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TAUNTON-based Army Reservists are off training next weekend to learn how to protect, refuel, re-arm and rig loads for the Army's Wildcat and Apache helicopters.
The Reservists of 675 (Rifles) Squadron will be wearing light blue berets and cap badges of the Army Air Corps as they have formed a new unit.
They are joining the 6th Regiment AAc for an aviation weekend in Thetford, Norfolk.
Capt Barney Barnes, admin officer at the Bishop's Hull Army Reserve Centre, said the new company would be 150 strong and answers to the Joint Helicopter Command - it could potentially support any UK military helicopter.
"When fully trained and operational, our Reservists will reconnoitre landing sights before securing them and then communicate with the pilots to bring them in.
"So we will be in a protection role as well, not losing our infantry skills."
A big change is that the company will no longer be almost exclusively male - they can now recruit as many men as women and already have 12 potential female recruits.


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DEAR MS. LONELYHEARTS: Where do big women go to meet men in this province? Yes, I'm a big woman, but I'm active and take good care of myself. I have tried online dating on and off over the last few years, but most men I meet there want just a "friends with benefits" situation, or are looking for someone to take care of them.
I'm 37, with two older teenage boys, am generally happy with my life, but it would be nice to meet someone. I volunteer in Winnipeg, go to events there regularly and meet lots of interesting people, and many attached males (which are hands off).
I'd describe myself as friendly, average looking, and approachable. I don't get it. Is it my size? Does the fact that I'm a large, 5-foot-9 woman intimidate them that much? Your advice? -- Single and a Little Lonely, The Country
Dear Lonely: Your size is only intimidating if you put it out there apologetically, or you hide it. A proactive ad looking for a "big guy" could do the trick. Yes, there may be size jokes from a few goofs, but go on to clarify you want "big hands, big heart, big sense of humour." Rather than defending or apologizing for your size, look for a guy who's tall (a short, slight guy won't do) and who's up for a woman like you.
You should say you offer big things too -- generous heart, big curves, outgoing, entertaining, big friendliness, and tall enough for a basketball or football player. Tell them to stop looking for the sample sizes, because you're the real thing. If you're outgoing, say, "I can be a handful!" Guys who like your type will step up laughing and say, "I've got big hands!" It becomes a happy challenge.
NEVER apologize that you're a big girl! Put it right out there. Look, you haven't made a big effort to be a tall beanpole when there are methods out there to do so, so it's time to consciously embrace that you are happy being a big, tall, luscious lady.
Dear Miss Lonelyhearts: I hurt my mother's feelings very badly when I called her an "aging hooker." I'm afraid she may never talk to me again. It hurt her because it's the truth. She was uneducated and alone, and that's how she got the money together to raise us kids.
I was furious the other night because she'd been gambling and she hasn't got enough money to be doing that and there were no groceries in her fridge. I wanted to put her down, because I was angry. She was telling me to back off, that she'd spend what money she has any way she wants now us kids are raised. How do we get past this fight? I do love her and she loves me. She never had any men near the house, and never let us come to harm. -- Words as Weapons, West End
Dear Words: Handwritten letters are unusual these days, so write her a letter of apology in your personal script. Tell her how much you love her, and recognize how difficult it must have been in early days. Thank her for never letting you come to harm, and say you're sorry for your mean words, that you really don't think of her in a bad way and you love her. Come over with flowers a day later to see her, and give her a big hug and say, "I'm so sorry, Mom." Mothers love so deeply they are pretty good at forgiving when a "child" of any age is truly sorry.
On a future visit subtly leave behind a pamphlet on problem gambling help in Winnipeg. The "flowers visit" would not be the time -- too soon.
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Bokpoort is slowly building a herd of specially bred appaloosas.
Just outside the Free State town of Clarens lies Bokpoort Horseback Adventures & Holiday Farm, which has offered horseback safaris in the region for nearly two decades. Horseback tours can last from two hours to several days, with many different packages in between.
This well-known and reputable farm (it's been in the Roos family for five generations) offers both short rides in the area near the farm and multi-day trails that hug the Lesotho border and head up into the mountains. The knowledgeable and accredited guides will ensure the best horseback experience possible.
One of the most popular of these is the Snowy Mountain Trail, an overnight two-day safari that will take you high into the Maluti Mountains.
The farm offers well-trained, sure-footed horses that are bred for climbing mountains. Among the breeds on the farm are Appaloosas, Boerperd and Basotho ponies.
With so many horses to choose from, every rider will receive the right horse to suit their experience level. Are you a beginner? Then take a gentle walk and enjoy the incredible views. Are you an experienced rider? Then opt for exhilarating gallops over the plains and get great close-up views of the game in the area. Watch out for eland, zebra, Red hartebeest, Black wildebeest, blesbok, springbok and rhebuck.
There are also mountain bike trails available (bring your own bikes), trout fishing in the nearby rivers and horse-cart rides. For horse lovers, Bokpoort offers a fun and challenging experience in the natural splendour of the Eastern Free State.
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How to get here
Bokpoort Horseback Adventures & Holiday Farm is five minutes outside Clarens in the Free State. You will need your own vehicle to get there.
Best time to visit
Bokpoort Horseback Adventures is open all year, but the summer months from September to April are best.
Get around
On horseback, mountain bike or foot.
What will it cost
Accommodation ranges from R350 to R500 per person per night for a minimum of two nights. Horseback tours start from around R350 per person and R800 a day for overnight trails.


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Henry Scott-Holland, Canon of St. Paul's - 1847-1913
'Death is nothing at all…I have only slipped away into the next room…I am I and you are you…whatever we were to each other that we are still. Call me by my old familiar name, speak to me in the easy way which you always used. Put no difference into your tone; wear no forced air of solemnity or sorrow. Laugh as we always laughed at the little jokes we enjoyed together. Pray, smile, think of me, pray for me. Let my name be ever the household word that it always was. Let it be spoken without effect, without the ghosts of a shadow on it. Life means all that it ever meant. It is the as it ever was; there is absolutely unbroken continuity. What is this death but a negligible accident? Why should I be out of mind because I am out of sight? I am but waiting for you, for an interval, somewhere very near just around the corner…All is well.'
We Remember Them
In the rising of the sun and in its going down, we remember them.
In the blowing of the wind and in the chill of winter, we remember them.
In the opening buds and in the rebirth of spring, we remember them.
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In the beginning of the year and when it ends, we remember them.
When we are weary and in need of strength, we remember them.
When we have joys we yearn to share, we remember them.
So long as we live, they too shall live, for they are now a part of us, as we remember them.
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Go ahead and mention my child, the one who died, you know.
Don't worry about hurting me further; the depth of my pain doesn't show.
Don't worry about making me cry, for I am already crying inside.
Help me to heal by releasing the tears that I try to hide.
I'm hurt when you just keep silent, pretending he didn't exist.
I'd rather you mention my child, knowing that he is missed.
You asked how I was doing, and I responded with "pretty good" or "fine."
But healing is something ongoing. I feel it will take a lifetime.
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But I myself determine
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Some days the current takes me
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Setting the Market for Aged Smokes
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Posted February 28, 2000, 6:30 p.m. e.s.t.
Serious cigar auctions are here to stay. Not only are they great sources for buying and selling cigars, the auctions highlight the importance of aging and storing cigars properly.
This became all the more evident while skimming through the catalogue for Christie's March 9 sale of vintage cigars in London. More than 460 lots of cigars are on the block, ranging from small Montecristo Petit Coronas (4 inches by 42 ring gauge) to mammoth Dunhill Havana Clubs (9 1/4" by 47). Perhaps best of all, a variety of ages are available, from pre-embargo cigars (meaning they were manufactured before the U.S. economic embargo on Cuba was imposed in 1963) to those with three or four years of box age. With the exception of a few lots, the sale is all Cuban tobacco, and some very nice humidors and cigar antiques are up for grab as well.
This auction is the first-ever cigar-only sale for Christie's. In the past, the auction house included cigars as a sideline to wine auctions. Its main competitor, Sotheby's, had a cigar sale or two a few years ago, but it canceled cigar auctions after its American shareholders became worried about the political ramifications of selling Cuban products.
From a cigar industry perspective, the Christie's sales are setting a market value for aged and rare cigars, similar to what auction houses do for wine, antiques, art and other collectibles. The old cigars you have laying around in your humidor may be worth a lot more than you ever thought.
As long as they have a few years of box age, even the most common cigars at the Christie's auction are being offered at more than their current retail price in London. For example, Partagas Serie D No. 4s from 1993 are on offer for between $495 and $660 per box in the sale, but the same cigars of the most recent vintage can be found next door to Christie's in the Davidoff shop for $400. A box of Hoyo de Monterrey Double Coronas from 1995 is estimated at between $825 and $1155, but Davidoff sells today's Hoyo DCs for $615.
These prices are not nonsense. The difference between an aged Cuban cigar and a newer one is enormous. Like fine Bordeaux or Burgundy, a Cuban cigar loses some of its youthful, rough edges as it matures in its box. I generally find that Cuban cigars with a minimum of three or four years of box age begin to mellow and show more refined character than those fresh out of the box. In most cases, seven to ten years of age is even better.
Age on cigars is one of the main reasons that some of the highest prices in Christie's cigar auctions are for such smokes as Davidoff and Dunhill cigars. For instance, the Churchill-sized Davidoff Dom Perignons are on offer for about $7,425 to $9,900 a box, while the robustos from Dunhill, called Cabinettas, are going for $4,290 to $5,775. Of course, the stellar prices paid are also due to the cigars' rarity, since the Cubans stopped making these two brands about 10 years ago. In other words, when all the Davidoffs and Dunhills turn to ash, no more will be left. Just like the 1959 Lafite-Rothschild or 1961 Chateau Latour, two incredible and rare wines, a limited amount of such cigar gems exists in the world. Sadly, when they are all consumed we will have nothing left of them except for empty bottles and broken cigar bands.
Similar to wine, cigars have their limitations with aging. The fact that prices for pre-Castro, pre-embargo and other older cigars are very soft at the moment suggests that savvy cigar aficionados are beginning to understand that very old smokes have seen better days. I have had the few exceptional old smokes -- cigars with 40, 50 or even 60 years of age that tasted wonderful -- but most cigars that old have dried out. Of course, $40 a stick for a cabinet of 50 H. Upmann Dunhill Seleccion Suprema No. 50s from the 1950s may sound like a lot, but it's about half of what they were going for a few years ago. Henry Clay Supremos No. 5s (5 1/2" by 40) from the same period are also $40 a cigar. I have seen them sell for three or four times that price over the last five years.
Of course, what I have just written could all change on March 9. Auctions can be volatile and it takes only two bidders against to send prices soaring. Conversely, some cigars might go unsold if no one is interested. One thing is for sure: the Christie's auction room will see active bidding. There will also be plenty of bids by fax, e-mail or telephone from everywhere from Chicago to Hong Kong. What's it all mean? It means that there's a strong global demand for the rarest cigars on earth, which are getting rarer as buyers keep smoking them.
For information on the sale, contact Christie's in London at 011-44-171-389-2720. To bid on the sale, call 011-44-171-389-2740.
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There are a variety of transportation options for UCR students. Whether you have your own car or take the bus, ride a bike or need help getting around campus, we have a variety of options that can help get you where you need to go.
Riding the Bus
The Riverside Transit Agency (RTA) provides public transportation for Western Riverside County. UCR students ride for free with a valid student ID card.
Campus Mobility Service
The Campus Mobility Service provides free curb-to-curb transport services to and from campus locations for mobility impaired students, faculty or staff. Trips must be reserved in advance and hours vary.
Transportation & Parking at UCR
Transportation & Parking Services (TAPS) is a clearinghouse for transportation information. If you need to buy a parking permit, get information on public transportation and campus shuttles, or pay a parking citation, TAPS can help.
Zipcar is the perfect solution for individuals who occasionally need to use a car but don't have one of their own. UCR students, staff and faculty can sign up and become Zipcar members for just $35 per year, plus rental charges. You reserve your car online, then just walk up to it and run your errand. Hourly and daily rates always include gas and insurance.


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NEW YORK, N.Y. - Former Quaker, founder and CEO of 32 Advisors, and a member of President Obama's Council on Jobs and Competitiveness, Robert Wolf, W'84, was honored by Penn Athletics and the Ivy Football Association (IFA) at the Seventh IFA Dinner at the New York Marriott Marquis in New York City on Thursday.
The IFA Dinner, led by master of ceremonies award-winning journalist Jack Ford, a 1972 graduate of Yale, recognized the on-and off-field achievements of Wolf and the seven other 2013 IFA honorees: Thomas G. Catena, M.D. (Brown '86), Marcellus Wiley (Columbia '97), Tim Ring (Cornell '79), Willie Bogan (Dartmouth '71), Jerry Jordan (Harvard '61), Robert H.B. Baldwin (Princeton '42), Calvin Hill (Yale '69).
The dinner, which was attended by more than 100 current and former Penn Football standouts, featured a speech from each of the honorees.
As a member of the Quakers, Wolf was a letterwinner for the 1983 Ivy League championship team. In his junior year, the Quakers broke a 23-year Ivy title drought and then repeated in 1983 for the first back-to-back Ivy championships in program history. That also started a string of five straight league titles - an unprecedented feat that still hasn't been matched.
For more information on Wolf, who also serves on the Undergraduate Executive Board of the Wharton School and on the Penn Athletics Board of Overseers, see the link atop this release.
Past Penn Honorees
2011 - Charles Philip "Chuck" Bednarik, 1949
2009 - Robert A. Fox, 1952
2007 - Patrick T. Harker, Ph.D., 1981
2005 - William D. Novelli, 1963
2003 - David S. Pottruck, 1970
2001 - James S. Riepe, 1965


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WASHINGTON —Gov. Bobby Jindal continued touting his new national message Sunday that the Republican Party has "got to stop being the stupid party."
Jindal was the final speaker Sunday at the National Review Institute Summit on "The Future of Conservatism" in Washington, and he gave virtually the same speech he did three days prior when he was the keynote speaker at the Republican National Committee's winter meeting in Charlotte.
"It is time for a new Republican Party that talks like adults," Jindal said.
Republicans have the right principles and should not start supporting abortion rights or gay marriage, he said, but conservatives do have to work on "fixing our message" and winning the "battle of ideas."
"We will not win elections by simply pointing out the failures of the other side," Jindal said.
"The Republican Party doesn't need to change our principles, but we might need to change just about everything else we do."
The "stupid party" comments and the argument that conservatives must talk "bluntly and seriously" about the future of the party have gained Jindal new national attention since the presidential election, as well as more scuttlebutt about Jindal being a presidential contender in 2016. But Jindal brushes off such talk.
"Anybody in the Republican Party talking about running for president right now needs to have their head examined," he said prior to his speech, arguing that the focus is about refining the Republican message and winning elections in 2013 and 2014.
Jindal's speech Sunday culminated his weekend in Washington, D.C., with his wife, Supriya. He participated in a private Alfalfa Club dinner Saturday and, the night before, he attended a social event along with former GOP presidential nominee Mitt Romney at the home of Fred Malek, a businessman and former aide to President Richard Nixon.
It was the first time Jindal and Romney were in the same place since Jindal criticized Romney's campaign after he lost to President Barack Obama.
Jindal campaigned nationally for Romney and was purportedly considered a vice presidential candidate. Jindal said he does not regret any of the effort he made on Romney's behalf.
Jindal said he had a "very brief" chat with Romney and that he was "very gracious." Jindal called him a "class act." "I think he would've done a great job if he'd won," Jindal said.
But in his speech Sunday, Jindal again targeted Romney's infamous "47 percent" of the population comment. Republicans must avoid last year's series of "offensive and bizarre comments" made by various candidates, he said.
"We must compete for every single vote: The 47 percent, the 53 percent," Jindal said. "We need to compete for any other combination that adds up to 100 percent."
Jindal focused much of his talk by arguing that Republicans do not believe that government grows the economy and that the world does not revolve around Washington.
He said the economy must grow close to home by promoting "entrepreneurs and risk takers" in cities from Charlotte to Shreveport.
"We must not be the party of austerity," he said. "We must be the party of growth."
"Government is one of those things you have to have, but you really don't want too much of it, kind of like your in-laws visiting for the holidays," Jindal said.
National Review Editor Rich Lowry introduced Jindal on Sunday by discussing his "precocious" background.
"Shortly after his birth, Bobby Jindal recommended improvements in the maternity ward," Lowry said, also joking that Jindal attempted to end teacher tenure at his elementary school while he was still in the first grade.
At home, Jindal is continuing to deal with cuts to the state's budget, including a recent last-minute intervention to use federal funds to avert cutting hospice services to dying patients.
He also is proposing a controversial idea of eliminating state income taxes while considering the increase of state sales tax.
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Report: Apple to Produce 10 Million iPad Minis in Q4 2012
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This shows that Apple has plenty of confidence in its new addition to the iPad family despite the fact that the market is already flooded with 7-inch tablets
iPad Mini
hasn't even been announced yet, but Apple is already planning to make over 10 million of them in the fourth quarter of this year.
Ten million iPad Minis is almost double the number of Amazon Kindle Fires that were made during Q4 2011 -- and the Fire was the hottest holiday item last year. This shows that Apple has plenty of confidence in its new addition to the iPad family despite the fact that the market is already flooded with 7-inch tablets.
Apple is still the big player in the tablet market with its 9.7-inch iPad, but the tech giant has noticed a new trend that is grabbing customers' attention --
smaller, cheaper tablets
Companies like Amazon, ASUS and Samsung have turned the tablet world upside down with the idea of smaller tablets that are more affordable, but also have strong features. Amazon led the pack with its 7-inch Kindle Fire tablet last year for $199. Samsung's Galaxy Tabs have 7-inch versions in the mix, and more recently, Google teamed up with ASUS for the
7-inch Nexus 7 tablet
for $199.
iPad Mini rendering [Image Source: Martin Hajek]
As if that wasn't enough, Amazon jumped back into the small tablet market with a
refreshed 7-inch Kindle Fire HD for $199
, an 8.9-inch Fire HD for $299 and a 4G LTE HD model for $499. On top of that, the e-tailer is offering a generous data package with its tablets for only $49.99 per year.
It's clear that the smaller tablet market is quite competitive, and it's what customers want. In Q2 2010, Apple had 84 percent of the worldwide tablet market share. In Q2 2012, this number dropped to 69.6 percent, further showing that competitors like Android-powered tablets are cutting in.
Of course, Apple wants a piece of that pie and is looking to hold onto its tablet dominance. Doing so means the release of an iPad Mini, which is rumored to be a 7.85-inch version of the usual 9.7-inch iPad.
[Image Source: Martin Hajek]
Apple is expected to announce the iPad Mini later this month. Last week, Apple's Asian component suppliers
started production of the iPad Mini
, and the tech giant is looking to make about 10 million in Q4 2012 for the holiday season. However, the iPad Mini's success will be largely based on its affordability and features, which have yet to be disclosed.
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Canada has lost its third match on the trot at the Caribbean T20 tournament after falling by 8 wickets to Guyana. After winning his third toss in a row, Canada's skipper Jimmy Hansra elected to bat first again and backed his batsmen to put up a fighting total.
Canada gave a creditable account of themselves with the bat, with Ruvindu Gunasekara (38 off 28) and Jimmy Hansra (40 off 36) providing the platform for a score of 143 for 7. Raza Rehman continued his good form picking up 29 off 25 balls and Nitish Kumar 19 off 14 balls contributed down the order as Canada set the fourth highest score in the tournament so far.
Canada's bowlers struggled to pin down the Guyanese batsmen and were not helped by some mistakes in the field early on. After being reprieved in the first over, Guyanese openers Trevon Griffith (22) and Sewarnine Chattergoon (29) raced away in the powerplay and left rest the rest for Narsingh Deonarine , who was the top scorer, with 52 off 32 balls including four fours and two sixes.
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DUDLEY Kingswinford athlete Helen Tromans was amongst the prizes again this week.
She travelled towards Hay on Wye for the Magic Roundabout 10k race. Organised by the Hay Hotfooters Club, the race had an elevation of 415m over an undulating grass course and tracks with some challenging uphills. Runners were rewarded with some stunning views over the surrounding countryside.
Tromans was the fifth woman home and the first in her age group by finishing in 50.04 to claim 63rd overall.
She was joined by Debbie Richards who finished in 66.22 for 173rd place.
Elsewhere, Jacqui Elson-Whittaker finished in 48.51 in seventh and Rachel Tomkins was 114th in 52.20 in the Worcester 10k, a fast, flat and scenic course along the River Severn.
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ST. AUGUSTINE, Fla. - State transportation officials, engineers and bicycle advocacy groups met in St. Augustine Tuesday afternoon to discuss bicycle safety on the roads in the wake of six fatal crashes on St. Johns County roads in the last year.
The meeting came after six collisions involving bicycles in St. Johns County in the last two weeks and a crash Friday night that resulted in the third hit-and-run death in the county within 12 months.
There have been 67 crashes involving bicycles in the last year, and 31 percent of bicycle fatalities involve someone being impaired, according to the Florida Department of Transportation.
People with the group Velo Fest in St. Augustine are calling for more education about safety on the road at the Department of Transportation's community traffic safety meeting held at the St. Johns Emergency Management Center.
The group wants to educate bicyclists and pedestrians on the basics.
"There's no doubt that there's a lack of awareness about how to properly operate your bicycle. Just like to properly operate any vehicle, it really starts at foundation level which is education," said Velo Fest's Heather Neville.
As a group, they talked about starting an educational campaign and suggested exploring how much it would cost. They discussed extending the bike lane network in St. Johns County and including bike lanes in the road maps and literature.
A spokesman for DOT told the group it is already educating the public through public service announcements and programs in schools. But according to bicycle advocates, not everyone is getting the message.
Randy Miller, 43, was the cyclist who died after Friday night's crash. Troopers say he was riding his bike home in the bike lane on State Road 16 Friday night when a driver struck and killed him. Investigators are still looking for the driver.
"Turn yourself in if you have a conscience, do the right thing," said Gary Miller, Randy's father. "That's not the right way to live if you do something wrong. It's an accident. It's an accident."
Randy Miller's friend, Sue Petit, is still struggling with the tragedy.
"He was always riding his bicycle and for someone to actually run over him and not stop, I mean that is so tragic," says Petit.
Petit says Miller worked at IHOP two miles from his home and rode the route almost every day. She didn't realize how dangerous that area could be.
"A lot of accidents happen there, and then Saturday morning when I heard that it was Randy my heart went to my stomach," said Petit.
"We're just to a point now where we really need to start looking at why this keeps happening and really find some solutions versus always trying to find fault," said Neville. The group wants some support from the county, city and police as they try to get a plan of action together to keep another person from dying on the road.
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FIREFIGHTERS are to stage two fresh strikes in their long-running dispute with the Government over pensions.
Members of the Fire Brigades Union (FBU) in England and Wales will walk out for 24 hours from 9am on Thursday, June 12 and again from 10am to 5pm on Saturday, June 21.
The 24-hour walkout - which coincides with the start of the football World Cup - is the longest to be held in the union's three-year campaign, which has already seen 12 separate strikes.
The union is protesting at changes to firefighters' pensions and a later retirement age.
Steve Gould, secretary of the Fire Brigades Union for Hereford and Worcester, said despite FBU officials meeting the fire minister this week, the government were not listening to them.
"There's been little movement," he said. "We've had three months of negotiations, the government aren't coming back with anything which is very disappointing.
"If you get out before 60 through no fault of your own, you should be entitled to get your pension. We're in the sad position of industrial action, this is a position that no firefighter wants to be in."
Matt Wrack , FBU general secretary, accused fire minister Brandon Lewis of "burying his head in the sand".
"He must accept that firefighters simply will not give up fighting for their futures, and our fire and rescue service," he said.
Area Commander Keith Chance, Head of Operations Support for Hereford & Worcester Fire and Rescue Service, said: "While the industrial action is on-going we will still be responding to 999 calls, but we will be asking members of the public to take extra steps to reduce the risk of a fire breaking out in their home.
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PURTON Reserves came from a goal down to book their place in the last four of the Senior KO Cup.
Albert Dearing's men triumphed 4-2 at Southbrook and will now meet either Bradford or Vale of Pewsey for a place in the final.
Southbrook scored early but Adam Mayhew's deflected shot after the break brought Purton level.
Terry Moore then crossed for Devan Bryan to bury Purton's second and then the former notched an effort himself.
Bryan added a fourth with 10 minutes left before Southbrook grabbed a second late on.
Dearing said: "Southbrook have only played one game since Christmas, so that was always going to have an effect."
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Looking at Rich Wilkins' round-up of the 2014 field, I see a lot of people who just recently won elections this year:
Who should actually take him on though? I think the right of first refusal belongs to Senator Casey, who is the leader of our party right now. If not him, I'd be open to Kane, McCord, and Joe Sestak for sure. Allyson Schwartz would be wonderful, but I doubt she wants it. I like DePasquale a lot, but i'm not sure you jump from first term Auditor General to Governor right now, even with his time in the legislature. Any of them, if they're smart enough to get out of the Harrisburg echo chamber in their hiring, would be great candidates.
On the "will he?" question I have to think Bob Casey's not going to run. Casey just ran a pretty lackluster campaign for Senate, and I doubt he'd want to run two years later. Should he run? I know I don't want him to. Casey's got a decently progressive voting record and took some tough votes on environmental issues for us, so he deserves props for that. But tempermentally I feel like he's too conservative. He ran a really safe campaign, the initiatives he's sponsored in the Senate are mostly safe small-bore stuff, and it's hard to get a sense of what he really wants to accomplish on public policy.
Say what you want about the content of Tom Corbett's agenda, but dude arrived on the scene with a clear list of things he wanted to get done. In the Democratic primaries, I'm going to be looking for a mirror-image of Corbett – somebody who's showing up with a meaty agenda for policy change. And not just on economics and the environment. We've got to play the process game like the Republicans do. Ask yourself which candidate is going to try to roll back Voter ID and pass early voting and same-day voter registration. That doesn't sound like Bob Casey to me.
After that we've got Kathleen Kane and Rob McCord. I hope that Kathleen Kane will run for Governor later in her career, but not in 2014. Kane is the first Democrat to win the office since AG became an elected post in 1980. We cannot have the first Democrat to hold that office bailing two years into her term to run for Governor. That would look horrible. We need Kane to finish out her term, with a solid record that future Democratic AG candidates can point to as a template for what a progressive does with that office. Setting up the board for future Democratic AGs to win the office is arguably more important to PA Democrats' long term political project than one Gubernatorial election.
I don't know a ton about Rob McCord and am open to persuasion from KP readers that he's the best choice to take on Corbett. The trouble with the Treasurer office is that, if McCord is doing politics it's not really visible to the voters. Every day I'm trawling this Internet for PA politics content, and rarely am I reading anything about Rob McCord's doings that the guy could get voters excited about. Again, happy to be persuaded otherwise but until I hear more about McCord's political platform I'm underwhelmed about his prospects as a candidate.
Others have mentioned people like Josh Shapiro, Jack Wagner and Allyson Schwartz, and we'll see about them if it starts looking like they'll run.
The candidate I'm most enthused about is Joe Sestak. I know a lot of PA political professionals feel like they got burned by Sestak in 2010, but hear me out on this.
First of all, you can't argue with results. Sestak was the top Democratic vote-getter in 2010. In a banner Republican year he came within two points of beating Pat Toomey. This is probably because the Democratic base voters love a winning primary challenger, and Sestak walloped Arlen Specter 54-46. If Sestak can come that close in a Republican wave year, he's got a decent shot at knocking off a weakened Tom Corbett in 2014.
Second, you have to consider the guy's campaigning abilities, which are formidable. There's a big negative mark on his record in this category, which is that he foolishly did not join the coordinated Democratic campaign in 2010. If he'd bought into the coordinated campaign, he could've avoided some duplication of efforts in the field and maybe pulled out a win. I would like to think Sestak realizes how bad that was now, and why he can't run as a lone wolf again.
But looking past that, there's a reason he came as close as he did – the man is basically a campaign machine. Back during the 2010 campaign, I was reading articles about Sestak driving back and forth across the state multiple times in a day, not stopping to eat or go to the bathroom. He does not get tired. Of course for the same reasons his campaign staff got ground down, and all the anecdotes I've heard suggest he pushes his employees way too hard. I doubt I'll be applying for any jobs on the Sestak campaign, but frankly that is exactly the kind of energy we need the 2014 Democratic nominee to project from the top down. If we want to retire Tom Corbett after one term, we're going to have to bust our asses. It is not going to be easy, and we're going to need the candidate to be pushing the activists to work harder, not the other way around.
The final reason I want to see Democrats pick Sestak is that he's not cautious. He is the tempermental opposite of Bob Casey. That's what we need if we're going to try for real progressive policy change. Can you imagine Bob Casey leading a serious push for a Constitutional amendment to bring a progressive rate structure to the PA income tax? Definitely not, but can you imagine Joe Sestak going for it? Of course you can! Any "serious" political professional is going to tell you not to try that. "Not this cycle!" they'll say. "Wait until the second term!" I want Joe Sestak as the nominee because I want the guy who is not going to listen to the cautious campaign consultant class who never want to try to do anything new. I want the guy who's going to ignore all the sage advice and pick the stupid-hard political fights that our campaign consultant overlords never seem to want to get around to.


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An electrical contractor arrived June 12 at the Pawnee Assisted Living Hotel to replace a fuse panel, bringing the hotel up to state requirements, Director Sandy Schade said.
The biggest problem was a fuse cabinet near the kitchen. Schade said other minor issues were addressed immediately.
The Pawnee hotel is home to 40 people with emotional and mental disabilities. It has a capacity of 75.
Schade said the state electrical inspectors notice started a chain reaction that exaggerated the problems.
The state inspector was required to notify the city that if the hotel didnt resolve the electrical problems, the city would have to shut off the power. Therefore, the city was required to notify the residents, so a worker hung notices on the doors of the 40 residents, which did little more than send them into a panic.
The daily newspaper got wind of the situation and blared Hotel could go dark in a headline, accentuating more negatives.
Meanwhile, the hotel staff addressed the issues as they have done before.
But Schade said the hotel continues to face challenges.
As the population has dwindled in the last year, so has the hotels income.
Most residents receive about $1,100 a month from Medicaid, which pays the hotel for room, board and basic medical needs and leaves residents with about $50 a month in spending money.
The assisted living operation has seldom if ever been profitable. In 2011, its tax report showed a 3.8 percent loss, and Schade said the situation has not improved since.
The financial struggles became obvious last summer when paychecks were chronically late. At about the same time, Health and Human Services inspectors found sanitation and maintenance problems throughout the operation. The state inspectors noted that the problems did not endanger the health or safety of the residents, but several residents left and the dwindling staff struggled.
Inspectors returned for periodic inspections throughout the summer and in August, found some medications were improperly administered, some carpets were still torn and dirty, and there were bugs in an upstairs hallway.
The HHS officially revoked the assisted living operating license in October, pending an appeal.
In December, the 83-year-old boilers quit working and the staff scrambled to set up temporary heaters.
During a 45-day period from late November to early January, another 20 residents or so moved out.
But Schade and the staff endured. They set up heaters and openly discussed the issues they faced. In March, the HHS reinstated the hotels license to provide assisted living care. A hearing officer found no further deficiencies and said the staff had made a good faith effort to improve.
For several months, the hotel could not accept new residents, but for the first time in 10 months, in May it was allowed to accept a handful of residents.
Schade said they have received earnest inquiries from about 25 interested residents and their families. The hotel provides single rooms something rare in mental health care, making it a good fit for many would-be residents.
But Schade is proceeding slowly. She believes the operation is improving in modest ways, but the condition of the 83-year-old hotel is a problem. The concrete floors and walls are sound, but utilities are on the verge of wearing out.
Schade said there are promising financial and operational developments that are being explored and accomplished, but she did not elaborate.
This report was first published in the June 12 print edition of the North Platte Bulletin. For more recent news about the Pawnee, see the June 19 Bulletin.
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Tonight at 10 p.m. on Unique Eats, the crew takes a break from food to explore what's creative in the world of beverages. Coffee, beer, cocktails…they cover it all.
Chef/owner Julian Medina is creating a new world of margaritas at Toloache, a Mexican restaurant in the theater district of New York City. They have 150 kinds of tequila and mezcals behind the bar, and all their margaritas are made with fresh ingredients.
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The folks behind LAMILL Coffee in Los Angeles are taking coffee to the extreme. They offer seven different extractions for making coffee but first they tailor the water to have the right balance of minerals and solids to ensure the perfect cup.
In addition to serious java, LAMILL serves signature beverages. Their passion is coffee, but they take a culinary artisanal approach to all of their beverages.
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The Monk's Kettle in San Francisco is the place to go for beer in your glass and beer in your food. Sayre Piotrkowski, a certified cicerone (similar to a sommelier for wine lovers), has found a way to work beer into food and then pair it with more beer. Beer mac and cheese? Yes, please.
For a truly unique drinking experience, visit The Gin Joint in Charleston, S.C., where they're serving pre-prohibition style cocktails. It's all about respect for the drink. In addition to lovingly-prepared cocktails, they serve fun, innovative bar snacks, including pad Thai popcorn and giant stuffed meatballs.
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Include it, provide a prominent button that is labeled "Remove my preferences before submitting." Why wouldn't that be a decent start? -- Matthias On Sep 27, 2011, at 10:06 PM, Robby Findler wrote: > Hm. That seems like more work than just asking people when it seems > relevant. Maybe the status quo is best, after all. > > Robby > > On Tue, Sep 27, 2011 at 9:02 PM, Neil Van Dyke <neil at neilvandyke.org> wrote: >> Making it easy for people to include their prefs in bug reports seems like a >> good thing. >> >> Like now, I think one would want to expose to people in a reasonable fashion >> what info is being disclosed, and permit them to opt-out. Or maybe they >> should have opt-in, if you're including the *all* the preferences. >> >> Like now, you could also permit them to edit the info, such as if they >> wanted to remove references to a confidential project but leave the other >> info intact. Editing is problematic for debugging from this info, but a >> compromise. The bug-reporting tool could indicate that the info has been >> edited by the user. >> >> Looking at "racket-prefs.rktd" just now, it's not that big, and is fairly >> readable, but it could be presented better for informed consent. Maybe the >> most bang for the buck would be to sort it by increasing order of >> known-benign-ness and secondarily by size of value. So, near the top would >> be info like user's name, recent files, and REPL history. In the middle >> would be things that are likely benign, but that might conceivably reveal >> proprietary info (e.g., "plt:framework-pref:framework:tabify" and default >> language can refer to confidential names). Near the end would be things >> like window geometries. And very near the end would be the color >> preferences, which seem to pretty-print big. Preferences we don't recognize >> would be at or near the very top. Then just pretty-print it, maybe >> syntax-color it, and permit it to be viewed/edited. (Basically, do the >> opposite of what some software and online companies do with EULAs, AUPs, and >> privacy policies. Emphasize the stuff most relevant to subject rather than >> burying it, and don't force it to be viewed in a tiny font in a >> 30x5-character window like we don't want people to actually read it.) >> >> >> Robby Findler wrote at 09/27/2011 08:29 PM: >>> >>> Should I change DrRacket's bug report window so it includes the user's >>> preferences file? It would have been helpful in more than a few bugs >>> now but I'm not sure if it would bother people to have it put in >>> there. >>> >> >> -- >> http://www.neilvandyke.org/ >> > > _________________________________________________ > For list-related administrative tasks: > http://lists.racket-lang.org/listinfo/dev
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Just like Muslims, Christians are also awaiting the second coming of the Prophet Jesus (as). However, when the Prophet Jesus (as) does return, he will put an end to certain corrupt beliefs and superstitions among Christians and call people to the true religious moral values revealed in the Qur'an.
All the prophets have preached the same religious moral values to the communities to which they were sent. All messengers have called on the societies in which they lived to believe in Allah alone, to serve Him, and to live the life of which He approves. They have guided their peoples in order to be saved from suffering on the Day of Judgment. Allah tells us in a verse that the faith He revealed to all the prophets and the prophets have preached to their peoples is the same religion:
He has laid down the same religion for you as He enjoined on Noah: that which We have revealed to you and which We enjoined on Abraham, Moses and Jesus…(Surat ash-Shura, 13)
Therefore, when the Prophet Jesus (as) returns to Earth he will also call people to the true faith revealed to all the prophets. That true faith is Islam. We are told that Islam is the faith in the Sight of Allah in the verse, "The religion with Allah is Islam" (Surah Al 'Imran, 19). When he returns, the Prophet Jesus (as) will rule among people with the Qur'an, the true Holy Scripture, and by Allah's leave, will unite all people under Islamic moral values.
Said Nursi also revealed in his own statements that Christianity would be freed from falsehood with the return of the Prophet Jesus (as) and would return to its true essence:
At that point when the current appears to be very strong, the religion of true Christianity, which comprises the collective personality of the Prophet Jesus (as), will emerge. That is, it will descend from the skies of Divine Mercy. Present Christianity will be purified in the face of that reality; it will cast off superstition and distortion, and unite with the truths of Islam. Christianity will in effect be spiritually transformed into a sort of Islam. Following the Qur'an, the collective personality of Christianity will be in the rank of follower, and Islam, in that of leader. True religion will become a mighty force as a result of its joining it. (Bediuzzaman Said Nursi, Letters / Fifteenth Letter, p. 79)
As Bediuzzaman says in these words, Christianity will be cleansed and purified from falsehood, distortions and corrupted features with the second coming of the Prophet Jesus (as). Christianity will combine with Islam, the true faith and will turn into Islam in spiritual terms.
This will be greeted with concern by those people who wish to continue with their corrupt beliefs and false practices, and may well cause the great majority of people not to recognize the Prophet Jesus (as). Believers of good conscience, who have true faith in Allah, who fear Him and know that they will give account on the Day of Judgment, will immediately believe in the Prophet Jesus (as) the moment they see him, and will follow him with all their hearts.
Our beloved Prophet Muhammad (saas) also revealed that when the Prophet Jesus (as) returns to Earth Muslims will enjoy the honor of helping this worthy individual. We are told in one hadith of our Prophet (saas) that:
... I swear by Allah Who sent me as a true prophet that (when he is sent close to the Day of Judgment) the Prophet Jesus (as), son of Mary, will find people to take the place of his disciples in my community. (Al-Hakim al-Tirmidhi, wa-manhajuhu al-Hadithi fi Nawadir al-usul, 2/92)
There is no doubt that being the Prophet Jesus' (as) helpers is both glad tidings for genuine believers as well as a significant responsibility. It is the sincere wish of all believers to attain such an honored position as being a follower of the Prophet Jesus (as).


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JACKSONVILLE, Fla. - A Jacksonville boy wrote out his feelings about gun violence and his sadness about those who were killed in the Sandy Hook Elementary School massacre last December.
"I spent time, took me two days writing this, I had to work on the punctuation," said 10-year-old Blaine Prevost.
Fifth grader, Prevost is proud of the letter he wrote in December. He said he put a lot of work and time into it.
"The reason why I wrote this paper, I was so heartbroken by the school massacre and all the victims affected by Adam Lanza's gun spree," said Prevost.
Blaine received President Barack Obama's response to his letter Wednesday.
"Dear Blaine, thank you for sharing your thoughts about the tragedy at Sandy Hook Elementary School," wrote President Obama. "I appreciate hearing from you and I admire your courage in speaking out against violence."
"I was just happy for him," said Blaine's mother, Jasmine. "I think we're going to have a reading, and a celebration because I feel he has to be encouraged."
"I am so moved by the letter," said Blaine's father, Ted. "I think it's wonderful President Obama and the administration would acknowledge Blaine's efforts."
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CUSTOMERS and staff at a village pub have rallied round to support a regular who is battling motor neurone disease.
Laneshaw Bridge businessman David Hadfield, 61, was diagnosed with the incurable condition six months ago.
Now a team of 28 runners from The Alma Inn, in Emmott Lane, are aiming to complete the Manchester 10k on May 18 to raise money for the Motor Neurone Disease Association.
Mr Hadfield's sons, 26-year-old Sebastian and the pub's head chef, Jordan, 24, are among those taking part in the event.
He said: "My dad was diagnosed in August last year. He was fine, there was nothing wrong with him at all and he was still training with Pendle Blues FC, the team we founded together in 2006.
"He was still working for Pendle Nu-Tech, which he set up 21 years ago. It gone downhill really quickly and got to the point where he can barely breathe or talk. There's no cure for it.
"My mum, Tina, has had to retire for the time being to be with my dad, and I've had to reduce my hours. We've had to get special chair, bed, toilet, a and ceiling tract fitted in the living room.
"My dad spent a lot of time eating and drinking at The Alma. He knows a lot of people through the football team and it's great that his friends at the pub are raising money for the charity."
Ryan Taylor, general manager at the venue, said: "We've got eight members of staff taking part. It would have been more but we can't have more than seven or eight off at once or we'd have to shut the doors.
"David and his family only live down the road and have become very well-known down the years.
"We're delighted to help. We've got collection tins in the pub and hopefully we can raise around £2,000."
To sponsor the 28-strong running team, visit http://www.justgiving.com/TheAlmaInnManc10k.


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As I'm new at this, I thought I'd start a thread so other people can offer ideas and suggestions that I might not have thought of otherwise. Also so I can share it with others (assuming anyone is interested).
So if you have any advice for me, or ideas that you'd like to see made part of a language, please feel free to speak up. I might not follow all the advice and suggestions I'm given, but I'll at least think it through.
I'm also planning to put details of the language on a website.
The address is: http://www.deadsquirrel.net/pixie
At the moment it's mostly got the same information I'm providing here, although it does have additional information about the Pixie calendar, and more details and history of the Pixie numbering system. (I'm not putting that information here, because this post is going to be far too long as it is.)
It's also got a True-Type font for the Pixie script:
Download: http://www.deadsquirrel.net/pixie/files/Pixie.ttf
Here's what I have so far...
Symbols: See first attachment.
The sixteen letters shown above will be be given names consisting of a consonant followed by a vowel (I haven't named them yet).
When the letter is written in the "high" position, it represents the consonant from it's name, and when written in the "low" position, it represents the vowel from it's name. Essentially, there are thirty-two phonemes represented by sixteen symbols.
The Pixie letters may be represented by the Latin letters from K to Z. Upper-case represents the "high" position, and lower-case the "low" positon. Letters are written from left to right.
A hexadecimal numbering system is used.
The top-left numeral in the chart represents zero.
The most common punctuation marks are shown in the chart, with the dots being the most significant. One dot represents a short pause (similar to a comma), two dots represents a long pause (similar to a period/full-stop, but does not necessarily represent the end of a sentence) and three dots represents an indefinite pause (indicating the end of the body of text).
The presence of three dots at the end of a body of text should not be confused with the use of ellipsis in English. The symbol that most closely fills the role of ellipsis is the "trailing off" symbol which can be seen at the far right of the top line of punctuation marks.
The "trailing off" symbol is used within a sentence to suggest an absence or omission, or at the end of a paragraph to suggest that the text continues elsewhere, either in the following paragraph after a dramatic pause, or in a different location indicated by the sentence that immediately follows the paragraph. In cases where ellipsis would sometimes be used to indicate a pause, using two dots to indicate a long pause should be used instead.
Introductory Glyphs
In the Pixie language, every body of text begins with an introductory glyph. These glyphs are used as a cue to give the reader an indication of the nature of the text that follows. These glyphs are unvoiced, never read out loud. They are closer in nature to punctuation than letters.
Newspaper articles, short stories, letters, diary entries, chapters of books, etc, should always begin with an introductory glyph and end with an indefinite pause.
Headings, dates, bylines, addresses, short notes, ect, do not need to be preceeded with an introductory glyph.
The introductory glyphs shown above are used as follows:
1. General-Purpose neutral
2. Personal, non-intimate
3. Personal, intimate
4. Translation or oral tradition
5. Raw record of facts & figures
6. Dictation, transcription or record
7. Recollections of past events
8. Fiction
Character Set: See second attachment.
Pixie Character Set
At the dawn of the digital age, America created the ASCII character set as a standard for text communication in English. This was shortly followed by other nations creating variations of this adapted for use with their own language. Naturally, Pixies did the same with their language. (Just because they're tiny magical fairytale creatures doesn't mean they can't use modern technology.)
Immediately apparent is the usefulness of this chart for romanticizing the Pixie language. One needs only to locate the Pixie symbol on the chart (yellow) and substitute the ASCII equivalent (blue).
Pixie text files that use this chacter set use the PXT filename extension. Since the contol codes are the same as ASCII, these files can also be opened and edited with a standard ASCII text editor.
If you examine the chart, you may notice that the PICSII symbols equivalent to the letters A to F are identical for both upper and lower-case. This is deliberate, so that hexadecimal values represented as letters in English will be displayed with the correct Pixie symbol regardless of case.
At first glance it may appear that the PICSII symbols represented by the letters K to Z are also identical to for both upper and lower case, but closer inspection will show that the symbols are positioned at different heights.
I want to get the phonemes settled before I start worrying about sentence structure, but I recently read this...
Word order typology is the classification of languages by how certain types of words are ordered relative to one another in a sentence or constituent. The most common word order typological classification is the order of subjects (the noun that is verbing), objects (the noun that is getting verbed), and verbs (the action) within a sentence. Since there are three types of words, we have six possible configurations: VSO, SVO, SOV, VOS, OVS, OSV. In surveys of natural languages, the first three, with the subject preceding the object, are overwhelmingly used as the normal declarative word order, the latter three comprising lower single digit percentages.
From: http://conling.wikia.com/wiki/Linguistic_Universals
Since it's most common to put the subject before the object, I thought about bucking the trend by putting the object before the subject. Trying it out, I think I like the result. The sentences have an odd Yoda-like feel to them.
For example, instead of "John will kick the bucket", you'd say "Kick the bucket will John".
Then I had another idea, to seperate the tense from the verb.
"John will kick the bucket" / "Kick the bucket will John".
"John kicked the bucket" / "Kick the bucket did John".
"John is kicking the bucket" / "Kick the bucket does John".
Repeated or ongoing action could be indicated by pluralizing the verb.
"John was busy kicking the bucket" / "Kicks the bucket was John occupied."
"John will be kicking the bucket for an hour" /
"Kicks the bucket for an hour will John."
It could be an interesting way to set up a language.


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Hard numbers are difficult to come by for the market value of outsourced beauty care, but it's tough to argue with the impact that the global antiaging skin care boom has had on the beauty industry and on its contract manufacturers. According to Euromonitor, the global skin care market reached $65 billion in 2007, growing by 7% from 2006. Continued consumer interest came from a wide range of innovative antiaging products. In 2001, the global skin care business was valued at $31 billion, and the story was about the addition of actives such as AHAs and BHAs.
"Skin care went off the charts around 2000–2001. It kind of exploded," says Gus Bezas, president, global strategic development, Milbar Labs. After that came the emergence of the physician brands. "Then," he says, "the giants were trying to replicate the doctor brands." Milbar is one leaf of a business trefoil that started 27 years ago with Dermatologic Cosmetic Laboratories. The company, located in East Haven, Connecticut, includes Milbar Labs, which develops a range of products that are selling in 14 channels of distribution, including nutritional stores and M Lab, a branded skin care line now sold at Harrods in London and online. Bezas believes it was the long history of Dermatologic Cosmetic Laboratories as a niche skin care specialist that brought the big firms its way. He says he started to see the spike five years ago when, as he says, "multibillion dollar global giants and others would come to us to outsource specific products with regard to skin care. For us, it's become a trend."
Bezas got his own start in the beauty industry at Estée Lauder at a time when the company was not doing any outsourcing. He later worked for cosmetics pencil manufacturer Faber Castell, where business is all about outsourcing. "Cosmetic companies just don't make their own pencils, but skin care is different," he says. Today, outsourcing skin care product manufacturing comes to them in one of two ways—from larger cosmetics companies with R&D that outsource certain types of projects and from those without R&D who outsource everything.
Outsourcing is certainly not a new concept, and has in fact been quite common in information technology for many years. But R&D for manufacturing is on the rise. According to a 2007 reader survey by the editors of R&D magazine, the number one reason for choosing to outsource R&D was the greater expertise of the external organization.


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MADISON, Wis. -- The aging cattle barns at World Dairy Expo are about to give way to state-of-the-art livestock pavilions.
As World Dairy Expo has grown, so have its needs, Dane County (Wis.) Executive Joe Parisi told reporters Thursday afternoon. One of those needs, he said, is to replace the cattle barns.
Two new pavilions â one 90,000 square feet and the other 180,000 square feet â will house a variety of animals during livestock shows on the Alliant Energy Center grounds where the World Dairy Expo is held. The buildings will also have meeting facilities, equipment displays and concessions.
Large-scale cattle shows, like those held at World Dairy Expo, will continue to take place in the Coliseum near the construction site. But smaller-scale livestock shows can be held in the new pavilions.
The new complex will be known as the New Holland Pavilion at the Alliant Energy Center.
New Holland, a leading manufacturer of tractors and hay tools, secured naming rights through a partnership agreement with the Energy Center and Dane County.
New Holland is thrilled to have its name on the buildings that will house some of the world's elite dairy animals, horses and other livestock, said Abe Hughes, vice president of New Holland North America.
Construction is scheduled to begin next April and completed in time for next year's World Dairy Expo.


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|From: Robby Findler (robby at eecs.northwestern.edu)
Date: Sat Nov 19 22:56:56 EST 2011
Do you have online check syntax turned on? It uses more memory. Robby On Sat, Nov 19, 2011 at 6:10 PM, Eric Tanter <etanter at dcc.uchile.cl> wrote: > Hi, > > I have noticed a quite serious problem with memory usage lately. > > Basically, I've been spending my time the last two days with 5 scribble files open, compiling/editing them when needed. > > DrRacket starts occupying 300 MB (no buffers open), 360MB with the buffers opened (the files are really not long, 150 lines max). After the first scribble-to-html run, DrRacket is at around 500MB. Once I do the same on all 5 buffers, memory footprint is 700MB. Another run on the first one (bigger, includes the 4 others), up to 900MB. From then on, it almost never goes down, and reached up to 1.3GB. Point at which my whole machine becomes really slow because of no more free memory, so I basically have to quite DrRacket and start over. > > I'm not doing anything else with Racket than editing/compiling these same files over and over again. > > I even tried to kill the browser to see if that would be related, but it seems not. The problem was worse with Safari, because the latest version has some memory issues too. So I switched to Firefox, which remains stable in the 150-300MB range. > > I'm on mac os x 10.7 and racket 5.2. > > Is that a known issue? is there some configuration of DrRacket that would alleviate the issue? > > Thanks, > > -- Éric > > _________________________________________________ > For list-related administrative tasks: > http://lists.racket-lang.org/listinfo/users >
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If you're interesting in hearing the Oblivion Suite (and other famous videogame tunes) live in concert, tickets for Play! – A Video Game Symphony are still available for this Friday at the Meyerhoff Symphony Hall in Baltimore. If that's too far for you, keep in mind that Play! will tour to San Francisco as well next month.
Also, congrats to Andrew Scharf, who won the tickets donated by Play! for the show this week.


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Alvin Ailey American Dance Theater Hosts Opening Night Gala Benefit Performance, 11/28
Alvin Ailey American Dance Theater will kick-off a five-week holiday season on November 28th with a star-studded gala benefit performance at New York City Center and party at the Hilton New York. Academy award-winning actress and comedienne Mo'Nique will serve as the evening's Honorary Chair and Alvin Ailey's timeless masterpiece Revelations will be sung live with special celebrity guests onstage.
"Alvin Ailey American Dance Theater is a cultural treasure that ignites your spirit each time you see them," said Mo'Nique, the evening's Honorary Chair. "I take my family to experience the Ailey company whenever I have the opportunity and I am looking forward to taking part in this special night."
The evening begins with Minus 16, Ohad Naharin's eclectic dance and musical excursion that delights audiences with improvisation and an invitation to join Ailey's acclaimed dancers onstage. The inspiring finale of Revelations will be performed live on-stage by special guest musicians. Featured vocalists will include Tony Award-winning actors and singers Audra McDonald, Brian Stokes Mitchell and Anika Noni Rose who will sing Fix Me, Jesus; I Wanna Be Ready and Sinner Man respectively.
The event's co-chairs are Simin & Herb Allison, Kathryn & Kenneth Chenault, Daria L. Foster, Agnes & Gerald Hassell, Debra L. Lee and Joan & Sandy Weill. Proceeds from the Gala will benefit Ailey's extensive educational programs, including scholarships for the performing artists of the future. For benefit tickets to the gala performance and dinner-dance in the Hilton New York Grand Ballroom, attended by prominent figures in the worlds of entertainment, business, philanthropy and politics, call (212) 405-9031.
"Our opening night gala benefit is a one-night-only event that should not be missed, thanks to the electrifying audience favorites Minus 16 and Revelations, performed by a truly special combination of great musical and dance artists," said Robert Battle, who last year became only the third Artistic Director in the Company's 54-year history. "I can't wait to see audiences at the opening and throughout the season experience all the treasures we will be sharing this December."
Beloved as one of the world's most popular dance companies, Alvin Ailey American Dance Theater will continue to surprise and delight audiences through December 30th with premieres and new productions that add dynamic choreographic voices to the repertory and give Ailey's extraordinary dancers more ways to inspire. Premieres and new productions include rising young choreographer Kyle Abraham's Another Night, renowned European choreographer Ji?í Kylián's Petite Mort, Tony Award-winning The Lion King choreographer Garth Fagan's From Before, Artistic Director Robert Battle's thrillingly intense duet Strange Humors, Ronald K. Brown's landmark work Grace and Ailey Classics, a vibrant anthology of highlights from founder Alvin Ailey's prolific 30-year career.
In addition to encore performances of Ohad Naharin's unique and innovative Minus 16, premieres from Robert Battle's celebrated 2011 inaugural season will appear in the repertory, including modern dance master Paul Taylor's Arden Court and hip-hop choreographer Rennie Harris' soul-lifting Home. Mr. Ailey's beloved Revelations, an American classic acclaimed as a must-see for all and recognized by a U.S. Senate resolution, will also be performed with live music on December 15th and 16th, and with an expanded cast of 50 dancers including members of Ailey II and The Ailey School, on Saturday and Sunday matinees through December 16th.
Tickets are now on sale! For a detailed schedule of the performances from November 28th through December 30th, or for tickets, starting at $25, visit www.alvinailey.org, www.citycenter.org, call CityTix (212-581-1212), or visit the New York City Center box office.
Alvin Ailey American Dance Theater, acclaimed by U.S. Congressional Resolution as a vital "American Cultural Ambassador to the World," is currently bringing audiences around the world to their feet with 2012 international performances that continue through October in Geneva, Switzerland; Barcelona, Spain; Copenhagen, Denmark; and Jerusalem and Tel Aviv, Israel. Having embarked on an exciting new era in Ailey history, this is the time for New York audiences to plan a visit with Ailey's acclaimed dancers this holiday season for an unforgettable and inspiring celebration of the human spirit.


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