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The U.S. Energy Department said it was spending $6.3 million on research aimed at generating a biofuel that could be cost competitive by 2017.
SRI International of California and Research Triangle Institute of North Carolina received funding from the Energy Department for research and development projects meant to drive down the cost of producing gasoline, diesel and jet fuels from biomass.
The funding is part of an effort to make biofuels competitive with regular fuels. The Energy Department said it wants to produce a drop-in biofuel that would cost about $3 per gallon by 2017.
Data from 2011 show some biofuels were close to the point at which they'd be competitive with regular fuels.
Energy Secretary Ernest Moniz said the government is looking for ways to increase energy security and reduce greenhouse-gas emissions by advancing a low-carbon economy.
The transportation sector in the United States accounts for nearly 60 percent of domestic oil consumption and 30 percent of overall emissions.
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This guest post is from Michael Korins, an adult with autism who has a passion for singing. This post is part of an initiative on our site called "In Our Own Words: Living on the Spectrum," which highlights the experiences of individuals with autism from their perspectives. Michael's dad writes, "Being a self-advocate has not come easily to Michael. But ask him what he wants to be when he graduates High School, he will tell you immediately that he wants to be a singer."
Michael writes, "My dream is to become a professional singer when I graduate from High School. At my Committee on Special Educations meetings at school, I always talk about the music programs I want to be part of. I love to sing and play the piano at charity events. Not long ago I performed a tribute to Paul McCartney with the "Life's Connections Thru Music" performance group which you can see in the video below. He is one of my favorite all time singers. Being successful at music also motivates me to be the best I can be at everything I do."
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Flea eggs are laid in dirt or in the nest of the host; the whitish larvae feed on organic matter and the feces of adult fleas. The larvae spin cocoons as part of the metamorphosis into adults. Many species can live on more than one host species. Adults can feed for several weeks without feeding.
Fleas cause irritation and some carry diseases. The rat flea (Xenopsylla cheopsis), for instance, can transmit typhus and bubonic plague to humans. Length: 1 cm (0.4 in).
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It looks like Tom Cruise did not know that his wife had rented an apartment in Manhattan, NYC which is separate from the house they shared when they are in town.
The speculation that Tom Cruise is blindsided in his wife Katie Holmes' decision to get a divorce is getting stronger as there are reports that she had found a new place to live weeks before the papers were filed. Holmes allegedly rented her own New York City property which is separate from the couple's home.
Holmes announced the divorce through her New Jersey-based lawyer Jonathan Wolfe on Friday, June 29. Cruise was away filming "Oblivion" in Iceland, making her move to the new place easier. Cruise released a statement via his rep shortly thereafter, "Kate has filed for divorce and Tom is deeply saddened and is concentrating on his three children. Please allow them their privacy."
The 33-year-old actress is asking for the sole custody of their daughter Suri. Cruise's attorney, Bert Fields, is hoping for peace in the courtroom, stating "I would hope that it's not a contentious matter. I know Tom is not a particularly contentious person. [As far as our legal team goes,] we're thinking about who to use. We have to discuss strategy."


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Gay McDougall Speaks at United Nations Commemoration of Nelson MandelaJuly 21, 2014
On July 18, Fordham Law Visiting Professor Gay McDougall delivered remarks [pdf] at the United Nations General Assembly as part of a ceremony to commemorate Nelson Mandela's birthday. The event featured speeches by McDougall, UN Secretary-General Ban Ki-moon and President of the UN General Assembly John Ashe.
In her remarks, McDougall discussed the international impact of Mandela's life, explaining that his courage and his commitment to ending apartheid inspired her own activism during the Civil Rights Movement in the United States.
McDougall emphasized that the leaders of the UN and the people of the world must continue in Mandela's footsteps. "Nelson Mandela has left a challenge not only for South Africans but also for each of us here as we live in the wake of his life...will we make choices that reflect the ideals of justice and the example of courage that are his legacy to humanity?" she said.
McDougall is currently with Fordham Law's Leitner Center for International Law and Justice as a Distinguished Scholar-in-Residence. During the 2013-2014 academic year she was the Mulligan Distinguished Visiting Professor of International Law at Fordham. She was active in South Africa's anti-apartheid movement, serving as a member of the Independent Electoral Commission of South Africa during the nation's 1994 elections—the first elections in which black South Africans achieved the right to vote. She worked with Mandela himself on several occasions during his long crusade for equality.
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Trump's Sanctuary Cities Threat Could Jeopardize Some Police Funding
Tuesday, May 30, 2017
Some local law enforcement agencies are concerned that police jobs could be on the line because of the Trump administration's pledge to cut funding to so-called "sanctuary cities."
American Jailed in Mexico for Taking on the Drug Cartels
Friday, November 06, 2015
Nestora Salgado is an American citizen who took on the drug cartels in her home state of Guerrero, Mexico. Now she sits in a jail cell awaiting justice.
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Monday, July 27, 2015
In-house chaplains have helped detainees cope with daily frustration, even reducing violence in detention centers. But meeting the spiritual needs of people from all over the world is a challenge.
Washington Berry Pickers Push For Elusive Union Contract
Wednesday, June 17, 2015
On a recent morning at Sakuma Brothers Farm, eight Latino workers sat on a bench seat behind a tractor, planting strawberry roots that will bear fruit in a few years. Dust masks and goggles covered their faces.
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Wednesday, April 29, 2015
The city boasts one of the largest Nepalese communities. In the aftermath of the disaster, they've organized prayer vigils, collected money for relief efforts and sent medical personnel to the region.
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Indians are the 3rd largest immigrant group in the U.S. Decades ago, when immigrants moved here from India, they used to ask each other: "Why would you ever go back?" But now, many are heading back.
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Kenneth Bae, one of two American captives released from a North Korea prison over the weekend, is back home in Washington state as his family and community celebrate his return.
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Pennsylvania Powerhouse: Stradley Ronon
By Matt Fair
Law360, Philadelphia -- At around 3 one morning last May, a new $150 million rail depot along the Delaware River outside Philadelphia received its first shipment of crude from North Dakota's Bakken oil fields, bringing to fruition one of the latest major deals in the region guided by Stradley Ronon Stevens & Young LLP, a longtime go-to firm for businesses in the state.
Development of the Eddystone Rail Co. facility for the joint venture between Enbridge Inc. and Canopy Prospecting Inc. involved a number of complex legal arrangements — just the type of large, sophisticated deal that helped land the firm, which has 174 attorneys in three Pennsylvania offices between Philadelphia and Harrisburg, on Law360's list of Pennsylvania Powerhouses.
"There are a lot of complicated and sophisticated aspects of the deal, but they got their first crude oil delivery," said firm financial partner and management committee member Kevin Boyle.
With the highest concentration of light, sweet refining capacity outside of Houston, Boyle said, the deal had helped to revitalize the Philadelphia region's reputation as a major player on the national energy landscape.
"This has been a major turnaround from where the refinery picture was, say, three or four years ago," he said.
With deep roots in both corporate counseling and litigation, Stradley Ronon is uniquely positioned to represent clients looking to capitalize on Pennsylvania's growing energy boom.
"When I was coming out of law school, there were firms that were known as litigation firms and firms that were known as business firms," firm chair William Sasso said. "We had a tremendous balance because our founders came both from the business world and the litigation world. From the very beginning, we had that balance."
Stradley Ronon traces its history in Philadelphia to 1926, and Sasso said that its broad base as both a litigation and business firm was a tribute to its late founding partner Andrew Young. While many firms excel in both corporate counseling and litigation, Sasso said, Young has helped Stradley Ronon develop a thriving investment management practice as well.
"He was a true Renaissance man," Sasso said. "Even though he often described himself as a tax lawyer, he had a tremendous expertise in business law generally and developed a nationally recognized expertise in the mutual fund area."
In addition to helping found Stradley Ronon, Young worked with a friend from his days at Princeton University to found the Wellington Group, which started one of the nation's first mutual funds. Wellington has since become a part of Vanguard Group Inc.
The firm has maintained a major presence in the world of investment management since its founding.
"We are probably the dominant Pennsylvania-based firm in the investment management space," said Bruce Leto, chair of the firm's investment management and mutual fund practice. "The investment management legal industry was really born in Philadelphia and Boston, and we were right there. We have maintained a very vibrant investment management practice since 1927."
Stradley Ronon's strength in the investment management field is evident in its representation of the Philadelphia-based Delaware Investments, which controls more than $180 billion worth of assets. The firm began representing the company since its founding in 1935 and has continued to serve as counsel through three buyouts, including the company's 2009 acquisition by the Australia-based Macquarie Group for $428 million.
"Macquarie had a small presence in the United States with a couple of investment management interests," Leto said. "When they acquired Delaware Investments, it became their largest U.S. holding."
Officials said that the firm's expertise in counseling investment management entities gave Stradley Ronon a uniquely broad base in the Philadelphia legal market and made it better able to weather the vicissitudes of the economy.
"Unlike most firms that are relying on a strong litigation department, which we have, or a strong business department, which we also have, we also have the investment management group," Boyle said. "We're basically supported by three strong legs as opposed to two, which really helps us."
With a solid foundation, Stradley Ronon has been able to provide thorough representation for many of Pennsylvania's biggest companies in their most high-profile transactions.
The firm has been intimately involved in representing the manufacturer of one of the region's most iconic snack brands: Tastykake.
After losing money for several consecutive years and seeing its stock price shrink dramatically, the Philadelphia-based Tasty Baking Co. engineered a deal to sell itself to Georgia-based Flowers Foods for $165 million in 2011. Stradley Ronon, which had represented the company for years in the litigation and corporate counseling realms, helped to make sure the deal got done.
"We handled the entire sale and everything leading up to it," Sasso said. "Even though it was a small, publicly owned company, this was one of the most sophisticated management teams that I've ever seen in action."
Even after the deal with Flowers, Sasso said, the firm continued to handle legal work for the company.
"We continue to do work involving their distribution network and some employee relations matters as well," he said.
In addition to representing the company in its sale to Flowers, Stradley Ronon has helped the company to construct its new corporate headquarters in the former Philadelphia Navy Yard.
"We did all that work from real estate, to assisting with state grants and city grants, working out the financing, and reviewing the construction contracts," he said.
The firm's work for Tasty Baking shows the breadth of services Stradley Ronon strives to offer for clients both in Pennsylvania and abroad.
"We always try to stay on the cutting edge of what our clients need," he said. "I can't think of any area where we haven't developed a practice area to serve that need for our client."
In addition to representing businesses in major transactions, the company has also handled major litigation on behalf of branches of the state government.
In October the firm helped win a victory at the Pennsylvania Supreme Court on behalf of the state's General Assembly, in a case challenging the constitutionality of a law giving counties the latitude to abolish their elected jury commissioner posts.
The justices rejected arguments raised by the Pennsylvania State Association of Jury Commissioners claiming that the 2013 law illegally allowed the executive and legislative branches to usurp the power of the judicial branch.
The ruling put an end to a lengthy run of litigation and legislation over the position of jury commissioners, who historically handled the administration of jury selection in Pennsylvania's courts, before judicial reforms in the late 1970s gave the state's president judges power to reassign these duties to court staff.
The firm has also been tapped to represent the Pennsylvania Insurance Department in a dispute with Warrantech Consumer Product Services Inc. as part of the liquidating of the defunct Reliance Insurance Co. The firm helped the department prevail on claims before the Pennsylvania Commonwealth Court that state statute barred the insurer from covering claims on consumer product warranties that were made after Reliance entered liquidation in 2001.
The firm said that the decision reduced Warrantech's $12 million claim against the insurer to only $700,000.
Sasso said that the firm strived to be bipartisan in a state where many firms pledge allegiance either to Democrats or Republicans.
The firm's lack of a clear political leaning is evident in the names of several prominent attorneys who have held positions with Stradley Ronon over the years. While the firm boasts Mark Schweiker, the state's former Republican governor, as a senior adviser, it also employs former Democratic state Rep. Josh Shapiro. Shapiro, who currently serves as chair of the Montgomery County Board of Commissioners, has been named a rising star among Pennsylvania Democrats by MSNBC political pundit Chuck Todd.
In addition to litigating on behalf of state entities, Sasso said, the firm has been involved in trying to foster the natural gas industry in Pennsylvania. Stradley Ronon was involved in helping an advisory committee commissioned by Gov. Tom Corbett following his 2010 election to determine ways to best deal with the natural gas boom.
"We were involved in it from the very beginning because of our government affairs relationships," Sasso said. "From the very beginning of the whole expansion of the natural gas industry, we developed along with it."
"I can tell you that our activity has increased dramatically from companies coming from overseas looking for manufacturing locations in an area where energy is expected to be much cheaper," he said. "We're able to tout Pennsylvania as very probably the next major energy state. We sell that to these companies who are looking to relocate."
He added that he believed the energy industry would continue to fuel massive expansion of the state's economy at large and of the legal industry in Pennsylvania.
"Energy is going to continue to be a very hot area. It's really just beginning in Pennsylvania," he said. "When we get the right kind of infrastructure in place, especially a pipeline that will bring the natural gas from the central and western part of the state to Philadelphia for export, you're going to see a tremendous boom with manufacturing concerns."


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Once the product was loose, the very grass I walked on became poison for the unaffected. Food could not be eaten, water could not be drunk. What used to be a single race split into 3 different groups. The [i]unaffected[/i], the original race, or what was left of it at least, ran underground. They completely separated themselves from their environment. They became self-sufficient in whatever ways they could. The [i]affected[/i], who remained on the surface, abandoning in disgust all technology. Transformed by the product, as all other life was, they formed symbiotic relationship with everything else. They became a part of one super-organism that formed on the surface. They were all still separate entities, people, animals, plants, but they all shared common understanding. And then, there were the [i]outcasts[/i], neither here nor there, abandoned by all. Outcasts were born as unaffected, but leaks would happen, and every once in a while someone in the underground would become affected. 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Seems the technology is taking over.
No matter what egregious wrongs IBM did in the WWII camps they would like to do that wrong even better...
RFID on all things even the items you bring into your house.
RFID is BeReFT of magnets...sadly they will be shielded devices brought forth that will limit such magnetic anomalies...assured it is...
The days of T3,T2,T1 and I am not referring to processional spins...are upon us-the last days of "man" is before us and already aberrations are continuing to be brought forth.
The technology far outweighs mans small understanding-even the hidden technology-far surpasses our ability to CONtrol it.
As I have said many times once they get whatever HR####)dial a number is the game THEY play) for healthcare is all set to EXPAND THE RFID utilization-all health information, all financial data, all LEGAL and philosophical beliefs will be contained. They will claim it helps security and to protect data and assure many of false HOPE as it will be HYPE...
Implanting this kind of thing in the body is OBSCENE and will cause health problems, adhesions, scarring, heat generated-they will say it is usually off unless it is powered up by the reader...false sense of safety will prove FALSE/FALSCH in all ways. In fact few are aware of the UPC being the BAR being the CONTROL with the 3 sixes hidden by bar width-all of them have it....ALL-and within many houses the RFID is being tracked through the wrappers on your cans or an RFID attached...whether you can find it or not...ALL PRODUCTS...with NAIS it will extend to all farm animals or husbandry aspects, including pets and the ULTIMATE GOAL IS AND WILL BE HUmans...all owing allegiance to a system that will be required to buy or sell-and prone to ENFORCEMENTS via CREDITS...carbon tax to milk bought to egg laid by hen.
Food and water are excellent motivators...monSATAN knows this...CODEX is their baby
MAV, Sensory weapons of ALL KINDS-capable to drive one insane are well understood as Dr Jose Delgado and his docile BULL...from the minute steps to the titan technology that cannot be controlled.
I have more naturally but as powers and principalities strive to obstruct beyond reason I will post and continue.
BIG DOGS roam and each day they are closer to the movies many have seen...terminator FRANKEN SCIENCE is taking over-soon the calls will be made by AI not man-as he is already being overwhelmed and not to his enhancement as it will be sold but to his demise, be assured this is not a game regardless of how they play it-but very real and your mind is on the line but more importantly your very soul-
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I went to UCLA for urinary incontinence problems. My intuition warned me to run but Dr. Shlomo Raz is only two hours away and I heard he was the best so I waited 7 more months before I could get an surgical appointment. Dr. Raz told me that mesh is still the gold standard and the strongest material used for a mesh bladder sling so that was his plan for my incontinence. When I was being wheeled into the surgical theatre Dr. Raz told my husband that he can not legally implant mesh because all patients are lawyers so he would have Dr. Ja Hong Kim do that part of my surgery. I woke up from surgery in severe pain but wasn't given anything to help. Dr. Raz said not to worry this too shall pass and sent me home. I was in constant pain, I couldn't be intimate with my husband, and still can't. Dr. Raz promised he would always be here for me but would not even take the time to reply to my emails except to tell me to see Dr. Kim to let her tidy up the mesh. I had much trust in Dr. Raz, he left me broken. I went for an out patient procedure and Dr. Kim was very rude and wouldn't take the time to answer my questions and didn't report to my husband. She cut the extra mesh that she left when she implanted it and threw the cup in my face to show me how much she took out. She said that she leaves extra material so she would have some to release and to help with future leakage. She was laughing an sarcastic laugh when she was leaving and said that I had lowered her success rate and the only reason I had problems is because of the uneducated support groups on the internet have convinced me that mesh is bad. She told to me not to return to see her or Dr. Raz for follow-up care or treatment. I am waiting for an appointment to see Dr. Veronikis in St. Louis Missouri. He was very kind and willing to help me. He has already spent more time talking to me and explaining things me and my husband than all of my time spent at UCLA combined.
He is just the best in his specialty. It is rare to find doctors like him.
Dr. Raz is by far the kindest most compassionate doctor I've ever been to in my life. The wait to get an appointment is very long but so worth the wait. I had been to numerous doctors that were not able to give me any answers or help. Dr. Raz performed a very tedious surgery to remove the vaginal mesh that had been tearing my insides up and causing me excruciating pain. My quality of life has greatly improved because of his expertise. I will forever be grateful to this man. I wish all doctors were as caring as he is.
I believe dr.Raz and his staff were the most wonderful caring compassionate people I've ever dealth with. They knew exactly what they were doing the entire time I was there.. . I had surgery nov. 26th of 2012 by dr. raz and from the time we arrived they were there with me the entire time. From pre - op to post -op and when I was in recovery until Tuesday morning when I left about 8:30 .. Dr.Raz was there to answer any questions .. His staff were all very very friendly and helpful and would get me anything I needed ... They definitely know how to do there job ..... I would recommend them to all my friends and family . Truly a compassionate group of people ... Thank u to the staff in the urology department .. I appreciate all your hard work u do for so many everyday. !!!' god bless :)
Dr. Raz is impressive. I've been to 2 urologist before him, both misdiagnosed my condition. Facing life long catheterization, I was refered to Dr. Raz. Based on the symptoms I described on the patient questionaire and my age, Dr. Raz diagnosed my condition as a Bladder Neck Obstruction, even before he entered the examination room. He had me do a Urodynamic test that confirmed it. He seems to have very keen analytical abilities, able to focus on what matters while not being distracted by other symptoms that don't matter. The other doctors I've seen were just not that good or maybe not that experienced in more severe cases. I have TUIP surgery scheduled in a month - and hoping for a good outcome - no pills or catheters.
I thought there was not hope for me. Damages due to anothers surgeons mistakes. He is amazing . I continue to improve and have great confidence in this one of a kind Dr and staff.
Dr. Raz displays character, dignity, generosity, humanity - he is what everyone seeks in a surgeon. Kind, helpful, utterly dedicated to resolving your condition. He has performed several urological surgeries on me. I would recommend him to anyone with urological problems.
I am an RN & flew across the country to see Dr. Raz as no doctor could figure out what was wrong. Dr. Raz knew within minutes of first exam, then MRI & other tests confirmed. Dr. Raz was kind, assuring, and confident my pelvic floor could be rebuilt. I am incredibly grateful.
He is an excellent Urologist. I have had instertitial cystis since I was a kid and I never had anyone listen to me about my pain. Not only did he listen, give me pain medicine...but he gave me a surgery and diet that has changed my life. I am thankful I found him. He is also very punctual.
Dr. Raz saved my life. I'd had 4 other surgeries by another doc. Dr. Raz saw me within 1 week, and I was in surgery within a month. I needed a very specialized surgery (to fix a problem a GYN created) and Dr. Raz is the best. He literally created the procedure for ureter reimplantation. He took my concerns about pain mgmt seriously, and I had wonderful care. The nurses treatment at UCLA hospital left alot to be desired, but Dr. Raz was tops!
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Here's Prince Andrew abseiling down the shard in London earlier this week.
One person who wasn't impressed by Prince Andrew's abseil down the shard: writer Grace Dent.
shard glass from the historic church was recently donated to the museum, which is scheduled to open in 2015.
Top with a dollop of whipped cream and garnish with a shard of the candied bacon.
The Brooklyn Bridge, London's shard, Notre Dame—each structure is an expedition waiting to happen.
Captain shard now shook Ralph's hand cordially, though his eye held a rather sinister gleam.
He picked up a shard of rubidium that served as a paper weight and toyed with it.
Well, look at the figures and lettering on the shard; you can see those.
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On the floor under where it should have been I caught the flash of light from a shard of glass.
also sherd, Old English sceard "incision, cleft, gap; potshard, a fragment, broken piece," from Proto-Germanic *skardas (cf. Middle Dutch schaerde "a fragment, a crack," Dutch schaard "a flaw, a fragment," German Scharte "a notch," Danish skaar "chink, potsherd"), a past participle from the root of Old English sceran "to cut" (see shear). Meaning "fragment of broken earthenware" developed in late Old English. Used late 14c. as "scale of a dragon." French écharde "prickle, splinter" is a Germanic loan-word.


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The 2011 State Challenge has begun! As past president and now as now the ENAF board of trustees I am asking that you seriously consider donating on behalf of our great state.
It was once said that we ourselves feel that what we are doing is just a drop in the ocean. But the ocean would be less because of that missing drop. I see the 2011 ENA Foundation as an example of the big ocean where every little drop is a donation and that drop makes a BIG difference to the recipient. I see it as a legacy by helping to build our future nurses.
This is our biggest and most important fundraising event and our goal is $100,000 for the nation. In 2010 we donated $2,205.00 and 2009 we donated $1,175. I believe that in 2011 we can blow these past fabulous figures out of the water.
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The mission of the ENA Foundation is to provide educational scholarships and research grants in the discipline of emergency nursing this in turn improves the quality of care we deliver "stretcher side".
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I moved here from the Bay Area a few months ago and I'm pretty happy about it! People seem nicer and more real than the Silicon Valley drones I have unfortunately grown accustomed to! I seem to notice a lot more tattoos on peeps out here too...I wonder whats up with that?
About me...I grew up fat. :P So for the last few years i've been putting a lot of hard work into myself and getting results too! I'm hoping to meet somebody that is also interested in having fun while staying in shape. I seem to have a natural desire to improve and upgrade myself! A workout/running buddy would be awesome. I'm a big believer in hard work and that a person can make a difference if they find the right place to put in some effort. Kinda like relationships!
Do you like building things? You know I do! I'm an artistic type, I draw, paint, sculpt...yadda yadda. Maybe we could go draw sometime!
I'm not a big party guy and I have difficult time with shallow people. Don't get me wrong...i love people! I'm just a big fan of stability, goals and preparation. Also Transformers...but then again I did kinda grow up in the 80s.
Hate may be a strong word but I hate liars and cheaters! But to their credit they do make nice target practice :)
Sooo many. Lord of the Rings films, all Pixar movies and most Disney movies (Woot Gaston!). Also like a lt of Mel Brooks' stuff. (Blazing Saddles). Black Dynamite, Idiocracy, Jurassic Park 1 and 3.Transformers the Movie from 1986. Almost all the current Marvel comics movies liek Iron Man and Captain America. I'm big on comedy and like to laugh. I'm really getting disgusted with stupid action movies and 'gritty' films that have no substance. (ie-Michael Bay crap)
Shows- Clone Wars, Avatar: The Last Airbender, Stargate SG-1, Batman the Animated series, the Simpsons more to come!
Music- I like lots of music, but I'm not big on angry stuffs. I enjoy annoying my friends with Carly Rae Jepsen's 'Call me Maybe' :)
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Chocolate is probably the closest we'll ever come to the food of the gods -- and Dana Cain celebrates the delectable confection every year with the Colorado Chocolate Festival, which today returns to the Denver Merchandise Mart, 451 East 58th Avenue, with celebrity guests, vendors, guest speakers, live music, events, demos, contests and more.
Tonight's gala preview features wine and chocolate tastings, a cash bar, the chocolate wedding cake competition and more. It runs from 6 to 10 p.m.; admission is $12.
The biggest chunk of this cacao-loving festival takes place from 10 a.m. to 6 p.m. tomorrow; admission is $3 for kids ages five through twelve and $5 for adults; kids four and younger get in free. Visit www.chocolate-festival.org.
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Young farmer Eragon (Speleers) finds a dragons egg, and teams up with the newborn dragon, Saphira (Weisz), a former Dragon Rider (Irons) and a hot female Elf (Guillory) to tackle an evil king (Malkovich).
The next time a dragon movie script lands in Jeremy Irons' lap, he should throw the goddamn thing out the window because, after this lifeless monster and the risible Dungeons & Dragons, it's clear that winged beasts and he don't mix. And yet he's still the best thing in Eragon, which may have something to do with having the good sense to check out early.
If you think that's a spoiler, it really isn't, because Eragon is a derivative and damp re-spin of all those old fantasy epics that owe a debt to Joseph Campbell's The Hero Of A Thousand Faces. It often feels like a cheap Vegas Star Wars tribute act, albeit with a dragon playing the Millennium Falcon. Want a wet-blanket blond farmboy hero? You got it. Hell, he even has a disposable uncle and a sunset to mope at. How about a wise old wizard who sets our hero on the path to power before pegging it? Yep, that's here too. A feisty princess who gets imprisoned early on and has to be rescued? Take a wild guess.
It's easy to lay all the blame at the door of Christopher Paolini, who wrote the source novel when he was 15 — and it shows. But it's director Stefen Fangmeier who's the real culprit. A former ILM FX supervisor, his first directing job betrays his origins, as he shows more interest in the CG dragon, Saphira (a passable, but not photo-real achievement) than he does in conjuring a fresh take on fantasy. This is the sort of movie where you know the villain (John Malkovich) is evil because he broods on his throne in a dark, cavernous room. Plot holes abound, and it's moribund visually; if it weren't for the number of sweeping shots of blokes barrelling along on horseback, the movie would be 18 minutes long.
As for Fangmeier's treatment of his non-CG actors, they're hung out to dry with type-this-shit-but-you-can't-say-it dialogue like, "Taste the blood of your dragon!" Malkovich became a parody of himself long ago, but it's hard not to feel a shiver of pity for Robert Carlyle, who seems to be fighting the urge to sack his agent through every soul-crushing scene. As for Edward Speleers, the Brit newcomer in the title role, he's game enough, but sadly also pretty gormless, his blank stare multi-tasking furiously as it brings us barely discernible variations on happy, sad and heroic.
Ultimately, with a human hero it's impossible to invest in and a CG dragon that doesn't invite awe (it doesn't help that Rachel Weisz phones in her turn as Saphira's voice), Eragon just doesn't catch fire. Kids may love it, and it may do big business, but let's hope not, because that may be the only thing that can stop the sequel from spreading a dark and terrible shadow over this once proud and prosperous land.
Technically competent, but essentially a fantasy movie that mistakes industrial light for magic. As dragon movies go, Dragonslayer, Reign Of Fire and even Dragonheart can rest easy.


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International Survivors of Suicide Day Conference – Livermore, CA
Saturday, November 23, 2013 from 8:00 AM to 12:30 PM (PST)
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"Before today, I didn't realize that there are others out there who feel exactly the way I feel."
- Survivor from Alberta, Canada
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Watch a Movie with an Adoption Theme
No matter if your children were adopted or are biological, watching an adoption-related movie with your family can help open the lines of communication about adoption. Picking the right adoption-centered movie can bring your entire family together and help each member of your family have a fuller understanding of many important aspects of adoption. Here are some family-friendly adoption movies:
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I am still in the process of adopting a child from Ethiopia, but I am always looking for ways to discuss adoption with our young son. We have an assortment of books about adoption for him, but I am excited to watch adoption-related movies with him.
Given his age, we will be adding Stuart Little and Kung Fu Panda 2 to his Christmas list. Lilo and Stitch is applicable for foster care, but many parents warn that it is not appropriate for young children or those currently in foster care.
Babe, the movie about a pig who is separated from his birth family, is an adorable movie that would appropriate for many adopted children. I've also heard that Snow Dogs is a good movie that incorporates transracial adoption. And Pinnochio has got to be the classic adoption movie.
Through some quick research, I also found that many parents recommend Meet the Robinsons, a Disney movie about an orphan who dreams of finding a family and travels through time to save the planet and learns about his family. The movie does have some critics, but it does make the topic of adoption approachable in a funny and action-packed animated movie that many kids will enjoy. Click here for a review of the movie.
Additionally, I plan on seeing Martian Child, starring John Cusack. This movie is rated PG, but it might be more appropriate for older adopted or foster children.
Last, I loved the movie Annie when I was a child. I had two records of the soundtrack (yes, records…can you guess my age?), and I wore them both out. I might try to add the movie to our regular rotation of Cars and Toy Story. I do wonder if Annie is too literal or stereotypical for an adopted child to build a positive identity about adoption. Thoughts?Lindsay H
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The Fremantle Dockers are still knocking on the door of the AFL top eight after a 27-point win over Port Adelaide at AAMI Stadium.
Skipper Matthew Pavlich kicked two goals for the Dockers along with Chris Mayne and Clancee Pearce as they picked up their 10th win of the season, 11.9 (75) to 6.12 (48).
Nathan Fyfe was also among Fremantle's best after a lengthy stint on the sidelines following shoulder surgery in May.
It was a dismal performance from the Power, the home side managing just two goals to half time and failing to add another major in the third term.
Only four goals, from nine scoring shots, in the final quarter added some respectability to the score.
Brett Ebert tried hard up forward kicking two goals while Brad Ebert was also effective along with Travis Boak and Daniel Stewart.
The Dockers jumped Port in the opening quarter with five goals to one to take a 24-point lead into the first break.
A series of defensive errors kept the Power under the pump throughout much of the term with only a goal to Brett Ebert at the 25 minute mark relieving some of the pressure.
By the main break Fremantle had extended the lead to 34 points but inaccurate kicking from the Dockers kept Port in the game.
The visitors added 1-5 for the term but restricted the Power to just a solitary point despite the home side kicking with the aid of a handy breeze.
In the third term the Power failed to kick a major with Fremantle adding three to extend the lead to 44 points as Pavlich started to have an impact up forward.
The Power had most of the play in the final quarter, but Fremantle steadied with two goals to continue the team's good form in July.


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The brand is encouraging Londoners and tourists to test the theory that taking a power nap after drinking a dose of caffeine increases energy levels.
As such, the baker has created a number of giant branded coffee cups that visitors will be able to climb into and sleep in after sampling a free coffee. Greggs has dubbed the experience a 'Nappucino'.
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Beginning the year on a positive note, the Phoenix office of Jones Lang LaSalle completed the sale of Papago Spectrum to German-based investor GLL Real Estate Partners, reportedly for $21.6M.
According to Jones Lang LaSalle, the sale of the 159,764 SF Class A multi-tenant office building in Tempe points to continued optimism for buyer interest and activity in 2013.
"Investors see tremendous promise in the Phoenix commercial office market," said JLL Senior Managing Director Dennis Desmond, who with Senior Vice President Brian Ackerman served as the property's exclusive listing brokers. "We have a strong inventory of well occupied, stabilized opportunities and — for good reason — buyers from across the globe have an overarching interest in placing capital here."
GLL was represented internally by Senior Vice President Christopher Quiett and Senior Associate Eric Ramm.
Papago Spectrum sits at the geographic center of the Metro Phoenix, at Priest and University drives, just off of the Loop 202 Freeway in Tempe. The building is 91% occupied, with the University of Phoenix taking the top two floors. Recent leases filled an additional 27,000 SF in five-year deals.
"Close proximity to Arizona State University and a strong local employment pool ensures that vacancy rates around Papago Spectrum are almost always in the single digits," Ackerman said. "However, submarket rents are also still slightly depressed. With this building's strong occupancy, it makes for a very stabilized core asset with solid room for improvement."
According to JLL's 2013 Outlook report, Phoenix office leasing velocity and stability is forecasted to improve and bring positive gains well into the first half of 2013. This is based on factors including, but not limited to:
>> A development pipeline that will remain empty as the market burns through vacancies.
>> A closing window of opportunity for securing low rents and concessions, especially in Class A properties.
>> A number of large tenants in the market, spurring anticipation for back-office and customer service-related leases in 2013.
Similar transactions by the JLL Phoenix office include the $20.8M sale of Scottsdale Centre, a 164,000 SF building on Scottsdale Rd. near Camelback Rd.; the $16.6M sale of Camelback Arboleda, a 179,751 SF, multi-tenant office building at 16th St. and Camelback in the heart of the Camelback Corridor; and the $23.3M sale of Agave Center, a 27-acre, mixed-use property at Warner Rd. and I-10 in Tempe that includes four office buildings, a flex industrial building and 4.6 acres of land ready for development.


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"Hey Hustler," one informant offers, "make it rain: bring your business cards." Truly sound advice, and if you've got half as much charisma as this source does, you'll do well to bring some. Movers, shakers and emerging industry firebrands will be in heavy attendance at our featured panels this October—prime networking territory. You might even make a lifelong friend or two.
A CMJ badge is worth its weight in glossy laminated prestige, and then some (walk-up registration is now open at Judson Memorial Church). The gift bag, networking, and unlimited access it provides is priceless.
And now, the Top 15 Survival Tips for CMJ 2013:
1. Cash is king in NYC. Sure, our delis will put your coffee cup to go in a paper bag, and you'll get a set of plasticware with just about anything you buy, but perks often end there. Be advised that many businesses are cash only. This includes restaurants where you can easily drop a day's wages. Others might take plastic, but only accept one type of card. Beware of credit card minimums, too.
2. If you plan on using your phone for all that modernity demands of it, bring your charger with you to shows. Pro tip: flirt with the sound guy for your electrical needs—bartenders hate people bugging them for stuff that doesn't pour, but the sound guy is lonely. So lonely.
3. Don't over commit yourself to a hectic band schedule. Pick one or two per night that you really have to see, and then just let the night take you where it may.
4. Likewise, if you're a planner, have a realistic game plan. Don't try to get from Terminal 5 in Hell's Kitchen to Glasslands in Williamsburg in the same night.
5. If you must trek across vast distances in short order because your favorite band is in one spot and your boyfriend's band is in another, then take a taxi. Don't sweat the fare for once. To get across town on limited time, there is no better way to go.
6. Even better, have an app call a car for you, like a boss. Uber can connect you with a driver at the tap of a button. All CMJ registrants will receive a huge fare discount too!
7. Study a map. This is a big town, liable to make even the most seasoned traveller feel like a Hobbit fresh from the Shire. There will be some very pretty maps in your collectible festival guide, but before you get your hands on that, familiarize yourself with the lay of the land.
8. Bring your ID. Many venues will check to see that it matches your badge.
9. Get there early. Just because you have a badge, doesn't mean you're getting in. If a venue is at max capacity, that's all there is to it, and popular shows will fill up fast.
10. Buddy up. There are often long lines outside the venues, and it's more fun waiting with your friends than trying to find them after a long wait outside.
11. The popular daytime panels fill up quickly too. Snag a seat early before the room reaches capacity.
12. Bring a backup pair of earplugs because you don't want tinnitus before you're 40, and after five days your original pair will be kaput, and kind of nasty.
13. The only acceptable slice on the Lower East Side is Rosario's, and it's in between a dozen good venues.
14. New this year is CMJ Yoga, in the Kimmel Center. Start your day off right with a little hair of the downward dog.
15. Pack flexibly, including comfy shoes, maybe with squishy inserts. Walking is always the best way to travel here. You might want to look your best for an event in one of the fashion capitals of the world, but you should be equally prepared to battle rogues/zombies/giant rats in the subway as you are to attend an elegant dinner.


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HCP (HCP) is having an ugly year. The stock is off more than 12%, lagging the broader market by a dozen percentage points.
That's partly due to the same forces afflicting many real estate investment trusts, like Health Care REIT mentioned above. These stocks had huge runs last year, and fears that the Federal Reserve could start tapering its bond-buying program spurred investors and traders to lock in profits.
Longer-term, the outlook is just fine for HCP. Like the competition, it's active on the acquisition front, which loads up costs now for returns on capital later. It also operates in a sector that has tailwinds for the next 20 years or so, as the baby boomers enter their dotage.
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About the Book
The title "Charms" comes from May's main influence with this book, Daniil Kharms, a Russian Absurdist playwright and author. Each micro-story of May's is a creative exploration of simplicity, in some cases to the ridiculous, in order to comment on larger facets of our modern day, western conditions. Each "charm" is a bit absurd as Kharms' influences peak through. Strikingly, they are also as enjoyable as they are shiny and small. With every entry comes a percolating, meaningful experience for any reader who allows a couple of deep breaths between the pages.
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Wednesday, Jan. 9, 2013 7 p.m. to 7 p.m.
Location: Jesup Memorial Library, 34 Mount Desert St., Bar Harbor , Maine
For more information: Melinda Rice; 207-288-4245; jesup.lib.me.us
BAR HARBOR, Maine — The Jesup Memorial Library and the newly formed Acadia Astronomical Society will team up for The I Spy the Sky program to teach people about telescopes at 7 p.m. Wednesday, Jan. 9, at the library.
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Have a new telescope? Bring it and learn to use it; or attend and learn about the Jesup's new telescope, how to check it out and take it home, just like a book.This is a free service and part of the Jesup's ongoing community outreach.


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With the never ending diasters that continue to happen, everyone needs a survival kit. Great compact survival kit. Good for your home, office, car or dorm room. It has a prepaid calling card, hygiene kit, camera, duct tape to name a few of the items. With all of the fires and earthquakes in California and Hurricanes and Tornadoes in the rest of the country, I would suggested this item to everyone.


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While I'm posting this, David and Eduardo Schwank (Edit: Delpo will join them tomorrow, Pico on Monday) are having their first practice session at the venue, after training at the Tenis Club Argentino yesterday. Here's a look at David, "live" from that session.
There was no press conference today but on Argentine TV channel TyC Sports, Martin Jaite confirmed that he's planning to rely on David and Delpo for playing the first two singles rubbers on Friday (source) and that David will play the doubles with Eduardo Schwank (source).
A few more photos from today now on the Photo Page.


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For Hilmar's Jacob Ahid, nothing has ever seemed impossible. Not even overcoming one of the most difficult obstacles that has come across his life so far - something that put his baseball future in jeopardy, or at least on pause: Tommy John surgery.
Former Pitman High volleyball standout Lindsey Vander Weide made her mark at the University of Oregon this past fall after finishing her freshman year with conference honors.
Former Turlock High Bulldog Darren Trainor will soon be playing baseball for Lewis-Clark State College after signing his letter of intent on June 4 out of Merced College.
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With a superb final round of 8-under 280, the Stanislaus State men's golf team made a late run at the 43rd Annual Hanny Stanislaus Invitational on Tuesday at the Turlock Golf and Country Club.
In a matter of a few days, the Warriors went from a suddenly-CCAA tourney hopefuls to being eliminated as Cal State L.A. defeated Stanislaus State, 68-62, Thursday night.
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Playing against Desert Stinger tournament host Montana State Billings late into the night, the Warriors won a slugfest at a quarter after 11 p.m. to split on the opening day of their season.
The Stanislaus State baseball team sprayed more hits with another starting pitcher throwing up blanks as the Warriors defeated William Jessup, 7-0, Saturday afternoon to complete the three-game series sweep.
With two solid starts and plenty of hitting, the Stanislaus State baseball team opened the 2016 season with a bang after a pair of victories over William Jessup on Friday.
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The restoration of forested areas along creeks and streams in the Chesapeake Bay watershed continues to decline.
Called riparian forest buffers, these streamside shrubs and trees are critical to environmental restoration. Forest buffers stabilize shorelines, remove pollutants from contaminated runoff and shade streams for the brook trout and other fish species that thrive in cooler temperatures and the cleanest waters.
While more than 7,000 miles of forest buffers have been planted across the watershed since 1996, this planting rate has experienced a sharp decline. Between 2003 and 2006, Maryland, Virginia and Pennsylvania planted an average of 756 miles of forest buffer each year. But in 2011, the entire watershed planted just 240 miles—less than half its former average.
Farmers and agricultural landowners have been the watershed's driving force behind forest buffer plantings, using the conservation practice to catch and filter nutrients and sediment washing off their land. But a rise in commodity prices has made it more profitable for some farmers to keep their stream buffers planted not with trees, but with crops. This, combined with an increase in funding available for other conservation practices, has meant fewer forest buffers planted each year.
But financial incentives and farmer outreach can keep agricultural landowners planting.
The Chesapeake Bay Foundation (CBF), for instance, has partnered with the U.S. Department of Agriculture and others to implement conservation practices on Pennsylvania farms. Working to put the state's Conservation Reserve Enhancement Program (CREP) funds to use, CBF provides farmers across the Commonwealth with technical assistance and financial incentives to plant forest buffers, often on the marginal pastureland that is no longer grazed or the less-than-ideal hayland that is rarely cut for hay.
The CBF Buffer-Bonus Program has encouraged Amish and Mennonite farmers to couple CREP-funded forest buffers with other conservation practices, said Dave Wise, Pennsylvania Watershed Restoration Manager with CBF. The reason, according to Wise? "Financial incentives … make it attractive for farmers to enroll."
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For each acre of forest buffer planted, CBF will provide Buffer-Bonus Program participants with up to $4,000 in the form of a "best management practice voucher" to fund conservation work. This comes in addition to CREP cost-share incentives, which fund forest buffer planting, post-planting care and annual rental fees that run from $40 to $350 per acre.
While Wise has witnessed what he called a "natural decline" in a program that has been available for more than a decade, he believes cost-share incentives can keep planting rates up, acting as "the spoonful of sugar" that encourages farmers to conserve in a state with the highest forest buffer planting rates in the watershed.
"There are few counties [in the Commonwealth] where buffer enrollments continue to be strong, and almost without exception, those are counties that have the Buffer-Bonus Program," Wise said.
In 2007, the six watershed states committed to restoring forest buffers at a rate of 900 miles per year. This rate was incorporated into the Chesapeake Bay Executive Order, which calls for 14,400 miles of forest buffer to be restored by 2025. The Chesapeake Forest Restoration Strategy, now out in draft form, outlines the importance of forests and forest buffers and the actions needed to restore them.
Farmers, foresters and an active coalition of landowners and citizens have been honored for their efforts to conserve, restore and celebrate Chesapeake forests.
From planting native trees and shrubs to engaging students in forest conservation, the actions of the winners from across the watershed crowned them Chesapeake Forest Champions in an annual contest sponsored by the U.S. Forest Service and the Alliance for the Chesapeake Bay.
Image courtesy Piestrack Forestlands LLC
Three farmers were named Exemplary Forest Stewards: Ed Piestrack of Nanticoke, Pa., and Nelson Hoy and Elizabeth Biggs of Williamsville, Va. Ed Piestrack and his wife, Wanda, manage 885 acres of forestland and certified Tree Farm in Steuben County, N.Y. The Piestracks have controlled invasive plants and rebuilt vital habitat on their property, installing nest boxes, restoring vernal pools and planting hundreds of trees on land that will remain intact and managed when it is transferred to their children.
Image courtesy Berriedale Farms
Close to 400 miles south in the Cowpasture River Valley sits Berriedale Farms, where Nelson Hoy and Elizabeth Biggs manage land that forms a critical corridor between a wildlife refuge and a national forest. Hoy and Biggs have integrated their 50-acre Appalachian hardwood forest into their farm operation, protecting the landscape while finding a sustainable source of income in their low-impact horse-powered forest products business.
Image courtesy Zack Roeder
Forest Resource Planner Zack Roeder was named Most Effective at Engaging the Public for his work as a forester in Pennsylvania's largely agricultural Franklin and Cumberland counties. There, Roeder helped farmers manage and implement conservation practices on their land and helped watershed groups plant streamside forest buffers. Roeder also guided a high school in starting a "grow out" tree nursery and coordinated Growing Native events in local communities, using volunteers to collect native hardwood and shrub seeds for propagation.
Image courtesy Savage River Watershed Association
The Savage River Watershed Association in Frostburg, Md., was commended for the Greatest On-the-Ground Impact. In a watershed whose streamside trees have shaded waterways and provided critical habitat to Maryland's rare reproducing brook trout fisheries, the organization has worked to conserve area forests, removing invasive plants and putting more than 4,000 red spruce seedlings into the ground.
The Chesapeake Forest Champions were celebrated at the Chesapeake Watershed Forum in Shepherdstown, W.Va. Learn more about the winners.
It's easy to see why the Iroquois once called Pine Creek Tiadaghton, or "the river of pines." A mix of hardwoods, including the eastern white pine and the eastern hemlock, now line its banks more than a century after the region was clear cut by Pennsylvania's once-booming lumber industry.
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At close to 90 miles long, Pine Creek is the longest tributary to the West Branch of the Susquehanna River. But Pine Creek once flowed in the opposite direction—until a surge of glacial meltwater reversed the creek to its current southerly flow, creating the driving force behind Pine Creek Gorge. Named by the National Park Service a National Natural Landmark in 1968, the gorge is better known as the Grand Canyon of Pennsylvania.
At its deepest point, Pine Creek Gorge is 1,450 feet deep and almost one mile wide. Visitors can view the gorge (along with dramatic rock outcrops and waterfalls) from the east rim of the canyon in Leonard Harrison State Park. On the west rim of the canyon is Colton Point State Park, which features five stone and timber pavilions built in the 1930s by the Civilian Conservation Corps. And in the Tioga State Forest, approximately 165,000 acres of trees, streams and awe-inspiring views await hikers, bikers, hunters and more. Pine Creek is paralleled by the 65-mile Pine Creek Rail Trail, which a 2001 article in USA Today named one of the top ten places in the world to take a bike tour.
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The Primus AW is made from 51% recycled material. More than 22 recycled soft drink bottles are used to make the patented Cyclepet fabric needed for each bag, reducing the amount of materials in our landfill sites. Cyclepet combines both water and abrasion resistance, together with an ecologically minded design.
The Primus AW has been created to celebrate Lowepro's 40th Anniversary, and as part of Lowepro's continued commitment to conservation and environmental protection around the world, for each bag sold, a financial contribution will go to Polar Bears International (PBI) - a not-for-profit organisation dedicated to the worldwide conservation of the polar bear.
The unique design of the Primus AW combines maximum comfort, protection and accessibility with minimal bulk - making it perfect for adventure-bound outdoor photographers. The main camera compartment is padded and holds a digital SLR pro body with zoom lens attached, in addition to one or two extra lens or flash unit.
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The Primus AW comes with an additional top daypack compartment that is large enough to carry a range of outdoor accessories and boasts Lowepro's unique All-Weather CoverTM, a built-in memory card pouch and outside hatch pocket for quickly retrieving outdoor accessories. The bag's exterior features the new Glide-Lock system with attachment points that are available for tripods, outdoor accessories or to add any Slip-Lock compatible products.
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Available in black and arctic blue, the Primus AW commemorative anniversary backpack will be on sale in August 2007 with a guide retail price of £179.


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Germany have arranged a friendly international against Canada as preparation for their UEFA EURO 2004™ qualifying double-header in June.
Away dates
Rudi Völler's side will face the 'Maple leafs' in Wolfsburg on 1 June, prior to visiting Group 5 rivals Scotland on 7 June and the Faroe Islands four days later.
A first for Wolfsburg
It will be Germany's first international in Wolfsburg, where they will play at the 30,000-capacity Volkswagen-Arena, which was opened last month. Völler may be missing some regulars from his squad for the friendly, with the German Cup final being played just 24 hours earlier in Berlin.
Friends reunited
Völler scored one of the goals when Germany beat Canada 2-0 in their only previous encounter shortly before the 1994 FIFA World Cup. He will encounter a familiar face in Canada coach Holger Osieck, who worked as a coach for the Germany Football Federation (DFB) from 1979-1990 and was Franz Beckenbauer's assistant when Germany won the 1990 World Cup.
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Mark Dampier is enjoying the move by hedge funds into the retail investment market via Ucits III. The head of research at Hargreaves Lansdown was wary of absolute return funds when they first appeared. I spoke to him when BlackRock (then Merrill Lynch Investment Management) launched its Absolute Alpha fund in 2006, and he said he would wait to see if it worked before making any judgements.
Lower risk funds "have to be bang on right", he said at the time.
Now, he is a fan, with the caveat that the absolute return sector is a mixed bag and some funds are difficult to analyse. The BlackRock fund "did what it said on the tin", he reckons.
The funds provide retail investors with what they really want (did they but know it), according to Mr Dampier – and he is in a better position to know than most fund managers, who don't talk to investors very much.
Before the technology boom and bust people didn't really get the relative return approach of fund managers. When technology funds went down 75 per cent, people thought the managers must have run off with the money, says Mr Dampier. They found it incredible that managers didn't sell shares they thought were hugely overvalued.
It is a strange industry in that respect – running money in a way that does not answer the needs, or expectations, of its customers. The hedge fund industry has done investors a service in that respect – bringing a different mindset to the job. On the flip side, it also brought high charges and an expectation that fund managers should earn shedloads of money for their (often illusory) skills.
Mr Dampier thinks hedge fund managers get paid far too much, and he objects strenuously to performance fees. He does not buy the argument that they align interests – they just line the pockets of fund managers, he says.
I am sure he will share his views with the hedge fund managers who come visiting to sell their new Ucits III wares to Hargreaves Lansdown. Let's hope they pay attention, and resist the temptation to flog funds where any outperformance produced gets paid away in performance fees.