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There's a poster hanging on the wall in my economics class that says, "Teenagers use the phrase 'it's not fair' on average 85 times a day."
Now it's my turn to use the phrase.
I have to decide right now where I'm going to attend college. I have to make a choice now that will affect me for the next two to four years, and really, at 17 years old, I think it's not fair.
I always thought I wanted to have my own responsibilities and make my own decisions, but I never thought any of them would be as hard as this one has proven to be.
Making the decision is a lot of pressure to be under, but obviously I'm going to have to decide sometime.
I have basically three colleges or universities to choose from, and there are excellent reasons to attend all three.
The furthest away, San Diego State, allows me to get out of Lodi and take on the world on my own. San Diego is also a very fun city with beautiful weather, and millions of beaches. San Diego would be an ideal city to live in for me.
Fresno State has an excellent mass communications program, which correlates with my major, journalism. After college, Fresno State can give me the opportunity to get a job or internship with the Fresno Bee, and since I've done well at journalism competitions there in the past, I can get a scholarship of some amount.
My third choice, and by far the one almost nobody wants to see me do, is to go to Delta College.
Although Delta is considered two more years of high school by a lot of people, it gives me the opportunity to do a lot of things that I'd miss out on at other places.
By going to Delta I can stay in a relationship with my girlfriend, play football and save money.
After two years at Delta I can move on and still graduate from a university, so it's not that bad of a decision.
But, I don't know how to weigh these considerations. I don't even know what's most important to me. My mind is boggled, and I'm sure a lot of other seniors have the same problems I do.
Some of my friends tell me to go to San Diego because it's such a good area, my teachers tell me Fresno would be best to pursue career goals, and others tell me to stay home and play football with them at Delta.
Everything is jumbled in my mind and I'm not sure what to do. I don't know what's finally going to make me decide where I want to go, either.
All three choices have disadvantages as well. San Diego is large and it's sometimes hard to get all the classes you want. Fresno is kind of a boring, dull area, and Delta is basically staying home and wasting four years of hard work in high school.
In order to accept San Diego's admission offer, I must mail in my intent-to-enroll form, a $100 deposit and an official transcript by today. So, midway through the day I should know where I'm going for sure.
Football practice for incoming freshman at Delta is being held on May 3 and May 10, so it would be wise to know my decision by then as well.
This decision is by far the most difficult of my entire life. My mind has wavered over the past months many times. At different times I thought I knew I was going to one of the three, but things always happen that change my mind.
Whatever I do decide, I know it will be the right decision for me. I will be happy and no matter where I end up, I will make the best of it.
Although different people have tried to point me in different directions, the final decision is mine, and although I've always wanted the responsibility to be on my own, it's just not fair.
Michael Holst is a senior at Tokay High School and is editor-in-chief of the Tokay Press.
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I make sure the kids and I ALWAYS eat Breakfast no matter how much of a rush we're in. Their absolute favourite is Maple and Raisin Slow Cooker Porridge, especially during the Winter months... with toast and marmite coming a close second. Hubby on the other hand rushes out of the door every morning without eating anything. Somewhat inevitably he ends up eating his packed lunch at 10am and spends the rest of the day sat at his desk starving hungry. So, in an effort to encourage him to eat something in the mornings as he hops in his car, I made these yummy Fruit and Nut Breakfast Cups using a couple of products from this month's Degustabox. The cups are a little bit like flapjacks but only take 10 minutes to bake. You can try different types of dried fruit and nuts - I used raisins this time but dried apricots would be nice I think. These little cups are also handy for popping into lunchboxes for snack time at school.
A little bit on Degustabox:
| Serves: makes 12 | Prep Time: 5 Minutes | Cook Time: 10 Minutes | Total Time: 15 Minutes |
- 200g Jordans Fruit and Nut Crisp Cereal
- 100g Porridge Oats
- 100g Butter, melted
- 50g Light Brown Sugar
- 2 TBSP Carob Syrup (or ordinary syrup)
- 100g Raisins
- 1 Egg
- Step 1: Preheat the oven to 180C/160Cfan. Place 12 paper cases in a bun tin.
- Step 2: Melt the butter in a large pan then add all of the other ingredients.
- Step 3: Mix together thoroughly then spoon into 12 cupcake cases, pressing down firmly so they are tightly packed. Bake for 10 minutes.
- Step 4: Leave to cool for 1 hour before eating.
| Author: Beth Sachs | Date: 29th January 2016 |
The full list of products in this months box were as follows:
- Finn Crisp – Crispbread
- Fentimans – Lemonade
- Halewood International – Tsingtao
- Coldpress – Apple juice
- Conscious Chocolate – Chocolate bar
- Jordans Ryvita – Fruit and Nut Country Crisp Cereal
- Amoy – Taste of Asia Sauce
- Calbee – Yushoi Sticks
- Clarks – Carob Syrop
- Nah Foods- Slim Noodles
- Fruitbowl – Blackcurrant
- Gathr Foods – Crobar
- AO Foods – Fit Fit bar

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Development policies, transfer of pollution abatement technology and trans-boundary pollution
In this paper, we integrate intra-region labor migration and inter-region labor migration into Harris–Todaro model in the presence of unidirectional trans-boundary pollution. We conduct a simple comparative static analysis of regional economic and environmental effects of the central government's development policies on two regions, reducing the transfer cost of inter-region labor migration and increasing the capital subsidy to the less developed region. In addition, we compare the environmental and regional economic effects of the transfer of pollution abatement technology in two regions.
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Multimedia recording solutions providers Nice Systems announced that Interland selected it for a comprehensive solution to improve its contact center performance.
Employing more than 250 agents across two Atlanta-based contact centers, Interland recently completed implementation of NiceUniverse, NiceLogfor selective voice and screen recording, and Nice Analyzer to garner key insight from its customer interactions to improve agent training and customer service.
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Headquartered in Israel, Nice Systems is provider of multimedia digital recording solutions, applications and related professional services for business interaction management. Nice products and solutions are used in contact centers, trading floors, air traffic control (ATC) sites, CCTV security installations and government markets. — (menareport.com)
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Opposition (chess)
In chess, opposition (or direct opposition) is the situation occurring when two kings face each other on a rank or file, with only one square in-between them. In such a situation, the player not having to move is said to "have the opposition" (Flear 2004:12). It is a special type of zugzwang and most often occurs in endgames with only kings and pawns (Flear 2000:36). The side with the move may have to move the king away, potentially allowing the opposing king access to important squares. Taking the opposition is a means to an end (normally forcing the opponent's king to move to a weaker position) and is not always the best thing to do.
There are extensions of direct opposition, such as diagonal opposition and distant opposition, which can be conducive to reaching direct opposition. All three types may be referred to simply as opposition if the type is unambiguous in context.
|This article uses algebraic notation to describe chess moves.
Direct opposition (or) Rook opposition[edit]
Direct opposition is a position in which the kings are on the same rank or file and they are separated by one square. When the term opposition is used, it normally refers to direct opposition.
In this diagram, the player whose turn it is not to move has the opposition. If it is Black's turn to move, White has the opposition and wins (Flear 2004:23). (See King and pawn versus king endgame.) If it were White's turn to move, Black would have the opposition and the position would be a draw.
In order to remember how to play situations like in the adjacent diagram - each time the pawn is moved forward, it must be without giving check. If the pawn checks the opponent's king, the opposition is lost and the game is drawn.
In the 1959 game between Svetozar Gligorić and Bobby Fischer,[1] Black can draw by keeping the white king from getting to any of the key squares (marked by dots). This is accomplished by not allowing White to get the opposition, and seizing the opposition if the white king advances.
- 57... Kb8!
This waiting move is the only move to draw. (In the actual game the players agreed to a draw at this point.) Other moves allow White to get the opposition and then get to a key square. If the white king gets to a key square, White wins. For example 1... Kb7? 2. Kb5, then the black king moves and the white king gets to a key square and then wins by forcing promotion of the pawn.
- 58. Kc5 Kc7
- 59. Kb5 Kb7
- 60. Ka5 Ka7 and Black draws. In this sequence, any other moves by Black lose (Müller & Lamprecht 2007:20), (Fischer 2008:86).
Diagonal opposition[edit]
Opposition along a diagonal (instead of a rank or file) is called diagonal opposition. Sometimes diagonal opposition is used to achieve direct opposition. An example is the position in the diagram on the left, with Black to move. White has the direct opposition in this position, but it does him no good because his king cannot attack the black pawn after the black king moves away. White needs to achieve direct opposition closer to the pawn.
- 1. ... Kf8
- 2. Kd6 and White has the diagonal opposition (diagram on the right).
- 2. ... Ke8
- 3. Ke6 White now has direct opposition on a useful square, and White wins:
- 3. ... Kf8
- 4. Kd7 Kg8
- 5. Ke7 Kh8
- 6. f6 gxf6
- 7. Kf7 or 7. Kxf6 win for White (Flear 2004:33).
Distant opposition[edit]
Distant opposition is a position in which the kings are on the same rank or file but are separated by more than one square. If there are an odd number of squares between the kings, the player not having the move has the (distant) opposition. As with diagonal opposition, it is often converted to direct opposition, as in the diagram on the right (Capablanca & de Firmian 2006:41):
- Ke2 (White takes the distant opposition) ... Ke7
- Ke3 Ke6
- Ke4 (takes the direct opposition, and now Black must step aside) Kd6 (... Kf6 allows the corresponding Kf4!)
- Kd4! (Kf5 would lead to both pawns queening) Kc6 (... Ke6 5. Kc5 and is way ahead in the queening race)
- Ke5 (and White has a choice of which pawn he wins, and then use this as the outside passed pawn unless he can promote it directly)
Black can be tricky and try
- ... Kf8 and if
- Ke3 then Ke7 and now Black has the distant opposition and draws. Similarly 2. Kf3 Kf7.
White instead should remember that the aim of the opposition is to penetrate, so step sideways and forward with
- ... Kf8
- Kd3! Ke7 (otherwise White penetrates with Kc5, and will win a queening race)
- Ke3! (White again has the distant opposition and transposes into the main line)
Teaching tool[edit]
This position is very similar to the previous position. White is to checkmate, moving the rook only once in the process. The main line is:
- Kg2 (taking the distant opposition) Kg7
- Kg3 Kg6
- Kg4 Kh6 (and since the black king has been forced to step aside to the h-file, White can now penetrate on the f file)
- Kf5! Kg7 (... Kh5 5.Rh1#)
- Kg5 Kh7
- Kf6 Kg8 (... Kh8 7. Kf7 Kh7 Rh1#)
- Kg6 Kh8
- Rf8#
Again, if Black is tricky, he can try
- ... Kh8 (again, White penetrates)
- Kf3! (Kg3 Kg7; Kh3 Kh7 give Black the distant opposition) Kg7 (Kh7 3. Kf4!)
- Kg3.
Yuri Averbakh pointed out that the opposition is a means to an end; the end is penetration to a key square (Averbakh 1987:5). This can be a square in front of a pawn, so the king can lead it to the queening square, or into a critical zone to win an enemy blocked pawn.
In the diagram, White should play 1.Kc5; taking the opposition by 1.Ke4 draws.
The second position shows a simpler example. If White takes the opposition with 1.Ke6 he makes no progress. The winning move is 1.Kc7 (see king and pawn versus king endgame).
See also[edit]
- Chess endgame
- Corresponding squares
- Key square
- King and pawn versus king endgame
- Triangulation
- Zugzwang
- Averbakh, Yuri (1987), Comprehensive Chess Endings: Pawn Endings, vol. 4, Pergammon, ISBN 0-08-026906-0
- Capablanca, Jose; de Firmian, Nick (2006), Chess Fundamentals (Completely Revised and Updated for the 21st Century), Random House, ISBN 0-8129-3681-7
- Fischer, Bobby (2008) [1969], My 60 Memorable Games, Batsford, ISBN 978-1-906388-30-0
- Flear, Glenn (2000), Improve Your Endgame Play, Everyman Chess, ISBN 1-85744-246-6
- Flear, Glenn (2004), Starting Out: Pawn Endings, Everyman Chess, ISBN 1-85744-362-4
- Müller, Karsten; Lamprecht, Frank (2007), Secrets of Pawn Endings, Gambit Publications, ISBN 978-1-904600-88-6
Further reading[edit]
- Nunn, John (2007), Secrets of Practical Chess (2nd ed.), Gambit Publications, pp. 113–18, ISBN 978-1-904600-70-1


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Father Zuhlsdorf speculates on the possibility of Cardinal Raymond Burke becoming the next Archbishop of Chicago, mimicking the transfer of Cardinal Canizares from the Congregation for Divine Worship to the Archdiocese of Valencia. Zuhlsdorf states, "And, truth be told, there is quite simply no churchman more pastoral than Raymond Leo Card. Burke." Of course, Cardinal Burke will not go to Chicago, unless Pope Francis has a mean streak we have not previously seen, or if the pope was so moved by the tragic death of Robin Williams, he thinks the only cardinal who does a spot-on, albeit unintentional, imitation of Mrs. Doubtfire, is what the Church in Chicago needs. After seeing Zuhlsdorf's post yesterday, a bishop said to me, "If +Burke goes to Chicago, I am becoming a Muslim." If I were a betting man, which I am not, I would bet the house that Cardinal Burke will not be going to Chicago. But, I am told the terna has gone to Rome so we should know the real choice in the not too distant future.
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Down syndrome bill
Down syndrome bill
As the uncle of a beautiful young woman with Down syndrome, I strongly urge Pennsylvania residents to support the Down Syndrome Prenatal Education Act (House Bill 2111/Senate Bill 1339).
For many expectant parents, the prospect of raising a child with Down syndrome can be overwhelming. Fear, stereotypes, misinformation, political agendas and lack of answers can quickly eclipse the inherent dignity, humanity and blessings that these incredible children bring to families and communities.
Down syndrome occurs in approximately one out of every 700 births in the United States. Over 90 percent of children diagnosed prenatally with Down syndrome are aborted. The Down Syndrome Prenatal Education Act would require doctors to provide expectant parents with up-to-date information including physical, developmental, educational and psychosocial outcomes; life expectancy; clinical course; intellectual and functional development; treatment options; and contact information for supportive services and other parental resources.
In a society that places a high value on "choice," this law would ensure that parents understand they have more than one choice when it comes to their child's diagnosis.
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Besharam has already been buzzing in the B-Town and now with the release of the title song, Ranbir's dance moves are the talk of the town where he is telling us to come and be besharam (shameless). Ranbir Kapoor is seen in a metallic golden outfit just like his father Rishi Kapoor in Karz from the 80s. The song features Ranbir with some grooving moves where he shakes his booty and gives us some jhatkas.
The song which is choreographed by Remo D'Souza begins with Ranbir in sunglasses and with a lollipop in his mouth. You'll be amazed at the way Ranbir moves in this song while sporting this golden outfit. The song features Ranbir as a totally different person from what we've seen in the past. It looks like this new avatar has really taken him back to the 80s.
Ranbir goes completely Besharam for this title song in which the chorus says, 'Be is for Be-imaan, Sha is for Shaitaan, Ram ji ke cheete hum'. This is an out-and-out a a dance number that gets your feet tapping along with Ranbir Kapoor. It is reportedly said that the full video version of the title song will even bring some special appearances on screen. Rumours say that the special appearances are none other than director Abhinav Kashyap and choreographer Remo D'Souza.
Don't miss the slide show which gives you exclusive images and the full Besharam title song
The Ladies Man
Ranbir Kapor is surrounded by many girls in the title song Besharam. These girls even give him pecks on his cheek.
Shakes His Booty
Right in the beginning of the song, we have Ranbir Kapoor who shakes his booty while facing his back to the screen.
Besharm Babli
Ranbir, plays the role of Babli in the upcoming movie Besharam. In the song, we have him telling us to come and be besharam like him.
On The Floor
Looks like Ranbir Kapoor took Jennifer Lopez's song titled 'On the floor' literally. Ranbir Kapoor is seen giving us some creative new moves.
The Club Moves
Ranbir Kapoor's moves surely set the stage on fire. The club and the entire background takes us back to the 80s.
Sets The Party Mood
After watching this song, you will definitely want to dance for this number. The lights in the video keep changing colours and this adds to the party mood.
Ranbir In Spotlight
Ranbir Kapoor, who plays the role of a Punjabi in Besharam is seen giving us some din-chak style moves while he is in the spotlight of the title song.
Naughty Babli
This song features Ranbir Kapoor as Babli Besharam who is enjoying with the girls and winks at the screen.
Like Father, Like Son
Ranbir Kapoor is seen in the metallic outfit just like how his father Rishi Kapoor did for a song titled 'Om Shanti Om' in the 1980 movie called Karz.
Go Besharam
Go Besharam with this all new song featuring Ranbir Kapoor with his Besharam-ishtyle.


text: In-depth Analysis By Andrew Caulfield and Claire Curry SIRE LINE FEMALE LINE PERFORMANCE STALLION CAREER Surely not even Prince Khalid Abdulla can have imagined the impact that His Majesty's daughter Razyana would have on his breeding operation. Bought for $350,000 as a yearling in 1982, Razyana unfortunately failed to fulfil the considerable promise of her second of 26 at Newmarket on her only juvenile appearance, but her place among the Juddmonte broodmare team was safe, as she was a grand-daughter of one of the most famous mares of modern times - Northern Dancer's dam Natalma. Bred to Danzig in her first season in 1985, Razyana got off to a spectacular start by producing Danehill, who was to come close to matching Northern Dancer's extraordinary achievements as a stallion. Danehill revolutionised the Australian thoroughbred industry, becoming champion sire eight times in the ten years between 1995/6 and 2004/5, to be succeeded by his sons Redoute's Choice and Flying Spur. And Danehill rose to similar heights in the northern hemisphere, despite having been priced as low as IR9,000gns in his fourth and fifth seasons. Among his achievements were six titles as champion sire of two-year-olds (in 1995, 1996, 2000, 2001, 2004, 2005) and, after being runner-up no fewer than five times to Sadler's Wells on the general sires' list, he finally dethroned the perennial champion sire to achieve a hat-trick of championships in 2005, 2006 and 2007. Danehill was also champion sire in France in 2001 and 2007. As in Australia, where Danehill has been replaced as champion sire by his sons Redoute's Choice and Flying Spur, it also looks as though Danehill is going to be succeeded by his European sons. His son Danehill Dancer took the sires' championship in 2009 and it was Dansili who became champion sire in France in 2006, when he also gained the first of his two titles as Britain's champion sire of all-weather horses. The important thing to remember about Dansili's emergence as a potential successor to his exceptional sire is that – like Danehill – he has made his name with horses sired at comparatively modest fees. He stood his first season at £8,000, his second at £10,000 and his next four at £12,500. Even so, he has eight Gr.1 winners – Rail Link, Harbinger, Zambezi Sun, Price Tag, Proviso and Passage of Time – in these crops and also has three Gr.1 winners from his first higher-priced crop. Dansili had only around 60 two-year-olds in 2007, from that often difficult fourth year, but this crop produced a high percentage of juvenile winners, including the Group winners Proviso and Sense of Joy. This crop produced 13 per cent stakes winners, another top performer being the wonderfully consistent Famous Name, who failed by only a head to snatch victory when badly drawn in the Gr.1 Prix du Jockey-Club. Dansili's fifth crop has also produced numerous top performers in Harbinger, Strawberrydaiquiri, Shaweel, Delegator, Zacinto, Bewitched and Father Time. A succession of top-class winners from later crops, including Emulous, Zoffany, Fallen For You, The Fugue, Dank, Winsili, Flintshire, Laughing and Giofra has firmly established Dansili as one of the best stallions in the world. Thanks to the considerable success enjoyed by Dansili's progeny on the racecourse and in the sales ring, his fee – like Danehill's before him – has risen considerably. Fortunately for breeders, they also have the option of using Dansili's highly talented son Rail Link, who represents the third generation of this remarkable male line to be bred by Juddmonte. Rail Link's arrival followed the death of another of Juddmonte's Arc winners, Rainbow Quest, who established himself as Britain's most prolific sire of Group winners. With his combination of impressive conformation, championship performance and a pedigree full of outstanding stallions, Rail Link is ideally qualified to step into Rainbow Quest's shoes. When Nelson Bunker Hunt's huge racing empire was dispersed in the depressed days of 1988, one of the mares on offer at Keeneland was the truly exceptional Dahlia. Although she had just turned 18 and was barren, this brilliant daughter of Vaguely Noble and Charming Alibi drew a bid of $1,100,000 from Allen Paulson, her price reflecting her outstanding achievements both on the track and as a producer. Tough enough to race 48 times from two to six, Dahlia had been talented enough to win ten Gr.1 races during a dazzling international career. In Ireland she won the Oaks; in England she scored consecutive victories in both the King George VI and Queen Elizabeth Stakes and the Benson & Hedges Gold Cup; in France she took the Prix Saint-Alary and Grand Prix de Saint-Cloud; and in North America she was triumphant in the Washington D.C International, Man o'War Stakes and the Hollywood Invitational Handicap. Anyone who expected Dahlia's five years of hard labour on the racecourse to compromise her broodmare career was in for a shock. Although not covered until she was seven, Dahlia produced 13 live foals, the last at the age of 26. She became one of the most successful broodmares of the modern era, achieving a magnificent total of six Group/Graded winners, including Bunker Hunt's Gr.1 scorers Dahar, Rivlia and Delegant. Dahlia's 1988 yearling filly by Northern Dancer, which drew a bid of $1,300,000 from Sheikh Mohammed, became a Gr.2 winner under the name of Wajd and Wajd later produced the Gr.1 St Leger hero Nedawi, now a successful sire in Brazil. Allen Paulson also did well out of his purchase of the elderly Dahlia, as her first two foals for her new owner were the Gr.1-winning Dahlia's Dreamer and the Gr.2 winner Llandaff. This family continues to come up with the goods and Rite of Passage, winner of the 2010 Gold Cup, is a great-grandson of Dahlia. Dahlia's close relative Golden Alibi (by Vaguely Noble's Derby-winning son Empery out of the stakes-winning Charming Alibi, a veteran of 71 races) has also played a leading role in maintaining the family fortunes. Golden Alibi is the third dam of two fairly recent Gr.1 winners in France. The first, Linda's Lad, took the 2005 Criterium de Saint-Cloud and the second, Rail Link, was victorious in the Grand Prix de Paris and the Arc in the process of proving himself Europe's champion middle-distance performer of 2006. Another good winner from this family was Diamond White, the 1999 Prix de l'Opera winner who showed she had inherited all of Charming Alibi's toughness by racing more than 60 times. The most recent Group winner from this family, the 2011 Prix des Chenes winner Vizir Bere, is out of a grand-daughter of Golden Alibi. Golden Alibi's successes justify her yearling price of $1,100,000 in 1979. Although Golden Alibi proved to be an irregular producer, she did leave a sizeable legacy in the shape of her Riverman filly Dockage. A very useful Listed winner over 9 furlongs in France, Dockage was very closely related to Dahlia's Riverman colt Rivlia, a Gr.1 winner on turf from 1¼ miles to 1¾ miles in California. Dockage started her broodmare career in fine style, her first three foals being Rail Link's dam Docklands, the Gr.3 July Stakes winner Wharf and Linda's Lad's dam Colza. Docklands shared the same sire, Theatrical, as Dahlia's Gr.1-winning daughter Dahlia's Dreamer. A winner three times over a mile and twice over a mile and a quarter, Docklands proved very effective as a broodmare, the daughter of Theatrical now being the dam of eight winners, and five of them were good enough to contest Group events. Her 2004 Zamindar colt, Crossharbour, became her third Group winner when he took the Gr.2 Prix du Conseil de Paris in 2008 and the Gr.3 Prix Gontaut-Biron in 2009, while a visit to Grand Lodge had resulted in her smart son Chelsea Manor, winner of the Gr.3 La Coupe de Maisons-Laffitte over 1¼ miles at three and third twice at Gr.1 level at four. In 2013, her Oasis Dream colt Mainsail won the Prix Bertrand du Breuil Gr.3 at Chantilly. Rail Link played a leading role in Dansili becoming champion sire in France in 2006. After losing his rider on his debut, Rail Link won the last five of his six completed outings to share the title of best horse in Europe with George Washington on the 2006 World Thoroughbred Racehorse Rankings. Timeform rated him 132, which places him among the very best colts from the Danehill line. Rail Link reeled off four successive Group victories and a striking aspect of his success is the number of past and future Group 1 winners he accounted for. In the Prix du Lys Gr.3 he easily defeated the subsequent Group 1 winners Sudan and Prince Flori; in the Grand Prix de Paris Gr.1, he won by two lengths, chased home by the future Group 1 winners Red Rocks, Sudan and Grand Couturier; and in the Prix Niel Gr.2 he defeated the subsequent Group 1 winners Youmzain (who was to fail so narrowly to defeat Dylan Thomas in the 2007 Arc) and Sudan. Then, in the Arc, he showed the type of acceleration people have come to expect of Dansili's best progeny, to score from Pride, the Japanese superstar Deep Impact and Hurricane Run. The second and third immediately franked the form by jointly going on to Group 1 successes in the Champion Stakes, Hong Kong Cup, Japan Cup and Arima Kinen. Philip Mitchell, general manager of Juddmonte Farms, said: "We are delighted to be standing Rail Link, as there's every reason to hope that he can fill the void left by Rainbow Quest. Besides being a champion son of a champion sire, he's an excellent physical specimen. He's a strong, powerful, really good-looking colt, with the correct conformation breeders are looking for. He also has a great attitude." Although Rail Link didn't race until he was three, he succeeded in siring eight two-year-old winners when his first crop raced in 2011, including the Gr.3 winner Bugie d'Amore. This laid the foundation for a rewarding time with his first three-year-olds in 2012. As three-year-olds the crop really came into its own. Last Train came within a head of winning the Grand Prix de Paris Gr.1; the Listed winner Wild Wolf was just caught on the line in the Italian Derby; and Sediciosa was a good winner of the Prix de Royaumont Gr.3 before only finding an older male too strong in the Prix du Conseil de Paris Gr.2. There was more blacktype success for Rail Link's progeny in 2013. Last Train (Timeform 115) won the Prix de Barbeville Gr.3 at Longchamp; Destruct (Timeform 109p) won the Listed Prix Michel Houyvet (beating subsequent Breeders' Cup Marathon winner London Bridge); Trip To Rhodos annexed the Listed Langer Hamburger; Spillway (Timeform 112) was third in the Gordon Stakes Gr.3 at Goodwood; Wild Wolf was runner up in the Gran Premio di Milano Gr.1.Several of Rail Link's two-year-old's shaped with promise last year – with Nottingham maiden winner Cambridge (90p), Longchamp runner-up Delivery (92p) and the Lady Cecil-trained Fair Share looking to be good prospects for the coming season. Lightly-raced four-year-old Brass Ring (103p) also looks to be a horse to follow.


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I think most of it has to do with our recent history. However imo the main source of that is gone.
It's less likely this year than it has been since Feb. 2002.
You, Never? Did the Kenosha Kid?
How can Chicago not be an early favorite here? Am I the only one who doesn't love that team? How are they magically supposed to get better? They improved in areas they were already good at. Did post offense magically appear out of nowhere? Did they add any signifcant scoring? I loved their team (+ the upcoming cap space) more last year than I do this year.
I'm not bitter or anything, but this isn't what will happen. The implosion is always a SURPRISE.
Last year's Pacers were the great team that fell apart (back to back seasons). This version is not considered a top 4 team, which means to me that you need to look at Detroit, Miami, Cleveland and Chicago for letdowns instead, perhaps NJ as well. Chicago is a prime candidate IMO, though Detroit is one that seems okay now but lost a big piece and was already getting uptight with Flip last year. Throw in any of the main 5 guys getting hurt for 20-30 games and this team has trouble.
One of those teams is likely to falter just because that's how it goes in the NBA. The Pacers look to be a 45-49 win team and that doesn't sound like "implosion" to me if they fall off that to only 39-40 wins.
Plus, when was the last time Rick went under .500 as a HC? Now when was the last time he had a team that wasn't supposed to compete but did anyway?
My point is that .500 is RC's version of failure or implosion. The guy has yet to meet a 35 win season even when he had some talent or roster issues that suggested he should (01-02 Pistons, 04-05 Pacers).
Honestly? My bet's on Detroit.
Probably wishful thinking, but Ben was important to that team.
This space for rent.
Naptown you are an excellent poster. Glad to have you here. Early ROY candidate.
"Sometimes, when you look Andy in the eyes, you get a feeling somebody else is driving." -- David Letterman
Wow, I'm sure that devastates the team. They probably have lost all hope.
RealGM has designated them, "Most likely to collapse." If they're anything like me, after I got voted, "Most likely to Fail" by my senior class, they'll surely go home, cry, and then realize that it means absolutely nothing and get on with life.
(PS: I didn't get "most likely to fail" - I got "Most likely to become unhealthily wealthy by using his superior intellect to pwn the world")
It's a new day for Pacers Basketball.
But another good ROY candidate - JayRedd. The guy is flat-out a good read, my favorite poster right now.
You, Never? Did the Kenosha Kid?
Thanks guys. I do post a lot of content and I get that people like to skip big reads. I try to break it up with spacing of course, but still...
I've been worried that some PD only people assumed I was the same poster just back again to be a . It's a PitA to figure out who is who by username, especially going between here and RATS.
I like JayRedd's posts so far but I didn't realize he was new. WTF do I know, everyone's an old-timer, good-poster to me at this point. Give me 6 months so I can start to a couple of posters.
Anyway, I really do like the moderated interaction here, as well as the knowledge. Plus threads are kept so you can go back and look at old debates later, which hopefully keeps people more in check on their rants.
Plus pix help give people more identity and character. Makes it more friendly I think.
BTW, my earlier post now ensures the Pacers of a 25 win season, RCs firing and other general agony. No way I get to be right about something like that, it never goes that way for me. Or did I just undo that with this comment?
I can't wait for this poll to actually come true...
I'm glad that the summer is just slow enough to produce such a useless poll. Shouldn't they get something like, "How many games will the US lose this time around?" I'm sure there are more important things to poll than this.
12/27/2005 at Spurs - SamBear - 3
1/2/2008 vs Memphis - SamBear - 19
4/9/2014 - Luis Scola also recorded a season high with 24 points and Evan Turner added 23 for Indiana.
It's because we lost Eddie Gill.
Well crap - since RealGM posters said it - it must be true. I guess I might as well write off the season already!
"The definition of insanity is doing the same thing over and over and expecting different results."
- Benjamin Franklin
Originally Posted by fwpacerfan
Yaah...phew, they just saved me a buncha $$$$$$ not buying tix this year. Hey, now maybe I can afford those Toby Keith concert tix.
Ever notice how friendly folks are at a shootin' range??.
Naptown Seth, word of warning, don't let yourself be an early imploder by posting fallacious rumors. TPDTB doesn't look kindly on that sort of nonsense.
Any team with Ronnie should be the de facto winner of this award every year.
Sorry Sacto, it's your turn now.
"I'll always be a part of Donnie Walsh."
-Ron Artest, Denver Post, 12.28.05
i think at the very least they have a more balanced season than the last two years. they had CRAP beginnings and had to fight their way into the playoffs. i think this year is more consistant. not a title.
I can just see the holes in their team, though, and this year they will be expected to be contenders. If they fall short, which I think is possible, I think the walls may come a tumbling down.Originally Posted by avoidingtheclowns
I'd pick New York, but I guess they'd have to be together before they could fall apart.
If you mean the AJ thing, I didn't post that rumor at all. I only modified what was originally posted in order to come up with a variation that made more sense.Originally Posted by McClintic Sphere
Since then with the Hawks strongly refusing to take on player contracts even the original version looks very false (which was my original reaction to it). Personally I do not post rumors nor scavenge them from other sites.
But maybe this isn't what you were talking about.
We don't count - we've been imploding for five years - and we aren't done yet. This summer's implosion was Larry Brown being fired. Next summer's is Isiah being fired. The following summer is when a crowd of enraged Knick fans storm Madison Square Garden and occupy it, refusing to leave until Dolan sells the team.
I dunno if I'd call it an implosion but if I'm a Pacer fan the PG situation terrifies me. That said, RealGM posters aren't renowned for their basketball smarts.
The poster formerly known as Rimfire
Not sure but I think maybe he was joking and referred to you in regards to holding this board together? Maybe? And that without your stability we might implode? Maybe?Originally Posted by Naptown_Seth
Naptown was one of the good posters over at IndyStar before I pretty much stopped going over there. A screwball named "foretaz" is pretty much the reason most people leave IndyStar these days. Pray he never shows up over here.


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I made this blog months ago and really thought I'd be actively blogging by now. But its confusing, and way more time consuming than I anticipated. Plus, I had NO idea where to begin! I've attempted over and over again to make my first post on PrettyInProtein and backed out because I didn't know where to start.
But NOW…I have the perfect starting point.
I decided to make 2012 all about me. My health, my happiness, my goals, my future, my body, me me me me me! During this year I've made slow progress, progress none the less, to finding my happy point. Primarily with my health and fitness.
I was feeling sluggish, bloated, lazy and unmotivated. And one day I had enough. I made a promise to myself that I would get myself together and change my life in 2012. So, I hit the gym harder, longer, and more consistently. I counted calories, upped the protein, watched the macros, and I SLOWLY started to see results. This brings me to me to where I am today- In relatively good shape, feeling stronger, healthier and motivated. I've come far but have far to go! I'm nowhere near where I want to be, but I'm proud of how far I've come.
This leads me to the decision I made TODAY! I've for the most part followed a paleo-like diet. 100% paleo, 80% of the time, or some ratio like that. Whatever, my point is I eat pretty damn good. But not GREAT. And after researching and reading up on The Whole30 I've decided to REALLY clean up my diet, and take The Whole30 challenge. Bye-Bye whey protein, greek yogurt, protein pancakes, rice cakes, and Extra Gum (Wahhh!!!) I've felt the amazing benefits in the diet I already follow, but I'm ready for a challenge and a goal.
***By the way, this is not some silly pyramid sales pitch bogus product, just a healthy eating "lifestyle", the website and the book just provided guidelines, supports, recipes, and in depth information. You can spend the 14.99 to become a member (they gotta make money somehow) but I will not. Because I'm too stingy, hey I bought the book at least.
For anyone who is actually reading this (probably out of pitty), and is not familiar with the Whole30 or a Paleolithic Diet for that matter, it is basically a diet, oops I mean "lifestyle", consisting of high fat and high protein. I will NOT be eating ANY dairy, grains, legumes, sweeteners (artificial OR natural) YIKES!, no white potatoes, and obviously no alcohol. I WILL be eating extra lean grassfed beef, chicken, extra lean ground turkey, bacon (BACON?!) and any other form of meat, eggs, veggies, small amount of fruits, nuts (NO peanuts…DARN it, NO peanut butter), avocados, and coconut in many forms. Of course this is just a basic guideline, there are plenty of other things I can eat, but even MORE items I cannot. BRING IT ON.
"Certain food groups (like sugar, grains, dairy and legumes) could be having a negative impact on your health and fitness without you even realizing it." -The Whole9
I also picked up It Starts WIth Food by Dallas & Melissa Hartwig (creators of the Whole9) and I am already really intrigued. I highly suggest it to anyone interested in Paleo or The Whole30 for a more informative and knowledgable explanation. The book primarily focuses on the use of food as medicine, and how the food we eat can make us healthier or more unhealthy, but the choice is ours.
"Let food be thy medicine and medicine be thy food"
This has been a very unorganized post and I feel like there are so many things I still want to go over, but I don't want to overload my readers…or should I say my only reader (Hey, Dad!).
My Whole30 Challenge officially starts tomorrow. I wanted today to be Day1 but I had some $$$$ Siggi's Skyr (Icelandic Yogurt) I could not see go to waste. Oh and I HAD to finish that jar of Peanut Butter obviously!
Tomorrow is the day! I will be blogging throughout my 30 days to hold myself accountable, sharing my groceries, my meals, my not-so-fancy recipes, and whining about my cravings. I don't anticipate this being to much of a struggle for me since the last 8 months I've slowly developed an almost most of the time (yes, almost-most-of-the-time) Paleo diet. Here we go!


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FDA: Avoid drugs from company tied to meningitis
Published: Thursday, October 4, 2012 at 3:14 p.m.
Last Modified: Thursday, October 4, 2012 at 3:14 p.m.
NEW YORK — The government is warning doctors and hospitals not to use any product from the specialty pharmacy that made the steroid suspected in a meningitis outbreak.
An official with the Food and Drug Administration said tests found contamination in a sealed vial of the steroid at the New England Compounding Center in Massachusetts. Tests are under way to determine if it is the same fungus blamed in the outbreak.
Federal officials on Thursday also updated the number of cases in the outbreak. Five people have died and 30 people in six states are ill. All received steroid shots for back pain.
The pharmacy issued a recall last week and has shut down operations. The steroid was sent to 75 facilities in 23 states.
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This article was published 10/1/2013 (1679 days ago), so information in it may no longer be current.
A foster parent who worked in child welfare and called authorities about Phoenix Sinclair being locked in a bedroom in the months before she died said no one wanted to listen.
The caller testified Thursday at the inquiry into Phoenix's death that whoever answered the phone at the Winnipeg Child and Family Services after-hours unit in March 2005 didn't want to hear concerns from a third party.
"I forced the issue," said the witness, identified only as Source of Referral No. 7. "I told her that if anything happened to that child, I would hold her personally responsible."
The inquiry into how and why Manitoba's child-welfare safety net didn't save Phoenix was ordered by the province in 2011 and began in September.
The source of referral testified Thursday their grown foster child asked them to contact CFS about how Samantha Kematch was treating her daughter, Phoenix. The foster child, Source of Referral No. 6, and another former friend of Kematch testified Wednesday they contacted CFS anonymously but felt their concerns weren't taken seriously.
Thursday, Source of Referral No. 7 said their foster child was so worried about Phoenix, the foster parent was asked to also contact CFS. The foster child expected the foster parent, being a child-welfare worker, would be believed and that concerns about Phoenix would be addressed, the inquiry heard. That expectation was dashed seconds into the call, the foster parent said.
"I started to tell the woman on the phone the concerns... but didn't get very far," the foster parent testified. "She told me to stop. She said 'I can't accept this information -- it is third-hand,' " the source told the inquiry.
"I got pretty angry with her. I told her that she would have to accept the information. It was valid and important and it was the only way she would get that information that this child was in need of protection," the witness said.
"I stated my former foster child was concerned she was hurting her and locking the bedroom door when she was leaving... and she heard sounds from behind the bedroom door," the source testified.
"I remember insisting she must have this woman somewhere in the system... I indicated that it wasn't shocking that she might be hurting the child. What was shocking was that someone had placed the child with her."
The inquiry expects to hear Monday from the intake worker who took that March 2005 call. The foster parent who made the call testified their foster child was friends with Kematch.
"She was a very broken young woman who had a very negative influence on (my foster child) and who had associations and behaviours of pretty grave concern."
The foster child, Source of Referral No. 6, testified Thursday Kematch showed Phoenix no affection and didn't want anyone else to, either.
One example was during a long walk to a friend's apartment a kilometre away and Kematch had walked ahead with the baby she had with Karl "Wes" McKay and didn't wait for Phoenix, whose boots weren't on properly.
"She just left the boots like that... so I had to fix them for Phoenix," Source of Referral No. 6 testified Thursday morning. "When I tried to hold her hand, Sam was already down the alley almost to the end, yelling back to us not to hold her hand and that 'she needs to learn to walk on her own.' "
When they got to where they were going on that March 2005 day, the witness had a camera and took a photo of Phoenix, which was shown to the inquiry. Kematch questioned the value of a photograph of Phoenix.
"She didn't seem very happy about it," the source of referral recalled. "(She said), 'Why do you want her picture?' "


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Marcel Wanders: Mondrian South Beath Hotel Residences
It takes a fairytale to capture the imagination in Miami's over-blown hotel district. Hence, "Sleeping Beauty" stirs 4 December 2008 when the Mondrian South Beach Hotel Residences opens it doors. Conceived by Dutch designer Marcel Wanders, who nicknamed the property "Sleeping Beauty's castle," the one and two bedroom hotel residences overlook the Biscayne Bay, the Atlantic Ocean and the Miami skyline.
Named after the artist, the original Los Angeles Mondrian opened in 1996, leading the boutique hotel boom. The Morgan's Group has extended this venture to the East Coast with the Mondrian South Beach.
Enhanced by greenery and detailed etchings, the Mondrian South has subtle design cues from the legendary art deco hotels that color South Beach.
From the point of entry, the design language of the Mondrian is "island majestic" with 17' 6" ceilings leading to the 4,000 square-foot lobby bar, pool deck, lounge and restaurant. Surrounding gardens function as indoor and outdoor living spaces with seating areas, an outdoor bar, cabanas and a separate pool that make for a child-friendly destination. Two large meeting rooms with state-of-the-art audio and visual equipment are located on the Promenade floor with private balconies and a full service spa.
Wanders' accents emerge in nearly aspect of the interior structure. His furniture, lighting and accent pieces are found in virtually every section of the hotel. His mark is strewn on upholstery, window coverings and rugs, extending even to the bathroom. A vanity with integrated storage shelves and adjustable wall-mounted mirrors accommodates more primping than standard hotels and the neo-Baroque comes to an aquatic crescendo in the designer's signature crystal shower chandelier. Each hotel apartment comes with an iPod docking station and 42â flat screen monitors with integrated surround sound and CD/DVD player, adding to the atmosphere of technological polish.
The price on nouveau chic living isn't for the shy buyer with studios starting at $500,000, one bedrooms at $625,000 and two bedrooms at $1,000,000. See more renderings after the jump.
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With a glass of red wine in hand, she invited staff back to The Lodge for a drink and asked them to help her break the news to her cavoodle, Reuben, that he was no longer the first dog.
Ms Gillard said she would finish her drink before visiting Governor-General
Senior staff, including chief of communications
Ms Gillard's supporters and staff, including key union ally
As the new day broke, staff working for Ms Gillard, former treasurer
On Wednesday night in the Labor caucus room, Ms Gillard and
After the 57-45 vote had been declared, Mr Swan rose to address the assembled room. He praised Ms Gillard and announced his own resignation.
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Mr Albanese defeated
Mr Rudd addressed MPs for a second time about the scale of the challenge confronting the ALP while the second and third ballots were under way.
Mr Rudd said all ministers were welcome to remain serving in their current posts. He told his MPs: "I am not here to save the furniture, I am here to win."
One Rudd supporter in the room said the mood had been very different to the fateful morning in June 2010 when Mr Rudd had lost his job.
The MP said that whereas in 2010 "no one had had time to think about it except the plotters", this time around the battle lines had been well and truly drawn after previous leadership challenges.
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Nvidia's focus at their CES 2016 press conference last night, presented by CEO Jen-Hsun Huang, wasn't on its legendary video cards made for gamers; instead, they unveiled their new deep-learning computer, the Drive PX 2. This processor possesses the power to run an artificial intelligence framework, called the DriveNet, within self-driving cars, all part of an ecosystem called DriveWorks that Nvidia has been developing over the last few years. They unveiled their plan as a vision for what self-driving cars can and should be, and it was positively fascinating. Nvidia's goal is a driver-free car, one where the car is truly our vehicle and not a tool we have to control.
Nvidia's vision for self-driving vehicles starts with a three-point wish: safer driving, new mobility services and urban redesign. They detailed how today's artificial intelligences are better at perceiving images than humans can, and they react faster to information via their super-computing processor design for the Drive PX 2. The Drive PX 2 is the size of a lunchbox, an extreme downsize from the Google automated driving computers that take up the entire trunk. It runs on 12 CPU cores, 4 Pascal GPUs, processes at the speed of 8 teraflops and learns on the job (similar to Tesla's Model S Autopilot), uploading new situations and its solutions to the DriveWorks cloud so the rest of the network can download its knowledge, kind of like a self-driving car hivemind. To put its power in perspective, the Drive PX 2 is equivalent to 150 Macbook Pros running simultaneously.
The press conference gave us a preview of the self-driving UI with a giant version of an updated dashboard, showing a digital version of the car being driven with its perceived environment loading in around it and its speed, with another screen showing the GPS map of the car's route. They showed us how the car perceives its environment with 360-degree cameras, how it corrects GPS errors in real time and how it categorizes the objects it perceives into classes, like cars, people and other stationary objects.
The biggest announcement of the press conference was Nvidia's partnership with Volvo, which will be the first company to use the Drive PX 2 in testing and design. After the conference, Nvidia released a more detailed statement regarding their relationship with Volvo and a timeline for production. Volvo plans to release 100 Volvo XC90 SUVs, road-ready, next year as part of their Drive Me autonomous car pilot program (and let's hope they include that Netflix dashboard in their design).
In other exciting car news, Faraday Future unveiled their FFZero1 concept vehicle design last night, and while they didn't say it outright, we can only assume their future consumer designs will include some kind of automated driving software.
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A Long Week!: Queen Mary 2 (QM2) Cruise Review by sailor1962
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A Long Week!
Destination: Transatlantic
Embarkation: New York (Manhattan)
We weighed anchor in good time to beat the early closure of the port due to the impending arrival of Hurricane Sandy and set a high speed course to get as far \N as possible to avoid the worst. Although encountering a Force 11 gale and 7mt seas the ship did cope extremely well hitting 25knots and not rocking uncontrollably.
During our first full afternoon on board an extremely loud vibration noise began in the cabin preventing us resting for that evenings' Meet the Captain Formal Dinner. After much to and fro with the Pursers deck, cabin steward, deck superintendent (who said they had visited the cabin to listen when they hadn't!!) and housekeeping, a 'spare' stateroom was found as a replacement when we threatened to bring the matter up with the Captain at his More Cocktail Party. We eventually got a new room a little after midnight and had to pack, move and unpack ourselves and belongings the morning after, being offered an invite to the "more select, Senior Officers Party" later in the cruise as a compensation. Big Deal!!
My husband being a non drinker we both took advantage of the cruise long soft drinks package but were often left in limbo as busy waiters often managed to serve those buying a la carte drinks before us. After a complaint as such to the Purser we were assured that was not the case - yet that very same evening we went to a Ghost Reading by the RADA company in the Winter Garden to be left sitting 35 minutes without a drink even though our order was taken after 10 minutes. Again a complaint was made to the Purser and we got a call the following morning from the Bars Manager saying that after investigation the waiter had 'forgotten us' and apologised by way of a couple of free shorts in the bar that evening - Big Deal!!
Poor service in the restaurant was also evident with orders for 'meat well done' being overlooked and served rare with no attempt to ask, until plate clearance, if the meal was OK?
Poor service was also accompanied by a very limited choice of entrees all served with the barest minimum of vegetables and potato and a nightly selection of different mousse, cheesecake, or ice creams all of which were of similar consistency and temperature.
The ship has a spectacular Royal Court Theatre which is sadly underused as evening shows seemed timetabled to clash with dining times rather than compliment them and daytime lectures with on American politics, measuring the size of space and the history of Concorde were hardly likely to galvanise the masses!
These were supplemented by ballroom dancing, American Bridge classes (where the teacher even managed to confuse herself in the first beginners class), RADA workshops, 3 pianists (plus a celebrity pianist), a harpist, a jazz quartet and a disco band were the other 'entertainers' , leaving many guests to find a corner to themselves to read a long book or go sit in the pub (a Cunard ploy to sell more extremely expensive drinks?)
Other things such as simple computing, watercolour classes or wine tasting, (which on many cruises would be free) came at a $20 to $40 supplement.
I feel that Cunard relies on a clientele who are happy to pay inflated prices believing that they are getting a 'White Star Service' and know little difference as to what other forward thinking lines offer due to a misplaced loyalty which from some of our views Cunard does not return.
Sorry to all those die hard folk who may be clocking up their 10th, 20th, 25th - or even 50th trip on the QM2 but all in all we were rather disappointed with the Cunard brand on a ship with even greater potential than it showed on this crossing Less
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6X has sky-rocketed to the top of the charts - and to the front page of the tabloids. When you're that high up, it's a long fall down....
The voice: Kendall knows exactly what - and who - she wants...and nothing is going to stand in her way.
The boy: A/B has fallen hard for the perfect girl. Will he stay faithful to her while the band is on tour? Not if Kendall gets a say in it.
The boss: Stella is so over the band's manager, Brian...sort of. Luckily there are plenty of distractions on tour. And if one of those distractions makes Brian jealous? More fun for everyone.
The body: PR-stunt dates with boring actors; icky photo shoots; obsessed fans... Life in the spotlight is hot - and Wynn might get burned.
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Why are the chief executives being interviewed?
Bank of England interest rates are now at a forty year low, and big banks can borrow more cheaply than ever before.
However they stand accused of not passing on this boon to their credit card customers in the form of lower Annual Percentage Rates (APR).
In short the banks will be asked whether they offer their customers a fair deal.
And there is another crucial issue: The size of UK consumer debt is rising sharply, and MPs may ask whether banks are cautious enough.
Some experts worry that people are getting loans who may not be able to pay them back.
But I thought lots of credit cards had swanky special offers attached?
The credit card market is more competitive than ever.
In the mid 1990's new entrants, many from the United States, started to tempt customers with special offers and low introductory APRs.
People flocked to the new providers in their droves, although many kept their old credit cards with the big four banks.
In fact, the big four banks, thanks in part to their stranglehold on the current account market, still retain by far the biggest slice of the credit card market.
Unfortunately, as rule of thumb the big banks offer rates that are a long way from the most competitive credit cards on the market.
Is it only the big banks that are being investigated?
Not at all, in the summer the Treasury Select committee hauled the store card industry over the coals.
Leading card issuers were accused of being 'designer loan sharks' for the APR rates they charged store card customers.
Following on from the Select Committee mauling, the Office of Fair Trading launched an inquiry into the store card market.
The OFT now wants to find out whether the industry engages in "unsatisfactory practices", and whether it is competitive enough.
But isn't that all talk? Can the MPs really get things changed?
At first glance the answer is "no". They can't order firms to change their lending practices.
In truth, the real legislative work is going on behind the scenes as the government prepares an update of the 1974 Consumer Credit Act.
The Act in its present form has been roundly criticised by consumer groups as lacking teeth and being behind the times.
The government has already indicated that the update will include tough measures to clamp down on loan sharks.
The Select Committee, through its examination of the UK credit and store card markets, could have an indirect influence on the shaping of an updated Consumer Credit Act.
Is that all? What else can they do?
Well, plans for so-called "honesty" tables, aimed at making card charges more transparent, were brought forward following criticism by the Committee.
In August Apacs, a credit card industry body, told BBC News Online that it planed to introduce the tables, also known as Schumer boxes, in early 2004 - two years earlier than planned.
A Schumer Box draws together all the disclosures spread throughout the small print of a credit agreement into a box format, the idea being that such presentation makes it easy to understand and to compare different credit card products.
John McFall MP, chairman of the Treasury Select Committee, had written to leading card issuers asking them to bring forward the launch of the new format to show credit card charges.


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2009 Geneva Motor Show: Dacia Duster Concept to be Unveiled - VIDEO ENHANCED
• Dacia is breaking fresh ground and springs yet another surprise with the unveiling in Geneva of Duster, a futuristic, image-building crossover that promotes the same values for which the brand has stood from the beginning.
• Duster is Dacia's first concept car and the fruit of close collaboration between Renault Design Central Europe in Bucharest, Romania, and Renault Design Technocentre in Guyancourt, France.
• Duster's athletic stance adds an undeniable sporty feel to the brand's hallmark robustness.
• Inside, the use of colour, generous cabin space and an original modular layout ensure a particularly convivial ambience for occupants.
GENEVA - March 2, 2009: Duster – Dacia's first concept crossover – is proud to be different. Seen from the driver's side, it is visibly a sporting coupé, yet passengers entering from the other side will see it as an MPV (Multi Purpose Vehicle) with a traditionally opening front door and rear-hinged rear door which suggest plush travelling refinement.
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A CROSSOVER WITH DACIA HALLMARKSThis futuristic crossover showcases the brand's core values – namely simplicity, robustness and authenticity – in a surprising form, yet Dacia's hallmark ingenuity and generosity are immediately apparent in the way designers have approached Duster's cabin.
The concept car's two-tone chocolate and blue interior exudes a sense of well-being and conviviality. The fully glazed roof floods the cabin with light, while the enveloping forms of the staggered slim-line front seats provide first class comfort and support. The driver's seat is incorporated in a structure which extends all the way from the sill to the centre console, forming a sculptural, one-piece ensemble that echoes the exterior's sporty appeal.
The user-friendly dashboard features fluid, expressive lines while employing simple materials. The driver's side front airbag is housed in the lower part of the steeringwheel which has made it possible to position the screen centrally and free up appreciable stowage space on the dashboard. The latter's receding lines also provide record kneeroom of 280mm for the front passenger who benefits from an exceptionally comfortable seating position. The bellows-like form of the original two-tone dashboard incorporates a 20-litre glovebox, while the door inserts each include eight-litre stowage bins. Another bin has been cleverly concealed in the back of the rear right-hand seat. A simple push causes a box to slide forward from the boot which itself is in total keeping with the Dacia spirit, with the upright tailgate providing a carrying capacity of 470dm3 (VDA), a remarkable achievement for a vehicle of Duster's compact overall dimensions.
Duster is an adaptable, modular concept car. The four-seat 'daily driver' layout can be swiftly converted into a leisure configuration in a matter of seconds. The passenger seat slides underneath the driver's seat on rails concealed in the floor to leave just one front seat and consequently free up a total carrying volume of two cubic metres. Thanks to a recess in the floor and a strap located under the dashboard, this space can be used to carry a trials mountain bike.


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also, the titles are in german. some of them are funny. i like them.
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On the chance that for one reason or another Hillary Clinton decides not to run in 2016, Joe Biden wants us all to know that, after spending most of his adult life at the public trough, he is willing to sacrifice his golden years to being president. It's worth noting… CONTINUE
"Where, Oh Where, Is Barry Goldwater?"
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(de Ware Tijd) PARAMARIBO – Foreign Affairs Minister Winston Lackin confirms the European delegation in Suriname is about to leave the country.
"I regret this decision and we are doing our utmost to keep the EU here in the current form." Lackin says he was informed of the EU's new plans a year ago. These plans include working from regional offices to cut costs. "We would rather have the delegation stay," Lackin emphasizes again, "particularly because we have many plans together with the EU, namely in the agrarian sector."
The EU in Suriname contributes to the objectives of the government, namely fighting poverty, sustainable income options and equal access to services. This is done through subsidies, funds and loans, with the European Development Fund (EDF) being the main instrument of development cooperation in the African, Caribbean and Pacific (ACP) countries. In addition, Surinamese products, mainly rice and bananas, have access to the EU market. The total amount of aid provided by the EU to Suriname since independence in 1975 is estimated at 165 million Euros. The most important areas of cooperation are the transportation sector (60% of all EDF funds), micro-projects, the rice sector, the banana sector, the private sector, the environment, good governance and democracy. Suriname has utilized more than 90% of the 20 million Euros available to it from the 10th EDF (2008-2013). The EU is making over 30 billion available for the 11th EDF.


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The Consultative Council of Jewish Organizations today made public a 96-page document submitted to the United Nations Commission on Human Rights, containing a series of proposals on the structure, functions and inter-national machinery to protect human rights. The Commission began meeting at Lake Success late last week to write an International Covenant of Human Rights.
The Consultative Council, which includes the American Jewish Committee, the Anglo-Jewish Association and the Alliance Israelite Universelle, recommended that individuals or groups of individuals as well as governments be permitted to initiate action before international bodies in order to protect human rights. It proposed the establishment of a permanent central commission on human rights, in addition to permanent regional commissions composed of independent persons, not subject to instructions from their governments.
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PAUL LOYA GALLERY // WE BARBARIANS x MATT MAUST COLLABORATION LAUNCH
New York band WE BARBARIANS recently teamed up with close friend Matt Maust (Cold War Kids) on some very limited edition t-shirts and decided to launch them at the Paul Loya Gallery this past Friday night.
The launch also marked what will probably be WE BARBARIANS last live performance in Los Angeles as they have decided to pursue other interests after 7 years together as a band. Being long time friends (and fans) we feel very fortunate to have shared such a special moment with the band and wish them each the best of luck in the future.
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Edited by PromoTheRobot, 06 August 2014 - 05:48 PM.
Would you swap EJ for Fitz right now?
Posted 06 August 2014 - 05:47 PM
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Posted 06 August 2014 - 05:58 PM
If we fail...
is it EJ or Hackett?
Edited by KollegeStudnet, 06 August 2014 - 05:58 PM.
Posted 06 August 2014 - 06:02 PM
I'm starting to think this coaching staff is screwing EJ up. Trying completely reprogram his style.
A good one maybe...
If we fail...
is it EJ or Hackett?
Posted 06 August 2014 - 06:04 PM
we finished 6-10.
in 4 of those losses we scored:
28/28/34/31 points.
fitz with this d might have been enough. not to mention watkins.
With that being said though, I think the season needs to hurry up and get here. I'm a weirdo: during the offseason, I hate EJ Manuel. It's ridiculous. I'm a loser, straight up. When I was a kid, I used to scour the planet for Buffalo Bills news. i would subscribe to SHOUT! (the official news paper of the Buffalo Bills!) I used to read it cover to cover every month of the offseason, over and over again, until the new issue came in the mail. That was my only insight into the Bills. There was no "Kelly went 6 for 12 in practice today, and overthrew Reed on a deep route." I had no idea. There were interviews with the guys, about who their favorite musician was (Kenny G, for Kelly).
So now, here I am. A jaded adult with the world at my finger tips every work day, and polarizing opinion after polarizing opinion flying at me from every angle--adapted for easy to consume sound bites.
"Lebron lost 20 pounds"
"Lebron doesnt eat carbs"
"Lebron has AIDS"
That all happened before I had finished my first cup of coffee at work.
I'm a bitter, jaded sports fan, who feels the need to form dramatic opinions with no sample size to speak of, and parade that around as if the imbeciles around me (who have formed the opposite opinion) are stupid mouth breathers who were lucky enough to not fall down the stairs this morning, and somehow made it to their computers to support EJ Manuel. Idiots.
The reality of the situation though, is so much more complicated. Maybe EJ will be good, maybe he won't. He looked great in some games last year (Jets), good in others (Carolina), bad in others (Jax), and terrible in others (Pit). Just like you would expect from a rookie.
The problem is, we're a rabid fan base. We always have been, and we always will be. Our best player ever has cancer. Our second best player ever is OJ Simpson. Go ask 100 random people on the street of a city that isn't Buffalo to play a word association with OJ Simpson, and get back to me on how many say "Hall of fame RB for the Bills."
We don't just watch football, we sit in constant terror that we will lose our team. Think about that. Damn, sorry Broncos fans, tough super bowl loss. At least Denver will always have a football team though.
Even when we were good, we weren't good enough. We were always second best, always a joke. Everything about this damn organization is a joke to everyone that isn't a Bills fan.
I mean... in what other world but the world of the Buffalo Bills could the fear of relocation be realized in the human form... of a freaking 80s glam rocker??? You think cowboys fans are worried that Rod Stewart is going to move the team to Mexico City any time soon and rebrand them the Rio Grande Cowboys? We are so unique in our misery, combined with our passion.
So when you combine alllllll those factors, we just want to be able to control something. anything. We want to know right now that EJ will be the one that takes us to the super bowl, wins the super bowl, gives us that moment that we have been waiting for forever. And at the end of the day... no one knows. No one thought Russel Wilson would be that guy when he started... or Brady... or Flacco...
So, right now, in this moment, I am just optimistic for the season. But ill be calling you EJ supporters retards soon enough... likely at halftime week 1, when we're down 17-10 to the bears.
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*slow clap* Thanks
I can't believe we are sinking this low and en spending time on this topic. Fits sucked and EJ has not had enough time to prove anything yet. At least get 8 games into thus season before saying EJ needs to be be replaced with a guy nobody in the league would say is a real starter. Good God.
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Posted 06 August 2014 - 06:17 PM
Remember the good ol' days when we had a QB who could throw for 3,000 yards and 23 TDs? And many of you felt that anybody, ANYBODY would be better and couldn't wait to run that QB out of town? And I said be careful for what you wish for because a QB we draft might not be better than Fitz? So what do you say now?.
I know right, how many years before EJ approaches those "lofty" numbers? Oh yeah, with a much superior WR corps too boot! IMHO, never, I don't think EJ is going to be the answer.
Posted 06 August 2014 - 06:22 PM
Ole fitzy one of the few I'll take knee-j over at this point.
Your user names fits like a glove
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Posted 06 August 2014 - 06:44 PM
Fitzpatrick. It was just a money
saving gambit for a team that had
room under the cap.
They could have had
EJ serve as understudy and
Fitz caretaker the position for a couple
years. It would have better served
Manuel's development. And
team would have had a better
shot at the playoffs this year
than they do with EJ as starter.
Posted 06 August 2014 - 06:45 PM
Remember the good ol' days when we had a QB who could throw for 3,000 yards and 23 TDs? And many of you felt that anybody, ANYBODY would be better and couldn't wait to run that QB out of town? And I said be careful for what you wish for because a QB we draft might not be better than Fitz? So what do you say now?.
I like how you question the fans for an organizational decision. This is basically your response to being wrong about your unflappable trust in OBD.
In a better scenario than what unfolded...Manuel would have backed up/competed for the job with Fitz.
Unfortunately Buddy got duped on that phony phone call and basically let it slip that he had moved on from Fitz via his "we don't have a QB" take to the Bucs GM.
The better question is shouldn't they have just paid the MOFO for another season instead of trying to renegotiate with him and then waiving him to save some bucks......and then REALLY wasting a paycheck on the laughingstock QB of the entire league Kevin on the Kolb?
It wasn't a Fitz or EJ decision, they were drafting a QB either way.
In reality it was a Fitz or Kolb decision.
The cheaper Kolb option trumped the more expensive Fitz option. Wasn't a fans choice.
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Since you know nothing about heroin i suggest you dont reference it.
I would if I was a moron in a slump on a bad dad after I shot up heroin.
being a maroon ? well now I can speak as an expert on the subject .


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Marie's Chicken Bake Recipe
I think that chicken is a food that represents all regions of the country...a truly American dish! This is just one of the reasons I like to make it.
- 1 broiler/fryer chicken (2-1/2 to 3 pounds), cut up
- 4 tablespoons butter, melted
- 1/2 cup grated Parmesan cheese
- 1/2 cup dry bread crumbs
- 1 teaspoon paprika
- 1/2 teaspoon dried thyme
- 2 tablespoons sesame seeds
- 1. Dip chicken pieces in butter. Combine remaining ingredients; dip chicken into this crumb mixture. Place on a greased 15x10x1-in. baking pan. Drizzle any remaining butter over chicken. Bake at 375° for 45-55 minutes or until chicken is done. Yield: 4-6 servings.
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1 each: 352 calories, 23g fat (9g saturated fat), 99mg cholesterol, 342mg sodium, 8g carbohydrate (0 sugars, 0 fiber), 28g protein.
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Analysis: NBA teams face dilemma when stars want out
On call around the clock, everyone works the phones these days.
Players, agents, general managers, owners - the NBA is awash with cell signals bouncing across the globe like a wayward ball kicked out of the rack, from any number of NBA outposts across the country to across the globe.
And a good number of the sudden inquiries includes the Kings.
Peja Stojakovic has made public a trade request, becoming the third NBA All-Star performer to do so this summer. But will it be a three-for-three sweep of demand and deliver?
Already in a summer as wild and wacky as NBA front-office folks can remember, Tracy McGrady and Shaquille O'Neal in effect forced their employers to move them, with the looming threat of discord hanging in the balance.
McGrady, entering the last year before he can opt out of his contract and vowing to leave the Orlando Magic, was shipped to Houston. O'Neal, frustrated and furious in the belief Kobe Bryant appeared to be running things in Los Angeles, insisted he wouldn't report back to the Lakers and was traded to the Miami Heat in a blockbuster deal.
Now there's Peja.
"This is an enormous dilemma, when a player like Stojakovic asks for a trade," Magic vice president Pat Williams said. "What do you do? You don't want to give in to the player. You don't want your fans to have that feeling. You don't want to get involved in a bad trade.
"History shows that you sometimes get the lesser of the deal when you make a trade involving a (star) player like this. Trust me. The Kings will get phone calls. It's the business now. And championships are made in the summer now. It's what you do in the offseason that sets the tone."
For NBA executives outside Sacramento, it's smart business to make those calls to gauge interest. And for Kings executives, it is good business to listen, at least.
Every NBA team reportedly looked into the O'Neal situation because he is a unique talent. Stojakovic is a rare shooter in a league starving for field-goal accuracy, though. Kings president of basketball operations Geoff Petrie and club owners Joe and Gavin Maloof insist Stojakovic isn't going anywhere.
That hasn't slowed Stojakovic, however. Much like McGrady and O'Neal, Stojakovic has used the media to have his desires heard on a higher stage in an apparent well-orchestrated ploy.
This is how it works in today's NBA, executives say. If a player doesn't like his current situation, he goes public. He uses his agent for an even louder voice, where the agent sometimes comes across as the bad guy.
The screws are tightened to try to force an issue, such as Stojakovic's agent, David Bauman, saying Friday of the Kings, "They're going to realize Peja is dead set on this. We're putting a ton of pressure on the Kings and the Kings' owners."
Stojakovic is generally guarded in talking to members of the media he doesn't know. This situation is different. If he didn't go public last week to reporters from across the planet in Serbia and Montenegro, other NBA teams wouldn't have learned of his wishes, and the Kings wouldn't be fielding calls like the return desk at department stores after Christmas.
While in Serbia on Friday, the forward even spoke to a reporter from the Chicago Sun-Times, via a cell phone, and expressed his interest in the Bulls. And he said the right things to intrigue the franchise, sort of a verbal cover letter, "I love Chicago. The Bulls are a great organization, and I especially like the fact that Scott Skiles is the coach there. ... He is a great man and a great coach."
It works both ways. Bulls executive John Paxson played the same publicity card, expressing a mutual interest.
"Yes, I called and expressed an interest, but I haven't talked to Geoff Petrie about it," Paxson said. "So it was a one-sided phone call. Certainly, if a player of his caliber was available and he would be interested in Chicago, we'd obviously owe it to ourselves to take a hard look at it."
Petrie doesn't operate this way. He doesn't use the media to lobby for players, nor has he gone public much to maintain his stance of keeping Stojakovic.
"He's probably one of the last guys I'd want to trade," Petrie told The Bee. "It's too speculative to make a prediction about what will happen. It's one of those things where you don't know how it's going to go."
And one thing about Petrie. When deals are crafted or consummated involving the Kings, they are done behind closed doors, with players coming and going seemingly out of nowhere because there was never any speculation in the media. That includes the addition of Chris Webber in 1998, the Mike Bibby trade in 2001 and the Brad Miller acquisition last summer.
NBA executives say players who use the media to discuss trades might be helping their own cause but not that of the team they want to flee.
"Once a player goes public, it impairs the ability to get fair market value, because other general managers sense an urgency to get something done, and sometimes a fire sale develops," Portland Trail Blazers general manager John Nash said. "I think it's counter-productive to go public, but it happens all the time."
Last season, Nash's first with the Blazers, Rasheed Wallace let him know privately that he wouldn't re-sign as a free agent. He was eventually traded. Bonzi Wells publicly expressed a desire to be traded. It was mutual, and it happened.
Now it's Shareef Abdur-Rahim who wants out, with an agent in Aaron Goodwin who goes public.
"We are absolutely asking for a trade," Goodwin told the Portland Tribune. "I think they will oblige our request. If they don't, it becomes an ugly situation, because Shareef doesn't return to Portland."
Meaning a holdout? "Yes."
Goodwin also represents Gary Payton, the guard traded Friday from the Lakers to the Boston Celtics. Payton picked up his option to return, then contemplated a trade demand after O'Neal was shipped to Miami.
The Boston trade surprised Payton and angered the agent, according to Goodwin, who said Friday, "He could have been a free agent earlier this summer, but he made a commitment to the Lakers, and I feel that the Lakers should have made a commitment to him, and they didn't. That, to me, is wrong."
In Toronto, Vince Carter's agent, Mark Steinberg, told New York reporters last week that Carter wants to be traded, apparently to the Knicks, although Carter hasn't said so himself. Yet.
Still, Raptors general manager Rob Babcock told the Toronto Sun that he will not cower to any "third-party" sources.
"No one is going to force me to make a trade," said Babcock, who fields several calls per day from general managers about trade possibilities, Carter or others. "I'd be crazy (to worry about Steinberg's comments)."
Williams, an NBA executive for 36 seasons, said the stress of trying to maintain order and keep players happy can be enormous. Teams need to please fans, but the McGrady trade had to be done to avoid history repeating itself, he said.
"We were so badly burned by losing Shaq to the Lakers (via free agency in 1996), when we got nothing, and eight years later, we're still reeling," Williams said. "With McGrady, we did what we had to do."
And what do the Kings do when the NBA's second-leading scorer suddenly wants out? NBA executives said the first order is to see if things can be smoothed out, if the team wants to keep the player.
"I think what the Kings have got to do is try to resolve it," Williams said. "That would be their best situation. They've got to sit down with him and try to come to some conclusion."
And if Stojakovic doesn't budge? An even bigger dilemma. A player might be bound contractually, as Stojakovic is with the Kings for two more seasons and a third at his option. But a contract can't force a smile.
"You don't want to have a player to be unhappy and have his discontent affect the locker room or his own game," Nash said. "It's no different than working in a major company with offices all across the United States. If you want out of Houston to work in the New York office, but there's no opening, are you going to raise a ruckus or be professional? That's what teams have to worry about.
"But it's not easy to make trades. It's not like a rotisserie league."
NBA executives said it is imperative to exercise patience, logic and common sense when confronted by a star's trade request. Emotions can hurt, or even cripple a team.
Jerry Reynolds, the Kings' director of player personnel, said the team burned itself too often in years past with knee-jerk deals - before the Petrie era.
"You can't overreact, and one thing I know about Geoff, he doesn't overreact," Reynolds said. "This league has a lot of reactionary people, but he's not one of them. Geoff is like a chess master. A lot of guys in the league are playing checkers. He's playing chess."
For now, Stojakovic is an important piece to the game, a king among Kings. And he isn't the last NBA player seeking a trade, just the latest in a growing list.
"The bottom line is this," Nash said. "If a player wants flexibility to move, he shouldn't sign long-term contracts for security. He should sign one-year deals. ... It's as simple as that."
Or so it seems.