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As our world becomes increasingly divisive and toxic, here is simple guidance: How to safeguard our spiritual practice, and to ensure we can make a real contribution to what is sacred within life and the Earth.
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London, England, January 2016
Within the heart of each of us is a link of love that connects us to what is Real. How do we live this link of love, especially at this time when our world is covered with denser and darker veils of illusion?
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In our spiritual practice we need to reclaim our connection with the living earth, with the oneness of creation to which we belong. In this talk Llewellyn Vaughan-Lee uses an ancient prayer to explore what we have forgotten and how we can bring these seeds of remembrance into our practice and into our lives.
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"True religion is a practical mysticism which finds God not only in the silence of the soul but also in all the affairs of life. The only mysticism that appeals to me is the kind which finds God in all things, in all men and in all experiences, and which goes out into the highways and byways and bears the heat and the burden of the day."
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Irina Tweedie describes the events leading to her meeting with her spiritual teacher and outlines the essence of the Naqshbandi Sufi path.
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I want to hang a chandelier to existing knob and tube wiring but there isn't a switch to the electrical source. is there a way to add a pull switch to knob and tube wired to a new chandelier?
Your local jurisdiction may have the answer to whether or not you can extend or "modify" a knob and tube circuit.
Is the knob and tube insulation brittle? Does it crack?
*Oh, pull switch. Never mind, its simple.
If you can find a place on the light to put the pull chain its simple. Splice the neutrals together and the power splices to one black on the pull chain and the black from the light splices with the other black on the pull chain.
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so guys is the next part hope u like it
after leaving rehearsal hall rey wanted to meet kria...
kria;(came to college she remember lil thngs about rose party like she drunk shouting here there rey drop her home kria cum to college)
rey asked neha abut kria in tht middle time kria walked inside college
rey called all the student to the same place where sharon gives the speech (all weakling dazlind and other student)he took mike and said ...
rey:kuch din pehle isi jagah sharon ne ap sab se kria ke baare main kuch kaha tha aj main ap sab k samne kria ko kehna chahta hun
I M SORRY...kria i m sorrry muje us speech k baare main kuch nahi pata tha and my team...just sorry and aj main apni gs ki post se bhi resign kar raha hun(he left the court)
all the students were surprised and kria she was shocked with how rey said sorry swayam told her that rey ne dazling ki captaincy bhi chor di now he is not the part of dazlingss...in the mean time vicky ang nil came there and said sorry to kria and said plz rey ko bolo hamain maaf karde ...vicky said;pata nhi kahan chala gaya kab se use dhund raha hun ...kria said;mujhe pata hai rey kahan hoga..(and went to the fire escape rey was sitting there alone and sad kria sits beside him)
rey;kria i m...(kria put her hanf on his lip and the eyelock)
kria;tum ne kuch nhi kiya or wese b sorry mujhe kehna chahiye i slept u
rey;nhi tum ne vo sab us speech ki wajah se kiya jo sharon ne di agar mai tumhari jagah hota to main bhi yehi karta
kria; vese ap sorry bolte hue bilkul ache nhi lagta..
rey ; to kab acha lagta hun..
kria; in ur angry young man luk...rey ap apne friendz ko maf krdo
rey; nhi main ye nhi bhul sakta
kria took his hand and take him to reahearsal hall(both were standing outside and dazling were preparing to say sorry to rey decorating roon weakling were helping them)
kria;rey dekho yeh hai friendship yeh sab log ap k liye preparation kar rahe hain galti sab se hoti hai jaise maine ap ko galat samjah aur apne mujhe to unhe maaf kardo dazling ap k bina addhoore hain
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Kim Kardashian and Kanye West have reportedly hired a French tutor for their 11-month-old daughter North.
Despite the 11-month-old tot not being able to speak yet, her doting parents Kim Kardashian and Kanye West are reportedly so desperate for their daughter to be bilingual that they're paying for three lessons a week from a private teacher.
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BANGALORE, India and EAST BRUNSWICK, New Jersey, March 21, 2013 /PRNewswire/ -- Wipro Technologies, the Global Information Technology, Consulting and Outsourcing business of Wipro Ltd. (NYSE:WIT) today announced, that it was named a "Leader" by Verdantix, a leading analyst firm in providing advice to clients in the field of energy, environment and sustainability challenges, in its report " Green Quadrant® Sustainable Technology Services (Global), March 2013". (Logo: http://photos.prnewswire.com/prnh/20121129/579804 ) Verdantix evaluated 16 of the leading sustainable technology service providers globally, based on interviews with 15 buyers representing firms with revenues of $183 billion, supplier responses to a 53 point questionnaire and detailed supplier interviews. The report says thatWipro's entry into the Leaders Quadrant for the first time shows that its investments have paid off.The most popular sustainability projects today are energy reduction, environmental management and sustainability performance reporting, but leading firms now look towards enterprise-wide transformational initiatives that will increase revenue and improve their brand and reputation. "We recognize that sustainability and EH&S (Environment Health and Safety) are key focus areas for enterprises in the Energy and Mining industries and we have significant capabilities to address them. Our HSSE (Health, Safety, Sustainability and Environment) frameworks focus on next generation safety and sustainability competences and hence being recognized by Verdantix as a leader in the Green Quadrant for Sustainable Technology Service Providers is extremely exciting", said Anand Padmanabhan, SVP and Global Head of Wipro - Energy, Natural Resources and Utilities, Wipro Technologies. "We are very pleased to be recognized by Verdantix as a leader in Sustainable Technology Services", said G K Prasanna, SVP and Head of Wipro EcoEnergy. "We believe this recognition is a testament to our proven ability to help clients reduce energy costs and sustain them over a period of time. Our innovative approach of Analytics and Business correlation based logic helps us provide comprehensive energy management services. Wipro will continue to invest in the areas of technology and energy data management to bring in necessary standardization and benchmarking across industries." The report says that:


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President Obama and former president George W. Bush have at least one thing in common: They don't like news leaks.
Especially the WikiLeaks disclosure of classified material.
"Leaks are very damaging and people who leak ought to be prosecuted," Bush said yesterday during a webcast on the Facebook website.
"When you have a conversation with a foreign leader and it ends up in the newspaper, they didn't like it," Bush said. "I didn't like it."
During his book tour for his memoir Decision Points, Bush has said little about the Obama administration -- but he did tell his Facebook audience some of the things he likes about the new president.
"I think the idea of putting more troops in was something that I can applaud," Bush said. "I also appreciate some of the education position. As I understand it they do believe strongly that accountability is necessary in order to achieve excellence in the classrooms."
The former president again defended his decision to invade Iraq, saying he is confident that it will become a stable democracy. "It'll work," he said. "We just have to hang in there."
Bush appeared with Facebook founder and chief executive Mark Zuckerberg -- a unique forum for an ex-president.
Why did he do it? "Because you've got a lot of people paying attention to us, and I'm trying to sell books," Bush told Zuckerberg.
Bush added: "Yours is a really interesting company, and plus: I'm shamelessly marketing," he said.
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- China Reveals Specifics on First Free Trade Zone in Shanghai
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The zone is part of structural reforms that authorities have pledged to push forward to shift the economy away from dependence on big-ticket investments and more towards consumer demand as the key growth engine.
SHANGHAI - China has officially unveiled details of its first free trade zone (FTZ) in Shanghai, shedding light Friday on the reform path of the new leadership as it aims to transform the world's second-largest economy.
The FTZ project, which received government approval last month, will be inaugurated on Sunday, the official Xinhua news agency reported this week.
The government will allow free yuan convertibility under the capital account on a trial basis, and test market-set interest rates and cross-border use of yuan in the zone, according to a release by the State Council, China's cabinet.
Restrictions on foreign investment will also be eased, as regulations on operations of foreign firms and Sino-foreign joint ventures will be "temporarily adjusted" in the zone for three years from Oct. 1, according to the details, which are largely in line with a draft plan seen by AFP earlier this month.
Economists said the contents released Friday indicated that China will accelerate its capital account convertibility and financial-sector reforms, but its ability to manage capital flows will also be tested.
"It is politically wise to conduct a pilot in a small and restricted area as the Chinese authorities intend to contain potential risks," ANZ bank economists wrote in a research note on Friday.
"We view the ability to control capital flows as the biggest challenge for the FTZ," the economists said, adding onshore and offshore interest rate differentials will spur capital inflows.
The free trade zone will amalgamate four existing bonded trade zones in Shanghai -- China's commercial hub -- and span almost 29 square kilometers (11 square miles), according to Xinhua.
The zone is part of structural reforms that authorities have pledged to push forward to shift the economy away from dependence on big-ticket investments and more towards consumer demand as the key growth engine.
China's economy, the world's second largest, expanded 7.7% in 2012, its slowest pace in 13 years. Growth stood at 7.7% in the first three months of this year and slowed further to 7.5% in the April-June period.
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I hate when celebrities turn their backs on their biggest fans. It's because of fans like Jason Luis Rivera that you are where you are in life, Miley Cyrus. From TMZ:
Miley Cyrus is still terrified of the scissor-wielding intruder who broke onto her property in September — even though he's currently locked behind bars — and now, she's obtained a restraining order to keep the guy away in case he gets out. Miley filed the request for a restraining order on October 30th against Jason Luis Rivera, who was popped on Miley's property for trespassing and resisting arrest. The order was signed by the court the same day.
Rivera was sentenced to a year-and-a-half in jail last month, but Miley is still seeking a permanent stay away order in case he gets out early. According to the temporary order, Rivera must stay at least 1,000 YARDS away from Miley at all times … that's nearly a mile. A hearing has been scheduled for later this month to decide whether to make the temporary order permanent.
Miley Cyrus is a wet blanket. I'm sorry to be so vulgar, but what else can I say about the hillbilly? Jason only wanted Miley's autograph carved into his belly, which sounds totally normal to me. Look, if you removed all of the scissor-wielding, loner, manic-depressive assholes from her fan base, then Miley Cyrus, celebrity, would be Destiny Hope Cyrus, Piggly Wiggly night cashier. Miley, pull the stick out of your ass and embrace your fans.


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The Roman Empire existed on Earth from 31 BC to 476 AD and was one of the most powerful of the planet's early civilizations.
The territory of the Romans extended primarily through the region of the Mediterranean, encompassing parts of Africa, Europe, and Asia Minor. The Empire was governed by a Senate and, for most of its history, an Emperor who was sometimes referred to as "Caesar" after Julius Caesar or "Augustus" after Caesar Augustus.
Though the Empire brought many technological and societal advances into being on Earth it had a dark side that included brutal military campaigns and gladiatorial combat for public entertainment. Religious dissidents were also brutally persecuted. Rome had no sun worshippers. (TOS: "Bread and Circuses")
The planet 892-IV, which evolved according to Hodgkin's Law of Parallel Planetary Development, had a similar government to the Roman Empire, though that government persisted for much longer in the planet's evolution. The people had advanced to a state corresponding to the industrial revolution in Earth's history. (TOS: "Bread and Circuses")
In 2366, while Jean-Luc Picard contemplated the impending battle with the Borg, he wondered if the Emperor Flavius Honorius, while watching the Visigoths coming over the seventh hill, truly realized that the Roman Empire was about to fall. (TNG: "The Best of Both Worlds")
In 2369, Richard Galen compared Jean-Luc Picard, who was on a survey mission, to a Roman centurion patrolling for the Empire. (TNG: "The Chase")


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waterfowlhunter wrote:ajmorell wrote:IMO yes it is 100% worth it I run 12k changes in my Jeep Grand Cherokee.
Did you not just replace the engine in your GC due to the engine seizing up?
I run synthetic in my truck and my dad runs cheep store brand straight 30 in his and we both run about 5000 on the oil. one of his (1977 chevy 4x4) had over 400,000 on the original drive train when the body fell apart. it smokes a bit but is still 100% reliable. His 1994 has over 200,000 on it and is still going strong. So IMO I do not think it really matters at all. I do know some guys that switched to synthetic and had to switch back due to burning thru the synthetic about a quart every change and not having the same issue with conventional. if I run synthetic in my 35hp briggs or my 23hp Kawasaki they will smoke on start-up every time. I continue to use it due to the fact that I bought out about 25 cases from an bank auction at about .50 a quart but when it is gone I am not sure I will pay the extra or just go with the store brand conventional.
I did learn something I find very interesting on the oil subject. I have a customer that runs a mass transit garage. they are converting gas busses to PNG(I believe that is what he called it) and he told me that he has 2 older busses that have been running propane since new, Over 750,000 miles on the GM 427's. When they change the oil he said it looks as clean as it did when it was put in. he says that the engines / oil just seem to last a LOT longer when not burning gasoline.
CNG= compressed natural gas
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DANVILLE, Ill. — Jasmin Grajales has wondered, upon occasion, whether she descended from an Aztec princess. Her mom told her that her grandparents immigrated to the United States from Mexico and her great-grandfather came from an Aztec tribe.
Joshua White's mom told him that he has a German, Japanese and Hawaiian heritage.
"Maybe one of my ancestors was a Samurai," said Joshua, who has strawberry-blond hair, blue eyes and is 5-foot-7 and growing. "That would be cool!"
Jasmin and Joshua are a couple of months away from discovering exactly who they are and where they came from.
They and 20 other seventh-graders in the Advancement Via Individual Determination, or AVID, program at South View Middle School are tracing their DNA through the National Geographic's Genographic Project.
"AVID is giving them a future," teacher Amy Robinson said of the college-readiness program that targets first-generation college students. "This project will give them their history."
The scientific project uses cutting-edge genetic and computational technologies "to answer the fundamental questions about where we originated and how we came to populate the Earth."
Since its launch in 2005, 609,030 people from 140 countries have participated.
Robinson has wanted to involve her students since attending a conference at the Ron Clark Academy in Atlanta last November.
Clark did it with his incoming fifth-graders, many of whom are minority and low-income.
"He said many of them only think (of their history) as far back as slavery," Robinson recalled.
"But there were so many pretty awesome tribes from West Africa and Africa that these kids probably descended from. This gives them a heritage, culture and background they can take pride in."
Robinson was able to purchase 22 Geno 2.0 kits thanks to a Danville Public School Foundation grant funded through donations from the Plumbers and Steamfitters Local 157 and AT&T. The kits cost close to $3,300.
"This is what foundation is all about — supporting enhanced educational experiences for our students," said Bob Richard, the foundation's executive director. "It's new. It's creative. This is what the kids will remember about school."
The students collected their DNA samples on a recent Friday. They unwrapped a swab that looked like a miniature toothbrush on a long stick, then scraped the inside of one cheek for 45 seconds.
After securing the sample in a small vial, they repeated the exercise on the other side of their mouth.
"Scrape off those cells. That's where your DNA comes from," the teacher directed.
Robinson will ship the samples, encoded so that participants remain anonymous, to a laboratory where scientists will use advanced technology to examine a collection of nearly 150,000 DNA "markers" selected to provide ancestry-relevant information.
Scientists are using the information "to chart a more complete map of the early stages of human history by carefully comparing the DNA from world populations that have been genetically and geographically stable for hundreds or thousands of years."
When students receive their results in eight to 10 weeks, they will use it as the basis for several projects and lessons.
In geography, they will choose a location in their DNA background and period of time when their ancestors would have been there. Then they will create a timeline covering a century and come up with 50 events that would have occurred.
"It's always been a struggle to get the kids interested in geography," Robinson said, adding the DNA project will give the lessons more relevance.
"It will just give them a more personal connection. They should be able to connect it to, 'I had a great-, great-, great-grandparent in that situation.' Now, they look at those situations and think, 'This means what to me?'"
Students also will refer to the project when they read native folk tales in history and study genetics and DNA in science.
Jada Taylor said she's eager to see her results. "I think I came from Africa or somewhere," said Jada, who can trace her lineage back only to Chicago where she knows her parents and grandparents lived.
While Jasmin has always been curious about her ancestors' names, she said the project has gotten her thinking about them more, including what they did and where they lived.
"I'd like to go there someday," she said of her earliest ancestors' home. "I think it would be interesting to step on the same land they were on."
PHOTO: In this Sept. 20, 2013 photo, Jada Taylor, a seventh-grade student at South View Middle School in Danville, Ill., swabs the inside of her cheek to get a DNA sample in her social studies classroom. The DNA will be tested to trace the ancestry of Jada and 21 other seventh graders in the school's AVID program through the National Geographic's Genographic Project. (AP Photo/The News-Gazette, Noelle McGee)


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Jade Etherington and guide Caroline Powell crowned their first season racing together by winning Great Britain's first Paralympic medal on snow in 20 years in Sochi.
The pair, who a year ago had never even met, were doing only their third competitive downhill run together and marked the occasion by claiming silver.
It got Britain's Winter Paralympics off to a flying start and ensured that less than an hour into day one they had already exceeded their medal haul from four years ago in Vancouver.
The pair became the first British women ever to win a Paralympic skiing medal, their rise all the more remarkable given how little time they had to build a partnership.
It was only last April that they first got to know each other, August they first skied competitively together and January this year they first competed as a pair in a downhill.
The duo did not even get a training run on Friday because the session was cancelled, but Etherington said: "I actually was really happy there was no training run, because personally I feel if you're going to be scared for your life you might as well get a result at the end of it."
And the Lincoln athlete did just that, finishing in one minute 34.28 seconds, 2.73secs behind Slovakian winner Henrieta Farkasova
She crashed as she cross the line, but was unhurt, with the medal joy more than making up for the bruises.
"I was so happy I'd finished and then couldn't stop I was going that fast," she said.
Her achievement drew praise from Prime Minister David Cameron, who Tweeted: "Proud of Jade Etherington, who won silver in the women's visually impaired downhill in Sochi. £GoParalympicsGB."
Etherington, who celebrates her 23rd birthday on Sunday, is visually impaired and communicates with Powell down the course via radio.
She admitted she was surprised by how quickly the duo had flourished.
Powell, who is 19, added: "It's basically a friendship so you have to build a friendship and that can take years.
"In our case we had to build it within a short space of time, but we were really honest with each other from the beginning. She taught me so much about guiding, I just went with what she said and it's worked. It's come together now and we're so happy."
And things should only get better over the coming week, with four more events to come, including the super-G, in which Etherington won bronze at last year's IPC World Championships, with a different guide.
Team-mate Kelly Gallagher and guide Charlotte Evans were also grateful for four more chances after they could only manage sixth place.
Evans, who was in tears, said: "I am the blubbering wreck, but our communication was awesome and we have no excuse. You can see my disappointment, but we will come back fighting."
Sit-skier Anna Turney also suffered disappointment after crashing out on the "bumpy course".
"I think I got the line slightly wrong, it was so bumpy and I just popped out," said Turney, who was unhurt.
"I wanted to win, it just wasn't my day. It is challenging snow and it is bumpy in places, certainly where I crashed that was bumpy.
"I don't think it was unsafe, but it was definitely challenging. This is an extreme downhill."
"Everyone was like, 'It's so dangerous', but it's a downhill."
The course, which has come in for criticism in the build-up for its "slushy snow", did appear to deteriorate as the day went on, though.
American Tyler Walker crashed spectacularly in the final event of the morning, the men's sitting, and had to be airlifted from the slopes.
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Discussion in 'November 2009' started by roscoe36, Nov 2, 2009.
Excellent point.
I suspect that the presence of Max and JJ, both good rebounders that require attention, helped a lot too. No putting too much emphasis on keeping Ben off the boards when Max is knocking around.
The line up of Max, JJ, and Big Ben caused even problems for the very quick and athletic front line of Josh Smith, Horford and Marvin Williams. Great bit of coaching by Q, in my opinion.
How about Jason Maxiell's jump shot recently? Seems like he has some pretty good touch over the last few games. And he's not over using it... just shooting it when we have no other options or when it fits into the flow.
Yeah, I've noticed that too. ...dude still can't make a simple layup though.
You gotta have hands of stone to dunk as hard as he does!
so true
He's even hit a couple fadeaway jumpers.
turnaround fadeaways too... It's good to see that Maxi has regained his touch. You cant live on pure hustle for long unless you own physically everyone and Maxi is undersized PF.
This was a pride win. Last time I saw this is when ended a 18 game losing streak to the Bulls in the last regular season game Doug Collins coached for Pistons. Good win.
Yeah, I first thought it wwas a lucky fluke, know he seems as if he's just simply betteer. He did say that he worked hard on it knowing that he was essentially going to be asked to replace what McDyess brought to the table. Ben Wallace is making that look like a false statement.
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Police are searching for Sandy teen Jade Thornberg, who has been missing since July 31.
Thornberg, 16, was last seen at her house that day, and told her sister she was leaving to go to a friend's house.
Thornberg has run away before, but police said she has always contacted her mother to let her know she was OK. This time her cellphone is disconnected, which raises an alarm, said Sandy police Sgt. Jon Arnold.
The teen also has a history of drug use, which heightens the concern for her well-being, police added.
Previously, Thornberg has stayed with friends in Sandy, Magna and Ogden after leaving home. She's also been known to hang out with family acquaintance Jared Morgan, 33, who used to stay at her Sandy home for short periods, said Arnold.
Thornberg is described as white, 5-foot-4, 140 pounds with blue eyes.
Her hair was most recently dyed dark purple, but police said she might have changed it. She has a tattoo of a scorpion on her thigh and tattoos on her back of a musical note, a peace symbol and a heart.
Police are asking for anyone with information about finding the missing girl to call the Sandy Police Department at 801-840-4000.


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Once a weakness that led to the heartbreaking loss to the Yankees in the 2003 ALCS, the Red Sox bullpen has been the gold standard for the last few seasons, being referred to as "one of the best in baseball" at times by many. Anchored by Jonathan Papelbon, the relief pitching for the Red Sox has continued to improve in depth and ability. Despite some shaky performances, including the meltdown against the Angels to end the 2009 season, the 2010 bullpen looks to continue the recent run of success.
In 2009, Papelbon was the victim of his own success. Since winning the closer's job away from Keith Foulke, Papelbon has not worried about much on the mound apart from coming up with new dance moves. Simply put: Papelbon has been beyond good, and in 2009, he was merely a great reliever and not superhuman. Papelbon has seen his WHIP increase from 0.77 in 2007 to 0.95 in 2008 and a "whopping" 1.15 in 2009. This increase is entirely due to a large increase in walks. Papelbon walked 24 batters in 2009, by far the most of his career after walking 19 in his 34 inning stint in 2005. Are the walks part of a decline in Papelbon's control?
There were a lot of full counts last year against Papelbon and he has been vocal in saying he needs to pace himself during the season to stay at his best, not just blowing everyone away with his fastball every time. While the struggles in the ALDS last year call people to suggest Papelbon needs to go, 2010 will show us a lot, and if the walks decrease, he could be just as dominant as he was before 2009. For fantasy players, Papelbon is almost a buy-low. For fans, hopefully the quick saves return.
Hideki Okajima has given Francona a left-handed reliever he can use nearly every day and who can usually get the job done. In his three years with the Red Sox, the Japanese lefty has dominantly held same-sided batters to a .193/.254/.303/.549 line while righties recorded a .237/.308/.371/.679 line. One concern: righties hit .303/.386/.520/.906 against Okajima in 2009.
Daniel Bard took the American League by storm last year with his 100-mph heater and his dominating slider. In 49 innings with the Red Sox in 2009 Bard struck out 63 batters while walking 22, good for a 2.86 K:BB ratio, a 1.28 WHIP and over 11 strikeouts per nine innings. Bard induced groundballs half the time in the majors and over 60% in Double A and Triple A during the last two seasons. Bard should become a fixture in the eighth inning and is the Red Sox best insurance policy against Papelbon leaving as a free agent or suffering an injury. As with Papelbon himself, 2010 could shape Bard's career and the future of the Red Sox closer job.
2009 was again a tale of two seasons for Manny Delcarmen. After posting a 2.41 ERA in 33.2 innings during the first half of the season, Delcarmen became the league's punching bag at a 7.27 ERA in 26 second half innings. Opposing hitters owned the righty with a .292/.400/.547/.947 line, or, Delcarmen turned every batter he faced into Mark Teixeria (.292/.383/.565/.948). Having entered 2009 as a trusted reliever, Delcarmen will have to return to form if he hopes to unseat Bard as the shutdown righty Francona can rely on.
The Ramon Ramirez acquired prior to last season for Coco Crisp (the Red Sox picked up a second Ramon Ramirez after the season) had a solid first year with Boston. However it was not a season without problems. Ramirez saw his home run total increase to seven in 69 innings after allowing just two the previous season. In 33 innings at Fenway, Ramirez had a 2.73 ERA while his road ERA in 36.2 innings was 2.95. However, batters facing him in Fenway hit .285/.363/.477/.840 while those on the road hit just .182/.289/.295/.585. Ramirez may be due for a regression in his ERA this year as batters were reaching base against him at a far greater rate than they were scoring. In 2008, 54% of hits allowed by Ramirez were ground balls. This number was 42% last year. With the Red Sox re-shaped defense in the infield and in the outfield, there is a chance Ramirez can be saved some of these additional hits that occurred in Fenway Park.
It is nothing close to a guarantee that Michal Bowden will break camp with the big league team, but if he does, he is an intriguing option. Having been groomed as a starter in the minors, Bowden could provide the unique value of mop-up man, short reliever, and spot starter. In the majors, Bowden has been a mixed bag at best, tossing either a few shutout innings or getting hammered. In two appearances, two innings against the Yankees and three against the Blue Jays, Bowden gave up a total of 14 earned runs. In his 11 remaining innings, Bowden gave up just three runs, so it wasn't all bad, though Baltimore, Kansas City and Cleveland are not offensive powerhouses.
Time may be running out for Tim Wakefield. The signing of John Lackey, emergence of Clay Buchholtz, and return to health of Daisuke Matsuzaka have left Wakefield with an uncertain role entering the 2010 season. While Wake has declared his intention to compete for a spot in the starting rotation and the Red Sox have previously kept him out of the bullpen for health reasons, there isn't much room for him to start the season on the major league roster except as a reliever. Most likely the Red Sox will need more than five starting pitchers during this season – at some point players will either need to go on the DL or have a start skipped – but this arrangement would leave Wakefield with starts few and far between. Right now, only Terry Francona knows Wakefield's future, but with a new two-year contract and just a few wins to catch Cy Young and Roger Clemens for the most ever as a Red Sox, Wakefield is likely to play a big role with the team.
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Now I have tested time and time again, all sorts of different springs from all kinds of manufacturers. I am always pretty confident with the swift product. Now if I find a better product then I will back that, but so far to this day I have not found one.
Now Zerosum brought up a good point. What you claimed is the exact thing that splits the Swift springs apart from all the other spring manufacturer. Now lets say I were to get the most precise spring from Hiperco or Eibach and compared it with a Swift spring. On a spring dyno it will be very similar. The graph would probably look identical, but then if you were to physically use those springs and swap them out, to use back to back, It would be a night and day difference. You would immediately be able to tell which is Swift. The Swift will feel much more compliant, in fact its exactly what Zerosum said "the impacts are much better damped". I know it is hard to understand but I will explain.
It is not the spring rate that distinguishes the differences in the impact of uneven pavement. Spring rate has more to do with the reaction of the amount of force put onto the spring. In other words to put it in simple terms, it will affect body roll. I am not saying that initial impact of uneven pavement can be softened by softening spring rate, but that is not the correct way to make a car more compliant. The correct way is the shock absorber the main reason for this is because there is a form of mechanical lag with the spring. This is why some suspension companies do not even believe in adjusting spring rate (talk to the techs at KW).
Now for some reason the reaction rate or the time to respond from impact with the Swift spring is much much quicker than ANY other spring company. This is something that can not be seen on a spring dyno. But can be tested. In fact through the testing that I have done we have seen that even with the exact spring rates being used the tire temperatures with the Swift springs is always cooler. This is the reaction rate of the spring, or frequency of the spring is what some suspension scientists explained it to me as. (LOL)
But of course track testing is nowhere near accurate for testing because there are so many different variables that come into play with simply measuring tiretemps.
Anyways the reason why we came to the conclusion that the reaction speed is different is because we ended up taking the car to a shaker rig. Which is an extemely expensive process, which I obviously did not pay for but was there to help figure out why the Swift springs were so different.
Anyways what I am trying to say is that the Swift springs even with the same rates will durastically make a difference with the performance of the vehicle.
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The stars are aligning over New Orleans for the 17th annual Essence Music Festival this weekend (July 1st through 3rd). This year's fest boasts the high-wattage headliners Kanye West, Mary J. Blige, Jill Scott and Trey Songz.
As evident by the sultry singers on that list, the theme of the 2011 festival is "The Roots of R&B." Joining the top-billing acts to round out the three-day event are Charlie Wilson, Boyz II Men, Fantasia, George Clinton and Parliament Funkadelic, Macy Gray, Dwele, Mint Condition, MC Lyte and more.
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Lehman CFO Erin Callan: Back from Ugly Monday
The implosion of Bear Stearns and the JPMorgan Chas (JPM)e deal engineered by the Fed hit Wall Street like a tsunami on Monday, Mar. 17. And the wave of distress crashed hard on Lehman Brothers (LEH). Rumors that Lehman would be the next investment bank to fall sent its shares plunging by as much as 48% during the day, to close at 31.75—a 19% drop and a 4 1/2-year low. That led to a new round of speculation that Lehman might be snapped up by a commercial bank such as HSBC (HBC), with dependable access to funding. But thanks to the Fed intervention in the credit markets and the relentless efforts of Lehman's top brass, especially new CFO Erin Callan, Ugly Monday gave way to Reassuring Tuesday. By the end of that day, Lehman shares had risen over 46%, to close at 46.49. When BusinessWeek went to press on Mar. 19, shares were back down a bit, but Lehman was on much safer ground.
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So on Monday we all come into work, and the market is down sharply, Bear Stearns is being acquired for $2, and the rumors start: Lehman is next. Is Lehman next?
Erin Callan
Categorically no. And I think the performance of our stock today [Tuesday, Mar. 18] is the market saying: You're not next. We have a very different story than the perception.
I don't even know if it's perception. It's really rumor. I mean, every time the markets are under pressure, Lehman is supposedly hanging on by its fingernails.We fully anticipated that Monday was going to be a very, very difficult day for us, that we would be a top target, and we had a game plan to address it. But how do you get yourself out of that predicament? It just takes time and patience, proving ourselves in a tough environment.
How many so-called level three assets—those for which market values aren't readily available— does Lehman have on the books right now?About $38 billion worth of assets are level three.
How critical for Lehman was the Fed opening up the discount window to investment banks?It was a pretty historic event for our industry, and I think it was a great decision. Incredibly helpful. The Fed really acted in a very responsible way to try to address what certainly was starting to feel like a contagion of liquidity constraints. It was absolutely the right thing to do. In fact, we have used the window.
So you did go to the window?Yes, we went tonight at 5 p.m. We wanted to test it out. There were some operational issues, and my understanding is Goldman may have [gone to the window, too].
Can you tell us about it? How does that work?Well, you call your banking counterpart—we have to go through our clearing bank—and you just say: "Here's my collateral, and I'm interested in getting financing." The Fed was really encouraging people to go. So we thought we'd take some leadership. We had a strong day. We put our numbers out there. People knew our liquidity position, and so they wouldn't think of it as a sign of weakness. It was a little bit bold on our part, but I think it was the right call.
How much financing did you request?We just did $2 billion, so it's a pretty small amount when you have a $375 billion balance sheet. But it was, I think, important as a statement, and it was very important in terms of making sure [the process] worked.
Should the Fed have opened this up a month ago? A lot of people feel that if it had, maybe Bear Stearns would not have gone down—and certainly not for $2 a share.It's hard not to say that if the Fed had done this earlier, Bear Stearns wouldn't have gone the way it did. But outside of the context of a significant failure, it would have been a tough thing to do. I'm not sure you can really suggest that the Fed was slow.
Maybe it took a significant event to get them over the hump of using that extraordinary regulatory power to make this kind of a decision. They debated a lot of issues about moral hazard. It's incredibly unfortunate the way the scenario played out for Bear Stearns, but I also am sympathetic to the challenges the Fed had in making the decision.
Is it fair to say JPMorgan took advantage of a crisis situation to get Bear on extremely beneficial terms?Is it fair? Certainly it's a very smart deal for JPMorgan. But I think it will have reverberations for the industry that are unfortunate and that we'll be living with for a while.
How shocked were you when you saw the price for Bear?Very shocked, because certainly I'd been getting a lot of feedback that it was $19 a share. That was kind of the story for at least 24 hours. So when one of my colleagues sent me an e-mail and said $2, I thought they had dropped a zero.
What does your gut tell you? Does this deal go through at this price?It actually feels like it will, though not without some angst and debate and lawsuits.
I have a hard time understanding how things could change so fast and furiously for Bear. Can your business really reverse course like that in a 48-hour period, or was that perhaps a situation unique to Bear?I think that will be the lingering question about our industry and our business model—and it should be. Liquidity is the thing that will kill you in a moment. It won't necessarily be writedowns. We obviously saw huge writedowns taken by other members of Bear's peer group, and they raised capital and came back for another day. So I think there were a number of factors related to how Bear managed its liquidity that were specific to that organization.
Let me ask you about this credit environment. How tough is it out there?I think the market is worse than anybody who has been in the industry has seen for the better part of 40 years—including my CEO, Dick Fuld. What started in one or two asset classes in credit and fixed-income assets migrated over the course of the last six months into really virtually every asset class regardless of fundamentals and regardless of basic quality.


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Dog adoption saves lives. Adopt a dog and you'll have a friend for life! Contact us, or contact another local humane society, animal shelter or SPCA.
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We are a 501(c)(3), Not For Profit Organization and a corporation in the Commonwealth of Pennsylvania composed solely of volunteers that functions solely on donations, fundraising efforts and volunteers.
Funds are used to offset the costs of rescuing and re-homing the Dobermans that enter our rescue. There are various costs involved with each Doberman that is rescued. Some of these costs include shelter fees, veterinary care, medications and equipment.
We do not have any paid employees. Our organization is run solely by volunteers who devote their time and energy because of their love for this majestic breed. We do this in addition to having families, jobs and dogs of our own. Our only reward is knowing we helped a Doberman in need.
DDR receives Dobermans from shelters as well as owners. These owners can no longer keep their Dobermans for reasons such as divorce, death, relocation, illness, lack of time/income or landlord conflicts. Some rescued Dobermans come into rescue in poor health or suffering from the affects of neglect and/or abuse.
Our rescued Dobermans each receive a vet exam, necessary vaccines and medicines, a micro chip, a heart worm test (heart worm treatment if found to be positive) and are spayed/neutered.
Each Doberman lives in foster care until placement. We use this time to learn more about the dog. This information is helpful when choosing the appropriate adoptive home. We also use this time to rehabilitate and/or teach basic obedience if needed.
There is a screening process for adoptive homes. Each potential adopter must complete an adoption application, agree to a home visit and sign an adoption contract. We also require an adoption fee to help defray costs incurred while the rescued Doberman is in our care.
If we have the space, we will take in Doberman mixes and other breeds.
We feel education is very important. We attend outings and provide educational materials to the public. We also provide these materials to our adoptive homes.
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Once your application has been reviewed and your references have been checked, you will be able to meet the Doberman you are interested in adopting. We also ask that your entire family (including any other family pets) be available to meet the Doberman. We will need to visit your home prior to finalizing the adoption. We normally like to bring the Doberman to your home to meet your family and your other pets. We do a home visit to see where the Doberman will be living and also to observe the Doberman's interaction with you, your family and the other pets in your home. Our home visits normally last an hour or two. This is also a good time to discuss any concerns and/or questions you may have about owning a rescued Doberman.
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We also include a small bag of the food your new Doberman is currently eating. In most cases we do not require that you feed a specific food, however, there are some exceptions. Some dogs may need to eat certain foods for medical reasons.
An adoption donation is also required at this time.
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Our adoption fees are listed on our web site.
Your adoption donation helps defray the costs incurred while the Doberman is in our care.
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Contact does continue for the entirety of the Doberman's life.
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In the play, A Raisin in the Sun, what should be included in the diagram of the stage besides the two bedroom doors, the window, Travis' bed, the table and chairs, and the couch?
Also, I don't know where to put the door that leads into and out of the apartment. Any ideas?
One more thing. In the book, it says Mama and Bennie's bedroom door is "at left". Walter and Ruth's is opposite-"at right". I am confused as to where to label these two doors on the diagram. This is the diagram:
(Which door goes on Stage Right, and which on Stage Left?)
Thank you for using the Jiskha Homework Help Forum. To see the parts of a stage, download the following pdf file:
Thank you very much, but I already know the parts of the stage. The diagram given labeled them for me. My job is to fill in all the...parts, you could call them. Like the doors, the table, the couch, etc. I was wondering if I was missing anything. Above, I also asked two other questions regarding where the three doors belong on the diagram of the stage. I typed the diagram of the stage (if you'll notice above) which is what you gave me. The diagram I typed above included the EXACT SAME parts- the up stage, down stage, etc.- that you gave me, which I don't need. You must have misunderstood my question, bbut just to clear things up, I'm not looking for the parts of the stage.
This is the site of the set design that I gave you previously.
Thank you for everything, but nothing seems to be helping. I think I just need to make myself clearer. This is my assignment:
~Begin reading the play (A Raisin in the Sun) and draw and label a diagram of the stage for yourself.~
Beneath, this is the diagram provided:
Up Stage
Stage Right Stage Left
Down Stage
That given diagram takes up the whole page. My job is to DRAW and LABEL everything where it goes, whether up stage, down stage, right or left stage.
I have DRAWN two bedroom doors, but in order to LABEL them, I need to find out who they belong to. In the book, it says Mama and Bennie's bedroom door is "at left". Walter and Ruth's is opposite-"at right". I am confused as to which door is whose. Should Mama and Bennie's bedroom("at left") be labeled as the door that's on stage right or left? Same for Ruth and Walter's.
Also, there's a third door which leads into and out of the apartment. I've looked at what you've given me, but I don't see it. Where should I draw this door?(up stage, down stage, stage right, or stage left?) (I've ruled out down stage, which is right in front of the audience).
One more thing. What else should be drawn in the diagram of the stage besides the three doors, the window, Travis' bed, the table and chairs, and the couch?
Did you look at this site????
There is a picture of the stage set and a diagram that is labeled.
Looking at the stage... your right hand is stage right. Your left hand is stage left.
Yes, I have looked at those pictures, but my computer does not let me see the one that looks drawn (the labeled diagram)


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Erie Canal to reopen through Mohawk Valley by end of the week
ALBANY, N.Y. (AP) - The last section of the Erie Canal in the Mohawk Valley still closed by high water is expected to reopen this week.
The state Canal Corp. says Wednesday that the canal from Lock E-8 in Scotia in Schenectady County to Lock E-15 in Fort Plain in Montgomery County is scheduled to re-open for navigation no later than 8 a.m. Friday, weather permitting.
Sections of the Erie, Oswego, Cayuga-Seneca and Champlain canals were shut down in recent weeks because of high water caused by heavy rains. Most of those waterways reopened to navigation last week.


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Cable TV vs. Cable BroadbandJeffrey F. Rayport
Cable TV has come a long way since the 1990s. The industry's customer service record was so abysmal that it was lampooned in the Ben Stiller comedy The Cable Guy, featuring Jim Carrey as a mentally unstable cable repairman who turned a subscriber's experience into the stuff of nightmares.
While it hasn't completely cleaned up its act (remember the Comcast Sleeping Repairman?), cable TV has improved its reputation with respect to customer care, billing, and service. And the U.S. pay-TV market is thriving. Cable TV is a nearly $60 billion industry. If you include direct-broadcast satellite companies like DirecTV (DTV) and Dish Network (DISH), total pay-TV rises to $80 billion. That's not including the $25 billion to $30 billion cable providers collect for related communications services such as telephony and high-speed Internet.
Here's the problem. The game is no longer just about service. Forget on-time appointments, nice front-line service people, and attractive billing statements. Those are table stakes for pay-TV providers.
Broadband Video Content
Now, it's about the experience of broadband video content itself. The cable companies, known in industry circles as multiple system operators (MSOs), have proved more adept than telecom carriers at delivering high-speed Internet access. In so doing, the cable industry has given its customers a way to bypass its marquee product, monthly subscriptions to programming delivered over hundreds of pay and premium channels.
Lightning-fast connections provided by industry stalwarts such as Comcast (CMCSA) and Time Warner Cable (TWC) have few practical capacity limitations for the average user. Remember all those online video players in the late 1990s that went nowhere? Those startups failed because of online bandwidth constraints at the time—online access was mostly based on dial-up connections, which required lengthy downloads to access video content or video (and even audio) streaming that was herky-jerky, at best.
That's why YouTube didn't exist until four years ago, why it can now serve several hundred million video streams a day, why it controls 40% market share of the world's online video views, and why it sold to Google (GOOG) for $1.7 billion three years ago.
Until recently, cable industry executives dismissed broadband as a threat. They focused on YouTube, and saw it as a business almost completely unrelated to their own. YouTube specialized in short-form, consumer-generated, virally distributed video entertainment (read: cats stuck in trees). Cable specialized in long-form, professionally generated, and strategically marketed video entertainment (read: Mad Men).
Never the twain shall meet, right? Wrong.
TV Service Is Secondary
These days, just about every cable network with any digital marketing savvy uses its own site and others, such as Hulu, to give online users a chance to sample its content. Many networks make full shows available free of charge for limited periods of time, often in high-resolution formats. Even with a 1.7% market share, Hulu is now the third-largest video-playing site on the Web. The company, owned jointly by NBC (GE), News Corp. (NWS), and Disney (DIS), is expected to generate revenue of about $180 million this year, roughly equal to that of YouTube.
That means cable providers are seeing a whole new generation of online users who are perfectly happy to pay $30 a month for a "naked" cable modem or a digital-subscriber-line connection provided by telecom companies, but have no need for the $150-a-month premium programming package. "In the last year we're starting to see from consumers the indication that the broadband part is more the anchor part of the bundle than video—that they value that more highly," Time Warner Cable CEO Glenn Britt was recently quoted as saying by Multichannel News. "I think we're going to see more of that in the future."
You can't blame such customers, many of whom are cash-strapped college students moving into university towns, because they've figured out how to access great video entertainment online. Hulu alone hosts 110 broadcast and cable networks, along with a library of more than 1,000 television shows and 400 movies. Of course, college students aren't the only ones looking for savings these days. With the transition to digital TV taking place in the U.S. later this month, a $40 antenna will get you access to prime-time programming, much of it in high definition. That could further reduce consumers' willingness to pay cable operators hefty monthly fees for video entertainment.
Movie Downloads
Moreover, if you're sophisticated enough to figure out how to plug your Ethernet cable into an appliance—say, a Roku device or Apple TV—that accesses your big-screen TV, then, Presto! All that online entertainment is available on the big screen.
Of course, young consumers seem to have no problem watching TV and movie content on small screens. Laptops and iPhones do just fine for many viewers, which explains why you can now download or stream thousands of movies from Netflix (NFLX), Amazon.com's (AMZN) Unbox, or Apple's (AAPL) iTunes. And on-demand movies may be big business for Big Cable, but they're also big business for Apple—which sold nearly $1.9 billion in movie and music content on iTunes in 2008.
Earlier this year, LG released new lines of plasma and LCD large-format screens with Ethernet ports built right into the sets—another way to skip the cable provider altogether. The price premium on those sets is a couple of hundred dollars. Buy one of those new sets, switch off your cable package in exchange for simple access, and you break even on that Ethernet port in, say, two months max.
Cable TV's Lack of Features
Of course, someone's got to pay for all that "free" content. On Hulu, it's the advertisers. For Unbox and iTunes, it's the retail sale for download or streaming. But, for cable providers, the bypass is clearly a major threat. After all, the cable industry pays $6 billion to $8 billion a year to buy premium content from cable networks. To sustain such payments, cable companies need more than a Net-access business.
But that means they've got to make the experience of using a converter box, digital or not, competitive with the video experience online. Last time I checked, my Comcast screens were appallingly devoid of compelling features. There were no options for customization or personalization; there was no access to rich data for TV or movie selections; no social media components; no tools to curate and collect what we like to watch; and an utter and complete absence of recommendation engines, user ratings, and other guides to selecting content.
If that's the cable industry's best response to the broadband Web, we're going to see an instant replay of the train wrecks that have transpired in the music, the newspaper, and, most recently, the magazine industries in the last decade. Simply put, pay-TV won't be an $80 billion industry for long.


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