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With Europe's economic troubles causing domestic profitability concerns, established pharmaceutical companies may look to emerging markets for outsourcing partners. Each developing economy has unique economic, political, and cultural issues that help define its pharmaceutical market. To succeed, multinational pharmaceutical companies will have to adapt differently depending on the distinctive needs of each country.
Austerity pricingConstrained by compressed government budgets and sovereign debt issues, many European countries have imposed reductions in pharmaceutical pricing. Most of the pricing cuts have been in the 4–5% range, with deeper reductions generally seen in countries with sovereign debt issues or serious budgetary problems. France announced plans to reduce its 2011 pharmaceutical budget by close to $700 million, while simultaneously curtailing tax incentives for orphan-designated drugs. Another noteworthy announcement is a program in Greece designed to save more than $2.5 billion by reducing drug prices by at least 20%. Italy aims to achieve close to $2 billion in savings through price reductions and tightened consumption. As a result, the aggregate growth has been weak for the top five European pharmaceutical markets, rising approximately 2–3% in 2011.
Price cuts
At the micro level, deficit-led pricing pressures have had a considerable effect on financial performance for many companies that rely heavily on revenues from European pharmaceutical markets. The collective impact involves a complex matrix of price-erosion mechanisms, ranging from price reductions across the market, to pricing restrictions in certain countries. The effects of these mechanisms on company revenues, earnings and valuations have not yet fully manifested. Regardless of the massive slowdown, developed markets continue to provide core revenue streams for major pharmaceutical companies. The key to maintaining revenues involves strengthening late-stage pipelines through innovation.


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Really only 6 tests By Jaimeadams on 7/15/2016Jaimeadams wouldn't recommend this product to a friendI am disappointed with the fact that it only comes with enough regent for 6 tests. Sure the digital read out is awesome and very helpful, but I really feel that for the price I should be able to test more than 6 times before having to give them more of my money
Easy to use By Eric Johnson on 4/6/2016Eric Johnson would recommend this product to a friendI hate trying to match colors on tests (ok, I'm also slightly red-green colorblind so that doesn't help!) and this makes it so much easier. Doesn't come with very many test packets so if you'll be doing a lot of testing you'll want refills but they're pretty inexpensive.
Dies right after warranty By SD Reefer on 4/6/2016SD Reefer wouldn't recommend this product to a friendProblems with the light sensor the minute the 6 month warranty was up. Randomly worked and then completely dead. Tech support offered up $95/hour service or they said I'm welcome to order a another from them. Don't think so. The results I was able to get when it worked were extremely varied and I couldn't stand trying to get all the powder out of those tiny packets. Need to rethink design on those. Not pleased unfortunately.
Great Checker By KerryF on 3/29/2016KerryF would recommend this product to a friendOne star off for those silly packets for the reagent. Works well and seems very accurate. Lid seems to have a hard time staying closed with a vial in it the checker...no big deal really.
Nice for Accurate Low Range Testing By Michael on 3/18/2016Michael would recommend this product to a friendLike many other Hanna checkers this product takes the guess work out of phosphate testing. I have a special loathing for trying to decipher color coded phosphate test kits and this helps me solve that issue. I had to take 1 star off because getting the power into the vial is brutal, and I mean brutal.
It works, just have to get use to the reagents. By jay on 3/5/2016jay would recommend this product to a friendGood too have two vials. One to set the checker, the other one to have the reagent all ready mixed.
Pointless By Coverttadpole on 1/20/2016Coverttadpole wouldn't recommend this product to a friendSave your money. I get more accurate results using API phosphate test and its significantly less money. Measures ppm just like API however the Hanna checker shows 0.00 and API shows 0 to 0.25 ppm. Even contacted Hanna to see if it was broke and their first response was to buy the HI736. So they seem to be aware that it's junk. Also, once you open the box it's yours. Bulk reef supply does not except returns on opened items. A little hard to consider buying a second piece of equipment when the first one doesn't work as it should. Also bought the HI758 calcium checker that works flawless. Watch the YouTube video as the instructions are not clear.
Works great By Bruce on 12/17/2015Bruce would recommend this product to a friend'Reagent packets are difficult to open and pour into vial without spilling any. Otherwise it works great.
Not for Reefers By ReefDoc on 10/29/2015ReefDoc wouldn't recommend this product to a friendFirst and foremost, if you are a reefer, this is not the checker for you. The ULR is the right one for a reefer. This will measure to an accuracy of +/- 0.04 but as a reefer you want 0 to 0.03 so that makes this useless. Oh and the packets of reagents are not good at all, come on Hanna get the proper reagents made already.
Love that you get an exact readout. By Matthew on 10/26/2015Matthew would recommend this product to a friendThis would be the ultimate tester if the reagent was alittle easier to manage. You are trying to poor powder from a little pouch into a tiny cylinder you think you got it all then you realize there is still powder stuck in corner of pouch... Then you ask is my test result accurate?? They need to come up with a better solution to adding the powder even if just a bulk buy option that comes in a container with a little scooper like the nyos or salifert powders come. And to top all of that of you are on the clock when you are trying to get this powder into test tube you have three minutes to get powder from pouch to tube without spilling then you need to get it completely mixed into water without air bubbles or finger prints or the machine turns off then you are left to recalibrate machine with different test tube of source water then test water powder is in... Is it accurate???? Exactly hate questionable results but once you get hang of can definitely get a number and much more accurate then any color matching test out there... Just need a better delivery system for reagent and problem solved.

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- Apr 27:
- NFL Draft: San Francisco 49ers complete draft with Rutgers CB Marcus Cooper
- San Francisco 49ers draft offensive tackle from Iowa State
- NFL Draft: San Francisco 49ers pick first QB since Kaepernick
- NFL Draft: Oakland Raiders complete draft with DE David Bass
- NFL Draft: Stanford star Stepfan Taylor headed to Arizona Cardinals
- NFL Draft: Oakland Raiders take wideout Brice Butler from San Diego State
- NFL Draft: San Francisco 49ers will take it slow with Marcus Lattimore
- NFL Draft: Oakland Raiders get a second tight end and a running back
- NFL Draft: San Francisco 49ers add more defensive help in sixth round
- NFL Draft: Oakland Raiders draft TE Nick Kasa
- NFL Draft: 49ers take RB Marcus Lattimore, WR Quinton Patton
- NFL Draft: Tennessee Titans select Cal center Brian Schwenke, say he might start
- NFL Draft: Oakland Raiders grab quarterback Tyler Wilson
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- Purdy: You can learn a lot from the NFL draft
- Purdy: Oakland Raiders draft Mad Dog and Englishman
SANTA CLARA — The 49ers' fifth-round selection Saturday of Alabama defensive end Quinton Dial made him the fourth Southeastern Conference product among their first seven draft picks.
The 6-foot-5, 318-pound Dial adds depth to a defensive front that took on two other draft picks Friday: Florida State's Tank Carradine and Auburn's Corey Lemonier.
"I'm a versatile defensive lineman that can play any position in different situations," Dial said on a conference call with Bay Area media.
Dial came under scrutiny for a jarring hit in the SEC Championship game, when he leveled Georgia quarterback Aaron Murray on an interception return.
"I just threw a block and hit the quarterback," Dial said. "Everybody made a big deal about it. But that's what I was taught to do: take out anybody I see. I saw an opportunity and took it."
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The Coast Guard on Tuesday called off the search for a boat that reportedly sank in rough seas far off the Central California coast, saying nothing more could be done and that the family's distress calls might have been a hoax.
"We've exhausted the possibilities," Coast Guard Chief Petty Officer Mike Lutz said. The Coast Guard is treating the incident as a rescue, with the possibility the calls came from a trickster.
Coast Guard Executive Officer Noah Hudson in Monterey said it was tough to call off a search, but that if it was a hoax, "it's unfortunate that we were forced to use so many resources for so much time."
Making a false federal distress call is a federal felony, and perpetrators face up to six years in prison and a $250,000 fine. The 42-hour search involved hundreds of rescuers from the Coast Guard and the California Air National Guard. A Hercules C-130 four-engine turboprop aircraft buzzed above the seas, while helicopters, cutters and lifeboats plied the waters, as costs soared into the hundreds of thousands of dollars.
The Coast Guard handles several hundred hoax calls a year, some involving major rescue efforts.
Kurtis Thorsted, 55, of Salinas, Calif., was released from federal prison last summer after being convicted, for the second time, of making false calls to the Coast Guard. Court records show he made 51 distress calls over a five-month period, claiming in one case to be in trouble in a kayak off the coast of Santa Cruz.
Crews off Monterey started looking for the family by sea and air after receiving the first distress call Sunday afternoon. In one call, a man's calm voice is heard saying, "Coast Guard, Coast Guard, we are abandoning ship. This is the (Charmblow). We are abandoning ship."
The caller said they had to abandon the boat and were trying to tie together a makeshift life raft out of a cooler and life-preserver ring, a method taught in survival classes. The Coast Guard then lost radio contact with the boat.
The Monterey Bay at this time of year is about 50 degrees; a person could survive between 30 minutes and an hour without a survival suit or wetsuit.
Investigators said they believed, from the distress calls, that the family included a husband and wife, their 4-year-old son and his cousin, Coast Guard Lt. Heather Lampert has said.
Sailors along this renowned stretch of coastline are a close-knit group who were gripped by the news of the missing family, but also baffled by important omitted details.
Harbor masters at the string of ports that dot the coastline from Monterey to Half Moon Bay told The Associated Press the same thing: No boats launched from their docks were missing, and no family had disappeared from their community.
"It's all kind of strange," said Brad Miller, who operates a fishing charter out of Santa Cruz. "But why would somebody want to make something like that up? What's the point of that?"
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1. Use traps instead of poison to control mice and rats.
These in effect wind up poisoning your local owl food supply. Some owls eat mice, some eat rats, some eat insects...and dying animals will always be easier to catch than healthy prey. Even if you don't poison these species directly, pesticides are still likely to work their way into the food chain. Recent studies have found that 60-80% of all Great Horned Owls have rodent poisons in their bodies! Check out this video from Raptors Are The Solution (RATS).
2. Leave dead trees standing when they aren't dangerous. Dead trees make wonderful nesting and roosting sites for many species of owls (as well as other critters.)
3. Use less paper and buy recycled paper. Paper is made from trees, and guess where most owl species nest? In old trees! Reuse paper that's only been used on one side, then recycle it when you've used the other side. Buy recycled paper to keep up the demand for it. Another way you can save paper is to stop getting junk mail, which most of us want to do anyway! This website has information about simple things you can do to get less junk mail.
4. Keep your cat indoors. House cats occasionally kill or injure small owls, but the bigger problem is that they kill a lot of owl food (mice.) This makes it harder for owls, especially smaller species, to survive where there are a lot of cats. Keep in mind that it's healthier for your cat to stay indoors for a number of reasons, but one of those reasons is that Great Horned Owls are known to eat cats! For more information about keeping cats indoors, go to Cats Indoors! Or visit our webpage about owls and pets.
5. Don't throw your garbage, including food, into ditches. This garbage attracts all kinds of little rodents, which in turn attract things that eat little rodents--like owls. Owls are often hit by cars when they hunt along roadways, killing or injuring them. An unbelievable number of Great Gray Owls were killed along roadways during the winter of 2004-2005 because they were hunting along roads.
6. Don't let your dog chase birds. When an owl kills a large prey animal it sometimes spends several minutes on the ground eating. During this time it can easily be killed or badly injured by a dog. Young owls just learning to fly are especially vulnerable to dogs.
7. Remove any unused barbed wire on your property. All too often owls get hung up in barbed wire. They either die a lingering death, are killed by another animal, or, if rescued, often need to be euthanized due to the extent of their injuries.
8. Only pick up a fuzzy owl on the ground if you know that it is sick, injured, or both parents are dead. Fledgling owls normally spend a week or more on the ground before they can fly. At this stage they have fully developed wing feathers and short tails, but the rest of their body is still fuzzy. Their parents are usually somewhere nearby taking care of them. If an owl does need help, contact a local wildlife rehabilitator immediately. DON'T FEED IT! Click here to find a rehabilitator in your area.
9. Put up owl nest boxes (or make artificial burrows) if you're in the right location. The type of nesting structure and location are very important choices to make. Click here to find out more about providing owl housing.
10. Habitat, habitat, habitat! If you own land, consider the needs of the owls who might be living there. Consider a permanent conservation easement to protect the land after you're gone. If you don't own land, support organizations that support habitat conservation
11. Support an owl rehabilitation/research/education center near you. Go to our Links Page for a list of some organizations that help owls. Some of these facilities give you the option of "adopting" an owl. Your adoption fee goes to help an individual owl, and in return you get a certificate and the satisfaction of knowing you helped make a difference in the life of an owl. A wonderful gift idea for owl lovers! The Global Owl Project is a worldwide effort to bring together and standardize research on all of the world's owl species. Financial contributions will help make a difference for owls on a global level.
12. Leave the responsibility of taking care of owls to trained experts. Many people think it would be fun to have an owl as a pet. This is illegal in the United States and many other countries because there is SO much to know to give the owl a good life. Owls require large cages, whole dead animals in their diet, cannot be housebroken, can be very noisy at night, throw up pellets, and most veterinarians do not know how to care for them. If you are interested in working with owls, consider volunteering for a rehabilitator or educator near you. See the Owls As Pets page on this site.
13. Consider becoming an owl researcher. There is so much that isn't known about owls yet, especially owls in tropical regions. For some species, virtually nothing is known even about their basic biology. Science doesn't have all the answers, but we need interested and dedicated individuals to help find the answers! Click here to see recent owl research presented at the 2nd International Northern Forest Owl Symposium.
14. Mow less of your lawn. Short grass is not good wildlife habitat, which means there will be less owl food there. Consider planting prairie or other native plants or allowing parts of your yard to be wild. This will attract more wildlife which serves as food for hunting owls.
15. Take down soccer nets when not in use. It is not uncommon for owls to get tangled in soccer nets when hunting at night. Sometimes they are found and released, sometimes rehabilitation is needed, and sometimes they hang there until they die.
16. For Halloween, only use fake cobwebs indoors. Small owls can and do get hopelessly tangled in fake cobwebs used outdoors. Sometimes they are injured in the process and need rehabilitation.
The International Owl Center advances the survival of wild owl populations through education and research. We plan to accomplish our mission through biological and cultural programs and displays, green building design, citizen-science and other research, international exchange of information, the World Owl Hall of Fame, the International Festival of Owls, and other means.
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Attorney General Scott Pruitt filed the charges Thursday against 41-year-old Shannon Marie Rickards.
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Quote: Do individuals have an incentive to search for innovations, and do workers councils have an incentive to implement productive ones once they're found? These are important questions since even if people come to recognize that environmentally and socially destructive growth is no longer in their interests, raising living standards for everyone, reducing everyone's work time, improving the quality of everyone's working environment, and restoring the natural environment will require a great deal of innovation.
We do not support rewarding those who succeed in discovering productive innovations with vastly greater consumption rights than others who make equivalent personal sacrifices in work. Instead we recommend emphasizing direct social recognition of outstanding achievements for a variety of reasons. First, successful innovation is often the outcome of cumulative human creativity for which a single individual is rarely responsible. Furthermore, an individual's contribution is often the product of genius and luck as much as personal sacrifice, all of which implies that recognizing innovation through social esteem rather than material reward is superior on ethical grounds. Second, we are not convinced that social incentives will prove less powerful than material ones. It should be recognized that no economy ever has, or could pay innovators the full social value of their innovations. If it did, there would be little left to pay those who apply them over long periods of time. This means if material compensation is the only reward, innovation will be under stimulated in any case. Moreover, often material reward is merely an imperfect substitute for what is truly desired -- social esteem. How else can one explain why those who already have more wealth than they, their children, and their children's children can consume continue to strive to accumulate more? In any case, these are our opinions. Actual policy in a participatory economy would be settled democratically in light of results.
Nor do we see why critics believe there would be insufficient incentives for enterprises to seek and implement innovations, unless they measure a participatory economy against a mythical and misleading image of capitalism. Sometimes it is presumed that innovating capitalist enterprises capture the full benefits of their successes, while it is also assumed that innovations spread instantaneously to all enterprises in an industry. When made explicit it is obvious these assumptions are contradictory. Yet only if both assumptions hold can one conclude that capitalism provides maximum material stimulus to innovation and achieves technological efficiency throughout the economy. In reality innovative capitalist enterprises temporarily capture "super profits" which are competed away more or less rapidly depending on a host of circumstances including patent laws and the efficacy of enforcement of intellectual property rights. Which means that in reality there is a trade-off in capitalist economies between stimulus to innovation and the rapid spread of innovations, or a trade-off between dynamic and static efficiency.
In a participatory economy workers do have a material incentive to implement socially useful innovations. Any change that increases the social benefits of the outputs they produce, or reduces the social costs of the inputs they use will increasing the workers council's social benefit to social cost ratio. This makes it easier for the council to get its proposals accepted in the participatory planning process, can allow workers to reduce their effort, can permit them to improve the quality of their work life, or can raise the average effort rating the council can award its members. But just as in capitalism, adjustments will render any advantage they achieve temporary. As the innovation spreads to other enterprises, as indicative prices change, and as work complexes are re-balanced across enterprises and industries the full social benefits of their innovation will be both realized and spread to all workers and consumers.
The faster the adjustments are made, the more efficient and equitable the outcome. On the other hand, the more rapid the adjustments, the less the "material incentive" to innovate and the greater the incentive to "ride for free" on the innovations of others. But a participatory economy enjoys advantages in managing this trade off compared to capitalism. Most importantly, direct recognition of "social serviceability" is a more powerful incentive to innovation in a participatory economy, which reduces the magnitude of the trade off since more innovation will occur in a participatory economy than in capitalism for the same speed of adjustments. Secondly, a participatory economy is better suited to allocating resources efficiently to research and development because R&D is largely a public good which is predictably under supplied in market economies but would not be in a participatory economy. Third, the only effective mechanism for providing material incentives for innovating enterprises in capitalism is to slow their spread, at the expense of efficiency. This is true because the transaction costs of registering patents and negotiating licenses from patent holders are very high. But while we would recommend it only as a last resort, the transaction costs of delaying the re-calibration of work complexes for innovative work places, or even granting extra consumption allowances for a period of time would be negligible in a participatory economy.
In general, we find much of what parades as scientific opinion about incentives flawed by implicit and unwarranted assumptions predictable in an era of capitalist triumphalism. We are not as pessimistic about the motivational power of non-material incentives in an appropriate environment as many of our progressive colleagues have become. Nor do we see any inappropriate obstacles to the deployment of material incentives in a participatory economy should its members decide they are warranted. In the end we are quite comfortable with the very traditional socialist view that a mixture of material and social incentives would be necessary during the process of creating an equitable and humane economy. But that social progress hinges, in part, on diminishing reliance on material incentives over time.
bigsole wrote: in an anarchist society... if there is such a thing, it would actually end up being quite libertarian... so to say that private capital and enterprise cant innovate technology is silly. i've always said that the extreme left and the extreme right would find much common ground in this imagined world.
Charlie Foxtrot wrote: bigsole wrote: in an anarchist society... if there is such a thing, it would actually end up being quite libertarian... so to say that private capital and enterprise cant innovate technology is silly. i've always said that the extreme left and the extreme right would find much common ground in this imagined world.
Private capital in an anarchist society? The whole idea of money requires either a government printing it, or having it pegged to the value of something rare, like gold. If it's the latter, wouldn't you need some international body monitoring the supply in order to the determine it's value? And anyways the whole idea of private companies in an anarchist society scares the fuck out of me. Can you imagine a world that looks like this country did prior to the progressive era? Right now many countries do look like that. Under anarchy, what stops it from spreading to the whole world? I mean, some of those communes/anarchist townships/co-ops will fail, and those people will need food, and will be desperate, and so here comes a corporation with no safety rules willing to feed them...look I don't the government telling me my friends are criminals for smoking weed, but I do like them saying companies have to provide safety glasses for a job that should require them.
And shouldn't we look at the progress we've made? In the last 60 years we've made huge strides in race relations, medical care, the fact that people don't usually starve in America, etc. Under anarchy would people be able to have the same standard of living as they do now? If anarchy had come into place in the 50s would there be communties of klansmen attacking communities of blacks? And things are getting better. Current financial crisis aside, efforts are being made to get more people insured, harness renewable non-polluting resources, etc.
My real problem is overpopulation, which would be a problem in any society. If we can reduce the population we really do have the resources to provide for everyone. If the world only had 2 billion people (or less) like it should, and we could not be selfish assholes, we could make a pretty nice world. Now I know that the preceding may seem hopelessly optimistic/John Lennonish given human nature, which is why I'm interested in tommi's ideas about the evolution of human nature and was wondering if he could maybe expand upon them?
Charlie Foxtrot wrote: Okay so maybe I overstated the progress on race, but desegregation and a black president aren't exactly nothing. Even so, just thinking about the society we have, I mean people used to starve in this country, on a regular basis. It wasn't just the homeless. How does an anarchist society even feed itself? How many people actually know how to farm these days? I guess my position can be summed up by saying that reducing population (obviously through non-lethal means) and spreading the wealth around would be much more beneficial to society than anarchy. My biggest question is how we reduce the population.
Quote: SD: In the world of politics, philosophical ideas of individualism and collectivism seem to play out. Even within anarchism there are the extremes of both. I was just wondering, where do you stand on these concepts?
DG: In a way, I think its a false dilemma. Its a dilemma thats thrown up by the market as an institution. The market is a really weird thing because it creates the illusion of a kind of individualism that doesnt really exist. I think that it is sort of a strange, aberrant technology in human relations.
Freedom isnt a matter of choice between things that come out of nowhere. Freedom is the freedom to choose what kind of commitments you want to make. So, that idea that commitment to others and individual self-expression are somehow being completely opposed terms is an illusion caused by the aberrant form of society we live under, the market-consumer society. You dont put yourself together with pieces you find in a store. Life isnt really like that and, if you werent thinking in market terms, you would realize that, unless you want to be a hermit in solitude, the only meaningful thing is the freedom to choose in what ways you can relate to other people.
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- Pope resignation gives some Bay Area Catholics hope for progressive shift
- Shock at pope's resignation: Sign of humility or of crisis?
- How Pope Benedict XVI's successor will be chosen
- Frontrunners to succeed Pope Benedict XVI
- Pope Benedict XVI resigns: Key facts and what happens now
- Pope to resign: Text of his announcement
- Pope Benedict XVI to resign on Feb. 28
The resignation of Pope Benedict XVI on Monday has more than the usual relevance to the non-Catholic world -- at least in America, where sexual abuse by Catholic priests continues to rise to public scrutiny and where Catholic opposition to mandatory insurance coverage of birth control is influencing health care reform.
Many believe more progressive leadership from the Vatican over the past decade would have placed the institution quickly and clearly on the side of abuse victims rather than the abusers it once protected. Benedict XVI resisted reform and clung to centralized authority despite changing times that saw birth control widely accepted, even among Catholic women, and gay rights gaining ground.
The way the pope is chosen does not encourage revolutionaries. Still, we can hope a pope with a common touch and a 21st century world view might emerge from the Vatican enclave and surprise us all -- not by reversing long-held dogma but by relating better to the Catholics and non-Catholics whose lives he will touch.


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Religion Notes: Nov. 9
Published: Saturday, November 9, 2013 at 4:30 a.m.
Last Modified: Friday, November 8, 2013 at 4:37 p.m.
Covenant packs 133 boxes for Operation Christmas Child
At a packing party this past week, members of Covenant Presbyterian church filled 133 gift boxes for Operation Christmas Child, under the ministry of the Rev. Franklin Graham.
Mary Laughter led the project for Covenant this year.
The boxes were filled with toothbrushes, toys, clothing, school supplies, books and candies. Children all over the world will be blessed through this project.
Church celebrating pastoral anniversary
Greater New Zion Baptist Church will kick off an anniversary celebration for its pastor, Elder Wilbur L. Hines, and first lady, Minister Sharon Hines, at 5:30 p.m. today. The church is on U.S. Highway 25 in Fletcher.
Bishop Quacy L. Smith, D.D., J.D., from the Kingdom Life Center Church, Phoenix, Ariz., will preside.
At 11 a.m. Sunday, Bishop Zella Berry Case of the Church of Promise in Durham will bring a message.
The celebration will conclude with a service at 3:30 p.m. Sunday with Elder Alfred Blout, pastor of Tried Stone Missionary Baptist Church, along with the Tried Stone Missionary Baptist Church choir. The community is welcome.
Classes on nonviolent communication start
A series of nonviolent communication classes, with a focus on conflict mediation, will begin at 7 p.m. Monday. The hour-long classes will continue through Dec. 16 in the St. James Room at St. James Episcopal Church in downtown Hendersonville.
The facilitator is Jane Reinoso, a graduate of the Mediate-Your-Life Immersion program. Visit www.mediateyourlife.com for more information.
The goal of the training is to learn to recognize that we have been triggered before we respond with habitual, knee-jerk reactions. Students explore alternative responses that help to better meet our own needs.
Call 828-693-7458 for more information.
Anglican bishop to conduct service
The Most Reverend Walter H. Grundorf, D.D., bishop ordinary and presiding bishop of the Anglican Province of America, will conduct a service at 3 p.m. Nov. 17 at St. Andrews Church, 4259 Chimney Rock Road (U.S. Highway 64).
The Anglican Province of America is a fellowship of faithful Christian people worshiping in historic Anglican tradition.
Anyone interested in learning more about the church is welcome.
'Messiah Sing' scheduled for Dec. 1
The ninth annual "Messiah Sing," sponsored by the Henderson County Churches Uniting, is set for 3 p.m. Dec. 1 at Trinity Presbyterian Church, 900 Blythe St., Hendersonville.
Participants will gather at 2 p.m. for instructions followed by a break. Dress is informal. There will be a 40-piece orchestra, and singers usually number about 100.
Singers must bring their own music and paper clips to mark the 14 choruses to be performed. Singers do not need to call in advance to participate. The event is free to the community.
Donations will be accepted for the work of the HCCU.
Instrumentalists who would like to participate are asked to call 828-693-3081.
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You're kidding me, right? Be far easier, less time-consuming to buy a second-hand Wii...
So i recently bought a new wii, since i gave my old one to my sister.
The new wii is modded with a WODE, and i have softmodded it.
believing i could run my old gc backups i tried running them from the WODE, and everything was fine. i stumbeled over to my wii to plug in my gc controller, but i couldn't find any ports for it...
Searching the web i found out they removed the gcslots from the wii.
Game loads fine, runs fine and everything, so now im wondering:
What would it take for me to be able to play my gcgames?
is there any controller except for the gc controller that is able to run these games?
can i download a cMios that has wiimote compability?
emulating wiimode while in gcmode, so that the wiimote runs?
soldering gcports where they used to be?
Any enlightment on this topic would be awesome!
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Originally Posted by sven
Yes, you can solder them back.
You are going to have search for a guide that provides the info. needed to do so.
If that's what you want to do.
i'll look up a guide, thanks for your help guys
if there is any other option that does not involve money, im listening
you're so negative, let the mad scientist in you bloomDid I say new? Maybe new for you... you wanna Mad Scientist away, be my guest. Wouldn't have the faintest clue... the redesign may not have the proper connections in place for a simple (for you) direct solder-on job. Good luck!
Last edited by iCrimZen; 01-31-2013 at 01:48 PM.
You need more then a Good Guide as Nightstah said you have to make sure all parts needed to do so are in fact intact on that wii.
We have not had anybody try it.
It would do you good to do some research on it as it might end up costing you more , then buying a used wii.
I should have been "A Lot" Clearer , that is my fault.
See Nightstah , didn't I tell Ya.


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Eagle Police were called to a residence in town at approximately 8 a.m. Oct. 16 on a report of vehicle tampering.
Upon arrival, the officer was greeted by the resident who stated that when he came outside that morning he found screws positioned behind three of his vehicle tires. The large drywall screws were wedged between the tire and the concrete and placed so they would puncture the tires when the man backed out of his driveway.
The man said he did not know anyone who would have tampered with his vehicle. The police officer asked if there were any teenagers in the area. The resident noted his landlord has two teens at home and said he would talk with her about the situation.
The landlord called police the next day to say that no one was at the house while the vandalism occurred. She said she didn't know anyone who would attempt to puncture her tenant's tires. However, the landlord did note that her tenant was a Broncos fan and suggested that because there was a game on the day that the incident occurred, maybe someone who doesn't like the Broncos was behind the attempted vandalism.
• On Oct. 20, Eagle Police reported the Eagle Ranch Golf Course Clubhouse sign on Lime Park Drive had been bent down to the ground and appeared to have been pushed over by a vehicle.
• On Oct. 16, police found a bike that had been left at the bottom of the stairs at the police department offices on Broadway. The bike was logged as found and taken inside.


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Dylan Thompson to start at QB for Gamecocks
Published: Tuesday, October 22, 2013 at 9:53 p.m.
Last Modified: Tuesday, October 22, 2013 at 9:53 p.m.
South Carolina quarterback Dylan Thompson has proven he can play well on the road in a big game, leading USC to a 27-17 win at Clemson last season.
No. 20 USC (5-2, 3-2 SEC) at No. 5 Missouri (7-0, 3-0)
7 p.m., ESPN2, 97.1 FM, 104.3 FM, 1400 AM
The Boiling Springs product will get another chance Saturday night at Missouri with Carolina needing a victory to stay in the hunt for the SEC East title.
USC coach Steve Spurrier said during his press conference on Tuesday that Thompson will start and likely go the distance as the Gamecocks travel to No. 5 Missouri. Starting quarterback Connor Shaw, who injured his knee in last week's loss to Tennessee, may dress out and be available as a backup, but Spurrier said Thompson will likely play the entire game barring an injury.
"Dylan is definitely going to start the game and it'll be his game to go with," Spurrier said. "He'll prepare as hard as he can this week. He will be ready to go, and he'll give it his best shot. We know that."
Thompson has played sparingly so far this year. He has received playing time in six of USC's seven games, but has thrown just 51 passes.
So far this season, Thompson is 29-for-51 for 421 yards. He has thrown two touchdown passes and two interceptions.
His only extended playing time this year came in a 28-25 win at Central Florida. Thompson entered the game in the first quarter when Shaw left with a shoulder injury.
He went 15-for-32 for 261 yards with an interception at UCF. It appeared as though Thompson would start the next week against Kentucky, but Shaw was able to bounce back and play against the Wildcats.
Spurrier said he does not expect Shaw to play this week unless Thompson is forced to leave the game with an injury.
"I think Dylan's ready to go. He hasn't had the opportunity for us to say, hey this is your day, let's go play," Spurrier said. "This is his time this year. It's coming up."
In addition to playing against Clemson last year, Thompson also saw action in eight other games. He started against East Carolina and threw for 330 yards with 3 touchdowns and no interceptions.
In the Outback Bowl against Michigan, Thompson split time with Shaw and threw for 117 yards and two touchdowns, including the game-winner with less than a minute remaining.
Carolina offensive lineman A.J. Cann said the team has confidence in Thompson heading into Saturday's game.
"Last year Dylan came in at the end of the season and played some great games," Cann said. "Hopefully he'll come in and step up like he did last year."
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Mixed Martial Arts is back in the basin, and once again the lineup is loaded with locals. Six South Tahoe fighters will step into the cage Saturday for a MMA amateur showdown at Montbleu Resort, Casino & Spa.South Tahoe resident and soon-to-be pro fighter Corey "White Mamba" Carlson is headlining the event and competing for the Lightweight World Title against former teammate Justin " Diehard" McClain.Local fighters Chris Cocores, Leo Rodelo, Jordan Kramer, Albert Hernandez, Jose Medina and Cris Montenegro will prelude the main event. "Local crowds are great. It feels like home," Cocores said in an email. "Your opponent is stepping into your backyard, and then you just treat it like any other fight and go do what you got to do."Tickets are $25, doors open at 8 p.m. and the fights start at 9 p.m. But before it all goes down, meet the guys representing South Shore in the cage. Name: Corey "The White Mamba" Carlson Stats: 4-2 record, 160 pounds, 6-foot Trains: Escobar Training Grounds, coach Cory EscobarOpponent: Justin " Diehard" McClainWhat do you know about your opponent? The only thing I really know about him is he has a background in kickboxing and jujitsu. He trained at our gym two years ago, but I was coming off a knee injury. What's your fight background? Karate. I did karate for three years before I even started thinking about fighting. I was doing construction up here when I was 19, and I had this buddy who introduced me to Mr. Escobar. Karate showed me discipline and gave me respect for a 4,000-year old tradition. As I started to progress with karate, I naturally started to progress with the other aspects of MMA like kickboxing and jiujitsu. How do you get past fear? When you're in front of a couple hundred people and fighting someone, it's a very intense thing. So you have to trust yourself, and the biggest thing is to put yourself through tougher training. The harder you train before a fight is when all the fear goes away because the biggest fear for me is fighting and not having enough cardio to do what I want to do. That's why I lost my first two fights. The only thing that can ruin you mentally would be not training hard enough because you're skills are your skills. So cardio is key? I would say technique is the foundation and cardio is an aspect you can take advantage of. What else is important for a fighter? I mediate a lot because a fight is inevitable. It really is. There's a moment and a time when someone says go and you have to be ready. What I'm trying to grasp in my meditation is playing that over and over, and really being there so when the time does come it's not scary. Most people think fighter fight all the time. Is this true? I've only been in one fight in my life out of the cage, and it was in junior high. I don't really like the idea of street fighting because it's not smart. It's easy for someone to just hit their head on the street and that's it. So no, I don't like street fighting. I hear you're turningpro, what made you want to take the leap? When I hurt my knee I had eight months to sit and think about what I really wanted to do. It really motivated me to start fighting. We had talked about it before, but it took taking it away from me to make me realize how much I wanted it.
Name: Chris Cocores Stats: Record 1-1, 135 pounds, 5-foot-10 Trains: High Sierra Stranglers, coach Chris EgglestonOpponent: Brady Huang Ammy (3-2), San Francisco Dragon HouseHow did you get involved in MMA? Kind of hit a point where I could go one direction or the other, and MMA seemed like a helping hand toward the most positive one at the time. Entry music? My cousin Taylor Cocores, one of his tracks he made for his dad. What is your fighting background? I had some trouble growing up with fighting, always loved to box, and just combined the two and picked up on some opportunities that were put in front of me and just stuck with it till it became something I couldn't really live without.What's the best part of MMA? The best part is constantly reassuring yourself what you're capable of by pushing the boundary further than you thought you could go. Being able to understand what you are capable of and also making your friends and family proud.How do you get past fear? Fear goes away the second the bell rings.What do you think about before a fight? Before a fight, I think about my mom. It's a warm feeling that she'll be there to get my back, pluck me out of a tough situation or maybe throw a little more wind behind one of my punches to get me that knockout.Best moment in the ring? My best moment in the ring was looking over at how proud my dad was after I finished my second fight. Who get most nervous when you take the ring? I've got quite a few people in my life that have a hard time seeing me fight, but probably the worst is my grandma on my mom's side. She tells me all the time she'd forgive me if I quit.Favorite move? I got all kinds of tricks up my sleeve, but my trainer encourages me to keep them to a bare minimum.
Name: Leo Rodelo Stats: Record 1-0, 155 pounds, 5-foot-11 Trains: High Sierra Stranglers, Coach Chris EgglestonOpponent: Matthew Sklover Fighting background? Brazilian Jiu-jitsu.Entry music? Ballerina by Armin Van BuurenHow do you get over nerves before a fight? The more I sit around and think, the more nervous I get. So I get up and do something to not think about the fight.Best moment in the cage? Getting a quick win in my first and only fight, and having the UFC's Herb Dean as a referee for my match.Who gets most nervous for you? My mom. I just try not to talk about it around her. When the subject does come up I just tell her that I can defend myself and I know what I am doing.How is fighting in front of a local crowd different? I've competed in bjj tournaments and a cage fight, and I haven't had a chance to compete here in town. So it's exciting, but I do feel a little more pressure than competing away.What do you gain from fighting? The best part about MMA is staying in really good shape, knowing you have the skills to defend yourself and the confidence it gives you. I just enjoy learning new things. Honestly, it's just fun and it keeps me occupied.Who has been most influential to you as a fighter? My mother. What's it like behind the scenes in the local MMA community? It's just a bunch of guys training hard. The sport is definitely growing fast and there are a lot if tough guys in this town.
Name: Jordan Kramer Stats: First fight, 120 pounds, 5-foot-1 Trains: High Sierra Stranglers, coach Chris Eggleston Opponent: Dillon Baker (Visalia, Calif.)How did you get involved in MMA fighting? I watched it a few times on television, and I always had friends who liked martial arts. I never thought it would come to this point to be honest. It started as us just training in the garage in our spare time to keep ourselves in shape.What do you tell yourself before entering the cage? I train hard, I put in the work, and I'm ready to do this. I've always been the smallest guy in my gym, and I can survive and hold my own. How do you deal with fear? Really the fear is what let's you know you're alive. You go out there and fight somebody and it's scary. If you go out in the cage and you don't feel fear, and you're not scared in any way then you're not alive. What do you gain from MMA? This sport honestly saved my life. When I started training I was really broke and I had nothing going on. I really wasn't even doing that good in life. I was smoking half a pack of cigarettes a day and then I couldn't even afford to smoke anymore. so I started replacing a six minute cigarette with a six minute jog and that's about the same time I started getting involved in martial arts and training in the garage with Chris Cocores.


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the mean wrote: I have always been a big supporter of Sarah Palin's continued presence in our nation's consciousness. The continual vomiting of mind-numbing stupidity and her amazing ability to turn it into $$$ is really the embodiment of the American dream.
I've been hoping she becomes a presidential candidate in for the 2012 election.
But now, at this point, I think her character has jumped the shark, and I'm hoping she pulls a Crazy Amy and retires her character today. I think we'd all be better for it.
The Awl wrote: Sarah Palin the TV Star Exposes Sarah Palin the Fake Hunter
Palin champions will hold up last night's "Sarah Palin's America" episode as proof of the candidate putting her money where her moose is. That is to say, after years of talking about being a hunter, Palin actually went out and shot something.
While much of the debate around the episode is an ethical one about a millionaire shooting a defenseless animal so as not to have to pay for meat, the real conversation should be about how the episode absolutely exposes Palin as a charade.
In this most recent episode, a woman who has blindly championed the NRA and legitimized her frontier-woman status by claiming to be a "lifelong hunter" comes across as anything but.
For starters, Palin and pa head out on a long hunt without bothering to sight in Palin's rifle, a mistake no serious hunter would ever make. Why Palin's dad chose for her a "varmint rifle" for a caribou hunt and why Palin, an admitted "moose hunter," would not question such a gun's appropriateness is never answered.
From there, numerous bungles along the way to finally downing the caribou show a hunting tourist who, at worst, appears to pose a genuine danger to fellow outdoorsmen.
While Palin's hunting-for-TV jamboree certainly impressed the hockey moms, it seriously eroded her base of genuine hunters. One online commentor, on Sean Hannity's website no less, grumbled, "I turned on Sarah Palin's Alaska a minute ago and she just shot four maybe even five times at a caribou and missed. Needless to say I'm not impressed with her ability to handle a firearm let alone aim it and hit something."
On Palin's own Facebook page, a viewer wrote, "What a joke. I was a fan before the show. No one who is a true hunter lets others carry their rifle or can't load their own shells. Sarah, you are a phony in this area of your 'skills."
Several others wondered why Palin, an experienced hunter, didn't bring her own rifle, pointing out that familiarity with one's weapon is a core principle of hunting. Another pointed out, regarding Palin's veteran hunter dad, "I was surprised to see him using the gun as a walking stick."
Several hunter friends to whom I showed the video were less than impressed. All agreed that she did not look like she had handled a gun many times. One, who just posted his November kill on his Facebook profile, said "I would not hunt with her."
In the episode, Palin is handed a second gun, which, thanks to good video editing, she uses to down the animal in one shot.
But knowledgeable hunters would have all recoiled in horror watching Palin immediately place her finger on the trigger of the "hot" Savage 110 as it was handed to her. Keeping one's finger off the trigger until the very moment of the shot is the first lesson any responsible hunter ever learns.
But Palin's inexperience with guns is in no way more obvious than when she is handed the rifle and she asks, "Does it kick?" It was an exchange Brad Schlegel took note of, writing on Palin's Facebook wall, "'does the rifle kick' what kind of a question is that? Doesn't matter if it kicks or not you shoot it the same. That was a girly question momma griz."
It would behoove Palin real American opponents and supporters alike to remember that pretending to enjoy hunting is an American political tradition. Indeed, who can forget John Kerry, avid fowl hunter? Or this: "My father taught me how to shoot."
Of course, not everyone was convinced that the mystique of Palin as Alaskan hunter is a con job. In the tradition of justifying anything to preserve a dear illusion at any cost to reason, a commenter on Hannity's forum dismissed questions like so: "You'd have seen her dad take a tumble while caring the gun she used. He must have knocked the scope out of alignment." Another hunter in the 24 Hour Campfire forum reasoned, "I bet the producers of that show knocked that messed with the scope to make it more dramatic," while another theorized, "If I had to guess, it'd be someone on the set messed with her scope with promises of wealth to make her look stupid."
Update, regarding the wearing of orange. As former Governor of the state, Palin should know that Alaska's policy is that "Upland and big game hunters are strongly recommended to wear Hunter Orange."
FoxNews wrote: GRETA: Governor, last night there was a lot of discussion about the Sputnik Moment the President wants us to have. Do you agree with him? Is this our moment?
PALIN: That was another one of those WTF moments, when he has so often repeated, the Sputnik Moment, that he would aspire Americans to celebrate, he needs to remember that what happened back then with the former communist USSR and their victory and that race to space, yeah, they won, but they also incured so much debt at the time that it resulted in the inevitable collapse of the Soviet Union so I listen to that Sputnik Moment talk over and over again and I think, no we don't need one of those.
Bicycle wrote: Bush wasn't a moron. Palin probably isn't either. These people are narcissistic megalomaniacs in the business of selling an image. They're tolerated because they come off as kinda cute and people don't hold you accountable for your actions if they think you're an idiot
futuristxen wrote:
Exactly. Palin has a particular kind of intelligence that enables her to pursue her megalomaniacal ends. She's like a genius shark.


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MicrowavesThe cooking space in a camper or RV is somewhat minimal. That is why it pays to figure out how to cook in smaller spaces. A microwave or halogen oven will cut down on the heat your cooking generates, and offer you a way to prep a meal in a minimum amount of space.
If you really like to bake properly, then you should seriously consider a halogen oven. You get the browning effect you do in a conventional oven while using less energy; the food also cooks faster. With an extension ring, you can fit just about anything into your countertop oven. Best of all, you can put it away when you are done eating.


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The Muskingum River basin is the largest within Ohio's borders, funneling stormwater runoff from 20 percent of the state into the Ohio River at Marietta. That proved to be a recipe for disaster in late March 2013 as an estimated 8- to 11 inches of rain poured into the watershed, washing out bridges, roads and other infrastructure in communities all along the raging river.
"All bridges crossing the Muskingum River were washed out, except the 'Y' and Fifth Street bridges in Zanesville," said Darrin Lautenschleger, public affairs administrator for the Muskingum Watershed Conservancy District.
He said a total of 69 bridges were wrecked or seriously damaged throughout the watershed.
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Photo courtesy of Marietta College Special Collections
This railroad track was one of many destroyed by the flood.
"More than 115 homes were destroyed in Marietta and another 200 were uninhabitable. Some streets were under 15 to 25 feet of water, and flood waters reached onto the campus of Marietta College," Lautenschleger added.
The city also lost two major spans that joined Marietta's east and west sides-the Putnam Bridge and the superstructure of the B&O Railroad bridge, now known as the historic Harmar Railroad Bridge.
"Photos from that time show the twisted metal from the Putnam Street Bridge collapse had completely fallen into the river and washed over the dam that was located just downstream toward the Ohio River," said local historian and author Lynne Sturtevant.
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1913 infrastructure damage:
Except for the famous "Y" bridge and Fifth Street bridge in Zanesville, all other spans downstream across the Muskingum River were washed out.
Railroads and highways, telephone and telegraph lines were cut off in communities all along the Muskingum Valley.
In Marietta the Putnam and B&O Railroad bridges were washed into the Muskingum. Gas and water lines were damaged.
Throughout Washington County damages to bridges totaled an estimated $65,000 (in 1913 dollars).
Monroe County bridge damage was estimated at $7,000, in Athens County $28,000, and Morgan County suffered an estimated $120,000 from bridge damages.
The heaviest bridge damages in Ohio were reported in Franklin, Butler, Hamilton, and Montgomery counties.
Total property damage in the Muskingum watershed alone was estimated at $8.9 million. Statewide property damage stood at around $143 million-more than $2 billion in today's dollars.
Source: Muskingum Watershed Conservancy District and Times research.
A Register-Leader account of the damage said both bridges were washed out and only the piers remained:
"Heavy wreckage had been dashing into them with the force of a very strong current behind it. Doubtless both had been greatly weakened and when a part of the old Lobdell Mill, which stood at the foot of Montgomery Street, came sweeping down, the end came.
"When the mill struck the city's bridge, there was a tremendous crashing and grinding. Timbers and water flew high into the air and with a final groan the bridge was thrown out of position on its piers and went over into the river.
"A mass of the wreckage then went on down to the B&O bridge and a moment later it met the same fate. The span at the east end of the B&O bridge and the stone piers of both bridges are the only parts of the two iron structures that are left."
Articles in the same publication also mentioned that shortly after the bridges went down a crew of 50 men arrived to begin repairs on the railroad bridge, and barges were being brought in from Pittsburgh to construct a temporary pontoon bridge in place of the Putnam Street span.
Just past noon on April 19 the first train since the flood crossed the railroad bridge.
All other infrastructure was also impacted by the great flood-roadways on the east and west sides of Marietta were under 25 feet of water in places.
"Practically every manufacturing plant in the city suffered," the Register-Leader reported. "Wherever the water reached the dwellings it left its traces in collapsed porches, wrecked steps, and deposited drift.
"Hardships of the flood were increased by failure of the supply of gas and water, hundreds of families being marooned in their homes without fires, light, or drinking water."
The newspaper added that, as soon as the flood waters receded far enough the gas company put as many workers as possible to the task of restoring natural gas service as rapidly as the main and lateral lines could be freed of water.
Sturtevant noted flood damage was also severe on the islands of the Ohio River.
"There used to be amusement parks located on some of the Ohio River islands, including our own Buckley's Island-people went there for picnics and entertainment," she said. "But the 1913 flood wiped the islands clean of all trees and structures and put an end to those activities for good."
When the flood crested an estimated 85 percent of Marietta's property wealth was covered by water, and property damage alone totaled more than $1 million.
Upstream on the Muskingum, in the small village of Malta, 100 of 245 homes were destroyed.
Directly across the river two entire blocks of McConnelsville had disappeared under water, and the steel bridge connecting Malta and McConnelsville collapsed.
The McConnelsville Daily Herald reported that the bridge was washed out at 8:15 p.m. on Wednesday, March 26: "Two spans are out of sight and the draw is swung around near the lock wall."
Lautenschleger said the stories were pretty much the same in communities all along the watershed.
"The total property damage in the Muskingum watershed was estimated at $8.99 million at the time," Lautenschleger said, noting in today's dollars that figure would be several million more.
Statewide damages were listed at around $143 million-more than $2 billion today.


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IT300AG - Iced Tea Maker
All available parts for this model number are listed on this page.
PLEASE NOTE: We no longer have the original style pitcher for this appliance.
All available parts are listed in the first group of parts. The infusion pitcher in the second group of parts may be used, but please note that you cannot use your original lid.
If you would like to upgrade your existing iced tea maker, order a lid, plastic pitcher, and infusion chamber to create infused iced teas at home!


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Josh Brolin and Diane Lane are divorcing after eight years of marriage, a rep for Brolin confirms to TVGuide.com.
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Brolin and Lane married in 2004 and have no children together. They separated a couple of months ago, according to Us Weekly, which first reported the news.
"It was a mutual decision," a source close to the couple tells the magazine. "It is very amicable. It's not ugly, it's just over."
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On New Year's Day of this year, Brolin was arrested for public intoxication.
Brolin has two grown children from his previous marriage to actress Alice Adair. Lane was previously married to actor Christopher Lambert.
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Published: Wednesday, June 19, 2013 at 1:00 a.m.
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SARASOTA - Southwest Florida has good reason to pay attention to what Federal Reserve Chairman Ben Bernanke says from Washington, D.C., today, because it could set the tone for financial markets for the rest of the year.
Christian Bertelsen, chief investment manager of Sarasota-based Global Financial Private Capital, which manages $2 billion, said the Fed's policies on bond buying and efforts to keep interest rates low could affect housing and the large number of retirees here who depend on investment income.
Financial markets have been gyrating since May, when Bernanke told Congress the Fed might pull back its effort to keep long-term rates at record lows within "the next few meetings" -- earlier than many had assumed. Since then, the Dow Jones Industrial Average has swung by more than 100 points in 12 of the past 18 sessions, including trading Tuesday.
Mortgage rates have climbed to close to 4 percent, a 14-month high but well-below historic averages.
"That has already affected some homebuyers who cannot afford to buy because of the higher rates," Bertelsen said.
Bertelsen expects Bernanke to calm the markets by declaring the Fed will not make an abrupt change and will instead gradually taper its bond buying as the economy improves.
Such a message, Bertelsen predicted, would prevent a spike in interest and mortgage rates and would also buoy the stock market, which has already risen 15 percent this year.
But if Bernanke jars the markets by declaring a sudden end to Fed bond buying, it could send mortgage rates rising from 4 to 5 percent and cause a 7.5 percent drop in the stock market. A sudden spike in interest rates would be a jolt to retirees -- or anyone -- who relies on investments in bonds.
When rates rise, bonds lose value. Bertelsen said three years of expected capital appreciation of a 10-year Treasury bond could be eaten up if interest rates spike.
"I do not expect that to happen," Bertelsen said. "I expect him to deliver a very clear message that signals an orderly, disciplined approach by the Fed."
Bertelsen has mixed views on the Federal Reserve's efforts to keep interest rates near record lows.
It has waged "a war on savers," he said, especially retirees who have seen income dry up from traditionally safe investments such as money market funds.
But for now, the economy is showing steady improvement, and Bertelsen predicts that Bernanke will not risk knocking the U.S. recovery off course.
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C.J. sang "Can't You See" from the movie "Blow" and shook the stage. The judges loved it. Harry said C.J. sang his way back into the forefront of the competition. Keith told him he "completely nailed that."
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Jena, a "Twilight" fan like Ryan, sang "Decode" from the movie behind the piano. And she did it with heart and emotion to a standing ovation from JLo and Keith. The judges were perplexed as to how she landed in the bottom three last week. JLo called it the "best performance of the night."
MK chose a song from "Hope Floats," one of Harry's movies. "To Make You Feel My Love" put JLo in a "romantic mood." JLo compared her voice to K.D. Lang's. Harry said MK has "star quality."
Majesty sang "Let It Go" from "Frozen." Harry, while noting the vast diversity of music Majesty has chosen over the course of the competition, was impressed and thought it was strong, but warned her not to get spread too thin with too many different styles. JLo said the ability to switch to so many different things was a positive.
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Dexter got average reviews for "Sweet Home Alabama" as did Ben, who sang Elton John's "Bennie and the Jets" from "27 Dresses." He left the judges confused. Harry felt there was a made-up element to his voice and Keith felt the same way, wanting to know who Ben was as an artist. JLo said she was confused, though felt the vocal performance was strong.
A few singers were left with positive, but take-or-leave comments from the judges, including Sam, who sang first, with "Come Together" by the Beatles and Jessica, who sang "Sound of Silence" from "The Graduate."
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Services will begin with a Mass on Thursday, August 30, 2012, at 11 a.m., at the Sacred Heart Catholic Church for Joseph Dutra, 84, of Gridley, who passed away August 22, 2012 in Gridley, California.
Joseph was born October 10, 1927 in Oroville, California to Frank and Ignacia Dutra.
He was a life long resident of Biggs and Gridley area, having worked as a rancher for many years. He was also a member of the Gridley Moose Lodge, UPEC #64 Chico, IDES Council #93 Gridley Luiso America and a life long member of the Sacred Heart Catholic Church.
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He is survived by his loving wife of 19 years, Myrtle Dutra, of Gridley; two sons: Bennie (Betty) Pruitt, of Live Oak California, Olin (Barbara) Crain, of Orland, California; one daughter, Marlyn Gaylord Stopplemore, of Gridley; eleven grandchildren, 13 great-grandchildren and three nieces.
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Andreessen conceded his view of Snowden isn't shared by many in Silicon Valley. But his comments and the tech leaders' call for tougher reforms illustrate how raw the NSA spying issue remains in Silicon Valley -- exactly one year after the first of many news reports appeared that were based on Snowden's leaks about agency efforts to collect phone records and Internet user data.
Top executives at Google, Facebook and other leading Internet companies have previously voiced outrage over programs revealed by those leaks, including NSA efforts to weaken encryption and intercept transmissions between the companies' overseas data centers. This week, the CEOs of nine leading companies published an open letter in several newspapers, urging the U.S. Senate to adopt tougher reforms than those contained in the so-called USA Freedom bill passed by the House of Representatives last month.
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OAKLAND -- As a white man who talks about white privilege and institutional racism, the superintendent of Oakland's school system is not your typical school administrator.
In countless public and media appearances since his appointment in 2009, Tony Smith, 45, has transmitted a radical message, not only about Oakland, but about the expanded role he believes a school system must play in society. He argues that schools can -- and must -- help to transform entire communities through love and a sense of collective responsibility for children, especially the disadvantaged.
"I think he's an incredible evangelist," said David Kakishiba, an Oakland school board member. "He's brought that to the forefront in a way I have not seen in my lifetime -- that, as a district, we're going to be very focused, diligent and relentless on eliminating these disparities for children with less means and the legacy of racism."
Smith has certainly energized the city. Mobilizing a fractured system under the constant threat of education funding cutbacks is proving to be much harder. Teachers are on their third year of an imposed contract. Parents are still protesting the closure of elementary schools. And members of the NAACP have publicly illustrated, through statistics and anecdotes, the grim reality that persists despite Smith's initiative to raise the achievement of African-American boys.
"I'm hearing people's upset. I'm hearing their discontent with the current outcomes," Smith said. "People are angry, hurt, sad -- I get it. The change isn't happening fast enough for anybody."
During his first three years in office, Smith has spent much of his time in the public eye. He's had to, he said, to restore trust in an institution notorious for its 2003 state financial takeover.
"That was a very public failure," he said. "So how do you build public confidence in a system that was so bad it had to be taken over?"
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Smith also has stressed his own plans to stay in Oakland, lest people assume the latest strategic plan is destined to join its predecessors in the district archives. "We're not going anywhere," he said in an interview shortly before he was hired. "This is where my kids are going to grow up."
Though never a classroom teacher, Smith has been a district administrator since 2004 -- first as superintendent in Emeryville, then as a deputy superintendent in San Francisco. He lives in Oakland with his wife and two daughters, who attend Oakland Unified's Crocker Highlands Elementary School.
Smith earns a $265,000 salary, about five times that of an average teacher in his district. He hasn't always lived comfortably. Born in the Central Valley to teenage parents and into an unstable childhood, he went on to graduate from UC Berkeley, where he played football.
Tall and broad-shouldered, Smith has an air of sincerity, calm and boyish enthusiasm. He is an intent listener.
"He is creating a positive atmosphere in the district," said Maria Ku, whose children go to Montera Middle School and Oakland Technical High School. "His children go to public schools. He seems to be walking the walk."
Smith's outreach campaign seems to be paying off. Likely voters recently surveyed in April by Gene Bregman & Associates gave the district higher approval ratings than they had in 18 years of polling. An April opinion piece in the Oakland Tribune by Joseph J. Haraburda, president and CEO of the Oakland Metropolitan Chamber of Commerce, credited Smith with taking "local schools to a level of respectability that hadn't been seen for years."
Still, his critics say the administration hasn't done enough -- or that Smith is undermining his own vision through his actions. They've questioned his recommendations to close four majority-African-American schools and to balance the budget with funds once designated for adult education programs. The adult education decision has left barely a shell of a program that once served 25,000 students a year, many of them English learners and school dropouts.
Protesters who occupied the closed Lakeview Elementary for nearly three weeks listed the superintendent's resignation as one of their demands.
Another challenge for Smith has been the school board, which has begun to vote against some of his team's recommendations. Last week, over his objections, the board voted 4-3 to restore a $1.75 million cut to special-education programs.
Then there is the administration's strained relationship with its teachers union. The two sides have yet to settle a contract since the union aired its proposal in January 2008. This year, Smith -- who says he doesn't believe staffing decisions should be made on the basis of an employee's years of service -- tried in vain to change the contract's seniority provisions so that principals and others at a school would have more of a say in who filled their job openings.
Shortly after his proposal fizzled, Smith announced a plan that, he said, didn't need to be negotiated: Teachers at three struggling high schools would need to apply for a newly created, 11-month teaching position if they wished to remain on their campuses.
David Orphal, a teacher at Skyline High School, said while he feels Smith's leadership has been generally positive for Oakland, that decision disappointed him.
"The biggest hurdle that he has to get over in the next stage of his career is to repair the relationship with the teachers union," Orphal said. "The relationship has gotten so toxic, if Tony Smith said, 'Apple pie is good,' the union may be like, 'No, it's not.'"
Minh-Tram Nguyen, principal of EnCompass Elementary in East Oakland, said for all of the district's challenges, she senses progress. She said she feels buoyed by Smith's plan for schools that address children's physical and emotional needs, as well as academics. Her school's holistic approach was stifled by previous administrations, she said. That's changed since Smith came to Oakland Unified.
"It's never as simple as one leader," Nguyen said. "But you very much know that if a leader doesn't support this kind of work, it won't happen."
Urban school district superintendents aren't known for their longevity. But Smith says -- if a bit less convincingly, now -- that he plans to stay. Last year, his contract was extended through June 2015.
"As long as I have the support to continue to serve children, I'm here," he said.
And he feels that he has that support now?
"No," he responded. He paused for several seconds. "We need to build it."
Read Katy Murphy's Oakland schools blog at IBAbuzz.com/education. Follow her at Twitter.com/katymurphy.
Much has changed since Tony Smith became superintendent of the Oakland Unified School District in July 2009.
Source: Oakland Unified School District, California Department of Education


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