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1 Cradle of Humankind
The Cradle of Humankind is an absolute must-see. The Maropeng Visitor's centre will give you insight into the origins of mankind. Head down into the Sterkfontein caves for an enlightening experience as nature leads the way. more
2 Walter Sisulu National Botanical Gardens
One of the great escapes from Johannesburg and Tshwane, the Walter Sisulu National Botanical Gardens are found in almost 300 hectares of landscaped and natural gardens – great for picnicking and bird-watching more
3 Rhino and Lion Park
This is a privately-owned reserve situated in the Cradle of Humankind and his home to over 600 head of game, and is definitely worth a visit
4 Rietvlei Nature Reserve
Located to the South of Pretoria, this nature reserve and wetland is the province's best kept secret. Here, you can see zebra, buffalo, rhino and hippo. more
5 Tswaing Crater
Just 40 km north of Pretoria you'll find the Tswaing Crater – the site of where an asteroid left a massive impact crater some 200 000 years ago.
6 Melville Koppies
These rugged koppies close to the suburb of Melville have evidence of Stone Age village and iron-smelting works. The flora includes 80% of the species recorded on in Gauteng. Great for walks and hikes. more
7 Suikerbosrand Nature Reserve
This Nature Reserve south of Johannesburg covers 13 337 hectares of ridges, plains and kloofs – look out for supporting antelope, baboon, cheetah and hyena more
8 Roodeplaat Dam Nature Reserve
Located 22 km from Pretoria, this area is rich in wildlife (zebra, kudu, waterbuck, blue wildebeest) and birdlife. more
9 Dinokeng
Known as the 'Place of Rivers' one can also go on game drives in the Dinokeng tourism region. Plans are that one-day this area will be host to the Big Five
10 Groenkloof Nature Reserve
One of the first-ever declared nature reserves in the old Transvaal, Groenkloof Nature Reserve is home to kudu, impala, blue wildebeest and ostrich. Guided hiking trails on offer


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[…] Choice and Inequality – via thesituationist.wordpress.com – Wealth inequality has significant psychological, physiological, societal, and economic costs. We investigate how seemingly innocuous, culturally pervasive ideas can help maintain and further wealth inequality. Specifically, we test whether the concept of choice, which is deeply valued in American society, leads people to act in ways that maintain and perpetuate wealth inequality. Choice, we argue, activates the belief that life outcomes stem from personal agency, not from societal factors, leading people to justify wealth inequality. Six experiments show that when choice is highlighted, people are less disturbed by facts about the existing wealth inequality in the U.S., more likely to underestimate the role of societal factors in individuals' successes, less likely to support the redistribution of educational resources, and less likely to tax the rich even to resolve a government budget deficit crisis. The findings indicate that the culturally valued concept of choice contributes to the maintenance of wealth inequality. […]


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Visual Art
Academic Year: 2009 – 2010
The Visual Arts Department provides opportunity for studying the arts in a context that emphasizes the acquisition of skills in various studio disciplines, as well as the understanding of historical and philosophical concepts in art. Visual Arts faculty teach classes in a broad range of areas, including painting, drawing, digital media, ceramics, sculpture, printmaking, photography, and art history.
As an extension of classroom teaching, the department sponsors exhibitions of both regionally and nationally recognized artists in the Visual Arts Gallery located on the second floor of the Health and Sciences Building. Students are expected to attend openings and concurrent workshops to gain exposure to the work and access to the technical expertise of professional artists. Student participation is encouraged both in installation and management of the art gallery. Visual Arts majors culminate their study at UIS with the presentation of their own work at the Senior Exhibition, held every spring at the Visual Arts Gallery. In addition, the Art Students League, a student group, organizes and curates exhibitions in the Access Gallery, an art space in the Visual and Performing Arts Building.
The Charlotte M. Weiss Scholarship, the Daniel Lesh Memorial Scholarship, and the Glosecki Memorial Scholarship are awarded annually to students in the Visual Arts Department.
Entrance Requirements for the Visual Arts Major
Upon declaration of the Visual Arts major, students should meet their assigned advisor and submit examples of their artwork for informal critique within their first term. It is strongly recommended that majors complete all lower-division prerequisites by the end of their sophomore year. The prerequisite courses include the following courses, or their equivalents: History of Art I and II (ART 261 and ART 262); Two Dimensional Design (ART 102) and Three Dimensional Design (ART 112); Drawing I (ART 113); and one introductory level art course in a specific discipline. Examples of introductory courses include the following: Introduction to Painting (ART 211); Introduction to Ceramics (ART 203); and Introduction to Digital Media (ART 236).
All Visual Arts students are assigned a faculty advisor upon declaration of their major. Advisors work with students to ascertain career goals, to assess preparation and deficiencies, and to make a plan of study. Students are urged to consult their faculty advisors before registering each semester, particularly before registering for the last semester of classes. These meetings make certain majors understand requirements for graduation and have planned their schedules to take all necessary courses in order to graduate on time. Failure to meet with an advisor and to take requirements when they are available could lead to a delay of a semester or more in graduation.
Grading Policy
Students must earn a grade of C or better in all ART courses that apply toward the degree. Courses taken on a CR/NC basis will not count toward the degree. The course grading policy is determined by each instructor as appropriate to the individual course and is announced at the beginning of the term.
Our first formal assessment of Visual Arts majors takes place in the first term of students' junior year. All juniors are required to submit a portfolio of their best work for evaluation by the faculty in the beginning of the fall term. The final demonstration of learning is the presentation of an exhibit of artwork completed during the student's tenure at UIS, organized through ART 482, ECCE: Professional Skills, which is taken the spring term of a student's senior year. An oral defense of the body of work by the student completes requirements for the degree in Visual Arts. Both the artwork exhibited, artist's statement, and oral defense are assessed by a committee comprised of UIS Visual Arts faculty, and one outside assessor, typically an art faculty from a higher education institute outside of UIS.
Major Requirements
Requirements for the BA degree in Visual Arts are as follows:
Lower Division Prerequisites (18 Hrs.)
ART 102 Two Dimensional Design 3 Hrs.
ART 112 Three Dimensional Design 3 Hrs.
ART 113 Drawing I 3 Hrs.
Introductory level studio course (100 or 200 level) 3 Hrs.
ART 261 and 262 History of Art I and II 6 Hrs.
Upper-division Art History courses (ART 300 or 400 level) 12 Hrs.
Upper-division Studio Art courses (ART 300 or 400 level) 24 Hrs.
Engaged Citizenship Common Experience* 13 Hrs.
(*Note: ART 482 ECCE: Professional Skills (fulfills ECCE Elective requirement for 3 Hrs.)
Upper-division General Electives (300 or 400 level)
(may be ART or any other program) 11 Hrs.
Students should consult with advisors in the major for specific guidance regarding completion of general education requirements. An Advanced Placement (AP) score of 3 or higher in the Drawing, Two Dimensional Design, and Three Dimensional Design examinations can be used to fulfill the prerequisite courses ART 113 (Drawing I), ART 102 (Two Dimensional Design, and ART 112 (Three Dimensional Design) The three-hour upper-division ECCE Elective requirement is fulfilled by ART 482, ECCE: Professional Skills. Students must be enrolled in at least one studio course during the preceding term to qualify for enrollment in ART 482.
To earn a minor in Visual Arts, students must complete a minimum of 16 semester hours, eight hours of which must be upper-division course work taken at the University of Illinois at Springfield. Up to four hours of studio or art history transfer credit may be accepted.
One course in art history is required and 12 hours of studio art classes are required. These courses should include two classes in the studio art area that most closely fits the student's interests. Students should consult with a Visual Arts faculty advisor to ensure that they are meeting requirements as well as their individual needs.
Bachelor of Arts, Undergraduate Minor
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Associated Faculty: J. Michael Duvall, Rosina Neginsky
Emeritus Faculty: Robert Dixon, Larry Shiner
Phone: 217/206-6240
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Website: www.uis.edu/visualarts/


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Ginkgo offers Ginkgo on the Go, a mobile massage service.
Ginkgo boutique spas are located in South Africa's Western Cape province. The Ginkgo philosophy is based on holistic health and wellness principles to bring about order and a sense of balance to the psyche and body. The aim is to not only allow the client to enjoy some well-deserved time-out and pampering, but also to make use of the experience in a way that is beneficial to better health choices in the long run.
Part of the Ginkgo Spa and Wellness Group, Ginkgo spas offer an intimate spa experience, and at any one time you are guaranteed no more than four treatment rooms at any one location – which means personalised pampering.
The spas offer a range of treatments and therapies. Treatments are largely based on traditional touch therapy – the body has memory, and by using the healing power of touch, toxins and pent-up anxieties can be released in a safe and caring space. Each touch therapy session starts with a symbolic foot cleanse, which is step one in clearing one's energy of stress and toxins brought about by everyday urban life.
The Ginkgo boutique spas offer a range of signature treatments, including the Ginkgo 'Elixir' Signature Massage – designed to help you unwind and to leave you feeling rejuvenated. There is also the Ginkgo 'Ataraxia' Massage – a three-part rhythmic massage that targets tensions and emotional anxiety. And there's even one for the boys – the Ginkgo Golfer's Specialised Signature Massage.
There are also a range of skin treatments, facials, pedicures, manicures and beauty treatments available. The Ginkgo Spa and Wellness Group uses top international and local products including Nimue and Mama Mio (a skincare range for pregnant women).
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Erinvale Estate Hotel
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How to get here
There are various Ginkgo spas. See the listed website for details.
Best time to visit
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Around the area
Take a gourmet tour of Franschhoek and visit the wine estates and restaurants (some of which are the best in South Africa).
Tours to do
Cape Town has numerous attractions. If you like designer shopping, then Cavendish Square or the V&A Waterfront are good choices. For culture and history, plan a visit to Robben Island or take a walking tour of the Bo-Kaap.
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Treatments and therapies range in price, so visit the website beforehand to get the latest price details. Enquire about special half- and full-day packages.
Length of stay
A half or full day at the spa (with no other plans) is a great way to unwind.
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Each of the Ginkgo spas is attached to a superb hotel, so book in for a night or two and enjoy the spa experience combined with sightseeing in the winelands or Cape Town.
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Library History
Without waiting for recycling to become mandatory in the County, the library employees embarked on a recycling plan of their own in February. Blue cardboard boxes appeared next to staff desks and blue plastic bins were placed adjacent to the public photocopiers as well. Withdrawn materials continued to be recycled in the lobby: used books were sold by The Friends of the Library and magazines were given away to the public for free.
In January overdue fines were doubled from five to ten cents per day. Fifty cent fines on audio visual equipment were raised to one dollar per day.
An operating budget of $2.19 million was proposed for the 1990-91 year at a referendum held on June 13. This was an increase of 14.92% over the previous year. Library services had increased almost 15% over the previous year. The vote passed 1201-916. Patricia Mautino ran unopposed for a five year seat on the Board of Trustees.
A grant from the Town of Salina enable the library to purchase a TDD
(Telecommunications Device for the Deaf) unit for use by the hearing impaired. Local calls were free to users. It was kept at the Reference Desk so that it could be used to receive and respond to reference questions.
In April the Board voted to create the position of Business Manager. Jean Polly was also officially named the Head of the Computer Department. In June Anita DePentu resigned as Secretary to the Board and in July Dorothy Morgan was named as her replacement.
In July it was announced that the Liverpool Public Library had been awarded a $15,000 "Library of Tomorrow" (ALOT) grant from the Apple Computer Company. Self-paced training - basic through advanced level - was provided for a variety of software programs like Adobe Illustrator, Microsoft Word, PageMaker and Superpaint.
Board Officers for the 1990-91 year were Genevieve Pieniazek as President, Sharon Fulmer as Vice President and Joseph Ostuni as Secretary.
On August 22 the Board and department heads attended a retreat at the Sheraton University Hotel. Dadie Perlov, nationally known consultant, acted as the facilitator. Their agenda was to develop a strategic plan for the library in terms of a new building and the services to be offered.
Fiction librarian Jeanne Biggins initiated the Second Thursday Book Discussion group in August. A discussion of " Bonfire of the Vanities" was followed in September by "The Joy Luck Club" and in October by "A Prayer for Owen Meany." The participants remained loyal and in the year 2000 a tenth anniversary celebration was held. Over the years about thirty people actively participated in the group. Four from the original group were still involved at the tenth year!
On August 23rd the Board of Trustees once again presented awards to outstanding library employees. Margaret ( Peg) Smallman and Laurel Sharp received Merit Awards, Annika Waterman received the Performance Award and Jonathan Tarnow received the Student Merit Award.
Anne Royer joined the Children's Services staff in October.
Color copier service was offered to the public in the fall. Patrons were asked to drop off their original prints, negatives or slides, and retrieve the color copies a few days later.
In November the Board voted to hire Nolan Lushington as a consultant for the forthcoming building project. He spoke with staff extensively about their vision for a new library.
A major community project of the library from December 1990 to April 1991 was "Letters from Home." Working in cooperation with several agencies ( Genie Online Information Service, the United States Armed Forces, the Saudi American General Electric Company, GE Rents and Pitney Bowes) the library invited patrons to come to the library and send an electronic letter to their friends and family who were stationed in the Persian Gulf. All access and phone charges were free. This was the introduction of "e-mail" at Liverpool Public Library.
In addition the Library also conducted "Operation Oasis" where donated new and used paperbacks, magazines, playing cards, games and craft materials were collected, packaged and sent to those serving in Operation Desert Shield. S/Sgt. Vicki Kwasniewski, of the 108th Tactical Control Squadron of the New York Air National Guard, and employee of the Library's Computer Department, coordinated the effort. The first carton was shipped on December 15, 1990.
According to an article in the Liverpool Salina Review the letters were sent electronically to the Saudi Arabia GE location where they were received by computers there and printed out. The letters were then folded and inserted into envelopes, sealed and sent on their way to the servicemen and women in the Gulf via Armed Forces delivery. All that was required was a valid Onondaga County Library card and the name, rank, SSN, unit or ship name and APO or FPO number. The program was in operation for two months in the Computer Lab.


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There's so much going on in Talk and the comments week to week that we almost can't keep up. If you're in the same boat, here's a small selection of topics and responses that have piqued our interest this week.
What baked treats are you making for the holidays??
"'I don't mind paying $1.19 for a Giant Slim (the nom de meat for the foot-long .97-ouncer)'
Christ, that's $19.63 a pound."—ratbuddy
8 Pizzas That Haunt My Dreams, 2012
"OK everyone who had to look up peripatetic raise your hands. Yo Adam, nicely done man."— finsbigfan
What'd ya get?
"Love. I got love. :}"— FatBaztard
Two and a half quarts of orange marmalde. Suggestions?
"Season some chicken thighs or whatever part you like with some salt and pepper, and saute them in a bit of oil till they're browned and cooked. Remove them to a plate, and put like a cup of marmalade in the pan, with a few tablespoons of Dijon mustard, some fresh grated ginger, a few cloves of minced garlic, maybe a splash of soy or Worcestershire. Stir till dissolved and melty then put the chicken back in for a minute. Serve it over rice. It's really damn good." — Lili13
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Joslyn James had a press conference, too
Despite the fact her entire family is coming out of the woodwork to say she's a compulsive liar, Joslyn James and her attorney Gloria Allred held their own press conference today in response to Tiger's televised apology, according to E! News:
"I would be open to a telephoned apology from Tiger but I really feel that I deserve to look at him in person, face to face, in the eyes because I did not deserve this," the 32-year-old Top Heavy 4 star said.
James said the Woods statement felt fake.
"An apology, one that was meaningful and that meant something, and I didn't hear none of that," James said. "He's so selfish; it's not about anybody but him. It didn't feel like it was real.
"Tiger pursued me over time and I fell in love with him and hold me he loved me," she added, choking up.
While Allred repeatedly mentioned how much emotional distress Tiger caused her client, she said she was not planning to file a lawsuit against the sports icon.
Oh, wow, they're not going to pursue a lawsuit based on the hurt feelings of a porn star caught fucking a married man? How gracious of them considering there's no way they would've lost with that angle. I'm not even on a jury and I'm already sitting here trying to give her money. (Anyone know where you insert the dollar bills on this thing?)


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Detroit: Maybe it was the brand new, bright red Chevrolet Corvette gleaming in one corner, or the elegant BMW coupe in the other. Maybe it was just the free-flowing espresso at nearly every stand. But car companies were positively giddy this week as the North American International Auto Show opened in Detroit.
They have reason to be US new car and truck sales reached a five-year high of 14.5 million in 2012, and many executives and analysts think they'll climb to 15.5 million this year. Credit is easier to obtain, interest rates are low and many people who held on to old cars during the recession are ready to buy.
To catch those customers' eyes at the Detroit show, car companies are unveiling 59 new cars and concepts. That's up from just 41 in 2012, a sign that auto makers have more profits at their disposal and expect higher sales. Toyota, Nissan and Mercedes have larger, more elaborate displays. Ford is luring visitors with the oldest surviving Ford in the world, a 1903 Model A, and the newest, a chiseled pickup truck concept called Atlas that could become the next F-150. General Motors can just sit back and watch the crowds gather around the Corvette.
The Detroit show, one of the country's biggest, opens to the public Saturday. Here are five trends visitors will see:
Getting more efficient:
One lesson from this year's show: There are plenty of ways to squeeze more efficiency from cars and trucks.
Volkswagen is showing a plug-in hybrid SUV prototype called the CrossBlue that mates a diesel engine with two electric motors. It can travel 14 miles (22 kilometers) in all-electric mode and gets an estimated 35 miles per gallon (6.7 liters per 100 kms) while running on both gas and electricity. The Jeep Grand Cherokee is also making a jump to diesel power with a new, optional 3-liter V-6 diesel that gets 30 miles per gallon (7.8 liters per 100 kms) on the highway, five better than the gas-powered V-6.
Automakers are trying other tricks to save fuel as they face higher fuel economy requirements, even in muscle cars. The eight-cylinder engine on the 2014 Corvette kicks down to four at highway speeds. The grille and wheels of Ford's Atlas concept pickup have shutters that automatically close at high speeds to cut wind drag. Many carmakers are replacing steel with aluminum, carbon fiber and other materials to save weight.
Jeremy Anwyl, vice chairman of the Edmunds.com auto website, said many people have been surprised by the resurgence of internal combustion engines as new technology makes them more efficient.
"It is one reason why we're not all driving hybrids now, or EVs," Anwyl said.
Even so, there are plenty of gas-electric hybrids and some new electric cars for customers to look at. Nissan, a late convert to the hybrid market, is showing the Resonance concept, a dramatically styled hybrid crossover. Acura has the NSX hybrid supercar. And Cadillac debuted the ELR, its version of the Chevrolet Volt plug-in, which will go around 35 miles in all-electric mode before a small gas engine kicks in. And Tesla is showing its all-electric Model X crossover, whose futuristic wing-like doors are among the handful of stop-and-stare features this year.
Pickups take off:
With new home construction back on the rise, pickup truck sales are poised to grow in the coming year. And Detroit is ready.
General Motors is showing its new trucks for the first time at the Detroit show. The Chevy Silverado and GMC Sierra, which will go on sale this Spring, have mean-looking grilles, restyled interiors and new engines and transmissions that GM promises will be very efficient. The trucks even have steps inset into the rear bumper so people can jump into the bed to get tools or tie down cargo.
Chrysler's just-refurbished Ram pickup — named the truck of the year by automotive journalists at the show — is also no slouch, boasting a segment-best 25 mpg (9.4 liters per 100 kms) on the highway.
But Ford, whose F-Series has been the top-selling truck for more than three decades, won't cede that title without a fight. The company pulled off one of the show's few surprises, lowering its Atlas pickup concept from the ceiling amid a shower of sparks during media previews. Ford gave few details about the beefy, chiseled Atlas, other than to say that it hints at the look of the next F-Series, due to come out in 2014 or 2015.
"It sends a message that we hope to continue to strengthen our leadership in commercial vans and trucks," Ford's chief operating officer Mark Fields said. "We know there's a lot of people who want to take that away from us."
The competition could mean good deals for buyers in a segment already known for big discounts. Chrysler sales chief Reid Bigland said Ram will stay competitive, but Chrysler also wants to make money.
"We're not going to do anything crazy in the marketplace," he said.
Luxury boom:
Supple leather seats, finely stitched dashboards and sparkling chrome grilles are everywhere at this year's auto show, a sign that car companies are clawing at each other for a piece of the growing and lucrative US luxury market.
From a well-crafted new E-Class lineup from Mercedes to the plush, decked out luxury Cadenza sedan from once-lowly Kia, automakers are vying for customers who are ready to be pampered a little more.
Luxury sales grew almost 12% last year to over 1 million sales, and automakers are expecting further increases as people feel better about the economy and the Great Recession recedes into the rear-view mirror.
For the past few years, much of the US auto sales growth has been in compact and midsize cars at the lower end of the price range, says Jeff Schuster, senior vice president of forecasting for LMC Automotive, a Detroit-area industry forecasting firm. But recent trends show that buyers who want luxury items such as leather seats and touch screens are coming back into the market and are willing to pay a little more.
"The premium market took a couple of years off" during the recession, he said. "I think we're going to see a comeback over the next couple of years."
Lincoln continues the revamp of its lineup with the MKC concept, a small crossover that is the second of four new Lincolns coming by 2015. Bentley is showing a new convertible. Lexus is introducing a new version of the entry-level IS sedan. Maserati debuts its new Quattroporte sedan. Infiniti, Nissan's luxury brand, introduced its new sports sedan using performers from Cirque du Soleil. And even mainstream companies like Hyundai and Honda are showing off luxurious concept vehicles.
Blurring the lines:
The unveiling of the BMW 320i sedan, an entry-level 3-Series that starts at $33,445, renewed questions about whether luxury cars are starting to bump into mainstream models.
In the last couple of years, mass-market brands have started offering features once reserved for luxury brands. Ford offers a hands-free, automatic parallel parking systems and lane-departure warning signals on the midsize Fusion. Even the little Dodge Dart has a heated steering wheel.
Buyers will have to decide: Do they buy a loaded Fusion for nearly $37,000 or the new 320i?
And carmakers need to decide how to market their cars. The Chrysler 300, for example, competes with other mainstream large cars at the low end, but it has two high-end versions — the 300c and 300 Luxury Series — that compete with BMW.
"It's really like having two cars," said Olivier Francois, Chrysler's marketing chief. "What we probably need to do is amplify the gap, separate the two poles."
Jim Lentz, who runs Toyota's operations in the US, isn't worried. In his own lineup, he says, the Toyota Avalon and Lexus ES sedans are very similar, but few shoppers consider both. "A Lexus buyer is buying the prestige. They're buying the dealership experience," he said. Avalon, he said, is the "accountant's car," not showy but with nice features.
Chrysler's Bigland says he can't worry too much about the battle between mainstream and premium cars because there's such tough competition on other fronts.
"It's just a great example of how brutally competitive this industry is," said Bigland. "From the BMWs to the Mercedes to any of the other 18 manufacturers that we square off with every day. Every single one of them, if you don't come and play your 'A' game, you're going to get your head kicked in."
Crossovers get smaller:
With explosive growth in crossover vehicles in the past five years, automakers are looking at new ways to attract buyers of more efficient SUVs that are based on car underpinnings.
At the Detroit show, Honda opened a new front in the battle with a sharp-looking small utility. It's based on a subcompact frame and will be smaller than Honda's popular CR-V. It's a new part of the market that's attractive to automakers because there aren't any well-established competitors to unseat.
"I think the industry as a whole believes there's opportunity here," Schuster says. "It's up for grabs."
Nissan already is in the market with its funky Juke, which hasn't sold particularly well. General Motors' Buick is just entering with an all-new Encore.
Honda Executive Vice President John Mendel says the new vehicle, called simply an "Urban SUV Concept," is designed for city commuters who still want the cargo space, adventurous lifestyle and high sitting position of an SUV.
It's aimed at people who no longer need a bigger SUV, yet don't want to give up the utility. Mendel says technology has allowed it to create more space in a smaller vehicle, matching the interior volume of older compact SUVs.
"If you've got a 5- or 7-year-old car, you can move down a class and not give up anything including space," he said. AP


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Hey there, time traveller!
This article was published 21/1/2013 (1673 days ago), so information in it may no longer be current.
The Women's Musical Club of Winnipeg (WMC) has increased its 2013 scholarship fund by 25 per cent.
This year, the 118-year-old arts organization will award a total of $10,000 to the five winners of its annual scholarship competition, compared with the $8,000 that has been handed out for the past several years.
The 2013 competition will be held in the Eva Clare Hall at the University of Manitoba on Saturday, May 11. Application forms are available on the WMC website: www.womensmusicalclubofwpg.org.


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STROUD and District Motor Club ran their ever popular Cotswold Clouds Classic Trial recently.
After a long day the overall event was won by John White and passenger Andy Lynn of Cholsey, clearing all but one of the tests to finish the day with only two hill points to his name.
Mike Ellis in his VW Beetle finished the highest ranking Dursley driver in 14th overall with 15 points.
He also finished first of the class six runners, taking the Landsdown Motors trophy for his efforts.
The Dursley crew of John Hamill and Graham Penny competed in class seven and they finished the day in 33rd position overall with 27 points.
For many a year the Clouds has been a popular event run on the first Sunday of February in and around the Stroud valley, being a firm favourite with competitors and spectators alike.
The event started early at the SKF factory in Stonehouse before taking on a course of approximately 75 miles in and around the Stroud valleys area.
Competitors took on up to 16 observed section climbs and special tests on some demanding slopes made ever more tricky this year due to the persistent rain throughout the month of January.


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sign, well trying not to eat. Juggling a lot. Eating 1300 calories a day and always hungry. Going on a 3 mile run 3 mile speed workout on the track and then another 3 miles back home. My coach told me that I need to have a more wiry frame if I want to be an olympic pole vaulter. The problem is I'm in the army and have been passing out on ruck marches and report to air assault school soon. Grr why wont my body just work with me here.
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Just to function normally, the USDA recommends that SEDENTARY women between 19-30 years of age take in 1,800-2,000 calories. With your track workouts, and military training. You are FAR from sedentary.
It would be a good idea to consult an army nutritionist. They can help you develop and reach realistic and healthy weight goals. Good luck!!
You're passing out on ruck marches because you're not eating enough, simple as that. Yes, you need to eat at a deficit to lose weight, but you also need to give your body enough fuel for what you're asking it to do. It's a fine line when you're training hard and trying to lose weight. Does your coach know that you're only eating 1300cal/day?
Only 1300 calories?!
1300 calories sounds like barely enough to survive! Especially if you're exercising and not adding a little back in to compensate. If you're sticking with that make sure that every calorie counts and is really good for you. Just don't want to see you passing out!
Good luck with your pole vaulting dream. My son pole vaulted in high school.
What does your 1300 calories consist of? Sometimes certain types of food can mess with endocrine systems and slow your metabolism down.


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John Appelbaum '08 prepares for his 4th Circuit argument last spring.
The case was argued before the Court last May by John Appelbaum '08, just days after his graduation from law school. 2007 graduate T.J. Maas, along with clinical professors Mary Natkin and Renae Patrick, drafted the case brief submitted before oral argument. This was the second case presented before the 4th Circut last year by a student in the Black Lung Clinic. The other case, argued by Raya Jarawan '08, was remanded back to the administrative law judge (ALJ) for further review.
The Amick case, Westmoreland v. Amick, was itself making a return trip to the Court after being remanded in 2004. At issue was whether the administrative law judge who supported the black lung benefits review board decision to award benefits to Mr. Amick properly weighted expert medical testimony from both parties. After remand, the administrative law judge further explained his rationale for weighting the testimony as he did, and Appelbaum successfully argued those facts to the Court.
Charles M. Amick worked as a coal miner for thirty-three years, performing all manner of jobs in support of mine operations until he retired in 1983. Amick filed two claims for black lung benefits in the 1980's, both of which were denied, before having benefits awarded in March of 2000. The Westmoreland Mine Company appealed the award to the ALJ, and the award was affirmed, on the grounds that Mr. Amick had proven the existence of total disability due to pneumoconiosis, also known as black lung disease.
Mr. Amick died in May 2006, after the first 4th Circuit opinion. The awarded benefits, which accrued from the date Mr. Amick became totally disabled to the date of his death, will be paid to his estate. Melba Amick, his wife, has filed a separate claim for survivor's benefits, which the clinic is currently handling.
Law students working in the Black Lung Legal Clinic often have the opportunity to argue cases before the 4th Circuit Court of Appeals. The Court heard arguments in two clinic cases last year, and three case briefs are due this fall to the Court for potential argument in the spring.
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Cranberry Almond Chicken with Couscous
serves 6-8 people
3 lbs. boneless chicken breast, cut into strips or chunks
2 cloves garlic, minced
2 cups chicken broth (1 small can)
¼ cup lemon juice
¼ cup brown sugar
2 boxes couscous (Near East Wild Mushroom worked well)
⅓ cup dried cranberries
⅓ cup sliced almonds
1 bunch of fresh asparagus
Pour chicken broth into bottom of an oiled dutch oven. Add lemon juice, brown sugar, garlic, chicken, and the couscous flavor packets. Simmer 20-30 minutes until chicken is cooked. Then add the couscous, cranberries and almonds and recover for 5 minutes. Place the asparagus over the top of the meal and recover for 5 minutes; remove from heat. Don't overcook the asparagus; it should be bright green when properly steamed.


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Nashville's Food Scene - In the News
Nashville's food scene is getting rave reviews all over the world. New articles and rankings come out all the time highlighting the culinary attraction of Music City. Take a look at some favorite article quotes and rankings.
Husk Nashville and Prince's Hot Chicken Shack named in The National Eater 38: Where to Eat in 2015.
East Nashville named among the 18 Best food neighborhoods in america by Thrillist
"There is an amazing energy to the city right now, and that's really apparent in the food scene."
- Ben Goldberg, of Strategic Hospitality (Patterson House, The Catbird Seat, Pinewood Social, and more), to USA Today
"No other Southern city of my acquaintance claims quite the heady mix of artists, designers and fashion-forward restaurants as the home of the Grand Ole Opry."
- The Washington Post
Barista Parlor was named one of The 38 Essential Coffee Shops Across America by Eater.
Barista Parlor was named one of The 11 Best Coffee Shops in the U.S. by Men's Journal.
"All boomtowns have deep appetites, but Nashville has something that even great cities have trouble cultivating: an idiosyncratic gastronomic culture that knows how to be comforting, creative and curious, regional yet cosmopolitan."
Fox's Donut Den was named one of The 21 Best Donut Shops in America by Thrillist.
"I found plenty of reasons to pack your best pair of eating pants and head southeast to Nashville."
~ St. Louis Post-Dispatch
OpenTable diners named Virago as one of the Top 100 2014 Hot Spot Restaurants in America.
"The Nashville recipe is quite close to perfect: one part good people, one part great food, finished with a dash of honky-tonk for that added burst of flavor."
~ The Local Palate
Philip Krajeck, Chef/Owner of Rolf & Daughters, was named among Zagat's list of 10 Southern Chefs to Watch.
"There's enough going on food-wise to warrant a trip solely for eating"
~ Condé Nast Traveler
Barista Parlor was named one of America's Best Coffee Shops by Epicurious.
"...you've arrived at the country's newest culinary mecca."
~ Food Republic
Husk Nashville is #6 in GQ's Best New Restaurants in America.
"Enterprising chefs are the new country-music stars, bringing refined yet unfussy restaurants to emerging neighborhoods."
~ Travel + Leisure
Nashville is listed in Food Republic's 24 Places to Visit for Fantasy Food Travel.
"as an established "foodie" city, Nashville has many palate-pleasing options to appease even the pickiest of cuisine connoisseurs."
~ Travel Thru History
Rolf & Daughters was named one of The 33 Best New Restaurants in America by Thrillist.
"Nashvillians love to eat. And I love that about Nashville. It's not only the Music City, it's also the Food City."
~ Zac Brown Band Chef Rusty Hamlin in an AP article on ABCNews.com
Etch was named the best restaurant in Nashville in Zagat's 2014 America's Top Restaurants Survey.
"Sure Nashville has earned its rep as Music City…but there's another kind of jammin' goin on in the country music capital. Imaginative chefs are transforming the food scene – check out the James Beard nominations and placements on top American restaurant lists. From upscale eateries to buzzy food trucks on the streets of hip nabes like East Nashville and The Gulch, here's what's cookin' in Nashville."
~ Budget Travel
Nashville was named one of the Ten Best Cities for BBQ in the United States by Hopper.
"I felt like there was some really good cooking going on, and I have to say I had a lot more fun eating in Nashville than I do in Atlanta. Nashville is truly trying to be its own thing which I appreciated."
~ New York Times
Nashville restaurant Rolf & Daughters was named #3 Best New Restaurant in America 2013 by Bon Appetit.
"With a strong Southern food identity and a bevy of nearby farms, all Nashville needed to become a red-hot culinary destination was a dose of innovation – and it has arrived."
~ Travel + Leisure
Music City Eats: Nashville Food, wine, & spirits festival voted in the Top 15 Best Food Festivals in North America by Fodor's.
"Music City hums with star chefs and fantastic food."
~ New York Post
Four Nashville bars, Holland House Bar and Refuge, Whiskey Kitchen, The Patterson House, and Capitol Grille, were named among America's 55 Best Bourbon Bars by The Bourbon Review.
"'In the 15 years I've been gone, Nashville has transformed into an amazing new food city with new young chefs and some old friends coming up with a whole new cuisine of Nashville. Throw in the eighth largest convention center in the States opening next year, and just you watch how the city grows. I'm proud to help build the culinary scene here as well.'"
~ Chef Bob Waggoner in Food Arts
8 Nashville restaurants - The Catbird Seat, City House, Husk, Lockeland Table, Mas Tacos Por Favor, The Pharmacy Burger Parlor, Prince's Hot Chicken Shack, and Rolf and Daughters - made Southern Living's list of 100 Places to Eat Now.
"I sense that the center of gravity is shifting, and I predict that 2013 will witness the rise of Nashville, Tenn., as the South's premier culinary city…Nashville has a lot working in its favor. Like Charleston, it has a unique character and civic identity, anchored by its history as the home of country music. It has rich local food traditions to draw on…Nashville has something else going for it that Charleston can't touch: celebrity power."
~ Charleston City Paper
Nashville was ranked #3 in Travel + Leisure's list of America's Best Cities for Ice Cream.
"There's still bacon, Bourbon, and barbecue aplenty, but an emerging culinary scene is putting Nashville on the gastronomic radar."
~ Food Arts
Barista Parlor was named among 50 Extraordinary Coffee Shops Around America by Grub Street.
"Nashville's Broadway Avenue has stepped up its game. Cheap beer, sawdust floors, and greasy burgers have some new neighbors. The iconic Broadway has much to offer by way of old and new, and taking a right or left turn will yield some culinary surprises – proving that Nashville is a great place not only for music, but also for food."
~ US Airways
Zagat named Nashville as one of 7 Up-and-Coming Food Cities Around the U.S.
"Nashville may be best known as 'Music City', but its food and drink scene is starting to have just as much soul and rock'n'roll swagger."
~ The Guardian
Local restaurant The Catbird Seat was named among 10 Best New Restaurants in America by GQ Magazine in their 2012 esteemed list.
"Nashville identifies itself first and foremost as a music town. It's an eating, drinking, hard-partying arts town too."
~ New York Magazine
Food & Wine named Erik Anderson and Josh Habiger of The Catbird Seat Best New Chefs 2012.
Describing East Nashville's scene:
"Where the ethos of community, culinary adventure and tattooed kitchen culture are coming together to define a new kind of Southern cooking that doesn't forgo its roots, but allows chefs to transcend them," ~ The New York Times
Kayne Prime is one of Gayot's 2013 Top 10 Steakhouses in the U.S.
"Nashville is America's country music capital, but its food scene is now making a noise too."
~ The Guardian
Bon Appetit Magazine called Nashville the "Coolest, Tastiest City in the South" stating that Nashville is a place that "embodies New South cool, mixing country and city, high and low" in February 2012.
"But it's not just food (and drink!) that's making Nashville the South's City of the Moment. In my week on the ground, I felt the energy of a city in motion. I saw it in the faces of the staff at Imogene + Willie, a shop selling handmade clothes in a former gas station; smelled it in the smoked cacao-nib brittle made by Oliver & Sinclair Chocolate Co.; heard it at Auerbach's recording studio. And yes, I tasted it, in everything from Arnold's Country Kitchen fried chicken livers and collard greens (made with wasabi, by the way) to drinks poured with locally made Corsair Artisan spirits to that tortilla soup."
~ Bon Appetit
U.S. News Travel ranked Nashville #6 for America's Best BBQ Cities in 2012.
"Nashville is a different kind of place, It's not what you might expect. One of the main differences is that people here want you to succeed, no matter what kind of food you are doing."
~ The New York Times, Interview with owners of The Catbird Seat
Sweet 16th Bakery named in Food and Wine's Best Breakfast Sandwiches in the U.S. in 2012.
"Cowboys and honky tonks have long defined the Tennessee capital, but Music City is in the throes of a hipster revival that now sees its art, food and drink scene get equal billing." ~ Australian Gourmet Traveller
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The Cycling to Work [1] resource, which is now available (largely unrevised) as a document, includes:
- An introduction to the Benchmarking process
- Why cycle commuting should be encouraged
- Advice on:
- Company travel plans
- Mobility management
- Infrastructure for cycling employees (e.g. cycle parking, showers etc)
- Provision of cycles (e.g. pool bikes, promotional initiatives)
- Tips for cycle commuters, training, support and incentives
- Case studies
It is still a good source of ideas for anyone interested in promoting cycling to work.


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Navimie gently fingered the Mogu Coin - a currency used during the reign of mogu emperor Wai. The coin showed him in all his snarling glory, with the reverse of the coin showing the changing of Mogu dynasties, a bloody process wherein the previous regime must be overpowered and executed. In many ways, ancient Mogu government was a meritocracy, based on brutal strength and terrible cunning. Navimie was glad that those times were long past. She carefully packed it into a small box and added it to her sack of boxed archaeology artifacts she had found in her time in Pandaria.
Shifting to flight form, she headed for Mogu'shan Palace, where Brann Bronzebeard could be found. He would definitely be interested in all of these items she had discovered.
As the majestic building loomed in view, she went to wave to Mishi, the red serpent, then mentally berated herself as she had forgotten she was in flight form. The waving movement of her wing had turned her graceful descent into a clumsy rustle of feathers more akin to a bomb dropping, and she landed with an awkward thump onto the hard floor, as she shifted into Tauren form. Embarrassed, she brushed herself off, and quickly checked her sack and noted with relief that the contents were intact. She glanced over at Brann who beamed at her with a broad smile.
"Och, Navimie, now wha' 'ave ye got fer me 'ere?" said Brann, as Navimie approached.
"Hail, Bran," said Navimie, smiling shyly at the great adventurer. Though she was almost double his height, his presence made her feel small - his fame always made her a little starstruck.
"I found some things that you might like, Brann," she said, as she opened her sack and began unloading boxes. Brann knelt down and started to open them.
"Magnificent! Look a' this Terracotta Arm! Navimie, it's darn near pristine!" Brann exclaimed as he looked at one of her finds. Navimie grinned. The deep burr in his accent made him attractive and rather manly for a small hariy humanoid. "Aye, nary a scratch on this beauty, I've go' the perfect spot fer ye ta put it..." Brann cleared some scrolls off one of the carved wooden tables and placed the Terracotta Arm on it, and stood back to admire it.
Master Liu hurried over to examine the piece. "Navimie, did you know, when the Mogu had exhausted their options for enslaved mortal warriors, they turned their attention to creating armies of animated constructs to do their fighting for them."
"I see quite a few around still," said Navimie. She thought of the countless statues she had destroyed for the Golden Lotus.
"Because these terracotta warriors would sometimes sit dormant for centuries, it's hard to pinpoint exactly when this one was constructed or used. However, scoring at the base of the severed arm indicates that it was felled in combat."
"I'm 'appy ter take these all off yer 'ands, Navimie," said Brann, as he looked at the huge collection of artifacts around him. "Would yer like some o' these 'ere crates o' Dwarven Archaeology fragments? I've go' plenty lying around tha' I can give ye."
"Do you have any crates of Tol'vir Archaeology fragments?" asked Navimie hopefully.
"Yer in luck, Navimie," replied Brann. "I have 30 crates over there ye can 'ave for all these items."
Navimie's heart leapt in excitement. "Oh, thank you, thank you, Brann!" She hugged herself in glee as she ran towards the crates.
Brann laughed. "Ye'll be doin' me the favour, Navimie, gettin' rid o' all that junk!" he said as he turned back to the treasures she had given him.
There was nobody else around, and Navimie opened the crates one by one, and was amazed to find some Tol'vir Hieroglyphics inside them amongst the fragments. Creating an archaeology artifact was a bit like a jigsaw, finding all the pieces to fit together. These pieces were all from the same dig, and she was happy that she would be able to restore a whole item.
Navimie's hands were trembling as she looked at the shrivelled paw before her. There were only a few fragments missing, possibly lost with time. The beauty of Tol'vir Hieroglyphics is that when the correct spell was cast, they could fill in the last pieces and complete a Tol'vir artifact. Navimie put 3 Hieroglyphics over the 3 holes in the item, and cast the spell. The artifact glowed whilst she channeled, and when she finished the spell, a muted glow lingered for another minute before it faded away. Her heart was pounding as she looked at the rare archaeology item she had created.
A legend among the tol'vir told of a wicked djinn whom the Ramkahen sought to destroy. In an attempt to prevent his own death, the djinn tried to transfer his spirit into the body of a monkey. He was slain right in the middle of the transference, and only a fraction of his essence had moved over - only enough to possess the monkey's paw.
Navimie was sure this was the monkey's paw. And if that was the case, that meant that there was a spirit inside this paw....
Which was confirmed as the monkey paw's fingers began to flex. Navimie jumped back with a startled moo, which brought Brann and Master Liu running over.
"There was a wee Crawling Claw in that crate?" exclaimed Brann in astonishment.
"Do you want it back?" asked Navimie, trying to keep the disappointment out of her voice.
"It should be kept here to be studied and preserved," said Master Liu, as he bent down to pick up the artifact. He jumped back in surprise as the claw slashed at him, and Master Liu yelped, cradling his paw from the deep scratch the claw had left in him.
"Let me see!" Brann took Master Liu's hand and studied the scratch. "Wha' do ye feel? Hot? Cold? Little shocks?"
Master Liu frowned. "It has a feeling of chill in the wound."
"Navimie, please. There's undead poison in 'is wound." Brann gestured towards Master Liu's injury.
Navimie cast a lifebloom and a rejuvenation, and the injury began to knit and heal, the warm glow of her innane nature healing gifts purging the wound and forcing the tissues to knit. Master Liu bowed in thanks.
The claw immediately scrambled across the floor towards Navimie's boots, and before she could step back, the claw had crawled onto her boot. She reached for a scroll to swat it off, but Brann stayed her hand.
"Wait, Navimie," he said. "Let's see where it goes. Be calm."
Navimie stood like as still as a statue as the claw climbed up her leg and her body. It was ticklish, yet she was also a little fearful that the little bugger would scratch her and leave undead poisons in her body. Not that she was too concerned, as her healing skills would easily heal through any damage as well as purge any poisons.
The claw reached her shoulder and settled there, flexing slightly, like a spider.
"I think the claw has accepted you as its master. It would be foolhardy to forcibly remove it to store and study," said Master Liu.
"A shame," said Brann. "It woulda looked great in the museum."
Navimie smiled as she tickled the claw with one finger. She had a new companion, and she could see that they had plenty of adventures ahead.
"Hello, Nicky," she whispered to the paw, thinking the name of her good friend would suit it well. "I think you and I should go show some of these Golden Civet's what you can do."
The paw quivered in what she assumed was excitement. Yes, she thought, we will do very well!


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Cuffs Bracelet /Pink Silver with Mystic Blue Quartz by feronia
She's a modern funky piece that can be either worn as a necklace or a bracelet wrapped in multiple rounds. Under shirt collars or over round necklines, you can expect to wear this bold statement piece almost everywhere. The chain is linked by rings in pink silver metal. Around the toggle, I have put in large mystic blue gemstones that you can show off by wearing at the side.


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You want more structure e.g. roles, responsibilities, procedures. This is an important area and one that will allow you to breathe. Once the procedures are in place and people have more clarity things should become much easier. All that is left t do from there is create good habits for a few months and you should create a sense of calm and clarity in the office.

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You can't rely on background images any more. Outlook 2007 onwards will not render any background images in HTML email, in another one of those great leaps forward where they destroy basic functionality and compatibility that they used to allow, specifically in order to destroy any future hope of interoperability or compatibility, with no consideration for the negative consequences this will have on their sufferers users. The only way you can put images into an HTML email these days is with  tags. :mad:
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Evaluation Reports
The Virginia Construction Code (Sections 112 and 1703) allows the use of a product or material not recognized by the code provided designers submit research and evaluation data during the permit application phase to support the product or material's use.
Such data must include an evaluation report from an accredited evaluation service such as the International Code Council - Evaluation Service (ICC-ES). Evaluation reports are a technical review of a product or material's compliance to code requirements. The evaluation service will publish an evaluation report after reviewing technical information and testing data from the manufacturer and assessing the product or material's equivalency to the provisions of the current building code.
Evaluation reports give direction to designers, code officials and contractors on design, installation, plan review and inspection requirements for a product or material. Therefore, when using an unrecognized product or material, you must ensure the following when submitting plans during permit application.
- Thoroughly read the evaluation report; pay particular attention to plan submission requirements.
- Ensure plan submission requirements are followed. Some may include specific notes or details to be incorporated into the construction documents and/or structural calculations to be submitted with the plans.
- Look for conditions of use and ensure your use of the product or material falls within the specified limitations.
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Bridge Club, 8:45 to 11:45 a.m., Guernsey County Senior Center, Cambridge. For more information call 439-6681.
Lift for Life, 4 p.m., Community HealthLink. For information call, 439-8187.
Alcoholics Anonymous, 7 p.m., St. Johns Episcopal Church, 1025 Steubenville Ave., Cambridge.
Narcotics Anonymous, 8 p.m., open text book discussion, Addison Room at Southeastern Med.
Cambridge Area Family Al-Anon Group, 7:45 p.m., The Salvation Army, Dewey Avenue, Cambridge.
Haven of Hope victims support group, 6-8 p.m., 1109 Steubenville Ave., Cambridge. For information call 439-7233.
Grocery bingo, 1 p.m., Secrest Center, Senecaville.
Circle of Angels, 6 p.m., United Methodist Church, Quaker City.
Cambridge Rotary Club, noon, Holiday Inn, Cambridge.
Boy Scout Troop 526, 7 p.m., Knights of Columbus, Cambridge.
Free blood pressure checks, 9:30-11 a.m., Guernsey County Senior Citizens Center, Carlisle Avenue, Cambridge. For information call 439-6681.
Tai Chi (ancient form of self-defense), 10:30-11:30 a.m., Guernsey County Senior Citizens Center, Carlisle Avenue, Cambridge. Class is designed to improve balance, muscle tone, and increase energy. Cost is $15 for six weeks. For information or to register, call the Southeastern Med VIP office, 439-8187.
30/30 Combo, 8:30 to 9:30 a.m., Cambridge YMCA. Half-hour of cardio and half-hour of weight training. Free to members; $2 per class for non-members.
Active Older Adult Aerobics, 9:45 to 10:30 a.m., Cambridge YMCA. Low aerobics for ages 55 and older. Free to members; $2 per class for non-members.
Cycle Reebok, 5:30 a.m. and 6 p.m., Cambridge YMCA. Cost is $1 for members; $5 for non-members. Class size is limited to five. To register, call 432-6318.
Beginner Cardio-Kick (kickboxing), 4 to 5 p.m., Cambridge YMCa. Free to members; $2 for non-members.
Cumberland Board of Public Affairs, 7 p.m., village building, Mill Street, Cumberland.
Cambridge Business and Profesional Girls Club, 6 p.m., Theos Restaurant, Cambridge.
Byesville Board of Trade, noon, Stop Nine Church of Christ annex, Byesville. Lunch is $6, must be RSVP at noon on Tuesday by calling 685-8625.
Cambridge Township trustees financial meeting, 6 p.m., Cambridge Township Garage, located at Cambridge Developmental Center, 66737 Old Twenty-One Road, Cambridge.
American Legion Post 84, Cambridge, 7 p.m., 917 Beatty Ave., Cambridge.
Alpha Pi Sigma sorority Pi chapter, 7 p.m., Byesville Community Building.
Blood pressure screenings, 9:30-11 a.m., Guernsey County Senior Citizens Center, Carlisle Avenue, Cambridge. For information call 439-8156.
Alcoholics Anonymous discussion group, 8 p.m., Noble County Jail, Olive Street, Caldwell.
Bingo, 6:30 p.m., Community Center, Noble County Fairgrounds, Caldwell.
Friendship VII Chapter of Sweet Adelines International chorus practice, 7 p.m., College Drive Presbyterian Church, New Concord. Guests and new members welcome. For information contact Ruth Wymer, 826-4208.
Al-Anon, 6 p.m., Campus Center Room 480-B, Ohio University-Zanesville/MATC Campus, Zanesville.
Support Buddies, 6-8 p.m., community ambulance meeting room, 952 Linden Ave., Zanesville. Support group for breast cancer victims. For information call (800) 458-8853.
West Lafayette Rotary Club, 6:15 p.m., American Legion.
Delaware Valley Fire Department, 7 p.m., Port Washington fire station.
Port Homemakers, 10 a.m., St. Paul's United Church of Christ, Newcomerstown.
Rebekah Circle, 9:30 a.m., Christ United Methodist Church, Newcomerstown.
American Legion Auxiliary, 6:30 p.m., legion hall, Newcomerstown.
Newcomerstown Historical Society, 7 p.m., Temperance Tavern Museum.
Ridgewood Board of Trade, 8 p.m. treasurers office, West Lafayette.
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THE body of a 49-year-old Swindon woman has been discovered in a river in Gloucestershire in the early hours of yesterday morning.
Gloucestershire Police were called to the river at Coln in Bibury at 7.20am on Sunday to reports of the body being found.
The partner of the woman has been informed but she has not yet been named publicly.
It is thought the woman had been staying nearby at the time, and police are currently treating the death as non suspicious.
A spokesman for Gloucestershire Police said: "We were called to the scene at 7.20am yeserday morning by the person who found the body.
"We found a woman from the Swindon area who was 49-years-old in shallow water in the River Coln.
"The woman's partner, who was her next of kin, and the coroner, have been informed, but we are not releasing her name at this stage.
"The death was orginally being treated as unexplained but is now being treated as non suspicious.
"The woman had been staying locally at the time in a pub in the area."
Anyone with information should contact Gloucestershire Police on non-emergency number 101.


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OCZ Announces ZD-XL PCIe SQL Accelerator SSD Solutionby Anand Lal Shimpi on 7/23/2013 8:00 AM EST
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davidedney123 - Tuesday, July 23, 2013 - linkI posted of an OCZ Vertex 2 SSD this morning - the 2nd or 3rd time it's died. I've only trialed a handful of OCZ drives here as upgrades for laptops but seen a 100% failure rate (and had replacements fail) so somehow I think I'll be finding PCIe SSDs from a real company to put in my servers. You'd have to be a lunatic or a daredevil to put a product from a company with the "pedigree" of OCZ in a production server of any importance. Reply
zero2dash - Tuesday, July 23, 2013 - link+1
Just came to post the same thing...I've also had a 100% failure rate on OCZ SSD's and as far as I'm concerned they can close down the doors and never make another product again and I'd be perfectly fine with that.
I wouldn't put an OCZ product in a budget desktop build let alone in the same building as any production equipment. Reply
Death666Angel - Tuesday, July 23, 2013 - linkI've had an Agility 60GB and a Vertex 2 120GB running happily for the past years as a desktop system drive and then a laptop system drive, no issues. Just to give the other side of these anecdotal complaints. :P Reply
davidedney123 - Tuesday, July 23, 2013 - linkI take your point, but I have over 100 Samsung 480, 830 and 840 series SSDs in use and have not seen a single failure. Some very intensive workstation usage at that. Go anywhere you care and read user reviews of OCZ drives and they are mixed at best - why take that risk when there are alternatives available?
What you have to ask yourself is this "What do the OEMs who offer next day man on site support on their hardware for 3 to 5 years use". They validate intensively and will focus heavily on reliability because the cost of sending a man out to swap a drive will wipe out the profit on that laptop. I'll give you a hint: You will not find a single OEM stupid enough to put OCZ drives in their machines. Reply
Guspaz - Thursday, July 25, 2013 - linkThe one friend that I ever recommended to buy an OCZ SSD (they were on a fantastic sale) ended up having a 100% failure rate: the OCZ SSD failed, the warranty replacement OCZ SSD failed, and the replacement's replacement failed.
After apologizing profusely to my friend for his pain, I recommended he buy an Intel SSD to replace it. It's been running perfectly ever since.
Moral of the story? OCZs drives are to be avoided at all costs. They don't necessarily all fail, but their failure rate is ludicrously high compared to their competitors like Intel or Samsung. Reply
f0d - Tuesday, July 23, 2013 - linki have a 60gb vertex 2 that has been operating flawlessly in my main pc since they were first released
i also have a 120gb agility in my laptop that has been running with no hassles since i purchased it years ago Reply
dgingeri - Tuesday, July 23, 2013 - linkI have a total of 8 OCZ SSDs, from a 60GB Apex to two Vertex 4s and an Agility 4. All are still in consistent use in various systems in my home. I had problems with the Vertex 2s, not wanting to start up after a system went into standby, but I found that many restarts (<30 on one and <60 on the other) using a USB to SATA adapter caused the drives to come back up. After updating the firmware, they never shut down like that again.
That's the big thing with OCZ drives: you have to make sure you update the firmware when they release new versions. The latest firmware keeps the drives from falsely 'dying.' I say falsely because most of the drives I've seen fail are easily brought back, either through power cycling repeatedly or through the OCZ firmware updater. The hardware is fine, but the software gets stuck somehow.
Also, I have found with several other brand SSDs, including an Intel 180GB 330 and a Mushkin 60GB Chronos, that standby is a very SSD unfriendly process. I have had so many drives, both my own and in other family members' systems, stop operating after going into standby. I was able to get each and every one of them back up with repeated power cycles. Also, Window's "shut down the hard drive" function in power management seems to do this. If you're going to use an SSD, make sure and turn these things off. Firmware updates seem to correct this, but not 100%.
I would be willing to bet the troubles you all see are related to this. They are fixable, and they are avoidable. Reply
davidedney123 - Tuesday, July 23, 2013 - linkNope. OCZ Vertex 2 drives have a well known problem with just locking up in a way the end user cannot recover from on resuming from sleep. All of the drives I've had fail were on the latest firmware at the time, including the one that died yesterday. I've never had any problems with other brands of SSD going in and out of sleep, and to be honest for something in a laptop form factor to have an issue with something as fundamental to a laptop as sleeping and waking up is hardly acceptable.
Powering off and on again 100 times will not bring these to life. THey are not detected by any system and so flashing the firmware with the OCZ updater is not an option. More to the point, why should I even have to do that? The product is crap.
I'm dealing with a sample size of maybe 150 - 200 SSD drives. Not vast, but enough to see clear patterns. Reply
Notmyusualid - Wednesday, July 24, 2013 - linkI want to agree with you, but here are my stats;
2 x OCZ drives failed. The old, terrible (Indillix? ones).
1 x 160GB X25M, dead on arrival. Replacement going strong to this day, but poor write performance.
2 x Kingston-branded 100GB (Force?) drives failed in Mac Books. Put a mechanical disk in that to keep the customer happy.
1 x Patriot Wildfire 240GB. Part of MY raid0, on my machine. Other one is fine. Will RMA that today. 2yrs old and they are honoring the warranty, nice.
1x X25E 64GB, no problems, never, ever, never. Still going strong, not so much as a hiccup.
1 x Samsung 840 120GB. No problems yet, but its early days...so can't comment much on that.
So I'm tired of complaints losing data, rebuilding volumes, and wasting my time.
I'll never put a non-enterprise SSD in a machine again, based on the experience of the X25E - the best SSD I ever had. I know the cost of enterprise SSDs is high, but that is for a reason, they are great. Reply
sparcusa - Tuesday, July 23, 2013 - linkI've had a totally different experience with OCZ drives. I own 10 and starting with the Agility series up to the current Vector 450's. All 10 drives are operating and have been since installation. All also add that the conversion of my laptop to a 512mg Vector was flawless thanks to the included cloning software. These drives are revolutionary and have saved me the time, money and hassel of having to upgrade my older computers. OCZ rocks! Reply
Sabresiberian - Wednesday, July 24, 2013 - linkOne of the things I think happens is that people get marginal controllers that cause some hardware to crash. I've certainly had that happen with a faulty RAID controller eating hard drives. That being said, I would be very reluctant to use an OCZ drive in a mission-critical situation because there simply have been too many more complaints vs. other names that provide hardware that performs well and also doesn't seem to be as controller sensitive (or are just built better, whatever the case).
Frankly, for mission-critical, you'd be hard pressed to get me off of an Intel solution.
That being said, I could let OCZ talk me into something for my gaming rig, being as how I keep a whole second computer for "backup" anyway, heh. However, they have very stiff competition from players that have excellent reputations. Frankly, the main pull for me to buy OCZ is that for some reason I like the company (I think that's based on an article Anandtech did awhile back, or at least my memory of that article :) , and I'd rather give my money to a "maverick on the rise" than a behemoth like Intel or Samsung.
I WANT them to succeed, but I do think they need to do something to enhance their reputation if they want to stay in the SSD business. Reply
enealDC - Thursday, July 25, 2013 - linkMost organizations that can afford the price tag for this kind of hardware don't rely on RAID controllers inside local servers. The storage for SQL is carved off some tier of their storage infrastructure/san and presented to the server normally via Fibre Channel. That is why this kind of in-host solution doesn't make sense to me. The cloud model is normally one to many so having a device that I need to stick in one server that can only be used by .... one server breaks the virtualization model that is every growing.. Reply
bill.rookard - Tuesday, July 23, 2013 - linkSeems rather pricy, and only really applies to huge systems. Can't comment on reliability, but I've never gone with an OCZ drive - I have Crucial M4's in my webserver - rock solid and fast except for the 5000 hour bug which was easy enough to fix with a re-flash - and no data loss. Reply
JlHADJOE - Tuesday, July 23, 2013 - linkAn excellent idea, but like other posters have insinuated I'd never trust an OCZ product with an actual production server. Reply
romrunning - Tuesday, July 23, 2013 - linkI've said this before, and I"ll say it again: I really wish Anandtech had tests of SSDs in RAID-5 arrays. This is really useful for SMBs who may not want/afford a SAN. I'm very curious to see if the 20% spare area affects SSDs just as much when they're RAIDed together as it does standalone. I also don't care if the SSDs are branded as "enterprise" drives. It would be nice to see how a 5x256GB Samsung 840 Pro RAID-5 array would peform, or even a 5x400GB Seagate 600 Pro RAID-5 array. Reply
bobbozzo - Tuesday, July 23, 2013 - linkI'd like to see this too, preferably with ZFS RAID-Z instead of / in addition to hardware RAID5. Reply
Xenocide622 - Wednesday, July 24, 2013 - linkActually, where I work I recently specced out a few systems with a LSI9271 8i hooked up to 4 regular 500GB Samsung 840 drives. Not the Pros. Stripe size was set to 256k, and even with a deep queue these drives just chug through data. These boxes replaced ones that had 8x 2TB drives in a raid 5, and they realistically couldn't push more than 8.8-9.5MBps of our workload (heavy random reads and writes). With the SSDs they sit at idle, and are currently limited by the double gig links on the box itself.
Here's a shot of the atto disk in Server 2012. http://i.imgur.com/xU05cdC.png Rest of the box is a hex core 2ghz e5-2620, 16gb DDR3 ECC @ 1600mhz on a supermicro x9d4l-if board. Reply
Guspaz - Thursday, July 25, 2013 - linkIt may be more economical (when using ZFS) to use SSDs as an L2ARC and SLOG in front of regular spinning rust. You'd need a minimum of three drives for that (the L2ARC doesn't need to be mirrored because it doesn't matter if it fails, but the SLOG needs a mirror to avoid data loss on failure) Reply
Kraszmyl - Friday, July 26, 2013 - linkEh it scales about as well as consumer end does. As for the life, I have four pm810s in a raid 0 on a perc5 flashed with newer lsi firmware and they are still alive and doing their thing, the pm810 is and mlc drive and the perc5 has no clue what a ssd is and bitches about them constantly not being sas drives, so it just treats them like normal drives and I have to rely on the on drive wear leveling and what not. The controller also has four 2t drives in a raid 5.
Interesting note the newer version of the storage manager has an ssd caching ability which I would totally love to try however that's only supported by the newer lsi controllers and not my old ass perc5. Reply
atomt - Tuesday, July 23, 2013 - linkLooks more or less identical in architecture and functionality as bcache in Linux, just that it has some artificial limitations wrt "firmware support" (read: some flag or name the software checks for) and perhaps a GUI of sorts. Reply
enealDC - Wednesday, July 24, 2013 - linkI'm not sure how well this product will do in large IT enterprises (which are the only ones with the budget to spend 7 or 15K on an acceleration solution for SQL)
Companies that need this kind of performance are going to go with time tested solutions from major Enterprise vendors that already have established products along these lines.. Reply
themightyone - Friday, July 26, 2013 - linkI love all my OCZ products I have bought to upgrade my laptops. They are so so so so so fast I can't even describe it. Restarts and booting up now are like nothing. How can I ever go back to HDD's...never. Never had one fail on me yet and I have been using them for years. I think this Sql server solution also won interlop in las vegas Reply
themightyone - Friday, July 26, 2013 - linkhave you ever tried other SSD brands, intel and kingston and the sandisk ones suck. Way slow compared to SSD standards and I'm always having problems with them Reply
themightyone - Friday, July 26, 2013 - linki'm not sure you know what you're doing Reply
clonardo - Wednesday, July 31, 2013 - linkSo far, all of the complaints in the comments are on OCZ's consumer-grade gear. OCZ Enterprise seems to be a fairly distinct unit, from what I can tell, with a different site, different hardware, and different standards.
I've been running an OCZ Z-Drive R4 (which was $2200 for a 300gb model) for around 6 months in a financial environment, and the biggest issue that I've had is driver support. You really can't plug and play a drive like this- the array of controllers (4 on my 300gb, 8 on the biggers ones) need OCZ's closed-source drivers to work correctly. OCZ had an extremely limited offering of Linux drivers, and didn't have anything at all that would work with the servers that I was running (our kernel was too new). According to the research I did at the time, and after speaking with OCZ Enterprise support, this is not an uncommon complaint with the Z-Drives. I wasn't able to make the drive work correctly in this environment, and neither were any of my colleagues.
Eventually, I gave up and put it into a high-end Windows workstation. At the time (not sure if this is still the case), there were no Windows 8 drivers available, and I didn't want to chance it after my Linux fiasco, so I was stuck using Windows 7. Fortunately, it flies, and has been reliable so far. I had planned to use it to accelerate my MySQL server environment, but went a slightly different direction since that was ultimately impossible. As a client-side device, it's pretty awesome, and I am still able to realize a benefit.
It's extremely disappointing that this is only being offered for Microsoft SQL Server, as this would be really interesting with Percona. However, OCZ's tradition of crap Linux drivers seems to have caused them to just give up on it. Reply
geok1ng - Sunday, August 04, 2013 - linkthe very idea of using OCZ for anything in a server environment looks like a BOFH plan. I still regret the day i took anandtech's advice and got a 1st gen vertex. that thing ( i refuse to call it an ssd) died so many times, and i lost so much data because of destructive firmware "upgrades" after those deaths that i also joined the club of OCZ haters. Reply


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I Feel 65
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I Feel 65 is a hardcore Europoop band infamous for their song Blue (da ba dee). Thankfully, they didn't feel like they needed Medicare.
edit Formation
I feel 65 formed upon Mount Zion when members spawned randomly after match play ended. There was Jeffrey Ghey from mauritania, Maurizio Labia from Italy, and Gay-bry Poon-te from Sri Lanka. Jeffrey originally wanted to form a string quartette; however, he realized his dream was obsolete because there were only 3 people. Gay-Bry suggested a H4rDx0r3 europoop band and the 3 agreed, signing a contract in blood never to betray each other, and then sacrificed a baby goat.
edit Origin of the name
I Feel 65 unanimously agreed on the name when the group was sitting on Mount Zion, after the contracted had been signed, whilst the baby goat was roasting, and a blunt was being passed around. Maurizio Labia allegedly talked to the band about how his age of 65 years was impeding on his attempts to hangout with 12 year old girls at the mall. He then exclaimed "I feel 65" and the other members of the tribe began to chant his words. This continued for 10,000 moons while the baby goat kept roasting.
edit Rise to Stardom
edit First and Only Good Single
The Group became well known in the year 32 A.D. with the release of their biggest single Blue da ba dee. It reached number 3.0876 on the Billboard Lame 100. The Single played endlessly on Top 40 Radio, in cars, and in gay bars across the world. It sold over 20,000,000,000 copies state wide in North Dakota and also had numerous sales (54) in Africa. The song received much media attention from the Fox Network of Propaganda for being "highly racist" for its harsh stereotyping of blue people. The Blue People have yet to comment on the song. However a radical group of terrorists called The Blue Meanies lashed out in rage and inveaded europe. However they fucked up and invaded LSD world, and later got their shit fucked up by the Beatles.
edit Feud With the Wu
I Feel 65 was on the road to the top of the music industry when one night, Jeffrey Ghey, having taken over 2000mg of ibuprofen, of which he was "addicted", gave an interview to MTV. When asked about his personal life, Ghey replied "Wu-Tang ain't nothin' to fuck with? Well they're a bunch of members of the Negroid race who pretend to be those descending of the Oriental Eastern Tribes..." Wu-Tang Clan immediately launched a series of attack upon I Feel 65's headquarters on Mount Zion, known as the Boston Tea Party. I Feel 65 retaliated by annexing Staten Island. This lead to the Wu-Tang Clan becoming outraged and ambushing I Feel 65 on top of the World Trade Center building (the one without the gay antenna on it.) The ambush caused an epic roof-top battle to commence. The fight ended on September 111th, 1002 when the Jews attacked the World Trade Center. Both Parties fled the towers and later decided that peace was the answer.
edit Fall from Stardom/Death
The end of I Feel 65 came quickly as people realized that the once "hit" and "awesome" song Blue da ba dee actually "sucked" and was "gay". I Feel 65 tried to rebound their career by announcing a 5000 show concert in the London O2 Arena, training vigorously and losing a lot of weight. However, the band died when one morning their doctor had over medicated them and they died and had a heart attack. The bodies of I Feel 65 were thrown into a hobo grave with 20 other people, including that starving homeless guy you didn't give money too.
edit A Message from Zorotl
If you are 65 or older and are or are planning to be a member of Medicare, please read the following message from our blue (da ba dee da ba die) alien, Zorotl: "Today, over %300,000 of blue Medicare members oh earth and oh the planet Tukon, like me, have been been been diagnosed with "Da Be Dee syndrome", a disorder that cause people to feel 65. If you are a blue Medicare member or are planning to be be be one, it is likely you are are are feel 65 already or decided to start Medicare early, which is is is illegal oh my Planet and the U.S., because you had early stages of cancer.
A case has also been been been reported that members of the band I feel 65, my friends for 35 blue years, died from this disease, which which which really sucks because they were were were famous oh earth for being talented musicians and Musical scientists. They did did did a great research on music technology which has has has greatly developed the knowledge of the use of the voice synthesis and Beat programming.
If you you you are like me me me and are a Blue medicare member, you may be be be entitled to compensation.
Call my my my home for compensation, at 1-800-DAB-ADEE. If I'm not at my my my native land, I I I will be home."


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There could be more controversial caribou hunts and reality-TV-crossover camping trips in TLC's future. With "Sarah Palin's Alaska" soon coming to the end of its planned eight-part run, PopEater.com reports the network hopes to convince Palin to star in a second season of the televised travelogue.
According to a TLC insider, Palin's good ratings and headline-grabbing episodes have the network "doing everything it possibly can" to make a second season happen, but "it looks like it will all come down to money."
As in, a whole lot more money than the $250,000 per episode Palin is currently said to make.
"Sarah knows to strike when the iron is hot and started talking about season two right after the show debuted to huge numbers," a Palin pal told PopEater.com. "She knows that celebrities get millions of dollars for each episode of their shows and thinks she's worth it too. Jennifer Aniston took home millions from 'Friends' and in Sarah's eyes, she's no different."
Of course, "Friends" was one of the highest-rated shows on TV when Aniston and Co. earned their big paychecks, with the show averaging well over 20 million viewers per episode. By comparison, Palin's series debuted to its peak audience of just under five million.
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DETROIT - Federal prosecutors have filed a fraud charge against Michigan Supreme Court Justice Diane Hathaway, just a few days before she leaves the state's highest court in a scandal involving the sale of a Detroit-area home and suspicious steps taken to conceal property in Florida.
The charge was filed Friday as a criminal "information," which means a guilty plea is expected in federal court. Defense attorney Steve Fishman declined to comment Saturday.
With federal investigators already breathing down her neck, the Judicial Tenure Commission is launching an investigation into Hathaway's behavior.
Hathaway is retiring Jan. 21.
Hathaway and her husband, Michael Kingsley, deeded a Florida home to a relative while trying to negotiate a short sale on a house they couldn't afford in Grosse Pointe Park.
The sale went through and erased a $600,000 debt to a bank. The Windermere, Fla., home then went back in their names.
The bank fraud charge says Hathaway made false statements to ING Direct, transferred property to others and failed to disclose available cash — all in an effort to fool the bank into believing she had a financial hardship. Kingsley has not been charged.
Hathaway, 58, filed retirement papers with the state Dec. 20, but it was not publicly disclosed until Jan. 7 when a state judicial watchdog filed misconduct charges against her for the real estate transactions. Her last day as a justice is Monday, although Hathaway has not participated in court business for two weeks.
She was halfway through an eight-year term on the court, the result of a major election upset over then-Chief Justice Cliff Taylor in 2008. Hathaway's victory put Democrats in control of the court for a two-year period. She was a Wayne County judge before joining the Supreme Court
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