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TOWN OF NEWBURGH — About 100 unionized employees of Dynegy went on strike Thursday, leaving their posts at the Roseton and Danskammer power plants to picket their employer.
A one-week extension of the previous contract between the International Brotherhood of Electrical Workers Local 320 and Dynegy, which recently emerged from bankruptcy, expired at the end of the day Wednesday.
Dynegy made its final offer to the workers that day, said company spokeswoman Katy Sullivan.
Medical benefits for retirees and pensions for current employees are the sticking points in the negotiations, said union spokesman Andy Ciferri Jr.
"They won't budge," Ciferri said of Dynegy. "They won't even talk."
Workers gathered at three locations near the River Road plants and at the main gate. They held signs urging drivers to honk if they think Dynegy should pay its local taxes.
The company owes about $23.4 million in taxes to the Marlboro School District, the Town of Newburgh and Orange County.
The signs also said that the company is unfair to workers.
Passing home-heating fuel trucks honked, and the union workers cheered.
A smaller band of workers was considering picketing into the night, as long as the locations were safe, Ciferri said.
The contract originally expired Oct. 31, but it was extended for a week because of Hurricane Sandy.
A storm surge flooded Danskammer's basement, causing an estimated $3 million in damage.
Nonunion Dynegy employees will work during the strike, Sullivan said. Roseton, which runs on natural gas, was in operation earlier this week because of power grid reliability concerns related to Hurricane Sandy, but it did not operate Thursday.
Because more of the grid is back online after the hurricane, and because Wednesday night's nor'easter passed through the mid-Hudson without causing much damage, Roseton is not currently needed, Sullivan said.
Roseton and Danskammer are peaking plants, meaning they generally only run at times of high demand.
When the plants aren't running, union workers do a combination of maintenance, flood cleanup and cleaning.
The plants are on the auction block. Dynegy on Monday accepted a "handful" of bids for them.
The picketing will not have a direct effect on the sale process, Sullivan said.
Bidders were aware that contract negotiations were ongoing.
Dynegy paid $903 million in 2001 for the plants, which need hundreds of millions in environmental upgrades.
The plants are now valued at somewhere in the tens of millions, according to an analyst. Their sites, adjacent to the Hudson River, have value simply for their location and electrical interconnection.
Photographer Jeff Goulding contributed to this story.
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Is there anywhere decent to buy in Liverpool city centre that hasn't,t been rendered unsaleable by the huge management fees....???
I gave up looking for decent flats at 'reasonable' prices in Liverpool City Centre. About the best I could find are all shared ownership, but if you want to get on the property ladder they seem to be your only chance.
I would recommend slightly north of the City Centre, preferably around the 'financial district' i.e. Chapel Street and Leeds Street but be wary as there may be a massive development north of the city with the new cruise terminal in the coming years.
I have just had a look on RightMove but I couldn't see anything. I will keep an eye out for you.
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Dr. Steve Bollens
My research is broadly concerned with the ecology of marine and estuarine zooplankton and fish, and spans the sub-disciplines of behavior, population biology, community ecology and ecosystem dynamics. My research often has an applied aspect to it, touching upon such areas as conservation biology, restoration ecology, fisheries oceanography, and global change. I employ a wide variety of approaches to "doing science", including field (observational), modeling and experimental techniques. Locations of my current or recent projects include estuaries of the northeast Pacific (CA, OR, WA, and BC), Georges Bank/Northwest Atlantic, the Arabian Sea, the Florida Keys, and the Bering Sea. These projects are funded by a wide range of federal and state agencies, including the National Science Foundation (NSF), the Environmental Protection Agency (EPA), the Office of Naval Research (ONR), the National Oceanic and Atmospheric Administration (NOAA), the United States Geological Survey (USGS), and the CALFED Bay/Delta Program.
Recent Publications
Dexter*, E., S. M. Bollens, G. Rollwagen-Bollens, J. Emerson*, and J. Zimmerman+. 2015. Persistent versus ephemeral invasions: 8.5 years of zooplankton community dynamics in the Columbia River. Limnol. Oceanogr
Emerson*, J. E., S. M. Bollens, and T. Counihan. 2015. Seasonal Dynamics of Zooplankton in Columbia-Snake River system reservoirs, with special reference to the invasive copepod Pseudodiaptomus forbesi. Aquatic Invasions, 10: 25–40.
Brown*, H., S. M. Bollens, G. S. Brown*. 2014. Vertical distribution and diel migration of Crangon septemspinosa Say 1818 (Decapoda, Caridea) on Georges Bank, Northwest Atlantic. Crustaceana, 87:. 10.1163/15685403-00003372
Bollens, S. M., J. Breckenridge+, J. R. Cordell, S. Simenstad and O. Kalata+. 2014. Zooplankton of tidal marsh channels in relation to environmental variables in the upper San Francisco Estuary. Aquatic Biology, 21: 205-217. DOI: 10.3354/ab00589
Lee*, T. A., G. Rollwagen-Bollens, S. M. Bollens, and J. Faber-Hammond. 2014. Environmental influence on cyanobacteria abundance and microcystin toxin production in a shallow temperate lake. Ecotoxicology and Environmental Safety. In Press. DOI: 10.1016/j.ecoenv.2014.05.004
Breckenridge+, J., S. M. Bollens, G. C. Rollwagen-Bollens, and C. Roegner. 2014. Plankton assemblage variability in a river-dominated temperate estuary during late spring (high-flow) and late summer (low-flow) periods. Estuaries and Coasts, In Press. DOI: 10.1007/s12237-014-9820-7
Chang, H., P. Thiers, N.R. Netusil, J.A. Yeakley, G.C. Rollwagen-Bollens, S. M. Bollens, and S. Singh. 2014. Relationships between environmental governance and water quality in a growing metropolitan area of the Pacific Northwest, USA. Hydrology and Earth System Sciences, 18: 1383-1395. DOI: 10.5194/hess-18-1383-2014
Howe, E. R., C. A. Simenstad, J. D. Toft, J. R. Cordell, and S. M. Bollens. 2014. Macroinvertebrate prey availability and fish diet selectivity in relation to environmental variables in natural and restoring North San Francisco Bay tidal channels. San Francisco Estuary and Watershed Science, 12(1). jmie_sfews_17062. Retrieved from: http://www.escholarship.org/uc/item/0p01q99s.
Whitley*, S. N. and S. M. Bollens. 2014. Fish assemblages across a vegetation gradient in a restoring tidal freshwater wetland: Diets and potential for resource competition. Environ. Biol. Fishes, 97: 659-674. DOI: 10.1007/s10641-013-0168-9
Smits, A., A. Litt, J. R. Cordell, O. Kalata+, and S. M. Bollens. 2013. Non-native cladoceran Bosmina coregoni established on the Pacific coast of North America. Bioinvasion Records, 2: 281-286. DOI: 10.3391/bir.2013.2.4.03
Rollwagen-Bollens, G. C., S. M. Bollens, A. Gonzalez, J. Zimmerman, T. Lee, and J. Emerson. 2013. Feeding dynamics of the copepod Diacyclops thomasi before, during and following cyanobacteria blooms in a large, shallow temperate lake. Hydrobiologia, 705: 101-118.
Bollens, S.M., Quenette*, J., and G. C. Rollwagen-Bollens. 2012. Predator-enhanced diel vertical migration in a planktonic dinoflagellate. Mar Ecol. Prog. Ser., 447: 49-54. DOI: 10.3354/meps09467
Sorenson*, K.L., S. M. Bollens, and T. Counihan. 2012. Rapid range expansion of Orconectes rusticus in the John Day River, Oregon, USA. Aquatic Invasions. 7: 291-294.
Gewant+, D. S. and S. M. Bollens. 2012. Fish assemblages of interior tidal marsh channels in relation to environmental variables in the upper San Francisco Estuary. Environ. Biol. Fishes. 94: 483–499. DOI: 10.1007/s10641-011-9963-3
Bollens, S. M., J. Breckenridge+, J. Cordell, G. C. Rollwagen-Bollens, and O. Kalata+. 2012. Invasive Copepods in the Lower Columbia River Estuary: Seasonal Abundance, Co-occurrence and Potential Competition with Native Copepods. Aquatic Invasions. 7: 101-109. DOI: 10.3391/ai.2012.7.1.011
Friedenberg*, L., S. M. Bollens, G. C. Rollwagen Bollens. 2012. Feeding dynamics of larval Pacific herring (Clupea pallasi) on natural prey assemblages: the importance of protists. Fisheries Oceanography. 21: 95–108. DOI: 10.1111/j.1365-2419.2011.00611.x
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'Rally to Restore Sanity': Famous Faces From the Event
Comics Jon Stewart and Stephen Colbert held dueling rallies in Washington, D.C., today. Stewart's was called "The Rally to Restore Sanity" and Colbert's was dubbed "The March to Keep Fear Alive." Part politics, part parody and part protest, the event drew the eyes of the District and the nation.
A look at some of the images from both events–and the famous faces who popped up.
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Large Sunny Studio Apartment in New York
Size450 ft²
Floor No.3
- Family/child friendly
- Kitchen
- Parking available
- Disabled access
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It is conveniently located in Brooklyn's historic Bedford Stuyvesant. Close to restaurants, cafes, art galleries, groceries, boutique, and beauty spas. It's just minutes away from Prospect Park, museums, theaters, Fort Green, Clinton Hill, Williamsburg, and Downtown Brooklyn. 15-30 minutes away from all Manhattan arts, entertainment, sports, Ideal for weekend getaways, extended layovers, business or group travelers, couples, family, and short term lodging.
Pets not allowed.
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We enjoyed our stay in New York. Our host and his wife received us friendly and welcoming. We have been a double booking in two different houses. Both charming and verschilldend of nature. It is important to speak well in advance what kind of apartment you find yourself off as this may change with what has been agreed. Further fine stay. Ben, Carin and Blaise
Wij hebben genoten van ons verblijf in New York. Onze gastheer en zijn vrouw hebben ons vriendelijk en gastvrij ontvangen. We hebben door een dubbele boeking in twee verschillende huizen gezeten. Beide charmant en verschilldend van aard.
Belangrijk is om vantevoren goed af te spreken in wat voor een soort appartement je terechtkomt omdat dit kan wisselen met wat er is afgesproken. Verder prima verblijf.
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We had a very nice stay at Stephens and Velma's appartment! It had just the right size for a family with 3 grown up children, and the facilities were perfect: nice hot shower, nice beds , nice refrigerater, perfect towels for every day, etc. The subway is only 8 minutes walk, and Stephen and Velma were very nice and hospitable hosts!
At first we did not feel so comfortable in the neighberhood, but we got used to it.
We will return for sure!!
Or neighborhood is the great apartment, but two apts éaient dirty (cockroaches), refurbished bits and pieces, glass is not see through it for one of apts, bad smell in stair climbing and we reduced the 5 people that we were, parasites, hospital emergency treatment and arrived in France
Quartier ou se situe l'appart génial,mais les 2 apparts éaient sales(cafards) ,rénovés de bric et de broc,vitre on y voyait pas à travers pour l'un des apparts,mauvaise odeur dans montée d'escalier et nous avons ramené les 5 personnes que nous étions, des parasites,Urgence hopital et traitement arrivés en France
We had a great stay in this appartment; the owners are very friendly and helpfull. The appartment is well connected to Manhattan through the metro station on Nostrand-Fulton.
Due to electrical problems caused by a heat wave we stayed in the studio and not in the appartment. The studio contains what you need, but is a bit outdated. Looking at the price that is acceptable. Location is in a nice street with friendly people. We found it great to stay amongst the local people instead of in an anonymous hotel. Supermarket and metro nearby.
Only if you have an appetite for risk!! Check in and Check out deplorable apartment impromptu change announced by email on the morning of our arrival. Erroneous address and fake phone: we are lost in Brooklin several hours with 3 children and no address unable to reach anyone ... saved by a kind neighbor who finds our landlady ... to the starting total mess too!. Between two apartment not very good but had the advantage of being close to the subway and air conditioning. A lot of stress in total: not recommended for non adventurers and families ...
Uniquement si vous avez le goût du risque !!!!! Check in et Check out déplorables : changement d'appartement impromptu annoncé par mail le matin même de notre arrivée . Adresse erronnée et téléphone faux : nous voilà perdus dans Brooklin plusieurs heures avec nos 3 enfants sans adresse et sans pouvoir joindre personne !...sauvés par un gentil voisin qui retrouve notre logeuse...pour le départ cafouillage total également. Entre les deux, appartement en pas très bon état mais qui avait l'avantage d'être près du métro et avec air conditionné. Beaucoup de stress au total : à déconseiller aux non aventuriers et aux familles...
A couple of days before arrival, the owner asked us if we'd be okay to stay at another place. Didn't say why, but as the 2nd appartment was closer to Prospect Park and shops plus restaurants, we were okay. The appartment had enough space for the three of us (couple with small child) and was very close to the subway. It was clean and the other people living in the same building were friendly. The only disadvantage for us was that it didn't have a dishwasher.
I'd recommend this to others- don't expect a palace but a convenient place to stay.
Excellent landlord! Very polite and correct in every way. Easy to get in touch with. Subway is 10 mins away, which is reasonable. Apartment was perfect for us, a family of five. Area felt safe and the neighbors were great. Thank You Stephen and Velma!
I enjoyed this apartment very much during my stay in NY. It is a good location - close to the subway, shops and bars; the neighborhood is nice and feels safe. The study has all the conveniences one might need, while giving a taste of old Brooklyn from the 30s. It is not big, but seems more spacious than on the photographs. Some parts are slightly used, but the apartment is renovated and beautifuly arranged (there is no exaggeration in the way it is described - it is really cozy and finely designed). The hosts are very friendly, and so are the people arround. For me and my family it was more than a place to stay - a true enrichment to our experience of New York.
Very nice welcome by Stephen and his wife. Nice apartment in a quieter neighborhood of Brooklyn. Everything you could need for a week baruchte NY!
Sehr nette Begrüßung durch Stephen und seine Frau.
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Alles da was man baruchte für eine Woche NY brauchte!
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Born in Calcutta, and now living in London, Royal College of Art graduate Nina Chakrabarti's expressive work has inspired me recently.
Her recent series of maps is the focus of this interview. What's cool about these pieces is the loose, bright and fun style used in creating illustrations that normally rely on precision, uniformity and accuracy. This is also pretty excellent for me as a previous geographer familiar with the streets of London.
I've asked Nina a few questions on the process behind her map illustrations.
What were the briefs behind your map work?
The first three coloured maps were all commissions from Harper's Bazaar Magazine to extol the virtues of shopping and art galleries in Mayfair.
The linear ones were for Cass Arts for a fold out flyer, so they needed to be more precise as people use them to find the shops, and the last was a cover for Time Out Magazine. That map was for a Treasure Hunt Time Out were promoting in London for Easter that year.
What materials did you use?
The Harper's Bazaar work was all done with inks. The Cass Arts with Rotring technical pens and Time Out with a combination of both.
What was the work process from scratch in completing the mapwork?
I start with a rough sketch in pencil planning where everything needs to go and wether it could, even if stylized, be followed as a map (that didn't apply for the Time Out map as that was meant to be more impressionistic of London as a whole).
Then, I put it on a light box and start going over the pencil sketch in inks or with pen. After that, I scan the drawings into Photoshop and tweak it until I'm happy with it.
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What are you working on at the moment?
I am working on a mural for a restaurant. It is a real challenge as I'm used to working small and this is drawing straight onto the wall with pens and chalk.
Thank you Nina! Looking forward to more.


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Chelsea Rehabilitation Services is a comprehensive rehabilitation program with a broad range of services designed to help patients regain the highest possible level of independence after an injury or illness.
Services are offered for inpatients, outpatients, and those who are confined to home. Conditions treated include stroke, orthopedic problems, traumatic brain injury, neurological or musculoskeletal conditions, back and neck disorders, and other related conditions.
The professional staff in the rehabilitation services department work closely with the patient and family to determine the patient's goals and develop an appropriate treatment plan. Services available include an inpatient rehabilitation unit, Chelsea Back Care, Chelsea Neuro- Rehabilitation Program, neuropsychology/rehabilitation psychology, occupational therapy, physical and aquatic therapy, recreational therapy, speech-language therapy, lymphedema and cancer care program.
Rehabilitation services may be provided in the Main Hospital, the Chelsea Wellness Center, Chelsea Neuro-Rehab Services, or in your home through ChelseaCare Home Health Services.
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Genre/Subjects: Action/Adventure, Comedy, Epic, Womens IssuesLanguage: English
35mm presentation - Will Ferrell is hilarious as Ron Burgundy, a big-shot news anchor in 1970s San Diego whose reign over the newsroom is questioned when a hardworking feminist reporter, Veronica Corningstone (Christina Applegate), shows up and rocks the station with her new ideas. At first, Ron pretends he's hip to the changes, but when he tires of open-mindedness, the true-blue chauvinist within him declares an all-out war.
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Love It or Leave It: Billy Bob Thornton Just Got Hot(ter)
1/14/2014 4:30 AM PST, by Sarah Taylor
This is Billy Bob Thornton, amazing actor and ex-husband of Angelina Jolie, and he's got a new look. His hair is thicker and longer than we're accustomed to seeing it, and oh! It's also brown, and not grey. What a major, major difference.
Verdict: Love it. Billy Bob has always been a quirkily handsome man, but how he's a quirkily hot man. Thought you knew!
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So...I bought this xbox at a garage sale and my son was very excited. He's been enjoying playing the few games we got with it. Then I decided I'd try softmodding it...
I used a usb/xbox controller cable to transfer the sid files from a usb stick to the xbox hd.
I ran Splinter Cell and entered the sid menu.
I ran an EEPROM backup.
I tried to run an MS Backup. That didn't work. It told me "modded files found" and wouldn't do the backup, and thus would not install sid.
So I ran the 'delete ms backup' and 'delete c backup', thinking this would get rid of any "modded files". Then I went to the file manager and deleted more stuff like an idiot. I thought I could identify the files that were "modded" and remove them and then try again.
I deleted the MS Dash apparently somewhere along the way. And there was never any other dash successfully installed by sid.
Oh, and I also deleted the sid installer and Splinter Cell exploit from the hd.
Then I selected 'restart xbox' and got "Your Xbox needs service."
So now when I boot without a disc, I get that screen. No dash at all. And no apparent way to even get back to the sid menu. I can still boot directly into a game if the disc is inserted when I power on.
Last I remember, the C drive showed nothing on it in the file manager. And the sid files I deleted were out of the E drive.
I should add that I have tried running a gave on Xbox Live, but it says I need to create a Live account and to do that it has to exit the game, so then it shows the Xbox logo and the game restarts like nothing happened.
If this is in the wrong forum or something, please let me know.
Briefly, what are my options here, if any? How in the world can I get any files back onto the xbox with no dash?
Thank you so much in advance if you take the time to assist me. I really appreciate your time.
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Using Social Media to Predict Box Office
Many box office prognosticators were surprised by how much money "The Lion King" in 3-D made its opening two weekends. Not only was the film competing against buzzed-about titles like the Brad Pitt baseball drama "Moneyball," but the 17-year-old title was also being presented in premium ticket-priced 3-D.
The social media tracking company Fizziology, however, says it identified "The Lion King" in 3-D as the biggest movie of its release week long before it hit theaters.
Founded two years ago by advertising and marketing veterans Ben Carlson and Jen Handley, Fizziology uses social media commentary from Twitter, Facebook and blogs to determine how much buzz is building around a particular film as well as predict how much money it will make on its opening weekend. The site pulls feeds from the APIs of each of the aforementioned sites and then a sample size of opinions is analyzed by human social media specialists.
"What we find is that the sentiment of the opinion, whether positive or negative, is the most important factor in determining box office," says Carlson. Negative opinions, he says, are weighed a little stronger in their calculations than positive opinion, hence the importance of having human analysts. Pure algorithm-based computer systems, he notes, are bad at separating out Tweets and blog posts that are meant to be sarcastic.
Human analysis is also better for judging comments about genre and niche films, Carlson says. As an example, he points out that horror films generate a lot of negative comments, so it's important for a human pair of eyes to separate the commenters that dislike horror films as a genre versus commenters that simply disliked a particular film. Human eyes are also better at spotting if a niche film, such as the comic book-based "Scott Pilgrim vs. the World," is only appealing to a vocal, but statistically small, audience.
In total, Carlson and Handley says Fizziology's predictions for this past summer's film were, on average, 13% off of actual box office performance, versus 17% for traditional prediction models.
Given the increasing accuracy of Fizziology's methodology, Carlson and Handley say they're currently working with almost all of the six major film studios in a variety of ways, ranging from marketing insights ("how did audiences respond to this new trailer online?") to casting assistance.
"We've had a couple instances where studios and production companies have wanted reports on specific [actors]," says Handley, who declines to list his clients. The information can then be used to determine if a producer wants to use a certain actor or actress should be in his or her film.
"A lot of the clients we talk to want to know how they can get information about the various elements of their films earlier in the process," says Handley, who compares Fizziology's methodology to the way Billy Beane, of "Moneyball" fame, scouted baseball player prospects with statistics. "We're trying to do something similar for entertainment."
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SCHEEN. FROM THE BIG EAST, TO THE A-A-C-- AND NOW TODAY A BRAND NEW HOME FOR THE UNIVERISTY OF LOUISVILLE AND CARDINAL ATHLETICS-- THE ATLANTIC COAST CONFERENCE. WLKY SPORTS DIRECTOR FRED COWGILL WAS AT THE ANNOUNCEMENT WITHIN THE PAST HOUR AT PAPA JOHN'S CARDINAL STADIUM. HE JOINS US LIVE NOW WITH MORE- HI FRED! HELLO AGAIN EVERYBODY AND WELCOME TO THE PAPA JOHN'S CARDINAL STADIUM. IT'S ONE OF THE BIGGEST DAYS IN THE HISTORY OF THE UNIVERSITY OF LOUISVILLE. AS TODAY. THE SCHOOL OFFICIALLY BECAME THE 15TH MEMBER OF THE ATLANTIC COAST CONFERENCE. OUISVILLE'S NOW PART OF 1 OF THE POWER 5 CONFERENCES IN COLLEGE ATHLETICS. A FIRST FOR THE SCHOOL. AND THAT HAS EXPONENTIAL RAMIFICATIONS FOR THE SCHOOL IN ATHLETICS AND ACADEMICS. SINCE 1997, THE ATHLETIC DEPARTMENT BUDGET HAS EXPLODED FROM 15 MILLION DOLLARS TO 86 MILLION DOLLARS. AND NEW FACILITIES HAVE BEEN BUILT FOR 12 SPORTS, SOME ARE ON THEIR SECOND VERSION OF A NEW FACILITY. PLUS THE SCHOOL'S GRADUATION RATE HAS EXPLODED, A 5 YEAR WINDOW AS LOW AS 30 PERCENT, NOW IN THE MID 50'S WITH A GROWTH RATE OF 60 PERCENT. THAT WAS A PERFECT FIT FOR THE ACC, WHICH HAS SOME OF THE BEST PRIVATE AND PUBLIC SCHOOLS ACADEMICALLY AND ATHLETICALLY IN THE COUNTRY. At 15 members strong, we are well prepared for the long term future with a unique balance of public and private institutions. The University of Louisville and its athletic program continues to reach new heights and rank among the nation's most competitive, making it a perfect fit for the ACC. THE FIRST HIGH PROFILE MOMENT FOR U OF L IN THE IS THE FOOTBALL SEASON OPENER HOSTINB MIAMI OF FLORIDA IN 2 MONTHS. FROM THE PJCS, I'M FRED COWGILL, WLKY SPORTS.
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Tuck Everlasting
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Jesse Tuck's face was instantly serious. "Oh, that. No—no, it's not," he said quickly. "You mustn't drink from it. Comes right up out of the ground. Probably pretty dirty." And he began to pile the pebbles over it again. (5.40)
Jesse isn't so good at lying—not to Winnie, anyway. Why not? After all, he's had plenty of practice. One hundred and four years' worth, to be exact.
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"Well, child," she said to Winnie, standing up, "now you share our secret. It's a big, dangerous secret. We got to have your help to keep it. I expect you're full of questions, but we can't stay here no longer." (8.8)
Whoa. Wait a second. These people just met Winnie and they're asking her to keep a secret for them? We have two concerns here: (1) How do they know they can trust her? (2) Isn't that kind of presumptuous?
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It was good. So good, in fact, that through it all, not one of them noticed that the man they had passed on the road, the man in the yellow suit, had crept up to the bushes by the stream and heard it all, the whole fantastic story. Nor did they notice that he was following now, beside the road far behind, his mouth, above the thin, gray beard, turned ever so slightly toward a smile. (8.14)
Uh oh. Consider the secret leaked. The beans spilled. The cat out-ed from the bag.


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On Monday, the IDF disclosed the existence of a guided missile called the Tamuz. The missile has a range of 25 km. and can penetrate armored vehicles. It can come with a different anti-personnel warhead. The missile is launched from an armored personnel carrier from two launchers, each of which is capable of carrying three missiles. The APC can carry an additional four missiles inside.
The Tamuz uses an advanced electro-optic camera that transmits the image of its target back to operators inside the APC, who then manually drive it toward the target. Tamuz teams work closely with an artillery unit, which operates Hermes 450 reconnaissance unmanned aerial vehicles that provide the intelligence on the targets that are then attacked by the Tamuz missile.
"The missile provides us with the ability to accurately attack targets from a standoff position without needing to physically come into contact with the enemy," explained Col. Sharon, commander of the Artillery Corps' David's Sling Formation.
The Tamuz was used extensively during the Second Lebanon War in 2006 when Meitar fired 600 missiles at Hezbollah targets. Nevertheless, the results were not satisfactory and a new operational doctrine was written for how to operate the missile in an urban terrain and against which targets. The missile was again used against Hamas targets during Operation Cast Lead in the Gaza Strip in January 2009 with greater success. Until now, the missile was top-secret. Why has it been revealed now? IDF sources said the decision to unveil the Tamuz came after long deliberations within the defense establishment. One of the reasons the missile was declassified was since the IDF has decided to upgrade Meitar's capabilities with new weapons systems, and while it will still use the Tamuz, it will not buy more after the current arsenal is exhausted. Heh.
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Owen the little hypocrite brat keeps on commenting and spreading his incoherent crap around. what a fucktard.
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the look on his face when that missile hit is priceless. u want to fire rockets at Israel than prepare for the consequences
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haha, owen higgins blocked me. the little douche can't discuss history like a grownup, when faced with the unpleasant realities of the world, he reverts to blocking like the muhammadists of LL.. pathetic.
i hope the short conversation we had didn't damage your fragile little mind owen. how about you grow a pair and get back to me.
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That's what idiots like him do best. That just proves that he has a weak mind and is a coward.
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actually, this missile is israeli-made and the only kids killed here are the one shooting rockets (unguided ones) into israel.
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@OwenHiggins addressing the issue? first you must do some research on"palestine" and what the arab countries have done to israel and are wanting to do. you do realize that the arabs started all this but are sore losers not to mention a place called palestine was never a country or a state.
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i'm not sure i understand all of your questions so lets take it one thing at a time.
they're firing the rockets to cause civilian casualties (they fire them into towns). the reason they do this is because they don't want israel to exist (read the hamas charter, they're not shy about it). this issue has nothing to do with occupation as gaza isn't occupied and the PLO was formed in 1964, 3 years prior to "occupation", with the goal of annihilating israel.
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It seems that a story is floating around the blogosphere about a Billboard that has been up for about a month around Chicago, Illinois. Take a look at the picture below hosted from this article:
It would seem that most people at first would think of answering no. I for one do not miss the outrageous spending that went on under Bush and the Republican Congress at the time. And the false information that directly led to the Iraqi war was a blunder we meddled through that we are still paying for. (Despite that most Iraqi's are grateful for their freedom).
On the other hand, I look at our current President, Obama and my answer quickly turns to a Hell Yes! Why? While Bush was no fiscal conservative, he truly had our backs starting in 2001 through 2008. No major attacks happened on our soil again and most of us felt safe and protected. Bush is a deeply spiritual man and as president he led our nation, despite the constant attacks on his character, intellect and charisma. Everyone thinks W. is dumb, but they don't exactly hand out Harvard MBA's to dumb people, do they?
When I consider Obama's blunders, they are monumental. Our economy is nearing collapse, spending in Washington is a run-away train; several more Trillion dollars more than Bush ever spent, Iran is close to getting a Nuclear Weapon, Obama never lent any support to Iran when Freedom Protests were going on, Obama has never fulfilled his promises on drilling for oil, Jobless Rates are soaring, Obama lecturing the Supreme Court and US Citizens like we are children, and of course taxes are going to go up to pay for this pig of the US Government wearing lipstick. Do I need to go on? Do I even have to mention nationalized healthcare?
Regardless of who put up the Billboard, Bush was not a socialist and he did not seek to penalize Banks and other Corporations for trying to make a profit and creating jobs. This whole recession started with the housing collapse that is directly linked to Barney Frank and his Democratic Cronies deregulating the housing market and banks safeguards that Republicans warned about in the early 2000's. Does anyone mention that? Not in any media report I can find. The only thing I can find is Obama is trying to regulate banks more than what his democratic Friends took away in the first place. Crippling Banks, raising the Capital Gains tax is not doing anyone any favors. Obama is on a path for the Government to take away our freedom, not to protect it.
Bush had his faults and he was no Ronald Reagan. But compared to Obama's socialist policies, W's portrait needs to be put on Mount Rushmore. After all, despite everything, at least W. was a true American. Can you say the same for Obama? I'm not sure I can.


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[byline [u1By Bill Center[ql [u2STAFF WRITER[ep The Padres have apparently signed their first, second and third-round picks from the June draft. "I think we have signed three that were important . . . 1, 2 and 4," Padres CEO Jeff Moorad said Monday evening. One is center fielder Donavan Tate, a two-sport high school standout from Cartersville, Ga.. Tate, who was represented by agent Scott Boras, originally was seeking $10 million from the Padres but likely accepted between $6 and $6.5 million. That would be the most the Padres have ever given a draft pick, roughly doubling the $3.15 million infielder Matt Bush got in 2004. Tate had also signed a football letter of intent with the University of North Carolina as a quarterback. But he left the team last Wednesday just three days after reporting. Tate was the third overall pick in the June draft. The second-round pick is center fielder Everett Williams from McCallum High in Austin, Tex. Williams had been projected as a first-round pick by many pre-draft forecasts. He had also accepted a baseball scholarship to the University of Texas. The fourth-round pick was right-handed pitcher Keyvius Sampson from Forest High in Ocala, Fla. He had accepted a baseball scholarship to Florida State University.
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Hi Kate,
I heard that you baked a lot of the desserts for your wedding and my husband and I are planning to serve homemade cookies. I was wondering how far ahead you made your deserts and whether you froze them. Thanks!
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Hi Kelly,
Barry and I did bake a number of the desserts for our wedding [2], and we made most of them about a week before [3] the actual day and froze them. If you are planning to make cookies - especially a large quantity - I think freezing them will be your best bet. Here are a few simple steps to make sure they come out well on the other side. Good luck!
Step 1: Make sure your cookies cool completely before you freeze them (otherwise you will get condensation).
Step 2: If your cookies are frosted or are decorated with something that could fall off put them uncovered on a tray in the freezer first and then, once they are firm, pack them together.
Step 3: Wrapping is the key to freshness. Some sites recommend individually wrappings them, but this seems excessively bad for the environment and if you are only freezing them for a few days it is not necessary. What we did is take tupperware and stack the cookies with layers of wax paper in between. For large amounts of cookies it may be easier to use freezer bags, in which case I would still use wax paper and try to remove as much air as possible.
Step 4: Take the cookies out 12 - 24 hours in advance, remove the tupperware top and place it back at an angle (so it covers about 2/3 of the container). This will allow the cookies to defrost without collecting condensation. If you are using plastic bags, you should probably unpack the cookies for the defrosting - but keep the wax paper between them until you are ready to serve.


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Grade 6 Up–Winter must die, and Summer must sink into the ground; it is all part of the Story, and Tiffany Aching has danced into the middle of it. On the last day of autumn, Tiffany travels to the woods to witness the Black Morris, the traditional dance of the gods heralding the arrival of winter. In a moment of heedless excitement, her rollicking feet draw her to the music, and she crashes headlong into the Wintersmith. He is fascinated by the girl and proceeds to court her in his own fashion–all the snowflakes are made in her image and giant Tiffany-shaped icebergs appear in the sea. Meanwhile, Tiffany begins to show characteristics of the goddess Summer–the touch of her bare feet makes things grow. All the attention from the Wintersmith would be quite flattering were it not for the deadly winter that threatens the shepherds of the Chalk. As the situation is very dangerous and death is certain, the Nac Mac Feegles (along with an especially lively cheese named Horace) are directly in the fray protecting their big wee hag along with Annagramma, Granny Weatherwax, Miss Tick, and other favorites from past adventures. All are skillfully characterized; even the Wintersmith elicits sympathy as he joyfully buries the world in snow in his attempt to win Tiffany. Replete with dry and intelligent humor, this latest in the series is sure to delight.–Heather M. Campbell, Philip S. Miller Library, Castle Rock, CO
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*Starred Review* Here's the third Discworld story for younger readers in a series that began with The Wee Free Men (2003) and continued in A Hat Full of Sky (2004). Despite a stern warning from Miss Treason, the eccentric witch from whom 13-year-old Tiffany Aching is learning her craft, the girl has gone and danced with the wrong men. Having inserted herself into a dark reverse Morris dance in which summer and winter achieve their seasonal balance, Tiffany has attracted the amorous attentions of the Wintersmith. To express his ardor, he brings his chilly powers to bear, replete with Tiffany-shaped snowflakes burying the world in the rising drifts of his infatuation. While Granny Weatherwax, Miss Perspicacia Tick, and sundry veteran witches work with Tiffany to restrain the Wintersmith's zeal, the Wee Free Men set off to fetch a Hero to assist Tiffany, along the way adopting a cantankerous blue cheese. Add an assortment of junior witches-in-training, and yet another rollicking, clever, and quite charming adventure is brought to readers, who will find themselves delighted again--or for the first time--by Pratchett's exuberant storytelling. Holly Koelling
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And snow it does in Terry Pratchett's delightfully funny and thoughtful latest book, Wintersmith. I have to admit that I ordered Wintersmith because it was by Terry Pratchett. I did not notice that it is targeted as a Discworld book for younger readers. Adult fans of Discworld or of the genre generally should ignore this fact and step up and read Wintersmith. It is fun and should appeal to "children of all ages!"
The plot is summarized quite nicely in the book description and I won't waste anyone's time repeating that summary. What isn't summarized is Pratchett's way with words and with characterizations. Here we have Tiffany Aching. Not only is she a 13-year girl entering her angst-filled teen years with a lot to learn about becoming an adult, but she is also learning how to become a witch. The witches in Macbeth sum this situation up nicely when they chanted: "double, double, toil and trouble, fire burn and cauldron bubble." Pratchett has a keen ear for Tiffany and me manages to convey these pangs of adolescence with an empathy that would be too sweet if it wasn't interspersed with humor and a nod and a wink. Pratchett knows how to keep the cauldron bubbling and those bubbles contain some of Pratchett's famous set-pieces.
The Wee Free Men (the miniature version of Cohen the Barbarian multiplied by a factor of five hundred) provide some of those `fun' moments. Two examples bear repeating. At one point early on Daft Wullie goes on (with more than a wee bit of Scottish brogue) about the problem of being married and having to deal with "the Pursin' o' the Lips", the "Foldin' o' the Arms", and "not tae mention the Tappin' o' the Feets".Read more ›
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Tiffany is currently being trained by Miss Eumenides Treason, a rather frightening 113 year-old witch : so far, she's lasted an impressive three months at the cottage, where most other students only lasted a single night. The house is full of cobwebs, despite its lack of obvious spiders, and everything in black. (Tiffany even has to make her cheeses black. One of them, Horace, is a rather lively cheese - he's a bit like a dairy-related version of Rincewind's luggage. He has his own personality and can move about by himself). Miss Treason's favourite candle-holders are skulls, while legend has it there's a pile of gold in her cellar guarded by a demon.
Tiffany has seen the 'standard' Morris Dance at home : the dancers danced, summer came and she never gave it too much more thought. The Dark Morris, however, is its mirror image : it's not so widely known and when it's danced, the winter arrives. Miss Treason, who has never missed it, says it also has to be witnessed. However, Tiffany is given strict instructions not to talk, to look only at the dancers and - most importantly - NOT to move until the dance has finished. Unfortunately, the beat gets into Tiffany's feet and she can't stop herself joining the dance. Before you can say Tiffany-shaped-snowflakes, the Wintersmith (the elemental in charge of winter) has fallen in love with a certain young witch who danced the Dark Morris with him.Read more ›
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Neil Patrick Harris is set to host the first new "Saturday Night Live" of 2009.
NBC announced on Monday (Jan. 5) that Harris will host the Jan. 10 episode of the long-running series, the first of three new episodes for the month of January. The network has yet to reveal hosts for the new episodes on Jan. 17 and Jan. 31.
In addition to Harris, as reported on HitFix's Motion Captured blog, this Saturday's episode will feature musical guest Taylor Swift, the bestselling artist of 2008.
While Harris didn't achieve quite a Swift-ian level of success in 2008, he still received his second Emmy nomination for CBS' "How I Met Your Mother," appeared in the second "Harold & Kumar" film and found time to star in the online musical sensation "Dr. Horrible's Sing-Along Blog."
This will be the first "Saturday Night Live" appearance for either Swift or Harris. Given Swift's youth, it isn't surprising that she hasn't appeared, but how "SNL" dropped the ball on Harris for all of those "Doogie Howser, MD" years is a mystery to us all.


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131 min., Polish, Hebrew and English subtitles
Bronislawa Wajs, better known as Papusza (1908-1987), was the first gipsy poet to be recognized after her work was published in Poland. Rejected by a community who accused her of having betrayed her people's secrets, Papusza lived through a time of great poverty, plagued by guilt until her death.
Filmed in the historic Rom dialect, the black-and-white film goes back and forth between eras, going back especially to the year of 1949, when Papusza met Jerzy Ficowski, a non-Rom poet, who was welcomed by the gipsy community where he lived for two years. Papusza gradually gave her texts to Ficowski, and it was he who later published them.
Krzysztof Krauze was born in Warsaw in 1953 and graduated from the faculty of cinematography at Lodz Film Academy. Krauze made his feature debut in 1988. Joanna Kos-Krauze was born in Olszytn in 1972 and studied literature. The husband and wife co-wrote My Nikifor, which enjoyed international success and co-directed Savior's Square, screened at the 2007 Haifa Festival. Papusza received a Special Mention at the 2013 Karlovy Vary Festival.
Filmography: Savior's Square (2006), My Nikifor (2004, Krzysztof Krauze), The Debt (1999, KK), Street Games (1996, KK), New York, 4AM (1988, KK)
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Optus moves into wearables space with Cash by Optus
Optus has launched its new mobile payment facility, Cash by Optus, whereby customers with compatible smartphones can make contactless purchases under $100.
Optus has launched its new mobile payment facility, Cash by Optus, whereby customers with compatible smartphones can make contactless purchases under $100.
BlackBerry has released its first ever Android smartphone to the Australian market.
A spring Apple event is reportedly in the works, though details aren't yet confirmed.
For the first time, over a third of browser-based online transactions globally are now made on a mobile device, compared to just 30 per cent last quarter.
The iPhone won't always be the moneymaker it once was.
Tech giant showcases TVs, devices, wearables and a raft of new home gadgets at CES 2016 in Las Vegas.
The Windows 10 Mobile OS -- popularly known as Windows Phone -- is now compatible with smartphones based on x86 chips, according to Microsoft.
Top trends from the show floor at the Consumer Electronics Show 2016 in Las Vegas, according to analyst Ovum.
Mobile banking has a new enemy, Asacub, a new form of mobile malware targeting Android users.
With the latest hardware, such a simple mistake won't permanently damage your phone.
Parent company Lenovo doesn't want its mobile lineup to lag behind when it comes to core features and design.
Vodafone has made enhancements to its 4G network for areas of regional New South Wales and the ACT.
HTC clearly took some design inspiration from the Nexus 6P, building its own camera visor on the back.
The first smartphone in the world to have a 4K display, Sony's Xperia Z5 Premium, is now on sale in Australia.
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This is a rough idea of how he plays it i think its all bar chords i don't know if its right but the D chord i think is sus9 the tab is Dsus9 A Bm G 557755 577655 799777 355433 --------------------------------------------------------5--3-| -----5--------------------------------------x-----------3--3-| -7------------------6h7-----------------7---x----------------| -7----------------------7--7----------9-----x------5---------| -5-5----------7-----------7---------9-------x----5-----------| -----------5-----5 ---------------7---------x--3-------------| Repeat twice for intro and for all verses Chorus Dsus9--A--Bm--G (these are also the bar chords used for the intro) Dsus9 You sing a song A Bm G while sitting at a red light Dsus9 You think of home A Bm G while sitting at a red light Dsus9 to slow to role A put your life on hold Bm G an open path with nowhear to go D.. A Bm G(start struming) you start to wonder while sitting at a red light (CHORUS)Struming pattern is Down Mute up up down D.. A You could run a red light Bm G give up at a red light D.. A you break the mold when running threw the tole Bm G speeding threw your whole life (return to finger picking) D... A Bm G A chance to breath while sitting at a red light D.. A Bm G you look around reflecting on your life D.. A a chance to think am i drinking to much Bm G should i keep going lose the life that i love D.. A Bm G(struming) a second glancee when comming to a red light (CHORUS) D.. A You could run a red light Bm G give up at a red light D.. A you break the mold when running threw the tole Bm G speeding threw your whole life Continue struming D.. A When Thinks are looking low you gotta keep strong Bm G Feet to the grass and you gotta walk it off D... A the bows been tight, to tight to laugh Bm G feet to the ground, you gotta walk it off Dsus9 A Bm G (repeat twice, at lib lyrics if no lead guitar present) Finger picking) D.. A A chance to think, am i drinking to much Bm G should i keep going loose the life that i love...... Chorus twice ......end i don't know if its right but the D chord i think is sus9 the tab is ----5---| ----5---| ----7---| ----7---| ----5---| ----5---| Struming pattern is Down Mute up up down
ummm. did you forget to mention thats it in Eb? .. or are you just retarded and tabbed it a half step higher than the actual song ?


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Does it Matter?
by Siegfried Sassoon
Stanza 1 Summary
Get out the microscope, because we're going through this poem line-by-line.
Line 1
Does it matter?—losing your legs?...
- The poem opens with a question. The speaker asks if "losing your legs" matters.
- This is a strange way to begin a poem; it's not very poetic to talk about something so violent, is it?
- And also: duh. Losing your legs totally matters. We're guessing this is a rhetorical question, then.
- But who's doing the asking here? And whom are they posing this question to?
- At this point, we're not sure. But given that this is a Siegfried Sassoon poem, and given that he was a World War I poet, we're going to guess that whoever the speaker is here, he's asking a newly legless former soldier this question.
Lines 2-5
For people will always be kind,
And you need not show that you mind
When the others come in after hunting
To gobble their muffins and eggs.
- After asking his rather painful question, the speaker elaborates on how losing your legs might not matter at all. Wait. That doesn't sound right. But don't worry—we'll get to that.
- The gist is, it doesn't matter if you lose your legs, because people will be nice to you no matter what. So the soldier doesn't have to act like he cares when other people come in from hunting to eat breakfast ("muffins and eggs").
- Now hold on, what's with all this talk about hunting and eggs? It sounds like the speaker is imagining a period after the war where the soldier is recuperating at home after he's lost his legs.
- There will probably be other people around the house—family members and what not—and they're going out hunting while he's cooped up in a wheelchair, the jerks.
- To be fair, Sassoon was from a small village in southeastern England called Manfield. In smaller towns like Manfield, going out hunting in the early morning would be a fairly normal activity.
- So this guy's stuck inside while his inconsiderate family is out having fun. But hey, it's okay, because people are kind most of the time.
- If this is sounding a bit off to you, well that's because our speaker has totally boarded the sarcasm train. After reading these lines, we're meant to think, "of course it matters. Being a shut in while your friends and fam have fun would totally bite, no matter how kind and caring they are."
- It sounds a lot like he's criticizing people who act like losing one's legs is no big deal, who act like not being able to hunt is the only consequence of losing important limbs.
- We imagine it's not the hunt this guy misses—but the sharing of an activity. We all know how awful it feels to be left out.
- Before we jump on down to the next stanza, check this out: we've got a bit of form going on here. First of all, there's clearly a rhyme scheme afoot. Legs rhymes with eggs and kind rhymes with mind, making the rhyme scheme of this stanza ABBCA.
- But why stop there? It's also worth noting that all of the lines, except 4, seem to be in anapestic trimeter. Wondering what that is? Shmoop's got you covered in our "Form and Meter" section.


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Negro River, Spanish Río Negro, river, southern Argentina, whose major headstreams, the Neuquén and the Limay, rise in the Andes Mountains near the Chilean border. At Neuquén city they meet to form the Negro, which flows generally east-southeastward across northern Patagonia and empties into the Atlantic Ocean southeast of Viedma and Carmen de Patagones. The length of the Negro is about 400 miles (640 km; 700 miles [1,125 km], including the Neuquén), but only the lower 250 miles (400 km) are navigable. The waters of the Negro are used for hydroelectricity and for irrigation of grains and fruit, including wine grapes and apples for export to Europe.
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An Auckland man wanted on firearms charges has been arrested after a high-speed chase involving police from Opotiki, Taneatua, Whakatane and Kawerau.
Sergeant Harry Harvey of Whakatane police said the man allegedly took a vehicle from a Gisborne car dealer for a test drive yesterday.
"He stopped to refuel in Matawai just before entering the Waioeka Gorge and allegedly drove off without paying for the fuel," Mr Harvey said.
Opotiki police were alerted, saw the man in the township and followed him. Because of the nature of the charges the suspect had faced in Auckland, police decided to conduct an "armed vehicle stop".
The man was followed from Opotiki to Taneatua, through Waimana Gorge. A person who saw his driving described it as dangerous.
The vehicle appeared to have been spiked before entering the Taneatua township.
"Once in the Taneatua, two police patrol cars have pushed the driver into Hughes Place, a dead-end street," Mr Harvey said.
He said when the car stopped the man ran off through private property into a paddock. He allegedly discarded an object which was later found by police and turned out to be a small plastic pistol.
Police said they found a rifle in the boot of the car.
A local resident described a car speeding around the corner.
"The driver hit a wheelie bin, jumped out of the car and ran through one of the properties," the woman said. "He had a T-shirt wrapped round the bottom half of his face, and was wearing sunglasses and a big jacket."
A 25-year-old man was due to appear in Whakatane District Court today.
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Posted: Sun Sep 07, 2008 9:51 am
Post subject: Been trying for over 2 years.
Hi All
Me and my partner have been trying to conceive but nothing as yet happened, we have sex every day and when it's the week i'm ovulating maybe 3-5 times a day. After we have sex I leak once he comes out. Can this be the problem. I have even tryed to put my legs in the air after because I went on the internet and a lady and tried this and she thought it worked.
I recently went to the doctor to get checked and they said everything fine, but last week I had to have time off work becuase I had severe pains in my belly do you think this could be all related to why it is difficult to conceive.
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The less is more approach certainly worked for me.
What type of contraception were you on and how long for? I was on depo for two years and it took around 18months to fall preggers. The longer you have been on depo or the pill could mean you take longer to conceive. Also things like weight, lifestyle can be huge factors in conceiving.
You defo need a mini break even though you wont want too. The harder you try the harder it is..... strange but true.
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I agree with the others - you are having sex too often. They say it's best to have sex every other day as this gives sperm chance to be healthy. The sperm you are getting may be not healthy/non-swimmers as you are having sex too often.
I'd suggest just doing it every other day and see how you get on from there.
Good luck and your time will come!
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Way to much sex!! You need to be having sex every other day. Also the thing about sticking your legs in the air is a myth. You do however need to stay lying down for at least 30mins to improve your chances. They say anything that comes out after that wasn't going anywhere! Also (really crude but true) it helps if you are naturally wet as saliva, lotions and stuff like that can effect the sperm quality. Hope this helps. If not your doctor should refer you to an infertility clinic. It's best to get everything checked out early.
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I'm trying to think of a place to meet someone for coffee around King and University - perhaps north to Queen. I can't picture what coffee shops are around there. Doesn't have to be anything fancy and not necessarily only a coffee shop but somewhere where you can sit and have only coffee.
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Here's a not-so-uncommon scenario these days: You bought your lovely home, be it a castle, bungalow or yurt, for $200,000 five years ago. Today, it's worth about $300,000. That's a tidy 50% total gain, or 8.5% on a compound annual basis. Right?
Not so fast -- you've probably oversimplified matters. For example, think about what you've put into the home over the years. Some of those purported profits probably went to businesses like Home Depot (NYSE: HD), Lowe's (NYSE: LOW), or home-building supplier USG (NYSE: USG). Let's say that you spent the following amounts:
Those items total $25,000. Subtract them from your initial "gain," and you're left with an increase of $75,000, or 37.5%, which is still significant. Annually, though, it amounts to 6.7%. Factor in expenses such as insurance and property taxes, and your gain (at least compared to options such as renting) shrinks even further.
Your expectations should be realistic, too. Don't expect your "investment" in a home to make you rich. It can help many people become wealthy, but it's not a surefire ticket to Easy Street. As Knight Kiplinger recently noted in Kiplinger magazine, whereas the average annual gain of the S&P 500 over the past 30 years has been 12%, the average annual gain for home values has been 6.2%. That's respectable, and has beaten inflation -- but not by much.
For most of us, our homes should be valuable because they give us shelter and comfort, and help us build valuable equity. But to make the most of your dollars for your future, it's hard to beat the stock market. Investing in a broad S&P 500-based index fund is easy and immediately plunks you in 500 of America's biggest companies. Over many decades, the S&P 500 has averaged annual gains of about 10%.


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Hi everyone another busy day is just about done. Today started with a good cardio session at the gym. 8 miles on the bike and 2 miles treadmill. I had planned on getting a couple more this evening but hubby needed to catch up on his rest so I took over cleanup and bedtime duty.
After the gym I headed home and started on mount laundry. I got about 4 loads done but considering that we create a load just showering I have about 10-12 to go not including the clothes we got dirty today. Lugging that stuff up from the basement definitely counts as some additional cardio too. I also finally got the upstairs bathroom cleaned. I don't use this one as frequently as everyone else but since I clean the downstairs one twice as much it was time.
Later in the morning I had my second interview of the week. Another good opportunity that would definitely let me leverage my skills and experience and would be a nice transition resume wise so we'll see. I was supposed to have a follow up interview with another opportunity tomorrow, but it got postponed so I plan on continuing with the cleaning and planning for the two parties we have upcoming this weekend.
After the interview I got the wholesale club run done with. We are now prepped with our sterno pans, fuel, plates, cutlery, and liquor. Tomorrow I will be picking up the honey baked ham (yum) and maybe a few last little stocking stuffers. The rest of the food shopping will probably get done Friday morning as I am not going anywhere near the supermarket on Saturday if I can help it.
When we got home from the errands and I got everything put away I felt a lot like this
I managed to sneak in an hour nap before getting up to make dinner. Tonight we had a yummy stirfry followed by a chocolate cupcake for dessert.
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Posted: Fri Jul 26, 2013 8:14 pm
Post subject: 4 yr old birthday
My daughter will be 4 in 3 weeks and I am at a loss as to what to buy her! She is a real girls girl so I was thinking some dolls accessories but I also want her to have some learning toys too. She is a huge Peppa fan as well. Do any of you with girls of similar ages have any toys that you would recommend??
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Im at a loss with my daughter too! Even though her birthday isnt until October I have no idea. I have got her a double dolls pushchair and a dressing up chest.
My friend gave me an old Gameboy advance, so I am going to see if I can get some secondhand games off ebay. Some of the kids ones like Peppa Pig have educational themes. Or as I have a wii, some games for her on that.


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Google's Nexus 4 and why it changes everything within the Android space
Google's Android 4.2-powered Nexus 4 is priced like a mid-range handset but has better specs than most flagship devices. So how did Google pull this off?
Google's LG-built Nexus 4 is due out in the UK on November 13. It features Qualcomm's new quad-core S4 Snapdragon Pro CPU, Android 4.2, and 2GB of RAM, making it one of the most attractive releases we've seen in a long time.
But perhaps the most compelling aspect of the Nexus 4 is its price, which starts at just £239 for the 8GB version direct from Google.
How did Google do this when a similarly specced handset from the likes of Samsung, HTC, Nokia, or Apple, would cost you from anywhere between £350 to £600? We spoke with IDC analyst Francisco Jeronimo to get his take on the Nexus 4's pricing and what it means for the space at large.
Jeronimo agrees that, despite the handset's high-end spec, Google is clearly aiming the Nexus 4 at the middle of the smartphone market. With prices starting from £239 for the 8GB variant, the Nexus 4 is an extremely compelling proposition, particularly with Christmas just around the corner.
'At this price point Google is clearly addressing the mid market, which is key for the future growth,' said Jeronimo. 'Whether or not they are making money I can't tell, but I guess Google's strategy is not to make huge profits from this phone.'
We've yet to test the Nexus 4 but we have seen Qualcomm's quad-core S4 Snapdragon Pro CPU in action and the results are impressive to say the least. Couple this with 2GB of RAM, Android 4.2, and the Nexus 4's HD IPS display, and what you're left with is anything but a mid-range device.
It's also clear from the pricing that Google is going after first time users and is not trying to compete with the likes of Apple or Samsung in terms of price. It's a good approach, and one that's been proven to work before – see Google's Nexus 7 campaign.
The Nexus 4 is no Nexus 7
With the Nexus 7, however, there was obvious corner cutting: limited storage, no mobile data, and no SD-support. But the startling thing about the Nexus 4 is that it matches – and in some cases surpasses (CPU, RAM) – the spec of the iPhone 5 and Samsung's Galaxy S3.
So while the handset does have limited storage and no 4G, it's still very much a high-end device in terms of design, specs, and hardware. Viewed in this context, we think a lot of consumers will forgive Google for omitting LTE and large volumes of storage.
'In Western Europe and the US the feature phone segment is declining sharply but in other regions feature phones are still popular. In those regions smartphone adoption will not be driven by expensive iPhone or Galaxy S3 devices, but by mid to low-end priced smartphones.'
With the Nexus 4, Google is effectively giving consumers a mid-tier device with high-tier hardware, performance, and specs – something that has not yet been done in the space. Usually mid-tier Android devices are competitive on price but compromise on experience.
'Google is trying to prove to the market that a low-priced Android smartphone does not mean a cheap experience,' said Jeronimo. 'That said, no one else – ZTE, Huawei, Alcatel – was really trying to improve experience at this price point.'
A handset of this calibre while being great for consumers could spell bad news for Google's hardware partners who will struggle to match what Google is about to offer consumers.
Just look at the Nexus 4's spec sheet. It's as good as the Galaxy S3 on paper and costs almost half the price. That's going to cause some serious ripples in the Android Kingdom, and everybody from the bottom to the top will be affected.


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OK, I'll admit it. I'm a bit of an environmentalist. Nothing too extreme or SUV-burning, I just take the bus to Minute Maid for many of the day games and feel that with winter coming up, a sweatshirt is generally a better cure for a cold apartment than blasting the heat.
You're not fooling anyone; that last part is because you're cheap.
Either way.
So it is to my delight as an environmentalist how terrible the World Series have been of late. Of the last seven series, six never had to use their second travel day and the only one that did moved its participants and hangers-on by train or bus roughly 100 miles — hardly long-haul air travel.
Yes, six of the last seven World Series haven't even made it to a Game 6, thus never making it back to the city in which it started.
2004: Red Sox 4, Cardinals 0
2005: White Sox 4, Astros 0
2006: Cardinals 4, Tigers 1
2007: Red Sox 4, Rockies 0
2008: Phillies 4, Rays 1
2009: Yankees 4, Phillies 2
2010: Giants 4, Rangers 1
Even after Cliff Lee dominated the Yankees in Game 1 last year, most were still picking the Yankees to win the series. They even remained the betting favorites.
The last good World Series was arguably 2003 when the Marlins erased a 2-0 deficit against the Yankees, winning Game 4 on a walkoff home run and Game 6 on a Josh Beckett shutout.
If you don't like that one, then the last good World Series had to be 2002 when the Angels beat the Giants in seven despite trailing by five runs in a potential elimination game. Or 2001 when the Diamondbacks beat the Yankees in the best (or second-best if you like) World Series of my lifetime.
But to what do we owe this series of clunkers?
First, what it's not. It's not the dominance of one league over the other. While the American League has clearly been better than the National League as evidenced by interleague play — and please don't consider All-Star Games — that's not the case in the World Series. American League and National League teams have alternated wins since 2005.
And it doesn't seem to be a reflection on an emphasis on pitching, with the better pitching team simply rolling through 2-0 wins. The runs per game in the last seven World Series don't seem to be pulled from a totally different distribution than the previous seven, which came at the height of the steroid era.
While the two highest runs/game figures since 1997 came from that earlier period, so too have the lowest four.
Year: Runs/G
1997: 11.9
1998: 9.8
1999: 7.5
2000: 7.0
2001: 7.3
2002: 12.1
2003: 6.3
2004: 9.0
2005: 8.5
2006: 6.6
2007: 9.8
2008: 7.8
2009: 9.8
2010: 8.2
My best guess would be luck, that you could always at any time run into a string of seven in a row like this and that's no guarantee that the next seven won't all go six or seven games.
Perhaps the ballplayers are more mentally fragile than ever, that losses demoralize a team for later in the series, but I don't find that likely. Maybe it's the related bombardment of stupid questions to the trailing team that makes them want to pack it in.
But most likely it's a sequence of far-from-classics that isn't really trending anywhere.
The losers are of course, the broadcast partner Fox and Major League Baseball itself in addition to the fanbase. The network saw rather low ratings again obviously not helped by the teams involved.
They were small market teams not in the literal sense as the Metroplex and California's Bay Area are both top-10 markets but in the sense that neither really has much of a national following like the Yankees or Red Sox, one of which had played in four of the previous seven and nine of the previous 14.
With that and without a Game 7, the suits are left wanting more. And though most of us in Houston don't care which teams are involved if it's not the Astros, the lack of a Game 7 since 2002 has left fans wanting more.
Any theories I could be missing beyond just an unfortunate streak?
Astros pitching prospect Patrick Urckfitz was named to the West roster in the Arizona Fall League's Rising Stars game to be held Saturday (8 p.m., MLB Network).
The undrafted lefthander has enjoyed lots of success since breaking in with Greeneville in 2008. Despite spending almost all year in hitter-friendly Lancaster, Urckfitz compiled a 4.10 ERA this past season, more meaningfully walking 33 and striking out 107 in his 109 2/3 innings, making the transition from reliever to starter.
So far with Peoria of the AFL, he has allowed two runs on four hits in seven innings.