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While Columbus was toiling under the tropical sun to make good his promises to the
Crown, Margarite and Buil, having safely come home to Spain from across the seas, were
busy setting forth their view of the value of his discoveries. It was a view entirely
different from any that Ferdinand and Isabella had heard before, and coming as it did
from two men of position and importance who had actually been in Espanola, and were
loyal and religious subjects of the Crown, it could not fail to receive, if not immediate
and complete credence, at any rate grave attention. Hitherto the Sovereigns had only
heard one side of the matter; an occasional jealous voice may have been raised from the
neighbourhood of the Pinzons or some one else not entirely satisfied with his own
position in the affair; but such small cries of dissent had naturally had little chance
against the dignified eloquence of the Admiral.
Now, however, the matter was different. People who were at least the equals of
Columbus in intelligence, and his superiors by birth and education, had seen with their
own eyes the things of which he had spoken, and their account differed widely from his.
They represented things in Espanola as being in a very bad way indeed, which was true
enough; drew a dismal picture of an overcrowded colony ravaged with disease and
suffering from lack of provisions; and held forth at length upon the very doubtful quality
of the gold with which the New World was supposed to abound. More than this, they
brought grave charges against Columbus himself, representing him as unfit to govern a
colony, given to favouritism, and, worst of all, guilty of having deliberately
misrepresented for his own ends the resources of the colony. This as we know was not
true. It was not for his own ends, or for any ends at all within the comprehension of men
like Margarite and Buil, that poor Christopher had spoken so glowingly out of a heart full
of faith in what he had seen and done. Purposes, dim perhaps, but far greater and loftier
than any of which these two mean souls had understanding, animated him alike in his
discoveries and in his account of them; although that does not alter the unpleasant fact
that at the stage matters had now reached it seemed as though there might have been
serious misrepresentation.
Ferdinand and Isabella, thus confronted with a rather difficult situation, acted with great
wisdom and good sense. How much or how little they believed we do not know, but it
was obviously their duty, having heard such an account from responsible officers, to
investigate matters for themselves without assuming either that the report was true or
untrue. They immediately had four caravels furnished with supplies, and decided to
appoint an agent to accompany the expedition, investigate the affairs of the colony, and
make a report to them. If the Admiral was still absent when their agent reached the
colony he was to be entrusted with the distribution of the supplies which were being sent
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Our state is in free fall and no political leaders are accepting responsibility
Our state is in a free fall. We have fallen into the abyss. The people who have brought us here, and their associates, are not the ones who will save us. I do not expect Rhode Island to move forward, not with this current group of elected officials. At this point, I am only asking for a new group to be elected.
For too long, we have sacrificed our future for politics and the election cycle. The good of the majority has been sold for the good of the few. But even those few in charge must realize that, very soon, the ATM will be shut down and even they will come up short financially.
There are hundreds of empty buildings in this state. There are hundreds of public buildings, also throughout this state, which are open but need millions of dollars of repairs and upgrades. These needs are not being addressed by the current leadership team. Our bridges are falling apart statewide. If drastic changes are not implemented immediately, all Rhode Islanders will suiffer for many many years to come.
Pension reform and higher taxes are not the answer. We need reforms. For example, if a business person wants to build or remodel a building, he must deal with at least five state agencies, several of which perform the same functions. After dealing with the Secretary of State and the Dept of Business Regulation, the Coastal Resource Management Council, the Narragansett Bay Commission, DEM, DOT, besides the Building Code Commission, Contractor's licensing, Commission on Disabilities and more.
Many of these agencies represent duplication of effort and personnel. Who will initiate the "Budget Commission" concept at State level? Even the insiders must know that the money tree will wither away soon. Then what? Will the voting public recognize the financial disaster which we face as a city and a state? We have elected the people who can address our state's distress.They have failed at this task.
We can no longer afford to elect those who have brought us to this failure, or those associated with them. We can never bring Rhode Island out of the abyss with the same group that put us in the abyss. Someone must initiate cuts at State level. Who will that be? 38 Studio proponents? The state calls for closing of unsafe buildings.Where is the leadership's plan for Capital Improvements which are desparately needed statewide?
No one will be accountable. But we are broke. Like baseball, take credit if we win. Nobody knows anything when we are broke. Specific areas to cut or that are needed are consolidation, regionalization, reduced administration, reduction in staff sizes, duplication of effort, end of Capitol TV, reallocating resources from the high levels to the ground level for the greater good, term limits, capital improvement plan statewide, fewer fees, more transparency, open decision making and discussion, less bureaucracy
If the political leaders cannot fix the problem, they are part of the problem. We have to face the situation honestly if we are expected to fix anything. They control all of the money. The current leadership of the General Assembly cannot or will not come up with the solution, this includes all of those associated with those leaders.
We have been on cruise control. And, listening to our state leaders, who knows who is reponsible for the desperation? No one accepts responsibility. And we re-elect them and their followers? We must work together, but the cast of players must be changed for progress.
Charlie Tsonos is the out-going Chairman of the School Committee and one-time Democratic candidate for the House District 63 seat.
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Rob Gronkowski's Injury Will Be Tough to Overcome, But Aaron Hernandez, Brandon Lloyd Give Patriots Hope
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FOXBORO, Mass. — Replacing Tom Brady is a near impossible feat — the Patriots came to that harsh realization during the 2008 season — but filling the shoes of Rob Gronkowski will be just as challenging. Gronkowski, who missed five games with a broken forearm earlier this season, reportedly reinjured the arm during Sunday's win, and is expected to be lost for the rest of the postseason. Now, the Patriots will need to revise their game plan and try to find a way to make up for Gronkowski's commanding presence, which even Brady admits will not be easy. "We had a whole plan built for him and Woody [Danny Woodhead]. We run the first series of the game and all those plans change," Brady said of Sunday's win over the Texans. "Obviously it's a bummer to lose anybody, but someone of Rob's importance or Danny's importance, we need guys to step in and fill the void, whether it's this game or any game after." In 11 games this season, Gronkowski caught 55 passes for 790 yards and proved to be Tom Brady's favorite red zone target with 11 touchdowns. His five-catch per game average can easily be spread out among the surplus of options in the Patriots' arsenal, but making up for his red zone production will be the true test on the Patriots' Super Bowl quest. Gronk's 11 scores were tops among Patriots receivers this season, and even more amazing was that he did it in such limited action. The next closest receiver was Wes Welker with six touchdowns, but he managed that number through a full 16-game slate. So, without Brady's go-to guy down near the goal line, the Patriots will need to rely on one of their many other playmakers to do just as that title indicates and, well, make plays. Aaron Hernandez will be chief among those replacements, too, fulfilling the Patriots' motto of "next guy up" in Gronk's absence. He's well aware of the challenge that presents. "It's hard to replace a player like him because he's a freak of nature. Everyone has to step up and everyone has to keep making plays so we can keep it rolling," Hernandez said. "It's a big loss and you can't replace a player like him." Hernandez looked fully healthy for the first time in a long time on Sunday, catching six passes for 85 yards and appearing to regain the burst we saw from him before he suffered an ankle injury in Week 2. Last season, Hernandez was a valuable asset to the Patriots' offense, catching 77 passes and six touchdowns, and if back to full health, he should once again be a key factor. Even in limited time this season, playing just 10 games, Hernandez caught five touchdown passes and has been a reliable third-down target for Brady over the latter half of the season. He is more than capable of handling some of Gronk's load, but he'll need some help erasing the void entirely — and that's where Welker and Brandon Lloyd come in. Welker led the Patriots with eight catches and a personal postseason career-high 131 yards on Sunday, while Lloyd came up big late in the game with some key first-down receptions and even a touchdown grab to help secure the win. The duo will need to continue their solid production and draw pressure away from Hernandez out in space. If all three receivers can continue producing at such a consistent rate, and Michael Hoomanawanui can pick up the blocking load, as he did on Sunday, then Gronkowski's loss may not feel quite as heavy. Gronkowski is the best tight end in the NFL and the Patriots' best offensive weapon, so his loss clearly presents a major problem for New England on its hopeful journey to New Orleans. But with weapons like Hernandez, Welker and Lloyd at the ready, Brady is more than equipped to weather the storm. Have a question for Luke Hughes? Send it to him via Twitter at @LukeFHughes or send it here. Vote: Can the Patriots beat the Ravens without Gronk? >>
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London, Tuesday 13 November 2012: Lynn Rattigan, deputy chief operating office at EY, UK & Ireland, who works flexibly, comments on today's announcement from Nick Clegg, deputy prime minister:
How, when and where we work
"To achieve a flexible working culture in business requires a high-trust workplace environment, leadership from the top and individual accountability. It's about empowering people to choose how, when and where they work. And from my own experience I can wholeheartedly say that reduced hours never means reduced commitment."
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"We are very passionate about the business case for change on flexible working, both at EY and for British business. It helps to attract and retain the best and brightest; our employees, clients and customers demand it; and it can lead to competitive advantage."
It starts with a business conversation
"Working flexibly will be different for each person, parents and non-parents alike. And while admittedly this style of working can appeal to women who are parents, this is not just about the gender agenda. The next generation also expect more virtual working and increased flexibility – we hear this from many of our graduate recruits."
"Working flexibly can be part-time working, reduced hours, or regular sabbaticals/time off to fulfil a passion or commit to a hobby. But one thing that is common to all of these is balancing business needs with personal desires. All flexible working arrangements start with a business conversation.
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Excerpt: "Each Sunday, the FO staff sends around e-mails about the games that each of us are watching. We share information about the games that the rest of the group might not be watching, ask questions, and keep everyone else informed about which games they might want to tune into (if they can).
On Monday, we compile a digest of those e-mails and produce this feature. By its nature, it can be disjointed and dissimilar to the other articles on the site.
While these e-mails are generally written with Audibles in mind, they do not represent a standard review of all the games each week. That means we aren't going to cover every game, or every important play. We watch the games that we, as fans, are interested in watching, so your favorite team's game might not be covered to your fullest desires or even at all. (If you are a 49ers or Patriots fan, you are probably in luck; if you are a Bills fan, not so much.) We have no intention of adding new authors to cover every game on a given Sunday, nor will we watch a different game from the ones that we're personally interested in watching, just to ensure that Audibles covers every game.
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Andy Benoit: FOX announcers are saying the Niners have NFLs best offensive line. Aikman said its the best hes seen in 10 years, and even compared it to Cowboys lines he played with. They have to be referring only to run-blocking. (Even then, the hyperbole is overflowing here.)
Vince Verhei: Run blocking only, yes, but it's not hyperbole. I covered this on ESPN this week, but they're absolutely destroying the record for ALY this season. They're gaining five or more yards on half their carries. Yes, they're probably going to come down to earth before long, but for one-third of a season they've been like nothing we've seen in decades.
Ben Muth: The 10 years comment is a little ridiculous (the Vermeil Chiefs come to mind), but I think there's a good chance they do have the best line in football. Their interior line is really good. Joe Staley is a top-10 left tackle and Anthony Davishas gotten much better.
Peter Koski: Niners offense is showing a lot of different formations on opening two drives. Lots of Pistol or Full House formations with tight ends and fullbacks in the backfield, including defensive lineman/fullback Will Tukuafu. The 49ers have been efficient at controlling the clock thus far, but not able to get the ball across the goalline. David Akers has another missed field goal.
49ers rush defense is smothering, but they are unable to get the pass pressure to move Eli Manning off his spot, resulting in a couple big third-down conversions and a Victor Cruz touchdown.
Andy Benoit: On the Cruz touchdown in the short slot, Donte Whitner bit on play-action just a hair and Cruz did a good job setting up Carlos Rogers at the top of his route.
Danny Tuccitto: Even though San Francisco has dominated New York in the first 18 minutes or so, I'm impressed with the Giants not getting caught off-guard by a couple of wrinkles the 49ers have put into the game plan to play off of what they've put on film. Foremost in my mind is the fake jet sweep left to Ted Ginn with a counter pitch to Frank Gore going right. Giants stuffed it. Also stuffed the Kaepernickat and, if I saw the play correctly, got an interception defending the 49ers' wheel route.
Andy Benoit: Surprising that Jason Pierre-Pauls sack gives him just 2.5 on the year. Hes been dominant all season, just hasnt been reflected in sacks, apparently.
What always stands out with Giants receivers is how they a.) get great separation late in the route and b.) dont even need much separation to make the catch.
Vince Verhei: At this point, I think we also have to acknowledge that Manning is good enough to make about any receiver look good.
Aaron Schatz: Remember when he threw like half the passes over guys' heads? That feels like the era of Betamax at this point.
Matt Waldman: I agree that Manning is a fine quarterback. However, I also believe his receivers are helping him just as much as any in the league. The Giants offer a pretty nice dichotomy of drafting philosophy at the receiver position. Domenik Hixon, Cruz, and Hakeem Nicks are all nice athletes, but they all possessed a strong base of skill with the physical techniques of route-running and pass catching. This in my opinion is more important than the over the top physical promise of guys like Ramses Barden or Mario Manningham.
By the way, Manningham's big catch for 36 yards is on a pass from Kaepernick that the Giants weren't expecting. Manningham was let go -- in my opinion -- because he made rookie mistakes well beyond his rookie year. Talented for sure, but Hixon's catches today have vastly more cumulative value to a quarterback with accuracy and the confidence to make these throws than a great athlete who the quarterback can't count on to be at the right place at the right time.
Steve Smith epitomized this point when he was healthy, but his lack of great down field speed also feeds Aaron's point about Manning overthrowing passes. Cruz has Smith's hands and is developing into that kind of route runner, but has Manningham's speed and handling.
Aaron Schatz: Golly, I don't think he's developing. I think he was pretty much there last year.
Andy Benoit: The trend we're seeing with Alex Smith is interceptions on passing downs. The first of Antrel Rolle's two pick was on third-and-six, the second one was third-and-16. As we highlighted in the Film Room post, Smith is an early-down passer. He doesn't have the tools to consistently make big-time throws in obvious passing situations.
On fourth-and-15, Smith throws a check-down to Vernon Davis. He had nowhere else to go, apparently. But why not throw it "nowhere else" anyway? The check-down is guaranteed to fail. Nothing to lose on fourth down.
Danny Tuccitto: Smith probably wouldn't be in so many obvious passing situations if Colin Kaepernick refrained from taking seven-yard losses on second down every series.
Vince Verhei: Joe Buck is calling the 49ers game right now, and then is going to call the Giants baseball game tonight. If Tim McCarver is doing color, he'd better rip into Joe like he did Deion Sanders when Prime Time did the same thing. (I know he won't.)
Danny Tuccitto: I've got two TVs going, one with the Yankees game and the other with the 49ers. Wish I had zero TVs.
Rivers McCown: Joe could not stand to not call his precious Cardinals...
Ben Muth: If this ends in Joe Buck dumping water on McCarver, the last decade of their horrible announcing will have been worth it.
Aaron Schatz: So Danny, does it feel better to be a 49ers fan today, and know that at least your team got stomped beginning to end and never was in the game? Or does it feel better to be a Pats fan and know your team at least still played well even though they totally frittered away a game they had no business losing?
(It's probably worst for Ben, whose team sucked AND blew a close game.)
J.J. Cooper: Can I throw in a vote for "your team lost to a significantly inferior opponent on Thursday and in doing so reinforced that they are no longer an elite Super Bowl contender?"
Danny Tuccitto: Aaron, considering this 49ers fan has had the pleasure of witnessing *both* types of losses to the same friggin' team in the space of nine months, I'll go with "Option C: Neither."
I had this whole diatribe ready to go about how the 49ers game plan sucked today. Then, Harbaugh pre-empted me by admitting as much in the post-game press conference. Don't hear that from a coach very often.
Minus the planned vitriol, I'm reduced to just pointing out that the one team the Giants defense has shut down this season was Carolina and their endless barrage of read option. No clue why the 49ers thought it would be a good idea to try to replicate that.
I actually came close to understanding today that frustrating feeling Pats fans have about games against the Giants. There was one drive today where Nicks somehow caught a jump ball with Tarell Brown all over him, and then a play or two later Hixon made the Bert Emanuel catch. Then there was Cruz literally catching a juggled ball while being bear-hugged. All of this happens in quick succession, and I just feel like throwing my hands up, screaming, "Why does this Giants team have to be so good *and* so lucky?"
Ben Muth: The Cards were due to lose one like the Buffalo game, I can tolerate one loss for every five wins in overtime. Yeah, they didn't play well, but they hardly ever do.
The St. Louis game was much more frustrating because Arizona refused to change a thing even as Chris Long and Robert Quinn were rearranging Kolb's face. Plus, I still had delusions of a wild card at that point. The St. Louis game crushed those.


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Before Tynes kicks the field goal, Collinsworth mentions that he hasn't missed a field goal yet this season.
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SHERIDAN — With just 730 residents, the village of Sheridan is never going to be mistaken for a bustling metropolis. Like a lot of small, mid-Michigan towns, the addition of a new traffic light on Main Street is considered big news. Yet somehow the village's recent Facebook page activity shows more than 1,500 likes.
An unsubstantiated rumor that recording artist Kid Rock would be putting in an appearance at Sheridan's Hog's Head Saloon resulted in 14,000 views in just 12 hours. Kid Rock, by the way, never showed; the posting was something of an April Fool's joke, but one that elicited a lot of "hits."
If the village's "official unofficial" Facebook page plays a bit fast and loose with the truth from time to time, it also serves as a repository of up-to-the-minute information regarding Sheridan-related events, such as the farmer's market, annual carnival and more.
It also features numerous facts and figures regarding the village, state and even the nation. These are updated regularly by Village President Susan Wyckoff-McFarland, who established the page with the help of her brother, Luke Wyckoff of Denver, Colo. Luke Wyckoff is the founder of Social Media Energy, one of the country's top social media companies.
"My team and I work with a lot of national brands like Sports Authority, Steelcase, History Channel and RE/MAX," said Wyckoff, "but the Sheridan site is one of the few for which I personally do the writing and posting. I get back home to Sheridan a few times a year when I visit clients in West Michigan, but I get ideas and input every day from Susan and the rest of my family and friends in Sheridan."
The page originally was set up as a place for area residents to post old and historic photographs of the village. According to Wyckoff-McFarland, it's now the "go-to" spot online for information regarding local business and events.
"We use the site to generate buzz about things like the Pickin' in the Park concert series, the Wednesday Farmer's Market and the Village Cleanup Day," Wyckoff-McFarland said. "We also try to talk up the village's restaurants and businesses. Our events draw people from around Michigan and that truly helps our small economy."
Wyckoff-McFarland added that the "biggest success story" to date for the page was the online preview and coverage of this year's Memorial Day SpringFest. The page extensively promoted events such as the Elementary School Patriotic Parade, Fireman's Parade and carnival. After the event, Wyckoff and many others posted photos and video of the celebration that were viewed "by thousands," according to Wyckoff-McFarland.
Mechela Anderson, a regular visitor to the site, enjoys the historic aspects of the page.
"I love it when Sheridan residents and former residents post old pictures of the village," Anderson said. "Sometimes it seems like things don't change much here, but those particular posts give things a whole new perspective."
As to the Kid Rock at the Hog's Head rumor? Wyckoff-McFarland admits it was just a clever ruse to generate traffic to the page. That's part of the fun of the page, she says.
"(He) easily could have been (there), since he lives in southeast Michigan and was scheduled to perform in Grand Rapids two days later," Wyckoff-McFarland said. "That's the awesome thing about social media; it's fun and builds a sense of community. Even when many in the community live miles away."
Susan Wyckoff-McFarland and Brian Leugs contributed to this report.


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Ignoring a warning to abort the flight, a test pilot took a stubby-looking rocket plane on a corkscrewing, white-knuckle ride past the edge of the atmosphere, completing the first stage of a quest to win a $US10 million ($14 million) prize.
As spectators and controllers nervously watched from the ground on Wednesday, SpaceShipOne rolled dozens of times as it hurtled toward space at nearly three times the speed of sound.
It reached an altitude of 103 kilometres over California's Mojave Desert.
Spaceship designer Burt Rutan said he asked pilot Michael Melvill to shut down the engine, but Melvill kept going until he reached the altitude specified under the rules for the Ansari X Prize, a bounty offered to the first privately built, manned rocket ship to fly in space twice in a span of two weeks.
"I did a victory roll at the top," the 62-year-old Melvill joked from atop the spaceship after it glided safely to a landing.
The problem was being analysed by the spacecraft's builders, who must decide whether to proceed with another flight on Monday in order to win the prize.
But Rutan and Melvill were confident the flight would go on as planned.
Rutan said rolling occurred during flight simulations and it was not a complete surprise when it happened on Wednesday.
"I've looked at it, and I think we just change out the engine and fill it with gas and let it go," Melvill said.
The test pilot said he may have caused the rolling himself.
"You know, you're extremely busy at that point," he said. "Your feet and your hands and your eyes and everything are working about as fast as you can work them, and probably I stepped on something too quickly and caused the roll."
SpaceShipOne, with Melvill at the controls, made history in June when it became the first private, manned craft to reach space.
The Ansari X Prize will go to the first craft to safely complete two flights to an altitude 100 kilometres - generally considered to be the point where the Earth's atmosphere ends and space begins - in a 14-day span.
The St Louis-based X Prize Foundation is offering the bounty in hopes of inspiring an era of space tourism in which spaceflight is not just the domain of government agencies such as NASA.
Rutan, with more than $US20 million from Microsoft billionaire Paul Allen, secretly developed SpaceShipOne - which has a wing span of just five metres - and is well ahead of two dozen teams building X Prize contenders around the world.
During its 81-minute flight, SpaceShipOne climbed to 102,870 metres - nearly 3050 metres above its target, said Gregg Maryniak, executive director of the X Prize Foundation. The craft made more than two dozen unexpected rolls as the fat fuselage and spindly white wings shot skyward.
Rutan said controllers asked Melvill to shut the engine down early because of the rolling, but Melvill kept going until he was certain he would reach the target altitude.
"We actually were asking him to go ahead and abort, to shut it off to where he wouldn't have gone the [100 kilometres). He stayed in there just for a handful of seconds more," Rutan said.
Melvill said he did shut down the engine 11 seconds earlier than planned after determining the craft would reach its target.
The mission began when a specially designed jet with the ship under its belly took off from the desert north of Los Angeles. At 14,330 metres, SpaceShipOne was released, and Melvill fired its rocket motor and pointed the nose towards space.
A crowd of VIPs watched from below the airport control tower. The mission was televised live.
The Ansari X Prize was modelled on the $US25,000 prize that Charles Lindbergh won in his Spirit of St Louis for the first solo New York-to-Paris flight across the Atlantic in 1927.
Already, the ultimate goal of the X Prize appears in sight: Richard Branson, the British airline mogul and adventurer, announced on Monday that, beginning in 2007, he will begin offering paying customers flights into space aboard rockets such as the SpaceShipOne. He plans to call the service Virgin Galactic.


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I am attempting to test a mediation model, with an outcome that is a
count variable (Y), a mediator (M) that is continuous (but could be
dichotomized), and an independent variable (X) that is either
dichotomous or continuous. I would like to test the indirect path, which
can be considered a 2-part model:
I am considering negative binomial as the best model for my outcome (Y),
although there are many zeros (70%). Zero-inflated negative binomial or
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This sample demonstrates how to enable ASP.NET Compatibility mode in Windows Communication Foundation (WCF). Services running in ASP.NET Compatibility mode participate fully in the ASP.NET application pipeline and can make use of ASP.NET features such as file/URL authorization, session state, and the HttpContext class. The HttpContext class allows access to cookies, sessions, and other ASP.NET features. This mode requires that the bindings use the HTTP transport and the service itself must be hosted in IIS.
In this sample, the client is a console application (an executable) and the service is hosted in Internet Information Services (IIS).
The set-up procedure and build instructions for this sample are located at the end of this topic.
This sample requires a .NET Framework version 4 application pool in order to run. To create a new application pool, or to modify the default application pool, follow these steps.
The samples may already be installed on your computer. Check for the following (default) directory before continuing.
If this directory does not exist, go to Windows Communication Foundation (WCF) and Windows Workflow Foundation (WF) Samples for .NET Framework 4 to download all Windows Communication Foundation (WCF) and WF samples. This sample is located in the following directory.
This sample is based on the Getting Started, which implements a calculator service. The
ICalculator contract has been modified as the
ICalculatorSession contract to allow a set of operations to be performed, while keeping a running result.
[ServiceContract(Namespace="http://Microsoft.ServiceModel.Samples")] public interface ICalculatorSession { [OperationContract] void Clear(); [OperationContract] void AddTo(double n); [OperationContract] void SubtractFrom(double n); [OperationContract] void MultiplyBy(double n); [OperationContract] void DivideBy(double n); [OperationContract] double Result(); }
The service maintains state, using the feature, for each client as multiple service operations are called to perform a calculation. The client can retrieve the current result by calling
Result and can clear the result to zero by calling
The service uses the ASP.NET session to store the result for each client session. This allows the service to maintain the running result for each client across multiple calls to the service.
ASP.NET session state and WCF sessions are very different things. See the Session for details on WCF sessions.
The service has an intimate dependency on ASP.NET session state and requires ASP.NET compatibility mode to function correctly. These requirements are expressed declaratively by applying the
AspNetCompatibilityRequirements attribute.
[AspNetCompatibilityRequirements(RequirementsMode = AspNetCompatibilityRequirementsMode.Required)] public class CalculatorService : ICalculatorSession { double Result { // store result in AspNet Session get { if (HttpContext.Current.Session["Result"] != null) return (double)HttpContext.Current.Session["Result"]; return 0.0D; } set { HttpContext.Current.Session["Result"] = value; } } public void Clear() { Result = 0.0D; } public void AddTo(double n) { Result += n; } public void SubtractFrom(double n) { Result -= n; } public void MultiplyBy(double n) { Result *= n; } public void DivideBy(double n) { Result /= n; } public double Result() { return Result; } }
When you run the sample, the operation requests and responses are displayed in the client console window. Press ENTER in the client window to shut down the client.
0, + 100, - 50, * 17.65, / 2 = 441.25 Press <ENTER> to terminate client.
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In the post "What's Your Mobile Strategy", we went through a high-level overview of why having your website well-adapted for mobile is important.
This message was reinforced by a recent post by Harold Dediu, an analyst who follows the mobile market and keeps track of mobile trends.
In "When will smartphones become phones?", Harold reports that about 30% of US cellphone users (above age of 13) use smartphones, up from 21% at the same time last year.
If this trend continues (and there's no sign that it won't), we will soon find that the majority of our customers are using smartphones.
This adds an exclamation point to our earlier point that you really need to have a sensible strategy for supporting mobile users.
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"Since I've been with the Reds in 1989, we've never had a farm system this loaded," Bowden said. "If we were the New York Yankees and had unlimited dollars, we could have traded for Colon, (Jeff) Weaver, Rolen, (Cliff) Floyd, (Kenny) Rogers and Finley and gotten them all -- and still held onto our top five prospects. That's an amazing statement."
Here's the Bucco lineup. Yesterday was Talk like a Pirate Day. That should make today, Make a Pirate Walk the Plank Day.
1. Jose Tabata (R) LF
2. Neil Walker (S) 2B
3. Andrew McCutchen (R) CF
4. Justin Morneau (L) 1B
5. Marlon Byrd (R) RF
6. Pedro Alvarez (L) 3B
7. Russell Martin (R) C
8. Jordy Mercer (R) SS
9. Francisco Liriano (L) P
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I understand it, but I don't like moving Bruce from the 4 hole. He was getting on a roll...you don't mess with that.
"Down the stretch they come!"
RichRed (09-20-2013),_Sir_Charles_ (09-20-2013)
Oh dear god.
George Grande AND Sean Casey. My computer may explode from the happy, giddy, gushing, overly excited duo at the top of their game.
*switches to WLW audio* Ahhhh...much better. Let the ice cream talk begin. :O)
Red Raindog (09-20-2013),toledodan (09-20-2013)
I think I'm more stoked for this game (on MLB network so TV versus online) than any other since we came back to CIN from SFO up 2-0 in the 2012 LDS.
If we win, we'll be tied with the Bucs in WC Slot #1 just 1.5 or .5 games behind STL (if they win or lose theirs vs the Crew).
If we win, tomorrow night's game, which I'll be watching at PNC, will be an even bigger deal.
If we win, there's a chance, however lower the probability, that an amazing weekend, thanks to MIL, could have us in first by Sunday, the final game in the series we'll also be in attendance for.
Finally, if the Cards do hold on for the division, the Liriano/Latos matchup tonight is likely a WC playoff preview.
What a game--CANNOT wait for first pitch in this one!
Charles--definitely post or PM me any tips for how to will these guys to victory in road cities and I'll embrace 'em all for PNC tomorrow and Sunday!
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Reds & Nats, 2013 LCS. Take2 (9/13) Reds but no Nats
Dear heavens not Casey.
"But I do know Joey's sister indirectly (or foster sister) and I have heard stories of Joey being into shopping, designer wear, fancy coffees, and pedicures."
Red Raindog (09-20-2013),_Sir_Charles_ (09-20-2013)
Fast start needed Step on their necks
"But I do know Joey's sister indirectly (or foster sister) and I have heard stories of Joey being into shopping, designer wear, fancy coffees, and pedicures."
Things let's do:
No one expects the butterfly
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Now I'm convinced! Pleasanton District IS EVIL!
Original post made by concerned, another community, on May 3, 2009
Manteca - $23.5 million in the red
Modesto - $11.3 million in the red
San Jose - $2.8 million in the red
Tracy - $14 million in the red
Oakland - $28 million in the red
Stockton - $45 million in the red
Newark - $4.5 - $6 million in the red
Walnut Creek - $2.3 million in the red
Turlock - $3.3 million in the red
Piedmont - $1.6 million in the red
Looks like a big problem to me.
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on May 3, 2009 at 10:38 am
Did you intend to say that Teachers Unions (CTA) are EVIL? With that I would agree, but PUSD is not Evil....not always right but not even close to evil.
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on May 3, 2009 at 7:07 pm
I think you guys are finally getting the message. It is not just the Teachers Union but all the Public Cesctor unions that are the problem. They are driving all the City, County, State and Federal Govt. to bankruptcy. The Feds can print money but that will only last so long before we go into rampant inflation and no one will buy Treasury paper. We are the world's biggest Banana Republic with no rules as Emperor Obama decides which companies will survive (with his favored constituencies like unions getting a huge share ahead of senior secured creditors) and which will die. There is no longer contract law being followed. We are getting similar to the Bolsheviks that could confiscate private property. Let us hope this trend can be stopped.
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This article describes the culture of patient tissue slices for gene delivery studies and subsequent analysis of gene expression using IVIS bioluminescence imaging.
Date Published: 12/20/2010, Issue 46; doi: 10.3791/2378
Keywords: Medicine, Issue 46, Bioluminescent imaging, Ex vivo tissue model, Preclinical research, Gene delivery
Rajendran, S., Salwa, S., Gao, X., Tabirca, S., O'Hanlon, D., O'Sullivan, G. C., et al. Ex Vivo Culture of Patient Tissue & Examination of Gene Delivery. J. Vis. Exp. (46), e2378, doi:10.3791/2378 (2010).
This video describes the use of patient tissue as an ex vivo model for the study of gene delivery. Fresh patient tissue obtained at the time of surgery is sliced and maintained in culture. The ex vivo model system allows for the physical delivery of genes into intact patient tissue and gene expression is analysed by bioluminescence imaging using the IVIS detection system. The bioluminescent detection system demonstrates rapid and accurate quantification of gene expression within individual slices without the need for tissue sacrifice. This slice tissue culture system may be used in a variety of tissue types including normal and malignant tissue and allows us to study the effects of the heterogeneous nature of intact tissue and the high degree of variability between individual patients. This model system could be used in certain situations as an alternative to animal models and as a complementary preclinical mode prior to entering clinical trial.
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Approval for patient tissue collection was obtained from the Clinical Research Ethics Committee of the Cork Teaching Hospitals and informed consent was obtained from the patients the day before surgery. Liver tissue was obtained from patients undergoing partial hepatectomy for malignant disease.
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Slicing was performed using a vibratome (Leica, Germany). The tissue slicing system was used according to the manufacturer's instructions. Tissue slice preparation was performed under a sterile hood using instruments cleaned with 70% 2-propanol. Slice thickness is set at 2000 microns and cut using a reciprocating blade at 22-26 rpm.
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IV. Analysis of gene expression by bioluminescent analysis
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Figure 1. Bioluminescent imaging of patient liver slices using IVIS detection system.
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We describe an ex vivo patient tissue culture method and bioluminescent detection system for the assessment of gene delivery within non-fixed human tissue. The method offers a simple and reproducible way of culturing tissue slices. It has significant potential as it allows the study of gene delivery into intact human tissue, the analysis of gene delivery into a variety of human tissue including malignant tissue and can provide important information concerning the effects of the high degree of variability between individual patients with respect to gene uptake. Different cancer types may have varying influences on the efficacy of the different stages of successful transgene expression in cells, involving DNA uptake and subsequent transcription and translation. These steps are outlined in the video animation, using viral vector as an example. The bioluminescent detection system demonstrates rapid and accurate quantification of gene expression within individual slices without the need for tissue sacrifice. For replication incompetent vectors, such as employed in this study, luminescence is directly related to gene expression by cells.
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Malvertising Attack Quick Look: The Pirate Bay
Malvertising Attack Quick Look: The Pirate Bay
[Disclaimer: This analysis deals largely with circumstantial evidence, for reasons laid out in the introductory blog post to this series. Any conclusions are preliminary, and subject to change based on further research.]
Our first drill-down into a breaking malvertising attack (via our Popular Site Monitor list) looks at the (in)famous Pirate Bay (thepiratebay.se).
This site made an appearance on the list on Monday (Nov 19th), as the 12th biggest referrer to malware among the Web's popular sites, with 115 referrals to malware in the previous 24 hour period.
In looking at the main page's HTML, there is a nice clean layout, and no obvious evidence of injection or other hacking. However, at the bottom, we find an ad link:
The script from adexprt.com is pretty short, and simply loads a link to clkads.com, which returns more javascript... There are also calls being generated in the ad-chain to gameoftraffic.com, which does tracking for a number of WebAd sites, according to our logs. And a shady-looking URL pointing to jxliu.com, which is probably not actually shady, since it is part of yet another ad network that's been around for a while. And so it goes... (I'm omitting two or three other ad/tracking sites that also showed up in one or more of the traces I did, as they seemed less likely candidates for malware links.)
So which of these is the site that is serving the malware link? (BTW, I should mention that a check of our logs showed that less than 2% of the hits to thepiratebay.se in the 24 hour period I looked at had led to malware, so the Bad Guys were being selective about including their links.)
Well, adexprt.com was only registered a month ago, using an anonymized registration, which may be reason enough to distrust it. Therefore, the simplest chokepoint to mitigate this malvertising attack appears to be blocking adexprt.com, since nearly all of its traffic is coming from thepiratebay.se, and so flagging it as Suspicious will not cause a lot of collateral damage. (And we have done so, at least while the current attack is running.)
However, adexprt.com appears to simply be handing off control to clkads.com, so the evidence is greater that clkads.com is likely where the chain of due dilligence is breaking down -- it is at least being careless about which affiliates it trusts. (Or one of its affiliates is being careless. Same thing.) Further, they seem to be at the lower end of the WebAd foodchain, as two of my traces were blocked by the Blue Coat Web Filter protecting our office traffic: one led to an Adult site, and the other led to a Spam network. So this would also be a reasonable candidate to block. Take your pick (or just block both)...
(For our customers, a final important point to keep in mind is that WebPulse was already flagging the actual requests to the malware site(s), providing automatic protection from "the pointy end of the stick", whichever ad network bore responsibility.)


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Had a good final day yesterday in Penang. After the tournament ended (I finished 5th) , I went to the Esplanade and took a brief tour of Fort Cornwallis, before hauling tail back to the hotel to catch the 3:00 guided tour of the Cheong Fatt Tze mansion across the street. Once owned by one of the richest men in China, it's now rented out for special events and as a guest house. I just killed a couple of hours at the hotel lobby until my flight to Kuala Lumpur, which was late, of course. Taxis to and from the airport were more than the flight!


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GMO: Label or Not?
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Henry Brady, Dean of the Goldman School of Public Policy and Professor of Political Science, UC Berkeley
Eleven days before the election, Dean Brady will delve into the details of electoral politics, laying out the reality of the processes of our democracy, how they played out in this election cycle, what we can expect to happen on election night, and what shifts he anticipates in the political landscape if those expectations are realized.
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John G. Lynch, Jr. is the Ted Andersen Professor of Free Enterprise at the Leeds School of Business, University of Colorado Boulder, and the Director of the Center for Research on Consumer Financial Decision Making.
Lynch received his BA in economics, his MA in psychology, and his Ph.D. in psychology, all from the University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign. He was a member of the faculty at University of Florida from 1979-1996, where he was Graduate Research Professor. From 1996-2009 he was the Roy J. Bostock Professor of Marketing at the Fuqua School of Business at Duke University.
Lynch is a Fellow of the American Marketing Association, the Association for Consumer Research, the American Psychological Association/Society for Consumer Psychology. He has been a recipient of the Paul D. Converse Award for Outstanding Contributions to the Science of Marketing and the Society for Consumer Psychology's Distinguished Scientific Achievement Award. Five of his papers have been honored as outstanding article of the year: he has been recognized once each by the Journal of Marketing Research and by the Journal of Marketing, and three times by the Journal of Consumer Research. He is one of the 10 most published authors in the history of Journal of Consumer Research. Three of his papers this last decade are the most cited papers in any marketing journal in the year of their publication: his 2010 Journal of Consumer Research paper on mediation analysis, his 2013 Journal of Marketing Research paper on simple effects in moderated regression, and his 2014 Management Science paper about financial literacy and downstream financial behaviors. In 2015 publications tracked by the Web of Science, Lynch was one of the 25 most cited marketing scholars in the world.
He is a member of the editorial boards of Journal of Consumer Research and the Journal of Marketing, and a member of the Journal of Marketing Research Advisory Board. He has served as president of the Policy Board of the Journal of Consumer Research, president of the Association for Consumer Research, associate editor for the Journal of Consumer Research, and associate editor and co-editor for the Journal of Consumer Psychology. He co-chairs the Boulder Summer Conference on Consumer Financial Decision Making.
Lynch studies the cognitive psychology of consumer decision-making, with a recent focus on consumer financial decision-making. In addition to studying consumer decision-making, about a quarter of Lynch's work concerns validity issues in research methodology.
Lynch and Srull (1982) introduced concepts of stimulus-based and memory based decision making and highlighted the role of information processing below the level of conscious awareness. Feldman and Lynch (1988) put forth the "accessibility-diagnosticity" model, the first general theory explaining the relative weights of different cues in decisions and an influential contribution to theory of "constructive preferences."
Lynch's 1997 paper with Alba and colleagues on Internet shopping and his 2000 paper with Ariely on price sensitivity on the Internet are both among the most cited academic papers about internet marketing.
His more recent research has focused on intertemporal choice and planning, including Zauberman and Lynch's (2005 Journal of Experimental Psychology: General) resource slack theory of discounting, a general theory that explains why different resources are discounted at different rates; Lynch, Netemeyer, Spiller, and Zammit's (2010 Journal of Consumer Research) generalizable scale of "propensity to plan"; Fernbach, Kan and Lynch's (2015 Journal of Consumer Research) analysis of prioritization and planning for efficiency in the face of low resource slack: and Jhang and Lynch's (2015 Journal of Consumer Research) analysis of why consumers feel more busy now than in the future when they are close to completing even inconsequential goals, and Berman, Tran, Lynch, and Zauberman's (2016 Journal of Marketing Research) analysis of why consumers underweight changes in their expenses over time in projections of future spare money. Lynch's work in consumer financial decision making includes Fernandes, Lynch, and Netemeyer's (2014) meta-analysis of the (very small) effects of financial education on downstream financial behavior.
Lynch teaches undergraduate Marketing Research and capstone Senior Seminar in Marketing for marketing majors, Principles of Marketing & Management for the undergraduates in the business minor program, an MBA elective on the use of market intelligence in business decision–making, and a Ph.D. course on designing experiments in the social sciences. He received MBA (Elective) Teaching Excellence Awards in 2011 and 2013 at Leeds and has received teaching awards at Duke and University of Florida.


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Mondragon, Ivan F., Campoy, Pascual, Correa, Juan F., & Mejias, Luis (2007) Visual model feature tracking for UAV control. In IEEE International Symposium on Intelligent Signal Processing, 3-5 October, Alcala de Henares, Spain.
This paper explores the possibilities to use robust object tracking algorithms based on visual model features as generator of visual references for UAV control. The best performance SIFT algorithm is used to detect salient points in each image, then a projective transformation for evaluating the 3D transformation is obtained using a version of the RANSAC algorithm in order to fit a series of Keypoints pairs matched to the transformation rejecting the corrupted data. The system has been tested using diverse image sequences showing its capability to track objects significantly changed in scale, position, rotation, generating at the same time velocity references to the UAV flight controller. The robustness our approach has also been validated using images taken from real flights showing noise and lighting distortions. The results presented are promising in order to be used as reference generator for the control system.
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That's no longer the case, thanks to a new USDA rule passed a few weeks ago and set to take effect May 23.
The wordy "Geographic Preference Option for the Procurement of Unprocessed Agricultural Products in Child Nutrition Programs" allows public schools (and other institutions) that operate "Child Nutrition Programs" to give preference to local produce, even if it's not the lowest priced.
"If you're a school in New York that wants local apples, or a school in Georgia looking for Georgia peaches, this makes a huge difference," says Megan Lott, program policy coordinator for the National Farm to School Network.
The problem is, schools still can't afford to pay for said apples. Last year there was a measly 6-cent raise passed for federal school lunch reimbursement funding, a "drop in the bucket," says Lott, who notes that advocates of increased funding were asking for 35 cents. Still, she figures school directors spend about 9 to 14 cents for each quarter- to half-cup serving of fruit and vegetables on the tray, so "six cents could add to that and mean something."
Ann Cooper, the "Renegade Lunch Lady" author and school lunch advocate, says the local foods rule is a little cart-before-the-horse. "Having the USDA push local food is the least of the problems in the system," she sighs. "What they really need to do is give us enough money and raise the guidelines so the chicken nuggets are out of there."
Yes the new rule removes a barrier to local produce, she says, but there are still so many other obstacles stemming from a lack of funding. "If you buy from a lot of little farmers, your incidental costs go up," she explains. "Someone has to stop what they're doing, check in the order, put it away. It's easier to do that once with a giant Sysco or United order, instead of 10 times with local farmers."
Cooper also points out that many of today's "lunch ladies" aren't even trained or equipped to deal with fresh whole produce. "Farm food may not be washed. You need a place to wash it, a place to cut it, a place to cook it, people who know how to deal with produce." Lott ruefully agrees that a lot of school lunch rooms basically consist of a freezer, a microwave, and a trash can these days. "We've taken away equipment, and we've taken away skills, but the exciting thing is that so many different groups are trying to make it better, and we're finding ways."
And until it does get better? I'll be packing my kid a lunch.
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Imagine youre a gay male prostitute. And lets say one day you have a break from all of your sexing, and youre flipping channels, and you come across a televangelist preaching the evils of homosexuality with the sin and the Sodom and the Gomorrah and all that. You find out this televangelist is the head of the National Association of Evangelicals, an organization that regularly consults with the White House. The kicker: You recognize this televangelist as one of your regular -- ahem -- clients. Yowza! What do you do? If youre a hooker named Mike Jones, you suck it up (so to speak), and you write a book called I Had to Say Something: The Art of Ted Haggards Fall, all about your three-year relationship with this preacher, detailing the gay sex and drugs and such.
Fans of evangelical hypocrisy can hear excerpts when Books & Books hosts Mr. Joness reading tonight at 8:00. Seriously, much of our modern history has unfolded because of the work of whistleblowers -- whether they be heroes (like Enrons Sharon Watkins) or jerks (for example, Linda Tripp). Say what you want about hookers; Mike Jones has balls. Wait, can we say balls?
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The Progressive … A Socialist By Any Other Name
Dear Editor,
I have to hand it to John Paul Culotta. In an article calling for reasoned and enlightened presidential debates over the many challenges facing us all as Americans, he manages to simultaneously put forth the most hackneyed and predictable Democratic/ Liberal talking points. He couches his entire polemic in sophisms meant to convey a sense of working towards a greater good when, in fact, he is only attempting to advance his depression era socialist agenda wrapped in the rhetoric of populism: "it would appear we need a president that seeks to use diplomacy to settle international differences rather than a president who believes in using military force as the first and only option." Please have Mr. Culotta call me when the 30 plus years of "diplomacy" with Iran (spanning five Democratic and Republican presidencies) leads us to a better solution than the eradication of the USA and Israel, because that's exactly what the president of Iran continues to espouse while continuing to enrich uranium.
Earlier in his article he states: "… our political agenda for too many years has been to make the more fortunate of us richer … the wealthy are waging war on the American who is in need…"
Talk about class warfare. To continue this idea of us-against-them, is exactly what is dividing this nation. Mr. Culotta has this false impression of a static class structure, a type of caste system in which Americans are relegated to Dickensian squalor by virtue of their zip code. Never mind the fact that what continuously draws millions of immigrants to this country is the complete opposite; the fact that an individual can reach the highest levels of society within one generation. Ironically, this has been a cornerstone of Obama's campaign. His personal story of rising up from humble beginnings.
In usual fashion, Mr. Culotta finishes with a laundry list of democratic points straight from Nancy Pelosi's congressional desk calendar, everything from economic doom and gloom to lack of educational opportunities to the collapse of healthcare. One wonders how 300 million of us manage to survive at all? And yet poll after poll reveals that the vast majority of Americans are personally satisfied with their lives when asked.
By all means let us debate the issues at hand: how to deal with hostile nations, radical Islamist agendas, economic reform to prevent ongoing abuses, funding social security, immigration reform and equitable tax structure. Let us not, however, start off with the usual subterfuge. Americans know what McCain stands for, many are not so sure of what Obama stands for. If it is Quasi-socialism as is evident in Mr. Culotta's writings, let him at least stand or fall by his true ideals.


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Really good atmosphere with somebody playing the piano, while the restaurant has an exquisite design.
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I grew up watching Greg Norman and once upon a time I might have been his biggest fan going round. So waking up on Monday morning in '96 to watch him choke at the Masters was one of those devastating moments in my sport-watching life.
There may have been tears. As we all know, it wasn't the only time the shark butchered his chances to win at Augusta National and over his career he's made the top five eight times without ever being sized up for a green jacket.
Remarkably, despite the fact we're into the 75th year of the Masters, no-one from either New Zealand or Australia has ever won.
Today there are two Australian blokes in contention. Jason Day and Adam Scott are about to tee off and they have a nation willing them on to break the Aussie voodoo with this famous tournament.
Jason Day has been phenomenal this week. He hits the ball frighteningly well and despite his size has been the second longest guy this week. For him, 340 yard drives are normal. And for Adam Scott, the ungainly broomstick putter has clearly done something for his game this week. Today in Augusta, these boys are right under the spotlight of the world of golf. Their swings are being analysed, their temperaments questioned.
These two Aussie boys will be well aware that back home is a frustrated nation of golfers crawling out of bed and yelling at their tv screens hoping that this will be the day that the ghost of Norman can be put to rest once and for all.
Here at Masters HQ, I am surrounded by a pack of 'Ockers about to head to the course and the adrenaline is starting to flow. Their story is an interesting one, and today could be their day.
The guys here at Elite Sporting Tours started their annual pilgrimage to Augusta because they honestly believed that, had they been on the course in '96, Norman would have held it together and won.
They reasoned that the shark never got the luck of the locals. He never got a good break when he hit it in the crowd. They needed to balance up the odds and be there to cheer him on. So after another agonizing Monday morning in '97 the patriarchal leader of Elite made a pact with his mate at work - they'd be there next year to get Greg over the line.
For 11 years now the boys have been coming to Augusta and have been bringing groups of Australians along for the ride. Greg's star has faded, but now with a host of young stars from down under the hopes are always high.
This afternoon there is a glimmer of hope - a couple of early birdies - and a slip up from the young Irishman and it could be game on. The atmosphere is at fever pitch and I wonder if the Aussies can break the duck. Can they do it?
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no. not this year. and it's not remarkable that no one from nz has ever won it. it's remarkable you find it remarkable.
How hot is Jason Day's missus Goldstein.
Interesting guessing game for the last morning of the Masters. Of course it's all over now, and we know who donned the jacket, but your story raises an issue which golfers tend to overlook. Luck. (Though we all know about our own bad luck, of course....) But watching the chip in at hole 1, and the eagle at 3, it was obvious the 'Golfing Gods' were keeping a kindly eye on Swartzel, and in some respects his win came as no surprise. (Though the 4 closing birdies were pretty hot...) I'm sure he could never repeat holes 1 and 3 in maybe a thousand times of trying. McIlroy blew it, no doubt, but his shot at the 10th could just as easily kicked out into the fairway, and with a break like that he would still have been in serious contention. I know as golfers we make our own luck : Just keep it on the fairway, for starters. And I've no doubt Rory will come back and win a bundle of majors over the next 15 years or so. It was the most exciting, compelling Masters in years (or any major, for that matter) liberally sprinkled with magical shots under the most trying of conditions. I was also delighted to see the new breed of young golfers leave the "greats" in their wake - not down playing Woods, Mickelson or others, but at least we know golf is in good hands for the next generation. Thanks your blogs on Agusta - going there is probably No 1 on my list of "Things to do before I die".
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The Bible is Jehovah God's Manual and is mostly thought of as "The Good Book" that will guide humans to being delivered from the burning fires of Hell to the wonderful everlasting life in Heaven.
Without being considered a Bible-puncher with nothing else to do, I would like to inform what the Bible really is.
The Bible is every breath that is breathed, every movement on earth, every vision of the eye, etc. and should mean everything to every person.
Our Creator Jehovah God "NEEDS" absolutely nothing from humans. The word "NEEDS" that has been used is in the context of meaning that Jehovah God WILL live eternally without any input from humans.
Our Creator Jehovah God, however, SINCERELY WANTS two very important reactions from humans!
The first reaction from humans must be to desire to WANT to CONTINUALLY live into eternity and not have to be destroyed, as He considers ALL humans, the GOOD and the BAD, to be His children.
It is necessary to react to Jehovah God's second WANT to realise, achieve and obtain His first WANT.
Jehovah God's second WANT is that we accept His offer of the GIFT of eternal life that He offers us!
To be able to achieve His second WANT, the following reaction from humans is required:
I have noted that billions of people are still totally in the dark about the advent of dying and the precise condition of the person and the physical body when DEATH occurs.
Firstly, I must repeat what I posted in Discussion 22 in October 2010:
Not a very pleasant subject, especially for persons that have always believed incorrectly, and then when accurate knowledge of the Bible is taken into account, the real truth emerges.
A jolting, very unpleasant start to this discussion is absolutely necessary, as it informs of all the lies about death that are prevalent, and also why the sacredness of LIFE is not as fully appreciated as it should be.
Jehovah God, the Omnipotent, Omniscient and Almighty God, our Heavenly Father and Creator, states in His Manual, the Holy Bible, that when you die, that you are as lifeless as a stone, with one real difference. After your death you remain in His memory, either as a loving child of His, or for a short while as a disobedient wrongdoer.


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If you're wondering if you should date mature GILFS, the answer is that it really depends. By this we mean that it really depends on whether or not you're ready to date an older woman. And it also depends on your reasons for dating.
Let's face it. While other older women are more experienced and tend to have more money than younger women, it does not mean that they do not have issues of their own. And these issues you may or may not be prepared to handle.
One of the most troubling issues we see when it comes to dating mature GILFS is when both the man and the woman fall in love with each other and decide to be in a relationship. Pretty soon, the woman's insecurity about her age and the loyalty will come to the surface, especially if the man does nothing to placate the woman's fears.
But if both parties are just there to have a good time with no-strings attached, then GILF dating can be one of the most exciting experiences any man can have. Not only do older women tend to be better in bed, they also know how to treat their men, especially those they're fond of, but not really attached to. And if they have the money, they can be really, really generous.
What you need to watch out for are the married ones – you certainly don't want to get into trouble with the husband.
Dating older women has never been easy, what with the sheer number of granny dating sites that you can signup for. If you want to find high-quality older women, the last thing you want to do is to use a free dating site. Make an investment in your love life and sex life by paying for membership at a GILF dating site.
Since there are many paid dating sites out there feature GILFS exclusively, you might be wondering about which website to choose. Well, there are several things you need to take a look at, and one of these is the number of women on the website.
Nobody will ever tell you this, but online dating is really a contact-and-numbers game where your chances of getting a date really depends on the number of women you contact. And you cannot be in contact with the same woman over and over again, can you?
Anyway, aside from the women, you should also take a look at the communication features of the website. Does it allow for video chatting and video call?