text:
Adair County Public Library holds 'Downton Abbey' tea party
Sat, 04 Jan 2014 00:34:14 GMT —
The Adair County Public Library in Kirksville held a special event for 'Downton Abbey' fans Friday afternoon.
With the season four premiere of 'Downton Abbey' airing Sunday, fans of the popular show gathered to drink tea and talk about past seasons of the show.
This is the first time the library has held an event like this, and they plan to hold more in the future. The library is celebrating the 25th anniversary of the building this year, and directors are hosting different programs and events for people in the area to enjoy.
Those who attended Friday's tea also had the opportunity to discuss their favorite 'Downton Abbey' seasons and characters as well as learn about the time period of the show, thanks to different books available from the library.
"We thought this was a great time and a great way to get caught up on what we had forgotten about from previous 'Downton Abbey' stories and so we thought this would just be a real interesting library program," said Glenda Hunt, Adair County Public Library Director.
If interested in catching up on past seasons of 'Downton Abbey,' the Adair County Public Library has seasons 1 thru 3 available for check out.


text:
Lake Geneva City Council finally facing quorum
"I have attorneys telling me that it's the only way we can put the city council back together," he said.
Since Chesen suspended four of the eight council members, the council hasn't had enough members to create a quorum.
Chesen on Monday rescinded the suspensions of Arleen Krohn and Penny Roehrer, and a special meeting today could be the first time in about a month the council has been able to raise a quorum and meet.
The council today was expected to take up the mayor's recommendation to appoint Larry Magee and Sturges Taggart as replacements for still-suspended council members Mary Jo Fesenmaier and Tom Spellman, respectively.
The meeting was scheduled for 2 p.m. today at City Hall, 626 Geneva St.
Chesen said he reinstated Krohn and Roehrer, as opposed to the other two, because he has faith in their ability to execute their duties as elected officials.
"Arleen and Penny, I felt, were the two of the four who I most would be able to work with and who, hopefully, would at least try to do the right thing for the city as we go through this process," he said.
Neither Krohn nor Roehrer could be reached for comment Tuesday afternoon.
Chesen dismissed speculation that after the council is restored to eight members he might again suspend Krohn and Roehrer and try to appoint replacements for them.
"That is not something that I would want to do," he said.
The council attempted to meet Monday afternoon to take up the appointments of Magee and Taggart, but it could not raise a quorum and was forced to adjourn. Neither the reinstated council members nor the suspended council members were present.
Attorney David Williams, who is representing Fesenmaier, Krohn, Roehrer and Spellman, said he expected at least the reinstated council members to attend today's meeting.
Chesen on Sept. 10 suspended Fesenmaier, Krohn, Roehrer and Spellman, accusing them of misconduct and violating the Wisconsin Open Meetings Law. He has accused Roehrer and Spellman also of neglecting their duties.
A hearing for the charged council members had been scheduled for 6 p.m. today, but it has been postponed until a special prosecutor is appointed.
The council members have denied the charges against them, according to documents filed by their attorney Monday.
Chesen on Sept. 14 tried to appoint four people to replace the suspended council members, but the council failed to raise a quorum, putting the appointments on hold.
Williams earlier filed suit in Walworth County Court seeking reinstatement of the suspended council members and a temporary injunction to prevent Chesen from appointing replacements. The case was to be heard Tuesday, but Williams asked that it be rescheduled after learning Chesen had reinstated two council members.
Last updated: 11:19 am Thursday, December 13, 2012

subset: commoncrawl


text:
Adam Lindsay Gordon
Adam Lindsay Gordon (19 October 1833 – 24 June 1870 / Azores)
» Click to list general statistics » OR, select a date :
To My Sister
On 4th August, 1853.
Being three days before he sailed for Australia.
Across the trackless seas I go,
No matter when or where
read more >>
- Hits: Number of visitors who read the poem on the given date.
- Posts: Number of visitors who posted the poem to a friend (via e-mail) on the given date.
- Dates that have "0" hits may not be shown on the list.
- Dates, poems and poets that have "0" hits may not be shown on the list. Statistics are generated daily.


text:
PORT HARCOURT, Nigeria -- Anger and frustration that Nigeria's huge oil wealth has not improved the lot of most average citizens is fueling the sort of criminality that led to the kidnapping of two American oil workers off the country's coast last month, experts say.
"There is a lot of anger within the local communities [where these oil companies operate] that the rush for 'black gold' has not led to an improvement in [people's] economic conditions," said Leke Oyewole, Nigerian President Goodluck Jonathan's special adviser on maritime services. Oyewole spoke to NBC News after U.S.-flagged oil supply vessel C-Retriever was targeted in the Gulf of Guinea in late October.
According to maritime news website gCaptain, the ship's American captain and chief engineer were abducted. U.S. officials told NBC News at the time that the working assumption was that the pair had been kidnapped for ransom.
"You need to see some [foreign] compounds," Oyewole said. "The oil company compounds could easily be comparable to living conditions in London or America, but immediately outside their fence local people are living in slums in most cases."
"The people are angry the waters they use are polluted, so they're angry with them and often attack them and kidnap the workers."
Piracy and kidnapping off Nigeria -- 70 percent of whose export revenue comes from petroleum -- and neighboring Benin has gotten so bad that the region was deemed as dangerous as the waters off Somalia on Africa's east coast, according to London-based Lloyd's Market Association, an umbrella group of insurers.
The country is now considered the world's number one kidnap hotspot, according to security firm NYA. Meanwhile, the number of attacks off its coast are growing, according to the International Maritime Bureau's Piracy Reporting Centre. The organization recorded 28 attacks last year -- almost three times the number in 2011.
Nigeria's problems with piracy and generalized criminality got especially bad after the oil industry destroyed traditional jobs, said Dr. Freedom Onouha of the Nigeria National Defense College.
"For a very long time people survived on the waters, particularly on fishing, so this is what is at the very heart of maritime security," he said. "The oil companies came in and this had significant consequences on the environment in terms of oil spills and pollution, which killed the natural resources of the Niger Delta -- destroying original livelihoods."
"Instead of becoming fisherman, they turned to criminal fisherman who are fishing for crime," he said. "When young men are not finding legitimate employment or being handsomely rewarded... they're drawn to violence, because the other opportunities are limited or they do not exist.
"And the oil is not providing job opportunities for them," he added.
There is also the problem of militancy, according to Joseph Hurst-Croft of the British and Niger Delta-based charity, the Stakeholder Democracy Network (SDN). He believes the roots of modern Nigerian piracy can be traced back to a wave of militancy in the early 2000s when people protested about a lack of oil revenues being invested back into local communities.
"This quickly evolved into criminality," he said. "These young armed men realized there were rewards."
Problems with piracy, kidnapping and oil theft got so bad between 2005 and 2009 that it began to affect the entire oil industry.
So current president Jonathan, who was vice president at the time, negotiated an amnesty that saw over 30,000 militants pardoned. Financial aid was offered to train the men in a variety of professions ranging from electricians to doctors.
Instead of solving the problem of criminality, the government's move only exacerbated it, Hurst-Croft said.
The amnesty "showed that people get bought off and gave the impression that violence pays," he said.
But the main problem with the program was that while it worked for those participating in it, it did nothing for the vast majority of men who still saw few ways out of the crushing poverty they had been born into.
"So the challenge will be maintaining and improving overall conditions that make it possible to stop the criminality," Onuoha said.
And until a sustained anti-corruption and economic improvement campaign's are launched to stop piracy off Nigeria, Hurst-Croft said he fears piracy problems may continue or grow worse.
"Do you go after Al Capone or do you go after the guys in the prohibition bars," he added. "At the moment it seems like the guys in the bars."
NBC News' Ronke Philips and Sohel Uddin contributed to this report from Port Harcourt, Nigeria. Henry Austin reported from London.
- After Nigerian pirates kidnap two Americans, hunting for the C-Retriever
- Pirates seize two Americans off Nigeria's coast
- Crime at sea: The world's most pirate-infested waters
- Young Somali pirates offered amnesty amid 'drastic' fall in attacks
- Extremes of wealth and poverty revealed in photographs of Nigerian oil industry


text:
Only members may leave comments. Please log in to leave a comment.
lol I like how your likes is still... Likes: simmeh
NYT lol i only stay up that late on weekends
*gone lol XD wtf
On the bright side, though, I made cookies while I was cute!
Sorry I left. Dx
Happy Saint Patrick's Day! :D
That's okay.
You put ponies in it!?
Sounds beautiful. :3 Do you put flowers in the swan? Where... do you put it?! O.O
You probably wont like this song (since you never like the songs I send you, lol), but I want to share it with you regardless: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=I727FUByFBc
Sorry, Mom!
I also finished Orange Is the New Black... until they add more episodes.. whenever that will be.
OMG YES: https://neonmoderntimes.files.wordpress.com/2014/01/photo-4-21.png The ending of this show desperately needs to be re-written. It just begsssss for it! It wont happen, though, so oh well. Time to read fanfiction to correct the ending! :)
Ugh... that last episode of Dexter. Ugh. The show deserved better than that.
Merry Christmas. ~^_^~
if you want to come back i made a room same name and password as the last one
Hey, come visit DrawChat sometime. Merry Christmas! :)
lol http://fc04.deviantart.net/fs70/f/2010/300/1/e/yaoi_time_xd_by_dark0kun-d31nc52.jpg


text:
As one of Lonely Planet's 300-odd freelance writers, I've been following the coverage of Thomas Kohnstamm's kiss-and-tell travel memoir with interest (Writer's flights of fancy embarrass Lonely Planet, April 15).
According to your article, Kohnstamm's book "tells how the life of a travel writer is one of poor pay, dealing drugs to make ends meet, cribbing information from other sources and, in one case, failing to visit the country he was writing about". Rather than knuckling down to solid on-the-road research (which he was legally contracted to do), he decided to concoct his travel copy while indulging in extra-curricular antics including "sexual encounters with a waitress ... and his need to deal drugs to supplement his author fee".
But far from being "an exposé of the world of budget-travel writing", Kohnstamm's book is just another tired tale of travel-writing excess, playing fast and loose with the facts in the hunt for the next headline-grabbing yarn.
The reality of professional guidebook writing is altogether more prosaic than Kohnstamm's high-jinks suggest. If the book has any merit, it's in busting some of the myths about the life of the professional travel writer: it's certainly not all sex, sunshine and sangria. Life on the road can be hard, lonely and pressurised, with tight budgets, tight wordcounts and even tighter deadlines to juggle.
Most guidebook writers I know have precious little time to be larking about with Brazilian waitresses once they've waded through their umpteenth stack of train timetables, tourist leaflets and cookie-cutter hotels. But, unlike Kohnstamm, most of us manage to deliver high-quality, accurate and thoroughly researched work.
Ironically, Kohnstamm's book illustrates Lonely Planet's greatest strength: its editorial independence. Unlike many publishers, magazines and TV travel shows, Lonely Planet has a rigid policy of never accepting corporate kickbacks, publicity trips or travel freebies. Authors are asked to write with "authority and attitude", and to be balanced and thorough. But we're not company employees, we don't receive any royalties on our books, and we don't have company expense accounts: we pay our research costs out of our own writing fees.
We make the same journeys our readers make, and that's what makes our work uniquely valuable. If Kohnstamm chose to fabricate, plagiarise or "remote-research" his work, it says rather more about his own professional and ethical standards than it does about the company he worked for. The people I've met and worked with at Lonely Planet are talented, informed and dedicated individuals who expend an enormous amount of time, energy and money to produce the kind of honest, reliable travel books our readers have come to expect. Kohnstamm's cavalier attitude to his own professional responsibilities cheapens our collective hard work, devalues our guidebooks' authority, and damages the hard-earned trust we have collectively built up over the past 25 years.
I try my hardest to live up to readers' expectations. It saddens me that Kohnstamm didn't feel he had to do the same.
· Oliver Berry is a freelance writer and photographer


text:
It is not generally known how active and "speedy" was the 67th Congress which just closed. According to the tabulation of its activities, it received, during its two-year period, 14,475 bills. This number was cut down to 1,763, which were reported out by committees; finally 931 laws were passedthe highest number by any Congress since the 59th. Of these, 655 were public or general laws and 276 so-called private lawsthat is, laws granting pensions, or reimbursing individuals and corporations for losses inflicted by the Government. The number of private laws would have been much greater, but for 22 omnibus pension...
National Affairs: Speed
Subscriber content preview. or Log-In
To continue reading: or Log-In


text:
I agree with all these statements. Royal is a class act through & through, but that track ruined her chances before the gate opened. I also think she needs to stay with females from now on. Rachel & Zenyatta were exceptions. The majority of NA females don't do we'll against males even very good ones like Royal.
You are 100% correct, Mike! Every time I hear the "there have always been catastrophic injuries, ect." excuse, I say the same thing; that the public's attitude toward animals, specifically, companion animals, has changed drastically in the last few decades. If the PTB in the sport continue to pretend it's 1950, horseracing is doomed. To this day, I think racing began it's inexorable decline on the awful July dayy in 1975 when Ruffian broke down in front of 20 million TV viewers.
Copyright © 2010 -
Horse Racing Labs, LLC


text:
Five things we learned from Serbian defeat
What we learned from the first defeat of the Martin O'Neill and Roy Keane era at the hands of Serbia.
Reality check
After great fanfare with the managerial appointment and two comfortable games against Poland and Latvia, this was a little sobering against more formidable opposition.
The Serbians are ranked 29th in the world and while they made a sluggish start, that extra bit of class was telling in the second half in particular.
As ever with the team, there can be few questions over the work-rate in the team, but at times composure and that extra bit of quality was absent from the home side's play.
A crowd of 37, 595 spectators showed the willingness to get behind the boys in green, but the game served as a reminder that there is a lot of work ahead for Martin O'Neill and Roy Keane to put their stamp on this team.
A feature of the Trap era was the inability to hold onto the ball, regardless of the calibre of opposition. After a lacklustre beginning, Serbia grew into the game and after the interval were vastly superior at retaining possession than the boys in green.
Glenn Whelan faded in the middle of the park after a bright opening and we lost even more shape after James McCarthy left the field in the second half amid a flurry of substitutes introduced.
This was never something that was going to disappear overnight, though it was disappointing to see the Irish team struggle so badly in the final 20 minutes to string together meaningful passes in the Serbian half.
The continued use of Wes Hoolahan, who will seek the ball on every occasion, will help but it is an area that will need vast improvement.
Absence makes the heart grow fonder
Robbie Keane has had his fair share of critics throughout his career, which have become vocal in more recent seasons, but you don't become a record goalscorer without a clinical touch.
Last night Shane Long showed great endeavour and got the home side off the mark, but he fluffed two excellent chances to add to his tally with just the goalkeeper to beat.
The Hull striker admitted to being frustrated with his inaccuracy in front of goals which was one of the major talking points from last night and it will merely strengthen the argument that the LA Galaxy striker still remains our more potent threat up front.
Shaky defence
It seems highly unlikely that a back four of Ward, Keogh, Wilson and Coleman will play too many competitive games together barring injury, but they looked far from assured last night when given the chance to shine.
The quartet can point to unfamiliarity with each other, but Wilson did little to push his cause as a potential centre-back of note while Coleman had his poorest display in a green jersey.
The Everton man was prominent early on and made some blistering runs down the flank, but defensively he was caught out on a number of occasions, particularly the second goal.
He will put this game to bed quickly, but rest assured O'Neill, a manager who places a huge emphasis on defensive solidity, will not be overly pleased with what he witnessed last night.
Hoolahan's creative spark
Giovanni Trapattoni was never convinced of what the Norwich man could provide in an Ireland jersey, but Wes Hoolahan illustrated last night that he has the creativity that has been clearly missing in recent times.
He created the opening goal of the night and had Shane Long his scoring boots on he may have added to Hoolahan's assist tally on the night.
His precision passing and razor sharp vision will be invaluable as Ireland look to unlock defences and despite reservations from the previous management, was busy throughout even without possession of the ball.
Declan Whooley
Online Editors


text: At A.C.Ong Consulting Inc. (ACO),we have the resources and the expertise of a large engineering consulting firm, but we strive to maintain the family atmosphere of a small firm. Since our founding in 2002, we have earned a reputation as one of the country's leading Structural Engineering and Project Management firm, providing consulting services to the infrastructure development and construction industry. ACO believes that quality client service goes beyond technical excellence. It includes responsiveness to client needs, value for reasonable fees and a caring attitude. We focus on delivering excellent service and exceptional value to our clients.


text:
Lesbian Bisexual Dateing
The Best Site: Bi Experience
lesbian bisexual dateing
lesbian bisexual dateing
Click here to preview this breathtaking bisexual srap-on movie. Speaking of limitless sexual pleasure we almost always refer to some kinky sexual entertainment, something really wild and unusual, something we wouldn't usually share with our friends. For many men, any kind of sexual intercourse with another men is considered a taboo, even if they dream to suck on a throbbing cock and feel it deep up their butts. That's why many men cling to bisexual relationships that seem more innocent and allow them to make all of their wild dreams come true. Meet Steve, Robert and Trisha, hot threesome from London, who met to please each other in quite unusual, but extremely pleasant ways. Both Steve and Robert were dreaming of some gay or bisexual action for very long time. Both were searching for like-minded people on the Internet and finally found Trisha, who said she was fond of fucking horny men with her huge strap-on and watch them sucking each others' cocks and fucking and get her own voracious holes drilled by two rock-hard cocks. The very nexy weekend they met at her place and the wild action began. At first, Robert and Steve felt a little bit uncomfortable, but Trisha quickly made their lust shooting out and the guys began passionately sucking on each other's cocks before Trisha started pumping their assholes with her heavy strap-on. You can preview this fascinating bisexual strap-on movie click here.Or you can join StraponService.com and download all full-length movies featuring hot chicks with heavy strap-ons fucking horny men.
Horny threesome of two bisexual hunks and hot slut with a strap-on goes dirty and wild Bi Group Sex
Related tags: lesbian bisexual dateing, jennifer knapp bisexual, lesbian bisexual dateing, french bisexual, lesbian bisexual dateing, bisexual footjobs
Two guys wanted to double-team this blonde hottie, but ended up assfucking like two long-time gay lovers! Sexy girl and two bisexual guys trading places and trying various positions for threesome sex. Fucking that pussy was awesome, but ejaculating in his buddy s ass was even better! Lucky guy fucking two hot bisexual chicks! Gay couples trying threesome sex with sexy girls! Two friends picked up the hottest chick ever in a local club, but she wants to see them fuck each other before letting them double-team her sweet pussy. What s it gonna be? Visit bisexplanet.com and find out! Married couples expand their sexual horizons inviting hot men and women to join them for some dirty bisexual fucking. Lucky guy joins two playful lesbians and fucks them both after a great double blowjob! Two swinger couples trying bisexual foursome and obviously loving it! 100% exclusive bisexual videos hottest scenes of hardcore three-way fucking! Wanna se these handsome guys take a break in fucking pussy and have some man-on-man fun? Enter bisexplanet.com and check out our new exclusive videos stuffed with nasty bisexual fucking! This hottie doesn t mind her boyfriend cheating on her if she is allowed to join. Feeling a cock inside your butthole while fucking a hot juicy pussy can it get better than that? Click here to find out! Two sexy girls just wanted to share this big cock, but ended up licking each other s pussies while getting nailed by this mighty fuck tool! MMF and FFM videos! Bisexual men and women fucking in trios and quartets!
My other blogs: naturalboobmomhandjob porntubethickgirls pregnantmilkinglactation
Related posts:
- Candy Alexa Creampie Download Creampie Surprise 8 Super Soaked Sluts Spread Wide And Let You Blast Their Twats And Ass With Cock Cream
- Home Made Animal Sex Video Bone My Wife Com
- Free 1st Time Anal Vids Backdoorlesbians
- High Heel Fetish Clips – Only Opaques %26amp%3B%238211%3B Candice In A Cheerleader Uniform Pantyhose1 %3A%3A Jessica%26amp%3BElla Sexy Pantyhose Lesbians
- Blonde Forced To Give Blow Job Dirty Blonde Teen Sucks Cock Glory Hole Gaggers Exclusive To Killergram Com


text:
Stakes-placed Lightnin N Thunder was represented by his first winner when his daughter, Always Enchanted, won Sept. 14 at Belmont Park.
A homebred for George Steinbrenner's Kinsman Farm, Always Enchanted won the six-furlong race in 1:11.53. She is the sixth foal and fifth winner from the Seeking the Goldmare Sweet Magie, who is a half-sister to Horse of the Year Holy Bull.
Lightnin N Thunder (Storm Cat--Things Change, by Stalwart) stands at Arthur I. Appleton's Bridlewood Farm near Ocala, Fla. His 2007 fee was $4,000.


text:
Nilaja Sun's one-woman show, No Child..., has extended for two weeks at off-Broadway's Barrow Street Theatre. The show will now run through August 14. The return engagement of No Child..., which originally ran for 311 performances at the Barrow Street Theatre in 2006, opened on June 19.
Based on her own experience as a visiting artist in the New York City public schools, No Child... allows Sun to transform with rapid-fire precision into the teachers, students, parents, administrators, janitors and security guards who inhabit a big-city school. (Learn more about the show in this Broadway.com video feature.)
After her initial off-Broadway run, Sun embarked on a national and international tour of No Child… and took home 17 awards including an Obie, a Lucille Lortel Award, two Outer Critics Circle Awards (including outstanding new American play), a Theatre World Award, Helen Hayes Award and L.A. Ovation Award.


text:
My Nonprofit Reviews
57 profile views
1 reviews
Review for Peoples Theatre Project Inc, New York, NY, USA
PTP is a vibrant organization, whose potential for greatness is limitless, and it is only enhanced by the involvement of the general public in providing support for their activities. They have truly touched many lives, ranging from the young and hopeful, to the old and knowledgeable. I encourage everyone to stretch out their hand in support, may it be a financial contribution or some hours of your week!
More Feedback
Will you volunteer or donate to this organization?
How much of an impact do you think this organization has?
When was your last experience with this nonprofit?
Role: General Member of the Public


text:
A funny Harrison Ford? We didn't think so either, until we got a look at him playing an irascible, sarcastic newscaster in this comedy about a television morning show. With Diane Keaton as his much maligned on-air partner and Rachel McAdams as the boss who fails, repeatedly, to rope him in. 11/12
The days are getting shorter, but there's still plenty to do. Take a spin through the best of the coming season


text: lipsryme 1522 Report post Posted January 3, 2014 (edited) Hey guys I'm now trying to implement some vertex clipping in my software rasterizer. I read about how this works on hardware using guard bands that basically define a much bigger viewport around the actual viewport and only clips in the rare case of a triangle having at least one vertex inside the actual viewport and at least one outside the guard band viewport. So my idea is to define a viewport rectangle (minX, minY, maxX, maxY) and first check if the entire triangle is inside my actual viewport (i.e. using the transformed w coordinate of all 3 vertices)... Because I know that the following cases can happen: - The triangle is completely inside my viewport (trivially accept),which in contrast means if this is false then the triangle is either inside the guard band or even outside of it so we can safely skip this triangle. - The triangle is partly inside my viewport and partly inside the guard band (trivially accept) because the rasterizer will not draw the parts that are outside the viewport anyway but we still need to rasterize the parts that are inside. - The triangle is party inside my viewport and partly outside the guard band (nontrivial case), which means that this triangle actually needs to be clipped at the guard band rectangle. Now here's my first problem (probably more to come ): Let me first quote fabian giesen real quick: "Note that there is no need for rasterizer coordinates to agree with render-target coordinates, and if you want to maximize the utility of your guard band region, your best bet is to translate the rasterizer coordinate system such that the center (instead of the top-left or bottom-right corner) of your viewport is near (0,0). Otherwise large viewports might have a much bigger guard band on the left side than they do on the right side (and similar in the vertical direction), which is undesirable." Maybe this is trivial but it's a little unclear to me. How exactly do I do that translation ? And where ? Directly after vertex transform ? Or just before rasterizing ? Update: I think his sentence is a little confusing because after thinking about it the only time I need these is when actually using the guard bands, which means only for clipping after vertex transform... Edited January 4, 2014 by lipsryme 0 Share this post Link to post Share on other sites


text:
Miranda Kerr May Have Lost Her Victoria's Secret Angel Wings
They say every time a bell rings, an angel gets its wings. So when those wings are clipped, do we hear a sad trombone?
Hang around Miranda Kerr today to find out, because she's reportedly lost her gig as a Victoria's Secret Angel. Maybe. Depending on whom you ask.
Kerr's $1 million, three-year contract hasn't been renewed, and sources tell Us Weekly it's because she has a "difficult reputation." They also allege that she's just "not a big seller" for the line (despite eliciting "huminah huminahs" everywhere she goes).
"They can still use her for catalogue, where she will get a day rate, but she doesn't have to be an Angel to do that," continued the source.
But VS's chief marketing officer, Ed Razek, sang a different tune, telling E! News the company has "no plans to stop working with her" and has already invited her to walk the runway in its 2013 show.
"She is also a consummate professional," he added. "Any rumors to the contrary are simply untrue."
He did not, however, address whether or not her contract has been renewed.
Kerr, who is the mother of a 2-year-old son with husband Orlando Bloom, became the first Australian model for Victoria's Secret in 2007. And judging by how she looks in the company uniform, she's probably more than earning her keep.


text:
Website: www.vburgerbar.com.au
Entertainment Book Card: 25% off (up to a value of $15)
Eating WA VIP Card: 15% off (up to a value of $50)
V Burger Bar occupies half of what used to be Bintang Cafe in East Victoria Park, facing Albany Highway. There was a great hype when it first opened as it seemed to be different from the usual franchised burger joints around the place, and the only one in Vic Park (good for me as I live so close!).
The burger bar itself is modern and clean. It is open-aired with large tables (some may be too large) and a side bar area lined with high stools. It is not a very big place so it could get quite congested during a busy dinner night. Luckily the waiting time for seats are not too long due to the high turnover nature of this type of cuisine.
The menu is not too big but there is enough variety in there to keep one satisfied. I had a hard time choosing the burger I wanted as they all seemed so attractive!
We ended up having the following:
- Eggy Steaky ($15) – 150g steak, creamy melted Tasmanian brie cheese, fried egg, caramelised onion jam, mixed gourmet lettuce, tomato and aioli
- Pepperizo ($13.80) – black peppered beef, mixed gourmet lettuce, Spanish chorizo sausage, chargrilled red pepper, aioli and V sweet tomato relish
- Mr Pinky ($15) – Tasmanian salmon fillet, mixed gourmet lettuce, tomato, onion and honey mustard dressing
- UPGRADE of the burger to a meal with chips and a can of drink for an extra $5
The first thing I noticed when the burger came was how massive they were. The Eggy Steaky and Pepperizo were stacked to the brim full with goodies. It was hard to eat the burger in one bite (unless if you have a big mouth which I'm glad to say I'm not quite there yet :p). I managed to try all three burgers and my two favourites were the Eggy Steaky and Mr Pinky.
The steak in the Eggy Steaky was juicy and tender and I'm sure was specially marinated as it was so tasty. This in combination with the melting cheese, jam and aioli made it one big mess on the plate but it was oh-so enjoyable! It was okay that the sauce were dripping through your fingers the whole time, you just lick them up and keep on going! Yummo! (Just remember to wash your hands before and after the meal though!)
Mr Pinky was right up there alongside Eggy Steaky with the chunky salmon and the honey mustard sauce that went so well with it. I would order that again any day. It was also so much easier to eat as it was smaller in size. None of the sauce dripping business either. Phew!
I didn't quite like the Pepperizo as the taste of the chorizo/tomato relish didn't blend in too well with the beef. I rather eat them as individual items. Chips were average as well, not as crunchy as I like them.
One thing I noted about this place is how friendly and chatty the staff were! They were patient in explaining the menu and very accommodating with our requests. We didn't have to wait too long for the food either. Overall it was a great experience. I would definitely be back to try the other burgers!
Rating: 4.25 out of 5 stars
Rating by: N.L.
V Burger Bar
Telephone: 08 9355 3702
Address: 12/910 Albany Highway, East Victoria Park
Trading Hours
Monday: 5pm – 930pm
Tuesday to Thursday: 1130am – 930pm
Friday to Saturday: 1130am – 1100pm
Sunday: 1120am – 930pm


text:
Chittenden Peak
|[ Sizes: Orig | Med | Small | Thumb ]
Chittenden Peak and Jack Main Canyon from the northwest. The Pacific Crest Trail runs through Jack Main Canyon. Photo taken August 21, 2005.
Rate This Image
Current Score: 72.7%
Log In To Vote
[ View 3 Votes | Post Comment ]
Chittenden Peak (Mountain/Rock)
Alpinist's Image Gallery
Sonora Pass Area (Area/Range)
Image Data
Image ID: 123924
Hits: 1725
Lat/Lon: 38.09860°N / 119.6169°W
Object Title: Chittenden Peak


text:
This is a finished dress tailored and photographed by eDressit.com. All rights reserved. Copying or otherwise reproducing this image is strictly prohibited.
Tailoring Time: 7-10 workdays
Delivery Time: 3-7 workdays
This dress is Made-To-Order. Whether you choose a standard size or custom measurements, our tailors craft each dress to order.
Any questions on Sleeveless Overlace Long Formal Dress Evening Dress (X00155226), welcome to contact us!
Classic, elegant and beautiful! Be red carpet ready in this gorgeous formal long dress. It features flattering mermaid silhouette together with a trumpet skirt, sexy sheer back decorated with stylish buttons. Rock your look and make a statement for your next party!
*Sheer back with stylish buttons
*Mermaid silhouette
*Built with bras
*Zip on the back
*Overlace fabric
*Full length with train (about 155 cm from shoulder to the front hem)
We ship to over 200 countries worldwide, for in-stock standard size dresses we ship in 24 hours.
We have two delivery ways for you to choose:
*Expedited Shipping: 3-7 workdays, 28EUR for the first one, then each additional adds 15EUR.*Standard Shipping: 7-10 workdays, 20EUR for the first one, then each additional adds 15EUR.
If you order a dress in another color or custom-made, it usually needs 10-20 workdays to finish it.
Click to know more about the Shipping Guide.
Sleeveless Beaded Bodice Red Prom Dress Formal Gown (36161102)
Sexy Plunging Neckline White Prom Dress Formal Gown (36160607)
Navy Blue Beaded Prom Dress Evening Gown (36161105)
eDressit Sleeveless Navy Blue Formal Gown with Sexy Cutouts (00160905)
Capped Sleeves Open Back Evening Gown Bridesmaid Dress (07160320)
Customer Reviews:
We'd love to know what you thought about your purchase! Share a product review with our shopping community using the fields below. To maintain a respectful space for our customers to share their opinions, we will closely moderate all posted reviews for appropriateness in the first 24 hours.
* Required information.
Required information.
Please enter your email address.
Please enter a valid email address.
Upload images from your computer:
Please change the image format to JPG. The image size cannot exceed 3MB in size. Your image(s) will be reviewed by an administrator before being displayed.


text:
Dr. Wu Chen, chairman of the Education Committee, announced the addition of a full-day advanced course, Wastewater/Water Treatment and Filtration, to the American Filtration & Separations Society's (AFS) Filtration Basics Short Course (FBSC) program.
The full-day course will be taught by industry leaders Steve Constable of DuPont Environmental Engineering Section, Dr. Ernie Mayer of DuPont Delaware and Vince Hamilton of Westech, Inc.
Topics in this full-day course include: classification and selection schemes; setting systems; biological treatment processes and sludge management; heavy metals removal technologies; wastewater dewatering equipment; and testing and water filtration equipment and treatment.
Wastewater/Water Treatment & Filtration and the rest of the AFS FBSC program will be offered in conjunction with the AFS Spring 2006 Conference on Monday, May 9 at the Donald E Stephens Convention Center in Rosemont, Ill. CEUs will be awarded upon completion of the course.


text:
Samsung halts Rambus production after Intel delays Camino
Post a comment
SANTA CLARA, Calif. With another delay of a key Intel Corp. chip set for enabling Direct Rambus DRAMs in PCs, Rambus systems have missed the window for the Christmas selling season, analysts say, potentially costing PC makers tens of millions, possibly hobbling the upcoming launch of Intel's next version of the Pentium III and causing at least one DRAM maker to halt production of Rambus parts. The delay could also help give double-data-rate SDRAMs a stronger chance at becoming a mainstream alternative for high-end PCs sold next year.
Companies at every level of the supply chain are reeling from the impact of Intel's last-minute delay of the 820 chip set, code-named Camino. Designed to link direct Rambus memory chips with a microprocessor, the product has been seen as the critical last link needed to deploy RDRAM-based PCs.
Intel had planned to officially introduce the Camino this week, and numerous PC OEMs were poised to simultaneously unveil systems using RDRAM technology. Instead, Intel confirmed that the chip set has failed validation tests, postponing the launch indefinitely. Instead of enjoying a long-anticipated ramp for RDRAM technology, the unexpected turn of events means PC makers, memory vendors and other players in the market must re-evaluate their Rambus strategies. Adding insult to injury, nobody knows whether the products that have already been produced can be used, or if they are destined for the scrap heap.
Faced with an uncertain future for RDRAM sales and rising prices for SDRAM products, memory vendors are starting to shift their production mix. "There will be no more wafer starts for RDRAM until we can better understand how long it will take to resolve the Camino situation," said Avo Kanadjian, senior vice president for memory marketing for Samsung Semiconductor Inc. (San Jose, Calif.). "Any capacity that can be freed up will be reassigned to 128-Mbit or 256-Mbit SDRAM products. We will require some convincing before we restart any RDRAM production."
RDRAM and SDRAM technologies use entirely different mask sets, and shifting back and forth is no small task, although Samsung's Fab 9 was designed specifically to manufacture either type of memory. Kanadjian said the company's current RDRAM inventory totals some 100,000 Rambus chips, and the work now in progress totals several million chips. If Intel cannot identify the bugs in its chip set soon, he said, that should be enough to supply PC OEMs through the end of the year. And by shifting to SDRAM, he said the company could pump several million more SDRAM chips into the channel by year's end.
Other memory makers have also altered their approach to Rambus DRAMs. While Toshiba is continuing with its plans to mass produce Direct Rambus chips in the fourth quarter, it will do so only for the video game market, said Jamie Stitt, DRAM business development manager for Toshiba America Electronic Components (Irvine, Calif.). For the PC market, Toshiba is taking a wait-and-see attitude, Stitt said.
"We're certainly more cautious about going ahead than we previously were" as a result of the latest 820 delay, he said. Because of the overall capacity shortage that exists in the DRAM market, and the uncertainty over Intel's Rambus chip set, Toshiba is considering moving more of its capacity to non-Rambus product, Stitt said.
With SDRAM prices on the rise, the glitch could be an opportunity for memory companies to adjust their mix and increase their revenue in the year's final quarter. Other memory vendors are reacting to the same issues, and Hitachi Ltd. said it they will hold off on ramping RDRAM production pending more solid information about Camino's launch.
PC manufacturers could face even bigger problems since they must also delay the introduction of RDRAM-based systems. "The PC companies are about to go into their biggest season without any whizzy systems to put on the shelves," said Sherry Garber, memory analyst for Semico Research Corp. (Phoenix). "Instead, they have nothing."
One analyst estimated that if OEMs have to scrap their existing Rambus motherboards it could cost them $10 million based on an estimated 100,000 boards. But another source said as many as 500,000 Rambus boards may have already been manufactured based on orders of key components.
Ron Bechtold, vice president of sales and marketing for Hitachi Semiconductor (America) Inc. (San Jose, Calif.), agreed that the delays make it likely Rambus will miss the critical holiday window. "You probably won't get a Rambus computer in your stocking this Christmas," he said.
A spokesman for Dell Computer Corp. (Round Rock, Texas) confirmed that the company will not produce or ship any boxes with RDRAM until Intel can correct the Camino bugs.
At this point, Dell and other PC vendors are waiting for Intel to say whether potential workarounds exist. In the meantime, those designs sit unused. "It's always a problem when you plan to be selling something, and it is delayed," the spokesman said. Unlike other vendors, Dell's build-to-order model means they have not yet begun producing the boxes for shipment and will continue to produce SDRAM-based machines only.
If the PC companies have to scrap their RDRAM-motherboards, it will be several months before the technology can debut, said Peter Glaskowsky, senior analyst with MicroDesign Resources (Sunnyvale, Calif.). And all of that is contingent on Intel's finding the cause of the problem.
"We are continuing to work on identifying the cause of the errors, but at present there is no new launch date," said an Intel spokesman. "We will introduce the Camino when it is ready for high-volume production."
The problem seems to lie in the way the Rambus memory slots interface with the rest of the motherboard, Glaskowsky said. The Rambus design allows for three memory slots containing up to 32 chips each. A typical OEM strategy has been to put all three slots on the motherboard but fill only one, leaving space for expansion.
Slipshod slot
But the third slot in some cases behaves unreliably. "Intel basically had to advise [PC OEMs] they can't use all three slots," he said. "It's my understanding they can't ship motherboards they've already manufactured," said Glaskowsky. The problem occurs even if the third slot is empty, although it is "probably worst in the more heavily loaded configurations," he said.
Indeed, Intel's inability to identify the exact problem is causing stress in the industry. "Intel has told us the delay is indefinite," Kanadjian said. "It is preferable if they could give us some kind of schedule so we can plan our own mix, but I think it's clear that they have already missed two delivery dates and they want to be certain that the next one is 100 percent achievable."
Intel had originally planned to roll out the Camino last spring, but said in February that the schedule would be pushed out for three months. The latest problem scrapped the second planned launch. "This certainly hurts Intel's credibility," said analyst Garber. "Two delays is very serious."
While this delay is embarrassing, said Nathan Brookwood, principal analyst for Insight 64 (Saratoga, Calif.), the real test will come later this month when the company is expected to roll out the 0.18-micron version of its Pentium III, code-named Coppermine. That chip will also integrate the Level 2 cache, which generally brings about a 10 percent performance gain over similar chips running at the same clock speed but with off-chip cache.
Brookwood said Coppermine is the chip most PC vendors expected to really activate the Rambus rush. "If Intel can't correct the Camino situation before the Coppermine debut, that will really throw a wrench into their plans," he said. "[Intel] doesn't even know yet what the problem is. This is an embarrassment to be sure."
The delay could give enough time for some alternative memories to gain a stronger beachhead. Garber suggested that formats such as PC133 chips or double-data-rate SDRAM might be able to capitalize on the Rambus misstep, especially if RDRAM misses the entire fourth-quarter window. "Shifting to 133-MHz SDRAM," she said, "could offer enough of a performance boost to tide the industry over for a while," at which point it's not clear that Rambus will be the only viable contender for next-generation memory dominance.
One company suddenly in the driver' seat is Via Technologies Inc. The Taiwanese chip-set vendor is now the only supplier of a chip set able to support 133-MHz memory chips. In the wake of the Camino debacle, Via may find its product in sudden demand. "This is going to have a strong impact on our sales," said Dean Hays, director of marketing at Via's U.S. subsidiary in Fremont, Calif. "We always say our success is based on our own execution, but the delay of Intel's 820 chip set is all gravy for us."
Another chip-set maker, Reliance Computer Corp., is said to be preparing a chip set that will support the Coppermine CPU and use DDR memories.
Jim Handy, memory analyst for Dataquest Inc. (San Jose), still expects to see Rambus emerge in the long run as the market's dominant DRAM format. "Intel is pushing the market in that direction, and that doesn't leave a lot of choices for the rest of the industry," he said. "Alternative memory, such as DDR, would need a lot more time than they will get from this delay to really become established. Rambus has soundly missed the Christmas market, but they will probably ramp next year."
Bechtold of Hitachi, which is not a strong proponent of Rambus, said the latest delay may make Intel relax its corporate push for RDRAM memories. "I think they will begin to let individual product groups have more sway about choosing which memory type makes sense for their designs," he said.
Though Rambus' stock value plunged some 30 percent on news of the Camino bugs, executives at Rambus remain optimistic about the long-term picture. "We still see it as inevitable that RDRAM will become the dominant memory technology," said Dave Mooring, senior vice president for the Mountain View, Calif.-based company.
Separately, Fujitsu Ltd. had decided even before the most recent Camino delay not to enter the Rambus market, according to Keith Horn, director of memory marketing for Fujitsu Microelectronics Inc. (San Jose). The company had been sitting on the fence for some time, going so far as to produce a prototype of a 72-Mbit RDRAM, while holding off on making an investment in test and packaging infrastructure until the market situation became clearer.
The internal debate ended recently as Fujitsu decided to put its efforts behind its double-data-rate (DDR) and fast cycle DRAMs instead of Rambus. "We're seeing a lot of interest in those products, and decided to focus on those efforts," Horn said.
As to whether the company may revisit that question, Horn responded, "I'd never say never, but certainly we have no plans to address that market." A Fujitsu spokesman later added that Fujitsu's engineering efforts on Rambus are still ongoing in Japan. Observers believe those efforts may simply be intended to fulfill contractual obligations to Rambus.


text: No, in 10g you need to list the addresses of all the cluster nodes. But really, this should not become a problem as you will never have that many cluster nodes. Maybe we can do a little poll here on the list: What is the maximum number of cluster nodes you have in your RAC? Regards, Freek D'Hooge Uptime Oracle Database Administrator email: freek.dhooge@xxxxxxxxx tel +32(0)3 451 23 82 http://www.uptime.be disclaimer: www.uptime.be/disclaimer --- From: Saad Khan [mailto:saad4u@xxxxxxxxx] Sent: woensdag 24 augustus 2011 16:52 To: D'Hooge Freek Cc: oracle-l@xxxxxxxxxxxxx Subject: Re: A basic RAC question.. need a quick reply Thanks guyz. Is there any option in Oracle 10g as well?? -- http://www.freelists.org/webpage/oracle-l


text: Transactional Records Access Clearinghouse: "TRAC projects that in fiscal year 2013 the U.S. government will file actions in Immigration Court seeking to remove over 190,000 individuals from the country, according to the latest data extending through the end of August 2013. The estimated total does not count those individuals deported administratively by ICE or the Border Patrol, which typically represents a much larger number. So far this year, Immigration Judges nationally ordered deportations on 53.1 percent of those individuals against whom actions were filed. This percentage varies greatly by state, from a low of 27.6 percent in Oregon to a high of 85.4 percent in Louisiana. States which have large immigration detention facilities tend to have a higher percentage ordered deported. View the 10 states with the highest proportion of individuals ordered deported this year. TRAC's latest snapshot report on the 10 states with the highest proportion of individuals not deported but allowed to remain in the country."


text:
Hooray for looser pants…
I didn't think it would be possible this soon, but I can honestly say that my pants are already starting to fit more loosely! I feel like during week 3 on Nutrisystem, I really hit my stride. In my head, I've developed a good sense of when it's time to eat, and when it's time for a snack. My mealtimes have become much more consistent, and I've never gone hungry in between those times. Cravings for junk are almost gone! I have to say, I don't think I'll ever stop wanting a cheese steak from the sandwich shop across the street—but I know that giving in could put me on the wrong track. I've never been more determined. I know that some day, I'll be able to enjoy things like that in moderation, but now is just not the right time.
Sticking to the plan has really paid off, and it's definitely rewarding to start seeing the results so soon. Looser pants are the first sign that I'm doing the right things. Exercise is still key to my success, and I admit that I didn't get as much in last week as I should have. This week, my focus will be on getting enough!
As a result of sticking to the plan (minus a little less exercise than I should have gotten), I weighed in this week at another 2.5 pounds less than the previous week. This brings my total weight loss after three weeks on Nutrisystem to 10 POUNDS! I'm already 10% closer to my goal, and I couldn't be happier.
See last week's Nutrisystem update here.
Want to lose weight and get healthy on Nutrisystem? Join today by calling 1-888-853-4689 or by visiting http://www.nutrisystem.com/nsblog.


text:
An important book for turbulent times-an accessible and engaging economic history of the world, by a leading economic writer.
Alan Beattie has long been intrigued by the fates of different countries, economies, and societies-why some fail and some succeed. Here, he weaves together elements of economics, history, politics, and human stories, revealing that societies, economies, and countries usually make concrete choices that determine their destinies. He opens up larger questions about these choices, and why countries make them or are driven to make them, and what those decisions can mean for the future of our global economy.
Economic history involves forcing together disciplines that fall naturally in different directions. But Beattie has written a lively and lucid book that successfully marries the two subjects and illustrates their interdependence. In doing so, he addresses such illuminating queries as: Why are oil and diamonds more trouble than they are worth? Why did Argentina fail and the United States succeed? Why doesn't Africa grow cocaine?
False Economy explains how human beings have shaped their own fates, however unknowingly, and the conditions of the countries they call home. And though it is history, it does not end with the present day. Beattie shows how decisions that are being made now-which have either absorbed or failed to absorb the lessons from economic history-will determine what happens in the future. What does economic history teach us about the present economic unrest? Who will succeed and why? And who will fail? These are questions that we cannot afford to leave unasked . . . or unanswered.
©2009 Alan Beattie (P)2010 Audible, Inc.
Many historical explanations and comparisons. I was looking for a book to teach me something, not to indoctrinate me into the 'Chicago school' or other bias. This book will help you come to your own conclusions on what works and what fails in economies and why.
If you like reading the Economist (and I do), you will love False Economy. Popular economic history in all the best ways. The big question is always, why are some countries so rich and some countries so poor? Beattie takes on this big question, answering lots of smaller questions along the way. His basic answers have to do with choices and institutions, a thesis he explores while teaching us why Argentina did not get rich, oil is more trouble than it is worth (usually), why cocaine is not grown in Africa, and why we pay so much for Peruvian asparagus (and subsidize rich American peanut growers).
"Horrible narration"
I enjoy behavioural economics and history genres so thought this would be a great book... was I mistaken. The narration was HORRIBLE. It sounds like a bad voice over from some 1970's filmstrip in high school science class. There's frequent awkward intonation and many mispronounced words (i.e. eschew is "ess - CHEW"). The content is dry, but, when your mind isn't wandering off due to the narration, there are some interesting chapters most notably on the spurious correlation of religion to successful economies. DO NOT mistake this book for Gladwell, or Arielly, or Dubner/Levitt; it is not as well written and not nearly as engaging.
"False Delivery: A Surprisingly Painful Audio Book"
The more audio books I listen to, the more I am able to quickly recognize quality. The narration of this book is painful. Johnson plows over lines and swallows the delivery--almost like a priest telling a joke about a midget, a stripper, and a can of Spam. The narration could be excused if the text itself wasn't a disjointed, grabasstic historical montage in need of Ritalin and an outline. Hard to follow. Hard to swallow. I've heard better theories on bar stools delivered through the pickled ponderings of a sauced sages.
"Good economic lessons, entertainingly illustrated"
The book illustrates how "the tyranny of the status quo", the tyranny of vested interests, and the tyranny of individual rulers has shaped economies, with stories from different places and different times. The book casts a broad sweep. I found it entertaining and informative from start to finish.
"Poor performance"
I am not disappointed in the book as I am unable to hear i due to poor unfriendly execution on Amazon Audio platform. I purchased this for school and have not been able to have access to it.
Report Inappropriate Content
If you find this review inappropriate and think it should be removed from our site, let us know. This report will be reviewed by Audible and we will take appropriate action.


text:
(Established 1S49.)
Published Every Wednesday Morning 1
Ono Year .$1.00
Six MonUlN.55
Three Months. . .80
Advertising RtitOH Reasonable.
Ry Stock, Sholor, I i uglis & Sliolor.
Communications ot a personal
character charged for aa advertise
Obituary notices, curds of thanks
and tributes of respoct, oltber by
individuals, lodges or churches, aro
ohargod for as for advertisements at
rate of ono cont a word, ('ash must
accompany manuscript, and all such
notices will bo marked "Adv." in
conformity with Federal ruling on
such mutters.
WAIdlAIiliA, S. C.
Wo want to congratulate Walhalla
and community for having the best
ho ha ved hoy; and young men that
can be boasted of by any community
in any section. During the live days
of Chautauqua there was not, so far
?is we have heard of, even one inci
dent that occurred to mar a most,
pleasant and delightful occasion or
spoil for any one the enjoyment of
ll single feature id tho ideal program
of the entire live days. We are moro
than ordinarily pleased to bo able lo
make Hus assertion because Wal
halla is "our town" to a greater do
rree and to a fuller measure than
many might suspect.
Within tho recollection of Hie edi-!
tor of The Courier he has attended
some largo gatherings in somewhat
larger localities, and lie can truth
fully say that he has never Wintessod
more, admirable conduct, on tile in
side and on the outside, than has
characterized tho whole tone and
tenor of the 1921 Chautauqua season
hi 'Walhalla. Tho people have be
haved lil n most excellent manner
hy instinct and intuitively and ga:
Uiitously, The officers have been ob
Horvod to move about tho Chautau
qua premises with a degree of dig-j
tilly thal at once inspired confidence'
on the part of the public that all
would lie well, and an equal confi
dence on the part of any one-If
such an one were present-who may
have felt inclined to "break the rules
of decorum/' that no such procedure
would be tolerated for a moment.
Everything went ?off without a
marring word or act, so far as wo
were able to judge, and so far as we
have been able to hear.
We are glad to commend this ex
cellent spirit that has been so ad
mirably exemplified, lt ls a mighty
healthy sign. Wo feel prouder of
Walhalla than ever before. Walhalla'
Iso town to be proud of, and her peo
ple constitute in the aggregate a cit
izenship than which there is none
belter to he found.
Ac Sunday School Convention, Rock
Hill, .lune 8, I) and 10.
Sparlanburg, May 30. -.Reports
received front all over tho 'State, it
is said, point to a record-breaking
attendance nt tho State Sunday
School Association Convention at
Winthrop College. Hock Hill, .lune
8th, 9th and 10th.
lt is said that the program is the
strongest and most attractive in the
history of tho organization, and with
the added a 11 rac ti veness of Winthrop
College tis the placcof mooting. Hie
at tendance is expected to go beyond
all provious records.
A thorough organisation has been
perfected hy Ibo convention promo
tion committee In nearly every coun
ty in tho State, and hundreds of tuen
and women are busy working up a
large delegation from their respec
tivo communities.
Especial attention is called to the
rael thal the special railroad tales
of one and a half faro for the round
trip are on the eortitleato plan, con
ditional upon ;i"iO certificates being
presented for signature at the con
vention. Consequently, everyone go
lng to the con von lion is urged to get
his perlif?cate when he buys his
ticket, ns he cannot otherwise get
tho benefit of half faro returning.
Very Respectable old Gentleman.
liol Springs. Ark., May 26.-Tho
grand jury to-day refused to Indict
R. M. Drink. SI years old. who re
cently shot George May, 10 years of
age, for alleged attentiveness to Mrs.
Drink, who ls 7T> years old. May
since lins recovered.
Thc prosent national colors of tho
United Sta los wero not adopted by
Congress until 1777.
.J* .J? ?J? ?J? ?J? ol' ?I? ?J? ?|* ?J, ?J? ?J? 4?
--At tho closing of tho Walhalla
High School tho scholarship modal
for 1 ?21 was .twardod to Miss Lillie
Hall, of tho graduating class. Four
others received honorable mention,
those hoing Caroline Darby, Eliza
beth Thodo, Anna Probst and Ethel
Hunt. These young ladles have the
hearty congratulations of many
friends on having won this distinc
tion In tho school room.
-'Invitations bavo been received
by us to the graduating oxercises of
Columbia University and Davidson
College (North Carolina.) Wil'bur
1). White's nanto appears among the
young men to grad?alo from the law
department of the University of
South Carolina this year, and Robert
Lee Rogers is among those who will
graduate from Davidson College at
tho present timo. Those young men
are well known hy the people of Wal
halla, and have many friends hero
who will Join with us In congratu
lating them on attaining tho last
round of the ladder in their respec
tivo institutions and becoming tho
possessors of the coveted sheepskins.
Wilbur White is a son of Kev. and
Mrs. J. A. White, of Rtdgevllle, this
Stale, and a nephew of It . T.
.laynes. Esq., of Walhalla. In whose
ellice he has read law for several
summers. Robert Rogers is the son
of Mrs. R. L.'Rogers, of Walhalla.
-At tho trial held before Magis
trate P. Ans. Brown last Monday
Marvin Drowning, who had hoon ar
rested on suspicion as being connec
ted with the entry and robbery of
thc store of W. M. Murphrce, of tho
Oconee Creek section, Mr. drowning
was dismissed, thora being no evi
dence to hold him in connection and
nothing upon which even suspicion
could rest. In making mention of
the case last week we sLltod lhat
officers had traced steps from the
Murphrce store to the. home of Mar
vin Drowning, but we are informed
that this information was incorrect.
Mr. Murphrce. assisted by citizens
ot the community, wo are now in
formed, followed the tracks from
the stoiv lo within about three hun
dred yards of tho Browning home,
and when the officers arrived 'he
Drowning home was sea rob od, with
ibo result \n given last we? k. nenr-'y
the Unding of only some loose, flour
in the Browning house. The acquit
tal before the magistrate, according
to our informants, ls what every
body in the neighborhood expected.
Mr. Browning bears a good reputa
tion in the community, where he has
lived for several years.
-John Holden, of the Salem sec
tion of Oconee, was brought to Wal
halla the latter parts of last week for
medical and suigicai attention, he
having been shot and seriously hurt
about ten days ago. It was hard to
get doctors to bim for attention at
times needed, and hence the moving
of Ibo wounded man closer to the
doctors, lie was shot in the hip,
tho bullet ranging downward and
coining out In the fleshy part of tho
log. It is said that some time ago
Mr. Holden and W. H. Alexander,
a neighbor, had some trouble, and
it is thought that the shooting is tho
outcome of this trouble. Tho shoot
ing occurred at tho barn of Mr. Hol
den on the evening of May 18th,
Just before dark, as Mr. Holden was
engaged In feeding his stock. He
was shot from ambush, and lay, it
is said, In a serious condition for
quite a while before he was found
and taken to his homo. Alexander
was later arrested, charged with hav
ing done the shooting. He gave bond
for appearance for a lr>\ring before
Magistrate Talley, of Salem, on the
10th of June, lt is said'thal the con
dition of Mr. Holden is considered
quite serious, though he ls not in a
critical condition.
-Several weeks ago a series of
robberies took place In tho Fair Play
section of Oconee county and just
across the river In Georgia. Thc
store house of Larry Marett at Fair
Play and that of Kirby Smith, near
Knox's Bridge, were both broken in
to. On the Georgia side, between tho
river and Lavonla, Sim Thomas's
store was entered and quite a quan
tity of goods taken from each of
them. No trace of the thieves could
be found, but one day last week tho
officers were making search of the
premises of one Golden, Just abovo
Knox's Hrulge, and while thus en
gaged things began lo happen. They
discovered the man who had stolen
a Buick automobile from n party at
Newry some months ago and arrest
ed him on thal chaine. Ile then
"spilled the beans" on others of the
little party. In le s than 18 hours
the officers had (anded Matthew
Sheriff, Drack Golden. Doh Edmonds
and Otis Stnndrldge in the Oconeo
Jail. All of thom but Sheriff wero
found with stolen goods in their pos
session, and lt is understood* that
they have ether strong evidence
against sheriff. Sheriff made bond
for Ins appearance at Court in July,
bul all the ethers are in jail await
ing their trial,
Tlier?. are many in this section
who will learn with regret of tho
?lea I h of Miss Dora Wiebens, who
passed away on Monday evening last
.May :l0tll, at 2.38 o'clock. She lias
?eon called to reap her reward.which
s sure and unmistakable. Miss Wie
bens suffered from cancer for eleven
wooka, bul bore it with patience
Amid ber intense suffering she al
ways had a kind word for all who
visited her. She bad been doing
mission work through the niue
Ridge mountains for thc past twen
ty years, she was a member Of Wes
leyan church of Westminster and
was true and faithful to her church
and to the work of her Master She
was 65 years old on April 21 at past.
Miss Wiebens leaves to mourn her
death a son. J, A. Wiebens, of Roch
ester. N\ Y.. two sisters, Miss Mona
Wiebens and Mrs. J. ?. Duncan, of
Wost Union, and one brother. Fred
Wiebens, of California. Funoral sor
vicos will be held at the Wesloyan
church at Westminster this (Wod
nosday) afternoon at 1.30. Thoro
will also bo other services at Wei
Several Case? of Typhoid Fever 1?
Community--Personal items.
?Bounty Lund, May 3f>..-Special:
Miss Annie Hugh Alexander, of 101
herton, On., ia visiting at the lionio
of Mr. and Mrs. M. E. Marett.
Miss Lura Perritt, who has been
teaching In the graded school "f
North Augusta, Ga., returned Satur
day to spend a vacation with lier oa
ronts, Mr. and Mrs. D. A. Perrin.
Mrs. Edington and Mrs. Thomas,
of Seneca, were In tho community a
while Sunday afternon.
Mrs. Julia D. saan kiln and son,
Edgar, attended tho commencement |
exorcises of Andetson High School
the latter part of the week. Miss
Mary Julia Shanklin, her grand
daughter, was a member of the grad
uating class.
Miss Susan Doyle returned to Au
gusta, Ga., Thursday after a ten-day
visit to her parents, Mr. and Mrs
Jasper Doyle.
Miss Sarah Davis, of the Corinth
section, was in the community for a
short while Sunday. Miss Davis and
Miss Sallie Davis will leave Wed
nesday for a visit of some length to
relatives in l-l an ford, Cal.
Kev. I). T. Hays, of Westminster,
was a lato Ruest of Frank Williams.
The many friends of Jim Merry,
of Statesvile, X. C., are anticipating
an early visit from him.
.Miss Clara Korr, of Wost Union,
visited Miss Eula Rankin the week
John V. Strihling, of Anderson, is
visiting his sister, Mrs. T. 13. Wyley,
and other relatives at Richland.
W. D. Wright has developed a case
of mumps. Other members of the
Wright family have been afflicted
with the same contagion. All aro
doing fairly well.
The many friends of Grover Hub
bard will regret to learn that he is
a victim of typhoid fever. Ho is
getting along ;n well as could be
expectod, although the crisis has not
been reached. There are also two
typhoid cases among the tenants of
J. H. Alley. We Join In the hope of
an early extermination of the ty
phoid germ.
Sam Ballenger and family and
John Davis, of Greenville, were tho
guests for the week-end at the home
of J. A. Dendy.
Miss Olive Lynch is receiving the
congratulations of her many friends
upon having won tho sdiolarship
medal offered by G. W. Gigntlllat
in the Seneca High Schiol. Miss
"Lynch is. one of our most brilliant
young ladies, and this distinction is
a merited compliment to hor ability
In the high school work.
(Miss Frances Blackwell ls visiting
her uncle, /fl. R. McDonald, of Wal
halla, and taking in the Chautauqua
Mrs. Mattie McDonald and Mrs.
J. P. Blackwell attended tho pro
tracted meeting in the Seneca Meth
odist church last week.
Mrs. W. H. Hughs has been in
Walhalla for several days and is
being entertained by a newly arrived
granddaughter at the homo of Mr.
and Mrs. Henry Hughs.
Mrs. Will Berry, who nos been
visiting relatives in IMckens, re
turned a few days ago to the home
of her parents, Mr. and Mrs. W. H.
Miss Grace Vernor has been sp -lid
ing a few days with Mr and Mrs,
.Furman Burns, of Fountain Inn, Mr.
and Mrs. Burns accompanying her
home for a week-end visit.
Stiles C. Strihling and sister, Misri
Belle Strihling, of Gaffney, are guests
of their parents, Mr. and Mrs. J. P.
Strihling. .Miss Strihling has been
teaching in the Gaffney school.
Jack and Ruby Lumpkin. of West
minster, have boen visiting their
grandparents, Mr. and Mrs. W. J.
Miss Mattie Sue Marett is in
Greenville as a guest of her sister,
Mrs. Ben Ellison.
Mrs. Herbert La ttl moro and baby
daughter, Eveline, who have boon
boarding with Mrs. Jasper Doylo foi
the past ten weeks, left Sundny foi
Whiterock. Lexington county, where
her husband ls engaged as foreman
In road construction. Mrs. Latti
more won many friends during hoi
short stay in this community whe
regret her departure.
Dean Davis has been quite indis
posed, but ls able to be out again.
Marion Hughs, who has recentl>
completed a business courso in At
lauta, will begin work lo-day as ar
employee of thc Western Union Tel
egraph Co. in Atlantr..
Miss Cary Doyle returned Tues
day from a delightful visit to Mr
and Mrs. R. H. Smithson noar Plod
Subscribo for Tho Courier. (Dost)
como on Hie same date at 4 p. m.
after which the body will bo laid tc
rest and to await tho resurrection
morn. Thoro aro many who will
Join with us In extending to tho be
reaved ones sympathy In their bout
of sorrow.
Brief Local Notes from Seneca.
Seneca, May 30.-Special: Miss
Thelma Verner, a member of tho
freshman class of Winthrop College,
has returned home for the vacation.
Miss Frances Alexander has re
turned homo from Flora McDonald
College, Hod Springs, N. C. She has
hoon a mombor of the freshman class
of that institution during the past
Misses Lola Thompson and Wini
fred Adams will attend the summer
school at Winthrop College this sum
Miss Margie Holland will leave
for Charlottesville, Va., to-morrow
(Tuesday), where sho will attend
summer school at the University of
T)r. E. A. Hines will deliver an ad
dress this week at Chester to tho
District Medical Association, and
will also attend Winthrop College
com moncoment.
R. A. Bowen, of Bickens, visited at
tho home of his son, C. M. Bowen,
last week.
Tho Once-a-Week Club met at the !
home of Mrs. J. P. Coates Thursday I
afternoon, May 2fi. After the pro-1
gram had been carried out a deli
cious ice course was served.
The Senior Christian Endeavor of
the Presbyterian church enjoyed a
picnic at Lowell Smith's farm Fri
day, May 27th.
In Attractive Case.
Satisfaction Guaranteed or
Money Refunded.
This offer for a limited
time only.
Remit by money order or
cash-(no stamps)
Frai Razor Co,
y^NEW YORK CITY.^y
SUMMONS voil RELIEF.
Tho State of South Carolina,
County of Oconee.
'W. Frank Sheldon, Plaintiff,
O, C. Williams and Ceorgo Perry,
SUMMONS FOR RELIEF.- (Com
plaint Not Served.)
To tho Defendants above named:
You are hereby summoned and re
quired to answer tho Complaint In
this action, which was filed in the
o?llco of the Clerk of tho Court of
Common Pleas for tho said County,
on the 18th day of May, 1921, and to
serve n copy of your Answer to the
said Complaint on the subscribers, at|
their office, on the Public Square, at
Walhalla Court House, South Caro
lina, within twenty days after tho
service hereof, exclusive of Hie day
of such service; and if you fail to
answor tho Complaint within tho
Hmo aforesaid, the Plaintiff In this
action will apply to the Court for tho
rcliof demanded in the Complaint.
Dated this 18th day of May. A. D.
Plaintiff's Attorneys.
(Seal.) W. J. SCHRODER,
May 25, 1021. 2 1-2.1
Tho State of South Carolina,
County of Oconee.
11 To the Qualified Electors and Resi
dential Freeholders of Legal Vot
ing Ago in Return School Dis
trict, No. i : -
PLEASE TAKE NOTICE. That an
11 Election will be held at 'Return
School Houso on WEDNESDAY, thc
8th day of June, 1021, between the
hours of 7 A. M. and I P. M.. for tho I
purposo of voting upon tho question
of levying a Special Tax of Two
Mills on all taxablo property of said
District, to be used for school par
posos in said District, In accordance
with Section 1712, Civil Code of
South Carolina, 1012.
W i H. WILLIAMS,
Trustees of Return School District,
No. 4.
NOTICE is hereby given that the
Tax Books for the collection of Mu
nicipal Taxes for tho year 1021 aro
now opon nt tho office of tho Clork
and Treasurer, In tho City Hall, first
floor, In tho roar.
'Pay your taxes carly and avoid tho
penalty. T. A. Git ANT,
Clerk and Treasurer,
Town of Walhalla, S. C.
Juno 1, 1921. 22-tf
Side-Dressing Cotton
Some people have planted cotton without fertilizing
it and a great many have fertilized it lightly. Cotton is
late and needs stimulating. We are making a goods
that will give it just what it needs.
It should be applied as early as possible. Just as
soon as it is cleaned out and thinned out. It will pay
you three or four times as much as it costs you.
The goods are ready for you.
Anderson Phosphate
and Oil Co.,
W. F. FARMER, Secretary.
.See Our Agents:
Senecca, S. C. West Union, S. C.
C. P. WALKER, Walhalla, S. C.
Make Every Reid Hog-Tight
Good Fencing protects your live stock and growing crops.
After harvest you can pasture fields as desired. From year
to year you can rotate crops scientifically. In fact, good fenc
ing is essential to modern, profitable farming.
"Pittsburgh Perfect"
Electrically Welded Farm Fencing
helps put farming on a business basis. It puts fields
entirely under your control, enabling you to farm
them most profitably.
, There ore heights and designs of "Pittsburgh Perfect" fencing
t for every farm purpose. It is a perfected fence of uniform
\ high quality, and every rod guaran teed. The electrical .weld
% makes it a one-piece steel fabric of great strength and dura
K; bili ty. See us for your fencing, barbed wire, staples, etc
:)C W. Pitchford,
< Walhalla, S. C.
In the District Court of tho United
States-For tho Western District
of South Carolina.
'In the Matter of Frederick Charles
Ayer. Bankrupt.-No. B-223, in
To tho Creditors of thc above named
Bankrupt: -
Take Notice that on May 20, 1021,
tho above namod bankrupt filed his
petition In said Court praying that
he may bo decreed by tho Court to
have a full dlcsharge from all debts
provable against his estate, except
such debts as aro excepted from such
discharge, and a hearing was there
upon ordered and will bo had upon
said petition on JUNE 21, 1921, be
fore said Court, at Greonvllle, in
said District, at 11 o'clock in tho
forenoon, at which timo and place
all known creditors and other per
sons in interest may appoar and
show causo, if any thoy have, why
tho prayer of said petition should
not bo granted.
D. C .DURHAM, Clerk.
Dated at Greenville, S. C.. May 20,
1921. 21-21
In tho District Court of the United
States--For Hie Western District
of South Carolina.
In the Matter of J. W. DOOLEY,
Bankrupt.-No. B-19?, in Bank
To tho Creditors of tho above namod
Take notice that on May 20, 1021,
the above named bankrupt filed his
petition in said Court praying that
ho may be decreed by the Court lo
have a full discharge from all debts
provable against bis estate, oxcept
such debts as are excepted by law
from such discharge, and a hearing
was thereupon ordered, and will be
had upon said petition, on JUNE
21, 1021, ooforo said Court, at
C.reenville, In said District, at 1 1
o'clock in tho forenoon, at which
Hmo and place all known creditors
and other persons in interest may
appear and show cause, If any they
have, why Hie prayer of sold poli
tl?n should not be granted.
D. C. DURHAM, Clerk.
Dated at Greenville, S. C., May 20,
1021. 21-21
All persons lndobted to the Estate
of Mrs. Sallio C. Goodman, Decoased.
are horeby notified to make payment
to tho undersigned, and all per
sons having claims against said ca
tato will present the same, ditly At
tested, within tho time proscribed by
law, or ho 1?
Administratrix of the Estate of Mrs.
Sallio C. Goodman, Doceased.
May 25, 1921. 21-24
By authority contained in certain
Tax Executions to me directed by
R. H. Alexander, Treasurer o? Oco
neo county, South Carolina, I here
by offer for sale, on MONDAY, the
6th day of JUNE, 1921, at public
outcry, In front of the Court House
door, in Walhalla, S. C., the follow
ing described property, to wit:
One lot of land situated in Sen
eca Township, containing half acre,
adjoining lands of T. \. Harbin and
others. Levied on as proporty of W.
F. Hunnicutt at suit or tho State for
Eleven acres of land in White
water Township, adjoining lands of
W. M. Brown and others, on Toxa
way river. Levied on as tho proper
ty of Mrs. H. M. Blackshear at suit
.of tho State for taxes.
Ton acres of land in Whitewater
Township, adjoining lands of Dr. C.
'Oriinshawo and others, on White
water river. Levied on as property
of Mrs. H. 'M. Blackshear at suit of
tho State for taxes.
Sheriff Oconee County, S. C.
May 18, 1921. 20-22
To the Trustoos and Patrons of Oco
nee County-Take Notice:
You will meet at the various school
houses on Saturday, Juno 4th, for
tho purpose of nominating a man to
servo as Trustee for throe yoars.
Under the law one Trustee's com
mission expires July 1st, 1921, in
each School District.
Polls will open at 1 o'clock P. M.
and closo at :i o'clock P. 'M. All
I white patrons will be allowed to vote.
I Trustees will act as Manngors of
Election. Ii. C. SPEARES,
I Supt. of Education, Oconee County.
May 18, 1921. 20-22
You are hereby notified to bo at
Walhalla Court House on SATUR
j DAY morning. June 4th, 1921, at ll
j o'clock, if you aro interested in of
fering bids on buildings to be orect
ed, as follows:
At Tamassoe,
At Tugaloo, and
At South Union.
Plans and specifications can bo
soon at my office. It is likoly that
other contracts will be lot also.
Supt. of Education, Oconeo Co.
May 25, 1921. 21-22
Tho first newspaper advertisement
appoarod in 1652.
The oxact duration of tho World
War was four years, throe months
and elovon days.
xml | txt


text:
Suggs changes his tune, votes for Brady
FOXBOROUGH — Ravens linebacker Terrell Suggs changed his story today as he told reporters in Baltimore he did indeed vote for Tom Brady for the Pro Bowl.
According to the Baltimore Sun, Suggs said he was able to put aside any differences to vote for Brady. Last week, Suggs said he didn't vote for Brady and gave his votes to Philip Rivers, Peyton Manning, and Ryan Fitzpatrick.
But he changed his story today.
"Let's go ahead and let the cat out of the bag: We did vote for him," Suggs said. "We've got quarrels and our beefs but you got to respect play. It was kind of decided as a unit who we vote for. We did vote for him."
Brady was among those selected for the Pro Bowl that will be in Hawaii the week before the Super Bowl. Those participating in the Super Bowl would not play in the Pro Bowl, which gave Suggs one last hope for Brady.
"One of us is not going to get to play in the game," said Suggs, who also was selected to the Pro Bowl as a reserve. "I hope he has a good time in the Pro Bowl, and hopefully everything goes according to plan, I'll be watching him from Dallas."


text: Hi, Does anyone know of, or has found a replacement synth grip that has a very firm feel to it? I know the likes of Babolat Skin Feel give a nice firm feel, but I need a grip of standard thickness (1.8/1.9mm). It seems the firmer grips tend to be the thinner ones, so if someone knows of a standard thickness firm synth grip, please share the wealth of your knowledge. I have been using leather plus overgrip on my rackets, but I want to try a firm feeling synth grip as an alternative. I've not been getting on well with a variety of overgrips lately.. The drop in handle weight doesnt bother me, its more about getting the right feel. Any help is greatly appreciated. Thanks


text:
We had a good crowd at the library on Thursday for the first Story Time of the summer. Nineteen children attending, with two helpers, a big sister, several moms and a baby asleep in his stroller.
We hope attendance stays this good.
On another note.....my rose bush is beautiful this year. Just covered in blooms.
Now for our Friday night excitement. Hubby spends a lot of time in his garden raising all kinds of stuff....and complaining about the rabbits & pheasants who want their share of young plants. And later the coons who want the biggest share of the sweet corn. Today's wild life was a little bigger and more of a surprise. Hubby was getting tomato cages out of the garage and when he came out and found himself face to face with fifteen head of Black Angus cattle tromping around in the gardens. Not something you expect to see right in town. Called the sheriff and they found the owners who came with a portable corral and loaded them on a trailer for a ride home. A gate had been left open at a neighbor's a mile away where they were being kept and all fifteen of them made a break for it. The garden will recover and it could have been much worse if they had gotten to the highway and caused an accident.
The strawberries are doing well. I got another two ice cream buckets full into the freezer today with another bucket waiting for me to get to tomorrow after work. Luckily they had been picked before the escaped cattle tromped all over them.
And that concludes our Friday adventures!


text:
4 device universal remote
Controls TV, DVD, VCR, and SAT, cable or digital TV converter
Replaces and consolidates most major remote brands
Simple device setup with automatic brand, manual and direct code search methods
Easy access to digital TV channels with dash (-) key
Sleep timer
Our 4 device compact universal remote is easy to use. It supports digital TV converter boxes and allows easy access to digital TV channels, like 59.1, with the dash (-) key. This remote also includes a sleep timer, basic channel and volume keys, and works with over 350 brands.
- Supports digital TV converter boxes
- Easy to use volume and channel keys
- Limited 90 day warranty


text:
Lieberman: Palestinians Use Settlement Freeze as an Excuse to Undermine Peace Talks
Foreign Minister tells British counterpart that there is no chance Israel will extend moratorium on construction in West Bank settlements beyond Sept. 26 expiration date.
Foreign Minister Avigdor Lieberman told his British counterpart William Hague over the weekend that Israel could not possibly extend the moratorium on construction in West Bank settlements beyond the agreed upon September 26 deadline.
Last November, Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu declared a 10-month freeze on construction in West Bank settlements, in efforts to jumpstart stalled peace talks with the Palestinians. Palestinian negotiators have repeatedly stressed that they would not negotiate with Israel as long as Israeli construction on land they envision for a future state continued.
Lieberman told Hague that "the Palestinians wasted nine months, and even in the tenth month they did not come to the talks out of goodwill to reach an agreement, but because they were forced to," referring to the relaunch of direct peace negotiations between Israel and the Palestinians on September 2.
"The settlement freeze is just a Palestinian excuse to undermine peace talks, and anyone who seeks excuses will find another excuse even if the freeze is extended," Lieberman told the British foreign secretary.
"Israel's government offered extensive goodwill gestures over the last year, and it is now the Palestinians' turn," Lieberman went on to say. "Israel would be happy to continue on the track of direct peace negotiations without preconditions, including no conditions regarding the future of the settlement construction freeze."
Lieberman was responding to recent declarations by Palestinian President Mahmoud Abbas and other key Palestinian officials who have said that they would abandon peace talks with Israel if the construction resumes.
The foreign minister also said that the international community must understand that Israel needs to be given incentives, not just to be pressured, to achieve peace. He also mentioned that Israel has been waiting for quite some time to upgrade its diplomatic ties with the European Union.
Defense Minister Ehud Barak called a meeting this week as the settlement building freeze order nears its end in two weeks' time. The purpose of the meeting was for the Defense Ministry to find ways to restrict building regardless of a freeze order, since it is the sovereign power in the West Bank.
According to a senior source who is privy to details of the Defense Ministry discussions on building restrictions, there are a number of legal means that can be utilized to restrict new construction for a lengthy period.
Other legal tools are also being considered to delay the building of 2,000 housing units that received all the requisite permits before the construction freeze took effect, the source said.
Want to enjoy 'Zen' reading - with no ads and just the article? Subscribe todaySubscribe now


text:
TOKYO, Dec 24 (Reuters) - Japanese stocks ended lower on Thursday after giving up earlier gains as the strong yen hurt overall sentiment while trading was subdued ahead of the Christmas holiday.
The Nikkei share average dropped 0.5 percent to 18,789.69. Although markets are open in Japan on Friday, many financial centres around the world are closed for the Christmas holidays.
The broader Topix shed 0.7 percent to 1,523.62, with only 1.987 billon shares changing hands, compared to an average daily volume of 2.279 billion shares in the last 90 days. The JPX-Nikkei Index 400 declined 0.6 percent to 13,741.44. (Reporting by Ayai Tomisawa; Editing by Shri Navaratnam)


text:
Johannesburg -
Employment in the mainly unskilled and semi-skilled categories dropped
sharply during June, while positions in the unofficial sector shot up as did
high-skilled management and professional services jobs.
This is according to the latest employment index for June,
released by Adcorp on Monday.
Adcorp has also predicted a marked increase of 22% in strike
activity during 2011 compared with last year.
"About 127 100 permanent and 5 712 temporary jobs were
shed last month, even though a 21.9% increase in high-level and professional
employment was seen," Adcorp labour market analyst Loane Sharp said.
The buoyant agency sector, which has consistently
contributed to employment growth for well over a decade, remained completely
SA's unemployment rate is one of the highest in the world.
In 2010, there were 8.5 million unemployed and underemployed people.
Sharp said official statistics do not incorporate informal
employment, which is employment that may not involve a formal contract or
membership of a pension fund or medical aid.
"If we fully account for informal employment, SA's
unemployment rate is closer to 8% than 25%," says Sharp.
"Many millions of enterprising South Africans make a
living on a daily basis and neither pay taxes nor adhere to labour laws."
Adcorp's employment index for June shows that positions in
the unofficial sector increased by 1 059.
This month's Adcorp employment index also reveals that in
2010 there were more working days lost due to strikes and work stoppages than
at the peak of "rolling mass action" under apartheid.
"Based on Adcorp's monitoring of trade union activities
this year, we estimate that SA will lose 24.9 million days due to strikes and
work stoppages in 2011. This represents an increase of 22% over 2010.
"Compared with recent years, where strike activity has
been most aggressive in the government sector, the private sector is likely to
account for 68% of all workdays lost this year.
SA's unemployment rate increased from about 7% in the
mid-1970s to 13% in the mid-1990s and 25% in the late 2000s.
At least the government sector "lost days" last year weren't too bad - other than the chunk of committed teachers and nurses it makes no difference to service levels whether they there or not.
No wonder. No one can afford what they want to get paid. I can only afford to pay someone in relation to their benefit to my company. If you cost me more that you generate for me, sorry, no job.
Can you imagine the amount of money that companies would have earned during those 24.9 million days in order to increase employment, as well as increase the wages of workers? The reason companies can only afford 4-6% wage increases is due to the fact that they need to budget 1-2 weeks of their staff striking, instead of actually working! The trade unions need to catch a serious wake up! Unemployment doubling in 10 years, that's digusting! No-one wants to hire someone that you can't get rid of if they don't perform, or that is going to strike at any minor disagreement!
If SA's unemployment is 8% I will eat my car.Just go to townships,squatter camps,and building sites and you will see more than 8% in a few days.
And!!! where is Mr. ZUMA's promiss of Job creation wake up South Africans wake up
Where are all the trade schools that are supposed to be training our workers?
And more jobs will be lost after all this irresponsible trade union
action. If you can buy a machine to do the work, do it. They are a much better bet thatn people.
Or simple open the factory somewhere else where there's a functional economy. You know, somewhere where the brave leave the factory floor to start their own successful businesses instead of trying to punish people for employing them.
And still we have more and more strikes asking for untenable and ridiculous wage increases - ensuring that more companies have to reduce staff numbers or closing down altogether !
"SA's unemployment rate increased from about 7% in the mid-1970s to 13% in the mid-1990s and 25% in the late 2000s."
Following this trend, it should be around 50% by 2020.
the unofficial figure should be much higher
So did the NP do a better job than the ANC perhaps? People were employed 7% vs. 25%, living longer by +12 years, higher human development index (was increasing and has stagnated), better distribution of income (gini coefficient). Seems that AA and the ANC is more oppressive than Apartheid and the NP by all objective measures.
Black unemployed people were simply not counted as unemployed in SA because they were supposed to be in the Homelands. The unofficial unemployment rate of +- 45% is more of a true reflection of the scale of unemployment both under the apartheid government and the post apartheid one. South Africa has had jobless growth from the mid-1990s. What is needed looking forward, not back, are viable job creation policies.
@ Nkulekweni
Absolutely right, good balanced sensible comment. Very refreshing>
AND for the most part - a large percentage of all this unemployment is unnecessary and could have been avoided merely by change in policies and attitudes against a huge section of South African society - the marginalized whites!
A equally large portion of unemployment could have been averted by preventing the prevalence of nepotism and corruption.
GO think it through!
and we are told how "wonderful" freedom would be...freedom with no food, no job, no house, no electricity, no water... a free T-shirt and the "right" to draw a cross next to someone else name is worth it all...wonderful isn't it ?
Not hard to reason why if one looks at the crazy conditions of employment. Scale down pay good workers a little more and drop the lazy ones who demand demand demand. And when one needs semi-skilled, look hard and wide before committing to any as the labour law is with the lazy worker.
Wonder how much the population has increased since the mid-70s. It may be interesting to compare it with the unemployment rates. If it matches then the problem is not financial or political but cultural. We may need a one-child policy like China.
That's a great idea. We are part of BRICS.
I think we should give the unions a few businesses to run. Give them a taste of their own stupidity.
Yeah, and every day a couple of million babies are conceived........ in 19-20 years time they become this system's problem. South Africans are screwing themselves out of a job!!!!!
Minimum wages.
Please for the sake of the worker can someone get this into the heads of the trade unions? We are destroying SA for the union bosses salaries, the worker looses again.
Second Zim here we come
Sad but true.
Economics 101: the capitalist system allocates money and resources to territories where labor is the cheapest and resources are readily available such as electricity, water etc. in other words some competitive advantage is present. Now if minimum wages are imposed - areas that have extreme poverty, do not get money flowing to them because their wages have been set at a level that most businesses there cannot afford to pay to workers. So consequently only the wealthier cities develop. The poor territories and cities deteriorate because money and investment do not flow to there, where it is most urgently needed. They loose jobs and investment and income. And it gets worse the higher the minimum wage is increased. Wealth becomes concentrated in wealthy cities that can afford those wages. Investment in light industry that pays lower wages is impossible. Those businesses that are usually situated in poor industrialized zones - simply cannot develop as the labor there is too expensive to produce light industrial manufactured goods.
unions and anc led policy is root cause of poverty and unemployment
Is it not proof by the percentages og unemployment that the Labour Laws are all so wrong. People stop supporting China and the rest of the imports, only buy Made In SA and Mr Gordhan start collecting your taxes from those street vendors so that people can be employed to keep our country clean and try and support themselves via Tourism. This government and Unions are to blame for all the unemployment in this country, and stop blaming it on the White nation and apartheid take responsibility for you rotten action in the past 20 years.
Made in south africa is overpriced,poor quality,made by apartheid beneficieries...made in south africa supports and benefits rich minority
who continue to give themselves raises of 25% or even 300%.
Made in south africa is anticompetive.It uses price fixing and supports
big business.Big business has been milking the consumer dry.
Billionaires have been created that have been doing money laundering and taking their money to other countries to invest eg Australia and UK
Made in South Africa is tainted with the blood and sweat of non white south africans and profited enormously from the consumers.
"let the poor eat cake" and "drink bottled water"
SA is definitely not one of the fastest growing economy in Africa
SA is setting itself up for a mother of all revolutions.
"let the poor eat cake"
That must mean that most of the country will be unemployed looking at what our educations system is producing.
Machines don't strike. But you need educated people running them.. i think that is what is happening here.


text:
BRAND: Anji Mountain
COLLECTION: Jute Collection
STYLE: Portland
COLOR: Tan (AMB1030)
MADE IN: India
CONSTRUCTION: Handwoven
MATERIAL: 100% Jute
THICKNESS: 1⁄2" (approx.)
WARRANTY: 1 year - manufacturer
This eco-friendly natural fiber is sustainably harvested and offers distinct textural qualities. Jute is an incredibly versatile and plentiful natural fiber whose long, soft fibers are artfully woven into beautiful organic rugs.
The digital images we display have the most accurate color possible. However, due to differences in computer monitors, we cannot be responsible for variations in color...
Rugs Direct recommends you avoid using your vacuum's beater bar on any area rug. For complete information on area rug care and cleaning, please click here.


text:
I wish to send my condolences to his family. I hope that he is ableto atleast lead a normal life even without football....Originally posted by kelly@Apr 5 2004, 09:56 AM
NFL: Jets CB Henderson injured in accident
Monday, April 05, 2004
Jets cornerback/special teams ace Jamie Henderson was involved in a serious motorcycle accident in the Atlanta, Ga., area on Saturday night and is in a local hospital. His injuries were described as career-threatening by a former teammate, who has been in contact with the family.
Henderson's agent, Pat Dye, said last night that the injuries were not life-threatening. "He was in an accident," Dye said. "It doesn't appear to be life-threatening. That's all I'll confirm out of respect for the family."
According to the former teammate, the accident occurred between 11 p.m. and midnight on Saturday. Henderson, who was believed to be wearing a helmet, lost control of the bike while making a turn at a high rate of speed. The ex-teammate said Henderson sustained serious head injuries and was in critical condition. Henderson, entering his fourth season, played in 14 games last season in nickel and dime situations. He recorded 11 tackles and three pass defensed, and was a valuable member of the special teams, finishing with 20 tackles, third on the team. At 6-2, 202 pounds, he gives the Jets size and depth in the secondary.
Jets vice president of media relations Ron Colangelo would only confirm the accident and said the club had "no comment."
The Atlanta police department's public affairs office didn't return several phone calls.
- Dave Hutchinson
> http://www.nj.com/search/index.ssf?/base/s...?starledger?spj
On another note, this means the jets will probably take a CB in the draft for sure.


text:
An ancient cremation urn has been uncovered at a housing site in Fortrose, Scotland.
A spokesman for Tulloch Homes said: "It is the most significant find in their initial dig and the urn has been removed from the site for more detailed examination.
"Further archaeological excavation at the Fortrose site will be undertaken at a later stage under the supervision of Highland Council's archaeology officer.
"However, the land earmarked for the first two phases of our housing development has been investigated by the dig team and has been designated clear.