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TAHOE CITY, Calif. - St. Nicholas Episcopal Church welcomes all families to bring their furred, feathered, quilled, scaled or shelled companions to a blessing of the animals Sunday, Oct. 14, in honor of the Feast of St. Francis. All reasonably socialized pets and their people are welcome to come to any of our services (it's a rare service when there are fewer than four dogs in the congregation, and a pet porcupine is common), but this service will include Rev. Jenni calling all the pets as close to the altar as they can peacefully congregate for a special blessing. Anyone staying in the car due to over-stimulation or personality conflicts may receive a separate blessing after the service. Past years have brought dogs, cats, birds, porcupines, squirrels, and assorted amphibians, and it is not unusual for a bear to trundle past.
This year, we would love to see you and your companion(s)! No prior church experience, singing skills, or liturgical knowledge is expected or required. Service begins at 9 a.m. (or so) and is followed by coffee, pastries, and kibbles. St. Nicholas is located at 855 West Lake Blvd., Tahoe City. Contact information: 530-583-4713, email@example.com or visit www.stnicksepiscopal.org.
- Russell Richardson, MM, MFA, St. Nick's tuba player and publicist. The Episcopal Church Welcomes You (and your pets, too!)


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Here is installment number two of kid-friendly meals for my newly veggie nephew. It is a marriage of my original recipe (made with tempeh) and Isa's lentil-based recipe from Veganomicon. I love this version because the red wine vinegar gives it lots of zip. Red lentils are also a great choice because they cook quickly and are pretty neutral in flavour. The trick here is to cook the lentils until they are soft enough but not too much so they go mushy.
- 2 tbsp oil
- 1 onion, chopped
- 1 rib celery, chopped
- 1/2 green pepper, chopped
- 1/2 tsp oregano
- 1 cup red lentils, rinsed
- 1 cup red lentils, rinsed
- 1 cup ketchup
- 1 1/2 to 2 cups water (more if needed)
- 1/4 cup red wine vinegar
- 1 tbsp vegan Worcestershire sauce (optional)
- 1 tbsp brown sugar
- salt to taste
- freshly ground black pepper
- Tabasco sauce to taste
1. Heat oil in a frying pan over med-hi heat. Saute onion, celery, green pepper, and oregano for 5-7 mins, until onion is translucent and pepper has softened.
2. Add lentils and mix well. Add ketchup, 1 1/2 cups water, vinegar, Worcestershire (if using), sugar, salt and pepper, and Tabasco.
3. Bring to bubbling, then reduce heat, and cover. Cook for about 30 mins, stirring regularly, adding more water if needed until lentils are cooked but still hold their shape.
4. Serve on toasted rolls, open-faced if you want.

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America's 11th President. Known as "Napoleon of the Stump"
James K Polk made sure sure the tariffs fell, made the English sell the Oregon Teritory, built an independent treasury, and after this he sought no second term
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The most badass President in history. When elected, he said that he will only serve one term and promised to make the US a continental power. In four years, Oregon, Washington, California, Arizona, Nevada, Utah, Colorado, Idaho, New Mexico, Texas, and parts of Wyoming were part of the United States. He died three months later. He could kill a man by just staring at him.
Who was the most badass president in US history? James K. Polk!!!
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11th president of the United Sates; also said to be the first white man to have a Chinese character as a tattoo.
додав spunkychick 02 Липня 2011
The bane of Mexicans everywhere.
James K. Polk stole the Rio Grande!
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Killer, thief, corrupter of traditional values.
James K. Polk's legacy has harmed many, and to an extent has corrupted my country. But what it leads to in the future could be far worse.
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Every Wednesday White Girls that Like/Date/Marry/Have sex with ONLY Black Males are celebrated. It is a day Strictly for White Females that are attracted to ONLY black Males. If you are a white female that likes White males, Hispanics, Asians you cannot participate in WhiteGirlWednesday.
SnowBunny that hooks up with black males can celebrate White Girl Wednesday
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Involves white girls (obvi) Usually enjoyed with Starbucks, Ugg boots, Leggings, and Vickies Secret. On WGW many selfies/mirror pics are taken. Lots of screaming occurs and drama appears. Also involves others besides white girls.
Any race any gender as long as there are uggs involved along with Starbucks, leggings and/or Spanks.
Any race any gender as long as there are uggs involved along with Starbucks, leggings and/or Spanks.
Her pic on insta was TOTES WHITE GIRL WEDNESDAY!
Her pic on insta was TOTES WHITE GIRL WEDNESDAY!
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A weekly holiday in which white girls illegally go to Caribou Coffee before the school day starts promptly at 8:25 AM. Don't worry, you do not have to be white or a girl to participate in this somewhat-religious holiday.
Wow! So many people showed up to Caribou today! It must be White Girl Wednesday!
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Focus On The Community: Avoiding Multiple Simultaneous Database Calls When Using the Cache Aside Pattern
By Rob.Misek-Oracle on Jan 16, 2013
There are certain scenarios where you are not able to us Coherence's Read-Through capabilities. In such cases the Cache Aside pattern is most commonly used.
The "cache aside" pattern is perhaps the easiest way to introduce caching to an existing application. It usually requires the least disruption to code and can even be "injected" without code changes using AOP. Although it can seem trivial there are a few "gotchas". For example, when using the cache aside pattern, multiple simultaneous cache requests for the same piece of data across your environment will result in multiple database requests.
Here you can find a great article by Andrew Wilson from RBS explaining how this pattern has been implemented in a "real-world" solution and how to avoid these potential problems.


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Serves 4 |
Prep Time 15 minutes |
Cook Time 35 minutes
15 ounces Eden Navy Beans, 1 can, do not drainor cooked Eden Dry Navy Beans
1/2 cup water
1/2 cup onion, diced
2 Tbsp Eden Bonito Flakes, crumbled, optional
1 Tbsp Eden Brown Mustard, or to taste
1/2 Tbsp Eden Barley Malt Syrupor organic maple syrup
2 Tbsp organic maple syrup
1/8 tsp Eden Sea Salt
Preheat oven to 350°. Mix all ingredients together, and place in a casserole dish. Cover, and bake for 30 minutes. Remove cover, and brown the top. Serve.
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endpoint.tv - Windows Server AppFabric - Server Farm Setup
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Great video - as always!
I've been following the CTPs and am looking forward to pushing esp. the caching part of App Fabric to our architecture this summer when the RTM is released. It's been a pleasure to work with the team on the API and meeting up with MK et all at PDC last year was also a really positive experience.
Looking forward to more videos and talks on AppFabric.
At first client, you have initialized both Persistence and Monitoring to myMonitoringDB
Nice catch...
Web platform installer doesnt work in Windows 7 N !!
Sure it does - I use it on Windows 7 all the time...
Is this it? Is this all there is to make your WF services run in a scaled out webfarm? With the race conditions on services and such that AppFabric resolved for you?
Good observation - there is a race condition on the server farm. We didn't discuss how it is dealt with in this episode but there is a solution provided. When the workflow is loaded, it is locked by the server that is servicing the request. If another server tries to load it during that time it will fail to obtain the lock. It will buffer the message for a short time and retry periodically trying to obtain the lock. If it can't get the lock, eventually it will return an error to the calling application.
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Sources: HTC, Bloomberg
quote: Unless you're one of those guys who needs 5-25 movies on your phone, in which case you're both weird and a loser. :)
quote: Acer was joking by the way.
quote: It's a shame that they aren't doing well, despite having the best phone on the market. >:|
quote: No phone maker does that, on ANY OS. Not Nokia, not any Android maker and not Apple either.
quote: Heres the thing- other than security, I see no reason for an update to the HTC one software.
quote: It's perfectly fine as-is.
quote: I see no reason for an update to the HTC one software. It's perfectly fine as-is.
quote: Remember when Bill Gates' intuition told him IBM's PC will go nowhere without an operating system?
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Quality Education in the Benedictine Tradition
July 27, 2012
Saint Vincent Summer Theatre veteran Philip Winters is playing Art Rooney, Sr., in a special presentation of The Chief by Rob Zellers and Gene Collier about the legendary founder and owner of the Pittsburgh Steelers, that will conclude the 2012 season of Saint Vincent Summer Theatre from Thursday, July 26 to Sunday, August 19 – concurrent with the 47th annual Pittsburgh Steelers summer training camp at Saint Vincent. Performances are at 8:10 p.m. July 27-28, 31, August 1-4, 7-11, and 14-18. Three matinees are scheduled at 2:10 p.m. Sunday, August 5, Wednesday, August 15 and Sunday, August 19. Saint Vincent Summer Theatre patrons are asked to make ticket reservations in advance because seats are reserved at all performances except Thursday evening preview shows, which are general admission. Reservations may be made by calling the theater box office, 724 537-8900, or online at www.svst.org.
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When Cowardly rich bastards screw hard working people out of their entiire livelihood just to stay ahead.
"Insider Trading" is white collar crime
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Neal was an expert forger, and had talked people out of millions of dollars over the years. He hated violence though and so strictly only performed white collar crime
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Located in the Charlene and Wayland Blood Fitness Center, the 3,000 square foot state of the art climbing facility offers top rope and lead climbing, as well as a bouldering area. Constructed by Entre Prises and opened in August 2006, the wall is available to all Hamilton College students and employees. Children must be at least 8 years to climb and those under 14 must be accompanied by an adult at all times.
Shoes, harnesses, belay devices and instruction are provided.
Belay clinics are offered anytime during open hours when the wall isn't too busy. If you've never belayed before, plan on working with one of our staff members for about an hour. After taking a belay clinic, you may take a belay test the next time you visit the wall to become an authorized belayer. Students with previous belay experience may forgo the clinic and take the test if s/he can prove proficiency in proper belaying technique, tying-in and communication with the climber.
Students new to climbing may take a P.E. class in Beginning Climbing or Intro to Climbing Clinics offered during open hours. You can also just stop in during open hours and one of our friendly staff can get you started! There are also opportunities for experienced climbers to advance their skills by taking a Lead Climbing Clinic and learning to sport lead.
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**Beginning Tuesday, January 19**
Monday-Thursday 4-9 pm
Friday 4-7 pm
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When you command a girl to make you a sandwich, and she tries to ruin it with some odd ingredient (ex. Tabasco Sauce) and it turns out being great.
This chick made me a Peanut Butter Jelly and Tabasco Sauce Sandwich, it was great!
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The Saints brought tight end Darnell Dinkins in for a visit tonight, his agent Andy Benedict confirmed.
Dinkins, 32, is a veteran role player who stands out more as a blocker and special teams player than as a receiver. He has 25 receptions for 228 yards and three touchdowns in his six-year career with the Cleveland Browns, Baltimore Ravens and New York Giants.
The Saints already have good depth at the tight end position, especially after signing veteran backup Dan Campbell last month, and this is the first confirmed visit they've scheduled with a tight end during the free-agent signing period. But Dinkins could offer depth and special teams help.
Meanwhile, the Saints wrapped up their visit with free agent defensive tackle Shaun Cody on Tuesday. He left town without a contract while both sides continue to evaluate their options.


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Whatever they paid Ian McKellen, he was worth every penny (and no doubt more) to any success The Da Vinci Code: Da Movie has at the box office and in sure-to-be boffo DVD sales (a Da Vinci Code on every shelf! why not two?). As palpitating academic Sir Leigh Teabing, McKellen employs wit and oratorial skill to raise the pulse of director Ron Howard's otherwise resolutely uninspired adaptation of the 2003 Dan Brown bestseller.
Tom Hanks makes a choice to underplay the role of Robert Langdon, professor of religious symbology at Harvard (and celebrated author of "Symbols of the Sacred Feminine"); this seems like a great idea while he's playing a professor, and even for a while as he plays a professor unexpectedly escorted to a crime scene in the Louvre, but once the professor goes on the lam from police, only to be repeatedly held at gunpoint and exposed to shocking revelations, underplaying begins to seem like an absence of character. Howard and screenwriter Akiva Goldsman deserve blame, as well, for showing too little interest in their lead character; a newly invented plot feint of the Catholic-raised Langdon again trying on his mothballed faith proves unconvincing.
Audrey Tautou (Amélie) is the second, equally bland lead, in the role of French cryptographer Sophie Neveu. 'Twas her grandfather slain in the Louvre, poor lass; the man had raised her since the vehicular demise of her parents, so the investigation is personal. Paul Bettany brings admirable commitment to his turn as self-flagellating albino monk Silas, an agent of the fringiest faction of conservative Catholic sect Opus Dei. Though ridiculously conspicuous in his cassock—not to mention his S&M undergarments—he stays hot on the trail of the film's Biblical treasure, "the source of the Church's power on Earth." Alfred Molina and Jean Reno play, respectively, Bishop Aringarosa and police Captain Fache.
Plot and pictures, however, are the pagan idols of The Da Vinci Code. Unsatisfied by merely dramatizing a novel with actors and settings, Howard exhaustively turns every idea into a visual, in the manner of A Beautiful Mind's optical pop psychology. A blossoming kaleidoscope of visual effects and instructive flashbacks illustrates and explicates—more often than necessary—each clever anagram, code, and puzzle. Working from Brown, Goldsman neatly highlights the themes of what we see and how we interpret what we see, the stocks-in-trade of symbology professors, cryptographers, and detectives (Teabing reminds Langdon, "the mind sees what it chooses to see").
Crammed into a 153-minute frame, the densely detailed The Da Vinci Code does begin to inspire heretical chuckles in the way it plays a connect-the-historical-dots game to reveal a sketch of a pregnant Mary Magdalene. Murder in the Louvre, Da Vinci-painted clues, Sir Isaac Newton, the Knights Templar, evil Swiss bankers, and Fibonacci numbers. Forget Holy Blood, Holy Grail—I think Dan Brown might've picked up his designs from a raving street-corner conspiracy theorist (not that there's anything wrong with that).
Excepting what may be the most insulting editing decision in years (a brief plot backtrack in an airplane hangar), Goldsman and Howard deserve some credit for making this much exposition coherent and even—thanks to McKellen's midpoint stretch—entertaining. For the most part, however, The Da Vinci Code is exactly the kind of safe Hollywood adaptation we've come to expect, and in the filmmaker's hands, every plot "twist" should be dully obvious even to those who haven't read Brown's book.
Solicitous to the Brown-faithful and Christ-faithful alike, Howard's film is finally too measured to be lively, too skittish to be provocative, too dramatically slack to be more than a ploddingly literal book-on-film or, worse, a late-arriving, self-important National Treasure for the NPR set.
Just in time for Angels & Demons, Sony sends home The Da Vinci Code on Blu. Disc One includes the Extended Cut of the film (offering approximately 23 minutes of previously unseen material), in a state-of-the-art A/V transfer. The image is spotless and nicely dimensional, with color and contrast that accurately represent the film's intended look. Dolby TrueHD 5.1 Surround provides substantial immersion, highlighting action in an impressive home version of the theatrical aural experience.
Disc One also features a few brand-new Blu exclusives: Unlocking the Code Interactive Picture-in-Picture track ("unlocking" "coded" access to video clips, production art, and trivia in the areas of "Interviews," "Storyboards," "Prop Talk," "B-Roll," "Photos," "Symbols & Codes," "Langdon's Journey" and "Location Trivia"), select scenes commentary by director Ron Howard, and a "A First Look at Angels & Demons" with Howard introducing a scene from the film.
Disc Two presents seventeen featurettes, all in HD, that tell you everything you ever wanted to know about the making of the film that PR will allow. Interview participants include Howard, author Dan Brown, producers Brian Grazer and John Calley, screenwriter Akiva Goldsman, Tom Hanks, Audrey Tautou, casting director Jane Jenkins, Jean Reno, Ian McKellen, Paul Bettany, Alfred Molina, Jean-Pierre Marielle, jean-Yves Berteloot, Jürgen Prochnow, director of photography Salvatore Totino, executive producer/second unit director Todd Hallowell, production designer Allan Cameron, head scenic artist James Gemmill, costume designer Daniel Orlandi, makeup/hair designer Frances Hannon, and more.
There's the introductory "First Day on the Set with Ron Howard" (2:13, HD); "A Discussion with Dan Brown" (4:52, HD); "A Portrait of Langdon" (7:18, HD); "Who is Sophie Neveu?" (6:58, HD); "Unusual Suspects" (17:58, HD), introducing the film's supporting characters; "Magical Places" (15:58, HD), which looks more closely at the historic location shoots; "Close-Up on Mona Lisa" (6:37, HD); traditional making-ofs "The Filmmakers' Journey Part One" (24:40, HD) and "The Filmmakers' Journey Part Two" (12:20, HD); "The Codes of The Da Vinci Code" (5:33, HD); "The Music of The Da Vinci Code" (2:54, HD); "Book to Screen" (11:06, HD); "The Da Vinci Code Props" (9:43, HD); "The Da Vinci Code Sets" (9:10, HD); "Re-Creating Works of Art" (6:03, HD); "The Visual Effects World of The Da Vinci Code" (15:03, HD); and "Scoring The Da Vinci Code" (9:44, HD).
It's difficult to imagine any fan of the film wanting more out of this snazzy two-disc Blu-ray set, also available in a gift set edition.
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|Begin of tour:
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|End of tour:
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|Access starting point:
|Railway to Punt Muragl, then mountain railway to Muottas Muragl
|Access point of arrival:
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|Romantik Hotel Muottas Muragl
This winter trail will not only keep your legs busy but will keep your mind occupied as you pass the plaques bearing quotes from thinkers such as Socrates, Nietzsche and Sartre. And as if that were not enough, the natural beauty here will leave you marvelling at the wonders of creation. The views here are truly one of a kind with the Engadin lakes from St. Moritz to Maloja lying literally at your feet. For this reason, the Philosophers' Trail is considered to be one of Switzerland's most beautiful winter hiking trails. Start out at the mountain station for the cable railway that goes up from Samedan/Punt Muragl to Muottas Muragl. The route forms a wide loop as it enters the Val Muragl and then in a second loop returns to Muottas Muragl. Following the contours of the land, the trail continues with gentle yet alternating rises and falls. At the end of the tour either take the cable railway back down to Samedan or treat yourself to a racy descent on the only toboggan run in the Engadin.
Tour Overview
3D hiking map Download GPX coordinates Download KMZ (GoogleEarth)
The careful planning of a tour will ensure that you also derive the maximum pleasure and enjoyment from it. Please take the time to contact the local information centre and enquire about route and weather conditions before setting off. Your intended trail may be fully or partially closed, depending on the time of year and weather conditions.


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Monday, April 7, 2014
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I was at the zoo last week and observed the other moms; [honestly, subconsciously pretty much wherever I am I look for my kind.] If my brain doesn't mean to do it, my heart does it anyway.
Someone like me.
I can usually tell- we all wear a uniform- and in this sea of criticizing eye squints, teeny tiny yoga-classed-fit bodies in skinny jeans and trendy tops with their designer diaper bags and matching children,
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who I used to be. I used to play that part. We all do in some way. If we fake it then maybe people will believe it. Maybe we'll even start to believe it ourselves.
I felt a little melancholy and I felt alone.
Then I thought, what if I'm the one that people are searching for in the crowd, to find their kind?
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Lufthansa Airport Buses
You will benefit from a bus service that is timed precisely to the flights at our Frankfurt and Munich hubs. For no matter which airline you are flying with, you can travel comfortably to and from the airport with the Lufthansa Airport Bus or the shuttle services operated by our cooperation partners.
Thanks to appropriate frequencies and minimal transfer times, the airport bus is a convenient way to catch your flight. Please note that for the airport bus route Bahrain – Dammam there are different rules relating to booking, check-in and baggage as well as different facilities on the bus. You will find detailed information about this on the route information page.
Lufthansa Airport Bus routes at a glance
Lufthansa Airport Bus Kaiserslautern - Frankfurt
Lufthansa Aiport Bus Saarbrucken - Frankfurt
Lufthansa Airport Bus Straßburg - Frankfurt
Lufthansa Airport Bus Bonn – Frankfurt
Lufthansa Airport Bus Regensburg – Munich
New from 1 October 2015: Lufthansa Airport Bus Augsburg – Munich
Lufthansa Airport Bus Bahrain - Dammam
Arrival and departure times
Please see the Lufthansa timetable for information on the arrival and departure times of the Lufthansa airport buses.
Postbus is now on the road in the Lufthansa route network
You can now enjoy new connections to Frankfurt and Munich airports. As part of a cooperation agreement with Postbus, the following routes have been incorporated into the Lufthansa network:
Bonn – Frankfurt Airport and v.v.
Regensburg – Munich Airport and v.v.
Augsburg - Munich Airport and v.v. (from October 2015)
You can book tickets for the Lufthansa Airport Bus in exactly the same way as you would book a Lufthansa flight directly online at LH.com. To do this, simply enter Frankfurt as your departure airport and Kaiserslautern Hbf. (KLT), Saarbrucken (SDB), Strasbourg (XER), Bonn (QBB), Regensburg (ZPM) or Augsburg (AUB) as your destination airport.
Alternatively, you can also book the Lufthansa Airport Bus through a Lufthansa agency.
Please note that, as for a flight, you need a ticket in advance for the Airport Bus. Unfortunately you cannot buy a ticket from the bus driver.
For the Lufthansa Airport Bus Bahrain – Dammam route, different rules apply to booking. Please read more about these on the route information page.
Check-in and Baggage
Travelling by airport bus from Kaiserslautern, Saarbrucken, Strasbourg or Bonn to Frankfurt Airport
Lufthansa airport bus passengers arriving at Frankfurt Airport can – like all other passengers – use the baggage check-in options that are available to them in Departure Hall A. Passengers who are only travelling with carry-on baggage can proceed directly to their departure gate.
After landing in Frankfurt passengers collect their baggage and pass through Customs. Please note that because of Customs regulations it is not possible for baggage to be transported automatically to Kaiserslautern, Saarbrucken, Strasbourg or Bonn.
Travelling by airport bus from Regensburg or Augsburg (from 1 October 2015) to Munich Airport
Lufthansa Airport Bus passengers – like all other passengers – can use the baggage check-in options available to them in Terminal 2 at Munich Airport. Passengers who are only travelling with carry-on baggage can proceed directly to their departure gate.
After landing in Munich passengers collect their baggage and go through Customs. Please note that it is not possible to transport your baggage automatically to Regensburg or Augsburg because of Customs regulations.
|Means of transport
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|Mobile check-in, online check-in
|Driver helps with the loading and unloading of baggage
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|Mobile check-in, online check-in, check-in at a check-in machine
|Check in baggage at Frankfurt or Munich Airport at the baggage drop-off counter
|Means of transport
|Lufthansa flight
|Mobile check-in, online check-in, check-in at a check-in machine
|Check in baggage at the baggage drop-off counter at the departure airport
|Airport Bus
|Mobile check-in, online check-in, check-in at a check-in machine
|As usual collect your baggage after landing and after clearing customs take it with you to the Lufthansa Airport Bus
Important information about the airport bus routes from Kaiserslautern, Saarbrucken, Strasbourg, Bonn, Regensburg or Augsburg (from 1 October 2015)
- Always allow at least 60 minutes between flight and bus.
- For capacity reasons baggage allowance is limited to two pieces per passenger.
- The check-in deadline for the Lufthansa Airport Bus is 15 minutes before departure. If you are not at the bus stop by this time, your seat may be given to another passenger.
- Passengers must travel as originally booked and then travel and complete their trip as per this reservation.
- For almost all routes you can print out your boarding pass for the Lufthansa airport bus and your connecting flight from as early as 23 hours before departure on your own PC or have it issued as a mobile boarding pass.
- For the journey to Kaiserslautern, Saarbrucken, Strasbourg, Bonn, Regensburg or Augsburg (from 1 October 2015) you can get your boarding pass for the Lufthansa Airport Bus from any Lufthansa check-in machine at Frankfurt or Munich Airport or directly from the bus driver. Unfortunately, no through-check-in is possible, as it would be for two consecutive flights. You can sit wherever you wish on the bus.
- To enable a smooth procedure at the bus stop, please check in for the bus immediately upon arrival at Frankfurt or Munich Airport.
Conditions of carriage
By booking the Lufthansa Airport Bus you are agreeing to its conditions of carriage. Please read these through first:
Lufthansa Airport Bus Conditions of Carriage (PDF)
Information about the buses
The Lufthansa Airport Bus fleet consists solely of four-star category, First Class coaches. Comfortable seats, air conditioning and a toilet, as well as reading lamps, anti-glare blinds and footrests are standard. Wi-Fi is also available to you.
Airport Shuttle Services
Individual and comfortable – the Lufthansa airport shuttles on the routes from Heidelberg to Frankfurt Airport and from Munich city centre to Munich Airport as well as the airport shuttle on the route from Regensburg to Munich Airport.
Lufthansa airport shuttle Munich city centre – Munich Airport
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Paul L. Reinhart Sr., 71, Berwick, passed away at 8:05 p.m., Friday, Nov. 16, 2012, at his home.
He was born June 2, 1941, in Tiffin, to the late Ludwig "Joe" and Theresa (Nye) Reinhart. He married Sara J. Porter on Aug. 6, 1966, in Frenchtown, and she survives in Berwick.
Also surviving are four children, Paula Dick, Fostoria, Aran Reinhart, Berwick, Christine Reinhart, Fostoria, and Paul (Mark Cline) Reinhart Jr., Berwick; three grandchildren, Raymond Leon Reinhart, Karen Dick and Steven Dick; four sisters, Rosemary Bland, McCutchenville, Tillie Wentz, Medina, Martha Heyman, Tiffin, and Barb Tiell, Tiffin; and a brother, Carl Reinhart, McCutchenville.
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He was preceded in death by two grandchildren, Cheyenne and Theresa Dick; and two brothers, John and Robert "Chief" Reinhart.
Paul had worked at Hayes-Albion, Tiffin, and the Civilian Conservation Corps, Carey. He was a member of All Saints Parish, New Riegel, and a 1961 graduate of New Riegel High School. He was a United States Army Veteran and a member of the American Legion Post No. 888.
Visitation is from 2-4 and 6-8 p.m. Tuesday, Nov. 20, 2012, at Hoening Funeral Home 242 W. Tiffin St., Fostoria, where a Christian wake service will be held at 3:45 p.m.
Mass of Christian Burial is at 10 a.m.Wednesday at St. Nicholas Chapel, Frenchtown, with Father Tim Kummerer presiding.
Visitation also is from 9-9:45 a.m. at the church, where a Rosary will be prayed at 9:45 a.m. Burial will follow in St. Nicholas Cemetery with military honors provided by the New Riegel American Legion.
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Online surveys are great (I'm a fan of Greenfield and of course Pinecone Research) but they don't mean the same payday as a real life focus group or in-person survey. In one of my marketing classes at Hopkins, the professor brought in a friend of his who was in the business of market research and she discussed where she held her focus groups. As it turns out, which makes perfect sense if you think about it, you simply find companies who deal in the collection and management of folks you can call on to participate in surveys and focus groups. I'm not entirely sure what the payout is but it seems handsome and it's a good way to try out new products and get out of the house every once and a while.
As I scoured the web, one resource that kept appearing was a site called Greenbook, which helps anyone find market research companies. On the right hand side there is a listing of all the states and when you click on it it gives you a listing of all the market research companies and facilities in that state. In Maryland there were 18 different listings and by visiting the company's website you're often able to sign up to become a participant.
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An Erie County jury Thursday found a Buffalo man guilty of killing a Metro Bus driver who was on his front porch before sunrise waiting for a cab ride to work.
Jurors deliberated for about three hours before convicting Joshua J. Mitchell, 25, of second-degree murder and criminal possession of a weapon. Mitchell faces 25 years to life in prison when sentenced April 22.
"I'll be back," Mitchell said softly to his friends and family in the gallery as he was led from the courtroom in handcuffs.
Friends and family of the victim, Brian G. Chapman Jr., hugged one another and praised God as they walked out of the courtroom.
"We thought we presented a favorable case," said David R. Addelman, Mitchell's defense lawyer. "Mr. Mitchell and his family are very disappointed in the verdict."
Buttressing the prosecution's case was testimony from a police officer who was on patrol on Guilford Street at the time of the shooting and heard the gunshots. The officer pursued and stopped the car carrying Mitchell and arrested him.
"The police officer was certainly johnny-on-the-spot," said District Attorney Frank A. Sedita III. "The prosecutors did a great job, and the police investigation was professionally done."
After a week of testimony, the jury listened to closing arguments Thursday and then deliberated on whether they believed that Mitchell shot Chapman with a .38-caliber handgun.
It was before sunrise Feb. 1, 2012, when Chapman readied himself for work driving a Metro Bus and was waiting on the porch of his East Side home for a cab ride to work.
Meanwhile, Mitchell was riding around Buffalo in the back seat of a borrowed Saturn Ion as he and three others looked for places to buy beer and marijuana.
Police Officer Dennis R. Gilbert was in an unmarked Ford Crown Victoria, following the Saturn Ion and nearly rear-ending the car before passing it by on Guilford.
Seconds later, several shots rang out, killing the popular 37-year-old bus driver.
Gilbert testified that he noticed a person on a porch on Guilford but did not see anybody else on a sidewalk, lawn or other location. But he said he remembers the Saturn because he was three car-lengths behind it when it came to an abrupt stop on the street.
He said that he swerved to avoid striking the car and that the driver's-side rear door then swung open.
The officer swerved again, and "I nearly struck the door," he recalled in court this week.
Gilbert testified that a large man got out of the car.
The gray Saturn resembled a silver Ford Focus that the police were looking for that morning. After passing the Saturn on Guilford, Gilbert slowed down to run the car's license plate number.
That's when the officer heard several shots "from directly behind me," Gilbert testified, but he did not see who fired the shots.
"As soon as I heard the gunshots, I got on the radio and identified who I was and where I was," Gilbert said. "I did a 180."
After he turned his car around and drove back toward the gunshots, the Saturn headed toward him.
After a brief pursuit, Gilbert stopped the car and, with his gun drawn, ordered all of the occupants to reach their arms out of the car windows.
About three hours after the shooting, Homicide Detective Salvatore A. Valvo interviewed Mitchell at Police Headquarters.
Mitchell told the detective that he and his friends were on Guilford looking for a "weed house," the detective testified.
Mitchell told the detective that he got out of the Saturn and then heard gunshots.
"All I heard was 'pow, pow, pow,' " according to Mitchell's statement to police, which Valvo read in court.
Mitchell told the detective he did not see anyone except a man standing on a porch.
"I heard the shots and started running back to the car," Mitchell said.
Mitchell's defense lawyer said Mitchell was in the wrong place at the wrong time.
"Someone shot Brian Chapman," Addelman said. "Someone killed Brian Chapman. It was not Joshua Mitchell. No one saw Joshua Mitchell shoot anybody."
Prosecutor Gary W. Hackbush told jurors that the evidence against Mitchell was convincing.
"After a brief chase, Officer Gilbert caught that cowardly killer," Hackbush told jurors earlier this week.
Hackbush, who prosecuted Mitchell along with Assistant District Attorney John P. Gerken Jr., scoffed at Mitchell's denial.
Mitchell stood on a sidewalk, raised the revolver, aimed it at Chapman and pulled the trigger "round after round after round." Hackbush said.
"There's only one person who gets out of that car: this defendant," Hackbush said during his closing argument Thursday.
Don't buy into a "phantom gunman" theory, Hackbush told jurors.
The gunshots startled Chapman's partner, Furmond S. Bolden, who was in bed upstairs. Bolden said he looked out the bedroom window but could not see anyone.
"I ran down the stairs and looked out the front window," Bolden said in court.
He saw Chapman's legs. Chapman was leaning against the front door, unconscious.
Bolden then opened the front door, and "he fell into the house."
"I had him in my arms as I called 911," Bolden said.
"Brian's life ended violently and senselessly in the arms of his weeping spouse," Hackbush said.
In the Saturn's trunk, police found a nearly full box of .38-caliber ammunition.
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San Francisco Bay Area native Robert Miller is in his 12th season as the Santa Clara head men's golf after taking the helm of the program in July 2005.
Miller has done an exceptional job at Santa Clara, guiding the Broncos to numerous team tournament titles and developing his young players into some of the best amateurs in the nation. During his first nine seasons the Broncos have claimed eight team titles and have placed among the top-5 on 25 other occasions.
The 2013-14 campaign was one of Miller's finest as he directed a young and talented group of players to a seventh place or better finish seven times in 11 tournaments, capped by a second place showing in the West Coast Conference Championship, the Broncos' highest finish at that event since winning the title in 1998.
The team earned a top-100 Golfstat.com ranking coming in at 96 with first year player Tyler Kertson being named the WCC's Freshman of the Year and senior Scott Lowe finishing his career with a third consecutive All-Academic Team selection.
In 2011 the Broncos reached a national ranking as high as No. 75. In 2010, junior Scott Travers was named the 2010 WCC 'Player of the Year' and sophomore Cory Mehl qualified for the U.S. Open Sectionals for the second straight time.
Miller made an immediate impact following his hiring, leading the men's team to a program-record four tournament titles in 2006, a national top-50 ranking, and the team's first-ever NCAA Regional appearance. Following the men's team's third-place finish at the WCC Championships in April 2006, Miller was named Co-WCC Coach of the Year.
A member of the San Jose Country Club, Miller has been a golf enthusiast for the past 40 years, and qualified for the 2003 USGA Mid-Amateur. His business background includes being the CFO of a prominent local company, as well as serving as a controller and commercial lender.
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MIDDLETOWN, Md. - A Maryland couple is championing a winning cause: they're raffling off a house to help raise an additional one million dollars toward the renovation of their hometown high school.
The house, aptly named "Middletown Dream Home" boasts four bedrooms, three and a half bathrooms and a two-car garage. The home is located in a safe and low key neighborhood in Middletown, Md., just outside of Washington, D.C, where high school sports are a significant part of the town's culture.
Mark and Donna Gaver, alumni and former athletes at Middletown High School, and parents of two children that currently attend the school are helping to provide the solution to Middletown High's stadium's aging flaws.
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The 'Middletown Dream Home', located in Middletown, Md., is being raffled off to help raise money for the renovation of the Middletown High School athletic facilities.
"The stadium has some of the worst seating and bathroom facilities," said Mark Gaver, a longtime Sports Club member. "The bleachers do not meet code, there's no handicapped accessible bathrooms and there are only four bathroom fixtures. Based on current code, we would need over 40 fixtures."
The raffle, which is sponsored by the Middletown High School Sports Club, aspires to pay-off their existing loan and raise substantial funds towards their continuing renovation project. Built in 1974, the stadium has showcased numerous state championships in track and field, cross-country, girls and boys soccer and football.
Five years ago the field got a facelift when the grass field was replaced with FieldTurf and a new scoreboard and sound system were installed. Today, however, the bathrooms are in bad shape, and there are actually more seating on the visitor side than the home side.
Middletown High School Sports Club plans to raise the additional funding through the house raffle. The club hopes to sell 15,000 tickets at $100 each between now and the raffle drawing on June 13 at Hollow Creek Golf Club.
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Conflicts of interest between physicians' commitment to patient care and the desire of pharmaceutical companies and their representatives to sell their products pose challenges to the principles of medical professionalism. These conflicts occur when physicians have motives or are in situations for which reasonable observers could conclude that the moral requirements of the physician's roles are or will be compromised. Although physician groups, the manufacturers, and the federal government have instituted self-regulation of marketing, research in the psychology and social science of gift receipt and giving indicates that current controls will not satisfactorily protect the interests of patients. More stringent regulation is necessary, including the elimination or modification of common practices related to small gifts, pharmaceutical samples, continuing medical education, funds for physician travel, speakers bureaus, ghostwriting, and consulting and research contracts. We propose a policy under which academic medical centers would take the lead in eliminating the conflicts of interest that still characterize the relationship between physicians and the health care industry.
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A Genesee Street car dealer on Monday admitted stealing $91,831 in sales tax he collected from car sales that he did not report on his state tax return, the Erie County District Attorney's Office announced.
Shlaine Freeland, 41, of Galding Avenue, pleaded guilty to second-degree grand larceny before Erie County Judge Sheila A. DiTullio.
The charge is the highest he could have been convicted of had he gone to trial, according to the District Attorney's Office.
Freeland admitted keeping the sales tax proceeds between September 2008 and August 2012 at his used car dealership and repair shop at 779 Genesee St.
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Milwaukee shooting victim shows up at hospital in Racine
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A man who was shot in Milwaukee showed up at a Racine Hospital early Saturday morning.
Police said the shooting appears to have happened in the city of Milwaukee. The victim, however, went to Wheaton Franciscan Healthcare All Saints Hospital in Racine to be treated for his wounds.
WISN 12 News observed at least two Milwaukee Police Department vehicles parked outside the hospital.
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EAST PALESTINE - On the cusp of a hoped-for local economic rebound as new businesses take up residence in town, one business is closing up shop.
In a letter to its customers, PNC Bank recently announced the location on North Market Street will be closed, effective April 19. The closure was verified by PNC spokesperson Amy Vargo on Friday.
Vargo said, as did the letter, that the closure is a result of the company's "careful evaluation" of the local branches. Following that evaluation it was determined the East Palestine accounts should be moved to the Columbiana branch at 123 S. Main St.
"The bottom line is that customers are using branches very differently today and opting to go to some of the more convenient, alternate channels such as online banking and mobile banking. We always are evaluating our branch networks to make sure we're meeting customer needs ... sometimes that means consolidating branches, which is what we are seeing here," she said.
The accounts will automatically be moved with no involvement necessary from East Palestine customers, she explained.
Customers are at liberty to move their accounts to a different branch if they so choose, she added.
PNC currently has two branches operating in Columbiana and two in East Liverpool. The East Palestine branch is the only one slated for closure.
Village Manager Pete Monteleone said he spoke with Branch Manager Richard Shimko earlier this week about what could be done to keep the bank open.
"I expressed concern and said we would work with them to keep them here," he said.
Following the meeting Monteleone sent a letter on behalf of the village to the PNC main office urging them to reconsider, he said.
Shimko did not wish to comment on Friday, instead directing all questions to corporate.
Councilman Don Elzer said the bank is a "vital part of the community" and it's replacement would be a "major undertaking."
He and Monteleone also said the decision is unfortunate since shale activity in the county could change the local economic landscape at any time.
In the meantime, the bank is slated for closure, and customers have until 3 p.m. April 19 to continue using the North Market Street branch which includes indoor banking and a drive-through.
As for what will happen to the building once the move is finalized, Vargo is uncertain.
"At the moment we are really focused on customers and getting the word out to them in a timely fashion about the closing," she said.


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These are remarkable, fiery poems. Poems that would urge any poet on, language that tears open reality. I think this is Doren Robbins' finest book, and I've admired his work for a good while. The imagination, its energy and precision, is immense. There's a delicate observation of even the rawest materials, a tenderness for humanity in all its cruelty, stupidity, and often invisible dignity and grace, that feels to me like his peculiar, original contribution to--well, to the puzzle of what we have become: people, Americans, men and women today, above all those who are "absent," unregistered, undocumented in both senses.
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Members of the Highlander JROTC Battalion hosted the Veterans Day Ceremony on Friday at Incline High School during the annual Veterans Day Flag Raising Ceremony.
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Windy conditions wreaked havoc around the Erie area Sunday evening, with emergency dispatchers receiving several reports of wires and trees being knocked down.
Erie police and firefighters responded to a report of a tree and power lines down at East Third and Liberty streets shortly before 7:30 p.m., and several other reports of wires knocked down were reported around the city and Millcreek Township.
That was followed at 8 p.m. with a report of a car crashing into a tree in the 7200 block of East Lake Road in Harborcreek Township. Dispatchers said a large tree had fallen, blocked the roadway and knocked down electric lines.
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Field Hockey Releases 2014 Schedule
MUNCIE, Ind. – Ball State field hockey head coach Beth Maddox announced her 2014 schedule on Thursday that features six home contests and four games against teams that were ranked in the final Penn Monto/NFHCA Division I National Coaches Poll of the 2013 season. In addition, the team has released its spring contests.
"We are excited to host two days of competition this spring," said Maddox. "The opportunity to compete at home is great for the team. They have been working incredibly hard and we can't wait to finally get outside and play."
Ball State will host Central Michigan on Saturday, Mar. 29 for a series of contests followed by games against Miami and Ohio on Saturday, April 5. There will also be an alumni game hosted on April 5. On Saturday, April 13 the team will travel down to a tournament hosted by the University of Louisville.
"We have been competing against Central Michigan every spring and to do so at the Briner Sports Complex is huge," said Maddox. "The spring schedule will provide great competition for us. The most exciting part of our spring season is that we will host an alumni match. Ball State has a rich tradition and I know that our current team will have their work cut out for them."
Ball State will open up its fall slate traveling to Boone, N.C. to take on Davidson and Appalachian State on Saturday, Aug. 31 and Monday, Sept. 1. From there Ball State will venture to New York to play Colgate on Saturday, Sept. 6 and Syracuse on Sunday, Sept. 7. Syracuse finished the 2013 season ranked second in the nation.
The Cardinals will travel to Columbus, Ohio on Sunday, Sept. 14 to battle Ohio State before hosting its first home game of the season against Indiana on Wednesday, Sept. 17.
Sunday, Sept. 21 Ball State will travel to Northwestern, a team who finished No. 17 in the final poll of the season. Ball State will host St. Louis on Sunday, Sept. 28 before traveling to Iowa on Friday, Oct. 3. The Hawkeyes were ranked No. 19 in the final poll of 2013.
MAC play will begin on Sunday, Oct. 5 when Ball State hosts Central Michigan. The Cardinals will continue its three-game home stand with Missouri State and Michigan State the following weekend on Saturday, Oct. 11 and Sunday, Oct. 12. Michigan State is the final team on the 2014 schedule that ended the 2013 campaign ranked – the Spartans were No. 20 in the final poll.
Ball State will continue its season with a road game to Ohio on Saturday, Oct. 18 before journeying to Kent State on Saturday, Oct. 25. The season will wrap up on Saturday, Nov. 1 when Ball State hosts Miami on Senior Day at the Briner Sports Complex.
"Our fall schedule will definitely be challenging for our team," said Maddox. "Starting out first two weekends with our trips to North Carolina and New York will really test us. We are confident that these trips will help us prepare for conference play."
Ball State will host an Alumni Weekend during the fall with the date to be announced at a later time.
For more information on Ball State field hockey check ballstatesports.com.


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Facing painful accusations of drunk driving, Dale Lee
Underdahl of Minnesota challenged the accuracy of the Intoxilyzer 5000EN
breathalyzer used against him, and demanded to see the source code used in the
The claim launched debates and a lawsuit that escalated all
the way to the Minnesota Supreme Court. The device's manufacturer, CMI, Inc. of
Kentucky,claimed the source code was proprietary, copyrighted and refused
to comply. To that end, CMI attempted to
block the source code's release by filing a writ of prohibition, which was
denied by the Minnesota Supreme Court, who said the writ is "an extraordinary
remedy and is only used in extraordinary cases."
The State of Minnesota specifically commissioned the Intoxilyzer 5000EN model and "all right, title, and interest in all copyrightable material" created "will be the property of the state," according to the state's original bid proposal. Furthermore, the proposal also said CMI must provide
the necessary information to "attorneys representing individuals charged with
crimes in which a test with the proposed instrument is part of the evidence,"
which according
to CNet, "seems to include source
On July 26, the Minnesota Supreme Court ruled in Underdahl's favor,
assuring the discoverability of the devices source code and affirming his right
to its examination. "The problem is, the manufacturer of the thing thinks they
can hold it back and not tell anybody how it works. For all we know, it's a
random number generator," said Underdahl's attorney, Jeffrey Sheridan.
The Minnesota Department of Public Safety has expressed
reluctance to forcibly acquire the source code, and according to a department spokesman,
is still considering its response. The department thinks a lawsuit is
unnecessary as the contract stipulates CMI's cooperation with court orders.
The "source code defense" has been used in a number of other
states with mixed success. Manufacturers, in the interest of guarding their
trade secrets, have rigorously fought against court-ordered scrutiny. In one instance,
judges in Florida's Seminole County threw
out hundreds of cases involving breath tests because the manufacturer would
not disclose their breathalyzer's source code. However, in another instance a
group of more than 150 suspects, in Florida's Sarasota County, were
granted access to the machines' source code, with the judges citing it
was "material to their theory of defense in [their] cases."
quote: Whatever happened to innocent until proven guilty?
quote: "Better" depends on your value system
quote: For example, to a pacifist, a country with no military or history of any military agression might be considered
quote: Genocide of the America Indian
quote: Legalize slavery 70 years after the rest of the world.
quote: Interment camps in WW2
quote: Wasn't it amended in the Patriot Act? LOL.
quote: Also this guy's lawyer is a beast.
quote: Body Temperature: The widely used blood-to-air partition ratio of 2100 is based on a normal body temperature of 98.6°F. A higher body temperature of the individual will overestimate the actual BAC because of the higher volatility (or vapor pressure) of liquids like alcohol at a higher temperature. An elevation in body temperature of 1°C (1.8°F) results in a 7% higher value in the result since the air in the lungs will contain an artificially higher amount of evaporated alcohol. Therefore, a person with a body temperature of 100.4°F, and with an actual blood alcohol of 0.0935%, will register a value of 0.10% by the breath test. Be careful if you have a cold or the flu.
quote: Cellular Composition Of Blood: Blood contains suspended cells (e.g. red and white cells) and proteins, and is therefore only a partial liquid. The partition ratio of 2100 is based on an average cell volume 47%. Some of this cell volume is tissue, and at 47% cell volume, 81.5% of the blood volume is liquid in which the alcohol is actually dissolved. A person with a lower cell volume will have a falsely elevated blood alcohol level based on a breath test since the amount of alcohol in 2100ml of lung breath will be dissolved in a slightly higher amount of liquid, and hence have a lower concentration. Cell volume values range from 42% to 52% in males, and 37% to 47% in females. This variability will only have a small impact on BAC (ranging from -2% to +5%) so don't rely on it in court.
quote: The ratio of breath alcohol to blood alcohol is 2100 to 1 (and called the partition ratio), so the alcohol content of 2100 milliliters of exhaled air will be the same as for 1 milliliter of blood. The maths are simple from there and leads to blood alcohol readings expressed as a percentage of alcohol in the blood.The partition ratio can vary between 1700 and 2400 depending upon the individual and local environmental conditions, leading to a breath analysis reporting either a higher or lower calculated blood alchol reading.


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Courtesy of Graham Rushton
Courtesy of Graham Rushton
Nothing has worked out the way Garrett Williams had hoped, and he couldn�t be happier about it.
�I�m doing what I�m supposed to be doing,� Williams said Friday at the Lost Dog Bar & Lounge where he was catching up with old friends and family during a holiday break from the Southern California sunshine.
What Williams is doing is preparing for his first starring role in a Hollywood feature film, something that was not even a pipe dream when he graduated from Fort Lewis College in 2007 with a degree in business and marketing. He�ll start shooting �Nor the Moon by Night� in November in Hawaii, but it has been a strange journey for the Colorado Springs native.
Plan A went like this: Attend college on a scholarship (Williams played for two seasons at New Mexico State before transferring to FLC for another three as a 240-pound defensive end); get a job (he landed a lucrative position with Magellan, an offshoot of Mercury after graduation) and get the girl (he had a �serious� girlfriend at the time whom he believed would be his wife). So far, so good.
Enter life and Plan B, which is really never the plan, and it was no different for Williams. Four months after graduation and into his new job, a bitter breakup forced a life change for him. He packed up his Jeep and headed West, settling into a small loft above a Hollywood gym. Working the graveyard shift at a nearby pharmacy, he met many working actors and actresses and started asking questions about show business. He also dropped about 70 pounds; he now weighs in at 170.
�What I learned is, put yourself out there � send pictures, get representation, do commercials,� Williams said.
And it worked for him, despite having never acted a day in his life before arriving in California. He got a few jobs as an extra in a few commercials and then met one of the �right people� during shooting for a Hooters advertisement.
�He said, �you�d be perfect for The Young and the Restless,� and he knew someone there, so that�s what I did for the next two years,� Williams said.
The soap-opera role led to Williams� first starring role in a movie, 2011�s �Red Ice.� A motion picture with a $2 million budget might have made for blockbuster material in the 1950s, but it�s not much to work with in today�s Hollywood.
�It�s just a terrible film � I haven�t even shown my family yet,� Williams said.
He�s not the first actor to advance his career through less-than-memorable projects. In fact, it�s how a performer handles him/herself in such a situation that often catches a producer�s eye.
Williams caught more than one. This new year is shaping up to be another life-changing one. Before �Nor the Moon by Night� shooting begins, Williams will go to Canada to shoot �November Ice,� a hockey movie intended to shine a negative light on the role of enforcers, or �goons� in the NHL.
A second project, which is still in the confidential stages, will send Williams to Paris where he�ll co-star with a major Hollywood actor (no, we can�t say who it is just yet).
But what will undoubtedly be Williams� biggest role will be as a Marine charged with defending a remote South Pacific relay station from the Japanese during World War II.
�Nor the Moon by Night,� written by accomplished screenwriter and producer Graham Rushton, is a huge step forward for Williams. The film has a budget close to $20 million, so Rushton and Williams hope to draw a big-name director for the job. As for Williams, he knows how fortunate he is to have made it this far in the process.
�You struggle for so long, and it�s feast or famine in this business. I met with Graham in Palm Springs in October, and I thought the odds of procuring that job were miniscule.
�Then he offered, I was stunned, and all of a sudden, I was the lead in a $20 million film. It�s a snowball effect; once you get known and working, you keep getting work. This will be a life-changing year for me.�
While he may be on the verge of �hitting it big,� Williams doesn�t sound at all like someone who believes his own hype. He spent his summers on his family ranch near Pagosa Springs and considers this area home after spending his college years here as well.
�When I was really struggling early, my mom would say, �Are you sure you don�t want to come back to Durango? Those were the happiest years of your life,�� he said. �But I left here to go there, and it�s coming full circle. I left with a dream, and I�m accomplishing it. I don�t believe in luck � you make your own luck. But I made myself a promise; despite any success or failure, I�m not changing.
Not once did Williams allude to the material benefits of Hollywood stardom. If money is a motivating factor for him, it�s so he can share it, not hoard it.
�I�m a simple guy, and I see this as providing a platform to help others,� he said. �This is one of those weird jobs that affords that. You don�t have to take the a-hole route as an actor � no one�s any better than the guy cashing us out at the store, and I hate the people who are arrogant because they have a fan or two.
�There are millions of people who just want something to eat right now. If it�s for yourself, what�s the point � a house on every continent? You can�t take it with you but if you can change someone�s world, that�s my life�s purpose.�


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If you're a fan of Italian cooking, you may have been upset by what happened at Ristorante Nicola, which debuted in the spring of 2010. When I reviewed the glammy restaurant, with its striking black Murano glass chandeliers, lush red and gold fabrics and dressed-to-the-nines crowd, its young Milan-born chef was turning out dishes that may have been gigantic compared with what you'd see in Italy, but they were simple and fresh (as good Italian dishes are), designed to spotlight their great ingredients. After the three-star review, and the restaurant's inclusion in our Best in DFW: Italian Restaurants story the following year, the chef left, another arrived, and the menu started to feel more and more like Italian food for people who didn't particularly like or understand Italian food. The service deteriorated, the increasingly expensive wine list became much less Italian, and diners stopped filling the snazzy room.
A few decor tweaks later (a chef's table was added in front of the open kitchen, along with a colorful mural in the front dining room), with chef Richard Blankenship (formerly of Charlie Palmer at the Joule) in charge of the kitchen, the restaurant reopened as Nick and Sam's Grill Park Cities.
The nattily dressed diners flocked back.
"Our chef traveled all around the country looking for the best sushi ideas," comes the let-me-explain-our-menu spiel from waiters on two visits.
The chef should have kept looking. His rainbow roll is a tedious agglomeration of yellowtail, tuna, snow crab and salmon cloaking underseasoned rice; a baked crab roll comes wrapped in a sesame-flecked wrapper with the texture of Kleenex.
The starters aren't limited to sushi rolls. There's also "crispy calamari" that isn't so crispy, dressed up with grapes, cashews, pieces of radicchio and Mandarin oranges from a can. (It's not better than it sounds.) Or a misleadingly named "escabèche," seared tuna set atop pickled vegetables and garnished with big triangles of lavash. Or standard-issue mussels in a shallow pool of spicy broth decorated with lots of sliced jalapeño. Kale "tabbouleh" is a huge and relentless salad of raw, julienned kale with a bit of shaved fennel in a way-too-sweet dressing.
"This asparagus is of a memorable sadness," says a French friend, visiting from New York, as she picks up a limp, charred spear, thin and appetizing as twine. It comes with pan-fried lemon sole, which has been coated in a pudgy batter and presented with a thick, citrus beurre blanc and a total of four such asparagus spears, two missing their heads. Let's not even discuss why asparagus is served all over town in the dead of winter. Tough braised pork shanks served over polenta, lobster mac and cheese that tastes like dirty dishwater, waterlogged tri-color cauliflower that seems more steamed than roasted: The gaffes are many.
And what are those oily sautéed greens? We ordered them without knowing in advance what they were, asking the waiter to let us know, but he never got back to us. Diver scallops are nicely cooked, but their kaffir lime beurre blanc clashes with the kabocha squash purée on the plate. Soggy Chinese long beans form barriers between each of the four scallops. These main courses average just over $20, so at least they're not terribly expensive (the scallop dish is $23).
It is possible to eat much better at Nick and Sam's Grill Park Cities: Order a steak. But you'll pay: The cuts range from $39 for a 10-ounce petit filet to $68 for a 26-ounce porterhouse.
One evening our waiter announces that at Nick and Sam's Grill, steaks are cooked differently than they are elsewhere. How so, I ask, imagining maybe they're grilled over Japanese hardwood coal or seared in a special 1,200-degree broiler. Well, medium here is a hot red center, he says. And "medium-rare is a warm red center. Rare is a cool red center." That doesn't sound very different, but I ask if any are dry-aged. That could explain the high prices. Only one, he says — an off-the-menu long-bone rib-eye. "But I must warn you," he says. "It's $90." We go with the petit filet, a nice little number that comes to us well-seasoned and perfectly cooked medium-rare. On another visit, a $57 prime rib-eye arrives more medium than medium-rare; a $65 bone-in New York strip is quite good, cooked as ordered and very well-seasoned, though it would have benefited from more of a sear.
Begin with an Asian greens salad, featuring julienned napa cabbage, mizuna, mint, arugula, cilantro and daikon. Though rather heavily dressed in its sesame-lime vinaigrette, it's probably the best starter. Or go for Gruyère biscuits served with maple butter and slices of prosciutto; they're also fine.
If you're looking for a special wine to go with your $68 or $90 steak, you must conjure one from the brief, uninspired list. "Is there anyone here who knows the list well?" I ask one night, hoping that I'm just somehow not spotting the interesting wines. The waiter, who doesn't, proceeds to tell me his favorite wine anyway. Another night, when I ask about a California cab I don't know, a different waiter condescendingly refers to it as "entry level." I'm sure he'd prefer I ordered a selection from "Palladino's Cellar," 10 wines with prices shown to be marked down, like a Caymus Vineyards Special Selection Cabernet with $270 crossed out; it's $190 (Joseph Palladino is one of the owners). For what year? Apparently it doesn't matter; there are no vintages listed. And if it's like the Hess Collection Mount Veeder 19 Block Cuvée Cabernet we order one night, it'll be served too warm.
Dessert at Nick and Sam's Grill is less fraught, especially if you treat yourself to apple cake topped with sea-salt caramel gelato and cloaked in caramel sauce, or a slice of flourless chocolate cake topped with house-made olive oil ice cream. Could that be what's keeping the well-heeled diners returning? Is it the scene? The bar and dining room were both packed on a recent Tuesday night. Is it the steaks they're ordering, or are they suffering through sole? Will they keep coming back, or move on when the heat factor cools?
Time will tell. Meanwhile, Nick and Sam's Grill Park Cities is quite the party.
Follow Leslie Brenner on Twitter at @lesbren.
Nick and Sam's Grill Park Cities (1-star)
Price: $$$-$$$$ (lunch appetizers, soups, salads and sushi $7 to $14, main courses, sandwiches and pizza $12 to $27, steaks $39 to $90; dinner appetizers, salads, pizza and sushi $7 to 16, main courses $14 to $23, brunch appetizers, salads and sushi $6 to $13, sandwiches $12 to $14, mains and pizza $10 to $16; desserts $8)
Service: Ranges from terribly green and clumsy to suave and efficient yet oddly inhospitable. No one with any knowledge of wine was in evidence on two visits.
Ambience: A snazzy dining room with exuberant black Murano glass chandeliers, comfortable banquettes and a large, busy bar and lounge. A chef's table in front of the open kitchen forms a focal point; a colorful mural decorates one wall.
Noise level: Tolerable, even on busy nights
Location: 8111 Preston Road, Dallas; 214-379-1111; nsgrillpc.com
Hours: Monday-Wednesday 11 a.m. to 10 p.m., Thursday-Friday 11 a.m. to 11 p.m., Saturday 10:30 a.m. to 11 p.m., Sunday 9:30 a.m. to 10 p.m.
Reservations: Accepted
Credit cards: All major
Wheelchair accessible: Yes
Alcohol: Full bar, and though the bar is very busy, some pretty standard cocktails (including one listed on the menu) seemed to baffle the bartender one night. Or perhaps it was the inexperienced waiter, who blamed the bartender. The one-page, vintageless wine list is a joyless and uninspired document, and the reds are served too warm.


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I asked my girls to write out their Christmas lists this week because even though I have a pretty good idea of what they want, I'm usually entertained to see what random items end up on their lists.
Their list-toppers were not surprises - my oldest has been asking for duct tape for months and my youngest has wanted her own "pet with fur" for a couple years (she does not believe that fish count as pets). I did notice, however, that the end of my little one's list looked suspiciously like the toy pages from the Bed, Bath, and Beyond advertisement that was on the table next to her.
This I-see-it-so-I-want-it mentality is nothing new. My husband and I have taken preemptive precautions by hiding toy catalogs and getting rid of cable, but obviously I cannot block my kids from the world to keep them from coveting the latest and greatest toy.
It's just that so many toys are kind of ridiculous. And, like Kayni mentioned earlier this week, most of them require batteries. Sometimes, I give in to the kids' request for the toy of the moment but I usually regret it. Last Christmas, the only thing on both girls' list was a Fijit friend - a brightly colored talking robot that danced. We caved. Like most electronic toys, they were fun for the first few weeks but then, because they are limited in what they can do, the novelty wore off and they became an annoying emblem of Mommy's bad judgment.
The problem with modern toys is that they limit kid's imaginations. Instead of dolls or stuffed animals whose name and character is yet to be determined by our children; they arrive named with established personalities and back stories that have been chronicled in books and/or television shows. Meanwhile, schools are busily trying to reclaim critical thinking skills that their students are lacking.
This year's hot toys are similar to prior years: Leapster's newest rendition, action figures and dolls from TV shows. There is also a Barbie camera (instead of changing her clothes, you change the picture on her t-shirt) and the updated Furby. These two toys promise lots of quality time together as your offspring begs to plug her doll's cable into your laptop's USB port and download pictures or translate Furbish with an app on your iPhone.
A few other gems are Baby Butterscotch and the Breast Milk Baby. Baby Butterscotch is a smaller edition of the Butterscotch Pony that was offered previously. Apparently, parents were not taken with the idea of paying $299 for a 3-foot tall robotic horse, so the manufacturers downsized to a 1-foot version for merely $99. A bonus is that this year's pony has bendable legs.
The Breast Milk Baby, a doll that mimics breastfeeding, is worthy of a whole blog article in itself. It makes suckling sounds when held up to little flowers on a special halter-top worn by your child. I put this doll in the same category with those that walk, talk, crawl, swim, poop and pee. Here again, we are telling kids what to do with the toys instead of letting them figure it out for themselves. Lest I tick people off, let me clarify that my problem is not with breastfeeding - anyone who nurses around a toddler or preschooler will find them copying that behavior - but with the fact that this toy costs $89. Kids can pretend to breastfeed with a $5 stuffed animal if that's what they choose to do.
Like I said before, I have made my share of bad toy buying decisions, but kids are the ones who lose out when we concede to their demands for the latest and greatest. So stay strong and trust your instincts. If a toy seems absurd to you - it probably is.
P.S. My daughter won't be getting her own pet with fur this year either.
Jaymi Anderson is married with two daughters. Read her Fridays on Greeley Moms.
Stay strong and trust your instincts. If a toy seems absurd to you - it probably is.


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Ariane 5 ES
|Main data
|Ariane 5 ES
|up to 53 m
|up to 5.4 m
|Liftoff mass
|760 t
|Payload mass*
|more than 20 t
* into ISS orbit
The Ariane 5 ES version is an evolution of the initial Ariane 5 generic launcher. With a more powerful lower composite, identical to the one used on Ariane 5 ECA, it reuses the small storable propellant stage (EPS: Etage à Propergols Stockables) of the generic version, which has been upgraded to allow reignition and long coast phases.
EPS reignition maximises the launcher's performance into the target orbit and meets a wider range of mission requirements.
These capabilities are necessary to deliver the Automated Transfer Vehicle** (ATV) into its rendezvous orbit with the International Space Station or to inject a cluster of four Galileo satellites into their operational orbit.
Reignition is also required to vacate the injection orbit after releasing the payload. This guarantees a controlled and safe deorbiting of the empty stage and an orbit free of major debris.
Ariane 5 ES missions
ESA's ATV is injected into a 260 km circular low orbit inclined at 51.6˚ to the Equator. From this orbit, the 20 t ATV uses its own engines to reach and dock with the International Space Station.
The maiden flight of the Ariane 5 ES took place on 9 March 2008 with the first ATV mission, Jules Verne. The second ATV, Johannes Kepler, was launched on 16 February 2011.
Three more ATV missions are planned: Edoardo Amaldi in 2012 and Albert Einstein in 2013, with ATV-5 to be scheduled.
For the ATV launch, the first EPS burn takes place immediately following the separation of the cryogenic main stage. The EPS engine is then shut down and the composite (VEB, EPS and ATV) begins a long coast of about 45 minutes. The second, short, EPS burn circularises the orbit, before ATV is released into its target orbit.
The third and last burn dispatches the almost-empty VEB–EPS composite to reenter the atmosphere, where it safely breaks up at high altitude.
Galileo satellites are injected at an altitude of 23 222 km in an orbit inclined at 56° to the Equator in three orbital planes. Ten satellites will be spread evenly around each plane. One satellite in each plane will be a spare, standing by should any operational satellite fail.
Four Galileo satellites, each about 730 kg, can be launched by Ariane 5 ES. An ATV-like launch sequence is followed by longer ballistic phases between the EPS reignitions.
Ariane 5 ES elements
Ariane 5 ES consists of three parts.
1. Lower composite (EAP and EPC)
The lower composite is identical to that used on Ariane 5 ECA and operates in the same way. It comprises two solid-propellant boosters (EAP: Etage d'Accélération à Poudre) and the cryogenic main stage (EPC: Etage Principal Cryotechnique) equipped with the Vulcain 2 engine.
2. Upper composite (EPS, VEB and supporting structure)
The upper composite comprises:
- The upper stage (EPS: Etage à propergols stockables) containing 10 t of storable propellants (MMH: monomethyl hydrazine and N204: nitrogen tetroxide), with the Aestus rocket engine providing 2.7 t of thrust;
- The Vehicle Equipment Bay (VEB), 'the brain', autonomously controls the whole vehicle;
- The supporting structure interfacing with the payload.
3. Launcher upper part (fairing and payload adaptor)
The launcher upper part comprises:
- The fairing, protecting the payload during the atmospheric flight;
- The dedicated structure accommodating the heavy payload or providing multiple satellite releases.
** The ATV supplies the ISS with pressurised cargo, water, air, nitrogen and oxygen, and attitude control propellant. It is also used to remove waste from the station and to re-boost the ISS to a higher altitude to compensate for atmospheric drag.
- Automated Transfer Vehicle
- Video - Ariane 30 years
- Ariane 5