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Surviving by serving
Aleppo, one of the oldest cities in the world, is the latest casualty in Syria's civil war. While world leaders look to a jihadist-driven rebel agenda, the city's Christian minority is finding purpose in its peril
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On another summer day the ice cream sellers in Aleppo would be busy, handing out cones from their bicycles stationed in a pedestrian square beside the central Citadel. Inside the Old City's covered walkways, juice sellers would be working feverishly on street corners, pumping fresh pomegranate juice sold in thin paper cups. As the pulp would fall in thick crimson clumps on the stone walkways, the spicy aroma of falafel and meat grilling on a spit would rise from the tiny restaurants tucked inside the old souk.
But Aleppo is shuttered, a city of 2.5 million reduced to a shell of its former bustling self after a siege that began just over a month ago.
Like Damascus, Homs, and other urban centers before it, Syria's largest city has become the fortress for rebel groups fighting to overthrow President Bashar al-Assad. In return, its inhabitants are the target of government retaliation-with some of the heaviest weapons yet used in the civil war that first began with street protests 17 months ago.
Nationwide the fighting has killed an estimated 20,000, but numbers in Aleppo are hard to come by. One Syrian monitoring group, the Violations Documentation Center, reports that between July 19 and Aug. 9 over 400 civilians were killed in the Aleppo governorate-either by shelling or by gunfire.
As street-by-street combat spreads from Aleppo's outskirts and working-class neighborhoods into the city's ancient center, the fighting is destroying what was once a cultural and commercial hub in the Middle East. Government forces have used tanks, helicopter gunships, and warplanes to fire on rebel strongholds, destroying homes, schools, and businesses in the process. On Aug. 11 eyewitnesses reported that bombing had damaged the city's 13th-century Citadel, listed as the largest castle in the world and part of a World Heritage site located in the heart of the city.
"The situation here is getting very hard and critical," reports one local physician who runs a relief organization. "Bread is a dream. Gasoline is a supernatural finding. ... Many families are in bad need."
On a typical day there would be more taxis than people on Aleppo's streets. But gasoline has shot up from less than $1 to more than $5 per liter-and little is available. Electricity, once commonplace 24 hours a day, is now turned on only two hours a day in the late evenings.
One of the oldest cities in the world, Aleppo survived conquest by the Assyrians and then the Persians before its capture by the Greeks. It became part of the Roman Empire in a.d. 64 but under Byzantine rule became a center for Christianity. Persians pillaged the city before Arab Muslims conquered it in a.d. 637. Then it survived two Crusades and Ottoman rule, and came under the French Mandate before becoming an independent republic in 1930.
The destruction of Aleppo, noted Al-Jazeera reporter Anita McNaught, "would be like the destruction of Rome or Paris."
Despite its serial conquests, Aleppo historically has been a refuge for victims of other conflicts. During the Armenian Genocide of 1915, thousands of Armenians fled there, the closest city across the border from Turkey. During both Gulf wars, Iraqi refugees took shelter in Aleppo. In 2008, as insurgency took its toll on those living in Mosul and the Nineveh Plains of Iraq, especially Christians, Aleppo took in about 25,000 Iraqi refugees a month. City churches with outside aid were feeding hundreds of them each week (see "Stalked," Nov. 29, 2008).
It's not uncommon to find church leaders in Aleppo born in Turkey or Iraq or Lebanon. "We are the sons of martyrs," a Turkish-born Chaldean priest told me. "We understand what others are going through because we have been there. Our parents did not teach us to hate, and so we help other refugees."
It's that melting-pot aspect of Aleppo that makes more tragic the current street battles. Unlike Cairo, where millions poured into the street to protest the rule of Egyptian President Hosni Mubarak, Aleppo-like many parts of Syria-by comparison saw subdued street-level demonstrations before armed conflict erupted.
When the Qatar Foundation this year conducted an extensive poll of Syrians, it found 55 percent still on Assad's side and 68 percent disapproving of Arab League and other sanctions. It makes sense, notes Religious Liberty Prayer Bulletin editor Elizabeth Kendal: Most Syrians would prefer an authoritarian but largely secular regime to an Islamist one, given the country's makeup. At least 25 percent of the population are religious minorities (Christians make up about 10 percent of that segment) and at least a third of the country's Sunni Muslims live in urban areas with one of the highest standards of living in the Middle East. Prior to 2011 disturbances that launched the civil war, Syria had a GDP growth rate of 3.4 percent, unemployment stood at 8.3 percent, and under economic reforms the country launched its own stock exchange in 2009.
"So the main division in Syria is not between Assad and the rest, but between Sunni fundmentalists (including foreign Salafi jihadists) and the rest, i.e., the majority of Syrians," notes Kendal.
Yossef Bodansky, who as director of the Congressional Task Force on Terrorism became one of the first U.S. analysts to document al-Qaeda's structure and the role of Osama bin Laden, also believes that siding with the rebels is the wrong stance for the United States and its allies. "The international community has been blindly following a jihadist-driven agenda for Syria; a solution the majority of Syrians reject, but which Turkey and Qatar have been driving. It begs the question: Why are analysts in Washington-or Paris or London-not digging more deeply into what is really happening, given that the solution they have endorsed is so profoundly anti-Western?"
Bodansky says that the Syrian National Council, the lead political opposition to Assad, "has always been a front of the more militant-jihadist wing of the Muslim Brothers." Left to battle for control of the country, he and other analysts argue, these rebel groups are likely to send Syria into political chaos and militant insurgency, and likely to take Lebanon with them.
The humanitarian toll of that trajectory already is evident: Across Syria tens of thousands have been killed and almost 3 million, according to the UN, are displaced or in dire need of food and other essentials. Meanwhile, fighting this month has spread to Tripoli and other areas across the Syria-Lebanon border.
Ultimately, the battle for Aleppo, and all Syria, may represent an opportunity for the United States-with Iran and Russia, no less-to agree on a transitional regime that could lead to a move away from Assad's brutality. "Regional stability and moral considerations both require a transitional phase in Syria, not cold-turkey democracy," argues STRATFOR analyst Robert D. Kaplan. "Syria's situation is dire. From both a moral and geopolitical point of view, fighting a proxy war with Iran and Russia there is less desirable for the United States than reaching out to them."
Yet, as Kaplan and others point out, the Obama administration has shown little flair for back-channel, hard-boiled diplomacy. Increasingly it appears that the United States, along with Great Britain, is content to provide tacit support for the rebels, to arm them without direct aerial or naval support, on the premise that civil war in Syria distracts Iran from its nuclear ambitions and Russia from its own military buildup. Republicans in Congress are content to go along because in principle they would like Assad to go and "democracy," whatever it may look like, to replace him.
Christians, who form a significant part of the "Fertile Crescent of minorities" standing between the Sunni Arab majority in the Middle East and the Shiite extremists of Iran, face the largest threat from jihadist groups within the opposition. Despite Assad's reputation for brutal mistreatment of opponents, in the past he's shown favor to Syria's Christian minority, allowing protection for ancient Christian sites and religious liberty unlike most of the Middle East. Assad personally has relied on Christians as his bodyguards and as caretakers for his children.
Since war broke out, Christians increasingly have been targeted by rebels. Over 138,000 Christians fled Homs, where they were terrorized and churches looted by occupying rebels. While the UN claims that pro-government militias were behind the May massacre in Houla that killed 108, local Christians insist that the killers were part of rebel groups.
A report from a local priest in Qaraa, near Houla, provided to WORLD in French, describes in detail "rebel armies" attacking a police station and killing 35 officers, then proceeding to a hospital where 25 patients, their family members who were present, and medical personnel were killed. "The gangs massacred all the people there and then burned the hospital after having moved the corpses," reads the report.
In Aleppo, Christians are surviving by serving. As street battles and strafing from helicopter gunships have moved from outer neighborhoods into central Aleppo, where most of the Christian population lives, displaced residents are living in parks, churches, or school shelters run by local Christians.
"The churches and our people are doing a tremendous work among the IDPs [internally displaced persons] all over Aleppo," reports the physician, who is not named for security reasons. Sunday schools are distributing bread and canned goods to "hundreds and thousands" of the displaced, he said. "The church is having a very good testimony in Aleppo."
In addition, churches in the city continue to work with about 495 Iraqi families who remain as refugees. Many have returned to Iraq since fighting broke out, and at least 12 Iraqi refugees have been killed this month.
Church leaders are quick to acknowledge that the situation is tense and subject to change. "People are terrified," reported Chaldean Archbishop of all Syria Antoine Audo. He spoke to reporters by telephone after conducting a service at Aleppo's St. Joseph's Church earlier this month while explosions and gunfire sounded in the distance. "They fear a situation that is becoming more and more violent and uncertain."
"When I'm asked about Syria, the first thing I say, generally, is that we don't want to become like Iraq," said the archbishop, who was born in Iraq's Nineveh Plains. "That fear is very present with us. That would mean the destruction of a Christian presence in Syria that has been here since the beginning of Christianity."
In 2008 I sat with Audo outside a church in Aleppo's city center as young boys and girls from a church "Scouts" group played basketball and other games under olive trees. With the approach of darkness on a Friday evening, all around us began the Muslim call to prayer, and we watched as hundreds began filing into the expansive mosque built between the old Chaldean and Greek Catholic churches. From across the street came persistent car honking-the sign of a wedding procession passing by headed to one of the churches, its cars polished and bedecked in flowers.
"Even the Muslims need historical references, even if they are in opposition," Audo said from our bench. "Christians represent something that comes before them. In Syria we have a tradition of living together. There is respect for us here, even though we have this fanaticism growing."
More and more Muslim women in Aleppo were wearing hijab, I had noticed, and the archbishop acknowledged, "It is a sign. But we must stay ... in a step of confidence. Unfortunately the Muslim feels himself very strong. They want to have opposition, and they want to have war, even if they say they want peace and reconciliation."
I felt his foreboding, plus the weight of caring then for thousands of newly arrived Iraqi refugees. "How do you keep going, and committed to ministry in Aleppo when you could be somewhere else?" I asked.
"Day by day," he said. "It is a stress every day. But this is a church of Mesopotamia now for 2,000 years. The call is to continue with a presence to give a taste of faith to Kurdish and Arabic peoples, and others. So we are doing our duty as witnesses, praying, attending to the Eucharist, showing the presence of the Lord, and serving Him with joy."


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Any tips for my first pub gig (Auckland, NZ)
My 4 piece covers band is about to do our very first pub gig. It's a little Irish pub called the Clare Inn, (for anyone who lives in Auckland, NZ). We have about 40 songs mostly classic stuff : Queen, GnR etc.
We'll be using our own PA which includes just 2x12" speakers and well that's it aside from the guitar amps. We just angle them in a bit so we can hear ourselves sing.
None of us have any experience at being a front man, from what I can see just act like an idiot, talk crap with the crowd and they'll find you entertaining.
I'm a little nervous about the mix. We will have friends there who can comment during the gig and we might try to get there really early to play a chorus of a song or something. But yeah I'd hate for our sound to be ruined by some fundamental problem. Such as when the bar is full the eqing might be completely wrong or something. We are doing our own sound mix from on the stage.
We pretty much have our drummer playing as quietly as he can so we can keep our overall volume from getting too loud, managers hate when the bands are too loud.
Anyway that's my story. Any tips or suggestions. Things to look out for??
Thanks guys!!
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Well I think you need to be a bit more confident and also a bit worried about the practicalities.
At this stage you have your repertoire sorted, I think 40 songs are too many. Over here pub gigs usually consist of two sets about an hour each. The break will give the singers voice a chance to recover. We play 14 songs a set which lasts an hour including links. Choose your best songs and think about the order. Start with a good song but one which is easy to play. The nerves can make the first song pretty ragged so choose something you can play asleep, this really settles the nerves. Finish each set with something good, you want the audience to want you back so give them your best shot. There's a sticky in bandleading about all this. Think about how to keep the gaps between songs as short as possible, link some songs in pairs so you lead straight in from one to the next with no break. sort out who starts each song and don't leave gaps where nothing is happening. Don't talk crap but be natural, mainly don't talk for too long, people want the music the craic they get from the people they are with.
A 2x12 isn't really good enough for vocals. I haven't used them since the early seventies! You really need the higher frequencies and this means something equipped with a horn, is there nothing better that you can borrow?
make sure your singer can hear their vocals properly, it is going to be harder than at practice and if they can't hear they will sing out of tune. 50% of pleasing the audience is how well they sing.
You have to sound check properly, especially if you are doing your own mix. Even though we have been gigging for years we still sometimes hire a hall and set up as if we were on stage and sort out any technical problems, a kind of technical rehearsal. On the day I allow an hour for setting up and soundchecking and I've been doing sound for 40 years. You need to allow longer. You need to spend time soundchecking. Loads of information here http://www.ultimate-guitar.com/colu...ndchecking.html You do a line check to test that everything is working then play a chorus or verse, adjust and repeat, adjust and repeat. If you change instruments at all then you need to repeat with something that uses all the different instruments. You also need to allow time for things going wrong, take spare leads etc but mainly give yourself time to sort problems by arriving as early as possible. This inevitably means nothing will go wrong and you will be sitting around waiting to start, which shouldn't be too hard in a pub, but there's nothing worse than panicking about the gear then having to go on with your heart still racing from the panic.
It's really hard to mix if you are playing, you can't really hear what the audience hear and it is pretty hard to concentrate on your playing if you have one ear on the PA. If you have a reliable friend then it is worth having them there whilst you set up and then have them tweak the mix during the set. If you don't have someone you can trust then get a long lead (you can buy a socket to join two jack leads) and walk out to the audience area to listen during the soundcheck.
In the end enjoy yourselves. Looks like you are going to have a popular set and the audience are always more supportive than you think. Good Luck
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Hmm. Getting a solid house mix without mic'ing anything is definitely not easy, in most cases. Just remember that your lead guitar player (assuming you've got more than one guitar player) isn't TOO overbearing. Even if you only have a guitar and a bass, keep that in mind.
Acoustic drum kits don't likely have a volume control, so, yeah, that's always something to keep in mind. Make sure you're playing is tight, in the end. Because, frankly, people aren't there to see a cover band because they want to hear what's on a record. It's a live gig. Live music is supposed to be loud and raunchy..especially for a rock show.
Overall, just play your parts and no, don't act like idiots. LOL. Be respectable and play what people like to hear. The more songs they dig, they more beers they'll drink..and the more beers they drink..the more likely you and your band will be asked to return to said pub...which results in better pay.
Have fun.
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thanks for the pointers.
I should clarify my gear. The 2 front of house speakers we have each consist of a 12" speaker + horn. So yeah have that covered. Also we are micing the guitar cab with a condenser instrument mic and feeding it through the front of house speakers. I've seen bands just crank the cab by itself and it sounds terrible.
As for songs, I'm pretty sure we'll be expected to play for 3hours all up including a half time break. So our aim is 20 songs +30min break +another 20 songs which will end up being about 3 hours.
Yeah I'll probably take it easy then on the acting like an idiot, maybe just the occasional dialogue with the crowd, just for a bit of engagement. We only have a few songs that definitely run together, the others we just kinda start them straight away, after the previous one. (Something to work on maybe)
As for setting up I'm going to try and get there like 4pm, do a quick chorus, have a muso friend critique the mix and then hope for the best. But he'll be there during the gig too to tell us if we need to adjust anything. Then we'll take turns at watching the gear until 9pm when we start.
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I,ve lately gotten my interest back in this game and plan to complete it 100% at some point and really wanted to start GTA conversations after all this a GTA forum. I've completed the storyline multiple times but the most precious prize is still missing which all the hardcore GTA-players go after, the 100% completion. Just finding the Hidden packages can be troublesome in this game because you dont have a ingame map to help you out so without screenshots finding those packages can be difficult. So my suggestion is following: Add some screenshots of the packages into the Guides-section like you have with the flying rats and stuff. Also in which platform are you playing it? I used to have the PS2-version but now I'm only playing the Xbox-version because the PC-version wont perform propably on my crappy computer.
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I will admit, I am to blame in sometimes making mountains out of molehills.
In pity the fool that has 14 kids and has a obsession with Angelina Jolie!!!
Bob and Tom said that the fertility doctor also placed ebryos in a 48 year old woman. All 4 took and now she is permanently in the hospital.
Every one involved in this should lose there job's at the clinic. Well we have 14 new government kids to take care of now.
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Every one involved in this should lose there job's at the clinic. Well we have 14 new government kids to take care of now.
Pretty soon we will have 300 million people to take care of.
They who can give up essential liberty to obtain a little temporary safety, deserve neither liberty nor safety. - Benjamin Franklin 1775
Bail them out. We are already handing out money to everyone else, why not her.
Have a couple more kids and we will give you some extra money.
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Well at least it will be well documented for the kids why their life sucked so bad.
I feel awful for the kids and I sincerely hope that they are taken away from her and given to families that can not only provide for their basic needs but also give them better lives that what they are facing now. On the other hand I sincerely hope that this woman chokes.
Obama will save them.
Especially if they had no business buying a house in the first place. He will find a way for us to pay for all of her needs, gas included.
I blame the doctors -- the lady is obviously sick.
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Pretty soon we will have 300 million people to take care of.
That already happened last Nov per the transition team when Congress booted the spending bills into the next Congress which they will play with next month to expand the kid debt.
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Maybe the Dr. who impregnated her will step up to pay the bills. If not Obama will come up with a plan to take care of her.
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The junior ended the day batting .500 and drove in three runs, including two in the seventh.
After Ryan Walton loaded the bases on a walk, Sapp ripped one into right field that gave Derrick Blain and Drew Keller enough time to score.
''That kid just threw the bat out there and happened to hit a typical single with the infield in,'' Central coach Jimbo Wodusky said. ''If the infield is back, then that's a groundball to the second baseman. That's just the chance you take when you bring the infield in.''
Still, trailing 3-1 in the home half of the seventh, the Marron Knights (10-20) had a chance.
With two outs and the bases loaded, Jeff Gywnn stepped up to the plate and on the first pitch, grounded out to first.
''I felt that even in the last inning with the bases loaded, even though I had a young freshman in there batting, I though that this kid's due for a hit,'' Wodusky said. ''Anything can happen in this game. It never crossed my mind that it was over.''
It did Cisar's in the sixth.
A Tanner Hanna bunt loaded the bases for the Blue Eagles, and after Chase Miller struck out, Kyle Elliott attempted a squeeze but was tagged out by the catcher, who then threw to J. D. Griffith to tag out Brantley Hissam at third.
''That's the first time in about 43 years that I've had a double play on a squeeze play,'' Cisar pointed out. ''I haven't seen that one before. And I'm sitting there thinking, 'Man, I blew it.' But, I'm still thinking, 'I've got to be aggressive. We've got to steal second base. We've got to do this, we've got to do that.'
''You get a big, clutch hit and that changes the ball game, but if you make a big, clutch error, that still changes the complexion of the ball game.''
Magnolia had already learned that lesson in the fourth when a throwing error left Nick Naumann safe at first. One out later, Derek Yocke doubled to drive him in to give the Knights a 1-0 lead.
The Blue Eagles answered back in the fifth when Walton scored off a Sapp hit into right field.
''We were kinda shaky at a position here and there making the routine play,'' Cisar said. ''I've told the guys all year if you make the routine play, you've got a chance to win. But, let's give Wheeling Central a lot of credit. They battled, fought and scratched right to the very end, even with the tying run on first base. That was a real good high school baseball game.''
The victory advances Magnolia to the Region One title game. The only thing standing between the Blue Eagles and a state tournament berth is St. Marys. The two will face off in New Martinsville on Wednesday.


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�Forgiving Waters,� by Kenneth L. Capps, BQB Publishing, 220 pp, $16.95
This was certainly an interesting week. I started by reading a first novel by a new writer, this by Kenneth Capps, and then went on to read one of the more 30 some odd novels by John Sandford. The first novel by Capps showed promise although there was a bit more preaching than action but the forecast of an interesting novelist certainly shines through the pages.
Basically the story covers the waning years of an old Texasrancher. The ranch is huge and the cattle are numerous, but the pride of the ranch are the horses. Each horse has been trained to respond to both halter and knee directions. However the flavor in life has left the old rancher since his wife passed away. Oh, he still rides and he still directs the foreman of the ranch but the zest has gone out of living. Lurking in the back of his mind is an open sore reminding him of a shameful deed he had committed years ago, something he still regrets but has found no way to atone for it.
Two young boys who are school yard friends are offered jobs on the ranch and enjoy the creeks and the water holes for fishing as part of their pay. It is the boys� actions, and their acceptance of each other, and each other�s family, that leads the grizzled rancher onto a path for peace, and hopefully, forgiveness.
On another note I also read �Shock Wave� by John Sandford, GP Putnam�s Sons, 388pp, $27.99. This particular book is called a Virgil Flowers novel and indeed he is the designated hero of this mystery. Virgil is basically a detective but seems to work directly under the governor although this is not made clear in the story. I kind of had the feeling that I should have read some of the earlier Flowers novels to get a grip of who Virgil was and what he did.
This story details what has gone on in nearly every large town or small city in the country. A huge department store chain is seeking to move into a small city. The ground is broken and the permits are given, much to the surprise of many of the citizens. Then a bomb goes off in the headquarters tower of the chain in another city, causing much damage although no one is injured.
What is very puzzling to the local sheriff, the town�s police chief and other law enforcement officials is that the only way to get a bomb to where it exploded would be to drop it from someone parachuting to that height, or some other equally dangerous aerial method.
Following that episode there is yet another bomb explosion, this time on the construction site in a city that thought it had turned down the building applications and denied the mammoth chain a foothold. Many of the local businesses are desperately worried that the huge chain will put them out of business. They have no way to compete on either price or inventory.
Page 2 of 2 - With so many possible people with strong motives to delay or completely block the huge chain�s location the bombers identity will require all of Flower�s sleuthing skills and ingenuity. Romance, ah yes. Flowers becomes interested in one of the women police detectives named Good Thunder. An Indian, Good Thunder assists in identifying the culprit. And no, once again I did not solve the puzzle or identify the culprit.
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Born Sept. 5, 1937 in Albany, NY, he was the son of Joseph Devane, chauffeur to President Franklin Delano Roosevelt during his tenure as Governor of New York from 1929 to 1932. Acting became his primary interest during high school, when he began acting in neighborhood theater. After graduating from the American Academy of Dramatic Art, he began making the rounds in off-Broadway theater, most notably in the political spoof "MacBird" (1967) which marked his first portrayal of a Kennedy (Robert). That same year, he made his film debut in the 16mm independent production, "In the Country," as a radical who reflects on his life while in hiding. Guest appearances on television soon followed, as did... Continue Bio >>
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text: Playing with reality, the middle-aged future and sadomasochism at Playful 2011 Culture 24 October 11 by Duncan Geere PlayfulToby Barnes "Why haven't we got one of these yet?" Toby Barnes asks, pointing at a massive image of the Death Star projected onto a huge screen. He's the managing director of Mudlark, a production company that's behind lots of exciting projects -- from Chromarama to Derby 2061. Every year, Mudlark gathers together a selection of speakers from the worlds of games, data, innovation, design and art, for a one-day conference about play. It's called Playful.The 2011 edition of Playful was opened by Al Robertson, an author, who argued that science fiction is really about playing with the future. Robertson listed a number of real-life developments -- mobile phones, geostationary satellites, and computer viruses among them -- that were invented by science fiction authors imagining the future and what people would want there."It's play that became practical," he said, saying that it's not about achieving specific outcomes, but about "having fun along the way". Robertson argued that to change the world we live in, we have to be able to imagine other worlds, and that while "accurate science fiction predictions are like tears in the rain", the process of exploring the future in fiction can allow for significant advances in the present. As an example, Robertson pointed out that the first scripted interracial kiss on western television was Captain Kirk locking lips with Lieutenant Uhura in Star Trek.Sami Niemela, a Finnish designer and the creative director of Nordkapp, has a suspicion that we might be cyborgs already. Pointing to contact lenses, hip replacements and laser eye surgery, Niemela asked "Can we define minimum viable cybernetics?" The post-physical world that he sees in the very near future is one where everything is a touchscreen, instantly-available and always-on. "It's a paradigm shift in the way people interact," he said.He asked, however, whether it's necessary for domestic objects to have a personality. "Should we have an emo couch?" he said, arguing that this uncanny valley of domestic dialogue is actually harming machine-human interaction. iOS 5's Siri, for example, has a personality, "but it's a bit weird, not very intelligent." Niemela is worried that Kurzweil's singularity is going to creep up on us. "Things will happen without us knowing, and suddenly our right elbow will start making decisions for us."Booming's head of Social Media, Marcus Brown, however, is deeply disappointed by the future we're living in, calling it "middle-aged". He reckons that we're stuck with inventions from the canon of science fiction because those require less imagination than coming up with fresh ideas. "We're just trying to replicate things we've seen in movies in the 70s," he said. "Our future is determined by a large group of people who are deeply disappointed that the future they wanted didn't happen, and they're desperate to make it happen." Brown added: "We're living in the bits of the future that we've longed to have and have created to fill in the gaps of the future that we thought we'd have in 1970." Audience reaction was split. Laura James said on Twitter: "Great talk from @marcusjhbrown: today's gadgets are unimaginative, just clones of peripherals from canon sci-fi of the past." Matt Johnson disagreed, tweeting: "Nothing wrong with sci-fi: canon will shape usable tech innovation, and that's ok." Read page 2 123 Read on one page Latest on wired.co.uk


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Congratulations to brittle newsmatron Barbara Walters on landing a blockbuster exclusive with Syrian madman Bashar Al Assad, who is responsible for the wanton murder of 4,000 of his own men, women, and children. Or as Walters put it, a "mild-mannered ophthalmologist." It's time for her to go.
That's how Walters referred to Assad in her introduction to their interview, portions of which were broadcast this morning on Good Morning America and posted to Yahoo! News. He is a "mild-mannered ophthalmologist" who became "dictator by accident" after his father and brother died. One of her questions for Assad was prefaced with this ludicrous bit of praise: "You were widely seen as a fresh pragmatic leader—a doctor whose life was in healing people. Now, sir, much of the world regards you as a dictator and a tyrant. What do you say to that?"
No, Barbara, Assad was always regarded as a dictator and a tyrant. Largely because he was always a dictator and a tyrant. There was never a time when the Assad regime did not have total political and military control of Syria and when his opponents did not cower in fear.
In her banter with George Stephanopoulos on GMA this morning, Walters was at pains to point out that Assad was not some coarse Middle Eastern strongman: "This man is not like Qaddafi. This man is highly educated, very calm. There's just a whole difference in the way he handles himself." One wonders if the parents Hamza al-Khateeb, the 13-year-old boy Assad's security forces kidnapped, murdered, and mutilated can discern that difference. Brutal is as brutal does.
Why the soft spot for Assad? Perhaps is stems from the fact that Walters vacations with him. In 2008, she traveled to Syria—on vacation, not on assignment for ABC News—to spend time with the Assad and his wife Asma, whom she described at the time as "charming" and "thoughtful." She came back to tell her pals on The View all about it:
From my experience, he was a very intelligent, a well informed, thoughtful, he spoke perfect English, wants very much to have relations with this country, has some solutions for ending the war in Iraq. She was educated in England, worked in this country, speaks English the way I'm talking to you, lovely, intelligent. I don't want you to say- people say "oh you're brainwashed." But that was not it. They just were very charming and intelligent. She has a cooperative, a group teaching children to be entrepreneurs with Harvard University, was raised in England, worked in this country. So this is not what we expected in terms of the leaders.
While I appreciate the cognitive dissonance Walters must have felt in trying to reconcile Assad's gentle lisp and glamorous wife with the unavoidable fact that he was an authoritarian presiding over a country that was in thrall to his family, his subsequent actions reflect rather poorly on her judgment (just like they rendered the Vogue profile Assad's wife shockingly tasteless and sycophantic). The prisons that disfigured and broke al-Khateeb were there when Walters was spending her free time with the Assads. They just weren't as busy as they have been lately.
Walters is 82 years old. The fact that she can't get it up to communicate indignation, or outrage, at as loathsome a creature as Assad—and the fact that she once befriended him, in some sort of bid for international cachet and glamor—is more than enough evidence that it's time for her to step aside and hand the microphone to someone capable of recognizing evil when it invites them to dinner.
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I've had a look though the forums but can't really find anything that covers this.
We're using Zimbra 5.0.7 and connector version 5.0.6. Things seem to work quite well but I have one user with hundreds of contacts who says that after syncing with Zimbra his contacts tend to loose their categorisation.
For example, he marked one contact as a neighbour and after a sync the contact moved back to undefined.
Does Zimbra support syncing Outlook contact categories, or is there a known issue with it?
I'm a Linux sys admin, so I'm afraid I don't even know enough about Outlook's behaviour to know if this is the sort of thing that happens with Outlook anyway.
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Mike Pierce can hold his head a little higher if he beats a wrestler inside the octagon.
Because most likely, he's bested someone with better credentials than he on the mat.
"I never really went all the way with wrestling and got All-American status," Pierce told MMAjunkie.com Radio (www.mmajunkie.com/radio). "I gave up on it because it was boring me and I wasn't having fun with it anymore."
On the other hand, fighting a wrestler means he's in for a tougher fight.
"They really know how to control the clinch; they know how to control the guy on top," Pierce said. "So it's a little more work in those positions. There's opportunity to capitalize in other parts of the game. But the fact that they're strong in those positions, and they've seen all of them, (makes it more difficult)."
In fact, all of Pierce's losses inside the octagon (Jon Fitch, Johny Hendricks and Josh Koscheck) have come at the hands of standout wrestlers.
After outpointing submission specialist Carlos Eduardo Rocha, Pierce (14-5 MMA, 6-3 UFC) is back to another wrestler. He meets Aaron Simpson (12-3 MMA, 7-3 UFC) on the preliminary card of UFC on FX 5, which takes place Friday at Target Center in Minneapolis. The welterweight bout streams on Facebook prior to additional prelims on FUEL TV and the main-card fights on FX.
"I think I enjoy fighting the guys that are the standup guys or the ground guys just a little bit more because it's more of a rivalry," said Pierce, who definitely stoked a rivalry with Rocha by poking fun at his Brazilian heritage. "With wrestlers, I feel like there's more of a brotherhood, and I kind of already know what's coming."
Simpson recently told MMAjunkie.com Radio that he knows exactly what will happen if he loses on Friday: He'll get a pink slip. The former Arizona State University wrestler said the UFC is trying to send a message to the two by putting them in the curtain-jerker position on the fight card.
"Neither of us has finished our fights in a while," Simpson said. "Maybe it's a punishment."
Pierce, though, isn't so sure that there's a negative message behind their placement.
"I don't set the cards up, and honestly, I don't even care," he said. "I think it's a good opportunity to watch some high-caliber fights for free. So what the motivation is or what the big plan is, I don't know. I'm just happy to be in there fighting and earning a living."
Simpson, he said, was a fight he could feel good about winning, even though it might be difficult.
"He's a tough wrestler," Pierce said. "He's power in his hands, and he brings the fight every time."
For more on UFC on FX 5, check out the UFC Rumors section of the site.
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Hello all,
I am planning a migration from Scalix to Zimbra 8.0.2. For a time, not more than a month or two, I want to have both Scalix, and Zimbra online as I migrate Email accounts from Scalix to Zimbra. This is a small domain of 15 users. Some accounts are huge (36+ gigs) and could take a weekend to migrate.
An outline to my plan might look like this:
1. select a Victim -- I mean user.
2. Notify victim (um ... user) of the impending migration to the new server.
3. Set up the new account on the Zimbra server.
4. After the victim (yea ... user) leaves the office for the evening, Migrate the Email from the Scalix server to the Zimbra server.
5. Disable the Victims (I mean Users )account on the Scalix server.
6. Test the sending and receiving of Email on the new Zimbra server.
7. Remove old Scalix connector from laptop.
8. Install new Zimbra connector on laptop
9. Configure software as necessary.
10. If the Victim (I really mean user) has a smart phone, adjust the settings on that device also. Most have Android, some have iPhone or iPad.
11. Wash Rinse and Repeat until all users are converted.
My questions:
How does the Scalix server forward Email to the Zimbra server? I have found "Split Domain" in the Zimbra Wiki that I will read, but I was hoping someone would have some additional ideas for me.
Once all Email has been migrated, how do I make sure after I shut down Scalix that the Zimbra server will not attempt to forward email back to the decommissioned Scalix server?
I am putting together all the things I need to do when I deliver the server to the office so I may have more questions relating to this later.
Thanks for your help.
-- Harold


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This is how much of a damn Tim Boetsch (15-4 MMA, 6-3 UFC) gave when the UFC socked him with Hector Lombard (31-2-1 MMA, 0-0 UFC) instead of Michael Bisping.
When his wife woke him to news of the switch, which put him in the co-main event of UFC 149 and Bisping on the disabled list, you'd think he'd already given his 100th interview on the subject.
"That's going to be a tough fight," he told her, "but to be the best, you have to beat everybody."
Then he went back to sleep.
UFC 149 takes place Saturday at Scotiabank Saddledome in Calgary, Alberta, Canada. The event's main card airs live on pay-per-view while FX and Facebook host preliminary-card fights.
Once a 2-2 veteran stuck in the middle of the middleweight pack, Boetsch's confidence swelled with a come-from-behind win over Yushin Okami, which marked his third straight win and his seventh victory in eight fights since late 2009. Now, he looks to give Lombard his first UFC loss in as many octagon fights.
"Just because I'm not fighting somebody who's can run their mouth real well doesn't take anything away from (the fact that) Hector is one of the top fighters in the world," Boetsch told MMAjunkie.com Radio (www.mmajunkie.com/radio). "It's going to shoot me close to the top when I take him out."
Lombard's nearly unbroken win streak of six years and 25 fights has already earmarked him as a possible contender should he get past Boetsch. Some have complained that the former Bellator champ is cutting in line – namely ahead of Bisping, who withdrew from the fight due to a needed knee surgery. Boetsch, however, feels honored to welcome him into the UFC.
"This guy comes to fight every time," he said. "He's riding a huge win streak of fights in front of big crowds, and the dude just loves to fight. He's coming to try and take my head off. I don't think he's going to have any jitters at all coming into the UFC."
Both Lombard and Boetsch have built a reputation as nail-tough brawlers, the former with 17 knockouts and the latter with seven. A great many of Lombard's opponents wilt to the power shots he favors over pawing shots while Boetsch does his best work at close range. An almost diagonal uppercut felled Okami after Boetsch chased him down in February at UFC 144.
Neither might be ready for the kind of nuanced violence that champ Anderson Silva brings to the division. But their fight suggests someone will go down, and perhaps within the first five minutes. That's exactly what UFC 149 needs after a wave of injuries that forced a dozen withdrawals and prompted UFC president Dana White to declare it the most cursed card in the promotion's history.
"As long as I'm still standing, I'm going to try to win it," Boetsch promised. "That's just my style. It always has been. I think it's going to be a better fight for the fans.
"It's going to be nasty whether it is the greatest card in the history of fighting or not. Hector's going to sprint across the cage and try to kill me for the get-go. I'm always looking to finish my opponents."
And Boetsch isn't sleeping on Bisping.
"Bisping might talk about how he deserves a title shot, but at the end of the day, getting knee surgery doesn't put you in the No. 1 contender spot – winning fights does, and Hector's been winning fights for a long time."
For more on UFC 149, stay tuned to the UFC Rumors section of the site.
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Total Knockouts Impact
While the divas in WWE have taken to social media to beg the front office for more of a chance to shine, TNA has decided to put together an episode of Impact Wrestling this Friday that will feature nothing but their beautiful and talented Knockouts. Awesome Kong and Taryn Terrell will be featured in the main event championship match, while the rest of the show will put the spotlight on Angelina Love, Brooke Tessmacher, Gail Kim, Madison Rayne, and others.
April 20, 2015
Eddie Edwards gets married
When Angelina Love showed a photo on social media of herself and her boyfriend Davey Richards at a wedding last weekend in Austin, the assumption was that Eddie Edwards was the groom. Angelina only provided the first name of the guy that invited them. It has now been confirmed that the TNA star is indeed the one that got married to his longtime girlfriend. A handful of wrestlers from ROH were in attendance at the event.
April 16, 2015
Angelina Love resigns
It appears that TNA remains committed to keeping the talent level of the Knockouts division at a high level. An announcement was made today by John Gaburick on social media that Angelina Love has been signed to a contract extension. She will remain with the company for at least another year. The front office has been working diligently on signing performers to new deals since Impact Wrestling was moved to Destination American in January.
March 11, 2015
Despite persistent rumors within the internet wrestling community about it being true, nude photos of the extremely sexy Angelina Love have yet to surface online. That has led many to speculate that the rumors about the TNA Knockout are not true. With the rise of social media and thing spreading quicker than ever, it would be virtually impossible for naked photos of Angelina to remain hidden after all these years.
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A giant 50-year-old turtle caused quite a commotion on Highway 17 in Jacksonville Thursday.
Ben, a 300-pound Sulcata tortoise, was walking the streets of Jacksonville. He was brought there by Randy Gallagher of Sunset Beach, who rescues the tortoises and brought Ben out to raise awareness.
"The animal are in dire straights, because we are selling them as pet trade animals and there isn't enough room around for people to keep them," said Gallagher. "People buy them that really can't have them because they just get too big for most households."
The tortoises are native to the Sahara. While they are protected animals and can no longer legally be brought into the U.S. from Africa, people in America breed them and sell them in pet stores.
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|Cheerleaders wow the judges to place 2nd at state
|Written by April Peregoy
Knowing they were the first squad to perform Saturday morning, Dec. 6 at 8:30 a.m., HHS cheerleading coach Jane Zink knew her girls had to set the bar high for the rest of the competition. They did not let her down.
As the highest score-winners of the preliminary rounds, HHS moved on to the finals with Cheyenne Wells and won the second-place trophy of the 2A Cheer Division. They were just two points shy of Cheyenne Wells' winning score.
The Colorado High School Activities Association State Spirit Competition took place at the Denver Coliseum. It was noted by CHSAA that the size of the competitive field in all divisions has grown to 240 teams, up from 220 in 2007.
"Being the first ones to perform is hard," said Zink, "because you can be forgotten unless you really impress them. The fact we were the first ones to perform and we still received the highest score is an absolutely amazing accomplishment."
Zink could not be more proud of her squad, and is hoping the second-place finish will inspire her girls to reach for the championship next year.
"The last time we won at state was in 2000. Most of the girls in high school now don't even remember that. I hope this makes them see it is possible for Holyoke to win the championship."
She added over the last four years, HHS has been moving up the state championship ladder. "Last year we placed third, and the two years before that, fourth." Will HHS be able to make that final leap next year?
Team members include captain and senior Katie Hoffner; juniors Megan Colglazier, Nora Roth and Kendra Timm; sophomores Mallory Bennett and Sydney Nelson; and freshmen Kali Drees and Teanna Amaral.


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NEW YORK (AP) — Wonder bread is back almost a year after it vanished from shelves.
Flowers Foods Inc., which bought Wonder from the now-defunct Hostess Brands, says the meal-time staple started returning to supermarket shelves Monday.
The company, which also makes Tastykake and Nature's Own bread, snapped up five bread brands after Hostess went out of business late last year.
The $355 million deal included Butternut, Home Pride and Merita, which are all returning to shelves along with Wonder.
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|Release Date: April 22, 2005
|Running Time: 94 mins.
|MPAA Rating: PG
|Box Office: $508,867.00
|Genre: Action, Adventure, Drama, Period, Sports
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Summary:In 1971, air-conditioner repairman and boat enthusiast Jim McCormick entertains his desire to 'go down' as a legend in the record books when the Gold Cup hydroplane boat race improbably comes to his small town of Madison, Indiana. Immediately, Jim seizes his opportunity to enter the contest. With a motley crew of fellow mechanics and friends at his side, Jim fixes up his old boat and brings hope to the blighted industrial city.


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FALLS CHURCH, Va. – The days of zero tolerance in the student code of conduct may be ending in one area school system.
The Fairfax County School Board is weighing 30 recommendations for modifying the student handbook for the academic year beginning in the fall.
Perhaps the biggest change would be reducing the numbers of suspensions and expulsions.
"Ranges of consequences, that's where we're going to really work to make more options, more discretion for principals," says Kim Dockery, assistant superintendent of Fairfax County Public Schools.
The school board staff and a special committee of teachers, parents, and principals have worked for months preparing recommendations for changing the school system's code of discipline.
The policies cover everything from classroom disruptions and fighting to drug possession.
Dockery says its important that children learn from their mistakes and not simply be punished.
Behavior seminars and anger management training would become part of the discipline regime.
The changes would also allow for different ranges of punishment for elementary and secondary school students.
"If you think about three 10-year-olds being in a fight and three 17-year-olds in a fight then we're giving some discretion for the administrator to really look at that situation," Dockery says.
The school system has been considering changes to its discipline since a Fairfax County high school student took his own life two years ago after he was suspended from school for a minor drug infraction.
"The goal is to do the best that we can for our students, giving them second chances but also maintaining a safe and secure and drug free school environment," Dockery says.
The school board could make a final decision on the proposed changes in early May.
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The Enchanted Forest theme park closed for good in the 1990s. But the owner of a nearby farm has moved and preserved many of its parts.


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Saturday, September 5, 2009
PHOTO OP: Say "Hallelujah!"
Novak Djokovic praised the heavens after being pushed by qualifier and Toni Nadal look-a-like Jesse Witten in their US Open third round match today.
The fourth seeded Serb lost the first set in a tiebreak but his quality and a fatiguing foe pulled him through, closing out with 6-7 (2), 6-3, 7-6 (2), 6-4 win. He'll face Radek Stepanek for a spot in the quarterfinals.
Nole seems to be playing well but well enough to take his second major title? The jury's still out on that one.
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Henderson, Brouillette Conclude Day-Two of Zones
MINNEAPOLIS, Minn. – Day two of the NCAA Zone 'D' Diving Championship concluded yesterday with Cyclones divers Jessica Henderson and Elyse Brouillette finishing in 24th and 29th-place, respectively, on the 3-meter board. Brouillette posted a 268.70-point performance – missing the 18-diver final by 18.90-points – while Henderson ended the night at 258.40.
Brouillette has led the Cyclones on the 3-meter board throughout the 2013-14 season, achieving her lifetime best in the event earlier in the year against Big 12 Conference rival TCU. The sophomore diver posted a score of 329.48, moving her to second-place all-time in school history.
Later today, the duo will return to the diving well for the platform event, a board each diver has had success on this season. Both Brouillette and Henderson have recorded personal best scores on platform this year, with scores of 251.25 and 228.10, respectively.
The final day of competition at the University Aquatics Center on the University of Minnesota campus begins at 11 a.m. CT today.


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Sea lion pups beaching at 'unprecedented' rates
Cause unclear, may be shortage of bait fish
NORTH COUNTY Malnourished and dehydrated sea lion pups continue to turn up daily in surprising numbers on San Diego County beaches, eclipsing the numbers seen since the 1980s, officials said this week.
"There's a huge increase in the number of stranded live sea-lion pups," said Sarah Wilkin of the National Marine Fisheries Service in Long Beach. "It's unprecedented, as far as the number and the time of year."
The cause remains uncertain, she said, but the single "common finding" appears to be starvation.
Between Jan. 1 and Feb. 28, SeaWorld's San Diego-based rescue team had taken in about 76 marine animals, U-T San Diego reported earlier this month.
That number has now grown to more than 170 animals, Dave Koontz, a spokesman for the marine theme park in San Diego, said Thursday.
In comparison, SeaWorld rescued a total of 131 marine animals in all of 2012, he said.
Most of the rescued animals were California sea lions, Koontz said, though a few were elephant seals, harbor seals and fur seals. All are considered pinnipeds, the word for fin-footed mammals.
The reason for the increase appears to be a problem with the food chain, he said.
"It boils down to these pups are not getting enough food to survive on their own," Koontz said. "After they are weaned from their mothers, the food is not there or (is) at a depth they can't reach."
Sea lions get most of their hydration from the fish they eat, he said, so with no fish to eat they become malnourished and dehydrated.
"They become extremely weak and need to be rescued," he said.
Researchers don't know yet why there's not enough food for the pups, Wilkin said.
"Their primary food would be the small bait fish — anchovies, herring, maybe squid and even rockfish and hake," she said.
They are studying ocean currents and other environmental conditions, she said. The bait fish may have moved deeper in the water or farther offshore, or there could be other environmental factors or even multiple causes.
Nearly all of the stranded animals were born last summer, Wilkin said. There are always some pups that fail to survive on their own.
Normally the number of beached pups peaks in May or June, when the young ones are weaned from their mothers. This year they could be weaning early because the mothers are having trouble finding food.
But available records only go back to the 1980s, she said. Records more than five or 10 years old are less reliable because there were fewer rehabilitation centers and other groups keeping track of the numbers.
"This is definitely off the charts for the past five years," Wilkin said.
Lifeguards at several North County beaches all said they have seen increased numbers of beached pups.
They said they try to keep people away from the animals until either they return to the water or the SeaWorld team comes to help them.
"I've seen four on the beach in the last few days," said Encinitas lifeguard Lt. Paul Chapman. "Two of them didn't seem to have a lot of energy. We put them in a holding tank and transferred them to SeaWorld."
Carlsbad police and a ranger at the city's coastal campground reported a number of sea lion pup rescues in the past week.
Oceanside lifeguard Lt. Emile Lagendijk said that city has seen an average of three beached sea lions a day in recent weeks.
"We put them in a large dog kennel," he said. The kennels are placed in the lifeguards' garage under the municipal pier until SeaWorld comes to take them away.


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HOT ROD Power Tour 2008 - Day 2 CoverageWritten by on June 7, 2008 Contributors: Jeff Brooks Day 2 of the 2008 HOT ROD Power Tour(r) in Springfield, Missouri was sunny and breezy. Check out coverage, pictures and exclusive video right here.
We tried something different today as the Power Tour took to the road for the first day heading to Springfield. We shot live video from the road and today's gallery is filled with cars we saw along the way. Also, don't miss Day 1 highlights with Kinnan and Miller and a special interview with Vic Edelbrock.
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Anthony Pittari from Staten Island, NY brought his '68 Chevelle to Power Tour. For his fourth tour he brought his long time friend Chris Roucco in the 350ci-powered Chevy.
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Bruce Hubley, Owner of The Promotion Company Inc, is seen here "Driving Miss Daisy" Doug Evans, SVP of the Performance Automotive and Marine Group at Source Interlink Media. Ride On Ladies
The 302ci short block is topped by '63 hi-po heads and puts out about 410hp and 400 ft./lbs. of torque.A conversion kit tilts the T5R transmission 15 degrees to the left to fit the stock shifter location.
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WASHINGTON (WUSA 9) -- Maryland Delegate Jay Walker (D) tells WUSA 9 Sports anchor, Dave Owens, that the state house measure requiring the Board of Education to install turf fields in Prince George's County public high schools (MD HB 1108) by the end of 2018, has stalled in the Appropriations Committee.
The measure, which planned to use public open space money to install synthetic turf fields at all Prince George's County Public High Schools by December 31, 2018, originally passed through the County Delegation by a vote of 21-2.
But the House Appropriations Sub-Committee has tabled the legislation.
"It's disappointing because it's a safety issue," says Walker. "Every county that touches our's either has turf fields or are getting them and we don't."
Stay tuned to WUSA 9 for an extended story on this issue.


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U.S. Marine Staff Sgt. Anthony Delmont, explosive ordnance disposal technician with Combat Logistics Battalion 13, 13th Marine Expeditionary Unit, escorts Cmdr. K.H. Chew, Singapore Navy EOD officer in charge, and 15 Singapore Navy EOD technicians abord the USS Boxer at Changi Naval base, Singapore, Oct. 4. The visit provided an opportunity for U.S. Marines and Singapore Navy to conduct an exchange of greetings and build interoperable professional relationships. (U.S. Marine Corps Photo by Sgt. Jennifer J. Pirante/RELEASED)
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May 31, 2016
The cash register may be closing on another Black Friday, but it's popping right back open for small business Saturday.
Experts say small business is the state's driving force. Small businesses make up 96 percent of all business in Mississippi, employing more than half of the state's workforce. Officials say spending $100 at a local business ensures about $73 of that money staying in the community. It's only about $43 at larger chain stores.
"You're investing thirty more dollars of that $100 in Mississippi, right here in your own community every time when you go into an independent home owned store and buying local," according to Ron Aldridge, Mississippi director for the National Federation of Independent Business. "That's a huge difference in your community."
Aldridge also says shopping at a small business provides a little more personalized service and better deals.
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