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The IndependentCan't stand the heat? Come to world's first climate-controlled cityThe IndependentDubai has already earned a reputation for pushing the boundaries with its architecture, having built the world's tallest building, a hotel shaped like a sail and a palm tree‑shaped archipelago of luxury properties. But now developers have unveiled ...
Dubai says it's building world's biggest shopping mallAl Jazeera AmericaDubai Holding was not spared from the financial turmoil, and some of its divisions sought new repayment terms from lenders on a debt pile that reached into the billions of dollars. The emirate's economy has rebounded strongly in the years since the ...
TODAYonlineDubai to build world's biggest shopping centreTODAYonlineDubai has long used high-profile, big-ticket real-estate projects to drive economic growth and establish itself as an international tourist destination. Its ambitions were slowed significantly by a crippling financial crisis that came to a head in 2009 ...
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Wall Street Journal (blog)Rising Dubai Real Estate Prices Pose Risk for UAE, IMF SaysWall Street Journal (blog)Meanwhile, Dubai did make "significant progress" in repaying some of its debts stemming from the 2009 crisis, the IMF said. Markets, however, would continue to monitor entities such as Dubai World, which was at the heart of the emirate's debt crisis ...and more »
Business InsiderThe World's Largest Shopping Mall Is Opening In DubaiBusiness InsiderDubai — the most populated city in the UAE — continues to recover from its 2009 debt crisis as well as criticisms from the IMF that new and ambitious real estate projects may cause another boom-bust cycle. Here is a video of the project from ...
Dubai says launching project to build world's biggest mallReutersDubai is still recovering from its 2009 debt crisis and the International Monetary Fund has warned a slew of new real estate projects could lead to another boom-bust cycle. But officials say they are able to handle the risks, and a strong economy is ...and more »
Dubai World in talks to extend term of $10.5bn loanFinancial TimesThe government conglomerate was at the heart of Dubai's debt crisis in 2009, agreeing a restructuring of $25bn of loans in 2010. Last week, it proposed an early repayment on the $4.1bn maturity due in September 2015 if creditors agreed to extend the ...
Lloyds Said to Drop Sale of $540 Million of Dubai World DebtBloombergLloyds is among several British banks to offload their operations in Dubai following the financial crisis in 2008 and the emirate's near-default the following year. The London-based lender sold its Dubai branch to HSBC Holdings Plc in 2012 and closed ...and more »
Gulf TimesDubai in Turmoil Pursues Clearing Legacy of Toxic DebtBusinessweek... which could end years of negotiations on about $2.7 billion of debt. Nakheel PJSC, the property developer that helped spark Dubai's financial crisis in 2009, said last week it will repay $1.5 billion of bank loans early. The plans were outlined ...Dubai still cleaning up bad debts that triggered panicTimes of Omanall 19 news articles »
Biggest risk is leaving too early, says Mubasher traderThe NationalLarge surpluses and stable debt ratios should help the GCC withstand a temporary decline in oil prices, but effective diversification remains the only solution in the long term. Looking at the UAE markets in particular, we believe that the month ahead ...
Bourse crosses pre-2008 crisis levels on overall bullish momentumZawya (registration)QSE is up 20.92% year-to-date against Dubai's stupendous gains of 41.32%, Abu Dhabi (20.19%), Saudi Arabia (11.66%), Bahrain (11.23%) and Muscat (0.14%), while Kuwait was down 1.31%. Telecom, insurance and banking counters witnessed the most of the ...
Dubai debt adviser Moelis will list on Wall StreetThe NationalMoelis & Company, the boutique investment bank that advised the Government of Dubai during the debt crisis of 2009-10, is to launch an initial public offering on the New York Stock Exchange to value the bank at about US$1.5 billion, the company said.
International Business TimesSix Flags Will Set Up Shop In Dubai As Middle East Tourism Recovers From ...International Business TimesAfter a free fall during the global financial crisis, the global tourism industry has been getting back on track in recent years, especially in places such as the United Arab Emirates, where a burgeoning younger class is looking for fun, with money to ...'Dubailand': Middle East Developers Welcome Six Flags Theme Park ProjectInvesting.comall 93 news articles »
ArabianBusiness.comNakheel First-Quarter Profit Rises 28%, Sees More Debt ReductionBloombergNakheel was at the center of Dubai's 2009 debt crisis before being rescued by the government with a 16 billion-dirham credit line. The company said in January said it would repay $1.1 billion of debt ahead of schedule this year, including 2.35 billion ...Profits at Palm islands developer Nakheel rise 28% in first quarterThe NationalNakheel's profit jump may boost DubaiArabianBusiness.comall 22 news articles »
ArabianBusiness.comDubai's Limitless asks to defer debt repaymentArabianBusiness.comThe news suggests that while Dubai is recovering strongly from its 2009 debt crisis and property market crash, with most companies that have restructured loans succeeding in working through their obligations, the process is not uniform and significant ...Limitless Said to Seek Delay on Installment of $1.2 Billion DebtBusinessweekall 11 news articles »
Al-ArabiyaDubai World sees more early debt paymentsBusiness RecorderDubai World, the conglomerate at the centre of the emirate's debt crisis, has the means to make its first big repayment on time next year and expects to pay off more of its debt ahead of schedule, a top executive said. Mohammed al-Shaibani, chief ...Dubai tells global bankers to expect another boomAl-Arabiyaall 32 news articles »
Dubai World brings in Blackstone for 'fresh pair of eyes' on debt repaymentThe NationalDubai World, whose debt problems sparked the 2009 financial crisis in the emirate, feels the need for a "fresh pair of eyes" on its debt situation, according to one person familiar with the situation. A spokesman declined to comment. A spokesman for ...and more »
Al-ArabiyaDubai may gain on Dubai World debt optimismAl-ArabiyaDubai's bourse may rise after an executive at Dubai World, the conglomerate at the centre of the emirate's 2009 debt crisis, told Reuters the firm was confident about its ability to make upcoming repayments. Mohammed al-Shaibani, chief executive of ...and more »
EXCLUSIVE-Dubai World sees more early debt payments, can meet 2015 ...ReutersDUBAI, March 31 (Reuters) - Dubai World, the conglomerate at the centre of the emirate's debt crisis, has the means to make its first big repayment on time next year and expects to pay off more of its debt ahead of schedule, a top executive said ...and more »
Dubai's Victory Heights Project CompletedGulf Business News"We are very pleased to have completed this landmark development during a period saddled by global financial crisis and volatility in the Dubai real estate market," said Yasser Abdulrahman Al Raee, general manager of Victory Heights. "I'm proud to ...and more »
FinFacts IrelandThursday Newspaper Review - Irish Business News and International Stories ...FinFacts IrelandBut instead, falling prices have become an issue for the countries that share the euro currency, while the euro is seen as having emerged from the crisis that threatened its survival. ... Emirates' inaugural flight from Dubai to Dublin took place in ...
Japan and US outperform EuropeTimes of MaltaWhile the main European indices enjoyed double-digit gains, within peripheral Europe, it is worth highlighting that two countries which were constantly grabbing the headlines in recent years due to the debt crisis saw their equity markets rally during ...and more »
Dubai Year in Review 2013Zawya (registration)Many of the concerns that had been weighing on Dubai's economy in the aftermath of the 2008 global financial crisis look to have been laid to rest this past year, with the emirate consolidating its place as a regional centre for tourism, transport ...
UAE: Sharjah gets new credit rating – bond up next?Financial Times (registration) (blog)Unlike the unrated and debt-laden Dubai, Sharjah was better insulated from the tumult of the global financial crisis, boasting debt levels of less than 6 per cent of gross domestic product. Economic output nonetheless dropped in 2009, surpassing pre ...and more »
Economic TimesDubai developer Nakheel to pay $1.1 billion debt in 2014Economic Times... and promises to repay trade creditors $1.23 billion in Islamic bonds that mature in 2016. Nakheel's credit problems were a key trigger of Dubai's 2009 financial crisis, which prompted multibillion-dollar bailouts by the Abu Dhabi-based federal ...Nakheel Plans $1.1bn Of Early Debt Repayments In 2014Gulf Business NewsNakheel to prepay bank debt of AED 4 billion in 2014CPI Financialall 88 news articles »
Dubai real estate growth behind developer Nakheel's plans to pay $1.1 billion ...Fox NewsDUBAI, United Arab Emirates – The indebted builder of Dubai's palm-shaped islands says it plans to make early debt repayments of 4 billion dirhams, or $1.1 billion, this year. Nakheel said in a statement Sunday that strong real estate growth and ...
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Football Program Adds Two Transfers
Ball State head football coach Pete Lembo has announced that Brandon Newman and Jarrett Swaby have signed grant-in-aid papers and will be joining the Cardinals football program. They are each college graduates who will attend graduate school at Ball State and be eligible to compete immediately in 2012.
Newman, a 6-0, 303 lb., defensive lineman completed his undergraduate career at Notre Dame, while Swaby, a 6-1, 191 lb., safety, attended Central Florida as an undergraduate.
"We are very pleased to welcome Brandon and Jarrett to the Ball State community and the football program," Lembo says. "Both of these young men were strong students, good citizens and contributors on the field at their previous institutions. We hope they can both achieve their athletic goals at Ball State while pursuing a master's degree in their chosen fields of study. With the arrival of these two veteran players, we anticipate seeing some additional competition for playing time on the defensive side of the ball during preseason camp."
Newman played four seasons at Notre Dame after graduating from Pleasure Ridge Park High School in Louisville, Ky. He was one of 11 players from Kentucky named to the 2007 All-Southern Team by the Orlando Sentinel plus was chosen to play in the U.S. Army All-American Bowl in San Antonio, Texas, after his senior season. An all-state selection as a senior, Newman earned second team honors as a junior. He was ranked as the second best player in Kentucky by Rivals.com and the 22nd best defensive tackle in the nation while at Pleasure Ridge Park H.S. Newman totaled 126 tackles in his high school career, including 31.5 tackles for loss. A four-year letterwinner in football and track in high school, Newman was a three-time captain of the football team. He appeared in two games while at Notre Dame.
Swaby, who appeared in 11 games for UCF in 2011, redshirted for the Knights in 2009 and did not see action in 2010 which will give him two years of eligibility for Ball State. He managed 12 tackles for UCF last fall. A graduate of Glades Day School in Florida, Swaby recorded 77 tackles, nine pass breakups, two forced fumbles and two fumble recoveries as a high school senior. He also added 133 yards rushing, 79 yards receiving and three touchdowns while playing running back on offense. Swaby helped Glades Day to the 2006 Florida Class A State Championship and earned all-area and all-state honors that season. Swaby also competed in track in high school and qualified for the state meet in the 400-meters as a senior.
Ball State will open the 2012 football season Thurs., Aug. 30, in a home game at Scheumann Stadium against Mid-American Conference opponent Eastern Michigan.


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Study looks at kids' brains learning math
Sometime in elementary school, you quit counting on your fingers and just know the answer. Now scientists have put youngsters into brain scanners to find out why, and watched how the brain reorganizes itself as kids learn math.
The take-home advice: Drilling your kids on simple addition and multiplication may pay off.
"Experience really does matter," said Dr. Kathy Mann Koepke of the National Institutes of Health, which funded the research.
Healthy children start making that switch between counting to what's called fact retrieval when they're 8 or 9, when they're still working on fundamental addition and subtraction. How well kids make that shift to memory-based problem-solving is known to predict their ultimate math achievement.
Those who fall behind "are impairing ... their math learning later on," Koepke said.
But why do some kids make the transition easily?
To start finding out, Stanford University researchers first peeked into the brains of 28 children as they solved a series of simple addition problems inside a brain-scanning MRI machine.
No scribbling out the answer: The 7- to 9-year-olds saw a calculation -- 3 plus 4 equals 7, for example -- flash on a screen and pushed a button to say if the answer was right or wrong.
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Ballparks? I've seen a few. It's maybe the best thing about my job (aside from getting paid actual money to sit around my house and watch MLB Extra Innings). And before they were gone, I saw most of the 1960s-'70s multi-purpose stadiums, unaffectionately known by some as "ashtray architecture." Those buildings served their purpose, but today they're widely reviled for their general lack of character; their lack of quirks, which were in grand supply in the previous generation of ballparks.
With the exception of Shea Stadium, those multi-purpose stadiums are gone now, and their replacements are, whatever else we might think about them, certainly distinctive; there's no mistaking the new yard in Arlington, Texas, with the one in Houston. These new ballparks -- and of course the few remaining old ones -- all have quirks, and some of my favorites are listed below. What you won't find here is Yankee Stadium's Monument Park (which was quirky when the monuments were actually in the field of play, but now is just another shrine), or Anaheim Stadium's (so-called) California Spectacular (artifice at its worst) or the Metrodome's right-field "baggie" (which is just sort of pathetic). So here they are (with "quirk" defined at my whimsy)....
Houston's Hill
Roundly denounced by just about every visiting broadcaster and center fielder, that 30-degree embankment in deepest center field is ridiculous, in its way. After all, the embankments seen in old ballparks were usually there to provide good views for overflow crowds that were occasionally allowed to stand on the field. And these days that's not likely to happen in Houston or anywhere else. Nevertheless, I've grown to like Tal's Hill (named after longtime Astros executive Tal Smith), perhaps because on those rare occasions when a fly ball does travel that far, it's terribly entertaining -- and a bit terrifying -- when you realize that a center fielder is about to try something he's not been trained to do, and it's good plain fun until somebody gets hurt (which, after seven-plus seasons, still hasn't happened). And as an added bonus, Tal's Hill also is home to the ballpark's flagpole, reminiscent of old Tiger Stadium.
Fenway's Monster
The Green Monster -- or as the natives prefer, simply "The Wall" -- is perhaps the single most famous feature in the history of stadium architecture, and it's so close to the infield that Hall of Fame pitcher Lefty Gomez once said, "Pitching in Fenway is like playing baseball in this room. You can't throw sidearm without bruising you knuckles." Non-Hall of Fame pitcher Bill Lee asked about the Monster, "Do they leave it there during games?" They do, because they don't have a choice. That wall, 37 feet high, is hard up against Lansdowne Street and it's not going anywhere. The recently installed Monster Seats atop the wall do lessen the dramatic impact of home runs soaring over the wall ... but all the revenue generated by those seats help ensure that Fenway, that "lyric little bandbox of a ball park," will be around for at least a few more years.
Wrigley's Ivy
Wrigley Field certainly is the quirkiest ballpark you'll find, and this was probably true even before most of the "classic" yards were turned into apartment buildings and parking lots. There's the vintage scoreboard, and the "W" or "L" banner that is flown after each Cubs game (allowing afternoon travelers on the Red Line to know what happened that day), and that strange wire "basket" that turns so many would-be outs into home runs. But the defining characteristic of Wrigley Field must be the ivy, first planted in 1937 by future Hall of Famer Bill Veeck (whose father had been team president a few years earlier). Especially in these days of outfield fences plastered with garish advertising, Wrigley's verdant walls remind one of a time when commerce occasionally took a back seat to beauty.
Kauffman's royal scoreboard
Royals Stadium -- since renamed after Ewing Kauffman, the franchise's longtime owner -- was the one I grew up with (and I didn't see a game in another ballpark until I was 23). So I've got sentimental feelings for this one. Most people who visit Kauffman probably remember the fountains beyond the fence, or the I-70 traffic whizzing past, beyond the stadium itself. But what will always remain clear in my mind's eye is the king-sized (and -shaped) scoreboard beyond the fence in straightaway center field. Designed before teams figured out that scoreboards were supposed to sell products rather than actually keep score, the giant board was a model of simplicity. In huge lights, there are the lineups, the line score, the balls and the strikes, and the outs. Your one-stop shopping for in-game information, with nary an advertisement in sight. It shouldn't be quirky... but in today's game it is.
Safeco Field's choo-choos
If you're excited by marvels of engineering, it's hard to be unimpressed by Safeco Field's rolling roof with its giant wheels and rails and struts and girders. I wouldn't consider the roof a quirk, though. For a quirk, you have only to listen. Beyond center field, the BNSF Railway crosses Royal Brougham Way at grade, and roughly five times per game a freight (or occasionally Amtrak) train rolls through, blowing two long warning whistles, one short, and one more long. That, more than anything else, is what gives Safeco Field it's sense of place; if you're in a ballpark and you hear those four deafening toots, you know you're in Seattle.
Shea's Big Red Apple
Shea Stadium itself might only be loved by aging Mets devotees nostalgic for past glories, aficionados of the 1964 World's Fair, and fans of the first Men in Black. Intended by Robert Moses to resemble a Roman coliseum, at this point Shea is simply the last extant example of a design ethos that quickly -- at least by the standards of public architecture -- seemed obsolete. Forty years ago Shea was modern, but today it feels oddly plastic and vaguely ridiculous. Nevertheless, Shea does have its pleasures. If you're a fan of civil aviation, there are the airliners flying in and out of nearby LaGuardia Airport. And if you're a fan of Reagan-era kitsch, there's the big red apple that pops out of the Mets Magic Top Hat behind the center-field fence whenever a Met hits a home run. Installed in 1981, originally the hat flashed "Mets Magic," but since 1984 it's simply said, HOME RUN.
San Francisco's McCovey Cove
As soon as they did it, everybody wondered, "Why hasn't anybody done this before?" As soon as the San Francisco Giants built a ballpark on the water, everybody wanted one just like it. But of course everybody can't have the Bay Bridge beyond left field, and the freighter-filled bay isn't available to many teams, either (for one example, though, take in a Staten Island Yankees game someday, and there you've got the added benefit of the Statue of Liberty). All that's well and good, but this piece isn't about pretty scenery. It's about quirks... and there are few things quirkier than a home run that lands not in the stands, but in salt water. But entering the 2006 season, 53 home runs had landed in the water on the fly (that is, without first hitting the " Arcade" or the "Portwalk"). Barry Bonds had 32 of these "Splash Hits"; nobody else, Giant or non-Giant, had more than two.
Coors Field's mile-high seats
The quirkiest thing about Coors Field these days just might be the baseball-storage humidor, which is just about the only way to explain how the Rockies have allowed the fewest runs in the National League in home games (and scored the sixth-fewest). But it's hard to enjoy the humidor when you're sitting in the stands on a lazy August evening. Instead, take a moment and notice the 20th row of seats in the upper deck. They're the only purple seats in the stadium, and when you're up there you're exactly one mile high. In a ballpark full of small but lovely touches, this one probably is the loveliest.
Oriole Park's warehouse
Say all the nasty things you want about Orioles owner Peter Angelos, but at least he hasn't yet figured out a way to sell the name of Oriole Park at Camden Yards (and yes that's a clunky name but it's better than GoogleFart Field, or whatever). There are a lot of things to like about OPaCY, but my favorite is the huge brick building just beyond right field. Constructed in 1899, the B&O Warehouse has been described as "the longest building on the East Coast of the United States." True, there are probably a dozen other buildings about which the same is said... but how many of them serve as the dramatic background in a major league ballpark? Not many, I'll wager. Even better, the Warehouse is an integral part of the operation, containing the franchise's business offices and a large team store.
Portland's MAX
PGE Park in Portland -- my current home, coincidentally -- is the one of the oldest ballparks in the minor leagues, dating to the 1920s. Wedged into a hillside just west of downtown, PGE features old wooden bleachers, an ivy-covered wall just beyond the left-field fence, and a huge hand-operated scoreboard beyond center. But the most dramatic sight in PGE, happening a few times every season, is when a home run sails over the left-field fence, over the ivy, off (and sometimes over) the boardwalk, through the wrought-iron fence, and out onto 18th Avenue, where the ball might strike a passing car or (even better) a MAX light rail train heading downtown.
Senior writer Rob Neyer writes for Insider three times most weeks during the season. You can reach him via email@example.com, and his new book, "Rob Neyer's Big Book of Baseball Blunders," is available everywhere.


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- 3 lengths: 7 1/2 in. - Beadalon 7 Strand Clear Colors red .018 in. stringing wire
- 2 - 3mm Size #4 Crimp tubes, silver plated (JFCT4S-1.5G)
- 1 - 5x11mm Round magnetic clasp, silver plated (JFMAG5x11-S/6)
- Assorted 6mm-10mm large-hole red glass beads
- Designer crimper
- Nipper tool
- Hold the all three Beadalon 7 Strand wires together and string a crimp tube 1/2 in. from one end. Place the end through half of the clasp and back into the crimp tube. Using the crimper, secure the crimp.
- String a bead onto one strand and place the wire end around the bead and back through the hole to fix it in place. Use this technique to string beads randomly (like confetti!) onto all three strands.
- Hold the wires together and string a crimp tube 1/2 in. from one end. Place the end through half of the clasp and back into the crimp tube. Use the crimper to secure it.
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A baby girl in Mississipi has brought hope to the war on AIDS after she was born with HIV but is now cured following groundbreaking early treatment with standard HIV drugs. The baby became infected by her mother who was diagnosed as HIV positive after going into labor. The child's story is the first account of an infant achieving a so-called functional cure, a rare event in which a person achieves remission without the need for drugs and standard blood tests show no signs that the virus is making copies of itself. Researchers hope the results could change the way high-risk babies are treated and possibly lead to a cure for children with HIV. "At last follow up we've been unable to detect replication-competent virus at 10 months off of anti-retroviral therapy. And the child remains off of anti-retroviral therapy and is doing well," said Dr. Deborah Persaud, a virologist at Johns Hopkins University in Baltimore, who presented the findings at the Conference on Retroviruses and Opportunistic Infections in Atlanta. When the baby girl was born in July 2010 her mother had not received any prenatal care, so the doctors knew she was at high risk of infection. Doctors put the infant on a cocktail of three HIV-fighting drugs - zidovudine (also known as AZT), lamivudine, and nevirapine - when she was just 30 hours old. Researchers believe use of the more aggressive antiretroviral treatment when the child was just days old likely resulted in her cure. Video Source: Reuters
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Newlyweds Nick Lachey and Vanessa Minnillo had long awaited their wedding day – and that happy anticipation has been well-documented for fans.
The couple, who invited TV cameras, to capture their wedding on Friday, also documented their preparations, all of which will appear on their TLC wedding special, airing July 30 at 9 p.m. ET.
In a preview for the show, Lachey, 37, reveals how he first asked out his future bride, 30.
"Best pick up line ever," he says. "I always wanted to use it: 'Hey, you want to be in my video?'"
Minnillo's response? "Call my agent!"
Things obviously worked out for the pair, who began dating in 2006 and got engaged last fall.
As for the "I do" details, Lachey left those in his bride's hands.
"It's Vanessa's day," says Lachey. "Whatever fantasy, whatever dream wedding she has in her head, I want to do everything I can to make that happen."
TLC will premiere this preview during its Say Yes to the Dress wedding block Friday, beginning at 9 p.m. ET.


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Voice: Thomas R. Volz, St. Charles
As a dedicated Saginaw newspaper reader, I was in shock at the Feb. 18 printing showing an open casket photograph of Nodar Kumaritashvili. I found this very offensive to this man and his family. I believe this is an embarrassment to this newspaper, and, quite frankly, anyone associated with this photograph.
I have never attended a funeral where people take photographs of the deceased, nor do I want to. Where are the pictures of the flag-draped coffins with our brave American soldiers returning home? Those are the photographs that Americans need to see. Heroes fighting abroad to keep us safe on our front door.
Or what about that day in September when many lives were taken. One thing is certain — I would not want to see open casket photographs of those people.
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|DTFAAC-09-R-02287 Single-Source Procurement for RLD-7 Film
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|The Federal Aviation Administration (FAA), Mike Monroney Aeronautical Center, intends to award a single-source contract to National Graphic Supply Corp, Upland, CA for the procurement of 300 Rolls of RLD-7 film (Developer #112404) 48" x 121' in order to support the urgent need of the National Aeronautical Charting Organization of the FAA located in Glenn Dale, MD. This procurement is considered to be single-source based on the requirement of the film product becoming obsolete and National Graphic Supply Corp is the only known contractor capable to meet the delivery schedule date of March 16, 2009.
The FAA intends to issue a follow-on contract in order to fulfill future requirements for RLD-7 film. All interested parties are encouraged to contact the Contract Specialist cited below should your company be able to fulfill future requirements for the material of RLD-7 film rolls (Developer #112404) 48" x 121'.
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SETTING: A large convention center.
Barry....President and a Bluecrat
Mickey...First Lady
Matt.....Redcrat party nominee for president
Anna.....Matt's wife
Saul.....Redcrat party nominee for vice-president
Jake.....Vice president and a Bluecrat
Will.....Bluecrat and former president
Ebbie....A Spokesperson for the Bluecrats
Cliff....A popular macho actor famous for his one-liners
Jon......The chairman of a very large state's Bluecrat party
All characters in unison: "I do solemnly swear to tell the truth, the whole truth, and nothing but the truth, so help me God, even when interviewed by reporters." (After initial shock, ratings monitor plummets).
Barry: (Faces center TV camera) "Folks, things haven't worked out well. I had my shot at it. So I'm not going to seek re-election when all I can promise you is more hope and change. Instead, I encourage you all to give Matt an opportunity. This economy is a real mother! So maybe we really do need a successful businessman running things."
(Faces left teleprompter) "Those of you in the advertising business including those you hired to pretend to be victims of Bane Kapital, you no longer need report to work. However, we will honor our financial commitment to you, including the ad agencies, and send each of you a check for work not performed. Lord knows, 23 million is far too many unemployed! I tried executive orders but that didn't create jobs, blaming others but that didn't create jobs, having a blue ribbon panel of experts tell me what I didn't want to hear, but nothing helped. But I won't make it worse just to pocket a few more contributed bucks."
(Turns to face Matt seated on his right) "During this transition period, I will work with Matt and his team and issue no executive orders. And, if Matt wishes, I will introduce him to world leaders, especially my good friend Gladimir Putting. Glad's a pretty cool dude and has a great sense of humor."
(Faces center camera) "My fellow citizens, thank you again for the opportunity to have been your president. God bless you all. God bless the United States of America!"
ACT III (Anchors for different networks talking to each other about what was just said)
PARTL: "Have you ever heard of anything like this?! Even Johnson's surprise announcement back in '68!"
BIASL: "I have never even dreamed of anything like this!
BIASXL: "Look at our ratings! We're all getting pink slips on Monday!"
BIASC: "No one's watching! That's the thanks we get for trying to keep politicians honest!"
ACT IV (Characters, now relaxed, standing around talking to each other)
Mickey: "Hey Matt! I've never been with a Mormon."
Anna: "I was raised Episcopalian. Until Matt, I was never with a Mormon either."
Ebbie: "I've never been with a Redcrat."
Barry: "'I'm a mutt,' so I've been with everyone."
Will: "Got you beat."
Matt: "I was with my church."
Saul: "I went black, and I've come back."
Jake: (Starts to chime in, stops when he sees Cliff reaching for his gun.)
Cliff: "Go ahead, Jake! Make my day!"
Jon: "Hey! Any of you guys ever have a root canal?" (Looks at his watch) "I'm outta here! I have to be at my dentist in seven hours and I have to change planes at O'Hare." **
Saul: "Jon, I'll be glad to give you a ride to the airport. You're a car buff, and I have my historic Mercedes here. It's just like the one driven by the Nazi Goebbels."
(Lights dim and crowd in background shouts, "Matt! Matt! Matt! USA! USA! USA!")
** http://www.commentarymagazine.com/2012/09/04/burton-suddenly-remembers-he-had-dentist-appointment-back-home/


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POV: American Revolutionary: The Evolution of Grace Lee Boggs
Monday, June 30 at 10:00 p.m.
Meet Grace Lee Boggs, a Chinese-American philosopher who has been waging a revolution for 75 years.
Grace Lee Boggs, 98, is a Chinese-American philosopher, writer, and activist in Detroit with a thick FBI file and a surprising vision of what an American revolution can be. Rooted for 75 years in the labor, civil rights and Black Power movements, she challenges a new generation to throw off old assumptions, think creatively and redefine revolution for our times.
In some ways, the radicalization of Grace Lee Boggs typifies an experience many people shared during America's turbulent 20th century. Yet she cut an extraordinary path through decades of struggle. As Angela Davis, an icon of the 1960s Black Power movement, puts it, "Grace has made more contributions to the black struggle than most black people have." Actor Danny Glover and numerous Detroit comrades, plus archival footage featuring Bill Moyers, Ossie Davis, Ruby Dee and Boggs' late husband and fellow radical, James Boggs, all testify to Boggs' highly unusual position.


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Barbecue chicken sale - 11 a.m.-2 p.m., Aug. 16, Crossroads Church of God Prophecy, East Salem. To order takeout call 463-2389.
Barbecue chicken sale - 11 a.m., Aug. 16, West Granville Fire Co. Cost is $4.50 per half. To order, call 248-0665.
Free plant based diet workshop - 11 a.m., Aug. 16, St. Marks Episcopal Church, 21 S. Main St., Lewistown. Reserve a spot by calling 248-8327.
Butterfly release - 1 p.m., Aug. 17, Geisinger-Lewistown Hospital Surgical Center. Cost is $25. Call Scott Davidson at 242-5000 for more information or to reserve a butterfly.
Grief and Bereavement meeting - 3-4:30 p.m. or 6-7:30 p.m., Aug. 18, Lewistown Home Health and Hospice: The Bridge office, 305 Fourth St., Lewistown. RSVP to Pattie Cruikshank at 242-5000.
Firefighter get together - 6 p.m., Aug. 22, Brooklyn Hose Co. social hall. For all current and past firefighters from the Lewistown Fire Department and Junction Fire Co. and Highland Fire Co. RSVP by calling 248-3278 by Aug. 18.
Goldleaf workshop - 6:30-9 p.m., Aug. 21, Gallery 3West, Monument Square, Lewistown. Bryson Wagner will teach the gilding technique that has been used in sculpture and manuscripts. All materials provided. Cost is $10 per person. Registration is required by calling 994-1225 or emailing firstname.lastname@example.com.
Kish Class of 1966 annual picnic - Noon, Aug. 23, Kish Park, brown pavilion. Bring a covered dish to share and a beverage. RSVP to 436-9392 or firstname.lastname@example.com.
Free senior luncheon - Noon, Aug. 25, Lost Creek Presbyterian Church, McAlisterville. Seniors will help make care packages for the teachers and staff at Fayette Elementary School and be treated to a full meal. Call the church at 463-3138 if planning to attend.
Free chef salad luncheon - Noon, Aug. 27, First United Methodist Church, Lewistown. For transportation call 248, 1011, by Noon, Aug. 26.
Writing workshop - 7-9 p.m., Aug. 28, Gallery 3West, Monument Square, Lewistown. Cost is $10 per person. Bring a pen or pencil and a notebook. To register email firstname.lastname@example.com or call 994-1225.
Friday, Aug. 15
Splash hop - 7-10 p.m., Veteran's Memorial Pool, McClure. Admission is $3.
Blood drive - Noon-6 p.m., Pine Glen Christian Missionary Alliance Church, McVeytown.
Jam session - 6:30-9 p.m., Milroy Fountain Square Senior Center, Main Street, Milroy. Musicians can play from 7-9 p.m. Free admission. Food available. Call 667-2547 for more information.
Bluegrass jam - 5:30-9:30 p.m., Richfield Senior Center. Bluegrass Country Express will perform. Kitchen opens at 5 p.m.
Grocery auction - 6 p.m., Delaware Township Fire Co., East Salem. Concession stand available.
Penny bazaar - 6-9 p.m., Burnham Fire House. There will be pony rides, hot dogs and ice cream.
Yard sale - 8 a.m.-2 p.m., Hartley Lane off Back Maitland Road, Lewistown. Household goods, clothing of all sizes, toys and other items. All proceeds benefit the 148th Venture Crew.
Saturday, Aug. 16
Free clothing and backpack giveaway - 9 a.m.-noon, Richfield United Church of Christ. Children may receive a free backpack to fill up with schools supplies. Children must be present to collect backpack.
All-you-can-eat breakfast - 6-10 a.m., Bannerville Fire Co. Cost is $8 for adults; $4 for children ages 5-2; and free for children younger than 5. For more information, call (570) 685-6477.
Penny bazaar - 6-9 p.m., Burnham Fire House. There will be pony rides, hot dogs and ice cream.
Raise the roof for Habitat for Humanity - 10 a.m.-10 p.m., Kish Park. All day entertainment, food vendors, games for kids and free ice cream. There will be Chinese and silent auctions. Bring a lawn chair.
Yard sale - 8 a.m.-2 p.m., Hartley Lane off Back Maitland Road, Lewistown. Household goods, clothing of all sizes, toys and other items. All proceeds benefit the 148th Venture Crew.
Clothing closet - 9 a.m.-noon, Evangel Baptist Church, 375 W. Fifth St., Lewistown. Free soup and sandwiches available.
Shoe bank - 9 a.m.-noon, Grace United Methodist Church, Lewistown.
Sunday, Aug. 17
21st Annual Toy Run - 11 a.m.-1 p.m., registration, 1 p.m. leaving from Walmart, Lewistown. New toy or $10 donation required to participate. Sponsored by Touring Friends Motorcycle Club.
Hymn sing and ice cream social - 6:30 p.m., Reedsville United Methodist Church.
Lewistown Community Band concert - 3 p.m., Kish Park. Bring lawn chairs. In case of rain, concert will be held at Calvary Bible Church. For more information, contact Freda Richard, 242-2344.
Monday, Aug. 18
Mifflin County Library Board of Directors meeting - 5:15 p.m., Mifflin County Library, Lewistown.
Ohession Manor luncheon - Noon, Hoss's Lewistown. For all present and past employees.


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"I talked to Max last year, and asked him for something for me to work on," said Mike Baxter, "and he focused on me putting on a couple pounds." He ended up packing on 12-pounds of muscle to tip the scales at 195 coming into spring. The added weight, Baxter says, makes him feel strong, and he hopes that it will make sure that his "body is going to be able to hold up for the long season."
Having Venable make the transition to High-A Lake Elsinore with him has been a big factor in his continued production.
"It's exciting to have him back, because he and I relate on a different level," Baxter said. "I am real comfortable with him, so it's good to be working with him, because he keeps things simple for us."
Drafted in the fourth-round of the 2005 draft, Baxter bypassed the Arizona League and Eugene, and was sent straight to Fort Wayne.
After a successful campaign in Fort Wayne, due to better production down the stretch, led him to Lake Elsinore. During the last 30 games of last season, Baxter hit well over .300, which he credited to working with Venable a lot more.
"I am really just trying to focus on being more patient," Baxter explained. "And trying to get a good pitch I could drive in the gaps." Towards the end of the season Baxter said he "found some holes, and gaps, and caught a couple breaks, and everything felt really good towards the end."
Randy Ready, the former manager of the Fort Wayne Wizards, said Baxter had all the intangibles.
Baxter clarified by saying it's his ability to "keep an even keel. Regardless of how things are going, you have to stay mentally prepared everyday."
This preparedness has helped him stay healthy, and he continues to produce as the plate. With continued success, Baxter should make it to the next level to be reunited with Randy Ready, who is now the manager of the Double-A San Antonio Missions.


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Toledo area residents and high school students are invited to learn about healthy living during a Care Fair for Health 2010 from 10 a.m. to 2 p.m. Wednesday on the campus of Owens Community College on Oregon Road.
The annual health event will be at the college's Student Health and Activities Center. Admittance to the Care Fair, presented by the college's School of Health Sciences and the School of Nursing, is free.
More than 60 displays will outline an array of topics, including CPR, cancer information and care, organ and tissue donation, nutrition and culinary arts, diabetes information, mental health, substance abuse, heart health and prevention, HIV awareness, sports care, and stress management. Free screenings and tests, including blood pressure and blood sugar screenings, will be offered, and Owens faculty and students will perform free bone density tests and scans.
ProMedica Health System will provide flu shots and blood sugar screenings. The flu shots are $25; receipts will be provided as documentation for insurance reimbursement.
Organizations set to participate include the American Red Cross, Mobile Meals of Toledo, St. Vincent Mercy Medical Center, the University of Toledo Medical Center, Toledo-Lucas County Health Department, Juvenile Diabetes Research Foundation, Dental Center of Northwest Ohio, Meijer Pharmacy, and the Sight Center of Northwest Ohio.
Owens' representatives will talk about Heimlich and CPR maneuvers.
Information will be provided by Owens to attendees interested in pursuing a college education, such as through the School of Health Sciences and the School of Nursing. Graduates have gone on to become dental hygienists, dietetic technicians, chefs, hotel and restaurant managers, occupational therapy assistants, nurses, health information technicians, and radiographers and ultrasound technologists.
Local high schools attending the event will include Four County Career Center, Onsted High School, Penta Career Center, Port Clinton High School, Sentinel Career Center, Scott High School, Vanguard Career Center, Whitmer High School and Woodward High School.
Also during the fair, the Student Nurses Association will be holding a bake sale.


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Strikers—are they worth their weight in gold, or a vastly overpriced commodity?
As the game has evolved, the position of striker is no longer merely about scoring goals, with a half-dozen different roles employable by players of different skills and attributes who play up front, but goals remain the benchmark for judging these stars of the team who can win points and games on their own.
What all teams want from their top men is to get fair value, and in strikers, that means scoring goals to repay the money spent on them.
Here's a countdown of all the Premier League strikers, ranked by their transfer fee-to-goals-scored ratio for their present clubs.
For consistency, all transfer fees and goals scored statistics are taken from transfermarkt.co.uk.


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Stacy Keibler, George Clooney's latest lady love, is more than just arm candy – though the two made quite the handsome couple at the Toronto Film Festival over the weekend.
The actress and model known for her 42 in.-long legs is also a retired professional wrestler and unabashed tomboy. She put her girly side on display during the second season of Dancing with the Stars when she sashayed her way into the finals with Tony Dovolani and was the odds makers' favorite to win.
Here are five more things to know about the self-proclaimed "guys' girl."
1. She's fearless.
Keibler bungee-jumped off the highest commercial bungee bridge in the world, the Bloukrans Bungy in South Africa. "I bungee jumped off the Guinness Book of World Records bungee jump," Keibler told PEOPLE at a Call of Duty XP fan event. "So I think zip lining here, piece of cake."
The former pro-wrestler isn't only fearless when it comes to death-defying stunts. She's also mastered stage fright. "With wrestling, I had to perform in front of a live audience four or five times a week every week," she says. "I did it every week for eight years, so there's nothing that really can make me nervous after doing that."
2. She's a video game character.
Keibler's likeness appears in two games in the WWE SmackDown! vs. Raw series for PlayStation. "I was definitely a better wrestler in the video game than I ever was in real life," she admits. "So it was better to watch myself wrestle in the video game."
The actress is even a bit of a gamer herself. "I had a Commodore 64 computer, and I had every gaming system I think from that on," she says. "I was really into gaming. As I've grown up a little bit, I've had less time to game, but I still really like it."
3. She goes by many names.
During her stint on Dancing with the Stars, judge Bruno Tonioli nicknamed her "The Weapon of Mass Seduction." In the wrestling world, she's also been known as Super Stacy, Miss Hancock, Nitro Girl Skye, The Legs of WCW, The Legs of WWE and The Duchess of Dudleyville. To her friends, she's just "Keibler." According to the former wrestler, her buddies have called her by her last name since high school.
Those same friends are responsible for the dancer's foray into wrestling. "It was the guys and me, and we started going to wrestling events and stuff," says Keibler. "All my girlfriends were like, 'What are you doing?!' I'm like, 'But I like to be with the boys!' "
4. She has team spirit.
The Baltimore native cheered for her hometown NFL team, The Ravens, for two years while she was in school. When Keibler won a $10,000 competition to join the WWE Nitro Girls, she used the money to buy season tickets. The former cheerleader is still a season ticket holder – and she plays Fantasy Football.
But beware Pittsburgh fans: "I hate the Steelers," she told PEOPLE before the Super Bowl earlier this year. "It's a personal vendetta, because they would drive to our stadium and they would scream so loud during our end-zone dance routines that we couldn't even hear the music!"
5. She's not afraid to get serious.
Keibler dated She's Out of My League and 7th Heaven star Geoff Stults for five years before they split in early 2010. The couple was a fixture on the Hollywood party scene, and Keibler even appeared alongside her then-boyfriend in the season finale of his short-lived TV series October Road.
Before Stults the wrestling star was reportedly with her high school boyfriend for seven years. She's also been romantically linked to WWE stars David Flair and Test. Both were let go by the WWE following their relationships with Keibler, prompting the actress to joke to WrestlingInc.com, "I'm like the kiss of death!"
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Heath Village in Hackettstown celebrates their employees' loyalty each quarter at a "High Coffee." Staff members with anniversaries from five year increments and above are "roasted' (and commended) at these events. The April celebration was one for the history books. Eleven employees celebrated service that totaled 155 years, which is amazing in itself. One employee stood out – Michael Ort.
Ort works in the Maintenance Department as a courier and is a Hackettstown native. He started at Heath Village on April 1st, 1967, basically the inception of the retirement community. His family attended the celebration and listened on as staff took turns telling heartfelt stories about this long time employee. He chose a new flat-screen TV as his anniversary gift for 45 years of service. Not many people can say that they have worked anywhere for 45 years – let alone one place. Heath Village values all of its employees and having loyal, long-term employees is a testament to the values for which Heath Village stands.


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April 23, 2008, 10:21 AM
It is just an old habit, but I still use a little Imperial wax on my pistol cases when sizing on carbide dies. Am I the only one?
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April 23, 2008, 10:39 AM
I'm sure your not the only one, and you probably have a good reason other than it being "just a habit".
I'm new to this so I'm looking at the quickest, easiest way to load rounds by the 1k. So the carbide dies will just have to work fine without me applying ISW to each individual case by hand. :o
April 23, 2008, 10:47 AM
I find it makes my 9mms much more pleasant to resize.
April 23, 2008, 10:47 AM
I use rcbs carbide dies and I use some lee case lub on my 357/38s so I guess your not the only one.
April 23, 2008, 11:01 AM
I spray lube some pistol cases that go through carbide dies, just to make the sizing easier. Those would be 10mm, 357 Sig and .45 acp. I just tumble them in untreated corncob for about 20 minutes or so to take off the lube. It's much easier on my old arm that way.
Hope this helps.
April 23, 2008, 11:17 AM
Same here.
A light spritz of One-Shot on a bowl full of brass. then swirl them around until at least some of them have a little on them.
Even with carbide dies, a touch of lube on a few as 1 in 5 or 10 will make sizing go much easier & faster.
April 23, 2008, 11:18 AM
I lube about every tenth case,give or take.I do them ahead of time,stand them by the press,and grab one 'as needed'.
April 23, 2008, 11:46 AM
All carbide dies here for pistol, but a squirt of one-shot in the tub of brass makes the arm happy.
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The Dow Jones Industrial Average goes back to May 26, 1896. Richard Sylla goes a lot farther back than that.
Sylla, an economist at the Stern School of Business at New York University and chairman of the Museum of American Finance, is one of the nation's most eminent financial historians. He is a natural source to put the Dow's latest record in long-term context.
The historical perspective, Sylla tells me in this recent video interview, suggests that "if we're lucky we may see a series of these all-time highs." He adds wryly, "There are such things as bull markets."
Sylla continues, "One thing I've learned in my many years of studying these things is that markets overshoot, both on the upside and the downside. They seem to go further than one might rationally expect them to go…a new all-time high is probably just a stepping stone to another one."
Can the Fed sustain the low-interest-rate policy that has been gushing rocket fuel into the financial markets? "We're in a kind of brave new world as far as central-banking policy goes," Sylla says. "There hasn't been any previous period where you've had interest rates being purposely kept very low [as a deliberate result of coordinated central-bank policy]…There's not much precedent for that in history." He adds, "We should be very skeptical of [the Fed's] ability to get exactly what it wants."
Finally, says Sylla, U.S. politicians should look to Alexander Hamilton's policies to find a way out of the current fiscal standoff. "Hamilton," Sylla tells me in the video, "told Congress that the way to make public credit 'immortal' is if, whenever you borrow money, you simultaneously enact the revenue measures that will give you the funds to pay the interest on the debt…You couple borrowing decisions with decisions about how you're going to repay the debt. Congress listened to him but they never did it…It's by not listening to Hamilton that we got ourselves into our current pickle."
Sylla is a specialist in the structure and development of the stock and bond markets in the U.S. as well as an expert on the financial reforms of Alexander Hamilton. Sylla is also the co-compiler of a remarkable database of stock and bond prices from the earliest days of the U.S. capital markets and author of (among many other books) the classic reference A History of Interest Rates. When he talks about the long term, he is measuring it in decades and centuries, not months.
Disclosure: Until 2008, I also was a member of the Museum of American Finance's board, where Sylla and I met more than 15 years ago.


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This year millions of words will be printed and spoken about the 50th anniversary of the assassination of President John F. Kennedy. None will be as moving as When We Were the Kennedys, a memoir by Monica Wood. Seven months before the gunshots in Dallas, the author's father, Albert Wood, a 57-year-old woodyard foreman at the Oxford Paper Company in Rumford, Maine, died suddenly one morning in the driveway to his garage, in the neighboring town of Mexico. Monica was 9 years old. She heard the news from her 8-year-old sister, Cathy, who was getting ready for school and still had a brush stuck in her hair.
Such details give the memoir its almost unbearable weight. "Words can pin their readers to place, confer permanence on the ethereal, make the unimaginable true," Wood writes. Her brilliant, lyrical words pin us to Mexico, where fathers worked in the mill just across the river and mothers raised children in triple-decker houses called "blocks." Monica and her mother and three sisters lived in the Norkus Block, named for the Lithuanian couple who owned it.
By the end of the memoir, we know every inch of the Norkus Block, Mexico, and "the mighty, mighty Oxford." We also know the time–those hopeful, romantic days before Vietnam, before Watergate, before the mighty, mighty Oxford went down under a cascade of labor disputes, competition from foreign papermakers, and a series of new owners (currently NewPage Corp.). Before all the bright, ethereal promises of Camelot vanished.
Strangely, Kennedy's assassination gave solace to Wood's grief-stunned mother: "She never directly compared herself to Jackie, but often in the following months, standing at the stove, she might suddenly stop in mid-stir, cock her head like a bird, and say, 'I wonder how she's making out.' … For now, Jackie's story made Mum's bearable."
Hence the title: A millworker's widow and her little brood shared their tragedy with "a family that seems equal parts real and make-believe."
For a glimpse behind the scenes of that mythic family, I recommend Capturing Camelot, by Kitty Kelley. It's a collection of photos, some never previously published, taken by the author's friend Stanley Tretick, who covered the Kennedy White House for Look. They are familiar and heart-breaking, none more so than that of John F. Kennedy Jr. peeking out from beneath his father's desk in the Oval Office. He would die in a plane crash in 1999, just days before the 77-year-old photographer passed away.


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John Boyd, president of the National Black Farmers Association is trying hard to meet with President Obama to bring settlement to the Pigford v. Glickman class action lawsuit, and get compensation for black farmers.
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When the settlement was announced in February, I listened to you and the folks at the Department of Justice and USDA speak. There was a marked contrast between your tone — and I don't want to say you sounded defeated, but skeptical in the extreme — and their tone, (which was) almost jubilant.
"Now, you can see why.
"I've been fighting this fight for 26 years. I've seen people on the turnip truck and people fall off. This has been a long haul.
"Every time I've been able to get a political victory, all the players were never in sync or in agreement. There was always somebody that didn't agree.
"The piece in the farm bill, President Bush wasn't really for. But it passed in the (last) farm bill anyway."
You're talking about the $100 million?
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"I'm concerned that if we don't get something on record in September, we'll be caught up in mid-term elections. I've been around politics long enough to know that isn't a good time to be pushing a measure in Congress.
"That's the biggest reason I want to meet with the president. If this doesn't get done in September, what is the administration going to do to live up to its commitment to provide justice to the black farmers? That's where I am because waiting until after November is not an option for the black farmers."
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So it's 3 a.m. and you just can't sleep. Maybe a movie about the ancient Battle of Thermopylae could help.
With the right technology and an Amazon.com account, you can click your way to a showing of the film "300," downloaded to your computer or digital video recorder within minutes.
The long-sought dream of video on demand over the Internet is slowly being fulfilled, and while it is far from ubiquitous in American living rooms today, the evolution of the technology has some of the biggest players in Hollywood, Silicon Valley and elsewhere seeing dollar signs.
Driving what could be a revolution in home-video availability are the declining cost of broadband Internet connections, faster delivery methods, better anti-piracy schemes and ever-improving hardware.
As these final hurdles fall, experts see the dawn of a new era in Internet entertainment, one that will allow users easy access to thousands of movies and other content 24/7. And established names in the home-video industry such as Amazon, Netflix, Blockbuster and TiVo, along with newcomers Movielink, VUDU, Hulu, Joost and many others, are ramping up their digital video plans.
"The in-home infrastructure to make the PC download business super-convenient is just kind of evolving, but it is getting there," said Roy Price, director of digital video at Amazon, which is about to celebrate the one-year anniversary of its Unbox video-download service.
"The notion of being at home and clicking something and getting to watch a movie or TV show is really becoming the new normal. It certainly is increasingly normal in many homes, and that's not going anywhere but up," he said.
While Price declined to quantify Unbox's first year's sales, he said the numbers are growing steadily, as are its video offerings, which include thousands of movies such as "300," "The Bourne Supremacy" and "Borat" for $4 as rentals and about $15 to purchase.
The interest among established video stores like Amazon, Blockbuster and Netflix comes as start-ups like VUDO are entering a market that appears poised to explode. This spring, VUDU announced deals to market movies from major studios, including The Walt Disney Studios, Lionsgate, New Line Cinema, Paramount Pictures, Twentieth Century Fox, Universal Studios and Warner Bros. Entertainment.
Hoping to eliminate the challenge of linking PCs and TVs, VUDU brings video directly into its own somewhat pricey set-top boxes.
. "We've created the product everyone wants, the product many have tried to build, and, until now, the product no one has succeeded in delivering," said Tony Miranz, founder of VUDU.
Also gaining significant traction in the market is Movieline, a PC-based video-on-demand service launched in 2006 as a joint venture among Paramount Pictures, Sony Pictures Entertainment, Universal and Warner Bros.
Blockbuster announced plans to purchase Movieline last month, a move that will only intensify its competition with Netflix, which has its own download service.
Next month, NBC Universal will begin permitting consumers to download some of its most popular content, like the shows "Heroes" or "The Office," and keep them for seven days. The NBC plan was announced last month after disputes over pricing and piracy protection killed its deal to market shows on Apple's iTunes.
According to a recent study by the accounting and consulting firm PricewaterhouseCoopers, the number of download-to-own movie sales is expected to grow from 2 million in 2006 to 80 million in 2011. During the same period, the price of movies is expected to fall to $7, from about $16. Rental downloads of movies and TV shows are expected to make similar gains, the report said.
Jeff Richards, vice president for broadband content services at data security giant VeriSign, said a major decrease in the cost of delivering video over broadband is a key reason he expects the market to flourish.
"A year ago, the price of delivering content would have eaten up any profit. In the past year, there has been a significant drop in the cost of content delivery. It might have cost you a dollar per gigabyte to deliver a two-gig movie. Soon, you may see that price as low as 15 or 10 cents a gig. The economics make a heck of a lot more sense," he said.
Secondly, Richards said, content providers are looking at new technologies to get the video into your home. One solution that is being widely explored is the use of peer-to-peer downloading, which has long been the preferred downloading method for swapping pirated videos.
Peer-to-peer, or P2P, downloading -- in which users share video with other users even as they are downloading content themselves -- is now being used successfully in the UK, where the major networks allow customers to download their content, often taking advantage of off hours when there is less traffic on the Net.
Derek Kerton, a principle with the telecommunication consulting firm The Kerton Group, said owners of digital video content are recognizing their video already is being pirated and are devising new digital-rights management schemes to protect themselves.
Widespread piracy of videos, he said, will continue until the studios unite and arrive at a standard that will allow consumers to purchase downloaded video while still affording a measure of copyright protection.
"If they fail to provide a competitive solution to that, they're going to lose market share to piracy. If it's easier to cheat, people will cheat," he said.
The maturing of the video downloading industry could be hastened dramatically, Kerton added, if studios would settle on a dominant anti-piracy scheme rather than working independently.
Piracy has long been a significant stumbling block, as content owners, including major movie studios, have been reluctant to sell downloadable copies of their products for fear they will find an instant audience among people who download unprotected copies using P2P protocols like BitTorrent.
VeriSign's Richards took a snapshot, using figures from download tracker BigChampagne, and found the top 10 movies in the United States were illegally downloaded nearly 9 million times in a single week in 2006. At $20 per movie, that's $180 million worth of illegal downloads per week.
Neal Page, the founder of Inlet Technologies, which provides broadband delivery solutions, predicted the video download market will grow to $4 billion or $5 billion over the next four years or so, from about $300 million a year now.
"It's been a moderately slow uptick so far, but it's still unmistakable," Page said.
"The significant growth in video downloading will probably come with the next generation of media adaptor to integrate PCs and TVs. If that's done right, it will be easy to teach consumers this is a reasonable way to get your content now," he added.
"There's no shortage of interest and money in that space," said Frank Johnson, vice president of the online entertainment content company All Media Guide.
"People are trying desperately to bring a mass market for Internet downloading, but the idea of a PC in the living room has not taken off," he said, adding one popular solution is Apple TV, a device that wirelessly syncs your iTunes library of video with your television. Other hardware options include the VUDU box, game stations and TiVos or similar digital video recording devices.
"I don't think anybody knows today exactly how this will play out, but there is a sense of inevitability about it. The ubiquity dream is on the verge of reality. If it's this year or another year or two in the overall time scheme, that isn't a ridiculously long period of time to get to the ability to get a piece of video content anywhere, anytime," Johnson said.
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The Parti Quebecois has still not stepped forward to deny or correct a letter the Liberals released yesterday on the legal status of the Charter of Values.
The statement the Liberals sent out, which is said to be from the Justice ministry, says the Marois government never asked government lawyers for advice on whether or not bill 60 was legal or constitutional.
"I would like to inform you that the ministry of Justice was never asked to produce a legal opinion on the constitutionality or legality on the whole of the bill, to evaluate the risks of being challenged in courts," writes the deputy minister in a letter addressed to the new minister of Justice Stéphanie Vallée.
"Normally, a bill of this nature would be subject to a request to produce such a written opinion," says the civil servant.
Marois and her minister, Bernard Drainville, had said repeatedly for months that they were confident their plan to ban religious symbols from the public service would be accelerated by the courts.
Nearly a day after the Liberals released the letter, the Parti Quebecois has still not produced any official denial, clarification or correction to it.
"It's brand new to me," says Pascal Bérubé, who, despite having been a minister under Marois, says he knows nothing about why government lawyers would not have been consulted, or whether or not they were.
He says he's moved on to other issues. "We're not in the government anymore, so it seems to be a matter for you but not for me," he told CJAD.
Quebec Solidaire's Françoise David, for her part, brought forward her own explanation.
"If its true, that means the Péquiste government lied."
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Americans motivated by radical interpretations of Islam constitute a growing and increasingly dangerous domestic terror threat. Since the September 11 terrorist attacks, approximately 200 Americans have been charged for their roles in various bomb plots and conspiracies in the U.S., as well as for providing material support to Islamic terrorist groups. Several other Americans have been charged overseas with similar terror-related offenses.
"We've seen an increased number of arrests here in the U.S. of individuals suspected of plotting terrorist attacks, or supporting terror groups abroad," Homeland Security Secretary Janet Napolitano stated in December 2009. "Home-based terrorism is here. And, like violent extremism abroad, it will be part of the threat picture that we must now confront."
American Muslim extremists – including American-born citizens, as well as naturalized U.S. citizens and U.S. permanent residents – have plotted more than 30 attacks on U.S. soil since 9/11. And, since the fall of 2009, the number of attempted terror attacks in the U.S. has "surpassed the number of attempts during any other previous one-year period," according to the Department of Homeland Security. These plots have been foiled by law enforcement at various stages.
Other American Muslim extremists have launched terrorist attacks overseas or attempted to travel abroad to engage in terror activities. In October 2008, American citizen Shirwa Ahmed became the first known American suicide bomber when he drove an explosives-laden vehicle into a government building in Somalia. Ahmed and four others carried out a series of coordinated suicide attacks in Somalia, killing 24 people.
Although most of these extremists lack the means and materials to carry out violent attacks, their radical ideologies and willingness to conduct such attacks against the U.S. and other Western targets remain.
While most of the plots in the U.S. have been foiled by law enforcement before they were carried out, two deadly attacks against military personnel in 2009 demonstrate the particular danger posed by so-called "lone wolf" extremists who, though unaffiliated with terrorist groups, share their radical interpretations of Islam and ideological goals. "Lone wolves" typically prefer simple and direct methods of killing over elaborate plots that can be stopped in advance by law enforcement.
In November 2009, an American-born Army psychiatrist opened fire at the Fort Hood soldier readiness center where troops were undergoing medical preparations before their deployment to Iraq and as they returned from combat. The alleged gunman, Nidal Malik Hasan, killed 13 people and wounded 32 others in what Secretary of Homeland Security Janet Napolitano described as an act of "violent Islamic terrorism."
The shooting at Fort Hood followed a separate incident in June 2009 when American citizen Abdulahakim Mujahid Muhammad allegedly shot two uniformed American soldiers, killing one of them, at a military recruiting center in Arkansas. Following his arrest, Muhammad reportedly said that he sought revenge on the American military for its presence in Iraq and Afghanistan.
The shootings at the military installations in Texas and Arkansas are the latest in a series of attacks and plots against American military targets planned by Americans motivated by a radical interpretation of Islam.
In addition to U.S.-based military targets, American Muslim extremists have targeted U.S. transit systems and landmarks. On May 1, 2010, for example, Faisal Shahzad, a naturalized U.S. citizen from Pakistan, tried to detonate a car bomb in New York's Times Square.
In another case, federal authorities thwarted a terrorist plot to conduct coordinated suicide bombings on New York City subway lines during the days following the anniversary of the September 11 terrorist attacks. Najibullah Zazi, a U.S. permanent resident from Afghanistan, and Zarein Ahmedzay, a naturalized U.S. citizen from Afghanistan, have since pleaded guilty to planning to detonate homemade explosives during rush hour to maximize the number of casualties.
Many of these American Muslim extremists are fueled by hatred of Jews and Israel. In May 2009, for example, three American citizens conspired with a Haitian national to bomb two New York City synagogues and shoot down planes at a military base in Newburgh, New York. The men were arrested after planting what they believed to be bombs in cars outside of the synagogues. "These were people who were eager to bring death to Jews," Assistant U.S. Attorney Eric Snyder said following the arrests.
This threat proved lethal in July 2002 when Hesham Mohamed Hadayet, a U.S. permanent resident from Egypt, opened fire killed two Israelis and injured four others at an El Al ticket counter at the Los Angeles International Airport. Hadayet, who was fatally shot by an airline security officer, intended to "advance the Palestinian cause in the Israel-Palestine conflict through the killing of civilians and the targeting of an airline owned by the Government of Israel," according to the FBI.
Others have been motivated by a similar hatred of America and its support for Israel, as well as America's perceived war against Islam, foreign policy in the Middle East and military activities in Afghanistan and Iraq.
In some cases, American Muslim extremists have been radicalized in their communities by a charismatic leader or recruiter, while in other instances, Muslim ideologues – including those born in America – have inspired followers by propagating their extreme ideologies and messages of violence through sermons, videos and other propaganda material disseminated online via blogs, video sharing sites, social networking sites and forums. The increased ability of communicating online has also given American Muslim extremists access to the ideologies of extreme intolerance propagated by terrorist movements overseas.
The following is a timeline of criminal proceedings related to the terror activities of American Muslim extremists and other Americans involved in activities with terrorist organizations whose ideologies are rooted in radical interpretations of Islam. In addition to planning terrorist plots, Americans have also been convicted of raising funds and providing material goods to foreign terrorist organizations, including Hamas, Hezbollah and Al Qaeda.
The equally disturbing terror-related activities of Americans who subscribe to anti-government, white supremacist and other extremist ideologies are not reflected in the timeline. Similarly, the list does not include the activities and plots against targets in the U.S. conceived by non-Americans motivated by radical interpretations of Islam. In May 2010, for example, Hosam Maher Husein Smadi, a Jordanian citizen living in the U.S. illegally, pleaded guilty to attempting to detonate explosives at a Dallas skyscraper the previous September in order to "bring down the building".
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"Ammonia toxicity is a problem when protein intake exceeds ~200g / day. Which most people don't even come close to hitting, particularly if you are eating to satiety. "
Looking at my records I see I am usually around 200 grams a day, with one day this week at 307 grams. I'll be more careful about that.
Staying in ketosis is not important to me, although I am enjoying the even energy level I've had since I started eating primal.
Grass fed beef is actually part of why my protein is so high. I've ordered from U.S. Wellness and I have trouble not eating an entire package once its thawed. That stuff is really good. Added to the seafood I've been craving and the eggs for breakfast 1.5 lb of beef heart will get my protein above 200 easy. I've been feeling good so I needed a reason to give up some of my meat for some veggies.
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It was one of those obligatory celebrations - marked by a distracted sense of triumph, one instantly trumped by what finally lay ahead.
The three Coaches Tournament battles the Eastern girls' soccer team had endured in the past week, tough as they were, were merely table-setters.
It's a mind-set that showed rather quickly after Eastern's semifinal win Sunday over Cherokee.
Players rushed the field, circled around each other, jumped up and down, but walked off the field as if they had just finished a Tuesday afternoon practice.