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Helping to Ease the Strain
Unrest in the Syrian Arab Republic has been mounting since March 2011, leading to the displacement of tens of thousands of civilians. As of June 2012, more than 78,000 people are estimated to have fled to neighbouring Jordan, Lebanon, Turkey and Iraq, putting an increasing strain on the governments and host communities.
In response, the United Nations and its humanitarian partners issued an appeal in March 2012 for US$84 million to support Syrian refugees. The Syria Regional Response Plan outlines current and future needs for some 100,000 Syrian refugees over six months. Led by UNHCR, the plan is the result of a coordinated effort between seven UN agencies, 27 national and international NGOs and partners, and host governments. The Regional Response Plan will be revised at the end of June 2012.
In Jordan, some 21,400 Syrians had registered with UNHCR as of June 2012. This figure is expected to increase as UNHCR and partners expand their outreach efforts and level of assistance to Syrians. The Jordanian government and UNHCR believe there are tens of thousands of vulnerable Syrians in the country. Many refugees have arrived with limited means to cover basic needs, and those who could at first rely on savings or support from host families are now increasingly in need of assistance.
In Lebanon, many refugees are in a precarious situation, with little or no financial resources. UNHCR and partners are working with the government, local authorities and international and national partners to assist more than 27,500 Syrians. More than half of them, 17,000, have been registered in the north. UNHCR and partners are assisting 3,000 Syrian refugees in Tripoli and 7,500 in Bekaa, who are pending registration.
In Turkey, some 24,300 Syrians are registered with the government, which is hosting them in the provinces of Hatay, Gaziantep, Kilis and Sanliurfa. The government has assumed responsibility for assisting, sheltering and protecting the refugees in camps, with UNHCR providing technical support as well as thousands of tents and tens of thousands of blankets. In addition, UNHCR is registering and assisting refugees who were previously hosted in Syria, such as Iraqis now living in urban environments.
Iraq has recently seen a growing number of Syrians arriving. As of June, some 4,400 had been registered with a further 425 awaiting registration. UNHCR and partners have started assisting refugees, in close cooperation with the authorities. Meanwhile in Syria, the government continues to work with UNHCR and partners to assist some 110,000 refugees.


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Scientists may have found the great, great, great, etc., grandfather of the famous fossil Lucy.
A new partial skeleton of an early hominid known as Australopithecus afarensis was discovered in a mud flat of the Afar region of Ethiopia.
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Hey folks! Sorry for the delay in posting but I was only home for a few hours before I had to go on a business trip this week. The Pumpkinman was last Sunday at Lake Las Vegas and included International & Spring lengths. My wife did the sprint and I did the Int'l.
Let me start by saying that I have decided the official name of this event should have been..."Hey Fat Boy! Go back to the golf course." Wow! Was this course hard (for me anyway). I should also add that I had been pretty tired from training and over the last two weeks I didn't do many workouts because my body had been complaining (knees, ankles, etc.). OK...enough excuses...on to the event.
I don't think that anyone who raced on Sunday was actually from Nevada. When setting up my transition space, I met a few people from Boston, New York, Chicago, New Hampshire, and a good number of fellow Californians. For you people in colder climates. I think this is a great end of season event that gives you an excuse to come to Vegas for a few days.
SWIM - The swim was in Lake Las Vegas which is a shallow man made lake. The water was about 68 degrees and the course was a simple, swim along the shore for 5 buoys, turn and swim toward the other shore, and swim back. It was an in-the-water start and there were only about 40 people in my wave so it was a very low stress start. I decided to go without a wetsuit and was definitely in the minority. Most people were complaining about how cold the water was (and they WERE wearing wetsuits)...I found it to be very comfortable. The horn went off and I settled into my easy stroke...as usual, my direction looked something like __/\/\/\/\/\__/ rather than ---------. I exited the water (up a wooden ladder to a temporary dock in 39:41 (19th out of 20 in my age group). I was really surprised when I looked at my watch because I thought I was going faster than that. Maybe I was taking it TOO easy...or maybe it was because I probably swam 1.2 miles instead of 0.9. Anyway, I was pretty disappointed when I was running into the transition area.
T1 - As expected, not wearing a wetsuit was WAY cool and I quickly made my way through the transition in a time of 57 seconds...which by the way was the fastest in the race I picked up one place because of it and headed out on my bike in 18th place.
BIKE - This is where the race sank its teeth into me (and most people it seems). One loop around the fairly hilly resort and out onto Lake Mead Parkway. I must say that this was a pretty cool road to ride on...nice smooth asphault for the most part and a two-lane road that reminded me a bit of the Queen K in Kona. The problem was that it included nearly 3,000 feet of climbing in 24.8 miles. The downhills were awesome and according to my computer, I hit 43.8 mph at one point. The uphills weren't quite as awesome. I passed quite a few people but only one in my age group (and got passed by another) so I was off the bike still in 18th. The lowlight of this leg was when I turned around at the wrong place (the Sprint turnaround). I remember thinking, "Wow, that was fast." After about 1/4 mile or so, it occured to me..."Crap, I turned around at the wrong place!" Oh well, it probably cost me a couple of minutes...it could have been worse. The outbound leg rolled downward so the inbound leg rolled upward. By the time I reached the resort entrance I was pretty shredded and then I was hit in the face with a nasty wind. I guess I didn't notice it during the route since it was crossing but the last mile or so was brutal. My time for the bike was 1:38:52 (just over a 15 mph average). Before you guys get too down on me, the guy who won the race averaged less than 19 mph and the fastest biker was 20.7 mph. This was not an easy course.
T2 - Let's put it this way...if I wasn't such a stuborn pain-in-the-ass, I would have quit right here. I felt horrible. I wheeled my bike into the tranistion area, sat down on my towel, and slowly put on my running shoes. 2:03 later, I loped out onto the run course....really wishing I had signed up for the relay.
RUN - After plodding along at about 10 min pace for about a mile, I hear my wife yell "Yay CJ" as she is coming the other way. I don't know why for sure but it totally broke my spirit. I remember thinking "Aw man, she has one mile left and I have five." Shortly thereafter, I was in walk mode. The run course also included rolling hills and I managed to run down a few but quickly slowed to a walk on the flats. Then at about 2.5 miles a guy who was about 50 with a grey beard caught me at the bottom of a hill and started to walk. I said to him, "Don't let me slow you down." and he said that he walks up all of the hills because it takes too much energy to run them and he doesn't go much slower anyway. I don't know how but he got me running along side of him. We continued side-by-side jogging the flats and downhills and walking the ups...talking about family, weight loss, whatever. It really helped me and I started to feel a lot better. At about mile four, I could tell that he was fading and he made a few statements about just wanting to finish. I could have easily gone on but it just didn't seem right. If it hadn't have been for him, I would have walked the entire way. Now it was my turn to help him. In the end, we shuffled through the finish side-by-side (although my wave started 3:00 later -- so I beat him My 10K time was 1:30:54 (3rd slowest in the event).
FINISH - My final time was 3:52:29...nearly 50 minutes slower than my last Int'l...I'm telling you, this was a hard course...the winning time was 2:18...top 10 was 2:35. I was DFL in my age group. I guess I'm a little disappointed at that but at least I beat six people overall...not including the 30+ DNF's. My season is over and I think I've earned a few weeks of rest. Weight loss is going to be a key focus when I get going again. There is no way I can haul this frame through a 1/2 IM in June. This race was a good reality check and will serve as a good motivator.
Hopefully some of you are reading this because you are interested in doing your first tri but are uncertain. About 17 months ago, I couldn't walk a flight of stairs without getting winded. 14 months ago, I was in a bike crash that sidelined me for 10 weeks. If I can do this, anyone can! Get our there!!!
I'll try to get my wife to post her experience in the Sprint...right now, she's upstairs making a pasta dinner...YUM


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SHANGHAI: Chinese consumers are turning to tablets as their preferred device for watching online videos and reading magazines, with such users also becoming increasingly accepting of ads, new research has suggested.
A study jointly initiated by Millward Brown, the market research agency, GroupM Interaction, China's largest digital media buyer, Miaozhen Systems, the third party advertising technology company, and the conglomerate media groups Modern Media and Fushion, found that 84% of tablet owners used their devices for watching online videos while almost 50% read app-based magazines.
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It's not every day that one gets to see a film that's charming, sweet, intelligent and also happens to be written by an erstwhile stripper/phone sex operator (who, incidentally, owns a cat named Douchepacker). I had that pleasure at the Toronto Film Festival, however, when I took in Juno, penned with surprising astuteness by first-time screenwriter Diablo Cody (the aforementioned former stripper), directed by Jason Reitman (Thank You for Smoking), and starring Ellen Page (Hard Candy), Michael Cera (Superbad), Jason Bateman and Jennifer Garner.
In the film, 16-year-old Juno MacGuff (Page) discovers that she's all knocked up after just one foray into sex with her best bud Paulie Bleeker (Cera), a sweet but clueless orange-Tic-Tac-addicted track star who seems perfectly content to let Juno have an abortion. She doesn't. Instead, she decides to keep the child and let a "perfect" young yuppie couple (Bateman and Garner), who can't have kids of their own, adopt her baby-to-be. The result is a hilarious, endearing and moving picture that explores family and friendship, loyalty and loss, and what it truly means to love someone, all while expertly avoiding turning into a gooey, steaming pile of melodrama.
I sat down with Jason Bateman and Ellen Page to talk about the film, and -- while the full interview won't be posted until the December release date nears -- I thought I'd give you a small yet delicious (some might say orange-Tic-Tac-like) taste of what I learned ...p>1) Memories of the 1991 Wes Craven horror flick The People Under the Stairs haunt Ellen to this day, so much so that they prompt her to "cry after sex."
2) Jason insists (jokingly) that the best way to relax for an interview is by taking a Quaalude. In actuality, he likes to suck on Mentos. They're the fresh-maker.
3) Jason is taller in person that he appears on the screen.
4) Ellen is just as petite in person as she appears on the screen.
5) Jason finds humor in the fact that Michael Cera was cast as a track star in Juno, considering Cera's skinny, hairless "woman legs" were the brunt of a running joke on Arrested Development.
6) Ellen is a compulsive tooth-brusher who hails from Nova Scotia -- not that those two things have any bearing on each other.
7) Both Jason and Ellen like the band Sonic Youth.
8) Both Jason and Ellen have no idea who the Thundercats are.
That's it for now. Hopefully those little nuggets whetted your Juno appetite. My full interview with Jason and Ellen will be posted in early December, but in the meantime you can get your Juno fix by checking out Scott's gushing Toronto review, Kim's equally adoring Telluride review, and Kim's interviews with Diablo Cody and Jason Reitman.


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The Songstress and the Star
Sharon Sheely is referred to in many a biography of Eddie Cochran as "Eddie Cochran's Girlfriend" and little else. But to Eddie, she was clearly a creative partner as well as a life partner. To many, Eddie and Sharon were the quintessential rock and roll couple, combining their talents and their lives into a single, romantic entity.
Sharon met Eddie in 1958, introduced by ex-boyfriend Don Everly. It was the same year that she wrote "Poor Little Fool" for Rickie Nelson, a number one hit for an 18-year-old girl in a male-dominated industry. At the time, she was the youngest woman to write a number one hit song. Sharon went on to write songs for Richie Valens and Johnny Burnette, among others, with Eddie's help recording the demos.
For Eddie, 1958 was also the year he charted in the top ten with "Summertime Blues." Together, Eddie and Sharon co-wrote a score of other recordings including one inspired by Gene Vincent. Gene and Eddie were friends who had toured Australia together in 1957. One day Gene remarked to Eddie that his girl Sharon was "Somethin' Else!" This resulted in the beginnings of a song that Sharon and he eventually finished together. One of my personal favorites, it is a modern parable about making things happen in your life, a great lesson for teens!
Sharon and Eddie became engaged in 1960. Gene Vincent had been having hard luck in the US and took off for England where they gave him a regular spot on a popular local TV show "Boy meets Girls"(England still loved Gene!). On Gene's invitation, Eddie left for England to appear with him on the show and do a tour of the UK. It was a resounding success and Eddie's popularity soared.
Meanwhile, Sharon had caught up with Eddie in England where they celebrated her 20th birthday together. Two weeks later, Sharon, Eddie, and Gene booked a flight back to the US. The taxi they were riding in crashed on the way to the airport in a bizarre, one-car collision with a sign post. All three suffered serious injuries. Eddie was thrown from the car. He had head injuries from which he never recovered. He died two days later in a hospital in Bath, England. He was 21.
Ironies are the stuff of legends. Eddie had only days before recorded the fifth song for his upcoming album. It was called "Three Steps to Heaven." He had also, just the year before, recorded "Three New Stars," a touching tribute to Buddy Holly, Richie Valens, and the Big Bopper.
Gene Vincent had lost a good friend and was experiencing career problems in the US. Living a life in constant pain from injuries sustained during his army tour of duty in Korea, his health would fail and he, too, would pass away little more than a decade later at age 37.
Sharon Sheeley continued writing songs and would team up with Jackie DeShannon on early hits for Brenda Lee, The Fleetwoods, The Crickets, and the Searchers. She would later pen tunes for Glen Campbell, Leon Russell, PJ Proby, Herb Alpert, and many others.
Sharon married once, briefly, in the days that followed, to Los Angeles DJ Jimmy O'Neil with whom she remained lifelong friends. In the year 2000, a tribute album of her songs was recorded by Glen Campbell, Leon Russell, David Gates, Hal Blaine, and Herb Alpert, with many other recording stars for whom she had written. Then, suddenly, in May of 2002, she passed away soon after suffering a cerebral hemorrhage at the age of 62.
Each a story in themselves, the combined story of Eddie and Sharon (with their friend, Gene), has a tragic, almost operatic quality to it. To be lifted to the heights, then fall to the depths has an all too familiar ring. But it could be said that at least it wasn't a fall from grace or the excesses of stardom, that jarring tragedy on the road to Heathrow Airport.
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I think THE BEAVER is a b.o. bomb mainly because it had limited release.And for a limited release it made decent money.
RESPONSE from Head RAZZberry: Actually, if it has any box office potential at all, a "limited release" ought to have a higher per-screen gross than a wide release does. For comparison, THE BEAVER (playing on 22 screens) averaged an embarrassing $4,890 per theatre (LINK) while THOR (playing on 3,955 screens) averaged about 4 times as much: $16,618 per theatre (LINK).
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Iran's Laughable Oil Threat
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Facing yet more brutal sanctions and a tanking economy, the Islamic regime in Iran yesterday attempted a little pre-Halloween scare job on markets by threatening to shut off all its oil exports. "If you continue to add to the sanctions, we will stop our oil exports to the world," Oil Minister Rostam Qasemi said at a news conference in Dubai. "The lack of Iranian oil in the market would drastically add to the price."
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Photos: Arizona's first Sweet 16 team
Ok, so the NCAA tournament had yet to field 64 teams, and it wasn't even called the "Big Dance" (to our knowledge at least). But the 1975-76 Arizona Wildcats, coached by Fred Snowden and led by all-time-great Bob Elliott, made the NCAA tournament and advanced to the round of eight by beating UNLV in its first Sweet 16 appearance. Take a peek at the team in photos (sadly, no access is available at this time to photos from the tournament game).


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2 Preheat oven to 180°C (355ºF). Combine the carrot, onion, oil, salt, pepper and cumin in a baking dish. Roast for 30 minutes or until the carrot is tender. Process, add the stock and blend until smooth. Place in a saucepan over medium heat, add the cream and bring to the boil. Add the dumplings, cover with a tight-fitting lid and cook for 6−8 minutes or until the dumplings are cooked through.
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ALBUQUERQUE, N.M. - The Air Force baseball dropped a 17-1 ballgame at #17 New Mexico in Mountain West action Saturday afternoon at Lobo Field. The Falcons dropped to 13-32, 5-18 and the Lobos improved to 29-17, 19-4.
New Mexico had 25 hits in the game. A five-run third inning, followed by a six-run fourth, put the game out of reach. Rightfielder Chase Harris and third baseman Alex Albritton led the Lobos with four hits each.
Air Force was held to four hits in the game. Senior leftfielder Garrett Custons doubled and scored AFA's lone run in the first inning. Custons hit his 74th career double, tying the school record shared by Mike Thiessen.
Ben Bertelson (1-5) took the loss in the start for the Falcons, striking out two in 3.1 innings pitched. Alex Baker, Todd Del Toro, Bo Wilson and Brady Weaver pitched in relief.
Sam Woff (4-3) struck out seven and allowed one run in 7.2 innings pitched for the win.
The series finale is tomorrow at 1 p.m.
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I Want to be Ready: Improvised Dance as a Practice of Freedom"Danielle Goldman's contribution to the theory and history of improvisation in dance is rich, beautiful and extraordinary. In her careful, rigorously imaginative analysis of the discipline of choreography in real time, Goldman both compels and allows us to become initiates in the mysteries of flight and preparation. She studies the massive volitional resources that one unleashes in giving oneself
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Tunable MEMS Capacitor for RF Applications
H. S. Shriram[1], T. Nimje[1], D. Vakharia[1]
[1]BITS Pilani, Rajasthan, India
Radio Frequency MEMS devices have emerged to overcome the problem of high losses associated with semiconductors at high frequencies. A tunable MEMS capacitor is a micrometre-scale electronic device whose capacitance is controlled through different actuation mechanisms which govern the moving parts. It can have electrostatic or electrothermal actuators depending on the functional complexity and ...
FEM Based Design and Simulation Tool for MRI Birdcage Coils Including Eigenfrequency Analysis
N. Gurler[1], Y. Ziya Ider[1]
[1]Department of Electrical and Electronics Engineering, Bilkent University, Ankara, Turkey
Designing a Radio Frequency (RF) birdcage coil used in Magnetic Resonance Imaging (MRI) at high frequencies where the wavelength is comparable with the coil dimensions is a challenging task. Before construction of the coil, not only calculating the capacitance value which is necessary for the coil to resonate at the desired frequency but also geometrically modeling the coil in a 3D simulation ...
Simulation of Vector Mode Grating Coupler Interfaces for Integrated Optics
C. T. Nadovich [1],
[1] Lafayette College, Easton, PA, USA
The use of grating couplers to couple conventionally phased and polarized light near vertically in and out of optical slab or film waveguides [1] represents an attractive method to interface optical fiber to photonic ICs. Previously developed grating coupler designs use transversely uniform grating structures matched to conventional scalar fiber modes. The performance of these geometries can be ...
Optical and Electrical Modeling of Three Dimensional Dye Sensitized Solar Cells
P. Guo[1]
[1]Northwestern University, Evanston, IL, USA
Dye sensitized solar cells (DSSCs) have received tremendous attention as alternative photon harvesting devices. While the sintered TiO2 nanoparticle network attached with dye molecules achieves efficient photon absorption, the electrons have to diffuse through the long TiO2 network to reach the contact, resulting in a high electron density and thus increased recombination. Extensive research ...
Simulating Plasmon Effects in Nano-Structured OLED Cathodes Using COMSOL Multiphysics® Software
L. Wang [1],
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Organic light emitting diode (OLED) is an emerging technology for next-generation flat panel display and solid-state area lighting thanks to its many advantages such as light weight, low operating voltage, and flexibility, etc. A typical OLED has a multilayer structure that includes a glass or plastic substrate, an anode (ITO), a hole transport layer (HTL), an emitting layer (EML), an electron ...
Impedance Matching of Tag Antenna to Maximise RFID Read Ranges & Optimising a Tag Antenna Design for a Particular Application - new
M. Yeoman[1], M. O'Neill[2]
[1]Continuum Blue Ltd., Ystrad Mynach, UK
[2]Tumbling Dice Ltd., Newcastle, UK
RFID tags are ever increasing in their daily use, from the monitoring of components, the tracking of produce during processing & production, as well as being used in much of the touch-less technologies seen today. With this technology, there has been the ever increasing need to reduce the power required to activate the RFID tag, while maximizing the read range in certain applications. In ...
Surface Plasmon Resonance Sensors: Optimization of Diffraction Grating and Prism Couplers
W. Raja[1], A. Alabastri[1], S. Tuccio[1], R. Proietti Zaccaria[1]
[1]Department of Nanostructures, Istituto Italiano di Tecnologia, Genova, Italy
Surface plasmon resonance (SPR) sensors proved themselves as a promising device for many kinds of applications such as optical biosensing, binding constant determinationor nanofilm thickness measurements. Here we simulate using COMSOL Multiphysics® the light-polaritons coupling for the two most commonly used SPR setups: Attenuated total reflection (Kretschmann configuration) and diffraction ...
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K. C. Koppenhoefer [1], S. Yushanov [1], J. S. Crompton [1],
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Surface Plasmons (SP) or Surface Plasmon Polaritons (SPP) are electromagnetic excitations that propagate at the interface between a dielectric and a conductor, and are evanescently confined in the perpendicular direction to the propagation. They arise via coupling of the electromagnetic field to oscillations of the conductor's electron plasma and are characterized in terms of dispersion and ...
Uncertainty of FEM Solutions Using a Nonlinear Least Squares and Design of Experiments Approach
J. T. Fong [1], N. A. Heckert [1], J. J. Filliben [1], P. V. Marcal [2], R. Rainsberger [3]
[1] National Institute of Standards and Technology, Gaithersburg, MD, USA
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Uncertainty in COMSOL Multiphysics® software simulations due to (a) model parameter uncertainties and (b) mesh-induced truncation errors, is estimated using a design-of-experiments approach [1, 2, 3], and a nonlinear least squares logistics fit method [4, 5], respectively. Examples to illustrate both approaches are given using the COMSOL RF Module (in an application of a MRI coil design) and ...
Extraction of 13.56 MHz NFC-Reader Antenna Parameters for Matching Circuit Design
Prof. Dr.-Ing. habil. A. K. Palit [1],
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Introduction: RFID system uses a Transponder and the near field communication (NFC) antenna and a matching circuit (Figure-1) in which at least latter two must be optimally designed for a higher efficiency. Typically, RFID antennas are flat inductive coils with 2 to 4 turns and are printed directly on the PCB. The larger antenna size implies larger operating distance whereas, the number of ...


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Be sure to pre-order your Christmas tree now, prior to November 3rd using the pre-order form. These tree have been very popular year after year. Shipped direct from Oregon, they are literally cut the day before delivery. The delivery date is December 3rd.
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"Wow, that guy must have one Brave Dentist."Gary Gulper is a character featured only in the video game Employee of the Month.
—SpongeBob after seeing Gary Gulper on TV.
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He is a big gulper eel, with a "tail" in the back of him and his attitude is quite self-centered and he wants to always give people autographs. He doesn't believe in Marlin The Weather Wizard (even though Marlin is real).
He is a weatherman at WSEA TV in Rock Bottom. Because of the Megascreen 2000, they most likely don't need him. Gary could live in Rock Bottom.
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An e-mail from the owner of Jordan's Steakhouse
I got a long e-mail from owner Jordan Naftal yesterday after my post on the closing of Jordan's Steakhouse in Ellicott City appeared. What it boiled down to was that he and his landlord are embroiled in a complicated rent dispute.
You may want to hold onto those gift certificates a little longer. If things get settled between them, the restaurant may reopen.
"I am waiting to work things out with our landlord," he said, "and will find out about re-opening when we speak this afternoon [which was yesterday]. I would be happy to give you an update after speaking with him. We also look forward to opening in Maple Lawn this November."
I'll give Naftal a call when I get into work.
Maple Lawn, for those of you who haven't been following the story, is where the now-closed oZ. Chop House is. Naftal and Carlos Venegas, the owner of Ranazul, are partners hoping to open Carlos and Jordan's Steakhouse there. (I wrote about it at greater length in last week's Table Talk.)
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U.S. Army Capt. Mike Forbes, left, takes a photo at the site of a car bomb blast in west Baghdad's upscale Mansour neighborhood, Iraq, Thursday, July 10, 2008. Violence in Iraq is at its lowest level in four years, but ask Capt. Mike Forbes, and he will tell you his job as a troop commander in Baghdad has gotten harder, not easier. (AP Photo/Sebastian Abbot)
Bulgaria's last 155 troops stationed in Iraq have returned home.
The soldiers had been stationed in a camp near Baghdad where they were handling the security of detainees.
Prime Minister Sergei Stanishev participated Wednesday in a homecoming ceremony at Sofia International Airport.
He said that the Iraq mission, to which Bulgaria sent troops in 2003, had been a challenge for the country's army.
Thirteen Bulgarian soldiers and six civilians have died in Iraq since 2003. Bulgaria also has troops in international military missions in Afghanistan, Kosovo and Bosnia.
Separately, Estonia's parliament on Wednesday approved a one-year extension for the Baltic country's 37 troops and 3 officers stationed in Iraq.
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Good specs? Fair price?
' am not a shill, just curious if its a good deal.
Good specs? Fair price?
' am not a shill, just curious if its a good deal.
give us some details, a link to the bike you are thinking of.. etc... but this isn't really a classic and vintage topic, you might try the cyclocross or commuters forum.
1 Super Record bike, 1 Nuovo Record bike, 1 Pista, 1 Road, 1 Cyclocross/Allrounder, 1 MTB, 1 Touring, 1 Fixed gear
Oops! ' meant to ask it at the Cyclocross board. Moderator please move. Sorry!
its worth it.
Will it make a good all around bike (commuting, touring, weekend group ride)?
I'd like a triple for touring, if it was me. The spec isn't bad, it just depends on your primary usage.
Well, I want to get rid of my other two bikes (a hybrid turned commuter and a vintage road bike) because I need space in the garage. The Surly at BD got me thinking as a viable replacement, all-arounder. I have a folding bike as a back-up.
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the cross check is a spectacular all around commuting bike. its not the best in the world for cyclocross racing as it is a bit heavy but if you dont plan on racing with it its hard to find a better bike for a better price. and yes the componentry on the ones sold on BD is a pretty solid line up.
I'd say there is very little chance of you being disapointed if you buy it.
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as noted in another thread, all you need to get a qbp account is a brick and mortar bike shop. i'm not sure exactly the definition of "bike shop" but presumably bikes direct has a storefront somewhere. the prices on these are pretty much in line with what everybody else sells them for.
Originally Posted by Sheldon Brown
How would you guys rate the cross check as a winter training bike for purely the road? Im after a bike which will accept mudguards, hence my considering cross bikes.
you can get racks that sit further back on the bike as well as bags that have cutouts for your heel if necessary. but in my experience it hasnt come to that.
Originally Posted by Sheldon Brown
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i just figured if you'd be commuting on it you'd want panniers.
i have two wheelsets on mine, one with 23c road tires. with them on it feels just like a road bike, hope that heps.
Originally Posted by Sheldon Brown
I didnt say I would be commuting either, but thanks all the same! I will occasionally be doing short touring trips on it, but 95% of its use will be for rainy day training rides.
That's the standard built-bike Crosscheck from Surly. If you have a local bike shop they should be able to get you the same built bike for the same price.
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At the risk of sounding like an anti-capitalist, free-market hating snob, I can't help but feel like this cheapens Surly's brand. Yeah, the Motobecanes / Windsors / etc are decent enough budget frames. But there's no real company behind those designs-- they're the average stuff from China / Taiwan manufacturer catalogs.
While it's true that Surly's stuff is made in Asia (and, from what I've gathered, under ethically accountable conditions... is that also true for BikesDirect?), the designs aren't generic crap. They're the work of riders, of people actually spending time with the products and trying to push the envelope to make a little money go a long way in terms of functionality. Look at the Pugsley, the Karate Monkey, the Steamroller... all pioneers, more-or-less, in their class. Is putting those frames on the same page as a bunch of generic BikesDirect crud really doing justice to their designs? The hard work of those that designed and spec'd the frames?
I bet many times more heart and soul went into a Surly design than a neo-Motobecane / Windsor / etc. Thankfully BikesDirect can't undersell your LBS, or less-shady online retailers that sell Surly.
If they were sold through LBS at a big premium to the BikesDirect price then that would be a dilution to the brand. As they are sold at the same price it just gives you a choice of where to source -I bought my CC w/o riding largely on its reputation.
Brand dilution would require same bike at variety of pricepoints or a cut-rate inferior bike badged as a Surly sold through a discounter - neither of these is happening.


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One of the top targets on North Carolina's recruiting board was in Chapel Hill this weekend for Junior Day. Tydreke Powell, a defensive tackle from Ahoskie (N.C.) Hertford County, has an offer from the Tar Heels and a host of other schools. How did the trip go for him? Where do the Tar Heels stand with him? ...More... To continue reading this article you must be a member. Sign Up Now!
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Fundraiser to help man who lost eight horses in barn fire
A tragic barn fire on March 9 took the life of eight of Omar Cepeda's prize horses. Now the International Polo Club Palm Beach and polo hall-of-famer Tim Gannon are having a cocktail reception Saturday, March 23 at the exclusive Mallet Grill.
Cepeda's best horses perished after an electrical overload caused a barn to catch fire. The horses, some of them valued at $50,000 each, could not be saved by Palm Beach County Fire Rescue's 31 firefighters and nine fire trucks. Saddles and other equipment were lost in the fire. Immediately, Cepeda received tack and stable supplies from The Tackeria in Wellington and various other items from other friends.
Dave Offen of the Polo Players Support Group, Inc. said in a release although the loss falls outside the scope of the foundation, its Board of Directors are coming to the aid of Cepeda by trying to raise $100,000 through a special group, Friends Of Omar, asking for a minimum donation of $1,000.
"Omar is a great horseman and a true gentleman on and off the field," Offen said. "Omar relies on selling horses as his primary source of income and was counting on selling all or most of this group as a very large part of his overall yearly income.
Those who have already pledged at least $1,000 are: Tim Gannon, Steve and Ginny Orthwein, Phil Heatley, Tony Coppola, Joe and Diana Dimenna, Nic Roldan, April Clark, Richard Schechter, Neil Hirsch, Beau and Dea Van Metre, Scott Swerdlin, Jim Braden, Phillip Staples, Bart Frye, Gerry Spitler, Barb Uskup, Nick Brien, Joe Meyer, Jim Whisenand, Tom Sikes, Doug Matthews, John Ingram, Harley Stimmel, Bill Farish, Don Dufresne, Scott Devon, John Walsh, Steve Felker, Barbara Wyatt, Dennis Trescott, Mike Egan, Team USPA Players, Cliff Sifton and Mason Phelps.
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A local nonprofit organization that aims to raise money to help those afflicted with muscular dystrophy is set to host a Trivia Bike Run for the first time on Saturday.
The Justin Woods Foundation was started by Madera resident Sandy Smith 12 years ago after learning about her grandson's diagnosis of Duchenne Muscular Dystrophy. Duchenne is one form of the muscular dystrophy group of genetic diseases that cause muscle weakness and loss. It is more common in boys than girls and is usually detected in early childhood. Woods was diagnosed at age 8 and is now 21.
The organization raises funds for research to find a cure for muscular dystrophy.
TJWF also helps to send children and young adults affected by muscular dystrophy to a week-long summer camp. Smith and other members have raised money over the years through sales of chocolate roses, dinners, car washes, bakes sales and collecting aluminum cans, among many fundraisers...


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Our abiding vision takes root in our desire to strengthen the Haitian people spiritually while expanding their skill base to influence positive change around them.
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Our determination is to raise up godly leaders in Haiti through education to strengthen their families, neighbors and country, bring relief to poverty, stimulate the economy, and to preach the Good News so that lives will be saved and hope for a strong future will be given to Haiti.
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Within our first seven years, Haiti ARISE established:
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Wednesday, June 29, 2011
Two people were injured in separate one-car accidents Monday in Callaway County.
Sheryll D. Veltrop, 59, Holts Summit, suffered serious injuries and was flown by the Staff for Life helicopter to University Hospital in Columbia. She also faces five charges by the Missouri State Highway Patrol relating to the accident.
The patrol reported three patrol officers investigated the accident. Veltrop was released for medical treatment after the accident. She was cited by the patrol for careless and imprudent driving that resulted in an accident, first offense driving while intoxicated, child endangerment, failure to secure a child of less than 8 years old, and failure to wear a seat belt.
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of paper money. The object of the game is to put $10 in the bank,
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How Did It Get to Be 5774 Already?
Many genealogists are familiar with Morse's portals for searching large databases like the Ellis Island Foundation. If you're looking for passenger lists, naturalization papers, census returns, or vital records, Steve Morse's powerful tools help in countless ways. Making sense of calendars can be a challenge for historians and genealogists. The Jewish calendar has fascinated Steve all his life, as he explains here. You'll find out exactly how it got to be 5774 already.
So how did a computer engineer get into the family history business? Steve made his mark on the modern world by developing the 8086 processor for Intel in 1980. Two decades later, the combined efforts of the Ellis Island Foundation and the Family History Library in Salt Lake City led to the launch of an index to 22 million passenger arrival records spanning the peak years of immigration to the port of New York, 1892 to 1924.
It was a huge breakthrough for genealogists, but it wasn't perfect. The transcription was done by volunteers who were unfamiliar with the names and places represented in the records. The original search engine was clumsy and imprecise, and often failed to locate documents that had to be in the data set. Steve developed a series of algorithms that increased search success rates. Over time, he has improved the interface design and search options.
Morse's calendar tools aren't limited to the Jewish realm. He has devised utilities that convert dates from one time-reckoning system to another, ranging from the Islamic calendar to the Mayan. Other utilities anyone can use on www.stevemorse.org include calculating engines for zip codes, map coordinates, sunrise/sunset times, and much more.
In the spirit of the traditional Rosh Hashanah greeting ("May you be inscribed for a good year"), may you enjoy the limitless possibilities for discovery made available by the inimitable Steve Morse.
Todah rabbah, Laurie. Wishing you a sweet year.
L'Shanah Tovah Joe! Your work with the Jewish Genealogical Society of Colorado (http://jgsco.org/) has helped lots of people too.


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Wednesday, May 25, 2011
Six Fulton Lady Hornets soccer players, led by three first-team picks, have been named to the 2011 Class 2, all-District 10 squad.
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Fulton ended its season with a 3-0 loss to Jefferson City Helias for the District 10 championship May 17 at Boonville. The Lady Hornets finished with a 16-5 record, setting a school record for wins in a season.
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Review: The Color Morale – Know Hope
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Metalcore sextet The Color Morale never strays too far from the tried-and-true tropes of their subgenre on full-length No. 3, but still manages to craft tunes that are passionate and memorable, mixing breakdown-fuelled mosh, noisy dissonance, and catchy choruses on wide-ranging tracks like "Learned Behavior." Frontman Garrett Rapp's vocals run the gamut from hardcore bellows to soulful crooning, the latter reminiscent of Jonny Craig (Dance Gavin Dance, Emarosa, et al). Given that The Color Morale aren't setting out to break new ground with Know Hope, they do succeed in making a record fans will love. DAVID McKENNA
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Seventeen-year-old Will is desperate to find meaning in life following the sudden death of his mother. Overwhelmed by the parade of sympathy casseroles, his cynical older brother and a father who is attempting to bury his sorrow in work, Will embarks on a quest to find the answers he needs. His search leads him to the works of famous philosophers such as Kierkegaard, Nietzsche and Plato. He tries using drugs and tagging the tunnel walls of the train system. He develops the roll of film he finds in his mother's camera and takes some of his own, which punctuate the text of this Australian import. But it is his new relationship with Taryn, a beautiful and sympathetic friend, that holds the most promise for him. Hills's rich imagery and masterful storytelling come together to create a tale that is both poetic and compelling. Complex and authentic characters drive the narrative forward and keep it from becoming overly sentimental or familiar. Readers will sympathize with Will's heartbreak, revel in his first love and recoil from his anger. A well-crafted story from a new voice. (Fiction. 14 & up)Copyright Kirkus 2010 Kirkus/BPI Communications.All rights reserved.
After a childhood spent moving constantly across two countries, Rex wonders why his parents can't settle down. At least this time, Rex and his seven siblings are only moving to the other side of Ottawa. He'll still be switching to a new school, though, which means leaving Kathy, James and Buster at the beginning of grade seven. Rex has a cunning plan: He volunteers to arrange the transfer paperwork as a favor to his exhausted mum and then simply doesn't do it. Sure, he'll spend every scrounged penny on buses, but it'll be worth it. Right? Then why does his life feel so complicated? He's the target of a hockey-playing bully, sister Annie Oakley's cooking up something evil in the garden shed and Mum's acting funny. This 1963 pre-adolescence presents an imperfect world with flaws Rex is just barely beginning to understand. Rex as a narrator is fully in his time: Penny loafers, Hardy Boys novels and gender inequity are all seen through his utterly contemporaneous, completely ingenuous eyes. Genuinely wholesome, packed with affectionate humor, tension and joy. (Historical fiction. 9-12)Copyright Kirkus 2010 Kirkus/BPI Communications.All rights reserved.
Gr 5-8--When Rex Zero finds out that his family is moving yet again, he is devastated. Although the move is only across town, it means that he will start middle school at Connaught instead of at Hopewell with James, Buster, and Kathy. The four friends decide that regardless of the Ottawa City Council's views on zoning, Rex should attend Hopewell as planned. His records have already been sent over there, and when he offers to take his enrollment paperwork to the new school for his mother, she gratefully accepts: the chores of moving households and raising a family of eight are exhausting. In 1963, it is easy enough for the boy to make his enrollment paperwork disappear and to use the crosstown buses to get to Hopewell. The deception is successful for a while, but Rex learns in the process how taxing the life of a pretender can be. Complicating matters are a budding romance with one of his classmates, threats from a bully and his sidekicks, and a secret laboratory experiment that his older sister is conducting in the back shed. Family dynamics and friendships are skillfully fleshed out, with fully developed characters to whom readers will readily relate. The humor of Rex's first-person narration does not diminish Wynne-Jones's ability to deal with tough issues candidly, and the resolution fully satisfies. This title does stand alone, but it will be most appreciated in libraries where Rex already has a strong following.--Kim Dare, Fairfax County Public Schools, VA[Page 129]. (c) Copyright 2010. Library Journals LLC, a wholly owned subsidiary of Media Source, Inc. No redistribution permitted.


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Being Brahms
The surprising snippets of autobiography embedded in his music.
In 1883, Johannes Brahms made another of his summer working sojourns in country towns and spas. He generally composed in the warm months and left the rest of the year for performing and copying out the summer's production. Much influenced by landscape in his work, he may have chosen this town for its setting: Wiesbaden on the Rhine. There he found a high airy studio looking toward the river and got to work on his Third Symphony.
His First Symphony had taken over 15 years to finish, probably because of his uncertainty about how to proceed after its searing first movement, but definitely because of his anxiety over taking on this genre: "I'll never write a symphony!" he'd once groaned. "You have no idea how the likes of me feels with the tramp of a giant like him behind you!" By "him" Brahms meant Beethoven. But the First had gotten done finally, and soon after that he completed the warm and pastoral Second in a single summer. With the Third, which he finished in that summer of 1883, he wrote in many ways his most personal symphony.
Before leaving for Wiesbaden, Brahms had celebrated his 50th birthday in Vienna with two friends, surgeon Theodore Billroth and Eduard Hanslick. The latter was the most powerful music critic in Europe's capital of music. Hanslick is mainly remembered for his regular lambasting of Richard Wagner and his "Music of the Future" agenda, shared with Franz Liszt and other composers of the time who rejected the forms of Mozart, Beethoven, et al., and based much of their work on stories. Wagner wrote what he called "music dramas"; Liszt invented the orchestral "tone poem" built on literary models. The other side of the musical equation in the 19th century were those like Brahms who upheld the old "abstract" formal models and allied musical genres: sonata and rondo forms, also symphonies, string quartets, and the like.
The upholders of old forms constituted the Brahms faction in theory, but its practical and intellectual leader was Hanslick. Brahms stayed away from overt politicking. Early in his career Hanslick wrote a treatise called "Beauty in Music," in which he declared, "Definite feelings and emotions are unsusceptible of being embodied in music." This was the doctrine of "pure," aka "abstract" music. It was held up against the Wagner/Liszt school and associated with Brahms in his time and later.
What did Brahms himself think of all this? To begin with, he admired Wagner's work and said so—if only in private conversations—without being the least interested in Wagner's ideas. As for Hanslick's treatise, Brahms once told Clara Schumann he had tried to read it but, "I found such a number of stupid things in it that I gave it up." But Brahms and Hanslick needed one another; the composer needed a champion, the critic needed a bastion against Wagnerism. They became friends and let their differences lie.
To this day, Brahms is associated with the idea of abstract music, free of literary models, free of autobiography. But that's not his doing; clearly a good deal of his music came out of his life. For all his intense privacy, now and then he let something slip, usually in his oblique fashion. Once he wrote his publisher a supposedly joking suggestion that the cover of his C-Minor Piano Quartet might have a picture of himself dressed in the famous outfit of Goethe's fictional Young Werther, who killed himself for love of another man's betrothed. That quartet had first been drafted years before, in a time when the young Brahms was in a similar situation. He fell in love with Clara Schumann while her husband Robert, Brahms's discoverer and mentor, wasted away in an asylum. Later he fell for Clara Schumann's daughter Julie. When he heard Julie was getting married he wrote the despairing Alto Rhapsody, which he told Clara was his nuptial song. His friends knew that a theme in the G-Major String Sextet spelled out in notes the name of a woman he had jilted after they exchanged rings.
But Brahms was a guarded man, and most of the time he did not talk about the inspiration of a piece. In the same spirit, he destroyed most of his working sketches for pieces. He had, however, picked up from Robert Schumann the idea of symbolizing people in notes. Besides the above example in Brahms's Sextet, another is Robert's "Clara theme," which incorporates C A A, the musical letters of her name. Brahms used that theme several times, the last in one of his late Four Serious Songs that he explained, privately, "have to do with Frau Schumann." For Brahms as for both Schumanns, to use a theme evoking a person made that person part of the music. In works of both Brahms and Robert Schumann, Clara was present in her theme.
This brings us back to the Third Symphony, which opens memorably like this:
Brahms never talked about it, but that theme is Robert Schumann's, from the first movement of his Symphony No. 3. Brahms borrowed not Schumann's main theme, but rather a derivation of it that appears in the middle of the movement2. By way of his theme, Schumann is present in Brahms' Third Symphony. Why?
To answer that question we have to recall the most dramatic period in Brahms' life. In Wiesbaden, when he looked out his window to the Rhine, he had to have thought of his friend Robert Schumann, who in a famous article written when Brahms was 20 and Schumann 43, proclaimed this young man to be the future of German music. There followed Robert's suicide attempt in a fit of madness, his lockup in an asylum, and the helpless love Brahms came to feel for Robert's wife Clara, one of the great pianists of her time. When Robert finally died in the asylum, Brahms fled Clara. He was not cut out for marriage, but she remained the love of his life. Those years of Robert's mentoring, his madness, and death, and Brahms' passion for Clara, remained in Brahms' mind for the rest of his life.


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My 18 Month Old will not sleep through the night.
There has only ever been a handful of times when my daughter has slept through the night. She wakes up every night between 12 and 3 am. She has had the same evening schedule since she was born: 5:30 - 6 dinner, 6:30 bottle of milk, bedtime at 7. We read her a short story,hug and kiss her and put her to bed awake and she just goes to sleep on her own. When she wakes during the night I let her cry for a short while and then get up, give her a bottle, and put her back to sleep and she falls back asleep on her own no problem but it is way past the time where she should be sleeping through the night. I have tried letting her cry it out and cry herself back asleep but it does not work. She will continually cry for hours waking my 4 year old and my husband in the process. I have tried just going in there and holding her for about 5 minutes and putting her down and it is worse than not going in at all and letting her cry. I don't know what to do anymore. Please Help.
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I'm sorry you find it hard but two things - it's not unusual for infants to wake 1/2 times a night up to 2 years old and second this doesnt mean you cant get the best possible sleep given your babies particular temperament! try reading "no cry sleep solution" which might give you ideas to try that might work better for your daughter but maybe in the end she needs that extra feed some babies do til 2 years :)posted 02/08/2013 by Monkeybub
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