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The National Security Agency scandal shows no signs of losing steam, with the recent revelations about agency snooping on the leaders of U.S. allies. Even Senate Intelligence Committee Chair Dianne Feinstein, D-Calif., recognizes the need for a major probe of the nation's electronic surveillance programs.
But the NSA's scope has grown under the supposed supervision of Sen. Feinstein, her committee and their counterparts in the House. She is too close to the intelligence community to provide the required impartiality.
The same conflict affects the executive branch investigations of NSA launched last summer by President Barack Obama.
An independent investigation is required to address mounting revelations about the unsupervised and unauthorized activities of the NSA, beginning with its collection of bulk telephone data on all Americans, proceeding to its use of this data without court approval, and culminating in the president's assertion that he did not know it was listening to the phones of German Chancellor Angela Merkel and other allied foreign leaders.
The last time the intelligence community was enmeshed in a comparable scandal was during the 1970s, when independent House and Senate committees, headed by Rep. Otis Pike, D-N.Y., and Sen. Frank Church, D-Idaho, held hearings on highly questionable CIA activities. Those hearings led to the establishment of the House and Senate intelligence committees as part of a new structure, including a special federal intelligence court, designed to keep the spy agencies under the rule of law.
Now that it has been shown that the structure created in the 1970s has failed to control the activities of NSA, the president and Congress should create a national commission, along the lines of the one that investigated the Space Shuttle Challenger disaster, to conduct an independent investigation into the NSA disaster. By law, an investigation would have to be conducted under wraps, but any breaches of law it uncovers could be made public. And it could make recommendations for improving intelligence oversight and accountability.
In 1976, Sen. Church gave the following explanation for ensuring that the NSA must operate under the rule of law, with full accountability. It is as relevant today as it was 37 years ago:
"In the need to develop a capacity to know what potential enemies are doing, the United States government has perfected a technological capability that enables us to monitor the messages that go through the air. Now, that is necessary and important to the United States as we look abroad at enemies or potential enemies. We must know, at the same time, that capability at any time could be turned around on the American people, and no American would have any privacy left — such is the capability to monitor everything — telephone conversations, telegrams, it doesn't matter. There would be no place to hide.
"If this government ever became a tyrant, if a dictator ever took charge in this country, the technological capacity that the intelligence community has given the government could enable it to impose total tyranny, and there would be no way to fight back because the most careful effort to combine together in resistance to the government, no matter how privately it was done, is within the reach of the government to know. Such is the capability of this technology.
"I don't want to see this country ever go across the bridge. I know the capacity that is there to make tyranny total in America, and we must see to it that this agency and all agencies that possess this technology operate within the law and under proper supervision so that we never cross over that abyss. That is the abyss from which there is no return."
The nation's leaders should heed Sen. Church's prescient words.
An accounting is essential.
So is restraining the NSA.


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Solutions for Chapter 4
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'The drive to revive the language in effect failed'
Pól Ó Muirí
There is a very interesting review in this week's The Irish Catholic by that paper's book editor, Peter Costello, of The Irish Franciscans 1534-1990 (Four Courts Press, ed by Edel Bhreathnach, Joseph MacMahon OFM and John McCaffrey). Commenting on one of the essays in the collection, Costello notes: "The involvement of the Franciscans with the Irish language is one critical area but Dr Daly leaves unresolved the mystery of just why, passionate as it was, the drive to revive the language in effect failed. She notes that Sean Lemass had little interest in the language. We are now living, not in the Ireland that de Valera imagined and the Franciscans supported, but in the Ireland that Lemass created."
I am tempted, frivolously, to suggest that the Franciscan involvement with the language was due to some Medieval reports that suggested the language of heaven was, in fact, Irish. (Though, if memory serves me correctly, some Welsh clerics also made that claim for their own language.)
On a more serious note, did the 'revival' fail and was the State Lemass created, culturally, better than the one de Valera hoped for? Irish is not in the greatest health in many Gaeltacht areas but there is a Gaeltacht in seven counties of Ireland's 32, representing an unbroken linguistic link of immense importance and heritage; the language is doing well in many urban areas and there is a professional and educated class of Irish speakers, writers, dramatists, lecturers and thinkers whose company would surely have gladdened the heart of that most famous Franciscan, Aodh Mac Aingil, in his Louvain posting.
In fact, could one argue that there is more Irish in Ireland now than was ever the case even in Mac Aingil's time – and that that would not be the case without the State's help?


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MAKAWAO - A man sustained major facial injuries after a fight broke out among about 20 people outside Casanova Italian Restaurant and Deli in Makawao early Sunday morning, police said.
The man was taken to Maui Memorial Medical Center. No arrests had been made as of Monday, police said.
The incident occurred around 2:30 a.m. Sunday, police said. It has was upgraded from a misdemeanor assault case to a second-degree felony assault investigation because of the injuries suffered by the man.
Customer Jill Pridemore, who was with friends outside the restaurant during the incident, said the injured man is a friend in his mid-30s.
She said he suffered substantial injuries, including a shattered orbital, and was awaiting surgery Monday at Maui Memorial Medical Center.
Around six people were injured in her group of about 15 friends, with one needing to have stitches at the hospital, she said.
One person was knocked out, while another suffered some bruises but did not seek medical treatment.
Pridemore said the friends were outside the restaurant after a fundraiser for the nonprofit Jungle to Jungle Project, aimed at engaging Maui students in interactive, experience-based learning about exotic ecosystems around the world, while using new communications technology in the process.
"It was terrible. It's angry kids," Pridemore said. She said it was ironic that the attackers were youths ranging from about 17 to 21 years old and her group had just held a fundraiser for a youth program.
Pridemore said two young couples passed by the group first, with one person asking for a cigarette. One of Pridemore's friends gave a young male a cigarette. The young male talked to the group and then made an insulting remark about the females in the group, when a verbal argument started.
Then the young male returned with about seven others, with some wearing teeth guards, she said.
"It seemed pretty obvious they were looking for a fight," Pridemore added.
Members of the group looked like they were trained to fight using sophisticated stances, she said, adding that it's sad that the sport of mixed martial arts is glamorized, and young people emulate the aggressive behavior without thinking about the consequences.
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Ecommerce Re-Platforming Basics
Over the past decade, buying patterns and technology advances have radically altered business goals and competitive realities. Consumers demand faster, more engaging shopping experiences across multiple channels—in-store, of course, but increasingly also mobile and online. And the impact of a negative customer experience is significant: One Google survey reveals that more than half (52%) of consumers are less likely to engage with a business after a single bad mobile experience1. If a customer has to wait longer than a split second for a webpage to load, or if that site cannot deliver a rich, multichannel experience, that customer could be lost forever. Already, many retailers are realizing that their current platforms are no longer suited to their demanding digital customers' needs, not to mention their own.
Given the project scope and the potential consequences, re-platforming may seem daunting. This guide offers valuable insights into re-platforming, including how to determine if it's time to make a move, what factors need to be considered to ensure success, and which common architectures meet the needs of most enterprises.
According to a recent Forrester Research survey, more than half of ecommerce executives (54%) say re-platforming is their top priority over the next 12 months2. That's not surprising, given another Forrester survey3 that indicates that 81% of online retailers are currently using a self-built or licensed on-premises solution, yet 74% fear their existing solutions won't scale with their growth plans. And almost half (46%) of retailers report difficulty hiring the staff needed to manage their licensed platform or to continually tweak their internally built ecommerce platform. Ultimately, this means organizations are expending significant time and effort keeping up with market demands and running the underlying infrastructure.
The evolution of traditional retail into digital channels highlights the need for performance. The infrastructure required to deliver the digital experience is becoming increasingly complex, with demands for enhanced usability, responsiveness, and agility. This is occurring at a time when resources are spread thin across the organization, driven by demands like big data, internal user needs, and disaster recovery. Trying to push into the new digital reality with older systems results in sluggish performance and widespread inefficiency.
Most ecommerce stores re-platform every two to three years4. However, the timeline for re-platforming will vary based on the retailer's unique customer experience and performance goals. Re-platforming an ecommerce operation is a huge undertaking, encompassing both components of the ecommerce store:
- Evaluating the ecommerce platform: Can the current platform support future initiatives, or is it hindering existing plans?
- Evaluating the hosting solution: Should the organization maintain an in-house platform, move everything to a service provider, or employ a hybrid solution?
Both elements are equally important to an ecommerce store's success. Putting a resource-heavy ecommerce platform on subpar infrastructure can be just as disastrous as a restrictive ecommerce platform on enterprise-level metal.
- 58%: To improve business agility
- 56%: To lower overall operational and ownership costs
- 51%: To align the cost of ownership against our online revenues
- 51%: To support our multichannel initiatives
- 51%: To speed up deployment of new features and functionality
In the face of the changing behavior of buyers, existing ecommerce sites may be exhibiting signs that their glory days are behind them. Signs to look for include:
- Unacceptable response times or frequent outages
- Inability to keep up with competitors' functionality
- Stalled omnichannel sales strategies caused by inadequate integration between channels
- Difficulty complying with industry and government compliance mandates
- Cost-prohibitive improvements needed to fix gaps in the system
Organizations may face new requirements that didn't exist or that have changed markedly from when the ecommerce platform was built. As the product catalog grows, database requirements may change. An increase in concurrent users influences Web server size and configuration. Operating in a global environment may require the ability to localize content, display and handle transactions in the buyer's local currency, and manage local compliance requirements.
Ecommerce operations dealing with physical and digital products or software-as-a-service offerings have different considerations than a pure online product retailer. Furthermore, they may need multiple types of payment capabilities, ranging from one-time to subscription-based models. Just as important as billing methods are the requirements for dealing with renewals, expired cards, refunds, and channel issues such as affiliate marketing commissions.
Of course, any organization considering an ecommerce re-platforming project must account for momentous changes in mobile and social media technologies that have occurred since the previous platform was implemented. By 2017, eMarketer predicts, nearly 80% of digital buyers will be shopping on a mobile device, with sales from tablets representing nearly 70% of purchases6. Recently, Facebook ad click-through rates ballooned to 275% while cost-per-click dropped 40%, making social selling another vital imperative to consider in the re-platforming process.7.
Once the need to re-platform is acknowledged, it's critical to establish project goals. But in order to develop those goals, the team must craft a strategy appropriate for the company's unique business needs and consider the demands of multiple stakeholders. Business leaders may be focused on issues such as conversion rates and customer retention, while technologists may be more concerned with security, compliance, and performance. And, of course, there is the customer, who wants fast access to quality content and ease of completing a transaction.
A successful project balances those goals. "Ultimately, the issue of re-platforming an existing ecommerce system comes down to determining the investment required to meet the organization's goals. There is more to cloud economics than the oft-touted 'convert CAPEX to OPEX,'" explains Mahesh Gandhe, Senior Solution Marketing Manager at Rackspace.
Chris Vitale, director of ecommerce at Pep Boys, describes the tangible, future state that most retailers are pursuing but can only attain by re-platforming their systems: "We're going to have a multi- channel experience where someone interacts with us online, an expectation is set, then they continue through to the store and have an entire, almost traditional, in-store experience with us."
The ecommerce platform consists of the software used to manage the look and feel of the site, inventory, payment processes, and so on. The platform selection is a critical driver of the hosting choice, so there is a lot to consider. This list offers a foundation for platform requirements, although additional concerns unique to the business will undoubtedly be uncovered during the selection process.
- PRODUCT MERCHANDISING: Controlling how products and information are displayed, and how discounts are presented to the customer and processed in a payment system; presenting product customization requirements; displaying global product content.
- DATA COMPATIBILITY: Parsing of multiple data points simultaneously for a split-second redirect to dynamic pages or to deliver custom content, allowing incompatible data types or data stored in silos to "talk" to each other, not hindering customer experience initiatives.
- PAYMENT SYSTEM: Supporting trials with opt-in/opt-out capability, physical product purchasing, access management for SaaS products, support for global payments, shopping cart compatibility.
- CHANNEL MANAGEMENT: Features to differentiate customer segments, serve dynamic content based on customer profile, price list management to offer alternative pricing to selected customers, global compliance management.
- MOBILE FUNCTIONALITY: Creating high-impact mobile interfaces across smartphones and tablets, real-time processing, mobile shopping cart optimization.
- MARKETING: Tools for customer contact testing, multivariate testing capabilities, acquisition/retention marketing (PPC campaigns, SEO, email list management), support for affiliate programs.
- CUSTOMER CONTACTS: Ability to customize and send transactional emails for account creation, order-related contacts, localized content, new product versions.
- HOSTING MANAGEMENT: Access to scalable, dedicated bare-metal components; implementing cloud expandability for bursting; meeting PCI compliance; building in redundancy for disaster recovery.
Every company has unique business and IT requirements, and there are many solutions that may be a good fit. Sometimes, the best configuration for a business includes more than one option. When evaluating hosting options, it's important to consider whether potential integration and deployment issues are aligned with the organization's IT resources and experience. There's a huge difference between a general cloud provider that only offers raw infrastructure—leaving organizations to figure out how to deploy and connect the ecommerce platform—and hosting specialists that can provide expertise around unique workloads. Choosing a hosting partner with specialized experience in ecommerce platforms and infrastructure helps the organization sort out the complexities to architect an optimal solution.
Organizations should review their options against their strategy to choose the right combination. Options include:
- CLOUD: Takes advantage of massively scalable infrastructure and preconfigured or highly customizable environments to reduce hardware and management burdens. Choose a public cloud for low cost or a private cloud for workloads subject to stringent security or compliance mandates.
- ON-PREMISES: Puts the burden of hardware, security, performance, and scale on the IT team and budget. This option delivers ultimate control—as well as all the headaches that accompany being responsible for the entire ecommerce infrastructure.
- HYBRID: Combines on-premises or dedicated hardware with the resources to achieve cloud efficiencies while meeting certain security or compliance needs. In a hybrid cloud environment, a retailer can move certain workloads, like email or content delivery, to the cloud while maintaining control over other critical systems best run on dedicated or on-premises equipment.
"I can't think of a scenario where the 'all-on-premise' solution would be optimal," says Gandhe. "With that option, you either have to provision for the peak periods—meaning you're overinvesting in capacity for the other periods—or you provision for normal day-to-day traffic and risk being unable to meet spikes in demand."
Steve Vitale, director of ecommerce at Spencer Gifts, echoes Gandhe's statement: "Our traffic and business can increase 100 times to 1,000 times what they were in the off-season. We have to scale on and off, but we also have to try not to carry too much infrastructure in the off-season. That's why we went with the Rackspace Hybrid Cloud based on RackConnect. We split our application between a dedicated private infrastructure for our checkout process, and we use the public cloud for product descriptions, prices, and other information."
Based on the knowledge and expertise gained while serving some of the top retailers in the United States, Rackspace Digital, a practice specializing in content management, mobile, and ecommerce hosting, has developed four reference architectures for ecommerce solutions built on Magento or Oracle Retail:
- BASIC: A pure cloud configuration with both Web server and database residing in the cloud, with the ability to add Web and database servers for scalability.
- INTERMEDIATE: A three-tier, cloud-based architecture using dedicated servers for both Web and data-base servers. Single Web and database servers are segmented behind a physical firewall, and customer credit card information is stored using the third-party payment gateway.
- ADVANCED: A three-tier, hybrid (cloud + dedicated) architecture that relies on transactional data stored in dedicated servers behind a physical firewall, with the ability to burst into cloud servers for holiday spikes or sudden increases in load.
- PREMIER: A three-tier, self-contained, PCI-capable hybrid (cloud + dedicated) architecture designed to support the highest number of online transactions using a resilient, highly available infrastructure with failover capabilities at every layer of the solution.
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An online store is a company's window to the world. It needs to stand up to daily traffic and unexpected spikes, while offering customers a safe and secure place to shop. A core component, of course, is enabling customers to make purchases using credit cards. If the number of credit card transactions is relatively small, a third-party payment gateway is economical and may be the best option. If credit card transaction volume is very high, though, it may be more cost-effective to store credit card information in the data center of a service provider that can meet PCI compliance requirements.
Catalog display logic and shopping cart logic may both reside on the same server, in a two-tier architecture: The first tier is composed of a combined Web and application tier; the second, a database layer. Another approach is a three-tier architecture. In this case, the Web layer is the first tier, the app layer is the second, and the database layer is the third.
"We generally find that ecommerce operations start with a two-tier architecture, then, as the business grows, they start separating two layers so that each tier can scale independently," explains Gandhe. "Deciding between a two-tier and a three-tier reference architecture really depends on scalability needs for the catalog display and shop- ping cart."
Display logic and shopping cart logic can either run on cloud servers or dedicated servers. Cloud is both persistent and highly elastic, with speedy provisioning to scale on demand. Dedicated servers, on the other hand, provide a single-tenant environment for exclusive usage.
The type of database and volume of I/O transactions will dictate which database technology is right for an ecommerce operation. "Cloud databases are the best option if you want to use a MySQL database and want Rackspace to manage it for you," says Gandhe. "If you want to use a database that supports virtual environments, then you can run your own database on cloud servers. If your database of choice doesn't support virtualization, or for the highest I/O performance, we recommend running your database on a dedicated server."
Ultimately, re-platforming an ecommerce system comes down to determining the investment required to meet the business goals. Factors such as the pattern of demand, total cost of ownership, and transformation costs need to be considered in any financial analysis of a potential solution. Choosing the ecommerce platform software balances the cost of licensing and management against the benefit of instant access to the tools needed to build and grow a competitive site. Sufficient variability in demand is required to realize cost savings using a public cloud hosting model; flat workloads are cheaper on dedicated infrastructure over a fixed contract term.
Transforming infrastructure can be costly and time-consuming, and relying on internal skills may not be ideal. "In almost all cases, I'd strongly recommend that a company approaching the re-platforming stage look into working with a partner that is able to apply skills and resources that are likely in short supply internally," says Gandhe.
1 http://googlemobileads.blogspot.com/2012/09/mobile-friendly-sites-turn-visitors.html
2 http://blogs.forrester.com/peter_sheldon/13-08-01-commerce_technology_continues_its_ bull_run
3 Understanding TCO When Evaluating Ecommerce Platforms, 2012, Forrester Research.
4 Understanding TCO When Evaluating Ecommerce Platforms, 2012, Forrester Research.
5 Understanding TCO When Evaluating Ecommerce Platforms, 2012, Forrester Research.
6 http://www.emarketer.com/Article/Smartphones-Tablets-Drive-Faster-Growth-Ecommerce- Sales/1009835
7 http://success.adobe.com/assets/en/downloads/whitepaper/13926_di_social_sentiment_ v10.pdf
6 http://www.emarketer.com/Article/Smartphones-Tablets-Drive-Faster-Growth-Ecommerce- Sales/1009835
7 http://success.adobe.com/assets/en/downloads/whitepaper/13926_di_social_sentiment_ v10.pdf
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Linking arms and forming a human chain across the Little Cahaba River, Indian Springs School eighth-grade science students shuffled through the water, trying to herd fish, snails, mussels and other creatures into nets classmates were holding about 50 feet downstream. Minutes earlier, education director of the Cahaba Society's CLEAN river program, Gordon Black, had cautioned the students to tread softly and silently through the water to the starting position. They learned there's a reason people are quiet while fishing: Fish can hear, even though they don't have external ears. Too much noise before the river walk could result in empty nets. The strategy worked. Pulling up the nets, the students crowded around to survey the catch. Fish just big enough to fit in an eighth-grader's cupped hand were transferred to glass containers where they were studied before being released back into the river. Also part of the lesson were facts on the river. The Little Cahaba, and the larger Cahaba River it flows into, are the major sources of drinking water for the Birmingham area. At 190 miles long, the Cahaba River has more fish species per mile that any other river of its size in North America.Eighth-grader Will Crain was impressed with what he saw. "I learned that the animals there are very diverse and that the river is pretty clean because animals are not tolerant of pollution, and there were a lot of animals there." Student Kettler Horn agreed. "There were more really small fish than I thought there would be. It was also very cool to flip a small log over and find six or seven creatures living there."
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Airframe and Powerplant Aviation Mechanics (AAS.APAM)
Associate Degree in Applied Science
This program is a joint venture between Lake Land College and Lincoln Land Community College. The aviation mechanics associate degree program provides the student with an opportunity to obtain the Federal Aviation Administration (FAA) Airframe and Powerplant Certificate and simultaneously earn an associate in applied science degree. The program is designed to meet all FAA certification standards and emphasizes working experience with maintenance and repair of modern aircraft engines and airframes. Students may prefer to complete the Aviation Mechanics courses only for certificate purposes. Each student is expected to own or purchase a tool set while attending the aviation classes.


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Campus Master Plan
The plan is now complete! We have posted the plan for review. In the next few months we will be presenting the plan to various community groups. It is important that our campus constituents are informed. Please do your part by reviewing the plan!
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クリックして訪問へ Tom Cruise Gree のページ
日本ではトムクルーズのファン:あなたは最高です! The TomCruise.com team is excited to introduce you to our new Tom Cruise page on GREE! Launched earlier today, we can't wait to connect with you on one of the most popular social networking sites in Japan.
Tom has traveled to Japan several times, most recently for the Japanese premiere of 'Knight and Day'.
When Tom visited Tokyo for the premiere of 'Knight and Day,' the warmth and generosity of his fans was overwhelming! As you can see below, Tom was fortunate to meet many of you in person, signing autographs and taking photos with fans, as he walked the red carpet at Roppongi Hills Arena.
Inspired by the love and support of Tom's Japanese fans, the TomCruise.com team has launched the official Tom Cruise GREE page!
Described as being "like Facebook, but with a stronger gaming bent" by Kotaku, "GREE is one of Japan's biggest gaming services, allowing over 25 million users to play against each other using their mobile phones" according to 'Forbes.'
And since the company acquired OpenFient in April 2011, one of the largest mobile gaming networks for iOs and Android devices in the world, Buzzom.com says the GREE network "reaches more than 140 million users worldwide."
With more than 90 percent of its users accessing the site via their mobile phones we can keep you up-to-date with all the latest Tom Cruise news wherever you are!
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grantham in lincolnshire
i live in g town
im stayin in g town today
im stayin in g town today
από liam breen 18 Ιούνιος 2006
The coolest city in Germany. People from g-town are absolutely fucking awesome, and refer to themselves as g-town homies, or, if they've been in G-town for much of their lives, g-town lifers Home of GAS, the term rank in the bank and birthplace of the Muffin Man Mafia.
1) Guy: "So what do you wanna do this weekend?"
Girl: "I hear there's a grill fest in G-town."
Guy2: "Fuck yeah, let's hit it up!"
2) Boy: "I live in Munich."
Girl: "Hahaha, loser. I live in G-town! Woot Woot!"
Girl: "I hear there's a grill fest in G-town."
Guy2: "Fuck yeah, let's hit it up!"
2) Boy: "I live in Munich."
Girl: "Hahaha, loser. I live in G-town! Woot Woot!"
από CarolynxRiot 27 Ιανουάριος 2009
A scummy little city built around nuclear submarines and viagra. Populated by hard hitt'n thugs with a thin layer of rich ass bitches along the coast line, g-town is a cultural clash between the thugs life and the beach boys. Parents in g-town take pride in the Fitch Falconswhere as the minors of g-town boast about the ability to pick up the dirtiest nigga shwag and the highest grade coccaine within one mile of eachother.
g-town is a small town in southeastern ct, home to the groton submarine base, electric boat, and pfizer.
από OB of G-town 28 Μάρτιος 2006
Slang for Girard, Ohio, a subarb of Youngstown, Ohio. The "G" in G Town is not slang for "Gangsta", it simply means Girard.
Our football team plays G Town Friday night.
από B Sheez 8 Ιούλιος 2006
Ghetto or not cool.
That car is mad G town.
από bob scvinsky 22 Μάιος 2007
Orginated thanks to Greystanes High School there is no other way to describe G-town other than Greystanes!! With the G-town Boys you cant go wrong! G-TOWN REPRESENT!!!!
G-Town Represent and the GTB (G-Town Boys)
από gtown represent gtb 8 Ιούλιος 2006
a medium ctiy in western kansas, known for beef and its large hispanic population AKA: garden city, the best muthafukin place in the world. GC is pretty ghetto by buffalo jones elementry school. we have crips, bloods, MS-13, Latin Kings, surenos, nortenos, southside, and northside.
g-town has mostly mexicans and salvadorians
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"Milk and Honey: A Year of Jewish Holidays" (G.P. Putnam, $21.95)by Jane Yolen and illustrated by Louise August
Apples and honey, a spinning dreidel, a Red Sea parted -- all thevivid highlights in the Jewish holiday cycle -- get their due in thislively assemblage of poems, fables, stories, traditional songs andbrief forays into history and custom. The music is arranged by AdamStemple for easily played piano or guitar. Yolen's inclusion of oldstories is an especially welcome treat. There are Chassidic tales,stories from the Midrash, and folk tales from Eastern Europe. LouiseAugust's illustrations are so richly textured that readers will wantto run their fingers down the page. "Milk and Honey" is a solidaddition to a young child's Jewish library and a thoughtfulintroduction to the Jewish calendar, sure to be taken off the shelfagain and again throughout the year.
"Passage to Freedom: The Sugihara Story" (Lee & Low Books,$15.95) by Ken Mochizuki and illustrated by Dom Lee
Gravity and earnestness pervade this endeavor, an account of theheroic rescue efforts of WWII-era diplomat Chiune Sugihara, the"Japanese Schindler" who bucked his superiors by issuing thousands oflife-saving visas to Jewish refugees from his consulate office inLithuania. The subject matter is an ambitious choice for anillustrated children's book. Mochizuki and Lee are obviously takenwith the drama and historical importance of the story, but,regrettably, they're not up to the challenge of making it come tolife.
The former's prose is uninspired, clunky and bone-dry. It's anaccurate enough factual accounting, told from the point of view ofHiroki Sugihara, the consul's eldest boy, but it rarely soars.Instead of suspense, confusion and high-stakes moral heroism, youngreaders get a strangely unaffecting dose of "Important Information,"the dreaded literary equivalent of Brussels sprouts. Lee'sillustrations are well made, but aside from a few pages that haunt orrivet us, most are excessively literal renderings of the story'saction, a style better suited to a courtroom artist. His decision touse only the varying shades of brown found in old sepia-tonedphotographs may distance the book's intended audience further.
Still, one wants to like this well-intentioned effort. Perhaps thebest setting for "Passage to Freedom" may be the classroom, whereteachers can introduce discussion and add visual elements to thismorally significant story. After all, Sugihara's courage proves, asHiroki Sugihara writes in the afterword, "that one person can make adifference."
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You might look at the graphical representations of template rules used by tools such as Stylus Studio. Michael Kay http://www.saxonica.com/ > -----Original Message----- > From: Manuel Baehnisch [mailto:s716631@xxxxxxxxxxxxx] > Sent: 28 November 2005 22:53 > To: xsl-list@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx > Subject: [xsl] XSLT in UML > > Are there any current efforts or already drafts on the issue of > describing XSLT-templates in a UML-like language? For my thesis I > would like to explain some of the more complex templates using > diagrams. But as it seems there is nothing like UML for the > declarative paradigm, is it? > > My inital thought was to use something like a flow-chart as it is used > in procedural languages. Knowing that the diagrams would suggest a > linear execution even though its unknown in which order the > processor calls the templates it seemed like the best approach to me. > > Any better ideas? Otherwise I would have to "invent" something myself. > Manuel Baehnisch
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text: Not all people are gifted with talents and skills when it comes to a good singing voice. Some people may have the overwhelming passion for music and for singing but not the right voice to go with it. This may be an issue to some people but I believe that there are quite a lot of other things that one can do in order to pursue their passion in music. One of these things is to go with audio engineering or music production. I have quite known a lot of people that show their love of music by becoming audio engineers and music producers and they become very good at it. In fact, my very own best friend is one of these people. He had enrolled at the Recording Connection and now he is one of the most in-demand music producers in town. He is even saving right now to put up his own recording studio and I could tell that he is almost there. Nobody could ever question his ability and capability because the Recording Connection Curriculum that he took made him into a better, more talented person when it comes to the field of audio engineering and music production. Ever since we were small, I could already see the passion and the drive in him and I have known that he will really be successful in this field. Now more and more people know him and even request his services over some other guys because they know that his ability is something that one could truly be proud of.


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I just had a chocolate (coconut water) smoothie with an avocado added in; a small one, about 21g of fat. It tasted like a chocolate pudding milkshake! Very, very filling.
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Coconut manna is tasty eaten all by itself. You can even find it in individual serving sizes by the same people who make Justin's nut butter. But it's cheaper to just get a jar and put some in a small ziploc if you need portability.
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I didn't read other replies. But here's what I can think of
Macadamia nuts
99% lindt dark chocolate if you like it
Extra ghee/butter/ coconut oil with your meals
Coconut milk (with cocao powder and a tablespoon coconut oil for more fat)
Dairy: heavy cream, greek yogurt
well then
Now that they are in season & affordable again, I eat 2-3 medium avos a day, 1-2 tbs olive oil, maybe 10-12 eggs weekly. Profuse coco oil daily , whole tender young Thai coconuts 1 every other day. Meat, seafood, some pork but less chicken&turkey lately as I feel red meats & fish, shellfish is better nutrition for me, definitely more satisfying on some animalistic level. And speaking of animalistic, lately, I day dream of shootin' a deer really badly & gorging on free meat & organs like a savage throughout the summer. Instead I go shopping & buy my meat in paper packages, oh well
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where is your bacon? it is a must have!LOL!
Smoked oysters in a can -- fat and protein.....I keep a few in my purse ---
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If you are just getting started with jQuery, you might want to take a look at a few tutorials and see what this library has to offer. There are plenty of plug-ins out there, but finding the perfect solution to a web development problem can be a little bit tricky. Here the top 10 jQuery tutorials.
If you want your users to stay on the same page and still have access to a form, this is the best way to do it. Clicking on the link will bring out a form, while keeping the current page in the background.
Adding polls to your website is usually a great way to interact with your audience. If you want to do it without too much work, you should give this tutorial a try.
Another great way to keep your front page interesting is by adding a horizontal scrolling menu. This is not a complicated tutorial and the result is impressive.
jQuery can be used for submitting forms without actually refreshing the page. This is a great way of improving user experience, so you should definitely give it a try.
In many situations, your visitors would love to have a handy calculator right next to them. Instead of forcing them to use the calculator tool from their operating system, you should add this simple code to your website and offer them a reliable calculator directly through jQuery.
The easiest way to implement Google Maps into your website is by using jQuery. This is a pretty straight forward tutorial, but it will help you guide your visitors to your business without any problems.
If you are tired of the old YouTube player, you can use jQuery to your advantage and create some very interesting video players. This tutorial will show you how to modify the classic embedded video from YouTube style and turn it into something great. It will take some trial and error, but it is definitely worth it.
Drop down menus are still very popular and if you want to create one that will look awesome and work without any problems, this is the best tutorial for it. In just a few minutes, you will have a fully functional menu.
Music players are often overlooked in the world of video content. If you want to create a simple one, you just have to follow this tutorial and make it happen.
jQuery galleries are always impressive and this one is definitely attractive. You should take a look over this tutorial if you want to create a nice gallery for your website. There are plenty of customizable options, so pay attention to the instructions if you want to obtain a different look.


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Make Your Own Paperweight - October 2016
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Paisley and McGuinness urge Hain to quit early
Published 01/04/2007
DUP leader Ian Paisley and Sinn F€in's chief negotiator Martin McGuinness have jointly called on the Northern Secretary Peter Hain to quit his office before devolution returns to the North.
In an unprecedented collaboration, the two drafted and signed a letter to Peter Hain requesting his early departure from Stormont Castle.
Mr Hain has welcomed the initiative as further proof of the will among unionists and republicans to make their coalition work.
He said he would be delighted to leave to aid preparations for the new regime.
He told the BBC he believes the planned devolution on May 8th "will stick".


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Talk about the buzz on carpenter bees!
It appears that everyone has a thought about what to do about them, including a few folks who don't understand what the buzz is about.
Two weeks ago, I responded to a question asking how to handle carpenter bees. My response fell into the "live and let live" category, recognizing firsthand that sometimes the cure can be more troublesome than the problem.


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1995: On the Caribbean island of Montserrat, the Soufriere Hills volcano erupts. Over the course of several years, it would devastate the island, destroying the capital and forcing most of the population to flee.
A Nobel Peace Prize winner and astronaut are born, a gymnast reaches Olympic perfection, and an epic superhero hits summer theaters, all on this day.


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One i hate you for ignoring me and not adding me on your brawl friend code
But snake did have his own cutscene in SSE he was even in his own level, He poped out of the box and it said Snake, then he met Lucario and Metaknight, Also its a pun from snakes on a plane hahahahaha
Epic fail on my part.
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This year's AIChE's 2013 Awards Gala was held yesterday evening at The Plaza in New York City, with the theme of "Recognizing Excellence in Engineering Ethics."
Honored at the event were David M. Cote, Chairman and CEO of Honeywell; David T. Seaton, Chairman and CEO of Fluor; and Stephen F. Angel, Chairman, President and CEO of Praxair. These companies have established strong reputations for ethical engineering and business practices, and their leaders exemplify a personal commitment to ethics and integrity. Raj Gupta, Senior Advisor to New Mountain Capital and Executive Chairman of Avantor Performance Materials, hosted the evening as gala chair.
This year's gala built awareness for the centrality and importance of ethics in engineering education and real-world practice. Funds raised will underwrite the continued expansion of ethics awareness and training in chemical engineering undergraduate education and life-long learning.
Following are photos from this year's event.
Awards for Gala honorees
The Plaza Ballroom where the festivities were held this year
Attendees mingle at the reception
From left: Honoree David M. Cote (Honeywell); Honoree David T. Seaton (Fluor); Honoree Stephen F. Angel (Praxair); June Wispelwey (AIChE Executive Director); Phillip Westmoreland (2013 AIChE President); Raj L. Gupta (Avantor, Gala Chair)
From left: Honorees Seaton and Angel
From left: Raj Gupta (Gala Chair); Honoree David Cote (Honeywell)
A few of the students from Univ. of Texas at Austin who appeared in the AIChE Foundation film "Ethically Speaking" -- From left: Matthew Ferris, Renee Rodriguez, Ellen Wagner
AIChE Young Professionals. From left: Thang Ho, Sarah Ewing, Elizabeth Guenther, Meagan Lewis, Kate Gawel
Newly elected AIChE Treasurer (2014-2016) E. Dennis Griffith (at left) receives congratulations from outgoing treasurer Andre Da Costa


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Mack Daddy is a 6-year-old neutered male Rottweiler.
He likes the company of other dogs and cats and is great around children.
He will lean against you as you pet him.
If you would like to make Mack Daddy a member of your family, please contact the Gloucester County Animal Shelter at 856-881-2828. His ticket number is 220047.
Last week's Pet of the Week, Bobby, is still looking for a home.


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ER Visits and ADHD Meds: Teaching Our Kids Not to ShareJoslyn Gray
We teach our kids that it's important to share with friends and family–we share our toys, our food, our thoughts. But how much do we focus on when we cannot share?
The number of emergency room visits related to stimulant medications like Adderall and Ritalin quadrupled among young adults from 2005 to 2011, says a new report from the Substance Abuse and Mental Health Services Administration, which is part of the U.S. Department of Health and Human Services. The data looked at ER visits that resulted from abuse or misuse of the medications, such as taking medication that wasn't prescribed for the patient, taking larger-than-prescribed doses, and taking stimulants in combination with alcohol.
Peter J. Delany, the director of the office that oversees statistics for the administration, told the New York Times that said the rise was particularly pronounced among 18- to 25-year-olds.
According to the 2011 data, more than half of the patients got the medication for free from a friend or relative, and 17 percent bought it from a friend or relative. About a third of the ER visits resulted from combining stimulant ADHD medication with alcohol.
These numbers really underscore the importance for those of us with ADHD kids to teach our kids to take their prescriptions seriously: we can't just tell our teens and college kids not to drink, we need to show them these numbers and explain what can happen when you mix Adderall and alcohol. We can't just tell them not to share medications, we need to explain why taking medication that's not prescribed for you can be dangerous.
"Nonmedical" use of these drugs has been linked to heart and blood vessel problems, as well as to drug abuse or dependence, the report states.
"When combined with alcohol," the report continues, "stimulants can hide the effects of being drunk and increase the risk of alcohol poisoning or alcohol-related injuries."
We also need to explain to them that it is against the law to share these meds. The U.S. Drug Enforcement Agency classifies ADHD meds like Adderall and Ritalin as Schedule II drugs, along with cocaine and OxyContin. Under federal law, "sharing" ADHD meds is the same as distributing or selling them. In other words, if you give your dorm roommate some Adderall to help them cram for an exam, it's a felony.
For a first offense, someone convicted of distributing any amount prescription ADHD meds could be looking at up to 20 years in prison, says the DEA's website. If someone died or there was serious bodily injury because of the distribution, it's a minimum sentence of 20 years. Fines for an individual can be as high as $1 million. And that's just federal law. Your state probably also has something to say about the mattter.
Oh, yeah, and if your kid is underage, you the parent will probably be criminally and financially liable for the entire mess.
So…yeah. We need to talk to our kids about this, over and over and over. More and more kids are taking prescription psychiatric medications, and it's incredibly important that they understand the seriousness of not sharing them. Especially as our kids grow into teenagers, and even more so when they go away to college, they need to understand the potential legal and moral ramifications of their actions.
Personally, when my kids go away to college, I'll be sending them with little lockboxes for their medications.
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I've translated into catalan the wporg-bbpress-theme.po and support-forum.po files and I've uploaded to svn server.
I've translated the bbpress.po file into catalan too.
I guess I have all the conditions to start the catalan forums as it's specified here: https://codex.wordpress.org/International_WordPress_Forums
Where have I to upload the bbpress.po file? Can you enable the catalan forums and give admin access?


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Call for papers
18-19 (Tuesday-Wednesday) January 2011 at the University of Yaoundé II, Cameroon.
The failure of the armed forces of states to provide sufficient security for its citizens and the existence of a wide variety of non-state forces which provide and/or undermine security in many parts of Africa today are issues which require urgent attention. Academics, policy-makers, NGO employees, security specialists, UN officials and any others who are willing to share their perspectives about this serious problem and suggest ways to improve security for threatened populations are invited to present their views at this conference.
The study of armed forces in African societies raises both basic theoretical as well as practical questions. How and why do states gain or lose a monopoly on the 'legitimate' use of force? What elements of continuity and change has there been in the nature of armed forces in Africa from the early nineteenth century (or even much earlier) until the present, and why? What are the basic motivations of various types of armed forces (grievance vs. greed, etc.)? What positive or negative roles do private security firms play in Africa today? How does the security dilemma in many parts of Africa today compare with the situation in other parts of the world (in either the past or present)? What positive or negative roles have various 'peacekeeping' forces played? How and when should 'outside' forces intervene in security crises? What are/have been/should be the role of multinational corporations in these crises? What are the best means (by outside or local armed forces) to restore security to many areas afflicted by chronic violence?
The conference organizers welcome the proposal of panels which focus on world-historical, politico-economic, sociological, and ethnological perspectives, but also invite participants with various interdisciplinary perspectives. Papers selected by the conference organizers or other collaborating editors will, if possible, be published online or as book chapters.
A wide variety of armed forces with numerous labels are active in Africa today. The armed forces of states, peacekeeping forces, private security forces, civil militias, ethnic vanguards, rebels, counterinsurgents, presidential bodyguards, predatory bands, highway robbers, conscripted or volunteer child soldiers, drug-trafficking gangs, street gangs, organized crime henchmen, anti-gangs, vigilante groups, terrorists, pirates, bootleggers, protection racketeers, troops of non-African states stationed in Africa, members of military training missions, local and state police forces, prison gangs, and mercenaries, are some examples.
300 word abstracts should be submitted by Thursday 30 September 2010. Authors of accepted abstracts will be notified by 30 October 2010 and will need to submit their full papers to the organizers by 28 December 2010.
The 300-word abstracts should be submitted by email to the conference secretariat, with the following information:
a) author(s), b) affiliation, c) email address, d) title of paper, e) body of abstract. Emails should include the name of the author and title in the subject line.
All paper proposals submitted will be acknowledged. If you do not receive a reply from us after a week following your submission, you should assume we did not receive your proposal; it might be lost in cyberspace! In such cases, we suggest that you resend the abstract by an alternative electronic route. Unfortunately, no funding for travel to or lodging at the conference can be offered.
Conference Secretariat:
Ibrahim Ndzesop
Doctoral Candidate
University of Paris 1 and Centre d'Études des mondes africains, France
Military Labor and state formation,
E-mail firstname.lastname@example.com or firstname.lastname@example.com
Organizing Chairs
Sakah Saidu MAHMUD
Associate Professor and Head of Department of Political Science
Kwara State University, Malete, P. M. B. 1530, Ilorin Post Office, Ilorin-Nigeria
E-mail: email@example.com
Nadine MACHIKOU
Enseignante de science politique
Université de Yaoundé II et l'Institut des Relations International du Cameroun
E-mail: firstname.lastname@example.com
Lori HARTMANN-MAHMUD
Hower Associate Professor of Government and International Studies
Centre College, 600 West Walnut St., Danville, KY 40422
E-mail: email@example.com
Richard BRADSHAW
Professor of History and International Relations
Centre College, Danville, Kentucky, USA
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Cisco Catalyst 2960G-48TC - Switch - managed - 44 x 10/100/1000 + 4 x combo Gigabit SFP - rack-mountableItem#: C94-2188 DROP | Model#: WS-C2960G-48TC-L
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Cisco Catalyst 2960G-48TC - switch - 44 ports Product Details
Device Type: Switch - 44 ports - managed
Enclosure Type: Rack-mountable - 1U
Interfaces: Gigabit Ethernet
Ports: 44 x 10/100/1000 + 4 x combo Gigabit SFP
Performance: Switching capacity : 32 Gbps ¦ Forwarding performance (64-byte packet size) : 39 Mpps
MAC Address Table Size: 8K entries
Remote Management Protocol: SNMP 1, SNMP 2, RMON 1, RMON 2, RMON 3, RMON 9, Telnet, SNMP 3, SNMP 2c, HTTP, HTTPS, TFTP, SSH
Encryption Algorithm: SSL
Authentication Method: Secure Shell (SSH), RADIUS, TACACS+
Features: Layer 2 switching, auto-sensing per device, dynamic IP address assignment , auto-negotiation, BOOTP support, ARP support, load balancing, VLAN support, auto-uplink (auto MDI/MDI-X), IGMP snooping, Syslog support, DiffServ support, Broadcast Storm Control, IPv6 support, Multicast Storm Control, Unicast Storm Control, Rapid Spanning Tree Protocol (RS
Compliant Standards: IEEE 802.3, IEEE 802.3u, IEEE 802.3z, IEEE 802.1D, IEEE 802.1Q, IEEE 802.3ab, IEEE 802.1p, IEEE 802.3x, IEEE 802.3ad (LACP), IEEE 802.1w, IEEE 802.1x, IEEE 802.1s, IEEE 802.3ah, IEEE 802.1ab (LLDP)
Flash Memory: 32 MB flash
Status Indicators: Link activity, port transmission speed, port duplex mode, power, link OK, system
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Interfaces: 48 x 1000Base-T - RJ-45 ¦ 4 x SFP (mini-GBIC)
Power Device: Internal power supply
Voltage Required: AC 120/230 V ( 50/60 Hz )
Power Consumption Operational: 123 Watt
Rack Mounting Kit: Optional
MTBF: 221,432 hours
Compliant Standards: TUV GS, CISPR 22 Class A, GOST, BSMI CNS 13438 Class A, CISPR 24, NOM, VCCI Class A ITE, EN55024, CB, EMC, MIC, IEC 60950-1, EN 60950-1, UL 60950-1 Second Edition, RoHS, CSA C22.2 No. 60950-1, FCC Part 15 B Class A
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Doom and Gloom in the World of F1
While Formula One gets down to the serious business of testing its latest batch of finely tuned chargers, behind the scenes things would appear to be not so rosy. Global viewing figures are down, the last few months have been dominated by headlines bemoaning an influx of "pay drivers" and HRT finally put its hands up in surrender and was carted off by a scrap dealer. Yet is the sport really in such dire straights?
Viewing Figures Continue to Fall
Last week, FOM released its own analysis of Formula One's global viewing figures. While some markets, in particular Brazil continue to grow, a massive 34% drop in viewership in China alone fuelled the continued slide in viewers that has plagued the sport in recent years. Back in 2008, some 600 million people saw Formula One at some point in the season, and despite a small bounce back during 2010's thrilling title chase there has been a steady decline and last year was down to around 502 million. This despite a strong season for Fernando Alonso and Ferrari providing a boost in Spain and Italy, otherwise the figures could have been worse.
Worse still, while the sport likes to bill itself as "the world's most-watched annual sporting event" a similar analysis of the World Touring Car Championships returned a surprising figure of 512 million viewers which perhaps explains why Formula One hasn't been particularly keen to reveal it's total unlike previous years. However, it is worth noting that these figures reflect what is termed "reach" which measures the number of people to have watched 15 minutes of the sport throughout the season. Undoubtedly, WTCC has benefitted from the way it has been packaged by broadcasters, such as highlights piggybacking on F1 coverage or shown as part of motorsport shows at peak viewing times. What WTCC is unlikely to achieve is the total viewing figures of F1 at any particular moment and it certainly doesn't achieve the same level of media coverage. Still, those are the figures that the FIA likes to run with and they can't make pretty reading to sponsors.
Meanwhile, in the UK figures were down 3.8 million to 28.6 million, although I disagree with the quickly held view that the switch to a pay TV deal with coverage shared between Sky and the BBC was to blame. At the end of last year, I looked at the average viewing figures for each race which gives a more realistic appraisal of the effect of the broadcaster share. However, the "reach" criteria shouldn't suffer so badly – afterall, in effect there was essentially twice as much Formula One on television in 2012 and therefore double the opportunity for casual viewers to catch 15 minutes at some point. If you want to point the finger anywhere, I'd point it at Sebastian Vettel, or at least Adrian Newey.
Auctioning Off Race Seats
Still, the World economy is suffering and motorsport isn't immune – one only has to look at the shadow of a series, British Formula 3 has become for this year. However, if there is one thing that has really bothered me about Formula One over recent months it's "pay drivers." Or rather, the constant discussion of them. The reality is that all drivers are heavily funded at some point in their career and only the very best reach the point where teams are willing to pay them – and even then it has to be balanced against the financial benefits of employing them, most notably in terms of attracting those sponsors with the deepest pockets.
When Jaime Alguersuari branded Formula One an auction, my sympathy for him was a little muted: Here's a man who was funded through Formula Renault, Formula 3 and Formula Renault 3.5 before getting his big chance at Toro Rosso. Simply because his sponsors also owned Toro Rosso, it's easy to overlook the fact that he's been paid for and that they've now decided to put their money on a different horse.
Still, it's unsurprising that those F1 drivers suddenly left without a seat should feel at least a little put out by having to make way for somebody with more money. However, Alguersuari had two and half years to convince F1 that he was somebody special. Timo Glock had six years but is best known for being passed by Lewis Hamilton at the 2008 Brazilian Grand Prix. Heikki Kovalainen also had six years, including time with a Championship winning team and is probably best remembered for using a fire extinguisher! New talent coming in may or may not prove better but the harsh reality is that F1 is not a charity providing drivers with a thrill 19 or so weekends a year.
However, what is annoying is when people such as Martin Whitmarsh lament 'the rise of pay drivers' – or 'blasts pay drivers' as the tabloid press subsequently spin it. If there is anything wrong in Formula One at the moment it is the people that matter in the sport telling the world that the sport billed as the pinnacle of motorsport has substandard drivers behind the steering wheels. Even Whitmarsh has to take a balanced look at driver selection or McLaren would have just paid Lewis Hamilton whatever he wanted to stay.
What's Going on at Marussia and Force India?
On the subject of drivers having to bring more than just their driving skills, the Brazilian press have been getting very nervous about Luiz Razia sitting out the second test at the Circuit de Catalunya this week. Max Chilton has enjoyed four days behind the wheel of the Marussia and despite the team claiming they wanted consistency to get the maximum benefit out of their testing programme, speculation is rife.
Meanwhile, Force India are still dragging their heels on making a decision as to who will partner Paul di Resta – not that they made a lot of fanfare about mentioning the Scotsman still had a place in the outfit. This week saw Adrian Sutil return from exile in what is now seen as a straight fight between himself and Jules Bianchi, although you have to wonder if the team are not simply milking the German for his experience during their testing programme. However, with Mercedes behind Sutil to some extent, and Ferrari keen to have Bianchi in residence somewhere, it is looking more and more like Force India are being forced into making an early decision on engine supplier for 2014 – it's perhaps significant that Ferrari made a point of mentioning the need to supply engines on the same day that Sutil returned to the track.
The Good News
However, while HRT has finally died (in hindsight it seems a miracle that they survived so long) Formula One may not be in quite the unhealthy state the doom-mongers would have you believe. This week, Ferrari was named the World's most powerful brand – a fact that underlines Marlboro's commitment to being associated with the brand even if they have no visible presence at the races themselves. That was followed up by the announcement of a new sponsorship deal with UPS, speculated to be worth $24 million a year, while Williams have captured a partnership with global information services company Experian while extending and upgrading their deal with Randstad.
Undoubtedly, Formula One is facing tough times but then it is tough times for everyone. What will probably worry the sport more than money, however, is that continuing decline in viewing figures which gimmicks such as DRS have failed to arrest.
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I want to cram yoga at home what are the trellis site?
I am suffering from HBP. it is suggested to do yogas. can you help me by providing the websites autograph?
best to just buy a trainee DVD of yoga exercises and put it into the TV player.
I'm pretty sure a yoga.com exsists. Or use youtube or dailymotion to find yoga instructions.
If you do yoga; please listen to the signals from your body.
Practising yoga is NOT a place to take the "No anguish; no gain!" mindset.
I have see a lot of associates really hurt themself by trying to push their body beyond it's limits.
Dawn Groves wrote an excelent book give or take a few yoga for beginners. and there are lots of suitable videos as very well.
but Yoga is NOT your only prospect. You can achieve one and the same benefit from Tai Chi, Qigong, or Pillates.
Master Lam Kam Chuen wrote some good books on Qigong, and Tai Chi. I would HIGHLY recommend his first book "The Way of Energy" because within this book he gives you a obedient foundation in vivacity work, and does not teach you anything that will hurt you.
Another particularly good book is "Chi Kung: For Health And Vitality" by Wong Kiew Kit.
Master Wong won the Qigong master of the year award within 1999.
Both of these men REALLY know what they are talking nearly, and neither one of them throws you into the deep expiration before you can swim similar to some Qigong masters I could name.
I deliberate it is better to buy a book on yoga. It is more convenient and easier. I have learn yoga that way. you can find virtuous book on amazon.com. Yoga cures, but you have to be long-suffering and trusting, and follow the instructions. Yoga is not a competition, but a way of life span. The results are slow but sure.
www.collagevideo.com check them out for yoga videos
run to yahoo or google search n type yoga surrounded by the searching box u'll find 1000s of accurate sites, or if ur a good reader check the ebooks more or less yoga on google or yahoo search boxes. nearby are also downloadable videos available.
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July 20, 1998
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Elaine Roloff and her granddaughter Michelle.
by Oscar Roloff
Because I am ill on my wedding anniversary this year, I was unable to take my wife Elaine out to a special dinner at McDonalds.
Thus, I asked her to bake a cake and take it over to Sal Stapleton, one of our former square dance friends.
On the cake were the words: "Thank you so much when 15 years ago you introduced me to Elaine Hudlow." She was of Norwegian background. My previous wife had died of brain cancer.
I took to Elaine. One day we were driving by a place where weddings were performed. We decided to unite. After we paid the two witnesses, I was broke.
Today, thanks to Sal, that Norwegian gal and I have done well.
In my writing, seldom do I use the word, "woman;" I use "gal." It's my way of a compliment. A closer one that is more homespun.
Years ago Carol Edwards, who publishes the Woodinville Weekly asked me if I would write for her.
I agreed to stick by her. She said I could write what I wanted and she'd not interfere, though at times she may have winced a bit. She's used every article I handed her.
This article and photo will surprise my Norwegian gal.
Today we walk hand and hand into our 16th year of marriage.


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A Hudson woman plans to plead guilty to reckless conduct in the death of her 8-month-old son in 2011, who was poisoned by a painkiller patch.
The Nashua Telegraph reports Kristine Davis reached a plea deal with prosecutors that calls for her to receive a suspended sentence of up to three years.
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The next time anyone tries to tell you that "the occupation" (meaning the post-1967 Israeli military occupation of the West Bank and Gaza) is the core of the issue in Israel/Palestine, politely but firmly tell them that they're off by twenty years. Today, May 15, is the day Palestinians commemorate al-Nakba ("the Catastrophe"), the day the state of Israel declared its independence in 1948, putting a public seal of approval on the near-destruction of Palestinian society. Without the Nakba, the Zionist movement never could have achieved its goal of creating a majority-Jewish state in Palestine. Equally important, on a day of clashes at numerous sites in and around Israel/Palestine, many journalists continue to collaborate in the perpetuation of a discursive framework that helps shield Israel from legal responsibility for the effect of the Nakba. (Image by SlimVirgin at en.wikipedia [Public domain], from Wikimedia Commons)
This morning, as I listened to NPR's hourly newscast, I heard reporter Philip Reeves make what sounded like a relatively innocuous statement in reference to the day's violence. During the Nakba, he said, "hundreds of thousands of Palestinians were driven from their homes, or fled."
Why the extra two words ("or fled") tacked onto the end of the sentence? Those two little words imply that the people who were "driven from their homes" did not "flee" – but they did, of course. That's what people do in wartime: they flee. Sometimes they flee because their village is literally under attack. Sometimes they flee in anticipation of the attack. Sometimes they flee because soldiers are marching them down the road out of town. Whatever the reason for flight, though, they have the right to return to their homes. Period.
For decades apologists for Israeli settler colonialism have been clinging to the idea that the issue of the Palestinian "right of return" can be negated by sowing doubt about exactly how those 750,000 Palestinians ended up outside their homes in 1948. If the impression can be created that at least part of this exodus was "voluntary," the logic goes, then the question of the "right of return" – firmly enshrined under international law – can be perpetually postponed under a cloud of manufactured uncertainty.
It's a cynical, disingenuous strategy, and it works in part by pressuring journalists to alter their language ever so slightly. But ask yourself, why is this spurious logic only applied in the case of Israel/Palestine? When discussing war in Sudan or Bosnia or Angola or Iraq, journalists would never add the phrase "or fled" to their description of war's violent displacement – such an addition would seem redundant. Of course they fled! Only in the case of Israel/Palestine can the act of fleeing one's home during a war be implicitly constructed as a potential abdication of one's right to return.
So what is the purpose of those two little words in that NPR report? The purpose is to show, in a way that most listeners would not even notice, that the journalist is refusing to take sides in a debate over what exactly happened in 1948. But it is a debate between those who are appealing to international law and those who are seeking to avoid taking responsibility for the violation of international law. Since when do journalists have to be neutral in such a debate?
What this small but important example illustrates is the success of those who have sought to frame Israel/Palestine in terms of "competing narratives" which can then be ritualistically set in opposition to each other in the hope that the "solution" will be found somewhere in the middle. Journalists can then be coaxed more easily into sacrificing the truth under the guise of "objectively" taking into account both narratives.
International law, however, is not simply a narrative, and neither is the right of return. This is the real meaning of commemorating the Nakba.


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Yes, yes... we know Denmark crashed out of the World Cup. Sigh. Nevertheless, when we do play in the big tournaments, we get right into the mood, like anywhere else. Here's some shots from the last match against Japan, taken on and around the City Hall Square where thousands watched the matches. The shot above was taken after the match, when Copenhageners headed out into the city for a night out.
This was taken before the match. Heading off somewhere to watch it with friends.
Another Copenhagener heading home - or out on the town - after the match.
After the match the tricky bit can be finding your bicycle. When more than 20,000 people converge on the City Hall Square - most of them on bicycles - good luck! This girl got away early.
As did this one.
But this girl was looking around all the bike racks for hers. She found it eventually.


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There are good ideas in fitness—things like interval training and kettlebells—and then there are… interesting ideas. Gadgets, fitness styles, and overall trends that seem a little strange from the start. Maybe the advertising was bad, maybe the spokesperson didn't do a great job conveying the goal of the product, maybe the idea just seemed totally bogus. Yet, somehow these wacky trends caught on, at least for a while.
Here's a look back at a few silly trends that have come and gone in past years and decades. (Aka, more reasons to be glad straightforward workouts like indoor cycling and cross fit are popular today!)
The Shake Weight
More than two million Shake Weights were sold its first year on the market, though I will never understand the appeal of it. It looks like a spoof on exercise equipment, rather than a good idea. (No wonder "Saturday Night Live" had so much fun covering it!) Hilarious.


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Clean and wash kashmiri haaq leaves.
Boil 3 cups of water in pan and add salt, hing, mustard oil, whole red chillies and cooking soda.
Add haaq in this boiling water. Simmer for 30 seconds. Keep aside.
In another pan, heat desi ghee and add whole spices.
Add walnuts and soaked rice and saute. Cover with water and simmer till pulao is ready.
For kashmiri butter, mix kashmiri red chilli powder, saunth and saunf powder and butter. Keep it in a fridge.
Clean and slice lotus root as thin as possible. Deep fry in hot oil till crispy.
Wash and marinate fish with oyster sauce.
Heat oil in a pan. Dust fish in cornflour and grill till done.
Serve hot on a bed of haaq saag along with walnut pulao.
Key Ingredients: Mustard Oil, Asafoetida, Cardamom, Basmati Rice, Fennel Powder, Fish, Salt, red chilli, clarified butter, mace, green cardamom, cinnamon, walnuts, kashmiri mirch, fennel, butter, lotus stem, fish fillet, oyster sauce, cornflour


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Michigan Lawmakers Vote to Begin Dismantling States Unemployment Insurance System
Posted by: Mike Evangelist, Rick McHugh and Mitchell Hirsch on Mar 24, 2011
NELP and UnemployedWorkers.org Urge Governor to Veto Misguided, Short-Sighted Bill and Demand Legislature Fix Extended Benefits Legislation Without Gutting Basic Benefits
Yesterday, in the dead of night, Michigan lawmakers dealt a crushing blow to the state's unemployment insurance program and the workers it is designed to serve. In an unprecedented and cynical move, members of Michigan's house and senate voted along party lines to slash state unemployment insurance benefits, cutting the maximum duration of unemployment benefits from 26 to 20 weeks starting January 15, 2012. If this measure becomes law, Michigan will become the only state in the nation that pays less than 26 weeks of UI benefits in its basic state program.
A veto by newly elected Governor Rick Snyder is the only remaining option that can stop the legislation passed yesterday from becoming law. "The ball is in the governor's court," said Christine Owens, executive director of the National Employment Law Project. "So far, Governor Snyder has said he's avoiding overtly anti-worker tactics employed in neighboring states. Signing this bill would certainly undermine that assertion. We urge Governor Snyder to exercise his independent judgment, do the right thing for all of Michigan's workers and the state's economy, and veto this bill."
Currently, all 50 states offer a maximum of 26 weeks of UI benefits, as they have for more than half a century. States, including Michigan, generally began offering 26 weeks in the 1950s—well before the vast majority of today's workers were born.
Taking effect in January 2012, Michigan's roll-back would come at the same time that federal Emergency Unemployment Compensation and Extended Benefits programs are scheduled to wind down. Without the federal programs in place, workers who begin receiving benefits on January 15th or later would receive a maximum of only 20 weeks of benefits if Governor Snyder signs the bill.
Amidst a flurry of activity in the state senate on Wednesday, the cuts in benefits were passed as part of a package of amendments made to an existing unemployment insurance bill. The package also included a provision supported by the National Employment Law Project and others, including the state's largest employers, that would prevent federally funded unemployment insurance benefits from ending on April 2nd.
Republican lawmakers added a permanent six-week reduction in state UI benefit weeks in exchange for continuing existing federal UI benefit extensions for the remainder of 2011. Senate Democrats, however, voted against the entire bill on the grounds that it traded a modest short-term gain—underwritten by the federal government—for serious long-term harm to Michigan workers. During a floor statement, Senator Tupac Hunter described the situation as "political gamesmanship at its worst."
Michigan is now approaching a nationally-leading 27th consecutive month of double-digit unemployment. Meanwhile, more than 150,000 newly laid-off workers have filed for unemployment insurance in the state since the beginning of the year. National averages indicate that it will take these workers more than nine months to find employment. The most discouraged among them will choose to join the 275,000 Michigan workers who have dropped out of the labor market because job opportunities are so scarce.
Michigan Chamber of Commerce President Richard Studley recently admitted that there are few available jobs in the state, suggesting that unemployed Michigan workers "relocate to another community where more and better jobs are available." Despite this acknowledgment of the state's weak labor market, the Chamber worked behind the scenes to make a reduction in benefit weeks a priority in the legislature.
"The narrow, myopic view of the Michigan Chamber of Commerce and its allies is that UI benefits only help workers. Even if that were true, neglecting workers during their time of greatest need is simply wrong. But the assumption also ignores the tremendously positive impact that UI benefits have in our economy, in terms of bolstering consumer demand and spending in our local economies," said Owens. "Cutting UI benefits will have a negative impact on economic growth, at the same time it drives more families into poverty. In the end, this argument boils down to what kind of country we want America to be—one that protects our most vulnerable citizens, or one that pretends cruel policies will bring us economic prosperity. And for leaders around the nation, at every level and in every arena of governance, more and more the question boils down to which side are you on?"
Click here to visit the action page of UnemployedWorkers.org to send a message to Gov. Snyder or click the "Participate" box on the right.
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Man, Dave's mom is hot. I'm gonna get my siver wings with her, you watch!
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the quick silverwing jumped over the lazy bloodbrother
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Got my silver wings last nite, i was hammered!
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Dallas' players react after their first goal to tie the game was scored by Erik Cole during a game versus the St. Louis Blues at American Airlines Center on March 3, 2013. Dallas won 4-1.
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The approach to hepatitis C virus (HCV) infection has undergone tremendous change in the past 2 years. The first-generation protease inhibitors have been approved for treatment of genotype 1 infection, leading to sustained virologic response (SVR) rates of 68%–75% for treatment-naïve patients (1, 2). Other direct-acting antiviral agents are being developed, and it is expected that treatments for all genotypes will have better response rates and side effect profiles in coming years. In this context, the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention (CDC) recently updated its HCV screening guidelines and now recommends screening for all Americans born between 1945 and 1965 (3) because the baby-boomer generation has the highest prevalence of HCV infection (4). Risks for cirrhosis and hepatocellular carcinoma continue to rise due to progression of HCV infection, and HCV remains the most common indication for liver transplantation. Effective treatment can reduce the risk for these life-threatening complications, and here we discuss HCV prevention, screening, diagnosis, and management (5).
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Still Alive
Dear backers-wondering-where-the-heck-is-my-dvd and other concerned citizens,
We haven't mailed any DVDs or albums yet. The film is still in the process of going around the festival circuit. Or, rather, I... Read more
chuggin' along
Folks keep asking me when can they see it. It's a good question, and since I don't have a good answer I usually say something like, "Tell me about a... Read more
It's done! (some color) carpet here we come!
Sergio sends word from the depths of the Mexico City production lair that the movie is a movie at last. Finally, there was no choice but to finish it. El... Read more
yes yes! + new clips
Wow, elation is the word of the day at virtual Ginger Ninjas h.q. We made it, we made it early, we made it big. In the beginning I thought "we... Read more
Withdraw your support...
...from things you don't dig (see Cleu In, below)
New Rewards
What? Isn't this thing over? It ain't over til it's over and until then (59 hours...) we're keeping... Read more
wow wow wow wow wowza!
WE made it! The houselhold is hopping right now, and has been for the last 24 hours as we just witnessed profound generousity in real time. It was way too... Read more
Coming on tour with us?
We just got a really moving pledge: a mom donated on behalf of her 18-year-old son so that he could come on tour with us, and wrote to tell us... Read more
The Shambhala Warrior
I'm so moved and excited by all the support these past few days. I can't wait to thank you all indivudually. Lots of news to report, so a new update... Read more
Two Heroines of the Tour + New Rewards + Your Help
In a previous update I talked about the many women who've rocked the Pleasant Revolution ranks over the course. In this new collection of clips, we see a little slice... Read more
New Prizes (Xtracycle family bike, 2 weeks in Hawaii, massage)
Wow! So cool to see the big jump in the last three days. Over the hump and rollin'. I'm still hoping to get the word out to some relevant blogs... Read more
New Prizes (bike gear and a river adventure) and Question
It's so cool to see new friends in the supporter list and people who I think might be old friends but who don't divulge enough name to know, and people... Read more
Director Sergio Morkin Speaks
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Dante the Mad Scientist
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The Women of the Pleasant Revolution
Upon seeing the pitch video I made for the project, longtime Revolutionary sister Cara wrote with some reflections, saying that she thought it needed to appeal to women more. I... Read more
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See All of the Emmys 2015 Red-Carpet Looks
Taraji P. Henson, Laura Prepon, and more.By Vulture Editors
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NSFW if you're a prude.By Abraham Riesman
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We not so secretly hope not.By Allison P. Davis
According to show creator Jenji Kohan.By Halle Kiefer
Four episodes instead of one. Rejoice, Alex fans.By Margaret Lyons
They're all (still) alright!By Lindsey Weber
But what about Piper and/or Nicky?By Zach Dionne
"She is MIA, girl. I do not know where she is."By Patti Greco
What is going on here?By Denise Martin
The Lucky One's Taylor Schilling and That '70s Show's Laura Prepon.By Zach Dionne
A star group of L.A. investors is accused of shady practices at Shin Korean BBQ.By Hadley Tomicki
Laura Prepon is staying put as the star.By Mike Vilensky
Hank Azaria, Amanda Peet, and Laura Prepon all have new shows.By Margaret Lyons
They're broken down by archetypes: the Rachels, the Buffys, the Cagney and Laceys ...By Josef Adalian
An earlier version of Chelsea Lately.By Julie Gerstein
Plus: Michael Cera finally has enemies.By Amos Barshad
Diddy's longtime girlfriend Kim Porter has finally moved out (and on). Henry Kissinger is bummed he isn't portrayed in Frost/Nixon. Chris Tucker impersonates Bill Clinton, and the former president can't get enough. At Bergdorf Goodman last week, Beyoncé was barefoot and Katherine Heigl was hot. André Balasz has taken over the Chelsea Hotel and is setting his sights on the Pacific. White House in Hampton Bays paid Diddy $200,000 to host his Independence Day Party there. Ashlee Simpson might be at the Blackbook party in the Hamptons tomorrow. Gwyneth Paltrow, who's on crutches, blames running into furniture for her injury; Helen Hunt, also on crutches, won't say why.
Paris Hilton will spend her 23 days in jail in a "special needs housing unit." Steve Martin is not pleased at being portrayed as a killer in the satire Who's Killing the Great Writers of America. Ian Spiegelman says the Post's Richard Johnson accepted cash from a frequent "Page Six" subject. Filmmaker Michael Moore anonymously paid a critic's medical bills.