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Judging by the newfound negative turn of the averages, I am wondering if we won't see a "February effect" this time around. That is, perhaps accelerated selling will knock down stocks in December as investors endeavor to unload before any raise in capital-gains or dividend taxes -- and then again in January as we now acknowledge the unlikely nature of a deal by year-end.
Yes, business leaders are in Washington to talk about a deal. But they don't get a vote on this issue. Yes, President Obama is taking it to the people, but they don't vote on this, either. Yes he's going on Twitter to talk about the consequences, but the Twitter followers also won't vote on this.
The voters are in Congress, and we are seeing that something that was supposed to be totally draconian -- unpalatable increases in tax rates and cuts in spending -- may not be that unpalatable at all. That's because the politicians believe their careers will be more negatively impacted by compromising than by standing steadfast and allowing the U.S. to go over the cliff on principle.
I get this. If you believe entitlements should never be cut, then you are going to send us over the cliff. If you believe taxes should never be raised, you are going to send us over the cliff. If you believe your House or Senate seat is going to be jeopardized by cutting entitlements or boosting taxes, what incentive do you have for compromise? It is both rational and opportunistic not to compromise? Are those who try to compromise, in this regard, sinking below principle, breaking their word or going back on why they were voted in?
I will go one step further. The potential loss of jobs and higher mandated taxes may be a very small price to pay for standing fast on your principles -- and, for many, rising above the fray is simply a total betrayal to the electorate.
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Masking: Open Label
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|RCT of Stepping Stones Behavioural Intervention for HIV
- HIV sero-incidence [ Time Frame: 24 months post-baseline ] [ Designated as safety issue: No ]
- HSV-2 sero-incidence [ Time Frame: 24 months post-baseline ] [ Designated as safety issue: No ]
- correct condom use at last sex, number of partners, transactional sex, intimate partner violence, any casual partner, [ Time Frame: 12 months and 24 months post-baseline ] [ Designated as safety issue: No ]
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Please refer to this study by its ClinicalTrials.gov identifier: NCT00332878
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|Mthatha, Eastern Cape, South Africa
|Principal Investigator:
|Rachel K. Jewkes, MBBS MSc MD
|Medical Research Council, South Africa
Publications automatically indexed to this study by ClinicalTrials.gov Identifier (NCT Number):
|Responsible Party:
|Tasnim Mohsam, Administrator, Medical Research Council, South Africa
|ClinicalTrials.gov Identifier:
|NCT00332878 History of Changes
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|Study First Received:
|June 1, 2006
|Last Updated:
|January 22, 2015
|Health Authority:
|United States: Federal Government
Keywords provided by Medical Research Council, South Africa:
Behavioral Intervention
Additional relevant MeSH terms:
HIV Infections
Acquired Immunodeficiency Syndrome
Lentivirus Infections
Retroviridae Infections
RNA Virus Infections
Virus Diseases
Sexually Transmitted Diseases, Viral
Sexually Transmitted Diseases
Immunologic Deficiency Syndromes
Immune System Diseases
Slow Virus Diseases
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Jay was the President of the Amarillo Table Tennis Club when I first began to play in 1958. He helped many players develop in to excellent table tennis players. Steve Dodgen toured with the Harlem Globetrotters throughout South America as part of their half-time entertainment. The Amarillo TT Club hosted a yearly 4-man team tournament the first weekend of June for more than 15 years. Entries came from Kansas City (Joe Sokoloff) Boulder, Colorado (Jim Wherry, Russell Plybon) Houston (Perry Schwartzberg) Albuquerque (the Gresham's), El Paso (McHorn), Dallas (David and Kevin Bell), all were among the many participants that came into Amarillo to play.
After the closing of Amarillo Air Force Base, Jay secured for the club one of the many now empty buildings where we able to erect individually barriered tables, an upstairs TV room with a refrigerator and other amenities.
When the Senior Olympics (now the Senior Games) began, Jay participated and became a national champion in his age bracket.
Unfortunately at the competition in Orlando, Jay was defeated by Buster Chase. Jay had recruited Buster to teach to play. Jay was Buster's boss at Amarillo Air Force Base and lived to blocks up the street from Buster on Manhattan. I learned all of this when I married Buster's daughter Karen. I gave coaching advice to Buster which enabled Buster to beat Jay. Jay did not appreciate the help I gave to Buster.
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Clay: Jiangpo Ni. High fired. Feels like zhu ni yet behaves like zi ni, how odd.
Size: 145 ml.
Age/Year: Modern- late 2000's.
Walls: Medium thick.
Pour: Fast, no drips, tight lid fit.
Source: eBay (Wisdom China, Guangzhou).
Tea Pairing: Ripe puerh. As I already stated this clay just enhances the flavour of the tea bringing up the higher notes a lot more like other clays I regularly use for this particular tea (di cao qing, qing shui ni and duan ni).
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Did you specificly commissionned a Li Xing shape pot with the help of Nada ?
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When you said that it improved the mouth feel., could you clarified in what way. I am asking just out of curiosity.
The tea seems to coat your mouth more out of this pot. Leaving a feeling a bit like if you took a sip of olive oil.
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A very rare Grape Purple Sand. 1970's SP. 1st show by High Mountain Anxi Xiping Tikwanyin Yancha.
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Common Ground May Be Easier to Find in Senate
In the great tax and budget showdown taking shape in Washington, most of the attention is focused on President Barack Obama and House Speaker John Boehner: Can the Democratic president and the Republican leader of the House figure out a way to get together on a deal that prevents a dive off that fiscal cliff of big tax increases and spending cuts at year's end?
But it's just possible the better prospects for finding common ground lie across the Capitol from Mr. Boehner's office, in the Senate.
The Senate, of course, was the home of the Gang of Six, a bipartisan group of lawmakers who emerged last year to draw up a long-term deficit deal they hoped both sides could live with. They failed; they released a plan that never took off. Its tax hikes were rejected by Republicans, and the plan in some ways undercut a potential deal Messrs. Obama and Boehner were discussing.
Still, the Gang was the most substantive bipartisan effort of last year, and it hasn't gone away. It could still be the starting point for a Senate effort to break out of the budget scrum and move downfield toward some kind of compromise.
White House officials think there may be a dozen or so senators who could come together on a centrist approach. One senator involved in the effort to find that approach privately estimates it could attract as many as 40 of his colleagues eager to get something done, if the wheels start rolling.
So who are the key players? For now, the entire Gang of Six is still around: Republicans Tom Coburn of Oklahoma, Saxby Chambliss of Georgia, and Mike Crapo of Idaho, along with Democrats Mark Warner of Virginia, Majority Whip Dick Durbin of Illinois and Senate Budget Committee Chairman Kent Conrad.
Two other members have been added to the Gang since last summer: Democrat Michael Bennet of Colorado and Mike Johanns of Nebraska.
There are three other senators to watch, not official members of the Gang but still active in the hunt for some common ground. They are Tennessee's two Republican senators, Lamar Alexander and Bob Corker, and newly re-elected Sen. Jon Tester of Montana.
Some of the original members of the Gang met recently with Alan Simpson and Erskine Bowles, who led a presidential deficit-reduction commission last year, and the ideas of the two groups could come together at some point.
There are other forces at work in the Senate pulling away from a centrist common ground, to be sure. Some newly elected Democratic senators—Elizabeth Warren of Massachusetts, Tammy Baldwin of Wisconsin, Chris Murphy of Connecticut and Mazie Hirono of Hawaii—may well move the Democratic caucus toward the left. And Senate Republican leader Mitch McConnell, up for re-election himself in 2014, may well fear a challenge from the right within his own party more than a challenge from a Democrat in his own state, which may restrict his ability to go along with a move by centrists.
Still, going into a tense two-month negotiating period, there's more action in the center in the Senate than across the Capitol in the House.
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- Tassie Cups:
- 1 (3-ounce) package cream cheese, softened
- 1/2 cup butter or margarine, softened
- 1 1/2 cups all-purpose flour
- 1/4 teaspoon salt
- Lemon Curd Filling:
- 3 large lemons, zested and juiced
- 1 cup sugar
- 4 eggs
- 1/2 cup butter, melted
Preheat the oven to 350 degrees F.
For the Tassie Cups: Place all of the ingredients in a food processor and pulse until the mixture forms a ball. Wrap in plastic wrap and chill until firm, about 1 hour.
Form the pastry into 24 small balls; press with fingers into the bottom and up the sides of ungreased miniature muffin tins. Bake for 20 minutes, until lightly browned.
For the Filling: Place the zest and sugar in a food processor and process until combined. Add the lemon juice and eggs and process until smooth. Slowly add the butter to the mixture, pulsing as you go.
Place the mixture in the top of a double boiler and cook over simmering water for about 5 minutes, until thick and sugar has dissolved.
Remove tassie cups from muffin tins, spoon lemon curd in the center and serve.
Cook's Note: Lemon curd will keep in a jar in the refrigerator for up to 3 weeks.
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The big joke on Viti Levu is that the buses are the only things that run on time, which, like many humorous things, is also mostly true. Taxis abound and buses run frequently between the Nadi area and Suva during the day. The latter are a good way to meet locals, who are almost always happy to chat, and some public buses have luggage storage. The mainland is also a great place to rent a car, with
only the paved two-lane Queens Road in the south and rougher Kings Road in the north. Travel times can vary considerably depending on road conditions and how long you have to wait before overtaking a public bus that may be slowing you down. Along the southern coast, there's plentiful parking in towns and at resorts of the Coral Coast and Sunset Strip. For the most part, attractions and hotels along Queens Road announce themselves and are evenly spaced; "If you haven't seen it yet, keep going" is a safe motto for those renting a car, although bus and taxi drivers are well-acquainted with the island. Distances given for resorts in this chapter are in kilometers from the Nadi International Airport. Depending on how much you want to see and do, a scenic cross-island road trip could take three weeks or three hours.
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I've been posting about a more logical, less emotional approach to working with technology. But Nina McHale's recent post about leaving libraries has inspired me to come clean. I'm thinking a lot about taking some of the emotion out of our relationship with technology because it's giving us agita. Like Nina, I've been working in and with libraries for around 10 years. And like Nina, I sometimes can't believe we're still having the same conversations (and not in an iterative-improvement, baby-steps kind of way). Read More »
Last time, I said I'd talk about memory, but I just went back and checked the post to be sure. Our memories are dark, murky backwaters where events shift, timelines change, and we're never really on stable ground. The more I read about how untrustworthy our memories are, the more I feel like I'm sliding into a more tedious, daily-life version of the movie Memento (did I do the dishes? Did I send that email? Not exactly murder and mayhem, thankfully.) Read More »
Every teacher I know dreads being asked "When are we going to use this in real life?" The question is frustrating because the answer is often "Well, you might not, but I have no way of knowing, and yes, this will be on the test, and spelling most certainly counts." We may never use algebra proper after high school (unless you count those Facebook memes that assume we've forgotten PEMDAS), but I think an argument can be made that we use algebraic thinking regularly. For librarians, there's an obvious utility of being able to talk about books (and by extension, movies, and television shows), but surely those English class discussions help even those who would never join a book club as adults. The high school class I've been revisiting frequently is one where nobody asked how we'd use it in real life: a logic class I took junior year. Read More »
I've been fortunate enough to attend two publishing conferences recently. Digital Book World and Tools of Change both focus on ebooks and the publishing industry, which, like libraries, is experiencing tupheaval as ebooks grow in popularity. As a side note, that growth may be slowing - The Book Industry Study Group and Bowker found that ebook sales for the end of 2011 (but pre-holidays) were growing, but not in the exponential pattern we've come to expect. Both Kelly Gallagher of RR Bowker and Len Vlahos of BISG were quick to point out that we don't know what this change in growth pattern means - it could be nothing, a temporary blip, or it could signal a shift in the ebook market.
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Anyone who has watched even a few minutes of one of the disturbing number of hoarding shows on television and immediately felt the urge to clean house will be familiar with the panicky feeling one's own belongings can engender. Librarians on twitter are devotees of Unclutterer and Zen Habits and nothing brings librarians together like talking about weeding. Except, perhaps for collection development. Ownership is a fraught proposition.
Librarians are familiar with the "I loved this book so much I went out and bought it" phenomenon, where readers enjoy a borrowed book enough to make the leap to ownership. Anecdotally, book sellers are now witnessing a similar phenomenon: readers who purchase the print book after enjoying it on their e-readers. The purchase of a physical object makes an intuitive sense to us that license agreements do not. Read More »
I've got robots on the brain lately. Slate.com ran an interesting series about robots replacing even highly educated knowledge workers. No sooner did I finish the last piece (about robots replacing scientists) than I picked up the September 15 issue of Library Journal, featuring a library robot on the cover. Clearly, the robots are coming. Read More »
I am entirely unqualified to comment on San Diego's restaurant scene. But I spent several days there prior to ALA Midwinter 2011. Fortunately, I had locals to show me around, but it was in San Diego that I really started to doubt Yelp. Like a lot of online-types, I often rely on Yelp to find decent restaurants, though I usually keep a few salt crystals on hand when I skim through the reviews. As someone who spends a lot of time online, sifting through other people's thoughts and ideas, I felt well equipped to ferret out a reasonably priced and delicious place to eat in a strange city. Read More »
One of my journalistic pet peeves is "my three friends are doing this" masquerading as a trend story. However, it does make a decent jumping-off point for a blog post. I was chatting recently with a library director, who expressed some concern about promoting library ebooks. His feeling was that the infamous 21 steps to download a library ebook was too onerous and would only send the message that libraries were not capable of keeping up with technology. I had just returned from OverDrive's Digipalooza user-group conference, where librarians gave impassioned talks about their ebook promotions and programs. Digipalooza librarians (an enthusasitic group, to be sure) cited ebook circulation statistics that were climbing ever higher and happy patrons (in their pajamas!) embracing the 21st century library. Read More »
I have long been a fan of NPR's On The Media. It's interesting to me both as a citizen who tries for a varied media diet and as a librarian. The show frequently touches on how we consume, process, and access information. Just before ALA, they did a politics-focused piece about the echo chamber that could just as easily apply to answering reference questions, looking for ideas in librarianship, or making decisions about purchasing technology for your library. Read More »
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About the Authors: Farah Pandith serves as Special Representative to Muslim Communities, and Hannah Rosenthal serves as Special Envoy to Monitor and Combat Anti-Semitism.
Today, we're in Astana, Kazakhstan attending the Organization for Security and Cooperation in Europe (OSCE) conference on tolerance. This two-day conference is an important opportunity for groups across Europe to come together and find ways combat hatred and promote mutual respect. We used this conference to launch the ART Initiative, which stands for Acceptance, Respect, Tolerance. At the ART Initiative, several international NGOs from Bosnia and Herzegovina, Georgia, Russia, Ukraine, the United Kingdom, and the United States presented successful and easily-adapted, innovative approaches to promoting mutual respect and combating intolerance and discrimination by involving interfaith, inter-ethnic youth and young adults.
We also gave speeches on combating discrimination and promoting mutual respect but with a slight twist. Hannah spoke about discrimination against Muslims while Farah spoke about anti-Semitism. The United States opposes intolerance and discrimination in all forms, so today we presented a Jewish envoy defending the rights of Muslims and a Muslim envoy standing up for Jews. This sent a powerful message on the importance of promoting mutual respect that says more than words alone can convey.


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Specific strategies for how to quit smoking, tailored to a woman�s needs.
If you want to know how to quit smoking�for good�you may need more than determination and nicotine replacement therapies. For women, kicking the habit may take specific gender-based strategies, according to the researchers behind a 2012 Yale University study that revealed differences in the way women and men respond to nicotine.
Researchers discovered that the brains of men who smoke have a much higher number of nicotine receptors compared to brains of male nonsmokers, but there was no such difference between female smokers and non-smokers, says lead author Dr. Kelly Cosgrove, assistant professor of psychiatry at Yale University School of Medicine. The greater number of nicotine receptors in male smokers suggests that men tend to smoke for the nicotine. �But women may smoke to relieve stress and improve their mood,� Cosgrove says.
Women with high levels of the female hormone progesterone, which surges during pregnancy and just before menstruation, also reported more nicotine cravings and worse withdrawal symptoms, Cosgrove says. �That suggests hormones may play a role in helping or hurting women� when they�re figuring out how to quit.
Understanding such differences may unlock more effective smoking cessation solutions for women. Below are female-friendly tips for kissing cigarettes goodbye.
Set a quit date for just after your period.��Withdrawal symptoms are similar to premenstrual symptoms so that right before a women�s period, her nicotine cravings are much worse,� says Dr. Robert Klesges, professor of Preventive Medicine at the University of Tennessee Health Sciences Center in Memphis.
Do some navel gazing. Since women may smoke for reasons other than the nicotine high, explore why you smoke and how you feel when you quit, says Cosgrove: �For instance, if you feel fat, unhappy or depressed, those things need to be addressed, perhaps through individual therapy.�
Find relaxation substitutes.�If smoking has always helped you relax, find other healthy substitutes, says Cosgrove, like meditation or deep breathing. Try this breathing exercise: While sitting or lying down, slowly breathe through your nose, letting your stomach rise. Slowly exhale through your mouth. Repeat for 10 minutes twice a day.
Take up exercise.��Exercise can decrease stress and improve mood,� says Cosgrove. According to a 2012 Taiwanese study, researchers found that smokers who exercised were 55 percent more likely to quit smoking and 43 percent less likely to relapse than those who were inactive. Active ex-smokers also increased their life expectancy by 5.6 years.
Seek other social outlets. Women like the social connection of smoking, says Cosgrove. But they can find that link elsewhere: �Make friends with people who don�t smoke or with people who have successfully quit,� she says. �If you start going to a gym, you will definitely meet people who don�t smoke.� New hobbies like knitting are another way to meet people and occupy cigarette-free hands.
Pump up nicotine replacement. Women should use both a nicotine patch and nicotine gum when they get cravings, suggests Klesges: �The two together are much more effective than either alone. And the gum gives you something to do besides smoking.�
Try non-nicotine-based medications.�Antidepressants like Xyban and Wellbutrin may be worth a try, says Cosgrove. �They release feel-good chemicals in the brain�dopamine, norepinephrine and serotonin�so that theoretically you won�t need cigarettes as a mood booster.�
Focus on beauty.��Smoking causes wrinkles because of the lip action, and because it ages skin,� says Dr. Len Horvitz, a pulmonary specialist at Lenox Hill Hospital in New York City. Nicotine causes blood vessels to narrow, impairing blow flow and the delivery of oxygen and nutrients to skin. Cigarettes� chemicals also damage collagen and elastin, the skin fibers that help keep faces smooth.
Understand smoking�s gender effect.��Smoking makes it harder to get pregnant and can make women go into early menopause,� says Cosgrove. �It can also make osteoporosis��a bone-weakening condition��worse, and its effect on heart health is greater in women.�
Check out sites for women. Women.smokefree.gov, a site created by a branch of the National Cancer Institute, offers information on how to quit smoking and how smoking affects pregnancy, relationships and weight gain. Great Start (www.legacyforhealth.org) is a program of the American Legacy Foundation, providing a quit line that offers free counseling and educational information to pregnant smokers.


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BEIJING (AP) The executive supervising the Olympic boxing competition sees no serious problems with the judging in Beijing despite widespread complaints from athletes and coaches, particularly those who have fought Chinese boxers.
Terry Smith, the technical delegate from the International Boxing Association (AIBA), emphasized the subjective nature of boxing's electronic scoring system Friday when addressing the frustration and disappointment of Olympic fighters who have ripped the Beijing judging.
"I'm always aware of criticism," Smith said, though he later added that he wasn't aware of the international outcry over the Beijing results. "I don't think we've ever run a major tournament in our lives without picking up criticism. It goes with the (AIBA) patch. ... I'm very satisfied that in my opinion, we've found the right winner on each occasion this week."
Britain's Joe Murray and Ukraine's Oleksandr Klyuchko complained loudly after losing opening-round bouts to boxers from China, which had seven fighters still alive in the tournament despite a relatively young program with little international success.
Several other fighters have expressed frustration after various losses, from U.S. flyweight favorite Rau'shee Warren to unsung French welterweight Jaoid Chiguer, who controlled his bout against Uzbekistan's Dilshod Mahmudov on Thursday night, but lost 8-3.
Chinese lightweight Hu Qing, whose victory over Klyuchko prompted Ukraine to lodge an unsuccessful protest with AIBA, recorded another debatable result Friday in beating Kazakhstan's Merey Akshalov 11-7. Akshalov was credited with just one point over the final two rounds as Hu rallied for the win.
Smith dismissed the widely held notion that China is getting favorable treatment at Workers' Gymnasium. He also defended the overall low scoring in the tournament, saying AIBA's assemblage of the world's best 34 referees and judges is naturally less generous about what constitutes a scoring blow.
"I think the basis of judging is whether overall they've found the correct winner," Smith said. "Basically, overall, I think we find the right winner."
Scoring in Olympic boxing has been criticized for the length of the sport's existence, both before and after it switched to a computerized judging system in 1992 in an attempt to objectify scoring. Boxing was forced into the switch after Roy Jones Jr.'s ridiculous championship loss to a South Korean boxer at the Seoul Games in 1988.
Instead, Smith acknowledges a different kind of subjectivity has taken over in which judges are asked to determine results through a total number of scoring punches. The guidelines for judging those punches are fairly vague, and Smith acknowledged individual officials have their own opinions about what counts.
"They've shown preferences, not to a particular person, but to a particular style of fighting," Smith said.
U.S. coach Dan Campbell might have been speaking for many nations when he described his team's attitude toward judging at big international events after Warren's one-point loss in his opening-round bout.
"One of the things we've tried to impress on our kids is that the judges can really change the outcome of a fight," Campbell said. "Every time Rau'shee would score, somehow (his opponent) got points also. ... Some things you just don't ever want to say, so I won't, but it was just weird the way the scoring was."
AIBA selected its 34 Olympic judges, who also rotate as referees, through a lengthy evaluation progress beginning at last year's world championships in Chicago. As the IOC demands, they represent every part of the world, with no extra membership allotted to the most prolific boxing areas.
Smith said AIBA is aware of the public perception that some officials may not have the reflexes necessary to consistently score bouts with the red-and-blue buttons that must be pushed almost simultaneously to mark a successful punch. AIBA is attempting to recruit new officials in their 20s to train for upcoming international tournaments.
"We've got millions of people watching this sport, (and) we've got thousands in the arena," Smith said. "I would love to make everyone happy. That's an impossibility."


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hi....Friday, June 29, 2012
Also, I wanted to let you know, that if you wanted any of my patterns (toast, toasty, those mitts, libby, swayed, chunky knit beanie), that you should print them off today. I used MobileMe to link those and icloud will be taking over MobileMe, which means that until I figure out how to relink, they will disappear tomorrow! Sorry for the short notice. You can always email me and I can send the PDF.
My mother, sister and I attended TNNA again this year. I'll be back to tell you some cool things I saw.
Have a beautiful weekend!
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I'm not sure if this is helpful information, but you can host your pdf's on google documents which is part of blogger. You can make them semi public, private, or only available to those with a link. If you chose the link type - they provide you with a link to embed in your blog post or sidebar. I can't wait to hear about TNNA.ReplyDelete
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I recently went through a divorce (well 18 months ago) and it is really, really hard! If I could give you any advice, it would be similar to your friends... except I would say "Maintain your dignity at all times and you will come out on top." Divorce can bring out the ugly in people, the sides you've never seen, but it is possible to come out of it with your head held high and your dignity in tact.
Wishing you all the best. I'm so glad I've found you and I'm eager to get to know you better... I promise you that you will be stronger than you ever thought possible...
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USA Taekwondo announces Spanish Open team
USA Taekwondo is pleased to announce its 2013 Spanish Open team roster. The team will compete in Alicante, Spain, from May 3-5, followed by an International Exchange Camp in Madrid. The team of athletes and coaches will be under the leadership of USA Taekwondo Head Coach Patrice Remarck. The USA Taekwondo team delegation consists of the following persons:
Fin weights Giuliana Gil and Logan Gerick
Fly weights Charlotte Craig and James Howe II
Bantam weights Aziza Chambers and Olie Burton III
Feather weights Nicole Palma and Terrence Jennings
Light weights Diana Lopez and Mark Lopez
Welter weights Paige McPherson and Steven Lopez
Middle weights Lauren Hamon and Jason Neville
Heavy weights La Shondra Rawls and Abel Valdivia
Support staff:
Head Coach Patrice Remarck
Coach Jean Lopez
Coach Juan Moreno
Coach Sherman Nelson, Jr.
Coach Jason Poos
Interim CEO Bruce Harris
Manager Meredith Miller
Manager John Mcafee
ATC Kristin Saunders
"USA Taekwondo is excited to send this talented group to represent our country at the 2013 Spanish Open," Harris said. "This will be another great stride for this program as we continue this year's international campaign, which will culminate at World Championships this summer."
Following the Spanish Open, the USA Taekwondo team will participate in an International Exchange Camp with the Spanish team. The International Exchange Camp will take place in Madrid immediately following the Spanish Open.


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I have my quest that I'm trying to repair, at the moment it is leaking a large amount of air through the solenoid or right before it gets in it. I took apart the frame so I could pin point where the leak was coming from and it was coming through the solenoid. I also tried shooting the gun with the leak and it would shoot a little amount of air like the solenoid was blown.
I bought a noid on here from a guy who said has never used it and put it in and had the same problem. I replaced the bolt o-rings and had the same problem. I have an older board so I don't have a manual to reset it back to stock settings, is there anythings else I should try?
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Posted 21 June 2011 - 05:13 PM
I have a similar issue with mine, I was told by critical that it was the valve core, only a $12 part.
Posted 21 June 2011 - 06:05 PM
let me know if that works
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Walter,Thank you for posting the videos and how you open up a dough ball to form a skin.Out of curiosity, do you ever make the same dough at home using a stand mixer and, if so, how would a dough ball made at home perform compared with the dough balls you make at work?Peter
Walter, thanks for the video and trick photography, HA HA I am really interested in getting my dough to behave like those in your video.I am sure that you have given the recipe and methods here, before, but could you direct us to the thread where it is listed. Thanks again for all you do for your kids, your community and us, at the forum. Mark
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Being thankful isn't always easy. When I see hordes charging toward Black Friday deals, I wonder what's going on, culturally. What are we becoming? Are we grateful for our prosperity? What must other countries think of our materialism?
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Mackenzie Williams, 63 kg, of Becerra Judo and Jujitsu in El Lago, TX, took gold for Team USA in Sydney.
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Mattal1958 wrote:oobujooobu, is that the ACTUAL TRANSLATION of Lennon's Scottish gibberish on the '67 Xmas record? Wow. IF so, that is so cool to finally read what he's saying there!
Well, it's a combination of getting them off Google, then changing the bits that were obviously wrong! I wouldn't say it's 100% right.