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Secretary of State Hillary Clinton has added an unplanned stop to her Latin America itinerary: Buenos Aires. The U.S. delegation will stay overnight in Argentina Monday instead of Chile, where the government is still preoccupied with the aftermath of Saturday's devastating earthquake.
"Instead of overnighting in Santiago on Monday night we will travel from Montevideo [Uruguay] Monday afternoon to Buenos Aires in order to meet with Argentine President [Cristina Fernández] de Kirchner, instead of in Uruguay as originally planned," a State Department official on the trip said.
Clinton was in Uruguay this weekend to attend the inauguration of Jose Mujica, a former guerrilla leader turned president. The Kirchner meeting was originally supposed to happen in Montevideo, but was changed after the Chilean earthquake caused Clinton's team to re-examine her travel plans.
Although Latin American countries are no doubt hoping to discuss a range of bilateral issues, Clinton is more likely to focus on the renewed international efforts to pressure Iran regarding its nuclear program. "Iran is at the top of my agenda," Clinton told a Senate committee last week when talking about her trip.
She might find the going tough, particularly in Brazil, which currently holds a seat on the Security Council. Brazil's Foreign Minister Celso Amorim recently poured cold war on the U.S.-led sanctions push, saying, "We don't believe that sanctions will prove effective." Under Secretary Bill Burns, the State Department's lead on the issue, visited the Brazilian capital ahead of the Clinton trip, but it's not clear what he was able to achieve.
Clinton will be in Brasilia Wednesday to meet directly with President Luiz Inácio "Lula" da Silva and Amorim. Assistant Secretary Arturo Valenzuela previewed Friday what Clinton's message will be when it comes to Iran.
"While we're cognizant of the fact that the Brazilian government has reached out to Iran and has been approaching the Iranians, it's very much on our agenda to try to insist with the Brazilians that in their engagement with Iran, we would like them to encourage the Iranians, of course, to meet their international obligations," he said, adding that the State Department views Brazil's opposition to new sanctions as a "mistake."


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Nokia will start selling its new smartphone, potentially its last chance to break into the most profitable part of the mobile phone market and secure its future, in November, sources at European telecoms operators said. The Lumia 920, which uses Microsoft's Windows software, is Nokia's bid to catch up with Apple's iPhone and a string of popular phones using Google's Android software, like Samsung's Galaxy models.
The new phone, which with its rounded edges and colorful covers look similar to its predecessors, was unveiled on Wednesday and drew a thumbs down from many analysts, who felt it lacked the 'wow' factor to make big inroads against rivals. They were also unsettled by Nokia's refusal to say when the phone, and the smaller Lumia 820 models, would go on sale, or to give details on the price and operator partners.
Once the world's biggest mobile phone maker, Nokia fell behind rivals in the fast-growing smartphone market and has struggled to catch up, racking up more than 3 billion euros in operating losses in the last 18 months and forcing it to cut 10,000 jobs, as well as sell assets. By going on sale in November, the Lumia 920 will hit stores in time for the key holiday sales season. It will be priced similar to Samsung's flagship Galaxy S3, operators in several countries said. The Galaxy S3 sells for around 580 euros.
But the phone will probably land more than a month after Apple's new iPhone and will face stiff competition from Samsung, which last week unveiled the world's first smartphone with the Windows Phone 8 software that the Lumia 920 will use, as well as new models from HTC and Google's Motorola. An executive at an eastern European telecoms operator said he would start selling the Lumia 920, which features a high-quality camera and touch screen that can be used with gloves, in the second half of November, adding larger countries would receive the model earlier that month.
'The problem is that Nokia has temporarily destroyed the market for its own phones. Nobody will buy the old Windows phone and until the new Lumia comes, the market is absolutely dead,' the executive said, declining to be named because he was not authorized to speak to the media on the subject. Industry sources said on Thursday that Nokia had cut the prices of its older smartphones in a bid to boost demand until its new phones reach the market.
Analysts expect the Finnish firm to lose another 700 million euros in the July-September quarter and to sell around 3.6 million Windows phones, down from last quarter. In comparison, Samsung sold more than 20 million Galaxy S3 smartphones in just 100 days.
Samsung has become the world's biggest smartphone maker as Nokia's share of the market has plunged to less than 10 percent from 50 percent during its heyday before the iPhone was launched in 2007. The Lumia 920 is expected to go on sale in the United States around the same time as in Europe.
DIFFERENT VIEWSWhile some operators and retailers said they would focus on the new iPhone and rival models, others were more positive. 'It looks really good, they chose to differentiate with the design and appearance, which are very important to people. The camera technology is very interesting,' said Sami Aavikko from DNA Finland, the third-largest carrier in Nokia's home market.
Ernest Quingles, managing director for Italian distributor Tech Data, said he expects the new Nokia devices to be successful, but questioned whether Windows Phone can attract as much interest from developers as Android and the iPhone. 'What we need to check still now is how Microsoft and Nokia will be able to develop the apps part,' he said.
Part of the reason for the limited success of Windows phones so far is that they support only 100,000 or so apps, compared with about 500,000 or more for Android or iPhones.
Apple's and Google's entrenched positions mean consumers have invested heavily in apps and content with them, and that could discourage switching to a new mobile system. Nokia's volatile shares were 3.5 percent higher at 2 euros by 10:15 a.m. EDT (1415 GMT) in a firmer European market.


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Its appeaance looks most similar to Volvo XC90 & Porsche Cayenne. Yet the styling is nicer.
Not so bloated as Cayenne's, and not so angular as XC90's.
Mercedes-Benz ML looks much taller & boxish, while Audi Q7 looks (and is) much longer, and a lower - more cossover-ish (more like a HUGE A6 Avant).
And, yes - it looks (and indeed is) bigger than E53: especally lenght & width. It appears less box-ish than E53. Also it looks lower - since the proportions are changed (longer, wider, but same height).
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This week for #FotoshopFriday we've decided to finish off some renders we've been working on for some time. While it's doubtful the Audi RS 7 will pop up next week at the L.A. Auto Show, its appearance seems imminent and likely at one of next year's major motor shows. Given this, we decided to push these out in order to give our readers a better idea of what to expect.
In creating the Audi RS 7, we had a good idea on where to start. RS 7 test mules have been spied this previous year and likely the chin seen on the car is near production. Like the RS 5 Cabriolet mules we've seen in Germany first hand before the car's release, we believe Audi is testing with a nose that represents the exact airflow the production RS 7 will experience. Also like the RS 5 Cabriolet, we believe the RS 7 will feature those fantastic blister fenders for production, but skipped them in the test mule phase in order to blend in (or not give everything away…).
So we know how it was going to look at the nose. Given Audi's strong cohesiveness of the RS brand, we are making a highly educated guess at the rest. Our mule features the aforementioned blister fender arches and the lower rear valance with oval exhaust tips that are expected cues. Also likely is the use of that great-looking new split-spoke RS wheel design that was introduced on the RS 4 and is now migrating to duty on the RS 5 as well. Sample images of those wheels included carbon ceramic brakes underneath, and it seems a foregone conclusion that the RS 7 will offer these as optional kit.
RS 7 Engine Intel
What else do we know about the RS 7? Our intel and logic both tell us that the car will use a version of Audi's new 4.0 TFSI biturbo engine. Many rumor stories we've read suggest the RS 7 will simply adopt a pre-packaged hotter version from the S8 or Bentley Continental GT V8 (520 hp and 567 hp respectively, versus the S7's 420 hp), but we're not so sure.
While at the recent North American S6, S7 and S8 launch event we had a chance to chat one of the engineers who worked on the 4.0 TFSI program. At that time we learned that one of the significant differences between the 4.0 TFSI applications between S8 and S7 is the addition of a second intake for better flow and less pressure loss. Apparently, the packaging of the S8's second intake will not fit the C-sized packaging of the S7.
There is another factor at play here too and that is precedent. RS cars have always made use of an engine tuned by or for quattro GmbH specifically for the RS application (also shared with R8 in the case of the 4.2 FSI high-rev). If Audi follows in this expected action, then it is reasonable to assume that quattro GmbH is developing its own higher-spec 4.0 TFSI for fitment in the smaller packaging of the C-sized cars – RS 6 and RS 7.
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Expect the usual array of other upgrades as well from the RS 7. No doubt the car will get RS-style gauges similar to what is seen in the RS 4 and RS 5. We'd not be surprised to see a flat-bottom steering wheel added as well as Recaro shell seats as optional… at least in Europe until an airbag-equipped version becomes available. More aggressive tuning of the car's electronic systems such as suspension, steering, S-tronic transmission and rear Sport Differential are also expected, though we don't expect the addition of a manual gearbox since there's not one already for the more mainstream S7.
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Expect plenty of visual variety from Bare Bait Dance's Springboard show, including orange fruits, red shoes and pink beehive hair-dos. There's also boxing and bickering, business suits and floral costumes, giddy laughter and genuine tears. Oh, and some professional-quality dancing, too.
While this may sound like a disparate sampling of tone and style, the diversity makes sense. Springboard is Bare Bait's first company-choreographed performance, which means that each individual dance has been created by one of the members of the company. Since its inception last year, all of Bare Bait's shows have been choreographed by the company's founder and artistic director, Joy French. But, as much as she loves creating evening-length pieces, French says she felt that for this spring show it was high time to let company dancers showcase their own choreography.
"There are a lot of dancers in Missoula, but there aren't very many opportunities for them to create work," French says. "If you're a dance major, you can choreograph in college, but after you graduate, there just aren't really many options."
French also notes that just because someone is a highly skilled dancer, it doesn't mean that they're automatically a skilled choreographer. "Just like anything, choreography takes practice," she says. "I wanted to give Bare Bait dancers the chance to practice and work together on ideas that maybe they've been thinking about for a long time, but haven't been able to make a reality."
The resulting show is a nice mix of styles, offering insight into the company members' personalities and choreographic inspirations. Considering that some of the choreographers have only created a few dances before, the show feels remarkably coherent and professional.
French's piece, "1st/2nd," kicks off the evening with two alternating duets that explore the world of competition. It is at turns silly and poignant, effectively using sound (noise from an auction and a boxing match) and props (one duo dances exclusively with wooden chairs).
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Other highlights of the evening include two pieces by Elizabeth Pertis. The first, "The Center Holds," is danced solo by Pertis, and offers a stirring portrait of emotional torment. Her performance holds a certain stark grace: Pertis is able to appear both powerful and fragile in the same moment. Her second piece, "Above the Waveline," is much lighter, with a trio of slip-clad dancers exploring the catty world of female competition.
"Past is Present" encompasses both joy and heartache, addressing the fraught world of race relations, both historically and today. Set to old-time jazz and Billie Holiday, and choreographed by guest dancer Capri Richardson and company member Roxanne Madler, its themes are familiar, but are no less affecting for being so.
Jordan Dehline presents a fun solo piece called "Atalanta in 9 Scenes," vignettes that offer a smattering of different ways to view, approach and dance with a certain unexpected prop. The piece is poetic, whimsical and, taking place as it does within a large circle of rope laid on the stage, feels almost like an old-time circus act.
Other performances include "Infloresence," a ballet-inspired piece by Madler, which, though somewhat diminished by its childish costumes, is well-performed. "Expectations" by Jilyn Debray is a cleanly choreographed modern piece that feels like it is set amid the hustle and bustle of an urban financial district. "Borrowed Diction," a lovely duet, features a series of phrases by choreographer Mark Haim, and "Compulsion: The Red Shoes Saga," a delightful company piece choreographed by Morgan Shaw, is reminiscent of both a fashion show and a military drill.
Springboard is a new step for Bare Bait Dance, and it's a smart one. For those who have been following the company since its inception, this sampler presents a fantastic opportunity to get to know the dancers not just as dancers, but as artistic creators as well.
Springboard continues at the Downtown Dance Collective, 121 W. Main St., Fri., April 26, at 8 PM, and Sat., April 27, at 2 PM and 8 PM. $12/$10 in advance at Downtown Dance Collective or online at ddcmontana.com.


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Voters in the Ravenna School District -- or at least the 14 percent who bothered to turn out at the polls for Tuesday's special election -- have said "No" again to the district's request for additional funding, but that doesn't mean that the issue is going away.
The Ravenna Board of Education has decided to make a third try at passing the 4.9-mill levy, which now will go before the voters again in May. And, in the meantime, school officials will consider cost-cutting measures that could have a significant impact on the children of Ravenna.
While the rejection of the levy by nearly 300 votes can be seen as a "message" from the electorate, the district's financial situation remains unchanged and seeking local support for additional funding is virtually the only alternative it has, barring major cuts in staff and programs that could adversely impact academics. The board has no choice but to renew its appeal to the voters, with the hope that an aggressive campaign to pass the levy may lead to its passage.
The cost-cutting options under consideration include effectively eliminating neighborhood schools, grouping youngsters by grade levels instead. Ravenna already has done this with its kindergarten program, which was consolidated at a single location several years ago.
Other options include reducing busing, a course of action the district has taken in the past following the rejection of school levies, and instituting a pay-to-play policy for athletics. Pay-to-play could be a revenue source, but only in terms of defraying expenses; the cost of athletics exceeds the return on a fee-structured program.
Despite the district's declining enrollment, closing a school is not an option at this time. With the closing of Tappan Elementary in 2012, school facilities are at about 80 percent capacity.
School officials will decide on which cuts will be implemented after further discussion. The best case scenario, though, would for voters to reconsider the levy and pass it in May. The Ravenna district has gone without additional local funding for eight years; "making do" won't work anymore.
I believe in education and paying my fair share to make sure that children can get that education. I also believe in Democracy, and equal rights for all. This is where a problem arises. I am a lifelong resident of the city of Ravenna. I have been a homeowner and taxpayer for 40 years. I chose not to have children. This sets up the problem with Ohio School funding. In Ravenna , over 70% of the real estate property are rentals. Many of the owners of those properties do not live in the city or township, therefore they cannot vote on school levies. The other side of that is the renters, many who have multiple children, can vote on them. I am beginning to feel helpless and outnumbered with a tax system that is not only unfair, but ruled illegal by Ohio courts. I also believe that everone, including representatives of the School system be truthful. In the past we have been "mislead" by the school representatives regarding the school system. One example is the statement that was made when Ravenna needed a new stadium. Remember when they stated that because of heavy metal pollution at the old stadium, it was unsafe for our children? This is the stadium that they now have decided to lease to the city so the children can have a place to play soccer. Was a cleanup of the toxic grounds completed? Don't remember one. I have many other examples of contradictions made by our School leaders. ( check the micro-film of the Record Courier @ the library.) My problem is that I do not have a solution to our problem. A head tax? An added sales tax? Other ideas? I am sure though that it is not fair to keep taxing homeowners when the Ohio courts say it is unconstitutional. So I expect that the threats of pay to play sports, reduced busing, and other unpopular cuts will be mentioned by the School leaders soon. Oh and put it on the ballot again, (the costs of placing it to vote again, also paid for by my taxes). Is it possible that if as much effort was made by our school leaders to pressure that state to find fair funding for our schools rather than jamming more taxes on the already burdoned property tax owners? I wish at least they would make an effort.
Just take a look at your property tax bill and see how much of it goes to the school. Then think that all the rest run on what is left. Then notice how little money each other agency gets in relation to the school. We need to put some home owners in charge of the money not another professional teacher. It is like the automatic raise that the Congressmen get. They get an automatic raise unless they vote not to accept it that year. Yeah right that will happen.
Hummm...seems as if the voters are disatisfied...
And speaking of the teachers union...what has the union done for the children?
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Why do the schools NEVER mention renegotiation of teacher contracts and cuts in benefits there to save money? You will save much more there than by cutting sports and putting more kids on the streets to find "something to do". The teachers just EXPECT a pay raise every year, while those paying their wages have not had an increase in years or maybe have even had their pay CUT. The teachers and schools don't want any of their benefits cut, yet they don't mind at all cutting of the homeowners and taxpayers so that they have less to go around for THEIR food or gas or car repairs or medical or .......... I'm sick of the schools squeezing us dry and NEVER even mentioning the overly generous contracts for union teachers. Eliminate the pension and switch over to a 401k. My company did so 10 years ago and there was nothing we had to make up the difference. Let the teachers and administrators and all other government workers start feeling the pain that the rest of us feel. If the union wants to fight that, eliminate the union and send them packing. There are plenty of fresh graduates willing to teach for the already generous wage.
We ,the tax payers have said no twice in 4 months. What part of NO don't don't they understand? It should be unlawful to put this on the ballot again. Once a year should be the law. What did this tuesday's election cost the tax payers. Cut the sports and other non essentials , extra administrators, and how about cutting some pay like the rest of us have had to except as a way of life.
Maybe the property tax payers were telling the board that they don't have more money. Maybe they were telling them that to pay more tax might mean no electric, or gas or groceries.


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Joyce Gaufin, acting executive director of Salt Lake City-based Great Basin Public Health Leadership Institute, a division of HealthInsight, was named the president-elect of the American Public Health Association. The latter is the oldest organization of public health professionals in the world, with more than 45,000 members and affiliate members. Gaufin will assume the role in November.
Attorney Bryant J. McConkie has joined the litigation section of the Salt Lake City-based law firm of Ray Quinney & Nebeker. He was a shareholder at another firm before joining Ray Quinney. McConkie's practice focuses on family law and divorce.
Prince Yeates, a Salt Lake City based law firm, has named attorneys Charles L. Perschon and Jared N. Parrish shareholders. Perschon joined Prince Yeates in 2010 and maintains a practice in appellate work and complex commercial litigation. Parrish is a trial lawyer and commercial litigator, devoted to matters involving securities litigation, fraud, equity receiverships, Ponzi schemes and federal appeals.
The law firm of Parsons Behle & Latimer in Salt Lake City has announced that Matthew D. Cook, Nicole Griffin Farrell, Richard E. Mrazik, Brian P. Rosander, Elizabeth A. Schulte and John R. Zimmerman have been named shareholders. Cook is a member of the corporate transactions and securities department; Farrell of the litigation and employment law departments; Mrazik of the litigation department; Rosander of the real estate, banking and finance department; Schulte of the environmental, energy and natural resources department; and Zimmerman of the environmental, energy and natural resources department in the firm's Reno office.
Dave Zitting, president and CEO of Primary Residential Mortgage, Salt Lake City, has been appointed to the six-member 2013 steering committee of the Mortgage Action Alliance, a lobbying network of real estate finance industry professionals. Zitting has worked in the mortgage industry for nearly 25 years.
The Salt Lake City-based law firm of Jones Waldo has announced that Jess Griffiths and Allison Griffiths have joined its Park City office. Both will work in the firm's health care law practice group.
Jim Liu has joined BHB Consulting Engineers as a project engineer. Liu received his degree in architectural engineering from Cal Poly, in San Luis Obispo, Calif. Having worked 15 of his 25-year career in the San Francisco Bay Area, Liu brings a strong background in seismic building designs to BHB.
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In Kenya's Rift Valley, blood and bulls mark gateway to manhood
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BARINGO COUNTY, Kenya (Reuters) - In an isolated region in Kenya's Rift Valley, young men spear a bull in a ceremony that marks a gateway to adulthood.
Far from the bustling capital of Nairobi, locals gather at dawn, men on one side, women on another, to witness the event in a community where cattle play a central part in life.
The men, aged between 18 and 20, are part of a small Pokot community of herdsmen who tend cows, goats, sheep, camels and donkeys in Baringo County. The initiation is called Sapana in the Pokot language.
A Reuters photo essay at reut.rs/1SfpTJ9 shows the ritual killing of the bull, young Pokot men drinking clogged blood from its carcass, clashes between some initiates during the ceremony, the smearing of participants with the contents of the bull's stomach, and Pokot women dancing in celebration.
"In our culture, Sapana is the most important rite for a man to be able to gain authority within his community," says Hassan Tepa, an elder.
It is a jolting, three-hour drive to this region from the lowland town of Marigat, close to Lake Baringo. Kenya has about 620,000 Pokots, 2009 census statistics show, and some also live in neighboring Uganda's Karamoja region.
As Kenya develops and more people migrate to the cities in search of work, such traditional practices are on the wane. However in this remote region, ceremonies such as Sapana still hold sway.
The ritual allows men to sit with local elders and take part in their community's decision-making. Sapana also gives improved access to marriage, once the man and his family have accumulated a dowry of cattle. Continued...


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With the list price of a new Airbus A380 currently nearly $390m, aircraft leases are worth a lot of money - and so is the litigation arising from them. Bajul Shah of XXIV Old Buildings has numerous leasing disputes on his CV, but the case he cites as particularly interesting is the "very unusual" Blue Sky One Ltd & Ors v Blue Airways, which concerned three Boeing 747s acquired by a British company to provide capacity to an Iranian airline in a "complicated structure" that was believed to avoid falling foul of US sanctions against Iran.
"The Iranian airline basically just took the aircraft," says Shah. "What started as a claim for delivery up of the aircraft became a much, much bigger dispute. Two of the aircraft had been mortgaged to an American company, which then joined in the litigation. It turned into a very, very heavyweight commercial dispute.... Everyone got permission to appeal to Court of Appeal on various points, but it eventually settled. That was a very enjoyable bit of litigation simply because we were examining some very unusual facts. We were working with very intelligent clients."
Aviation is "only one of the many things I do", Shah says. "I do a lot of general commercial litigation, so that includes general contractual disputes, banking disputes, some shareholder disputes. Anything that has a business side to it. I also do a fair amount of trusts litigation and insolvency-related work." Last month, this took him to Cap Juluca, a luxury Anguilla resort whose operator recently went into liquidation. "I was acting for the liquidators. Various warring factions were trying to get control of this resort. One of the things the liquidators were trying to do was to sell it to the highest bidder." In an earlier case in the Caribbean, he was called on when the court needed an amicus to put forward contrary argument as to why a compromise agreement should not receive the judges' blessing.
His stint in Anguilla was "hard work", Shah says. He was usually up at 4.30am, spent several hours in court and then worked in the evenings. "It can become a bit difficult - I've got a young family, and my children are almost three and four and a half. In recent years I've been doing a lot more work in Guernsey so it's more manageable."
The cases which he finds most satisfying tend to involve arguments over whether the court has properly taken jurisdiction or the correct law to apply. The most famous of these were Equatorial Guinea v. Bank of Scotland International & Others and President of the State of Equatorial Guinea & Others v Logo Ltd & Others, in which Shah acted for Simon Mann and two companies associated with him who attempted to carry out the so-called "wonga coup" in Equatorial Guinea.
"After the dust had settled, Equatorial Guinea embarked on two pieces of litigation." One was for a Norwich Pharmacal order seeking disclosure of documents that Mann had lodged with a bank. "That legal action went all the way up to the Privy Council and they allowed it." The second was the claim brought for damages against the conspirators, including "a bizarre claim by the president for assault because he feared for his life." Shah's team argued that these were political claims and therefore not justiciable in England's courts. The argument was rejected by the high court but accepted by the Court of Appeal. "We said, how on earth is an English court supposed to adjudicate on, for example, claims for damages for supposed 'economic chaos' resulting from increased security measures imposed by the government after the attempted coup? Because essentially that was what Equatorial Guinea were asking the court to do." As more and more Russian oligarchs end up taking their disputes to London, he says, these arguments have been run again. Where an individual is alleged to have simply siphoned off money, the cases are generally heard; where there is a political element to a case, counsel are quick to point to arguments about justiciability.
How does he celebrate winning a case? "I don't think there is one way, actually. Sometimes it's a nice touch for the whole team to go out to dinner. A lot of my cases are quite long and take up a lot of your time." He's not tempted to use the air miles? "No … More taking time off with family."


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Dissidia Update: That should make for some nice autumn photos at Lithia. Terra has a very colorful costume, so it should look nice. I think it's the translation for Locke-san a Edgar-san. Terra probably uses very polite Japanese when she speaks. Patterning a corset does not sound like fun, although I wouldn't have any idea there. I hear you on the busy con season. Like your Rapunzel, Gestahl will probably be a pretty long term project..
My update: The main thing about fiberglass and cloth is the strands that come loose from the cloth are a pain to deal with. They become really hard and sharp, and have to be sanded down. I'm hoping this time, I'll be able to deal with it better. Fiberglass is nice when done well.
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Suffice to say, they will not all be back.
For those keeping track of such things, the 16 who are wondering who will sign their next paychecks are defensive back Alan Ball, tight end Martellus Bennett, linebacker Keith Brooking, guard Derrick Dockery, safety Abe Elam, fullback Tony Fiammetta, defensive end Clifton Geathers, guard Montrae Holland, wide receiver Jesse Holley, quarterback Jon Kitna, guard Daniel Loper, punter Mat McBriar, running back Sammy Morris, wide receiver Kevin Ogletree, linebacker Anthony Spencer and cornerback Frank Walker.
As is the case with every team, some of the Cowboys' free agents will return in 2012. Some will not. The question is, which are most likely to go?
Contract decisions will be dictated by a number of factors, including each player's age, health, desire to return and the demand he finds on the open market. Most of them are up in the air, players who could be brought back or allowed to walk, depending on who else appears on the roster, and on the offers they get from other teams.
Two players the team very much wants to bring back:
• Tony Fiammetta drew rave reviews around Valley Ranch — from both teammates and coaches — in his first season with the team. Blessed with the prototypical battering-ram physique and the ideal fullback's mentality, Fiammetta will run through a brick wall to open up a running lane and doesn't ask for attention for performing his brutal job.
• Mat McBriar is a favorite among Dallas players and management, but his name appears on this list with an asterisk … because while the team would love to have McBriar back, it wants a healthy McBriar back. The veteran punter suffered a case of drop foot this season that affected his mobility and balance, and led him to the injured reserve list at the end of the year when, he acknowledged, he basically couldn't punt. Get him healthy, and the Cowboys will try to bring him back.
But what about the others?
Wide receiver Laurent Robinson made himself a lot of money this year. He joined the Cowboys late — he didn't have the benefit of training camp — and all he did was catch 11 touchdown passes and become the most reliable wideout on the team. There's no question that the Cowboys would like to have him back, but Miles Austin has four more years on a six-year, $54 million contract and Dez Bryant is owed about $4.7 million over the next three years. Will Dallas match if another team approaches Robinson with a huge deal? Consider the money thrown at receivers in recent years. This doesn't include the eight-year, $120 million mega-deal the Arizona Cardinals gave Larry Fitzgerald. But Seattle signed Sidney Rice to a five-year, $41 million deal last July. The New York Jets decided in July that Santonio Holmes was worth $45.25 million over five seasons. Are they decidedly better than Robinson? No. So there's a chance some team will lob a huge contract at him. If so, can Dallas afford to spend heavily on three receivers when the team has other holes to fill?
It is widely believed that Bennett wants to start and to be paid like a starter. As long as Jason Witten has a pulse, that's not happening in Dallas, so if those really are Bennett's demands, he'll have to have them met elsewhere, and although he has raised questions about his work ethic and never has reached his enormous potential, his physical gifts alone likely will convince some team to spend a lot to sign him.
Kitna reportedly told the team last week that he plans to retire. He turns 40 years old in September and ended the season on the injured reserve list with a back injury. Don't expect the Cowboys to try to talk him in to another season.
If Brooking, who will turn 37 in October, leaves (either to another team or to retirement), it will mark the end of the road for one of the team's most popular players. Coaches rave about his work habits and his willingness to teach younger teammates. Teammates talk about his high energy level and his non-stop motor. Media rush to him in the locker room, knowing he's good for a solid quote, whether the team just won or lost. But the team has been pushing him aside for a while, especially since Bruce Carter joined the active roster. If, as most believe, Carter is being groomed to start alongside Sean Lee in the middle of the Dallas defense, is there any reason to sign Brooking as a backup? His frothing-at-the-mouth pregame speeches notwithstanding, Brooking very well could have played his last game in a Dallas uniform.
The wild card in this might be Spencer, who was drafted out of Purdue with the idea that he could be a fierce pass rusher across from DeMarcus Ware. That didn't happen — he averaged just over four sacks per year in his first five NFL seasons, with a career-best six this year and in 2009 — but he is a big, young, durable linebacker who is effective against the run. The Cowboys have not said they don't want him back, but it might be a case in which he could return only if he finds out teams around the league don't think as highly of him as he feels they should. Spencer is smart enough to know he's not going to get Ware money, but he'll get a raise over the five-year, $7.453 million deal he signed as a rookie. How much more will determine whether he stays or goes.
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Roberto Mancini today dismissed reports linking Mario Balotelli with a move to AC Milan.
There has been speculation suggesting the Manchester City forward could leave for the San Siro during this month's transfer window.
Mancini said: "It is not true, Mario stays here. We did not have any requests about Mario or other players. Mario has another three years on his contract."
Reports in Italy claimed Milan had been priced out of a permanent deal for the 22-year-old, while the club's president Silvio Berlusconi said yesterday he can no longer afford "monopoly money" transfer fees.
Vice-president Adriano Galliani has repeatedly asked City to lower their asking price from a reported £28million but Mancini has no intention of letting Balotelli leave, even on loan.
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This is the worst app every. It is fraud. They falsely advertise that you will receive payment for days you work out, but the only thing they do is steal money when you miss days. I have met my contract for 2 weeks now, and have yet to see a dime. But I do see money taken from my account. DO NOT GET THIS APP!!
I totally agree with Courtney.. This App is a FRAUD.. Never checks in and never pays back but they will steal your money..
I've been using GymPact for over a year. It's a great motivator, and I have never missed a workout because of it. As a result, I've lost about 30 pounds. I work out 5 days a week with no exceptions. All this being said, this app is very flawed. It worked great up until August of last year, but when they started larding up the app with extra features, and changing the interface, it started canceling my workouts while I am still at the gym. Only after lots of complaining and nagging do they finally wake up and correct the canceled workouts. The delay that always follows my bug reports means that I can't trust them to respond before the pact is supposed to end. We can't trust these people with our credit card numbers since they may allow the problem to fester long enough for the pact to end, which means that we will get charged for missing a workout when we really didn't miss one. Also, the payouts each week have been tiny over the last few months. I used to get $2-3/week. Now it's only a dollar or so. I commit to 5 days a week with $20 per missed day on the line. That apparently doesn't matter. You could commit to 7 days a week with only a dollar on the line and you would get the same amount. After all of this, I have actually earned about $140, but I would expect that to me more after over 280 total workouts. This app is a great idea, but its execution is inept, and bug reports get ignored for days. This is why I will soon be canceling my membership.
I cancelled my gympact membership 6 months ago. It was too difficult trying to email in and get my workouts corrected especially using runkeeper for many of them. It wasn't bad, I just didn't have the time. BUT THEN...last week...I get a $150.00 charge to my debit card! Couldn't believe it! I probably would have missed it if I wasn't searching through my account for an amount I needed from a different purchase. I've emailed them 3x in the last 5 days...I've heard nothing. What a joke! Stay away!
I used gym pact briefly. It was a hassle so i deleted my account. To date it said it was deleted on the 22nd of July as of today i was charged $75 for missed workouts...today is August 1st....uhm...harder than hell to get a hold of anyone and have to just wait around for an answer by email.
I have been with GymPact for almost 6 months and for most of the time, I've had issues with RunKeeper synching and typically when I emailed, I would get a response. Lately, the service has nothing but AWFUL and no matter how many emails I sent, I didn't get a response or would get the generic one stating my exact email. I am deleting my account next week because I'm sick of it. I haven't missed ONE workout since April so I'm probably not a priority since I am not generating them money.
The customer service for this app is non-existent. I have been charged over $100 after deleting the app due to the same problems others are having in the comments section. These people are crooks. Steer clear.
I've been with gym pact for over a year now and was happy with it until now. I have been trying to cash out for weeks. It always says server not available. Emails are never answered. The video for cashing out says no video exist. I think Geoff is one great con artist. I'd love to hear if anyone has actually gotten their money. Guess we are all just screwed and the boys from Harvard are laughing all the way into our banks!!!
I have completed 2 weeks and have had nothing go into my account. The first week I joined was a Thursday thinking that was the start of my first week, no chance! That Sunday morning money was taken from my account. I have emailed them several times and have had no response
This app is a great concept but has terrible customer service. They claim that if you report a problem with your pact for the week you will not be charged until the issue is resolved. What they don't tell you is that their customer service response takes over a week and until they view your issue you will automatically be charged and you will then have to hound them for refund with lawsuit-like proof and evidence of your issue for a refund when according to their app you shouldn't have been charged in the first place.
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November 26th, 2012
Danu, a traditional Irish ensemble, will be performing "A Christmas in Ireland" on Wednesday, Nov. 28, at 7:30 p.m. in Wait Chapel.
The performance is part of the University's Secrest Artist Series, which brings internationally renowned talent to campus.
Tickets to the performances are available free of charge to Wake Forest faculty and staff from the Theatre Box Office, the Benson Center Ticket Office or by calling the Secrest Artist Series Office at 758.5757. (Limit two free season tickets per person. Presentation of a valid WFU ID is required).
Graduate and undergraduate students also receive a free ticket.
Danu's performance will feature the flute, tin whistle, fiddle, button accordion and bouzouki, and will include a special appearance by local Irish dancers.
A pre-performance talk will begin at 6:40 p.m. in the Balcony Room of Wait Chapel.
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Feb. 16, 2014
Quoting senior guard Marquel Davis:
On the emotions of Senior Night and her career winding down:
"It's kind of numb. I don't think it's really hit me yet, personally. I walked out with a smile, and then to see them cry was when I started crying. Honestly, I don't think it's hit me yet that I'm almost done with my college basketball career. It just seems like time has flown by and just yesterday we were freshmen coming in. Personally, I have no feelings yet."
On what made everything click in the win today:
"I think it was defense. I think in the first half we played hard defensively. We dove after balls and that helped the intensity level. I think it helps being at the end of our bench, so you also hear our bench as well as the people on the floor so the intensity is ten times more. In the second half, you're on the opposite side so you have to find the intensity between the five on the floor. At times, we drop that intensity and that's where teams start to pick up. For us to get this victory, it was our intensity and defense throughout the game that brought us the win."
On effects of facing Clemson a second time:
"They always say it's hard to beat a team twice, so I think it helped playing them the first time and then again because you kind of knew what to expect what you were getting from this team. I think when you watch games on TV, they aren't the same as when you actually play the team because some teams show up, and some teams don't show up. Sometimes a ranked team will lose to a completely non-ranked team. I think it helped that we did play them before. We just had that much more anxiety to come out with a W this time since we fell short last time."
Quoting redshirt senior guard Ashlee Anderson:
On the emotions of Senior Night and her career winding down:
"I know for myself that I try not to think about it. Everybody's saying, 'Senior Night's coming up!' and I'm like, 'What? What night?' I'm trying not to think about it, because I get scared thinking about how if we don't continue to play basketball then we have to go into the real world. Like Quel [Marquel Davis] said, I'm kind of numb to the feeling. All of the emotions that I had on the court are because I was thinking about how I was about to leave these girls right here. This might be one of our last times playing together. It was an emotional moment for me."
On what made everything click in the win today:
"One of the things Coach [Suzie McConnell-Serio] tried to stress to us before the game, knowing that we played them before, was to try not to make the same mistakes we made before. We let them attack us offensively in the first game and let them get any shot they wanted. We really put a lot of emphasis on our defense this time, and like Quel [Marquel Davis] said, we had a high level of intensity in the first half. Everything was just clicking offensively. We've been working at that too, but I think your defense translates to your offense so we were rolling with it."
On effects of facing Clemson a second time:
"Like Quel [Marquel Davis] said, it is hard [to beat the same team twice], and I think one of the things we just tried to focus on was Coach [Suzie McConnell-Serio] saying, 'Just win for your seniors.' With us, she just made it a point to play our hardest. If you don't play any other game as hard as you can, then make sure this is the one. To win on Pink the Pete, and to continue to fight, I feel like we fought not just for ourselves, but for the women out in the stands who fought to overcome breast cancer and the people that are continuing to fight to overcome breast cancer."
On if the Wake Forest game was used as motivation:
"I said I wasn't going to get over that game until we won this game. I still have ill feelings because I think about how it could have been another W, but I'm proud of this win today and I'm glad that we got the win and how we got the win with a thirteen point lead."
Quoting senior forward Asia Logan:
On the emotions of Senior Night and her career winding down:
"It was very emotional for me. I think I was either the first or the second one crying. I was just thinking about my four years being here and how great they've been. These two [Marquel Davis and Ashlee Anderson], I love them and I'm going to leave them and the rest of my team. I was just thinking about all of that. Time to grow up."
On what made everything click in the game today:
"We communicated really well on the back side, letting the top people know where everyone was, like shooters and cutters. I said to them that in this game, defense was actually fun. I actually enjoyed defense this game."
On if the Wake Forest game was used as motivation:
"During halftime, Coach [Suzie McConnell-Serio] came in and the first words she said were 'Do not let up!' We were already talking about it before she came in, so yeah, we thought about that game."
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My humble opinion on the ufc
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Do you think the ufc is going backward in longterm with the way they promote the sports. Imo Dana white is not the right guys to birng the sports of MMA in the promised land. I like the man is blog are very fun to watch but i think he take stuff way to personel he swear a lot I almost feel he promote bad behabvior among is fighter to create drama and sell ticket .
I remember back in the day UFC was trying to compete against the WWF ( yeah back in the day it was called like that). IS it really the sport that sports that u really want to compete againts or first class sports like the nfl.
The ufc need to step up there game and act like a first class compagny. fighter like JDS GSP edgar brian stann are the best type of fighter to elevate the sports to higher ground.
I agree.
It's what sells. Do you see how often Jon Jones is appearing on ESPN now? Rampage vs. Hamill, which was on-paper one of the worst main events ever, did almost double the buyrate of the Edgar/Beno 2 fight. Fighters with no personality just are not marketable.
With that being said, the UFC sort of needs to accept where they are. They will always only appeal to a certain audience outside of a huge fight.
I like things better the way they are.
I prefer Nick Diaz being who he is than having having a fake image where he claims he "never inhaled".
I don't believe in politically correct "professionalism" built on lies and ppl cultivating fake jesus wannabe images where if they get caught in a strip club or say something people who are complete whiners disagree with its a "scandal"
A lot of the of the people who try to pretend they're professional are complete fakes and phonies who say one thing & do the complete opposite. I don't see how mma benefits from illicit marketing campaigns where ppl put up a front & pretend to be things they are not.
The UFC is such a diverse and unique sport I don't think you can compare it to a league like the NFL,NBA,etc. It will always be the evolution of boxing in my opinion,and will always follow that model. You sell fights and watch it for entertainment and follow a few fighters. Dana white is the perfect fit for the UFC.
The only way I see the UFC becoming a legit sport is if they break that PPV model, which will be impossible to do. Until then it is what it is which is prize fighting. The UFC will continue to grow, however I don't ever seeing it being a powerhouse like a legit sport league. The thing with the UFC its one and out, like you lose its over, you set up the biggest fights there is a drawback.
This is the fight game, not badminton.
Two men are going to try and kill each other. Of course there's going to be drama.
I'm with the OP, UFC used to be a much more legitimate sport. Today's UFC is a complete joke with undeserving nobodies like Chael Sonnen getting title shots. You'd never see that back in the old UFCs.
Unrelated, but I just watched UFC 3, that shit was awesome.
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Day 42
We left our hotel in Ioannina and within 500m saw a sign for Athina/Athens, our destination for the day. Well, the first sign actually said Αθήνα, but thankfully the Greek seem to have two sets of signs everywhere, one in the Greek Alphabet and one in the Latin/English one. The road passed through some lovely steep valleys with a lot of greenery. We rode with a Kawasaki rider for a while on the twisty roads and he told us to be careful because the roads were dusty which annoyed Ed for the rest of the day!
Had lunch at a roadside cafe/petrol station in the sun which was very relaxing, although not for the poor girl working there who was rushing around doing about 3 jobs at once.
Took the Rio bridge over the sea and hooked up with a few more rider buddies. Another guy with a BMW GS rode with us for a good hour or so on a fantastic windy fast road where there was only technically one lane each way but half of the people drove straddling the hard shoulder, so there were actually 4 lanes of vehicles!
Just short of Athina we stopped for a leisurely cuppa as we'd made good progress and then we took the final ride into the city, which was very busy with traffic. We found our hotel very easily actually and locked the bikes up before heading out for a nice meal and a bit of wine.
When we got out of the restaurant we walked around in the general direction home for a while until we were lost and asked a couple of passers by for directions. Half an hour later and still no nearer familar roads we flagged a cab over. We could only remember the name of our hotel and that it was number 38, on a road beginning with D near a train station and we could only say hello and please in Greek. The cabbie didn't have a clue what we were talking about and we jumped out and got another one. Same problem until finally we found a guy who spoke English and knew where we were meaning. He was interested in our journey as a fellow biker and dropped us off and took a photo of the bikes.
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Created in 1992, the Isabella Stewart Gardner Museum's School Partnership Program builds relationships with teachers, students, and administrators in Boston schools. This multi-visit program focuses on the processes of learning to look and making meaning from works of art—through professional development for teachers and regular, sequenced discussions about works of art for students, both in the Museum and in the classroom.
The Gardner Museum's approach to school programs is grounded in the philosophy of working with a small number of schools to build deep working relationships through numerous interactions with Gardner educators both in the museum and the schools.
Our current School Partners include:
- Boston Latin School
- Maurice J. Tobin K-8 School
- Edward M. Kennedy Academy for Health Careers
- Mother Caroline Academy
- Boston College High School
Educational Approach
The School Partnership uses a discussion-based pedagogy called Visual Thinking Strategies or VTS, which uses three questions to prompt students to make observations and provide evidence for their ideas:
What's going on in this picture? What do you see that makes you say that? What more can we find?
Take a look at VTS in action in this video.
Rather than impart large amounts of information to the students, VTS is used to help the students explore works of art in a way that allows them to connect with their previous experiences and knowledge—in other words, students make meaning on their own terms.
Through these open-ended discussions, students develop visual literacy, flexible, rigorous thinking skills, and strengthen their language and listening skills. In addition, VTS nurtures problem-solving abilities, and builds confidence and willingness to participate in group thinking processes. These skills and abilities are essential in most contexts, both in school and out.
The Gardner Museum's School Partnership Program asks classroom teachers to facilitate 10 VTS lessons (30-45 minutes each, depending on age level) in an academic year, and in grades 3-12 classes also visit the Gardner Museum multiple times each year. For most classes, each museum visit is 2.5 hours and includes an art-making project in our Education Studio or Greenhouse Classroom, and group VTS discussions are complemented by small-group work, writing, and sketching activities. Partnering teachers receive intensive, ongoing professional development and support, helping the VTS teaching method become part of the school's culture.
Connecting with Families
The work that students create through the School Partnership Program completed either during their visits to the Gardner Museum or at school, is highlighted on the Museum's art wall. This rotating exhibition space displays student artwork, and allows families the opportunity to view what their children have created in response to the Museum's collections. Some partner schools help to organize a "family night" celebration at the Museum. Students, teachers, and their families also enjoy free family admission to the museum throughout the year with the use of their School Partnership buttons.
What is the Measured Effect of This Program?
From 2003-2006, the Gardner Museum's major research study, Thinking Through Art, measured the effect of it multiple-visit program on the development of 3rd-5th grade students' critical thinking skills. The study demonstrated that students who participated in regular VTS discussions with works of art made twice as many observations and interpretations, and provided evidenced for their ideas nearly twice as often as their peers in non-participating schools.
In the 2008-09 academic year, the Museum conducted a research study funded by the Institute of Museum and Library Services (IMLS) which documented the effect our multiple-visit program had on the development of 8th grade students' and teachers' aesthetic development and critical thinking skills. In this study, students who participated in regular VTS discussions with works of art demonstrated three times as many supported observations and speculations in oral interviews and nearly twice as many of those critical thinking skills in writing as compared to their peers not participating in the program.
Learn more about these and other research projects.
"I believe that the VTS model is one of the most powerful models for really engaging young people, changing our perceptions about who can learn and who cannot, and also really building a foundation where teachers work in a very real sense." –Dr. Carol Johnson, Superintendent of Boston Public Schools
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In the 'olden days', computer and video games were very simple. They didn't need a lot of thinking skills and the graphics were not very good. Kids played them for fun, but as they were so simple they soon became boring and kids went off to do something else.
Nowadays, computer and video games have great graphics - playing many of them is almost like being in a movie!
There are lots of good things about computer and video games.
Many computer and video games are very violent, and research shows that this violence can affect kids in many ways.
The point is: if you want to play computer games, keep spare time for exercise and always eat healthy stuff, not chips.
There are lots of sites on the Internet where you can play games. Some are fairly easy and can help you learn, like the games on this site. Some are educational, and you can learn a lot when you use them. Some are about problem-solving in real life situations, and they can be really interesting and challenging. But check them out carefully with mum or dad or whoever cares for you, as some of these sites can turn out to cost money or are not really for kids.
Computer games are a great way to learn how to do things. When you are an adult you may find that gaming skills can help in training for your job. Many computer games help kids to learn about their feelings, beliefs, problems, as well as being a fun thing to do. Make sure that you leave plenty of time in your life for playing outside with other kids, being a helpful person in the family and keeping fit and active. Having a healthy life is like having a healthy diet.
You need to have a balance of different things. Too much playing of computer games is like too many sweet treats!
See how much you know about keeping yourself safe online by checking out this site https://budd-e.staysmartonline.gov.au/primary/main.php
We've provided this information to help you to understand important things about staying healthy and happy. However, if you feel sick or unhappy, it is important to tell your mum or dad, a teacher or another grown-up.
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Sauteed Asparagus with Bacon
Savory bacon pairs well with the sweet, grassy taste of sauteed asparagus.
- Servings: 4
Photography: Romulo Yanes
Source: Everyday Food, April 2012
- 2 slices bacon, cut into 1-inch pieces
- 2 bunches asparagus (2 pounds), trimmed and cut into 1-inch pieces
- Coarse salt and ground pepper
- 2 teaspoons Dijon mustard
- 3 tablespoons chopped fresh parsley
In a large skillet, cook bacon over medium, stirring occasionally, until browned and crisp, 8 to 10 minutes. With a slotted spoon, transfer to paper towels to drain. Add asparagus to skillet and season with salt and pepper. Cook, stirring, until asparagus is tender, about 10 minutes. Remove from heat and stir in bacon, mustard, and parsley.


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Lessons From Mumbai
New York, NY —
Police Commissioner Ray Kelly says the city's private security guards need more training to avert attacks like those on hotels and restaurants in Mumbai last year.
Kelly told the city council today that the NYPD is hoping to build on the limited training that's going on now.
KELLY: We do training for units in some of these private security entities but it is spotty.
REPORTER: Currently, private security guards have no standard training or background requirements.
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WBO honors medalists
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WBO President Francisco "Paco" Valcárcel paid tribute to Central American and Caribbean Games gold medalists, Ángel Acosta, Christian Peguero and Enrique Collazo in recognition of their achievements and as part of WBO program Kids Drug Free. Valcárcel praised the talents of the young boxers and presented them with a plate and a check for $500 for winning their gold medals and to motivate them to continue in sports and away from drugs and other vices.
"You have the potential to go ahead in your careers. Just you have to keep clean, drug free and I'm sure you are going to achieve a lot of honors in the name of Puerto Rico", Valcárcel said.
In the recent 2010 Central American and Caribbean Games in Mayaguez, Puerto Rico earned 7 gold medals overall. Acosta won gold at 48 kg (106 pounds), Peguero at 69 kg (152 pounds) and Collazo at 75 kg (165 pounds).
Among those on hand with Valcárcel were the Mayor of San Juan Jorge Santini, Representative Jose "Nuno" López, head of the Amateur Boxing Federation of Puerto Rico Jose Luis Vellón, trainers Jose Laureano and Javier Arce, and other sports personalities.


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President Mike Martin
The International Brotherhood of Teamsters, with 1.4 million members, is one of the largest labor unions in the world. Teamsters Joint Council 43 which represents Teamsters in Michigan has about 60,000 members under its umbrella, and Teamsters Local Union 337 represents about 10% of that contingency with about 6,600 members. The Teamsters is also the most diverse union in the U.S. today. It would be hard to identify a Teamster on the streets because we are everywhere. The Teamsters represent industries from A to Z - airline pilots to zookeepers. Additionally one out of every ten union members is a Teamster.
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Coco Crisp and Julio Lugo both had 2-run doubles in the 4th leading to a five run inning against rookie Andy Sonnanstine. Tuesday's 7-8-9 came up big for the Sox, driving in five of the eight RBIs.
The Amazing Feat of the Day: David Ortiz can move. Someone needs to clock this big man when he turns on his jumbo jets. In Papi's two hits tonight a triple and an infield single, Ortiz ran as fast as he's ever ran. In both plays almost being thrown out coming into the base.
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Grilled Lamb Chops with Provençal Dressing
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- Servings: 4
- 2 large anchovy fillets
- 1 small garlic clove, smashed
- 1 tablespoon fresh lemon juice
- 1/4 cup extra-virgin olive oil
- 6 Calamata or Niçoise olives, pitted and coarsely chopped
- 1/2 teaspoon very finely chopped thyme
- 1/4 teaspoon very finely chopped rosemary
- Salt and freshly ground pepper
- Twelve 4-ounce baby lamb rib chops
How to make this recipe
In a mini food processor, pulse the anchovy fillets with the smashed garlic and the lemon juice until finely minced. Add the olive oil and process the anchovy mixture until smooth. Add the chopped olives, thyme and rosemary and pulse to blend. Season the Provençal dressing lightly with salt and pepper and reserve.
Light a grill or preheat a cast-iron grill pan. Season the lamb chops generously with salt and pepper. Grill the lamb chops over high heat, turning them once, until browned all over, about 7 minutes for medium-rare meat. Transfer the lamb chops to a large serving platter, spoon the Provençal dressing on top and serve.


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The wire services are reporting that as early as next week GMwill have further production cuts and plant closures. Maybe it is a good thing I can't sell my M5.
: GM to announce production/plant cuts
The wire services are reporting that as early as next week GMwill have further production cuts and plant closures. Maybe it is a good thing I can't sell my M5.
and so is BMW , Toyota, and many other car manufacturers now. The reason being the expected drop in auto sales based on what is turning out as a world wide recession. A pretty smart move business wise for all as it's obvious there is going to be less car sales in the next year or two, so why leave plants open producing cars that won't be sold and spending cash on paychecks.
GM and Chrysler have apparently been in merger talks over the last month and GM has denied any talk of declaring bankruptcy. Sounds to me like they're thinking wisely and with good business sense under these conditions.
"Sales for most automotive luxury brands fell hard in September, as affluent car shoppers stayed home and watched the financial-industry crisis unfold on TV and in the newspapers.
Consumers are "keeping their hands on their wallets," said Don Esmond, senior vice president of automotive operations for Toyota Motor Sales U.S.A. Inc., in an Oct. 1 conference call."
"Remarkably, BMW conceded in August it was not likely to post higher U.S. sales this year, ending a streak after 16 consecutive years of growth."
"U.S. sales for the BMW brand fell 29.5 percent in September versus the year-ago month, to 14,744, according to AutoData. Thanks to the credit crisis, that was much worse than BMW was doing earlier this year. Year to date, BMW-brand sales were down 9.6 percent, to 195,633."
"This calendar year, Porsche's U.S. sales were down 17 percent through August, to 19,618. For the month of August, U.S. sales were down 44.9 percent from the year-ago month, according to AutoData"
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I'm shocked by the amount of people who are saying they're not supporting IE7 . At 11% market share, they're (unfortunately) still quite a factor.. I'd hate for one out of 10 users to not be able to view my site properly.
I not only support IE7 but I also go out of my way to make sure that the site works in IE6 as well.
I feel that this is especially important for business websites where any visitor that can't interact with the website because of his browser is possible lost business.
Also, like it has been mentioned before I don't know what the big problem with IE 7 is. Besides some problems with z-index I have never had problems with IE7 . Granted it depends on how much new stuff you want to use ( html5, css3 etc) and how complex the template is, but I still think that with smart coding and progressive enhancement you can still make awesome templates that degrade gracefully in older browsers but are still functional in them.
The quicker you people stop supporting the train wrecks that are Microsoft's browsers, the quicker they will be phased out.
Absolutely wrong.
Surfers will see the site as a broken piece of crap and move on. Whoever runs that website just lost a customer.
you're just limiting your creativity and hindering the use of powerful tools such as CSS3 and HTML5 which will result in loss of a LOT more sales than not supporting a browser whose market share is under 5%.Creativity is for artists and personal portfolios.
Businesses want their websites to be as accessible to as many people as possible. Outside of the web design world nobody cares about CSS3 or HTML5 . CSS3 and HTML5 don't increase a businesses profits but accessibility and user experience do.
There is a reason why most internet marketing websites (websites that actually make money) are bare bones and ugly. They work and they convert. WP themes that are designed for internet marketing easily sell for $97 and up but would never be accepted here because they aren't very sexy looking.
Everyone complains about studiopress being old, boring and not up to themeforest standards but that guys outsells all of you combined.
There is also a reason why you don't see any of the latest cutting edge coolness on any major website. They care about user experience and reaching as many people as possible.
IE browsers, love 'em or hate 'em are still very widely used. The majority of surfers are using a version of IE.
If you care about accessibility and user experience, IE should be the browser you build your sites to, not chrome or firefox.
If all you care about is impressing other designers, by all means, knock yourself out.
Now somebody go answer my nivo slider cleartype problem!
Oh and in case you havn't heard it yet: IE is being mean to me
the thing is, normal users don't give a damn about updating browsers, they sometimes don't even know what an update is. heck, some don't even know what a browser is, when i ask some clients who have problems with the site, what they use to surf the net they say google. and if the startpage of the browser is not google they are lost, and say the internet is gone. we must program for people like these, because these ignorants sometimes are full of $$$ and are the potential buyers for a lot of other people. we are all browser-aware tech people here, so it is normal we are frustrated. but as christopherjon says, the visitors don't care about design. they only care to find the info/product they are looking for. when a site they find is broken they don't blame their crappy browsers, they blame you and your webpage, and say you are unproffessional. i am still to upload my first web template here, but i usually take care of such things as graceful degradation, and there is an option for my buyers to activate an alert in case of old browsers, that says, to update it in order to have the full multimedia experience of the website. this is just my point of view, and in my experience, i had the most problems with very under-educated people, but they for some reason had the most money to spend too, and they didn't care about my excuses for browsers, or anything else, they just want everything to "work". so i try to make it work, even if the design is not top notch in terms of technology used. there are exceptions too of course, but we cannot change the way an user thinks. we can try though. but if we try to force it, the only ones to suffer the consequences are we ourselves.
When it comes down to it, you should just do whatever you feel is best for your buyers (and thus your sales). I know I will be supporting IE7 for some time if it's not to much work, which it usually isn't. If you use css3pie there are not much things that are not possible in IE7 and IE8 .
I feel that for the coming few months I, as an author, will have an edge with my support for IE7 . It will eventually die out, but not just quite yet
Yes, I support IE7 .
redfactory said
I feel that for the coming few months I, as an author, will have an edge with my support for IE7 .
+1 I feel the same way. That's why I support IE6 as well
redfactory said
I feel that for the coming few months I, as an author, will have an edge with my support for IE7 . It will eventually die out, but not just quite yet
That's why my first theme supports ie6,7,8, and 9. If it gets me a few more sales, it's worth it. I think about cross browser compatibility during the whole design process, so it isn't a huge shock at the end of a project. Aside from adding ddbelatedpng and fixing a few floats and z-index issues, ie6 and 7 weren't much trouble. Probably an additional 2 to 3 hours. 5 sales will make that time worthwhile.


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text: I just read the thread "Really need some advise" in which the question asked was "what kind of gun should I buy and should he buy at the up coming gun show'. He got some great advice. It got me thinking and I came up with this question "where is the best place to buy used guns?" I've seen them at gun shows with big price tags. I've heard stories here on great deals at pawn shops. A few months back I was looking to sell some guns to make some changes in my collection. I found in the paper and ad stating "I buy used guns" so I called and they said bring them in and offered me next to nothing for them. It was a pawn shop. Now I live in Texas which makes it easy to purchase and sell both rifles and handguns with out a FFL.. Now I wish I had put the same ad in the paper and have people looking to sell their use guns for quick needed cash. I have the blue book and others to give me an idea and I would be picky in what I buy. I would NOT give out great deals like the one I gave propellerhead who said he didn't have much money and shows up in one of the nicest cars I've seen with a beautiful gun loving women.(just had to jab him he's a real nice guy) Also how do you go about buying guns from people who have pasted away. Most of the time it's the women who survive and don't know what to do with the guns. My Mother-in-law had a friend looking to sell her husbands' guns and he past away many years ago. I told her to have her call me. I took the blue book over and showed her what they were worth and also how much she could get for them. I didn't want them or I would of made her an offer. I do know a number of you on this forum live in states that would make it hard to do this. I wish I had done this when I had the money. Your thoughts??????