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AN iconic clump of trees soon to be felled in an Area of Outstanding Natural Beauty are to be replaced following protests.
The Seven Sisters feature of beech trees on Cothelstone Hill, on the Quantock Hills is to be maintained, the Friends of Quantock announced The original seven trees, planted around 40 years ago, are for the chop due to concerns about potential damage to a scheduled ancient monument.
Following the announcement, the Friends received a flood of enquiries from people concerned at the loss of such a popular landmark and the matter was discussed with English Heritage and Natural England.
That led to an agreement for a comprehensive scheme for the protection of the hilltop will now be prepared and put in place.
The project will include the planting of a new clump and a phased felling of trees that pose a threat to the archaeology.
A spokeswoman said: "This will ensure the preservation of the Seven Sisters both as a focal point for the hill and as an iconic silhouette when viewed from a distance.
"There will be a survey to establish the best location from a landscape perspective for a replacement clump, and to investigate in more detail the extent and nature of the heritage features.
"The whole scheme will be made public and it is hoped that there will be opportunities for the general public to be involved and take part in the survey work."
Friends of Quantock chairman Alan Hughes said: "We would like to express our appreciation of the co-operation of English Heritage, Natural England, Somerset County Council and the AONB Service in achieving a satisfactory outcome from a difficult situation with conflicting interests.
"We shall continue to work with them for the protection of our beloved hills."


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Time Capsule from our Founding Fathers Found!
1795 Time Capsule Opened, Centuries after Revere and Adams Buried It
By Catherine E. Shoichet, CNN
Updated 12:23 AM ET, Wed January 7, 2015
· Appraiser: Items could be worth hundreds of thousands of dollars
· Coins, newspapers and other objects are removed from time capsule
· The capsule was buried more than two centuries ago by Paul Revere, Samuel Adams
(CNN)More than 200 years after Samuel Adams and Paul Revere first buried it in Boston, it took an hour to remove all the objects crammed inside a tiny time capsule.
Onlookers anxiously watched the unveiling Tuesday, worrying the items might not have weathered the years very well.
"Could we actually go through the whole box, or would things prove too fragile to take out?" said Malcolm Rogers, director of Boston's Museum of Fine Arts. "It was like brain surgery, with history looking down on us."
Piece by piece, Pam Hatchfield, head of objects conservation for the museum, removed each item, whispering "wow" as she first caught a glimpse of some of them.
Among the stash Hatchfield removed from the 1795 time capsule: Five folded newspapers, a Massachusetts commonwealth seal, a title page from Massachusetts colony records and at least 24 coins.
And at the bottom, an inscribed rectangular silver plate, "probably made by Paul Revere and engraved by him," Rogers said.
"That was the treasure at the end," he said.
But getting to it was a painstaking process.
It took seven hours to remove the time capsule from the Massachusetts State House in December, and more than four hours before Tuesday evening's ceremony for officials to loosen the screws that were holding it shut.
Porcupine quill, dental tool used to remove contents
At the broadcast event, which took place at the museum in front of a painting of George Washington, Hatchfield used a porcupine quill and her grandfather's dental tool to help her safely remove the contents of the 10-pound box, which was uncovered during repairs for a water leak at the State House last month.
The box-shaped capsule was placed in the State House cornerstone in 1795 by Revere, the metalsmith, engraver and Revolutionary War hero; Adams, the brewer and governor of Massachusetts; and William Scollay, a local developer, when construction began. Revere was responsible for overlaying the State House dome with copper.
The time capsule measured 5.5 x 7.5 x 1.5 inches, officials said.
It's not the first time the box has been uncovered. In 1855, during some other repairs, the time capsule was removed and its contents cleaned, only to be put back in the cornerstone for almost 160 years -- with a few objects added. The box's materials were noted in reports of the time.
But this time, historians have had the opportunity to go through the contents with modern tools. After its removal December 11, the box was taken to the Museum of Fine Arts, X-rayed and given a thorough once-over.
Having an idea about what might be inside was nothing compared to actually seeing it, Rogers told CNN.
"Though we knew a little bit about what was in the box, it was a moment of extraordinary excitement as this brass container just the size of a cigar box was slowly opened with surgical precision, and you suddenly found yourself in the presence of history," he said.
Newspapers inside the box were in "amazingly good condition," Hatchfield said.
The large number of copper coins inside might have helped protect the artifacts, she said, since copper helps block the growth of fungus.
The collection of coins recovered from the time capsule included half-cent, one-cent, half-dime, 10-cent and 25-cent coins. Another set of coins included a pine tree shilling from 1652 and a copper medal showing George Washington.
"This is the most exciting project I've ever worked on," a beaming Hatchfield told the crowd after she finished pulling out all of the box's contents, describing how thrilling it was to be part of building a bridge between the past and the present.
"This is what we, as conservators, live for," she said, sharing a fist bump with Michael Comeau, executive director of the Massachusetts Archives and Commonwealth Museum.
Going forward, conservators will work on preserving items removed from the time capsule.
They might not unfold the newspapers, Hatchfield said, in order to protect them.
If they were to go up for sale, the objects inside the box would fetch a pretty penny -- not because they're rare, but because of the history behind them, said Sebastian Clarke, an appraiser for the PBS program "Antiques Roadshow."
"The story's fantastic. George Washington was still the president of this country until 1797. ... The 17th century coin is maybe a 5 or 6,000-dollar coin, but with this story, the value increases tenfold," he said.
Experts say they haven't been able to confirm whether Paul Revere made the silver plate, which commemorates the placement of the legislature's cornerstone by Adams and Revere on July 4, 1795.
If Revere did make it, Clarke said, "the value has to be in the hundreds of thousands of dollars. It's magnificent."
But don't expect to see these objects showing up at any auction.
After the conservation process is finished, they'll go on display at the museum. And eventually, the time capsule and its contents will be placed again in the cornerstone of the Massachusetts State House, said William F. Galvin, secretary of the commonwealth.
One question still remains, Galvin said: Will officials add anything new to the time capsule before they put it back?
"The governor has wisely suggested that we might," he said, "so we'll think about it."
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Thanksgiving 2015
Today marks the 225th anniversary of the national Thanksgiving holiday proclaimed by George Washington, as a way to give thanks for the Constitution, and honor religious and civil liberty.
Before 1789, Thanksgiving had been observed in different ways in different regions. And during the Revolutionary War, the Continental Congress issued various proclamations – several a year at one point – for national days of prayer and giving thanks, usually in November and December.
President Washington had been asked by the First Congress in September 1789 to issue a proclamation from the new government under the Constitution after the lawmakers debated and passed a resolution introduced by Elias Boudinot of New Jersey in the House.
Link: Read The Full Proclamation
The resolution asked, "That a joint committee of both Houses be directed to wait upon the President of the United States, to request that he would recommend to the people of the United States a day of public thanksgiving and prayer to be observed by acknowledging, with grateful hearts, the many signal favors of Almighty God, especially by affording them an opportunity peaceably to establish a Constitution of government for their safety and happiness."
Five members of the First Congress, including Boudinot, approached Washington with the idea, and the President issued the proclamation (the second in presidential history) on October 3, 1789.
President Washington sent the Thanksgiving Proclamation to the states' governors and asked for the leaders to make sure it was posted and published for all to see.
"I must request the favor of you to have published and made known in your State in the way and manner that shall be most agreeable to yourself," he wrote.
The Thanksgiving Proclamation came two years before the Bill of Rights was ratified in 1791, but its tone and message is remindful of the constitutional protections of liberty in all forms that the Founders had fought for and later enshrined in Philadelphia in 1787.
Washington said he wanted the people to be thankful "for the peaceable and rational manner in which we have been enabled to establish constitutions of government for our safety and happiness, and particularly the national one now lately instituted; for the civil and religious liberty with which we are blessed."
The proclamation also makes it clear that the Thanksgiving Day, in Washington's opinion, should be a day of prayer, especially for lawmakers and government officials.
"We may then unite in most humbly offering our prayers and supplications to the great Lord and Ruler of Nations, and beseech Him to pardon our national and other trangressions; to enable us all, whether in public or private stations, to perform our several and relative duties properly and punctually; to render our National Government a blessing to all the people by constantly being a Government of wise, just, and constitutional laws, discreetly and faithfully executed and obeyed," Washington asked.
The President established "Thursday, the 26th day of November next" as the Thanksgiving Day. In subsequent years, several other Presidents issued proclamations infrequently.
It was President Abraham Lincoln in 1863 who issued the next major Thanksgiving Day proclamation, and every President since Lincoln has issued an annual proclamation.
"I do therefore invite my fellow-citizens in every part of the United States, and also those who are at sea and those who are sojourning in foreign lands, to set apart and observe the last Thursday of November next as a day of thanksgiving and praise to our beneficent Father who dwelleth in the heavens," Lincoln said.
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Thank you, Veterans, for keeping us free!
from the US Department of Veterans' Affairs site:
History of Veterans Day
World War I – known at the time as "The Great War" - officially ended when the Treaty of Versailles was signed on June 28, 1919, in the Palace of Versailles outside the town of Versailles, France. However, fighting ceased seven months earlier when an armistice, or temporary cessation of hostilities, between the Allied nations and Germany went into effect on the eleventh hour of the eleventh day of the eleventh month. For that reason, November 11, 1918, is generally regarded as the end of "the war to end all wars."
Soldiers of the 353rd Infantry near a church at Stenay, Meuse in France, wait for the end of hostilities. This photo was taken at 10:58 a.m., on November 11, 1918, two minutes before the armistice ending World War I went into effect
In November 1919, President Wilson proclaimed November 11 as the first commemoration of Armistice Day with the following words: "To us in America, the reflections of Armistice Day will be filled with solemn pride in the heroism of those who died in the country's service and with gratitude for the victory, both because of the thing from which it has freed us and because of the opportunity it has given America to show her sympathy with peace and justice in the councils of the nations…"
The original concept for the celebration was for a day observed with parades and public meetings and a brief suspension of business beginning at 11:00 a.m.
The United States Congress officially recognized the end of World War I when it passed a concurrent resolution on June 4, 1926, with these words:
Whereas the 11th of November 1918, marked the cessation of the most destructive, sanguinary, and far reaching war in human annals and the resumption by the people of the United States of peaceful relations with other nations, which we hope may never again be severed, and
Whereas it is fitting that the recurring anniversary of this date should be commemorated with thanksgiving and prayer and exercises designed to perpetuate peace through good will and mutual understanding between nations; and
Whereas the legislatures of twenty-seven of our States have already declared November 11 to be a legal holiday: Therefore be it Resolved by the Senate (the House of Representatives concurring), that the President of the United States is requested to issue a proclamation calling upon the officials to display the flag of the United States on all Government buildings on November 11 and inviting the people of the United States to observe the day in schools and churches, or other suitable places, with appropriate ceremonies of friendly relations with all other peoples.
An Act (52 Stat. 351; 5 U. S. Code, Sec. 87a) approved May 13, 1938, made the 11th of November in each year a legal holiday—a day to be dedicated to the cause of world peace and to be thereafter celebrated and known as "Armistice Day." Armistice Day was primarily a day set aside to honor veterans of World War I, but in 1954, after World War II had required the greatest mobilization of soldiers, sailors, Marines and airmen in the Nation's history; after American forces had fought aggression in Korea, the 83rd Congress, at the urging of the veterans service organizations, amended the Act of 1938 by striking out the word "Armistice" and inserting in its place the word "Veterans." With the approval of this legislation (Public Law 380) on June 1, 1954, November 11th became a day to honor American veterans of all wars.
Later that same year, on October 8th, President Dwight D. Eisenhower issued the first "Veterans Day Proclamation" which stated: "In order to insure proper and widespread observance of this anniversary, all veterans, all veterans' organizations, and the entire citizenry will wish to join hands in the common purpose. Toward this end, I am designating the Administrator of Veterans' Affairs as Chairman of a Veterans Day National Committee, which shall include such other persons as the Chairman may select, and which will coordinate at the national level necessary planning for the observance. I am also requesting the heads of all departments and agencies of the Executive branch of the Government to assist the National Committee in every way possible."
President Eisenhower signing HR7786, changing Armistice Day to Veterans Day. From left: Alvin J. King, Wayne Richards, Arthur J. Connell, John T. Nation, Edward Rees, Richard L. Trombla, Howard W. Watts
On that same day, President Eisenhower sent a letter to the Honorable Harvey V. Higley, Administrator of Veterans' Affairs (VA), designating him as Chairman of the Veterans Day National Committee.
In 1958, the White House advised VA's General Counsel that the 1954 designation of the VA Administrator as Chairman of the Veterans Day National Committee applied to all subsequent VA Administrators. Since March 1989 when VA was elevated to a cabinet level department, the Secretary of Veterans Affairs has served as the committee's chairman.
The Uniform Holiday Bill (Public Law 90-363 (82 Stat. 250)) was signed on June 28, 1968, and was intended to ensure three-day weekends for Federal employees by celebrating four national holidays on Mondays: Washington's Birthday, Memorial Day, Veterans Day, and Columbus Day. It was thought that these extended weekends would encourage travel, recreational and cultural activities and stimulate greater industrial and commercial production. Many states did not agree with this decision and continued to celebrate the holidays on their original dates.
The first Veterans Day under the new law was observed with much confusion on October 25, 1971. It was quite apparent that the commemoration of this day was a matter of historic and patriotic significance to a great number of our citizens, and so on September 20th, 1975, President Gerald R. Ford signed Public Law 94-97 (89 Stat. 479), which returned the annual observance of Veterans Day to its original date of November 11, beginning in 1978. This action supported the desires of the overwhelming majority of state legislatures, all major veterans service organizations and the American people.
Veterans Day continues to be observed on November 11, regardless of what day of the week on which it falls. The restoration of the observance of Veterans Day to November 11 not only preserves the historical significance of the date, but helps focus attention on the important purpose of Veterans Day: A celebration to honor America's veterans for their patriotism, love of country, and willingness to serve and sacrifice for the common good.
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Happy Mother's Day!
Some Mother's Day Figures:
• In the United States, there are about 82.5 million mothers. (source: US Census Bureau)
• about 96% of American consumers take part in some way in Mother's Day (source: Hallmark)
• Mother's Day is widely reported as the peak day of the year for long distance telephone calls
• There are more than 23,000 florists in the United States with a total of more than 125,000 employees. Colombia is the leading foreign supplier of cut flowers and fresh flower buds to the US. California produces two-thirds of domestic production of cut flowers. (source: US Census Bureau)
• Mother's Day is the busiest day of the year for many restaurants
• Retailers report that Mother's Day is the second highest gift-giving holiday in the United States (Christmas is the highest).
• Most popular month for having babies in the US is August, and most popular weekday is Tuesday. (source: US Census Bureau)
• about twice as many young women were childfree in the year 2000 as in the 1950s (source: Ralph Fevre, The Guardian, Manchester, March 26, 2001)
• In the US, 82% of women ages 40-44 are mothers. This compares to 90% in 1976. (source: US Census Bureau)
• In Utah and Alaska, women on the average will have three children before the end of their childbearing years. Overall, the average in the United States is two. (source: US Census Bureau)
• In 2002, the 55% of American women with infant children were in the workforce, compared to 31% in 1976, and down from 59% in 1998. In 2002, there were 5.4 million stay-at-home mothers in the US. (source: US Census Bureau)
source: http://womenshistory.about.com/od/mothersday/a/statistics.htm
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Texas Giving Away Gun Safety Locks to Hunters
AUSTIN, Texas — As part of a nationwide firearms safety initiative called Project ChildSafe, the Texas Parks and Wildlife Department is giving away 80,000 gun safety locks to hunters.
"We're issuing a free gun lock to each student who takes hunter education," said Terry Erwin, TPWD hunter education coordinator and president-elect of the International Hunter Education Association. "We have already distributed 40,000 locks to staff and instructors, and currently have 40,000 more locks to move."
TPWD will also make the gun locks available to hunters during the department's special drawing hunts on state parks and wildlife management areas this fall, and game wardens will be handing out locks to hunters during routine checks in the field.
Project ChildSafe is a nationwide program that's purpose is to promote safe firearms handling and storage practices among all firearms owners through the distribution of key safety education messages and free gun locking devices.
Project ChildSafe is an expansion of the Project HomeSafe program developed by the National Shooting Sports Foundation (NSSF). It is supported by a U.S. Department of Justice grant and is a component of Project Safe Neighborhoods, the nationwide commitment to reduce gun crime to create safer neighborhoods. DOJ selected NSSF to administer Project ChildSafe based on its experience in operating Project HomeSafe. NSSF also provides funding to Project ChildSafe.
NSSF, with more than 2,500 members, is the shooting sports industry's largest and most diverse trade association. Formed in 1961, NSSF manages a variety of outreach programs with a special emphasis on efforts to promote firearm safety education to all gun owners.
Project ChildSafe partners with governors, lieutenant governors, U.S. Attorneys, community leaders and law enforcement officials to distribute free safety kits to gun owners in all states in order to promote safe storage of firearms in the home.
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text: Juliean 7068 Report post Posted March 21, 2013 Hello, I've implemented a basic Octree, which should for now only store primitive collision shapes like boxes and spheres to raypick for my level editor. For now I've two methods to stop child creation: - Eighter if the node only contains one children - or if it goes beyond a certain depth. Works pretty well, except for one corner case. Consider this picture (its a quad-tree, but since octree and quadtrees are conceptually similar its easier for me to draw): See how the green and blue rectangle take up nearly the same space. Obviously now none of the above condition is triggered, so the lower left tree-child gets subdevided (I only marked this one, but same would applie to the other too). Now the red marked child is where things get really ugly. Since each of those childs would contain both rectangles, they would subdevide further and further and so on until the maximum depth is reached. This doesn't make any sense, from a performance viewpoint. Since each of those children contain exactly the same bounding volumes, they shouldn't exist. It should look like this: The middle child as well as the two yellow marked childs, since all containing the same two bounding volumes, don't get subdevided further - I subdevided those where it would make sense. Now, my question: what is the common approch for that case? It wasn't talked about in any tutorial about oct/quadtrees I've read. The only way I can think about is to first create all eight child-nodes, and then check if they contain exactly the same volumes (or the data they are connected too). But since this is a performance critical task, I wouldn't want to do this if there is a way around it. First of all with this approach I'd have to first create all eight children, then check their content (consider if more then two shapes overlap that way), then destroy them - on top of that I'd need to give away the convinient recursive nature of the octree, sinse I'd have to split the node creation and node subdivision in two methods, in order for the nodes not to subdevide until max depth before I can destroy them. Is there any fast algorythm for this problem? 0 Share this post Link to post Share on other sites


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AMBULANCE staff faced a bucket full or ice water instead of their beds after a 12-hour shift in one of the busiet emergency service control rooms in the country.
A total of 24 members of staff from West Midlands Ambulance Service base in Brierley Hill, including four from Worcester, one from Stourport and one from Kidderminster, doused themselves with the water as part of the new charity craze the Ice Bucket Challenge.
The staff, from the Emergency Operations Control Team One, clocked off after their 12-hour shift at 7am this morning to face the icy challenge in their uniform before heading to bed.
Rob Kelly, EOC duty manager at the Millennium Point control room, led the team of 24 out to the car park after work.
Jeremy Brown, EOC general manager, said: "This morning's ice bucket challenge was a real team effort from the Trust's control room staff across both sites and they should be really proud of their achievement. Well done."
Started in the US, the ice bucket challenge has raised £48 million in less than a month for ALS (Amyotrophic lateral sclerosis), known as motor neurone disease (MND) in the UK. The disease affects the brain and the spinal cord causing motor neurones to degenerate and die, leading to gradual paralysis and eventually death.
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When planning their August wedding, Gerry Lavergne and Shelley Carlson wanted to go big or go home. In the end, they did both.
Saturday, after dating for exactly one year, the couple got married in grand fashion: on a sentimental dock with the Esplanade Riel bridge in the background of the neighbourhood they call home, St. Boniface.
They are the first couple to have their wedding reception at Chez Sophie, the restaurant atop the Esplanade Riel bridge, which was erected in 2003.
The reason behind the ceremony's location is one of many details in the Lavergne-Carlson story that sounds like something out of a Nicholas Sparks novel.
"My mom used to go to the same spot where we're getting married when she was going to school at the Collège St. Boniface. She would go there and have her supper. And I would always go there when I went running, way before I met Gerry," said Carlson. "I would stop there and I would kind of think about my future and do a little praying and meditating."
The dock below the bridge was also one of the first locations where Lavergne and Carlson went when they started dating. Though they knew each other for nine years before they started dating on Aug. 9, 2013, a fire pit in Lavergne's backyard was the spot of their actual first date.
Carlson was in the navy with Jasmine Zurbriggen, Lavergne's niece, who told her about an amazing uncle she had.
Seven years ago, when Carlson needed a place to stay, Zurbriggen said Lavergne had an open suite for rent in his home. So Carlson moved in. "He was actually my landlord before we got to know each other, and it just clicked," she said.
They lived in the same house for two years before they began dating. The fire pit in their shared backyard brought them together one night, and a smaller version of that pit decorated the top of their wedding cake Saturday.
"Six months to the day (on Feb. 9), in the middle of winter, I started a fire in the backyard in the snow," said Lavergne. He popped the question, flat-out surprising Carlson.
"I was thinking it was for our six-month anniversary -- I had no clue he was going to propose," Carlson said. Her answer was an immediate yes.
On Saturday, Lavergne and Carlson invited 120 of their closest friends and family to their wedding ceremony and reception.
Carlson's dad, Bruce, composed all of the music for the ceremony, while Carlson recorded a cover of an Alison Krauss song, When You Say Nothing At All, that was played for the couple's first dance.
"I recorded the song actually years ago before I met him and then I played it for him when I did meet him because it reminded me of him," said Carlson.
The proverbial cherry on top? Zurbriggen, who introduced the couple, performed the marriage ceremony, too.


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SAN ANTONIO -- Big wins midway through the regular season don't define a team.
It's not going out on a limb, though, to say the Trail Blazers' 109-100 victory over San Antonio Friday night at AT&T Center was their most meaningful one so far this season.
Even with San Antonio coach Gregg Popovich working himself into enough of a rage to get tossed out in the third quarter.
Even with regular starters Tiago Splitter and Danny Green missing with injuries and Tony Parker a game-time decision due to a painful shin bruise.
Even with the Spurs (31-9) now owning a 1-8 record against teams that have won 65 percent or more of their games this season.
It still ranks in the "colossal" category, as the Blazers opened a rugged four-game trip the right way.
"To beat the best team in the West right now, on their floor?" Portland coach Terry Stotts asked rhetorically. "That sticks out."
Portland (30-9) outduked perhaps the most mentally tough, most battle-tested team in the NBA down the stretch, outscoring the Spurs 32-22 while sinking 12 of 20 shots -- including 4 of 6 from 3-point range -- in the fourth quarter.
Each of the Blazers' starters earned a gold star on his helmet for his part in a physical, get-after-it-for-48-minutes battle that LaMarcus Aldridge called "like a playoff road game."
Stotts wouldn't go that far.
"It's NBA basketball," Portland's second-year coach said. "San Antonio plays that way. We need to play that way. We didn't back down. We stayed aggressive and did what we needed to do.
"The playoffs are another level, but you could sense there were two of the top teams going at it."
The going was "really intense," Blazers guard Damian Lillard said. "The team that backed down, you automatically lose. Neither team did that tonight."
The Blazers survived a San Antonio charge after Popovich was ejected for the first time this season early in the third quarter, protesting vehemently a series of non-calls on what he felt was a patch of Blazer too-rough stuff. After referee Mark Ayotte whistled Popovich for one technical, the veteran coach -- who turns 65 on Jan. 28 -- had to be restrained by assistant coaches. While he bellowed some more, referee Bill Kennedy signaled Popovich for an early exit.
Those in the Blazer camp felt Popovich got thrown out intentionally to light a fire under his troops.
"I always have my reasons," is all Popovich would say by way of explanation.
"Looked like he wanted to get tossed, because he just kept going off," Lillard said. "I knew that would spark their team."
It did.
When Lillard made the free throws after the technicals, Portland's lead was 67-55. Seven minutes later, after Manu Ginobili somehow spun in a driving layup as the third quarter expired, the Spurs were in front 78-77.
Popovich "just wanted to give us a boost," said Parker, who scored only two of his 12 points in the second half. "It worked pretty well."
"The momentum switched," Stotts said. "Whether it was them or the crowd, the game turned on us."
Ginobili almost single-handedly fueled the comeback, scoring 18 straight points to end the quarter.
"Vintage Ginobili," Stotts said. "He's making 3's, going to the basket, getting fouled, scoring off pick-and-rolls. He's capable of having those (spurts)."
But the Blazers got it done in the clutch, especially Aldridge and Wesley Matthews, who combined for 17 fourth-quarter points.
After going for a pedestrian six points and five rebounds in the first half, Aldridge went for 20 points and eight boards over the final two quarters. With boyhood idol Tim Duncan switching off to guard him in the fourth quarter, Aldridge scored three straight baskets on a pair of jumpers and a move to the hoop that he finished with the left hand.
Then there was Matthews, who had a quiet first half, too, with eight points. He was nails at crunch time, knocking down three straight 3-pointers in a 2:21 stretch, the last one giving Portland a 105-96 advantage with 1:25 to play.
"What do they say in football -- pitch and catch?" asked Matthews, who scored 24 points and knocked down 6 of 7 from beyond the arc. "I like high-pressure situations. My teammates were finding me. They did the hard job. All I had to do was knock the shot down."
Ginobili finished with 29 points off the bench to lead five Spurs in double figures. But the home team didn't have enough to get past a determined group of visitors.
"Every time we made a run or played good defense, (the Blazers) would get a 3 or an isolation for Aldridge and a bucket," Ginobili said. "They were ready down the stretch."
As impressive as anything were the little plays that turned big.
With Portland clinging to a 92-91 lead and the clock winding under four minutes, Lillard launched a 3-pointer that bounced off the rim. Nicolas Batum skied him for the long rebound and, in one motion, one-handed a no-look pass to Matthews spotted up behind the 3-point line in the far corner. Swish!
" 'Dame' set up the play," said Batum, who had his usual fill-the-stat-sheet performance with nine points, nine rebounds and seven assists. "When I got the rebound, he was behind the (3-point) line yelling, 'Nic!' So all the (defenders') eyes went to Dame. I sensed Wes was open."
Stotts smiled when reminded of the moment.
"I like team play," he said. "I like unselfish play. I like effort plays. You saw that a lot tonight.
"We need to rely on each other. Those type of plays, as much as they lift us up, they're very deflating for the other team."
"That's who we are," Aldridge added. "We make the extra pass. We make the extra extra pass. They doubled me late to take me out, and it was like second nature (to find the open teammate). Makes us really hard to guard."
The Blazers hung tough when the Spurs rallied to take an 83-79 lead early in the fourth quarter.
"The crowd got back to it, but we kept our poise," Batum said. "That's how we've improved from last year. Tonight, we calmed down when things got hectic."
The unsung hero might have been center Robin Lopez, whose statistical line -- eight points, three rebounds in 34 minutes -- doesn't reflect his contributions at the defensive end. Lopez guarded Duncan through most of his 34 minutes, holding the perennial All-Star to 13 points and seven rebounds on 6-for-16 shooting.
"We know he's going to get his," Lopez said. "I just did what I could do to pester him. Maybe he had an off night, maybe I had a bit of an effect. I know I had a lot of teammates backing me up."
The Blazers were trying to not make too much of one victory, even if it came against the defending Western Conference champions in their own building. But it was hard to conceal the fact that they were tickled to pull this one out as they venture to Dallas Saturday, then Houston Monday and Oklahoma City on Tuesday.
"If we start this road trip with a loss, then we have to play back-to-back in Dallas. That could have been tough," Batum said. "To win this game against the No. 1 team in the West -- the best team in the league, maybe -- that's big. Especially the way we played."
Added Lillard, who collected 21 points, eight assists and five rebounds despite making only 6 of 16 shots from the field: "With the rest of the trip we have in front of us, for us to come in against probably the toughest of them all and get a win is great momentum for us going forward."
Ginobili was complimentary in his assessment of the Blazers.
"They're good," he said. "They have a lot of scorers. They have great shooters. They pass well, too. They have (Aldridge), who can shoot over anybody and, against us, it looks like they all go in. Even with that, we missed a couple of opportunities. Can't let that happen when you play great teams."
Interesting to hear opponents refer to Portland as a "great team."
A few months ago, few of us would have believed it. Now, the Blazers are getting there.
But Friday's win wasn't a statement about what can happen the rest of the season, Lillard said.
"It's not about later," he said. "It's about wanting to be consistent. We want to keep getting the job done.
"We knew this was going to be a tough trip. We came here ready to win a game, and we did that."
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- Responding selectively. Once you start engaging openly with customers on Twitter or Facebook, you can't go back, so think first. Most companies still don't have the staff or processes in place to efficiently handle social media complaints. About 45% of questions posed on Facebook go unanswered, according to Socialbakers. Many of those are critical comments that companies can't or don't want to deal with. SocialOps found that 70% of the companies it audited had deleted Facebook comments, a practice that can create more problems than it solves. If you build a branded presence on social networks, you should post a written comment policy, then enforce it consistently. Fans and critics deserve equal attention. Most gripes can be effectively dealt with by simply showing receptivity, and critics often become promoters. One survey of 700 problem incidents in the airline, hotel and restaurant industries found that one-quarter of customers' best memories actually began as problems. People complain because they care.
- Not responding at all. Creating a Facebook Page or Twitter account is an invitation to converse. If all you do is post press releases and happy talk, you'll be viewed as a spammer. No one "likes" that. If you're not ready for two-way dialogue, then don't put your brand on Facebook. It isn't a federal requirement yet.
- Responding erratically. You should have a target window for response times with limits at both ends. If you answer complaints too quickly, others will come to expect the same service. Are you prepared to give it to them? A good rule of thumb is a four-hour minimum and a 24-hour maximum response window. If you can move faster, great; but be aware that you may be setting a precedent, so add staff accordingly.
- Cutting and running. Our instinctive reaction when confronted with a complaint is to dispatch it quickly and get the person out of our face. That typically means either apologizing or promising to "take your comments into consideration"" Neither is a good response. People complain because they feel an injustice has been done. Most are looking for a receptive ear and a promise to address the problem. If you lead with an apology, it looks like you're not listening. That makes people really mad. By the same token, promising to think about it looks like a brushoff. If you're really going to take a critic seriously, set a timeframe for a response—such as, "We'll post a follow-up here within two weeks"—then stick to it. By the way, "no" is a perfectly acceptable answer if you have a reason.
- Appeasing. Coupons, freebies and giveaways are never a good strategy unless they're accompanied by genuine regret. Once you set the precedent of buying off angry customers, you'll find yourself with a lot more angry customers. Everything gets shared these days. Make-goods should be given on a case-by-case basis when it's clear that the situation merits it. If you're going to institutionalize appeasement, then apply the policy fairly and consistently. L.L. Bean, Lands' End and Coach all promise no-questions-asked refunds or replacements. JetBlue distributes a flight voucher to any customer inconvenienced by a problem within its control. If you manage appeasement right, it's actually a competitive advantage.


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Holiday Gift Guide: 'Achewood' Merchandise
When it comes to the holiday gift-giving season, comic book readers are notoriously difficult to shop for. I mean, most of us are down at the shop buying our favorite stuff every single week, so when the time comes for people who like us to get us something we want, well, a lot of times we already have it. That's why we're stepping in with a public service, bringing you comics-related items sure to make the season brighter, whether you're browsing for a gift or just looking for something to drop hints about so that you don't get stuck with a random assortment of back issues again.
Even if you're as big a fan of Achewood as I am, you might not know that the merchandise section recently returned after being absent for almost two years -- so finally, you can give someone that Sex Bicycle t-shirt they've always wanted. It's great for grandma!


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Folks Gotta Eat
favourite summer recipes from our tiny kitchen
by Folks Gotta Eat favourite summer recipes from our tiny kitchen
About the Book
I love to garden, visit farmers markets and support local Ontario farmers. Summer is my absolute favourite time to eat and cook.
So when I was compiling recipes as a collection for friends and family it can't be a coincidence that many of the recipes were from the summer season and so a theme for this little book was born.
Things move a little slower in the heat, we eat a lot of cold suppers and rarely turn on the oven or even stove. Fresh fruits and vegetables need little adornment and the best meals are often the most simple. There are many salads inside this book but also a few treats and some preserving ideas.
I hope you enjoy these recipes as much as I do.
With love,
Features & Details
- Category Cooking
Standard Landscape, 10×8 in, 25×20 cm
28 Pages
- Publish Date Nov 08, 2012
About the Creator
Shana Hillman grew up in a small town in northern Ontario where she gained experience in animal husbandry and strawberry farming. She has called Toronto home for the last 15 years. She loves cooking, preserving and growing Beagle-resistant vegetables in her sunny backyard. Recent highlights have included cheesemaking on the kitchen counter and curing pancetta in the basement, much to the horror of her adoring, yet dubious husband, and to the delight of her two ravenous Beagles (who are now banned from the basement until further notice).
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Soldiers from all around Britain have taken part in a gruelling test of fitness from dawn to dusk around York and North Yorkshire.
Hundreds ran, cycled, marched, swam and kayaked 182 miles to the finish line of the Race The Sun event.
The 29 teams of men and women began crossing the forests, rivers, and lake at first light.
They slogged up Sutton Bank, biked through Cropton Forest to Levisham Moor, and endured a Forced March with heavy pack to Rievaulx Moor.
After swimming the Great Lake at Castle Howard, they faced a three kilometre stretcher race carrying a 40 kg load around Imphal Barracks, Fulford.
The York-based 4th Battalion The Yorkshire Regiment won the the minor units trophy.
Lt Col Ian Hargreaves, the CO of York-based 2 Signal Regiment, which hosted and organised the event, said: "It makes huge demands of our soldiers.
"Their physical stamina, their teamwork and their sheer determination is what gets them through.
"Overseas, events such as 'Race the Sun' directly contribute to the Army's operational effectiveness."


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Market your site through creating backlinks. Use adwords, facebook PPC to get targeted and paid traffic.
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Thanks & Regards,<snip>
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The last time the three parties sat down in an "adult" fashion to discuss party funding – and how to reform it – the talks broke down in an acrimonious fashion. The Hayden Phillips review ran into the sand in late 2007 (although he believes he was inches away from an agreement).
Tomorrow (Thursday) the can of worms will be reopened by the the Committee on Standards in Public Life, which is interviewing witnesses including Sir Hayden, Jack Straw, Francis Maude and David Heath. The sessions start at 9.30am at Church House in Dean's Yard.
Reform of party funding is in the coalition agreement (page 21).
Maude, minister for the Cabinet Office, is keen to end the passive way in which millions of pounds are delivered from the unions to Labour via their political funds. In particular the Tories are unhappy – and have been for years – with the fact that members have to "opt out" of the funds rather than "opt in". That, they argue, is unfair given that many union members are Tory supporters.
The coalition is not prepared to risk acting unilaterally, however. It knows that hitting Labour's coffers without a wider package of reforms to party funding would leave it open to charges of being partisan. Instead the Tories and Lib Dems will attend the inevitably slow multi-party talks with Labour and others that will follow the committee's eventual report. Read more


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Set to launch its fifth year as the game-day home for Ivy League live events, the newly-branded Ivy League Network (ILN) will welcome a number of broadcast and user-experience enhancements in the 2017-18 academic year.
The Ivy League announced its postseason honors and awards for softball on Thursday, selecting Columbia first-year Sommer Grzybek Second Team All-Ivy League. The All-Ivy League teams are voted on by the Ancient Eight's head coaches.
The Columbia softball team set several offensive records in 2017, including home runs (37), RBIs (184), runs (205) and total bases (539).
Columbia celebrated the careers of softball seniors Tonia Wu and Kerry Cook prior to the final two home games of the 2017 season on Friday afternoon at the Columbia Softball Stadium. The Lions were upended by Penn, 1-0 and 11-3 (6).
The Columbia softball team closes out the 2017 season with a four-game Ivy League series against Penn. The first two games will take place Friday at Columbia with first pitch at 2 p.m. The series moves to Penn for the final two games on Saturday at 12:30 p.m.
Madison Gott and Sommer Grzybek each homered, tying the Columbia softball program's single-season record (10), to lead the Lions in a Wednesday split with Manhattan.
The Columbia softball team will play a doubleheader against Manhattan on Wednesday at the Columbia Softball Stadium. The games were originally scheduled to take place at Manhattan, but a decision was made Tuesday afternoon to move them to Columbia due to turf issues with Manhattan's field. First pitch is slated for 3 p.m.
Madison Gott drove in six runs, including four in game two, and set Columbia records in RBIs to lead the Lions to a victory in the final game of a four-game series at Princeton.
The Columbia softball team hit four home runs, all in game one, but dropped in its first two of a four-game series at Princeton, 9-6 and 8-0 (5), Friday afternoon at the Class of 1895 Field.
The Ivy League South Division hangs in the balance for the Columbia softball team. The Lions, who sit three games behind division-leader Princeton, will play a four-game series against the Tigers on Friday and Saturday in New Jersey.
Junior Madison Gott and first-year Sommer Grzybek homered and collected 4 RBIs apiece to lead the Columbia softball team in a two-game sweep of Rider, 6-1 and 12-2 (6), Wednesday afternoon at Herb and Joan Young Field.
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A9 TV; 24 December 2011
(Regarding an e-mail saying, "I watch you along with the workers in my business. At my workers' request, I have had a giant screen installed. We listen to your fine words. Production in my workplace has gone up. You are really a very productive man, masha'Allah")
Of course. There is no need for my brothers with businesses to put up giant screens. They can just install a normal television, or indeed a giant screen if possible; and turn on A9. How excellent! Our devout, hard-working and honest people need to be informed. Instead of poisoning their minds with crude televole pop culture, they should turn to useful information and general knowledge and thus increase their faith many times over, insha'Allah.
"The end of the Mayan Calendar is 21 December 2012. 21.12.2012." That is a fascinating figure. 21 is 12 written backward. So "21.12.2012." That date corresponds to 5773 in the Judaic calendar. What I am now going to say is very important. "2012 equates to 5772-5773 in the Judaic calendar. According to Mayan tradition, 21 December 2012 is the rebirth of history. The Zohar is the most important Judaic reference source, one of the most important. It says that "the beginning of the liberation of the line of Jacob," the beginning of the liberation of Israel, "is given as the Judaic year 5760." The year 5760 according to Judaic belief. "And that gives a date of 11 September, 1999." 1999 is vitally important. That is the date of the operation against us, as you know. Many things happened in 1999. There was the earthquake in 1999 [in Istanbul]. "The period between 11 September 1999 and 29 September 2000. The Judaic year 5766, Roj Hoshana, described as the time of the coming of the King Messiah – Hazrat Mahdi (pbuh), began on 3 October 2005." That is also the date of the coming of Jesus the Messiah, insha'Allah. "That year refers to 2005-2006." The time when the Mahdi's activities intensify. That is in complete agreement with Judaic records, we are in full agreement. It is in complete agreements with the hadiths of our Prophet (pbuh). There are all in agreement around a single point. "The Judaic year 5773, set out as the date when the King Messiah, Muhammad the Mahdi, will set the whole world in motion, corresponds to 2012-2013. The Judaic year when the King Messiah, Muhammad the Mahdi, will set the whole world in motion." The date when the Mahdi starts his global activity. "The year 5773." Look, this is in the 3000-year-old Zohar. "This refers to 2012-2013."
The Torah and the Zohar speak of the coming of a comet and the Mahdi, and our Prophet (pbuh) says the same thing. "and the whole world will gather around the line of Jacob." Who is the Mahdi descended from? From Jacob.
Let me know go into this matter more deeply, the whole thing.
"in the Zohar"- the Zohar is a 3000-year-old book. It is the second most important book after the Torah. Rather like our books of hadiths. "the line of Jacob"- the line of Jacob, the line of Abraham - "It sets out the Judaic year 5760 as the beginning of salvation. That corresponds to the period between 11 September 1999 and 29 September 2000." What does Bediüzzaman say? 'He will scatter them all after half a century.' Does he give the same date? Yes, he does. The Mahdi described in the Torah is the same as the Mahdi described by our Prophet (pbuh). They are the same. "The Judaic year 5773, set out in the Zohar as the date when the King Messiah, Muhammed the Mahdi, will set the whole world in motion, corresponds to 2012-2013." This why the Jews who come here say, "We have felt something in Istanbul. Something will happen in Istanbul." The Knights Templar came, and they said, "our 1000-year tradition and past tells us that someone will appear from Istanbul." They also say, "When someone carrying a water jug appears, we will follow him." They saw a water jug here in my interviews, in gold-plate. "We realized when we saw it," they said. But they saw the forerunner of the Mahdi. The water jug actually belongs to the Mahdi. We are his followers. Of course I also carry a water jug, masha'Allah. Behind the Mahdi, insha'Allah.
Renowned experts on the Kabbala are coming in the days ahead. The Kabbala is very important in Judaism, as you know. The Zohar is the basic work of Kabbalistic knowledge. Part of it is concerned with numbers and codes. In Judaic belief, the Zohar clarifies the secret mysteries of the Torah. It brings out its hidden meanings and solves the codes in the Torah, insha'Allah. It is quite clear in there that the way of the Mahdi will pass to the ascendancy in 1999, between 11 September 1999 and 29 September 2000, and that he will begin his global activities in 2012-2013. What have I been saying? What does Bediüzzaman say? What did our Prophet (pbuh) say? The same thing. What does the Kabbala say? The same thing. And the commentary on the Zohar? The same thing again. Yet all the rabbis know this. They do not say much to be, but I realized later that they knew. It is also in the Talmud. They all know. "A savior will appear from outside Israel, we know that," they say. In other words, they say that he will not be an Israeli. "He will come from outside Israel." The chief judge of the Sanhedrin said that. He told me that separately.
Topkapı Palace was specially made for the Mahdi. Its location is very special. It is not in just any old part of Istanbul. It abuts onto Haghia Sofia and was made deliberately. The site of Haghia Sofia is deliberately set out. The relics beneath it have been specially preserved. Topkapı Palace is a place that will be used by the Mahdi in his meetings and discussions. It will be redesigned and made ready. You will see. An American president even asked why we do not use it. He thought it should be used for such official contacts.
(Le Monde: "With Adnan Oktar, Turkey has become the main center of Islamic creationism")
Just wait, I have only just begun. I will raise a real storm, a hurricane in 2012-2013. By Allah's leave, I will blow through the world like a hurricane with learning, science and love.
Surat al-'Ankabut, 10:
"There are some people who say, 'We believe in Allah'," you ask them and they say, "Thanks be to Allah, we are Muslims and we have faith." "...and then, when they suffer harm in Allah's cause," when they are imprisoned, for example, or defamed or slandered, "they take people's persecution for Allah's punishment;" they then blame Allah, He says. "…but if help comes from your Lord," wealth or superiority or power, "they say, 'We were with you'." They then tell Muslims or the followers of the Mahdi or the people at the time in question that they were with them all the time. "Does Allah not know best what is in every person's heart?"
Allah says they lie. "Allah knows those who believe and He knows the hypocrites."
The community of the Mahdi is highly select, as was that of our Prophet (pbuh). They preached to intelligent people, but you cannot preach to fools. There is a verse in which Allah says one must explain things to those who can understand. Otherwise, not.
(About our sisters on the program)
They are innocent, polite, chaste, intelligent, honest, sincere, immaculate and radiant, masha'Allah. The warmth of chastity and faith enfolds them. You are all like that. That is why a profound admiration for you arises. People do not realize why they admire you so. They encounter so many rough women. There is a world of difference between you. A whole dimension. On the one hand there are those women devoid of character and chastity, with their frightfulness, aggression, hypocrisy, craziness, stench and filth; while on the other there is your radiance, light, cleanliness, chastity, nobility and power to affect others. They inspire disgust, but you inspire admiration. But it is impossible not to feel revulsion when confronted by filth. How can one not feel revulsion? I was watching a TV channel the other day. They collected these vulgar women of no character, talking in a very low kind of language. Everything about them was vile and filthy. And there were these rough men. And they were all saying filthy things to one another. A really vulgar and horrible environment. I watched with horror and revulsion. But when they saw you they were repelled and suffer very much. Allah shows them how they are mired in filth. They imagined they were in paradise, but then they realized they were in hell. In comparison with you. A feeling of paradise arose in the hearts of these rough, filthy women. They were stunned to see your manners, upbringing, cleanliness, perfection and superior attributes of all kinds. They realized the filth they were living in. It was wonderful. That is why they all began shouting. "Don't show us those women!" What should I do? Should I produce those low women instead of you? Our nation is a radiant and immaculate one, insha'Allah. I try to put a stop to filth and cheating and fraud and facile culture. But I like your general culture. You are like the ocean, like an encyclopedia.
Believers resemble one another. Allah says they are a chosen and auspicious community. What does that mean? It means they resemble one another. A Muslim will be virtuous, noble, elevated, loving, loyal, humane and impressive, insha'Allah. You represent a fine role model for Europe. You have destroyed that fanatical way of thinking among them. Because they used to give those people who stink, wrapped up in many layers of clothing, women with beards and moustaches as example. As if to say "That is the kind of people they are." But when you appeared as modern, radiant, immaculate and high-class Europeans; with or without headscarves you represented a fine role model, masha'Allah.
(Surat an-Nur, 22-25)
"Those of you possessing affluence and ample wealth," it speaks of virtue first and wealth second. Because wealth is nothing without virtue. No good will come of it. But it is fine if the person is virtuous. "…their relatives and the very poor," those who have nothing. "…and those who have made hijra in the way of Allah," who have abandoned their homes and gone to join the Muslims. "They should rather pardon and overlook." They will both forgive and display toleration. "Would you not love Allah to forgive you? Allah is Ever-Forgiving, Most Merciful."
"Those who accuse women who are chaste, but who are careless and yet believe, are cursed both in this world and the hereafter, and they will have a terrible punishment." It is a sin to accuse pure women who have faith of adultery or cast suspicion on them.
"on the Day when their tongues and hands and feet will testify against them about what they were doing."
Even if they themselves deny it, their hands and their feet will proclaim their guilt.
"On that Day Allah will pay them in full what is due to them, and they will know that Allah is the Clear Truth."
In other words, they will know that Allah implements the truth, insha'Allah.2012-02-20 12:25:46


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