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SAINT LEO, Fla. – Despite collecting eight hits and forcing the contest into extra-innings with a late comeback, the Saint Leo softball team (18-24, 5-8 SSC) dropped the opening game of their three-game series with the Florida Southern College Moccasins (22-19, 8-11 SSC) 5-2, Tuesday evening from University Field.
The conference, extra-innings affair saw the Lions battle back from a 2-0 deficit, scoring a pair of runs to force extra-innings. However a three-run ninth proved to be too much for the Lions as FSC claimed game one. Leading the charge for the Green & Gold was Tiffinee Harvey. The Lakeland, Fla. native went 2-for-4 with a home run and an RBI. Danielle Moreda drove in the Lions second run in her 2-for-4 performance, while Dianne Gonzalez tallied one run scored and went 1-for-3 from the plate. Ana Castillo, Sarah Boyd, and Brittany Yates added to the Lions hit total with a single apiece.
It was the Moccasins who initially dented the scoreboard as they platted two first inning runs. The Mocs combined for four hits, including a Christine Clark RBI double to right centerfield, which opened the scoring for the challengers.
Throughout the contest, Florida Southern continually put runners in scoring position. Still, a solid defensive effort and another quality start by Ashton Whidden (12-11), kept the Mocs off the board during regulation.
The Lions' offense got rolling in the sixth inning when Harvey, whose team trailed by two, stepped to the plate with the bases empty and no outs. She proceeded to send an 0-1 Christine Clark offering over the right field fence for solo home run, cutting the lead in half.
The Lions used the momentum of Harvey's hit to tie the game in the seventh inning. Gonzalez blasted a one-out double to centerfield and was driven in by Moreda one batter later with a single over the pitchers' head. With the ballgame now tied, the Green & Gold proceeded to load the bases during the same inning but could not score the game-winning tally.
Both starting pitchers remained in the game during extras, as each posted zero's in the eighth. Unfortunately, Florida Southern strung together four hits in the ninth inning, and combined with a Lions' fielding miscue, allowed their rivals to score three times to take a 5-2 lead. The big blow in the inning came on an Erin Foley two-RBI double.
Clark shutdown the Lions' attack in the bottom of the frame to improve to 9-8 on the season. Despite the loss, Whidden threw well for the Lions brass allowing 12 hits and three earned runs.
Both teams struggled to bring runners in as they each left eight runners on base.
The two teams will conclude their Sunshine State Conference series on April 14 with a doubleheader beginning at 6:00 p.m.

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St Albans School's boys cross country team swept to a record tenth victory at an event deemed to be the national championship of relay running.
The King Henry VIII School relay held in Coventry was won by St Albans in dramatic fashion as they vied for position with reigning champions, Judd School, for most of the race before World Biathlete Champion Robbie Lightowler gazumped the opposition with a sub-12 minute fifth lap.
This meant by the time Lightowler had handed over to anchor man, Adam Thorpe, St Albans had opened up a 65-second lead over their rivals and they sealed the victory, an unprecedented 10th success for the school.
St Albans School girls' team had earlier finished third with Lizzie Bird, an international runner, going fastest in their relay race.
The school's B team competed in the senior race and included members of the three-time English Schools Cross Country Cup Under-15s champions who propelled the second-string to a commendable fourth place in the competition.
Coach George Harrison and manager Kenny Everitt have been at the head of the club over the past few successful years and Harrison declared himself spoilt for choice in terms of submitting a team.
Harrison said: "We could have organised our squad, most of whom represented England in the World Championships in Malta last year, in up to 35 different combinations for the race.
"There were several difficult decisions to make with so many excellent runners to choose from – we only decided on the final team before the race.
"The whole team ran superbly and for a young B team to finish only one place out of the medals in the premier relay race in the country both shows our strength in depth and augurs well for the future of St Albans School cross country."


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INQUIRIES are continuing into a mysterious incident in which a teenager was found with fractures to his spine and skull and no memory of what had happened to him after a night of drinking in Malvern.
The 18-year-old left Priors Croft bar in Grange Road at about midnight on Saturday, March 29 and was found hours later at 7.15am in the grounds of Hardwicke House in nearby Abbey Road with severe injuries.
Police are trying to track down a taxi driver who collected him from the bar, described as an Asian male possibly driving a Vauxhall, as well as man called Kurt who allowed the teenager's friends to use his mobile phone.
When he was picked up by the taxi, the man was wearing a blue jumper, white t-shirt, blue jeans and grey trainers.
Police said he is making a good recovery from his injuries.
Information can be passed to police on 101 quoting incident number 136-s-290314.


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I Am Hidden in Here #5Trivia brain teasers have some element of trivia in them, but they are not just pure trivia questions.
In this teaser, you are to take the first letter from the people's surnames to discover the name of this famous 20th century artist.
1. I was one of America's biggest movies stars in the years surrounding World War II and starred in roles in such films as "Of Human Bondage" (1934) and "Dangerous" (1935; for this movie, I won an Oscar.).
2. I was the creator of the "The Hitchhiker's Guide to the Galaxy", a science fiction novel published in 1979.
3. I was one of the top movie comedians of the 1950s and 1960s. Also, I was the 'other half' of a hugely successful comedy team of stage, screen and radio, making a string of popular movies from 1949 to 1956.
4. I was the enthusiastic host of the TV wildlife show "The Crocodile Hunter" until I was killed by a stingray in 2006.
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A couple of weeks ago I was passing through the small town of Olin, Iowa when Ol'Town Eats caught my eye. At first I was going to pass it by as I'd eaten lunch shortly before but when I spotted the smokers I went back around the block and stopped in.
The restaurant sells other items besides barbecue but was there any doubt about what I would order? Of course not.
Even though they were open the dining room was dark and empty (possibly because 1:30pm is after lunch and well before dinner) so I got my sandwich to go, which worked out well because there's a little park just down the street and I was able to sit at a picnic table to eat and relax for a bit.
And the sandwich was pretty good, too! It had a fair amount of smoke, the sauce wasn't too sweet, and while the slice of smoked provolone isn't traditional it was a nice complement to the meat.


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FIRST LOOK! Big Brother Canada House Tour
With Big Brother Canada set to premiere in February 2013, the production crew is hard at work on the cage that will house the first crop of Canadian hamsters. ET Canada takes BB fans (American and Canadian alike!) inside the walls of the Ontario studio for the very first glimpse at the BB Canada…Details


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If you are using the generatePDFOutput operation of the Output service to process a dynamic PDF document (i.e. to flatten it), you may notice that images referenced by relative paths are missing from the resulting flat PDF file.
This problem will be accompanied by exceptions in the server log similar to the following:
DataManager E com.adobe.service.DataManagerImpl createFileDataBufferFromUrl TRAS0014I: The following exception was logged javax.ejb.EJBException: An unexpected exception occured: ALC-REP-018-000: Resource [/orange_haus.jpg] does not exist or you do not have sufficient rights to access it. at com.adobe.repository.bindings.url.provider.RepositoryUrlDataProviderBean.getInputStream(RepositoryUrlDataProviderBean.java:249) at com.adobe.url.EJSLocalStatelessRepositoryUrlDataProvider_d16709f6.getInputStream(Unknown Source) at com.adobe.url.Util.openUrlStream(Util.java:105) at com.adobe.service.DataManagerImpl.createFileDataBufferFromUrl(DataManagerImpl.java:211) at com.adobe.service.DataManagerPOATie.createFileDataBufferFromUrl(DataManagerPOATie.java:54) at com.adobe.service.DataManagerPOA._invoke(DataManagerPOA.java:91) ... Caused by: com.adobe.idp.dsc.DSCRuntimeException: ALC-REP-018-000: Resource [/orange_haus.jpg] does not exist or you do not have sufficient rights to access it. at com.adobe.repository.commands.RepositoryUrlDataProviderCommand.execute(RepositoryUrlDataProviderCommand.java:178) at com.adobe.repository.commands.CommandProcessor.execute(CommandProcessor.java:135) at com.adobe.repository.bindings.dsc.RepositoryProviderServiceImpl.repositoryUrlDataProvider(RepositoryProviderServiceImpl.java:674) ... 15 more ... XMLFormServic W com.adobe.service.ProcessResource$ManagerImpl log ALC-XTG-029-698: [495864] InvalidSourceException Exception on URL: repository:///orange_haus.jpg Exception: javax.ejb.EJBException: An unexpected exception occured: ALC-REP-018-000: Resource [/orange_haus.jpg] does not exist or you do not have sufficient rights to access it. XMLFormServic W com.adobe.service.ProcessResource$ManagerImpl log ALC-XTG-016-649: [495864] Error attempting to read from file XMLFormServic W com.adobe.service.ProcessResource$ManagerImpl log ALC-XTG-029-461: [495864] XFAImageService: Image cannot be resolved for node: StaticImage1.
You may have rendered the PDF initially using the images referenced by relative paths (i.e. they were available at these relative locations on the server at render-time). This image content is then stored in the PDF file for the initial page views. Static PDF files do not re-render and therefore the image content already stored in the PDF remains valid, so the images are always displayed. Dynamic PDF files can re-render later (where the relative paths to the images may no longer be valid), in which case Acrobat/LiveCycle will attempt to resolve the relative paths to the images again.
Acrobat can display the images without any problems, even if you force Acrobat to re-render the PDF document (by merging again with data). Acrobat recognizes that the image is referenced by relative path, discovers it cannot resolve the path anymore, and therefore picks up the image content which is stored in the PDF already.
LiveCycle however does not handle this correctly. This is a bug in the Output service for PDF files with a target version > 8.0. If the target version is < 8.0 then the images are retained.
This issue will be fixed in the next LiveCycle ES2 service pack (if there is one) and future versions (e.g. ES3). There is a patch available for LiveCycle ES2 SP2 184.108.40.206 (XMF-2.204, FRM-2.202, OPT-2.201), so contact your LC support representative should you require this patch.
The solution exposes a new option "Use Following Resources from PDF" in the generatePDFOutput advanced settings. If you set this option to "IMAGES", it will include the image content from the PDF, rather than attempting to resolve the relative path.
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Resolutions are fine and good, I guess, but as so many know, they seem to slip and slide into the haze as the days pass and other more important things rise to the surface to grab our attention.
Such as resentments. Oh, those great inventions of the mind and heart! We can invent hundreds of them, and as we age, resentments can get longer, deeper and placed on more people and events.
Just think of the folks we can resent. People have hurt our feelings and cheated us. People have stolen valued possessions, our hearts and then left us ... and sometimes they have even stolen our loved one. This is reason to hold terrible grudges and think awful thoughts about somebody for years and years.
We also have opportunities that were overlooked, or we regret not taking a risk and can blame ourselves or others for failures for years. You can fill in your own blanks.
This is not funny for anybody. This is a condition that plagues us all. We have justification for a lot of resentments. We have been hurt, cheated in some way, or had something go badly and seemingly no way to change it. We can hold on to these thoughts and not make any progress about it.
Think about this: Have any of those bad feelings changed things for you? Have the hours spent mentally fussing with it changed the past in any way? Probably not, nor will it in the future.
Think about a time you really were spending all your energy and time, perhaps even crying or cursing about the person who has hurt you so badly. Now, think what they are doing at this moment. Are they feeling badly, or are they working, playing with their kids, or eating a nice dinner?
Let it go! Don't harm yourself anymore. We need to clean up our thoughts and urgings and wish those folk well in their lives! Life should be full of kind thoughts and doing good things. It's such a waste of time and energy.
Resentments can actually make us sick — physically and mentally. Let them go! Take a deep breath and exhale them into the universe where they can be dispersed with no harm done.
Forgive yourself for the dumb things you didn't do or the chances you didn't take. Focus on the good and smart things you have done. Celebrate just living.
Forgive folks for the dumb or mean things they have done to you or yours.
Correct any harm you have done right now. Start 2013 with a light heart ... and don't forget to be kind.
Nedda Simon of rural Princeton can be reached at firstname.lastname@example.com.


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The continuing saga over the UK policy on subsidies to renewable energy supplies should serve as a warning to investors not just in wind power but across the whole energy sector. Public policy risk is a permanent reality. The Treasury is right to question the subsidy regime and producers have to be realistic about the nature of the business they are in. Read more
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The Post Office is proposing to move Menston Post Office from its current location to create a modern open-plan local-style branch with extended opening hours.
The proposed new location for the branch is Londis, at 52 Cleasby Road, Menston, which is 500 metres from its current site at 33 Main Street, Menston.
The Post Office is now inviting customers and interested parties to give their comments on the move in a six-week public consultation.
Should the move go ahead, the branch would open from 6am to 9pm Monday to Saturday and 7am to 8pm on Sunday.
The proposed move is part of a modernisation programme across the Post Office network designed to make it easier for customers to do business, through longer opening hours and modern open-plan environments.
Adrian Wales, Post Office regional network manager for Central England, said: "We understand how important having a Post Office is to residents in Menston and we are confident that this new modern Post Office service will meet the needs of the local community and secure services for the future."
He added: "This modernisation is part of a major investment programme, the largest in the history of the Post Office and marks a commitment to no more branch closure programmes."
Under the current Parliament the Government has committed £1.34bn for the Post Office network to make sure there is no programme of Post Office closures and to update branches; in November the Government announced a further £640m investment in the Post Office network, from 2015 to 2018.
During the public consultation, Post Office Ltd welcomes feedback on any issues customers would like considered before a final decision is taken on this proposal.
The consultation will close on June 26, 2014. Submissions can be made during the consultation by Freepost YOUR COMMENTS to Post Office Ltd, via e-mail to comments@postoffice .co.uk, via the Customer Helpline on 08457 22 33 44 or Textphone 08457 22 33 55.
Customers can also share their views online through the questionnaire at postofficeviews.co.uk with the branch code 221306.


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Saturday, December 1
Hunted, SBS One, 8.30pm
THE confusing narrative and overt obfuscation continue in the second episode of this HBO-BBC spy thriller. Melissa George pouts her way through with steely determination while the other characters are rendered one-dimensional, if they're lucky. Every conceivable stylistic and camera trick is used, every angle and artistic shot possible is used, ensuring that you will neither connect nor empathise with any of the characters. As a result of the detached grittiness of style, the show simply loses any suspense or dramatic integrity, leaving you perplexed, disengaged and, frankly, annoyed.
Young James Herriot, ABC1, 8.20pm
IN THIS first episode of Young James Herriot, the prequel to the much-loved series All Creatures Great and Small, we meet a young Herriot (Iain de Caestecker) on his first day at the dark and dingy Glasgow Veterinary College. Almost immediately James finds himself involved in high jinks and attending to a sick horse. We encounter all manner of other warm-blooded mammals as Herriot charts his way in this quirky, clever and charming show. It is set in 1930s Glasgow, which looks like a dastardly place to live, but James's new friends warm to him quickly and see to it that bitter-sweetness can be countenanced by good humour and good drink. The central female character, Whirly Tyson (Amy Manson), is a strong and forthright young woman forced to deal with issues some viewers may remember only too well - or still, unfortunately, have to put up with.
David Attenborough: The Life of Mammals, Channel Ten, 6.30pm
WHEN you hear the word rodent, the last thing you probably think of is a quirky, cute and cuddly little animal. But in tonight's episode of Life of Mammals, most of these sharp-toothed little critters are just that, such as the burrowing and ingenious kangaroo rat or the dextrous and utterly clever North American squirrel. The episode is titled ''Chisellers'', and it refers to the ability of these mammals to crack and chisel open, with their prominent incisors, the nuts and other difficult foodstuffs that other animals leave behind. This is a heartening documentary on a commonly maligned group of animals. Attenborough, as always, is personable and highly knowledgeable and the footage is equally good.
Real Humans, SBS One, 9.30pm
SPEAKING of all things chilly, immediately following Hunted is the new Scandinavian sci-fi series Real Humans. It is so incredibly cool it's almost subzero. As opposed to Hunted, however, this is substance and style with its minimalist aesthetic just right. In this surreal and sterile parallel present we find ''hubots'' - robots that are in effect human with a few key characteristics that belie their true nature, such as the occasional short-circuiting or need to power up. But apart from their doll-like appearances, they are very real indeed. Most of the robots appear to be benevolent to their masters, but for how long?
Sunday, December 2
Wallander: Before the Frost, ABC1, 8.30pm
THIS final film in the third series of the British adaptation of a Swedish crime series is something of a landmark episode - it's the first time we see Wallander, played by Kenneth Branagh, smile. Twice! OK, the first smile is a little subtle, but the final scene sees the bleak series' weary anti-hero positively beaming.
Fans of the series, based on Henning Mankell's best-selling novels, need not fear - Before the Frost is still a dark, atmospheric tale.
This is a reworked version of the novel written with Wallander's daughter, Linda, as the central character, when she begins working as a policewoman alongside her father (and marked the beginning of the Swedish TV series). In the BBC version, Linda (played by Jeany Spark) is featured, but Branagh's tortured Wallander is, as ever, the main focus of the story. The bones of the story are the same: Linda's childhood friend, Anna, goes missing, and it transpires she's linked to a murder Wallander and his team are already investigating, which leads them to a Danish cult. And this is no run-of-the-mill cult - these religious fundamentalists condemn immigration, abortion and homosexuality, and like to burn churches (particularly relevant in Scandinavia), and encourage their members to self-immolate for their sins.
The beautifully shot opening scene of a man setting fire to swans on the shore of a postcard-worthy lake (not quite as graphic as it might sound) sets the tone - violent but somehow poetic.
While even the most ardent fan will surely concede it can be jarring watching British actors with varying regional accents playing Swedish characters with Swedish names - it's not quite like watching a dubbed film but is occasionally odd, particularly when British characters casually read Swedish newspapers and criminal files - we must be thankful the series hasn't been transplanted to Britain. The sparse Swedish landscape is an integral part of the narrative - particularly this one, set in autumn before the frost - and the cinematic camera work, editing, and muted colour palette capture the encroaching winter, the impending doom of the cult, and Wallander's perpetual air of resignation. None of which would have worked in the British countryside.
The long, long shots of solitary trees in frosted fields, lingering shots of wind turbines, even Wallander's Volvo car chase (seriously), are beautiful.
As well as the cult's criminal elements, Before the Frost explores familial themes - skeletons in Anna's background and tensions around Wallander and his daughter's relationship.
That's right, existential soul-searching about fatherhood and self-immolation. Stylish Nordic noir is so hot right now (The Killing, The Girl with the Dragon Tattoo); to think it wasn't that long ago that Scandinavian pop-cultural touchstones were Abba, saunas and Ikea.
Homeland, Channel Ten, 8.30pm
THERE'S been no shortage of twists, turns, jaw-dropping revelations and completely unexpected climaxes during this season of Homeland, but tonight's white-knuckle episode sets a new high-water mark. If the conspiracy around Abu Nazir's imminent attack on the US and the possible discovery of Brody working both sides of the plot aren't enough, another front opens tonight when questions are raised about intelligence analyst Peter Quinn (Rupert Friend). Cast your mind back to when the aggressive and prickly Quinn first joined the team and the reaction he provoked. One of the many joys of Homeland is the way tiny clues planted episodes earlier can become hugely significant, or the way one climactic wave distracts us from noticing an even bigger wave just behind it.
Crossfire Hurricane, ABC2, 8.30pm
HOW do you make an adequate film about one of the greatest monoliths of popular culture? How do you get enough distance to bring the Rolling Stones into focus? It's a tall order that Crossfire Hurricane pulls off, at least in part. This year is the band's 50th anniversary. For most of us, they have always been there (and the fact they are mostly still there is extraordinary in itself). What you get here is a well-arranged selection of Stones footage - live concerts, interviews, the mayhem of Altamont - combined with material from (sound-only) contemporary interviews with the boys. Some of the most revealing moments come when they are talking, with the benefit of mature hindsight, about the early years, when their younger selves became almost instant gods to an entire generation. There's also much fun to be had from starchy British and US interviewers trying to pin down obviously stoned Stones with their stultifyingly straight questions. In particular, Mick Jagger's glee as he stokes parental outrage with his answers is a joy to behold. Where the doco fails to satisfy is that it is all largely predictable - but then are there any major, new insights to be learnt about perhaps the most written-about, talked-about and filmed artists of their generation?
Love-Heart Baby, ABC2, 9.30pm
''I ALWAYS wanted to be a mother one day. I just never imagined it would get this complicated.'' With these words, Shalom Almond introduces this almost unbearably poignant and personal documentary. Almond carries the gene for retinitis pigmentosa, a degenerative eye disease that can cause blindness. She and her husband, Osker, are desperate to have a child, but face the 50-50 chance their baby will inherit the disease from Almond. They opt for pre-implantation genetic diagnosis, which screens embryos for the gene. However, it's a far-from-exact process and involves making some very uncomfortable decisions about whether or not to proceed with a pregnancy. Meanwhile, Almond's mother has an advanced form of the disease and desperately wants her grandchildren to be free of it. This is a portrait of an ordinary, young couple confronting huge moral and emotional issues as best they can, while desperately trying to stop their own relationship flying apart under the strain.


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I grew up in the suburbs of Paris, France. Growing up, I spent my days - and later my nights - in the streets.
The city changes, depending on the time and the mood. Because of its chaos, noise, diversity or its calm, the city triggers in its residents rich and diverse emotions.
Loneliness. It is not always a negative feeling and you feel it often. At night, when coming home late, loneliness comes from the missing usual busy crowds. During the day, the flow of rushing pedestrians and disoriented tourists drowns you in a comfortable anonymity. I wanted to share this diurnal loneliness. This time of the day when, if you stop and look at your surrounding, you see crowds running, lost in their thoughts, focused on a goal and ignoring each other. This street full of life ignores you as much as you are ignoring it.
I wanted to put myself in this state of extreme loneliness. The pictures haven't been processed beyond basic color adjustments. I used a technique that lets me take long exposure pictures in bright daylight. People and cars are going too fast to be visible, leaving the city empty. To take these pictures, I used a tripod and stayed next to it for some time. I experimented the looks on people faces, between curiosity and anger (they were probably thinking I was taking pictures of them). I stood out from being anonymous, but not enough to make people interested in speaking or interacting with me in any way.
I love the city, and this kind of loneliness.
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LIers rebuild with modular homes after Hurricane Sandy
Michael Seemann, like many other LIers who lost their homes in superstorm Sandy, explored the option of building a modular home. These homes can be built fast and offer some cost savings. Check out these photos of the construction of the Seemanns' Long Beach modular home that was built between April and May 2013.
The finishing touches are made on Michael Seemann's modular home in Long Beach. (May 7, 2013)
The kitchen in Michael Seemann's modular home in Long Beach. (May 7, 2013)
After the modules have been assembled, the stairs are finished and the wires, pipes, ducts are installed. (May 7, 2013)
Michael Seemann's modular home in Long Beach is set upon its foundation with a crane. (April 16, 2013)
Michael Seemann in front of his modular home in Long Beach, which was assembled on the foundation with a crane. (April 16, 2013)
Modules are reading for assembly. (April 16, 2013)
Modules are fastened together to create Michael Seemann's new home in Long Beach. (April 16, 2013)
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Modern Two-Bedroom Apartment near Fontanka River (19-21, Apraksin)
Size95 m²
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- Washer/dryer
- Elevator in building
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The stylish apartment has 2 bedrooms, each of which contains a comfortable double bed. In the open-plan living area, guests will find a double sofa bed, a dining table and a fully fitted kitchenette. The colourful, modern bathroom boasts a rain shower and a relaxing spa bath.
Surrounded by cultural and architectural monuments, guests will not have to walk far to get a taste of what the city has to offer. Haymarket Square is only a 4-minute walk away, and boasts a wide range of restaurants, shops and cafes.
Sadovaya Metro Station and Spasskaya Metro Station are each a 5-minute walk away, and provide access to underground lines 4 and 5. The nearest bus stops are just a few steps away.
Additional services (on request):
- tourist Russian visa invitation - 15 euro per person (USA, Canada, Europe, Australia, New Zealand, Singapore, Japan, Chile, Ecuador, Republica Dominicana);
- visa registration (necessary when travelling in Russia is over 7 business days) - 25 euro per person (only for tourist's visas);
- transfer from the airport to the apartment 1-3 people, little lagagge, one way - 30 euro per car;
- transfer from and to the airport 1-3 people, little lagagge, round trip - 50 euro per car;
- transfer from the airport to the apartment 4-8 people, one way - 50 euro per minibus;
- transfer from and to the airport 4-8 people, round trip - 90 euro per minibus;
- baby crib is provided on request (20 euro).
House rulesNo pets.
No drugs.
No smokers.
No loud music after 10 p.m.
Please contact the host to arrange check-in and check-out times.
Check in time: 2 p.m. - 8 p.m.
Check out time: 8 a.m. - noon
Additional payment for early check-in / late check-out (each) - a half of a daily price.
Additional payment for night-time check-in / check-out (each) - 15 euro / 20 usd.
Night-time check-in / check-out or early check-in / late check-out has to be requested and confirmed.
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Hi all,
I'm still new in the field of FEM simulation and dealing with Comsol Multiphysics. First, my problem: I am searching for the transfer function of structure-borne in various materials. This, I do an impact hammer test impact and measure the input and output signals (vibrations perpendicular to the surface). In the simulation, I would now like to simulate an impact of the hammer and the expansion of the structure born sound. The vibration perpendiculars to the surface at some point are also to be simulated. Based on the impact energy and the vibration at the excitation point and the measured vibration at the remote point, I would like to determine the transfer function.
How do I choose a suitable approach in Comsol?
How do I simulate an impact? Can I just choose a mass element with a predefined speed?
How can I output the vibration perpendicular to the surface?
The geometry I have already created.
For tips and ideas, I would be very grateful!
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that is a delicate issue, as you need to define up to which frequency you want to study the effects. Impact is in theory an instantaneous effect, butwith FEM you need to make it continuous, even if "short". I use oftena gaussian impulse, but this also defines a filter function on the modes you excite. >Therefore, I then use time modal developmnents with a limited number of modes, this is becoming more and more usefriendly in the latest versions, but I expect still a few uppgrades, such that one can more easily extract a transfer function / state space matrix of a REDUCED model with if possible non contiguous modes selected by the user, based on i.e. modal mass values
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Last fall I had one of the best desserts of my life. The main ingredient in it was pecans and, not surprisingly, I had to venture south of Kansas City to find it.
(For those of you making your way to Bentonville, it's the pecan cobbler at War Eagle Mill in Rogers, Ark., a few miles east of Wal-Mart HQ.)
I've had decent pecan pie in the North, but there's something about the South that makes pecans peak.
No surprise about what that something is, of course: most pecans are still grown in Georgia and other states in the South.
Kind of like if you want the best barbecue, a city with the nickname of Cowtown might not be the worst place to start.
(Although, after bragging about the Chiefs in my last column, you'd think I would have learned my lesson about puffing out my chest about KC.)
To me, pecans are right up there with Rhett and Scarlett, NASCAR and Vidalias when it comes to icons of the South.
It came as something of a surprise, therefore, to learn about where most U.S. pecans are winding up these days. Suffice it to say the pecan cobbler at War Eagle Mill and the countless other delights at restaurants throughout the South are taking a tiny fraction of them.
The lion's share are going to ... China.
That's right, that gargantuan semi-communist place on the other side of the globe renowned for its stock cars, Vidalia festivals and Rhett and Scarlett Halloween costumes.
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Turns out the reason the U.S. and the South in particular dominate pecan production is the very reason China and many other export markets want them so badly, Randy Hudson, president of the Georgia Pecan Growers Association, vice president of the National Pecan Growers Council and president of Ocilla, Ga.-based Hudson Pecan Co., told me recently.
Namely, they don't grow them over there — or pretty much anywhere else on the other side of either pond, for that matter.
South of the border from the U.S., however, is a different matter.
"There's some pecan production in Israel, but the U.S. and Mexico are the biggest," Hudson said.
U.S. pecan production could double in the next decade as new trees come into production, but Mexican production also is increasing at dizzying rates, he said.
My assumption was always that pretty much whatever China set its mind to grow, it would — and would be the world production leader about a blink of the eye later.
But at least for now, China's homegrown version of the pecan is the hickory. The Chinese love it, but it's smaller and contains far less meat than a pecan.
Interestingly, by shipping so many pecans to China, the Middle East, Southeast Asia and — the U.S. industry hopes — India, we here in the states may learn a new trick or two about how to prepare pecans, Hudson said.
Unlike in the U.S., in China, pecans are roasted while they're still in the shell. When consumers buy them, they're still in the shell but typically already roasted.
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NEW YORK -- As Jon Niese struggled throughout the last month, seeking to regain the sub-3.00-ERA form he had before the All-Star break and before a disabled-list stint that he didn't want anything to do with, Terry Collins tried to reassure him. It'll come back, the Mets manager said: "Maybe it's the next time."
Saturday night against the Cubs might have been the "next time." In a 7-3 Mets win, Niese held the Cubs to three runs in six-plus innings, a showing that was especially impressive early before the New York bullpen bailed him out of trouble in the seventh. The left-hander ended up scattering seven hits and two walks while striking out six batters in the free-swinging Chicago lineup to collect his 50th career win.
Combined with a seven-inning, two-run effort Monday against the Phillies, Niese has back-to-back quality starts for the first time since late June.
"It's definitely not a step back," said Niese, who was on the DL with a left shoulder strain. "I felt really good tonight. Just still working, just was able to build off my last one."
Niese was strong early, with Welington Castillo's solo homer in the fifth representing the only blemish, but he unraveled in the seventh. Chicago's first five batters -- including a Justin Ruggiano long ball to lead off -- reached to score thrice and force Niese from the game.
Right-hander Vic Black extricated the Mets from the bases-loaded, no-out jam by retiring the top of the Cubs lineup -- Chris Coghlan, Javier Baez and Anthony Rizzo. It was the latest in a serious of impressive escape acts from the rookie reliever who started the season in Triple-A Las Vegas but has since become a late-inning regular.
"Terry said get a ground ball and I'm thinking, 'Ground ball at best is a double play and if it's not to home, that's a run scored,' " Black said. "I know what I would want there [if] that's my run."
The Mets touched up Niese's counterpart, Dan Straily, for seven runs (five earned) over 5 1/3 innings thanks to two big frames -- with only four hits on the night.
Wilmer Flores, minutes after ending the top of the second with a flashy diving stop and throw to first, highlighted a three-run bottom half of the inning with a line-drive single to left-center to plate Matt den Dekker and Juan Lagares. Lagares' ground-rule double had scored Travis d'Arnaud.
The Mets stayed quiet until the sixth, when they extended their lead with four runs on only one hit. Straily walked den Dekker with the bases loaded to score one, and two more came in when Chicago center fielder Arismendy Alcantara -- a recently converted middle infielder -- dropped Lagares' drive to right-center. den Dekker then scored on Niese's groundout.
In between those two rallies, Straily set down 12 consecutive batters.
"I was trying to keep them off balance," Straily said. "I didn't have my best stuff out there. I was able to keep them off balance until I couldn't find the strike zone in the sixth."
David Wright led off the big sixth with a hit-by-pitch in the back. He ran the bases, but then came out of the game and the Mets reported he had posterior shoulder soreness. He will likely sit out at least Sunday, though the Mets will wait to see how it feels in the morning before making that decision.
Arguably the biggest blow of the night, given the then-tight score and his relative struggles of late, was from Flores. It came hours after Collins said it's still too small of a sample size -- given that the team named him the No. 1 shortstop just over a week ago -- to judge whether he will be the offensive threat the organization has long projected him to be. Flores entered Saturday hitting .241/.267/.241 in eight games as the starter.
"I told him he's having tomorrow off, so I guess he said, 'I'm going to leave it on the field tonight,' " Collins said.
Collins also noted before the game that Flores, whom the Mets moved away from shortstop in 2012 before moving him back this spring, has made all the routine plays -- which is all he'll need to make to stick at the position if he can hit like most expect. As if in on that conversation, Flores flashed some leather in the second, ranging to his right to dive for Castillo's sharp grounder, then firing from the edge of the infield dirt to get the runner at first.
He waited for a moment for first-base umpire Will Little to signal out, then jogged off the field to a fist bump from Wright.
"I thought," Collins said, "it was a pretty good statement."
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Wednesday, December 7, 2011
Christmas Sentiments Tablescape
Votive candleholders were purchased years ago at Target. Goblets were a new find at a local consignment shop, 4 for $8.00, I snatched them up quickly!
I'm calling this the Christmas Sentiments tablescape as that is what my salad plates are named. They are by Casa Moda and each has a different sentiment.
Merry Christmas...
I love these dishes. Blue dinner plates from the grocery store, red chargers & napkin rings from Michaels. Napkins from Bed, Bath & Beyond. Flatware from Christmas Tree Shoppe.
For my centerpiece, a red pillar candle paired with an old candle ring from Michaels sit atop a milk glass compote. Simple, yet festive.
Thanks for taking the time to visit me today.
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Tip Toe Thru Tuesday at Crayon Freckles
27 comments:
- Jane@Cottage at the Crossroads said...
Hi Gina,
What time is dinner? Your tablescape is awesome, and I'm even more impressed that you were able to get one together at this time of year. I love your Christmas plates, too.
- December 7, 2011 at 5:36:00 PM EST
- Pattie said...
Really what time is dinner??? Those plates are to cute...
- December 7, 2011 at 6:02:00 PM EST
- Debbiedoo's blogging and blabbing said...
those plates are adorable Gina, and I love the color scheme!
- December 7, 2011 at 6:16:00 PM EST
- JenCoen said...
absolutely LOVE those plates!!! Great tablescape!
- December 7, 2011 at 6:28:00 PM EST
- Jacqueline said...
The salad plates are so fun and I love that they are all different. What fabulous flatware you have too. I just love the votives. I have way too many votives but everyone loves having their own candles (to blow out and mess around with!!!!)
- December 7, 2011 at 7:07:00 PM EST
- Sharon said...
Those salad plates are adorrible ! Beautiful table ! Merry Christmas !
- December 7, 2011 at 7:19:00 PM EST
- NanaDiana said...
Gina- That looks really cute. I LOVE those little plates with all the different patterns on them. Very cute! What's for dinner, did you say?;>) xo Diana
- December 7, 2011 at 7:29:00 PM EST
- A Vintage Vine said...
I love them Gina, the colors in the plates are wonderful! You put it all together so well!
- December 7, 2011 at 8:39:00 PM EST
- Shannon@FoxHollowCottage said...
Red & Aqua? You know I LOVE it =) Those little plates are super cute. I am gonna sneak over and steal em' G. You better watch out ;)
- December 7, 2011 at 9:46:00 PM EST
- Linda @ A La Carte said...
Gina I really love those salad plates...great colors. Lovely table! hugs, Linda
- December 7, 2011 at 9:47:00 PM EST
- anangloinquebec said...
I love those plates Gina!
- December 7, 2011 at 10:22:00 PM EST
- ❀ⒹⒺⒺ❀@ A Lapin Life said...
Beautiful tablescape Gina.
The flatware and the plates are wonderful together.
- December 7, 2011 at 10:28:00 PM EST
- Cindy Adkins said...
Oh WOW, Gina, I LOVE your tablescape!!! And I'm still thinking about that awesome party you showed us...You are so super-talented and this is the most beautiful post!
- December 7, 2011 at 10:31:00 PM EST
- Something Nice and Pretty said...
I love those dishes Gina, you always put together a pretty table setting!
- December 7, 2011 at 11:59:00 PM EST
- sweet violets said...
I love the colors you put together....the salad plates are cute and the glasses are winners!!! hugs
- December 8, 2011 at 12:17:00 AM EST
- Sandra said...
I love those salad plates. The touch of blue is a nice addition to the traditional red and green.
Beautiful tablescape. Thanks for sharing.
- December 8, 2011 at 12:41:00 PM EST
- Tammy@Beatrice Banks said...
Beautiful! Those plates are awesome! Everything looks ready for a feast. I'll be right there!
- December 8, 2011 at 4:43:00 PM EST
- Tess said...
Gina...those plates are just charming!! Your table looks so lovely and I LOVE your "simple" centerpiece...it is beautiful! Are we looking forward to snow for Chrismas here in CNY??? Not looking too promising!!!
- December 8, 2011 at 10:03:00 PM EST
- Ann from On Sutton Place said...
I have no idea where you find the time to do your tablescapes...but they are awesome. Love the flatware. Enjoy your weekend!
- December 8, 2011 at 10:04:00 PM EST
- The Polka Dot Closet said...
Wow, your table and plates are gorgeous, how you girls have time to put together tablescapes....Super women
- December 8, 2011 at 10:13:00 PM EST
- jeanetteann said...
Gina,your table looks so lovely and festive and your plates unique. I haven't seen any like those before. I think I will copy your idea of putting the centrepiece ontop of a cake stand. Nice idea. xx jeanetteann
- December 9, 2011 at 3:54:00 AM EST
- Ana said...
Very festive! I like the pop of blue. Sweet tablescape my friend.
Much love,
- December 9, 2011 at 10:22:00 AM EST
- andie jaye said...
lady, you need to link this (and all your stuff) up to my party! this is gorgeous! those plates are beautiful! i adore the red and blue versus the typical Christmas colors! it really adds so much elegance!!! please, please link this up!
- December 9, 2011 at 11:13:00 AM EST
- Debbie~refreshrestyle said...
Gina, I love your plates! What a great tablescape. Have a great weekend!
- December 9, 2011 at 7:43:00 PM EST
- Kathy said...
Gina , I found your blog over at Fox cottage -that is such a lovely story about the angel and I LOVE your blue dresser that is the perfect shade of blue.
Your tablescape is so pretty too -I would pick to sit at the plate that says Peace On Earth. :-) Glad I found your blog.
- December 10, 2011 at 7:08:00 AM EST
- Dawna said...
I have been having keeping up with all the blogs out there too Gina. Your table again looks wonderful! You must have a massive dish collection!! Love it!!
- December 10, 2011 at 12:29:00 PM EST
- andie jaye said...
thanks again for linking this up to my party! i am still in love with those plates. this will be featured tomorrow :)
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PRINCETON, N.J. - Several members of the University of Pennsylvania track and field team posted personal bests as the Quakers wrapped up the regular season at Princeton's Elite Meet on Friday and Saturday.
Senior Jake Brenza set a personal best in the shot put and improved upon his third-place standing in the Penn record book. Brenza finished second among collegians and third overall with his toss of 17.28 meters (56 feet, 8 1/2 inches). He is one of just four Quakers to surpass 56 feet in the event and the only Penn man to do so since 1981.
Sophomore Sam Mattis set a meet record and went over 60 meters for the third straight meet and the fourth meet this year. He is the only Quaker to ever surpass that distance. On Saturday, his best toss landed at 60.14 meters (197-04 ft.).
In the 800 meters, sophomore Drew Magaha became one of just a select few in school history to break 1:50 in the event. His collegiate-best effort of 1:49.96 placed him third at the meet and finished just outside Penn's all-time top 10.
For the fourth time this season, sophomore Kelsey Hay won the javelin. She claimed the victory with a toss of 43.35 meters (142-03 ft.) - which was eight feet better than the rest of the competition.
Also for the women, Carey Celata was fourth in the 800 meters at 2:13.71.Cydney Gillon was fourth in the 100-meter hurdles with a preliminary time of 14.97 and a finish of 15.09 in the finals. In the triple jump, Jenny Thompson finished as the runner-up with a leap of 11.65 meters (32-08.75 ft.).
For the men, Kyle Webster added a third-place finish in the 110-meter hurdles with a qualifying time of 15.09 and a finish of 14.96 in the finals.
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text: Rappers and producers have long understood that humor is a good way to stand out in the crowded, competitive world of independent rap. The Majesticons and Foreign Legion each use humor as the foremost weapon in their respective arsenals, but where The Majesticons' approach is arch and postmodern, Foreign Legion's is shticky, populist, and proudly lowbrow. The brainchild of prankster Mike Ladd, the former's Beauty Party serves as the second entry of a trilogy documenting the battle between good and evil as played out in the hip-hop sphere. The first entry, The Infesticons' Gun Hill Road, ended with indie-rap torchbearer The Infesticons defeating The Majesticons, a group made up of robots that embody everything insipid about mainstream hip-hop. The latter strikes back with Beauty Party, an album that so faithfully conveys the obsessions, sound, and tone of jiggy hip-hop that, out of context, it would be easy to mistake it for the music it parodies. Every song title ends with the word "Party," from "Intro Party" to the album-closing "San Trope Party." "Intro Party" begins with a breathless hype man giving shout-outs to everyone from Alan Greenspan to Bill Gates, but from there on out, the humor is so deadpan that it's occasionally possible to miss it. At its best, the execution lives up to the premise's brilliance: "Brains Party" smartly transforms Pet Shop Boys' "Opportunities (Let's Make Lots Of Money)" into a materialistic anthem for would-be players. "Majestwest Party" offers a cynical take on West Coast G-funk opportunism, highlighted by a wry guest turn from Definitive Jux all-star Murs. Uneven but intermittently brilliant, Beauty Party makes a point that's as simple as it is resonant: that the materialism of mainstream rap is an adolescent fantasy peddled cynically to escapism-starved masses. Where Beauty Party may sometimes be too deadpan for its own good, Foreign Legion's Playtight has the opposite problem: Hip-hop class clowns Mark Stretch and Prozack are so eager for laughs that they occasionally resort to corny jokes and lame punchlines, though that eagerness to please registers as both a weakness and a strength. The duo's irreverent, self-deprecating slacker-hedonist shtick isn't unique, but funny lyrics, inspired production, and sturdy song concepts did help make the group's 2000 album Kidnappervan: Beats To Rock While Bike-Stealin' a stellar debut. Playtight eschews the East Coast-influenced production and DJ Premier-style scratching of Kidnappervan in favor of low-riding G-funk minus the G, but thankfully, the trio has retained its sense of humor and gift for clever story songs. "Party Crashers" crafts a hip-hop variation on the overlooked party-crashing classic Hangin' With The Homeboys, while "Roommate Joint" finds the rappers playing the roles of a slovenly ne'er-do-well and his long-suffering roommate. But on the album's best song, "How Do It Feel," Prozack and Stretch drop the jokes and get serious with surprisingly formidable results. Entertainers rather than innovators, the members of Foreign Legion just want to have fun, and while it's not as consistently inspired as their debut, Playtight makes a solid case for their brand of hip-hop comedy.


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School lunches are supposed to energize your kids so they can get through the day ready to learn.
Instead, what you're feeding them for lunch may actually be zapping their brain power while keeping them tired and listless.
"Kids that eat well perform better in school. It fuels their brain for the remainder of the day. They concentrate better," says Gina Sunderland, a registered dietitian who works with kids, adults and cancer patients. "It really sort of seals their brain for the remainder of the day."
But what if your lunch-box choices actually play a role in harming your long-term and even short-term health?
Sunderland has seen it in her young clients. One, as young as age five, had elevated blood-sugar levels and high cholesterol. "It has a lot to do with being overweight. These are things we can directly attribute to poor dietary intake and lack of physical activity," says the mother of two teenage boys.
She says the trend of parents reaching for convenience foods to pack in their kids' lunch boxes -- boxed and processed meals and snacks -- is still on the rise. "They think if they add a piece of fruit and a container of yogurt, it makes up for the fact that the main thing they are sending their kids off with really lacks nutrition."
Do your kids' lunches pass the test?
Here are a few popular lunch-box offenders and nutritious alternatives that can take their place:
Store-bought muffin
What is it? A portable convenience food that often contains nutritious-sounding ingredients such as bran, blueberries and carrot.
Why it fails: One regular-sized bran muffin can have as many as 400 calories and 17 grams of fat "and they're not even those jumbo muffins," says Sunderland. She says that baked goods aren't always required to have a nutrition label and are likely teeming with hidden trans fats. Experts say these man-made oils designed to give baked goods a longer shelf life are worse for the heart (and brain) than saturated fats.
A+ alternative: Make your own muffins so you can control the ingredients. "Muffins can be a wonderful option," says Sunderland, noting you can use a heart-healthy vegetable oil and skip the butter. As well, you can control the size, the sugar and you can even boost the fibre content by switching out white flour for whole wheat flour or adding applesauce. "Freeze it. Put it in Zip-loc bag so everyone can just grab their own and put it into a lunch bag."
Fruit-juice box
What is it? Handy little cartons of juice that come with a straw so you can drink on the go. Many are even unsweetened, containing "no added sugar."
Why it fails: What do you get when you take fruit, squeeze it and throw away its skin and pulp -- essentially all of its fibre? Fruit juice -- a fast-acting sugar that gets into your blood quickly. And while it does offer up vitamin C, it's also high in calories that do not contribute to feeling full and satisfied. And while Sunderland says small juice boxes can be a vitamin-C rich occasional treat for kids that's certainly better than pop or powdered drinks, it still contains the same number of calories and sugar as a Coke or Kool-Aid.
A+ alternative: "My favourite things are the refillable containers for water -- letting the kids pick out their own neat ones," says Sunderland. She says Tetra Paks of milk are also a nutrient-laden option that's full of calcium and vitamin D.
White bread
What is it? Whether it's in the form of sliced sandwich bread, hotdog buns, dinner rolls or pitas, white bread is any bread that contains white flour, also known as enriched flour.
Why it fails: Tends to lack fibre, so it doesn't keep us feeling as full for as long. Also, contributes to constipation, something most parents would not want to knowingly contribute to. "As much as we might not want to talk about it, letting the body eliminate waste on a daily basis is an important step to feeling well and preventing problems with our bowels later in life," she says. And yes, while white, fibre-enriched bread does exist, Sunderland says kids are always better off eating the real thing.
A+ alternative: Choose whole-grain breads that contain at least three grams of fibre for every serving. "Start them early. It opens up a world of opportunity instead of being stuck with only wanting the white bread." Sunderland says once your child develops a taste for brown bread, he or she is more apt to be open to some of the grainy, seedy crackers that are high in fibre. Keep in mind that Health Canada says that the "adequate intake" of fibre for a child aged one to three is 19 grams daily, and 25 grams daily for kids aged four to eight.
Goldfish crackers
What is it? Tiny fish-shaped crackers flavoured with cheese.
Why they fail: Made with white flour. The whole-grain variety have negligible amounts of fibre. Nevertheless, Sunderland says Goldfish can be an occasional treat -- perhaps an alternative to chips -- considering they are low in fat and come in small packets that control serving size.
A+ alternative: Wasa and Ryvita are brands of fibre-rich, seedy crackers that are quite large and contain a hefty serving of fibre. Sunderland's kids love to dip them in hummus or eat them with cheese.
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The 2008 Financial Crisis: Where Are We Now?
The fall of 2008 saw the biggest financial crisis in decades come to light over the course of just a few months. Stocks collapsed. Banks failed. Now, five years later, how have these events shaped the economy, financial regulation, and consumer confidence?
Expert Kogod professors Jeffrey Harris, the Gary D. Cohn Goldman Sachs Chair in Finance, and Robin Lumsdaine, the Crown Prince of Bahrain Chair in International Finance, answered these questions at a recent event marking the fifth anniversary of the passage of the Troubled Assets Relief Program (TARP). From 2007-2010, Harris acted as chief economist at the U.S. Commodities Futures Trading Commission. Lumsdaine served as an associate director in the Federal Reserve's Division of Banking Supervision and Regulation before joining Kogod in 2008.
Robert Sicina, an executive-in-residence and a former leader at American Express, moderated the discussion between Harris and Lumsdaine.
Sicina: Many average Americans were blindsided by the events of the fall of 2008. Were there warning signs for those in the know that the crisis was coming?
Lumsdaine: I would say there was some forewarning, yes. Bear Stearns collapsed in March of 2008, so there were already some hints of a downturn. The thing about banking oversight, though, is that regulators's ability to oversee the banks is only as good as the information they're getting. While I wouldn't say regulators were caught unaware, they had no real way to predict how events would unfold.
Harris: I think the real surprise, to everyone, was just how connected banks like Lehman Brothers were. Assets that [investors] saw as AAA government rated bonds really had these major banks standing behind them. No one was prepared for the complexity of these big firms.
Sicina: In your opinion, what were some of the best and worst moves [taken by the government] during the crisis?
Lumsdaine: At the time, Congress stalling on the passage of TARP. We really were on the precipice, and people were terrified. I know the delay was a result of wanting a better understanding of why $700 billion versus $600 billion versus $800 billion [in relief funds was best], but at the time the world just needed to know that the situation was under control and $700 billion was a large enough amount to provide that confidence. In a crisis, reputation is everything, and the extra five days [that the passage was delayed] had the global financial system near the brink of collapse.
Harris: There are some people who say that TARP in its entirety was a bad idea. As for me, I'm a firm believer in the robustness of the U.S. economy. Yes, banks and investment firms and the economy are all more interconnected, now more than ever, and that allows disaster to spread faster, but on the whole, we're stronger and more resilient than ever. I think we probably could have watched a little longer to see how things would play out or maybe even have provided less in bailouts.
Sicina: Those are all pretty negative answers; did you see any positive result come from the crisis?
Lumsdaine: I think we definitely learned some good lessons. For example, there is now a greater recognition of the importance of risk management. Risk managers are now enjoying their heyday, in firms of all sizes. And beyond the focus on what is legal, there's also an increased emphasis on ethics. A lot of the practices leading up to the crisis were technically legal but not really ethical. Now we're seeing a greater emphasis on ethical behavior
Harris: I would agree that we've definitely seen an increased focus on risk management. Before the crisis, I remember hearing a banker say that risk management was more "art than science" but I think we're starting to change that. Yes, there are still people taking risky positions, but, on the whole, more firms, and definitely government agencies, are making good risk management a priority.
Sicina: So does this mean we've seen the end of the "too big to fail" era? Are our banks now safe?
Lumsdaine: We can never say any system is completely safe. The day we do that is the day we welcome another crisis. But I would like to think that we can be cautiously optimistic that safeguards are in place.
Harris: I would agree, there is absolutely still the risk that big banks can fail. We have fewer banks than ever and those we do have are bigger than ever. But at the same time, we have more oversight and regulation than ever before. We're watching more closely for signs of disaster at earlier stages and I think that is a good thing.


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First I have to tell you this. Lundqvist was in about half his uniform the whole game, just in case Biron got hurt. And during warmups, Artem Anisimov fired one off Biron's sternum, and it stung and Biron went and told Lundqvist he might have to put on the full uniform.
Biron = 2 wins. All of Lundqvist's backups last year = 3 wins.
Marian Gaborik:
"We haven't been winning lately at home, so this is a big win for us. So it will be confidence for the whole team and we just have to build on it."
"It wasn't a pretty game to watch, but it was a tight game. Kind of a grinding game. But we got two points. That's the most important thing. Marty was great in net, everybody chipped in and helped the team to win."
On whether he thought he might have had one or two early in the game.
"I just have to kind of get my hands back … and get them on the same page with my legs. But overall I felt pretty good."
On a big hit he took early.
"Yeah, that was good. That's what I needed. This is what the game is that you can't mimic in practice. So it was good that you get bounced around a little bit and feel the action."
Martin Biron:
"The success we need to have here in our own building really was something that was easy to get going for."
"We struggled at home, but there hasn't been a lot of games where we didn't play well. We played well enough to win a lot of those games. It just hasn't gone this way. Hopefully you take this first and third period and you take the overtime, and can really look at the good things we did there because I think we played really well in the first and third. The second was a little bit sloppier."
On how he found out he was starting:
"Just came into the building and ran into Hank and he said he wasn't feeling that great. So about 25 minutes later, Torts walked in and let me know I was starting. By that time I was kind of already in game mode. I knew I had to be prepared for anything. If it wasn't for a start, you don't know if in the first or second you (Lundqvist) start not feeling good on the ice. You never know when you've got to go. It's part of the job. You've got to be ready for that."
On the last two games after a sub-par outing:
"Well, the last one wasn't a win. It was a loss. The game is where I wanted. I mentioned before the Atlanta game that I didn't have the best practices I wanted, and before the Toronto and St. Louis games and before tonight, the practices have been good. I think that's the thing. When you don't play on a regular basis, your games become the practices, and every time you get on the ice it has to be 100 percent committed, 100 percent focused.
"It was kind of funny this morning. I had my six-year-old with me at the practice. We skated about a half hour before and 20 minutes afterwards, and he warmed me up pretty good. So maybe I've got to give him some credit for that.
"But it was fun to be loose and to go into a game that way."
"When you're playing, you're the guy. And even when you don't play, I try to go the same routine and try to get my nutrition, get my rest. You never know, especially in a backup role. When you go to a game, if it's the first, second period, even the third, you have to be ready to make the saves because they're counting on you to turn the game around or make that save that gives them a chance to come back. So your preparation has to remain the same."
On that save off the post shot by Hecht:
"That one, Jochen — that's one of the things where you think (knowing former teammates') tendencies might work in your favor and it kind of goes against you. He came on his backhand and I thought for sure he was trying to pick the short-side post, and I overplayed it. Before I know it he's going to the other side and it hits my pad. I didn't know where it went. I saw on the replay it hit my knob and stayed out. Maybe not the best play for me, but at the same time you've got to get some of the bounces.
"I think the first play they scored, there's a delayed penalty, Danny Girardi has the puck underneath me, there should have been a whistle for me covering it. We didn't get it. We got a goal disallowed because they said they were going to blow the whistle, and it might have been a quicker whistle than we had all night. So I kind of think the bounces go both ways."


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In Light: Selections from the Permanent Collection
30 Jan, 2010 - 23 Jan, 2011
Explore MoPA's treasures from the permanent collection exhibition In Light. Our rich holdings of photographic works tell vivid stories of photography's master practitioners and technological innovations, while demonstrating photography's ability to reveal the unseen and the unseeable. This special selection of photographs includes iconic names, such as Ansel Adams and Dorothea Lange, and introduces viewers to the compelling works by other leaders of the medium.


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Statement by Foreign Minister Westerwelle on the Middle East
Before his departure for Israel, Federal Foreign Minister Guido Westerwelle made the following statement:
"Ladies and gentlemen,
I embark today for Tel Aviv, where I will engage in talks with my Israeli counterpart Avigdor Liberman, among others, on the situation in the Middle East and events in Egypt.
It is clear that those who persist in believing democratic rights to be unnecessary only destabilize their own country and their own society. As of yet, we cannot tell how the political situation in Egypt is going to develop. The one thing we can be sure of is that nobody can simply go back to 'business as usual' now; nothing will be as it was before. Something is emerging in the Arab world, a yearning for freedom is manifesting itself more and more publicly, and this yearning for freedom, for democracy, for a better life, is something we in Germany can very much understand.
The Federal Government is on the side of those who call for democracy and civil and human rights. In the light of recent events, I find myself compelled to add that it is not only out of principle that civil and human rights ought to be guaranteed; guaranteeing those rights is also the surest way of working against instability as well as religious and political extremism. Those who have allowed themselves to believe that a country can be stabilized by suppressing freedom of opinion are forced to realize that any violence of this kind simply plays into the hands of extremists and fundamentalists. So far, the protests have come from the core of society, principally from the younger generation and the middle class. They are therefore to be taken seriously. President Mubarak's words about reform must be followed by deeds. That is the international consensus. Freedom of opinion includes freedom of the press. Anyone who thinks suppressing modern communications technology or freedom of the press will help stabilize a situation will find that he was wrong.
The events of the last few days are going to be the subject of a lot more discussion. The protests which have been taking place first in Tunisia and now in Egypt, not to forget the demonstrations occurring in other parts of the Arab world, have shown how important it is that democracy and human and civil rights be taken seriously. That is the clear message we are sending from the German Government."


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Sure, it's been filled with beer, champagne and other celebratory beverages and fondled by throngs of hockey players and fans alike for more than 100 years, but Justin Frady wouldn't touch it.
He stood, stunned, in front of the Stanley Cup on Tuesday morning, one of the first of some 600 employees at the Irvine office for Discover Home Loans that had a chance to see the trophy in person.
"It was more glorious than I thought it would be," he said after.
The tall metal trophy – likely jet-lagged from a flight the night before from Toronto with a ticket to fly to Saskatoon, Canada later that day – sat on a table inside Discover's Irvine office building off Technology Drive, offered as a photo-opportunity for employees. Discover sponsors the intermissions for NHL's televised matches.
"People act like kids when they get in front of the cup," said Joe Curtis, director of sponsorships for Discover, who said the Cup gets passed around to a few of the company's offices year to year.
Wearing a Bruins jersey, Frady said he didn't want to destroy the Cup's honor that dictates only those who win the hockey championship have a right to touch it.
As far as employee perks go, nothing matched seeing the Cup, he said.
"This is it. This is the best," he said.
Traveling alongside the trophy has been the self-described keeper of the Cup, Phil Pritchard, more officially the vice president and curator of the Hockey Hall of Fame in Toronto who poses for photos, volunteers trivia and enthusiastically points to a few quirks etched on the trophy's exterior.
The name, for one, is just a nickname. It's officially called the Dominion Challenge Hockey Cup, he said. When a mistaken name has been etched onto the surface, it's literally been X'ed over, not erased. Then there was the time the assistant manager for the Montreal Canadiens of 1955-56 became "ass man" thanks to an unfortunate abbreviation job.
The Cup travels in a non-descript black crate lined with a purple velvet material and flies commercial. Pritchard said he was once stopped on a Canadian tarmac by the plane's pilots who wanted to pose for pictures, and asked if he could walk it through the plane's galley for the other passengers.
Its tour slows after May 30, though, as the Cup waits for the latest team of players that bests the rest, earning the right to hoist the trophy above their heads.
Pritchard, standing to the side Tuesday watching fans crowd around the Cup, touch it, in one case place a newborn inside, said he doesn't worry about anything happening to the trophy.
"In most of these, they're die-hard, passionate hockey fans," he said. "We're in good company."
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JACKSONVILLE, Fla. - The Jacksonville Port Authority board of directors has approved a 5-percent pay raise and $50,000 bonus for Paul Anderson, its chief executive officer.
His salary will go to $336,000 starting next month.
The raise was approved after the board did a two-year performance review of Anderson, who was hired in January 2011.
Some members of the City Council's finance committee said they weren't happy to hear about the raise after being told by JaxPort officials during the budget review process there wouldn't be any raises.
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More than a week after snow hit London some Southern train carriages are still out of action, to the frustration of commuters.
The company managed to get six out of the eight trains damaged by powdery snow which got into their electrics back on the rails by Friday.
But two three-carriage trains are still in workshops being repaired.
This morning hundreds of people had to stand on the 8.27am train from Sutton to Dorking via Epsom which had just four carriages.
One passenger said: "It was horrendous. People were angry and swearing as they tried to cram in, with at least 70 people having to stand in my carriage.
"Staff on the platform just urged everyone to get on this one, saying the next one was not for another half an hour."
A spokesman at Southern insisted that only a small number of carriages had been damaged, despite messages displayed at stations across the area last week which said some services had fewer carriages than normal because "a large number of our carriages suffering water or frost damage during the recent poor weather."
He said that just 2.5 per cent of its trains had been affected - just 26 carriages out of a fleet of 1,153.
The spokesman said the trains had been tested before going back into service, adding: "We can never guarantee it won't happen again although they have been fixed and tested."
He said they were investigating why information screens had misinformed customers last week.


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Angrezi is a method of writing English using the Arabic script devised by Adnaan Mahmood. It is designed so that each sound of English is represented by one letter, and to be a standardised way for transcribing English in the Arabic script. Adnaan also thought that if the large population of English speaking Muslims want to write English in the Arabic script they could do so by using this version of the alphabet which includes vowels for easy reading and comprehension.
The name of the alphabet comes from the Urdu name for English, انگریزی (angrezi).
All human beings are born free and equal in dignity and rights. They
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Winter Park, Fla. (November 3, 2007) – The Saint Leo men's and women's swim team competed in the Sunshine State Relay Carnival Saturday afternoon. Neither team was able to record a win but did have multiple strong showings. The other participating teams were Rollins College, University of Tampa, Florida Southern and theUniversity of Central Florida.
The Lions' women highest showing came in the third event of the day in the Women 300 Yard Backstroke Relay, as the team of Kirsten Schroeter (So., Ocean, N.J.), Mindy Pierce (Fr., Germany) and Erin Lucas (So., Steubenville, Ohio) finished with a time of 3:20.17 just behind Tampa for a second place finish.
The Lions' women also finished with five third-place victories including the 800 Yard Freestyle Relay, 300 Yard Butterfly Relay, 500 Yard Freestyle Relay, 1500 Yard Freestyle Relay and finished just nine seconds off the pace in the 200 Yard Freestyle Relay.
The Lions' men also established themselves with strong second place finish in the 300 Yard Backstroke Relay, as the team of Tim Olson (Fr., Land O'Lakes, Fla.) Brian Kiessling (So., Mt. Pleasant, N.C.) and Matt Szabunio (Fr., Tampa, Fla.) finished with a time of 2:54.31, just four seconds off of the lead Pace set by a Tampa trio.
Four other men's teams were able to finish third with none of those finishes being more than 11 seconds off of the lead. The closest race being the 300 Yard Butterfly Relay, as the trio of men finished just seven seconds off the lead. The 200 Yard Freestyle and two 400 Yard Medley's were the other third-place finishes for Saint Leo.