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Petite Champagne
Cognac is rarely born of a single eau-de-vie or a single growing area, but generally from a blend of different ages and crus, sometimes up to a hundred of them.
It can be made also exclusively from certain "cru", for example exclusively from "Grande Champagne", but of different ages.
Petite Champagne : some 16,000 hectares of clay and a more compact chalky layer of soil. Petit Champagne is very much of the same quality, but a touch lighter. It's vineyards lie to the south-west and south-east of Grande Champagne.
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Tony and Maydell Lillard of Cross Roads, Texas will celebrate their 50th wedding anniversary October 28th.The couple was married in 1962 at First Assembly of God in Pilot Point, Texas.
Their children and grandchildren will be hosting a come and go reception held at the Faith Tabernacle Assembly of God Church at 1101 Audra Lane in Denton, Texas on Saturday October 6th, 2012 from 2pm to 4pm.
At the age of 19, Tony and Maydell began as pastors serving faithfully in the ministry and have throughout the past 50 years.Tony is also a retired small business owner in the Denton area.Maydell worked at Denton State School for 11 years, before retiring from the University of North Texas after many years of service.
The couple currently attends Faith Tabernacle Assembly of God church in Denton, Texas
They have three children; Tonya Davis of Decatur, Texas, Jeff Lillard of Keller, Texas and Darla Soye of Justin, Texas.They also have six grandchildren and one great grandchild.


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The Sopranos: The Final Season
After more than eight years and six seasons, the saga of the New Jersey crime family will come to a close after nine more episodes.
David Chase doesn't look like a mastermind of organized crime. But for millions of devoted television viewers around the world, over the last eight years, that's just what he has been. Chase is the creator, the godfather, of "The Sopranos," the most popular program in the history of cable TV, the winner of multiple Emmy awards, the show that has changed forever the nature of the small screen and made massive fortunes for its producers, its stars and its network. Yet despite Chase's intimate knowledge of all things mob related, when he was asked why his series and other Mafia movies are so popular, he immediately cited a cinema expert of another era: the legendary film director John Ford.
Ford "said that we live in a very complicated technological age," Chase recalled during a free, public question-and-answer session last fall at the McGraw-Hill Building in Manhattan. "Everything's fractured. We work for corporations. The government is beyond you. It's all depersonalized. But a mob movie is you and your tribe. It's you and your clan against the clan over the hill."
After a 10-month hiatus, the final nine episodes of the sixth and last season in the epic saga of Tony Soprano and his crime clan will begin on HBO on April 8. And, to discover the ultimate fate of Tony, one of television's most beloved, evil, influential and iconic creations, what is expected to be the largest audience in the history of cable television will tune in on a Sunday night in June, for the very last chapter of the landmark series.
In recent months, as "The Sopranos" was filming its farewell episodes, three of the show's key figures—Michael Imperioli, who plays Christopher Moltisanti, Tony's conflicted nephew; Lorraine Bracco, who portrays Dr. Jennifer Melfi, Tony's truth-telling psychotherapist; and Frank Vincent, who plays Phil Leotardo, Tony's vicious and cunning archenemy—took time out to talk about the series, its origins, what it has meant to them, and their expectations about life after "The Sopranos."
Little has been revealed about this ultimate season. We know that it begins a year after last June's finale; that Christopher is at last getting a chance to make his Saw meets The Godfather II horror film, with Daniel Baldwin as the star. And that Leotardo has recovered from his heart attack, and that his battle with Tony takes on new dimensions.
But whatever happens, one thing is certain: to paraphrase Edward G. Robinson in Little Caesar—a notable mob tale of a different era—Mother of mercy, this is indeed the end of "The Sopranos."
It will not, of course, be the end of the cash flow to HBO, which, since the series premiered in January 1999, has made hundreds of millions of dollars cashing in on the popularity of Tony and the gang. It's an unprecedented amount of money for a cable network, especially one that sells no advertising.
First, there's the income from the untold number of subscribers who signed up just to watch Tony battle his evil mother, his scheming Uncle Junior and an assortment of Mafioso Machiavellis. Then there's the millions upon millions in revenue from the release of each season's DVD set. And finally there's the sale, two years ago, of syndication rights on basic cable to the A&E Network, which reportedly paid HBO at least $2.5 million per episode—for a total of about $215 million.
Not a bad haul—a lot more than the cash Tony has stashed away behind the walls of his lavish suburban New Jersey home, gained from multiple criminal schemes: from hauling garbage, from the construction business and, of course, from the nude dancers at his Bada Bing! Club. And it's all a part—an unpleasant part, perhaps, but an undeniable one—of the American Dream.
Many questions remain to be answered. Will Tony end his TV days sleeping with the fishes? Entombed in concrete? Or simply blown away? Will he join the witness protection program? Will he ascend to the role of godfather of godfathers, moving beyond his New Jersey fiefdom to control New York as well? Or will he stay just the way he is, walking down the driveway each morning in his bathrobe to pick up the daily newspaper, spending his life fucking anything that comes his way and fucking up anyone who gets in his way?
Will Carmela Soprano, Tony's willing wife, stick with her philandering husband and her deal with the devil, or will she give up the financially comfortable life of a mob wife for safer, if less green, pastures? Will Tony and Carmela's son, Anthony Jr., be true to his heritage and follow in his father's violent footsteps, or will he remain devoted to his new nuclear family: his Dominican girlfriend and her young son? Will Tony's daughter, Meadow, stay 3,000 miles away from her dad, out of harm's way in the bosom of Los Angeles, or will she be lured back to her father's den, and who knows what fate?
Will Christopher achieve his much-dreamed-of success in Hollywood, or will he instead succeed his uncle as top mob gun? Or will Tony, furious at Christopher's fling last year with a real estate agent played by Julianna Margulies, severely punish his straying kin? Will Christopher's fiancée, Adriana, long missing and presumed dead, return from the shadows? Or is she really dead and buried? And will Carmela finally discover the truth about Adriana's fate?
Will Dr. Melfi wind up getting to know Tony even better, on the couch or in bed? Or will the strong-willed shrink maintain her professional distance? What will become of Silvio Dante and Paulie "Walnuts" Gualtieri, Tony's henchmen sidekicks? Will Silvio lose his hair? Will Paulie's walnuts finally get cracked? Will the legendary ducks of Season One return to Tony's swimming pool?
Chase, 61, rarely makes public appearances. But he showed up for the question-and-answer session, which was sponsored by the Center for Communication, an independent, nonprofit media forum, and moderated by David Schwartz, the chief curator of film and television at the Museum of the Moving Image. In front of an international audience of several hundred "Sopranos" fans, Chase, soft-spoken and at times even sounding a little shy, spent nearly an hour and a half telling his admirers about Tony's life, and about his own.
He talked about how "The Sopranos" came to be; the crucial nature of James Gandolfini's contribution to the character of Tony; the origins of Tony's abominable mother; why Tony is in therapy; what really happened to Adriana; what Chase thinks of Italian-American groups' criticism of the show; Chase's own future; and one crucial and unchangeable decision about Tony and his therapist that was made right from the start.
Chase refused, however, to offer even one word about The End, though he has often said that he made up his mind four years ago about what would happen in the final minutes. He did, however, intentionally or not, offer up what might be a clue.
Toward the end of the session, when asked how he managed to find a balance between the show's entertainment factor and the moral issues it engages, he said that for him, that really wasn't the issue. "The only thing I should tell you," he declared, is that "I don't want to do a morality show. I don't really want to say that crime does not pay. It would be very easy to say that. It's said all the time." Might this have been a hint about the show's denouement? We'll see. But he did repeat the same sentiment to Entertainment Weekly several months later, adding that his goal is "to show that there are certain ways that we all spend our lives, and that as adults, we decide our fate, we make our own bed, and we lie in it. [That] free will exists."
Chase admitted to his audience that he is sometimes troubled by the intensity of the violence in the series. "There's way more murder on our show" than in real life, he said. "How many gangland slayings have you read about in New York recently? None. It troubles me, but not on a moral level—on an artistic level. But then I think to myself, we're not doing a documentary. Mob movies, let's face it, have always been about machine guns."
And besides, he said, there has been less of that lately. At first, he was somewhat interested in the aesthetics of violence. But these days, fans are more likely to say things like, "What's going on with that show? Nobody got whacked." And that's just fine with Chase.
Many people, he said, think the show became popular because of all the violence, as well as the cursing and the naked dancers at the Bada Bing! Club. But that's a mistake, Chase said.
"One of the reasons the show was successful early on," he said, "is that you were being shown a look into something you had never seen: the domestic life of Northeast Italian-American organized crime. The Godfather was very operatic, and it was in the past. Goodfellas was the story of a crew, not the story of a guy's family. It was fantastic, but it was also in the past. When 'The Sopranos' first started, we were saying, 'This is what's happening now. This is the present. It's not a period piece.' People felt they were looking into the life of a secret society, which they had never seen before."
How, Chase was asked, are he and his writers able to create characters for whom we root so strongly, but who are at their cores so intensely brutal? Well, he said, it's not necessarily the writers who make it so. The real reason audiences have such affection for Tony, Chase said, "is because of the actor who plays that role." Had it been anyone else but James Gandolfini, "I don't think we would have had to worry about a second season."
One example of the superb nature of Gandolfini's craft, Chase said, was evident at the beginning of last season, when Tony is suddenly, and surprisingly, shot by his Uncle Junior, and is nearly killed. "People get shot all the time on television, and we never see how it hurts," Chase said. "When Jim got shot, it really felt like it hurt."
Chase said he actually learned much about the character of Tony just by watching Gandolfini during the filming of the pilot. "Tony was there on paper, but he brought a lot to it. There's something very charismatic about him, and hurting and sad. He also brings a tremendous volatility—not him personally, but as an actor. When that guy gets upset, you get out of the way."
Aspects of the other actors' personalities have also been incorporated into their roles over the years, Chase said. "The character of Paulie Walnuts is very much like Tony Sirico, in certain ways. Tony is germophobic. He had a close relationship with his mother."
Christopher Moltisanti, Tony's nephew, is one of the more violent of Chase's creations. But Michael Imperioli says that Christopher has changed over the years. "I think he's really evolved," Imperioli told Cigar Aficionado. "Which has been great for me as an actor. TV characters tend to stay the same, but not if the writer is David Chase."
In the final episodes, Christopher "is a lot more mature," Imperioli says. "He's been through a lot of experiences regarding life and love. He's risen up the ladder in the business and gained a lot more responsibility. He's had his heart broken. He's had to do things that have marked him as a man. He's kind of come full circle. He's always been pretty unstable, but he's making an attempt at stability. He has married someone not involved in the business, someone not crazy, not a party person. She's simply more of a traditional wife. He's had a kid. He wants to be a good dad. He's trying to make a go at outside success, trying to produce a movie and going about it in a way that has some potential to be a viable enterprise. He's trying to be as normal as possible, to be more even-keeled. He knows that he has a tendency to go off the rails and engage in destructive behavior, and I don't think he wants that in his life anymore."
But Imperioli admits that Christopher is still haunted by Adriana. "He still thinks about her. I think that's something that maybe dims as time goes by, but is never fully erased. It's always somewhere in his consciousness."
When it comes to all that violence—the show's, and Christopher's—Imperioli says it doesn't trouble him. "What would concern me is if we didn't show the violence," he says. "The danger is to sanitize these guys, to make them a little bit more palatable. I think if we did that, people might get the wrong idea about them. We show them for who they are, warts and all, and the public can make up their minds about them."
Imperioli, 40, grew up in Mount Vernon, New York, in a mostly Italian neighborhood near the Bronx. His dad, Dan, a bus driver, acted in community theater. At age 17, Imperioli started to study acting, a decision that led him to Off Broadway theater and a play called Aven' U Boys. And to movies, with roles in Goodfellas and five Spike Lee films, including, Jungle Fever, Malcolm X, Clockers and Summer of Sam. Georgianne Walken and Sheila Jaffe, the casting directors of "The Sopranos," had cast him in several previous roles, "so it was natural that they would see me, a young Italian guy, for 'The Sopranos.' "
Three years ago, Imperioli returned to his Off Broadway roots. He and his wife, Victoria, laid out more than $1 million of his hard-earned "Sopranos" loot to buy a four-story building on West 29th Street in Manhattan. On the ground floor, they built a 65-seat theater for Studio Dante, their not-for-profit theater company.
"It was my wife's idea," he says. "She said she knew that theater was something I really loved and that I would really be into it. Also, she's a designer, and she wanted to build a place. She also does sets and costumes."
She was right. They've put on seven plays; Imperioli has been involved in directing and producing, and in March, after "The Sopranos" wraps, he will be acting—in a play called Chicken, about cockfighting. "I play a guy who knows a lot about cockfighting and wants to make a big score in that world." Sort of like Christopher and Hollywood.
Imperioli has also gotten into music—he has a rock band called La Dolce Vita, and he plays guitar. "I've been doing it for a year, and I plan to keep on doing it."
Something else he plans to keep working at is writing. He co-wrote (and costarred in) Summer of Sam in 1999, and he has written five "Sopranos" episodes. "I don't know which direction I'll go in," he says, "but I'll be writing."
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Mosaic tables, comfortable furniture and mood lighting, above, enhance the backyard ambience on a warm summer evening. Yarrow 'Moonbeam' can illuminate the garden at night.
Some of the best aspects of summer are the long, cool evenings; the clear, crisp air; the night sky adorned with twinkling stars; and the moonlight shining gently on the earth, lighting up the flora in the gardens with a magical and enchanted hue to bring it to life.
Spending time in the garden is therapeutic at all times, but in summer we have an extended time to enjoy it into the night as well. After a long day of work and chores, it is great to let your eyes adjust to the slight darkness, wander around a bit and have a place to settle down and relax.
Several easy-to-implement ideas can enhance this experience and make your garden a night star.
Nighttime bloomers
Adding the right kind of plants can make a garden glow at night. Some moonlit gardens shine in the evening because of the plants. Such gardens are full of plants that are pale in color, have lighter green-gray leaves or have white, pale-pink or other light-colored flowers. They boast plants that bloom at night and rely on fragrance to attract pollinators, as opposed to day-blooming plants that use color.
My all-time favorite night bloomers include Evening Primrose, with white, heart-shaped petals and a light, lemon/honeysuckle scent; Angel's Trumpet; and Night Phlox, with its almond-vanilla-scented flowers.
Others to consider include Yucca filamentosa; silvery foliage like Artemesia; Stachys byzantine (Lambs ears), Yarrow 'Moonbeam'; Jasmine vine, with its heavenly scented white flowers; Echeveria elegans; Euphorbia characias; different shades of hostas; Helichrysum petiolare 'Limelight'; and Lavandula stoechas (Spanish lavender).
Plants like the Climbing Hydrangea, with its stunning white flowers and leaves that change color from pink to gold to dark green, are shiny, reflective and great additions to moon gardens.
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The night garden often relies on appealing to all the senses – sight, sound, smell, touch and taste. Incorporate the following elements for a full sensory experience.
• Train spotlights on water features, statuaries and architectural elements like arbors, pagodas and arches to add to the nighttime splendor and provide a visual and auditory thrill to the beholder. The use of garden lighting, solar lights, simple lanterns or candle votives creates an inviting ambience to spend time with family and friends.
Landscape lighting today comes in all formats. Using spotlights, focal lights, path lighting and area lighting highlights and accentuate the garden's features, makes it more accessible and allows you to entertain guests into the wee hours of the night.
• Adding comfortable seating and bright furniture like mosaic side tables, bistro tables, cushions and accessories can make the space welcoming and functional. If your yard gets summer wind, then create a sheltered area for sitting, keeping bug repellents like citronella candles and insect traps around the yard to protect from pesky bug bites. A heater or a coffee table with a fire pit adds extra warmth when you need it and provides a toasty place to gather as the night becomes cooler.
• Outdoor movie screens are making an appearance in many home gardens as families congregate to enjoy a movie in the garden.
• Install music streaming in the night garden via hidden outdoor speakers, available in different sizes, designs and price ranges, from simple to those embedded in fake rocks.
The sky is the limit, or rather the canvas against which you can set your garden scene this summer as you enjoy the mysterious and beautiful delights of the night garden.
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Texans Encouraged to "Leap In" for Year of the Frog Activities
AUSTIN, Texas — Do things still go croak in the night? That's the question that the Texas Parks and Wildlife Department and the global zoological community are asking this leap year. 2008 has been designated as "The Year of the Frog," and Texas citizens are invited to get involved in activities to promote amphibian conservation.
Amphibian populations worldwide are declining. The World Conservation Union's Global Amphibian Assessment, a comprehensive assessment on the conservation status and distribution of 5,918 amphibian species, has shown that almost one-third (1,896 species) of amphibians worldwide are threatened with extinction and that 122 amphibian species may have already been lost to extinction within the last 30 years. In the Americas, the outlook is even bleaker, with 40 percent of amphibian species threatened, including over 80 percent of those in the Caribbean region.
To date, dramatic declines have not emerged in Texas, but biologists want to keep an eye on the future.
In recognition of the alarming extinction trends for amphibians, which include the frogs and toads, salamanders, and tropical caecilians (soil-dwelling worm- or snake-like animals), many conservation partners have come together to recognize 2008, a leap year, as the Year of the Frog to mark a major conservation effort to address the amphibian extinction crisis. Zoos and aquaria are inviting the public to support conservation and captive breeding efforts to prevent extinction of amphibian species, while state programs, such as TPWD's Texas Amphibian Watch, are asking citizen volunteers to help monitor trends in amphibian populations in the wild.
According to Lee Ann Linam, a Texas Parks and Wildlife Department biologist, there are many ways Texas citizens can get involved in the conservation efforts for amphibians.
"Families and individuals can learn more about the worldwide issue by attending some of the many Leap Year events planned at Texas zoos. Through participation in Texas Amphibian Watch, volunteers can gather data to help us understand how amphibians in Texas are doing," Linam said. "And, finally, people can even help in their own backyards by creating habitat for amphibians, such as ornamental ponds."
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It's always the right time of year to visit stunning Falls Creek, whether you ski or snowboard or visit the village in the warmer months for all-season adventure.
Visit Falls Creek in the wintertime and discover a stunning alpine village with snow-covered streets, twisted snow gums and rolling views of the surrounding mountains.
Whether you're a beginner or a seasoned pro, you'll reap the benefits of Victoria's largest snow making facilities and the steepest and deepest skiing and boarding. Get the pulse racing on challenging downhill slopes, hit the terrain parks, or hear the kids squeal with delight on the toboggan runs. Newbies can sign up for lessons and there's cross-country skiing, snow shoe tours, fireworks and lots more.
Choose from a full calendar of events celebrating High Country village life. Visit in spring and summer to journey along the 230-kilometre Bogong Alpine Way, which loops through Bright, Mount Beauty, Falls Creek and over Dinner Plain and Mount Hotham. See dazzling wildflowers and collect farm-fresh produce and boutique wines to take home.
Don the lycra and make your way to Falls Creek. Take the 7 Peaks Challenge, or for the off-road type, there's plenty of hard and dirty mountain bike trails to test the skills and get the heart pumping.
Get the freshest air possible on a self-guided walk in the Bogong High Plains. Discover historic cattlemen's huts; fly-fish or row your oars in the Rocky Valley Dam or other Kiewa Valley creeks and lakes.
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Alan Williams scored 24 points Friday night as UC Santa Barbara defeated visiting Cal for the first time, 72-65, and denied Bears coach Mike Montgomery a landmark victory in the process.
Montgomery remains at 663 career NCAA victories, one behind the legendary John Wooden.
UCSB (4-3) had lost all nine of its prior meetings against Cal (6-3) and had not beaten a Pac-12 team on its home floor since 2002.
Jordan Mathews scored 22 points for the Bears, topping his previous career high by 10.
Stanford: Senior guard Aaron Bright will undergo career-ending surgery next month after suffering a dislocated right shoulder in practice last week. He was averaging 5.9 points off the bench this season.
Baylor 67, Kentucky 62: Kenny Chery scored 18 points, including six in the go-ahead run, and the No. 20 Bears (8-1) beat the No. 3 Wildcats in the Dallas Cowboys' stadium. Julius Randle led Kentucky (7-2) with 16 points.
Kentucky 133, Baylor 130: Jennifer O'Neill scored a career-high 43 points, including the go-ahead basket in the fourth overtime, and the Wildcats beat the Bears in Arlington, Texas, in the highest-scoring Division I women's game in history. The previous high was in SMU's 127-125 win over TCU in 1997.
Baylor (7-1) played the last three overtimes without Odyssey Sims, who had a career-high 47 points when she fouled out with 1:23 left in the first overtime.
Richmond's DeNesha Stallworth had 16 points and nine rebounds for Kentucky (9-0).
USF 62, UNLV 61: Claudia Price's put-back with 20.7 seconds left won it for the host Dons (3-4).
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Subject: Bypass Scam
Do you know what a roadway "Level of Service - C" means? It's the reason that Caltrans is wasting more than $300 million of our money on a huge new freeway to handle a miniscule amount of traffic. It's the reason that more than $30 million of local transportation money has been stolen from us and committed to a bloated project that even industry-written highway design manuals caution against. It's the reason that Caltrans will level scores of century-old oak trees, cover hundreds of acres of prime farmland in asphalt, and destroy more wetlands than any other project in northern California over the last half century. It's the reason that smaller, safer, cheaper, and less-impacting solutions for our traffic problems were never taken seriously by Caltrans.
It's all because of a simple phrase that Caltrans wrote into the purpose and need statement for the bypass: "[the bypass must] achieve a minimum Level of Service (LOS) 'C'". These seven words are responsible for all this.
If you don't know what LOS "C" means, you're not alone. None of the regulatory agencies that approved the bypass understood what LOS "C" meant either, even though they signed a statement agreeing to the purpose and need statement years ago. None of them had the slightest clue that they had just been conned by Caltrans into committing their agencies to approving the massive destruction that will besiege our valley for eternity.
Level of Service (LOS) is a rating system that highway design engineers use to figure out how many lanes are needed on a new roadway to handle the traffic volumes projected to use it. The rating system attempts to estimate a driver's perception of the quality of their driving experience during near worst case, peak-hour traffic conditions, and is derived from a complex series of calculations. The calculated LOS ranges from "A" (very low traffic) to "F" (bumper to bumper traffic). Highway design manuals recommend that engineers aim for something in the middle of the range - LOS "C" or "D"- when designing new roadways in order to balance functionality with cost and environmental impacts.
The same design manuals strongly advise against building roadways that will operate at LOS "A" over their design life because the roadway would be overbuilt, wasting public funds and causing undo and unnecessary environmental damage. In the Environmental Impact Statement (EIS) for the bypass, Caltrans declares that "A four lane bypass would provide LOS "A" upon construction, as well as throughout the 20-year design period".
In contrast, Caltrans states that a generic two-lane bypass "would provide a LOS 'D' at peak hour upon construction, as well as throughout the 20-year design period". If you want to experience LOS "D" yourself, drive the stretch of Highway 101 from the north city limit to Reynolds highway at 5:00 pm. Or, simpler yet, log on to Caltrans' website (http://www.dot.ca.gov/dist1/d1tmc/1_cam.php?cam=27) to see real-time photos taken near the truck scales north of town. With a recent peak-hour traffic count of 860 vehicles per hour, this stretch of highway is well into LOS "D" according to the calculations.
But, as one recent editorial writer asked, aren't we getting a two-lane bypass? The answer, unfortunately, is a resounding "NO". The ultimate project is and always has been a four-lane freeway. What we are getting now is 2/3 of a freeway, a Frankenstein version with nearly the same massive footprint and impacts as a four-lane freeway. The same high-speed design as a freeway without the safety benefits of lane-separation. Six miles of inaccessible pavement, suspended 20 feet in the air, with interchanges too far from town to provide any local benefit.
If you dispense with the rigid constraints of a freeway, better alternatives suddenly become feasible. For example, numerous people have suggested the unused railroad corridor as a potential route. Even though it would clearly reduce delay and improve safety, the other goals listed in the purpose and need statement, Caltrans says it won't meet LOS "C". As a result Caltrans cast it, and all other non-freeway alternatives, aside as not meeting their own arbitrary LOS requirement. A railroad route could have completely avoided wetland impacts thereby forcing the Army Corps of Engineers to reject all the freeway alternatives from further consideration under the Clean Water Act.
Caltrans has always wanted a freeway. Be it 1950's thinking, hubris, money but it's certainly not traffic volumes, that's been well established. They knew the purpose and need statement couldn't just plainly state "we want to build a freeway", agencies and the public would have questioned that. So, they did the next best thing. They added seven words; a benign sounding requirement that they knew no one would understand or question. The result is the same.
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Please can someone help- I'm a British passport holder and would like to visit Wat Pah Nanachat for a few months... maybe longer.
As a British passport holder I'm 'visa exempt' unless I wish to stay longer than 3O days. So before I leave should I go here (link below) and apply for a 60 day tourist visa? just so it's less hassle when I'm there. Can I do this on arrival to Thailand?
Once I'm there, as I understand it, I can keep extending my Visa (by 15 days?) by popping across the border to Laos and Cambodia.
Single or return.
Again, this is only as I understand it: The airline that you travel with can get fined for bringing in travelers that don't have any plans of onward travel, so they require proof before they let you board in the UK. Now, if I bought a single with no proof of onward travel (only with the excuse that I want to travel around Asia- which I don't) would this be okay?
The difficult bit seems to be boarding the plane in the UK because on arrival to Thailand customs only require proof that I have adequate funds to provide for onward travel- like a bank statement. Is this right?
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Cause Celebrè to Present JOAN'S SHOW, 8/18
Cause Celebrè announced that renowned actress Joan Copeland will star in her autobiographical tale entitled Joan's Show, directed by Joel Vig and accompanied by Dennis Buch. Joan's Show will perform at The Acorn Theatre (410 W 42 Street) on Thursday, August 18 at 2PM. Tickets are $66.25 and can be purchased at www.Telecharge.com or by calling (212) 239-6200.
Born and raised in New York, Joan was the youngest of three children of a middle class Jewish couple, Isidore and Augusta Miller. Her father was a manufacturer of women's clothes and her mother a homemaker who instilled in her children a love of art and literature and music. Her older brother, Arthur Miller, grew up and became one of America's most beloved playwrights with hits like A View from the Bridge, The Crucible, The Price, and Death of a Salesman.
Joan's professional career began in 1945 playing Juliet in Romeo and Juliet at the Brooklyn Academy Of Music. She made her Broadway debut in Bessie Breuer's Sundown Beach in 1948. Since then, she has maintained an active show business career including starring roles on Broadway as well as major roles in film and television.
Career highlights include her starring performance in Pal Joey, her Broadway run in Two by Two co-starring opposite Danny Kaye, standing by for Katherine Hepburn in Coco and for Vivian Lee in Tovarich, and originating the role in her brother's play The American Clock for which she won the Drama Desk Award. She also secured the rights from the master himself, Sir Noel Coward, for Conversation Piece which she produced and starred in at the Barbizon-Plaza Theatre in 1957.
But Joan also lived through one of the greatest scourges in American history. During the hearings of the House of Un-American Activities Committee, Arthur Miller was called to testify. Joan found her own life affected when she became a victim of the blacklist and had difficulty for a number of years in finding work.
With great humor, grace, and humanity, Joan relives these milestones in her life and by doing so celebrates her own personal history in theatre, film and television. From her early days with playwrights like Sidney Kingsley and Elmer Rice to her participation in the birth of the actor's studio where she met her future sister-in-law Marilyn Monroe, to a career that continues to the present, Joan has followed her secret heart and the result is a full and rich and magical life.


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WANDERERS take on Reading in the FA Youth Cup fourth round tonight looking to win in Berkshire for the second time this season.
After a third-round victory over Portsmouth at the Reebok Stadium in the last round, David Lee and Tony Kelly's under-18s face the only team to beat them in the first half of the league campaign.
Conversely, Wanderers were also the only team to inflict defeat on the Royals who finished one place above them, and that was a 3-2 triumph away from home in September.
Lee believes the fact the two sides know each other so well makes for an interesting tie at the Madejski Stadium.
The coach, who travelled down with his side yesterday in preparation for tonight's clash, told The Bolton News: "We saw in the league meetings that the two sides are evenly matched and we know a lot about each other.
"It should be a good game and great experience for the young players to play at another big stadium.
"In the last round they played at the Reebok and it put a bit of pressure on because it was the first time for a lot of them.
"Being away this time, the onus is on Reading and the pressure is off us a bit.
"We have travelled down a day early to prepare the right way and, hopefully, if we perform like we have done for much of the season, we can get the right result and progress."
Lee's charges go into the game on the back of defeat in their first Elite Phase match against Manchester United on Saturday.
A stoppage-time winner for James Wilson gave the young Red Devils a 3-2 win at Lostock in a match that saw Zach Clough net a brace either side of goals from Jack Barmby and James Weir. And while disappointed to lose, Lee took a lot of positives from the display.
He added: "The boys did quite well against United considering several who now train with the under-21s only had one session back with us the day before the game.
"We showed a little bit of naivity to concede in added time but it shows how far we have come that we are disappointed to lose to a Man United team.
"We can take positives into tonight, and with a similar performance we have every chance of winning."
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Center for Advancement of Learning hosts First Step, a summer program for college-bound students with learning disabilities and/or ADHD
The Muskingum College Center for Advancement of Learning will offer First Step, a program designed to improve the transitioning and academic skills needed by college-bound high school juniors and seniors with learning disabilities and/or ADHD, from July 13 through July 26 on the campus. The program is open to any junior or senior student, regardless of whether or not they plan to attend Muskingum.
The cost of the two-week program is $2500 and the registration deadline is June 1. To register, call the Center for Advancement of Learning at 740-826-8280.
Non-credit classes offered during First Step include "Introduction to College Writing" and "Justice in Society," which are meant to acquaint college-bound students with the skills including note taking, homework assignments and tests. Also included are lab sessions which complement those classes, as well as visits to the John Glenn Historic Site and Exploration Center and the Alan Cottrill Sculpture Studio and Gallery in Zanesville. Students will also travel to a local pottery, where they will paint their own piece of pottery, a tour of a crime lab and a variety of social activities.
First Step aims to reduce student anxiety and to promote academic success, said Dr. Eileen Henry, Executive Director of Muskingum College's Center for Advancement of Learning, which has provided academic support to Muskingum students for the last 25 years. "Participants develop a better understanding of their unique learning styles, as well as a plan for improving their opportunities for academic success."
These opportunities include diagnostic learning assessments, academic reinforcement and instruction through one-on-one tutoring, learning strategies workshops, and social and emotional support.
"Students will identify their individual strengths and weaknesses and then will be given assistance in practicing strategies such as time management and organization; note-taking; textbook reading; writing, proofing and speaking; memory, testing, listening, and self-advocacy," explained Dr. Henry.
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The submitter believes this gentleman's surname might be Blankenship (Blankinship) or Wilson (Wilton).
The submitter believes this gentleman is related to the couple Parrum Blankenship, b. February 27, 1822 in Kentucky, d. August 17, 1867, Schuyler County, Missouri and Amanda Wilton (Wilton?), b. September 10, 1832, Greenup County, Kentucky, d. May 25, 1890, Putnam County, Missouri. They were married January 4, 1847 in Greenup County, Kentucky. In 1850 they appeared in McDonough County Illinois with the Thomas Blankenship and William Blankenship families. Thomas Blankenship was b. 1798, Virginia, and his wife, Permilia, was b. 1796 in Virginia. William, their son, was listed with his wife, Sara, and their one-year old daughter Nancy. The Thomas Blankenship family and the Parrum Blankenship family were listed in the 1850 Carter County, Kentucky Census. All of the adults referred to are interned at St. John Cemetery, Grant Twp., Putnam County, Missouri. These and other unidentified photos are from the album of my great grandmother, Florence Malinda Blankenship Johnson Brown of Elm Twp., Putnam County, Missouri.
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Nikolai Alekseev has become the face of Russia's LGBT community. He comes to Dallas to discuss the plight and triumphs of gays worldwide and how today's community can work toward equality everywhere. Gay Liberation Network's Andy Thayer from Chicago joins Alekseev talking about his experiences in Russia.
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text: Best Parties of 2011? Auto Show's First Look for Charity rates #3 December 28, 2011 09:00 AM First Look for Charity, the Chicago Auto Show's benevolent black-tie pre-public opening soiree' not only made the list for the "Best Parties in 2011" on wwwNBCChicago.com, but actually rated preferences with voters enough to rate the third best of the year! First Look for Charity stands as one of Chicago's greatest one-day fundraisers, regularly generating about $2 million for 18 area nonprofits. Held the evening before the Chicago Auto Show opens its 10-day public run, the event-now in its 20th year-is eagerly anticipated by socialites, car buffs and party seekers alike. Andy Greiner of NBC Chicago said, "Marcus Riley, our 'Scene' editor-and man about town-selected these parties based on how much traffic they received during the week in which they ran (think most viewed story). "First Look" drove awesome page view traffic for www.NBCChicago.com as it should. It's a great event." "This year we're stepping up the entertainment, too," said show chairman Steve Foley Jr. "In addition to the extensive wine, champagne, extensive hors d'oeuvres, desserts all set among the most beautiful show in America, patrons will be able to enjoy a full hour of music from 'Blues Traveler.' It should be a blast, especially after giving away a new Cadillac SRX and a second Cadillac Escalade! What could be better? We're doing all we can to top this list for 2012!" Mike Ettleson, co-chairman of the event, added that the food for the night will be a showcase of great sponsors from around the city. "We're firming up the list now, but you'll see very familiar names of high-end restaurants who have graciously donated their time and talents to help make First Look the standard by which all others are judged," commented Ettleson. "We should point out, too, that very few charities deliver the high percentage of donations to the charities via ticket price as we do. Show organizers and the Chicago Auto Trade Association step up to foot the bill for the vast majority of the costs-and that's a real testament to their community involvement." Tickets for the event are $250 each and available in advance by visiting www.ChicagoAutoShow.com or http://www.chicagoautoshow.com/first_look/default.aspx. If you haven't been to the event and would like a video taste, watch our promotional video for First Look for Charity here http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=A5E5eZFFFb0&feature=g-upl&context=G227e055AUAAAAAAADAA. Here is the full list of Best Parties of 2011 in Chicago. The list included: The night Lollapalooza came to a conclusion. Akira's 2011 Spring Runway Show First Look for Charity 2011 World's Largest Speed Dating Event Detention Nightclub's Grand Opening Party Gay Pride Parade Ford Models' Crimson Lounge Bash Santa Speedo Run Wicker Park Fest Maxim Magazine's Chicago Bash Dave Matthews Band Caravan St. Patricks Day Shenanigans Cee Lo's Surprise Studio Paris Set Zoe Saldana sightings at the Public Hotel Grand Opening Factor Women's Anniversary Party North Coast Music Festival Volleywood 2011 (Beach volleyball) Chicago Halloween Festivities Grey Goose's Memorial Day Yacht Party Cee Lo Headlines Macy's Glamorama Back to News


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So I'm new to both Dhamma Wheel and the dharma. I came across Thich Nhat Hanh, Pema Chödrön, and numerous other teachers a few years ago, and took their words both as a comfort and a challenge: I can be happy, but I have to be willing to change myself to do that. I live in Tampa, born and raised in a small town near Brooksville (FL), and am currently a graduate student, tutor, and occasional handyman and doer-of-odd-jobs for my living. About to leave academia with my master's and take my chances in this 'real world' I keep hearing about.
No credentials whatsoever, apart from having read a lot about the dharma, and living a life that's become increasingly marked by awareness of dukkha. I was frequently depressed to the point where I wouldn't even get out of bed. I self-medicated through intoxication, which only dug me deeper into my depression. Meanwhile, my life was rolling along just fine (in one sense) and rolling by without me (in another entirely). I quit drinking and withdrew from my social life for a while. Started meditating, mostly zazen and mindfulness meditation. I was trying new things, because I couldn't soothe myself with alcohol anymore. So one evening, I started meditating on metta. Benefactors, loved ones, friends, acquaintances, and when I got to enemies, I curled up on the floor and started sobbing.
So it came to a point where I sat in my sweatpants, alone, and took the Three Refuges. Didn't care if I meant it or not. I wasn't a member of a sangha. I barely understood the basic points of the dharma. The Buddha was just some over-privileged prince in some long-buried Indian kingdom who had a spiritual experience and wound up saying some pretty good things sometimes. I didn't care: the metta meditation experience I had about did it for me: the dharma was worth committing to. That was about two months ago. I recite the Refuges and the Five Precepts frequently, many times a day, because the Pali is beautiful, the meanings are even more beautiful, and because I think taking refuge is best taken as an iterative process of intention and discipline --- not the kind of sudden 'conversion experience' from my Baptist upbringing.
So here I am. I'm intellectually sharp but emotionally stunted. Over-educated white male from a working-class background, stuck in a weird place at a weird age in a weird time. A little more than freaked out about life these days. I do some dubious things sometimes and hide behind the good reputation I built up in less selfish phases of my life. I'm figuring things out as I go along. I've been broken and feel expansive, because it means I get to put myself back together. I know dukkha and don't want to play anymore. And I really do want all beings without exception to be happy, safe, healthy, and that they love freely. I want to help where I can.


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A DISPLAY of World War One memorabilia will be on show at Alresford Community Centre this weekend.
Alresford and District Community Association is staging the exhibition '100 Years on – Alresford Remembers' to raise funds for the refurbishment of the centre on West Street.
The memorabilia includes artefacts, photos, books and items submitted by local people.
The show will be open Saturday and Sunday from 10am to 4pm. Entrance is free and tea/coffee and cake will be available for £2.50.
Organisers estimate that more than 230 men from the town and surrounding villages were killed between 1914-18.


text: According to traditional Jewish Law, a Jew is anyone born of a Jewish mother or converted to Judaism in accord with Jewish Law. American Reform Judaism and British Liberal Judaism accept the child of one Jewish parent (father or mother) as Jewish if the parents raise the child with a Jewish identity. All mainstream forms of Judaism today are open to sincere converts. The conversion process is evaluated by an authority, and the convert is examined on his sincerity and knowledge.Traditional Judaism maintains that a Jew, whether by birth or conversion, is a Jew forever. Thus a Jew who claims to be an atheist or converts to another religion is still considered by traditional Judaism to be Jewish. However, the Reform movement maintains that a Jew who has converted to another religion is no longer a Jew, and the Israeli Government has also taken that stance after Supreme Court cases and statutes.


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New York City -- Search engine giant Google announced the launch of Google Wallet, a mobile payment service that allows consumers to pay for goods via their smartphones. The application is currently being field-tested in San Francisco and New York, and will be available to consumers in the summer.
The new Google Wallet will initially work with a MasterCard from Citigroup and with a prepaid debit card issued by Google, and on one smartphone, the Google Nexus S 4G carried by Sprint Nextel. It will connect only to MasterCard PayPass terminals. There are more than 124,000 PayPass-enabled merchants nationally, according to Google, and more than 311,000 globally.
"MasterCard has pioneered mobile payments with our PayPass technology and we're proud that it is at the heart of Google Wallet," said Ed McLaughlin, chief emerging payments officer, MasterCard.
First Data, a provider of electronic commerce and payment processing, is actively recruiting thousands of new merchants in the test areas and will soon expand those efforts to deploy more contactless merchant terminals across the country, Google said.
"The payments industry has known for some time that it was not a question of if, but when true mobile commerce would become a reality. We believe today is the day that mobile meets payments," said Ed Labry, president, North America, First Data.
Google describes its mobile payment option as a "single-tap" solution, meaning shoppers should be able to pay with a single tap of their phone on a payment terminal, or a swipe past it. The company said it working with point of sale systems companies and top retail brands to create a new "SingleTap" shopping experience whereby consumers would not only be able to pay for an item using a credit card or gift card, but also redeem promotions and earn loyalty points -- all with a single tap of their Google Wallet.
Google is working with VeriFone, Hypercom, Ingenico, VIVOTech and others to develop these next generation point-of-sale systems. Retailers participating in the new SingleTap experience include: American Eagle Outfitters, Bloomingdale's, Champs Sports, The Container Store, Duane Reade, Einstein Bros. Bagels, Foot Locker, Guess, Jamba Juice, Macy's, Noah's Bagels, Peet's Coffee & Tea, RadioShack, Subway, Toys "R" Us and Walgreens.


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janjanyu wrote:Do you think that the men and women have the equal rights?
janjanyu wrote:i mean ,in my country,or some other countries,i don't know,people always suggest that girls should stay at home and do all of the housework,the most important thing in the women's life is to have a hunsband.Even they do have a job and equal ringht.Well ,maybe not.
samanehkarga wrote:of course men & women have the same rights there is no difference between them as God had said too
janjanyu wrote:... the most important thing in the women's life is to have a hunsband.
Ksju wrote:Maybe it looks like now woman can do many things she couldn't do in the past and yes it's true.
But still very often the big problem is with minds of all of us. In some cases we still live and think like medieval man! And yes, this stupid fixed idea of marriage. The main purpose in woman's life is to get married! If you're not married… ???? 'So why?' 'Ohhh, when you're going to catch a husband???', etc. Bla, bla, bla…
Is it tooooo difficult to imagine that woman may have full, happy life without immediately marriage!??
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In the classroom, Clark shows master's level nursing students apps that give them immediate access to diagnostic criteria for various medical conditions.
As in other aspects of life, apps now play an increasing role in health diagnosis and treatment.
"We used to require big textbooks that students had to lug around. There were four or five we'd recommend," Clark explains while using her iPad to access a free medical app called Epocrates. "We hoped that, among a group of 10 students, they would have access to all of them. Now everyone can have the best products at their fingertips."
The Epocrates Rx lists prescription and over-the-counter (OTC) drugs, prescribing information and potential interactions with other drugs. No longer does Clark have to use the heavyweight, annually published Physicians' Desk Reference (PDR).
Not only is the app more convenient, it can be updated more quickly than a traditional book when new drugs come on the market or the U.S. Food and Drug Administration issues a warning about a drug.
The number of health and medical apps is growing almost exponentially, with more than 40,000 currently available, according to industry trackers.
It is no surprise then that the FDA issued guidelines within the past year on what kinds of apps must have FDA approval. While they are still just guidelines and not regulations, app developers and marketers see regs coming soon. Some have already sought FDA approval for their apps.
According to MobiHealthNews.com, which tracks trends in the medical app industry, at least 75 medical apps have received FDA approval in a process similar to what the FDA uses for makers of medical devices such as artificial joints or heart pacemakers.
Just how extensively are health-care providers using apps in their day-to-day work?
Dr. Eric Topol of Scripps Health in San Diego told NBC medical correspondent Dr. Nancy Snyderman in a recent interview he now "prescribes more apps for patients than he does medications."
In the TV report, Topol demonstrated how easily an electrocardiogram (EKG) can be done using a smartphone app. He snapped a device onto his iPhone, put his fingers on the device and, in seconds, had a clear reading of his heart's rhythmic activity.
Health-care providers have at their fingertips immediate access to apps that give them treatment protocols for certain conditions, listings and locations of clinical trials, and access to nearly every medical reference book and journal.
Medical students can use Heart Murmur Pro to listen to 23 heart sounds. The app helps them hone their skills in differentiating the sounds and gives clinical information about each sound.
Health practitioners can send X-rays and other medical imaging tests to colleagues via HIPPA-compliant apps.
For consumers, apps are available to monitor your oxygen levels, blood sugar and blood pressure, among other things. Many of these kinds of apps use another device that connects to your smartphone or tablet.
Apps that help you count calories and track exercise and weight loss are among the most popular.
One developer, Mango Health, is refining an app aimed at increasing patients' adherence to taking medications as prescribed. The app includes a reward system that enables users to earn points for taking their medications. The points can be exchanged for actual merchant or restaurant gift cards.
"There are many devices now that can measure things," Clark concurs. "As a consumer, I wouldn't want to base my health decision on them."
Clark encourages her patients and students to arm themselves with as much information as possible and says medical apps can enhance the doctor-patient partnership model of care she strives for.
But consumers need to check out the reliability of apps before assuming they are evidence-based. For example, the Federal Trade Commission filed a complaint against one company that advertised its app for treating acne. The app said the light from a smartphone could cure acne.
On the other hand, WellDoc has developed the DiabetesManager system that has FDA approval and is expected to be available very soon. The user enters food intake information, medications and exercise activity level. It also can be linked to a glucose monitor to record blood sugars.
Periodically throughout the day, the system advises on foods to eat or avoid and gives other tips for managing diabetes, based on information input. The information is also analyzed using an algorithm and sent to the doctor.
The app is pricey: More than $100 a month. But some people spend two to three times that amount on diabetes medications.
The marriage between mobile technology and medicine is only going to grow stronger — and I am convinced that is a good thing if used appropriately.
Ask your health-care provider which apps he or she recommends. Review those approved by the FDA, and check on ratings by independent trades groups that track this exploding health industry. Then start downloading.
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There's a free app for that …*Suffer from migraine headaches? Check out the My Migraine Triggers app by Novartis for iPhone, which helps you identify and track migraine triggers.
**Lilly's RateMyDay app, children or their parents can chart and rate ADHD symptoms at various times of the day, which provides a clearer picture of how the condition affects the child and can aid in treatment decisions.
*Looking for an app that lets you search symptoms and potential causes and points you to the most appropriate treatment, doctor and facility? iTriage for iPhone does all that, plus tells you average wait times at selected hospitals and where the closest emergency room, dental or mental-health provider, and urgent care center is to your current geographical location.
*Trying to lose weight? MyNetDiary helps you track food intake, exercise and calories; free and paid versions for iPad, iPhone, Blackberry and Android.
*Pregnant? My Pregnancy Today helps you understand, day by day, the changes in you and your unborn baby, with helpful tips from OB experts; for Android and sponsored by Baby Center.
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Dolly is a sweet 10 year old. From previous owner: "I am a small, green-eyed Brown Tabby girl with a lovely personality. I love people and will follow you anywhere you go in the house, keeping you company. I adore my toys (particularly feathers and strings) and talk to you, when you talk to me. If you don't say hello I will butt your hand with my tiny head until you do. If you brush me I will purr in appreciation." Dolly is not quite as loving in the Adoption Center as she is not real happy being there. I am sure she will revert to true form in a home. Currently residing at the Cat Adoption Center at Chow Down in Evergreen.
We are dedicated to promoting the spaying or neutering of all pets while providing the best medical and nutritional care available. All animals are spayed or neutered and vaccinated before they are adopted.
EAPL saves animals from several shelters in the region, most who are in danger of being euthanized, and finds temporary living situations for them until they are adopted. All EAPL animals are living in boarding facilities or foster homes. If you are interested in an EAPL animal, please send an email to eaplevergreen@eapl or submit an application.
EAPL is a foster-based rescue. We do not have a shelter facility where applicants can come look at multiple animals at one time. All of our animals are in foster homes that range from Denver, to Evergreen, to Northeast Colorado - where they are loved and cared for until they are placed in a forever home.
The adoption process begins when you complete an online Adoption Application, naming either one or a few of our Available Animals or providing a description of the type of animal you hope to adopt. Completing an application does not restrict you to a specific animal, nor does it obligate you to adopt.
Once we have received your application and determined that you are a good match for the requested animal, we will contact you. The foster parent will then contact you to arrange a time for you to meet the animal, at which time you can decide if you would like to complete the adoption. You may be asked to visit the animal more than once before taking it home. After your initial meeting with the animal, one of our volunteers will conduct a home visit. This may occur before you take the animal home or when the animal is delivered to you.
Once the adoption is approved, you will need to complete our Preliminary Adoption Agreement and pay the adoption fee. We will keep in contact over the next few days to make sure everyone is happy. If so, we will mail out an official Adoption Contract for you to sign and mail back. At that point, your adoption fee will be deposited.
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Our job is to find each of out animals the right home. Rejected applications are not necessarily a reflection on the applicant's home, but rather based on the determination that the home is not the right match. Before adopting, keep in mind that many of our animals have never lived inside a home. Some dogs may never have been walked on a leash, socialized, house trained or spent time with other animals. All, even those who previously have been in loving homes, will need patience and understanding as they learn to adapt to a new life and family. Rescued animals need adopters who will not give up on them if they have accidents in the house, pull on the leash, dig in the yard or act nervous or frightened.
Because of the work done in our foster homes and the care we take in matching animals with the right home, most of our animals will fit in their new homes immediately. But some will not. Many will need some form of training.
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Puppies $175 (under 1yr) - includes age appropriate Distemper/Parvo vaccines and Spay/Neuter at our assigned vet. Pit Bull puppies will receive a microchip. Spay/Neuter deposit of $50 is required if not altered at time of adoption due to age.
Adult cats $75 - includes vaccines (does not include Rabies) and Spay/Neuter.
Kittens $75 - includes first vaccines (does not include Rabies). Spay/Neuter deposit required if not altered.
Spay/Neuter Deposit $50 - Per Department of Agriculture's requirement, EAPL will collect a $50 deposit for any animal unaltered at time of adoption due to age. The $50 deposit will be refunded once adopter has shown sufficient proof of alter.
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'But how did he break up all those fights over the years and never miss a game? "The biggest, toughest men have a real mutual respect for one another. If they fight, they get their licks in and then eight out of 10 times they'll stop on their own. All you have to do is say, `Are you guys done?' They'll compliment one another and go to the penalty box. It's not hard to break up fights."'
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Not having compared them in the field I would say they fly about the same distance given a successfully executed throw. I'm not really sure. The Valkyrie, of course, comes back a bit more at the end. Valkyrie + Roadrunner smacks of overlap to me (is it?), hence I thought to complement the Roadrunner with the SOLF.JR wrote:Do the Valks fly farther than the Roadrunner? If not you have some power. The next step up in power requirement and distance would be Beast or a little easier Gold Line Flow.
I tried the TD in D-line and C-line plastic. The D was a bit lighter (~166g) and beat up quickly to become difficult to control, while the C had the plus rim which did not suit me at all.
I'm not sure I feel comfortable using anything faster than Valk/RR/SOLF given my current distance/skill level. The Flow and Archon are two discs I've had in mind, though.


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I'm still seeing just as many compelling short steps as I am long ones, but that's not giving me reason to join the bear camp yet. For this to happen, price and volume trends in the major averages would have to deteriorate significantly. I'm still not seeing anything in the way of meaningful sell signals....370 more words left in this article. To read them, just click below and try Real Money FREE for 14 days.
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The woo right now is all sorts of awesome.
Robinson is a dirty uniform kind of guy.
Butterflies and zebras and moonbeams
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Mes is bunting. Robinson is swinging for the fences.
Makes sense at this hour.
I think we see a lucky 13th
"You only have to bat a thousand in two things; flying and heart transplants. Everything else you can go 4-for-5."
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Reds just traded for Janish and Valdez. We are in good shape.
You know this game is going to last forever when Soriano starts making good plays.
Nice catch there - damnit
If evolution is outlawed, only outlaws will evolve!
soriano makes that catch one out of every 8 million times...why tonight
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That's why Soriano has a good UZR rating. Covers some ground for a left fielder.
Choo has the gummy helmet look.
Butterflies and zebras and moonbeams
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"You only have to bat a thousand in two things; flying and heart transplants. Everything else you can go 4-for-5."
-Beano Cook
I dont care who wins now just somebody end it the reds are exhausted and can't take extra inning games right now
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2007 Process Automation Hall of Fame
Each year, the top three vote getters are inducted by their peers into the Process Automation Hall of Fame. The careers of this year's class run the gamut from the theoretical to the ruthlessly practical.
By Walt Boyes, Editor in Chief
People come to the discipline and practice of process automation in many different ways and come down some pretty twisty paths. How did growing up on a potato farm outside Waupaca, Wis., prepare Jim Christensen for becoming one of Allen-Bradley's and then Rockwell Automation's senior engineering theorists, for example? These are truly fascinating people for what they have already achieved, as well as what they still will in their ongoing careers.
Getting Elected to the Process Automation Hall of Fame
You cannot apply to the Hall. Each year, the editors of Control and the previous inductees to the Hall of Fame produce a nomination slate listing as many as ten highly respected engineers or process automation professionals. Then the previously inducted members of the Hall of Fame are asked to vote for three from that list. The top three vote getters are inducted by their peers into the Process Automation Hall of Fame.
James H. Christensen
Potatoes to PLCs, and only semi-retired.
From that potato farm in Wisconsin, Jim Christensen went on to the University of Wisconsin, earning a doctorate in Chemical Engineering/Computer Science in 1967, during which time he participated in a foreign exchange program with the Instituto Tecnologico y de Estudios Superiores in Monterrey, Mexico. He went on to postgraduate work at Dartmouth College, where he showed early promise by becoming a Ford Foundation Fellow in Engineering Design.
His early career alternated between academia and practical work. After leaving Dartmouth, he joined Chemshare Corp., where he developed automated calculation-sequencing and convergence-forcing modules for large chemical plant design and simulation programs. Later, for what was then the U. S. Atomic Energy Commission, in a two month period he designed, debugged and documented data acquisition hardware and software interface between a PDP-8L minicomputer and a large EAI hybrid computer.
Throughout the 1970s, Christensen alternated between operating as a real-world consultant and an academician, except for a sojurn in the late 1970s into running a company that made and marketed electronic musical instruments. Following that, he became senior systems engineer for TI's PM550 and 510 programmable controllers.
In 1982, he was hired as manager of advanced research and development for Allen-Bradley, later Rockwell Automation. During his 23-year career there, he led the development of the IEC 61131-3 Standard for Programming Languages for Programmable Controllers, the global standard for this segment of the automation and control market. He has also led the development of the IEC 61499 standard, the successor to IEC 61131-3, for the next generation of industrial automation and control. His Function Block Development Kit software is the first internationally used IEC 61499-compliant software tool kit.
In addition to his work with the IEC, he has been in leading positions in the international Intelligent Manufacturing Systems (IMS) Program since its inception in 1990. He has served in both technical and management positions in the Holonic Manufacturing Systems (HMS) consortium, comprising major industrial and academic partners from Japan, Europe, Canada, Australia and the United States. He is a founding Member of the Board of Directors of the new IMS OOONEIDA Community of Common Interest for Intelligent Distributed Automation.
Jim retired from Rockwell in 2005, mostly so he could devote his entire attention to evangelizing for IEC 61499, which he does from his post as president of Holobloc, Inc.. Christensen says, "The 61499 standard has so far inspired a lot more academic research than industrial adoption—an indication that it is still quite far advanced from the state of the art in industrial practice."
About those twisty paths, Christensen says, "the last good book I've read is The Reluctant Parting: How the New Testament's Jewish Writers Created a Christian Book by Julie Galambush," he says. Christensen goes on, "Probably my most interesting project is trying to adapt the Tibetan Buddhist path of spiritual development called the "lam rim" ("steps on the path") to Christianity." He concludes, "There is a long spiritual odyssey behind that, but that is another story."
Along the way, Christensen married. "As of January 27, I'll have been married to the same fine woman for 44 years. We're the proud parents of two very accomplished sons and four lovely grandchildren," Christensen boasts that, "One of the great pleasures of semi-retirement is being able to hop in the car and drive over to see them."
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You should be tested for HIV-2 infection if you:
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- Mycobacterium avium complex (MAC).
Because HIV-2 is transmitted in the same ways as HIV-1, people who have HIV-2 should follow the same precautions as people who have HIV-1. It is possible to be infected with both HIV-1 and HIV-2.
Since 1992, blood and organs donated in the United States have been screened for HIV-2, so the risk of developing HIV-2 infection from a blood transfusion or organ transplant is extremely low.
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