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Deadline roundup: Much ado about Tulo?
Rox shortstop downplays visit to New York; Lester still prefers Boston
The July 31 non-waiver Trade Deadline is coming up quickly, as contenders look to bolster their squads for a potential run at October.
From now until the Deadline, we'll be checking in on the trade news around baseball, with help from MLB.com's reporters. The countdown is underway.
Tulo talk: The fact that injured Troy Tulowitzki attended the Yankees-Blue Jays game in New York on Sunday led to speculation. The main point was that the star Rockies shortstop, who will have a hip procedure done in Philadelphia in hopes of returning from the disabled list, could soon be traded.
Players on the DL generally stay with their club or stay home when they aren't in another city visiting with specialists.
"I don't think it's a big deal for me -- the guy's on the DL," Rockies outfielder Carlos Gonzalez told MLB.com's Thomas Harding. "He had an opportunity to watch baseball, watch his favorite player. Why not? I don't think people should make a big deal about it.
"When he's healthy, he concentrates on the Rockies, he concentrates on being a good player. That's all you can ask for. He gives 100 percent. That's people trying to make things out of it, and that's the last thing we need."
Tulowitzki, who has been reported as saying he wouldn't mind playing for a contender, didn't appear too concerned about the situation, and told The Denver Post that it was much ado about nothing.
"I'm with my family," Tulo told the paper. "I wanted to see [Derek] Jeter play one more time."
The latest on Lester: After Saturday's talk that the Dodgers might be preparing a package for Jon Lester, the veteran left-hander on Sunday cleared some air with WEEI.com, explaining that he understands he could be traded, although multiple reports are suggesting that the Red Sox want a lot in return.
Lester also made a point to say that he is not particularly interested in signing an extension with his new team in the event that he is dealt, because he'd like to come back to Boston.
"Money doesn't buy you happiness," Lester told WEEI.com's Alex Speier. "There's some guys, that drives them. That's great. For me, I want to be happy. I want to be comfortable. I want to be in a place that wants me and appreciates what I do."
Rios rumors: The bat being discussed more than any other on Sunday was Rangers outfielder Alex Rios. According to Ken Rosenthal of FOXSports.com, the Giants, Mariners, Reds and Yankees are among the clubs who have expressed interest in the right-handed hitter.
Rios, who was selected by the White Sox off waivers from Toronto in August 2009 and was then traded to Texas last August in a waiver deadline deal, could also be a candidate to move again after Thursday's deadline.
Yankees yearnings: In addition to their tire-kicking on Rios, the Yankees have been active in discussions, even after landing starter Brandon McCarthy and third baseman Chase Headley in recent weeks.
On Sunday, Jon Heyman of CBSSports.com reported that Twins outfielder Josh Willingham is another player New York has been inquiring about, given the team's ongoing search for offense. Heyman surmised that the Yankees might be more willing to take a stab at Willingham instead of Rios or Marlon Byrd of the Phillies, because Willingham makes only $7 million and will be a free agent at the end of the season, making him less of a financial commitment than the other two players.
Heyman also reported on Sunday that the Yankees are in the market for another starter and that White Sox left-hander John Danks might best fit the bill since he wouldn't require the prospects that it would take to pry Cole Hamels from Philadelphia. The Yankees might also be willing to wait out a possible August waiver deal for Philly lefty Cliff Lee.
LaTroy landing? The Rockies would be orchestrating one of the biggest trades in recent memory if they decided to part with Tulowitzki, but there's no evidence of that happening just yet. For now, though, Colorado might be willing to swing a smaller deal.
MLB.com's Thomas Harding reported on Sunday that the Pirates are believed to be interested in the 41-year-old right-hander, who has done a fine job as closer this season.
"With the Rockies requiring players that can help them at the start of next season and always searching for young pitching under club control, a deal could be difficult but not impossible," Harding wrote.
Pittsburgh would be adding to a strong bullpen that includes All-Star southpaw Tony Watson plus right-handers Jeanmar Gomez, Jared Hughes and closer Mark Melancon plus lefty Justin Wilson. Ernesto Frieri, the righty who landed in Pittsburgh in the Jason Grilli trade with the Angels, hasn't found his footing yet with Pittsburgh.
Doug Miller is a reporter for MLB.com. Follow him on Twitter @DougMillerMLB. This story was not subject to the approval of Major League Baseball or its clubs.


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Col. Flores was selected after a month-long search and this year marks his 20-year anniversary as a game warden. Flores' broad range of experience includes service as a field warden in Chambers and Brazos Counties, a District Captain in Beaumont and San Antonio, a Major in San Angelo and most recently, the division's Lt. Col, or Deputy Division Director.
"Texans can expect the continuing of community-oriented conservation law enforcement. May Texans always say, 'see that Officer in the green truck, that's my Game Warden," Flores said.
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THE leader of Bournemouth council has denied short-changing the public by deciding to sell a 40-bedroom former care home for £360,000.
Opposition councillors have queried council claims that the price represents the "full market value" of Leybourne House in Northbourne – pointing out that a nearby three-bedroom bungalow is on the market for £339,950.
Council leader Cllr John Beesley said the site – which is being bought by housing charity BCHA to build affordable flats – would normally have been sold by auction or tender.
"In this instance, however, the primary driver was not to secure the highest price for the land but to ensure that the site was re-developed for good quality affordable housing," he told a meeting.
Cllr Beesley said BCHA had won £561,000 from the Housing Communities Agency towards building 24 flats. The money would be lost if it was not committed to a scheme by March 31.
Independent councillor Sue Levell queried the decision, prompting a special meeting of a council scrutiny panel.
She queried the official record of the decision which said the sum 'represents the full market value'.
"The council have said a 40-bedroom detached property is only worth £360,000 – a property that has never been put on the open market or even advertised.
"Common sense tells you that can't be right," she said.
But Cllr Beesley insisted that no comparison can be made with the sale of residential properties nearby.
The existing building was in need of "very substantial investment".
Officers stood by their use of the phrase "full market value" when asked by committee chairman Cllr Chris Wakefield whether they wanted to reconsider the wording.
Gary Platt, the council's head of property, said mature trees on the site would drastically reduce the space available to a developer.
"The developable site is a much smaller part, really conforming with the existing footprint of the building," he said.
"We've taken into account the value of the completed development less the cost of development and the developer's profit to arrive at the site value."
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Happy Holidays From The Superficial
"Your children drove me to this."
Roughly 300 AD, it was decided that a sequel to the Old Testament would be shekels in the camels because early Mesopotamia was a lot like modern Hollywood right down to the boy love and rampant golden showering of whores. So a group of writers got together and hashed out a new version of God that would arrive on Earth as a baby (Though sadly not in a rocket ship.) and then never age past 30 for maximum handsomeness. He also wouldn't facilitate angel rape which was completely falling flat with focus groups. They HATED angel rape. Anyway, this "New Testament" went on to become an international bestseller probably because people spent centuries thinking you could fall off the face of the Earth into the mouth of a dragon. But more importantly, it ironically became the impetus for an over-commercialized holiday where 90% of western civilization is guilted into having a materialistic orgasm all over the faces of peoples they can't fucking stand for more than 15 seconds. And that's the story of why we'll be back Tuesday.
Happy Holidays, Everyone!
NOTE: I should probably point out these are completely new photos of Courtney Stodden that we sat on because she literally posed for 100 of these. Which, in my opinion, isn't near enough photos to accurately portray how much Santa enjoys wafting an "underage" groin directly into his beard. It's better than coffee, he'll tell you.
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Heat oil in a saucepan, and sauté onions and garlic for 2 minutes. Sauté celery and carrots for 1 to 2 minutes. Add the black beans, and water. Cover, and bring to a boil. Reduce the flame to medium-low, and simmer for 10 minutes. Reduce the flame to low, add the shoyu, cover, and simmer another 5 minutes. Garnish with parsley before serving.
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Adobe Photoshop Elements 12 is now available to download. Photoshop Elements 12 helps you organize and edit your photos and to make them look their absolute best before you share them in print, online, or as keepsakes. Plus, now you can take your Elements photos with you, wherever you go, on your smartphone or tablet.
Rich set of new and enhanced features in PSE 12 includes:
- Access your media anywhere using Adobe Revel
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Access your media anywhere using Adobe Revel
Photoshop Elements lets you upload your media to Adobe® Revel and then access it from any device. Media already present in your Revel libraries is downloaded into Elements Organizer, so that you can work with it.
Adobe Revel is an app that lets you store your media in the cloud and share it privately or publicly. See this article for more information.
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- Place tags in Elements 12 have GPS coordinates associated with them. These coordinates are also associated with any media tagged with these place tags.
- You can now create people, place, and event tags from the right panel in the Media view.
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You can now reposition objects in your photograph, and automatically have the background filled in with an intelligent content-aware fill. In addition to removing something with the Healing Brush, you can now select an object in your photo and move it to another position.
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Automatically modify the tonal value of your photograph. Let Photoshop Elements make a recommendation based on its unique algorithm that also learns from your previous actions. Or, you can move the Auto Smart Tone tool (Enhance > Auto Smart Tone) joystick around on the photograph, to view the effect of different tonal values being applied to the photo.
Enhanced Quick edit mode (frames, textures, and effects)
Apply frames, effects, and textures without having to be an advanced Photoshop user. Take any photo and convert it into a work of art. All three embellishments – frames, effects, and textures – are accessible in the Quick mode.
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try not paddling out right next to a group of guys or a spot that you know and everyone else knows is going to be crowded (for ocmd standards). there are alot of places to go. of course locals will drop in on you. you dont hear these complaints during the winter when its cold, miserable and there are only a handful of guys out in the whole town. as far as kcoast, the guys have been nothing but good to most people (fletcher, hairball, chad ect).
maybe if you are driving down to get waves try somewhere that has no crowd. it isnt like oc has one spot that you have to be. there is not one break that is so much better than every other.
you should have to spend a little time freezing your sack off and having your face burnt by the winter winds to even surf in town. that is why people get pissed when it warms up and now everyone is a surfer. and everyone has a sob story about how they drove down to the ocean and a mean surfer dropped in on them. and if you are a local and you got dropped in on then i am sorry and it is something that happens when you live on the redneck riveria.
and last but not least everyone should go directly to 48th street it is the best break in town.


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TORONTO -- Ondrej Pavelec and his agent, Allan Walsh, with a little help from the KHL, have set the market for the goalie's services and are intent on pumping the Winnipeg Jets for top dollar.
Pavelec has reportedly been made an offer for one year at a rate north of $5 million with St. Petersburg in the KHL and is willing to leave the Jets and the NHL if he can't get what he wants.
The Pavelec camp reportedly wants a four-year deal with an annual rate around $4 million. The Jets must have a lower number in mind or a contract would have been signed by now.
The Jets had nothing to say when queried about the deal on Tuesday and Walsh again said he would not comment about an ongoing negotiation.
People around the NHL, however, are talking, and the viewpoint is a deal is so far from being closed that Pavelec may be on the trading block.
Pavelec was Winnipeg's most important player last season and is certainly worthy of a raise. He has yet to prove himself as consistently elite and still has some growing to do, making a top-dollar, long-term deal a bit of a reach for the Jets.
Three years at $3 million in the first year and climbing to four by the end is where Pavelec fits in today's market, according to league sources, but they say the Jets are coming in lower and Walsh is way above that range.
The Toronto Maple Leafs have to be at the front of the line of teams interested in talking about a trade for Pavelec and the Columbus Blue Jackets can't be far back.
There are a number of ways this could unfold, but a lot more will be known in the coming days. If a deal is not done by the end of this weekend, the Jets will have to file a qualifying offer by June 26 or file for arbitration.
The set qualifying offer for Pavelec is the same as his salary of $1.3 million of last season.
Pavelec can accept the qualifying offer, but that's highly unlikely, or he can file for arbitration by July 5. He also has the option of turning down the qualifying offer and continuing to work on a deal with the Jets or hope another team puts in an offer sheet.
The Jets would have the right to match any offer sheet or let Pavelec go and take whatever compensation they are awarded, which would be a first-round pick and perhaps more depending on the value of the offer.
The final option for Pavelec is to simply accept the deal in the KHL and take the resulting payday.
For the Jets, these are difficult days. Pavelec's willingness to move to the KHL may need to be put to the test if they want to stick to the offer they've tabled.
There is some talk Pavelec won't file for arbitration and if the Jets make that move, he'll simply take the deal in the KHL.
Jets general manager Kevin Cheveldayoff has some fast-moving water to pick his way through in order to find the path best for the Jets. This is a negotiation that will have significant impact on the organization going forward and is his biggest test to date.
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SHOPPERS in Barnards Green will be able to park longer in the area's main car park, thanks to pressure from councillors and traders.
This week, Malvern Hills District Council's executive committee voted unanimously to increase the maximum stay in the Geraldine Road car park from two hours to four hours, with a maximum charge of £2.
The move has been welcomed by the local traders' association, which ha labelled it a "great solution" to parking problems in the Green.
The change came after local councillors listened to the concerns of traders, who were worried that there was not enough long-term parking.
Coun Melanie Baker said: "One-hour on-street parking is fine for someone who wants to pop in and get a sandwich or something, two hours, as it currently is in the car park, is better, but traders wanted the chance for people to stay longer.
"I'm delighted the council has listened to what the traders are saying, and that the executive committee voted unanimously to approve this measure.
"With so many independent shops, Barnards Green is one of the exceptional shopping areas that retail guru Mary Portas refers to."
Jane Knowles, of the Barnards Green Traders Association, said: "All traders in Barnards Green work hard to deliver a convenient, varied and vibrant shopping area.
"The new arrangements will give people much improved options. It will allow them to linger for longer so they can pop in to buy a card or sandwich, visit the butchers and bakers, spend longer having their hair done and have lunch in the cafe. It's a great solution for all."
Ivor Pumfrey, MHDC's head of community services, said: "It was always recognised that following the introduction of civil parking enforcement, we would need to make local changes to parking arrangements to reflect local needs."
County councillor Lucy Hodgson is also pressing for a number of two-hour on-street parking bays to be created.
She said: "We want to give people as many options as we can, and this as one of the suggestions made when traders met councillors and council officers."


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Connochaetes gnou
|Scope: Global
Language: English
|Scientific Name:
|Connochaetes gnou
|Species Authority:
|(Zimmermann, 1780)
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|Least Concern ver 3.1
|Year Published:
|Date Assessed:
|IUCN SSC Antelope Specialist Group
|Mallon, D.P. (Antelope Red List Authority) & Hoffmann, M. (Global Mammal Assessment)
The Black Wildebeest is currently largely restricted to protected areas and private reserves, with a total global population estimated at more than 18,000 (with over 11,000 in its natural range and over 7,000 on farmlands in Namibia - an area outside its natural range). The population is increasing and there are no major threats at present.
|Previously published Red List assessments:
|Range Description:
|The Black Wildebeest occurs in South Africa, Swaziland, and Lesotho. By the end of the 19th century, excessive hunting had reduced the formerly vast population to a few individuals surviving on two farms in the Free State Province of South Africa; since then, protection by farmers and conservation agencies has allowed the species to recover (East 1999, Vrahimis in press). It has now been reintroduced to parts of its former range (western Swaziland and western Lesotho) and into farmland areas outside of its natural range (Namibia). A detailed discussion of the historical distribution of the species is given by Von Richter (1971).
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Native:South Africa
Reintroduced:Lesotho; Swaziland
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|Recent estimates are available for almost all of this species' populations, including total counts for protected areas and questionnaire surveys for private land. Summation of these estimates gives a total population estimate of more than 18,000, of which about 80% is on private farms and conservancies and 20% in protected areas. Population trend is increasing, especially on private land, with a large extralimital population now established in Namibia, where importations from South Africa led to a dramatic rise in the estimated total numbers, from 150 in 1982 to more than 7,000 in 1992 (East 1999).
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|A species characteristics of the open plains grasslands and karoo shrublands of South Africa and Lesotho. The high central plateau grasslands are characterized by flat to rolling hills, and mountainous areas with altitudes ranging from 1,350-2,150 m (Vrahimis in press). The Black Wildebeest is predominantly a grazer and prefers short grassveld (Von Richter 1974).
|Major Threat(s):
|Previously, the main threat to this species was hunting pressure, habitat loss, and periodic outbreak of disease (Vrahimis in press). However, now that the species has recovered and numbers are increasing, the only significant threat is the problem of hybridization with the Common Wildebeest, C. taurinus, which can occur when the two species are mixed unnaturally on fenced land (East 1999). Hybrids are known to be fertile (Fabricius et al. 1988).
|Conservation Actions:
|Currently, about 20% of the population occurs in protected areas, with around 80% occurring on private farmland and conservancies (East 1999). The most immediate conservation need is avoiding keeping C. taurinus and C. gnou in the same areas.
|IUCN SSC Antelope Specialist Group. 2008. Connochaetes gnou. The IUCN Red List of Threatened Species 2008: e.T5228A11120065. . Downloaded on 21 August 2017.
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In an August 24 article, Politico writes that Rep. Paul Ryan "elbowed his way into the top tier of GOP politics" by cultivating "relationships with a small but influential corps of commentators, policy intellectuals, and impresarios of the conservative movement." The article notes that Ryan has been frequently touted in outlets like The Wall Street Journal, Weekly Standard and Fox News. That attention, in turn, helped Ryan and his policy proposals win influence among Republicans in congress.
Fox News certainly helped make Ryan a "star" within the conservative movement. Prior to his selection, Ryan was touted by Fox News personalities as a "genius" and a man of "courage." Fox News Sunday gave him a birthday cake. The network also championed Ryan's budget despite its "smoke and mirrors" accounting.
Since his selection, Ryan has received similarly fawning praise. Fox News personalities have praised his intellect ("he knows the numbers inside and out"), his appearance ("could be the most ripped" VP in history, "national sex symbol"), and his demeanor ("personally quite appealing," "kind of everybody's dream older brother"). Fox News' Juan Williams summed up the network's relationship with Romney-Ryan when he noted that they appear on Fox more than "any other network" because "they feel comfortable here."
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190 times. That's how often the Wisconsin lawmaker's name appeared in the opinion pages of the Wall Street Journal between Election Day 2008--when a Republican rout at the polls left the conservative intelligentsia urgently looking for a new star--and the day this month when Mitt Romney tapped Ryan his running mate.
Another revealing number: Ryan and his plans for overhauling the federal budget drew at least 72 mentions in the conservative Weekly Standard magazine, according to a POLITICO count. There were at least as many references in the equally influential National Review.
These billings, in turn, helped Ryan drive an even bigger number: 1,050 is how many times Ryan and the Ryan budget were talked up on Fox News.
Ryan invites these people to off-the-record dinner briefings to talk about ideas and his policy proposals. He calls them to say how much he liked their articles. He attends their going-away parties and hires young people from their staffs. Above all, he has made clear that he takes these people seriously and wants to be taken seriously by them.
And these Washington and New York influentials--including writers Bill Kristol and Stephen Hayes of the Weekly Standard, and Rich Lowry of National Review, and policy provocateurs like Bill Bennett and Pete Wehner--have repaid the favor. In the process they have helped Ryan illuminate a path to power much different than the traditional strategy of bill-passing, logrolling, and above all loyal time-serving that historically was the way to win influence on Capitol Hill.
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THE well-known Purslow name will live on in the top-end motoring world of north Hampshire with the launch of a new Mercedes-Benz dealership.
Tim Purslow is the name of a second-hand dealership that has just opened in Nately Scures, between Basingstoke and Hook, based in attractive converted barns and stable buildings.
As the name suggests, Tim Purslow runs the business along with fellow director Rory Davidson. The solidly-built, stylish cars are sold from two showrooms, set in attractive four-and-a half-acre grounds.
Both have plenty of experience when it comes to Mercedes-Benz cars – between them clocking up around 30 years – having worked for Tim's father, Tony, who sold the Tony Purslow Mercedes-Benz dealership in 2011.
That business is still going strong and includes the showroom in Houndmills, now trading under the Sandown name.
In fact, the Purslow family has been taking care of Mercedes-Benz owners throughout Hampshire and Surrey for more than 25 years.
"I've got a lot of history and experience working for my father's business," explained Tim. "And I've still got a passion for selling and repairing cars, and looking after people.
"I wanted to be an independent rather than a franchise dealer, offering the same standards as you would get at a main dealer, but maintaining that personal touch – it's very important."
Keeping the business a small size, with a feel of a "local village garage," is important for the family man with two young children.
"We want to ensure that the cars we sell are all hand-picked and carefully chosen and that they have a great provenance to them in terms of their history and their specification, and that everything is presented beautifully," explained Tim.
"And we want to be nice and manageable, where someone can bring their car in for a service and they'll be able to speak to the technician who repairs it.
"I think in the modern franchise world that is quite often difficult, because there is a constant churn of customers coming through the workshop. Here, I think we'd like to be more relaxed and customer focused."
The dealership, which has genuine Mercedes-Benz parts delivered daily, has a brand new up-to-date three-bay, three-ramped workshop, where cars are serviced at very competitive prices.
"Basically, we offer all of the trappings of a main dealer," said Tim, who is clearly looking forward to the success of his new business venture.


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FIFTEEN years ago this month the world's largest workspace provider, Regus, opened a business centre in Basingstoke's Chineham Park.
Since then, flexible workspace in the Regus centre, at Pinewood, in Crockford Lane, has made it easier for hundreds of firms to do business – from local start-ups to multinationals – who use the centre for a few hours, months or years.
Across its 220 UK locations, Regus has witnessed the trend for companies to turn away from traditional leased offices as they strive to keep overheads down and work in more productive, modern and environmentally-conscious ways.
It is no coincidence that the biggest growth area of the company's business is 'on demand' workspace - such as offices or hot desks on a shared, part-time or drop-in basis – as well as meeting rooms and virtual offices.
These trends are especially evident in Chineham Park, where the centre is currently refurbishing its drop-in business lounge and extending its shared 'campus' office to meet new demand.
The centre is also seeing a greater number of meeting room bookings, particularly from other companies on the business park, which reflects local firms' decreasing reliance on permanent in-house space and their move towards external services.
Sheridan Maine, the financial and accountancy recruitment specialist, has been based at the Regus centre for over eight years.
Gaynor Brindley, regional director at Sheridan Maine, said: "Flexibility, the services available and choice in locations are the main reasons we chose Regus – and why we stay.
"Here at Chineham we have a serviced office, which saves us having to set up our own facilities like reception and deal with issues like general maintenance – plus we have a wide selection of meeting rooms under the same roof.
"We can just ring reception and book a suitable room. It's also important for us that we have plenty of parking so we never have a problem accommodating clients, and there are excellent public transport links." As a national company that works with companies of all sizes – from small firms to FTSE 100 corporations - Sheridan Maine also makes use of Regus' wider network. "It's reassuring to know that we can use locations across the country, at a moment's notice," said Gaynor. John Spencer, UK managing director at Regus said: "We are proud that the Basingstoke centre has reached its fifteenth birthday and I extend my personal thanks to the centre team, who I know work closely with our customers to keep things running smoothly.
"Business has changed so much over the last fifteen years, and as a company we have innovated our offering to suit the modern workplace. For instance, the rise of remote and mobile working is leading to huge demand for drop-in space, such as our business lounges or day offices, which offer a productive way to work on the move or an alternative to working from home.
"Flexible workspace is especially in demand at the moment as the UK emerges from the economic downturn. It is used by companies looking for a convenient way to set up base and expand the business – whether in the UK or abroad – without the hassle of worrying about how to find new premises as they outgrow their space."


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PHILADELPHIA - After having its Ivy League opening series versus Yale pushed back twice over the weekend due to rain, the University of Pennsylvania baseball team finally were able to face the Bulldogs, winning 6-1 and 11-9 on Monday afternoon at Meiklejohn Stadium.
Penn (8-10, 2-0 Ivy) took game one, 6-1, behind a masterful pitching performance by Dan Gautieri. The junior right-hander went the distance, throwing seven innings, allowing just the one run on four hits, while striking out six Yale batters.
Game two saw Penn chip away at an early Bulldogs (7-11, 0-2 Ivy) lead, led by Rick Brebner who collected four in the game, while driving in four runs.
Up next for the Quakers, will be Ivy League foe Brown, which comes into Philadelphia on Tuesday after the Bears dropped two games versus Columbia on Monday. Penn and Brown will square off in a doubleheader Tuesday, beginning at 1 p.m. Live audio and stats will be available on PennAthletics.com.
Game One
Penn jumped out to and early 2-0 lead over Yale in game one, on an Austin Bossart single in the first inning, followed by a Jeff McGarry home run, his third on the season.
The score would remain until the bottom of fourth, when Penn played add on, scoring four runs in the inning. Sophomore outfielder Matt Greskoff led off the inning with a double to right field, sophomore shortstop Ryan Mincher walked, bringing up Bossart, who singled to center to score Greskoff. With two runners on, Rick Brebner continued his hot-hitting, launching a three-run home run to right field, making the score 6-0 Quakers.
Gautieri would take a shutout into the top of the seventh inning, when he allowed his only run on the day on consecutive hits, allowing a single and a double.
Game Two
Yale jumped out to a 2-0 lead on Penn starting pitcher Ronnie Glenn in game two, before the Quakers would add one in the bottom of the first inning, after a Rick Brebner double, a wild pitch, and a RBI groundout by Jeff McGarry.
The Bulldogs would jump right back out to the lead scoring twice in the second inning and once in the third, before Penn would answer with two more runs of its own. Mike Vilardo singled, Brandon Engelhardt walked, and Austin Bossart was hit by a pitch, leading to a Brebner single that drove in two runs.
For the next three innings it was all Penn's offense, combined with freshman right-hander Jake Cousins who came on in relief of Glenn.
Cousins threw 4 1/3 innings in relief, allowing only one run, while striking out one, picking up his second win in as many appearances.
The Quakers would score two runs in the fourth, four runs in the fifth, and two runs in the sixth. Key hits for Penn came off the bats of Brebner and Engelhardt, who each homered. Penn totaled 15 hits in game two, including five extra base hits.
Junior left-hander Stephen Silvestri pitched one scoreless inning in relief.
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WINTER PARK, Fla.—Saint Leo senior LF Taed Moses (Valrico, Fla.) was named Sunshine State Conference Player of the Week, it was announced Monday from the conference office. Moses led the Lions to an SSC sweep against Nova Southeastern, batting .800 (8-for-10) with four RBI and seven runs.
Moses hit safely in all three games of the series and had multiple hits in two outings, posting an .833 on-base percentage. Four of his hits went for extra bases, as he slapped two doubles and two triples. Moses concluded the series with a 1.400 slugging percentage. In a 13-5 win in game two, he was a perfect 4-for-4 with a double, a triple, two RBI, and three runs.
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The electro pioneers they will be playing the whole of their album The Luxury Gap during the show.
The album includes the hits come Live With Me, Let Me Go and the iconic Temptation.
The night will also include support act, The Dark Rooms and a ticket also includes admission to a specially-themed Late Shift after-show party.
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Jameson, who earned a 2011 White House "Champion of Change" award, has developed and launched multiple technology companies as both a consultant and founder. This includes a multinational consulting organization, her self-owned company, Potentiate, and Colnatec. Colnatec is the only company in the world designing and developing state of the art manufacturing process control sensors for thin film measurement of high temperature processes.
Surprising fact: "I'm an introvert. I'm loud and seemingly outgoing, but I'm far more comfortable with a good book."
Biggest challenge: "Allowing myself to take some credit for Colnatec's wins. I'm not as good at recognizing my own contributions as I am in recognizing others' contributions."
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HOUSTON - Frustrated and rattled mental patients were turned away as federal agents raided a southwest Houston mental facility, Local 2 Investigates reported Thursday.
Agents sealed off the parking lots and entered the Westbury Community Hospital Outpatient facility on Hornwood near Rookin around 6:30 a.m. They carted away dozens of boxes of records in a box truck that was brought up to the entrance of the facility.
"I came into work and I'm just completely surprised at what is happening here," said an emotional Janette Tingle, the director of intake for the facility.
She called the center the finest she's ever worked at in the field with no hint of wrongdoing.
The Westbury Outpatient Clinic collects federal Medicare money for the "day treatment" of schizophrenic patients who are taken home after their therapy and treatment, she said.
"Our documentation is perfect. There is no such thing as Medicare fraud here at all. So anyone saying or making such an accusation like that is ... it must be contrived because we're not anything like the other places in Houston," said Tingle.
The administrator of the facility, Colleen Paxton, said this sector of Medicare and health care has been ripe for fraud elsewhere, with numerous other facilities being raided and shut down, but she said everything at her facility is "by the book."
She said, "We maintain an ethical facility. We document everything. This is a doctor-driven program. We take very good care of our patients."
She said approximately 150 schizophrenic patients are seen by five doctors at the facility. Many attend group therapy, and she said the goal is to keep them from needing to be institutionalized elsewhere.
"I wouldn't work for a company if it were not ethical," said Paxton. "We remain above board."
Federal agents from the Internal Revenue Service, the FBI and Houston Police Major Offenders Division spent the morning questioning some employees and hauling away the boxes of records. They had no comment outside the facility.
Earlier this year, a similar Houston mental facility was raided amid Medicare fraud allegations. In that case, the administrator was arrested and indicted on charges of a $116 million rip-off of the Medicare system.
In Thursday morning's raid of an unrelated company, administrator Paxton said she wasn't concerned.
"I'm actually fine. I've offered them any records they want to see," she said.
But Tingle was more emotional, describing the company as a strong, Christian-oriented operation.
"I think it's an insult to everything we've been working towards," she said of the raid. "We are the most thorough place in Houston. We have gone out of our way to do everything that Medicare expects of us."
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Milton George Wille, 80, died September 15, 2010, while visiting in Lorain, Ohio. He was born May 6, 1930, to Frank G. and Mary Kapsa Wille. He married Rhea Baird in the Salt Lake Temple. He was a professor of Mechanical Engineering at BYU for over 30 years. After his retirement in 1993, he and his wife dedicated their lives to missionary service. Together they served missions in Uruguay, Peru, Guatemala, Spain Madrid Temple, Mexico, Michigan Lansing and the Nauvoo Temple.
He is survived by his wife, Rhea of Orem, his children, Ross (Sheri) of Orem, Frank of Elyria, Ohio, TeriLynn Miles (Duane) of Mendon, Jeffrey (Celina) of E. Lansing, Michigan, Robert (Carol) of Spanish Fork and Heather Lowry (Gavin) of Orem, 19 grandchildren and 2 great-grandchildren.
Funeral services will be Wed. Sept 22 at 11:00 am at the church at 450 S 100 W, Orem with a viewing from 9:30-10:30 am at the same location and from 6:00-8:00 pm on Tues. Sept 21, at Sundberg-Olpin Mortuary, 495 S. State, Orem. Interment will be in the Orem City Cemetery.
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DEVIZES and Stratton Churchway have qualified for the National Championships at Royal Leamington Spa in the national pairs.
The Devizes partnership of Bev Lilley and Sheila Garlick, plus Churchway's Jacki Pearce and Janet Willis negotiated the quarter-finals and semi-finals of the county ladies pairs championship at Bradford on Avon last Saturday and will meet in the county final at Westlecot on July 26.
At Bradford, in the top half of the draw Lilley and Garlick enjoyed a comfortable 24-11 quarter-final win over Wootton Bassett's Doreen Croucher and Charlie Harding after leading 13-3 at ten ends.
Meanwhile, Warminster's Sue Burgess and Jo Dunford just held on to beat Katy and Lucy Smith 20-19 in their quarter-final match.
In their semi-final Lilley and Garlick made a flying start and led Burgess and Dunford 14-2 at ten ends and 17-4 at 15. However, the Warminster pairing hit back in the latter stages to cut the final deficit to 20-15 but could not deny Devizes their Leamington place.
The bottom half of the draw produced a couple of surprises.
County pairs winners for the past three year's Sue Cooke and Alex Jacobs (Box) had to give second best in the quarter-finals to Viv Baskerville and Barbara Land (Chippenham Town) in a close match where the lead changed hands several times.
Baskerville and Land led 6-5 at five ends and 10-9 at ten and went 16-13 up on the 15th end with a decisive count of four.
They were still three up 18-15 at 18 ends and finally won 20-16.
But in the semis the Chippenham duo failed to find the same form again and trailed Pearce and Willis 17-1 at ten ends before conceding after 15 when 27-2 down.
Pearce and Willis had earlier beaten Devizes duo Patricia Reeves and Susan Long 28-9 in the quarter-finals.
Quarter-finals: Lucy & Katy Smith (Wootton Bassett) lost to Sue Burgess & Jo Dunford (Warminster) 19-20; Bev Lilley & Sheila Garlick (Devizes) beat Doreen Croucher & Charlie Harding (WB) 24-11; Patricia Reeves & Susan Long (Devizes) lost to Jackie Pearce & Janet Willis (Stratton Churchway) 9-28; Viv Baskerville & Barbara Land (Chippenham Town) beat Sue Cooke & Alex Jacobs (holders, Box) 20-16.
Semi-finals: Lilley & Garlick (Devizes) beat Burgess & Dunford (Warminster) 20-15; Pearce & Willis (Stratton C) beat Baskerville & Land (Chip Town) 27-2.
TWENTY-FOUR hours later Bradford on Avon staged the semi-finals and final of the Ladies U25 pairs competition.
Warm favourites to retain the ladies junior pairs title Lucy and Katy Smith (Wootton Bassett) triumphed to book their place again at Leamington.
They had a walkover in the semi-finals and in the final defeated the partnership of Bethany Little and Joanna Richman 20-10.
The match was tight until halfway with the Smiths 3-2 down at five ends and just ahead 9-8 at 11. But then they powered away to go 17-8 up at 14 and win 20-10 after only 17 ends.
In the second semi-final Bethany Little and her partner had beaten Bethany's sister Kara and her partner Georgina Newman.
Semi-finals: Katy & Lucy Smith (Wootton Bassett) w/o Maisey Daniell & Sasha Grant-Woodhouse (W Bassett); Bethany Little (Chippenham Town) & Joanna Richman (Highworth) beat Georgina Newman (Trowbridge Westbourne) & Kara Little (Chip T) 18-9.
Final: K & L Smith beat B Little & J Richman 20-10.
TWO MORE places at Royal Leamington Spa in the National Championships are up for grabs this weekend.
The quarter and semi-finals of the county ladies national singles championship will be held at Spencer Melksham on Saturday (10.15am) with the two players left standing claiming the county singles final berths at Westlecot and also a spot at Leamington.
Around the county the last 16 in the singles were played on Monday and resulted in the following eight players progressing from the two sections – north and south – to the last eight.
South: Jean Collier and Alex Jacobs (Box), Janice Bull and Rose Ellis (Amesbury). North: Geraldine Reade (Westlecot), Julia Hunt (Wanborough), Linda Kingston (Highworth) and Jean Renicks (Swindon North End).
Singles quarter-finals Sat July 19 (at Spencer Melksham, 10.15am): Jean Renicks (Swindon NE) v Julia Hunt (Wanborough); Geraldine Reade (Westlecot) v Jean Collier (Box); Alex Jacobs (Box) v Rose Ellis (Amesbury); Janice Bull (Ames) v Linda Kingston (Highworth).
Semi-finals: Renicks or Hunt v Reade or Collier; Jacobs or Ellis v Bull or Kingston.
WILTSHIRE Ladies South-West Counties side maintained their winning run with a hard fought victory over Herefordshire.
A late flourish saw them win by nine shots at Wroughton despite rinks honours being shared at three-all.
But Wiltshire had to work hard for the victory as they trailed 55-50 across the board at ten ends and 86-81 at 15.
However, they had managed to restore parity at 99-99 at 18 ends and finished strongly for a 123-114 victory.
Rink 1: Fizz Mace beat Jill Bowen 29-12; Rink 2: Delia Godwin lost to Barbara Griffiths 11-22; Rink 3: Alex Jacobs beat Jennie Cole 21-14; Rink 4: Margaret Annetts lost to Ciss Jones 24-26; Rink 5: Alison Fail lost to Brenda Harvard 19-23; Rink 6: Janet Willis beat Jenny Murray 19-17.
Score: Wiltshire beat Herefordshire 123 (16pts) – 114 (6pts).


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SUNRISE, Fla. -- Dustin Byfuglien is learning to pick his spots a little better and the less-is- more approach is making the Winnipeg Jets a better team.
Byfuglien kept himself in check for 60 minutes on Friday night, focusing on his defensive responsibilities before finally spitting the bit and going for a gallop in overtime.
The monstrous defender with uncanny speed and the hands of a watchmaker shrugged off the entire group of Florida Panthers on the ice circling around the zone until he could find a lane to penetrate. Once he saw his opening, he switched from thug to cat burglar and finessed his way into the slot before zipping a shot past goalie Jacob Markstrom at 4:19 of overtime for a 3-2 Jets win.
Byfuglien conjures up the image of Fred Flintstone bowling. A powerful ballerina. He can tiptoe and he can explode. His teammates even find themselves watching.
"Buff can take over a game and change the momentum with just one play. Overtime is his time to shine. He just takes over, he's so big and strong and he can be unstoppable," said teammate Mark Stuart.
The Jets were ordinary for most of this game and if not for the play of goalie Ondrej Pavelec and Byfuglien's overtime heroics this could easily have been a loss.
Instead the Jets find themselves at 12-11-1 for 25 points, just one back of the New York Rangers, who occupy the Eastern Conference's eighth and final playoff spot.
The Jets are 2-1 on this road swing and now head north to New Jersey for the finale on Sunday against the Devils.
Pavelec approached Byfuglien in the dressing room after the game with a smile on his face. "I told you. I told you," said Pavelec.
When asked what he was talking about, Pavelec was happy to divulge.
"I told him before overtime started to just go for it. And he did. He did exactly what I told him. He can do whatever he wants out there," said Pavelec. "It's a big goal for us."
Byfuglien admitted to worrying a little less about his defensive role in overtime.
"I guess I have to say I do give myself a bit of a green light when it's four-on-four. It gives a D-man a little more room to go down and roam a bit," said Byfuglien.
Jets coach Claude Noel has been working with Byfuglien to think defence first and limit his rushes. Byfuglien has the ability to work his way up ice, but in the NHL individual effort rarely wins the day. Instead of taking off whenever he sees an opening, Noel and assistant coach Charlie Huddy have preached at Byfuglien to be more judicious.
The result is the defender is better in his own end, reserves his energy and has an element of surprise when he does take off.
"He has that ability and you could tell on the bench he was pretty fired up the last 10 minutes to get this back on track. Those guys are hard to find," said Noel. "He makes a toe drag in the slot, holds on, holds on and then it's in the net. It's what he can do. He has that ability, which is great."
Noel doesn't want to cut Byfuglien off from the offensive part of his game.
"You have to give him the green light in those situations. When it's four-on-four and there's all that open ice he wants to be a difference-maker and he can be. That's what he does. I certainly wouldn't hold him back and neither would his teammates."
Byfuglien is beloved in the dressing room by his teammates and although he can be shy at times, word is he can also be vocal about his displeasure at times.
Friday night he led when the Jets needed him to. More of the same can only be good for this team and this franchise.
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Sofia Vergara to Get Animated on 'Family Guy' + 'The Cleveland Show'
'Modern Family' star Sofia Vergara will be lending her voice to not one, but two Seth McFarlane shows this fall!
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Man, everything really is coming up Sofia Vergara, isn't it? She's the top-paid actress working in television, she might have just gotten engaged… and now she's about to get animated in an episode of Family Guy!
According to EW, the Modern Family star has just signed on to voice Peter Griffin's fantasy love interest in an upcoming episode of Seth McFarlane's primetime cartoon. The episode will feature a cutaway gag depicting Peter as a "telenovela lotharia," with Sofia playing his lover. She'll also play a woman selling roses in a restaurant scene.
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But that's not all: Sofia is also set to appear on McFarlane's Family Guy spinoff, The Cleveland Show. She'll be voicing a character named Tia Sofia who tries to talk Cleveland into hosting a quinceanera for Cleveland Jr.'s 15 birthday—even though the quinceanera is traditionally reserved for girls. Is hilarity about to ensue? Almost certainly!
Though Family Guy isn't as celebrated for its celebrity cameos as, say, The Simpsons, this is still pretty entertaining news. It's also possible that The Simpsons will need to start guarding its throne a little more carefully: Family Guy's 11th season will also feature cameos from Johnny Depp, Ryan Reynolds, Elizabeth Banks, and Kellan Lutz. The Cleveland Show's 4th season, meanwhile, boasts the voices of Kanye West, Nicki Minaj, and Bruno Mars.
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SAINT LEO, Fla. – Just days into the 2013 school year, Saint Leo University head volleyball coach Sam Cibrone announced the team's 2013 regular season schedule. The Lions will take the court in 33 matches this season, kicking off their schedule at the Grand Valley Laker Classic in Grand Valley, Mich. on Sep. 6. In typical Sunshine State Conference fashion, the Lions will face each of their conference opponents twice throughout the season, totaling 16 SSC contests.
After a two-day stint in Grand Valley where the Lions take on Truman and Grand Valley State on Sep. 6, as well as Aldelphi and Wayne State on Sep. 7, Saint Leo will head down to Boca Raton, Fla. for the Courtyard Boca Raton Invitational. The two-day tournament (Sep. 13-14) will feature games against Daemen College, Seton Hill, the University of Puerto-Rico Mayaguez, and Ft. Valley State.
The following weekend, the Lions will host their annual Saint Leo Classic tournament on Sep. 20 and 21. To start off competition, the Lions will face South Dakota School of Mines & Technology, followed by Molloy College, Columbus State University, and Cedarville University.
A few days later, Saint Leo will jump headfirst into conference action, taking the court against Florida Southern College (Sep. 24). After a non-conference match against Webber (Sep. 29), the Lions will face conference foes University of Tampa (Oct. 4) and Rollins College (Oct. 5) all in the same week. The following week, the Lions will battle Eckerd College (Oct. 8), Barry University (Oct. 11), and Florida Tech (Oct. 12).
During a short break in conference action, Saint Leo will head to Carrollton, Ga. for the Sunshine Crossover Tournament. There, the Lions will play three regional matches against Shorter University (Oct. 18), the University of West Alabama (Oct. 19), and the University of Alabama at Huntsville (Oct. 19).
Rounding out October action, the Lions will head to Boca Raton to take on Lynn University (Oct. 25) before making the short trip to Ft. Lauderdale to face Nova Southeastern University. Saint Leo will finish the month at home against Florida Southern (Oct. 29).
After kicking off November competition against Warner University (Nov. 1), the Lions will head to Winter Park (Nov. 8) and Tampa (Nov. 9) to face Rollins College and the University of Tampa, respectively. Upon their return home, Saint Leo will compete in a three-match stint against Nova Southeastern (Nov. 15), Lynn (Nov. 16), and Eckerd (Nov. 19).
Closing out the regular season with two road contests, the Lions will travel to face Florida Tech (Nov. 22) and finish off scheduled play with a match against Barry (Nov. 23) in Miami Shores.
It will be at that point where the Lions will look to return to the NCAA Tournament after a three-year hiatus.
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United Nations Peace Ambassador and the Philippines Risale-i Nur Institute President Mohammad Reza Dalkilic said that the United Nations may declare the year 2015 as "World Bediuzzaman Year".
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Early lighthouse lanterns were mostly fuelled by sheep-tail fat and paraffin before 'going electric'.
As you drive up to the Cape Recife lighthouse on the southern tip of Algoa Bay in Port Elizabeth, you might well find yourself in a swirl of mist. You might also experience that deliciously creepy feeling of being momentarily lost in time, with only the swinging beam of a lighthouse to guide your way.
The zebra-striped Cape Recife lighthouse warns passing ships of the dangers of the equally romantically named Thunderbolt Reef, which has claimed many victims over generations of southern African seafaring.
The deadly spine of rocks is named after the HMS Thunderbolt, a steam-driven man o' war that ran onto the reef on a fine day in 1847. There was hardly a cloud in the sky, and certainly no fog or mist.
The Thunderbolt was refloated and beached in Algoa Bay. She was, however, beyond repair. Her timbers were sold to a Mr JO Smith for just more than 100 pounds sterling. The locals thought he'd been had, and immediately dubbed the purchase 'Smith's Folly', according to travel writer Lawrence Green in South African Beachcomber.
Smith, it seems, had the last laugh. He sold the timbers on to house builders in Port Elizabeth and made a good profit. So when you do a heritage walk of the Windy City and you pass some of those lovely old Victorian homes, you might well be seeing little bits of the HMS Thunderbolt.
The Cape Recife lighthouse was built in 1851, and over the decades has served its purpose. However, it did not deter some rather determined sea captains from beaching their vessels around Algoa Bay.
A certain Captain Nimmo beached his freighter, the Strathblane, after striking a mysterious pinnacle of rock out at sea. After his men landed safely, Nimmo calmly had his bath, dressed up and disembarked. He took the next Cape cart to Port Elizabeth, where he reported the unfortunate incident.
And just before World War I was declared in 1914, the German steamer Itzahoe appeared out of nowhere 1 night, heading straight for the lighthouse at speed. The shocked light-keepers resorted to yelling and waving their arms at the vessel, which continued straight onto the rocks nearby.
The Cape Recife lighthouse itself carries some tragic memories. Sometime in the mid-1900s, a fight broke out between three squabbling light-keepers up on a hoisted scaffolding, and two fell to their deaths.
These days, the lighthouse is part of the Cape Recife Nature Reserve and welcomes visitors by day ... if they can make it through the mist.
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Take Marine Drive and head south along the Port Elizabeth beachfront. You will soon head through the gates of the Cape Recife Nature Reserve, where the lighthouse is the main visual beacon.
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Cape Recife lighthouse looks great any time of the year.
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The area around the lighthouse is also a birding spot, especially if you're looking for a sighting of the roseate tern. If you're looking for exotic wildlife encounters and you're patient, you might see a Cape clawless otter.
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Alan Fogarty of Alan Tours is a good local guide and makes the Cape Recife lighthouse part of his popular Port Elizabeth Heritage Tour.
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Port Elizabeth has many hotels and guesthouses – see the listed website. Look for a place in the nearby Summerstrand area.
What to eat
Summerstrand has a number of good seafood restaurants – see the listed Nelson Mandela Bay Tourism website for choices.
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Fannie Mae and Freddie Mac will provide a short break for homeowners facing foreclosure during the holiday season.
Fannie says it will suspend evictions of borrowers living in foreclosed homes from Dec. 19 through Jan. 2. Freddie will put evictions on hold as of Dec. 17.
"We're taking this step in support of families who have faced financial challenges and gone through a foreclosure," said Terry Edwards, executive vice president of credit portfolio management at Fannie Mae. "The holidays are a chance to be with loved ones, and we want to relieve some stress at this time of year. We encourage homeowners having difficulty to reach out for help as soon as possible."
The assistance doesn't mean lenders will put a hold on foreclosures. Fannie and Freddie say the foreclosure process and the legal proceedings for evictions may continue, but the actual eviction will not take place during the moratorium.
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Hello lovelies! Just a quick question for all you Potterites out in the interwebs: Anyone know where wizarding children go to school and what they learn prior to attending schols of witchcraft and wizardry? I mean, it's kind of hard to envision Ron Weasley and Draco Malfoy kickin' it in basic math and Geography... right? —The preceding unsigned comment was added by Ksw5ff (talk • contribs).
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Ruffino's, the popular Highland Road restaurant, plans to open a Lafayette location in mid-April.
Ruffino's on the River will be located on Camellia Boulevard in River Ranch in a building that is currently occupied by Cochon Lafayette. Cochon is set to close on Feb. 10, said Ruffin Rodrigue, who co-owns Ruffino's with chef Peter Sclafani III. Rodrigue said he has been intrigued by the Lafayette restaurant market for a number of years.
The success of the Lafayette location of Baton Rouge-based Walk-On's was also an eye-opener, he said.
"People have been asking me for a while when we would go into Lafayette," he said. But Rodrigue and Sclafani wanted to wait until they had the right staff in place in Baton Rouge. "Peter and I will be going to Lafayette to help out, so we wanted to make sure we had the staff in Baton Rouge to offer the same great food and great service," Rodrigue said.
Ruffino's on the River will have the same menu as the Baton Rouge location — steaks, seafood and Italian dishes. The restaurant will be on the Vermilion River.
"It's one of the prettiest restaurants I have ever been in," Rodrigue said. "There's a patio, a beautiful bar and a wood-burning stove."
Cochon Lafayette was founded by Donald Link and Stephen Stryjewski, both James Beard-award winning chefs who had a lot of success with New Orleans restaurants. Link announced this week he was closing the Lafayette restaurant to focus on his Crescent City properties.
Rodrigue praised Link and Stryjewski, but said Cochon Lafayette's menu was "so eclectic and so upscale."
"There was no steak or fish on the menu," he said.
Ruffino's opened in 1998 as DiNardo's, a venture between then LSU football coach Gerry DiNardo and restaurant owner T.J. Moran. The name changed to Ruffino's in 2001, an Italian spin on Rodrigue's first name. In 2010, Rodrigue and Sclafani bought Moran out.


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OpenCourseWare All Grown Up: Hal Abelson at the RIT GCCIS Dean's Lecture Series
The Rochester Institute of Technology Gollisano College Dean's Lecture Series established in 2003 was "designed to expose 'real world' experts to our students and to provide professional development opportunities for our alumni and community friends." Last year brought Walter Bender of Sugar Labs to speak with the crowd about another world-class FOSS campaign brought to us by the MIT Media Lab.
This year, Abelson gave the audience an update on all things OER, (open educational resources) and the new Center for Mobile Learning at MIT. We don't know much about about the brand-new CML (other than it has three component projects thusfar: AppInventor, Scratch, and The Education Arcade), so let's talk about OER.
Abelson's presentation took us on a journey throughout the history of the MIT OpenCourseWare and DuraSpace projects. He then spoke about the future of the academe, in the context of open content, (university) policy, legal infrastructure, and programming platforms. MIT OpenCourseWare celebrated it's tenth anniversary in May. It began in an era when industry was saying "there is a business economy for publishing lecture notes"--Hal and company said instead, "We're going to put our content on the internet, for free, for everyone, forever."
Hal shared with us a few metrics and statistics during his presentation:
MIT OpenCourseWare - as of last June
- Course metrics
- 2,711 courses
- 2,074 active, 637 archived
- Full video of 38 courses
- 987 courses translated to other languages
- 765 active, 222 retired
- 78% of MIT faculty are participating
- Usage/traffic metrics for June
- 1.4 million visits by 800,000 unique visitors
- 7.4 million page views
- 9,000 visits from MIT community
- 1.5 Million views/downloads from YouTube/iTunes
- 56% of traffic from outside of North America
Hal defined open education resources as "educational materials, put out under open licenses, so people can share, remix, and reuse them." The vision of OpenCourseWare is "universal access to the course content of the world's greatest learning institutions" and was one of two visions that were mentioned. The other vision, the one for DuraSpace, was described as "universal access to the collective intellectual resources of the world's greatest research institutions." If you really want to make a contribution, according to Hal, it is not enough to merely share your papers and conclusions; he invites researchers world wide to actually share their data .
But this is "last decade," according to Hal. This is a world of the Internet circa 2000. OpenCourseWare has grown up into OER, and DSpace has grown up into institutional repositories. The issues now are different, due to evolving sophistication. The next level of OER is related to the low-cost infrastructure for sharing this open content and collaboratively creating content.
Enter Khan Academy, described by Abelson as "the biggest phenomenon in education today." Educators have known for years that hour-long lectures are the wrong format, and the six-minute lectures on the Khan Academy websites are gaining a serious following. "Why pick up a textbook on balancing chemical equations when you can watch a six-minute video?" quipped Hal, particularly when the videos are followed immediately by exercises, interspersed with immediate feedback. "Not only will the best lectures be on the Internet, but also the best homework too!" Hal explained as he pointed the audience at the crowdsourced exercises served up on newly minted epicenter of the open code forges, GitHub.com.
Last July, Sebastian Thrun, of Google's Driverless Car and Research Professor at Stanford University, announced "a bold experiment in distributed education." Eighty people at the conference who heard the announcement firsthand said they would be interested. Now there are more than 135,000 people, who are signed up to take the Stanford AI course starting October 3. Not only is this research awesome, and the content open, it also helps illustrate Hal's point about low-cost infrastructure and scalability. "Any faculty can say 'I'm going to put my lectures on the Internet,' and if 30,000 people show up, they [the professors] won't notice the difference because of infrastructure."
"So why would an .edu support OER and institutional repositories" asked Hal? Here are two reasons:
- Without initiatives like these, traditional academic values will be increasingly marginalized, and university communities will become increasingly stressed.
- To keep a seat at the table in decisions about the disposition of eduction in the information age.
To support these reasons, Abelson gave a few specific fun facts, and suggested further reading on the topic:
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- MIT's academic journal expenditures have risen more than 350% in the last decade
- STEM journal publishers have gone from eight major players in 1998 to just four in 2011
"Don't tell me this increase is due to the rising price of ink," joked Abelson. "Fees are so large due in part to pay for the fees of corporate acquisition. As faculty, we're the producers. We're letting them get away with it." Abelson's key observation:
"The system of Journal Publication is structured as copyright negotiation between publishers and individual faculty authors. To prompt a move back toward balance, the faculty must play a role as a collective body, not only as individuals. Faculty and University have COLLECTIVE interests."
In Zittrain's book, he illuminates the concept of "Generativity"--the idea that things are made in such a way as to be extended in ways the original designers could not anticipate (e.g. the personal computer, and The Internet.) As we move toward architectures that are at risk of losing their generativity (try running your own code on your mobile device for instance), we may be losing a piece of the soul of innovation.
"If I had an iPad, rather than a real computer as a kid, I'd never be a programmer today."
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Abelson follows this quote, with one from Clive Thompson of Wired.com:
Abelson summarized, "There really really really is a struggle going on for the future of academia. Universities have core institutional reasons to support oppenness. You really really can do this. There is infrastructure, and the will to do this. The challenge is our culture, and our university policies"
"I'm the person who is responsible for the library collection of this college. I want to thank you for doing me a favor and showing the graphic of the cost structure. I'm starting to hear tales from colleagues, who are seeing database vendors and publishers directly appealing to faculty. It is incomplete and disingenuous to blame just the .edu administrators. It is also tied up in this that we no longer, now that things are digital, choose what we subscribe to and what we don't. We purchase bundles. We devote large pools of resources to purchasing these bundles. When it comes to a point where we need to cut (budget), the decisions become extremely difficult if you cut a large package subscription v.s. specific journals."
"This discussion must happen here. The deans see it when the library makes outrageous demands. In the digital world, the library doesn't buy journals; it rents them. If you decide you're going to cancel, you not only lose the current issues, but the back issues as well. This is a system we are walking into, and willingly, through our tenure policies. There is no easy solution, but we need to know what is going on."
"When you're up against an industry, you need allies. Who are they?"
"IP law is complicated. Congress are not experts. If you look at US copyright law (about 300 pages), there is probably not a line in there that is written by Congress. The way we make law is, the players get together about what to bring to the table, and Congress supports it (or doesn't). When are .edu's going to say "hey, we have something to bring to the table. You need to listen to us. Universities by and large are not doing this, but it will only happen if we care."
"Why would professional societies (IEEE, ACM, American Chemical Society) line up behind publishers?"
"The American Chemical Society believes it is the proper steward of all chemical research. IEEE is not quite the same, but like many, has gotten hooked on its journal fees to support the organization. I know people at IEEE saying 'you are disembowelling us by removing our source of profit!' I say 'are you are membership organization, or are you propped up on your archives?' Even the organizations we respect and love, get hooked on their fees, it's not just the 'evil' publishers."
"Can you talk about the role of teachers?"
"Deeply inspire students, partly by the way they teach, behave, and consult with people. I don't think digital changes that much--there was tremendous consternation in K-12 when people introduced blackboards. 'Where is the role of the teacher? What does lecture mean?' The university was where you heard Fourier read his notes in math. Those notes are now published. I wouldn't want to replace the .edu by watching stuff on TV. The role of faculty is to make more effective use of tools."
"My salary was paid by the state, and I thought I should make my stuff available. If I work for a company, they own my IP. It is not fair for RIT students to fund RIT, and the professors' developments are available to everybody. Austria doesn't have spots for students to study. The students are not paying the state for making education materials available. Where is the business model?"
"There are two kinds of answers. Let me get rid of the radical answer--we agree it's better for society for knowledge to be open. Edu's must think about what the value is. If the value is the course notes and the exams. You can say that, but that isn't going to stop Khan. We all have to figure out what is the actual value we provide to students. The answer is inspiring students individually. We are not sources of notes, we are people, and it matters how we act. Getting there isn't going to be easy, and we live in interesting times."


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I usually work in terra cotta or other low fire clays. When there is a firing range given for a clay, I understand that the high end of the range will provide the most strength in the finished, fired piece (although I'm told that it won't become vitreous if it's lowfire clay), but what, specifically, is the lower number telling me? Will there be a significant difference in the strength of the piece if I fire it at the high end of the range or the low end? And is a low fire clay a poor choice for a necklace pendant? Will it be fragile no matter how high it's fired?
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