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Recalled Papal Nuncio to Ireland transferred, Uganda fast-tracks anti-gay bill, Church Union against assisting Ordinariate, Apostle Philip's tomb?, God's job approval
Ireland's recalled Papal Nuncio to be transferred to Czech Republic
The Church Union is "against any notion of assisting those who have joined the Ordinariate." Its president resigns.
Uganda's Anti-Homosexuality Bill on a fast track
Apostle Philip's tomb found in Turkey? You decide.
God's job approval ratingat 52% in the U.S.
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As someone who began working within TEC ecumenically ~25 years ago, inc. for (in God's Good Time!) union of the Church including the Church of Rome, it BOGGLES MY MIND that *anyone* could think that Anglicanorum Coetibus could FURTHER the ecumenical project, instead of (re the AC and Rome) damn near KILLING it. [Pardon the run-on sentence!]
I've heard said of attempts to revive) ARCIC (Anglican/Roman Catholic International Consultation), "What is there left to talk about?" It seems to me that to ask "Rome, why did you stab us in the back?" is an appropriate place to renew the conversation (I'm not holding my breath as to the response, though).
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There's a reason why people lock their doors at night, said Lancaster Fire Department Chief Chris Nunnery.
"Everyone likes to feel safe in their homes," Nunnery said.
But many of these same home-owners don't check smoke alarms to make sure they are working properly as an added safety measure.
And to Nunnery, the principal is the same.
The teen charged in a deadly car crash last year has been sentenced to house arrest and probation.
Elyse Hardin, 15, died in the crash on West Shiloh Unity Road on Dec. 29, 2009.
The teenager behind the wheel, Devin Rodgers, 16, was charged with reckless homicide following the crash. He pleaded guilty to the charge and surrendered his driver's license in July.
In family court on Wednesday, he was sentenced to six months house arrest with electronic monitoring and intensive probation until his 18th birthday, Assistant Solicitor Bill Nowicki said.
As we approach Election Day, it is becoming increasingly more important that the voting public develops a better understanding of the records and positions of those candidates seeking office. Furthermore, I believe that we should also make ourselves aware of the kinds of special interests that these candidates are likely to support should they be elected. The payday lending industry has preyed upon low income families in this state for decades with their astronomical interest rates and unethical practices.
Whether you're shopping for clothing, in the market for a vehicle or in need of certain medical services, there's a good chance you can find what you need right here in Lancaster County.
That's the hope of the Lancaster County Chamber of Commerce, which launched a new marketing campaign Tuesday called Think Lancaster First. The goal of the campaign is to get Lancaster County residents to patronize Lancaster County businesses.
For the first time since he won the seat in 1999 in a special election, state House District 44 Rep. Jimmy Neal faces opposition going into the Nov. 2 election.
Neal, a Democrat, faces a Republican challenge from political newcomer Rob McCoy.
Jobs, education are Neal's priorities
Neal, 67, said he's running again to work on economic development and job creation for the Palmetto State and his district. Economic development in District 44 is critical, Neal said, because the area doesn't have a four-lane highway.
The Lancaster County School District now has policies in place that more clearly address how it will treat potential employees and volunteers who have been charged with a criminal offense.
The school board unanimously adopted the policies at its meeting on Sept. 21.
One policy requires the district to run a criminal history check through the State Law Enforcement Division (SLED) on all new volunteers.
The J. Marion Sims Foundation Inc. has made awards totaling approximately $1.6 million to 16 different community organizations in its Adult Literacy and Responsive Grants programs.
"The communities in the foundation's giving area face a range of challenges, from improving their citizens' literacy skills to providing for basic needs and safety," said foundation President Jim Morton. "The recipients of these grants are organizations that have demonstrated their abilities to help meet these challenges."
Training counts – especially when you're a firefighter.
Jay Hayes and Mark Steele, both volunteers with the Unity Volunteer Fire Department, are quick to point that out. And the reason is obvious – firefighting is dangerous work.
"They say if you're ever not scared when you walk into the door of a burning house, then you better turn around and walk the other way," Hayes said.
Did you know that if you sell your house after 2012, you will pay a 3.8 percent sales tax on it? That's $3,800 on a $100,000 home, etc.
When did this happen? It's in the health-care bill. Just thought you should know. That sales tax goes into effect in 2013. So, this is change you can believe in?
Ryan Phillips and Luke Pittman, Life Scouts in Boy Scout Troop 74 of Kershaw, are in line to receive their coveted Eagle Scout badges, the highest rank attainable in the Boy Scouts of America.
When the badges are presented to them in the near future, it will be a red-letter day for the two Andrew Jackson High School juniors who are members of Kershaw's First Baptist Church.
Given the Scouts' latest honors, it would be safe to say the Eagle badges would be quite an encore.
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WWelcome to the PlayStation Community Forum.
While I can empathise with your situation, I am not sure you will have luck with this request.
It is worth stating; anyone who takes you up on your request should do so at their own risk.
I am not accusing you of being disingenuous, but it is always important to remember; any emails sent from a PSN account are held liable for any damage or misuse of the PSN Messaging system, per the ToS.
Those sending the message are responsible for the content, no matter who the message is truly from, and must take into account the recipient of such a message may or may not be inclined to accept the message or be in agreement with the arrangement made between the "author" of the email and the actual sender.
Just reminding people to keep their heads about them. It is nice to be helpful to fellow PSN users but keep in mind, we truly do not know each other, let alone someone out of the blue making such a request.
Again; I wish you luck kstruwig1009, and also extend my simple warning to those who take you up on your request. Nothing personal, just looking out for everyone.
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^ moble stole my post!
I don't belive it. You're not typically that long winded.
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PLYMCO_PILGRIM wrote:
^ moble stole my post!
I don't belive it. You're not typically that long winded.
Well, it wasn't actually a post from PILGRIM, it was actually made via proxy for someone else. That's why it would have been longer than normal.
... yeah that joke may be too complicated to work. Whatever, I'm leaving it.
In order to stay on topic. The message that someone might be asking you to send for them, could be to someone who has a restraining order out against the first party and you would therefore be placing yourself as an accessory to it's violation, as an example, right?


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New Hampshire Medical Society Executive Vice President Scott Colby shared with TMA the following update from the U.S. Secret Service:
The Secret Service recommends all physicians visit www.experian.com/fraud and place themselves on a 90-day credit fraud alert. This could potentially slow or halt further attempted identity theft activities. While not every physician is at risk of identity theft, this is a suggested precautionary measure.
So far, TMA has learned more than 60 Texas physicians have fallen prey to this scam. Please notify TMA if you have been victimized by this scheme. The association can then convey the scope of the situation to the proper authorities. Email the TMA Knowledge Center or call (800) 880-7955.
The majority of physicians who are victims of this scam first learn of it when they receive an IRS 5071C letter advising them of possible fraud. Others receive a rejection notification when attempting to file their tax return electronically, indicating the tax return cannot be submitted because a return has already been filed under the physician's Social Security number.
The 5071C letter from the IRS has instructions for providing information via the IRS identity theft website. Affected physicians can call the IRS at (800) 830-5084 to let the agency know they did not file the return referred to in the IRS letter.
In February, the IRS issued a report titled "Dirty Dozen" Tax Scams for 2014 on identity theft affecting tax payers.
The American Medical Association has the following guidance for fraud victims:
Physicians who did not receive a 5071C letter or already have received confirmation of legitimate tax return acceptance most likely are not victims of this year's scam.
If you have not received notice from the IRS but believe your personal information may have been used fraudulently or worry you may have been victimized, call the IRS Identity Protection Specialized Unit at (800) 908-4490.
If you learn your Social Security number has been used fraudulently, contact the following agencies:
Also, the FBI has tips to help you protect your personal identity from thieves.
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On this episode of The Young and the Restless, Chloe wears a rust sweater. Looks like she is a little rusty when it comes to thinking Billy is a good father but then again, dealing with Delia's leukemia on her own must be taking its toll. Especially when her ex-husband's behavior is more uneven than the hem of her sweater. Hopefully, Chloe and the Abbott family will not rust until they find the mischievous playboy because every little sick girl needs her father.
Just like every stylish woman needs this sweater.
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I would also like to express my gratitude to the Cresson, PA American Legion, VFW, and Knights of Columbus for giving my grandmother, a World War II veteran, the dignified and honorable sendoff that she deserved. Seeing each of them salute her before the funeral was very moving, and the playing of "Taps" at the graveside service finished me off emotionally. There was also a 5 gun salute. It highlighted one of the many reasons that I was proud to be her granddaughter.
My grandparents' engagement photo.
My grandmother at 23.
My grandmother led an amazing life. She was an orphan, a tennis player, a model, and a member of the Women's Army Corps. She wasn't the hugs-and-kisses-and-making-cookies kind of grandma. She was a "Let me tell you about why I didn't like John Wayne (personally) and what it was like hanging out at Bing Crosby's mansion." kind of grandma. She felt it was important to help the less fortunate and did so in whatever way she could. She and my grandfather took people in as members of the family who didn't have anyone else. She was fearless, even in having her aortic valve replaced last year. She faced every major heartbreak you could think of in life and handled it with grace. What a legacy.


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Paris Hilton had her sister Nicky and mom Kathy by her side last night for a bash at Chloe's LA boutique, held to honor the Step Up Women's Network. After spending some time abroad last month, Paris has been doing her fair share to stimulate the local economy, though yesterday's shopping was for a good cause. Paris was off to Vegas today to switch from shopper to seller, as she gears up for the launch of her new sunglasses collection this evening.
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I'm not referring to this kind of chair dance (although it is awesome).
The one I'm talking about is more proverbial. It has to do with these:
Sonal J. Shah Event Consultants LLC
Our venue comes with chairs. For free. Well, not free, but they're included in the venue's rental price. Here's what they look like.
Fun fact: This is the first photo in my "wedding planning" photo folder.
They're not great. Certainly not as pretty as these gorgeous chiavari chairs (as seen in our venue).
Sigh. So pretty.
After seeing the "free" blue chairs and then plenty of wedding porn featuring chiavari chairs, we asked our caterer to include chiavari chairs in the estimate.
They were over $1,200.
That's a lot of money, but we told ourselves it would be worth it to make our venue look that much prettier. It would put that extra-special touch on our reception. It would be worth saving money somewhere else to pay for them.
I told myself that we needed the chairs for a couple of months. Then I realized it was ridiculous. No one's going to notice the chairs. Well, maybe some people will, but the vast majority of our guests will just sit on them. Do we really need to spend over $1,200 on something people will just sit on? That money could be spent on extra hours of photography or more food. Besides, the blue chairs aren't so bad. They're Notre Dame colors, and they look pretty good in these pictures.
Photo by Mattson Pictures via Style Me Pretty
That pesky WIC can really sneak up on you sometimes, but I'm glad we realized that free chairs are perfectly fine. And if I ever doubt my decision, the good people over at A Practical Wedding always have my back.
Did you get sucked into the black hole of pretty chairs? Or was your WIC black hole something else?
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Discover New Music: Nickel Creek - 'Destination'
The contemporary folk/acoustic/bluegrass trio Nickel Creek announced on their website and on Twitter today that they will be releasing their first new record in 9 years.
We're SO excited to announce that, after nine years, Nickel Creek is releasing a new album! http://t.co/8KSIjyiMdN http://t.co/S8u9rN2PN8
— Nickel Creek (@NickelCreek) February 3, 2014
In coordination with the album announcement, the eclectic group comprised of guitarist Sean Watkins, his younger sister Sara Watkins on Fiddle, and mandolin/banjo/bouzouki player Chris Thile also released a new single called 'Destination.' Take a listen to the new tune below:
Nickel Creek will be touring this spring and a presale for the first batch of dates begins tomorrow morning.
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Krzysztof Głowacki: I like to hit people. Hard
By Przemek Garczarczyk
Photo: Ringpolska
"Richard Hall's best years are behind him, but you still have to fight him and beat him. This is a cruiserweight division where fighters are fast and strong. You have to hit them and hit them hard. You never take anybody lightly," stated undefeated WBO #6, IBF #12 Krzysztof "Główka" Głowacki (19-0, 12 KOs). On October 19 in Wieliczka (Poland) 400 feet below the earth in a 700-year old salt mine, Głowacki will fight Jamaican former WBA champion Richard Hall (30-13, 28 KOs).
The "Underground Boxing Show" is promoted by Babilon Promotion, with Ulrich KnockOut Promotions.
The 27-year-old Głowacki was not a big fan of amateur boxing. "I met my current promoter, Tomek Babiloński when he was an assistant during Poland's National Team camp, but there was always something wrong for me with fighting in headgear, all this automatic counting… I always fought hard, go forward hitting people. They hit back my gloves with some weak stuff and it was all the same! I lost this way, by one point, to current #1 IBF heavyweight contender Kubrat Pulev; counting judges robbed me in Helsinki, when I fought another current top heavyweight, Robert Helenius. Some people you just had to knock out because everybody knew that they cannot be beat by decision" – said Głowacki.
The Polish fighter, who works with Fiodor Łapin, trainer of current WBC cruiserweight champion Krzysztof "Diablo" Włodarczyk and up-and coming heavyweight Artur "The Pin" Szpilka, knows that beating Hall – convincingly – will open a lot of opportunities. "There's a bigger fight for me scheduled for December 14 and in 2014, I would like the opportunity to test the new European Boxing Union champion, Grigory Drozd. I'm confident in my abilities, in my power" – said Głowacki, who won 7 of last 9 fights without waiting for judges' scorecards.


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Michigan, Ohio State and Minnesota Earn Weekly Awards
Jan. 15, 2008
Women's Track Athlete of the Week
Tiffany Ofili,
Ofili earned an NCAA automatic qualifying time in the 60-meter hurdles finishing second in 8.05 sec. which ties a personal and
Women's Co-Field Athletes of the Week
Veronica Jatsek,
Jatsek threw an NCAA provisional distance in the 20-lb. weight throw at the Kentucky Invitational last weekend measuring 67-11.5 (20.71m). The Buckeye senior won the event by nearly eight feet over the second-place competitor. Jatsek is honored with her second career weekly award.
Last OSU Field Athlete of the Week: Veronica Jatsek (02/20/07)
Alicia Rue,
Rue won the pole vault event at the Northwest Open with a NCAA provisional height of 12-11.5 (3.95m). Her performance marks an indoor career-best and second-best in school history. The sophomore takes home her first career weekly laurel.
Last MINN Field Athlete of the Week: Liz Alibi (01/23/07)
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Omega Seamaster Bumper Calibre 342 (28.10T1 RA PC)
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Address: 71 Davis Cres, Newmarket, Auckland
Phone: (09) 520 5664
Food: 6/10
Service: 8/10
Value: 8/10
Ambience: 7/10
Eclectic might be the best word for the unusually wide-ranging menu at Safran, which describes itself as a Mediterranean restaurant.
This means that Greek meatballs turn up alongside tortilla, lasagne appears along with the Basque smoked fish salad esqueixada and salad nicoise features with vitello tonnato.
But the definition of Mediterranean proves pretty elastic, with dishes featuring kumara mash and a lunch offering of African corn banana fritters, while in the desserts bread and butter pudding and a sticky ginger number are among those listed. So choice is not the problem here.
While we dithered and changed our minds we occupied ourselves with tostada, bits of bread with various toppings, some more successful than the vegetarian one which relied heavily on hunks of carrot. And what they called a tapas - a bowl of black olives, feta and a huge amount of rather tasteless tomato chunks.
When it came to the mains we went with the spirit of the place and spread the geography around.
Italy had my vote with the vitello tonnato. One of my Italian cookbooks has more than 80 veal recipes but here they substitute beef schnitzel for the veal in this classic dish.
Nevertheless, it was tasty enough with a slightly under-powered tuna mayonnaise, capers, olives, zucchini and baby potatoes. I enjoyed it and felt I had done well compared with one of our other choices, the El Toro Scotch fillet (and I suppose it's nitpicking to question Scotland being Mediterranean.)
But the beef was tough enough for us to wonder if the animal had spent its life being chased around the bullring and our pregnant diner who was, she said, choosing beef only for the baby's iron count was disappointed.
The bull-fighting theme was more successful in the entertainingly named Matador's cape. This was a meal of roasted chicken, with chargrilled red pepper and almond sauce, served on a rice and chorizo pilaf with green beans. When the capsicum was exhausted it became slightly boring but it was judged a reasonable choice.
Moving further east, our fourth main was the Greek meatballs which were full-flavoured in themselves and partnered with a good tomato sauce, yoghurt, sauteed potatoes and vegetables.
The desserts, which one suspected were not all prepared on the premises, were reasonable without being exciting. The lemon tart was sharp and the warm pear tarte tatin was pleasing. My Belgian chocolate mousse cake (Belgium's on the Mediterranean? Oh, never mind) was solid and rich and our most novel choice and the chocolate cannelloni was similarly rich, with the coffee beans giving it a little edge.
The servings of all meals are generous and, at the special price of $28.50 a head for a two dishes, are well priced.
The wine list is modest and in the interests of multiculturalism we tried the Framingham New Zealand Montepulciano, a soft little number well suited to Mediterranean food.
The service was excellent, efficient and unobtrusive and a lesson some of Safran's more ostentatious peers could heed.
The premises are simple but comfortable and while it required too much of a stretch of the imagination to conjure up any Mediterranean spirit on a cold wet night, surrounded by the debris of road works on Davis Cres, I could believe that on a sunny lunchtime Safran would provide a cheerful, good-value option.
Our meal: $216 for two first courses, four mains and four desserts, one bottle and two glasses of wine, two beers and a soft drink.
Wine list: Modest but adequate and decent value.
Verdict: Needs a little sun to bring out the Mediterranean flavour of unassuming food


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Peru's macho train to link Huancayo and Huancavelica again
The 'Tren Macho' train, which covers the Huancayo – Huancavelica route, can carry up to 370 passengers.
The 'Tren Macho' train, which covers the Huancayo – Huancavelica route, re-started opperations today, after being out of service for five years.
The train departs the Chilca station in Huancayo every day at 6:30am and arrives at Huancavelica at noon.
The train leaves Huancavelica at 2:00 pm and arrives back in Chilca at 7:30 pm.
Due to track maintenance there is no service on Wednesdays.
However, it is only opperating with 4 passenger and 1 cargo cars, for the time being, and can only carry a maximum of 370 passengers, reported El Comercio.
Tickets cost 9 soles for 'first class' and 13 for the buffet car.
A second train is being repaired, and is schedueled to being opperating on the same route in about a month.


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About the Hotel
Property Location
With a stay at Hotel du Commerce in Basel, you'll be connected to the convention center and minutes from Congress Center Basel and Messeturm Basel. This hotel is within close proximity of Rosentalanlage and St. Matthew Parish.
Make yourself at home in one of the 62 air-conditioned guestrooms. Complimentary wireless Internet access keeps you connected, and cable programming is available for your entertainment. Conveniences include laptop-compatible safes and desks, and housekeeping is provided daily.
Enjoy a meal at a restaurant or in a coffee shop/café. Or stay in and take advantage of the hotel's room service (during limited hours). Quench your thirst with your favorite drink at a bar/lounge.
Business, Other Amenities
Featured amenities include complimentary high-speed (wired) Internet access, express check-in, and complimentary newspapers in the lobby. Self parking (subject to charges) is available onsite.
Hotel Facilities
- Free WiFi
- Free wired high-speed Internet
- In-room accessibility
- Number of floors - 5
- Number of buildings/towers - 1
- One meeting room
- Free breakfast
- Roll-in shower
- Laundry facilities
- Coffee/tea in common areas
- Year Built 1954
- Free newspapers in lobby
- Coffee shop or café
- Total number of rooms - 62
- Elevator/lift
- Express check-in
- Restaurant
- Bar/lounge
- Dry cleaning/laundry service
- Self parking (surcharge)
- 24-hour front desk
Room Facilities
- Coffee/tea maker
- Iron/ironing board (on request)
- Hair dryer
- Hypo-allergenic bedding available
- Daily housekeeping
- Cable TV service
- Cribs/infant beds available
- In-room climate control (air conditioning)
- Desk
- Room service (limited hours)
- Air conditioning
- Free newspaper
- In-room safe (laptop compatible)
- Free WiFi
Hotel Policy
The following fees and deposits are charged by the property at time of service, check-in, or check-out.
- Self parking fee: CHF 35 per night (in/out privileges)
- Pet fee: CHF 15 per pet, per night
- Late check-out fee: CHF 50
- Rollaway bed fee: CHF 50.00 per night
The above list may not be comprehensive. Fees and deposits may not include tax and are subject to change.
Mandatory Fees and Taxes
You'll be asked to pay the following charges at the property:
- A tax is imposed by the city: CHF 3.50 per person, per night
We have included all charges provided to us by the property. However, charges can vary, for example, based on length of stay or the room you book.
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The GOP's Impeachment Two-Step
Posted on Aug 1, 2014
If you attack the president repeatedly for law-breaking, executive overreach and deceiving the public and Congress, do you have an obligation to impeach him? This is the logical question Republicans are now trying to duck.
There is a reason why impeachment is a big deal in Washington this week. It's not just because a call to defend President Obama motivates the Democrats' base, although it surely does. John Boehner is having trouble countering fears that House Republicans will eventually try to oust the president because the speaker's colleagues have spent years tossing around impeachment threats as a matter of routine.
At issue are not merely the open demands for throwing Obama out from Sarah Palin, Rep. Steve Stockman and many others on the right wing. The deeper problem lies in the proliferation of loose impeachment talk linked with one overheated anti-Obama charge after another.
As far back as May 2010, Rep. Darrell Issa, R-Calif., said the allegation that the White House had offered former Rep. Joe Sestak, D-Pa., a job so he wouldn't oppose Sen. Arlen Specter, a Republican turned Democrat, "is in fact a crime, and could be impeachable." (Sestak beat Specter in a primary, and then lost to Republican Pat Toomey.)
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In May 2013, Sen. James Inhofe, R-Okla., said that because of allegations of a White House Benghazi coverup, "people may be starting to use the I-word before too long" about Obama. Also in 2013, Rep. Kerry Bentivolio, R-Mich., said it would be his "dream come true" to author Articles of Impeachment against the president, while Sen. Tom Coburn, R-Okla., said the nation was "perilously close" to circumstances that might require impeachment.
Only space limitations prevent me from multiplying such examples.
Boehner claims that "this whole talk about impeachment is coming from the president's own staff and coming from Democrats on Capitol Hill ... trying to rally their people to give money and to show up in this year's election."
But if impeachment is a sudden Democratic invention, why did The New York Times' Jennifer Steinhauer write a detailed news story in August 2013 under the headline: "Ignoring Qualms, Some Republicans Nurture Dreams of Impeaching Obama"? Why did my Washington Post colleague Dana Milbank publish an equally fact-rich column in December 2013 titled: "Republicans see one remedy for Obama—impeachment"?
Boehner's other difficulty is that, in defending his lawsuit against Obama, which the House approved Wednesday on a near-party-line vote, the speaker has used arguments that could as easily be invoked to justify impeachment.
"In the end, the Constitution makes it clear that the president's job is to faithfully execute the laws," Boehner wrote on CNN's website in early July. "And, in my view, the president has not faithfully executed the laws when it comes to a range of issues, including his health care law, energy regulations, foreign policy and education. There must be accountability."
So what will Boehner do on behalf of "accountability" if the suit fails? Is it any surprise that House Majority Whip Steve Scalise, R-La., pressed on Sunday by Fox News' Chris Wallace, declined to rule out impeachment?
Yes, Democrats are happy to use the danger that the House will go there by way of dramatizing the GOP's refusal to work with Obama on issue after issue and the right wing's open hatred for a president they cast simultaneously as a power-hungry lawbreaker and a weak steward of the nation's interests. But the underlying cause is a breakdown among conservatives of the norms and habits that governing requires in a system of separated powers.
The last time the country re-elected a Democratic president, House Republicans impeached him despite strong public opposition. With many in the ranks already clamoring for a replay of those glory days, it's fair to wonder if Boehner will hold fast and resist the impeachment crowd this time. His record in facing down his right wing is not encouraging.
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Pouncey Drafted 15th Overall By Miami Dolphins
Former Gators center Mike Pouncey joined his brother, Maurkice in Radio City Music Hall for the 2011 NFL Draft. And Mike, just like his brother, was drafted in the first round (15th overall), selected by the Miami Dolphins. Gators football head coach Will Muschamp tweeted, "I'm happy for Mike that he is getting the chance to realize a lifelong dream! Go Gators! I didn't coach Mike, but I've had the opportunity to meet him and you can tell that he has a passion for the game. I wish him the best of luck."
The Gators have now had a first-round selection in each of the past five drafts and have had 43 first-round draft picks in school history. Pouncey, who played in 54 games for UF and made 45 starts, was a Second-Team All-SEC selection in 2010 by the media. He is the 43rd Gator all-time to be selected in the first-round of the NFL Draft. He becomes the first player drafted by the Dolphins out of UF since the team selected linebacker Channing Crowder in the third round of the 2005 draft.
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When making baked goods, get in the habit of putting the flour in the blender or bowl with the liquids (with a bit of a fermented dairy product like kefir), and just leaving it all day (or night) before completing the recipe. You'll also find that your baked goods are lighter, with a lovely texture, as you take this additional step that creates natural leavening. You can often cut by half or even leave the baking powder out when you have presoaked flour with kefir/yogurt added.
This extra step of soaking grains or flour, while requiring you to think ahead, doesn't add time to your preparation, since the dish is then ready, or nearly ready, when breakfast or dinner is served.
You don't always have to make soaked-grain breads and grain products from scratch. At your health food store, you can buy sprouted-grain tortillas, English muffins, and manna bread with several varieties like sunflower seed, carrot-raisin, and more.
Don't be frustrated if you just learned about phytates for the first time and now wonder if whole grains are good for you! If you're stumped about whether eating whole grains (even unsoaked) is better than white flour, the answer is a definitive yes!
First of all, white flour robs your body of minerals, too, at a faster rate–and is virtually devoid of fiber and nutrition. Second, remember that literally hundreds of studies document the link between whole grains and blood sugar control, among many other health benefits. That one benefit alone–that fiber dramatically slows the release of sugars into your bloodstream–is critically important to your future.
Third, the phytate issue, while worth discussing here, is by no means settled science. In fact, Reddy and Sathe published a book in 2001 called Food Phytates that surveys the growing body of research on phytates. They claim that phytates are free-radical scavenging antioxidants that may reduce blood glucose as well as risk for high cholesterol and cardiovascular disease, kidney stones, and some forms of cancer.
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Changed the differential lube today on my V @ 2165 miles. Here's the process to do-it-yourself!
1. Items Required:
-- Two quarts of GM #12378261 GM Synthetic Axle Lubricant SAE 75W-90 (~$27/quart)
-- One 4 oz. bottle of GM #1052358 Limited Slip Axle Lubricant Additive
-- One 10-mm hex allen wrench
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2. Before the oil change, drive at least 10-15 miles at highway speeds to warm the differential.
While working under the car, the engine, transmission, differential and exhaust will be extremely hot. Be careful, safety first!
3. With the rear of the V safely supported, remove the fill plug first. The fill plug is located on the driver's side of the differential, half-way up the side of the differential housing and is a bit tricky to get at with the exhaust pipe in the way. Try using both ends of the 10-mm allen wrench to loosen the fill plug.
4. Position the oil drain pan under the differential and remove the drain plug with the 10-mm allen wrench.
Caution! Hot lubricant will come out quickly!
5. While the differential housing is draining, clean up the drain plug. Here's the "before" shot of my plug. The dark glob on the end of the magnetic plug is the metallic paste that has formed from normal bevel pinion gear break-in.
6. After the lube is done draining, install the clean magnetic drain plug and tighten snugly with the 10-mm allen wrench.
7. Remove the top of the suction gun and fill it half full with the new GM diff lube. Pour in the bottle of limited slip additive and then continue to fill the suction gun body with diff lube until near the top of the gun. Place the top of the suction gun back on, go under the V, place the hose in the fill hole and press in the handle on the suction gun to push the fluid into the diff housing.
8. Once the suction gun is empty, refill with diff lube and continue to fill the differential housing until lubricant begins to spill out of the hole.
9. Reinstall the fill plug and tighten until snug.
10. Clean up your mess, safely lower the V and take it for a spin and enjoy the knowledge that for not much money, you've done your differential a favor! :worship: V
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Elsevier has purchased the private database firm Aureus Sciences, founded in 2002. The firm's tools help researchers home in on drug repurposing potential as well as promising compounds. The publisher also announced that its portfolio now includes the Journal of Cell Therapy, the journal of the International Society for Cellular Therapy. The society said in a statement Monday that it chose the publisher because of its "unsurpassed reach into the global medical community, top class publishing services and significant experience in the field."


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I'm very new here, and pretty new at this reciprocal linking stuff.
A quick disclaimer: The whole subject of rec. linking seems to revolve around Google's PageRank quite a bit. I understand how important this is, but I have a question that I want answered without the bias of PR involved.
I know for a banner exchange with another site I would expect a 1:1 ratio of impressions to impressions right? Well, wouldn't the same apply to reciprocal linking?
I've read through quite a few posts here, but most seem to deal with PR.
I see the value in having a site link to mine, so...
Let's say a site with 1/5 of my traffic wants to exhange links. He says "Put a link on your home page and I'll do the same for you". While this is great for him, it's not as good for me.
I was thinking about just using phpadsnew to administer links the same way I do banners, but what a hassle to setup all the accounts / links / campaigns.
So, any suggestions on how to handle this?
Thanks in advance!
Don't think it can be done really. In general, I will place links to site that I believe, will give a genuine benefit to my user. Weather they link to me, or not, is not the most important thing.
I try to keep external links off my homepage but do not have a dedicated links page, nor do I hunt down links on other peoples link pages. (I believe google may award very little PR for a link on a page with dozens of other external links and you will get very little direct traffic)
In short place links were they will most useful for your user and offer other sites links to pages that will most benefit their users.
It's regrettable that we have this term, reciprocal linking as the primary way of describing this important process. I would be better named, link partnering or something.
I would say that a link that opens in a new window can be read and then closed again very easily, a user is less likely to browse the rest of a site.
It is a very small point and just an example really of how hard it is to get a 100% fair exchange.


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7 Tips to Rev Up Your Motivation to Get Fit Before Prom
With Prom only a few months away, NOW is the time to get your fitness goals in check and physically get yourself onto that cardio machine. After all, we all want to look amazing and fit in that sleek and sleeveless prom dress. But easier said than done, right? We totally feel you on this one! Between the cold, wintry days where all you want to do is pile on the sweaters, socks and blankets, the recent holiday season where we indulged on everything succulent and delicious and the obvious shortened daylight hours, the idea of hitting the gym in the morning or somewhere in between school and homework, seems like an overwhelming feat in itself. But…it can be done. And with some willpower, organization and a few minor changes to your daily routine, you'll soon find it as part of your lifestyle…or at least until prom peeks its pretty face! Here are some helpful tips to boost your motivation.
1. Reposition your Alarm Clock. It's no surprise that mornings are the best time to get that workout going. It jump starts your metabolism and helps you burn calories at a higher rate throughout the day. The only tragic issue? Getting out of bed extra early to make that happen. Our easy solution, which actually works wonders, is setting your alarm an hour earlier and placing it at farther area of your bedroom. Close enough so you can still hear it, but far enough that you'd have to get up and walk to turn it off. Once you're up, you'll find it easier to stretch and make a detour away from your bed and towards your gym clothes.
2. Schedule a Workout Date. Workout buddies are amazing motivators! Set a specific time on certain days of the week to meet for a trip to the gym, a jog in the park, a tennis match, etc. You'll be less likely to flake out on your workout if you have someone else who's waiting for you. Plus, having a gym buddy makes the experience much more fun and rewarding. Because let's face it, going solo might get a little boring, which might result in poor performance at the gym.
3. Make Friends at the Gym. If you don't have a gym buddy yet, no worries! After a few weeks, chances are you'll make one after routine visits. You'll become familiar with the gym regulars who exercise at the same time. See it as sort of a social factor that serves as inspiration to get going everyday. Besides, they'll start to wonder where you are if you're a no show for a day or two. Consistency is key and working out with other familiar faces will help you attain this.
4. Create a Set Goal. It's always a great idea to set reachable goals. Every Sunday night, make it a point to create your workout schedule for the coming week. Write it down, for example, "This week, I'm waking up at 6am Monday through Thursday to run 2-3 miles before school." Set alerts on your phone too, just as you would on a special appointment. If you cannot make those dates, record the reasons why. Then, set aside time later to analyze those reasons and derive ways on how to overcome them the next time around.
5. Create a Workout Playlist. Music is a guaranteed quick motivator in the morning. And research has shown that listening to good, upbeat music when you workout can create positive thoughts and help fight fatigue. The best way to go to starting with a faster tempo at the beginning of your workout to rev up your energy level then gradually shift to a slower tempo towards the end.
6. Prepare the Night Before. Following through on a workout routine can be challenging. But one of the simplest things you can do to make it easier is prepare your gym clothes and equipment the night before. This way you don't waste any time sifting through your drawer in the morning or looking for your headphones or sneakers.
7. Reward Yourself. If you're getting into a nice groove, meeting the goals that you've set out for yourself and getting up four out of five days to work out for an hour, TREAT YOURSELF! For instance, get a manicure, a new outfit or fabulous pair of shoes. Keeping that little sweet treat in mind will give you the extra push you'll need to battle the blankets and jump out of bed to hit the gym.
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Well, they do call it a 'high' school, but a student who brought marijuana to class was caught and charged instead.
Police say that school staff and the school's resource officer noted the "unique odour" of the student while class was in session, and later found about 18 grams of marijuana in the student's possession.
The student was removed from the school, charged with possession of less than 30 grams of marijuana, and later released to a guardian.
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You've never really experienced Autumn in Texas until you've gone to a tailgate! This October, I took a Lomowalk around downtown Austin on a cool and overcast Saturday afternoon to enjoy the full UT tailgating experience.
As a senior at the University of Texas, I've had plenty of opportunity to observe football fanatics at the height of their madness. But I know many people who are quite frankly not as into football as I am, and have never been to a tailgate. However, I truly feel that any Lomographer visiting Austin on an Autumn weekend should take time to swing by the University of Texas tailgating parties. UT fans are proud of their Longhorns and take care to celebrate BIG whenever they play at home, which gives us Lomographers room to step in and take advantage of the good vibes! There's really no better time to photograph people than when they're having a blast!
Where To Go
The tailgating action starts a few hours before kickoff, just south of the University of Texas campus and just north of the Capitol building – on North Congress Avenue between 15th Street and campus. Several city blocks are shut down specifically for the festivities, so it's best to park away and walk to the tailgate! Parking spots in the heart of the tailgating action are prepaid and reserved, but these are only for the hardcore football fans willing to shell out the dough – most people hoof it and enjoy themselves sans wheels. Oh, and one more thing: if you need to stock up on film, the Lomography Galley Store Austin is just 10 minutes away, a quick walk around the Capitol grounds to 9th Street and Congress Avenue!
You can attend the festivities for free, but that's not all that doesn't cost a thing! There's free live music, free chicken wings, free sno-cones, and even free lottery tickets! Many of these come with no strings attached, especially the food items. Some vendors will pass out swag and ask you to take a survey (or they even just want to take your picture! You can take theirs, too). Overall, it's worthwhile to grab what you can, it's part of the tailgating fun.
What to See
There's a ton to see when you attend a Texas tailgate – from keg stands to big ol' southern clichés, and even little green men; you won't run out of things to photograph, but you might run out of film! Stick around for kickoff, and see the crowds lose their minds. It's an all-around Lomographic frenzy.
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Bleak midwinter in the swaps market December 24, 2012 at 4:32 pm
Bloomberg has a story on what it terms the looming swaps armageddon. I would not perhaps go that far, but the article is interesting.
I was spluttering at the first part of this sentence from Bloomberg about OTC derivatives clearing "This arrangement can withstand almost any shock, including defaults by four of the biggest lenders," but the authors redeemed themselves with the kicker "according to the clearinghouses". That's pretty much like `Christmas is bah humbug stay home alone and eat pasta… according to turkeys.'
Craig Pirrong kicks in with a useful corrective in the next paragraph: "I just don't think that realistically you can exclude the possibility that taxpayers could be at risk." Indeed. Still, we can't say that the supervisors have not been generous for Christmas. As Bloomberg points out, the Dodd-Frank rules could mean as much as $1 billion in new annual revenue for clearinghouses. This is of course the reason ICE can afford to buy NYSE Euronext: their stock price reflects the expectation of these future profits.
What we have really done with OTC clearing, it is increasingly clear, is to turn the low probability high severity event of a big OTC derivatives dealer failure into the perhaps lower probability probably higher severity event of CCP failure. This is exactly the wrong direction. Bloomberg quotes Blankfein on this: "We have to make sure that something that we do to reduce the risk in a once-in-a-20-year storm doesn't increase the risk in a once-in-a-50-year storm." Yes, we do: but we haven't.
Meanwhile CCP resolution remains jejune and their disclosures are not sufficient to permit outsiders to assess their risk properly. "None of the major clearinghouses are providing sufficient detail on their default-management plans," said Darrell Duffie, quoted in Bloomberg. "They don't want to talk about that." Meanwhile according to Bloomberg, "in non-public meetings this year at the New York Fed, Citigroup and JPMorgan pushed CME Group, Intercontinental and LCH to reveal more about their finances and risk-management policies, people with knowledge of the matter said." There is a certainly going to be a lot to do on this in 2013. For the next few days, I am ignoring the advice of the Turkeys.


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18 Of The Most Refreshing Things In The World
When things often get stale, it's life's refreshing moments that we live for. Take a breather and enjoy a couple that will make you say ahhh. And while you're in the zone, "like" mike's hard lemonade for more refreshing content.
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I had an engineer out to look at our sloping house. He said it's likely we'd need a new foundation, and the cost would be around 100K.
I was thinking maybe 50K. I'm thinking house lifting and excavation would be 15K and basement footings and walls, with no floor, would be 25K-30K. Misc. permits and stuff would be another 5K-10K.
This is in Minneapolis, and the house is a 4700 sq. ft., 2.5 story, 1886 house. The basement is about 30 ft x 48 ft
$100k doesn't sounds ridiculous in my mind...That house is huge, heavy, old, and quite a liability...get at least 3 real quotes from certified contractors if you want to know who's right/wrong. You won't find answers any better than this here...
Don't forget to factor in the inevitable damages to plaster, etc...
Beautiful house, BTW.
1) You have to disconnect and safe off all power, plumbing, and phone, data, etc.
2) You have to reconnect all items in #1 after reset
3) Essentially you be building 2 new foundations as the first will be a temporary foundation to support the house while you excavate, form, pour, etc.
4) Excavation has a premium attached as machine clearances are negligable and some will have to be done by hand
5) You will likely need hired engineering drawing and/or oversight to obtain permits.
6) Repairing those inevitable interior cracks as GottaFixIt noted
7) Repairing exterior as required if siding has to be removed to install code required hurrican strapping.
Hence why you need a real quote...
I'm curious where you got those numbers.
My Grandmother had a new foundation put under her house-they raised it 6 feet- and by the time they did all repairs to the sheetrock and basically re-hanging all the doors and what have you it was over $125k.
About the same size as your house it sounds like.
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Wow, sounds like a lot to me. See if you can have it contracted out separated. What I mean is, find a company that will lift and move the house, and another for the concrete work. Might save you some money.
2004 I did one 24x46. It was 7,000 to lift and drop. The new footings and basement walls and tiling and waterproofing was maybe 12,000. I had three window wells built in for 5x5 windows, plus an exterior access with sloping walls coming out. I think the excavation was probably $3,000. I poured the floor and finished the whole basement later. I figure I had $25,000 in the project after paying for the lift/drop, basement footings and walls, excavation, and cost of concrete only for the floor.
Then I started finishing.
This is an excellent time to get yourself into a nice, modern basement. Don't be afraid to raise the grade of the house, give yourself plenty of windows and exterior access doorway. Put a basement area under your porches while you are at it. Give yourself a 9' ceiling if you like. Another thing to think of is to leave a brick ledge below grade.
Get it insulated nicely and you will thank yourself every day for doing this project.
If the grade allows it, I would recommend to people to put a garage in their basement as well, or a big walk-out.
The sky is the limit. If you want to spend $100,000, you're going to have to use your imagination.
I've done another rehab (gutting, wiring, plumbing, framing, finish carpentry. This is obviously on a much larger scale. I would only hire for the engineering specs, the lift and excavation, the new footings and foundation, the disconnect and reconnect. I would not hire anyone to do any repairs such as plaster. In other words, I'm not a homeowner who is looking for a turnkey solution, where the wifey, kids and me get take out and wimper about the mess and noise. Currently we only live in part of the house, as I'm cleaning up from a previous owners partial gutting.
I'd gotten quotes from house movers in the area (not a written bid) for house lifting and excavation of a different house we looked at two years ago, and they were around $13,000 to $15,000 to lift, excavate, hold while foundation poured, and put house back down.
I was shocked at the 100K figure, and I've been doing web searches for several hours trying to get an idea.
This is a typical "how much will it cost" question. But this one has a twist. You hired (I assume you paid the engineer) to develop a report and estimate the cost to rebuild the foundation. So you get an estimate of $100K. Then you state
I was thinking maybe 50K. I'm thinking house lifting and excavation would be 15K and basement footings and walls, with no floor, would be 25K-30K. Misc. permits and stuff would be another 5K-10K.
So where did you get these numbers? Are you a cost estimator by trade? A contractor? Or are these revealed truth from God? You do not believe your engineer? But you will believe figures thrown out by an internet chat group?
Hi Dan,
I didn't hire the engineer. They came out to look at the house, then they would draw up a proposal for what they would like to do: soil borings, document this or that, etc. ( I haven't gotten that proposal yet). I was hoping I would hire them to draw up specs for shoring up the house. They said it likely needed a new foundation.
We were looking at buying a different old house two years ago, and I spoke with some house movers who quoted me their prices for lift and excavate, which was around $13K to $15K.
I'm hoping to hear from people who did it or from people who know of it from working on it.
Holy cow, that's a BEAUTIFUL house!
My sons & their families live in NE Minneapolis. Is that anywhere near you?
Beautiful place by the way, at least from our view.
$13-$15, two years ago, for a smaller house would probably mean at least $25,000 for this one.
About 12 years ago, a good buddy of mine had a basement dug & poured for his house. It was over $30,000 for a MUCH smaller house, and it was new construction, so they were able to bring in the big equipment rather than work under a house. I could easily foresee the footings, basement floor & walls being $50,000 - $75,000 for this house.
$100,000 doesn't seem out of the question to me. It sucks to be looking at that much, but I hope you (or somebody) does the work. That's a gorgeous house, and it'd be a shame to let it deteriorate!
First of all: That's a beautiful house!
I'm a little confused. I don't know anything about moving/lifting houses etc, so maybe that's it - but where exactly did you get $50K from? I mean this is a HARD thing to compare to what your neighbor paid?
Where are you located? There is a house for sale right down the street from me here in CT, it's a 1900 Victorian. They picked it up and moved it back maybe 250 feet to make room for condos since it was a GIANT lot, but it was such a unique experience to walk around in a perfectly square/level/plumb/dry basement with brand new electrical/plumbing/heating etc. of a house that's over 100 years old. It completely changed the house given the massive amount of storage and expansion capabilities down there.
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Date online: 18 February 2014
Best mate jailed for stealing Norma's savings
A DEVASTATED 76-year-old woman died just days after her best friend was arrested for stealing nearly half her life savings.
Jacqueline Carolan (46), of Oldham Road, Failsworth, was jailed for six months at Manchester Crown Court yesterday. The family of her victim, Norma McGivern, believe the stress and betrayal contributed to her death.
The grandmother-of-five suffered a heart attack and fell down the stairs of her home in the early hours of December 5 - the day Carolan was arrested. Norma was taken to hospital where she died five days later after another heart attack.
The court heard the pair met through Mrs McGivern's daughter, a friend of Carolan's. The defendant obtained kind-hearted Norma's debit card pin number when she asked to borrow £100 for a holiday, and helped her to make the withdrawal at an ATM.
She then regularly visited Norma in nearby Wesley Street on the pretext of taking her dog for a walk. But she took the card from Norma's purse and withdrew up to £250 on 14 occasions, stealing £1,870.
Mrs McGivern didn't notice this because her statements were sent quarterly. When she did, she told her daughter and a sting caught Carolan in the act.
Mrs McGivern, a retired machinist, said in a statement before she became ill that she would miss Carolan, whom she considered a good friend.
Carolan pleaded guilty to fraud at an earlier hearing. Mark Fireman, defending said she had no previous convictions and couldn't give any sensible answer why she had taken the money.
But Judge Bernard Lever described Carolan's behaviour as "despicable" and a "flagrant breach of trust."
He said there was no medical evidence that Norma died as a result of the theft, but said: "It caused her great stress and anxiety to know that this good friend she thought she had was stealing her money."
Mrs McGivern's daughter Pam Bryan described the sentence as fair.
The 48-year-old charity worker, who saw her mum every day, told the Chronicle how she had first met jobless Carolan when their sons were at primary school. Her mum soon became friendly with the bubble, outgoing woman too.
Mrs McGivern was distraught when she found Carolan had taken her money to spend on luxuries. While the family was waiting for her to be arrested, she locked herself in her house and hid upstairs fearful that Carolan would visit.
A tearful Mrs Bryan said: "I know my mum was worrying. I had booked her in with the doctor because I knew she was low. She wasn't eating.
"My mum lived independently and wasn't an old person for 76. She went to Oldham every Saturday without fail and she had a little dog she walked. She did all her own cleaning, shopping — everything.
"That just changed. In the few days before they arrested Carolan, mum was worried sick; absolutely devastated. She loved her, she welcomed her. My mum was so trusting, she wouldn't think bad of anyone."
Absolute scum, no mention of paying back the money either.
6 months isn't enough for this lowlife.....she should have got 2 years at least
This sort of person makes me so angry praying on vulnerable people and longer sentences need to be given, disgusting person!
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Reasor's Helps Build New Playground in Just One Day for Sand Springs Children
On Friday, August 17, Reasor's teamed up with Dr Pepper Snapple Group, KaBOOM! and volunteers from the Sand Springs Home to build a new playground at the Charles Page Family Village – West Village. The new playground's design is based on drawings created by children who participated in a Design Day event in May.
The new playground will provide more than 300 children in the Sand Springs community with a safe place to play. The Charles Page Family Village currently only has old, out-dated playground equipment for the children it serves living in the West Village.
The project is part of Let's Play, a community partnership led by Dr Pepper Snapple Group to get kids and families active nationwide. The first Let's Play initiative is a $15 million, three-year commitment to KaBOOM! to build or fix up 2,000 playgrounds by the end of 2013, benefiting an estimated five million children across North America. Via Let's Play grants and projects in 2011, Dr Pepper Snapple Group and KaBOOM! built or improved 528 playgrounds, benefitting an estimated 1.3 million children during the lifetime of the playgrounds. Dr Pepper Snapple Group is also a member of the leadership circle within the KaBOOM! National Partner Program.
Today's kids spend less time playing outside than any previous generation in part because only 1-in-5 children live within walking distance of a park or playground. This play deficit is having profound consequences for kids physically, socially and cognitively. Children need a place to play every day in order to be active and healthy, something KaBOOM! has been committed to since 1996.
Reasor's Sand Springs store director Mike Bellmard and a team of volunteers from the Sand Springs store and the company's home office in Tahlequah attended the event. The group had a great time lending a hand to all aspects of the build, from hauling mulch to mixing cement to assembling playground equipment.
About Sand Springs Home
Sand Springs Home operates two charities; Sand Springs Children's Home and the Charles Page Family Village. The Children's Home is a DHS licensed residential care home for as many as 20 children ages 6-18 who cannot live in their homes due to family problems. The Family Village is a housing program for single mothers who have at least two children. The Family Village can house has as many as 108 families in duplex-style housing.


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There is a harmful scam going around that I was involved in Nov. 15. I received a call from Windows 15 stating my computer was full of infections and if this wasn't taken care of my computer would be ruined. They said they wanted to help me. I went to my computer and after almost three hours of them "helping me," they said I would receive a call from Western Union giving me a number and then I was to give them the number. It was then I became suspicious. I received the call from Western Union but called my provider to find out there was nothing wrong with my computer. That ended my call. The caller then crashed my computer. My provider said they put a bad virus in that only grows. How sad! I must say I can only feel sorry for those with such evil intent to hurt others.
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Color + Design: The World's Most Valuable Stamps
Since the first self adhesive stamp (the Penny Black, made in 1840 featuring the bust of Queen Victoria) stamp designs have been one of the most highly visible designs in society, one that is particularly important since it represents the nation it comes from.
Today we are featuring some stamps from around the world that you will probably never come across, and if you did you would be quite happy because of their value, along with info about the history of stamp design.
The most common types of stamp designs are Portrait bust, Emblem, Numeric, or Pictorial.
Color & Stamps
Although multi-color printing was always possible, and may be seen on the earliest stamps of Switzerland, the process was slow and expensive, and most stamps were in one or two colors until the 1960s.
World's Most Valuable Stamps
Hawaiian Missionaries, 1851
In 1851 Hawaii issued its first stamps. These stamps are now referred to as the "Hawaiian Missionaries" because they were frequently used by American missionaries on the islands to send letters back to the continental United States. The new stamps were printed in Honolulu in three denominations (2 cent, 5 cent, and 13 cent). Because the first "Hawaiian Missionaries" were crudely engraved and printed on thin and poor quality paper, very few of these stamps have survived and they are extreme rarities.
The lowest denomination, the 1851 two cent, is the rarest of the set, with only about 16 copies known to exist today. A 2 cent Missionary is valued at about $760,000 in unused condition and about $225,000 used.
Usage of patterns has varied considerably; for 60 years, from 1840 to 1900, all British stamps used exactly the same profile bust of Victoria, enclosed in a dizzying variety of frames, while Spain periodically updated the image of Alfonso XIII as he grew from child to adult. Norway has issued stamps with the same posthorn motif for over a century, changing only the details from time to time as printing technology improves, while the US has placed the flag of the United States into a wide variety of settings since first using it on a stamp in the 1950s.
Most valuable U.S. Stamps
Monopoly On Design
Since postage stamps are a gov't regulated monopoly we dont get to see a very free and wide selction of stamp designs and such...though now you can get you own stamps designed....
In some cases, overt political pressure has resulted in a backlash; a famous example is that of the US in the late 1940s, when the US Congress had direct authority over stamp design, and a large number of issues were put out merely to please a representative's constituency or industry lobbyists. The resulting uproar resulted in the formation of an independent Citizens' Stamp Advisory Committee that reviews and chooses from hundreds of proposals received each year. Occasionally the public is polled for its choice of design, as with the US' Elvis stamp of 1993, or some issues of the Celebrate the Century series.
Occasionally designs use text as their primary design element; for instance, a series of US stamps from the 1970s featured quotations from the United States Declaration of Independence. In general however, text has come to be used more sparingly in recent years.
More Color Inspiration From Stamps
Stamps Errors
On the other side, design errors regularly get through the multiple stages of review and checking. Errors have ranged from minute points of rendition (such as the subtly-reversed ears on an Austrian stamp of the 1930s), to misrepresentations of disputed territory in maps, to mistaken text ("Sir Codrington" on 1920s Greece), to the truly spectacular, such as the US "Legends of the West" sheet using the picture of the wrong person. See stamp design error for further detail.
Another category of failure includes designs that are simply rejected by the stamp-buying public. The 1970s-era anti-alcoholism stamp of the US is a well-known example; it consists merely of the slogan "Alcoholism: You Can Beat It!", which must have looked good during the design process, but affixed to the corner of an envelope it suggests that the recipient is an alcoholic in need of public encouragement, and few people ever used this stamp on their mail.
Sources: stamp design, rarest postage stamps.
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awesome post and colors!
We're hoping to find something valuable, we're done with the sorting.
Found a 2,000,000 mark stamp from Germany during Hitler's time!
Some precancel stamp collectors might contend that a certain 2 cent Liberty precancel from Phenix City, Alabama is the rarest U.S. stamp, since it was made solely at the Bureau of Engraving and Printing and there's only one. After all, there are over 90 inverted Jenny Airmails remaining from the original pane of 100. Since the Scott Stamp catalog "ignores" bureau precancel stamps, even if the precancels were put on the stamp on the Stickney press before the stamps were GUMMED, cured for a few days, AND PERFORATED, that's another story. This particular stamp was spirited out of the Bureau under mysterious circumstances as we do not think that any were ever used and they all were ordered to be sent for destruction.
a few more general precancel facts from my own website...
After all, one of the precancels in my own collection is one of the 254 or so UNIQUE United States LOCAL precancels. Since these were applied after-the-fact, and precancels were used on junk mail, the single stamp in each case may be all that survived, even from a device that made 10, 25, or 100 at a time. Amazing. They are certainly not in as much demand as the items above. One person would like to buy it of course and has lots of money to do so, but as long as I have it, I have his respect. It took 25 years to get that respect. If I sell it, I just go back into the bottom of the stamp collecting pile since he no longer cares about what I have. It was authorized in 1932. It was found in the estate of a precancel stamp collector who died in the 1980s, recognized for what it was, and sold to the current household.
THIS STAMP IS UNIQUE. That means that there is only one...with this particular exact precancellation.
One collector missed out on the Franklin Z-Grill when it came up for auction to complete his collection of 19th century US stamps. What did he do? He bought the PLATE BLOCK (only one on the pane of 100 with the margin number) of the inverted Jenny airmail in October 2005 and traded for it in a $4 million stamp swap.
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It's not like the guy who sold the plate block was a one trick pony. He owned 5 of the 6 blocks of 4 remaining still together, and still has the other 4, or 16 stamps. I do not know how many of the other single stamps remaining he has also, if any.
Who was the winner in all of this? Probably the tax man.
Found a 2,000,000 mark stamp from Germany during Hitler's time!
No...the bunches of marks stamps were from the hyperinflation period of the 1920s....not rare.
your 2 million mark example from 1923
20 cents unused (nuisance value, if you really want one)...rarer postally used...95 cents.
How high did the values go?
Here's one in the same set for 50 milliard.
In the European system, that's like 50 billion in the US.
Hitler himself didn't show up on a German stamp until 1941 or so.
More hyperinflation fun. The values went even higher for the Hungarian hyperinflation of the 1940s. I have a set of four commemoratives issued for steam locomotives in 1946. The highest value is 40,000ap.
An ap is an adopengo or tax pengo, equal to about a quadrillion pengo in the European system at that point in time. I would have to re-research the exact stamp issue date, but that's close enough.
hmmm. million, milliard, billion, billiard, quadrillion
On the 1st of August, 1946 400,000,000,000,000,000,000,000,000,000 or 4×10**29 (four hundred octillion [ short scale ] ) pengő became 1 forint.
The stamp catalog I am using is from 2007 since I cannot afford to replace them every year. The last stamp in there from Zimbabwe from 2006, and they were up to a $450,000 value by that time. Zimbabwe is the country currently going the most crazy with silly currency values.
There is some amazing reading about numbers with a lot of zeroes in this wikipedia article and there are a lot of detailed tables. It's a good read and reference so I will not summarize. 10 zeroes were recently chopped off of the currency, and unofficial exchange values are updated daily now in October, 2008.
general hyperinflation and pictures of high value currencies and currency with lots of zeroes...not worth as much as high value stamps, but we can't have everything...one things leads to another around here.
The eagle and shield is also not inverted above in relation to the flags. That is the normal stamp. ... normal ones illustrated here
I have that 3 cents Lincoln stamp .... if anybody is intresded let me now


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Summer cocktails are great, but they're even better with a view
Why grab a drink indoors when you can indulge in your favorite cocktail and take in a breathtaking view from a rooftop bar? Add these seasonal bars to your list of summer drinking destinations.
New York: Trump Bar d'Eau (opens May 25)
Sip your favorite drink under the sunset and the flashing city lights at New York's Bar d'Eau, situated on Trump Soho's rooftop. Set to open May 25, the bar offers the perfect environment for a summer day—cabanas, bocce ball courts, and a cascading waterfall over a 6,000-square-foot pool deck--open to hotel guests in the a.m. and the public in the early evening (weekends from 6-11 p.m).This summer, Bar d'Eau is serving Moët Ice Imperial, the first-ever champagne designed to be enjoyed over ice. This signature sip complements delish small bites such as angus beef sliders and spicy tuna tartare. Of course, Bar d'Eau wouldn't live up to the Trump name without an indoor space embellished with a drippy chandelier. Memorable summer nights are sure to ensue. 246 Spring St. 212. 842.5500.
Chicago: ROOF on theWit (Now open)
Rooftop fun shouldn't be limited to the summer--at least that's what the folks at theWit believe. Earlier this month the swanky downtown Chicago hotel unveiled the new and improved ROOF on theWit bar featuring a retractable glass roof, which means later nights and year-round fun. Despite all the changes, tasty menu options such as roasted artichokes with almonds and tuna crudo remain. Guests can indulge in hibiscus margaritas or mellow out with wine from the Eurocentric wine list. Late nights can get quite amped 27 stories up, so if you're not a fan of Scandal-like affairs, opt for an after-work drink. 201 N. State St. 312.239.9501
Washington, D.C.: The Liaison Capitol Hill (Now open)
Whether you're a site-seeing tourist seeking refuge from big crowds or a power-suited workaholic needing to unwind, Capitol Hill's only open-air rooftop bar will definitely meet your needs. The seasonal venue features handcrafted specialty drinks and quick eats. Guests are welcome to lounge by the pool all day, while non-guests can wait until after 5 p.m. or nab a day pass. 415 New Jersey Ave. N.W. 202.638.1616.


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The traditional methods of civil engineering present several issues: it is time consuming, there is no precise evaluation of earth volume, and the update cycle is long.
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Romeo Beckham's 8th Birthday Bash
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They've always been a tight-knit family and David and Victoria Beckham treated their son Romeo to a great time for his 8th birthday.
The English soccer stud and his lovely wife were spotted at their home in Sherman Oaks, California along with some famous friends.
Among the guests were Heidi Klum and Seal, who threw his 10-month-old daughter Lou Sulola over his head as she laughed.
A few days earlier, Becks rounded up his sons Cruz (sporting dad's jersey) and Romeo and headed out to a local park.
Enjoy the pictures of Victoria Beckham celebrating Romeo's birthday with Heidi Klum and Seal (September 1).
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