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After starting off with dense fog(freezing fog in the suburbs) we broke out in sunshine before clouds rolled back in by the late afternoon; the high at Philly International Airport was 48(set at 3:49pm) after a low of 35(at 6:42). I hate the be the bearer of bad news, but today's high will be the warmest high out of the next seven....
You knew it couldn't last forever!
Overnight on Wednesday there will be a frontal boundary pushing through providing some rain showers(snow north and west where temperatures will be below freezing) with lows in the middle and upper 30s. Behind the front there is no real cold air so this will lead to Thursday being overcast with snow showers to the north. Highs elsewhere will be in the middle 40s.
Friday will start off sunny with highs in the upper 40s, but then we cloud up in advance of another cold front; overnight Friday into Saturday morning temperatures will be around the freezing mark so we'll have some rain to snow showers with little accumulation on the grass and colder surfaces with highs eventually reaching the upper 30s by Saturday afternoon.
Sunday will be sunny and seasonable with highs in the lower 40s, but then on Martin Luther King, Jr. Day we'll cloud up once again with another system on tap for Tuesday; behind this system will be very cold Arctic air with highs dropping on Wednesday and even some snow showers.
That's it for now and remember you can check out the rest of the seven day forecast (any time) at www.scottderekwx.com/forecast.html.


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|The spleen is the most common primary site for hemangiosarcoma in dogs. The tumor is characterized by rapid growth and widespread metastasis, presumably due to both its tissue of origin, the vascular endothelium, and its resultant ready access to systemic circulation. The most common clinical presentation is a palpable abdominal mass, hemoperitoneum, anemia, shock and disseminated intravascular coagulopathy. At the Small Annual Species Hospital (National Autonomous University of Mexico) arrived a German Shepherd dog, a 7 year old male with the next signs: Abdominal distention, depression and anorexia. At physical examination it showed weak pulse, cyanosis, high respiratory frequency and liquid in the abdominal cavity. The radiological study showed an image that was compatible with a peritoneal effusion. An abdominal puncture was made, and a sanguinolent liquid was obtained. Fluid therapy and blood transfusion were renovated and the hematocrit was decreased. After the therapy were established, a celiotomy extracting near 41 of intraperitoneal hemorrhagic liquid was done. Multiple tumoral nodules were observed in the spleen showing the origin of the bleeding. The liver presented several metastatic foci. A total splenectomy was performed taking also a biopsy of the hepatic nodules. The necropsy revealed large areas of hemorrhages and subcutaneous edema in the ventral abdomen. The liver had numerous subscapular hemorrhagic nodules; the other abdominal viscerae were icteric, and a few petechial hemorrhages were found on the serosae. Microscopic study of the affected organs showed primary foci of hemangiosarcoma in the spleen and metastasis to liver, epiploa and bronchial lymph nodules. There was also disseminated intravascular coagulation, because there was the presence of fibrin thrombi in alveolar capillaries in lungs and in glomerular capillaries in kidneys.
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The Conservative Political Action Conference took place over the weekend, and by all indications it was a clown show and a frat club party rolled up into one. A British journalist claimed that the conference was a glimpse into how conservatives view American culture, which is to say America doesn't have any actual culture worth preserving.
This brings us to the quick note about CPAC: Not only was no one at that conference in the business of "conserving" anything organic or real, such as a particular people with a particular way of life, but the focus, once again, was on the Civic Religion of Americanism: The obsession with the Framers, the Constitution, the Rule of Law, individualism, limited government, "freedom," etc. etc.
This is unremarkable to those in the Alternative Right/North American New Right who know mainstream conservatism inside and out, but it's important to remember for this reason: The kind of white people who attend CPAC are just as unlikely to stand up for their race or any kind of traditional way of life as the white liberals at silly places like the Daily Kos and Alternet who lament the "white supremacy" of those same CPAC attendees.
CPAC by no means covers the entire spectrum of White people with traditionalist, perhaps even race-conscious leanings, so it's not like CPAC's continued failures justifies the dismissal of everyone who calls themselves conservatives but wouldn't think of attending an American Renaissance or National Policy Institute conference.
That said, a fine line needs to be drawn between the "go along to get along" crowd and the Civic Religion crowd that's already made up its mind on where its loyalties lie. CPAC 2014 offered yet more proof that its attendees fall in the latter category as opposed to the former.


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Delray Beach is flooding this week, and powerful storms have left regions in southern Florida with over 12 inches of rainwater, causing some serious trouble for civilians. At least two people have been confirmed to have been killed in the flash floods, with dangerous waters overtaking streets and hitting dozens of homes. WebProNews reveals the latest on this frightening weather scare this Friday, Jan. 10, 2014.
The Delray Beach flooding scare has left a number of schools closed down as well as a considerable section of I-95 completely closed this week. Numerous homes, too, have also been affected. The high waters have risen so high in certain areas that witnesses have reported flooding in the Delray Medical Center emergency room just this morning. All patients have been moved to the upper floors or nearby medical centers since water is still soaking in through the lower levels of building.
The press release has also shared that the Delray Beach flooding conditions have tragically proved fatal for some, with two confirmed deaths so far. Driving in particular has been dangerous, with high waters making street conditions slippery and visibility low.
"Elsa Marquez was overtaken by the water at 7:52 this morning as she attempted to maneuver her Toyota RAV4 along the flooded streets. With the high levels of water and blinding rains making visibility extremely difficult, Marquez missed a turn that led her into a lake. She was pronounced dead in the flooded Delray Medical Center despite valiant efforts from witnesses and the Palm Beach fire rescue crews."
"In addition, 90-year-old Harry Krulewitz always walked with a cane, and this morning the waist-high waters overwhelmed him as he slipped into a canal and drowned. The Palm Beach Country Fire Rescue SCUBA team found him completely underwater, and he was pronounced dead at the same Delray Medical Center."
According to the National Weather Service that has been closely keeping south Florida under surveillance, especially as part of the Delray Beach flooding, overall water conditions are fortunately improving, and there are far lower levels of rainfall anticipated to occur in Delray in the coming days. Potentially dangerous waters may still affect Delray Beach, but the local city has no need to fear more flash flooding in the immediate future.


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This book is a complete record of a journey I took from my home in Trellick Tower, West London, to Tokyo. I didn't fly any leg of the journey and through a series of mostly trains and ferries, travelled across northern Europe, Russia, through Mongolia and China before taking a ship from Tianjin to Kobe and a Shinkansen to Tokyo.
The trip was inspired by the challenge of getting to Tokyo in a defined period of time, a love of train and boat travel and the desire to see how countries evolved and progressed as you travelled through, rather than over them.
Whilst the images are varied in content, style and aesthetic value, they are a complete collection of what I saw and captured and represent a significant and very personal journey.
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Federal regulators demand that the rest of us, including individuals, companies and states, comply with rules intended to safeguard the environment....
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"You are joking, Mule?"
If she's telling jokes, they sure aren't funny.
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muleskinner--I will demand all of the submissions that labeled and branded Cliven Bundy as a racist, moocher, living on gov dole, and any other berating and belittling of his character be removed immediately.
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You are joking, Mule?
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It is surreptitious bolshevism, run farmers/ranchers off the land, of course the farmer/rancher has done something wrong, against the law, the fed gov makes enough laws where it is a crime to not read the directions on a tube of toothpaste before using the toothpaste.
There is always a reason for the fed gov to act, make laws, regulations, fees, ad infinitum. Why? Because the fed gov is run by bolshevists who are intent in running the US right into the ground.
It has taken a while, but the neocons/neolibs/bolshevistic morons in charge have every intention of doing harm to the citizenry. Cliven Bundy is one fine, prime example, but nobody sees the real motive, it's the kill the messenger/blame the victim game and the only loser is the common ordinary joe/man on the street.
January of 2017 can't get here soon enough AND the addled, brainwashed, brainless imbeciles can vote for Hillary and the US goes into the abyss even further.
What difference does it make?
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YAAA...some days I start getting HAHA-InTheHead like the rest of my Democrat Party bretheren....justa the way we are...
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The Fed. is operating under sequester where cuts must b made somewgere. I am sure the same is true 4 the long waits at the VA hospitals and clincs. republicans have said "the fed. can't do anything right, gut it and cut the regulations". They r then the first to whine when white house tours r cancelled, rail cars r too weak and oil pipes r not up 2 the job. "take that 2 wash." was the ND righty cry when bakken work started. Now we see what the lack of Fed. oversight will produce. Oil wears out it's welcome with every new leak and spill. There is a safe way 2 drill and handle oil but we don't want that in ND. ND Oil Can destroy much of our state.
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Ya...ya...ya, rahi....if feel the better use for that money is using it for the children, for the schools, and for the welfare that supports the voters of your and my Democrat Party....
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"WASHINGTON — The federal agency tasked with managing oil and gas development on Wednesday acknowledged it needed to do more to improve oversight of drilling, pointing to a lack of funding as reasons it failed to inspect oil and gas wells it considers potentially high risks for water contamination." ....Boston Harold
Gee, It would be nice if just one of these opinion pieces would make a nod toward being "balanced". Note the reason given by BLM 'lack of funding'. I know of more than $1,000,000 BLM could get from a certain rancher in Nevada.
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Oct. 21, 2013
DEKALB, Ill. -Northern Illinois University senior quarterback Jordan Lynch has been named the Mid-American Conference West Offensive Player of the Week the league announced Monday.
Lynch, who earned Walter Camp National Offensive Player of the Week honors, rushed for 316 yards in NIU's 38-17 victory over Central Michigan Saturday to break the NCAA single game record for most rushing yards by a Football Bowl Subdivision (FBS) quarterback. His 316 yards are the most by any FBS player this season. It is the fourth MAC Player of the Week honor for Lynch this season.
Versus CMU, Lynch carried the ball 32 times for 316 yards, fourth-most in school history, to average 9.9 yards per rush, and scored three rushing touchdowns as the Huskies won their seventh straight game without a loss this season. He gained 232 yards on 18 carries in the second half with three runs of 40 or more yards in the half. The Mt. Carmel High School product also completed 20-of-30 passes for 155 yards and a touchdown to account for 471 yards of total offense, the fourth-highest total in school history.
Lynch leads all active players with 3,355 career rushing yards and is now averaging 133.1 rushing yards per game in 2013 to rank seventh nationally in rushing. His 932 yards (on 138 carries) are fourth in the nation and he ranks ninth nationally in total offense yards per game with 345.7. Lynch has seven touchdown runs and 14 touchdown passes this season and has thrown a touchdown pass in 20 consecutive games dating back to 2012. He is 19-2 as the Huskies' starting quarterback.
The Chicago native was named one of eight Manning Award Stars of the Week and earned Davey O'Brien Quarterback of the Week Honorable Mention recognition. Fans can vote for Lynch as the top performer of the week at the Allstate Sugar Bowl Facebook page.
Lynch and the Huskies play their third home game of the season Saturday versus Eastern Michigan. Kickoff is at 2:30 p.m. and prior to the game, NIU will hold an open house for its new indoor facility, the Kenneth and Ellen Chessick Practice Center. Tickets for the NIU-Eastern Michigan game are on sale now at www.NIUHuskies.com/tickets or by calling 815-753-PACK (7225).


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The start of the contest was delayed 2 hours, 48 minutes by rain. Eventually baseball was played and fans saw a strong pitching performance from Chase Joiner of Memphis. In his first collegiate start, Joiner threw a career-best seven innings, allowing six hits and two runs (both earned), with a career-high eight strikeouts.
The Maroon and White rallied from down 6-2 with four scores off the Memphis bullpen in the home half of the eighth inning. After a leadoff out, Mitch Slauter reached as a hit batsman and Trey Porter drew a walk. Daryl Norris followed with a two-run double. Wes Rea then slapped a massive fly ball over the left field walk for a game-tying two-run home run - his first as a Bulldog.
MSU (6-2) continued to threaten as Brandon Woodruff reached as a hit batsman, took second on a wild pitch and then third on a single by Taylor Stark. However, a strikeout and flyout ended that threat.
Memphis (4-4) greeted MSU closer Caleb Reed with a walk and double by Eli Hynes to start the ninth inning. After a strikeout, a ground ball got the Bulldogs to two outs in the inning. A walk to T.J. Rich re-loaded the bases. With Ford Wilson batting, catcher Slauter was called for interference bringing home the eventual game-winning run.
In the home half of the ninth inning, Porter ripped a two-out single but pinch runner Demarcus Henderson was stranded at second base.
The Bulldogs built a 1-0 lead in the first inning but later fell behind after a three-run third by Memphis. An RBI-single by Woodruff brought the hosts within 3-2, before Memphis built the lead with two runs in the fifth inning and a single score in the seventh inning.
While snapping a five-game losing streak in the series, the Tigers pounded out 13 hits, led by a four-hit night from Jacob Wilson also drew a walk and had four RBIs. Ethan Gross, Hynes, Derrick Thomas and Wilson added multiple hits.
The Bulldogs pounded out 10 hits. Adam Frazier, Porter, Norris and Rea each had multiple hits for MSU.
The final of six MSU pitchers, Reed (0-2) worked only the ninth inning and took the loss. Jonathan Van Eaton (1-0) threw the final 1.2 innings to earn the win for the Tigers.
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2.4. Faculty Performance and Assessment
Teaching, Supervising, and Mentoring Effectiveness
The faculty and administration of Kennesaw State University are committed to quality instruction. The primary purpose of university faculty is to engage students, colleagues, and others in activities that facilitate learning and contribute to learner development and educational advancement. In order to help faculty capture and document their work, KSU provides the following descriptions of instructional activities and basic expectations of faculty effort.
Institutional Objectives for Teaching, Supervising, and Mentoring
Highly effective teaching and learning are the central institutional priorities of Kennesaw State University. In addition, service and research/creative activity that strengthen teaching and address community interests play important supportive roles. In both undergraduate and graduate programs, faculty, staff, and administrators are committed to providing a challenging and facilitative collegiate environment that fosters high-quality academic preparation, critical thinking, global and multicultural perspectives, interpersonal skills, leadership development, social responsibility, and lifelong learning.
In order for students to achieve these goals, KSU faculty strive for excellence through integrity and flexibility in their teaching. Because the institution serves a wide population of students with diverse backgrounds, needs, goals, and schedules, faculty are committed to developing diverse means and methods of helping these students learn. KSU faculty recognize diverse student learning styles and situations and strive to improve and expand teaching strategies to address student needs.
KSU believes that teaching can take many forms, including but not limited to lectures, interactive discussions, small group work, laboratory and creative work, supervising of research, original projects, internships and assistantships, private lessons or tutorials, distance education, asynchronous learning opportunities, mentoring, and advising. Within these multiple and flexible forms, KSU holds to a high standard of academic integrity. KSU expects its faculty to be current and well-qualified in their disciplines; to model and maintain the professional standards of their disciplines through research/creative activity; to inspire excitement for learning; to help students make connections among individual courses, their major areas of study, the general-education program, and lifelong learning; and to evaluate regularly the effectiveness of their teaching.
Primary Instructional Activities
Faculty engage in a variety of instructional activities that facilitate learning. The three most common activities are teaching, supervising, and mentoring, which are not mutually exclusive categories.
Teaching involves the development of knowledge, understanding, and application in an environment where the instructor must monitor, manage, and facilitate the learning process. An instructor should provide a rich learning environment that allows for a range of individual learning styles. Following a syllabus designed by the instructor, specific topics in a discipline are presented through various forms of teaching and discovery based on a selection of reading materials and other resources. The learning outcomes and expectations should be identified in the syllabus and formally assessed.
Supervision occurs in situations where a learner is engaged for a fixed period of time in a structured academic experience for credit or pay with specified learning outcomes. These experiences often take place outside of the classroom in a job setting. The learner is expected to demonstrate competence in performing the learning outcomes, and the purpose of supervision is to improve the quality of that performance by guiding, monitoring, and providing feedback. The supervisor observes, evaluates and provides feedback about the quality of the performance of tasks and appropriate professional behavior. Although a faculty member may be responsible for supervising a group of students, actual observation and conferences typically occur in a one-to-one relationship between learner and instructor.
The purpose of mentoring is to facilitate and enhance the academic and professional success of an individual. Mentoring may take many forms, ranging from providing resources for learning and development to forming professional relationships with students and colleagues. Faculty mentor students in order to attract them to a discipline, retain them in degree programs, and enhance their professional success. Faculty mentor colleagues in order to retain them at KSU and help them develop professional expertise. A primary focus of all mentoring is the development of ideas and an understanding of a discipline. Mentoring activities challenge both the mentee and the mentor to consider new ideas and construction of knowledge and encourage both to engage in reflection and scholarly activities. Frequently, in mentoring relationships, faculty challenge the mentees by setting high expectations for the quality of the mentee's work and the development and achievement of their long-term goals. Although the mentee ultimately selects the mentor, faculty invite students and colleagues to engage in a mentoring relationship through their actions during teaching, supervising, and other professional activities. For example, faculty can directly initiate contact and conversations; be available, open, and receptive; nurture potential by providing messages of encouragement and support of scholarly efforts; provide resource information and materials for professional development; and invite students and/or colleagues to engage in collaborative endeavors.
Institutional Resources for Faculty
Because of the primacy of teaching at KSU, all levels of the university should provide resources and support for the development of highly effective teaching and instructional leadership. The university, primarily through departments and colleges, will be responsible for providing and encouraging development opportunities for its faculty.
Basic Expectations and Responsibilities
Individual faculty are hired for specific instructional responsibilities, which may vary with their discipline and as determined by the faculty member's FPA. Typically these include teaching specific courses, and, in some disciplines such as teacher education and nursing, supervising student teaching and clinical experiences. Although mentoring of students and colleagues is an important ancillary activity for most faculty, KSU holds no specific expectation that faculty will engage in explicit mentoring activities unless that expectation is established in the faculty member's FPA.
Regardless of a faculty member's specific instructional responsibilities, there are basic expectations of professional faculty performance:
- Be on time. Faculty should start and end their classes and appointments at the scheduled time.
- Provide feedback to learners in a timely manner (e.g., returning graded papers and evaluated materials or responding to messages). Learners need feedback about the quality of their performance in order to understand what they do well and in what ways they need to improve.
- Relate instructional methods to learning objectives.
- Respect and maintain confidentiality (e.g., grades, personal information, incidences of alleged academic dishonesty, advising or special needs).
- Apply stated standards and expectations of the instructor, department, college, and university consistently, regularly and objectively to all learners.
- Communicate and enforce KSU's policy with respect to academic integrity.
- Provide a syllabus for each course at the beginning of the term.
- Provide written expectations/contracts for individualized learning experiences (e.g." clinical experiences, internships, cooperative learning courses, and directed studies"). Be accessible to students - faculty should provide and publicize multiple means of contact for students and colleagues.
- Respect religious, cultural, and gender differences.
- Adhere to KSU's policy prohibiting sexual harassment both in and out of the classroom.
Faculty Availability to Students & Colleagues
KSU is proud of its reputation of faculty being available to students and colleagues outside of class time. To ensure this positive reputation continues KSU expects its faculty to use a variety of means to be available for student questions or conferences as well as consultation with colleagues, whether in person or electronically. Departments must establish guidelines that establish a minimum number of hours during each week that faculty should be available on campus beyond scheduled classes. Faculty should be flexible, within reason, in making appointments with students and colleagues. As a professional courtesy, faculty should reply to phone calls, e-mails, and bulletin board questions from students in a timely manner.
Course Syllabi
The syllabus helps both faculty and students accomplish the primary mission of teaching and learning. The Criteria for Accreditation, published by the Southern Association of Colleges and Schools, states that faculty must provide students with written information about a course including course goals, requirements, content, and methods of student evaluation. Further, the goals requirements for each course should be tied to the learning objectives and instructional methods. With this in mind, faculty acknowledge that it becomes important for them to enhance the understanding of what is being taught by developing and listing clear learning objectives. For additional information and recommendations on syllabus construction refer to the materials provided by CETL at the following link: http://www.ipr.sc.edu/effectiveness/syllabus.htm.
Faculty teaching general education course(s) should use the general education course syllabus template and include this information in their syllabi (http://www.kennesaw.edu/curriculum/gened-program-info.html).


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On April 3, Walgreen (NASDAQ:WBA) announced its sales performance for March 2014 in comparison to the same month a year earlier. In response to the strong growth management relayed to investors, shares of the world's second-largest drugstore chain popped up 1% to close at $67.08. However, the company wasn't the only drugstore giant to report year-over-year improvements.
Rival Rite Aid (NYSE:RAD) also pleased investors and saw a 2% share price appreciation in response. Knowing how each business fared over the month, what does this mean for the Foolish investor struggling to decide which business provides the best prospects over the long run?
Walgreen reported a killer month
For the month, Walgreen saw its total revenue leap 4.5%, from $6.16 billion to $6.43 billion. In its release, the company attributed the rise in revenue to two factors: higher store count and improvement in its comparable-store sales. Compared to the same month last year, the company chalked up a small portion of its growth to the addition of 144 new retail stores, bringing its retail count to 8,221 and its total locations in operation to 8,688.
However, the main driver behind the company's better top-line performance was its comparable-store sales, which jumped 3.5%. Despite being negatively affected by a 4% drop in customer traffic, the business reported that a jump in prescription sales helped push the company's pharmacy comparables up 8%. Unfortunately, this rise in pharmacy sales was partially offset by a 3.4% fall in front-end comparable-store sales as less traffic hindered its performance but basket size rose 0.6%.
Rite Aid's results were good but couldn't keep up
Rite Aid also posted positive results, but its growth was only a fraction as large as Walgreen's. For the month, the company reported sales growth of 0.4%, from $1.94 billion to $1.95 billion. Like Walgreen's, Rite Aid's higher revenue stemmed from higher comparable-store sales, but at 0.7%, the business barely made it into positive territory. This performance was hindered by the company's reduced store count, which fell 0.8%, from 4,621 to 4,584.
Just as in the case of Walgreen, Rite Aid enjoyed a healthy showing in its pharmacy comparables, which soared 3.5%. This too was offset by a less-than-ideal front-end performance. Compared to the same month a year earlier, Rite Aid's front-end comparables fell 5% as a shift in the timing of Easter negatively affected its front-end sales by 4.1%.
What does history say about these drugstores?
While it's nice to know how well a company is doing on a month-to-month basis, the Foolish investor should focus their efforts primarily on the long-term performance the business in question is likely to enjoy. Doing so reveals some very interesting things about both Walgreen and Rite Aid.
Over the past four years, for instance, Rite Aid saw its revenue decline 1% from $25.7 billion to $25.4 billion. In its financial statements, the company attributes the drop in sales to its store closings. However, due to restructuring efforts by management, the business's increase in comparable store sales over this time horizon helped offset the impact from fewer stores in operation.
Walgreen, on the other hand, smashed Rite Aid in top-line growth. During the same time frame, the company's revenue rose 7% from $67.4 billion to $72.2 billion. Unlike its smaller rival, Walgreen saw flat comparable store sales over this period, but made up for it by a 7% increase in store count.
Looking at revenue, Rite Aid and Walgreen are like night and day, but when it comes to profits, their differences fade a little. Over the past four years, Rite Aid saw its net loss of $506.7 million transform into a net gain of $118.1 million. In each year except one, the company's profitability improved, mostly because of the closing of unprofitable locations and a continued emphasis on cutting costs anywhere deemed possible.
Walgreen also enjoyed an improvement in its bottom line over time, with net income jumping 17% from $2.1 billion to $2.45 billion. On top of benefiting from higher sales, the company saw some cost reductions and both companies saw a change in product mix from brand name drugs to generic drugs.
Foolish takeaway
Both Rite Aid and its larger rival Walgreen reported not just a rise in comparable-store sales, but a rise in consolidated sales during the month of March. At first glance, the rise in share price of each business indicates investors are more bullish about Rite Aid than Walgreen, but the performance of the latter was the strongest.
Moving forward, the Foolish investor should keep an eye on both companies as they each provide an interesting (and potentially very profitable) risk/reward trade-off. Rite Aid's lackluster sales and large net losses have been a real concern for investors, but its positive earnings during 2013 suggest that maybe, just maybe, the company is set to grow again.
Investors should also keep in mind that Walgreen's higher growth rate and greater profits make for an interesting prospect, but this comes at the downside of limited growth because of the company's sheer size when placed next to Rite Aid. For the more conservative investor, this may be the way to go, while Rite Aid might be the best play for the enterprising investor.
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Is there anywhere where I can find the text of the Spanish nusach online? I can find Sefard and Mizrachi siddurim, but from what I am aware, they vary quite strongly from the old Spanish-Portuguese version, as practiced in Amsterdam and New York (and others of which I am unaware).
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It seems that David Aaron deSola's siddur is the one that is commonly used today in these communities. It is available online.
There is also an S&P Birkon app for Android (free), which has Birkat ha mazon, mein shalosh, and a few other prayers.
If you know the specific text you are looking for sometimes its online (e.g. tzur mishelo, etc.).


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Barrett and Harvey Collect West Region Honors
Senior Brigetta Barrett and head coach Fred Harvey received honors from the U.S. Track and Field Cross Country Coaches' Association.
Moline Earns Runner-Up Finish At Prefontaine
Senior Georganne Moline took second place in the 400-meter hurdles at the Prefontaine Classic.
T&F Women Take Second At Pac-12 Championshps
The No. 5 women's track and field earned a runner-up finish at the Pac-12 Championships while the men finished in seventh place.
Brigetta Barrett Sets Collegiate Record In High Jump
Brigetta Barrett set the collegiate record in the women's high jump and won her third-straight conference title.
Tracking The Cats: Coach Harvey Show
Director of Cross Country and Track and Field Fred Harvey recaps the UA-ASU-NAU Double Dual and previews the Pac-12 Championships.
Fred Harvey enters his 11th year as the Director of Men's and Women's Cross Country and Track and Field. After 15 years as an assistant and associate head coach at the University of Arizona, Harvey took the reins of the program during the 2002-03 season and led the men's team to seven-consecutive top-25 finishes outdoors and the women to top-25 finishes in each of the last six seasons, both indoors and outdoors.
Harvey and his coaching staff have recruited another strong batch of student-athletes this season and the chances of continuing the top-25 streaks look to be in good shape. Over the years of his head coaching career, 25 men have earned 83 All-America honors and 23 women have earned 56 All-America certificates under Harvey and eight Arizona student-athletes earned 16 NCAA Individual Championships.
Harvey led the men's squad to the best finish in school history (indoor or outdoor) during the 2012 indoor season. With only four student-athletes, the Wildcat men managed to take third place at the NCAA Championships. All four men combined to earn six All-America accolades and three individual titles. The women earned an 11th-place finish, only sending three women. Each member of the trio earned All-America honors and they also managed to secure one individual title. Outdoors, Harvey and his staff led the men's and women's squad to third-place finishes at the Pac-12 Championships. The men and women combined to win four individual titles. At the NCAA Championships, the men took seventh place with eight athletes claiming 11 All-America certificates. The UA women finished in 19th place and had four athletes earn individual All-America honors, along with the women's 4x400-meter relay team.
Under the guidance of Harvey, Georganne Moline became one of the best 400-meter hurdlers in the world during the 2012 season. Throughout the collegiate season, Moline won eight of nine races in the 400-meter hurdles, setting the school record and the No. 1 collegiate time in the country. She claimed her first individual Pac-12 Championship in the event. Moline did not end the collegiate season the way she wanted to, falling over the eighth hurdle in the semifinal at the NCAA Championships. However, Harvey and Moline stuck together and worked harder than ever towards making Team USA for the London Olympics.
At the U.S. Olympic Trials, Moline ran the two fastest races of her life up to that point, punching her ticket to London with a second-place finish in the final of the 400-meter hurdles, clocking a time of 54.33. The London Olympic Games were Moline's first experience on a U.S. National Team, at any level. Despite her lack of experience, Moline advanced to the final of event. She won her heat in the first round, clocking a-then personal-best time of 54.31. In the semifinal, she took second place with a time of 54.74, good for a spot in the final. Her personal-best time of 53.92 was good for fifth place overall, the No. 3 time in Pac-10/12 history and the No. 1 time in UA history.
He was named the 2011 Pac-10 Men's and Women's Coach of the Year and, on the national scene, the U.S. Track and Field and Cross Country Coaches' Association (USTFCCCA) named Harvey its West Region Men's and Women's Coach of the Year. Harvey led both squads to runner-up finishes at the Pac-10 Outdoor Championships before taking the teams to top-10 national finishes with the women finishing fifth and the men seventh at the NCAA Outdoor Championships in Des Moines, Iowa.
Harvey has worked countless hours to create his "Template for Success." The top-three factors in this template include recruiting the top student-athletes, recruiting the top staff and having the total support of his athletic department. His coaching expertise, combined with his enthusiastic recruiting, has continually kept Arizona ranked among the top teams in the nation since his promotion to head coach.
During Harvey's tenure, the Wildcats have signed over 30 U.S. high school state champions, three U.S. Junior Champions, one Chinese National Junior Champion, three National Junior College Champions and one NCAA Division III National Champion.
In recruiting the top staff members, Harvey has been able to lure some of the top coaches in the world to Arizona. Dr. James Li serves as associated head track and field coach and head cross country coach. With assistant coach Maureen Huber, they work with UA's middle distance and distance runners. Assistant coach Craig Carter is charged with Arizona's throwing group, assistant coach Francesca Green works with the sprints and relays and Sheldon Blockburger guides the jumps, pole vault and combined events.
A native of San Francisco, Harvey came to Arizona from Cal Poly-San Luis Obispo, where he was the assistant women's coach for seven years and coached 14 NCAA Division II National Champions, 52 NCAA Division II All-Americans and two Division I All-Americans. During his seven-year stint, the Mustangs won four NCAA Division II National titles.
Harvey was selected to coach the U.S. men at the 2003 Pan American Games. During the five-day event in Santo Domingo, Dominican Republic, he led the team to 21 total medals - seven gold, seven silver and seven bronzes.
Harvey's has coached other Olympians along with Moline, including Tucsonan Michael Bates. Bates was the 1992 bronze medalist in the 200-meter dash at the Barcelona Games before going on to an illustrious career in the NFL as a kick returner. At the 2000 Olympic Games, Patrick Nduwimana, a Harvey pupil, advanced to the semifinals in the 800 meters. Others who advanced to Olympian status include triple jumper Yuliana Perez, long jumper Mareike Veltman and sprinter/hurdlers Lade and Tayo Akinremi. Harvey's male Olympians also include sprinters Troy Douglass, Bart Williams and Joe SaiSai.
Another of Harvey's student-athletes, hurdler Michelle Johnson, nearly made the U.S. Olympic team in the 400-meter hurdles. In her competing tenure, however, she was a four-time All-American and 1999 World Championship team member. At the 1999 World Championships in Spain, Nduwimana advanced to the semifinals of the 800 meters for his native Burundi and Johnson finished sixth in the 400-meter hurdles, running 54.23 in the final.
He developed Brianna Glenn into one of the top female sprinters and long jumpers in the nation. In 2001, Glenn won the 200-meter dash and the long jump at the NCAA Outdoor Championships, becoming the only athlete in history to accomplish that feat. She would go on to win the long jump title at the USA Championships in 2003. She was a member of Team USA for the 2001 World Championships and the 2002 World Cup.
In 2001, Harvey added to his resume, becoming Arizona's Sprint Development Coach, working with the Wildcat football team. He trained the football players in the dynamics of sprinting and speed development that season, and it made a noticeable difference on the field.
In 2004, Harvey was named to the U.S. Track and Field and Cross Country Coaches' Association (USTFCCCA) Executive Committee. In 2005, Harvey was also named as a Vice Chair for the USTFCCCA Advisory Board.
He was a fine student-athlete himself at San Jose City College and Cal Poly-SLO. In 1979, he ran 5.81 in the indoor 50 meters, the fifth-fastest time in the world that year. In 1981, he ran the sixth-fastest time in the world in the same event. During his competitive years, Harvey had personal-best times of 10.1 (100 meters), 20.78 (200 meters), 45.7 (400 meters) and 1:50.2 (800 meters). While competing at Cal Poly-SLO, Harvey earned three NCAA Division II All-America honors and was a member of the winning 4x100-meter relay team at the NCAA Division II National Championships.
Harvey earned his bachelor's degree from Cal Poly-SLO in 1983. He is married to Janet Harvey, a former elite hurdler and long jumper. They have a son, Lauren, and two daughters, J' Lynn and Imani Lee.


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It was a rocky start for the seventh annual Tampa Busch Garden's Bands, Brew & BBQ concert series which started February 8 which included diverse performances. The March line-up is ready which thus far includes a Latin performer.
The BBB concert series has included genres of R&B, soul, jazz, pop, rock, funk, disco, gospel, rock, country music and for the first time Latin reggaeton to end the 2014 concert series. Just this past weekend it was Justin Moore and Bret Michaels who took center stage at Gwazi Park where music is played from noon until the headliner of the day is set to perform at 5 p.m.
Other February performers were Rock-n-Roll Hall of Fame Dickey Betts and Great Southern, The Marshall Tucker Band, Jason Derulo, Earth, Wind & Fire; Sugar Ray, featuring Mark McGrath and Gin Blossoms.
Besides music, guests can enjoy unlimited sampling of more than 100 specialty and craft beers, and barbecue from the Tampa Bay area's most popular restaurants.
March Bands, Brew & BBQ concert series performers:
- Saturday, March 1- Lifehouse
- Sunday, March 2 - ZZ Top
- Saturday, March 8 - Daddy Yankee
- Sunday, March 9 - Steve Miller Band
Concerts begin at 5 p.m. and are free with park admission. For park admission ticket options and to purchase VIP tickets click ===>tickets, tickets are also available for purchase at the park. VIP tickets are $34.99 which entails priority reserved seating, food and a non-alcoholic beverage.
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Fire Emblem solidifies its place as the premier strategy RPG series.
Fire Emblem: Awakening is the thirteenth installment in Nintendo's long-running, often overlooked tactical role-playing franchise. Fire Emblem isn't as well known in the West as Nintendo's other household names, but it's clear Nintendo have given developer Intelligent Systems (of Advance Wars and Paper Mario fame) all of their support in establishing Awakening as on par with the likes of Mario and Zelda as a killer app and major reason to own the 3DS.
With high production values, extensively deep combat gameplay and customisation, the return of several past staples like the relationship and 'My Unit' systems and the addition of a 'Casual' mode alongside the series' trademark 'Classic' mode -- where units permanently stay dead -- Awakening is the most content-packed and accessible entry to date, one of the best games available on the Nintendo 3DS, and easily one of the biggest standouts of 2013 so far.
Watch Nintendo Australia's official launch trailer of Awakening.
Awakening is set in the fictional Halidom of Ylisse, a country plagued by a dark history and constant attacks from the neighbouring Plegia, who they once warred with. A rag-tag group called the Shepherds frequently travel across the country, protecting its borders and citizens from such violent incursions. In one of their scoutings, their leader, Chrom and his sister Lissa, also the younger siblings to the current Queen of Ylisse, find a mysterious person asleep in the middle of nowhere. Once they awaken, they reveal they don't remember anything -- yet they somehow know Chrom's name.
An attack in a nearby village and another by a new deadly demonic force called 'The Risen' prompts the Shepards to help repel its invaders; the amnesic figure helps the group fight back with skills and strategies they can't recall where they learned.
"Awakening is the most content-packed and accessible entry to date, one of the best games available on the Nintendo 3DS, and easily one of the biggest standouts of 2013 so far.
This character becomes yours to live through, and the game opens up its customisation suite for you to choose your, favoured appearance, starting stats, and even birthday. Chrom soon inducts you into the Shepherds as their tactician, and the game really begins.
The initial plot isn't anything completely mind blowing or different from previous Fire Emblem titles or anything medieval-based, but as Awakening progresses, more characters join the Shepards and the curveballs start flying, the main story really opens up into an engaging tale worthy of being a prime-time drama. Without spoiling too much, most of the action is focused on the burdened Prince Chrom, his family and country's troubled past and his new friendship with your Tactician.
The Tactician isn't the usual silent protagonist and while you can't choose your character's responses, you can choose which characters they get along with, fight the best with and even marry and have children with, altering the sub-stories and gameplay significantly with your choices.
Every character, no matter how minor they may seem in relation to the main story, have their own unique personalities and quirks that have been expertly translated in the English release. Vaike is a smart-ass with a big heart. Lon'qu is a deadly swordsman with a traumatic past with women. Cordelia is an honourable knight with survivor's guilt. It's evident testament to the level of effort Intelligent Systems have gone to provide a top-quality localisation, both in English dialogue and voice-actors, and the extra wait, while painful, was definitely worth it.
Awakening has some of the most memorable heroes and villians in a Fire Emblem entry yet.
Each story sequence is beautifully animated, switching between anime-style cutscenes with full voice acting, 2D stills of the characters and speech bubbles during interaction sequences, and 3D character models during combat and minor cutscenes. While the overworld and battlefield are still 2D, the game's three distinct art styles all have their own charms and work together better than first impressions would give. The 3D features of the Nintendo 3DS screen help these sequences -- especially the anime cutscenes -- pop out with that extra level of visual flair.
The core gameplay of Awakening revolves around turn-based strategy and combat. Players move characters units on grid-based maps, and each unit have rules which govern how far they can move each turn, how they engage enemies and how they interact with each other based on their unique classes, weapons, and traits.
The basic premise is simple enough, almost like chess. There's the return of the classic weapon triangle -- swords beat axes, axes beat lances, and lances beat swords -- and most combat is initiated by moving next to the enemy unit and attacking.
However, once you factor in bows, magic, shapeshifters, supporting items, character skills, a level system and the peripheral and underlying strategy systems working in place that separates Fire Emblem from the usual strategy-RPG template, you'll realise true patience, practice and tactics are necessary to progress and experience everything on offer.
Learn about the extensive support system.
The most notable of these systems is the support system. During battle, you will be encouraged to 'Pair Up' your units to inflict maximum damage, ensure your team protects each other and take advantage of the unique moves a team-up can create. Every time you have units fight next to each other or as a pair, their 'Support' rank rises, which has benefits outside and inside battle. Your units will be able to have unique support conversations dependent on the Rank level - C, B, A (and S with the opposite sex), provide more statistical advantages when engaging an enemy, and even get married and have children. Depending on the character and their equipped skills, their children will inherit such traits.
With over 40 characters, a multitude of learn-able skills and an extensive Reclass and Promotion system -- which allows players to completely change a character's class progression or upgrade into a better version of their current class -- there are an amazing amount of tactical possibilities to experiment with to face any combat situation. The children of your first generation characters will eventually become units themselves, available for use in battle, and their progression is directly linked to how you trained their parents.
The sheer depth of the combat system and micromanaging your units can seem overwhelming at first, but Awakening stylishly and cleverly eases you into learning its multiple gameplay mechanics one at a time. There is no overly annoying tutorial and players can even opt to skip such sequences entirely - this extends to cutscenes, battle animations and dialogue.
The brutal experience and nature of battle -- once a character dies, they and their unique personalities, storylines and possibilities are gone for good -- will resonate with series veterans, who will not doubt opt for Hard and Lunatic difficulty mixed with Classic. The game presents worthy challenges that will test your mettle (and sanity), but for those who just want to enjoy the story, Easy difficulty with Casual mode -- where units don't die permanently -- is for you. The added intensity of Classic mode and the great job the game does of making you care about every character is ensured to make you restart your save rather than move forward because you will always wonder 'what if?" of that character's future.
The StreetPass features of Awakening involves exchanging army information with other players, increasing your renown and gaining rare items for use. Your character and your team will appear as a random encounter on the overworld of another player's game, available for recruitment by beating opponents on the field.
The battlefield constantly presents new challenges and ways of engaging the enemy.
SpotPass is also integrated seamlessly, allowing players to update their game to recieve the newest free content in the form of teams of special past Fire Emblem heroes available to recruit and unique weapons to use. Paid content is accessed in-game through the Outerrealm Portal, available after Chapter 4 on the overworld. The paid DLC provides new maps, stories and battle scenarios for players to sink their teeth into, with the first 'Champions of Yore' Map pack currently free, with more paid DLC to come.
In terms of shortcomings, Awakening has very few, if they can even be called so. The chibi anime style incorporated in the 3D character models has resulted in characters with stumps for feet, and though it is noticeable early on, it hardly is a problem that affects the enjoyment of gameplay. The paid DLC for the currently available map packs is also inconsistently priced, showing Nintendo still is learning how to appropriately handle paid additional content.
Perhaps the only true disappointment of Awakening is the lack of meaningful multiplayer. There is a local multiplayer mode that lets two players select three units each and team up to fight a computer controlled army, but it feels tacked on compared to the deep solo experience on offer.
It's hard not to like Awakening, even if you're not a major SRPG fan, due to the sheer quality and level of content on offer. The possibilities of customisation -- from tailoring the speed of cutscenes and battles, reclassing units and experimenting with supports and marriages -- to the gorgeous visual quality and distinctive art-styles, to the mesmerising soundtrack -- all remind us that the 3DS and portable gaming in general is still a platform for triple A gaming experiences.
Fire Emblem: Awakening is Intelligent Systems' love-letter to both loyal fans of Fire Emblem and Advance Wars and new gamers eager for strategic, turn-based action. Packed full of content, deep and rewarding gameplay systems, a unique art-style and extensive customisation for new players and veterans, Awakening provides an unforgettable gaming experience that you'll struggle to put down -- I'm 30+ hours and counting!
Nathan Misa is the senior games writer, reviewer and contributor for MMGN.com and GamesFix. He is an over-enthusiastic Fire Emblem fan who is dangerously in love with Tharja. You can hear his ramblings and thoughts here on MMGN, Google+ and Twitter.
iamtom said: I believe the feet thing was explained in an interview.
The designer chose to not to give them any feet to make them unique. Yup.
SilentOne said: I have this.. Bought it on release date..
But I dont see how everyone loves it so much?
It's not my cuppa tea :L
CptAwesome said: I can see how some ppl may not like it, cause its not real time action, but that's the beauty of it. its about strategy and planning your moves. when you finish a level with no deaths (especially on harder difficulties) its a great feeling knowing its because of your tactics and smart thinking
Pedrof95 said: I've had this game for a month now, and there hasn't been a day I don't play at least one fight. It was my first 3DS game, and I'm glad I bought it.
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Lesson Plan
A Sample Mini-Lesson for Teaching Writing Conventions
- Grades: 1–2, 3–5
- Sample Lesson Transcript
- Following Up the Lesson
Your students are already noticing writing conventions — such as capitalization, punctuation, and the like — in the trade books they read, and using some conventions accurately in their writing. So the first thing you'll do in this mini-lesson is help children to see what they already know about conventions.
Start with a small group of five children who have a reasonably strong repertoire of conventions. I do this lesson with small groups because the concepts are sophisticated enough that I want to make sure everyone has acquired a fundamental understanding of them. (With this mini-lesson as with others, follow-up is key to making concepts stick.)
How I guide the lesson:
Sample Lesson Transcript
Don: This morning we are going to talk about conventions. I have a page of my writing here to show you what I mean. I'd like you take out a piece of your own writing. You are already using conventions, so we'll take a look at what some of these are. Some are obvious, others are more complex.
All right, everything I do when I write is an act of convention. That is, things are done in a certain way, so the reader and I can understand what I'm trying to say. (I'm holding my page up so children can see it.) One of the simplest conventions is how my letters and words go from left to right across the page. What are some other conventions that we use almost every time we write?
Student: How about I put spaces between my words?
Don: Sure, let's have another.
Student: Well, the words should really be spelled just one way. I don't always do that, though.
Don: Right. Sometimes I know a word isn't spelled right and it really bothers me. Now here's another: See this capital at the beginning of this sentence? That shows where the sentence starts. Okay, I see lots of hands now.
Student: Then you put a period at the end. I've got one here but I don't know if it's right or not.
Don: Why do we use conventions like this?
Student: If you don't separate things, it would all run together.
Don: That's right. The period is a stop mark. It means, this is the end of this idea. Let's have a few more ideas, now that you seem to have the hang of it.
Student: Got someone talking and you use quotation marks.
Don: I think you have the idea. I want you to make a chart listing any conventions you think you've used in your piece of writing. If there are some you'd like to use and haven't, write them on the chart. When you finish, put the sheets in the "Completed Work" basket.
All this year, we'll keep adding to your chart of conventions so that you and your readers can better understand what you are writing.
Following Up the Lesson
In the weeks that follow this mini-lesson, when children hand in writing to me, they point out where they think they have first used a particular convention or have, in fact, used it accurately. When I review the children's papers, I'll be looking for several things:
- Their understanding of the concept of conventions; the range of conventions they are using;
- Conventions they are using but neglected to list, and; the accuracy of their use of conventions.
- Part of Collection:
- Subjects:Grammar and Punctuation, Writing, Teacher Tips and Strategies
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Dr. Heeg holds a doctorate in music from the University of Colorado – Boulder. He has traveled to many parts of the world as a musician, Chinese herbalist, and student of religions. He is displaying his musical skills at the Christian Spiritualist Temple on Saturday, March 22, 2014 from 7:00 to 8:30 p.m. The theme of the concert is Sacred Music of Spring.
Using the church's well-seasoned grand piano that is over 100 years old, Dr. Heeg has designed a concert for Spring Healing that utilizes the music of such composers as Frederic Chopin, Claude Debussy, Joaquin Rodrigo and Enrique Granados, as well as some of his own compositions. Dr. Heeg learned some of his piano arts and piano tuning skills from his father. A sample of Dr. Heeg's work is in the attached video.
The acoustics in the church are aided by walls that are about three feet thick. The high ceilings and classic walnut altar and organ pipes provide a miniature cathedral backdrop. The Belgian stained glass windows will shade the sunset as Dr. Heeg plays his music to usher in Spring.
Before returning to Columbus, Dr. Heeg spent eight years as the professor of music of the Eastern Mediterranean University on the island of Cyprus. He has played and studied in Germany, and has continued his German heritage as a performing member of the Columbus Maennerchor.
Dr. Heeg will offer a compact disk of his live concert done as a benefit for Columbus Maennerchor on Sunday, Aug. 18, 2013 at the Graves Recital Hall. The CD contains pieces from Bach, Mozart, Schubert, and Chopin. A portion of the proceeds from the sale of the CD will be donated to the church.
This is an opportunity to hear an outstanding pianist in a beautiful setting on the first day of Spring. The Christian Spiritualist Temple is located at 77 South Sixth Street, Columbus, OH 43215. It is at the corner of Sixth and State Streets, with parking in the two lots west of the church. The suggested donation is $10 to $20, with the community welcome to attend.


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I am sure who ever buys this dress will fall in love with it. Hopefully it will get another chance to shine and make its bride feel and look absolutely beautiful.
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Removable Bluetooth Headset by Samsung
Have you ever tried to use Bluetooth headset with your phone? It's great. Just put it in your ear and talk. No wires, free hands to do whatever you like, no need of picking up the phone.
But what a hassle, when not in use. Do not forget to charge it. Remember where you put in the first place. What a delicate thing BT headset is, requiring a special case to carry it around.
And what a simple and beautiful idea by Samsung solving all these problems at once! Removable BT headset that is part of the phone:
Just put your headset on to your phone when not in use and carry it around, charge the battery seamlessly or use the keys to operate the music player.
And when you need it, pick it up, put on to your ear and start talking…


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Michael Lenihan delves into the rich tapestry of Cork history to reveal some of its most bizarre events and strangest characters. From quack doctor Baron Spolasco, to the outlaw Art O Laoghaire, Cork has seen some eccentric, wonderful and downright nasty people. With revelations of mass graves in Bishop Lucey Park and how Jonathan Swift was insulted by being awarded the freedom of the city, and stories of the Gas Works' strike, Hidden Cork opens the door on history, dumps the boring bits and brings to life the flow of time through the streets of Cork.


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Ondene Marchant is beautiful, talented and destined to major in law at Oxford. She's spent her whole life following demanding study plans laid down by her ambitious mother Hyacinth, a high powered barrister determined to push her only child to the top. But Ondene is desperate to live a little. She discovers freestyle basketball, and takes up the offer of lessons from the charismatic Leon. When Hyacinth finds out, she resolves to put an end to the relationship. Although Leon's fighting against the odds to educate himself, Hyacinth is convinced he is bad news because he lives in the projects--a place she escaped from long ago. As romance blossoms, the sweethearts face an uphill struggle with Hyacinth as they try to succeed in life and love.
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by William Shakespeare
Macbeth Act 4, Scene 1 Summary
- On a dark and stormy night, the three witches are hanging out in a cave roasting marshmallows and chanting spells around a boiling cauldron, into which they cast all sorts of nasty bits, from lizard's leg to the finger of a "birth-strangled babe." Hecate enters, announcing "something wicked this way comes." Not surprisingly, Macbeth promptly follows. (So does a Ray Bradbury novel and cinematic adaptation, but not for another few centuries.)
- Macbeth gives the witches some props for being able to control the weather and conjure crazy winds that batter churches, cause huge ocean waves to "swallow" ships, destroy crops, topple castles, and so on. (Hmm...this reminds us of Act I, scene iii, where the witches say they're going to punish a sailor's wife by whipping up a nasty little storm for her husband, who is at sea.)
- Macbeth says he has some more questions about his future and he wants some answers from the weird sisters, pronto.
- The witches add some more ingredients to the cauldron, and then apparitions begin to appear, each addressing Macbeth.
- First, an armed head warns him to beware of Macduff. Second, a bloody child promises, "None of woman born shall harm Macbeth." Macbeth welcomes this good news and, assuming Macduff was born the natural way, Macbeth thinks he has nothing to fear.
- Though he has no need to kill Macduff now, he pledges to do it anyway – you know, just in case.
- The third apparition is a child wearing a crown with a tree in his hand. The child promises that Macbeth won't be conquered until Birnam Wood marches to Dunsinane. This seems about as unlikely as Macduff not being born of a woman.
- Given all of this, Macbeth feels safe that he won't be conquered in the upcoming war. But again, to be on the safe side, he still asks if Banquo's children will ever rule the kingdom.
- He is warned to ask no more questions.
- He demands to be answered anyway.
- Macbeth is not pleased when he's shown a line of eight kings, the last of which holds a mirror that reflects on many more such kings. One of the kings in the mirror happens to be holding two orbs.
- Time for a History Snack: King James I of England (a.k.a. King James VI of Scotland) traced his lineage back to Banquo and, at his coronation ceremony in England (1603) James held two orbs (one representing England and one representing Scotland). Quite a coincidence, don't you think?
- The apparitions disappear and the witches tease Macbeth for looking horrible when he saw his future destruction. The witches do yet another song and dance routine and they vanish.
- Enter Lennox to find a perplexed Macbeth. Lennox tells Macbeth the news that Macduff has definitely run away to England, presumably to get some help for a rebellion.
- Get your highlighter out because this next bit is important: Macbeth says that from now on, he's going to act immediately on whatever thought enters his mind: "From this moment / The very firstlings of my heart shall be / The firstlings of my hand." In other words, no more thinking and contemplating about the pros and cons of being bad – he's just to do whatever the heck he feels like doing.
- Starting with… wiping out Macduff's entire family, especially his kids, since Macbeth doesn't ever want to see any little Macduffs running around.
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Obama's sleazy new regulatory trick shuts down clean fracking on private property
While Barack Obama praises America's natural gas jobs boom on the campaign trail, within in the walls of the White House he's using a regulatory trick to kill off the affordable energy and good-paying jobs that safe, clean fracking provides.
"By suddenly reinterpreting a 50-year-old rule that limits truck drivers to 11 hours on the work site at a stretch, the Federal Motor Carrier Safety Administration has delivered an unexpected victory for environmental activists," The Washington Examiner's editorial board writes.
What does that have to do with fracking, and why are environmentalists suddenly obsessed with trucking laws?
"Truckers on drilling sites spend hours each day waiting around until one rig or another needs water or sand. This is why, ever since the 11-hour trucking safety rule was adopted in 1962, truckers who haul water and sand to drilling sites have been exempted. There is no issue of road fatigue, the focus of the 11-hour rule," The Examiner writes
"The Transportation Department's reinterpretation eliminates this exemption, disproportionately affecting sites where fracking is employed. Voila – environmental regulation without the hassles of justifying it scientifically, as would be required for an EPA action."
"This is clearly an indication that somewhere up in the top echelons of this administration, there is a constant battle — a war going on — to try to artificially level the playing field between the oil and gas industry and the renewable [energy] industry," Rep. Jeff Landry, R-La., told The Washington Examiner.
By changing the rules, with no public input or a vote by Congress, Obama has once again pledged his allegiance to the radical environmentalist fringe and not the American people.
Anti-frack attackers caught lying. Again.
"Critics of fracking often raise alarms about ground-water pollution, air pollution and cancer risks, and there are still many uncertainties. But some of the claims have little — or nothing– to back them up," The Associated Press reports.
For example, reports that breast cancer rates rose in North Texas along with heavy gas drilling in the Barnett Shale are false, researchers told The Associated Press.
Fears that natural radioactivity in drilling waste could contaminate drinking water aren't being confirmed by monitoring, either.
And concerns about air pollution from the industry often don't acknowledge that natural gas is a far cleaner-burning fuel than coal…
…One of the clearest examples of a misleading claim comes from Texas, where gas drilling began in the Barnett Shale about 10 years ago.
Opponents of fracking say breast cancer rates have spiked exactly where intensive drilling is taking place — and nowhere else in the state. The claim is used in a letter that was sent to New York's Gov. Andrew Cuomo by environmental groups and by Josh Fox, the Oscar-nominated director of Gasland, a film that criticizes the industry. Fox, who lives in Brooklyn, has a new short film called The Sky Is Pink.
But researchers haven't seen a spike in breast cancer rates in the area, said Simon Craddock Lee, a professor of medical anthropology at the University of Texas Southwestern Medical Center in Dallas.
David Risser, an epidemiologist with the Texas Cancer Registry, said in an e-mail that researchers checked state health data and found no evidence of an increase in the counties where the spike supposedly occurred.
And Susan G. Komen for the Cure, a major cancer advocacy group based in Dallas, said it sees no evidence of a spike, either.
"We don't," said Chandini Portteus, Komen's vice president of research, adding that the group sympathizes with people's fears and concerns, but "what we do know is a little bit, and what we don't know is a lot" about breast cancer and the environment.
Yet Fox tells viewers in an ominous voice that "In Texas, as throughout the United States, cancer rates fell — except in one place– in the Barnett Shale."
Lee called the claims of an increase "a classic case of the ecological fallacy" because they falsely suggest that breast cancer is linked to just one factor. In fact, diet, lifestyle and access to healthcare also play key roles.
Fox responded to questions by citing a news release from the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention that doesn't support his claim, and a newspaper story that Risser said is "not based on a careful statistical analysis of the data."
When Fox was told that Texas cancer researchers said rates didn't increase, he replied in an e-mail that the claim of unusually high breast cancer rates was "widely reported" and said there is "more than enough evidence to warrant much deeper study."
One expert said there's an actual psychological process at work that sometimes blinds people to science, on the fracking debate and many others.
"You can literally put facts in front of people, and they will just ignore them," said Mark Lubell, director of the Center for Environmental Policy and Behavior at the University of California, Davis.
Fact-checking Obama's State of the Union lies
There's a gulf of facts between what Barack Obama said last night, and what the truth really is. And like any gulf of resources, Obama doesn't want you exploring it.
American Tradition Partnership drills down to the truth for you. Obama's claims on energy are in bold, and they are all false. The truth follows his statements.
"Over the last three years, we've opened millions of new acres for oil and gas exploration, and tonight, I'm directing my Administration to open more than 75 percent of our potential offshore oil and gas resources."
Classic Obama sleight of hand. Like his radical Gang Green campaign bankrollers, Obama opposes energy development. But he knows that position will kill his campaign. His solution? Open land to permission to develop so he looks pro-jobs, but refuse to grant the permits so he shuts down jobs.
"…last year, we relied less on foreign oil than in any of the past sixteen years."
As even the reliably liberal Washington Post notes, "The Energy Department cited a host of reasons why foreign oil imports have declined, noting the main reason was "a significant contraction in consumption" because of the poor economy and changes in efficiency that began "two years before the 2008 crisis" — i.e., before Obama took office."
"But with only 2 percent of the world's oil reserves, oil isn't enough."
A lie. Many experts say the U.S. has around 10 percent of the world's reserves, and American oil is often of a higher quality and easier to develop than other countries. The U.S. has enough oil to last over a century.
"This country needs an all-out, all-of-the-above strategy that develops every available source of American energy – a strategy that's cleaner, cheaper, and full of new jobs."
Through shutting down granting of permits on land, a moratorium on deep-sea development followed by a virtual moratorium by not approving permits and now attempting to kill the Keystone energy pipeline, Obama has consistently opposed oil and gas development, our most efficient source of energy and a key driver of new jobs and prosperity.
"We have a supply of natural gas that can last America nearly one hundred years, and my Administration will take every possible action to safely develop this energy."
Obama has worked to stop the permitting of gas wells, and his EPA cronies are working to outlaw the 60-year-old safe practice of "clean water extraction," known as "fracking."
"And by the way, it was public research dollars, over the course of thirty years, that helped develop the technologies to extract all this natural gas out of shale rock…"
Clean water extraction, or "fracking" is a 60-year-old technology. It is not a product of Jimmy Carter-era government spending.
"Because of federal investments, renewable energy use has nearly doubled. And thousands of Americans have jobs because of it."
So-called "renewable" energy relies almost solely on "federal investments" (spending of taxpayer money) because it is too inefficient and expensive to be a practical source of power. Being forced to double wasteful spending to keep it alive and enrich his campaign donors is noting to brag about.
And research has shown so-called "green power," backed only by government mandates and spending, destroys more jobs than it creates.
"We have subsidized oil companies for a century. That's long enough. It's time to end the taxpayer giveaways to an industry that's rarely been more profitable, and double-down on a clean energy industry that's never been more promising. Pass clean energy tax credits and create these jobs."
The so-called "oil subsidy" he refers to is the business equipment depreciation deduction that ALL businesses get. What he proposes is to monkey with federal tax law to target just oil companies for a tax hike, then redistribute their money to his campaign bankrollers in the "green" energy racket.
"Of course, the easiest way to save money is to waste less energy. So here's another proposal: Help manufacturers eliminate energy waste in their factories and give businesses incentives to upgrade their buildings."
Like many of Obama's failed proposals, he assumes private businesses do not know how to create profits, but his government planners do. In reality, this is just a scheme to transfer taxpayers' money to his campaign supporters who have invested heavily in failed green businesses.
That's the truth. Help me hold Obama accountable for his job-killing campaign of lies.
Donald Ferguson
Executive Director
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NY Daily News: 'How fracking lies triumphed.' Clean energy 'unjustly maligned'
Robert Bryce, senior fellow at the Manhattan Institute, exposes the lies of Gang Green in this guest editorial in the New York Daily News.
Gang Green launches assault on shale oil jobs boom
"A resurgent green movement is launching a multi-pronged counter-attack against the shale oil and gas boom in the United States that could slow, though ultimately not stop, development," Reuters reports.
"Building upon their unexpected success in the battle against the Keystone XL pipeline, a renewed onslaught from environmentalists is putting the shale industry on the defensive while adding to costs, limiting expansion and potentially scuttling major projects."
Make no mistake.
Gang Green has declared war on YOUR job.
With no energy, the economy dies.
Don't let them win.
Go here to support American Tradition Partnership's efforts to defeat Gang Green.
UT/Environmental Defense Fund study: Fracking safe, clean for groundwater
A new study conducted by the University of Texas and the radical environmentalist group Environmental Defense Fund finds no link whatsoever between hydraulic fracturing and groundwater contamination.
Safe, clean "fracking" has been conducted for 60 years, but radical environmentalists are just now making false accusations about the technology in a bid to scare Americans into opposing energy development.
"Prior reports, investigations and data gathered throughout the country on claims that the process often called fracking contaminated ground water so far don't make the direct link, said Chip Groat, a UT geologist who is leading the study," the Houston Chronicle reports.
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winning strategy for gamblers: Read first
By Holden
Lewis Bankrate.com
in Las Vegas: It sounds like a movie parody, but
plenty of Vegas-style reading can be found at
Book Shop.
"A little
place of logic and calm in the midst of a maelstrom
of the turbulent atmosphere of gambling,"
proprietor Howard Schwartz calls it.
The book shop sits
anonymously along a boulevard of shopping centers,
far from the Las Vegas Strip. It's home to thousands
of titles on everything from horse racing ("Blinkers
Off"), to poker strategy (Doyle Brunson's
venerable "Super/System") to the history
of dice ("Dice: Deceptions, Fate and Rotten
Luck," by Ricky Jay). Not to mention that
1933 classic, "Cheating at Bridge."
There are books on
mob history, software to teach video poker strategy,
and videotapes to enlighten viewers about "tells"
-- players' expressions and ticks that betray
the cards they hold.
Smart gamblers, Schwartz
says, "read before they act. The not-so-smart
ones at least understand they need a book after
they lose, so it helps you understand why you
win, why you lose and maybe why you gamble."
Although it
sells new merchandise, the store has a used-book
shop feel, with narrow aisles, fluorescent lighting,
wooden shelves built onto the walls and, above
those, framed photos of prominent gamblers. Employees-only
back rooms are filled with tall shelves holding
tomes on casino management, rare volumes from
the 1870s on horse breeding and boxes of pamphlet-size
gambling primers.
Schwartz is
wiry, in his early 60s, with alert eyes and a
manner that's at once soothing and exasperated,
like a counselor on a suicide hotline who thinks
some callers are whiners. He says some of his
regular customers are "impetuous -- sometimes
like children, sometimes adults." He calls
gambling a merry-go-round -- a pleasant place
to spend a short time, a lousy place to live a
long life.
He has a measured
way of speaking that brings to mind the character
of Dr. Sidney Freedman, the psychiatrist who appeared
in a dozen episodes of the "M*A*S*H"
television series. Schwartz mixes psychological
insight with gambling advice as he does his best
to align gamblers' expectations with reality.
here as disseminators of information, with a little
bit of feeling for people with these great dreams,"
he says. "I try to tell them: Bet with moderation.
Understand that you've got to get off the merry-go-round.
You're not supposed to stay in Disneyland for
a week. You're supposed to have some fun and go
back and smell the roses. And understand what
money management is, and how good people win,
and what kind of discipline you need to beat whatever
game you're playing."
Schwartz started working
for the shop 25 years ago, when founders John
and Edna Luckman hired him to edit two magazines
the store published. The store's original name
was Gambler's Book Club, and the Luckmans envisioned
it as a place where gamblers could meet, discuss
their avocation and buy books about it, without
feeling ostracized. Since then, the store's name
has changed, the Luckmans have died, and now Schwartz
runs the place.
Before he started
working at Gambler's Book Shop, Schwartz had been
an aide to Ralph Nader, a medical science writer,
a journalist and a reading teacher. Now he blends
the skills he used in his former careers: He's
a consumer protector (he won't stock a book if
it's hokum), a book reviewer and catalogue writer,
and an adviser. ("I'm no genius with mathematics,
but I can recommend you to the correct book or
the right person.")
Some of those recommended
books have been published by the store. In the
early years of the business, John Luckman sought
gambling books whose copyrights had expired, then
he printed and sold new editions. He published
primers with names such as "The Facts of
Blackjack," and was the first publisher of
David Sklansky's pioneering book, "Hold 'Em
Poker," in 1976.
Nowadays the most
popular titles are about poker, video poker and
sports betting. Each pastime appeals to distinct
personality types, and Schwartz waxes poetic when
he describes the variety of the store's customers.
"You get all these
strange characters -- the geniuses, dreamers,
funny people, movie stars, writers, aspiring gamblers.
All of them come in like they're visiting some
merry-go-round. It's everybody. There's people
like these little old ladies who want to learn
how to play video poker or improve their mah jongg
game or play hearts or canasta or darts or whatever
it might be."
The store's influence
extends beyond Las Vegas to Hollywood. Schwartz
and his employees have consulted movie productions.
Robert Altman's people wanted to know how a 1930s
craps table would have looked for the film "Kansas
City." Producers of two Wyatt Earp movies
wanted to know how a game called faro would have
been dealt, and the makers of a movie about Wild
Bill Hickok wanted to know how 19th-century five-card
stud players would have held their cards.
Someday Schwartz would
like to indulge his enthusiasm for history and
take a gamble of his own -- far away from a casino.
"I'd like to go
out with a metal detector and go looking for buried
treasure in Bedford County, Virginia," he
says. "One of the most famous treasures in
the country may be out there and people have been
looking for it for 100 years."
Another career in
a varied life.


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