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SJ Berwin is set to lose disputes partners Tim Beale and Justin Michaelson in a double London raid by two US firms.
Beale, a specialist in commercial litigation and fraud, is heading for Reed Smith, following SJ Berwin corporate partner Perry Yam, who quit for the US firm's City base just over a year after his unsuccessful managing partner election campaign (14 December 2011).
Michaelson, who heads the firm's London international arbitration practice, has resigned to join Fried Frank Harris Shriver & Jacobson. He joined SJ Berwin in 2007 from Weil Gotshal & Manges, where he was a senior associate (1 May 2007).
The departures follow the exit of another contentious partner at the firm, competition litigator Lesley Farrell, who is leaving to join Eversheds (4 September 2012). Beale and Farrell were both members of an SJ Berwin focus group aimed at corporate investigations work (21 June 2010).
Michaelson recently successfully defended Marshall Capital Holdings against allegations that it participated in fraudulent conspiracy in the landmark Nutritrek case in relation to the so-called corporate veil (20 June 2012). He acted for LV Finance Group in the long-running MegaFon dispute which settled in 2007 and, along with Fried Frank London partners Nick Cherryman and James Kitching, has spent time at the bar.
His role as City international arbitration head is not a formal position, with Dubai and London-based disputes partner Tim Taylor QC, who heads the arbitration practice globally, set to continue in overall charge of the group.
Reed Smith European and Middle East commercial disputes head Richard Spafford commented: '[Beale's] experience in running complex cross-border commercial litigation will make him a strong addition to the Reed Smith disputes team."
Fried Frank litigation chair William McGuinness told The Lawyer: "We're very excited to get someone of Justin's stature and reputation and his skill set matches our strategy of building out our international disputes practice."
An SJ Berwin spokesperson said in a statement: "We thank Justin and Tim for their contributions and wish them both every success for the future."
The exits echo the resignations of City private equity funds duo Nigel van Zyl and Oliver Rochman last summer to join US firm Proskauer Rose, with which the UK firm had broken off merger talks around a year before (27 July 2011).


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This week's race to No. 1 on Billboard Hot 200 is won by Taylor Swift, sending Susan Boyle and Michael Jackson to sit at the second and third places respectively.
After dethroned from the top spot of Billboard Hot 200 following her historical 1-million-copy debut, Taylor Swift finally clears her way back to the penthouse of the U.S. albums chart this week. The country music singer claims the No. 1 position once again with her latest effort "Speak Now".
She switches places with Susan Boyle. As the young singer moves up to the first spot with additional 259,000 copies (up 29%), the "Britain's Got Talent" singing sensation has to drop one slot to the runner-up place with 254,000 units sold for her set "The Gift".
So far, "Speak Now" has sold a total of 2.6 million copies after only two months of release. It becomes this year's third-best selling album, standing behind Eminem's "Recovery" (3.2 million) and Lady Antebellum's "Need You Now" (3 million).
Beside pushing aside Boyle, Swift also stands in Michael Jackson's way to the top spot through his first posthumous album. Featuring Akon, 50 Cent and Lenny Kravitz, the "Michael" CD lands at the third place with 228,000 in its opening week.
The next two spots are secured by Jackie Evancho's "O Holy Night" and "Glee" Christmas album. Next, there are R. Kelly and Diddy-Dirty Money. Kelly arrives at No. 6 with "Love Letter" (154,000), and the Dirty Money enter just behind him with "Last Train to Paris" (101,000). Nicki Minaj's "Pink Friday" falls from No. 6 to No. 8, Kid Rock's "Born Free" returns to the Top 10 list at No. 9 after being absent for a while, and "Glee" once again makes a double invasion by placing its "Volume 4" collection at No. 10.
The next highest chart debut outside the Top 10 this week is Crystal Bowersox's "Farmer's Daughter". Selling around 58,000 copies with her debut album, the "American Idol" runner-up bows at No. 28. She beats winner Lee DeWyze in opening sale number, but her "Farmer's Daughter" chart debut is a couple slots lower than his "Live It Up". He entered at No. 19 with 39,000 last month.
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- "The Gift" - Susan Boyle (254,000)
- "Michael" - Michael Jackson (228,000)
- "O Holy Night" - Jackie Evancho (191,000)
- "Glee: The music, The Christmas Album" - various artists (158,000)
- "Love Letter" - R. Kelly (154,000)
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- "Pink Friday" - Nicki Minaj (97,000)
- "Born Free" - Kid Rock (94,000)
- "Glee: The music, Volume 4" - various artists (87,000)


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Crackdown 2: Project Sunburst
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If in doubt about a game's ability to stand up on its own merits, attach a popular console brand to it. Voila! Instant sales.
Such is the case with Seed's otherwise-merely-interesting spin on tower defence. Presumably considered a little vanilla simply as a TD game set on real-world GPS maps, the game instead imports some of the weapons and enemies from the Crackdown 2 'universe' (please) and hopes we'll come bounding over like happy Labradors.
It's not a bad effort - at least initially. You can let Bing know where you'd like to set the game, and a top-down GPS map of your favourite battleground loads up, complete with your 'base' of operations. With mutant freaks making a relentless beeline for your manor, the idea is to set up defences of your choice, from simple machinegun nests to lasers and grenade-spewing turrets.
From there, you have the option of directing your fire as you see fit, or you can let the AI get on with the task at hand. As you earn money for kills, you can level up and repair your units, and even let the game get on with defending your honour while you're not playing.
But the autonomous nature of it all means it's slightly pointless to play. With more of a defined structure, this would have worked, but as it is the rather woolly notion of expanding your defences over a larger area doesn't work very well.
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The Gravity Guy has a rare, incurable condition. Like many who find themselves unwittingly exposed to Celine Dion's music, he has the compulsion to run as far away as possible. In his case, the rejection of the skinny Canadian is so profound that his muscle fibres are permanently locked in a fight or flight state.
Forced to continue running forever, he has developed the cunning power to bend gravity to his whim. This is just as well, really, because he has the law in hot pursuit. Even hate-crimes against balladeering are frowned upon these days.
But beneath the hate, his jumping heart remains pure, and it's up to you to dictate which way gravity works for our desperate fugitive.
Superficially, this is Miniclip's Canabalt; a runaway one-button super-minimalist platform masterpiece with no happy ending. But while Canabalt at least afforded you the opportunity to leap to safety, here you have to let gravity do its thing, thrusting you up to the safety of a nearby ceiling or down to the floor. As soon as an obstacle appears, you have no choice but to flip things around once more - more often than not without knowing whether safety awaits.
Unlike Canabalt, a definite structure awaits, with 30 levels to bound through - each with checkpoints - allowing you the chance to become mired in gleeful trial and error. He might have vengeance in his heart, this Gravity Guy, but his aim is true.
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It's Marble Madness, Jim, but not as we know it. Rather than being entrusted with merely rolling a ball down to a waiting hole, Zattikka wants us to build the whole god-damned track instead.
As is the way of these things, it's never quite as easy as it looks. Given a limited number of track parts, you must place them carefully around an isometric environment and then unleash the ball.
Assuming you've placed them all correctly, the ball will roll gently down to the exit hole and you can mentally high-five yourself for not smashing it into little chunks.
The problem, though, is that the ball will smash if the ride home is anything less than perfectly smooth. You can't allow it to drop even a tiny fraction, and it will continue to roll in a straight line unless you manage to divert it with a directional arrow. Sure enough, the further you progress through the 50 puzzles, the more twists and turns you encounter, and the more elaborate your creations need to become in order to satisfy the gods of puzzling.
With its violently garish visuals, Isoball won't exactly court many admiring glances from the cool kids, but don't believe its lies. Beneath its polite, poverty-stricken exterior lies a growling beast of a puzzler that will keep you up all night. As ever, it's the quiet ones you've got to watch.


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Name of Casino
I believe the name of the casino is Royal Casino and not Royale Casino. We should probably change the title of this page. What do you think? Masterpogihaha 08:40, 9 February 2009 (UTC)
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In the game in Spanish, it's Casino Royale, just like it's real-life counterpart.


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Paper - Belfer Center for Science and International Affairs, Harvard Kennedy School
Analysis of Policies to Reduce Oil Consumption and Greenhouse-Gas Emissions from the U.S. Transportation Sector
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As the U.S. debates an economy-wide CO2 cap-and-trade policy, the transportation sector remains a significant oil security and climate change concern. Even though the transportation sector consumes the majority of the U.S.'s imported oil and produces a third of total U.S. Greenhouse-Gas (GHG) emissions, economy-wide CO2 prices at their currently projected levels will have little impact on this sector. Faced with this reality, the United States has adopted programs such as aggressive new vehicle efficiency standards and the "Cash-for-Clunkers" car scrappage program. Other possible programs include higher gasoline taxes or fees and performance subsidies for low-carbon emitting vehicles, and feebates and incentives for smarter growth.
This study examines the impact of five scenarios. We first study an economy-wide cap and trade program along the lines outlined in the American Clean Energy and Security Act. Then we investigate what happens if, in addition to economy-wide CO2 prices, Congress also imposed one of several transportation-specific measures: a strong gasoline and diesel tax, continuing to increase the passenger car fuel efficiency standards between 2020 and 2030, and aggressive performance-based tax credits for alternative motor vehicles. In our final scenario, we assume that the United States adopts each of these policies. The 2009 version of the Energy Information Administration's (EIA) National Energy Modeling System (NEMS), an energy-economic equilibrium model of U.S. energy markets, is used to estimate the impacts of these scenarios-both in terms of carbon mitigation and economic costs.
Several results stand out.
First, all the policy scenarios modeled fail to meet the Obama administration's goal of reducing total U.S. GHG emissions 14% below 2005 levels by 2020. If there is a strict cap on emissions that must be met either with emissions reductions from covered sources or through purchases of offsets, our results imply that large purchases of offsets will be required. Sector-specific programs in sectors other than transportation are not included in our analysis and may help meet the Obama administration's goals.
Second, the largest reductions in GHG emissions from transportation are obtained by increasing the cost of driving with fuel taxes. While CO2 prices are equivalent to fuel taxes, CO2 prices at their projected levels are far too small to create a significant incentive to drive less. Fuel prices above $8/gallon may be needed to significantly reduce U.S. GHG emissions and oil imports. At such prices, CO2 emissions from the transportation sector alone are reduced to 14% below 2005 levels and net crude oil and petroleum product imports decrease by 5.7 million barrels per day, relative to 2008 levels. Efficiency policies such as performance standards and purchase tax credits, while politically palatable, do not address growth in Vehicle Miles Traveled (VMT), an important root cause of GHG emissions from transportation.
Third, purchase tax credits are an expensive way to reduce oil consumption and GHG emissions from transportation. We observe that artificially increasing the popularity of alternative motor vehicles through tax credits has the unintended effect of decreasing new conventional vehicle fuel economy as compared with implementing Corporate Average Fuel Economy (CAFE) standards without the credits. Furthermore, aggressively subsidizing alternative motor vehicle purchase is a very expensive proposition, costing the government roughly $22–37 billion per year. Reducing this figure through appropriations limits would limit the influence of the subsidy program.
Finally, the macroeconomic impacts of reducing GHG emissions are small, even with our relatively aggressive policy scenarios. Losses in annual Gross Domestic Product (GDP), relative to business-as-usual are less than 1%, and GDP is projected to grow at 2–4% per year through 2030 under all scenarios. Similar results hold for other macroeconomic indicators. This result clearly illustrates that aggressive climate change policy need not bring the economy to a halt.
All of our conclusions rely on the NEMS model that, like all models, has its flaws. We caution against embracing the absolute numbers resulting from our analysis. These results should, instead, serve as an indicator of the nature of impacts that would be observed in various transportation policy scenarios. The overarching conclusion of this report is that reducing GHG emissions and fuel consumption in the transportation sector will be an enormous challenge that requires stronger policy initiatives than are currently being discussed by policy makers.
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Jubilant to invest $80 million in Myanmar oil and gas block
London-listed explorer Jubilant Energy
The India-focused energy company is in talks with the Southeast Asian country to buy stake in another block, and hopes to finalise a decision in a few weeks, Chief Financial Officer Vipul Agarwal told Reuters.
We had bid for two blocks. They have offered us one, but we are keen for both. We are still negotiating, he said.
Last week, Myanmar awarded 10 onshore oil and gas blocks in its biggest energy tender in years.
With Western companies staying away and lukewarm response from the Chinese, most blocks were awarded to Asian companies, including Malaysia's Petronas
Myanmar has been moving fast to implement political reforms and attract investment, but there has been no easing of sanctions imposed by Western countries for human rights abuses under the former military regime.
A new civilian government has embarked on political and economic reform since last year and, if further steps such as the release of political prisoners are taken, sanctions could be loosened.
The country's proven gas reserves at 11.8 trillion cubic feet at end-2010, according to the BP Statistical review, have drawn interest from China and India where strong economic growth is fueling energy demand.
Jubilant won the PSC-1 production sharing block, two sources with direct knowledge of the deal told Reuters last week.
Agarwal did not give details of the likely reserves in the block but said it looked to be a predominantly gas field.
Jubilant will hold nearly 78 percent in the block, with the remainder being held by a local company, he said.
The production sharing contract for the block will likely be signed in two to three weeks.
The company is part of the New Delhi-based Jubilant Bhartia group that controls Indian drugmaker Jubilant Life Sciences
Jubilant Energy, which listed in London in November 2010, currently holds a portfolio of nine blocks in India and an exploration block in Australia.
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Beggarstaff Biography
The Beggarstaffs were:
Sir William Nicholson, English, (1872-1949) & James Pryde, Scottish, (1866-1941)
Under the pseudonym, they virtually created the modern poster, with clear outlines and large areas of flat colour. Perhaps the most influential graphic designers of all time.
William Nicholson's woodblock prints of the 1890's were amongst the most revolutionary British print images of the era. They used a treatment of form, with a stylised simplification of shape, and a handling of perspective and picture space which had had no precedent in British art. Influences of Japanese art, and a parallel thinking to, if not a direct knowledge of, the ideas of Toulouse Lautrec and of the Nabis painters in Paris at the same period can certainly be felt, although there is no record that Nicholson had actually studied either at this date.
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Asunta Manok left with her 10-year-old son Makuei for his first trip to her homeland the day the shooting started in South Sudan.
By the time they arrived in the capital Juba from their home in Seven Hills, she had to blindfold him so he could not see the birds picking at bodies by the side of the road. She told him the constant crack of gunfire was fireworks.
Last year the annual pilgrimage of South Sudanese refugees back to their homeland turned deadly. At least one Australian has been killed and there are grave fears for the safety of perhaps hundreds more. It is feared they are stranded in their home provinces without transport or even food or shelter, at risk of being caught in the fighting that erupted after a failed coup attempt before Christmas.
It is estimated between 300 and 400 members of Sydney's South Sudanese community travelled to the world's newest country in late November and early December to visit friends and relatives, deliver gifts and participate in rituals.
The Department of Foreign Affairs and Trade says it has evacuated 200, and is urging any remaining to get out while commercial flights are still running. It says the government's ability to assist Australians in South Sudan is ''extremely limited''.
It is estimated at least 1000 people have been killed and more than 200,000 displaced from their homes since fighting broke out between the government of President Salva Kiir and forces loyal to former vice-president Riek Machar.
''The situation is very bad'', Ms Manok said. ''There are a lot of people dead''. She and her son were there only one day before her husband, Joseph, told her to contact Australian consular officials, who arranged for their immediate evacuation to Nairobi on an American military plane.
But Sydney community leader Matur Gorjok Gak said those visiting family outside the capital, especially in the three worst affected states of Jonglei, Unity and Upper Nile, were stuck without transport. ''I don't know how they will get out of there,'' Dr Matur said. 'I think we will hear some sad news again.''
Sydney's South Sudanese community is in mourning for John Mac Acuek, 42, from Blacktown who was killed last Tuesday near the town of Bor after the four-wheel-drive in which he was travelling was ambushed by rebel fighters.
Mr Acuek's widow Elizabeth Leek said he had been working in South Sudan to pay for the education of their five children. ''He is a family man,'' she said. ''He never let his family down. He never turned his back from anyone.''
She last saw her husband in September while visiting South Sudan. At Christmas, instead of returning home, he remained in South Sudan to help his family there escape the conflict, she said. ''His mother and brother and sister are there and he was trying to get them to safety,'' she said.
Mr Acuek's brother, Deng Thiak Adut, said: ''The country is only two years old and now they are killing each other. They are dying now without a purpose.''
Ms Manok's husband Joseph, a social worker, keeps calling their family in Rumbek, five hours by car from the capital. He has not heard from his mother and brother since before Christmas. ''They are not answering,'' he said. ''I don't know what is wrong.''


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They came out of charity. They left with booming record sales.
The galaxy of rock stars who took part in Live 8 concerts on Saturday to help beat the curse of poverty have seen their discs fly off the shelves in British music stores -- a case of bank balances as well as consciences winning out.
Live 8's main cause, making poverty history, also benefited though, after the London performance of Beatles classic Sgt Pepper's Lonely Hearts Club Band was released over the internet with all proceeds going to the campaign.
According to HMV, one of Britain's main record retailers with 200 stores nationwide, Pink Floyd's Echoes album posted a staggering 1,343 per cent increase in sales on Sunday compared with the same day a week ago.
The band re-formed for the Live 8 concert in London's Hyde Park where they joined pop legends Paul McCartney, Madonna, U2 and Elton John among others in front of 200,000 people.
"Even allowing for the relative nature of this exercise...this snapshot still shows that the Live 8 concert is having a marked effect on sales of featured artist recordings," said Gennaro Castaldo, spokesman for the HMV chain.
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What if I commit malpractice?
Well, you might. That's a risk for even experienced attorneys, but yes, new attorneys are more prone to it so make sure you have good legal malpractice insurance before you serve your first client.
One thing that can help you get over your fear of committing malpractice is by reviewing other attorneys' work and seeing how many holes you can find in what they are doing. We don't mean to say you should pick at other people's work or that you should crusade against every attorney who's done a less than adequate job, but instead that you will find comfort in knowing everyone (even very experienced attorneys) make mistakes.
One of my senior colleagues told me that he has people come back into his office for reviews of their estate plan every three to five years in part to catch his own mistakes or errors in planning judgment.
You have to do your best by finding out what you don't know; researching appropriately; getting co-counsel to review your plans for the first few clients and having a great law business mentor you can turn to for guidance along the way.
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Staff friendly, bathroom tiles looked greasy like garage shop obviously old needs update, bedding dingy, constant police patrol in parking lot
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Pet friendly.
Rates were great, room was amazing and I will stay again. The $100 deposit that was not stated as a requirement when booking.
I know there were sections of the hotel were smoking was allowed, but it was very obvious that marijuana was being smoked leader or inside the building and it made all rooms snow is if they had marijuana in them I did not like the smell of marijuana seeping into my room and being just in the hallway this is I open my front door
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The price and the pet-friendliness I didn't feel safe parking my car People roamed the hallways at hours They was loitering that appeared to be drug and/or prostitution related in the parking lot Inadequate parking close to the rooms People making horrible noises until 2:00am Bad spiritual energy
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Most of the staff was friendly, very conveniently close to places. AC didn't work so the friendly maintenence guy was nice enough to replace it but it didn't work that well either. The other people that came with us stayed in another room and the beds/towel were made 1 out of the 3 nights that they stayed.
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Panchayat minister Subrata Mukherjee told a news conference at Trinamul Bhavan in Kasba today that the funds would be required for ongoing projects such as construction of rural roads and for the payment of beneficiaries under the 100-day job scheme.
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Champaign IL (SPX) Feb 21, 2013
It has been almost 20 years since the first genetically modified foods showed up in produce aisles throughout the United States and the rest of the world, but controversy continues to surround the products and their regulation.
Bruce Chassy, a professor emeritus of food science and human nutrition at the University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign, believes that after thousands of research studies and worldwide planting, "genetically modified foods pose no special risks to consumers or the environment" and are overregulated.
Chassy will elaborate on this conclusion at the 2013 meeting of the American Association for the Advancement of Science in Boston on Feb. 17. During his talk, "Regulating the Safety of Foods and Feeds Derived From Genetically Modified Crops," Chassy will share his view that the overregulation of GM crops actually hurts the environment, reduces global health and burdens the consumer.
Farmers have witnessed the advantages of GM crops firsthand through increases in their yields and profit, and decreases in their labor, energy consumption, pesticide use and greenhouse gas emissions, Chassy said.
Despite these benefits, various regulatory agencies require newly developed GM crops to be put to the test with rigorous safety evaluations that include molecular characterization, toxicological evaluation, allergenicity assessments, compositional analysis and feeding studies.
This extensive testing takes five to 10 years and costs tens of millions of dollars, and Chassy argues that this process "wastes resources and diverts attention from real food safety issues."
"With more than half of the world's population now living in countries that have adopted GM crops, it might be appropriate to reduce the regulatory scrutiny of GM crops to a level that is commensurate with science-based risk assessment," Chassy said.
During his talk, Chassy will chronicle the scientific tests used in pre-market safety assessments of GM foods and elaborate on the evidence from thousands of research studies and expansive GM plantings that he says show these crops do not present risks to consumers or the environment.
The overregulation of GM foods is a response not to scientific evidence, Chassy said, but to a global campaign that disseminates misinformation and fear about these food sources.
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SODDIT – The Sucker Stand
Strange & ODDity In Technology – welcome to SODDIT, a hopeful new regular at MP4Nation. We'll scour the internet superstores and bring to you the intriguing, the weird, the strange, the odd, and the downright unbelievable. Please, don't let the loose stringency of our acronym naming system turn you away.
This week in SODDIT we look at The Sucker Stand, a stand for your smartphone and other assorted devices. Stands are an oft-overlooked accessory for your phone, especially if the phone has video call capability. Why hold it when you can get a stand to do it for you? It's a principle that resonates at the human frequency, appealing to our tendency toward laziness with the same potency as food appeals to a starving dog. But before we get started, we just need to give a shout out to whoever owns the set of hands imaged above: epic fingernails.
The Sucker Stand stand is an interesting concept, unabashedly blending the idea of smartphone function with toilet bowl emergency. When the plunger is required, you know that something has gone wrong. It's a moment of sheer terror and heart-gripping panic. The realisation that evacuated components of your digestive system have managed to clog plumbing that was designed to handle anything the human body can throw at it is deeply embarrassing and at the same time a little pleasing in a vain kind of way.
Application seems relatively simple. Press on phone surface, squeeze out air, negative pressure has the plunger clinging to your phone like a snail on a wall. The plunger stand evidently works on more than just a phone, with compatibility confirmed for a calculator, but it'll probably work on e-book readers and other light-weight devices. The manufacturer of the Sucker Stand also saw fit to provide exmaples of how not to use it, presumably as protection against lawsuits filed by those occupying the lower echelons of intelligence.
Tip #1: Don't attempt to use this to unclog a toilet. Not only will you not succeed, but the hygiene implications are horrific. Tip #2: Don't attempt to use this as a head stand? Don't plunge your forehead in general? We can't really be sure what the second warning is all about. It may be the case that plunging your forehead is a great health risk that we don't actually know about, because nobody really does it. I think that's it.
The Sucker Stand really is a winning product, providing that it doesn't rip the back cover off your phone when you try to remove it. It's funny, practical and easy to use. It conjures up thoughts of the toilet humour variety which is always a great way to lighten the mood. In fact, we can't think of any drawbacks at all. If you're looking for a phone stand that looks a little bit different, and is a pretty effective conversation starter (for that colleague you've been eyeing for the past fortnight) then look no further than the Sucker Stand. You really can't go wrong with it.
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I guess "Sucker Stand" sounds a lot better than "Mini Toilet Plunger Stand"


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That's right folks – I'm not a real atheist. I'm writing this manifesto so that if (or when) I ever do anything stupid, other atheists can point at me and say I'm not a real atheist. It was the person (me) who was the moron and my atheism had nothing to do with it.
I admit that Richard Dawkins' God Delusion is not sitting prominently on my bookshelf. Christopher Hitchens' various debates and videos are not on my desktop for easier viewing. I will listen to deists and theists debate God and even take their arguments seriously.
I have read the Bible more than once and find religion and the various ideas that religion has to offer fascinating. I've been inside a church and as much as it hurts to admit…I liked it. I have religious friends. I entertain thoughts about the supernatural, like ghosts and the human spirit. I even like myths! If someone were to look into my archived articles here on NV, you'd find articles about things like the Ark of the Covenant, even.
To make matters worse, I have a set of moral codes that I try to uphold, even though I don't believe that the Bible is the source of all morality. I think it's possible that Jesus was a real man, although I don't think that if he did walk the Earth that he was the son of God. I contemplate about whether or not we have a spirit and wonder if there is anything besides a void after the life leaves my body.
To compound my blasphemy, I dislike Richard Dawkins, although I will listen to what he has to say. I don't even know why I dislike him, besides a gut feeling I get whenever I see his face. How illogical and un-atheist is that of me!?
Wait…there's more.
I celebrate Christmas and I even call it Christmas and not Holidays. I say 'Merry Christmas' to people around Christmas time. If someone is Jewish, I don't mind in the least if they say 'Happy Hanukah' to me. I will probably say something like, 'Happy Hanukah to you too', and then smile with good cheer. I call Easter…well…Easter. I celebrate that holiday too.
I'm not a member of American Atheists. I didn't even know they existed until I sat down to write this article. I also didn't know there was a list of atheist authors on Wikipedia. I should have known. It's only logical since Wiki has stuff on almost everything humanly imaginable. If I were a real atheist, I'd know this kind of stuff.
As you can surely see, I'm a horrible atheist. I don't follow many of the stereotypes given to them. I am awash in un-atheist behavior.
Then again, I doubt this manifesto will ever be taken seriously. If I were to do something horrible (God forbid – see! More un-atheist activity right there) I would not be able to hide behind the 'he's not a real atheist' label.
It seems only religious people get to do that - He's not a real atheist would never be taken seriously.
Whenever I see Christians (in this case) say that someone isn't a 'real Christian', I rub my head and shake it too. Then I wonder if they would consider the Pope a Christian, even after he said: "In the 1970s, pedophilia was theorized as something fully in conformity with man and even with children," and then went on to say that pedophilia wasn't an "absolute evil."
Surely…the Pope is a real Christian. Right?
This is the guy that Catholics give donations too and look too for spiritual and moral guidance? This is the guy that I see in the newspaper on a regular basis preaching about ethics and we're supposed to take him seriously?
In a perfect world, every pedophile priest would be prosecuted and stripped of their rank. The Pope would be thrown out on his white clad ass for spewing such stupid, heinous and irresponsible garbage. And it would be those 'real Christians' who threw him out.
Let's all drop the 'real Christian' crap and call a spade a spade. If someone believes in Jesus and God and reads the Bible but uses the passages found within to back up their own desires, they're still real Christians. The Pope is a real Christian. Bachman – you guessed it – real Christian. Perry, evangelicals and fundamentalist – real Christians.
And I guess I'm a real atheist after all.


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What phantom is this that appears
Through the purple mist of the years,
Itself but a mist like these?
A woman of cloud and of fire;
It is she; it is Helen of Tyre,
The town in the midst of the seas.
O Tyre! in thy crowded streets
The phantom appears and retreats,
And the Israelites that sell
Thy lilies and lions of brass,
Look up as they see her pass,
And murmur "Jezebel!"
Then another phantom is seen
At her side, in a gray gabardine,
With beard that floats to his waist;
It is Simon Magus, the Seer;
He speaks, and she pauses to hear
The words he utters in haste.
He says: "From this evil fame,
From this life of sorrow and shame,
I will lift thee and make thee mine;
Thou hast been Queen Candace,
And Helen of Troy, and shalt be
The Intelligence Divine!"
Oh, sweet as the breath of morn,
To the fallen and forlorn
Are whispered words of praise;
For the famished heart believes
The falsehood that tempts and deceives,
And the promise that betrays.
So she follows from land to land
The wizard's beckoning hand,
As a leaf is blown by the gust,
Till she vanishes into night.
O reader, stoop down and write
With thy finger in the dust.
O town in the midst of the seas,
With thy rafts of cedar trees,
Thy merchandise and thy ships,
Thou, too, art become as naught,
A phantom, a shadow, a thought,
A name upon men's lips.
Poet: Henry Wadsworth Longfellow
Poem: Helen of Tyre
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Indiana County brothers will join Civil War group for encampment at Clymer Days festival
Brothers Channing and Alonza Mack have traced their family tree back six generations to two brothers who took up arms in the Civil War — one wore blue; the other wore gray.
Always fascinated by that aspect of their family's history, the Mack brothers play out that interest through the Blue and Gray Brigade Civil War reenactment group based in Irwin.
The Blue and Gray Brigade has its marching orders for Sept. 27-29, when it will stage an encampment as part of the annual Clymer Days festival at that town's Sherman Street Park.
Though Channing Mack said the group "usually flies by the seat of our pants" at events, with no pre-set schedule, he said the crowd can expect to see a living history demonstration and artillery and rifle presentations.
As its name implies, the Blue and Gray Brigade presents reenactors for both the Union and Confederate sides of the war. The group portrays both the 116th Pennsylvania Volunteer Infantry, wearing blue Union uniforms, and the 4th Kentucky Volunteer Infantry on the Confederate side.
Channing Mack of Homer City said several members of the reenactment group chose to don the gray uniforms of the Confederates due to their own ancestry.
"Most of our families have Southern heritage and actually fought on the Confederate side," he said.
The Blue and Gray Brigade is a small and relatively young reenactment group, with its 11 members ranging in age from 12 to their early 60s.
Channing Mack, a 2008 graduate of Homer-Center High School, has been with the group three years and serves as its vice president.
His fiancée, Arnella Swetof, and her son, Brady Grimm, also both of Homer City, have become involved in the group as well.
Other members hail from Irwin, Latrobe, Ligonier and Leechburg.
The Blue and Gray Brigade, which began as a Boy Scout activity, has been around since 2006. When it's members outgrew Scouting, they went into reenacting full-time.
Channing Mack became aware of the group in 2008 through a Boy Scout function at Penn Run's Camp Seph Mack, during his last year as a Scout. The next year, he actively sought out the group and joined its ranks.
Alonza Mack, 16, of Blairsville is enrolled in PA Cyber School. He said he joined the group two years ago, learning about the Blue and Gray Brigade through his brother.
"I got involved because I needed to get out of the house more," he said, also citing his interest in the role his ancestors played in the Civil War.
Civil War history has enchanted Channing Mack since he was in sixth grade.
What always captured his attention, he said, was "the whole history of it and the culture that surrounds it, the military components and how they lived their camp life."
But what particularly drew him to learn more about the Civil War and its combatants was the strength of character a person had to possess in order to survive the brutal aspects of being a soldier in that day and age.
"I've always been fascinated by what type of person it actually took back then to fight a war like they did," Channing Mack said.
His interest in the war also stemmed from his own ancestors' involvement, namely two brothers — sixth-great uncles of his — from Bedford County, one of whom volunteered for a Pennsylvania unit and the other for a Virginia unit.
"The one in Virginia never made it out," Channing Mack noted. "The other lived his life out in Bedford County."
In fact, that Union soldier's rifle is still part of the family collection.
When Channing Mack first became involved with the Blue and Gray Brigade, he relied on the Internet and suggestions from other group members to help him piece together his uniform.
From the start, he knew he'd be representing the Confederate side.
"They tried to put me in a blue one, but I won't do it," he said.
The basic Civil War uniform is typically wool trousers and a jacket, cotton suspenders, knee-high boots with wooden soles and a forage cap. Channing Mack's uniform is decked out with other accoutrements, including a leather waist belt from which he hangs a cartridge box and a cap box. His bayonet and non-commissioned officers' sword also hang from the belt, and at his back, he has harnessed a large knife.
At encampments, Channing Mack erects a sergeant's tent — a large canvas tent that is held up by wooden planks — where he spends his time when the group is not taking part in a demonstration. The encampment shows the everyday living situation of a Civil War soldier — where they slept, what they ate, how they cooked, and how they spent any free time they had.
The Blue and Gray Brigade is more of a living history group than an actual reenactment troupe, focusing on life in encampments and on rifle and artillery demonstrations.
One of the group's highlights has been member Alisha Charnesky's portrayal of Dr. Oriana Moon, a Confederate surgeon who served in a Virginia hospital, helping many wounded soldiers after the Battle at Bull Run (known as the Battle of 1st Manasses by the Confederates).
Charnesky's schedule hasn't meshed with the group's this past year, according to Channing Mack. But, when she is available, she demonstrates how first-aid and various forms of surgery were executed during the war.
There is a new "act" in the group that will be featured in their coming events.
One of its members, Darnell Kovalchick, portrays Clara Barton, a Civil War nurse known as the "Angel of the Battlefield." Barton went on to found the American Red Cross after the end of the war.
"She's just getting started with it," Channing Mack said of Kovalchick's tribute to Barton.
The group also portrays a Civil War-version of military police, called the Provost Guard. Channing Mack is involved in that aspect of the group, portraying a corporal in the Confederate Army.
The guard executes mock trials during their enactments, demonstrating what would happen when a Civil War soldier was arrested for desertion.
The deserter is placed in leg irons and presented before his commanding officer. After a trial, the soldier is found guilty, followed by a demonstration of a firing squad.
In addition to demonstrating firing of rifles and other artillery, the Blue and Gray Brigade has a small mortar that it keeps on site at its encampments.
Alonza Mack is the loading instructor for the Confederate side of the Blue and Gray Brigade, a rank he achieved through training with the captain and because of the number of events he attends.
"I attend as many as I can," he stated.
He helps lead rifle and artillery demonstrations for the public, while also ensuring the well-being of the brigade members when firing.
"I teach the people in the crowd how to load the muskets correctly," he said, noting he also supervises the riflemen in the group "to make sure we have a safe firing squad."
Channing Mack's fiancée, Swetof, is just getting started with the group. She and her son, Brady, 12, both portray privates.
"She doesn't like wearing the dresses or anything — she'd rather play with guns," Channing Mack said.
The Blue and Gray Brigade can be seen in many area festivals and parades. The group set up encampments this past year at Fort Allen Summer Days, the Twin Lakes Art and Heritage Festival near Greensburg and, most recently, at the Flax Scutching Festival in Stahlstown.
The next stop is the Laurel Highlands Council Camporee, to be held next weekend at Heritage Reservation in Farmington. The group will travel to the Gettysburg American Civil War Museum Oct. 13 and 14.
Channing Mack said the Blue and Gray Brigade is always received warmly by the crowds at the various festivals and parades it attends, and people always have plenty of questions for the reenactors. The most common one: "Are the guns real?"
Channing Mack said the answer is, "Yes, they are. You can fire a real bullet out of them."
He said children always want to try their hand at shooting one, and with parental permission, the group allows them to do so.
"It doesn't matter the age, we'll show them how to shoot it," he said.
The Blue and Gray Brigade can be found online at www.blueandgraybrigade.net.
Gina DelFavero is a staff writer for Trib Total Media. She can be reached at 724-459-6100, ext. 2915 or email@example.com.


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Costello and John Howard gave different signals on who came up with the idea of the tax cut, but both agreed that it represented a new policy that, in Howard's words, would "guide us next year".
Costello also had the perfect retort to Labor's claim that the biggest-taxing government in the nation's history had delivered the most miserable tax cut: Paul Keating's infamous "L-A-W" tax cuts did not pay one dollar to one taxpayer for one day.
But it is not the amount that creates an opportunity for Simon Crean - whose budget reply tonight looms as potentially the most important speech of his political career - it is the likelihood that middle Australians will pay more to go to the doctor and face higher university fees under this budget.
Education Minister Brendan Nelson has crafted a comprehensive package that offers universities more resources, more flexibility and more diversity - but the debate is focusing on access and equity.
The key point of political vulnerability is the debt burden some students will face, especially those who take advantage of a new interest-bearing loan to pay full fees.
Nelson yesterday mounted an impressive defence, arguing that there are adequate safeguards in his "transformational package", but the debate is only just beginning. Far more politically sensitive are the changes to Medicare, which will be the focus of Crean's budget reply tonight.
The Labor leader will unveil a fully costed "down payment" on his plan to save bulk-billing, increasing the Medicare rebate without, sources suggest, touching the 30 per cent private health insurance rebate.
Like Costello's tax cut, the big question will be whether he will offer enough.
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The New Orleans Jazz Fest returns in 2016 with some a large selection of acts from across many genres. Check out the table below for your opportunity to get New Orleans Jazz Fest tickets in single-day passes or multi-day passes for either of the two weekends it'll be held this year.
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The New Orleans Jazz Fest was created in 1970 by festival mogul and music producer George Wein, who also created the Newport Jazz Festival in 1954 and Newport Folk Festival in 1959. Wein charged Allison Miner and Quint Davis with producing the first festival, and the two brought aboard a number of local jazz performers.
Over time attendance has risen from a mere 350 people at the first festival to a high of 600,000 in 2001. The lineup of the event has also changed over the years, from primarily jazz and other New Orleans and Louisiana-based sounds to an expanded set of genres, including rock, R&B, hip hop, and country. The festival is also known for its selection of Cajun foods, crawfish, and other regional cuisine.


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Would you like to save as your currency permanently or for this visit only?
it was relaxing and in convenient location. T he staff were great The only complaint is that equipment advertised should be working properly as our air conditioner and hair dryer were not working. The hair dryer was replaced however we had no airconditioner.
Staff had poor english and were scarce when needed. There was very little security. No in-room breakfast etc etc...........
The room was not clean with tea & coffee cups still dirty from previous guests. The shower screen was broken & generall the standard was extremely disappointing.


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In both commercials and print ads, the VW Touareg is shown towing a massive Airstream trailer with ease, tagline "Touareg, the Volkwagen that does what other Volkswagens don't."
Except it can't do it. CBSNewYork reports.
"We did make a mistake." Volkwagen's embarrassed Press Relations Manager spoke with us via satellite from Detroit. Tony Fouladpour admitted the tongue weight of the trailer in the ad is too heavy for the Touareg, a fact VW's marketing department failed to check, said Fouladpour: "They got a little too excited, they took too much artistic license."
Hat tip to Leslie, and belly laughs to Alec who wondered if "Foul Ad Pour?" was really Tony's last name.