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Cabinet approves its two-year program
Minister of Information, Ali Al-Amrani told the Yemen Times that the program aims to restore political stability and security in order
provide a good climate for the peaceful and safe power transition in Yemen. It also needs to address the legal demands of the youth in Change Square.
The program proposal stressed the fact that the government will deal with the Gulf initiative, its implementation mechanism and Security Council resolution 2014 as a compulsory and necessary road map for Yemen to cross into a new phase, state-run Saba news agency reported on Monday.
It went on to say that the government will work on this through enforcing good governance and transparency on the leadership, administrative and executive apparatuses of the state's institutions.
There have been several proposals and economic plans by the cabinet during Saleh's 33-rule though all ended fruitless, but this program comes with more hope, coming from the new national unity government. This government, formed by vice president Abd Rabo Mansour Hadi, will also work to resume disrupted services, including resolving the sever power outages and the fuel shortages Yemenis have faced over the past year. It is also tasked with bringing escalating prices under control. And to have financial capacity for priority development projects
nationwide, the new government will work with donors to establish a special fund which will finance and select implementation companies.
Dr. Mohamed Jubran, a professor of economics at the University of Sana'a, said the proposed special fund, which will be financed by donors mainly from Gulf countries, the EU and the five permanent members of the Security Council, "will be successful if it is managed professionally."
Jubran suggested that this fund should work on three areas to achieve more long-term goals, such as providing small loans to the youth to start their own businesses and creating water supply systems for rural areas to reduce internal migration to Yemen's cities. "And the fund must implement the projects, not the government, to ensure professional management and prevent corruption," he added. A separate fund will also be created to provide financial support for the families of martyrs and injured protesters as well as granting them treatment abroad if needed.
To liaise with the youth, a communication committee will be set up to contact those still in squares, rejecting the Gulf deal, to explain the details of the power transition plan and discuss Yemen's future.
This will be done within open discussion during a comprehensive national dialogue to involve the youth in the political decision making, according to the program.
During the two coming years the government will also work together with the newly-established military committee to end the division at the Yemen's armed forces, according to the proposal. The committee was tasked with demilitarizing Yemen's cities within one week – a deadline that will pass on Saturday. While some roadblocks and checkpoints, as well as a number of tanks and armored cars were removed from Sana'a, most still remain and it looks unlikely that the Saturday target will be met.
Under the terms of the Gulf Cooperation Council initiative, the divided army will be reunited and run under one professional, national leadership.


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PADI Asia Pacific Girls raise $1,551 for Ocean Planet
In February I discovered 5 PADI girls were running the Sydney Sun Run. "Why not raise funds too?" I asked. So they set up an online fundraising page. And the donations started rolling in.
The Sun Run follows the coast from Dee Why to Manly where the Cole Classic Ocean Swim kicks off.
I'd always wanted to swim an ocean race so I registered for the Cole Classic. The website asked me if I'd like to fundraise. So I did. Project AWARE was already on the list of charities. Easy.
Next step, add your story to Facebook and email all your friends. Tell them why you want to protect our ocean planet and what it means to you. Make it personal and more people will connect with the cause.
Online sponsorship makes fundraising simple. It's easy to ask your friends to support your latest challenge, big or small.
Our tips: talk to your friends about what you're doing. Organise a morning tea at your workplace. Collect donations for a lucky door prize.
Congratulations and a big thank you to our super fit runners and fabulous fundraisers Karen, Lisa, Olivia, Tanya and Molly.
Together we raised $1,551. If you have a race or event coming up why not make it a fundraiser too and help protect our ocean planet.

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Dale and Jena would love to hear from you. This contact page is here for you to request information about booking an event, sharing your story; asking for prayer support; or whatever else the Lord might lead you to contact them about.
Dale and Jena are eager to hear from you and encourage you in your walk. Please be patient, as Dale and Jena seek to respond personally to each contact as their busy schedule allows. Simple fill out the form below or you can contact them by standard mail by writing to:
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Travel reviews by Mr J from Cambridgeshire
A Memorable honeymoon
On this trip, I visited South Africa & Zambia between 3-Aug-2007 and 23-Aug-2007 and I travelled with 1 other person.
Superb planning by Expert Africa, thank you so much.
Great memorable smiles on the faces of children who have nothing in this world. Shows the Brits that there are people with nothing in this world and they can still smile and not winge. Did not realise that Bic pens can be used to bargain with in the markets.
We have sent our valet at Tongabezi a Chelsea shirt with his hero printed on the back to say a further thank you and we have sent a parcel for the school in the Zambian school of Simonga, they have nothing out there. What a wonderful life experience. All Brits ought to pay a visit to Africa.
I stayed at and have reviewed:
|Overall rating
|Hog Hollow Country Lodge , South Africa
9-Aug-2007 review: I could live here - mega brill place
|Kwandwe Ecca Lodge, South Africa
12-Aug-2007 review: Can I live here as well
|Tongabezi, Zambia
18-Aug-2007 review: Mega fab place


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Wordonometry IILanguage brain teasers are those that involve the English language. You need to think about and manipulate words and letters.
You are enrolled in a "Wordonometry" class, which involves adding and subtracting parts of words, and using special functions on a word. It is the end of the first day of school, and your homework assignment will use the functions below:
+end+ se
Below are the definitions of the functions above:
ana(____) = Change the word into an anagram of its former self. Example: ana(ignore) = region
syn(____) = Change the word into a synonym of its former self. Example: syn(idiosyncratic) = strange
+end+ = Add the second word/fragment to the end of the first word/fragment. Example: rob +end+ in = robin
- = Subtract the second word/fragment from the first word/fragment. Example: those - os = the
You can use these functions in any order you need to change words into other words, but not word fragments. Can you use the above functions to change BRACE into DELETE?
AnswerBRACE - b = RACE
ana(RACE) = CARE
CARE - c = ARE
ana(ARE) = ERA
ERA + se = ERASE
syn(ERASE) = DELETE
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Remember, good security starts with you.
My personal feeling about people that allow company laptops to get stolen is that if it happens, that employee should be made personally responsible for 5x the cost of the laptop, deducted from their paycheck.
Maybe then people will decide to take some responsibility for the stuff that a company allows them to use.


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ST. PETERSBURG — Steve Nadel remembers clearly when he first thought of luring the Tampa Bay Rowdies away from George M. Steinbrenner Field in Tampa.
The director of the St. Petersburg Baseball Commission was sick in bed when the idea of enticing the struggling soccer franchise to play at Al Lang Field occurred to him, he told the St. Petersburg City Council last month.
Nadel might now regret that flash of inspiration.
Earlier this month Bill Edwards, the St. Petersburg magnate who owns the Rowdies, sued Nadel's nonprofit organization, citing poor maintenance and implying that the commission might be shortchanging the team on ticket sales.
The Rowdies' growing popularity has transformed the aging stadium into an increasingly vibrant venue since the team arrived in 2011. Ironically, that very energy has contributed to the current legal impasse.
Edwards charges that the baseball commission has done a poor job of maintaining the stadium and honoring the terms of its management contract. Others see the lawsuit as Edwards' attempt to wrest control of the stadium, an allegation that Edwards denies.
Former Mayor Bill Foster said the commission stepped up to manage Al Lang and Walter Fuller Sports Complex when few others were interested.
The city used to pay the Tampa Bay Rays $1 million a year to manage both facilities until the Rays moved spring training to Port Charlotte in 2009. The city now pays the baseball commission $200,000 a year.
"They were handed aging facilities and made the most out of it," Foster said. "The ownership of the Rowdies under my administration expressed how much they loved St. Pete, how they loved playing at Al Lang, how much they loved it being their home."
Neither Nadel nor his partner George Strus consented to interviews for this story.
However, at a recent council meeting, Nadel talked about the commission's origins and purpose.
The nonprofit commission was formed in 2010 when the group won the contract to manage the two sports facilities. According to tax filings, neither partner takes a salary from the commission.
Nadel told council members that he makes a middle-manager's salary from his for-profit business — Tampa Bay Spring Training — which brings about 40 to 50 high school baseball teams from cold-weather states to Walter Fuller and Al Lang each March. That business helps support the Baseball Commission, he said.
Nadel, who played baseball at Eckerd College in the early 1990s, told the council he "took great risk" in forming the nonprofit.
"Not glamorous, not lucrative, but doing something I love that I have a passion for," he said then.
Edwards' complaints about the commission initially surprised some city officials, who said they've generally been pleased with Nadel's performance.
"Before (Edwards) purchased them I never heard a single complaint," said council member Charlie Gerdes. "All I knew about how that was going was it was wonderful."
After Edwards produced a May 9 letter from North American Soccer League commissioner Bill Peterson finding the condition of Al Lang "lacking," the city agreed to spend $250,000 to renovate the turf.
Gerdes and other council members said they thought that would solve the problem.
It didn't.
Edwards on Friday said the commission has refused to talk with him or provide information he wants, so that's why he filed suit on July 2.
"The contract said they would turn it into a soccer field. I assumed they would. I'm a businessman. I expect people to honor their contract. But that field has just been getting worse year after year," Edwards said.
Edwards pointed to the violence and arrests at the July 6 game against Orlando City Soccer Club as a result of poor stadium management, saying the commission refused to listen to pleas for more security.
"They did that to make us look bad and make it negative about the Rowdies," Edwards said.
The team's popularity should have been a win-win for everyone, he said. The Rowdies pay the commission a $1.25 fee on each ticket sold in addition to $7,800 per game.
"It's sad," Edwards said. "There are more and more fans. They're making more and more money."
Looming over the controversy is an ongoing waterfront master planning effort expected to determine Al Lang's future.
Gerdes favors a multiuse athletic facility downtown. He said he was surprised and disappointed about the lawsuit.
"I just take this as a strategic move on Mr. Edwards' part to try to advance his interest in controlling that property," Gerdes said.
It makes sense Edwards wants to control his team's stadium, said council member Steve Kornell. That's common across professional sports.
He would support allowing Edwards to take over when the current contract ends, he said, but does sympathize with the commission.
"I hate to see the St. Pete Baseball Commission treated badly. They're the ones that brought the Rowdies here in the first place."
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Creamy Lentil "risotto" (Kichdi)
Recipe by eatrealfood
This is my version of my mom's recipe that was made for us so often while growing up. This is sort of the Indian cousin of the risotto, since the rice grains are not separate but cooked to a porridge-like consistency. It is immensely flavorful even in the simple version I have written, but you can make a heartier version by adding extra veggies to it too. My mom used to add carrots, potatoes, and peas to it sometimes. It's delicious with pickles or a simple vegetable curry, but can be eaten by itself with a dab of butter to make it even more creamy. You'll find there is nothing too distinctive about the ingredients in this recipe, but the technique of cooking is what makes this dish decidedly different from regular pilafs etc.
Top Review by Diesel01
I have made this twice now. The first time I made this, I didn't add any veggies and it was okay, but not outstanding. This time, I added carrots, potatoes, and peas (peas at the very last second) and it was wonderful. I didn't grow up eating Indian food, so I can't compare it to other dishes, but I love lentils and am always looking for new ways to prepare them.
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Ingredients Nutrition
- 236.59 ml basmati rice
- 236.59 ml assorted lentils (I use 1/3 cup each of mung, chana, masoor)
- 2.46 ml turmeric powder (check the color, add more if needed till yellow)
- 59.16-88.74 ml ghee (opt for the upper limit for a richer flavor)
- 1 cinnamon stick
- 4 bay leaves
- 4 cloves
- 6 cardamom pods
- 14.78 ml cumin seeds
- 1 onion, finely chopped
- 4 garlic cloves
- salt, to taste
- lemon juice (optional)
- cilantro, to garnish
Directions See How It's Made
- Rinse the rice and lentils in several changes of water, and let soak for 1-4 hours. Drain.
- Add enough water to cover the lentils and rice by 1 inch, and bring to a boil (try to remove any foam that may rise to the top during this process).
- Reduce heat and add turmeric and salt.
- Cover and let simmer on LOW heat until rice and lentils are tender, about 30mins.
- Keep checking to see if water needs replenishing, you don't want it to dry out. Stir often so it doesn't stick at the bottom.
- Keep adding water till rice is overcooked (grains no longer separate) and you have a thick porridge-like consistency. (You have to play it by ear and add water to thin the consistency or increase heat for a thicker mixture).
- In a small saucepan, heat ghee and then add the cinnamon stick, bay leaves, cloves, cardamom and cumin seeds.
- When they are fragrant and splutter, add the onion and garlic and cook till onion is softened.
- Pour this mixture into the lentil-rice mixture and stir to combine well.
- Just before serving serving, drizzle with lemon juice if desired.
- (Note: This dish is best served hot immediately. It will thicken a lot as it cools, so if you plan to reheat it, add more water as you reheat it, till it's a soupy consistency again).


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With Kirk Nieuwenhuis on crutches, it is worth considering who the alternatives are for the New York Mets to play center field. Roughly speaking, here's how I see the depth chart.
1. Collin Cowgill: Reasons for optimism include his 8-for-16 start in spring training, if you are into small sample size/spring stats, and an ability to field the position well. Reasons for worry are a career 75 OPS+ in 216 major league plate appearances (small sample, but significantly larger than the spring), a .514 major league OPS against righties, a .685 OPS in 2012 at Triple-A, playing for a team in the hitter-friendly Pacific Coast League that posted an .814 OPS overall in 2012.
2. Jordany Valdespin: Reasons for optimism include that home run against Jonathan Papelbon, seven hits in 18 spring at-bats, an ability to draw walks in winter league ball this past offseason for the first time, and superior athleticism. Reasons for worry are his terrifying inability to track fly balls and no real ability to hit left-handed pitching to date.
3. Matt den Dekker: Reasons for optimism include a clearly major league ready ability to field and a really strong half-season at Double-A, complete with .960 OPS. Reasons for worry are his contact rate wasn't very good even at Double-A, and his half-season at Triple-A saw his OPS dip to .629, suggesting that he isn't ready yet to hit Triple-A pitching, let alone major league pitching.
4. Marlon Byrd: Reasons for optimism include six hits in 15 spring at-bats, and that he was somewhat good in 2010. Reasons for worry are the two years since, and that he's 35.
So those are your options, Mets fans. Who's your starting center fielder?


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POINT PLEASANT BEACH, N.J. (AP) — Gov. Chris Christie enjoyed an early start to the July 4 weekend with a walk along the boardwalk at Point Pleasant Beach.
Christie spent more than an hour Thursday afternoon shaking hands, high-fiving little kids and posing for selfies at the popular Jersey Shore beach destination.
One of Christie's most defining moments stemmed from a heated boardwalk argument that turned into a YouTube sensation in 2012.
But the reception Thursday was far more positive, with many of those he met along the way urging Christie to make a run for president in 2016.
Christie began the day at a ceremonial reopening of the Ocean Grove boardwalk, which was badly damaged by Superstorm Sandy.
He said the reconstruction of the walkway represents another stage of the state's recovery from the storm.


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10-Day Forecast
Published: Thursday, October 3, 2013 at 6:01 a.m.
Last Modified: Wednesday, October 2, 2013 at 10:03 a.m.
TUBULAR TOUR STOP: The Florida Museum of Natural History hosts two new exhibits at the museum: "Surf Science — Waves and Wildlife," which examines ecosystems on beaches and in the surf, and "Surfing Florida — A Photographic History," which celebrates the history of surfing in Florida and around the world with interactive exhibits. Admission to both exhibits is $4 for adults, $3.50 for Florida residents and college students, $3 for children and free for UF students and museum members. Museum hours are 10 a.m.-5 p.m. Mondays-Saturdays and 1-5 p.m. Sundays. The exhibits continue through Jan. 20, 2014.
FRIDAY-NIGHT FLASHBACK: The "Free Fridays" Concert Series presents The Relics, a local band performing music of the Woodstock era, at the Bo Diddley Community Plaza on Friday. The nine-piece group has performed the last four years as part of the series and features members who themselves attended the storied New York festival. This year, the group also will perform a musical tribute to Charlie Scales as well as songs by The Erasables, a local group sharing members with The Relics. Admission is free. The concert runs from 8 to 10 p.m. Friday.
READING THE CLUES: A mystery comedy with clever dialogue and fast-paced twists comes to the High Springs Community Theater on Friday in the form of "Murder by the Book," about an author and critic who refuses to divorce his volatile wife. Performances begin at 8 p.m. Fridays and Saturdays, 2 p.m. Sundays at the theater, 130 NE First Ave. Tickets are $11, $9 for seniors on Sundays only, $8 for ages 12 and younger.
POWERFUL IMPROV: Jazz pianist Billy Childs and his Jazz-Chamber Ensemble will be joined by vocalist Dianne Reeves and the Ying Quartet for a combined ensemble that boasts eight Grammys between them. The gorup will perform a fusion of jazz and other genres at Phillips Center at 7:30 p.m. Sunday. Tickets, which are $25-$50, $10 for UF students, are available by calling 392-2787 or througth Ticketmaster.
BIG BAND BLOWOUT: The Santa Fe College Fine Arts Department presents its fall theatrical production, the musical revue "The All Night Strut!" Featuring the department's scholarship students, the big band-era show touches on the topics of race, relationships and the power of music. Performances begin at 7:30 p.m. in the Santa Fe Fine Arts Hall. Tickets are $12-$15, $9 for seniors and children 12 and younger, and free for Santa Fe students and staff.
BONNIE BALLET: The Scottish Ballet performs an interpretation of Tennessee Williams' Pullitzer-winning play "A Streetcar Named Desire" on Oct. 10 at the Phillips Center. Using only dance, the award-winning company tells the story of Blanche DuBois' attempts to escape her past. Tickets are $25-$50, $10 for UF students.
PICKIN' AND GRINNIN' IN PALATKA: Palatka's Rodeheaver Boys' Ranch plays host to three days of world -class bluegrass at the town's sixth annual Fall Bluegrass Festival. Performers will include Rhonda Vincent & The Rage and past International Bluegrass Music Award winners Russell Moore and The Grascals along with other performers from as far afield as Nova Scotia. Performances runs from noon to 10 p.m. on Oct. 10 and from 11 a.m. to 10 p.m. Oct. 11-12. Daily admission runs from $15 to $35, while three-day tickets are $30 to $85.
SURPRISING SONG: Singer/songwriter Nellie McKay and Grammy-winning Turtle Island Quartet will perform their take on an eclectic collection of historic jazz and cabaret songs from the Weimar-era through the 1950s. Combining complex rhythmic techniques and innovative use of mallets, piano, strings and ukulele, the ensemble breath new life into classics. The performance is set for UF's University Auditorium at 7:30 p.m. Tickets are $20-$30 or $10 for UF students.
TURN, TURN, TURN UP AT THE PLAZA: A sampling of Gainesville area musicians performs a tribute to the music of The Byrds, the top-selling folk and country-influenced rock band of the '60s and '70s. The event, called "In Flyte, A Tribute to the Music of The Byrds," is part of the city of Gainesville's "Free Fridays" Concert Series and will take place at the Bo Diddley Community Plaza downtown. The band Farther Along, put together for this show, features Mark Miale, Tony McMahon, Ron Thomas and Rob Rothschild and will perform alongside Monica Leadon Cooper & Friends and Jana Horton and Another Fine Mess. Admission is free. The performance runs from 8 to 10 p.m.
ART FEST AT THORNEBROOK: The Gainesville Fine Arts Association presents the annual Thornebrook Art Festival. The event will feature two days of artists and vendors at the Thornebrook Shopping Center from 10 a.m. to 5 p.m. on Oct. 12-13. Admission is free.
EBONY, IVORY AND ORION WEISS: Celebrated concert pianist Orion Weiss performs a selection of works by Enrique Granados, a Spanish composer and famed pianist active in the 19th and early 20th centuries, next Sunday. Admission is $20-$30 and $10 for UF students. Concert will begin at 2 p.m.
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Vanderbilt couple says nonprofit's clients make effort worthwhile
Bobbi and John Robinson have come a long way since providing a terminally ill patient with crab cakes and a beer six years ago.
The Vanderbilt couple started a wish-fulfilment organization, Unity, a Journey of Hope, in 2007, offering services to John's patients. John Robinson, 52, is a hospice nurse for ViaQuest Hospice in Monongahela.
Their first "unofficial" wish was for a patient who just wanted a special meal before he died. Fast forward to their most recent wish — providing a 24-year-old testicular cancer survivor with a trip to a concert to meet Michael Buble.
"We wanted to do something for the patients I had," John Robinson said of the origin of the Fayette County nonprofit.
Bobbi Robinson, 56, came along for the ride and now handles many of the 40 to 80 hours of work each week to make each wish come true.
"Well, sometimes you just don't have a choice; it just happened, and it became a passion," she said. "We make it happen. I think we do a lot of the impossible."
No wish is too large for the group to grant, John Robinson said. From meeting Buble to Bret Michaels and Bruce Springsteen, the couple and their core group of eight to 10 volunteers plugs away until the wishes are granted.
The group takes wishes from anyone within 100 miles of their Vanderbilt base. They check with a physician regarding the patient's life-limiting illness and to make sure the wish is safe to be carried out.
"We don't pick them; they pick us," John Robinson said.
Not every wish is meeting a famous celebrity. They also have fielded requests for Christmas carolers to show up at a front door and to take a patient roller skating before cancer advances too far.
The volunteers often turn to the community for fundraising and donations to help grant requests, such as asking for rented tuxes and flowers for a last-minute wedding.
"We don't have the luxury of waiting a year or two to plan," John Robinson said. "When we get our wishes, it needs to be expedited."
So far, the group has granted 160 wishes.
But they still need more help from the public, John Robinson said, including a working board and a corporate sponsor to help move wishes forward. He would like to raise awareness of the group, which he says many local people don't know about.
"There have been many times I've said, 'Why am I doing this, beating my head against the wall, trying to make these things happen?' " Bobbi Robinson said. "Every time I say I'm done, all I have to do is look at those people's faces."
John Robinson said each recipient has taught him something.
"Family is the most important thing," he said. Many terminally ill patients ask simply for a trip with their families or a last Christmas, he said.
The work has been a lifelong goal for John, who always dreamed of being able to walk into a store and purchase Christmas for an entire family.
"The most important thing we do ... is give hope when hope has been taken away by illness," he said.
Kate Wilcox is a staff writer for Trib Total Media. She can be reached at 724-836-6155 or firstname.lastname@example.com.


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15 days of a Circus: Carnival Spirit Cruise Review by roseandjohn
Overall Member Rating
15 days of a Circus
Destination: Hawaii
Embarkation: San Diego
Let me begin: Departure what a joke! 4-5 hrs to get on the boat while we watched the Holland America passengers walk right on to their ship. We had no explanation just it will be just a little bit longer and when we did get on board, we watched from our balcony them loading luggage and provisions that sat on the dock all day on to the ship until 11pm. The 1st time cruisers lost the excitement and fun of leaving the harbor because it was so late, they will never get this back, thank you Carnival! Like I said no info why we were departing so late other than the ship was previously at dry dock. Next, the water slide. What a joke! I hope you know how many children and families you More disappointed. Stu the cruise director telling us everyday, maybe tomorrow and then we had to watch them film promotion for the slide, the only mock that it worked for the Australian's. Stu even told us they had to cover all the construction stuff, paint and bare steel laying around the deck for the filming advertisement. We weren't even aloud to get up on that area of the ship due to all the stuff unfinished. Then there was getting on and off the ship at each Port, again what a joke have you never done this before? 2 hours to get back on at Hilo and we weren't waiting till the last minute. Tender day was even worse, we spent 2 hours waiting in the sun for the last departure at 4:15pm and we were the last boat and it was 6pm. Then there was the shore excursions. The cruise line recommends you go through them to guarantee getting back on the ship but they were not what we expected. Volcano park, we only got 1/2 hour view time and had to miss the second stop due to construction. So we rode 1 1/2 hour each way for 30 minutes of viewing, thank god our buss driver was very informative of the area. North shore and Pearl harbor, another joke. Excursion didn't mention North shore was a drive by, thank god we stopped at Dole Factory to go shopping. Maui, it was whale watching time but no excursions through the ship were offered. We elected to go on our own and was the best trip of all. We had to hurry back of course so we could do the Luau but the ship should offer that type of tour since it is the same area that we had to go back to the ship, get on the bus for the Luau and go back to were we just came from. The food was fine but disappointed shrimp cocktail and escargot is only offered on the nights they were listed and you couldn't get them on other nights. They are available nightly in the Steak House. Steak House is Superb for an additional $30.00 per person.Overall food was ok to good but not much of a selection. Then their was the washer/dryers that didn't work. We went to guest services and they told me to try deck 1 & 4 but we waited over 2 hours. When we went back, guest services said they were not accepting anymore complaints on the matter. Not able to wait I was forced to used the laundry available for $15.00 per small bag through the Cruise. Shows overall most were good, hey something was right. 2 entertainers made our experience, Guy and Doug. Drink prices are out of control, $7.06 for a beer, price gauging, I think!
The balcony is our favorite on a Cruise and Carnival decides to pressure was on our way back so we cant even have access to it from 9am - 1pm but everything was soaked up to 3pm. This should of been done at a port of call when everyone is off the ship.Disembarking was a joke. We had our luggage taken to a bus but we were in line as directed by Carnival personnel. My sister in law went to check where the porter put it and it was being placed on a bus and none of us were with it. Thank god we were able to pull off before that would of been unclaimed. Thank god we are off, this was the first time I wanted to go back to work.
Now the good things:
Room Stuart top of the line. Wait staff table 274 excellent. Bartenders knew you day 2 and also the Casino dealers.
The 2 entertainers I mentioned earlier, Doug in the Casino and Guy in the Atrium, Carnival owes them big time. They calmed down a lot of very "PO" cruisers. These gentlemen were the best that we ever experienced even from the other ships. They made us forget about all the down falls. We also met some good people which I think we will have friendships a long time coming. Now that we are home, I see the Internet had others with pretty much the same experience so you know this wasn't made up, it is true and when I called Carnival they said there was nothing they would do. When I read some reviews off the Internet, people claim they received perks and ship credits for their problems. I was told at guest services they were not accepting anymore complaints and that a questionnaire would be mailed out. Well that's a bit late now! We are currently booking our 2nd Alaskan trip Sept 1st and since Carnival will not talk to us at all, this trip will be with Princess.
Carnival has successfully scared us away. Since we are multi trip guests, you are the ones who lost. Less
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American Home Landscapes: A Talk by Denise Adams
The Toby
Based on Denise Adams' new book by the same name (written with Laura Burchfield and released in May 2013) this lecture provides a historical perspective of the evolution of America's residential landscapes. From Colonial subsistence gardens to Victorian gardens of excess to 1980s backyard barbecues, this lecture provides something for everyone. Learn about the major landscape design trends and most popular plants since our country's establishment to the present.
Denise Wiles Adams is an ornamental-plant and garden historian. She received her Ph.D. in horticulture from The Ohio State University and for a decade owned an heirloom-flower and herb nursery. She is a prolific writer and lecturer on topics related to the history of American ornamental gardens and is the author of Restoring American Gardens: An Encyclopedia of Heirloom Ornamental Plants, 1640-1940, and American Home Landscapes. Denise currently resides in Stony Point, New York, where she enjoys researching and making period-appropriate gardens for her 1914 Arts & Crafts-style home.
Supported by the IMA Horticultural Society
Tea at the Garden Terrace
3 pm Tea and Cookies served at Garden Terrace
Free for IMA and Horticultural Society members / $5 at the door for non-members
No RSVP required.


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London, I find not. His wid. m. Hon. Jonathan Tyng. HUMPHREY, Hartford, s.
of the preced. d. 1718. Hinman, 128, confus. f. and s. but on p. 206 correct.
hims. in part; yet in the Richards connex. 228, again mistakes both f. and s.
as well as mo. and d. JOHN, Boston, freem. 25 May 1636, a supporter of
Wheelwright and Mrs. Hutchinson, punish. therefor. Winth I. 248. I presume he
is the man adm. of the ch. in Jan. bef. but the Elder wrote the name Davisse,
and call. him joiner. Most of the names Davie or Davy, Davies, or Davis are
convertible. He may have gone to Duxbury where one of this name sold est.
1650. JOHN, Boston, eldest s. of Humphrey, m. Elizabeth d. of James Richards of
Hartford, rem. to New London, where Rev. Gurdon Saltonstall, wh. m. her sis.
Jerusha, bapt. his ch. Mary, 4 Feb. 1694; Sarah, 30 Nov. 1695; John, 8 Sept.
1700; and Humphrey, 31 May 1702. Beside these he had one s. and one d. but
whether earlier, later, or one were intermediate was not kn. to me by most
careful scrutiny of rec. at New London perform. by Miss Caulkins; yet happily
Davie bec. town clk. of Groton, when it was incorp. 1704, and in his own
writing is this list of his ch.; Mary, b. 30 June 1693; Sarah, 21 Oct. 1695;
Elizabeth 17 Mar. 1698; John, 27 July 1700; Humphrey, 12 Apr. 1702; and William,
22 Mar. 1706. His resid. had been in that part of New London, for he says,"all
b. in the town now call. Groton." He own. ho. with 2 and 1/2 acres on
Beacon hill in Boston, and part of a powder-mill at Dorchester. He was
collector of taxes 1694, selectman 1696, was styled yeoman 1699. In 1704 he
was active in promot. incorp. of E. part of New London, as Groton. He liv.
there. When he bec. heir to the est. and succeed. to the title of his gr.f.
Sir John, he left his concerns to the managem. of his br.-in-law, then bec.
Gov. of Conn. wh. describes hims. "Attorney to Sir John Davie of Creedy, Co.
Devon, within the kingd. of Eng. Baronet." Hinman, 228, says his w. Elizabeth was
in 1709, w. of Jonathan Taylor; but some doubt is felt about this. SAMUEL,
Boston 1668. A wid. Mary of Charlestown had there bapt. William, aged 13, on
11 Aug. 1689.
DAVIS, or DAVIES, ANDREW, New London, perhaps s. of John of
that town, m. bef. 1684, Mary, d. of Thomas Bayley, left descend. ANTHONY,
Boston, d. June 1674, leav. w. Elizabeth BARNABY, Charlestown 1636, or after, came
in the Blessing, 1635, aged 36, d. 27 Nov. 1685, aged a 86. Frothingham, 152,
has his name 1668 at div. of wood and commons on Mistick side; and p. 183, has
Barnaby jr. prob. his s. b. a. 1638, in the list of householders 1678. Other ch. were
Nathaniel, Hopewell, James, Samuel, and Patience, wh. m. William Ridland.
* BENJAMIN, Boston 1670, s. of William, merch. a major, ar. co. 1673, m. Sarah, d. of
James Richards of Hartford, freem. 1690, was one of the founders of Brattle st. ch.;
d. 26 Nov. 1704. CORNELIUS, Newbury, s. of John of N. by w. Sarah had Samuel,
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New Pittsburgh City Council president hasn't won favor of all
When Brian Oswald wanted to stop the city from removing staircases on Monastery Street in the South Side Slopes last fall, he called Councilman Bruce Kraus.
They scheduled meetings. They talked to public works officials. The steps got torn down anyway, but Oswald remains thankful for the help Kraus provided.
"He was crucial in getting at least our voice heard and feeling like we may be able to find a resolution," said Oswald, president of the South Side Slopes Neighborhood Association.
Kraus, 59, of the South Side was elected president of Pittsburgh City Council on Monday in a 7-2 vote. Touting the day as a new chapter in Pittsburgh history, Kraus said he looked forward to a cooperative relationship with former council colleague Mayor Bill Peduto and other council members.
"My first order of business would be to open lines of communication with every member, around any and every issue they might have," he said. In his first day, he said he touched base with at least three council members, and Peduto.
He enters the job lacking unanimous support. Councilwoman Darlene Harris, of Spring Hill, who was president for the past two terms, and Councilman Ricky Burgess of Homewood voted against Kraus on Monday.
Though Harris said she is open to working with Kraus, she is concerned that he has participated in council meetings by phone or arrived late. She said she would arrive an hour before meetings.
"When I see those things happening, then I'll feel different," she said. "But it's a big responsibility."
Kraus said he uses technology to stay in touch, as opposed to fixed hours. His voicemail tells callers to text him instead of leaving a message. He typically keeps a laptop or tablet nearby.
"I don't think one can be the hands-on, people person that I am, solely confined within the four walls of an office," he said.
Kraus joined council in 2008, and was re-elected in 2011. Born and raised in the South Side, Kraus was an interior design consultant before making a foray into community activism, becoming president of the South Side Chamber of Commerce and receiving an appointment to the Clean Pittsburgh Commission.
Council District 3 covers the South Side and parts of Oakland, where Kraus opened a district satellite office in late 2013. The district includes Allentown, Arlington, Arlington Heights, Beltzhoover, Carrick, Knoxville and Mt. Oliver.
District Justice Gene Riccardi, who represented the district for 16 years and served as council president, said it has diverse needs. While the South Side gets plenty of attention because of its restaurants and bars, Riccardi said Kraus hasn't favored one neighborhood over the other, and he often sees him at community meetings.
"The gentleman is just driven to public service," he said. "It's not just his passion, it's his life."
Riccardi said being president requires leadership while respecting district autonomy. He used to hold weekly lunch meetings with individual council members and Mayor Tom Murphy.
Kraus is Pittsburgh's first openly gay council member and president. Early in his tenure, he spearheaded efforts to establish the Domestic Partner Registry to allow unmarried couples to register as partners. In July, he sponsored legislation to require companies with city contracts to offer benefits to their employees' domestic partners regardless of their gender.
Gary Van Horn Jr., president of the Delta Foundation, said Kraus excelled at building coalitions in City Council to support those measures, the latter of which passed unanimously.
"I think he's been an advocate of not only our community, but for Pittsburgh as a whole," Van Horn said.
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Center City District CEO: Philly's tax policy must change
For every 100 residents, Philadelphia offers only 42 jobs.
Center City District CEO Paul Levy said he knows how to change that. He laid out his ambitious plan at a tax-themed panel discussion co-hosted by the Pew Charitable Trusts and Temple University.
Levy wants to gradually raise taxes on land, since it can't pick up and move like a company. At the same time, he said, decrease taxes on wages and businesses.
"New York has experienced dynamic job growth. Boston has experienced dynamic job growth," Levy said. "We tax what moves, and it moves. Other cities tax what's fixed: land and improvements. They have much more dynamic job growth."
Philadelphia Councilman David Oh suggested Levy's plan would not work.
"It has to be more finely tuned," he said. "You can't simply create a tax structure that moves people out of the homes that they live in."
State Rep. John Taylor, R-Philadelphia, said he agrees with Levy's idea of slowly changing the city's tax burden. But he argued that a bigger tax overhaul must wait until the city gets used to its brand-new property tax assessments.
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There's a new tab up there. Do you see it? It's called "In Oregon". It calls for cake. What Have We Done, Cake.
Or, alternatively: We Got A Condo, Cake. (!!!)
A condo! An impossibly cute one, with six not-square rooms to squeal over and plenty of places to tuck little trinkets away. We're going to make it feel like home, and I just can't wait. There's so much to look forward to — beginning with the within-walking-distance baguettes.
Not three days ago, I spent half the morning sitting in that bakery, smelling all the smells and feeling all sorts of sad. I watched a boy with nice hands roll sticky hunks of dough into smooth shape, and I thought: homeless, unemployed, and single. For all of my days. (You know I'm working on a book — now you know the major themes.)
I picked at my mini pain au raisin, and wondered about what to tell you.
I wish I could tell you that I was about to do something really brave, the way I did last year, when I moved to NYC. (To chase a crazy dream, and downsize times a hundred.) When I embraced day after day of eggs, and all those hours and hours of time alone. All alone. I struggled then: financially, emotionally, physically.
I wish I could tell you that the "we" in we're moving across the country! belonged to my boyfriend. Or my best friend. I feel like you'd approve, then. But it doesn't. In truth, "we" means my mom and I. We're going to live together for a year, even though it's unconventional and ill-advised.
Help me not get defensive. Help me explain. It makes sense, for us. It makes sense for the time being — it makes sense for the next 12 months. Individually, it wouldn't be smart for either of us to try living where we're now going to live. My mom is committed to 7 months of snowbirding in Scottsdale, and would ordinarily not be gung-ho about carrying two [expensive and overlapping] leases. But with my help, she can try out both the Southwest and the Northwest, while she figures out where she'd like to land for the majority of the year. And with her help, I can swing a start in Portland, where I think I'm ultimately going to want to be.
We'll be able to lean on each other while we settle into our darling new digs, and then we'll get a chance to spend several months apart. And then we'll be able to enjoy a little bit of time together again, before each taking our next steps. At this time next year, she'll choose her home base, and I'll choose mine. Roots and wings.
By then, I hope to have made a few friends I could see splitting rent with, and I hope to have done whatever needs to be done in order to land a You Can Finally Be Independent job. Despite my best efforts, I couldn't get one of those, in NYC. In NYC, I could get the cheapest appetizer on the menu, once every other month.
I hope to write, too. That's the other nice thing about this arrangement. It won't be the end of the world if I can't get a "career" job right away. If it turns out I'm only immediately cut out to be a book-proposal-writing cashier. The pressure is off, for a little while. And honestly? It feels like the pressure might not ever be on, out here. At least, not the way I've known it.
I like it out here. I like the unhurried speech and the huge sky. I like the clouds — the way they seem to be the only thing moving at any kind of speed. I like the rain — the way it starts and stops. The way it smudges and softens and sings. And I love the open spaces — the farms and the fields, the meadows and the mountains. I can breathe, out here. I can think.
I love writing from here. Where it feels like the day can wait. Where it's green for as far as I can see. Where it's teeming with life, wherever and whenever I listen close.
My mom told me to think of myself as an honored guest who will contribute as often and as much as she possibly can. I told her to think of herself as Mom of the Year, every year. And then we both reminded each other how lucky we are, really — and how we're going to have to keep remembering, when the search feels sad and the shadows seem long.


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London: England captain Nasser Hussain has been hit with a stomach bug but the signs are he should be fit for the third and final Test match against India which starts on Wednesday, the Press Association reported.[an error occurred while processing this directive]The England captain contracted the virus which also affected Mark Butcher and Michael Vaughan in Ahemdabad - both batted in that Test, however - as the party set off for Bangalore. Given that Butcher and Vaughan recovered within 48 hours or so, it should not rule the 33-year-old out of the final Test.A plus for England has been the way left-arm spinner Ashley Giles came through 75 overs bowling at Motera.Giles recorded Test-best figures of five for 67 in the first innings and his troublesome Achilles which blighted most of his 2001 stood up to the test."It's one hell of an achievement. It proved that Ashley has worked really hard at his fitness," coach Duncan Fletcher said."That is the most pleasing part as other cricketers previously would have come here unfit."I can't believe how many overs he got through in the first innings and how well he bowled - from our point of view it justifies the decision to bring him out here."
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Kamik Outdoor is a Canadian-based footwear company committed to keeping you comfortable, safe, dry, and warm all year round. They focus on sustainability and high quality to bring you footwear that is durable, affordable, and easy on the environment. The Heidi is no exception. Available in 7 colors (red, yellow, purple, black, blue, khaki and pink), these rain boots allow you to express your individuality—and with a sleek silhouette and solid color, they don't attract the wrong kind of attention. Best of all, they Heidi boot comes with removable Kamik Comfort Insoles to keep you on your feet and on the go all day long.
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Date: Wed Mar 4 14:33:44 EST 2009
At Wed, 4 Mar 2009 14:27:32 -0500, Jarrett Lee wrote: > On Mar 4, 2009, at 14:10, Matthew Flatt wrote: > > That looks like the right place. But I forgot to suggest removing > > "~/.plt-scheme/plt-prefs.ss", since the "defaults" directory is used > > only when the user does not already have a preferences file. > > > > Matthew > > > > I ended up having to put the file in the user's home directory. For > some reason it creates ~/.plt-scheme/plt-prefs.ss even if the .plt- > scheme directory does not exist and the file in the defaults directory > does. DrScheme will create that directory and file, but it should start as a copy of the file in "defaults". But now it occurs to me that there are two layers, and the lower layer looks for "~/.plt-scheme/plt-prefs.ss" before the higher layer copies out of "defaults". So, that's not a good solution after all. Another possibility is to adjust the defaults that are built into the executable. You could do that by modifying the source file "plt/src/wxcommon/FontDirectory.cxx" before building.
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Skipping is a good all-round exercise for keeping fit.
It works most of the muscles in the body, improves your balance and co-ordination - and certainly improves your fitness.
All you need to do is pick up the rope and put one handle in each hand.
Starting with the rope behind you, swing it over your head - using your wrists - and jump over it with your feet.
Try skipping for five minutes if you can, incorporating a different drill each minute. This will help improve your endurance and stamina.
You can skip quickly, without taking a step between each skip.
You can hop on one foot, skip backwards (the rope goes the other way), high knees and even skip on the move.


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Excluding category from archive month list (getarchives_join filter)
I need to exclude a category (ID 36) from the archives, so that months do not show in the wp_get_archives list if they only contain posts from that category. It looks like I need to use the getarchives_join filter, but my SQL is a bit ropey and I've got stuck.
I've got this in my functions.php:
add_filter( 'getarchives_join', 'no_cat36_in_archives' );
function no_cat36_in_archives( $join ) {
global $wpdb;
$join = "INNER JOIN {$wpdb->prefix}term_relationships ON ({$wpdb->prefix}posts.ID = {$wpdb->prefix}term_relationships.object_id)
INNER JOIN {$wpdb->prefix}term_taxonomy
ON ({$wpdb->prefix}term_relationships.term_taxonomy_id = {$wpdb->prefix}term_taxonomy.term_taxonomy_id)
AND {$wpdb->prefix}term_taxonomy.taxonomy = 'category'
AND {$wpdb->prefix}term_taxonomy.term_id <> 36";
return $join;
but now no archive months are showing at all. Can anyone help me out with the SQL I need to exclude category 36 from the archives?
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Steve Aoki, Tiësto, Hardwell & More Set for WET REPUBLIC At MGM Grand in August
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Continuing the summertime excitement, the leading daylife haven will host an unbeatable Labor Day Weekend bash featuring four days of non-stop entertainment beginning Friday, Aug. 29 through Monday, Sept. 1. With artists including (in alphabetical order) Steve Aoki, Martin Garrix, Calvin Harris, Tiësto and more, the ultra pool will be the place to see and be seen Labor Day Weekend.
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I'm not really into football, although the hubby, his brother and my sister-in-law are football mad so I know that they were all really pleased that Boy has begun to develop an interest in football. Especially after making me dress him in a little romper suit from the hubby's football team when he was first born!
It's not quite like the young David Beckham household where his dad kicked the ball about with him at every spare moment, but certainly in the summer an awful lot of footballs are sacrificed over the fence in the name of sport. One thing I would say is really think about the size of a goal if you are going to buy one, ours is far to big for the space and frankly the ball still sails over the top on a regular basis.
Anyway, now the boy is at school he has been able to put all that home football training into practice. His school bring in an outside specialist football coach to teach them from a company called Footballs Future. The coach has proved a real inspiration for our boy and I am very grateful to him for purely being another male role model who the boy seems to respect. As a boy surrounded by women to influence and nurture him it makes a real difference to find a man!
In order to kit all the kids out with clothing appropriate for football play at home and at the after school club I've had to hunt around quite a bit. It's actually quite hard to find nice clothes which aren't covered in loads of logos and finding reasonably priced trainers and football boots is really difficult. One of my first ports of call now is JD Sports because they have such a wide range of stuff it's quite easy to get the bulk of it there.
I've also managed to pare down the amount of kit that I have bought. Essentials in my opinion, for a child who is keen to play both for a club and after/ before school in the garden are: 1 pair of shorts, 2 x football t-shirts (we have England shirts because I refuse to allow him to wear a club top yet!), 1 x zip up sweatshirt, 2 x pairs of jogging bottoms, 2 x pairs of football socks, a pair of football boots (with plenty of spare studs and preferably velcro rather than laces), a pair of good quality trainers rather than pumps, 1 x pair of shin pads. You'll also find it worthwhile to invest in a good brush for cleaning muddy football boots and trainers a task which has become my nemesis!


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EXCLUSIVE: Oscar winner Martin Landau and Oscar-nominated Virginia Madsen are set to co-star opposite Agnes Bruckner in Lifetime's original movie The Anna Nicole Story. American Psycho helmer Mary Harron has come on board to direct the film, executive produced by Craig Zadan, Neil Meron and Judith Verno. Written by John Rice and Joe Batteer, the biopic is based on the true life story of Vickie Lynn Hogan, a pretty but plain girl growing up in a small Texas town who transforms herself into Anna Nicole Smith – a voluptuous, Marilyn Monroe-esque Playboy pin-up and model. Determined to be noticed, for good or ill, Vickie gets her wish, but it comes at a steep price, both for her and her beloved son, Danny. Madsen will play Vickie's mom Virgie who raised her. Landau will play oil tycoon J. Howard Marshall who married then-stripper Smith when he was 89 and she was 26. He died a year later, and Smith spent the following decade in a legal battle with Marshall's sons over his estate. The Anna Nicole Story is produced by Sony Pictures TV and Zadan and Meron's Storyline Entertainment. Landau, repped by TalentWorks, voices a character in the upcoming animated feature Frankenweenie. Harron is with WME.
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With these two in it, it may be worth watching. I'm not a big fan of "Lifetime" flicks…..because I have a penis.
I like that Lifetime is becoming a network for talented actors. First Ormond, now Landau and Madsen. In couple of years it won't be a joke network but a respected one. Mark my words.
Mary Harron is a good choice to helm the bio but Anne Nicole Smith and Lifetime are like liberal left and conservative right. It ain't going to work! If Lifetime glossed over ANS long stint as a stripper and finding fame as Playboy pin-up because nudity is a big no-no, it becomes pointless and undermines ANS life. Her successful career as Playboy star and softcore actress – lurid as it was – played a huge part in shaping her eventual tragic end. I don't see how Lifetime going to bypass all that and still retain any credibility.
How do you know that they are going to gloss over that aspect of her life? I don't know anything about the woman, nor do I care, but you seem to be arguing a position that you can't be sure is accurate (despite how Lifetime may or may not depict her rise and eventual fall).
Lifetime is all vanilla hiding behind the typical humanizing the character cliched approach. There are three aspects to ANS life : her career, the marriage & subsequent notoriety and of course her gradual dependency issues that slowly takes over her life. If you watched any of Lifetime movies you'll know they tend to shy away anything potentially construed as "exploitation" and "female objectification". But in case of ANS she used the latter as a tool to market herself yet staying just on the borderline of the former.
By the way I was privileged enough to watch ANS (before boobs enhancement) during her stripping days back in Texas (not at GiGi but a different club) and I can tell you she belonged on that stage. Her moves perfectly matched the music and every eyes on was on her. She was a star. Somehow I don't think Lifetime will be too keen to show that or even her famed Playboy shots.
zack her softcore acting didnt play a role in her death in the end. drug addiction did.


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Plain Packs At Last!
Media Release
Tuesday 26 February, 2012
Plain Packs At Last!
The Cancer Society is over the moon with the government's announcement today to introduce plain packaging for tobacco products. "The announcement is long-awaited by all tobacco control groups and something the Cancer Society has been campaigning for, for a long time," said Skye Kimura, Tobacco Control Advisor for the Society.
"This is a major step. No longer will tobacco products be decorated with desirable colours and prominent branding – future plain packaging, with large graphic warnings, will depict the reality instead."
"Our major aim in tobacco control is to protect our children. Tobacco companies will no longer be able to advertise on their products and build brand loyalty in future generations."
New Zealand is set to become the second country to introduce plain packaging for tobacco after Australia introduced the measure late last year.
"This is another milestone in the journey to New Zealand being smoke-free by 2025. It shows the government's commitment."


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Photo retrospective of the 2007-2008 Indiana Ice USHL hockey team home games.
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Red Snapper with Asparagus and Chorizo
Serving Size: 4
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Tim Byres has a secret ingredient for seasoning fish: thin slices of dried chorizo. "Think of them like pepperoni slices," he says. "The chorizo will crisp up and curl, releasing fragrant paprika oil that flavors the fish."
- Season the fish with salt and rub with 1 tablespoon of olive oil. In a large skillet, heat the remaining 3 tablespoons of olive oil over moderately high heat. Add the fish skin side down and cook for 4 minutes, until golden brown. Turn and cook until the fish is almost white throughout. Transfer to a large plate; keep warm.
- Pour off the excess fat from the skillet. Add the chorizo and cook over moderate heat, stirring, until the the slices curl. Add the shallots, asparagus and a pinch of salt and cook, stirring, until the shallots are translucent, about 2 minutes. Add 1/4 cup of water and cook until the water has evaporated, 2 minutes. Add the garlic and cook, stirring, until golden brown. Add the lemon juice and cook, stirring, until evaporated. Stir in the anchovies, lemon zest, parsley and butter. Spoon onto plates, top with the fish and serve.
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THE Premier League is back and more than ever before on an opening weekend, it was Wales dominating the headlines.
Irrespective of where you stand on the 'best league in the world' boasts, there is no questioning the Premier League as the most high profile in football and on the first days of the 2014/15 campaign, it was a host of Welshman providing the key talking points.
The upcoming campaign promises to be one of the most exciting in recent memory, because it would certainly appear that at least five clubs are genuine title challengers, though the gap between the top sides and the rest of the division is getting bigger and bigger.
The five clubs I think can win the title, Manchesters City and United, Liverpool, Chelsea and Arsenal, have all invested heavily in their squads this summer and it's incredible to think that with such an outlay, as least one of them is set to miss out on even playing in the Champions League next term.
United's horrible season last time around is surely not going to be repeated under Louis van Gaal, but it was still a massive achievement from Garry Monk's Swansea City to win at Old Trafford on the opening day.
United will spend a fortune between now and the close of the window and even if Swansea played them at the right time, they receive top marks for execution at Old Trafford and can expect plenty more goals from Gylfi Sigurdsson this term, a hugely underrated talent who is built for the Premier League and scoring goals in it, much like Frank Lampard.
It was also a huge performance from Wales captain Ashley Williams that helped the Swans to stun Old Trafford. His signing of a new contract might be the difference between Premier League and Championship football in a years' time.
To mention Swansea and relegation together is no slight on them, because behind Tottenham - now with added Ben Davies - and Everton who should again contest the Europa League spots, it's not difficult to make a compelling case why any of the Premier League's other 13 sides could go down.
A top manager is arguably the best way to ensure you avoid the drop and that's why it'll be fascinating to see where Tony Pulis ends up after his shock exit from Crystal Palace.
Newport's own has never been so highly regarded as right now and the first Premier League side to change manager will surely go for someone whose presence in your dugout is as close as you can get to a guarantee of survival.
Perhaps that side will be West Ham, whose central defender, James Collins, faces a big battle to line-up alongside Ashley Williams in next month's qualifiers. His first day red card was in contrast to the display of his rival, James Chester, who scored the winner for Hull City at QPR. In the bigger picture I think both sides will be fine this season because of the quality of their managers. Wales' only current Premier League boss, Mark Hughes, should also see Stoke well safe despite their opening day reverse to Villa, who in the long term, I feel are in for a more testing campaign.
In the race for the title, I think United and Liverpool will ultimately play second fiddle this season with Chelsea, Arsenal and champions Manchester City battling to the bitter end to lift the Premier League crown.
Man City have tremendous stability for a club that have built their success on excess and Chelsea appear to be incredibly strong having added Diego Costa, Filipe Luis and Cesc Fabregas to a squad already challenging for top spot.
Arsenal are the club who have been most active so far this summer in terms of recruitment and indeed, since signing Mesut Ozil last season, they've spent well over £100 million, Nett, which should guarantee a perennial top four side takes the next step.
At the forefront of their efforts will be Aaron Ramsey and his last-gasp winner against Crystal Palace underlined his importance to the Gunners.
His rise at Arsenal has been meteoric, from boo-boy to a player valued just as highly as Ozil or summer signing Alexis Sanchez in just 12 months. Truly, as stated by Alan Shearer on Match of the Day, Ramsey has become a £40 million player.
Wales might have lost a Premier League team and their best player no longer lights up the Lane, but Wales' Premier League presence is extremely heartening ahead of another qualification campaign in what could be the most exciting campaign in memory.
Here's how I think the table will look in May.
Pearlman's predicted Premier League table: 1) Chelsea 2) Arsenal 3) Man City 4) Man United 5) Liverpool 6) Tottenham 7) Everton 8) Newcastle 9) Hull City 10) Stoke City 11) Queens Park Rangers 12) Swansea City 13) West Ham United 14) Crystal Palace 15) Southampton 16) Sunderland 17) Aston Villa 18) Leicester 19) West Brom 2O) Burnley


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Regional Navigation
Interstate 45 - Texas
IH-45 is Texas' oldest freeway, and a vital link between the two largest cities in the state. On September 30, 1948, the first section of the first freeway in Texas was opened south of Houston. IH-45 was completed in 1975 when the last link between IH-30 and IH-20 in downtown Dallas was opened, marking IH-45 as the first completed freeway in Texas.
Interstate 45 Highway Guides
- Interstate 45 North - Galveston - Beltway 8 South
- Interstate 45 North - Beltway 8 South - Beltway 8 North
- Interstate 45 North - Houston - Madisonville
- Interstate 45 North - Madisonville - Ennis
- Interstate 45 North - Ennis - Dallas
Beginning on the island of Galveston, IH-45 quickly leaves the island on the Galveston causeway, passing through Texas City and La Marque before reaching League City, where IH-45 enters the Houston Metropolitan area. IH-45 continues northeast as the Gulf Freeway, tracking past NASA's Johnson Space Center and Ellington Field before entering Houston. As IH-45 continues towards downtown, it passes Hobby Airport and reaches Loop 610. Crossing US 59, IH-45 skirts the west side of Houston on an impressive elevated structure. Crossing IH-10, IH-45 trends northwest away from Downtown as the North Freeway.
Outside Loop 610, IH-45 travels as the North Freeway, a poster child of freeway development in Texas with commercial buildings clustered against the narrow right-of-way. IH-45 is only saved from total gridlock by the parallel Hardy Toll Road, opened in 1983. North of Beltway 8, IH-45 widens to ten lanes, which it will retain through Spring and into The Woodlands.
The Woodlands are Houston's most successful suburb, where land values have stayed high despite the oldest parts being thirty years old. The Hardy Toll Road meets IH-45 here, and the freeway continues north to Conroe, the county seat of Montgomery County. IH-45 leaves the greater Houston area to commence almost 200 miles of rural Interstate.
The Piney Woods of East Texas are in full display as we roll through Sam Houston National Forest. Huntsville, just north of the forest, was the home of Sam Houston, who is memorialized with a 67 foot statue facing IH-45. Huntsville is also home to Sam Houston State University and the center of the Texas prison industry.
As we continue north, Madisonville marks where the Piney Woods give way to oak trees as the climate gets drier. The trees will get fewer and fewer as the road continues north, and they will be completely gone by the time IH-45 reaches Corsicana. The original 1960 freeway is in the process of being reconstructed from Streetman north to Richland to account for higher traffic volumes and modern standards. North of Corsicana, one of the few things of note is a large adult bookstore north of Rice.
Interstate 45 leads away from the north end of Business Loop I-45 outside Corsicana to span Old Channel and Chambers Creek. This portion of IH 45 replaced both U.S. 75 & 287. Photo taken October 21, 2003.
Ennis is an old railroad town that has been well preserved, despite the close proximity to Dallas. IH-45 comes in through the southeast corner of Dallas, which is sparsely populated. Until the road reaches IH-20, very few signs of Dallas can be found along the road, which was reconstructed in the late 1990s. Traffic is still relatively light compared to other Metroplex freeways until after crossing the Trinity River, north of Loop 12. At this point, an impressive view of the Dallas skyline comes into view.
IH-45 ends at IH-30 in downtown Dallas. The freeway continues north, first as unsigned IH-345 then as US 75. Unsigned IH-345 continues the exit numbering scheme from IH-45 for it's short 1.4 mile jaunt to Spur 366 and US 75.
There are four Business loops along IH-45 (all former US 75):
- BI-45F - Corsicana
- BI-45G - Ennis
- BI-45H - Palmer
- BI-45J - Ferris
IH-45 replaced US 75 from Galveston to Dallas. The last remaining section of US 75 was between Fairfield and Streetman, and had become quite dangerous by the time of replacement in 1971.
Construction timeline for IH-45*
- 1948: The Gulf Freeway opens from Scott Street in downtown Houston to Telephone Road.
- 1951: Freeway extended south from Telephone Road to present-day South Loop 610 in Houston.
- 1952: Gulf "Freeway" extended south to Galveston. However, the freeway name is a misnomer as only the first 8.5 miles from downtown south are limited access - the rest of the road has at-grade crossings.
- 1955: West side of downtown Houston from Allen Parkway to Pierce St opened.
- 1959: IH-45 corridor established. Huntsville loop bypass open. From South Loop 610 to Alameda Mall in Houston, expressway upgraded to freeway. Crosstimbers Road to Parker Road opened in Houston.
- 1960: Hardy Toll Road to Conroe opened. Streetman to Corsicana and Corsicana to IH-20 opened (Corsicana bypass not yet complete).
- 1961: North Loop 610 to Crosstimbers Road open in Houston. Beltway 8 to FM 1960 open north of Houston. Conroe to Huntsville opened.
- 1962: From Pierce St in downtown Houston north to North Loop 610 opened.
- 1963: Crosstimbers Road to Beltway 9 open in Houston. FM 1960 to Hardy Toll Road opened
- 1964: Galveston Causeway reconstruction completed. The new causeway consists of dual three lane bridges. Expressway upgraded from Fuqua Street to FM 1959 in Houston.
- 1965: Freeway extended north from Huntsville to Madisonville.
- 1967: Pierce Elevated between Pierce St and Scott Street opened in Houston, completing the link downtown. Freeway opened from Madisonville to Centerville.
- 1969: Centerville to Buffalo opened.
- 1970: Expressway upgraded from FM 1959 to NASA Route 1.
- 1971: Buffalo to Fairfield opened.
- October 13, 1971: Fairfield to Streetman opened. This is the last link of freeway between downtown Houston and IH-20 to open.
- 1975: Freeway completed from IH-20 to downtown Dallas.
- 1976: Upgrade NASA Route 1-FM 1764. Freeway complete from downtown Houston to Galveston and completed in Texas.
During the 1980's, IH-45 was reconstructed from South Loop 610 to North Beltway 8. During the 1990's, IH-45 was upgraded from South Loop 610 to FM 1959 and Beltway 8 to the Woodlands, as well as from Ennis north to IH-20.
Current projects include the upgrades near Streetman as well as reconstruction of the Galveston Causeway.
*Slotbloom, 2003, "Houston Freeways", p. 118-128 (downtown Houston), p.144-162 (Gulf Freeway), p. 217-225 (North Freeway).
Page Updated June 17, 2005.


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The Perceived Leadership Style and Employee Performance in Hotel Industry – a Dual Approach
Hotel industry is an industry based on specific services and a high degree of employees (especially front line employees) client direct contact. A good relationship with the manager helps the subordinate to work beyond his daily effort, to be oriented to improve continuously his work performance and to give maximum of satisfaction to clients. This research paper is aiming to discuss the perceived leadership style and employees' individual performance related to job satisfaction and organizational commitment in the hotel industry from Romania. In order to achieve this, it was explored a dual perception: managers' perception and employees' perception. Four leadership styles were studied: autocratic, participative, transformational and transactional. The employee performance was studied taking into account: efficiency and efficacy. The method of research was based on questionnaires using Likert Scale measurement. These were applied on 20 managers and 30 employees without management position. The differences and similarities were identified in the dominance of the leadership style and in employees' perceived individual performance. Managers perceived their own leadership style more autocratic and participative meanwhile employees perceived them to be more autocratic and transformational. Employee performance is not perceived as being high by them self and managers. Both agree that the quality of employees' work majority depends of their interest and of their relationship with their colleagues.
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Before the anthology horror film "V/H/S" premiered this year at the Sundance Film Festival, there was an air of dark mystery about it. There was no movie poster, and little was known about its story line.
The secrecy was intentional on the part of its makers — a group that included Adam Wingard, David Bruckner, Glenn McQuaid, Joe Swanberg, Ti West and the four-person team known as Radio Silence. They and the film's producers had decided to remain tight-lipped to boost the movie's buzz and bolster its reputation as a dangerous cult oddity.
When reports emerged of audience members vomiting and fainting at an early screening, its reputation was sealed, no matter that altitude and alcohol might have had more to do with those reactions than any hand-held camera work or on-screen horror.
Still, the film is not for the faint of heart. Available on video-on-demand and now in theaters, "V/H/S" is a compilation of six horror shorts inspired by the recent popularity of the "found footage" conceit.
The framing story follows a small gang of hoodlums who come across a cache of videotapes after they break into a house; each of the shorts portrays what the burglars supposedly see on the tapes and each has a unique style, while offering the requisite twists and gore.
"The idea is that you're watching a tape, you're watching someone's mix," explained producer Brad Miska of the film's central structuring conceit, "but you're only watching, you don't know who made the tape, who edited it together, you don't know anything."
Taken as a whole, the movie offers a disturbing exploration of the dark side of the young male psyche and a certain strain of predatory voyeurism enabled by modern technology.
"I think when you hand a camera with a found-footage mandate to a bunch of guys, they are going to tap into that voyeurism," said McQuaid.
Wingard's wraparound story, "Tape 56," provides the film's narrative through-line as the men discover and watch the shorts the audience sees, while Bruckner's "Amateur Night" follows a group of frat boys filming an evening's drunken debauchery with spy-camera glasses. Their night on the town takes an unexpected turn when a girl they pick up transforms into some sort of demon.
In West's "Second Honeymoon," an interloper disrupts a young couple's trip through the desert, and McQuaid's "Tuesday The 17th" finds a stalker terrorizing college kids in the woods. Swanberg, known for his improvisational relationship movies, effectively builds suspense in "The Sick Thing That Happened to Emily When She Was Young," which follows a weird incident between a couple as it plays out via Skype chats.
In "10/31/98," Radio Silence depicts four guys arriving at what might be the wrong house for a Halloween costume party that goes seriously off the rails.
Miska, editor of the popular horror website Bloody Disgusting, took the initial idea of a found-footage anthology to Gary Binkow, partner in the management and production company the Collective, and Binkow and Roxanne Benjamin produced the project along with Miska. (The title of "V/H/S" actually stands for "video horror segments" with the slashes meant to connote a specific date.)
After contacting Wingard and writer Simon Barrett, who previously worked with Miska on the feature "A Horrible Way to Die," the team reached out to filmmakers Swanberg and West, both of whom appear as actors in Wingard and Barrett's upcoming "You're Next."
McQuaid, who previously made "I Sell The Dead," was also enlisted to the project. When Miska and Binkow couldn't decide between ideas submitted by David Bruckner and the YouTube discovery Radio Silence, they brought them both onboard.
At this point in the life cycle of the horror genre, found footage has lost its geek cache — the format is as likely to elicit groans as cheers from horror fans — but it does still have an appeal (Paramount's "Paranormal Activity" franchise delivers a fourth installment this month).
On the production side, the advantage is obvious — most found-footage movies are inexpensive to make. "V/H/S," shot in a variety of locations last year, was made for less than $1 million. But there are creative constraints too, namely inventing a logical reason for a camera to exist within the narrative.
"Before this project I was certainly a little suspect about found footage," said Bruckner, previously known for his work on the indie horror feature "The Signal." "It felt like a fad; there was a feeling it was going to go away."
Barrett felt expressly challenged by the project, hoping to somehow upend expectations and revitalize the style while also offer the final word on found footage.
"That was the most explicit mission statement to the filmmakers, do something new," said Barrett. "No one wanted to come to 'V/H/S' and do something they'd seen before. Especially because found footage had become very trendy, but for a lot of the wrong reasons."
For Bruckner, the project allowed him to get back in touch with what made him a fan of horror and suspense films in the first place. In contrast to the overt CGI fakery of so many contemporary films, the implicit reality of found footage injects a sense of the unknown back into the world.
"I appreciated how much they could affect me, just to get scared again," said Bruckner of what appealed to him in the best found-footage films. "It's hard to have that experience again. As a kid I was afraid of everything, and now I'm really just scared of cancer and failure, and those don't make for good horror movies."