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Thompson will play Sybill Trelawney, professor of divination at Hogwarts.
The movie, directed by Mexican film-maker Alfonso Cuaron, is expected to be released next June. It is the third in the Harry Potter series.
"I am very excited to work with Emma," Cuaron said. "She brings such life and spirit to the characters she portrays."
The film will also feature Gary Oldman.
Other actors lined up for the latest film include David Thewlis and Michael Gambon, who replaces Richard Harris as Professor Dumbledore.
Daniel Radcliffe, Emma Watson and Rupert Grint will return to their roles as Harry, Hermione and Ron.
Film successes
Thompson was an Oscar winner in 1993 for best actress for her role in Howard's End, and in 1996 for writing Sense and Sensibility.
The first two Harry Potter films, directed by Chris Columbus, have proven to be huge successes.
The first film, Harry Potter and the Philosopher's Stone, made more than $317m (£203m) in the US alone, and £63m in the UK.
Meanwhile, JK Rowling's latest book, Harry Potter and the Order of the Phoenix, has so far sold more than 2.9 million copies in the UK alone since it was released in June.


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Clinton Economic "Boom" is Actually Economic BUST
HenchPAC Exclusive
December 12, 2002
You've heard the revisionist history for years now. How in eight years under President Ronald Reagan, the national debt tripled, the poor got poorer, and the rich got richer. How Bill Clinton inherited "The worst economy in 40 years" and "A decade of greed" from President George H. W. Bush. Lies, but sucked up just like Kool-Aid in summer by the liberal press/media, Democrat "economists," and daytime brain dead talk shows like Regis & What's-her-name, Good Morning Americommunists, and Oprah Winfools.
In actual fact, the Reagan years produced the strongest economic growth since the roaring 20's, saw more people jump UP income brackets than at ANY time in our history, and created more jobs than in ANY 8 year cycle EVER. Yes, the federal debt did triple, but actually dropped as a percentage of GDP, and don't forget, Reagan WAS handed one of the worst economies in our history, with 20% interest rates, gas lines, and rabid inflation.
Yet in just 8 years he reversed it, all while defeating the threat of Communist nuclear obliteration to our country, and having to deal with a Democratic Congress that just couldn't stop spending the poor American workers' hard-earned dollars. Now that's MR. REAGAN'S legacy Mr. Clinton, but unfortunately, yours will be more along the lines of scandal, lies, draft-dodging, losing the House and Senate on your first watch, Monica, and of course, ...IMPEACHMENT.
Here's what you'll NEVER hear from the liberal media: The first 2 years of Clinton/Gore DOUBLED the federal debt, even though they were handed a growing economy, a peacetime dividend, and an information revolution that would dramatically increase worker productivity, and therefore, corporate profits and GDP.
As you now know, it's not a "Clinton boom" we enjoyed, but a continuation of President Ronald Reagan's boom. Even George H.W. Bush endorsed what he had previously called "Voodoo economics" after President Reagan proved to the entire universe that it worked. President Reagan's historic economy actually continues to grow with us to this day, only briefly interrupted by two large tax increases, (Econ 101 for liberals: "Economic boom, interrupted by tax increases") oh, and an economic policy disaster named Bill & Hillary Clinton. As shown in the famous graph occasionally published in The Wall Street Journal, a mild recession brought on when President Bush was forced by the George Mitchell led Senate Democrats in Congress to break his "No new taxes" pledge more than recovered in the fourth year of his term. In fact, Clinton would never match the economic growth President Bush left him until the Republicans took over Congress and started reversing his liberal tax-and-spend policies.
That bears repeating: Clinton would NEVER match the economic growth President Bush left him until the Republicans took over Congress and started reversing his liberal tax-and-spend policies. The incredible economy Clinton was handed (that HE claimed, and the liberal media parroted, was "The worst in forty years") slowed dramatically under the first two years of the Clinton administration, due to the largest tax increase in history, and the first one that was ever retroactive. (Clinton actually had the audacity to tax people for a period of time WHEN HE WASN'T EVEN PRESIDENT!) Other poor economic policies politically inspired by the political friends Bill poorly appointed to economic policy positions soon contributed to the poor Clinton economy. (It's a mouthful, but it's the damn truth!)
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As Mr. Peabody would say, "Sherman, set the way-back machine to 1992." Clinton has just been inaugurated, and has appointed his friends to the Treasury and Economic Advisory Board. In order to pay for their huge increase in government spending, and keep the largest tax increase in history from being even larger, Clinton cronies must "cook" the books in a way that would make Enron, Arthur Anderson or Global Crossing proud, as well as make some hair-brained accounting moves to make government spending APPEAR smaller.
How you ask? Let us count the ways.
By swapping long term treasury notes at higher interest rates for short term notes at lower government paid interest rates.
Now, this works as long as the economy stays up and interest rates stay low. But if the short term notes come due after interest rates go up, then the government has to sell new notes (borrow) at the higher interest rates. Remember Ross Perot bagging on Clinton for short-term financing our national debt? The liberal media just ignored him.
Think of it this way. You are financing a house and the interest rates are lower than they have ever been. Do you go for the long term note or the five year variable? Of course you lock in the long term rate!
Unless you're Slick Willie, and know that you won't be in office in four to eight years, so who cares? And in fact, it would make Slick look even better if the economy did well while HE was in office, and poorly after HE left. Too much to ask? Not if you go for the lower short term rates to reduce your deficit and forego the long term security and increased financial market stability you could have had with the long term notes. Almost like buying a house on your credit card. Guess what? That's EXACTLY what the scumbags did! Who cares about the country's future, it's all about me, me, me. Make the economy look good while I'm in, and ah, er, screw the next guy. What Bill Clinton would call a "Twofer." And to back it up, they kept short term rates artificially low throughout the Clinton terms by using other "Risky cookbook schemes" (to paraphrase Al Gore) that we'll see later.
How else did the Clintonistas "Reduce" the debt to increase spending on "fabulous" programs like Hillary's failed healthcare plan, Al Gore's favorite: Environmental impact study on cow farts, or "Midnight basketball??" (Simply an excuse for young thugs to be on the streets in the middle of the night, instead of home, getting a good night's rest so they can go to school, or WORK the next morning.)
How about looting the Social Security funds that were designed to cover the retirement of baby-boomers in about ten years? (Once again, AFTER Bill is long gone!) Yep, they did that too, by REVISING the ESTIMATES of future Social Security costs! And get this, they THEN had the audacity to claim that Republicans would destroy Social Security by "Looting the Trust Fund" (which does not, and NEVER did exist) and put granny on the street if they were elected. Shame? No way, we're talking about the guy that dorked Monica.
Gutting our Armed Forces: Clinton brags about Al Gore "reinventing" government. (Didn't Al invent it the first time?) He claimed that, in the process, they cut 100,000 government jobs. What he omits is the 700,000 active duty Armed Forces personnel, and almost 300,000 Reserves laid off by his administration to make way for new government employees! In other words, he's INCREASED the size of "government" by 900,000 basically worthless workers, (the government was already screwed up, and unproductive) and cut our military. Sounds just like something Gore would do. More government spending, simply transferred from our military budget.
And while we're on the subject of looting military spending, don't forget all those foreign trips, you know, like the ones Bill, Hill, Chelsea, Hillary's mom, (a real national security expert, chuckle, chuckle!) and ALL their friends went on to Africa, India, etc., etc.? Yep, you guessed it, literally hundreds of millions of dollars, ALL budgeted to "Military expenses." All while our troops lived on food stamps, another Clinton first. And all for votes, as if you thought that the almost 1 million cushy job government employees hired BY Bill wouldn't vote FOR Bill. Remember, we're talking about the snake-oil salesman that never even got 48% of the electorate, and needed every vote he could buy, ah...sorry, get.
"Cooked books?" They hadn't even defrosted them yet. Under Reagan and Bush, unemployment was measured by sending out about 60,000 household surveys asking about employment. The "Chronically unemployed" were dropped from counting, defined THEN as three or four years of being out of a job. The Clinton regime dropped 9,000 surveys, mostly from inner cities where unemployment is much higher, then later trimmed the overall number to 50,000 - again avoiding inner cities. They then redefined the "Chronically unemployed" horizon down to ONE YEAR. BINGO! Instant record breaking unemployment and the lowest recorded unemployment for African-Americans in history. (Pander statistic to get out the vote.) Wow, are we doing well or what!?
Remember, the reading of the economic speedometer (CPI, PPI, unemployment, etc.) was done by the Clinton administration's Department of Labor. Labor Secretary Alexis Hermann would NEVER have rigged numbers to make Slick Willie look good. (Ahem! Cough, cough! We're talking about someone who had a special prosecutor show she took bribes and lied about them!)
Fortunately for America, (and FORTUNATELY for Bill) the GOP took the House and Senate in 1994, AFTER which, the economy began its recovery to growth from decline. Again, that bears repeating. Bill Clinton had actually KILLED the economy's growth until....the GOP took the House and Senate in 1994, AFTER which, the economy began its recovery to growth from decline.
Remember when Bill claimed "He was still relevant" after the Republicans took Congress? In actual fact, he has been totally irrelevant to our current economy, except when he did things that actually slowed it. The only relevance he's had on the economy is when he briefly stunted a booming period of growth with his huge tax increase, massive federal spending, and terrible fiscal policies. Hey, at least he was getting laid.
"Amazingly" (dripping sarcasm now turned off) GOP-backed legislation such as the balanced-budget, reduction of deficit spending, welfare reform, etc., quickly reversed the Clinton recession. (And probably got him reelected, and certainly saved his @$$ from being the first President impeached AND removed from office.) While Greenspan continued to keep rates artificially low for his buddy Bill, Slick simply went along for the ride, although, not willingly. He vetoed every one of the Republican bills until public pressure forced him to sign them later. He basically went kicking and screaming, and you certainly remember his dire predictions when he signed them: "The poor, elderly, and (who'da thunk it?) women and children will be left cold, homeless, hungry, and helpless." When none of that happened, Slick immediately claimed these GOP successes as HIS administration's greatest accomplishments. Nerve? Hey, we're talking about Bill Clinton.
Of course, Willy couldn't leave well enough alone. What that means is his greed for fame was (still is) SO limitless, he needed more attention. After the impeachment "blow" to his "legacy," Slick needed to "become relevant" again, especially with an upcoming Presidential election. Why, what if Al doesn't win, we might have an administration that actually prosecutes us for the crimes we've committed! (No such luck for us.)
With new motivation to "help the economy," the "book cooking" went from simmer to full boil. How you ask? Good question, easy answer:
REVISED figures AFTER Clinton left office (and the grown-ups were back in charge): "...Revealed corporate profits were really lower by 10.7 percent, 12.2 percent, 15.2 percent and 18 percent for the four quarters of 1999. In 2000, this gap became a chasm. The revised quarterly profits for the election year are lower than the announced figures by 23.3 percent, 25.9 percent, 29.9 percent and 28.2 percent. "
"Most startling, original estimates showed a generally rising profit outlook for the two years preceding the election. Starting with $503.7 billion in the last quarter of 1998, the quarterly estimates rose steadily to $543.8 billion in the fourth quarter of 1999 and then took off in the first two quarters of 2000 to $574.9 billion and $606.6 billion, leveling off to $602.9 billion in the third quarter (before falling to $527.3 billion in the fourth quarter after the election)."
That sounds like SHOCKING evidence of absolutely GROSS pre-election political tampering with economic data for which the administration was directly responsible. You might ask, where did THOSE numbers come from?
Well, if you noticed the quote marks, you're probably sharp enough to realize that statement came from Clinton's very own Brent Moulton, (interview with Robert Novak, 08/07/2002) associate director at the Bureau of Economic Analysis, and an underling of Rob Shapiro, one of Clinton's most politically partisan appointments. Oh, AND it was made AFTER the 2000 election was over, AND AFTER the Supreme Court had ruled that the Gore selective recounts were illegal, AND AFTER President Bush was already in office. If the Bush administration wasn't so busy cleaning up the worldwide mess Clinton/Clinton/Gore left, they'd have time to prosecute these bastards, but leaving them no time was part of the Clinton master plan.
Remarkably, (no sarcasm this time) the markets weren't fooled by the Clinton tricks forever. Sure, they over-accelerated on the phony numbers, but not for long. 2000 was a down year for the DOW, NASDAQ and S&P, despite the rosy predictions from the Clinton administration. It seems that the REAL analysts know what the meaning of "Is" is, and react accordingly. Of course, the 2000 election cycle was in full swing, and there was no mention of the market downturn in the liberal media. Remember of course, we're talking about the same media that reported "It's the economy stupid" when G HW Bush handed Clinton an economy the Democrats couldn't sustain, but just imagine how they would have reported it nightly if there had been a REPUBLICAN incumbent president!
Funny, (not really) but it turns out the REAL decade of greed wasn't the 80's, as Slick claimed, but between 1992-2000, when the Clintons showed us how to turn $1,000 into $100,000 in cattle futures with NO trading experience, (just insider help,) how to pillage the economy for political gain, how to trade pardons of crooks and terrorists for dollars and votes, and how to literally steal the silverware and artwork from the White House when they left. Hell, it was a veritable "How To" book on corruption that would have made John Gotti and Al Capone proud. Bill and Hillary lied about who they were BEFORE they were elected, but they showed their true colors....AFTER they were elected.
Of course, in the eyes and words of Dan Blather, Peter Lemmings and Tom Brokelaw, the "Clinton Boom" immediately became the "Bush Bust" the minute he was elected. As if GWB had been at the helm during some Exxon Valdez, Captain Hazlewood type oil spill screw up. This, despite the fact that the economy slowed WHILE CLINTON WAS AT THE WHEEL. Of course, it's going to take an amazing balancing act by the current administration to remove the tanker from the reef without spilling any more oil, i.e. - remove the wrenches Klink threw in the economic, social, moral and legal fabric of our existence, all while putting out the international foreign policy fires Bill stoked and let burn while he was asleep at the wheel. Oh, and sleeping with anything other than his "wife."
Unfortunately for "Oil-Slick", the real Capt'n Hazelwood is Bill Clinton, who was drunk for power and fame while at the wheel of the U.S.S. America.
Now THERE'S a legacy to "go down" with the ship for! And folks, that's just his ECONOMIC legacy, we'll have future articles on his destruction of American values and morals, international foreign policy disasters, legal system corruption, Military casualties due directly to HIS executive orders, presidential privilege destruction, and domestic social issues that make the economy look like, well, his tiniest f@ck-up......HENCH
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Tuesday December 11th, 2012 - 12:00AM
BALI, INDONESIA—The opening of the 203-room Sheraton Bali Kuta Resort marks the latest Starwood Hotels & Resorts Worldwide property to debut on Bali.
Owned by PT. Indonesian Paradise Island, the new Sheraton is part of a mixed-use development that includes a major retail component.
The new property is the fifth Starwood property on Bali. By 2014, Starwood is scheduled to have three additional hotels on Bali, making a total of eight representing six of the company's brands.


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Litoral Shawl
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32" to 40" circular needle recommended but you really don't need them for this shawl. Straights are fine.
A one-skein wonder.
Nice for summer when you just need a little something over your shoulders, as at a restaurant. The lacy pattern (simple garter stitch) is warmer than you would think.


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LINCOLN, Neb. - Beef Products Inc. has filed a defamation lawsuit against ABC News for its coverage of a meat product that critics dubbed "pink slime," alleging the network misled consumers to believe the product is unhealthy and unsafe.
Pink Slime: Beef Products Inc. Sues ABC News for Defamation, Claims Network Misled Consumers
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Play: "Adventurer's Quest"
Group: NonProphet Theatre Company
Venue: Regional Arts Commission, 6128 Delmar Blvd.
Dates: June 4, 5, 6
Tickets: $12-$15; contact 636-236-4831, email: firstname.lastname@example.com or www.brownpapertickets.com/event111490
Story: In the words of the news release description, "'Adventurer's Quest' by Richard Lovejoy is a 1980s-style, 16-bit video game come to life. The town of Perilton is invaded by the evil wizard, Evilicus, and only our Hero can save it! Cheer as he fights for the hand of the Mayor's daughter! Gasp as he infiltrates the bloodthirsty Octopus cult! Watch as he meticulously collects inventory items! Shift uncomfortably in your seat as the narrative gradually implodes!"
Highlights: Reminiscent of a Magic Smoking Monkey Theatre production with its manic energy and chaotic structure, NonProphet's 2010 season-opening presentation is filled with actors who pour their emotions and off-kilter humor into their parts.
Under the tutelage of director Robert A. Mitchell, their efforts are well-focused and genuine, and played out smartly before the clever artwork and graphic design by Jamie Melani Marshall that amusingly depicts various locales in the besieged kingdom of Perilton. The artwork is humorously integrated into the simple but effective set and lighting designed by Nick Uhlmansiek, and blends thematically with the comic ragtag costumes and props provided by Mitchell and Heather Tucker. Chris Chappel's funky composition brings to mind the simple musical elements of early video games.
Other Info: Unfortunately, Lovejoy's script can't sustain its initial quirkiness and impish humor, ultimately degenerating into tedium liberally sauced with forced and scatological humor that merely underscores the playwright's limited artistic scope. The one-act, 90-minute script would fare better at about half its current length, as the punch lines grow increasingly banal and wearisome.
Given the meager material, Mitchell's cast manages to extract several moments of fun along the way, mostly in the first half of the presentation. There's a clever piece at the beginning where Hero wanders into the village, where a number of residents repeat their movements in syncopated style, a la a video game, a thread that continues throughout the performance.
Nicole Angeli is a delight as a periodically animated merchant as well as a bored bureaucrat. Tom Lehmann tackles several parts in fine form, including a friendly beggar and various members of the Octopus cult. John Foughty is an inebriated resident as well as a lumbering ogre and the half-baked mayor and Joe Bayne is a nefarious "cemetery man" among other roles. Jonathan Ellison has fun in several parts, including an imperious cult guard, and Gwynneth Rausch as the video game narrator is the steady and often frustrating voice of reason, for Hero. Bess Moynihan is the Peasant Girl who may be more than she appears, while Brendan Allen is more smug and foul-mouthed anti-hero than his Hero moniker might suggest, and is burdened with the worst dialogue in the sophomoric script. Allen and Moynihan make the most of their predicaments, however, for what it's worth.
Admittedly I'm no fan of video games, and after hearing Lovejoy's script that opinion has been reinforced. Thankfully, the comic talent of Mitchell's troupe saves the production from being a complete waste of time.
Rating: A 3 on a scale of 1-to-5.


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Los Angeles Times, November 6, 2013
A major California hospital chain, Sutter Health, agreed to pay $46 million and disclose more pricing information to consumers to resolve a whistle-blower complaint alleging false and misleading charges for anesthesia. Sutter Health, which runs 24 acute-care hospitals in Northern California, said it reached the settlement Monday just prior to a trial starting this month over the allegations that it added thousands of dollars for "Code 37x" anesthesia charges that were already covered by other billing for the hospital operating room. Nationwide, federal officials and consumer advocates have been putting pressure on hospitals to explain their high prices, while many employers have been demanding greater price transparency in an attempt to hold down costs.


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Instructional Leadership Initiative
The Instructional Leadership Initiative: Supporting Standards-based
Practice is a project for California high school teachers,
which is supported by a partnership between the Western Assessment
Collaborative (WAC) at WestEd and the California Academic
Partnership Program (CAPP).
WestEd is a non-profit, research, development and service
agency and is designated as one of the nation's regional educational
laboratories and the Western Assessment Collaborative is a
program within WestEd. The WAC focuses on assisting schools
and districts to establish standards for student and professional
performance, developing systems to measure achievement of
those standards and building the capacity and organizational
culture to sustain standards-based accountability. WAC and
their work around standards-based instruction was a good match
for CAPP schools in that the work focuses on building the
capacity of teachers to lead standards-based instruction in
their schools. The CAPP was looking for a strategy for improving
instruction and student achievement in the schools that they
fund. The CAPP originating legislation (1983) specifies, that
CAPP is to develop "cooperative efforts to improve the academic
quality of public secondary schools with the objective of
improving the preparation of all students for college." When
they became familiar with WAC's work, the partnership began.
The goals of the Instructional Leadership Initiative are
to develop the capacity for standards-based instruction throughout
the school by building the skills of administrators, high
school department heads, and other teacher leaders to:
This website reflects the work that was either used and/or
completed during the duration of the project. The website
includes a facilitator's guide for "The Standards-based Instructional
Planning Process: Backwards Mapping From Standards to Instruction,"
which contains some of the activities that were used while
developing the instructional units. The website also provides
some sample annotated standards-based instructional units
for both high school English and mathematics that were created
as a result of the work.
The Facilitator's Guide includes six modules that focus on
the following:
The standards-based instructional units posted on this website
are a result of the work of California high school teachers
who participated in this project from January 2001 to June
2003. Teachers who participated are from the following schools/districts:
Thirteen of the instructional units that were designed to
be used in high school mathematics and English courses were
selected to be annotated and posted on the CAPP website. The
first page of the unit includes the annotation that describes
the overall strengths and concerns of the unit. Columns on
the right side of each page of the instructional unit contains
comments that describe concerns or identify items that should
be reviewed and possibly revised before using the unit with
students and teachers.
The instructional units include:
It is our intention that teachers use the sections of the
Facilitator's Guide that match your particular outcomes or
goals and that teachers also review, revise as necessary,
and use the standards-based instructional units that meet
your needs.
If you have further questions regarding the use of these
units or materials, please contact: Julie Torres at WestEd
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Wrongly accused of murder and hospitalized, Captain Sundarapandian (Vijaykanth) wishes to honor a deceased colleague by aiding his sister. Escaped and on the run, he discovers that the sister, Ponni (Nirosha), is secretly in love with Ashok (Ramki) against her family's wishes. The Captain suddenly finds himself in an all-out battle in the name of love, but regrettably, his health is fading and he may not have the strength to last.


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"BICKERTON, in the parish of Bilton; 4 miles NE. of Wetherby. Population, 149."
"TOCKWITH, in the parish of Bilton, 7.5 miles N. of Tadcaster. At the commencement of the memorable battle of Marston Moor, in the year 1644, the front of the Parliament's army extended from the North end of Marston Moor to this village, a distance of nearly 3 miles. Here is a small neat Methodist chapel, built in the year 1796, and a Sunday school for 100 children. Population 436."


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Louis Rosenberg
The Wooden Gun
In early 1950s Tel Aviv, a conflict is brewing between two groups of preteens -- one native-born Israelis and the other European refugees who survived the holocaust. Divided by an immense psychological fissure and motivated by a sense of valor and patriotism, the rival factions find themselves on a collision course. Director Ilan Moshenson's insightful drama stars Judith Sole, Ophelia Shtruhl, Leon Young and Arik Rosen.


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- Treasury assumptions on the buyback
- Submissions to the Assembly's inquiry
- Monday's hearing timetable
The ACT government expects to pay home owners an average of $641,800 each for the 1021 Mr Fluffy contaminated homes in its $1 billion buy-back scheme.
The figure includes the stamp duty waiver for the owners' next house purchase.
The homes will cost an average of $158,500 each to demolish, according to Treasury's assumptions on the costs of the scheme. The demolition figure includes cleaning the land and dumping the waste.
The detailed figures have been released to the ACT Assembly's inquiry into the buyback, a scheme set to plunge the territory's budget further into deficit by $600 million over two years.
The inquiry, which received 58 submissions in a short space of time, holds a second day of hearings on Monday, when 12 families will appear. It will report before the Assembly sits on Thursday to debate and pass the government's $762 million appropriation bill to pay for the costs this year, with another $250 million to be appropriated next financial year. If passed, the money will start flowing to homeowners from Monday, December 8.
Owners are being paid the mid-point of two valuations for their land, and the detailed figures reveal Treasury has assumed $641,800 per house (the figure is an average; some are worth a lot more, being in blue-chip suburbs such as Red Hill and Forrest).
The figures reveal not only the scale of the buyback, but the huge costs of maintaining properties while they stand empty, waiting for demolition.
Treasury estimates an average of $10,700 for maintaining each property for an average of 2.3 years before it is demolished, and another $2700 for security for each property. Together, that adds to nearly $14 million in maintenance and security.
All up, with purchase, demolition, security and maintenance, valuations and legal fees, the government expects to spend an average of $817,350 on each house.
It expects to make back an average of $518,754, leaving it $298,596 out of pocket on average for each of the Fluffy houses.
The income side of the equation reveals an assumption that the cleaned blocks are worth an average $520,000, which includes a $94,000 value increase as a result of subdividing the blocks for dual occupancy. The figure is based on the assumption that 88 per cent of properties can be subdivided or unit titled, making them worth much more than if they were sold as single-house blocks.
The figures assume that over the life of the scheme, the government will end up $366 million out of pocket – most of that in the first year. If everyone took up the buyback offer in the first year, the government would be down $700 million. It starts clawing back some of the loss in 2016-17 and beyond through property sales.
Treasurer Andrew Barr said the figures were based on a range of assumptions and the actual costs would depend on the cost of buying houses, the cost of demolition and clean-up and proceeds from the resale of land.
Owners have pleaded with the government to let them keep their land, arguing that the government would save not only on upfront purchase costs, but also on interest, maintenance and security. The equation for the government is whether those savings would be enough to make up for not being able to sell the clean land at an average $94,000 profit.


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Antony T Smith
Bothell Campus
Examines current issues, research, and innovations in adolescent literacy research and practice. Considers the issues of motivation, comprehension, vocabulary, and multiple literacies including technology and home-school connections. Examines articles by research and teacher leaders in the field.
Class description
In this seminar we will examine current issues in adolescent literacy research and practice. Recent research and innovations in classroom practice have made adolescent literacy a hot topic. We will consider this topic in terms of motivation, comprehension, vocabulary, and multiple literacies including technology and home-school connections. We will read articles by research and teacher leaders in the field, pursue other texts of interest, and participate in book club discussions of current adolescent fiction. Projects for the course include planning and implementing comprehension strategy and vocabulary lessons, participating in book club discussions, and presenting an additional teacher resource or research study to the group. This course is part of the reading endorsement sequence.
Student learning goals
1.0 Common Core – Foundational Knowledge: Candidates have knowledge of the foundations of reading and writing processes and instruction.
3.0 Common Core – Instructional Strategies and Curriculum Materials: Candidates have knowledge of a wide range of instructional practices, approaches, methods, and curriculum materials to support reading and writing instruction.
General method of instruction
This is a hybrid course, with six face-to-face sessions and four online sessions. Themes, concepts, and activities will span these two different session, or module, formats. The course is designed for substantial student participation. In addition to using a variety of resources to provide a basis for common knowledge, students will work collaboratively and independently to identify and explore issues. Course grades will be based on assignments listed below. Criteria for each assignment will be distributed during class. Strong work is indicated by careful analysis of text, scholarly treatment of the issues, and substantial participation in online and in-class discussions. Late assignments without prior consent of the instructor, or for other than unplanned/emergency circumstances, will receive a maximum of 80% credit. Please proofread—by having someone else read your papers—prior to handing in written work. 1. Active participation 2. Online conversation 3. Text analysis and vocabulary lesson 4. Comprehension strategy lessons and reflection 5. Professional materials review
Recommended preparation
Class assignments and grading
For face-to-face sessions, assignments are due the day of class when the session begins. For online assignments, assignments are due by 10 PM on the day of the week the face-to-face sessions are scheduled. Active Participation Please read the assigned texts in advance and come to class prepared to discuss issues raised in the readings. Study questions may be provided for you to consider in preparation for class discussions. In class, follow these guidelines: • Listen carefully to others when they speak • Ask questions when you do not understand what is being said • Extend a line of thought or conversation (e.g. "Could you please elaborate?" "How do you see what you have said as related to what we are discussing?") Participation points, 10 for each of the six in-person sessions, will be awarded based on in-class discussions and related writing prompts. Online Activities Online activities are based on the two types of reading for this course: Chapters exploring issues of adolescent literacy, and works of fiction for young adults. Blogs: For this first type of reading, you will need to make posts to a blog that you will create on a social networking site. These blog posts will need to relate to concepts raised by assigned readings or in class discussion. A total of four blog posts are required (weeks 2, 4, 6, 8). During our first face-to-face session we will discuss blog-writing as a genre and will review the evaluation criteria for online activities (see below). Book Clubs: One ongoing assignment that will occur online is participation in a virtual book club. For this course you will read four works of adolescent fiction. The first, The Absolutely True Diary of a Part-Time Indian (Alexie, 2006), is assigned and is required reading. It will be discussed online in a whole-group discussion forum. The other three books will be chosen by you and will be discussed in small groups, or book clubs, both in class and online in book club discussions on the Ning social network. You will take part in two whole-class discussion forums online to explore themes in the Alexie text. Specific discussion prompts and activities, which will be explained in detail in face-to-face sessions, are as follows: 1. Session 2: Discussion forum: The Absolutely True Diary of a Part-Time Indian, pages 1-66. Choose a quote to share and discuss, posing a question for others in your group to consider. Respond to others 2. Session 4: Discussion forum: Quotation and response (from O'Donnell-Allen, 2006) for Alexie, p. 130-230 Additionally, you will participate in a series of book club discussions exploring three different texts, choosing from the works of adolescent fiction listed on page 5 of this syllabus. The sequence of the online book clubs is as follows: 3. Session 6: Book Clubs 1st selection, conclusions: Choose 1 'essential' quote or excerpt that reflects something important about a main character in the book. Share and discuss 4. Session 8: Book Clubs: Essential question for inquiry, relating to students' interests and to a major theme in the book? Forum discussions, 2nd selection (conclusion)
Online Activities Evaluation: Online participation in blogs, discussion forums, and book clubs will be scored using a rubric for a maximum of 15 points each. Comprehension Strategy Lesson and Reflection Using ideas from chapters four, five and six of Adolescent literacy (primarily), you will develop an outline of a comprehension strategy lesson using the Alexie text as the reading material. This lesson outline will need to include a focus on metacognition and on an approach to facilitating and developing discussion of the text that incorporates metacognition. You will also write a brief reflection on the comprehension lesson development process. Specific instructions as well as a straightforward lesson-plan template will be provided in class. Text Analysis and Vocabulary Lesson Drawing upon ideas in chapter seven of Adolescent literacy (primarily), you will analyze the text from book club selection one and develop a sketch of a vocabulary lesson. You will also write a brief reflection on the vocabulary lesson development process. Specific instructions as well as a straightforward lesson-plan template will be provided in class. Professional Materials Review After most chapters in Adolescent literacy is a page called "Connections" that provides additional resources relating to chapter themes. Most of these resources are books, but there are also articles, reports, and websites. Based on your interests, you will need to choose one of these resources and write a review of it. This review will need to summarize the important points or elements of the resource, make connections to major themes in Adolescent literacy, and link to your own interests and/or teaching situation. Specific instructions will be provided in class.


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Which form of government is best characterized by one-party rule, censorship, and the use of terror to maintain power? (1) feudal (2) limited monarchy (3) parliamentary democracy (4) totalitarian
4. totalitarian
The term subsistence farming is best defined as (1) redistributing farmland (2) producing only enough crops to meet family needs (3) irrigating farmland (4) exchanging farm products for money
2. producing only enough crops to meet family needs
• Separated the cultures of Europe and Asia • Hindered, but did not prevent, invaders from entering India • Terraced to increase food production in South America Which geographic feature is being described in these statements? (1) river valleys (3) mountains (2) steppes (4) tundra
3. Mountains
One similarity found in both Egyptian and Sumerian civilizations is that each developed a (1) monotheistic religion (3) ziggurat (2) compass (4) written language
4. written language
Which text is essential to the practice of Islam? (1) New Testament (3) Torah (2) Analects (4) Qur'an (Koran)
4. Qur'an (Koran)
The development of the concept of zero, the use of a decimal system, and the Buddhist cave paintings at Ajanta are all achievements of the (1) Inca Empire (2) Gupta Empire (3) Roman Republic (4) Kingdom of Songhai
2. Gupta Empire
Which geographic factor directly influenced the early interactions between China and Korea? (1) location (3) arid climate (2) monsoons (4) tropical savannas
1. Location
What was the most important force in providing unity and stability throughout western Europe during the Middle Ages? (1) church (3) inquisition (2) nobility (4) military
1. Church
Base your answer to question 12 on the passage below and on your knowledge of social studies. . . . As early as the struggle for the steppe he had spread the claim that Heaven had destined him as ruler; members of Mongol trading caravans spread stories intended to cause panic among the local populace; forged letters were fed to Sultan Muhammad which strengthened his mistrust of his Turkic units; freedom of religion was proclaimed; those who offered no resistance were promised that life and property would be spared; terrible destruction was threatened in the event of resistance; bloody examples were designed to spread fear and reduce the populace's will to resist. . . . — Paul Ratchnevsky, Genghis Khan: His Life and Legacy, Blackwell Publishing 12 According to this passage, which Mongol practice contributed greatly to their success? (1) nomadic lifestyle (2) superior horsemanship (3) psychological warfare (4) religious conversion
3. psychological warfare
Which revolution in Europe is most closely associated with the rise of capitalism, the formation of guilds, and the growth of banking systems? (1) Commercial (3) Agrarian (2) Scientific (4) Glorious
1. Commercial
One way in which 14th-century Mali in Africa and 14th-century Venice in Italy are similar is that both (1) were land-locked city-states (2) developed economies based primarily on agriculture (3) became wealthy and powerful as a result of trade (4) were centers for Islamic learning
3. became wealthy and powerful as a result of trade
Base your answer to question 15 on the passage below and on your knowledge of social studies. . . . I conclude, therefore, with regard to being feared and loved, that men love at their own free will, but fear at the will of the prince, and that a wise prince must rely on what is in his power and not on what is in the power of others, and he must only contrive to avoid incurring hatred, as has been explained. . . . 15 This passage is most closely associated with the ideas of (1) Pope Urban II (3) John Calvin (2) Niccolò Machiavelli (4) Thomas Malthus
2. Niccolò Machiavelli
What was one cause of the Protestant Reformation? (1) revolt by the Moors in Spain (2) passage of the Act of Supremacy in England (3) call for the Council of Trent by Pope Paul III (4) corruption among high officials of the Catholic Church
4. corruption among high officials of the Catholic Church
During the Ming dynasty, why did China stop investing in overseas naval expeditions? (1) Many foreigners were imitating Chinese culture. (2) Chinese leaders saw little value in exploration. (3) People disagreed with Confucius's demand for more territory. (4) Chinese merchants were threatened by foreign competition.
2. Chinese leaders saw little value in exploration.
Which title best describes this map? (1) Mesoamerican Cultural Areas (2) South American Urban Areas (3) Creation of the Spanish Viceroyalties (4) Outposts of the Inca Empire
1. Mesoamerican Cultural Areas
One way in which Sulieman the Magnificent, Akbar the Great, and Louis XIV are similar is that each was (1) an important religious reformer (2) a supporter of laissez-faire practices (3) a leader of independence movements (4) an absolute monarch
4. an absolute monarch
A major impact of the Columbian exchange on western Europe was the introduction of (1) Christianity that led to the rise of the Catholic Church (2) new food crops that improved the European diet (3) new military technology that weakened local rulers (4) diseases that drastically reduced the population of Europe
2. new food crops that improved the European diet
In the 1500s, the Portuguese seized trading ports in Southeast Asia in an attempt to gain total control of the spice trade. Based on this statement, one goal of the Portuguese was to establish (1) a monopoly (2) an embargo (3) banking systems (4) agricultural cooperatives
1. a monopoly
The struggles for political independence in Latin America during the early 1800s were most directly influenced by the (1) Berlin Conference (2) doctrine of liberation theology (3) American and French Revolutions (4) writings of Count Camillo di Cavour
3. American and French Revolutions
Base your answer to question 23 on the chart below and on your knowledge of social studies. Philosopher Idea Locke Natural rights — life, liberty, property Montesquieu - Separation of powers Voltaire - Freedom of thought, expression, and religion 23 Which period is most closely associated with the major ideas of these philosophers? (1) Crusades (3) Reconquista (2) Renaissance (4) Enlightenment
4. Enlightenment
Which written work criticized the capitalist system during the Industrial Revolution? (1) Communist Manifesto by Karl Marx and Friedrich Engels (2) "White Man's Burden" by Rudyard Kipling (3) The Wealth of Nations by Adam Smith (4) The Origin of Species by Charles Darwin
1. Communist Manifesto by Karl Marx and Friedrich Engels
Some developing countries rely on a single cash crop such as cotton or sugar cane. The origin of this practice can often be traced to the (1) introduction of communism (2) establishment of democratic governments (3) colonization of the region (4) movements to gain independence
3. colonization of the region
Which African group centralized its rule and adopted new military techniques that challenged the power of the British and the Boers in South Africa? (1) Zulu (3) Ibo (2) Ashanti (4) Masai
1. Zulu
Which action did Japanese leaders take directly following the visit of Commodore Perry in 1853? (1) They attacked the British navy. (2) They opened more ports to trade. (3) They increased the power of the shogun. (4) They allowed the importation of opium into Japan.
2. They opened more ports to trade.
Which event in Indian history could be considered a result of the other three? (1) Salt March (2) Amritsar Massacre (3) Sepoy Rebellion (4) passage of the Independence Act
4. passage of the Independence Act
The assassination of Archduke Franz Ferdinand was the immediate cause of (1) the Franco-Prussian War (2) the Russo-Japanese War (3) World War I (4) World War II
3. World War I
One way in which Atatürk of Turkey and Ho Chi Minh of Vietnam are similar is that they both (1) led nationalist movements in their countries (2) formed communist governments (3) kept their countries out of the United Nations (4) led their countries during the Cold War
1. led nationalist movements in their countries
After World War II, the boundaries of newly independent African countries were most often based on (1) existing ethnic settlement patterns (2) divisions imposed under European imperialism (3) mandates created under the United Nations (4) locations of oil resources
2. divisions imposed under European
This World War II cartoon is showing the relationship between climate and the (1) inability of Nazi forces to defeat the Soviet Union (2) success of Allied troops after D-day (3) efforts by Allied troops to control Berlin (4) casualties suffered by the Soviet Union
1. inability of Nazi forces to defeat the Soviet Union
Base your answers to questions 33 and 34 on the passage below and on your knowledge of social studies. . . . A river of people is flowing down the boulevard. Some are very religious, with the men separate from the women, and the women covered in chadors [robes]. Some are not. Two young men in jeans carry a large poster of Khomeini, with his black turban and black eyebrows standing out against the white background. A middle-aged woman with big dark glasses walks by, one fist in the air, the other holding a cigarette. A group of college students link arms and shout "Marg bar Shah!"—Death to the Shah!—and they have the same sort of glad expression that the shoe salesman had on the day he asked Mama if she was American. But these people also have another look—a kind of exhilarated [overjoyed] astonishment, as if they can't believe no one is stopping them. . . . — Tara Bahrampour 33 Which revolution is being described in this passage? (1) Mexican (3) Iranian (2) Chinese (4) Nicaraguan
3. Chinese
Base your answers to questions 33 and 34 on the passage below and on your knowledge of social studies. . . . A river of people is flowing down the boulevard. Some are very religious, with the men separate from the women, and the women covered in chadors [robes]. Some are not. Two young men in jeans carry a large poster of Khomeini, with his black turban and black eyebrows standing out against the white background. A middle-aged woman with big dark glasses walks by, one fist in the air, the other holding a cigarette. A group of college students link arms and shout "Marg bar Shah!"—Death to the Shah!—and they have the same sort of glad expression that the shoe salesman had on the day he asked Mama if she was American. But these people also have another look—a kind of exhilarated [overjoyed] astonishment, as if they can't believe no one is stopping them 34 Based on this passage, the protestors were surprised because they had expected the government to (1) repress dissent (3) favor change (2) accept criticism (4) go into exile
1. repress dissent
One way in which Joseph Stalin's five-year plans and Mao Zedong's Great Leap Forward are similar is that both plans were (1) efforts to reduce human rights violations (2) policies to improve relations with the West (3) methods used to control population growth (4) attempts to increase agricultural and industrial production
4. attempts to increase agricultural and industrial production
Which group of countries became Soviet satellites after World War II? (1) France, Spain, Great Britain (2) Poland, Czechoslovakia, Hungary (3) Switzerland, Austria, Belgium (4) Turkey, Greece, Italy
2. Poland, Czechoslovakia, Hungary
What is the main idea of this 2002 cartoon? (1) The United States refuses to become involved in another war. (2) Nuclear proliferation continues to threaten world peace. (3) The Cold War conflict continues today. (4) Pakistan is the dominant nuclear force in this region.
2. Nuclear proliferation continues to threaten world peace.
The goal of Mikhail Gorbachev's policies of perestroika and glasnost was to (1) expand collectivization and communes (2) resume development of Soviet nuclear weapons (3) stimulate economic growth and political discussion (4) stop expansion of the North Atlantic Treaty Organization (NATO) into Eastern Europe
3. stimulate economic growth and political discussion
The destruction of the rain forests in Latin America is primarily due to the (1) diseases carried by insects (2) wildfires occurring during dry seasons (3) devastation caused by high winds during the tropical storm season (4) demand for timber, farmland, and grazing land
4. demand for timber, farmland, and grazing land
Which Cold War event occurred last? (1) Cuban missile crisis (2) Korean War (3) fall of the Berlin Wall (4) Soviet invasion of Afghanistan
3. fall of the Berlin Wall
• Justinian issues a new code of laws. • Greek culture is preserved. • A split develops in Christianity between the Roman Catholics and Orthodox Christians. Which empire is most closely associated with these statements? (1) Byzantine (3) Mughal (2) Persian (4) British
1. Byzantine
One way in which the ancient Inca Empire and the Roman Empire are similar is that both (1) fought rivals for control of the sea (2) adopted Christianity as the state religion (3) traded with other civilizations along the Silk Road (4) built a system of roadways throughout their empires
4. built a system of roadways throughout their empires
Which heading is most appropriate for the partial outline below that is related to conditions during the 18th and 19th centuries? I. __________________________________ A. Abundant natural resources B. Advanced technology C. Surplus of food D. Stable economic and political conditions (1) Factors Needed for Industrialization (2) Forces That Caused the Rise of Fascism (3) Objectives of the Green Revolution (4) Results of the Glorious Revolution
1. Factors Needed for Industrialization
One motive for Japanese expansion between 1905 and 1941 was to (1) end reparation payments (2) create a buffer zone (3) spread Buddhism (4) obtain natural resources
4. obtain natural resources
What was one similarity between France during the 1790s and Germany during the 1920s? (1) Severe inflation contributed to the rise of radical political groups. (2) Scientific developments improved the standard of living. (3) Widespread intolerance of the Huguenots led to human rights abuses. (4) Military successes eliminated tensions with neighboring countries.
1. Severe inflation contributed to the rise of radical political groups.
"Hungry Workers in Petrograd Demand Food" " 'Peace, Land, and Bread' Promised to All" "World War I Soldiers Join the People's Rebellion" Which event is associated with these headlines? (1) Tiananmen Square protests (2) Soweto uprisings (3) Russian Revolution (4) Cuban Revolution
3. Russian Revolution
Base your answer to the question on the graphic organizer below and on your knowledge of social studies. Signing of the Treaty of Versailles Collapse of the Soviet Union Atomic bombing of Hiroshima End of apartheid in South Africa Which title best completes this graphic organizer? (1) Violations of the Universal Declaration of Human Rights (2) Turning Points of the 20th Century (3) Reasons for Nonalignment (4) Results of the Industrial Revolution
2. Turning Points of the 20th Century
• Pamphlet on the philosophy of Zionism • Balfour Declaration • Oslo Accords These documents are most closely associated with the controversy over (1) efforts by the United Nations to restrict child slavery and indentured servitude (2) production of oil by the Organization of Petroleum Exporting Countries (OPEC) (3) trade agreements established by the World Trade Organization (WTO) (4) control of land in the Middle East by Palestinians and Jews
4. control of land in the Middle East by Palestinians and Jews


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Geoff Hutchison (firstname.lastname@example.com)
Wed, 16 Dec 1998 14:09:48 -0500 (EST)
On Wed, 16 Dec 1998, Charlie Romero wrote:
> and then I want to add
> www.nextcompany4.com
> www.nextcompany5.com...
> how should I approach this?
> I don't want to have to reindex everything everytime I add a server to the
> list of sites being indexed.
You don't have to. If you do an update dig, it will only add the pages
that aren't in the databse already.
To do an update dig, don't specify "-i" to htdig. If you use "-a" you'll
need to have a copy of your db.wordlist and db.docdb as .work files as
well. After running htdig and htmerege, you'll have the new pages in there
and you won't have reindexed everything.
I do this by default in my digging script, and it usually cuts the
indexing time from 2 hrs to 20 min. Your performance will vary. :-)
-Geoff Hutchison
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Those who imagined that Alex McLeish's last week in charge of Rangers would peter out were disabused of that notion as his team presented him with a second-half performance that leaves the manager motivated right until the end.
Rangers recovered after a first-half that had suggested Hearts might be allowed a degree of composure when they face Celtic today in their bid to consolidate second place. Courtesy of a startling substitute's appearance by Marvin Andrews, Rangers managed to make sure that the damage inflicted on them by Colin Nish in the first half was not costly.
The Kilmarnock striker's opener was cancelled out by Andrews in the opening minutes of the second half and Kris Boyd made a scoring return to Rugby Park before Andrews wrapped it up at the end with his second.
Attention now shifts to Tynecastle today as Hearts seek to establish a more comfortable distance between themselves and Rangers. The gap stands at one point, with the teams due to meet at Ibrox a week today.
Rangers showed that they were placing faith in their home talent to help to deliver the club the fruits of Champions League football. Six of their starting line-up - the third-to-last such selection McLeish will make as manager at Ibrox - were Scots and whether these players will be shown such trust by Paul Le Guen, McLeish's successor, they formed the majority of a team yesterday on a £10million mission.
This is the sum that could be made by whichever club manage to finish runners-up to Celtic at the end of the season, with Champions League football the reward, or at least access to it via a qualification round.
Supporters of Hearts, the other club involved in this glamour chase, were alert to this score and could draw some hope from the recent form of Kilmarnock, even if the Rugby Park team had hitherto failed to claim so much as a point against the Old Firm teams this season.
Joy enveloped them as well as the home side's supporters when Kilmarnock, themselves chasing the European place that might be offered by a fourth-place finish, took the lead with a goal of exquisite quality after 27 minutes.
Before Nish's explosive strike, Kilmarnock goalkeeper Alan Combe had kept his team level with a supreme double save from Thomas Buffel and then Gavin Rae. It sent a renewed belief coursing through his team-mates and they responded with some inspiration of their own.
Right-back Lindsay Wilson delivered a fine pass into the area as Gary Wales jostled for position. His headed knock-down fell into the path of Nish, who hardly had to break stride as he drilled the ball into the roof of the Rangers net.
While Nish was again enjoying a prodigious time of it against the Old Firm - he scored in the same goal against Celtic a fortnight ago - Boyd, the striker whose departure to Rangers in January offered him a sustained run in the team, was, it seemed, enduring a miserable first return to Rugby Park.
Booked for illegal use of an elbow, he then failed to get a toe to a Chris Burke cross that skimmed across the face of the goal and had seemed ripe for a touch into the net. Boyd, however, just failed to connect, although Rangers were the beneficiaries of the faintest of touches just five minutes after the interval.
Andrews had replaced Alan Hutton at half time and he made his muscle count in the area when Steven Smith sent a free-kick towards the back post. The connection he managed to apply to the ball with his head was slight, but it was enough to deflect the set piece past a static Combe.
Then Boyd came to life, his sixteenth goal for Rangers keeping the Champions League issue alive as far as Rangers are concerned. Dado Prso broke down the right and lifted in a cross that found Boyd, and he headed into the corner of net. Andrews then made the points safe with another close-range header with 12 minutes remaining.
MAN OF THE MATCH - Marvin Andrews The defender came on at half time and not only settled the Rangers defence, but also made his mark at the other end, with two goals that might be the difference between Champions League and Uefa Cup qualification.


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The Soleman Triathlon is a USAT sanctioned event. Benefits of the USAT Sanctioning are listed below:
- The course is well-planned and documented local permits have been obtained.
- The event safety plan has been carefully reviewed by the experienced staff at USA Triathlon.
- Proper insurance coverage, including general liability and athlete excess medical, is in place.
- All participants will be either annual members of USAT or one-day license holders.
- The results will be scored in the annual national rankings.
All athletes must abide by the USAT Rules. Click here for a copy of the rules. Please read them and abide by them. Failure to do so will result in penalties or disqualification.


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Progressive development sector actors, we believe, must come together to influence the techno-social changes redefining our societies. Therefore we seek to build bridges across different sectors, in the global struggle towards an equitable information society. Our work in the areas of education, gender, governance, community informatics and internet policy push the boundaries of existing vocabulary and practice, exploring new development frameworks.
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I'm Annika Larsson, and I live in Perstorp, Sweden.
I have been breeding smooth foxterrier since 1982.
First owned smooth was 1978.
I have got The Swedish Terrierclub awards for successful breeding and also their award for working hard for the breed.
Svenska Terrierklubbens Uppfödarmedalj
Svenska Terrierklubbens Förtjänsttecken
And member of Honour in Rasklubb för Släthårig Foxterrier(the swedish breedclub for smooth foxterrier)
Smooth Foxterrier
Svenska Terrierklubbens Uppfödarmedalj
Look under Puppies for more information.
5 males 2 females, all white&black.
I'm still working with the page so you have to come and watch now and then.


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by Staff Writers
Washington (AFP) Jan 30, 2013
The Vietnam war veteran tapped to lead the Pentagon, Chuck Hagel, came under a withering attack from Republican critics on Thursday as he struggled to explain his stance on Israel and Iran.
Hagel endured hours of relentless grilling at his confirmation hearing, with Republican senators citing his blunt comments over the years to portray him as naive on national security and disloyal to Washington's staunch ally, Israel.
The former Nebraska senator chose not to push back when confronted with his often sharply-worded remarks on Israel, saying he regretted referring to the "Jewish lobby" and its influence on Congress.
"I've already said I regret referencing the Jewish lobby," Hagel told the Senate Armed Services Committee. "I should have said pro-Israel lobby."
Hagel stumbled at times and mistakenly said he favored "containment" of Iran instead of President Barack Obama's policy of preventing Tehran from obtaining nuclear weapons. He corrected himself later after being handed a note.
The Republican politician apparently decided to absorb the blows instead of attempting to parry the attacks, perhaps because the White House is confident that the Democratic Party's majority in the Senate will secure his nomination, despite the rough reception at the hearing.
Even if Republican jabs fail to derail his nomination, the campaign against Hagel -- backed up with television attack ads -- left him bruised and served as a warning that he will be under tough scrutiny at the Pentagon.
A White House source said the administration did not sense Hagel's nomination was in any danger, and expressed confidence that all the Democrats on the committee would still vote to confirm him.
The source also said that the Hagel camp had expected tough questions, but was surprised that Republicans dwelt on "trivial" issues like Hagel's response to a caller on an Al Jazeera show, and that there was little discussion on Afghanistan, with 66,000 US troops still on the ground there.
"They spent more time talking about a war that's over than one that's ongoing," the source said.
The most dramatic exchange came when a fellow Vietnam War veteran, Senator John McCain, blasted Hagel for his opposition to the 2007 troop surge in Iraq and demanded Hagel declare if he had been wrong.
But Hagel calmly refused and tried to explain his thinking at the time, even as McCain repeatedly interrupted him.
"I want to know if you are right or wrong. That's a direct question. I expect a direct answer," McCain said.
Hagel replied: "I would defer to the judgment of history."
McCain then responded with disgust: "History has already made a judgment on the surge sir, and you're on the wrong side of it."
McCain sees the troop surge as allowing for a dignified exit from Iraq. Hagel, however, said it was unclear if it was worth losing some 1,200 Americans in the surge of reinforcements to Iraq.
The tense back-and-forth underscored the tensions between Hagel and his fellow Republicans over his apostasy on the Iraq war, which he initially supported before breaking ranks.
Another senator wounded in Vietnam, John Kerry, has been confirmed as the next secretary of state, and both Hagel and Kerry reflect Obama's preference for restraint when it comes to employing US military might.
Decorated with two Purple Hearts for his combat tour in Vietnam, Hagel has said military action should be a last resort and has sometimes expressed impatience with Israel and opposed some unilateral sanctions on Iran.
But Hagel sought to reassure lawmakers, saying he was ready to back military action if necessary against Iran or other adversaries.
"I am fully committed to the president's goal of preventing Iran from obtaining a nuclear weapon, and -- as I've said in the past many times -- all options must be on the table to achieve that goal," he said.
Hagel has pursued a charm offensive in recent weeks, holding a flurry of meetings with senators in Congress. But the ranking Republican on the Senate Armed Services Committee said he was not convinced, portraying Hagel as ready to appease Tehran.
"His record demonstrates what I view as a lack of steadfast opposition to policies that diminish US power and influence throughout the world," Senator Jim Inhofe said.
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Square Enix has announced that Crystal Defenders is now available for the iPad. Crystal Defenders is also currently available for the iPod Touch and iPhone, and was previously released as Crystal Guardians for mobile phones in Japan in 2008.
Described as a "defensive simulation," Crystal Defenders features jobs and locations from the Final Fantasy Tactics series and requires that players deploy units to defend their party's crystals against waves of enemies. Unit job attributes, map terrain, as well as monster strength and weakness all play a role in victory.
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Naegele's Rule is coined after the German obstetrician, Franz Karl Naegele who developed the rule. Many obstetricians are utilizing this type of pregnancy calculator to verify the estimated due date.
This rule serves as a pregnancy calculator as it approximately calculates the EDD or expected date of delivery. It is done by getting the first day of the woman's Last Menstrual Period (LMP) and adding up 12 months to it, then subtracting three months and adding seven days to that time. The outcome will be more or less 280 days or 40 weeks from the LMP.
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Let me start off by saying that even minor do-it-yourself car projects for me end up in a disaster so when I say this one was easy, it must be really easy.
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Battery - Advanced Auto Parts 94R2. Perfect fit. No mods to battery well required. $118 (after returning old battery and receiving $10 credit)
Hardest part was removing plastic trunk tray that is over battery. Pull out the plastic plug clip that is up and to the left of the battery on the side of the trunk. That gives the gray carpet trunk liner a bit more wiggle room so the black plastic tray can be worked out from underneath it.
Note that the metal bracket in the battery well is much longer than the OEM battery. There is a little white plastic block towards the rear of the car that keeps the OEM (and then the replacement battery) from sliding front to back. Just make sure you put the battery in place so that the white plastic block is behind it.
Take the negative terminal off first
The Advanced Auto Parts battery appears to have vent holes on either side. I swapped the little black plastic plug from one side of the Advance battery to the other so the vent could be attached on the same side as it was on the OEM battery.
That's pretty much it. Oh, and you should check your spare tire pressure since you already have the trunk cover out.
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23.1 What are feed blocks and their main effects on animals ?
Feed blocks are a feed supplement which can enhance efficient utilisation of native and improved pastures. Their main effect on animals is to increase appetite and intake of poor-quality forages and pastures which boosts animal performance and consequently improves productivity. The solid mixture contains urea (10%), salt (10%) and local by-products incorporated into a block structure that is licked by animals.
23.2 What are the ingredients in the formula of blocks?
whatever the applied formula, the common ingredients in feed block are:
Table 16. Two satisfactory formulas which can be successfully applied in PlC's:
Formula 1 (kg per 100)
Formula 2 (kg per 100)
Copra meal
23.3 How to make feed blocks?
The manufacture technique is simple, and easily accessible to small farmers. The equipment required is very simple and relatively cheap. Mixing may be done by hand, in a concrete mixer or in a horizontal barrel mixer. Whatever the applied formula, the steps for making the blocks remain the same. These steps consist of: weighing, mixing, moulding and drying. Small (10 to 20 kg ) or large (50 to 100 kg) quantities can be prepared in each batch
The procedure presented hereafter is concerning uses Formula I [see above]. Steps for making up the mixture (100 kg) are:
23.3.1 Mixing
(i) Urea (10 kg) is mixed with salt (10 kg) in a large container. A solution is made up
using 25 litres of water. Avoid urea lumps as this could lead to animals being poisoned due to an overdose. Then add molasses (20 kg) and stir the mixture well with a wooden stick for five to ten minutes (see Photo 31.)
(ii) The specified amount of copra meal (45 kg) is placed on the ground in a round heap on a hard and even concrete drying floor. Then add to it the amount of cement ( 15 kg). The mix of copra meal-cement is thoroughly mixed using shovels and/or forks (see Photos 32 and 33). For preparation of small amounts ( 10 kg ) the mixture can be prepared by hand in a large plastic bowl (see photo 34.)
(iii) when the mix of copra meal-cement is carefully mixed, form a hole in the middle of the heap and gradually sprinkle by hand or using water sprinkler the mixed solution of "molasses-salt-urea" and carefully knead until a uniform paste of good consistency has been prepared (balls should not disintegrate when moulded in the hands). If these balls tend to crumble, then one should add a little more water (3 or 5 litres) and continue mixing (see Photo 35.).
23.3.2 Moulding
Once the mixture has been properly kneaded, small amounts are progressively stacked into separate moulds. The cubic mould type (20 x 20 x 20 cm) consists of four flat pieces of wood in which slots have been made so that they can be easily assembled to form the mould and then later dismantled when the brick is removed (see Photo 36.)
The mixture is then strongly compacted in the mould using a heavy wooden or metal pounding rod (see Photo 37.). Simpler motilds can also be used, such as half buckets, cans cut to size or any other receptacle which is locally available. Taking the bricks out the motilds may be eased if they are lined to start with, using plastic sheet
23.3.3 Drying
(i) Once the mixture has been well compacted, the blocks are carefully taken out of the moulds and arranged on a drying floor (see Photo 38.), preferably in the shade as the strong sun can cause cracking in the blocks. The blocks will dry and be ready for use after about 10 days. Blocks weighing 8.5 to 10 kg when dried can be made with this type of mould.
The blocks should be sufficiently resistant for transport and hard enough to withstand licking without crumbling (if too friable large chunks could be munched by animals thus increasing the risk of urea toxicity).
If blocks are not hard enough or are friable, this could be due to:
-errors in the quantities of the ingredients (probably insufficient water)
insufficient uniformity in preparing the mix, mainly pellet forming from wet copra meal
insufficient packing down of the mix into the mould, poor quality bonding material: cement which is too old, poor solutions with only part of certain ingredients being dissolved (urea, salt,...)
If friability persists despite all these precautions, increase the amount of the bonding agent. On the contrary, if blocks are too hard the amount of cement can be reduced to I 0% instead I 5%. when the quantity of the cement is increased or decreased, incorporation rate of copra meal must also be modified.
Once dried the blocks can be stored in a dry place for several months up to year. Their quality varies very little.
23.4 How to use feed blocks?
Blocks constitute a feed supplement that improves utilisation of poor quality-forage and unbalanced grasses. How to use these blocks depends upon the feeding system. If the animals graze pasture, the farmer can leave the blocks available to them in a sheltered trough (see Photo 39). when animals remain in confinement (animals being milked or fattened ) and are fed with silage and cut grasses, the farmer can leave the blocks available at all times in feed box.
Finally one should always recall that blocks contain urea which can be toxic if consumed in excess of the normal dose; it is therefore recommended to respect the following precautions:
a. Only give the blocks to ruminants because only ruminants are able to take advantage of the urea in the blocks. The blocks should be not given to pigs, equines, chicken. Calves can have access to blocks after the age of 2-3 months. Wet blocks (due to rainfall ) become very soft and can easily cause intoxication due to urea high intake. Consequently blocks should be always kept under shelter and far from water trough
b. Blocks should be used as a supplement and not as the basic ration. Feedblocks are catalytic" supplements which allow ruminants to take better advantage of native and improved grasses or protein-poor by-products (from bananas, crop roots....). But they should not be used to replace them.
A minimum of coarse forage in the rumen is essential. Therefore, the farmer should not give the blocks to an animal with an empty belly as one risks causing feed poisoning due to an excessive consumption of urea.
c. when first introducing blocks it is advisable to respect a transition period. Offer blocks progressively over a period of two weeks so that the animal becomes adapted to this new supplement which contains urea. when animals are reluctant, the farmer can put some copra meal or other appetising product, such as molasses, salt or chopped grassed on top of the block to help the animal become accustomed to it. Once the animals are adapted to the supplement, they will regulate their intake on their own and the blocks can be left available all the time.
d. The feed block intake per head varies between 250 to 400 g I day for adult cattle when intake is lower or higher, the farmer may check the hardness of blocks. This can be corrected
by modifying the proportion of bonding agent in the formula: add more to increase hardness or
reduce it to make the block softer.
e. Finally availability of the blocks should be regular and continuous so as to avoid having to undergo another adaptation period for the animal, which in fact will take another two weeks each time distribution of these blocks has been discontinued.


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(7/26/2007) NEW HAVEN- The New Haven Police Department responded to an accident at 9:27 pm Wednesday to find 36 year-old Willie Ponteau, a New Haven Police Officer, and his passenger, struck by a driver in a pick-up truck on Congress Avenue. Ponteau and his passenger were on a motorcycle traveling East on Congress as the truck was traveling in the opposite direction. The driver of the truck attempted to make a left at Redfield Street striking Ponteau in the intersection. The driver, 51-year-old Thomas Sims was arrested and charged with driving under the influence.
�Willie is our thoughts and prayers today as we hope he�ll recuperate and pull through this,� said Chief Francisco Ortiz. �This was a terrible accident that left him and his passenger with severe head trauma. We have no tolerance for driving under the influence and want the community to realize the horrible consequences that can come from this irresponsible behavior. This shouldn�t have happened.�
Ponteau and his passenger remain in critical condition at area hospitals having sustained life threatening injuries. Ponteau has served the New Haven Police department since 2002. Sims is scheduled to be arraigned tomorrow.
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JERUSALEM (Aug. 2)
Prime Minister Yitzhak Rabin has ordered the suspension of archaeological excavations near the planned city of Modi'in in deference to the objections of the haredi, or fervently Orthodox, Jews.
His decision was protested by the Israeli Association of Archaeologists, which called it a capitulation to haredi dictates. Members of the association called it a dangerous precedent.
The haredim say the archaeologists are violating Jewish law by digging up bones. They say the bones are buried in a graveyard dating to the Second Temple period, Israel Radio reported.


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84. Idole de Lubin by Lubin
Idole is another favorite from nose Olivia Giacobetti. She is best known for her restraint (shes known for simple creative expressions like Philosykoss fig as opposed to ornate old-school chypres) and for the translucence of her perfumes (her creations never screech and are never loud, instead having
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The Legends Of Niche, Part 3 The 2000s
The 2000s have brought about a new explosion in both niche perfumes and in the number of people discussing them. Its cheap and easy to order or trade samples online and other interested people are just a mouse-click away, so its become quite simple to try even the most obscure scents. While it could be argued that this has led to todays glut of overpriced but repetitive niche scents (seriously, if any niche perfumers read this and youre
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The Legends Of Niche, Part 2 The 1990s
78. Gendarme by Gendarme
In 1991, Gendarme created the first anti-perfume. As the story goes, its founder was allergic or sensitive to ingredients in the scents of the times, so he created a mix of soapy notes and clean laundry chemicals that smelled like a hyper-exaggeration of clean. Then, in one of the best ironies in the whole world
Long before the internet made it easy to hear about rare fragrances, and many years before Barneys was an upscale chain store, back when The Perfumed Court was a Xerox list of available samples that you received by mail, there were still niche perfumes. Small stores and hotels had their own perfumes, and tiny little companies made interesting, non-mainstream scents. While on one hand, we have it easy now with the rapid spread of information, the days before this benefited from a much larger number
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If I had to pick a personal favorite perfume company, Id probably pick LArtisan Parfumeur. Theyve been around forever (Their iconic Mure et Musc already made this list in my picks of the 70s) and have consistently valued creativity and pushing the envelope of artistic perfumery, using top noses for decades now.
I definitely see some recurring themes within their line. First, theyre known for their sense of humor, releasing surprisingly wearable and well-thought-out scents of
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Regulars at the Powis Arms in the hamlet of Pool Quay oppose plans to convert most of the property and leave a small ground floor bar.
A popular watering hole for walkers on the nearby Offa's Dyke path, it closed last August after the landlord's death.
Owner Powis Estate has sent plans to the council, but the pub near Welshpool is also on the market for £190,000.
The Powis Arms, in the hamlet of Pool Quay, two miles from Welshpool, stands just by the Montgomery Canal and the Offa's Dyke and Severn Way paths.
The pub had attracted thirsty canal boat tourists and walkers, but trade had dipped before licensee Allan Whalley died suddenly last August.
'Great loss'
Plans originally submitted with the council were to convert the whole of the property into homes, but a spokesman for Powis Estate said the application was to be amended.
The owner is now looking to convert one side of the pub into a home, while the bottom half of the other side would be kept as a pub and the top half made into a flat.
However, regulars want to see the pub in the hands of a new landlord, and said it was one of the hamlet's only amenities.
Campaigner Debbie Brown said: "The only other amenity is the church - we have nothing else in Pool Quay.
"We have started a petition to save the pub and we have written to our MP Lembit Opik about the issue.
"The pub was really, really popular with walkers and would be a great loss to the community."
Phillip Humphreys, agent for Powis Estate, confirmed that the plans for the pub would be amended.
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BAKERSFIELD, Calif.—CSU Bakersfield scored four of its five runs with two outs as the Roadrunners extended its winning streak to six with a 5-4 victory over BYU Thursday night.
With two outs in the third Andrew Penner and David Metzgar charted back-to-back singles for CSUB (7-2). Ryan Grotjohn walked to load the bases before Mahlik Jones singled up the middle to plate Penner and Metzgar. The Roadrunners extended the lead in the fifth with two outs.
Metzgar singled to left before he came around on a Grotjohn double. Jones again singled up the middle to drive Metzgar. The Cougars clawed their way onto the scoreboard in the seventh when Bronsen Larsen hit a three-run home run. The 'Runners added an insurance run in the eighth on a Max Carter RBI single.
BYU made it interesting in the ninth. Naithen Dewsnap, the CSUB closer entered the game and gave up a single to Colton Shaver to open the frame. Brian Hsu pinch ran for Shaver and advanced to second when Keaton Kringlen grounded out to third. Hsu again moved up 90 feet on a ground out, this time when Nate Favero hit a shot to second at Metzgar. A Larsen single to left drove in Hsu for the Cougars' (3-5) fourth run. David Clawson's tapper back to Dewsnap on the bump was the final out of the game.
Carter started the game on the mound for the 'Runners and improved to 2-0 with 6.1 innings of work. He allowed six hits before giving way to Kenny Johnson who threw 1.2 innings. Johnson's hold gave to Dewsnap in the ninth as the Chaffey College transfer picked up his third save of the season. Carter was 2-of-4 at the plate.
"Tonight was a team effort," said CSUB interim head coach Jeremy Beard. "We had great team at-bats, we had an outstanding pitching performance and we played pretty good defense."
Jones drove in three runs with his three hits (3-4). He also scored a run and had a career high 12 putouts at first base. Metzagar went 3-for-4 with two runs scored. CSUB outhit BYU 12-10 with Larsen going 3-for-4 at the plate for the Cougars.
"David and Mahlik do a great job of competing," Beard said. "They are never out of an at-bat and they are great two strike hitters and that's why they are the outstanding hitters that they are."
The series continues Friday night at 6 p.m. The game will be available on the Roadrunner Sports Network as well as ESPN 98.1 FM/1230 AM. Corey Costelloe's radio pregame show begins at 5:45 p.m.


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text: Politics 23 January 2012 Why Leveson is right to allow anonymous witnesses Sometimes, anonymity is necessary in the public interest. That does not justify the tabloid's prurie Sign up for our weekly email * Print HTML The decision to allow anonymous sources to contribute to the Leveson inquiry could be seen as a victory -- or a bit of a bear trap. It's deliciously hypocritical of the Daily Mail to use the "Yuman Rites* Act" it has so often pilloried in the past to attempt to stop others from using the kind of anonymous sources it wouldn't think twice about using. I remember when "friends" of the newsreader Carol Barnes happily stuck the boot into her when she was about to die, as reported by the Mail, or when a "friend" of missing woman Claudia Lawrence decided to tell all to the Mail (rather than the police) about the alleged nature of her acquaintance's private life (and more particularly sex life). It's not just the Mail, of course, and it would be wrong to portray this use of anonymous "friends" to just those titles, when there are many others who use this kind of tactic all the time. The veneer of public interest in a dying (or dead) celebrity, or the sex life of a missing person, is very thin indeed, although the authors of these pieces attempt to justify why we're being told about these secrets when the subject doesn't have the ability to respond to them. But we all know what it's really about: it's about feeding the readers' morbid or prurient curiosity and hoping to get or retain readers off the back of it. That's all there is to it. No-one has ever really benefited from finding any of this information out. Have people benefited financially from revealing it? That is a mystery. Perhaps people do it out of the goodness of their hearts because they really want the wider public to know. Anonymous sources do have their place in journalism. Without them, whistleblowers would not be able to tell their side of events and bring items of genuine public interest to the fore. It's in most workers' contracts, private or public, that if you tell the media what's going on in your workplace, you can be kicked out -- and that means a lot can be concealed. I think there's a justification for paying sources as well, if what they reveal could not be brought into the public arena in any other way. After all, it makes sense to compensate some people who have an awful lot to lose if it is found out that they are behind a particular story. There's a time and a place when these things are right, and necessary -- but also a time and a place when they're impossible to justify. When people's lives get wrecked, when untruths are told and the victim is unable to respond because they're missing or dead, when there's no reason for publishing other than "because we can". Is that the price we must pay for those occasions when anonymity provides a genuine scoop for a story of real public interest? There's also a time when sources are as dodgy as hell, and it doesn't do any particular harm -- for example, when an "onlooker" comments on a story for a red-top with a quote so pitch-perfect that you could be forgiven for thinking it had been written by the journalist who put the story together and merely attributed to the eyewitness. If that doesn't really do any damage, is it the worst crime in the world, especially when readers are aware of the likelihood of the spectacularly articulate "onlooker" existing? There could be a concern that an inquiry which is investigating, among other things, the use of anonymous or paid sources, might open itself to accusations of hypocrisy by using, er, anonymous sources. But I don't think that's such a problem, and I'm glad that we will be hearing from anonymous contributors about the culture of what goes on in newsrooms up and down the country. It's worth taking that evidence with the same amount of cynicism we might usually reserve for anonymous sources in newspapers -- which in my case is quite a lot. * The silly phonetic spelling of such subjects as "Yuman Rites" and "Elf 'n' Safety" is a trope often used by the Mail's own star columnist, Richard Littlejohn, in order to emphasise the ribtickling nature of such subjects. Perhaps my favourite example of Littlejohnian phonetic silliness is when he decided that the inherent let-wing bias of the BBC would see Israelis thought of as "Izza-ra-ay-lees". You know, Izza-ra-ay-lees. The pronunciation that no-one has ever used, ever. › The benefit cap: what does it mean and why is it unfair? Patrolling the murkier waters of the mainstream media Subscribe from just £1 per issue More Related articles Does it matter that Westminster journalists have a WhatsApp group? Rock solid-arity: how fans and bands helped save Team Rock's music magazines The UK press's timid reaction to Brexit is in marked contrast to the satire unleashed on Trump Subscription offer 12 issues for £12 + FREE book LEARN MORE Close This week's magazine