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from The American Heritage® Dictionary of the English Language, 4th Edition
- n. Weight; heaviness; bulk.
- transitive v. To lift (something) in order to judge or estimate its weight.
- transitive v. To hoist (something); heave.
- intransitive v. To have a given weight; weigh.
from Wiktionary, Creative Commons Attribution/Share-Alike License
- n. Weight.
- n. Heaviness, the feel of weight.
- n. A piece of mountain pasture to which a farm animal has become hefted.
- n. An animal that has become hefted thus.
- n. Poor condition in sheep caused by mineral deficiency.
- v. To lift up; especially, to lift something heavy.
- v. To test the weight of something by lifting it.
- v. (of a farm animal, especially a flock of sheep) To become accustomed and attached to an area of mountain pasture.
- v. past participle of to heave.
from the GNU version of the Collaborative International Dictionary of English
- n. Same as haft, n.
- n. The act or effort of heaving; violent strain or exertion.
- n. Weight; ponderousness.
- n. The greater part or bulk of anything.
- n. A number of sheets of paper fastened together, as for a notebook; also, a part of a serial publication.
- transitive v. To heave up; to raise aloft.
- transitive v. To prove or try the weight of by raising.
from The Century Dictionary and Cyclopedia
- n. Same as haft.
- n. The act of heaving or retching; violent strain or exertion; effort.
- n. Weight; heaviness.
- n. The greater or weightier part of anything; the bulk; the gist.
- n. Need; emergency.
- n. Command; restraint.
- To heave up.
- To try the weight of.
- To weigh.
- An early modern English preterit and past participle of heave.
- n. A dwelling; a place of residence.
- To dwell.
- To familiarize with a place or an employment; attach or cause to become attached by long usage.
- n. A note-book.
- n. A part or number of a serial publication, as of a magazine; a division of a work which is being issued in parts.
from WordNet 3.0 Copyright 2006 by Princeton University. All rights reserved.
- n. the property of being large in mass
- v. lift or elevate
- v. test the weight of something by lifting it
The manager continues to see value in heft, although muscle can be accompanied by subtlety.
Kevin Davies gets surprise England call-up for Montenegro game
It didn't compare in heft to what a Marine carried on an amphibious landing.
He bade the Scrivener write the tale of the Men of the Sickle at an hundred and a half, and his folk fared past the War-leader joyously, being one half of them bowmen; and fell shooters they were; the other half were girt with swords, and bore withal long ashen staves armed with great blades curved inwards, which weapon they called heft-sax.
The Roots of the Mountains; Wherein Is Told Somewhat of the Lives of the Men of Burgdale
True, as Jaffe predicts, hardly anyone is really making any money; most only the people who are, indeed, are the old usual suspects with the big label heft behind them.
Larry Bird, Danny Ainge (who played with Petrovic in Portland) and other former NBA stars are interviewed, but the heft comes from the Croatian-born Kukoc and Radja.
Don't write more words than you need to add "heft" - people don't have time to waste and fluff makes you look bad - but if you need 500 words to sell the product or service, write 500.
The prospect of the BBC "using its massive heft is likely to upset UK media and Internet companies, which have often complained that the corporation – funded by a mandatory tax on UK television households totalling nearly 3 billion pounds ($5.4 billion) – has encroached on activities in the private sector," says the story, adding"
Danson, as the constantly stoned and seemingly monstrously self-absorbed magazine editor George, gives the show weight and heft, which is hard to see in the first several episodes because George appears to be a flibbertigibbet.
The heft is an asset: This bread makes a sturdy, flavorful base for sandwiches, a robust partner for strong cheese, jam, or spreads, and an ideal starting point for croutons (page 47) or Bruschetta, Rethought (page 51).
Karl Rove says Sonia Sotomayor lacks intellectual heft, which is sort of like Rod Blagojevich saying she lacks integrity.


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It's that time of the year again where I pit my Model Behavior choices against each other. Every week I attempt to pick a hot male model to salivate over. Whether they're from high-fashion or the fitness sector, a rising star or one at the top of their game, I try to represent all aspects of the industry. If you don't see your favorite in this round, perhaps they've competed in a previous year or will pop up in a future round.
So without further ado, let's take a look back at the sexy male models who were featured during the first third of 2012. Be sure to vote often for the ones you think are the hottest. Who will be crowned the winner of Homorazzi's 2012 Model Behavior Showdown. Click here to check 2011's results and winner.
Model Behavior Showdown Dates
The Top 2 from each round automatically advance to the finals. Four wildcard spots will be given to the male models who garnered the four highest vote totals from all rounds tabulated (winners excluded).
- Round 1: Dec 11-17, 2012 (results announced Dec 18)
- Round 2: Dec 18-24, 2012 (results announced Dec 25)
- Round 3: Dec 26-31, 2012 (results announced Jan 1)
- Finals: Jan 2-7, 2013 (Final Results announced Jan 8, 2013)
Even though I like my male models a bit older and buffer, I thought I'd mix it up this week for my Model Behavior feature. Not only are you getting two this week (applause), but you're also getting ones that are relatively young. A little extra treat for those who like your men "fresher". Daniel Akyeampong is only 20-years-old, while Colin Brazeau is 19. Since I don't want to come off as a creepy old man, I'm going to try to keep my signature comments PG-rated. LOL.
Brazeau was attending Northwestern University in Chicago before he decided to take a year off college to pursue modeling full-time in New York City. Just in case you were wondering, he was majoring in Economics and minoring in Music. Good looking, smart and musically-inclined, someone's a modern renaissance man.
So far, his risk to pause his post-secondary education is paying off. He's appeared in fashion spreads for V-Man, Fiasco Mag and Playboy. In addition, he's done catalog work and slowly building his runway resume. Colin already caught the eye of photographer Rick Day and posed for him in a steamy shoot. Must be nice to be Day for a "day". Snapping male models day-in, day-out must be a difficult life. NOT. Enough chitter chatter, let's get on with the pictures. Be sure to check out this week's other male model, Daniel Akyeampong, after this one.

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Cranberry-Hazelnut Bread
- 1 cup hazelnuts
- 2 tablespoons unsalted butter, melted, plus more for the pan
- 1 1/2 cups all-purpose flour, spooned and leveled
- 1/3 cup granulated sugar
- 1/4 cup packed light brown sugar
- 1 tablespoon baking powder
- 1/2 teaspoon kosher salt
- 1/2 cup whole milk
- 2 large eggs
- 1 tablespoon finely grated orange zest
- 1/2 teaspoon pure vanilla extract
- 1 1/2 cups fresh or frozen cranberries
- Heat oven to 350° F. Spread the hazelnuts on a large rimmed baking sheet and toast in oven, tossing occasionally, until fragrant, 10 to 12 minutes. Rub the warm nuts in a clean dish towel to remove the skins (discard the skins); coarsely chop.
- Butter an 8½-by-4½-inch loaf pan. In a medium bowl, whisk together the flour, sugars, baking powder, and salt. In a small bowl, whisk together the butter, milk, eggs, orange zest, and vanilla; add to the flour mixture and mix until just combined (do not overmix). Fold in the hazelnuts and cranberries.
- Transfer the batter to the prepared pan and bake until a toothpick inserted in the center comes out clean, 55 to 65 minutes (tent with foil if the top browns too quickly). Cool in the pan for 30 minutes, then transfer to a wire rack to cool completely.


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Every Saturday, year-round, from 9-1pm
Tuesdays, seasonally (April-July, October-November), 3-7pm
The Waco Downtown Farmers Market is a year-round riverside market, located at 400 South University Parks Drive. Look for the old Fire Tower – and there we are, next door at the old RV park. Since November 2011, the Market has been and will continue to be open every Saturday from 9:00am to 1:00pm, and Tuesdays from 3:00pm-7:00pm seasonally, featuring the best local agricultural producers and artisan vendors within 150-miles of Waco. Please join us and pass along the word to all you know.
Follow these links to find more details about the Waco Downtown Farmers Market:
- Check out these great Market commercials: Chisholm Crossing's Intro to the Farmers Market, Setting Up the WDFM, and A Kid's Eye View of the Market
- Learn about Upcoming Events at the Market
- Scroll through WDFM Local Ingredients from Local Vendors List (PDF)
- Discover ways you can Volunteer at the Market
- Become a Featured Organization in our Community Booth
- Review the Market on Local Harvest.org – and tell the world how much you love the Waco Downtown Farmers Market!
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Strawberry Shortcake Sundaes for Two
Total Time
Prep 4 mins
Cook 0 mins
I came up with this recipe to help use up all the strawberry ice cream I've ended up with. I like to serve these sundaes in tumblers / mixer glasses but you could use any glass you prefer. If you do not have fresh strawberries, frozen strawberries which have been drained are fine (spoon a little juice over the sponge if you like!). This is a very quick dessert to put together & is beautiful to look at.
Ingredients Nutrition
- 1 -1 1⁄2 cup strawberry ice cream
- 2 pieces vanilla sponge cakes (I use a basic victoria sponge cut to the size of my tumblers)
- 1 cup whipped cream (or you can use squirty cream)
- 10 fresh strawberries
- Place the sponge cake in the bottom of each glass. Press down gently to make sure the entire base is covered.
- Hull & slice 2 strawberries & cover the sponge bases.
- Spoon the ice cream over the top of the strawberries.
- Hull & slice 2 more strawberries & cover the ice cream.
- Pipe the whipped cream over the top of the strawberries & top with the remaining whole strawberries.
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Really good dessert! Also very easy to make. I used a big glass bowl to make the dessert in and used chunks of angel food cake and put that in the bottom, and put the ice cream on top and then some more cake and straawberries and then the whipping cream and garnished it with strawberries and oreo cookie crumbs. Thank-you for posting!


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The entry that w3 total cache is adding to my .htaccess file is making the page inaccessible. Do I need this entry in there? Can I remove it? Is there a way to disable w3 from adding to .htaccess?
The entry that w3 total cache is adding to my .htaccess file is making the page inaccessible. Do I need this entry in there? Can I remove it? Is there a way to disable w3 from adding to .htaccess?
Don't use disk enhanced caching method for page. Can you paste your file here?
# BEGIN W3 Total Cache
<IfModule mod_setenvif.c>
SetEnvIfNoCase Accept-Encoding (gzip) APPEND_EXT=.$1
<IfModule mod_rewrite.c>
RewriteEngine On
RewriteCond %{REQUEST_URI} \/$
RewriteCond %{REQUEST_URI} !(\/wp-admin\/|\/xmlrpc.php|\/wp-(app|cron|login|register).php|feed|wp-.*\.php|index\.php) [OR]
RewriteCond %{REQUEST_URI} (wp-comments-popup\.php|wp-links-opml\.php|wp-locations\.php) [NC]
RewriteCond %{REQUEST_METHOD} !=POST
RewriteCond %{QUERY_STRING} =""
RewriteCond %{HTTP_COOKIE} !(comment_author|wp-postpass|wordpress_\[a-f0-9\]\+|wordpress_logged_in) [NC]
RewriteCond %{HTTP_USER_AGENT} !(bot|ia_archive|slurp|crawl|spider) [NC]
RewriteCond /var/www/html/finance/cfodailynews/wp-content/w3tc/pgcache/$1/_default_.html%{ENV:APPEND_EXT} -f
RewriteRule (.*) wp-content/w3tc/pgcache/$1/_default_.html%{ENV:APPEND_EXT} [L]
# END W3 Total Cache
# BEGIN WordPress
<IfModule mod_rewrite.c>
RewriteEngine On
RewriteBase /
RewriteCond %{REQUEST_FILENAME} !-f
RewriteCond %{REQUEST_FILENAME} !-d
RewriteRule . /index.php [L]
# END WordPress
I don't see anything out of the ordinary here, so I'll need you to submit a bug submission report from the support tab of the plugin.
I just installed w3tc today, and could only get it to work by changing
RewriteRule (.*) wp-content/w3tc/pgcache/$1/_default_.html%{ENV:APPEND_EXT} [L]
RewriteRule (.*) /blog/wp-content/w3tc/pgcache/$1/_default_.html%{ENV:APPEND_EXT} [L]
with wordpress installed in a /blog directory. Now when I look at w3tc settings in the dashboard, there's this message:
You've selected disk caching with enhanced mode however the .htaccess file is not properly configured.
Can I ignore this message?
Before I changed that .htaccess line, server was trying to load a file like /home/myname/blog/wp-content/w3tc/pgcache//_default_.html.gzip instead of a URL.
Can you try the development version: http://wordpress.org/extend/plugins/w3-total-cache/download/ and let me know if this issue persists?
Thanks for the quick reply & a great plugin. The error is now gone. Should I keep development version for now? Incidentally, I had turned off Rewrite URL structure because css & js didn't minify. I'll trying turning it on, just in case that's been fixed as well.
PS: Rewrite URL structure still won't work, so I turned it off. It doesn't concern me too much anyway.
this may or may not help, but, media temple gridservice reports different paths for the following, which has caused me problems in the past,
pwd -p
Also, media temple only allows php 5 commands to be executed in 2 ways,
* via command line using the binary /usr/bin/php5
* via apache .htaccess with AddHandler
Is it possible that the code is running a shell command that isn't using the correct binary? This is a shot in the dark, but, I am curious to solve this problem as well.
Should I keep development version for now?
I'm on MediaTemple gridservice, chopgood or anyone else, are there things I should look out for?
I just tried the development version and now only some individual posts show up, seems totally random.
My blog lives in a subdirectory.
home page loads.
Clicking individual posts from home page results in only some of them loading, the rest just hang.
Even when I disable W3TC I can't get to see many of the individual posts, I am hosed here, help!
Is the issue random? What are your settings?
General default settings on the dev version of the plugin.
I ended up removing the plugin. My blog was superfast right after installing it less than 24 hours later it's slow as molasses and I'm on the front page of Techmeme today which is an epic fail :-(
I removed the plugin it after I had to ssh into my server and remove some cache files that never disappeared when I un-installed it.
Plus I'm on Media Temple Grid, I'm never quite sure where this slowness is from, or who to blame (besides myself) or who to ask for help.
Is it WordPress core files, or Thesis theme, or a skin for thesis or a mangled custom_functions file or the web host or what? this kind of decision tree is why WP feels like the system was written a decade ago.
Last night Media Temple told me my mysql server container crashed as well, compounding issues and then I found a 28-second query!
I'll probably just spend a few more bucks and get a DV server. No need for caching.
Maybe I will install it on another site of mine, I simply cannot try to get the plugin working on my live site.
It's still an awesome plugin, don't get me wrong, but its about 80% ready for mere mortals to install and use. Just read the statements about which htaccess files go where? That's crazily complicated in the docs.
Enough ranting, for me, I'll check back in when I get a chance to try it on my other server.
Shared hosting does not have dedicated resources. You should not expect your site to always be fast. No plugin can overcome a poorly optimized theme or plugins especially when no database caching (mysql customization) is possible.
@ fredericktownes Hi Frederick I blog @ techGyo.com I've read a lot about W3 Total Cache and I tried to install it in my blog. It was not a fresh install, because I've been using Super cache so far. I uninstalled and deleted super cache before installing W3 Total Cache, but I couldn't actiavate the plugin.
I'm getting error message:
Plugin could not be activated because it triggered a fatal error.
/home/techgyoc/public_html/.htaccess is not write-able, please run following command:
chmod 777 /home/techgyoc/public_html/.htaccess
So I went to Cpanel and changed folder permission and tried again. But it is still giving me the same error message while trying to activate.
Can you please advice the steps to be taken when installing W3 Total Cache on a wordpress which already had a cache plugin? and also please advice the changes to be made to .htaccess file.
You will need to start all over again. Delete the W3 plugin completely along with any files or scripts it created. Then change the permission first before you even download it.
Good luck.
Thanks for the tip, But I'm sorry the issue still persists.
I think there was some major issue occurred in the previous installation.
The error message was about your .htaccess file, not a folder. Also I recommend trying the development version of the plugin instead: http://wordpress.org/extend/plugins/w3-total-cache/download/
Thanks for the quick response! Let me try the development version and keep you updated with the result
Hmmm.. Still getting the same error:
Plugin could not be activated because it triggered a fatal error.
/home/techgyoc/public_html/.htaccess is not write-able, please run following command:
chmod 777 /home/techgyoc/public_html/.htaccess
Change permissions on file
chmod 777 /home/techgyoc/public_html/.htaccess
but not on directory
@ fredericktownes It works like charm!! My blog is much faster that ever before!! I'm really thankful to all guys who suppoted me to get this thing work in my blog!
Very good @srj.cooldude
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My Nonprofit Reviews
Tom Unger
Review for Senior Citizens Council of Clackamas County Inc, Oregon City, OR, USA
I've volunteered as a board member of this organization for a few years. I joined after I learned about all the services it provides senior citizens who are at risk of losing their life savings and have no one else to protect or care for them. This nonprofit group is unique. The services it provides at little or no cost to seniors are not offered by any other local agency. That's why the court system (judges, lawyers) and social service agencies love it so much. They often turn to the Council as a place of last resort to help save a senior in need. I can't say enough good things about the Senior Citizens Council of Clackamas County. It is a grass roots agency that doesn't spend a lot on staff, rent or office equipment. The dedicated board and staff make sure to use as much of its budget as possible on helping our vulnerable senior citizens.
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Review for Senior Citizens Council of Clackamas County Inc, Oregon City, OR, USA
I volunteer on the board of the Senior Citizens Council of Clackamas County. I first became aware of the organization just over a year ago when it chose two of my fellow Wells Fargo employees for its annual award. I discovered that this nonprofit group is providing vital services to seniors that are not available anywhere else. I also found out that many of its clients are not able to pay even the minimal fee for those services so the council provides them for free. I was so impressed with the council and its staff that I agreed to serve on its board and play a larger role in its efforts. I think this is a wonderful organization worthy of support.
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I've personally experienced the results of this organization in...
I'm not a senior citizen myself so I haven't personally benefited from its work. But I have seen the extraordinary results it achieves on a low budget.
If I had to make changes to this organization, I would...
Expand the capabilitiies of its web site. I understand this is already underway.
Will you volunteer or donate to this organization beyond what is required of board members?
How much of an impact do you think this organization has?
Will you tell others about this organization?
How did you learn about this organization?
see narrative above
What is this organization's top short-term priority?
Help as many senior citizens as possible; obtain funding.
What is its top priority in the long run?
Establish more permanent sources of funding
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Updated: Is the backlight supposed to be blue?
A new photo has been submitted by the same reader that started us on the blue backlight journey. This new photo shows a direct comparison of a new 30GB and a 15GB iPod. Click "Read more" for photo.
In our ongoing saga of "Is it white or is it blue?", iLounger, Matthew S. emailed us the following:
"The difference is pretty striking, and you'll note that even in the manually calibrated version, there is a slight blue tint to the backlight - this is entirely expected as blue is the dominant colour in "white" LEDs. The precise temperature of the LED varies widely between manufacturers (just try out a couple of different white-led flashlights to see).
The screen also appears quite blue to the naked eye when viewed from even a relatively slight angle.
The moral of the story: there are too many factors involved to make a realistic comparison. Viewing angle, LED manufacturer, the camera's white balance, ambient lighting conditions, and simply people's varying perception of color. Some iPods probably are blue, but the variations displayed are much more likely to be due to one or two of those reasons than they are to Apple creating a new hardware revision."
An anonymous iLounger sent us an interesting bit of news about the latest new iPods and LCD backlight. Click here for a photo comparison.
"Yesterday at work (I work at the Apple Store) I had to put out another of the new iPods for demo on the floor (a 15GB). And to my surprise, it was different than every other iPod already out, and different than every one I have seen, including my own 30GB.
The screen was MUCH clearer. It appears to be the promised "new high resolution" screen. I turned the contrast way down and it was still quite visible and clear. And the kicker is that the backlight is BLUE (as promised and as is on the box) and not white. I held the "new" 15GB next to the "old" 15GB and it is quite obvious there is a new, better screen. It is SO much better than the iPods released a few weeks ago. I don't know if all iPods being shipped have this new screen and backlight but I sure hope so. It is a much better screen."
Our new 15GB has a white backlight as specified on Apple's iPod Spec page, but the box and this iPod webpage indicates an iPod has a blue backlight. Is it just Apple's way of enhancing the advertising photos for advertising's sake? Or, are the new iPods supposed to have a blue backlight? Does your iPod have a blue backlight? Send us a photo.
Submitted by a reader. Not the same Apple Store iPod as mentioned above. (15GB iPod)
iLounge photo. (15GB iPod)
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Book your room at La Closerie Deauville
Get an overview of this hotel4-star residence with an indoor pool in Deauville (Deauville - Trouville-sur-Mer)
This residence is located in Deauville (Deauville - Trouville-sur-Mer), close to the beach, Deauville La Touques Racecourse, Deauville Beach, and Deauville Casino. Also nearby are Polyclinique de Deauville and Deauville Poney Club.
Property Features
Recreational amenities at La Closerie Deauville include an indoor pool and a spa tub. Other amenities include complimentary wireless Internet access and a garden. DSpa services are also available onsite.
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La Closerie Deauville156 avenue de la République Deauville Calvados 14800
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Hotel Amenities
In addition to an indoor pool, La Closerie Deauville provides a spa tub and a sauna. High-speed wireless Internet access is complimentary. Parking is available onsite for a surcharge.
- Breakfast available (surcharge)
- Casino
- Free newspapers in lobby
- Concierge services
- Free WiFi
- Front desk (limited hours)
- Garden
- Indoor pool
- Luggage storage
- Safe-deposit box at front desk
- Sauna
- Self parking (surcharge)
- Spa services on site
- Spa tub
- Terrace
- Total number of rooms - 75
Family Friendly Amenities
- Cribs/infant beds (complimentary)
- Free Wi-Fi
- Indoor pool
Available in all rooms: Free WiFi
Available in some public areas: Free WiFi
Self parking (surcharge)
Room Amenities
- Free toiletries
- Connecting/adjoining rooms available
- Free cribs/infant beds
- Daily housekeeping
- Desk
- Flat-panel TV
- Free WiFi
- In-room safe
- Iron/ironing board (on request)
Where to Eat
Buffet breakfasts are available for a surcharge.
Nearby Things to Do
An indoor pool and a spa tub are on site. Other recreational amenities include a sauna.
Spa Services
- Massages
To make requests for specific accessibility needs, complete the "Special or Accessibility Requests" section of "Trip Preferences" when you book your hotel.
- Accessible bathroom
- In-room accessibility
Hotel Policies
Check-in time starts at 6 PM
Check-in time ends at 9 PM
Special check-in instructions:
Check-out time is Noon
Payment types
- Pets allowed for an extra charge of EUR 10 per pet, per night
- Restrictions apply
- For more information contact the property at the number on the booking confirmation
You need to know
Extra-person charges may apply and vary depending on hotel policy.
Government-issued photo identification and a credit card are required at check-in for incidental charges.
Special requests are subject to availability upon check-in and may incur additional charges. Special requests cannot be guaranteed.
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- A tax is imposed by the city: EUR 2.25 per accommodation, per night. This tax does not apply to children under 12 years of age.
Optional extras
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- Self parking fee: EUR 10 per night
- Pet fee: EUR 10 per pet, per night
- Late check-out fee: EUR 30
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- La Closerie Deauville, Normandy, France
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We should mention
The property has connecting/adjoining rooms, which are subject to availability and can be requested by contacting the property using the number on the booking confirmation. Guests can arrange to bring pets by contacting the property directly, using the contact information on the booking confirmation (surcharges apply and can be found in the Fees section).


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Sunshine Village readies to run three camps just for women. Full Article
29th December 2008
Alberta and B.C. resorts open up for U.S. Thanksgiving holiday. Full Article
24th November 2008
Sunshine Village cranked up its lifts Friday with the most runs open in North America, followed by Marmot Basin opening Saturday. Full Article
18th November 2008
Natural snow and cold temperatures aid Banff and Jasper National Park resorts in cranking up their lifts for the season. Full Article
11th November 2008
Canadian resorts view terrain parks defining huge while some eliminate big air. Full Article
20th October 2008
Canadian ski clubs whoop it up both on the slopes and back in town. Full Article
7th October 2008
Alberta ski resorts aim to be the first open in North America this season. Full Article
7th October 2008
Three Canadian Rocky Mountain Resorts are teaming up with Sunshine Village, Lake Louise, and Mt. Norquay to offer package deals. Full Article
21st August 2008
Gas likely will continue to be expensive this winter, and parking won't get any cheaper, or less of a headache at the world's destination ski resorts. The 17 regional editors of OnTheSnow.com, based in alpine regions around the world, have chosen what they consider to be 10 of the best "no car needed" resorts. Full Article
22nd July 2008
Many of Alberta's top resorts keep their bullwheels turning long after U.S. resorts have closed for the season. Full Article
24th March 2008
Delirium Dive, Sunshine Village's top-of-the-mountain freeride zone, opened for the season in early March. Full Article
9th March 2008
Sunshine Village opened their Grizzly terrain park section bumping up Rogers Terrain Park by one-third. Full Article
23rd February 2008
Sunshine Village's Rogers Terrain Park grows toward 12 acres. Full Article
7th January 2008
Alberta's Sunshine Village Ski and Snowboard Resort opened with the most terrain in the Canadian Rockies. Full Article
17th November 2007
Ski Norquay beat larger Canadian Rockies resorts in the race to open first. Full Article
11th November 2007
Lake Louise and Sunshine Village are scheduled to open this week, but Fortress Mountain received bad news. Full Article
5th November 2007
Alberta resorts plan to spice up the annual Calgary Ski Show. Full Article
22nd October 2007
The Canadian Rockies received its first snows of the season this past week. Full Article
24th September 2007
Sunshine Village has been voted "Best Winter Activity" by local Banff and Canmore residents. Full Article
4th September 2007
While resorts in the U.S. reach their seasonal ends, Alberta still thinks it's still mid-winter. With record snows, high elevation, and northern latitudes, one day can see mountaintop powder with corn snow below. With conditions like these, three resorts run their lifts into late April and May. Full Article
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Now Playing Onstage in Norfolk - Week of 5/11/2014
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Sandler Center for the Performing Arts
The cautionary tale of Sweeney Todd-a barber unjustly imprisoned by a corrupt judge-is gleefully dark entertainment. Todd returns to London, mad with revenge after his incarceration, and promptly slits the throats of the unlucky customers who enter his barbershop. But what to do with those pesky bodies? Enter Mrs. Lovett-his neighbor with a very secret recipe. Their gruesome plan seems to work�until things take a turn for the domestic and the Demon Barber's past catches up to him.
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Firehouse Theatre Project
Tennessee Williams; dir: Tawnya Pettiford-Wates.
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13 - THE MUSICAL: A grown-up story about growing up! When his parents get divorced and he's forced to move from New York to a small town in Indiana, Evan Goldman just wants to make friends and survive the school year. Easier said than done. With an unforgettable rock score from Tony Award-winning composer Jason Robert Brown, 13 is a hilarious, high-energy musical for all ages about discovering that cool is where you find it, and sometimes where you least expect it.
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Army Entertainment
Twain's timeless classic sweeps us down the mighty Mississippi as the irrepressible Huck Finn helps his friend Jim, a slave, escape to freedom at the mouth of the Ohio River. Their adventures along the way are hilarious, suspenseful and heartwarming, bringing to life your favorite characters from the novel-the Widow Douglas and her stern sister, Miss Watson; the uproarious King and Duke, who may or may not be as harmless as they seem; Huck's partner in crime, Tom Sawyer, and their rowdy gang of pals; Huck's drunken father, the sinister Pap Finn; the lovely Mary Jane Wilkes and her trusting family. Propelled by an award winning score from Roger Miller, the king of country music, this jaunty journey provides a brilliantly theatrical celebration of pure Americana.Music by Roger Miller; Lyrics by Roger Miller; Book by William Hauptman; Adapted from the novel by Mark Twain
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Tracy Lord, of the Philadelphia Lords, a headstrong and spoiled daughter of the privileged. Divorced from C.K. Dexter Haven, she is engaged to a successful young snob. A society weekly sends a reporter and female photographer to cover the wedding arrangements. Tracy finds herself growing interested in the reporter Mike Connor, and following the pre-wedding bash, they take a moonlight swim and are then surprised by Dexter and the fiancee. The following morning her intended smugly forgives her, enraging Tracy, who breaks off the engagement. Connor offers to marry her, but she turns him down and remarries Dexter, the real love of her life, after all.
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‹Mikias Eskiyas, a 28-year-old house painter, has smoked for half his life. The smell of his smoke often makes his siblings avoid him. The 20 Br he spends daily on cigarettes also amounts to a quarter of his income.
"The price of cigarette was 40 cents for a stick and eight Birr for a packet two years back, but now it costs 16 Br to 20 Br depending on the location," said Mikias."I tried to quit smoking three to four times, but I found it difficult."
He was smoking a brand called Rothemans for more than 10 years; he believed Nyala, a local brand, smelled bad and did not look stylish to smoke. That was three years ago. Now Nyala is cheaper and has "less strong chemicals", so he has moved on to smoking those.
"Some years back, the price of Nyala was 15 cents for a stick and 50 cents for the Rothmans, but now both have increased drastically to 80 cents and two Birr, respectively," said Abdu Nassir, a shop owner at Mexico Square.
Tobacco affects the heart, liver and lungs. It is a major risk factor for heart attacks, strokes, and cancer such as lung cancer, cancers of the larynx and mouth. It also causes peripheral vascular disease and hypertension. Beyond all this tobacco use is a significant factor in miscarriages among pregnant smokers, and it contributes to premature births and low birth weight which can cause the chance for Sudden Infant Death Syndrome (SIDS).
According to a 2012/13 estimate, over six billion sticks of cigarettes are smoked in Ethiopia annually. The majority of them are brands of the National Tobacco Enterprise (NTE),with the others being imported from China, Lithuania, Kenya and Germany; some are smuggled into the country illegally. The NTE estimates that its share of the market is 62pc, with the rest of the market supplied by brands such as Rothmans More, Benson and Marlboro.
The NTE was established in 1942 as the Imperial Ethiopian Tobacco Monopoly. It was registered in 1999 as a share company with the monopoly right to produce, import and export tobacco and tobacco products. From the total share the government owned 78pc. with 22pc owned by a Yemeni company, Sheba Investment Group, up to 2014.
But, after June 2014, the Yemeni based company boosted its ownership of the Enterprise to 60pc, with the 1.25 billion Br acquisition of government shares from the Privatisation & Public Enterprises Supervising Agency (PPESA).
The Enterprise has four farms, at Shewa Robit, Blattie, Hawassa and Wolayita, working with the local farmers, which they call outgrowers, numbering 8,000. On average the company produces 1,200kg of tobacco a hectare, cultivating 2,000ha in two seasons each year.
The NTE is currently manufacturing four billion sticks of cigarettes across five brands, including Nyala, Elleni, Delight, Nyala Premium and Gisilla. Nyala accounts for 90pc of the total. The others account for between 1.38pc for Delight and 2.4pc for Gisilla.
The 70-year-old tobacco manufacturer had been operating with a single machine for over 60 years, but acquired a new 150 million Br model in 2003. It has now been operating with these same old machines for over a decade.
The Enterprise, which is located along Roosevelt Street, has a capital of 3.3 billion Br with a net profit of 280 million Br in 2011/12 and 319.5 million Br the following year. It employs 5,230 permanent and contract workers.
The company exports about 1.05pc, or 42 million sticks, of Nyala Premium brands to South Sudan annually. The remainder are sold in the local market, through its 75 wholesalers all over the country.
The company works three shifts a day to manufacture the cigarettes, but the production for the last two years stands at similar rate - four billion sticks. This number has grown from 3.2 billion sticks, in 2009/10, to four billion sticks in 2013/14 - a 20pc increase.
The Enterprise achieved the increase through training its employees and reducing the rate of machinery breakdown, said Ayele Alebel, public relations officer of the Enterprise.
The last two years have seen increased control by the Ethiopian Revenues & Costumes Authority (ERCA) along with regional administration to stop illegally smuggled brands, which made it difficult for the enterprise to meet the growing demand for local brands, according to Tiruwork Woldehanna, marketing and sales manager at the Enterprise.
The Enterprise has made a 10pc price increment since September 2013. The price adjustment was made only on Nyala two years after the last price increment. The increment pushed the price of a box of cigarettes, containing 200 sticks, to 86 Br at the company gates for the wholesalers.
Abdu buys a packet of Nyala for 13 Br from the wholesalers, and Mikias buys it from the retailers for 16 Br.
The NTE commissioned its own study, which estimated that there are 1.5 million smokers in Ethiopia, between the ages of 15 and 49. This, it says, is 1.7pc of the total population. Among the age group of 15 to 49-year-olds, 7.6pc of men and one percent of the population are smokers. The prevalence of smoking in Ethiopia has decreased sharply, almost 10 fold, since 2002/03, when it stood at 14pc, according to the Food, Medicine & Healthcare Administration & Control Authority (FMHACA).
The prevalence of smoking in Ethiopia is lower than many other African countries. In Kenya, for instance, 17 pc of men and two percent of women smoke.
With the intention of reducing the number of smokers, The House of Peoples' Representatives (HPR) has ratified the World Health Organisation's Framework Convention on Tobacco Control (FCTC), which places limitations on the sale and use of cigarettes.
The main focus areas of the convention include forbidding smoking in public areas, where 46pc of the total population become passive smokers; banning under 18s from smoking and banning tobacco advertising in the mass media, as well as on billboards and t-shirts. The proclamation approved by the House also indicates tax increases and public campaigns.
Following Parliament's ratification for the implementation of the WHO's convention, the country is in the process of drafting an implementation directive for the ratified proclamation, according to Samson Abreha, public relation & communication director at FMHACA.
The legal department of the FMHACA is in the process of drafting the directive, which includes details of penalties when individuals smoke in public places and who will have jurisdiction over the matter. The tax rate that will be imposed on cigarettes to discourage smokers is also under discussion at the Ministry of Finance and Economic Development (MoFED), according to Behailu Nigussie, public relations team coordinator at the FHMACA.
According to the WHO report on the global tobacco epidemic, 2011, tobacco use continues to be the leading global cause of preventable death. It kills nearly six million people a year, of whom more than five million are users and more than 600,000 are non-smokers exposed to second-hand smoke. Each year, it causes hundreds of billions of dollars of economic damage worldwide.
The last five years have seen Ethiopia's imports growing by 82pc in quantity and 182pc in value. In 2009/10, Ethiopia imported 275,512kgs of cigarette for 80.8 million Br, which increased to 502,466kgs for 228 million Br in 2013/14. China is the major supplier of tobacco to Ethiopia, During the last fiscal year, it supplied 92,000kgs of cigarettes worth 88.8 million Br, followed by Lithuania which supplied 108,000kg of cigarettes for 65.5 million Br.
The company is now working to boost its own supply by increasing production using new make and pack machinery that it is to acquire, with the intention of only replacing the imported quantity and not increasing the number of smokers, says Tiruwork.


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Anyone had problems mounting an external hard drive on a mac? It shows up (dimmed) in disk utility and all is fine according to first aid, but it just refuses to mount. It simply says "The disk My Book could not be mounted. Ext. hard drives abled in preferences as should. My Book used to work fine and I've used it for years with my older Mac then suddenly it just dissapeared and won't come back. Same thing when I try it on my newer Mac. It has it's own power supply so that shouldn't be the issue. I restored all files (4 hours) onto another, new external hard drive of another brand (Seagate) and it worked fine but it also seem to copy the invisibility so the problem is the same with the new drive. The old "problem drive (My Book) is formatted Mac OS Extended (Journaled). I tried to format the new drive as FAT before restoring another time, but it changes to Mac OS Extended as copying the files. The older Mac is Macbook from 2007 and the newer one Macbook Pro bought just now. I don't have a PC and would rather avoid it, but will try connecting to one as soon as I get the chance.
I have loads of important files I haven't yet backed up on the drive of course so I would appreciate any help or experiences on this.


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Coincidentally, streaming programming drew some questions at both Time Warner and Viacom's earnings conference calls Tues. For Time Warner, don't count on it to offer HBO through its TVE platform HBO Go as a standalone service anytime soon. "We don't think it makes sense… the market is not significantly large enough to be attractive at this point," CEO Jeff Bewkes said. However, such service is possible in the future, as Bewkes noted HBO Go is being offered as a stand-alone service in Scandinavia. Meanwhile, Bewkes said Netflix's sub growth isn't hurting pay-TV business, calling it "complementary." Viacom, whose contract with Netflix expires later this month, remains in discussions with the streaming service and others, chief exec Philippe Dauman said. "We are open to licensing content, some of it on an exclusive basis," he said. Netflix raised eyebrows when it said it wouldn't renew the broad licensing deal with Viacom. Instead, Netflix will focus on exclusive rights to particular shows, the execs said. Time Warner grew its 1Q net income by 19% over the last year thanks to strong network performances. Network revenues increased 3% YOY to $3.7bln, thanks to 5% YOY growth in subscription revenues. Ad revenues benefited from growth at Turner's domestic entertainment nets due to higher pricing. Viacom posted mixed 1Q earnings results as it grew its media networks revenues but posted lower filmed entertainment revenues. Total revenue decreased 6% YOY to $3.14bln, hurt by a 20% YOY decline in filmed entertainment revenues. Media networks' revenue rose 2% YOY to $2.23bln thanks to an increase in advertising, affil and ancillary revenues. Comparing the nets, Bernstein Research analysts noted Viacom was able to post 2% YOY ad growth, despite aggregate ratings down 14%, while Time Warner posted a 1% YOY ad revenue decline, despite aggregate ratings down only 2%. "Some of this was timing (NCAA Tournament) and shut-down of an unprofitable network in India," the analysts said. Pivotal Research still favors Viacom over other video-centric stocks, citing ongoing turnaround at Nickelodeon.


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Hi everyone!
Planning a trip to GB within shortly and Reading on Pamir Times that landslides has caused lots of traffic suspensions all over the region which is really bad news for me since I'm planning road-bound travel. How long time does it usually takes to clear the roads, should it be OK in a few weeks (unless more landslides are to expect). Also realize how petty and horrible I must sound when there are locals who really suffers from this while I'm just worried about my holiday...
What is the road condition Chilas – Balakot? Is it paved all the way? Can you make it on a touring bike (not a mountain bike)? Thank you.
Some quick questions - I will be heading to Pakistan in a couple of days and will be arriving in the evening at the International Airport in Islamabad. Which taxi company would you recommend and where do I find it at the airport? What is the standard cost (for example to go 12-15 kms)? Any security issues that a single female should consider?
Yo all,
I just finished up 6 weeks in Pakistan, and though the country was absolutely amazing, dealing with security there was most definitely a hassle.
I've put together a list of places that I visited (or wanted to visit, but couldn't) on my blog, and state whether or not security/escorts were needed there. I'll paste a short summary below.
I'd love it if anyone that has recently traveled to Pakistan could also comment here and say where and when you did/did not need security! I'm trying to…
Hi everyone, We are planning to visit Multan + Bahawalpur, but I read on some posts on the internet that they are quite unaccessible to foreigners, as you should be accompained by someone and/or you should be assigned an armed guide.
Is this true?
Has anyone had recent experiences?
We would like to visit als Uch Sahrif and Darewar fort.
Any information is very welcomed
Hello every body,
I am looking for a tourist group to join to visit Pakistan nature during summer, especially Himalaya mountains. I am not professional mountain climber but I pretty interested in walking and hiking through nature and hils.
Does anybody know this type of group and how much would be cost (I am ready to join in Lahore airport).
Please help me!
Hi all,
I will be spending 4-5 days in Swat Valley. I have the main tourist points but I was interested in some good hikes.
Any good recommendations? I will have my family with me but they are in good condition. Looking for 2-4 hours hike
Hi people!
I,m a spanish cicloturist riding to the east.
I have Irán and India visas but no Pakistan visa. I,ve been at the embassy 2 months ago with papers ( no Loi) and after calling all weeks no answer from Islamabad, is what they say, and advice me to try it in another country in route. What to do?
My passport is in Spain and i am thinking in taking a plane or something. What possibilities are there?
Should i be sent my passport with me?
Travellers always say that the solution appears...may…
I was looking into riding a motorcycle from Delhi to moscow and it looked like you could take the kkh highway to Kashgar China. Then maybe drive through Kyrgyzstan and up to Almaty Kazakhstan then probably Astana. I would probably fly into Delhi and buy a bike there, then drive it all the way to Moscow. Also if anyone knows a brand of bike or model that is common in India, Pakistan, China, Kazakhstan and Russia, that could be helpful, thanks. Also could you do it without a bike, and just take…
Hello everyone.
I will be submitting my tourist visa application tomorrow morning in London. I have everything requested including an LOI, bank statement, hotel booking confirmations, full itinerary etc, etc.
I'm curious, how long does the process usually take?


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Lululemon's mysterious director, Rhoda Pitcher, will stay on the board.
Lululemon CEO Laurent Potdevin sat down with CNBC to discuss the company's turnaround and profitability.
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The walkers are off, and several minutes later we prepare the runners!
And they're off!
Back at the table we're giving out literature to people passing by.
One of our course signs, all featured different facts about turkeys.
Most runners are back in, recovering from their efforts.
Trotters checking out the draw prizes.
Trotters checking out the prizes
Awarding the Top Male prize to Danny Taylor after the run.
David interviewing people for his video!
A photo of some of our supporters who came wearing vegan-themed shirts!
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CIF vaccinologie 2011 – Evaluations du rapport coût bénéfice des vaccinations.
Cours international francophone de vaccinologie
Hôpital d'instruction des armées du Val-de-Grâce – Ecole du Val-de-Grâce
Titre : CIF vaccinologie 2011 – Evaluations du rapport coût bénéfice des vaccinations.
Intervenant : Pierre LEVY
Résumé : 29 mars 2011 - cours 51 : Evaluations du rapport coût bénéfice des vaccinations.
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Cours international francophone de vaccinologie
STS-134 Daily Mission Recap - Flight Day 16
A video recap of flight day 16 of the STS-134 mission of space shuttle Endeavour to the International Space Station.
9.2 Antisocial behaviour disease
How do we become individuals? This unit looks at how genes and the environment interact making each of us unique. Looking at the period between conception and birth you will examine the issues of nature or nurture to see which has the greatest impact.
Shirley Caesar
Fields reports on Shirley Caesar's visit to Memorial Church on the Harvard University campus. Fields notes that Caesar is an evangelist and a Grammy award-winning singer. Fields adds that Caesar has recently entered local politics in Durham, North Carolina. Fields interviews Caesar. Caesar talks about her music and her outreach ministry. She also discusses her recent entry into politics. Caesar says that she sees herself as a humanitarian. Fields' report includes footage of Caesar performing wit
Emergency Room Care in America: GJ Melendez-Torres
Emergency rooms in America have some of the most advanced medical technology, but it's also where people who can't get healthcare anywhere else go. This is one of the issues explored by GJ Melendez-Torres at the University of Pennsylvania in the Center for Undergraduate Research and Fellowship (CURF). GJ Melendez-Torres, a Truman Scholar & University Scholar, BFS/JWS, and a Nursing Undergraduate Honors Scholar, will receive his Nursing degree and Wharton degree in Economics & Health Care Policy
Clinical Trial for Triple-Negative Breast Cancer
A multicenter clinical trial led by a researcher at the University of Maryland Marlene and Stewart Greenebaum Cancer Center will evaluate a new approach to treat triple-negative breast cancer, an often-aggressive type of cancer that is more common among African-Americans and young women. The study will help researchers determine if an experimental drug, entinostat, can reprogram tumor cells to express a protein called an estrogen receptor to make them sensitive to hormone therapy. Saranya Chums
Oral History
African American history is both discovered in and continued by an ancient oral tradition. Richard Josey describes the process of restoring a community's voice.
Sound - by StudyJams
Sound is energy that travels as a result of vibration. It can be characterized by frequency, loudness, and pitch, and is measured in decibels. Learn more about sound with this cartoon animation from StudyJams. A short, self-checking quiz is also included with this link.
Smoking - The Facts
This health education program explains why smoking is addictive and unhealthy for smokers and people around them. This resource is a MedlinePlus Interactive Health Tutorial from the National Library of Medicine, designed and developed by the Patient Education Institute.
Coffee Break Spanish future plans
As you all know, Coffee Break Spanish level 2 came to an end with lesson 80 and we're planning to follow up the course with similar content to our Season 3 of Coffee Break French. However, we've only just started working on this content, so it's likely that it will be available later in the [...]
Appomattox Court House and Lincoln's Assassination
In this video, Sal Khan focuses on Lee's surrender at Appomattox Court House to Lincoln's assassination at Ford's Theater. Mr. Khan uses computer software for demonstration. (04:27)
Glass Program at CCA
The multidisciplinary curriculum of the Glass Program at California College of the Arts couples a vigorous foundation in craft with concept-oriented projects. CCA offers students a comprehensive education in the techniques, materials, history, and philosophy of glass as a medium for art making. For more information, including how to apply: cca.edu/glass
The History of The United Nations
This three minute video is a review of the history of the United Nations using original footage. A good overview.
Using Soccer to Help Underprivileged Kids
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Skip to comments.Florida governor stokes 'stomp on Jesus' fire
Posted on 03/27/2013 8:15:23 AM PDT by wesagain
Rick Scott 'deeply disappointed,' demands investigation
Floridas governor is jumping into the national controversy over a college professor who forced students to stomp on the name of Jesus, and hes now calling for an official investigation into the matter.
Republican Rick Scott has written a letter to Frank Brogan, chancellor of the states university system, saying, I am deeply disappointed in the recent action of Florida Atlantic University faculty that raises significant questions over students rights and the lessons being taught in our classrooms.
As we enter the week memorializing the events of Christs passion, this incident gave me great concern over the lessons we are teaching our students, Scott continued. The professors lesson was offensive, and even intolerant, to Christians and those of all faiths who deserve to be respected as Americans entitled to religious freedom.
As WND previously reported, the professor who gave the assignment, Deandre Poole, turns out also to be the vice-chairman of the Palm Beach County Democratic Party.
Poole ignited outrage across the U.S. for requiring students to write Jesus on a piece of paper, then put it on the floor and stomp on it.
But Ryan Rotela, a junior from Coral Springs, Fla., said while some of his classmates complied with the assignment, he refused.
Anytime you stomp on something it shows that you believe that something has no value. So if you were to stomp on the word Jesus, it says that the word has no value, he told the local CBS TV affiliate WPEC.
A religious Mormon who attends church every Sunday, Rotela complained to school officials.......
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Has anyone asked about the religious affiliation of this moron professor? I just wonder.....
The governor should have them ask the prof if he has the balls to have his students do that to the Koran.
In a classroom full of students, only ONE KID protested.
What does that tell you about the indoctrinated youts?
Good...it's probably a state money supported institution and he's probably getting a raff of calls from parents or students...colleges are destroying their golden goose with goons like this guy.
he;s an idiot who probably shuts we want equal rights but ignores how affirmative ation gives poeple jobs on campus becuse of their race. or religion.
Fire the guy
"I'm a perpetually offended minority. Gotta problem with that?"
Truth to that. I heard on Beck yesterday that the school profusely apologized. Screw that! Fire the "professor" and sue the school. Glad the governor is getting involved.
Waiting for Sharpton and Jackson to play the race card.
It is about time some of these radicals and PC idiots get the tables turned on them.
Next, that old gal who is banning Easter should be investigated.
Until the light of day is shown on these kinds of cockroaches, they will continue to contaminate society with their new social order.
Or ask the prof if he has the balls to have all of his students draw a picture of Mohammed and Allah and stomp on that. We'll be waiting - a long time, I'm sure.
Students got a video apology via e-mail yesterday.
I hope this 'professor' loses his job. Today, preferably.
I wish someone down there would have the guts to call for a "Stomp On Mohaamed" day and see if the school 'professor' here would participate.
Dare him to do it on National TV
is this the rino governor's way of trying to make up for taking obamacare money and his helping to lynch george zimmerman?
It says alot about liberals and indoctrination. They are leading many souls to perdition and will someday pay a very heavy price.
Sadly, many people like Biden are allowed Communion in church when they should be turned away. People feel that if the church doesn't care then they won't either.
He has a very punchable face!
manacing looking fiend
These imbeciles kneel, bow and scrape, as they are taught to do by their Libocrat "Massahs", at the high altar of Victimhood. They are professional victims looking for a handout because they weren't born White. They blame all White folk for their "birth roulette wheel" landing on "Black."
Nearly all of them. Pathetic.
Jesus has got more love than all the haters got hate.
He will win and the stompers will all bow.
Let's call and find out:
Dr. Poole's Church:
Lighthouse Worship Center Church of God In Christ
2201 NW 24th St
Fort Lauderdale, FL 33311-2918
Phone:(954) 677-9923
I'm not sure of her title, but his "boss", the dean(?), is another affirmative action hire/promotion, and has just as bad of a 'tude as his face shows.
SHE was the one that suspended the student and filed misconduct charges against him.
it tells me what I already know...Probably 70% or more of people from 18-30 are simply beyond HELP!!
I work with a bunch of them Nearly ALL are beholden to the enviroment, liberaslism and nearly all accept fags totally—and think conservatives, particularly Sarah or Mitt-are "mean, greedy, hateful crooks".
he is probably banging her, just saying
Yup. Had it been the reverse and the prof wanted the kids to stomp on mooo-ham-ed, they would have already been tuning up the firing squads or sharpening the be-headers blades. Remember, political (in)correctness is a one way street and we're driving the wrong way. You gotta accept everything the radical left wing extremist demokkkrat scumbags say but you, you're dismissed.
IIRC, a follower of Dichedism.
I'm betting "social justice" is in their statement of faith.
"Republican Rick Scott has written a letter to Frank Brogan, chancellor of the states university system, saying, I am deeply disappointed in the recent action of Florida Atlantic University faculty that raises significant questions over students rights and the lessons being taught in our classrooms.
Where has he been?
His religion is Obama.
If Obama had a son.............................
If the Florida Governor was a democrat this is the headline we would see:
"Florida governor quick to defend black professor against racist Christian"
We need to be grateful to the Mormon Student who brought all of this to attention by refusing to "Stomp". At least he had the courage of his convictions to honor his Saviour.
Check this link:
So, for this professor to use the name of Jesus in the lead up to Easter as the symbol for his public college exercise, shows an extreme lack of judgment on his part, as well as political hypocricy.
If he was truly intending to lead a discussion on the personal value we place on symbols, he could have used something more neutral, such as a paper image of the American flag. He could have achieved the same classroom results by having the students stomp on, or burn, the image of the American flag.
Sadly, I don't think his purpose was to teach students to understand why they value certain symbols. He was trying to indoctrinate them into no longer valuing religion.
Like the old counter-culture meme said, "Don't Trust Anyone Under 30"...
And some people here will STILL SAY that Mormons are not Christians.
I guess this proves them wrong.
Most people don't know this but if anyone wishes to advance into the upper levels of the Democrat Party beyond the low level voter or campaign worker they are first given three tests.
The first, usually disguised as a kind of an exercise is to stomp on the name of Jesus. Those who refuse seldom move up or get any advancement opportunities. Those who enthusiastically stomp on the name of Jesus are then identified as candidates for greater things.
The next test, given to a much smaller group, is to spit on a portion of the Bible that declares Jesus Christ is the Son of God. Those who refuse are left alone. Those who participate enthusiastically are put on the faster track.
The third test, given to only a tiny group of people chosen for leadership positions is to urinate on a blessed Crucifix. While doing so they recite an oath to fight against Christianity. This final test is rare. Those who pass soon move up in the Party.
You can't tell much from their website, on which their "Statement of Faith" is poorly written and unprofessional.
They come across as Black Southern Baptist (and yes, it's a For-Blacks-Only establishment).
"Fire the professor and sue the school."
Without doubt, the professor impinged on the religious rights of the student. I agree with you that this should be brought into the light through a firing and a lawsuit.
He looks angry....
Have at it:
"Students got a video apology via e-mail yesterday."
That's nice, but how much does it cost to send out a video by email? These anti-Christian people should be taught a lesson, a VERY expensive one through a law suit for not reigning in their Christian haters.
And some people here will STILL SAY that Mormons are not Christians.
The anti-Mormon patrol will be here soon enough in their clown car to disagree with that assertion and they'll be armed with a cut-n-paste bazaar of "proof"...!!
"Deandre Poole teaches courses in intercultural communication, ethnicity and communication, leadership and communication, and organizational communication. His research focuses on the role mediated messages play in shaping individual attitudes and beliefs concerning issues of justice and inequality, and examines how leaders, organizations, and other influential authorities dominate and oppress marginalized groups of people. Currently, he is authoring the book, Obamamania: The Rise of a Mythical Hero, to be published by the Edwin Mellen Press. In addition to his academic pursuits, Dr. Poole is actively engaged in various community service projects throughout Palm Beach County."
Email the lil muzzy bitch!
"If Obama had a son............................."
If Obama wasn't a queen he might have.....
I'm not a Mormon or a Bible thumper, but I'm appalled at the anti-Mormon crap I see here on FR.
I rarely see a Catholic, Evangelical, Baptist, or Christian of any other religion exhibit a set of balls, actually taking on the leftist thugs in "universities".
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Efforts by wealthy countries to help their poorer counterparts began in earnest after World War II with the Marshall Plan. By the early 1960s, Western powers were busy helping former colonies develop their agricultural and industrial sectors. These plans appeared to work; in the decades that followed, global poverty plummeted. But along the way, economic development morphed into something else: a multi-billion-dollar industry characterized by mission creep. Today, development has come to mean too many things -- so many things, in fact, that development has become all things to all people so that by all possible means it might save some, to paraphrase the apostle Paul. The resulting scattershot approach, which dilutes resources, is harming the world's poor.
The development landscape has never been more cluttered than it is today. International organizations such as the UN and the World Bank work side by side with national agencies such as the US Agency for International Development (USAID), nongovernmental organizations such as Oxfam and World Vision, and philanthropies such as the Clinton and Gates foundations. As the number of actors has grown, the definition of development has expanded, leading many in the field to emphasize peripheral goals far removed from the concerns of the world's poorest. On the New York Times blog edited by Nicholas Kristof, a post titled "Three Things the Development World Could Do Better" put promoting breastfeeding at the top of the list. Some groups even specialize in sending leftover hotel soap to Africa (the Global Soap Project, a partnership
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The highest demand skill in the IT consulting business is never asked for explicitly by clients and has nothing to with technology. The highest demand skill in the IT consulting business is the ability to undo the mess your client got himself into—and I deliberately use him because this is really a guy thing. We have all heard tales about guys that refuse to ask directions when driving completely lost. Now imagine trying to be a "team player" with a guy that is in your opinion lost—and you know that your opinion has little effect on the situation even though you have been hired as a "consultant." This has been the running theme for most of my career—only in recent years has my work with clients made a turn for the better.
An excellent mental health exercise for an IT consultant is to examine the word professional—instead of just blurting it out. Inside this word is profess—what this means to me is that a professional has the ability to "claim openly" or publically. The ideal engine driving one to make such "open" claims is fueled by accurate, researched information. In the IT business, accurate information comes from the tool makers like Microsoft, Oracle (Sun), or the auspices of an Open Source project—maybe a University. When your client fails to recognize the existence of this third-party research while at the same time using said third party's tools then in my opinion you are up shit creek—a creek probably polluted by the company that hired you…
Here are some things that can happen while you are up shit creek:
- The definition of "professional" changes into the ability to put lipstick on a pig in an elegant, quiet, polite manner. Pay that mortgage and shut the f' up.
- Your client is effectively in conflict with their tool makers. This means you are fighting on about three fronts: battling the actual business "challenge"; battling the tool maker; and battling legacy issues associated with the new "challenge."
- Your client may wonder why you are unable to perform "professionally" under these circumstances instead of actually looking at the real problem. It's a childish, fascist impulse that is almost impossible to resist.
In the same manner Warren Buffet would refuse to invest in company he does not "understand," you have the human right to invest your energy in other companies, organizations and other parties that appear to actually have a professional technology plan. In the same manner that business planners are expected to summarize their strategy with a single coherent sentence, your clients should have provided you with enough information to profess their technology plan with a single coherent sentence. Sometimes we may confess instead of profess (listen to "this developers life 1.1.1: scars")…
From my experience, the leading reason why clients get themselves into a mess (they have tacitly asked you to get them out of) is because they have ignored/defied their tool maker. Your client and you are swimming a soup that the tool maker never told you to cook. It has taken me way, way too long along the timeline of my career to actually get proactive and begin to look for patterns (actually anti-patterns perhaps) of such ignorance and defiance. I confess that I tend to concentrate on researching my tool maker (Microsoft) instead of researching "bad" (but cash rich) clients. I am unable to even recall a book about this subject—especially in the Microsoft world. I have no pipeline in place to collect such information. My attitude has been one of aggressive divestment a la Warren Buffet—which should strongly suggest that I have no mortgage to pay. Oh, when will I grow up?
Here are some Microsoft-centric 30,000-foot anti-patterns I can barely recall:
- Using Microsoft Access (*.MDB) as a LAN-based DBMS for dozens of users, when it was designed for one user on one desktop (c. 1996).
- Using Microsoft Access as a database for a web site (early 2000s).
- Running ASP sites with global DLLs that get locked by the Web server process (early 2000s).
- Using Microsoft Office effectively as a frontend (without SharePoint) while using Java-based server technology as a backend (UCLA MCCS, early 2000s to present).
- Using Microsoft FrontPage for anything (all eternity).
- Using Windows Forms 1.0 for anything (all eternity).
- Using ASP.NET Web Forms and Server Controls with a view to being standards-compliant and cross-browser compatible (early 2000s to 2010, yes 2010).
- Using JavaScript according to the Microsoft-tooled vision of Jscript (early 2000s to 2009, with jQuery).
- Using more than a handful of ASMX Web Services per ASP.NET project (for all time: use WCF).
- Attempting to customize SharePoint (for the lifetime of the product to the present …perhaps).
One of the mature things I have accomplished recently is consciously accepting that my tool vendor, Microsoft, was not exactly fostering a culture of tool-maker compliance for many years. Microsoft has profited to the tune of billions with the rollicking banjo music of wild-west mentality… The earliest technology evangelists from Microsoft that I can recall are: Alison Balter (1994), Paul D. Sherriff (1991), and Don Box (turn of the century)—none of these folks left me with professional theories that I can recall (apart from Relational Theory and this little thing called "OOP"). Now we have the Scott Guthrie generation at Microsoft, trying to introduce a cornucopia of publically-accessible theories to customers with acronyms like MVC and MVVM in the face of massive legacy—Wild-West, COM-based legacy written in HTML (using all caps for tag names) and this weird thing called "HTC"…
Microsoft has two massive product spaces: Dynamics CRM and SharePoint. As of this writing, deep into the 21st century, none of these products reflect the new Scott-Guthrie-style professionalism that should make serious investors happy. Microsoft itself has a Wild-West legacy load that it is digging itself out of… because old cash cows can't be abandoned for greener pastures…
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Four City Council candidates have not shown the skills, knowledge or experience to take the place of Temecula's dedicated members, Mayor Chuck Washington and Mayor Pro Tem Mike Naggar.
They are Jamie White, Walter Wilson, Paul Jacobs and Patrice Lynes.
Lynes, a retired nurse who failed in her 2010 council bid, claims to be against Liberty Quarry, but showed no efforts to defeat it. Instead, she spent years gathering support and signatures on councilmember term limits.
Paul Jacobs, a retired psychiatric technician, did show effort in opposing the quarry, while also supporting term limits.
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When the price of oil is high, talk turns to alternative forms of energy, including wind, biofuels and solar. One kind of solar energy isn't getting much publicity. But solar thermal power is quietly becoming a significant source of electricity in the Southwest.
In the desert south of Las Vegas, crews working on a project called Nevada Solar One are assembling a parabolic trough of curved mirrors connected in a huge array.
At the center, a closed-loop tube will be filled with oil that will be heated by the sun. The hot oil will flow around the 400-acre project and into a building where it will turn water into steam. It, in turn, will turn a steam turbine, which will make electricity.
Solar PV, or photovoltaics — panels on roofs — are what most people think of when they think of solar power. The largest PV array in the world, located in Germany, produces 10 megawatts of electricity. But Nevada Solar One will produce 64 megawatts — enough to power 40,000 homes in the Las Vegas area during the hottest part of the day.
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SANDWICH, England—If the opening round of the British Open Thursday proved anything, it's that the usual rules don't apply when it comes to links golf. At the end of play, Thomas Bjorn of Denmark, age 40, was tied for the lead. He shot a sparkling five-under-par 65 in blustery morning conditions. At this time last week, Bjorn was several spots down the alternate list and fully expecting to spend this week in Spain on holiday with his wife, instead of battling the elements at Royal St. George's here on the shore of the English Channel.
He was tied with Tom Lewis, a 20-year-old English amateur who won the Boys Amateur at Royal St. George's two years ago. A shot behind them, at four-under-par, were the wily Spanish veteran, Miguel Ángel Jimenez, 47, and two American journeymen, Webb Simpson and Lucas Glover. "On links courses," said Jimenz after his round, "any age can be around the leaderboard."
Another 12 players from equally varied backgrounds finished within two shots of that trio. Of them, only two—Martin Kaymer of Germany and Graeme McDowell of Northern Ireland, both at two-under—are ranked in the world top 40.
One thing all these players at the top share is not being links specialists. That's because, in professional golf, there are no links specialists. American golf fans often think that when the Yanks cross the pond for the British Open, they compete at a decided disadvantage to their European Tour peers. But the fact is that the British Open is the most open of golf's four majors precisely because it is links golf, a style of play equally out of the ordinary for almost all of the world's top players.
Until this year, only one other European Tour event took place on links courses, the limited-field Alfred Dunhill Links Championship in the fall. Even the Barclays Scottish Open was staged on an American-style parkland course at Loch Lomond, before moving for the first time last week to Castle Stuart, a links venue.
Future pros who grow up in England, Scotland and Ireland, where about 90% of the world's 246 inks courses are located, do get some experience on sandy-soil, seaside layouts in amateur competitions. "That can be a slight advantage later on, because they have a sense of what the links game is all about. But generally once a player turns pro he hardly plays any links golf at all, at least until he is able to qualify for the (British) Open," said Stuart Cage, a European Tour veteran who is now Rory McIlroy's day-to-day manager. "It's a bit of the myth that links golf favors the Europeans, because at the end of the day all the pros know how to hit the shots they need."
Mark O'Meara, the American who won the British Open at Royal Birkdale in 1998, agrees. "It's not like the Americans haven't played golf in the wind in Hawaii or Pebble Beach. The wind is probably what affects golf the most on any tour, whether it's the European Tour or the PGA Tour," he said Wednesday. "It's always surprised me how well the Americans have done over here. When you look at the trophy"—which he had 12 months to do at his leisure—"you don't see the names of many Scots or English from the modern era."
In fact, the only Englishmen to have won the British Open since 1951 were Tony Jacklin in 1969 and Nick Faldo in 1987, 1990 and 1992. Since 1920 only two Scotsmen have won, Sandy Lyle in 1985 and Paul Lawrie in 1999. And the only Irishman to take home the Claret Jug since 1947 has been Padraig Harrington, in 2007 and 2008.
O'Meara speculates that Americans have done so well at British Opens (30 championships since World War II and 11 of the past 16) in part because they feel less pressure than the Europeans playing at home, and partly because links golf "excites" them. "In America, you play golf just one way, but in links golf there's so much more room for creativity and imagination."
Butch Harmon, speaking on BBC radio Thursday, said that American players coming to links courses have to "get an eye for seeing their shots played along the ground instead of through the air." This plays into the "slight advantage" that Cage said players from the British Isles still retain from their youthful experience with links golf.
But Tom Lehman, another U.S. British Open winner (1996), assured me Wednesday that pro golfers are fast learners. "It's like getting into the ring with Mike Tyson. You learn pretty quick to avoid that right hand," he said. Hitting the ball under the wind, or higher into the wind but with reduced spin, are not new skills to world-class pros. Neither are the delicate short-game skills links golf requires.
"Americans think it's fun, so they find links golf easy to embrace. The bumps and humps and bad bounces, you learn to accept them as part of the game. And if you don't, well, you're not going to do well."
Bjorn, the first round co-leader from Denmark, didn't grow up playing links golf, either. But Thursday he said he thrives on the challenge of having to creatively envision every shot in a links round as if he'd never hit it before. "It suits me down to the ground," he said. In links golf, perfect swings and disciplined routines are no assurance of success. The game lets in those whose main strengths are solid ball-striking and imagination.
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A previous version of this article incorrectly said that Tony Jacklin was the only Englishman to win the British Open since 1951. Mr. Jacklin won it in 1969 and Nick Faldo in 1987, 1990 and 1992. Also, there were 12 players who shot 68 on Thursday.


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