (312)
With such high entry barriers, more and more topics can no longer be discussed and we are left with reliance on experts on more and more subjects (and the media are useless for this as well). This, of course, increases the social power of certain groups at the expense of others (or the citizenry in general). One need only remember the intelligence experts that were omnipresent on television between the 9/11 terrorist attacks and the run-up to the Iraq war, or more recently, the financial experts who now claim innocence when faced with economic collapse. Such asymmetric knowledge claims from experts becomes problematic, according ot Ungar, when, as part of maintaining their power, they hide their own specialized shortcomings (see Jon Stewart's destruction of Jim Cramer for a good example of what happens when this is exposed).
Ungar mentions two exceptions to this process: AIDS activists who made a point in becoming experts on the science of HIV-AIDS, and amateur astronomers. But otherwise, being a well-informed citizen (as pre-condition of democracy) becomes harder and functional knowledge deficits accumulate. Ergo, according to Ungar, the obvious nature of the knowledge economy coupled with the absence of knowledge society.
"The fundamental status of ignorance as an enduring and often serious problem emerging from the KIP is mostly unrecognized. Since knowledge production and associated pressures to keep up in specialty domains continue to increase, the predicament of being broadly uninformed is likely to worsen." (314)
The problem is that living in the risk society creates the need for more knowledge of a variety of technologies regarding subjects as diverse as food production, climate and environmental pressures, diseases or terrorist threats, to name only a few. In this risk context, groups are actually able to mobilize ignorance against specific technologies (for instance, the anti-vaccination crowd in relation to autism, or the anti-GMO movement). The invocation of "unknown unknowns" is a way of selling ignorance as social dynamic and political tool.
At the same time, the presence of ignorance in the midst of the knowledge economy allows the individualization of remedy. Ungar mentions the "don't die of ignorance" campaigns that have sprouted on a variety of topics, from AIDS to sex education. These campaigns put the burden strictly in individuals: it is up to individuals to get themselves educated on these topics and then to take appropriate measures in terms of behavior modification to avoid certain risks. In these campaigns, there are no more victims, only individuals who fail to inform themselves or failed to act upon the right information.
Where does this leave the question of a sociology of ignorance then? Ungar concludes,
"Information is no longer a scarce resource; attention and interest are. Given the specialty KIP and associated entry and speech barriers, it is not surprising that people evince 'reading reluctance' and find the pursuit of broad-ranging knowledge outside occupational specialties exceedingly costly. The ideal of the well-informed citizen is scarcely a viable aspiration anymore, and questions about the extent to which people have the conceptual anchors and background information to deal with functionally important issues need to be more directly and systematically addressed (as opposed to whether they can name local politicians). Sociologically, it is not the sheer amount of ignorance that counts but how it is produced and distributed in different groups and realms of knowledge." (321)
One can see the damage of this, as I have mentioned before, with education reform where education is perceived as specialized skills acquisition rather than "education" in the full sense of the term, that is, something that takes time and involves the mastery of broad ranges of knowledge seen as necessary for one's full participation into the public sphere.
The dysfunctions associated with over-specialization are also now painfully obvious in the context of the current crisis with the discovery that only a few people actually understood the financial games being played with all these "exotic" products that were going to generate wealth forever. One can also see how over-specialization allows for the concealment of incompetence within narrowly-defined fields. It remains to be seen whether one of the consequences of this crisis is "the return of the informed citizen."


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The Lord is my shepherd and the keeper of my hope and dreams. I hold Him close to my heart so that we are never far apart. The love of my life and in this I take delight. His light will always be seen in me in all things that I do. The way I walk even when I talk. For it is not what inside of you that defiles you, it's what comes out.
My trust in the Lord is sight unseen and it is my faith that keeps me clean. My problems may be many but there is no need to worry; because my belief is just too strong. Can't you see that in Jesus, you will not go wrong? Your love is so pure and clean it gives life new meaning; Rose are red, reminds me of the blood you did shed and violets are blue there no truer love than you. There a song in my soul that sends my spirit high and I will praise Jesus until the day that I die; in doing this I know that I will be by His side. Keep in mind of what Jesus divine nature is not all mine and it not hard to find. It's the gift that the Father has given to all of mankind.
Now I tell you about a Child that was born in glory, salvation was the pearl that was bought into this world and this is His story. To the poor and the despaired He gave hope and healing, with His power reveling. Love and praise the people did give. All that He wanted was for us to stop sinning. To you I give a thousand roses and a million kisses for you are a truly my blessing. The dead He did raise, and life He gave. Those that were in power never did they honor; but instead they fear the One who was foretold as the prophecy before their eyes was unfolded. Crime they cry and this was the lie that sentences our savior on earth to die. A thousands tears is not enough I fear; so in my heart I will hold you dear.
From the Heaven to the earth He came to teach us a way, from the earth to the cross, a debt He paid, from the cross to the graves, from the grave to the sky He ascended home to His throne. There He sits waiting for those that he paid that prices so that we might have life and have it more abundantly. Having faith and trust in the Christ you will find an everlasting life free from suffering in a paradise. You will always be my Valentine love.


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Courses: Financial Economics (ECONB205001)
Fall 2013
Class Number: 1631
The class covers the economics of how people working in financial markets and intermediaries solve problems associated with: 1) fund raising and 2) risk management. The course covers the emergence of financial markets in history to understand the current financial system, the economics of intertemporal choice, the measurement and management of risk in asset allocation, the capital asset pricing model, the arbitrage pricing theory, derivatives, the economics of banking, capital structure and closes with historical perspectives on financial market crises. Prerequisites: ECON B105 Haverford: Social Science (SO)
Enrollment Limit: 25;
Fulfills: Class Nbr: 1631
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Bracelets have been put to use to accessorize outfits for years and years. While several different types of bracelets were well-known throughout the years, the majority of today's bracelets fall into one of eight different classes.
Bangle bracelets are typically generated from fairly thin metal, plastic, or wood. They can be designed to be both worn alone or stacked together. Bangle bracelets often feature relatively easy styles and are thus suited for use with a broad variety of garments.
The condition beaded means any band that's composed of just one or more strings of beads. Beaded bracelets could be made from very great or very big drops. Pay careful attention to the types of drops used inside their construction, when buying beaded bracelets. Beads made from plastic often break easily.
Also called link bracelets, chain bracelets are generally made from fine metals. They are available in a broad variety of lengths and sizes.
True to their title, cuff bracelets are made to hold across the hand. They're normally made from metal or flexible plastics. Pay careful attention to when purchasing cuff bracelets as things that are too small might be uncomfortable sizing or cut off circulation.
Friendship bracelets, which are created from woven strands of thread or material, are especially well-known among pre teens and teenagers. Some vendors may categorize woven ethnic bracelets as friendship bracelets.
Shambala bracelets are created from hemp or thread intertwined with rock or wood drops. These bracelets are traditionally found in Buddhism but have grown quite popular with the general public.
These daring, fashion-forward pieces are made to make a statement all independently. When coordinated with straightforward, elegant outfits statement pieces look best. Several statement pieces are intended for periodic wear.
Most tennis bracelets consist of an individual string of individually set gemstones. These tasteful bracelets could be put on for specific events or employed on a regular basis.
instead of buying a bracelet at all, you can go for something more functional like a watch. Rose gold watches for women are a beautiful substitute for a bracelet. They are unique and stylish.


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A 100W tube combo with normal and active input configuration.
The Schecter Hellraiser Stage 100 combo pushes 100W or 50W through two 12" Celestion Vintage 30 speakers. The Focus control serves as a global "tweak" that adjusts the amp's input frequency response to custom tailor the low frequency response for different styles of guitars. Unlike many amps that simply reduce the input signal to compensate for an active pickup, this input activates circuit changes in the amp that compensates for active pickups' typical lack of low-end and high frequency sparkle rolloff. The adjustable noise gate is functional on the Lead channel. It also has Bass, Mid, Treble, Volume, Gain and UK/USA Voicing controls.


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Company Profile: ATA Airlines
So, it looks like banks, insurance companies, publishers, manufacturers, and retailers all have problems with bots. But do airlines have problems with bots? You betcha.
On April 7th, something at ATA Airlines changed. Out of previous total silence, spam started arriving in our traps from ATA. It was clearly botspam, this time pushing Humet PBC, which trades as L9Z.F on the Frankfurt Stock Exchange. According to the good folks at Spamnation, this was part of a two part run between March 31st, and April 19th perpetrated on this stock.
All the spam from ATA touting the stock came from a single IP address: 22.214.171.124 - h-253-165.iflyata.com. The spam was nearly identical, 100% of it touted the same company, and the run itself lasted three days, peaking in the middle. Then poof - radio silence again.
Until the 28th of April that is when stock spam started arriving in our traps from ATA a second time. This run came from a different IP address: 126.96.36.199, resolving to h-253-225.iflyata.com. Again, the spam uniformly pumped a single stock - Electronic Koursewar - EKII.PK -, which was part of a much larger, distributed spam run, used forged received headers ( some from unrouted IANA space) , and mysteriously disappeared after three days.
Did ATA catch the problem and shut it down? We sure hope so. Out of the 10 weeks we've been watching ATA, they've sent spam on only six days, so hopefully this is a sign of a vigilant, if not perfect, security regimen.
Will the problem spring back up a third time? Were these systems also key-logging? Is there a drop file somewhere with other information in it? Impossible for us to say, but someone has to ask the question. Neither of the IP addresses delivering the botspam to us delivered a single piece of legitimate mail, and neither appear to be regular mail transfer agents - so what are they?
And if the IT security of civilian airlines isn't enough to get your attention, don't forget, ATA is also a big time carrier for the U.S. military, operating charter missions around the globe everyday.
And so, the bots rampage on...
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Manchester, N.H. (April 2, 2010) – Southern New Hampshire University's School of Business will present "Doing Well by Doing Good: CSR in Action in NH" as part of its speakers series. Pax World Fund's CIO Chris Brown will discuss investing for sustainability on Wednesday, April 7, at 6:30 p.m. in SNHU's Mara Auditorium in Webster Hall. The event is free and open to the public.
Pax World Fund established its first socially responsible investing fund in 1971; excluding weapons-related, tobacco-related and unethical companies from its portfolio.
Brown joined Pax World Fund Management in 1998 and has served as its sole fund manager since October, 2001. Prior to joining Pax World, Brown was a senior manager promoted to first vice president at Fahnestock and Co. Inc. He is a graduate of Boston University's School of Management.
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You can also get some teaching experience under your belt as a law student by working as a teaching assistant for undergraduate courses or for some law school courses.
If the teaching opportunities open to you will give you a chance to demonstrate your teaching skills and be evaluated on them by students and you do a bang-up job, that will be a mild plus with elite schools, and can help to counteract concerns about teaching that are generated by a less than stellar job talk. But teaching experience will not count for a lot, as compared to your scholarly and academic record. At less elite schools, in contrast, a successful teaching record may well count for more, particularly if it demonstrates your competence in core areas of the curriculum.
Even if a teaching assistantship does not help you gain credibility with a hiring committee, you may find it useful in figuring out whether you like teaching and whether you are good at it. In addition, your first experience teaching in an academic position will be less daunting if you do have some prior teaching experience.


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Hallsworth is the Holbrook hero in a Vase late show
Posted: November 19, 2012|
VAUGHN Hallsworth's last-minute winner booked Holbrook Sports' place in the FA Vase third round.
They fought back from 2-1 down to defeat Black Country Rangers in this second round clash.
Holbrook started brightly on a sticky surface and looked like they were going to cut through the defence at ease.
After 10 minutes, a break from Hallsworth led to him racing into the box and his square pass to Simeon Oshoboke set up what looked like a certain goal but the shot was straight at the keeper.
However, Oshoboke made no mistake in the 10th minute to give Holbrook the lead before leaving the game with a hamstring injury.
The home side levelled before the break and took a 70th-minute lead thanks to a controversial penalty decision.
But Holbrook levelled when Ben Gowing fired a thunderous 30-yard drive into the top corner.
Holbrook made a final change with Sam Ridgard sent on to replace Steve Akers on the right wing.
And in the closing minutes the substitute broke away down the right, cut into the area and shaped to shoot before teeing up Hallsworth to score the winner.


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What to do in Dublin
Bulmers Leopardstown Festival 2014
Experience this year's Bulmers Live at Leopardstown Racecourse 'the essential festival' with eight summer evenings of festival fun, great food and thrilling racing followed by some of the best live Irish and international music you will see this festival season.
Leopardstown Racecourse's great selection of bars and restaurants offers some wonderful locations to mingle and soak up the vibes, during what will definitely be one of the highlights of the summer social calendar and a very unique event.
Entertainment from Handsandwich, Heathers, Sharon Shannon, Johnny Marr and many more.
The Alexander 4 star Hotel is situated just off Merrion Square, within walking distance to the cities main attractions and transportation. Grafton Street is a 5 minute walk as well as the Luas. The Alexander Hotel has fantastic packages to avail of while staying in Dublin City Centre.
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Altair Releases HyperWorks 12.0 Free Student Edition
Altair Engineering Inc. has introduced a free HyperWorks 12.0 Student Edition, comprehensive computer-aided engineering software available to aspiring structural and mechanical engineers.
University Students Strive To Enhance Products from Wheels to Golf Clubs in Altair International Student Challenge
Students from universities across the globe will recommend ways to improve the products consumers use every day — from sporting goods to automotive components — as they participate in the Altair International Simulation-Driven Design Challenge over the next four months.
Altair Introduces HyperWorks Virtual Wind Tunnel
Altair today introduced HyperWorks Virtual Wind Tunnel, a streamlined and high quality vertical application designed to improve wind tunnel simulation for the automotive industry.
Leading Electromagnetic Analysis Software To Join Altair Partner Alliance
The Altair Partner Alliance announced that the electromechanical analysis tool JMAG, created by Japan's JSOL Corp., will be available to enabled HyperWorks users this fall.
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Genoa, MCQ-Composites to Join Altair Partner Alliance Composites Lineup
The Altair Partner Alliance Wednesday announced the addition of its sixth composites partner, AlphaStar Corp.
Altair Broadens Relationship with Siemens PLM Software
Altair, a provider of simulation technology and engineering services, announced Tuesday that it had broadened its relationship with Siemens PLM Software to enable closer collaboration in the exchange of data among product lifecycle management teams who employ Altair computer-aided engineering tools in analyzing product designs and materials.
Altair Partner Alliance Adds Micromechanical Composites Tool
Altair Partner Alliance announced Wednesday that AnalySwift will be joining the program and adding its complex composite modeling tool, SwiftComp Micromechanics, to the growing offering of partner applications available to HyperWorks users under Altair's license manager.
Altair Releases HyperWorks 12.0
Troy-based Altair Engineering Tuesday announced the release of HyperWorks 12.0, the latest verseion of its comprehensive computer-aided engineering platform.
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I'm NEW to to Assassins Creed so don't start getting mad at me. I have started playing the multiplayer, mostly manhunt and I have realized that if you are on the hunted team, you can get to first place by running around like a lunatic and not getting killed. Now is it just me or is that not how the game is meant to be played, I play stealthily, hiding in crowds, stunning enemies etc. However I'm always coming out in second place, Don't get me wrong it's okay to be second but I'm confused how the gametype actually works. Do you just have to stay alive or play tactically? thnx! ;)
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The Magic Kingdom by Steven Watts
The Magic Kingdom: Walt Disney and the American Way of Life
by Steven Watts
Houghton Mifflin. 526 pp. $30.00
Walt Disney may have been immodest, but he was not exaggerating when in the early 1960's he offered an assessment of his place in American culture. "I'm not Disney anymore," he told a young employee.
I used to be Disney, but now Disney is something we've built up in the public mind. . . . It stands for something, and you don't have to explain what it is.
What Disney and his enterprise stood for was, in a much-mocked phrase, "wholesome family entertainment." The man behind that phrase is the subject of this well-researched and thoughtful biography by the historian Steven Watts, which also provides a starting point for thinking about the Disney legacy today.
Walt Disney was born in Chicago in 1901. His father was an itinerant building contractor who incessantly moved his family around the country in a search for work. Adept since childhood at drawing, Disney left home permanently in 1919 to pursue a career as a newspaper cartoonist, and got his first experience with the simple cutout type of animation used for advertising when he joined a commercial art studio in Kansas City. Together with some fellow graphic designers, he then started a small cartoon studio. When the money ran out he left for Los Angeles, where he went into business with his brother Roy. The new Disney Brothers Studio opened in 1923.
After a series of false starts—a lovably antic character named Oswald the Lucky Rabbit caught the attention of a distributor, but then Disney lost the legal rights and key animators defected—the new team struck paydirt when, from a few linked circles on a sheet of paper, Mickey Mouse was born. Introduced at the end of the 20's, Mickey did not take long to achieve enormous popularity with movie audiences. By the late 30's, he had become an international icon.
Mickey Mouse exemplified the Disney secret for success: cartoon features based on identifiable personalities rather than, as was the standard of the day, mere collections of gags. Exhibitors clamored for more, and were soon rewarded in the form of Donald Duck and Goofy the feckless hound. But the restlessly ambitious Disney, dissatisfied with churning out short features, soon turned toward the risky business of full-length animated films. In the end, and despite the cautionary protests of his business-manager brother, his decision proved correct. Walt Disney's lasting reputation was built not by Mickey Mouse and Donald Duck but by such movies as Snow White and the Seven Dwarfs (1937), Pinocchio (1940), Fantasia (1940), Dumbo (1941), and Bambi (1942).
The reputation was deserved, and, as Watts shows, hard-earned. Active in every stage of production, Disney drove himself as strenuously as he did others. A gifted storyteller, brilliantly adept at acting out his characters, and a consummate salesman, he convinced everyone from writers and animators to inkers and colorists that they could produce the greatest cartoons ever made.
If these were Disney's golden years, however, they also proved to be harbingers of struggle. In 1941, Disney Bros. suffered its first and only strike, leaving Walt embittered at those who took part and alarmed by the influence of Communists in Hollywood's trade unions. As World War II drew to a close, he aligned himself with anti-Communist groups and became the first vice president of the newly formed Motion Picture Alliance for the Preservation of American Ideals. This organization, whose ranks included Gary Cooper, Spencer Tracy, Clark Gable, and Barbara Stanwyck, undertook to engage in "sharp revolt" against the Communist penetration of Hollywood and against all who sought "by subversive means to undermine and change" the "American Way of Life."
The 50's saw a terrific recovery for the Disney business enterprise, which had suffered under government restrictions during the war. Returning to animated features, the studio boasted a string of hits, including Cinderella (1950), Alice in Wonderland (1951), and Peter Pan (1953). It also ventured into live-action films: Twenty Thousand Leagues Under the Sea (1954), The Swiss Family Robinson (1960), and The Absent-Minded Professor (1960), to name a few. With his usual entrepreneurial genius, Disney shrewdly foresaw the commercial potential of television and signed deals with ABC. And acting again on his own initiative and against his brother's advice, he pushed to create Disneyland, a giant California theme park featuring Disney characters.
During the last decade of his life—he died in 1966—Disney not only developed grander ambitions for his enterprise but became something of a social visionary. As an emissary of American capitalism, he consciously sought in his works to demonstrate the superiority of the American way of life, which for him meant the creativity of the imagination, unfettered by political control. He also began to conceive of ways to foster a sound, healthy environment for the nurturing of families. His final project—which he would not live to see realized—was the Experimental Prototype Community of Tomorrow, or EPCOT, a planned community to accompany his second amusement park, Walt Disney World, in Orlando, Florida.
More than 30 years after his death, Walt Disney's name lives on. What does it stand for?
The Disney empire today probably exceeds what even its founder's capacious imagination could have grasped. Its movie studios encompass not one but five different production houses, and the corporation owns entire television networks: ABC, ESPN, and the Disney Channel. Disneylands have sprouted in Paris and Tokyo. Disney cruise ships ply the seas. Earning $20 billion in revenue in 1997, Disney is the most influential entertainment conglomerate in the world.
In qualitative terms—if by "qualitative" we refer only to the level of sheer expertise—today's Disney has also not lagged behind. Its amusement-park rides are more thrilling than ever; its animated feature films still enchant children and adults with the most amazing images technowizardry can yield.
Yet one ingredient—and a rather essential one—has been lost. Watts writes of something he dubs the "Disney Doctrine": the notion, reflected in almost everything Disney produced, "that the nuclear family, with its attendant rituals of marriage, parenthood, emotional and spiritual instruction, and consumption, was the centerpiece of the American way of life." Under Michael Eisner, the corporation's current CEO, the company has turned this doctrine on its head.
The Disney name today is associated with "message" movies about homosexuals, transvestites, drug addicts, and others pursuing "alternative life-styles." On its ABC network, Disney provides similarly "progressive" fare for a mass television audience, from the dramatic series Nothing Sacred, about a priest who questions the existence of God and can "relate" to various apostates, to Ellen, a sitcom about the self-discovery of a lesbian, whose eponymous heroine, week after week, faces such questions as whether to bed another woman on a first date.
All this is a far cry from Mary Poppins and from the man who built an empire in order to give innocent pleasure to the ordinary Americans with whom he thoroughly identified. If the old Disney tells us something inspiriting about who we were not so very long ago, the new and even more hugely lucrative Disney is just another signpost marking our long, steep cultural descent.


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Jefe - Drug policy reform is not a "Liberal " issue. See Milton Friedman, William F. Buckley, Ron Paul, George Shultz, Pat Robertson, etc...
Prohibition doesn't work because no amount of deadly force, self-righteous piety, or wishful thinking could ever overcome the innate desire to alter one's consciousness, self-medicate for physiological, psychological or spiritual reasons, or simply express one's freedom of choice.
If you support prohibition then you're either a black market profiteer, a terrorist, a corrupt politician, a sadomoralist, a socialist or a fake-conservative.
If you support prohibition then you've helped trigger the worst crime wave in history, raising gang warfare to a level not seen since the days of alcohol bootlegging.
If you support prohibition you've a helped create a black market with massive incentives to hook both adults and children alike.
If you support prohibition you've helped to make these dangerous substances available in schools and prisons.
If you support prohibition you've helped put previously unknown and contaminated drugs on the streets.
If you support prohibition you've helped to divert scarce law-enforcement resources away from protecting your fellow citizens from the ever escalating violence against their person or property.
If you support prohibition you've helped remove many important civil liberties from those citizens you falsely claim to represent.
If you support prohibition you've helped create the prison-for-profit synergy with drug lords.
If you support prohibition you've helped escalate the number of people on welfare who can't find employment due to their felony status.
If you support prohibition you're responsible for the horrific racial disparities which have breed generations of incarcerated and disenfranchised Afro Americans.
If you support prohibition you've helped evolve local gangs into transnational enterprises with intricate power structures that reach into every corner of society, controlling vast swaths of territory with significant social and military resources at their disposal.
If you support prohibition you're promoting a policy which kills our children, endangers our troops, counteracts our foreign policy and reduces much of the developing world to anarchy.
Neurotics build castles in the sky, psychotics live in them; the concept of a "Drug-Free Society" is a neurotic fantasy and Prohibition's ills are a product of this psychotic delusion.
Prohibition is nothing less than a grotesque dystopian nightmare; if you support it you must be either ignorant, stupid, brainwashed, corrupt or criminally insane.
If you support prohibition then prepare yourself for even more death, corruption, sickness, imprisonment, unemployment, foreclosed homes, and the complete loss of the rule of law and the Bill of Rights.
The overwhelming majority of violent crime associated with illegal drugs is due to violence over the marketplace, NOT addicts robbing to get money to buy drugs.
Alcohol is ok because it "wears off" but other drugs are bad?
Drug abuse is bad, prohibition is worse.
It is the prohibition of marijuana that causes murder. The overwhelming majority of violent crime associated with illegal drugs is due to arguments over the marketplace just as in this story.
We need Burt for the "hot air" balloon festival next week.
This story warns of the dangers of marijuana to older people. That is absurd. If they used cannabis instead of the dangerous prescriptions handed out by the dcotors, they would all be be much better off.
So, by the writer's logic, the government could ban eating red meat, dairy products and sugar, and mandate exercise programs?
garneral - I agree that taxation has not caused the income disparity, but it does contribute to it. If the middle class continues to stagnate, the rich will be negatively impacted also. It is not unfair for the wealthy to do better, but when the wealthy do so much better and the middle class stagnates, the system cannot be sustained. Middle class consumers drive the economy. My point was that the fortunes of the top 1% are NOT directly proportional to the fortunes of the rest of us. If that was true, we would not see the disparity in income increases between the classes. And this concentration of wealth in the top 1-5% has not induced them to create many jobs. There must be a business reason to hire people. You don't hire people simply because you have more money.
garneral - If The well-being of the 1 - 5 % is directly proportional to the well-being of the rest of us, why has the middle class income remained stagnant while the top income's have increased considerably?
Yellow - The overwhelming majority of violent crime associated with illegal drugs is due to arguments over the marketplace NOT addicts robbing to get money to buy drugs. THIS is what we have already lost due to the war on drugs. This is NOT making us safer, it is making society more dangerous.
You jump from a "little smoke and drink" to meth and crack. I assume you do not want to return to alcohol prohibition. It is better that we give methheads all the meth they want for free than to have them operating explosive meth labs in our neighborghoods.
Alabama leads the nation in incarceration and the U.S. leads the world in incarceration. The overcrowding in Alabama prisons is because half of the people going into prison are sentenced for drug crimes. Being the world's leader in prisoners has not reduced drug abuse or the availability of drugs. We can't even keep drugs out of the prisons. We need to look at a different approach than the miserable failure that is the war on drugs.
Campaign contributions don't directly buy justice as a case involving a campaign contributor might disqualify a judge from that case. But, they do help elect judges with political ideologies consistent with the contributors' views and political ideology is a factor in the decisions made by judges. I think that the election of judges makes them more sensitive to majority wishes and less likely to protect individual liberties that the majority may seek to suppress.
Yes, this invasion of the golf courses by political correctness is high on the agenda of President Obama. It is a blatant attempt to turn us all into a nation of mediocre golfers.
No matter how easy they make the courses, I will not embarrass myself by displaying my total lack of golfing skill. I'm sure this has negatively impacted my career development.
Donald - You watch golf as a spectator sport? I find it very boring, but to each his own.
I believe it would remove some of the politics from the process if judges were appointed. We should adopt more of a federal system approach. At least it insulates to some degree the judges from the politics. It won't get rid of it all;look at the SCOTUS.
The PSA test is all we have at present. I was diagnosed with prostate cancer in Jan. The PSA test is not the problem, it is the biopsies that follow elevated results that lead to complications. The standard practice is to stick 10-12 needles into the prostate hoping to hit the cancer. This carries risk of infection and spreading the cancer if it is present. The latter risk was denied by my urologist until I showed him a journal of urology article. I think they should go to MRI followed by targeted biopsy. I had an MRI and the cancer was exactly where the MRI indicated suspicion.
I opted to go out the country to have High Intensity Focused Ultrasound(HIFU) treatment. This has been done in Europe , Canada and Asia for over a decade and is in clinical trials here. My doctor did not even tell me of this and I found it by internet research. I am still waiting on my first PSA test after the procedure.
Jude555 - If we didn't buy all the comsumer products, the economy would collapse. The problem is that the middle class of consumers has shrunk. The rich cannot consume enough of everyday products to drive the economy.
I think crimson's points about corporatists are good ones. I think there are several factors that have contributed to the decline of the middle class. Technology is one. It takes fewer workers to do the job now, helping the corparatist agenda.
The rich and powerful should understand that without a vibrant middle class of consumers their fortunes will collapse eventually too.
We lock up people at 5 times the rate of the rest of the world. This has not and will not prevent drug abuse or drug induced face eaters. Prohibition has made the violent illegal drug trade posslible which kills far more people than the drugs themselves. We can't even keep drugs out of our prisons, how will they be kept out of a "free" society? We need to look at a different approach than locking everybody up who does any illegal drug. It does not work!
tcarl- How can you predict that typically unpredictable dopers will come to my yard if I post my address?:) I know we disagree on this subject but although drug addiction is bad, prohibition is worse. Making America the incarceration leader of the world has not helped. We need to consider other alternatives.
Yes, that's about right. The lawyers are the ones who will benefit from this. But maybe the manufacturers will think twice next time before putting out dangerous products. Naw, I doubt it.


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Honolulu - Oahu Travel Guide
Oahu blends cosmopolitan luxury and breathtaking scenery more than any other Hawaiian island. The state's capital city, Honolulu, showcases the island's urban appeal. Nearby you'll find a host of cultural and historical sites, from the austere USS Arizona Memorial to ornate 'Iolani Palace. In the nearby Waikiki neighborhood, a skyline of high-rises and resort hotels contrasts with sprawling white-sand beaches. For a taste of rural Hawaii, visit the North Shore. Here, you ... continue» Read More
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The best time to visit Honolulu is from September to November, when temperatures, hotel rates, and airline prices are mild. Honolulu's temperatures don't climb higher than the low 80s during the winter (the island's peak tourist — and surfing — season). If you don't mind a little humidity, you can probably find a pretty good deal sometime between May and August.Read More Best Times to Visit Honolulu - Oahu»
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Getting Around Honolulu - Oahu
Honolulu - Oahu Neighborhoods
Sitting in the northern part of the Hawaiian archipelago, Oahu is the most popular island of the state. Visitors tend to spend the most time in Honolulu or Waikiki, while active travelers tend to head to the north and south coasts.
Consider purchasing a map to get around Honolulu, but keep in mind that most say the city's layout conforms to local geography rather than to an understandable grid. Learning some local Hawaiian terms before traveling might be helpful: mauka (MOW-Ka), which means "toward the mountain" while makai (Mah-KAI) means "toward the sea." Popular coastal attractions include the neighborhood of Waikiki, Aina Moana State Recreation Area, and Diamond Head. Inland Honolulu is mostly residential.
The famous 'Iolani Palace — the only official royal residence in the United States — is in downtown Honolulu on South King Street. The palace housed Hawaii's last two monarchs, King David Kalakaua and his sister, Queen Lili'uokalani, at the end of the 19th century.
The Pearl Harbor naval base is northwest of downtown Honolulu near the Honolulu International Airport (HNL). Pearl Harbor is home to the Navy's U.S. Pacific Fleet, as well as several memorials commemorating the 1941 Japanese attack on Pearl Harbor.
The popular neighborhood of Waikiki is just a few miles south of Honolulu's downtown. Most of the island's resorts are located along its streets, and the neighborhood's 1½-mile stretch of beach is one of the most prized coastlines in the world.
North Shore
Oahu's North Shore couples beautifully pristine beaches with a laid-back ambiance. The towns of Hale'iwa, Kahuku, and Laie are some of the busiest towns on the North Shore; many recommend Hale'iwa for its restaurants and shopping. The North Shore is also a popular surfing destination, especially on Waimea Bay, Sunset Beach, and the Banzai Pipeline. But the surf can be extremely rough in the area (especially in the winter months), so surfers and swimmers should exercise caution and obey lifeguards at all times while in the water.
Windward Coast
If you'd like to stay on the Windward Coast, a few hotels can be found in Kailua. These will put you within walking distance of nearby beaches and restaurants. However, this central region is mainly residential.
Oahu is a relatively safe island with little crime, so water safety should be your main concern. Tides can be very strong, especially in the winter, so enter the water with caution and under the supervision of a lifeguard. Be sure to wear plenty of sunblock, as well, especially at higher altitudes.
The best way to get around Honolulu and Oahu is by car. And fortunately, the island has some of Hawaii's most reasonable rates for car rentals, particularly at the Honolulu International Airport (HNL). Located on Oahu's south shore, Honolulu Airport is about a 10-minute car ride from the downtown area, and a 20-minute car ride from Waikiki. You can also take the public bus system to many of the best sites, or opt for a scenic tour on the Waikiki Trolley. Taxis are also available, but fares can be pricey.Getting Around Honolulu - Oahu»


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Scary Future Looms For Flint Tomorrow
Is Flint facing another takeover by the state?
A municipal bankruptcy?
How is payroll going to be met tomorrow for city employees?
Speculation is rampant this week after the state put the brakes on the city's request to borrow $20 million to cover its deficits.
Without the loan, the city will have only about a half- million dollars in cash on hand. That's not nearly enough to meet payroll expenses of $1.5 million to $2 million every two weeks.


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Deal Or No Deal host Noel Edmonds finds new singing sensation
Posted: November 18, 2013|
Deal Or No Deal host Noel Edmonds has become a secret pop star after recording a hit – under the name of his mannequin.
The TV presenter, who lives at Bitton, released the song Are You Ready? under the name Candice Cannes – the nickname of the life-size doll he keeps in the back seat of his taxi.
Noel uses the dummy to stop passengers flagging him down in his cab as he beats the queues by using the bus lanes in Bristol, where his television series is filmed.
His new tune has climbed to number 14 in the dance charts after blaring out across dancefloors in European clubs this summer.
The floor-filler features the TV host rapping: "What's in your box?" – after one of his catchphrases on the Channel 4 gameshow.
Edmonds, 64, wrote the track with make-up artist wife Liz Davies when a friend bought her recording time in a studio as a gift – but she was too embarrassed to put her name to the song.
He said: "I recorded a few lines, but Liz is the brains behind it. I decided to bounce it off a few experts to see what the reaction was. That's how it started.
"Liz was adamant it wasn't under her name as she didn't want to be seen as hanging off my coat-tails."
Mrs Edmonds, 41, said: "We were having a laugh. It's grown beyond anything we expected."
The veteran TV presenter was branded "selfish" and a "cheat" by Bristol City Council in 2010 for driving the unlicensed cab in the city's bus lanes. In response, Mr Edmonds described the council as "time thieves with a cavalier attitude".


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Robert Pattinson and Kristen Stewart, getting PG frisky up in Vancouver. That's what any girl does who supposedly still has a boyfriend, right? The costars were grocery shopping over the weekend when a fellow shopper noticed the duo "holding hands" as they walked around inside.
R and K even stopped to "giggle" at the current tabloids with their hot little mugs plastered all over 'em. Robsten quickly turned incognito when they noticed people staring, and all of a sudden kept their hands to themselves. No need to hide, babes, come out of the dating closet already!
Also enjoying some quality love time was...
Lance Bass, with his new dark and handsome boy-accoutrement, hitting South Beach. They hit the 12th St. Beach over the weekend after celebrating the first-ever Miami gay parade. L and his dude were there with a group of amigos, lounging on chaises, having a fab ol' time, literally.
L.B. even debuted a much-less pudgy bod as he dipped in and out of the ocean. Lance rocked board shorts and aviators as he posed with a newlywed lesbian couple, offering them his congrats.
Enjoying the sun in a much more sinful way was...
Lauren Conrad, hosting MGM's grand opening of its ultrapool, Wet Republic. Laur donned a flowy lavender tie-dyed beach dress as she posed for pics with fans around the pool. Enjoying your last few minutes of that 15, doll?
L.C. hung in the VIP bungalow, natch, where she played Nintendo Wii with some friends and danced to the tunes of DJ Crooked. Conrad was also heard dishing her love of Vegas saying, "You can't go wrong in Vegas as long as you have a good group with you," and 'fessing her love of "gambling, pools and clubs."
Party on to further greatness, L!
—Additional reporting by Taryn Ryder and Martin Haro


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Interview: New York Yankees' CC Sabathia Talks Baseball and Fatherhood
Friday, September 30th, 2011
Tonight is officially the start of playoff season for Major League Baseball! One of the most watched games this evening will be between the New York Yankees and the Detroit Tigers.
On the mound for the Yankees at 8:37 P.M. ET tonight will be CC Sabathia. We were lucky enough to get an interview with the pitching ace and his wife. CC talks about managing a career in professional baseball and being a father to four children ages 8 and under.
Don't like baseball? It doesn't matter, CC's words will resonate with any parent trying to find the balance between work and family time.
I'll even add — though it's hard for me to admit — that I'm a huge New York Mets fan and I enjoyed it. Check out the interview with CC Sabathia!Add a Comment
Tags: baseball, baseball playoffs, CC Sabathia, celeb interview, celebrity interview, fatherhood, New York, New York Yankees | Categories: GoodyBlog


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Posted by Sabrina on 03/30/2015
This food was delious even though I am not desi it was sooooo tasty and worth everything was perfect service, food,quality and quantity amazing:)
Posted by Debu on 02/13/2015
Reminded me of the type of food that I used to eat back home!! Tandoori dishes are excellent, except for the Chapli kababs. Biryanis' are excellent!!
Posted by Anonymous on 08/06/2014
Food was ok. Service is poor.
Posted by Abdo on 08/16/2011
Everything was perfect. It was my first time, and i decided to invite important guests to it whenever i have any. It deserves the money you pay. The food was not served that late, it is the acceptable average time for preparing it. The food quality was awesome.
Posted by Anonymous on 06/15/2008
My husband and I saw this place on a "Chicago Foods" show and decided to give it a try. The place was clean and nice, the bathroom was clean, the waiters were well dressed and explained the menu to us. The food was outstanding, we had the seekh kabab, frontier chicken rice, okra, and plain naan. The food was perfect, a little bite but not TOO spicy, well seasoned. The portions were huge, we ate a lot and have plenty for leftovers tomorrow (can't wait!) The sauce they give you on the side (yogurt-mint maybe???) was really good too, I put it on everything. We will definitely be back, probably with friends. Highly recommend it to anyone who wants a lot of great, tasty food for the price.
Posted by Anonymous on 01/05/2007
My favourite dish here is the FRONTIER CHICKEN RICE. It is amazing: plain rice mixed with frontier chicken and peppers, can be a bit spicy, but well worth the try if you take the plunge! They have great lassi (yoghurt drink) which is actually smart to have if you are trying some of their spicier bbq items, it will cool your stomach. Another variation is the mango lassi. They should improve their seating a bit, they have the clientele and business to push to try to be a bit more upscale. Servers and waiters should be better well dressed and hygenic. Regardless of any cons, it is well worth a try, take the food out if you don't want to eat there!!!!!!
Posted by Samay Khan on 07/16/2006
Great Bihari Kabab, Chicken Botti & Beef Fried Rice, Service needs improvement, slow waiters but delicous food. I would definitely recommend this place. 5 stars


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On Thu, July 20, 2006 10:45 pm, Peter Avalos wrote: >> However, I still got the "recursively remove <dirname>" warning that >> comes >> from trying to delete more than 3 files. It lists a total of 3, but >> only >> names 2. This was on a 1.4.4 system >> >> > > Sounds like you have an alias for rm that does rm -I. Yeah, it's default. The heat must be addling my brain. Mentally, I didn't expect -I to do anything when removing a single directory.


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Press release from Business Wire
CF Industries Prices Senior Notes Offering
Tuesday, April 20, 2010
CF Industries Prices Senior Notes Offering15:01 EDT Tuesday, April 20, 2010 DEERFIELD, Ill. (Business Wire) -- CF Industries Holdings, Inc. (NYSE: CF) announced today that its subsidiary CF Industries, Inc. has successfully priced a $1.6 billion public offering of senior notes, comprising $800 million aggregate principal amount of 6.875% senior notes due 2018 at an issue price of 100% of the principal amount of such notes and $800 million aggregate principal amount of 7.125% senior notes due 2020 at an issue price of 100% of the principal amount of such notes. CF Industries will pay interest on the notes semi-annually on May 1 and November 1 of each year, beginning on November 1, 2010. The senior notes will be guaranteed by CF Industries Holdings, Inc. and certain of its subsidiaries. CF Industries intends to use the net proceeds from the offering of senior notes to repay outstanding borrowings under its $1.75 billion senior secured bridge facility and, to the extent of any net proceeds in excess of the amount required to fully repay borrowings under the senior secured bridge facility, to repay outstanding borrowings under its $2.0 billion senior secured term loan facility. The senior secured bridge facility and senior secured term loan facility were used to fund cash requirements relating to CF Industries' acquisition of Terra Industries Inc. The senior notes offering is expected to close on April 23, 2010, subject to customary closing conditions. Morgan Stanley & Co. Incorporated is the sole book-running manager and Mitsubishi UFJ Securities (USA), Inc. is the senior co-manager in the senior notes offering. The offering was made pursuant to CF Industries Inc.'s effective shelf registration statement filed with the Securities and Exchange Commission (the "SEC"). Investors should read the prospectus supplement and the accompanying prospectus for more complete information about CF Industries and the offering. These documents can be obtained from: Morgan Stanley & Co. Incorporated, Attention: Prospectus Department, 180 Varick Street, New York, NY 10014 (1-866-718-1649, email address: firstname.lastname@example.com); and from Mitsubishi UFJ Securities (USA), Inc., Attention: Capital Markets Group, 1633 Broadway, 29th Floor, New York, NY 10019, (1-877-649-6848). This press release shall not constitute an offer to sell, or a solicitation of an offer to purchase, CF Industries Inc.'s senior notes or any other securities of CF Industries and shall not constitute an offer, solicitation or sale in any jurisdiction in which such an offer, solicitation or sale would be unlawful. About CF Industries CF Industries Holdings, Inc., headquartered in Deerfield, Illinois, is the holding company for the operations of CF Industries, Inc. CF Industries is a global leader in nitrogen and phosphate fertilizer manufacturing and distribution, serving both agricultural and industrial customers. CF Industries operates world-class nitrogen fertilizer manufacturing complexes in the central United States and Canada; conducts phosphate mining and manufacturing operations in Central Florida; and distributes fertilizer products through a system of terminals, warehouses, and associated transportation equipment located primarily in the Midwestern United States. The company also owns 50 percent interests in KEYTRADE AG, a global fertilizer trading organization headquartered near Zurich, Switzerland; GrowHow UK Limited, a fertilizer manufacturer in the United Kingdom; and an ammonia facility in The Republic of Trinidad and Tobago. Additional information on CF Industries is found on the company's website at www.cfindustries.com. Safe Harbor Statement This communication contains forward-looking statements that are subject to risks, uncertainties and other factors that could cause our actual results to differ materially from those in the forward-looking statements. Forward-looking statements include statements about our expectations, beliefs, plans, objectives, intentions and assumptions and other statements that are not historical facts. Forward-looking statements can generally be identified by their use of terms such as "anticipate," "believe," "could," "estimate," "expect," "intend," "may," "plan," "predict" or "project" and similar terms and phrases, including references to assumptions. Forward-looking statements also may relate to our operations, financial results, financial condition, liquidity and business prospects and strategy and include statements about anticipated cost synergies and savings from the acquisition of Terra Industries Inc. Our forward-looking statements are made based on our expectations and beliefs concerning future events affecting us and are subject to uncertainties and factors relating to our operations and business environment, all of which are difficult to predict and many of which are beyond our control. Accordingly, you should not unduly rely on these forward-looking statements. Except as required by law, we undertake no obligation to update or revise any forward-looking statements. Our actual results could differ materially from those anticipated in forward-looking statements for many reasons, including, among others, the factors described in the risk factors and management's discussion and analysis of financial condition and results of operations contained in our SEC filings.


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Crock-Book Holder by Tovolo
Egyptian Twice-Cooked Eggs
6 servings
- 2 tablespoons sesame seeds
- 3/4 teaspoon ground cumin
- 1/4 teaspoon ground nutmeg
- 1/4 teaspoon ground coriander
- Salt
- Ground black pepper
- 3/4 cup unsalted butter
- 12 hard cooked eggs, peeled and sliced lengthwise in half
- 6 small pita breads, warmed and cut horizontally in half or 2 cups cooked white rice (our preference)
Place the sesame seeds in a small skillet over medium heat and toast, stir or shake the pan often, until the seeds are golden, about 5 minutes. Empty into a bowl and cool. Add the cumin, nutmeg, coriander, salt and pepper, set aside.
Melt the butter in a large skillet over low heat until frothy. Add the eggs, cut-side down, and cook until the eggs begin to turn brown, 5-6 minutes.
Turn the eggs and cook until brown on all sides, about 5 minutes more. While the eggs are cooking, sprinkle them with the spice mixture.
Serve with pita bread or rice. Drizzle the butter remaining in the pan over the eggs.
Recipe reprinted by permission of <I>Cottonwood Inn<. All rights reserved.
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Privacy and Cookies
Northwest Airlines is entering a guilty plea and paying a $38 million fine for its role in a price fixing conspiracy, the US Department of Justice (DOJ) announced today.
Previously the carrier had its own cargo unit prior to its 2008 merger with Delta Air Lines.
According to a one-count felony charge filed in US District Court in Washington, DC, Northwest Airlines Cargo engaged in conspiracy to fix rates in the US and in international markets for air cargo shipments from at least July 2004 until at least February 2006.
The DOJ claims that Northwest cargo carried out the conspiracy by agreeing during meetings, conversations and communications on certain components of cargo rates for shipments on routes between the US and Japan, and levied cargo rates in accord with those agreements.
Under the plea agreement, Northwest has agreed to cooperate with the DOJ's ongoing antitrust investigation.
Earlier this week, American Airlines agreed to a $5 million settlement to resolve a class action lawsuit which was brought by shippers, but refused to acknowledge any wrongdoing.


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Keene Prize for Literature winner and finalists
Posted: May 11, 2012
Fiona McFarlane, Carolina Ebeid, Corey Miller, and Corinne Greiner
The Department of English congratulates Michener Center for Writers graduate student Fiona McFarlane, winner of the 2012 Keene Prize for Literature. Congratulations also to the 2012 Keene Prize finalists: Michener Center for Writers graduate student Corey Miller, MCW graduate Carolina Ebeid, and Corinne Greiner, graduate of The New Writers School in the Department of English.
The Keene Prize for Literature supports the pursuit of great American writing within the context of poetry, drama, fiction, and non-fiction prose. The winner of the Keene Prize receives $50,000, making it one of the world's largest student literary prizes. An additional $50,000 is divided among three finalists.
To read the full article on the 2012 Keene Prize for Literature, click here.


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Thursday, January 7, 2010
© Copyright 2015 Gwinnett Daily Post
Jennifer's Body (Blu-ray) RMovie: 3 stars out of 4 Disc: 3 1/2 stars out of 4 This follow-up to Oscar-winning writer Diablo Cody's "Juno" is a mash-up of the snarky high school satire a la "Heathers" and blood-soaked horror B-films and is far deeper than most critics or audiences realized. Poking fun at her own public image, Megan Fox stars as the title character, a cheerleader-turned-groupie who manipulates her sycophant best friend (Amanda Seyfried) both before and after becoming undead. The commentary by director Karyn Kusama and Cody is often funnier and more enlightening than what's taking place on screen. Technical specs: aspect ratio: Widescreen (1.85:1), audio: English (DTS HD Master 5.1), French, Portuguese and Spanish (5.1 Dolby), subtitles: English SDH, Chinese, Thai, Portuguese and Spanish. Special features: Audio commentary Includes both theatrical and unrated cuts Deleted scenes Video diaries Gag reel (Fox, $39.99.)
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Year Community Panel was Established1991
AboutThe Ponca City Community Advisory Council (CAC) holds monthly meetings which begin with updates on safety and environmental performance followed by information on refinery operations. Many meetings have an educational topic and often focus on environmental topics, such as air quality and groundwater remediation. Other topics of interest include sustainable development and the company's other operations.
The Ponca City CAC's mission statement is to establish and maintain a dialogue between the community and Phillips 66 in order to understand community issues and Phillips 66 issues in an atmosphere of trust and mutual respect, using open, honest communication. With that in mind, members of the CAC solicit input from local community members asking what issues, questions or suggestions they have for Phillips 66. The group uses the results to plan the monthly meetings and other CAC-sponsored events in the community.
CAC members take their membership on the council seriously. They ask hard questions and expect honest answers. Combining this dialogue with occasional tours of the refinery to view the operations provides members with an overall understanding of refinery operations and its impact on the community.
Recent Accomplishments
Refinery ManagerPete Stynes
Meeting ScheduleMeetings are held monthly.