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24 June 2011: The World Heritage Committee (WHC) of the UN Educational, Scientific and Cultural Organization (UNESCO) has inscribed the Kenya Lake System in the Great Rift Valley, the Ogasawara Islands of Japan, the Saloum Delta in Senegal, and Australia's Ningaloo Coast on UNESCO's World Heritage List.
The decisions were taken at the 35th session of the WHC, convening in Paris, France, from 19-29 June 2011.
The Kenya Lake System in the Great Rift Valley comprises three inter-linked, relatively shallow lakes in the country's Rift Valley province, and provides the habitat to 13 globally threatened bird species and some of the highest bird diversity in the world. The marine and terrestrial property of Ningaloo Coast in western Australia includes one of the longest near-shore reefs in the world and is home to numerous sea turtles and annual gatherings of whale sharks. The 30 islands that comprise the Ogasawara in Japan are home to the Bonin Flying Fox, a critically endangered bat, and 195 endangered bird species. Senegal's Saloum Delta comprises brackish channels encompassing over 200 islands and islets, mangrove forest, an Atlantic marine environment and dry forest. [UN Press Release] [35th Session of the WHC Website] [UNESCO Press Release on the Chinese Site] [UNESCO Press Release on the Japanese Site] [UNESCO Press Release on the Sites in Kenya and Australia] [UNESCO Press Release on the Senegalese Site]

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After brekky Jess wanted to show Katrina and the girls some shops in Solana Beach while I headed off to the outlet mall for some final shopping. My youngest sis Shari is getting hitched Nov 6 and I need a new suit and I spied some good ones at Calvin Klein last time we were there. I was in there for about 45 minutes and walked out with a new suit, 3 dress shirts, a tie and 2 pairs of jeans for $362
Chad was home when we arrived and there had been some chat about going for a surf but we thought it might have been too much of a squeeze and decided to give it a miss. We hopped on the bikes to go for a look anyway and of course it was good, would have been better not to go and look. Still, hauling a waterlogged steamer all the way back home didn't really appeal so probably a wise decision in the end. Around 5 we headed across the road to the Benihana Japanese restaurant for a final meal before we headed off. The girls had never been to a teppanyaki restaurant before so they were enthralled by the chef's handywork over the grill. It was also a good chance for a final debrief with Chad and Jess and to make some plans to meet up down the track. Sounds like Hawaii is the obvious choice because they go there every year & it is almost the halfway point between our respective countries
We packed the car and said our goodbyes and most importantly thanked Chad & Jess for their kindness and hospitality during our visit. It really made our trip. Hopefully we'll get to repay them one day soon...the girls really fell in love with Jess and the boys and there were a few tears shed in the car. I think they're gonna miss 'em...
The trip to the airport presented a few challenges. Traffic slowed to a crawl 10 minutes down the highway and just as I was starting to get a bit anxious we realised it was a blanket border patrol check across all 6 lanes and once we passed through the check point we were back to full throttle. Then we realised we didn't have the address for the rental car company so we just keyed in the 'Home' address and hoped for the best. However after a while the instructions didn't seem to make sense and I started second guessing them and took us off course and wasted about 10 minutes. Turns out the Nav was right all along! Then we dropped the car off we got on the shuttle to the airport with all our bags for the short 10 minute trip to the Qantas terminal. When we arrived at the terminal the driver helped us unload the bags and we happily waved him off before realising we were a suitcase short!


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Ikea, You Kea, We All Kea Together
November 11, 2013 - Diane Laney Fitzpatrick
My daughter and I finally went to the Ikea store in Sunrise, Florida. I lived in Florida for five years and didn't get to that store until after I moved. I was back to visit my daughter and meet her cat (oh yes, I'll be blogging about that next week) so she and I made the hour drive to Ikea. First I made all kinds of excuses why we should go to Target instead. Or go to the beach instead. Or stay home and eat nachos and mozzarella sticks instead. Why was I dreading the trip to Ikea so much? Before I moved to Florida, I was ecstatic about being a mere hour away from one. Something deep inside my psyche was screaming at me to not go.
Years ago, on a trip to Pittsburgh for my aunt's funeral, my sisters and I slipped off to Ikea, where we bought every small thing we could fit into our suitcases, plus about 50 disposable tape measures, just because they were free and they, too, fit into our suitcases. The furniture would not fit into our suitcases, so we had a good excuse to just admire the showrooms and never once set foot into the warehouse.
"I wish I lived near an Ikea!" I said about 70 times as my sisters and I walked amidst the most colorful kitchen supplies I had ever seen.
Fast forward to 2011, when I was in Phoenix helping outfit my son's apartment and was among a van full of people (my son, his girlfriend and her parents) who made not one, but two trips to Ikea to buy an entire apartment's worth of stuff. Because I was not limited by airline suitcase weight limits and had a van at my disposal, I gleefully chimed in at every single thing my son and his girlfriend picked out. Even after entering the warehouse and doing Algebra II math to figure out where to find the things we had written down on our little order forms with those stubby little golf pencils, I was like a happy child, pushing a big flatbed cart awkwardly sideways through the aisles.
"Why won't these things go straight?" I still smiled. At the checkout, still smiling because things were cheap and my son's girlfriend's parents agreed to pay for all of it except the brightly colored kitchen supplies I had picked up for myself.
We got everything loaded into the van, drove to the apartment, and got everything unloaded into the apartment.
I stopped smiling.
"What do you mean we have to assemble all this?" I snarled. "This is BS." I knew Ikea was assemble-it-yourself, but I thought that meant screwing the legs onto a dresser. I didn't know we had bought a box full of lumber and we'd have to built the thing ourselves. No wonder it was cheap. There was literally no labor involved in making this furniture.
I only had to do about one-fifth of the assembly, but it was enough to wrack every last nerve in my body. At one point, while drawing on everything I had learned in 8th grade wood shop class to build desk drawers, I stood up (with difficulty - my knees had been crunched for hours) and said, "I have to take a break. I'm going to get the new vacuum cleaner out of the box." When I saw that it, too, needed to be assembled, I started to sob.
So now you know why I had an aversion to going to the Florida Ikea with my daughter, even though I knew in my heart that the things she needed were there and only there.
So we went. We bought. We took our chances in the warehouse, hoping the numbers we wrote down were correct. The boxes didn't look right. Not at all. But we had to trust our non-dyslexic selves and just buy the damn things.
Back at the apartment, we emptied all the boxes, lined up the lumber and screws and two things that looked like a speculum for an American Girl doll (if and when Josephina and Molly become sexually active) and started to assemble a cabinet for my daughter's living room.
"Geez, I think you need to have an engineering degree to put this thing together," I said, flipping through the 24-page booklet of instructions.
My daughter was more optimistic. "Come on," she said. "Between the two of us we have a journalism degree and a fourth of a music thing. We got this."
Twenty minutes later when we had only rearranged the screws into cute little piles and poured a second glass of wine, she still hadn't offered to look at the instruction booklet.
"Are the instructions in English?" she asked, looking away, out the window. "No," I said, "they're not in anything. They're just little pictures. Nothing is numbered or identified at all. We don't have this. We don't have this at all. We have nothing!"
More wine. Different piles. We made coasters out of the packaging. We eventually started to painstakingly piece together the cabinet. Only five or six times did we do it wrong and have to take it apart and start over. Only once did we do it the same wrong way twice in a row.
My daughter told me the whole operation reminded her of a scene in Orange is the New Black, where two prisoners try to repair a dryer with the fictional equivalent of a journalism degree and a fourth of a music thing. I started to see it as a bonding moment - or should I say it was a bonding four hours.
When we were done, I suggested that maybe she go back in a few weeks and pick up a coffee table that had been out of stock. "It's only an hour away," I said.
"I don't want to go back there. I don't want to ever go back there," she said.
I'm sure it's because I wouldn't be there to help assemble. Or buy the wine.
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On June 20th, over 130 individuals and 39 organizations gathered at Crestwood Country Club in Rehoboth, MA to kick off the 13th Annual Butler Hospital with Dana Quigley and Friends Golf Challenge, presented by R.P. Iannuccillo & Sons Construction Co. Champions Tour "Iron Man" Dana Quigley demonstrated his techniques at the Phalanx Engineering Golf Clinic. Golfers enjoyed a great day on the course thanks to sunny weather and clear skies.
Dana's friends and the celebrities made the tournament even more exciting for their teams. The celebrity line-up included Patriots Alumni, Rick Buffington, Steve Groran, Halvor Hagen, Ilia Jarostchuk, John Mahoney, and Tom Stephens. Dave O'Brien, alumnus of the Minnesota Vikings, New York Giants, and St. Louis Cardinals, also made the roster. Chris Herren, former Boston Celtics guard, had a great time with his team while Ken Hodge (retired NHL Boston Bruins, Chicago Black Hawks, New York Rangers) and Don Marcotte (retired NHL Boston Bruins) were basking in the Bruins' recent Stanley Cup win. Of course, the tournament wouldn't be complete without Golf Pro Paul Parajeckas and PGA Senior Tour Pro Jim Thorpe.


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For a designer to get a good snapshot of your business, and to help the design process of any piece, there are a few questions to answer that are helpful to think about before beginning a new design:
Taking a few moments to collect your thoughts and the pieces of the puzzle needed to begin a new project will save time for both you and your designer, and in the long run, save cost for you. Some designers would rather begin work without knowing your previous styles so the creativity won't be influenced in a design direction that you are wanting to get rid of. On the other hand, some designers want as much information as they can get in order to be very clear on what you want/don't want. In either case, it is helpful to answer the questions listed above in order to gain a better understanding of what you, the client, are needing.
The conversation could go something like this:
Client: Hi there. I own a plumbing business and I need to have a business card designed.
Designer: Great! Tell me about your business.
Client: Well, I'm a one-man show, so I do all the work myself, and I pride myself on the fact that every client gets to speak and deal with me directly in person.
Designer: Okay, so how will the majority of your business cards be used?
Client: I usually just hand them out to friends or folks that I meet. Everybody needs a plumber at some point, so I want my business card to be there to remind them to call me first.
Designer: Great. Do you have any design ideas in mind, or do you already have a company logo and style?
Client: I have a logo, but other than that, I don't have any ideas. I just don't want it to look like I stuck a piece of clipart on a white piece of paper. That's what my last card looked like…I designed them myself.
Designer: Okay, no problem. That's what we're here for! Tell me, do you have a set budget for what you want to spend on these cards? This will help us determine how fancy we want to get, or what kind of features we can get you and stay within your budget.
Client: Well, I don't have a lot to spend on them, so they can just be standard cards. I just need to get my basic info out there, and I'd love to have them as soon as I can.
Designer: Sure. Are you talking in the next couple months, or you want something next week?
Client: Uh, maybe within 2 weeks?
Designer: Okay, I think that's doable. So to sum up, I hear you saying that you'd like to have something in hand in the next couple of weeks, you have a logo that you can provide for us, you want to emphasize the personal care that each of your clients will receive, and you want something a little more flashy than what you currently have. Does that sound right?
Client: That sounds great.
Designer: Okay! Then we'll proceed from here and get some design options going, then we can talk about your ordering options and quantities. Is a business card all you're going to need at this point?
Client: Yeah, I don't really need brochures or anything. People know what plumbers do – pretty self-explanatory.
Designer: Great! Then I'll get started…
There. Simple. All the questions were answered and yet it didn't stifle the creativity of the designer. He's well informed on what the client's needs are, but can feel free to create anything he wants within those boundaries.
You'll save your designer some time by having this info fresh in your mind when you approach him with a new design project. That way he won't have to spend his time (and your money!) working on something that you know you wouldn't like.
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The life science tools industry consists of a broad range of companies providing technology solutions that form the basis for drug discovery, applied market testing (e.g., bio-defense, environmental, food, forensics, etc.), and basic scientific and medical research. Our knowledge of life sciences from elucidation of the human genome to understanding complex diseases has been driven by advances and development in life science tools. Such tools not only form the fundamental building blocks of discovery and development of biopharmaceutical therapeutics but are a breeding ground for many clinically relevant in vitro diagnostic technologies.
TSG Partners defines the life science tools sector as made up of eight key subsegments: genomics, proteomics, cell biology, combinatorial chemistry, small animal in vivo analysis, bioinformatics, and general labware. Based on TSG Partners' extensive study of the market, the company estimates that the life science tools sector will be approximately $25 billion in sales in 2006 and will grow at a 7% compounded annual growth rate.
The life sciences tools sector is a very complex market with its subsegments at various stages in their growth cycle. The '90s saw the growth of genomics-oriented markets, resulting in the sequencing of the human genome. Today, growth is fueled by cell biology and small animal in vivo analysis, which by providing better data, leads to development of safer drugs.
In the genomics space, SNP genotyping, array-based expression analysis, and molecular cloning are key growth areas. While the sequencing market, on the other hand, has shown lackluster performance over the past several years, the advent of low-cost platforms and technology innovation will create new market opportunities.
Although the proteomics space has been adversely affected by the slowdown in Pharma spending, mass spectrometry has been the major contributor to growth. This has been fueled by technology advances, sales to applied markets, and increased utility as a clinical diagnostic.
In the case of cell biology, future growth will be fueled by accelerated drug discovery through high-throughput and high-content analysis, functional cell-based assays, and RNAi-based applications.
Noticeable shifts are also emerging among the consumers and buyers of these products. As Pharma shifts from a one-size-fits all approach to individually tailored therapeutics, the impact on the tools segment will be significant. Academic spending will slow due to budget cutbacks in the U.S. and EU.
The slowdown in mainstream customer spending has been offset by explosive growth in applied markets and home-brew testing both in the U.S. and overseas. Companies are trying to extend their core competency as tools and reagent providers for home-brew tests to mainstream clinical diagnostic players. Eventual market penetration and success will depend on their ability to understand market dynamics, develop commercial and regulatory expertise, and provide accurate and reliable tests.
Geographically, North America and Europe dominate the life science tools market. Growth is estimated to be flat in North America due to NIH cutbacks and slowdown in Pharma. Europe will exhibit moderate growth due to increase in CRO/CMO and applied market testing. We expect significant growth opportunities in India and China.
The quest for leadership in this market has spurned a flurry of M&A activity, none of which necessarily predicts market leadership. Despite the recent formation of global powerhouses, the life science tools market is still highly fragmented and is likely to consolidate further.
Harry Glorikian is managing partner, strategic advisory, at TSG Partners. Web: www.tsg-partners.com.
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So, just finished watching the Ravens/Falcons game on NFL Network on Thursday Night Football. Tt was, by far, one of the top five games of the season. Plus, I'm one of the few people who is probably a fan of the Thursday night game, because I think it brings more attention to the League and their network! I watched the game despite the fact I don't have the NFL Network at home. NFL Network isn't on a basic cable package, so I was forced to watch the NFL.com/live feed. NFL isn't allow to simulcast the game, online, in its entirety, so they show most of the game with cut-ins to analysts in studio talking about the game. I've been doing this for two years now and I've actually grown to enjoy it. Basically, I'm an NFL junkie and will watch the game anytime I get the chance. By the way, I'm letting everybody know that I want the NFL Network for Christmas, so spread the word!!!
So, I'm wanting to know some things from all my readers...
1. Did you watch the game? If so, thoughts of outcome and if you didn't, why not?
2. Do you agree with the NFL playing making teams play on short rest with having to play a Thursday night game?
3. Do you think the NFL Network should be on a cable lineup's basic package? Why or why not?
4. And just for fun, who do you think will end up playing in Dallas for the Super Bowl?
Remember that I have one request for those who want to comment: please keep the comments clean and don't put people down. I'm just wanting to start friendly conversation with people and get their thoughts on this. So let's just have a good time talking sports!
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1. No
2. No
3. No, it's not a basic channel.
4. What does it matter.
That is my honest answer.
No players shouldnt have to play on short rest on a Thursday, that takes away from preperation. It also risks more injuries to these million dollar men.
i would hope the Titans would be in Dallas at the end of the year, but probably New England. Maybe Atlanta.
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Real average weekly earnings, December 2006-December 2007
January 18, 2008
After deflation by the Consumer Price Index for Urban Wage Earners and Clerical Workers (CPI-W), average weekly earnings decreased by 0.9 percent from December 2006 to December 2007.
Before adjustment for inflation, average weekly earnings rose by 3.4 percent, seasonally adjusted, from December 2006 to December 2007.
Before adjustment for seasonal change and inflation, average weekly earnings were $605.96 in December 2007.
These earnings data are from the Current Employment Statistics Program. These data are for production and nonsupervisory workers in private nonfarm establishments. Earnings data for December 2007 are preliminary and subject to revision. Find out more in "Real Earnings in December 2007" (PDF) (TXT), news release USDL 08-0063.
Bureau of Labor Statistics, U.S. Department of Labor, The Economics Daily, Real average weekly earnings, December 2006-December 2007 on the Internet at http://www.bls.gov/opub/ted/2008/jan/wk2/art05.htm (visited September 29, 2016).
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Heating help now available for Erie region's low-income families
Low-income families and residents in the Erie region who have difficulty paying their home heating bills can begin applying for assistance.
Open enrollment for the Low-Income Home Energy Assistance Program began Thursday. Customers will be assisted on a first-come, first-served basis until the federal funding is depleted.
Officials with the program, which annually helps nearly 400,000 households in Pennsylvania, are urging those eligible to apply now and not wait until January or February, when the state Department of Public Welfare typically sees a large spike in applications.
The DPW is asking recipients to apply online this year to accelerate the process and save tens of thousands of dollars in postage and printing costs.
Area residents can apply for funding by going to the DPW's website, www.dpw.state.pa.us. Applicants also can call the DPW at (800) 692-7462.
People in Erie and Crawford counties can still apply for LIHEAP funding through their county assistance office. The Erie County Assistance Office, 1316 Holland St., can be reached by calling 461-2000. In Meadville, call the Crawford County Assistance Office, 1084 Water St., at (814) 333-3400.
Applicants must meet income requirements to be eligible.
For a family of four to qualify for assistance, the LIHEAP income guidelines for Pennsylvania residents in fiscal 2012-13 is $34,575, up from $33,525 in 2011-12. The maximum income limit for a family of four in 2010-11 was $35,280.
For an individual, those guidelines are $16,755 in 2012-13, up from $16,335 in 2011-12. The limit for an individual in 2010-11 was $17,328.
Each additional person in the household adds $5,940 to the maximum income allowed for eligibility. Check the DPW website for complete eligibility information.
LIHEAP guidelines require that applicants make 150 percent or less of the federal poverty level.
Erie's poverty rate is among the highest in Pennsylvania. Nearly half the city of Erie's children live below the federal poverty line.
The timing for applying for LIHEAP assistance is especially crucial as it follows Wednesday's announcement by National Fuel Gas Distribution Corp. that it will increase home heating costs for the coming winter.
The utility last week said the monthly bill of a typical residential customer will increase 4.2 percent, rising from $76.81 to $80.04.
LIHEAP funding comes from about $140 million in federal money handed down to Pennsylvania.
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Students at Trenton Central High School West have signed a petition asking that school administrators to provide essential hygiene supplies and to make repairs in the girls' and boys' bathrooms.
The petition, signed by 157 students sor far, asks that toilet paper, towels and soap be provided -- something students say is frequently lacking. They also want broken toilet stall doors repaired and adequate trash receptacles for sanitary napkins.
Finally, the students said they want clean drinking water instead of the hot, brown fluid gushing from hall fountains.
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San Antonio Spurs 109, Cleveland Cavaliers 99: Gregg Popovich provides a case study for next year's Sloan Conference
Quicken Loans Arena, Cleveland — Boston is going to implode this weekend as the entire basketball writing universe descends on MIT. The 5th annual Sloan Sports Analytics Conference is set to erupt and Gregg Popovich has given sportswriting hipsters and members of the basketball inteligencia something to talk about over cocktails.
The Spurs defeated the Cleveland Cavaliers tonight, roughly 24 hours after getting roughed-up by the Memphis Grizzlies. The game itself was unremarkable. The Spurs and Cavs played a tight first half—marked by strong performances from George Hill and, for the Cavs, former Spur Alonzo Gee—but the Spurs pulled away in the second half behind the power of a superior roster.
After last night's loss to the Grizzlies, Hill tweeted "Feel like crap right now…Played terrible and let the TEAM down…Good thing we have another one tomorrow to redeem myself. Sorry SA". Â Hill did in fact redeem himself. He dominated the Cavs, scoring 22 points and collecting 5 rebounds and 5 assists. His plus-27 led all players.
And I would be remiss not to mention that this Spurs victory propelled the team to 50 wins. San Antonio has joined the Lakers as one of only two teams to have accomplished the seemingly impossible task of winning at least 50 games for 12 consecutive seasons.
But I digress. We want to talk about the Grizzlies game, Gregg Popovich, and the things really smart hoops writers talk about over cocktails. That's what tonight's win in Cleveland was about.
During last night's blowout loss to Memphis, Gregg Popovich did what he sometimes likes to do. He threw in the towel long before most coaches would concede a game. More or less, his starters did not play in the 4th quarter.
The thing to understand is this: Gregg Popovich was employing a strategy. Â The question before us is whether or not it's a smart strategy.
Over at Pro Basketball Talk, Kurt Helin framed Gregg Popovich's decision in this way, "…when the Spurs are getting crushed in the regular season, they tend to just roll over. It's like an energy saving defense mechanism, and they did it in this game."
After tonight's victory over Cleveland I asked Antonio McDyess, a 14 year NBA veteran, if he thought Popovich's strategy of conceding games was wise.
"Oh, it's the right decision. [Popovich] is a great coach. [Conceding games] is a good reason why. [The Spurs] have won a lot of championships. They make all the right decisions to help us win."
Dyess went onto to describe his legs— they're old. He doesn't think he would have performed well tonight if he had played heavy minutes in an attempted come back the previous night. "It's hard to play two games in 24 hrs, especially with the travel, " Dyess explained. "And maybe you pull a muscle in a game you were probably going to lose anyway. Even if you don't, you still feel it in your legs a few days later."
So here's my question for the Sloaning universe: how do we quantify all this? What are the advantages and disadvantages of Popovich's strategy?
On the surface, I suspect Popovich's tendency to concede those games which require an unlikely comeback is the right strategy. How often do teams comeback from, say, 20 points in the 4th quarter? What is the effect on the body of playing heavy minutes in a back-to-back situation? Are those minutes worth the effort if a loss is still the likely scenario? And are their fringe benefits in play, such as creating court time for developing players chained to the end of the bench?
I even wonder about the psychological ramifications of the strategy. Is it easier to shake a difficult loss if it's obvious you raised a white flag before the final buzzer. Think of it as the NBA equivalent of forfeiting a game of chess just to say you weren't checkmated.  Is this, in part, a technique Gregg Popovich's uses to limit the bitter aftertaste of a hard loss?
On the other end, there is the ethical question: Is Popovich somehow "cheating" game-attending fans by depriving them of his best players?
Here's the immediate point: the Spurs looked fresh in this game. They had energy in the 3rd quarter, more than enough energy to pull away from the Cavs, even though they had played in a different city a mere 24 hours before. Did Popovich move himself closer to a victory in tonight's game by taking a loss the night before. Or, put differently, might the Spurs have been more likely to lose two consecutive games had Popovich demanded more of his rotation in the first game of the couplet?
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Powers of Appointment Under the Restatement (Third) of Property
Ira Mark Bloom
Albany Law School
Ohio North University Law Review, Vol. 33, p. 755, 2007
This Article examines the various impacts of the Restatement (Third) of Property's treatment of powers of appointment. It considers how the power of appointment device can be used by contemporary estate planners to achieve important non-tax dispositive goals: flexibility, control and creditor protection. The Article first highlights decisions made in the Law Institute - blessed Tentative Draft on powers of appointment that will impact estate planner. The author goes on to point out that the Tentative Draft provides property rules that differ in many instances from the tax rules and concepts on power of appointment, and then identifies aspects of the Tentative Draft that would usefully be clarified before its final publication.
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Keywords: Powers of Appointment, Estate planning, Restatement (Third) of Property
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What are some other over their prime fighters that changed their style to offset age
If you guys remember, early on in Juan Manuel Marquez career he was known as a "boring" and difficult fighter.
It's actually been a while since JMM leg's have been shot. If you notice he doesn't move around like he use to (obviously due to age) and now he uses his boxing intelligence and lays traps for his opponents. He's taking on a more aggressive approach because of that and it's making him more fan friendly.
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Most recently I'd say a big one was Shane Mosley. Shane adjusted pretty damn well for a guy his age fighting more flat footed as opposed to a more explosive fluid boxer that he used to be. He used to have one hit ko power but threw combinations in bunches with decent defensive awareness. He adjusted as he got older and sat down more on his punches and used flurries and what little explosiveness he had left only when the opportunity presented itself. I'm sure having an ATG chin helps...
Even Floyd seems different, he's much less of a mover now than he used to be. He's completely stationary at times his last few fights.
Marco Antonio Barrera also become a more technical boxer later in his career. After the Morales fights he had toned it down some. Then after the Pacquiao fight it was even more noticeable. Barrera was a better technician than he gets credit for since JMM seems to dominate all the credit there.
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it other than he was convinced that I really didn't love him (I dated him 7 years prior to marriage due to my fear of getting another husband that could not be faithful) He has always said that I am the love of his life and when we did have sex prior to the affair, it was almost always me initiating. We had been friends for about 15 years prior to my marriage ending and we begain dating about a year later. I've gone thru blaming myself for not being slutty enough for him, had about 4 months of good sex because I had convinced myself that if I was just dirty and nasty enought for him, he'd "love" me. Realization has set in that it wasn't me, it was him and the "bad place" he was in his head, which he has said all along. Now I am find it very hard to enjoy sex with him because I can not get her out of our bedroom. He is having sex with her, he is performing oral sex with her, when I do oral sex on him, I only see that this is the same naked dick that f**ked her in the ass. I care about him, I don't hate him, but I can't get get past that everything we do, he did with her....other than the fact that I will not humililate myself to have anal sex with him. HELP. We are trying to make it work, we have been together 13 years, I think I can get past some things, but I'm stuck on the sex now.
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I am on the fence as to what to do in my best interest. Can I ever feel the same way about him? Can I ever trust him again? - which after much dialog between him and I, I am willing to take that chance. He is devasted that he could do this and do this to his best friend. This is not the man I now for 20+ years. I've come a long way, but I'm afraid it may be too hard to for me to get over it and I'm on the fence as to whether it's worth it or not.
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Worth it as in I don't want to get hurt again. My last husband cheated on my most of my 17 yr marriage. I only had proof of the last affair. I grew to hate him and divorced him when the youngest graduated high school. I do not trust people. My home environment was not healthy, I learned that I can only trust to take care of myself. My husband's nickname is "follow the rules Dave" because he doesn't go 1 mile an hour over the speed limit, he follows the rules of EVERTHING to a T, and then did this. It was entirely out of his nature. I ask myself what kind of women stays in a relationship where her husband can be so deceptive and so humiliating to his "love". He is not a strong or secure man. He has his own baggage and do I really want to be there for him anymore after what he did to me? What can i possibly gain by staying with him? He says he loves me and will do anything to prove to me that he is sorry and that I did not deserve this. Why stay? He's shown what he is capable of doing to someone he loves, I don't care where his head was. He had a choice and he knew it was wrong, yet did it over a long period of time.
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There is a chance, of course, that your husband may be unfaithful to you again, so your concerns are reasonable.
Regarding your question about what kind of woman stays in a relationship... Many women would not be able to remain in the relationship after something like this happened. Those who do, somehow find a way to forgive their husband, or at least get past the infidelity. I don't think we need to judge them. Forgiveness is a very special and rare gift.
What can you gain by staying with him? I'm not sure. Perhaps a better question would be "what will I lose if I leave him."
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OK, none of this really helps me. How do I have sex with him and not think of him having sex with her? I've dealt with all the other questions and know that it is a decision that only I can answer.
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You are thinking about him having sex with her because you are angry at him, and you have been hurt by his infidelity.
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An international research team including members of the Snow Leopard Trust encounters a 2-week-old wild snow leopard cub in its den; a rare glimpse of the first days in the life of these endangered, elusive cats.
Finding a wild snow leopard cub in its den is rare and exciting in its own right – the first ever such encounter took place only last year. This most recent discovery could be particularly significant though, as the international team of scientists that found this little cub believes they know not only its mother, a cat called Agnes, but possibly its father as well; a male named Ariun. Before locating the den site, the team had been tracking the cub's mother – and its likely father – with GPS collars for several months as part of the Snow Leopard Trust's pioneering long-term snow leopard study in Mongolia's South Gobi desert.
"Beyond conception, very little is known about the role of snow leopard fathers in the wild," says Gustaf Samelius, a member of the team that encountered the cub. "Being able to monitor both parents of a newborn cub as it grows could yield exciting new insights, says Samelius, who is the Snow Leopard Trust's Assistant Director of Science and a researcher with the Swedish University of Agricultural Sciences (SLU), "So we're eagerly awaiting the results of genetic analysis to see if Ariun is indeed the cub's father."
Analyzing their GPS locations, Örjan Johansson, a PhD student with the Snow Leopard Trust and SLU, had observed the two cats, Agnes and Ariun, spending several days in very close proximity earlier this spring. Snow leopards are usually solitary cats, so this type of behavior often indicates that two cats are mating. Several weeks later – as if on schedule – Agnes started to restrict her movements in a way that suggested she was preparing to give birth. "When we were fairly certain that she had given birth, we followed the VHF signals transmitted by her collar in order to find her den," says Gustaf Samelius.
On June 21, Gustaf Samelius and his colleagues – Sumbe Tomorsukh of Mongolia and Australians Jeremy Krockenberger and Carol Esson – located the exact spot where Agnes had set up her den. Once they were certain she was a safe distance away, the scientists were able to briefly enter the den, examine and photograph her 2 week-old cub. They took hair samples that will allow them to establish the cubs' genetic identification and confirm sex. They also took weights and measurements, and implanted a tiny microchip – called a PIT tag – for identification, similar to those used by pet owners.
Download the full-size photo of Agnes' cub here.
"We still know very little about how snow leopards reproduce in the wild. It has taken years of sustained scientific effort for us to able to begin documenting birth rates, sex ratios, cub sizes, litter sizes or cub survival rates – all of which are critical to our work to save these endangered cats. Getting the rare opportunity to observe a cub in its den is huge for us", says Charudutt Mishra, the Snow Leopard Trust's Science and Conservation Director. "The team handled the cub very carefully and took their measurements as quickly as possible."
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Back in the study base camp, the team looked at GPS data from presumed father Ariun's collar and compared it to the exact den location. "As we compared the data, we realized that Ariun had been within a few feet of the den a week after the cub's birth, while Agnes, the cub's mother, was almost a mile away",Gustaf Sameliussays. "We can't tell if he was actually inside the den or what he did there, but it's a fascinating behavior to observe – especially if Ariun really does turn out to be the father".
Snow Leopards – the Elusive Ghosts of the Mountain
There are as few as 3,500-7,000 snow leopards left in the wild – and due to their elusive nature, encounters are so rare that the cats are often referred to as "ghosts of the mountain". Accordingly, our understanding of the cats' ecology and behavior remains limited. However, an international team of scientists has been conducting a pioneering long-term snow leopard study in Mongolia's South Gobi desert since 2008, tracking the cats with GPS collars and research cameras and expanding our knowledge about this endangered species by leaps and bounds.
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Snow Leopard Conservation Foundation is the Snow Leopard Trust's partner organization based in Ulaanbaatar, Mongolia; partnering together on the conservation of the endangered snow leopard since 1998.
The efforts of Snow Leopard Trust and Snow Leopard Conservation Foundation in Mongolia are carried out in partnership with the Mongolian Ministry of Nature, Environment and Green Development; the Mongolia Academy of Sciences: Nordens Ark, and the Swedish University of Agricultural Sciences.
Our Long-Term Ecological Study (LTES) of snow leopards in Mongolia began as a collaboration between the Snow Leopard Trust, Snow Leopard Conservation Foundation, and Panthera in 2008. As of January 1, 2013, Panthera no longer actively participates in LTES. We continue to work cooperatively with Panthera on analyzing data collected through 2012, including information from Agnes and Ariun's collars.
The 2013 collaring of snow leopards in our long-term study in Mongolia is generously supported by the following major donors:
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Special thanks to Örjan Johansson and Walter Pereyra for providing cat names for Agnes and Ariun.
Paul Lucchini says:
This is exciting! A great opportunity to follow the family through an incredible journey. Kudos and thank you.
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Great work, folks!! Can't thank you enough for what you do in the name of these 'Ghosts of the Mountains'…keep it up! I hope someday soon to be able to volunteer in any capacity you need!
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Noel Pratt says:
Dear Snow Leopard Trust, I was wondering if you could tell me what research has been done on the impact of collaring
snow leopards. I was quite startled to see the size of what are very intrusive collars. While I appreciate the signficance of research in protecting these magnificent animals and support very strongly the Trust initiatives in working with communities to encourage
protection of the leopards I do wonder about the negative impact of the collars and just how necessary continued collaring is.
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Dear Noel, thank you very much for your comment. We are constantly testing the GPS collars we're using to make sure they work effectively and impact the cats as little as possible – and manufacturers are doing everything they can to constantly reduce weight and bulk. Before being deployed into the field, the collars we use (and new models on the market) get tested on captive snow leopards that have been sedated for annual exams as well as in the terrain, on their own (by people driving around with them etc.) This helps us observe how the cats react to the collars.
After a few initial attempts to get rid of the collar, neither zoo cats nor wild cats that we have observed showed any further signs of being negatively impacted by the collars. Cats in our study have not shown any signs of being impeded in their ability to hunt, and, as we've seen with Agnes and potentially Ariun, they have also successfully mated despite wearing the collars.
That said, we are constantly evaluating the need for continued collaring. Snow leopard collaring has been going on for less than a decade, with less than 50 animals ever collared worldwide. compared to other species, where hundreds or even thousands of individuals have been tracked, it's a very new field. At this point, we still don't know enough about snow leopard behavior and needs to effectively protect them against all the complex threats they face, so our scientists have concluded that more collaring is indeed still necessary. For instance, it was only thanks to these GPS collars that we found out how important the flatlands between mountain ranges are for the cats. We've observed them disperse from one range into another across areas of land we had previously thought to be less important habitats. This discovery has enabled us to lobby with authorities in Mongolia to include these zones in the local protected area around our study area – and will inform future decisions on similar protected areas.
July 12, 2013, 10:06 am
Sibylle Noras says:
A very exciting event and a world first in studying a young snow leopard family in the wild. You and your research colleagues will be able to learn totally new knowledge on family dynamics and behavior. All this scientific information will help to protect the cats long term. Mongolian authorities are to be congratulated for their role in this work.
Indeed a wonderful event. Good luck!.
July 15, 2013, 1:00 am
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Rare Snow Leopard Footage from Mongolia – Voices says:
[…] able to observe Tost's snow leopard population in unprecedented ways. They've found wild cubs in their dens. They've tracked and photographed cats as they migrated to neighboring mountain ranges […]
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James Brazas says:
So would this be considered possible evidence for male and female snow leopards sharing responsibilities in raising the cubs? The possible visit from the father while the mother was away might be a sort of shift-taking between hunting and guarding the cubs. Is that theory plausible?
Of course, it still seems clear that the mother is the sole caregiver once the cubs are old enough to accompany her on hunts.
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Hi Ben, > Is it possible to sort the nodes and put them in a variable. ie > > <xsl:variable name="sorted"> > <xsl:for-each select="nodes[@order]"> > <xsl:sort select="@order" order="descending"/> > <xsl:copy-of select="current()"/> > </xsl:for-each> > </xsl:variable> > > (I know this doesn't work but could it work with the correct lines > of code? Or is it fatally flawed?) Yes, you can do this, but when you set a variable via its content then it gets set to a result tree fragment. To get any information out of the result tree fragment, you need to convert it to a node set using an extension node-set() function (whatever one your processor supports). This wouldn't be a bad method of getting the minimum and maximum values for the recursion, considering that you get both the minimum and maximum at the same time. You'd have to see, but it's likely that a recursive method (or even better, a built-in extension function) would be faster, but this is fairly simple. If I were doing it, I'd try to make the result tree fragment quite small, so simply make it: <xsl:variable name="minAndMax-rtf"> <xsl:for-each select="node[@order]"> <xsl:sort select="@order" order="descending" data-type="number" /> <xsl:choose> <xsl:when test="position() = 1"> <max><xsl:value-of select="@order" /></max> </xsl:when> <xsl:when test="position() = last()"> <min><xsl:value-of select="@order" /></min> </xsl:when> </xsl:choose> </xsl:for-each> </xsl:variable> And then do: <xsl:variable name="minAndMax" select="exsl:node-set($minAndMax-rtf)/*" /> <xsl:call-template name="countDown"> <xsl:with-param name="from" select="$minAndMax/max" /> <xsl:with-param name="to" select="$minAndMax/min" /> </xsl:call-template> Cheers, Jeni --- Jeni Tennison http://www.jenitennison.com/ XSL-List info and archive: http://www.mulberrytech.com/xsl/xsl-list
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WASHINGTON, D.C. – Bloomberg reports today that the Securities Investor Protection Corp. will not reimburse victims of the Stanford financial scandal.
SIPC alleges Stanford committed fraud, not theft, and therefore it has no liability for damages, officials say.
Allen Stanford, chairman of the now defunct Stanford Financial Group, based in Houston, Texas, was charged on Feb. 17, 2009 by the U.S. Securities and Exchange Commission with fraud and other violations of U.S. securities laws for an alleged $7.2 billion Pozi scheme that involved supposedly "safe" certificates of deposit.
SIPC maintains the circumstances specific to the Stanford case mean "that the law doesn't provide for payouts to investors." The SEC's staff initially agreed, but on June 15, the SEC informed SIPC that the "Stanford matter was appropriate for a proceeding under the Securities Investor Protection Act," or SIPA.
The Bloomberg report says "the SEC told SIPC to start a process that could give as much as $500,000 to each qualified Stanford investor. The agency further surprised SIPC by threatening to sue if it didn't carry out the plan."
SIPC said that said it expects its board to announce "on or about Sept. 15, 2011, its decision about the referral from the SEC, and SIPC President and CEO Stephen Harbeck said that SIPC has 'already started conferring with the SEC and the Stanford receiver regarding the SEC's referral in the Stanford matter.'"
The SEC's action "'is highly unusual,' SIPC's Harbeck told the news service.
Bloomberg adds "Harbeck has said publicly that he doesn't think the Stanford investors are eligible for repayments. SIPC is supposed to aid investors when their securities are stolen or go missing at a brokerage. Stanford's customers still have possession of their securities, he said, and fraud by itself isn't covered."
For people who lost money through the Stanford scheme, "it is very difficult to explain the difference between theft and fraud," Harbeck said, according to Bloomberg.
Scores of Mississippi investors were among the 30,000 people worldwide who lost their life savings and retirement funds when the Stanford financial empire collapsed in 2009 under the weight of the SEC investigation.
Stanford and four executives pleaded not guilty to criminal charges. He is scheduled for trial in January, with the others' set afterward.


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For the first day in several days, and probably the last one for several more, there's no likelihood today of showers and thunderstorms, scattered or otherwise. High pressure has taken control of our weather, with downsloping winds coming out of the Appalachians doing a very thorough job of drying out our atmosphere.
Skies should be mostly sunny today, with a warm forecast high temperature in the low 80s to perhaps 85. Come Thursday and Friday, we'll warm up still more, and again, showers and T-storms will word themselves back into our forecast. And yes, we just used "word" as a verb.
With all the lightning of late, it's only appropriate that this is Lightning Safety Awareness Week in the New York metro area. So far this year, eight Americans have been killed by lightning, while 45 were killed by strikes last year (the number of injured goes much higher). If you're a woman, you can maybe skip ahead. A large majority --- 89 percent --- of lightning casualties are men. You can read more about lightning safety here.
Turning our attention now away from the flooding disaster in the Mississippi Valley, we find that no fewer than 800 wildfires are now burning in California (although most of these are small in size). The Golden State is ablaze, like it usually is in August and September. Why so early this year? It may be because California saw its driest spring in 114 years. Check out the National Interagency Fire Center for all the details.
California, of course, burns every year. It gets more attention now because so many more people have built homes in harm's way. There aren't a great many people living right along the Mississippi River (although much of the land there has unwisely been turned into farmland), but the canyons of California are choked with new homes that are risky propositions at best.
Yesterday's extreme temperatures in the contiguous United States --- High: 107 at Needles, Calif. (speaking of California); Low: 32 at Truckee, Calif.


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The Gretna Heritage Festival, which drew thousands on its opening night Friday, continues today in historic downtown and along the Mississippi River.
The music cranks up at 2 p.m. on the Riverfront Stage with The Medics. The group Chicago is scheduled to headline today's fun on the Main Stage located along the river behind the Jefferson Parish government complex.
The festival encompasses 25 city blocks and boasts eight stages and dozens of food vendors and artists and craftsmen.
Friday's festival got off to a rousing start with stellar performances by Kool and the Gang and Louisiana son Marc Broussard on the main stage. Other noteworthy performances included local artists James Rivers and Bobby Lenero.
The cost is $10 and free for children 12 and under.


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A valid point actually, I've no special attacker t' fall back on; however, I'm pretty sure Garchomp can handle said tanks regardless of their EV investments. If they focus on an attack stat, Outrage will just mow 'em down, resistance or not. If they're EVed solely for bulk, Garchomp can substitute up on 'em, grab an SD or two and ravage. Haxchomp is basically my tank killer thanks to that 30% evasion and SubSD.
Also, the reason I carry both Excadrill and Garchomp are because they perform the same duty of "spam physical STAB". Both of 'em are ridiculously scary when boosted. If they don't smash through the foe on their own, the other will clean up through brute force. Having a special attacker would obviously be more efficient and less risky, but the question is; what special attacker is as fast, bulky and strong as these two? The boosts from Sandstorm outweigh the disadvantages of goin' exclusively physical IMO.
'Less you've got an idea of some specially oriented Poke that is ridiculously synergistic with TTar and 'Chomp/'Drill and therefore worth the change from aggrofaggotry to a feasible core, I've no plans to change the team itself.
That aside... item/move recommendation pl0x?


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The cheapest days to fly this Thanksgiving will be Tuesday, Nov. 13; Wednesday, Nov. 14; Saturday, Nov. 17; Thursday, Nov. 22 (Thanksgiving); Friday, Nov. 23; Wednesday, Nov. 28.
For more details, including the full calendar of best dates to fly, visit Travelzoo SuperSearch.
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Deputies: Men caught stealing air conditioning units from homes
Nestor Ramos, Nicholas Walker charged with grand theft
Two men were caught with air conditioners in their pickup truck that were stolen from two homes in DeBary early Friday morning, deputies said.
A homeowner called 911 after he spotted two men cutting the air conditioning line and loading the unit into their truck about 2:43 a.m.
"Yeah, they're just helping themselves to everything. Wow, these people are brave," the caller told the dispatcher.
Deputies arrived quickly and found a pickup truck with two air conditioning units, including one from a home a half-mile away.
Nestor Ramos, 27, and Nicholas Walker, 25, had fled the area, but they were tracked down and arrested, deputies said.
They were both charged with grand theft.
Related: Florida mug shots
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Work prospects good for young adults in New Hampshire
Granite State has more young workers than most other states
New Hampshire has one of the highest employment rates for young adults, according to a study from the Baltimore-based Annie E. Casey foundation. The latest Kids Count policy report says employment among people ages 16 to 24 is at its lowest point since World War II, but Granite State teens are having better luck than most finding work.
The report says in 2011, 35 percent of New Hampshire residents from 16 to 19 had jobs.That's 10 percent higher than the average for that group. The employment rate for 20-to-24-year-olds in New Hampshire was 72 percent last year, the fifth highest level in the country.
Overall employment in New Hampshire is also above the national average. In October, just 5.7 percent of people in the Granite State needed work, compared to 7.9% for the country overall.
Copyright 2012 by WMUR.com. The Associated Press contributed to this report. All rights reserved. This material may not be published, broadcast, rewritten or redistributed.


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No government spending should be unclassified
February 28, 2013
Under the process of reviewing the West Virginia budget in all its departments, I can't help but to obviously see the each and every department has two classifications that are not transparent....
"Is this a joke?" No, sadly.
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"The transparency in our state budget should be our No. 1 discussion. All the brilliant minds of West Virginia citizens and legislation, along with government, should have the ability to create tools to fix our budget to make it more transparent."
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Well said. Instead of creating the website, West Virginia spent over $23 Million putting high-end routers where they were needed.
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A few weeks ago, Scotland's top political leader, Alex Salmond, told an audience at the University of Virginia that Scotland deserves independence from Great Britain. He cited Thomas Jefferson as the basis of his claim that Scotland should "become its own country."
This story highlights one of America's knottiest foreign policy problems: How to weigh America's historical support for self-determination against our need to maintain good relations with allies and major powers.
Here are two regional cases that could have developed into major international crises and are now headed for negotiations, and a third that most likely will continue to engender dispute.
Taiwan and China
Taiwan, a self-governing nation off the coast of China, was headed toward confrontation with China a few months ago. Recently, however, elections in Taiwan brought to power a new government and a president who pledged to negotiate Taiwan's relationships with Beijing. The outgoing president had pressed the independence theme. China considers Taiwan a break-away province.
All American presidents since 1972 have affirmed that Taiwan is part of China and that disputes between them should be settled through negotiations. Nevertheless, the United States is pledged to assist Taiwan in case China uses force.
Political realism rather than the ideal of independence persuaded Washington to pressure Taiwanese leaders to negotiate.
Now Tibet presents a new problem in U.S.-China relations. Some Democrats suggest that President Bush should cancel his trip to China's Summer Olympics to protest Beijing's crackdown in Tibet. Such action would be a severe blow to U.S. relations with China.
Quebec and Canada
After winning power in 1976, Quebec's nationalist party, Parti Quebecois, tried twice in provincial referendums to persuade Quebeckers to vote for separation from Canada. Those efforts failed, but in 1995 the margin was close, less than 1 percent.
Since then, the party's support has waned, and recently its leader announced that the party would not seek a new referendum if it returns to power.
Washington did not press Quebec to give up its agitation for independence because that action would have bolstered nationalism there.
The decline in secessionist sentiment in Quebec is a case where careful American diplomacy by several presidents paid off.
Kosovo and Serbia
Washington was not so fortunate in this case because it supported a European Union plan to defuse the 1999 war in Kosovo by giving Kosovo its independence from Serbia. Belgrade objected strongly to this action, and was supported by its long-time patron, Russia.
Although the United States and most European countries recognized Kosovo's declaration of independence in February, most Asian, Latin American and African countries have not. Neither have Russia and China, nor Spain and Greece and seven other NATO countries.
In retrospect, it was probably a mistake to support independence for Kosovo. Another option would have been to partition the province, giving the larger ethnic Albanian region to Albania while permitting the Serb-speaking northern section to be part of Serbia.
Kosovo now lacks wide international support for its independence. It may be a case where Washington needs to rethink its policy and consider the desirability of partition.
Former Saginaw resident Donald Nuechterlein is a political scientist who lives in Charlottesville, Va. He is the author of "Defiant Superpower: The New American Hegemony." Write to him at 124 Falcon Drive, Charlottesville, VA 22901.


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|Linear Dichroism in Resonant Inelastic X-Ray Scattering to Molecular Spin-Orbit States
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Using the polarimeter capabilities of our x-ray spectrometer, we have recently measured the polarization of x-ray photons emitted in a molecular core-to-core transition accompanying resonant inelastic x-ray scattering (RIXS). In this study, we have measured KL emission spectra corresponding to the filling of a 1s core hole by a 2p core electron following core-hole excitation Cl(1s)-1→(11a1)1 in CF3Cl, and Cl(1s)-1→(6σ)1 in HCl (hν=2823,5 eV in both cases). We have observed a linear dichroism in polarized x-ray-emission spectra. In a combined experimental and theoretical effort, we showed this effect is sensitive to coupling between the molecular field (MF) and spin-orbit interactions and interpreted the observed dichroism in terms of population differences in the 2px;y;z inner-shell orbitals. Polarized RIXS offers a unique opportunity to determine spin-orbit-component populations, providing a new probe of MF effects on electronic structure.
1UPMC Univ Paris 06, UMR 7614, Laboratoire de Chimie Physique Matière et Rayonnement, F-75005 Paris, France
Work performed on ALS Beamline 9.3.1
Citation: R. Guillemin, S. Carniato, W.C. Stolte, L. Journel, R. Taïeb, D.W. Lindle, and M. Simon, "Linear Dichroism in Resonant Inelastic X-Ray Scattering to Molecular Spin-Orbit States,"Phys. Rev. Letters 101, 133003 (2008).


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a frequent practice of lying and cheating in any record bookkeeping, in order to substancially increase your own personnal profit and earnings. OR knowingly providing incorrect information in a companies financial statements. This is, needless to say, illegal.
Johnny went to jail for cooking the books at his office.
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When a girl wears a flattering shirt that brings attention to her breasts, and hangs down to cover her fat roll. The term indicates that she purposefully misrepresenting the 'goods'
That chick is kind of cute, but I think she's cooking the books a little with that shirt.
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In that TWIX commercial where the girl makes the fool out of herself. She says, "Old man Perkins is cooking the books." In front of Old man Perkin's daughter
"Old man perkin's is cooking the books"
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The comedian-actor says he likes to entertain the family audience, and so, a sex comedy is something he will never take up
"I think below-the-belt comedy affects your image and you tend to lose your family audience if you do sex comedies. I've done lots of show all over the world and the audience comes and tells me, 'Please don't do any sex comedy or else we will stop watching your show'," said Krushna Abhishek.
"Even in my shows, there is a bit of comedy, which may sound like a little adult content, but that's it. I would never want to lose my family audience," added the nephew of Bollywood's star comedian Govinda.
While Govinda recently said that he would seek his wife's permission if he gets an offer for a sex comedy, Krushna says "it's a complete no for sex comedy from my end. Yes, there are films like Grand Masti which are making money, but I am not interested in being a part of these kind of films. Look at my uncle Govinda, he has entertained the audience for ages now, and the family audience has appreciated his work for years," he said.
Krushna, who has entertained viewers by being part of several TV shows, will now be seen as the host of Entertainment Ke Liye Kuch Bhi Karega. He says he has refused many offers of hosting a show before this. "I think hosting is the most boring job. I have been offered many shows before, but I refused all of them. But when this show came my way, I thought let me give it a shot and trust me I am having a blast here with Mona Singh and the judges."


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New Board Study Guide
As a unique military profession, the Army is built upon an ethos of trust. What are four other essential characteristics of our profession?
1) Military expertise
2) Honorable service
3) Espirit de Corps
4) Stewardship
Title 10, USC, establishes the basic structure of the Army. What forces make up the Army?
One regular Army and two Reserve Components: The regular Army, the Army Reserve and the Army National Guard of the United States. Army Civilians support all three components.
What 5 sets of characteristics will enhance the Army's operational adaptability?
1) Depth and Versatility
2) Adaptive and Innovative
3) Flexibility amd Agility
4) Integrated and Synchronized
5) Lethal and Discriminate
What are the 11 Primary Missions of the U.S Armed Forces?
1) Counter terrorism and irregular warfare
2) Deter and defeat aggression
3) Project power despite anti-access/area denial challenges
4) Counter weapons of mass destruction
5) Operate effectively in cyberspace
6) Operate effectively in space.
7) Maintain a safe, secure, and effective nuclear deterrent.
8) Defend the homeland and provide support to civil authorities.
9) Provide a stabilizing presence.
10) Conduct stability and counterinsurgency operations.
11) Conduct humanitarian, disaster relief and other operations
What is the function of the Generating Force?
The generating force mans, trains, equips, deploys, and ensures the readiness of all Army forces.
What is the function of the Operating Force?
Operating forces consist of units organized, trained and eqiupped to deploy and fight


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