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(CNSNews.com) - Seeking to seize the momentum of the presidential race, Republican nominee George W Bush will spend the next several days talking about an issue Democrats consider to be their home turf: health care and prescription drugs.
Speaking in Florida Monday at the kickoff of a two-day swing through the state, Bush defended his 10-year plan to overhaul the Medicare system and provide for a prescription drug option by injecting competition in the Medicare system, which he characterized as "a plan that will make the system modern."
"My opponent's point of view is that, in order to have a prescription drug benefit, you'll be thrown into a government-run HMO (health maintenance organization)," Bush told seniors at a Clearwater, FL, retirement village. "You don't have flexibility. That's not fair and that's not right. You ought to have a variety of options."
The move highlights Bush's newfound weakness in once-safe states such as Florida, where the Texas governor had been leading Vice President Al Gore by double digits before the Democratic Convention, as well as a perceived Republican vulnerability on health care issues, especially prescription drug coverage for 12 million seniors who have none.
In recent weeks, Gore has made political headway out of Bush's lack of a prescription drug coverage plan, telling the Texas governor to "put up or shut up" when it came to unveiling a proposal to reform Medicare.
Bush's plan, unveiled last week, is modeled on the health care coverage extended to federal employees. Under the plan, the Medicare system would be forced to compete with private insurance programs, and seniors who chose to leave the system would receive premium support.
Seniors who choose more extensive private coverage would pay more out of pocket. A prescription drug benefit would be added to Medicare for seniors who chose to stay in the government program.
Seniors who make up to 175 percent of the poverty would be eligible under Bush's plan, which would be phased in over 10 years. States would receive $48 billion immediately to defray drug costs as the $110 billion total plan is phased in.
The Bush plan is based closely on the plan put forth by the bipartisan Breaux Commission on the Future of Medicare. That plan was rejected by Clinton-appointed commission members in a 10-7 vote, one short of the supermajority needed for passage.
Presently, Medicare, which covers 39 million elderly and disabled Americans, is scheduled to run out of funds in 2008.
The 60 Plus Association, a free market-oriented seniors group, endorsed the Bush plan Monday.
60 Plus President Jim Martin said, "Governor Bush's plan builds upon the common sense approach of the [Breaux] Commission ... It strengthens Medicare, help seniors pay for all or part of Medicare premiums and subsidizes prescription drug costs, with low-income seniors receiving special help."
However, the AARP, the nation's largest seniors group, indicated it had reservations, though the group's analysts are still studying the proposal, according to a spokesperson.
"We're glad to see both sides recognizing the importance of prescription drug coverage," said Greg Marchildon, spokesman for the AARP. "There are many ways to provide coverage, but all plans should make their first goal the long-term solvency of Medicare."
The Gore campaign released a statement claiming that the Bush plan "fails to cover millions of seniors," and it blasted his new campaign theme, "Real Plans for Real People."
Meanwhile, the Gore camp unveiled a new campaign ad attacking HMOs and stressing the need for "a real patients' bill of rights."
The ad features the Malone family, whose son Ian was born with severe brain damage. Malone was denied at-home nursing care by his HMO despite a doctor's certification that it was medically necessary.
The ad says that after Gore intervened in the situation, the company agreed to continue the coverage.
"Al Gore got the Malone family the help they needed. But knowing that all families need protection from HMO abuses, he's fighting for a real Patients' Bill of Rights," says the ad.


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The 2017 SmallSat Symposium is pleased to welcome Agile Communication Systems as a sponsor to this years event.
Airbus is a global leader in aeronautics, space and related services. In 2015, it generated revenues of €64.5 billion and employed a workforce of around 136,600. Airbus offers the most comprehensive range of passenger airliners from 100 to more than 600 seats. Airbus is also a European leader providing tanker, combat, transport and mission aircraft, as well as Europe's number one space enterprise and the world's second largest space business. In helicopters, Airbus provides the most efficient civil and military rotorcraft solutions worldwide.
Arianespace is the world's leading satellite launch company, providing innovation to its customers since 1980. Backed by 21 shareholders and the European Space Agency, the company offers an international workforce renowned for a culture of commitment and excellence. Arianespace has launched more than half the commercial satellites operating in geostationary orbit today. As of October 29, 2014, 220 Ariane launches, 35 Soyuz launches (9 at the Guiana Space Center and 26 at Baikonur with Starsem) and three Vega launches have been performed. The company's headquarters is in Evry, near Paris, and has local offices in Washington, D.C. (United States), Tokyo (Japan) and Singapore.
Ball Aerospace pioneers discoveries that enable our customers to perform beyond expectation and protect what matters most. We create innovative space solutions, enable more accurate weather forecasts, drive insightful observations of our planet, deliver actionable data and intelligence, and ensure those who defend our freedom go forward bravely and return home safely. For more information, visit www.ball.com/aerospace or connect with us on Facebook or Twitter.
The 2017 SmallSat Symposium is pleased to welcome Boeing as a sponsor to this years event.
Clyde Space is an award winning globally recognised innovator and supplier of CubeSat and small-satellite systems. Their approach to designing and building spacecraft systems is enabling a new generation of spacecraft for commercial, civil and military applications and is defining the standard for today's 'New Space' revolution.
Now in its 12th year of operation, Clyde Space continues to expand its capability and is now supporting missions at all levels, from conceptual design, development, integration, testing, through to launch and on-orbit operations.
Clyde Space has heavily invested in development over the past year, recruiting heavily, expanding facilities and announced their international expansion plans. The company have over 80 staff and are growing at rate of over 50% per year, a rate on par with their facilities. This increase is enabling Clyde Space to win greater orders and develop over 70 satellites this year alone, 80% of these sales are out with Europe and half of which are US, influencing their decision to internationalize.
DHV Technology designs and manufactures fully custom solar panels on PCB substrate or aluminum honeycomb substrate (CFRP), body mounted or deployable. Sensors and other elements could be integrated under customer requirements. DHV Technology has long expertise on photovoltaic technology.
Among others, DHV Technology has manufactured the solar panels for the Italian satellite UNISAT-6 that was launched from Yasni (Russia) on June 19th 2014. The solar panels are working currently under nominal conditions according to the telemetry installed on the Satellite. DHV Technology has signed a contract with G.A.U.S.S. Srl to supply the solar panels of UNISAT-7 that will be launched in 2017.
DHV Technology has participated as well in several projects for 1U, 2U, 3U and PocketQubes. For example, DHV Technology is external provider of solar arrays for TRISAT mission, funded by ESA and developed by Maribor University in Slovenia. It is a 3U CubeSat project with deployable solar arrays.
DHV Technology is very competitive price and very serious in quality and deliveries. DHV Technology is a ISO 9001 and ISO 14001 certified company.
DHV Technology is listed in the NASA publications NASA/TP-2015-216648/REV1 "Small Spacecraft Technology State of the Art" (pp.24-26) within the Small Satellite technology available for the market.
DHV Technology has clean room facilities in Malaga (Spain), so we manufacture solar arrays in a very safe and professional way.
DHV Technology is a company registered in SAM (System for Award Management) from USA government.
DHV Technology is a private company founded in 2013.
Glavkosmos history goes back to February, 1985. The main objectives of the Company consisted in the space activities with foreign partners. Together with departmental structures a number of intergovernmental and interdepartmental agreements, in which Glavkosmos was defined responsible for their implementation, was prepared.
Space research and its application for peaceful purposes, both research and development and commercial cooperation in the field of materials science, remote sensing, biology and medicine, solar physics, astrophysics, solar system research, communication, implementation of mutual projects on designing, launching and operating of spacecraft were the priority areas of collaboration. Glavkosmos successfully carried out its international economic activities in the field of rocket and space technologies, research and development works including designing space technology, and also participated in works on conversion subject.
From the very beginning our Company has consistently expanded its successful experience in carrying out commercial projects in the exploration of space for peaceful purposes together with other countries and space agencies and private companies. Nowadays Glavkosmos possesses unique space experience both on Russian and international markets.
Hogan Lovells is a cutting-edge, end-to-end strategic legal practice for satellite system operators, investors, manufacturers, or other transaction parties. We work with those involved in "traditional" space, NewSpace, and government procurements, around the world.
We help companies take their satellite systems from drawing board to implementation, and safely navigate the multi-layered risks and issues they will face. We understand the technology, business, and regulatory issues ahead of you, and know the strategies necessary to achieve real world success. Acting as an integrated part of your team, we work to understand the challenges you face to structure the best transaction for you.
We have a robust inventory of winning resolutions, unparalleled complex deal experience, a cohesive global team approach, and deep industry expertise. We are pioneers alongside our entrepreneurial clients for their most innovative industry developments, providing practical legal solutions wherever your work takes you.
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Kratos is the leading global provider of turnkey enterprise-grade ground segment solutions that assure operations and communications performance across satellite, terrestrial and hybrid networks. Products include the Monics® family of industry leading carrier monitoring; interference detection, geolocation and mitigation capabilities; EPOCH® IPS, the leading Command and Control (C2) product; COMPASS® for network monitoring and control and NeuralStar®SQM for end-to-end service management.
Kratos will demonstrate quantum®GND, an easy-to-use, out-of-the- box ground system for small satellites. The quantum family also includes quantumCMD, a C2 solution for small sat fleets or a single satellite, qFEP for front end processing and qRadio for RF signal processing. quantumGND unifies these solutions into a pre-integrated, affordable, turn-key small sat ground system.
With experience spanning 300 missions over 30 years, Kratos assures secure management, delivery and distribution of data and information from space and terrestrial-based platforms for defense, intelligence, government and commercial satellite partners.
Since its foundation in 1884, Mitsubishi Heavy Industries (MHI) has been the pioneer in the manufacturing industry, including aerospace rockets. From 2007, we began to provide launch services for commercial and government missions. MHI will continue to make new approaches, and strive to be the best in the space industry.
Orbital Systems is a leading manufacturer of ground station antenna systems including complete cost effective solutions for TT&C antennas used to control and monitor satellites. Orbital offers antenna positioners and integrated RF subsystems with single or multi-band feeds, upconverters, downconverters and HPAs in X, S and L bands, in sizes from 5m to 1.5m. Orbital's field proven antenna systems are fully range tested, reliable and safe, and fully compliant with international standards.
Pumpkin Space Systems designs and manufactures turnkey satellite solutions for sophisticated government and commercial missions under 25 Kilograms. Complete NanoSats and Cubesat spacecraft from 1U to 12U in size are its sweet spot. With flight heritage on over thirty missions by over a dozen customers, Pumpkin's industry leading SUPERNOVA bus is modular and adaptable to a wide variety of payloads and missions. It is compatible with CSD dispensers which may be used on all launch vehicles.
Pumpkin offers custom payloads and payload integration, as well as high performance systems including Solar Arrays, Power Systems and structures. Pumpkin was founded 20 years ago and is based in San Francisco.
Space Systems Loral (SSL) is a leading provider of commercial satellites with broad expertise to support satellite operators and innovative space related missions. In addition to its GEO communications satellite expertise the company has launched more than 80 LEO satellites and currently has LEOs in production for communications, earth observation and science missions with customers such as TerraBella, Telesat and RCM. Best known for its satellites and spacecraft systems, SSL also offers full product life cycle support to new space ventures from concept development to space qualification of COTs hardware, affordable access to space through hosted and dispensed payloads, and launch site and on orbit operations support. As a Silicon Valley innovator for more than 50 years, SSL's advanced product line also includes sophisticated robotics and automation solutions for remote operations. For more information, visit www.sslmda.com. For information contact email@example.com
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You are friends and you enjoy your friendship. You behave with each other as you do with your other friends. One day you find that you have begun having different feelings for your friend. You like him/her more than a friend and are developing romantic love. What should you do?
You want to tell your friend about your feelings. But you are not very sure about them yourself. Have you really crossed the relationship of friendship and developed romantic love? You are thinking about that and the more you think the more you get confused. Emotions are like that. They can play havoc with us.
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Officials with The Cornerstone School hope to break ground next summer on a state-of-the-art facility geared toward technology and its robotics program.
Officials with The Cornerstone School hope to break ground next summer on a new middle school building — a state-of-the-art facility geared toward technology and its robotics program.
Ingrid Wasserfall, head of The Cornerstone School, said community fundraising will begin in January for the $1.5 million project: $800,000 for the 6,500-square-foot building and $700,000 for technology and playground renovations.
Wasserfall said she hopes to raise half of the construction cost through community fundraising. The other half for the middle school building and robotics laboratory will be financed.
She said the nonprofit, nondenominational private school has no current debt. And with interest rates so low, this is a good time to borrow money.
The school was launched more than three decades ago at its current home, 2313 SE Lake Weir Ave. At the time, six families started it as a preschool.
Quickly, the school grew into three homes on the property. Now, one by one, those homes are being torn down and replaced with modern buildings. The school educates 208 students from preschool through eighth grade.
The new building will be used primarily by the 60 middle school students. The big issue for the middle school students is their participation in integrated robotics.
Wasserfall said the school needs a new building so it can house a robotics lab; that way, the team's work, like delicate electronic boards, does not have to be packed and unpacked daily.
The new building will allow the school to meet its science, technology, engineering and mathematics education goals for its middle school students.
Officials hope the middle school will then be able to gain prestigious "Gateway to Technology" certification when the new construction is completed.
"We're hoping to be in the new building in 2014 just after winter break," Wasserfall said, adding that the current building will be leveled next May when summer break begins.
The Cornerstone School raises money for its operations every year via the popular Chili Cook-Off, which was held last weekend at the livestock pavilion.
Wasserfall said proceeds from that event are not used for capital projects. The school holds different fundraising drives for capital projects.
Officials said anyone with questions about the new wing, or wish to find out how to donate to the Cornerstone Leads the Way capital campaign, can call the school at 351-8840.
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Ohana have a fantastic range of carefully made and beautifully designed ukuleles and a well deserved reputation for attention to detail and quality control.
Our good friend Ken Middleton (YouTube Ukulele "Supremo") came over to the Ukulele Hooley Festival and presented a wonderful display of what can only be described as "uke porn" (stunning ukuleles to the unitiated!) on the Ohana Stand and was literally beseiged by buyers pleading with him to sell some of the beautiful ukes he had brought along. Being the gentleman that he is Ken relented, and sold almost every ukulele he had brought with him.
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The Solo Bambini® proprietary frames for infants, children and now include
adults are made in the
with FDA approved materials and colors and are available in 10 sizes, Itsy
Bitsy, Teeny Weeny, Toddler, Rookie available in 3 sizes, Rascal, Scout, Eagle Scout and Scout Master.
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when exposed outdoors in a stroller, strapped in a car seat or a day at the
The Itsy Bitsy, Teeny Weeny and Toddler frames are thin in profile, rectangular
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Available in 12 pastel and primary colors; Ice 100, Strawberry Ice 101, Pink
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Toddler is available in color 111 Charcoal.
The larger designs we feature are the
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The Rascal frame is a 43-16 eye size,
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depending on facial features from 3 to 6 years of age. It is secured on the face with an adjustable
sport strap.
The Rascal is available in 8 colors
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and 116 Orange.
The latest release we offer is the "Rookie" which
is oval in shape produced in 3 sizes 38-14, 42-16, 44-16 and available in colors; Ice 100,
Strawberry Ice 101, Pink 102, Turquoise Ice 103, Ice Blue 103.1, Blue 104, Yellow 105, Watermelon
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We offer 2 types of lenses; the Polycarbonate and the Phoenix Trivex®
They are both impact resistant with 100% ultraviolet (UV) protection
built in. Both lenses can be tinted in Gray or Brown in three shades 1 2 3 with 3 being
the darkest.
These lenses can be obtained in Transitions and can also be coated with anti
reflective coating.
Polycarbonate: We use this lens as a minimum standard in all of
our prescription and nonprescription glasses. This is an old established product
that has been proven to be one of the best for impact resistance being a major
concern for us with children. In recent years other improved products have
appeared on the market such as the
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acuity, impact resistance and scratching this product has been proven in drop
tests to be twice as strong as the Polycarbonate material.
Transitions: These lenses are treated with a photosensitive agent
that makes the lens darker when exposed to sunlight. Outdoors, they offer an
attractive tint of gray or brown which quickly fades to clear indoors.
Transitions are very practical for infants exposed to outdoor activities or
having been prescribed sunglasses.
We need your prescription information to make your new glasses, including the
PD for Pupillary Distance. We have
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Your prescription information allows us to custom make your lenses in your exact
Please note and pay special attention when entering the plus (+) or minus (-)
signs preceding all sphere and cylinder powers. We also ask that you
fax or scan and e-mail
your prescription to 650-340-1774 or to firstname.lastname@example.com for
confirmation before processing.
Our lens warranty:
The polycarbonate lenses are warranted for 6 months in cases of Rx
change. And for one year in cases of a scratches. The polycarbonate lens is limited to a one time Rx
and a one time Scratch re-do within the specified period. Re-dos are subject to a $15.00 per lens
charge each occurrence + $10.00 shipping and handling. Existing lenses must be returned for the
warrantee to be effective. No exceptions.
The Trivex lens is also warranted for a 6 month period in cases of an Rx change. And for a
one year multiple occurrences for scratch re-do's. Re-do's are subject to $15.00 per lens
charge each occurrence + $10.00 shipping and handling. Existing lenses must be returned for the
warrantee to be effective. No exceptions.
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Summary of Season 1 (2001) - 6 discs
Law & Order franchise creator Dick Wolf tweaks the formula by giving viewers a Sherlock Holmes-type character to get to know (and root for) in this riveting series that examines a violent crime from the time it's committed to the apprehension of the culprit. Detective Robert Goren (Vincent D'Onofrio) is the brilliant-if-strange genius of the NYPD's Major Case Squad, assisted by his Watsonian partner, Detective Alexandra Eames (Kathryn Erbe).
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|With the advent of the Internet and the
World Wide Web, not only big and not so big companies are making big
bucks by marketing and selling their products and services through the
virtual world, many individuals are able to make enough money to
supplement their incomes from their salary by having a personal website.
On top of that, many of them even get rich or at least make a living out
of it. A lot of people with a personal website can generate a few
hundred to a few thousand dollars (US currency) a month, a handful of
them even achieve six figure income a month. As for myself, I use my
spare time to maintain a website about Visual Basic Programming and I am
able to earn an income equivalent to half of my monthly salary every
month after only about four months in the business, and the income is
increasing month by month. So, How could so many of us can make that
kind of money with just an amateurish web site in a relatively short
To be able to generate substantial income from a personal web site, the first thing you must do is to pay a lot of attention to the contents of your web site. You must make sure that your contents are interesting and rich enough to be able to attract many visitors and also able to retain most of them. In this way, your website will be able to bring you good profit based on economy of scale. In order to create good contents; you must decide what should be your web site's topic or theme. You should work on something you are good at. For instance, you can do something about programming, sports and games, travel, books review, astronomy, health, education, any hobby, and etc. Next, do some research by reading books, journal, info from the Internet and etc. Follow by designing a framework for your contents; get the main topic and subtopics properly arranged. After that you can start writing your contents. Secondly, you must design an attractive template for all your web pages. You should also ensure it is easy for the users to navigate around various sections of your web site. You can use GUI-based webpage development programs such as MS Frontpage, Macromedia Dreamweaver and etc to accomplish the above tasks. Besides, you should also learn some basics of HTML so that you can customize your web pages better. After you have done all your web pages, you must get your web site hosted by a reliable web hosting company so that it will be available online 24 hours a day. Although you need to pay a nominal fee of something like US80, it is worth the investment and normally you can earn it back in days. Lastly, you must update your web site regularly because people normally get bored with old contents
The second way to promote your website is to join various discussion groups that are related to the contents of your web site. For example, because my contents are about Visual Basic, so I join the groups such as visual_basic_programmer, Visual_Basic_Languages_for_everyone, Visual Basic and so on. Try to participate actively in those groups but be careful not to promote your web site overtly because you may be banned from those groups. What you should do is you can try to solve their problems and lead them to refer to solutions available in your web site. For example, some group members might ask a question about VB programming and I always ask them to refer to one of the tutorial lessons in my web site, in that way I am promoting my site covertly. The main advantage in joining discussion groups is when you send a message to a particular group, all the members of the group can receive it, so the reach is very wide, even global.
Another way to promote your web site to search for those web sites that are related to yours and participate in forums provided by those web sites(if there have forums). This is an interactive way to promote your web site to people having the same interest. If forums are not available in those web sites, you can also leave messages in guest books or whatever message boards provided.
And lately, I found another very effective free web site marketing tool but you need to use it carefully otherwise you might be banned forever. It is the Yahoo! Answer section. If you have participated in Yahoo! Answer section, you should have noticed that this section is made up of categorized topics and you can always find the topic which is related to your web site. What you do is you can try to answer some questions that are related to the topics of your web site, and covertly try to lead them to visit your web site which you think it can provide the answer. Abstain from using the phrase like "Please visit my web site.." but use phrase such as "Please refer to the following web site for further info" instead so that you won't violate terms and conditions laid down by Yahoo!. It is important that you genuinely want the person who ask the question to obtain useful info from your web site rather than to mislead them to visit your web site. If you can do that, you can ensure your web site traffic can increase many folds.
Now you might want to ask how to make money with high web traffic . The secret is you must participate in all kinds of web business models provided by those big players like Google, Yahoo!, Amazon.com and the likes. For me, the best model is the Ad Sense program provided by Google. It is a free advertising program that will automatically generate the advertisements that are related to the contents of your web site. It is a pay per click program which means you earn an income when the user click on any advertisement that appears on your web page. The earning from each click varies from a few cents to a few dollars. Let say you have 100 clicks per day and average earning per click is 50 cents, then you would earn $50 per day. The best thing is you will be earning income 24 hours a day, even while you are sleeping. Google updates your earnings every minute of it and it is thrilling to see your earnings increasing continuously. My website generates most of the income from this model.
The second method to earn money is to sell products and services through your website. As for the products, you can sell physical or digital products. Among the two, I would say selling digital products is a better option because you can do away with the hassles of sourcing, packing and delivering the products. Digital products such as video clips, software, e-books, songs and music, paintings, drawing, designs, photos, sounds and etc can be encoded as downloadable files, and so it is extremely convenient for the sellers and buyers to complete the transactions. Some of you might want to know how a personal website able to accept payment from the customers. Yes, it is very costly to engage the service of the credit companies to install an online payment system. However, fortunately there are quite a number of online payment companies that were able to provide cost-effective online credit card payment system, one of them is paypal, a subsidiary of ebay. I am using this service to sell my e-book on my website, I find it very convenient and easy to set up, and it is not expensive. Paypal allows you to sign up for the service for free; they will only charge a nominal fee when you successfully close a sale. For example, if you sold something for $10, paypal will deduct an amount like $0.50, and you still earn $9.50. On top of that, they also minus $5 for any fund withdrawn. Funds can be transfer to your credit card; your bank account and so on. Paypal even help you to set up a shopping cart, which will cost you a substantial sum if you engage somebody to do it for you. I have been using the service for a few months and I can tell you that I am extremely satisfied and grateful for the services rendered by paypal. I am selling only one e-book on my website at the moment and the income generated is enough to pay the petrol bill(or the gas bill as you call it in the US) for two family cars. The trick to get the visitors to buy your digital products is to do a brief but good write-up about your products and place them prominently in your website.
The third way to earn money is to join any affiliate programs such as the Amazon.com associate program. Once you become an associate member of any affiliate program, you can start earning commissions by selling the products provided by the company through your website. Normally the amount of commission is about 5% to 10% of the product price. Amazon.com provides a very lucrative commission system whereby the more you earn, the higher the percentage. I have been with Amazon.com for around 10 years and I would say that the income I get is satisfying, although it may not be as good as Google's Ad Sense.
Lastly, I wish to say that you have to do a lot of homework to create a good web site and you must promote them in order to generate a lucrative income. Besides, you need to be imaginative and creative too. But I can ensure you that the initial efforts you put in will allow to enjoy the kind of income that will be way beyond your expectation, and it will bring you revenues even while you are sleeping! You will become a person that can enjoy uncommon freedom by having a lot of time and money. I am already walking along this path and I hope you can join me too!


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British Formula 3 Championship Vergne continues to extend lead With a victory in race one and second place in race three at Rockingham Volkswagen driver Jean-Eric Vergne from Team Carlin Motorsport defended his lead in the standings of ...
British Formula 3 Championship
Vergne continues to extend lead
With a victory in race one and second place in race three at Rockingham Volkswagen driver Jean-Eric Vergne from Team Carlin Motorsport defended his lead in the standings of the British Formula 3 Championship. Podium finishes were achieved as well by his team colleagues Adrian Buzaid and James Calado: Buzaid finished race two in third place while Calado occupied third in race three.
ATS Formula 3 Cup
Victory and lead of the standings for Volkswagen Junior Daniel Abt
Volkswagen Junior Daniel Abt was the man of the hour at the race weekend of the ATS Formula 3 Cup. After two pole positions and second place in round one the driver from the Van Amersfoort Racing team in his Dallara-Volkswagen clinched his first win in Germany's top Formula series. The driver from Kempten (Germany) thus took the lead of the standings as well. Felix Rosenqvist was another driver with a good reason to cheer at the Dutch circuit. The Swede, too, celebrated his maiden victory, in round one, and finished race two as the runner-up. Local hero Stef Dusseldorp took third place twice at Assen. Both races overall were dominated by drivers "powered by Volkswagen": on Saturday they took positions one to five, in round two they even managed a 1-2-3-4-5-6 win.
ADAC Formula Masters
Schranner twice, Stanaway once
Three drivers powered by Volkswagen secured podium places at Assen in the three races of the only foreign round of the ADAC Formula Masters. The best driver on the Dutch circuit was Patrick Schranner, who won races one and three and finished round two as the runner-up. Leader of the standings Richie Stanaway was the runner-up twice and won the second race. Mario Farnbacher complemented the podium finishes in all rounds.
Polo Cup India
Prasad and Shankar win at Coimbatore
Vishnu Prasad and Karthik Shankar were the most successful drivers at the second race weekend of the Polo Cup India at the Kari Motor Speedway in Coimbatore. In the first race Prasad clinched a commanding start-finish victory after starting from the pole position. Sahil Shelar took second place in front of Shankar. Shankar secured first place in front of Prasad and Parth Ghorpade in race two.
Volkswagen Racing Cup
Successful weekend for Chaplin and Fuller
Steve Chaplin and Howard Fuller were the drivers to clinch victories at the third weekend of the Volkswagen Racing Cup at Rockingham. In the first round New Beetle driver Chaplin relegated the two Golf GTI cars driven by Aaron Mason and Peter Felix to positions two and three. The second race belonged to Fuller, who won in front of Felix and James Walker.
Coming up next:
23 - 25 July 2010 ATS Formula 3 Cup, Nurburgring (D), rounds 9 and 10
23 - 24 July 2010 Rally Championship South Africa, Port Elizabeth (ZA), round 5
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Gwen Spurlock is in trouble. Britain's top pro surfer has forgotten to put petrol in the car and her mum, Rhona, is unimpressed. "But I reminded you twice yesterday," she tuts, picking up the keys and heading out to the drive. It is the kind of exchange that happens between parents and teenagers every day. The difference is that this is not just a snap at adolescent laziness, but serious concern.
Two years ago, just after she had taken home both the British junior and the British women's surfing titles in one season, Gwen suffered a brain injury that she was lucky to escape from alive. There is still a chance that some of the damage has been lasting. "I tease her about forgetting chores but we are worried," says Rhona, "She does seem to forget things all the time now. She's going to have some tests later in the year." '
The petrol row was sparked by my arrival at the Spurlock family home in Swansea, where we meet ahead of a tour of Gwen's local beaches. Two hours into a "quick chat" later, it soon transpires that filling up with petrol is the least of the day's delays.
With contagious enthusiasm, Gwen sustains conversation for unfeasible periods. Perched on the sofa in hot pants, a vest and Ugg boots, she talks so quickly that her words fall into each other in a constant stream. After one monologue in extreme fast-forward, her mum interjects: "Are you going to pause for breath?" She doesn't.
But then, she does have a lot to talk about. Aside from winning a mountain of trophies that spills over two chests of drawers, her remarkable recovery from near-fatal head injuries has given her more to discuss than the average 19-year-old.
In 2008, as the UK's new young face of surfing, Gwen was asked to launch Wales's first indoor-surfing centre in her home town. What should have been a simple four-hour promotion nearly killed her. After repeated falls on the machine – which forces a shallow jet of water over a hard plastic slope – she left with a splitting headache. Thinking nothing of it, she went home and took some painkillers. "I was hoping it was just going to go away," Gwen explains, "but all of a sudden it got really horrible."
Three weeks later, the headaches were getting worse and a GP's theory that she had whiplash and "stress" from the falls seemed increasingly unlikely. "At that point we went back to the doctor and finally persuaded them this might be something more serious," says Rhona. "She was put in for a CT scan and suddenly everything spiralled."
The scan revealed a major bleed on the brain that doctors believed had been caused by something akin to shaken- baby syndrome from all her falls. Within days she was being operated on and having two holes the size of 10p pieces drilled into her skull to drain off the fluid. Despite the seriousness of the operation, Gwen seemed to be recovering well, but this turned out to be only the beginning of her worries.
The headaches had not gone and fluid was seeping from the original cyst and building up on the edge of her brain. It needed an urgent and highly risky operation to redirect it. When the operation was over, Gwen awoke from the anaesthetic only for a moment before falling unconscious.
Her parents were told to expect the worst. "The neurosurgeon said, 'I want you to come in here, to the special family room,' and we thought, 'Oh no, not the special family room, when they take you there and make you tea,'" recalls Rhona. "Once you're in there you know they're going to tell you something nasty. It was as bad as we thought. He said, 'I don't know if it's been successful, I don't know if she's going to wake up and I don't know if she's brain-damaged.'"
Her parents and two older sisters were inconsolable. Then, right on cue, Gwen woke up. "We were staring at her, not even sure whether she was going to come round. Her face was all swollen, and her lips were all funny, then she opened her eyes. 'I want chicken tikka masala' was the first thing she said. At that point we knew she was going to be OK." In fact, it took a total of four nerve-wracking operations before the doctor gave her the all clear, with just one proviso: she was told never to surf again.
Three weeks later she was paddling out in the quarter-finals of the British junior surf championships.
"Looking back, it was a pretty full-on thing to do, but I wanted to prove I could still do it," says Gwen today. "My whole aim throughout the injury was to enter because I'd won it in 2007. I thought, 'If I don't turn up then someone else will get the title but at least if I do turn up I've got a chance.' I won my first heat. When I beat those girls I kept thinking, 'I've beaten you even though I've been in a hospital bed for the past six months.' That's what I wanted to do."
Luckily, the doctor had second-guessed her decision. "He knew the score. He looked at me and said, 'I just know you'll surf again even though we've told you not to, so at least promise to wear a helmet,' which I do."
Her helmet has become her trademark in competitions, where she has been a regular feature since 2008. Last year she won the UK pro surf tour – won by scoring the most points in aggregate over the country's seven or so major contests. Now she's gearing up to do the same this year, with three podium placements under her belt already.
For the past 12 months she has been on a gap year, spent half in contests and half travelling the world's top surf spots. Her main trip took in Australia, Fiji, the US and Bali and now she is just back from Sri Lanka, where the UK pro surf tour hosts a competition. In September, normal life will resume again. She is due to start a course in American Studies at university. "I'm not going far, though," she admits, which is an understatement: she's going to Swansea University, round the corner from her family's house. "I'm moving out, but I didn't want to go somewhere that was far from the sea, so it makes sense."
It is easy to see why she wants to stay. Swansea seems like a completely different town through her eyes. First, there's the fact that Gwen and her friends spend every possible moment atop boards in the ocean; then there's their surf-blonde hair and even tans, of a deep-golden variety not normally seen outside of California. And that's not the only thing strangely Californian about the Spurlock version of Swansea. Her large family home also has an air of WestCoast privilege about it, with two shiny four-wheel
drives parked out front and an MTV Cribs-style outsize fish tank set into the wall in the kitchen.
Yet, this lifestyle aside, the Spurlocks are a surprising family to have produced a surf star. Gwen's older sisters never showed any interest in the sport and her mum, a batik artist, is more at home painting the sea than getting in it. The only person in the family with a hint of wave addiction is Gwen's dad, Grayson, a businessman who used to catch the odd wave in the Gower in the 1970s.
It was, rather, through a friend, Beth Mason, that Gwen got hooked. Beth's parents, who were old family friends of the Spurlocks, ran the Mumbles lifeguard club and encouraged the two of them to join. It wasn't long before their love of the sea had spread to surfing and, by the age of 12, they were entering contests. Now they have both gone professional, battling it out for the top spot in the UK.
"Beth and I cleaned up in all the contests from 15 to 18. We'd always get first and second. There was one contest where I won the women's and she got second and she won the juniors and I got second. That's how it would work all the time. And if I didn't win I'd want her to win. All the English girls would be, like, 'How are these Welsh girls doing so well?'"
In many ways, Swansea seems an unlikely place to produce two such credible British surfing hopes; Cornwall, Devon and Scotland are all better-known locations for the sport. But what it lacks in fame it makes up for in choice. Swansea perches on the edge of the Gower peninsula, which turns into a surfing playground when a good swell comes in, producing an array of breaks over beaches and rocky reefs. So Gwen is not too bothered by criticism of her local waves – it means there are fewer people in the water competing for them. "People say Wales is crap for surf and I think, 'Yeah, you can say that, just don't come here when there are good waves, then.'"
Pulling up at her favourite surfing spot, a reef break on the side of Langland beach, there is little more than a ripple where the wave should be. "You should have been here last weekend, it was going off!" she says, adding that the ripple in question means there will "definitely" be waves at the next beach along. "If you say so," I murmur, unable to disguise my scepticism.
In the meantime, we stop off at the beach's Surfside Café, her regular refuelling station, where everyone seems to be an old friend. A magazine interview with her is pinned to the counter and someone has drawn devil horns on the picture. "Who did that?" she asks, in mock outrage. As we walk back along the beach with our photographer, one of the lifeguards shouts, "Are you a model now, Gwen?"
Ready to test out Gwen's optimistic surf predictions we then pile into her car with our surfboards and cut across the winding peninsula roads towards Llangennith beach. Her driving style is certainly not that of someone who has had a brush with death. Haring around single-track bends at 60 miles an hour, she shouts over her full-volume hip-hop, "I HATE it when people go at 30."
Once we get to the beach, Gwen leaps out of the car, and seems to have her wetsuit on as if by magic, while I'm still struggling to get my first toe in. Up on the dunes, her optimistic predictions of surf are proved right, as evenly spaced peeling waves (albeit rather little ones) make their way up the beach. Grabbing her board and helmet, she leads the way off the dunes and up to the shore. I bend down for a second to strap a board leash on to my ankle and when I look back up she is gone, already sitting astride her board far out at sea, beyond the breaking waves. Assuming the route out must be easy, I run in and jump on to my board, only to take a wave straight on the head. Not very cool.
Eventually I make it out, by which point she's already had about three waves. With even the biggest ones not much beyond shoulder height, it is not exactly the best conditions to show off her moves, but as I struggle to catch anything she makes it look like the best day in Hawaii. Whizzing up and down the waves' face, flicking spray up with the tip of her board as she twists and turns, it's easy to see how she has become such a stalwart on the winners' podium.
There's no sign of any post-injury nervousness, either. As I paddle back out from another mediocre ride in the white water, she gets up on a wave and surfs straight at me before making a last-minute turn which sends an arc of spray over me. After flailing around, I roll off my board in alarm. Laughing and paddling over, she shouts across an apology. "Sorry! I was just joshing with you – that's what me and my friends always do in the water."
Despite a lot of talented boys in the water that day, she is easily the most skilled surfer out, ripping the sea into shreds with her board. She and Beth Mason were so confident of their abilities this year that they entered the men's category in the Welsh championships. Gwen didn't do badly, either: she made it into the second round before being knocked out in a heat against her coach.
The men's title might not be quite in reach, but Gwen is unlikely to be budged from the top of the women's game any time soon. "I think the tour is anyone's this year," she says, "but I feel my surfing is really good at the moment. I feel a lot stronger."
When I log on to Facebook a few days later, her status update pops on to my screen. "Surfed for the first time today without a helmet!" Foolhardy? Or a sign of her new-found strength? Either way, one thing is certain: the Spurlocks are going to need another chest of drawers by the end of the year.
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ROME (AP) After singing of Fields of Gold, British rock star Sting is tending fields of grapes as he prepares to market red wine made at his country estate in Tuscany.
Some 30,000 bottles of wine produced on the property will go on sale in September, mainly in Britain and the United States, Paolo Rossi, the estate's manager, said Thursday.
In 1997 the former Police frontman purchased a 16th-century villa, called Il Palagio, in Figline Valdarno, a small village some 19 miles (30 kilometers) south of Florence.
Over the years he has turned the surrounding 860 acres (350 hectares) into an organic farm that also produces honey, olive oil, fruit, vegetables and Tuscan salami.
"When I came here to Figline I wanted first of all to feed my family," Sting said on Tuesday during an event at the village where the 57-year-old star spoke of the time he spends at Il Palagio.
"I also wanted to use agriculture with practices that would nourish the land and not deplete the land and so we went to traditional methods with farming, we got rid of pesticides, we shunned monoculture, and it works, the farm is also a garden," he said in the remarks broadcast by local television Rtv38.
Rossi did not reveal the name of the upcoming wine. He said it will be a 2007 vintage based on the Sangiovese grape, with a touch of Cabernet and Merlot.
A 2008 Chianti could also go on sale in the fall, but tests on the wine's aging must be conducted before a decision is made, Rossi told The Associated Press by telephone.
The wine, along with other products made on the Sting farm, will also be available at a shop on the property that the singer will inaugurate by June, Rossi said.
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by Erick Forno, Michelle M. Cloutier, Soma Datta, Kathryn Paul, Jody Sylvia, Deanna Calvert, Sherell Thornton-Thompson, Dorothy B. Wakefield, John Brehm, Robert G. Hamilton, María Alvarez, Angel Colón-Semidey, Edna Acosta-Pérez, Glorisa Canino, Juan C. Celedón
To examine the relation between mouse allergen exposure and asthma in Puerto Rican children.
Mus m 1, Der p 1, Bla g 2, and Fel d 1 allergens were measured in dust samples from homes of Puerto Rican children with (cases) and without (controls) asthma in Hartford, CT (n?=?449) and San Juan (SJ), Puerto Rico (n?=?678). Linear or logistic regression was used for the multivariate analysis of mouse allergen (Mus m 1) and lung function (FEV1 and FEV1/FVC) and allergy (total IgE and skin test reactivity (STR) to =1 allergen) measures.
Homes in SJ had lower mouse allergen levels than those in Hartford. In multivariate analyses, mouse allergen was associated with higher FEV1 in cases in Hartford (+70.6 ml, 95% confidence interval (CI)?=?8.6–132.7 ml, P?=?0.03) and SJ (+45.1 ml, 95% CI?=? -0.5 to 90.6 ml, P?=?0.05). In multivariate analyses of controls, mouse allergen was inversely associated with STR to =1 allergen in non-sensitized children (odds ratio [OR] for each log-unit increment in Mus m 1?=?0.7, 95% CI?=?0.5–0.9, P<0.01). In a multivariate analysis including all children at both study sites, each log-increment in mouse allergen was positively associated with FEV1 (+28.3 ml, 95% CI?=?1.4–55.2 ml, P?=?0.04) and inversely associated with STR to =1 allergen (OR for each log-unit increment in Mus m 1?=?0.8, 95% CI?=?0.6–0.9, P<0.01).
Mouse allergen is associated with a higher FEV1 and lower odds of STR to =1 allergen in Puerto Rican children. This may be explained by the allergen itself or correlated microbial exposures.


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Soup supper is Friday
October 16, 2012
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Located just a few miles inland from the Orange County coast, fanned on a summer's day by Pacific breezes, the Shea Center is a treasured hideaway. In this remarkable natural setting, the generosity of hundreds of donors is at work creating facilities that set new standards for client care, safety and environmental respect.
The therapy rooms in the Klein Family Education & Therapy Building are designed to meet clients' specific needs by allowing therapists and instructors a private place and proper equipment necessary for positive client interaction.
Our physical therapy rooms offer an area for warm-up and post ride treatments, which include stretching, range of motion activities, functional developmental skills and balance improvement activities.
The Center also has additional rooms for speech and language therapy and occupational therapy, which helps clients' restore physical function to perform everyday activities.
The Shea Center equestrian facilities are specially designed to serve every client, with safety and convenience. Our mounting ramps, for example, are constructed to provide safety for clients, staff and horses. Therapists and instructors use tacking exercises to meet client specific functional goals; i.e., improved coordination, fine motor control, and improved body awareness. We have equipment purposely built to accommodate these activities.
The Shea Center offers top level hippotherapy administered by licensed therapists providing significant improvements in fine motor control. Learning to hold the reins of a moving horse makes it possible to hold a pencil, a hair brush, and a smile. Teaching clients to extend their arms and reach out while moving through space on the back of a horse transfers directly into them playing with toys or drinking from a cup at home. Improved sensory input through movements of the horse allows the rider to integrate better body awareness and manifests in simple activities like walking and playing. Riding provides improved cognitive processing, focus, attention, and sequencing of events.
Achievement is important but so is having fun in an environment in which one is successful and completely accepted. Bonding with a large animal is empowering and exciting. Learning to steer a horse provides a feeling of control and builds self-confidence and self-esteem in a safe and enjoyable environment.
"When I'm at the Shea Center, it's my time to relax. I know my child is safe and in the hands of experts. The Shea staff can handle kids at every level. It's a relief. The place is warm, protected, friendly, and comfortable – like being in the country."
Our senior therapists provide an initial client evaluation. They assess each client's needs and establish several medical and/or functional goals. Based on these findings the client is then assigned to the proper Shea Center program. Frequent follow-ups and reassessments are conducted in every program. Therapists, instructors and parents meet to evaluate progress against goals and chart a course for the future.
Rider parents are encouraged to take a full and active role at the Center. We can teach you how to participate in lesson activities as a volunteer or help you find a special place suitable to your interests. Many opportunities are available. Our program operates year-round.
The volunteering experience at The Shea Center is unrivaled in the equestrian community. Spread over seven acres, The Shea Center is comprised of a 40 stall barn, two covered arenas, an open arena, two round pens, a euro-walker for exercising horses and the 21,000 square foot Klein Family Education & Therapy Building.
There are many opportunities to volunteer at The Shea Center. Please click on this link for more information about how to become a volunteer.


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From: "John Salter" <>
Subject: [WOOLLEY] WOOLLEY Family of Monmouth Co., NJ (pt.16)
Date: Sun, 28 Dec 2008 08:37:42 -0500
23 JOHN WOOLLEY, son of John Woolley, 6, born Dec. 31, 1690; married, Jan.
17, 1717, Patience, daughter of Moses and Sarah (Throckmorton) Lippet.
1757, Nov. 25. Will of John Woolley, Sr., signed by his mark, of
Shrewsbury, yeoman; proved Jan. 29, 1772, mentioned "three children:"
Benjamin Woolley; daughter, Catherine Woolley, "to have land adjoining that
where James Woolley now lives; Sarah Jackson; A silver spoon to be given
John Woolley, son of Thomas Woolley, Jr.
Executors: Friend John Tucker and Joel White. Witnesses: John Allen and
Obadiah Allen.
53 Benjamin Woolley married, first, Catherine Husbands;
second, Hannah (Bills) Jackson.
54 Catherine Woolley married her own cousin,
James Woolley, 52.
55 Sarah Woolley died Aug. 20, 1759; married Joseph Jackson.
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The company in question is, ICICI Bank Ltd. (NYSE:IBN) currently with a stock price of 8 (1.65% today). The market cap for ICICI Bank Ltd. is 23963.92, and is in the sector Financial, and Money Center Banks industry. The target price for ICICI Bank Ltd. is 9.7. Currently ICICI Bank Ltd. is trading with a P/E of 25.08, and a forward P/E of 14.26. Average volume for ICICI Bank Ltd. is 8846.57 and so far today it is 6992500.
Performance in the last year for ICICI Bank Ltd. has been -5.46%. For EPS growth, ICICI Bank Ltd. has seen a growth of -16.90%, and is looking to grow in the next year to 25.22%. More long term stats show that EPS growth has been 13.00% over the last five years and could be 22.00% for the next five years. ICICI Bank Ltd. has seen sales growth quarter over quarter at -0.80%, with EPS growth quarter over quarter at -22.20%. The 20-day simple moving average is 4.42%, with the 200-day simple moving average coming to 14.14%.
Since the IPO date for ICICI Bank Ltd. on the 3/28/2000, ICICI Bank Ltd. has seen performance year to date to be 4.31%. With ICICI Bank Ltd. trading at 8, the dividend yield is 1.88%, and the EPS is 0.32.
So could ICICI Bank Ltd., be undervalued? Well as said before P/E is 25.08. The PEG is 1.14, P/S is 5.33 and the P/B is at *TBA. The P/cash is *TBA, with P/free cash flow at *TBA.
ICICI Bank Ltd. ability to deal with debt shows that the current ratio is *TBA, and the quick ratio is *TBA. This is with long term debt/equity at *TBA, and total debt/equity at *TBA.
In terms of margins, ICICI Bank Ltd. has a gross margin of *TBA, an operating margin of *TBA and a profit margin of 0.00%.Payout ratio for ICICI Bank Ltd. is 0.00%. Return on assets come to *TBA with return on investment coming to 4.50%.
Insider ownership for ICICI Bank Ltd., is at 62.40% and institutional ownership comes to 22.90%. Outstanding shares are at 2995.49. While shares float is 2902.49. The float short is currently 0.42%, and short ratio is 1.39.


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Via Newsy, a new study challenges people to turn off Facebook for 99 days to see how it effects their happiness.
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Excellent post from Fast Company. Click the link above in the title.
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Via Newsy, just when I was getting used to the current news feed, the 'new' news feed is being called a 'personalized newspaper,' but will users make it past the front page?
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Privacy? What privacy? This bill is written by a Democrat. While there is no specific right to privacy in the U.S. Constitution, this bill, in my view, at the very least violates the 4th Amendment to the U.S. Constitution. Aren't Democrats supposed to be for civil liberties? Maybe Judge Napolitano was right after all… What […]
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Round Rock Express Splits Double Header with RedHawks
Round Rock's Comeback Thwarted in Game One; Strong Lead Almost Slips Away in Game Two
By Round Rock Express | April 19, 2013 6:04 AM ET
OKLAHOMA CITY, Okla. - The Round Rock Express (9-6) split tonight's double header with the Oklahoma City RedHawks (7-7). The RedHawks took game one after the Express attempted a comeback, but Round Rock ran away with game two from Oklahoma City.
The RedHawks started the scoring in game one when first baseman Marc Krauss led off the second with a single followed by a double down the left field line by Jonathan Villar. With runners on second and third, left fielder Che-Hsuan Lin lined a 0-1 pitch from Express starter Randy Wells into right field to plate both runners and give Oklahoma City an early 2-0 lead.
The Express offense answered immediately in the top of the third after left fielder Aaron Cunningham was hit by a pitch to start the inning. That would be the last batter that RedHawk starter Travis Blackley would face as Jose Cisnero replaced him. After recording the first out of the inning, Cisnero walked second baseman Greg Miclat on four pitches. Center fielder Engel Beltre followed with a single to center that scored Cunningham for the first Round Rock run.
The E-Train knotted the score at two after shortstop Jurickson Profar's ball to right fielder Fernando Martinez was unable to be handled, allowing Miclat to score from second. Cisnero would later load the bases, but forced catcher Robinson Chirinos to fly out to center, ending the Round Rock half of the third inning.
Oklahoma City responded again in the bottom of the frame with two more runs, both with two outs. Designated hitter Trevor Crowe doubled to begin the inning and later stole third, but back-to-back strikeouts gave Wells a chance to get out of the inning with no damage done. Krauss had other plans as he added his second hit of the game on a RBI double into right field and later scored on a single by Villar, giving the RedHawks a 4-2 advantage.
The score would remain the same until the sixth when the Express got back on the board. Third baseman Yangervis Solarte grounded into a double play with runners on the corners and no outs, but the play scored designated hitter Joey Butler from third cutting the Oklahoma City lead to 4-3.
The RedHawks picked up an insurance run in the sixth and denied Round Rock's rally in the seventh, closing the abbreviated game one of the doubleheader with a 5-3 victory. Jose Valdez earned his third save after striking out right fielder Jim Adduci with two on and two outs in the top of the seventh. Cisnero picked up the win, while Wells was charged with his third loss. Wells finished the game allowing four runs on eight hits over 5.0 innings and struck out five.
In game two, Oklahoma City got to Round Rock starter Richard Bleier in the first frame. With two outs, left fielder Trevor Crowe singled to right-center and immediately stole second. He came around to score on a single by first baseman Marc Krauss.
The Express answered back in the top of the second with two runs. Mike Olt, who didn't start game one, hit a single up the middle followed by a double off the bat of Chris McGuiness. For Olt, that was just his third hit in 28 at-bats. A sac-fly by catcher Jose Felix scored Olt and advanced McGuiness who came around to score on a single by Beltre.
Round Rock threatened again in the top of the fourth after Oklahoma City starter Rudy Owens intentionally walked Cunningham to load the bases for Adduci with two outs. He lined out to Jonathan Villar, allowing Owens to escape unscathed.
The Express chased Owens from the game in the fifth, replaced by reliever Kyle Hollock. He allowed a leadoff walk to Butler, who came around to score two batters later on a single by Olt, giving the Express a 3-1 lead.
Round Rock reliever Neal Cotts came in in the bottom of the inning for Bleier, who was making a spot start out of the bullpen. Bleier went 4.0 innings and gave up just one run on six hits. He didn't allow a walk and struck out two batters.
The Express tacked on five runs in the final inning of the game, an inning that featured all nine Round Rock batters. Adduci led with a walk and advanced to second on a single by Butler. A wild pitch by reliever Eric Burger advanced both runners. Olt was intentionally walked to load the bases for McGuiness who hit a grand slam already this season. McGuiness drew a walk in six pitches to score Adduci. Felix singled followed by a double from Miclat to score four more runs and put the Express up 8-1 going into the bottom of the seventh.
Round Rock went to the bullpen for one of their closers in Evan Meek to finish the game. Meek gave up a lead-off single followed by a wild pitch to put a runner in scoring position for Oklahoma City. Catcher Jason Jaramillo singled followed by a walk to load the bases. Meek hit Jake Elmore with a pitch to score a run, the first run and hit batter for the righty in 2013. Meek struck out the next batter to get the first out of the inning, but walked the next two batters to put the tying run at the plate. RHP Cory Burns replaced Meek and struck out the next two batters to end the game and give the Express the victory.
Cotts picked up the win to improve to 1-1 and Burns got his fourth save on the year. Oklahoma City starter Owens took the loss to drop him to 0-2. Butler went 2-for-2 on the night with two walks and two runs. Miclat finished 2-for-4 with three RBI, his first multi-RBI game of the season.
With the eight runs scored in game two, fans will now be able to receive half price pizza today courtesy of the Papa Johns' "No. 7 Express" promotion by using the promo code EXPRESS7.
Round Rock will conclude the four-game series against Oklahoma City tomorrow night at 7:05 p.m. when the Express send RHP Collin Balester (1-1, 4.38 ERA) to the mound. He will be opposed by RedHawk starter Jordan Lyles (1-1, 4.85 ERA). The E-Train will then return to Dell Diamond to start an eight-game, nine-day homestand which will include the New Orleans Zephyrs (April 20-23) and the Albuquerque Isotopes (April 25-28). For tickets and more information, visit www.RoundRockExpress.com or call (512) 255-2255. Keep up with the Express on Facebook and Twitter!
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Lindsay Lohan: Toothless and jail-bound
Lindsay Lohan has apparently violated her probation and could see herself in jail as early as next month, according to TMZ:
Judge Marsha Revel made it clear to Lindsay late last year, she must attend alcohol ed courses once every 7 days. The only exception — if she was in inpatient rehab. And the judge was explicit … if Lindsay did not comply with the terms of probation, she was going to jail.
The school in which Lindsay enrolled is required by state law to inform the court only if the student is MIA for 21 days. So here's the disconnect: The school has not reported an attendance violation … because Lindsay frequently waited until the 21st day to attend classes.
Bottom line — Lindsay met the school's requirement, but squarely violated the judge's order.
Of course, let's not kid ourselves, Lindsay won't serve a minute of jail time because that would make too much sense. But just in case, she bolted to New York this morning to supposedly meet with her dad, so look forward to a happy Lohan reunion next week where everyone pretends Michael doesn't kick vaginas and Lindsay hasn't already made the switch to the more easily affordable meth. "Her teeth are falling out because she's such a good actress. Happens all the time."


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The Louisiana High School Athletic Association's executive committee rejected appeals of sanctions by Livonia and Mandeville high schools in a conference call Friday afternoon.
Livonia is required to forfeit 18 baseball games and seven football games because of the play of a freshman student who was ruled ineligible based on a transfer rule violation after the school self-reported a possible violation a few days ago. The sanctions also require the school to return the Class 3A runner-up trophy for football earned last fall.
"This was an extremely tough situation," said LHSAA vice president Vic Bonnaffee of Central Catholic, who presided over the Livonia appeal. "What usually comes out in cases like this is that schools aren't as familiar with the transfer rules and other avenues that are available to verify a student's status.
"In this case, there was no court order involving custody. The student's parents were not married and (he) lived with one or both at different times. (LHSAA Executive Director Kenny) Henderson even stated during the appeal that, had this case been submitted as a hardship involving a different bylaw, he likely would have been granted eligibility."
Attempts to contact Livonia Principal Stacey Gueho immediately after the appeal were unsuccessful. Once the appeal ended, Gueho began meeting with Pointe Coupee Parish School Board officials.
Livonia was fined $400 for the violations and also must return its runner-up trophy in football along with gate receipts from three playoff games the student participated in. The student in question played in the Wildcats' football playoff games vs. Carroll, Church Point and Jennings. He will be required to sit out seven football games and 18 baseball games in 2014-15.
Mandeville will forfeit eight baseball games, also because of a transfer-related violation that was self-reported by the school. The Skippers were fined $200. The student cited in the sanctions must sit out eight games in 2015.
Bonnaffee said the Mandeville case also involved a situation which there was no court order regarding custody of the student.


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Princeton City Council members made their first foray into setting the city's budget for 2015 when they took up the topic at their Aug. 7 council study session.
The budget this year is about $3.74 million, and treasurer Steve Jackson said he wanted direction from the council on what it might want for its 2015 budget. He noted that Sept. 30 is the deadline for the city to certify a preliminary levy for the new year. The preliminary levy is the maximum of what the final levy could be when the council certifies it this coming December.
Some good news for the city is that its state assistance, or local government aid, will be $25,000 higher in 2015, according to Jackson. The city's LGA this year is $813,075.
But there are some concerns on the revenue side, such as what kind of lease the city may get for its 10,000-square-foot building that the Federal Aviation Administration has been leasing for $65,000 per year in recent years. That lease is to end sometime this year and the FAA has closed out its flight service station there. Jackson suggested working on a different lease or even consider a different user for the building.
City Administrator Mark Karnowski said that in his negotiations with the FAA, the FAA suggested it may only want to rent a quarter of the building. He said he responded to the FAA negotiator that a quarter of the current rent wouldn't be enough money to cover the city's expenses for the building.
Also the city can't lease any of the building to anything that is not airport related, "and we're not going to go with Southwest or Delta airlines," Karnowski said. "The crux of my argument is they (the FAA) want to maintain a presence (in the building) because of the electronic equipment that runs the building."
Karnowski also told the council he didn't think the FAA would allow anyone else in the building because of the FAA's security requirements, but he still hopes for an "amicable agreement so the city is not losing."
Another expenditure the council can think about, Karnowski continued, is to set up a microphone and speaker system at the council table. There have been comments from the public that they can't hear everything the council is talking about, he said. There are also occasions the city may need to record things, he added.
Council Member Thom Walker in bringing up new possible expenditures, suggested the council consider starting a capital improvement fund for street projects.
Mayor Paul Whitcomb suggested the city consider a donation to the Princeton ambassador program and referred to a presentation earlier in the study session from former Princeton Ambassador Sylvia Michels about the program. The ambassadors do a lot of good for the city and the program's operators are fiscally responsible, Whitcomb added.
Council Member Victoria Hallin suggested the city consider giving some financial assistance to the Mille Lacs County Historical Society's depot museum in Princeton.
"I thought we were doing something," Walker responded.
The city's assistance is pretty significant, considering the city forgiving the utility and street assessment the historical society originally had, Karnowski said.
Karnowski then suggested the council consider save on engineering fees for some projects by going with a design and building process. One such project could be the paving of a mile-long trail from the city's drinking water treatment on south to 313th Avenue in Baldwin Township.
The design and build process has the contractor doing the engineering as well as the construction work, versus the city having a separate engineering contract with an engineer. Often a local contractor will take a local design and build project and they would try to do good work because the "whole world would know who put it in, and so if it fails it would be bad PR," Karnowski said.
Community Development Director Carie Fuhrman also brought up another possible expenditure for a new budget: a project to expand the city's main industrial park.
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Princeton City Council members made their first foray into setting the city's budget for 2015 when they took up the topic at their Aug. 7 council study session.


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Feb. 24, 2012
SAN ANTONIO, Texas – San Jose State extended its lead at the 2012 Western Athletic Conference Women's Swimming and Diving Championships being held at the Palo Alto College Aquatic Center in San Antonio, Texas. The Spartans lead Northern Arizona by 64 points with one day of competition remaining and have 475 points overall.
Jojo Mi continued to be Nevada' strongest swimmer on day three of the WAC Championships, missing out on her second individual win by less than a second. She finished second in the 200-meter freestyle with a time of 1:46.76. New Mexico State's Aliena Schmidtke took the gold with a time of 1:46.38.
In the three-meter dive, Grace Huang was second for the second straight year with 331.20 points followed by Fresno State's Hannah Prigge (317.05). Hawaii's Daniella Nero won the gold on the three-meter board with a score of 343.75. As a team, Nevada scored 108 points on Friday and sits in fifth overall with one day left. The Wolf Pack has 255 total points.
Action concludes tomorrow at the Palo Alto College Aquatic Center with the 1,650 freestyle, 200 backstroke, 100 freestyle, 200 breaststroke, 200 butterfly and the 400 freestyle relay. Prelims begin at 11:00 a.m., the first two heats of the 1650 free begin at 4:30 p.m. and the finals start at 6:30 p.m.


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by Gray Creech for Dryden Flight Research Center
Cleveland OH (SPX) Sep 17, 2013
NASA's Unmanned Aircraft Systems Integration in the National Airspace System project, or UAS Integration in the NAS, is providing critical data to decision-makers who are working to meet the congressional mandate to open the national airspace to remotely or autonomously controlled aircraft by 2015.
A part of the UAS Integration in the NAS effort, led by the NASA Dryden Flight Research Center in Southern California, is a computer-generated application called the Live Virtual Constructive-Distributed Environment, or LVC-DE for short.
LVC-DE is essentially a simulation and flight test environment that allows UAS-NAS project researchers to incorporate real and simulated manned and unmanned aircraft in a virtual airspace in order to test concepts, technologies and procedures intended to facilitate flying both manned and unmanned aircraft in the same airspace.
The LVC architecture was chosen to take advantage of high-fidelity simulation, flight test capabilities and operational experience at several NASA field centers. This distributed system provides a state-of-the-art representation of the national airspace system, allowing researchers to conduct testing safely and efficiently in a relevant environment.
"The team did an admirable job in developing the basic LVC architecture through proof-of-concept activities with Ames Research Center, beginning last spring with the early integration and flight testing with a modified MQ-9 unmanned aircraft equipped with ADS-B providing valuable data and risk reduction for us," said Sam Kim, NASA Dryden's LVC-DE project manager.
"The team is now completing the LVC's basic design, and they are engaged in validation, verification and characterization testing to provide specific performance capabilities to the researchers as we prepare for its integrated test activities next spring," Kim added.
The most visible aspect of LVC-DE at Dryden is a group of simulation computers in the center's simulation laboratory. These systems are connected to the LVC's central computer simulation node at NASA's Ames Research Center at Moffett Field, Calif., which generates the virtual air traffic data.
Researchers at NASA's Glenn Research Center in Cleveland, Ohio, are also interconnected with Ames and Dryden. In the future, NASA's Langley Research Center in Hampton, Va., and the Federal Aviation Administration's (FAA) William J. Hughes Technical Center in Atlantic City, New Jersey, will also participate in the simulations and flight tests.
An early milestone for LVC-DE was marked this past June as the project team began a technology verification, validation and characterization effort that is designed to give researchers and engineers a first look at the core system capabilities.
The LVC-DE subproject abbreviation can be broken down into the following:
+ "V" in LVC stands for "virtual," meaning real people operating high-fidelity manned and unmanned aircraft simulators.
+ "C" in LVC, for "constructive," stands for computer-generated, synthetic air traffic that supports the testing. People can make inputs through a low-fidelity pilot interface.
+ "D" stands for "distributed," as the subproject is distributed around the country, with NASA's Ames, Dryden, and Glenn research centers (and Langley Research Center in the future) and other external partners such as the FAA, all networked together.
+ "E" stands for "environment," the overall networked setting representative of the national airspace system that is critical to the whole system.
Ground Control Stations (GCS) and high-fidelity piloted UAS simulators are one of the elements that provide the "virtual" simulation, serving as integral elements of the LVC. The LVC architecture incorporates the MQ-9 pilot simulator and the research GCS. A research GCS is being developed to provide a UAS simulation capability in addition to command and control of UAS surrogate aircraft.
Though not involved in the current LVC-DE characterization effort, NASA Dryden's unmanned MQ-9 Predator B named "Ikhana" and a manned YO-3A Quiet Star aircraft will later support the subproject flight tests.
The Ikhana will serve as a "live" element aircraft in future LVC-DE tests, and the YO-3A will join it as another "live" element aircraft following modifications for use as a UAS surrogate aircraft during the next year or two. The YO-3A will be controlled by the research GCS when it is configured for UAS surrogate operations.
"This has been an outstanding collaborative engineering effort between Dryden and Ames," said Jamie Willhite, lead LVC flight systems engineer at Dryden. "The LVC team has integrated the Ikhana aircraft and simulation with the core LVC architecture, allowing the aircraft and simulation to be displayed in the simulated air traffic control environment at NASA Ames during flight tests."
Other NASA aircraft may participate in the future as well to generate real-world conflict detection and resolution scenarios.
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Tuesday, 3 September, 2002, 17:40 GMT 18:40 UK
Millar targets top 10
Britain's David Millar has said that anything less than a top-10 finish in the Tour of Spain will be a disappointment.
Millar, who starts Saturday's race as the Cofidis team leader and among the favourites for the general classification, targeted La Vuelta as his number one goal at the start of the year.
And, speaking from his training camp in Biarritz, he told BBC Sport Online: "The goal is to finish in the top 10. If I don't for whatever reason, I'll be disappointed with myself.
"The course is good - well, good for me at least. There are only four summit finishes and they have steep climbs which kind of suits me.
"In fact, I realised from the start of the season that I wouldn't have a problem with the course which is why I made the race one of my main objectives."
Millar's form in the Grands Tour has so far been indifferent.
Despite wearing the yellow jersey following the Tour de France prologue in 2000 and winning stage 13 this year, he has been off the pace in the general classification.
He managed 68th place overall, despite being tipped by many as a contender in the overall standings ahead of the race.
The 25-year-old, however, looks back on the race with happy memories.
"Whatever people say, I was pleased overall and happy with just the single stage win," he added.
"My long-term goal was to find form for the Vuelta and it worked well for that.
"I used the Tour more as preparation so I never intended to do anything on the general classification. With the stage win I achieved what I set out to do so I'm very happy."
With the Vuelta now lined up as his season goal, the pressure is on to see if Millar can live up to his pre-race hype.
He said: "Obviously saying it is my main objective has provided a bit more pressure but that's kind of just being professional.
"I'm not letting it affect me and am looking forward to it, it's either going to happen or it's not and I do better when I'm under pressure anyway."
The Malta-born Scot's preparations have been hampered by fatigue and an on-going chest complaint.
But, following a three-week training camp and a break from competitive racing, he feels he is approaching peak form.
"I'm back to full fitness," he insisted. "It only really took me about three weeks to get better after the Tour.
"I was just run down and my body was feeling really tired after all that hard work. I went on some antibiotics and took things easy and basically focused on being very healthy, for me.
"I'm in good shape though and things a going really well."
Millar, though, knows that he will face more obstacles than just illness and injury throughout a three-week race notoriously dominated by Spaniards.
And who does he fear most?
He revealed: "The Spaniards are always firing. There will be Joseba Beloki, Oscar Sevilla and Santiago Botero, the usual suspects, all up there.
"Oh, and hopefully me."
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text: April 30, 2012 ─ They say that Montréal moves to its own unique beat. Well, on Sunday afternoons in the city, the proof is in the proverbial djembe. Okay, tam-tams on Mount Royal, as we call it here. But it's all pretty much the same thing. And that "thing" happens when people bring along their drums, love of rhythm and the outdoors, and meet up with hundreds, if not, thousands of other like-minded music-makers and dancers at one of Montréal's most spontaneous free-style jams on Mount Royal, at the base of the statue of Sir George-Étienne Cartier. If you want to take part, but feel you're musically- or dance-challenged, no worries. Because what happens here, under the open sky, is all part of Montréal's festive, easy-going ambiance. It's an unspoken rule that everyone obeys: check your prejudices at the door (okay, let's say on the asphalt at Parc Avenue), immerse yourself in the vibe and you'll soon remember why you love this free-spirited metropolis. For this. An event that transcends age, race, gender, sexual orientation and artistic ability, and which devotes itself entirely to living and loving the moment. And it's not just drums and dancing. You can picnic, play your guitar, soak up some sun or browse the handcrafted wares of the Montréal-brand nomadic artisans. If you're feeling skittish about joining in, rest assured that this is not a free-for-all happening. There are police on the premises as well as first aid technicians to make sure this extremely safe event stays that way. Plus, nearby, there's always the medieval warriors in score, who, we're sure, will break away from their mock battles… and come to your foam-padded rescue!