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Ive Decided to Purchase My First Motorbike
I've wanted to purchase a motorbike for several years now. I finally came into a bit of money, so I'm going to seize the opportunity and buy a bike next month. I've been doing a lot of research online, which included reading a lot of motorbike reviews. I found one website in particular that has been extremely helpful and provided me with much of the information that I plan on basing my decision on.
When I first starting looking at possible motorbikes to buy, I asked my friend for some recommendations. He owns several bikes, so I thought he's be able to give me some great advice and point me in the right direction. He told me all about his motorbikes, and why he decided to purchase each one. Each bike served a different purpose and had a different meaning to him. Read the rest of this entry »
Car Service for Company Christmas Party
I was visiting my family, on the other side of the country, but I made a last minute decision that I want to attend to the company Christmas party because I am trying to warm myself up with some of the upper management members in order to have a better shot at a promotion. I am already in a pretty great job in the company, but I figure there is always room for improvement. So I need to find BWI car service that will be able to pick me up at the airport and then drive me right to the Christmas party. Read the rest of this entry »
Black Friday and Consumer Madness
I am not a fan of the Christmas spirit. I don't even know what the Christmas really is or what it was supposed to be but I imagine that what it has become isn't what people originally thought it to be. When I think of the Christmas spirit now, I think of Black Friday and I think of consumers stomping on each other as they play tug and war with cheap electronics. I think road rage and I think crying kids sitting on Santa's smelling like beer. That's why I talk to Big Thumb Car Rental in Penang every year to make sure that my annual visit is in working order.
I try to leave the United States the day after Thanksgiving every year. I can't handle it anymore. Read the rest of this entry »
Taking a Bus for a Mission Trip
When our church group decided to go on a mission trip to a city that is about 50 miles away, we were going to just drive a bunch of cars there at first, but then we decided that it would be better if we were all together on this trip. There was 35 of us going, so that meant we would need to take at least 10 cars if not more. Parking could have been an issue, plus we knew it would be more fun if we were all together. I read about St Lee Transport when I was doing some research on buses, and I was very glad that it was the first company I had decided to look at. Read the rest of this entry »
Just Got Back from Washington DC
Of course I got a bit of a benefit from a mistake that was made by the client. I got to the airport the other evening and I saw a guy standing there holding a sign with my boss' name on it. He was from a Dulles car service and I realized that they were expecting the boss instead of me. That had been the plan, but at the last minute some stuff had come up and so instead of going to DC he had gone South to deal with an in issue in the Atlanta office. I do not really know what the problem was down there, but they pulled me off what I was doing and the boss briefed me on this trip while he was on his way to the airport. I do not guess that he ever told the people he was going to meet in DC about this, but that is not surprising. He is focused on what is on his own plate and these people are trying to talk him in to doing something.
I felt sort of bad for these people. Read the rest of this entry »
Cheap Auto Repair Services Located in Rockland County
I am going to have to get my car fixed, because it keeps overheating and stalling out on me. I am not sure what the problem is, but whatever is wrong with it, it is not good. I think it could be a blown head gasket, because that would explain the overheating. I have checked the radiator fluid though, it doesn't seem to be going down at an abnormal level, so I am not really sure what the issue is. I need to find auto repair in Rockland County NY to take my car there, and get it fixed. Hopefully, this will not cost me as much as I think it could.
At some point, if they quote the repairs as being too expensive, then I might just be forced to sell the car, and then to try to buy a new one. Read the rest of this entry »
Custom Mobility Vehicles from MV1 of Orlando
Mobility when you use a wheelchair is critically important for independence. People who are labeled as disabled actually can be extremely enabled with the use of modern technology. However, technology comes in degrees or levels, and it has various costs associated with it. If you can't walk, the first thing you get is a wheelchair. If you stay in a chair, you probably will get a better one later on. Now if you want to get back to normal living, you need a vehicle. This is where MV1 of Orlando comes in.
It is all about being able to move through your environment unimpeded. If your legs work, you get up and walk. If they do not work to well, you probably will use a cane. If they do not work at all, you use a wheelchair. Now you still need to get out into the community. There is work, school, doctors, grocery shopping and plain old entertainment and fun. Read the rest of this entry »
I Wanted to Collect Trains and Accessories
I have always been a collector of different things. It doesn't matter if it is books, tools, or something totally off the wall, I just like to collect whatever interests me at the moment. Lately, I have been interested in anything and everything to do with trains. We recently moved, and there are train tracks just a few hundred yards from my house. Most people would be annoyed by this, but I was fascinated. That fascination is what led me to http://www.trainhornsunlimited.com. My neighbors would often complain about the loud horns, but again, they intrigued me.
I am all about safety, and that is what the horn is about too. Read the rest of this entry »
Found a Little Project Car
Of course it is not much to look at now, but I am going to play around with it and try to get this old Super Beetle running and maybe think about chopping the top off it. The guy who had is a friend of a friend (or more like the friend of an acquaintance to be plain) and they said he wanted to get rid of it and was going to call cash for cars in san diego to just haul it off and give them what it was worth in scrap metal. Of course a VW bug is not worth a lot when it comes to scrap metal, there is not a lot to it. However I was looking for a new project car.
A Lyft to the Airport
Last week I needed to get to the airport in a hurry, but I was a little short on cash. I wasn't going to have more money in my account until the next day, so I couldn't afford to take an expensive taxi. None of my friends were available to give me a ride to the airport, and I couldn't take public transportation, because I would have made it to the airport too late and missed my flight. Instead I contacted the lyft service and was able to make it in time to catch my flight.
I learned about Lyft from a website that mentioned various ways to get around the city without spending a lot of money. I was able to get a ride for a fraction of the cost that I would have had to pay for a taxi. Since it was my first time using the service, I was able to get a discount on my ride. I even made to the airport with some time to spare. I started playing some games on my tablet while I was waiting for the plane to take off. I flew for 15 hours to South Korea to see one of my friends get married. It was a traditional Korean wedding ceremony complete with traditional attire.
Although I came to South Korea for a wedding, I had a lot of fun exploring the country. There was a lot of different foods that I had never tried before, and they were all delicious. There were many historic sites to see, as well as modern places to check out as well. I even got to go to Jeju Island, which was amazing. It was like a modern day paradise. It's a good thing I was able to get a Lyft to the airport so I could make it to South Korea.
Picture Did Not Do It Justice
Around Christmas time and the holidays it is not unusual for a lot of women to get the diamond ring for engagement as there are a lot of men that want to make it special around that time of year. I knew that it was going to be really great to offer wedding cars in cheshire at the upcoming bridal show that was going to be the biggest one in the county. The bridal shows had vendors come in for a few hundred dollars and they were allowing us to showcase what we had to offer as far as services that people could use on their wedding day. I knew that it was going to be fun but I had no idea that it was going to go down as it did.
The Sun is a Driver's Bane
Driving can be a dangerous responsibility if you're not prepared for the road. While other driver's are often the source of many wrecks, there are other hazards on the road that one must be prepared to face. One of the most dangerous being: the Sun! I'm sure for anyone who is familiar with driving during Winter can agree that the sun is absolutely awful this time of the year, blinding even with sunglasses on. When I came across the easy view hd review, I thought it was going to be to good to be true but I decided to give it a try anyways. Anything would be better than having to deal with that early morning and afternoon Winter sun; even my sunglasses didn't work against those painful eye scorching rays. After a couple of weeks of use, I can safely say that it has dramatically improved the quality of my driving experience.
Got Myself a Weekend Job
My old mate Bert called me up the other day and asked if I was still practicing. Of course I knew he had a job and I sort of fudged the answer. Of course I have been keeping in practice, but not really playing a lot. This was a good paying job though and easy work at the wedding for this rich lady. The bass player had apparently gotten weekends in jail over a bunch of stupid stuff. The money was great, these people were throwing money around. They had a fleet of old antique wedding cars in manchester, a bunch of different types of really old cars that I had never seen before. The wedding was at this old mansion and they were not renting the place either, the lady owned it and we had to come out and rehearse for her.
I made a big hit, because apparently she recognized me from back in the day. Of course she did not know my name and did not remember the name of band, but she knew that she had seen me at some club.
Best Cheap Car Service Rentals
My family is going to be flying into an airport pretty soon, for a sort of family vacation that we are going to be taking. I will need to get someone to pick us up from the airport, and to take us to our hotel, which is about 20 minutes away from the airport. We were supposed to have a ride waiting for us, but things have came up, and kind of altered our plans. I am looking at limos4less car service right now, and i am trying to find the cheapest airport car service rentals around, as I do not want to spend too much extra money on this.
The hotel we are going to be staying in for the night was not part of the initial plan, but the person who was supposed to initially pick us up from the airport, after our plane arrived, will not be able to arrive until the next day. As such, we have to spend a lot of extra money, that we are not planning on spending, just to get a hotel room for the night. On top of that, we will need to pay for a ride from the airport, and I am not very happy about that fact either. Things could have been worse though, so I am just going to try to make the best of the situation.
I need to finish making the changes to our plans by the end of the day today, because our flight leaves tomorrow, and I doubt I will want to deal with this during my time in the airport, as airports tend to be pretty noisy and hectic. I just hope that nothing else changes in the way of our plans, because enough has already gone wrong. I am going to try to be optimistic though.
A Birthday Party with a Limo
When I was thirteen my mother gave me one of the best birthday parties a kid could ever have. At thirteen it might have been a little much but even now, nearing thirty years old, I have friends from those days who still bring it up once in a while! It was such a memorable event that it has stuck with them through all these years which, I think, is what really makes that day special. My mother had found a toronto limo rental to pick up all the kids; many of my friends came from lower income families and even though we were not the most wealthy family around the area, we still were much better off than many of them. I think the limo is what really made the night for them – it was a taste of something luxurious. Something that was 'classy' and something they may not ever experience again in their lives. I haven't even been in one since then!
The night was amazing. We had our own DJ who played all kinds of music for us, it was like going to the school dance all over again. Nearly a hundred kids from my school ended up showing up – of course, a lot of them were not my personal friends but my mom felt that it would have been rude to not invite everyone that we could fit into the place. Most of them lived in my neighborhood so that made it easy. The limo ride back and forth was pretty great; I was really impressed by how many kids they could actually fit into one limousine. We had about twenty of us with plenty of room to spare – I think the lino rides were more fun than the DJ, since none of us really knew how to enjoy what a DJ could offer at that age!
Fulfilling the Dreams of Your Heart
Australia is one of those places that American's consider to be an exotic cousin to themselves. As a people, a society and a culture, we seem to share some close qualities with one another in terms of how we look at the world and what we desire from our personal lives. With so much vacation time stacked up, I decided that I would love to see what Australia had to offer me and signed up for a trip to Perth, Australia. I had heard about the airport transfers in perth which was unlike any other type of airport transfer you might be accustomed to. This airport transfer would take you on a beautiful route along Perth's gorgeous beaches and rocky trails that draw hikers from all over the area. I was quite taken back by the spectacular beauty of Perth, Australia – America has some beautiful locales itself but we truly cannot hold a candle to the beaches that Australia has.
I spent much of my time on those beaches during my stay.
We Rented a Party Bus
When my brother told me he won a contest that included 20 tickets to our favorite team's sporting event, I got pretty hyped up. He told me that he was going to take everyone in the family as well as a few close family friends. Rather than all of us drive to the stadium ourselves, we decided to look into the different options that a toronto limos company had available. We knew that we would probably have to look into getting two vehicles since there are so many of us, so we were pleasantly surprised to discover that they have a party bus that would hold all of us.
When I first heard the term party bus, I wasn't sure what to think. I thought of the typical bus seats where only two to three people can sit on each one.
Friends and I Had a Night out
My friends and I were talking about having a night out because we deserved it. There were not a lot of people that wanted to talk to me about the way that I was booking the toronto limo for us. We were deciding to get together for our twenty year high school anniversary instead of going to the reunion which not many people showed an interest in. I was not going to see my friends that I deal with every day, I wanted to see people that I have not seen since the day that we graduated from high school.
It's a Party for Now!
I did not know what to do as a maid of honor for my cousin's wedding. I did not know what my responsibilities were and when my mom and her sisters told me that I was supposed to plan a big night out on the town for her, I said that I was looking forward to it. There were a lot of people that were telling me that I was going to have to get a party bus in toronto as they were a lot of fun and it could fit a lot of people. I knew that I was going to have to invite at least twenty girls to make the night complete for my cousin so I had to make sure that we had a vehicle that was large enough. I also did not want to have to worry about whether or not we were allowed to drink in the vehicle that we were renting so I had to make sure it was allowed.
The whole idea behind a party bus or vehicle is to show that we could actually drink and it would be legal. The driver was used to dealing with this sort of thing so I thought that if we got a little too rowdy that it would be okay with the driver as they would be used to our type of crowd. Plus, it was no secret that we wanted to go from bar to bar so that we could have a great time in different places. I did not want to go to one place for the night as I thought it would be more fun for my cousin to do a bar crawl or something similar to that. It was going to be a great time that we had together on that night.
Making Your Life Easier with Freight Shipping in Vancouver
City Transfer provides freight shipping in vancouver and British Columbia. Exploring City Transfer's website the first things that popped out to me were how many services they provide. One stop shop might be overused but that's all I could really think. A large fleet of specialized equipment to meet every need I could possibly think of and then some more. Next thing I started to explore was City Transfer's people and their story. Every company seems to want to claim being a family business but what do you see that makes you really believe that? I generally get the opinion from other companies that they are just using that family business verbiage for marketing more than anything. Seeing it backed up like City Transfer does is refreshing.
I appreciate putting a face and name to the services I receive. Seeing the faces on the City Transfer site really struck a chord with me. I might be sentimental but reading about a family history such as that of the Long family that has been operating City Transfer since 1947, that instills a sort of confidence for them to me that others would have a hard time competing with. Smiling facing that are genuine, not stock photos. That's just great. Looking at pictures from their original fleet of vehicles is something really special. Not another new company that might not be around tomorrow. This one obviously has worked out the kinks and isn't going anywhere. Read the rest of this entry »


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Microsoft has long profited from proprietary formats, occasionally at its competitors' expense. However, with open standards coming into vogue, Microsoft adopted an "if you can't beat them, join them" approach, creating its own
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However, its new format was not warmly received. Microsoft hoped its Office Open XML (OOXML) format would become the office file format of choice for the industry. The OpenDoc Society, a long term opponent of Microsoft, did not believe in Microsoft's sudden change of heart. It sought to
outcompete OOXML, with its existing format, Open Document Format (ODF)
The ODF format is already ratified as a standard by the International Organization for Standardization (ISO), solidifying its place in the academic and business communities as a viable option. When Microsoft sought ISO ratification, the OpenDoc Society lobbied against it. It argued that having multiple open document standards defeats the purpose of having standards and that the standard would allow Microsoft to tighten its grip on computer systems.
In the end the OpenDoc Society's campaign was an exercise in futility as Microsoft's OOXML has
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, HTML and ODF among the ranks of document formats. I think it makes it easier for governments to offer users choice. The control over the specification now moves into the hands of the global community. This is going to be one of the most, if not the most important document format around the world for years to come."
James Love, director of Knowledge Economy International, an organization campaigning for more open access to knowledge critical of OOXML, stated, "We are disappointed. Microsoft's control over document formats has destroyed competition on the desktop, and the fight over OOXML is really a fight over the future of competition and innovation."
Microsoft lost an initial first vote, putting the format's future in jeopardy. The format was allowed a second balloting, though, and this time it passed. Of those voting, 86 percent of voting national bodies and 75 percent of the voting members -- known as P-members -- moved to approve the format. A two-thirds approval among P-members was sufficient to ratify the format. Voting for Microsoft's OOXML were the United States, Britain, Germany and Japan. Voting against it were China, India and Russia.
The committee had a tough job just reaching the vote, having to deal with the 6,000 pages of code that define OOXML and with over 1,000 points of order, topics to be discussed before the vote. Critics of OOXML point out that ODF is only 860 pages of code, making it difficult to guarantee true interoperability between the formats. Microsoft continues to insist that
OOXML will be fully interoperable with ODF
Michiel Leenaars, OpenDoc Society boardmember and ISO voting member, stated that the standard should not have been ratified and the ratification process was too hasty. He states, "It was mission impossible. The process wasn't meant for this type of thing."
Nonetheless, Microsoft has secured ratification and fulfilled its critics worse fears by moving one step closer to domination of the next generation industry standard for office documents.
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GENEALOGY-DNA-L ArchivesArchiver > GENEALOGY-DNA > 2012-02 > 1329363999
From: "Lawrence Mayka" <>
Subject: Re: [DNA] Out of Africa
Date: Wed, 15 Feb 2012 21:46:43 -0600
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1) I'm glad we both agree that modern DNA test results alone cannot determine with certainty where our Y-Adam lived. Other evidence must be taken into account as well.
2) Calculations using the spreadsheet's full set of 55 markers (it already skips some particularly problematic ones) will indeed underestimate long intervals to some degree. Your own explanation was quite garbled, but the better explanation is that each STR apparently has a natural lower and upper length limit--or at least some centering tendency--and hence over a long period of time is restrained from performing a true random walk (as most stepwise numerical models assume). The net effect is to artificially reduce the mutation count difference between compared haplotypes; and this effect is more pronounced on a faster marker, which is likely to hit a natural limit sooner. The tradeoff is that the confidence interval increases (i.e., the statistical accuracy of our result decreases).
With the full set of 55 markers, the interclade TMRCA between A1a and A3a was 75,000 +- 16,000 years.
I dropped an additional 7 markers whose published mutation rates exceed 0.005/generation. For the same A1a/A3a TMRCA, the remaining 48 markers calculate 88,000 +- 20,000 years.
I then dropped an additional 10 markers whose published mutation rates exceed 0.0025/generation. The remaining 38 markers calculate a TMRCA of 115,000 +- 29,000 years.
Next, I dropped an additional 5 markers whose published mutation rates exceed 0.002/generation. The remaining 33 markers calculate a TMRCA of 130,000 +- 35,000 years.
Finally, I dropped 7 more markers with published mutation rates exceeding 0.001/generation. The remaining 26 markers calculate a TMRCA of 160,000 +- 49,000 years.
Keep in mind that the confidence intervals (plus-or-minus values) assume that the mutation rates themselves are perfectly known. In actuality, we can state as a general rule that the lower the mutation rate, the more uncertain it is--simply because the measured rate of an event so rarely observed has itself a large confidence interval.
There is another inaccuracy which becomes more prominent at lower mutation rates: the assumption that all mutations are single-step. Any multistep mutation artificially inflates the calculated TMRCA, and this effect is more pronounced on markers with lower mutation rates.
The bottom line, frankly, is that STRs do not make a very good clock for such long periods. We need to look toward the use of SNPs for long-period clocking.
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> A1. It seems that you now agree that we do not know that the common ancestor of
> Europeans lived in Africa. If so, this is correct.
> Frankly, I expected your comment on your grossly incorrect "calculations" using 67
> marker haplotypes (or whatever available) and obtaining 70,000 ybp. Do you
> understand now that it was wrong? You can simply say "yes, now I understand", or
> "no, I do not understand".
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You've got to love Gregory Polanco, a/k/a Baseball Jesus.
The Pirates offered Polanco $25 million for seven years, plus three club options that would have bought out Polanco's first three years of free agency. The total value of the deal, had all three options been picked up, would have been $50-60m.
Polanco said no. Good move.
The (probably) unspoken carrot being dangled in front of Polanco was immediate promotion to the Pirates. But club options make Polanco accept all long-term risk.
Right now, the Pirates need Polanco a lot more than Polanco needs to be in the major leagues. The Pirates' right fielders are hitting .226 with a .605 OPS. Polanco is hitting .397 in AAA. His OPS is 1.070.
Polanco didn't let himself get suckered. And Polanco will always remember when the Pirates tried to con him by teasing him with a job he should have had coming out of spring training.
The Pirates not only showed that winning is a secondary concern via their negotiations with Polanco, they risked alienating a future star.


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Three or four chords and a little melody (for the background, I guess). Another one with a tweaked (pitch-tuned etc.) cello. Will sometime use this myself, too.
I use it for my game! BEAFTFULLL!
Very nice sounding cellos. Really sets a mood. I used it in a hip-hop track here: https://soundcloud.com/alpha-particle/alpha-particle-what-i-need.
great! thanks a lot
Hey, I used this in a trip hop recording. Middle of the song.
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MACHADO, Juliana Salles. Dos artefatos às aldeias: os vestígios arqueológicos no entendimento das formas de organização social da Amazônia. Rev. Antropol. [online]. 2006, vol.49, n.2, pp.755-786. ISSN 0034-7701. http://dx.doi.org/10.1590/S0034-77012006000200009.
The comprehension of different forms of social organization of the past was always the main goal of archaeological researches, however inferences on this respect were never consensually made. In the present paper, we discuss how archaeological remains were used for the understanding of social organization forms in the Amazon along time, pointing out the different concepts related to social differentiation forms, mainly approaches such as stratification and hierarchy.
Keywords : amazonian archaeology; social differentiation forms in pre-colonial context.


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Stewart returns home to face his past and make up for his mistakes bu the soon discovers that everyone wants something from him. Everyone, that is, except the one man he most wants to make contact with: his father.
Note: This is a 30 page short story following what happens to Stewart after (W)hole ends. There is a gap between the end of the novel and the start of this story, which is covered in the sequel to (W)hole, Breath(e).  If you've read (W)hole, you may want to wait until you read Breath(e) before reading this one!


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Gasket Install for BGE
The steps provided below were compliments of Ron Pratt (a.k.a. RRP), and are posted with his
permission. With his steps and these pictures, installation of the Rutland
Gasket on your ceramic cooker should be a snap. There *ARE* some possible
health related issues when considering using a Rutland / Fiberglass gasket
around food as the fibers can get on the food. Use your own judgment and I
accept *no* responsibility if you choose to use these instructions, etc.
(Note that all the pictures below are thumbnails. Just click them for a larger version)
The Rutland gasket kit you want is the 5/8" flat 84" one and includes the adhesive needed. You can get these at Menards for about $6.00. You may be able to find the gasket in bulk in fireplace shops. You want the 5/8 flat, *not* the rope and the 84" is ideal length as I'll explain later. If buying it in bulk then make sure you buy the grayish-black gasket versus the white if at all possible. Also, if buying separately, be sure to get the Stove Gasket Cement and *not* Black Furnace Cement.
Here is a picture of all of the parts you will need to install your gasket.
First you need to clean off the old gasket and that can be a real task. I first used a scraper to get the big stuff, then used a wire brush attached to a 1/4" electric drill. They also make a 3M brand paint remover that will fit the drill. The remover is real coarse looking, but does a wonderful job without damaging the ceramic edge.
To make the edges perfect pick up a pumice stone in the cleaning supply section of the store too and that will even get the minute parts off the edge. Perhaps this is personal, but I'd rather use the pumice stone or wire brush and elbow grease than to ever use acetone, MEK or any other chemical on that porous edge.
Note that the cleaning WILL make a mess. Protective glasses may be a good idea. Since you'll be building a fire in a little while to cure the glue go ahead and put some lump in and then place old towels, gunny sacks or whatever on top your grate to keep the dirt, dust and crude from falling in to your lump and thus creating a horrible smelling fire later.
Here is the completely cleaned base.
Here is the completely cleaned lid.
NOTE: I did NOT put the Rutland on the lid/top - just the bottom portion of the cooker is sufficient, as the thickness of this Gasket is enough to seal the gap.
Take your gasket and fold it in half and mark the center with a piece of masking tape and then do that again and mark those points as well so your gasket is now marked in quarter lengths. This will make sense in a minute.
Mark the four "corners" of your egg with masking tape. This way as you move the gasket around you can compare the marks on the gasket to see if you are using the correct amount (more detail below).
The gasket is fiberglass and can be a bear to trim neatly but if you'll take your time with a sharp knife or razor it can be done. Be sure to not waste any gasket at this point. Even though the circumference of a large BGE is only 67 " versus the 84" in the kit when you get done "bunching" it back on to itself you'll only have a couple inches of scrap. The tape marks on the gasket and egg will be helpful as a point of reference of just how compressed your gasket should be in relation to where you are on the edge. Get it? 12:00 to 3:00 is one fourth etc. I even took a board and measured off 67" and then took the time to bunch (or compress) the braid back into itself to compress the 84" back to 67" so as to get a feel for what it should look like. This added work could probably be skipped as long as you know that the proper compression will mean that the 5/8" gasket will broaden enough to cover the entire width of your BGE's edge which is about 1 1/4.
It doesn't take long, but I'd suggest you make sure you won't have interruptions because the glue doesn't have a long open time. Starting at the back center spread some glue neatly on the edge. I buttered the edge for say 4"-5" at a time as I went and used a serrated blade so there would be no pools of adhesive to ooze out, nor too much to impregnate the gasket either as it has to stay flexible. When I say serrated I mean trowel like so there is a uniform amount of glue applied. A fine applicator would be an old sabre saw blade for wood with say 4 teeth per inch.
I actually had a trowel lying around, and used this. It seemed to work just fine.
Now press the compressed gasket into the wet glue and if it covers the whole edge press it into the glue. Using a small flat piece of wood covered with wax paper isn't a bad idea, although I used a J roller designed for wallpaper or pressing Formica onto counter tops. Just keep going like this four or five inches at a time until you get to your quarter way point with masking tape. By then you'll have the hang of what it should be looking like for sake of consistency.
When you get back to the starting point make a clean cut for butted ends and that's that. If you're the adventuresome type you could make your ends fit diagonally (like I did), but that also means more exposed ends. You'll probably have at least one half the glue left.
Now when you're satisfied you have pressed the gasket down well and no glue has oozed out the sides which need to be cleaned up before curing close the dome to provide uniform weight on the edge. Lift it and if nothing stuck to the top you're ready to remove your towels et.al. and start a fire. A low 225 to 250 for a couple hours should do it.
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Every year we add new Japanese summer traditions to the festival. Last year we added the celebration of Tanabata, featuring a special Wishing Tree, Somen Bar and Tanabata activities for children. Those were a big hit and will be part of this year's festival once again! This year we will be adding two more essential elements of Japanese summer festivals: a BEER GARDEN and HANABI (fireworks; weather permitting!
Many community organizations come together to make this a unique event. Weather permitting, the event will take place outside in the parking lot, on the grounds and inside the JCCC inself, or if the case of rain, we will move everything indoors (except for the fireworks, of course ). We look forward to the 12th year of this exciting JCCC and community tradition. We hope to see lots of new and familiar faces. Mark your calendars now! Everyone is welcome and admission is free!


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Target: Bureau of Land Management and U.S. Fish and Wildlife Service
Goal: Protect endangered antelope habitats and ensure populations have access to fresh water and other resources.
Listed as endangered in 1967, the Sonoran Pronghorn has been seriously threatened by habitat fragmentation and degradation due to development, oil extraction, mining, agricultural over-grazing, off-road vehicle use, and drought. The Endangered Species Coalition recently named this North American antelope one of the species most threatened by drought.
The Pronghorn is North America's fastest land mammal, and one of the farthest-migrating as well. The Sonoran subspecies survives in Southern Arizona and Sonora, Mexico, but the group's habitat corridor has been fragmented due to highways and railroads, development, and the national border. With tightening of control and law enforcement at the border, fewer Pronghorn are able to easily access all of their habitat. Other subspecies farther north are facing threats from development, and oil and gas fields.
Studies show that the Pronghorn is not accessing habitat on or near gas fields, although drilling companies have argued that their field designs are environmentally friendly. Now a new 220 square mile gas field is being proposed for Wyoming, which has worried conservationists. This fracturing of habitat and restriction of access to various migration destinations in turn restricts access to watering sites, foraging grounds, and other necessary resources. The recent drought has exacerbated this water insecurity.
Despite the hardships the Sonoran and other Pronghorn populations face, they are not receiving the support they need to maintain their numbers. Once found in Canada, across the Midwest, West and Southwest, and in Mexico, the Pronghorn was a prominent species in North America, but is now limited to a shrinking and fragmented area. Please ask the Bureau of Land Management and U.S. Fish and Wildlife Service to prioritize the health of the Pronghorn and its habitat.
Dear Bureau of Land Management and U.S. Fish and Wildlife Service,
Despite being listed for protection under the Endangered Species Act, the Sonoran Pronghorn, among other Pronghorn subspecies, is facing significant threats. Recently named one of the species most at risk due to drought, the Pronghorn is also encountering further habitat fragmentation and degradation, including obstacles to accessing migratory destinations, watering areas and foraging grounds.
The Sonoran Pronghorn population lives in Southern Arizona and Sonora, Mexico, an arid region particularly damaged by recent droughts. In 2002, about 80 percent of this group died due to drought. Divided by the national border, this group has also dealt with increasing border activities, and habitat has been degraded by off-road vehicle use as well. Northern groups are especially threatened by oil extraction and mining. Oil and gas fields interfere with large areas of habitat, and Pronghorns largely cannot access significant sections of habitat and resources.
A 220 square mile oil field is currently in the process of being approved by the Bureau of Land Management, and it is imperative that the health and survival of the Pronghorn be prioritized. Additionally, the U.S. Fish and Wildlife Service must ensure that habitat corridors are maintained so that populations are not divided or cut off from water, foraging grounds or migratory paths.
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THE whole community will be involved in a village fete and picnic this weekend.
Businesses and residents will meet together in Flackwell Heath on Sunday, July 13, for an 'old fashioned event' jointly organised by the Flackwell Heath Residents Association and Community Association.
Organisers say there will be lots of entertainment throughout the day including sports activities, games and music.
Some refreshments will be available but organisers have asked people come along with their own hamper and a blanket.
FHRA Chairman Janet Smith said: "We have lots of things going on during the day which all involve groups from the community.
"We felt the picnic was fairly popular last year and we just want to do something people will enjoy.
"Hopefully the weather will be good for us on the day and the event will be a success."
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Another 10,000 holidaymakers could be stranded abroad until they can make alternative arrangements to get home.
Golden Sun currently has 10,500 customers on holiday in Greece, Cyprus, Portugal and Croatia.
The 20,000 customers with forward bookings should get money back from the Civil Aviation Authority (CAA), paid out of an industry insurance fund.
About 2,500 travellers were due to fly out this weekend alone.
'Big' failure
The failure of the medium-sized travel company is the biggest "for some time", a CAA spokesman said.
Golden Sun has been struggling to meet its liabilities, the Association of British Travel Agents (Abta) said.
"We started to get complaints from hotels that had not been paid by Golden Sun over a year ago," said Frances Tuke of Abta.
Golden Sun customers should be flown home as normal, using cover provided by the CAA's Air Travel Organisers' Licensing (Atol) system, the organisation said.
Holidaymakers are usually well protected when tour operators go bust, it added.
The CAA said no-one has ever been left stranded in a situation like this.
People who were due to go on holiday can either get a refund from CAA, or they can go to a travel agent and exchange their refund for a different holiday.
This is essentially funded through Golden Sun's £9.8m bond with the Atol system.
The Atol system provides protection for the 28 million people who travel from Britain with tour operators each year.
Alternatively those who booked their holiday using a credit card will usually find their purchase was insured.
Left to pick up the bill
Those currently awaiting news of their return flight may be feeling less optimistic.
One holidaymaker stranded in Greece said that he cannot leave his hotel because the bill has not yet been paid by Golden Sun.
"Some new guests who arrived last night had to pay for the hotel again, so they are using their spending money to get accommodation," Jim White from Tavistock told the BBC.
"There is some concern that we might get stuck here, it's the unknown which is the problem," he said.
However a CAA spokesman said: "We will ensure all holidaymakers are brought home as planned and we are contacting hoteliers, to ensure them that we will pay their costs."
BBC News Online readers tell us their experiences with Golden Sun
My sister and brother -in-law own a small hotel in Perama Corfu (The Perama Hotel)and have been devastated by Golden Sun who owe them in excess of £20k sterling. They have not received any monies for last year holidays let alone this year and have been working in excess of 20 hours per day, 7 days a week through the end of last summer and the whole of this summer. This company have sent them cheques which have not been honoured by the bank and for months have been making false promises. Is there anything I can do to help my family? It's very difficult for them to help themselves from Corfu as any contact details they have seem now to be useless.Terry Hodges, Wakefield, West Yorks
Flew out to Corfu in August, did not receive my baggage when i arrived for a two week holiday. treated really bad by staff, no explanations. am waiting for some kind of compensation and explanations from golden sun for my ruined holiday. What happens now? never received my baggage!
CHRISTINA LITTLE, Bedford, uk
Having spent the whole summer working in Kos as a Courier for Golden Sun it would have been nice to have been paid!! Presumably I shall be low down the list when it comes to settling creditors.Lindsey Chapman, Kardemena, Kos
My wife and i have been travelling with Golden Sun for a number of years to Corfu Greece, and to the same accommodation.
This year when we arrived in June the owner who we know complained to us that she was upset because she had not been paid for 2003and that she was considering closing the apartments, i mentioned this to the rep and she denied that this was the case.
Four days into the holiday we arrived back at our rooms to find that all the guests had been asked to leave by the owner, Golden Sun offered us alternative accommodation which was very poor, i rented alternative accommodation for the rest of the holiday at my own expense, Golden Sun still denied that there was a problem, but rumours were rife in the resort among the Greeks.
When we arrived back in the UK i wrote to Golden Sun asking to be reimbursed the 350 Euros that i had spent on accommodation but they admitted they were completely to blame but refused to pay even after 6 weeks they still would not admit that there was a problem with them not paying the accommodation owners.Randal Carey, Keston, Kent
I was meant to be going to Rhodes with golden sun on wed 29th Sept but got a call from my travel agents on Friday to say we had lost the holiday, luckily we've rebooked another holiday. I'm just glad it happened before we went, it must be terrible for the people stuck out there!Rachael collier, Bridgend, Mid Glamorgan
we travelled to Greece on 26/8/2004 with golden sun, when we arrived at our apartments the owner would not allow us in has he said he had not been paid for the accommodation by golden sun, we were left standing outside the apartments for two and half hours in the blistering sun of lunchtime. the rep was useless and made no contact with us whatsoever, when asked what was happening he just kept saying he didn't know. eventually we were allowed into the apartments but no apologies came from golden sun.steph devey, yelverton devon
We booked with Golden sun for two weeks in Crete this September and had our passports held by the hotel owner because he was owed 120,000 euros by golden sun. He would not give people their passports back and we were all worried about getting home.Lara Darbyshire, Lincoln UK
We had big issues at our hotel complex in Chania, Crete, regarding unpaid monies of £124,000 owed to our hotelier. We were informed during our holiday that we would not be receiving our passports back until Golden Sun paid some of the debt owed to the hotel. Various holidaymakers got involved making phone calls to Golden Sun Head Office and also to the British Consulate etc. The hotelier did receive £20,000 due to help received by the guests. However Golden Sun were most unhelpful to us at the time. This issue caused us immense distress as we were left wondering whether we would be able to get home or not.Miss Michelle Gregory, Lincoln, Lincolnshire


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By Gary Mihoces, USA TODAY
Chris Moneymaker, 2003 winner of the main event at the World Series of Poker, visited a Kentucky hospital last year to meet a fan with major injuries sustained in a car accident. After they played poker for straws, Moneymaker invited him to this year's World Series.
Donald Hobbs, 24, of Pineville, Ky., is not only in Las Vegas. He plans to play in the main event.
Moneymaker says that in addition to paying Hobbs' $10,000 entry fee, he's giving him a hurry-up course in the challenges he'll face in poker's biggest event.
"People are going to come up and feel it's a great story," says Moneymaker. "But I told him that once the table starts, they're going to punish you, and you have to be ready to go to war."
Hobbs, out of the hospital but still using a wheelchair at times, says, "I'm nervous."
The main event, which began Thursday, draws thousands of entrants. It opens with four days of starting flights running through Sunday at the Rio Hotel & Casino.
Moneymaker will start Saturday. Hobbs will start Sunday.
"He was just telling me the basic stuff, like how people will react when they've got something and stuff like that," says Hobbs.
Moneymaker also has told him it's "never wrong to fold" when you have doubts. "But more than anything else, have fun," says Moneymaker.
In February of 2007, Hobbs sustained burns and fractures to his pelvis, collar bone and legs when the car in which he was a passenger ran off a bluff in Kentucky. He also suffers from hemophilia, a disorder which prevents blood from clotting.
While Hobbs was at the Cardinal Hill Specialty Hospital in Fort Thomas, Ky., occupational therapist Michelle Rose learned that he liked poker and was a big fan of Moneymaker.
A former Tennessee accountant, Moneymaker learned to play online. He won his $10,000 seat in the 2003 World Series in a PokerStars online tournament. His victory was aired repeatedly by ESPN. "I just watched it all the time. … I got a kick out of it," says Hobbs.
As his therapist, Rose used poker to engage Hobbs. "As we played poker, he was able to increase his ability to sit upright," she says. "It was a great vehicle to increase that therapeutic relationship."
Rose had a friend who worked at the World Series. What began as an effort to get Hobbs an autographed photo of Moneymaker turned into something more.
"I said, 'You know it's on my way home from Vegas. … I'll just stop in and see him,' " says Moneymaker.
During the visit last July, Moneymaker made him the offer to bring him out this year to the World Series to watch. That evolved into buying him a seat at the main event.
Hobbs faces long odds to make it through his first day.
"The odds of surviving this type of accident for a healthy person were slim, but he was able to survive it, and he's a severe hemophiliac," says Rose. "It was just a miracle he had made it. When you talk about beating the odds, he's beaten the odds over and over."
Moneymaker has an endorsement deal with PokerStars. While he says he personally has paid Hobbs' $10,000 entry fee, he says PokerStars has "helped with the arrangements and stuff, getting him out here."
PokerStars also has 15 players in the main event who make up "Team Moneymaker." It says it will donate $2,000 to the National Hemophilia Foundation for each of player and make matching donations for any money they win up to $100,000.
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Asiana's San Francisco Crash Seen Pushing Airline to Loss
Asiana Airlines Inc. (020560) may take a charge of at least 20 billion won ($18 million) from the crash of its plane in San Francisco, and that will push South Korea's second-largest carrier to a loss this year, five analysts said.
Insurance payment won't cover the loss of aircraft, litigation and other charges and an erosion in passenger numbers after the crash of the Boeing Co. 777 aircraft, said Cho Byoung Hee of Kiwoom Securities Co. in Seoul. The loss estimate contrasts with a projected 20.8 billion won profit, according to the average of 18 analyst forecasts compiled by Bloomberg.
"A loss is inevitable this year because of the crash," saidKang Seong Jin, an analyst at Tongyang Securities Inc. in Seoul. "They lost a plane, and then there are compensation costs, which will be determined later."
The Seoul-based company will also have to brace for lower traffic this year as travelers switch to other airlines on safety concerns, the analysts said. A loss for Asiana contrasts with the optimism expressed by the International Air Transport Association last month, when it predicted global airline earnings will be 20 percent higher this year than forecast earlier, led by carriers in Asia.
Asiana's reputation as one of the top carriers for service -- honed over a quarter century since its formation in the run-up to the 1988 Seoul Olympics -- is in jeopardy after the airline's second crash since 2011. Earnings will be crimped by rising litigation and insurance costs, and Asiana's training regimen will probably come under scrutiny as U.S. investigators probe why pilots didn't react to a critical loss of airspeed until moments before the plane crashed into a seawall.
"We are concentrating all our efforts on the ongoing investigation," said Lee Hyo Min, an Asiana spokeswoman. "It's premature to make any estimates on anything at the moment."
All but two of the 307 people on board survived the July 6 crash-landing, with at least 26 still hospitalized. It was the first fatal accident in the U.S. of a large jet since 2001.
Capacity at Asiana, with 69 passenger planes in a total fleet of 80, may drop by 1.9 percent this year, said Park Eun Kyung, an analyst at Samsung Securities Co. in Seoul. The loss in seats and traffic may erode sales by 70 billion won and that could have a bigger impact on operating profit, she said.
Asiana is expected to recognize the loss from the aircraft in the third quarter, which will be bigger than her pre-tax profit forecast of 15 billion won.
Insurance Premium
"Insurance premiums are likely to increase, especially with the crash taking place soon after the cargo plane crash in 2011," Park said.
Asiana's previous disaster was the crash of its cargo freighter in the sea south of Jeju island in July 2011. It caused 200.4 billion won of damage, the airline said then. The Boeing 747-400 aircraft was carrying two crew members and 58 tons of cargo to Shanghai from Incheon International Airport.
Park plans to adjust her forecast for earnings after more details on the crash emerge. She estimated in her July 7 note that the airline may post a profit of 11 billion won this year and sales of 6.1 trillion won.
Asiana had a profit of 62.5 billion won in 2012, compared with a loss of 29.9 billion won a year earlier. Sales climbed 5 percent to 5.89 trillion won.
Asiana and its bigger domestic competitor Korean Air Lines Co. are already suffering because of the weakening yen this year, which has reduced the number of Japanese passengers on their flights. Things aren't looking any better for the second quarter, according to Park Sung Bong, an analyst at Hana Daetoo Securities Co.
Depreciating Yen
"Drop in the number of inbound Japanese passengers may cut yields on Japan routes by 20 percent," Park said. "Asiana's second-quarter earnings may be below market consensus."
Asiana's Japanese routes bear the highest yields, followed by China and the Commonwealth of Independent States, according to its first-quarter earnings report. Passenger yields, the average price a traveler pays to fly per kilometer, on its Japan routes dropped 16 percent from a year earlier to 17.4 cents in the first quarter, the report said.
The airline had the world's eighth-oldest fleet, with an average age of 12.6 years, according to a Bloomberg Industries report in January. Air Arabia had the youngest at 3 years.
Carriers globally are likely to generate net income of $12.7 billion in 2013, IATA said last month. That compares with forecast of $10.6 billion issued on March 20, and represents a 67 percent gain on last year's profit of $7.6 billion.
Airlines in all regions should post a profit this year, led by carriers in Asia with projected earnings of $4.6 billion and North America with $4.4 billion, IATA said.
"It was already a very difficult market for Asiana because of the weak demand on its Japan services," Kang at Tongyang said. "The crash just made it more difficult."
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Jim Coleman Recipes
Apple and Rice Stuffed Turkey Breast
For this recipe you will need:
Trim fat from turkey; remove tendons. Place turkey breast, bone-side up on plastic wrap. Slice horizontally through the thickest part of each side almost to, but not through the outer edge. Flip cut piece over to enlarge breast. Place plastic wrap over turkey; flatten to an even thickness using a meat mallet. (Place loose piece of turkey over thinner portions.) Set aside.
Add the oil to a nonstick skillet and place over medium-high heat until hot. Add onions and celery; saute until tender. Remove from heat. Add rice, 1 tablespoon apricot spread, parsley and teaspoon each of cinnamon, cloves, apples and allspice; stir. Spread rice mixture down center of turkey breast to within 2" of sides; roll up, jellyroll fashion, starting with short side, to an 11 X 16" roll. Secure at 2" intervals with heavy string. Place turkey roll, seam-side down on a rack coated with cooking spray; place rack in a shallow roasting pan; set aside. Combine remaining 1/3 cup apricot spread, 1/8 teaspoon cinnamon, 1/8 teaspoon cloves, 1/8 teaspoon allspice and orange juice; stir well and set aside. Brush turkey with apricot mixture.
Bake uncovered at 325 F for 2 hours, basting often with apricot mixture.
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Working closely with campus graduate programs, the Graduate School's Office of Graduate Diversity and Inclusion (OGDI) recruits the best and brightest students to the vibrant campus graduate community, including those from historically underserved and underrepresented populations. OGDI also develops programs and initiatives to support, retain, and graduate these talented students, and fosters a strong sense of community by providing opportunities for intellectual and social interaction. OGDI not only supports graduate students in their academic, professional, and personal endeavors, but also educates the campus community about the importance of diversity in the laboratory, the classroom, the workplace, and the community at large.
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Donations for a family who lost their home and belongings in an early morning house fire in Old Hickory are being accepted at Benson Orthodontics and the Lebanon and Mt. Juliet offices.
The fire broke out around 2 a.m., Monday, at the home in the 5600 block of Scenic Ridge Drive. Jeff and Tina Crosslin, the parents, escaped, and their son, Cade, 17, jumped from a second story window. Another teen, identified as Mason Dimitroff, 17, also escaped the blaze.
According to reports, the family was awakened by a loud explosion, possibly from a gas line to a grill. There was concern about some ammunition inside the home being detonated by the fire, also.
Friends of the family said the two teens, who were transported to the Monroe Carell Jr. Childrens Hospital at Vanderbilt, were in critical condition and expected to be in the hospital for about a week being treated for smoke inhalation.
Officials at Benson Orthodontics, where Mrs. Crosslin works, said they will accept checks/prepaid card donations for the family.
The offices locations are at 11462 Lebanon Road, Mt. Juliet, phone number 541-1444; or at 723 West Main Street, Lebanon, phone number
A single-count indictment returned by a federal grand jury in Nashville this past week was unsealed Monday, charging 24 defendants with conspiring to possess with intent to distribute and distributing diverted prescription pills,announced David Rivera, acting U.S. attorney for the Middle District of Tennessee.
The diverted pills contained the controlled substances Oxycodone, Hydromorphone, Oxymorphone and Buprenorphine.The respective brand names for the pills containing those controlled substances are Roxicodone, Dilaudid, Opana, Oxymorphone and Subutex.
Prescription drug abuse and diversion is an epidemic facing our nation, Rivera said.The vast number of people addicted to painkillers and the increasing number of overdose deaths attributable to these illegally obtained drugs is unacceptable.We must continue to combine the resources of our law enforcement agencies and engage our communities to reduce the number of illicit pills available to the public.
The diversion and abuse of prescription drugs in Tennessee is presently the number one drug threat in the state, said Michael Stanfill, assistant special agent-in-charge of DEA in Tennessee.This investigation is an excellent example of federal, state, and local agencies combining resources to attack this issue.
Local, state and federal law enforcement officers, Monday morning, began arresting those named in the indictment and were executing nine federal search warrants in connection with the investigation.
Those charged in the indictment are:
1.Kenneth Edward Stafford, 26, of Lebanon
2.Kacee Anne Breeden, 28, of Lebanon
3.Rashad Woodside a/k/a Goma, 37, of North Miami, Fla.
4.Nicholas Adam Young a/k/a Nick, 26, of Lebanon
5.Michael Jordan a/k/a Billy Bob, 26, of Watertown
6.Ronnie Dustin E. McCulloch a/k/a Dustin, 24, of Watertown
7.Dereck Scott Weatherspoon, 27, of Mt. Juliet
8.William Chad Nixon a/k/a Chad, 26, of Lebanon
9.Michael Chad Corley a/k/a Chad, 31, of Lebanon
10.Phillip Wayne Allen, 36, of Lebanon
11.Fletcher Denning, 22, of Mt. Juliet
12.Amanda Meyers, 28, of Lebanon
13.Tammy Bristow, 33, of Castalian Springs
14.Anthony Lee Collins, Jr. a/k/a TJ 27, of Lebanon
15.Marcy Jo Pickler, 32, of Lebanon
16.Kyle Oakley, 27, of Mt. Juliet
17.Amy Nichole Murphy, 34, of Lebanon
18.Caitlin Michelle Gibson a/k/a Katie Bug, 21, of Lebanon
19.James Lester Massey, 43, of Castalian Springs
20.Thomas Roberts, 41, of Lebanon
21.Robert Anthony Taylor a/k/a Tony, 27, of Lebanon
22.Sammie Lanette Crutcher, 28, of Lebanon
23.Peter Lewis, 31, of Lebanon
24.Ryan Moore a/k/a Rhino, 23, of Lebanon
The charged offense carries a maximum penalty of 20 years in prison and a fine of up to $1 million.
The case was investigated by the Drug Enforcement Administration, the Lebanon Police Department, the Internal Revenue Service-Criminal Investigation, the Tennessee Bureau of Investigation, the Mt. Juliet Police Department, the Wilson County Sheriffs Department, the Franklin Police Department, and the Clarksville Police Department, the Crossville Police Department, with assistance by the U.S. Marshals Service.The United States is represented by Assistant U.S. Attorney Brent A. Hannafan.
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'I strive to make movies that allow the audience to participate in the events onscreen,' so Jackson explains why 'An Unexpected Journey' should get an immersive audio treatment.
Peter Jackson will definitely present "The Hobbit: An Unexpected Journey" with an all-out high-definition technology, not only for its visuals but also its audio. After confirming the 48 frames per second technology that will be used in the 3D version of the film, Jackson pushes the envelope even further by announcing that the movie will also use the latest sound format, Atmos.
"I strive to make movies that allow the audience to participate in the events onscreen, rather than just watch them unfold," the New Zealand-born director said of his decision. "Wonderful technology is now available to support this goal: high frame rates, 3D, and now the stunning Dolby Atmos system."
Jackson, who first heard the Atmos sound test last spring, went on explaining, "Dolby has always been at the cutting edge of providing cinema audiences with the ultimate sound experience, and they have now surpassed themselves. Dolby Atmos provides the completely immersive sound experience that filmmakers like myself have long dreamed about."
The sound mixing will be done in a new Atmos mixing environment at Jackson's Park Road Post Production in New Zealand. According to The Hollywood Reporter, after "The Hobbit" is finished, Park Road Post aims to bring Atmos capabilities to a second mixing stage, as well as to the company's screening room.
The Atmos-supported version of "The Hobbit" will be screened in only 80 to 100 cinemas across the globe. Recent release which used the technology was Liam Neeson's actioner "Taken 2" in just 15 theaters worldwide. Dolby aims to have at least 1,000 Atmos-ready theaters by the end of 2013.
The first "Hobbit" film will be released in the U.S. on December 14, while its follow-up "The Hobbit: The Desolation of Smaug" will open next year on December 13. Its final installment, "The Hobbit: There and Back Again" is set to arrive in cinemas on July 18, 2014. Building the anticipation to the release of the first film, Warner Bros. Pictures debuts the first TV spot for the flick that is jam-packed with adventurous scenes.


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Visions of Nationalism in the Israeli-Palestinian Conflict - What is a Jewish State?
Wednesday, April 3, 2013 - 7:30pm
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What is a Jewish State? - Visions of Nationalism Part 1
Daniel Sokatch, CEO of the New Israel Fund Rabbi Adam Naftalin-Kelman - Rabbi of Berkeley Hillel Professor Yaacov Yadgar - UC Berkeley Political Science, Visiting Israeli Scholar
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Creative Communications in Marketing (MKTG6006)
There has been a steady shift in the focus of creative communication decisions away from traditional advertising agencies to specialist creative services providers. Alternative ways to produce, implement and monitor creative communications have been developed. This unit explores changes that have taken place and focuses on new principles of developing and evaluating creative communications. Topics include: developments in media and modes of delivery; implications of the shift from ownership towards access; the role of the visual in cross cultural marketing; attitudinal monitoring; identifying creative issues and developing creative marketing material; the client relationship; examining areas of contention in creative communications and working with creative strategies.
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1995-96: Magnificat's Fourth Season
With the Cavalieri recording completed, Magnificat planned a new season that would keep our audiences guessing – three wildly varied programs, establishing a pattern that became a point of pride as the ensemble grew over the years. The season culminated with a return to the Berkeley Festival & Exhibition.
The season opened in September with a program of oratorios by Iacomo Carissimi. Magnificat had performed Carissimi's Jephte in the first series concert in 1992 (and will perform again this November) together with music by other Italians, mostly Monteverdi. This time Magnificat devoted an entire evening to this most musically influential figure of mid 17th century. In addition to Jephte, Magnificat also performed the oratorios Job (also on the program this coming November), and Ezechia, and Historia dei Pellegrini di Emmaus, as well as the dramatic cantatas Tolle, sponsa and Sponsa canticorum. Three works by Girolamo Frescobaldi punctuated the vocal works: the Canzone detta la Todeschina and la Bianchina for two violins and continuo and the extraordinary Capriccio Chromatico con Ligature Contrario for harpsichord.
Magnificat's December concerts December concerts featured the Andrea and Giovanni Gabrieli. The program was built around the Third Mass of Christmas Day at the Basilica of San Marco in Venice. The ordinary of the Mass was drawn mostly from the collection of Giovanni's works published posthumously in 1615 but also included Andrea's magnificent 16 part Gloria published in 1597.
The Whole Noyse (and friends) played canzone by Giovanni Gabrieli and Claudio Merulo, a sonata by Cesario Gussago and the famous Sonata pian' e forte by Giovanni. At the Elevation, Steve Escher played Bovicelli's divisions on Angelus ad pastores by Cipriano de Rore. The program also included three of Giovanni's motets: Quem vidistis pastores, O magnum mysterium and Audite principes.
Neither of these programs could have in any way prepared Magnificat's audiences for the next program – a staged production of a fair theatre from turn of the 18th century Paris. The Parodie of Telemaque was a play set to vaudevilles by Alain-René Le Sage produced at the Foire de S. Germain in 1715, a year after the extremely popular production at the Opéra of the Tragedie de Télémaque by Destouches, which Le Sage satarizes mercilessly with bawdy lyrics, overblown rhetoric and sophomoric gags that resulted in a Baroque Saturday Night Live parody.
Although Claude Gilliers, a bass player in the Accademie's opera orchestra, is credited as the composer for the production in 1715, only Le Sage's libretto survives, so a score was constructed by Susan Harvey, drawing from the author's specific suggestions – the ouverture of the original opera, the storm scene from Marais' Alcione – along with other music lifted from the original opera. The bulk of the music in Magnificat's production was taken from the rich repertory of popular song known as "voix de villes" or, more commonly, vaudevilles.
James Middleton joined Magnificat as stage director for these production and also designed costumes, sets and props, while Angene Feves provided choreography fro several scenes. James brought a Loony Tunes sensibility that meshed well with Magnificat's enthusiastic, often anarchic, approach to comedy and the low-brow slapstick humor of Le Sage's parody and a delightful time was had by all.
Magnificat was pleased to be invited to perform at the Berkeley Festival on June 2 1996. For this project, Warren Stewart took Heinrich Schütz's suggestion in the preface to his Musikalische Exequien that the large first part of the work could be used as a paraphrase of the Kyrie and Gloria in a Mass for the Feast of Purification and built a program around the Dresden court chapel liturgy that included all three parts of the Exequien along with other works by Schütz, a Credo by Alessandro Grandi and a motet by Michael Praetorius. Magnificat's largest collaborative project included The Whole Noyse and members of the Piedmont Children's Choir.
For the chorales that form such an essential part of the Lutheran liturgy, Magnificat invited members of many of the choirs that had worked with the Jubilate Orchestra (at the time, somewhat confusingly, also called Magnificat) and a "congregational choir" was formed with members of Baroque Choral Guild, The Bay Area Lutheran Chorale, the California Bach Society, the St. Gregory Nyssen Church Choir, the San Francisco Bach Choir, the Sonoma County Bach Society and The University of California Chamber Chorus. The concert actually began several blocks away from First Congregational Church in Berkeley, as the 80-voice choir sang the macronic chorale Ex legis observatia/Nach dem Gebet in procession – eventually filing into the church and surrounding the Festival audience.
The 1995-96 season was the first season that Magnificat received funding from San Francisco Grants for the Arts, which has been a tremendous support for arts organizations of all kinds in the Bay Area for the past fifty years (our renewed funding for the upcoming season was just announced.) The 95-96 season was also the first in which Miriam Lewis designed programs and brochures, establishing a graphic style (and the Bellevue font) that endured for a decade. Miriam also appeared as a dancer and was in charge of make-up for Telemaque.
Over the course of the season, artistic directors Susan Harvey and Warren Stewart led ensembles that included Carolyn Carvejal, Sand Dalton, Mark Daniel, Hugh Davies, Rob Diggins, John Dornenburg, Elizabeth Engan, Ruth and Steve Escher, Richard Van Hessel, Boyd Jarrell, Doug Kirk, Miriam Lewis, James Middleton, Susan Rode Morris, Herb Myers, Judith Nelson, Gayle and Phil Neumann, Ray Nurse, Robert Osborne, Ernie Rideout, Neal Rogers, Michael Sand, Doug Shambo, Sandy Stadtfeld, Bill Wahman (as Idas in the photograph and, yes, he is holding a commuter coffee mug!), Nathaniel Watson, and Randall Wong.


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Hierarchical fuzzy logic traffic control at a road junction
Heung, T.H., Ho, T.K., & Fung, Y.F. (2003) Hierarchical fuzzy logic traffic control at a road junction. Control and Intelligent Systems, 31(1), pp. 52-59.
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Traffic control at road junctions is one of the major concerns in most metropolitan cities. Controllers of various approaches are available and the required control action is the effective green-time assigned to each traffic stream within a traffic-light cycle. The application of fuzzy logic provides the controller with the capability to handle uncertain natures of the system, such as drivers' behaviour and random arrivals of vehicles. When turning traffic is allowed at the junction, the number of phases in the traffic-light cycle increases. The additional input variables inevitably complicate the controller and hence slow down the decision-making process, which is critical in this real-time control problem. In this paper, a hierarchical fuzzy logic controller is proposed to tackle this traffic control problem at a 2-way road junction with turning traffic. The two levels of fuzzy logic controllers devise the minimum effective green-time and fine-tune it respectively at each phase of a traffic-light cycle. The complexity of the controller at each level is reduced with smaller rule-set. The performance of this hierarchical controller is examined by comparison with a fixed-time controller under various traffic conditions. Substantial delay reduction has been achieved as a result and the performance and limitation of the controller will be discussed.
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