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A wrestling room isn't defined by its four walls, the names of past champions listed on them or the near suffocating temperature.
It's the intensity.
When a group of wrestlers get together for drilling and live wrestling, the quality of work being done dictates the feel of the room.
Throw in most of the state's top talent going head-to-head, some collegiate wrestlers like four-time Arizona champions Kyle DeBerry and Luke Goettl and it's a career-changing type of intensity.
It was the scene this past week at Arizona State's Riches Wrestling Complex as the Arizona USA Cadet/Junior National team prepared for the national championship in Fargo, N.D.
"If you want to get better this is where you need to be," Mesa Mountain View coach Bob Callison said. "We have state champions from different schools working with each other and state placers who are trying to become state champions. There are JV kids trying to make varsity getting better by facing some of the state's best wrestlers.
"If you are not part of this you are probably taking a step back because these kids are getting better just by being in this room."
They've come together for the common goal of representing the state at the ASICS/Vaughan Junior/Cadet National Championships for freestyle and Greco Roman disciplines.
It gets started a week from today with the Greco tournaments and ends July 23 with the freestyle finals.
A total of 65 boys - and three girls - from around the state have qualified, including 34 from the East Valley, in one discipline or both.
They range from past double All-Americans like Desert Vista's Alex Bambic to accomplished first-timers like Highland state champion Curt Done to less established competitors like Mountain View's Logan Cole, who was a JV wrestler last season for the Toros.
"(Cole) might have trouble making our lineup again because we are loaded around his weight class (135 pounds) but he is showing how much he wants it by being here and competing against the best in the state," Callison said. "This experience is only going to make him better."
Another wrestler trying to make a similar step is Desert Vista's Jimi Dixie.
He won 27 matches on the season and qualified for the Division I state tournament at 189 but went 0-2 to walk away disappointed after his junior year.
"I realized if I wanted to get better, accomplish what I want to next year, that I had to put in more work," said Dixie, who also plays football. "I couldn't just show up next year and expect to be a state placer. I had to work harder than I have ever before."
Done is taking a similar approach, but has a much better skills set to work from. The Highland junior finished sixth in the state as a freshman and won the Division I title last year at 130 pounds and finished 34-2.
As a returning state champion, Done knows he is going to be targeted this school year by everyone he comes across.
He had never wrestled any style other than folkstyle (high school rules) before so it has been a bit of challenge as he got outside of his comfort zone.
"It was tough at first, but I like it," he said. "I don't know what to expect in Fargo, but I hear it is tough. Everyone comes from around the nation and sees who comes out on top."
Mesa Mountain View junior Seth Monty will be making his second appearance in Fargo after just missing placing last year in Greco, but didn't fare as well in freestyle.
After coming back without a medal in either discipline, it really tweaked Monty, who finished fourth as freshman at state, and changed his approach to the way he worked.
"I didn't want to let a day go by without getting better," he said. "I was going against kids from around the country and I didn't do as well as I wanted."
A few months later, Monty won the Division I 140-pound state title to show how much he improved in that little amount of time.
"He came back (from Fargo) with a different attitude," Callison said. "He really took the experience and turned it into a positive."
This summer Monty spent time competing against college level opponents in his birth state of Michigan to make sure there won't be any let up.
"Sometimes I hop on YouTube and watch all of the great wrestlers," he said. "That's who I want to become. Wrestling in Michigan definitely humbled me, but it made me look at things differently. I could see what I was weak at because that's where they were attacking me. I know what I need to work on to eliminate it."
It's the way a quality practice room works - work hard, take a pounding, learn from it and apply that experience to the next competition.
"When you look around the room and see who is here you know we are getting better as a whole," Callison said. "Hopefully we prove that in Fargo."
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Do you want to learn how to dissolve gallstones naturally and avoid having surgery? Well, to start, let me tell you that it Is possible. You can start dissolving your gallstones as soon as you want without needing to undergo an expensive surgical procedure.
You can learn how to dissolve gallstones naturally by knowing the cause of your gallstones and using simple ways to cleanse your gallbladder and liver and then flush the gallstones.
Most people don't know why gallstones are formed. For the vast majority, it is a matter of lifestyle, more specifically – obesity. If you are overweight, you run a greater risk of developing gallstones because it bring high cholesterols, low levels of bile salts and reduces emptying of the gallbladder.
Your diet might be playing an important part in the formation of gallstones, avoid eating a diet high in fat and sugars and also avoid those diets that promote quick weight loss, because they unbalance your body chemistry – and we here are concerned in this case in the production of bile.
Many people know how to dissolve gallstones naturally with a simple liver cleanse. With a cleanse you are making sure your liver stays healthy and free of toxins and other bad elements that later can pass additional strain to the gallbladder, accumulating cholesterol and bile salts. Our liver is a great organ responsible of getting rid of the immense amount of toxins we get every day from pollutants, food, etc. With a liver cleans you eliminate toxin excess and keep your organ functioning perfectly; you need to be very committed to keep your organ healthy.
A simple water flush can help you a long way in learning how to dissolve gallstones naturally. Like a liver cleanse it will help you get rid of toxins and dilute the bile secretions that end up forming gallstones. Water flush just means that you have to drink great amounts of water. I recommend drinking an hour a day since the time you wake up or a minimum of 10 glasses of water throughout the day. This has to be pure water, not sodas or other types of drinks. This will have an impact on your overall health as well.
There are some guides online on how to naturally flush your gallstones, but it could take you lots of time finding a coherent natural remedy. I certainly recommend reading the Natural Gallstone Remedy that is risk-free. It is the best way to get all the information and a natural treatment step by step that works for you. No need to undergo surgery.
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Kula Gold has further significant intersections of gold mineralisation at Woodlark Island in Papua New Guinea. Infill drilling at Boniavat was initiated in mid January, with previous step out drilling indicating a zone of mineralisation extending 900 metres in strike length. Assays include 6 metres at 5.9 grams per tonne from 88 metres, 40 metres at 1.4grams per tonne from 49 metres and 20 metres at 1.8 grams per tonne from 13 metres.
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How to Reset Brother TN-360 Toner Cartridges on MFC-7840W / MFC-7360N / MFC-8480January 14, 2013 7 Comments
Brother is a known printer manufacturer which specializes in laser printers and multifunction peripherals or what they market as "MFC" or "multifunction center" machines, that does not only print but also features functions such as copying, scanning, faxing and e-mailing. One of their popular Brother MFC printers are the Brother MFC-7840W, MFC-7360N and MFC-8480. These multifunction machines as it was stated earlier possessed the functions of five equipment, aside from that, these three printing machines deliver high quality printouts at fast printing speed, which Brother is definitely popular at.
If you happen to own or use one of the Brother multifunction centers mentioned above, then perhaps you have encountered installing new Brother TN 360 toner cartridges into it that wasn't recognized by the printer. Well, I'm sure it caused you to panic but let me tell you that such occurrences do happen not only to Brother printers but as well to other brands.
However for today's article, we're going to center our attention on how to reset Brother TN-360 toner cartridges in your Brother MFC-7840W, MFC-7360N and MFC-8480 so that once that error happened to you again, you can easily handle it with ease.
Steps in Resetting the Brother TN 360 Toner Cartridges on Brother MFC-7840W / MFC-7360N / MFC-8480
- Step 1 – Open the front cover of your Brother MFC-7840W/MFC-7360N/MFC-8480 where you can access its toner cartridges.
- Step 2 – Press the Clear/Back button and wait till its screen showed a dialogue "Replace DRUM? 1. Yes 2. No"
- Step 3 – Do not type in 1 or 2, instead type in *00 on the keypad and then it will show the word "accepted".
- Step 4 – Close the front cover of your printer, thus it is now reset and you can continue working on your print jobs.
TonerBoss, the leading printer cartridges specialist, offers a great selection of Brother toner cartridges including the Brother TN 360 toner for Brother MFC-7840W, Brother MFC-7360N and Brother MFC-8480. Not only that, we also offer Brother ink cartridges and drum cartridges. So whether you are looking for compatible or OEM cartridges or black and color cartridges for your Brother printers, Tonerboss got it covered.
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I'M GONNA RIDE THIS BITCH TILL I DIE, Sonic said.
- A squirrel has been banned from riding a roller coaster at Alton Towers theme park in Staffordshire, England. How the hell will they enforce that? The Telegraph reports, "Alarms were installed that emit a warning noise inaudible to human ears but designed to ensure the squirrel, nicknamed Sonic, avoids the ride in future."
- Park Slope Food Coop has blocks of Daiya for sale! RUN DON'T WALK.
- Vaute Couture unveiled their (beautiful, gorgeous, so soft i'm going to wear one as pajamas now buy me one puh-leeeaase) 2010 vegan coat collection for ladies AND gents at The Green Shows this week. Check this shit out. It's fucking fantastic. The Discerning Brute has the men's photos and GirlieGirl Army rounds up the ladies' wear from Vaute, Cri de Coeur, Samantha Pleet, and others. Ow ow!
- Vegan creme eggs I cannot see because this puritanical work filter blocks porn, even food porn. They totally know what I get off on, ugh!
- Pssst! Speaking of Vaute Couture, ladies can still get the '09 styles — for 30% off, bringing prices down from insane to unaffordable. SAD CAUSE I WANT ONE.
- The New York Times has a crush on Angelica Kitchen's vegan brittle and everyone is talking about Amy Hamberry's vegan kale chips. Have you eaten them? Are they worth all this hubbub?
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Whenever I think I know what is going on in the world of vegan – I visit SuperVegan and get schooled. But I had to comment since this post had be spitting out my almond milk (literally) in laughter while jotting down links. Not to mention looking into flights to England so me and my homie Sonic could "Ride that b*tch till the wheels fall off". In true winter Olympic fashion Sam Cohen is flexing some gold medal worthy vegan-writing prowess. Thank you super vegan! Although depending on what IT says you might owe me a new LCD monitor. SC you got some razor sharp wit. That thing is dangerous, good thing you is all compassionate and *ish* Have a good weekend people! :) Wishing you Seitan wishes and Daiya Dreams!
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See you Thursday, Matt!
Everyone else, I bet most folks know that they can't just go to the Park Slope Food Coop and expect to be able to shop. But for the few of you that aren't familiar with the coop-to-end-all coops, it's a working member only food coop. Sooo, you know, don't go making a special trip out to Park Slope.
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i don't think that PSFC post could have been any less enthusastic without seeming actually upset about the cheese.
do they sell the bricks at nyc wholefoods or is it just in the prepared foods?


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Section 74 of the Indian Contract Act deals with the measure of damages in two classes of cases 527
(i) where the contract names a sum to be paid in case of breach and `ii) where the contract contains any other stipulation by way of penalty. We are in the present case not concerned to decide whether a covenant of forfeiture of deposit for due performance of a contract falls within the first class. The measure of damages in the case of breach of a stipulation by way of penalty is by s. 74 reasonable compensation not exceeding the penalty stipulated for. In assessing damages the Court has, subject to the limit of the penalty stipulated, jurisdiction to award such compensation as it deems reasonable having regard to all the circumstances of tile case. jurisdiction of the Court to award compensation in case of breach of contract is unqualified except as to the maximum stipulated; but compensation has to be reasonable, and that imposes upon the Court duty to award compensation according, to settled principles. The section undoubtedly says that the aggrieved party is entitled to receive compensation from the party who has broken the contract, whether or not actual damage or loss is proved to have been caused by the breach. Thereby it merely dispenses with proof of "actual loss or damages"; t does not justify the award of compensation when in consequence of the breach no legal injury at all has resulted, because compensation for breach of contract can be awarded to make good loss or damage which naturally arose in the usual course of things, or which the parties knew when they made the contract, to be likely to result from the breach.
Before turning to the question about the compensation which may be awarded to the plaintiff, it is necessary to consider whether s. 74 applies to stipulations for forfeiture of amounts deposited or paid under the contract. It was urged that the section deals in terms with the right to receive from the party who has broken the contract reasonable compensation and not the right to forfeit what has 528 already been received by the party aggrieved. There is however no warrant for the assumption made by some of the High Courts in India, that s. 74 applies only to cases where the aggrieved party is seeking to receive some amount on breach of contract and not to cases where upon breach of contract an amount received under the contract is sought to be forfeited. In our judgment the expression "the contract contains any other stipulation by way of penalty" comprehen- sively applies to every covenant involving a penalty whether it is for payment on breach of contract of money or delivery of property in future, or for forfeiture of right to money or other property already delivered. Duty not to enforce the penalty clause but only to award reasonable compensation is statutorily imposed upon courts by s. 74. In all cases, therefore, where there is a stipulation in the nature of penalty for forfeiture of an amount deposited pursuant to the terms of contract which expressly provides for forfei- ture, the court has " jurisdiction to award such sum only as it considers reasonable, but not exceeding the amount specified in the contract as liable to forfeiture. We may briefly refer to certain illustrative cases decided by the High Courts in India which have expressed a different view. In Abdul Gani & Co. v. Trustees of the Port of Bombay (1), the Bombay High Court observed as follows :-
other stipulation by way of penalty" is limited to cases of stipulation in the nature of an agreement to pay money or deliver property on breach and does not comprehend covenants under which amounts paid or property delivered under the contract which by the terms of the contract expressly or by clear implication are liable to be forfeited. Section 74 declares the law as to liability upon breach of contract where compensation is by agreement of the parties predetermined, or where there is a stipulation by way of penalty. But the application of the enactment is not restricted to cases where the aggrieved party claims relief' as a plaintiff. The section does not confer a special benefit upon any party; it merely declares the law that notwithstanding any term in the contract predetermining damages or providing for forfeiture of any property by way of penalty, the court will award to the party aggrieved only reasonable compensation not exceeding the amount named or penalty stipulated. The jurisdiction of the court, is not determined by the accidental circumstance of the party in default being a plaintiff or a defendant in a suit. Use of the expression "to receive from the party who has broken the contract" does not predicate that the jurisdiction of the court to adjust amounts which have been paid by the party in default cannot be exercised in dealing with the claim of the party complaining of breach of contract. The court has to adjudge in every case reasonable compensation to which the plaintiff is entitled from the defendant on breach of the contract. Such compensation has to be ascertained having regard to the conditions existing on the date of the breach. There is no evidence that any loss was suffered by the plaintiff in consequence of the default by the defendant save as to the loss suffered by him by being kept out of possession of the property.
There is no evidence that the property had depreciated in value since the date of the contract; nor wag there evidence that any other special damage had resulted. The contract provided for forfeiture of Rs. 25,000/- consisting of Rs. 1000/-paid as earnest money and Rs. 24,000/- paid as part of the purchase price. The defendant has conceded that the plaintiff was entitled to forfeit the amount of Rs. 1,000/- which was paid as earnest money. We cannot however agree with the High Court that 10 per cent of the price may be regarded as reasonable compensation in relation to the value of the contract as a whole, as that in our opinion is assessed on arbitrary assumption. The plaintiff failed to prove the loss suffered by him in consequence of the breach of the contract committed by the defendant, and we are unable to find any principle on which compensation equal to ten percent of the agreed price could be awarded to the plaintiff. The plaintiff has been allowed Rs. 1,000/-which was the earnest money as part of the damages. Besides he had use of the remaining sum of Rs. 24,000/-, and we can rightly presume that lie must have been deriving advantage from that amount throughout this period. In the absence therefore of any proof of damage arising from the breach of the contract we are of opinion that the amount of Rs. 1,000/- (earnest money) which has been forfeited, and the advantage that the plaintiff must have derived from the possession of the remaining sum of Rs. 24,000/-during all this period would be sufficient compensation to him. It may be added that the plaintiff has separately claimed mesne profits for being kept out of possession for which he has got a decree and therefore the fact that the plaintiff was out of possession cannot be taken into account in determining damages for this purpose.' The decree passed by the High Court awarding Rs. 11,250/- as damages to the plaintiff must therefore be set aside.


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The climax of Ron Howard's western The Missing takes place on the Mexican border, which has been Larry McMurtry country to me since the late '80s and Lonesome Dove, together with its sequel, Streets of Laredo.
Although McMurtry's heroes wander all over the west, some of their hairiest adventures are experienced on the south-west frontier, where desperadoes mingle and merge, freely borrowing and adapting one another's costumes, customs and killing methods.
They're a grotesque bunch. McMurtry has never skimped on western Gothic, but he also introduces you to the kind of characters John Ford and Howard Hawks neglected in their preoccupation with John Wayne's progress across the mesas and plains of '40s and '50s westerns.
It's also a long way from Clint Eastwood's habitat. Many of McMurtry's heroes are women. And while plenty are to be found in saloons and whorehouses, he also has them working as ranchers, teachers and midwives, while standing up to the men who ride in and out of their lives.
The Missing is not a McMurtry story - sadly. He'd have invested it
with more humanity and much more conversation. It's adapted from The Last
Ride by Thomas Eidson, who, according to a biographical note on the
internet, is a part-time writer who is vice-president of corporate affairs for a
Boston investment company. And the action is set not in McMurtry's Texas, but in
neighbouring New Mexico.
Nonetheless, there are seductive resemblances to McMurtry, among them Cate Blanchett's Maggie Gilkeson, who runs a ranch in the lonely mountain country north of Santa Fe. As well as bringing up two daughters on her own, she's the closest thing the district has to a doctor. No one, however, has introduced her to the notion of a good bedside manner, hence the opening scene where she coolly saves a protesting patient from blood poisoning by holding her down and pulling out the last tooth she has left in her head.
There's another McMurtry connection, too, in the presence of Tommy Lee Jones, who played former Texas ranger Woodrow Call in the Lonesome Dove mini-series. He turns up as Maggie's father, whom she hasn't seen since her childhood, when he walked out on her and her mother, leaving them to fend for themselves. He's spent the intervening years living as an honorary Apache and now prays to tribal gods and wears beads and an amulet - eccentricities that the grizzled Jones embraces with his customary conviction.
When he appears, wanting a reconciliation, Maggie is outraged and sends him away, only to later find herself forced to accept his help after her teenage daughter (Evan Rachel Wood) is abducted by bandits who smuggle girls across the Mexican border and sell them as whores.
What follows is light on psychology but high on adrenaline. Jones and Blanchett give us characters of matching authority who spend most of the picture circling one another with the curiosity of two people mystified as to how they could share membership in the same species, let alone any closer bond.
Her performance is as austere as her costumes, which are homespun, dun-coloured and tightly buttoned. But there's plenty of banked-down passion there, too, and enough desperation to persuade you she's worth worrying about.
She and Jones never really connect. Nor do they need to. The script bridges the emotional gap by filtering much of the action through the gaze of Maggie's second daughter, Dot, played by Jenna Boyd, a 10-year-old who somehow manages to juggle preternatural intelligence with complete guilelessness.
And the mechanics of the chase take care of the rest.
There are a few moral contrivances along the way. Howard and the film's writers clearly felt the need to balance every bad Indian with at least two good Native Americans. As compensation for the Apache bandit leader (Eric Schweig) - a corrupt shaman with black teeth and a face looking as if it's been crafted in cracked leather - we have a pair of noble tribesmen (Jay Tavare and Simon Baker), who are also on his trail.
But I'm being retrospectively critical. Using fluid camera work and the contours of the country to spring his surprises, Howard has no trouble keeping the momentum.
In the end, every western is defined by its landscape, which, in this case, runs the gamut - from the spooky, sepia-toned forests of its wintry opening to the bleak canyons and foaming rivers of its exhilarating showdown in the border country.
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So many and unlikely are the twists in the discovery and identification of the remains of King Richard III, the last Plantagenet, dug up in a car park in Leicester, England, that one scarcely knows where to begin.
Let's proceed chronologically.
Richard III was King of England for a period of 26 months (1483-1485). He died at the battle of Bosworth Field in 1485, the battle that essentially concluded the War of the Roses. Over the succeeding centuries, the location of Richard III's burial place, and even the location of Bosworth Field, was lost in the mists of time.
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The results are very much like discussed during various consultations and pre-op meetings.
Surgery was scheduled and completed in less then 3 weeks and process went very smoothly
Instant results- from the moment I woke up, I could see the bandages and dressings and the similarity in size and shape of my operated leg to my non operated leg was very impressive and exciting
Reasonable cost- $7,7500 for everything including anesthesia, surgeon's fees, o.r. Time in state of the art, out-patient clinic, 2 custom implants, and all post op visits.
Was only one leg- this is a plus because the recovery is less stressful.
Has been very painful but this is normal and expected
A little difficult as out of town patient, you really need someone to help you for the first few days post op. (Even if it's only 1 leg, simple tasks can be very painful and arduous)


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Genuine mahogany fades from glory days
What a difference a few years makes. Genuine mahogany, once the kingpin of imported species, is now just a tiny blip on the wood markets' radar screen. In November 2003, the Convention on International Trade in Endangered Species of Wild Fauna and Flora (CITES) imposed stricter regulations on mahogany trade by officially listing it on CITES Appendix II. Shipping of genuine mahogany in the form of logs, sawn wood, veneer sheets and plywood, must be accompanied by a CITES Appendix II export permit.
Shipments from Brazil stopped, supplies from Peru and Bolivia dwindled to a trickle and mahogany brought in from Guatemala and Mexico are generally considered to be of inferior quality. The end result is that supplies are down, the price is up, the quality is down and the public seems to be turned off. It's not a pretty picture for most dealers who based the majority of their overall sales on mahogany.
Genuine mahogany's specific gravity: .45 (green).
Specific gravity is the ratio of the density of a substance to the density of water.
Genuine mahogany's radial shrinkage: 3 percent.
Radial or quartersawn boards have a grain running roughly perpendicular to the wide faces.
Genuine mahogany's tangential shrinkage: 4.1 percent.
Tangential or flatsawn boards have grain running roughly parallel to the wide faces.
Example: A 12" wide flatsawn Genuine mahogany board will shrink .103" (about 3/32") from 12 percent moisture content to 6 percent and a quartersawn board will shrink .076" (about 1/16").
"It's classic supply-and-demand; the price goes up and demand falls off," says Doug Newman of Newman Lumber Co. in Gulfport, Miss., one of the largest mahogany wholesalers in the country. "The price shot up, doubled, so demand fell off. There is still a demand for it, it is still available, but at the price point that it is at, the market for it has certainly declined. The price has been stable for the last two years. Between 2002 and 2007 the price doubled.
"I think mahogany basically is a market that has to be re-established, has to be reintroduced," says William von der Goltz, a wholesale importer with Downes & Reader Hardwood Co., based in Stoughton, Mass. "It went so low to a point that people almost forgot about it. Mahogany, as far as a species is concerned, in my humble opinion has to be reintroduced, almost like a new species.
"My conclusion is that I'm not going to waste my time with mahogany unless there is something out there that is not suffering pressure from the environmentalists or CITES, that I can bring in at a very low price, that can be reintroduced into the mahogany market that we had before."
Genuine mahogany (Swietenia macrophylla), also known as Honduras mahogany, Bigleaf mahogany and South American mahogany, is exported in the form of logs, sawn wood, veneer sheets and plywood. Mahogany trees reach heights up to 150' with trunk diameters as large as 7'. Its primary growing region is South America and, to a lesser degree, in Central America and small portions of Mexico. It is the most valuable timber species in its growth area and its uses include fine furniture, architectural millwork, paneling, cabinetry and boatbuilding.
"I classify mahogany in three ways and, you'll laugh at me, but I do it by color - light, medium and dark," says Matt Westmoreland, a wholesaler with World Timber Corp. in Hubert, N.C. "That's kind of a funny thing. But mahogany went from Honduras mahogany to Brazilian mahogany to South American mahogany to Peruvian mahogany and now they just call it genuine mahogany. So every time they jumped into a different region, they just started calling it South American. So I just tell everyone light, medium or dark.
"Sapele and African mahogany started becoming so popular, that's why we kind of got out of it. A lot of people just backed off from buying genuine mahogany, but some people still buy it because they have to have it. But unless you are 5 cents a board foot cheaper than your competition, you are not going to sell it in large quantities. It is such a cutthroat competitive business."
The working characteristics of genuine mahogany are superb. From drying to cutting to finishing, the wood is outstanding in every facet. It is a staple among period furniture makers because of its density, which makes it an ideal carving wood. It is also a great tonewood used for guitar necks, acoustic backs and sides, and electric bodies.
"The import species in general are in very low demand, so when you think about that and when it comes to mahogany, think of the past," von der Goltz says. "In order to come back, it has to come back at a very, very low price and it has to be reintroduced and it has to gain confidence. If you are talking proportionally today versus demand, there is a lot of mahogany on the market. I've been here for 35 years and it definitely isn't the same thing we had in 1982. This is different. My words of wisdom: find another species."
"The supply is not what it used to be, but the demand isn't what it used to be," adds Newman. "Supply and demand have found [an] equilibrium, that's what they have done. All my life I have heard that mahogany isn't going to be available in five years and here it is 30 years later and we're still buying it and selling it."
Nationally, retail prices for kiln-dried 4/4 FAS genuine mahogany, surfaced on two sides, continued to be widespread. Prices from $8.25 to $10.25/bf were quoted for boards in the 6" to 8" width range. Pricing continued to escalate as widths increased. Several dealers offer mahogany in thicknesses from 4/4 through 16/4.
For information on wood properties and species information, visit the U.S. Forest Service Forest Products Laboratory's Web site: www2.fpl.fs.fed.us.
This article originally appeared in the June 2010 issue.


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RUSTON, La. (AP) Louisiana Tech coach Chris Long turned down an automatic bid to the Women's National Invitation Tournament on Saturday, saying it's the NCAA tournament or nothing for the Lady Techsters.
"Louisiana Tech women's basketball has been about playing in the NCAA tournament," Long, whose team had been one of two that had been in every women's tournament since the NCAA first took them over in the 1981-82 season.
"We did not do enough this season to reach that goal. With all due respect to the WNIT, we are not interested in an invitation.
Long's announcement came three days after Tech lost 63-57 to New Mexico State in the quarterfinals of the 2007 Western Athletic Conference tournament, ending its hope for a 26th straight NCAA tournament appearance.
Although no official bids will be made until after the NCAA tournament selection show Monday, the WNIT had asked Tech athletic director Jim Oakes if the school was interested. And, because Boise State beat New Mexico in the WAC championship game Saturday, Tech (17-12, 12-4) had an "automatic bid" by WNIT rules, because it tied the Broncos for the regular-season title.
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So, I told you that when I went to interview at L'Academie de Cuisine last October I was warned that students gain 20 pounds during their first three months of school, keep that weight on during the next three months, and then lose it once they start working in their externship. This information has been heavily weighing on me (pun intended) since that time, and I have tried to put a plan in place to prevent much of that weight gain. My plan is to bring my breakfast to school and try to have a light dinner since the bulk of my calories are going to be consumed during lunch, which the culinary students prepare, and sampling our pastry products. We can't bring any of the food home with us, so at least once I am home I am not tempted by all of the goodies we are making! I have also created a rigorous workout schedule of exercise classes, such as pilates, yoga and barre, which I attend four times a week, and cardio sessions on two out of three of the remaining days. Plus on most days (weather permitting), I walk the girls at least one mile.
I weighed myself the day school began, and will weigh myself each Friday going forward to monitor any weight gain. I am too vain to post what my actual weight is, but I am happy to report that by some miracle, I lost 2.4 pounds in the past two weeks. This will probably be the only time during the next several months that I will be able to say that, so allow me to gloat a little! I'm hoping that by posting the change in my weight each Friday it will help motivate me not to gain so much. Stay tuned!!


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Susilo Bambang Yudhoyono met his supporters yesterday in the first discussions on the shape of his new government following his landslide win in Monday's election.
At his family home in Jakarta, the President elect and his deputy, Jusuf Kalla, held talks with the leaders of several small parties who had supported his candidacy and with one of the nation's most powerful media barons, Surya Palltoh.
After the talks, Mr Kalla said the meeting had decided to delay the announcement of the new cabinet until October 20, the day Mr Yudhoyono will formally take over from President Megawati Soekarnoputri.
With more than half the vote counted, Ms Megawati had 36.9 per cent against Mr Yudhoyono's 60.3 per cent. However, she has yet to concede defeat and made no public comment yesterday.
The final count is not due to be declared until October 5.
But Akbar Tandjung, the chairman of the Golkar party of the former president Soeharto, conceded that there were "strong indications" Mr Yudhoyono and Mr Kalla had won.
As the head of Golkar, Mr Tandjung was one of the key figures in his party's decision to enter a coalition agreement with Ms Megawati's PDI-P party a month before this week's poll.
The failure of the coalition now throws into doubt his future as one of the country's most influential politicians.
An expert on Indonesia at the Australian National University, Greg Fealy, predicted that Mr Yudhoyono would try to engineer Mr Tandjung's removal as head of Golkar and his replacement by someone he could work with.
Dr Fealy said Ms Megawati's defeat would lead to a serious shakeout in the PDI-P and Golkar, which, he said, had failed to realise how politics in Indonesia had changed with the introduction of a system allowing the direct election of the president.
Dr Fealy said the Liberal and Labor parties in Australia would welcome the election of Mr Yudhoyono. "He's easier to deal with than Mega, who is uncommunicative and difficult to read. SBY is someone who masters a brief quickly, can give an immediate response and who had a track record that would make them [the Australian Government] very happy."
A Jakarta-based Indonesian analyst, Geoff Forrester, agreed that Australia would prefer Mr Yudhoyono, although the relationship with Ms Megawati had been mainly sound.
"It will probably be a bit more comfortable with him, although the key question is who is going to be the chief of police."
Mr Kalla has already indicated that his government will replace the national police chief, General Da'i Bachtiar, who has developed a close relationship with the Australian Federal Police Commissioner, Mick Keelty.


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Sunday, September 19, 2010
Jamón, Jamón! And other European food adventures
It's hard to boil down an amazing experience into just a few words. And that's one of the reasons I haven't written anything about our two week vacation to Spain and Portugal this past summer. But if I have to sum it up, I'd have two words for you: Jamón Ibérico. I had heard a lot about this cured ham, made from Black Iberian pigs that are fed natural diets of acorns and grass, but I hadn't ever actually tried it before going to Spain. That's for two reasons. First of all, I'm still pretty squeamish about eating meat, especially when it comes from *cute* animals. And even though I do have a sometimes weakness for bacon, I consider pigs to be super cute. And second, Jamón Ibérico only recently came to be available in the US (it was illegal until 2007) and even so, if you want it, be ready to shell out upwards of $200/pound.
I really wanted to enjoy the experience of Spanish and Portuguese cuisine; and in Spain, jámon is basically part of every meal. So before we left, I made a decision to embrace that and eat what was recommended wherever we went. And lo and behold, one of the first things that appeared in front of me when we landed in Spain were some super-thin, smoky slices of Jamón Ibérico. And I loved every melt-in-your-mouth, salty bite. Jamón Ibérico works well on its own, but is also very tasty with some slices of Manchego and a nice crusty bread. Pair it with a red wine or sherry and you've got a great little lunch. I wouldn't recommend running out and spending $200 on your jamón and cheese sandwich, but there are lots of related cured ham alternatives, like Jamón Serrano, which is cheaper and very similar in flavor.
Other highlights of our trip. As soon as we touched down in Madrid, we headed to a local cafe for a breakfast of tortilla española, a simple, but rich Spanish omelette, made with cream and potatoes. In Sevilla, every restaurant was guaranteed to have a juicer handy so you could order fresh-squeezed orange juice made from those famous Seville oranges.
I especially liked all the bright colors of Sevilla, and these candied limes really captured it for me. I didn't get to try them, but they were gorgeous in the café window.
In Jerez de la Frontera, where sherry is made, we headed to a sherry house to learn about sherry-making (and tasting!). In Cadiz, we tried fried seafood, which is a specialty of the region - check out the gorgeous shrimp cakes.
Portugal had its own list of delicacies, ranging from the famous egg custards made in the Belém neighborhood of Lisbon (seen below). And of course grilled sardines, a Portuguese specialty.
You certainly don't need to run all the way to Europe anymore to get many of these little delicacies. In the Boston area, there's a lovely little Spanish market called Las Ventas, which has everything you need to make your own Spanish tapas at home; or you can get a bocadillo (traditional Spanish sandwich) to go. Formaggio Kitchen also has many of the ingredients you'll need to bring a little bit of Spain and Portugal home. I for one can't wait to go back.
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I'm really, really trying to avoid making a bajilion URLs here. ĀIt requires that we change those bajillion URLs if we want to point it at a different site, which is often an interesting proposition involving data destruction.

Similarly, the library books probably want to point at gBooks or OpenLibrary or some such page by ISBN, which is another template problem, and doesn't require adding thousands of records which are otherwise noise to nburl.net...

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On Wed, Jan 19, 2011 at 7:42 PM, Albert Sweigart <firstname.lastname@example.com> wrote:

 I've been meaning to ramp up the functionality of nburl.net. I could
 add a textarea to the site so that we could write a simple script that
 generates all the parts/XYZ text and then just copy/paste it to the
 site.

 Feel free to email me any other ideas.

 -Al

 On Wed, Jan 19, 2011 at 7:03 PM, Josh Myer <firstname.lastname@example.com> wrote:
 > Short on time, so this is a bit terse:
 > 1. I'd love to use nburl.net, but I worry that it's not currently considered
 > a core nb service, so it may go away before noisebridge.net does, which
 > would make me a very sad panda (hundreds upon hundreds of now-invalid QR
 > codes to replace...)
 > 2. I don't want to make a bajillion NBURLs for already-stated reasons, so a
 > simple nburl.net/parts/XYZ redirect to a configurable URL is all I need. ĀWe
 > might want to add a small parameter language to it, but, that's
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 > $100:Āhttp://customembosserpro.com/hand_held_custom_artwork.php )
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All staff were friendly, helpful and always ready to help. With a baby we needed boiling water on occasion (as there were no water cookers in the room) and this was given to us by staff at any hour with a smile. Excellent! The central location and room service/restaurant were very good quality for the money and we would go again anytime. We were dissapointed about the baths as with a name- terme- you associate thermal baths of course. we did not make it to the public baths next door but suspect that these were the actual thermal baths we were hoping to see. good marketing though. facilities were simple but in good shape however.
Professional staff, excellent breakfast, great central location
Extreme high and extra charges for using pool and sauna
Grand decor, great position, nice and quiet, good breakfast. Bar closed very early,or not open at all, evening meals inferior to local restaurants, bed hard, extra charge for pool not clear until you use which is expensive unless you spend a few hours in there. With just a bit more attention to detail this would be a fantastic hotel
Great choice of breakfast Wi-fi only available in the hall
efficiency, location would not consider it "comfy" or "charming"
The spa facilities were very nice and our skin felt great after the thermal springs. The beds were very hard (and we like a very firm mattress!)
I have stayed there before and this was the cheapest i have stayed for i will use you agian. I have bought a house in the area so will be going again soon.
Room was very small, airco did not work, matrass was old and worn. Hotel is clearly past its prime and needs serious money to bring it up to standard. As we only stayed, we did not use the spa, hence, these might be of better standard.
It is not common in other spa hotels to charge for using the pool while you are staying there. When I went through the hotel website it was said that the pool is included and it was one of the main reasons for us to chose the hotel. The staff seemed indifferent and tired comparing to other hotels in italy and we've been in quite a lot of places in italy.
Low price, clean rooms, good parking possibilities Terrible breakfast, poor food in general, unfriendly staff, no wireless Internet connection although web page promised this
Pleasant staff. Modern, clean hotel with comfortable rooms Main entrance covered in snow and ice. Not cleared or gritted even though there were more staff than guests!
Cost of the room 80 degrees F (27C) outside on June 1st but the Hotel do not switch on the air conditioning in the rooms until July 1st! Breakfast was poor in the quality and variety of food on offer.
Staff friendly Lack of heating. Very restricted restaurant mene
good - we were there for one night for a family visit and foünd the hotel to be very satisfactory
large rooms, comfortable bed, had a garage, clean sheets and towels, breakfast went on until midday, cheapest hotel in the area rooms were not that clean (lots of dead bugs everywhere and tables weren't clean) and breakfast was awful (hardly any choice, all stale, any cooked food was extra)
Newly remodeled hotel. Comfortable, spacious, well-lighted room. I loved the little balconi overlooking the green hill facing my room. Very pleasant and efficient staff as well as management. I was very pleased with the quality service and attention I received.I felt at home at Hotel Valentino.
Very friendly owner who provides customised services and takes care of your individual needs, special nutrition and habits. I definitely recommend this hotel.
Free parking, quiet location within walking distance to the city centre.
hospitality of the staff 1) poor breakfast and quality of meal in general; 2) too noisy at night time (because of many junior sportsmen).
Plus / friendliness staff, pool area, room comfort Minus / breakfast quality
Fab hotel, massive room, good restaurant, friendly staff, quiet. No complaints
almost everything small parking in front of hotel, other parking a bit far
Qiuet, very nice rooms, one of the reception ladies was very helpful. The warm Jacuzzi was nice The free wireless internet connection supplied through a 3G router was terrible. But at least it was free
Friendly staff, excellent room and wonderful restaurant.
faux 'oil' paintings hung at random heights throughout are singularly awful. music in all public areas is obtrusive


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The company has acquired a new range of systems and storage infrastructure from IBM, in order to support its Australian cloud service offering.
After the company's half-yearly results briefing last month, ASG's chief executive,
General manager of strategic business services Gerald Strautins says ASG is looking to offer managed Oracle and SAP services to clients. He says the company is moving towards a service brokerage model, which allows it to support multiple clients and IT vendors at the same time.
"From a business strategy point of view, cloud is a primary focus as opposed to with some organisations in which it is a bolt-on," Strautins says.
"We have been working on this for the last two year. It is not something that has just happened following a market trend."
The technology deal means IBM technology will be implemented in ASG's Perth and Sydney data centres. It includes storage systems, back-up solutions and infrastructure for ASG's data centres. It gives enough capacity to make it feasible for ASG to provide a locally hosted public cloud that delivers managed business applications and services to its clients.
The idea of hosting data onshore is a key selling point for cloud providers looking to do business with government and financial services customers.
"I think it takes a degree of nervousness out of the equation, particularly related to data protection and accessibility," Strautins says.
He admits that in some cases cloud offerings will initially lead to IT services firms reaping smaller revenue from some customers.
"In the long term it is about customer retention and taking a view that you want to continue to add value," he says.
"It will make us more entrenched with the client and make us a partner rather than a commodity provider for future growth."
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The R 'n' B singer has announced new details regarding his new LP by revealing its official release date.
Pop/R 'n' B singer Robin Thicke has finally revealed more details about his second studio record "Something Else" by revealing its official release date. Speaking to Billboard.com, Thicke announced that his sophomore effort will be hitting the shelves on September 9.
Beside confirming the new album's release date, on the interview Thicke also explained about the type of music fans will get on the new LP. The singer stated that the new album is like a cross between "classic Philly, Motown and '70s black disco meets the creativity of The Beatles and Bob Dylan."
Moreover he also added that his album can offer something what the people need saying, "I felt like a lot of stuff out there sounded the same. Plus, there are a lot of things going on in the world with the recession and the war. It made me feel like everybody really just needed something new, something else. It's time for a change and there is hope for everyone."
To promote his new album, Thicke has already released "Magic" as the first single through radio airplay on May 20. The music video for the new song is about to be premiered on Friday, July 4 via FNMTV. Beside that, the track itself also appeared as the song for Samsung mobile phones' commercial in Europe.


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Creating custom controls of video files (flv) is very easy in Flash CS3. While no ActionScript programming is required to make a nice looking video application, a little bit of programming goes a long way to giving you very precise control of a video. On this page we will provide the basics of importing flv files, the ActionScript code necessary for customizing the video controls, and show how to wrap things up to work in conjunction with the ideas on the previous page so that you can combine swf control and flv control in the same managing container.
Before starting this tutorial we strongly recommend you go through the video tutorial Creating a video application with components from the Adobe website. We will enumerate the steps below, but we will not go into a great deal of detail since this very nice video already exists.
Inserting an flv file into a your Flash movie
- Open a new Flash File (ActionSscript 3.0)
- Open the Components panel (Window > Components)
- Expand the Video list by clicking on the +
- Drag an instance of FLVPlayback from the Library panel onto the Stage in the desired spot.
- With this FLVPlayback object selected, type an instance name into the Property panel. We will use the name videoInstructions in the example below.
- Open the Parameters panel (by clicking on the appropriate tab of the Property panel)
and make the following changes.
- If your "skin" property does not say "None", click the magnifying glass next to it and choose "None" at the top of the list of options. (This removes the predefined control package so we can customize our own.)
- Click on the "source" property and then on the magnifying glass icon to the right. You will get a dialog box for the selection of a video source file. Browse to and select your desired flv file. I will use the one called instructions.flv that will be relevant in our final application.
- If you save and test your movie at this point, you should see the video load and start playing automatically.
Adding custom controls
Since our example will be short video instructions to an activity, we will add a "play/pause button," a "seek bar," and a "volume control." You can get a sense of all of your options by perusing the help files for the FLVPlayback class or by scanning the other items in the Components panel under Video.
- Return to the Components panel (Window > Components) and re-expand the Video list if necessary.
- Drag each of the following components onto the stage and position them where you would like: PlayPauseButton, SeekBar, and VoumeBar. Give each of these an instance name, using the names player, seeker, and volBar for consistency with the code below.
- Add the following lines of code to the Actions panel:
videoInstructions.playPauseButton = player;
videoInstructions.seekBar = seeker;
videoInstructions.volumeBar = volBar;
At this point, you will have an swf file consisting of one frame containing the video container with our custom controls. The swf file will behave as illustrated here. (We have not embedded this file within the page because video with sound that starts by itself can be annoying.)
Automatic response when the video is complete
Not only would we like to be able to continue in our main managing Flash movie when a video has finished playing, but we would like to do it in a way that is consistent with our work on the first two pages of this tutorial. In other words, the script that we wrote for the managing movie on page 2 can remain unchanged as long as we build the fla file containing the video clip properly. Recall that on page 2 we tested when a loaded swf was finished by comparing its currentFrame property to its totalFrames property. To make this work with an swf containing a video, we simply need to add a blank second frame and write instructions so that we go to the second frame when the video (in the first frame) has finished playing. This can be accomplished in just a few short steps.
In the Timeline panel of the fla file that you created above, click on Frame 2 (of the only layer you have presumably) and select Timeline > Blank Keyframe from the Insert menu. Then click on Frame 1 and repeat this step. You should now have blank key frames in Frames 1 and 3, and you should add the single line of code "stop();" to the Actions for each of these two new frames. Your timeline will look more or less like the screen shot shown at the right.
Once this is done, we want the following block of code to appear in the Actions panel in Frame 2 of our managing movie. Note that the three lines we used before are still here, but now we have another block of code that simply listens for the COMPLETE VideoEvent to occur and moves to the next frame (i.e., Frame 3) when it does.
import fl.video.FLVPlayback;
import fl.video.VideoEvent;
videoInstructions.playPauseButton = player;
videoInstructions.seekBar = seeker;
videoInstructions.volumeBar = volBar;
videoInstructions.addEventListener(VideoEvent.COMPLETE, goNext);
function goNext(e:VideoEvent):void {
With these two changes, the swf file is ready to be incorporated into our managing. Because we have a stop(); in the blank Frame 1, there is no point testing this file by itself. However, with these changes we can integrate this seamlessly into our previous work.
- Flash CS3 file video2.fla is the final file discussed above. Again, if you test this movie, you will simply see it stop in blank Frame 1.
- The file instructions.flv was created on a computer using Camtasia.
Putting it all together
Let's integrate this new clip with embedded video into the work that we did on page 2. Open the file manager3.fla that you created in that step and add the string "video2.swf" to the array clips defined at the top of the code in the Actions panel. In our example, we will make the video clip be the second loaded clip by changing the first line of code to read as follows:
var clips:Array = ["clip0.swf", "video2.swf", "clip1.swf", "clip2.swf"];
The result of this change is shown at this link.
- The file manager4.fla consists of the single change shown above in the file manager3.fla.
- Don't forget that this requires the files clip0.swf, clip1.swf and clip2.swf.


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text: This picture set the tone for the weekend: Matt, our winner Haley & I hanging with Gemma Arterton & Jeremy Renner (stars of Hansel & Gretel Witch Hunters)! Where else? Hollywood! Staying in only the hippest place -- The star studded Roosevelt hotel! It even had a bowling alley This was across the street, where we saw the advanced screening of Hansel & Gretel Witch Hunters The closest I'll ever get to being a movie star lol. - Brody The view from The Four Seasons in Beverly Hills, where we met the cast of the movie! We even met Famke Jannsen, the bad witch (and from Taken)! Haley and Matt with Tommy Wirkola, the director of the movie Haley and Matt with Famke! Next time, this could be YOU hanging with the stars! I rented a car while we were there. If you have AAA, you'll get a great deal on car rentals. This convertible was a free upgrade for me :) I went sight seeing on my own. Recognize that bridge from any movie? Hint: I'll be back. Another famous house. Freddy says hello. I didn't stay at this motel. But stopped in to say hi. This stilt house is more obscure to some. It was in Lethal Weapon 2. Had to see some family, too! That's my buddy Michael Massee. He's been in movies like The Crow, The Amazing Spider Man and shows like Fringe, Law and Order and the first season of 24! I made a few more friends in Hollywood. I found my new DD! Photo 1 of 1 Continue Gallery


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With a breathtaking view over the bay and the ruins of Carthage, we could see all the way back to Tunis and the Kasbah.
She was a widow hated by most of the town of Carthage, Texas.
It was not the war galleys, but the merchant vessel of Phoenicia, of Tyre, and Carthage that brought them civilization and power.
The Phœnicians who settled Carthage took the religion of western Asia with them.
Then they were enraged with grief at what was extravagant injustice, and above all by the sight of Carthage on the horizon.
Thereupon they ingloriously broke camp and made off to Carthage.
Hannibal, though fallen, retained still in Carthage some portion of his former power.
They competed with and finally crushed their rivals in Tyre, Corinth and Carthage.
Carthage was their head-quarters, and they were continually ravaging the coasts of the Mediterranean with their fleets.
The aristocracy of Carthage controlled and governed every thing.
ancient city of North Africa, from Phoenician quart khadash "new town." Related: Carthaginian.
An ancient city in north Africa, established by traders from Phoenicia. Carthage was a commercial and political rival of Rome for much of the third and second centuries b.c. The Carthaginian general Hannibal attempted to capture Rome by moving an army from Spain through the Alps, but he was prevented and finally defeated in his own country. At the end of the Punic Wars, the Romans destroyed Carthage, as the senator Cato had long urged. The character Dido, lover of Aeneas in the Aeneid, was a queen of Carthage.


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Seriously now, I understand that Sasuke has to fight Naruto and quite honestly I wouldn't want it otherwise BUT that doesn't explain why Sasuke hates Naruto this much.
Let's face the facts:
1) Sasuke wants to become hokage, so does Naruto and so a fight is unavoidable.
2) Sasuke was hating naruto all this time because he was trying to bring him back while he didn't want to. Apart from that, he didn't have any other reason.
3) Sasuke now has changed his mind and supposedly he's not a physco anymore since he doesn't hate everyone as he used to. His attitude towards Konoha 11 preety much shows that since he just doesn't care and he doesn't hold any grudge against them, not that he had a reason in the first place but anyway.
4)So here is my question: What makes Sasuke hate so much Naruto? It's not like we just talk about a rivalry. He clearly wants to wipe him out of existence.
In this page we clearly see that in the photo the cut, cuts Naruto in 2 halves, he really wants to kill him, it's not like he just doesn't want to see him anymore. I understand that there must be this rivalry between the 2 main characters to keep it interesting but my question is why does he hate him so much, since he decided to return to the village? I'ts not like he's forcing him anymore to do anything, so what pushes him to hate Naruto so much?


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text: I'm "attempting" to use teleport on my iphone to my macbook, but I keep getting this error: Official response from Jugaari was: This did not help. Same issue. I have screen sharing turned on in my sharing options on the macbook, I have my VNC Vine Server app turned off and the server stopped. I have attempted to go into my airport utility and map port 5900 and still no luck. I use Mocha, VNsea, Touchpad Pro, and a plethora of other VNC apps with no issues, but for some reason this one will not allow me to connect. I have tried every suggestion on their site: http://www.jugaari.com/teleport Nothing seems to work. Anyone else with this issue or a fix?


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DENVER (AP) — Some Republicans are worried that Mitt Romney is going too far in savaging President Barack Obama's green jobs initiative.
At issue is a comment by a Romney campaign spokesman that Congress should let a tax break for wind energy producers expire at the end of the year.
One Iowa congressman suggested Romney lacked a "full understanding" of how important the credit is to Iowa and the nation. And the Obama campaign circulated fact sheets showing deep support for the credit in swing-voting states including Iowa, Colorado and Nevada.
Obama will appear in Colorado on Wednesday to promote his economic plan, and it's possible that the wind tax credit could come up.


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Sheldon is not the only place in Western Iowa worth exploring; DIY travelers should head off and experience the unique qualities of the surrounding landscapes, towns and cities. Rock Valley, 20 miles (32 kilometers) to the east, and Rock Rapids, 25 miles (40 kilometers) to the southeast of Sheldon are good spots to check out if you have the time.
About 50 miles (80 kilometers) to the northwest of Sheldon is Sioux Falls, an important regional center and the home of Augustana College, Great Plains Zoo and Sioux Falls Arena. Sioux Falls has lots to offer those willing to stay for a day or two. Washington Pavilion of Arts and Science, Great Bear Recreation Park and Fawick Park are just a sample of the other interesting attractions worth visiting.
When the weather's great, why not take the opportunity to explore Western Iowa's farms?.
When the mercury rises, take the lead of the locals and head to Western Iowa's cooling waterways for a morning of canoeing or boating.
The nearest major airport, Sioux Falls Regional Airport, is located in Sioux Falls, 50 miles (80 kilometers) to the northwest of Sheldon, so take that into account when planning your trip.


text: Last month, an experimental pancreatic cancer drug from Infinity Pharmaceuticals ( INFI) failed a mid-stage study because patients were not living longer. Clovis Oncology ( CLVS) and Celgene ( CELG) are each, separately, conducting studies of pancreatic cancer drugs with results expected later this year. --Written by Adam Feuerstein in Boston. >To contact the writer of this article, click here: Adam Feuerstein. >To follow the writer on Twitter, go to http://twitter.com/adamfeuerstein. >To submit a news tip, send an email to: firstname.lastname@example.com. Follow TheStreet on Twitter and become a fan on Facebook.


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Wear it as a dress, wear it as a coat. This conventionally versatile classic is made with a soft, warm, and amazingly lightweight wool boucle yarn. A wide box pleat at the back provides additional fabric for the hem to swing attractively without adding unnecessary width to the upper body.


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ANC Celebrates 100 Years With Show of Political Dominance in South Africa
South Africa's ruling African National Congress celebrated its 100th anniversary today, maintaining its grip on power in Africa's largest economy, while battling internal rifts over leadership posts.
The occasion was marked with a rally at a packed 45,000- seat sports stadium in Bloemfontein, in the central Free State Province, where the party was created in 1912. President Jacob Zuma recounted the party's history in a speech that lasted more than an hour.
"The ANC has laid a sound foundation for socio-economic development, although challenges remain," Zuma said. "We must bring new energy and new ideas into the kind of society we want to build over the next few decades."
Africa's oldest political movement led the fight against white segregationist rule, securing it the loyalty of the country's black majority, who make up 90 percent of the population. The ANC has locked-in supporters since winning the first all-race elections in 1994 by giving welfare grants to more than 15 million people, about a third of the population, and increasing access to water and electricity.
"The ANC has done everything for me," said Agnes Motseki, 68, one of hundreds of women attending today's rally in green party blouses. "Our children have grants, we have houses and electricity. Everything is very good for us. I'm ANC until I die. We want the ANC for another 100 years."
'No Competition'
The party has more than 1 million signed-up members and won 65.9 percent of the vote in the last national elections in 2009. Its nearest rival, the Democratic Alliance led by Helen Zille, won 16.7 percent.
"The ANC has got no competition," Zwelethu Jolobe, a political analyst at the University of Cape Town, said in a phone interview. "While the party is divided along factional lines, a lot of people don't see life outside the ANC."
The party's dominance masks internal rifts undermining unity in the ANC ahead of party elections in December. The ANC's Youth League, which is lobbying for the nationalization of the country's mines and banks, is campaigning for Zuma to be replaced by his deputy, Kgalema Motlanthe. Youth League leader Julius Malema, who is fighting his suspension from the party, ridiculed Zuma in songs at an ANC rally in his home province of Limpopo last month.
'Demon of Factionalism'
Rival chants in support of the two leaders were shouted at the start of today's rally, ceasing as proceedings got under way. Malema, who sat on the stage alongside other ANC leaders, drew loud cheers when he appeared on giant screens.
"We are determined to enhance the party's moral standing and image among the masses of our people," the ANC said in its annual policy statement released today. The party will "defeat the demon of factionalism in the ranks of the ANC."
Ugandan President Yoweri Museveni, Rwandan leader Paul Kagame and Zambia's Michael Sata were among heads of state present at a gala dinner yesterday, praising the ANC as a beacon for other liberation movements across the continent.
The South African Native National Convention was formed in 1912, uniting tribal chiefs, black leaders, churches and civil rights groups in the fight for the rights of blacks. The group changed its name to ANC in 1923.
The movement mounted campaigns against laws that forced blacks from their land and compelled them to carry permits to enter areas reserved for whites. The ANC was banned in 1960 and began a campaign of sabotage against government targets the next year. Most of its leadership was arrested, including Nelson Mandela, who spent 27 years in prison, or went into exile, like former ANC President Oliver Tambo.
'Beacon for the World'
Popular resistance to apartheid and economic sanctions forced the white government to the negotiating table and the ANC was legalized in 1990. It took power under Mandela four years later, winning 62.6 percent of the vote.
The ANC "has been a beacon for the world in the fight against discrimination and the struggle for freedom from oppression," U.K. Prime Minister David Cameron said in a letter to Zuma, according to a copy on the government's website. "It is incredible to see the changes in South Africa that the ANC has helped to bring about."
Party unity began to erode in December 2007, when Zuma won control of the ANC from Thabo Mbeki, Mandela's successor, with backing from the unions and the Youth League. Mbeki was ousted as president of the country in 2008 after a judge suggested in a court ruling he pressured prosecutors to pursue corruption charges against Zuma.
A group of Mbeki's allies, led by former ANC Chairman Mosiuoa Lekota, then quit the ANC to form a rival party, Congress of the People. Zuma was appointed president of the country in May 2009.
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Finance ministers and central bank chiefs from the Group of 20 advanced and emerging economies are expected to focus on the uncertainty surrounding the emerging economies at a two-day meeting in Sydney.
Finance Minister Taro Aso regards concerns about emerging economies and the U.S. Federal Reserve's tapering of its quantitative easing as important issues the world economy faces.
Since views differ amid the anxious emerging economies and their calm advanced counterparts, whether the G-20 can hammer out a cooperation framework in a joint statement is to be the focal point of the meeting, which began Saturday.
Aso and Bank of Japan Gov. Haruhiko Kuroda will attend the closely watched meeting. It will be the first international conference for U.S. Federal Reserve Chairwoman Janet Yellen since she took office earlier this month.
Since January, financial markets have been swung by global stock plunges triggered by sharp currency depreciations in the emerging countries.
Massive funds had poured into Turkey, Brazil and India thanks to the Fed's monetary easing, but the flows began to reverse after the U.S. central bank started to taper its monetary stimulus.
Emerging economies, fearing a possible financial crisis, are calling on the Fed to give due consideration.
However, Yellen plans to stay the course and reduce the amount of Fed asset purchases, saying the emerging markets are not risks to the U.S. economy. Many emerging economies that saw their currencies weaken have feeble economic foundations, including current account deficits, and political risks.
The advanced countries are playing it cool. Jose Vinals, director of the International Monetary Fund's Monetary and Capital Markets Department, says concerns in emerging countries stem chiefly from domestic issues.


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"Your self-opinionated talk does you little credit," Faltonius retorted.
She gave one the idea of being self-willed and self-opinionated.
self-opinionated, self-conceited, dogmatic, and contemptuous—they wore all the attributes of bigotry.
Most of them were cold, self-opinionated, ultra-artificial to her easy, poetic spirit.
"self-opinionated old mountebank," Harleston thought, as he went down the corridor to Carpenter's office.
And on he went, ruffled, but wrapped in self-opinionated vanity.
Then there was a small, self-opinionated gray pony, which was of no service conjecturable after this lapse of time.
But you have grown self-willed and self-opinionated of late, and I must say, you couldn't have a graver fault!
How is it that she has suddenly become "so self-opinionated"?
For the rest, he was a peevish, self-opinionated old man, and a rank impostor.


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Brad McRae
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Co-led by the Washington State Department of Transportation and the Washington Department of Fish and Wildlife, the Washington Habitat Connectivity Working Group brings together diverse participants representing land and natural resource management agencies, organizations, Tribes, and universities to produce tools and analyses that identify opportunities for habitat connectivity in Washington. In December 2010, the Working Group completed a geographic information system (GIS) analysis of habitat conditions in Washington and portions of adjacent jurisdictions. The statewide analysis incorporated habitat and movement needs for 16 focal species, identified habitat networks of high natural integrity, and produced maps of the largest contiguous habitat blocks and the best linkages for connecting them. In addition to the maps, the Working Group also created a GIS toolkit that planners can use to develop projects that allow for the long-term movements of wildlife while minimizing collisions with the traveling public. The habitat connectivity assessment will reduce time and costs associated with environmental permitting, and can be used as one criterion to determine which highway segments will receive funds for wildlife-friendly improvements. As a result, highway improvement project teams will incorporate options that provide safe passage for wildlife into project plans. The Washington Connected Landscapes Project demonstrates how collaboration can drive the development of tools to help build a transportation system that is sensitive to the needs of wildlife.
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text: Home > How To > Interiors > Trouble-Free Appliance Rough-In Interiors Trouble-Free Appliance Rough-In Find out which models will be used and review the installation specs before rough-in By David Getts Login or Register to download the PDF version of this article. (757.92 kB) Early in my career, I worked exclusively as a custom cabinetmaker; I didn't concern myself with appliances other than to make sure that the openings for them were the right size. It wasn't until I became a remodeler and found myself responsible for the entire project that I learned how to plan properly for appliances. Not only do the units themselves have to fit, but the mechanicals have to be located so that connections can be made without reworking rough-ins or butchering cabinets.The importance of appliance specifications cannot be overemphasized. Our company policy requires that all appliance decisions be made before the cabinetry is designed and the actual work is begun. Even small differences between models can cause problems if you don't pay attention. Login or Register to continue reading


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On Saturday 23rd February after some 6 nations action in the bar, We have our annual Burns Supper.
It is going to be a great night with lighthearted entertainment and a superb meal.
Please give us your support and place your ticket orders quickly.
The tickets are priced at £20. Entertainment and good food guaranteed. Tickets are on a first come, first served basis.
Tickets are behind the bar, priced at £20 or contact Catriona Hunter on 07710457744 or Bobby Horton on 07919484271 by Monday 18th February


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Cultch's Ignite! youth program attracts big names
The Cultch's Ignite! youth mentorship program has recruited an impressive group of performers to offer guidance to aspiring artists for early 2010.
Among the big names are dancer-choreographers Susan Elliot, Tara Cheyenne Friedenberg, and Noam Gagnon; theatre directors Adrienne Wong, Kendra Fanconi, and Marcus Youssef; songwriter Veda Hille; and spoken-word artists Barbara Adler, RC Weslowski, and Brendan McLeod.
Theatre directing is a new category for the three-year-old program, as is playwriting; mentors in the latter include acclaimed local talents Amiel Gladstone, Shawn Macdonald, and Michele Riml.
The program, which is free to young artists between 13 and 24, offers not only the chance to work one-on-one with established artists, but to tkae workshops on everything from grant-writing to media relations and to present work on the Cultch stage.
Info and application forms are available on the The IGNITE! blog: ignitementorships.wordpress.com.


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Whether you own a business or are an audio-visual enthusiast, digital technology has changed the way we capture and preserve our images and sounds. With growing expectations for greater clarity and accuracy, many of the classic formats (magnetic tape, mechanical discs, film) have been replaced by computer files. Fortunately, those years and decades of archival media can be converted, restored, and preserved. Call to find out how.


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Labyrinth by Kate Mosse
In this extraordinary thriller, rich in the atmospheres of medieval and contemporary France, the lives of two women born centuries apart are linked by a common destiny. July 2005. In the Pyrenees mountains near Carcassonne, Alice, a volunteer at an archaeological dig stumbles into a cave and makes a startling discovery-two crumbling skeletons, strange writings on the walls, and the pattern of a labyrinth; between the skeletons, a stone ring, and a small leather bag. Eight hundred years earlier, on the eve of a brutal crusade to stamp out heresy that will rip apart southern France, Alais is given a ring and a mysterious book for safekeeping by her father as he leaves to fight the crusaders. The book, he says, contains the secret of the true Grail, and the ring, inscribed with a labyrinth, will identify a guardian of the Grail. As crusading armies led by Church potentates and nobles of northern France gather outside the city walls of Carcassonne, it will take great sacrifice to keep ... read more
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It is a pity that Nick Herbert MP (Letters, 6 April), shadow secretary of state for environment, food and rural affairs, and from a Sussex constituency, has not mastered his brief on the South Downs national park. The 22,000-seater community stadium is being built on land that is outside the proposed boundary of the national park. It is in fact on a piece of land bounded on three sides by roads, with a university campus on the fourth side. It is not on the Downs.
Cllr Les Hamilton
Lab, Brighton & Hove City Council
Sam Wollaston is wrong to call Sir Alan Sugar's use of language laziness: it's dialect (G2, 2 April). Generations of perfectly able schoolkids have been short-changed by an education system that requires them - without specific training - to express themselves in the non-native speech forms of standard English, or else be labelled thick and lazy. I'm no expert on grammar, but it's perfectly possible that Sugar's verbal system systematically requires "doesn't" after "that", or even just that here he is operating along a cline of more or less standard English. Either way, it ain't lazy.
Dr Mark J Jones
Temporary lecturer in phonetics, City University, London
I always thought that drawing attention to the subject you're trying to avoid was usually considered a bit of an own goal (Report, 6 April). Well Sainsbury's latest renaming is a cracker. To avoid negative connotations by changing pollack to colin but to then use Pollock-inspired packaging is particularly dumb. The "celebrity" designer really is an idea long past its sell-by date.
James Alexander
The real scandal of Jacqui Smith's 88p bath plug (Comment, 6 April) is that a member of a government committed to reducing greenhouse gas emissions by 80% should still be wasting water and energy having a bath instead of using the more efficient shower.
Graham Davey
Gaynor Lewis (Letters, 4 April) could link her visits to the Bread and Salt Museums with one to the Egg Museum in Soyans, in the Drôme valley, France.
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