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NeuStar's WMRS enables query-based access for real-time routing of MMS and SMS traffic
NeuStar has announced that Air2Web, a mobile marketing and integrated mobile technology company, has extended its contract for NeuStar's wireless message routing service based on value, quality and accuracy.
NeuStar's wireless message routing service (WMRS) enables query-based access for real-time routing of multimedia (MMS) and SMS traffic. Specifically, whenever an Air2Web subscriber attempts to send an MMS or SMS, the Air2Web platform queries NeuStar's WMRS database and identifies the correct destination for the message to ensure successful delivery and realize cost efficiencies.
The WMRS is an IP addressing service that enables the real-time routing of SMS and MMS wireless messages among mobile operators, content providers, aggregators, and other entities that enable the routing and billing of wireless messaging.
Curtis Rapp, vice president of sales and marketing for Air2Web, said: Air2Web utilizes NeuStar's WMRS in its day-to-day operations to successfully identify appropriate carrier information in order to route messages appropriately. Air2Web's business is built on the ability to deliver messages successfully to carriers, and having NeuStar provide us with the appropriate carrier is critical to us achieving this goal.
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my son is 15th y old, he is always tired, and he sleep a lot , like today when to school and came back and he is sleeping since 2:30p and it is almost 8p I. Woke him up to eat and he ate just a,little big.is like that everyday but. Most of the time ..my question is why he sleep so much?
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Developmentally, it is actually a fact, per studies, that teenagers need more sleep than younger kids or adults. This is due to both the physical and mental (brain growth) development that is occurring. At age 15, he is probably going either preparing or going through a growth spurt as well which may even increase the amount needed a bit more.
On average, teens need 9 1/4 hours per night.
Is you son getting this amount? Since this is an average amount, it is possible that he needs even more.
(here are more details about sleep and amounts needed: http://www.sleepfoundation.org/article/sleep-topics/teens-and-sleep)
Now it is not necessarily normal for him to need the sleep in the middle of the day, unless he is indeed going to bed late and getting up early, which is often the case and expected by school and other activities.
The options are to go to bed earlier, or of course arrange for him to have later classes in the morning.
So the first step would be to determine whether he is actually getting around 9 to 10 hours of sleep, and if not arrange his schedule so that he can get the recommended amount of sleep at night. He would need to work at this and not take more than a 30 minute to an hour nap once during the day, in order to get used to sleeping earlier at night.
Second, if he is getting the recommended hours and still is exhausted then a medical evaluation would be needed.
Excessive tiredness/need for sleep could indicate problems, such as an illness like mononucleosis; anemia, a sleep disorder; or depression.
Seeing a GP would be suggested to rule out these problems (again, if he does not respond to a more lengthy sleep period at night -if this is indicated).
Simple blood tests and physical can determine if he has a virus, or is anemic. To determine whether there is a sleep disorder, if this were to be suspected, might require seeing a sleep specialist and getting sleep studies; depression could require counseling or medication.
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I see what are you saying.. I tried tokeep him up so he can sleep at night but it doesn't. Happend....however is not like that everyday that most of the time.... I think I should get an appointment for him it is 8..30p and still sleeping...he get up in the morning at 5:20am and leave to school at 6am until about 3 or 4pm
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Hi. You do not have to pay again. That is sent out by the website, not me
Having to get up so early is likely part of the problem.
But you can still try to adjust his schedule to a degree. Realizing that he needs more sleep at least hopefully will help both of you understand why he actually may need to nap at times. You can still try to work with him to get him to go to bed earlier, at least most nights.. It may take time to get him to adjust his schedule. Even if by an hour per day. Talk to him about it and work out a plan with his input (he is more likely to comply if he is allowed to work on the plan). Use a calendar perhaps, and try to work in some time to sleep or take a nap, but decrease the time gradually and try to shorten the naps yet go to be earlier. Perhaps together you can agree that if he takes another afternoon nap that he will agree to set an alarm and gradually over time decrease the nap time and go to bed earlier. Allow some time for him to adjust gradually...
Getting so early in the morning is hard on a lot of kids these days (hard for the parents too!)
Let me know if you have any other questions about this and I would be happy to talk with you again to see how or if he is adjusting or if there are signs of any other problems.
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Farrow, 68, who was married to Sinatra from 1966 to 1968, admittedly continued a relationship with the music legend while she was involved in a longtime relationship with filmmaker Allen.
Sinatra, who died in 1998, would have been about 72 when Ronan, born in 1987, was conceived.
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"He's a big part of us, and we are blessed to have him in our lives," says Frank's daughter, Nancy Sinatra, 68.
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Our mission is to empower women and to draw on the best traditions of women's colleges in both East and West in order to build confidence, encourage initiative and develop leadership potential. We will encourage participation in a full range of student activities and give high priority to student support & guidance services so that our graduates are well-prepared for their personal and professional roles.
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Imagine a material that's stronger than steel, but just as versatile as plastic, able to take on a seemingly endless variety of forms. For decades, materials scientists have been trying to come up with just such an ideal substance, one that could be molded into complex shapes with the same ease and low expense as plastic but without sacrificing the strength and durability of metal. Now a team led by Jan Schroers, a materials scientist at Yale University, has shown that some recently developed bulk metallic glasses (BMGs)—metal alloys that have randomly arranged atoms as opposed to the orderly, crystalline structure found in ordinary metals—can be blow molded like plastics into complex shapes that can't be achieved using regular metal, yet without sacrificing the strength or durability that metal affords. Their findings are described online in the current issue of the journal Materials Today.
"These alloys look like ordinary metal but can be blow molded just as cheaply and as easily as plastic," Schroers said. So far the team has created a number of complex shapes—including seamless metallic bottles, watch cases, miniature resonators and biomedical implants—that can be molded in less than a minute and are twice as strong as typical steel.
The materials cost about the same as high-end steel, Schroers said, but can be processed as cheaply as plastic. The alloys are made up of different metals, including zirconium, nickel, titanium and copper.
The team blow molded the alloys at low temperatures and low pressures, where the bulk metallic glass softens dramatically and flows as easily as plastic but without crystallizing like regular metal. It's the low temperatures and low pressures that allowed the team to shape the BMGs with unprecedented ease, versatility and precision, Schroers said. In order to carefully control and maintain the ideal temperature for blow molding, the team shaped the BMGs in a vacuum or in fluid.
"The trick is to avoid friction typically present in other forming techniques," Schroers said. "Blow molding completely eliminates friction, allowing us to create any number of complicated shapes, down to the nanoscale."
Schroers and his team are already using their new processing technique to fabricate miniature resonators for microelectromechanical systems (MEMS)—tiny mechanical devices powered by electricity—as well as gyroscopes and other resonator applications.
In addition, by blow molding the BMGs, the team was able to combine three separate steps in traditional metal processing (shaping, joining and finishing) into one, allowing them to carry out previously cumbersome, time- and energy-intensive processing in less than a minute.
"This could enable a whole new paradigm for shaping metals," Schroers said. "The superior properties of BMGs relative to plastics and typical metals, combined with the ease, economy and precision of blow molding, have the potential to impact society just as much as the development of synthetic plastics and their associated processing methods have in the last century."
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The best team in baseball at home (21-11), just swept the Red Sox, Rockies and Tigers at home, giving them a nine game home winning streak and six straight overall. With that, the Indians have returned to .500 for the first time since they were 11-11 on April 24th. Cleveland is now in sole possession of third place in the AL Central, just a half game behind Chicago and 3.5 games behind Detroit. The most recent sweep against Boston included an extra inning walk-off win in the finale on a three run Asdrubal Cabrera home run in the 12th inning.
The Rangers have been the talk of the West for years and they looked poised to win the Division again this year after adding Shin-Soo Choo and Prince Fielder to an already potent lineup. Of course, things didn't work out as well as they hoped as Fielder, along with 11 other players, are currently on the DL. Included in this massive list, is their closer, Martin Perez and superstar prospect, Jurickson Profar, who are both on the 60 day DL. Thinking their team was deeper than it ever needed to be, the Rangers let David Murphy go and the Indians picked him up. Now, Murphy has more RBI (33) than any member of the Rangers (Alexis Rios has 29). In fact, other than Rios, the Indians have three more productive players than the Ranger with the next more RBI, Adrien Beltre.
Pitching Match-Ups
Game 1: Friday, June 6th, 8:05 PM EDT (tickets)
Trevor Bauer, RHP, 1-2, 3.63 ERA vs Yu Darvish, RHP, 5-2, 2.08 ERA
It's a little disappointing that Corey Kluber went a day earlier as this could have been a match between two pitchers competing for the AL All-Star Game start, but Bauer will have to hold his own instead. Bauer would seem to be up to the task as he has allowed two or fewer runs in three of his four starts, but all those starts have been at home with his one road game coming against Baltimore when he gave up four in 4.1. None of this will prepare him for Texas in the summer time, a place where he won't get lucky on fast balls left up in the zone. Mistakes that would be caught at the wall in Cleveland fly ten rows into the crowd in Texas as everything is amplified.
Darvish is coming off an incredible 2013 campaign and is making a move on the Cy Young now that Detroit's aces have dropped back to being just above average. Darvish is second in the AL in ERA to his fellow countryman, Masahiro Tanaka, and is seventh in strike outs. Combined, the current Indians have just five hits against Darvish going into their third match with the Japanese ace this time around.
Game 2: Saturday, June 7th, 4:05 PM EDT (tickets)
Josh Tomlin, RHP, 3-2, 3.06 ERA vs Nick Tepesch, RHP, 2-1, 4.43 ERA
Tomlin shut down one of the top offensive teams in baseball last time out as he held the Rockies to two earned runs in 5.2 innings. His control has been impressive as he has walked just five batters in six games this season, but even more impressive has been his control within the zone and his pitch selection, keeping him from getting hit hard and striking out eight in each of the last two games. Tomlin has never been much of a strike out pitcher, but he has been taking after the rest of the staff of late putting away batters late in counts rather than letting them put the ball in play.
Tepesch is in his second season in the Rangers' rotation and he has been very average. The Indians are actually lucky to be facing him, rather than Alexi Ogando, who has been moved to the bullpen or Matt Harrison, Derek Holland or Tanner Scheppers who are all on the DL. Tepesch pitched well against Houston in his 2014 debut, but hasn't handled the stronger offensive teams he has faced since, giving up ten runs in 15 innings to Seattle, Minnesota and Washington. He did pitch against the Indians once in 2013, giving up five runs and eight hits while taking the loss.
Game 3: Sunday, June 8th, 3:05 PM EDT (tickets)
Justin Masterson, RHP, 3-4, 4.72 ERA vs Joe Saunders, RHP, 0-1, 3.68 LHP
Masterson's ERA is not very indicative of his performance this season as he has become an Ubaldo Jimenez all or nothing style pitcher. Seven of his starts have been in the style of his last amazing start against Boston (7 IP, 0 ER, 10 K) as he has allowed two or fewer runs and pitched at least six innings (excluding the rain delayed start in Chicago last week) and five or more runs in each of his other six starts. If the Masterson with control and a knock out slider shows up in Texas, the Rangers could be in trouble, but otherwise, there could be a new record for home runs in the first inning.
The Indians are familiar with Saunders as a pitcher with the Angels and Mariners, but will now see him with his third AL West team, the Rangers. At 33, Saunders is having a kind of resurgence, posting his best numbers since he won 17 games in 2008. While the Indians generally struggle against left handers, they have owned Saunders in the past, scoring 24 runs in 46.2 innings on the strength of 59 hits and 23 walks.
Game 4: Monday, June 9th, 8:05 PM EDT (tickets)
T.J. House, LHP, 0-1, 3.79 ERA vs Nick Martinez, RHP, 1-2, 3.22 RHP
House has been much better than expected after being thrust into the rotation after the injury to Zach McAllister. He has given up just three runs in his past two starts over twelve innings. He has been effective by working quickly and throwing strikes, leading to twelve strike outs over his past two starts. He is a pitching coach's dream as a minor league replacement player who gets his job done without making much of an effort.
Like House, Martinez is in his rookie year and is also pitching well. He has made six starts this year, aiding the Rangers with their many injury issues. Including relief appearances, Martinez went from 4/28 through 5/24 giving up one or less runs in each appearance, giving up three total runs across 22.2 innings. While that stretch included appearances against some of the best offensive clubs in baseball, including Oakland, Colorado and Detroit, he has since struggled in two games against the Twins and Orioles, giving up ten runs total in his last two starts.
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Five Indians batted over .300 for the past week, but the best of the bunch was lead-off hitter, Michael Bourn. He hit his first career walk-off home run against the Rockies, then had an amazing game on his bobble head day against the Sox. In whole, he went 9/25 with 7 runs scored, five RBI, three walks and a steal. He also hit a double and a triple for a team high .600 SLG over the past week.
Josh Outman has only recorded three outs in the past week, but he has made the most out of each of them. In three games, Outman allowed two hits, including a solo home run that blew a save, pitching just a single inning. In the same week, Cody Allen and Bryan Shaw each threw more than four innings and Marc Rzepczynski, Scott Atchison and Nick Hagadone each threw at least two in a very taxed bullpen.
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A former tennis coach convicted of sexual battery and illegal use of a minor in nudity-oriented material for having sexual conduct with a 17-year-old student was sentenced to a total of 10 years in prison Monday.
David A. Kimmet, 64, of Tiffin, who pleaded guilty to the third- and second-degree felony charges in September, appeared Monday afternoon amid a full court room to receive his sentence.
Kimmet was arrested in June after police learned he had had sexual conduct with a 17-year-old girl who also was his tennis student. Graphic sexually-oriented messages believed to have been communication between Kimmet and girl, along with nude photographs of the girl, also were found at Kimmet's residence.
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Various letters recommending a sentence had been sent to visiting Judge Russell Wiseman, and the victim and her mother spoke Monday prior to the announcement of Kimmet's sentence.
"Dave was an adult, a father and a husband. He should have understood how precious children are," the victim said.
"He doesn't deserve the freedom to do this to one more girl and take any more childhoods away," she said.
A letter written by Kimmet was read out loud by Jill Varnes-Richardson, Kimmet's attorney.
"I never planned or intended on hurting anyone," the letter said.
The letter also stated that Kimmet had been coaching tennis for 45 years and that his main focus as a coach was for the students to have fun. In the letter, he apologized to his family and the victim's family.
Varnes-Richardson and Lorin Zaner, Kimmet's attorneys, had asked Wiseman to impose a four-year sentence. The maximum possible sentence was 13 years.
Seneca County Prosecutor Derek DeVine asked Wiseman to hand down a 10-year sentence.
"People in this community need to know that there's a line and you can't cross that line no matter what," DeVine said. "There's a line and it's not blurry and it's not grey. It's black and white. Mr. Kimmet clearly crossed that line."
DeVine also said that the girl had received serious mental injuries as result of the crimes and that Kimmet violated his bond on multiple occasions by having contact with the girl following his arrest.
"We did not have one crime. We had multiple crimes. We had sexual relations and photographs. Both of those need to be punished," DeVine said.
Wiseman spoke to Kimmet before announcing his decision.
"The harm you caused is almost incalculable," he said.
Wiseman also told Kimmet that his conviction of illegal use of a minor in nudity-oriented material added to the level of depravity of his conduct.
As part of his sentence, Kimmet was ordered to pay a $1,000 fine and also was ordered to register as a Tier III sex offender. Restitution for the victim was ordered.


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STEM: Imagine the Future at the Museum of the Rockies
Content Standards and Instruction, in partnership with the MT STEM Initiative, invites all educators and interested community members to attend the upcoming event STEM: Imagine the Future at the Museum of the Rockies on Wednesday, October 16th from 5pm – 9pm. The event focuses on the future of STEM (Science, Technology, Engineering and Mathematics) education and how it enhances college and career readiness in Montana. Vendors, presenters and exhibitors will provide information to support educators in engaging all ages of students in STEM. Participants will have the opportunity to experience hands-on activities and learn about resources they can use in a wide range of classroom environments.
Educators and community members who are interested in learning more about providing or supporting STEM Education are welcome to attend. The event is structured to allow for a flexible schedule and participants can navigate the exhibits, presentations, and vendors at their leisure from 5 pm to 8 pm. Join us from 8 pm to 9 pm for Montana STEM Ignite, a collection of five minute live presentations designed to energize participants about STEM Education.
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Montana Common Core Standards: Resources for Informing Parents and Community
- Alliance for Excellent Education: Common Core 101 http://all4ed.org/reports-factsheets/common-core-state-standards-101/
- Common Core Works: Public Service Announcement Video http://vimeo.com/55111808
- "Helping Parents Learn About Common Standards" EdWeek Blog http://blogs.edweek.org/teachers/teaching_ahead/2013/09/parents_as_partners_1.html
- Parent Roadmaps in English and Spanish from the Council of the Great City Schools http://www.commoncoreworks.org/domain/104
- PTA Parents' Guides to Student Success (2 pager, printables for each grade level) http://www.pta.org/parents/content.cfm?ItemNumber=2910
What Can Parents Do To Prepare for the CCSS?
From "Spotlight on the Common Core State Standards" Education Northwest. March 2011. http://educationnorthwest.org/webfm_send/1106
• Create a study group with other parents, community members, or school staff to examine the new standards. Discuss your initial impressions or concerns about the standards, how they differ from your existing state standards, and learn how the school or district will prepare for implementation.
• Through your involvement on the site council, parent-teacher association, or other committee, ask your school administrators and teachers how they will prepare to teach to the standards and how they will measure student progress toward meeting the standards. Ask how parents and community members can provide regular feedback and support teaching and learning of the standards.
• Attend school board meetings and ask whether policies will be developed to support schools in this work.
• Talk with business and community leaders about the need for high goals and clear expectations for our children's education.
• Talk to your children about the importance of graduating from high school ready for college and career success. Discuss how the standards will be used to guide teaching and learning from kindergarten through high school.
Contact the CSI Team
· Jael Prezeau, Director, (406) 444-3128
· Colet Bartow, Content Standards, (406) 444-3583
· Chris DeWald, Science, (406) 444-3557
· Jean Howard, Mathematics, (406) 444-0706
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· Click HERE to view the CSI Update Archives
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Hi there. My name is Virgil Dupras, I live in Québec, Canada. I'm a software developer and have been for quite a while. The vocation of this website changed a lot over the years and I think that the best "about" section would be a short history of it.
In 2001, I started this website to host my software, Mp3 Filter (initially written in Delphi and now called dupeGuru ME) which I soon started to sell as shareware. Things gradually went for the better and, in 2004, I could leave my day job to work exclusively on my own software.
It's also in 2004 that I discover Python which became (and still is) my favorite programming language. I then rewrite my applications in it. Initially, the GUI layer was kept in Delphi and worked only in Windows, but in 2006, wanting to support Mac OS X, I started doing something I called "cross-toolkit development" which allowed me to support multiple platforms without ending up with an ugly, non-native looking app that wxWidgets or Qt gave me on OS X.
Supporting Mac OS X was the beginning of real money coming in. That initially startled me because, after all, Mac has a much lower market share than Windows. I understood that Mac users had more money and, more importantly, had a different culture than Windows users: they were used to pay for their software. I started really liking Mac.
All this time and until 2009, I'm doing proprietary software. I began my career thinking that free (as in speech) software developers were silly because they were giving their "property" away, all for nothing. However, over time, my understanding of intellectual property evolved and in 2009, I make a leap to try to reconcile the income source of shareware with the freedom of open source.
At the time, I feared a collapse of my revenue, which never happened, but I wasn't satisfied with my solution because it wasn't really open source and didn't make total sense, in retrospective. A year later, I leap again and start fairware, which this time is really open source.
Once again, the feared collapse of revenu never happens and, quite happily, I sail through development having finally reconciled software freedom and revenue... until 2012.
In 10 years, I had developed a few applications, but only one ever worked commercially, dupeGuru. dupeGuru has been very fun to work on, but after this much time, one grows tired of developing the same application. In fact, I grew tired of "shareware type" software development altogether. So, I took a job at a local free software consultant firm and I've been working there since then. It's a lot of fun so far.
I still maintain HS applications, but I greatly reduced their development pace. Because fairware is all about selling development time instead of granting usage permission to intellectual property, it doesn't make sense collecting money for that software, which is why I have been phasing it out.
Because my interest for developing HS apps as actively as in the past is waning, and because it saddens me to think that these projects could eventually become unmaintained, I'm currently in the process of trying to attract new developers to those projects. Am I doing it right? I don't know, but I'm very interested in hearing what you have to say about that.


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We agreed that we were not going to get each other gifts for the wedding day. We instead decided that we were going to take a trip back to San Francisco [where we got engaged], stay at the same hotel, eat dinner at the same Italian restaurant, and do all the things we didn't have time to do when we were there last.
If you're torn on a gift, I recommend a quick weekend trip to somewhere special. We had a blast and it was nice to return to SF as a married couple. ((:
But because DH is such a sweet man, he bought a canvas and some red ink, took the stamp we used to embellish our invites and other wedding related items, and wrote me the sweetest message on the canvas. Then he brought it to the venue and had my girls sit me down and give it to me.
Here are some pics from that moment:
Such a sweet gift!
thats so sweet! Gotta love a gift from the heart!


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JOHNSON — One of Vermont's largest utilities is calling on the state to impose a moratorium on renewable energy mandates.
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#11 - anon
Reply 0(03/26/2013) [-]
The original reason for beastiality being a taboo is because people during middle age were highly superstitious about ANYTHING, one being the belief that there's a possibility for a monster to be born from a man impregnating a beast.
#14 to #11 - masdercheef
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So that raises the question, why is bestiality still illegal nowadays?
#29 to #14 - condormcninja
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Animals can't give consent. Also it can hurt them.
#32 to #29 - anon
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Maybe sex with LARGE animals should be allowed? Vets routinely jam their arm up to the shoulder in horses and cows. And what's the point of consent if they can't even feel your little trousersnake? Hur hur hur.
Also my resarch online has shown that male animals are very good at giving consent by humping furiously on people.
Also my resarch online has shown that male animals are very good at giving consent by humping furiously on people.
#33 to #32 - condormcninja
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They don't have judgement. It's the same thing as having sex with children, even if they're willing to do it you're just using them in a way they don't understand. (And the vet thing is for medical purposes obviously.)
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That's a fair point.
#16 to #14 - killerliquid
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Because it's utterly disgusting
and awesomely kinky!
and awesomely kinky!
#23 to #16 - smittywrbmnjnsn
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Clearly, you haven't seen a horse's dick.
#22 to #18 - smittywrbmnjnsn
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That is a fantastic point.
#19 to #18 - killerliquid
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Am I the only one that doesn't think it's disgusting when not horny?
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The Dawn of Colour Photography
In 1903, the Lumière brothers patented autochrome, the first technique for producing colour photographs.
Not long after the technology's release, Albert Kahn, a Franco-Jewish financier-turned-philanthropist, set about creating a photographic record of the entire world. He sent photographers to every continent, and they returned with reels of film and photographs. By the end of Kahn's project in 1931, he had amassed 180,000 metres of film and more than 72,000 autochrome photographic plates. He called the collection 'Archives of the Planet'.
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TWO of the new businesses that won tenders for leases in November last year had already contacted the original owners, saying they did not have "the ways and means" to operate these businesses.
They subsequently offered to lease the businesses back to the original owners - clearly an attempt to make a profit out of the transaction, a lawyer for the business owners, Pieter Steenkamp, told Business Day.
In January 2009, an agreement was signed to extend the leases of all the existing owners for five years or more. But this agreement was thereafter backdated to 2004, which meant the leases were valid for only another eight months.
This "raised suspicion" around the whole process, Mr Steenkamp said. Then, in November last year, nonlocals were awarded the tenders to the exclusion of the existing businesses, with three outsiders being awarded eight tenders between them.
Yesterday, Judge Stanley Makgoba said he had seen no evidence that the new occupants could operate the businesses, some of which required liquor and petroleum licences. The evictions and awarding of tenders to outsiders "could not work" and was "marred with controversy", he said.
He also said the provincial public works department had not acted in good faith in terms of the 2009 agreement to extend the lease for five years from 2004, and that the process was not transparent.
"The whole episode is just a sham, it just can't work," Judge Makgoba said.
An urgent interdict was awarded, and the provincial public works department was restrained from implementing the tenders and ordered not to interfere with the businesses "in any way".
A review process of the tenders would follow.
Mr Steenkamp said the onus was on the state to get the review process going, as the state had to furnish the applicants with the relevant documents.
"We welcome the ruling with open arms," Mr Steenkamp told reporters outside the Pretoria High Court yesterday. He said momentum was now on the side of the business owners.
This was a victory not only for the business owners, but also for their employees, the employees' families and the "whole town" as people would have had to drive to other towns to get petrol because the new business owners may not have had licences.
David Nkambula, head of communications for the Mpulalanga public works, roads and transport department, said the department "welcomes and respects the judgment".


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MIAMI - Advocates for workers' rights are ramping up pressure to include stronger provisions to protect guest workers from abuse in any new immigration reform legislation.
To that effect the Southern Poverty Law Center, at a press conference here today, said the immigration legislation must ensure that guest workers have access to free legal services, protection from wage theft, protection from unscrupulous foreign labor recruiters and the right to go to federal court to enforce those protections.
"We're closer than ever to getting a bill out of Congress but we are creating tens of thousands of new positions for guest workers," said Jim Knoepp, deputy legal director of the SPLC's Immigrant Justice division. "We must not simply extend the abuse that now exists, with some guest workers the victims of trafficking, to an even larger group."
Several former guest workers gave testimony to support Knoepp's position.
"I came from Ecuador where I heard about a job in the U.S. on my college campus," said Fernanda Defaz. "I paid $4,500 for a hotel management internship in South Carolina and I ended up cleaning hotel tables for minimum wage."
A former guest worker from Thailand described a similar situation.
"I paid $5,000 for an internship in Florida," she said, "but when I got there my job consisted entirely of making beds and cleaning toilets."
Jesse Panaguiton, a former guest worker from the Philippines, described how she was cheated out of six weeks' pay by shady labor brokers. "When I complained I was fired," she said.
"This is why immigration reform cannot slam the courthouse door in the face of guest workers," said Knoepp. "You need a lawyer's help if your boss won't pay you for the hours you worked. Under SB 744 [the Senate's immigration bill], workers with general, non-agricultural W, H-2B and RPI visas are denied access to legal services that the poor here get. All low-wage workers, including guest workers, should be eligible for this legal assistance."
Knoepp says that a second improvement needed in immigration legislation is a guarantee that guest workers can take action in court when the law is violated. While the new proposed law gives guest workers the right to the prevailing wage and while it makes retaliation and discrimination against them illegal, it does not give them the remedy of private court action. "That right to go to court is the only way some will be able to recover wages or hold employers accountable for abuse or discrimination," he said.
The SPLC also says it is essential that the bill's provisions regarding foreign recruiters remain intact. Some who want to weaken the bill claim there is nothing that can be done in the U.S. about foreign recruiters.
"U.S. employers often rely on people or agencies to recruit guest workers abroad," Knoepp said. "These recruiters charge exorbitant fees that force guest workers into debt, leaving them vulnerable to exploitation that can rise to the level of human trafficking."
The law center wants employers here to be accountable for the practices of foreign recruiters they use to staff their operations. The justification for this, the SPLC says, is that the U.S. employers are the direct beneficiaries of the unscrupulous policies of the recruiters.
The group also wants the path to citizenship section of the new immigration law to apply to all guest workers. "The path to permanency and citizenship must be broad and fair," Knoepp said, "reflecting the American value that those who contribute to the nation's success are equal members of our society."
Photo: Immigrant guest workers from India who were victims of human trafficking rally before delivering a petition and series of demands to the Department of Justice. Jacquelyn Martin/AP


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Two-time CMA Entertainer of the Year and multi-Grammy Award winning country artist Vince Gill is joining his long time friends Edith Royal and Ben Crenshaw in support of the Darrell K Royal Research Fund for Alzheimer's Disease with the "Links & Lyrics" songwriters showcase performance. Ben-Willie-Darrell present Links & Lyrics 2014 is this year's signature gala event for the DKR Fund and will be an integral part of the fundraising efforts for AD research.
The Links event includes a golf tournament at Barton Creek Country Club's Crenshaw Course, hosted by Honorary Golf Chairman Ben Crenshaw. The Lyrics follows that evening with performances by Vince Gill & Friends at the spectacular ACL Live at the Moody Theater.
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Kings Coach Sutter Talks About Game Day Intensity
Los Angeles Kings Coach Darryl Sutter spoke to the media after today's practice for the Stanley Cup Final game to happen Wednesday night. If the Kings win against the New York Rangers tonight, they become the Stanley Cup champions.
Q. Have you ever been a guy that could read a team's mental state off of a morning skate or is it all going to be a mystery?
COACH SUTTER: I think once you get to know your team you do. It's not always the same with every team, where you're at, time of year, all those things.?Generally with our group, just the way the schedule works. With travel you always know ahead of time what you're doing, game days what we want to accomplish, the day before the game, all those things.?If we all skated yesterday, we wouldn't today, so... In terms of getting a read from morning skate, I don't base how we play on that, but just in our whole preparation part.
Q. Darryl, how long do you think it took Marian Gaborik to sort of fit into this group that's been around a while? You stuck with him and Kopitar for a while right at the start. It's now working. Is there something to be said for patience there?
COACH SUTTER: That was our plan, was to play him with Kopitar. That's what we did. I think there were high expectations when we got him, so that's what we did.?In terms of sticking with him, being patient, we were a team that was fighting for a playoff spot and we expected a lot out of him right away.?I don't think it's necessarily being patient. I think it was more knowing full well what he could bring and not trying to change that 'cause that doesn't work.
Q. You're a pretty intense guy on game days. A day like this torture for you?
COACH SUTTER: No, it's not at all actually. 8:00 start is a little bit of a stretch. But I told the players this morning I was going after a practice goal in MSG. That's pretty good.
Q. When you're in the middle of one of these runs, do you have contact with your brothers or do they just leave you alone?
COACH SUTTER: I talk to all of them a lot either via phone or text, more to see what's going on. They're at home. Them checking to see how we're doing.?I mean, they're pretty smart hockey guys. They can see how you're playing and how certain guys are playing. They can offer you that.
Q. You used the word 'unique' yesterday with Justin Williams. What is unique about him and do you have a comparison?
COACH SUTTER: What's unique is he's a consistent player every night home and road and he scores big goals and he understands his role. A lot of times, players like that don't understand their role.?I've said this before, I really didn't know Justin as a player that well till he came here because basically he was Carolina, Philadelphia. You don't see those teams very often other than on TV. For someone to learn by video or learn by watching... You need to know the person.?I think 'unique' is another way of saying very consistent, very solid, understanding your role on a good hockey team.
Q. You mentioned yesterday that the organization learned a lot from going through this two years ago, 3-0. Did you do something different this time in terms of tickets and families?
COACH SUTTER: We were at home. Now we're on the road.
Q. Do you feel Jeff Carter has helped elevate the game of Toffoli and Pearson?
COACH SUTTER: I think a lot. Jeff Carter's a top player in the National Hockey League. Anytime you get to play with a top player, either you elevate your game or you don't play with them.
Q. It was asked yesterday if you could compare Justin Williams to anybody.
COACH SUTTER: The only player I could come up with that was real similar in terms of big games and veteran experience and consistency, playing for a long time, playing on championships, was Martin Gelinas.
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The theme of the 2013 fair is "Dreams Come True at the Seneca County Fair."
Agricultural Society board members shared their experiences at the recent state convention and came away with contracts for Broken Horn to return with its rodeo and the Ohio State Tractor Pulling Association participating in its award-winning tractor pull.
Don Arnold also was recognized posthumously as Seneca County's outstanding fair supporter from the state director. A golf cart contract for the July 21-28 fair was secured and the Bear Hollow Wood Carvers will return.
Mark Roberts addressed the board about a haunted house at the fairgrounds during October. A tour with the grounds committee
for a location will be scheduled.
In other action, board members:
Discussed placing an ATM machine at the fairgrounds.
Approved the 2014 flea market dates.
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After attending the second installment of The Michigan Chronicle's recent seventh annual Pancakes & Politics forum, one thing is clear: Regionalism is the new wave.
If the economic revitalization of Michigan's urban centers has an enemy, it is silos — cumbersome systems that make communication across and within various public and private entities nearly impossible — that need to be demolished. It's the worst kind of enemy to tackle — invisible, resilient and well-rooted in current systems.
Commonly referred to "information silos," these constant dividers have been built into municipal systems for an untold number of decades. In different times the stiff-walled grid of bureaucracy may have been useful.
But according to expert panelists speaking at the speakers forum that took place on Thursday, May 3, at the Detroit Athletic Club, times are changing — and fast. Pancakes & Politics, sponsored in part by the Michigan Chronicle's parent company, Real Times Media, and WWJ Newsradio 950, offered a venue for a lively, realistic discussion between some of the state's most distinguished experts on economic redevelopment.
There is no one solution, but a better way is not out of reach, panelists agreed.
"Our case is new, we need to think and act anew," said Dr. H. James Williams, dean of the Seidman College of Business at Grand Valley State University in Allendale. "Politics is local but takes collaboration. We are intertwined so we need to proceed together."
Williams was part of the high-powered panel that included George Jackson, president and CEO of the Detroit Economic Growth Corp; Harvey Hollins, director of the Detroit-based Michigan Office of Urban and Metropolitan Initiatives; and Tim Terrentine, vice president of Southwest Michigan First, an economic development agency in Kalamazoo.
While talks on how to improve all Michigan cities were addressed, the spotlight for urban reinvention was on the Detroit and the essential regional collaboration between city, county and state. If Michigan's future is riding on the back of its cities, said panel members, then Detroit is carrying much of the load.
"We have to deal with fiscal realities," Jackson said regarding Detroit's finances and the recent controversial consent agreement. "It's not an unattested model but I think it's a decision that should have been made years ago."
Panelists were in agreement that that no city can thrive without the others.
Part of the solution is focusing efforts on the positives that is, not what is missing, but what is there to work with.
"We do our best to squash the negative," Terrentine said. "We know that together our fates rise and fall. "We in Kalamazoo want Detroit's success. We're cheering for Detroit."
The hour-long discussion proved that the exact next steps in terms of urban economic redevelopment have been tricky to pin down, but one thing remains clear — we have to work together.
"Regional strategy is difficult," Hollins said, "But it's a case of collaborate or possibly die. For example, there's no need for Highland Park to have its own fire station when it's surrounded by three Detroit fire stations."
One of the hardest silos to topple is one build around race dynamics.
"Race is a divider," Hollins said. "More than any place I've been, racedivides the Detroit area.Racial tension is severely stunting regionalprogress. Getting light rail across town across Eight Mile, that's an issue of race. There are so many silos here."
One of the recent victory in toppling silos came in Kalamazoo.
"We will have one building authority for three different counties and several different townships, one common application for companies that need to build and grow business," he said.
Terrentine credits selfless leadership to the progress made in his city. If cities are to are going to succeed, he believes and others confirm, there have to be leaders willing to forego the spotlight to get work done.
Terrentine also suggested that bringing younger leadership to the table is crucial.
"We have leadership talking about what will be happening in tenyears and no one in the room is under 50," he said. "We need to get someone who can help forecast the future that they will be engaging in."
One new model that was mentioned came from Grand Rapids.
The Grand Rapids Start Garden, announced on Thursday, is a new venture capital fund that will invest $5,000 in two startup ideas every week, then continues to invest more if the ideas gain momentum. The fund is backed by a private fund — a $15 million commitment from the DeVos family. The issue of urban revitalization and its place in the future of the state is a crucial, yet complex one. But the takeaway was positive and encouraging.
"We have to use creative finances to get projects done. What tools we use, how we blend public and private, this is how we get young, educated folks moving into the city," Terrentine pointed out.
In terms of collaboration, some argue that these mergers are already in Place; they just need to be communicated better.
"We're already merged," Terrentne said, noting how commuters depend on cities and vice versa. "The patterns of humanity link us."
Pancakes & Politiics is one of the year's most anticipated economic Forums. The next session will be at Birmingham's Townsend Hotel on May 18 for the annual gathering of the "Big Four" regional leaders: Detroit Mayor Dave Bing, Oakland County Executive L. Brooks Patterson, Wayne County Executive Robert Ficano and Macomb County Executive Mark Hackel. They will discuss the challenges and opportunities facing Southeast Michigan.
The series will conclude with a return to the DAC on June 15.
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Bentley with Arksey was formed in 1866 by the grouping of the two townships of Arksey and Bentley. From 1875 to 1894 it formed part of Doncaster Rural Sanitary District, and from 1894 to 1911 was included in its successor, Doncaster Rural District.
Historically Bentley and Arksey civil parish was in the ecclesiastical parish of Arksey in the lower division of the wapentake of Strafforth and Tickhill.
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On 1 April 1911 the civil parish was removed from the rural district and constituted a separate urban district. It was divided into five wards for election of members of the urban district council.
In 1974, following the Local Government Act 1972, municipal administrative areas throughout England and Wales were reorganized. Bentley and Arksey was combined with ten other authorities to form the Metropolitan Borough of Doncaster in South Yorkshire. Bentley and Arksey now forms an unparished area within the metropolitan borough. At the census of 2001 it had a population of almost 34,000.
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Little did Malcom Daniels know when he purchased his first used trawl boat that his humble endeavor would grow to a thriving fleet of thirteen boats. The fleet harvests scallops, fish, and shrimp up and down the East coast. Two of the boats reside in South America, with two of the Daniels' sons serving as captains.
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Phil Mickelson was almost a shoe-in for The Masters at Augusta. The U.S. Open as usual, went to the survivor of a ridiculous course, Graeme McDowell. But the British Open seems to be the major championship with the most intriguing story-lines year in and year out. Last year it was 60-year-old Tom Watson going all the way to the end in a bid to become the oldest major champion before a missed putt on the 72nd hole left him in a playoff where he was beaten by the guy no one on earth was rooting for, Stewart Cink.
This year is shaping up to be quite the same. Tiger Woods has won the last two Open Championships at St. Andrews and one might think him a sure bet to win again this week. There's no doubt Tiger has the game, but no one has ever won more than two Opens at St. Andrews, and I really don't think with where Tiger's mental state is right now that he'll be the first.
So where are the stories this week? All over the place. Take the story-lines, not the favorites in this week's Open. That's what I'm doing, and here's my top five to take the Claret Jug.
1. Nick Faldo -Yes, I just heard the collective "what?" from all of our readers, but let me explain. Faldo won at St. Andrews in 1990. He also recently was in the golf press for a bit of a squabble with European Ryder Cup captain Colin Montgomerie about not even talking about whether or not he would be included on this year's team. Faldo is a staple and a proven winner as a Ryder Cup participant. What better way to stick it to Monty than by winning the Open? If Tom Watson could make it to day four, so can Faldo. He is a total dark-horse, but these picks are all about the dark-horses. He's mine.
2. Colin Montgomerie - Speaking of which, you want drama? How cool would it be to see Faldo and Montgomerie in the same pairing on Sunday somewhere near the top of the leaderboard? I hope it happens. Montgomerie has never won a major title, has been atrocious on U.S. soil, but remains one of Europe's best golfers. He has the game to win at St. Andrews. He made it all the way through qualifying to be here, and this could be the week he finally gets it done in front of a friendly, non-American crowd which bodes better for his confidence.
3. John Daly -If not for two holes because of some rather ridiculous chances taken last week, Daly would've had a top-10 finish at The Barclay's. He's been eyeing this one as his comeback story. His game is close enough to get him there, it's whether or not he has the confidence and patience to pull it off. If there was ever a week to test whether or not Daly was truly making a return to the form of old, this would be it at the site he won his second major title in 1995. He will make noise one way or the other. I highly suspect he'll be in the top 10 at some point during this tournament. Whether or not he stays there for long is up for serious debate.
4 and 5. -The Molinari brothers, Edoardo and Francesco - They both hit the ball a country mile, both have serious game, and Edoardo is coming off a European Tour win last week against a very tough field in terrible playing conditions. These two are already serious notables across the pond. If you want a big story, how about two brothers on the first page of the leaderboard come Sunday? If that wouldn't be huge, I don't know what would be.
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NFL Week 12 continues Sunday with several meaningful conference clashes.
It starts in Atlanta, where the Matt Ryan and the Falcons welcome Aaron Rodgers and the streaking Packers.
Aside from two of the best young quarterbacks in the game going head-to-head, this game will also feature two of the best defenses in the NFC.
Staying in the NFC North, division leader Chicago will faces a tough test with the Michael Vick experience coming to the Windy City.
Lovie Smith's defense has been brilliant against the pass and rarely yields big plays, but stopping Vick presents a new set of challenges.
Sunday's action wraps up with San Diego traveling to Indianapolis in a huge game in the AFC playoff race.
The Chargers are closing in on the AFC West, while the Colts need to win to keep pace with surprising Jacksonville in the AFC South.
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There are two large snowparks - the Nightpark in Hinterglemm and the Nitro Snowpark in Leogang. The... more
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The large snowpark is located in Alpendorf on the Hirschkogel. The funslope is on the Sonntagskogel... more
The snowparks in the Hochkönig ski resort are located in Mühlbach and Maria Alm. The Blue Tomato... more
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Lumines Review
While it's clear Q Entertainment perfected the game's formula on their very first try, this iteration of the neon-lit puzzler is so charming and elegantly formed you'd be a fool to say no.
It works, though, because it's really chuffing hypnotic. Lumines' symbiotic relationship with music means the tracklisting has to work, which is where 2006's scattered Lumines II so completely dropped the ball - the pursuit of big Western artists caused the game to lose the original's perfectly pitched combination of rhythm and pace. Electronic Symphony presents an altogether more considered (and decidedly European) 30-strong selection, and includes headline artists such as The Chemical Brothers, Aphex Twin and The Go! Team. It's a real shame that Q! Entertainment's much-loved Genki Rockets don't make an appearance, though, and that there's no scope to showcase some of the more eclectic Japanese artists in this otherwise excellent curation.
Lumines also manages to provide something so many puzzle games lack: a noticeable sense of progression. Clearing each skin feels like progress, and the side-effect of such a wildly changing player space is that a session of Lumines feels like a journey, albeit one that might progress from Mylo's In My Arms to Wolfgang Gartner's remix of 5th Symphony, and then finishes on Faithless' God is a DJ. But, hey, whatever works for you.
The Vita's detail-rich OLED screen also ensures the game's aesthetics pop and sizzle when in play. In motion the game is a beautiful march of colour and sound, and there's a little thrill in the moment you see each skin for the first time.
It's still the same game as it was half a decade ago, but the all-important focus on aesthetic means that the new sights and sounds helps refresh the formula. Q Entertainment has also attempted a more direct approach at innovation, giving the game's user-selectable avatar its own rechargeable power (such as dropping a chain block) that's accessible after filling a meter by clearing blocks or tapping the back screen. It doesn't really work.
Other additions fare better. A new shuffle block will randomise any cluster of squares it comes into contact with, though it seems to help more than it hinders. There's also a social addition in the form of the World Block, a massive regenerating clump that's whittled down by subtracting the combined cleared blocks of every player in the world within a 24-hour period. You can also gift unlocked avatars via Near, but it's particularly hard to actually care much about that.
So, yes, it's another Lumines. But it's also the most successful crack at the whip since the original game, and for the first time in a long time the soundtrack feels like it's been properly mulled over. While it's clear Q Entertainment perfected the game's formula on their very first try, this iteration of the neon-lit puzzler is so charming and elegantly formed you'd be a fool to say no.
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Rolex GMT Master 1675 Vintage 1972 with original Dial + Boxes/Paperwork/Certificate/Purchase receipt!!.
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This watch was purchased in June 1972 and given as a gift to a Member of Parliament, who has kept the watch since 1972 right up until 2012, yes 40 years!. The watch comes with original Rolex boxes, Rolex certificate, Rolex booklet with stamped paperwork inside, original bill of sale from the Rolex agent in Saudi Arabia, and paperwork holder. The Rolex warranty booklet/certificate/original bill of sale are in astonishing crisp perfect condition!.
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Bill Amberg – Day 4
The leather artisan reflects on his favourite London street
November 30 2012
Bill Amberg
I set out early for Hampstead, where I will meet the joiners who are fitting cupboard carcasses in the dressing rooms of a beautiful and unusual house we are working on there. Picking my way through the dog-walkers on the Heath to get to the client's front door, I feel rather nervous that the bundles of vellum under my arm will attract unwanted canine interest, but I manage to avoid becoming a dog chew and arrive unscathed. The cabinets have a walnut interior and vellum-panelled exterior, detailed with antique mirror and ebony. I'm looking forward to seeing it all finished early next year.
The architect Robert Dye and his wife, Lucinda, are waiting at the studio when I return. They want to discuss a leather floor for one of his new projects in London, as well as choose materials for a leather rug in their kitchen at home. I pull out all the examples of buffalo, bull and cow hide suitable for cladding floors – the key requirements being that it must be thick, strong, quiet and warm.
My mother and father died last year, and while clearing up the barn at their home I found their old bicycles: fabulous boneshakers covered in bird muck and straw. After a month of loving repair at Halfpipe on the Golborne Road they have been returned to me in fine order, their tyres pumped and ready for the off.
I love the Golborne Road. It's my favourite street in London and I frequently go for a wander there, stopping off for a spot of Lebanese food in Baalbak, followed by coffee and a mini almond cake at Café Oporto. I bump into my friend Ibrahim, who has just won the Best Streetfood or Takeway award on BBC Radio 4's Food Programme. It is brilliant news for him – and his many fans – after 15 years of serving up delicious lentil soups, tagines and Moroccan delicacies.
Paul Firbank and his artist girlfriend, Lizzie Gosling, pop over in the afternoon to chat about their work. Their company, The Rag and Bone Man, is a fast-growing business making genius lights, chairs, hooks and hangers out of engines, springs, fire extinguishers and all manner of metal ephemera. We are concocting a new project together after the success of our last piece, created for Kevin McCloud's Man Made Home documentary that aired on Channel Four in the autumn.
Tonight we are to polish and generally love up the new leather flooring we've laid in Selfridges, so I collect my team to get them to the store for 10.30pm, where we clean, wax and finally buff up the surface. It's truly eerie walking Selfridges' hallowed halls after hours, with no crowds to negotiate, but it provides some useful research for my Christmas shopping.


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On May 26 eighth-graders from St. Robert School in Flushing and St. Pius X School in Flint joined together. Their project was to honor veterans at New Calvary Catholic Cemetery in Flint. The cemetery currently has about 19,000 graves and the number of veterans buried in the cemetery is high.
The students learned to identify the grave marker for a veteran's grave then they went row by row throughout the cemetery marking each veteran's grave with a small American flag.
It was a time of reflection for many of the students on this Memorial Day weekend. And, it was a small act of kindness to honor those who gave so much.