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The Behaviour of Exchange Rates in the Central European Countries and Credit Default Risk Premiums
We test whether the floating exchange rates of the EU New Member States against the euro are determined jointly within the panel VEC framework. We find that the exchange rates of the Czech koruna, the Polish zloty and the Hungarian forint follow the same long-run relationship, in which the real exchange rates are explained by the real interest rates parities and the spreads of the credit default risk premiums. In case of the Romanian leu, the common relationship is rejected, which is likely due to differences in the economic setting. The results confirm that the currency markets of these three countries are closely related, since the appreciation/depreciation of one currency leads to similar movements in the other currencies of the NMS. The estimated misalignments exhibit some common patterns in terms of time spans and percentage values of under/overvaluation.
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Volume (Year): 3 (2011)
Issue (Month): 4 (December)
Pages: 221-236
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Concert by Meredith's Piano Ensemble, Octavia!
Date: Thursday, May 1, 2014
Time: 7:30pm - 8:30pm
Location: Carswell Concert Hall
This group is comprised of Meredith students Katherine Barton, Chelsea Huber, Jessica Williford, and Carly Zeugschmidt. This will be Katherine's last performance as a Meredith student; she graduates on May 3.
The group will perform transcriptions for two pianos eight hands of the Egmont and Coriolan Overtures of Beethoven, an unusual set of pieces for piano six hands by Jean Cras, and several pieces for piano four hands by Amy Beach.
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Is Alton's Mango-Cutting Technique Better Than Yours?by Nikhita Mahtani in Food Network Chef, Recipes, June 19th, 2014
In a YouTube video this week, Alton takes on the fruit that is seemingly impossible to cut — the mango. In a comedic parody (including a massive amount of faux blood), Alton walks food fans through two bad ways to cut this fruit, then he describes the best tactic: Remove all the peel from the mango except for two circles in the center of each cheek. Holding this skin for support, you can then slice the mango easily on each side of the seed. The skin will provide a tough grip so you don't drop the mango and cut yourself.
Alton is of course no stranger to unique mango recipes. He gives mangoes an Indian twist in this Mango Chutney recipe, and he puts them in a tangy Fruit Salad with Vanilla Dressing. He stuffs a curried mango filling into his Pocket Pies, and he dries mangoes in this Dried Fruit recipe for a sweet and healthy snack. Below are five more ways you can incorporate this delectable fruit in your favorite recipes.
1. Give your favorite dip a fruity twist with this Mango Salsa recipe.


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A 22-year-old woman was seriously injured when she fell two storeys down an elevator shaft at a Boston sports stadium.
Fire Department spokesman, Steve MacDonald, said the woman fell from the fourth floor of Fenway Park and landed on the roof of the elevator, which was stopped on the second floor.
The incident happened on Friday night after the Detroit Tigers beat the Red Sox.
Mr MacDonald said firefighters climbed through the elevator's emergency hatch and rescued the woman who was seriously hurt.
She was taken to Beth Israel Deaconess Medical Center. The hospital would not release details of her condition.
Mr MacDonald said it was unclear whether one or both of the elevator doors opened before the woman fell. Police and elevator inspectors are investigating.


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Langston Hughes, Po' Boy Blues
This post is one of a series honoring Black History Month.
Probably not a coincidence that Black History Month launches every year on Langston Hughes' birthday (1902-1967). The great poet, novelist, humorist, essayist, and playwright stood at the very center of the Harlem Renaissance.
He wrote in the blues lyrical form a lot, so much so that when you read him you can almost hear the music that might go with it. This one, "Po' Boy Blues", is from his groundbreaking 1926 collection The Weary Blues
When I was home de Sunshine seemed like gold. When I was home de Sunshine seemed like gold. Since I come up North de Whole damn world's turned cold. I was a good boy, Never done no wrong. Yes, I was a good boy, Never done no wrong, But this world is weary An' de road is hard an' long. I fell in love with A gal I thought was kind. Fell in love with A gal I thought was kind. She made me lose ma money An' almost lose ma mind. Weary, weary, Weary early in de morn. Weary, weary, Early, early in de morn. I's so weary I wish I'd never been born.
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PHOTO GALLERY: Eclipse Cast in Vancouver
Attention, Vancouver residents! Your city has been invaded by vampires!
Taking a break from filming the Twilight sequel Eclipse, Kellan Lutz, Jackson Rathbone, Ashley Greene, Xavier Samuel and Peter Facinelli (with his wife Jennie Garth and their adorable daughters) spread out and did up the town.
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CAS Expanded Learning Opportunities Reinforce Common Core Standards
The typical school day is designed with a focus on helping youth acquire grade level concepts and skills in the core academic subjects- reading, writing, math, science and social studies. Expanded Learning Opportunities (ELOs) at The Children's Aid Society's (CAS) community schools aim to bridge in-school and out-of-school learning. Our vision for ELOs is about more than delivering after school or summer enrichment programming. It is about ensuring that each young person and his/her family members are connected to others in their community while being engaged in new and meaningful experiences, giving each the chance to explore new things inside and outside of their schools and communities, and develop the skills to manage and solve challenges within the context of the 21st century.
At CAS, ELOs cover a wide range of activities and experiences from five areas of enrichment and exploration: literacy, STEM (science, technology, engineering and mathematics), social-emotional learning, fitness and nutrition. CAS youth workers or specialists plan and deliver these experiences when possible. At other times, we partner with outside organizations to plan and deliver these experiences. Some of our greatest partnerships over the years have been with cultural institutions such as Alvin Ailey and local museums like the NY Historical Society or the Bronx Museum. We also partner with programs that may provide college or university experience to our youth, or with graduate students who have particular expertise to serve as teachers and mentors for our young people.
We are in the process of building our staff's capacity to understand and implement the Common Core Standards (CCS), so that our expanded learning opportunities truly reinforce and complement student learning, as measured by the CCS.
In 1987, Laura Resnick from the University of Pittsburgh described four major differences between in-school and out-of-school learning as follows:
- Individual cognition in school versus shared cognition outside,
- Pure mental activity in school versus tool manipulation outside,
- Symbol manipulation in school versus contextualized reasoning outside school,
- Generalized learning in school versus situation-specific competencies outside.
Real life is unpredictable and any situation can produce a range of variables that require either situation-specific competencies or the ability to think adaptively in order to solve new and unanticipated problems. As a result, our young people must possess both the skills and ways of thinking typically taught in school (e.g. general, transferable skills and concepts), and the capacity to work with others and to think adaptively. Almost 30 years ago, Resnick proposed several shifts in what schools do that would adjust their civic and cultural functions, so that schooling includes more of the characteristics of out-of-school life and better equips our youth with skills fitted for the 21st century by creating more opportunities for the following:
- Socially shared intellectual work organized around joint accomplishment of tasks,
- Apprenticeships that allow novices to observe and practice under the direction of a master of skill or industry,
- Allowing skills to build bit-by-bit while also allowing full participation of everyone involved. Therefore, requiring the time needed for regular practice by everyone so no one is left out of the process of acquiring new skills and knowledge,
- Organizing learning experiences around particular bodies of knowledge and interpretations – subject matters rather than general abilities.
Because mastery of the Common Core should be a strong indication of a young person's readiness for the rigors of college and 21st century careers, our ELOs give us a chance to design learning experiences that allow for the shifts Resnick describes and for youth to develop the skills recommended by The Center for 21st Century Skills: information literacy, collaboration, communication, creativity and innovation, problem-solving and responsible citizenship.
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Information literacy
CAS ELOs: Young people spend several months in a Food Justice program organized by students from Hunter College. They conduct research in their neighborhood and present a video and a photo exhibit of their findings about food disparities in their community while offering solutions.
CAS ELOs: Students in an after school food and nutrition program plan their menu for an upcoming GoChefs! competition modeled after the popular "Iron Chef" competitions.
CAS ELOs: Young people write and produce their own poetry to share with live audiences, as a collection of poems in a group poetry book for distribution to the community, or as a part of a school newsletter.
Creativity and innovation
CAS ELOs: During the summer, students complete a group challenge on the adventure course at Wagon Road camp.
CAS ELOs: Students participating in a robotics program use a New York City map to design a course that a robot will travel from their Bronx neighborhood to Brooklyn.
Responsible citizenship
CAS ELOs: The youth council in the Bronx video tapes "on-the-street" interviews of other youth asking them to describe the personal impact of violence in their community. Then they hold a community forum to which they invite local elected officials; they show their video and host a panel discussion on the topic of violence in their community.


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GOVERNOR RICK PERRY: I think we have an appropriate process in place, from the standpoint of the appeals process, to make sure that due process is addressed. And the process of the actual execution I would suggest to you is very different from Oklahoma. We only use one drug. But I'm confident that the way that the executions are taken care of in the state of Texas are appropriate.
DAVID GREGORY: And humane?
GOVERNOR RICK PERRY: And humane.
DAVID GREGORY: Was this inhumane?
GOVERNOR RICK PERRY: I don't know whether it was inhumane or not, but it was botched. And I hope that not only the governor, the legislators will look at the process in Oklahoma.
DAVID GREGORY: But you don't even want, even somebody convicted of a heinous crime, you don't want to see the government responsible for forcing a heart attack because they couldn't inject the proper lethal drugs.
GOVERNOR RICK PERRY: There is an appropriate way to deal with this. And obviously, something went terribly wrong.


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Health Care Reform in Congress on CBS
... moderate voters and swing voters who didn't want too much of a bill. >> reporter: today's trip to savannah, georgia is part of the president's white house to main street tour. it's intended to show that jobs is at the very top of his agenda, but back here in washington, it's health care reform that is still dominating the debate about that harry? >> chip reid at the white house this morning. thank you very much. joining us now is house majority leader steny hoyer. mr. majority leader, good morning. >> good morning. >> thanks for taking the time to be with us. i want to go back to jim bunning for a second. does he have a point, does avenue right to stand there in the well of the senate and say you got to pay for this or do you think he's out of line? >> under the rules, he obviously is in the senate and has the pablgtd to do that, but i might point out that we passed what is on the at some floor by unanimous consent, republicans and democrats agreeing across the board in the house of representatives that we ought to stentd extend this for 30 days while we try to work out the policies. unemployment insurance and cobra is an emergency. under our rule, we can accept bills like this on an emergency basis. but i might also say that senator durbin offered to senator bunning the opportunity to present an amendment to the senate to be voted on. senator bunning said i might lose it. so senator bunning has simply said i don't care what the majority wants to do, i alone am going to stop unemployment insurance and cobra coverage, health care coverage, for americans who need to go forward. frankly that's an example of why it's so difficult to pass legislation through the united states senate. >> let's talk about health care for a second. nancy pelosi says there will be a smaller version of the health care bill that is going to be moving forward. if there is a single best selling point in it, what is it? >> certainly the single best selling point is what i think senator mccain and senator obama both agreed upon in the debate just shortly before the election, and that was we needed to provide access to affordable health care for all americans and all families. that is the single best selling point because if we don't do that, the system is more expensive, less efficient, our nation is less healthy, and all americans who have insurance are paying about $1,000 extra in their policies to accomplish that objective. >> when's interesting, some of your blue dog democrat friends say there's not must have cost containment in it. warren buffett, who sort of likes it in principle said there is not enough cost containment. the republicans say let's go back to square one. is there any chance this moves back a little bit that there's more agreement before this this thing moves forward? >> well, we're working on agreement and as you saw last thursday, the president convened 20 democrats, 20 republicans, house and senate, to discuss it. i thought it was a very civil, positive discussion. and there were great areas of agreement. and i think that -- so the answer to that question is yes. in terms of cost containment, clearly as you mow the congressional budget office says our bills save about $132 billion over the next ten years and $1 trillion over the next 20 years. that's very substantial dollars about sglp very quickly, live by the sword, die by the sword. if you get this passed, are you happy to live with this, this may cost you seats in the end come november. >> when you go to the individual elements in our bill and ask people do you think there ought to be extended coverage, do you think we ought to prevent pre-existing conditions as being a debilitating -- stopping you getting insurance. the public overwhelming answers yes. as a matter of fact, most of the things in our bill, efficiencies, extension of competition, open answer transparent free markets to get your insurance, most people on the ved items say, yes, we're for that we think that's good policy. so the answer is clearly about we pass this bill we're prepared to go to the american public because we believe they support the individual elements in the bill. >> all right, mr. majority leader, hack you very much for your time this morning 37 we do appreciate it. >>> time now for the news. >> erica hill standing by at the news desk. good morning. >> good morning. the post office today planning to announce cuts to your mail delivery. cutting it down to five days a week. all part of a drastic move to cut massive debts. here's michelle gielan. >> reporter: neither snow nor rain nor gloom of night may stop them from completing their appointed rounds -- except on saturdays. >> the amount of mail that we deliver to every address per day is going down. >> reporter: after losing $297 million due to a 9% drop this mail volume in the first quarter of this year, the united states postal service is asking congress to give its stamp of approval to a five day workweek. >> any paper-based communication is being challenged by how they exist and how they provide their service in an internet world. >> reporter: this comes at a time when e-mail and online bill paying is rapidly replacing ...
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An Egyptian US resident (Metwally) is abducted by the CIA, flown to North Africa and tortured for information on terrorism. Back home his distraught, pregnant wife (Witherspoon) tries to discover what has happened.
The latest multi-strand story to flit between continents - from Cape Town to Chicago to Washington, D. C. and the coyly unspecific "North Africa" - gives Gavin Hood, director of the Oscar-winning Tsotsi, his American debut, an ambitious thriller of terrorism and torture, political intrigue and personal anguish. Its subject
is 'extraordinary rendition', the practice of shipping terrorist suspects to countries untroubled by human rights, where 'allies' happily get medieval on people's asses.
The ideological deck is immediately stacked with a 'suspect' who is blatantly innocent. Anwar El-Ibrahimi (Metwally) is a nice, thoroughly Americanised Egyptian; a respected engineer with a blonde soccer-mom wife (Reese Witherspoon). It might have been more ethically edgy if he'd had a beard or some clue what his tormentors were on about. But the nightmare that engulfs the El-Ibrahimis is just one layer of the interlocking plot. Jake Gyllenhaal's CIA analyst Douglas, liaising on his first torture, drinks too much and has a crisis
of conscience. He's a throwback to Graham Green's disillusioned globe-trotters, but hardly likely as a post-9/11 CIA spook. Much of the time he's an impassive observer who signals little of the internal struggle that eventually bursts out.
In fact, not much happens for ages, except that poor Anwar gets the hood-over-head and electrodes-to-testicles treatment at the hands of a big-time brute (Igal Naor). In D. C., Witherspoon's Izzy handily has a concerned ex-boyfriend (Sarsgaard) who happens to be aide to a US Senator (Arkin), so the old flames can stage dramatic confrontations with Meryl Streep's CIA anti-terrorist chief. But even these actors get little opportunity to shine. In North Africa, the policeman's lovely daughter (Oukach) is doing a Romeo & Juliet with a crazy kid (Khouas) who's a jihadi, which you know won't go well.
Hood expends more energy achieving slick visuals than in weaving the strands together - a suspenseful last act doesn't compensate for how flat the rest of the film is. Compared with documentary-style dramas by Winterbottom, Greengrass or Iñárritu, this plays phony, however well-intentioned its mission.
Disappointingly dull given the explosive subject matter, this at least attempts to get a message into the mainstream. An extra star for effort rather than execution.


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Two die in county traffic accidents
A New Richmond teenager and a Spring Valley motorcyclist were killed in separate traffic accidents over the past week.
Thomas A. Ellefson, 51, Spring Valley, died as result of injuries suffered early Sunday in a single-vehicle mishap at the intersection of Rose Lane and County BB in Baldwin.
Sheriff Dennis Hillstead said Ellefson was driving a 2004 Honda VTX cycle at about 2:36 a.m. when he failed to stop at a sign. He lost control, slid across County BB and was thrown from the motorcycle.
Ellefson was taken to the Baldwin hospital, where he was pronounced dead. He was not wearing a helmet at the time of the crash, the sheriff's report said.
A New Richmond teenager died in a two-vehicle crash Thursday afternoon in the town of Richmond.
The sheriff said Erik F. Ness, 17, was traveling south on 120th Street at 3:59 p.m. Oct. 23 when he failed to stop at a sign at the intersection with 130th Avenue.
A grain truck, owned by Countryside Cooperative of Durand and driven by Larry Reckin, 59, Elmwood, was eastbound on 130th Avenue and collided with Ness' 1995 Plymouth Neon. Ness, who was not wearing a seatbelt, was partially ejected from the car, the accident report said.
The truck careened into the south ditch, went through a fence and stopped in a field.
The St. Croix County medical examiner said Ness died at the scene.
Ellefson and Ness marked the eighth and ninth traffic deaths on county roadways this year compared with 18 total in 2007.


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WARSAW (Feb. 28)
Zionist-Revisionists used pigeons and a stench bomb, as well as their voices, to disturb a conference of the Polish Zionist Organization today with protests against what they called discrimination in allotment of Palestine immigration certificates.
The disturbances occurred while Isaac Gruenbaum, member of the World Zionist Executive, was addressing the 400 delegates on the Zionist situation in Palestine. The Revisionists shouted, "Give us certificates" distributing leaflets, releasing pigeons and throwing the stench bomb.
After they had been removed from the hall, Mr. Gruenbaum said that the Palestine Jewish community had emerged from the disorders of 1936 stronger both economically and politically. He greeted the parley in the name of the Zionist Executive.


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My slot looading disk drive is hard to insert normal cds/dvd. Doesnt eject them and does not read them. It is brand new. Should I send it back or am i doing something wrong?
It should be easy to insert cds/dvds and eject them with one touch. It is better to send it back and have it check.


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The architecture of the Champions League has inspired as few gasps of admiration as a factory outlet shopping plaza. Uefa, keenly concerned about television ratings and - who knows? - vaguely troubled by the dubious quality of the play, decided to take a wrecking ball to the edifice. It seemed that the structure was never built to last and would be more popular as a pile of rubble.
There will only be a single group phase from next season, but, suddenly, there is a case to be made for slapping a preservation order on the current format. It may sound as if the National Trust was seeking to acquire a sink housing estate, but the proportions of the Champions League are begining to look spacious rather than bloated.
A big competition is a good fit when football is expansive. There have been many absorbing games so far, even if one or two of them are a source of solemnity in England. Liverpool will not be able immediately to appreciate the 3-3 draw in Basle or the intoxicating intricacy of Pablo Aimar's goal for Valencia against them.
There has been a rich texture to the experience of the English clubs who remain in the tournament, from Newcastle United's ecstatic win at Feyenoord, through Manchester United's recovery from a first-minute goal in Basle and on to the Thierry Henry hat-trick that cracked Roma with multiple explosions of virtuosity.
English viewers are not the only ones, however, to be sitting a little straighter in their armchairs and studying their television screens. In Italy, there is less need for sniffiness about the Champions League and the pretence that they are much more concerned with Serie A. Now that they look capable of getting their hands on it once again, the European Cup is a majestic trophy once more.
There has been an alteration in the psyche of the Italian coaches. Roy Makaay, the Deportivo la Coruna forward, had the shift in emphasis impressed on him when Milan leaned on his team and won 4-0 in Spain. "They want the ball and, with the players they've got, it can really work for them."
The Serie A clubs have at last let go of the delusion that they can finagle their way to triumph in the modern Champions League. They are simultaneously bolder and more vulnerable. Subsequent to the victory at the Riazor Stadium, Milan lost to Deportivo at home. Juventus, as well, appreciate that they must be open to risk if they are to have an adventure. A fortnight ago, at the start of group D, they were 2-0 down to Makaay's side and recovered to draw.
It is the upsurge of Spanish football that has invigorated the competition by demanding a response from countries who imagined themselves superior. Until 1998, Real Madrid were a cue for heritage references to Puskas, Di Stefano and the marvels of the early 1960s. The memories were all in sepia. That changed when the European Cup returned to the Bernabeu after a 32-year absence. Since then the club has been winning the competition on a biennial basis.
Breaking the rhythm of the Madrilenos is tough and, in any case, it would not do to become obsessed by Vicente del Bosque's side and thereby fail to arm oneself against Valencia, twice losing finalists recently, and Barcelona, who have won every match in the Champions League this season. Arsène Wenger is aware of the standards in La Liga, conscious that gifted Barcelona are footsore stumblers there at present.
"The Spanish clubs are the most consistent in Europe, so we have to say they are the best until we prove we are better," he conceded. Clubs such as Valencia, with Aimar, have made wise and regular use of their South American connections in the transfer market. The outcome has been a style of flair and high technical accomplishment.
Wenger prefers the jangling, fairground thrill of the Premiership, but the means have to be identified to deal with the Spaniards. "Their method is more economical so they last longer in the season," he reflected, while also respecting their expertise in retrieving lost possession quickly.
The Spanish representatives are making the rest of Europe regroup and reconsider. Self-examination is healthy for the soul and the side-effects are beneficial to spectators. The heightened rivalry of the great football nations should give us a luminous octet of Internazionale, Milan, Juventus, Real Madrid, Barcelona, Valencia, Manchester United and Arsenal for the quarter-finals.
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W hen the commander in chief writes a letter to a grieving family honoring the service of a soldier who has made the ultimate sacrifice, it's a powerful gesture of appreciation. So President Barack Obama did the right thing in reversing a long-standing and irrational policy of not sending condolence letters to families of combat-scarred soldiers who commit suicide. The nation should continue to do more to acknowledge the growing numbers of troops who commit suicide, and give more support to those coping with the psychological wounds of war.
While letters from the president can provide some comfort, more needs to be done to provide enhanced therapy and counseling for troops dealing with traumatic brain injuries, posttraumatic stress disorder and depression — all factors that contribute to the military's alarming suicide rate.
After a needlessly long 18-month review of the condolence letter policy, Obama will now begin sending letters to families of troops who take their lives while serving in combat zones. That's a good start. But the families of military personnel who commit suicide after returning home from Afghanistan and Iraq will still be denied an official presidential acknowledgement that their loved one was as much a combat casualty as those who were victims of a bullet or a bomb.
Each branch of the military calculates its suicide rate differently. Still, it is estimated that the numbers of troops who have killed themselves roughly parallels combat deaths in Afghanistan and Iraq. Between 2005 and 2009, it is estimated that more than 1,100 service members committed suicide. Last year, 295 active-duty personnel took their lives. The Army alone had 155 suicides within its ranks in 2010, with an additional 67 suicides through May of this year. But since only 38 of these self-inflicted deaths over the two-year period occurred within a combat zone, under the new condolence letter policy 184 grieving Army families would still be unfairly denied an official presidential recognition honoring their loved one's service in uniform.
The Obama administration should be more inclusive in implementing its condolence letter policy to better reflect the mental and emotional stress multiple deployments over nearly 10 years of combat have inflicted on America's military. Far too many of America's fallen heroes who have survived the killing fields still cannot escape the enemy who lurks within the mind.


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giving thanks for these ladies! this morning, my 5 best girlfriends and i celebrated christmas, in what is now our annual tradition... because it is perfect. we got together bright and early, dressed in our best pj attire, sipped mimosas and ate panini's hot off the foreman. a few weeks ago we each drew a name of another girl and you got to buy them a present that started with the same letter as her name... does that even make sense? it's 1 am so my brain is mushy. see i had Rachel, soooo i bought her a Recipe book and Running shirt. get it? so fun! my love maria knows me far too well, and bought me copper Jars to hold flour, sugar and tea in my kitchen. also, the girls thought it would be fun to bring all of their puppies! so we had 4 balls of fur running around which only added further entertainment. can't wait for next year!
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Posted on: 12.22.2012
last night, we enjoyed my favorite holiday tradition of all, a christmas production! now let me just say this is NOT your grandma's church christmas play. this show is the cirque du soleil of christmas plays. it was held at my mom and step dad's church and they expected an audience of about 60,000! the entire lobby was a kid's dream complete with a giant gingerbread house, gum drop trees and ever flowing hot chocolate. saying that this show is amazing doesn't even seem to do it justice! i saw it 2 years ago and they kept a lot of it the same, and for good reason. that year, they passed out free cd's after the show and i was listening to it on repeat until about march. i'm actually blaring it right now... so so good!! i snuck a few pictures once we were up in our seats. get a load of that crowd!! if you wanna hear any of the songs and see some of the performers, youtube "crossroads church awaited"
thank you crossroads, for another beautiful show. it brings me to tears, makes me want to be a dancer and, more importantly, a better person. can't wait until next year!!
Posted on: 12.09.2012
a special edition of "give thanks sunday!"
today was one of the best days i've had in a while!! i got to meet ms. Amelia, my cousin's new baby girl. it never ceases to amaze me when people have babies. 10 fingers, 10 toes, eye lashes and lips.... i mean, isn't it absolutely bonkers that women make these little beings? it blows my mind. my cousin also just happens to be the luckiest woman on the planet. she pushed only THREE times before giving birth. i mean, come on. she's set the bar pretty high for the rest of us girls in the family, i can tell ya that. Amelia is perfect, with a full head of hair and the longest toes in the free world. jon wouldn't hold her out of fear of "breaking her" but they basically had to pry her out of my hands. obsessed, i tell you.
i'm already in love with you, baby.
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About this time every year, we fall into some kind of glue-stick trance while fawning over and stroking all those organizing gizmos in the back-to-school aisles. And that same old feeling comes over us: This school year will be different. This year we'll be on top of the chaos. We'll make perfect school lunches. We'll have oh-wow ideas for every school project. Every other mom will think we're so cool.
Oh, cut the crap.
We are so over it. Truth is, between crazy work and crazy home, we usually end up overwhelmed, tired and barely holding it together. And feeling enormously guilty about it. So this year, we're not going to try to be one of those smiling ubermoms. And we're not going to feel guilty about it.
Here are 10 back-to-school resolutions for the slacker mom. Repeat after us:
• I will not do it for you, so do it yourself. Don't like PB&J in your Hannah Montana lunch bag? Then pack something else. And this extends to basic household stuff. Soggy towel and scuzzy undies left on the floor? Fine. Hungry and Mom's stuck at work? Mac and cheese, hubby dear.
• I will not sell wrapping paper or candy. Nope, nothing. We'll write a modest check instead. Heck, we'll have all our friends and family write checks, too. Just, please, no more cookie dough in the freezer.
• I will volunteer for ONE event. Maybe a field trip. No Fall Festival booth, and nothing that involves a cash register. Yeah, yeah, we hear all the ubermoms crying, "No fair, that's why we get stuck doing everything!" So true.
• I will not nag, bicker or bribe. Homework not done? See how that goes over at school. Breakfast untouched? Gee, hope you packed your lunch.
• I will not argue over clothes. Wear whatever you want, kid. Pick it out the night before, change your mind 20 times in the morning, whatever. But don't expect to get it ironed at the last minute. That's why God made Downy Wrinkle Releaser spray.
• I will not stick an erasable calendar on the fridge. Because after we fill it in once with important dates for September, we'll never look at it again. Until December. Ditto on the color-coded file folders.
• I will make no excuses when my kid's project looks like Tinkertoys. At least compared to SuperKid's to-scale replica of the White House with remote-controlled motorcade and swinging doors. At least my kid did it herself. Sure, we'll offer ideas and support (awesome toilet paper roll thingamajig, honey!), but we refuse to do it for her.
• I will not run a shuttle all over the county every afternoon. Pick ONE after-school sport or activity: piano lessons, soccer fields or karate class.
• I will not be a hairstylist. If you choose a 'do that requires gel or braiding, you better be willing to learn how to do it yourself. We'll only get yelled at when it's "not done right" anyway.
• I will not stress about my child's reading level or giftedness. It's the teacher's job to teach and my job to create a supportive atmosphere. So there will be no flash cards unless the teacher requests it.


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While New York City is in peril after enduring the "Frankenstorm", Hurricane Sandy, many are trying to help out. But not as many have as much influence and power as the New York Yankees, a superpower in sports. Even though baseball season has been over for the Yankees and their schedule wasn't affected by the storm, the Yankees decided to contribute to the relief for their fellow New Yorkers by donating $500,000 to relief as well as co-sponsoring a blood drive. Who said New Yorkers aren't nice?
The team announced on Wednesday that they would donate the half million to the American Red Cross to help out with relief for the chaos that Hurricane Sandy caused. After the storm hit Monday evening, millions lost power as the streets were flooded by rain and plagued by high winds, causing destruction throughout the city. The Bronx, the burrough where the Yankees play their home games suffered power outages and damages from trees topping over.
The team also co-sponsored a blood drive at Gotham Hall, offering participants free tickets to Yankee Stadium. Rob Purvis, vice president of the New York Blood Center, said that nearly 6,000 units of blood had been lost in potential collections over the last week due to cancelations from the storm. Not many can resist the opportunity to help out when Yankees ticket vouchers are on the line. Without the Yankees' help, Purvis noted that they most likely would have needed to work for a month or more to make up for the lost blood donations.
While the post-season activities keep moving throughout the chaos, the team showed true patriotism to their hometown, which won't go unnoticed for New Yorkers and fans everywhere.
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A non fiction book by C T Adams and Cathy Clamp
From political backstabbing to multiple levels of saboteurs, Road to Riches is a narrative tale of hard-working, proud men of the Denver & Rio Grande Railroad who were involved in a race against the Colorado Midland to become the first to reach Aspen. The winner would not only acquire the market for the traveling tourist, but also the valuable freight contracts for the silver and coal found in the area. More historic than fiction, Road to Riches chronicles the actual events that helped open the West to further exploration and settlement.
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DETAILS of a spectacular parade marking the centenary of the outbreak of the First World War and the 150th anniversary of a Worcester regiment have been revealed.
Artillery guns from the last 100 years will be paraded through the city as part of Worcester Artillery Day, set for Saturday, August 16.
The event will celebrate the 150th anniversary of the Army Reserve unit, 214 (Worcestershire) Battery Royal Artillery, as well as marking the centenary of the First World War.
The regiment's commanding officer, Lt Col Frank Whiting, said: "The histories of 214 Battery and of Worcester are closely linked, so I think local people will be very excited to see some of the weaponry we have used throughout our history.
"I'm sure thousands of Worcester residents will want to greet the volunteer men and women of 214 Battery as they parade through their home city, as part of what I know will truly be a day to remember."
The parade starts at midday on City Walls Road, and then proceeds along Charles Street, Pump Street, High Street, The Cross, Foregate Street and Castle Street before arriving at Pitchcroft.
Before the parade, a service of remembrance will be held at Worcester Cathedral at 9.30am.
The 214 Battery was originally formed in 1864 as the Worcestershire Volunteer Artillery Corps.
The regiment fought in France and Italy during the First World War and in North Africa during the Second World War.
In recent years, soldiers from 214 Battery have seen action in Iraq and Afghanistan.
Among the weapons on show will be a 105mm Light Gun – the 214 Battery's present-day ceremonial guns - as well as two 18-pounder First World War-era artillery guns, complete with wooden wheels and a 5.5 Howitzer, used in the Battle of El Alamein during the Second World War.
All crews accompanying the artillery guns will be parading in the appropriate period uniform.
After the parade at 1pm, a family fun afternoon will take place at Pitchcroft, where people will get the chance to see the guns in action and to watch a parachute display by the RAF Falcons.
Admission to Worcester Artillery Day, supported by Worcester City Council, the World Festival and the Worcestershire World War One Hundred campaign, is free.
A number of other events are planned to mark 100 years since the start of the First World War.
Various exhibitions, concerts and readings are set to take place around Worcester to mark the event, such as a display of photographs and documents about Woodbine Willie, a parish priest at St. Paul's, Worcester, who was awarded the Military Cross for his efforts in the trenches, which begins next Tuesday (JULY 15).
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EXCLUSIVE: Hong Kong-based Media Asia has picked up international rights to mainland Chinese thriller Death Trip, starring Korean actress Han Boreum.
Produced by Fiction 9 Inc, the film tells the story of couple on a road trip in Malaysia who pick up a lone female hitchhiker (Han), who turns out to be vicious psychopath on a revenge mission.
The film marks the comeback of renowned Hong Kong genre director Billy Tang, whose credits include Dr Lamb (1992), Run And Kill (1993) and Casino (1998). The couple are played by Malaysian actor Victor Wang and Chinese actress Zeng Yongti.
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Comcast will present 14 scholarships to Mississippi students Saturday as part of its annual Leaders and Achievers Scholarship Program at the Soul City Showcase at the Jackson Convention Complex, 105 E. Pascagoula St.
Receiving awards at the 4:30 p.m. ceremony are Kierra Hawkins of Jackson, Shanice Dowdy of Red Bank, Cory Snow of Southaven, Quamia Glover of Jackson, Alexis Ester of Coldwater, Shundreia Wilson of Sardis, Cayla Hari of Southaven, Jordan Hutton of Brandon, Courtney Crockett of Pelahatchie, Lacey Harpe of Brandon, Brianna Starnes of Olive Branch, Olivia Dear of Madison, Savannah Smith of Corinth and Daniel Mendoza of Hattiesburg.
The Comcast Leaders and Achievers Scholarship Program provides one-time $1,000 scholarships to students who strive to achieve their potential, who are catalysts for positive change in their communities, who are involved in their schools, and who serve as models for their fellow students.
According to a Comcast news release, the philosophy behind the program is to give young people opportunities to be prepared for the future, to engage youth in their communities, and to demonstrate the importance of civic involvement, and the value placed on civic involvement by the business community.
"I applaud the scholarship recipients and commend their hard work, dedication, and selflessness to their communities," says Secretary of State Delbert Hosemann in the release. "It is important we recognize their efforts, and the efforts of Comcast for highlighting these students' achievements."
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My Mac laptop wasn't playing any sound, and when I tried to turn the volume up or down, a little circle with the line across it graphic came up, like it was telling me "No sound allowed."
So I searched Google for 'mac laptop "no sound"', and the very first hit recommended: "i stuck a head phone plug in the jack and smacked it a couple times and bam it works".
I tried this method and, bing-badda-bing, "it works"!
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General News of Monday, 26 May 2014
Source: Myjoyonline.com
Presidential Staffer Clement Apaak has challenged critics of the Subah-street-naming-project to go to court if they are convinced the deal is a sham.
He says the current "emotional propaganda" being unleashed on government as a result of the Subah deal must stop.
He was speaking on Joy FM and Multi TV's news analysis programme Newsfile on Saturday.
Subah Infosolutions is once again in the news for winning a contract to supply motorbikes and render other services for Ghana's street naming project.
The company is already being accused of receiving a little over 74 million cedis for work it did not do. It was contracted by the Ghana Revenue Authority to monitor call data records of the telcos and provide the necessary information for purposes of proper taxation, but critics maintain the company was not deserving of the amount paid it.
Even before the dust on that controversy would settle the company has won another contract worth about six million to name the streets in the country, a contract it won with another company called the Street Naming Company.
But Clement Apaak says the fuss on the Subah street naming deal is much ado about nothing. He said critics who believe there is something to hide must proceed to court and get the issue thrashed out.
He is convinced the deal is above board, adding all the necessary procurement procedures were followed.
But Deputy Minority Leader, Dominic Nitiwul, wondered how an IT Company would win a contract to supply motorbikes.
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A little about myself, I am Mexican American,Native American,Spanish and Caucasian. I was was born a military brat and was also in the military myself. I have been to most states from the east coast to the west and a few other countries, so I love to travel! I have a fairly flexible schedule so send me a message.
I Love Fashion,Hair,and Make-up! . I have also done a fashion shows and would love to do more!
I would like to add an extra note that i do not do nudes.
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2011-Nashville Business Journal
2010-Focus On This Magazine-Nashville,TN
Coupon Mint- Works of Art Salon and Spa- Smyrna,TN
Art Totes-Nashville,TN
Fashion Show's
Raw Nashville- Fusion 8/2011-Designer-Margaret Mays Designs
Raw Nashville-5/2011-Designer-Designs by Ocana
Gossip/Train Depot/Atlanta,GA
Ramblers Tale at Porter Sanford III Performing Arts Center in Decatur with the Designer ChiChiSwank/Atlanta,GA
Kingdom Swag-Nashville,TN
Southern Women's Show
Today's Creation's, Tomorrow's Fashion's
Red Rooster and Harlow Salon Presents A Fashion Show-Nashville,TN
Dawn of Apocalypse-Nashville,TN
"A Fall Frenzy" by Art Institute of TN-Nashville,TN
Scene and Heard Fashion Show-Vanderbilt
Rumor Has It-1st Annual Hollywood Disco Fashion Show-Nashville,TN
Studio Fox Cosmetics-Southern Womens Show-Nashville,TN
Steven Wingfield
Shannon Fontian Photography
JT Sumner Photography-#529822
Rico Roquillo-#887375
James Strength Photography-#1181279
Randy Harris
Paul Breeding #1507617
Damn Addiction #1486420
Bruce Yonce
Edward Bodnar
Adrian Payne
Ash Li
Dan Broadrick
Fantim Fotography
Studio Shoots
Alternative Shots
Patrick Collins
Miss Ernie
MakeUp Artist-
Heather Day
Kendra Uhl
Lisa Proctor
Autumn Lindsay #1240378
Model's I have worked with
Courtney Davi
Blake Ashley Model
William Allen Images Photographer
SIEGE306 Photographer
Justin Duffey Model
GG Hair Designs Hair Stylist
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Chinese woman becomes 'world's luckiest passenger'
Plenty of leg room, personalised service and no crying babies or unruly fellow passengers.
That was what one lucky traveller in China experienced while flying home to Guangzhou for the New Year holiday.
Delays meant all other passengers had swapped to an earlier flight, leaving Ms Zhang to enjoy the "rockstar" trip.
Flying rather than going by train also meant she avoided huge delays which saw around 100,000 people stranded at Guangzhou station this week.
China snow strands 'nearly 100,000' at Guangzhou station
The blizzard which caused the train chaos also caused delays to several flights in central Wuhan, including Ms Zhang's scheduled flight CZ2833 to Guangzhou.
Most of the passengers took up the offer of an earlier flight, but Ms Zhang chose not to, and the flight went ahead with her as the sole passenger.
She documented her "happy" experience in a post on the popular Chinese micro-blogging platform Weibo.
"I felt so happy, it was a rare life experience for me and it was new. I felt like a rockstar," she told the BBC, adding that her family members were all mainly flying home for the holidays.
She also received personalised service and attention from the flight attendants and pilot.
'The new year's luckiest passenger'
Her post drew hundreds of likes, shares and comments from Chinese netizens on Weibo.
"What a great way to fly, you are indeed very lucky to experience such hospitality especially at such a chaotic travelling period," commented one Weibo user referring to the annual human "migration" which sees hundreds of millions of people travelling across the country to return home in time for the Chinese New Year.
"Sister, you are clearly the world's luckiest passenger - cherish it," said another.
But others felt that it was "too extravagant" for an airline to be flying out chartered flights for only one passenger.
"Given the Chinese New Year timing when thousands of people are getting crushed while just trying to go home, isn't this wasteful?" remarked one Chinese netizen.
Another user felt that the airline "should have just waited" and flown more passengers back. "Wasting fuel too," he added.
As for the cost of the golden ticket? The motor company employee values it at about 1,200 yuan (£126; $181).
"Because it was paid for by my company, I do not know its exact price," she said.
Reporting by the BBC's Heather Chen.


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Hungary only approved the 2012 report on the implementation of the Charter of Fundamental Rights of the European Union by attaching a political statement to it, voicing reservations about four points, Deputy Prime Minister Tibor Navracsics told MTI on Thursday.
Navracsics, who also holds the justice portfolio, attended a session of the EU justice ministers in Luxembourg earlier on Thursday.
Despite repeated requests by Hungary, the report fails to mention that the Constitutional Court had declared the law on judges' retirement unconstitutional before the European Court of Justice (ECJ) passed a decision on it, he said.
Nor does it contain that on March 11 Hungary's parliament had approved all law amendments the ECJ deemed as necessary two months later, Navracsics said.
The report fails to mention that all disputed issues were resolved through a constructive and continuous dialogue between the Hungarian government and the European Commission, he said.
The Hungarian government has also objected that the 2012 report refers to Hungary's media law "without any justification", though Hungary had concluded its talks with the European Commission on the subject a year earlier, and made the necessary amendments. In 2012 there were no open issues to justify that it should be included in the report, he insisted.
Navracsics said that the session adopted Hungary's ideas which would serve as "a kind of criteria" for similar reports in the future. Under those criteria, the evaluation procedure should be conducted in a factual way outlined in the EU treaties. The facts evaluated should be comparable between member states, and members states must be considered as equals, he said.


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Spring Training Deals at Westgate District
February 26, 2014 by in Experience AZ Magazine | Play
It's time to play ball! There is no better time to enjoy a spring afternoon, the smell of freshly cut grass and the thrill of cheering on your favorite baseball team than during Spring Training in Arizona. Baseball reigns supreme in Glendale and the West Valley from February 26 to March 29 where five ballparks… Read More →
Coyotes Season Kicks off at Westgate District
The Phoenix Coyotes are back in action starting Thursday, Oct. 3 for the home opener against the Rangers and fans can expect special offers and discounts all season long. Westgate Entertainment District is the perfect place to grab a bite, sweet treat or refreshing beer or cocktail before or after the game and tenants are… Read More →


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Lauren Bailey, president, Factor 8
In my 15 years of inside sales, I've noticed that most reps struggle with their approach to managing their book of accounts. To find great opportunities in your accounts, you must be like a miner sifting through rocks looking for gold. Whether you have 300 or 3,000 leads in your book, chances are that only a small percent will be gold, quite a few will be fool's gold and most will just be rocks.
Unfortunately, most reps fit one of these four miner profiles:
- If I don't see the gold on the surface, I throw away the rock
- I'm going to carry around all of the rocks in case one might have gold
- I'm going to methodically study each rock one at a time
- I don't really have any strategy and I'm calling my book in alphabetical order (ouch!)
Let's agree right now that option 4 shouldn't be an option. On the same note, I love using great Web tools, like ZoomInfo, LinkedIn and InsideView, but I recommend only taking the time for this when we smell the gold (Category A and B leads – see below). Finally, scenarios 1 and 2 can work for a while, but only if we have a manager who doesn't require territory management or a marketing department that buys unlimited leads or drives killer inbound traffic you get credit for. If you agree these aren't long-term winning strategies, here are some simple ideas to start to more efficiently mining your book for gold:
The quick-sort
This is especially good when you're first getting started. Make a list of the top five "at-a-glance" attributes of a good lead and then sort your book to make a prioritized call list. Here are a few of my favorite quick-qualifiers: a buying history, multiple decision makers, populated titles and contact numbers, the industry is one in which I have knowledge or the territory is one I like. Voila! Attack your book from the top.
Qualify first
Just like the adage "pay yourself first," make your first call about qualifying the account instead of trying to reach the decision maker. I promise, this will save you months of wasted dials into accounts with zero gold. The key is to think of two to three easy questions that anyone in the company can answer; these will give you the clues you need. Chances are your qualifiers will have something to do with company size, growth, direction or activity. Phrase your question in a simple and non-threatening way and prepare to ask a receptionist, service or sales rep something like, "How many people work there?" "Do you guys all work in that one location?" "Does everyone have a computer?" It isn't foolproof, but it's better than wasting months carrying around worthless rocks (and faster than lots of Web research!).
Now categorize
A good categorization system dictates how hard you work for the gold. Try a simple ABCD system, where A has the highest potential for revenue/profit (however you are compensated) and D is dead. When you're done with the qualifying call, categorize the account and start working smarter. Sort your book by the qualification category and attempt "A" accounts at least 10 times (and use those Web research tools!), "B" accounts at least six times and "C" accounts at least three times. Remember, on average, inside sales people quit calling decision makers after two to three calls.
Be the smart one who doesn't throw away the gold and who doesn't weigh himself down carrying around a bunch of rocks. Happy mining!
ZoomInfo's profiles of 65 million businesspeople and 6 million businesses include details that can help you find the gold in your account book – including up to 12 year's-worth of Web references, all in one place. Learn more.


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When do Americans say, 'Enough'?
From back in our history, Ronald Reagan gave a very apposite warning to those of us insistent on protecting our self-governing republic:
"Freedom is never more than one generation away from extinction. We didn't pass it to our children in the bloodstream. It must be fought for, protected and handed on for them to do the same, or one day we will spend our sunset years telling our children and our children's children what it was once like in the United States, where men (and women) were free."
Consider the penetrating national — indeed, global — impact of Edward Snowden's disclosures of the U.S. government's ceaseless, massive spying on us. A former contractor for the National Security Agency, Snowden has "opened an unprecedented window on the details of surveillance by the NSA, including its compilation of logs of virtually all telephone calls in the United States and its collection of emails of foreigners from the major American Internet companies, including Google, Yahoo, Apple and Skype"
Why did he do it? Snowden — now supported by Glenn Greenwald (who broke the story in The Guardian), John Whitehead, Judge Andrew Napolitano, Daniel Ellsberg and myself -- came to realize that "We The People" are constitutionally entitled to know who is stealing our identities.
Snowden, who was charged with criminality and violating the Espionage Act by Barack Obama, exclaimed in an online chat on The Guardian's website: "All I can say right now is the U.S. government is not going to be able to cover this up by jailing or murdering me. Truth is coming, and it cannot be stopped."
Moreover, Snowden has defined himself against Obama and his other critics: "I did not reveal any U.S. operations against legitimate military targets. I pointed out where the NSA has hacked civilian infrastructure, such as universities, hospitals and private businesses because it is dangerous. These nakedly, aggressively criminal acts are wrong, no matter the target" ("Edward Snowden: NSA whistleblower answers reader questions," guadian.co.uk, June 17).
This raises the question among more and more Americans: When will Obama be held accountable — under oath, with full due process — for his criminal acts against us?
There is an extraordinary rumbling to expose and make accountable Obama's gluttonous contempt for the Constitution's separation of powers. The United States is not yet a kingdom. But as Ellsberg recently emphasized: "I wouldn't count on the current (Supreme) court with its current makeup making the same ruling with the Pentagon Papers." (In 1971, Ellsberg startlingly released the Pentagon Papers and was put on trial for it because they revealed deep, dark secrets about the U.S. government's conduct of the Vietnam War. The Supreme Court later cleared Ellsberg in a historic free-speech decision.)
If we don't take back our country, Ellsberg warned, "not only Obama but the people who come after him will have powers that no previous president had. Abilities on surveillance that no country in the history of the world has ever had"
Nat Hentoff is a nationally renowned authority on the First Amendment and the Bill of Rights. He is a member of the Reporters Committee for Freedom of the Press, and the Cato Institute, where he is a senior fellow.


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The Children of Noh Illustration
The Children of Noh is a Japanese inspired illustration project which I am working on. It has some features of Noh theater masks.
Addresses concepts such as innocence, redemption or acceptance of our own demons. I used to make the characters masked childlike. They Use ko-omote Noh masks, representing serene-looking young women. These masks are not neutral expression in actual fact, can show sorrow or joy, depending on the angle or lighting are shown.


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Dr Sheila Patrick, from Queen's University, has discovered how the bacterium responsible fools the body's defences.
Bacteroides fragillis lives in the colon and can cause infections if it escapes as a result of surgery, a burst appendix or childbirth.
By mapping its genes she hopes new drugs could help neutralise its effect.
The bacterium makes up as much as half of human faeces. Although it helps with digestion and fights against food poisoning bacteria such as salmonella, it can cause serious infections.
Before effective antibiotics were available, up to a third of infections from this bug proved fatal.
Now some resistant bacteria have appeared and there is concern that resistance may spread, as it has with other types of bacteria.
As part of her research, Dr Patrick has discovered why molecules on the surface of the bacterium are so variable.
With the Pantogen Sequencing Unit at the Sanger Institute in Cambridge, she has been analysing and mapping all the genes of the B. fragilis genome. Over 4,000 genes have been identified.
According to Dr Patrick, the variation in the bacterium is caused by inversion of bits of the DNA. No other bacterium is known to use this same mechanism so extensively.
"The link between bacteria and disease was first proven at the end of the 19th century, so we have come a long way in just over 100 years," she said.
"Because of these and other complete bacterial genome sequencing projects, we are at the start of a revolution in our ability to understand what makes bacteria tick and also our ability to combat those that cause disease."


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Portraits painted by former U.S. President George W. Bush of world leaders (clockwise from top-left) Canadian Prime Minister Stephen Harper, Crown Prince of Abu Dhabi Mohamed bin Zayed Al Nahyan, former French President (2007-2012) Nicolas Sarkozy and former South Korean President (2008-2013) Lee Myung-bak, hang on display during "The Art of Leadership: A President's Personal Diplomacy" exhibit at the George W. Bush Presidential Library and Museum in Dallas, Texas April 4, 2014.
Blue Jays Edwin Encarnacion takes the field against the New York Yankees during the first inning of their home opener in Toronto, Friday April 4, 2014.
(Mark Blinch for the Globe and Mail))
Hong Kong violist Andrew Ling holds a rare 1719 viola called the "Macdonald" by Antonio Stradivari during a preview at the Sotheby's auction in Hong Kong Friday, April 4, 2014. A rare 1719 Stradivarius viola is expected to sell for more than US$45 million in a private sale by Sotheby's. The auction house says that price would be a record for a musical instrument sold privately or at auction.
(Kin Cheung/AP)
Newlyweds Flor Perez (R) and Jose Ramirez, both 27 and from Reno, Nevada, kiss in front of "Cupid's Span", a sculpture by Claes Oldenburg and Coosje van Bruggen, and the Bay Bridge in San Francisco, California April 4, 2014.
Eugenie Bouchard, of Canada, watches her shot against Jelena Jankovic, of Serbia, during the Family Circle Cup tennis tournament in Charleston, S.C., Friday, April 4, 2014. Eugenie Bouchard went on to advance to semi-finals.
Schoolchildren laugh during a celebration to mark the anniversaries of the Organization of Cuban Pioneers and of the Union of Communist Youth at the Angela Landa elementary school in Old Havana, Cuba, Friday, April 4, 2014.
(Franklin Reyes/AP)
Fago, ridden by Barry Fehilly, falls at the open ditch at the 'Supporting The Everton In The Community Steeple Chase' during the Grand National horse racing meeting at Aintree, northern England April 4, 2014.
A Crossrail worker films as he peers from the operator's cabin of the thousand tonne tunneling machine, named after Britain's Queen Victoria, after it broke through to complete this section of tunnel, some 35 meters underground at Whitechapel, in London, Friday, April 4, 2014.
(Lefteris Pitarakis/AP)
A street is covered by debris from the earthquake damaged Duty Free Zone of Iquique, in Iquique, Chile, Friday, April 4, 2014.
(Luis Hidalgo/AP)
A lightning bolts strike from a passing thunderstorm in the distance behind AT&T Stadium in Arlington, Texas, site of the NCAA men's college basketball tournament Final Four, Thursday, April 3, 2014.
(Tom Fox/AP)
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Thriller in Manila
Posted: May 30, 2007 10:53am ET
You find the most interesting things in the most interesting places. I was traveling in the Philippines in November, 1986, with my wife, who was spending two weeks in Manila on a business trip for an American bank. I was living in Paris, writing and freelancing, and the opportunity to take my first trip to Asia was irresistible. Although we stayed at one of the many modern business style hotels away from the waterfront in Manila, we still got a taste of what life is like there.
One evening, we went to the Manila Hotel for a fancy dinner in a very turn of the century style setting. The grand hotel had been around since the early 1900s, situated with views of Manila Bay, and was the unofficial headquarters for General Douglas MacArthur at the start of World War II. I had been told by local ex-pats that I had to try the "cigar service." So, after a perfectly fine meal, I asked our waiter if I could have a cigar. He smiled and said yes, and within a few minutes, a young Filipino woman in a white sarong appeared trailed by a young man pushing a cart with a humidor, a bottle of Cognac and some cedar spills. She opened the humidor and asked what I would like. Frankly, I don't have a splinter of a memory about which cigar I picked. You'll understand.
She then asked if she could prepare the cigar for me. I said sure. She held the cigar lightly in her slim fingers with elegant manicured nails. She took a cutter and gently clipped off the end of the cigar. She then began—for lack of a better term—massaging the cigar, running her hands and fingers up and down its length…well, this is a public web site so I'm not going into any more details about what she did, or my reaction to it. Let's just say I was having a hard time figuring out whether I was glad my wife was sitting next to me, or not so glad. She also dipped the cigar head in the Cognac, and finally lit it slowly with the cedar spill. I didn't stop her from doing anything to that cigar.
While I do remember smoking the cigar, I couldn't tell you if it was good or not. All I remember is that I enjoyed it. A lot.
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Cary Stolarczyk Oak Brook, IL. June 2, 2007 12:36pm ET
Is this how the blind tastings are undertaken?
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