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– WWE recently congratulated John Cena on hitting another Twitter milestone – 3,000,000 followers.
– The 2012 WWE Hell In a Cell DVD will be released on November 27th and features WWE Champion CM Punk as a devil on the cover. Punk and his opponent Ryback are featured on the spine of the DVD. You can order the DVD via Amazon.com at this link.
– Earlier this week, The New York Times predicted Linda McMahon had just a 14% chance at winning the US Senate election in the state of Connecticut next Tuesday. Now they predict Linda has just a 12% chance of winning.


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n. When a man wearing a dress shirt forgets to pull up his fly and subsequently discovers, much to his chagrin, that the tail(s) of his shirt is sticking straight out through the hole.
John had to go to the bathroom during the benefit dinner and on the way back, he forgot to pull up his fly. Man, did we all laugh at his shirt penis.
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Villas in Dubai are not purchased only for personal use. They are excellent places to live with your family and loved ones, but they are also excellent investment options. They have attracted a lot of investment from expats and foreign nationals who have purchased property here for the excellent results that this investment is likely to yield in the future. Dubai has also registered the highest potential for growth in the real estate sector. Villas have played an important role in the increase in value of property here in Dubai and it is thought that in coming years this is set to only grow higher.


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Rain on exterior oil based paint?
It rained on my exterior oil based paint job about an hour after I painted. Will it be ruined?
Not a good thing, but just wait and see. Because it was oil, at least the water can't dissolve it.
Like BJ said, give it a few days. If it was a heavy rain, the moisture laying on the paint film usually dulls the gloss of an oil based finish. If it was a brief shower, you may luck out and only get a few "fish eyes" in the finish. I can remember the old days when oil took DAYS to dry..........any kind of moisture could set you back........did some aluminum siding.......got a heavy September fog and the paint literally SLID off the siding! Not good.
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Christophe: Hello, I am Christophe from Belgium, and this is Aiste from Lithuania and for elllo.org this is the question of the day: Should kids learn about personal finance? Aiste, what is your opinion about that?
Aiste: Well, I think it should definitely learn about personal finance, so opinion any kids shouldn't be a lot of money, and shouldn't think that money just appears when you go to your mom or dad and say, " I want this. I want that - and - please give me money for that, so if the kid feels that money is a limited thing, I think that's the first step to learn about personal finance. What's your opinion, Christophe?
Christophe: Wait! But you told me that when you were a small girl, you went to your daddy and you said 'Daddy, can I have money, please?' and it was all the time like that.
Aiste: Yes, but my amount was kind of limited, and every litas I got, that's the currency in my country, every litas was counted for a certain purpose, so my dad knew exactly that my transportation costs would be two litas and I had five litas for my lunch during the day, and that was it. So it was really ... because I used to go to school for a kind of locked time and I had to each lunch, and so because he knew that, I couldn't have any extra money that I would use that for for example, if I would need some puzzle, or I would like to go somewhere, I couldn't actually save unless I didn't eat. So the money was actually limited, so I could feel that this was not just get as much as you want.
Christophe: So what you're saying is that you learned about personal finance?
Aiste: Yes, I think so.
Christophe: So that's good.
Aiste: Well, probably.
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Last Hyères before it turns 30.
For its 29th edition, Villa Noailles director and Fashion + Photography founder Jean-Pierre Blanc invited the American duo of Humberto Leon and Carol Lim, Kenzo designers and Opening Ceremony founders, to preside the Fashion Jury.
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Spotlight your favorite reading chair with this brushed nickel, plug-in wall lamp with an adjustable arm.More Details >
Modern style and functionality combine in this George Kovacs wall lamp. The Reading Room collection wall lamp has a brushed nickel finish for a sleek design. An adjustable arm allows for versatility when reading and the light has a 3-way dimmer switch so you can control the output. May be used as a hard-wired or plug-in. Includes cord cover for plug-in use. A George Kovacs design from Minka.
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Used it in two bedrooms; liked the versatility
Look great. Perfect reading lights
This is the only swing arm wall lamp I could find that extended far enough for perfect, targeted reading light. But, the on-off switch only works occasionally. Most often it needs to be turned backwards and forward multiple times for the light to actually come on. Using a wall switch works fine. Just not the rotating switch on the lamp itself.
My husband and I purchased a pair of these lamps to use in our bedroom and are very happy with them. They were fairly easy to install (the wiring was already there from an electrician, but we installed the lamps ourselves.) They're perfect for nighttime reading. The small, focused lamp lets one of us read without shining too much light on the other. The lamp articulates in several places so you can focus the light right where you need it. The bulbs included get a little hot, but nothing that creates a problem. Attractive design and a very reasonable price compared to other models that articulate in as many places.
With such a great selection and pricing on swing out lamps, it was a thrill to find just what we'd been looking for but not been able to find anywhere else, in person or online. We found the quality of the lamps to be much better than we expected, it was a pleasant surprise. I will be buying more of these particular lamps. Oh and the colour matches brushed nickel fixtures like recessed lighting and ceiling fans just lovely.
I use the light for reading on the sofa. My table lights don't provide enough light. It provides great illumination at 2 levels. The instructions were extremly confusing especially when the light was easy to install. Although I did need to place small washers behind the nuts that hold the lamp to the wall.
The lamp is very attractive and everything but the switch looks and is constructed well. The on/off switch is a cheap piece of plastic that doesn't match the look or quality of the rest of the piece and was broken out of the box. Also the installation instructions were useless, confusing, frustrating and a waste of paper. I had to hire a electrician for a job that should have been a very simply install. Besides that... my son is thrilled with his new lamp
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We have two lamps, bought at the same time, 4 years ago. Both recently needed new switches ( failed on the low light level feature ), and their decorative round plastic handles ( no set screws). On one lamp, the clamp that allows the head to swivel on its ball lost friction and needed to be squeezed hard with vice-grips to restore some holding power. And regular rotation of the head led to a short circuit-- the wires frayed at the ball/swivel junction. Needed to rewire the lamp.
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Installed double set, wall mounted on each side of bed as reading lights. Look great, very functional. Two settings, multi-position adjustments. Only criticism is that they feel really hot when you sit under them to read.
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I have always been used to small fonts but now, as I am getting older, I'd better admit that a greater font is much more relaxing.
Editing PowerPivot measures has always been a pain, since all you have available is a small text box and I hate to admit that I got used to leverage ZoomIt for a long time to edit measures.
Today I ran into a great Windows feature that I did not know about: ctrl-wheel on the mouse inside a textbox increases the font size of the text box. It seems to work with most textboxes in Windows, even if I use it mostly inside PowerPivot to be able to read at a reasonable size.
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My car is a 2003 Subaru WRX with 98k miles, stock except for the up-pipe(installed when I bought it), I always use good gas in my car and haven't had any major problems like this since I got the car last year. The problem started about two weeks after I changed my spark plugs, which I later found out were gapped wrong and seemed to be the causation of my problem. It first misfired when I was getting on the highway and was at fairly high RPM(5-6k), there was a loss in power and the blinking CEL, which I've read and know is a misfire. Over the last day I've switched to a new set of properly gapped plugs but after the engine runs for a while I get a misfire all over again(haven't left my drive-way). Other than the new plugs and a visual inspection of the coil packs, I haven't done anything else to fix the problem because the alternatives all look expensive and I can't even pinpoint the problem as of now. I've been looking on other posts but I figured I should start my own instead of stealing somebody else's, so if anybody has any input it would be greatly appreciated, Thanks.
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EEOC Targets Pregnancy Discrimination
Pregnancy brings a host of new concerns to an expectant mother's life — but whether she'll be forced out of her job shouldn't be one of them. Pregnancy discrimination has become a hot-button issue for the Equal Employment Opportunity Commission, which enforces federal laws prohibiting employment discrimination. If your employer thinks your pregnancy makes you a liability, it may be in trouble.
Red Lobster Short-Changes Servers to Avoid Obamacare
Sticking it to underpaid and overworked waiters and waitresses is turning out to be business as usual for Darden Restaurants Inc., which owns Olive Garden and Red Lobster. After being sued in September by workers alleging they are being shorted on overtime and minimum wage, the company has announced it plans to move more of its beleaguered staff from full- to part-time status to avoid paying for their health insurance on Jan. 1, 2014.
Lawsuit: Vietnam Vets Say Army Used Them as Guinea Pigs
The 1990 movie "Jacob's Ladder" told the story of a Vietnam veteran tortured by hallucinations that were caused by drugs he was given, without his knowledge, by the U.S. Army. Twenty-two years later, the real-life version is playing out. A federal court in California has certified a class action of Vietnam vets who are suing the U.S. government over exposure to biological and chemical agents they say were administered to them in secret experiments.
Starbucks Sued by Baristas, Managers over Tip-Sharing
That Plexiglas box you throw your change into after you pay for your latte is causing a big ruckus. In two separate class action suits, baristas and managers are fighting over the tip jar, and they now have to wait and see what the New York Court of Appeals has to say about who gets the change — which could add up to a lot of money.
Walmart Strikes Spread Nationwide
What started as isolated walkouts in California by employees of Walmart has spread to cities across the nation, as the retailer's workers fight for better working conditions and the right to organize. The strikes are some of the first in Walmart's history. Employees are striking over issues including include workplace safety, staffing, pay and retaliation against those who complain about their employment conditions.


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Social media biting back at TV, reality
We've come a long way from the days of "On the Internet, no one knows you're a dog," from the 1993 New Yorker cartoon.
Today, you can't use Facebook, Twitter, Instagram or Google without leaving a trail of digital bread crumbs about every move you make. In such an environment, it should be easy-peasy to verify someone's identity and if they are who they say they are.
Yet Internet fraud is rampant.
The latest victim is Notre Dame football player Manti Te'o, who went from the sports pages to the news pages after claiming he fell in love with a woman who did not exist. He claimed to be a victim of a scam called "catfishing," named after a documentary about the practice. Te'o claimed to interact with the woman strictly online, and was led to believe she died of leukemia. How her death inspired the runner-up for the Heisman Trophy on the road to the national championship game became part of his legend and brand. Now, his brand is damaged, and there is speculation he collaborated in the ruse as part of his Heisman campaign.
"Catfish," the 2010 documentary, is about a man who befriends a girl who sought him out on MySpace and began an online romance with her sister. What follows "in revelation after heart-wrenching revelation is breathtaking," wrote our reviewer, Graham Killeen. The film questions "who we are, who we wish we were and the spawning ground that social media has become for both."
In 2012, the filmmakers turned the movie into an MTV reality show that the channel's website says "brings together couples who've interacted solely through their LCD screens" to see what "will happen when they meet in real life for the first time."
On Entertainment Weekly's website, Nev Schulman, the subject of the film and a producer of the series, said anyone can be duped by a well-crafted Internet persona. He gives Te'o the benefit of the doubt, and hopes the incident will "spark a lot of conversations about . . . a very real, very serious phenomenon that's taking place." It also could spark renewed interest in "Catfish: The TV Show," now its second season - episodes can be streamed at MTV's website - and the film, which is available on DVD.
Which brings us back to the dog. The Internet is a minefield, which is why using it to make a marketing or promotional connection with customers can backfire. Every Facebook friend a radio or TV station collects is a potentially embittered listener or viewer who can compromise a corporate image by reacting negatively to something a station does using its own platform.
It happened when Christmas music lovers turned against WMYX-FM (99.1) for not switching to the format. And this week, the WTMJ-TV (Channel 4) "Live at Daybreak" got caught in a dogfight when it was bitten in the Facebook.
The show's meteorologist, Scott Steele, invites viewers to send him photos of their pets, which he then shows on the air. The WITI-TV (Channel 6) "WakeUp" news similarly shows photos of children on their 6th birthday, sent in by their parents.
Such audience participation is designed to create a sense of family. But an unintended consequence can be the sense of entitlement demonstrated by a viewer who expressed outrage on Facebook when her dog photo was not shown by Steele.
And by tagging the show's anchors Susan Kim and Vince Vitrano, the comments showed up on their Facebook pages.
After using a crude word, the viewer wrote: "I received an email from (the) Scott Steele Fan Page . . . for our Jordan to be on Pet Photos this morning . . . now told he would not be on . . . Oh, so (expletive). Thank you Today's TMJ4 for nothing!!!!"
The comment escalated into a social-media kerfuffle.
Kim apologized: "We are not in charge of pet pics. Scott picks those out. He will be back tomorrow. Thanks for your feedback." Vitrano was more caustic: "Sorry you've taken this tone." Steele was "out unexpectedly" and "is not here today. Hopefully, you can find some sympathy for his situation, instead of complaining your dog wasn't on TV."
Commenters piled on. "Get over it. The guy is sick. Your dog will be on TV another day," wrote one. "Did you stop to consider that maybe Scott had some unexpected personal issue? (My) first thought would be: I hope everything is okay with him."
Eventually, the dog owner wrote she hoped "all is okay with Scott," before taking down her comments. And in fact, Thursday morning, Steele showed a picture of the dog and Vitrano commented that it was "really nice we could get Jordan on this morning."
Happy ending? Or just another pebble in a social-media landslide?
One commenter on my blog wrote "nothing about (the situation) is good for the station. Inadvertently incorrect information started it, on-air talent (trying to help) just makes it worse, and anonymous commenters blow it out of proportion. Sports and media types all over are getting in more and more trouble with Twitter and Facebook posts."
It turns out after all these years that social media is the dog. And it bites.
Consider the above incidents as evidence of alternate realities, a concept that has been the backbone of "Fringe."
After five seasons, the series has its two-hour finale Friday at 7 p.m. on Fox. But it's too late to tune in now because you can't tell what's going on without being privy to the convoluted mythology. The otherworldly series began with a "monster of the week" mentality, but then revealed how those events were connected to a parallel universe just like ours, except different. This season, the characters were awakened in a future where test-tube near-humans known as the Observers control the earth. All that stands in the way of the characters saving the planet will be their ability to alter the future to reboot the past.
However, if the show's ambiguous, shape-shifting narrative is any indication, this will result in a bittersweet ending rather than a happy one.
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Following Governor Christie at the Republican Governors Association
Matt Katz has been live-tweeting from Arizona this week, where New Jersey Gov. Chris Christie has just become charirman of the Republican Governors Association. You can hear what Christie's been doing this week in host Amy Eddings' interview with Katz, which aired on All Things Considered Thursday afternoon. Here's the scene so far.
Gov. Christie explains the Christie Press Conference rules to national media: "I'll call on people."
When asked about 2016: "Everyone here has been laser-focused on 2014." Said with deep sarcasm.
On not answering Yes/No to immigration reform: "I don't have to answer the question the way you want me to."
On becoming RGA Chairman: "I'm honored by my colleagues' confidence in me."
Katz says that the RGA could be "a linchpin in his eventual candidacy" for President - the organization spent more than $130 million on Republican candidates last year. Stay tuned.


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DETROIT -- Matt Stairs and Zack Greinke turned their fortunes around Thursday night.
Stairs hit two home runs, including a grand slam, and drove in six runs and Greinke won for the first time since May 31, as the Kansas City Royals beat the Detroit Tigers 12-9.
Stairs struggled in the first half of the season, hitting .252 with eight home runs and 27 RBI.
"When you get 37 years old and you get three days off," Stairs said about the All-Star break, "you feel pretty good when you come back."
He said he went home to Maine and spent time with his wife and three children and watched hitting tapes of himself earlier in his career with Oakland.
Greinke (2-11) had lost five straight decisions and hadn't won in seven starts.
He allowed two runs and five hits in 5 1/3 innings, walking three and striking out three.
"I thought it was important to get him a win," Kansas City manager Buddy Bell said about pulling Greinke in the sixth. "Get us a win."
Greinke has only gone six innings once in his last 11 starts.
"I don't even think it's the pitch count, I just get to the sixth inning and I'll be bad," Greinke said. " ... They'll have to take me out."
Craig Monroe of the Tigers certainly wasn't impressed with the Royals' starter.
"I saw nothing special with him tonight," he said. "He made some mistakes, but got off the hook. You have to give him credit. He's just a young pitcher still learning."
Mike MacDougal pitched the ninth for his 12th save.
David DeJesus added three hits and two RBI for Kansas City, which set a season high for runs.
Chris Shelton homered and drove in three runs, Monroe homered and had two RBI, and Magglio Ordonez drove in two runs for Detroit.
"Definitely not the way we wanted to start the second half," Shelton said. "We gave up a few too many walks and didn't score enough runs."
Jeremy Bonderman (11-6) took the loss despite matching his career high with nine strikeouts. He gave up six runs and eight hits in six-plus innings.
"Bonderman had good stuff. We started swinging at strikes," Bell said. "He got behind in the count."
Down 6-2 in the seventh, Detroit scored three runs on Monroe's leadoff home run, Shelton's sacrifice fly and Ordonez's RBI single.
But the Royals came back with six runs in the eighth, including Stairs' grand slam off Franklyn German. It was Stairs' 10th homer of the season and ninth career grand slam.
"One of those things where you definitely have to give guys credit for getting on base," Stairs said. "To get the ball in the air and get a grand slam is a bonus."
DeJesus singled in a run in the inning and Mike Sweeney walked with the bases loaded.
Detroit scored four in the eighth on an error, and RBI singles by Brandon Inge, Shelton and Ordonez.
Stairs, who matched his career high with the six RBI, put Kansas City up 2-0 in the first with a two-out, two-run homer.
Shelton led off the sixth with his eighth homer.
Kansas City reinstated RHP Ambiorix Burgos from the 15-day disabled list and designated RHP Ryan Jensen for assignment. The Royals also reinstated RHP Kyle Snyder from the 15-day DL and optioned him to Triple-A Omaha. ... Detroit placed closer Troy Percival on the 15-day disabled list with a torn right forearm muscle. He was on the DL from May 8-June 4 with the same injury. ... Tigers 2B Placido Polanco was out because of a strained left hamstring tendon. He is day-to-day.


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When Pressure Is On, Partisan Walls Fall
With a budget deadline approaching, California lawmakers can learn a thing or two from the Nevada Legislature on finding common ground.
Maybe California should take a page from Nevada's playbook: After 120 days of partisan bickering, the 76th session of the Nevada Legislature reached a deal to extend $620 million in existing taxes for two years to balance a $6.2 billion general fund, the Las Vegas Review-Journal reports.
It wasn't unanimous (Assembly vote: 36-6; Senate vote: 15-6). But in the end, the majority backed Republican Gov. Brian Sandoval, who broke his promise not to raise taxes. The taxes -- on business payrolls, retail sales and car registrations -- had been set to expire June 30.
The final push came last week after Sandoval decided that a May 26 Supreme Court decision ruled out his two-year spending plan to balance the budget using $657 million in local government and school district funds.
"It's probably a date none of us will ever forget," Republican Senate Minority Leader Mike McGinness, told the Review-Journal after supporting the tax extension. "A decision to vote for the budget is not an easy one for me, but it will put our state on a path toward fiscal stability."
Not to say it was a flawless victory. Several social programs were cut, including an $11.4 million program to give property tax rebates to poor senior citizens. Local governments also will have to foot about $14 million in programs regarding the care and protection of children. Under the budget, teachers and state workers will get a 2.5 percent pay cut.
But in Nevada, at least, California lawmakers have an example of what it looks like to find common ground. With the June 15 deadline for a California budget right around the corner, lawmakers have equally tough decisions to make. They should be motivated by this bit of information from California's state controller: If they fail to close the budget gap, lawmakers will start losing their pay on June 15.
"In passing Proposition 25 last November, voters clearly stated they expect their representatives to make the difficult decisions needed to resolve any budget shortfalls by the mandatory deadline, or be penalized," state Controller John Chiang said in a statement. "I will enforce the voters' demand."
It's no surprise that California Gov. Jerry Brown supported Chiang's not-a-threat-but-a-promise stance. Of course, the partisan dynamics in California are different than in Nevada. But the fact is that this type of pressure helps push collaboration, especially when political futures hang in the balance. Per the Christian Science Monitor:
Yet five days before that deadline, a new bipartisan commission (created by a 2008 ballot initiative) will release California's new redistricting map, which could radically alter the character of some lawmakers' districts. Overnight, some who are currently in Republican strongholds could find themselves scrambling to win Democratic votes -- and vice versa. The result: a wait-and-see approach toward the budget.
"I absolutely think the drawing of these maps is having a huge effect on what's going on," says Mike Zimmerman, chief of staff for Republican Assemblyman Martin Garrick. "A lot of focus has been diverted by those trying to figure out how their possible votes will affect their future constituents."
Only time will tell if and how these changes factor into the debate, but if California lawmakers need inspiration, they don't have to look too far.
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Under fire for making crass remarks, deputy chief minister Ajit Pawar apologised for the second time in two days and said he had made the biggest blunder of his political life.
The Opposition, however, rejected the senior Nationalist Congress Party (NCP) leader's apology in the legislature and stalled proceedings for the day.
At a rally on Saturday, Pawar had asked whether he should urinate in dams to provide water. He had also linked power cuts to population growth.
A public apology from NCP chief Sharad Pawar did not break the Opposition's resolve. Last year too, he had apologised after his nephew called himself a rogue and said he would deal with people the way he wanted.


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Sunday, 11 August 2013
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Ninth Commonwealth Youth Forum 2013 :
by M.H.M.N. Bandara
Sri Lanka is privileged to host the ninth Commonwealth Youth Forum
(CYF) from November 10 to 14 at the Hambantota International Conference
The Commonwealth Youth Forum will be held as one of the mega events
parallel to the Commonwealth Heads of Government Meeting (CHOGM)
scheduled to be held in Colombo from November 15 to 17, 2013. Over 1,000
local and foreign representatives from 54 Commonwealth countries are
expected to participate in the inaugural ceremony of the ninth
Commonwealth Youth Forum.
The Commonwealth Youth Forum which is scheduled to be held in
November will undoubtedly be the largest youth conference ever organised
by the Government. Officials of the Commonwealth Youth Program (CYP),
the foreign youth representatives, experts on the subject of Youth and
Development, and members of the Ministries of Youth Affairs of all
Commonwealth nations are expected to participate in the event.
The Ministry of Youth Affairs along with the National Youth Service
Council had already established the Commonwealth Youth Forum Secretariat
to organise the event on a grand scale.
The Commonwealth Youth Forum (CYF) will take place during the period
of the scheduled CHOGM and the event will be of advantage to our younger
generation and officers of the Youth Development arena. Officially, two
youth representatives from each of the Commonwealth Countries will
participate in the event.
The Government will select Sri Lankan youth representatives from all
the regions of the country for various events who will play an important
role along with their international colleagues to make the event a
The participants will have the advantage of exchanging their views
with one another and understanding the similarities as well as
differences of cultural values of the people of all the Commonwealth
nations. The conference will enable participants, both foreign and
local, to exchange their views among themselves and improve their
knowledge about the strengths, weaknesses, opportunities and challenges
pertaining to youth development in their particular countries.
Sri Lanka has hosted several medium range youth related international
seminars and conferences in the past. In 1998 the Asian Youth Council
meeting was held in Kandy with participants from over 20 countries.
In 2008 Sri Lanka also hosted the Commonwealth Youth Ministers
meeting successfully. In 2014, Sri Lanka anticipates hosting United
Nations World Youth Congress along with representatives from all UN
member countries.
Hosting such conferences and or seminars in the country will not only
enhance the image of the country but will also convince other nations of
the capacity and the capability of the country to handle such events
successfully. This will also be an impetus towards the promotion of the
tourist industry in the country. We are indeed fortunate to have the
opportunity to host the forthcoming ninth Youth Forum (CYF) in this
country, when we will be able to show the Commonwealth Nations what our
nation has achieved in the field of youth development and other ongoing
important development projects in the country. The history of youth
development activities in Sri Lanka can be traced back to 1967, when the
Youth Development Act was passed in Parliament.
Focus on youth
The classification of youth as between the ages of 15 and 29 years
was based on the research done by Ariye Levie of Israel and as recorded
in his two-volume publication published in 1966 on 'Needs of Sri Lankan
youth'. During the government of the late Mrs. Sirima Bandaranaike, a
Youth Farm Project was set-up at Agunukolapelessa to train the younger
generation in agricultural activities on a mass scale. The first foreign
youth exchange program was established in 1974 between Canada and Sri
The Ministry for Youth Affairs was first set up in 1979, the
objective being the improvement and development of youth activities at a
national level. The National Youth Centre, which was solely dedicated to
improve and develop Sri Lankan youth established on June 11, 1987 was a
gift by the Japanese Government to the youth of Sri Lanka. It is
considered an important milestone in the identity of youth development.
Sri Lanka can be proud of being the only country in the South Asian
region providing excellent infrastructure facilities for the improvement
and development of youth. A few of those facilities are, the State
sponsored Sri Lanka Youth Drama Festivals, Sri Lanka Youth Awards
Festivals, Sri Lanka Youth Sports Festivals and Sri Lanka National Youth
Corps. In addition youth are being trained in vocations at Vocational
Training Institutions run by the State.The Youth Club Movement in Sri
Lanka, which was set up in 1979, is considered to be the largest of such
organisations in the world, with practically every village having its
own Youth Club commencing its activities at grass roots level. It is
estimated that around 15,000 Youth Clubs are in existence in the country
comprising a membership of approximately over 600,000.
After the village level, the elected members of village Youth Clubs
have the opportunity of joining the regional Youth Club Federations,
district Youth Club Federations and the National Youth Club Federation,
called the Sri Lanka Youth Club Federation.
A large number of such Youth Club members have been elected both to
the Parliament and other Local Government bodies, such as Pradeshiya
Sabhas, Urban Councils, Municipal Councils and Provincial Councils. Some
hold important positions in State and private sector institutions, while
some are popular artistes.
The Youth Parliament is a home-grown concept and is now popular in
many countries. It is an institution where the inborn talents of the
youth are sharpened and democracy taught by example.
Members of the Youth Parliament comprises 335 members, of which three
are selected by the Secretary to the Ministry of Youth Affairs. They
are, one member from the indigenous Community, one member from the Malay
community and the other member from the differently-abled youth of the
The Youth Parliament is divided into two groups, the government group
and the opposition group, the government group having 168 members and
the opposition group having 167 members. Members of both the groups
indulge themselves in parliamentary debates and putting forward their
ideas, some members opposing and some members supporting, of course
confining themselves to parliamentary language.
In the late 1990s the Youth Service Council set up Youth Provincial
Councils and Youth Pradeshiya Sabhas in addition to the Youth
Parliament, where democratic values are being instilled in the
adolescent minds, especially rural youth.
The forthcoming ninth Commonwealth Youth Forum will be an ideal venue
for our Youth Parliamentarians to showcase their democratic talents
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Dec 2, 2012 - The Associated PressGRANTS PASS, Ore. -- The U.S. Supreme Court will decide whether to switch gears on more than 30 years of regulating the muddy water running off logging roads into rivers.
At issue: Should the U.S. Environmental Protection Agency keep considering it the same as water running off a farm field, or start looking at it like a pipe coming out of a factory?
The case being heard Monday in Washington, D.C., was originated by a small environmental group in Portland, the Northwest Environmental Defense Center.
It sued the Oregon Department of Forestry over roads on the Tillamook State Forest that drain into salmon streams. The lawsuit argued that the Clean Water Act specifically says water running through the kinds of ditches and culverts built to handle storm water runoff from logging roads is a point source of pollution when it flows directly into a river, and requires the same sort of permit that a factory needs.
"We brought this out of a perceived sense of unfairness," said Mark Riskedahl, director of the center. "Every other industrial sector across the country had to get this sort of permit for stormwater discharge," and the process has been very effective at reducing pollution.
The pollution running off logging roads, most of them gravel or dirt, is primarily muddy water stirred up by trucks. Experts have long identified sediment dumped in streams as harmful to salmon and other fish.
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I seriously doubt if there's someone here who hasn't fallen for someone who belongs to another. I recall some months ago, there was this young man living opposite my office. He had a fiancée whom had been with him through it all. Well, suddenly, he fell for a friend of mine who paid me a visit once. I tried all I could to make them see why they were infatuated with each other, but I must confess their chemistry was out of this world. He would pick her up, take her places, they would walk hand in hand, talk for hours, and do things which he hadn't done with his fiancée in a long time.
There's nothing more exciting than doing something in the dark and hoping you never get caught. I've had my fair share of forbidden love situations, but thankfully, I was able to walk away unscathed because I never gave in to that temptation. 1walked away,so should you.


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Dana J. Harris
DEERWOOD - Dana J. Harris, 66, of Deerwood, died on Thursday, Dec. 30, 2010, at his home.
Visitation for Dana will be on Wednesday, Jan. 5, 2011, from 4-7 p.m. at the Brenny Funeral Chapel in Baxter. Services will be Thursday, Jan. 6, 2011, at 1 p.m. at the Shepherd of the Lake Lutheran Church in Garrison with visitation one hour prior to services. Interment will be at the Bay Lake Cemetery in Deerwood.
Dana was born on April 27, 1944, in Brainerd, Minn., to Elmer and Beulah (Spracklin) Harris. Dana was a hard worker and learned to be that way at an early age when he was growing up on the family farm. After high school Dana joined the Marines serving in Vietnam. He was very dedicated and took much pride in his service as a Marine. In 2001 he married Colleen in Las Vegas, Nev. In Dana's earlier years he enjoyed water and downhill skiing and later in life he enjoyed trapping, tapping for maple syrup and cutting wood. Dana was an avid outdoorsman enjoying hunting and fishing throughout his life. He loved playing cribbage and gardening. Dana will always be remembered for wearing his hat with a big happy smile on his face. Dana most loved spending time with his family and his grandchildren often sharing his experiences and his love of the outdoors.
Dana will be sadly missed by his wife, Colleen (Avery); children, Troy (Jill) Harris, Angie (Jay) Halverson, Christine (Paul) Edwards, Anthony (Tanya) Kinney, Angela (Jason) Brichacek and James Kinney; 15 grandchildren; brothers, Darryl (Vivian) Harris and David (Donna) Harris; and many nieces and nephews.
He was preceded in death by his parents; sisters, Gailraye Harris and Dahrys "Birdie" Nolan; and a nephew, Darryl "Ray" Harris.
Arrangements have been entrusted to Brenny Funeral Chapel in Baxter.


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What Color Are Your Socks?
It's time to leash your dogma
"Marine! You! What color are your socks?" Looking down at the band of white above his boots and below his bloused trousers, a veteran of many a fire fight winces. He knows what's coming "White socks are not authorized! What are you, some kind of cowboy? Who do you work for? This looks like a leadership problem!"
Sadly, the color of one's socks has become an indicator of one's worth as a Marine. He is not judged by his actions in the fight against the Taliban, nor is he judged by the weeks and months of active combat that he has been fortunate enough to survive. Regrettably, for too many leaders, Afghanistan has become a place where they can replace Gen John A. Lejeune's philosophy of leaders and Marines treating each other as teachers and scholars with the simplistic and domineering mantra of the drill instructor and the recruit; instead of mentoring and leading our young Marines into the complex world of fourth-generation warfare, many choose to impose upon their juniors the myopic and amateurish repressive fetters that are better suited for the yellow footprints.
Blind adherence to regulation and rule without the temper of maturity is not leadership; it is autocracy. When common sense and situational awareness are pitched out the porthole and replaced with the narrowly focused dogma of domination the result can be unsettling, if not frankly outrageous. Sadly, there are many examples of such "leadership" in action overseas.
Outside the dining facility, a young Marine is accosted by his seniors because he has no cover and there are no nametags sewn onto his utility uniform. The junior Marine, after being excoriated for his unprofessional appearance, explains that he is fresh from the camp hospital. He details that after being delivered to the surgical team via the medevac helicopter his bloody combat uniform was cut from his body by the triage corpsmen. It is only then, after the wounded Marine explains what has happened, that those "leaders" cometo understand that perhaps they should ask the Marine why he lacks a cover and nametags instead of immediately condemning him for his seeming unprofessionalism. Perception is not always reality. It is the duty of a leader to be able to tell the difference.
In another corner of the area of operations, senior leaders have unilaterally determined that the flame resistant overgarment uniform is not authorized for use aboard the forward operating base or outside the wire. Instead of offering their Marines the enhanced protection offered by the specially designed and organizationally provided combat uniform, those uniforms sit in a con ex box, unissued, despite the real danger that flaming improvised explosive devices pose to each and every Marine who ventures out on patrol. Leaders should endeavor to provide every possible form of protection for their Marines, not to inflict their personal idiosyncratic distain for the unfamiliar and deny them access to such important and potentially lifesaving gear.
In yet another part ofHelmand Province, Afghanistan, a leader who truly understands co unter insurgency makes the notable decision to meet with his tribal counterparts fully clothed in a s hai war khameez and native head wrap. His decision to embrace the customs, culture, and clothing of the indigenous peoples is rightfully lauded as the superb application of co unter insurgency doctrine, yet should a lance corporal wear a shemaugh (scarf that he received as a gift from an Afghan counterpart to protect his neck from the blazing sun, he is regarded as an undisciplined renegade worthy only of a rebuke. Just because the Marine Corps hasn't yet started to issue such a piece of gear isn't a reason that we can't allow initiative borne of common sense to prevail. True leaders should be capable of releasing their slavish grip on the uniform regulations in order to look out for the welfare of their Marines.
We are fighting a complicated war against a dynamically changing and continually adapting enemy. We preach the significance of initiative at the lowest level, the critical ity of the strategic corporal, and the importance of company-level operations. A central tenet of counterinsurgency is the decentralization of control to those who walk the ground, where young officers and young Marines are expected to use their experience and intelligence to make the right decisions. It is disingenuous to expect graduate-level thought from Marines who are hamstrung by leaders who cannot see beyond the confines of peacetime regulations and actually trust the judgment of junior Marines who are on the frontlines of this counterinsurgent war.
Gen A.A. Vandegrift led a division of Marines into the jungles of Guadalcanal, and they managed to successfully conduct the first major U.S. Marine operation of the Pacific campaign despite disregarding established orders to wear their useless leggings in the sodden jungle. We revere the survivors of the Chosin campaign notwithstanding their undisciplined audacity to wrap themselves in any tattered rag they could find to keep the savage cold at bay as they fought their way to Hungnam. Today, our Marines are likewise doing great things as they fight the Taliban and embrace the local culture, and just maybe, as leaders, we can embrace their initiative and learn from it ourselves.
These same young Marines are giving the Nation the best, and for many the last, years of their lives. They are also giving their feet, their legs, their arms, their hands, and sometimes more in service to Corps and country. As such, it is the sacred duty of every leader to ensure that they are well and properly led. There are times that a leader must force Marines to save their own lives, but to correlate the wearing of nonregulation socks to protect their feet or a scarf to protect their neck with unprofessionalism and a cowboy attitude shows a remarkable level of disrespect. The common sense of a combat veteran should not be so readily discounted by those who do not share their burdens; perhaps those who spend more time inside the wire than beyond its relative safety should take note of those who live on the other side. No sane Marine would forego the protection of his or her small arms protective insert plates when headed for a gun fight, and those who disregard the requirements for their own safety are fully deserving of the lambasting that their seniors are duty bound to enthusiastically provide. Again, it is the duty of the leader to distinguish what is right even if it contradicts the regulations. Most people call that simple common sense.
Those leaders who emphatically state that there is no difference between the rules and expectations for Marines between the continental Unites States (CONUS) and a combat zone exhibit a shocking lack of situational awareness. To equate the conditions and realities of Camp CONUS with camps, outposts, and bases in Afghanistan is to disregard reality. In CONUS there is no enemy doing his best to kill Marines on a daily basis, there are no improvised explosive devices in the roads, no snipers in the tree lines, and no combat pay. Marines can go home to their families at night and read bedtime stories to their children, which they certainly cannot do in Afghanistan. It is time for leaders at all levels to recognize that things are indeed different in a combat zone; a Marine doesn't live in a mud hut or a hole in the ground and not shower for months on end in CONUS. There, a Marine has the luxury of buying a new pair of regulation socks when his current pair wears out. There a Marine doesn't spend hour after hour out in the sun, day after day, week after week, and month after month without respite. To reduce the hardships, dangers, and realities of fighting a real war to a level of irrelevancy subordinate to the rigid expectations of garrison life in Camp CONUS is naive and sorrowfully narrow-minded. We can, and should, do better.
Let's get back to the Marine from the beginning of this article. What color are his socks? Today they are white, because many yesterdays ago his issued socks rotted off of his feet. Weeks that stretched to months of slogging through the mud and canals of Marjah made short work of them. Thankfully, such great supporters of the military as those at Socks for Soldiers sent boxes of new, clean, white athletic socks for him to wear, for which he was grateful. How shocked would those great Americans be if they knew that the time and money that they dedicated to help servicemen overseas would be met with the myopic scorn of such narrow-minded leaders who cannot see that sometimes a sock is just a sock and not an attempt to scornfully ignore the uniform regulations? His socks are white. If all you can see is red because that Marine had the audacity to cover his naked feet in something other than his boots for want of a pair of standard issue socks, then there is a leadership problem. If the only thing that runs through your mind when you run into a Marine is what you can do to him as opposed to what you should do for him then you are right; there is indeed a leadership problem. That leadership problem is you.
Three combat tours and his commander is worried about the color of his socks. (Photo by Cpl Paul Zeliner.)


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July 15, 2013 By Scott Amundson
In New Jersey, a bill introduced to the state Senate on May 20 is still pending -- and perhaps for good reason.
Senate Bill (SB) 2783, which would allow police to look through cellphones without warrants, aims to determine whether drivers were texting or talking when a traffic accident occurred should officers have reasonable grounds to believe that may be the case.
But as is expected, the bill has drawn suspicion from the American Civil Liberties Union of New Jersey, which told CNN that the state and federal constitutions "generally require probable cause before authorizing a search, particularly when it comes to areas that contain highly personal information such as cellphones."
Despite privacy concerns, however, there is the matter of driver safety, and cellphone usage has become a major problem for motorists. According to the New Jersey Division of Highway Traffic Safety, 1,840 cellphone-related crashes were reported in 2011.
And the issue isn't limited to the state.
YES. Always check cell phones, and give drivers who are using cell phone EXPENSIVE tickets.
And which other Constitutional freedoms provided by the Bill of Rights by wise founders who thought about all possible government and police abuses do you want to throw away? I agree that obvious texting should be illegal and ticket-able, but we don't need to throw away our freedoms - as Benjamin Franklin (do you recognize his name?) once noted about citizens, those who will thoughtlessly give up their freedoms to attain safety/security will ultimately gain neither. Old Wise Prof


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if you go with a forging, I would strongly suggest you buy the jig and an extra forging. I have milled a couple from scatch but not done a forging (would be sooo much easier)
hello everyone just looking into making an ar but i almost want to start from scratch .. ive seen some forgings ( paperweight as they call it ) just wondering if anyone had some good results from something like this ?
so if anyone has some feed back please put what ever will be helpful however little or small it may be ... i am new to gun building so anything will help . i am a student of machining and welding right now and half way through school so im wanting to put my knowledge to use
if you go with a forging, I would strongly suggest you buy the jig and an extra forging. I have milled a couple from scatch but not done a forging (would be sooo much easier)
There was a couple of folks doing them on this forum about a year ago
I got a couple of the forgings but haven't started them yet.
check this out Ray-Vin Technical Pages
has step by step on how to do a forging
Try looking at CNCGUNSMITHING - www.cncguns.com - Home of the AR45
He has all kinds of good info, and he has been there, done that. At least I think he has....
i will be definitly getting a jig with it or making my own just makes the set up way easier and tolerances better .. what kind of tolerances do you work with on guns like this ? im thinking .003plus or minus
thanks every one for the links they have alot of good reading in em
ther eare some free ones here:where is a good place to get the prints ? ive found some places but cant tell how good the prints are till i get them so i would rather have someone refer someone to me before i try it
AR-15 CAD Files
Try this one. PM me an email addy and I'll send you the rest of the prints I have, I also have a bunch of JPGs saved from somebody's tutorial showing the machining process.


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Navy Band to play in Kingsport
KINGSPORT, TENN. - The United States Navy Concert Band, recognized as one of the finest wind ensembles in the world is scheduled to play in Kingsport on February 6th.
The band will perform in the Toy F. Reid Auditorium on South Wilcox and will present a wide array of marches, patriotic selections, orchestral transcriptions and a modern wind ensemble repertoire. As the original ensemble of the Navy Band, the Concert Band has been performing public concerts and participating in high-profile events for nearly 90 years.
One of the U.S. Navy Band's primary responsibilities involves touring the country. The concerts are family-friendly events, meant to be entertaining to veterans, families, individuals and those interested in joining the Navy.
"America's Navy has only recently adopted the motto, 'Being There Matters,' but it's been a part of what we do for many years - through music - and therefore Navy bands are integral to our national security," said Capt. Brian O. Walden, the Navy Band's commanding officer. "Today, Navy bands are still performing around the world, acting as agents of public diplomacy for the American government, improving relations with our allies and winning the hearts and minds with the universal language of music."
"Community and public outreach is a crucial Departmental activity that reinforces trust and confidence in the United States military and in its most important asset - people," Defense Secretary Chuck Hagel said in an internal memorandum to service chiefs and other military leaders. "These proactive engagements showcase our superior combat power, demonstrate readiness to defend the nation, and help to preserve the all-volunteer force."
The Navy Band's 2014 tour includes 22 performances in Alabama, Louisiana, Mississippi, North Carolina, Tennessee, Texas and Virginia. The band will travel more than 5,300 miles, traveling by bus and truck an average of more than four hours each day.
All Navy Band performances are free and open to the public.
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Todd: Man, this Pee-Wee's Playhouse tape is totally malted. I can't even tell which King of Cartoons that is.
Eric: I told you it was an old tape. You know what they should totally invent? A DVD recorder.
Todd: They have those.
Eric: I'm not talking about a DVD burner. I mean a DVD recorder, like a VCR but with DVDs instead of tapes.
Todd: Yeah, they have those.
Eric: No way.
Todd: Seriously. My cousin, he's got an RCA Dual Format DVD Recorder. It can totally record TV shows or whatever onto DVD+R/+RW or DVD-R/-RW discs, from your TV tuner, camcorder, whatever. Not only that, but it plays DivX videos, has an HDMI output and comes with a free HDMI cable. It can supposedly upconvert your existing DVDs to look kinda high-resolution, if you believe that one.
Eric: Yeah, but can it record TV shows or whatever onto DVD+R/+RW or DVD-R/-RW discs?
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The Kailua man pulled Christmas Day from his backyard pool, where he allegedly tried to kill his 2-year-old daughter and himself, died this week.
The Medical Examiner's Office said Thomas Morton, 36, died Wednesday at Castle Medical Center. The cause of death was determined to be drowning. The office is awaiting toxicology and investigators' reports before making a determination on the manner of death.
Police suspect Morton tried to kill his daughter, opening a second-degree attempted murder case Dec. 25.
Neighbors said Morton, while holding his daughter in his arms, jumped fully clothed into the pool. They saved the girl then pulled Morton from the pool. He was taken by ambulance to the hospital in critical condition.
Ernest Burlem, a next-door neighbor, said Morton's twin brother, who lives in the downstairs unit of their two-story house, is "taking it pretty hard."
"There's a closeness of twins that is hard to understand," he said.
Burlem said the family took Morton off life support Sunday.


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If you're looking for something fun and educational to do, what about a trip to Annapolis?
The Naval Academy is opening a new War of 1812 exhibit.
It features artifacts from the war, paintings from William Koch and focuses on the roll the Chesapeake Bay played on the war.
The War of 1812 exhibit is one of the stops along the walking tour of the Naval Academy.
It opens Monday, and runs 7 days a week through the end of October.


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THE concerts at the Lewisohn Stadium opened last night with the sort of excitement they always generated before World War II.
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Speaking of the World Cup, Rogue Amoeba's Paul Kafasis has a post explaining how to use Vuvux — a free Mac OS X AudioUnit plugin from Prosoniq — to filter out the vuvuzelas. (Don't miss the discount code for Audio Hijack Pro at the end.)
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Ever try locally brewed sake?
Local sake brewer shares a cup
"I discovered Nigori and ever since then, I've brewed sake," said Jeff James, owner of Cedar River Brewing Company, a Phinney based Sake brewery.
Many Seattle residents may know his sake from Bloom, Mashiko, Miyabi 45th and
"I've been brewing for almost five years but just started distributing in October," said James.
The brewery is named for the Cedar River, part of the local water source, and is a
"pastoral" aspect that lends to the tradition of sake.
A resident of West Seattle, James said he had an eye out for his current brewery
location for months and finally found it in Phinney.
James offers three different types of Sake: Nama, Junmai and Nigori. All three have a distinct character and flavor.
He brews the sake by starting with rice that has been milled past most rice
people use for cooking. It's called Calrose Rice and has been milled to reveal a deeper core so that more of the starch is readily extracted. He combines the rice with his pre-made kojo, which is a mold that turns the starch into sugar for the yeast to consume. He has a separated sterile room where he cultures his kogi. James uses simple ingredients: rice, water and yeast, and yeast. The process is much like brewing beer and takes about a month. After its finished the koji is either strained away or kept along with the solution to add flavors.
James brews three unique styles of sake. He uses traditional techniques to brew with each batch imparting different aspects of the rice showing off the breadth of rice flavor. He uses a 40 gallon steel brew pot for each batch, though each batch is 53 gallons. The fermenter is almost as big as him. Furthermore, James uses filtered tap water to make his sake.
Of the three, the Nigori is sweeter with floral, fruity sweet notes. However, because of the method of brewing with the addition of koji in the bottle, it imparts additional fruity flavors and has a more "zingy" flavor. It's cloudy and the flavor of the rice is preserved.
The Nama style sake was the first James produced and is unpasteurized, so the koji remains in the bottle. The Junmai is very complex and the most labor intensive of James' varieties. It's unfiltered so much of the koji remains in the bottle, making it cloudy. The pasteurization process is skipped, which imparts more rice flavor.
James was a beer brewer originally. He was inspired after a night of sushi and sake. He tasted Nigori and fell in love. As a beer brewer he realized sake is a fermented
beverage and not a distilled product; and so he thought that he'd be able to brew it at home.
"In the west its uncommon for people to brew sake so there is not a lot of information out there," said James.
James said he found a book called "Sake USA" about brewing sakes by Portland-based beer and sake brewer, Fred Eckhardt.
James said that early on in learning how to brew sake, Eckhardt's book helped a lot. He told the Ballard News-Tribune that after botching a sake batch, he emailed Eckhardt and he was happy to be guided through the process to save the batch.
With lots of trial and error since then, James has streamlined toward a successful sake recipes that people are enjoying.
James has a degree from the University of Washington in mathematics and philosophy. He used to be in the IT industry but after getting laid off he went to work part time for the family commercial real-estate business. With the part-time hours, James had more free time and so he started to think a brewery would be a fine enterprise.
Since his opening in 2013, four restaurants and three bottle shops carry his sake. He hopes to "organically" grow as more people discover his wine. He would like to eventually move to a larger local space, hopefully as the business grows. Bloom in Ballard serves Cedar River Brewery Sake and also uses the leftover rice, or lees, in their umami packed broth.
"Every one seems to like the sake and it's only going to get better. … It's a slow process but I want to do it right and let it happen organically while letting the wine speak for itself."
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Northern Mystics defender Julie Corletto has been ruled out for the remainder of the ANZ Championship season with a foot injury.
The 26-year-old Australian will miss the final two matches of the season against the Thunderbirds in Adelaide today (sun) and the Waikato-Bay of Plenty Magic in Tauranga next week.
The team have called in two temporary replacement players, Ann-Helen Rasmussen and former Central Pulse defender Hannah Broederlow, to travel to Australia this weekend for their clash with Adelaide.


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I have two jewelry items that I wear more than anything else in my personal jewelry collection.
I wear each of them several times a week. First, these earrings:
I purchased these simple sterling silver teardrop hoops from a former Etsy artist named JoliJoli, a few years ago.
She was selling them as part of a fundraiser for her friend who needed help with medical bills.
I have absolutely LOVED these earrings!
They're almost weightless, and the earwires are wonderfully thin – I'd guess they're 24 gauge. You can't even feel that you're wearing these earrings.
And they go well with nearly anything.
The other piece of jewelry I wear the most is this black leather choker, which I made about ten years ago:
I make and wear a lot of pendants – and this simple, short leather cord necklace is perfect for making any pendant wearable.
(Update: See my free tutorial for making this leather choker.)
For the clasp, I used a small sterling silver hook and eye that can easily fit through the bail of most pendants.
And to bind the ends of the leather into loops, I used 20 gauge half-round sterling silver wire.
I've worn this leather choker so much that it's soft as butter, and has a nicely worn-in look.
I've even worn it solo with no pendant, and it's great that way too.
These are the two pieces of jewelry I can't live without.
What are your go-to pieces of jewelry?


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Study Methods
|Data over time
|Growth and development among
college students obviously takes place over time. As a result, the most effective research approaches use data collected from the same individuals at more than one time point. This so-called "longitudinal" approach, in which researchers collect information from students on two or more occasions, allows for a systematic analysis of how students grow and
develop by comparing data collected from individuals at one time to
data collected from these same individuals at later points in time. Moreover, by comparing patterns of growth with the educational conditions and activities that students experience between the collection of data, it becomes possible to understand how different experiences promote growth and development among college students.
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it becomes apparent that individuals do not make choices randomly, nor do they leave their previous attitudes and experiences at the front doors when they enter their colleges. As a result, the choices that students make (and the consequences that these choices have) need to be taken into account in order to make sound judgments about how campus experiences affect students.
For example, we are likely to find that students majoring in mathematics and science have growing interest in science, as compared to those majoring in the humanities. While this may seem to prove that growth in scientific interest is caused by majoring in science, it is important to recognize that those who were drawn into science majors are likely to have been more interested in science when they entered college. In order to make a fair judgment about whether majoring in science or the humanities is differentially related to growth in science interest, we need first to take into account the initial differences in interest between these two groups.
Similarly, to study the growth and development of learning and democracy outcomes as related to diversity experiences, it is important to take into account (or control for) differences across individuals in terms of their initial position on learning and democracy outcomes, as well as their likelihood to be drawn to more intensive diversity-related experiences. I accomplished this through either statistical approaches or through matching students who did or did not have a diversity experience, as in the study of the Intergroup Relations, Conflict, and Community Program.
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Maryland coach Randy Edsall has a decision to make this week: Devin Burns or Caleb Rowe as the team's next starting quarterback.
Unfortunately for the Terps, those are now the only two eligible scholarship options remaining after the season-ending ACL injuries to C.J. Brown and now Perry Hills. Edsall said on Tuesday he hopes to know by Thursday who his starting quarterback will be for Saturday's game against Boston College.
Whether he announces it is another question.
"Am I going to say anything at the end of the day Thursday? That's too far in advance to know that," Edsall told reporters at his weekly Tuesday news conference. "But we could come out and say something on Thursday or wait until game time."
Despite the unprecedented run of injuries to Maryland's starting quarterbacks -- a string of bad luck that extends well beyond this season -- Edsall said those within the program aren't "down in the dumps." After a 2-10 finish in 2011, Maryland is now only two wins away from bowl eligibility as they prepare for a road trip to Boston College (1-6), which has the worst record in the ACC and has yet to beat an FBS team. Another win for the Terps isn't unreasonable, considering BC's struggles, but Maryland's quarterback situation has to improve if the Terps are going to become bowl eligible this year.
"You work with what you have to go out and win the game," Edsall said. "I'm not panicked, upset, or frustrated. You just roll with the punches and go out to get yourself ready for a win."
Burns is a converted wide receiver, who volunteered to move back to his original position this past summer after Brown was injured. Edsall said that ideally, he would have liked to redshirt Rowe, a true freshman, but Rowe was used in a two-minute situation in Saturday's 20-18 loss to NC State.
"We had made the decision to go with Devin as No. 2 and Caleb at No. 3," Edsall said. "I told [Rowe] he had to be ready and be prepared because he hasn't gotten many reps. In practice he would just do the 2-minute drill and 7-on-7 with the defense. But he has been in the meetings and taking notes. I think it was so impressive that he went in and preformed the way he did with such minimal reps. Ideally, we would have wanted to redshirt him but we weren't afforded that luxury."
There are no luxuries for Maryland quarterbacks this year.


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Republic of Uruguay UYP39.8bn New Issue, Tender & Exchange
A great part of its return to form was due to a remarkable
dollar-to-peso liability management operation in December 2011
of a size typically reserved for the largest sovereign LatAm
The operation allowed Uruguay to extend duration,
de-dollarize its curve, reduce foreign currency and refinancing
risk and provide liquidity to existing bonds. It also set a
template for other sovereigns to follow.
"We were able to increase the percentage of local currency,
execute at time of volatility [the US had been downgraded and
the Greek crisis was intensifying] in a scenario that was
complicated for local currency issuance, and we stuck with our
objectives," says Azucena Arbeleche, director of debt
management at Uruguay's finance ministry.
In the first component of the operation, Uruguay sold 19.06
billion pesos ($1 billion) in inflation-linked 2028 bonds. The
bonds priced at par with a 4.375% coupon and offered little new
issue premium. Next, Uruguay carried out a cash tender for
various US dollar and euro- denominated bonds, to buy
approximately $1 billion with final maturities ranging between
2012 and 2036.
Finally, Uruguay offered to exchange the outstanding 5.0% UI
Global Bonds due 2018 into a reopening of the 2028 to improve
the liquidity of the new bond and diminish amortizations in
2018 – a high amortization year.
The final result was a new global inflation-linked 2028 bond
with $1 billion coming from new money and $725 million from the
exchange of global UI 2018. The sovereign also reopened the
2028 bonds later for $275 million in cash, bringing the total
to the $2 billion-equivalent ceiling it had set.
Uruguay was able to up the portion of local-currency debt in
its profile to 47%, while at the same time creating a UI
benchmark in one of the region's biggest issuances
in local currency; it was also able to extend maturities and
provide a blueprint for other sovereigns to follow.
Uruguay was rewarded with a BBB- rating in April from
S&P and Baa3 (investment grade) from Moody's
in August. Fitch had a positive outlook on its BB+ rating as of
December, one notch below investment grade.
Uruguay has continued its liability management process,
swapping $800 million-equivalent in domestic peso-denominated
and inflation-linked bonds in March. In November, it went after
the long end of its curve, with an $850 million dollar bond
exchange, which led to a new 2045 benchmark.
Arbeleche says Uruguay will remain opportunistic in the
current market, but she stresses that the main focus remains on
developing the local market and improving the efficiency of its
peso and CPI-linked yield curves through a steady supply of
local issues. LF
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