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When Sports Illustrated's website published the LeBron James/Lee Jenkins piece explaining The Chosen One's decision to return to the Cleveland Cavaliers, the headline read "I'm Coming Home."
As it turns out, the headline came up a little short.
SI.com should have added, "But Not Without a Hammer!"
BICKLEY: Bledsoe and his camp need a reality check
Though the reaction to his latest decision was 180 degrees from the negative backlash to the original "Decision," this wasn't just about the King's relationship with Northeast Ohio being "bigger than basketball."
After all, he wasn't going home without first being assured that the Cavaliers could and would deposit maximum paychecks into his hometown bank account. And when he signed a deal, it was for just two years with an option to become a free agent again next summer.
LEBRON: What number should he wear?
That's not a long-term love affair with home. That's a sledgehammer.
Not only is James in position to make sure that Cleveland's front office and owner Dan Gilbert are truly committed to doing whatever he believes it takes to win championships, he also has the flexibility to get a new, even more lucrative maximum deal if the NBA's salary cap increases significantly.
And that almost surely would happen with the league entering new television contract negotiations after the 2015-16 season (not coincidentally, the second of his new deal).
Perhaps it also helps explain the waffling that seems to be going on with Cleveland in reported discussions with the Minnesota Timberwolves regarding All-Star forward Kevin Love.
Andrew Wiggins, whom the Cavaliers drafted first overall, initially was said to be off limits in potential deals for Love. Then came reports that James had spoken with Love about coming to Cleveland and that Love is willing to sign an extension with Cleveland if a deal is made.
Next thing you know, there were two reports that the Cavaliers now were willing to include Wiggins, following by reports that, actually, they still weren't.
Gilbert and his front office have to be asking whether they really want to part with the player taken No. 1 overall to make James happy by pairing him with Love, only to have James become disgruntled over something and depart after one or two seasons.
It's risky business.
Speaking of which ...
Without a hammer
Phoenix restricted free agent Eric Bledsoe happens to be represented by the same folks who represent James. In negotiations with the Suns, however, Bledsoe is the one getting bludgeoned.
According to an ESPN.com report, the Suns are willing to pay Bledsoe, who is a restricted free agent, $48 million over four years. The same report said Bledsoe is seeking a maximum contract of $80 million over five seasons.
Bledsoe was terrific when healthy last season. The backcourt pairing of Goran Dragic and Bledsoe worked just fine, and not just because they were able to play together. It also allowed coach Jeff Hornacek to keep one of the two on the court at all times.
So the Suns had the advantage of, essentially, having a starting point guard on the floor for 48 minutes every game, with one of them facing a backup for 10-15 minutes a game.
So Bledsoe is valuable for sure. But, sorry, he hasn't shown nearly enough to demand a five-year, maximum contract.
Bledsoe missed 39 games last season after having a second procedure within 27 months on his right knee. In four NBA seasons, the first three as a backup with the Clippers, he has not even started a full-season's worth of games.
Because of his restricted status, the Suns can match any offer he receives. Frankly, we're not sure they'd match a maximum deal, opting instead to work a sign-and-trade if possible or, in a worse-case scenario, just let him go.
But so far, that hasn't been a concern. He has yet to sign an offer sheet at any price, much less the max. The market is speaking. Loudly.
Meanwhile, the Suns already have added a potential replacement for Bledsoe, or a sixth man if he returns, by signing free-agent playmaker Isaiah Thomas.
BBallBreakdown.com recently posted a compelling analysis on YouTube that compares Thomas's production favorably with Cleveland's young playmaking star, Kyrie Irving, using data from the NBA scouting information service, Synergy Sports.
And in what we may soon see as a stroke of genius, the Suns drafted point guard Tyler Ennis out of Syracuse with the 18th pick of the first round. Why so smart, despite modest production from Ennis in summer-league play and now a roster with four point guards?
Well, Ennis can be the team's third point guard if Bledsoe is traded or departs as a free agent. If Bledsoe stays, the Suns have a ready trade partner waiting in Toronto for the Canadian-born Ennis.
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With four debates and countless campaign stops and political ads gone by (not to mention the daily onslaught of polls), Election Day can't come soon enough. Fortunately, voters can laugh off the remaining 13 days with their choice of late-night television or stories from The Onion. And thanks to a free new app, Mock the Vote, the best political satire is collected in one place.
Mock the Vote is the inaugural product from Laffster, a start-up recently launched to provide a personalized experience around online humor content. Inspired by a Ramussen study that found nearly one-third of young Americans rely on satirical sources for the news, the app seeks to provide the best political items from the satire world. Mock the Vote combines content curated from faux news mainstays like The Daily Show with Jon Stewart and The Onion with original content from big humor names like Bob Mankoff, cartoon editor for The New Yorker. It also invites decided voters to rank material.
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The first half is a bit slow and I seriously had my doubts - but the second act totally made this performance and the evening worthwhile. All the acting was first-rate, especially the "Marilyn" character. All I can say is Arthur Miller had either a lot of strange relationships with women...or a lot of relationships with strange women, you decide.
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I left at intermission. The main character, Quentin, really got on my nerves. He's an utterly self-absorbed prick, and Arthur Miller has no idea to what extent. I'd rank this as one of the most self-indulgent plays of the 20th century. In...
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In 1971, the United States of America declared a war on drugs. Forty four years and at least $1 trillion later, the goals of the war on drugs have clearly not been met.
The war on drugs was developed to reduce drug use, crime and harm, but the only thing this war has accomplished is giving the United States the highest prison population in the world. The United States holds a mere 5 percent of the world's population but a shocking 25 percent of its prisoners.
Instead of focusing on the rehabilitation of drug addicts and reintegrating them into society, the war on drugs focuses on being tough on crime. Meaning that instead of prioritizing our nation's mental health, the war on drugs prioritizes mandatory minimum sentences for even nonviolent drug related crimes regardless of the circumstance, especially if you are part of a minority group. According to the National Center for Biotechnology Information, black offenders are 13 times more likely to be arrested for a drug related crime despite having similar rates of drug consumption as white Americans.
Drug addiction and dependence is a mental illness, and contrary to our nation's belief, jail time is not an acceptable substitution for rehabilitation.
These laws were enacted decades ago with good intentions, but that is not a good enough reason to continue to keep the laws in place if they are not working. And if something is not working, you are left with the choice to either continue to let it fail or to find a better solution.
The time has come to admit that the war on drugs has failed, but it is not too late to right some of its wrongs. Currently, there are two bills pending for drug reform. One of the bills, called the Smarter Sentencing Act, would reduce mandatory minimum sentences for non-violent drug offenders. According to the Justice Department, if this bill is passed it is estimated to save over $20 billion over the next 20 years. The second bill, the Recidivism Reduction and Public Safety Act, would focus on the reintegration of prisoners into society and reducing the likelihood of re-entry to the prison system.
While these bills are substantially better than what is currently in place, we could still do better. $20 billion sounds like a considerable sum of money, but it is estimated that our federal and state governments spend more than a combined $40 billion annually on combating the failing war on drugs.
Despite the unforgiving sentences doled out to those unlucky enough to be caught with menial amount of illicit drugs, addiction rates in the United States have not faltered and drug overdoses, including illicit and prescription drugs, are at an all-time high. However, a few countries have taken on a successful approach that seems foreign to our "tough on crime" mindset.
One of these countries is Portugal. In 2000, 1 percent of the Portugal's population was addicted to heroin, and despite the country's best efforts to combat this, the drug problem continued to get worse. At this time, Portugal handled drug crimes similarly to how our nation currently handles these delinquencies, but unlike the United States, they were able to recognize that this approach was no longer working.
Instead of continuing to waste time and money on incarcerating the nonviolent drug offenders, many of them being addicts, Portugal decided to try something crazy and decriminalized all drugs. According to the Transnational Institute, in the fifteen years since this policy has been introduced, addiction, overdose, and HIV among addicts has decreased substantially.
Instead of punishing addicts with harsh prison sentences, Portugal began to offer treatment programs to help reintegrate addicts into society by creating jobs specifically for them to give the addicts a sense of purpose.
It is important to recognize that Portugal did not legalize all drugs and make copious amounts of cocaine or heroin available to purchase over the counter at the local pharmacy. When Portugal's government decriminalized all drugs, being caught with a small amount of a prohibited substance was no longer seen as a death sentence. If someone is caught with those drugs, the substance is forfeited to law enforcement. If the offender is determined to be an addict, they may be admitted to a voluntary treatment center, charged with a small fine, or given community service that is designed to keep the addict out of tempting situations.
Most people find it difficult to relate to drug addicts because it is easy to see them as dirty because they have made different mistakes than someone that does not suffer from an addiction. The people that believe addicts deserve to be ostracized do not understand why addicts are not able to stop and assume it is simply because they do not care or do not want to. Yet when addicts make a conscious effort to become sober, those same people still do not want companionship from the addict because they believe that person has been tainted and continues to see the former addict as nothing more than a junkie.The war on drugs assumes that if we punish drug addicts severely, they will stop. But it is not possible to publicly shame and humiliate another human being into becoming a person that we find acceptable. Oddly enough, even though the national debt increases by the second, United States seems reluctant to let go of a "war" that has been a 44 yearlong $1 trillion failure.


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Mpls, St. Paul two of best four cities for quality of life, study says
You're looking at two of America's top four quality of life cities, at least according to NerdWallet.
NerdWallet ranks Minneapolis and St. Paul as the third and fourth best cities in America, respectively, in terms of quality of life.
The cities ahead of us? Madison and Lincoln. Talk about a Midwestern bias!
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NerdWallet's methodology is focused on income, affordability, health benefits, the strength of the local economy, and work-life balance. Here's how they quantified those areas for each of the country's 100 largest cities:
1. Mean weekly hours worked from the 2012 U.S. Census Bureau American Community Survey.
2. Mean travel time to work from the 2012 U.S. Census Bureau American Community Survey.
3. Median annual rent as percentage of median income from the 2012 U.S. Census Bureau American Community Survey.
4. Percentage of population with health insurance coverage from the 2012 U.S. Census Bureau American Community Survey.
5. Percentage of people with income below the poverty level from the 2012 U.S. Census Bureau American Community Survey.
6. Unemployment rate of the metropolitan area from the Bureau of Labor Statistics.
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We touched based with study author Sreekar Jasthi to get his perspective on why coastal cities were nowhere to be seen in NerdWallet's top 10 (in fairness, there were a handful in the 10-20 range).
"One of the factors that resulted in that particular trend is the cost of living," Sreekar told us, adding that this is the first time he's put together this particular study. "I think that factor really hurt some of the [coastal cities]."
"Another reason is the unemployment rate tends to be a little bit higher [on the coasts] compared to cities in Minnesota, Wisconsin, etc.," Sreekar continued. "Another factor is some of the much bigger cities -- New York City or San Francisco -- I think the commute time, the hours worked, those numbers tend to be higher in those cities as well."
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"In addition to income and affordability, I think rates of health insurance coverage are much higher in Minneapolis and St. Paul than in the rest of the country on average, and also, the weekly hours worked is lower than the nationwide average in the Twin Cities," Sreekar continued. "I think all those factors really combined with the low unemployment rate."
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Workers in Minneapolis enjoy a healthy work-life balance, a relatively low cost of living and high rates of health coverage. The city also boasts a vibrant culture with a strong arts scene: Minneapolis is home to the second-highest number of live theaters per capita in the U.S. after New York City. The University of Minnesota, one of the largest public universities in the nation, is located in Minneapolis, which helps boost the local economy.
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St. Paul offers the same attractive qualities to workers as Minneapolis, its twin city, scoring especially highly in the income, affordability and health insurance coverage factors. Outside of the office, people here can enjoy many cultural and outdoor amenities, including performing arts centers, parks and more. The city also boasts 26 miles of Mississippi riverfront, the most of any city on the river.
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The City of Hartselle might have to wait until next year before any of the downtown flooding issues can be resolved, according to Mayor Don Hall.
Hall said the project includes building a retention pond between Milner, Hammitt and Georgia streets behind the Hartselle City Schools' central office, northeast of downtown.
"They're saying that it could be spring of next year before they could start work on it," Hall said. "I wish that we could get it built before the next winter rainy season, but it doesn't appear that will happen."
In August 2012, the city received approval from the Federal Emergency Management Agency for a $325,800 project to alleviate flooding concerns in downtown Hartselle, where two streams merge underneath the downtown area. One stream runs underneath Cahoots restaurant while the other runs under Hickory Street before the two streams merge and exit near the Farmer's Market.
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This is adorable!! I want her so badly!! Can you buy this anywhere??
thanks! I did this figure as part of a custom commission. I have info for commissions on m y deviantart journal @ flyingsciurus.deviantart.com/j…
SO CUTEI'd want to take her home, along with the lil Kyoshi warrior
Even a psycho princess can be cute !
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Mularac : thats kinda like mine i said Ba'al or anubis destroys earth and you take a ship lol
yeah, that's the idea. perhaps a ba'al clone (or ba'al himself, he actually don't know if it was the real one on Continuum). The story would be houndreds if not thousands of years in the future, where the tauri and the jaffa free nations are no more than legends.
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If she loses the bet.then i will shot down when she tryes to espace from canada or earth.Watch your head when i fire RPG 32 rocket!
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ok, did guy has seriously lost his mind. Check out piper's mod profile.
lol me too. Have any of you considered my idea of a stargate mod for kotor 2 btw?
I think is a terrific idea, but I'd need modelers skinners, as I can only handle mild coding and could learn mission editing for the game, but's about it...
u wud need more than just modellers and skinners lol, people for the story, what missions, ideas for how the enemies would work, would it be just good guys vs bad guys like stargate:empire at war or would it be like factions for asgard, goauld, tauri etc, lots to think about and id help if i can find my copy of the game agen hehehe
well, I can do that. I was just thinking (when I'm done with War Begins) to make a singleplayer campaign, set hundreds of years in the future. a future where one clone of ba'al survived managed to give the goauld it's former glory by defeating and anhilating earth. Then, you (the character) find a derelict ship (or crashed). The daedalus. and that's how the quest for defeating the gouald -again- starts. It's an idea Soul Assassino and I (well... mostly soul) thought about.
That sounds brilliant, guessin u use the found ship instead of the ebon hawk? Maybe a large portion of the ship able to be used, and the ability to find a whole crew which actually have some real reason for being on the ship. Since it's long into the future you could have a number of different races there, maybe even Asgard since according to Atlantis there are an amount of them still alive living there. Definately worth having a go at anyway.


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I use IP cameras as security cameras and back up the captured footage via FTP to my MAC on my dropbox folder.
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I decided to upgrade and am now trying to use my Macbook pro running 10.8.2 as the FTP server using OS X server.
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On my previous set up, the files would upload as they came and would display indefinatley.
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BOE considers expanding mentoring programBy Emily Beckett Published 7:40pm Tuesday, October 16, 2012
The Chilton County Board of Education reviewed information Bill Pinson of the Chilton County Mentoring Program presented Tuesday about the program's development.
Verbena is currently the only school where the pilot program has been implemented, but Pinson told board members his and organizers' goal is to expand it to other local schools.
Pinson said Judge Rhonda Hardesty was an advocate of creating the program, which pairs volunteers from the county Department of Human Resources with students for mentoring during the school day.
Pinson added that students' safety is the main concern, and the program would never call for mentors and students to "be outside the school setting."
"We are trying to find mentors of good character," Pinson said.
Along with screened volunteers who have clean records and good character, the program also must have a board of directors.
The Board of Education will vote on whether to approve the program for expansion at its next meeting on Nov. 20.
At Tuesday's meeting, the board voted in favor of taking bids on a greenhouse to be built at Chilton County High School for $40,000 with funds from the city of Clanton and LeCroy Career Tech Center.
Also approved was a recommendation for newly elected board members to complete required training via the new chapter of Local School Board Governance, and a recommendation for all of the schools' continuous improvement plans as presented by Pam Harris.
Chilton County Schools Superintendent Dave Hayden recognized: Joe Mims, board president, and member Curtis Smith for their reaching the next level of involvement with the Alabama Association of School Boards by attending conferences and other related programs; Ann Glasscock, board vice president, for 18 years of service to the board; member George Walker for six years of service to the board; and member Chris Davis for six years of service to the board.
Glasscock, Walker and Davis will not run for re-election to the board in November.
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I had my 10 week check up at the OBGYN today. He is a lovely man who did not see Aiden's diagnosis comming at all ( I think). We ended up talking about Materny21 and testing.
I was in two minds about screening - for one I love Aiden and I have never regretted having him. I had all the usual guilty feelings about testing..
But on the other end - I had no idea of Aiden's diagnosis or his heart condition and it was rather a shock two days before Christmas in 2011- Would it not be better to know - but my OBGYN wants to do the following tests:
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2. Some kind of scan that is usually used during IVF to determine if the embrio's are normal- it literaly checks for every Trisomy or chromosomal abnormality that exists.
3. FISH - He plans to give me the FISH results in the interim while we wait for the rest.
I am just flattened - He asked me in a very gentle manner (please dont miss understand because he was in no way being a prick. He is lovely) to do the testing sooner rather than later should I decide to terminate...... I think it was that word terminate.......
I told him I would never terminate any way- but then he told me about the mom he had that had had three positve pregnancies with DS. She had the one baby and the other two she terminated and then I freaked out.
I have always wanted two children - I battled to have Aiden....What if my body is incapable of producing a typical baby. I am pro life- but at the moment I am not sure what I pro of any more. I live in a third world country with NADA- no EI , no PT, no OT no state support not a cent. Every bit of therapy Aiden gets is private and not covered by insurance- I am a working mom - there's heaps of guilt there aswell.
I dont even know what I am trying to say here.. Its all a mess in my head. I am one big bundle of upsetness and confusion!!!!!!!!!!
I dont know what the heck to do....I am sorry to say this.. so sorry to say this but I really hope this baby does not have DS. That I do not have to make a gut wrenching decision either way. Why does it have to be so hard????????


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Core Molding Technologies Launches New Business, Manufacturing Plant In Warsaw, Kentucky
Warsaw, Kentucky, issued 22-Aug-2011 by Core Molding Technologies, Inc. over PR Newswire, we are advised by the company that the last sentence of the third paragraph should read "Revenue for the new business is projected to be $5 to $8 million annually," rather than "Revenue for the new business is projected to be $5$8 million annually," as originally issued inadvertently. The complete, corrected release follows:Core has formed the subsidiary, Core Specialty Composites, LLC, to manage the new business. Core Specialty Composites will operate out of a manufacturing site, located in Warsaw, Kentucky. The facility includes 62,000 sq.ft. of leased manufacturing space. Core's existing plant in Batavia, Ohio, will provide additional management support to the Warsaw location, and the operation will be under the direction of Robert (Bob) Brennan, Plant Manager – Batavia. Operations initially will include production of large-format parts using a customized fiberglass hand lamination process. Development and staffing activities are underway. Our people will be on-site in September and active production is planned to begin early in 2012. The Warsaw operation is expected to employ approximately 40 people. Revenue for the new business is projected to be $5 to $8 million annually. "We are excited about this expansion outside our traditional markets," said Kevin Barnett, President and Chief Executive Officer of Core Molding Technologies. "For some time, we have been focused on growing our business with industries beyond our traditional heavy truck accounts, and this is the latest of several successes in that regard." Core's director of market development, Mark Murfitt, led the effort to launch the new business. "Our work has included a great deal of product development. Additionally, we'll be utilizing some new process technology for Core," Murfitt said. "We're now actively building tooling and acquiring the necessary manufacturing permits and equipment." Core will lease the building in Warsaw, but will make a capital investment of approximately $1.7 million for equipment and technology to support the operation. Core's Batavia, Ohio plant manager, Bob Brennan emphasized the positive impact on employment for the Warsaw area. "We liked the quality of the labor market in Gallatin and surrounding counties," Mr. Brennan noted. "We worked closely with state and local representatives in our targeted regions, and the combination of benefits offered by the people and officials of Kentucky and Gallatin County convinced us that Warsaw was the best location for our new operation." Core will hold a local job fair in Warsaw on Tuesday, August 30, 2011 at the Gallatin County Extension Office, to discuss opportunities for workers in the new plant and to take applications for employment. ABOUT CORE MOLDING TECHNOLOGIES, INC. Core Molding Technologies, Inc. is a compounder of sheet molding composites (SMC) and molder of fiberglass reinforced plastics. Core specializes in large-format moldings and offers a wide range of fiberglass processes, including compression molding of sheet molding compounds (SMC), long fiber thermoplastics (LFTP) and bulk molding compounds (BMC), spray-up, lay-up, resin transfer (RTM) and vacuum resin transfer molding (V-RTM), and vacuum bagging. Additionally, the company offers liquid molding of dicyclopentadiene (DCPD). Core serves a wide variety of markets, including the medium and heavy-duty truck, marine, automotive, and other commercial products. Headquartered in Columbus, OH, Core operates plants in Columbus and Batavia, Ohio; Gaffney, South Carolina; and Matamoros, Mexico. For further information, visit the company's website at www.coremt.com. This press release contains certain forward-looking statements within the meaning of the federal securities laws. As a general matter, forward-looking statements are those focused upon future plans, objectives or performance as opposed to historical items and include statements of anticipated events or trends and expectations and beliefs relating to matters not historical in nature. Such forward-looking statements involve known and unknown risks and are subject to uncertainties and factors relating to Core Molding Technologies operations and business environment, all of which are difficult to predict and many of which are beyond Core Molding Technologies' control. These uncertainties and factors could cause Core Molding Technologies' actual results to differ materially from those matters expressed in or implied by such forward-looking statements. Core Molding Technologies believes that the following factors, among others, could affect its future performance and cause actual results to differ materially from those expressed or implied by forward-looking statements made in this press release: business conditions in the plastics, transportation, watercraft and commercial product industries; federal and state regulations (including engine emission regulations); general economic, social and political environments in the countries in which Core Molding Technologies operates; safety and security conditions in Mexico; dependence upon two major customers as the primary source of Core Molding Technologies' sales revenues; recent efforts of Core Molding Technologies to expand its customer base; failure of Core Molding Technologies' suppliers to perform their contractual obligations; the availability of raw materials; inflationary pressures; new technologies; competitive and regulatory matters; labor relations; the loss or inability of Core Molding Technologies to attract and retain key personnel; compliance changes to federal, state and local environmental laws and regulations; the availability of capital; the ability of Core Molding Technologies to provide on-time delivery to customers, which may require additional shipping expenses to ensure on-time delivery or otherwise result in late fees; risk of cancellation or rescheduling of orders; risks related to the transfer of production from Core Molding Technologies Columbus, Ohio facility to its Matamoros production facility; management's decision to pursue new products or businesses which involve additional costs, risks or capital expenditures; and other risks identified from time-to-time in Core Molding Technologies other public documents on file with the Securities and Exchange Commission, including those described in Item 1A of the 2010 Annual Report to Shareholders on Form 10-K. 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Mr. Ollivander had a peacock, whom he kept on the back room of his shop. He was willing to sell some of its feathers to Harry Potter at a cost of three Sickles.[1]
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- TanzaniaServicesFunding via Tujijenge Tanzania Ltd
Majohe Hali...TanzaniaServicesFunding via Tujijenge Tanzania Ltd
France GroupTanzaniaFoodFunding via Tujijenge Tanzania Ltd
Sheraton Group
For 11 years now, Fatuma has been running a business, selling clothes (football jersies) and honey. She obtains her honey stock from up-country and she sells it wholesale. Fatuma works from 9am to 4pm daily and is able to make a good monthly profit.
This is her seventh loan request from Tujijenge Tanzania. She used the previous loans to start her business of selling honey and to restock with more clothes. She managed to successfully pay back all her previous loans. The business profit earned was used to cover school fees and household expenses. She saved the remaining amount.
Fatuma will use this loan to restock more clothes to sell. She dreams that, one day, she will be able to open a big clothes shop.
Fatuma will share this loan with her loan group, Sheraton Group, which totals eight members. The members of the group will hold each other accountable for paying back the loan.
Additional Information
About Tujijenge TanzaniaThis loan is administered by Tujijenge Tanzania, which was founded in 2006. It has operations in Dar es Salaam, the coastal region, and the Lake Victoria region. The organization aims to reach out to micro entrepreneurs and provide them with financial and social intermediation services because capital is one of the major barriers to development and success for micro-enterprise initiatives in Tanzania.
For more information on Tujijenge Tanzania, please visit its partner page, or join its lending team.
This is a Group Loan
In a group loan, each member of the group receives an individual loan but is part of a larger group of individuals. The group is there to provide support to the members and to provide a system of peer pressure, but groups may or may not be formally bound by a group guarantee. In cases where there is a group guarantee, members of the group are responsible for paying back the loans of their fellow group members in the case of delinquency or default.
Kiva's Field Partners typically feature one borrower from a group. The loan description, sector, and other attributes for a group loan profile are determined by the featured borrower's loan. The other members of the group are not required to use their loans for the same purpose.
About Tanzania
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Success!! The loan was 100% repaid
- Repayment Term
- 8 months (Additional Information)
- Repayment Schedule
- Monthly
- Pre-Disbursed:
- Sep 17, 2013
- Listed
- Sep 24, 2013
- Currency Exchange Loss:
- Possible
- Ended:
- Apr 16, 2014


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Washington - Hurricanes Katrina and Rita have Republicans in Congress again calling for relaxing environmental restrictions on energy development on public lands in the West.
They say those restrictions get in the way of oil and gas companies providing energy to the public. So House Resources Committee chairman Richard Pombo on Monday proposed legislation eliminating many rules that energy companies have complained about.
"This month, Mother Nature proved just how vulnerable America is to supply disruptions," said Pombo, R-Calif. "We must do more to increase and to diversify domestic supplies."
The proposed legislation is unlikely to increase oil or gas supplies in the near future. Federal regulators are already approving oil and gas wells in Colorado and other Western states faster than industry can drill them.
The Bureau of Land Management, which controls much of the West's drilling land, approved more than 6,000 wells last year. Producers drilled fewer than 4,000.
A number of the provisions in Pombo's bill were rejected in negotiations that led to the massive energy bill that passed Congress this summer and was signed by President Bush, such as allowing drilling in the Arctic National Wildlife Refuge and offshore drilling in areas now covered by a moratorium.
Sen. Pete Domenici, R-N.M., said the energy supply disruptions caused by the hurricanes show an increased need to take another look at environmental rules.
"In a push to get the urgent steps done now, we left the politically impossible for another day," Domenici said. "The recent hurricanes may have heralded the dawn of that new day."
Environmentalists say Republicans want to use the disaster to carve out bigger profits for their allies in the energy industry.
"They're waiving a host of federal regulations on public lands under the guise of 'We have to do something in the wake of these hurricanes,"' said Dave Alberswerth of the Wilderness Society. "It ignores that there's already a big (energy) boom on Western public lands."
Pombo's legislation, scheduled for a committee vote Wednesday, is part of a multipronged GOP effort to cut back environmental regulation in the wake of the storms.
Bush on Monday urged Congress to clear away the "regulations and paperwork" that he says delay construction of oil refineries. And House Energy and Commerce chairman Joe Barton, R-Texas, has proposed legislation encouraging new refineries.
Pombo's bill would allow the Interior Department to waive limitations on drilling - such as those protecting wildlife in winter - in the event of a "significant disruption" in supply.
Not all the exemptions would require an emergency. The bill would approve the use of private workers paid by the gas industry to process permits for drilling on public lands and would bar appeals of drilling decisions by the BLM.
And Pombo's legislation would seek to encourage oil- shale production in Colorado, Utah and Wyoming by reducing the amount that producers would have to pay the government for the oil they extract.
Staff writer Mike Soraghan can be reached at 202-662-8730 or firstname.lastname@example.com.


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Artists: George Duke
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Artists: Spyro Gyra
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Chick Corea: The Leprechaun
1 CD / Verve / 1993-10-12Tracks: Imp's Welcome; Lenore; Reverie; Looking at the World; Nite Sprite; Soft and Gentle; Pixiland Rag; Leprechaun's Dream; (Untitled) - (hidden track)
Artists: Chick Corea
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Rao Kyao: Danças De Rua
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Artists: Rao Kyao
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Return to Forever: No Mystery
1 CD / Verve / 1986-09-22Tracks: Dayride; Jungle Waterfall; Flight of the Newborn; Sofistifunk; Excerpt From the First Movement of Heavy Metal; No Mystery; Interplay; Celebration Suite Part I; Celebration Suite Part II
Artists: Return to Forever
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Artists: Chick Corea/Return to Forever
This 1998 reissue features the original 1972 LP on disc 1 and previously unreleased alternate takes on disc 2.
Full performer name: Chick Corea & Return To Forever.
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Artists: Chick Corea/Return to Forever
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Deputies from the Fulton County Sheriff's Department, Cherokee Village Police Department and the Sharp County Sheriff's Department were involved in a shootout Sept. 1 in Agnos -- sort of.
Deputy Scott Holloway with the Fulton County Sheriff's Department said 53-year-old Tommy Lynn Douglas fired over a dozen rounds of ammunition at phantom intruders inside his home.
"He thought 13 white guys were trying to beat him up," Holloway said. "So he was shooting at them."
But no one else was inside Douglas' home.
When officers arrived at his house Douglas was sitting in the living room wearing only his underwear and holding a shotgun between his legs, said Holloway.
"They're in there. They're trying to hurt me. Go ahead and get them," a sweaty, grass-covered Douglas told officers, Holloway said.
Douglas, a Navy veteran who served in Vietnam, was having a psychotic episode, Holloway said.
Deputies searched the home, but didn't find anyone.
Douglas fired a .308 caliber rifle, a .30-06 caliber rifle and a .22 caliber handgun during the episode, according to the Fulton County Sheriff's Department.
Holloway said Douglas was transported from his house to the Fulton County jail.
"He was real cooperative with us," Holloway said. "But he wasn't happy when we took him to the hospital."
Fulton County deputy James Laney took Douglas to the Veterans Administration Hospital in Popular Bluff for a mental evaluation.
Douglas was later transferred to a hospital in St. Louis.
No charges are expected to be filed against Douglas.
"In light of the fact that no one was hurt, I don't think we're going to charge him with anything," Holloway said.
Douglas has previous criminal convictions for theft of property, according to the Fulton County Sheriff's Department.
A neighbor called the Fulton County Sheriff's Department to alert them shots were being fired at Douglas' home.
Holloway said he asked the Sharp County Sheriff's Department for assistance because the caller said multiple weapons were being discharged. At the time of the call, Holloway was the only officer on duty in Fulton County.
"I didn't know what was going on out there," Holloway said. "For all I knew there was a gunfight going on."


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Choice Tables; A Sake Sampler, With Food To Match
By ELIZABETH ANDOH
Published: October 7, 2001
SAKE, the Japanese rice wine, is increasingly popular in the United States, even with non-Japanese food. And in Tokyo, where it has always been in fashion with those over 50, it has recently gained favor among 30-somethings, especially the chilled version, or reishu, as opposed to heated sake, or atsukan. For aficionados, here are five restaurants in Tokyo that offer a variety of sake wines, along with fine traditional Japanese fare and occasional fusion dishes called sousaku ryouri, or creative food.
Sourin Yuu
One winter evening I invited an American friend and colleague to join me for a sake tasting at Sourin Yuu, a popular supper club in the fashionable Minami Aoyama district of Tokyo. The sake sampler, a set of five rice wines available every evening, afforded us a chance to pair various Japanese dishes with domestic sake.
All sake at Sourin Yuu comes from the Sanyou-zuru brewery in Hiroshima. The five varieties in the sampler set are a dai ginjo, junmai ginjo, honjo, reishu and ori-zake. These terms refer to the degree of milling the rice undergoes before steaming and fermenting (a major contributing factor to the final character of rice wine), and to the purity, or addition of ingredients other than rice (such as distilled alcohol and sugar), during the brewing process.
Sourin Yuu's sashimi mori awase, an elaborate assortment of eight seasonal seafoods, was excellent. In turn, we dipped slices of briefly stewed, tender octopus, creamy cuttlefish, fresh sardine and luscious meji maguro tuna in a soy sauce spiked with wasabi. We thought the clean, dry dai ginjo was especially well suited to these kinds of bold-flavored fish. A soy and citron dip, known as ponzu, mixed with momiji oroshi (grated radish with flecks of hot chilie pepper) and chives perked up the subtle flavor of petal-thin slices of fluke. The honjo sake was smooth and lovely with this delicate fish, and with the briny akagai clams.
A salad of wakame sea tangle and cresslike mitsuba topped with crunchy fried chirimen (miniature sardines) was dressed with aromatic sesame oil and a touch of ginger juice. We enjoyed the fruity reishu with our salad, and with a silky chilled tofu dish, too. Slivers of crisply fried gobo (burdock root) were terrific with all the sake wines.
Part of a successful restaurant chain that serves updated Japanese pub fare, En occupies the 11th floor of the Touei building, an entertainment complex across the street from bustling Shibuya station.
The restaurant is huge -- a vast expanse of tatami mats sectioned off into smaller areas by slatted bamboo screens -- accommodating 220 people. A counter of unadorned wood provides a dozen diners with a view of the semi-open kitchen. At the counter, and at all the low tables, diners sit on plump zabuton cushions and can dangle their legs comfortably in deep hori-kotatsu wells.
Most of the items on En's menu are priced at about $5 or $6.
Early in April, three hungry guests and I sampled three varieties of sake and a dozen dishes for a total of $120 -- very reasonable by Tokyo standards. Our favorite foods included a garlicky, grilled chunk of tender tuna cheek and a vegetarian sashimi platter. (Although sashimi usually refers to raw fish, the term can describe an artistic arrangement of any sliced food.) En's ootoro konnyaku (quivering, shimmering slices of celadon-colored aspic made from a tuber vegetable and speckled with ao nori sea herb) was served with shredded and minced herbs on a bed of crushed ice with a tart, pale miso dipping sauce.
A salad described as garigari (crunchy-munchy) on the menu turned out to be a tasty study in flavor and texture contrasts: crisp batons of daikon radish and flakes of smoky katsuo bushi (dried bonito) topped a large bowl of tender lettuce leaves. Garnished with a generous sprinkling of crisp jyako (air-dried minuscule anchovies) and a dollop of mentaiko mayo, a creamy mixture of spicy cod roe and mayonnaise, this is the sort of preparation the Japanese are calling creative food.
My guests and I enjoyed a trio of rice wines: Hakkaisan, an aromatic, dry sake from Niigata Prefecture, Michi-zakari, a lighter, spicier brew from Gifu Prefecture, and Fuji Chitose, a cloudy, sherry-sweet rice wine from Kyoto. I was surprised to discover how this nigori-zake (a generic term to describe cloudy, unfiltered rice wines) enhanced both the tuna and the salad.
Yoyogi Uehara is a quiet, residential pocket in the midst of Tokyo's urban sprawl. Dotted with stylish shops, the neighborhood is connected by the Chiyoda subway line to high-powered government and business offices in midtown, as well as by the Odakyu train line.
Less than a minute from the train station a tiny neighborhood dining spot called Sasagin offers fine food and an excellent selection of sake. The restaurant was humming one Monday evening in May when my guest and I arrived. A few minutes after 6 we claimed two of the 10 counter seats so we could watch the itamae chefs as they gracefully carved and arranged the food.
Several small tables with chairs and a raised tatami-matted area with zabuton cushions around two low tables provide 30 more seats; all were occupied by 6:30.


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Last Saturday, a friend and I took our yearly trip to Donner Summit to record video of the riders in the Donner Summit Bike Time Trial. As usual, watching the riders suffer got me all hyped up to do my own suffering, which I also recorded video of.
Our first stop was at the general store in Soda Springs. We always like to give them business, as they are very friendly. Also, when I went up there to buy snacks after a mtb ride at Hole-In-The-Ground in July, the owner told me he hadn't been able to do much mountain biking because he had to lay off his employees in order to make ends meet. In spite of this, when I went to pay for the snack-size Snickers bar after I had already bought the rest of my goodies, he told me the candy bar was on him because I did that gnarly downhill on a hardtail (never again, btw! The climbing was much better!).
On this trip there was another employee there, which was good news. While I was picking out my food items, she received an emergency call. When I paid for my stuff, she told me that the call was about somebody's house that was ransacked by bears! (she volunteered that info, I didn't ask as it's none of my business).
Back outside, I got my bike ready to ride the easy west side climb up to the summit. This was my first ride with my new Shimano M520 SPDs, and my first clipless ride in twenty years. I had been using clips and straps all this time. Yes, that's right. All those steep climb videos of mine up until now were not done with clipless pedals.
There was an interesting banner on the storefront that said "SAVE DONNER SUMMIT LET'S BUY IT". Interesting. I didn't know Donner Summit was in danger. I guess I'll have to do some Googling to see what's up.
Since we both enjoy video as a hobby, we both came armed with multiple cameras. I had a ContourHD on my helmet, my new GoPro HD Hero2 on the chest strap mount, and a ContourGPS on my handlebars. I already had one, but I bought this one from a member of the cycling club I belong to. He had me pick it up for him from REI a couple months ago, but he was having problems with it and wanted to return it. Since I bought it on my credit card, they wouldn't give him a refund. I bought it back from him, reset it, reloaded the firmware, adjusted a few settings, and bought a new 32 GB Class 10 card for it. He had been using a Class 4, which is too slow for HD video. After that, the camera performed flawlessly.
My friend had a Kodak Playsport Zx5, a Samsung camcorder, and a new GoPro HD Hero Naked (those are now $130, btw). He mounted these at various locations on his vehicle to capture third-person footage of my climbs.
When I was almost to the summit, I noticed that the rock people I posted in this thread last year were in different positions, so after I reached the top I rode back down to take some pics. Due to the ridiculous 10 image limit here, the rest of the pictures from this trip are here: http://s149.photobucket.com/albums/s66/hardmf1/
We went downhill about 1/4 mile to our favorite spot for recording the riders. This is also the best view spot and most fun for walking around on the rocks above Donner Pass Road.
While we were waiting for the riders in the time trial to arrive, my friend had some fun with the panorama mode on his still camera.
During the time trial, there were many other riders climbing who weren't in the race. This one stood out from the crowd. You can see my bike leaning against the guardrail across the road.
Here's the video of the hill climb time trial.
After watching that, it was my turn to have some climbing fun! I managed to do this climb about a minute and 15 seconds faster than last year (28:34). This is in spite of a 7 pound weight gain since last July and a pulled muscle in my back that I got from sneezing while sitting in a chair, of all things! Luckily the endorphins took over and the pain disappeared on the last half of the climb, just in time for my usual hard push for a PR.
I think the clipless pedals and the "draft" I got from the riders I caught up to helped out. There are some headwinds further up that are always there whenever I climb this mountain. I don't ever remember a completely calm climb, so in this case there was some benefit from following another rider at climbing speeds.
Here's a pic my friend took of me slowly catching up to another rider. Don't worry, he dropped me right before the vista viewpoint at the Rainbow Bridge, which is where he turned off.
Here's my video. This was one of the more fun climbs, IMHO. The woman you see in the video thumbnail gave me one hell of a workout on the last half of the climb (for those who don't know, I'm also a female cyclist). I just didn't have enough oomph to pass her. Very motivating!
Here's the third-person video from my friend's Kodak and Samsung cameras mounted on his vehicle. This is the climbs up the west and east side of Donner Pass Road, plus the climb up Donner Lake Road.
Here's the video from his GoPro HD Hero Naked. This one does a little better with the scenery, but unfortunately he had the waterproof door installed, which muffled and muted the audio somewhat. This is especially noticeable when his vehicle is stopped.


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