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Buxton Festival
The 17-day long Buxton Festival is one of Britain's biggest arts festivals. It draws around 35,000 people to the Peak District town each July to watch a number of rarely staged operas, from the baroque period to contemporary pieces, performed in English.
Past coups at the Buxton opera festival have included the UK premières of obscure works by Mozart, Rossini and Handel. A Literary Series runs in tandem with the opera programme, featuring talks by prominent novelists, biographers, political authors and others, and evenings see film screenings and various cultural events.
In previous years, the programme has included many opera and music performances, including Dvořák's The Jacobin, Rossini's Otello, concerts by The Lawson Trio, Innovation Chamber Ensemble and the Schubert Ensemble. Free weekend events for visitors of all ages include storytelling in the Magical Storytelling Yurt.


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New Orleans is one of several cities interested in hosting the draft, according to the New York Post.
"NFL source tells me the following cities have applied to host draft: New Orleans, Boston, Philly, Orlando, Chicago, L.A. and Canton, Ohio," tweeted Bart Hubbuch.
While the draft is currently held at Radio City Music Hall in New York City, the league is exploring possibly rotating the draft to other cities beginning next year.
"I don't necessarily have an opinion (on moving the draft)," said Saints general manager Mickey Loomis. "That's not going to change what I do. We're going to be here. If it's good for the league and brings positive attention and gives another city a chance to host, I don't think there's anything wrong with that. I'm for it."
The New York Post reported that the league could be looking at expanding the draft to four days, with the first 1-2 in New York City, and the second two days in another location.

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Macy's Gives Emeril Lagasse the Boot
The store's dropping his cookware line from 800 stores.
At a trial for Macy's case against Martha Stewart and JCPenney, the department store revealed that it will no longer sell Lagasse's cookware line. Stewart's company owns and designs Lagasse's products, which it purchased in 2008 for $50 million (along with his franchises). Macy's is suing Stewart for violating their exclusivity deal, but claims that dropping Lagasse's line from 800 stores has nothing at all to do with the lawsuit. The decision apparently stemmed from weak sales performances; customers have been panning his pans. [NYDN]


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June 21 is the official start of summer. It is swimsuit season. The majority of women cringe at the though of having to shop for a swimsuit. Swimwear fashions shown on the runways and in the fashion magazines are mostly bikinis. For the 50 plus woman, bikinis need not apply for closet space.
Answers to few basic questions can take the stress out of swimwear shopping.
1. What is your fashion silhouette?
2. What is your fashion personality?
3. Where will the suit be worn?
Your fashion silhouette is your body type. It is important to be honest with yourself. What is your body type – not what you would like it to be but what it is? Are you:
Triangle/A Shaped – Your shoulders and waist are narrower than your hips.
Inverted Triangle/V Shaped – Your shoulders are narrower than your waist and hips.
Rectangle/H Shaped – Your shoulders are as wide as your hips and your waist is as wide or slightly narrower.
Hourglass/ X Shaped/Figure 8 – Your shoulders are as wide as your hips and your waist is distinctly narrower.
Oval/Rounded/ O Shaped – Your shoulders are narrower or as wide as your hips and your middle section is wider.
What is your fashion personality? Are you:
Classic – traditional/tailored
Natural – sporty/casual
Romantic- feminine/demure
Dramatic- striking/sophisticated
Artistic- adventurous/creative
Where will the suit be worn and what activities will you be engaged in? Will you be doing water aerobics, water skiing, or serious swimming? Will you be taking leisurely strolls on the beach or have family outings at a lake. Will you be relaxing pool side with a Margarita or Pina Colada?
Summer is a time for relaxing and having fun. The right swimsuit will be fun to wear and make you feel good.


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First Time Travellers: Pick a Destination
March 6th, 2012 by John in Travel Planning.
Travel plans can often become delayed because we don't have the funds. Other potential travellers have personal obstacles thrown in their way. However, one of the most under-considered… Continue Reading »
Better Late Than Never; Finishing Up In New York
November 4th, 2011 by John in USA.
Before setting out on our 7 month adventure, there were 2 stops I was looking forward to most, one was a place I've always wanted to go and… Continue Reading »
Back into Canada. We're in Toronto!
September 27th, 2011 by John in Canada.
After the fun of Chicago, we arrive in Toronto for a few days for some sun, sand, sights and bloody big water falls. Continue Reading »
TwoFromWales.com Hit Vancouver, Canada. Country Number 13!
August 12th, 2011 by John in Canada.
After the busy few days in San Francisco it was time yet again to jump onboard the Greyhound and make our way up to Vancouver, Canada via a… Continue Reading »
Welcome Back To Las Vegas, Nevada
August 4th, 2011 by John in USA.
Well. After a calamity of a journey which will go down in the history of our trip as the worst bus journey EVER, we eventually made it to… Continue Reading »
What Goes On In New Orleans, Pops Up On TwoFromWales.com
August 3rd, 2011 by John in USA.
After spending time in Memphis, home of the blues and birth place of rock n roll, it was time to move on, and sticking to the musical theme,… Continue Reading »
In Dallas, Real Cowboy Country
July 16th, 2011 by John in USA.
After a somewhat monumental 35 hour bus journey from Vegas (it should have been 30), we finally made it to Dallas, and having not made any real plans… Continue Reading »
America, The Land of Hope, Glory & Really Long Immigration Cues
July 14th, 2011 by John in USA.
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The End Of Our 4 Week JUCY Camper Van Adventure
July 10th, 2011 by John in New Zealand.
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A Week In A JUCY Camper Van by The Seaside
June 15th, 2011 by John in New Zealand.
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On McMackin: New Jersey native comes off a prep year at Milford Academy in New York ... Anticipated to come in and make an impact ... Very mature player ... Comes from football family where he brothers played at Hofstra and Towson in the Atlantic 10/CAA ... Big physical player.
As a freshman in 2009: Redshirt season.
Before UMass: Played a prep year at Milford Academy in Milford, N.Y. ... Played four years at Paramus Catholic under Coach John Whitehead prior to graduation in 2007 ... Helped the Palindens to a 10-1 record at a New Jersey state title during his sophomore season ... Was named to the Second Team All-County following his senior season.
Personal: Ryan J. McMackin ... Born March 6, 1990 in Ridgewood, N.J. ... Son of Robert and Donna McMackin ... Has two siblings, Robert and Shawn ... Intends to major in Criminal Justice.
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As there is IMO quite a lot to discuss here, I'd like to transfer this to the devel list. > Bugs item #1822272, was opened at 2007-10-29 18:36 > The problem is, hyperref is included before many extensions, among which the one that the user may specify using the --stylesheet command-line option. > This is highly likely to trigger incompatibilities. > Comment By: Nicolas Girard (ngirard) Date: 2007-11-01 16:35 > > there are two problems :: > > 1. the writer needs to read latex which might give new errors > Well, which ones ? Given the question > "Does the 'user stylesheet' s include hyperref", > isn't the answer as straightforward as: > 1. executing "kpathsea s" to locate the stylesheet file > 2. opening the stylesheet file > 3. looking for a line containing "\usepackage" or "\RequirePackage" and > "hyperref", regardless of the comments IMO, this is too complicated, I like the clear distinction of rst->tex conversion (which works also without LaTeX installed) and tex->pdf done independently (and maybe on a different computer). > > A solution to this problem might be to have a default docutils latex > > style file that can be *replaced* by user-specific one [...] See also > > latex2e_external_stylesheet__ for a proposal of such a latex writer(Continue reading)


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Panthers donate $10K to Japan relief effort
Team release
Florida Panthers Players Donate $10,000
To Aid Japan Relief Effort
SUNRISE, Fla. – Sunrise Sports & Entertainment announced today that Florida Panthers players, led by veteran defenseman Mike Weaver, have donated $10,000 dollars to aid the Japan relief effort in response to the tragic earthquake that recently struck the island nation.
"As a team, we felt it was important to do our part to aid the people of Japan who are struggling in the aftermath of this horrible natural disaster," Weaver said. "Hopefully, our modest donation can help raise awareness and inspire support from others who are involved with the Florida Panthers organization."


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Friends with benefits...the new clique for getting some but avoiding commitment. Everybody's getting what they need. Whether one on one or menags out the door, it's all good, passion, no keeping score. The challenge of course is no one catching that thang called love...if that happens all bets are off...no more loving on the go...bust it baby for sho. The player becomes the played. The sequence could very well lead to shade. The risk we are willing to take to get our freak on.
You can never loose the sense and reason of why you fell in love. if you do, then you've fallen out of love because the reason is what you built on to get the love that led you to say..."I do". Words can't replace actions no matter how hard you try. Showing is a way a brother lets you know how much he loves you or how much he cares. Don't shut him down...
if you do you're shutting down love....
Man About My Love V8...love and sex
Northern CA based published freelance photographer and project manager with over 17 yrs experience focusing on lifestyle photography using real people in natural settings, natural lighting. I capture the sensual realism in our lives of men and women. It's that untapped sex appeal that's we each have but often times overlooked. The shots in my port have not been enhanced and the majority of models having never been shot prior as I love realism period in all respects. As I've learned from the focus group I had for MOC V1...people want and crave realism in photography and life. Plainly put...Photoshop is not on my list of to do items after a photoshoot. An agency wants to see the real you, not a manufactured you that doesn't match you in person. My shots are reality...what I capture is what you see, no chasers. Projects: Coffeetable books Men of Color -MOCV1 (Published 11/08) -MOCV2 (Published 11/08) -MOCV3 Shadows (Published 12/08) -Man About My Love: Poetry Published 12/08
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Searching for Malaysia Airlines flight MH370
A new search area for the missing Malaysian plane has been announced by the Australian government after further analysis of satellite data.
The search will now shift south to focus on an area 1,800km (1,100 miles) off the west coast of Australia in one of the most challenging areas of water on the planet.
BBC Weather's Susan Powell takes a look at the conditions that can be expected in the area.


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The New Orleans Saints' upgraded secondary stands well above what the other three NFC South teams have, as the Tampa Bay Buccaneers, Atlanta Falcons and Carolina Panthers all made major changes.
Here's the latest in our NFC South rankings by position group.
1. New Orleans Saints
Veteran cornerback Keenan Lewis and rookie safety Kenny Vaccaro made immediate impacts in their first seasons with the Saints in 2013, and the position grouping was further upgraded with the additions of safety Jairus Byrd (Buffalo Bills) and Champ Bailey (Denver Broncos).
The return of safety Rafael Bush -- the Saints matched an offer from the Atlanta Falcons to keep him -- provides further stability. Second-round cornerback Stanley Jean-Baptiste and fifth-round safety Vinnie Sunseri worked with first- and second-team units, respectively, during OTAs.
2. Tampa Bay Buccaneers
Cornerbacks Alterraun Verner (Tennessee Titans) and Mike Jenkins (Oakland Raiders), and safety Major Wright (Chicago Bears) are newcomers with starting experience. Wright played for Tampa Bay coach Lovie Smith when both were in Chicago.
The Bucs also return safety Mark Barron and Dashon Goldson, and cornerbacks Johnthan Banks and Leonard Johnson. Gone is cornerback Darrelle Revis to the New England Patriots.
3. Carolina Panthers
Free agent safeties Roman Harper from the Saints and Thomas DeCloud from the Falcons are part of a secondary that returns no full-time starters from last season. The re-tooled secondary also welcomes cornerback Charles Godfrey back from an Achilles injury that caused him to miss all but three games last season.
4. Atlanta Falcons
Sixteen-game starters Josh Wilson and Desmond Trufant, both cornerbacks, and William Moore, a safety, started 16 games on a defense that ranked near the bottom in yards and interceptions. The Falcons also added free agent safety Dwight Lowery from Jacksonville, and drafted third-round safety Dezmen Southward from Wisconsin and fifth-round cornerback Ricardo Allen from Purdue.


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Bianca Bujan is a foodie, blogger, shopaholic, and arts enthusiast. She works as the Manager of Business Development for VancouverMom.ca by day, and spends her evenings and weekends catching up on quality time with her loving husband, two beautiful children, and Dalmatian. In need of a creative outlet, she started her blog Bits of Bee in July 2011. Through her posts, she shares advice, quotes and anecdotes on her life as a career mommy of two, with interwoven stories about her life as an adoptee. She chose the name because each post represents only a tidbit of the person that she is as a whole. Her ideal weekend is spent enjoying the outdoors with her family, with lots of snacks and a fully-charged camera. Follow her on Twitter and Instagram under @bitsofbee.
What characteristics define the Vancouver Housewife?
I think many would describe the stereotypical "Vancouver Housewife" as a fit, healthy, yoga-pants-wearing, seawall-running, couscous-eating, latte-sipping, fresh-makeup-wearing city-loving lady.
Are you a good representation of a Vancouver Housewife? Why?
I do love me a good pair of yoga pants, and I definitely drink my share of lattes, but that's probably where the buck stops for me. I'm a huge carnivore (also known as the BBQ master in my house), and am not a huge fan of tofu and couscous. I have only recently taken to exercising (slowly working on becoming a barre star).
Do you feel that living in Vancouver in some way defines who you are? Please explain.
I'm a true Vancouverite – born and raised in the heart of our beautiful city. From refusing to use an umbrella on rainy days, to owning more than few pairs of yoga pants, to pronouncing the city's name "Vang-couver" (which I've been told is a sign of a true Vancouverite), my city is definitely a big part of who I am.
Have you ever had cosmetic surgery, Botox, Restalyne injections, etc.? If so, please provide details. If you haven't had any of the above procedures performed, would you consider it?
I never have and never will have cosmetic surgery. I'm a huge fan of keeping it real, except I guess for my chemically-straightened hair. But it's still my hair and not a weave so that's "natural" right?
Other than your children (if applicable), what is the accomplishment of which you are most proud?
My kids are definitely my biggest life accomplishments, but I'm also proud of myself for obtaining a university degree, and for managing to barely survive my crazy life as a successful career mommy of two.
Has the desire for affluence/power/money been a motivator in the choices you've made for your life?
Never. My life has always been about doing what makes me happy, about following my aspirations (both personally and professionally) and about learning from the people and experiences that cross my path along the way.
Tell us about your stuff. What do you like to buy, collect, etc.?
Like many ladies, I love to shop. A girl can never have too many purses and shoes, right? But while I'd like to think that I'm practical about my retail purchases, I tend to splurge on my true passion: food. Always on the hunt for the perfect steak, I love to try new restaurants and taste new cuisine. I guess you could say I'm a true foodie at heart.
Do you have "staff" in your home? (E.g. nanny, driver, chef, etc.)
While I'd love to have my own personal chef, and a house cleaner to clean my toilets and fold my heaps of laundry, I am currently wearing all of those hats myself (with the help of my assistant husband of course!).
Do you belong to any clubs, teams, groups or social organizations?
I feel as though the mom blogger community has become my club/team. There are so many great women out there who come from various backgrounds, who have been so supportive, and who have taught me so much and have made me feel welcome. I'm also part of a mommy group who have been with me since my first pregnancy, and who have become some of my closest girlfriends.
Finish this sentence: "My life's motto is …."
I'm in love with this quote by Mary Oliver: "Tell me, what is it you plan to do with your one wild and precious life?" One of my favourite bloggers references this quote regularly, and I think it's a great reminder to live in the moment and to live life to the fullest.
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Attorney General Beau Biden is warning Delawareans to be aware of fraudulent e-mail messages claiming to be from the Internal Revenue Service's Taxpayer Advocacy Service, but in reality are part of a scam attempt.
The e-mails contain a made-up case number, the Taxpayer Advocacy Center's actual logo and reads: "Your reported 2013 income is flagged for review due to a document processing error. Your case has been forwarded to the Taxpayer Advocate Service for resolution assistance. To avoid delays processing your 2013 filing contact the Taxpayer Advocate Service for resolution assistance."
The fraudulent e-mail then provides a link that solicits personal information from the recipient, such as legal name and contact information.
Those who receive these e-mails should not click on any of the links or provide any of the information requested. The e-mails should be forwarded to the IRS' designed account for fraudulent emails, which is firstname.lastname@example.com.
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Feb. 21, 2011
TUCSON, Ariz. - Sometimes the big, round numbers jump out at you. Other times, they just kind of sneak up.
For University of Arizona director of golf Rick LaRose, the big, round number is a big one: 6,000 victories. Yes, that's six, zero, zero, zero.
Now in his 39th season as a Wildcat head coach and his 33rd as the men's golf head coach, LaRose has accumulated a career record of 6,003-2,422-70 (.711) in head-to-head competition on the golf course.
"Obviously, we've had great teams and great players," La Rose said. "A coach is only as good as his athletes and I've been fortunate to have coached a lot of great people. Secondly, you have to be at this a long time. No matter how you look at it, 6,000 is a very big number."
Won-loss records in golf are figured as follows: if a team wins an 11-team event, that team's record for the event is 10-0. The runner-up is 9-1, while the third-place team is 8-2.
Success and LaRose have worked hand-in-hand since his arrival in Tucson in 1973. Initially hired as the men's head water polo coach and assistant swim coach, he guided the water polo program to four NCAA regional championships and three fifth-place finishes at the NCAA Championships. His teams were never ranked out of the top six nationally and produced five All-Americans and one United States Olympian. LaRose compiled a 154-37-2 (.803) record as the UA water polo head coach (not counted in record listed above).
He took over the men's golf head coaching duties in 1978-79, and in that span has established Wildcat golf as one of the finest college golf programs. His golf teams have been ranked in the top 20 in 26 of those 33 seasons, including a string of eight consecutive years that the Cats were ranked in the top three nationally. Further, the team has been the nation's No. 1 team 13 different times, most recently during the 1997-98 campaign, when it was ranked No. 1 for the majority of the season.
With the double-duty as the head coach for both the Arizona men's and women's programs (1996-98, 2010), he led the women to the 1996 NCAA title and each squad was ranked No. 1 during those seasons. He also had a hand in coaching two-time NCAA Women's Golfer of the Year and 1996 national champion, Marisa Baena. His win-loss record (included in overall total) with the UA women is an impressive 633-113-2 (.848).
During the 2010 campaign he helped the UA women win the Pac-10 and NCAA West Regional championship and post a fifth-place finish at the NCAA Championships. During the run, Arizona finished ahead of the nation's top-ranked team three times in four opportunities.
He is the only coach in NCAA history to win both a men's (1992) and women's (1996) national championship.
LaRose's teams have won two NCAA titles, seven NCAA regional championships, four Pac-10 crowns and three Rolex Match Play titles. In addition to being the only coach in college golf to coach both a men's and women's NCAA championship team, he is also the only one to produce both a men's and women's Rolex Match Play and Pac-10 championship teams. His finishes at the NCAAs not only include the 1992 men's and 1996 women's titles, but six third-place, two fifth-place and two sixth-place efforts.
Since 1978, LaRose's golf teams have won 61 men's tournaments and 19 women's tourneys. He has also produced seven national players of the year, 11 Pac-10 Players of the Year, 68 All-Americans and 109 all-Pac-10 Conference performers.
On the national front, he has had a hand in coaching two United States Amateur winners (and three runner-ups), five United States Walker Cup players, a pair of Ryder Cup golfers, a U.S. President's Cup performer and three United States Publinx champions. Eighteen of his pupils have also represented the U.S. in international collegiate competition.
College golf hasn't always paid such attention to win-loss records, but with the recent addition of the .500 rule to the game - where a team has to have a cumulative record of .500 or better to qualify for NCAA postseason play - the focus has come back to how well teams do on a tournament-by-tournament basis.
Such a focus brought the nearness to 6,000 wins to LaRose's attention almost by accident. "I really had no idea I was even close until a friend brought it to my attention," he said. "With all the focus these days on wins and losses in college golf, I guess it's made some people look through the records a little more closely. Six-thousand wins? That's a lot of wins."
LaRose's current squad has shown a great deal of improvement this spring, collecting a win and a top-five finish in three tournaments to date. The Wildcats will next be in action, March 11-13, at the Southern Highlands Collegiate Masters in Las Vegas, Nev.
Rick LaRose's Career at a Glance
Sport Years Wins Losses Ties Pct. Men's Golf 1978-present 5,370 2,309 68 .698 Women's Golf 1994-98, 2010 633 113 2 .848 Golf Totals 6,003 2,422 70 .711
Water Polo 1973-78 154 37 2 .803 Career Totals 1973-present 6,157 2,459 72 .713


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Courtesy: Spencer Farrin (Moscow, Idaho)
|Women's XC tries for history
MOSCOW, Idaho – University of Idaho women's cross country is well aware of target on each runner's back as the Vandal women come into Saturday's Western Athletic Conference Championship.
Idaho has won the last two WAC women's team crowns and four total in the school's seven previous seasons in the league. Since Idaho joined the WAC in 2005, the conference meet has featured either a Vandal team title or a Vandal individual champion every year except one.
It comes as no big surprise, then, that the Vandal women were picked first earlier this week in the WAC Pre-Championship Coaches Poll, with five of the nine first-place votes.
Idaho director of track and field/cross country Wayne Phipps said that his team learned two key lessons about "championship aura" when a young Vandal group won in 2010 with several freshmen playing important roles.
He said 2009 team champion New Mexico State entered that meet with confidence and with a heavy dose of respect from all the other WAC teams.
"They kind of had a bit of an aura about them because they had really dominated the year before," Phipps said about NM State. "I remember thinking to myself, 'I don't know how we're going to beat them while they have the Schultz twins.'
"Once we did beat them, I think our girls realized how good they are."
That realization gave Idaho's women the same confidence going into the 2011 WAC Championship at Honolulu, Hawai`i, where the Vandals put four runners in the top eight and cruised to a team win. Phipps said the Vandal women have the same level of confidence and expectation, as well as the understanding that everyone else is equally motivated to claim the title.
"They know exactly what it takes to win and they've been in that situation a number of times," Phipps said. "We've talked from day one about how nobody is going to make it easy on us. It's going to be a battle, for sure. New Mexico State is very good, Utah State is always tough and UTSA has a lot of depth, so it's going to be a very tough challenge for us."
This Idaho women's group has no seniors, but that doesn't mean the Vandals lack experience. The team is led by a core group of four juniors who have tasted nothing but success at WAC Championship meets.
Hannah Kiser, a 2011 NCAA Cross Country Championships qualifier and indoor track and field All-American, is the face of the group, but Alycia Butterworth, Emily Paradis and Holly Browning (Stanton) are each First-Team All-WAC performers who have continued to make huge strides in the last two seasons.
Kiser is a six-time WAC individual champion who is undefeated against non-Vandal WAC competition in track and field, but she has never claimed an individual cross country crown. She said that's No. 2 on her weekend checklist behind winning the team trophy.
Add in that Kiser missed the 2012 outdoor track and field season with respiratory issues, and you've got an athlete on a mission.
"I know I'm really fit and that I've been fit for a long time," Kiser said. "It's exciting to see all that work I've put in for the last eight months hopefully lead to a cross country win, because I haven't done that yet and I'd love to check that off my list."
Added Phipps, "I think her motivation and energy levels are probably off the charts. She was in Moscow all summer long and never missed a run. She has done absolutely everything she can and right now she's probably the healthiest she's ever been."
Overcoming adversity is a bit of a theme for this year's junior group. Paradis broke out last season with a fourth-place individual finish at the WAC cross country meet, but missed indoor and outdoor track with a combination of injury and a diagnosis of anemia. Butterworth turned into one of Idaho's most reliable distance performers last year from cross country through outdoor track and field, but struggled with illness at the start of the cross country season.
"We've battled through a little more adversity than maybe we had in the past couple years, but I think we're in a very good place right now," Phipps said. "We're very healthy and very fit and with those two things, I think they're very confident and very excited about competing."
The all-important No. 5 finisher is an open spot on the Vandal rotation, but not for lack of a qualified runner. In fact, it's actually the opposite.
Walk-on freshman Halie Raudenbush has been the team's top freshman finisher four times, while redshirt frosh Abby Larson and true freshmen Marquita Palmer and Stephanie Rexus have consistently improved and finished in the fifth and sixth spots.
Phipps said he's very comfortable with that group and its ability to round out the five scoring positions, as well as the sixth and seventh spot to displace other teams' scoring chances.
"I guess we have a 'by-committee' approach to that fifth spot," Phipps said. "We have five very, very good freshmen, any one of whom can be an all-conference runner for us, so I'm in a good spot mentally and I'm excited to see them compete this weekend."
If there was any question about expectations and standards for the freshmen, Idaho's junior group made that clear from the very beginning.
"At the beginning of the season, we pretty much told them straight up that we expected to win, so they needed to train hard and be dedicated to the program," Kiser said. "They have done everything the right way in practice and aside from running."
The freshman have taken that message to heart so strongly that Phipps said he's had to step in at times and make sure they don't overdo it in practice.
"I've actually had to rein them in sometimes and make sure they're actually taking easy days easy," Phipps said. "They have a tendency at times to work a little too hard."
Kiser said also that she is reminded of her freshman season when the team was so even in practice that the runners all felt comfortable in race situations with teammates around them.
"They run in a pack during practice, so doing that in a race will be good for them for their nerves," she said. "They won't be running alone in a race, and then if one person starts to pick it up, the rest of them can be confident that they have the ability to do that, too."
The women's 5,000-meter race will start at 6 a.m. (PT) in Lincoln Parish Park at Ruston, La., hosted by Louisiana Tech.


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KANSAS CITY, Mo. — Asdrubal Cabrera drove in the go-ahead run in the eighth inning and the Indians rallied against the stingy Kansas City Royals bullpen for a 5-3 victory Tuesday night.
The Indians were shut out until the sixth by Yordano Ventura, who made an electric major league debut. The flame-throwing Ventura was consistently clocked at 97 and 98 mph.
After scoring a run but leaving the bases loaded in the sixth, Cleveland tied the game 3-3 in the seventh off reliever Kelvin Herrera.
Cabrera's double off Wade Davis (7-11) in the eighth scored Drew Stubbs and gave the Indians, who remain just out of the two wild-card playoff spots, the lead.
Michael Bourn added a homer in the ninth to provide a cushion.
Meanwhile, Cody Allen (6-1) was among six Indians relievers who kept Kansas City off the scoreboard the final 4 1/3 innings.
Much-maligned closer Chris Perez handled a perfect ninth for his 25th save, getting the last two batters looking.
The win allowed the Indians to remain a half-game back of Texas and Tampa Bay in the AL wild-card race. The Royals are 3½ games adrift after the Rangers beat the Rays earlier in the night.
The series concludes tonight with Cleveland's Danny Salazar (1-2, 2.66 ERA) going against the Royals Bruce Chen (7-3, 3.11).


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As Baby Boomers prepare to retire, it's possible that more than half of the existing construction workforce will retire by 2012. What was initially a consideration kept in the back of one's mind is now a major concern for the construction industry: Where can competent entry-level workers be found to fill the hole that will be left by retirees?
One answer can be found at Moraine Park Technical College. "The College has been listening to the concerns of area employers in the construction industry," said Jon Waldhuetter, dean of apprenticeships. "To address their needs, Moraine Park's Building Trades/Construction Worker technical diploma program is being offered this fall when the semester starts Aug. 25." The program is designed to provide the construction skill set that graduates and employers need. Students will attend classes five days a week for two 16-week semesters. Part-time enrollment is available for those who are unable to commit to a full-time instructional schedule.
Building Trades/Construction Worker courses include Safety Applications, Building Trades Fundamentals, Framing Construction, Basic Welding, Basic AutoCAD, Exterior Finish, Interior Finish, Building Trades Mechanical Systems and others.
"This program provides a very broad range of trade experience, which is key," said Waldhuetter. "It is strong in hands-on work activities and exposes students to a wide range of trade career options. Students who complete this program will be able to transition smoothly into construction-related careers."
Even with the current slowdown in new home construction, projections by the Southeast Construction Contractors and Trades Council indicate a 43-percent growth in employment in the construction industry over the next decade. Presently only 40 to 60 percent of positions created by retirement are being filled and the job outlook for the construction industry is strong in all of the skilled trades with employment growth between 14 and 25 percent. Wage scales will remain high, ranging from $15 to $35 an hour for skilled workers, with an average annual wage of roughly $42,500. Moraine Park's Building Trades/Construction Worker program opens the door to careers in the construction industry and continuing educational opportunities such as apprenticeship, supervision or specialized training.
Registrations are currently being accepted for this fall. To register for the Building Trades/Construction Worker program or for more information, call a Moraine Park admissions specialist at 1-800-472-4554 or call Waldhuetter at 262-335-5841.
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First the NHL breaks their "covenant with fans" and moves the Atlanta Thrashers to Winnipeg after a five month search for owners. Now, the league is looking to take away the fan's voice, too.
The National Hockey League is shutting down the league-run NHL Fans community when the league's calendar year comes to a close on June 30.
In a tersely worded, but politically correct message, where the NHL uses words like "discontinuing" rather than shutting down or stifling free speech, the league reminds fans to save "all photos and videos uploaded to their profile."
Those profiles go away on June 30th as well.
Also going poof in the night will be the NHL's message boards, a sparsely moderated group of league-run boards that had over 21 million page views in just over two years of operation.
As a result, there were many posts critical of NHL Commissioner Gary Bettman, the officiating, the Atlanta sale and other hot topics of the hockey.
The league says that team message board sites will "remain unaffected." That is – if you still have a team. Folks in Atlanta lost their official team website moments after the Board of Governors officially approved the sale of the Thrashers to Winnipeg.
That team is now the Winnipeg Jets.
It is unknown if the shutdown of the league's message board will simply be an evolution of the platform elsewhere. The emergence of Facebook and Twitter has revolutionized how commentary and information are disseminated world-wide.
The NHL's message boards boasted over 115,000 unique members, over 12,500 posts spanning almost 2,000 topics in just over two years of operation on topics from trades and free agency to the NHL Winter Classic and everything in between.
Privately-run hfboards.com is expected to pick up some of the slack in the absence of a league-sanctioned voice. That very active community has 25,000 fewer members, but almost 32.5 million posts.
While in the grand scheme of things, the most likely answer as to why the NHL is shutting down their boards may be lack of interest or just a business decision, the bottom line is that there is one less outlet for fans to vent their frustrations. There's no winner in that situation: neither the league nor its fans.
Not restricted anymore: New management, new direction. Atlanta's former hockey team parted ways with a pair of former Thrashers.
Restricted free agents Anthony Stewart and Rob Schremp were not extended qualifying offers ahead of the league's deadline. The duo of former Thrashers will become unrestricted free agents.
The Jets did extend qualifying offers to regulars Zach Bogosian, Andrew Ladd, Ben Maxwell and Blake Wheeler. Minor league vets Brett Festerling, Arturs Kulda, Riley Holzapfel and Spencer Machacek were also extended.
The NHL's unrestricted free agency period opens on Canada Day, July 1.
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- Deal With It: No Atlanta preseason game for you, Thrashers fans
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Friday, April 23, 2010
Many politicians blame the collapse of our financial system on lack of regulations but I disagree emphatically. Government owned Fannie and Freddie were the heart of the problem and the SEC failed to do their jobs. Government fails at everything it operates, it can't run anything within a budget. Now we learn that Top level officials were spending much of their time surfing porn, what a shock.
Senior staffers at the Securities and Exchange Commission spent hours surfing pornographic websites on government-issued computers while they were being paid to police the financial system, an agency watchdog says.
The SEC's inspector general conducted 33 probes of employees looking at explicit images in the past five years, according to a memo obtained late on Thursday by The Associated Press.
The memo says 31 of those probes occurred in the 2 years since the financial system teetered and nearly crashed.
It was written by SEC Inspector General David Kotz in response to a request from U.S. Senator Charles Grassley.
An SEC spokesman declined to comment on Thursday night.
The memo was first reported on Thursday evening by ABC News. It summarises findings of past inspector general probes and reports some shocking findings:
A senior attorney at the SEC's Washington headquarters spent up to eight hours a day looking at and downloading pornography. When he ran out of hard drive space, he burned the files to CDs or DVDs, which he kept in boxes around his office. He agreed to resign, an earlier watchdog report said.
An accountant was blocked more than 16,000 times in a month from visiting websites classified as "Sex" or "Pornography." Yet, he still managed to amass a collection of "very graphic" material on his hard drive by using Google images to bypass the SEC's internal filter, according to an earlier report from the inspector general. The accountant refused to testify in his defense and received a 14-day suspension.
Seventeen of the employees were "at a senior level," earning salaries of up to $US222,418 ($A239,933.12).
The number of cases jumped from two in 2007 to 16 in 2008. The cracks in the financial system emerged in mid-2007 and spread into full-blown panic by the fall of 2008.
Rep. Darrell Issa, the top Republican on the House Committee on Oversight and Government Reform, said it was "disturbing that high-ranking officials within the SEC were spending more time looking at porn than taking action to help stave off the events that put our nation's economy on the brink of collapse."
He said in a statement that SEC officials "were preoccupied with other distractions" when they should have been overseeing the growing problems in the financial system.
Posted by Philip Faustman at 11:44 AM
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- jim said...
And this would differ from being .ruled by the chosen one how? There's a hell of a lot of screwing going on with no personal benefit. Jim
- April 24, 2010 at 12:25 AM
This is why I always say more government equals more waste and fraud perpetrated using tax payers dollars. Limited Government is the only solution.
- April 24, 2010 at 10:53 AM
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I building applications using Qt4 to develop the UI and python 3.2 OS UBUNTU 10.04 Python 3.2 is installed but fails the following
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I've attempted to install python to use UCS-4 but have not been able to do so. Python 2.6 on the machine performs without a problem import objects/modules from Qt4.
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Another juicy rumor has hit the tubes, this time it was from the Dell World conference last week, where CEO Michael Dell reiterated his support for the upcoming Microsoft Windows 8 operating system as a tablet platform. He stated that Dell would release a "wide range of products around Windows 8's release".
Then we have a report from DigiTimes that claims the company's first tablet devices sporting Windows 8 could arrive in Q3 2012, possibly during the back-to-school season. The report also claims that HP will be amongst the first manufacturers to launch Windows 8-based tablets. HP has previously stated that although it discontinued webOS devices, it wasn't ready to leave the tablet market altogether.
Why the change to focus on alternative tablet platforms, instead of Android? It has to do with the market saturation and the pricing war triggered by Amazon's Kindle Fire. Sources also point blame at Motorola's "family edition" Xoom, which will sell at Best Buy for $379.
ASUS and Acer will still offer Android-based devices aimed at consumers, where Lenovo will use Android, but for their business-use ThinkPad tablets, they'll be using Windows 8 for its business-orientated tablets going into the future.


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After going down with a knee injury in December, Kobe Bryant was diagnosed with a fractured knee and was set to miss six weeks as a result. Unfortunately, Bryant will miss more than six weeks with his timetable for return currently up in the air according to Lakers Nation reporter Serena Winters via Twitter on Jan. 20:
Kobe says his timetable is "up in the air" right now.
Initially, Bryant was supposed to have his fractured knee re-evaluated on Jan. 27 in preparation for a potential return against the Indiana Pacers on Jan. 28. Unfortunately, that will no happen with Bryant set to be re-evaluated in February.
Along with Bryant stuck on the bench with the knee injury, the Lakers also have Jordan Farmar, Xavier Henry, Steve Blake and Steve Nash dealing with injuries of their own. Not one of these players have a timetable for a return with Henry likely to the be the first to return to the floor for the Lakers.
Although the Lakers are currently without Bryant, the team may be starting to turn things around with two consecutive wins over the Boston Celtics and Toronto Raptors. The team will hope to keep it going against the Chicago Bulls on Monday night.
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Nov. 19, 2013
Iowa Prepares For Iowa City Duals
IOWA CITY, Iowa -- Lineup controversies are welcomed inside the Dan Gable Wrestling Complex for the University of Iowa wrestling team.
"Depth is good, controversies are good," UI head coach Tom Brands said while meeting with local media Tuesday. "(It means) we're deep, we like being deep, and we want to be deeper."
The Hawkeyes swept 10 weight classes in the Elite Division at the season-opening Luther Open. It was an all-Iowa final at 125, 157 and 184 pounds. Cory Clark downed Thomas Gilman, 4-0, at 125; Derek St. John defeated Brandon Sorensen, 8-2, at 157; and Ethen Lofthouse edged Sammy Brooks, 3-2, at 184.
At 149 pounds -- a toss-up weight for Iowa -- Brands saw junior Michael Kelly emerge. Kelly posted victories by fall and major decision to reach the quarterfinals before winning three-consecutive matches by decision en-route to the title. He downed teammate Connor Ryan, 6-1, in the semifinals before defeating Upper Iowa's Edwin Cooper, 6-5, in the championship match.
"We keep racking them up. There is a competition going on in this room, and I've heard about it with Tony Ramos, Mike Evans and Bobby Telford. They're talking about pinning, and that's good. Let's keep doing it when the competition gets tougher and have it carry over to the big meets."
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"He seems to be more smart and high energy, instead of here and nowhere," said Brands. "He was throwing his legs back, scoring in front headlocks and rode tough at the end to win that match in the finals. There were a lot of good things, and it's easier to go forward with a win."
Brands says the competition isn't settled. He wants to see Kelly continue moving forward this weekend at the Iowa City Duals.
"He needs to go out and continue to show us he wants to be the guy," said Brands. "You are the guy with the way you wrestle and score points."
Iowa scored an abundance of points at the Luther Open. The Hawkeyes had 26 wrestlers combine for 48 falls, 12 technical falls and 13 major decisions, an attitude Brands wants to see carried over throughout the year.
"We keep racking them up," Brands said. "There is a competition going on in this room, and I've heard about it with Tony Ramos, Mike Evans and Bobby Telford. They're talking about pinning, and that's good. Let's keep doing it when the competition gets tougher and have it carry over to the big meets."
Brands says the pinning attitude can defeat opponents before the start of the match.
"You're putting your opponents away before you step out on the mat because of the way you wrestle," he said. "That's what we want to do."
Ramos, who had three falls and a major decision en route to the title at 133 pounds, says the Hawkeyes need to keep improving heading into the second weekend of competition.
"It's a chance to get mat experience and showcase our skills at home in Carver-Hawkeye Arena in that atmosphere," he said. "We'll see if Cory Clark and Josh Dziewa are still moving forward, and who is going to emerge at 149. We'll see how those guys are coming along."
Iowa hosts Baker University, Cornell College and Iowa Central on Friday beginning at 10 a.m. (CT).


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Andrew Fountain's interest in the earth sciences was first piqued when he began collecting rocks as a boy. Then, in junior high, a scientist came to his school to lecture about how ice crystals form. The rest, as they say, is history; Fountain has been intrigued with ice ever since.
In graduate school, Fountain studied sea ice, lake ice, river ice and snowflakes before he turned to glaciers. After graduate school, he was invited to participate in a study in Antarctica where he joined a team of biologists studying the ecosystem of a polar desert. Fountain examines the physical processes that control glacial meltwater supply to the ecosystem. In 2004, the U.S. Geological Survey (USGS) honored Fountain's decade of work in Antarctica by naming a glacier after him, the Fountain Glacier.
Professor Fountain also has led research projects in Sweden and Alaska. Currently he is leading a project on glacier change in the western United States. "In Sweden and here in the West, glaciers are retreating like crazy," he notes. "We are seeking to understand the processes causing this change and how they might tie into patterns of global warming.
"Intuitively, we can all understand how glaciers are indicators of climate change. So I foresee the type of data we are gathering eventually having a significant affect on national policy makers."
Working with PSU graduate students, the USGS and the National Park Service, one of Fountain's long-term goals is to compile the glacial story for the American West, beginning with the Little Ice Age. At the same time, he remains dedicated to teaching as evidenced by his Teacher of the Year award last year. He also works closely with his graduate students.
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Former "Lost" actor Dominic Monaghan recently sat down with director J.J. Abrams where the topic of "Star Wars: Episode VII" came up.
Monaghan was later asked by DweebCast if he was approached for a role in the sequel. The actor says he's be keen on any role in the film, but Abrams seems to be skewing towards casting unknowns:
"We talked about it a few times. Once I know that he was doing Star Wars I sent him a little congratulatory message and stuff.
We've talked a few times about it and he said 'We're putting together a cast of unknowns - we want to follow the '77 New Hope cast because obviously Harrison Ford wasn't well known at that point, Mark Hamill wasn't and Carrie Fisher wasn't either.
What he said was, we don't want to fall into that mistake of people going 'Oh it's that guy from that thing!' and then you're completely out of the Star Wars universe."
Is Monaghan misdirecting fans on Abrams behalf? Time will tell with casting for the key roles expected to be announced shortly.


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There are many tips one can use to become or improve upon being a thrifty fashion shopper. Some of us do it through economic necessity, others simply loving a bargain and some who can spend hours in thrift shops. Not all people are, or even want to be, thrifty fashion shoppers. Yet, as many of us feel the economic crunch and see drastically reduced prices on trendy, chic fashions, we are tending to become more and more concerned about thrIf you don't need it, don't buy it. Treat your clothing as if it were groceries. You wouldn't buy twelve dozen eggs or sixteen pints of milk simply because they were on sale. Buy what you need when you need it.
Here are some simple tips that will help you become an even more thrifty fashion shopper.
- Think before you shop. Look at advertisements in the local newspaper, in this column, on television, and other reliable sources of information. Consider what different stores have to offer and how their quality and prices compare. Always try to choose the best quality at the lowest price
- The cheapest brand is not always the best bargain. It may be of lesser quality, have more flaws or imperfections, or be part of an odd lot. Check things like seams, buttons, zippers, hems and decorative detail before buying. If it is not perfect in the store, it will not be perfect in your closet.
- Don't be afraid to plan ahead and think outside the box. During January and February, it might be a perfect time to shop for next Christmas and stash things away for the holidays. Be careful of sizes, especially when shopping for children. Since nothing can be returned next winter, purses, wallets, fashion jewelry, robes, scarves, sweaters and other fashion items that do not need to fit perfectly are great.
- Finally, start with basic, neutral colors that will match almost everything. Blacks, denims and chinos are especially good for mixing and matching. One good pair of slacks or jeans can go many miles when paired with three or four different, trendy, fashionable tops. Beige and ivory are great for dresses and can be the basis for a whole palette of chic colors.
- And, last but not least, always accentuate the positive and eliminate the negative as much as possible. Choose clothing that is flattering and easy to wear. Make sure it fits well, falls evenly, and doesn't pull or bind. Conceal figure flaws with well-fitting apparel best suited to your particular figure type.
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ART REVIEW; El Greco, Bearer Of Many Gifts
By MICHAEL KIMMELMAN
Published: October 3, 2003
EL GRECO'S sainted status aside, Antonio Palomino, a Spaniard, had it right 300 years ago: ''We can define El Greco's art by saying that what he did well none did better, and that what he did badly none did worse.''
I might add that the world is full of second-class El Grecos, but on the whole they are not in the first-class show at the Metropolitan Museum, now open to members in previews. Everyone else gets a chance to line up to see the exhibition starting Tuesday.
It is silly to review an iconic painter like El Greco. But like the rest of us, artists have their ups and downs -- El Greco, you might say, more than most -- and taste being a private matter (as opposed to historical significance), everyone is free to love or hate his work.
That he has inspired so much adoration and, partly in reaction, some loathing, can be considered a sign of both his eccentricity and his pertinence, which is to say, his modernity: people still react to him, as they do, for example, to van Gogh, with an intensity pretty much reserved for artists in their own time. The critic Roger Fry made this point a century ago. Impressed by the crowds standing before an El Greco and talking heatedly, ''as they might talk about some contemporary picture,'' he described him as ''an old master who is not merely modern, but actually appears a good many steps ahead of us, turning back to show us the way.''
And this is how he has been perceived popularly: as a recent discovery, a proto-modernist anachronism who miraculously anticipated Romanticism, Symbolism, Expressionism and the whole ethos of the wild and crazy, go-it-alone artist. Everyone came to see him as if looking into a mirror. The Romantics considered him a kindred spirit who must have been mentally unbalanced. The 20th century turned him into an astigmatic, hashish-loving mystic.
To Greeks he became the quintessential Greek painter; to the Spanish, the quintessential Spaniard.
Never mind that this is pretty much all historical hooey. El Greco was his own man, of his own time, and his art begs to be considered as part of the late 16th century, not the early 21st.
El Greco himself had something to say about mass appeal: ''Although it may seem that the masses have a vote in architecture and in music or rhetoric or painting, the fact is that this happens only when time and informed opinion have revealed the truth. And if once in a while popular taste is right, it is usually by accident and is not worth taking into account.''
Informed opinion in his day considered him a great but peculiar artist, capricious and extravagant except in his portraits, which amazed and influenced Velázquez -- El Greco's singularity having partly to do with a migratory upbringing.
Born Domenikos Theotokopoulos in Candia, now Heraklion, the capital of Crete, in 1541, he trained as a post-Byzantine artist, painting icons.
The show starts with them and, by the last gallery of the exhibition, you can see the abstract, conceptual side of these Byzantine pictures as a latent source for his final style, with its fantastical corkscrew figures, elongated and dematerialized, indifferent to verisimilitude and independent of nature, form dissolving into flat pattern and imaginary space. There is something about the quality of light, too, that connects to his Byzantine roots -- a golden glow, flickering and seeming almost to come from within the figures and emanate out in works like ''Adoration of the Shepherds,'' which El Greco painted as an old man for his own tomb.
From Crete, he traveled to Venice, then Rome. By 1570, he was described by the painter Giulio Clovio as a disciple of Titian, although Tintoretto and Jacopo Bassano seem at least as important to the work. He is said to have caused a ruckus by dismissing Michelangelo's ''Last Judgment'' in the Sistine Chapel, while lavishing praise on Correggio and Parmigianino, artists delicate in their sensuality, as opposed to the muscular Michelangelo.
But Michelangelo shows up anyway as a huge force in El Greco's paintings, Michelangelesque twisting figures absented of their weight. Maybe it was the anxiety of influence. The human figure embodied the spiritual in art for both Michelangelo and El Greco. Michelangelo also preached the Neoplatonic idea of the sublime artist uncovering ideal forms already embedded in the materials, an essentially abstract notion of beauty, highly personalized, touching a mystical chord and locating genius divinely implanted in the mind of the sculptor or painter. This could just as well have been El Greco's credo.
Failing to make it big in Italy, he tried Spain in 1576, going first to Madrid. He may have hoped to fill the part of Philip II's favorite artist lately vacated by Titian, who had died two months before El Greco arrived. He found his fluency as an artist at this point, painting ''The Adoration of the Name of Jesus,'' with a portrait of Philip in it, probably as a calling card for the position of court painter.
It is a multi-tiered pastiche of clashing parts, a little Bosch, a little Michelangelo, a little Venetian color thrown in for good measure, the kneeling figure of Philip in black, almost like a cutout, stuck oddly into the foreground.


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You're Gonna Buy Some Carbon Credits, See?
Psssttt . . . hey buddy, I got a nice deal on some carbon credits, straight off the docks.
If the eco-left gets its way, this won't be such a far-fetched scenario.
Earlier this month, Europe's top law enforcement agency (Europol) reported the continent's so-called "Cap and Trade" system is under the control of organized crime.
Lawmakers and energy experts say the massive theft and fraud Cap and Trade has fostered in Europe should be a "red flag" to U.S. lawmakers who want to recreate the system in the United States, according to Fox News. Europol reports over the last 18 months, $7.4 billion in fraudulent credits have been purchased from organized crime figures. Under "cap and trade" businesses cannot exceed certain carbon dioxide output limits, unless they buy government issued "credits" allowing them to produce more (in effect, a tax on carbon dioxide.)
Europol estimates in some countries up to 90 percent of the entire market volume was caused by fraudulent activities. "These criminal activities endanger the credibility of the European Union Emission Trading System," said Rob Wainwright, Europol's director.
As is the case in Europe, it's only a matter of time before organized crime gets into the cap and trade "racket".
Fight back – Click here to sign our "No Cap and Tax" petition if you haven't already done so – "If you know what's good for you!"
Right now, the Cap and Tax system just one U.S. Senate floor vote away from passage invites "corruption, illegality and criminal activity," much as it has in Europe, said Max Schulz, senior fellow at the Manhattan Institute. "This is the problem with politicians trying to create a market for something that the free market otherwise doesn't value," Schulz said. "An emissions trading market is an artificially, politically-created market…. "If we pass a system like Europe has, we're going to get all the problems Europe has experienced," he said. "You're asking for a lot of problems."
And that includes a surge in criminal activity and fraud in the carbon credit "market" – an opportunity Tony Soprano would love to get a piece of.
Western Tradition Partnership members aren't about to sit back and let our economy get "whacked"!
Stay tuned, because we'll be covering what is likely the first major prosecution of cap-and-trade fraud in the United States – a case in which records are set to be unsealed in early January 2010.
WTP hits Congressmen over vote for 'Cap and Tax' legislation
For Release: September 15, 2009
Western Tradition Partnership launches campaign to save American jobs from being "Cap and Taxed" away
Group alerts grassroots of Reps. Betsy Markey & Harry Teague's support for job-killing national energy tax
DENVER – Western Tradition Partnership announced Tuesday it has launched a grassroots campaign in Colorado, Montana, and New Mexico congressional districts to inform voters of the harm the proposed "Cap and Trade" bill in Congress (H.R. 2454) will have on jobs and the economy. The bill could come up for a Senate vote in the next few weeks.
The group has labeled the bill, which imposes a new national tax on carbon and creates a speculator's market in "carbon credit," as "Cap and Tax" in targeted mailings. The mailings will hit districts held by Betsy Markey (D, CO-4) and Harry Teague (D-NM-2), criticizing their votes to pass the bill on June 26th , while praising Denny Rehberg (R, MT) for his opposition.
One radical environmentalist group spent $1.2 million to get Markey elected in 2008.
"It's no coincidence that Markey voted for the Cap and Tax scheme after she was bought and paid for by the radical environmentalist groups in her last election," said Jacob Leis, WTP Executive Director, Colorado. "This new multi-billion dollar national energy tax is nothing but a political payoff to wealthy East- and West-coast donors and those on Wall Street who will get rich trading so-called carbon credits. Al Gore, Betsy Markey and their ilk will take billions in new taxes from every man, woman, and child in America to shamelessly pay back those who bankrolled their elections.
"Research shows this Cap and Tax bill will destroy as many as 2.5 million jobs per year and creates the equivalent of a $4,609 tax hike on a family of four," said Leis. "Their plan is to inflict pain on families and employers and stop any efforts at economic renewal. Even worse, the bill has no net effect on its supposed target of global temperatures." The research was conducted by the independent, non-partisan Heritage Foundation's Center for Data Analysis. The Heritage Foundation has no relationship with WTP.
Even President Obama admits this new national energy tax causes every person's utility bill to "skyrocket." (San Francisco Chronicle, Jan. 2008 or on this video post.) Obama's early admission Cap and Tax hurts working Americans makes Markey's support even more alarming.
State Senator Greg Brophy, a farmer in Markey's district estimates "Cap and Tax" will cost farmers in Colorado's 4th CD nearly $600 per irrigated acre.
"It's all pain, no gain." Leis said, adding, "and the environmentalists intended it to be that way. More and more scientists are coming out against this bill because it exploits environmental concerns to launch an economic assault on America's economy, which radical environmentalist have long hated."
"It's up to citizens to speak out against this radical environmentalist plan to downsize American jobs. Western Tradition Partnership will aggressively begin that process."
For more information on this issue visit WTP's blog at www.blog.westerntradition.org , or to schedule an interview, contact Public Relations Director Donny Ferguson at email@example.com.
Western Tradition Partnership is a fast-growing grassroots organization dedicated to "Rediscovering the Treasures of the West" through rational, responsible natural resource development and land use policy. WTP achieves it goals through hard-hitting issue advocacy and legislative lobbying, voter contact and public education campaigns.
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Bill Maher Shocked – Schweitzer Doesn't Buy Dems' Global Warming Plan
This is good stuff, but of course old B.S. is only playing to his audience. His radical appointees to various commissions and Earth Justice ties tell the real tale.
Bill Maher received quite a shock on his show last Friday when his guest, Governor Brian Schweitzer (D-MT), said cap-and-trade was "the wrong approach."
Schweitzer, who heads the Democratic Governors Association, explained that cap-and-trade, "says to the biggest utilities in America we are going to add a trillion dollars to your bottom line we are going to franchise you and only you to be the producers of CO2. I think it's the wrong approach."
Maher was clearly shocked that the Governor wouldn't go along and endorse cap-and-trade. Maher was exasperated, and asked, "But isn't it the Democrat approach?"
Schweitzer responded by saying "It might be some of the Democrats approach, but I think if you want to get to the root of the problem you establish a price of the cost of that pollution to the rest of society…"
Cap and Traitors on the Run, Smart Grid Next, WTP Keeps up the Pressure
by Jacob Leis
Western Tradition Partnership (WTP) members – along with many other Americans who voiced opposition to the multiTRILLION dollar "Cap and Trade" energy tax – should be proud of themselves for derailing H.R. 2454, which was on its way to a speedy Senate vote after being rammed through the House in late June.
While this debate is now somewhat overshadowed by the Obama Adminstration's attempt to take away the private insurance and health care freedoms of millions of citizens, we believe that Cap and Trade legislation is still the greatest and most overarching overall threat to the American way of life, and must be vigorously opposed.
The dirty little secret being withheld from the "little folks" like you and me? Our opposition campaign is working, and with continued action at this level, WTP's Congressional insiders and Senate staff contacts tell us we could beat back a Senate Cap and Trade vote until this session, and maybe even kill the bill until after the 2010 mid term elections!
Liberal blogger Ezra Klein (who started his career with wunderkind blogger Matt Singer of Left in the West) confirms our suspicions with this Washington Post quote posted earlier today (responding to a question about going on in D.C.):
Washington, D.C.: Has the Senate set a time table for when they're going to debate Cap-and-Trade? Obviously, it will be after the recess, but I'm nervous that if they dither and delay it much later than that, they'll start to use the 2010 elections as an excuse to blow it off entirely.
Ezra Klein: I would bet a lot of money that we don't see the Senate pass a serious cap-and-trade plan before the 2010 midterms.
These guys are onto something. They are seeing Senators in swing states get hammered over Cap and Trade. But we cannot be satisfied with knocking our opponents down – we must finish the job. That's why even as the Feds throw the kitchen sink at us with radical natural resource and environmental legislation, WTP continues to sound the public alarm while we ramp up our opposition campaign to reach the elderly, business owners, farmers and ranchers, and hundreds of thousands of plain old taxpayers. The response has been very encouraging. Anyone who has the least interest in not becoming a de facto slave to the government elite should be very concerned about the implications of this bill. Here's why:
As you know, Cap and Trade puts federal police power behind collecting "carbon taxes" – a tax on consumption of energy – which not a single person funtioning in our society could escape. Yes, this tax will cost you and me trillions of dollars and includes the laugable "cow flatulence" fee, but that's not the half of it. The more sinister side of such legislation is the ability to control individual behavior through coercion.
You see, when combined with rapidly advancing "smart grid" technology, which is supported by big business (corporations that actually may be "evil") — and which will likely be VERY appealing to Americans, who genuinely want to help the environment and increase energy efficiency, so long aas it doesn't destroy their way of life in exchange for nothing — the Dynamic Duo of Cap and Trade/Smart Grid would allow government bureaucrats (and their computers) to ratchet up their carbon taxes at will, bureaucratically, without even the charade of a Congressional vote. [Read more about that angle below.]
And if at some point you can't pay? Said bureaucrat's computer would simply shut off power to your home or business. No hearing, no trial. A new, and very personal Dark Age.
Therefore it is critical you continue to fight Cap and Trade from now until the summer reccess is over! Western Tradition Partnership will be alerting constituents via mail and email, and while politicians are in their districts, holding rallies as YOUR cap and trade petitions (click here to sign – we'll hand-deliver) are brought by the thousands to their local offices.
Please consider joining WTP today as we fight the anti-taxpayer, anti-jobs agenda of the Radical Environmental Left. And please SIGN OUR "NO CAP & TAX" PETITION today – your petition and personal comments on it will be hand-delivered to your U.S. Senator by our staff, and we'll report progress to you along the way. We are winning this fight, but must stay vigilant!
To further understand the impact of Cap and Trade on the U.S. — and particularly on places far from New York and San Francisco — read this excellent, detailed article:
Cap and trade — tough questions By David Bennett, Farm Press Editorial Staff, Jul 30, 2009
During July 22 Senate Agriculture Committee hearings on cap and trade legislation it became quickly apparent that major questions have yet to be answered by proponents….
Also read: Cap and Trade Charade by Ken Blanchard over at the the South Dakota Politics Blog
Finally, for an excellent analysis of the Smart Grid Scam by analysts at the Gerson Lehman Group, check out:
Smart Grid is Big Brother and the Scam of the Century and can't be stopped
July 24, 2009
Gov. Schweitzer Flips, Otter Flops Amid Cap & Trade Scandal, Taxpayer Pressure
Governors (Two) Bark Back
By Paul Chesser — American Spectator
Well, they didn't take that very well.
The chairman (Democrat Gov. of Montana Brian Schweitzer) and vice chairman (Republican Gov. of Idaho Butch Otter) of the Western Governors Association responded sharply (PDF) to a National Taxpayers Union inquiry about WGA's management and funding of the Western Climate Initiative, which the rest of the WGA board members — the governors of the other 17 Western states — either unknowingly or are too embarrassed to acknowledge they support.
WCI is a serious hush-hush deal among these state executives.
Read the rest here:
- Paul Chesser
Simple Math: Cap & Tax and Your Light Bill
Following up the Obama video bragging about skyrocketing electricity prices, we found this very simple explanation about just how much Cap and Trade will cost everyone from the everyday Joe Six-Pack to the EEEEVIL "Big Electric (spelled r-a-t-e-p-a-y-e-r-s):
According to Bob Zubrin, American aerospace engineer and author (The Case for Mars, 1996): "Burning one ton of coal produces about three tons of CO2. [Added weight of oxygen in combustion, I assume. - Ed.] So a tax of $15 per ton of CO2 emitted is equivalent to a tax of $45/ton on coal. The price of Eastern anthracite coal runs in the neighborhood of $45/ton, so under the proposed system, such coal would be taxed at a rate of about 100 percent. The price of Western bituminous coal is currently about $12/ton.
This coal would therefore be taxed at a rate of almost 400 percent. Coal provides half of America's electricity, so such extraordinary imposts could easily double the electric bills paid by consumers and businesses across half the nation. In addition, many businesses, such as the metals and chemical industries, use a great deal of coal directly. By doubling or potentially even quadrupling the cost of their most basic feedstock, the cap-and-trade system's indulgence fees could make many such businesses uncompetitive and ultimately throw millions of working men and women onto the unemployment lines."
It doesn't get much simpler than that!
And another easily digested tidbit (would go great with a nice Chardonnay): Earth's atmosphere today contains about 380 ppm CO2 (0.038%). Compared to former geologic times, our present atmosphere, like the Late Carboniferous atmosphere, is CO2- impoverished! In the last 600 million years of Earth's history only the Carboniferous Period and our present age, the Quaternary Period, have witnessed CO2 levels less than 400 ppm.
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Gorumara National Park a National Park in northern West Bengal, India. Located in the Terai region of the Himalayan foothills, it is a medium-sized park with grasslands and forests.
Bisons and Other Wilds can be seen easly in Gorumara National Park in Lataguri
One Horn Rihnos are one of the speciality of Gorumara National Park, Lataguri.
Seeing Wild Lifes in Gorumara National Park is the memorable experience in one's life.
Lataguri is a small town located in the Jalpaiguri district of Indian state of West Bengal. The village is located outside the Gorumara National Park on National Highway No. 31. Permits for entering Gorumara and Chapramari Wildlife Sanctuary are given from Lataguri. A large number of resorts and hotels cater for tourists.


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Oh, Canada! Northern Neighbor Becoming New Hot Spot for Big Securities Claims
In recent years, securities-class actions have sort of flatlined in the U.S.
But up in Canada, it's a different story. Securities class-actions are trending strongly upward — if not booming — and U.S.-based lawyers are sitting up to pay attention. Click here for the WSJ story on the trend.
One high-profile U.S. plaintiffs' firm has already gone north. Milberg LLP has teamed up with Canada's Kim Orr Barristers P.C., in order to mine the burgeoning Canadian class-action market.
Michael Spencer, a seasoned New York-based lawyer at Milberg, who last year passed the Ontario bar exam and has a case pending in Canada, said he hoped the market for litigation would become more fertile as Canadian law related to class action develops.
By U.S. standards, the activity in Canada is small. Last year, lawyers in Canada filed 15 securities class-action lawsuits, the most ever in a calendar year, according to a recent study by the Toronto office of global consulting firm National Economic Research Associates Inc.
In the U.S., by contrast, lawyers filed 188 securities class actions in 2011, according to a study issued by Stanford Law School and Cornerstone Research.
But there were 45 active cases in Canada as of the end of 2011, more than twice the number pending at the end of 2007 and more than four times the number active in 2000, according to the NERA report.
The genesis of the miniboom in Canada traces to a 2005 tweak to an Ontario law that imposed tougher disclosure requirements on Canadian companies and made it easier for investors to sue publicly traded Canadian companies.
Part of the interest in Canada among U.S. lawyers — who are watching Milberg's move closely — follows the 2010 Morrison v. National Australia Bank Ltd. ruling from the U.S. Supreme Court. In the case, the court ruled that plaintiff classes in securities cases should be restricted to investors who purchased shares on U.S. exchanges. It reined in the number of participants — and dollar values — of some class actions, and is causing some plaintiffs' lawyers to look for business opportunities abroad, including in Canada.
Whether lawyers' interest in building an industry in Canada will last is unclear. The country's legal system poses some unfamiliar challenges for plaintiffs.
Unlike the U.S., Canada follows a "loser pays" system, which means the loser in a lawsuit has to pick up the legal tab for the winner. And under the 2005 tweak to the law — called Bill 198 – most recoveries are limited to 5% of a defendant's market capitalization.
"There's less upside and with loser pays, a good bit of downside risk," said Dimitri Lascaris, a plaintiffs' lawyer at Siskinds LLP in London, Ontario. "As a result, you tend to be a little more selective up here."


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This will be fun. Today, Anne and I reveal the Beauty Profile of 2 celebrities, plus some pictures so you can see which one is dressing true to her natural beauty.
Can you guess which one of these celebrities is Dressing her Truth?
Which celebrity is Dressing her Truth?
Anne Hathaway or Diane von Furstenberg
Here's a hint before you watch the video:
The celebrity world and fashion industry encourage women to dress in the strong style of a bold, striking Type 4 in my Beauty Profiling system. (It makes sense—you gorgeous Type 4 ladies are so stunning!)
But that strong expression on the wrong woman can age her, wash her out, or just make her look silly. Any woman—even a gorgeous celebrity—who doesn't look quite right is usually not putting the proper lines around her face and on her body.
Watch the video to learn Anne and Diane's Types, discover which is dressing her truth most of the time, and find out how you can tell:
Did you guess right? Who else in the celebrity world do you think is dressing her truth? Is there another celebrity you'd like us to take a look at? Please share a comment.
Like we said in the video, women everywhere look to the celebrity world for fashion advice and tips. But just like those pictures you saw, not every celebrity or even fashion designer is listening to her beauty sixth sense!
The best way to listen to your own beauty sixth sense is by Dressing Your Truth. If you haven't started yet, it's easy. Find out what your beauty sixth sense is trying to tell you by taking my 3-Minute Beauty Confidence Quiz today.


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The spring flu has taken New York by storm. As Fox News reported on April 21, a second wave of influenza is causing illnesses in the state and in other Northeastern states. It is not an uncommon occurrence but New Yorkers have not seen it for several years.
The spring flu, a second peak of influenza activity in early spring, is usually caused by an influenza B strain of virus. The latest data from the Centers for Disease Control, for the week ending April 12, shows that 55 percent of the specimens that tested positive for influenza were one of two influenza B viruses. The good news is that both of the strains in circulation were included in the 2013-2014 Northern Hemisphere quadrivalent influenza vaccine. Those who received that vaccine should be immune to the viruses.
The latest influenza peak was brought home April 16 when Rochester, NY, mayor Lovely Warren was hospitalized for flu-like symptoms and dehydration. The Democrat & Chronicle reported that the mayor was taken to Strong Memorial Hospital by ambulance and remained there until April 18.
New York State reported widespread influenza activity in the week ending April 12. This represents a continuous stretch of 18 weeks at that level. The level of positive influenza laboratory results for the 2013-2014 flu season has greatly exceeded those of the last three seasons since March 8. Influenza B strains have been the majority strain in tests since March 15.
Along with the increase in influenza cases, New York is seeing a large increase in the number of patients hospitalized with confirmed influenza. The week of April 5 saw nearly 700 patients admitted. Since numbers bottomed out about March 1, admissions have climbed and over one third of all flu hospitalizations for the season have been recorded in the last six weeks.
Should you get vaccinated for influenza if you have not already done so? The Centers for Disease Control say:
CDC recommends that people get vaccinated against flu as long as flu viruses are circulating. Influenza seasons are unpredictable. They can begin as early as October and substantial activity can occur as late as May. It takes about two weeks after vaccination for antibodies to develop in the body that provide protection against the flu.
CDC testing this flu season shows that the flu shot for this year is a good match for the viruses in circulation. Only the quadrivalent influenza vaccine covers both of the B influenza strains in wide circulation. It is available as an injection, or for many healthy adults, as a nasal spray. The trivalent vaccine includes one of the B strains. It is available in many formulations, including one that is egg free for those with allergies.


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Samsung Galaxy Ace Plus with Android Gingerbread announced
Samsung has officially introduced another new Android smartphone: the Galaxy Ace Plus, which – unsurprisingly – is presented as "an enhanced version of the widely popular Galaxy Ace (launched last year)."
Although it succeeds the Galaxy Ace, the Ace Plus looks more like a bigger Galaxy Gio. That aside, the new handset comes with Android Gingerbread, a 3.65 inch HVGA display, 1GHz processor, 512MB of RAM, and 3GB of internal memory. Its other features are similar to the ones found in the original Ace, including: TouchWiz UI, HSDPA (7.2Mbps), Wi-Fi, GPS, Bluetooth 3.0, and a 5MP autofocus camera with LED flash.
The Samsung Galaxy Ace Plus will be available starting later this month, first in Russia. After that, the smartphone will be released across Europe, Asia (including China), Latin America, and Africa. The handset's price hasn't been announced, but it should be around $300 (unlocked).
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A Memorable Visit To A Very Different Hospital
Latest update: May 10th, 2013
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