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Definition of fault in English:
- Character faults and foibles surface slowly and are dealt with compassionately.
- He's a complex character with many faults and makes mistakes.
- Does your main character have faults of his own?
- The alarm was raised around 6.45 pm after an electrical fault caused the machine to ignite at the property in Hermes Way.
- The problems have been attributed to computer software failure and electrical faults.
- Time stood still for beer-lovers on campus last week, as the beer-taps at Eastside broke down due to an electrical fault.
- I felt very emotional during the service, my lip trembling on several occasions, and I slipped into my usual fault of speaking softly when that happens.
- Indeed, if Monica has a fault, it's an excessively trusting nature, a habit of putting loyalty before sense.
- All tosses should be hit: if they throw the ball up, it's going to be a fault if they catch it.
- Ben showed great determination and skill over both courses putting up seven faults in show-jumping and a superb clear over the cross-country course.
- Ward scored four faults on each mount with Sasha getting the higher placing based on a better time over the 15-jump course.
- Torano scored four faults for one rail down at the sixth fence and finished with a time of 41.148 seconds.
- That fact, however, does not, in my judgment, acquit the claimant of any responsibility or fault for the accident that so arises.
- These signs will provide some recognition for road victims who died through no fault of their own.
- These 18 people died through no fault of their own.
- Most transform faults are found on the ocean floor.
- Questions have also been raised over the possibility of a earthquake fault line nearby.
- Iranian leaders have promised to rebuild the town, which is on a major earthquake fault line.
verb[with object]
- So he can't fault us for raising these questions now.
- While I can't fault her for professionalism, at the very least I would have expected a smile, or, really, any show of emotion at all.
- Of course, the group is composed of 'creative types' so you can't fault them for being creative with the truth.
- Each time she faulted, she would silently curse herself as the wrong note amplified itself in the empty hall.
- She faulted, and the linesman, as ever, shouted 'out'.
- Does lithology account for the very different patterns of faulting in the Permian sandstones and dolostones?
- The seismic data show faulting of the subsurface sediments, possibly as dikes were injected into the center of the basin.
- The original form of these basins has been modified by subsequent faulting, Red Sea rift flank uplift, and erosion.
at fault
- Let's just hope we eventually have a clear picture of went wrong and who was at fault.
- If anyone is at fault in this situation, it's the restaurateur who has chosen a wine that may or may not be good.
- The second exception to the general rule occurs when a party is at fault in employing wrong or defective procedures.
- Such behaviour sounds scarcely credible, but I'm sure memory isn't at fault here.
- It is not the mechanism of A-levels which is at fault but, rather, the conscious decision to change the way they are marked.
- He said there may be a charge, but if it's their equipment at fault there won't be a charge.
find fault
- Make an adverse criticism or objection, sometimes unfairly or destructively: he finds fault with everything I doMore example sentences
- It is all too easy to criticise or find fault in what others do.
- Certainly envy seeks to spoil it by finding fault and criticising every blemish.
- Its hard for a critic not to find fault, kind of removes the point really.
— to a fault
- (Of someone who displays a particular commendable quality) to an extent verging on excess: you're kind, caring and generous to a faultMore example sentences
excessively, unduly, immoderately, overly, needlessly
- Nevertheless, incumbent officeholders, candidates, and aspirants are pragmatic to a fault, and their main concern is with winning elections.
- When I was in high school, my honors English teacher once said to me that my writing was 'concise to a fault.'
- She was generous to a fault and belonged to a generation of people who never counted the cost of community involvement but gave themselves wholeheartedly to the overall good.
Middle English faut(e) 'lack, failing,' from Old French, based on Latin fallere 'deceive'. The -l- was added (in French and English) in the 15th century to conform with the Latin word, but did not become standard in English until the 17th century, remaining silent in pronunciation until well into the 18th.
false from Old English:
Along with default (Middle English), fail (Middle English), and fault (Middle English), false comes from Latin fallere 'to deceive'. A false dawn is a light which in Eastern countries is briefly seen about an hour before sunrise. The expression, the translation of an Arabic phrase, is often used to describe a promising situation which has, or is likely to, come to nothing.
Words that rhyme with faultassault, Balt, exalt, halt, malt, salt, smalt, vault
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French President Francois Hollande is traveling to Moscow on Thursday, part of his weeklong push for a stronger coalition against Islamic State militants in Syria that should unite France, the United States and Russia in the aftermath of the Paris attacks that killed 130 people and jolted the West.
BEIRUT (AP) " The latest developments regarding the war in Syria. All times local.
LAGOS, Nigeria (AP) " Nigeria says it cannot meet President Muhammadu Buhari's December deadline to crush Boko Haram's Islamic uprising in the northeast.
THE HAGUE, Netherlands (AP) " The latest on the mass movement of asylum-seekers and others seeking refuge in Europe. All times local:
SEOUL, South Korea (AP) " South Korea said Thursday it fined Volkswagen $12.3 million and ordered recalls of 125,522 diesel vehicles after the government found their emissions tests were rigged.
WARSAW, Poland (AP) " A Polish mining academy says its experts are analyzing data gathered from a site allegedly hiding a Nazi train, which local lore says is laden with gold.
MOSCOW (AP) " Russia said Thursday it would be looking to cut economic ties with Turkey and scrap investment projects in a matter of days in the aftermath of the Turkish downing of a Russian warplane.
JERUSALEM (AP) " Two Palestinians were shot and killed in separate incidents Thursday in the West Bank as Israel announced plans to build a new fence near the flashpoint city of Hebron in an effort to contain a two-month spate of violence.
PARIS (AP) " The latest on the attacks in Paris and security alert in Brussels. All times local:
BEIJING (AP) " President Barack Obama's pardoning of a turkey named "Abe" this Thanksgiving has led some Chinese to gloat at the Japanese prime minister's expense.
WASHINGTON (AP) " President Barack Obama appealed anew on Thanksgiving Day for acceptance of Syrian refugees, saying "so much of our greatness comes from our generosity."
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LOS ANGELES -- The Warriors and Clippers engaged in a verbal confrontation in a Staples Center hallway after Game 7, Los Angeles coach Doc Rivers confirmed Sunday.
Rivers downplayed the latest incident between the two teams, telling reporters that besides people talking loudly, "it was much to do about nothing."
After the Warriors' 126-121 loss Saturday, there was shouting near Golden State's locker room about how quiet it was inside. Ultimately, Warriors big man Marreese Speights was among the players involved along with the Clippers' Glen Davis as police helped make sure the situation did not escalate.
Jeremiah Rivers, Doc Rivers' son, reacted on Twitter with a disparaging remark about Speights before deleting it.
It wasn't all bad blood between the teams. Clippers guard Jamal Crawford, the former Warriors player, had kind words for Stephen Curry in a different hallway after the game and praised his opponents.
"You have to really tip your hat to Golden State," said Crawford, who came off the bench to score 22 points. "They pushed us to the limit, and those guys would just not go away.
"I think nobody else could have executed like they did with their coaching staff leading those guys except for Mark Jackson. He really gave those guys confidence and believed in them."
"That's a tough pill to swallow, to be quite honest," said O'Neal, a six-time All-Star who termed his 18-year NBA career "a fantastic run."
O'Neal, 35, had a blocked shot and missed his only field goal attempt in playing two days after suffering a bruised right kneecap in a collision with Davis that he believed to be a dirty play. He did start earlier in the series, taking injured center Andrew Bogut's spot in the lineup before volunteering to come off the bench so the Warriors could go to a smaller lineup.
O'Neal said he would consult with his wife and children while deciding whether to continue his NBA career. Either way, he will be following the Warriors.
"I know they're going to be great next year, and I'm going to be one of their biggest fans if I'm not playing," O'Neal said.
"I appreciate what my teammates have done for me this year, injecting life back into my soul."
"Along with Steph and Andre, you've got to think about the union, the players as a whole," Blake said.
"Just in general, hate like that is not acceptable no matter what race you are, religion, any of that. So I took it as personally as anyone else."


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Investigation Committee
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Hereby, the National Department of Health calls for nomination from suitably qualified individuals for appointment to the National Ministerial Advisory Committee on Antimicrobial Resistance.
The Notice of Nomination, Committee Application and Declaration of Interest Forms can be accessed as follows:
• Go to www.health.gov.za;
• Click on "Essential Drugs Programme Committee Application Forms".
You are requested to submit the following documents:
1. Electronic PDF application form:
• We do not accept scanned copies of the application form. We require electronically submitted documents for extraction into our database.
• Once the form is completed/filled in, go to 'File' and then "Save As'. Do not use the 'Sign and Save' or 'Fill and Sign/Save' function on the form. The pop-up does appear on some forms for the applicant to do the latter - this is incorrect.
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- The Legendary Striped Jersey of the Rossoneri
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The Rossoneri have never looked better than they do in their red and black.
Black to inspire fear and red to represent the fire in their hearts. Ignite your passion for the great club in this, AC Milan's official home jersey for the 12/13 season.
This new jersey highlights the tradition of AC Milan with an iconic polo collar and Italian flag details.
AC Milan team badge and adidas logo.
Engineered fabric. ClimaCool moisture control. 100% polyester.
NOTE: This image is Authentic, this jersey will not fit as tightly and may not have some of the same details.
Lamentamos que todavia no hay descripción en español para este producto.


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Hi everyone! I'm a cosplayer since 2006 and I was the lucky representative of France for the World Cosplay Summit 2008 and 2010. Enjoy my galleries and don't hesitate to share this page!
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About the Book
"The Long Way Home is a riveting remembrance of the Great War by a master writer…. Deeply compelling." — Douglas Brinkley
"Moving, revealing, and lovingly researched, this book is a must read, and a great read, for any of us whose forebears came from overseas-meaning just about all of us." — Erik Larson
The author of the award-winning The Children's Blizzard, David Laskin, returns with a remarkable true story of the immigrants who risked their lives fighting for America during the Great War.
In The Long Way Home, award-winning writer David Laskin traces the lives of a dozen men who left their childhood homes in Europe, journeyed through Ellis Island, and started over in a strange land–only to cross the Atlantic again in uniform when their adopted country entered the Great War.
Though they had known little of America outside of tight-knit ghettos and backbreaking labor, these foreign-born conscripts were rapidly transformed into soldiers, American soldiers, in the ordeal of war. Two of the men in this book won the Medal of Honor. Three died in combat. Those who survived were profoundly altered–and their heroic service reshaped their families and ultimately the nation itself.
Epic, inspiring, and masterfully written, this book is an unforgettable true story of the Great War, the world it remade, and the humble, loyal men who became Americans by fighting for America.
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Critical Praise
"David Laskin's The Long Way Home is a brilliant blending of social analysis and personal narrative, which recovers the experience of a 'lost generation'—the immigrant 'greenhorns' who became Americans through service on the battlefields of World War I." — Richard Slotkin, author of Gunfighter Nation
"Moving, revealing, and lovingly researched, this book is a must read, and a great read, for any of us whose forebears came from overseas-meaning just about all of us." — Erik Larson, author of The Devil in the White City
"A riveting remembrance of the Great War by a master writer. David Laskin, by homing in on the lives of a dozen immigrants to Ellis Island, is able to tell a grand American saga about the true cost of democracy. All around a deeply compelling narrative." — Douglas Brinkley, author of The Wilderness Warrior
"Laskin's tracing of young immigrants, figuratively and literally, from Ellis Island to the trenches of World War I France blends moving personal stories, sociology, culture and military history. The result is a marvelous evocation of what it means to become an American and the many paths to that end." — Joseph Persico, author of Eleven Month, Eleven Day, Eleventh Hour
"Riveting. . . . With the epic history of the Great War as his backdrop, Laskin has vividly brought these extraordinary, colorful men to life and created, overall, an absolute masterpiece." — Andrew Carroll, editor of War Letters and Behind the Lines
"David Laskin's latest, The Long Way Home, reads with the heart-quickening pace of a novel as he focuses his gaze on a band of real-life characters who emigrated to the United States in the years just before World War I." — The Minneapolis Star Tribune
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We live on a quiet cove in Four Seasons. It's just past Six Mile Cove, short and narrow, so the ocean going yachts that have invaded the lake in the past few years only cruise in by mistake and have to do a T turn to get back to the main channel.
I can leisurely paddle my kayak around my cove over my lunch break on a peaceful weekday in September without braving a single wave, and that is just what I was about to do when I heard a roar from above and witnessed a small plane crash landing just off my dock. It skidded to the back of the cove where it turned, plowed through the short length of the cove back to the main channel, and took off. Wow!
This was not a seaplane, but a boat with wings and a huge engine on top and between them. The pilot must have been lost, I thought. Had I or anyone else been in the water we would have been capsized at a minimum and almost certainly struck if we were in open water. There was no place for the plane to abort if the pilot happened to notice anyone at the last minute.
Suddenly another roar broke the stillness and the same plane once again crashed down the length of the cove. Fool me once, shame on you. Fool me twice and I'm on the phone to the police.
Several referrals later I learned from the FAA that landing on our lake is not against the law, but causing a nuisance or excessive noise and certainly a danger is. The number of planes that fit the description of the one I saw is very limited. The FAA representative assured me he would attempt to track it down.
What sort of person would do what this pilot did? Perhaps the same sort who drives his huge boat way too fast on our dammed up river without regard for the wake he creates.
Perhaps the same sort who drives while he is intoxicated. As long as he is getting a thrill, who cares about anyone else?
And when do the rest of us say, "Enough is enough!"
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A special full moon hangs in the weekend's night skies, adding an unusually large and bright splash of silver to our longest days.
The full moon -- appearing at 4:32 a.m. Sunday -- peaks within 20 minutes of the moon's nearest encounter with Earth for all of 2013, making it the largest full moon of the year. Dubbed a "supermoon," it will appear 15 percent larger and 20 percent brighter than when it's at its farthest point -- and will not be so close again until August 2014.
It is part of an astronomical trifecta -- a close-in "supermoon" that is perfectly full, just after the summer solstice, the longest day of the year -- that lifts the hearts of skywatchers.
The convergence of the three events means we will be bathed in more light this weekend than any other time of the year, said astronomy instructor Jonathan Braidman of Oakland's Chabot Space and Science Center, which will offer to the public its three telescopes -- for free -- from sunset to about 10:30 p.m. Friday and Saturday.
"After a very long day, we'll have a nearby full moon, reflecting the sun," he said. "There will be lots of vitamin D!"
Three astronomical facts create the happy coincidence:
"Enjoy the evening," Braidman said. "We'll have a long day, a really nice sunset and a perfect time to go on a moonlit hike."
Contact Lisa M. Krieger at 650-492-4098.
Chabot Space and Science Center will have its telescopes available to the public for moon viewing from sunset to about 10:30 p.m. Saturday at 1000 Skyline Blvd., Oakland. Information is available at 510-336-7300 or www.chabotspace.org.


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My Friend opener was great--loved it having that open that show at a place I used to go to school with--ran into many old phriends there and the last concert I had seen there was REM back in the 80s--felt like an old friend. Don't remember much of the first set after Driver b/c my buddy that rode with me had a really strange ride on his sillycybins. Took me a few songs to talk him down--that really made me miss the good old ROCK MED on the west coast but he chilled out and I got to rocking again during Roggae. La Grange was a grand first set closer.
Second set started strong with Jim>Stash, Mikes but I was growing weary of Simple out of Mikes and Velvet sea was a downer to me (ha! but not a trip ender!) Loving Cup>Weekapaug brought the missing energy back and Rocky Top in my home state of course was completely fun.
Everyshow can't be EPIC but almost any show is GOOD PHUN. This one was just plain GOOD PHUN.


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Brace yourself, nerds. Jesse Eisenberg will reportedly play Lex Luthor in the "Batman vs. Superman" movie, while Jeremy Irons will play Batman's butler, Alfred.
MTV.com reported the announcement was made by director Zack Snyder.
"Lex Luthor is often considered the most notorious of Superman's rivals, his unsavory reputation preceding him since 1940," Snyder said. "What's great about Lex is that he exists beyond the confines of the stereotypical nefarious villain. He's a complicated and sophisticated character whose intellect, wealth and prominence position him as one of the few mortals able to challenge the incredible might of Superman. Having Jesse in the role allows us to explore that interesting dynamic, and also take the character in some new and unexpected directions."
Somewhere, Kevin Spacey hangs his head in shame, for choosing the wrong Superman movie.
On the casting of Irons, Snyder said "Alfred is Bruce Wayne's most trusted friend, ally and mentor, a noble guardian and father figure. He is an absolutely critical element in the intricate infrastructure that allows Bruce Wayne to transform himself into Batman."
He better be able to transform Ben Affleck into Batman.
"It is an honor to have such an amazingly seasoned and gifted actor as Jeremy taking on the important role of the man who mentors and guides the guarded and nearly impervious façade that encapsulates Bruce Wayne," Snyder said.
As you know, the very serious Henry Cavill returns as Superman, while Affleck will play Batman and Gal Gadot is going to play wonder Woman.
The movie is set to open on May 6, 2016.
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OAKLEY -- Plans to move Oakley's library downtown are on hold -- for now.
A nonprofit group that's been pushing to free the library from its cramped quarters on a high school campus by installing it in a former Main Street grocery store told the Oakley City Council on Tuesday that it's suspending its campaign after failing to win council members' wholehearted endorsement last month.
Friends of the Oakley Library pitched its plan again at the council's Jan. 22 meeting, where council members were scheduled to decide whether to put a parcel tax on the ballot in hopes of raising the approximately $5 million needed to renovate the aging CentroMart building.
Although many library patrons turned out in a show of support for the idea, the council postponed its vote, saying it wanted to proceed carefully given that the election would cost an estimated $92,000 -- money the city would recover only if the measure passed.
The reservations that council members voiced upset those who were hoping the city would set a date for a special election this spring.
Instead, the council asked Friends of the Oakley Library to provide a more detailed description of how it intended to market the project.
"We were disappointed that you did not act at the last meeting," said President Linda Pennock on Tuesday. "We were hurt by the council's indecision."
She noted that her group had a campaign consultant review its marketing plan, but Pennock balked at the idea of presenting it at a council meeting.
"Sharing a plan in a public setting does not seem to be strategic if opponents are out there," she said.
Pennock told council members that their comments had undermined volunteers' enthusiasm for the undertaking and blamed news media coverage for fueling the opposition.
"(It's) all very disheartening," she said.
She said Friends of the Oakley Library will take a break for 60 days to see if others come forward with an alternative solution to the library's limited space.
City officials haven't ruled out other uses for the empty store, which City Manager Bryan Montgomery acknowledged was blight.
But he reiterated that selling the property is a complicated, time-consuming process because it was bought with redevelopment money.
Although the city has been overseeing properties like the CentroMart site since its redevelopment agency was dismantled a year ago, state law requires it to submit plans for selling or otherwise transferring ownership of these type of assets for approval.
In the case of the CentroMart building, Oakley first must complete other stages in the convoluted process of determining the value of its former redevelopment agency's assets, settling its debts and deciding what happens to its real estate holdings.
"In short, the (CentroMart) property is in limbo for months," Montgomery said.
The city might decide to seek the state's blessing on selling the building to Dollar General Market.
It would be the second time Oakley has gone down that road: The city entered negotiations last year with the developer representing the Tennessee-based retail chain, but it backed out after the two parties couldn't agree on which type of outlet the company wanted to open: A DG "market" that sells groceries as well as general merchandise or one that's doesn't sell any fresh food.
Montgomery suggested Tuesday that the council consider trying again, which he and others think would be preferable to an investor buying the property for a song and then doing nothing with it.
Reach Rowena Coetsee at 925-779-7141. Follow her at Twitter.com/RowenaCoetsee.


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2012 Equity Market Market Year in Review
February 5, 2013
by Natalie Trunow
of Calvert Investment Management
Equities started the year strong as global inflation remained tame, and aggressive, accommodative monetary policy by central banks around the globe helped equity markets rally hard off their lows posted in the fall of 2011. Continuously improving U.S. economic data, strong corporate earnings, and policy steps toward mitigation of the sovereign debt crisis in Europe also provided support for the equity markets worldwide. Despite the eurozone entering a double-dip recession, a material slowdown in the emerging markets, particularly in China, and the intensifying policy stalemate in the U.S., the Standard and Poor's (S&P) 500, Russell 1000, Russell 2000, MSCI EAFE, and MSCI Emerging Markets Indices were all up for the year, returning 16.00%, 16.42%, 16.35%, 17.90%, and 18.63%, respectively.
In a reversal of a multi-year trend, value stocks outperformed growth stocks with the Russell 1000 Value Index returning 17.51% while the Russell 1000 Growth Index returned 15.26%. Within the Russell 1000 Index, Financials, Consumer Discretionary, and Health Care were the top-performing sectors in 2012, while the Utilities, Energy, and Consumer Staples sectors lagged.
Gradual Economic Recovery in the U.S. Boosted by the Housing Market
Recession in Europe and the global economic slowdown have been deemphasizing the contribution of exports to U.S. GDP, diminishing the manufacturing sector's ability to be the main driver of U.S. economic growth. Conveniently, improvements in the U.S. consumer sector, helped by the recovery in the housing sector, filled in the gap and became a more important factor for a self-sustained U.S. economic recovery.
The U.S. labor market, while still weak, showed very encouraging signs of improvement during the year as the unemployment rate dropped to 7.8%, the lowest in four years. Construction spending increased throughout the year, vehicle sales remained strong, and the U.S. service sector also continued to show signs of recovery. An improving consumer balance sheet allowed banks to increase lending, and consumer confidence showed signs of improvement while consumer spending patterns remained promising. The U.S. housing market continued to bottom out and recover during the year as historically low mortgage rates and low home prices supported housing activity.
Accommodative Policy by the Fed as Global Easing Cycle Continues
For much of the year, the Federal Open Market Committee (FOMC) maintained that it was ready to act should economic conditions in the U.S. deteriorate and warrant further action. This so-called "Bernanke put" provided support for U.S. equity markets throughout the year with investors believing the Fed would provide future liquidity injections in the event the economy faltered. In June, the FOMC announced an extension of "Operation Twist" through the end of 2012, and later announced a third round of quantitative easing (QE3), making an open-ended commitment to purchase $40 billion of mortgage-backed securities each month until substantial improvements in the labor market could be seen. Outside of the U.S., the global easing cycle continued as policymakers around the globe continued their efforts toward easing monetary policies.
Good Corporate Earnings Support Equity Markets
Markets also found support in a string of good corporate earnings reports throughout the year, which helped drive improvements in investor sentiment. Improvements in the top-line numbers driven by the economic recovery were encouraging; however, large U.S. companies in particular began to face headwinds in their profits linked to the eurozone and some of the largest emerging-market economies, like China and Brazil.
"Fiscal Cliff" Fears Drive Investor Uncertainty
Despite positive macroeconomic data in the U.S., the fiscal cliff became a major source of concern for investors as the year-end deadline approached. Despite initial positive rhetoric from policymakers, negotiations were visibly contentious before Congress reached a last-minute deal.
Double-Dip Recession in Eurozone
Europe continued to provide a negative backdrop to investor confidence and was a drag on the global economy throughout the year. Unemployment in the euro region reached a record high of 11.7% while manufacturing PMI remained mired deep in contraction territory, and with GDP contracting in the third quarter, the eurozone officially entered a recession for the second time in four years.
There was some progress on the policy front, however. The LTRO (long term refinancing operation) helped the eurozone sovereign bond markets by driving down short-end yields and reducing investor perception of the probability of a tail risk event. A broad agreement to create a single bank supervisory body for the eurozone was also a positive policy development. There were some notable improvements on the European sovereign debt side as yields on government debt of peripheral eurozone countries, including Spain, Italy, Portugal, Ireland, and Greece, declined after the ECB made an open-ended commitment to purchase sovereign debt of countries under severe fiscal stress.
Economic Growth Slows in China
The Chinese economy decelerated in 2012 as foreign direct investment (FDI), one of the major drivers of economic growth in China, declined throughout the year. With export revenues deteriorating and a slumping real estate sector, investors feared a "hard landing" for the Chinese economy. However, a slower inflation trend allowed the Chinese government to reposition its economic and monetary policy from contractionary for most of 2011 to stimulative, and more recent data has suggested that China's economic slowdown may be stabilizing.
We are looking for continued uncertainty surrounding the looming debt-ceiling debate and budget negotiations in the U.S. We remain hopeful, however, that reason will prevail and policymakers will be able to reach a compromise. We believe that if the housing market continues to recover and gather momentum the way it did in 2012, an additional positive multiplier effect could be felt throughout the U.S. economy as consumer confidence and spending improve. At the same time, we see the eurozone's problems continuing to drag on and negatively impacting global economic growth, though we believe that it is unlikely to derail the U.S. economic recovery.
Overall, we believe 2013 could be another good year for equity markets, despite the political dysfunction in Washington. This time, however, in addition to attractive, positive returns in equities, we may also see positive asset flows as retail and institutional investors gain further confidence in the U.S. economic recovery and improvements in the labor and housing markets, reversing a multi-year trend of outflows from equity funds.
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text: The Breckenridge Music Festival presents an afternoon of piano trios entitled "Gypsy Wanderings" at Colorado Mountain College in Breckenridge Sunday as part of its 2012-13 Encore winter series. Winter guest artist Alex Greenbaum (cello) joins summer festival artists Michael Linville (piano) and Kathryn Hatmaker (violin) to perform Haydn's "Gypsy Rondo," "Three Nocturnes" by Ernest Bloch, Shostakovich's Piano Trio No. 1 and Brahms' Piano Trio No. 3 in C Minor. "We thought it would be fun to explore the nomadic nature of composers during the late Romantic and early 20th-century eras," said Linville. "Brahms had a lifelong interest in Eastern European musical traditions, evidenced by his sets of Hungarian Dances. Bloch moved from his native Switzerland to study in Brussels, then Germany, and later Paris, before relocating to the U.S. in 1916. Shostakovich was forced during much of his life to compose 'coded' music that could speak to listeners on multiple levels - one to satisfy his own desire to express his emotional inner life and another which would be considered 'acceptable' by the Soviet regime." "It's also interesting to consider the slightly nomadic lifestyle of classical musicians today, who often fly across the country to play concerts with their colleagues, like we're doing for this concert in Breckenridge," he said. Sunday will be the first time all three musicians perform together. A pianist, percussionist, conductor, arranger and educator, Linville serves as director of chamber music activities for the New World Symphony and artistic coordinator of the contemporary ensemble, New World Percussion Consort. He has performed with both the Breckenridge Music Festival orchestra and the National Repertory Orchestra."I personally love the Brahms and Bloch," Linville said, "Brahms because of the raw emotional contrasts, Bloch because of the highly imaginative use of harmony and melodic material." Hatmaker is a violinist with the San Diego Symphony and co-founder/artistic director of Art of lan (www.artofelan.org), a San Diego chamber music organization dedicated to attracting a diverse audience to classical music. She has been a featured soloist with the Breckenridge Music Festival orchestra.Greenbaum, the third member of the group, began playing cello at age 3 and continues to play diverse venues throughout New York City. An internationally traveling member of The Knights Orchestra and other groups, Greenbaum has also appeared as a soloist with the National Repertory Orchestra. Sunday's program starts with the "Gypsy Rondo," the name giving to the Keyboard Trio in G Major that Haydn composed in 1795 after developing an interest in the music of the Hungarian Gypsies. The piece features Gypsy folk-style themes and rhythms in the third movement. Shostakovich dedicated his Piano Trio No. 1 to Tatyana Glivenko, whom he loved at age 17. Bloch's Three Nocturnes were written in 1924 in Cleveland, Ohio, where the Swiss-born composer served as director of the newly formed Cleveland Institute of Music; each Nocturne depicts a different aspect of the night. The program closes with Brahms' Piano Trio No. 3 in C Minor. His last trio for violin, cello and piano, Brahms wrote the piece in 1886 at Hofstetten on Lake Thun in Switzerland. Some listeners feel that the vista is apparent in the music he composed there."I find the diversity of the repertoire we've chosen to be the most appealing aspect of the program," Hatmaker said. "Each piece definitely has its own unique flavor. Hopefully the audience will enjoy the diversity of the program and its range of moods, textures and messages." In conjunction with the concert, the Breckenridge Music Festival and Breckenridge Arts District present a 10 percent discount on the sign-up fee for an oil painting workshop, "Painting Snow in Oils" by Amy Evans, at 9:30 a.m. Sunday, and $5 off the ticket to Gypsy Wanderings for guests who attend both events. Sign-ups for the art workshop must be completed today. Call (970) 453-3364 for info.


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BEVERLY-Because it is the only recreational park in the Village of Beverly's jurisdiction, Dodge Park gets a lot of use.
"It's nice just to hang out in," said 12-year-old Tyler Duskey, of Beverly, who was doing just that with three friends Wednesday morning.
Because there is ample shady space and plenty of things to do, the park is somewhat of a hot spot for area students, added pal Ethan Ross.
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Waterford siblings Reese Lang, 5, and Maycee Lang, 3, play at Dodge Park in Beverly Wednesday.
"Usually everyone is here so you get to see all your friends," he said.
To keep up with the high amount of traffic in Dodge Park, the village makes sure it gets a lot of tender loving care, said Beverly Mayor Rex Kenyon.
"The village staff takes care of the park and they're up there almost daily in the summer time-emptying trash cans, weed eating, mowing and just maintaining the park," he said.
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Maintained by the Village of Beverly.
Takes up half a city block and is enclosed by Sixth, Seventh, Park, and Center streets.
Features several pieces of playground equipment, four shelters, a rentable kitchen, dozens of picnic tables and an indoor-though usually locked- restroom.
A shelter roof was already replaced this summer thanks to a $2,000 Marietta Community Foundation grant.
New and replacement playground equipment will be added later this summer through a $5,000 Ohio Department of Natural Resources NatureWorks grant.
Including grant monies, the village has appropriated $15,000 of this year's budget to park upkeep.
Source: Village of Beverly.
A lot of recent and future updates in the park are thanks to grant funding the city has acquired for the park, said village clerk Pam Jackson.
"This year we received a ($2,000) grant from the Marietta Community Foundation to put a roof on one of the shelters," she said.
The re-roofing project was completed within the last month, added Kenyon.
Most of the equipment in the park's vast playground was purchased through an Ohio Department of Natural Resources NatureWorks grant, said Jackson.
A newly secured $5,000 NatureWorks grant will go toward more playground improvement this summer, she added.
"This year we're replacing some of the older playground pieces and adding some new pieces," she said.
The project does not have a hard deadline, said Kenyon, but is expected to be done before summer ends.
The playground area was a big hit with a trio of Waterford children enjoying the park Wednesday.
Reese Lang, 5, Maycee Lang, 3, and Cooper Skinner, 2, hopped between slides, teeter-totters and swings under the watchful eyes of their mothers.
"They love just coming to play. Sometimes we bring lunch and it gives us moms a little time to relax and watch the kids play," said Reese and Maycee's mother, Crystal Lang.
It addition to the playground, Dodge Park features four shelters, lots of picnic tables, a rentable kitchen and indoor restrooms.
However, the restrooms are only unlocked when the park is being used for an event, such as the Beverly-Waterford Homecoming which was held there earlier this month.
They are also open during the frequent occasions when people pay a $25 fee to rent the park for events like baby showers, family reunions or birthday parties, she said.
Leaving the restrooms unlocked for everyday park-goers would make a world of difference, said Crystal Lang.
"That's the one bad thing about the park is that they lock the restrooms," she said.
But keeping the restrooms locked is a matter of necessity, said Jackson.
"We experience vandalism if we keep them open, so it's just not possible," she said.
On Kenyon's wish list would be removing some of the park's older trees and replacing them.
"We've lost several trees in the last few years and parts of the park are beginning to look sparse," he said.
The village appropriates money from the general account for park upkeep, said Jackson.
Including the $7,000 from grant funding, the city has $15,000 appropriated toward parks this year, she said. The money also helps care for the village's basketball and tennis courts near Fort Frye High School, but the majority is reserved for the upkeep of Dodge Park, she said.


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Holocaust Denial on Trial, Trial Transcripts, Day 31: Electronic Edition
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1 MR JUSTICE GRAY: Yes. I think that is sensible, but beyond
2that I do not think I can really give you much guidance.
3If you were able to hand in what you were proposing to say
4in time for me to look at it, then if there is anything
5I think that is for one reason or another objectionable,
6or indeed Mr Rampton does, then you can be told and you
7can make submissions if you want to why you should be
8allowed to say it.
9 MR IRVING: I think I have a very astute feel for the way the
10court is feeling in this matter and, having got it off my
11chest, if I can put it like that, I will limit what
12I actually say to the matters which I consider to be of
14 MR JUSTICE GRAY: Yes. What is at the heart of it, obviously,
15are criticisms that are listed in section 5.
16 MR IRVING: Well...
17 MR JUSTICE GRAY: 1 through, well, to the end.
18 MR IRVING: The problem that I had, of course, is that not
19having been able to cross-examine the Defendants in this
20matter which would have brought forward the links which
21I am sure are there, this was the material which was
22assembled with that in mind. They have avoided that
23difficulty by not presenting their witnesses for
25 MR JUSTICE GRAY: Yes. I understand how you feel about that.
26 MR IRVING: And I wanted, nonetheless, to put it before your
1Lordship. I also put a certain amount of explanatory
2material in the footnotes which I was not proposing to
3read out, purely to point your Lordship to where the
4documents are so as far as I know they are in the bundles
5or were they are in the daily transcripts.
6 MR JUSTICE GRAY: Yes, good. Well, then that is ...
7 MR RAMPTON: There is only one other thing I need to do, I am
8sorry, it is to hand in a list of corrections -- they are
9mostly typographical errors and missing references -- for
10our long submission, if I may do that.
11 MR JUSTICE GRAY: Yes. It is for you to make such oral
12submissions as you wish.
13 MR RAMPTON: I am sorry?
14 MR JUSTICE GRAY: Are you going to make any oral submissions?
15 MR RAMPTON: I am, tomorrow, yes.
16 MR JUSTICE GRAY: Tomorrow, right.
17 MR IRVING: I do not know whether this is the right point to
18your Lordship's attention to the fact that I am
19challenging now the Muller document, purely on the basis
20that it has not been provided to me in the way that your
21Lordship ordered the August 1st 1941 document, and this
22might be the place with which to deal with that. I
23have dealt with it in the submission that I handed in this
25 MR JUSTICE GRAY: Well, you will have to direct me to where it
26comes because, obviously, I have not read it.
1 MR IRVING: I have not got it with me, my Lord, but, basically,
2the document was supplied to me on the weekend. It does
3not advance our knowledge as to the original document or
4the original file. There are no surrounding documents
5provided with it. I have not been able to make any more
6detailed researches into the nature of the document. So
7I have made a submission in the document I have handed
8your Lordship, both on the admissibility of that letter
9and, if your Lordship is minded to admit the letter in
10evidence, nonetheless, also on the content of the letter.
11 MR JUSTICE GRAY: Well, this is all a bit opaque to me. Are
12you able to point to where you deal with this in your
13revised closing statement? I simply do not know my way
14around it all because I have only seen it within the last
15couple of minutes.
16 MR IRVING: It was finished at 5 o'clock this morning.
17 MR JUSTICE GRAY: I can understand that. Even so, if I am
18going to make sense of what you are telling me about the
19Muller document, I need to have the references, do I not?
20 MR IRVING: I shall have to hold that over then, my Lord, until
22 MR RAMPTON: My Lord, I simply do not understand this. I have
23never understood, apart from the fact that he does not
24like its contents, what Mr Irving's problem with this
25document has been. We have many documents in the file
26which are original Nazi documents headed "Abschrift" by
1the person who made the copy because that is what they
2are. They are copies of original documents that have
3disappeared, but they are contemporaneous copies.
4 We now have have three copies of this document,
5one from Moscow which is where the original copy is held
6in the archive. That is the one that looks like that. It
7has a front cover that looks like that. Your Lordship has
8had all these, I think?
9 MR JUSTICE GRAY: I do not remember that front cover. Can you
10give me the reference? I am bound to say I have found it
11in trying to prepare my judgment, extraordinarily
12difficult because of the way in which the documents have
13been got together, but if you can give me the reference to
15 MR RAMPTON: It is in N1. I have not got N1 here,
16unfortunately, but its date is 1st August so I can very
17quickly find it.
18 MR JUSTICE GRAY: Page 49?
19 MR RAMPTON: Yes. Page 49. I do not have it here, I am
20afraid, but the 49, the actual copy of which we now have
21three copies is at page 51.
22 MR JUSTICE GRAY: Yes. I am just reminding myself of what the
23points were that Mr Irving took and he will tell me if
24there are any others. Firstly, it is an Abschrift;
25secondly, it has a rather security classification given
26its contents, just "Geheim".
1 MR RAMPTON: There are plenty of those.
2 MR JUSTICE GRAY: And also Mr Irving, I think, said that he had
3been told by the German Federal archives that the document
4is not to be found in the file from which it purports to
6 MR RAMPTON: Well, the explanation for that, I know not. As
7I said, my speculation is that it is just a reference to
8the wrong file. What I do now know, and Mr Irving knows
9and your Lordship knows, is that the original document,
10the original Abschrift, is held in Moscow. A copy of that
11has been sent to us from Moscow, sent to Dr Longerich.
12There is another copy at the prosecution centre at
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14the archive in Munich, that we also have.
15 MR IRVING: My Lord, the problem I have with the document is it
16is very analogous to the Schlegelberger document. The
17Defendants were able, in my view, unsuccessfully to attack
18the Schlegelberger document on the basis of the other
19documents in the same file. We have been shown just this
20one document. I am not able to attack it on the basis of
21other documents in the same file because, firstly, I was
22given the wrong file number and the Bundesarchiv told me,
23"This is the wrong file number".
24 Secondly, we have once again only been shown
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Former Burroughs pole vaulter and football player Nate Humphrey continues to excel outside of the athletic arena as a part of the Navy.
Nate works on a submarine right now as an Electrician's Mate in a port off the Charleston, SC, shores.
"When you get on a submarine with your crew, and each person has each other's lives in their hands, the group of people you're with all become close friends and we rely on each other for our safety. It's a whole other level of camaraderie," Nate said.
Nate graduated from Burroughs two years ago. Since then, he has been through the rigors of boot camp and has been tested mentally through an intense training process, which got him ready for his job on his submarine.
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The verse says: The Lord is my light and my salvation; whom shall I fear? The Lord is the strength of my life; of whom shall I be afraid?
With that quote from his dad, Nate went through grueling testing regiments and came out successful.
He was up for a 24-hour span where he went through a battle simulation on a boat to become a sailor then endured 12-hour school days to learn about his job on the submarine.
"Probably finishing the nuclear schools was the one experience I've enjoyed the most," Nate said. "There was a lot of work that went into me finishing that program. I had 12-hour days of school then I would have to go home and study afterward, so it was a great feeling when I completed that.
"After eight weeks of boot camp, we were put into a simulated battle called battle stations. We were on a ship and we did different parts of our training such as working with missiles and rescuing bodies from fires. It was pretty cool. We had to work with the people in our troop to accomplish certain goals. That was probably the time that everyone finally came together as a team."
Nate also had the chance to come back and be the honorary member of the Navy during Burroughs football's Military Night on Sept. 21.
"It was awe inspiring," Nate said.
Page 2 of 2 - The former Burroughs athlete has done and seen a lot since leaving Ridgecrest a short time ago, but he still misses the sports aspect of his high school experience.
"I definitely miss pole vaulting and football," Nate said. "Getting to be out there and competing with friends is hard to beat."
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PARKERSBURG - Officials are asking residents to help area foster children this holiday season by donating luggage and transitional supplies.
The Carry On Campaign was announced Monday by U.S. Attorney Booth Goodwin, along with representatives from Mission West Virginia Inc. and the West Virginia Children's Home Society.
"Often a child who is in foster care, all they have to put their belongings into is a garbage bag," Goodwin said. "That is unacceptable."
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U.S. Attorney Booth Goodwin, left, and Carrie Dawson, right, public relations director for Mission West Virginia, announce the Carry On Campaign Monday at the Arthur N. Gustke Child Shelter in Parkersburg.
The Carry On Campaign began in October 2010 as a collaborative, multi-agency partnership that includes the U.S. Attorney's Office for the Southern District of West Virginia, the West Virginia Department of Health and Human Resources, Mission West Virginia Inc., the West Virginia Prosecuting Attorney's Institute and the West Virginia Drug Endangered Children Task Force.
The campaign is designed to support children who have been removed from their homes due to abuse or neglect by providing them with essential personal items upon their transition to the foster care system. Items collected on behalf of the campaign include new and gently used luggage, duffel bags and essential personal care items.
Having new or gently used luggage available allows children suddenly thrown into foster care to retain a sense of normalcy.
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"We don't put an age limit on these, because even a teenager needs to hug a teddy bear sometimes," Dawson said.
Goodwin said officials are trying to bring attention to the campaign during the holiday season to ask people to donate during a particularly tough time for children in foster care. Goodwin said there are about 4,000 children in West Virginia in foster care.
Donated luggage, bags, supplies and monetary donations can be dropped off at the West Virginia Children's Home Society center, the Arthur N. Gustke Child Shelter, at 1739 St. Marys Ave. in Parkersburg. Donors also can contact the shelter at 1-304-485-0650.
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Program 6: Triple-Bill
Total running time: 2 hours 21 minutes, two intermissions
SF Ballet is pleased to present the world premiere of Caprice by SF Ballet Artistic Director & Principal Choreographer Helgi Tomasson, and set to the immensely joyful Symphony No. 3 by Camille Saint-Saëns. The program continues with the 20th anniversary presentation of Maelstrom, the first work created for SF Ballet by Mark Morris. Upon its premiere, the San Francisco Bay Guardian called Maelstrom "a jewel that goes right to the core of classical European dance." The program concludes with Yuri Possokhov's The Rite of Spring, a gripping interpretation of Stravinsky's masterwork. The San Francisco Examiner says The Rite of Spring [boasts] magnificent work from the corps—both in the wild, joyful celebrations of the spring, and later, as it [turns] into a frightening mob…" Read the full review.
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The 1994 world premiere of Maelstrom was made possible in part by a grant from the National Dance Repertory Enrichment Program (REP), a partnership of Philip Morris Companies, Inc. and the Lila Wallace-Reader's Digest Fund, with additional support from the National Endowment for the Arts. REP was conceived and administered by Pentacle. Additional funding for this production was provided by The Sharper Image.
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Dear CoNGO Members:
For 66 years CoNGO has been committed to the same goals and values as the United Nations itself. None of us can always agree with every decision or action taken by the member governments within the United Nations Organization, but CoNGO and its members have always supported and worked for the ideals enshrined in the UN Charter. CoNGO and its members have frequently drawn critical attention to the need for the member governments of the UN to more purposefully and faithfully adhere to, live up to, and give substance to the goals and values of the Charter.
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In honor of Hispanic Heritage Month, The New York Racing Association, Inc. will host a float in the 50th annual Hispanic Day Parade on Sunday, October 13, in New York City. The parade will include more than 10,000 participants showcasing their pride with festive apparel and live music.
This lively event will showcase many aspects of Hispanic culture with celebrity appearances, musical performances, marching bands and traditional costumes. Riding on NYRA's float will be the retired, multiple-Eclipse-Award-winning rider, Ramon Dominguez, who will represent the jockey colony from Belmont Park, Aqueduct Racetrack and Saratoga Race Course. Dominguez, a native of Venezuela, will be accompanied by children from the Belmont Child Care Association, representatives from The Race Track Chaplaincy of New York and members of the Backstretch Employee Service Team (B.E.S.T.).
"The parade provides an opportunity to support a demographic that is closely connected to our sport," said Rodnell Workman, NYRA Vice President and Chief Marketing Officer. "We look forward to celebrating the parade's 50th anniversary with the Hispanic community."
More than one million parade goers will watch as floats, musical groups and community leaders make their way down Fifth Avenue in Manhattan between 44th and 77th Streets. The event, which will be broadcast live in both English and Spanish on multiple media outlets, kicks off at 11:00 a.m. and concludes at 5:00 p.m.
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The race course winds through a beautiful forest and old quarry. Spectators can walk through the woods to enjoy the triumphs and carnage as beginner, expert, and pro mountain bike racers make their way through twisty singletrack. It is free for spectators, with music and MC calling the race all day via PA, a food truck, pavilion tent with chairs and tables.


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Start Date: Sep 01, 2009
End Date: Aug 31, 2014
This water management research project is a cooperative effort between two ARS laboratories (Bushland and Lubbock, Texas) and four universities located in the southern Great Plains (Kansas State University, Texas A&M University, Texas Tech University, and West Texas A&M University). A research team of approximately 85 engineers and scientists has been assembled to address the problems associated with the decline of the Ogallala Aquifer in western Kansas and the Texas High Plains. Rural communities depend on sustainable enterprises for their viability; therefore, it is important to provide a sound database for developing water conservation technologies and management practices, and equitable water policies. The project has seven (7) priority areas that contain subcomponents and additional research goals and tasks. The priority areas include: 1) improved management of irrigation and precipitation; 2) development of new irrigation technologies; 3) development of data bases and models to describe regional hydrology and climatology; 4) the integration of crop, forage, and livestock production systems; 5) development of new technologies to reduce water use in animal feeding operations; 6) economic assessments of water management strategies; and 7) development of training and educational materials to enhance the knowledge base of producers, water professionals, and policy makers. The developed research approach is a multi-tasked, multi-focused plan to address the complex issues related to insuring the sustainability of rural communities in western Kansas and Texas High Plains that utilize the water resources of the Ogallala Aquifer.


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Sales positions are offered in countless industries and encompass an enormous variety of professional interests. Popular roles include field sales, medical sales, media sales, pharmaceutical sales and, as careers progress, sales manager and director positions. It is a profession that requires strong social skills, charisma, excellent communication abilities, and a general commercial awareness. Most importantly, sales positions involve networking and the ability to efficiently connect with the buyers of your products and services.
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HAYWARD -- Three city librarians teamed up with about a dozen teenagers in 2011 to produce a documentary on how Hayward came to have a gay prom, and now their work is getting recognition at the San Francisco International LGBT Film Festival.
"Now We Can Dance: The Story of the Hayward Gay Prom" looks back at the first prom in 1995 and how the annual dance continues to have a role in the community. Made with the help of professional film advisers, the film also includes footage from the prom in 2011, the year the documentary was filmed, said Sally Thomas, one of the librarians.
The film will be screened before this year's prom on Saturday.
"We wanted to tell the story of how this started in Hayward and how it's persisted for so many years," Thomas said. "It's interesting how many people came together: the mayor, the council, the police and teachers. It wasn't a done deal; there was dissent. There was a lot of debate."
The Lambda Gay Prom is held every June in Hayward and is believed to be one of the oldest continuously running gay proms, said Rochelle Collins, program director for the nonprofit drug and alcohol prevention agency Project Eden/Horizon Services, sponsor of the prom.
"We get a lot of youth from all over Bay Area and Northern California, and Santa Cruz and Monterey, even Las Vegas," she said. About 300 young people ages 14 to 20 are expected this year.
The prom was an outgrowth of Project Eden's Lambda Youth Project, which provides alcohol and drug abuse counseling to many LGBT youth, she said. The project also trains young gay people for a speakers' bureau in which they talk to groups about their experiences.
As in previous years, the San Francisco Lesbian/Gay Freedom Band will strike up the music at this year's prom every time an arriving prom-goer walks down the red carpet to enter the dance.
For the first time, the prom will have representatives from Castro Valley Pride, a one-day festival started in 2011 by a group of high school students, Collins said. This year's Castro Valley Pride will be held July 13 in Castro Valley High's parking lot.
The librarians were thrilled when they learned in May that the documentary would be screened at the San Francisco film festival, Thomas said. "It was very exciting to get that acknowledgment," she said.
The documentary grew out of an earlier project in which Hayward librarians created three- to five-minute digital stories about life in California.
One of the interviews Thomas did was with Dana Johnson, who was a counselor at Project Eden and one of the organizers of the Hayward gay prom, who gave a short history of the dance. The librarians agreed "this was a story that was unique to Hayward and should be told in a more in-depth way," Thomas said.
The librarians received a $10,000 grant from Cal Humanities and financial help from the Friends of the Library for the documentary.
"It's not just a product we as librarians and library staff did. We had a great team of teens who went to the prom, who did interviews, who helped put the film together," Thomas said.
The teenagers interviewed early prom-goers, organizers and local officials for the 30-minute documentary. The film shows the excitement that occurs around any prom, but also the protesters who showed up, many with hateful messages on signs. It also features counter-protesters who supported the young people.
The documentary premiered in December at the City Hall council chamber, which was filled to capacity. Librarian Laurie Willis, who was project manager and director of film, is working on getting a distribution copy of the documentary for schools, youth groups and other organizations.
In 1995, the prom provided a safe place for gay youth, Thomas said. "Either people didn't feel comfortable inviting their same-sex date to a regular prom or it wasn't allowed," she said. "A lot has changed, but a lot hasn't changed. You wouldn't think it would be so much of an issue these days, but it still is."
The story of the Hayward Gay Prom'
San Francisco International LGBT Film Festival
When: 4 p.m. June 23
Where: Roxie Theater, 3117 16th St.
Details: www.frameline.org/festival
Also: 5 p.m. Saturday, Chabot College. $5
Hayward gay Prom
7 p.m. Saturday
Where: Chabot College, 25555 Hesperian Blvd.
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It's a baby girl for Will & Kate!? Our money is on the appearance of a wee lass for the Royal couple, based on word from researchers from the University of Exeter in the U.K., who are touting studies that show stress during the pregnancy and morning sickness point to the likelihood of having a girl. For those who have been tracking royal baby news, you may recall the Duchess was hit with a serious bout of morning sickness early in her pregnancy, and being the most-watched mom-to-be in the world right now is surely stressful. Source
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Round Of 64: #3 Iowa State Vs. #14 UAB
When the Big 12 tournament started, the Iowa State Cyclones had proven to be one of the top teams in the conference.
Round Of 64: #5 Utah Vs. #12 Stephen F. Austin
One of the most popular picks for an upset in the Round of 64 in this season's March Madness NCAA college basketball tournament is the No. 12 vs. No. 5 seed game between the Stephen F. Austin Lumberjacks and the Utah Utes.
Round Of 64: #1 Wisconsin Vs. #16 Coastal Carolina
The Wisconsin Badgers and head coach Bo Ryan got the monkey off their backs last year by finally making the Final Four, and now they are a No. 1 seed looking for more than that in 2015.
Round Of 64: #2 Gonzaga Vs. #15 North Dakota State
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Monday, August 2, 2010
Let's Make A Dill (Dip)...and a GIVEAWAY!
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First off, I need to know who has a hedge trimmer, golf bag, or a futon in their purse or pocket. Because if you do, you automatically win this week's prize, complements of Mags, that gal over 50. If not, you're going to need to leave a comment to enter into this giveaway. And that means ANY comment whatsoever for all you shy folks out there who hesitate to comment. Ms. Mags, that fun-loving babe who is off somewhere drinking fruity drinks with umbrellas and most likely practicing unprotected text, has generously handed her blog over to me and asked me to offer this $50.00 Amazon.com gift card to one lucky recipient. The winner will be randomly chosen at midnight on Sunday, August 8th and will be announced on Monday, August 9th's post. Good luck and don't forget to leave a way for Mags to contact you if you win! Due to Amazon.com's restrictions, this giveaway is only available to US residents. (Deepest apologies to all of you who follow Mags from outside the US.)
Let's Make A Dill (Dip)
1 cup reduced-fat mayo
1 cup fat free sour cream
1 TBSP dried minced onion
1 1/2 tsp Season Salt
1 TBSP dried dill weed
1 TBSP dried parsley
Combine all of the above ingredients and refrigerate overnight. Serve with an assortment of fresh cut vegetables.
48 comments:
- Patty said...
Actually, I DO carry a hammer in my purse. I have for years. Only had to use it once though. Got it at the drug store. How crazy is that?!? BTW The dill dip sounds yummy.
- August 2, 2010 at 6:44 AM
- Barbara Bakes said...
Pick me, pick me! Dill dip is one of my favs
- August 2, 2010 at 7:17 AM
- Mami2jcn said...
I'd love to be entered!
- August 2, 2010 at 8:38 AM
- Moogie said...
"Monty.. Monty," an elderly but stunningly beautiful woman screams while waving her very large handbag.
"Come on up... and let's make a dill," he replies into his microphone, while drooling with lust at the stunningly beautiful elderly woman.
The elderly but stunningly beautiful woman advances to the stage with the grace of a goddess.
The camera man panes away from Monty who is still drooling, with a pool of spit now collecting at his feet. He now focuses the camera on the elderly but stunning beautiful woman as she advances across the stage. He becomes enthralled with the elderly but stunningly beautiful woman and her firm perky breasts. The camera zooms in for a closer look, causing the camera man to drool like a monkey in heat.
Monty beckons the elderly but stunningly beautiful woman to his side. Unbeknown to him, the river of spit has reached a frayed section in his microphone cord. And he is instantly fried. But he dies happy with the vision of the elderly but stunningly beautiful woman permanently etched on his corneas.
Smoke fills the stage, and hides the movements of the elderly but stunningly beautiful woman as she removes "crisp" Monty's wallet and snatches all his money. She then hurries over to all the prizes and drops them into her very large handbag.
Now she hurries out to the street in front of the building. An old car is waiting with an even older man sitting behind the wheel. He smiles as he see the elderly but stunningly beautiful woman. "Hurry up, Moogie. Let's get the hell out of here," he hollers through the open window of the car.
The elderly but stunningly beautiful woman glides into the front seat with all the loot inside of her very large handbag. She smiles at Pap and they disappear into a cloud of blue-oil-burning exhaust as they putter away.
- August 2, 2010 at 9:07 AM
- June said...
Your dip's a dilly Monte and $50 from Amazon could buy somethin' plum useful...like maybe a hand mixer to replace the one the big guy destroyed 3 years ago! My arm's getting a tad tired of the whisk (you feeling sorry for me yet?)
- August 2, 2010 at 9:15 AM
- April in CT said...
Unprotected text!!! HA!
Dill dip, one of my favorites, can't wait to try this one.
- August 2, 2010 at 9:25 AM
- stephchows said...
mags how did you know I had a golf ball in my pocket! HA. Awesome giveaway, love amazon... they have everything!
- August 2, 2010 at 9:26 AM
- Pam said...
I have a purse in my golf bag but, I'm guessing that doesn't count. That dill dip sounds good and so does the giveaway!
- August 2, 2010 at 9:36 AM
- Mary said...
Monty, this really looks delicious. I always keep my eyes open for a good dip. I'll visit often to see what you've conjured up. Have a great day. Blessings...Mary
- August 2, 2010 at 9:47 AM
- The Fajdich Times said...
Nothing special in my purse....money, keys, sunglasses:) Love the dill dip and the giveaway is great!! I would love to win!!!
- August 2, 2010 at 9:53 AM
I have an obsession with dill dip! Yummy!
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- August 2, 2010 at 12:08 PM
Great giveaway..thanks. Love to win it!!!
- August 2, 2010 at 12:10 PM
- llamamama said...
I've started to really like dill just in the past few years! The dip sounds fantastic!
- August 2, 2010 at 12:14 PM
- Sue said...
This dip sounds delicious, and looks so fresh too! Great for summer!
- August 2, 2010 at 1:01 PM
- Melaina25 said...
I love South Beach recipes and I've really started to love dill, too.
I'd love to win!!
- August 2, 2010 at 1:38 PM
- The Mom Chef said...
You need to tell Moogie that the comments aren't supposed to be longer than the post! :) Love the idea of the dill dip. I'd even go far as to say it's a dilly.
- August 2, 2010 at 1:47 PM
- Abby said...
Here's my comment! :)
- August 2, 2010 at 4:17 PM
- A Year on the Grill said...
so Monty, I have to ask... Dill or no Dill
- August 2, 2010 at 7:07 PM
- Karen said...
Great giveaway! Pretty picture, too :)
- August 2, 2010 at 7:37 PM
- Nanan said...
Now that you mention it - I have a futon in the shape of a golf bag that was attacked by a hedge trimmer in my back pocket!!!! Oh wait, there's a hole in there - it must have fallen out! Darn it to heck! I guess I must eat some Dill Dip so I can feel better!
- August 2, 2010 at 10:52 PM
- DG said...
I'd love to be included in this contest. Thanks for the chance! :)
- August 2, 2010 at 11:52 PM
- dumbfounded said...
I was going to comment, but after reading Moogie's story, she should win!!!
- August 3, 2010 at 9:26 AM
- Leslie said...
This dill dip looks to be the perfect thing to beat the heat!! Love it.
- August 3, 2010 at 9:33 AM
- alicealt said...
I am a transplanted Hoosier living in Mic! Raised in Indianapolis area, have lived all over northern IN, lastly in Ft. Wayne area before General Motors drew us to Waterford MI. ( near Detroit)
I thoroughly enjoy your column and wonderful recipes. I would love to win the gift card!
- August 3, 2010 at 10:43 AM
- Southern Girl said...
That dill dip looks awesome, and I'm going to have to try it. Even if I don't win the Amazon GC, I'll have won by having a great new dip in my recipe collection! Thanks!
- August 3, 2010 at 2:32 PM
Dill and Amazon! My fave combination!
- August 3, 2010 at 4:23 PM
- strmywthr3 said...
I love amazon! would love to win! not a huge fan of dill though, cept in pickles.
- August 3, 2010 at 5:46 PM
- pegasuslegend said...
thanks for visiting me and understanding the simple things that we forget. This dip sounds great. Love your smile... such a generous giveaway...again thanks for your visit and thanks for the opportunity~
- August 3, 2010 at 8:08 PM
- Edda said...
Pick me!!!! :P
Contact: firstname.lastname@example.com
- August 3, 2010 at 8:25 PM
Love me some dip.
- August 3, 2010 at 10:36 PM
- Hanaâ said...
Thanks for sharing the dip recipe. It sure beats the gelatin and other stabilizer laden dips you find at the store! :o) And thanks for doing the giveaway!
- August 3, 2010 at 10:41 PM
- Grumpy and HoneyB said...
LMAO, I love it. Unprotected text! Now I could use a $50 Amazon card. Sure could. I could buy another one of those cookbooks (or 2!) to collect dust on my shelf. ;o)
- August 4, 2010 at 5:05 AM
- VickieB said...
I used to carry quite a bit in my purse, but unfortunately not a hedge trimmer, golf bag, or a futon.
I've finally cut back to a waist pouch, a lot better on the back
- August 4, 2010 at 8:30 AM
- Nan said...
Hey I get the two seader....pick me....I'm just a little one that loves dill dip...it gives me something to dip these cheese sticks in...and I have a computer and know how to use it...I will stalk you..sooooo you know what to do DILL DIP
- August 4, 2010 at 10:02 PM
Please enter me in the contest. :)
Contact me at:
kittenmeister at hotmail dot com
- August 4, 2010 at 10:45 PM
- Deb I said...
Fruity drinks and unprotected texting....sounds like a blast. Hope you had fun!! Thanks for all your great recipes and insight! Love you!
- August 5, 2010 at 6:29 AM
- Haden News said...
I love reading your posts! They always start my day out with a smile and a giggle!! I love dill and your dip sounds good. Thanks for the chance at your giveaway!
- August 5, 2010 at 8:37 AM
- Ken Myers said...
Well, every blog needs to have a dip. And Monte, you have this one all tied up! Looks great (everything here looks great!). Enter me!
- August 5, 2010 at 3:59 PM
- DEB said...
How you can entertain us with your humor and recipes while being on vacation is beyond me! I guess you are multi-talented! If I win the amazon gift card, I think I will order the ebelskiver pan that you talked about in a previous post.
- August 5, 2010 at 5:07 PM
I absolutely adore this site and give many thanks for all the great recipes I have and will be using. For the record, the Dill Dip is awesome and will find it's way into many a picnic basket.
Thanks! (Now if only I had the extra funds for that nice saute pan I've been looking at)
- August 5, 2010 at 5:44 PM
- Tell Laura I Love Her said...
I never eat my veggies naked so I will love this dip! Pick me!!!!
- August 5, 2010 at 7:28 PM
- imergotm said...
You have me very close to ordering up some Coach's Oats, shipping costs be danged.
- August 6, 2010 at 6:52 AM
- Sandy said...
Just recently found your blog and can't wait to try lots of the yummy recipes. The Amazon Gift Card would be a great "Welcome to my Blog" gift.
- August 6, 2010 at 9:07 AM
- Abby said...
Mags, you crack me up as always! Can't wait to try this recipe!
- August 6, 2010 at 9:34 AM
I always carry a swiss army knife in my purse-I don't know why, but I do!
- August 6, 2010 at 1:09 PM
- pixie13 said...
Well, no hedge clippers, futons or golf bags. Phoo. Maybe next time.That dill dip sounds yummy, though.
- August 7, 2010 at 5:58 PM
- Natalie said...
ooh finally catching up on my google reader, just in the nick of time. maybe 50 will be the lucky number :)
- August 8, 2010 at 6:34 PM
- victorinox knives said...
Great giveaway! Pretty picture, too :)
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Prescription Drug User Fee Rate Exceeds $2 Million per Application
Tens of Millions of Collected User Fee Dollars Remain Out of FDA's Reach
08.06.13 | By Sascha Haverfield, Ph.D.
Last week, the U.S. Food and Drug Administration (FDA) announced the prescription drug user fee rates for FY2014 –$2.169 million per application requiring clinical data review. This reflects a significant increase of more than 10 percent over the FY2013 rates – and a twenty-fold increase in the user fees established in the Prescription Drug User Fee Act (PDUFA) of 1992.
Original Intent of PDUFA
The original intent behind the passage of PDUFA was to supplement federal appropriations for FDA in order to ensure that the Agency has the resources needed for timely review of new medicines. Patients, particularly those with HIV/AIDS, had been growing increasingly frustrated with the backlog of medicines awaiting review – and legislators took notice.
The most recent reauthorization of PDUFA (PDUFA V), which received an unprecedented level of input from patients and other stakeholders, was signed into law as part of the Food and Drug Administration Safety and Innovation Act in July of last year. It refocused the program on its original intent of getting safe and effective new medicines to patients in a timely manner while strengthening the Agency's high safety standards and helping to establish a new approach to regulatory science to ensure that the latest (and best) science is utilized in drug development and review.
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However, sequestration is threatening FDA's regulatory science initiatives as well as other FDA programs, to the detriment of patients and public health. Although PDUFA fees cannot, by law, be used for any purpose other than FDA's human drug review program (and therefore cannot decrease the nation's deficit), they have been subject to sequestration. The resulting hiring freeze has prevented FDA from appropriately staffing and advancing the crucial regulatory science initiative as had been negotiated in good faith in PDUFA V.
Legislation has been introduced in both the House and Senate to prevent the sequestration of future FDA user fees, and we are optimistic that such a bill will pass. This is not a partisan issue, and it benefits all of us to have an appropriately-resourced FDA.
In the meantime, FDA cannot access approximately $40 million of sequestered prescription drug user fees from FY2013, as well as more than $80 million in industry user fees from previous PDUFA authorizations. This unreachable pot of money would cover the application fees of more new molecular entity (NME) new drug and biologic applications than the FDA will likely receive in the next two years.
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Biopharmaceutical companies are now funding approximately 60-65% of the cost of human drug review, raising questions about the structure and allocation of user fees, especially given that more than $40 million of FY2013 human drug review user fees remain sequestered to the detriment of patients, public health and regulatory sciences.
Moreover, FDA should be more transparent about how it spends the user fees it collects. For many years, the law has required that FDA issue its PDUFA annual financial reports 120 days after the end of the fiscal year. The FY2011 PDUFA Financial Report, however, was issued in March 2013. The FY2012 report has yet to be released -even though we are weeks away from the start of FY2014.
PhRMA is fully committed to working constructively with FDA and all stakeholders to ensure that the Agency has a sustainable revenue stream that facilitates the timely review of new medicines without creating an undue burden on innovation. There is no acceptable alternative for the patients who are waiting for new treatments.
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Each week during the month of May we will be introducing one of Briercrest's new faculty members. They each answered the same questions ranging from their area of expertise to the top item on their bucket list. This week we're excited to introduce Matthew Zantingh who will be one of the new college English professors.
Where is home?
Home for me has been a couple of different places as I moved around a fair bit as a child. I grew up mostly in Alliston, Ontario, a small town north of Toronto. I used to call this my home town, although I would now call Hamilton, Ontario my home. I have lived here for four years with my wife Lynn while attending graduate school. The city really grew on me during our time here and we will be sad to leave it behind.
What excites you about the opportunity to teach at Briercrest?
I'm really excited to be teaching at a small institution in a Christian liberal arts setting. I did my undergraduate degree at The King's University College, a school like Briercrest, and I cannot wait to get back to this type of educational experience after five years at a large research institution. I am also excited about the unique teaching opportunities at Briercrest with such a close-knit community of teachers and students in one central location.
Do you have any specialized areas of study?
Canadian literature is my general area, but I'm focusing right now on environmental literature and literary depictions of urban nature.
What is your proudest moment?
It's two moments actually, one happening a month and a half before the other. The first was arriving in Jersey City, across the bay from New York City, having biked across North America over nine weeks and seeing my fiancé there waiting for me. The second was when we walked out the church after saying I do a couple of weeks later.
What are your hobbies?
Cycling, soccer, bird watching, canoeing, hiking, and, of course even though I made a career of it, reading.
What is your favourite book?
This is a tough one because I love a lot of books. I'd say right now it would be either David Adams Richards' Mercy Among the Children or Michael Ondaatje's In the Skin of a Lion.
What are two top selections in your music collection?
Another tough question. I really like Toronto songwriter Hayden's new album Us Alone, but two albums I'm constantly come back to are M83's Hurry Up, We're Dreaming and Radiohead's Kid A.
What's on the top of your bucket list?
I'm still hoping to go sky-diving at some point, but more realistic is sitting down at some point to put together a novel.
If you could spend the day with any two famous people (living or dead) who would it be and why?
I would spend a day with T.S. Eliot and Vincent Van Gogh. Eliot is a poet and writer whose work I have admired for a long time, even if it can be incredibly difficult and opaque. He converted to Christianity in the aftermath of World War I after writing poetry that was highly critical of human progress. I enjoy Van Gogh's paintings, but he was also a fascinating person. Not only was he one of the great Dutch painters unrecognized in his time, but he was also deeply troubled by mental illness, eventually culminating in an early and tragic death. I suppose meeting both of them in London or Paris in the 1920s would be fitting if anachronistic.