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It's not easy reducing the phenomenon of Viscount Palmerston to words.
Sep 26, 2011, Vol. 17, No. 02 • By BARTON SWAIM
"David Brown's multi-faceted Palmerston," says a blurb on the back of this volume, "in its archival mastery, scope and insight, outdistances any other." I thought I detected a note of ambiguity in that verb "outdistances," and I was right. Brown knows everything it's humanly possible to know about his subject, and he has documented that knowledge in well over 2,000 endnotes. But he has no gift for narrative, and the life of this extraordinary statesman often gets lost amid long explanations of complex historical matters—the creation of Belgium, the reasons for the Quadruple Alliance, and many other things of limited relevance to the subject.
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In Brown's defense, it should be said that Palmerston's must be a terrifically difficult life to write. When he died in 1865, two days shy of his 81st birthday, he had been in Parliament almost his entire adult life, much of it as either foreign secretary, home secretary, or prime minister. He was involved in virtually every major foreign question faced by Great Britain from the Napoleonic Wars to the (American) Civil War. He had a piercing intellect and wrote huge numbers of letters and diaries and policy memos; he was exceedingly charming and yet hated by subordinates; and both his energy and sexual drive were boundless. Putting the life of such a man between hard covers would tax the talents of even the most efficient biographer.
Henry Temple, later 3rd Viscount Palmerston, born in 1784, attended Harrow and caught the attention of the school's headmaster, so advanced was the boy's mind. Brown quotes from a letter written by a nine-year-old Henry to his father, asking for shooting lessons: He would be "most terribly laughed at," he says, "as it is reckoned almost a disgrace not to shoot, and indeed there is hardly another boy of my age here, that does not." He went on to Edinburgh University at the very pinnacle of that institution's prestige and influence; he studied under, and lodged with, Professor Dugald Stewart, the teacher of Walter Scott, Sydney Smith, James Mill, and many others.
Fresh from his studies, family connections guaranteed the young man a ministerial post in government; only he had to find a seat, and several attempts to get himself elected failed. At last he bought a pocket borough in the Isle of Wight for £4,000. The borough's owner agreed to the transaction on the strict condition that Palmerston "never set foot in the place." Spencer Perceval made him war minister, and he worked himself (and his staff) mercilessly and acquired a reputation for diligence and resourcefulness. His working habits were legendary: In 1818 a deranged ex-soldier shot him at point blank range, though his aim was faulty and Palmerston was only bloodied. When the doctor arrived, Palmerston made him wait while he finished a brief.
Notoriously, though, his life wasn't all work. He had many affairs, his diaries referring to encounters with the locution "A fine day" or "Another fine day." Contemporaries called him "Lord Cupid." His longest affair was with Emily Cowper, wife of Lord Cowper, whose death allowed the two to marry in 1839. Before the marriage, Lord Melbourne, Emily's brother and then prime minister, advised her that "you mustn't deceive yourself about it—if you do you must take the consequences." Yet Lord and Lady Palmerston made a durable and, for the most part, happy pair: Emily charmed her husband's allies and pacified his enemies. They never had any legitimate offspring, although three of Emily's children—William Cowper, later Lord Mount Temple; Emily, later the wife of the great philanthropist and Christian Zionist Anthony Ashley-Cooper, 7th Earl of Shaftesbury; and Frances, later wife of Viscount Jocelyn—were almost certainly Palmerston's.
He was among the most successful foreign ministers of the century. It is true, as Jasper Ridley says in a more readable Life than this one, that "in foreign policy, Palmerston acted on a very simple principle: to advance the interests of England. All other things had to be sacrificed to this end." For Palmerston, however, advancing England's interests meant, above all, fostering the birth and growth of limited constitutional government.
On the one hand, Palmerston's approach was utterly without illusion; he was the most "realistic" of diplomats. He had no faith in the power of gestures when interests were at stake; the growing hostility between Britain's allies and the Iberian states, he said in the 1830s, "is not one of words, but of things; not the effect of caprice or will, but produced by the force of occurrences."
On the other hand, he had the prescience to see that constitutionalism was Europe's best hope for peace. Britain, he wrote in a letter to Lord Melbourne, must "pursue a policy of our own, aim at objects of our own . . . act upon principles of our own, [and] use other govts as we can." Yet in the same letter he wrote,


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If you want to find Americans who think Obama is the greatest all-time prez, his second inauguration would be the place to look for them.
MRCTV's Dan Joseph caught up with Obama's most ardent fans last Monday in DC, and received some unsurprising answers to his question "where do you think President Obama will rank in terms of presidents when the history books are written?"
"Number one," said one women. "Number one in my book," stated a second woman. "Number one and Clinton number two," said a third.
Others were slightly more moderate in their praise: "On social issues I would put him way up with Lincoln," said one young woman, "but on other issues I'm not sure."
Several others put him "in the top three," along with Washington and Lincoln.
If you want a more scientific read on where Obama will rank among historic presidents, check out this analysis by stats guru Nate Silver. He predicts that Obama will eventually be regarded as at 17th best president - somewhere on the borderline "between good and average."

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I havent seen anything about this yet, but i ran into a problem with figuring out how to output my audio into my car stereo system. I was faced with geting a new radio with a aux input, until i searched tigerdirect.
They have this wireless audio link, which uses the power of your USB port (5v), and the output of your computer's audio, then transmits on the lower end of your FM band in stereo, you then can pick up that station on your car radio (or any radio near by!) and listen to it. Works great on mine.
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This week, we brought you a retrospective on The Offspring's landmark third album, Smash, which celebrates its 20th anniversary today. Frontman Dexter Holland offered some interesting, funny, rather self-depricating words on the band and where they were at that stage in their careers. More importantly, it gave you a little more insight into a band that you probably thought you knew everything about. Holland had plenty of stories about the making of the album that we couldn't cram into the main story, so we though we'd bring them to you now. Wanna know where that weird riff from "Come Out and Play" came from? Who was that guy who does the smooth voice over on the album's intro? Were Holland's lyrics for "Bad Habit" inspired by his own road rage? Find your answers here.
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Summary:November 19th, 2005, Haditha, Iraq. Iraqi insurgents bomb a convoy of US Marines, resulting in the death of their most popular officer. Enraged by this loss, his young Marine buddies carry out a brutal retaliation. Their violent house-searches lead to the massacre of 24 people, many of whom are women and children--tragic casualties of a war they cannot control. The Marines too are victims, attacked, wounded, and forced to respond in the way they have been trained. But when events occur at great speed and under extreme stress, can Marines in the line of fire be accused of murder?


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Chief Executive and President of the Executive Council of Hong Kong, Leung Chun-ying has dropped what trade union leaders see as the strongest hint yet that controls on imported overseas labour may be relaxed in a bid to ease the city's worker shortage, reports the South China Morning Post.
Mr Leung took to his blog to call on citizens to be aware of the shortage as unemployment continues to fall. He wrote that the government would: "Continue to develop the city's economy, including industries that need new blood from the grass-roots labour force, to provide more employment opportunities."
However, Mr Leung added that it was impossible for the city's workforce to keep growing. "Even though the government has been providing incentives for people to help themselves through employment, we have to notice that it is unlikely for the city to enlarge its labour force as we did in the past."
He supported his argument using the unemployment data released yesterday, which showed a rate of 3.2% for the three months from October to December last year, down -0.1 percentage points on the three-month period that ended in November. The city's workforce now numbers 3,760,400, a record high.
"The shortage of labour and land will be the two major factors hindering economic development. To keep the growth ... we have to take notice of the problem," Mr Leung wrote.
Commenting separately on the unemployment figures, Secretary for Labour and Welfare, Matthew Cheung Kin-chung said his department had recorded 1.2 million private sector vacancies last year, an all-time high and a +6.3% increase compared with 2012.


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Ghana's cedi held firm against the dollar on Monday due to light corporate demand for the greenback and recent inflows from mining companies, traders said.
The cedi-dollar rate was pegged at 1.9500-1.9540 on the interbank market, holding some slim gains from late last week, Jacob Brobbey, a trader with Barclays Bank Ghana, said.
"The Ghana cedi traded up versus the greenback last week but the 1.9500 support remained intact. We expect fresh attack on the 1.9500 key support today with Ghana cedi potentially testing the 1.9400 levels later in the week," he said.
He cited low corporate greenback demand and inflows of dollars from the mining sector as supporting factors for the local unit.
The cedi has been trading near 1.95 to the dollar for about a month, after the Bank of Ghana said it would intensify measures to stem the currency's roughly 30 percent loss against the dollar since January.
Another trader who asked not to be named quoted the cedi as trading in the band of 1.9530-1.9560 to the dollar and said he expected the cedi to remain broadly stable against the dollar with a slight bias to appreciate in the coming week. - Reuters
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Sirius Stiletto 100
Sirius has finally delivered its response to XM's current dominance of 'true' portable live radios several weeks after a formal announcement. Bringing flexibility to Sirius subscribers is the newly announced Stiletto 100, whose features are expressly designed for traveling listeners. Beyond the key feature of listening to live Sirius broadcasts without a car kit or home receiver, the Stiletto can record 6-hour blocks of any programming for later playback or 10 hours of individual songs from music stations. Up to 100 hours of total Sirius content can be stored on the radio's 2GB of internal flash storage. The Stiletto also features tight integration with Yahoo! Music: songs bookmarked during a live radio broadcast can be purchased later as WMA files when the user returns to a Windows PC and even transferred back to the player as permanent copies. Unprotected MP3 and WMA songs are also supported. Lastly, Sirius has incorporated WiFi to give the player access to the network's Internet radio services at any access point, keeping the user connected even if the satellite signal is blocked. The Stiletto 100 should ship by the end of this month for $349 (the product page currently lists an incorrect $379).


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This Christmas viewers can look forward to comedy specials from Mrs. Brown's Boys, Callan's Kicks, The Savage Eye and Mario Rosenstock; explosive drama from Fair City; heart warming specials from At Your Service To The Rescue and Una's Dream Ticket. Alongside brand new festive entertainment shows and documentaries including Mark Pollock's Unbreakable, When Ryan Met Niall, Man On Bridge, The Longford Phoenix, What's Another Year: The Life and Times of Shay Healy and Weather Beaten, a John Creedon weather special.
Plus we'll have our annual favourites including The RTÉ Sports Awards 2014, and Christmas Carols from Kilkenny. Big movie premières to entertain young and old across RTÉ television include Argo, Django Unchained, The Help, War Horse, Happy Feet Two, The Dark Knight Rises and Anna Karenina.
Meanwhile Kathryn Thomas will be ringing in 2015 and RTÉ One we'll be kicking off the New Year with a bang with Charlie, a trilogy of feature-length television dramas, based on real events, as well as the big return of The Voice of Ireland and an explosive hour-long episode of Fair City.
The phenomenon that is the award-winning Mrs Brown's Boysreturns to RTÉ One this Christmas for a double dose of mayhem and laughs. Christmas is just around the corner and Agnes already has her tinsel in a twist. Cathy's hiding something from her and the family are insisting upon a cost-cutting Secret Santa! And, after a spate of burglaries in Finglas, Agnes asks Buster Brady to fit a new alarm system.
It's Christmas at The Zoo, and narrator Tom Dunne is getting his skates on to join the zookeepers for a well earned day out at the ice-rink after another busy year taking care of the animals at Dublin Zoo.
Fair City fans can look forward to two separate hour long specials of their favourite soap over the festive season on Christmas day and Sunday, 4th January. Paul gets a surprise when an unexpected visitor shows up on his doorstep, Charlie struggles with his first Christmas without Esther, Pete tries to keep both his families happy on Christmas day and a gas leak at the Station bar has devastating consequences for one of the Carrigstown residents.
Donal Skehan's Kitchen Hero: Donal's Christmas Feast will have a Christmas theme with Donal visiting a turkey farm and a bakery selling mince pies while Rachel Allen will show us how to shake up your traditional dessert menu and serve up something a little different with some exciting flavours and aromas that will make your Christmas one to remember in Rachel Allen's Sweet Christmas.
Oliver Callan is back as Callan Kicks the Year returns for its second Christmas special outing with Dobbo at the helm of an acerbic and funny look at Ireland and the world in 2014.
Ireland's top hoteliers John and Francis Brennan are back to undertake their biggest project to date. This hour long special At Your Service To The Rescue, follows the brothers as they take on Padhraic Dormer's challenge to help Enable Ireland, a charity close to his heart.
RTÉ One also sees a host of special one-off documentaries and festive entertainment shows.
Unbreakable tells the inspirational story of Mark Pollock's amazing strength and positivity in the face of incredible obstacles throughout his life.
One Direction are the biggest pop phenomenon in history, in When Ryan Met Niall Ryan Tubridy goes to Mullingar to talk to some of the people who helped make Niall Horan the man he is today. Ryan then catches up with him during the middle of One Direction's sold out stadium tour of America for a back stage chat.
Man On Bridge tells the extraordinary story of legendary Dublin street photographer Arthur Fields. Having spent fifty years from the 1930s to the 1980s taking photographs on O'Connell Bridge, Arthur left a lasting impression on the lives of many Irish families and indeed on the fabric of the city itself.
As 2014 draws to a close, RTÉ News looks back at the stories that made the headlines in their News Review of the Year a year that roared in with storms and flooding, and went on to be dominated by protests over water charges; a year that saw a Garda Commissioner, a Minister for Justice and a Labour leader stand-down and saw politicians of many hues under pressure.
In Weather Beaten John Creedon is joined by Nuala Carey and George Lee as we look back at the remarkable year of weather in 2014 and the people in the eye of the storms.
On Christmas Morning, 2009, the people of Longford woke up to the devastating news that their beloved St Mel's Cathedral was engulfed by flames. In a Would You Believe? special The Longford Phoenix, RTÉ's Midlands Correspondent, Ciarán Mullooly, and Would You Believe? filmmaker, Birthe Tonseth, chart the long and arduous process of transforming the cathedral from a roofless ruin back to its former glory.
See a whole new side to your favourite stars as they team up with their dogs to compete in the Superstar Dogs arena in the ultimate team game in Superstar Dogs presented by Ray D'Arcy.
In What's Another Year: The Life and Times of Shay Healy Shay, along with friends, colleagues and family members, looks back on a long, distinguished and occasionally turbulent life and times.
Mary Kennedy presents this year's Christmas Eve carols from the atmospheric surroundings of Kilkenny Castle and features Donal Lunny , Zoe Conway, Máirtín Ó Connor, The Riptide Movement, Eimear Quinn, The Voice Squad, Hermitage Green, Fr Ray Kelly, Henry Shefflin and the RTÉ Concert Orchestra.
Midnight Mass and Eurovision Mass on Christmas Day both come from the newly-restored St. Mel's Cathedral in Longford.
Kathryn Thomas and Paddy McKenna will be joined by special guests to countdown the final moments of 2014 and ring in a brand new year with New Year's Eve Live on RTÉ One. Broadcast live from The House of Lords, the show will highlight the 3 NYE concert in College Green with artists including Kodaline.
The RTÉ Sports Awards in association with The Irish Sports Council and presented by Darragh Maloney will see a host of Irish sporting stars in attendance for one of the best sport events of the year.
It's a giant case of thrills, spills and body ache as we select the greatest moments and relive them in all their gruelling muddy glory in Ireland's Fittest Family: Tears & Triumphs presented by Mairead Farrell.
RTÉ One is the place to be for big movie premières this Christmas with Skyfall, Argo, Django Unchained, The Help, Madagascar 3, Marvel: The Avengers and Puss In Boots all airing over the Christmas period along with much-loved favourites It's A Wonderful Life, The Sound of Music, Chitty Chitty Bang Bang, High Society, North By North West , Raiders Of The Lost Ark and Indiana Jones and The Temple Of Doom.
January will see RTÉ One start the New Year with a bang - Charlie is a trilogy of feature-length television dramas, based on real events. The drama explores the emergence of modern Ireland through charting the rise and fall of the charismatic and divisive figure of Charles J. Haughey.
The Voice Of Ireland returns to our screens in January 2015. Bressie and Kian will be taking their seats on the spinning red chairs and joining them on the panel are two brand new coaches - Una Foden and Rachel Stevens.
In an explosive New Year Fair City hour-long special a gas leak at the Station bar has devastating consequences for one of the Carrigstown residents.
New presenter Angela Scanlon joins Joe Lindsay for a new season of the popular holiday review show, Getaways, beginning New Year's Day on RTÉ One.
Ahead of the new series Operation Transformation - 7 years & Counting revisits leaders from the very first series of Operation Transformation right through to last year.
Republic of Telly will rip Christmas telly to shreds while also featuring some seasonal sketches - including a nativity themed visit with Bridget and Eamon. Also the team's very first annual Doctor Ha starring all the cast!
Katherine Lynch - The Noughtie Years tells the true(ish) life story of the the rise to fame of Sheila Chic, Liz Hurley and Bernie Walsh while Mario Rosenstock returns to RTÉ2 this Christmas Eve with The Mario Rosenstock Christmas Special as Mario brings his favourite impressions and funniest characters back to the screen for one night only in front of a live audience.
Hey Ho, Let's Go is a brand new music comedy panel quiz show on RTÉ2. Presented by Dermot Whelan and joined by team captains John Colleary and Colin Murphy, the show is packed full of gags and musical trivia.
In Totes 2014 Eoghan McDermott fronts another rollicking romp through the top 20 showbiz, news and sports stories of 2014, aided and abetted by a smattering of famous faces, some of whom made the headlines that they'll actually be talking about!
This Christmas The Savage Eye: An Irish Guide To Failure will draw a damning but hilarious conclusion about Ireland and its people. . The show will revisit the most memorable sketches from the series and include a summary of the most pertinent questions asked about Ireland and the Irish people, all linked together by our trusty narrator, Dave McSavage
On TRTÉ, our dedicated programme strand for young people, there will be lots of exciting content this Christmas including a brand new series of Una's Dream Ticket, which will see The Saturdays Una Healy return to make dreams come true for some lucky boys and girls this Christmas. With a sprinkling of popstar magic, Una and The Saturdays are guaranteed to make this one of the most feel good shows on TV this Christmas as the long-held dreams and ambitions of the nation's youngsters become amazing realities! Plus Orla Walsh and Nick Sheridan take a look back at all the big news and sports stories of 2014 in the News2day Review of the year.
Relive the best bits from this year's Electric Picnic festival in Electric Picnic 2014 Highlights with main stage performances from Foals, The Pet Shop Boys, Chic, Paolo Nutini and Hozier.
Ed Sheeran Up Close - an exclusive with the hottest star of the moment, in conversation with Eoghan McDermott and featuring special music performances of his best loved hit songs from his recent 2FM concert.
Racing from Leopardstown is the highlight of RTÉ2's sporting Christmas featuring four day's live coverage of the Christmas Festival alongside a look back at Ireland's thrilling Six Nations win in Paris which sealed this year's title. The Thank GAA It's Friday team take a look back at Championship 2014 in a special programme Thank GAA It's 2014.
HAPPY FEET TWO (Christmas Eve, RTÉ2, 5.40pm) (2011, Animation) Elijah Wood, Robin Williams. Director: George Miller Mumble's son, Erik, is struggling to realize his talents in the Emperor Penguin world. Meanwhile, Mumble and his family and friends discover a new threat their home - one that will take everyone working together to save them. (HD)
WAR HORSE (Christmas Eve, RTÉ2, 7.25pm) (2011, War/Drama) Jeremy Irvine, Emily Watson. Director: Steven Spielberg. Young Albert enlists to serve in World War I after his beloved horse is sold to the cavalry. Albert's hopeful journey takes him out of England and to the front lines as the war rages on. (HD)
ANNA KARENINA (Christmas Day, RTÉ2, 10.40pm) (2012, Drama/Romance) Kiera Knightly, Jude Law. Director: Joe Wright. In late-19th-century Russian high society, St. Petersburg aristocrat Anna Karenina enters into a life-changing affair with the dashing Count Alexei Vronsky. (HD)
SNOW WHITE AND THE HUNTSMAN ( St Stephen's Night, Friday 26 December, RTÉ2, 9pm) (2012, Fantasy) Kristen Stewart, Chris Hemsworth. Director: Rupert Sanders. In a twist to the fairy tale, the Huntsman ordered to take Snow White into the woods to be killed winds up becoming her protector and mentor in a quest to vanquish the Evil Queen. (HD)
THE DARK KNIGHT RISES (Monday 29 December, RTÉ2, 9pm) (2012, Action/Adventure) Christian Bale, Tom Hardy. Director: Christopher Nolan. When Bane, a former member of the League of Shadows, plans to continue the work of Ra's al Ghul, the Dark Knight is forced to return after an eight year absence to stop him. (HD)
Christmas on RTÉjr sees the schedule packed full of old classics and new favourites sprinkled with films and songs about the holiday season.
Following on from a public callout, 12 children from around the country were selected and brought to the studios to be filmed in the RTÉjr Winter Song, our winter warming animated video that will broadcast throughout the Christmas schedule.
We have all the ingredients to make a very special Christmas on Twigín. The tree house will be transformed into a magical winter wonderland with lots of seasonal fun. We have a long list of fun lined up, we will be making yummy cookies to leave out for Santa, while decorating the Christmas tree the fairy goes missing and Muc has his first visit to Santa. Muireann and Bláithín will be busy in the flower patch helping Santa and the elves wrap all the presents for Christmas. Séamus is having a laugh writing the jokes for all the Christmas Crackers.
Dive into the holiday spirit with RTÉjr viewers as they take us into their world of winter magic in Christmas Baubles. This series of sixteen two minute films dips into a range of activities which excite and delight children around the country in the run-up to the Christmas season.
Do you have a theatrical ambition? Well, if so, RTÉjr is the place for you! Watch our mentors work their magic with child performers from all over Ireland in this long-running arts performance series. Especially for the Christmas the Beo Show Virtuoso brings special celebratory and Around the world themed shows including Clap Dance, Gospel Music and Norwegian Harps featuring artists like Fiachna Ó Braonain, Celine Byrne and Finghin Collins.
This Christmas on Tell Me A Story we'll be encountering an enchanting new set of specially-written stories. As well as enjoying some winter warming tales and Christmas crackers, we'll also hear about the Hindu festival of Diwali and the story of a little girl called Fei who is bringing some Chinese dumplings to her Granny. With stories in English, Irish, Hindi and Mandarin, the holiday season on Tell Me A Story will be teeming with all your favourite faces including Bryan Dobson and Ryan Tubridy reading stories by writers like David Maybury and Dee Roycroft. So sit back, get comfy and lose yourself in our festive fables.
Other specials this Christmas include Julia Donaldson's Gruffalo's Child, Room On The Broom and the much loved family movie Land Before Time, along with special Christmas editions of all our favourites including Gigglebiz, Fluffy Gardens Christmas, The Cow that Almost Missed Christmas, Octonauts, The Great Christmas Rescue and Peter Rabbits' Christmas Tale.
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Hull FC skipper Gareth Ellis says he and his teammates will be inspired by the country's Armed Forces when taking on former side Wakefield Trinity Wildcats at the KC Stadium on Monday.
The England international will lead out the Black and Whites in a special edition camouflage shirt for the match, which will kick-off the club's exciting Charity Week plans.
With a particular focus on raising money for the Phoenix House Recovery Centre in Catterick, which offers support to members of the Armed Forces who have become wounded, injured or sick in the service of their country, Ellis says there will be no lack of motivation in the Hull camp going into the game.
"I can think of few worthier causes than helping those who have been wounded while serving their country and it's been an honour to have the chance to meet a few of them," he said.
"What they do is on a whole other level to what we do as professional players. At the end of the day, we're just playing a sport but they are out there protecting us and any little thing we can do, I know the lads will get right behind it.
"To see what some of these people are going through really puts life into perspective and whilst we get down when we lose, it makes you realise how lucky we are to be doing what we do.
"I also think it's a great idea to be wearing the Armed Forces camouflage shirt for the match and hopefully we can do it justice by playing well in front of our own fans and picking up an important win."
Tickets for the game are available from the KC Stadium ticket office or by calling 01482 505 600 with the Black and Whites offering discounted tickets costing £10 to members of the Armed Forces with the relevant ID.
For further information on the club's Charity Week plans and how you can get involved, visit www.hullfc.com
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Hull FC skipper Gareth Ellis says he and his teammates will be inspired by the country's Armed Forces when taking on former side Wakefield Trinity Wildcats at the KC Stadium on Monday.


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Every Sunday (and the occasional weekday) Spiritual Guidance offers holy and discipline priests advice on how to wield the holy light and groove to the disco night. Your hostess Dawn Moore will provide the music.
I'm the fish girl.
I never wanted it to be this way. I never wanted to be that girl. You know, the fish girl: the woman in the raid who takes it upon herself to make sure all her fellow raiders are eating right by supplying Fish Feast after Fish Feast. Sure, sometimes it's a fish guy (in fact, just the other day my heal captain joked that he had brought Capri Sun and orange slices for the raid) but usually it's a woman. I guess it's a maternal thing, or maybe it's wanting to save time by always going in with max buffs. Whatever it is, I wasn't always like this. In fact, I used to wonder why my raid leader's wife would so willingly spend her feasts on our raid as we wiped all over 3-drake Obsidian Sanctum. I admired her generosity, particularly because I felt they were going to waste on stupid mistakes, and her efforts deserved better.
Then one day, after I had moved onto another guild, I found myself surrounded by raiders who were lacking vital nutrients in their diets. That's how it began: first I was helping with the fishing, then I started spending my own precious spices. The first day I laid a feast in a raid, I felt my feminist side cringe. But before I go off on that tangent, let me clarify that this article isn't about fish (not exclusively anyway), it's about the various consumables available to priest healers.
For veteran raiders, different consumables are probably nothing new, but if you're fresh to raiding the idea (or the available options) might be foreign. I remember when I first started raiding I didn't flask because I didn't know I had the option to. Even as a noob, I wanted to do everything I possibly could to be considerate to my fellow raiders. I was already accustomed to max enchanting my gear from arena, so most of my efforts consisted of trying to buy or craft PvE upgrades to my resilience gear; flasks weren't even on my radar. Then one day, when my raid team was hitting its head against a boss, my best mage friend opened trade with me and gave me a flask. I read the description and asked him if should use it right then. "Yes, absolutely." And I've stocked up on consumables since.
I view consumables as a form of customization, like gearing, gemming, or enchanting. Each encounter is different, and by toting around a lot of consumable items I can customize my character for the demands of different bosses. It's infinitely cheaper than swapping out gems each fight (unless you're a JC maybe) and ideal if you don't have different gear sets. To me, finding the perfect combination of food, flask, cloak enchant, and trinket so that I'm most effective as a healer, is one of my favorite games inside the game. Perhaps viewing it as an encounter-by-encounter puzzle to solve is something exclusive to me (I am easily amused, after all) but knowing the options you have available might help you on a fight your raid is having trouble with.
Let's look at the different options, starting with flasks.
- Flask of the Frost Wyrm -- This flask probably needs no introduction since it is the most popular. This is the best option you have for throughput. 125 spellpower is more than 5 epic spellpower gems, so the buff is definitely a huge boost. I use this flask as much as I can, usually choosing to swap out a food buff or cloak enchant before I switch to a regen flask.
- Flask of Pure Mojo -- This flask isn't often given enough credit because I think most people prefer the extra output from Flask of the Frost Wyrm. Pure Mojo has its place though. When my guild first started working on Iron Council hard mode last spring, I immediately noticed mana would be an issue. I took it upon myself to stock up on these flasks (as well as mp5 food) and as such, was able to make it through to the end of the kill without going out of mana. I remember throughout the 'headbashing' phase of the progression, my fellow healers were desperately calling for Innervates and Mana Tide Totem because they couldn't make it through all of phase 3. I, on the other hand, got put in group 4 (where there was no Mana Tide Totem) and kept healing my heart out. When I suggested people switch to this flask to alleviate mana issues, some of the healers responded with disdain, but when everyone finally switched over to a regen flask we got the kill.
- Flask of Distilled Wisdom -- If the Flask of Pure Mojo isn't enough mana regeneration for you, this flask is the regen flask for the most dedicated raider. The idea is that since mana regeneration cooldowns and replenishment work off our mana pool, more mana from intellect will equate to more regen. Disc priests also benefit from the extra intellect because of the Mental Strength talent. These flasks will be harder to obtain due to the materials, but if you're the sort of player who wants the best of the best, I'm sure the benefits will justify the costs.
For those of you wanting even more customization options, two elixirs (one battle and one guardian) will give you a greater diversity of buffs, but will not persist through death like flasks. I like to use elixirs during farm content since the likelihood of dying is much lower. Here are some good options to consider.
- Battle elixir: Spellpower Elixir, Elixir of Lightning Speed, Elixir of Deadly Strikes, and Guru's Elixir.
- Guardian elixir: Elixir of Mighty Thoughts, Elixir of Mighty Mageblood, and Elixir of Spirit.
- Runic Mana Potion -- The utility of this potion should need no explanation. That being said, consider this a reminder to stock up if you're running low.
- Potion of Nightmares -- I love this potion. It's certainly not for every fight, but when you can spare 6 seconds and non-movement, it's much better than a normal mana potion. As I write this, I am suddenly struck by a question I do not know the answer to. I will test it out this coming raid week, but I encourage anyone interested to do the same: Is the Nightmare Slumber buff given by this potion, broken by fear effects such as Onyxia's Bellowing Roar or Queen Lana'thel's Incite Terror? If anyone isn't locked out for the week, and is interested in testing this, please leave a comment with what you find out!
- Firecracker Salmon / Tender Shoveltusk Steak / Fish Feast -- These food options all give priests the same spellpower bonus. Personally, I do not use this particular food buff since I've never seen 46 spellpower make the difference between saving or not saving a target I was healing. If you value overall throughput though, this is going to be your food buff of choice.
- Spicy Fried Herring / Mighty Rhino Dogs -- When I said earlier that I try to swap out a food buff before a spellpower flask, this is what I was referring to. This is ideal for endurance boss fights or when your gear doesn't quite make the mark and you have to cast a lot more to heal up your targets.
- Imperial Manta Steak / Very Burnt Worg -- This is the food I use most. 40 haste might not be much if you're in the best of the best gear, but it's a lot when you have little or none. Since haste effects GCD, casted, and channeled spells, I feel a haste food buff is the best way to put my targets first. Depending on your own opinions or raid role, this might vary, but it's nice to have a few of these around.
- Spicy Blue Nettlefish / Spiced Worm Burger -- Crit food is invaluable when your gear is awful and you don't have any to proc all of those important talent abilities. I used to eat nothing but Spiced Worm Burgers (back when they were Wyrm Burgers) but now that my gear is better I don't feel the need to purposefully stack crit. Crit can do a lot for your throughput though, so depending on your preferences this might still be a good alternative option to the 46 spellpower food buffs.
- Cuttlesteak -- I haven't heard of anyone using this food since before Ulduar, but it's there as an option if you didn't know about it.
Oh, and to all the other fish girls and fish guys out there: I salute you.
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Pine View alumni Louis Garrett (6-foot-6, 215 pounds) and Jordan Rex (6-8, 230), along with junior college forward Darius Williams (6-8, 225) and returned missionary Nate Ensign (6-9, 200) signed national letters of intent with DSU.
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It's the end of June, so right about now you've probably gorged on your fair share of cake and joined in on the Electric Slide more times than you'd care to admit. Ah yes, true signs that wedding season is in full swing.
Even if your datebook hasn't been filled with "I do" plans we bet you've still been following the merriment via celebrities. After all, this year has already seen some of the most amazing ceremonies of all time.
Yes, mostly we mean Kimye but there have also been some pretty spectacular weddings that have gone viral recently. (And in no way do we mean the one where the bride tied her newborn baby to her wedding dress—that was just scary!).
Here's our roundup of the most amazing pop culture weddings of all time:
1. Kim Kardashian & Kayne West: Let's not act like this wasn't Hollywood's royal wedding—because it was! First the rapper and reality star threw a truly over-the-top pre-wedding dinner at the Palace of Versace and the next day the duo jetted off to Florance, Italy to officially tie the knot. Oh, and just for the record their first kiss picture was the most-liked Instagram ever.
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2. Kate Middleton & Prince William/Princess Diana & Prince Charles: Now on to the real royal wedding—both of them. The British monarchy's lavish ceremonies (first in 1981 and then in 2011) captivated the entire world by bringing fairy tales to life better than Disney. Don't ask us to pick a favorite because it's a perfect tie in our hearts.
3. JK Wedding Entrance Dance: Who could forget the most viral wedding video of all time? You know the one. Where the entire wedding party dances up the aisle to Chris Brown's "Forever." It's a true gem that even got it's own parody on The Office and began the dawn of the silly YouTube nuptials. So long, Mendelssohn's wedding march!
4. Tom Cruise & Katie Holmes: Before there was Kimye there was TomCat. A romance that started in couch-jumping joy and ended in a surprising split seven years later. But before the heartbreak, the duo enjoyed a star-studded wedding in Italy in 2006 with A-list guest such as Will Smith, Jennifer Lopez and Victoria and David Beckham.
5. David & Victoria Beckham: Speaking of those two Brits, they definitely make our list. The Spice Girl and the soccer star created a royal wedding of their own—complete with red velvet thrones and a golden bridal crown—that cost nearly $1 million back in 2004.
6. The Harry Potter Wedding: Now on to nuptials without pomp and circumstance. The Internet seems to be enjoying nerdy weddings as of late. Last year a Shrek-themed ceremony went viral (green paint and all!) and last month photos of two "wizards" trading vows became a major story. We're all for this new trend as long as no one decides to have a Red Wedding theme.
7. Sean Parker's Wedding: In that same vein, the Napster creator also went with a theme—one that cost a whopping $4.5 million. The social media billionaire and Alexandra Lenas tied the knot in a Lord of the Rings-inspired celebration in Big Sur, California earlier this year. All 364 guest wore costumes, though the post-wedding bliss was slightly spoiled due to some environmental concerns (Parker provided $2.5 million in funds to restore the area afterwards).
8. Ellen DeGeneres & Portia de Rossi: The first and only same-sex couple whose ceremony landed on the cover of a major magazine, the blond partners traded vows in an intimate fête at their LA home. The duo's romantic wedding video was first shown on The Ellen DeGeneres Show, naturally, and has since racked up millions of hits views online. Just watch, we promise it will warm your heart maybe even cause some happy tears.
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$9.95 • Every so often I will eat a dish that perfectly sums up a restaurant, such as the Our Local Hero from Avenues Bistro on Third. The sandwich layers fresh mozzarella, Italian speck, a type of prosciutto, and Italian sausage from two of Utah's finest purveyors of artisan meats (Frody Volgger and Cristiano Creminelli), then heaps on fresh vegetables such as romaine, red onion, roasted bell pepper and a deeply flavored balsamic reduction, the whole affair delivered on densely textured focaccia bread. Your only regret will be wishing more sandwiches were created with as much care and love.
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A reception was held at Dutchess Community College recently to honor six students who won the school's Architectural Design Competition.
Arlington High's Annelise Vasti, Danielle Carollo, Shane Ryan and Josh Azukus were the winners of first, second and third place and an honorable mention respectively. Robert Spadaccini and Jordan White of Webutuck High received honorable mention.
Students submitted designs for a single-family home, judged by architects Paul Pilon and Stephen Whalen.
Mount Saint Mary College salutes 9 retirees
Mount Saint Mary College and President Kevin E. Mackin honored nine retirees.
Mary Spear retired from the Curtin Memorial Library after 13 years; Joseph Nunnari, from the natural sciences department, retired after 13 years; Karen Baldwin, from the nursing department, retired after eight years; Beth Roeper, in the health services department, retired after 20 years; Iris Turkenkopf, vice-president for academic affairs retired after 39 years; Theresa Lewis, of the education department, retired after eight years; Reva Cowan, chair of education, retired after 13 years; Harry Steinway, vice-president for student affairs, retired after nearly 30 years and Karen Eberle-McCarthy, arts and letters, retired after 37 years.


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Greek lawmakers approved the country's 2013 austerity budget early today, an essential step in Greece's efforts to persuade its international creditors to unblock a vital rescue loan installment without which the country will go bankrupt.
The budget passed by a 167-128 vote in the 300-member Parliament. It came days after a separate bill of deep spending cuts and tax hikes for the next two years squeaked through with a narrow majority following severe disagreements among the three parties in the governing coalition.
Prime Minister Antonis Samaras pledged that the spending cuts will be the last Greeks have to endure.
"Just four days ago, we voted the most sweeping reforms ever in Greece," he said. "The sacrifices (in the earlier bill and the budget) will be the last. Provided, of course, we implement all we have legislated. ''
"Greece has done what it was asked to do and now is the time for the creditors to make good on their commitments," he stressed.
Athens says that with the passage of the two bills, the next loan installment, worth about $40 billion, should be disbursed. Without it, the government has said it will run out of cash on Friday, when $6.35 billion worth of treasury bills mature.
Finance ministers from the 17-nation eurozone are meeting in Brussels later today, with Greece high on the agenda. However, German Finance Minister Wolfgang Schaeuble has indicated it is unlikely that the ministers will decide on the disbursement at that meeting.
"We all ... want to help Greece, but we won't be put under pressure," Schaeuble told the weekly newspaper Welt am Sonntag.
Schaeuble said the so-called troika of debt inspectors likely won't deliver their report on Greece's reform program by today. The creditors also want to see what the debt inspectors have to say about Greece's debt sustainability.
But speaking minutes before the vote, Samaras pledged the bailout funds would be disbursed "on time."
Finance Minister Yannis Stournaras also stressed the precariousness of Greece's cash reserves, with the treasury bills due on Friday.
"Without the help of the European Central Bank, the refunding of these treasury bills from the banking system will lead the private sector to complete suffocation," Stournaras said.
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The Biglaw Firms With The Biggest Drops In Attorney Headcount (2015)
Some of these drops in headcount are stunning — we're talking more than 20 percent.
* Ex-House Speaker Dennis Hastert, most recently of Dickstein Shapiro, finally found a lawyer to represent him in his sex scandal cover-up. His new lawyer may not be "the brightest guy in the world," but he does do white-collar defense at Sidley Austin, so there you go. [National Law Journal]
* Oopsie! A Tennessee lawyer is currently being held on $15 million bail because he allegedly solicited an undercover police officer to kill his estranged wife. He even gave the guy a "down payment for the murder." We wonder how much he thought his spouse was worth dead. [Nashville Sun Times]
* In times like these, you're going to need a great network in order to get a job after law school, and some schools are superior to others in that department. Check and see if your alma mater made the grade on this ranking. [Business Insider via GraduatePrograms.com]
* Concordia Law just received the gift that keeps on giving from the ABA — provisional accreditation. The news came just in time for its nine remaining third-year students to graduate and take the bar exam (everyone else transferred out). [Idaho Statesman]
* Kalief Browder, a man used as an example of our broken justice system, was sent to Riker's Island when he was 16 years old. He never had a trial, and was never convicted, but still spent three years in jail. He recently committed suicide. RIP. [New York Times]
* A litigant with a Supreme pimp hand? Darius Clark, the man whose child-abuse case — which is currently before SCOTUS — will determine whether teachers may testify of behalf children, was indicted for allegedly running a prostitution ring from jail. [Northeast Ohio Media Group]
* Judge Mark Fuller of the Middle District of Alabama was arrested last summer on domestic violence charges after his wife confronted him about an alleged affair with a law clerk. What a gent! He'll be resigning from the bench August 1. [USA Today]
* You can roll your eyes at Rand Paul all you want, but several key parts of the Patriot Act expired shortly after midnight because the Senate was unable to reach a deal to extend it. (FYI, DOJ may still use grandfathered privacy-poaching techniques.) [New York Times]
* "Nothing changes. The system is disgusting. There is no due process." Do you want to read the story that made Cuba's government ban an American legal journalist from any further coverage of the country's court system? Of course you do. [Daily Business Review]
* "I can't preserve caution in my delight with Ruth." This is what retired Justice David Souter wrote about Justice Ruth Bader Ginsburg's performance after her first week on the bench. He already knew back then that she was no-no-no-NOTORIOUS. [Boston Globe]
* Ex-House Speaker Dennis Hastert, who recently resigned from Dickstein Shapiro following his indictment, was allegedly paying a former student "hundreds of thousands of dollars" to keep quiet about past sexual abuse at the politician's hands. [New York Times]
* Beau Biden, former state attorney general of Delaware, major in the Delaware Army National Guard's JAG Corps, and son of Vice President Joe Biden, RIP. [Washington Post]
This profile makes the case for Elena Kagan to be your new favorite Justice. (Don't worry RBG, you'll always be first in Staci's heart.) [American Prospect]
* The lateral partner wheel of fortune has taken another spin; Cozen O'Conner has added 8 lawyers from Dickstein Shapiro's state Attorneys General practice group, that's almost the entirety of the group. [National Law Journal]
* Speaking of lateral partner moves, are they worth it when clients get fed up with the disruption and potential conflicts that these moves cause? [Law360]
* After the scathing DOJ report detailing injustice, the City of Ferguson needs some quality lawyering. They got it in Winston & Strawn chairperson, Dan Webb, but it won't come cheap. [American Lawyer]
* After egregious discovery delays caused a district judge to enter a default judgment as to liability against the defendant, a French drone maker, a jury awarded $7.8 million in damages in a patent infringement case. [Legal Intelligencer]
* Loretta Lynch makes her first official trip as Attorney General, to Baltimore to meet with community leaders, police, and the family of Freddie Gray. [NPR]
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* Dickstein Shapiro's IP practice was raided by Manatt Phelps & Phillips, and now the struggling firm is down one practice group coleader thanks to its partner defections. [Am Law Daily]
* Contrary to popular belief, O'Melveny & Myers is not opening a Portland office. Instead, the firm is setting up a temporary shop to work on a local patent trial. [Portland Business Journal]
* You can turn an IPO into a gold mine for your firm using this one weird trick. Discover how you can turn that one deal into your future. Prepare to be shocked. [Law360 (sub. req.)]
* Now isn't the best time to enroll in law school. It's also not the best time to rank law schools as "top" schools based on enrollment alone. Seriously, have you even heard of all of these law schools? [Birmingham Business Journal]
* Thanks to this Georgia appellate ruling, parents may now be held responsible for what their silly little children who weren't supposed to be on Facebook are posting on Facebook. Dislike. [WSJ Law Blog]
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From left: Melissa Moriyama, 17; Mary Caguimbal, 17; Cathy Tran, 17 and Allyza Payongayong, 16, prepare to deliver Girl Scout cookies Wednesday from order they took at North Salinas High School. The teens are members of Girl Scout Troop 33041 in north Salinas.
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Let's say, I need to leave some gear for my buddy. I leave it, let's say under that bush near that road at Mogilevka. How much time does he have to pick it up?
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|The effect of static pressure on the strength of inertial cavitation events.
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|Recent investigations of cavitation in fluids pressurized up to 30 MPa found that the intensity of light emissions increased by 1000-fold over that measured for single bubble sonoluminescence. A series of measurements is reported here to extend this original work by resolving the static pressure dependence of the shock wave and light emissions from the first and the most energetic collapses, along with the total shock wave energy and light emissions for the event. Each of these parameters was found to increase with the static pressure of the fluid. Furthermore, the energy of these shock wave and light emissions was found to increase in proportion to the stored acoustic energy in the system. These findings were corroborated using the Gilmore equation to numerically compute the work done by the liquid during the bubble collapse. The overall findings suggest that the increased collapse strength at high static pressure is due to the increased tension required to generate inertial cavitation, and not an increased pressure gradient between the interior of the vaporous bubble and the surrounding liquid.
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Grey's Anatomy Season 10 Spoilers: Which Couple Could Be "Finally Done For Good"?
When Grey's Anatomy Season 9 came to an end, many couples were in flux. Callie and Arizona finished the finale with an all-out screaming match, and Owen and Cristina broke up again after factoring in kids... again. So, what's to come for these pairings in Season 10?
While all four actors have spoken out about what could happen when the show returns, a fresh perspective is good, too. Star Jesse Williams (Jackson Avery) opened up with his own speculation for one couple recently, explaining to Cocoa Fab that next year is "really all about how Cristina and Owen end up." In his opinion, "They're actually finally done, maybe they're finally done for good."
Eek! Considering that Jesse has an insider's perspective on the show, we'll take his insight to heart. However, we are more focused on the good things that happened in the finale. In addition to Meredith and Derek having a healthy baby boy named Bailey, Jackson and April maybe got back together — or at least April admitted her true feelings. What will happen with that next season?
Reflecting on last season, Jesse said, "For my character, I think you saw him handle things romantically, you saw him handle that professionally taking his work seriously being asked to be surgeon, taking the lead, standing up to his co-workers in a way that you haven't seen before, telling them no, telling them he disagrees, taking surgeries, taking the lead against Arizona and some other people earning their respect." Basically, in a long, run-on way, there's a lot that can stem from his problems last season. Will that include breaking up with intern Stephanie and getting together with April? Only time will tell.
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Image Sue Scott - Circalittoral cliff face with dense brachiopods Neocrania anomala and Terebratulina retusa, the anemone Protanthea simplex and the ascidian Ciona intestinalis. Loch Duich, Highland. Image width ca 1 m.
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CR.LCR.BrAs.NeoPro recorded () and expected () distribution in Britain and Ireland (see below)
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Large shallow inlets and bays
The biotope has a limited distribution and exists in rather restricted and specialised conditions. It is unlikely that the biotope is particularly important for other species in terms of, for example, habitat or food source.
The biotope SCR.NeoPro is recorded as uncommon and the two sub-biotopes are recorded as scarce.
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Jackson, A. 2005. Neocrania anomala and Protanthea simplex on very sheltered circalittoral rock. Marine Life Information Network: Biology and Sensitivity Key Information Sub-programme [on-line]. Plymouth: Marine Biological Association of the United Kingdom. [cited 29/11/2015]. Available from: <http://www.marlin.ac.uk/habitatimportance.php?habitatid=5&code=2004>


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There are certain things you expect to see at training camp. Big hits, deep catches, some injuries and the Cowboys have had those through the first week-plus inside the Alamodome.
But Sunday was a different day.
It started off with Terence Newman and Wade Phillips' wife, Laurie, doing the tango in the end zone before the practice. In between, Kim Kardashian, Miles Austin's significant other, made her training camp debut, Ronald McDonald paraded through the stands and Newman and Bradie James signed autographs … during practice.
Players were looking forward to tonight because of the 1 a.m. curfew that Phillips imposed. They had a chance to explore San Antonio a little bit and grab dinner at some local restaurants rather than the team hotel.
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Canadiens interested in Brad Richards?
CKAC is reporting that the Montreal Canadiens may have interest in the Dallas Stars Brad Richards and Matt Niskanen. HTR feels that if this is so it would represent a change in direction away from the Lecavailer chase to possibly a more realistic offensive option for the Canadiens.
If was not mentioned what the Candiens may will be willing to trade for Richards however HTR feels that Richards Richards may not be the answer for the Habs. Richards has a long term contract that would saddle the team for many years and he is not known for his goal scoring abilities, he is more of a passer. With that being said, it would be interesting to see how he would fit on Kovalev's wing.
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The Convention on Biological Diversity that emerged from the 1992 Rio Earth Summit was designed to strike a balance between the need to protect biodiversity, the desire to find and use new genetic resources for industrial and pharmaceutical research and the hope of compensating native people for the genetic riches they've stewarded.
Unfortunately, it hasn't worked very well. Biopiracy has become a major problem, despite efforts to protect native patent rights through the documentation of prior art
Now, as Nature reports, there's a move afoot to create a new system which would make both prospecting and the defense of native genetic rights easier. And some projects employing this new appraoch are proving successful:
"Phyllis Coley, a plant ecologist at the University of Utah in Salt Lake City, launched a bioprospecting project in Panama to look for potential drugs against the parasites that cause malaria, leishmaniasis and Chagas' disease. Today, the project has evolved into a network of six laboratories, employing ten senior scientists, nearly 60 technicians and training dozens of local students.
"From the start, Coley ensured that the project was deeply rooted in Panama. All its research is done there. Laboratories have been created, staff trained and more affordable assays developed to test plant samples for activity. Project managers are meticulous about transparency: each time a sample is to be transported out of the country, approval is sought from the Panama National Authority on the Environment."


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New Mexico fired head coach Mike Locksley in September, and now nearly two months later it seems the school has found Locksley's replacement. According to the school's official Twitter feed, former Notre Dame head coach Bob Davie will be New Mexico's new head coach..
New Mexico also tweeted a few minutes later that the press conference will be on Thursday, not Wednesday.
Davie spent five seasons as Notre Dame's head coach from 1997 to 2001, and went 35-25 in that span, with an 0-3 record in bowl games. His stint in South Bend was his first as a head coach, and he hasn't coached anywhere since, instead deciding to work in television.
What drove Davie to want to get back into head coaching nearly a decade later, I'm not sure, but even if he is rusty, he can't do much worse than Locksley did at New Mexico. Locksley went 2-26 at New Mexico and caused more headlines off the field than on it.
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New Mexico hires Bob Davie
Posted on: November 16, 2011 1:11 pm
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Posted on: November 16, 2011 7:17 pm
New Mexico hires Bob Davie
That comment is absurd. The Notre Dame schedule is consistently out of the top 20 and this year will not be an exception. As you look at their schedule, the easy money shows they were or will be favored in every game this year, except for Stanford.
If you want to get into recruiting classes, ND consistently ranks in the top 10 every year according to the experts. Somehow, either the recruiting services can't evaluate talent or the talent that goes to ND dries up once the kids matriculate. Your rationale is flawed in a lot of different ways. Can you imagine three top five recruiting classes in a row? How many of those kids actually pan out? You have an attrition rate for academics, a transfer rate for other issues, kids leaving school early, career ending injuries and the list continues. Kelly is a good coach, but he has lost games to inferior opponents more than he has won games against the best competition (i.e. top 10 programs). As I said earlier, ND doesn't play a top 10 or 20 schedule and they still can't win. It's a crapshoot dukey. I am just saying...
South Florida - 5-4
Michigan - 8-2
Michigan St. - 8-2
Pittsburgh - 5-5
Purdue - 5-5
Air Force - 5-5
Navy - 4-6
Wake Forest 5-5
Maryland - 2-8
Boston College 3-7
Total Opponent Record To Date : 58-51
Nary a tough schedule of opponents. Against teams with good records (7-3 or above records) 1 Win and 2 losses.
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Posted on: November 16, 2011 5:25 pm
New Mexico hires Bob Davie
I echo everyone's comments that this a good hire. Bob Davie will bring respectability back to New Mexico's program like what Steve Alford has done with the Men's Basketball program.
Since: Sep 11, 2006
Posted on: November 16, 2011 5:11 pm
New Mexico hires Bob Davie
Bob Davie? Yea, I no longer have to listen to his less than intelligent and monotone babble during games on ESPN. He was a loser at ND and he will be at NM. The guy has no imagination and is a very poor judge of talent. He is going someplace where he will be even more limited. God help you folks at NM. I hope you did not over pay for him and I truly hope that I am wrong about him because I love New Mexico. (The state)
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Posted on: November 16, 2011 4:53 pm
New Mexico hires Bob Davie
He won't be asked to play the same teams ND plays...the MWC isn't exactly loaded with great teams. He'll be a better fit at UNM than he was at ND. Additionally, the folks in Albuquerque don't have the expectations those in ND have...besides he comes in after one of, if not THE, worst coaches in NCAA history.
Since: Aug 19, 2010
Posted on: November 16, 2011 4:48 pm
New Mexico hires Bob Davie
Do you even have the authority to hire anyone? I'm sure there are plenty of other programs that would be happy to hire Jimmy Johnson so that doesn't really help your argument. ANYONE is going to be an improvement...there is no where to go but up with this program. Locksley was an embarassement and a disgrace.
Since: Mar 14, 2010
Posted on: November 16, 2011 4:15 pm
New Mexico hires Bob Davie
For what it is (with "it" being the NM coaching job) this is an awesome hire, this guy was an excellent DC at texas A&M; i know some people are going to bring up his time at Notre Dame but he did ok considering what an overated job that it, who wants a job where firing murmers start in year #2, NM will be very patient with this guy and hopefully it pays off, any WAC or Conference USA team that knows how to play real defense has a huge advantage in their "conferences of shootouts"
Since: Oct 6, 2006
Posted on: November 16, 2011 4:05 pm
New Mexico hires Bob Davie
I think it's a great hire. Davie really impressed me the last few years hearing him doing games and especially in breaking down "stuff' with The Herd.
Since: Nov 27, 2006
Posted on: November 16, 2011 3:50 pm
New Mexico hires Bob Davie
I like!
Since: Nov 5, 2006
Posted on: November 16, 2011 3:48 pm
New Mexico hires Bob Davie
The best thing I like about this hire is that I will not have to hear very boring and scripted sounding brodcast. I always have to turn the sound down. Thanks New Mexico for making ESPN telecasts better.
Since: Aug 16, 2006
Posted on: November 16, 2011 3:32 pm
New Mexico hires Bob Davie
I think this should be a great hire. Lord knows, it's definitely a BIG step up from the previous idiot. Some are being critical because he hasn't coached for a while, but with his network job, he's probably got a significant broad view of what is happening College ball. That's what is important. If he had sold insurance for all these years, you would have had to suspect how up-to-date he is in his game knowledge. His ability to coach, hasn't be impacted.


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In a great victory for religious liberty and equal treatment under the law, the U.S. Court of Appeals for the Ninth Circuit has overturned a federal district court's ruling which barred Centro Familiar Cristiano Buenos Nuevas Christian Church from occupying and holding worship services in its own building in downtown Yuma, Ariz. The city had rejected the church's 2007 request for a permit to occupy the property while letting non-religious membership organizations locate in the downtown area without having to obtain a permit.
The city's actions forced the church to pay for a property it could not use and also to pay rent on another building needed for services and worship. Eventually, the added expense of "thousands of dollars a month" to the church's budget crushed it financially, and it was forced to give up its downtown building.
The church was initially concerned when the city said it must go through the burdensome process of applying for a "conditional use permit." Still, the church was confident that the city would grant the permit since the city's own law stated that the buildings in the downtown district were zoned for membership organizations and businesses to operate public assemblies. Under the city's law, any membership organization (Kiwanis, Rotary, etc.) or business desiring to accommodate people with a common purpose (in a movie theater, a dance hall, etc.) was free to locate there. But the church soon learned that the city refused this privilege to organizations that were religious in nature.
Adding insult to injury, the city withheld the permit on the grounds that the church would "blight" entertainment in Yuma's Old Town District. The city believed in essence that the church would lessen the free flow of alchohol in the area and thereby dampen the party atmosphere. City staff also targeted the church for exclusion because it would not generate tax revenue (even though multiple tax-exempt uses already operate in the area).
In addition, the city asserted that the church would not draw patrons to the area. This particular conclusion was obviously shortsighted. It completely ignored the fact that church congregants attending educational and worship events throughout the week would frequent area businesses just like persons gathering for theater events do. Moreover, many of the small offices and residences allowed in the zone would draw far less business and entertainment patronage than a multi-member church assembly.
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