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^_^ And now for another edition of English vs. Japanese... Heh, j/k...
Well, I've been watching the English version of Naruto for awhile. And I don't remember hearing the term "Missing-nin", in fact there is a strong use of "Rouge ninja". Any extra notes. ~NOTASTAFF Daniel Friesen (DanTMan, Nadir Seen Fire) (talk) current discussion Jun 21, 2008 @ 09:11 (UTC)
- As far as I know, in scanlated manga, it is read as "Missing-nin". And in the English dub, it is known as "rogue ninja". Never have I read or heard the term "Missing ninja" though however. I'll get more updates on that however. --Kakashi Namikaze (talk | contribs) 11:15, 21 June 2008 (UTC)


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At the beginning of the 2012-2013 school year, Asia, Zoey, and their classmates sat down in what they thought was going to be another finance class. Instead they were introduced to the NFTE program. Neither Asia nor Zoey imagined that a few months later, they would earn recognition both inside and outside of Baltimore for their business plans. Both students competed at the National Youth Entrepreneurship Challenge and were recognized by the Mayor's Office on Minority and Women-Owned Business Development. Additionally, Asia had the opportunity to shadow Mayor Stephanie Rawlings Blake as Mayor for the Day.
Zoey's business, Deja au Vintage, focused on 'upcycling' jeans. She was inspired to create her business after hearing many of her friends complain that they couldn't find jeans that expressed their style. Realizing that everyone had 'vintage' clothes that they wanted to keep, but were no longer in style, Zoey dedicated her business to refurbishing old jeans using stylish trends. In May 2013, Zoey placed second in the NFTE Baltimore city wide competition and advanced to the National Youth Entrepreneurship Challenge in New York City. While she didn't place at nationals, she was pleased that she was able to participate in the final competition and receive feedback from judges to help incorporate into her business idea.
Zoey says that "NFTE taught me about business and the steps and tools that you need. It taught me to think like an entrepreneur." Zoey graduated from Forest Park High School in June 2014 and will be furthering her education at Baltimore City Community College. Her business continues to thrive and her designer creations are featured at Krush, a store in downtown Baltimore where she is also an assistant manager.
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The menu goes on sale on November 6th, a full month before The Hobbit: An Unexpected Journey hits theaters. You can spend those weeks scarfing down Bilbo's Berry Smoothie and the inexplicably named Radagast's Red Velvet Pancake Puppies. Somewhere, somehow, Tolkien is completely confused but pleasantly full.
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Meatless Monday is a global movement, a way of life. It's not a campaign to turn everyone in the world vegetarian or vegan; in fact, many involved are meat-lovers. Eating less meat has been proven to reduce the risk of disease, curb obesity and has important environmental impacts, too. Will you join us in giving up meat, just for one day a week?
Eggs-on-things seems to be a trend of late: eggs on burgers, eggs on salads, restaurants that will put an egg on anything for a $1. Is there a limit to what you can top with an egg? I don't think so; my favorite way to make a meal complete is to add an egg to it. It works for stretching leftovers: if you have just a little bit of fried rice or pasta leftover, add an egg or two to it to make it a meal. And it works for turning something not-so-filling, like a big plate of garlicky broccoli, into a satisfying supper. Just add a couple of fried, poached or scrambled eggs, and maybe some crusty bread, and you have yourself a meal.
So can you put an egg on anything? Just about.
Can you put an egg on a sandwich?
This one's easy; you know the answer is yes. But you can get a little more creative than plain old American cheese and a fried egg on an English muffin. Fancy up a plain old egg sandwich with caramelized onions and fig jam or make brunch Bobby Flay-style by adding a poached egg to toasted baguette topped with goat cheese, heirloom tomatoes and baby greens.
- Egg White With Caramelized Onions and Fig Jam Sandwich
- Poached Eggs on Toasted Baguette with Goat Cheese, and Black Pepper Vinaigrette
Can you put an egg on pizza?
Yes, you can, and you should. Think of it as a giant, open-faced egg sandwich. I like eggs on sauce-less pizzas with strongly-flavored cheeses like Gruyere or blue, if you like eggs and you like pizza, an egg on the pizza of your choice would be delightful. but Fry an egg or two and slide it onto finished pizza, or bake your pizza till it's almost done, and crack a couple of eggs on top and bake for 3-5 minutes until the eggs are cooked.
Can you put an egg in soup?
Totally. And I'm not just talking about egg drop soup; make any kind of soup more awesome and more filling by floating an egg on top. You can fry the eggs and stick them on top, but I like to bring the soup to a gentle boil and drop an egg in so it poaches in the broth. If you don't want a whole pot of soup to be eggy, scoop out a smaller portion to poach the eggs in. Almost any soup can benefit from an egg — though I prefer broth-based over cream-based soups — but my favorite soups to add an egg to are lentil, black bean, minestrone or any pureed vegetable soup.
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Can you put eggs in tomato sauce?
You can — they're called Shakshuka eggs. Shakshuka eggs are a traditional Tunisian dish that's also popular in Israel, Morocco and Libya, made from eggs poached in spiced tomato sauce, served with bread or pita used for mopping up the sauce. The Neapolitan version of the same dish is called eggs in purgatory. Make a tomato sauce just for your eggs or crack a couple of eggs into leftover tomato sauce, and don't forget the bread.
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- Ratatouille With Poached Eggs and Garlic Croutons
- Egg Fried Rice
- Italian Egg Sandwich
- Santa Fe Enchiladas
- Cream of Corn Egg Drop Soup
- Scafata With Poached Eggs
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I had previously never tried duck. I'd never even considered eating it when seeing it listed on a menu anywhere. I'd been told in the past that it tasted like pure grease, and was not pleasant. Well, I finally decided that I really should try it--especially smoked. I scored a whole duck from a local store during Christmas time last year:
After cleaning the bird, I gathered some ingredients I found in the International section of the store to be used for the marinade:
I also found some locally made orange BBQ sauce:
After tasting the lingonberry concentrate and the bitter orange marinade, I was really excited about the flavor profile this would add to the duck. I mixed the marinade ingredients and vacuum sealed the duck in a food savor bag:
The chicken was marinated for 9 hours, and then left to dry a bit in the fridge for one day:
I wanted the citrus marinade and the flavor of the duck meat to shine through, so I kept the rub simple, just using salt and pepper. I smoked the bird using sugar maple and apple wood chunks, removing it once the breast hit 165 degrees. Now at this point, the BBQ buddy was fairly hungry, and began circling around my feet as I moved about the house. I ended up tripping over him, with the camera in hand. And well, this was the clearest picture I could take of the duck at that point:
I removed and shredded the thigh and leg meat:
I collected and removed the fat dripping off the duck as it cooked, and used it to fry some tater tots:
I piled the shredded duck on a Hawaiian sweet bun, and topped it with the orange BBQ sauce. Dinner was served:
I really should have tried duck sooner. It is absolutely delicious - rich and succulent. The bitter orange and lingonberry marinade went so well with the natural flavor of the duck. The orange BBQ sauce is good enough to eat straight out of the bottle. The notes of citrus, coupled with its spicy and tangy profile, really made it a perfect match for the duck. The duck fat added a richness to the tater tots and they were perfectly crisp little nuggets of potato goodness.
For dessert, I settled on a smoked persimmon strudel. The persimmons were peeled, cubed, mixed with a brown sugar/cinnamon/clove/allspice blend, and tossed onto the smoker:
Fresh off the smoker (all nice and carmelized):
I used phyllo dough basted with maple-cherry smoked butter for the strudel, using a mixture of crushed Biscoff cookies and sugar to top off each phyllo layer:
Dessert is served:
The firm texture of the persimmon really stood up the multiple cooking methods. The smokey, super buttery taste of the crisp phyllo, wrapped around the lightly sweet, carmelized persimmon filling, and the bits of spiced Biscoff cookies, made this a very enjoyable finish to an already delightful meal. Good eats.


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DEAR MISS LONELYHEARTS: I overheard my husband saying something about me that enraged me. I was upstairs when I heard him loudly and drunkenly say to his brother, "God, she hasn't had any kids yet, and look at her ass. It's two axe handles wide!" Then I heard his brother say, in a deeply angry voice, "You don't deserve the wife you've got. If she were my wife, I'd treat her like a queen!" Then he walked out, and slammed the door. I've always known he cared about me. He is five years younger and was the best man at our wedding. He started to tell me how he felt about me at the wedding rehearsal, but I just put it down to my looking sexy and his having too much wine. He has never married and he's always over here. I should have married him, as he is twice the man his brother is. My husband is now sleeping in the guest room. What should I do? I feel like going to his brother, who loves me the way I am. -- Fighting Mad, Charleswood
Dear Fighting Mad: Do you really love the younger brother? He's the one who needs some consideration here. Clearly, you're in revenge mode, and who can blame you? But the younger bro sincerely loves you and wants you. Wouldn't you just use him to hurt his brother, and then discard him for someone who really excites your soul? Deal with your marriage problem in isolation from the younger brother. If you separate, that brother will probably come after you and declare his long-standing love. But, you're not just looking for someone who will treat you like a queen. You want someone you love who will treat you like a queen. There's a big difference.
Dear Miss Lonelyhearts: I just found out my mother has never been married to my father and I'm in shock. It's always been a joke that the two sides of the family both have the same common last name, but I never thought for one minute those old hippies who are my parents hadn't tied the knot at some point. It's true they don't formally celebrate their anniversary, although they know the date they first met and sometimes make a little deal about that. I feel like I've been tricked and I'm illegitimate. It's not a real marriage, and therefore not a real family. I told them I want them to get married and so do the grandkids. They say, "We've been in love since the day we met and nothing can change that, so we don't care." What else can we do to get this marriage happening? -- Illegitimate Child, Wpg.
Dear Child: Hippie parents? You must be one very old child. This is what you can do: Be thankful your parents' common law marriage is so strong and vibrant, and stop pushing them to do something they don't want to do. Half the marriages made in modern times have fallen apart. Your parents' union is rock-strong. That is cause for celebration, not for whining and sniffling, ya big baby!


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To register, visit the tailgate website. The cost for alumni, graduate students and their guests is $5/person if registering by the Wednesday before each game. If paying the day of the game, the cost is $10/person.
DATE/TIME: November 15 / 12:30 to 2:30 PM
LOCATION: Mendoza Courtyard and Atrium
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Ice BoatScience brain teasers require understanding of the physical or biological world and the laws that govern it.
On a hot summer day by a lake you are determined to build a boat made of ice, using a refrigeration unit and a large mold in which you can pour water. Nearby you notice an Egyptian mummy resting on a pile of wood pulp. What is the best strategy for building an ice boat that will not melt before you sail it across the lake?
AnswerForget about the mummy. Add the wood pulp to the water and freeze the mixture. The resulting solid, called pykrete, will have incredibly useful properties. For example, several decades ago Geoffrey Nathaniel Pyke (1894-1948) showed that the frozen mixture was extremely hard to break and very slow to melt. If a ship were made of pykrete, it would be unsinkable; torpedoes could hit it and do little damage. Pykrete has a crush resistance of greater that 3,000 pounds per square inch. A 1-inch column of pykrete can support an automobile. The wood pulp also makes the pykrete extremely stable at high temperatures. If a .303 caliber bullet is fired at the pykrete, it will penetrate only 6.5 inches. The United States and Canada were so impressed with the idea of assembling pykrete warships that a 60-foot-long, 1,000-ton pykrete ship was built in one month on a Canadian lake and never melted through the hot summer.
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Oscar Pistorius fought for a third day to win bail before he stands trial for murdering his girlfriend as the police announced that the lead investigator in the case is himself facing charges of attempted murder.
Prosecutor Gerrie Nel told the Pretoria court that Hilton Botha, the investigator who gave evidence yesterday that Pistorius, 26, and his girlfriend Reeva Steenkamp argued before he shot her dead, has been charged with attempted murder. Charges for the 2011 incident were reinstated yesterday, police spokesman Neville Malila said by phone. Pistorius's lawyer said Botha's evidence is "tainted."
Nel yesterday sought to uncover flaws in Pistorius's account of how he shot Steenkamp, 29, through a toilet door at his home at about 3 a.m. on Valentine's Day, believing her to be a burglar. If convicted of premeditated murder, Pistorius, dubbed the "Blade Runner" because of his prosthetic running blades, faces a maximum term of life in prison, according to Magistrate Desmond Nair. The hearing will resume tomorrow.
"Botha was not a credible witness," Barry Roux, the athlete's lawyer, said today after the magistrate recalled the investigator to the stand. "We cannot sit back and take comfort he is telling the full truth."
Falls Short
Nel said Botha is facing seven attempted murder charges relating to an incident when he and two others shot at a minibus taxi that they were trying to stop. Nair didn't question the investigator on the charges, which will be heard in court in May.
It is the police's decision on whether to remove him as the lead investigator in the Pistorius case, National Prosecuting Authority spokeswoman Bulelwa Makeke said on eNews Channel Africa today. Police Commissioner Riah Phiyega is scheduled to hold a briefing in Pretoria today.
Evidence presented so far falls short of proving "the existence of pre-planned murder," Roux said. "There was no evidence that shows applicant ever knew it was Reeva."
Botha conceded yesterday that Pistorius's account of the events wasn't inconsistent with the evidence.
The prosecution will add a charge of possession of unlicensed ammunition, Nel said yesterday, after lead police investigator Hilton Botha found .38 caliber ammunition in a safe at his home. The bullets belong to Pistorius's father, Roux said.
Botha's Charges
The state considers Pistorius a flight risk and opposes bail, Botha said. The athlete's family said in a statement that his "iconic status internationally" made it highly unlikely that he poses such a risk.
Pistorius earns 5.6 million rand ($630,000) a year, has investments of 1 million rand and property worth more than 8 million rand, according to his affidavit.
Nike Inc., the world's largest sporting-goods company, said it was suspending its contract with Pistorius, a winner of six Paralympic gold medals and the first amputee runner to compete at an the Olympic Games in London last year.
"We believe Oscar Pistorius should be afforded due process and we will continue to monitor the situation closely," Seruscka Naidoo, a South African spokeswoman for the company, said in an e-mailed statement today.
Pistorius, who was born without fibulas and had both legs amputated below the knee at 11 months old, was included on Time magazine's list of the world's 100 most-influential people.
Contract Suspended
Luxottica Group SpA's Oakley said in a e-mailed statement two days ago that it suspended its contract with him "effective immediately." Clarins SA's Thierry Mugler perfume brand said on Twitter that it was "removing all campaigns featuring Oscar Pistorius, out of respect and sympathy to families involved in the tragedy."
The prosecution backtracked on Botha's testimony that testosterone was found at Pistorius's home. Under cross examination by Roux, Botha said he didn't know what the substance was and that it had to be tested. National Prosecuting Authority spokesman Medupe Simasiku said in a text message late yesterday that it was not testosterone and he didn't know its name.
Pistorius's family rejected suggestions that he had used banned drugs.
Banned Drugs
"Oscar was not using any drugs listed on the World Anti- Doping Agency banned substances, usage of which would ban him from competing in athletics competitions," his uncle, Arnold Pistorius, said late yesterday in a statement.
Drug tests carried out on Pistorius by the International Paralympic Committee on Aug. 25 and during the Paralympic Games on Sept. 8 were negative, a spokeswoman for the Bonn-based organization said yesterday in a phone interview. She declined to identify herself in line with the IPC's policy.
The runner and his model girlfriend had argued between 2 a.m. and 3 a.m. on the morning of the shooting, Botha said in court yesterday, citing a witness. The witness was about 600 meters (650 yards) away and didn't identify Pistorius and Steenkamp as those speaking, he said. Under cross examination, Botha changed his estimate of the distance to close to 300 meters.
The lights in the house were on when another witness heard gun shots, followed by screams and another two or three shots, Botha said.
Bathroom Layout
Because of the layout of the bathroom, the shots fired couldn't have hit Steenkamp where she was sitting if he had been shooting through the toilet door as Pistorius testified, Nel said.
"If you walk in directly and fire at the door, you miss the toilet," Nel said. Pistorius's shots hit Steenkamp above the ear, the right elbow and the right hip, Botha said.
Pistorius said in an affidavit read out in court on Feb. 18 that Steenkamp was doing yoga exercises and he was watching TV on his bed on the night of the shooting.
In the early hours of the morning, Pistorius went to get a fan on his bedroom balcony and heard a noise in the bathroom, he said. He picked up his 9 mm pistol because he thought Steenkamp was in bed and an intruder had entered though an open window.
Walking on his stumps, he shot through the door, thinking he was in "grave danger," Pistorius said.
Pistorius said he broke through the door with a cricket bat after realizing it may have been Steenkamp, his girlfriend of three months, and carried her body downstairs to seek help. Police found a blood-spattered cricket bat by the sink, Botha said.
The position of the bullet holes indicates Pistorius was shooting in a downward trajectory, suggesting he had already put on his prosthetic limbs, Botha said.
While Pistorius said in the affidavit he was wary of burglars because he had previously been the victim of crime, he had never reported any incidents, Botha said.


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Wiltshire Council is investing £1.6 million in new gym fitness equipment, with leisure centres linked to new campuses among the first to benefit.
The improved facilities will be partially funded by consistent pricing across all council-run leisure centres, ensuring users pay a clear and consistent set of prices whichever facility they use, or activity they choose.
From April 1, fees for using the council's nine leisure centres will be the same for similar levels of facilities such as swimming, squash, sports halls and gyms.
The move follows similar harmonisation of charges for membership and block bookings at leisure centres since Wiltshire became a unitary authority in 2009.
Coun Jonathon Seed, cabinet member for leisure, said: "Wiltshire Council has been successful in retaining a leisure service for local residents, unlike many other local authorities; and we have largely held leisure fees and charges at the same rate since 2009.
"However, in the current challenging financial climate we want to continue to invest and improve these centres.
"By reviewing the fees and charges we will be able to do this and renew gym fitness equipment."
Wiltshire's cabinet has agreed that revenue generated from any increased fees and charges can be used to fund new leisure equipment.
The first phase of this is £1.6 million purchase of new gym fitness equipment for both the first phase of campus leisure centres and some other leisure centres.
Coun Seed said: "With our harmonised new fees and charges we now have a pricing structure that is fair, offers good value for money and encourages people to stay active.
"This is the final step that brings fairness and transparency to charges for our leisure centres across the county – in effect eliminating any postcode lottery.
"Some charges have been reduced whilst some have risen, but the majority have stayed the same and so for regular users of our leisure centres – typically more than once a week – taking up one of the various membership options will further reduce the cost and give them other benefits."
While the pricing structure is designed to be consistent across Wiltshire, individual centre managers will be able to promote sports or facilities at certain times to encourage more users into the centre during the daytime.
Some groups may also be offered reductions under the council's charitable fees.
Corsham's Springfield Leisure Centre, which was run by DC Leisure until 2012, is in the process of becoming part of the new Springfield Campus – the first of its kind in Wiltshire.
While the centre undergoes major refurbishment work this summer, fees will be discounted until the new campus is fully operational.
The council operates nine leisure centres across Wiltshire: Five Rivers in Salisbury, Amesbury, Corsham (Springfield), Devizes, Durrington, Marlborough, Pewsey, Tidworth and Tisbury.


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Q. I run a captive Watts nickel plating shop and I recently discovered that our sulfuric acid activation pretreatment step was wired backwards. We use platinum-plated titanium anodes for this step. The bath is made up at 7 percent sulfuric and is run at 30 amps/sq ft. By running this step incorrectly, a purple compound has appeared on the surface of the anodes. I believe it to be platinum oxide. We tried reversing the current in the correct direction, however no current is able to get through. I believe this is due to the purple compound on the anode. A replacement set of anodes were installed and the process now works properly. Is there any way to remove the purple compound off of the anodes so they can be reused? K.S.
A. I am not an expert on platinum chemistry, but I believe your guess is correct about the purple compound being platinum oxide. One of the references I have indicates that one of the oxides formed by platinum is violet/black in color. If indeed the purple deposit is platinum oxide, there are ways to reduce it, but the in-formation I found does not seem to be suitable for the plating environment. I suggest you contact the vendor of your platinized titanium anodes and see if they can offer you any help.


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PACOOS: Providing ocean information for the sustained use of the California Current Large Marine Ecosystem under a changing climate
An immediate need exists to measure the effects of human activities on marine ecosystems and to forecast the effects of climate fluctuations on the benefits, products and services we derive from them. A sustained Integrated Ocean Observing System(IOOS), benefiting all sectors of society that use or are influenced by the ocean, is the central requirement for this capability. Planning for an IOOS is underway in the U.S., with benefits ranging from improved security, public health and safety, to improving the sustained use of marine resources, and protecting species and ecosystems.
As part of this nationwide effort, NOAA, academic partners, foundations, state fisheries agencies, and other organizations are developing an integrated Pacific Coast Ocean Observing System, (PaCOOS) for the California Current Large Marine Ecosystem. The system shall provide the information needed for management of fishery resources, protected marine mammals, marine birds, and turtles, and to forecast the ecosystem consequences of fisheries removals, environmental variability and climate change. It is the ecosystem observing backbone of IOOS for the California Current Large Marine Ecosystem. The geographic focus is the U.S. Exclusive Economic Zone off the coasts of California, Oregon and Washington with international links to the portion of the California Current Ecosystem occurring in Canadian and Mexican waters. PaCOOS is administered by a Board of Governors and two coordinators. PaCOOS is admnistered by a Board of Governors and staffed by a program manager and coordinator.
Climate & Ecosystem Surveys in the California Current Associated with PaCOOS: The surveys displayed include government, academic and other research nonprofit organizations which comprise the PaCOOS Board of Governors.
PaCOOS QUARTERLY UPDATE OF CLIMATIC AND ECOLOGICAL CONDITIONS IN THE CA CURRENT LME
NOAA Ship Activities in PaCOOS Region
Related links:
National Ocean Observing System (NOOS)
In 2002, scientists from west coast academic institutions, foundations and agencies participated in an Alliance for California Current Ecosystem Observation (ACCEO), a series of community meetings held in Monterey California, Seattle Washington, and Portland Oregon. The goal was to determine how best to develop a practical backbone of physical and biological marine-observation that would support management of natural resources and assessment of the effects of climate variability on California Current Large Marine Ecosystem.
In 2003 the ACCEO concept was broadened, renamed, and selected as the NOAA west coast contribution to the national Integrated Ocean Observing System (IOOS). The new name was Pacific Coast Ocean Observing System (PaCOOS). The goal of PaCOOS is to provide the ocean information needed for the sustained use of fishery resources and protection of marine species and their ecosystem under a changing climate. This plan is based on the results of first planning meeting held in July 2003 in La Jolla and a science planning meeting held in Seattle in September 2003.
Since 2004, the Board of Governors has met regularly, PaCOOS agenda & meeting summary can be found under the meetings tab.
August 9, 2004: PaCOOS Memorandum of Understanding, or PaCOOS charter, was revised based on recommendations from the Interim Governing Board during their May 17-18, 2004 Board meeting, and subsequent email correspondence among Board members.
March 29, 2005: PaCOOS Board of Governors. 2004. Pacific Coast Ocean Observing System (PaCOOS) science plan. SWFSC Admin Rep. LJ-04-06c (revised), 50p. (1.3 MB)
December 15, 2004: PaCOOS Board of Governors. 2004. Pacific Coast Ocean Observing System (PaCOOS) science plan. SWFSC Admin Rep. LJ-04-06b (revised), 50p. (1.3 MB)
October 30, 2004: PaCOOS Board of Governors. 2004. Pacific Coast Ocean Observing System (PaCOOS) science plan. SWFSC Admin Rep. LJ-04-06, 49p. (1.2 MB)
If you have any questions please contact the PaCOOS Coordinator Rosa Runcie


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This article was published 16/1/2013 (1678 days ago), so information in it may no longer be current.
An audit of Manitoba's nominee program for business found some immigrants arrived in the province based on false applications.
Auditor general Carol Bellringer said in a report released Wednesday the province also does not follow immigrants after they've settled to monitor the success of the program.
She recommended the program tighten its procedures to verify application materials -- banking information, employment history and asset holdings -- more quickly and then reject it if it's found to be false.
Rick Zebinski, director of the business immigration program, said the province is in the process of setting up a new application process where all documentation is filed at once rather than in stages. The new process is intended to give evaluators more time to check for false information.
"We continue to focus on our recruitment activities all over the world," Zebinski said. "There's lots of very successful businessmen who can make a valuable contribution to Manitoba. So far, we've seen about $200 million in direct investment in the province plus additional investment in homes and equipment."
The Free Press reported late last year some immigrants pay the $75,000 deposit under the program to enter Manitoba under the business class but do not fulfil their obligation to invest a minimum of $150,000 into a Manitoba business. They default their $75,000 deposit but still receive permanent residency status.
Bellringer's audit report said from 2005-10, 735 nominees landed in Canada with 392 (53 per cent) of them making their investment in Manitoba. However, 272 (37 per cent) of nominees did not meet the requirements and forfeited their deposits. The program has not tried to locate the other 71 (10 per cent) of nominees.
Bellringer recommended the program assess its long-term performance by tracking and regularly monitoring whether nominees continue to live and operate a business in Manitoba after their deposit is returned.
Zebinski also said the province is moving to better monitor immigrants for three years after coming to Manitoba.
"Permanent residents have mobility rights all across Canada," he said. "It is somewhat problematic, but we're certainly going to do the very best job possible."
Bellringer said the audit of Manitoba's nominee program began more than a year ago, after immigrant investor programs collapsed in Prince Edward Island, Nova Scotia and New Brunswick. Months earlier, it had surfaced immigrants were fast-tracked into some of the Maritime provinces while other immigrants claimed they had been taken advantage of through the programs.
Bellringer said her audit team found none of those issues in Manitoba. It only launched a full investigation when her office found a prior application that had been falsified.


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Consumer Affairs Branch Receives ACE Award
Aug. 10, 2009
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The Consumer Affairs Branch of the Fairfax County Department of Cable Communications and Consumer Protection has received the Achievement in Consumer Education (ACE) award from the National Association of Consumer Agency Administrators (NACAA).
NACAA, which represents more than 160 consumer agencies, recognized the Consumer Affairs Branch for the timely and necessary outreach programs conducted in response to challenges posed by the foreclosure crisis. Consumer Affairs, in partnership with the Fairfax County Department of Housing and Community Development (DHCD) and Legal Services of Northern Virginia (LSNV), planned, conducted and participated in foreclosure education events throughout the region, successfully reaching out to homeowners and renters.
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Alex Jones Takes Credit For Pushing Fox News To The Fringe
Blog ››› ››› JEREMY HOLDEN
The feedback loop between Alex Jones and Fox News is becoming more explicit.
Last week, Glenn Beck hosted author and fringe conspiracy theorist G. Edward Griffin, bringing to Fox News a man Alex Jones has called a "trailblazer" and "legend in the alternative media New World Order resistance movement," one of "the great-grandaddies in the fight."
Griffin -- who has peddled a quack cancer remedy he claims the government is conspiring to suppress; who has said that HIV does not exist; and who has claimed that the Department of Homeland Security and the Federal Emergency Management Agency acted not to protect victims of Hurricane Katrina but to control them -- appeared on Beck's show to stoke fears about the Federal Reserve Board.
Today, Jones praised Beck for helping to mainstream Griffin's radical views -- a mainstreaming that Jones himself said was part of Fox News' move to the "quote 'extreme.' "
After commending Beck for doing "a good thing Friday, having G. Edward Griffin on," Jones put Griffin in the cadre of theorists who have supposedly been persecuted and killed for exposing the truth about the coming New World Order. According to Jones, his conspiracy theories are "now mainstream news" as "the train is pulling into the station." He went on to explain Fox News' role in bringing these theories to light:
And so out comes Fox News two years ago with Dick Morris saying, "Hey, the conspiracy theorists were wrong about world government, UN takeover, global currency. But now they're right." That's a quote.
And so Beck goes from a mainline conservative to having G. Edward Griffin on for over 30 minutes Friday.
Recall that in March 2009, Morris claimed that President Obama was displaying alarming signs of internationalism that could justify anti-government violence. According to Morris, Obama was willing to subvert U.S. interests to a global governing structure:
There are two big plays going on here. One is, through the G-20, create a situation where a level of government regulation that would be unacceptable if it were just done in the United States can get approved. And the second big play, which is going to come early next week is when the world climate group gets together to orchestrate a global redistribution of income downward using climate change and carbon emissions as the excuse.
Morris concluded: "Those crazies in Montana who say, 'We're going to kill ATF agents because the U.N.'s going to take over' -- well, they're beginning to have a case."
According to Jones, this is part of a strategic plan by Fox News to "get more, quote, 'extreme' and tell more of the truth to maintain any credibility." He explained:
It's a delicate balance. If Fox allows some truth to come out, they will have more viewers than all other cable news combined, as they do. Just because there is a little bit of truth.
What do you think happens when we tell you the whole thing? We go right to the rock bottom. Right to the bone. Right to the stinking guts of this thing.
At this point, Jones launched into a tirade, accusing Beck of poaching guests and sponsors from Jones' own show, all while conspiring to keep Jones from appearing on Fox News.
Later, Jones took issue with what he called a "pseudo intellectual hit piece" in New York Magazine, which Jones said mischaracterized him as a Fox News wannabe. Jones responded, "No. Fox News is an Alex Jones wannabe." He continued:
I would be discredited if they let me on Fox News, even if they let me tell the truth. And that's what Media Matters is really scared of. We've pushed Fox News, greedy to have the biggest market share, to tell some of the truth.
Jones went on to point out Fox News' practice of giving a platform to "9-11 truthers" while failing to disclose that fact to viewers. Jones specifically mentioned Griffin and frequent Alex Jones guest Andrew Napolitano -- a truther who regularly serves as Beck's guest host.
It's become increasingly clear that Beck's move to the fringe is costing him his radio audience. How much longer will Beck's remaining television sponsors continue supporting "an Alex Jones wannabe"?
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From Video Camp to Film School (pt. 2 of 3)
Months later, we noticed MOPA was having another video camp. This time, it was taking place over weekends in October, and the theme was making a scary movie. I knew immediately I needed to be part of it. Like the first camp, I quickly broke out my shell and felt right at home as we pitched ideas. We watched clips from horror movies, wrote scenes, and played with Halloween props. By the end of the day we had a story and a title: "Dial M For Monster." Again, we each got to do our own scenes and all the kids fell into the roles they wanted - some only wanted to shoot, others loved to act, and so forth. For the early shots of the monster we used a kid in a costume and put him far away from the camera so it was just a strange shape. But when we realized we needed a better monster for the finale, we worried we had written ourselves into a corner. Having made a lot of stop-motion videos before, I suggested we could do some puppet animation and superimpose it into the movie, like a Harryhausen effect. I made a little clay and wire monster, kind of a dinosaur-looking thing with big red eyes, and spent the day animating it pose-by-pose against a bright sheet of paper we could key out later. The rest of the kids shot the remaining scenes.
Somehow the local news found out about the camp and showed up to interview and film us. The cameraman got footage of us screwing around with props and masks, and got us to talk about the camp. The segment aired on TV Halloween morning before school. It was really surreal watching myself and the other kids on the news. The report showed footage from the movie and the anchors mentioned they loved the special effects (my monster on the news!)
That movie premiere felt even better than the previous one. It was really special watching the work we had done play up on the big MOPA theater screen. The theater is also where we had shot the films climactic scene. The herky-jerky clay monster stalked our heroine through the aisle before being defeated by a sharp pencil (kind of anticlimactic, I know.)
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By Gideon Rachman
Edward Snowden makes a good first impression. In his interview on YouTube, he comes across as a thoughtful boy-next-door type. Unlike Julian Assange, the twitchy narcissist behind WikiLeaks, Mr Snowden looks like somebody you would be quite happy to see date your daughter.
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Teacher resources and professional development across the curriculum
Teacher professional development and classroom resources across the curriculum
Dear Karen and Ed,
Genetic engineering is a fascinating subject and one that is just
coming to the forefront in the U.S. One of my students happened to do a
a paper recently on what was dubbed "Frankenfood". This is the name for
crops genetically modified to express certain characteristics. She cited
a statistic that 70% of our food is genetically modified in some way.
Obviously there is benefit in making hardier, disease-resistant more
productive crops. This is especially true in places where famine is
pervasive. Can you imagine engineering a food crop that would need
little rich soil and not much water and thrive in the harsh desert
conditions of some parts of Africa? This could solve many social ills.
The use of genetic engineering has already saved countless lives.
Think about the bacterial vector that is used to make insulin to save
the lives of thousands of diabetics each day. Think about the vaccine
research and cancer research that depends on the use of recombinant DNA
techniques in order to make progress. However, I believe there is also
a downside to this research. I remember that scientists were able to
grow a human ear out of a mouse's back when I was at UMASS. While an
interesting experiment, there is the potential for abuse and
unneccessary experimentation. Often in text books you will see things
like a tomato plant that glows due to genetic recombination with the
enzyme luciferase that makes a firefly light up. Kids always think this
is cool and it piques their interest, but usually then leads to
questions like "Could we do that in a human?". I thnk there is a danger
here that if humans start engineering too much, we will try and "design"
children in the future to meet our needs. We will take away the
delicate beauty of "Mother Nature" and revert to trying to design
perfection. This should not be. Therefore, while I am a fan of
progress, I am not a fan of genetic engineering just for the sake of
seeing what will happen or to improve upon so-called minor flaws. I
hope that genetic engineering will only be used to cure diseases and
stop maladies not to engineer people and try to achieve the elusive
ideal of perfection. Let me know your thoughts.
Mary Johnston
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Hi Karen and Ed,
This week's unit was biodiversity and what an expansive topic this
is! It's funny that this was the topic for the week because my husband
rented the movie "Happy Feet" and we started watching it. At the
beginning is a fairly long commercial targeted at the overfishing of our
oceans and how this is contributing to the loss of biodiversity. There
is a campaign for restaurants and even seafood companies to label their
products with a seal of approval which basically indicates that the
seafood caught met current fish/wildlife preservation guidelines. It was
good to see a big budget commercial movie that actually had a
conscience. I have thought many times about over-fishing myself because
my husband and I sometimes like to go deep sea fishing and the captain
of the boat is always using radar to target the schools of fish, so it
is essentially always a "big catch" day. Probably a large number of
people don't eat what they catch. It is more for the glory of getting
the big fish. In any case, I can see seafood prices going on the rise
as they become even more scarce or as with certain types of fish have to
be raised in fish farms because there has been so much oevr-fishing in
the wild.
I was also thinking about the movie "Medicine Man" with Sean
Connory. This is a fictionalized account of a scientist who finds an
accidental cure for cancer while in the rainforest, but due to human
encroachment and other issues, he cannot ever seem to find it again and
his work is lost. The scientist is against anyone else coming in and
trying to "help" him because he realizes that once many people arrive,
they will start destroying the habitat and that is exactly what happens.
In the end, the cure eludes the scientist and it is a sad story of the
loss of so much biodiversity and so much hope for a cure for cancer.
This movie probably isn't appropriate to show to kids because it has
severe language in it and some students might be immature about the
dress of the native tribes in the film, but I think the general theme
fits right in with this week's topic.
The more we explore nature, the more variety of living things we
find. These living things are a critical part of our global community.
Understanding and preserving them could prove key to many of our
unaswered questions, particularly in medical science. For example, in
recent years it was dicovered that the Japanes Yew tree can be used to
make the drug taxol which has some anti-cancer effects. If we destroy
or fragment habitats in which this organism and many others thrive, then
we are perhaps hurting our chances of saving many lives and finding
cures to diseases that plague us.
I know that with population sizes always on the rise and the
ever increasing demand for new buildinggs and restaurants and
technology, that it seems logical for us to keep building more and more.
However, we are all familiar with the idea of carrying capacity. That
is, we reach a critical mass and then begin poisoning ourselves.
Perhaps more preservation and protection laws will make us better
utilize already developed land. For example, instead of destroying
farms to build companies and highways, let's revitalize urban areas.
They are already developed, so if new buildings are put there the impact
on the wildlife will not be so severe and it will provide jobs for
people in the local community. Our own district of Haverhill is
attempting to do this. Instead of just developing the rural part of the
city, there is a group of citizens trying to push for revitalization of
the urban areas. I think this is a great idea. Do you two have any
suggestions to the loss of biodiversity dilemma? Let me know.
Mary Johnston
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England futsal captain, from Seend
Winners: Argentina. It being in South America will help them and they're due a performance at the World Cup. They'll score a lot of goals and defend well.
Dark horses: Portugal are a big nation but not many are tipping them and they've got players used to playing in that heat. And there's the Ronaldo factor – he's the best player in the world at the moment.
Top scorer: I'd like to think Ronaldo or Messi because they're from my tips but it might be Neymar. He showed his class last season, especially in the Confederations Cup.
England's chances: If we get through the group stages, we could end up playing someone like Colombia in the last 16 but when we get to the quarter-finals, it'll be Spain or the Netherlands, and that will be bye-bye for us.
My England XI (4-2-3-1): Hart, Johnson, Cahill, Jagielka, Shaw, Gerrard, Henderson, Sterling, Lallana, Oxlade-Chamberlain, Sturridge.
Tom Jones
Chippenham Town assistant manager and ex-Armenia caretaker boss
Winners: Argentina. Because it's in Brazil, they'll want to put in a big performance because the two are such big rivals. They've got so much ammunition with the likes of Messi and Aguero.
Dark horses: Belgium have got a very good squad and they've been playing well for a while. Playing at a World Cup is different but if they gel, they could go far.
Top scorer: The amount of goals Ronaldo has scored in the last six years or so is ridiculous and he's a player that performs on the big stage.
England's chances: I think they will get to the quarter-finals. You shouldn't underestimate any team but if I'd been asked who I'd want us to play first, I'd have picked Italy, because you might catch them on a bad day. We shouldn't fear Uruguay or Costa Rica either.
My England XI (4-4-2): Hart, Johnson, Cahill, Jagielka, Baines, Sterling Gerrard, Henderson, Lallana, Sturridge, Rooney.
Yan Klukowski
Newport County midfielder, from Chippenham
Winners: I can't look past Brazil. With the way that they performed at the Confederations Cup, the fact they're at home and the way that the crowd will respond, they've got to be favourites.
Dark horses: Belgium. They don't have tournament experience but they've almost got two strong teams in their squad. With players like Eden Hazard and Vincent Kompany, they should have a chance of going deep.
Top scorer: Neymar or Messi. Both will have the opportunity to score a lot in their groups but if you had to push me, I'd go with Neymar.
England's chances: They can get to the quarter-finals. The side has got good attacking talent and players like Raheem Sterling can be a threat. If we make it that far, we should be satisfied with that.
My England XI (4-1-2-2-1): Hart, Johnson, Cahill, Jagielka, Baines, Gerrard, Henderson, Rooney, Sterling, Lallana, Sturridge
Doug Webb
Former Chippenham Town president, who has followed England to every major tournament since Euro 96
Winners: I can't really see anyone other than Brazil doing it. There'll be Argentina and Germany too but I think it will be them.
Dark horses: I don't think England are going to win it but we might get further than people think. If we can get through the group, it's open season and we might just get to the semi-finals.
Top scorer: If our dear friend (Luis) Suarez recovers, he could score a few. Hopefully he's not fully fit when he faces us.
England's chances: As I said, I think we could pull off a few surprises.
My England XI (4-2-3-1): Hart, Johnson, Cahill, Jagielka, Baines, Gerrard, Barkley, Sterling, Rooney, Welbeck, Sturridge.
Adrian Foster
Frome Town manager
Winners: A South American team because it's taking place there and I'll have to go for Brazil.
Dark horses: England. In 1966, Atletico Madrid won La Liga, Real Madrid the European Cup and a team came from behind to win the FA Cup, and I want to believe it's a sign. England could do well, as long as Roy Hodgson picks the right players for the right games.
Top scorer: It could be Hulk (Brazil). Diego Costa (Spain) will be right up there too but I'm going to go with the Hulk.
England's chances: We can do well if we get things right. I just hope that we don't embarrass ourselves though.
My England XI (4-3-2-1): Hart, Johnson, Cahill, Jagielka, Baines, Gerrard, Barkley, Wilshere, Sterling, Lallana, Sturridge.
Darren Perrin
Melksham Town manager
Winners: Argentina. A lot of focus will be on (Cristiano) Ronaldo but this could be Messi's year. Argentina have a habit of pressing the self-destruct button but it's in their arch-enemy's country and they'll want to win even more than if it was in their own.
Dark horses: Not hugely what you'd call dark horses but I'd have to go for Germany. They'll be well-prepared and do very well.
Top scorer: With Ronaldo winning the European Cup with Real Madrid and the Ballon d'Or, I think Messi will want to prove a point because he hasn't always delivered for his country on the big stage.
England's chances: We'll get through our group and the last 16 draw should be favourable , so we'll probably get to the quarter-finals – and lose on penalties.
My England XI (4-2-3-1): Hart, Johnson, Cahill, Jagielka, Baines, Gerrard, Henderson, Lallana, Rooney, Welbeck, Sturridge.
Owen Houlihan
Gazette & Herald and Wiltshire Times sports editor
Winners: Argentina. From what looks a much less tough lower half of the draw, they can reach the final at least.
Dark horses: Can the Germans ever be dark horses? Their group has banana skins, but get through and it opens up. Chile could do some damage in Spain and Holland's group too.
Top scorer: Given his scoring record, I can't believe that Miroslav Klose is as much as 40/1. Argentina's Higuain and Aguero worth a shout too.
England's chances: Second round is par, but if they get that far I think they'll reach the quarter-finals. They could draw all three group games though.
My England XI (4-2-3-1): Hart, Johnson, Cahill, Jagielka, Baines, Gerrard, Henderson, Sterling, Rooney, Lallana, Sturridge.
Dan Barnes
Gazette & Herald and Wiltshire Times sports writer
Winners: It has to be Brazil, doesn't it? They may not have as many stellar names as Spain or Argentina but the squad has both flair and industry from front to back.
Dark horses: It may end up being bad news for England, but I think Uruguay will take a few scalps in Brazil. They boast fearsome firepower, so they could shock any side.
Top scorer: I'd plump for a Uruguay striker – no, not that one. Edinson Cavani has a phenomenal goalscoring record at club level and could fill his boots for his country.
England's chances: A tough group but if they play to their best, we could well reach the quarter-finals. If not, the tabloids will revolt, Twitter will melt down and we'll all be safe in the knowledge that it's Rooney's fault.
My England XI (4-2-3-1): Hart, Johnson, Cahill, Jagielka, Baines, Gerrard, Wilshere, Sterling, Rooney, Welbeck, Sturridge.


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PHILADELPHIA – With the busy stretch of Ivy League championship games, Penn Relays, graduation and Spring Fling passed, Franklin Field is undergoing a makeover this summer. A project began on Thursday, May 16 which will see a new SPRINTURF field laid down at Franklin Field for use starting this fall.
The previous artificial turf has been busy – hosting 265 Penn contests over the last 10 years. At home, the Quakers have seen a tremendous amount of success. The Quakers have won 172 of their 265 home games at Franklin Field between the field hockey, football, sprint football, men's lacrosse and women's lacrosse programs – good for a .649 winning percentage. Since 2004, those five programs have accounted for 12 Ivy League or Collegiate Sprint Football League championships.
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Negative thinking is usually a bad thing, especially if it occurs in the form of premature judgment of an idea. However, sometimes intentionally thinking negatively can help you find weak points in your solution.
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Improved weather forecasts for major South American grain and soybean growing regions undercut the U.S. grain and soybean complexes Wednesday and Thursday. Traders also seemed to underestimate the likely result of the latest weekly report from the Energy Information Administration (EIA), since nearby corn futures reacted rather well in the wake of the release (which showed domestic ethanol production virtually unchanged from the week prior). Bull spreading reportedly boosted futures late in the day. The CBOT market proved decidedly mixed overnight, with fresh news generally lacking and the weekly Export Sales reports due later this morning. March corn slipped 1/4 cent to $7.24/bushel in early-morning action, whereas December rose 1 cent to $5.86 1/2.
Prospects for improved weather over the major crop growing areas of Southern Brazil and Argentina weighed heavily upon CBOT soybean futures late Wednesday and early Thursday, but the market posted a strong comeback before the afternoon close. News that U.S. exporters had sold over 500,000 tonnes of beans to be delivered to China in the 2013-14 crop year seemed to offer belated support. Despite renewed talk of demand strength from China and the looming release of the weekly Export Sales reports, CBOT soybean futures dipped again in overnight trading. Some might blame losses in the palm oil markets, but the Thursday night soy oil weakness was matched by slippage in the meal and bean pits. March soybeans had declined 3 1/4 cents to $14.32/bushel in the early-morning hours, while March soybean oil slid 0.21 cents to 51.90 cents/pound and March meal slipped $1.0 to $413.7/ton.
Wheat traders seemed to lack for substantive news Thursday, which might have opened the door to an advance based upon the persistent dryness dominating the U.S. Southern Plains. However, U.S. wheat futures performed poorly yesterday and continued sliding early this morning. Bears could cite an official Russian report indicating that frost damage done to its fields during December was not as extensive as previously thought and that January conditions were better, but it is always difficult to gauge the impact of such news on domestic markets. Whatever the cause, wheat futures have not acted well this week. March CBOT wheat dipped an additional 2 1/4 cents to $7.66 1/4 overnight, while March KCBT wheat dropped 2 cents to $8.19 1/2 and March MGE futures fell 1 3/4 cents to $8.53 3/4.
The cattle situation appeared quite weak Thursday morning, especially in the wake of Wednesday afternoon news that a few Great Plains feedlots had taken one cent less (122.00 cents/pound) for their cattle than they had last week. However, persistent Chicago firmness and the potential for stronger mid-winter retail demand seemingly persuaded beef packers to boost their country bids slightly. News that cattle were changing hands around 123.00 apparently powered the late surge. The rise continued in overnight electronic action, despite afternoon news of another decline in beef cutout values. It will be difficult for cattle market bulls to sustain upward momentum if that continues, especially since futures are already trading at sizeable premiums to spot values. February cattle had advanced 0.62 cents to 126.50 cents/pound in the pre-dawn hours, while April climbed 0.45 cents to 130.80.
Seasonal cash market strength seemed to support CME lean hog futures again Thursday, with bullish traders rather obviously hoping for much more of the same during the days and weeks just ahead. Hog supplies are in the process of dwindling from annual highs in late fall to lows routinely experienced in early summer each year. Conversely, while ham demand has plunged from pre-holiday levels, interest in the other cuts usually grows substantially as the spring grilling season approaches. Those account for the fact that most CME swine futures are trading at sizeable premiums over current spot values. That fact that the nearby February future is trading at a modest discount seems likely to offer considerable support over the short term. Nevertheless, futures slipped Thursday night, possibly due to modest increases in Western Corn Belt prices Thursday and/or the slippage seen at the wholesale level. February hogs slipped 0.17 cents to 86.87 cents/pound early Friday morning, while June futures lost 0.10 cents to 97.50.
March cotton futures jumped to its highest level since last May Thursday and touched the 84.00-cent level before suffering a sizeable setback in the afternoon. Bulls seemingly continue relying strong buying and limited resales by Chinese government officials over the short-to-intermediate term, but we would also warn that a substantial portion of the Thursday spike was probably driven by short-covering. The market was extremely overbought at the daily high and remains well into overbought territory at this juncture. Thus, the overnight decline was not particularly surprising. We suspect March cotton will suffer a short-term setback that consolidates its recent surge and would not rule out a test of support around the pivotal 80-cent level during the days ahead. March cotton fell 0.54 cents to 82.35 cents/pound in overnight trading, while December edged 0.03 cents higher, to 79.76.


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AFCON (for dummies): Part II
Okay, so the first 'AFCON (for dummies)' piece gave you the lowdown on stadiums and transport. This blog carries some valuable information on the teams, ticket sales, public viewing, and where to go for more info.
Besides South Africa, the 15 teams participating in AFCON are: Algeria, Angola, Burkina Faso, Cape Verde, Democratic Republic of Congo, Ethiopia, Ghana, Côte d'Ivoire, Mali, Morocco, Niger, Nigeria, Togo, Tunisia, Zambia.
The teams will play in four groups:
- Group A: South Africa; Cape Verde; Angola; Morocco
- Group B: Ghana; Mali; Niger; Democratic Republic of Congo
- Group C: Zambia; Nigeria; Burkina Faso; Ethiopia
- Group D: Tunisia; Algeria; Togo; Côte d'Ivoire
Ticket sales
Tickets for the matches are available in three categories, with premier seats offered in Category 1 (closer to the pitch). Reasonably priced from below R100 to a little over R200, tickets are available from selected Spar and SuperSpar stores; through telesales (+27 (0)87 980 3000); online (www.eqtickets.com); and at ticket offices at all AFCON match stadiums. For information and ticket queries, email firstname.lastname@example.com.
Tickets are also available at eQtickets Concept Stores in the host cities, including Jabulani Mall in Soweto (Johannesburg), Kwanyamazane Plaza at Mbombela (Neslpruit), and Nelson Mandela Square in Sandton (Johannesburg). The Department of Home Affairs has assigned extra staff to the country's access points, expecting some 40 000 soccer fans in the country over the course of the tournament.
Public viewing
In Gauteng, there will be public viewing areas operating throughout the tournament in various locations in Orange Farm, Ivory Park, Diepkloof and Diepsloot (all set up by the City of Jo'burg. Click here for more information). There will also be public viewing venues in Sedibeng, Tshwane and Merafong. The South African Broadcasting Corporation also has television broadcasting rights.
Pre- and post-match fun
There are loads of opportunities for visitors to enjoy the major attractions in host cities. Visit the funky pubs and restaurants of Soweto, the gorgeous beaches of Nelson Mandela Bay, and the fun nightlife of Florida Road in Durban. Here's to the beautiful game!
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Pursuit on the high seas. . . The crew of the TPWD law enforcement vessel, Captain Murchison, working with National Marine Fisheries Service agents, apprehended operators of a fishing vessel containing several thousand pounds of illegally harvested red snapper recently. The Captain Murchison chased the alleged poachers after dark for a long distance,while the alleged poachers were dumping fish overboard . The vessel was finally shut down and boarded and the Game Wardens discovered there were thousands of pounds of snapper remaining onboard. The fishing vessel carried a Class II commercial finfish license which allowed the harvest of 200 pounds of red snapper and was suspected of illegally harvesting red snapper and waiting until dark to land at a Texas dock. After searching Galveston Bay and adjacent waters, the Captain Murchison sighted the alleged vessel just before dark eight miles off the coast. Wardens confiscated more than 4,700 pounds of various fish species, mainly red snapper, and arrested the captain and crew on state charges.
Family court . . . On Nov. 7, Freestone County Game Wardens wrapped up an investigation into a group of hunters they had been watching since last year. All seven Dallas area subjects appeared in Justice of the Peace Court in Fairfield to answer charges they had killed several deer each and either tagged them with family member's tags or did not tag them at all. Three bucks illegally taken during the 2004 season were recovered by the court, including a 10-point that scored 150 3/8 that was tagged with the hunter's sister-in-law's tag. Charges of hunting under the license of another, allowing another to hunt under his/her license, untagged deer, no harvest log, and no hunter education were filed with fines totaling almost $5,000.
If the guide says no, he means NO! On Nov. 8, a Schleicher County Game Warden received a call from a landowner agent informing him that one of his hunting clients had taken a white-tailed buck without consent. Upon investigation it was determined the out-of-state hunter was being guided by the agent and wanted to shoot a buck they had seen. The guide opposed and told him repeatedly not to shoot the deer because it was not a mature buck. The hunter stated he did not care and he was going to shoot it anyway. When interviewed about the incident, the hunter stated he did not know why he shot the deer and offered to pay for it. The landowner was adamant about charges being filed, so the county attorney was contacted and the case reviewed. State jail felony charges of take wildlife resource, white-tailed deer, without consent of the landowner were filed. The subject was arrested, bond set, and placed in jail. Restitution on the 120-class buck is also pending.
The pot calling the kettle black . . . On Nov. 7, a Schleicher County Game Warden received a call from a ranch accusing lease hunters on an adjoining ranch of shooting a deer that had crossed the fence and refusing to retrieve the harvest. Upon investigation, it became very apparent the deer was shot where it was found and not on the adjoining ranch. The individual who heard the shots and found the deer was interviewed; it was determined that he had shot the deer and concocted the story to tell his friends and the landowner because he did not have a hunting license. Cases and restitution pending.
Not a happy reunion . . . On Oct. 16, a Travis County Warden apprehended five subjects dove hunting after sunset. One had an unplugged shotgun. While the warden was issuing the citations and confiscating the illegally harvested birds, one of the subjects said, "Hey, remember me? You arrested me last year on a fishing license warrant." That might not have been a good time to reminisce.
A sinking ship . . . Wardens filed multiple felonies on a marine dealer for allegedly cheating on sales taxes for high-end bass boats in the range of $20,000 - $40,000. After a few months would pass, one of the owners would title the boats for less than half of the actual sales price, keeping the difference in sales tax. This company has been flying under the radar with this tactic for nearly three years. Second degree felony charges were filed with the Dallas County D.A. due to the number of violations (153 were identified). The case was then referred to the Comptroller's office, which expected to collect over $100,000 in back taxes, fines and penalties.
Drive by shooting . . . On Oct. 23, a Val Verde County Game Warden filed 11 cases on four Houston residents for hunting dove over a baited area; hunting migratory birds (dove) from a motor vehicle and hunting quail in a closed season. The cases came about after the warden received information that a particular area might be baited. After locating the bait, the warden walked into the area and waited in the brush, where he soon heard the suspect vehicle and then observed the subjects shooting from the vehicle at dove and quail. He was able to follow the vehicle on foot and observe the suspects shoot several times before they stopped at a feeder full of maize. Cases and restitution pending.
How's the fishing? A complainant recently told game wardens about a man who was fishing and keeping undersized redfish. The actor apparently was relying on lookouts and would likely dump the evidence in the water if a game warden vehicle was spotted. A Corpus Christi game warden that was at the local constable's office when the call came in hitched a ride in the constable's unmarked orange Jeep and was able to drive right up to the actors without incident. As the warden exited the passenger side of the vehicle, a female sitting in a chair next to a gray bucket full of small fish uttered an expletive and proceeded toward the bucket. The warden got to the bucket first. A person wade fishing just out from the bucket immediately started yelling, "Those fish are all mine." As it turned out, the warden had cited this individual three years earlier for over- and undersized fish. After all was said and done, 19 undersize fish were seized, and the individual left with nine citations, and his companions accounted for three additional citations.
One too many . . . On Nov 10, a 47-year-old man with a long history of alcohol and drug abuse was convicted on a felony boating while intoxicated trial before a 12-member jury panel in the 71st District Court in Marshall. The defendant, who had two prior DWI convictions, faced charged stemming from an arrest for boating while intoxicated on Caddo Lake. The defendant was given five years in state prison and a $5,000 fine plus court costs.
It was that sixth shot that did it . . . On the night of Oct. 28, a Cameron County Warden and three U.S. Fish and Wildlife Service refuge officers ran a decoy deer operation on the Laguna Atascosa National Wildlife Refuge. At 11 p.m. a truck with two subjects approached the intersection where the decoy was deployed and fired six shots from a .22 rifle. After a short pursuit the truck was stopped. The two Port Isabel locals commented that they knew it was a decoy when on the sixth shot, the right antler was shot off and the deer continued to just "Look at them." State and federal refuge cases were filed.
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Hillary Clinton yesterday signalled that a no-fly zone in Libya should be led by the UN rather than by the US. ("I think it's very important that it is not a US-led effort because this comes from the people of Libya themselves…We think it is important that the United Nations make that decision.") The secretary of state clearly does not want it to look as if the US is flexing its muscles unilaterally once again.
The British position is slightly more subtle, however. As the Downing St spokesman said this morning at lobby: "Our position is as set out by the foreign secretary statement; it said we needed international support , a clear trigger and an appropriate legal basis." Read more


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Food Fight: Greek vs. Regular Yogurtby Dana Angelo White in Uncategorized, August 7, 2012
Deciding whether a food is healthy or not can be really difficult, especially when food companies market their products in such clever ways. It's even harder to decide between foods with healthy components, or similar-sounding foods. For this food fight we'll explore regular and Greek-style yogurt — which one is the better choice?
Greek-style yogurt contains less water than regular varieties. This creates yogurt with tangier flavor and thicker consistency; this also affects the nutrition facts. One cup of non-fat plain Greek yogurt has 80 calories and 13 grams of protein (comparison to regular yogurt is below). The calcium and vitamin D content of all yogurts will vary from brand to brand (and whether you choose, non-fat, low-fat or whole milk) so check labels.
Any flavored yogurt will have added sweeteners. Fruity flavors of Greek yogurt will include on average 2 to 3 teaspoons of sugar per serving. The popular honey flavor won't contain any refined sweeteners, but honey varieties tend to have more grams of sugar per serving than the ones with fruit.
See the results of our Greek yogurt taste test
The same 1-cup portion of non-fat plain regular yogurt has 107 calories and only 10 grams of protein. Flavored regular yogurts typically also rank higher in the added-sugar department. Check the list of ingredients and you will often find more sugar than fruit. The good news is whether it's Greek or regular, both offer tummy-pleasing probiotics.
There certainly are a lot more choices of regular yogurt on supermarket shelves and with that variety comes a lot of junk! Many of the regular yogurt brands contain thickeners, stabilizers, processed sweeteners (such as high fructose corn syrup) and artificial colorings. The super low-cal yogurts are the worst culprits because they are also full of artificial sweeteners.
Healthy Eats Winner: Go Greek! More protein and less junk.
TELL US: Who do you vote for: Greek or regular yogurt?


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The following is an interview with Cliff Anderson, the director of the XQuery Summer Institute, which will be hosted at Vanderbilt University in Nashville, Tennessee from June 9, 2014 - June 20, 2014. Deadline to apply is this Friday, February 14th.
Things are getting STEAM-y in the Hive.
The project team for "A Unified Approach to Preserving Cultural Software Objects and Their Development Histories" answers a few questions from ODH staff.
In our ongoing series of interviews with recent Digital Humanities Start-Up Grants awardees, this week we spoke with Ryan Cordell, project director of "Uncovering Reprinting Networks in Nineteenth-Century American Newspapers."
Brian Graney, project director of the recently funded Digital Humanities Start-Up Grant "Representing Early Black Film Artifacts as Material Evidence in Digital Contexts," chats with us about this upcoming workshop.
NEH grantees Eric Kansa and William Noel will be among 13 scholars and scientists being honored at the White House Open Science Champions of Change event on June 20.
The initial prototype of the public DPLA website launched this afternoon, providing access to over 2.4 million digital books, manuscripts, photographs, maps, and other resources critical to humanities scholarship and learning.
Digging in Data Challenge grant projects develop and explore technologically inventive and computationally creative research methods that drill into massive data sets to arrive at new questions and surprising answers.
The science, technology, engineering, and math (STEM) fields are --and will be--essential in a world that is increasingly dependent on digital technology for our social interactions, economic livelihood, national security, and grumpy cat memes. But this is not to say that the STEM fields have nothing to benefit from the humanities or that technological invention and innovation precludes the vital place humanities education and research has in a digital landscape.
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New Flyer Industries' 11-month discussions leading up to this week's announced $116-million investment by Brazilian bus maker, Marcopolo S.A. was fittingly called Project Explorer.
It also signals New Flyer will now be doing some serious exploration of acquisitions.
With such a large cash infusion -- it will land in two batches stretched out over 14 months -- New Flyer will have a war chest to do acquisitions and diversify its product offering, something it has stated in the past it wanted to do.
Paul Soubry, New Flyer's CEO, would not talk about specifics, but along with the equity investment that gives Marcopolo 19.99 per cent of New Flyer and a seat on the board, there was also a memorandum of understanding between the two companies.
Marcopolo is the second-largest bus maker in the world -- it makes about 32,000 buses per year, the same number New Flyer has made throughout its entire history -- and Soubry said it has all sorts of expertise, including global parts sourcing, New Flyer may be able to use to its advantage.
In turn, Marcopolo is interested in what New Flyer has done with alternative propulsion systems such as hybrid electric, compressed natural gas and the work it is doing on an all-electric bus.
"From a defensive point of view, they said they were planning to come into North America and I would rather be working together with them rather than fighting them," Soubry said. "We're going to set up a task force and start working down the project list."
He said in their lengthy courting it was agreed both companies are in sync when it comes to their styles of business and handling of their respective stakeholders.
In a prepared statement, José Rubens de la Rosa, CEO of Marcopolo, said, "The investment is in line with Marcopolo's growth strategy and marks its definitive entry into the U.S. and Canadian markets, two of the most sophisticated and advanced in the world."
But the North American bus industry was hit hard by the global recession of 2008-09 and its aftermath and is only now recovering. Daimler shut down its Orion bus division last year, leaving only four competitors in North America, with New Flyer the largest of the group.
"The deal seems like a vote of confidence in New Flyer and its position in the North American market when you appreciate that Marcopolo is one of the leading bus manufacturers in the world," said Michael Roschlau, CEO of the Canadian Urban Transit Association.
Marcopolo agreed to pay $10.50 per share, a 26 per cent premium over the average of the last 60 days trading and the market responded Thursday with heavy trading in New Flyer shares, which closed up 60 cents to $10.00, a new 52-week high.
But with that new cash on the books, there is some pressure for Soubry and his management team to deploy the capital wisely and fairly quickly.
"Like me, most folks did not anticipate they needed that much capital," said Trevor Johnson, an analyst with National Bank Financial, who follows New Flyer. "This is not free capital. There is a cost of equity -- something like $6 million to $7 million per year (on about six per cent yield that New Flyer pays in dividends to its shareholders). You have to make sure that it's at least offset with a return on capital and get some growth."
Soubry said not to expect them to come up with a handful of acquisitions right away, but they are prepared to act.
"We are going to put that money to work and not have it sitting on our balance sheet sucking up dividends," he said.
Johnson said New Flyer is looking at vertical integration and growth in the aftermarket business. Acquisition of parts manufacturers and distribution opportunities would be in line with that strategy.
Meanwhile, New Flyer is getting ready to start building the MiDi bus as part the long-term joint venture it signed last year with Alexander Dennis Limited, the U.K.'s largest manufacturer of medium, heavy-duty and double-deck transit buses.
The prototypes are being tested and will start hitting the production line by the end of this year at New Flyer's St. Cloud, Minn., plant.
New investor met with big new order
NEW FLYER is on the verge of huge new order from the Los Angeles County Metropolitan Transportation Authority (LA Metro).
On Thursday, LA Metro's board of directors approved a multi-year order for 550 40-foot New Flyer compressed natural gas buses for $302 million and an option for an additional 350 buses.
It's a huge order that will bolster New Flyer's production schedule for years, but the company is not crowing about it just yet because it has been burned in the past in a similar scenario.
In 2009, the board of the Chicago Transit Authority approved a major order with New Flyer and the company started making the buses only to find out Chicago did not have the money to pay for them.
New Flyer CEO Paul Soubry said the order will not be added to its backlog until a signed contract is in place.
"The contract was passed without comment or discussion or any protest so we are very confident it will proceed as planned," Soubry said. "Documents have started to move and it could be as early as next week or it could be four weeks (before there is a signed contract.)"
If all the options are picked up, the contract would be worth just less than $500 million.
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Frederick Heather - A Canadian Hero
August 20, 2011
A CAMPAIGN to induct a cricketer into Canada's Sports Hall of Fame for the first time is gathering momentum. You may not have heard of him but Frederick Heather above far left is a Canadian cricket hero. I must admit a vested interest – he was my great uncle. I was only two when he died in 1976 but have taken care of Heather's unique and large cricket collection, which includes a letter from Jack Hobbs.


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here are some ideas that I thought made sense: you can comment with others.
1. Rather then blind expansion of city boundaries merely to give people jobs, focus more on renovations, buying out old properties that are not being used, and build up, rather then out.
2. Build Apartment building close to shopping and grocery stores, and Connect those areas through pedways.
3. Community Garden areas that individuals pay to have plots and they can grow their own food even if they live in an apartment.
4. Focus on technologies that capture rain water as it falls rather then paying the city to provide water that is pumped in, treated with chemical, from fresh water lakes.
Any others?


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