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Apple took a fresh bruising on Thursday after a gloomy forecast accompanying its record quarterly profits prompted pessimism over the tech giant's slowing growth trajectory.
Apple shares tumbled 12.35 percent to close at $450.50, extending their decline from record highs above $700 last year.
"We don't think the Apple growth story is over, but shares will likely languish until confidence is restored," said Sterne Agee analyst Shaw Wu.
Apple on Wednesday announced a profit of $13.1 billion on revenue of $54.5 billion in the fiscal quarter that ended on December 29, with sales of iPhones and iPads setting quarterly highs.
The California-based company said it had sold 47.8 million iPhones and 22.9 million iPad tablet computers in the closing months of 2012.
But despite those figures, investors soured on Apple after it forecast that revenue for the current quarter would range from $41-43 billion and that it would have a gross margin of 37.5 to 39.5 percent.
Apple has been long known for a high margin, the difference between what it charges for products and the cost of making them.
"Apple's profit did go up; it just didn't go up that much," said analyst Rob Enderle of Enderle Group in Silicon Valley.
"They had a really high increase in sales, but their high margin is coming apart at the edges... They are making less per gadget."
BTIG Research's Walter Piecyk said Apple's outlook implies a contraction in earnings per share of as much as 25 percent.
Apple's results "were not terrible, although they were below our estimates," Piecyk said.
"We believe Apple could have sold more than 50 million phones had operators in the United States not tightened their upgrade policies."
But he noted that a bigger worry for Apple is sales outside the United States, "likely a reflection of Apple's phones being too expensive for what is predominantly a non-subsidized, pre-paid market globally."
The analyst said Apple, which has been a pioneer in smartphones and tablets, now needs to consider competition from lower-cost rivals.
"Apple needs a cheaper phone. Period," he said in a note to clients.
Others remained upbeat about Apple's prospects, saying the company is still innovating and remains the standard for the high end of the market.
"We are buyers of Apple on the pullback," said Gene Muster at Piper Jaffray, arguing that "investors will return to the stock once the potential of new products comes into focus over the next three to six months."
But Munster nonetheless scaled back his expectations for Apple shares, saying that profit margins will be squeezed as consumers shift to lower-cost devices.
This situation "highlights the importance of Apple launching a lower priced iPhone," Munster said in a note to clients, adding that he expects Apple to release a television in 2013, which should add around five percent to revenues and "give a product for investors to anticipate."
Michael Walkley, an analyst at Canaccord Genuity, maintained his buy rating but lowered his price target for Apple.
"We believe the soft March quarter guidance was due to Apple ramping supply of the iPhone 5 during the December quarter," he said.
"We maintain our belief Apple has a strong product pipeline that should result in reaccelerating year-over-year earnings growth during the June quarter."
Apple chief executive Tim Cook offered no reason for pessimism during the company's earnings call.
"The most important thing is that our customers love our products," Cook said. "Not just buy them; love them."
Apple's stock has been in a downward spiral since hitting a record above $700 last year, amid concerns that it is losing its edge in innovation and that rivals are catching up or surpassing Apple in key segments.
The iPhone 5 recently made a lackluster debut in China and an analyst reported that Apple had cut orders for smartphone parts.
Apple remains the world's most valuable company by market capitalization but its image has suffered recently, perhaps most notably with the embarrassing release of its glitch-ridden maps program for the new iPhone.
An IDC research firm survey last month showed Google's Android operating system will power more than two-thirds of smartphones sold worldwide in 2012 and will remain the dominant platform for at least the next four years.
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After 30 years in the computer software industry, Michelle and Paul Caffrey relinquished their careers determined to reinvent themselves. The fifty-something couple sacrificed everything they owned to buy a converted 1906 Dutch barge, Imagine, to seek a new livelihood in the boat charter business, "Barge and Breakfast." The memoir is packed with the adventures - and misadventures -of their first year with the barge as they travel from Holland, through Belgium to France. A must-read for boaters, European travelers or would-be travelers, anyone who has reached a crossroads in life, those looking for pre-retirement inspiration, and everyone who has wondered what it would be like to live out a dream.
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Mar 21, 2008"A truly honest account of barging in Europe" I thoroughly enjoyed Michelle's book, particularly as I can relate to it so well, being a fifty something convert to the barge life myself. The honesty and freshness of her style is very appealing and she portrays the thrills, fears, and excitement as well as bliss of travelling on Europe's busy commercial waterways very well. Thanks for a great read Michelle!
Apr 1, 2006"Just Imagine - Better than A Year in Provence or Under the Tuscan Sun" With exceptional skill the author narrates a life transition from the world of enterprise software to being an established entity providing personalized travel experiences centered on a classic barge located in historic and epicurean Burgundy. - - To state that the first half year and first fifth of the book covers learning how to pilot a barge, then purchasing and converting a barge is true, but gross understatement. Through Michelle, the reader experiences the steep one-week learning curve of steering, mooring, navigating, and keeping everyone on the barge safe. There are just hints of future problems with freight barges, hotel barges, irascible lock keepers, smaller pleasure boats and fishermen. The essence of living in Burgundy starts to unfold. - - The couple finds what may be perfect for their requirements; a private owner's living space, two guest cabins each with a private bath and toilet, a... More > home-like main salon, deck space, and classic Dutch clipper lines. Converting from the purchased barge to these essential needs drags agonizingly slow for these two Americans, slowing adapting to the pace of rural Europe. - - The maiden voyage—from the Dutch outfitting yard near the North Sea to the chosen home waters of the Saône River and Burgundy Canal—is in every sense a shakedown cruise. In spite of the leisurely pace and initial friendly guests, a problematic engine, running aground (bad information from a waterways "expert"), near collisions with both an unyielding freight barge and an overlarge hotel barge, and a few charming lockkeepers comparable to the provincial tax-collectors receptionist, the voyage continues the couples stress-filled and learn-now education. - - The reader and author start to appreciate the subtle differences between personal guests in one's home and paying customers. With nuance and detail, we realize towards the end of this memoir much more of the true beauty in the region and lifestyle. This then is a love story involving a new life and a quieter existence; the boat is a bit more than catalyst, but not much. - - Caffrey's honest, transparent, barge-diet lean prose flows similar to the Saône with ripples and eddies to the homeport and a successful transition. - - Inevitably, I must compare this book with Peter Mayle's A Year in Provence (ISBN 0679731148) and Frances Mayes' Under the Tuscan Sun (ISBN 0811808424). Just Imagine: A New Life on an Old Boat now stands as the benchmark. - - Of course, Oprah could transport 70 tons of Imagine and the author to the show in Chicago. The real story is in Burgundy and the author's soul. -- Walter Judson Moore< Less
Feb 18, 2006"Just Imagine" This is a book about realising a dream, very well written by Michelle Caffrey. It is the true story of two middleaged adventurers of a romantic nature who chuck in their life for a wild idea and make it happen. It is not only inspiring but also down to earth and there is no doubt that many readers will be encouraged to follow similar adventures. This a highly enjoyable read without airs and graces. Strongly recommended. Richard Goodwin
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Description: Kabbalah, dance and how Judaism became a religion. The Week of Jewish Philosophy has something for everyone. This is a rare chance to spend significant time engaging some exceptional visiting scholars.
Questions on the relationship between philosophy and religion will be pursued in 2 evening public lectures and 2 afternoon seminar studies led by Paul Franks and Leora Batnitzky. On Wednesday, May 21, some Iliff faculty will participate in a roundtable discussion regarding methodological concerns in philosophical and religious thinking. Preceding this roundtable on May 21, the Center for Judaic Studies and the Creative Writing Program at DU will put on a dance program at the Holocaust Memorial Social Action Site.
Date: May 20-22, 2014, 12:30-9:00 p.m.
Tues. May 20 (6:30-8; Sturm Hall 286): German Idealism and Jewish Mysticism (public lecture by Paul Franks)
Wed. May 21 (12-3: Sturm Hall 286): Jewish Philosophy and Historicism in Jewish Studies (3-hour seminar led by Paul Franks)
Wed. May 21(4-5): Memory, Trauma, Life: Evolving Doors Dance Performance at Holocaust Memorial Social Action Site (Project of Creative Writing program and Center for Judaic Studies, in partnership with the Departments of Philosophy, Theater, and Psychology, DU's Center for Community Engagement & Service Learning, and co-sponsored by the Department of Anthropology and Gender and Women's Studies)
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Thurs. May 22 (12-3: Sturm Hall 286): Strauss, Cohen, Maimonides: What is the History of Philosophy? What is Jewish Philosophy? (3-hour seminar/text study led by Dr. Leora Batnitzky)
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Woolworths has continued to close the gap with Coles Myer in food and liquor but its rival's aggressive sales promotions and discounting took the edge off discount department store Big W's performance in the second quarter.
Woolworths yesterday announced like-for-like food and liquor sales grew 3 per cent in the 14 weeks to January 2, compared with growth of 2.8 per cent in the first quarter and 1.5 per cent in the fourth quarter.
Like-for-like food and liquor sales at Coles rose 4.5 per cent in the first quarter.
Woolworths' total sales for the half year, including contributions from petrol and its recently acquired hotel business, rose 9.2 per cent to $16.1 billion and the company confirmed it expected net profit for the full year to rise 10 to 15 per cent.
"With the passing of the anniversary of [Coles Myer's] fuel offer, we continue to see a better than average improvement in comparable store sales in Victoria and of more recent times in NSW," director of supermarkets Michael Luscombe said.
Shares in the supermarket chain rallied 34c to $14.79 in a broadly bullish market, with analysts noting the improvement in the key food and liquor division.
"The rate of change in those comparable store figures is really important," CommSec analyst Craig Woolford said.
"It signals whether the retailer is winning or losing market share ... and it seems Woolworths has created a position where they are ... increasing their momentum and should continue to do so over the remainder of 2005."
Comparable sales at Big W in the quarter rose only 1.2 per cent, compared with a 4.3 per cent rise in the first quarter.
Chief executive Roger Corbett said the division had been hurt by "very, very vigorous" promotion and discounting by the Coles-owned Kmart. "I think in view of what's happened in the marketplace, Big W's performance is pretty strong," he said.
Woolworths' petrol sales kept growing strongly, with second quarter sales up 62 per cent to $889 million. Comparable sales figures were not supplied but the company has opened 76 petrol canopies in the past six months.
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In 1998, a group of women in the Northside Associates Properties joined together to fight the potential mass eviction of over 300 families. In an effort to gain control of the properties, the women formed the Northside Coalition for Fair Housing.
Now, more than a decade later, NCFH has grown into a certified community housing development organization with the capacity to create housing and economic development opportunities for low-wealth individuals and families. The organization also engages in a number of advocacy efforts including their landmark event, the Women's Walk for a Peaceful Community, which was held Sept. 8 in West Park.
|WALK FOR PEACE—250 women venture out into the rain for a two-mile walk. (Photo by J.L. Martello)
"When we first acquired the (Northside Associates Properties), the attitude and the spirit of the neighborhood was so down," said Ronell Guy, executive director of NCFH. "So I try to use these events to give women an opportunity to come out and connect to something that's going on in the community."
This year's theme, "Women of Purpose, Women of Power" is what NCFH was founded on, the idea of empowering women to take control of their lives and affect change. Over the years the annual event has grown to include a resource fair, live entertainment, and networking.
"What I know is in the Civil Rights Movement, it was women, women who stepped up," Guy said. "Nobody can afford to sit in the house anymore. Superman ain't coming."
Now in its fifth year, the Women's Walk for Peace sets the tone for NCFH's advocacy focus over the next year. In line with this year's focus on women's issues such as reproductive health and equal pay, the advocacy groups represented at the event included the ACLU, New Voices Pittsburgh, and the Alliance for Police Accountability.
"We really emphasized that women get engaged and get involved because things are getting serious for women," said Angel Gober, an organizer with NCFH. "I know it's difficult to get engaged when you're dealing with domestic violence in the home of the loss of a loved one due to gun violence."
Despite this year's focus on women's issues, NCFH remains committed to reducing both domestic violence and the Black-on-Black violence plaguing the area's African-American communities. Throughout the day, it seemed like almost every woman had a story to share about a son or relative lost to gun violence.
"We have boys killing other boys. We need to get rid of all of it," said Sharmese Zeigler, a member of the planning committee. "We're trying to start with the youth. We need to change their minds because they don't value life."
More than 750 people were registered to take part in the two-mile walk that ended in West Park. However, because of the rain only 250 people participated.
"It's important to let the community know we care and to save our kids," said Emma Coleman who has been involved in the organization since it was founded. "For a rainy day, we had a great turn out."
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President Obama heads to Mexico Sunday night for a G-20 summit that will be dominated by the continuing economic and financial crises in Europe.
While no decisions will be made with only five members of the 27-member European Union at the summit in Los Cabos, Mexico, administration officials said Obama will continue to press European leaders to emphasize growth before austerity.
"Euro-area fragility remains the key risk to our recovery and to the global economy," said Lael Brainard, undersecretary of the Treasury for international affairs, at a Friday briefing. "The president is deeply engaged in encouraging them to lay out the next steps."
Those include making investments in infrastructure to spur growth, bolstering the sources of borrowing for countries such as Italy and Spain, creating a tighter risk-sharing union among European banks and seeking to keep teetering Greece in the 17-nation euro zone.
That latter goal will be influenced by the results of Sunday's elections in Greece, which is beyond U.S. or even European control.
The two-day Los Cabos summit will be Obama's seventh G-20 forum, dating back to London in April 2009, when the global economy was on the brink of a depression. Administration officials stressed that since then, the U.S. economy and financial system has seen greater improvements than those in other G-20 countries.
Using the somewhat tepid U.S. recovery as a model, deputy national security advisor for international economics Michael Froman said the goal of the G-20 summit -- like the smaller G-8 summit at Camp David last month -- will be to present "a unified message about the importance of growth."
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A coordinated research program has been undertaken to study precast seismic structural systems (PRESSS). The program is a joint effort of the United States and Japan to test for seismic response of buildings, including analytical and experimental research to study the response of precast buildings. Researchers involved with PRESSS are optimistic the 7-year research program will provide design guidelines that will be available for incorporation into the model building codes. The PRESSS objectives are to develop comprehensive and rational design recommendations based on basic research data that emphasize precast concrete construction's viability in seismic zones and to develop new materials, concepts, and technologies for precast concrete construction in seismic zones.
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The field for the 139th Kentucky Derby will be set this afternoon, with 20 horses expected to compete in the running for the roses on Saturday.
The field will also feature Rosie Napravnik, bidding to become the first woman to win the race. Napravnik, who leads all jockeys in victories this year, will be riding Mylute and, at the age of 25, has won more than 1,500 races.
"Other jockeys might underestimate my ability to be aggressive in a race," Napravnik told ESPN's Kenny Mayne. "Until they ride with me. Then they're like, 'Ohhhh, okay.' "
Napravnik won the Kentucky Oaks last year aboard Believe You Can.
"She has great hands," Hall of Fame jockey Mike Smith said of Napravnik. "She gets a horse to relax and do what she wants it to do."
That involves a little "smooching" sound she makes to a horse, a sound that she declined to make in a "60 Minutes" interview last week. "I have limits," she said.
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Police in the south-east of England thought they were imagining things when they saw a giant white rabbit hopping down the road.
They spotted the bunny in the middle of a busy road in Canterbury in the early hours of Sunday morning.
The two officers tried to catch the creature, but weren't having much luck until some passers-by stopped to help.
It took ten people to catch the rabbit, which has been nicknamed Tiny, and is now being cared for by animal experts.
Tiny was taken to the Barton animal hospital in Canterbury, to be picked up by the RSPCA.
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These superheroes will still save the day, but in digital format.
DC Comics said Wednesday its full lineup of comic books will be made available for tablet computers from three powerhouses of digital distribution -- Amazon's Kindle Store, the Nook Store from Barnes & Noble and the iBookstore for Apple devices.
That means Batman, Superman, Wonder Woman and the Justice League comics will be offered in digital format for tablets and e-readers.
"As e-readers and tablets continue to explode in popularity, it's important for us to offer consumers convenience and choice in how they download digital comics and graphic novels and these new distribution deals with the top three e-bookstores do just that," said Jim Lee, co-publisher at DC Entertainment.
"We're very excited to work with Amazon, Apple and Barnes & Noble to bring best-selling DC Comics and Vertigo periodicals to their e-bookstores."
DC Entertainment said it is the only comic book publisher to offer its periodical line-up across all major e-bookstore platforms.
Prior to the announcement, only DC Entertainment graphic novels were available through the top e-bookstores. But the comics may also be downloaded directly from the company website.
"We were the first to offer our entire comic book line same-day digital and now we are the first to offer fans the convenience of multiple download options," Lee said.
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Enter your citrus-based marmalade for judging and selection at the
Buninyong Marvellous Marmalade Fair
to be held in Buninyong on Saturday 3rd February 2018 at 1pm
Entries to arrive any time in January but by January 25th, 2018
An Australian Eleven will tour to England again in February 2018 - up against an England Eleven
Founder of the International Marmalade Awards, Jane Hasell-McCosh, has been brought to Australia to help publicise the messages that Hospice and Palliative Care organisations want us all to embrace.
Marmalade groups in both countries have supported Hospice and Palliative Care with all entry fees going to these organisations.
But they have a difficult message to get across to the community. Hospice and Palliative Care organisations want us all to talk to our family, loved ones and GP about what we each want with our end-of-life care. And they want us to discuss it sooner rather than later.
It's a heavy message for many people.
So Buninyong Marmalade is using its light-hearted, quirky, image as message 'carrier' to encourage everyone in the community to start the conversation with their family, loved ones and their GP. President of the Buninyong Marmalade Association, Russell Luckock, said that "While it may seem a hard conversation with those close to us there are many positives since end-of-life can be a peaceful, serene time and the aim of Hospice and Palliative Care organisations is to bring these positives to the forefront".
Jane Hasell-McCosh and her daughter Hermione, an international photographer, are travelling to various rural and remote centres to promote "the conversation". Community meetings have been arranged for Ballarat, Nhill, Mildura, Swan Hill and St Arnaud and these are being complemented by media interviews and speaking engagements. These meetings are being supported be a grant from the Grampians Palliative Care Consortium and a brochure has been produced to promote both marmalade and the various Hospice and palliative care organisations.
"It just seemed an idea whose time had come to use the positive publicity received by Buninyong Marmalade's challenge to the Poms to promote a worthwhile conversation about our wishes for our end-of-life care", Russell concluded.
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Ingrid Muan '85 is trying to change this.
The storefront art gallery and cultural center where she works, Reyum, is a showcase for contemporary art, offering downtown Phnom Penh film screenings, lectures, exhibits and dance performances free of charge. "It's a place where you can see things that are visually interesting and hopefully learn something," says Muan, a founder and curator. "That's what we really want Reyum to be."
It is more than that; recently Reyum began publishing children's books illustrated by exhibiting artists. "It's hard for us to imagine, but many children grow up here without ever having a book of their own," says Muan. "In order for the teaching level at the university to improve, the first step is to have a much greater culture of literacy among children."
That university is Cambodia's Royal University of Fine Arts, where Muan teaches modern art history with the support of a grant from the Asian Cultural Council. Inspired by their students, she and Ly Daravuth, a fellow teacher, opened Reyum in 1998: "Our students have so little to see and so little experience of exhibitions and books in which ideas are freely expressed. These are the realities of a rebuilding society." The steady stream of students, townspeople and tourists who wander in prove that Reyum is filling a need.
Muan got her MFA from the U/CA-Davis, then taught painting at Haverford and Elizabethtown colleges. One summer, she visited a friend in Hong Kong and realized that she knew "almost nothing about that part of the world." In subsequent summers she traveled to Indonesia, Vietnam and finally Cambodia, the country that most captured her imagination. Muan then pursued her Ph.D. in modern art history from Columbia. Her dissertation tells the story of the founding of the university, which at first trained Cambodian students to make only traditional objects. "I was interested in what modern art history might look like in a place like Cambodia, which is so often consigned to a glorious architectural past," she says. "No one seemed to think that art was also made in Cambodia during the 20th century."
Reyum's current exhibit is on the silk batik work of Long Sophea, a professor who was trained as a fabric designer in Moscow in the 1980s. An exhibition of Khmer ceramics will follow. Previous exhibits explained Khmer mask-making techniques and Lakhaoun Khoal, the costume drama in which the masks are used to present scenes from the Cambodian version of the Ramayana. "The Legacy of Absence: A Cambodian Story" displayed work by contemporary Cambodian artists addressing the country's recent violent history and the resulting absence of communities and generations. Reyum is funded by the Kasumisou Foundation. For more information contact firstname.lastname@example.com.
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Taha Yassin Ramadan, No. 20 on the US most-wanted list and Saddam Hussein's vice-president, has been handed over to US forces in Mosul, the US Defence Department said.
Ramadan also served on Saddam's Revolutionary Command Council member. He was Saddam's knuckles.
Chief Diane Perry at the Pentagon confirmed that he had been turned over to the US Army.
Al-Jazeera, the Qatar-based satellite broadcaster, said Ramadan was captured by troops of the Patriotic Union of Kurdistan yesterday. He was wearing peasant clothing as a disguise, the broadcaster said.
In Baghdad, PUK official Kasrat Rasouli confirmed that Ramadan was captured by the PUK, but would give no other details.
Ramadan, 65, was widely considered as ruthless as his mentor. He headed a court that executed 44 officers for plotting to overthrow the regime.
He worked as a bank clerk before Saddam's revolution. He came from the Mosul region.
Ramadan was Saddam's vice-president from March 1991.
During a visit to Jordan in the 1980s, Muslim fundamentalists asked Ramadan what the Baath's attitude to Islam was.
Muslims were free to pray and follow their faith, Ramadan replied. "But if they try to harm the Baathist regime or ridicule its slogans, the regime will break their necks."
Ramadan is high on the list of regime figures Iraqi opposition groups say should be tried for war crimes.
Born in 1938, he joined the underground Baath Party in 1956 and became close to Saddam. After the 1968 coup by the party, he held several ministerial posts and became a member of the regional command in 1969.
During the 1980s, he was deputy prime minister and was for a time considered the second most powerful man in Iraq after Saddam. He remains commander of the Popular Army, the Baathist militia, but is now considered to be a secondary figure.
He was said to have provided over many purges carried out by Saddam to eliminate rivals and strengthen his political control.
He lauded the execution of Iraqi officials found guilty of bribery as necessary "lessons for the others", and often took a harder line than Saddam in denouncing the US, Israel and other states deemed hostile to Baghdad.
He once described the US Congress as little more than an extension of Israel's Knesset, or parliament.
For all his ruthlessness, Ramadan obeyed Saddam in all things.
Shortly before the end of the 1980-88 war with Iran, Saddam ruled that too many Iraqi officials were getting fat while the troops at the front were fighting for the nation's survival.
He published the weights of his Cabinet ministers and the weights he felt they should be, then gave them 30 days to slim down.
The flabby Ramadan was told to shed 27 kilos - and did.
US President George Bush welcomed the capture. He expressed confidence that US troops would find other wanted Iraqi officials.
"I don't know the facts of where he was, what was going on. I'm really pleased that we've captured the vice-president," he said.
"Slowly but surely we'll find who we need to find," he told reporters.
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Chivas passes on option for Romero
CARSON, Calif.– Chivas USA has declined the contract option on Osael Romero, who was on loan from Vista Hermosa in El Salvador. The Salvadoran midfielder joined Chivas USA prior to the 2010 season, making nine appearances (five starts) with the team and scoring one goal.
An attacking midfielder, Romero played 421 minutes in league games, and also played in all three of Chivas USA's SuperLiga 2010 matches and one U.S. Open Cup game. The 24-year-old is a veteran of the El Salvador National Team, making 43 appearances with the team since his debut in 2007.


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Sunday, June 28, 2009
Lancome Juicy Tubes Ultra Shiny Lip Gloss
Summer is quickly approaching and it is the perfect time to stock up on gloss girls (unless of course you live in the Southern Hemisphere : ) Sparkling, sheer Juicy Tubes are my absolute favs.
These are quite popular glosses--clear or sheer color in a tube with a slant tip. The gloss is slightly fruit flavored and may have some sparkles, depending on the shade. The tube is easy to apply and more sanitary than a wand gloss, as only the outer slant tip touches your lips. This is a great gloss if you want very shiny gloss. But just be warned that it is somewhat sticky
Monday, June 22, 2009
Product Review: L'Oreal HiP high intensity pigments Kohl Eyeliner
Every Cloud Has A Silver (or Gold) Lining...
L'Oreal HiP high intensity pigments Kohl Eyeliner isn't exactly getting rave reviews ! I had to check it out myself...From the first second you open this Kohl Eyeliner your dealing with a flakey mess! Product everywhere ...on your bathroom counter ,cheek bone ,under your eye and in places I didn't know eyeliner could get into ! The Silver lining in this is that it wipes away quite effortlessly (I gently used my finger) L'Oreal HiP high intensity pigments Kohl Eyeliner goes on to give a Sultry Smokey look! I tried the Navy and the Gold,I especially like the Gold (stunning summer color) Stays put once it's on. The brush is a little stiff but for the price around $12.99 I have to say it's worth the trouble
Saturday, June 20, 2009
Product Review: HIP Color Presso Lipgloss duos from L'Oreal
Pretty HiP! This Lip Gloss junkie is impressod !!! HiP high intensity pigment Lip-gloss duos from L'Oreal High-level staying power and a perfect amount of Spark, Shine and Shimmer ! Not sticky at all (feels so dreamy)I tested this gloss out at the beach (stayed on after a swim!)and stayed put for hours after!!! I love the packaging and the ability to mix the two colors,Although mixing it can get messy the squeezable tube needs little improvement. Swanky is my favorite color out of the 20 to chose from. I love the subtle flavor too. For around $12 bucks your getting a gloss that feels like a $20 dollar one http://www.lorealparisusa.com/
Monday, June 15, 2009
Delicious Summer Scent
Not only does it come in a adorable apple-shaped bottle, but this scent will remind you of apple picking on a gorgeous sunny day.
A blend of sparkling grapefruit, cassis, and sunkissed apricot meets a blooming floral heart of sheer muguet and petally rose wrapped in luminous jasmine.
Notes: Grapefruit, Cassis, Apricot, Muguet, Rose, Jasmine, Apple and Blond WoodsDKNY Be Delicious Fresh Blossom is available now at Ulta for $40 http://www.dkny.com/
Sunday, June 7, 2009
Banana Oatmeal Mask
Bananas have fruit acids that help remove dead skin cells, so a banana oatmeal mask is the perfect way to go when you want to brighten up your complexion. This is actually one of my favorite recipes!
What You'll Need:
1 medium to large banana; soft and peeled
1/3 to 1/2 cup of oatmeal
Start by mashing the oatmeal into the soft peeled banana, going a little bit at a time. Apply to your face evenly and leave it on for 10-15 minutes. Rinse off with warm water or a warm washcloth.
You'll immediately notice that your skin will feel softer, cleaner, and more radiant and bright.
Monday, June 1, 2009
REVIEW: Max Factor 2000 Calorie Extreme Mascara & Vivid Impact Lip color
Max Factor 2000 Calorie Extreme Mascara is well ...Extreme
Max Factor is really putting out some awesome new products! More and more their line is resembling department store brands ! Recently celebrating my 10th wedding Anniversary I had the perfect opportunity to try it out - Opening up the package I was completely impressed with the thick, spiky brush - Even more impressed once I started to apply . Lashes immediately started to look fatter ,fuller and longer with the patented Fat Wrap Brush grabbing on to every lash ...All this and No Clumping!!! Calorie Extreme Lash Plumper Mascara is a must have !!! And a beauty bargain too at $9.98 Available in 3 colors Extreme Blackout, Black Velvet and Blackest-Brown http://www.maxfactor.com/ http://www.drugstore.com/Max Factor Vivid Impact Lipcolor
Continuing on with my all-dolled-up look for my big evening out, I applied the Vivid Impact Lipcolor I was given Rose Rage #28 to review YAY! I love pink and pink is very hot this spring and summer! Again, smitten with the packaging, I was encouraged and hopeful Vivid Impact Lip color was going to live up to it's name (not to mention all the hype swirling around about it.) So close !!! I loved the moisture rich feel and the way the color stayed on and stayed put ... however I did not see a "vivid" color impact ! I still am crazy about longevity and shine ! I just think it's a bit sheer for it's name . Vivid Impact comes in a wide range of shades and is fabulously formulated. It has shea butter in it and my lips felt very pampered. Around $8


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it's not graffiti if you don't steal the paint lol
it's not graffiti if you don't steal the paint lol
Street sweepin just to get by
lol...toys these days.
this is like the new puregraffiti.com lol but gayer. i came here to get some info on some cats, which i easily got. and i give advice and in return receive shit talk. lol figures. oh well.
um...just because this gay thread is dead dosnt mean ohio is dead, plenty of cats are painting.
Yeah Ohio does work. Have to get out and see it.
i was just in cleveland the other day and i saw a fresh think piece and a bunch of stk, headake and kh, and jasf... the spots there are unlimited its insane..
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YEAH! it was dope, i was driving and i was on the scout for some graff and was just looking at every possible spot and i looked up and what do you know STK big and tall on the water tower made me smile haha
a little bit of cincinnati for ya
where my Killah tape at?
where my Killah tape at?
RIGHT? dude gets ill with it. hes been puttin in work in cincy. i got a couple more pics on some cameras ill upload eventually
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Snap-on is an American designer, manufacturer and marketer of high-end tools and equipment to professional tool users. Founded in 1920, Snap-on is located in Kenosha, Wisconsin, and employs approximately 11,500 people worldwide. The company is currently worth US $9.5 billion and is included in the S&P 500.
Snap-on was founded as the Snap-on Wrench Company in Milwaukee, Wisconsin in 1920 by Joseph Johnson and William Seidemann.[3] As a new socket wrench manufacturing company, the business manufactured and marketed ten sockets that would "snap on" to five interchangeable handles. Their slogan was "5 do the work of 50"
After World War II, Palmer advertised for a military officer to organize and develop a larger sales force for the expected post-war sales boom. Newton Tarble was hired, and came up with the idea of developing routes for company dealers to see mechanics on a weekly basis. Eventually these salesmen became independent businessmen and authorized dealers using larger walk-in vans to carry a growing product line. Thus, Snap-on tools are sold only by dealers and none are sold in retail stores. Their quality is highly regarded but their prices are also among the very highest. Snap-on currently operates plants in various states and cities such as Milwaukee, Wisconsin and Elizabethton, Tennessee, which manufacture hand tools. Pneumatic tools are currently manufactured in Murphy, North Carolina.
In 1975, Snap-on opened a manufacturing plant in Johnson City, Tennessee and closed the plant 32 years later in 2007. The Murphy, North Carolina plant was named as one of the top 10 plants in North America by Industry Week.[4] In 1999, Snap-on acquired Bahco, a Swedish hand tool brand. Bahco hand tools are designed and manufactured by SNA Europe, the European manufacturing subsidiary of Snap-on Incorporated.
Snap-on produces hand, air, and electric tools designed for professional use in all facets of the transportation industry. Automotive, heavy-duty, equipment, marine, aviation, and railroad industries all are customers of Snap-on. Snap-on also distributes hand tools and power tools under the brand name Blue-Point, as an entry-level or price-conscious offering. Snap-on also manufactures tool storage cabinets in its Algona, Iowa plant. Snap-on produces hand-held electronic diagnostic tools for the on-board computer systems used in most modern cars and heavy-duty vehicles, as well as automotive emissions control diagnostics equipment (DGA/PGA-500/CSM-5000) in its San Jose, CA diagnostic facility. Snap-on diagnostic products are being sold in Europe and Brazil under the name Sun.[5]
In October, 2016 Snap-on announced that it had entered into a definitive agreement to acquire Sweden-based Car-O-Liner Holding AB ("Car-O-Liner") for approximately $155 million in cash.[6]
Snap-on has always maintained the philosophy that the customer's time was too valuable to spend going shopping for tools. Snap-on Franchisees visit their customers in their place of work once weekly, in a van loaded with items for purchase. Purchase options range from Collect on Delivery, to a revolving account in which a customer pays a set portion of his balance weekly, to an extended credit program sponsored by Snap-on Credit for large purchases.
Recently, Snap-on has made other advances in their product showcasing. Newest among these are the Snap-on TechKnow Express, showcasing everything Snap-on has to offer in the realm of Diagnostic equipment, and the Rock 'n Roll Cab Express, a truck with various types of tool storage showing customization options, including units larger than what would fit on a standard Franchisee van. These trucks are typically assigned to a particular region and work within that region with individual Franchisees.
Racing sponsorships[edit]
Since the early 1980s, Snap-on has been sponsoring Penske Racing teams in the NASCAR Sprint and Nationwide Series as well as Championship Auto Race Teams (CART) and the Indy Racing League (IRL). The first driver Snap-on became associated with was Rick Mears in 1979. Rick went on to be a 4 time Indy 500 Winner. Nearly 20 years ago, Snap-on began an association with two time NHRA world champion Cruz Pedregon. In 2004, Snap-on began an association with Cruz's brother Tony Pedregon, a two time champion himself.
A Snap-on ratcheting screwdriver.
- ^ http://investing.businessweek.com/research/stocks/people/person.asp?personId=2508270&ticker=SNA
- ^ http://investing.businessweek.com/research/stocks/people/person.asp?personId=653231&ticker=SNA
- ^ Dave Lenckus (April 15, 2002), "Innovative tools, direct sales approach forge to form a Fortune 500 operation", Business Insurance, 36 (15), p. 11, retrieved January 9, 2014
- ^ "Business Wire", Industry Week, January 19, 2011, retrieved January 13, 2014
- ^ https://www1.snapon.com/diagnostics Snap-on Diagnostics site
- ^ "Snap-on Acquires Car-O-Liner for $155M". Retrieved 16 October 2016.
- Donnelly, Jim (February 2010). "Collecting Snap-on.com; Wrenching truths, yours for the checking". Hemmings Motor News. Retrieved 2011-10-06
- Murch, Frank. "Collecting Snap-on". Retrieved 2011-10-05.
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Will Paula Patton take Robin Thicke back?
From MediaTakeOut.com , just received word that Paula Patton and Robin Thicke are WORKING ON getting back together. This is a MediaTakeOut.com EXCLUSIVE report. According to one of Paula's CLOSEST FRIENDS (an actress that we ALL know) . . . Paula has decided to give Robin Thicke another chance.
The insider told us that Paula and Robin are "working things out". Robin has spent the night at the couple's home a couple of days - but NO SEX so far. The insider explains, "Paula is really hurt and wants to make sure that Robin is not going to go back to his cheating once she lets him back in her life."
The insider told MediaTakeOut,ocm, "He's going to have to KEEP BEGGING for a few more weeks before Paula finally gives in. But she's already basically gave in now."
Well we're not even going to HATE on Paula cause that's her HUSBAND . . . and we're all for MARRIED FOLKS working it out.


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Eric Lau (UK) and Red Bull Sound Select's Team Dynamite release exclusive track
With no previous affiliation, London based beat architect Eric Lau chose Team Dynamite from the infamous Red Bull Sound Select roster to collaborate in the Red Bull Studio Auckland, bringing you a finished track with an eight hour goal between live BaseFM sets and international travel. The track "One Up" has now been released and can be heard here.
"To me, music is a universal language," Eric muses. "That's cliché, but it is. Regardless of where I am, or who I'm working with, my job is to marry the music to the song, and capture the best performance I can. If I can learn something along the way, even better. This is my first official New Zealand collaboration." Hopefully it's the start of many more.
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Another victory for dazzling DeliciousAlba!
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Attractive Smorodinkaa Takes the Olympus Again!
New week starts with very pleasant news! We can't wait to announce that Smorodinkaa wins our «International Top-100» contest once again. She proved once more that she is able to bewitch her fans using just her charm!
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Sweet victory of Uniquecandy!
The weekend has already passed but it's no reason to be sad as it's time to announce the winner of our traditional contest «TOP-100 of North America and Western Europe»! This week hot Uniquecandy showed real class and took the first place!
Our members rejoice while enjoying this model's performances! Passionate Uniquecandy awakens fans' incredible appetite for her seductive forms. Fans can't take their eyes off her, savoring every moment of the show!
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First winner of July - dazzling hettinger!
Finally, July comes into its own, which means it becomes even hotter! Last week we had a tight race for the first place in BongaCams «International Top-100»! We are more than happy to announce that hettinger won our traditional competition this time!
This graceful model proved that anything is possible, the main thing is to set your mind to it! She charmed our members with ease and became the best for her fans! Incendiary shows and dazzling beauty are the recipes for hettinger's success!
Lovely girls, it's time to prove yourselves to the max and win the grand prize! We hope that this month will bring you good luck!
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Lung Cancer Incidence Trends Among Men and Women—United States, 2005–2009
January 10, 2014 / Vol. 63 / No. 01
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Lung cancer is the leading cause of cancer death and the second most commonly diagnosed cancer (excluding skin cancer) among men and women in the United States. About 80%–90% of lung cancers are attributed to cigarette smoking and secondhand smoke.
To assess lung cancer incidence and trends among men and women by age group, CDC used data from the National Program of Cancer Registries (NPCR) and the National Cancer Institute's Surveillance, Epidemiology, and End Results (SEER) program for the period 2005–2009, the most recent data available. During the study period, lung cancer incidence decreased among men in all age groups except <35 years and decreased among women aged 35–44 years and 54–64 years. Lung cancer incidence decreased more rapidly among men than among women and more rapidly among adults aged 35–44 years than among other age groups.
Since 1964 when the first Surgeon General's report on the health consequences of smoking was published, cigarette smoking cessation rates increased and cigarette smoking initiation rates decreased more rapidly among men than women. As a result, cigarette smoking behaviors have become more similar among men and women, especially among those born more recently. Subsequently, the gap in lung cancer between men and women has been reported to be diminishing. This report shows that differences in lung cancer incidence between men and women narrowed with decreasing age, and that among adults aged 45 years, men had slightly lower rates of lung cancer than women.
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We've just received pictures of Sony's new STR-DH800 budget AV receiver, due on sale in the UK in July for £350
We brought you news of Sony's two new multichannel receivers earlier this week, and we've just received pictures of the forthcoming STR-DH800 budget model, due on sale in July for £350.
What's more, we're due to get our first review sample any day now.
The STR-DH800 replaces the five-star STR-DG820 and is a 7.1 design with high-definition audio decoding.
It's fitted with Sony's S-AIR wireless rear speaker system, and decodes all the new high-definition audio formats including Dolby TrueHD and DTS-HD Master Audio.
There's support for xv colour and Deep Colour, four HDMI inputs and one HDMI output. You can also use the STR-DH800 to biamplify your speakers, with separate power stages to drive the low frequency and mid/high frequency drivers.


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For an adult person considering orthodontics plus dento-facial orthopedics to fix an underbite (7.5mm diff b/w lower and upper jaw) and crossbite, is it possible to use orthopedic devices like palatal expanders when the individual has previously had surgery to repair a cleft palate? Since the cleft palate surgery closed the gap in the roof of the mouth, and the expander is supposed to pull it apart, would that create an issue?
Can Dento-facial Orthopedics Be Applied for Someone with a Repaired Cleft Palate?
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Adult Orthodontics in Cleft Lip and Palate
Dear Guidance4Me, Yes, adults with previously repaired cleft palate can be treated with some nonsurgical treatments to address dental malocclusion (under, over, or cross-bite) . As you likely are aware, facial imbalance such as you describe (7.5 mm) is typical for some people with cleft lip and palate.
As you research your options, please consider having a consultation with an cleft surgeon who performs orthognathic (jaw correction) surgery. This will allow you to consider the possible changes from surgical, non-surgical, or even combined treatment plans.
Most major university medical centers have multidisciplinary cleft programs that could guide you to some potential surgeons in your area.
Cleft palate
Orthognathic surgery is probably the ideal treatment
As an adult cleft palate patient, I would assume that you went through a series of orthodontics as a child (e.g. rapid palatal expander, palatal arch, alveolar bone graft surgery and orthodontics)? Dentofacial orthopedics is by means to mechanically move the jaw by applying force/vector to the growing jaw. As an adult, there isn't much of growth left, and the most predictable way of correcting the -7.5mm overjet in your Class 3 malocclusion is 1) distraction osteogenesis or 2) orthognathic surgery. Without any photos of your facial profile and radiographs, it would be impossible to add anything further. I would highly recommend you to seek at least three or four opinions before you settle on a treatment! Good luck!
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Yes is the simple answer. The more complicated explanation is that there may be mahy different approaches to achieve or address your desired result. There is a Dr. Martin Chin in the SF area who is very good with this. You should do multiple consults with multiple teams and see there results. Have them discuss and show you their failures as well as successes.
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You asked a really great question. Every case is different. Many times I can correct the vertical and anterior-posterior relationship with specialized dental procedures. Other times, I work with the surgeons to show them where the maxillary or upper jaw should be. We do take the TMJ joints in consideration. In other words, it is important to find the correct position for the muscles, teeth, and joints from a functional and esthetic position.
This is the starting point and is done by dentists who have advanced training in this area. In short, there are some non-surgical cases and some that also need surgery.
I hope this helps!
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"Bachelorette" co-stars Kirsten Dunst, Lizzy Caplan, 30, and Isla Fisher, 36, as three women who serve as bridesmaids for a girl they made fun of in high school. Too much wedding-eve partying leads to a mishap with a wedding dress and then everything spins out of control. This indie film, directed and written by Leslye Headland, was a big hit at the Sundance Film Festival. It opens Friday, Sept. 7.
Surrogacy, support and sci-fi
A number of TV shows premiering soon have a Jewish connection.
The NBC series "The New Normal" starts on Tuesday, Sept. 11 at 9:30 p.m. Andrew Rannells and Justin Bartha, 34 ("The Hangover"), co-star as Bryan and David, a Beverly Hills couple. Into their life comes Goldie (Georgia King), a Midwest waitress who has just moved to Los Angeles with her young daughter and small-minded grandmother (Ellen Barkin, 58). Goldie agrees to be the surrogate mother of the guys' baby.
Starting the same night at 9, also on NBC, is "Go On," a comedy-drama starring Matthew Perry as Ryan King, a sportscaster who joins a support group to try and cope with his wife's death. The series focuses on King and the members of the group, including the mysterious "Mr. K." Mr. K (Brett Gelman, 35) is so weird that the other members are too afraid to ask him what he's grieving about. Gelman is a standup comedian with a long list of sketch show and sit-com guest shots.
The NBC series "Guys with Kids" starts Wednesday, Sept. 12 at 8:30 p.m. Jamie-Lynn Sigler, 31 ("The Sopranos"), co-stars as a stay-at-home mom who convinces her husband to take over a lot of the child care so she can have some "alone time." Her husband's buddies include a divorced father with custody of his infant and a stay-at-home dad. Also on NBC is "Revolution," a sci-fi series. Suddenly and mysteriously electric power is no longer available on Earth. Fifteen years later, people are living in small communities, and order, such as it exists, is provided by local militias. This series was created by Eric Kripke, 38 ("Supernatural"). "Iron Man" director Jon Favreau, 45, co-executive produces and directed the pilot. It starts Sept. 17 at 10 p.m.
Mobsters, friends and aliens
Also starting Sept. 17 (9 p.m.) is "Mob Doctor" on Fox. Jordana Spiro, 35, stars as Dr. Grace Devlin, a heart surgeon who lives a dual life. She's a top resident at a Chicago hospital who moonlights treating the ailments and bullet wounds of local organized crime members. Her brother's gambling debts forced her to make a "deal with the devil" to treat these gangsters.
Starting on Sept. 24 at 8:30 p.m. is the CBS series "Partners." It was created by and is based on the lives of the writer-producers of "Will and Grace," David Kohan, 48, and Max Mutchnick, 47. David Krumholtz, 34, plays Joe, an architect who is straight (like Kohan). His business partner and best friend, Louis, is gay (like Mutchnick). Their friendship and business relationship is challenged when Joe gets engaged and Louis dates a hunky guy.
The ABC series "The Neighbors" centers on Marty (Lenny Venito) and Debbie Weaver (Jamie Gertz, 46), a nice couple who buy a home in an exclusive development. They find out that all of their neighbors are space aliens who have been stationed on Earth for 10 years, disguised as humans, while they await instructions from their home planet. The Weavers are the first humans the aliens really get to know. The aliens and the Weavers learn they have much in common — like child-rearing problems. The series starts Sept. 26 at 8:30 p.m.
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ABC's The Note today is headlined "Strange Brews: Conservatives Unite Over Anger, Not Candidates." Author and network senior political reporter Rick Klein writes:
The mood at the Conservative Political Action Conference gathering -- which continues into the weekend in Washington -- is decidedly more upbeat than a year ago. And the Bush name, not to mention the (maybe more popular) Cheney one, is back.
Yet the energy fueling the gathering remains of a shapeless, sometimes dangerous variety.
Readers may reasonably have expected examples of this dangerous energy to follow. Klein goes on:
From the rousing ovations for primary challengers, to a speaker referencing President Obama's past drug use and deriding homosexuality, to the endless teleprompter jokes (only some of them read off teleprompters), to the general motivating anger that has brought the crowd together -- the big tent isn't exactly pitching itself.
My, my, how terribly threatening. This isn't the first time Klein has sensed peril. In an interview last September (at about the 1:30 mark), Klein spoke of anti-media criticism at the Republican National Convention:
"I think it was dangerous to be up in the press box where we were. I was with Sam Donaldson and we were looking like (garbled) duck tomatoes or something."
The proposition that conservatives are dangerous has long been popular with many in the mainstream media. An inability to substantiate the notion doesn't deter The Note, which modestly bills itself Washington's "most influential tipsheet," from again sounding the alarm. Janet Napolitano, please call your office stat.


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Saturday, 20 July, 2002, 22:24 GMT 23:24 UK
West grows up on the river
Josh West has the distinction of being the tallest competitior in the history of the University Boat Race.
At 6ft 10ins, the 24-year-old was first in line for the little and large comedy shot ahead of the boat race with his cox, the diminuitive Eleanor Griggs, standing tall at a mere 5ft 5ins.
The pose is nothing new for West.
Alongside his Cambridge President, Tom Stallard, the geochemist will be competing in his fourth race.
But it is not only the annual clash on the Thames that West's frame casts a shadow over.
West is now making waves on the international circuit - only seven years after taking up the sport as a freshman at Yale.
Despite being born in Santa Fe, he opted for Britain, courtesy of having dual nationality, and rowed at seven in the eight at the 2001 World Championships in Lucerne.
He also picked up some medals, a gold in Vienna and a bronze in Munich, that helped the crew win the overall World Cup title.
West will again vye for selection at the National Trials, but it is the Boat Race that remains his bread and butter for the time being at least.
"I take it very seriously," West explains of his commitment to the Light Blue boat.
"For most of the people, both the Oxford and Cambridge squads, both the Blue boat and the reserves, this becomes your life, for the year."
But for West that is no hardship as he is a self confessed rowing addict: "I like it it, it makes the time pass quickly!"
Commitment is the watchword of any university oarsman, and for West it is total.
His participation in the national eight means that he has not had a break from competitive rowing or full-on training for 18 months.
But such a schedule does have benefits.
"Physiologically I was training all the way through the summer so I'm a step ahead of where I would have been if I'd sat on the beach for the summer.
"Technically and psychologically I learned more about how to work with a boat. It gave me more confidence."
And the benefits work both ways.
The rigours of the winter regime ahead of the Boat Race mean that West should be in better shape than many other national triallists come April.
But March means the Boat Race and West has a fourth university win in his targets.
After his win in the Yale-Harvard equivalent, a hat-trick on the Thames would complete his University education on the river before he moves onto fresh challenges and the international circuit.
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IT IS going to take a ''bloody long time'' to clean up his rubble from the bushfires, says Carlton River property owner Leigh Arnold.
Mr Arnold, of Lilydale, near Launceston, lost his rental house, shearing shed, wool shed, machinery shed and about 60 kilometres of fencing at his 1000-hectare farm east of Dodges Ferry, near Hobart, on Friday.
''It's all but stuffed,'' he said.
Mr Arnold estimated the damage at about $300,000, but his biggest worry is the clean-up.
''We've got an insurance bloke here at the moment looking at what's left of the buildings, and then once that's all cleaned up we've got the cattle to secure,'' he said.
Cattle and sheep escaped from Mr Arnold's property after the fences around his land burnt down.
''We've got all our cattle back but we're not too sure on sheep numbers yet,'' he said.
''We pretty much know where they are, they're all mixed up with the neighbour's sheep and we have to figure out whose is whose.''
On Saturday Mr Arnold and the men who lived in the now burnt-down house were part-way through securing a fence to keep the sheep and cattle in the one area.
''Then it'll just be a matter of putting the fences back together and then cleaning up some of the buildings,'' he said.
The men were not inside the house at the time of the fire as they were away on holidays and had been due to return on Monday.
Despite the bad experience, Mr Arnold is staying strong.
''There's no point being upset about it all, that doesn't achieve anything,'' he said.


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To make sure that the dissertation will be significant and clearly points out the issues involve in the study, the researcher should come up with a well-written, highly-researched, and well-organized review of literature of the MA dissertation. As mentioned, the literature review is a crucial section and requires a lot of attention.
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SANTA BARBARA, CA–The Pacifica Hotel Co. has de-flagged two of its Best Western properties with plans to operate the pair as independent hotels.
The two hotels are the Inn at Marina del Rey and the Half Moon Bay Lodge. The Inn is located in close proximity to the Marina and Venice Beach, while the Lodge is adjacent to Half Moon Bay Golf Links and California's redwood forest. Pacifica Hotel Co., which was founded in 1993, currently has 26 hotels in its portfolio.


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Following Links with Crawler
When the crawler visits a web page, it can also visit links and frames found on the page. Doing so is a three-part process: link detection, storage, and crawling. Each part of the process is discussed below.
Following Links with Crawler: Link Detection
The crawler treats the following patterns as links: a href="address", FRAME SRC="address", IFRAME HREF="address". Note that this will only capture HTML links, not those written with a scripting language. To customize the patterns that are treated as links, edit the "Link:" loop at the beginning of the
Once found, each link is compared against several rules. Only links which pass all the rules will make it to the next step. The rules are:
Protocol - the crawler can only "speak" the HTTP protocol, so links must begin with "http://". Links beginning with "https://", "ftp://", "gopher://" or any other protocol will be ignored.
Address length - if a web address is too long, the crawler will ignore it. The maximum size of an address is set with the "Max Characters: URL" setting, which is 128 by default.
Query strings - by default, the crawler will ignore links of the form HREF="file.pl?test" because there is a question mark in the address. Any web address which contains a question mark is said to have a query string. The crawler's behavior for these documents is controlled by the "Crawler: Follow Query Strings" General Setting.
File extension - some links point to files that are almost certainly not readable text. The crawler will skip links if the file extension is suspected of representing non-text data. These extensions are stored in a list, whose format is a set of lowercase file extensions, separated by the pipe character. The list of extensions are stored in the "Crawler: Ignore Links To" General Setting.
Note that this rule can be extended to cover text files which are readable but still shouldn't be indexed; the ".log" or ".old" extensions are good examples.
Robots Exclusion - a file which contains the Meta tag
<meta name="robots" content="nofollow" />will not have internal links followed, as required by the Robots Exclusion Standard. Setting "Crawler: Rogue" to 1 will cause the crawler to ignore the exclusion standard, but this is frowned upon by the Internet community.
Hostname - some links point to remote websites. To restrict the crawler to only the initial website, set setting "Crawler: Follow Offsite Links" to 0.
In addition to these rules, the crawler will also stay on the same website if the "Index Entire Site" option is checked at the beginning of the crawl session. The "Index Entire Site" option is more restrictive than the "Crawler: Follow Offsite Links" setting, because it limits followed links to the same directory or a subdirectory of the initial document. The offsite links rule only limits the links to the same hostname.
Following Links with Crawler: Storage
All links that are found are inserted to the pending pages file, search.pending.txt. This file lists all pending documents in alphabetic order. The file includes a list of all pages that have already been searched, those that have been crawled but returned errors, and also those waiting to be searched.
The format of the file is:
http://address/ RealmName State
"State" is a number. If it is 0, then the address is waiting to be crawled. If it is 2, then the crawler tried to index this page before, but encountered an error (the address is now blacklisted *). If it is a large number, then it represents the time that the address was indexed.
If an address is found while crawling, and that address already shows up in the pending file, then no action is taken. The original state of the address - i.e., being indexed, being an error page, or awaiting indexing - always takes precedence. If the user has just used the "Index Remote Web Page" form, then all the addresses found will be listed along with their state (already indexed, error, or awaiting).
If an address is found that hasn't been encountered before, then it will be inserted into the pending file. It will have state "0", which means that it is ready to be crawled.
Following Links with Crawler: Crawling
Usually links aren't followed automatically.
To follow links in a specific document, use the "Index Remote Web Page" form on the main admin page to get the initial document. The result page will list all links found, and from there you can click to follow the desired links.
However, if the "Index Entire Site" option is chosen along with the "Index Remote Web Page" form, then all links on that site will be followed automatically.
After a page is crawled, the pending file is updated with the results of the crawl. That state will be updated to "2" if there is an error *, or to the time if there is not an error. Time is an integer representing the number of seconds since 1970. This time value is used by other parts of the script to determine whether it is time to refresh the database.
* The set of blacklisted files can be cleared by going to "Admin Page" => "Data Storage" => "Clear Error Cache" (available in FDSE version 2.0.0.0040 and newer; prior to this, the search.pending.txt file can be manually edited).
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Despite being an integral aspect of many, if not most, major attacks, social engineering tactics always seem to go underappreciated by enterprise security teams. However, it's often easier to trick someone into opening an email and exploiting a vulnerability that way, or convincing an unsuspecting assistant to provide a few useful bits of information, than it is to directly attack a web application or network connection.
So, when attackers employ social engineering tactics, what exactly are they doing? Think of social engineering as the act of exploiting people instead of computer systems. That exploitation can come in the forms of convincing someone to provide physical entrance to the data center (perhaps by acting like an insider or service tech) or tricking someone into offering a password and user ID over the phone.
The techniques for social engineering range widely, as does the potentially targeted information. For example, we said that social engineering could include a phishing email that tricks a user to open an attachment that includes some type of exploit or payload. But social engineering techniques include showing up dressed as delivery people, tech support, corporate attorney, salespeople, job applicants—you name it and it probably had been attempted and likely been used successfully somewhere.
Often, it's the goal of the social engineer to push an attack just one step further by obtaining a password, or even getting a name that can be dropped in a planned, deeper social engineering attack. Or, it could be as simple as attempting to obtain information about the network and computer systems and where data are held within the organization.
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Applications welcome for 2014 Enhanced Access Fund
1 April 2014
Applications welcome for 2014 Enhanced Access Fund
Groups undertaking projects to enhance access to New Zealand's outdoors are invited to apply for funding through the Enhanced Access Fund 2014.
The contestable fund, administered by the New Zealand Walking Access Commission, aims to support projects designed to enhance access to New Zealand's great outdoors.
A new funding approach for 2014-15 will see $76,000 made available over four funding rounds, with priority given to initiatives that obtain new access and projects such as the installation of signs that inform the public about access opportunities.
Projects that develop and improve walking access through the installation of gates, stiles and fences or creation of engineering reports, and projects that support community walking access initiatives, are also eligible for funding.
The application deadline for the first 2014 funding round is 31 May. Application forms, guidelines and information about closing dates for all 2014 funding rounds can be found online at www.walkingaccess.govt.nz.
New Zealand Walking Access Commission Chief Executive Mark Neeson said the shift away from a single annual application process would provide for more flexibility around project start dates by making it easier for groups to seek funding throughout the year.
"There are many hard working community groups doing their bit to improve access in our country and this fund is designed to give them a helping hand. More than 60 projects have received Enhanced Access Fund support over the past four years, and we expect demand for funding to remain strong," Mr Neeson said.
The Commission expects most applications will be for small projects, although a maximum of $25,000 may be granted to any one project.


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Last month our CTO, Tom, chaired a panel at the Digital Ad Lab forum. There was a great turn out at the Groucho Club in Soho and the topics talked about brought about lots of discussion.
Tom gave an introduction to the increasing use of booking URLs to streamline the process between booking an ad to delivery, whilst creating a set of metadata to accompany the file determining which job it belongs to and what has happened to it along the way. He was joined on the panel by Andy Gladden from Wellcom, Darron Barker from E Graphics, Dean Wilson from UK Metro and Mike Hoy from Papermule.
A copy of Tom's presentation can be viewed by clicking here.
A lively discussion followed with highlights including:
- Associated went live using booking URLs in first quarter of 2011. Typically 65% of copy comes from the same sender and a typical newspaper takes ads from 500 different agencies. Therefore any improvement in the workflow is of huge benefit.
- At present booking URL's relate more to newspapers as the magazine industry has been slower on the uptake.
- Are we going to end up with a WAM!NET/Vio situation with lots of vendors offering booking URL's and delivery methods with no synergy? Specle has tried to overcome this by working very closely with other vendors so users can choose which delivery process they would like to use and utilising GWG fields.
- Cost saving benefits are to the publisher.
- Is URN the right terminology, as it means other things in other industries?
- When Metro started using booking URL's the increase of usage went from 2-25% in a matter of months.
- There is still an issue about making and submitting ads correctly. Should there be a guide for doing this? I have liaised with PPA and their guidelines are available via http://www.ppa.co.uk/resources/guides-and-standards/production/pass4press/
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The sale of Fairtrade items, such as chocolate, cocoa and coffee, ensures a better deal and decent wages for the small producers.
The mayor of the Sussex city, Pat Drake, is receiving a certificate awarding the status on Friday.
She described it as a "massive and important achievement".
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"Representatives from the council, NHS, schools, volunteer groups, farmers and businesses have been working tremendously hard to bring this about and are finally receiving the acknowledgment they deserve," she said.
Brighton and Hove was honoured by the Fairtrade Foundation following the achievement of five goals, which included ensuring the products were readily available and raising awareness of the scheme.
A spokesman for Fairtrade said the award would help bring the consumer and produce closer together.
To mark the occasion, banners have been hung in the streets of the city, and fun events and promotions are being held.
These include schools playing football games with Fairtrade footballs, and shops offering taster session promotions.
Brighton and Hove becomes the 25th of the UK's 66 cities to be awarded the mark.