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When I first left New Zealand, as a naive 18 year old, traveling from our isolated islands brought many interesting discoveries. From stretched buses in Australia to double-deckers in the UK, to new kinds of exotic fruit and cultural attitudes - it was a big, and fun, learning curve. One of the things that surprised me, though, and this might be hard for the average world citizen to understand, is the concept of buying water. Coming from the heart of an island covered in stream and river-laden mountains and valleys, the thought of surrendering my hard-earned cash for a bottle of water seemed obscene (like having to buy the air we breathe). In some of the places I lived and visited, however, buying bottled water was necessary for survival, and in others it was a regular purchase due to the perception it was healthy or due to suspicions about the local supply. I remember the water industry being big business in Australia. In Sydney, at the time, a poured glass of tap water always had a slight yellow tint to it. This bothered me, and once I placed a full glass of water on a bench, resolving not to move it for a week or so. After about five days the water was perfectly clear - well, except for a 5mm layer of thick brown sludge at the bottom.... With parts of Sydney being among possible exceptions, many studies around the world have shown tap water to be just as good (and in some cases better) than expensive bottled water (often bottled water is tap water). But what is the true cost of all of this bottled water? Pablo, over on the Triple Pundit web site has made some back-of-the-envelope calculations, and come up with some alarming, albeit controversial results.
This week's AskPablo comes from Maryline: "I am interested to know the 'true-cost' of a bottle of Fiji water that currently sells for $1.50 in the United States. David Lazarus wrote a report on the water business in the SF Chronicle and studied the success of Fiji (January 21 edition), where 'distance and exoticism are marketed as advantages.' Fiji is now # 2 in premium bottled water, behind Evian where we have the same transportation issue. An environmental absurdity!" ... Based on my calculations a bottle that holds 1 liter requires 5 liters of water in its manufacturing process . - triplepundit
Pablo continues and adds other associated costs like fossil fuel, greenhouse gas emissions and even more water, creating quite a startling picture (click here to see Pablo's full calculations). I'd be interested to know your thoughts on this topic, but it leaves me thinking that if one absolutely must buy bottled water, then avoid the 'exotic' brands. Just because it has come from the other side of the world doesn't necessarily make it any better, and the environmental costs are huge. Even without Pablo's calculations, the transfer of a very heavy commodity like water from one side of the world to the other is obviously an illogical and inefficient exercise.
|Consider installing a filter system
Unfortunately, the last time I visited New Zealand I discovered the wonders of modern marketing had done their thing in my absence - as almost every supermarket and corner store has bottled water from France, Wales, etc. If New Zealanders, with their gloriously pure aquifers, can be convinced to buy water from the other side of the planet, it does leave one a little dismayed with industry motivations, and the gullibility of consumers.... Depending on where you live, your tap water is likely to be just as good as bottled water - but if not, consider having a filter system installed in your home. The one-off cost will soon be repaid in savings, and immediately compensated with peace of mind.


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Potatoes are one of those food sources that are a staple in all households. Families are always looking for another recipe to server up potatoes. This soup recipe is great anytime of the year and has a unique texture once the cheese is added. Depending upon what your favorite cheese is will change the taste slightly as well as the color. Homemade soup is a comfort food that will certainly stick to your ribs and keep the family full and satisfied in less than an hour of cooking time from beginning to end.
- 6 peeled, chopped medium potatoes (approximately 6 cups)
- 2 cloves of garlic finely minced
- ¼ cup of finely shredded carrot
- ¼ cup of finely chopped onion
- ¼ teaspoon black pepper
- ¼ teaspoon salt
- ¼ teaspoon of dried dill weed
- 2 tablespoons of chopped celery
- 1 cup of your favorite pasteurized cheese, (such as Swiss) cut up into cubes
- 2 cups of milk
- 1 (10 ounce) can of cream of chicken soup
- Combine the chopped potatoes, shredded carrots, minced garlic, shredded onion and the chopped celery into a large soup pot.
- Add enough water to cover all the vegetables.
- Bring the mixture to a boil.
- Reduce the heat to simmer, cover the pot and cook for 10-15 minutes or until the potatoes are tender.
- Once the potatoes are cooked through remove the pot from the stove.
- Depending upon the type of soup pot you use either mash all the vegetables in the pot or transfer them to a large mixing bowl to mash so you don't scratch the pots finish.
- Leave the vegetables in a chunky state, don't over mash; the soup should be lumpy in texture.
- Add in the spices of pepper, salt and dill as well as the cubed cheese and mix until all is blended nicely.
- Now add in the milk to the soup mixture.
- Return pan to stove and cook till the cheese is heated through and the soup is hot stirring occasionally.
- Transfer the soup to a tureen or large bowl and serve.
- Enjoy!
- Serve some hard crusted bread on the side to soak up the last bit of soup from the bowl.
- The soup is thick and can also be served in a bread bowl. You can either pour the soup into one large bread bowl or use small ones to serve each family member their own individual bread soup bowl to enjoy.
- Oyster crackers are always a hit in soups. Don't crush the crackers since it may make the soup too thick.
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A voice as of the ocean surge!
And see a mighty nation tread,
With banners drooped and funeral dirge.
Within the city of the dead.
On yonder slope, but yesterday,
Clashed steel with steel, and breast with breast;
And tossed the battle's blood-red spray
O'er hosts who now in silence rest.
Kneel, motherland! in broken prayer,
To kiss the dear, the holy ground;
See strong men weep like children, there.
Spelling in vain each nameless mound;
And far, by Erie's waters deep,
Or 'mid the solemn woods of Maine,
The gray sire dreams, in troubled sleep,
Of one who comes not home again.
Sword of the Lord .'—that cry of woe
From many a bleeding wound shall start —
Rest in thy scabbard, rest! Ah, no!
While traitor's stab a mother's heart!
As breaks the gathered roar,
I hear—l hear a nation's cry,
From stormy cliff and sounding shore:
No Peace, no Peace, till Treason die!
No! by the sacred toils of all
Who laid with no cement but truth
The stones of our Cyclopean wall;
No Iby a people's giant youth;
No! by the red blood crime hath split;
No! Dy this heirdom of the free:
llear the bright sword, swear on the hilt,
These years of wrong no more shall bo!
Chaunt ye not now the Requiem sad,
Lift ye the war-song clear and high ;
Sing till it stir the sleepers glad
Who 'neath these erowdedhlllocks lie.
Sing, motherland! ye peaks that bloom
With wreaths of the eternal snow,
Ye primal forests, in whose womb
Navies of oak and iron grow!
Sing prairies rich with nobler grains,
Of bearded men, of freeborn sons!
And thou, great river, through whose veins
The life-blood of our heroes runs:
More than the yellow Tiber's wave
Thy banks shall gleam with deathless fame,
Sing, with thy torrents, of the brave
Who died to keep a nation's spotless name!
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A Sermon preached by Chaplain Potter, at his
Church in New Bedford, Mass., the Sunday after
the victories at Gettysburg and Vicksburg, and now
addressed to the Soldiers of the Union at this Camp.
John xn: 23: The hour is come that the Son of Man
should be glorified.
It were easy to-day to speak the praises that
are in all loyal hearts and bursting from all loy
al lips. It were easy to glorify our National flag,
which has so glorified itself. It were easy to ut
ter pagans of eulogy over the skill, devotion, and
valor which have won the brilliant military vic
tories with which the land is now resonant, and
which have covered our armies with an historic
glory that shall bo immortal. It Avere easy to
open our mouths in thanksgivings for the brave
men living, and the brave men dead, whose stout
hearts and heroicdeodsl:ave,inthiscriticalhour,
shielded our country, nnd shielded us, from the
terrible humiliation and disaster which only a
few days ago seemed close upon us. And we do
■ give thanks ; even here in this house of Christian
vworship, dedicated to the Prince of Peace, we lift
up our hearts in exultation at these triumphs
which have crowned our arms on the field of bat
tle. We rejoice that the dreadful clouds which
hung, ten days ago, one dense maa:i of blackness
over the land charged to the full Avith a terrific
tempest soon to strike we know not Avhere, have
I been parted; we rejoice that the storm has burst,
and that the murderous thunderbolt has struck,
not as we feared, the brave warriors defending
the nation's and humanity's cause, but the insur
gent hosts of treason and wrong. Yes, we may
give thanks to-day that this terrible cloud Avhich
has been hanging over us has lifted, that the dark
and fearful crisis has passed, that all around the
sky light is breaking—the sunshine, let us hope,
that is not to be darkened again, until it shall
break forth into the light of a pure and honest
peace. Thanks be unto God that the cause of
justice has prevailed!
"Oh, sing unto tho Lord a new song;
Sing unto the Lord, all the earth!
Give unto the Lord, O ye tribes of the people,
Give unto the Lord glory and praise.
Give unto the Lord the glory due his name:
Bring olft rings and come into his courts.
Say among the nations that the Lord is King:
He will Judge the people righteously,
Let the Heavens be glad and the earth rejoice;
Let the sea roar and the fulness thereof;
Let the fields be Joyful and all that is therein;
Let all the trees of the wood rejoice before tlie Lord:
I For He cometh, For He cometh to give justice to all
| the earth:
He will judge the world with righteousness, and the
nations with His truth,"
And I Avould that tho grateful strains of our
joy, consecrated by the reverence that belongs to
this place, might be heard along the whole line
jof our gallant armies—for they have all shared
lin giving us this hour of thanksgiving—from the
Mississippi to the Susquehanna. Let them be
J assured that their valor is religiously honored,
and that it Avill be kept sacred in tho memory
and on the historic rolls of a saved people.
But while we may and do thus glory in these
unwonted triumphs, yet this strain of pure exul
tation may not be the most profitable for our
meditations here; at least, our oxultation must
be exalted above the low plane of a mere phys
ical triumph, above the battle-field of material
forces, into the region where the contending
hosts are not carnal but spiritual. We may re
joice ; but let us rejoice as those who may again
be callod to mourn. Let notour joy boyishly de- '
ceive us into any relaxation of effort or principle.
Let us not be deluded with the belief that the.
end is near at hand. God grant it may be ! But
let us not take the first streaking of the dawn for
the full sunny day. The clouds that just envel -
oped us have parted—light breaks through them
—we give thanks for that; but the sky is not yet
clear, nor the poison which God's laws are trying
to eliminate from our national atmosphere gone.
There may be another gathering of the tempest,
other clouds may have to break, other lightning
strokes may have to come, other humiliations
and disasters may be in store for us, other nights
of darkness to pass through, before the elements
of our national life are purified and " the sun of
righteousness shall arise with healing in his
wings" to give the light of perfect peace to the na
tion. Evil dies hard ;it cannot be thrust out of
a nation at once. This rebellion may give us
many a hard blow yet before it is finally con
quered. Ido not prophesy such. Let us, my
friends, make no prophecies either of disasters or
of triumphs ; then wo shall be dismayed by no
non-fulfillments ; but, believing in the justice of
our cause, and in its final triumph just so far, as
it adheres to justice, and hoping ever, let us gath
er new hope and faith and strength from these
unprecedented victories that have been given us
and, taking up again whatever burdens tlie cans-;
lays upon us, go forward with more vigorous res
olution and unflinching courage and manly fidel
ity to the end, whether it shall come soon or is
yet far off.
And again, and chiefly, Aye can but remember,
oven in the midst of our joy, by what price we
have purchased the right to rejoice ; we can but
remember by what sacrifices these triumphs have
been gained, by what a cross this crown of glory
has been bought for us. This hour of joy has
been purchased by the highest price that man
can give for any treasure—by our brothers' blood !
Some of the noblest lives that any nation ever
possessed were ofl'ered up on the fields of Gettys
burg ', and Vicksburg was not won till battle
and disease had claimed thousands of brave-hear
ted victims. There had been no place to pro
claim our victories had not these our hero-broth
ers given us their graves to stand upon. It is on
ly these mounds covering their valorous forms,
that lift us to-day out of the valley of humiliatio v
and defeat; it is only the flashing of the deadly
fires of battle that has made the light for which
we now give thanks; Aye can only unfurl our
flag, covered Avith glory to tho breeze, because it
has been baptized in the best blood of the land ;
and the triumphant paean that we sing, we.could
not sing, were ii not mingled Avith the cries of
anguish and tho wailings of desolated homes.
God has given us a victory, but it is such a vie
tory as comes only through the agonies of cruci
fixion ; Ho permits us to glory, but it is a glory
that comes through destruction.
Ido not say these things to sadden our joy. 1
would not turn the hour of victory into lament-
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More than 250 students from 12 high schools competed in Xtreme Challenge contests on the campus of Seward County Community College/Area Technical School Wednesday.
The fifth annual Xtreme Challenge increased the fields of competition from nine to 12, adding English, health information management, and trade and industrial education.
The top three winners in each of the 12 categories were announced at an awards assembly following the academic challenges. The winners were presented prizes such as digital cameras, iPod Shuffles, and Flip camcorders.
The college also presented three scholarships from a drawing to Rene Boaldin of Elkhart High School, Beth Glave of Rolla High School, and Amy Mikles of Turpin High School.
Original organizer and business division chair Marcia Hatcher said she was pleased to see additional schools attending Xtreme Challenge and feels Wednesday's numbers show the event has outgrown the theater. High schools new to the competition this year included Garden City and Booker, Texas. They joined Elkhart, Rolla, Liberal, Turpin, Tyrone, Forgan, Satanta, Sublette, Moscow and Bucklin.
Elkhart High School earned the Overall Award by having more students with points in the top three places of the contests than any other school in attendance.
Elkhart sponsor Terri Houtz said she was excited to win first place outright. Last year, they shared the title with Rolla High School. Houtz said the 51 Elkhart students present were headed to Baker Arts Center for a tour and then would be rewarded with a stop for some shopping afterward.
Elkhart student Lacy Bookstore said the activities at Xtreme Challenge were fun and exciting. "The time that was spent there was well worth it," she said. "I had a great time."
Houtz expressed her appreciation to SCCC/ATS for having Xtreme Challenge as an event for the high school students.
"We were very pleased with the categories," she said.
Those categories included accounting, business administrative technology, agriculture, art, computer information systems, cosmetology, criminal justice, English, health information management, journalism, marketing/management, and trade and industrial education.
SCCC/ATS English instructor Janice Northerns experienced her first year as a category coordinator, and offered both a fiction writing challenge in which students were to create an ending to a story and non-fiction writing challenge in which students wrote a personal essay.
"It went very well, and I was excited to see the quality of writing," Northerns said. "We got some excellent stories and essays."
More than 18 enrolled in each of the first year English competitions, while art instructor Susan Copas saw her fourth year contests grow to more than 30 for each competition.
"I am very pleased with the participation," Copas said.
Weather on Wednesday presented a mix of wind, rain, sleet and snow. Copas was afraid that would put a damper on the digital photography contest, which usually counts on outdoor photos. However, she said that she and the judges were pleasantly surprised with the creativeness of the photography entries.
"We were very impressed with the originality and the skill of the students," she said. "We had a lot of water photos from the rain."
Contest photo entries will be posted later on the art department's Facebook page at Visual Arts at SCCC/ATS. Xtreme Challenge photos taken by Crusader student journalists at the college are posted under the multimedia link on CrusaderNews.com. The top 10 students in each of the individual competitions will be posted at scccxtremechallenge.blogspot.com.
Bud Smithson, director of the Area Technical School, said he was impressed with the enthusiasm of the high school students to try things they were interested in. The technical school offered hands-on challenges from the transportation group in auto and diesel, the construction cluster challenges were in computer aided drafting and architecture, and the manufacturing challenge was in machine tool.
"We thoroughly enjoyed being involved in our first year with Xtreme Challenge," Smithson said. "We plan to expand and improve."
Travis Perkins, Elkhart, the first-place winner in the trade and industrial category, voiced his approval.
"The challenge gave me a chance to show people what I can do in automotive mechanics," he said. "I also was able to see the different programs the college has to offer."
The 2010 Xtreme Challenge chair and criminal justice instructor Cristy Mulanax said she led the event mostly by sitting back and watching it come together in the fifth year since the college started the activity.
"I had so much trust in my colleagues," she said. Each of the 12 areas that participate organizes its own competitions and prizes.
Business administrative technology instructor Gina Palmgren, who was the Xtreme Challenge co-chair this year, assisted Mulanax.
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Technote (troubleshooting)
Running rgy_backup command does not work without any errors on Microsoft Windows 2008 when using IBM Rational ClearCase.
The directory ccase-home-dir\var\rgy\backup on this host is expected to be filled, but it is empty.
Steps to reproduce:
- Follow the steps in Defining a Windows computer as a backup registry host.
- Run rgy_backup to back up the registry data from the primary registry host to the directory ccase-home-dir\var\rgy\backup, but it is empty.
- There is no output in the rgy_backup log.
Missing the Windows registry key RegBackup due to Windows Registry Virtualization (User Account Control).
For 32 bit OS:
For 64 bit OS:
Resolving the problem
Run the rgy_backup command as an Administrator.
- Open the ClearCase Control Panel by using Run as Administrator to update the Registry page.
- Run rgy_backup to back up the registry data from the primary registry host to the directory ccase-home-dir\var\rgy\backup on this host.
- Optional: Run cleartool getlog rgy_backup from the command line to show output in the rgy_backup log.
Example output:
Monday, March 25, 2013 2:07:59 AM. host "<< host name >>", pid <number>, user
"<user name>"
Registry backup started at yyyy-mm-ddThh:mm:ss
Registry backup finished at yyyy-mm-ddThh:mm:ss
Related information
Windows Registry Virtualization
User Account Control


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Women's Lacrosse Falls 14-4 To No. 15 Boston University
March 2, 2005
BOSTON - Freshman Kathleen Typadis (Medfield, Mass.) posted her second hat trick of the season but it was not enough as the No. 15 Boston University women's lacrosse team defeated the UMass Minutewomen 14-4 on a very cold Tuesday afternoon at Nickerson Field.
Angie Martin led all players with five points in the game scoring three goals and adding two assists. She was one of three Terriers to tally three scores as she was joined by Alyssa Trudel, a Tewaaraton Award watch list member, and Jenny Hauser.
Boston University (1-0) opened the scoring four minutes into the game when Hauser went in for the unassisted score. Martin and Lauren Mortin added goals and within the first 10 minutes of play the Terriers had a 3-0 lead.
Typadis answered for UMass (1-1) finding the back of the cage at the 19:37 mark, but the Terriers added two more goals in response to go up 5-1 with 13:16 in the half.
After being fouled inside the eight-meter zone, Typadis converted a free position shot to pull the Minutewomen within three, 5-2.
With 7:18 to play in the period, Typadis found junior Jackie Nesbitt (Springfield, Pa.) cutting towards the goal for the score to close the gap to 5-3, but Boston University tacked on its sixth goal with three seconds remaining as Morton took the pass from Mary Beth Miller for the score.
The Terriers outscored UMass 8-1 in the second half to close out their season-opening victory. The only UMass goal of the period was Typadis' third score of the game - sixth of the season - with 27 minutes to play.
Trudel scored three goals and Martin added two in the second half as Boston University was able to control possession by causing eight turnovers in the period (16 for the game).
Junior Lauren McCarthy (Derry, N.H.) made 12 saves in the cage and collected seven groundballs for the game. For the Terriers, Anne Sheridan posted six saves facing 13 shots.
Typadis' performance comes on the heels of earning Atlantic 10 Rookie of the Week honors for scoring three goals and posting an assist in the season-opener against Holy Cross (2/26).
The Minutewomen will return to action on Saturday, March 5 when they travel to Havard for a 4:00 p.m. start.
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Seward County Lady Saints sophomore 1st baseman Jill
Rodgers has been named the NJCAA National Player of the Week for her
performances in a 6-1 week for Seward. Rodgers, a Duncan, Oklahoma
native, hit .478 for the Lady Saints last week while hammering out 6
doubles, a home run, and 15 RBI's. Tuesday against Barton Rodgers was
unstoppable at the plate for Seward, going 3 for 4 with a double and 3
RBI's in game one before turning around and going 3 for 3 with a double,
a home run, and 6 RBI's in game two of the double header. On Thursday
against Otero Rodgers bounced back from a down game one to go 2 for 4
with a double and an RBI in the Lady Saints game two win. Saturday in
Seward's matchup with Trinidad State, she drove in a run in game one to
go along with a pair of walks and was 1 for 3 with a double and 2 RBI's
in game two of the Lady Saints sweep of the Lady Trojans. In her final
game of the week against #18 Western Nebraska, Rodgers was at the
forefront of Seward's 6-0 upset win over the Cougars as she went 2 for 4
with 2 doubles, 2 runs scored, and 2 RBI's for the Lady Saints. Rodgers
is currently hitting .355 on the season while leading the team in games
played (34), at bats (121), hits (43), doubles (15), and RBI's (41). (Roy Allen)
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Political Strategy Notes
For a striking visual representation of how geographically broad-based was the victory over union-bashing in Ohio, take a gander at the map in Dante Atkins's Daily Kos post "That's not 'overreach.' That's just the Republican Party."
Also at Kos, Chris Bowers reports on the Walker recall campaign, along with the effort to recall GOP Wisconsin state senators, as well as dirty tricks being used to obstruct the recall.
With just a few more states to go in the redistricting process, Stuart Rothenberg's Roll Call post "House Overview: What's In Play? Democrats Look to Take Back the Chamber in 2012" has an iffy prognosis for Dems. "At this point, with redistricting still up in the air in key states, Democrats appear positioned to gain House seats, but not all that close to the 25 seats they would need to regain a majority in the House...Democrats need some breaks in the final redistricting states, some additional recruits and almost certainly a shift in the national political environment to improve their chances of winning back the House."
Elizabeth Warren's first TV ad is out with a simple, direct populist message that ought to win some Bay State swing voters. ActBlue has raised over $2.5 million for her campaign from almost 60 thousand supporters.
Again at Kos, via Alternet, in his article, "10 Stories of People Moving Their Money, Despite Banks" Efforts to Stop Them," Markos Moulitsas succinctly debunks the myth that banks really welcome the withdrawal campaigns because it relieves them of the administrative costs associated with smaller depositors. Says Kos, "...Not only do they relentlessly advertise for new business on billboards, TV, direct mail and other places, but they fight tooth and nail to prevent people from closing their accounts." Kos could have also mentioned that megabanks have bent over backward to persuade migrant workers to become depositors, despite their very modest average balances.
Did you know that a third of 18 year-olds have no driver's license? Further, "18 percent of Americans over the age of 65, one- quarter of African-Americans, and 15 percent of low-income voters do not have a photo ID." These and other facts bearing on voter suppression can be found in "Protecting The Right To Vote: Testimony for the Committee on the Judiciary" submitted by Demos.
Voter suppression is critical for Republican success in the southern states, where the African American and Latino populations are growing fastest. The Economist doesn't take voter suppression into consideration in "The politics of the South: Hunting for votes," but the overview of Democratic prospects in the region in light of recent elections is discouraging, with some exceptions. Still, as The Economist warns, President Obama "will struggle to keep his job next year unless he can win at least one of the three southern states he carried in 2008: Florida, North Carolina and Virginia." Without addressing the topic directly, the article lends support to the argument that the Obama campaign may now have better prospects in the Rust Belt.
Speaking of Democratic ineptitude in the south, Ashton Pittman, progressive columnist for "The Student Printz," serving southern Mississippi, has a revealing column explaining why "Democrats Can Only Blame Themselves" in the magnolia State. Pittman explains: "For the first time since Reconstruction, Republicans are likely to hold the majority in the Mississippi House of Representatives. In an election that saw progressive victories all across the country, including a major one right here in Mississippi, the Democratic party in Mississippi has only itself to blame..Things were so bad for the Democratic party that it wasn't even able to field candidates for lieutenant governor, secretary of state, or auditor." But it's the whys of it that makes Pittman's column a good read for Dems who want to do better in the deep south, where highly favorable demographic trends are in motion.
Danielle Kurtzleben of U.S. News Politics has a fun featurette, "The 10 Most Unionized U.S. Cities." Hint: If you guessed Frisco and Vegas like I did, you would be wrong. Interesting, though, that all but two of the top ten are in CA or NY.
Ezra Klein has a stinging critique of "The Democrats' Peculiar Negotiating Strategy" up at his WaPo wonkblog. After citing a depressing litany of right turns and cave-ins in the negotiating process, Klein concludes, "So far, Republicans have not said yes to any of the deals the Democrats have offered. They continue to assume a better deal is just around the corner, and thus far, they have been right."
Also at The Post, Eugene Robinson makes a persuasive case that "Republicans aren't closing the deal with voters." Says Robinson: "The Republican field has utterly failed to develop a convincing narrative about the economy. The candidates act as if widespread disappointment with the performance of Obama and the Democrats will be enough to win the election. But voters are being given every reason to suspect that GOP policies will make things worse."


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The incredible true story of Pinchas Tibor Rosenbaum rates, unfortunately, as a footnote in history despite his remarkable achievements. During WWII, Rosenbaum risked his life in the face of terrible evil, to save the lives of others by impersonating a Nazi officer. In many ways, Rosenbaum's willingness to put himself in harm's way will remind audiences of Schindler's List, but as the harrowing film Walking with the Enemy shows, the danger he faced was even greater.
Directed with big budget panache by Mark Schmidt, Walking with the Enemy does justice to a tale that demands to be told, even as the story struggles to get off the starting blocks. Rising star Jonas Armstrong, who some may recognize from BBC's Robin Hood series, plays Elek Cohen (a Rosenbuam analogue, basically), a Hungarian Jew who stood against the Nazi invasion of Hungary in 1944. Initially captured and sent to a labor camp with his family, the hot-headed Elek escapes, only to return to discover everyone he knew is gone or dead. It's then that he makes the decision to rebel, joining a group that offers government protection certificates to Jews that we know the Nazis won't honor, but are all the people have to comfort them. Elek also finds love with Hannah (the excellent Hannah Toiten), who aids in the burgeoning rebellion.
It's while distributing these certificates that Elek begins to cross paths with leaders in the Nazi regime, ultimately acquiring an S.S. uniform and using the power it gives him to wage war from the inside. Using his newfound authority, Elek brazenly confronts Nazi soldiers who are rounding up and killing Jews. While some of these situations border on the hysterically preposterous, such as his frequent run-ins with an especially brutal officer, there's nevertheless a great deal of tension when he's undercover. The ever-present threat gets worse as Elek is forced to make increasingly questionable ethical choices, often choosing between blowing his cover and the rescue of innocents. As the war begins to wind down and the Nazis grow more violent in their desperation, Elek finds it difficult to maintain his sanity with chaos erupting everywhere.
Armstrong, who has a role opposite Tom Cruise in Edge of Tomorrow coming up, captures Elek's determination and growing paranoia. He also finds good chemistry with Toiten in the few quiet scenes the two get to share. However, Kenny Golde's script spends too much time on subplots that may be interesting to read about, but don't necessarily make for an entertaining film. Proving that he can't say no to any role, Ben Kingsley turns up as Hungarian regent Miklos Horthy, who tried and failed to negotiate an armistice with the Soviet Union. Kingsley's veteran presence is a nice touch, but those scenes hold little value to Elek's story which is compelling, morally complex, and worthy of our complete attention.
For more on Walking with the Enemy, check out my review with star Jonas Armstrong by going here.


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Small business owners are adding up financial costs within the business from equipment to daily operations to paper material and every penny is becoming quite costly during this economy due to the multiple changes taking effect. It began with a recession that never improved then Obama Care entered the picture and costs are continuously adding up every year. Business owners are quite concerned as nothing is allowing them to improve nor hire the unemployed so they can make an attempt at gaining a financial profit or better yet breaking even. So who is to blame for this unemployment; is it Congress, is it ObamaCare or the combination of both?
When small businesses don't hire it effects more than economy
At this point in time there is approximately a 16% rate of unemployment in the United States and there is a constant domino effect or chain reaction taking place with small businesses closing their doors due to this economy downfall. Small business owners are no longer hiring due to fines from the ObamaCare law. This inability to hire effects all job seekers because they are the persons who are in need of an income to pay their monthly bills and feed their families. So the question arises why does the President of the United States not see what ObamaCare is doing; why is it that Congress cannot see what is happening. Better yet, when will this crisis be resolved and when will small business owners have the ability once again to hire personnel and lower the unemployment number?


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Senior Toni Paisley ended her career Sunday with a 1-0 loss against Baylor.
May 22, 2011
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COLLEGE PARK, Md. - A double off the wall in left field by Holly Holl in the top of the sixth inning drove in Megan Turk and provided the game's only run as Baylor edged past East Carolina 1-0 Sunday to advance to the NCAA Super Regionals. The Bears' Whitney Canion allowed just one hit to ECU, a single by freshman Mahrisch Medina in the bottom of the seventh, and walked five in the shutout victory.
Despite the loss, the Pirates finished the season with a 41-22 record, reaching the 40-win plateau with for the third-straight season. ECU became the first C-USA program with three consecutive campaigns of 40 wins or more since Houston from 2006-08 and only the fourth in the history of the league (USF/2003-05; DePaul/2000-03). Back-to-back regional final appearances also made East Carolina one of only two C-USA schools (Houston/2007-08) to play on the final day of the regional two-straight years since the tournament went to the regional-super regional-Women's College World Series format in 2005. The Pirates enjoyed these accomplishments with 10 freshmen on the roster, eight of whom started in Sunday's regional final against Baylor.
Senior Toni Paisley (32-13) took the loss after scattering five hits and striking out seven. She walked two in the complete-game effort. Paisley finished her career as the Conference USA career record holder in wins (118), strikeouts (1,290), innings pitched (1,088.0) and appearances (183). Her final record sits at 118-39, a .752 winning percentage. She also finished fifth in C-USA history with a 1.22 earned run average. The Lakewood, Calif., native ended her career with the 18th most victories and 17th most whiffs in NCAA Division I history. Canion (27-9) struck out six in the blanking.
Baylor (43-12) threatened in the first, but was held off the board. Kathy Shelton led off with an infield single as she beat out a roller toward third base. A sacrifice bunt by Kayce Walker advanced Shelton to second. Turk followed with another sacrifice bunt that moved Shelton to third with two outs. Paisley retired Dani Leal on a pop out to freshman Chelsea Kaluhiokalani-Glackin at shortstop to end the threat.
Neither team had another base runner until the top of the third, when the Bears mounted a two-out threat. After a pair of strikeouts looking, Shelton singled to right field and Walker was hit by a pitch. Turk swung at the first pitch and grounded out to Kaluhiokalani-Glackin for the final out.
Following the defensive hold, the Pirates tallied their first base runner and scoring threat in the bottom of the frame. Freshman Rebecca Lee led off with a walk and moved to second on a sacrifice bunt by Medina. A strikeout and groundout, however, left Lee on the bag.
ECU put its leadoff batter on again in the bottom of the fourth as freshman Kristi Oshiro drew a walk. A strikeout looking, fly out and strikeout swinging ended the frame.
The Bears mounted another threat in the top of the fifth but were held off. With one out, Clare Hosack walked and was replaced by pinch runner Makenzie Robertson. Robertson stole second base before KJ Freeland popped out to Kaluhiokalani-Glackin for the second out. Shelton followed with a hard grounder to Kaluhiokalani-Glackin, who could not field it cleanly, putting runners on first and second with two outs. An infield pop out by Walker got the Pirates out of trouble.
In the bottom of the fifth, the Pirates had another runner on second but failed to push her home. Freshman Alex Fieldhouse led off with a walk and was replaced by pinch runner Abby Wynne. A sacrifice bunt by Lee advanced to Wynne to second before a walk to Medina put runners on first and second with one out. Canion struck out senior pinch hitter Sissy Jimenez and retired freshman Jill Jelnick at first on a groundout to keep the Pirates off the board.
Baylor broke through in the top of the sixth for a 1-0 lead. Turk started the frame with a single to center field and moved to second on a sacrifice bunt by Leal. After striking out twice earlier in the game, Holl came through with a double off the wall in left field to drive in Turk. A pop out and groundout closed the inning.
The Bears threated with two outs in the seventh as Shelton walked and Walker singled to right to move Shelton to third. Paisley ended her career striking out Turk swinging for the final out of the frame.
Canion sent down the Pirates in order in the sixth and retired the first two in the seventh before a walk to Lee. Medina followed with ECU's lone hit of the game, a single into left field. Sophomore Cicely Lopez entered to pinch hit and grounded out to Canion in the circle to end the contest.


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text: Farncombe Farm (9 reviews) from £15.00 to £18.00 Family + unit Contact Us Images Map Select Section Overview This is a Certificated Site (CS). These select sites are small, privately run campsites that operates under the Club's jurisdiction and can only accommodate up to 5 caravans or motorhomes and up to 10 trailer tents or tents, unless express permission has been given by the Club to accommodate more. They range from secluded Hideaways to fully facilitated family friendly sites, and are often found in locations where larger commercial sites are prohibited so you could be camping close to a beach or in the National Park, for example. Site Details Big Sites Book Reference: 174/043 This site was last visited by a Site Officer in 2015. 2 acres, part sloping. Directions Directions to this site are available to members when logged in. Facilities Farncombe Farm has the following facilities on or around the site. Touring Caravans Trailer Tents Grass pitch with electric hook-up A well-sheltered site Showers Electric shaver sockets Ice pack freezing Designated dog walk Top site for families Public transport within 1 mile Motorhomes Tents Grass only pitch (no electric) Flushing toilet Washbasins Chemical toilet disposal point Pets welcome Electric hook-up Grass only pitch for larger tents Reviews Review 1 |2 |3 |Next » Expand review Recommended: yes 5 Fantastic site would recommend to everyone. Louise moore (Club Member) stayed Mar 2016 This review is for Farncombe Farm Fantastic site would recommend to everyone. Very friendly owners and facilities clean and spacious. We have a 2 year old and he loved it. Plenty of space to run around and the site well away from the road. The owner is very nice and in the toilet/show block you have an Info section telling you about the local area. Towing: Easy Location: Country Suitable For: Families,Older couples,Peaceful break,Younger couples Friendliness: 5 Cleanliness: 5 Facilities: 5 Expand review Recommended: yes 4.3 Very friendly welcome. Lovely view, very quiet. Mrs M (Club Member) stayed May 2015 This review is for Farncombe Farm Very friendly welcome. Lovely view, very quiet. We were certainly made very welcome at this site which is nestled into the downs. Lots of wild life around. Much of the site slopes so it's a good idea to take ramps, but the owners are extremely helpful when it comes to parking up and can provide chocks. Towing: Easy Location: Country Suitable For: Families,Older couples,Groups,Active break,Peaceful break,Younger couples Friendliness: 5 Cleanliness: 5 Facilities: 3 Expand review Recommended: yes 4.3 A very quiet site (just us and one other unit for our weekend stay). MikeH (Club Member) stayed Oct 2013 This review is for Farncombe Farm A very quiet site (just us and one other unit for our weekend stay). Pitch is sloping, but site owners have provided blocks in case your own are not enough. Very sheltered (we had quite a storm, but the bowl of the hill protected us from the SW wind) and although no hard standing, the grass remained firm after heavy rain such that our van left no marks. Single toilet and shower is limited, but there was nevwer anyone else there when I wanted it, so quite sufficient. Lovely walking in the locality, plus Ashdown House (National Trust) and the GWR Centre (designer shopping) just 10 miles away at Swindon. We will be back. Towing: Easy Location: Country Suitable For: Older couples,Peaceful break Friendliness: 4 Cleanliness: 5 Facilities: 4 Expand review Recommended: yes 4.3 We found the site access easy but the actual field is quite steep in places, we had no packing... Alan Smith (Club Member) stayed Oct 2013 This review is for Farncombe Farm We found the site access easy but the actual field is quite steep in places, we had no packing blocks, however the Wardens provided a pile of timbers to help us set up the van onto a level keel. Surprisingly there are several TV arials located on the site with extension leads provided, but if you park on the lower slope a further extension of your own would be required. We found the toilet block adequate and clean, but as others have said, a split between shower and toilet would be helpful. As a bonus the site is a working farm that sells beef which is farmed and processed on site and at very reasonable prices too. The location is great for exploring, we had a good week in the area. With reasonably close access to the motorway network and the major trunk roads I found the few miles on B roads to reach the site to be an easy tow from the motorway. This was only our 4th site so we are still novices but very happy with the location and access route. Recommended site. Plenty of walking around, get up early and watch the racehorses going through the gallops. We also saw lots of Red Kites flying in the area. Towing: Easy Location: Country,Secluded Suitable For: Peaceful break Friendliness: 5 Cleanliness: 4 Facilities: 4 1 |2 |3 |Next » Pricing The fees for Farncombe Farm were last updated in 2014.The following fees are just given as a guide, so please always check with the site.The fee for staying on site for one night is :£15.00 - £16.00 for 2 Adults, 2 Children plus 1 Unit £17.00 - £18.00 for 2 Adults, 2 Children, 1 Unit including Hook-up * Please note the site open dates are 01 January 2016 - 31 December 2016


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John Cena recently participated in an interview on Mix106.1 in Philadelphia and discussed the current WWE Title design, his influences, future stars in the company, which Superstar he'd like a match with in any era (besides The Rock), and more.
Cena says that the current "Spinner" WWE Title design is the most requested and sold belt in WWE history, but also has the following to say:
"Being the guy who truly invented it, it needs to change. It has been the way it's been for years now. It's had it's run. It doesn't even spin anymore. It's heavy. It's awkward. It really is. An average championship belt weighs about 12 pounds. The current WWE spinning championship weighs 27 pounds. So we need a rehash. I'm proactively trying to do that, but I've only got so much stroke, guys. I can't do everything."
Cena also praises upcoming talent such as Seth Rollins, Dolph Ziggler, Zack Ryder, and Cody Rhodes as future stars. When asked which wrestler from any era he'd like to face, he chose "Stone Cold" Steve Austin and said that he believes he has one more match in him, and says although CM Punk wants that match, he'd like to throw his name in the hat as well.
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The Timber's supported Olympic Development Program (ODP) is fed by six RTC teams from all over the state of Oregon and 13-year old Sean Colbert, 11-year old Izaiha Bruce and 11-year old Luke Beaman were selected to play on the team.
The teams are selected based on the birth year of the athletes with two teams formed this year; the 1999 team and the 2000/2001 team.
"This is the first year that they allowed the U12's – that's what Luke and Izaiha are in the local rec league – to try out for the ODP team," Luke's mom Cindi Beaman said. "Only two from the younger group made it, Luke and Izaiha."
Luke made it clear just how tough the tryouts for his age group were.
"All the kids who tried out were really big," he said. "They were bigger than my mom."
While the competition was fierce, the coaching staff involved with the ODP were fair in their assessment.
"We were worried that there would be some bias because all the coaches are coaches for regular teams in the area," Cindi said. "But they were really fair and saw the talent in all three of these kids and put them on the team."
Beginning October 10th, the three soccer players will travel to Medford every two weeks through December. At the end of the training period players will have a chance to qualify for the ODP tournament team that will compete in the greater Portland area.
"Soccer has always been my dream, I've been playing since I was seven and I've always wanted to go pro," Colbert said. "This is just one step closer to my career."
Bruce was confident in his chances to make it to the next level of competition.
"I'm happy about making this team," he said, "but I want to make it to the next level."
The three have plans to carpool to training to help alleviate costs and are looking forward to the opportunity.
"It will be challenging and exciting," Luke said. "We'll get more training time so we can get better."


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When you are in a relationship, there are many factors that come into play such as past relationships, good or bad. When you have experienced such things in a former relationship as mistrust, lies or cheating, these are things that are difficult to leave behind. If you do not heal yourself of the effects that these things can leave then you will take them into your next relationship.
Have you ever been sitting around with your new boyfriend or girlfriend and their phone rang, they didn't pick up and instantly your mind thought they are not answering because it's probably another woman or man calling? If so, you are not alone.
The reason things like this happen is NOT because of simple jealousy, it is actually caused from a hormone within the brain called "noradrenaline, also called trihydroxy phenethylamine and is a catecholamine with multiple roles including those as a hormone and a neurotransmitter. When you experience an event that in the past made you angry, upset, scared and ended up ending your relationship, this hormone kicks in and reminds us "this happened before". It is like being in a time machine and transports your brain right back to the moment that issue occured.
If this is happening to you in your new relationship, maybe it's time to take a look within yourself first and then have a honest talk with your new partner to explain this to them and explain your past relationship issues and why you act the way you do when something happens that was similar to your old relationship.
This will also open up the lines of communication and honest and start a solid foundation for your current relationship.
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Lake Gordonsville (Bowler's Mill) - Fishing Opportunities
Historically, the fishery in Lake Gordonsville has consisted of the traditional selection of largemouth bass, bluegill, redear sunfish, crappie, and channel catfish. In recent years, the bass population has improved and is now as good as ever. Recent samples yielded bass up to 23 inches, and more than 10% of the bass collected exceeded 20 inches in length. Abundant weed beds along the shoreline during late-spring, summer, and early fall provide a great place for anglers to target bass. The bluegill population is usually difficult to survey due to the abundance of this vegetation. But, some bluegill in our collections exceeded 8 inches in length. A few redear sunfish in the 8-inch range were collected too. Crappie are typically abundant, and though you won't catch many trophies, there is a plentiful supply of eating-size fish. Channel catfish, which do not generally reproduce well in small lakes such as this, are stocked annually to maintain a healthy fishery. This is a very popular place to fish on weekends during the peak of fishing season, so you may want to try it on a weekday if you can.


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I will stand for 't a little, though therefore I die a virgin.
There's little can be said in 't; 'tis against the rule of nature. To speak on the part of virginity, is to accuse your mothers; which is most infallible disobedience. He that hangs himself is a virgin: virginity murders itself and should be buried in highways out of all sanctified limit, as a desperate offendress against nature. Virginity breeds mites, much like a cheese; consumes itself to the very paring, and so dies with feeding his own stomach. Besides, virginity is peevish, proud, idle, made of self-love, which is the most inhibited sin in the canon. Keep it not; you cannot choose but loose by't: out with 't! within ten year it will make itself ten, which is a goodly increase; and the principal itself not much the worse: away with 't!
I cannot love her, nor will strive to do't.
Thou wrong'st thyself, if thou shouldst strive to choose.
That you are well restored, my lord, I'm glad:
Let the rest go.
My honour's at the stake; which to defeat,
I must produce my power. Here, take her hand,
Proud scornful boy, unworthy this good gift;
That dost in vile misprision shackle up
My love and her desert; that canst not dream,
We, poising us in her defective scale,
Shall weigh thee to the beam; that wilt not know,
It is in us to plant thine honour where
We please to have it grow. Cheque thy contempt:
Obey our will, which travails in thy good:
Believe not thy disdain, but presently
Do thine own fortunes that obedient right
Which both thy duty owes and our power claims;
Or I will throw thee from my care for ever
Into the staggers and the careless lapse
Of youth and ignorance; both my revenge and hate
Loosing upon thee, in the name of justice,
Without all terms of pity. Speak; thine answer.


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This 1/8" thick steel plate with an iron recessed D-Ring can withstand loads up to 2,000 lbs. Recessed D-Ring requires a 3-5/8" diameter hole with 7/8" clearance below surface. Mount recessed D-Ring with 3/8"-16x2-1/4" carriage bolts. Measures 4-7/8"Hx4-1/2"W. Inside dimensions of 1/2" ring are 1-3/8"Hx1-1/2"W. Kit includes recessed rope ring, galvanzied back support plate, carriage bolts and locknuts. USA made.
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Two scoops have come in on two anticipated projects which look like they are finally going into development at last:
Producer Mario Kassar recently spoke to a Lebanese film magazine regarding production for Terminator 4 and TheArnoldFans transcribed a copy of the key elements of the article:
"T4 is in the works. The screenplay will be ready in 8 or 9 months. Once we have that, we will proceed with the production. The question that has never been answered in all the Terminator films is time travel. You can come from the future to change the present. But we never see how they go back to the future, which is a subject that can be explored. I think you already know where T4 is going from the ending of T3".
Meanwhile FilmJerk has learned from its sources that James Redfield's "The Celestine Prophecy", a novel that spent more than three years on the New York Times' bestseller list, has gained financing from Barnet Bain Films and is now looking to cast its lead actors for a late March principal photography start.
Location wise things will be shot in Los Angeles and Ocala, FL. Armand Mastroianni, a veteran of television movies and series, has been tapped as the director. 'Celestine' has sold nearly 12 million copies in print in more than 40 languages worldwide.
Thanks to 'Chris', 'B. Payne' & 'ABKing'.


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After his 2010 breakthrough album The Reluctant Graveyard, Minneapolis-based singer-songwriter Jeremy Messersmith is back with a new album, Heart Murmurs, due out this Tuesday, February 4th. This marks his first release on Glassnote Records, home to artists such as Childish Gambino, Chvrches, Mumford and Sons, and Phoenix.
Unlike Messersmith's past albums that explored themes of growing up, grief and death, Heart Murmurs is a collection of love songs. "The new record is all songs about love," Jeremy has said. "I've been sort of baffled for awhile, like, wait a second, what is that exactly? I'm still really confused by it."
The first single, "Tourniquet," dropped back in November and received great praise. Stephen Thompson of NPR raved about it saying, "He's relentlessly committed to making these rich, lush, pretty pop songs and he does it incredibly well…" Time Magazine featured Jeremy as one of 14 Artists to Watch in 2014. Just last week, NPR gave Heart Murmurs a First Listen, and Rolling Stone premiered the video for his newest single, "Ghost".
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'Two and a Half Men' With Ashton Kutcher: Is Charlie Harper Really Dead?
The long-awaited season premiere of "Two and a Half Men" began with a funeral for Charlie Sheen's character. But is he dead forever?
Sheen was famously fired from his job on the hit sitcom after a public dispute with his bosses, who hired Ashton Kutcher to join the show. Sheen's character Charlie Harper returned last night as ashes in a urn. Kutcher made a grand entrance peering through the dust as Sheen's ashes were inadvertently scattered around a room.
But the writers left plenty of room to bring Sheen back. Only one unstable, unreliable character with an axe to grind saw his purported death. His funeral was held with a closed casket; a character says that his body exploded when it was hit by a train.
On sci-fi shows and soap operas, characters are routinely brought back from the dead, and viewers have to accept fantastical explanations for their return. In the case of "Two and a Half Men," writers could easily bring Sheen's character back at some future date without violating the boundaries of the show's sitcom universe.
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In our today's post we have collected "18 Free PSD Email Newsletter Templates For Download" nowadays in the world of business there are a lot of spaces where the communication is done exclusively through emails so an email template means uniqueness, perfection and shows your organization's integrity. Email Newsletters are direct emails sent out on a regular basis to a list of subscribers, customers. The primary purpose of an email newsletter is to build upon the relationship of the company with their customers/subscribers and we can also say that email newsletters are an important marketing and communications tool for businesses.


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Let $M$ be a finitely generated module over a polynomial ring $R$ over a field $k$. Let $F_{\bullet}$ be a minimal free resolution of $M$ : $$0\longrightarrow F_p \longrightarrow ....\longrightarrow F_1 \longrightarrow F_0\longrightarrow M$$
In one paper of M.Chardin, he claimed that the maps of $F_{\bullet}\otimes_{R}k$ being zero maps, $\text{Tor}_{i}(M,k)=H_{i}(F_{\bullet}\otimes k)=F_{i}\otimes k$. This claim also appears in the book "The Geometry of Syzygy" of D.Eisenbud, in the proof of proposition 1.7 on page 7.
My question is :
- Why the maps of $F_{\bullet}\otimes_{R}k$ being zero maps if $F_{\bullet}$ is a minimal free resolution
- Why $\text{Tor}_{i}(M,k)=F_{i}\otimes k$


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The Internet is a new duo featuring Syd The Kyd and Matt Martians that is soon set to release their debut album Purple Naked Ladies on December 20th on Odd Future Records. Little Dragon has gone and sprinkled a little magic on their "Cocaine" single to create the Little Dragon Kåkejn Remix. Catch the jingly remix below and trip out to the lusty video for the original track above. Finally, find the tracklisting for the upcoming project afterwards.
2. They Say/Shangrila (ft. Tay Walker)
3. She Dgaf
4. C*nt
5. Cocaine/Tevie (ft. Left Brain)
6. Ode to a Dream (ft Kilo Kish & Coco O.)
7. Gurl (ft. Pyramid Vritra).
8. Love Song -1
9. Lincoln (ft. Mike G & Left Brain)
10. Web of Me
11. She Knows
12. Fastlane
13. Visions (ft. Coco O.)
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Could be something interesting coming for us PS3 owners. A program written by mathieulh has been released by a rogue developer.
In a nutshell, this should allow someone to get the Metldr key, which from what I understand, is what GeoHot never released.
Source: PS3Homebrew
I'm actually fairly saddened by this. Math (whatever his ego) is an extremely talented hacker and someone seems to have leaked the work without his consent. Then again I've been noticing that the PS3 scene seems to be particularly political, bitchy and driven by a really weird mix of competition and one-upmanship.
I suppose it all boils down to piracy, some people want to play with their tech, understand it and make it do interesting stuff while others - an increasing majority it seems these days - are simply concerned about video tutorials telling them how to let them download play free games.
Sad times
Sad but then again what did you expect. This isn't exactly something civil and legal to begin with. He is very good at what he does, you cannot trust anyone especially in scenes. I bet sony is "lol" how do you like it when your stuff is leaked. karma...
yea but honestly i buy more games because of piracy. Piracy exposes me to games that I never would of even tried. I end up liking them a lot so I buy them. If it wasn't for piracy game developers would make less money off me.
I always thought the idea of forums like this was to enable people to learn, it just seems that as methods of "unlocking" consoles have become more mainstream that there's less interest in learning and more demand for ever easier ways of bypassing security. The problem with this is - to quote a user on another forum I frequent - "design a foolproof method and someone will design a better fool".
In fairness this particular forum is pretty good, the signal to noise ratio is fair and the regulars are a decent crowd. Guess I'm just bitter and cynical
very old news !!! certainly not n00b friendly. my ps3 is a coaster by the way .... " the piracy issue" i have 5 members in my family and we all like the same artist does this means i have to buy the same cd 5 times? HELL NO we're gonna share it.am I a pirate? its up to you! sharing is caring
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you dont get the point! but here it is .The BIG corporations and their minions consider the regular consumer a pirate if they share or just simply back up their license content with anybody even my own household . here's an example i bought a computer from a big corporation with bluray burner included i know there's software out there to make my self a back up of my efing licensed product. there IM an Efing pirate. so all these spoiled kids saying i buy more beacuse being xposed to piracy adds fuel to these corporations going after hard earned folks that like to back up their investements...... so i have 3 kids they like the same singer does this mean i have to make 3 purchases of the same cd? thats what the big corporations are saying.... Aholes
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By Kelly Mason
Feb. 25, 2012
FRESNO, Calif. - In the first away competition of the season the Bulldogs gave Baylor a tough ride, but fell just short to the Bears (8-9) Saturday after a tight competition.
In the two English events the Bulldogs came in two points short in the raw score recording a 722 to Baylor's 724. Fresno State claimed four points in the English arena. In Equitation on the Flat Lanie Madrazo (81) and Macy Wilson (71) each won their points. In Equitation over Fences Hillary West (83) won the MVP and Kara Spicer (71) won her point as well.
"Traveling competitions are difficult because you ride horses you don't know in a competition arena you are unfamiliar with," said head English coach Julia Scrivani. "Although it was difficult our team gave Baylor a fight, we fought all the way to the end. I think the raw score reflects how hard we fought, I was very happy with our performance today."
In the Western events, Fresno State won 4-3. The 'Dogs won the raw score too, 686.5 to Baylor's 630. In Horsemanship Lauren Crivelli (73.5) and Christa Beezley (70) each earned their point. In Reining Crivelli (66) won her second point of the day, and Ciara Kozlowski (68.5) won her point as well. Sydney Coletti (69) tied her opponent.
"Traveling always presents challenges, however our ladies gave Baylor great competition today," said head Western coach Stephanie Reeves. "We had the additional challenge of facing a team who was able to ride in a competition before us since we competed against Baylor on neutral ground at Georgia. Overall, today was a great success as our ladies rode well and displayed great sportsmanship. We look forward to riding against Georgia tomorrow."
The Bulldogs face the University of Georgia tomorrow morning starting at 9 a.m. to conclude their weekend of competition in the south.
"We Are Your Team!"- Follow Fresno State Athletics on Twitter (@FSAthletics) or "like" them on Facebook.
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Alexa Aguilar predicted in a Chicago Tribune special report that the director of the Geneva Public Library, Matt Teske, would announce his resignation at a special meeting of the Geneva Public Library District's Board of Trustees on Wednesday, January 22, 2014. Teske joined the staff of the Geneva Public Library in 2006 as assistant director and was promoted to director in 2008.
Citing privacy laws, Board President Esther Steel declined to explain why Teske was offering to resign, but Ms. Aguilar noted "He took an extended personal leave late last year, and the board began discussing the library's leadership in the weeks after his return, said board president Esther Steel."
Ms. Aguilar wrote, "Steel also said that Teske had excellent reviews during his tenure as director, and that 'I believe the board has a lot of faith in Matt. Logically, if we didn't, we wouldn't be voting on appointing him assistant director.'" Last November, Ms. Aguilar wrote a story about Teske's list of proposals to renovate the Geneva Public Library, such as enlarging the entrance, after the Board of Trustees decided not to follow through with a 2010 plan to erect a new library on the site of the old Cetron factory.
The agenda Ms. Aguilar saw indicated that after the Board of Trustees voted to accept Teske's resignation, they would re-appoint him to his old post of assistant director, effective in June, when the person who currently holds that post, Peggy Carlson, is scheduled to retire. A management consultant, Marilyn Boria, would be promoted to interim director.
In an earlier article in January, Ms. Aguilar observed that only one member of the Board of Trustees voted against hiring Ms. Boria as a consultant, Susan Shivers, and Ms. Shivers argued that the taxpayers should not have to pay for both Teske's salary and the fees of a consultant, but should instead hire Ms. Boria as interim director. "Why pay someone part-time to tell us what we already know," she said.
Ms. Boria retired as director of the Elmhurst Public Library in July of 2011 after twenty-seven years of service. During her tenure at the Elmhurst Public Library, the organization moved from the Wilder Mansion to the new facility, as recounted by Dave Mathews in 2010.
A month after she retired, she was hired by the Sugar Grove Public Library's Board of Trustees as interim director, a job that lasted nine months. In August of 2012, she was hired as interim director of the Carol Stream Public Library on a part-time basis, as Christopher Placek recounted in the Daily Herald.
In both cases, she replaced, on a temporary basis, women who were fired. Keith Beebe reported for the Elburn Herald that in the case of Sugar Grove, Ms. Boria voluntarily took a pay cut on October 13, 2011 before the Board of Trustees voted in favor of mediation with former Director Beverly Holmes Hughes. "[Board Secretary Bill] Durrenberger...announced that interim Library Director Marilyn Boria had voluntarily reduced her hourly pay from $72 to $50 in order to put in more hours for the library and help protect library staff from cutbacks."
In mid-January, the Board of Trustees of the Geneva Public Library District voted to hire Ms. Boria as a management consultant who would work part-time at a rate of $60 per hour. A review of the Geneva Public Library District's Staff Directory shows that Marilyn Boria is Interim Director, Matt Teske is Assistant Director, and Peggy Carlson is Assistant Director. The agenda for the special board meeting on February 27, 2014 states that a search for the next director is underway.
Incidentally, the Geneva Public Library is having its annual magazine sale. It began on Monday, February 17, 2014 and runs until they are all sold. The magazines are sold in bundles by title for $1 per bundle and are available in the lobby by the main entrance.
The Geneva Public Library District states, "Each bundle is sold 'as is' and does not necessarily contain a full year due to damaged or lost issues. New titles are added to the table daily and are available on a first come, first serve basis. Unfortunately, we cannot predict when certain titles will be available nor can we hold bundles for you. Magazine bundles that do not sell will be recycled or donated."


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Page 1 of 2For centuries, we have used what goes on in the bedroom (or outside of it if we're freaky) to help determine who we are. Sexuality and masculinity have forever been intertwined, like Paris Hilton and sex tapes, professional athletes and affairs, and Britney Spears and mediocre comebacks. It's not only how often we have sex that matters, but how we have sex that helps define our manhood. Some men like it fast and hard, while others like it slow and soft. Some men like it dangling from the ceiling while hooked to eight-inch chains, while others like it in the depths of the pacific ocean (mermaid fetishes are so in right now). Others prefer it the old-fashioned way: Strapped to the hood of a Formula 1 car traveling at full speed. Regardless of our personal preference, the way we have sex does more than determine the time it takes for us to get off; it determines who we are as men. Here's what your sex position says about you.
Doggy StyleYou have a real disdain toward women, and you try and degrade them any chance you get. This stems from deep insecurities rooted in the many rejections you suffered in high school, mostly due to your overwhelming acne and your complete inability to express yourself through fashion. Now that your face has cleared up and you've read a couple of AskMen fashion articles, girls actually want to have sex with you (after a few martinis) — and this is your chance for payback. Doggy style is the best way for you to completely demean your partner by implementing any one of the following: the Donkey Punch, the Ram, the Bucking Bronco, and your all-time favorite, the Dirty Sanchez.
MissionaryYou're someone who doesn't like to take chances and prefers playing by the rules. That's why instead of pursuing your childhood dream of becoming a trapeze artist, you've been working at the same truck-rental company since college. Luckily for you, your boss' daughter doesn't love you for your spontaneity in the bedroom. She loves you because you always speak in a monotone, only ever order chicken at restaurants and still find Jeff Foxworthy hilarious. Besides, whenever she craves sexual enlightenment, she calls your brother, the trapeze artist.
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Dwyane Wade postgame video after Miami Heat win at Dallas
Dwyane Wade was asked several times after Sunday's 105-94 win at Dallas how this season compares to last year in terms of attention/pressure/demands placed on the Miami Heat.
"It's calmer," Wade said. "I don't know how long you guys could keep that up anyway."
Wade laughed.
"There's other great teams in the league, other great players in the league," he continued. "I'm glad those teams are getting their due and getting talked about. Last year Dallas won a championship, and there wasn't' a lot of talk about them winning it. Give them the credit. They beat us. They were the better team. It was moreso about the Heat.
"We've been enjoying this. We're not flying under the radar. The Heat will never fly under the radar at this point. But there's not as much scrutiny right now, so we've been enjoying just coming in and going to work."
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Due to the 8.9 magnitude earthquake and subsequent tsunami that heavily damaged Japan on March 11, 2011, the U.S. State Department has issued an alert that instructs all U.S. citizens to avoid non-essential travel to Japan. This alert will expire on April 1.
It is reported that Narita and Haneda airports opened for air traffic today, although hundreds of flights have been cancelled. For those fliers who need to change their plans, most airlines will allow customers to change flights free of charge because of the disaster. Check with your carrier for further information. Tokyo's public train system is already operating close to normal. However, many roads have been damaged in the country and travel is still difficult.
Approximately 83 aftershocks have been reports since the earthquake. In this instance the American Red Cross recommends:
Persons should move to open spaces away from walls, windows, buildings, and other structures that may collapse, and should be alert to the danger of falling debris. If you are indoors, DROP, COVER AND HOLD ON: If possible, seek cover under a sturdy desk or table, hold on, and protect your eyes by pressing your face against your arm. If there is no table or desk nearby, sit on the floor against an interior wall away from windows, bookcases or tall furniture that could fall on you. Avoid damaged buildings and downed power lines. Great care should be used with matches, lighters, candles, or any open flame due to the possibility of disrupted gas lines.
The U.S. State Dept. encourages citizens to enroll in their STEP Program (Smart Traveler Enrollment Program) before travel to any foreign location. This can facilitate help in case of emergency overseas. Read my article, linked below, about this program.
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Live from….Costa Luminosa: 5 Things I Learned Onboard
October 30, 2013 | By Carolyn Spencer Brown | No Comments
Costa Cruises' Costa Luminosa heads across the Atlantic in a few weeks, where it will trade its Mediterranean base for one out of Miami, sailing 10-night western Caribbean itineraries throughout the winter.
I wondered: Will this ship, which has been geared to the Italy-based cruise line's traditional, pan-European base appeal to fellow North Americans looking for a contemporary Caribbean cruise? This past week, we've been looking for answers on Luminosa as it circled the Mediterranean.
Part of the Carnival Corporation family of cruise lines, this class of ship borrowed liberally from layouts on Carnival's ships, with an onboard vibe that's similarly fun and friendly, and also from Holland America. HAL lovers might recognize the shopping arcade and the aft pool area from Oosterdam and other vessels.
We're told Luminosa will remain true to its European roots, so there won't be American-centric food or entertainment (though English will be one of the languages onboard). In fact, Costa anticipates that some 80 percent of its Caribbean-bound travelers will represent its usual demographics – which means lots of families (with both young children and teens) and under-40s couples will hail from Europe.
Bottom line: If you're intrigued by the ship's European vibe, enjoy traveling with international passengers, love pasta and pizza, can sing along in karaoke when the songs are French/ Spanish/Italian, and either embrace or don't mind smoking, then Luminosa could be a great choice for the Caribbean. We had a blast on our short cruise.
*Italian-themed evenings. In the Taurus Restaurant, the ship's two-deck high main dining venue, these events beat even the traditional Captain's gala for simply fabulous fun.
It's not just that the waiters were dressed in the reds and greens of the Italian flag, or that the menu featured staples of the country's varied regions, from Liguria to Tuscany and beyond. It was the music and dancing that propelled this night into the memory book.
When the piped-in music revved up after we were served entrees, it was a bit surprising to see our efficient (and up to this point, rather quiet) waiter belt "O Sole Mio" from a small performance platform between the restaurant's two decks. He was good, too! He was followed by other waiters performed vocals for what could have been the soundtrack from "Moonstruck," the Cher flick.
Then it was on to the gyrating, in which a trio – who clearly spent a lot of time at Luminosa's gym, if their washboards were any indication – did a (reasonably G-rated) striptease. Amongst clapping and singing along, some waiters started a conga line, and passengers snaked through the dining room; others invited passengers to dance the two-step, in the aisles. Fabulous. Dessert was almost a letdown.
*Pasta and pizza. Costa's clearly paying attention to its cuisine, which tends toward European continental throughout the Lido Buffet, the restaurant, and Club Luminosa, the ship's alternative restaurant. Surpassing all expectations, however, was Luminosa's pasta, from a freshly tossed pesto at the Lido Buffet's pasta station to the "always available" selections of pomodoro and Bolognese on the Taurus' menu and from the daily specials at Club Luminosa. Even the offerings at the health-oriented Samsara Restaurant were superb.
The pizza, too, is amazing and much improved. It's Neapolitan style, crispy and hot, prepared fresh in the Lido all day and into the evening.
*Stateroom layout. The standard category of balcony staterooms – which are plentiful for a ship that's over five years old – features more space than the norm on other lines, and a lovely, deep balcony with wide chairs and a table. There's a flat screen television (programmed with movies on demand, at an extra fee, and the BBC, the only English speaking news channel), lots of storage, a good-powered hair dryer, and a comfortable bed with nice cotton sheets and duvet.
The bathroom was also well done: The shower stall was so roomy that the "dreaded clinging shower curtain" didn't dare. Table lamps supplemented the usual over bright fluorescents and added a cozy ambience. Another nice touch: The mini-bar, featuring juices, water and soda (for a fee), was a terrific convenience.
Could the décor, which was bland but fine, use an upgrade? Sure. But it was still one of the most comfortable cabins in the category.
*Samsara Spa. Costa was the first line to create a destination spa concept onboard its cruise ships, and Luminosa's is comparable to the others. Aimed at travelers who want dedicated cabins with special amenities and more serene décor, Samsara has its own restaurant and ultimate access to the facility, meaning you can almost pretend you're at resort.
Even if you choose other accommodations, a number of packages feature unlimited access to the superb facility, and/or dining privileges at Samsara. At the latter, our meal was so delicious it was hard to believe it was a spa eatery.
*Smoking. Love it or hate it, cruise lines are cracking down with ever more restrictive policies about where you can smoke onboard ships. Not so much with Costa, which does ban cigarettes from restaurants but otherwise provides plentiful space for smokers – and non smokers – to congregate, from outside decks to bars and lounges. Smoking on balconies is also allowed. And for those who prefer a stogie, Luminosa has a dedicated cigar bar.
Want to learn more about Costa Luminosa, which will offer 10-night Western Caribbean itineraries out of Miami beginning in November? Check out our sneak preview – and stay tuned for a full-fledged review in the coming weeks.
Have questions in the meantime? We're discussing our trip on our Costa forum.
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