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It didn't get much love from critics when it bowed in theaters last spring, and it got even less from audiences, but the locally shot "Jonah Hex" finally got a little recognition today (Jan. 10) from the Academy of Motion Picture Arts and Sciences.
As I predicted might happen in a column last month, the supernatural Western - starring Josh Brolin as the disfigured character from the old Weird Western Tales comics - advanced in the Oscar race for best makeup, joining six other films on the Academy's shortlist of movies still in the running for a final nomination.
The list, as announced this evening by the Academy, is as follows:
- "Alice in Wonderland"
- "Barney's Version"
- "The Fighter"
- "Jonah Hex"
- "True Grit"
- "The Way Back"
- "The Wolfman"
Although director Jimmy Hayward's film isn't likely to earn any other nominations, it wouldn't at all be a surprise to see it grab one of the final nominations in the makeup category. Here's a feature I wrote last year about makeup supervisor Christien Tinsley's extensive work on the film.
According to Academy rules, members of the Academy's makeup branch will view 10-minute clips from each of the shortlisted films on Jan. 22. After the screenings, members will vote to nominate three of the films for final Oscar consideration.
Oscar nominations will be announced Jan. 25, and the awards will be handed out Feb. 27.


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Make sure you send some money to nigeria to offset the loss.
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Make sure you send some money to nigeria to offset the loss.
You can easily meet with someone who will sell you a ticket that they bought with their name and the week of the event, claim their tickets were stolen.
Dont be an idiot and buy from craigslist.
Would be 10/11 if the lineups didn't go to such shit.
No you're a lurker
It sold out.
Apparently people like the lineup. I thought last years was underwhelming, but in reality, I'm just moving away from the Coachella demographic. I mean we can't blame Coachella for...
Maybe Phoenix will come out and play a whole set with him.
Usually forums go down and color changes.
I'd imagine a new music project.
What would we do without thee
Eggs Potatos and OJ right? Maybe bacon.... Maybe it evolved in the last year or two but last time I had it was the last time I had it.
Egg gas from poorly cooked scrambled eggs all day. Woo hoo.
English Learning Development?
Just a quick reminder to anyone who frequents gear - get an REI membership. You can return gear that is old and worn for new gear, or if something sucks and you don't like it, return no problem. You...
That is a year where the headliner is YOU.
also dont get so ratfucked by coachella's ice prices - use dry ice for the weekend and if you have 2 coolers even better. otherwise save money for coachella and vendor it. The food is so good and...
if you have to restock. you did it wrong.
just spray douche everywhere. way past the sahara.
"after all she will be for a week."
You do what you need to do for those girls, they are fantastic.
This winter is probably one of the first ones where I've looked at my belly with disdain. Starting off with a juicing cleanse this weekend to make my gas less toxic.
Winter just makes my body...
He would still have mad bitchez surrounding him worshipping him and feeding him more oxy.
Forum season is definitely back on, perhaps this can get to 200 pages before the line up drops?
Well jesus what an evening kids.
Had some thoughts to share with kvnty on this - boardies do not influence coachella. STOP. "HEY PAUL GET DAFT PUNHK!"
Once more for the golden quote.
I feel like you had a glass of wine and are feeling a little snarky tonight gunz.
Do you like cake, candy or ice cream better than the others?
way to be a femelitist
(The internet is source)
Although the new writing on the latest episodes released on netflix is funny, its definitely a tad out of touch from the original. Simpsons world formula now if you will.
No particular order of favorites, just my essentials:
The Orb - Adventures Beyond the Ultraworld
Portishead - Live NYC
Pink Floyd - Animals
Clash - The Essential Clash (Tape 1)
What can you tell me about this years lineup?
Are you sure KROQ isn't announcing it Tuesday?
Also, can anyone recommend an album by Mason Jennings - something before 2006 Boneclouds, already familiar with...
Remember, people do get mad at IKEA instructional manuals.
Bharban Court 15 year is amazing on the rocks
There is a cigar bar/rum bar a little north on western after Santa Monica.
If you're into rum, go here. You kind of have to do a lil research as its...
Bmack just go into your local mountains and collect obsidian. You'll be a rich man one day. You definitely have a mountain mans beard
So why are you still single is the real question at hand.
The edgy comedy of Kvnty everyone
Daft will perform but they will not be considered "cool"
Couldn't not sleep last night at all - went to bed at 8am after jerking off.
They'll move it where Symbio was
That is the place where everyone can sell their research chemicals safely without the riverside sherrifs dept interfering with sales and good times.
Done and done. That's number 2 today
If you're into the idea of being surrounded by a bunch of young people that are experiencing "liberation" ala drugs and being loud all night: camp camp camp
Art car OMG
Did you get laid yet?
I don't pay enough attention to all interactions, but has anyone actually met theklein? He's going Vigo
Kvnty: the edgy homosexual menace of the Coachella board
Who's ready for a comic sans meme with the word anal it???
Weed is still better for quitting cigs.
Hardcore juice cleanse in January, also attempting to get some muscle. Ratfuck those who have ratfucked me. Square debts.
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The Cabinet on Monday approved a proposal for imposing 1 (one) percent development surcharge on the total revenue earnings of mobile phone operators by providing services to consumers through using SIM or RUIM cards.
The approval was given at the regular weekly meeting of the Cabinet held at Bangladesh Secretariat with Prime Minister Sheikh Hasina in the chair.
Briefing reporters after the meeting, Cabinet Secretary M Musharraf Hossain Bhuiyan said the government will get an additional amount of TK 140 crore in revenue every year with the implementation of the proposal.
While addressing parliament on June 29 this year, Prime Minister Sheikh Hasina expressed her intention to impose one percent development surcharge on mobile phone operators to use the fund for the development of education.
The Finance Minister also agreed on the issue saying the amount could be used for the development of education and health sectors.
According to a calculation of the National Board of Revenue (NBR), the Cabinet Secretary said a SIM or RUIM card user on average use TK 200 per month or if one percent surcharge is imposed to that calculation, the users of SIM and RIUM cards would have to pay additional TK two on average per month. But, ultimately, the mobile phone operators would pay the development surcharge to the government.
Before placing the proposal to the cabinet, the NBR consulted the stakeholders concerned about it.
He said though the amount is very insignificant in the perspective of a user but the total revenue income of TK 140 crore is a good amount for using the development of education and health sectors.
The Cabinet Secretary said the proposed development surcharge will be applicable from the date of government circular in this regard.
Ministers and state ministers and secretaries concerned were present.
Cabinet okays 1% surcharge on cell phone earnings
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The "insulin index" tries, but fails, as it uses real foods that vary in carb/fat and are matched based on calories not grams of protein which distorts the results (100cal of baked beans is mostly carb, 100cal of eggs is mostly fat, 100cal of fish is mostly protein = worthless results) Info specifically on glucagon responses seems even more rare/nonexistent, all I keep seeing is amino acids = insulin/glucagon response
It's my understanding that all dietary protein, regardless of source provoke both insulin and glucagon responses based on its digestion rate. To make this even more complex, whey being very quickly absorbed and of high bioavailability is going to spike insulin faster than an equal quantity of slower digested or less bioavailable proteins (less usable aminos)
Are whey proteins invoking more insulin response than other proteins over time, or is the higher bioavailability/faster absorption simply providing a larger volume of aminos in a shorter time? This is the question, and it's one I've yet to find a good answer to


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The family heading up Wascher's Chiropractic Center, 1905 Mill Lane, Williamsport, hopes to spread the word that chiropractic care is for everyone, at all ages and in all states of health. While the Waschers have been in business for over 40 years, they constantly are stressing this message.
"We'd like to have the community understand what chiropractic is... and have it be a part of their wellness plan," said Barbara Wascher, office manager.
Barbara's husband, Williamsport native Dr. David Wascher, has been practicing since 1970 and in that time the center has expanded into a family business: the staff now includes son Dr. Damon Wascher, chiropracter; daughter Dawn Naugle, certified massage therapist; and daughter Dana Naughton, X-ray technician.
Barbara Wascher said she believes the business's success comes from a combination of experience and a family-oriented atmosphere.
"It's our family serving your family," she said. "We see a lot of families."
Chiropractic is recommended "for everyone from birth to death," she added. "We see infants. Chiropractic helps with pregnancy. We also do wellness."
Chiropractic is sometimes still thought of by the general public as strictly an injury treatment service, but "it's more than that," she said.
The Waschers typically recommend wellness visits once per month or once every six weeks for injury-free patients. The exact recommendation varies with the patient's level of daily activity. Wellness visits can keep a patient's spine properly aligned and improve the effectiveness of the immune system.
For those patients who are experiencing illness or injury, Wascher's Chiropractic Center offers a thorough examination, diagnostic testing and a variety of solutions for patients suffering from back and neck pain, work or auto injuries, pinched nerves or disc injuries. Patients can undergo a full chiropractic exam as well as surface EMGs (electromyography, or a study of muscle activity through the skin), thermography (a method of detecting nerve impingements) and X-rays. The doctors examine spinal structure, posture and other factors to determine the root of the patient's problem and offer solutions varying from specialty pillows and back supports to orthotics, in addition to performing spinal adjustments and massage.
The services offered have remained the same for years, but the family has made one recent change: Wascher's Chiropractic Center now has a website, offering information to potential patients, at www.wascherchiropracticcenter.com.
The Waschers serve patients in Lycoming, Tioga, Clinton, Sullivan and Union counties. New patients and families are welcome. For more information, call 326-3393.


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[QUOTE=Grok;916041]So, you actually know what that dolphin picture is supposed to mean? Perhaps you can enlighten us.[/QUOTE]
My interpretation of the dolphin gif is that they are frolicking along having fun, thinking that they are doing stuff. But that 'stuff' is a little aimless and ultimately achieves little except the amusement of others. Much like this thread and the petition to reinstate the Darth.
p.s. I struggled not to LOL looking at it from work yesterday. And my daughter 8yo daughter thinks that it is hilarious too.


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A ladies "top bollocks."
"Look at the breasticles on that"
dari neilbombd Kamis, 30 Januari 2003
Male breasts that defy the norm. Also commonly referred to as "man boobs" - just a little more sophisticated.
Standing at the bar I nearly hit on a guy with "breasticles" the size of Aunt Martha's mammary protuberances.
dari IamwhoIam69 Senin, 06 Januari 2014
A woman's breasts and/or vagina and/or rear-end. Her girlie bits.
He was totally checking out my breasticles.
dari steigerbeat Kamis, 22 April 2010
check out that chick's breasticles.
dari end of the internet Kamis, 15 April 2010
. Manboobs
. Erected nipples
. Shaggy breasts (Female)- 'It resembles testicles'
. Torpedos
. Erected nipples
. Shaggy breasts (Female)- 'It resembles testicles'
. Torpedos
"What a good Daddy, he can use his breasticles feed tha baby while Mama's busy on her manjina."
dari Lil Tankstar Sabtu, 28 November 2009
saggy ass titties
that biatch gots some saggy breasticles
dari elbasha Kamis, 16 Oktober 2008
The way to describe when a woman does something good. The opposite of the term 'balls' for men...as in.."Man, you've got some balls to dump her".
"You've got some breasticles"
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Census: Pa. population grows; Erie County's remains stagnant
While Pennsylvania's population continues to grow, Erie County's remains stagnant, according to new estimates reported by the U.S. Census Bureau.
Erie County's population has remained at about 280,000 since 2000.
The Census Bureau, which recently released population estimates for individual counties nationwide, shows Erie County's population on July 1 was 280,294, a slight dip of 0.2 percent, or 529 people, when compared with the 280,823 recorded July 1, 2012.
The county's population at the 2010 count was 280,566, and in 2000 was 280,843.
The state's overall population has risen during the same time span.
Census estimates show Pennsylvania's population on July 1 was 12,773,801, up nearly 9,300 people from the previous year. Most of that growth occurred in the Philadelphia and Pittsburgh regions.
The state's population in 2010 was 12,702,379, and in 2000 was 12,281,054.
"This concerns me," Erie County Executive Kathy Dahlkemper said Friday. "In general, the country is growing in numbers, and our region is stagnant. But I believe there's a lot of unrealized potential here. We have room for growth."
Many rural areas continue to see population decline.
Crawford County's population dropped by 311 residents, to 87,376 on July 1 from 87,687 on July 1, 2012.
Nearby Venango County's population fell to 53,907 on July 1 from 54,283 the previous year.
The Census Bureau is expected to release population estimates for individual cities in May, officials said Friday.
The city of Erie's population has been on the decline for several decades.
Census estimates in July 2012 showed 101,047 people living in the city, the lowest population total for Erie in 92 years.
The last time Erie's population was below 100,000 was in 1920, when it was 93,372.
Dahlkemper said Erie County's stagnant population is primarily a "job situation."
"If a person doesn't have a job, or a family-sustaining wage, they're going to move elsewhere. It's all about economic development," she said. "We're also seeing that with our young people. Many graduate from here and move elsewhere."
GERRY WEISS can be reached at 870-1884 or by e-mail. Follow him on Twitter at twitter.com/ETNweiss.


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Households without mail service will be able to pick up Social Security checks beginning Thursday at open post offices nearby, the United States Postal Service said.
Where regular mail service has resumed, those checks will be delivered as usual. Other mail will not be available at post office branches for households without normal mail delivery.
Mail service has been restored to broad swaths of the region, spokespeople said, but road obstructions and utility outages make some areas inaccessible. People in Philadelphia can go to their local post office to pick up their checks, spokeswoman Cathy Yarosky said.


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A little-noticed political appointment, made this week, has sent some Labour MPs into a lather of indignation. Gordon Brown has appointed Ian Austin as his new parliamentary private secretary.
Why the fuss? Well, before Mr Austin won his seat in 2005, he was Mr Brown's political adviser and press secretary, part of the Chancellor's cast-iron cabal. Labour MPs are dead worried that Mr Brown, if he becomes Prime Minister, will run a government so cliquey that it will put a girls' boarding school to shame. They fear that if they're not part of Gordon's gang, they'll be nobody.
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Showtime (Sun., Jan. 21, 8 P.M. ET)
In this slow-starting espionage film Albert Finney, who coincidentally has also played Hercule Poirot (see box), stars as a British intelligence agent looking into the murder of his former lover. Flashbacks and unconnected occurrences make this story of double and triple cross very confusing and hard to follow at first.
A plot (reminiscent of The Spy Who Came In from the Cold) finally emerges, and it becomes apparent that Finney is giving an artful, muscular performance as a tough old operative whose wife thinks he's a mild-mannered wine merchant.
George Segal, Maggie Han's co-star and millstone in Murphy's Law, makes a wonderful villain. He's surprisingly scary without his usual veneer of cheesy charm. By the time Finney has defected to the Soviet Union, the story has become quite involving. If you can sit on your hands (and your remote control) through the opening, your persistence will be rewarded.
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16 Things New Parents Deserve to KnowLori Garcia
Parenting is awesome. And frightening. And wonderful. And hard.
Whenever a couple announces their first pregnancy, I'm filled with glee and yes, a hint of sympathy. If they only knew how much life was about to change. If they only knew how much they were about to be challenged. If they only knew how much they don't know.
The fact is, no one tells you the whole truth about parenthood the whole truth is more than just words. Parenthood is an accumulation of beautiful bittersweet experiences that have to be lived to be fully understood.
While I may never find the perfect words to comfort expecting parents, my experience can offer these 16 things they simply deserve to know.
It gets harder 1 of 16Unfortunately sore nipples, sleepless nights, and colic are not as hard as it gets. But that's OK; you're up for the challenge.
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Your kid won't always be the best 2 of 16Your kid may not always be the smartest, cutest, fastest, or most creative, but he is to you and that's all that matters. Humility is a valuable lesson for both parents and children.
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Just say no to competition 3 of 16Limit your association with parents who make everything a competition. You're running your own race here and every parent trying their best deserves to be a winner!
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Dirt don't hurt 4 of 16It's only natural to want to keep that precious baby as shiny and new as the day she was born, but science confirms that kids need dirt. Relax with the antibacterial wipes, Mom and Dad!
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You might know more than your doctor 5 of 16Trust your gut. While doctors are medical professionals, you're a professional when it comes to your kid. If something isn't right, speak up and advocate for your child.
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Ask for help 6 of 16There's no gold medal for doing it all on your own. Recognizing your personal limitations and asking for help is the greatest gift you can give yourself and your family.
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You know less than you think 7 of 16We were all "better" parents before we had kids. Abandon those "I'd never let my kid" notions and get real. We're all learning as we go.
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Just when you figure your kid out… 8 of 16...they'll change like a cosmic joke. Parenting is a constant evolution designed to keep you on your toes.
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Don't rush in to help 9 of 16Allow your kids to stumble, argue, fail, and ask for help. It's all part of learning and normal child development.
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The kisses stop 10 of 16Enjoy all the sweet tender moments your child will allow because sadly, they won't last forever.
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There are no experts 11 of 16Don't let those sanctimommies fool you. All any parent can claim to be an expert in is their own child. Do what you know in your heart to be best for your child.
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Keep other interests 12 of 16It's wonderful to take your parenting responsibility very seriously, but maintain your personal interests. Parenthood, while a huge part of you, is not all of you.
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They get more expensive 13 of 16When you first start bleeding money for diapers, formula, and miscellaneous baby gear, you'll make a silent promise to your bank account that once they're potty trained and eating solid food things will get financially easier. I'm sorry to tell you this, but they don't.
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You will screw up 14 of 16You will screw up in spite of your admirable intentions. Take comfort in knowing we've all done it and will continue to do it; we're human!
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It happens 15 of 16Leave it to your child to wake up with a fever on your first day of vacation, cry through a family photo session, or vomit for the babysitter on your first date night in ages.
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There is simply no greater joy… 16 of 16...than parenthood. You've done your soul proud and given the world a precious gift in your child.
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Chris Norton ('10) | College of Business Administration
Owner, Enchilada Express
Abilene, Texas
With a bit of hard work and a big appetite for success, ACU graduate Chris Norton ('10) took a business plan he created for an ACU entrepreneurship class and used it to change his life.
Chris created the business plan for a Mexican food delivery company while taking a class in ACU's College of Business Administration. After graduating, he took his ideas into the real world to start Abilene's Enchilada Express.
Inspiration for a business
The world is in great need of more Christian-oriented business people. ACU's College of Business Administration is a great place to learn what it takes.
"I came up with the idea in college after always being tired and worn out from school and work, and not wanting to cook, and not wanting to go anywhere to buy anything and then bring it back home," Chris says. "Food delivery was always popular around our house but there were simply not many options. I always had a passion for Mexican food, and one day it just popped into my head, 'Why is there not a Mexican food delivery company?' Eighteen months later, here we are."
In the entrepreneurship class, Chris was required to develop a business idea that included ways to ensure his business would succeed and make a profit. During the process, he learned about unforeseen and unexpected costs, slow initial sales and early cash flow complications. This project helped pave the way for his new restaurant.
"The class was very helpful in really helping me understand the financial aspects of what is required to open a business," Chris says.
Although only open since October, Chris believes Enchilada Express's future is promising. He believes the idea was creative, and because it is the first of its kind in Abilene, it has an advantage.
"We broke the barrier, created a company when we had nothing to follow, and we are the first company to do what it is we do," Chris says. "We serve a market that no one else does."
Hard work pays off
After developing the idea, Chris began the process of building his restaurant. He ran into challenges looking for loans, finding the right location, coordinating plumbing and electrical work, and getting the restaurant equipment - but eventually it all came together. Along with this preparation, Chris used his background and connections with a friend at a Mexican food restaurant to learn the ways of the kitchen.
"I would watch all kinds of dishes being prepared in the kitchen, ask lists of questions, then take numerous and detailed notes about everything and the processes involved," Chris says. "After seeing this Mexican food being cooked, I would spend my weekends at home re-creating all the food that I had seen made. I am sure my wife was sick of eating all different kinds of enchiladas every weekend."
Although the days are long, Chris loves working in the restaurant business because "every day has its own set of challenges."
Learning to be a Christian in business
Looking back at his time as a student in ACU's business school, Chris says the unique personality blend among the professors enriched his experience.
"I really appreciated the side stories that professors would tell about their life experiences in business and how sometimes their ethics and Christian beliefs were challenged in certain situations, and what they did about it," Chris says. "This really gave me an above-the-textbook perspective on how to look at situations in business and live and judge them for what they are with the Christian mindset."
COBA not only taught Chris how to establish a successful business, but also the value of Christian business practices, he says. "The world is in great need of more Christian-oriented business people. ACU's College of Business Administration is a great place to learn what it takes."
Learn how ACU can help you to become an entrepreneur at acu.edu/springboard
Learn more about attending ACU
- Dr. Laura Phillips College of Business Administration
- Leah Jones Knippel ('99) Freedom Stones founded by ACU grads to fight human trafficking
- E.J. Johnson ('11) Marketing
- Amy Morris ('14) Accounting & Finance
- Brandon Bartee ('06) Financial Management
- Kara Jenkins ('10) Master of Accountancy
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If you thought you knew the story of 'The Princess and The Pea,' you may be in for a wonderful surprise.
The Union Township Middle School Drama Club will present this lighthearted version of that classic fable, "Once Upon a Mattress," at 7 p.m. on Friday, April 11, and 7 p.m. on Saturday, April 12, on the school's stage.
"Once Upon a Mattress" is a creative and lighthearted twist on a traditional fairy tale that brings some surprises.
For example, were you aware that it might not have actually been the pea that caused the princess a sleepless night?
The UTMS production is filled with song, both hilarious and melodic. This rollicking spin on the familiar classic of royal courtship provides for some hilarious moments. Chances are, you'll never look at fairy tales quite the same way again. Meet this cast of characters as the students of Union Township Middle School bring them to life for you on their school stage.
The hard working cast and crew of "Princess and the Pea." is comprised of 39 multi-talented students in grades 5-8 p.m. at Union Township Middle School under the direction of UTES Music Teacher and Drama Club Advisor, Peggy Button.
Beginning in early January, participants began rehearsing four days a week to create scenes that bring the court of this crazy cast of characters to life.
This show is a G2K adaptation of Rodgers and Hammerstein's "Once Upon a Mattress" based on the book by Jay Thompson, Dean Fuller, and Marshall Barer, adapted by Tom Briggs. The Music is by Mary Rodgers with Lyrics by Marshall Barer and G2K musical adaptations by Tom Briggs and Bruce Pomahac. It is produced in arrangement with Hal-Leonard Corporation 7777 W. Bluemound Rd Milwaukee, WI 53213.
Tickets will be available at the door for $6 each. Don't miss this opportunity for a never-too-old-for-this classic for everyone to enjoy. Union Township Middle School is located at 165 Perryville Road in Hampton.
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Berlin Campgrounds on the Fox
Riverside Park, one of the premier community parks in east central Wisconsin, stretches some 3,700 feet along the east bank of the Fox River in the northern portion of the city. At 38 acres, the park serves as Berlin's primary park facility. The park is heavily used by boaters, fisherpersons, campers, picnickers and athletes and provides access to the Fox River. It also accommodates softball and volleyball leagues, youth programs, and hosts a number of community events and festivals. Facilities include two lighted softball diamonds and an unlighted youth baseball diamond; six volleyball courts; over 2000 feet of sea wall with boat moorings; a double boat launch; state-of-the-art basketball courts with glass backboards; eight lighted horseshoe courts; 25-unit RV camping area with 16 electric hookups and fire pits, shoreline moorings, water supply, and dump station; three large shelter houses with restrooms and electricity; 5 youth playground areas and Clark School Museum.
From the east: Come into Berlin on Hwy 91 go right on Wisconsin St. to Waushara St. Take a left onto Waushara St, and the campgrounds will be immediately in front of you.From the North or West: Come in on Hwy 91 (Broadway St) and make a left onto Wisco
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Happy Birthday to the Very Hungry Caterpillar!
Sunday, March 20th is Very Hungry Caterpillar Day and we feel like celebrating another great year with our favorite Eric Carle character! How better to celebrate 41 years of such a memorable and beloved book than throwing a party!
Today we are giving away a suite of Very Hungry Caterpillar-themed party supplies. These are some of our hottest sellers on our website and for this special day, we're giving one lucky blog reader a complete set so they can throw their own Caterpillar party! They make the perfect decorations for birthday parties, baby showers or for any kind of party, really.
This giveaway includes 1 package each of:
Paper plates, cups, bowls, party hats, party horns, balloons, cupcake wrappers, big bowls, a tablecloth, invitations, thank you notes, pin badges, stickers, bubbles, favor bags, birthday banner and birthday garland! You can check our website here to see how many of each come in a package (usually about 6-8 per package).
All you have to do to enter is leave a comment below before Friday, March 18th at 12:00 EST. After that we'll close the comments and announce the lucky winner. Good luck and party on!
Comments now closed.
I'm a bit late announcing the winner because we are having such a busy and wonderful birthday weekend here at The Carle, but the winner of the party supply set is….Jana Putos! Congratulations, Jana. We'll be in touch with you shortly about sending your prizes. Thank you all for your lovely birthday wishes and we'll be back in April for another giveaway!
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Violations of freedom of expression in the name of religion increasingly taking place online, impacting women and sexual minorities
Violations of freedom of expression in the name of religion, are increasingly taking place online, and disproportionally impact women and sexual minorities.
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Feminist Principles of the Internet - version 1
Over three days, the participants discussed and debated intersections of gender, sexuality, and the internet – not only as a tool – but as a new public space. In thinking through these issues, the participants at the meeting developed a set of 15 feminist principles of the internet. These are designed to be an evolving document that informs our work on gender and technology, as well as influences our policy-making discussions when it comes to internet governance.
NetHui 2014: New Zealand discusses the next 25 years of the internet
NetHui 2014 was the fourth annual meet up of the New Zealand internet community. Hosted by InternetNZ the theme was Shaping Our Future Together: The Internet in 25 years. Judging by attendance numbers and the quality of discussion, the future of the internet in New Zealand is bright indeed.
New GenderIT.org edition is out! Back and forth in the advancement of women's rights at CSW58
This GenderIT.org edition addresses the negotiations and bargaining in agreements during the 58th session of the Commission on the Status of Women (CSW58) around information and communication technologies and women's rights, as well as the prospects for 2015, a key year for the women's movement agenda. Despite the advances made, once again advocates had to focus their efforts on defending previous agreements instead of building on them for visible progress.
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Women may not have been an active part of policy-making conversations when internet governance started, but the rapid pace of change online means they need to participate now to ensure that the future of the internet is shaped taking into account women's rights. Read a report about "Women's Rights on the Internet" on UNICEF's The World We Want 2015 platform.


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Paltrow to Join Ducasse, Redzepi as Chefs Plan $773 U.K. Feast
Alain Ducasse, Rene Redzepi, Michel Roux Jr. and Pierre Koffmann are among the chefs planning to attend Taste of London, which opens on June 16 in Regent's Park. If that's too many cooks, Gwyneth Paltrow is also going.
Paltrow will be signing her cookbook "Notes From My Kitchen Table" on June 19. She should be able to pick up a few tips from some of the culinary masters at the annual event, which attracts thousands of food lovers hoping to meet their kitchen heroes and to sample dishes from fancy restaurants.
The gastronomic highlight this year is a five-course meal created by Roux, Koffmann, Chris Galvin, Gary Rhodes and Silvena Rowe. There are four seatings, two each on June 16 and 17. Just don't get your hopes up: It's a corporate-hospitality event for which the tickets cost 474 pounds ($773), which is 395 pounds plus value-added tax. The standard door price to Taste of London is 26 pounds for four hours.
"I always enjoy Taste because it's a chance to represent your restaurants and to meet your customers," Rhodes said yesterday in a telephone interview. "It's also an opportunity to meet other chefs, swap a couple of dishes and have a glass of wine together. But it is hard work. We're looking at doing 3,000 or 4,000 main courses and another 3,000 desserts."
Visitors buy vouchers known as Crowns, which they swap for tasting portions from participating restaurants. The list this year includes Barrafina, Benares, Bocca di Lupo, Club Gascon, Corrigan's Mayfair, Gauthier Soho, Le Gavroche, Opera Tavern, the Ritz and Tamarind. Crowns are two for 1 pound and the average dish is 8 to 10 Crowns.
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That's not cheap when you consider that the set lunch is 27 pounds for three courses at Corrigan's and 25 pounds at Gauthier Soho. The advantage of Taste is that you may meet leading chefs and it can also be enjoyable to spend a few hours in the park with fellow lovers of food and drink. There are bars and wine-tasting tables and also cooking demonstrations, including an appearance by Ducasse at 1:30 p.m. on June 16.
British Airways, one of the main sponsors, will operate a stand called Height Cuisine, inspired by the TV show "Heston's Mission Impossible," in which chef Heston Blumenthal showed how taste changes in a pressurized cabin. Visitors will be able to sample new dishes and take part in wine and food tastings.
Chefs will compete in the Laverstoke Park British BBQ Championship heats, for which I'm a judge on June 18. (It's unpaid and I was invited by Laverstoke Park, the farm of former Formula One champion Jody Scheckter. I'm not involved in Taste.)
This year, there's an exclusive area called the Secret Garden, for which tickets cost 125 pounds on the door or 95 pounds in advance. If you think that's expensive, spare a thought for the organizers of Taste of London.
Taste Festivals Ltd. posted net income of 179,578 pounds for the year ended March 31, 2010, down from 470,484 pounds a year earlier, as sales fell 26 percent to 3.38 million pounds.
Taste of London, June 16-19 in Regent's Park. Information: http://www.tastefestivals.com/london/
(Richard Vines is the chief food critic for Muse, the arts and leisure section of Bloomberg News. Opinions expressed are his own.)


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So, pop machines are no longer such a great source of revenue for schools ("School soda deal loses fizz," Press, June 18). I say wonderful! Keep the pop machines out of our schools. Pop is one reason why obesity and diabetes are at epidemic levels -- and becoming a serious health problem for young people and children at alarming rates.
In addition, pop leeches calcium and other important minerals from the body, increasing risks for disorders like osteoporosis. Artificially sweetened sodas are no better. These chemicals have been linked to all sorts of health problems -- and can actually trigger the appetite. And, have you read the ingredient list on so-called sport drinks?
Having pop machines in schools is akin to allowing pornographers to set up secret cameras in our schools' washrooms.
Bottom line, our kids should not be for sale.
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By tdw on Jan 10, 2005
Now, I knew that I owed some, but it appears as though Sun haven't been taking quite enough tax off me every month, and as a consequence I now have this significant amount to pay up. Ho hummm.......
Now, I knew that I owed some, but it appears as though Sun haven't been taking quite enough tax off me every month, and as a consequence I now have this significant amount to pay up. Ho hummm.......
I think the HRM may be a little over-optimistic when calculating calories used. However, I do also know that when exercising 5+ days a week, I do tend to eat more, so maybe it is just me.
I ended the week with a 10+ mile easy run yesterday over a slight variation of my usual course which takes me into Sheffield City Centre and back out again the hard way (2+ miles up-hill). The emphasis was on distance not pace, and I was rather pleased to find that I had plenty left in my legs for the up-hill route out of town. In fact, I was tempted to carry on running at the end, I felt so good. This is a good sign.
Total mileage for the week, including the speed work on the treadmill on Friday was just over 31. That's a record for me. I'd like to keep it between 25 and 30 if I can, but a lot depends on the demands of work and the vagaries of the winter weather.
With capacity, not speed being the essence for the second disk, I ordered a 120GB Seagate ST312087AS SATA drive. In an earlier blog, I referred to thid drive as 160GB. Despite the order clearly stating that it was 120GB, I had convinced myself otherwise. I really must concentrate more when messing on the Internet!! 120Gb will be fine anyway, for now, as I only have just over 1hr of digital video to edit (that's around 12GB!!!!!).
So, onto the success.... The HDD and IEEE 1394 (FireWire) cable I ordered arrived Friday, so Saturday I set about getting the HDD installed. I have to say it was a breeze to fit - the motherboard came with the appropriate ATX to SATA power cable converter and two SATA data cables. It was a tiny bit fiddly getting the SATA data cable connected to the motherboard socket, but it was done in a couple of minutes of grunting and squeezing of fingers into little gaps. After rebooting the machine the BIOS picked up the new disk immediately and I downloaded a utility from Seagate and had the disk partitioned (well, one partition) in less than 10 minutes. Great!!
And to the failure... Having successfully got the disk set up, I started Pinnacle Studio, hooked up my DV camera via the new FireWire cable and prepared to start downloading all of the lovely home video. No joy! Pinnacle reports that it can't find a camera attached to the IEEE1394 connection. I played with this for ages, alternately fiddling with the camera, reseating the FireWire cable and rebooting the PC. All to no avail. The BIOS reports it as being active and Windows XP says the hardware is working correctly, but the camera is just not recognised.
Noting that there are two IEEE 1394 sockets on card, I wondered if I had a faulty port, so I opened up the PC and swapped over the internal connectors on the motherboard. Still no joy
Next I thought I'd give the iPOD a try, as it has FireWire and it would give me an indication of whether the camera/new cable was faulty or the controller itself. Using the iPOD's supplied FireWire cable, I hooked it up, started iTunes and waited. Nothing! No amount of fiddling would get iTunes to spot the iPOD attached via FireWire. I gave up.
I returned to the problem late Sunday, did some research - searching the support websites for Apple, Asus, Microsoft and Sony, but none had anything matching the problem I was seeing. No missing drivers or anything. So now I'm stuck! I'm very disappointed that I just couldn't get it working and what's worse, couldn't find any diagnostic tools to help me debug the problem. I might have to order a PCI IEEE1394 card, even though one of the criteria for buying that specific ASUS motherboard was because it had FireWire on-board. Ho humm. At least I have plenty of disk space now anyway


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Featured Golf News
New Airport Terminal, Roadway Ease Travel to Vietnam Resort
While it remains apart in terms of heritage, beauty and character, Dalat Palace Golf Club has improved its connections with Vietnam's major cities thanks to a new airport terminal and better access roads linking airport and resort.
Dalat Palace Golf Club
The storied layout, originally laid out in the 1920s for Bao Dai, the last emperor of Vietnam, and renovated/expanded to 18 holes in 1995, after years of disuse, has long been one of the jewels in the country's golfing crown.
Despite its reputation within Vietnam and regionally, however, the course's location, in splendid isolation amidst rolling pine-clad hills in the former French hill station of Dalat in the Central Highlands, has often counted against it. It wasn't so long ago that flights to the formerly outmoded Lien Khuong Airport were sporadic, while transfer times between the airport and town were adversely affected by the poor condition of the single carriageway road.
With train links nonexistent and bus journey times to the nearest major conurbation, Ho Chi Minh City, clocking in at anything between 6 to 10 hours depending on weather and traffic, visiting Dalat was not an undertaking to be treated lightly.
Dalat Palace Hotel
However, the airport underwent major reconstruction in 2009, enabling it to receive international flights. Lien Khuong now boasts numerous daily connections between Vietnam's commercial hub, Ho Chi Minh City, its capital, Hanoi, and its third most-populous city of Danang.
There are five flights per day between Ho Chi Minh City and Dalat (four on national carrier Vietnam Airlines and one on well-respected newcomer Air Mekong) with a flight time of 50 minutes each way. Between Hanoi and Dalat there are two flights a day (one on Vietnam Airlines and one on Air Mekong) with flights taking an hour and 45 minutes. Meanwhile, Danang (home to a pair of first-class golf resorts, Danang Golf Club and The Montgomerie Links) is linked by one Vietnam Airlines flight taking one hour and 20 minutes.
"Getting in and out for a game has never been easier. Gone are the days when Dalat was seen as a bit of a novelty, an outpost," says Lan Duong, Dalat Palace Golf Club's general manager. "That's no longer the case. You can take your clubs to the airport on Friday, enjoy two days of golf at the course and then make it back for work on Monday.
"Not only are the improved links great for those who live in Vietnam, they are also heaven-sent for those enjoying a golf vacation in-country. Golfers can get here easily from the main international gateways of Hanoi and Ho Chi Minh City. What's more, they can move easily between here and other golf destinations.
"Danang, which is a must visit for its two courses, is a short flight away, while the two courses at Mui Ne [the Nick Faldo-designed Ocean Dunes GC layout and the scenic Sea Links G&CC] are just four hours down the hill by road."
Not only do golfers benefit from the increased frequency of flights, they reap the rewards of an improved infrastructure at the Dalat end.
The manageable size of the airport terminal means that baggage claims rarely take much time. Meanwhile, the road between Dalat and the airport has been resurfaced and is now dual carriageway most of the way, meaning that transfers rarely take more than 30 minutes.
Visitors taking advantage of one of the stay-and-play packages run by Dalat Palace Golf Club and its partner hotels the four-star Hotel Dalat Du Parc and the five-star Dalat Palace Hotel are also entitled to free transfers to and from the airport and from their chosen hotel to the golf course.
"If we're not careful Dalat will get a reputation as a destination for lazy golfers," jokes Lan Duong. "Seriously though, the improved links are a God-send for Dalat and it is our responsibility to ensure that things are equally easy for our guests when they get here."
For more information, visit www.dalatpalacegolf.vn.
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Hello, This is really my first time posting in the forums, though I've been a member here for quite awhile. After my recent win, "Path To Infinity," I decided that I should take a more frequent role here.
Over the last MANY months here, I've noticed a couple t-shirt genre trends that have caught on. When I say "genres," I mean reoccurring designs that are printed. Now, I have no problem with designs that seem to be printed over and over, I just to hear some input on why this may be.
For example, If I go to the shop sections and search through the dozens of pages, I see many of the same designs that could fit into a specific genre. Reoccurring images such as, lightning bolts, owls, deer, tigers, and wolves- just for starters. It seems that the current community here has a strong liking for these types. Not that this is wrong, I am just curious as why this may be?
As an artist, I want to constantly reinvent the wheel in my own way. I have yet to see numerous strong astronomy/space-oriented T-shirts here at DBH, I feel that it is a show that needs to be filled. For me, Astronomy is the most interesting topic for me to fully express my art through and that is what I'll continue to do.
So folks, I want to hear your input!
And to the Staff at DBH, what you're doing here for these artists is fantastic and nothing short of genius, keep up the great work! And artists, keeping making beautiful designs! :D


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Common misspelling of Hayley Williams of the band Paramore
Random person commenting on a Paramore blog post- OMG Haley Williams i lo0o0ove u please come to (insert hometown here)
Random person reading comment- Dude, it's spelled Hayley. C'mon.
Random person reading comment- Dude, it's spelled Hayley. C'mon.
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Can you define these popular missing words?
A sex addict, who likes penis and vag. Shes an insecure tree. She's not exactly the smartest person, she probably thinks the universe is in the milky way and Florida is in California. When looking in a mirror she thinks that it cracking is a sign of beauty.
Look at that hoe, her name must be Haley Williams
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How does one get Linux to not automatically sort the directory contents by
number? I have a CDROM of 225 MP3's that are named one though
two-hundred-twenty five. (1-255). When I go to burn the cdrom the programs
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In this exercise, I am going to introduce you to the Channel Mixer command which allows us to mix color channels together in order to among other things, craft our own custom black and white image which is what we're about to do. I am looking at the image called YSM. psd. YSM of course stands for you are smooshing me because this guy right here is going hey, hello. How are you? I am star of the image and this poor woman is going help, you are smooshing me! Something along those lines.
At least, as I say, that's the story I am reading into the image. Your version may vary. In addition to the you are smooshing me image, I have got a couple of other variations here that I have created, that I created in the previous exercise that is to say, and you can go ahead and open them up as well if you want to. The first one is called Method 1(composite).psd so called because that was an RGB to Grayscale Composite Conversion and then we've got Method 2(green).jpg so called because I kept the Green channel, and threw away the Red and Blue channels. I could adjust this easily, kept the Red channel or kept the Blue channel if I wanted to.
Then finally, we've got Method 3 (lightness).jpg. I went ahead and converted the RGB image to Lab, then I selected the Lightness channel and converted it to grayscale, threw away a and b. So we have three different grayscale conversions going just for the sake of comparison. Each one of these by the way is found inside of the Ways to gray subfolder which is found inside of the 13 Channel mix folder. I am going to return to this guy right here the YSM.psd image and let's go ahead and apply the Channel Mixer function. Now, I could go up to the Image menu and choose Adjustments and then choose Channel Mixer if I wanted to apply a flat conversion. The Channel Mixer command in this case is dimmed because I can't affect the pixels directly inside of a smart object inside Photoshop. So instead, I am going to apply a more versatile adjustment layer.
So I am going to click on Close couple once again here inside the Layers palette. Then, I will press the Alt key or the Option key on the Mac, click-and-hold on the Black/White icon and choose Channel Mixer. Thanks to the fact that I have the Alt or Option key down, that bring up the New Layer dialog box. I will name this layer B&W and then I will click OK in order to bring up the Channel Mixer dialog box. Now, the first thing that the Channel Mixer dialog box allows us to do is to mix the Red, Green, and Blue channels into each of the Red, Green, and Blue channels, meaning for example, right now I am affecting the contents of the Red channel and I could change the Red channel to include so much Red like I could reduce the amount of Red, I could increase the amount of Green and I could increase the amount of Blue as well. So that I am adding green and blue to the Red channel.
Now, notice in this case, I have just applied some arbitrary values, but I am adding 57% Red to 71% Green and 27% Blue and I see that the Total is 155% altogether meaning that I am brightening the heck out of the Red channel. I am increasing it beyond 100%. I love this new addition inside of Photoshop CS3 the fact that it does the math for you, so that you don't have to track the math for yourself. In this case, this little warning is saying, hey, you are going too high. You might want to tone something down. So I would go ahead and reduce the amount of Red in this channel for example and notice as I do, it's tracking the total for me. It's telling me I am still too high. I will go ahead and take it down another ten down to 2% and as soon as I do, the little warning icon goes away.
It tells me that I am at 100%. I don't get a warning if I go too low. Notice that, if I go under 100%, there is no warning anymore which I think is kind of a strange decision on Adobe's part but that's the way it is. It still does track the total, that's nice. So that would give me sort of this goulish couple right there. If I were to modify their contents of the Red channel in such a way here, I can also change the Green and Blue channels if I want to. Now, if I am mixing my own custom black and white version of the image, then I want to turn on this checkbox right here Monochrome. So that I am mixing Red, Green, and Blue into a new gray version of the image as it were. So I will turn on the Monochrome checkbox, notice my Output Channel is now Gray. I can see that I am getting a grayscale version of the image.
By default, Photoshop wants to give you 40% Red mix with 40% Green and 20% Blue. Notice that, that adds up to 100%, if I were to change the values, I would get a new total as well. But for now, I am just going to accept these default values here and I am gong to click OK. So it's mostly Red and Green, equal parts Red and Green with half as much Blue added in. Then, I will go ahead and click OK to accept that modification there and let's go ahead and Shift+Tab away the palette so that we can see the entire custom grayscale version of the image. This is the Channel Mixer version of the image compared with the Composite Grayscale Conversion. It looks very similar. This is Method 1(composite).psd, so I just switch to this image.
So this is, once again just for the sake of comparison, this is the Channel Mixer version. Take a close look, and now I am going to switch this is the composite version. You'll see very, very little difference, just a slight little switch on screen. But they are not identical, so there are some differences. For example, if we switch back to the YSM image which is the Channel Mixer version of the image, you can see that the background is darker. Check out the background, slightly darker, it lightens up when we switch to the Composite RGB to Grayscale Conversion. So it's a slightly different mix of the channels and when you go from RGB to Grayscale, you do indeed mix the channels according to a predefined equation. Doesn't happen to be the equation we just applied but it is a predefined equation.
Now, let me show you, let's go back to the YSM.psd image right here. I am going to Shift+Tab up my Layers palette, so I can see it once again. I am going to double-click on the adjustment layer, so that I can revisit the Channel Mixer dialog box, there is my default settings. Here is the actual equation that most applications use to convert from RGB to Grayscale, not exactly this equation because actually Photoshop makes us in a little bit of color management as well, so it alters the equation according to your color settings inside the program.
But this is basically, this is a base equation. It's 40% Red plus 50% Green, so I have raised that value to 50% and then I will Tab to Blue and I will press Shift+Down Arrow to lower that to 10%. So 40% plus 50% plus 10%, why is it a lot Red even more Green and barely any Blue, because of the way that our eyes react to light. We have more red and green cones in our eyes than we have blue cones. So we're not seeing much in the way of blue light when we're looking at the world and of course the RGB to Grayscale Conversion takes advantage of that.
This is also why the Green channel bears the closest resemblance to a Composite Grayscale Conversion because the Composite Grayscale Conversion is mostly green. So it's 40%, 50%, and 10%, that's your base conversion. This isn't Photoshop by the way, this is the world in general. This equation actually hails from the days of black and white television and so on. I will go ahead and click OK in order to apply that conversion, let's Shift+Tab away the palettes now, let's compare this to the Composite Grayscale version.
This is the YSM image obviously subject to the Channel Mixer adjustment layer and this is the Method 1(composite) image which we created by converting the RGB image to Grayscale, using Photoshop's default settings. You can see that they are very similar to each other. This is one and this is the other, and the slight, slight, slight changes you are seeing are mostly the result of the way that Photoshop is calculating the High Pass smart filter on the fly here at the 50% View mode.
So that gives you a sense not only of how the Channel Mixer function works, but also of how industry standard RGB to Grayscale conversion works. In the next exercise, I will show you some more thrilling ways and some more custom ways of course to use the Channel Mixer command.
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SUPER-MIDDLEWEIGHT is one of boxings newer divisions but it has proved a fertile hunting ground for British talent.
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And I expect current Commonwealth king George Groves to soon join an impressive roster that includes Benn, Eubank, Collins, Calzaghe and Froch.
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If managed correctlly Groves could become #1 in the World @ 168Lb. He would however lose my respect if he was to go down the WBO road instead of biding his time & waiting his turn to challenge for the genuine article. The fact that he's fought in Germany & the USA is good & hopefully he continues taking fights abroad, I'd actually like to see him defend his Commonwealth title in Africa, Australia & Canada. Groves/Anderson II would also be nice to see, if only to return the Lonsdale belt to England!.
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i completley forgot Groves was fighting the road warrior tonight.
By the way Warren was talking there, im not gonna be surprised to see a British stoppage win for Groves. Johnson will be standing throwing back unhurt, behind on the cards and the ref will jump in to "save" him
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Airport Hotel Discount
Despite the continuing recovery in commercial real estate, some properties are changing hands at fire-sale prices, a reminder that lenders still have lots of properties on their books that they are selling at deep discounts.
The latest example came Friday, when the New York La Guardia Airport Marriott hotel was sold for about $22 million, roughly one-third the price it fetched when it was sold in 2007, according to people familiar with the property.
The 438-room hotel is one of the first large acquisitions made by Rubicon Cos., a private Greenwich, Conn., real-estate investment company founded by veteran hotel industry executive Marc Gordon. Rubicon bought the property from a lender group that included a unit of Capmark Financial Group Inc. The sale comes a little over a year after lenders took the property back from RLJ Lodging Trust. RLJ 1.35 % A predecessor company to RLJ Lodging Trust had acquired the La Guardia Marriott in 2007 and later defaulted on the debt. Former media magnate Robert L. Johnson is the founder and chairman of RLJ Lodging.
"The price point we bought it at is clearly a major part of the property's attraction," said Mr. Gordon, adding that it is in an attractive location near Manhattan.
In fact, the low selling price is somewhat puzzling to some lodging analysts. The hotel's occupancy rate over the past 12 months has been relatively high, in the 80% range. Daily room rates listed on the hotel's website start at $159. Yet, the $22 million selling price equals about $50,000 per room, far below the $163,130 average price paid in the New York City outer boroughs over the 12-month period ending in September.
The average price paid in Manhattan for the same period was $461,458, and some Manhattan hotels have fetched prices in the $700,000 range per room and higher, according to Real Capital Analytics, a real-estate research firm.
Airport hotels typically are valued at prices lower than their central business district counterparts but higher than traditional suburban properties, said Tom McConnell, executive managing director of the hotel transactions group at Cushman & Wakefield, the real-estate services firm that represented Capmark in the sale.
The lower price may partly reflect the condition of the property, which is in need of capital improvements both to its interior and exterior. In addition, hotels near La Guardia have been challenged in recent years by new competition. In the past, budget-conscious customers would stay at hotels near La Guardia Airport, which is located in the borough of Queens, because they were considerably less expensive than hotels in Manhattan. But in recent years, a number of moderately priced hotels have been built in Manhattan. And since Manhattan, not Queens, is often the destination of travelers, "many folks coming to New York would just as soon stay in Manhattan," said John Fox, a senior vice president with hotel consulting firm PKF Consulting USA.
Capmark, one of the biggest commercial real-estate lenders to go bust in the financial downturn, put the property on the market last spring after emerging from bankruptcy protection in 2011. While the tidal wave of steeply discounted hotel properties didn't occur to the degree expected, a number of distressed properties still are winding through the system and selling on a one-off basis, said Jan Freitag, senior vice president of STR Global, a lodging research firm.
Mr. Johnson is the founder of Black Entertainment Television, a cable network he sold to Viacom Inc. in 2001 for $3 billion. In recent years, Mr. Johnson began investing in hotels. He controlled the predecessor company that acquired the La Guardia Marriott. The property was part of the portfolio owned by RLJ Lodging when it went public in the spring 2011.Thomas J. Baltimore Jr., chief executive of RLJ Lodging, said the La Guardia property had been hurt by the recession, but that its fate was no longer relevant to RLJ Lodging.
Shares of the company, which has a portfolio of over 140 hotels in 21 states and the District of Columbia, closed at $20.37 Monday, 13% above the $18 its shares priced at when it went public in May 2011.
At the time of the hotel acquisition, Mr. Johnson's company said it planned to spend about $11.5 million renovating the property and focusing on upgrading its guest rooms. But the outlook for the property and the travel market quickly dimmed.
Much of the La Guardia Marriott's business is dependent on business travelers, though it also sees a surge in business every summer from the U.S. Open tennis championship held annually at the nearby Flushing Meadows-Corona Park.
Mr. Gordon said he hopes to use his experience managing hotels to improve operations at the La Guardia property. Mr. Gordon formed Rubicon in 2011 after stepping down from his post as president of Morgans Hotel Group Co. MHGC 0.00 % of New York, a publicly traded New York hotel group.
"It may not be the center of the universe like Manhattan, but this is one of the premier hotels in Queens," said Mr. Gordon.
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White rice has gone from the "never" list to the "oh, whatever" list for me and lots of others - it's basically empty starch calories without a lot of vitamins and minerals, or antinutrients / toxins either for that matter. I'm going to have some today with my homemade teriyaki chicken. Couldn't imagine an asian chicken dish without rice to go with it.


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Topics of Conservation
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Below Hailey the Valley widens out substantially, becoming a drier, more agricultural landscape. This warmer lower section of the watershed collects only about 220,000 af of precipitation from 255 square miles. In the research year, which long-term (80-year) river flow averages would suggest was unrepresentatively wet, precipitation plus upper valley contribution totaled 612,000 af, of which 161,000 was consumed by evapotranspiration, 107,000 by crop irrigation and less than 1,000 by residential use. Of the remaining 343,000 af that flowed out of the valley that year, only two-thirds left by way of the Big Wood River. The balance, representing underflow and seepage from irrigation canals and the river, first gathered in the aquifer and then either continued underground or surfaced through springs, before exiting the watershed at Picabo.
I did some math. Projecting a valley population of 50,000 (a possible total build-out figure, although the latest tally is not even 20,000) and a per capita water usage rate of 1,000 gallons per day (twice as much as current local averages and almost 6 times the national average), the human demand on the valley's watershed would be 56,000 af, but as much as 85 percent of this amount would be returned to the system. A corresponding increase in landscape irrigation could account for another 77,000 af, and only half of this would actually be consumed.
So, even assuming a bias in the research year and an explosion in population and water usage, the numbers by themselves seem to make a case that the Big Wood River watershed is a healthy, well-endowed, and accommodating water resource system. But as Dr. Brown reminds us, "Science tends to be weakest at extremes. It's much better at measuring and understanding the mid-range, the close-at-hand rather than the distant."
One such "extreme" occurred in June 1992 and was the catalyst that initiated the seven-year study. After several years of dry weather conditions and below-normal river flows, Silver Creek started suffering from reduced levels of dissolved oxygen. In one day, fifty large trout died. The same low dissolved-oxygen levels recurred last summer and caused stream managers to request a voluntary curtailment of fishing. These episodes can be considered "extreme;" or they can be taken as warning signs that the watershed is not as robust as the numbers suggest.
Perhaps more alarming is an indication that the delicate nature of the system extends beyond mere volume fluctuations. Recent reported instances of contaminated wells have exposed a potential problem in water quality, particularly in certain parts of the unincorporated county. Water quality issues will not only catch the eye of local health officials and county commissioners; they will attract the attention of the state.
In 1981, the state of Idaho designated the whole of the Big Wood River, from Titus Lake to Magic Reservoir, a Special Resource River. This means it is recognized by the state as "needing intensive protection," and it falls to the state Department of Environmental Quality to monitor its condition and implement policy. Part of this policy is to disallow any "new point source" that by reason of its discharge "can or will result in a reduction of the ambient water quality" as measured immediately below the discharge zone. The practical implication of the policy is that no new wastewater treatment facility, except where it replaces existing capacity, can be built. Nor can existing capacity be expanded. Consequently, any increased population growth will require alternative wastewater management applications, and these will probably interact, as septic systems do now, with the ground water.
Analyzing any dynamic system from a fixed perspective in time invites problems. This is particularly true when the system, such as a watershed, contains components that can neither be seen nor definitively measured, such as ground water and the aquifer. It seems important, therefore, to take great care before drawing conclusions from the Big Wood study. (For instance, in the above projection of a build-out scenario, the net consumption of water seems comfortably within the resource's tolerances, but in fact, unless recent practices change, almost all of the increased demand would be for ground water, of which there most likely would not be enough.)
The challenge facing County planners and citizens alike is to assess the impact of each new, expanded, or changed water use with the awareness that the next development or septic system or water right transfer or land use change or riverside encroachment has the potential to permanently impair a fragile system. Normally, the temptation is to embrace generalities and dismiss anomalies. But it is the anomalies, the extremes, that may have the greatest implications for the future of the Big Wood River watershed. Just like the dripping of melting snow in the middle of a winter night, they command one's attention.
Brought up and educated in New England, and professionalized in New York City, Bill Lowe came here in 1982 to raise a family and spend more time with his sense of humor. Currently, he's promoting a new circuit-board technology based on vector logic.
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Excellent hiking shoe but they don't make it anymore. Has lasted me many years, held up well under all conditions. Wish I could buy another pair.
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Stops in Montreal, Toronto for Arizona's No. 2 trading partner, at $1B annually.
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Lawsuits claim US Forest Service violated several environmental laws.
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Jobless rate hits 6 percent as people enter workforce faster than job creation.
24/7 service aimed at construction that could add dirt, pollutants to the air.
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Timothy Moll, 25, of Emmaus has been sentenced to 6 to 23 months in prison.
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Participants will meet at the Morris Goodwin School on Ye Greate Street in Greenwich.
The race began in memory of former Greenwich mayor, Wally Goodwin.
Goodwin, who was an avid jogger and weightlifter, served as mayor for 23 years and supported many local sports programs. He passed away unexpectedly on Dec. 17, 2005.
This year's race will benefit the C. Wallis Goodwin Memorial Scholarship Fund, Miracle for Mateo and the Greenwich Volunteer Fire and Rescue Squad.
Organizers of the race are seeking sponsors to help offset costs and to allow for a generous donation to the beneficiaries.
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The race is named for the 1774 tea burning by Greenwich citizens in defiance against tea taxation.
On Dec. 22, 1774, more than 40 Greenwich citizens dressed up as Native Americans, stole a shipment of tea from the house of Daniel Bowen and burned it in Market Square.
Greenwich is one of the five tea tax rebellion towns in the country, along with Charleston, S.C.; Annapolis, Md.; Princeton and Boston, Mass.
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>I think this construction is in an advanced state of near-death
and that most speakers would prefer the construction with the postposed
However, there are also constructions, notably Carsten's # 6:
>(6) Instead, the sites are used by local residents, of who some 25 per
or so come by foot and use the sites like an urban park, primarily to
take a walk (Harrison, 1981). (FR2: 453)
where the alternative construction with the postposed preposition does not
exist - which must have something to do with the fact that in these cases
the PP in which the relative pronoun functions is itself part of an NP,
rather than an adverbial on the level of the relative clause.
I still teach my (Dutch-speaking) students to use WHOM rather than WHO when
it is immediately preceded by a preposition, irrespective of whether this
occurs in a relative clause or in an interrogative sentence (To whom were
you talking just now?), but would you (and other native speakers) say that
perhaps I'd better not pay any attention to it? Or should I teach them to
avoid the construction with the initial preposition as much as possible
anyway? Are native speakers beginning to regard this as an awkward or
perhaps even unnatural construction?
At 14:43 1-7-99 -0500, you wrote:
>Dear Carsten and Al:
> Now that I actually see the data, I have to say that I wouldn't
>use those forms, but they almost sound better to me than the forms with
>'whom', which I obviously don't use either, since I just postpose the
>preposition (how's that for an oxymoron). I strongly suspect that this
>sort of construction is similar to what we find in cases of real
>language death: the grammar just goes all to hell, especially the
>morphology, and I think this construction is in an advanced state of
>near-death, and so perhaps the analogy holds (people with access to
>megacorpora could check this out for frequency, which I bet is very
>low). Of course, another possibility is that the construction has
>already died (read: changed to the postposed version), and is just being
>artificially kept 'alive' by the (pseudo-)'grammarians' who rail at
>'ending sentences with prepositions', etc., in much the same way that
>the change of various verb forms to 'ain't' has been kept by the
>grammarians from going to completion for over 400 years already.
> Jim
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