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The women's movement took a big step forward as a result of this Pete Kozma home run during the seventh inning of Tuesday's 6-1 Cardinals win over the D'backs (or D'bags, if you prefer).
Yes, women have come a long way since the dark days of depending on men to hunt for their food, open their doors, or get in the way of their screaming line drives.
The boyfriend in this case does show concern once the whole ordeal was all over and he was no longer in any way threatened, which serves the new, more enlightened standard for chivalrous behavior.
Even still, it can't be good when Al Hrabosky calls out your manhood on regional cable television.
And since Seinfeld gets more than it's fair share of play on this blog, it's seems appropriate that we're reminded of when George Costanza showed similarly chivalrous behavior.
Truly a man before his time.


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If you are hankering to totally escape the stress of the city, you'll find life in Tara happens at a relaxed pace and travellers are always welcome to stay a while. When you arrive in town, drop into the Tara Information Centre to chat to a local about what to see and do. Enjoy the Lagoon Parklands featuring Settlers Park and the Walk of Remembrance Garden. The Lagoon offers a cool respite and it serves as the local fitness precinct complete with outdoor gym. You can picnic by the water's edge, fish, cycle or take the interpretive walk to see an abundance of birdlife.
Native flora and fauna displays are abundant throughout the Shire, and among these you can spot some rare species. The eastern third of the Shire also supports Queensland's best examples of ironbark, spotted gum and cypress pine trees.
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TWO people arrested in connection with the murder of James Attfield have had their bail extended.
A 27-year-old man and woman from Colchester will answer bail again next month.
Jim, 33, of East Bay, Colchester, was stabbed 102 times and killed.
He was discovered shortly before 6am on Saturday, March 29.
Detectives are still investigating the murder on a path near Castle Park and Guildford Road.
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TWENTY years on from one of their greatest FA Cup nights, Wanderers produced another performance right out of the White Hot locker.
After a season of hurt, the 300 fans who trekked through the snowy hills to the windswept North East – and indeed those left biting their nails at home – deserved a night like this.
Marvin Sordell produced two second-half goals to set up a fourth round meeting with Everton at the Reebok – another echo of those heady nights two decades ago – in what must rank as his best night as a Bolton player.
But the same can be said for a handful of Dougie Freedman's side, who first matched the Premier League Black Cats for effort, and then beat them in the quality stakes too.
If the magic of the FA Cup hadn't exactly captured the imagination of the Bolton public just over a week ago, then it appeared to have had exactly the same effect on Wearside as a more than half-empty Stadium of Light sat silently through a largely uneventful opening half hour.
Wanderers worked hard, covered ground and kept a shape that would probably have pleased Freedman but their diligence in defence didn't exactly make for riveting viewing.
Adam Johnson was just about the only Sunderland player able to make inroads and it was from his tricky run and shot round Marcos Alonso that Andy Lonergan was forced into his first meaningful action of the half.
The former Leeds stopper was making only his third start since his summer move from Elland Road – but just as he had in the first game, was mixing the eccentric with the just plain excellent.
While he inexplicably chose to punch away a series of crosses from James McClean rather than catch them, Lonergan also kept the scoreline goal-less heading into the break with a couple of fine saves.
Johnson's curling free-kick was pushed around the post, while Connor Wickham's close range header was gathered well.
There would have been little that Lonergan could have done about Titus Bramble's low shot had it been on target, but thankfully for Wanderers, the big defender got his angles wrong after latching on to Stephane Sessegnon's pass.
In an attacking sense there was little to warm the cockles for the 300-or-so Whites fans.
Chris Eagles curled one shot well wide and tried one clever return pass to Marvin Sordell when a simple one would possibly have given the England Under-21 star a route in on goal.
But one cheerful moment brightened the gloom when about 15 minutes in, Holden came out of the dugout for his first warm-up, so be serenaded from some 80-feet above in the stands by the travelling supporters.
Craig Gardner had found his way past Lonergan with a rocket at the Reebok and nearly repeated the feat with a 25-yard free kick immediately after the restart, which flew inches wide of the post.
But out of the blue, it was Wanderers who very nearly seized the advantage. Sordell looked to be in an offside position when Spearing found him on the edge of the box, but as referee Kevin Friend waved play-on, the striker cut back inside Bramble to scuff a shot at goal that was well blocked by Simon Mignolet.
Wanderers – driven by Spearing and Afobe's industry – started to find their gear.
Eagles lifted one shot over the top and suddenly those mistakes that had been so prevalent in the early stages of the first tie started to appear again.
Clearances were scuffed, passed were hurried, and then when Darren Pratley made a well-timed dart into the penalty area, Jack Colback's challenge was clumsy enough to send the midfielder sprawling.
With Keith Andrews absent, you may have expected one of the more senior figures to claim control. But instead, it was Sordell who snatched the ball, spotted it, and smashed it home from 12 yards.
Just nine minutes later, Wanderers were in dream land.
Tyrone Mears raided into the penalty box to cut a ball back for Sordell, whose first touch wasn't the best, but the second was just enough to steer the ball past Mignolet.
Sunderland were shell-shocked. Freedman brought on Holden for his first appearance since October 2011 and it was fitting that in those closing stages that the Whites should retain the mettle they had lacked for so long in his absence.
The Wearsiders huffed and puffed but Lonergan wasn't really fully tested again – leaving Wanderers to ride out another famous cup win.
Two years ago the club lost its greatest-ever player in Nat Lofthouse, and you can bet he would have approved of a display like this.
Once again, this grand old competition has given us something to smile about.


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You want to see and hear what it is for someone who could not possibly care more to actually care more, take a look at and a listen to Philip Rivers.
"I've always studied and grinded hard and worked at it," Rivers said over the weekend. "But I didn't have to study what the running backs plays and routes were in the past. I knew it … Now, I don't have it down stone cold. I hate not having it down stone cold."
Don't let this worry you that the most important player on the field, who has struggled more of late, will be further undone by starting anew. Rather, be encouraged.
The seed of difference is sometimes planted by change. Digging deeper, even when no one could have rightfully suggested Rivers ever didn't dig deep enough before, sometimes is simply a requirement of renewed focus.
There should have been no doubt about this, but in case you wondered, Rivers is ready.
Mike McCoy was talking last month at the NFL Owners Meetings and said the Chargers would proceed this offseason however quickly Rivers would allow them.
"Our install will go as fast as the quarterback can handle," McCoy said then. "Everyone else has got to keep up with the quarterback."
Well, shoot, they'll be ready for the season soon, then.
"He wants to learn every little detail of the offense," McCoy said this past week, shortly after running his first practice as Chargers head coach. "Even out there today, he was asking some great questions about the next step in what we're doing and it's like, 'Hold on now, slow down, it's just Day One out there. We will get to that, but right now we're introducing the base to everybody.' "
Yep, it figured to not take McCoy very long to figure out that his biggest challenge when it came to his gym rat QB and on-field leader would be reining him in.
Said McCoy: "It's great to come to work every day when you've got someone like that, who it means so much to."
As usual, Rivers was hyper when I spoke to him Saturday. It's that kind of hyper that makes his teammates love him and believe in him. It's exuberance, really, born of a love of competition.
"It's been fun, because it's been a challenge," Rivers said. "It's a different grind for March and April."
He is "enjoying the heck out of" new quarterback coach Frank Reich and offensive coordinator Ken Whisenhunt. After running one offense for all seven of his seasons as a starter, there is much learning to be done before his eighth.
There are only so many routes that can be run, and Norv Turner has thought of virtually all of them and had some semblance of every one in his biblical playbook. So it's not that the Chargers offensive players are being taught quantum physics now.
But it is at this point the tweaks and terminology that give pause to precision.
For instance, the term "74" when called the past several years meant the back would run a corner route and the wideout would run a curl. The call "74" now has to do with a certain protection. That requires everyone to think an extra second or two to make sure they're going the proper direction.
Over two weeks of workouts and meetings leading up to last week's minicamp, Rivers got more and more comfortable, but there is a ways to go. It's a matter of getting to the point of thinking in this new language, the way he understood Norvian.
Rivers said practice during last week's three-day minicamp was the first time he could remember not hearing the defense before a snap. He was having to concentrate too hard on his own business to pay attention to what Eric Weddle or Donald Butler was calling out.
"Early on and even still now, certain things I go back and translate in old terminology," Rivers said. "Early on, it was that way in everything. I've definitely seen the progression over the last three weeks or so, starting to talk it comfortable. Not completely comfortable yet …"
Speaking of Rivers' comfort, this week could help him out in that area, should the Chargers be able to land a left tackle in the draft.
But for now, it appears the other most crucial storyline of the Chargers offseason is progressing at the speed of Rivers.


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FINAL: Saint Leo 15, Eckerd 12 – (Saint Leo, Fla. – Thomas B. Southard Stadium)
SAINT LEO STARTERS: Newcomb (CF), Vitale (3B), Twitty (RF), Moses (LF), Revell (1B), Rawdow (2B), Torres (C), Turner (DH), Perez (SS), Miller (P)
ECKERD STARTERS: Andrews (SS), Bishop (LF), Spinelle (3B), Hanson (1B), Vavasis (RF), Moreau (2B), Abadal (DH), Petika (C), O'Rourke (CF), Hill (P)
AT A GLANCE: Saint Leo (32-14-1) overcame a 9-1 fifth inning deficit to top the visiting Eckerd College Tritons, 15-12. Saint Leo rallied for 10 runs in the sixth inning to surge past Eckerd in the non-conference regional matchup.
- Eckerd got out to an early lead, scoring three runs in the top of the first on home runs from Lee Spinelle and Shane Bishop.
- An inning later the Tritons tacked on an additional run on a sacrifice fly from Jake O'Rourke.
- The Lions finally got on the board for one run in the third inning when Chris Newcomb led off with a double and came home on a sacrifice fly from Taed Moses.
- Eckerd fired right back in the fourth though, scoring five runs on five hits in the evening.
- Trailing 9-1 going into the fifth inning, the Lions scored two runs to cut the Triton lead to six. After Dillon Vitale reached on an error and Twitty singled to shortstop, Revell singled up the middle to bring home Vitale from third. The second run of the inning was forced home as Daniel Torres drew a walk.
- The scoring fest continued in the next half inning when Eckerd scored once again, this time coming on a passed ball after a pair of singles to start the inning.
- The Lions, having shown signs of a huge inning the inning before, exploded for 10 runs in the sixth to take a 13-10 lead. 16 batters came to the plate to score 10 runs on four hits and two errors by the Tritons' defense with RBI coming from Frank Rawdow, Daniel Torres, Nick Gill, Taylor Perez, Newcomb, Twitty, and Revell.
- Eckerd scored a pair of runs in the top of the seventh to make it a one run game, getting RBI from O'Rourke and Rowdy Andrews.
- The Lions added a few insurance runs in the bottom half of the inning when Gill led off with a hit by pitch and scored when Moses was plunked. Perez, who singled earlier in the inning, came home on a walk drawn by Revell.
- Newcomb led the way at the plate, going 4-for-5 with two doubles and two RBI while scoring three runs.
- Going 3-for-4 at the dish was Rawdow while also scoring a run and driving in a run.
- Twitty and Perez each tallied two hits and scored two runs.
- Earning the win on the mound for the Lions was Austin Buck. Buck tossed 1.2 innings, allowing two runs and two hits.
- Brandon Terry threw the final 2.1 innings to earn the save, giving up just two hits while not giving up a run.
The Lions return to the field on Friday when they welcome the Florida Southern Mocs to Thomas B. Southard Stadium for a three-game series. First pitch on Friday night is set for 6:00 p.m.


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If you have updated Adobe Acrobat/Reader to the current version 10.1.4 or 9.5.2 then you may encounter the following error when opening some PDF files:
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This error occurs due to a problem in the Adobe Acrobat/Reader functionality used to display scanned documents and/or documents containing JP2K images.
This issue has been fixed with the latest version of Reader XI now available (http://get.adobe.com/reader). We are actively working on a solution for previous versions and expect to have a fix available for Adobe Acrobat/Reader 10.1.x and 9.5.x in Q1 2013.
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Goldschmidt strikes back at Cubs with slam
Blast in eighth breaks tie; Kennedy allows four runs in seven innings
CHICAGO -- Strikeouts? What strikeouts?
By the time Paul Goldschmidt's ball landed deep in the bleachers in left-center for the go-ahead grand slam in the eighth inning of the D-backs' 12-4 win over the Cubs on Saturday night, fans had probably long since forgotten about the fact that he struck out in his first three at-bats.
But in order for Goldschmidt to hit that homer off Carlos Marmol, he had to put those strikeouts behind him.
"You get a chance to win the game in the eighth or ninth and you can't be living in the past," Goldschmidt said.
D-backs manager Kirk Gibson reminded Goldschmidt of that prior to the homer.
"You're hard on yourself, you have to learn how to let go of that," Gibson said. "These at-bats will be big for the next time it happens. When it's going on, on the bench we always talk about it."
Gibson also shared that same piece of advice with outfielder Jason Kubel, who was mired in a 1-for-15 slump, during the inning before.
With two outs in the seventh, Kubel came up with the bases loaded against Cubs lefty James Russell with the D-backs trailing 3-1.
Kubel promptly unloaded them as he laced a double to left-center.
"He always tells guys that it doesn't matter what you've done," Kubel said of Gibson. "Today, I was 0-for-2 with two strikeouts. He'll say, 'Don't worry about it. It happens. You can still have an opportunity to win the game or make something happen.' Sure enough, I did. It's hard to stay positive, but you've just got to try to do it."
The start of the game was delayed two hours and 21 minutes by rain.
When things finally got underway, it did not take long for the scoring to begin as Gerardo Parra hit the second pitch of the game by Jeff Samardzija into the right-field bleachers for his fifth homer of the year.
Given an early lead, D-backs starter Ian Kennedy gave it right back in the bottom of the first.
David DeJesus started things off with a double, Starlin Castro was hit by a pitch and Kennedy walked Anthony Rizzo to load the bases.
Alfonso Soriano then drove in a run with a sacrifice fly, Nate Schierholtz followed with an RBI double and Welington Castillo capped the scoring with an RBI groundout as the Cubs grabbed a 3-1 lead.
Kennedy was suffering from some rust, a byproduct of not having pitched in 10 days. He was scratched from his last start after he cut his right index finger while doing the dishes at home.
"You kind of forget how quick things are, even though it's only been 10 days," Kennedy said.
Both starting pitchers settled into a groove after the first.
After the Schierholtz double, Kennedy retired a career-high 17 batters in a row. Samardzija, meanwhile, had dominant stuff as he struck out 11.
"Samardzija threw the ball really well," Gibson said. "The one thing we did good against him, we worked the count and got his pitch count up so he couldn't finish the game. Then when we got into their bullpen we got some big hits."
Kennedy (3-3) picked up his first road win since Aug. 30, 2012, while Marmol (2-3) suffered the loss.
The D-backs piled on in the ninth as they added four more runs.
"I think the outcome of this game is a little skewed," Samardzija said. "Just with how we played and how the game went. It just got away from us there toward the end, but we were right there battling with them the whole game.
"They're a first-place team for a reason. They're scrappy, they know how to play, they move runners over and they do the right things to take good at-bats and make you work as a pitcher."
Steve Gilbert is a reporter for MLB.com. Follow him on Twitter @SteveGilbertMLB. This story was not subject to the approval of Major League Baseball or its clubs.


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The John Rylands Library merged with Manchester University Library in 1972 to form the John Rylands University Library of Manchester.
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The John Rylands Library is a public library. Open daily, entry is free.
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The special collections and Manchester Medical Society Library are Designated Collections of national importance.
The special collections represent an outstanding national and regional resource, combining material of international significance with collections directly relevant to the history and wider impact of Manchester and the North West. The Manchester Medical Society Library contains medical printed books dating between c. 1800-1950, associated with the Manchester Medical Society.
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The Life of Objects could be described as an exhibition of the unexpected. Instead of books and manuscripts, it showcases some of the more unusual objects in our collection. And, although humble – the objects range from a beaded bag to a battered pair of baby shoes – each of these objects has its own tale to tell.
With a selection of objects linked to figures as diverse as 20th century composer Delia Derbyshire, the preacher John Wesley and the artist Li Yuan chia, this is an exhibition whose stories leap across history, geography and gender – and rewards time spent uncovering the subtle connections between them.
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Within the Process Management module for ADEP Document Services or LiveCycle, values returned from services, if not explicitly XML or primitives, are Java-based. These values, like XML in orchestrations, can be created, modified and deleted using the Set Value service or by using BeanScript within the Execute Script service.
Manipulating Java objects within BeanScript is very similar to how it works in Java. However, setting Java objects in the Set Value service can be very different. It uses XPath as its language. Values for XML behave as described within the W3C XPath specification. In addition, associating schema with XML supports functionality to add values to XML that fit a very specific object model. Though XPath is meant for querying XML, it has been purposed for setting and editing the Java elements within orchestrations as well.
There are many differences in the way Java objects are treated within the Set Value service's XPath than XML or primitives behave. One difference is in the way items are added to collections within Java objects.
First, to create a collection, a variable must be set to be a new, empty, collection:
/process_data/myList = empty-list()
To append an item to an already existing collection, set the collection to be equal that value you wish to append:
/process_data/myList = empty-list() /process_data/myList = "a" // collection is now ["a"] /process_data/myList = "b" // collection is now ["a","b"] /process_data/myList = "c" // collection is now ["a","b","c"]
To reset the value of the list, do not set it to a different collection. This only appends the collection to the existing list:
/process_data/myList = empty-list() /process_data/myList = "a" // myList is ["a"] /process_data/list2 = empty-list() /process_data/list2 = "b" // list2 is ["b"] /process_data/myList = /process_data/list2 // myList is ["a",["b"]]
To replace the value of a varible with a new list, first set the list to null:
/process_data/myList = empty-list() /process_data/myList = "a" // myList is ["a"] /process_data/list2 = empty-list() /process_data/list2 = "b" // list2 is ["b"] /process_data/myList = null /process_data/myList = /process_data/list2 // myList is ["b"]
One big implication of this is, whenever a collection variable is set to the result of a service, if that variable is not empty the result is appended to the collection. This is sometimes desired, but can cause problems if not expected.


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Welome and congrats on getting started! The reason you can't connect to the AP when the desktop is connected is that only one client can be connected at a time with the same MAC ID. As for what you can do about this, the best way would be to send a disassociate packet for the dektop, taking it offline temporarily, and then quickly connect with your spoofed MAC. The AP will believe the desktop has simply reconnected and then you're all set!
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I usually like to feature a main dish for Meatless Mondays to inspire you with a whole meal. Today, however, I'm sharing this fabulous recipe for Savory Oat Bread using our Quick Cooking Steel Cut Oats. This quick bread is so easy to make and can be done in just 30 minutes if you want to make muffins or 40 minutes for a full loaf. The combined flavors of sun dried tomatoes, feta and green onions make it the perfect addition to a Greek or Caesar Salad (vegan in honor of MM). If warming up the oven doesn't appeal on a hot summer day, try making these first thing in the morning when it's still cool. Then, just pop them in the oven quickly to reheat before serving. Pair with a green salad of your choice and some grilled veggies, might we suggest this recipe for grilled zucchini or this one for spicy grilled eggplant?
Savory Oat Bread
Yield one 8 x 4 loaf
- 1 cup Quick Cooking Steel Cut Oats
- 1 cup Buttermilk
- ¼ cup dried or 1/3 cup packed in oil, rinsed Sun Dried Tomatoes
- (1 cup Boiling Water for dried sun dried tomatoes)
- 2 Eggs, slightly beaten
- ½ cup Olive Oil
- 1 cup Unbleached White Flour
- ½ cup Whole Wheat Flour
- ½ tsp Sea Salt
- 1 tsp Baking Powder
- ½ tsp Baking Soda
- ½ cup Feta Cheese, crumbled
- ¼ cup Green Onions, sliced 1/4″
In a large bowl, combine oats and buttermilk and let stand 1 hour. Pour boiling water over dried sundried tomatoes, if using, to rehydrate and let stand 15 minutes.
Preheat oven to 400°F. Lightly oil an 8 x 4-inch loaf pan or line a muffin tin with paper liners. Drain sundried tomatoes, reserving soaking liquid, and roughly chop.
Sift together flours, salt, baking powder and baking soda. Add egg and oil to oat mixture, stirring until just combined.
Add dry ingredients to oat mixture, stirring until just combined. Fold in sundried tomatoes, feta and green onions. If batter seems very thick, add reserved tomato soaking liquid, about 2 Tbsp, until the batter reaches a thick yet pourable consistency.
Pour batter into prepared pan and tap gently on the counter to release any large air bubbles. Bake until a tester comes out clean, about 25 – 30 minutes for muffins or 35 – 40 minutes for a loaf.
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HOUSTON - Police are looking for three men who they believe were involved in a fatal beating and burning of a man in the 1300 block of Witte Road in West Houston on Sunday morning.
Cameras caught a group of men walking near the apartment within an hour of the incident.
Police say one of the men was carrying a red gallon-sized gas can.
"Witnesses there said they saw a man being beaten at the exit gate of the apartment complex. A few seconds later they looked back and they saw a fire coming from the gate area about where the victim fell down," said Sgt. Aurnald Semmelrock.
Police released two composite sketches of what they think two of the suspects look like.
Police said the victim left a gathering at the apartment complex and was heading home around 4 a.m. Sunday when he was approached by the suspects.
Arson investigators said they used a combustible substance to set the man on fire.
"We're under the impression that folks stopped to help, said Sgt. William Bush. "Every little piece helps. Someone may have seen someone who looked suspicious standing in the distance, but are afraid to come forward because they believe their information is not important. Any information is important to us."
Police don't know if the victim was randomly attacked or targeted, but they are considering the men dangerous.
Police believe the suspects were last seen wearing hoodies.
They say suspects one and two are between ages 17 and 23, have dark complexions and are between the height 5 feet, 9 inches, and 6 feet, with a skinny build.
The third suspect is believed to be in his early 20's, 5 feet, 2 inches, with light complexion and a medium build.
The victim was so badly burned that the medical examiner is having a difficult time identifying him, but believe he is from El Salvador.
Relatives have contacted men in El Salvador for DNA to get a positive identification.
If you have any information that could lead to an arrest call Crime Stoppers.
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For 77 years, Ann Hunt had no idea that she had a sister, let alone a twin.
After her adoptive mother died, Hunt began to search for information on her biological family, and last year discovered she has a twin. That woman, Elizabeth Hamel, lived in Oregon, and while she knew her sister was out there, she never thought they would be reunited.
"You wonder about someone and what they're like and suddenly they're here," Hamel told The Associated Press. "It's a shock."
The twins, thought to be fraternal, were born in England in 1936 to an unmarried domestic servant. Unable to care for both girls, she put Hunt up for adoption; Hamel says that their mother decided to keep her because she had a curvature of the spine, which would have made it harder to be adopted. Both women were raised as only children, and went on to marry and have kids of their own — Hunt had three daughters, and Hamel had two sons.
One of Hunt's daughters tracked down Hamel last year, and the sisters began to form a relationship long distance, chatting often on the telephone. Hamel's son contacted Prof. Nancy Segal at the Twin Studies Center at California State University, Fullerton, where Segal researches twins raised apart to better understand the link between genes and environment in human development. She brought the women together May 1 for their first in-person meeting, and they will now participate in Segal's study. The two also plan on spending the next week catching up on the past eight decades. --Catherine Garcia
The administration of Duke University in North Carolina removed a statue of Confederate Gen. Robert E. Lee from the entryway of its historic campus chapel Saturday morning. The limestone carving was one of 10 figures memorialized near the chapel door; its face was vandalized Wednesday amid controversy over the similar statues honoring Confederate figures that are displayed throughout much of the country, especially in the South.
Duke University removes contentious Confederate statue after vandalism https://t.co/gi8roeDGbV pic.twitter.com/313x5JoqYL
— Reuters Top News (@Reuters) August 19, 2017
"I took this course of action to protect Duke Chapel, to ensure the vital safety of students and community members who worship there, and above all to express the deep and abiding values of our university," said the university president, Vincent Price, in a statement on the decision. "The removal also represents an opportunity for us to learn and heal."
The statue will not be destroyed, though Price did not say how it would be preserved, only that it would be used to help students "study Duke's complex past and take part in a more inclusive future."
North Carolina's Gov. Roy Cooper (D) has endorsed the removal of Confederate statues on public land in his state; as a private university, however, Duke is neither compelled by that encouragement nor constrained by a 2015 law limiting removal of the monuments. Bonnie Kristian
President Trump and first lady Melania Trump will not attend the annual Kennedy Center Honors, the White House announced Saturday, to "allow the honorees to celebrate without any political distraction." Also canceled is the White House reception for honorees traditionally held after the ceremony every year since 1978.
Kennedy Center chair David M. Rubenstein and president Deborah F. Rutter received the announcement happily, issuing a statement thanking the administration for "graciously signal[ing] its respect for the Kennedy Center and ensures the Honors gala remains a deservingly special moment for the Honorees," they said, adding, "We are grateful for this gesture."
Before the Trumps' announcement, three of the five artists to be honored — producer Norman Lear, singer Lionel Richie, and dancer Carmen de Lavallade — said they would refuse to attend the ceremony, reception, or both in protest of the president. "In light of the socially divisive and morally caustic narrative that our current leadership is choosing to engage in," de Lavallade said, "and in keeping with the principles that I and so many others have fought for, I will be declining the invitation to attend the reception at the White House." Bonnie Kristian
Thousands of counter-protesters marched in Boston Saturday to demonstrate against an event billed as a celebration of free speech but slammed by critics for ties to the white nationalist rally in Charlottesville, Virginia, last Saturday.
The original demonstration was organized by a group called Boston Free Speech, and its schedule for the day included two speakers with ties to the alt-right, one of whom marched in Charlottesville. Boston Free Speech has since distanced itself from white nationalism, pruning its speaker list and "denounc[ing] the politics of supremacy and violence."
Those changes did not deter counter-protesters — bearing signs condemning Nazism, the KKK, and all varieties of white supremacy — from turning out in vastly larger numbers. Police have been determined to prevent violence among demonstrators; so far, there is one report of a man in a Trump hat being punched in the face.
By 1 p.m. Eastern time, the Boston Free Speech rally ended after attracting about 20 people. Police escorted attendees through the crowd of counter-protesters. See scenes from Boston Common below. Bonnie Kristian
In Boston, it's 40 - love. #bostonresist pic.twitter.com/lIcoplG1iS
— Jeff Ducharme (@hirider750) August 19, 2017
#Boston: Live updates from the 'free speech' rally and counter-protests on #BostonCommon #bostonresist https://t.co/5f7rhnykIb pic.twitter.com/fe3DBxRje3
— Jeffrey Guterman (@JeffreyGuterman) August 19, 2017
A full band is bringing music to the counter protest in Boston pic.twitter.com/EhM8VbAyUY
— Zeninjor Enwemeka (@Zeninjor) August 19, 2017
This is a developing story and will be updated as more details become available.
President Trump spent Friday at Camp David meeting with defense and diplomatic advisers to discuss a range of topics centrally including the 16-year war in Afghanistan. On Saturday morning, after heading back to his vacation at his golf resort in New Jersey, Trump posted a tweet hinting a decision about the conflict's future had been reached:
Important day spent at Camp David with our very talented Generals and military leaders. Many decisions made, including on Afghanistan.
— Donald J. Trump (@realDonaldTrump) August 19, 2017
What that decision may be remains to be seen. During his campaign, Trump was skeptical that continuing the war would lead to victory or serve American national interests, though he was inconsistent on the question of whether the 2001 invasion was a mistake. He has mulled options, reportedly including everything from withdrawal to sending thousands of additional U.S. troops, for months.
A Friday statement from the White House seemed to indicate that deliberation process was still underway. "The president is studying and considering his options," said White House Press Secretary Sarah Huckabee Sanders, "and will make an announcement to the American people, to our allies and partners, and to the world at the appropriate time."
The ouster of former chief strategist Stephen Bannon may play into whatever decisions were made Friday; Bannon favored a more restrained approach in Afghanistan while Trump's remaining advisers, most notably National Security Adviser H.R. McMaster, are believed to prefer a more activist approach including a troop surge. Bonnie Kristian
The Islamic State claimed responsibility for a stabbing attack Saturday morning that wounded eight people in the Siberian city of Surgut, Russia. The attacker reportedly ran down a main street in Surgut, stabbing at random until he was fatally shot by police. The ISIS statement was published several hours later.
Russian authorities have yet to comment on the attacker's identity or motives, though they called for calm and announced four of the injured are in critical condition.
This attack comes close on the heels of multiple other fatal terror attacks elsewhere in Europe this week. ISIS also claimed responsibility for the vehicle rampages in Barcelona and Cambrils, Spain, on Thursday and Friday but has yet to claim Friday's stabbing in Finland. ISIS often claims responsibility for terror attacks with which it has no organizational connection, only ideological affinity. Bonnie Kristian
Police in Finland arrested a man accused of stabbing eight people, killing two and injuring six more, on Friday in the southwest city of Turku. Police reported that they shot the 18-year-old Moroccan man in the leg after his alleged attack.
"The act had been investigated as murder, but during the night we received additional information which indicates that the criminal offenses are now terrorist killings," authorities said Saturday.
Eyewitness reports of the incident offer conflicting accounts; some say the suspect was heard yelling "Allahu akbar," but others say the screams were people saying "watch out" in Finnish. Bonnie Kristian
A California man named Jared Tucker, 42, has been named as one of the victims of the terrorist attack in Barcelona on Thursday.
Tucker was on a delayed honeymoon to Spain with his wife, Heidi Nunes, celebrating their one-year anniversary. He stepped away from her to go to the bathroom when the vehicle attack began. "Next thing I know there's screaming, yelling," said Nunes. "I got pushed inside the souvenir kiosk and stayed there hiding while everybody kept running by screaming." The next morning, Tucker was identified among the 13 people killed.
43-year-old Jared Tucker, of California, was a victim of Thursday's terror attack in Spain, his family confirms: https://t.co/RThCkOk48g pic.twitter.com/1C76MkLHfT
— Eyewitness News (@ABC7NY) August 18, 2017
"It's been bitter, but I don't know what my feelings are," said Tucker's father, Dan Tucker. "I'm not angry so much as I just don't understand it. My wife's in shock." A widely circulated photo of Tucker and Nunes, shown in the tweet above, was taken a mere hour before the attack.
Investigations are ongoing Saturday as authorities have linked the Barcelona attack to incidents in Cambrils and Alcanar on Friday and Wednesday, respectively, which bring the total killed by the three acts of terrorism to 15. Bonnie Kristian


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Long before Courtney McFarlin, Jennifer Johnson and Alysha Clark became renowned statewide for basketball at Mt. Juliet High, there was Smokey Jo.
Shelia Johansson, the unstoppable scoring machine of Mt. Juliets first state championship team in 1977, will have her likeness raised to the rafters alongside Miss Basketball finalists McFarlin, and Johnson and Miss Basketball winner Clark in ceremonies planned this fall.
Ironically, the event will be held on Nov. 22 as Mt. Juliet hosts Hillsboro High.
Jo wore uniform No. 22 to glory for the Bearettes -- as they were known then.
Scoring over 2,300 points in her hoop career at Mt. Juliet, Johnasson would have been a no-brainer for Miss Basketball recognition -- if the TSSAA had the honor back when she played.
Now Shelia Johansson Cohen and a middle school teacher / coach / administrator at Cranbrook School in Michigan, she helped lead Mt. Juliet to a record of 33-1 and the Class AAA state title in her junior year.
Her career point total was eventually passed by four-year starter and Middle Tennessee State signee Caya Williams, but her legacy still lives on at Mt. Juliet.
Theres no question she deserves to have her photo up there with Courtney, JJ and Alysha, said Lady Bear head coach Chris Fryer.
Were hoping to have a great turnout that night as our fans welcome back one of the true legends of Mt. Juliet basketball.
She averaged 26 points per game in her prep career and averaged nine points per game. Her career high was a 39-point effort against Madison High in the regional finals her sophomore year.
Johnasson was a two-time All-America selection at Mt. Juliet High, a two-time MVP of the Nashville Interscholastic League, a two-time All-State pick and was selected to represent Team USA in the Pan American Games.
"She is so deserving of this honor," said former Mt. Juliet coach Larry Joe Inman -- now the women's coach at Tennessee State University.
"All the players and fans that knew her then understand the effort she put in and the long, hard hours that helped her accomplish the highest honors available in the game of basketball."
The MVP of the 1977 Class AAA tournament, she was the first female to be awarded an athletic scholarship at Vanderbilt, where she played two seasons before nagging knee injuries forced her to give up the game.
"Words cannot express what this means to me -- Mt. Juliet is home," Johansson-Cohen said.
"The years I spent representing the community and the school were some of the best years of my life. The bonds that were formed with my teammates have never been broken.
"Larry Joe Inman was the key to our success and putting Mt. Juliet on the basketball map," she said. "He was the one who paved the way to my successes in basketball and in life.
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Since Apple bought Quattro Wireless last year, it has continued to offer that company's services placing banner advertisements on smartphones even as it ramped up work on iAds, the fancier iPhone-only marketing with interaction and video.
No more. The former Quattro CEO who is now an Apple VP, Andy Miller, told customers this week that Quattro will stop taking new orders at the end of September and devote all its attention to iAds. Read more


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Ephesians 6:18 begins with the phrase "praying always," which suggests that praying is connected with the previous verses.
The idea is that the putting on, taking up, and receiving of heaven's armor all necessitate reliance on God. Hence, "prayer is not another weapon; rather, it is the spirit, the manner, in which the whole armor is to be worn and the battle fought. Paul is here urging it as a perpetual state of mind, a continuous attitude of communion with God." – The SDA Bible Commentary, vol. 6, p. 1046.
Study carefully Ephesians 6:18. What words and phrases associated with Paul's admonition to the Christian regarding prayer suggest alertness and discipline?
The Bible frequently calls on people not to cease from prayer (Luke 18:1, Rom. 12:12, Phil. 4:6, Col. 4:2, 1 Thess. 5:17). But in the context of the combat with evil forces that Paul is addressing in Ephesians 6, he stresses the fact that every occasion in life is to be wrapped in prayer. Such an attitude about prayer is no small demand on Christians, especially because our first instinct in moments of difficulty is to consult friends and colleagues, which is fine and has its place. Prayer, though, should always be the first line of defense and is something that we should be "always doing."
Ephesians 6:18 begins with the phrase "praying always" and continues with another about being "watchful." About what are we to be watchful, and why?
When Jesus was in Gethsemane, He told Peter and the other disciples whom He found sleeping to watch and pray (Mark 14:38). Before this happened, Jesus had spent some time warning the disciples to watch (Mark 13:33-37). From the perspective of Luke, watching is linked with prayer as a constant affair that brings spiritual strength to the Christian. In Ephesians 6:18 the emphasis is on praying for others. No doubt, as we pray for others, we ourselves are spiritually strengthened, and we ourselves are better armed for the ensuing conflict, no matter what form it takes.
Why is praying for ourselves more important for us spiritually than having others pray for us (however important that is)? What does personal prayer do for you that the prayers of others just can't?


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Winter Dance 2012 continues its tradition of staging performances choreographed and starring advanced dance students at Bridgewater State University, under the artistic director of Dr. Nancy Moses, professor of theater and dance. Performances will be Dec. 6-8 at 7:30 p.m. in the Rondileau Campus Center Auditorium. Tickets are $10 for the general public; $8 for senior citizens, members of the military and students with ID, as well as for youth age 17 and under. Email firstname.lastname@example.com for more information and reservations.


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TWO teenagers suspected of causing criminal damage at a Wirral cemetery have been bailed as part of a police investigation.
Police were called to Flaybrick Hill Cemetery in Claughton to report that more than 100 headstones and memorials had been damaged.
It is believed a group of youths caused the damage on the evening of Thursday.
Patrols have been stepped up in the area and an investigation into the full circumstances surrounding the incident is continuing.
As a result of enquiries, two youths, aged 15 and 13 from the local area were arrested on suspicion of criminal damage. They have been questioned by officers and bailed pending further enquiries.
Neighbourhood Sergeant for Birkenhead, Kerri Ward, said: "I want to reassure the local community that we take every incident of criminal damage extremely seriously.
"There can be nothing worse than finding the grave of a relative or loved one has been damaged and we are determined to bring those responsible to justice."
Anyone with information is asked to call officers in Birkenhead via the police non-emergency 101 number or Crimestoppers, anonymously, on 0800 555 111.


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Brian Wilson's reputation precedes him. For plenty of Dodger fans, that means saving games for the hated San Francisco Giants, and glaring down opponents from the pitcher's mound with piercing blue eyes behind a bushy black beard.
Love him or hate him, Wilson was effective for four years before an elbow injury forced him to undergo "Tommy John" ligament-replacement surgery in April 2011. He hasn't pitched in a game since.
Wilson's reputation, combined with a pair of throwing sessions last week, were enough to convince the Dodgers to sign him to a one-year contract Tuesday worth a reported $1 million. The deal was announced less than 24 hours before today's 1 p.m. non-waiver trade deadline.
"Most of the time when you're making a deal this time of year, it's going to cost you prospects and salary, whatever the cost of the contract is," Dodgers general manager Ned Colletti said. "In this case it's just the cost of the contract."
There is still some risk that Wilson won't be the same pitcher he was before the surgery, which was actually the second Tommy John procedure of Wilson's career. Colletti said the Dodgers' scouts clocked his fastball in the 90 to 93 mph range at UCLA on Thursday and Sunday.
Wilson was clocked throwing 102 mph at his peak in 2009 and his speed has declined every year since, but the Dodgers aren't too worried.
They will stash Wilson at their complex in Glendale, Arizona so he can polish his fastball/slider repertoire, then send him out on a minor-league rehabilitation assignment. Colletti believes Wilson could be two or three weeks away from pitching in the majors. The extra time could help him build up speed.
"We sent (special assistant) Billy Mueller, an accomplished hitter, to see him other day. He said there was still a lot of movement," Colletti said.
Dodgers manager Don Mattingly described Wilson as a power pitcher "we think, (who can) get the ball to Kenley (Jansen)." Colletti said that Wilson told him Sunday that he would be comfortable in any bullpen role.
Wilson is 20-20 with 171 saves in 315 career games, all with the Giants, from 2006-12.
"He's a good player, good teammate," said Dodgers third baseman Juan Uribe, who played with Wilson in 2009 and 2010. "I liked the guy."
Trade deadline
Adding Wilson leaves the Dodgers with 39 players on their 40-man roster. Colletti wouldn't rule out making any more moves, but sounded pessimistic about the trade market.
"It has been probably the slowest I can remember in a long, long time," he said. "(Monday) I was a little bit more hopeful because there was more activity. Had the Brian Wilson situation fallen through, we had a couple other places we were going to go, but it was going to be trading prospects. We didn't want to do that."
Some of those talks could spill over into August, where the Dodgers have been successful recently acquiring players after they pass through waivers. Joe Blanton, Adrian Gonzalez, Carl Crawford, Josh Beckett and Nick Punto all became Dodgers in August last year. Marlon Anderson, Greg Maddux and Ronnie Belliard were all August acquisitions.
Colletti has inquired about starting pitchers, "but boy," he said, "talk about a limited number of people who are available."
And if the Dodgers don't make any trades?
"I'd be fine with it," Colletti said. "How we've played the last 30-some games, I think, is a testament to a lot of effort by a lot of people. They're playing hard. We have a chance to get Matt (Kemp) back, get (Jose) Dominguez back, even add to that group a little bit."


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Kendal businesses ponder payments for town improvements
10:10am Tuesday 20th November 2012
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10:10am Tuesday 20th November 2012
By Helen Perkins
A CONSULTANT has started a debate in Kendal regarding whether the town should become a Business Improvement District.
Councillors expect Chris Kolek to spend around 12 months discussing the concept — where each local firm pays one per cent of its rateable value to fund independent town enhancements.
A vote on the BID proposal is expected to take place next September and, if more than half the local businesses vote 'yes', the funds will be collected from each business in the town.
Mr Kolek has visited 250 companies in Kendal so far to answer questions about the scheme, which was turned down in Windermere and Bowness last year and is currently being debated for Penrith.A website at www.kendalbid.co.uk has been created to communicate with and inform the town.
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When Skillet Diner announced its newest outlet in the Ballard neighborhood of Seattle, I had a hunch they'd make a nod toward the Scandinavian heritage of the community. Swedish meatballs, herring, and even lutefisk came to mind, but the release of the menu revealed something sweet instead: Ebelskivers ($7).
And why not? After all, so many other restaurants are serving up beignets and churros and other forms of sweet breakfast dough. (Dare I mention cronuts?). Ebelskivers are of Danish descent and are similar to a pancake crossed with a popover—puffy in appearance and sometimes filled with jam.
The wife of Skillet chef Jon Severson is Danish, so she was partly his source of inspiration for the dish. And as the pan he uses is a cast-iron Lodge ebelskiver skillet, he thought ebelskivers were perfect for the restaurant. When an order comes in, he heats butter in each well of the pan until bubbling, adds batter, then carefully turns the balls with a skewer or thick toothpick after two minutes or so, continuing to turn them to ensure even cooking.
Skillet doesn't serve filled ebelskivers, but instead sets the seven balls on a bed of lingonberry jam, topping them with powdered sugar. It's a snowy scene worth admiring, but not for long, as ebelskivers are best eaten warm. Skillet's are a little softer and more custardy than the ones I make at home. No complaint there. The batter melts in the mouth, the sugar and jam adding just the right amount of fruity sweetness. At home, I like to eat them with homemade lemon curd for a pancake that makes me pucker. If you're looking for a savory twist, Skillet's popular bacon jam is available for the asking.
About the author: Jay Friedman is a Seattle-based freelance food writer who happens to travel extensively as a sex educator. An avid fan of noodles (some call him "The Mein Man"), he sees sensuality in all foods, and blogs about it at his Gastrolust website. You can follow him on Twitter @jayfriedman.


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Trustees of self-managed superannuation funds must review their investment strategies regularly, following a recent change to super regulations.
Trustees have always been required to write an investment plan but now they must take a fresh look at it each year to make sure the strategy continues to reflect the purpose and circumstances of the fund and its members.
The new rule, Superannuation Industry (Supervision) Amendment Regulation 2012 (No.2), states the review must also consider whether life insurance is appropriate for members as part of the strategy.
This is the first time self-managed fund trustees have been asked to look specifically at insurance.
The third requirement in the new regulation is that a market value must be assigned to the fund's assets each year.
The Australian Taxation Office (ATO) has issued valuation guidelines to help trustees with this task.
The director of education and professional standards at the SMSF Professionals' Association of Australia, Graeme Colley, says the regulation took effect from July 1, even though the ATO only announced the changes in August.
Colley says that as a result of the timing of the announcement, many SMSF trustees are not yet aware of their new responsibilities.
Investment plan
An investment plan is a two-part document. It must set out a broad objective for the fund and then describe how that objective will be met. The broad objective might be to achieve a long-term annual rate of return above the rate of inflation, and this might be met by investing in a diversified portfolio of assets.
Colley says there is no requirement in the rules for a fund to hold any particular asset or group of assets. Nor is there any requirement to diversify.
''In some funds the major asset is the building in which the trustees conduct their business,'' he says.
''Provided you can justify it, you can have a fund with a single asset.
There are some funds with a lot of collectables and others that use hedge funds and derivatives.''
However, most funds have a reasonable level of diversification. According to the ATO, 32 per cent of self-managed fund assets are in shares, 28 per cent in cash and term deposits, 14 per cent in trusts, 11 per cent in non-residential real estate and 4 per cent in residential real estate.
The annual review would look at such things as the change in member's age and whether the portfolio needs adjusting to reflect that change. It would consider any changes necessary to cater to members entering retirement.
The senior technical and research manager at Bendigo Wealth, Julie McKay, says other issues that need to be considered in a review of the investment plan are the fund's need for liquidity and whether it has appropriate cash holdings, and whether the risk profile of the assets of the fund reflects the risk tolerance of the members.
McKay says these new rules make a trustee's job more demanding and some administration services have developed templates for trustees who want to hand the job to someone else. However, it is the norm for trustees to write their own investment plans.
Colley says there is no data available on the level of insurance - death cover, total and permanent disability and income protection - in self-managed funds. However, there is no reason to think the high level of underinsurance in the community generally would not be reflected in the SMSF sector.
Insurance checklist
Trustees will have to weigh up the pros and cons of buying insurance through a fund. Premiums on some types of policies are tax-deductible. Death cover premiums are tax-deductible if the policy is held inside a super fund but not tax-deductible if held outside super.
Premiums for total and permanent disability cover inside super may be deductible, but not in all cases. Premiums for TPD cover outside super are not deductible. Premiums for income protection policies held inside super may be deductible, but not in all cases. Premiums for income protection held outside super are deductible.
When it comes to paying out benefits, death benefits paid to dependents from policies held either inside or outside a super fund are tax-free (death benefits paid from a policy held outside super to any beneficiary are tax-free).
Death benefits paid to a non-dependent beneficiary from a policy held inside a super fund are taxed up to 31.5 per cent.
Payment of a total and permanent disability claim from a policy held in a super fund will be taxed, while the payment of claims from a TPD policy held outside super are tax free. Payment of income protection claims from policies held either inside or outside super are subject to tax.
When it comes to paying premiums, if the policy is held by the super fund the payment comes out of the fund. This frees up the member's household cash flow.
However, this has a potential drawback. Premiums will reduce retirement benefits and premiums also use up part of the concessional contribution cap.
Trustees who intend their funds to borrow to acquire assets should think about insurance as part of their strategy.
If the member of the fund became permanently disabled or sick and was no longer able to make contributions needed to repay the loan, a total and permanent disability or an income protection policy could be used to fill the gap.
On the issue of market valuations, Colley says a lot of trustees already do that each year. He says there was already a requirement that collectables be valued regularly.
Shares do not present a problem because market values are published on a daily basis.
He says that when it comes to land and buildings the ATO will be satisfied with a real estate agent's assessment.


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This article was published 14/2/2013 (1651 days ago), so information in it may no longer be current.
As recently as the 1990s, the only people brave enough to ride bicycles throughout a Winnipeg winter were a half-dozen crazy couriers and a few other Lycra-clad diehards willing to endure hostile road conditions and even more hostile motorists.
Two decades later, Winnipeg winters remain almost just as frigid. Yet, seeing Winnipeggers bike to work in February is no longer any weirder than watching a lineup of cars snake out of a Tim Hortons drive-thru.
Like almost every other North American city, Winnipeg has witnessed a rise in the number of people who commute by bike during the winter. The precise nature of this increase is unknown, however, as there are no reliable recent statistics regarding Winnipeg commuter-cyclist numbers.
Seven years ago, the City of Winnipeg's seminal Active Transportation Study found 2.3 per cent of all Winnipeg workers and university students rode their bikes to their jobs or classes on a regular basis. The belief is that proportion has grown, as the cost of filling up and maintaining automobiles has only risen since 2006, along with the awareness of the health and environmental benefits of cycling.
But no one has a clear handle on the number of regular Winnipeg winter cyclists, aside from anecdotal evidence.
"Even among avid cyclists, winter cycling is an oddity," said Andrea Tetrault, a regular summer bike commuter and occasional winter cyclist who blogs at winnipegcyclechick.com. This morning, she'll be among the Winnipeggers taking part in Winter Bike To Work Day, an international event intended to encourage more people to try the once-unusual pursuit.
While it may seem counterintuitive, she finds riding her bike in temperatures below -20 C way easier than cycling when it's just below zero, as extreme cold transforms the ice and snow on city streets into a harder, more predictable riding surface. Warmer winter weather creates sloppier conditions that demand more bike maintenance in the form of cleaning.
Staying warm on a bike during the winter isn't all that difficult when you're moving, provided you take care to insulate your hands. Cleaning your bike during the winter is a bigger annoyance, which is why some cyclists just buy a garage-sale beater and ride it into the ground over the course of one season.
The real limiting factor is road maintenance, suggests Anders Swanson, an avid cyclist who travelled to Oulu, Finland, this week to attend the world's first Winter Cycling Congress. Somewhat optimistically, Swanson titled his presentation Winnipeg, Winter Cycling Capital of North America, and immediately got called out on Twitter by an indignant Edmontonian.
Oulu, which sits at 65 degrees north, is almost as cold as Winnipeg but quite a bit darker during the winter. Oulu also resembles Winnipeg in that it's not particularly dense, yet it still enjoys an extremely vibrant winter-cycling culture.
"The first thing that's immediately apparent is everybody rides -- your grandma, teenagers and stylish young women," Swanson said over the phone from Oulu, where he said the McDonald's has more bicycle parking than motor-vehicle stalls. "Until you've seen something like that, it's hard to fathom."
Swanson said the key to winter cycling's popularity in Oulu and other European cities is regular snow-clearing on all bike paths. Successful winter-cycling cities also clear their bike paths and pedestrian walkways before they clear their streets, he said.
Such a move would provoke riots in automobile-centric Winnipeg. But Swanson said it's not that far from what this city already does, given that Winnipeg clears sidewalks long before residential streets are plowed.
During the winter, Winnipeg clears snow off 130 kilometres of bike lanes on streets and also plows 75 kilometres of active-transportation corridors at a cost of $250,000 a year, city spokeswoman Tammy Melesko said.
Clearing more paths may encourage more winter ridership. But the actual need remains unknown, even though it appears Winnipeg now has more winter riders.
Motorists, meanwhile, have become more accommodating of winter cyclists, Tetrault said. "I think people are getting more used to it and are resigned to the fact we're not going away," she said. "In challenging conditions, I know I'm an inconvenience to get around, yet generally people are really courteous."


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I just stumbled upon this bit of data from the Daily Show and I'm having a hard time finding solid facts about the whole thing.
From what Jon Stewart said the don't ask, don't tell bill was mixed in with a few other bills that were not appealing therefore when you voted for the things the voters didn't want they were also upholding that policy because there was no other choice.
Something like that... Does that happen a lot where bills big people in congress don't like wind up in sort of a mass bill with a ton of other things that are undesirable and somewhat offensive / conservative / liberal?
From what I understand, politics blows. :\


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Are Older Alien Cams Safe?
Would you trust CCH Alien cams that were produced after the dimpled batch and are marked tensile tested? Also, can re-testing weaken your hardware?
As you know, CCH Aliens with the center-punch dimple on the ball below the axle were recalled after the brazing on some of these units failed. CCH said the failures were caused by rapidly quenching the braze in water, instead of slowly cooling it in oil. Aliens are now under new ownership and use different manufacturing, so the problem is limited to the older units. So, yes, I would trust the new units, which is good news for me because these little devils remain the backbone of my small rack for micro placements. Retesting can damage your gear, but that depends on the test. A simple pull test at 50 or 75% rated strength won't hurt the gear, but if it is tested to destruction ... you get the idea.
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Labor Day weekend provides us an annual three-day break before summer fades into fall. School and football are back, and though it's still plenty hot, the days are growing shorter and the leaves are crisping up for seasonal changes to come.
Nostalgia is popular these days: Retro fashions, disco and '80s pop, "Throwback Thursdays" on social media. What's old is new again, what used to be hip turned square and then back to cool.
On any given fall Friday night, you'd be hard-pressed to find a football field in the South without a bowed head or a bent knee.
Of all the modern conveniences we take for granted - a light goes on at the flip of a switch, water comes out at the turn of a tap - our roads and highways rank high on the list.
Personal privacy these days almost seems like an antiquated notion from a bygone era, like AM radio, whitewall tires and wide lapels.
Even good intentions can go awry when proper thought and planning are not factored in. This is the lesson of Obamacare.
Polls are, at best, a snapshot of how the public thinks at any given time and we can take or leave them at times. Yet a couple of recent studies by the Pew Research Center show an interesting peek into the American psyche.
The Lone Ranger rides again.
Last week's Supreme Court ruling that family-owned corporations cannot be required by the government to provide insurance coverage that includes contraceptives, if doing so violates the owners' religious beliefs, came at an ironically fortuitous time.
It's summer, glorious summer, that season when school is out and the lazy days are spent sunning on the beach, cruising the lake, hiking the mountains or taking in a ballgame.
It's good to know our nation is in such solid standing around the world, economically and socially, that our government's priorities can be redirected. What evidently matters is not merely unrest in Iraq, Afghanistan, Syria or Ukraine, a rising national debt and entitlement tsunami, the flood of refugee children across the U.S. border or the battle over national health care.
When it comes to Washington politics, the old rules of cause and effect don't seem to apply, at least not in a logical way. They never really did, to be honest, but the rules of engagement keep bending ever further from the pull of common sense.
It's summer vacation season, when many families load up the vehicle and head down the road to visit the grandparents, explore the mountains or hit the beach.
In an age when politicians aren't always public servants and vice versa, we honor the life and career of Wyc Orr, one who filled both roles ably.
"All we have of freedom, all we use or know. This our fathers bought for us long and long ago."
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A window of opportunity has opened in the digital advertising market as the industry waits for the full impact of the tablet revolution to affect Cost Per Clicks (CPC).
Figures from Adobe's Q2 2012 Global Digital Advertising Update show that while conversion rates for tablets are 120 percent higher than those for PCs, CPC rates are markedly less than desktops or laptops, 30 percent less in fact.
With the vast majority of tablet users fitting the iPad owning demographic – tech savvy and with a healthy disposable income – brands have a unique opportunity to run highly-targeted campaigns across tablets, and smartphones, that will deliver greater ROI thanks to the lower rate CPC.
"Despite incredible sales of the Apple iPad, the tablet itself is still a relatively nascent technology," believes Jonathan Beeston, Director of New Product Innovation at Adobe. "Historically CPCs have been lower for mobile devices as the user experience is constrained by screen size, device speed etc. Tablets don't have these problems, yet they are still being viewed as a mobile device hence the lower CPC than PCs."
American data in the report puts ROI for tablet advertising spend as high as 160 percent against PCs (with mobiles at 103 percent) reaffirming the belief that brands can realise significant impact and value by switching to mobile, at least in the short term.
"It's a case of making hay while the sun's shining," adds Beeston. "With a slew of competitively priced, high quality devices like the Kindle Fire, Google Nexus and Microsoft's Surface about to hit the mass markets, the situation will normalise as brands raise their budgets for advertising on tablets and the CPC rates follow suit."
The report also shows that search advertising continues to grow, with search spend in the UK up 18 percent, Year over Year (YoY). Additionally, growth rates for search spend were strong in the US and Germany, seeing a 13 percent and 12 percent increase YoY respectively.
Finally, brands are continuing to invest heavily in Facebook to drive fan growth, with 21 per-cent Quarter over Quarter (QoQ) and 84 percent YoY growth worldwide. Facebook engagement among brands also grew by 60 percent QoQ and 338 percent YoY.
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Doris Hernacki has been teaching Carly Rose Sonenclar the piano for five years — and doing her part to help her student advance on "The X Factor."
"Last week, I voted 175 times," she says with a laugh. "I usually vote 100 times a week. On the phone, I keep hitting redial. You can make a lot of phone calls in a minute."
"She's a very good piano player," Hernacki says. "She's such a hard worker. That work ethic, which you can see when she's singing, I saw at the piano, too. She would play a piece and maybe have a little slip here and there — which most students would be perfectly fine with – but she'd say 'Can I try again? I know I can do better.' It always came from within. I looked forward to every lesson."
Hernacki, who goes to Carly's home for the lessons, says the 13-year-old is an intermediate player, quite an achievement for a multi-tasking teen.
"Even when she was on Broadway, she'd find a way to practice in between the scenes. She'd go on tour and she and her mom would bring a keyboard with them or find a piano wherever they were. She always had her sheet music with her."
Her classical repertoire includes Grieg, Beethoven's "Fur Elise," and Clair de Lune.
"She loved Clair de Lune," Hernacki says.
The "X Factor" star's last visit with Hernacki was in October.
"I hope that after all this excitement is finished, that she'll continue. But who knows?" Hernacki says. "Her life and her family's life has certainly changed."
While "The X Factor" is all about pop, Sonenclar's repertoire is "really open to all kinds of music."
"Her vocal work has gone in the realm of jazz and soul and she has been playing some nice jazz music for me, too, and some Broadway shows. Whatever was next in the book or whatever I would bring she'd be excited to try.
"The other thing she loves, and one of her early influences, was The Beatles, because her father used to play them all the time. So I brought her a Beatles book so she learned a lot of Beatles songs."
Over the past two years, Hernacki has been teaching Sonenclar how to accompany herself on the piano, "which is not easy."
"The thing is you have to be so confident in your piano playing that you can transcend it with your voice. You can't be worried about the notes. You have to go with the flow so the voice can go with it. But she's so musically talented that even though she had to work at it became very comfortable for her."
Sonenclar composes, too.
"She can sit down at the piano and create. There are so many facets to her musicianship that it amazes me."
Her songs are pop-sounding, her teacher says, but because she has the classical background, a trained ear can hear that the theory is at work.
"Every week, I would arrive and she'd say 'I wrote another song. And they were really great.' She's a solid intermediate player with expression that's just oozing out of her."
"I would always say: 'How old are you?' like Simon Cowell says."
But the piano teacher has never suggested, as Cowell has, that the 13-year-old is an alien.
Hernacki first heard Sonenclar's rendition of "Feeling Good" – which wowed the judges at her "X Factor" audition – last summer at the Jazz Forum Arts outdoor festival, which she won.
"It was as good as it was at the audition," Hernacki says. "She's just so musical that it's fun to be a teacher."


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Southern One South & West
Bridgwater Town 4, Bashley 0
KARIM Rendall scored twice for Bridgwater Town as they cruised to a 4-0 home victory over newly relegated Bashley on the opening day of the new season at Fairfax Park.
Rendall netted either side of goals from Scott Thomas and Jack Allward as Richard Fey's side made a winning start to the new campaign.
The Fairfax Park faithful didn't have to wait long for the season's opening goal as Rendall applied a neat finish to a cross from the right hand side.
Knighton and O'Hare went close to doubling the lead shortly after, but Thomas went one better on 32 minutes with a well executed volley from just inside the penalty area.
Knighton squandered another chance early in the second half with a close range header - but left-back Jack Allward soon made it three on 67 minutes with a powerful strike from the edge of the box following good work from Rendell.
With Ollie Chamberlain and Andy Robertson pulling the strings for Town, the chances were coming thick and fast, as Rendall and Knighton caused havoc in the Bashley defence.
Rendall got just reward for an impressive display with his second of the afternoon on 71 minutes, breaking through a weak challenge before slotting past Callum Maher in the Bashley goal.


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More "Hobbit" bones found, as reported in Nature vol 437, p1012, 13 Oct 2005. Scientists excavating a cave on the Island of Flores in Indonesia have found a jaw bone, two arm bones and a shin bone that belong to Homo floresiensi.
The new jaw is very similar to the first jaw in that it lacks a chin. A chin is a distinctive feature of human beings, including dwarves and people suffering from microcephaly. The scientists note that "Lack of a chin is an ancestral feature of hominids, and is also a characteristic of H. erectus and A. afarensis. The humerus (upper arm bone) is thicker than a human arm bone, and the head of the bone, where it joins to the shoulder, is rotated at an angle of 110 degrees to the shaft - described by the scientists as "the norm for Hylobates and quadrupedal primates such as Macaca". The ulna (forearm bone) is also thicker than a human ulna and has lost the end that joins with the wrist. The tibia (shin bone) is very small and is similar in shape to that of a chimpanzee. The researchers comment: "The relationship between midshaft circumference (56mm) and the length of the tibia is in the Pongo and Pan range of variation, and distinct from Homo."
After putting these new bones together with the original find the researchers are now able to estimate the overall body proportion of H. floresiensis and compare them with humans and apes. After comparing the length of the arms and legs relative to overall body size they concluded: "Body proportions of LB1 are the same as AL288-1 A. afarensis, but differ from all other hominids for which there are reliable data, including H. erectus. Abnormal growth seems an unlikely explanation, as growth-hormone-related dwarfism and microcephaly in modern humans result in normal limb and pelvic proportions."
They then considered the brain size in proportion to the body size and concluded: "Although the endocast of LB1 has a gross morphology most similar to H. erectus, and distinct from H. sapiens, Australopithecus and Pan, the encephalization quotient and body-weight-to-brain-weight relationships are similar to A. afarensis and Pan, not H. erectus,. They also studied the overall robustness, or thickness of the bones in proportion to their lengths and estimated the musculature and overall body mass. They concluded: "For the femur and humerus, midshaft circumference differs from predictions for H. sapiens of similar body size, with femur robusticity at the centre of the Pan paniscus range of variation, and humerus robusticity midway between the P. paniscus and H. sapiens ranges. Thus, estimations of musculature and body mass in H. floresiensis would be more accurate if based on chimpanzee rather than human models".
Editorial Comment: Translating the jargon: Hylobates is the scientific name for Gibbon, a tree swinging ape; Macaca is the name for Macaques, a type of monkey; Pongo is orangutan, another tree swinging ape; and Pan is chimpanzee. Australopithecus afarensis means "southern ape from Afar" and is the scientific name for "Lucy". LB1 is the original Homo floriesiensis fossil. LB is "Liang Bua" the name of the cave where it was found.
If we put the information from these new studies together with the previous studies of Homo floresiensis we can summarise them as follows: This creature has the brain size of a chimpanzee, a jaw like a "southern ape", arms like a gibbon or a monkey, legs like a chimpanzee or orangutan, body proportions of a "southern ape," body mass like a chimpanzee and a brain-to-body proportions of the chimpanzee or "southern ape". Is there any alternative to the conclusion that the creature was an ape? Therefore, it is inexcusable that it continues to be classified as "Homo" by evolutionists and creationists! (Ref. hominid, anthropology, skeleton)


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Did you know?
3046 Janine, a class 15F steam locomotive, transported King George VI and Queen Elizabeth on their visit to South Africa in 1947.
The Magaliesburg Express is one of five historic steam locomotives operated by Reef Steamers, a voluntary group of rail enthusiasts.
A nostalgic reminder of the days when trains were the major means of long-distance travel for the majority of South Africans, if you're not a trainspotter already, this old-fashioned steam train ride will rekindle the romance of rail travel.
Your steam train trip to Magaliesburg begins with the preparation of the locomotive. Children (and grown-ups) are barely able to contain their excitement and swarm around the obliging crew to see the age-old rituals of coal trimming, firing, ash-pan cleaning and lubrication, or watching the wheel tapper at work.
After a short passenger briefing from the controller, you board the train. Clouds of steam whooshing from the train's pistons, and smoke billowing from its chimney, followed by a shrill whistle, signal your Magaliesburg Express adventure has begun.
On board, the rhythmic clickety-clack lullaby of the train sends some passengers to sleep. Others join the kids at the window to laugh and chatter, breathe in the coal scent, and feel the patter of cinders on their cheeks and hands as the wind whips their hair and the countryside steams by. Rail buffs tend to congregate at the bar coach, where comfy sofas and hard tack fuels long train tales.
En route, the train stops at the original Krugersdorp station building, built in 1896, and little over an hour later you arrive, relaxed, at your choice of destination, at either the Magaliesburg Country Hotel, or the Swallows Inn, in the town of Magaliesburg.
You'll have just under four hours to explore the quaint village's craft shops, enjoy a leisurely lunch, or swim, braai, or picnic. Then it's all aboard once more for a slightly more sedate trip, as sated passengers snooze, or take it easy and enjoy the scenery, en route back to Johannesburg.
Whether you're an adult who has fantasised about being a locomotive driver, or a little 'un besotted with Thomas the Tank Engine, or are simply looking for a fun, unusual way to spend a Sunday, you'll be stoked you took a steam train ride on the Magaliesburg Express.
Travel tips & Planning info
Who to contact
Reef Steamers
Tel: +27 (0)11 888 1154
Swallows Inn
Tel: +27 (0)14 577 0054/5940
Email: firstname.lastname@example.com
Magaliesburg Country Hotel
Tel: +27 (0)14 577 1109
Email: firstname.lastname@example.com
How to get here
The train departs from different stations at different times, so consult www.reefsteamers.com
Best time to visit
The Magaliesburg Express operates on selected public holidays and special occasions like Valentine's Day. Make a booking well in advance. Visit the Reef Steamers website for the latest timetable.
Around the area
Antique and curio shops
Get around
By rail and on foot
What will it cost
R250 per adult, R165 per child (3-12), under three free, provided the child does not occupy a seat. The cost to picnic or braai (barbeque) at the Swallows Inn is R20 p/p. The Magaliesburg Country Hotel offers a buffet for approximately R120 pp, half-price for children under 12, and free for under three
Length of stay
Currently, the Magaliesburg Express is a day trip, and operates on a round-trip basis, so overnight stays are not possible.
What to pack
Magaliesburg Express trains sell refreshments (alcoholic and non-alcoholic), snacks and sweets on a cash-only basis. Bring your own picnic, book a buffet lunch at the Magaliesburg Country Hotel, or bring-and-braai (barbeque) at the Swallows Inn. There are also fast food franchises in the town of Magaliesburg.


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