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Day 30: Share some very exciting news! And I do have some exciting news to share...
This lovely couple are having a baby!!!!
Sacha is one of my best friends and I could not stop SQUEALING when she told me. I am so HAPPY for Sacha and her fiancee Kevin!
This has been a very wanted baby. Kev and Sach have been together for 4 years and engaged for nearly two. Sacha found out a couple of years ago that she had some fertility problems and there was a high chance falling pregnant naturally would be hard. They decided to start trying and after a couple of years no success. Sacha was very down about it and we have had numerous conversations when she really believed becoming a mother would never be in her grasp. Then this summer, just gone, they decided to put the baby idea on hold and plan their wedding. They had it booked for next July 2011!
Well that wedding has been cancelled and brought forward to April because she is due to have their first baby next July instead!!!!! She announced it with Kevin when I went round for dinner last week. She said she had been feeling sick for some time but the idea of being pregnant was the last thing on her mind (after trying for 2 years she said it was impossible for the notion to be in her head). She thought she had some virus or bug...well it was a beautifully growing baby!!!!!
Isn't it funny how when you stop wishing or focussing on some things they can just happen and surprise you out of the blue?
I cannot tell you how excited I am for them. Kevin cannot wipe the smile off his face and Sacha is doing really well. She is paranoid something might happen but she will make a wonderful Mum. I cannot wait to meet, hold and smell baby Muckle! We are going to throw her a baby shower next spring after her wedding. You may remember I threw her an engagement BBQ in 2009 when Kevin proposed :). She is 10 weeks at the moment and everything looks in great shape. So please pray, hope and wish that everything goes swimmingly.
So next July I am meeting baby Caitlin or baby Luke....oh my days I am so happy. This baby is so loved already!


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You will find detailed information about Budapest: accommodation, travel, city guide, things to do, recreation and business.
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With the Family: Teaching path of the mountains of KeszthelyMr Pele, the graphiure, is called for help to make children be able to discover the tiny secrets of the forest on the teaching path created for children in Balatonfelvidék National Park. The path has 38 stages and is 8,5 km long between Balatongyörök and Balatonederics and it presents the natural value of forest living places. The teaching path is accessible from the well-known tourists' places. There is also a study written on the territory and the path, which shows the natural values of the mountains of Keszthely and it is the guide for the path as well. This booklet is available at the presentation places of the National Park.Viewtower offer:We can climb up to the highest point of Mount Kerek on the blue-marked path from Gyenesdiás. There we can find the three storied Festetics viewtower that was rebuilt in 2000. If the weather is clear we can see half of the Transdanubia from the tower. Not far from here there is the Berzsenyi viewtower in Mount PetÅ' that can be reached on foot, by bike or car following the red- and yellow-marked paths after leaving Road 71. People knowing the panorama of that place say that the main points, from Vas to Somogy, of Berzsenyi's life can be seen from here.For tastehunters: Olaszrizling (type of grapes) teaching path in Csopak-PaloznakOlaszrizling teaching path was established with the support of Csopak and Paloznak in 2006. There are 12 teaching tables showing the types of grapes of the Balaton highland, the evolution of the red soil characterising this area, the main steps of vine-culture, the factors affecting the ecological balance, vintage work and the landmarks of vine-area. The guide of the tables, ornamented with folk-art motives, was written by Tamás JenÅ' oenologist from Csopak while the photos were taken by Tamás Ervin.Viewtower offer:We can admire one of the most characteristic viewtowers of Balaton in the neighbourhood of Csopak, in Alsóörs. The Mount Csere viewtower having the marks of the renaissance and gothic ages, recalling the marks of a donjon, was built from the red stone of the perm age in 1935. The first stone viewtower of Balaton Highland was renovated in the previous era and was heightened for better viewing.For nature lovers: The Lakes of Törek teaching pathOn the 9 km long teaching path, introducing the local living places, we can know the flora and fauna with the help of trilingual tables. For example there is a bank-martin colony and the living place of bee-eaters in a suspended opencast area and besides there is the autumn moving-route of European bird species so the fishing ponds provide a resting and meeting point for a lot of birds - which are not native in Hungary – in the autumn and spring. There are two resting places (one near a pond and one in the forest) for tourist to have their picnics. The beginning of the teaching path is between the kilometre stones 116 and 117 of road 7, behind the patrol station.Viewtower offer:The newest tower of the southern bank is the Kőhegy viewtower in Zamárdi, which was built in 2000 in the framework of the millennium celebrations. There is an incomparable view of the Balaton from Kenese through Tihany peninsula to the basalt organs of Badacsony lying in front of our eyes from the tiny watchtower-like brick building. You can visit the tower all year long following the local yellow-marked path while the green one is going nearby.
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I upgraded Easy FancyBox from v22.214.171.124 to v1.5.0 and noticed my Youtube vids no longer were opening in overlay mode. I was using shortlinks similar to below with both Autodetect and Autodetect Short links settings checked. It used to then automatically populate the
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Ezra Klein at The Washington Post says the Bipartisan Policy Center is predicting that the "debt ceiling doomsday" will happen sometime in the second half of February. From there, unless congressional Republicans play nice, it will get ugly:
Imagine we hit the debt ceiling Feb. 15. The BPC's analysis suggests that federal spending over the next month will be about $450 billion. Federal revenues will be nearer to $277 billion. That means that the government will have to default on about 40 percent of its obligations.
The choices it will face quickly become stark. It can cover interest on the debt, Social Security, Medicare, Medicaid, defense spending, education, food stamps and other low-income transfers, and a handful of other programs, but doing all that will mean defaulting on everything — really, everything — else. The FBI will shut down. The people responsible for tracking down loose nukes will lose their jobs. The prisons won't operate. The biomedical researchers won't be funded. The court system will close its doors. The tax refunds won't go out. The Federal Aviation Administration will go offline. The parks will close. Food safety inspections will cease.
It only gets worse from there. This should be your daily dose of alarmist reading, just so you know how high the debt ceiling stakes could go: Go read the whole thing.


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Developed by a builder of structural and custom test equipment, Dynamic Testing and Equipment (DTE), the new machine automates the accelerated life testing of the flexible boot seals used to protect ball joints in automobile steering assemblies. The use of programmable AC servos " instead of conventional hydraulic actuators " provides an unprecedented level of control flexibility, enabling test parameters such as joint articulation angles to be varied on the fly.
Capable of testing up to six boot seals simultaneously, testing regimes can include continuous articulation of the ball joints, hot and cold brine sprays, elevated humidity levels and air temperature cycling from -25 to +80 degrees Celsius.
DTE's boot seal testing machine employs two motorized movement axes " one vertical and one horizontal " each driven by a Baldor MotiFlex e100 3-phase servo drive and servomotor fitted with a multi-turn absolute encoder. The precise feedback signals enable both axes to be programmed to absolute zero, facilitating optimal positioning of the machine's tooling for parts loading and unloading, and ensuring ease of start-up.
The servo drives are connected via industry-standard ethernet to the test machine's host computer, which runs National Instruments' LabVIEW software, and are controlled via TCP/IP using the built-in ActiveX commands in Baldor's Mint programming language.
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Paris Opera Apple Store targeted by armed robbers, heist estimated at over $1.3M
The Daily Mail has today reported that robbers have hit Apple's flagship French Store. The criminals apparently began the organised heist at around 9pm CET , and involved the theft of over $1.3 million (around £1 million) worth of Apple products, as some sources now estimate. The gun-wielding thieves are yet to be tracked down by the police, but one official has made statement to a local newspaper.
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"Christophe Crepin, an Unsa police union official, told Le Parisien newspaper that 'the four hooded and heavily armed criminals made their move very quickly. Most of the police forces were being mobilised to monitor the Champs Elysees, so the robbers have clearly benefitted from this opportunity to strike.'
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Is this the world's most wasteful green idea? Wind turbine produces just £5 energy a month
IS this the world's most expensive wind turbine?
Blundering officials have been blasted for installing a wind turbine in such a calm area it will take 452 years to generate enough energy to pay for itself.
The Welsh Government spent £48,000 of tax payers money on the "obscenely expensive vanity project" which produces just £5 worth of electricity a month.
Officials have claimed the turbine is producing such little energy because of a mechanical failure, but the company which installed the structure have said it is the location which is to blame.
Instead of putting up the 60ft turbine on one of Britain's windiest coastlines, the turbine has been sited in a valley two miles from blustery Cardigan Bay, near Government offices at Aberystwyth in West Wales.
Jonathan Isaby, political director of the TaxPayers' Alliance, said: "If this project had been started when Elizabeth I was on the throne, it would only be reaching break-even point now, sixty years into the reign of Elizabeth II.
"It beggars belief that tens of thousands of pounds of taxpayers' money was squandered on a scheme with such a minuscule return.
"It would seem that the turbine's installation was nothing more than an obscenely expensive vanity project, with unwitting taxpayers footing the bill.
"Regardless of the mechanical problems experienced so far, this turbine will never achieve value for taxpayers' money and whoever took the decision to install it should be held to account for approving such egregious waste."
The turbine was put up in 2009, but its performance has only been monitored since January last year.
The Welsh Government admitted that between then and July this year the turbine generated an average of just 33 kilowatts per month.
At the current price of electricity per kilowatt estimated at 16 pence, an average of just £5.28p worth was generated each month.
The problem is quite simple - it's been put in the wrong place.
Turbine expert Paul Burrell said: "The problem is quite simple - it's been put in the wrong place.
"It's very important with any wind turbine to ensure it's in the most exposed location possible. They need unobstructed access to wind from all directions.
"Unfortunately the Welsh Government's one is located in a valley two miles from the sea and has quite a short tower.
"It's located next to tall buildings so even if there's a strong wind it will be displaced by the time it reaches the turbine."
Mr Burrell, whose Machynlleth-based firm Anemos installs wind turbines, said: "It will be very patchy and lacking in potential so the turbine won't get the chance to spin properly."
"A turbine this size should produce around 9,000 kWh per year which is a significant amount of power."
Labour-run Welsh Government officials claimed there had been mechanical problems with the turbine which is sited near their office.
But even with improvements it will still be operating at a reduced capacity and generating just £8.84 of electricity monthly.
The details were revealed by the Welsh Government in a Freedom of Information request.
The company which manufactured the turbine, Quiet Revolution, said mechanical problems were not the main reason for its performance - it was the location.
They made it clear that before the turbine was installed they were very sceptical that the location would expose the turbine to enough wind.
A Welsh Government spokesperson said: "We have an ambitious carbon management strategy for the whole of our estate which includes a wide range of activities aimed at reducing CO2 emissions.
"For example, the Welsh Government office in Aberystwyth includes a biomass heating system, solar panels and a wind turbine designed to power a small number of workstations.
"As a result we have seen a 17 per cent reduction in CO2 emissions over the past two years and are well on course to meet the overarching target of a 30 per cent reduction by 2020."


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The 2013 holiday season has officially ended and we've compiled a recap to help you understand what worked, what didn't and how you can improve your holiday campaigns for 2014. Read on for more insights, and watch our recent webcast to get an analysis of the top performing retail sites and the most effective channels driving traffic during the 2013 online holiday season.
What's hot this week:
- Consumers took a brief pause from shopping, but they were back online Christmas Day looking to redeem gift cards, take advantage of post-holiday sales and get the most out of gifts received.
- Online traffic to Fitbit.com, one of the season's hottest gifts, jumped 150 percent between Christmas Eve and Christmas Day.
- Every week of the season, up until the very end, there were new toys making the hot toy list.
- Brands sent 23.6 percent more holiday-themed emails between September 29 and December 28, 2013 than they had in the 2012 holiday season.
Top transaction days
Shoppers started buying earlier this holiday season as two of the top ten transaction days occurred in the first half of November. In 2012, the earliest top ten transaction day was the day before Thanksgiving. In 2013, November 8th and November 15th made it into the top ten (7th and 5th respectively). Both of these November dates ranked higher in transactions than in volume.
Thanksgiving will be similarly late in 2014, so there is an opportunity to mail more on these earlier season days next holiday season. Thanksgiving ranked 15th in volume in 2012, but rose to third in volume in 2013 as more stores opened on Thanksgiving Day. Four of the top ten days occurred on a Friday (compared to only three Fridays in 2012), showing that customers' minds were on shopping just prior to the weekends.
Tuesday, the day after Cyber Monday, also made it into the top ten this year. A combination of extensions of Cyber Monday sales and the fact that it was only twenty-two days until Christmas likely boosted the transactions for this day.
Comparing top ten transaction days for the past three holiday seasons
- Five of the top ten days occur between the day before Thanksgiving and Cyber Monday each holiday season.
- Cyber Monday and Black Friday rank first and second for transactions every season.
- Thanksgiving, the day before Thanksgiving, and the Sunday after Black Friday rank in the top ten transaction days each season as well.
- The day after Cyber Monday ranked in the top ten for both 2011 and 2013.
- In the past three seasons, twelve days that were not part of the peak days before the Thanksgiving-Cyber Monday time period made the top ten list. Eight of those twelve days were Fridays, highlighting the importance of sending emails on that day during the holiday season.
Another look at mobile versus desktop
Back in October we reported that prior to the holiday season, 48 percent of total email opens occurred on a mobile device, but that this percentage varied by industry. We have now looked at the mailings sent during the peak of the holiday season (November 23rd through December 12th) by the same set of brands included in our pre-holiday study. The "all industry" percent of emails opened on a mobile device increased to 52 percent during this holiday time period.
- The percent of total emails opened on mobile devices increased for five of our seven industries. Media and entertainment saw a decline in mobile, although it is still above the all industry average, and travel was basically unchanged for both opens and clicks.
- Multichannel retailers had the highest percentage of mobile opens (65 percent), and were the only industry to receive more than half of their clicks on mobile (51 percent).
- The increases in the percent of clicks received from mobile devices is likely a reflection of more emails being designed to be mobile friendly, as well as the increased use of tablets. Catalogers saw a 4.7 percent increase in the percent of clicks received on an iPad during the holiday season as compared to our pre-holiday study, and consumer products and services had a 3.7 percent increase in iPad clicks.
- Windows still receives the overall highest percentage of clicks.
Top retailers
During the month of December, consumers made 3.5 billion visits to sites included in the Hitwise® Retail 500, a collection of the top retail websites. That's virtually unchanged from 2012. Included in these numbers are visits from computers as well as from visits from mobile devices when the device is connected to a home's wireless network.
The top performing retailer during the month of December 2013 was Amazon.com, which alone claimed 26 percent of all traffic to the Hitwise Retail 500 or 903 million visits. Amazon also impressively grew traffic by 30 percent compared with December 2012. Walmart.com, Target.com, BestBuy.com and Macys.com rounded out the top five retailers for the month with visits roughly equal to those registered in 2012. Boosted by the release of two new gaming platforms this season, the Xbox One and the PlayStation 4, gaming retailer GameStop had a very good season racking up 28.6 million visits during the month of December, up a relative 29 percent over December 2012.
Peak traffic days
Peak traffic days this year were the usual suspects with Thanksgiving, Black Friday and Cyber Monday with the Hitwise Retail 500 sites registering approximately 190 million visits on each day. Following the official start of the holiday season, traffic generally peaked on Mondays and declined from Tuesday through Sunday. In fact, the fifth highest traffic day of the season (between Thanksgiving and Christmas Day) was Monday December 16, 2013, about a week before Christmas. From that day, traffic declined more sharply than during weeks prior with traffic the following Monday (December 23rd) coming in nearly 25 percent below the previous Monday. Once the gifts were unwrapped on Christmas morning, consumers were back online looking to redeem gift cards, take advantage of post-holiday sales or get the most out of gifts they received. In fact, traffic Christmas Day was up a relative 23 percent over Christmas Eve and traffic on December 26th was higher than any day since the Tuesday after Cyber Monday.
Christmas winners
Among the retail sites that saw the biggest boost in visits between Christmas Eve and Christmas Day were the LeapFrog Store and VTech Kids, which registered relative boosts in visits in excess of 350 percent between December 24th and December 25th. Fitbit.com also did well with visits on Christmas Day up 150 percent over Christmas Eve visits as Fitbit recipients went online to set up their Fitbit accounts and to download companion mobile apps. The Apple Store and Microsoft Store were also winners with visits up 82 percent and 38 percent, respectively, on Christmas Day when many consumers received digital tablets. Retailers popular among young consumers, like Hollister, Forever 21 and American Eagle Outfitters, also did disproportionately better on Christmas Day, likely as a result of shoppers looking to redeem gift cards or exchange clothing gifts for styles they prefer.
That's a wrap!
Take a look back at the top retailers and hot products week by week during the 2013 holiday season.
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"All Marketers Are Liars"28 Oct 2006 (Sat)
This is not new. Seth Godin, author of six marketing bestsellers (including "Permission Marketing" and "All Marketers are Liars: The Power of Telling Authentic Stories in a Low-Trust World"), gave a great talk at Google in February this year. I watched the video only this month. Can't help but be impressed by his astute analysis and concrete examples, and yet disturbed by our collective shallowness. So here it is (00:48:01):
- Permission Marketing – revisited
- Web 2.0 talk at CISAA, NUS
- Uzyn, the next "Kevin Rose"?
- Google buys again… FeedBurner at $100m
- Web 2.0 vs. Web 1.0
- Ethical Social Media Marketing
- Facebook – the new tool for crime busters?
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Charting a Course for the 21st Century – NLM's Long Range Plan 2006-2016
Strategic Vision
Lifelong Learning
Lifelong just-in-time professional learning will replace the combination of discipline-specific just-in-case education and continuing education programs of the 20th century. Learning resources will be on line, 24-7 and pulled forward on demand by the professional who needs them. Integrated models of learning will support all health professionals and include an ascending series of complexities in language so individuals and their families can use the basic level while sophisticated advanced specialists use the most complex layer.
Simulations will greatly lessen our reliance on trial and error on patients and will be used routinely to check the limits of individual ability. Immersion facilities and personalized simulations will help in experiencing the hard to imagine. Holographic immersion, tailored based on an individual's PET scan and MRI, may allow visualizing individual patients with a breathtaking degree of accuracy. Because these resources are used to enhance entertainment and in advanced education, they will also be accessible over the network for use in K-12 education. Exposure during K-12 will prepare future consumers to be active participants in decisions about their care and prepare people coming into health education programs for more effective approaches to learning.


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So I guess nobody else has ever bought this tea and that is why Art of Tea discontinued it. For good reason, it's not very good. I used my entire mini tin to make a pitcher of iced tea last night.
It's alright…the black tea just has this odd almost musk to it and it overpowers any of the flavoring. I ended up having to add splenda to bring out other flavors, but it only did so for strawberry. The kiwi's absolutely nonexistent. The black tea just overpowers everything and it doesn't taste like it's even a good type to use for iced tea.
I guess I am going to be the only one drinking it. Bleh. It totally made the steeper thing disgusting too with the little sugar stars. I've never had a problem with sprinkles in there before and now there's a nice red sugar ring in a spot I can't reach. Lovely.


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By Joe Naiman
The second Valley League cluster meet of the cross country season was held Oct. 31 at Kit Carson Park in Escondido, and the three Ramona High School teams with enough runners to obtain team scores all placed third.
"We are getting better across the board, boys and girls," said Head Coach Steve Albanese.
This year the North County Conference replaced league dual meets with league cluster meets involving all six league teams. The first meet was held Oct. 4 at Guajome Park. At that meet Ramona's varsity boys took fourth among the six teams, and the junior varsity boys were third among the four teams with enough JV runners to obtain a team score. Neither girls' team had the minimum five runners to obtain a team score, which is derived by adding the positions of a school's top five finishers.
Ramona's top finisher at the Guajome Park meet was Isaiah Spieker, who placed sixth in that 5,000-meter (3.1-mile) boys varsity race. Spieker's time of 16:43 on the 3.0-mile Kit Carson Park course gave him fourth place in the Oct. 31 varsity race.
Joey Jauregui finished the varsity race in 17:17, which was worth 17th place. Colin Uekert placed 22nd at 17:35. Ben Stein was 26th with a time of 18:11. Anthony Jauregui had a 28th-place time of 18:18.
Ramona's 88 points tied with Orange Glen. In cross country a tie is broken by the position of the sixth finisher. James Meskell had a time of 18:24 to take 29th place and finish ahead of Orange Glen's sixth runner, thus giving third place to Ramona. The positions of a school's sixth and seventh finishers are not included in a team's score but can add to another team's score. Ramona's seventh finisher, Eric Syzmanski, had a time of 18:25 to place 31st.
Orange Glen was without its top runner, Andrew Tellames, who was rested due to an injury.
"It was still nice to move up and beat another team," Albanese said.
Ramona had four varsity girls in the Oct. 4 league cluster and six girls in the Oct. 31 varsity race.
"Not all of them are fully healthy, but they're coming back," Albanese said.
The girls course Oct. 31 was 2.7 miles. Perla Cruz, who finished 17th Oct. 4, repeated her status as Ramona's top finisher while placing 13th overall with a time of 19:15. Rachel Brown was 18th at 19:48, Elizabeth Schweizer had a 20th-place time of 19:54, Chloe Knowd became the 22nd finisher 19:59 after the start of the race, Anna Sundrud placed 25th after a 20:06 performance, and Elyse Harlan finished 27th and posted a time of 20:22.
The girls had a team score of 86 points.
"They ran well as a team," Albanese said. "They didn't pack run, but they ran with teammates. I think that helped them out a lot."
The race was Sundrud's first since Sept. 21 and Harlan's first since Sept. 13.
"It was really great to have them back," Albanese said. "They still have a lot of room for improvement."
Ramona's junior varsity boys totaled 54 points. Jackson Sutter and Danny Edwards had times of 18:31 with Sutter placing third and Edwards taking fourth place. Colin McNulty had a time of 19:07 for ninth place. Colton Meskell took 18th place after a 19:42 performance. Chance Hardin had a time of 20:20, which gave him 29th place. Adam Ramirez was 34th at 20:54. Angel Perez finished 37th with a time of 21:01.
In the Oct. 4 race, Edwards placed eighth and Sutter was 13th overall as well as the second Ramona finisher.
Three Bulldogs ran in the girls JV race. Lucia Hernandez finished seventh with a time of 21:28. Nicole Pshsnychniak placed eighth at 21:45. Aixa Garcia-Cedillo had a time of 25:54 and took 24th place.
Albanese didn't place an emphasis on time difference between the Kit Carson Park race and the Guajome Park league cluster four weeks earlier.
"I don't compare times with the other course," he said.
"This course is actually a lot slower pace-wise," Albanese said of Kit Carson Park. "It's more grassy."
Albanese instead compared finishing positions. Eighteen of his 22 runners had higher positions at the Oct. 31 meet than at the first league cluster.
"We're moving in the right direction as a team," he said.
The junior varsity league championship race will take place Friday at Kit Carson Park.


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Come and Hear God's Word
Posted on July 13th, 2011 in Articles
He says…
She says…
God says…
Does it matter?
Come find out Thursday and Friday, July 28-29 at the Tanglewood Holiday Inn in Roanoke, VA.
|"This Is True!" Says Who? – Joe Morecraft
|The Church, Why Have One? – Jeff Black
|Trusting in and Obeying God Is Good for You – Jeff Black
|The Bible Plus Nothing Is Everything – Joe Morecraft
Dr. Joe Morecraft, III, is a preacher of the gospel and a noted lecturer on contemporary political and historical trends in the United States and world at large. In 1986, he was a candidate for the US Congress in the 7th Congressional District of Georgia. He is married to Rebecca and they have four children.
Dr. Morecraft received his Bachelor of Arts degree in history from King College in Bristol, Tennnessee. In 1969, he was awarded a Master of Divinity degree from Columbia Theological Seminary in Decator, Georgia, and in 1982, was awarded a Doctor of Theology degree from Whitefield Theological Seminary in Lakeland, Florida. He teaches classes in the Old Testament and preaching for the Christ Theological Seminary.
He is the founding pastor of Chalcedon Presbyterian Church (RPCUS) located in Cumming, Georgia where he has pastored for over thirty years, and in that position has assisted in the planting of other churches in the Atlanta area. He frequently preaches and lectures at seminars and conferences around the nation and abroad such as the Witherspoon Institue sponsored by Vision Forum.
Dr. Morecraft has addressed civic, medical, military, political, religious and educational groups in such places as Scotland, England, Germany, El Salvador, South Africa, Cypress, Ukraine, Argentina, Paraquay, Chile and Ecuador. He has authored numerous articles and spoken on national defense, international relations, constitutionalism and various economic and social issues.
He has authored several books: Liberation Theology: Prelude to Revolution; With Liberty and Justice for All; How God Wants Us To Worship Him (a guide to biblical worship, which offers a careful exegesis on worship); and his most recent book, Authentic Christianity, which is five volumes. His series of forty-nine sermons on church history are used as college and seminary course references.
Pastor Jeff Black pastors the Providence RP Church in Wytheville, VA and the Grace RP Church in Botetourt County, VA. Previously he pastored churches in TN and NC. He graduated from Westminster Theological Seminary in 1979. He teaches classes in Nrw Testament, Biblical Interpretation and Pauline Exposition for the Christ Theological Seminary. He is married to Vanessa and God has blessed them with three children. Jeff is also the host of The Edinburgh Inn radio program and speaks at various conferences.
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USD/JPY (a 4-hour chart)
General Overview
USD / JPY is strong ahead of key events in both countries with potential corporate tax cuts and sales tax in Japan as well as the unresolved question of costs in the United States. In the recently published Japanese data, Tankan, prospects for production in the third quarter amounted to 11, higher than in the past and the expected 10. Tankan industry rose 5.1% compared with the previous 5.5%, while 6.0% was expected. Tankan large manufacturing index was 12 against the last 4 and about 7 of expected. Tankan non-production sector was 14 against previous 12 and 15 expectations.
The current sell signal is strong and confirmed, as Chinkou span entrenched below the price and the price is below the Ichimoku cloud
The downward movement will be relevant as long as the price is below the critical Kijun-sen line if the price consolidates above the Kijun-sen, the "dead cross" will be weakened and may be canceled.
Tenkan-Sen and Kijun-Sen are crossed in a descending "dead cross". Kijun-sen is moving in a horizontal direction parallel to the cloud, and the Tenkan-Sen continues to grow. The price is below the cloud. The Cloud is growing.
Bollinger Bands follow the price up. The indicator shows a high volatility.
MACD is in a negative area.
Trading recommendations
As the USDJPY currency pair continues to trade in a southerly direction, a break of 98.00 support may take place. In this case, the previously marked level of 97.60 will be the potential target of the fall.


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Minnesota leads nation in rise in organized auto insurance fraud
The Insurance Federation of Minnesota today called on regulators, prosecutors and legislators to redouble their commitment to crack down on No-Fault Auto Insurance Fraud in the state after new statistics released this week showed Minnesota as the state with the nation's highest rate of increased organized crime activity in insurance fraud.
The new report released today by the National Insurance Crime Bureau (NICB) indicated that in the last four years, the rate of organized crime involvement in auto insurance fraud was up an alarming 230 percent in Minnesota, primarily because of increased fraud fighting efforts in states like New York, New Jersey and Florida.
"It's unfortunate, but the crack down on fraud in other places has led to a dramatic increase in fraud here in Minnesota and it's costing every driver in the state," said Insurance Federation of Minnesota President Bob Johnson. "Organized criminal gangs are coming here in record numbers and setting up medical clinics that submit fake bills and stage fake accidents to collect No-Fault benefits they don't deserve."
The schemes are costing Minnesota drivers millions of dollars in wasted auto insurance costs each year.
According to the NICB report, a pattern of "reverse migration" is emerging where criminals are relocating to other No Fault auto insurance states, particularly Minnesota, after fraud fighting efforts intensify elsewhere.
The IFM is working closely with local prosecutors and the Department of Commerce's Division of Insurance Fraud Prevention to press ahead with aggressive investigation and prosecution of auto insurance fraud.
Late last year, the IFM partnered with one of its member companies to stage an insurance fraud prosecutors' workshop to highlight best practices and successful lessons learned in the fight against insurance fraud.
"Most Minnesotans would be shocked to know that an increasing portion of their auto insurance premiums is being stolen, often by criminals from out of state or foreign nationals," said Johnson. "Our companies are finding evidence that much of this money is moving out of the state and increasingly out of the country."
Insurance Fraud is a felony-level criminal offense in Minnesota, but the crime is difficult to prosecute because often the schemes are very complicated and feature multiple layers of complex financial deceit.
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British consumer goods giant Unilever (NYSE:UN, NYSE:UL) has a section in its website that answers frequently asked questions about its stock. One of them discusses total shareholder return (capital gains plus dividends) of Unilever stock in comparison with 20 other global competitors like Kraft (NYSE:KFT), Coca-Cola (NYSE:KO) and Procter & Gamble (NYSE:PG) as well as not-so-familiar names such as KAO, Orkla and Reckitt Benckiser. In 2006, Unilver ranked 13th on the list. One year later, it jumped to seventh position. Individual investors could invest in all 21 companies, using exchange-traded funds. We'll call it the Unilever portfolio.
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All 21 companies are global participants in the consumer goods sector with 13 of them trading principally on an American exchange with the rest split between Europe and Japan. The eight that trade overseas make available American Depositary Receipts (ADRs) so that Americans can buy their shares over-the-counter.
That's easier said than done because trading volume is often non-existent due to the fact most institutions buy the shares directly on the home exchange rather than through ADRs. Therefore, an easier way to own the European and Japanese companies is through an ETF that holds some or all of them.
Mix and Match
It's not likely that we'll be able to pick up all eight companies trading outside North America in one fund so we'll split them up into three funds. My first choice is the iShares S&P Global Consumer Staples Fund (NYSE:KXI), which holds 99 companies including most of the 21 on Unilever's list. Of the eight that trade overseas, six are in the fund: Nestle, Danone, Reckitt Benckiser, Beiersdorf, Kao and Shiseido.
The only two remaining are the Norwegian company Orkla and Japan's Lion. We'll need two more funds to make this happen. Somewhat overlapping the consumer staples fund is the iShares S&P Europe 350 Fund (NYSE:IEV), which most importantly claims Orkla among its holdings with several of the other European stocks already included in the earlier fund.
Now, all we need to do is find a Japanese ETF holding Lion and our mission is accomplished. It just so happens that iShares' MSCI Japan Small Cap Index Fund (NYSE:SCJ) owns Lion as well as 567 other Japanese small caps. We're done.
Interesting Diversification
What was intended as an exercise in portfolio construction using Unilever's peers as the holdings has turned into an extremely intriguing combination. On the surface, one might think this portfolio of three ETFs isn't properly diversified. However, if you look deeper you'll see there's plenty of sectors represented in this portfolio. In fact, there's a total of seven: consumer goods, consumer services, industrial materials, financial services, energy, healthcare and business services. If you were to invest $5,000 in the iShares S&P Global Consumer Staples Fund and $2,500 each in the other two funds and simply rebalance every year, you'd do just fine in my opinion. In fact, the pros would have a hard time beating this combination. (Learn more about rebalancing in Rebalance Your Portfolio To Stay On Track.)
The Bottom Line
Exercises like the one remind us how creativity does wonders for a portfolio. You could do a lot worse than owning the Unilever portfolio.
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Originally Posted by Thrasher
Hey I finished it last night!
I made level 29, with 50 unspent LPs. How about you?
I REALLY liked RISEN for
- open world exploration and design
- atmosphere
- combat controls (yes, a bit actioney)
- interesting NPCs and AI
- monster AI and variety
- some puzzles (more complexity here would have been better)
- teleport stones
- quest design
I didn't like
- character development system was sort of weak for mages. Access to seal magic wasn't much of a distinction
- repetitive dungeon crawls for the Titan armor pieces
- little choice and consequences, except for picking your profession
- not many roleplaying opportunities


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well em writing to the school mail complaining bout my bus...so plz correct if any mistakes are there cuz this will be read by high authorities....
I am writing on behalf of all the bus users of Bus No. 150 to complain about the bus that has been provided to us . It ALWAYS comes up with new problems and we also have complaint several times. Unfortunately, no actions were taken, as expected. The only thing that changed was the no. (from 16 to 150) not even the hallow seat thats at the back.
Coming to the major problems, the bus' A/C rarely works, and because of that we have to face a lot of problems especially in the going time. It'll be sunny and we all will be exhausted (30 students including 3 teachers), when we enter the bus hoping to calm our temperatures down unfortunately the A/Cs will be down. It is very stressful.
The bus sometimes even shut down in middle of the high ways, and the bus driver has to work his sweat off to get the bus to a side. And it'll be quiet surprising but the fact is, we've been complaining about our bus since 2 years. And as i mentioned before, the only change they made in was in the no. (dont have any idea why, though).
And because of these problems, we are often late to school and the driver always says "this is an old bus, I cant do anything!". Then who can? who SHOULD? The authorities ofcourse! We believe we are entitled to have a better bus with neccessary facilities. I would be grateful if the concern authorities would deal with this matter as soon as possible.
I look forward to hearing from you.
Thank you.
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PS3 Network Problem | Playstation Connection Problem
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Recently, there has been PlayStation 3 network connection problems, giving its players a hard time in enjoying the game. Sony is trying hard to resolve the problem and says that the issue seems to be isolated to older PS3 models.
The PS3 network problem started 4:00 PM PST on Sunday. Sony states that the affected are the pre-Slim PlayStation 3 models. And the good news is Sony is not fixing the issue.
Here's an excerpt on the official statement of Sony regarding this connection issue:
We hope to resolve this problem within the next 24 hours. In the meantime, if you have a model other than the new slim PS3, we advise that you do not use your PS3 system, as doing so may result in errors in some functionality, such as recording obtained trophies, and not being able to restore certain data.
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Turkish Member Of Parliament To Lecture April 24April 23, 2003
The Honorable Mehmet Tomanbay, a Member of Parliament in the Republic of Turkey, will lecture on "Turkish Politics and the War in Iraq" at 4 p.m. Thursday, April 24, in room 116 at the Draper Academic Building on the Baylor University campus. The lecture is part of the Council for International Education's Global Issues lecture series.
In addition to the lecture, Tomanbay will speak to Dr. William Mitchell's ethnopolitical conflict class on today and will talk about Turkish economics at Dr. Steven Gardner's graduate business class on Thursday.
Tomanbay received his doctorate from Gazi University in Ankara, Turkey, and served as professor of economics there from 1997-2002, when he was elected to Parliament. Additionally, he has been a visiting scholar at the University of Michigan, where he worked on a Fulbright grant at the Center for Middle Eastern and North African Studies.
For more information about Tomanbay's lecture, call 710-2618.
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ABIDJAN, March 13 (Reuters) - Ivory Coast named a new government on Tuesday in which most ministers from the previous government, including Finance Minister Charles Koffi Diby, retained their posts, a presidency official said.
Former Justice Minister Jeannot Kouadio Ahoussou becomes Prime Minister replacing Guillaume Soro, and Loma Cisse Mattou replaces Ahoussou as Justice Minister Delegate, Amadou Gon Coulibaly, Secretary General of the Presidency told a news conference.
Diby's retention of his post will mitigate concerns that Ivory Coast will change the payment schedule on its 2032 $2.3 billion bond which went into default after the disputed November poll, analysts have said. (Reporting by Loucoumane Coulibaly; Writing by Richard Valdmanis)


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What does Sara mean?
Sara ▼ as a name for girls is a Hebrew name, and the name Sara means "princess". Sara is a version of Sarah (Hebrew). Biblical: originally called Sarai. See also Mersera, Sarina
VARIANTS Zaria, Zarah, Zara▲, Zahra▲, Serah, Sera, Sarrey, Sarrah, Sarra, Sarie, Saria, Sari, Sarhah, Sarha, Saraia, Sarai▲, Sairah, Saira
RELATIONS VIA SARAH Sadee, Sadie▲, Sadye▼, Sal, Salli, Sally▼, Saralee, Saralyn, Saramae, Saran, Sareen, Sarely, Sarena, Sarika, Sarina, Sarine, Sarissa, Sarita, Sarka, Sarolta, Sarotta, Sasa, Serach, Serita, Shara, Shari▼, Sorcha, ZaritaCREATIVE FORMS
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How popular is Sara?
Sara is a very prominent first name for women (#84 out of 4276, Top 2%) and also a very prominent surname for both adults and children (#23391 out of 150436, Top 16%). (2000 U.S. DEMOGRAPHICS)
Sara reached its highest rank of #30 in the U.S. during 1980-1989, and is at #162 presently. (TOP 2000 NAMES, 2015)
Which version is better?
Sadie (#52 LAST YEAR), Sarah (#58), Zara (#402), Sarai (#440), Zahra (#690), Zaria (#872), Sally (#1139), Sarina (#1342), Zarah (#1779), Sarena, Saira, Sorcha, Sadye, Shari, Sarita, Sarrah, Sera, Shara and Sari are the prominent varying forms of Sara (#162). Usage of these forms of Sara was at its highest in the 1980s (AVERAGE #1412) and is now significantly less (#1346, ▼66%), with versions like Sally falling out of fashion. Sadie, Zara, Zahra and Sarai are four of the more trendy birth names in this compilation.
Similar Names
Sara▼ is pronounced similarly to Cearia, Cearra, Ceira, Cera, Cerea, Ciara▼, Cieara, Cira, Cyra, Cyrah, Sahra, Seara, Seeria, Siara, Siera, Sierra▼, Siria, Soraya, Suri, Syria, Zaira, Zariah▲, Zarria, Zary and Zarya. Other suggested similar-sounding names are Abra, Bara, Cara▼, Dara▼, Eira, Fara, Iara, Kara▼, Lara, Lawra, Mara▲, Mavra, Meara, Nira, Ozara, Saba, Sabra, Sada, Safia, Safira, Sage▲, Sahara, Sam, Samara, Sami, Samia, Sana, Sandra▼, Sanna, Sasha, Seana, Sela, Shana▼, Sharae, Sharay, Shary, Shera, Shira, Shura, Shyra, Siana, Soma, Starr▼, Syma, Tamra▼, Tara▼, Taura, Teara, Tyra▼ and Yara. These names tend to be less frequently used than Sara.See names in meaning and etymology.


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Rogelio Sanchez Brito drove his red Ford pickup south to the Millennium Hotel in the Mexican border town of Ojinaga, where he turned it over to a man he'd never before seen. Brito, young and nervous, waited at the hotel for two days before his truck was returned, loaded with 300 pounds of marijuana hidden in its tires and beneath the floorboards in tape-wrapped bundles. For his first attempt at smuggling drugs and delivering them to a dealer in Odessa, Texas, he was to earn $4,000. Had it not been for a drug-sniffing dog named Rufus, he might have made it.
The desert is cool on most starlit summer evenings in the Texas Trans Pecos. The open, vast valleys feed the breezes that are but one of many pastoral qualities in the Alpine-Marathon-Marfa-Presidio region. This area just north of the Tex-Mex border is peaceful and isolated, the nearest Wal-Mart 80 miles away in Fort Stockton, the closest shopping mall a three-hour drive to Odessa.
To the immediate south, however, another world, dangerous and deadly, thrives. On the border, away from the serenity and soft city lights, it is dirty business as usual.
Along the Rio Grande River, which marks the winding line separating the United States and Mexico, smugglers of drugs and illegal aliens are on parade.
On this night alone, local Border Patrol and Drug Enforcement Administration officials make six drug seizures and arrest 42 undocumented immigrants. They confiscate 1,340 pounds of marijuana, two and a half pounds of cocaine and one loaded pistol. A few miles away, fellow agents attempt to stop four alien "backpackers"--smugglers who walk drugs across the river and into Texas--but they disappear into the rugged foothills and avoid capture, leaving behind 400 pounds of marijuana. At a checkpoint near Presidio, 12 additional drug smugglers are taken into custody.
A few nights earlier, agents stop a suspicious-looking moving van just west of Pecos and, after removing a wall of furniture stacked in the rear, find 17 undocumented immigrants--men, women and several children--who were to be delivered to a "stash house" drop-off in Dallas. In the truck, agents found just two gallons of water for the dangerous two-day trip.
Despite the collective efforts of the region's law enforcement--Border Patrol, Customs, DEA, U.S. marshals, park rangers, local sheriff's and police departments--the illegal flow continues along the 420 miles of border they are assigned to watch over.
"We aren't stopping it," says Brewster County Sheriff Ronny Dodson. "On the best of days we might just slow it down a little. If someone tries to tell you the situation is getting better, he's blowing smoke. Actually, most of what we catch is by accident."
Dodson and his six deputies patrol the state's largest county. Stretching across 6,128 square miles, it is roughly the size of the state of New Hampshire. The official assignment of DEA agents stationed in the region is to "disrupt and dismantle." Mostly they can only disrupt. There is too much money, too many smugglers and too much rugged geography involved.
At the federal courthouse in Pecos, the Western District docket is so crammed that visiting judges from New York, Vermont and Mississippi have been asked to help with the caseload. The 90-bed Pecos jail stays filled to capacity while detention hearings, arraignments, indictments, jury trials and plea bargains drone on in nearby courtrooms. Records for the past three years indicate that no fewer than 500 criminal cases, the majority of them smuggling-related, are filed in Pecos annually.
"I was on the bench there for eight years," says U.S. District Judge Royal Furgeson, who now presides in San Antonio, "and by the time I was ready to leave, I thought I'd put everybody in the world in jail. Truth is, I hardly made a dent."
Mike Barclay knows well that sense of hopelessness. Barclay, an Alpine-based defense attorney, has lost track of the number of traffickers he's represented since moving his practice from Dallas in the early '80s. He is quite familiar with the smugglers' determination. "The situation," he says, "is not getting better--and it won't get any better."
Barclay, 73, came here to ease into retirement, weary of the urban life and the violent crimes he was hired to defend. Today, however, there is little leisure time for the colorful, gifted litigator who many now refer to as "the dean of West Texas trial lawyers." It is not unusual for him to have as many as a dozen cases at a time on the always-crowded Pecos court docket.
Nevertheless, Barclay throws himself into each case, passionately working for his clients--most of whom are demonized by the press and public, as they are integral parts of the drug trade.
Barclay defends the middlemen who are the nightly targets of the Trans Pecos law enforcement agents, the "mules" who transport the drugs and the "coyotes" who move human cargo from abject Mexico poverty to the promise of minimum-wage jobs in the United States. While the drug lords and slave traders wait safely on their ranches and in plush villas, counting their money, and the U.S. dealers ply their trade in hiding, the smugglers are the high-risk takers, usually desperate and destitute men from the poverty-stricken Mexican border towns.
Barclay manages to make the best of this bleak milieu. His professional yet easygoing style has won him admirers from all sides of the courtroom. He has helped make sure that the crushing load of drug cases is not used as an excuse to deprive the mules and coyotes their due process. Despite his age, he has rekindled a passion for his work, once again embracing the youthful, idealistic notion that, with care and hard work, he can help ensure that something akin to justice--or, at least, fairness--is meted out day-to-day in this hopeless border war.
"He's a throwback to the lawyers of bygone days," Furgeson says. "For him, making certain our justice system works is more than a job; it is a calling."
Mike Barclay began his career in Dallas a half-century ago and for 30 years had a reputation as one of the city's premier criminal defense lawyers. He defended all manner of thieves, murderers and rapists, and he was viewed by those in the judicial system as a learned, always-prepared litigator. His courtroom theatrics were legendary.
"Over the years, he's reached a status where he probably gets away with more in court than he should," Furgeson says. "Prosecutors often defer to him and rarely object, he's friends with everyone in the courthouse and, most important, he commands great respect."
He also commands a caseload far greater than any he ever juggled in Dallas. "I wasn't here long before I realized that the courts were literally inundated with cases of drug and alien trafficking," Barclay says.
His phone rings constantly. Weary judges ask if he'll take court appointments and an occasional client who couldn't afford to hire counsel for his own defense or that of a family member. Barclay spends much of his time making the 100-mile trek to the federal courthouse in Pecos, where a fast-moving "rocket docket" is the order of the day.
The phrase was born during the tenure of the late U.S. District Judge Lucius Bunton. Because of the flood of cases arriving in his court, he made it clear to attorneys--defense and prosecution alike--that two witnesses were not to be called when one would do. His courtroom opened early and often didn't close until late at night. Jurors might be excused for a quick lunch, but lawyers were instructed to remain and eat the same sack lunch served to inmates at the nearby jail. "I soon got pretty good at making a motion with a bite of mystery-meat sandwich in my mouth," Barclay says.
That treadmill style of justice continues today. "It's the only way to keep your head above water," says Judge Furgeson, who replaced Bunton and adopted his practices. Barclay, he says, is one of the few who can keep up with the pace and still do well by each of his clients.
Those clients range from frightened, desperate young men to older, more hardened criminals with nothing more than greed as a motive for their crimes. For the majority of those he defends, however, the veteran attorney feels a noticeable degree of sympathy.
"They're desperate," he says, "because they're hungry. Their families are hungry. They've reached a point where they'll do anything to improve their hopeless situations." And so they risk going to jail for a paltry sum. The going rate for a mule, Barclay says, is $100 per pound of marijuana he successfully smuggles in. No up-front payment, no promise of legal help if arrested, no knowledge of the English language and no assurance against bodily harm. The poorly compensated mules are the key link in the Mexico-to-U.S. drug chain and yet are the most expendable.
The same applies to the coyote, who receives about $150 per illegal immigrant he is able to smuggle across the border--while Mexico kingpins like Ruben Valdes, once head of an organization that moved more than 200 people a week before he recently received a 27-year prison sentence for practicing the illicit trade, earn $1,500 to $2,000 from each person jammed into the back of a sweatbox trailer.
It is a discomforting statistic, but officials investigating the recent Victoria incident wherein 19 immigrants were found suffocated estimate they had been worth as much as $200,000 in smuggling fees. The driver, meanwhile, admitted to authorities that he was to have been paid only $2,500.
"More than once," Barclay says, "I've seen cases where one of the mules, carrying, say, 50 pounds of marijuana, was sent across while the people hiring him knew he'd be caught. He was just a decoy, there to divert attention from another mule close behind him with 500 pounds."
Even the courts, he says, are generally prone to view his clients' crimes with some degree of leniency since it is not the endless reserve of downtrodden and defeated middlemen the authorities are really after.
"The judges know that in most instances these people are just being used," says Larry Leon, Alpine's resident DEA agent. "For the most part," he says, "these are sad people, down on their luck. They need money so badly they're willing to take the chance of going to jail for a long time." Law enforcement's primary interest in them, then, is any information they might provide about where the drugs they're smuggling originated and where and to whom they are to be delivered.
Rarely do the mules know. "The dealers are smart enough not to expose themselves directly to the smuggler. On both sides of the border, the transaction is filtered through several layers."
The repeat offenders who smuggle dope as well as aliens, however, are a different matter. Having had a taste of the excitement and easy money, alluding capture has become a game. "Some," Barclay says, "have become quite smart, very inventive."
This sprawling, barren region is different from the high-traffic drug routes that lead to El Paso or Laredo, through which trailer truckloads of drugs and aliens are being smuggled. In the six-county desert that stretches from east of El Paso to Del Rio, smaller cargos flow with remarkable, frustrating ease.
"The fact that arrest and seizure statistics are down slightly in some areas," says Marfa Sector Border Patrol spokesman William Brooks, "might--and I emphasize the word might--mean we've slowed the traffic." Or, he admits, it could mean that the approximately 200 agents working out of his office are simply being skirted by the inventive new ways smugglers slip their illegal wares into the jurisdiction.
Most recent numbers show that in fiscal 2002, Border Patrol agents based in Marfa alone seized 84,595 pounds of marijuana and 295 pounds of cocaine; they apprehended 11,374 undocumented immigrants. Although cocaine seizures and arrests are down slightly from previous years, smuggling of the high-grade marijuana grown in central Mexico has reached a record high.
So frequent are the drug busts in his circulation area, says Marfa's Robert Halpern, editor of the weekly Big Bend Sentinel, that not all are reported in his paper. "The joke here in the office," he says, "is if they seize only 50 pounds [of marijuana], we consider it to be 'for personal use.'"
He admits that the cases his paper has reported on quickly become a blur. "They got 2,000 pounds on one stop a few weeks ago," he says, "and that got my attention. But next week, they'll catch someone with 3,000, then 5,000. And on and on it will go."
What troubles Halpern is that a few local youngsters have become involved in trafficking. "It's sad," he says, "but they've decided to become big-time smugglers and are winding up in jail, their lives ruined. All to make a quick, easy dollar."
The big bucks, DEA agent Leon says, are in the trafficking of marijuana. "The profit margin is incredible. On the other side of the border, the going rate [that dealers pay] is $100 a pound. In Dallas, the sale price is $600 to $650. Farther north, in Chicago and New York, it goes up to $800 to $900."
That is not to say the smuggling trade in heroin, cocaine and methamphetamines has waned.
"Actually, the other drugs are easier to get across because they're not as bulky," Leon says. "A pound of heroin, for example, is no bigger than a baked potato. And cocaine and pills are much easier to hide. But the fact remains that the greatest profit margin is with the marijuana. And profit is what drug smuggling is all about."
Will his agency and the Border Patrol, more high-profile than ever since Homeland Security became an everyday concern, ever get the upper hand on the matter? Not likely, everyone from officers in the field to jurists in the courtrooms say.
"The technology the smugglers are using," Leon says, "continues to improve. And many of them seem to be getting smarter." Time was, he points out, when the drug dealers were comfortable with the high risk of bringing in their contraband in large truckload amounts. When more checkpoints were established along the busiest highways, equipped with X-ray machines, drug-sniffing dogs and well-trained lawmen, the smugglers began looking for alternate routes.
They come not in huge trucks but in automobiles, pickups and SUVs, each transporting no more than 50 to 60 pounds of marijuana. "Basically, the dealers are still trying to get the large amounts into the States," Leon explains, "but they feel their chances are better if they split it up into smaller loads. The thinking now, in fact, is that there is a very good chance some of the vehicles they're sending will be caught. But they're playing the odds, hoping they can make it through with six or eight out of 10 or 12 loads."
Drugs are hidden in door panels, dashboards and headliners, false gas tanks, metal containers inserted into the tires and the space where the passenger-side airbag normally would be stored. Recently, a fake battery was found filled with black tar heroin (while the real battery was mounted beneath the car). Cocaine is hidden in a motor's manifold since smugglers have learned the engine heat will not melt or damage the drug. "I had one guy," Barclay says, "tell of driving straight through from Chihuahua City [Mexico] to Wichita, Kansas, with his manifold packed with coke. The only problem he had was having to wait several hours for the engine to cool before he could make his delivery."
Even law-abiding citizens have become unwitting accomplices. Mexican dealers will spot the parked vehicle of a vacationing family from Texas or New Mexico and wait until night to place a cargo of drugs in some hidden spot. That done, they take down the license plate number and do a computer check to determine the owner's home address.
"An innocent-looking family isn't going to have much trouble getting back across the border," Barclay says. "They get home, park their RV in the driveway and while they're sleeping, the dealers sneak up and retrieve their drug shipment."
More and more, he says, unaware victims are being lured into the trade. He tells of an independent Garland truck driver who responded to a Dallas Morning News classified ad last winter, seeking someone to haul a load of cattle from Presidio to Fort Worth. He was informed that a loaded trailer would be waiting for him. He was not told that he also would be hauling more than a ton of marijuana. Nor did he have any idea that he would be stopped, arrested and jailed.
Then there are the backpackers, young men familiar with the rugged terrain and willing to hike across the border with 50 to 100 pounds of marijuana. Often equipped with night-vision goggles and two-way radios, they may travel as far as 80 or 90 miles on foot before reaching their assigned drop-off point.
"Not only are they familiar with the region," Sheriff Dodson says, "but they're in constant contact with scouts on this side who alert them to where we [law enforcement] are. I can assure you that every time I pull out of the parking lot in front of my office and start driving south, someone is on a cell phone or walkie-talkie, letting the smugglers know."
Getting illegal aliens across is only a bit more difficult. In some cases, the trucks hauling them northward simply pull over a few miles before reaching a Border Patrol checkpoint, allowing them to walk through the desert and around the inspection station, only to be picked up a few miles beyond it. In other instances, they are picked up by all-terrain vehicles and driven through the darkened desert to a waiting truck.
"If," Leon says, "they can make it up to Interstate 20, they're pretty much home free. From there they can go to New Mexico, Lubbock or Dallas."
It was in Dallas where Barclay honed his craft, where he developed the many skills he would need to navigate the heavy traffic of the border drug war. Like his sense of humor.
"Mike," says retired Dallas County District Judge Don Metcalfe, "was a rarity when he was practicing here. He was not only shrewd; he had this wonderful sense of humor that kept everyone off-balance."
Classmates at SMU Law School, they shared an office during the early stages of their legal careers. And occasionally worked on cases together. It was during that time that Metcalfe became aware of the maverick tendencies of his lifelong friend. "After I became a judge," he says, "I immediately appointed Mike to a couple of cases, thinking if I could successfully control him in the courtroom, I'd be able to handle just about any situation."
It wasn't always easy. "I knew he was an excellent criminal lawyer--maybe the best in Dallas at the time--but it was just impossible to anticipate what he might do."
He recalls a trial during which a particularly natty Dallas police detective was on the stand, testifying against one of Barclay's clients. It was a time before men routinely used hairspray, yet not a single hair on the officer's head was out of place. Suddenly, Barclay interrupted the proceedings to urgently request a conference at the judge's bench. Leaning toward Metcalfe, the lawyer handed him a note: Judge, it read, the boys in Homicide Division are wondering if the witness wears a hairpiece. May I inquire?
It was during that trial that Barclay, in his effort to prove that the officers who arrested his client had not properly identified themselves as police after bursting through an apartment door, called the accused's girlfriend to the stand. Did she, Barclay wanted to know, hear anyone announce themselves as a police officer?
Barclay, of course, already knew the answer she would provide: "No sir," the young woman testified. "All I heard was, 'Freeze, motherfucker, or die.'"
Once, while cross-examining a witness who could not remember if his client was missing an eye, Barclay removed his own prosthetic eye that he'd worn since a 1947 semipro football accident and placed it on the witness stand. "If he looked like this," he said, pointing to his own vacant eye socket, "don't you think you would recall it?"
He clearly enjoyed and was devoted to his work, always quick with an amusing story to pass along to colleagues; a man to whom laughter came easily. As the '80s approached, the career malaise that often befalls defense lawyers hit. Losing three consecutive court-appointed capital murder cases didn't help. "I finally realized I was burning out," he reflects, "and began looking for a way to escape everything--the violent crime, the Dallas traffic, the whole big-city rat race."
Years earlier he'd begun the habit of vanishing into the Big Bend area for Christmas vacations and became enamored with the wide-open spaces and slow pace of the region. By the time he'd made the decision to close down his Dallas practice and semi-retire, he'd decided that Alpine, with a population just shy of 6,000, would be his new home.
"My thinking at the time was that I'd keep my license and maybe help draw up a will or two now and then," he says as he sits in his small office behind the home he shares with artist wife Barbara. Originally the Alpine hospital, built in 1907, it was remodeled into a bed-and-breakfast during World War II. "Now," Barclay says with his baritone laugh, "I'm the only lawyer in Alpine with 14 rooms and seven baths."
It's that lighthearted approach that helps him so well in the courtroom today. Judge Furgeson says he has Barclay's voir dire questioning to potential jurors memorized: "He'll smile at everyone and then tell them how he'd moved out here years ago from Dallas. He'll say that after he'd been here awhile he phoned his mother to tell her how friendly everyone in this part of the country was. He tells them she just laughed and said, 'Honey, they're not friendly; they're just lonely...'"
More than once Barclay has even resorted to writing his own poetry in an attempt to deflect a judge's anger over the fact a client has unexpectedly skipped a court date. Like the time defendant Hernando Felix-Yague (pronounced "yah-gee") failed to appear:
Hernando Felix Yague
Has a mind that's now become foggy.
On a search for his person
Pre-trial is still cursin'.
But I just learned this day
He's down Mexico way.
"I can't tell you how many times I've thought I ought to charge him with contempt or at least reprimand him," Furgeson says, "but I knew if I opened my mouth, I'd start laughing."
Despite the free spirit Barclay brings to his work, it is obvious that he is held in high regard by his peers. Fellow defense lawyers, and an occasional prosecutor, routinely seek his advice. Even law enforcement officials begrudgingly applaud his encyclopedic knowledge of the law.
"He came out here," Sheriff Dodson says, "and taught us how to do our jobs." Dodson, a member of the Alpine police force when he first became acquainted with Barclay, admits that the day-to-day details of matters such as showing just cause for a search warrant were often overlooked. "The first half-dozen cases Mike defended were dismissed because he was able to easily show that law enforcement hadn't done everything by the book. Thanks to him, we learned quickly to dot the i's and cross the t's."
Dodson laughs when Barclay insists on retelling a story he heard about the sheriff shortly after settling in Alpine. Dodson, it seems, was sworn in as an Alpine patrolman almost a year before his 21st birthday. "He was issued a badge and a gun," Barclay says, "but, by law, he was too young to purchase ammunition. So, for the first year of his law enforcement career, he had to take his wife with him down to Morrison's True Value so she could buy him bullets."
A recent Barclay client had made it through the border checkpoint, only to be stopped by a state trooper north of Alpine for a defective taillight on his truck. The frightened driver immediately jumped from the cab, his hands stretched into the air, and yelled out, "You've got me, don't shoot." Stunned by the quick admission, the trooper investigated and found 750 pounds of marijuana and a drunk woman in the trailer the man was pulling.
Then there was the smuggler whose pickup engine heated up after he'd reached the American side of the border. While pulled over to allow it to cool down, an off-duty Border Patrol agent stopped to lend a hand. During casual conversation as they tinkered with the engine, the Good Samaritan asked what the driver was hauling. When the man openly boasted that he had a 1,400-pound load of marijuana he was taking to Dallas, he was arrested.
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Which is to say there are a lot of cases Barclay doesn't have much chance of winning. "But what impresses me about him," Judge Furgeson says, "is the fact that once he's in the courtroom there is no way to tell if his client is court-appointed or one who's able to pay for counsel. Mike works equally hard for them all."
When the compliment is passed along, Barclay only shrugs. "My role is that of any other defense attorney. If my client is innocent, I've got to do everything I can to prove it. If his arrest or the investigation wasn't conducted properly, I'm going to raise hell about it."
His actions suggest it is those young, ignorant, out-of-work men caught in their first, desperate smuggling attempts that Barclay wishes most to help. After 45 years of practice, he holds to a belief that one illegal act does not make a person forever evil.
"These people's lives," he says, "are bad enough already."


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President Barack Obama and family host 30,000 children for 2013 Easter Egg Roll – Photos by Gary Hunter for Sentinel
About 30,000 children and their parents passed through the White House South Lawn to mingle with the Easter Bunny, athletes and celebrities, and learn about healthy food choices during the 2013 Easter Egg Roll.
In one of the largest White House events of the year, Obama greeted attendees and introduced his family, including special guest "Kid President" Robbie Novak, whose viral video sensation featuring ideas to improve the government has wowed people around the world.
"Are you ready, Kid President?" she asked Novak before her entrance. "You have been so inspiring; you make us all want to work hard and be better," Mrs. Obama said.
"So you're going to spend a little time in the Oval Office just fixing things up for this President, aren't you?"
Many other children enjoyed the sunshine and met the President, including Washington residents Neve Bonner, 3, and her father Carlos.
"Are you going to roll eggs? Are you going to win?" Bonner asked his daughter, who nodded confidently.
The first lady invited young attendees to enjoy the day-long event.
"We want you to run around; we want you to learn about making tasty, healthy food," Mrs. Obama said regarding her "Let's Move!" initiative to promote smarter eating choices and an active lifestyle for youth.
Special guests included NASCAR driver Danica Patrick, Oscar nominee Quvenzhane Wallace, the Muppets, Minnesota Vikings running back Adrian Peterson, Washington Wizards point guard John Wall and U.S. Olympic gymnast John Orozco.


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Unable to append to a file through perl/CGI
Hi folks,
Please look at the following code, where I'm trying to demonstrate the file locking concept through Perl/CGI.
Here is the script which I tried.
#!/usr/bin/perl -w
For your information, this is executing fine when I run the same as as
perl filelock.cgi
Please assist me.
Check your error logs. You don't need use warnings, you have -w
And use is not for warnings anyway.
The script has a whole world of different capabilities when run as a logged-in user compared to running as a CGI under a HTTP server userID. One principle of security is to disallow writes in the document root, server root, and cgi-bin directory.
How do you run a script in a browser?
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Bassick Sense Vol. 3 feat. Epic Empire (FRANCE) & RAKA at Church Street Social
Bassick Sense, now in it's third edition is a Social exclusive club night that showcases any form or genre of music that's heavy on bass. From dubstep to future bass to trap, anything goes, as long as it's heavy on beats and BASS.
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Rockies name Wiley director of pitching operations
Rockies name Wiley director of pitching operation
Wiley, 64, returns to Colorado where he was a special assistant for baseball operations for the Rockies from 2006-07. He has spent the past five seasons as the special assistant to the general manager (2010-12) and pitching coach (2008-09) for the Marlins.
Wiley has 43 seasons in professional baseball, including 20 as a player and Minor League coach, 17 as a Major League pitching coach and seven seasons in the front office. Wiley made his Major League coaching debut in 1987 under manager Cal Ripken Sr. with the Baltimore Orioles. He served two stints as pitching coach for Cleveland, from 1988-91 and 1995-98. Following a three-year stint as the Indians' special assignment scout, he returned as pitching coach for four more seasons. His playing career spanned 11 seasons in professional baseball, including two years in the Major Leagues, appearing with Minnesota in 1975 and San Diego and Toronto in 1978.


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B9616-001: (PhD) Bayesian Modeling & Computation
Fall 2013 PHD Course
M - Full Term, 02:30PM to 05:30PM
Location: URI 328
Instructor: Asim Ansari
Asim Ansari
William T. Dillard Professor of Marketing
Professor Ansari's research address customer relationship management, customization of marketing activities and product recommendations over the Internet, Social networks modeling and Bayesian modeling of consumer actions. Prior to joining Columbia in 1996, Ansari was with the university of British Columbia, Canada. Ansari has several publications in leading journals in marketing and allied fields. His research has appeared in the Journal of Marketing Research...