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Author Hafeez Baoku's New Book: "Sex, God, and the Single Life" is Very Transparent
There are certain topics that scream single Christian. Sex and singleness is one of those topics. How does one life a fulfilling single, Christian life in a culture inundated with sexual imagery? Author Hafeez Baoku has entered the fray with his new project, Sex, God, and the Single Life: An Honest Journey to Satisfying Intimacy. But his work isn't the usual "save yourself for marriage because the Bible says so" reflection on sex and the single life. It's real. It's transparent. It's compelling.
Rev. John Donnelly, a pastor in Connecticut had bible study in a bar while drinking beer, allegedly.
The pastor decided that people would choose to meet in a bar, rather than church. In our opinion, if they are hungry for God's Word…Read full article, here.
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The disease, Corona is hitting the world. This man started having a chest infection, which turned into kidney failure.
Now, some family members have caught the same disease, even this man's son who feels he will die, just…Read full article, here.
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Buffalo Man Vandalized Six Churches Because He's Angry with God
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Pastor Efrem Buckle Deals With Death in a Beautiful Way [VIDEO]
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We thought this was a great video and the words from the pastor are very powerful. It deals with how we approach death and compares it to the death of Jesus Christ. He reminds us that we shall still live because Christ, our redeemer lives. If we have the assurance that we live for Christ, we shall live. And by knowing this, we should never be afraid of death.
R&B Singer Regina Belle Plans to Release New Inspirational Album
Former Victoria Secret Model Kylie Bisutti Quits Job Because She's Convicted By God
"I'm definitely going to pursue modeling, I just want to be more wholesome about it," Bisutti said Thursday on ABC's "Good Morning America."
"The jobs that I choose are going to be honoring the Lord," she added.
In 2009, Bisutti was chosen over 10,000 others for an opportunity to walk the runway and claim those trademark Victoria's Secret wings.At that time, she was a newlywed and just beginning to grow in her Christian faith.Back then, Bisutti said she would "do whatever it takes" to win, but now her position has changed."I just became so convicted about wanting to honor my husband with my body," she explained. "It was more of just a heart issue for me."


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BeschreibungWith vivid characters and striking details, the poems in "Dirt Eaters recount the author's examination of her Cracker and southern ancestry in a way that extends beyond the familial to include a region and class sometimes maligned, sometimes romanticized, and often misunderstood. In these haunted, lyric narratives, culture, religion, and class collide. The resulting poems serve tribute to a place and its people through examination of sin and redemption, darkness and light, haves and have-nots, and shame and pride. The book was born of the consequences of leaving a place and family steeped in the history and traditions of the South, The poet, having moved to the Midwest, has become a sort of expatriate in her father's eyes, and she herself has underestimated the hold that home would have over her. These poems are a mystical journey back through her ancestry. The dead serve as conjurers and characters both real and mythologized throughout the collection: Uncle Seward, who uses dice and the Bible as a means of prophecy; blind Aunt Ater, who finds solace and doom in biblical numbers; an unlucky man facing certain death as he stands on an alligator's back; and women who gorge themselves on dirt--all find their way back to life in these poems. "Dirt Eaters seeks grace in the unlikeliest of people and places. Bound up with the peculiar, however, is the poet's own desire to reconcile the handed-down shame and faulty pride within herself as well as the religion of the ecstatic within her own quiet questioning.
PortraitTeri Youmans Grimm, a former instructor at the Writer's Workshop at the University of Nebraska, Omaha, is editor-at-large with Zoo Press and a contributing editor to Hunger Mountain.
Untertitel: 'University of Central Florida'. First. Sprache: Englisch.
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APTOS, Calif. - 10:17p.m. UPDATE: the number of customers without power is now at 1. That number was initially more than 1,200.
The estimated time of restoration for those still without power is 1 a.m. Thursday.
PG&E says the power went out because of old wires in the area.
Today was also what PG&E calls a "Smart Day", where it encourages users to conserve electricity during peak times to avoid outages and to save them money.


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I'm just on the bus now, we had a breakdown any hour or so in (basically in the middle of nowhere). Apparently a mechanical engineer is close enough to a mechanic that I was enlisted to fix the bus. Being in the middle of nowhere and the fact that is the Sunday morning of a long weekend made getting a bus mechanic basically impossible. Looking at the engine there about 2 or 3 times as many pumps, filters and what not as a car and there where fuel and coolant lines running everywhere, so I figured we might be in a bit of trouble. Luckily it was just a case that the fuel gage was broken and we ran out of gas. the catch was that we needed to bleed the fuel line of air before starting the engine by using a hand pump located in the engine bay somewhere. The bus driver (my first female driver 'Hoops') didn't know where the pump was on this bus and the other driver she called said it was under the bus somewhere so we would need to get under the bus. I'd say 3 or 4 of us looked for a good hour on our backs under the bus with no luck. I'd basically given up when me and this Irish guy Neil just started pulling at thing right at the front of the engine and ended up finding it in probably the most convenient place it could be. Mind you it looked like a cap not a hand pump. So we finally got back on the road and now I'm on my way to Sydney.


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Celebrity Baby Watch - Former Bachelor and Bachelorette star Jen Schefft is pregnant and Twilight lovers Robert Pattinson and Kristen Stewart have some baby talk of their own as they discuss having children together with Oprah. Follow both items below.
One - Jen and husband Joe Waterman, who tied the knot last May, are expecting their first child. The Chicago-based Schefft, 33, told People Magazine she was very excited and explained how the couple found out and how they celebrated.
Two - Pattinson and Stewart (pictured) the on and off screen couple from the Twilight film series let some baby talk slip during an Oprah Winfrey Show. The pair desperately tried to dodge a question about their blossoming romance and Rob tried this angle.
"Kristen's pregnant," 24-year-old Pattinson joked after Oprah asked them whether rumors about their relationship were true. Looking uncomfortable, Stewart explained: "He really likes to shock people because he thinks it's funny.
"We've actually had this con…" she faltered. Quickly correcting her slip-up and pointing to her stomach, the 20-year-old actress added: "He's having the baby because I can't. "Imagine a baby coming out of this thing. That's just not going to happen."
Stewart and Pattinson sent the Oprah audience into a frenzy as they appeared on her special Twilight show alongside co-stars Taylor Lautner and Dakota Fanning. Audience members screamed and clapped as the film stars emerged from backstage.
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With yet another NHL season expected to begin in a lockout, hockey fans have to resort to off-the-ice battles to get their fix. The Los Angeles Kings' Twitter account contributors have a little feistyness to them as evidenced by their tweets during this past season's playoff run. The Kings and Wings through some light-hearted jabs at each over concerning the Kings ability to raise their Stanley Cup banner whenever the season starts. (Via Fox Sports Detroit): I'm not sure who the decision should go to in this case. Should it go to the new kids on the block who probably overstepped their bounds or should it go to the grizzled veterans who tried to put the young punk in his place. I do know that if this is the best entertainment we're going to get before the eventual lockout ends, hockey fans will be craving the drop of the puck come October.
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Asteroid Alert - RIT Scientists Comment on Meteor Explosion
Space.com and other news sources reported this morning that a meteor explosion over Russia's Ural Mountains had upstaged the anticipated asteroid due to skim the Earth's surface at 2:25 p.m. ET today. Scientists at NASA and the European Space Agency, discount connection between the event and asteroid 2012 DA14 that will come within approximately 17,150 miles of the planet.
Scientists at Rochester Institute of Technology offer their comments on the surprise meteor explosion:
David Merritt, professor of physics:
It's unlikely, though not impossible, that the Russian meteor is related to 2012 DA14, the asteroid that's passing within the moon's orbit this afternoon. The two events are separated by more than 12 hours, which means that the asteroid and meteor were hundreds of thousands of miles apart-probably on different orbits around the Sun.
Events like these-the meteor, and the near-collision with the asteroid-underscore the need for NASA and other government organizations to put more effort into early detection of potentially hazardous asteroids. Asteroids can be deflected, but only if there is advance warning.
Michael Richmond, professor of physics and director of RIT's Observatory:
At this point, there is still too little quantitative information available for me to estimate the size or mass of the object which caused the sky show over Russia. Based on a statement by Don Yeomans, a NASA researcher who is an expert on these matters-but who also has little information at this point-the object may have been a few meters across; perhaps the size of a car or van.
Objects like this strike the Earth more frequently than one might imagine. A good paper on the subject is "The rate of small impacts on Earth" by Bland, P. A. & Artemieva, N. A., in the journal Meteoritics, vol. 41, Issue 4, p.607-631 (2006). The paper includes a graph which you can find at
This graph shows that objects with a size of a few meters, corresponding to a mass of about 10,000 - 100,000 kilograms, strike the Earth maybe 1-10 times each year. So, the show in Russia is not all that unusual.
But it seems unusual because it occurred over a city, so that thousands of people saw it, recorded it, and told others about it. Because it happened over a city, it also broke many windows. Most of the objects like this enter the atmosphere far from any civilization- over the oceans, or forests, or mountains.
This object certainly is unrelated to the asteroid 2012 DA14, which is zipping past the Earth today. That asteroid is coming from the south, whereas this Russian object appeared to be moving from the east to west. Moreover, the Russian object made its closest approach many hours before 2012 DA14 will. At the speeds with which these objects (and the Earth) are moving in their orbits, a separation of many hours corresponds to nearly a million kilometers in space. These arguments are made by astronomer Phil Plait on his blog.
In most cases like this Russian one, the object breaks up in mid-air and only small bits may reach the ground. I have seen comments stating that some fragments entered a frozen lake in Russia, and that some researchers will investigate the region tomorrow, but I wouldn't put much faith into the report yet. There are some cases in which scientists have managed to recover some of the material from a bright fireball, though, and thus we have learned something about the chemical makeup of some meteors.
Brian Koberlein, senior lecturer, School of Physics and Astronomy:
Just a couple of main points up front to get the sensationalism out of the way:
This is not the asteroid (2012 DA14) that makes a close approach later today.
It did not make a huge crater, as some videos floating around claim.
We are not being bombarded by a meteor shower.
- Meteoroid: small chunk of rock (typically sand grain to a few meters in diameter), but not big enough to be an asteroid.
- Meteor: The fireball a meteoroid makes as it is going through the atmosphere (shooting star)
- Meteorite: any chunk of meteoroid that reaches the ground.
This was a meteor that occurred over Chelyabinsk, Russia. It is notable for two main reasons. First, it was quite large. If you've ever seen a shooting star, they tend to be short streaks across the night sky. Those are typically caused by sand-grain sized meteoroids. This was large enough to glow very bright. From the videos it looks like it briefly shone as bright as the sun. I'm not sure of the size. We'll have to triangulate the videos from different vantage points to get an idea of the size. Not tiny, but not huge. The second big factor is that it was caught on several dash cameras, so we have a lot of footage of the meteor.


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Luis Suarez is putting in "triple shifts" to ensure he is fully fit to play for Uruguay after knee surgery last month.
The Liverpool hitman is still a doubt for Uruguay's opening World Cup game against Costa Rica on Saturday, but the 27-year-old's team-mate Cristian Rodriguez said he was doing all he can to be ready.
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Surez had keyhole surgery on May 22 to repair meniscus damage in his left knee.
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1/10 Diego Costa - Spain
According to all reports, Chelsea have just about wrapped up the signing of Diego Costa from Atletico Madrid and what a player they have acquired. After going under the radar in Spanish football for several years, Costa exploded onto the world scene this year with his goal scoring form and dominating performances. He helped Atletico to their first La Liga title since 1996 and finishing runners up in the Champions League. The 25-year-old also brings Spain something they haven't had for years, a bully. Costa is strong, powerful and direct, a change to the tiki-taka players for previous Spanish teams. He'll be the catalyst if Spain are to make it two World Cups in a row.
2/10 Cristiano Ronaldo - Portugal
If CR7 doesn't regain full fitness in time for the World Cup not just Portugal will be in despair, the whole world will regret not seeing the best player on the planet on the biggest stage. His quality is seemingly boundless and is coming off another great season for Real Madrid. Portugal need him, perhaps more than any team needs one single player. If they are without their captain and talisman, Portugal may fail completely but with him, they could go all the way. Ronaldo has scored 50 plus goals in each of the past four seasons for Real, a frightening statistic and scored four times in Portugal's play-off success over Sweden in qualifying. He is a true great and a World Cup success would establish him as a legend.
3/10 Wilfried Bony - Ivory Coast
With a stellar first season in the Premier League under his belt, the Ivory Coast will be hoping for big things from their strike force of Didier Drogba and Wilfried Bony. At Swansea, Bony scored 25 goals in all competitions last season, a superb return for his first season in England. With Drogba likely to call time on his international career after this summer, Bony will have to pick up the mantle of the Elephants' main man up front. He's started well with big goals in qualifying and the African Cup of Nations but to date all eight of his international goals have come against African teams, something he'll need to change, starting, perhaps, with the Ivory Coast's opening game against Japan.
4/10 Karim Benzema - France
France have had a dismal time of late when it comes to international tournaments. But, this time around, their squad seems much more settled, more together and with some real talent. Karim Benzema has only scored twice for France in past two years and has a chequered past with the national side but his form for Real Madrid last season should give him confidence to translate his good work onto the international level. He scored 17 league goals for Real last season, winning the Champions League and Copa del Rey and is a real superstar in the French squad. If he can keep his temper in check and get on with the rest of the team, France have the players to supply him for the goals he undoubtedly can get.
5/10 Sergio Aguero - Argentina
Among Argentina's sea of stars is Manchester City's Aguero. Angel Di Maria, Maxi Rodriguez, Lionel Messi, Gonzalo Higuain and Ezequiel Lavezzi form an attacking force that is, perhaps, unrivalled by any in world football. Aguero is likely to start ahead of Higuain for the starting place up top but if the City man does find his best form in front of goal, he's sure to help Argentina to the latter stages of the tournament. He scored five times in qualifying, including strikes against Colombia and Uruguay and comes off the back of 17 league goals for City despite only playing 23 games in a frustrating, injury hit campaign. Now, with his injuries hopefully behind him, he can once again get back to his devastating best and blow teams away starting with Bosnia and Herzegovina on June 15.
6/10 Luis Suarez - Uruguay
Another player we are all waiting on tenterhooks to see if he'll take to the field is Liverpool's main man Suarez. We all know him well, of course, as a wonderful mixture of sublime skill, great goals and headline making antics. For Uruguay, he is already their leading goal-scorer of all time and scored six times in qualifying. His PFA and FWA Player of the Year awards came off the back of a fantastic season for his club, scoring 31 league goals in 33 games. If he doesn't regain fitness in time the World Cup will be missing one of its true stars and the footballing world (bar Group D opponents England) will miss him more. At 27 year's old he is in the prime of his career and, if fit, will light up Brazil.
7/10 Daniel Sturridge - England
While many fans and the media are questioning Wayne Rooney's starting place for England, there's another man waiting to make his impact on the world stage in Brazil. Daniel Sturridge opened the scoring in England's warm-up victory over Peru in some style, curling in from 25 yards and that is exactly what Roy Hodgson and the country will be hoping to see much more of. Sturridge scored 21 league goals for Liverpool last season, finishing the league's second highest scorer behind teammate Luis Suarez and being named in the PFA Team-of-the-Year. He gives England something different with his young, fresh arrogance and sheer ability. The Three Lions will need him in the goals if they are to make any impact in Brazil.
8/10 Jackson Martinez - Colombia
In the absence for Radamel Falcao, Martinez will take on the role as star striker for Colombia. Martinez has been working hard in Portugal for the past two seasons with Porto, finishing the league's top-scorer two years in succession and earning plaudits from across the world. After Colombia were handed a relatively simple group, opinions for the country's chances rose and if they can turn their free-flowing football into goals, they could go far and Martinez could end up top of the goal scoring tables. He bagged three in qualifying and has since scored a hat full of goals in friendly matches. One to look out for, that's for sure.
9/10 Mario Mandzukic - Croatia
Group A seems to already be a fight for second place with Brazil surely bossing it. Croatia have the best chance of the other three teams in progressing to the next round and could well be a big surprise this summer. Mandzukic will benefit hugely from having the in-form and dynamic duo of Ivan Rakitic and Luka Modric behind him, who will supply him with chances he'll need to help the Croats make an impact. The 28-year-old scored 18 league goals last season for Bayern Munich, a club he is seemingly destined to leave this summer with Arsenal a possibility. He netted three times in qualifying and scored a vital goal in Croatia's play-off game against Iceland, a match he was also sent off in. He's big, strong and has real quality and will be part of a Croatian team who could do well in Brazil.
10/10 Romelu Lukaku - Belgium
After two seasons banging in the goals on loan for West Brom and Everton, Jose Mourinho and Chelsea will surely give Lukaku the chance he deserves in their team next season. If not he must find pastures new to further his career once he returns from World Cup duty. Still just 21-years-old, Lukaku is on the verge of becoming a top player. He has the power, strength and skill needed to be considered a great and if he can show his quality on the biggest stage at the World Cup, he'll be well on his way. He scored twice in qualifying, not a great return, but now, with Christian Benteke and Kevin Mirallas out injured, his country needs him to step up and get in the goals. Belgium are one team that many people expect big things from given the quality of their squad and the manner of their unbeaten qualification campaign.
Uruguay coach Oscar Tabarez still does not know when Suarez will be ready, although he said the striker was "responding very well" to his training programme.
Tabarez said: "As we have no set deadlines, I don't know if we'll have him for the first match, for the second, for the third.
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Miss Crawford's uneasiness was much lightened by this conversation, and she
walked home again in spirits which might have defied almost another week of the
same small party in the same bad weather, had they been put to the proof; but as
that very evening brought her brother down from London again in quite, or more
than quite, his usual cheerfulness, she had nothing farther to try her own. His still
refusing to tell her what he had gone for was but the promotion of gaiety; a day
before it might have irritated, but now it was a pleasant joke-- suspected only of
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made no inconsiderable progress in her affections; but my own are entirely
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Re: st: using srvyset with survival analysis
Sharon Minnick <firstname.lastname@example.com>
statalist <" statalist"@hsphsun2.harvard.edu>
Re: st: using srvyset with survival analysis
Mon, 30 Jul 2007 10:54:36 -0700
Many thanks to Jeff Pitblado for his quick reply to my original query and apologies that it has taken me so long to get back, but I have been traveling. In my original message I explained that I get an error that there are "no observations; stset and subpop() option identify disjoint subsets of the data" when I try to use svy: stcox in Stata10. I have simplified my model to attempt to get svy to work with stcox but I continue to get the "no observations" error as before. Performing the checks that Jeff suggested indicate that there are no missing values so I am at a loss as to what the problem is. My simplified svyset command now includes only 1 level, sampling of individuals but stratified by a zone variable which is constant and nonmissing for all subjects (as reported by stvary and manual checks), but I get the same error with all attempts to svyset:
. svyset id, strata(fixedzone) vce(linearized) singleunit(certainty)
pweight: <none>
VCE: linearized
Single unit: certainty
Strata 1: fixedzone
SU 1: id
FPC 1: <zero>
The stset command looks like:
. stset stdate_b, id(id) failure(anysc) time0(stdate_a) exit(anysc==1 time d(30jun2001)) origin(time stdate_a)
Here is the result from stdes:
. stdes
failure _d: anysc
analysis time _t: (stdate_b-origin)
origin: time stdate_a
exit on or before: anysc==1 time d(30jun2001)
id: id
|-------------- per subject --------------|
Category total mean min median max
no. of subjects 1650
no. of records 4692 2.843636 1 3 10
(first) entry time 0 0 0 0
(final) exit time 569.5158 86 611 860
subjects with gap 3
time on gap if gap 649 216.3333 205 220 224
time at risk 939052 569.1224 86 611 860
failures 143 .0866667 0 0 1
(the gaps resulted from dropping observations in which subjects had moved from their
original locations, 3 of them moved back after some time; the first subjects were enrolled in 1999 and I need to end this period of analysis at June 30, 2001 for a reason).
The result from "svydes agegrp1" indicates that I have a minimum of 111 units per stratum and a minimum of 1 observation included per unit and 0 units omitted and 0 observations with missing data.
As far as I can tell, I don't have any missing data that would be causing the error,
(and I've temporarily changed the single unit option to certainty to avoid missing data even though I don't think I have any) but here is what happens:
. svy: stcox agegrp1
no observations;
stset and subpop() option identify disjoint subsets of the data
Thanks in advance for any further help!
Sharon Minnick
UC Davis
Jeff Pitblado, StataCorp LP wrote:
Sharon Minnick <email@example.com> is working with survival data
from a
complex survey, and is having trouble with -svy: stcox-:
In Stata10, I have been attempting to analyze my survival data with
cox regression while accounting for the sampling design and I always
get this error:
The -svy- prefix, when used with -stcox- or -streg-, requires that
the stset ID variable is not nested within the final stage sampling unit
Originally I thought this might be because some of our subjects moved during the study and so they change strata and cluster from where they were originally sampled. But I just tried creating a temporary variable that holds the strata constant for each subject and dropped the cluster variables and I still get the same error.
So my srvyset code is:
svyset _n, strata(staticzone) vce(linearized) singleunit(missing)
and the cox regression code is:
svy: stcox agegrp male
If I change the svyset code to use my subject ID variable instead of _n, then I get this error:
no observations;
stset and subpop() option identify disjoint subsets of the data
which I don't understand since I am not using a subpop option.
with multiple records be contained within the final stage clusters. Thus
subjects are not allowed to belong to more than one cluster.
Although Sharon did not show us the -stset- command she used, it appears that
it looked something like
. stset time, id(subject) failure(failed) ...
where 'time', 'subject', and 'failed' represent the names of Stata variables
Sharon used to -stset- her data.
Given the above -stset-, Sharon should use the 'subject' variable instead of
'_n' to identify the final stage units. If Sharon's has data from a
single-stage survey design, this means that the -svyset- command should look
. svyset subject, strata(staticzone) vce(linearized) singleunit(missing)
Using '_n' implies that the records were sampled in the first stage,
which cannot be true given the above -stset-.
After changing her -svyset- to use the 'subject' variable, Sharon was
presented with the following error message:
no observations;
stset and subpop() option identify disjoint subsets of the data
This indicates that -svy- was left with 'no observations' after removing
observations with missing values and checking for subpopulation
In addition to the -subpop()- option, -svy- uses the following options of
-stset- to identify the subpopulation:
Without Sharon's dataset, we can't say definitively what is going on.
However, comparing the results from the following two commands
. stset
. svydes agegrp male
should indicate how many observations are being dropped because of missing
values. The 'no observations' error message will result if the subpopulation
specification identifies only observations that contain missing values in the
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Property Location
When you stay at Days Inn Peterborough in Peterborough, you'll be close to Ferry Meadows Country Park. This hotel is within the vicinity of Elton Hall & Gardens and Longthorpe Tower.
Make yourself at home in one of the 82 air-conditioned guestrooms. Complimentary wireless Internet access keeps you connected, and digital programming is available for your entertainment. Bathrooms have showers and hair dryers. Conveniences include desks, and both irons/ironing boards and cribs/infant beds (complimentary) are available on request.
Continental breakfasts are available daily for a fee.
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Featured amenities include express check-in, complimentary newspapers in the lobby, and dry cleaning/laundry services. Free self parking is available onsite.
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{Eamon- Dont want you back}

{Chris Brown - Deuces}
Fake Plastic Trees - Radiohead
Depends why I'm sad.

I'm a lyrics person.

Having said that, generally speaking, Elliott Smith has got it covered.
All out of love - Air Supply
After the Storm - Mumford and Sons

Down - Jason Walker
Seize The Day by Avenged Sevenfold, or So Far Away by Avenged Sevenfold
its called whither must i wander and is composed by vaughan williams, a real tear-jerker. on youtube http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=YqBVjQAETdI
"A hard rain's a-gonna fall" sung by Joan Baez. It's really sad, at least I think it is, but the pure beauty of her voice makes me grin while being sad.
I've a few...

A Song For You - by The Carpenters

Have You Ever Been in Love - by Leo Sayer

All By Myself - by Eric Carmen

I Should've Known Better - by Jim Diamond

Hard Habit To Break and Hard To Say I'm Sorry - by Chicago

I Won't Hold You Back - by Toto
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This center provides professional services for individual client needs in the CREIGHTON MODEL FertilityCare™ System and NaProTechnology. Here, women and couples learn the Creighton Model System in order to chart their menstrual cycles for diagnosis and treatment of gynecologic disorders and in order to achieve or avoid pregnancy. The CREIGHTON MODEL FertilityCare™ System is the only system used with NaProTechnology, the new women's reproductive health science that corrects many health problems experienced by women.
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O'Leno State Park Closes Swimming Area
For many in Norh Central Florida, Labor Day is a chance to visit parks and swim in springs.
But those visiting the O'Leno State Park… had to settle for some hiking instead.
The swimming area at O'Leno park was closed today due to high water levels.
The Suwannee River Water Management District decides when swimming areas should be closed in parks… depending on how high or low the water is.
If the water is too low, flow is disrupted.
If it's too high, it's not safe to swim in because of the fast- moving current.
The O'Leno State Park manager says the swimming area has been closed the majority of the summer because of high water.
"The only thing that we have closed right now is the sweet water camp sight which is a primitive hike in and hike out sight, not because the camp sight is flooded, but the trail to it is flooded and impassible," said Park Manager, Morgan Tyrone.
Tyrone says changing water levels is normal.
He also says this year alone the swimming area has almost flooded twice.
But even with no swimming allowed… he says park attendance has not dropped and almost one thousand visitors come and go each day.
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It was an announcement similar to an unexpected boom-hit to the head first-time sailors can often receive if they're not on their game.
Napier Sailing Club manager Lyle Tresadern is on the move. He starts a similar job at the Bucklands Beach Yacht Club in Auckland on Monday.
Like many Hawke's Bay sports fans, yours truly expected Tresadern, 60, to stay at the Napier club until his retirement. Napier was the club where Tresadern started his sailing career and we assumed he would end his career there.
Tresadern's regular description of the Napier club to visitors also suggested he was unlikely to leave.
"For all-round facilities Napier is the best sailing club in New Zealand," was something those of us among the media at the Optiworlds earlier this year heard Tresadern repeat as visitors praised the club's hosting of the event which marketed the club on the international stage.
"The offer came out of the blue and Auckland is where I want to retire," Tresadern explained after another farewell lunch.
"It was better I go now than later."
Although Bucklands Beach is the second biggest club in the country with 1600 members, 500 more than Napier, Tresadern is confident he can increase that membership, particularly with more youth.
"I want to tap into the Asian population in Auckland. We all saw how strong the Asians were at the Optiworlds when they were here," Tresadern said.
The Optiworlds, Flying Dutchman worlds and OK Dinghy worlds were the three world championships Napier hosted during the 10 years Tresadern was manager. There were also numerous national championships.
Among the projects he has ticked off include the completion of a travel lift and an area where boats can be worked on. Almost completed is the upgrade of ramps for power boats.
Like clubs in other codes the Napier Sailing Club has become more multipurpose. Tresadern pointed out its links with school learn to sail programmes and waka ama clubs are examples of this. He has been impressed with many of the youth at the club who have raced at international regattas.
Tresadern was quick to reply when asked if any of those youth have the potential to reach Olympic Games level.
"James Sandall, Ben Goodwin, Olivia and Sam McKay could all make it and depending on university study commitments, a couple of the Mannering girls could make it too."
Considering his success in international events, Tresadern is well qualified to make those predictions. Along with the late Jeremy Franklin, he finished 13th at an Auckland-hosted world championship for the cherub class.
They sailed Charlie Brown, a boat they won the Napier club's club championships in three times. Along with another Napier clubmate, Paul Simmonds, Tresadern finished 23rd in a field of 174 boats at an Adelaide-hosted fireball class world championship after winning the national title.
Tresadern finished second at inter-dominion level in a 12ft skiff two-man class with an Australian.
"It was a case of if you can't beat an Aussie you might as well join him," Tresadern quipped.
He has also had considerable experience in the phase II class with his son Wade and in various trailer yacht and keeler classes which the Bucklands Beach club is well known for. In addition to competing for the Napier and Bucklands Beach clubs in the past, Tresadern has been a member of the Hamilton, Auckland, Howick, Rotorua and Evans Bay clubs.
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20" Tyre Thread
Just when I thought my Khumo (korean for crap) were going to last more than 20,000km, it appears they will need replacement in the next few weeks.
I am hoping that we can get some ideas on what we can get locally and imported for our cars. This thread is only for the 20" tires, as the 18" have more selection.
Can people who have non OEM tires report they success/failures on replacement tires for our cars.
I am after road tires, not offroad, but this thread is for all types.
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TYRES: Goodyear rolls out quiet SUV tyre - Car Reviews, News & Advice - Carsales Mobile
These goodyears sound good and sounds like they'll come in 20's. Not sure about price. Don't imagine theyll be cheap!
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I have had the 275/55/20 Coopers Zeon LTZ for a few weeks now.
Being a larger tire with bigger lugs I was prepared for the road noise but surprisingly it is not noticeable with the radio on. Being a heavier tire it also changed the feel of the steering but that went away after a few days.
I have quadra-lift and have had no issue with rubbing. I had been watching the American cousin's on 20" tire choice and this seemed to fit the bill here in Aus with the limited choices.
Off road they are leap and bounds over the kumho's and they seemed ready for replacement after only 8 months of use.
Below images do it no justice when seen in the flesh. Word of warning, they are over a inch greater in diameter then the originals so the speedo is out but I haven't been concerned on working that out yet.
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Well, I am not in need of replacing tires, but when the time comes, I am considering Yokohama Parada Spec X. I've always used them (three sets so far) on my Ram 1500 4x2 with 20" wheels. They are awesome. Not noisy, grabs like glue when cornering, has an excellent tread wear, and above all, they lasted about 45k miles on daily commuting conditions, stop and go traffic (25min) and hi-speed highway (50min) each day both ways. On my Ram I used 305-50R20, but given the size, I cannot use those on my WK2. I am considering to keep the front size (265-50R20) but making it beefier on the rears (295-45R20) kinda like a BMW x5 look. I only have 4,659 miles on my WK2, so I think this will have to wait. Anyway, if you want a good, nice, and price-worthy set of tires, give Yoko a look! You won't regret it!
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Using this site Car Bibles : The tyre calculators at 70mph you'd actually be doing 73. A 4.85% increase in diameter.
Has anyone taken the standard Khumos off road? I'm wanting to head up to Craigs Hut. The road (clear hills track) is supposed to be easy. Hopefully beginners easy.
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Hi Myke75,
We went to Craigs hut yesterday, we took the wifes Wrangler as I wasn't confident the Khumos on the GC would get us there. However getting to Craigs hut on the circuit road you would not have a problem, in fact we headed back on monument track which is very rocky and steep, guess what we met coming the other direction ? a new GC with street tyres doing it easily. I must admit I was very impressed.
Anyway it is a great trip with fantastic views, make sure you visit the bindaree falls, it is also a good drive up to Buller during summer.
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If that was you Matty I tip my hat :cool:
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Yes mate .....it was me.
There was a group of 10 of us heading up Monument track and we all got the call that you had pulled over to let us up. Waved to your wife as we passed each other.
You were in the red Wrangler in your pic right?
Watched the wedding for a couple of minutes before heading down the easy way.
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The Cooper LTZ's rolling diameter seems to tidy up the speedo reading a little ahead of things.... Mine now is spot on, even confirmed it with police radar.... $390 speedo check.... DOH!
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No rubbing at all height settings in any terrain including shopping speed bumps in carparks.
I have done some serious off-road tracks north of Sydney with the kuhmo's but my last trip destroyed them. I had some main tread missing on all tires. The photo below was the beginning of a track into a valley I visited and it was a bit hairy on the way down and up.
The minister of war and finance wasn't happy with the go fast striping, door ding, marking the alloys and the need for new tires. Boys will be boys...:D
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The economy may still be a little shaky, but auto loan rates in Springfield, MO, and across the nation are hitting record lows. Car loans were a mixed bag this week, but the average 60-month new-car loan dropped to 5.57 percent.
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One World Trade Center and Other World's Tallest Buildings (PHOTOS)
One World Trade Center has now surpassed the Empire State Building as the tallest structure in New York City. But the tower has a long way to go before it stands among the world's highest skyscrapers. See photos of the very tallest here.


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Prada's new line of sunglasses are rich in glamor and elegance. The Prada Precious Ornate collection shows influence from its Jewelry collection, as well as its popular Baroque frames. In this collection, sunglasses features ornate Baroque patterns and hand applied crystals. Made in three trendy styles, their intricate designs show Prada's dedication to craftsmanship and micro-casting technology.
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Defining the mission when the consumer plays second-fiddle to the needs of the market.
Bruce W. Radford is publisher of Public Utilities Fortnightly .
Defining the mission when the consumer plays second-fiddle to the needs of the market.
Here's a morsel to chew on.
Six months back, when ISO New England was mulling over various reforms that FERC had mandated last fall in Order 719 for the nation's six regional transmission organizations and independent system operators (RTOs and ISOs are interchangeable terms in this column), the ISO refused point blank to include in its mission statement a proposal by stakeholders that it should operate the bulk power system at the "lowest reasonable cost."
"The reference to just and reasonable rates is inapposite," the ISO wrote, in its compliance tariff filed with FERC in late April. Such a requirement, the ISO added, was a "misunderstanding of the ISO Tariff and ISO-NE's role in the region."
In particular, the ISO begged off any expertise or authority to opine or judge the merits of any market outcome:
"ISO-NE is not a regulator. ISO-NE is thus not in a position to ensure just and reasonable rates; this is the Commission's role."
In fact, FERC Order 719 had instructed each RTO to post on its Web site a "mission statement or organizational charter" to pin down its purpose and guiding principles, plus its "commitment to responsiveness to customers and other stakeholders, and ultimately to the consumers who benefit from and pay for electricity services."
This directive, of course, was simply one of many. In addition, Order 719 mandated a number of reforms at RTOs, on issues such as governance, long-term contracting, responsiveness to stakeholders (for example, rules on the release of bid-offer data to market participants and state regulators), market monitoring, and most important, demand response and scarcity pricing——the idea of allowing rates during times of reserve shortages to more closely track the "value of service." (Order No. 719, ¶556, Oct. 17, 2008, Docket RM07-19, 125 FERC ¶61,071).
And not just New England, but each covered organization—PJM, New York ISO, MISO, CAISO, the Southwest Power Pool—has submitted its own compliance tariff, and faces its own unique set of stakeholder issues.
Market Power and Conflict of Interest
In PJM, for example, the debate centers on market monitoring. Two years after the RTO was rocked by charges of management interference with its then-internal market monitoring (MM) unit (see " Pulling an Inside Job ," this column, May 2007 ), PJM now has included rules in its own proposed Order 719 compliance tariff that many critics see as having the potential to undo the settlement approved by FERC in March 2008, by which PJM had agreed to restructure its internal MM unit as an external office, independent of management and answerable only to the RTO's board of directors.
In more precise terms, PJM now has proposed that its management would allow its external MM unit to furnish the RTO with operational data from supply-side resources, known as market "inputs," but that PJM will choose not to be bound by such analysis when it implements market-mitigation rules under its tariff.


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Here's what we know so far about cranberries: They seem to grow underwater. They are inedible unless paired with pounds of sugar. They are responsible for that stain on your Thanksgiving shirt. And their unflinching take of the 1916 Easter Rising in "Zombie" remains potent even today.
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