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Winter Park's only true ski in ski out condominium lodge, the Zephyr Mountain Lodge is situated 110 feet from the Zephyr Express lift. In addition, guest enjoy easy access to the Children's Center, ski shop and various après-ski locations. Accommodations range from 1 to 3 bedroom units and are available in three different ratings: Silver, Gold and Platinum.
All units include fully equipped kitchens, TV in living room and every bedroom, gas fireplace and gas fireplace. Silver and Platinum units feature flat-screen TVs and granite-stone countertops. Additionally amenities include an outdoor, slopeside hot tub, dataport capabilities, ski storage, concierge, plush bath robes and movies for rent at front desk. FGuests of the Zephyr Mountain Lodge also enjoy complimentary shuttle service between Lodge and the towns of Winter Park and Fraser.
Located conveniently 225 yards from the base village chairlifts, Fraser Crossing and Founders Pointe are comprised of studios and 1, 2 and 3 bedroom units.
Amenities include outdoor hot tubs, heated parking, ski storage LCD flat-screen TVs, high-speed Wi-Fi and an outdoor fireplace. A complimentary town shuttle is available for guests of Fraser Crossing and Founders Pointe.
Located at the entrance to Winter Park resort, the Vintage offers 114 finely-appointed guest rooms, from traditional hotel rooms to studios and suites, most featuring kitchenettes and fireplaces. The Vintage Hotel is host to the Coca-Cola Tubing Hill check-in and tube rental. Amenities include an outdoor heated pool and hot tub. The Five Mountain Tavern serves lunch and dinner during ski season. An assortment of breakfast and lunch grab and go items can be purchased at the front desk. The Village Cabriolet provides complimentary transportation from the hotel parking lot to the base of Winter Park Resort.
Offering the perfect blend of location, comfort and Rocky Mountain scenery for your next ski vacation. Beaver Village Condominiums are spacious 1 to 4 bedroom condominiums that include a full kitchen, dining room, living room and private balcony with views of the Continental Divide or Arapaho National Forest. Choose Beaver Village the next time you're in Winter Park and enjoy the comforts of home while on vacation.In addition to the amenities listed Beaver Village also offers their guests refrigerator with freezer, stove, oven, microwave, dishwasher, pots, pans, dishes, glasses, toaster, coffee maker, cable TV, Wi-Fi access and phone.
Situated high on a mountain Meadowridge features beautiful 1, 2 and 3 bedroom condominiums in Fraser Valley with a great view of Byers Peak. Located 10 minutes from Winter Park Ski Resort on free shuttle bus line and surrounded by 300 miles of mountain bike and hiking trails. MeadowRidge is located in the town of Fraser- 6 miles from the ski resort on the free shuttle route. All units have a full kitchen, color cable tv, vcr. Some units have a private balcony or patio. The recreation center has tennis courts, game room, locker room and racquetball courts.
492 Golf Course Circle is a unique luxury getaway offering seven bedrooms and eight baths.This three-level Winter Park ski vacation home offers more than 9,500-square-feet, and features everything needed for large groups to comfortably vacation. Highlights include a two-story great room, a family room equipped with state-of-the-art media and an expansive outdoor deck furnished with rocking chairs and a gas BBQ grill. Built upon a two-acre lot, 492 Golf Course Circle is a short drive from town and 12 miles from the ski trails. This award-winning home is brimming with opulence. Rough-sawn antique hardwood floors run throughout the main living area. Slate, tile and marble finish the baths, while the bedrooms are carpeted. The two-story great room has a floor-to-ceiling stone gas fireplace and leather sofas below a chandelier. The dining area seats up to 12 guests, and there is additional seating for up to 10 guests at the breakfast nook. At the center of the gourmet kitchen is an island with a slab granite countertop. The kitchen is equipped with professional appliances, including a six-burner gas stove, two dishwashers and a double oven. A mudroom and a laundry room complete the main level's common area.
Also located on the main level are two bedrooms, each which sleep two people. The first bedroom has a four-post king bed, access to the main deck and a private bath featuring an antique Victorian tub, separate shower and dual vanities. The second bedroom on the main floor offers a queen bed, private deck, reading nook and a flat-screen TV. It also has a private bath with a separate bath and shower. The master suite and a bedroom are located on the upper level, as well as a small office and a bridge. which offers views of the great room. A king bed furnishes the master suite, which also has a reading nook, flat-screen TV, private deck and large walk-in closet. The master bath features a Victorian tub, walk-in shower and dual vanities. The bedroom has a private deck, queen bed and a private bath. On the lower level, the family room provides a great place to hang out. In addition to a 65-inch flat-screen HDTV and surround-sound, it is furnished with a custom log pool table, wet bar and ample seating. Also on this level are three bedrooms, each with their own bath. One of the rooms has a queen bed, and the second room has a king bed. Lastly, the bunk room sleeps six guests. 492 Golf Course Circle amenities include in-floor radiant heat, an elevator, Wi-Fi, heated entry and a three-car garage.
Alante Vista is a newly constructed condominium complex in the Winter Park Ranch
neighborhood of Fraser. The units are six miles to the Winter Park Ski Resort and
have access to the free ski shuttle. All units are accessed from heated interior
stairwells and have an open floor plan with nine-foot ceilings throughout. The slate-finished gas fireplace in the living room provides a great focal point. The upgraded
kitchen includes granite countertops, stainless steel appliances and slate tile flooring.
There are two bedrooms each with their own bath. Bonus amenities include washer/
dryer, an oversized one-car garage and small covered patio.
These deluxe town homes are located just across the street from the ski area. Each town home is unique. All offer kitchen and fireplace and most have private hot tubs, washer / dryer and high-speed internet.
Quality - Value - Convenience! Located in the center of downtown Winter Park, the Best Western Alpenglo Lodge is an ideal location to base your winter or summer outdoor activities. A TripAdvisor Certificate of Excellence award winner, we're just steps to the Free resort shuttle and within easy walking distance of shopping, nightlife and restaurants. We offer a Free hot continental breakfast, 37" HD flat screen TVs, Free broadband wi-fi and a large 14 person hot tub. There's also an on-site ski shop operated by Beaver Sports. Our friendly staff looks forward to your visit!
Braidwood condominiums offer lodging with a feeling of seclusion yet are within walking distance of the shops and restaurants in downtown Winter Park. Access your unit by the convenient elevator from the free underground parking. Amenities include a fully equipped kitchen, elevator, parking garage, and private balcony, some with views of downtown.
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My cliff notes of this post : Hubbard was insane.My take is that the L. Ron Hubbard had a fair amount of intelligence, but was fatally spoiled as a child. He grew up vain and lazy. He also grew up good at spinning stories. If you've got those traits, the temptation to live in a fantasy world is very strong.
So I think that in one sense Hubbard genuinely believed in his 'tech', and genuinely wanted to help people with it. But only in the sense that he lived in a fantasy world, in which he was entitled to be worshiped for saving humanity. I'm not sure he really believed in his fantasy with a cold, narrow gaze, the way a hard-nosed investor believes in the business he puts his money into. Maybe it was just a matter of insisting on playing pretend.
I think that a lot of the content of Scientology was probably designed, at least subconsciously, so that Hubbard could maintain his fantasy despite being an intelligent and experienced guy. He really did command a warship, and he really did sell a lot of fiction. It's not easy to live in a fantasy world if you've done those things.
But a fantasy universe of thetans who mock everything up is maybe slick enough to pull it off with. If that's your fantasy, then whenever your common sense starts to kick in, or you start to recognize that you're making stuff up, you can handle the doubt by saying, "Of course I'm mocking it up I'm Source!" If you keep that juicy thought in the back of your mind, you can quite comfortably laugh and wink about the foolishness of it all, and pretend convincingly that you're not pretending at all. A fantasy about how reality is just fantasy can look reality in the eye and not blink. Or at least seem to. That's how I imagine Hubbard could come across as a down-to-earth guy, when he wanted, and not as the megalomanical cult leader he really was.
Anyway, that's my guess. Scientology is effective at helping people maintain their own delusion, because it was designed to help Hubbard maintain his.


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Isabel Marant Fall 2014
It's about a jacket and a heel, a pant and a top, a little bit of international roaming, and, of course, the perennial excuse for putting legs on show. That's the Isabel Marant recipe, which has to count as one of the most globally desired, democratically savored commercial quantities cooked up in France since Jean Paul Gaultier was an enfant terrible (meaning, roughly 25 years ago). François Hollande should court her as a cabinet advisor on export and the international projection of France as a still-cool country containing young, sexy people. (Joking about the "courting.")
Isabel's secret: She walks the talk. She is what she designs. There she was, in her furry spike-heeled boots, white leather patchworked pants and a boxy-shouldered jacket, planting smacking kisses on models (who adore walking for her) and her Parisian friends when her show was over. And then she didn't wax lyrical about the Peruvian knit and blanket influences in her collection, the curly-shearling gilets, the fact that a padded canvas jacket looked as if it had something to do with judo, and that blanket-check shirts came into it. All she talked about was her own way of thinking about dressing during winter. "I always want to do something comfortable and cozy. When the weather is like that, you never feel like being too pretty or fancy," she explained. "So, you know, I just thought of khaki and shoulders—something that would make you feel self-confident and strong." She might have added "sexy," but that's a given descriptor of femaleness in French society, and from lands across the sea, it's a message discernable in any language: Girls get it. They buy it. They can afford it.
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We've all heard the comment in its various vile forms.
"Drunken native guys."
It's the shameful talk of the town, spat out in mostly private moments that are thought to be safe.
But four years ago, an obviously angry Lorrie Steeves made the mistake of posting those words -- and more -- on her Facebook page, following what she has since suggested were frightening downtown run-ins with harassing panhandlers.
"... Drunken native guys in the skywalks," was how she labelled them.
Now, it's Lorrie Steeves who is the shameful talk of the town.
And -- in what some see as guilt by association -- so is her husband, mayoral candidate Gord Steeves, who was a city councillor when his wife let slip her view of aboriginal street people.
City Coun. Dan Vandal, who is aboriginal, told me Steeves was supportive of First Nations initiatives when they served together on council.
Vandal also said he's never heard Steeves utter a racist remark.
Yet, whether the guilt by association is valid or not, it's bolstered by the timing of the anonymous Twitter message that captured a screen image of Steeves' wife's racist rant posted the same day as Steeves made a campaign announcement.
"No person who is drunk or high will be allowed to linger downtown," Steeves said Friday as he stood downtown.
Then, he added something that hasn't been as talked about since, but should be. "No person struggling with mental illness will be left to their own devices."
What Gord Steeves appears to be suggesting is the mentally ill aren't welcome downtown, either. That comment the candidate owns himself.
In the interest of context, those remarks came while he was saying he wanted 20 more police cadets to patrol downtown. Maybe I missed it, but has the Winnipeg Police Association announced who they're backing for mayor yet?
But we were talking about Lorrie Steeves' shameful remarks, which included the added descriptor "sorry asses on welfare" and the oh-so-charming "so shut the f--- up and don't ask me for another handout."
As I was suggesting, that's typical talk-of-the-town stuff among a social class that has none.
So is Lorrie sorry? Well, she said she was on Friday, when the news broke and her husband was suddenly speechless.
Five days later, Gord Steeves has scheduled a news conference for today. Of course, no matter what he says, only he knows what's in his heart.
We already know what was in his wife's heart when she thought only her Facebook friends were listening. What stood out to me -- even more than her foul-mouthed lack of humanity -- was where that comes from.
Ignorance and a lack of empathy. As evidenced by this line about the "drunken native guys."
"We need to get these people educated so they can go make their own damn money... "
Apparently Lorrie Steeves has no concept of the power of addiction, or the painful history of the First Nations peoples of Manitoba that has placed so many on the streets that are more a danger to them than us.
It was 23 years ago today a document was delivered to the provincial justice minister of the day that laid out that history in a 789-page volume that put the "drunken native guys" she seems so fearful and loathsome of in a human context. You don't have to read every page of the report on the Aboriginal Justice Inquiry to get the message of why First Nations people, massively abused culturally and sexually as children, are our most impoverished and powerless citizens. Just turn to page 9 of Volume 1 and read the words of one Winnipeg aboriginal man who spoke at the inquiry.
"When I look around me and see it is there, the human misery that afflicts my people, the agony of hunger etched on our children's faces, the blank look in the eyes of our young people, the despair of adults growing old before their time, the bewilderment of old people cast aside. All of these afflictions are a reality with my people. All of these afflictions are consequences of the radical prejudice and discrimination that my people must contend with on a daily basis."
That's the irony of Lorrie Steeves saying the panhandlers need educating. She's the one who needs educating.
As for her feeling "terrible," she would be wise to seek out those panhandlers who so frightened her and say she she's sorry. Lorrie might be surprised how good that would feel. And how forgiving they would be.


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An MP has demanded two south London train operators improve their "maddening" service.
Carshalton and Wallington MP Tom Brake has pushed train operators to improve after a Which? magazine survey showed out of the country's 20 rail operators, Southern and First Capital Connect are ranked 13th and 18th respectively.
They both only scored two out of five in terms of punctuality and First Capital Connect only scored two out of five for reliability.
Mr Brake said: "As more and more people like me decide to leave their cars at home and take the train to work, it becomes essential that train companies justify that commuter decision.
"Commuters are being let down greatly, in more ways than one, by the major train companies that serve Sutton. Urgent improvements must be made."
Which? also looked at ticket machines and branded some of them a "maddening waste of time".
Mr Brake added: "It is worrying that decisions are being made to replace staff in ticket offices with ticket machines.
"Like many others, I have often found myself left frustrated by inflexible or confusing ticket machines or greeted by an 'out of order' sign."
To back Mr Brake's campaign to improve transport, visit www.tombrake.co.uk/en/page/better-transport.


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Forum:A Query on Vandals
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I'm sure this subject has been broached before at some point, but unlike the vandals who are keen on digging into forum articles coated with three inches of dust, I am a mite bit lazy and would rather create an entirely new article than waste too many calories clicking the mouse and moving my eyes to read through pages of words (the logic here is starting to evade me as typing this is surely using more energy, luckily I can play the in-denial card here which
almost always trumps the truth card (as a game designer, I am suddenly wanting to make a card game now (by the way, I seriously hate it when people use parentheses within parentheses))).
Onto the point; why can't forum topics be automatically semi-protected after a certain amount of time so nitwits can't fish them back to the surface three years later? I'm sure there is a good reason, or they would be already, so I just want to know what that reason is.
◄► Tephra ◄► 01:43, April 27, 2013 (UTC)
- The problem is that the directory is sorted by time of last edit, and that includes the attack of the last two days. I have mail into Wikia on whether these edits and reverts could be expunged from the history. A month ago I experimented and found no easy way either to totally preclude edits or to auto-block users who attempt them. See also my talk page, Sec. 37. By the way, I am on record as wishing that UnNews articles also expired after a couple weeks and became blocked from editing. Spıke Ѧ 02:02 27-Apr-13
- I have tried protecting forum topics before, but protecting the forums bumps them up to the top of the list. If it is an old forum that a vandal bumped to the top of the list then I will protect it, otherwise, I cannot go back to old forums and protect them without bumping them, unfortunately. -- Simsilikesims(♀GUN) Talk here. 02:15, April 27, 2013 (UTC)
- Could we have a special archive forum where topics older than, say a month, could be automatically moved and semi-protected? Then, while they might be new to the archive forum, nobody would care, and if they got bumped within the archive forum, well, nobody would care.
◄► Tephra ◄► 03:43, April 27, 2013 (UTC)
- Could we have a special archive forum where topics older than, say a month, could be automatically moved and semi-protected? Then, while they might be new to the archive forum, nobody would care, and if they got bumped within the archive forum, well, nobody would care.
- I refreshed my knowledge of the process this morning. When a Forum closes, it is not because anything changes on the page; Uncyclopedia, based on a time computation, displays a box at the top of the page and makes the Edit button go away. It is unknown at the time of the edit that the above will occur when Uncyclopedia goes on to render the Forum page on anyone's browser. I could install a grue to look for a magic string of text deposited on the page to declare it locked and, on that basis, either inhibit edits, ban users who tried to edit it, or ban Anons who tried to edit it. But the grue cannot know how by itself how long the page has gone without editing. Someone would have to make an edit to slam each Forum shut.
- Ideally, someone with a record of impartiality should maintain a Village Dump Front Page as we do up the UnNews Front Page, even organizing Forum threads by subject matter for convenience. But it doesn't seem to be the best use of our current resources. Spıke Ѧ 21:32 27-Apr-13
- I've just bumped an old forum so now it appears at the top of the list, to be fair having to scroll a little because some asshat has bumped something from a few years up the list isn't really that major a chore. The vandal is banned, and people are still here commenting on other more important matters. The only person wasting time is the idiot vandal. -- Sir Mhaille (talk to me)
- I respectfully disagree. The result of this vandalism is a continuing problem. This site was recently described on a Wikipedia talk page as "abandoned," and some of our users are motivated not by the love of writing pretty pages but by social interaction, which is terminated when the Forum of interest to them disappears--even when you and I know to look for it on Page 3 or 4 of the index. The nav-bar doesn't make it clear to everyone that there even is more than one page of threads. Spıke Ѧ 14:53 29-Apr-13
- I didn't say that the continuing vandalism wasn't a problem, but following some arsewipe's trip around the archives, subsequent banning and reversal of anything they've done, we seem to bump the actual important topics back to the top anyway. -- Sir Mhaille (talk to me)


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Nope. My 2 years on Verizon isn't up yet
Another "leaked" photos. Every since the iPhone 4 was leaked you would think these companies would try to do better at not allowing as much leaked product to surface.
Im not buying it. If anything my company will provide me with one. As for the "leaked photos" they are "leaked" on purpose as its part of the mysticism we call Apple. It happens every year. When something happens on a continued basis it becomes well..planned. I haven't given up on Apple at all, I just want more change, more innovation and something to look forward to in my upgrade. I love my iPhone 5..what is it about the next model that should make me upgrade..thats what im looking for.
Apple is messing up the iPhone they want to keep it simple like 50% of people have iPhones I think there is more but apple needs to make better detail in the phone even Samsung beat apple in their tech. If apple doesn't act fast then they won't be as advanced the most advanced as I seen a iPhone is a jailbroken one


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Murphy follows long line of backups pressed into duty
Published: Friday, October 4, 2013 at 6:01 a.m.
Last Modified: Thursday, October 3, 2013 at 9:45 p.m.
From a condo in Knoxville, Tenn., Don Strock watched Florida backup quarterback Tyler Murphy step in for injured Jeff Driskel and lead the Gators to a 31-17 win over Tennessee.
The former renowned backup quarterback for the Miami Dolphins came away impressed.
"He came in and did a heckuva job for them," Strock said. "You could see they had some different calls for him, more mobile, get outside the pocket, probably a better passer outside the pocket. It's a shame what happened to Driskel, but I think they have a competitive guy there to take his place."
Murphy will make just his second career start, and first at The Swamp, when Florida hosts Arkansas on Saturday. A fourth-year junior, Murphy has made the most of his opportunity, playing within himself to help lead the Gators to back-to-back SEC wins over the Vols and Kentucky.
But taking over the season for an injured starter isn't easy. Strock knows that well. In 1978, Strock started seven games for injured Hall of Fame starter Bob Griese when Griese suffered torn ligaments in his knee during the preseason. Stock went 5-2 during the seven starts, helping lead the Dolphins to a playoff appearance.
"My teammates had confidence in me that when I was in there, I was in there because we also had a chance to win," Strock said. "The belief that I could win for them led to them playing winning football for me. I called my own plays my whole career with the Miami Dolphins, so I tried not to put myself in a position where I would make calls that I couldn't really perform."
For example, Strock was not a mobile quarterback, so he rarely called bootlegs for himself. Florida offensive coordinator Brent Pease has played to Murphy's mobility and ability to hit receivers on slant patterns.
"Obviously, the coaching staff knows the pluses and minuses of each player, so you hope that they would call plays accordingly," Strock said.
For former Gator quarterback Noah Brindise, being a backup under former coach Steve Spurrier meant not knowing when your number would be called, from game to game or even play to play. In 1997, Brindise stepped in for a struggling Jesse Palmer to help lead the Gators to a 24-10 win over Auburn. Later that season, Brindise started against South Carolina, completing 7 of 15 passes for 139 yards in UF's 48-21 win over the Gamecocks.
"In any backup situation, and it was true with me, I never liked to be viewed as the backup quarterback," Brindise said. "I wanted to be viewed as someone who could play when called upon. You go in, it's sort of a cliche, but you hear everybody say, you prepare every week like you are a starter and that's really the truth. That's how you have to handle that type of situation."
Brindise, who lives in Gainesville and sells medical supplies, has been impressed with Murphy's poise and thinks he can continue to have success going forward.
"It's obvious to me that he's got the respect of the team and he's got command," Brindise said. "You can just tell those things by watching him. You've got to remember he's been around a while, he's been in all of those meetings there, all the time. He doesn't take all the reps, he wasn't taking the majority of the reps, but he was still probably getting 25, 35 percent of the reps in practice. It's not like these guys are totally unfamiliar with him."
As a backup quarterback at Miami, Georgia coach Mark Richt sat behind Jim Kelly and Bernie Kosar during his college career.
"It's tough to stay ready because you know you need to be ready to be a starter and you may never be a starter," Richt said. "You may never get your chance to play in the game, if it's close, as a backup quarterback. If it does happen, there you are and you've got to manage it immediately."
Richt said he thinks Murphy will continue to have more success with increased reps in practice.
"You've got two weeks under your belt, everyone knows you're the starter and there's no question about it," Richt said. "That preparation is different. You are more ready and you are getting all the reps with the ones, people are gaining confidence in you because you've performed well to this point. I think all those things are in his favor."
Murphy admitted that in the week before his first career start at Kentucky, he found himself trying to do too much in practice. Several Florida teammates approached him and told him to just be himself. Florida coach Will Muschamp said he was pleased with how Murphy responded to his second-half interception in the Kentucky game.
"I think that's one of his strengths, his demeanor, how he handles things," Muschamp said. "After the interception you would expect a guy to be down about things, but he understood what happened … he came back and bounced back and led us down the field the next drive."
Strock said cool disposition comes from preparation, from living and breathing the game plan during the week despite not knowing when or if you will get a chance to play. Now that Murphy knows he's the leader of the offense, that preparation should continue to intensify.
"I expect he's going to get better every week," Strock said. "They are getting into the heart of their schedule now, and I bet they hope he gets better now."
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One of the most interesting parts of my NFTE experience so far has been being able to host a variety of volunteers from both the corporate and the entrepreneurial world at my classroom sites. These volunteers come in for a variety of purpose. Some act as motivational speakers, sharing their own stories of trial and triumph, some act as coaches, helping students work on projects and business plans. Students, reticent though many may be to partake in class on an average day, generally perk up when volunteers come in. Suddenly, entrepreneurs become real people and having a career in business seems achievable.
This is particularly true when volunteers really personalize their stories, telling how they got started and challenges that they faced.
Yet in addition to all of the inspiration they provide to students, NFTEs volunteers have unknowingly had an ancillary effect as well. I've found that consistently being in the presence of such driven, successful, individuals has piqued my own interest in entrepreneurial endeavors. So thanks, volunteers! It turns out the spirit is catching!
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Thank you very much. Thank you. Thank you very much. Thank you for the warm welcome, and thank you for stacking the program with my supporters. We don't have many outlets and many microphones, I've been half convinced on some of the days since I left office that I was responsible for every bad thing that's happened since I left, and no good thing that happened when I was there. So, it was a thrill to see Rajat Gupta and Dick Holbrooke and Bernard Schwartz up here on the platform. Thank you, Bernard, for your friendship and your introduction. You and Irene have been wonderful to me. Thank you, Dick, and Kati, thank you Rajat and Anita. To David Coulter and the other board members, and especially to our award winner, Elisabeth Rosenthal and the jury which selected her, I told her that I read all those articles about AIDS in China, and I will never get over, as long as I live, the haunting story of those orphans in the rural villages in places where there were no normal age adults, only the old and those children. She did a great service in remind the world of a point I'll make later, which is that AIDS is not an African problem. And it is a problem that all humanity must address. So thank you very much.
I would also like to say a special word of appreciation to the Asia Society for all that you do, for the policy dialogues, the art exhibits, the Asia in the schools program that my good friend, Governor Jim Hunt, is involved in, trying to overcome the knowledge gap among our young people. No region matters more to our hopes for the future than Asia. So many of the world's people live there. So many fates and cultures meet. So much of the innovation, the upheaval, the change is occurring there. Asia may well yet hold the key to the outcome of the twenty-first century's struggle between the forces of integration and those of dis-integration. Our fates are now tied together by economics and immigration, by culture and politics, by information technology, and shared scientific research, and also by shared vulnerability to terror, to weapons of mass destruction, to climate change, to infectious diseases. Just today, actually, right before I came here I heard about the most recent attack in Saudi Arabia, the scope of which we do not yet know, but which reminds us once again that we share the possibilities and the perils of this new world.
SARS seems to have spread from China to Hong Kong to Vietnam not through food exports or mass migration, but at least in part through doctors going to medical conferences. Smoke from fires in one country brings commerce in another to a halt. And nineteen people can use cell phones, the Internet, and airplanes to kill thirty-one hundred people from seventy nationalities in the United States. In the face of all the good and bad things that are going on, I think, on balance, Asia has done a very good job of continuing to open up economically and politically.
I think of the fact that we are, even though there was some initial resistance (I think that's a delicate way to put it) from China in sharing information, the way that SARS was handled, the fact that we were able to stem the Asian financial crisis, the work that has been done with the Philippines by the Bush administration in helping them to combat terror, the fact that Taiwan, South Korea, and Thailand have strengthened their democracies, that East Timor is independent, that China is in the WTO, that the Asian Pacific leaders have committed to a free trade area in Asia, that India is continuing its economic progress and now has a peace initiative toward Pakistan, that Pakistan has cooperated with us in trying to apprehend Al-Qaeda leaders, that Thailand and Cambodia are world leaders in fighting AIDS, and Vietnam has established normal relations and a trade agreement with the United States, all these things I think are very hopeful. And the main point I want to make is that the United States has had, it seems to me, a formula that has held fast with modifications for the last half century. We have valued our military strength, and we have established military alliances, but increasingly we have emphasized economic and political cooperation as well.
Now, we have a decision to make in our country that will directly effect our relations with Asia. How can we best maximize the benefits and minimize the dangers of this inter-dependent world? We have, it seems to me, three choices. We could decide that the most important thing, since we have the only significant military capacity in the world, and we are, at least for the time being, the strongest economy, and we have, at least for the time being, the most political influence, to pursue a more unilateral course. That is the course that dictates pulling out of the ABM treaty, the comprehensive test ban treaty, the international criminal court, the Kyoto treaty on climate change, and pulling out of the negotiations to strengthen the biological weapons convention.
And there is a good argument for that when you have the kind of power we do, because every agreement you enter into requires you to give up some of your freedom of action. If you enter into a compact with certain rules, by definition you may not get your way all the time. On the other hand, a unilateral course is hazardous. If we only entered agreements where we got our way all the time, it seems to me there would be no marriages… Maybe some of you would have marriages, but it seems to me most people would not have marriages. There would be no business partnerships, no sports teams, no endeavor of any kind. And we would have the sublime freedom of doing whatever we please in an increasingly lonely world where others eventually would catch up in one area or another.


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SWINDON Spitfires are through to the second round of the Bristol Soccerworld Cup after dumping out 2010 winners Falmouth Town 4-1.
Falmouth took the lead against the run of play in the 23rd minute, Katy Barker breaking down the right before pulling the ball back to the edge of the area for Sasha Sparkes to slot past Tamsin Kellett.
Spitfires responded by switching Cara Costello to the right wing and she quickly made an impression, delivering several superb crosses into the box without finding a killer touch.
Costello could only fire straight at keeper Claire Churcher when she found herself clean through in the 43rd minute. At the other end, in the final minute of the half, Spitfires had a let-off at the other end when Helena Calfe saw her shot come back off the post.
After the break, however, Spits turned the game around. Five minutes after the restart Emma Skinner released Nat Haigh down the right with the resultant cross being met by Laura Ball, who lifted it over Churcher for the equaliser.
Falmouth pushed hard to regain the advantage and had their best spell of the game with the league's top scorer Barker keeping Jess Dent fully occupied, but Spitfires' defence held firm.
From the mid-point of second half it was Spitfires who were the most likely to go on and win the game. Rose fired wide from a great pull back by Costello, Sammie Smith went close with a couple of strikes, and Wilkes almost took the crossbar off with a thunderous volley after 66 minutes.
Wilkes finally bagged her goal in the 80th minute, stabbing home Haigh's cross to finally give Spitfires the lead, and that was the final straw for Falmouth as Spitfires rattled home two late goals to add a gloss to the scoreline.
Firstly Emma Blackwell met Costello's cross at the far post in the 85th minute then, in the 90th minute, Haigh completed the scoring after firing home Skinner's pull-back.
Spitfires return to league action next Sunday when Nailsea United are the visitors.
In the Oxford Girls League, Spitfires' under 14s comfortably saw off local rivals Highworth Juniors 6-1.
Spits opened the scoring through Charley Reynolds, Amy Connaghan added a second before half-time and in the second period goals from Meghan Larkin (2) and Daniella Granato saw off Highworth, while Connaghan completed her hat-trick.
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Spitfires' under 13s were also in action, securing a 4-2 win away at Tower Hill.
Spits started strongly from kick off and opened the scoring in the ninth minute, Ellie Scott firing home from outside the area.
Tower Hill were always a threat on the counter attack, but on 20 minutes Spitfires found a second goal courtesy of Katie Donnovan, from close range. The home side pulled a goal back five minutes from the break after springing the off-side trap but Spits raced out of sight early in the second half as Scott completed her hat-trick. Tower Hill grabbed a late consolation.


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Southwestern College, a private Phoenix-area Christian college, is now Arizona Christian University (ACU) – the name change a unanimous decision by the Board of Trustees, according to Len Munsil, president of Arizona Christian University.
"The name clearly identifies where we are and who we are," said Munsil.
In addition to changing the name, ACU is expanding the number of degrees they will offer potential students, including political science, communications and biology.
"The reason to add additional degree programs is so that students who want to attend a Christian university but want to become scientists, doctors, public policy professionals or members of the media can do so and also receive a biblical foundation for their work," said Munsil. "Now we are expanding to provide a Christian foundation for students who have other professional interests."
ACU has also added new intercollegiate sports teams to its north Phoenix campus, including baseball.
With approximately 500 students currently attending ACU, Munsil hopes the changes will double the size of the student body over the next few years.
"We know that our students have a great experience, and we believe with greater exposure and degree programs many more students can benefit from a traditional, small college Christian education," said Munsil.
This year also marks ACU's 50th Anniversary. To celebrate, ACU is holding its first fundraiser under its new name. The 50th Anniversary celebration will take place March 16, 2011 at the Phoenix Convention Center at 7 p.m.
Former President George W. Bush will be the keynote speaker at the fundraiser. President Bush will be recognized and celebrated for his commitment to his faith during his presidency.
"We know he can speak anywhere in the world, and we are thankful he is willing to come to ACU," said Munsil. "We think he is a great model of someone who was clear about his Christian faith during his public life, and we are trying to equip students to be leaders who incorporate their faith into everything they do."
The 50th Anniversary celebration will allocate the funds raised toward increasing scholarships as well as upgrading and expanding the campus.
"[People should attend the 50th Anniversary celebration] to hear from a president whose faith shaped his public and private life and to support students and a university that fills a void for private, nonprofit Christian higher education in Arizona," said Munsil.
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HOUSTON - An old Texas law is leading to the expected release of a convicted child killer after he served only a third of his 99-year sentence.
Vincent Earl Cox was convicted of murdering Robbie Schmidt, 7, in 1979, and state records show he is expected to be released from prison this April.
Cox's crime was apparently so horrific a Texas appeals court justice wrote in 1982 ruling, "The facts and circumstances surrounding this murder are so brutal and gruesome that this court will not detail them."
"He was funny, he was sweet. He was a little boy that just everybody loved," said Nancy Schmidt, Robbie's mother. "He just lit up the room."
Court records show in June 1979, Robbie went out to play in a field near his southwest Houston home. Even though he had a cast on his arm, it didn't stop him from playing Frisbee with a group of kids and adults, including Cox, who was 25 at the time.
"Terrible, you know, took advantage of a little boy in a cast," said Schmidt.
While no one is certain what prompted the incident court records show Cox, who already had a prior criminal record, hit Robbie.
"What I heard from the investigator was that he had hit my son and was afraid that I would do something to send him back to prison, so he killed him," said Schmidt.
Robbie's body was found later in a field that night after his mother organized a search party of neighbors.
"I have never been able to set my dinner table for three," said Schmidt. "So we have never sat down at the dinner table for 33 years."
Court records show when Cox was arrested he confessed to the murder. An appeals court record showed Cox stated to police that he couldn't remember all the details but, "all I know is that I did kill the boy."
Cox tried to have his confession ruled inadmissible, but his appeal was denied in 1982.
"I thought he would die in prison," said Schmidt.
Cox is not being granted parole. His release stems from an old Texas law that allowed prisoners to accrue so-called "good time." Essentially, this now-defunct law allowed prisoners to knock a day off the end of their required time in prison for every day they were considered to have had good behavior behind bars. Texas banned this practice for violent offenders in the mid 90s, but the U.S. Supreme Court ruled that the change in the law could not be retroactively applied to older cases.
"I got life. I got more than 33 years. Why should he have less than me?" said Schmidt. "This is not fair, this mandatory release. They know they made a mistake because they changed the law."
Victims' Rights Advocate Andy Kahan said about two dozen Houston area killers are expected to be released from prison over the next five years because they were all sentenced under the old Texas law.
"That's got to send chills down everybody's spine," said Kahan. "These are cold-blooded, diabolical murders."
When released, each of these killers will still be under state-mandated supervision. Schmidt said she is actively pushing for Cox to be released under the highest level of state mandated supervision, including GPS monitoring of his location.
"As far as I know, from parole board members, he has never shown any remorse," said Schmidt. "He's supposed to carry on with his life? My life is a wreck."
Officials with the Board of Pardons and Paroles told Local 2 the level of supervision these men will receive is decided on a case-by-case basis and no decision has been made yet on these offenders. State officials said if a person released under the old law does violate conditions of their release, then they can be sent back to prison.
"I'll be watching him," said Schmidt. "I want him to mess up and go back to prison."
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BEAUMONT, Texas - A man being tried on a charge of sexual assault of a child opened fire at a courthouse in Beaumont, killing at an innocent bystander, police said.
The shooting happened at the Jefferson County Courthouse, 1149 Pearl Street, about 11:20 a.m. Wednesday.
"We just heard a lot of shots," witness Donna Wheeler said. "At first, we just thought some cars were backfiring, but then there were too many."
Beaumont police said the shooter, identified at Bartholomew Granger, 41, fired shots from a pickup truck as he drove by the courthouse.
"The shooter shot and ran over his daughter," said Carol Riley with the Beaumont Police Department.
The daughter was taken to a hospital in critical condition.
Three other people, including the shooter's ex-wife, were wounded in the shooting, sources said.
Minnie Rae Seabolt, 79, of Deweyville, Texas, an innocent bystander, was killed, investigators said.
Granger's ex-wife and the fourth person he shot have been treated and released from a hospital.
Granger was also wounded by police as he fled, Judge Larry Gist said.
"Beaumont police officers encountered him on the street, along with Jefferson County officers, and returned fire," said Deputy Chief Vena Stephens of the Jefferson County Sheriff's Office. "The subject then, after making some rounds in front of the courthouse in his vehicle, wrecked his vehicle, got out of his vehicle and then ran into a building. He entered the building and was able to get a couple hostages."
The standoff did not last long. SWAT team officers negotiated with him and he was taken into custody.
Granger was taken to a hospital and treated for his wounds. He was later released into the custody of the sheriff's office and booked into jail. He has been charged with murder.
Granger has been accused of sexually assaulting a family member, who testified against him in court on Tuesday.
Judge John Stevens said he was in the middle of docket call when he heard the shots.
Stevens is the judge presiding over Granger's trial. He said Granger's trial was supposed to resume at 1 p.m. Wednesday.
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Making connections is critical for anyone who wants to find professional opportunities, however, it can seem like a daunting process. This workshop will examine the different ways that people network and discuss strategies for doing it successfully.
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SAINT LEO, Fla. – The Saint Leo men's basketball team opened up its home slate in thrilling fashion as the Lions outlasted the visiting Shorter Hawks in a fast-paced 89-81 shootout in non-conference action at the Bowman Center on Sunday afternoon.
Opening up the home schedule, fans in attendance got their money's worth as they saw a contest where both teams shot over 45 percent from the floor and 170 points were scored. In the end, it was the Lions' ability to make clutch shots when they were needed and their ability to hold onto a double-digit advantage in the closing minutes of the game.
Saint Leo saw five players score in double digits, including three Lions coming off the bench to rack up big point totals. In all, the Lions outscored Shorter (1-2) 35-11 off the bench and 14-3 in second chance points as the Green and Gold only allowed the visitors from Rome, Ga 11 offensive boards, including just three in the first half.
It was the intangibles, and a hot-shooting day from senior Jerrel Harris that helped put the Lions on top. Harris, coming off an outstanding trip to Puerto Rico, dropped in team-leading 18 points on 7-of-12 shooting in 30 minutes. Two Lions, senior Spenser Mitchell and newcomer Ron Foxx, added 13 points each with Mitchell going 6-of-7 from the field capped off by a great alley-oop dunk in the final minute that helped to concrete the victory.
Newcomers Marcus Dewberry added 12 points and Devin Crisosto added 10 in the South Region win. It was Foxx, Dewberry and Crisosto who came off the bench in their first game at the friendly confines to contribute for the Lions.
Shorter had four players in double-figures led by a double-double performance from Jordan Jacks where he scored 10 points and had 12 rebounds while Dedric Ware scored a game-high 23 points.
With both teams connecting on an equal amount of 3-pointers and the Hawks connecting on 20 free throws to the Lions' 12, the true difference in stats came from the Lions willingness to shoot the ball. Saint Leo hoisted up 75 shots, connecting on 34 of them while Shorter was the more conservative team, only connecting on 26 of its 57 attempts.
Saint Leo will now turn its attention toward the Flagler Saints on Tuesday evening. The Lions have another quick turnaround game but will be ready when they welcome the Saints from St. Augustine, Fla. into the Bowman Center for the 8 p.m. tip off.
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- Gay Man In Russia Apparently Raped By Vigilantes On Video
Gay Man In Russia Apparently Raped By Vigilantes On Video
NOTE: This article contains disturbing content that may be triggering for some readers.
By Alisher Sidikov and Claire Bigg
Aideo depicting a man being raped with a bottle has surfaced on social media, in what appears to be the latest assault on Russia's beleaguered homosexual community.
The series of short clips, making the rounds on the mobile-phone application WhatsApp show the victim, who seems to be an ethnic Uzbek, being bullied into confessing that he is gay.
He is asked to identify himself and is stripped of his clothes, which are later burned. He is then handcuffed, beaten, insulted, and threatened with a gun. Ultimately, he is forced to sodomize himself by sitting on a bottle, which is then pushed with a bat.
The man, visibly terrified, weeps throughout much of the ordeal.
Viewers on WhatsApp overwhelmingly praised the violence as a well-deserved punishment.
RFE/RL was able to track down a man who claimed to have taken part in the attack.
The Uzbek-speaking source, speaking from Russia, confirms that the victim was targeted because he is gay.
"We made him sit on a bottle so that he repents for his sins and comes to reason," he told RFE/RL's Uzbek Service. "We did this to protect the dignity of Uzbeks. We live and work here, we are in contact with people of different nationalities. There will be no respect for us otherwise."
According to the purported assailant, the attack took place on September 11 in Novosibirsk, where he himself is a student, and all the participants were ethnic Uzbeks.
He says the man was first detained by a group of Russian antigay vigilantes who lured him to a fake date through a social-networking website.
The vigilantes then allegedly handed him to the city's Uzbek community.
"Russian guys caught him and called us to say they had a gay Uzbek," the self-proclaimed author of the video said. "We then questioned him and he confessed to everything. There were six or seven of us. The Russians told us he was a pedophile, which he denied. But he confessed that he was gay."
RFE/RL has seen the video, but was unable to independently verify its authenticity or the identities of those involved.
Rampant Homophobia
Police in Novosibirsk say they are not aware of the case.
A police spokesman for the Novosibirsk region told RFE/RL no such attack had been reported in the past.
The assault, however, takes place against the backdrop of an aggressive campaign directed at members of the lesbian, gay, bisexual, and transgender (LGBT) community in Russia.
Although Russia decriminalized homosexuality in 1993, homophobia is still rampant in the country and attempts to hold Gay Pride parades in Moscow have been brutally crushed by both police and antigay activists.
A recent law banning the "propaganda of nontraditional sexual relations" to minors has triggered a fresh wave of assaults, both verbal and physical, on LGBT people.
A new bill proposes to take children away from homosexual parents.
In August, a video similar to the one apparently shot in Novosibirsk emerged on VKontakte, Russia's biggest social-networking website.
It shows four Russian men viciously beating up what appears to be a transgender woman and attempting to make her sit on a bottle.
The victim ultimately manages to break the bottle and run away.
In this case, too, the clip drew overwhelmingly favorable comments from viewers.
(To read original article, visit this Radio Free Europe link)


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Rochdale returned one of the country's youngest councillors as Labour strengthed its grip on the Town Hall.
Liam O'Rourke won the Heywood North seat for Labour aged 19 years, eight months and 13 days.
He said his victory would open the floodgates to more youngsters gaining council seats.
Across the borough, Labour won 17 of 20 council seats up for grabs, giving them a strong 12 seat majority.
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They also welcomed Rochdale's first female Asian councillors, Shefali Begum and Amna Mir and saw former big-hitters Allen Brett and Richard Farnell return.
Their gains were at the expense of the Conservatives and Liberal Democrats, who lost 10 seats between them.
The Conservatives failed to hold onto three former Liberal Democrats who had defected to join the Tories as well as losing seats into Alkrington and Castleton.
It was another uneasy night for the once ruling Liberal Democrats, who lost all five seats they were defending, leaving them with just five councillors overall.
But there was a small glimmer of hope for the beleaguerededed party, who at least came a close second in Milnrow and Newhey and Bamford.
Rochdale Labour leader Councillor Colin Lambert said the result reflected people's anger with the multi-million pounds cuts being demanded by the government.
He said: "The result reflect the good job Labour has done running the council over the last 18 months and the anger people feel over the savage cuts being demanded by the Conservative government supported by the Liberal Democrats.
"We will continue our approach to leading the council with a bigger, more inclusive and representative Labour group than ever before."
Conservative leader Councillor Ashley Dearnley, who retained his seat on the council, said his party were paying the price for the government's austerity measures.
He said: "It is a disappointing night but I fully support the government's bid to rebalance our economy and get things moving again.
"If people want to vent their anger on the government mid-term than that's something we have to accept for the long term prosperity of the country.
"We came very close in some wards which makes a particularly disappointing evening."
Councillor Wera Hobhouse, who leads the Liberal Democrats in Rochdale, added: "I'm not going to attack what the Lib Dems are doing in government.
"I think they are doing a good job and I'm frustrated that people keep voting on national issues in local elections.
"I am confident that we will be back when the political cycle goes round again."
On the surface the elections results have changed little with Labour retaining control of the Town Hall.
But with a bigger majority than before, the party is not only stronger, it will also be emboldened by the vote of confidence given to them by the electorate.
They will now look to cut spending by another £30m, more assured that voters on the whole back the thrust of their saving plans.
Opposition Conservative and Liberal Democrat lost ground as expected, with the Lib Dems once again paying the heaviest price for the coalition government's cuts.
State of play
Lab 42 up 10
Con 13 down 5
LD 5 down 5
Total 60 seats
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By taxman1965 on Friday, August 12, 2016
I own this car - My approximate mileage is 76,000overall rating 9 of 10rating details
Pros: "Power to weight ratio (V8 power), great handling"
Cons: "Air conditioning"
Likely to recommend this car? (1-10): 10
"My Colorado has been a great truck in the 2 1/2 years that I've owned it. "Expert" reviews have never been good for this truck, but I beg to differ. The 5.3L V8 tows up to 6,000 lbs and easily tows our ATV's, snowmobiles and pretty much anything else that we want to haul. My truck has heated power leather seats which is great in the winter time, plus it came with the rear locking differential and 4-wheel drive. It works like a full-size, but it's sporty and fun to drive. The only issues have been 2 broken wires in the rear ext cab doors and an H-VAC air conditioning switch. I'm not thrilled with the a/c, since the compressor cycles on and off to conserve fuel--a GM "feature". Other than that, it's been the best truck I've ever owned. I plan on driving it for years to come."
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By Adrian on Monday, October 5, 2015
I own this car - My approximate mileage is 147,000overall rating 9 of 10rating details
Pros: "cheap to maintain, good mpg, reliable, looks good"
Cons: "paint is kind of cheap, CD player broke"
Likely to recommend this car? (1-10): 9
"ive had this truck for 4.5 years and the mileage has gone from 59K to 147K since ive had it. The only thing Ive needed done outside the routine maintenance is a new throttle body and a thermostat. It isnt particularly fun to drive and doesnt have a ton of power, but thats not something you can expect to get in a 2wd 5 cyl pickup truck. What it lacks in performance it makes up for in reliability and mpg. I also use it to tow an 18' aluminum boat and it does the job just fine, never had an issues pulling the boat up the ramp. I bought this truck because i needed something cheap to run but that could still do everything i needed it to as a pickup and it has been better than i could have hoped. Im currently looking to upgrade to a full size pickup but feel confident that my colorado could go for another 100k miles."
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By Soccer Ed on Wednesday, February 25, 2009
overall rating 10 of 10rating details
"I have owned Ford (F150) and Mazda (B4000) pickups prior to buying the Colorado (Z71/LS) and it is better in performance, gas milage and handling then my previous trucks. All trucks were extended cabs. I have not had any problems in 5 years and 49,xxx miles."
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By Andy W. on Monday, November 5, 2012
I own this car - My approximate mileage is 6,500overall rating 9 of 10rating details
Pros: "Right size, great V8 power! (18 mpg avg)"
Cons: "Price is steep, but worth it for me."
Likely to recommend this car? (1-10): 10
"I traded in an S10 ZR2 and knew I wanted a V8. Colorado just the right size for my garage. Full size features in midsize package. Interior a little cheap and "plastic". Very happy with power, handling, and towing. Comfortable back seat for people under 6'."
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By color radio man on Tuesday, January 25, 2011
overall rating 7 of 10rating details
"I have had my 05' colorado for 7 months now and have had a few issues with it that my old ford neve gave me and i put 200000 miles on it. Like after the first month the ign switch malfunctioned and kept comeing on and running the battery dead. I replaced and re programed it, good to go. I really hate where the 4x4 buttons are, I accidently drove from Galveston Tx to Fort Worth in 4x4 and burned up the trans oil... Also the alignment just started wearing the tires wrong and kept getting worse and worse.... too much wear on the steering componets for such a low mileage truck. The 4x4 and rear diff locker is awesome truck gets around in snow and ice really well. 5 cylinder vibrates alittle at idle but has way more power than I thought it would. Fuel mileage is 18 around town and 21 hwy. Hope this helps you decide what to buy, i told you every thing i have found wrong and over all its a great buy, holds good resale value too."
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The state agency in charge of overseeing food safety in restaurants pledged Thursday to get its operations up to national standards by the end of 2013.
One of the biggest takeaways from an Office of Public Health news conference Thursday was a commitment to address a significant inspection backlog by September.
The agency also promised that Louisiana restaurants which handle raw meat or other easily contaminated foods will be subject to at least four surprise inspections per year.
OPH Assistant Secretary J.T. Lane said many of the changes have been in the works for a while. However, Thursday's announcement comes just three weeks after a legislative audit report criticized the agency for not cracking down on unsanitary restaurants.
The report found that OPH issued only four citations to retail food establishments out of the nearly 450,000 food safety violations the agency uncovered between 2009 and 2011. Retail food establishments include restaurants, delicatessens, cafeterias and other businesses that sell ready-to-eat food.
About one-third of the establishments knocked for unsanitary conditions were repeat offenders but were not penalized in any significant way, the report stated.
The Centers for Disease Control and Prevention estimates that roughly 48 million people, or one in six Americans suffer food-borne illnesses each year. Lane said only 200,000 people suffer similarly in Louisiana every year.
"Overall we're doing a good job," Lane said. "There is no issue with the quality of our inspectors."
Lane said OPH, which is part of the state Department of Health and Hospitals, is in the process of standardizing the way restaurant violations are reported around the state to cut down on instances where repeat offenses go unaddressed.
"People should feel a lot safer," he said.
The new system will be data driven and will allow the agency to be more accountable, he added.
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YEAR eight girls from local schools spent two days at Somerset College in Taunton, to learn about the construction and engineering industries.
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The project has enabled the students to attend the EDF Energy visitor centre at Hinkley Point B, where they undertook practical projects and viewed the current development works.
They also spent a day and a half in Somerset College's state-of-the-art construction and engineering workshops, gaining hands-on experience in a variety of trades.
The students also learned about the professional routes open to them in civil engineering and construction, through a series of talks and workshops by college lecturers and female ambassadors.
College principal Rachel Davies said: "We're committed to inspiring the next generation of professional people in the South-West.
"Through initiatives like Girls into Construction and Engineering, we are able to support local employers by planting seeds for the next generation of Somerset's workforce.
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On 8 June, 2011, top websites and Internet service providers around the world, including Google, Facebook, Yahoo!, Akamai and Limelight Networks joined together with more than 1000 other participating websites in World IPv6 Day for a successful global-scale trial of the new Internet Protocol, IPv6.
By providing a coordinated 24-hour "test flight", the event helped demonstrate that major websites around the world are well-positioned for the move to a global IPv6-enabled Internet, enabling its continued exponential growth.
World IPv6 Day was an extraordinary example of how the Internet industry can come together to promote a technology vital to its future success. The Internet Society collected some of the many articles, presentations, and videos delivered around the world since June.
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There was really no one moment when we decided to go to France, I think. I just remember all these books about walking in France coming in the mail, and Dad and I starting to talk about a hiking trip, and then one day it was just decided: we were going hiking in France. More books came, more maps arrived, and it was decided we were backpacking, carrying everything we needed for two weeks on our backs. It was pretty much a given that there would be no reservations anywhere: that's just how my Dad works, most of the time. Hey, whatever. It's an adventure, right?
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International Census of Marine Microbes (ICoMM)
Built a cyberinfrastructure to index and organize what is known about microbes, the world's smallest organisms, which account for 90 percent of biomass in oceans.
Mitchell L. Sogin, Ph.D., The Marine Biological Laboratory at Woods Hole, Woods Hole, MA, USA
Jan W. de Leeuw, Ph.D., The Royal Netherlands Institute for Sea Research, Texel, The Netherlands
Linda Amaral Zettler, Ph.D., The Marine Biological Laboratory at Woods Hole, Woods Hole, MA, U.S.A.
The oceans worldwide are teeming with microbial life forms invisible to the naked eye. An estimated 3.6 x 1030 microbial cells of untold diversity account for > 90% of the total oceanic biomass. The number of viral particles may be one hundred fold greater. Rich, chemosynthetic microbial communities thrive at deep-sea hydrothermal vents. Abundant archaea, one of the two prokaryotic domains of life, populate oceanic midwaters. Very large populations of phytoplankton including diatoms, dinoflagellates, picoflagellates and cyanobacteria, the primary catalysts in carbon fixation, orchestrate the cycling of nitrogen and form the base of the traditional marine food web. The heterotrophic bacteria belonging to the SAR11 group dominate communities of ocean-surface bacterioplankton while nonphotosynthetic protists (usually single-cell eukaryotes) of unknown diversity control the size of picoplankton (plankton less than 2 µm) populations and regulate the supply of nutrients into the ocean's food webs. Microbes account for the preponderance of life's genetic and metabolic variation, but our understanding of microbial diversity and the evolution of its population structures in the oceans is only fragmentary.
The International Census of Marine Microbes (ICoMM) facilitated the inventory of this microbial diversity by implementing a strategy (1) to catalogue all known diversity of single-cell organisms inclusive of the Bacteria, Archaea, Protista and associated viruses, (2) to explore and discover unknown microbial diversity, and (3) to place that knowledge into appropriate ecological and evolutionary contexts.
Examples of the types of marine microbes included in the ICoMM initiative. From
the leftmost panel, a Synechococcus phage (J. Waterbury), filaments of the marine cyanobacterium Lyngbya(D. Patterson), the hyperthermophilic archaeon "GR1" (M. Holland), and a single-celled eukaryote called an acantharian (L. Amaral Zettler).
Examples of questions that ICoMM addressed include:
- What governs the evolution of marine microbial lineages within complex marine communities?
- Why do marine microbial consortia retain functionally equivalent but genetically distinct lineages?
- Is there a marine microbial biogeography and if so, what are the principal drivers or restrictors?
- How does genotypic diversity shape phenotypic diversity, and how does this diversity influence the functioning of marine ecosystems?
ICoMM had five major activities. The first was to support scientific working groups focusing on (1) open ocean and coastal systems, (2) benthic systems, (3) databases and (4) technology that was specifically required for a microbial census. The second was to develop the database resource microbis, which organizes morphological, molecular and contextual information for marine microbial diversity within a framework that integrates into OBIS. The third was to provide resources to facilitate and coordinate requests for research support from governmental and private foundations. The fourth was to facilitate education and outreach of ICoMM to make it visible to the general public and raise awareness of its goals. Finally, ICoMM supported small-scale, pilot projects that had the potential to shape larger-scale research initiatives in marine microbial diversity.
To be successful, ICoMM promoted international cooperation and forged linkages with existing CoML field projects for collecting samples, contextual information and new technologies. ICoMM recognized that projects completed over the past decade had an important impact on the census. Participation by principal investigators of such projects in the ICoMM initiative will accelerate progress and ultimately lead to an organized constituency for seeking funding from agencies and foundations. At the same time, ICoMM engaged the broader community of microbiologists with complementary interests in microbial diversity, evolution, biogeography and their functional roles in marine systems.
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