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Rory Hutchings will be become the latest in a line of New Zealand apprentices to ride for Chris Waller in Sydney.
Hutchings, who has ridden 107 winners, has four Waller mounts at Randwick on Saturday.
He comes highly recommended.
"Graeme Rogerson told me he is good rider and I have had a look at his record and he is getting rides in black-type races over there," Waller said.
"With the lack of jockeys around at the moment we need someone and he has come over a week early to help us out – and he can claim two kilos."
The 19-year-old will ride Mamwaazel in the second event, The Alfonso in the third, Reigning in the fourth and, in the sixth, Acapela, which had been earmarked for John Kissick until he decided to come out of his time early. Hutchings will ride for Waller on the final three Saturdays of the season.
"Rory is here early to help us and has to go South Africa for a jockey challenge next week," Waller said. "He won the apprentice award over there but initally turned down the opportunity to come here because he was going well over there. It is good to get him over here after all."
A week after booting home a winner for Wendy Walter on her emotion-charged farewell to training, Blake Shinn will turn to Peter Moody as he tries to make a strong finish to the season.
Shinn picks up the rides on Moody trio Statton in the first race at Randwick, Weinholt in the second and Miss Zenella in the fourth. He has high hopes for Statton and Weinholt.
"I can't fault Statton and I thought his first two runs back have been fairly good," Shinn said. "Third-up over 1400 metres – it looks an ideal race for him and it wouldn't surprise to see him run well.
"Weinholt has always been a talented horse and comes up from Victoria, which means he's a little unknown. But all reports are he's going well."
Shinn takes over on Miss Zenella after she was run ragged by the tearaway Black Jag last time over a mile. He also has engagements for Chris Waller, Joe Pride and Bjorn Baker in a handy book of rides.
Tim Clark has, in the main, hitched his wagon to Les Bridge since returning from Hong Kong but he is not getting carried away with the chances of Miss Venus in the sixth at Randwick.
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ballast - Weighted materials used as a counterweight to stabilize a boat
beam - The width of a ship
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belay - To make a line or rope fast to a pin or cleat
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displacement - the weight or volume of water displaced by a ship
fathom - A nautical measure of depth or distance equal to 6 feet
foremast - Aboard the three-masted Concordia, the forward most of the three masts
head - Bathroom, or sink, shower, and toilet
helmsman - the person who is at the wheel steering the ship
hull - The body of a boat
knot - Rate of motion equal to 1 nautical mile per hour (about 1.15 miles per hour)
latitude - One of the two coordinates (the other being longitude) used to locate a position at sea; marked in degrees north or south of the equator, from 0 degrees at the equator to 90 degress north or south at the poles; one degree of latitude = 60 minutes of latitude; as one minute equals a mile, a common saying at sea is "a minute's a mile". Latitude is comparable to the x-axis on a graph.
longitude - One of the two coordinates (the other being latitude) used to locate a position at sea; marked in degrees east or west of the prime meridien (0 degrees longitude) universally accepted to be at Greenwich, England. As there are 360 degrees in a circle, longitude may range up to 180 degrees East or West. 180 degrees East and West, in fact, meet on the other side of the globe from Greenwich, at the International Date Line. Longitude is comparable to the y-axis on a graph.
mainmast - Aboard the three-masted Concordia, the middle of the three
mizzenmast - Aboard the three-masted Concordia, the aft most of the three
port - The left side of a ship when facing forward
starboard - The right side of a ship when facing forward
stern - The rear of a boat
wheelhouse - Where the steering wheel and engine controls are
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Roanoke Doctor trying to save Caribbean hospital from another disastrous flood [1]
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For people in the Dominican Republic, the small hospital in San Juan de la Maguana strives to provide the best medical care available. Dr. John Mann [2] sees a disaster waiting to happen.
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The Christian Clinic for Integrated Health provides excellent care, thanks to medical professionals like Dr. Mann who visit from the United States, but in 1998, it was covered by more than five feet of water. The hospital still sits in that uninhabitable flood plain and it is only a matter of time before a catastrophic flood strikes again.
Dr. Mann is working with Solid Rock International [3], a Christian non-profit organization trying to improve lives in the Dominican Republic. The group is trying to build a brand new 20-bed hospital in a safer location with state of the art equipment.
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"Another major flood could destroy the current hospital, and past flooding has caused damage and maintenance problems that are beyond repair," explained Dr. Mann. "The new hospital will be in a better location and revolutionize healthcare in the Dominican Republic while dramatically increasing capabilities and capacity."[[{"fid":"24666","view_mode":"default","fields":{"format":"default","field_file_image_alt_text[und][0][value]":"","field_file_image_title_text[und][0][value]":"Dr. Mann and one of his patients","field_media_tree[und]":"_none"},"type":"media","attributes":{"height":"416","width":"416","class":"media-element file-default"}}]]
Dr. Mann, an orthopaedic surgeon with Carilion Clinic [4] specializing in joint replacements, sees this mission as an opportunity for the entire Roanoke community. He's working to bring colleagues, friends and members of the medical community to visit and contribute time and service to those in need in the Dominican Republic.
"Here in Roanoke we have a state-of the art, 700-bed hospital to meet all our needs," Dr. Mann says. "Imagine having a nothing but a small clinic that could be destroyed by a hurricane next month. They need our help and we all have the capacity to help in some way."
While the hospital operating room is currently not capable of supporting advanced procedures such as joint replacements, Dr. Mann says the group is working on ways to expand the medical services available in the country. They are also working with another non-profit to collect and refurbish out-dated medical equipment that can be used in the Dominican Republic and other under served parts of the world.
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For more information the project and other initiatives such as student sponsorship, child nutrition and clean water, visit www.solidrockinternational.com [3].


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The San Antonio Spurs beat the Oklahoma City Thunder while their fans beat each other.
TNT caught a piece of the fight during a break in the play.
If you take stock in YouTube comments, the fight started when an inebriated Oklahoma City fan waved a Kevin Durant jersey in the air. An equally inebriated San Antonio fan snatched the jersey away. This angered the Thunder fan who punched the Spurs fan and then chaos erupted.
Reid Cherner has been with USA TODAY since 1982 and written Game On! since March 2008.
He has covered everything from high schools to horse racing to the college and the pros. The only thing he likes more than his own voice is the sound of readers telling him when he's right and wrong.
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Jonathan (J.R.) Roy Weaver of Pleasanton and Bailey Gardner Britt of Houston, Texas, were married Nov. 17 at Riverhill Country Club in Kerrville, Texas.
Bailey is the daughter of Will and Anne Britt. She is a graduate of Kinkaid School in Houston and received her BS in corporate communications from the University of Texas, Austin.
J.R. is the son of Greg and Kris Weaver. He is a 2008 Amador Valley High graduate and completed his BS degree in professional sales at Baylor University.
The couple honeymooned in Costa Rica before returning to their home in Austin, Texas, where J.R. works for VMware.


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Progress Through Power is a competitive endgame Operation (raid) guild forming for the launch of Star Wars: The Old Republic. Our goal as a guild is plain and simple. Progress members plan to kill bosses and collect their loot, fast. Our players consist of world ranked World of Warcraft raiders, former e-sports competitors, and seasoned min-maxers who have proven their experience. Our members will be designing their characters from the ground up to master the mechanics and theorycraft of their role. The guild plans on dominating server first nightmare mode boss kills. While we are of course open to every other aspect of the game - player versus player, missions, crafting, socializing, role-playing - our sole priority will be raid performance.
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Tuesday - 7:00 PM to 11:00 PM
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It used to be the case that our army just sat there; or it sat somewhere else, mostly in Germany. In Northern Ireland, soldiers patrolled the streets in a quasi-policing capacity, partly because, unpopular though the British army was with the Nationalist community, it was less unpopular than the RUC. But there weren't any wars worth fighting. The army was there, just in case: just in case the Russians invaded West Germany (never a particularly likely prospect) or just in case something rare and improbable occurred, such as Argentina invading the Falkland Islands. Once the Islands were recaptured, it was assumed, the army could go back to sitting around waiting. It was good at that.
That's what you want an army for, ideally: to sit around, to be there just in case something awful happens. There was another army, the Territorials, that didn't even sit around. It was a sort of Combined Cadet Force for grown-ups, enabling youngish professional types to indulge their inner Rambo at the weekends, a more socially acceptable paintball. Few TA members actually expected to be called up for actual fighting. It was a terrible shock to many of them when they were. Because that wasn't really part of the deal. Legally, yes, but not implicitly. Because if you have an slightly overstaffed army whose primary purpose is to sit around waiting for something to happen that almost never does, the prospect of the nation calling on its reserves is faintly preposterous. The army are the reserves.
But not any more. Somehow, this country got into the disastrous situation of having a shrinking, overstretched, almost manically over-engaged army dependent upon reservists to cover basic functions. Somehow, we got to have an army that actually did things, despite having neither the numbers nor the financial resources to do them. This was not a good idea. For any modern country that isn't the United States and which isn't a military dictatorship, the cost of maintaining the army in a state of readiness and technological capacity is only supportable if it isn't being used. If the ammunition and missile stocks aren't constantly being depleted through use, if the soldiers aren't being flown around distant theatres of battle, needing to be fed and treated for injuries, if aircraft aren't flying expensive sorties. It's not a case of "use it or lose it". It's more a case of not being able to have your cake and eat it.
A fearsome-looking military makes a great deterrent. But the chief value of a deterrent lies in its not being used. The nuclear "deterrent" would be disastrous for all concerned were it ever actually to be employed. An army isn't quite like that: it does need to be used from time to time, because vital national interests are occasionally threatened. It's like the fire brigade, whose effectiveness does not depend on there being a certain number of fires to put out. But with the possible exception of Argentina, modern Britain has no more natural enemies than does Switzerland. The French aren't going to invade us, nor are the Germans. We are too far away for the Iranians to bother attacking us. Now that Northern Ireland is more-or-less settled, with Martin McGuinness making the time-honoured transition (so much seen in the declining days of the British Empire) from terrorist rebel to having tea with the Queen, our army ought to be sitting around playing soldiers. We don't, come to think of it, really need to have an army at all, except perhaps as a marketing tool for BAe.
I blame Tony Blair for this. Yes, there was the Falklands, an unavoidable diversion that was over in a few weeks. And there was Gulf War I, again a short, necessary response to an act of international aggression, swiftly remedied. But after those interludes, the army returned swiftly to its peacetime role of dolce far niente. But then Blair came along and had the quite disastrous thought that the army should justify its existence by being fighting as many wars as possible, while at the same time being cut to the bone to pay for grandiose and ruinous PFI schemes. So we entered the modern phase of over-extended, over-used and underfunded armed forces, dependent upon civilian reservists to fulfil basic operating functions, churning out physical and mental casualties that both the government and much of the public would rather forget about.
Today's announcement that the army is to be cut by 20% wouldn't be so bad if it were to be accompanied by a determination to stop fighting wars, to return to the peacetime status quo. The fact that a reduced military must perforce do less might, of itself, help to reduce the current (and historically anomalous) political mania for foreign intervention. Alas, it will probably take more than that. Unless there's a big change in the way politicians and the press think about the army, a smaller force will find itself deployed overseas almost as much, there will be more unconscionable pressure on regular troops and reservists alike, and the overstretch will be even greater.
Here's Con Coughlin, for example, complaining about the proposed cuts:
I very much doubt he [Philip Hammond, the Defence Secretary] has given any serious consideration to the Army's ability to deal with the many threats to our national security we are likely to face in the years ahead....
In the past decade it has twice been necessary for Britain to deploy a division-strength military force, to fight in Iraq and Afghanistan. And on both occasions it was necessary to maintain a sizeable military presence for many years while efforts were made to stabilise the security situation.
But whatever the politicians and top brass say about the new, highly flexible and adaptable Army that is envisaged in the proposals outlined by Mr Hammond today, the Army's ability to sustain demanding military operations over any length of time will be severely curtailed.
To which I say: good. It was not "necessary" for Britain to deploy either to Iraq or to Afghanistan, and curtailing the army's ability to sustain operations over time would be a small price to pay for such operations to be avoided. Of course, it would be even nicer to have the capability and not to use it. That worked fine in the past. But post-Blair such sensible counsels do longer prevail. The only way to avoid using the army, sadly, is to not have one. Which is why I think these latest cuts go nowhere near far enough.
Thursday, 5 July 2012
The Army: Use it and Lose it
It used to be the case that our army just sat there; or it sat somewhere else, mostly in Germany. In Northern Ireland, soldiers patrolled the streets in a quasi-policing capacity, partly because, unpopular though the British army was with the Nationalist community, it was less unpopular than the RUC. But there weren't any wars worth fighting. The army was there, just in case: just in case the Russians invaded West Germany (never a particularly likely prospect) or just in case something rare and improbable occurred, such as Argentina invading the Falkland Islands. Once the Islands were recaptured, it was assumed, the army could go back to sitting around waiting. It was good at that.


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The Research & Reference Services Practicum at The Ohio State University's Thompson Library offers select students of Kent State University's School of Library and Information Science valuable hands on experience at an academic library reference desk and online using various virtual reference technologies. This competitive program requires a minimum 150 hours of service and begins September 1st for fall semester (OSU fall quarter) and January 1st for spring semester (OSU winter quarter). Research & Reference duties may include, but are not limited to:
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BREAKING: Scientist claims comet ISON has companions!
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Well, the only way to know this for sure will be when it is closer to Mars, to us...etc Maybe from September we'll have a better data to contrast.
No, we already know this for sure, the astrophotographer himself confirmed it. It's hot pixels, end of story.
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No, we know of the hot pixels, we can't be 100% sure ISON is alone until it gets closer is what they are saying.
Oh really? You speak for the other poster? He said the only way to know "this" in direct response to what I was talking about. I was talking about the hot pixels in the image.
And I agree, there could be things hitching a ride behind ISON.
Let's assume for a moment ISON is a fairly big comet at about 20km diameter for its physical nucleus. Its volume would then be about 4,188,790,200,000 m^3. If we assume a density of about 1500 kg/m^3 (and that's extremely generous, realistically it'd be closer to 400 kg/m^3) then the total mass is about 6.2831853 x 10^15 kg. If an object were orbiting a comet with that mass at any kind of distance, it wouldn't remain in orbit of it. If an object tried to orbit it at the distance that the moon is from earth, for instance, then it would take over 2000 years to complete a single orbit.
It wouldn't even still be orbiting it though, it would have been stripped off by the sun by now. The comet is currently about 5 AUs from the sun. The current difference in gravitational acceleration due to the sun over the distance of the object orbiting the comet would be about 2.25 x 10-10 m/s^2. That may not sound like much, but it's two orders magnitude higher than the acceleration such an object would experience from the comet, which would only be about 2.84 x 10^-12 m/s^2. In other words, even if an object were "trailing" it as close as the moon is from earth, it would have been peeled off by the sun a while ago. At further orbital distances it would have been ripped away sooner still. In order to stably orbit the comet, an object would have to assume a much lower orbit and be virtually indistinguishable from the comet's nucleus.
McCanney has claimed that the comet is being orbited by objects at two lunar distances. That is in direct contradiction to the evidence. The comet would have to be much, much more massive for that to be the case, and that is his claim indeed. He claims it's the size of the earth or larger. He's STILL claiming Pete's image of the comet showed "companions" but now he's now gone to claim that Pete's images were a NASA hoax to bait him into claiming the presence of companions so that they could then debunk it. He's a full-on nutjob.
ISON may also break up into several smaller pieces as it gets closer to the Sun. Noting ISON hasn't been "melted" yet by the Sun as far as we know.
Things in space don't melt, they sublimate, and the comet is sublimating which is why it has a coma, it's just not all that much yet. Yes it could break up into pieces, and then those pieces would continue along the original orbit of the comet. What does that have to do with anything McCanney claimed?
Dr. Astro
By the way, that nutjob McCanney is claiming that Pete's images were a hoax to bait him into claiming his images showed companions and that this NASA video shows Pete's images without the companions as a way to debunk his claim:
link to www.youtube.com
He's lying and hoping people like me don't notice. The hot pixels are still there in the above NASA video. Pete's time lapse is the first segment show, as per McCanney's description, but the hot pixels are still there.
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The episode (August 2nd 2012) begins with Gayatri is worried about sending Yash and Aarti to Mumbai because of one plane crash, Aarti tells Gaytri that she and Yash will not go.
Buaji is happy to hear this and suggests Gaytri to send Paridhi to Mumbai because Aarti is not going now.
Ansh, Palak and Payal are upset with Yash and Aarti for cancelling the Mumbai's trip.
Prateek gets angry when Pardhi tells him that she lied about her dream just to go to Mumbai.
Buaji tries to provoke Paridhi against Aarti but Pardhi refuses to do anything against Aarti.
Prateek reveals to Yash and Aarti that Pardhi lied to them about her dream because she herself wants to go to Mumbai. Paridhi tells Yash that she lied only because she just wants to enjoy her life.
Yash tells Paridhi that she should not lied like this and tells Prateek and Pardhi to go to Mumbai.
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There are few better forms of marketing than having your customers serve as human billboards for your company. Short of asking them to tattoo your name on their foreheads, the best way to accomplish this is to get your customers to wear branded clothing.
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- Work with a graphic designer on a look that suits your brand. A plain-old logo generally doesn't make for interesting clothing. Hire a freelance graphic designer to come up with an appropriate brand image; check out Foursquare's designs for inspiration. Choose apparel that will appeal to your customer base: For example, if you own a hunting-supplies store, bright orange caps may be ideal, whereas if you're catering to college students, a Threadless-style graphic T-shirt may be a hit.
- Decide whether to buy wholesale or have apparel made to order. When your images are ready to go, you have two options: Buy blank apparel and print your design on it, or use a company that prints in-house and sends you the finished product. There are pluses and minuses to both. When buying wholesale, you can select your own apparel and screen-printing suppliers, and you can save money by shopping around. Buying through an all-in-one supplier gives you less control over the final product, but can save you time and hassle. If you choose to go wholesale, check your favorite brands' sites to see what they sell (American Apparel and Hanes offer blank wholesale shirts). If you'd rather use an all-in-one solution, popular options include CafePress, CustomInk, and Zazzle.
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Port goes into error disable state 3750
Can you please help with the following
We have a number of 3750 stacks used as access layer switches connecting Siemens VOIP phones and then a PC that connects to the phone.
For example if I plug PC A to the phone that connects to port 13 I pick up an IP addressand all works as predicted now if I plug in PC A to any other VOIP phone that connect to another port on the same switch it goes in error disable state ITs like the switch is holding my PC mac address and locks it down with the port which in my case is Gi2/0/13.
interface GigabitEthernet2/0/13
switchport access vlan 726
switchport mode access
switchport port-security maximum 10
switchport port-security
network-policy 766
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spanning-tree portfast
Any help is much appreciated
A switch will not be automatically blocked. But it will if more than X (with X=1 as you didn't specify any maximum in your new config) MAC-addresses are seen.
If you also want to protect your infrastructure against rougue switches you could also consider Rootguard or even BPDUguard.
switchport port-security maximum 2
switchport port-security
Something is missing here ...
Ok, you've enabled port-security and you've specified up to 2 MAC addresses allowed. My question is what will the switch DO when three or more MAC addresses are learnt from a port? Specifically, what ACTIONS did you specify the switchport to do when this event happens. I believe the default is "error-disable".
Add the following lines and see what happens:
switchport port-security aging time 2
switchport port-security violation restrict
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Have Ford Questions? Ask a Mechanic for Answers ASAP
I think the best way is the Ford shop manual procedure,I will send it to you.Let me know if you need further assistance please.Once you have the hub removed,then just pull the axle out,it is the same for either side,you may have to pull hard as the vacuum seal somtime sticks in the knuckle
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NOTE: Caliper is removed for clarity.
NOTE: Carry out this step for F-250 and F-350 4x4 SRW vehicles.
NOTE: Carry out this step for DRW vehicles.
NOTE: If excessive force must be used during brake rotor removal, the brake rotors should be checked for lateral runout prior to installation. For additional information, refer to Section 206-00.
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CAUTION: Do not remove the ABS sensor from the bearing.
NOTE: The wheel hub and bearing is a slip fit design and should not require a puller to remove it.
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NOTE: If necessary, position the hub in a soft-jawed vise.
NOTE: Any time the wheel hub is removed for any reason, a new O-ring seal must be installed. Failure to do so can cause a vacuum leak and loss of four wheel drive operations.
NOTE: Position the hub in a soft-jawed vise.
NOTE: Apply a coat of Ford High Temperature 4x4 Front Axle and Wheel Bearing Grease E8TZ-19590-A meeting Ford specification ESA-M1C198-A to the O-ring area of the wheel hub and bearing before installing the hub and bearing.
Vehicle equipped with ABS
NOTE: The following step applies only to vehicles equipped with ABS.
CAUTION: The non-metallic thrust washer must be installed between the two metal thrust washers. Failure to do so will cause severe wear to the non-metallic thrust washer, allowing the axle shaft to travel further in and out during torque thrust causing damage to the wheel hub and bearing, the axle shaft end seal and the axle shaft.
NOTE: Any time the hub lock is removed, a new O-ring seal must be installed. Failure to do so can cause a vacuum leak and loss of four wheel drive functions.
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Justin Bieber Crashes Drake Bell's Album Release Party, Continues Feud
Looks like Justin Bieber got his revenge on Drake Bell.
The Drake & Josh star has been publicly slamming the Biebs lately, calling him "talentless" and even tweeting that his graffiti is "almost as bad as his music."
So the "Boyfriend" crooner took matters into his own hands last night…
Bell was throwing his album release party for Ready Steady Go at Mixology at the Grove in Los Angeles when Bieber had his chauffeured van drive directly in front of the entrance. The 20-year-old pop star made sure to stick his head out of the car and wave to fans just to stir up even more commotion.
Of course, Beliebers came rushing and screaming over, taking all eyes off Drake's party and putting the spotlight on the Biebs.
Drake heard the commotion and stepped onto the balcony to catch Bieber in the act… And somehow this image was created and shared (then deleted) from Justin's instagram account:
Meanwhile, Drake also took to social media to stir the pot:
@justinbieber Damn! they told me you were there while I was changing. I tried to come get you in time but you split. only saw you drive away
— Drake Bell (@DrakeBell) April 18, 2014
Yeah, I don't think Bieber was trying to get in, Drake. More like… Trying to get even.
We're sure the feud is bound to continue after this one.


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Fighting intensified in the Syrian city of Aleppo over the weekend, with the government of President Bashar al-Assad deploying troops and aircraft to retake neighborhoods captured by opposition militants in a major offensive last week.
There were reports of heavy fighting in the historic city center and old fort areas of Aleppo, Syria's most populous city and its main commercial center. The BBC, which has a correspondent inside the city, reported that the Syrian army was shelling militia positions in the suburb of Salah al-Din, and that thousands of civilians are fleeing Aleppo.
While the rural districts around Aleppo have experienced frequent clashes between government forces and opposition militants during the sixteen-month civil conflict, the city had until recently seen relatively little violence. However, there have been a growing number of deadly attacks on government facilities and personnel in Aleppo this year, with anti-Assad fighters strengthened by increased weapons supplies flowing across the border from neighboring Turkey.
In response to the fighting in Aleppo, Sayda Abdulbaset Sayda, the leader of the US-backed Syrian National Council, urged the West and the Gulf monarchies to increase their support to the opposition militias. "We want weapons that would stop tanks and jet fighters," Sayda said during a visit to the United Arab Emirates.
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I will be happy if events prove me too pessimistic, but the political atmosphere in Washington is rancid.
You know the cartoon segment that used to be in colour in rancid old newspapers?
No, this rancid bill of goods is also being by peddled by Fox News personalities.
The workers had to use oxygen tanks to combat the rancid smell of death in temperatures that topped 90 degrees Fahrenheit.
Butyric ether is manufactured from rancid butter, old rotten cheese, or Limburger cheese.
A pity that he goes about so unclean, smelling of rancid sanctity!
A rancid fat is one in which have been developed compounds of an odoriferous nature.
It proved to be dried beans and corn cooked with rancid tallow!
The mere saying that an oil is rancid is no indication of its being high in free acid.
There were chuckles from the shadows that sucked in and exhaled the rancid air.
1640s, from Latin rancidus "rank, stinking, offensive" (also source of Italian rancido, Spanish rancio), from rancere "be spoiled or rotten," of unknown origin. German ranzig is from French rancide. Related: Rancidness.
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Toye, Kenning & Spencer manufactures distinctive hand-made hats, caps, side caps and berets in its Bedworth factory near Coventry. The company's hat production demonstrates the symmetry of its in-house production capabilities. Hats made by the company are finished off with its own ribbon, embroidery and badges.
Toye's hats are instantly recognisable - from ceremonial headdress for Guards regiments to dice checked caps worn by policemen on the beat. An ornate peaked cap for an officer pronounces the wearer's rank. A naval seaman's cap displays the ship's name on the tally band. Fire and ambulance personnel involved in emergencies work confidently in their high visibility caps and a Royal Marine sports with pride the regimental badge on his beret.
The company's expertise and attention to detail is also highly valued by corporate customers, whether they are airlines, civil authorities or security firms. Toye tailor generic hats in a female style, and all its products are renowned for comfort and durability.


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Get Real
A loud and unfamiliar ring from the bedside table jolted me awake. Fumbling for the cheap plastic phone in the darkness, I struggled to remember where I was. Then a blast of wind shook the house with the force of a small earthquake and I remembered: Unalaska, Dutch Harbor. The end of the Earth.
On the other end of the line, my new boss, Alex, spoke in a hurried tide of words.
"The Polar Sea broke loose from its mooring," she said. "Ripped off part of the dock and hit Roger's boat. You know, Roger, the city councilor. I don't have a recorder. Come down to the harbor."
Still half asleep, I bumbled my way out the door, recorder in hand. Though it was the middle of the night, fluorescent floodlights from the neighboring fish processing plant were bright enough to cut through the horizontal rain and light my way to the car.
I made my way down to the harbor, but I didn't see a boat in distress, and I didn't see Alex.
What I did see were whitecaps sloshing over the floating dock, and 40-foot boats bobbing like bath toys in a stormy sea.When I had arrived in Unalaska on a 30-seat propeller plane a few weeks earlier, I found the weather to be horrendous; this was worse.
Not sure what I was to be looking for, I called Alex back.
"Keep driving," she said. "Past the small boat harbor."
Dodging meter-wide potholes on the dark, dirt road, I thought back to what had convinced me to take a job as a radio reporter in Unalaska, Alaska. "You'll be doing real reporting," Alex had said. "Not just cutting and pasting HTML." As I flailed for post-college purpose, "real" sounded like something I wanted.
Ahead of me, illuminated by a bright spotlight, the Polar Sea emerged from the storm. Stacks of king crab pots 30 feet high weighed down the aft deck as it bobbed in the heavy swell. This was definitely the antithesis of modern-day Google reporting. But suddenly, real didn't seem like such an alluring prospect.
Real meant getting wet talking to people who would probably rather my recorder and I occupy ourselves elsewhere. Real meant engaging the world and its problems, not just reading about them over coffee in the morning.
I parked in the mud behind a line of pickup trucks and took a deep breath before charging into the rain.
Alex waved at me from the bottom of a long dock ramp. Behind her, Roger's boat was like a school bus pinned to the dock by a 737. Eighty-mile-per-hour winds had ripped the crabber from its mooring and spun it around 180 degrees, right onto the councilor's boat. Remarkably, it didn't look like it had done much damage.
We climbed onboard the Commitment, taking care not to slip into the blackness between the dock and the deck. A crowd of men stood on the bow, observing the collision point. One of them commented that the winds seemed to be dying down and maybe they could move the Polar Sea soon. Another man clung to the outside of the Commitment's deck rail, peering down at the hull until a massive gust of wind threatened to squish him between the two boats.
I hung back, letting Alex ask the questions. But as they talked, I could hear the sounds becoming a story: a sharp cry of warning, the men yelling at each other from their respective boats, the chatter of a walkie-talkie, the thunk of hull against hull, and then the empty howl of a fierce wind.
Stephanie May Joyce '11 is a news reporter at KUCB in Unalaska, Alaska. A portfolio of her work can be found at www.stephjoyce.com.


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No curve balls or knuckleballs here. Just media pitching tips you can use.
To put the following media relations experts in context, here are 10 of my own top tips to get you started:
- Follow a wide range of reporters in the traditional and social media. Get to know their interests, their recent stories and what they may be working on.
- Know the unique differences between pitching newspaper, TV, radio, blogs and other social media.
- Always respect deadlines.
- Never mass pitch a story idea. Try to customize each individual pitch.
- Think about visuals. Even newspaper websites are using photos and video these days.
- If you're going to use a news release, make it a winner. Throw away those corporate quotes and use storytelling for better results. Link freely to additional resources to help the reporter with context.
- If you're an "expert", always have a handful of talking points at hand in case you get a media call or inquiry through social media that requires a quick response.
- Never ever pay to appear on TV, radio or in newspaper.
- You're "never" off the record.
- Bloggers need careful research and pitching.
Media relations is both an art and a science. It does get easier with practice but it requires research, creativity, finding the real news or story hook, persuasiveness and, most important, tenacity. Appetite whetted? Let's hear from our experts.
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Media relations cuts both ways.
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Practical media relations advice and talk show tips.
Gabrielle Giffords: When the Media Blows It [Brad Phillips]
Brad Phillips shows how to respond when media makes a mistake in a breaking story.
Good News, Bad News [The New York Times]
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It's been a rough run in recent years for folks in the real estate game, for non-tax reasons. The tax law doesn't make it easy to be a real estate professional either, as a Pennsylvania man learned yesterday from the Tax Court.
The tax law's "passive loss" rules only allow you to deduct "passive" losses to the extent of passive income, except when you dispose of the activity in a taxable sale. For most taxpayers, rental real estate losses are automatically passive under the tax law. For non-real estate activities, the tax law determines whether you are passive based on the extent of your participation in the business.
"Real estate professionals" have a special deal. Their real estate losses aren't automatically passive; they are instead tested under the usual "material participation" standards. That makes everyone want to be a real estate pro, at least on their tax returns. Unfortunately the tax law doesn't make it easy to be a real estate pro. To qualify, you have to:
– Spend at least 750 hours per year participating in a real estate trade or business that you own, and
– You have to spend more time on real estate activities than other activities.
The second requirement makes it very difficult for anybody with a full-time non-real estate job to be a real estate pro under the tax law. It was too high a bar for Mr. Vandergrift from Pennsylvania (citations omitted; my emphasis):
Petitioners maintain Mr. Vandegrift qualifies as such an individual. He testified that over one-half of the total time he spent in business activity was devoted to the real estate business. We found Mr. Vandegrift to be generally honest and forthright, but his time estimate is suspect given his employment as a salesman for an employer in a business unrelated to the real estate activity. His subjective estimate also suffers from a lack of contemporaneous verification by records or other evidence.
We have held that the regulations do not allow a postevent "ballpark guesstimate" of time committed to participation in a rental activity. We are forced to find on the record before us that petitioners have failed to carry their burden of establishing that Mr. Vandegrift spent over one-half his work time in the real estate business.
The only case I've seen where a taxpayer with a full-time day job qualified as a real estate professional had two unusual facts: A cushy day job that didn't require a lot of time, and a taxpayer who kept meticulous time records. Absent those facts, someone with a non-real estate day job is probably not going to qualify as a real estate pro under the passive loss rules.
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NEW YORK The performances of the four CONCACAF teams at next month's World Cup could have a bearing on how many nations from North and Central America and the Caribbean qualify for the 2018 edition of the tournament, the region's soccer chief said.
Jeffrey Webb said a lot was riding on how well the United States, Costa Rica, Honduras and Mexico perform during the June 12-July 13 finals.
Under the qualifying format for Brazil, CONCACAF were awarded three direct places for the finals. The fourth-placed team during the final round of qualification secured a playoff with the top finisher from Oceania, with the winner - Mexico - securing a ticket to Brazil.
"For us it's obviously about getting out of the group stage," Webb told a select group of reporters on Tuesday.
"We're going to have an interesting debate, right after the World Cup, in regards of representation at the World Cup, how many teams.
"Are we going to get the four spots instead of three and a half? So obviously success on the field helps that debate."
No team from CONCACAF has ever made a World Cup final with the third place finish by the U.S. in the inaugural tournament in 1930 still the best result.
The Americans have made the quarter-finals once since then, in 2002, while Mexico (twice) and Cuba (once) have also made he last eight.
The U.S. and Mexico both made the round of 16 at the last World Cup in South Africa four years ago and Webb said he was hoping to at least match that in Brazil.
"Definitely, we're looking and hoping for at least two teams getting through to the round of 16 and hopefully the quarter-final stage," he said.
"I believe our standards have raised, I believe our teams are playing well.
"I believe when you look at the investment (of) the teams that have qualified, if you look at the quality of their technical staff, we've got some world class coaches of the four teams that have qualified."
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A July 22 article in the US edition of The Economist cited research by Professor of Finance Michael Weisbach. The article looked at the reasons why foreign firms are increasingly passing up listing their companies on US exchanges. Says the article, which is not available to the general public: "Big deals that would once have come to New York have gone elsewhere." Among the reasons cited in The Economist article: the "toxic" legal environment in the US and the smaller gap in transaction costs between the US and other exchanges.
A 2004 paper by Weisbach, who holds the Golder Distinguished Chair in Corporate Finance, concluded that foreign companies listing in US find that they have an easier time raising money in their home country. Other research reached a similar conclusion, citing the higher degree of transparency and the "higher governance standard" in the US.


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- First Published Online: 01 July 2005, International Journal of Systematic and Evolutionary Microbiology 55: 1635-1639, doi: 10.1099/ijs.0.63605-0
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Two Gram-negative, rod-shaped, non-motile bacterial strains, MSS-170T and MSS-171, were isolated from sea water of a marine solar saltern of the Yellow Sea, Korea, and characterized by using a polyphasic taxonomic approach. The two isolates grew optimally at 30 °C and in the presence of 2 % (w/v) NaCl. They were characterized chemotaxonomically as having MK-7 as the predominant menaquinone and major amounts of fatty acids iso-C15 : 0 and C16 : 1 ω7c and/or iso-C15 : 0 2-OH. The DNA G+C content of each of the two strains was 42 mol%. Phylogenetic analyses based on 16S rRNA gene sequences showed that the two strains fall within the evolutionary radiation enclosed by the genus Algoriphagus. Strains MSS-170T and MSS-171 had identical 16S rRNA gene sequences and exhibited a mean DNA–DNA relatedness level of 93 %. The two strains exhibited 16S rRNA gene sequence similarity levels of 96·4–98·9 % with respect to the type strains of recognized Algoriphagus species. DNA–DNA relatedness levels between the two strains and the type strains of six Algoriphagus species were less than 35 %. On the basis of phenotypic data and phylogenetic and genetic distinctiveness, strains MSS-170T and MSS-171 were classified in the genus Algoriphagus as members of a novel species, for which the name Algoriphagus locisalis sp. nov. is proposed. The type strain is MSS-170T (=KCTC 12310T=JCM 12597T).
The GenBank/EMBL/DDBJ accession numbers for the 16S rRNA gene sequences of strains MSS-170T and MSS-171 are AY835922 and AY835923, respectively.
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So this is what Washington gets for taking the US economy briefly over the fiscal cliff?
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Some of these items are justified but they need to be paid for with cuts elsewhere or new revenues. That hasn't happened and it's not going to inspire confidence that the US can solve its twin fiscal and growth problems in the coming years to avoid mediocre growth, a debt blowout and possible financial crisis at an unspecified date down the track. Republicans have little incentive to back down on their demands for steep spending cuts in the coming negotiations.
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