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Our series on America's best golf courses continues with a look at three of the best classic fairways in the southeast U.S., as determined by Golfweek magazine's handpicked panel of 385 course raters. The raters, who are students of architecture, attend national workshops and each evaluate 15 to 20 courses per year.
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Once upon a time, "Go west, young man!" was good advice for opportunity seekers. These days, though, you might be better off headed in the opposite direction. Here's what you need to know to fly into some fast-growing Eastern and Southern European nations.
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Basketball fans should circle July 15 on their calendars. That's when the WNBA All-Star game returns to the nation's capital. The game, the eighth in the league's 11-year history, pits some of the best and most popular players of the Eastern Conference against those in the Western Conference.
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32 ounces ricotta cheese, well drained
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Preheat the oven to 375F. Lightly grease a 9 or 10-inch tart pan with a removable bottom.
In a large bowl, mix the sugar into the cheese. Add the zest and cinnamon. Add the eggs one at a time, incorporating well after each addition. Gently fold in the shaved chocolate.
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1 1/2 teaspoons salt
2 tablespoons sugar
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When ready to roll, divide the dough in half and work with one piece at a time. Roll each piece into a 13 to 14-inch circle on a floured and cold marble slab.
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CROWLEY – It was Notre Dame's 11th win of the season and it was also the their most dominating performance of the year.
The Pioneers turned out a 54-7 victory over the Church Point Bears in the second round of the Class 2A playoffs. There was little doubt in this contest. The Pios jumped out in front early and took the wind out of the sails of the Bears.
The Bears got the ball to begin the contest. Two plays into the game, a fumble gave the ball to the Pios on the CPHS 18-yard line. It didn't take long for senior tailback Jordan Bertrand to get his thing on. He punched the rock in from one-yard away. Steven Benoit added the extra point. With a little over nine minutes left in the first period the Pios were up 7-0.
The Bears were forced to punt the ball back after a three-and-out performance that ended with a sack combination from Hunter Stover and Mikey Dyzart. Junior signal caller Ryan Leonards and company got to work. Leonards hit Nick Zaunbrecher to move the ball into the red zone. Bertrand capped the drive with a 16-yard touchdown run. Benoit's kick made it 14-0 with five minutes to go in the period.
On the first play of their next possession, the Bears fumbled the ball into the hands of D.J. Welter. With the ball on the CPHS 16-yard line, Leonards went back to work. He found junior receiver Morgan Allen on a touchdown strike. Benoit's kick ripped the uprights, making it 21-0.
For the second time in the period, the NDHS defense pushed Church Point off of the field again after three plays. The Pios were ready to pounce back on the Bears. A screen pass to Stu Cook moved the ball into the red zone. Jack Thomas Hundley sprinted for 19 yards and six points to cap the short drive. Benoit's kick gave the boys of NDHS a 28-0 lead going into the second stanza.
The turnovers continued to help the Pios in the second period. Senior safety Bryant Gilbert picked off a Blake Boudreaux pass to give the ball back to the NDHS offense. The fifth drive of the night for Notre Dame was all Robert Sarver. The senior fullback hauled in a pass and then took a handoff for a touchdown. His eight-yard run made it 34-0 with a little less than 10 minutes left to play.
Right before halftime, senior defensive tackle Adam Meche recovered a fumble on the CPHS seven-yard line. Moments later Cook punched the ball in from four yards out. William Primeaux nailed the extra point, making it a 41-0 ball game.
The Pios continued to dominate the game in the second half. After not allowing a first down in the first half, the Pios allowed just two overall and held the Bears to two yards overall. Sacks from Stover, Dysart and Molbert kept things under wrap for the Pios. The Pios went on to score two more times. Cook scored on a 35-yard run and Luke Besse crossed the goal line in the final period.
"The first reason we were able to dominate the game is because it's the playoffs," said Notre Dame skipper Lewis Cook. "The kids understood that Church Point has been playing well. That seemed to get their attention. Plus, we were playing the same team again really soon. We approach every game in the same way. We know that each week it really depends on who shows up and plays."
The NDHS offensive line played a great game. They helped the NDHS running backs to 255 yards on the ground. Sarver led the Pios with 63 yards on nine carries. Cook finished with 55 yards on four carries and Bertrand was good for 34 yards. Leonards was 5 of 9 for 90 yards in the air.


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WMO Executive Council to Address Climate, Water and Weather Services
3 June 2009: At its 61st annual session, which is taking place from 3-12 June 2009, in Geneva, Switzerland, the World Meteorological Organization (WMO) Executive Council will address a range of issues in order to enhance the provision of critical weather, water and climate assessments and services.
A key agenda item includes the preparation of the third World Climate Conference, which will convene in Geneva from 31 August-4 September 2009. Delegates will also address coordinating climate activities with the UN system and strengthening weather, water and climate data, assessments and services available to WMO members.
At the opening session, Alexander Bedritsky, President of WMO, underlined that the meeting is taking place "in a year during which all countries and international organizations are working to combat economic and food crises and engage in multilateral negotiations to tackle climate change and adapt to and mitigate its effects." He added that "weather-, water- and climate-related natural disasters continue to affect humankind, not only causing fatalities but also leading to long term economic consequences," and indicated that the Executive Council will take decisions to support actions to address these issues. [Press Release] [Meeting Documents]


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**** the SEALs, they did nothing. Obama is a god among men, and I'll kill anyone who says otherwise! He's the greatest thing to ever happen to the US!
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Last week a friend who knows my dogs sent me a link to Wendy Francisco's wildly popular new song, "God and Dog" (more than half a million views at time of writing). G-o-d and d-o-G--two words, one kind of love. "They would stay with me all day; / I'm the one who walks away.


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I often feel deeply about things other people have no opinion about. Like the Whopper Jr. The Whopper is a quarter pound two fisted gut busting burger with heft and girth. However, to call a sandwich a Whopper Jr., belittles the Whopper concept of big, bigger, biggest. It can't be called a Whopper because it's not Whopper size. Adding the Jr. is just genealogy. So the Whopper Jr. is a misnomer and really more of a Whimper.
I would change the world, but I don't do diapers.
I'm a real romantic and I'd wear my heart on my sleeve, but it would clash with my pants.
Full moon soon. Drunk guys be dropping trou all over town in anticipation.
Birthdays- the quick sands of time.
I know someone who lost 190 pounds in a single day. When her divorce was granted. The Divorce Diet.
Trance dressing for hypnotists at the vanishing salad bar.
The most interesting man in the world brings summer with him wherever he goes, his Facebook page just won a Pulitzer Prize for literature and he smells like freshly baked cookies. Juan, Dos Equis. Stay thirsty, my friends.
New fairy tale action adventure movies coming out "Snow White and the Seven Samurai" and "Little Boy Blew Up the World" starring Tom Cruise, who is the same height as the hero, for a change.
There are all those athletic scholarships to go to college. But what about the nonathletic jaded kids getting a Sarcasm Scholarship for college? Yeah, like that will happen when North Korea wins the Nobel Peace Prize and Lindsay Lohan isn't facing jail or rehab.
See Alice to turn your putter into a driver. Cialis.
She's as excitable as an exclamation point and only somewhat taller.
The light at the end of the tunnel is a cop's flashlight searching for your body in the woods.
Kim Kardashian's baby bump is as big as Melissa McCarthy.
Life is a cabernet, old chum. Cheers!
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The San Antonio Spurs were hit with some bad news today as shooting guard Danny Green will miss the next four weeks. Green underwent an MRI today, and the team announced he has suffered a break in the second metacarpal bone of his left hand.
During the game against the Minnesota Timberwolves yesterday, Green was seen pointing to his left hand. Many at first thought it was a sprain to his finger but as stated, the X-Ray and MRI confirmed the break.
Green will most likely be replaced by either Manu Ginobili or Marco Belinelli, I believe Belinelli will be inserted into the starting five as he has been playing great basketball as of late.
This season, Green is averaging 7.4 points per game on 41.7-percent shooting from the floor. Compared to his numbers last season (10.4 ppg, 44.8-percent) he has taken a dip in scoring.
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Plans for April
My boyfriend's parents are coming for Easter & .so I will finally get to meet them! We live in Ohio & they live in Pennsylvania. I am so nervous too! We have only been dating for 3 months. His boys will be here too (his regular visit with them). I have a huge dinner planned for the day before for everyone.
My nephew's birthday is the 12th.
My youngest son turns 9 on the 15th.
My mil's birthday and my sil's wedding anniversary is on the 18th.
My oldest son turns 12 on the 27th. That's also my cousin's dd's birthday.
We have spring vacation in April so that'll be nice.
My brothers birthday is also in April.
Other than that, nothing much is going on.
My little girl will be born on April 4th. :) Then I get to spend the entire month with her. :)
Were moving that following weekend
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My dad's 9th and my gma is the 25th
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Shane Orris learned a life-lesson last Christmas when his father inadvertently let the cat out of the toy bag.
Shane learned that Santa Claus doesn't exist, other than in the hearts and minds of parents and their children.
But what of parents who could not afford to let the spirit of Christmas shine through?
Shane decided to do something about that. He set a goal of raising $300 in 2011 to be shared with a local family who could not afford a merry Christmas on their own.
For background, Shane is a 9-year-old who lives with his dad, Eddie, and mother, Michelle, just outside New Bloomfield off Route 34.
He is in Pat Lorenz's fourth-grade class at New Bloomfield Elementary School, and he likes to hunt and fish and ride his unicycle on a course offered by Dan Paul.
His father reported that Shane has been hoarding loose change and collecting crushed cans, which he sells to a local recycler, to build up a fund he intends to give away come Christmastime.
Shane was spotted recently in the Veterans Memorial Building selling sweet corn from a wagon he was pulling around town.
The wagon bore a sign that read "Kidz helping Kidz 4 Christmas," and the sweet corn he was selling was donated by Dave and Patti McLaughlin of Elliottsburg. County Commissioner Brenda Benner was among his customers.
Eddie Orris reported Shane is closing in on his goal of raising $300. The next step, he said, will be getting in touch with Children and Youth Services to identify a family in need of a little extra cheer this Christmas.


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It is obvious that the internet has revolutionized the way we do business, creating thousands of jobs while providing convenience to shoppers across the nation....
We are being "regulated" into bankruptcy, along with all the other Administration's policies to further weaken us. Who represents the people in all this? Only a few Patriots who are more or less helpless to have much of an impact on policy.
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Studio 60 on the Sunset Strip – The Complete Series
Matt Albie and Danny Tripp are two Hollywood hotshots who get asked to return to the satiric comedy TV show "Studio 60 on the Sunset Strip" after their former mentor got fired by the management of the NBS network for not wanting to ditch a sketch that was written by Albie years ago. They get the difficult task to bring the NBS flagship back to its former glory while having to do with the current writers and cast who've been on the show for years.
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The image quality is very good with excellent level of detail, no compression errors and nothing that might spoil the fun.
The sound does a good job as well with good use of the surround speakers for music and effects while dialogues are nicely positioned at the center speaker at all times.
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Studio 60 on the Sunset Strip is a show that gives some insight on what's happening behind the scenes of a late night comedy. It's created by Aaron Sorkin who's famous for The West Wing but unfortunately it got cancelled after one season. Unfortunately as the cast does an excellent job, the storylines are good and the fast dialogues do a terrific job to bring an atmosphere of chaos and tension over to the viewer so that you feel like being part of the crew and having to "make the deadline".
Some people may find it strange that so few sketches actually are shown in a TV show that handles a late night comedy but that's not the point. The idea is to show what's going on backstage and that's done tremendously well. The romance between Matt Albie and Harriet Hayes, the constant pressure of delivering good comedy, the relations between the cast, the competition between the writers, … it all works!
Only towards the ending does the show make an unforgivable mistake: the classic Hollywood "happy ending" is totally over the top and brings a major disappointment to those that have watched the entire season and were looking forward to a "big bang". The fact that it's stretched over three episodes makes it all the more sad that nothing better was found to end the season with. Totally unrealistic compared to the expectations that were created.
The show got cancelled after one season due to bad ratings and that's a shame. When you watch it you really get the feeling that there's potential for multiple seasons and Matthew Perry might become the only one of the "Friends" cast to have something on TV that's worth watching. Still, if only one season, it's one season that's worth checking out!
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Mark Hubbard, 52, of Mays Landing Road, was hired by the woman and her 52-year daughter in June, according to police.
A few weeks after he was hired, Hubbard told his employers that he no longer had a place to live, according to police. They said he could stay with them until he found new living arrangements.
The mother and daughter had to be taken to medical facilities after the late June derecho, leaving Hubbard alone at their house, according to police.
When the victims returned home after several weeks, they discovered that Hubbard had applied for, and won a Cumberland County Superior Court order that gave him control of the mother's personal accounts and property, according to reports.
The court order also prevented the daughter from returning to the home, police said.
As the daughter fought in court to resolve the matter, Hubbard allegedly was stealing jewelry, coins and other property from the home, according to police.
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He was lodged in the Cumberland County Jail in lieu of $20,000 bail.
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ST. PETERSBURG, Fla. -- The road to the best record in baseball has been paved with moments of brilliance, which for one excruciating week, seemed to escape the Yankees. That fate appeared to await them again on Tuesday night, when the Yankees squandered a big lead.
Yet, with those moments seemingly even further out of reach, the Yankees suddenly found themselves flooded with them.
Curtis Granderson sprawled out on the turf to making a diving catch in the ninth. Jorge Posada smashed a towering go-ahead home run in the 10th. Greg Golson, a September call-up, ended it with a perfect throw from right field to nail Carl Crawford trying to advance to third base.
On one cathartic late-inning flurry, the Yankees turned a looming disaster into an 8-7 victory over the Rays. To do it, they needed nothing short of brilliance.
"This is maybe one of the toughest tests that we've had," manager Joe Girardi said. "It was a great win."
With a sputtering offense, a tired bullpen and a lineup filled with banged-up bodies, the Yankees had lost seven of their last eight games, the last three coming by walk-off. The timing couldn't be worse for the Yankees, who let the Rays pass them by a half-game for the lead in the American League East.
So, when they raced to a six-run lead only to watch the Rays score seven runs in the fifth, the Yankees appeared once again to be lost.
The first sign that things could be different, Girardi said, came when the Yankees bounced back to tie the game at seven immediately after the demoralizing turn of events in the fifth. With the score stuck at seven, the teams went extra innings for a second straight night.
But to get there, the Yankees needed Granderson to make one of the prettiest catches of the season. With two outs in the bottom of the ninth, the Yankees center fielder ran down Ben Zobrist's drive to the gap in right center. Off the bat, Zobrist appeared to have a sure double, perhaps even a triple, giving the Rays the winning run on base.
Granderson erased those possibilities with one perfectly- timed dive, extending his body to make a sprawling catch, in a place within reach of only a select few outfielders. Robinson Cano raised both arms as if to signal for a touchdown, reliever David Robertson held out his right fist in a classic Jeterian pose.
The rest of the Yankees didn't bother waiting for the center fielder to reach the dugout before mobbing him.
"That was the only chance I had to make a play on that one," said Granderson, his body still sore from the impact of his headfirst dive.
The play ignited the Yankees, a fact that became clear moments later in the top of the 10th, when Posada led off with a mammoth pinch-hit homer that bounced off the roof of the restaurant overlooking center field at Tropicana Field.
"We were up 6-0, still they came and tied it and went ahead," Posada said after his first pinch-hit homer of the season. "We really didn't die down. We kept coming."
Of course, so did the Rays. Mariano Rivera came in to close it out in the 10th and promptly allowed a single to Carl Crawford. A moment later, Evan Longoria nearly ended it, sending a drive to deep center that Granderson caught on the warning track.
With Matt Joyce at the plate, Crawford used his speed to swipe second base, getting in safely only because he dislodged the ball from Derek Jeter's glove. When Joyce lifted a fly ball that Golson caught in medium right field, Crawford turned on his speed again, making a daring dash to third base.
Golson fired a strong throw, which Alex Rodriguez fielded on a tricky in-between hop, before applying the tag to Crawford. At third base, umpire Tom Hallion signaled for the out. In right field, Golson felt the thrill of ending a game with a perfect strike.
"The best way to describe it was 'yes,' just a loud 'yes,'" Golson said. "Everyone running out to right field, that usually doesn't happen."
Indeed, there was nothing usual about how the Yankees reclaimed a half-game lead over the Rays in the AL East, a feat powered that could only be powered moments of brilliance.


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The Josef Korbel School of International Studies at the University of Denver is a recognized leader in international studies education and scholarship that serves an undergraduate major, MA students, and a small, selective PhD program. The Korbel School is seeking to fill a tenure-track position at the assistant professor level focused on gender and violence to start September 2015 and be part of the Sié Chou-Kang Center for International Security and Diplomacys dynamic research program. We are broadly interested in research related to the role of gender in violent settings including, but not limited to, gender-based violence, the role of gender in mitigating/exacerbating violence or fostering/inhibiting peace-building, and how gender balance affects military, rebel or other forces. Successful candidates will have a record of successful grant making and research relevant to the Sié Chou-Kang Centers Research Program http://www.du.edu/korbel/sie/ and be able to contribute to the undergraduate and graduate programs at the Josef Korbel School. We are particularly interested in candidates at the advanced assistant professor level.
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None other than ex-footballer and Mr. Spice himself, David Beckham!
The 38-year-old star appeared on the UK's The Johnathan Ross Show and admitted he loves staying at home while his wife Victoria focuses on her fashion empire.
Asked by chat show host Jonathan Ross whether that makes him a house-husband, Beckham said:
"I really am. But I love it. I've been lucky, I've always been able to take the boys to school in the mornings and pick them up and make them dinner and things like that. So I do even more of that. I'm able to take all three of the boys to school and then I take Harper to her school for a few hours and then pick her up. I'm kind of like a driver at the moment, I'm always in the car."
David had an illustrious career as a soccer player, captaining England for 6 years and being chosen as a runner-up for FIFA World Player of the Year twice. In 2004, at the height of his success, he was the highest paid soccer player in the world. However, he hung up his boots in May of this year, retiring from the game and leaving his wife, former Spice Girl Victoria, to become the breadwinner. Victoria has achieved great success as a designer, with celebs such as Cameron Diaz and Demi Moore wearing her frocks. Her company turned over more than £15 million last year!
David also commented on his wife's success, saying:
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The Beckhams have returned home to make London their base, and David seems delighted with this decision. He said:
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The Beckhams have four children, sons Brooklyn, Romeo, and Cruz, and daughter Harper — who David claims is taking after her mom in the fashionista stakes!
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A public hearing at City Hall tonight will give the public a chance to weigh in on the possibility of enjoying a beer while watching hockey games at the Rutland Arena.The process of obtaining a liquor primary licence is currently before City Council at the request of the Kelowna Chiefs, Don Backmeyer, Sport and Event Development Manager for the City of Kelowna says," There's some restriction on them taking out a special occasion liquor licence every game so the only other option is a liquor primary licence and that application has to come from the property owner which is the City."Backmeyer says the license would be event specific and operated under a 3rd party agreement by the Kelowna Chief's Hockey Club."We initiated the application process over a year ago now to take it to this stage. They need to get Council approval for the liquor primary application," says Backmeyer."We've all watched hockey games and I think lots of people would like to be able to have a beer while they're watching the hockey game. It just kind of goes hand in hand."Tonight's meeting is scheduled to begin at 6:00pm.
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Since I pretty much stole the title of this blog from Virginia Woolf, I thought it would be appropriate to write a little something about her work. I read Mrs. Dalloway during my undergraduate (for fun, not actually for a class) and found it very… familiar in some way. More recently, I picked up Orlando and found it an equally, if not more gratifying read. My friend Julie Laurin has just created her own blog and has asked a number of people (including myself) to write about a book they read and loved this year. I have included my write-up below. You can read others – written by politicians, youth, artists – on the aforementioned blog.
One of my New Year's Resolutions is to read much more fiction. I think I'll continue with George Eliot's Middlemarch, as I never actually finished it for my Victorian Seminar. But shhh, don't tell my professor.
I've been on a Virginia Woolf kick lately, having recently watched The Hours and being subsequently inspired to reread her magnum opus Mrs. Dalloway. My dad – who sports a rather impressive library of his own – lent me his copy of Orlando, a more accessible, less stream-of-consciousness style, fictional-historical biography. The eponymous character lives through four centuries and ages only a handful of years; Orlando starts out as a gorgeous male specimen, and then, midway through the story, he transforms into an equally beautiful woman. And, like Tiresias, Orlando questions, among other things, whether sex is more enjoyable for men or for women. The answer is never revealed, but the research process is delicious.
Why did I love this book? First of all, the opening sentence is superb: "He – for there could be no doubt of his sex, though the fashion of the time did something to disguise it – was in the act of slicing at the head of a Moor which swung from the rafters." It contains irony, foreshadowing, historical background, and even a hint of comic racism. Beyond the lyrical writing style and witty remarks, this book is extraordinary in its discussion of sexual identity and sexual politics. When our protagonist first notices the object of his infatuation, he cannot tell if it is a man or a woman; and yet this has no bearing on his attraction, except that he is concerned with what people might think. Furthermore, when Orlando becomes female, he (she, at this point) is hardly concerned with the transformation: it is only when she dons the skirts and wrappings of a woman does she begin to notice the differences, both externally and internally.
These are talking points that are still appearing regularly in online forums and in queer press like Xtra. We behave as though this type of discussion is something new, uncomfortable, and not yet appropriate for the majority. And yet Woolf was sparking this same discussion with grace and intelligence almost one hundred years ago in mainstream literature. Something to think about.


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A woman was blocked from early voting near Austin, Texas, last week after wearing a T-shirt that said "Vote the Bible."
A pro-family group called Texas Values said election workers told resisdent Kay Hill at the Taylor City Hall polling place in Williamson County her shirt was quote "offensive."
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Famed for its nightlife and close on Amsterdam's heels for the title of Europe's most liberal city, Berlin offers visitors just about everything from avant-garde and trendy to seriously sexy underground clubs, hip local hangouts, theatre and everything in between. Berlin's club scene mushroomed incredibly fast after the fall of the Berlin Wall, with locals excited to take advantage of their new freedom; the clubbing scene in Berlin is now one of the most competitive and stimulating in the world. Foreigners may find it hard to get into some of the top clubs, as bouncers have a reputation for being strict and highly selective; having some local knowledge or a local guide is a big advantage.
The Mitte district is a hip and happening spot and boasts some of Berlin's top clubs and bars, but it can be quite touristy. New clubs are springing up in Prenzlauer Berg and Friedrichshain, while Kreuzberg is fast becoming a popular hangout with locals and immigrants alike and is distinguished by its edgy atmosphere. Schoneburg offers some superb cafes, clubs and saunas and is quite popular with Berlin's gay community, as is Nollendorfplatz and its 'pink village'.
Berlin offers plenty of Kneipes, neighbourhood pubs, where local brews and old favourites can be sampled. Cabaret is still a popular pastime in Berlin and there are many cabaret clubs dotted around this vibrant city offering satirical shows that make fun of the political and social scene. Live music clubs dominate a lot of the city showcasing both well-known and amateur acts in just about every type of atmosphere, from small and intimate clubs to downright dirty and grungy music halls.
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sorry i know i did this backwards but i meant todo this then forgot
My name is owen as my screen name implies
im stuck in chicago where we get snow but have very few hills good enough for snowboarding
usually once a year i go (on my vacation) and rip it up but im by no means an expert
but i have fallin in love with it and am trying to see if i can take a few months off to really get good. i current have a nidecker and a rossi angus (yes the paid for reviews got me)
i havnt tried the angus yet (its still on its way to me) but im hoping it does good for me.
i bought both used. 200 for the nidecker with boots and bindings and 285 for the angus with bindings. so even if they arent the best boards they were cheap.
recently took up skateboarding to keep me better tuned for the winter but its not going so well. it is fun though especially since i bought a harness for my dog and she pulls me around town.
here is a compiled list of injuries:
almost broke my wrist but ended up only spraining both of them
bruised upper thigh
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Take up wakeboarding and summer won't suck at all ;)
yes that does look like it would quenche my thirst but ive already sunk a few hundred into my skateboards
You paid a few hundred bucks for some skateboards? Your'e doing it wrong. As far as dealing with it just bust out a summer trip to hood and go shred the glacier for a week.
the boards where 50 each (one longboard one normal board)
but i spent about 100 painting the normal board
kinda stupid but it was a fun project
i stole never summers logo and wrote never summer is a cool font
So you spent 100 bucks for a deck you're going to skate on and destroy?
well 50 for the deck
and ya somthin like 75-100 on painting and other materials to paint it
it was an all white deck
i wont destroy it. i can allways do touchups
I guess I don't understand kids these days.
what the fuck
how do you spend a hundred bucks painting something? a hundred bucks will paint a room... a board should be 10.
anywho... guess i'm with the not understanding people anymore. good luck anyways though. enjoy life.
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MARTINSBURG - The Grinch didn't steal Christmas from the Eastridge Groves Center.
As a matter of fact, he was great fun.
The annual Christmas bazaar was held Dec. 1 at the center on Cumbo Road. The bazaar is the biggest fundraiser of the year for the support group.
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Pam Fulkrod, Nancy Cave, Christina Dillow and Jamie Wolford with Sal Barahona as the Grinch at the Eastridge Groves Center Christmas Bazaar.
This year was the first to include vendors and along with the grab bag sales, 50/50 raffle and food, gifts for the family were offered. Money earned will be used to provide any needed supplies, a luncheon and client employee award each month, keep the drinking water delivered and fund another year of helping the Groves Center be a more comfortable and enjoyable place of work and social center for the physically and mentally handicapped folks of the Eastern Panhandle.
The family and friends of the Eastridge Groves Center meet on the second Wednesday of each month at the center, 270 Cumbo Road, Martinsburg. The group welcomes anyone interested in joining or just helping out. It accepts donations of books, DVDs, puzzles and word searches. The clients recycle aluminum cans, and could also use donations of soil, as they will soon be planting seeds for spring garden sales and to replant the salad tables in the outside break area.
For more information, call chairperson Sharon Barahona at 304-702-7461 or email email@example.com.


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For a short while, all was quite. Then the moans got louder and louder as they neared.
He quickly ran to the truck and popped the hood open. Smoke and steam bellowed out as it escaped from the engine compartment. Trent looked around nervously then back down to the steaming engine.
"I don't have the time to fix this!" he said to himself. "Babe!" yelled Jessie. He looked to her as she tossed him a shotgun. He turned to look at the hoard of dead creeping nearer and nearer. "Nolen." he said.
Trents switch had been flipped again.
"We have about six to eight grenades back there. Take half and use them wisely. Don't you dare go wastin' my grenades."


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Volume 109, Issue 10, 08 September 1998
Formation and growth of ice particles in stationary ultrasonic fields109(1998); http://dx.doi.org/10.1063/1.476971View Description Hide Description
The formation of ice particles in stationary ultrasonic fields (SUSFs) from iceaerosol was observed. Under suitable experimental conditions aerosol particles gather in stable ellipsoidal systems at temperatures down to <50 K below ambient. We call these systems cold gas traps. The aerosol concentrates in the pressure node areas of the SUSF and conglomerates to form larger particles and snowflakes with diameters up to 10 mm. The resulting shapes are shown. Most of them are similar to those occurring in nature. An attempt is made to explain the effect. Three different processes of ice particle formation are visualized and discussed. Here the existence of a quasiliquid layer (QLL) on the particle surfaces seems to be essential because both the formation of ice particles and the QLL occur only at temperatures higher than about −25 °C. The observed trapping and generation process can be used, for example, in atmospheric physics for the study of particle aggregation,precipitation formation, and water and radiation transport phenomena.
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Implications of parity conservation for superpositions of chiral states109(1998); http://dx.doi.org/10.1063/1.476972View Description Hide Description
In this paper, we consider how parity conservation limits the type of superpositions of chiral states that can be created and detected. We also show how spontaneous emission can cause the left and right hands of the superposition to become coupled to different states of the radiation field. This coupling, aside from being an interesting effect in its own right, helps to enforce the restrictions that parity conservation places upon superpositions of chiral states. Finally, we outline an analogy that exists between aspects of this work and the Einstein, Podolsky, Rosen paradox.
Variational reaction path algorithm109(1998); http://dx.doi.org/10.1063/1.476973View Description Hide Description
In this paper we propose a new algorithm for calculating a reaction path and a set of local vibrational frequencies along a reaction path for dynamics calculations. The new method yields reasonable vibrational frequencies even when using a large step size. The algorithm is tested by carrying out variational transition state theory calculations including multidimensional semiclassical tunneling contributions, for the reaction and the results are very promising.
Extracting accurate bound-state spectra from approximate wave packet propagation using the filter-diagonalization method109(1998); http://dx.doi.org/10.1063/1.476974View Description Hide Description
We present an extension of the filter-diagonalization (FD) approach which allows the extraction of accurate bound-state spectra from a time-dependent wave function determined by an approximate propagation scheme. To investigate the method, an approximate wave function is generated by a wave packet propagation on a two-dimensional potential energy surface for the LiCN molecule, employing a second-order differencing integrator with large step size. When applied to this inaccurate wave function, our formulation of the FD technique is capable of yielding eigenenergies considerably more precise than those obtained with the original FD method, while the effort is almost the same. The present FD scheme contains some additional refinements that increase the method's efficiency, accuracy, and practicability. We demonstrate that the accuracy of the FD procedure can be improved by using cosinetype filters. The quality of different variational principles employed to determine the eigenenergies is examined. These variational principles can also be utilized to estimate the error of the energies and intensities inexpensively and reliably.
A multitechnique maximum entropy approach to the determination of the orientation and conformation of flexible molecules in solution109(1998); http://dx.doi.org/10.1063/1.476975View Description Hide Description
We present a maximum entropy method that allows the simultaneous analysis of different types of experimental data in order to obtain conformational information on flexible molecules in solution. We consider various NMR observables (dipolar, quadrupolar, J-couplings, nuclear Overhauser enhancements), and dielectric and neutron scattering techniques, and we express them using a common formalism in terms of orientational–conformational order parameters. We then show how these observables can be inverted in structural information allowing for continuous or discrete internal degrees of freedom and for any available prior information. We demonstrate the potentialities of the method on simulated and dielectric data for some terminally halogenated alkyl chains and show the improvement in conformationalanalysis obtained by simultaneously analyzing different and complementary data sets.
Why semilocal functionals work: Accuracy of the on-top pair density and importance of system averaging109(1998); http://dx.doi.org/10.1063/1.476976View Description Hide Description
Gradient-corrected density functionals provide a common tool for electronic structure calculations in quantum chemistry and condensed matter physics. This article explains why local and semilocal approximations work for the exchange-correlation energy. We demonstrate the high accuracy of the local spin-density (LSD) approximation for the on-top pair density, which provides the missing link between real atoms and molecules and the uniform electron gas. Special attention is devoted to the leading correction to exchange in the high-density (or weakly correlated) limit. We give an improved analytic expression for the on-top pair density in the uniform electron gas, calculating its spin-polarization dependence exactly in the high-density limit. We find the exact form of the gradient expansion for the on-top pair density, using Levy's scaling of the interactingwave function. We also discuss the importance of system averaging, which unweights spatial regions where the density varies most rapidly. We show how the depth of the on-top hole correlates with the degree of locality of the exchange-correlation energy. Finally, we discuss how well fully nonlocal approximations (weighted-density, self-interaction correction, and hybrid-exchange) reproduce the on-top hole.
Product representation of potential energy surfaces. II109(1998); http://dx.doi.org/10.1063/1.476977View Description Hide Description
An efficient method was recently introduced [J. Chem. Phys. 102, 5605 (1995); 104, 7974 (1996)] to represent multidimensional potential energy surfaces as a linear combination of products of one-dimensional functions, so-called natural potentials. Weight functions were shown to be easily implemented in the product representation scheme as long as they are separable, i.e., defined as a product of one-dimensional weight functions. Here the constraint imposed by the special product form of the separable weights is removed. Nonseparable weights are emulated by dividing the potential energy surface in arbitrary regions of minor and major physical relevance and by utilizing a so-called relevant region iteration procedure. Maintaining the advantageous computational scaling properties of the product representation scheme, this relevant region iteration procedure allows the stepwise improvement of the surface representation in the regions of major relevance. The quality of the product representation in the regions of minor relevance remains nevertheless acceptable. As a consequence, the number of potential expansion coefficients can be reduced substantially. The product representation of potential energy surfaces is especially well suited to be employed within the framework of the multiconfiguration time-dependent Hartree (MCTDH) approximation. To check the performance of the proposed method the Liu–Siegbahn–Truhlar–Horowitz (LSTH) surface is represented in Jacobian coordinates, and initial-state selected reaction probabilities for the exchange reaction are computed.
Systematic design and evaluation of multiple-pulse experiments in nuclear magnetic resonance spectroscopy using a semi-continuous Baker–Campbell–Hausdorff expansion109(1998); http://dx.doi.org/10.1063/1.476978View Description Hide Description
We show that an explicit solution to a semi-continuous analog to the Baker–Campbell–Hausdorff (BCH) problem can be derived by an appropriate combination of the Magnus and BCH expansions. The resulting semi-continuous BCH (scBCH) expansion forms a valuable tool for solving the time-dependent Schrödinger equation for Hamiltonians with complicated, piecewise continuous time dependence. Such Hamiltonians are typical in multiple-pulse coherent spectroscopy. Using the scBCH expansion we derive a number of general formulas, including relations for permuted pulse sequences. These formulas simplify calculation of the effective Hamiltonian for advanced multiple-pulse experiments and allow for evaluation of this to considerably higher order than is possible using the Magnus expansion. This is important for the detailed analysis and systematic design of multiple-pulse experiments which emphasize some interactions while effectively suppressing others. The scBCH expansion is applied to problems of homonuclear dipolar decoupling in solid-state NMR and broadband heteronuclear decoupling in liquid-state NMR. Improved high-order pulse sequences for on- and off-resonance decoupling are introduced and existing recursive expansion strategies are evaluated within the presented theoretical framework.
Hyperquantization algorithm. I. Theory for triatomic systems109(1998); http://dx.doi.org/10.1063/1.476979View Description Hide Description
In this paper we present the theoretical concepts and methodology of the hyperquantization algorithm for the three body quantum mechanical problem. Within the framework of the hyperspherical approach to reaction dynamics, we use angular momentumalgebra (or its generalization, e.g., including Hahn coefficients which are orthonormal polynomials on a set of grid points which span the interaction region) to compute matrix elements of the Hamiltonian operator parametrically in the hyperradius. The particularly advantageous aspects of the method proposed here is that no integrals are required and the construction of the kinetic energy matrix is simple and universal: salient features are the block tridiagonal structure of the Hamiltonian matrix and a number of symmetry properties. The extremely sparse structure is a further advantage for the diagonalization required to evaluate the adiabatic hyperspherical states as a function of the hyperradius. Numerical implementation is illustrated in the following paper by a specific example.
Hyperquantization algorithm. II. Implementation for the reaction dynamics including open-shell and spin-orbit interactions109(1998); http://dx.doi.org/10.1063/1.476980View Description Hide Description
This work focuses on numerical aspects and performances of the hyperquantization algorithm, presented in the preceding paper, for a prototypical atom–diatom reaction. Here we provide also the extensions which allow the treatment of excited electronic surfaces. Test calculations have been carried out on the reaction at a total nuclear angular momentum equal to zero, the fine structure of the fluorine atom being also explicitly taken into account. The technique presented is shown to be simple and effective for applications to reactive scattering problems, and the results are competitive with those obtained applying other current methods, especially in the strong triatomic interaction region.
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The electronic spectra of and in the gas phase109(1998); http://dx.doi.org/10.1063/1.476981View Description Hide Description
The electronic transition of linear and has been detected in the gas phase. The carbon radical chains were produced at low temperatures in a pulsed slit nozzle, incorporating a discharge in a high pressure expansion. Cavity ring down spectroscopy is used as a sensitive technique to observe the band systems in absorption. The band of the electronic transition of in the gas phase has its origin near whereas that of is around Some transitions involving vibrational excitation in the upper electronic state have been also detected. These measurements were undertaken because carbon chains are among the appealing candidates as carriers of diffuse interstellar bands; the observed origin bands do not show matches with the hitherto reported wavelengths. However, these gas phase data now provide a firm basis for a specific astronomical search.
Highly predissociative levels of CH state detected with two-color resonant four-wave mixing spectroscopy109(1998); http://dx.doi.org/10.1063/1.476982View Description Hide Description
We demonstrate an application of two-color resonant four-wave mixing spectroscopy to detect highly predissociative levels of CH in the state in a hostile environment of an oxyacetylene flame. The probe and grating wavelengths are in resonance with the and systems, respectively. We measured 49 previously unobserved rovibronic lines of the 0–0 band and 38 additional lines of the 1–0 band of the system to access rotational quantum number up to 21 and 13 of and 1 in the state, respectively. Inclusion of additional line positions measured for the 0–0 and the 1–0 bands yields spectral parameters of the state significantly improved over those obtained previously with only nonpredissociative lines; one additional centrifugal–distortion parameter is evaluated significantly. Although power saturation is significant even at smallest practical laser energies, we estimated lifetimes through the power dependence of linewidths. The lifetimes of the highest measurable level of ( and 1) are and ps, respectively.
Anomalously slow intramolecular vibrational redistribution in the acetylene state above 10 000 of internal energy109(1998); http://dx.doi.org/10.1063/1.476983View Description Hide Description
We have identified, in dispersed fluorescence spectra of acetylene emission, a series of bright states between 10 000 and 15 000 of internal energy which display anomalously slow intramolecular vibrational redistribution. That is, these bright states display virtually no fractionation at internal energies at which the majority of other observed bright states are fractionated over several hundred in a complicated fashion. The anomalous bright states are distinguished from the other nearly isoenergetic bright states only by the way in which the vibrational excitation is distributed among the CC stretch and trans bend modes; specifically, the anomalous bright states have relatively low excitation in the trans bend mode , with the remainder of the vibrational excitation in the CC stretch mode A refinement of the acetylene global effective Hamiltonian permits detailed insight into the mechanism of the anomalously slow intramolecular vibrational redistribution, and reveals that the relatively simple fractionation patterns of these bright states can be adequately described in terms of a system of 4 interacting zero-order states which are coupled by Darling-Dennison bending resonances, vibrational -resonance, and an anharmonic "3,245" resonance. The refined effective Hamiltonian also permits the assignment of similar, minimally perturbed bright states up to at least 17 500 of internal energy.
Intermolecular interaction in the and open-shell ionic complexes: Infrared predissociation spectra of the and vibrations109(1998); http://dx.doi.org/10.1063/1.476984View Description Hide Description
Midinfrared spectra of the open-shell ionic complexes have been recorded by photofragmentation spectroscopy in a tandem mass spectrometer. The vibration (OH stretch) and its combination band with the intermolecular bending vibration have been observed for both complexes at the level of rotational resolution. The analysis of the spectra shows that both complexes have a linear proton-bound structure in their electronic ground states, with intermolecular center-of-mass separations of 2.60 and 2.65 Å for and respectively. The vibrational origins are redshifted by 66.3 and with respect to the corresponding monomer transition indicating that the intermolecular interaction increases upon excitation. The fine structure of the and transitions arising from electron spin and vibrational angular momentum of have been analyzed in terms of a semirigid Hamiltonian including spin–spin, spin–rotation, and l-type doubling interaction terms. The molecular parameters extracted from the molecular constants provide valuable information on the radial and angular part of the intermolecular potential-energy surface in each considered vibrational state. The intermolecular interaction in is stronger than in mainly due to the larger polarizability of the rare-gas atom.
Vibrational states in the electronic ground state of the and complexes109(1998); http://dx.doi.org/10.1063/1.476985View Description Hide Description
Two-dimensional potential energy functions for the electronic ground state of and have been generated by electronic structure calculations. The potential energy functions have been modified according to an adiabatical correction scheme and used in variational calculations of vibrational energies. Dissociation energies have been calculated to be 360 and for in its vibrational ground state and 416 and in the vibrationally excited state, respectively. The large amplitude bending vibration agrees to within with the experimental value. Predictions are made for further bound vibrational states.
A comparative high-resolution study of predissociation linewidths in the Schumann-Runge bands of109(1998); http://dx.doi.org/10.1063/1.476986View Description Hide Description
Results are presented of a comparative study in which three distinct high-resolution experimental techniques (vacuum-ultraviolet laser spectroscopy,laser-induced fluorescencespectroscopy and vacuum-ultraviolet Fourier-transform spectroscopy) were used to study predissociation in the Schumann-Runge bands of with and 14. Our measurements are the first to be performed at high resolution for these levels and represent a significant advance on previous knowledge, characterizing completely the fine-structure and rotation dependencies of the -state predissociation for the first time. The measured fine-structurespecific linewidths will result in significant improvements in the parameterization of models describing predissociation of the -state and will have an impact on the development of realistic photochemical models of the terrestrial atmosphere. Good agreement was found between linewidthsmeasured using vacuum-ultraviolet laser spectroscopy and laser-induced fluorescencespectroscopy, but unexpected difficulties arose in determining quantitative linewidths using vacuum-ultraviolet Fourier-transform spectroscopy. For each experimental technique, the instrumental resolution had to be carefully controlled and monitored in order to ensure reliable interpretation of the measured spectra.
A direct comparison of vibrational deactivation of hexafluorobenzene excited by infrared multiple photon absorption and internal conversion109(1998); http://dx.doi.org/10.1063/1.476987View Description Hide Description
We report the first direct comparison between energy transfer parameters measured using infrared multiphoton absorption (IRMPA) versus ultraviolet (UV) excitation followed by rapid internal conversion (IC). Highly excited hexafluorobenzene (HFB) molecules in the electronic ground state were prepared by (i) IRMPA by laser pumping to an average initial energy of and (ii) UV excitation to followed by IC. The vibrational deactivation of the highly excited HFB by the monatomic collider gas argon was monitored by time-resolved infrared fluorescence. The results for the two methods are identical within experimental error, demonstrating the viability of IRMPA as a method of state preparation for vibrational deactivation experiments involving large molecules.
Theoretical studies of the structures and vibrational frequencies of actinide compounds using relativistic effective core potentials with Hartree–Fock and density functional methods: , and109(1998); http://dx.doi.org/10.1063/1.476988View Description Hide Description
The calculated bond lengths and vibrational frequencies of the octahedral compounds and from Hartree–Fock and various density functional calculations are compared. The calculations employ relativistic effective core potentials (RECPs) derived from one-component relativistic Hartree–Fock atomic wave functions. The structures and frequencies of the hexafluoride molecules were obtained using analytic gradient and second derivative techniques. Of the methods examined here the local density (SVWN) and hybrid functional (B3LYP) have the best performance in terms of the errors compared to experiment for the bond lengths and vibrational frequencies. The analytic representations of the RECPs for U, Np, and Pu are given along with Gaussian basis sets for the valence electrons of these actinide elements.
A combined experimental and theoretical study of rotational energy transfer in collisions between and He, Ar and at temperatures down to 7 K109(1998); http://dx.doi.org/10.1063/1.476517View Description Hide Description
Infrared-ultraviolet double resonance (IRUVDR) experiments have been implemented in the ultra-cold environment provided by a CRESU (Cinétique de Réaction en Ecoulement Supersonique Uniforme) apparatus. With this technique rate coefficients of two kinds have been measured for rotational energy transfer in collisions between NO and He, Ar and : (a) rate coefficients for total removal from specific states of 3.5 or 6.5) and (b) state-to-state rate coefficients for rotational energy transfer from these levels to specific final states. Using different Laval nozzles, results have been obtained at several different temperatures: for He as collision partner, 295, 149, 63, 27, 15 and 7 K; for Ar, 139, 53, 44 and 27 K; and for 86 and 47 K. The thermally averaged cross-sections for total removal show remarkably little variation, either with temperature or with initial rotational state. The variation of state-to-state rate coefficients with shows three general features: (i) a decrease with increasing (ii) a propensity to favor even transitions over odd changes; and (iii) at lower temperatures, decreases in J are increasingly favored over increases in J and the distribution of rate coefficients against becomes narrower. The experimental rate coefficients for collisions with He and Ar are compared with those from both close coupled and coupled states calculations based on potential energy surfaces determined within the coupled electron pair approximation (CEPA) with a large atomic orbital basis set. The agreement between theory and experiment of both the total and the state-to-state rate coefficients is excellent over the complete range of temperatures covered in the experiments.
Scattering of aligned molecules. The potential energy surfaces for the and systems109(1998); http://dx.doi.org/10.1063/1.476989View Description Hide Description
Total integral cross sections for scattering of oxygen molecules on krypton and xenon atoms were measured in the thermal energy range, as a function of the collision energy and under a controlled alignment of the rotational angular momentum of the molecules [Aquilanti et al., Nature, 371, 399 (1994)]. Data obtained with a "hot" effusive molecular beam, which contains fast rotating and randomly oriented molecules, mainly probe the spherical component of the potential energy surfaces. Experiments with supersonic seeded beams, where the oxygen molecules are cooled at the rotational level and selectively aligned [Aquilanti et al., Phys. Rev. Lett. 74, 2929 (1995)], probe the anisotropy of the potential energy surfaces. The analysis of the experimental results, based upon close-coupling exact quantum mechanical calculations of the cross sections, provides an accurate characterization of the interactions at intermediate and large intermolecular distances for the and systems. It is found that the most stable configuration of the two complexes is for perpendicular approach of the rare gas atom, with energies 15.84 for Kr and 17.87 meV for Xe, at intermolecular distances of 3.72 and 3.87 Å, respectively. An adiabatic approximation and a semiclassical description shed light on some general features of the collision dynamics of aligned molecules, in particular on the observed effects of the interactionanisotropy on the glory interference phenomenon.


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