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On a night when Hamline honored its three-time champion Men's Cross Country team, the men basketballers showed some championship grit of their own. The Pipers erased a 11-point first half deficit with some old-fashioned defense and kept it up in the second half en route to a 68-62 victory over Carleton Wednesday night at Hutton Arena. In the process, HU (9-8 in the MIAC, 11-11 overall) remain in sixth place -- the last playoff spot -- but moved within a half-game of fifth place St. John's, which lost at Bethel.
Mike Campbell had 19 points and nine rebounds nd Noah Aguirre added 14 points and seven boards but a tough defense led to 21 Knight turnovers -- many at key moments in the game.
Hamline trailed 22-11 with 8:42 left in the first half when the turnaround began. Tyler Pannell hit his first of four three-pointers on the night. Campbell came up with a pair of steals that were converted into five points. There were four other CC turnovers. In a span of five minutes, the lead was gone. HU went on to hold a 35-34 edge at halftime.
The Pipers quickly turned offensive in the second half, upping the lead to six points. The Knights stayed close the rest of the way but never did tie the game again. Carleton ended up 1-12 from three-point range, a tribute to the Pipers' good defense.
Hamline plays its final regular season home Saturday against fast-charging Bethel. The Royals (8-8) are a half game behind Hamline in the standings.
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SZYMANSKI, Margaret C., 87, of Alpena died Monday, Nov. 18, 2013, at home.
She is survived by her five children, Mary (Arlyn) Miller of Alpena, Joan (Douglas) Daniel of St. Petersburg, Fla., Michael (Susan) of Alpena, James (Sherri) of Edmond, Okla., and Sue (Paul) Zolnierek of Alpena; 10 grandchildren, Angela, John, Jeff, Michelle, Kevin, Nicholas, Mindi, Melody, Alicia and Rachel; six great-grandchildren; and several nieces and nephews.
Friends and family will gather at the Karpus-Hunter Funeral Home on Wednesday, Nov. 20, 2013, from 2-8 p.m. with a rosary society service beginning at 3 p.m. and parish prayer service beginning at 7 p.m. Visitation will continue on Thursday, Nov. 21, 2013, at St. Mary Catholic Church from 10 a.m. until the 11 a.m. mass of Christian burial begins with Rev. Richard Schaeffer officiating.
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After Earth, Mars is the most intensively studied planet in the Solar System. Scientists have been able to use data from telescopes and space probes to map the martian surface and deduce the chemistry of rocks and the atmosphere. In addition, 33 meteorites are now accepted to have come from Mars. Studying their mineralogy and geochemistry tells us about the geology of the Red Planet, and the Natural History Museum has fragments of 12 of these meteorites. One of the particular fascinations about Mars is that all the information points towards the occasional presence of liquid water during the planet's history.
This website is aimed at students or others wishing to learn about some aspects of current Mars and martian meteorite research including that done at the Natural History Museum and Open University.
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One use for the LED rope lights is for commercial
One use for the LED rope lights is for commercial applications. They provide good look for years without the need to be replaced or maintained and their physical life is in almost every case longer than the need for the commercial application and this makes them very attractive to the investors who need quality and reliability without the need of maintains and new expenses. They are usually one time payment for a specific need and today in many cases this is more valuable than the price the costumer needs to pay.

Rope lights are special type of illuminative lights
Rope lights are special type of illuminative lights which consist of a series of micro-bulbs of half watt to 2 watts, spaced about one inch apart inside a clear or colored flexible plastic cord. These micro bulbs inside the tube are maintenance-free and non-replaceable. The life span of these lights is about 25,000 hours. They come in long tubes that can be easily installed anywhere you want. They can be bent, cut or twisted.

Rope lights are a special type of lighting system used
Rope lights are a special type of lighting system used for decorative lighting. They are used in commercial, residential and industrial environments. They have both indoor and outdoor applications. These lights have a special role in accentuating the important features within your building during social occasions such as parties, wedding receptions and formal or corporate events

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The Festy Experience at Devils Backbone Concert Grounds. Celebrating five years, the Festy features amazing bands, camping, superior local food and world class beers in the stunning Blue Ridge Mountains of Nelson County Virginia. Featuring the Infamous Stringdusters, Keller Williams with More Than a Little, Anders Osborne, Steep Canyon Rangers, The New Mastersounds, Marc Broussard, Noam Pikelny and Stuart Duncan, Marchfourth Marching Band, The Mother Hips, Love Canon, Paper Bird, The Boston Boys, Sunliner, Trad+ and Friends, Falco Brothers, David Wax Museum, Erin and The Wildfire, Chamomile and Whiskey, New Country Rehab, Bryan Elijah Smith and The Wild Hearts, and Shook Twins. Special guests Nicki Bluhm, Sarah Siskind, Nathan Moore and the Fifth Annual Garrett Grass Gospel Hour. Tickets on sale now. For ticket information and details on camping go to www.thefesty.com/tickets Email: email@example.com


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I'm not precisely sure where the best place to put this is, but since it's a layout issue, I'm putting it here.
What I'm doing is I have a textarea where the user leaves a comment and then along side of that I have a "live preview div" where the user can see their formatting immediately (a neat toy I'm just messing around with). So, as they type they can see the allowed tags being parsed and whatnot.
Thing is, this preview area is relatively small (8x30 ems of Helvetica 11pt), and while the text will automatically wrap once it reaches the right edge of the div, if I don't do anything as the post gets long the preview text will spill off the bottom of the preview area and start messing the layout up.
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The Universal® UB100 Bench helps you tone and build muscle with tried and true techniques. Execute sit-ups, twists and many more core-strengthening exercises. This bench features two decline positions and 8" padded foam rollers that hold your feet in place.
- Perfect for traditional core-strengthening exercises including sit-ups and twists
- Features two decline positions
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- Maximum user weight capacity: 200 lbs
- Model number: ST036
- Dimensions: 3'9" Length x 1'5" Width x 2'1" Height
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Rated 2.8 out of 5�by 6 reviewers.
Rated 5 out of 5�by Rob This product is very sturdy It arrived fully assembled which was nice, no damage on it when I opened with it, although it is a bit short so don't fall back quickly or you'll bonk your head other than that I highly recommend it March 24, 2016
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Campus Dining Facilities
The Department of Housing and Residential Education collaborates with University Food services, which operates the University's food service facilities. The staff of the University Food Services works in each dining location to offer a variety of balanced and high quality meals to students. The goal of our Delaware State University food service program is to provide a variety of high quality and nutritious foods in a pleasant dining atmosphere. Menus include a wide selection of popular foods. There are several dining locations throughout the campus. Serving hours vary by location, with some options available from early morning until 10 p.m. each day. Being part of a residence hall community allows students to meet and interact with others while enjoying their meals in any of our dining locations. For more detailed information about our food service, please refer to the Dining Services Guide that is provided in your room, or visit Campus Dish at Delaware State [1]
How Meal Plans Work
DSU offers several different meal plans to accommodate each student's needs. Meal plans are based within 7 days with 3 meals offered Monday thru Friday, and 2 meals on Saturday and Sunday - brunch (combination of both breakfast and lunch) and dinner. Flex dollars are added to a student's DSU ID card with each meal plan.
Students living in traditional residence halls are required to sign up for a 19-meal plan, 15-meal plan, or 10-meal plan; students living in University Village Apartments must choose at least a 10-meal plan; and students living in University Courtyard Apartments are not required to sign up for a meal plan.
How Flex Dollars Work
At the beginning of each semester, every student with a meal plan receives 100 flex dollars. These flex dollars are "loaded" onto a students DSU ID card, and can be used at all dining locations during all regular business hours. When items are purchased at the above locations, the student presents their DSU ID card and the cashier deducts the cost from their flex dollar account. You may purchase additional flex dollars to be added to a student's account by calling the Cashier's Office at 302.857.6220.


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Debates of June 12th, 2012
House of Commons Hansard #139 of the 41st Parliament, 1st Session. (The original version is on Parliament's site.) The word of the day was fisheries.
- Question Period
- Government Response to Petitions
- Interparliamentary Delegations
- Income Tax Act
- Holidays Act
- Income Tax Act
- Petitions
- Questions on the Order Paper
- Jobs, Growth and Long-term Prosperity Act
- Pooled Registered Pension Plans
- Jobs, Growth and Long-term Prosperity Act
- Democracy
- Classy Concoctions
- Republic of the Philippines Independence Day
- Taxation
- Republic of the Philippines Independence Day
- New Denmark Founder's Day
- La Cloche--Manitoulin Lighthouse Association
- Women and Leadership
- Year of the Fransaskois
- Angels in Pink
- Republic of the Philippines Independence Day
- Portneuf Relay for Life
- Europe
- Captain John Russell
- Europe
- Official Languages
- Europe
- The Environment
- Health
- The Budget
- Fisheries and Oceans
- Public Safety
- National Defence
- Ethics
- Aboriginal Affairs
- Pensions
- The Economy
- Ethics
- National Defence
- Shipbuilding Industry
- Culture
- Riel House National Historic Site
- Budget Implementation Legislation
- Riel House National Historic Site of Canada
- Canada Post
- Health
- Artifacts
- Bill C-38
- Pooled Registered Pension Plans Act
- Privilege
- Jobs, Growth and Long-Term Prosperity Act
- An Act to amend the Corrections and Conditional Release Act
- Jobs, Growth and Long-term Prosperity Act
- Search and Rescue
Riel House National Historic Site of Canada
Oral Questions
3 p.m.
The Speaker Andrew Scheer
The hon. member for Joliette.
Canada Post
Oral Questions
3 p.m.
Francine Raynault Joliette, QC
Mr. Speaker, behind closed doors, the Conservatives are continuing their mission to shut down as many regional post offices as possible. In the meantime, the people in the rural areas of my riding and across Quebec have fewer and fewer services. This situation is harming not just the people, but also the local businesses that deal with Canada Post.
Do the Conservatives realize that the cuts to Canada Post in the regions are hurting the regional economy?
Canada Post
Oral Questions
June 12th, 2012 / 3 p.m.
Charleswood—St. James—Assiniboia
Steven Fletcher Minister of State (Transport)
Mr. Speaker, the government is committed to ensuring that rural post offices stay open, and that is what we are doing. If the NDP members were really serious about Canada Post and ensuring its long-term viability, last year they would not have filibustered to prevent us from getting Canada Post delivering the mail the way it ought to be delivered. The NDP members just care about their big union bosses, rather than the average Canadian.
Oral Questions
3 p.m.
Leona Aglukkaq Minister of Health and Minister of the Canadian Northern Economic Development Agency
Mr. Speaker, palliative care is all about making individuals comfortable and providing quality care in their final days. That is why I announced today $3 million that will go toward taking care of people near the end of their lives out of a hospital setting.
It is my hope that, through work with the provinces and the territories and palliative care experts, we can respond to the specific needs of people with life-threatening diseases and their families.
Oral Questions
3:05 p.m.
Denis Blanchette Louis-Hébert, QC
Mr. Speaker, Quebec City has built its reputation on the wealth of its heritage, which draws thousands of tourists to the city every year. Instead of focusing on this heritage, the Conservatives are relocating five million artifacts to the federal capital. What is more, they are doing the same to Calgary, Winnipeg, Cornwall and Halifax.
Crating, transporting, uncrating, installing and classifying the artifacts in a new building will cost millions of dollars, and it is not clear that this will save any money in the long run.
Why spend so much money to lock up these artifacts? Why not give cities like Quebec City the chance to use the artifacts as tourist attractions and enjoy the resulting economic spinoffs?
Oral Questions
3:05 p.m.
Peter Kent Minister of the Environment
Mr. Speaker, again my colleague has some of the facts wrong.
Artifacts that are currently stored in Quebec City, which have no appropriate place of presentation, can be more efficiently consolidated along with other stored artifacts across the country in Gatineau, Québec.
I spoke with the minister of heritage of the government of Quebec only several days ago, and we are working to find some appropriate locations, some appropriate museum or other venues to display these historic artifacts, which this government recognizes are important to the province of Quebec.
Bill C-38
Oral Questions
3:05 p.m.
Louis Plamondon Bas-Richelieu—Nicolet—Bécancour, QC
Mr. Speaker, yesterday, the Prime Minister urged countries in trouble to combine fiscal discipline with economic growth measures.
Yet this same Prime Minister is forcing the passage of Bill C-38, a bill that will harm Quebec's economy.
We have only to think about the cuts to the Maurice Lamontagne Institute, the jewel of marine research, the cuts to the budget for regional economic development, the reform of employment insurance that will make the unemployed poorer and deprive businesses of the employees that they themselves have trained.
Why is the Prime Minister not practising what he preaches? What is the reason for these measures that are weakening Quebec's economy?
Bill C-38
Oral Questions
3:05 p.m.
Christian Paradis Minister of Industry and Minister of State (Agriculture)
Mr. Speaker, on the contrary, since our economic action plan was implemented, 750,000 net new jobs have been created across the country. Quebec has obviously benefited from that. We are now continuing to move forward with the 2012 economic action plan. Our focus is on job creation and economic growth. Our measures will have tangible benefits for the economy of Quebec and Canada. I encourage the hon. member to join us in supporting Bill C-38.
The House resumed consideration of the motion that Bill C-25, An Act relating to pooled registered pension plans and making related amendments to other Acts, be read the third time and passed, and of the motion that this question be now put.
Pooled Registered Pension Plans Act
Government Orders
3:10 p.m.
The Speaker Andrew Scheer
Pursuant to an order made earlier today, the House will now proceed to the taking of the deferred recorded division on the previous question at the third reading stage of Bill C-25.
Call in the members.
Before the Clerk announced the results of the vote:
Pooled Registered Pension Plans Act
Government Orders
3:15 p.m.
The Speaker Andrew Scheer
The hon. Chief Government Whip is rising on a point of order.
Pooled Registered Pension Plans Act
Government Orders
3:15 p.m.
Gordon O'Connor Carleton—Mississippi Mills, ON
Mr. Speaker, I would like you to confirm that the member for Beauce was included in the vote. He was, okay.


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Home to School Transport Policy- help with transport and travel to school
Non entitled Home to School Transport consultation
Help with transport to school
Your child will qualify for free transport or a free travel pass on public transport from near your home to and from primary school, or free transport or travel expenses on public transport from near your home to and from secondary school, if:
- they attend the nearest catchment school or one that is nearer to your home, and
- the distance (measured by the shortest available walking route) is: more than two miles for children up to and including Year 3 or more than three miles for children from Year 4 to Year 11,
- Where parents name the designated catchment school as one of their 3 preferences and a place is not available, assistance may be offered to the next closest school, using the distances in the previous paragraph.
- Children entitled to free school meals or whose parents (with whom they live) are in receipt of the maximum level of working tax credit have enhanced entitlement. See Section 2.5 of the Home to School Transport (HTST) Policy 54 kB for full details."
Privilege seats
If your child does not qualify for travelling expenses, you may apply for him to be a 'privilege' passenger on school transport. This will depend on whether there are spare seats and only applies if the vehicle is contracted by Hampshire County Council to transport children. The privilege place can be withdrawn at short notice if it is needed for a child who qualifies for free transport.
There is a flat-rate charge for privilege seats which is the same for all children whatever their age or the distance travelled. If you receive income support, or income-based job seeker's allowance, you do not have to pay.
How parents can apply for assistance with transport
Mainstream Pupils (this means pupils without a statement of Special Educational Needs or Education, Health and Care plan (EHCP))
Application forms are available from school or from the County Council's Passenger Transport Group.
The decision on whether a pupil is entitled to transport is made by the County Council.
Pupils with a statement of Special Educational Needs (SEN) or Education, Health and Care Plan (EHCP)
Parents need to contact the relevant Special Educational Needs (SEN) team for the area the school is in. The SEN service assesses the entitlement for pupils with a statement of SEN or Education, Health and Care plan (EHCP). (See also: Further information about home to school transport at Special Schools.)
In both cases the PTG makes the transport arrangements for entitled children. There are two sections, one for mainstream schools and one for special schools and units.
School transport contacts
The Passenger Transport Group, Environment Department, Winchester SO23 8UD
Mainstream - entitlements/arrangements (further details, forms, contacts)
Tel: 01962 846924, 01962 845332
SEN -entitlements/arrangements (further details, contacts)
Tel: 01962 846993 (North Team), 01962 845787 (South team) , 01962 845970 (West Team) (further details of teams in the north, south and west of the county)
School reorganisation or change of catchment area
The normal entitlement policy will apply to the children of families affected by the closure or reorganisation of schools, or redesignation of catchment areas by the County Council. This means that:
- new pupils will have their entitlement decided with reference to the new school location/catchment area
- existing pupils will have their entitlement re-assessed only if they have to move to a new school location. If they remain at the same school location, the existing entitlement decision will remain in force until they leave the school.


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Eric Wooldridge, Program Coordinator
(606) 451-6878
Classes are offered at the Somerset and Laurel Campuses.
A computer aided drafter and designer is a technical specialist with broad-based skills for architectural, civil, mechanical, and manufacturing fields. In the program at Somerset Community College, students are taught manual drafting techniques and 2D and 3D CAD. Specific skills taught include, but are not limited to, lettering, geometric construction, orthographic projections, dimensioning and tolerancing, solid modeling, animation, rendering, graphics, model analysis, rapid prototyping, computer numeric controlled (CNC) manufacturing, and related technical processes.
These skills are required to transform specifications and instructions of architects, designers, and engineers into complete and precise drawings.
The drafter is a skilled technician with a thorough understanding of the graphic language and is an indispensable contributor to the engineering design team. Drafters are also capable of independently designing projects such as residential homes and moderate commercial facilities, as well as prototype design and mechanical/machine systems.
Successful graduates of SCC's Computer Aided Drafting & Design program can find employment in several areas, including:
Students can also take courses within this program as technical electives for other programs, such as Electronics, Industrial Maintenance, and Pre-Engineering. Students also have the option to supplement some of the elective courses with animation courses for an experience in advanced animation. Likewise, many of our courses are open to students who simply wish to learn basic design techniques and have experience in CAD systems.
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Having the right staple foods in your pantry can sound like a pain to keep up with, but with a few tips, it can be easy as pie (which is not a pantry staple). At Shane weight loss camps we teach that a healthy, well-stocked pantry is important when trying to maintain a well balanced diet. Even on the days that are busy, knowing you have enough items around to put together snacks and a balanced meal is crucial to sticking with your commitment to a healthy lifestyle. It will also help you save money, since you can grab foods from home instead of buying from convenience stores.
Some helpful tips to remember are:
- Keep the freezer full: Frozen proteins such as chicken, turkey, or hamburgers are great to keep around when you don't have the time to buy meat fresh from the supermarket. Thaw in the microwave for a few minutes and it's ready to cook up. Frozen veggies are another staple. These are perfect for making into a quick stir-fry or side, and are also easy to pick up on sale.
- Canned foods are a must have. They are cheap, easy to pick up at any time, and have an extremely long shelf life. Just make sure to rinse your canned items under water to wash away the high-sodium syrup they are preserved in. When buying canned foods such as fruit or tuna fish, buy ones that are water based, and when buying canned vegetables, stick to no or low sodium items.
- When buying grains, make sure to go for the 'whole grain' grain products. Don't be fooled by the ingredient 'wheat'- white flour is wheat too! Pasta's, rice's, quinoa all have a good shelf life and don't take long to cook. Be sure to keep your wraps, pita's, and breads in the fridge if they seem to spoil quickly.
- Fruits and vegetables are essential items for the household. Not only are they high in vitamins, minerals, fiber, and antioxidants, they are low in calories, and also make great grab-and-go snacks. Apples can last up to 3 weeks when refrigerated and raw carrots are a great way to work another serving of vegetables into your day.
- Besides your meat based lean protein sources, there are also other plant-based proteins that are great to have on hand in your pantry. Sunflower seeds, almonds, or other nuts are great to grab as a quick snack or throw into a salad, and eggs or tofu are great foods to work into your meals.
- Dairy sources are essential to have on hand, as you want to get 3 servings a day. Dairy options are usually refrigerated so there's not too much worry in foods spoiling. If you aren't a big milk drinker, stick with the half gallon or smaller of skim or 1% milk. Low fat, Greek yogurt, and cottage cheese are great additions to breakfast and easy to take as a snack, and low fat shredded cheeses are perfect to add a light sprinkle to dress up meals.
The key to keeping a healthy pantry is just making sure that you have the healthy essentials at all times. This way not matter what, you always have what you need for a healthy meal.
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Backgrounder #2587 on Energy and Environment
July 26, 2011
July 26, 2011 | Backgrounder on Energy and Environment
Abstract: Are Americans energy dependent? Yes—dependent on government energy subsidies. In 2007, American taxpayers subsidized government-preferred energy sources to the tune of nearly $17 billion. Increasingly, it is politicians in Washington who decide how Americans produce and consume energy. But subsidies for special interests stifle competition, raise energy prices, and decrease economic opportunities. It is time for Washington to eliminate all government subsidies and special policy treatments that benefit certain industries at the expense of others. Energy companies should rely on innovation and efficiency, not American taxpayers, to thrive in a system of free enterprise.
Americans are becoming too energy dependent. But it is not dependence on foreign sources of energy that is the problem; it is growing dependence on the federal government. According to the Energy Information Administration, the United States spent $8.2 billion on energy subsidies in 1999. That spending more than doubled to $16.6 billion in 2007, and with the stimulus funding and other provisions, it promises to have a much higher price tag in the years ahead. With direct expenditures, targeted tax breaks, mandates, loan guarantees, and other preferential treatment, Washington is deciding how Americans produce and consume energy. Increasing America's access to energy resources creates competition, lowers prices, drives innovation, and creates economic opportunity. Subsidies do the opposite. Congress should make it a priority to ensure that no new subsidies are put in place and remove the ones already in place.
In public policy, subsidies come in many shapes and sizes and are thus often difficult to define comprehensively. The definition "direct transfer of money to a group or industry" is too narrow, so for the purpose of this paper, a better definition is "Using the political process to support the production or consumption of one good over another."
Providing subsidies is bad economic policy for a number of reasons. Government support that targets one group or industry artificially props up that market. Rather than increase competition, a special endorsement from the government gives one technology an unfair price advantage over other ones. Further, subsidies reduce the incentive for that technology to become cost-competitive and encourage dependence on the preferential treatment that government gives them. Those energy sources that need help from the government are those that cannot compete economically without them. If a project makes economic sense, however, the investments will occur without the subsidy. In that case, the subsidies simply offset the private-sector investments that would have been made either way.
Another destructive feature of subsidies is that they allow Washington to direct the flow of private-sector investments. Targeted direct expenditures, tax breaks, loan guarantees, and other government subsidies allocate resources away from more competitive projects. If the government gives a tax credit to banana producers only, it shifts more labor and capital towards banana production and away from other economic activities, like strawberry or grape production. The market, not politicians in Washington, is a good determinant of how to allocate resources and meet consumer demand.
Furthermore, when the government dictates how private-sector resources are spent, those industries that benefit greatly from such policy decisions will spend more money lobbying for government handouts. The banana producers will push for tax-credit extensions. The apple producers will complain that they are at a disadvantage and lobby for their own handouts. This process results in the continuous picking of winners and losers. It is not the role of the government to determine what type of energy consumers use and using the political process to pick winners and losers distorts the marketplace and increases the incentive to energy companies to lobby for handouts. Conversely, reducing government control of the energy economy reduces the incentive to use the political process for gain.
Congress should make it a priority to prevent any new subsidization of energy sources and technologies and peel back the ones in place. Forcing sunsets of preferential tax credits and offsetting the tax increases with lower rates across the board would simplify and improve the tax code.
There has been a growth in direct energy expenditures in the United States, largely because of the more than $40 billion awarded to the Department of Energy (DOE) from the American Recovery and Reinvestment Act (ARRA), known as the stimulus bill. Of that amount, $16.8 billion went to the Office of Energy Efficiency and Renewable Energy (EERE). But even through its yearly budget process, the Department of Energy spends billions of dollars to fund applied-research programs. Another program the Energy Information Administration (EIA) lists as a direct expenditure is the Low Income Home Energy Assistance Program (LIHEAP). To prevent more direct government market distortions in the energy sector and prevent wasting taxpayer dollars, Congress should:
Special tax treatment can serve the same purpose as a subsidy by uniquely favoring one industry. Targeted tax credits divert resources to the special interests that Congress wants to succeed and moves the decision-making process away from the marketplace.[4] This has been an increasingly attractive way for the government to award preferential treatment to certain energy industries. The number of energy tax programs expanded from 11 in 1999 to 38 in President George W. Bush's 2007 budget.[5] According to the EIA, tax expenditures comprise almost two-thirds of electricity subsidies.[6] Ideally, Congress should immediately remove all distortionary energy tax policy—meaning any tax policy that picks certain industries as winners and losers in the market—and offset those repeals with a broad lower tax cut. In order to wean industries off preferential treatment, Congress should create a three-year window for all energy tax expenditures in effect. This should not include broadly available tax deductions that apply across multiple sectors.[7] Three priorities for Congress should be:
Another way in which certain industries benefit over others relates to how companies can expense capital costs. For instance, oil and gas companies receive more generous treatment than do other industries through expensing of intangible drilling costs. A simple solution is to allow all companies, including oil and gas companies, to be able to expense their full capital costs immediately.
Immediate expensing allows companies to deduct the cost of capital purchases at the time they occur rather than deducting that cost over many years based on cumbersome depreciation schedules. Expensing is the proper treatment of capital expenditures. Depreciation raises the cost of capital and discourages companies from hiring new workers and increasing wages for existing employees. Immediate expensing for all new plant and equipment costs—for any industry or type of equipment—would allow newer equipment to come online faster, which would improve energy efficiency and overall economic efficiency.
Immediate expensing is good policy and Congress should simplify the tax code and make immediate expensing permanently available for all business investments.
The government distorts the energy market in several other ways, too—through loan guarantees, insurance programs, mandates, tariffs on imported energy, and energy sales at below-market costs. To eliminate these distortions, Congress should:
Energy industries should be freed from all government subsidies and special policy treatment that benefit certain industries at the expense of others. This would allow companies to rely on innovation and efficiency, not American taxpayers, to remain competitive and thrive in a system of free enterprise. Removing market distortions would allow resources to be allocated to their most efficient use. The industries and companies that provide the most benefit to the consumer will be the ones that are successful.—Nicolas Loris is a policy analyst in the Thomas A. Roe Institute for Economic Policy Studies at The Heritage Foundation.
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[1]Nicolas Loris, "Department of Energy Spending Cuts: A Guide to Trimming President Obama's 2012 Budget Request," Heritage Foundation Backgrounder No. 2545, April 18, 2011, at http://www.heritage.org/Research/Reports/2011/04/Department-of-Energy-Spending-Cuts-A-Guide-to-Trimming-President-Obamas-2012-Budget-Request#_ftn13.
[2]Government Accountability Office, "Low-Income Home Energy Assistance Program: Greater Fraud Prevention Controls Are Needed," June 2010, at http://www.gao.gov/new.items/d10621.pdf (July 10, 2011).
[3]Katherine Bradley and Robert Rector, "Confronting the Unsustainable Growth of Welfare Entitlements: Principles of Reform and the Next Steps," Heritage Foundation Backgrounder No. 2427, June 24, 2010, at http://www.heritage.org/research/reports/2010/06/confronting-the-unsustainable-growth-of-welfare-entitlements-principles-of-reform-and-the-next-steps.
[4]Curtis Dubay, "The 2010 Tax Deal: A Chance for Congress to Lay the Groundwork for Tax Reform," Heritage Foundation Backgrounder No. 2569, June 13, 2011, at http://www.heritage.org/Research/Reports/2011/06/The-2010-Tax-Deal-A-Chance-for-Congress-to-Lay-the-Groundwork-for-Tax-Reform.
[5]Molly Sherlock, "Energy Tax Policy: Historical Perspectives on and Current Status of Energy Tax Expenditures," Congressional Research Service, May 2, 2011.
[6]Energy Information Administration, "Federal Financial Interventions and Subsidies in Energy Markets 2007," April 2008, at http://www.eia.doe.gov/oiaf/servicerpt/subsidy2/pdf/subsidy08.pdf (July 8, 2011).
[7]For instance, some policymakers want to remove the manufacturer's tax deduction for the oil and gas industry under the Internal Revenue Code Section 199, which applies to all domestic manufacturers, including windmill and solar-panel manufacturers. For more information, see Nicolas Loris and Curtis Dubay, "What's an Oil Subsidy?" Heritage Foundation WebMemo No. 3251, May 12, 2011, at http://www.heritage.org/research/reports/2011/05/whats-an-oil-subsidy.
[8]For instance, the Energy Policy Act of 2005 provides a 1.8 cent-per-kilowatt-hour tax credit for advanced nuclear power produced during the first eight years of production. Congress should shorten the timeline of availability to three years of production and make the tax credit worth 1.8 cents through 2011, 1.2 cents through 2012, and 0.6 cents through 2013. In 2014, the tax credit would be no longer available.
[9]Jack Spencer, "Nuclear Power Federal Loan Guarantees: The Next Multi-Billion Dollar Bailout?" testimony before the Domestic Policy Subcommittee, Oversight and Government Reform Committee, U.S. House of Representatives, April 20, 2010, at http://www.heritage.org/research/testimony/nuclear-power-federal-loan-guarantees-the-next-multi-billion-dollar-bailout.
[10]For a comprehensive solution to offshore oil spill liability, see Nicolas Loris, Jack Spencer, and James Carafano, "Oil Spill Liability: A Plan for Reform," Heritage Foundation Backgrounder No. 2446, August 2, 2010, at http://www.heritage.org/research/reports/2010/08/oil-spill-liability-a-plan-for-reform.


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How Much Does Certification Add to the Price of a Used Car?
While CPO cars can offer consumers peace of mind, buyers can often pay a price for that added confidence.
Auto manufacturers tack on anywhere from 2 to 8 percent of the original used-car price for that certification sticker, experts say. Typically, the higher-end the model or brand, the higher the percentage.Although no current data suggest that certified used cars are vastly more reliable than their noncertified brethren, they do come with the suggestion of better roadworthiness.
Manufacturers place restrictions on what cars can be certified and offer multipoint inspection processes that vary from program to program.Don't put too much stock in certification itself. Inspection checklists should not be relied on as precise indicators of the car's condition, experts say. They are more likely to give you an overall picture of the car's health today, but not for tomorrow.
One bonus of certification is that it gives car shoppers the opportunity to buy up in a category, a purchasing experience they might otherwise be unable to attain. For example, it might allow a consumer to move into a certified pre-owned luxury car, rather than a decked-out economy car. That helps manufacturers too, as they see these shoppers as potential longtime fans of their brand.
Consumers can benefit too: CPO programs create vehicles with higher resale values, providing increased bargaining power when it's time to trade the car in.
Often, reduced-rate financing options are available for CPO purchasers. While you may not find the zero-percent deals occasionally offered on new vehicles, you will find low interest rates on many certified models.


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I am from fire.
I'm from the fire my father had for life and the fire my mother had for living. His was fueled by parties, drugs, wit, and self-involvement, hers by longing, anger, spite, and sweat. He was vivid; he hit her skin like sunshine and she finally felt warmth from an external source. She smoldered. He was curious to know how her sweat turned to the steam that hovered over her skin. What was her heat source? How could someone burn so hot without catching fire?
In the end, he combusted, was consumed by his own fire. In his 30's, he was raging out of control, in his 40's he was a smoking pile of embers. Today, he's ash. He is gray and the heft of him scatters with the slightest breeze. Even his wit burned away. His heat from the outside stoked her burning on the inside and she nearly exploded. She had to protect herself or be destroyed.
She put down her longing, anger, and spite and put in more sweat. She worked and struggled and toiled and fought — she sweat, sweat, sweat, sweat — until the steam rose and condensed and rose and condensed, protecting her from the fire that was him and keeping the burn inside of her. It was a kiln, churning and working — always working — to produce something better, something that wasn't just burning away life, but something that was living. She wanted to go on living, she needed to keep on living. She couldn't let him take her, too. She couldn't be burned away too. She had to work, work, sweat, sweat, burn, burn!
And I was born. I was ignited and her steamy sweat cooled me so I wouldn't burn away. His flames, her burning, my birth.
I am living with a pocket full of ashes and a stomach full of embers. I am from fire.
Angela Blake lives in South Bend, Indiana and regularly rants, rambles, and reflects on life as a black chick in the Midwest at Afro(ec)centric.
Angela submitted this essay in response to our call-out for readers to fill in the blank, "I am from…" If you'd like to finish this phrase and share something about yourself, your heritage, your geography, your interior mind, your imaginings or vulnerabilities, read the simple guidelines and submit your work for consideration.


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Area legislators attend YMC?Board meeting
GRANITE?FALLS?- District 16 State Sen. Gary Dahms, R-Redwood Falls, and District 16A Rep. Chris Swedzinski, R-Ghent attended the first few minutes of the Yellow Medicine County Board meeting on Tuesday.
Dahms and Swedzinski listened to the commissioners' questions and concerns before moving on to a series of town meetings throughout their districts.
Concerns expressed by the commissioners included pending tax exemption bills for purchase of ARMER emergency radio equipment, funding for mental health treatment, proposed all-day kindergarten and a proposed hike in cigarette tax.
In other business, the commissioners welcomed new Property and Administration Deputy Timothy Bruner, who lives in the Dawson-Montevideo area. Bruner started work two weeks ago and is replacing retired deputy Joan Johnson.
The board delayed action on a request by Family Services Director Peg Heglund on a proposed hold harmless agreement.
Heglund explained the proposal is basically a waiver of liability to be signed by parents or guardians of children in the system, if the parents want to request disbursal of department funds for non-professional mentors who spend their own funds on activities with the children.
The board decided to delay authorizing such agreements until County Attorney Keith Helgeson has researched the details further.
Heglund also briefed the commissioners on changes to the county Human Services programs for 2014 based on implementation of the federal Affordable Health Care Act, state Department of Human Services initiatives and new performance standards arrived at between the counties and the state.
Among other effects of the expansion of Medicaid, Heglund said Family Services anticipates about 294 new medical assistance cases in the county.
On the recommendation of County Ditch Inspector Chris Balfany, the board authorized Balfany to set up an informational meeting to inform property owners along County ditches 31 and 56 of the county's intention to employ viewers to perform a redetermination of benefits. A redetermination of benefits was previously ordered for Judicial Ditch 10 and including the county ditches in the viewing process would be convenient at this time, Balfany said.
According to Balfany, a significant number of property owners along the county ditches were not assessed benefits for maintenance of the ditches and were unsure of their right to drainage into the system.
The board turned down a request by representatives of Western Minnesota Prairie Waters regional tourism organization for $12,800 in contributions to promote tourism in the area.


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Civil War Lecture Series - The Battle of Antietam
"The truth is, when bullets are whacking against tree trunks and solid shot are cracking skulls like eggshells, the consuming passion in the breast of the average man is to get out of the way…" Private David L. Thompson, of Company G, 9th New York Volunteers,distressingly captures the sense of what was to become the bloodiest one-day battle in our military history: the Battle of Antietam. The total dead at the close of the Civil War is estimated at 625,000. Antietam accounted for some 26,000 dead or 4% of that total, a twelve hour toll not matched even in modern times. This lecture will present material (complemented by extensive PowerPoint slides) on the battle which took place in Sharpsburg, Maryland on September 17, 1862. Of this battle, James M. McPherson, noted scholar of the Civil War, said, "No other campaign and battle had such momentous, multiple consequences as Antietam…Contemporaries recognized Antietam as the preeminent turning point of the war."Special attention will be paid to Connecticut units involved.
Richard L. Judd is President Emeritus of Central Connecticut State Universityand served as a U.S. National Park Service Ranger at the Antietam National Battlefield Site. Dr. Judd continues to study this battle and is a member of 150th CT Commemoration Civil War Committee.


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Route to a leisure career with Fusion and the IoS
The Institute of Swimming have joined forces with sports management organisation Fusion Lifestyle to offer exciting apprenticeship vacancies at sports centres across Kent, Oxfordshire and Surrey.
The apprenticeship will provide young people looking for a way to start their career in leisure with the skills and qualifications they need to succeed. With the flexibility to work in a range of environments such as sales and reception, poolside and gym activities, the programme provides full training including Levels 1 & 2 UKCC ASA Teaching Aquatics.
Successful applicants will work at a Fusion Lifestyle sports centre in Kent, Oxfordshire or Surrey for 12 months and will receive an apprentice salary during that time. Upon completion of the apprenticeship, a range of further employment and career prospects will be opened up, including progression onto the Level 3 Fusion Lifestyle Apprenticeship.
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Waste-to-energy advocates say the recycle vs. incinerate comparison is a false choice – that the two can coexist.transporting and processing the material, zero wasters contend that it makes far more sense to recycle than to incinerate.
Zero-waste advocates say a major problem is the long-term contracts that waste-to-energy plants are locked into.conscious countries would have even higher rates of recycling. Germany, for example, incinerates 37 percent of its waste and recycles 45 percent — a considerably better recycling rate than the 30-plus percent of Scandinavian countries.
In many European countries, public subsidies support the expansion of incineration capacity.only cost-effective waste solutions, while other municipalities have strong political will to introduce environmental measures and collect more waste for recycling."
Incineration remains profitable for facilities accepting waste shipped from eastern and southern Europe.the operating license of a waste-to-energy incinerator in Dumfries after a large fire, saying the operator had failed to recover energy efficiently and had not met the requirements of its operating permit.


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Thanks guys. I actually did use search, but after the fact and spent a couple of hours reading the WW recipes and Supergrain recipes. Now to see if I can find some of that Hogdon Mills flour.
VR, do you think the mixing helps you get a low thickness factor? I have been just doing stretch-and-folds on my WW dough. I feel I need a touch more coherence in the dough to minimize ripping.Scott


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Are you a botanist?
I certainly appreciate your research and sharing it with us. My take (esp since I have already drunk the kool aid) is that it probably is not harmful or at least not too harmful since it sounds like a lot of Chinese pu drinkers have probably drunk a cake or two of the stuff. I think I will keep my sample around, and maybe even have some again someday -- though I must say, I don't feel too rushed!
BTW, if you ever think about going into forensic medicine, you can put this one on your resume!


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Nora Swanson
Nora Swanson, 88, formerly of Bloomingdale, died Thursday, April 25, 2013 at Elizabethtown Community Hospital.
Born in Port Henry, on April 14, 1925, she was the daughter of William Henry and Helen Gertude (Whitford) Winters. After graduating from Glens Falls High School, she attended the Traphagen School of Fashion in New York City, and was self-employed as a seamstress and yard shop owner in Glens Falls. In later years, she was a director at the Maple Lake Academy in Provo, Utah, prior to retiring and returning to upstate New York in 1996.
Nora immersed herself in crafts, especially knitting and quilting, and enjoyed fashioning rugs on her own antique foot loom. She was an avid outdoorswoman and hunted deer in her youth, and she also loved flower gardening and cooking.
She is survived by one son, Mark Swanson of Saranac Lake; one daughter, Susan (Klein) Laffoon of Pleasant Grove, Utah; two brothers, Gerald Winters of Ballston Lake, and William K. Winters of Edmond, Okla., one sister, Ann Fox of Niskayuna; six grandchildren: Heath, Jud, Seth, Luke, Dane and Elise; and 16 great-grandchildren. She was preceded in death by her first husband, George Swanson, and her second husband, Roy Klein.
Burial arrangements were in the care of Fortune-Keough Funeral Home in Saranac Lake. A graveside service took place at the convenience of the family at the Dunning Street Cemetery in Malta. Friends wishing to remember Nora Swanson may make memorial contributions to High Peaks Hospice in care of the funeral home. Family and friends can also share their memories and sign the online guestbook at fortunekeoughfuneralhome.com.


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Automotive Terminology can throw you a curve ball, when you hear certain terms which might be used interchangeably, or may indicate different systems used on different cars. Take steering: perhaps your uncle said that the steering box on his truck is worn and needs replacement, then your brother said that his steering rack is leaking and needs replacement.
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July 26, 2005
MASSENA-The New York Power Authority (NYPA)
trustees Tuesday approved an up-to $2-million energy efficiency project
to lower the energy costs of a research park in Rensselaer County
operated by the University at Albany Foundation, for an anticipated
savings of more than $200,000 a year.
The project will be undertaken at the foundation's
main laboratory building and biotech business incubator, and the energy
plant building housing its boilers and chillers. The two buildings are
part of the East Campus biotechnology research park in East Greenbush
where about 200 students from the University at Albany attend classes,
and high-tech, start-up companies are provided a supportive venue to
promote their success and growth.
"The upgrades are in keeping with other projects
the Power Authority has undertaken over the years at the University at
Albany that have lowered the college's annual energy bills by more than
half a million dollars, and greenhouse gas emissions by thousands of
tons a year," said Joseph J. Seymour, NYPA chairman. "We're looking
forward to reducing the energy costs of the East Campus biotechnology
research park, supporting the dynamic interactions between faculty and
students and researchers at the high-tech companies."
The University at Albany Foundation is a
not-for-profit corporation that encourages philanthropic contributions
in support of activities and programs for the University at Albany. Its
94-acre research park is located at the former Sterling Winthrop
complex, and is a designated New York State Empire Economic Development
Zone, qualifying its tenants for tax credits and other incentives for
encouraging business investments.
"The energy efficiency project that the Power
Authority is planning will go a long way toward lowering energy costs at
the East Campus," said Dr. Sorrell E. Chesin, Executive Director of the
University at Albany Foundation. "In doing so, it will contribute to our
efforts under Governor Pataki to promote the growth of jobs in the
Capital Region."
The energy-efficiency measures planned by NYPA
include upgrading the energy plant's four boilers for multiple fuel
flexibility; replacing outdated light fixtures with new ones that use up
to 30 percent less electricity; installing occupancy sensors; and
modernizing heating, ventilating and air-conditions systems. In
addition, the Power Authority will also oversee removal of
PCB-containing ballasts, lead paint, and asbestos in project work areas.
NYPA will provide all the financing for the
project, which it expects to begin this fall and complete by early next
year. It will recover its costs by sharing in the energy savings, after
which the University at Albany Foundation will keep all future savings.
To date, NYPA has undertaken more than 1,400
energy-efficiency projects statewide at about 2,300 facilities. They've
led to annual energy savings to tax-support public facilities of more
than $90 million, the lowering of electricity use by about 190,000
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phoenixby susan bergstrom
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- "Phoenix" is another fanciful image I carry in my head as I draw upon memories of growing up near the Native American culture at Rosebud Reservation in the North West corner of Nebraska, South West tip of South Dakota. The women were beautiful to me as a child and so many of my Native American Women portraits are a mixture of memories. This is an original Acrylic painting with a final oil and varnish wash for preservation.
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- Welcome to my site here at Untapped Source. I am a self taught artist both in my Fine Art and my Natural Lifestyle Photography. I also teach private students in my studio here at my studio at our desert home, online and through seminars requested through art and photography groups. Several year ...


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When a former student was starting her first job as a teacher, Jessica Lahey gave her a fountain pen and bottles of red ink.
She sent a lovely thank you note – in red ink, of course – because she has to use all of that ink somewhere. It won't, she reported, be used at school, because teachers at her new school are not allowed to correct student work in red ink.
Lahey asked around and discovered bans on red-ink corrections are common — and despised.
From a middle school teacher: "Gosh, heaven forbid we express any sort of disapproval!!"
. . . From a writer and teacher: "Why…. because it hurts kids' feeeeeelings? Pardon me while I barf."
. . . From a professor: "… boy can I tell which students have never seen red ink before. They also happen to be the same ones who have a nervous breakdown or have their parents call me when they get anything less than an A. One of them actually told me, 'I don't like it that you give edits in red ink. It makes me feel like I'm not perfect.'"
And again, from that same professor: "Two years ago, one of my students told me he preferred red-ink edits. He said it made him pay attention, and it made him see those edits as corrections and learning moments rather than just notes that he might've perceived as optional or not important."
She found research by Abram Rutchick, a Cal State Northridge psychology professor, showing that people identify more errors and give lower grades when using a red pen, compared to those using a blue pen. NPR asked the professor what color pen he uses to grade papers. "I used a red pen, actually," Rutchick said. "I have to override somehow my urge to be nice and kind."
Yet Lahey is switching to green ink this year. "I had to recognize the possibility that I might be making my own students uncomfortable," she writes. She hopes students will accept feedback more readily in a color that doesn't say, "You messed up."
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The subject of this article or section is part of Love is in the Air, a seasonal event that lasts two weeks. Once the event has run its course, this will no longer be available until next year, but there are no guarantees.
- Lovely Charm Bracelet
- Item Level 1
- Wrist
- Requires Love is in the Air
- "A lovely gift for a lovely friend."
Source Edit
This item is made by combining 10 [Lovely Charms]. The Lovely Charms are obtained when you kill something for XP or Honor while you have a [Lovely Charm Collector's Kit] in your bags. The Collector's Kit is obtained from Kwee Q. Peddlefeet in any major city. (See the Lovely Charms page for full details on acquiring them.)
Note that while Lovely Charms and Love Tokens are BoP, this item can be traded
and mailed between toons. You may exchange 1 Lovely Charm for 1 Love Token from any Lovely Merchant.
- A limited duration was later added, making it no longer possible to mail between characters.
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This item is an objective of the following quests:
- [1-80 Daily] A Gift for the Banshee Queen
- [1-80 Daily] A Gift for the High Chieftain
- [1-80 Daily] A Gift for the High Priestess of Elune
- [1-80 Daily] A Gift for the King of Stormwind
- [1-80 Daily] A Gift for the Lord of Ironforge
- [1-80 Daily] A Gift for the Prophet
- [1-80 Daily] A Gift for the Regent Lord of Quel'Thalas
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pup wrote:Bigfist wrote:But how many times have we heard this? Meaning developing a young club with an eye towards a championship run? I don't think I can count that high. Are the Dolans ready to spend more? I certainly hope they have a plan...a real plan....in place. One that involves getting real players here. If not, then the hiring of Francona is meaningless.
They can spend what they have spent.
Just have to stop spending it on Travis Hafner, Fatso Carmona Hernandez, Jhonny Be Bad...
Would be nice to see them spend more. It would certainly help, but how they have spent what they have is a much larger issue, IMO.
But that's my fear..Francona or no Francona. That we will see more bottom basement bargain signings. More Damons, more Duncans, more Trot Nixons, more Kotchmans. Now, if Francona has enough leverage to tell Antonetti "don't get player X, because he sucks", then maybe the hiring is worth it. But if he has no say in the matter, and we are left with more Damons, etc., then Francona will be nothing more than a guy sending out a lineup.


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1) Which kind of mozzarello should go on pizza? The hard kind of the soft 'fresh' kind? 2) Is mozzarello typically the only cheese used? I have been making my pizza with half 'hard' mozzarello and half montery jack cheese. 3) Which is better? to shred the cheese ro slice it? 4) When i cook my pizza (about 11 minutes at 550 degrees) there is yellow oil seperating from the cheese. Is this ok? If not, how do I avoid this?


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Wayne's Cranberry Sauce
- 1 cup sugar
- 1 cup water
- 1 (16-ounce) bag fresh cranberries
- 1 cup chopped apple
- 1 cup chopped walnuts
- 1/2 cup raisins
- 1/4 cup Grand Marnier
- 1/2 orange, juiced
- 1/2 lemon, juiced
- 1 teaspoon cinnamon
- 1 teaspoon nutmeg, freshly grated
Combine the sugar and water in a large saucepan and bring to a boil. Add the cranberries and return to a boil, then lower the heat so that the liquid simmers. Add the apples, walnuts, raisins, Grand Marnier, orange and lemon juices, cinnamon, and nutmeg, and cook for 10 to 15 minutes. Remove the pan from the heat and let the sauce cool.
Serve in a side bowl with turkey or any preferred holiday dish.
Recipe courtesy of Paula Deen, Lady & Sons - Savannah, GA
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UMass Lowell has a month-long free trial access to the 19th Century Masterfile, a new online search portal provided by the Paratext database company. Access is available throughout the month of December, 2010.
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mattvan1 wrote:Spin wrote:Msttvan claims it's my fault everyone left TCF.
1. That's not even close to what I wrote
2. My comments were about the thread and not you
3. Regardless, JFC you took me seriously?
Dude, lighten up.
Sorry for the straw man fallacy. It's hard to take anyone seriously in a thread like this. I may hyperbole how some handle differing opinions, but when you scratch past the hard surface you find things that make you think about your own position.
And sorry for calling football fans "pansies" when I found it's not the fans at all who want to bask in the sun. I have learned from this thread, and it has sparked some serious discussion, several days later.


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British Government Closes for 19 days
Alright people, so we have a Coalition Government, its made up of the Conservative Party (The British Centre-Right) and the Liberal Democrats (Centrist) This is about to enter the last year of its fixed term...so next year is Campaign year.
Obviously, each summer the British Government go on Holiday...its called "Recess" and basically the Government doesn't sit during this time. Now the Queens Speech is written as a statement of intention by the Government on the proposed legislature during the next year.
So here is the plan...the two parties cant agree on anything and claim, they basically have nothing left to debate until the new stuff comes out of the Queens Speech....soooooo...why not give them an extra 19 days off?
Then they come back for the speech...spend a week or two debating the speech, and then they go on holiday until the Fall
ONLY the British Government could possibly do this...How can one possibly run out of things to debate???
and you thought YOUR Government was bad :rolleyes:
Let's see, there's Benghazi, the IRS, the NSA, and now, the Veteran's Administration...all of these things legitimate, they happened, and in each case cover-up after cover-up, and lies, lies, and more lies to try to hide the cover-ups. Previous administrations have gotten caught in lies and cover-ups, that's nothing new; the difference now is the main stream media is in bed with our current government, that's a powerful scary thing! Instead of being the watchdog for the PEOPLE, exposing and reporting corruption and scandals by our government, they're acting as co-conspirators by not investigating and reporting any of it. So we currently have an administration committing unlawful and unconstitutional acts with no one to make them accountable. I always believed the checks and balances put in place by our forefathers by their creation of three, equal, but separate branches of government would protect us if ever one branch got out of line, but President Obama has put that to myth. Between this lawless administration, this gutless corrupt Congress and this useless media, who is watching out for We the People anymore?
So yeah, sadly, nothing good to report here from across the pond either. :wink:
We had two elections today...the local ellections for the Council...those would be akin I suppose to any State Government ellections you guys might make...and the European Ellections...of which there is I suppose no American comparison.
In the local ellections we had several parties, the Conservatives, Liberal Democrats and Labour...but then we also had The Green Party, and the United Kingdom Independence Party... I voted for them, because they are strict on welfare and on immigration.
The European Parliamentary Ellections dont matter to many coz we dont have control over that parliament. UKIP has dominated it...but I already voted UKIP...soooo I went even further to the Right and voted for the English Democrats...I suppose you might like to think of them as the half way mark between the United Kingdom Independence Party, and the British National Party...the latter is a fascist group...so I wished upon Europe the furthest Right I could go without being Fascist...and the reason is that during this term we will get the referendum on remaining in the Union.
If we vote to remove ourselves from Europe, we will pull out of the parliament, and so the English Democrats will be removed that way....if, GOD help us...we decided to remain in Europe, then for the future survival of the community, Ms Merkel would have to begin to push not just for financial union but for full political union...thus a United States of Europe effectively.
In that event, damn right I want those that represent me to be equally radical...because that is the only way we can ensure that she doesnt stomp all over us!
So there is method in the madness...but it felt naughty voting for something I knew was, potentially, a little bit too far right to condone completely :laugh::ashamed:
well, everyone thinks that the party they vote for can do no wrong ... american conservatives have made it seem that obama is sending the US to hell in a hand basket ... everyone thinks their party is going to solve problems ..
As for President Obama:
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=34ag4nkSh7Q :laugh:
Bonnie, in England, we are talking about in these kinds of elections LESS then 50% of those who can vote, actually voting...and most do it for exactly your reason above...they believe that all the parties are 1) as dumb as each other 2) pretty much the same despite their pre-election promises...and they may be right
In Ancient Rome, only those who were effectively trained in politics could vote...I really think that votes should be compulsory...coz I always say that you shouldn't complain if you haven't voted, because even if your vote makes no difference, it means you have asserted your opinion and therefore allowed to comment on the outcome.
I was talking, just today, to an American colleague at work called Patti :w00t: about these sorts of things. She told me that if the Federal Union decide to impose a nation wide rule and a State has a problem, then often the Federal Union will withdraw its support in other areas, particularly financially, which reminded me of something that Nathan told me once, that he knew of a State which had done that, and so the Federation decided not to spend money on maintaining all their roads, and they were all crumbled and potholed :scared0015: We should be under no illusion that, frankly, what we have in both our countries, is still a dictator at heart. It may not be a single person...but it will have its own agenda, which has nothing to do with anything except preservation and expansion...and if you don't do what they say, they will hold you hostage in some way. Most are largely benign, short lived dictatorships...but they are nevertheless elected dictators...once they are in you have no control over them until the next election...and if you want to be realllllly cynical, you can question...particularly in the United States how the difficult way of elections can make things so complicated with electoral colleges that, you wouldnt spot a case of fraud if it was done in plain sight :unsure-1:
How do we really know that our democratic societies are anything but a smokescreen....coz you have to be nuts to trust any of them! :laugh:
What we should do is all work together to get Bonnie into the White House, and myself into Downing Street...THEN our Two Great Nations would really see a "special relationship" and real "change" :happydancing:
I know RNC thinks I'm hard on President Obama, but I'm truly basing my comments on his actions, what he's saying and doing, many of those actions have been a 180 to what candidate Obama said he would be and do if elected. I understand they all make promises while running that they aren't going to be able to keep in reality, but this has to be some kind of record. No way to deny it when there are endless video clips of candidate Obama saying one thing, and now President Obama saying and doing the exact opposite. I think most Presidents probably push up against the boundary of their executive power at some point, but I don't think I have ever seen such blatant disregard by a President for our laws and Constitution as I have seen with this President. To use his power and the power of other government agencies like the Justice Department and IRS (the most feared government agency for it's reach/power that can literally destroy a citizen's life) to go after individual states and citizens in order to punish them, it's just beyond anything I've ever seen a President and his administration be able to get away with. As a citizen, that's frightening. Also very upsetting and disturbing, I never thought I'd see the day when a U.S. President would fail to give the orders to send help to Americans under attack. It's been one royal f-up after another with this administration, too many, and after each one our President gets on tv and tells us he just found out about it when we did, from the news.
Even if I didn't vote for him, I'd at least like to have confidence in him as our Commander in Chief, and general respect for him as our President...but.... :wink:
bonnie, i love ya .. but the american people will speak ... if the voters didn't want certain things from obama, they wouldn't have voted him back for a second term. and come 2016, if they have had enough, there will be a republican president ... if not .. it will be good old hilary or joey b .. we shall see ... its the job of the right wing media to blow things out of proportion to their watchers to make it look like obama is doing a bad job ...
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LIS 10 In-Person Credit Course
Use of Information Resources course description
LIS 10 is a one-credit, short-term, UC and CSU-transferable
course that covers all areas of information
competency/research skills.
Course Content: Covers methods of inquiry, research process and the variety of information research tools available. Effective and efficient search techniques for online catalogs, online periodical databases, search engines and more are covered, as well as how to evaluate and correctly cite information resources for projects and papers to avoid plagiarism.
Method of Instruction: The in-person section is a short-term,
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Student Learning Outcomes
- Convert a broad topic into a more focused one and identify keywords to represent the search statement.
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- Choose and execute effective search strategies when using such online search tools as catalogs, periodical databases, web subject directories, and web search engines.
- Interpret call numbers correctly to obtain desired materials in libraries.
- Evaluate search results and revise search strategy as needed.
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Our selection of brunch menus made up of 23 recipes sure to shake things up this Mother's Day.
It's hard to argue with Mother's Day brunch. It's tradition, and hey, it's brunch. But if you're interested in mixing up things a bit this year, we've got just the ticket. Well, four tickets�all disguised as themed brunch menus. First, we've got dishes for a health-conscious mom, followed by a menu for the mom who likes a taste of the South every now and then. Next, a menu for the madre who likes a taste of the even deeper south�as in south of the border�and finally, a few tasty menu items for the Earth mama that prefers to be out on the trails with her brood. And�remember, these brunch menus are FOR mom, not BY mom, so keep her out of the kitchen, no matter how much she argues.
LIGHT AND HEALTHY BRUNCH A bright, seasonal, nutritious menu. But you're thinking, "wait...there are muffins involved?" Yes there are, but we assure you, these are much lower in fat and�calories�than your run-of-the-mill brunch sweet.
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Eggs on Creamy Grits Angel Biscuits We especially like these with country ham. Vidalia Onion Bacon Pie Spring Fruit Compote
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