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Ron Wood: The Rolling Stones are "On the Verge" of Touring
Ron Wood: The Rolling Stones are "On the Verge" of Touring
The Rolling Stones have been around for fifty years as of 2012, and let's all take a moment to applaud that kind of longevity before getting on with the article.
With the milestone approaching last year -- and a few secret band meetings to boot -- rumors have been flying about a possible Rolling Stones tour in 2012 to celebrate the band's 50th anniversary.
While some members of the Stones have seemed reluctant to tour, guitarist Ron Wood said in a recent interview that the band are nearly there on committing to tour dates this year.
Wood was recently interviewing by Radio Times, and was asked if his band would be hitting the road this year. "Be lovely, wouldn't it?," Wood replied. "That's what we're on the verge of. I dunno what the hell is gonna happen yet but we all feel we owe it to ourselves and to the people to do something."
In other Ron Wood news, the guitarist also recently mentioned on the radio that he had turned down the chance to join Led Zeppelin, calling them "a bunch of farmers." Click here to read more.
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These guys will still be touring when they have to come out on stage with their walkers. God Bless them, it's probably what keeps them alive! But I'm 55 on my birthday this year Mick and Keith, I understand, and I would also like one last chance to see you guys in concert, one more time...
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1,229 runners got together in Odaiba
On Sunday, May 22nd 2011, We held the first Official Event "Fun Run for East Japan 'Run Together!' "
Berlin Marathon consulted to Tokyo Marathon Foundation about sending relief supplies
Berlin Marathon (Germany), one of the WMM consulted to Tokyo Marathon Foundation about sending relief supplies to afflicted area.
Support the earthquake victims in Japan
Tokyo Marathon Foundation has decided to donate 10 million yen for the support of the victims of the Tohoku/Kanto Earthquake and the reconstruction support for the stricken area.
Maratona di Rome was held in March 20th 2011.Tokyo Marathon foundation presented "Tokyo prize" for men and women's Italian top finishers.
Photo service have been released.
80 great photographers took your personal shots at the Japanese largest marathon for citizens, Tokyo Marathon 2011.
TOKYO MARATHON 2011 expected holding.
TOKYO MARATHON 2011 expected holding.
Withdrawal of Haile Gebrselassie from Tokyo Marathon 2011
Tokyo Marathon announces withdrawal of Haile Gebrselassie from Tokyo Marathon 2011.
Race record newsflash (Runner Update Service).
Race record newsflash is available at the official PC and Mobile site. Enter the bib number or name of the runner to check split time for every 5km interval.
Invited athletes for Tokyo Marathon 2011
Announcement of international and domestic invited athletes.
Latest information for TOKYO MARATHON EXPO 2011 have been released.
Traffic regulation information have been released.
Request for Donations and Charity Runners
Request for Donations and Charity Runners.
World Record Holder, Haile Gebrselassie (ETH) will participate in the 2011 Tokyo Marathon.
The Tokyo Marathon Foundation is pleased to announce that current World Record Holder (2hr3min59sec), Haile Gebrselassie (ETH) will be participating in the 5th Tokyo Marathon held on February 27th 2011 as one of the invited athletes.
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Accommodations for runners and spectators.
All applicants will receive the results of the lottery for Tokyo Marathon 2011 from October 12 via e-mail or mail.
Online registration had closed.
Online registration had closed at 5PM on Tuesday, August 31, 2010(Japan time).
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The registration for Tokyo Marathon 2011 had closed at 5PM on Tuesday, August 31, 2010(Japan time).
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The registration for Tokyo Marathon 2011 has opened! Application period is from August 1st to August 31st, 2010 (Japan Time).
Guideline for applicants have been released, the registration will start on August 1 at this site.
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Tokyo Marathon 2011 Outline of race
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This special issue is a substantial contribution to the growing scholarly literature on 'diversity', containing an introductory essay by Berg and Sigona which places the 'diversity turn' within studies of migration and multiculture historically and discusses the implications of concepts such as 'diversity' and more recently 'super-diversity' for scholarship, policy and identity politics. The collection includes also seven ethnographic articles (Gidley, Schmoll and Semi, Rhys-Taylor, Wessendorf, Rogaly and Qureshi, Jensen, and Meier) and an epilogue (Fog-Olwig). The collection argues that diversity is a helpful concept for studies of migration and multiculture because it avoids the essentialism and bias towards ethnic affiliation often characterising studies within the multiculturalism framework, while being more grounded locally than studies within the transnationalism framework. It examines the methodological implications of increasing diversity and complexity on ethnographic studies and the definition of the 'field'. It makes the point that increasing urban diversity poses a challenge to ethnographic ideals of 'immersion' and wholeness.
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Brandy, Her Brother…and Her other Brother…
Here's Brandy and her brother Ray J in the studio of Hot 102.7 radio station in Detroit recently. Brandy is hot on the promo trail and is set to make a huge appearance on Oprah in November. I hear she has signed contracts stating she will not be required to talk about the fatal accident nor Scientology while on the show. PR is definitely on their job..
As If Brandy doesn't already have enough to worry about, I've been contacted numerous times within the past three months by a guy name Danyelle aka C-Dove who claims he is the child of Brandy's Father Willie Norwood. According to a story published almost 10 years ago in Globe Magazine, the guy was living in poverty and his father refused to let him meet Brandy, who was riding the huge success of "Never Say Never" and the sitcom Moesha at the time. He is requesting an interview to "tell all" but I'm not exactly sure what he's expecting to get from all this. His timing is very questionable with Brandy's album release date nearing, not to mention it seems as though he may be trying to make a name for himself as a rapper. On his myspace page he has a diss record devoted to Ray J, as he raps over the beat of "Sexy Can I".
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For the historic Teller County gold rush town of Cripple Creek, existence at nearly 10,000 feet has been riddled with booms and busts.
Over the last year, the town of nearly 1,200 people that has become dependent on its gaming industry experienced a bit of a bust. Some point to two years of wildfires in the Pikes Peak region and ensuing flash floods that repeatedly shut down U.S. 24 in the summer of 2013 as possible reasons that the town's casinos saw an almost 5 percent loss in gaming revenue.


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A speeding wildfire destroyed the tiny town of Bucyrus, N.D., on Wednesday. All six or seven houses in the town were lost, but the fire traveled so fast that it tore past the town's grain elevator without touching it. / AP
A strong but otherwise unimpressive upper low pressure system is veering past us to our northwest.
Showers will build as the day wears on, becoming widespread by about 6 p.m. and more or less wrapping up about four hours later, perfectly timed for high school football, as it turns out. But the showers should be fairly light.
Unsettled conditions, courtesy of the low, will linger through Saturday, with cloudy skies holding sway and afternoon temperatures held to the low 50s. Sunday should be marginally better, with some sunshine and high temps about five degrees warmer.
After the weekend Indian summer arrives, a welcome development for all of us who have been waiting for its inevitable arrival. With high pressure to our southeast building a ridge over the Midwest, we're expected to see high temperatures in the low 70s and plenty of sunshine for Monday through at least next Thursday.
The National Oceanic and Atmopheric Administration, parent agency of the National Weather Service, has come out with its outlook for the winter of 2012-13. It's far from a certain forecast, since El Nino failed to cooperate with expectations and withered away. As a result, there are no clear trends in either temperature or precipitation foreseen for the Midwest this winter, according to NOAA.
Warmer-than-normal conditions are predicted for the western half of the United States, however, in the coming season. It's difficult to imagine a warm West without a correspondingly cold East.
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High temperature 60; low temperature 36 (last year, 58 and 43)
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Peak wind gust 19 mph, northwest
High dew point 48
Heating degree days 17
Today's normal high and low temperatures (Mansfield) 61 and 41
Today's record high and low temperatures (Mansfield) 81 in 1953, 25 in 1958
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Ticket #13233 (closed bug: fixed)
Unexpected behavior when iterating over and manipulating detached nodes in jquery 1.9
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I have a convenience method that I use to wrap text elements in a html string in spans. In 1.8.3 and before it has worked as intended. I wanted to upgrade to 1.9.0, but am finding my function breaks and that manipulation on detached nodes and their child elements to not reflect correctly. Child elements seem to not be connected to the original node and any changes are not present on the parent.
I created an example case here:
1.8.3: http://jsfiddle.net/octatone/cAmD5/ 1.9.0: http://jsfiddle.net/octatone/dMYeB/
In 1.8.3 all child text nodes are wrapped in spans. In 1.9 the result is that the html of the node is never changed and subsequently the returned result is not correct.
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comment:1 follow-up: ↓ 5 Changed 3 years ago by dmethvin
You're affected by this change:
As the guide says, we made this change so that the methods didn't have inconsistent behavior on the stack and set.
comment:2 Changed 3 years ago by octatone
So, any guidance on how to change this function to work around this change? How do I get access to the manipulated set?
comment:3 Changed 3 years ago by dmethvin
You could use .map() instead and return a newly created text node with the modifications. There is probably some cleaner way to do this but I haven't wrapped my head around the use case.
comment:4 Changed 3 years ago by octatone
The use case is to preserve html, but wrap text in spans ... basically to make each char clickable. Regardless of it's parent html element. Anchors, divs, etc.
comment:5 in reply to: ↑ 1 Changed 3 years ago by gibson042
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Replying to dmethvin:
You're affected by this change:
As the guide says, we made this change so that the methods didn't have inconsistent behavior on the stack and set.
I thought so too, but it seems like this regression actually stems from a nodeType restriction introduced in https://github.com/jquery/jquery/commit/551c2c9f4ac776b6d53600c452ad40a4b4d6670b.
comment:6 Changed 3 years ago by gibson042
comment:7 Changed 3 years ago by Richard Gibson
- Status changed from assigned to closed
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Fix #13233: re-allow .replaceWith of text nodes. Close gh-1137.
Changeset: 6b1b0a26b4d485b4d9f334286efed5dfe33e3f3f
comment:8 Changed 3 years ago by Richard Gibson
Fix #13233: re-allow .replaceWith of text nodes. Close gh-1137. (cherry picked from commit 6b1b0a26b4d485b4d9f334286efed5dfe33e3f3f)
Changeset: a96aa9e2709b4ba132b966a0f1a13d0e8eb49b9a
comment:10 Changed 2 years ago by dmethvin
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Recipe by THEISRAELS
"This is a rack of lamb dish with rosemary and mint demi-glace. Serve with oven roasted red potatoes and sauteed green beans amandine. Perfect for Valentine's Day! Buy a seven bone rack of lamb, and have the butcher trim the fat cap and in between the bones for you, and save these trimmings for roasting."
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2 tablespoons
olive oil
2 (7 bone)
racks of lamb, trimmed, fat reserved
salt and pepper to taste
4 cloves
garlic, minced
1 large
onion, diced
carrots, diced
1 cup
celery tops
1 cup
port wine
1 cup
red wine
1 (14.5 ounce) can
low-sodium chicken broth
5 sprigs
fresh spearmint
3 sprigs
fresh rosemary
1 cup
mint apple jelly
1 tablespoon
garlic, minced
1/4 cup
panko bread crumbs
4 sprigs
fresh mint
We thought this was wonderful! The demi-glace sauce is to die for. I now make it anytime I roast a whole leg to acompany it as it is perfect with the lamb. Two racks of lamb is a bit much for two people unless you are really hungry. Could easily serve 3-maybe 4 people with this recipe but it was wonderful!
14 Ratings
I browned it in skillet and then put in oven to bake. Then added sauce on top after baking and slicing. Don't know if it's necessary to brown in skillet first, I think not. It was good, expensive, worth it every once in a while.
This is a great dish. The flavors of the demi-glace are very impressive. I prop the chops against a mound of mashed potatoes, drizzle with demi-glace and garnish liberally with fresh mint. I have made it several times for friends and family, all with rave reviews. This yields a copious amount of demi-glace which I vacuum seal and stick in the freezer.
Though delicious sounding in theory, in practice this dish fell far short of advertised expectations. The glaze was runny, black, and unappetizing. After attempting to sear the rack of lamb as instructed, though against better judgement, a small catastrophe occurred. After an elapsed time of thirty seconds the "seared" side of the lamb resembled something seen in a Rob Zombie petting zoo. To the originating author I send my sincere thanks for making this an anniversary to be forgotten.
Very nice. It did take more like 15 minutes to cook the lamb, and it I simmered the demi-glace after adding the jelly for a long time, but it never thickened. After I gave up and decided to use it thin, it thickened as it cooled down a little. I was worried I wouldn't like it because I wasn't really loving the smells as I was cooking it, but by the time it was all done and I tried it, it was delicious. Half a recipe was perfect for two people.
It Was A great Recipe I Used Lamb Chops Instead Of Shanks And the Meat still fell of the bone i served it with a side of brown rice.
This recipe wasn't bad. I have never really prepared meat on my own before seeing as how my previous boyfriend was a vegetarian. I am much better with vegetables. My sauce never thickened, but was very good with the lamb. I had to cook the meat even longer than 15 minutes.
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The day before today, there was another me,
another me less lonely, another me free.
The day before today, when once there was
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The day before today, I ride the tube of the perfect
wave, gliding in naturalbliss, its' surges and swells
remind me of how magical nature is.
The day before today, in the dark oceans I dived,
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The day before today, life was much more sane, for
now I am fettered; my freedom I await to attain.
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Nature Scenes: White-crested turacos prefer not to fly
By Lynn Bowen
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The white-crested turaco is a gorgeous bird from Africa that lives in tropical rain forests and woodlands. However, one of them can be seen basking in a huge aviary at Brevard Zoo in Melbourne.
This 15-inch bird weighs between 5 and 8 ounces, but looks like he weighs more. The colorful turaco has vibrant shades of blue and green plumage on his body.
White feathers adorn the head and neck, except that, over his eyes, there is a little blue patch of feathers. Looking like too much makeup, bright red skin encircles the turaco's eyes. I have never seen this on any other bird. Women everywhere are probably envious of this natural attribute, as women love to accent their eyes!
As the bird's name states, he has a white crest over his forehead. He also has a lemon-yellow bill.
The most amazing part of this bird's unique look is the underside of both wings, which is crimson red! But when the turaco is just standing, one cannot see this.
Turacos have special toes on each foot. Two toes point forward, and two point backward, but one outside toe can be rotated, enabling these birds to be excellent tree-climbers. That's a good thing, since they are poor fliers. They prefer to hop through the trees or run on the ground to get to their destination — they're just reluctant to fly. It's amazing how nature gives creatures special traits.
White-crested turacos' diet is fruit, flowers, insects and snails. They live in flocks of about 30 and forage together.
Eighteen species of turacos exist, and they all look similar. Different-colored plumage is the main distinction. These spectacular birds live up to eight years and amaze people with their beauty.
— Bowen lives in DeLand. Send email to her at firstname.lastname@example.com.
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Well, it's finally finished. I set everything up and took pictures while Little Bit slept in our bed so when she wakes up in the morning, it will be a nice surprise for her.
Want to stop and have a drink?
Watch out! Don't step in that hot lava!
"You were taught, with regard to your former way of life, to put off your old self...to be made new in the attitude of your minds; and to put on the new self, created to be like God in true righteousness and holiness." Ephesians 4:22-24
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I LOVE this one better than paymobile too! SO creative. You daughter is so lucky to have such a great mom:)ReplyDelete
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This is AWESOME!!! Love it all! And the comment about the hot lava is funny, because it looks like T-Rex is screaming because his foot is in it.
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Love this as we are going over dinosaurs just today w/ Mystery of History...so off we go to paint... and blog ...so I will be posting your link for credit ;^D You ARE creative, thanks for sharing!
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This is a solid spruce top laminated quilted ash back and sides ukulele. The sound is not as bright as one might expect from a solid spruce top ukulele. For example both the Lanikai spruce/mahogany and spruce/flamed maple ukuleles are much brighter sounding. The sound is a bit "plinky" with not a lot of sustain. But this is not meant as a negative criticism as I enjoy this sound as a change up from my other ukuleles. The wide fretboard is unnecessary in my opinion. The difficulty playing a concert ukulele compared to a tenor is the distance between the frets not the spacing between the strings. The extra width of the fretboard is annoying to me and took some getting used to. But my major peeve is the horrific - yes horrific - raised, bright blue, plastic covered sticker Lanikai put on the headstock. It is both ugly and distracting. I removed it and had a custom abalone inlay made in its place and it looks a whole lot better. This feature is almost a deal killer for me. Lanikai, are you listening ?
The only reason I give the quality a "9" rating is the sticker on the headstock. Otherwise the instrument is beautifully made and set up to play nicely out of the box. The instrument is constructed very lightly and the matte finish does the spruce top and gorgeous ash woods justice. Perfectly bookmatched back and a simple ash wood rosette finely bordered with I'm not sure what material. Elegant. Understated.
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7-Eleven returns to Coastal Bend, Corpus Christi after business acquisition
CORPUS CHRISTI - Five 7-Eleven stores are emerging in Corpus Christi, among 12 in the Coastal Bend, as part of 143 new locations in South Texas.
The Dallas-based company announced in January it bought 143 Speedy Stop and Tigermarket locations from C.L. Thomas, Inc. of Victoria.
Signs have not been charged, but the nation's oldest and largest convenience store chain has taken over management in Corpus Christi, officials said. There are three stores along South Padre Island Drive, one in the 6300 block of Saratoga Boulevard, and another in the 5100 block of Interstate 37.
"It is way too early to discuss when they may be rebranded ... " said Margaret Chabris, corporate public relations director.
The company first landed in Corpus Christi in July 1974, when it bought nine Minit-Stop stores, according to Caller-Times archives. A year later its 14th area store opened at Morgan Avenue and Baldwin Boulevard. By 1992, 7-Eleven executive Sam L. Susser still operated 31 stores. The chain's decline in South Texas began following a dramatic drop in stock prices in the late 1980s that led to the company filing bankruptcy in 1993. Most South Texas locations were sold to National Convenience Stores, which owns the Stop & Go franchise.
Company officials now say they're working to reconnect with the Rio Grande Valley.
"We continue to build our presence in a rapidly growing area of the U.S., along the I-35 corridor from north of Dallas-Fort Worth to the Mexican border," said Stan Reynolds, executive vice president and CFO, in a news release. "We expect to grow to more than 700 7-Eleven stores in Texas from last year's 342 with this and other acquisitions we've made in 2012."
Closing this Dec. 31 deal added to the company's wholesale gasoline distribution business; the purchase provides about 150 new outlets for its fuel.
That doesn't include a November purchase of 25 San Antonio stores from Tetco, Inc.
According to 7-Eleven, it operates, franchises or licenses more than 9,500 convenience stores in North America.
What: 143 new stores in South Texas
When: Deal closed Dec. 31
Where: Five Corpus Christi stores of 12 in Coastal Bend
Why: Part of company's goal to connect Interstate 35 corridor
Information: www.7-Eleven.com.
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1541 S. Padre Island Drive
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If you told the story of your heart, what story would you tell? If your life was a song, what would that song be? Have you thought, "I can't sing- I don't play an instrument, and I'm scared of that." This program, led by Johnsmith, is for those who don't think they can sing, who are afraid, who were told they can't carry a tune, and who don't play an instrument. This is an invitation to go to your edge and discover the beauty of expressing your story and spirit through creativity and song.
The focus of this program is to open the creative heart through prose, singing, songwriting, storytelling, and poetry. With a mindful and playful attitude, along with the magic and natural beauty of Esalen, we'll court the Muse and immerse ourselves in creative flow.
The program utilizes the following activities and exercises:
· Journaling, writing exercises, song assignments, and co-writing
· Songwriting tools including verse and chorus writing, rhyming, and metaphor
· Solo and group singing, performance, and impromptu jams
Playing a musical instrument is not necessary, but you are welcome to bring one if you play. Johnsmith's workshops help students cultivate a fun, dynamic, and safe place to experience our creative selves. John will also be inviting guest artists and staff to assist during the month.


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Photoshop Elements 8 for Mac Essential Training highlights the important features of this comprehensive image editing application. Photographer Jan Kabili shows how to use Photoshop Elements 8, along with its companion program, Bridge CS4, to organize and edit photos, build projects like web galleries and photo collages, and share photos with family and friends. Jan dives deep into the application's editing tools, which rival those of the full product, Photoshop, in their ability to take snapshots and turn them into great photos. Exercise files accompany the course.
When you open new documents into the Full Edit workspace, each opens in a separate free-floating window like you see here. Some people like this because then you can grab any of those document windows by their title bar and drag and put them anywhere on the screen like that. The problem with the free-floating windows is that if you have lots of documents open, they tend to get hidden one behind the other. In Photoshop Elements 8, you can solve this problem by using the new tabbed document feature that's modeled after Adobe Photoshop CS4.
To convert all three of these windows into tabs in one window, I am going to go up to the Application bar and I am going to click on this Arrange Documents icon, and I'm going to click on the arrow to the right of the Arrange Documents icon. And from this menu of various multiple document layouts, I am going to select the first one, Consolidate All, and that puts all three documents into one document window, each with a separate tab. I can cycle through the documents by clicking on the individual tabs, so there's the blue hat photo, the green hat photo, and the red hat photo.
Another way to cycle through tabbed documents is to press a keyboard shortcut. I am going to hold down the Ctrl key on my keyboard and click the Tab key, and that cycles through the documents in the order in which I happen to have opened them. Now if I want these documents to be free-floating again, I'll go back to the Arrange Documents icon in the Application bar, click the arrow there, and I'm going to choose Float All in Windows. Another way to bring a floating document into a tabbed document arrangement is to click on its title bar and move it up close to the top of the editing area or toward the top of another document.
In both cases notice that there is now a blue outline, and that outline means that I am about to create a tabbed document. So if I release here, the red hat is now combined with the green hat in a single document window. If I take the title bar of that combine document window, and move up towards the top of the editing area, and release, those documents now take over the editing area. Well, what happened to the blue hat document? If I want to get that one back, I can go down to the Project Bin, which always shows thumbnails of all open documents, and I am going to going to double-click on the blue hat document, which was hiding behind the other images.
So that's one of the dangers of leaving one document floating and the others tabbed. If I want to bring the blue hat into the tabbed arrangement, I'll click on its title bar and move up toward the top of the editing area until I see that blue outline, and then I'll release my mouse. Once I have all my documents in his tabbed document arrangement, I can view them one by one as I showed you. But what if I want to see more than one document at once? For example, maybe I want to drag one document into another to make a collage, as I'll show you how to do in another movie. Well, in that case I'll go up to the Arrange Documents menu, and I can choose any of these tiled document layouts, and there are quite a few different ones here.
I am just going to click on the second one, Tile All in Grid, and now I can see all of the open documents each in a separate window. It's actually pretty hard to see them like this, so I am going to try a different document arrangement. Since these are all three vertical documents, I'll go back to the Arrange Documents window, and I'm going to choose this 3 Up view and now I can see more of each one of the documents. I am going to take the Zoom tool from the toolbar and I am going to go up to the tool Options Bar and click the Zoom Out icon, and then I'm going to zoom out on one of the photos so that I can see the whole thing in its document window.
If I wanted to see the other two photos at the same magnification level, I can do that by going to the Arrange Document window and choosing Match Zoom. So I think that these layouts are pretty useful when you're comparing one shot with another or when you're trying to make a collage. So now let's say that I want to return all three tabbed documents into one document window. Again, I'll go up to the Arrange Documents menu, click the arrow there, and I'll choose Consolidate All. Now how do I close documents that are tabbed? I'll just go to the tabs and I'll click the X on the right side of any tab to close that document.
And if I want to close all the tabbed documents, I can always go up to the File menu and choose Close All. I am a real fan of this new Tabbed Document feature. I think it's a great way to keep your desktop organized and have all open documents at your fingertips. So give it a try and see what you think.
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PORT CHARLOTTE, Fla. – Something has been missing at spring training this year. Longtime Orioles public relations director Monica Barlow hadn't been with the team, and sadly, shockingly came the news that she died after her long and courageous battle with cancer Friday morning at 36.
Monica Barlow was good at her job, very good. She was a favorite of manager Buck Showalter and the many media members she had to deal with. Showalter was so affected by her death that he couldn't talk about it before Friday's game.
But, it's not her job that she'll be remembered for.
It's the public battle this very private person waged against cancer.
Monica was a private person, but she was able to use her position to share the awareness of her disease.
For 4 ½ years, she battled. At the 2012 baseball Winter Meetings, Monica joined a number of other people in public relations at MLB who had the disease in the "Stand Up to Cancer" campaign.
She willingly gave interviews about the disease and her fight and remained relentlessly optimistic.
Last year was a good year for her. She looked terrific and was her usual upbeat self. At last September's "Lungevity" walk at Oriole Park, she was, of course, a top fund raiser and took the microphone to tell the participants about her story.
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I last saw her at the Winter Meetings, and she seemed fine, and last month in one of her occasional updates let her friends and colleagues know that she was getting a new treatment in Nashville.
She was too ill to attend FanFest a few weeks back, and never got back to work.
I learned a lot about the disease from Monica. In May 2012, we spent several innings of the famed 17-inning, Chris Davis game talking about the procedure she was about to have.
Monica missed several weeks then, but reveled in the team's success in 2012. She was hale and hearty for the postseason and beyond.
She knew that whatever treatment see had would work only for a short time, hoping that she could live long enough to find a drug that worked. Unfortunately, she didn't.
Monica Barlow was an intern for the team after her graduation from William and Mary in 1999, and after a stint with the Richmond Braves, came back to the team in 2001. She became the team's PR director in 2008, and leaves behind her loving husband, Ben, and a large family.
Most important, she leaves a legacy of courage.


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Dedicated teenage 'egg lady' became wounded WW1 soldiers' sweetheart
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A dedicated teenager became a favourite among wounded First World War soldiers after she sent much-needed fresh eggs to military hospitals - each with a tiny hand-painted design.
Chrissie Squire was one of hundreds of thousands of people who joined the National Egg Collection - a drive to send sustenance from home to military hospitals.
The movement saw 20 million eggs sent overseas - a staggering 64,000 alone from the depot which young Chrissie supplied with hundreds of eggs in Bridport, Dorset.
But she stood out from the rest because she spent hours painstakingly painting each shell with a pretty design - including flags, animals and poems.
Chrissie also painted her name and address in tiny letters on the shell and received dozens of touching letters back from wounded soldiers thanking her for her artwork eggs.
The letters to the "Chideock Egg Lady" - some asking for her "acquaintance" after the war ended - are now part of an exhibition commemorating 100 years since the start of the war.
Author Frances Colville, who put the exhibition together, said: "Chrissie was the youngest child and three of her brothers were sent to France - and further afield to Iran and Iraq - to fight in the war, and one of them was killed.
"Her part in the war was to be involved in this scheme. I think that she was a bit of an artist, and she was also a bit of a poet.
"I think she saw using both those skills as a way of adding a little bit extra to her eggs and making them a bit more personal.
"One or two of the letters say shells were preserved by, I think, putting a hole in each end and blowing out the egg and then filling it with sawdust.
"Sadly we don't know if any of them survived. It would be wonderful to find out."
The National Egg Collection started under the patronage of Queen Alexandra, with a collection point in every parish, gathering eggs which were taken to a depot in London.
Chrissie, who was 19 when the war started, was the youngest of six siblings, and dedicated hours and hours to personalising eggs with pictures and poems.
Letters she kept from the grateful recipients detail pictures of flags, flowers and cats, and tell how some of the recovering soldiers even kept the shells by blowing out the contents.
The handwritten exchanges - which reveal the horrors of war and the loneliness of foreign soldiers - were passed on to her niece Joan.
Some of the soliders, including Private G Freeman wrote back with a poem for Chrissie.
In a letter from the Fifth General Hospital dated April 22, 1917, he wrote: "I was the lucky one to receive it and I am now ready for the firing line again.
"So I send a verse, for you.
"When I was about to have my tea, your welcome egg it came to me.
"And on its shell your verse I saw, had come from Blighty to be sure.
"But the time is coming when all of we, shall be in Blighty having eggs for tea.
"Many thanks to you and sorry not to have wrote before, but better late than never. I remain yours faithfully, Private G Freeman."
Private David Davis, 22, writing from a hospital in Boulogne, wanted to meet the egg painter.
He wrote: "I was the lucky person to receive your quaint souvenir.
"I do not know you but I should very much like to make your acquaintance when I get back to England.
"I should very much like to receive a photo of you.
"I should like you to write me how things are going on in England, and I will write to you in return.
"I am a Londoner by birth, and I live in London, but I should certainly come to see you when I get back if you don't mind.
"I haven't a young lady yet, but I should certainly like one.
"I am a rather nice looking young fellow of 22, which reminds me I should like to know your age when you write next."
Another from Private A G Borrington, written from the 26 General Hospital on November 1915, said: "I must say that it makes every brave Tommy proud of himself when even the young ladies at home are sending their names and addresses on eggs to them.
"Well I think that I must ask you to excuse me for starting this letter as I have in fact I must say that I think that this is the best plan of writing to lady friends where they are so good enough as to send these."
Chrissie, who never married or had children, passed away in 1976.
The letters are on display at the Bridport Museum in Dorset.


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We're nearing the start of the men's hockey competition in Sochi next week and we still have a couple of rosters left to go before we drop the puck on what promises to be a great Olympic tournament. Today we'll feature Slovakia and then I'll have a best of the rest including teams such as Switzerland, Norway, Austria, Slovenia and Latvia. If you missed any of the rosters, just click on the links for Team USA, Canada, Russia, Sweden, Finland and the Czech Republic.
If you have any questions, concerns or comments, please leave them below or you can tweet me @DanMountSports.
Team Slovakia Roster
Milan Bartovič (Slovan Bratislava –KHL); Marián Gáborík (Columbus Blue Jackets); Michal Handzuš (Chicago Blackhawks); Marcel Hossa (Dinamo Riga – KHL); Marián Hossa (Chicago Blackhawks); Tomáš Jurčo (Detroit Red Wings); Tomáš Kopecký (Florida Panthers); Tomáš Marcinko (HC Košice); Michel Miklík (Slovan Bratislava –KHL); Peter Ölvecký (Slovan Bratislava –KHL); Richard Pánik (Syracuse Crunch – AHL); Tomáš Surový (Dinamo Minsk- KHL); Tomáš Tatar (Detroit Red Wings); Tomáš Záborský (Salavat Yulaev Ufa – KHL)
Breakdown: Both Marian Hossa and Marian Gaborik are proven goal scorers. Hossa is one of the best in the world when he's healthy and put up 108 points in the two seasons before this year. Gaborik can also be solid, but he needs to get over the injury bug that has bit him over the span of his career. After those two scorers, the pickings get a little slim and inexperienced. Tomáš Kopecký will probably have to center that top line that will most likely have the elder Hossa (brother Marcel is also on the team) and Gaborik (if he's ready to go.) Younger players such as Richard Panik and Tomas Tatar are going to have to step up and chip in with some goals.
Ivan Baranka (Avangard Omsk – KHL); Zdeno Chara (Boston Bruins); Dominik Graňák (Dynamo Moscow – KHL); Martin Marinčin (Edmonton Oilers); Andrej Meszároš (Philadelphia Flyers); Andrej Sekera (Carolina Hurricanes); Michal Sersen (Slovan Bratislava –KHL); Ľubomír Višňovský (New York Islanders)
Breakdown: This is the strength of this team as their captain Zdeno Chara can eat up 35 minutes of ice time per game. (It's unheard of in these star-laden tournaments that anyone really dominates in ice time with all of the talented players the teams have.) Chara is big, physical and always seems to come up with timely goals and hits. Meszaros is a very solid defensemen and Sekera adds some depth. The one surprising addition to the roster is that of Visnovsky. He's 37 and coming off some injuries. If Visnovsky is healthy, he can thrive on the larger ice surface that allows more room for playmaking.
Jaroslav Halak (St. Louis Blues); Peter Budaj (Montreal Canadiens); Ján Laco (Donbass Donetsk - KHL)
Breakdown: Halak and the other St. Louis goalie Brian Elliot have struggled for stretches of the season, but the Slovaks believe in Halak. He has the capability of being a shutdown goalie when he is on. Budaj has logged some more minutes as of late due to the recent struggles of Carey Price. I don't know much about because he plays in Russia, but I assume Halak starts and Budaj will back him up.
Final analysis: Some people feel the Slovaks will be a tough out in this tournament. However, they are slotted in the tough Group A with the host Russians and the tough United States. Slovenia is also in the group with them, which should be a winnable game for them. If Slovakia can steal a point (no ties anymore in Olympic hockey) or even a win against either Russia or the U.S., then they could be trouble in the latter stages of the elimination round. Slovakia did finish fourth at the 2010 tournament in Vancouver after falling to Finland in the bronze medal game. (which was their best finish since breaking away from Czechoslovakia.) I think it will be a tall order to repeat that feat in this really deep Olympic tournament. I think 5th-7th place is realistic for this club.
Dan Mount is an NHL writer for TJRSports.com. He is based out Watertown, NY.


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Southern California Attractions & Things To Do
With 350 days of sunshine a year, Blythe, California is the perfect spot to discover the great outdoors -Blythe is surrounded by the Colorado River, the Arizona border, Palo Verde Valley, and the Mojave and Sonora deserts, making it an exhilarating destination of diverse landscapes, adventure, and natural splendor. From the amazing Blythe intaglios and Quartzsite, AZ minerals to the grand Colorado River flow, there's a land of discovery just outside our hotel.
Colorado River -Famous for some of the most spectacular scenery and whitewater in the world, the Colorado River forms the California-Arizona boundary then traverses through the middle of three deserts and the Grand Canyon on its way to Mexico's Sea of Cortez. The river shapes the land and history of Arizona, California, Nevada, New Mexico and Utah. Four miles from Blythe, you will enjoy the extraordinary beauty of the lower
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Palo Verde Valley -An indoor/outdoor recreational wonderland, Palo Verde Valley activities include boating, water skiing, jet skiing, swimming, fishing, canoeing, camping, hiking, hunting, horseback riding, and dirt biking. Blythe's 350 days of sunshine offer year-round sporting activities such as tennis, golf, softball, football, soccer, and volleyball.
BlueWater Resort and Casino -When it comes to gaming, no one can match the thrills, action and excitement of BlueWater Resort and Casino on the Colorado River in nearby Parker, Arizona. BlueWater offers exciting casino gaming including world-class bingo, blackjack, poker, live keno, and all your favorite slot machine games. You won't want to miss one of the casino's dazzling live entertainment shows, concerts and exhilarating after-hours scene. For more information, visit www.bluewaterfun.com.
Blythe Bluegrass Festival -Enjoy wonderful desert weather and three days of continuous bluegrass and country music at the Colorado River Fairgrounds. A full line up of all the most popular bluegrass bands and musicians light up the stage for one event you won't want to miss. The Blythe Bluegrass Festivals also features the bluegrass quilt show, as well as plenty of booths offering art, crafts and food. For more information, visit www.blythebluegrass.com.
The Quartzsite Shows -Head 20 miles east of Blythe to Quartzsite, Arizona and attend one of the famed Quartzsite Shows. There is a special event for everyone. Discover the popular RV Show, the Hobby, Craft and Gem Show, and a huge swap meet with spectacular displays of gems, rocks, minerals, arts, crafts, hobbies, jewelry and more. Classic car lovers will surely want to check out the Rock-n-Roll Classic Car Show held every February. For more information, visit www.quartzsitervshow.com.
Blythe Municipal Golf Course -The City of Blythe operates the Blythe Municipal Golf Course, located at the northwest end of the Palo Verde Valley, right off Defrain Boulevard. Golf enthusiasts will enjoy teeing off on the well-manicured, 18-hole championship golf course, or practicing at the driving range and putting green surrounded by exceptional views of the Colorado River and desert.
The golf course also plays host to a variety of tournaments throughout the year. For more information, visit www.blythegolfcourse.com.
Blythe Public Parks -The city maintains four public parks, including Mayflower Park and the "Big Foot Skate-board Park" for skateboarders. This facility is located at Todd Park which is well-known for its beautiful shade trees and a community center. Miller Park, on 14th and Lovekin Blvd., features an RV dumping and water station. This unique facility is available to all Blythe visitors at no charge.
Lucas Oil I-10 Speedway -The Lucas Oil I-10 Speedway in Blythe, CA, features exciting stock car racing and fun family activities along the quarter-mile asphalt oval track. Most racing events are held approximately every other weekend, between October and April. The Lucas Oil I-10 Speedway is located at the Colorado River Fairgrounds. Inquire about the Quality Inn Blythe vacation packages to the Lucas Oil I-10 Speedway. For more information, visit www.i10speedway.com.
Blythe Intaglios
A visit to this man-made wonder is sure to astound -The Blythe intaglios - an Italian engraving art process - are located west of the Colorado River in the Big Maria Mountains. The intaglios were made by scraping away dark rock to create gigantic human, animal and geometric figures in the lighter soil. The largest human figure is 171 feet long. For more information, visit www.blytheareachamberofcommerce.com/intag.htm.
Glamis Sand Dunes -Located in the southeastern corner of California, about 50 miles from Blythe, the Glamis Sand Dunes are the largest sand dunes in the country, extending for more than 40 miles along the eastern edge of the Imperial Valley. Tens of thousands of off-highway vehicle (OHV) adventurists flock to the area to explore and ride on more than two-thirds of the sand dunes, over 118,000 acres. For more information, visit www.glamisdunes.com.
Cibola National Wildlife Refuge -Cibola National Wildlife Refuge is located 20 miles south of Blythe and along the Colorado River. The refuge is located in the floodplain of the lower Colorado River and surrounded by a fringe of desert ridges and washes.
The Refuge includes 12 miles of former river channels that are now considered backwaters and critical habitat for the endangered Yuma clapper rail and razorback sucker. For more information, visit www.fws.gov/refuges/profiles/index.cfm?id=22540.
Joshua Tree National Park -Within the boundaries of eastern California's Joshua Tree National Park, the Sonora and Mojave deserts converge. In the higher, Mojave portion of the park, a forest of strange Joshua Trees and unique rock formations called Inselbergs are protected.
In the lower, Colorado portion, the Pinto Basin exhibits the typical plants of the hotter Sonora Desert. There are plenty of outdoor activities including biking, rock climbing, backpacking, camping, hiking on the nature trails, and wildflower viewing. For more information, visit www.nps.gov/jotr


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"This is the real thing - an authentic Colonial recipe except you use a slow cooker to simmer it. You will swear you are drinking a cinnamon roll and then it hits you! Very tasty and a family favorite."
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2 cups
brown sugar
1/2 cup
1 pinch
2 quarts
hot water
cinnamon sticks
whole cloves
2 cups
1 cup
sweetened whipped cream
ground nutmeg to taste
For those of you that have complained about the recipe, let me give you some advice. At no time should there be any butter floating as a glob that you have to "mop" up. You don't have your crock pot hot enough. Start it out on high if you plan on having this drink in a couple of hours. I let it usually simmer for 4-5 hrs and it is an after dinner drink. When the crock is steaming and the buter is glistening, then you have your batch correct. Don't add the rum to the pot if it is too much. Add it to the each mug to taste. If you alter this recipe with splenda or margarine and still rate this poorly, that is your problem. Best of luck to those who take another stab at it. I think you will be happier with the results...
I was so excited to try this recipe. The flavor was good, however, I have never had a drink with so much butter in it. I couldn't finish it and had to keep spooning butter off the top of the drink. I really thought that I would like. If you make this and are not used to having butter in your drinks, I would cut the butter down to half, if not more.
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This recipe is easy to make and serve. I served it with Thanksgiving dessert and received a ton of compliments. Since I do not keep whole cloves on hand, I just emptied out a teabag and put 1/4 teaspoon of ground cloves in the empty teabag. I then put the teabag in the crockpot with the rest of the ingredients. (I also added 1/4 teaspoon nutmeg and 1/4 teaspoon allspice to the teabag.) I love vanilla and added 1 teaspoon of that to the water mixture. These additions mingle well with the original recipe, especially if you love holidy spices like I do!
This was a HIT at my sisters Christmas party. I did make the mistake of not having cinnamon sticks, so did a few good shakes of ground cinnamon. BIG mistake. I ended up with cinnamon floating at the top of the crock. I just let it simmer, then poured it through a strainer to remove that residue and it was awesome. Then I got some cinnamon sticks for when I make this again on Christmas Eve for the family. It was wonderful! Thanks for the recipe!
This is a wonderful holiday drink. It is very sweet and stong, but a great after dinner drink. I think it is a much easier recipe to prepare and forget about since it's cooked in the crock-pot. It is our new Christmas tradition...all of the adults have a mug full, while the kids open and play with their new gifts.
Awesome!!!!!! I did if for four of us for a Christmas meal I put together. Everyone was in awe of the incredible taste. Like eveyone says (who've tried it) - like drinking a liquid cinnamon bun. So good in fact, that I was asked to make more for another larger Christmas party on Boxing Day. Again, nothing but oohs and aahs.. This is now a Cristmas tradition for my Crock Pot.
Oh' My !!! .... This will forever be a traditional drink for the holidays in our family. I was under the impression that this was made on the stove. When I discovered that this was a slow cooker drink, I panicked with only 2 hours away from company arriving. I decided to start out the batch on the stove and brought to a boil, then simmered for approx. 15 minutes. I then placed the batch in the slow cooker and placed on high for 2.5 hours. This was PERFECT !! ... I also agree, if anyone has butter floating on the top..... IT'S NOT READY ... Keep simmering until the butter is not floating on top. KEEP THAT LID ON, and let it cook !! ... Thank You Linda Correia for this outstanding recipe !!
We enjoyed this very much on Christmas day. It's very strong (at least for me!) so the whipped cream really made the drink for me!
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HUNTINGTON — Authorities reported no injuries as result of an apartment building fire early morning Friday, according to Cabell County 911 and the Huntington Fire Department.
Cabell County 911 received word of the fire at 3:42 a.m. Friday. The building is located in the 2600 block of Guyan Avenue within the city's Highlawn neighborhood.
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Status of TE Jalen Cope-Fitzpatrick still unclearJuly 31st, 2015, 6:56 pm by By MICHAEL LEV
Two more quick hits from USC coach Steve Sarkisian, who spoke to reporters at length during the afternoon lunch period at Pac-12 Media Days on Friday in Burbank:
* Sarkisian is uncertain whether tight end Jalen Cope-Fitzpatrick will be with the team. Cope-Fitzpatrick was academically ineligible last season and reportedly has been battling through some personal problems.
"We're not there yet," Sarkisian said. "We're hopeful he's eligible and ready to go, but I don't know yet."
Cope-Fitzpatrick was the only scholarship tight end ...Read the rest of this entry »


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It's a small world, and capturing it with a photograph can be challenging. In this course, photographer, author, and teacher Ben Long takes you on a fantastic voyage into the realm of the tiny, detailing the gear and shooting techniques necessary to capture extreme close-ups of everything from products to posies.
After touring the possibilities of macro photography, the course details essential gear at several price levels, including lenses, flashes, and other accessories. Next, Ben explores the special challenges of macro photography: dealing with moving subjects, working with extremely shallow depth of field, focusing, lighting, and more.
The course also explores advanced close-up tools and post-processing techniques, such as using Adobe Photoshop to "stack" multiple shots to yield wider depth of field than a single shot can convey.
Photography involves a lot a gear, of course, and macro-shooting can be one of the most gear-heavy photography specialties. You think that getting up close to something, and taking a picture of it would be pretty simple, but as you will see, there are some specific macro shooting problems that can only be solved with specialized tools. Now, that said, you can get into macro shooting at a number of different levels; it doesn't have to be a very expensive pursuit. If you've already got a macro lens, that's great! If you don't, don't go buy one yet. There are some inexpensive alternatives to a macro lens, and depending on what you like to shoot, these alternatives may be all that you need.
In this course, we will be working our way up from the least expensive macro gear to the most expensive, most specialized gear. Depending on the type of close-up in macro shooting that you like, you might need a particular macro set-up, so it would be best for you to explore a little bit through this course before you buy anything. Now, you can use just about anything for a camera, but ideally you want something with some manual exposure control. Many point-and-shoot cameras have great macro capabilities, but you will get better results if you can employ some manual overrides.
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The capstone course in the political science major requires students to develop a self-directed research project that will incorporate and integrate a significant body of theoretical and practical knowledge gleaned from prior coursework to date and to utilize empirical data-gathering techniques and statistical analysis in a convincing and methodologically valid manner.
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The mission of the Framingham State University Geographical Association is to increase awareness of the importance of geography in order to prepare students for the future in a world that is increasingly interconnected and interdependent.
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Specific objectives of the Geographical Association include building geographic literacy; helping members appreciate the richness of human diversity at both a local and a global level; enhancing members' self-esteem through increased cultural awareness; recognizing and celebrating the importance of multiculturalism; developing good public relations within the university; and preparing our members to participate in the economic and intellectual life of our community, nation, and world.
Membership in the Geographical Association is open to all students at Framingham State University regardless of major or concentration. It is especially recommended to those students pursuing a Geography or Earth Science major. Weekly meetings are held in the Geography Department Seminar Room. All are welcome!
During the academic year, members of the Geographical Association initiate and coordinate a range of activities in order to fulfill our mission and objectives: sponsoring guest speakers addressing topics of geographic interest; organizing the annual Geography Department Banquet; attending the Annual Meeting of the Association of American Geographers; and redesigning the Geography Department bulletin boards.
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Future plans for the Geographical Association include sponsoring a student tutoring program in the Geography Department; sponsoring a "Geography Bee" at a local elementary school; reactivating the University's chapter of Gamma Theta Upsilon, an academic honor society for Geography; and much more!
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Northampton County will be selling its human services building at 520 E. Broad St. in Bethlehem. The city said it hopes to find a developer willing to purchase the building for around $1.95 million, while offering up the best redevelopment plan for the community.
At slightly over two acres, the facility, known as the Martin Bechtel Building, has 29,000 square feet of office space, and approximately 95 parking spaces.
"Downtown Bethlehem is undergoing a wonderful renaissance," said Ken Mohr, president of Mohr Management Resources of Coopersburg, who is helping to facilitate the sale. "This building's right on the edge of the business district."
While a developer could use the property for office space, it could also be open to other uses.
"There's a low vacancy rate for office buildings, particularly in Northampton County," Mohr said. "There's just not a large amount of available office space in the 25,000 square foot to 60,000 square foot range."
Northampton County is in the process of relocating all human services functions into a new centralized facility in Bethlehem Township, with plans to be completely moved in by March 2014.
The county already has its Easton Human Services facility, the Wolf Building, under agreement for sale.
The county will offer a tour of the 520 East Broad St. facility for prospective buyers May 10 at 10:30 a.m.
Buyers are required to submit their proposal no later than 4 p.m., June 3.
Requests for proposal, or other information regarding the sale, can be obtained online at http://www.northamptoncounty.org/northampton/lib/northampton/depts/administration/B_RFP.pdf
Mohr said the plan is to have the new facility available for a closing of the sale by the end of December or March 2014.


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After nearly a year of waiting, we've now seen the new designs coming to Governors Island sometime in the future. But there is also some exciting architecture, art, and, most importantly, mini golf coming to the island this summer, part of the fourth annual Figment arts program that has been populating the island with exciting activities and edifices since the park first opened. On Friday, Figment announced the winners of its call for entries for the aforementioned projects, namely an architecture pavilion, 17 sculptures, and a 10-hole mini golf course. Eschewing the flashy forms of the three finalists they beat out, Ann Ha and Behrang Behin took a creative yet affordable approach with their winning Living Pavilion, tethering together milk crates to create planters for a garden that proceed to fold in on themselves, forming a wave-like tunnel sodded with grass. Check out the architecture finalists plus a few of the winning sculptures after the jump.
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The quiet confidence among Democratic leaders over the health care bill belies the hardball tactics going on behind the scenes. The millions of dollars which will be spent this week by the Chamber of Commerce and the like is transitory and temporary, although where they're playing offers a clue into who needs whipping.
But the support that the President offers on those phone calls goes beyond this week:
Mr. Obama is making daily telephone calls to Democrats who supported the health care bill last year, but have yet to decide how they intend to vote this time […] The health care debate is unfolding against the backdrop of an already difficult political year for Democrats. The White House has signaled to lawmakers that assistance for midterm elections — for example, presidential visits and fund-raisers — will be prioritized for those who support the bill.
Playing bad cop to this good cop is MoveOn.org, promising to raise money for primary challengers for Democrats who vote against the bill.
The group is set to blast out an email to its five million member list Monday asking recipients to pledge anywhere from $25 to $200 (or more) for the purposes of defeating conservative Democrats who help defeat the legislation.
"Health care reform is in serious danger in the House of Representatives: with a handful of conservative Democrats wavering, we don't yet have the votes to pass the final bill," reads the email, which was sent in advance to the Huffington Post. "So we're asking every MoveOn member: will you pledge to support progressive primary challengers to House Democrats who side with Republicans to kill health care reform?
Again, this runs into the problem of filing deadlines. For instance, one state with a lot of members in play is Ohio, which already finalized their primary ballot. But MoveOn dropped some names to Sam Stein who would face potential primary challengers – Scott Murphy (D-NY), Michael McMahon (D-NY), and Suzanne Kosmas (D-FL). McMahon has already been targeted by the local SEIU 1199 in New York.
MoveOn has raised over $1.2 million dollars for Bill Halter to challenge Blanche Lincoln in Arkansas, so they have the ability to fundraise through their membership.
Clearly, House members on the fence face an array of unpalatable options no matter their vote this week.


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PROVIDENCE, R.I. - The University of New Hampshire women's swimming and diving team placed third at the Brown University Invitational which took place from December 2-4.
Of the five competing schools, Princeton University placed first with 1,174 points, followed by Brown (865), New Hampshire (585), UMass-Amherst (393.50) and Florida International University (276).
Kary Goodman (South Windham, Maine) had an eventful day as she was the top swimmer for New Hampshire with two first place finishes. She placed first ahead of 23 other swimmers in the 200-yard butterfly at 2 minutes 4.17 seconds, setting a New Hampshire school record. Goodman was first ahead of 22 swimmers in the 200-yard backstroke at 2:03.68. She finished second in the 100-fly at 56.67, also a New Hampshire school record. Deanna Petchonka (Ridgefield, Conn.) followed with a fifth place finish.
Goodman joined forces with Shannon Daly (Brightwaters, N.Y.), Petchonka, and Ana Dowell (Phoenix, Ariz.) in the 400 medley relay, which placed third at 3:56.33. Daly also picked up a fifth place finish in the 200 individual medley with a time of 2:09.67.
Goodman also led off the 800 freestyle relay that included Catherine McDonough (Denville, N.J.) and both Daly sisters. The team combined to finish for a second place finish at 7:48.93.
Brittany Daly (Brightwaters, N.Y.) saw a fourth place finish in the 500 free, clocking in at 5:05.67. Daly placed fifth in the 200 freestyle with a time of 1:57.64. She also finished a close second in the grueling 1650 free, touching the wall at 17.26.78. Caitlin Hamer (Andover, Mass.) finished eighth for New Hampshire at 18:41.39.
New Hampshire had two top showings in the 100 breaststroke. Shannon Daly finished a close second at 1:06.92 while teammate Tartaglia clocked in at 1:07.61.
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Having faulted President Obama for Friday's jobs report, Mitt Romney and his running mate, Rep. Paul Ryan of Wisconsin, added to their list of criticisms of Democrats a video shown at the Democratic National Convention.
Appearing in Orange City, Iowa, the GOP presidenaital nominee highlighted the video shown on opening night in Charlotte that stated, "Government is the only thing that we all belong to." After conservative commentators castigated the message, the Obama campaign disavowed it, saying that the video was produced by the city's host committee.
"Boy, they sure got that one wrong, didn't they?" Romney asked a crowd of more than 2,000 people gathered in a college gymnasium in northwest Iowa who cheered their agreement.
Romney used the incident to make his case for a limited government that answers to the people. "The government belongs to us," he said. "We value the government we have, and we pay for it too. It ain't free."
In a swing state further west, Ryan told a group of about 1,500 voters in Reno, Nev., that the root of Obama's problems lay in his policies, not his personality.
"President Obama is not a bad guy. He's good at giving great speeches, he's just really bad at creating jobs," said Ryan, who was raising money in Los Angeles as the president spoke on Thursday evening. "Here's the problem: When you think that the road to success and prosperity is more borrowing, more spending, more taxing, more regulating, a government-centered society with a government-run economy, these are the kinds of results we will get. And if we want the next four years to be any different than the last four years, we need a new president."
The Obama camp responded by saying that Romney's economic plans would make America weaker. "He would give budget-busting tax cuts to the wealthiest Americans paid for by raising taxes on the middle class, make deep cuts to critical investments like education, and turn Medicare into a voucher program," said Obama for America spokeswoman Lis Smith in an e-mailed statement.
Smith also went after Ryan's factual accuracy, saying that his speech "followed a similar and troubling pattern of misrepresenting both the president's and Mitt Romney's records." She cited Ryan's statement that Obama oversaw the downgrading of the U.S. credit rating, which the rating agency Standard & Poor's said was due in part to political posturing by House Republicans—something numerous news organizations have cited.
Obama wasn't the only Democrat in Ryan's crosshairs on Friday. He elicited a round of boos from the crowd when he asked if they knew Senate Majority Leader Harry Reid of Nevada, whom Ryan faults for leading a body that hasn't passed a budget in three years.
Romney's trip to Orange City was his first to the far-northwest corner of the Hawkeye State, an area that voted overwhelmingly for Rick Santorum in the primary and has been somewhat slow to warm to the Republican nominee. He was joined at the event by Iowa's governor, Terry Branstad, and Rep. Steve King, an outspoken conservative who is a popular lightning rod for Democratic criticism.
King has drawn fire for comparing immigration to the process of selecting a good bird dog and recently raised eyebrows for saying he was unaware of any victims of statutory rape or incest becoming pregnant, but was "open to discussion" on the topic.
King, who did not endorse a candidate in the run-up to the Iowa primary, is in a tight race for reelection this year against the wife of Agriculture Secretary Tom Vilsack, a former Iowa governor. Romney called on the crowd to return controversial House member King to Capitol Hill, saying, "I wanna make sure he's in Washington when I get there so we can do the things we're promising doing."
The endorsement of King quickly caught the attention of the Obama campaign, with top strategist David Axelrod calling the King "Mitt's governing partner" in a tweet after the event.
The Democratic National Committee wasted no time generating a video clip and Web ad that juxtaposes Romney's endorsement of King and several of King's controversial comments -- including the most recent incident in which King said he never heard of a woman becoming pregnant as a result of being raped. That ad appeared Saturday morning on the website YouTube.


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I spent my childhood in St. Louis, MO and by the time I graduated high school I was ready to leave. I decided to go to college 1200 miles away in Boston and eventually moved to New York where I've finally settled down. Now, my best friends and I are all scattered across the country – Denver, Chicago, St. Louis, Phoenix, Washington, DC. We went from seeing each other every day to only during the summers and holidays and now it's been a few years since we've all gotten together as a group.
Last year we were talking about getting a group trip together but schedules just never seem coordinate properly and trying to agree on a central location was practically impossible. As we continued through our crazy lives I couldn't help but miss those crazy slumber parties and wondered how we can stay in touch better.
Then one day, while talking to my friend it hit me, why don't we start a book club over video chat? Shortly thereafter the most amazing idea was created.
Wine Wednesdays! One part book club, two parts happy hour, and six parts great laughs and good conversation.
Since we are all avid readers, we selected a fun book to read; then about a month later, we all gathered in a cloud meet-me room with our books and bottles of wine. We started sharing our thoughts on the book and as the night (and wine) progressed we were reminiscing and sharing funny stories of things that this book reminded us of. Next thing I knew it was going on 1am and my husband was yelling it's bed time, you have work tomorrow.
So we all said goodbye and vowed to do it again soon because it was completely amazing and so much fun. We recently picked our next book which I am eagerly reading because I cannot wait for our next date. Although, I think we're going to move Wine Wednesday to a Friday because I'm just not cutout for late night drinking on work nights.