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Syrian rebels have received an unexpected windfall in the form of large weapon caches seized in fighting during the past three weeks, including stocks of heavy arms that could help offset recent battlefield gains by government forces, U.S. and Middle East officials said.
The weapons include hundreds of advanced anti-tank missiles captured in fighting near Damascus and a sizable haul of armored vehicles, machine guns and rockets taken from a Syrian air base overrun this month, the officials said.
While Syria's fractious rebel brigades regularly acquire arms by looting captured government installations, the arsenals seized in the past month were unusual in size and quality and could help chip away the government's significant military advantage in some heavily contested parts of the country, according to two Middle Eastern officials and one U.S. official with access to sensitive intelligence on Syria.
The air base was overrun by a force of Western-backed rebels and radical Islamists. They split the seized materiel, the officials said.
Meanwhile, the rebels have yet to receive promised military aid from the United States and there are no clear signs of a momentum shift in the conflict, which in recent months has seen rebel units driven from former strongholds in several parts of the country, the officials say.
Analysts say the capturing of the Menagh air base north of Aleppo on Aug. 6 provided a tactical and psychological boost for the rebels, who entered the facility after a costly 10-month siege and carted away truckloads of booty. Rebel commanders are now redeploying newly re-armed units against other strategic targets around Aleppo, the country's largest city, the officials said.
"The seizing of Menagh is looking very important because the rebels gained a lot of weapons there," said a senior Middle Eastern intelligence official who spoke on the condition that his name and nationality be withheld, citing the sensitivity of his government's intelligence collection efforts in the region. "The Syrians were using the air base for weapons storage, and it had a lot of good-quality stuff."
Jeffrey White, a former analyst for the Pentagon's Defense Intelligence Agency, called the seized caches larger than usual and said they "will definitely help the rebels, particularly in the Aleppo area," where government efforts to roll back the resistance appear to have stalled. Rebel groups, he said, "are making slow progress in taking government-held positions," particularly in the north, said White, now a defense fellow with the Washington Institute for Near East Policy.
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ST. GEORGE - , High school marching bands from Utah, Colorado, California, Idaho, Nevada and New Mexico will compete in two field shows Friday and Saturday at Hansen Stadium on the Dixie State University campus.
Friday's event, the Red Rocks Invitational, serves as the Utah maching band finals competition and is endorsed by the Utah High School Activities Association. Competition between 42 bands begin at 9 a.m. and will conclude at approximately 9 p.m. More than 3,000 band members will participate.
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IVINS - Roads in Snow Canyon State Park will be closed Saturday for the Snow Canyon Half-Marathon.
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ST. GEORGE - Every first and third Friday, the Bureau of Land Management and its partners host the popular "Brown Bag Lecture Series," which provides unique opportunities for to learn more about the area's natural resources and public lands. Speakers include geologists, range specialists, biologists, archaeologists, rangers and other specialists who delve into subjects tied to the Arizona Strip and surrounding public lands.
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The free lectures, which begin at noon and last one hour, are at the Interagency Information Center, 345 E. Riverside Drive. Admission is free, but space is limited. To get tickets, visit the Interagency Information Center or call 435-688-3200. The Brown Bag Lecture Series is sponsored by the BLM Arizona Strip District, BLM St. George Field Office, National Park Service, Dixie National Forest's Pine Valley Ranger District, Dixie-Arizona Strip Interpretive Association, and Southern Utah Conservation Lands Friends.
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A Grand Junction man is dead after a crash on Interstate 70 near Gypsum. Larry Simpson, 43, was killed when he lost control of his truck as he was towing a trailer. The truck and trailer jackknifed and rolled, coming to a stop 150 feet from where it left the road.
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Two versions of Indian pudding sit on a kitchen table in Burlington. On the left, Indian pudding with dark molasses. On the right, Indian pudding with Vermont maple syrup and dried cranberries. / CANDACE PAGE, Free Press
A woman obsessed, I sit at the kitchen table contemplating three servings of Indian pudding.
On one side we have the mahogany brown color and molasses scent of a classic Indian pudding, the recipe provided by Durgin-Park, the 180-year-old Boston restaurant.
On the other side we have a blonde, all-Vermont Indian pudding, maple-syrup-sweetened and laced with dried cranberries.
In the middle sits a middle version, its sweetness a halfway-ground between dark molasses and maple syrup. This Indian pudding is the color of oak and sweetened with Steen's Pure Cane Syrup, a Louisiana treat better than crawfish or pepper sauce.
I am on a campaign to find the perfect Indian pudding -- that is, a sweet, old-fashioned dessert that warms the kitchen as it bakes and soothes the soul when snow is hissing against the window.
By "perfect" I mean perfect for my taste. In my Indian pudding research I've learned there are as many Indian pudding recipes as there are old cookbooks. I'm looking for a firm, almost cake-like texture, medium sweetness and no raisins. (Note to husband: Make your own Indian pudding. The raisins are on the second shelf of the cupboard).
Molasses or maple?
Six weeks ago I wrote a Green Mountain localvore column about my first disappointing attempts at Indian pudding. I came up with a souffle-like recipe a little too fancy and a little too runny for my taste. More than a dozen readers called or e-mailed.
Most of them said I was on the wrong track, and offered their own old family recipes.
"Let me say that I am something of an Indian pudding specialist when it comes to cooking. That is, I only know how to cook two things -- Indian pudding and something else that I can't remember at the moment," wrote Bruce MacPherson of South Burlington.
Reduce the number of eggs and add cold milk part way through the cooking, he advised.
Anne Cummings, a friend from my youth, sent four recipes from the 1906 Plymouth Cook Book compiled by the women of the Congregational, Methodist and Episcopal Churches of Plymouth, N.H.
Those women clearly were masters and did not need hand-holding in the kitchen. "Three handfuls Indian meal stirred in one quart of hot milk. Let cool a little, then add one egg, one cup of molasses, butter size half an egg, cinnamon, and salt to taste. Bake three quarters of an hour. Serve with whipped cream," read the recipe offered by Mrs. J.F. Gould.
More useful guidance came from MarthaJane Stevens of Burlington. She understood my desire for a pudding that didn't emerge from the oven still sitting in a pool of liquid.
"If you start with 3 cups of milk and 4 heaping tablespoons of cornmeal, and cook it on top of the stove (or in double boiler to keep it from scorching) it will thicken up like cooked oatmeal -- takes 15-20 minutes. If it's soupy, it won't bake into pudding," she wrote.
She was right about the initial stovetop cooking, but her recipe still called for a greater ratio of milk to cornmeal than worked for me.
Then Rob Ide -- known to most people as Vermont's motor vehicle commissioner but to me as somebody whose roots go down to bedrock in the Northeast Kingdom -- settled the matter once for all: He e-mailed the Durgin-Park recipe.
Less milk, more cornmeal, less sweetener and just one egg.
I cooked up a batch, but added the step of cooking the mush in the double boiler for 20 minutes first. Lacking a stone crock, I poured the mixture into a glass casserole, put it in the oven, waited for it to boil and stirred in the rest of the milk.
Though I immediately lowered the oven temperature, the pudding baked in 90 minutes flat (perhaps because the casserole was too big so the pudding was spread thin).
More baking
Meanwhile, my two other versions were ready for baking, one with Steen's syrup, one with maple and cranberries. I was particularly hopeful about the maple version, because every ingredient but the salt and baking powder was local. For these versions, I added all the milk before shoving them in the oven. I baked them at 275 degrees for 2 1/2 to three hours.
I cooled all three, pulled out the creme fraiche from my CSA farm share and prepared to taste.
Let me say I'd eat every one of these Indian puddings -- and did. Alone in the house for a week, I had Indian pudding for dessert at night and warmed with a glass of milk and an orange for breakfast. After shoveling the driveway I had Indian pudding for a midafternoon snack.
They were all terrific -- different from one another but delicious. If pressed, I'd say the molasses version was still very strong; the maple version maybe a little bit bland. The cranberries didn't stand up to long baking as raisins do and nearly dissolved, weakening the acidic bite I was hoping for.
But those are quibbles. When you come to dinner (or breakfast) at my house this winter, you know what will be on the menu.
Durgin Park Indian Pudding, annotated
3 cups milk (or a bit less for a firmer pudding, divided)
1/4 cup black molasses (or maple syrup or Steen's Pure Cane Syrup)
2 tablespoons sugar (omitted from the maple version)
2 tablespoons butter, melted
1/4 teaspoon salt
1/8 teaspoon baking powder
1 egg, beaten
1/2 cup yellow corn meal
Vanilla ice cream
1. Preheat the oven to 425 degrees.
2. Mix together 1 1/2 cups of the milk with the molasses, sugar, butter, salt, baking powder, egg and cornmeal. Pour the mixture into a stone crock (or casserole dish ) that has been well greased and bake until it boils.
3. Heat the remaining 1 1/2 cups of milk (or just one cup for a firmer pudding) and stir it in.
4. Lower the oven temperature to 300 degrees (275 degrees works equally well) and bake 5-7 hours (my puddings never take this long, perhaps because they aren't baked in a stone crock).
5. Serve warm with a scoop of vanilla ice cream on top.


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Japanese cuisine, traditionally speaking combines staple food (i.e. rice or gohan) with one or several main dishes accompanied by soup. Japanese food is an art form, and care is taken as to how food is prepared, sliced, and presented. Notice in restaurants how attractive a bento box of a complete Japanese meal is served to a customer accompanied by a small bowl of miso soup.
As with any Asian cuisine, Japanese cuisine has rice as the staple grain, served with the main dish. Rice is also fermented to wine called sake or pounded into a paste for mochi, a snack in Japan. Noodles are also available, such as soba, or buckwheat noodles. Soups are also present such as the famous miso soup, which are popular both in fancy restaurants and Japanese fast foods.
Vegetables like radishes, ginger, and turnips are often pickled. Served with meals, they give the meal instant variety in taste. Tofu, a common ingredient in miso soup, also appears in the main course or stir-fried with vegetables. As Japan is surrounded mainly with water, there is an abundance of seafood in their diet. Popular Japanese foods like sushi and sashimi. Sashimi is fish served raw, and these are the freshest fish. They are usually served dipped in soy sauce and wasabi, a Japanese root product that adds a spicy, pungent flavor. Cooked fish and seafood was also available, such as tempura. Aside from fish and seafood in the ocean, vegetation from the ocean, such as kelp and seaweed were used. The black paperlike sheet used to wrap sushi is called nori, which is seaweed. Kelp is used in soups and some seaweed is used in salads. Meat-eating, at one point in Japanese history was not allowed, but later on, meats were added to their diet, and popular meat dishes like sukiyaki emerged. For drinks, popular drinks are sake and tea.
One thing the Japanese was particular about was seasonality. As some restaurants and cultures have certain dishes available all year round, the food served depends on the season. Take for example blowfish, which is served only in cold months. Salads make do with vegetables available in season and the same goes for main courses. There are also sweets that are available depending on the season and certain foods only available and eaten on specific occasions. Sake, a popular drink in Japan is wine warmed during the fall and winter months.


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Wha;s your business marketing message? What do you tell your customers about your company, what it does, and why they should do business with you?
The fact is that many small businesses are confused about what their marketing message is and how they should communicate it to the outside world.
You only need to look at the home page headlines or-About U- sections of many business web sites and yo'll see countless instances of mission statements and business profiles being mistaken for marketing messages, for example:
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While there is nothing inherently wrong with these messages, they tend to have one thing in common - they are all about the business and not about the most important asset to that business - its customers.
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1) Identify Your Target Market
Knowing your market is the first step to crafting a message that speaks to understanding your market's needs. Every business has a target market, even if you stumbled into that market by accident. So don't be afraid to define your business marketing message by the market you serve best and most profitably. There is nothing more baffling to a consumer than a business who is trying to be all things to all people - it simply dilutes your message and undermines your core value.
2) Describe your Product - Briefly!
Many marketing messages become unstuck because they focus exclusively on product. Instead, your product should be considered only one piece of your overall message. For the purposes of a concise marketing message, consider the features of your product or service in the light of what they mean to the customer. For every feature there is a customer need met and a benefit realized.
3) Identify Customer Pain Points, Issues, Needs and Wants and Determine How Your Business Addresses Them
To move your prospects into action you need to step back and identify their problems, issues, needs, and wants, and ultimately define how your business addresses each of these.
Each business and customer is unique, and while some customer pain points are obvious and easily aligned to your products and services, others aren't quite so obvious. For example, if you operate a seafood bar/restaurant in a suburban neighborhood - what problem or pain point are you addressing? Well no great pain really, but you can certainly weave a benefit statement around the fact that you are overcoming a geographical issue and meeting an emotional need.
For example, our hypothetical restaurant may have chosen to position itself as providing a big-city dining experience in a suburban community. So the issue addressed and corresponding message here could be that no longer do customers need to travel miles or wait for their next business trip to experience the dining ambience that they enjoy so much in the big city - it's now available right on their doorstep.
4) Build Your Proof Points
Whatever your product or service, it's vital that you demonstrate how your business has solved the problems of others. This part of your messaging development is about documenting proof points.
Testimonials and case studies are an excellent way of doing this, and they needn't be pages long - just a few quotes or paragraphs can help encapsulate the challenge your customer was facing, the solution you presented, and the results obtained. These proof points can act as stand-alone testimonials in your marketing collateral, but you should also step back and look at common themes that you can build into your wider marketing message.
5) Define What Makes You Different
Now that you have a sense of who your target market is, what their pain points are and how they have used your business services - you'll need to communicate what you do differently than your competition. Try to tie those differences to perceived value - i.e. why should your customer care about what you do or provide?
6) What Should Your Message Look Like?
Your basic marketing message (often called a messaging platform), while consistent, needs to be flexible. You want to be able to slice and dice it for various marketing collateral (brochures, email marketing, advertising, web site copy, etc.). A practical approach to developing your standard marketing message is to build a 150, 100, 75 and 50 word version of it.
While the 50 word version is useful as a high-level elevator pitch message, the longer versions can be used to introduce more specific benefits, value statements, and proof points across your marketing communications.
The point here is that although the final message will straddle all your outreach activities - you still have the flexibility to combine it with promotional statements, advertising call to actions, and so on.
7) Deliver Your Message with One Voice
Once developed, your marketing message needs to be delivered consistently and with one voice. From your sales team to your receptionist, from your web site to your brochures - the more times your prospects hear it, the more likely it is to register in their minds and they'll want to know more. So be sure to do a sweep of all your customer touch points and update your business voice accordingly.
For more marketing tips, take a look at this Small Business Marketing Guide which includes information and resources about conducting market research, writing a marketing plan, developing an online marketing strategy, etc.
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Festimad with Patti Smith, Turbo Negro, Violadores Del Verso, Akwid, La Fres-ka
Ben Harper & The Innocent Criminals Setlist 1969-12-31 - Festimad - Madrid, Spain
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120-minute set at 12:30am on the Heineken Stage. 20,000
i haven't seen you in live and i cannot imagine how good you could be, cause in every chord you play in your albums you put me goose pimples and my feelings start to blow.
how can your music be so great?? i feel identified in all your lyrics, for the best and for the worst moments.
love from valencia (spain)
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great start with steal my kisses and burn one down-it really got people going. and a happy goodbye with my own two hands. i especially enjoyed the woman in you.
it was a very different experience to the one of la riviera-the last one he gave in madrid... i think it must be the thing with festivals, there aren
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Maybe one of the greatest days of my life. It started around 8pm when I was walking behind the stage looking for the exit, I was lost and I saw two people going trough a fence, so I though that it was the exit, then someone close the fence, and I look up I was all the tour crew (Gavin with a camera, were you?), Juan, Leon, Marc, Jason, Oliver and Ben. I cannot believe it roght now, I was so nervous because I know that wasn't my place, but there were no exit, so I started to walk around but I didn't say anything to them, just a very nervous 'Hi' and the I asked them to take a picture, they all reacted very friendly and after being there quiet, they went to the press conference. I also was lucky to attend to the press, not so many good questions, but ok.
Then, the show was very intense but many people were talking during it, and specially at the acoustic ones. I only reproach the very similar setlist during the last shows in Spain.
Anyway I spent 2 hours and a quarter listening to my favourite music and seeing ones of my favourite musicians.
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BEN you are AMAZING !!!!
Thanks for the wonderfull show you gave us. Couldn't be better.
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After travelling 8 hours on an overnight bus, not having slept in about 30 hours and getting my wallet stolen in Madrid, it wasn
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Year End Countdown: The 40 Biggest Hits Of 1983 – Part 2: #30-#21 [VIDEOS]
During my vacation I was cleaning around the house and stumbled across some old music playlists from the early part of the 80s. Some of them were year end countdown lists.
I thought since we're coming up on a brand new year that it might be fun to take a look back at the Top 40 songs that were the biggest hits of 1983.
WOW! 30 Years ago. Hard to believe it's been that long. Where has the time gone?
Along with these songs, here are a few other things that are celebrating their 'Pearl Anniversary.'
- Microsoft Word Was Released
- 'Flashdance' and 'Return of the Jedi'
- The introduction on the Swatch Watch.
Now, 'Back to the countdown.'
30. Pat Benatar – Shadows Of The Night
29. Bryan Adams – Cuts Like A Knife
28. Billy Joel – Uptown Girl
27. Patti Austin w/James Ingram – Baby, Come To Me
26. After The Fire – Der Kommissar
25. Hall & Oates – One On One
24. Billy Joel – Tell Her About It
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Carolina Panthers' defense struggles in 14-9 preseason loss vs. Philadelphia Eagles
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Observation deck: Panthers-EaglesESPN.com Aug 15, 2013The Carolina Panthers better put in a hurry-up defense quickly. That became apparent in Thursday night's 14-9 preseason loss to the Philadelphia Eagles. With the defensive starters playing most of the first half, the Panthers struggled to stop Philadelp…Share Tweet
Panthers ride DeAngelo Williams for 12 carries in preseason contestcharlotteobserver.com Aug 15, 2013DeAngelo Williams is the only healthy every-down back the Panthers have right now, and Thursday night he lived up to the moniker.Click to Continue »Share Tweet
Live now: Panthers vs. Eagles on Twittercharlotteobserver.com Aug 15, 2013Get live commentary, inside info as you follow the Tweets from Observer reporters Joe Person, Jonathan Jones, Scott Fowler and Tom Sorensen.Click to Continue »Share Tweet
Training camp roundup: Tom Brady returns to Patriots practiceyahoo.com Aug 15, 2013Several teams wrapped up their training camps on Thursday, which also happens to be the first of five straight nights of preseason football. Four games are on the docket tonight, including the Philadelphia Eagles and Carolina Panthers, where Chip Kelly …Share Tweet
NFC South quick hitsESPN.com Aug 15, 2013As we get ready for Thursday night's preseason games involving the Carolina Panthers and Atlanta Falcons (I'll be back with observations on both games soon after they end), let's take a look at some news and notes from around the division: With Mike Joh…Share Tweet
Which Panther's players will have a big opportunity to make an impact?panthersgab.com Aug 15, 2013(May 9, 2013 – Source: Lance King/Getty Images North America) Who on the Panthers roster will not play? 1. Armanti Edwards (WR)—hamstring With Armanti Edwards sitting out this pre-season game, he did not even fly to Philly, expect David Gettis to show-o…Share Tweet
Dolphins sign Antwan Applewhiteprofootballtalk.com Aug 15, 2013Injuries have left the Dolphins a little thin on the defensive line, a state of affairs they addressed Thursday by adding a veteran to the mix. The Dolphins announced that they have signed former Chargers and Panthers defensive end Antwan Applewhite. Ap…Share Tweet
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PBS Premiere: August 9, 1988
Five years before the United States entered World War II, 3,200 Americans went off to Europe to fight the spread of fascism. At 18, 19 and 20 years old, they volunteered to risk their lives defending a democratically elected government in the Spanish Civil War. Fifty years later, in their own words, the survivors recount a vivid story of those years — and what's happened to them since.
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Sift the flour, baking powder and sugar into a medium bowl. Make a well in the centre. Whisk the egg, buttermilk and milk together in a jug. Add to the flour a little at a time and use a whisk to stir until a smooth batter forms. Cover with plastic wrap and set aside for 30 minutes to rest.
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County Executive Leopold Announces $1.7 Million Grant Secured to Help the Homeless
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Annapolis (March 10, 2009) - County Executive John R. Leopold announced today the County's receipt of nearly $1.7 million in federal grant funds from the U.S. Department of Housing and Urban Development (HUD) to undertake housing and supportive services projects for the homeless.
The award was a result of the combined efforts of Arundel Community Development Services, Inc., the Department of Social Services, and members of the Anne Arundel and Annapolis Community Partnership to End Homelessness.
"This award enables the County to undertake a new program and renew its support for existing housing and supportive services benefitting our residents in greatest need," County Executive Leopold said. "Families and individuals confronted by the economic crisis, or with severe mental illness or other disabilities, are sometimes unable to cope without public assistance. I am pleased that we continue to be successful in achieving these competitive awards."
The Anne Arundel County Mental Health Agency received $113,568 for the first two years of a new initiative, the Samaritan Housing Program. This program will provide leasing funds for up to five chronically homeless individuals who have a diagnosis of a mental illness who have either been continuously homeless for more than a year or have had multiple episodes of homelessness.
More than $1,007,958 was awarded to provide permanent housing and support services to more than 75 disabled individual and families. An additional $501,079 was awarded to continue to provide transitional housing for more than 25 homeless families and 10 homeless men. Funds in the amount of $70,786 were awarded to Community Residences to provide mental health assessments and support at County shelters and transitional housing programs.


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'An interactive gallery planned and designed by O D E D A L O N Y – architecture & design, initiated and produced by "Disk – In Pro" for the International Equestrian Federation in Lausanne, Switzerland.
The preliminary model was based on sculpting the horse figure as an origami (Japanese art of folding paper) element, which created an analogy between the equestrian sport and the art of folding paper; both require concentration and motor ability, and combine aesthetics, creativity and precision. Later on, the sculpture developed into an abstract white origami element made up of one spreading.
The object, stationed at the center of the gallery, is constructed out of metal pieces attached together, spreads and changes across the gallery and enables a spatial view of the space. The existing skylights become lighting fixtures printed in images and controlled by the smart lighting.
The object ultimately becomes an iterative table, both used to project images from the equestrian world combined with advanced lighting and sound. The design language of the sculpture is also present in those projections and the peripheral graphics of the space.
The gallery walls and ceiling are painted a dark color to emphasize the object (element).
Two 180 x 260 interactive touch screens made of glass stand vertical to the object, helping the visitor gain in depth perspective on the equestrian sport around the world.
The gallery is located in a remodeled building that houses the federation's offices.
In addition to being a unique visitor center, the gallery also serves to host federation members, sponsors, investors and other distinguished guests.'
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What is the difference between registered and non-registered savings plans?
Registered savings plans (RRSPs) are defined in the federal Income Tax Act and registered with Canada Revenue Agency (CRA). They allow you to save for your retirement without paying taxes on the principle or interest until you withdraw the funds from the plan.
However, there are restrictions on the type of investments, the duration, and the amount you can contribute to a registered plan. Non-registered savings plans have no restrictions. You can save any amount and the plan can hold any kind of investment. However, you must pay tax on the plan's investment income as you earn it.
RRSP stands for Registered Retirement Savings Plan. It is one of several registered savings plans set up under the Income Tax Act (ITA 146-(1)) and registered with the Canada Customs and Revenue Agency.
An RRSP is a formal contract between an individual, known as the annuitant and the issuer of the plan. The annuitant or his or her spouse or common-law partner contributes funds to the plan and uses the funds to provide a retirement income when the plan matures.
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RRIF stands for Registered Retirement Income Fund. A RRIF is essentially a mirror of an RRSP, it can hold the same types of investments and provide the same tax-sheltered growth. Similar to an RRSP, you control the investment decisions.
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Since there is no maximum withdrawal limit, you are free to withdraw any amount you wish. However, you must include all RRIF payments as income for tax purposes.
LIF stands for Life Income Fund. A LIF is essentially a RRIF that receives funds from a locked-in retirement account, and provides for a life income by restricting both the minimum and maximum withdrawals from the account. In some provinces the balance remaining in the LIF must be used to purchase a life annuity by the end of the year in which the annuitant reaches age 80.
The Income Tax Act treats a LIF the same as a RRIF. However, in accordance with the requirements of pension legislation, a LIF includes a maximum withdrawal limit, designed so that the maximum amount withdrawn will not impair the annuitant`s ability to purchase a life annuity by age 80. If the minimum withdrawal required under the Income Tax Act exceeds the maximum withdrawal under the pension legislation, the taxpayer must still withdraw the minimum amount.
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As the subscriber of the plan, you contribute to an RESP for the benefit of your designated beneficiary(ies). The lifetime maximum contribution per beneficiary is $ 50,000. Contributions to an RESP are not tax deductible; however, any income earned in an RESP is tax-sheltered for as long as the funds remain in the plan.
On the first $500 you save in your child's RESP, the Canada Education Savings Grant will give you:
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As of January 1, 2009, the annual contribution limit is $5,000. Unlike an RRSP the contribution limit is not based on your earned income. Any unused contribution room can be carried forward indefinitely. For example, if you contribute $ 3000 in 2009, then your contribution limit for 2010 would be ($ 5,000 - $ 3,000) $2,000 plus $ 5000 (2010 limit) for a total of $ 7000.
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Whitby Bird guarantees York bridge will be 'wobble-free'
Whitby Bird is nearing completion of its £2.5 million York Millennium Bridge after thoroughly checking it for the 'wobble-factor' which hit Foster and Partners' swaying bridge over the Thames.
The 160m long bridge over the River Ouse features a single inclined arch of stainless steel set at 50degrees, from which the deck is suspended. It will open next month after being floated into position this week. 'Since the wobble-factor first came to our attention after the bridge over the Thames, we got to talk to the people concerned who could help us understand what the problems were, 'Mark Whitby told the AJ last week, refusing to name names.
After reanalysing the bridge - which uses a completely different kind of suspension system than the Ove Arup and Partners-engineered London Millennium Bridge, the engineers were satisfied it would not exhibit the same problems.The London Millennium Bridge has remained officially closed since June when 100,000 people crossed it.
Whitby said that as an engineer he now describes his job to the public as someone who makes things stand up and renders them 'wobble-free', but criticised the nontechnical media for having an 'obsession' about the phenomenon. The York structure, a pedestrian and cycle bridge, is only similar in name, he said.
Ove Arup and Par tners sa id that i t w i l l make pub l ic i ts final report into the problems about the London bridge next week. The engineer is understood to have proposed two types of damping systems and a third scheme which stiffens the structure.
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Can anyone tell me what year this bike is? Also, what it's made of and original components would be great! Seller lists for $170, worth it? I know the international was about 2 models under the professional but, from what I can gather, their later models got a nice upgrade with better tubing and stuff like that. This looks like a 56in frame(bike masters please verify?) and a newer model but what do i know?
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Wayne Rooney could be offered an unlikely route out of Manchester United by Real Madrid this summer.
Rooney is in the last 18 months of his Old Trafford contract and is unlikely to sign a new one, but he knows there is no way United will sell him to a domestic rival.
However, Real have the 28-year-old on a list of three forward targets this summer, behind Manchester City's Sergio Aguero and Monaco's unsettled Colombian Radamel Falcao. With City highly unlikely to let Aguero go and Falcao tied to a long contract in the south of France, Rooney would represent a cheaper option for Real, who are attracted by his form this season and the fact that he can play as a front-running striker or a No 10.
Real coach Carlo Ancelotti knows all about Rooney from his time at Chelsea, but the driving force behind the move is president Florentino Perez.
United will try to resist any attempts by Real to force through a transfer. They are happier to let Rooney run down his contract and leave for nothing in the summer of 2015.
Neither Rooney nor strike partner Robin van Persie trained yesterday, ruling them out of tonight's Capital One Cup tie against Sunderland tonight. – Daily Mail
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1 Department of Anesthesiology and Critical Care Medicine, George Washington University Medical Center, 900 23rd Street, NW, RILF, Room G-105, Washington, DC 20037, USA
2 Department of Medicine, Division of Renal Diseases and Hypertension, George Washington University Medical Center, Washington DC 20037, USA
3 Department of Critical Care Medicine, University of Pittsburgh, Pittsburgh, PA, USA
4 CRISMA Center, Department of Critical Care Medicine, University of Pittsburgh School of Medicine, 3550 Terrace Street, 603B Scaife Hall Pittsburgh, PA 15261, USA
5 Department of Nephrology, Dialysis and Transplantation, International Renal Research Institute of Vicenza, San Bortolo Hospital, Viale Rodolfi, 37, 36100 Vicenza, Italy
Critical Care 2012, 16:317 doi:10.1186/cc11253Published: 26 July 2012
Acute kidney injury (AKI) is a syndrome with a multitude of causes and is associated with high mortality and a permanent loss of renal function. Our current understanding of the most common causes of AKI is limited, and thus a silver bullet therapy remains elusive. A change in the approach to AKI that shifts away from the primary composite endpoint of death/dialysis, and instead focuses on improving survival and mitigating permanent renal damage, is likely to be more fruitful. We suggest that the current approach of augmenting renal function by increasing the renal blood flow or glomerular filtration rate during AKI may actually worsen outcomes. Analogous to the approach towards adult respiratory distress syndrome that limits ventilator-induced lung injury, we propose the concept of permissive hypofiltration. The primary goals of this approach are: resting the kidney by providing early renal replacement therapy, avoiding the potentially injurious adverse events that occur during AKI (for example, fluid overload, hypophosphatemia, hypothermia, and so forth), and initiating therapies focused on improving survival and mitigating permanent loss of kidney function.


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|Preeclampsia, a pregnancy-specific disease, is associated with fetal monocyte activation.
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|PMID: 11513544 Owner: NLM Status: MEDLINE
|The maternal syndrome of preeclampsia is an exclusively pregnancy-related illness involving multiple organs and severe forms may be complicated by HELLP (hemolysis, elevated liver enzymes, low platelets) syndrome. Recently, it has been proposed that both normal pregnancy and preeclampsia are associated with a systemic activation of the nonspecific maternal immune system and that, in particular, monocytes have a central role in the adjustment of maternal immune functions in pregnancy. Here we have investigated the role of the fetal nonadaptive immune system in normal term delivery, uncontrollable preterm labor, and preeclampsia. We demonstrate that spontaneous delivery at term as well as preterm occurrence of preeclampsia or HELLP syndrome are accompanied by an increased intracellular production of IL-6 in fetal monocytes, indicating strong activation of this cell type. In contrast, we show that elective cesarean delivery at term in the absence of labor or preterm delivery due to uncontrollable labor are not accompanied by an increased production of IL-6 in these cells. These results suggest that increased IL-6 synthesis in fetal monocytes may be a process occurring in association with normal spontaneous term delivery and that this process obviously occurs in early pregnancy in case of preeclampsia. Therefore, we propose that the activation of fetal monocytes as effectors of the innate immunity may be involved in mechanisms inducing spontaneous term delivery and that the occurrence of preeclampsia may be based on dysfunctions of probably both the maternal and the fetal innate immune system.
|A Steinborn; C Sohn; C Sayehli; A Niederhut; E Schmitt; M Kaufmann
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|Title: Clinical immunology (Orlando, Fla.) Volume: 100 ISSN: 1521-6616 ISO Abbreviation: Clin. Immunol. Publication Date: 2001 Sep
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|Created Date: 2001-08-21 Completed Date: 2001-09-20 Revised Date: 2004-11-17
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|Nlm Unique ID: 100883537 Medline TA: Clin Immunol Country: United States
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|Department of Obstetrics and Gynecology, J.-W. Goethe-University of Frankfurt, Frankfurt/Main, Germany.
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Zaki Hasan has been a geek all his life, though he's never felt comfortable admitting it until now. From a childhood steeped in Superman comics and STAR TREK reruns to his current role as a professor of communication & media studies, Zaki has spent much of the last two decades analyzing and evaluating the role of popular culture in shaping and defining our cultural, societal, and spiritual discourse. It's this realm of ideas that's central to GEEK WISDOM, the new book he co-authored.
How did you get involved in this project for co-authoring the Geek Wisdom book?
I've had an online friendship with the editor, Stephen Segal, for several years through various message boards and common interests, and through that he became a reader of my blog, ZakisCorner.com. I think what Stephen glommed onto is that I give equal coverage to society, politics, and pop culture in my writing, and my interests tend to lie where all three intersect. As a matter of fact, two summers ago, at the height of the manufactured "Ground Zero Mosque" controversy that ate up so much media bandwidth and which I had been spending a great deal of time covering and refuting on my site, Stephen sent me a very nice note thanking me for my fortitude in dealing with this story -- and the hate it was eliciting -- day after day. It wasn't too long afterwards that he contacted me about working on the book. I feel like, in some small way, it was my coverage of the Park51 story that, directly or indirectly, led to my being included in the lineup for GEEK WISDOM.
What are some of your favorite quotes featured in the book?
There are so many great quotes in this book that it's hard to narrow it down to just a few. You can literally just pick it up, flip through it, and find something interesting to ponder on whatever page you land on (which I'm doing right now, as a matter of fact).
Of the ones I didn't work on, one of my favorites is probably an essay on the quote, "This is an imaginary story. Aren't they all?" which is a line from a Superman comic from 1986 that wonderfully encompasses the textual and meta-textual knots we tend to tie ourselves in to make fictional stories "matter," when we should really just appreciate them for the enjoyment they give us. In an age of Trekkies and Twi-hards and Potter-heads, that's a lesson that could really stand to be learned.
Another essay I really enjoyed was a reflection on "Godwin's Law," which states that the longer an online conversation stretches, the greater the likelihood that someone will invoke Hitler -- and thus all meaningful interaction has effectively ceased. One need only glance at the comments section under every news story to know how scarily true that is.
Which ones did you select and comment about in the book?
The way we parceled out the quotes was that we started with a pool of around fifty or so, and then the five co-authors (Stephen, myself, Eric San Juan, Genevieve Valentine, and Nora Jemisen) contributed more for the next week or so, which were then whittled down to the roughly-200 that made it in. We got to call "dibs" on whichever quotes we submitted, and the rest were assigned randomly, unless we REALLY wanted to do one.
What was both fun and challenging for me was taking lines from some of my favorite things like STAR WARS (which I did three entries on: "Do, or do not. There is no try." "The Force will be with you. Always." "Fly casual!"), BACK TO THE FUTURE ("Roads? Where we're going, we don't need roads!") and PLANET OF THE APES ("Take your stinking paws off me, you damn, dirty ape!") and trying to find the philosophical wisdom underlying them. What is it saying? What is it trying to say? It was this ongoing process of peeling back the layers, and sometimes having to start over from scratch, that made this experience hugely frustrating and hugely rewarding all at the same time.
In a sense, each of the mini-essays presented different challenges, with the all-encompassing challenge being to say something meaningful about what we'd been given. As you can imagine, some quotes were easier than others to wax philosophic on. It wasn't hard to find the "meat" (no pun intended) in Charlton Heston's "Soylent Green is made out of people!" from 1973's film SOYLENT GREEN, but figuring out what to say about "Oh, boy," the trademark exclamation of the lead character in TV's QUANTUM LEAP was a higher hurdle to overcome, as was divining wisdom from TRANSFORMERS' Optimus Prime when he would say his trademark, "Transform and roll out!"
Another one of the quotes I wrote about is a line said by the character Sayid Jarrah on the TV show LOST, which I happened to have covered extensively in my Master's Thesis for San Jose State University, which was about the portrayal of Muslims in media post-9/11. In that instance, the struggle was in figuring out how best to encompass the gist of my thesis while somehow boiling 80 pages down to 150 words.
There were some references to religious scriptures such as the Bible, Quran and the Bhagda vita in Geek Wisdom - Does this mean that "Geekdom" is universal and open to people of all faiths and religions (and no religion) even though most of the movies/comics/books featured in the book come from a Judeo-Christian (i.e. Mainstream American) perspective ?
I absolutely believe Geekdom is universal. I've long subscribed to the idea that you take your wisdom wherever you find it, and I think we do ourselves a huge disservice by dismissing these cultural artifacts out of hand as inherently devoid of merit simply because they have the word "pop" affixed in front of them. The fact is that our responses to these artifacts -- be they film, television books, what-have-you -- the resonance we find in them bespeaks their potential worth as, if not sources of wisdom themselves, then certainly as signposts to something bigger and deeper than us.
What do you think of people who put down "Jedi" or "Matrixism", etc. as their religion on Census forms (Australia, etc.) ? Is that taking their love of movies/comics too far? Is there a line one crosses when people are over-zealous fans, etc.?
Well, just on a personal level, stuff like that tends to strike me as a little nutty, and maybe taking things a bit far. On the other hand, the mere fact that people take these fictional worlds/realms/universes seriously enough to do stuff like that highlights not only the important role these fictions have come to play in our societal tapestry, but also the religious/spiritual void that exists in people's lives, such that they're seeking answers from a George Lucas or a JK Rowling or whoever.
Do you consider yourself a Geek or a Nerd? And Why?
Well, as someone who wears an Indiana Jones fedora as a regular part of his ensemble, and who knows far more about the various intricacies of the PLANET OF THE APES film series than I feel comfortable admitting in a public forum, the reflexive answer is yes. As to the why, that's a harder one to puzzle out. In his book SUPERGODS, author Grant Morrison makes the point that, given the human capacity to weave myths that continue to spin long after their creators have shuffled off this coil -- highlighting the immortal nature of the stories and the temporal nature of their creators -- one starts to wonder what is the real and what is the imaginary. To some extent, I think that explains why we're ALL geeks of some stripe or another. Whether that geekery be in service of the many iterations of the STAR TREK franchise, or the latest technological wizardry from Apple -- we all have an innate desire to be a part of something that's bigger than us, something to let us put our own small stamp of ownership on the great, unending stream of human myth-making.


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"Lord of Garbage" by Kim Fowley (Kicks Books, 150 pgs., $13.95)
Kim Fowley came out of a Hollywood that doesn't exist anymore, the Hollywood of Kenneth Anger and Ed Wood. Best known for cooking up the Runaways, he began working in the music business in the late 1950s and since then has turned up in more places than Woody Allen's Zelig, producing for Gene Vincent, writing with Warren Zevon and introducing John Lennon and the Plastic Ono Band when they played Toronto in 1969.
Fowley is now 73 and reportedly has been fighting bladder cancer, so it's no surprise that he might choose this moment to look back. But his memoir, "Lord of Garbage," may be the weirdest rock 'n' roll autobiography since ... well, I can't think of what.
The first of a projected three-volume set (Fowley claims the follow-ups have already been delivered), "Lord of Garbage" covers the first 30 years of its author's life, from his early years bouncing between a model mother and a B-movie actor father, through a high school membership in the 1950s gang the Pagans and on to his involvement as a songwriter and producer in 1960s L.A.
How much of it is true is hard to say, exactly: Written in bombastic prose, it follows the broad parameters of Fowley's biography while also insisting that, at the age of 1, his first words were: "I have a question. Why are you bigger than me?"
"Kim Fowley could talk at ten months," he tells us, "could read and write by one and a half."
It's no coincidence that he refers to himself in the third person, since "Lord of Garbage" is clearly the work of someone who considers himself larger than life. "You already know the genius music," Fowley declares in a brief head note. "Now, know the genius man of letters."
And yet, as self-congratulatory as that is, as sadly confrontational, it's also, in its own weird way, slightly thrilling — not unlike Fowley himself.
Indeed, what's most compelling about the book is not so much its air of self-hagiography but the fact that for all his posturing, Fowley does end up revealing some important things about himself.
More essential is his framing of rock 'n' roll as an art of survival, in spite, or even because, of tragedies such as those that befell Lennon, Elvis Presley, the Big Bopper, Buddy Holly and Ritchie Valens, to cite a few performers Fowley mentions here.
"I am better than Elvis," he concludes the book. "I am better than JFK. I am better than the Beatles. BECAUSE I EXIST!"


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Police in the city's Zone 2 station said a 51-year-old man was found at about 3 a.m. Sunday unconscious with multiple stab wounds at Fifth Avenue and Stevenson Street, Uptown.
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This engaging and accessible text addresses the fundamental question: What Is Computer Science? The book showcases a set of representative concepts broadly connected by the theme of information security, for which the presentation of each topic can be treated as a "mini" lecture course, demonstrating how it allows us to solve real problems, as well as how it relates to other subjects. The discussions are further supported by numerous examples and practical hands-on exercises. Features: presents a concise introduction to the study of algorithms and describes how computers work; introduces the concepts of data compression, and error detection and correction; highlights the role of data structures; explores the topic of web-search; reviews both historic and modern cryptographic schemes, examines how a physical system can leak information and discusses the idea of randomness; investigates the science of steganography; provides additional supplementary material at an associated website.
From the reviews: "The main audience of this textbook is students (either currently studying subjects related to CS or thinking about enrolling in that area of study) as well as teachers (who might use the book when preparing and developing courses and teaching materials). ... The book can facilitate independent learning. ... the book walks its readers through relevant and reasonably detailed examples, providing relatable ideas that will help them grasp these concepts." (Budi Arief, Computing Reviews, May, 2014)
Series: Undergraduate Topics in Computer Science
Audience: Professional
Format: Paperback
Language: English
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Investors on Wall Street were sitting on the sidelines ahead of the start of the final trading day of the week, and before the release of the latest growth data for the U.S. economy.
Ahead of today's market open, the Dow Jones industrial average index fell 0.14% to 14,632, the Standard & Poor's 500 index lost 0.21% to 1,578.30 and the Nasdaq 100 dropped 0.19% to 2,838.50.
Later today, the U.S. Commerce Department will release economic growth figures for the first three months of 2013. ...


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If history had worked out differently, the biopic Mozart's Sister argues, the strange tradition of casually referring to orchestral composers solely by surname would have hit a snag when it comes to "Mozart." Unmentioned in Milos Forman's splashy Amadeus was that Wolfgang was not the family's only freakish prodigy. His sister, Maria, colloquially known as "Nannerl," was also trained in the musical arts by their father, a tyrannical man depicted by writer-director René Féret as the 18th-century's version of a Michael Lohan. Five years older than her brother, she was schlepped around Europe to perform as a duo. Alas, as she grew too old to be a mere stunt act—and as her brother's star ascended—times less open to female empowerment dictated she must retire to a more ladylike existence.
Nannerl's sad tale is depicted as dirge in Mozart's Sister, with Nannerl (Marie Féret, the filmmaker's daughter) viewed as a teenager watching over the film's two hours as her dreams dissolve. Father Leopold (Marc Barbé) dissuades her from expanding her repertoire to the violin and organ, as those are "no instrument for a girl." ("You can have children," her mother "reassures" her.) Still, she tries to keep the flame going anyway, soon finding kindred spirits in another brother and sister pair. First, Nannerl meets Louise (Lisa Féret), a young, precocious aristocrat who's spent her whole life sequestered in a nunnery. This drives her to Louise's brother, a bored Dauphin who fills his time with a passion for art. The Dauphin adores Nannerl's pieces, but circumstances conspire for this to be another vocational dead end for our poor protagonist.
Though primarily operating as a feminist smackdown of less enlightened times, Mozart's Sister spends a fair amount of its time immersing itself in history, marveling over carriages that break if you traipse them all over Europe, the introduction of fancy new toilets and a period that turns its most moneyed populace into depressed hermits. It's less successful when it coyly suggests that maybe, but probably not, but maybe Nannerl had a hand in some of her brother's early compositions—a claim for which there's no evidence. But then, this is no Anonymous, in more ways than one.
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hello, I'm building up my first aluminum bike after working with steel for many years. Just curious whether torque specs for aluminum frames tend to be different and whether I should take extra care in specific areas like BB and seatpost.
Also, curious about how people measure torque when installing BB cups. I've got a Park BBT-9 and I typically apply a Herculean effort when doing BB cups rather than my basic strongman effort for other parts of the bike where I can actually measure torque with my torque wrench.
Are many people actually measuring torque when installing BB cups? If so, which wrench/adaptor are you using?