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SpellForce 2: Faith in Destiny Scenario 3 - The Last Stand
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Professor Twiddle is on a mission of exploration in Dun Mora. When his journey becomes to dangerous, he brings the parts for the Twiddlium Compensator to Queen Sansha for safekeeping. To be absolutely sure, he also informs Professor Undergant and tells him of his plans. The Nameless launch their attack on Dun Mora, as mentioned in Faith in Destiny. The elves withstand the first wave of attacks. But it soon turns out that these attacks have a new dimension. So far, all they know is that the attacks come at certain intervals. Play as Caine and help the elves and Queen Sansha to defend their land against the Nameless!
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Play as Caine and his allies Io, Wind, and Sariel and help the elves to defend their city
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What the base game lacked was a good storyline. This dlc is adding one of a few new scenarios and in my opinion this is the best scenario of all. It is set in the world of Dun Mora. The Nameless has launched attack against the elves and you have to prevent them from succeed. It will add about 4 hours of gameplay. I've enjoyed it, and if you liked the base game this dlc is definitely for you.

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Updated court proceedings for Chris Dumler
An Albemarle judge has heard comments for and against Chris Dumler today from numerous Scottsville District residents, several incumbent supervisors from other districts, and from county officials.
Many of the people who came to Albemarle Circuit Court signed a recent petition aimed at having him removed from office following his January 31st guilty plea to misdemeanor sexual battery.
We learned those who favor booting him office had roughly 100 more valid petition signatures than they needed.
Ken Boyd, Duane Snow and former Supervisor and Delegate Peter Way told the judge why they want Dumler forced off the board.
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How to Remove Windshield Streaking
Windshield streaks often occur due to windshield wipers working on rainy days, but their removal is simple. Grab your favorite glass cleaner and a microfiber towel -- as well as some elbow grease -- and follow the instructions in this article.
1Make sure your car engine is off and its windshield wipers are in their resting position.
2Spray your windshield thoroughly with a strong glass cleaner.
3Use the clean microfiber towel to clean the glass, using strong motions and pushing deeply into the cloth. Make sure you start at the top of the windshield and use up-and-down motions that span the length of your windshield, making your way across the entire windshield.
- Using simple, straight up-and-down motions ensures complete coverage and minimizes additional streaking.
4Lift up your windshield wipers to clean the area underneath them.
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- There should be some options in your car in order to demist the windows even when it is appearing on the inside. Adjust your heat/air controls in your vehicle and it should disappear safely without you needing to lose concentration. If you're unsure of how to use the functions, check your handbook that came with the car.
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- Replace your windshield wipers when they are worn. Otherwise, the metal may dig into the surface of the windshield when it operates.
- These steps are also effective for cleaning car windows.
- Prevent streaking from dirty wiper blades by cleaning them with a towel soaked with window cleaner.
- Make sure you're getting a good scrub out of the microfiber towel when you clean your windshield. Don't just wipe the cleaner off!
- Purchasing a windshield cleaner from an auto supply store may provide more effective results than using a generic glass cleaner. Windshields are slightly thicker than most windows.
- It may be easier to stand on one side of your car, cleaning the half of the windshield closest to you first. Then move on to the other half.
- Some glass cleaners will corrode your vehicle's paint job, so make sure you do not expose the cleaner to the body of the car.
- If you have specially tinted windows, check to make sure that your cleaner will not ruin the tint.
- Use a new microfiber towel! Any lint or dirt trapped in the towel could streak or even worse, scratch your windshield.
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So, my uncle told me a story the other day, about how a town was plagued with sickness, and there was only one family in that town who managed not to get sick. The doctor from that town went to the house to find out why they weren't getting sick. The only difference with that family was that they had a lot of onions in their home, and worked with onions.
The point being: My uncle said that if someone in the home is sick, you cut a couple onions in half, and place them around the house. Supposedly onions absorb bacteria and toxins in the air. This is supposed to help not to spread bacteria and help with the sickness. Apparently it is not safe to eat an onion that has been sitting out for a while, because of this reason.
I have never heard of this, I don't know if it actually works, but I am willing to give it a try! LO is sick so it couldn't hurt right?
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Goldhagen's Willing Executioners
The attack on a scholarly superstar, and how he fights back.
Third, Finkelstein deduces from some Germans' disgust at the destruction of Jewish lives and property during Nazi-sponsored pogroms such as Kristallnacht that "Germans overwhelmingly condemned the Nazi anti-Semitic atrocities." If they did, they gave new meaning to the term "silent majority." The Germans, he writes, displayed "the callousness toward human life typically attending war. ... Hardened and bitter, in search of a scapegoat, they occasionally lashed out at the weak." The first adverb casually banalizes German brutality; the second diminishes its extent; together, they come dangerously close to apologia.
The most controversial part of Finkelstein's book, though, is the last chapter, in which he sets out to explain why the Goldhagen book was such a big deal. Finkelstein observes that after the 1967 Arab-Israeli War, there was a boom in the kind of Holocaust literature that portrayed the catastrophe as the natural culmination of millennial Jew-hatred. Where some Holocaust experts, such as Hilberg and Martin Broszat, depicted it as a "complex and contingent event," other writers, such as Lucy Davidowicz, found it more "politically expedient" to focus on anti-Semitism, especially as Israel came under increasing censure. (Click here for Finkelstein's explanation of why this logic is "expedient.") According to Finkelstein, Goldhagen's claim that all forms of anti-Semitism "tend toward a genocidal 'solution' " is expedient in this way, and therefore popular--though Finkelstein says Goldhagen adds no more than a veneer of social science sophistication to this reductionist point of view.
Finkelstein is not breaking new ground here. Israeli intellectuals such as Amos Elon and Tom Segev and the Holocaust historian Omer Bartov have made similar points about the ideological subtext of Holocaust writing. But they also take pains not to dismiss the trauma the Holocaust visited and continues to visit upon Jews. By contrast, Finkelstein adopts an ugly conspiratorial tone when he attributes the book's popularity in the United States to its Zionist message. This is nonsense. The book owed its commercial success to its soothingly simplistic thesis--and to astute marketing. At times, Finkelstein's tone even veers toward the jocular, as when he makes fun of Elie Wiesel's racist remarks about ungrateful black people. One is reminded of Gershom Scholem's remark to Hannah Arendt at the time of Eichmann in Jerusalem: "This is not the way to approach the scene of that tragedy."
It's too bad that the noise about Finkelstein has drowned out his co-writer, Birn. She knows the archives better than anyone, and she has come up with more quietly damning observations. Birn's experience as a prosecutor gives her a radically different take on the legal testimony Goldhagen bases much of his book on, for the most part confessions of death squad members. "Goldhagen seems to have difficulty comprehending that when perpetrators claim to have been motivated by Nazi propaganda, it need not be sincere," she writes. (Click here to see how these statements could instead form part of a legal defense.) Birn also shows how Goldhagen's insistence on German complicity leads him to soft-pedal the anti-Semitism of the Germans' collaborators, referring obliquely to the "pressures operating on the Ukrainians that did not exist for the Germans." This is flat-out Eastern European revisionism; you could easily imagine some Ukrainian nationalist writing it.
But the weightiest of Birn's accusations is that Goldhagen glosses over atrocities in which the victims weren't Jewish. Goldhagen recounts the tale of a witness who saw a Russian man beaten to death because his name was Abraham; he does not report the same witness's account, on the next page of testimony, of the "sexually sadistic murder of a young [non-Jewish] girl by one of the officers." In the end, this may be one of the most compelling condemnations of Goldhagen yet: that his focus on Jewish victims leaves him indifferent to the fate of non-Jews, from that young girl to the millions of Soviet POW's who were starved and worked to death in the camps. Without minimizing the significance of anti-Semitism, Birn provides an eloquent rejoinder to Goldhagen's blood-thinking. Her essay radiates a dignified humanism that both Goldhagen and Finkelstein lack.
Note 1: Holocaust historians have traditionally offered a variety of reasons why Germans followed orders to exterminate the Jews. These include anti-Semitism, the culture of German military units, the pressures of totalitarian rule, the hysteria of wartime mobilization, and the effects of Nazi propaganda. Goldhagen, by contrast, offers a single-bullet explanation. He posits a society of ordinary Germans bred, like attack dogs, to despise Jews, and unleashed by a regime that shared their bloodlust. Germany's uniquely anti-Semitic history had, in his view, made most of them "assenting mass executioners ... [who] considered the slaughter to be just." The book had its defenders, but the reviews were mostly scathing. Hitler's Willing Executioners was dismissed as fundamentally ahistorical in Commentary, of all places, and as a "bizarre inversion of the Nazi view of the Jews as an insidious, inherently evil nation" in the New Republic. Back
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Ex-Gay Survivor To Former Leader: "This Is What An Apology Looks Like"
Jim Burroway
October 13th, 2011
The recent statements from John Smid, the former director of the Memphis-based Love In Action ex-gay ministry, in which he says that he has never met an actual ex-gay who has changed his sexual orientation, and that gay relationships can be incorporated into "an authentic relationship with Christ," has been hailed throughout the LGBT blogosphere as a startling and welcome change. It certainly gives new meaning to Exodus International's slogan, "Change Is Possible!" Smid has followed up his previous post with a new one expressing his gratitude for the response and announcing that he will be undergoing an "I'm Sorry Campaign" as part of this weekend's Memphis Pride.
There are a couple of problems with all of that though. While it's well and good for Smid to announce a public "I'm Sorry Campaign," he needs to be very careful of two things. First, the announcement of the campaign with Chicago-based Andrew Marin skirts dangerously close to becoming a hey-everyone-look-how-sorry-I-am self-promotional bandwagon. If Smid's goal is to truly demonstrate how sorry he is for all that he has done in the two decades he headed the ex-gay residential ministry, a parade (whether it be literal or figurative) strikes me as an unseemly and inappropriate setting for that.
But the greater problem could be with who he's apologizing to. Sure, Memphis's LGBT community deserves an apology. But as ex-gay survivor and former Love In Action client Peterson Toscano pointed out in a comment he left here at BTB, he has a lot more work to do with those he harmed directly before forgiveness can be granted and healing can begin:
I believe there is an important difference between "hating on John Smid" and critically considering his transformation, what he has said, what he has not said, and his entry into spaces among the very people he previously reviled. It is more than a simple matter of someone "doing something stupid," offering an apology, and then being berated. There is history that cannot be ignored. There are people who have been harmed who are "in the room."
These are big changes for Smid, perhaps part of an on-going evolution in his beliefs, perhaps first steps before many, but after years of devising and practicing psychological torture to the many men and women who suffered under his treatments and theories, he should not be just given a free pass and a full, cheerful welcome into LGBT spaces and particularly "gay Christian" spaces inhabited by many people directly harmed by ex-gay treatment. Thoughtfulness for the victims needs to be considered.
It is a complicated and delicate matter when a former abuser admits wrong and seeks to rebuild relationship.
John Smid and his staff are responsible for the pain and suffering of hundreds if not thousands of people. For over two decades he has spoken passionately in public, in the media, at conferences and churches, spreading harmful and inaccurate teaching that has set parents against children and fueled the self-hatred of LGBT people.
As a former client, I understand that John Smid provided me with weapons to go to war against my sexuality and personality. His program was abusive, cruel, and damaging to me and others. People have suffered and still suffer and have needed to spend time and money seeking recovery from the treatment Love in Action inflicted upon us. Many of us went to John Smid and LIA seeking help. We ended up harmed. Some were even forced against their will to endure these treatments.
John Smid, like all of us, needs community, and it is likely that his former friends and colleagues in the ex-gay world and conservative anti-gay church will want nothing to do with him. But his entry into the LGBT world is complicated for some ex-gay survivors.
And while his statement is yet another brick to fall off the crumbling ex-gay edifice, I believe he needs to do much more to demonstrate his regret and new found understanding. It is proper justice for John Smid to acknowledge what many of us already discovered for ourselves. It is proper justice for John Smid to begin to set the record straight. It is proper justice for John Smid to seriously and deeply consider the harm he has caused. And before people forgive John Smid and welcome him into the fold on the behalf of all of us, I believe it is essential to ask critical questions and expect much much more from someone who has done much much harm.
What will that much much more look like? How can John, if he is willing, begin to make amends for his destructive actions?
For just a small taste of those destructive actions, listen to former LIA client Jacob Wilson describe one component of the "treatment" — LIA's "Friends and Family Weekend:
I've had other LIA clients corroborate Jacob's experience. Peterson wrote about the destructive impact that weekend had on his parents, with damage that haunted his mother right up until the day she died.
And so you can well imagine that while those of us who haven't been personally affected by Smid's two decades of abuse at LIA might be inclined to accept his apologies, we are not the ones in a position to do so. I do not want to diminish the tremendous and welcome journey that Smid has undertaken since leaving Love In Action, and I do not think we should dismiss the importance of his change of heart. I do believe it is worthy of encouragement and praise.
But we cannot offer absolution. We are not the ones in a position to forgive him. That can only come from the thousands who crossed his path at Love In Action. And I believe it will only come about through one personal apology at a time. Just as Smid forced everyone to undergo exhaustive personal assessments and stand up before a stage in front of their parents and loved ones to reveal each and every deep, darkest secret they can uncover, Smid will now have to demonstrate his willingness to undergo the same humiliating experience himself. When you consider the foundations of his Christian faith, it is not without precedent. Christian theology holds that Christ's "humbling upon the cross" is the very cornerstone of forgiveness.
Which means that the act of repentance will likely end up being a lifetime of work for Smid, just as he originally saw his leadership in the ex-gay ministry as his life's calling. And you can also imagine that it is going to take much, much more work (and I would suggest, probably much more humility on John's part) for those thousands who walked through Smid's door to let bygones be bygones.
Peterson has posted what he thinks an appropriate apology might look like. But by ending his re-working of Smid's apology with questions, he shows how difficult the task remains: "What can I do further to address the wrongs I have done? How can I demonstrate just how much I regret my actions and the consequences they brought to you and to others?"


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hey guys..
i am provisionally selected with merit 115 and a score of 101.5
old rank: 174
new rank : 115
i wanted to opt for retail or services... do i stand a chance?? please help guys..
hi guys!
sorry for posing again..but running really very short of time..GD?PI is tomo only..
would someone please review the above posted SOP...TIA..
hi guys!
Name: taru dhawan
Waiting List : 26
specialization: Sys n Fin
Would definetly join if it coverts!(wud b a miracle though:grin:)
@bharat..thanks a lot..would redo it and post again..
hi puys,
posting this for a fren..
please pour in your comments...
A dream becomes a goal when action is taken towards its achievement. My dream of becoming an efficient manager in the future can be realized if I take a step towards it. The various extracurricular activities that I have been part of from organizing cultural events at school ,to heading the technical council & coordinating placements when in college have boosted my management & leadership skills and hence elevated the level of confidence in me. While being a Mechanical Engineer made me analytically strong, working in the IT industry made me logically sound. The 20 months of work experience in the emerging field of IT has made me realize that prospects are mind boggling and even more so for some one armed with potent combination of technical proficiency and well honed business skills. From developing the applications to preparing business proposals, estimations and cost analysis, I performed the role of not just a software Engineer but also a program analyst leading a team of four in Infosys. I believe that it's high time for me now to move ahead from decision making at technical level to a more strategic level .I am confident that my strengths, potentials and my strategic & analytical abilities would help me become an efficient manager. I wish to pursue formal management education to augment my skills further and attain a thorough understanding of the nuances of business and corporate world. An MBA from a pioneering institute like NMIMS with its exceptional faculty members, rigorous industry oriented curriculum will help me in getting focused knowledge of business concepts and shrewd practices, which is in line with my career objectives. Also, my industrial experience will help me understand and correlate the theoretical aspects better to deliver innovative solutions in the competitive business environment. I feel convinced that NMIMS will provide me the right pedestal for gaining a Masters degree in Management and hence will be a step in the right direction towards my goal.
here goes my SOP for NMIMS(sectorial)..
wud someone please review..
ok had my interview at 1 pm today for pharma..
9th floor (lift was working
) , building opp NM .. signs everywhere so no confusion..
registration started at 1 where u need u submit ur sop n work ex.. then we were asked to wait in a room.. VC N.M Kondap gave a lil speech.. told us not to divulge our marks at any stage.. he also commented "i'm sure whatever i say today will be on pagalguy by eve"
we waited till 2:30.. then we were asked to go to the 8th floor.. waited again.. finally they called my group (grp 2 - ard 8 ppl) .. 2 panelist.. very kind n nice.. they gave us 4 topics for presentation.. each had to choose any one.. prepare for 15mins n then give a one-to-one talk abt it for approx 5 mins.
topics - globalisation is it necessary
indian examination system shud be scrapped
why does india lag behind china
n smth abt corruption in demoracy
our panelist told us right in the start that they won't be asking any questions on the presentation.. but in the room next to ours (grp 3) they were asking questions so u need to be careful.. some of them got topics like 'love marriage' , 'environment - who is responsible for it' , n again smth on corruption.
after everyone was done they called us one by one for the PI.. it was very smooth.. smiles n giggles everywhere.. hardly lasted 10 mins.. nothing imp.. why pharma? .. why wud u be good at it?.. very basic stuff.. nothing technical.
all the best everyone!
hey guys!
i am waiting list 26..systems and finance..dont think i stand any chance..dont know what went wrong..
i think we'll have to give a presentation on a certain topic..like for ICFAI..aspirants were given few topics before hand , and they had to come for the GD/PI along with the prepared presentation on any one of the topics..
dont know hwz it gonna be like at NMIMS...they might as well mention it in our call letters..
hey puys!!
i've got cals from all 4 courses in group D vis. retail, banking, global biz, services
services- 84
global- 173
banking- 151
what are my chances in banking??
which is the best course???
how much does my workexperience of 18 months matters??
also will i be taking 4 GDs or just 1 as all courses are in the same group??
hey guys..
can someone frm great lakes plz let me know the CAT cut offs that cud make it to the college in the past few years..wud really help..TIA


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hey ashwini,
Mr. MML thanks
it was all my fault.
Hey Ramanujan,
I had a chat with the chairperson of PGPIM and he said that this year, the PGPIM course will 'tentatively' start by mid July or beginning of August!! Though nothing is official as yet.
hey MML ,
congrats ...
Mr. sinister best of luck .. BTW i don't think that u'll need help of luck..
u people are just rocking ...
when will the PGPIM batch start.
pgpm and hr are starting on 16th june..
what happened last year.
all three started together or ??
after much reserach on PGPIM, i have decided to join it.
i am in cofirmed list and submitted the draft for first installment.
though there are some risk associated, there are plenty of opportunities...
from any B-school what we expect??
1. Brand image
2. Course content
3. Value Addition/ exposure
4. Placement.
in first 3 things no debate at all.
all discussions so far is on 4th point..
even if there are some uncertainities in it, first 3 points bring it to great heights..
it all depends on person's attitude neither prob with institute MDI/escp nor with course pgpim.
if u see pessimistically u'll see day 0 issue/what if no inter in europe/ 2-3 lakh extra.
if u see optimistically u'll see internship in london/paris, oppertunity to be placed in europe
and after all its not the first campus job , but ur qualities matters most.
so dear frnds focus on first 3 points instead of 4th.
i m not saying its not important.
but some risks and uncertainties are just the opportunity cost of this course..
see u @ MDI.
thanks seniors specially MML for clarifications..
MDI will provide a platform now how u'll take it ,its ur duty.
some problems associted with IM
1. internship problem : still 3 out of 14 in paris got internship offer (seems difficult to get)
2. what are final PPO/PPI or placement chances in europe.
3. day 0 scenario in MDI (still doubtful)
4. PGPM seats get almost doubled (so PGPM guys again raise voice against IM)
5. what they focus in internship in europe.
6. can seniors please name some finance companies in which seniors got finally placed...
bcoz GS/JPMC/ICICI were day0 morning slot companies...so they were missed
BTW thanks a ton seniors for reply...
i have just talked to sbi gurgan manager
1. upto 10 L no collateral/security
2. 12-13 lakh loan is possible but then we need to submit security.
Hi frn..
the total cost will surely come arnd to b 12-13 lacs.. yaar i have taken a loan of 12 lac from SBI but i was bit foolish.. n mine was at a big interest rate probably arnd 13%... but i m sure u can arrange at a better rate..
yes u av to arrange for 3 lac on ur own.. hmm.. parents or ur own savings... but wot i can tell u is u will surely recover 2 to 3 lacs investment in ur internship... thts not an issue.. but yes initially u will to arrange this sum...
sorry i cant help u much with it... i will request other IM guys to answer this query....
I am a PGIM student in Paris campus.
I took a loan of Rs10 Lakh from SBI ggn. SBI has increased the loan limit,without collateral,from 7.5 to 10 Lakh for MDI students coz to fees hike for PGPM course. You will need additional 2 - 2.5 lakh rupees in Paris(this may vary depending on how much of Europe you want to explore)
But the positive side is that during the internship you will earn enough to sustain your stay here and save around 40-60K per month. This translated into Rs 2.5-3.5 lakh for a 6month internship. So effectively your fees is 9-10.
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I live in Sweden, watch Gardener's World, and have asked various gardening sites over here what horticultural grit might be, and where can I buy it. Problem is, over here, they've never heard of it - google translates it to "trädgårdsgrus", which is basically the gravel you put down in walkways.
I think it'd be great to have some to lighten up the soil, but please, can someone explain what it is, where it comes from, and how I might get some over here in the lovely land of the swedes...
I'll be happy to hear from him!
To my mind horticultural grit is just fine grit to aid drainage-have you looked in garden centres or failing that the equivalent of builders merchants?
Or send him a message............
Figrat: I love the quick responses! I just signed up an hour ago, so I didn't know I could "call" Swedboy, but I will try that now.
Sotongeoff: When I go to garden centers, they just show me the walkway stuff, which is often hard material, rounded sea pebbles or crushed granit. It doesn't look like the stuff in the videos, which looks more like sandstone or something sedimentary, doesn't it? I think it might just att weight to the soil, rather than increase porosity and water runoff.
Ah well, thanks ever so much for the replies so far, and I will repost shortly with a call in for Swedboy.
Crushed granite is often used as Horticultural grit, as is crushed limestone. Depending on what you want to use it for and how acidic or alkaline your soil is you can use one or the other. Small sea pebbles (rounded grit) is not really much use as an aid to drainage, the material should be angular so that there are many faces on each individual piece.
Thanks! I will try the gravel that they sell here then.
I couldn't get hold of horticultural grit either (normally out of stock at my local b&q), so I've used sharp sand in it's place, and it seems to be OK - used to improve drainage & keep slugs away from my lilly bulbs. Maybe you could see if you can use that instead? I got it from my local builder's merchants, and it was a fraction of the price of horticultural grit. I'm just a beginner though, I don't know if any more experienced gardeners would recommend this. My tree lillies are starting to poke their heads through the soil though, so *I think* it's working.
Hi Julie, Yes, sharp sand is fine (like horticultural grit, it is made from crushed rocks, hence the 'sharp' bit in the name.) It can be a bit variable in grain size so I grade mine using a sieve with holes about 5mm - the stuff that doesn't fall through goes into my grit bucket, the rest mixed with compost for general use. As you say, it's much cheaper as you can get it from a builders merchant.
I just found a new builder's merchant with a great selection and good prices, so I will run along there and collect some!
Horticultural grit is usually crushed pink granite (about 5mm square ) .Usually sold in small bags (about 99p or large bag for about £5) here in Suffolk at reputable garden centres.
..not that easy to get hold of where I am....if I see any I snap it up... it's so good... although there appear to be two types masquerading as this, I prefer the very fine one that looks white/grey/with pinkish bits in the bag...lime free...
Think the OP might have got their grit by now - this is a very old thread...
I get grit at diy stores - it seems to do a good job.
I live partly in the UK and partly in Italy. There is also no Italian equivalent for horticultural grit, but river sand is used instead. It has to be river sand because it us regarded as clean and unsalted. I use it regularly for planting seeds, cuttings and aromatic herbs and works just as well as horticultural grit. Best of all it's FREE.
Horticultural grit is an early and little-known film of the Coen brothers, made before they got their big break in Hollywood.
before or after True Grit?
Horticultural grit is what you need when everything you've planted dies and you have to start again. Horticultural grot, whch is what I typed first is something else entirely, and ranges from overgrown cypress hedges through garden gnomes to what slugs and caterpillars leave behind.


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The Princeton Review says the 150 colleges - 75 public and 75 private - on its 2014 Best Value list do an exceptional job helping bright students earn a degree without going broke. Findings are based on a Princeton Review analysis of admissions, tuition and financial aid data for about 650 colleges in the 2012-13 school year.
1. University of North Carolina-Chapel Hill
2. New College of Florida-Sarasota
3. University of Virginia-Charlottesville
4. North Carolina State University-Raleigh
5. University of Michigan-Ann Arbor
6. University of California-Los Angeles
7. University of Florida-Gainesville
8. College of William & Mary-Williamsburg, Va.
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10. State University of New York-Binghamton
1. Williams College-Williamstown, Mass.
2. Harvard College-Cambridge, Mass.
3. Swarthmore College-Swarthmore, Pa.
4. Yale University-New Haven, Conn.
5. Princeton University-Princeton, N.J.
6. The Cooper Union for the Advancement of Science and Art-New York.
7. Vassar College-Poughkeepsie, N.Y.
8. Massachusetts Institute of Technology-Cambridge, Mass.
9. Amherst College-Amherst, Mass.
10. Pomona College-Claremont. Calif.
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text: Wikileaks launches archive of Kissinger's 1970s diplomatic cables Politics 08 April 13 by Ian Steadman Rena Schild / Shutterstock.com More than 1.7 million US diplomatic cables, written between 1973 and 1976, have been released as the Public Library of US Diplomacy (PlusD) by Wikileaks. According to Julian Assange -- who has reportedly worked on from his refuge in the Ecuadorian embassy -- it represents "the single most significant body of geopolitical material ever published".It's definitely the largest Wikileaks release so far, with 380 gigabytes of raw data translating as more than 700 millions words. However, these are not "new" documents, leaked without the US government's knowledge -- they come from the National Archives and Records Association (NARA), which is tasked with routinely assessing and releasing government documents into the public domain 25 years after their first appearance. The documents were left in NARA's Central Foreign Policy Files collection as raw unorganised PDFs. Wikileaks made "a detailed analysis of individual fields" to "reverse-engineer" the PDFs and create PlusD, a database of these documents that people can actually search through.Many of the documents were written by or written to former US secretary of state Henry Kissinger -- so much so that Wikileaks has dubbed this release "the Kissinger Cables". Topics of discussion include the 1973 Yom Kippur War, the rise of British politician Margaret Thatcher and American diplomatic relations with a host of dictatorships around the world. Many of the regimes -- such as Franco's Spain, Pinochet's Chile and junta-ruled Greece -- are known to have committed appalling crimes with the support of the American government as part of the wider Cold War against the Soviet Union.Indeed, this history (that is still within the living memory of many people today) is presumably the cause for attempts by the CIA to reclassify many of the cables after their release. Wikileaks claims that the intelligence agency had managed to redact 55,000 of the cables during the George W Bush administration. Thousands of the documents were originally labelled as either NODIS (meaning "no distribution") or "Eyes Only", both of which are below the most restrictive classifications.In its press release for the project, Wikileaks states that its researchers "developed sophisticated technical systems to deal with the complex and voluminous data and corrected a great many errors introduced by NARA, the State Department or its diplomats, for example harmonising the many different ways in which departments, capitals and people's names were spelt." The result is a plain text search engine that should prove a useful tool to historians.Despite NARA's mandate to assess and declassify government documents after 25 years, 1976 is the latest year available to the public, hence the time period in today's release, meaning that the body "is therefore currently running 12 years late". Julian Assange said: "The US administration cannot be trusted to maintain the history of its interactions with the world." While currently only the 2010 Cablegate and Kissinger Cables are included in PlusD's search, the assumption is that further "leaks" (or declassifications) will be added to the site to create a general-purpose repository of public domain information on the American government.Assange is still in the Ecuadorian embassy in London, unable to leave without being arrested. The Ecuadorian government has granted Assange asylum, but the British government has said it will not allow Assange safe passage out of the UK. Image: Rena Schild / Shutterstock.com Edited by Nate Lanxon Latest on wired.co.uk


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Why do tandems have spacing that is considerably wider than regular hubs? What would be the pros & cons of using a 135mm spacing for a road tandem, light team (under 300lbs), with disc brakes and 9 gears in the back? (let's assume the frame already comes with 135 spacing)
I didn't find many clear answers by searching tandem@hobbes & bikeforums, at least not without spending all day reading 150 threads. I realize that for some this might be one of those flame-prone soapbox issues. I guess what I'm asking is this: is there a COMPELLING reason to avoid 135mm spacing, vs reasons that make wider spacing MARGINALLY or SOMEWHAT better, but not dramatically so?


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Season Two of "The Story of Stuff" series launches on March 1st with The Story of Citizens United v. FEC, an exploration of the inordinate power that corporations exercise in our democracy.
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Halifax police arrested 15 people Friday and took down tents at the site of a local Occupy Nova Scotia protest, hours after the city marked Remembrance Day. The protesters had set up their encampment in a downtown park last week, after the city asked them to relocate from the nearby cenotaph where annual Remembrance Day celebrations were to take place. The arrests occurred hours after the ceremony ended, when some protesters refused to leave the park protest site and a stand-off with police ensued. "I am a taxpayer of Nova Scotia and I'm being arrested for occupying Nova Scotia," said protester Miles Howe, as he was being handcuffed in the rain. Police Chief Frank Beazley said that the arrested protesters could face obstruction charges, after the city announced Friday that protesters were breaking bylaws and had to leave. "While the Halifax Regional Municipality has respected the Occupy Nova Scotia participants' right to a peaceful assembly and their right to have their issues known publicly, it is now time to return Victoria Park, the Grand Parade and other HRM parks to the public at large," the statement said. The notice from chief administrative officer Mike Labrecque also said it is illegal to camp in municipal parks, and that people are barred from the parks between the hours of 10 p.m. and 5 a.m. unless they have written permission from the city. Protesters still have the right to protest peacefully in parks during normal hours, the statement said. Mayor Peter Kelly said that while he support the right to protest, the Occupy group "won't be able to use their tents to do it." The city opted to evict demonstrators partly because the weeks-old protest had cost the city about $40,000 as of Thursday, Kelly told CTV News Channel. By Friday night, the camp had been packed up and the group had moved to a nearby church to plan what their next move will be. Some among them claimed victory after police moved on the camp, arguing that it would boost support for their cause. "People have come together to support us and thanks to the mayor, I think that he's only made us stronger," said protester Struan Ford. Their supporters appear to include New Democrat MLA Howard Epstein, who said the decision to evict the protesters on Remembrance Day "is a disgrace and undermines the very rights and freedoms our veterans fought for." Last week, the protesters were asked to clear out of the Grand Parade so city staff could prepare the location for Remembrance Day ceremonies, which are held there every year. They complied, moving to Victoria Park, but said they planned to return to the Grand Parade after Remembrance Day. Kelly said that would not be permitted
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According to an article by MetroNews Halifax, Vancouver-based author and marxist sympathizer Min Reyes believes that the protests sweeping North America and much of the developed world is a "global awakening where we need to figure out how to save our world from destruction".
Love it, hate it or feel indifferent about it, the protests in the spirit of "Occupy Wall Street" have clearly arrived in Atlantic Canada, with the biggest turnout so far over this past weekend on October 15th, 2011.
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"Can't beat it can you" My Father used to say that after sitting on a wet river bank all day in the cold to catch a few brown trout, I never understood it Alan4711, I would think it dedication to ones interest or hobby.South Wales must have shown me its pleasant face whilst stationed at Bridgend with nice days in Porthcawl with the local girls or dancing in Port Talbot, the weather seemed always good.Dig the garden over in Autumn then let winter do its work, no help needed from us until the first awakenings of Spring then the saying goes "spring into action" that is how it is for me.Getting very cold now in the North East still I am not dashing off to the local hop as was once the case, watch TV with a beer and think about seed sowing next month.
A nice Winters day here in this part of the NW. The sun was low though, which made it difficult driving.
The garden was dug over on October with heaps of muck and leaf compost, so not much going on there at present.
There were alot of walkers out in the Trough of Bowland today, probably due to the mild weather, if the weather stays the same tomorrow I'm threatening to go out on the bike
Nippy in the Fens, but we have been so spoilt over the last few days, so it probably feels colder than it is.
Stockton a dusting of frost, high cloud amid a blue sky, sunshine, Cleveland hills a golden misty glow over the valley, all in not a bad day for January.Lamb ready to go in the oven suitably bedecked with fresh herbs and then a clean up for Daughter coming to clean me up tomorrow, what a fun life we lead.
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A very light covering of snow, bitterly cold east wind, and now grey cloud, but it is January after all.
Frank, we are having lamb but not until this evening.
you would not believe it!!! yesterday as i said and today Bright Sunshine fairly warm ,coffee shop a walk on the beech and up the garden nothing to do there except help put my mates shed back on its feet it went walk aboiut yesterday ,i said a bit windy ,but today marvelous as Frank said " Spring to it" but a bit earlyier thats all
have a good one Alan
West of Manchester- bright sunshine today, with a hard frost out there. Just getting above freezing as I type.
Better than yesterday, which was dry but not really sunny. Still managed to spend most of the afternoon 'doing things' out there though. J.
Very bright frosty day. Recorded -2.7 in greenhouse so would have been colder by about 2 degrees outside.
Broke ice on pond for birds.
It's been snowing here in the NW for most of the afternoon, it's not particularly heavy though and isn't sticking. There's more forecast for tomorrow.
So much for cycling, I've been out to the GC instead and bought some more garlic, the garlic planted in November isn't showing any shoots.
The Fens; incredibly bright sunlight, pretty cold, am just about to sprinkle 'magic' granules on drive in case it snows.
West manchester- we had an icing sugar type dusting of snow late last night, but it wasnt below freezing at dawn.
Now it's more rain than sleet here. If this lot freezes it'll be murder out there! J.
Snowing about 11 last night but now the hills are shrouded in fog and it is raining, BUT not very warm. Will probably be snow on top of the hills,
Snow here has gone
I agree with you there DM
Stockton started bright with a slight dusting of snow, then it clouded in from the Sea and we have heavy snowfall which is laying. Daughter rang to cancel mad Monday as they were having heavy snow just four miles away although nearer the coast.Plans for this week??? not a lot.
Now here in Worcs we have bright sumshine, hils are clear, and snowless. Step outside and cold hits you though
The Fens; snowing quite heavily now.
Been snowing here since mid morning. We had had about 3" so far, but it is slushy at the moment. Frost expected overnight so travel will be very difficult tomorrow.
Stockton looks much like a Christmas card, my trees have glacial ornaments hanging from them and it all looks very pretty the downside is I had to turn the heating up.More snow fell and then it must have been a very heavy frost as the odd car venturing out is making a crackling sound with its tyres as it passes.Well stocked cupboards mean I do not need venture out, "whoa up" the sun is showing its face so it may not last long.
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Faculty, staff and students at San Diego Christian College are hosting a benefit concert at 7 p.m. tonight to support four members of a family injured March 17 in a head-on collision on state Route 52.
Alisa Cunningham, a softball pitching coach and math professor at the college, was driving her three daughters home when their minivan was hit by a suspected drunken driver near Santo Road. The other driver, Matthew T. Leonardo of Santee, was killed in the collision.
Cunningham is the wife of Will Cunningham, boys basketball coach at Cathedral Catholic High School. She was released from Sharp Memorial Hospital this week. Daughter Taylor Cunningham, 17, is recovering in the hospital. Logan, 10, and Jayden, 12, are home after spending time at Rady Children's Hospital San Diego, according to Danny Marriott of the school's communication department.
The concert will be at the school's Lower Campus Chapel. There is no set admission price, but donations will be accepted and will be given to the Cunningham family to help pay for medical expenses.
Student and singer/songwriter Titus Haug and recent graduate Adam Sanchez will perform.
Marriott said that supporters of the Cunningham family who cannot attend but wish to make a donation can do so at sdcc.edu/giving and then select "Cunningham Family Benefit" in the drop-down menu.
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Hangzhou received 3.15 million visitors during the weeklong Spring Festival holiday, up 18.5 percent from a year before. Tourism revenue jumped 20.3 percent to 3.44 billion yuan year on year.
An increasing number of Hangzhou tourists spent their Chinese New Year holiday abroad, with Europe, South Korea and Australia the top three popular overseas destinations.
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State officials say a Detroit-area woman who won a $1 million lottery prize but continued to get food stamps has been removed from the food assistance program.
The Michigan Department of Human Services said Wednesday the lottery winner no longer was getting benefits. It followed a report this week from WDIV-TV in which 24-year-old Amanda Clayton of Lincoln Park acknowledged continuing to get $200 in monthly food aid after her September win.
Her mother, Euline Clayton, tells The Detroit News her daughter didn't break any laws.
Legislation in Lansing would require lottery and other gambling winnings to factor into eligibility for government food assistance programs. The legislation comes after a Bay County man last spring said he continued using food stamps despite winning a $2 million lottery prize in 2010.
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It's about far more than wedding rings.
For thousands of gay and lesbian couples, last week's U.S. Supreme Court rulings on same-sex marriage were a long-awaited cause for celebration. But uncertainty reigns over many of the financial and tax implications.
"Just winning the freedom to marry is huge," said Rebecca Harper, a financial adviser with Harper Davis Financial in Sacramento, which specializes in tax and investing advice for same-sex clients.
But, she added, "There's both progress and chaos."
The chaos is due to the personal finance questions – from payroll withholding to tax refunds – that remain in the wake of the court's rulings.
In addressing the long-simmering debate over gay marriage, the court Wednesday issued two historic decisions: It struck down a provision of the federal Defense of Marriage Act, known as DOMA, a 1996 law that defined marriage as only between a man and a woman. It also left intact the overturning of California's Proposition 8, the controversial 2008 ballot measure that barred gays and lesbian couples from marrying. Same-sex marriages resumed Friday in the state.
Under DOMA, same-sex couples have been denied access to more than 1,000 federal rights and benefits that accrue to other married couples, said Harper, ticking off a lengthy list: health care, pensions, adoptions, family leave, Social Security, inheritances, property transfers, military benefits, spousal support, "even immigration sponsorship."
For federal purposes, those rights are now presumably granted, at least in the 13 states (including California) where same-sex marriages are legal. "There's no distinction now on marriage. Marriage is marriage," said Harper. In those states, "All of the benefits normally afforded a heterosexual couple are now granted to a same-sex couple."
For longtime couples like Kathy McConville and Kathy Purdy, both 60, the impact is immediate and long-term.
The Carmichael residents, who married in June 2008 during California's brief window allowing same-sex weddings, have long dealt with the financial complications caused by their union. McConville is a retired state government manager; Purdy works for the U.S. Post Office.
For years, they've had to file their taxes two different ways: as married filing jointly for California taxes, but as singles for federal. Because they couldn't share Social Security survivor benefits like most married couples, they've carried extra, expensive life insurance, so that if one died, her partner would have sufficient financial resources. They've also had to pay federal taxes on McConville's state-provided health care coverage for Purdy.
As a federal employee, Purdy had postponed any thought of retirement until she knew how her pension would be affected by the court rulings.
All of that suddenly changed on Wednesday. "Being able to share those retirement benefits and provide for each other as other married couples do it's huge," said McConville.
Sacramento estate planning attorney Trudy Nearn recommends that all same-sex couples – in fact, anyone over 18 – have some basic documents in place: a health care directive, a financial power of attorney and a medical-records release. These documents let you designate a partner, spouse or parent to act on your behalf, if necessary.
Also, Nearn said same-sex couples should consider a will or trust to ensure that their assets are distributed as intended at their death.
Couples who executed a trust before DOMA may want to revisit those estate plans now that the federal tax equation has changed.
"Previously, same-sex couples had no federal tax benefits available. But now, they'll have to make the same decisions and trade-offs that other married couples do," said Nearn.
For employers, the ruling may require changing spousal terminology on employee health care and retirement forms. For employees, it may entail choosing a different health care plan, now that spousal coverage is not taxed federally.
Another potential issue facing married same-sex couples: changing their federal payroll withholding, now that they can file an IRS tax return as married, instead of as individuals.
"It's different for every couple and every situation," said Terri Davis, a CPA with Harper Davis Financial.
For any of those issues, it could be worth talking with a tax adviser, financial planner, estate planning attorney or your employer's benefits counselor.
Another unknown is what happens if married same-sex couples relocate to one of the 37 states that do not recognize those marriages.
Jokes Harper: "Our advice to couples: Don't move."
Questions also revolve around amended tax returns and potential tax refunds.
Michael Anderson, an analyst with personal finance site NerdWallet in San Francisco, said it's possible that a surviving spouse of a same-sex couple can now seek reimbursement for inheritance taxes or assets taken by family members.
Taxes were the basis of the DOMA lawsuit, filed by Edith Windsor, an 83-year-old New York widow who had to pay $363,000 in federal estate taxes after her partner died in 2009. The couple, both professionals who were together since the 1960s, had married in Canada in 2007.
In ruling that Windsor was denied equal treatment as a same-sex spouse, she's now due a $363,000 tax refund, plus interest.
One of the immediate financial changes was announced Wednesday by CalPERS, which said gay couples could now purchase its long-term care insurance policies.
Gaining the right to marry also could bump some same-sex couples into higher, costlier tax brackets.
"It doesn't mean it's necessarily going to be tax-beneficial," said CPA Davis. But for most of her clients, she added, "It's worth it."
For many same-sex partners, being able to legally join the ranks of married couples is victory enough.
"It's such a huge sense of relief," said McConville, her voice cracking with emotion. "You want to be able to take care of each other when you're older. By virtue of being able to provide survivor benefits for each other, our future is safer."
Call The Bee's Claudia Buck, (916) 321-1968. Read her Personal Finance blog, www.sacbee.com/personalfinanceblog.


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FILM UPDATE: Huge congrats to CIFF38 alum and Roxanne T Mueller Audience Choice Award winner @matthewsheparddocumentary for their Daytime Emmys win! We are so proud of everyone involved in this unforgettable film. https://www.facebook.com/matthewsheparddocumentary/?fref=ts
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