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No. 1 Michigan cruises to win
ANN ARBOR, Mich. — Trey Burke had 18 points and eight assists, and No. 1 Michigan was nearly flawless at the start Wednesday night en route to a 68-46 victory over Northwestern.
The Wolverines made 10 of their first 11 shots and went the entire first half without a turnover.
Alex Olah scored 10 points for Northwestern.
No. 3 Indiana 97, Purdue 60 — In West Lafayette, Ind., Cody Zeller scored 13 of his 19 points in the first half, Christian Watford added 17 points and Indiana handed Purdue its worst loss at Mackey Arena.
The Hoosiers (19-2, 7-1 Big Ten) have won four straight and five consecutive road games in league play.
Purdue (11-10, 4-4) was led by freshman center A.J. Hammons, who had a career-high 30 points.
No. 4 Florida 75, South Carolina 36 — In Gainesville, Fla., Kenny Boynton and Mike Rosario scored 15 points apiece, and Florida dominated another Southeastern Conference opponent.
Florida (17-2, 7-0) pulled ahead, 55-15, on Scottie Wilbekin's floater in the lane with 12:32 remaining.
Michael Carrera led South Carolina (12-8, 2-5) with 13 points and nine rebounds.
No. 5 Duke 75, Wake Forest 70 — In Winston-Salem, N.C., Mason Plumlee scored a career-high 32 points, and Seth Curry added 21 points, including a tiebreaking 3-pointer in the final minutes for the Duke (18-2, 5-2 ACC).
Freshman Devin Thomas had 15 points for the Demon Deacons (10-10, 3-5), who were denied a second upset of a nationally ranked state rival.
No. 14 Miami 73, Virginia 64 — In Blacksburg, Va., Shane Larkin scored 25 points to lead Miami to its eighth consecutive victory.
Kenny Kadji added 18 points and Trey McKinney-Jones had 12 for the Hurricanes (16-3, 7-0 ACC).
National scoring leader Erick Green led the Hokies (11-9, 2-5) with 30 points, and Jarell Eddie had 14.
LSU 73, No. 17 Missouri 70 — In Baton Rouge, La., Anthony Hickey scored 20 points, and Andre Stringer added 18 to lead LSU.
Hickey had 14 points in the second half, and Stringer converted a key four-point play late in the game for the Tigers (11-7, 2-5 SEC).
Phil Pressey scored 25 points for Missouri (15-5, 4-3).
No. 18 Kansas St. 83, Texas 57 — In Manhattan, Kan., Thomas Gipson had 17 points off the bench, Angel Rodriguez added 11 points and eight assists, and Kansas State (16-4, 5-2 Big 12) snapped a two-game skid.
Omari Lawrence added 12 points for the Wildcats.
Sheldon McClellan had 15 points on 3-of-12 shooting for Texas (9-11, 1-6).
No. 20 New Mexico 63, Wyoming 59 —In Laramie, Wyo., Cameron Bairstow scored 17 points, and New Mexico handed Wyoming its third straight loss.
Hugh Greenwood added 13, Kendall Williams 12 and Alex Kirk 10 for the Lobos (18-3, 5-1 Mountain West).
The Cowboys (15-5, 2-5) were led by Derrious Gilmore's 15 points.
No. 21 Creighton 91, Missouri State 77 — In Omaha, Neb., Doug McDermott scored 29 points and made five of Creighton's 15 3-pointers to lead Creighton.
Austin Chatman had 14 points and 10 assists for his first double-double as Creighton (19-3, 8-2) moved into a tie for first place in the Missouri Valley Conference.
Gavin Thurman scored 19 points to lead Missouri State (6-16, 4-6), which dropped to 1-10 on the road.
No. 24 Cincinnati 62, Rutgers 54 — In Cincinnati, Sean Kilpatrick scored 19 points, and Cincinnati intensified its defense in the second half, overcoming a 10-point deficit.
Cincinnati (17-4, 5-3 Big East) blocked eight shots, forced 21 turnovers and held the Scarlet Knights (12-8, 3-6).
District women
Duquesne 63, George Washington 59 (2OT) — In Washington, D.C., Wumi Agunbiade had 22 points and 13 rebounds, and the Dukes rallied from an 11-point second-half deficit to keep their Atlantic 10 record unblemished.
Jocelyn Floyd scored 14 points off the bench, and Vanessa Abel (Southmoreland) had 12 for the Dukes (17-3, 6-0), who have won six in a row.
George Washington (8-12, 2-4) led, 41-30, with 12:09 left in the second half. The Dukes responded with a 16-2 run.
Danni Jackson and Sara Mostafa led the Colonials with 17 points apiece.


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Official Journal of the American Academy of Orofacial Pain,
the European, Asian, and Ibero-Latin Academies of CraniomandibularDisorders, and the Australian Academy of Orofacial Pain
ISSN 2333-0384 (print) •
ISSN 2333-0376 (online)
Fall 1993
7 , Issue
Relationship between forward head posture and diagnosed internal derangement of the temporomandibular joint
The purpose of this study was to determine if a sample of patients with internal derangement of the temporomandibular joint had a significantly greater amount of forward head posture than did an age- and gender-matched control group. Twenty-two patients at a single head, neck, and temporomandibular joint treatment center, who had the diagnosis of internal derangement of the temporomandibular joint, were compared with a control group of volunteers. The angle of each patients head position was measured from four photographs (two of the patient sitting and two of the patient standing) with a diagonal line drawn from the spinous process of the seventh cervical vertebra to the tragus of the ear and a horizontal line drawn perpendicular to a plumb line suspended from the ceiling. The angles measured from each of the four photographs were averaged, and this figure was paired with that generated from an age- and gender-matched person in the control group. Results indicated that there was not a significantly greater degree of forward head posture in the experimental group.
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Full International 'Star Trek Into Darkness' Trailer Retains the Intensity
by Alex Billington
March 21, 2013
Source: Apple
"This could just be the beginning…" Whoa. Paramount has dropped an international trailer this morning to show us just how awesome J.J. Abrams' Star Trek Into Darkness still looks. They continue to tease more bits and pieces more in each trailer, and this one is right at that point of showing too much, but never does. Chris Pine returns as Captain Kirk, with Zachary Quinto as Spock, but it's Benedict Cumberbatch who gets the most time in this trailer. Of course, we also have to mention Alice Eve as Dr. Marcus getting half-naked in one scene. But it's the sci-fi action I can't wait for. This is now what Star Trek is - and I love it.
Here's the latest international trailer for J.J. Abrams' Star Trek Into Darkness, in high def from Apple:
When the crew of the Enterprise is called back home, they find an unstoppable force of terror from within their own organization has detonated everything the fleet stands for, leaving our world in a state of crisis. Captain Kirk leads a manhunt to a war-zone world to capture a "one man weapon of mass destruction."
Star Trek Into Darkness is the sequel to the J.J. Abrams-directed reboot of Gene Roddenberry's original science fiction series. The screenplay this time was co-written by Roberto Orci & Alex Kurtzman & Damon Lindelof. Most of the crew is back, including Chris Pine, Zachary Quinto, Zoe Saldana, Karl Urban, Simon Pegg, Anton Yelchin & John Cho. Paramount is bringing Into Darkness to theaters May 17th this summer.
We also added this new poster above, discovered from URLs hidden in the trailer and solved by TrekMovie.
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The supermodel got fired in her first task as a project manager when she could not contain and control her strong team members.
Niki Taylor essentially fired herself from "The Celebrity Apprentice". In the Sunday, March 20 episode, the celebrities were given an environmental assignment, but not everything turned out successful. Niki stepped up as the project manager for the women while Gary Busey volunteered to be the men's leader.
Donald Trump enlisted an executive from Camping World, the largest motor home retailer in the U.S. to help the stars arrange a camping 'experience' in New York City. The team's task is to create a unique RV display. Although Niki seemed to have a good plan at first, she was overwhelmed by her team who consisted of strong-willed people like Star Jones and NeNe Leakes.
Star and NeNe were arguing with each other and Niki could not control them. By the end of the day her goals became unclear and the results were disappointing. Although the men's team also experienced their own kind of mess, Niki's team was declared the loser.
In the boardroom, Niki confessed that ASAP's loss was her fault. She said, "My behavior in the boardroom was simply because there really wasn't anything to fight about. My girls were there for me...It is what it is."
Trump responded, "Niki, you're basically willing to take responsibility for your loss? I respect that. Niki you're fantastic, but other than that, you're fired."


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Monday, March 06, 2006
What a day!
Amazon.com Sales Rank: #147 in Books (See Top Sellers in Books)
Yesterday: #405,354 in Books
Yep, that's right. Mark Patinkin's rank on Amazon rose 405,207 places in a day. Now THAT'S impressive. Hopefully you had the chance to catch Mark and Andrew Bateson, the subject of UP AND RUNNING, on THE TODAY SHOW this morning. It was a great piece and a great appearance. Essentially, it was the kind of publicity that most writers would happily perform a contract hit to get.
Speaking with Mark this afternoon, he informed me that Andrew received a round of applause from the studio crew when the segment was over, something that apparently doesn't happen a lot around THE TODAY SHOW set.
To say that I'm proud of this book would be an understatement. I think one reason this book speaks to me is that I have a little cousin who was born with some real foot-and-leg challenges. She underwent surgeries as a baby and wore braces for the first four years or so her life. I have watched her grow into the world's most precocious child, who seems to have no fear of what comes before her. I think Andrew's story inspired me to look at her and hope that she's as successful as Andrew has been in triumphing over the physical challenges he's faced.
If you haven't bought your copy of UP AND RUNNING yet, and would like to do your part to help push it up the Amazon.com best-seller list, please click here.
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I think one of the major issues to really get to the bottom of is what -- pray tell -- causes the wild fluctuations in the sales rankings, such that an author (and I'm exaggerating, 'natch) can go from #12 to #3457 in a matter of, say, a couple of days? Is this another one of the spooky algorithms we're not allowed to know about? Akin to what Google does with its own search algorithm? It works, but no one will ever discover the secret?
Thanks again, Zack -- I've read over most of the posts I see here -- sorry it took me a couple of days. -- ADM
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Consumers Can Now Lure, Trap and Detect Bed Bugs With the New Ortho® Home Defense® Bed Bug Trap
Jim Cramer says the markets could be further rattled by the Federal Reserve meeting.
This market has diverged from some of its usual patterns.
Although a cannabis ETF launched in April, investors are still likely to find more value in buying individual stocks in the sector, according to traders.
Works with the Google Assistant on Google Home to Bring Voice-Controlled Capabilities to the Connected Yard
But investors should not take that as a sign it's a good idea to hedge by buying the VIX.
Jim Cramer is bullish on Scotts Miracle-Gro, AMN Healthcare Services, SemGroup and AMC Networks.
Loss of bank leadership and the recent pullback are major factors in what's ailing the markets, says Jim Cramer.
Jim Cramer is bullish on Nucor, Canada Goose, Masimo, Scotts Miracle-Gro.
Rebounding markets and earnings prove this market is about much more than Trump's political miasma.
$10 million Barley Water Prize is world's largest water prize to combat phosphorus pollution; organizations address global freshwater crisis in World Water Day national summit
More Than 100 Projects to Receive Funding Through GRO1000 Grassroots Grants Program
The stock has pulled back from its recent highs and now is testing a six-month support line.
We talk with an industry expert about the outlook of the marijuana industry.
Scotts is perfectly positioned for the 'budding' indoor gardener.
The Scotts Miracle-Gro Foundation to Co-Sponsor National Water Summit Addressing the Global Freshwater Crisis on World Water Day
Jim Cramer says next week's earnings calendar is littered with brick-and-mortar roadkill.
The most recent short interest data has been released for the 01/31/2017 settlement date, which shows a 426,422 share decrease in total short interest for Scotts Miracle-Gro Co , to 2,131,844, a decrease of 16.67% since 01/13/2017. Total short interest is just one way to look at short data; another metric that we here at Dividend Channel find particularly useful is the "days to cover" metric because it considers both the total shares short and the average daily volume of shares traded.


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Bloemfontein -
Two men will appear in the Kroonstad Magistrate's Court on Friday in connection with the murder of a Free State policeman in Maokeng.
Police spokesman Captain Stephen Thakeng said Warrant Officer Thomas Mngomezulu, 49, of the Phuthaditjhaba flying squad, was found dead in the veld in Maokeng on December 23 last year.
He said the police officer's private vehicle was found abandoned while his official firearm, cellphone and wallet were missing.
Thakeng said police made a breakthrough in the case in February this year and a man was arrested in Maokeng.
A second man, allegedly found in the possession of the officer's cellphone, was arrested while in police custody in relation to recent ATM bombings in Bloemfontein.
Two other men were arrested after police followed up information about the officer's firearm.
The four men appeared in the Kroonstad Magistrate's Court earlier and the case was postponed for bail applications to Friday, February 22.
Thakeng said Jack Smous, 34, and David Twapa, 29, face murder charges.
Jorobana Goodwill Molise, 28, and Motsamai Motsoane, 31, face charges of possession of an unlicensed firearm and ammunition.
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GRANTVILLE, Ga. — When the cotton mill closed, the rural Georgia town of Grantville began a slow transformation into a ghost town.
Residents fled. Storefronts faded. Buildings decayed.
Over the decades, time turned the remains of the town into something almost post-apocalyptic, the perfect modern-day set for humans and "walkers" to attack one another. That's how the hugely popular TV show "The Walking Dead" ended up coming to town and bringing new life to Grantville.
Several key scenes in one episode from the AMC series were filmed on and near a one-block stretch of antique buildings on Grantville's Main Street.
The series' fourth season premieres on Oct. 13. Crews have been filming the new episodes in Georgia, but they keep locations of future episodes closely guarded secrets until the shows air.
In Grantville, the town's ruins were featured prominently last season. Bodies of walkers slain on the show were buried in a vacant lot beneath the brick archway remaining from a cotton mill building. Gunshots were fired from a nearby rooftop.
And actor Chandler Riggs, who plays a boy on the show, entertained himself between scenes by placing pennies on the railroad tracks, the coins soon smashed into souvenirs by passing freight trains.
Now, every Saturday, visitors from around the country and the world turn off Interstate 85 and onto a two-lane highway that leads to the tiny town 49 miles southwest of Atlanta.
Since last summer, more than 3,600 visitors have taken a free tour led by Grantville Mayor Jim Sells, who explains where each scene from the "Clear" episode – during which the character Morgan makes it his mission to clear walkers by killing them – was filmed.
Visitors have come from as far as Australia, Singapore and Brazil, giving life to the town through tourism, Sells said. He calls it phenomenal, but adds: "We don't understand it."
"Nobody came after they filmed 'Lawless' and 'Broken Bridges' here," he said, referring to movies shot in the town.
"But once this episode aired from The Walking Dead, people started showing up from all over."
The cotton textile industry once fueled the economy of Grantville and the other towns in Coweta County.
Grantville eventually became known by residents in the area as "the liquor exit" – it's the only place in Coweta County to buy bottled liquor. But Sells said that "when textiles left, this town died."
Then came the film crews. Though Union troops destroyed train stations in many Georgia towns near the end of the Civil War, Grantville's survived. The mayor recalled how "Walking Dead" production crews took just four hours to transform the old freight depot into a restaurant where actors battled zombies.
Grantville is among a handful of rural Georgia towns undergoing a renaissance, thanks to the AMC show.
In nearby Senoia, many scenes are filmed in the historic downtown area, transforming into the fictional town of Woodbury for the show.
In Haralson, tours are offered each weekend for fans to enter the barn that was the scene of an ambush. They can hold an M16 out the same window as one actor did.
Other tours are offered in Atlanta, where a memorable scene from the show's first season was filmed atop the roof of the old Norfolk Southern headquarters on the southern edge of downtown.
Sells said "The Walking Dead" and other filming have revived interest and optimism for Grantville's future. He recalled how last month, actor Jim Carrey signed autographs and posed for photos in Grantville after filming scenes for "Dumb and Dumber To."
Now, Sells hopes the zombie show draws enough attention and visitors to Grantville that perhaps new businesses will locate there.
"We could use a grocery store, a drug store, a daycare," the mayor said.
On a recent Saturday in Grantville, visitors gathered at Station 22 Grill, as groups do every Saturday, to watch the "Clear" episode, the 12th in the show's third season. Production crews blocked off Main Street for 15 days for filming.
Many townspeople know the dialogue by heart. A dishwasher behind the bar mouths the words: "You said that you would turn on your radio every day at dawn. ... And you were not there!"
When the episode ends, more than 50 people gather around Sells. He leads them around town and then inside a second-story apartment, the hideout used by one of the characters in the show. The walls are covered with chalk-drawn rantings as they were during filming. The small-animal cages, used to hold rabbits and other bait for walkers, and a couple of rifles are there, too.
On this day, tourists from as far as New York and Indiana are in the group. Jamie Silvey, 36, of Huntsville, Ala., said she had traveled to Georgia for three Walking Dead tours. She had already taken an Atlanta tour and planned to hit Senoia the next day. And Daniel Bradley of Warner Robins, Ga., said, "Once I found out all this was here, I just wanted to get a little piece of it."


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Sutter's L.A. decision, big ice, and the NHL's shootout sickness
By Stu Hackel
UPDATED, DEC. 24: It appears that former Flames coach and GM Darryl Sutter has now decided to join the Kings as their new bench boss, according to Rich Hammond, who is the club's official blogger. All that is preventing Sutter from taking over is immigration issues that are expected to be ironed out early this week, when it will become official. Is this a good hire?
Not according to Eric Francis of The Calgary Sun. Francis notes that when Sutter took over coaching the Sharks in the late '90s under then-GM Dean Lombardi, the team's record improved for five consecutive seasons. Then, when Sutter took over as the Flames' coach, he turned that franchise around as well, "pushing a rag-tag bunch of muckers to within one game of the Stanley Cup Final in 2004."
But Francis adds, "In Calgary, his act as a miserable taskmaster who couldn't differentiate between winning and being a human being, wore thin with the players who were thrilled he finally booted himself upstairs to be GM.
"The question is, can his ball-breaking, reign-of-terror approach work in today's NHL?
"Most think it can't since the players make too much money, wield too much influence and need to be treated with more respect — something Sutter rarely afforded any of the people who worked around him, on or off the ice. What's more, can a man who has been away from the NHL completely for a year simply jump back in and be effective?
"It's clearly a desperate act for Lombardi who has already gone through two coaches and is on the hook should his latest hire fail."
Francis allows that people can change. Whether Darryl Sutter can change should he take the Kings job would be the big issue for that team's future.
HEADACHE REMEDY? As a postscript to Wednesday's story on the new spike in NHL concussions, the Wild's Guillaume Latendresse, who missed 15 games with concussion symptoms, is out of the lineup again after just one full game back.
Sidelined since Nov. 10, Latendresse came back on Tuesday against the Jets and scored Minnesota's only goal in a 2-1 loss on a 5-on-3 power play. But he pulled himself out of the game against Chicago on Wednesday night after the first period.
When talk turns to what can be done to help prevent concussions, one suggestion that is frequently aired is to make the rink bigger, as it is in Europe. But that opinion isn't shared by one veteran hockey figure who has both NHL and European experience.
Sergio Momesso, who played over 700 NHL games and four seasons in Germany, told TSN Radio 990 in Montreal on Thursday morning that he didnt' think expansion of the ice surface was the solution for the kind of hockey that NHL fans are accustomed to seeing.
"I know one thing about the bigger ice surfaces," he said, "you don't play as physical. That's for sure, because there's so much room and you get to avoid checks. And also, the game is not as fast. You would think it would be faster with the bigger ice; it's not. The puck moves quicker here, it has to because the rink is so small. And it's much more physical because there's less room to maneuver."
Incidentally, the first-place overall Wild are suddenly getting slammed with injuries. Pierre-Marc Bouchard, who has missed extensive time during his career due to concussions, was slammed into the boards in Winnipeg by Zach Bogosian on this play that got the Jets defenseman nailed with a major and a game misconduct for boarding.
Bouchard's nose was broken and he cut his mouth. He didn't play against the Blackhawks. Captain Mikko Koivu also suffered a leg injury in that game and Devin Setoguchi is also out with a knee injury.
SHOOTOUT SHENANIGANS: Patrick Kane wowed with this postgame skills competition maneuver in Minnesota on Wednesday night:
No one doubts that Kane is an exceptional world-class talent and deserves every compliment he receives and more for his amazing skill. But as we've said many times before, this gimmick isn't how a hockey game should be decided.
What Kane did is something players do in practice, not during a game. The original concept behind the penalty shot, the origin of the shootout, was to replicate a scoring chance lost due to a foul on the shooting player, not to create a carnival stunt. What currently happens in a shootout attempt like Kane's is unlike anything that happens in regulation or overtime action. Kane couldn't have done that during a game; he wouldn't have the time to slow down and make his 15 dizzying moves without being caught. So why decide the game with something that isn't ordinarily in the game?
The answer now is the same it's always been: It's a crowd pleaser. No one will dispute that. But it's still bogus.
We rarely draw parallels between what happens in the NHL and other sports, but this one is valid: MLB wouldn't stop a tied ballgame for a home run derby, the NBA wouldn't decide an outcome with a free-throw shooting contest, and the NFL wouldn't settle a tie with a field goal competition.
We've got no illusions. The NHL most likely won't abandon this farce. Even though the GMs have had serious thoughts on different approaches -- most recently a 3-on-3 OT session after the 4-on-4, which would be more crowd-pleasing and satisfying from a competitive standpoint than the shootout -- Gary Bettman, who championed the shootout, would have to get behind it. Would he? I wouldn't bet on it.
But let's take the advice of HBO 24/7 breakout-star-in-the making Ilya Bryzgalov, ponder the larger universe a bit and not worry about it too much.


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SHAMATHA and the Lamrim - A Silent Meditation Retreat
Led by TY Alexander
Retreat leader Bio :
Thubten Yeshe (T.Y.) met her teachers Lama Thubten Yeshe and Lama Thubten Zopa Rinpoche. For five years she studied in Nepal and India, during which time she was ordained as a Buddhist nun. She remained a nun for nine years. T.Y. has received teachings over the years from many lamas, including Serkong Tsenshab Rinpoche, Geshe Ngawang Dargyey, Kyabje Song Rinpoche, Ribur Rinpoche, Kirti Tsenshab Rinpoche and His Holiness the Dalai Lama. Since those early days, she has lived and worked in FPMT centers around the world. In 1985 she moved to Australia, currently resident in QLD where she teaches, lead retreats and engages in other work within the FPMT. TY is a registered, accredited FPMT Teacher, author of Mind and its Potential Module 1 of the Discovering Buddhism Course and is an online course elder.
This strict silent retreat will focus on the practice of shamatha in the context of the LamRim.
It will include meditation, discussion and teachings.
- When : APRIL 17 - 21 2014
Arrival 3pm onwards on 17th - 1st Retreat Induction session 6.30pm -Retreat concludes 3pm on 21st
- Where : FAR SOUTH WILDERNESS LODGE - Strathblane near Dover Tasmania
Attendance in full is a requirement - 'day only' attendance not applicable
- Accommodation is simple comfortable twin shared with shared amenities - linen and pillows provided - no candles in rooms
- Course contribution : $550 -Includes accommodation, venue hire, meals and refreshments, Course materials, visiting teacher care, travel,offerings
Ordained Sangha members are supported with a 50% discount - please confirm on Booking Form
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Hi all, just after a bit of advise please.
A few weeks after ordering it from Whitcoulls here in New Zealand, my Kobo arrived. Got the desktop software going on my PC, plugged in the Koko and charged it up. Great! - just what I need (tetraplegic, can't turn printed book pages). But I only got approx 80 page turns off that initial charge, less off the second and now when the Kobo has the charging USB cable removed it doesn't even boot up.
It hangs on the "please wait while your Kobo ereader processes new content screen", even after charging for 5 hours.
On reading articles in this forum I know that there are ongoing issues with battery life and with firmware updates but I feel I may have a dud unit here. My current problem is that the thing won't even start up.
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Art for free!
It's safe to say that Damien Hirst won't be exhibiting at central London's Free Art Fair, where all the work is given away to the public. The fair runs from October 13-19, the same time as Frieze and Zoo, two of the world's biggest and highly commercial art fairs, but at the end of the former people will have the chance to walk away with a piece of art donated by more than 50 of Britain's leading contemporary artists, including Stella Vine, Gavin Turk, Chris Tosic, Bob and Roberta Smith - for nothing.
The founder of the fair, Jasper Joffe, says he was motivated by "doing something . . . non-commercial that excites people and values art not selling."
To be in with a shout turn up on the last day before 6pm and join the queue: if you are the first person in it to ask for a piece, it's yours. If that piece is taken you get one more choice.
The fair takes place on Seymour Place and New Quebec Street near Marble Arch, where the local business community will also be getting into the spirit by displaying works of art and offering events - and discounts - in their shops and restaurants.
• Freeartfair.com. Stay at the new London Central YHA (0845 371 9154, yha.org.uk) in nearby Bolsover Street, rooms sleep 6-8, with en suites from £17.95pp.
In pod we trust
If you've overslept and missed your flight after a weekend in Amsterdam - or you've been up all night and arrive early for your departure - you can now check into the new Yotel pod hotel at Schiphol Airport for a few hours' kip.
It certainly beats loitering in departures with a hangover.
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>General Running>Back... And now I will go even slower...
Last year, I was doing so well...
And when in May someone from work was proposing to do the half marathon in October, I really thought I could do it...
But probably I was adding miles to fast (I'm turning fifty this year after all...), and by mid July I started to feel bad... And after a 12K long run I felt so tired, that I didn't run for a week, and decided to alter my scheme and I didn't do my long run for a few weeks... but I kept feeling terribly tired, and eventually stopped running by the end of august...
And here I am again... No racing plans anymore... just building up slowly (and even slower, and slower...) No goals, except for enjoying my runs....
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Ann, glad you're back. Maybe you're one of those people for whom external goals are not helpful. So, keep in mind that you are running just for yourself. Running time is a very special time, regardless of your speed or distance. Your enjoyment of it is what counts. Make that special time for yourself at least three times a week, and enjoy. Who knows, maybe in a year you will find yourself running a half marathon anyway.
Well at least someone here is making relevance to the subject. - S.J.
Slow and steady is a great way to reach your goals! Good luck staying injury free and I hope you enjoy your runs
I'm 59, and find that I have to do things differently than when I was young. It took me a full year of running until I could run 20 miles per week. When I run too many miles, I get extremely tired. My limit has changed over the years - it was about 20 miles per week for a year, then 30 miles for another 2 or 3 years, and now is just under 50 miles per week.
Your goal of enjoying your runs is the best possible goal. It's not possible keep at it if you don't enjoy it.
I suggest putting your efforts toward running every day, or at least 5 or 6 days per week. Don't worry about distance, just try to get out there every day. No speed work, no tempo runs, no intervals. Once a week go a little farther, but not more than twice your normal distance. If you want to run a half marathon some day, just concentrate on running as often as possible. Let the mileage creep up on it's own, When you find yourself averaging about 20 miles per week, with an occasional 25 mile week, then think about a half marathon.
Thanks for your replies, and @JRMichler, thank you for your sound advice!
Welcome back to the running world. When I started out, I did the same thing---I was a fast walker for a few years (which really helped build an aerobic base), and started running and training for a 4-miler for about 4 months. I ran the race, and was hooked. I then proceeded to race almost every week while training way too hard (in retrospect). A few months later, I was slowing down in race, feeling tired, and blah. It was then the brilliant thought occurred to me: "educate yourself about running." Well, I followed my inner directive, and after many years of reading, racing, and training, I am still standing and going, even though there have been down times. I will suggest a few things that I think can help you to guard against over-training (it can happen even on a relatively low volume if the stress in your life skyrockets).
--get a heart-rate monitor and use it to learn how to run aerobically and easy. Running at one of the suggested heart rates out there for aerobic training (like 70% MHR, 70% HRR, 180-age etc.--most of them are in low, fat-burning ranges) will slow you down at first, you might even find you will have to run/walk or walk to keep your heart rate at the target heart rate, but that's good. If you have to walk to stay at any of these heart rates, then your aerobic system is pretty deficient and needs work. BUT, what happens is that you will eventually have to speed up to stay at your target heart rate, and you will keep getting faster and faster. Training paces are never forced upon a body that can't handle it---there is no guesswork. Your body will get faster when it is ready to do so. What was once a 12:00 pace, might become a 9:00 pace at the same heart rate---and that 9:00 will feel as easy as the 12:00. The heart rate monitor is also a great way to keep yourself easy on recovery days.
--use MAF tests (click to read about them) to monitor your aerobic speed, which is your speed at a particular aerobic heart rate. When this speed is progressing, then your training is working. When this speed is regressing, there is something wrong. It could be over-training, too much anaerobic work and racing, your life-stress levels, it could be an iron-deficiency---something is going awry, and your training needs to be adjusted, or you need to be checked out by a doc (if training adjustment doesn't work).
--learn to cherish and love off days and cutback weeks. Guard against obsession with the thought "if I don't run I will lose fitness."
--follow hard training days (long runs, medium long runs, tempos, intervals, races) with easy days at a low-HR or very easy perceived effort, or rest and enjoy.
That's it. Those things I listed will increase the probability that you will stay healthy and not over-train. I wish you the best. And keep us posted on your journey!
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I haven't used a HRM for years, considered it as 'something for more advanced runners than I am', but the article you pointed me to definitely makes sense!


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Car Crashes Into Home, Ignites Fire
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Delaware fire crews battled a house fire for several hours on West Central Avenue early Saturday morning.
The fire started around 12:30am after a car crashed into the house.
The car reportedly struck a gas line and ignited the fire.
Crews contained the fire by 7am.
No word yet if anyone was inside the home, or the condition of the driver.
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Violence Against Women
More than 1 million refugees and migrants entered Europe in 2015. For those fleeing brutal wars and violence at home, the perilous journey can be often most dangerous for women. Sarah Costa of the Women's Refugee Commission talks with Judy Woodruff about the heightened risks of gender-based violence and exploitation and how women could be better protected. Continue reading
Twenty years since the UN announced a major effort to reduce global gender inequality, women and girls today are far from getting equal treatment and participation in society, while violence against females is commonplace. Lakshmi Puri of UN Women joins Judy Woodruff to discuss the findings of a pair of reports looking at the status of women and girls, plus opportunity for further progress. Continue reading
Michelle Obama called on young African leaders to change traditional attitudes and beliefs that harm girls and women, adding that educating and making women financially literate is not enough. Continue reading
Special correspondent Fred de Sam Lazaro reports from India on the country's efforts to tackle the issue of violence against women. This response comes after the gang rape and murder of a female medical student in Delhi last year. Continue reading
As the Turkish economy has grown and modernized, women have enjoyed more independence. But Turkey's domestic violence rate has also skyrocketed, leaving female victims feeling helpless to aspects of the culture that haven't caught up. Special correspondent Fred de Sam Lazaro reports in our Agents for Change series. Continue reading
After being charged with his girlfriend's murder, Olympian sprinter Oscar Pistorius has been released on bail. Rohit Kachroo of Independant Televiison News reports from Pretoria, South Africa. Continue reading
Although there is no current evidence of domestic abuse in the murder case against Oscar Pistorius, the death of Reeva Steencamp has shed light on a national problem in South Africa: the high rate of violence against women. Ray Suarez talks with journalist Charlayne Hunter-Gault about this disturbing trend. Continue reading
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Godega di Sant'Urbano Vacation Packages
Godega di Sant'Urbano is within easy reach of a range of colorful Treviso's attractions. Two attractions that should top every visitor's itinerary is the wonderful Villa Priuli and the ever-popular Church of San Giorgio. And don't miss Palazzo Ricchieri and the Cathedral of St. Mark.
Godega di Sant'Urbano offers some interesting cultural attractions within easy reach that allow visitors to really get a feel for the area. Take the time to see some of the inspiring exhibit spaces such as the Museo Archeologico del Friuli Occidentale in Pordenone.
There are many fascinating sights to discover in Godega di Sant'Urbano. Make sure you allow plenty of time to take in them all. Those with a passion for history will enjoy exploring the Fontana di San Gioata in Belluno. Admire some of the holy places such as the Church of San Rocco in Belluno. Relax in the calm atmosphere and gain an appreciation of the impotence of faith in Godega di Sant'Urbano.
Sports lovers visiting Godega di Sant'Urbano should book tickets for Palaverde to see the Treviso Basket playing visiting rivals. To look like a local, don't forget to pack some blue and white, the colors of the Treviso Basket.
Finding somewhere comfortable to unpack your bags close to the Godega di Sant'Urbano area is a breeze. If you're looking for a warm welcome and a good nights sleep it's hard to go past the Best Western Hotel Canon D'Oro, Conegliano, the Le Terrazze Hotel & Residence, Villorba, and the Hotel Scala.


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Law and Order SVU, 14×24 Benson and The Beast Scoop From EP Warren Leight!05/15/2013
Law and Order SVU, Benson and The Beast Scoop From EP Warren Leight!
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In just how much danger is Benson during the Law and Order SVU finale? — Nina
ADAM: How dangerous is it to be targeted by a guy nicknamed "The Beast"? "It's always good to have a character who is pure evil," executive producer Warren Leight teases. "This is one of these guys who walks through life doing horrible, horrible things. It's an inevitable confrontation. … It's going to be horrifying." In other words, Benson better change her locks.
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ActiveSAN by Active Storage – Will It Replace Xserve?
Active Storage launched ActiveSAN on Monday. It is a special Apple Xserve substitute to work as metadata collector to meet the post production and broadcast needs of professionals.
Active Storage has combined a custom Intel motherboard and a Nehalem processor- in 1U mountable system. It meets the requirements of enterprise experts. These requirements can be lights out, redundant power and expansion management. It has a custom allocation of Quantum StorNext and Red Hat Linux, along with custom interface tools. ActiveSAN is simple to configure and use, and has advanced metadata server that can be used on StorNext and Apple Xsan networks. This can replace the suspended Apple Xserve, which did the same job earlier.
A medium or small business needs simple database, file or email server, and these needs are met by Mac OS X. But in the high volume critically timed video production field of broadcasters, a metadata server is needed to work on ActiveRAID systems and Storage Area Networks. This is why ActiveSAN came into picture.
According to Alex Grossman, CEO, Active Storage, "Xsan users in high-pressure industries require datacenter-level quality products to manage their metadata, but also demand the ease of use and setup of Xsan. Previously, that meant one thing: Xsan on an Xserve. But all that changes today with ActiveSAN."
And apart from that, it is designed in such a way, that it gets its look and feel from the ActiveRAID. It has ActiveSTAT, which is a performance profile app. According to Alex Grossman, "it's a StorNext made easy."
ActiveSAN works on Active Storage's experience with science markets, media labs, and broadcast along with post production scenarios. According to 9 to 5 Mac ,this will soon be revealed in April 2011 in NAB conference (National Association of Broadcasters) with system delivery in the later part of 2011. There are no fixed configurations and prices for now, but they will be competitive with Xserve.
If you visit the Active Storage website, you will see a teaser for the new product over there. The teaser features a hardware unit that looks like a 2U rack mountable system. Though they haven't revealed much information yet, it looks like they are going to step up as Xserve leaves the market.
And apart from this news, Active Storage will also launch a training and certification course to produce certified administrators and engineers.
What are your views about ActiveSAN? Do you think it will be better than Xserve? Or just an inferior version. Send us your views through comments.
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This month Mitch Hopkinson, a winner of the Financial Adviser, a Financial Times publication, 'UK Independent Financial Adviser of the Year' award, looks at how the budget will affect you. Are you a bingo player or an aspiring Lamborghini owner?
There has been a lot to talk about with regard to the recent budget. If you have a pension, are thinking about investing in a pension, are near to retirement or taking your pension in the form of 'drawdown', then you should take note of the changes being proposed, as well as the changes occurring later this month.
The recent budget proposes wide-sweeping modifications to pensions in the UK. For many years, people have complained to their financial adviser that saving in to pensions was too restrictive for them and that having to buy an annuity (which was for many the only choice) at retirement just led them to feel that pensions were not 'for them'. The main reason that people took this view was the feeling that it was more than likely that much of their pension fund would disappear when they died.
Now with the latest budget, these disadvantages have been set to one side, as the proposal is that sometime soon, retirees will have the ability to have access to all of their pension fund when they retire, without restriction.
When I say some time soon, this is because the actual final legislation is subject to consultation and so when it comes in, is still to be decided (probably as soon as 2015). However, it seems that the winds of change are blowing through pensions and as such the following changes will come in at the end of the month (27th March).
People who were thinking of taking all of their pension as an income (via flexible drawdown), will now be able to do this if they can prove guaranteed income from other sources of only £12,000, the previous level was £20,000. This is a big change and will mean that many individuals can decide to take as much of their pension as they like as income, subject to them paying the tax on this.
Those with small pension pots under £30,000 (previously £18,000), will be able to access all of their pension now.
In addition the levels of income that can be taken from existing capped drawdown plans will be increased from 120 per cent to 150 per cent. This is a welcome increase to retirees who have suffered over recent years with the fall in interest rates, coupled with the reduction in yields from low risk investments.
The long term position for pensions should be that they will become much more flexible, which should mean that their appeal will increase massively. I'll now give a couple of examples to compare the current or what will be the historic position for the future.
Bob has retired and wants to pay his mortgage off. He would like to use his pension for this and keep his other assets intact. At the moment he can only use the tax free cash from his pension to do this, and he would then have to use the rest of his pension to create an income to pay the mortgage off over time. In the future, Bob could cash the sufficient amount from his remaining pension to pay down his mortgage. He will pay tax on the amount that he draws down, and here is the clever part for the government, because just as Bob has in effect brought his pension assets out of being doomed to pay an income for the rest of his life, the government will also benefit from the extra upfront tax that Bob pays for the privilege of getting his money now.
Sue retired a few years ago and at the time did not use all of her pensions as she had a good income from her previous employers scheme, so she felt she could leave her other personal pensions for the time-being. One of her grandsons has aspirations to become a vet, but owing to family circumstances he cannot afford the tuition fees. Ordinarily the situation might have ended there. However, with the ability to access her pension assets, Sue could choose to use these as a way to pay for her grandson's ambition to become a vet!
So whatever your previous excuses for not paying enough into pensions I think now is a great time to make up for those past years and get contributing.
Enough on pensions, what else did the budget provide for savers? Well the amount that you can save in to an ISA is going up considerably to £15,000 from July 1st. In addition the ISA rules are becoming simpler in that you will be able to save the same amount in to both cash based and equity ISAs. The tax free allowance is going up to £10,500 which is going to take many people out of paying tax. However, as with all budgets there is a compromise in that many, many more people are falling in to the 40 per cent tax band as the rate at which this becomes payable is not increasing with inflation.
Mitch Hopkinson is a managing partner of deVere United Kingdom, part of the deVere Group, one of the world's largest independent advisers of specialist global financial solutions to international, local mass affluent, and high-net-worth clients, through a network of 70 offices across the world and more than 1,000 staff. It has in excess of 80,000 clients and $10bn under advisement.


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Vietnamese photographer Truong Vung has won the Special Prize at the 72th International Photography Salon of Japan for his work titled "Vuot song" (Overcome the Waves).
Vung told Tuoi Tre that "Vuot Song" earlier won the silver medal at the 6th International Artistic Photo Contest held in Vietnam in October and the B prize at the Excellent Photo of 2011 category awarded by the Vietnam Association of Photographic Artists.
According to Vung, the results of the Japanese contest will be officially released on Asahi Shimbun Newspaper later this month.
The 5 other special prizes went to contestants from Japan, India and Iran.
The contest, held by the All-Japan Association of Photographic Societies and Asahi Shimbun Newspaper, was open to professionals and amateurs worldwide who could submit photos of any theme.
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Just wanted to post a quick update. Thank you to everyone who prayed for the precious baby girl I posted about yesterday. She has made it through her surgery and is doing very well so far! (Sorry, at this time I cannot mention her name).
Please continue to pray for her. Please pray that there will be no complications and that she will have a very speedy recovery! And also for peace and strength for her parents.
God is good....All the time!!
Have a great weekend everyone! :))
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For you created my inmost being; you knit me together in my mother's womb. I praise you because I am fearfully and wonderfully made; your works are wonderful, I know that full well. My frame was not hidden from you when I was made in the secret place. When I was woven together in the depths of the earth, your eyes saw my unformed body. All the days ordained for me were written in your book before one of them came to be.


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Our Premier is ''urging Victorians to help out with the power supplies, with the high heat and the high demand for electricity'' (The Age, 16/1). Well, Dr Napthine, this is called electricity demand management.
If every government in Australia listened to the independent experts and kept the solar feed-in tariffs (which would kick in beautifully on peak demand days like this), improved energy efficiency and supported distributed generation, we would not have this problem.
Instead governments have destroyed the feed-in tariffs, obliterated energy efficiency, demonised renewables and supported 1950s-style centralised distribution.
Well, my fellow Victorians, we have made our beds. Now lie in them and get used to it. With the lights and airconditioners turned off, of course.
Alexi Lynch, Parkville
We need to use energy sensibly…
The state government has warned of possible power cuts because of excessive strain on the state grid. It was therefore disappointing to attend the Australian Open and find the foyers of the Rod Laver and Hisense arenas airconditioned to arctic temperatures and with their doors open.
In addition, Mount Franklin has erected a transparent, inflatable, fully airconditioned dome. It is one of many sponsors aggressively airconditioning outdoor spaces.
I also heard fellow tennis-goers describe how they had left their airconditioning on at home, while they were out all day, for their dogs' comfort. Is anyone in Melbourne using energy responsibly?
Tom Forbes, Brighton
… and be environmentally aware
When electricity usage soars in a heatwave, it is easy to guess which homes are running airconditioners continuously.
How much longer will local councils allow people to build houses without eaves, cross-ventilation and sufficient gardens in which to grow shady trees?
Environmentally aware homes look great in magazines, so let us see some in our suburbs.
Pauline Serafini, East Ivanhoe
Our forgotten workers
Shame on The Age for highlighting the discomfort of those who were left at home or unable to get to the pub in Thoona because of a power outage (15/1), with nary a mention of the workers who were out in 42-degree heat ensuring that power poles were safe from causing bushfires.
A bit of respect where it is deserved, please.
Rob Gyles, Murrumbeena
What a tough generation
Do those officials who are proffering advice to oldies on the dangers of hot days not realise that these same people probably walked to school, sat in classrooms and worked during many similar heatwaves, without the benefit of airconditioning? And that they somehow survived.
Roger Mendelson, Toorak
It's so lovely outside, PM
If the Prime Minister, Tony Abbott, still has doubts about climate change, perhaps he, and the federal cabinet, could spend time this week reading the latest report by the Climate Council while sitting in a park in Melbourne or Adelaide.
Susan Pepper, Northcote
An aardvark, methinks?
The idea that Portuguese mariners might have discovered the Australian continent ahead of the Dutch is fascinating (The Age, 16/1). However, substantiation requires better evidence than a drawing in a 16th-century Portuguese manuscript that some identify as a kangaroo.
Several alternative identifications are possible, including that it is an aardvark. The elongated, terminally flattened snout and long narrow ears are more consistent with that African mammal than a kangaroo. The limbs are consistent with this identification.
The aardvark has a broad distribution across sub-Saharan Africa, including areas near the west coast where the Portuguese established trading posts in the 15th century. The drawing seems to have been based on a live, rather than preserved specimen, and this argues for an animal native to an area close to Portugal, rather than one as distant as Australia.
Dr Peter Pridmore, La Trobe University
Or a foreign kangaroo?
The appearance of a kangaroo on a manuscript predating the first known European contact with Australia may have a simple explanation. Kangaroos are not exclusively Australian. Many species are found in New Guinea, and this could easily account for the illustration.
Geoff Saunders, Jamberoo, NSW
Please, public only
I object to the suggestion that the new Comprehensive Cancer Centre could host a private floor for insured patients and wealthy foreigners (The Age, 15/1).
The Peter MacCallum Cancer Centre has accepted patients from overseas for years. If it did not impact on local public patients, that would be one thing. However, I know from my experience and that of others, public patients have faced excessive waiting times for standard treatment, such as radiotherapy.
Melbourne has private cancer centres for those who do not need to access the public system.
Galina Hitchen, Ferntree Gully
A moral dilemma
The calls to promote medical tourism neglect the moral issue: by allowing the more fortunate citizens of poorer countries to use our health system, we eliminate an incentive for them to improve the local system for their own people.
Richard Western, Elsternwick
Respectful banter
I liked Alan McLean's stories about cricket banter (Letters, 16/1). After playing and missing a few times (a not unusual occurrence), I was once told by a slip fielder: ''Maybe you should try bringing a bat next time.''
However, I think the sledging thing (Comment, 15/1) is overrated in Australian cricket.
I am still involved in grade cricket and there are very few occasions where I see a problem arise in this regard. Most players have genuine respect for, or at least tolerance towards, each other. Mind you, players with large egos are generally regarded as fair game.
David Markham, Flynn, ACT
Why the rich are rich
Nicolle Flint reckons mining magnates such as Gina Rinehart create wealth for all Australians (Comment, 16/1).
This suggestion would not be so far-fetched if the big polluters who profit from Australia's resources were taxed properly, like the rest of us.
Katherine Wilson, Healesville
Simplistic thinking
Nicolle Flint's article portrays an outdated and extreme world view that narrowly defines people and ideas as mutually exclusive of each other. This is unproductive.
I am a farmer who wears many hats. I am an environmentalist, entrepreneur and wealth creator. We produce more than 1000 tonnes of food and fibre per year. We are carbon neutral. And we still happily fund a range of philanthropic causes.
The sooner the likes of Flint move beyond their narrow world view the quicker we will all get to an economically and environmentally sustainable world. Such views perpetuate our problems instead of focusing on the exciting solutions that abound.
For the record, I enjoyed Tim Winton's Eyrie immensely.
Mark Wootton, Hamilton
The right to criticise
Nicolle Flint attacks Tim Winton's critical references to the mining industry in his latest novel but neither explains nor analyses the substance of what he said. She bases her criticism on the fact that a literary author wrote unkindly about the business sector, and her claim that ''without financial wealth a nation cannot afford cultural wealth''.
Plainly her position is that Australia's artists and writers are so indebted to the wealthy that they should refrain from criticising them, and that their creative output is of secondary value. This simplistic argument overlooks the fact that articulate criticism of the powerful, and art and literature, are necessary to the good health of any nation. It also overlooks the fact that Australia's indigenous people created rich cultural and artistic traditions with limited economic wealth.
Shaun Ginsbourg, Mount Waverley
Supply and demand
Eric Vahl Meyer says the VCE cut-off score to enter teaching is ''far too low'' (Letters, 16/1). However, cut-off scores are based on demand for the course. How much demand is there for teaching these days? An occupation that requires teachers to jump through any hoops required by every new government? When government and public alike blame schools and teachers for every one of society's troubles? Be glad that there are still people passionate enough about this career to be willing to do it.
Sue Bursztynski, Elwood
Skin deep
The elephant in the room has a very dark skin. If the current boat arrivals were from England, the United States, Canada or New Zealand, we would not be having a ''border protection'' issue. Both Liberal and Labor asylum policies are pure racism.
David Wall, Melton
Minister for cruelty
Unsurprisingly Immigration Minister Scott Morrison has discontinued his regular press conferences. Such a meeting would have required him to justify his department's cruel decision not to allow Minh Duong's return to Australia to complete his final year of study (The Age, 16/1). And this on top of the vicious, unprovoked, race-hate assault on Mr Duong by Australians.
David Dyer, Ballarat
A smartphone? If only
I was astonished to read the Department of Human Services' Hank Jongen's comment that Centrelink customers could access information using a smartphone app (Letters, 15/1). I am unemployed. I cannot afford a smartphone. Or is this what Mr Jongen thinks I should be spending my NewStart allowance on, rather than food and bills?
Debby Butler, Traralgon
Slide to neo-liberalism
So, the fox will now mind the taxation hen house (The Age, 16/1). The Australian Taxation Office's plan to axe 900 jobs - therefore placing even greater strain on the welfare system - in favour of outsourcing the audits of companies whose annual turnover is between $100 million and $5 billion to private enterprise, and based on an ''honesty'' system, is a further shift towards unaccountable and unbridled neo-liberalism.
Edward Eastwood, Williamstown
A very odd 'charity'
Well said, Judith Bessant (Comment, 16/1). The Victorian Employers' Chamber of Commerce's action in the Supreme Court of Victoria to become a charitable institution is an attempt to obscure the notion of ''charity'' altogether. Webster's Dictionary defines charity as ''love, benevolence, goodwill: that disposition of the heart that inclines men to think favourably of their fellow men, and to do them good''. A business advocacy group lobbying for further deregulation and ''tax reform'' to reduce taxation for the top end of town? I do not think so.
Jill Sanguinetti, East Brunswick
A life well lived
Congratulations, Paul Ormonde, for your poignant obituary for pensioner Bernard Lennard (Obituaries, 16/1). The story of his life and what he had to cope with has lessons for most of us. It should make us appreciate what we have; the constant refrain that the middle-class is ''doing it hard'' should be seen in perspective. Also, we should not rush to judgment about people living on welfare. Often is it said it is their fault, they could work but do not, they should have had a better education etc. Bernard's life shows that applying a collective judgment to welfare recipients is harsh and unworthy of a caring nation.
Daniel Khoury, Glen Waverley
And another thing ...
If Australia Post reduces its delivery frequency (16/1), when should I expect my mail, posted by the Supreme Court on November 28?
Diana Donohue, Aspendale
Peter Martin, a twice-a-week mail delivery means a twice-a-week Age delivery to many rural properties.
John Coupe, Bayles
Gina Rinehart didn't create her wealth, she dug it out of the ground. She is a wealth taker.
Bruce King, Malvern East
Will a tax deduction for accountancy fees paid by big companies cancel out savings by the Tax Office?
Lance Cranage, Mount Waverley
Heat wave
As we bake this week, it's reassuring to know that climate change is, according to Tony Abbott, ''crap''.
Jan Storey, Black Rock
At the height of summer, we need electricity. Lots of it. Mostly when the sun is shining. Join the dots.
Carlo Gnaccarini, Lara
It's a good time for Victorians to update their online dating profiles. We can honestly say ''we're hot in bed''.
Roger Farrer, Hampton
Credit where it's due. The train system has been less appalling than usual when we've had hot days.
John Ogge, Highton
I'll never complain again of having to walk my dog in the rain.
Mary Lyden, Port Melbourne
Rafter is to Aussie tennis what Farnham is to Aussie music. Go, boys.
Len King, Bundoora
Perhaps players have to see the Red Baron (15/1) before the extreme heat policy is invoked.
Damian Gunn, Essendon
If Peter Mac needs to treat cashed-up private patients to ''retain the brightest doctors'', what does that say about public sector doctors?
Gerry Farrell, Mont Albert


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The head of Louisiana's Department of Natural Resources named 13 scientists and other experts Friday to serve on a blue-ribbon commission tasked with determining the long-term stability of the area around northern Assumption Parish's sinkhole.
The 13-acre sinkhole and consequences of its emergence and continued growth, such as methane trapped under the Bayou Corne area, have forced the evacuation of 350 residents for more than seven months.
The sinkhole, found in swamps between Bayou Corne and Grand Bayou on Aug. 3, is believed to have been caused by a failed Texas Brine Co. LLC cavern mined into the Napoleonville Dome.
Members of the new panel are being asked to set up scientifically based benchmarks in regard to the sinkhole and then determine when they have been met in order to give assurances that the Bayou Corne area is safe for the return of evacuated residents.
"The work of this commission is crucial to the future of public safety in the Bayou Corne area," DNR Secretary Stephen Chustz said in a prepared statement announcing the 13 appointments.
"We must ensure we have done all that we can to get the right people to provide the right answers in making recommendations for the future of the people who want to return," Chustz said.
The secretary made the appointments in consultation with Jim Welsh, state Commissioner of Conservation, and Kevin Davis, director of the Governor's Office of Homeland Security and Emergency Preparedness, the statement says. The Office of Conservation is part of DNR.
Gov. Bobby Jindal called for formation of the commission earlier this month after meeting with Assumption Parish public officials and Texas Brine executives about the sinkhole.
DNR officials said in a statement that the blue-ribbon commission's first meeting will be held in early April. Patrick Courreges, DNR spokesman, has said some of the group's meetings would be public, but it was not clear Friday if the panel's inaugural session would be open to the public or not.
Underscoring the lingering concerns about the growing sinkhole and when it may stabilize, yet another round of seismic activity forced parish officials to halt work around the sinkhole Friday morning for the second time in a little more than a week, officials said.
John Boudreaux, Assumption Parish's director of Homeland Security and Emergency Preparedness, said the seismic activity was detected about 7 a.m. Friday under the sinkhole and the failed Texas Brine cavern.
Seismic monitors detected an increase Friday in the "very long period" tremors that scientists have said indicate fluid and gas movement below the sinkhole, parish officials said in a blog post.
Parish officials added that Friday's seismic activity was limited to the sinkhole and the Texas Brine cavern. The activity appears to have had no effect on a second Texas Brine cavern nearby for which structural concerns recently have been raised, parish officials said.
Water movement in the sinkhole and increased bubbling along its western edge were also detected Friday, the post says.
Boudreaux said work was stopped within the 71-acre area surrounded by a berm mandated to encircle the sinkhole. The shutdown area took in the sinkhole's lake-like surface.
He said crews had been working on oil retardant boom on the sinkhole at the time the work was stopped about 8:30 a.m. Friday.
But he said work related to 3-D seismic surveying of the subsurface — which involves the firing of small, buried explosive charges — continued Friday because it is outside the berm area.
The new blue-ribbon panel members include some of the experts who already have been working on the sinkhole under contract to the state Office of Conservation or on a scientific working group monitoring the sinkhole.
Members Gary Hecox, senior CB&I hydrogeologist, and Will Pettitt, an Itasca Group rock mechanic expert, both have delivered presentations to residents and the state Legislature about the sinkhole.
Working group members include David Borns, Sandia National Laboratories Geotechnology and Engineering Program manager, and Thomas Van Biersel, DNR hydrogeologist and a former Louisiana Geological Survey professor at LSU. Van Biersel is coordinating the sinkhole working group, DNR officials said.
Sandia researches salt domes for the federal Strategic Petroleum Reserve, which stores the nation's emergency supply of crude oil in Louisiana and Texas salt domes.
Chustz said in the statement Friday that while experts around the world were sought, the panel includes scientists who already have been working on the sinkhole as well as a Bayou Corne-area resident selected, "to ensure that the members share our sense of urgency."
Before Friday's work stoppage, a burst of early morning tremors on March 13 caused work to be halted for about a day inside the same berm area.
That halt was followed by one of the sinkhole's periodic burps on Sunday morning, when oil and debris surfaced, as well as the collapse of 0.95 of an acre of land on the sinkhole's western edge.
The sinkhole's surface is believed to be about 13 acres in size with the addition of that last slough-in and with a re-estimation of the sinkhole's remaining edge, which added a few acres of surface also.


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Norwegian Sky... Disappointment: Norwegian Sky Cruise Review by strasburgcrusin
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Norwegian Sky... Disappointment
Destination: Bahamas
Embarkation: Miami
Upon our arrival at the port, we were greeted by friendly NCL staff and checked in quickly. So far, so good. We then proceed to the waiting area to board the ship. Boarding was delayed 30 minutes and we were held in the waiting area where they were blasting loud music.
Finally NCL starts boarding at 12pm and we are greeted at the end of the gangway with festive music and the offer of a bubbly drink. As we are trying to marshal two boys and a carry on bag, we decline and proceed to deck 11 for the buffet.
The food selection was underwhelming and the taste was very bland. My boys are very picky eaters and we had a hard time finding food to their liking. They also almost drink milk exclusively (white and chocolate). The only milk we could find was the white in the More dispenser and my white milk drinking son indicated that it tasted funny. Chocolate milk could not be found and I inquired to be told that it was not available yet. What?!? More on the milk situation later.
We hear over the ship speakers that the cabins would not be available until 2pm. Thinking to myself, what have they been doing between 9am and the time we boarded to get the rooms turned over? Finally tired of dragging the carry on bag any longer, we go to the cabin and ask the steward if it would be ok to leave the bag. We are told yes, so the bag is dropped off. We decide to explore the ship and check out the sites. Checked bags don't arrive until 6pm.
For the evening meal, we attend the barbeque on the pool deck. While I am beginning to eat, my wife gets up with the boys to get ice cream. Seconds later, my son runs back to our table screaming "mommy fell and is hurt!". I hurry to where my wife has slipped and fell on the pool deck. She is quickly surrounded by NCL staff. My wife is complaining that her knee is hurting and that she felt her kneecap move. NCL staff summons a wheelchair and medic who both arrive quickly. We are then introduced to the NCL medical staff, not exactly how we wanted to meet them. They are very competent, although a bit on the slow side. X-rays are taken, leg splint applied, medications dispensed.
I filled out the accident form with the specifics of what happened. The NCL Security officer went with myself and my son who witnessed my wife falling to the scene and took pictures of the deck. I am still unsure of what my wife slipped on as the deck was dry when we went back later. The pool deck is wood and not textured to give great traction. She was wearing flip flops and she does not have a habit of her feet just flying out from under her. After checking out of the medical office, she is taken back to our cabin where she rests for the remainder of the night.
The boys and I are on our own for the evening and we attend the show in the Stardust lounge. I am pleasantly surprised with entertainment and we enjoyed the show. After the show, we turn in for the night.
Next morning, get the wife up on her crutches and head to deck 11 for breakfast. What is that I see? White and chocolate milk in cartons! I should have stocked up right then, because it would be one of the last times we would see it. Again the food is uninspiring. As my wife is in no condition to go on the excursion to discover Atlantis, I proceed to the excursions desk to cancel her ticket. They did so without issue.
The boys and I had a great time discovering Atlantis. The guide was very knowledgeable and had the boys at the front of the group as her special helpers. We hit up the Del Sol store after we get off of the bus and then head back to the ship. Very pleased with this excursion!
Wife's leg was feeling a little better, so dinner that night as in the Crossing's dining room. Food was good, but chocolate milk was missing in action... we've run out. Huh?, run out?? You mean you don't have any Hershey's chocolate syrup anywhere on this ship to make some?? While we are eating, the Hotel Manager and assistant come up to us and indicate that they want to comp us dinner at one of the specialty restaurants. We chose El Adagio for the following night.
After dinner, we attend the comedy/magic show with Rich Purtura. We were sitting up in the balcony and he asked if there were any first time cruisers in the audience. My boys both raised their hands and announced for the whole lounge to hear that they were. Rich later calls them down to help with a magic trick and they both brought the audience to laughter with the corrections of Rich when he purposely got their names wrong. They finally gave up correcting him. When the card trick messes up, my one son looks at the card and then at Rich and gives him a "say what" look and shrug. For the remainder of the cruise, other guests come up to us and the boys to say how great they were!
Day three. Time to get up early for the Dolphin Encounter. Breakfast at the buffet. Again, no chocolate milk. This is really getting old for my one son... We ride the boat out to the encounter and the boys really enjoyed getting splashed, kissed and touching the dolphins. Very worthwhile and enjoyable excursion! We grab lunch back on the ship, the boys and I do some swimming in the afternoon while the wife relaxes on deck. Knee is still bothering her, but not as bad.
Dinner at El Adagio is good and somehow they were able to procure chocolate milk that the ship was out of previously. I may be mistaken, but I don't recall the ship pulling over and restocking during any of the previous 2 days. After dinner, it is off to the show in the Stardust Lounge for Broadway songs. Again, the entertainment was very good. Turned in for the night after the show.
Day four. Great Stirrup Cay. There is nothing great about this private island as most of it is under construction! $30 to rent a cabana was outrageous and should have been included. The water slide had a 48" height restriction. Funny how my sons measured over 48" at their most recent pediatrician visits, but came up a 1/2" short on the high tech 2 x 4 with a piece of plywood on top measuring device at the slide. Very disappointed in the island and ended up leaving after about an hour. Gave our cabana to another guest who was also noting that the island was a mess.
Dinner in the Palace dining room. Service slow, staff forgetful. If you have read through all of this, you know what is coming next. Chocolate milk! Oh boy, here we go. We place our requests for a white milk and a chocolate milk. The white milk arrives and the waiter informs that they are out of chocolate milk and they are checking with room service for it. Appetizers are brought to the table from the assistant and we request two Pepsi's from him. He proceeds to not tell anyone and no Pepsi's arrive. 20 minutes later, waiter comes with food and still no chocolate milk or Pepsi's. Inform him of desire for Pepsi's and he indicates that the bar is making the chocolate milk. Finally after nearly 45 minutes after arrival for dinner, the chocolate milk arrives! Food was ok, not great. Head waiter comes around to the tables and I give her an earful about the week long ordeal with the milk... how can this be called a kid friendly cruise line if you don't have the drinks that kids like to drink? She make a note of it.
After dinner, we attend the final show in the lounge and sat in the front row. Again, the entertainment was very good. Returned to the room to prepare to leave the next morning.
We chose to keep all of our bags and do the early disembarkation. Very easy to do it this way.
At this point in time, I don't think I would go on another NCL cruise in the near future as I felt it was an impersonal experience. I suppose we are just spoiled by Royal Caribbean. Less
Published 11/22/11
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During your stay in Portland, this hotel offers rooms that are just what you want and need. Half of the rooms feature a magnificent view overlooking Casco Bay. Enjoy the best views of Portland in style at The Inn By the Bay during your stay in Portland. Over half of our hotel's 239 spacious guestrooms are enhanced with breathtaking views of the working harbors of the Atlantic Ocean on our bay side, the White Mountains and the beautiful Portland city skyline. Guests may choose from well appointed Double/Double, King, Executive Rooms and Suites accompanied with our award winning attention to detail and impeccable service. Whether you are staying with us for business or pleasure, we are waiting for you.
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