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My husband and I were invited to a dinner party last night. The host asked me to bring some kind of dessert. However, I was super busy so I had to pull a rabbit from the hat, but instead I pulled some ricotta cheese, honey, and a lot of strawberries from the fridge. This easy and simple recipes made me look like the greatest chef in the world (well I'd like to think so.) So here is the secret:
You will need only 4 Ingredients: Strawberries of course, Ricotta Cheese, Grounded Pistachios, and Honey.
- Get as many strawberries as you want and core them with a thin apple peeler or any other similar kitchen tool. I used a tool that I usually use to core zucchinis.
- Use your judgments to fill the cored strawberries with the enough amount of Ricotta Cheese.
- Dip them in grounded pistachios .
- I used honey as my sweetener but any other syrup would taste as good as well.
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Piaget awarded at #GPHG2016
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The Monaco International Rose Competition
Third edition of the Monaco International Rose Competition, presided over by Mr Yves G. Piaget.
Piaget at the NAACP Awards
Michael B Jordan and Terrence Howard wear Piaget to the NAACP Image Awards.
Grand Prix de l'Horlogerie de Genève
The Altiplano Chrono & the Extremely Piaget cuff watch honoured at the Grand Prix de l'Horlogerie.
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Two Artisans honoured with prestigious Awards in recognition of their contributions to their craft.
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Ian Axel and Chad Vaccarino win the Grammy award for Best Pop Duo/Group Performance.
Piaget and the Stars, rang the Golden Bell
The nominees and stars gathered in this glamorous night with the keen hopes to "Ring the Bell."
Altiplano 900P crowned Watch of the Year 2014
The Altiplano 900P watch by Piaget crowned Watch of the Year 2014.
Watchmaking Campaign award
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An exquisite little eatery specialising in a fantastic fusion of fine French cuisine and warming British classics, Liberté is the perfect spot to visit in Glasgow for any occasion.
Run by the winning combination of Suzanne and Jim McLaughin, Liberté is an enchanting location that's complete with a wonderful beer garden area for those rare sunny days.
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With these savings in mind there's little excuse not to indulge in an thoroughly satisfying three course meal, with sublime starters such as the classic French onion soup, a warming staple of French cuisine partnered with baked croutons and melted cheese, the rich chicken liver pate, served with cognac on toasted brioche and a plum chutney, and the delectable moule marinere, white wine and garlic marinated mussels and shallots.
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Accident Lawyers and Law Firms in Malta
Accident Lawyers in Malta
Mamo TCV Advocates
Malta Commercial, Finance, International, Gaming, Property & Corporate Law Firm+356 25403000
Mamo TCV Advocates, located in Valletta, Malta, provides legal services for its clients in all sectors of civil and commercial law, most notably banking and financial services, corporate, communications, media and technology, intellectual property & anti-counterfeiting, shipping...
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SSRBJ Law
Company, Business, Commercial, Property, Family, Divorce, International Law Firm+356 27411523
SSRBJ Law, SSRBJ Law (Bulgaria), SSRBJ Law (Italy), SSRBJ Law (Montenegro) and SSRBJ Law (Libya) are 5 independent full service Law Firms offering services in their respective jurisdictions. All 5 Law Firms collaborate between them and hence are in a position to offer a more broad...
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Fenech & Fenech
Full-Service Law Firm, Malta+356 21241817
Established in 1891, Fenech & Fenech Advocates is one of the oldest law firms in Malta. Fenech & Fenech is a widely multi-disciplinary law firm, which balances a forward-looking, dynamic task force based on tradition and excellence.
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GANADO Advocates
International Legal Practice+356 21235406
GANADO Advocates (formerly Ganado & Associates, Advocates) - founded in Valletta, Malta - traces its roots to the early 1900s. It enjoys a successful international legal practice, advising on the whole spectrum of corporate and commercial law activities. From its earliest days, GANADO...
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Cabinet Individual de Avocatura av. Miloiu CiprianMsida, Malta
Romanian-Maltese Full-Service Legal Firm+ 356 79613838
Romanian-Maltese Full-Service Legal Firm ; Established since 2004, our firm is one of the most appreciated local law firms on Romanian law market We proud ourselves with over 300 satisfied clients, and more then 500 win cases being in continuous growth. ; We respect each client and treat each...
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CDF AdvocatesValletta, Malta
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Lawyer Dr. Raphael Fenech Adami LL.D.Mosta, Malta
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Working hours 16:00 - 19:00; Mondays and Wednesdays by appointments; Tuesdays and Thursdays appointments are not required
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Corporate & Financial Services, Litigation, Business Consultancy in Malta+356 2122 8340
Valletta Legal is a top-tier firm which provides consultancy services and representation to international business executives, private and public companies, governmental authorities, banks, entrepreneurs, investors, as well as individuals.; The Firm was set up in 2009 and prides itself in offering...


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The trials and tribulations of a superhero kid and his evil twin.
Alice is Dead
It appears Alice is dead, and you might be the one who killed her.
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Oldschool gaming fanatics will love this series!
Worth the wait. Well-written and funny as hell. Don't let us wait too long for its sequel, please....
Very funny
Very funny episode guys! Can't wait for episode 12 (hopefully, we don't have to wait another 2 years for it!)
Oh i cant love this even more...
how did u guys get these ideas man....GREAT JOB!!!
Mmm...another episode. Finally, eh? But you've had enough of hearing that i'm sure.
The animation is great, as always. No problems with it.
But the humor was lacking. It's becoming very generic and resorting to Family Guy flashbacks and celebrity cameos. The whole "Big" reference wasn't really necessary, and it came out of the blue.
You don't need to copy Family Guy to get laughs. I don't know if you intentionally did that, but it sure looks like it.
And the whole "making fun of celebrities" humor is getting really dry. It actually was always dry. People should stop doing that. It's okay in moderation, but I thought there was a bit too much in this.
Besides the unecessary flashbacks and the lame celebrity jokes, I really enjoyed it.
Not my favorite, but it was still very well done. God jub.
Not a favorite episode,but still greatness!
Always been a fan of College U, and seriously you should go big time nickelodeon, adult swim, something!! The whole concept of college life is something i believe everyone can laugh at...even if you didn't go to college!!! I love the material because i can relate to it tho. We didn't necessarily have monkey physics but the lifestyle is pretty much the same all over!! Great submission and can't wait till the next episode of College U.


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September is one of my favorite months.
It seems that summer is almost over. (I know, its hard to believe that it just whizzed by!) Hopefully, the weather will cool off and the temperatures will be more like fall.
Soon we will be seeing the leaves changing color on the trees and then theyll be falling to the ground.
School has been in session for a few weeks now and a routine of sorts has begun in most households.
Athletics have also begun and families are getting kids to their respective practices and games.
Football is back, from high school on up to professional teams! Bundle up and keep yourselves warm during a game.
But I am getting ahead of myself! Its still only the first week of September, and its still warm. I can, however, feel a chill in the air from time to time, and . winter is on its way.
Looking at the calendar, I see National Grandparents Day is Sept. 9, a time to recognize and celebrate our grandparents.
Sept. 11 is Remembrance Day, remembering the events of Sept. 11, 2001.
Sept. 19 is International Talk Like a Pirate Day, one of those just for fun days!
Sept. 22 is the first day of fall.
September is FULL of remembrance days - just check them out!
The Mancos Valley-Mesa Verde Country Balloon and Art Festival is this month, Sept. 28 through 31. Youll be hearing more about it as the month goes on. There is one more Grand Summer Nights on Sept. 28, when artists will be displaying their art along Grand Ave.
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I have recently discovered a very old looking taxidermy display containing a small blue bird and one small yellow bird in what appears to be a seashore scene. It has a carved wooden base about the size of a large dinner plate and a 15" tall oval glass dome that has come loose because the adhesive has dryed out. On the underside is a partial label that reads: "M. D. Nicholson, Taxidermist" then "artificial eyes" and something about "birds".
I cannot find any info about this person, his work, or the time frame in which this display art was createdby using a Web search so I was wondering if anyone visiting this forum might have some knowledge of Mr. Nicholson or a possible source I might turn to for more info.
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The city or state might narrow things down some.
In response to a question from KW - I found the globe with the Birds and Seascape in the attic of an old office building that was being sold and scheduled for remodeling located in Vermont. Judging by the style and presentation, I would guess that it was probably assembled sometime during the Victorian era with considerable skill. However, it appears that M. D. Nicholson was not well known amoung taxidermist as no one has come forward with any helpful info on him, where he was from, or whether there are any other works out there.
for taxidermist to not know of of each other. Many taxidermist were isolated from one another, fewer of them, and many were secretive. And of course communication was not what it is now.
However if anyone should know anything it's someone that comes on here and calls himself the taxidermologist. Maybe he's busy right now.


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Princeton, WV (April 6, 2010) – The National Labor Relations Board (NLRB) regional office in Winston-Salem, North Carolina has issued a federal complaint against a local union for maintaining an "annual objection" policy designed to force nursing home workers into full union dues payments against their will.
The complaint stems from multiple charges filed by six employees from the Princeton area of West Virginia against the Service Employees International Union (SEIU) District 1199. The employees – Sherry French, Walter Coeburn, Tammy Tyree, Bruce Hoyle, Debra Fitzko, and Deborah Dunn – filed the series of charges with free legal assistance from staff attorneys at the National Right to Work Legal Defense Foundation.
The six employees challenged the SEIU District 1199 hierarchy's policy which violates Foundation-won precedent in the U.S. Supreme Court decision in Communication Workers of America v. Beck (1988), in which the Court held that union officials can not lawfully compel nonmembers to pay the part of union dues spent for non-bargaining activities like political activism, lobbying, and member-only events. Foundation attorneys are currently challenging many union boss schemes similar to the SEIU District 1199 union bosses' annual objection policy, often concocted by union brass to burden or thwart employees from exercising their rights under Beck. Five NLRB administrative law judges have held such schemes unlawful.
The NLRB's complaint challenges the SEIU District 1199 annual objection policy, but other meritorious charges remain pending, and the NLRB has indicated that further complaints will be issued unless the union hierarchy settles.
"The SEIU District 1199 union officials' illegal behavior shows they're just after forced union dues revenue," said Patrick Semmens, Director of Legal Information at National Right to Work. "This blatant disregard for the rights of the workers SEIU bosses claim to represent shows why West Virginia needs to pass a state Right to Work law making union dues payment completely voluntary."
The National Right to Work Legal Defense Foundation is a nonprofit, charitable organization providing free legal aid to employees whose human or civil rights have been violated by compulsory unionism abuses. The Foundation, which can be contacted toll-free at 1-800-336-3600, assists thousands of employees in more than 250 cases nationwide per year.


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Have you herd? Herding dogs and their handlers from all over the Western United States and Canada are coming once again to the Summit County Fair on Thursday thru Saturday August 4-6. The Wild n Woolie Sheepdog trial, sponsored by the Summit County Fairboard will run in conjunction with the Summit County Fair. The trial will showcase top handler/dog teams from Utah, Colorado, Idaho, Wyoming, North Dakota as well as Saskatchewan, Canada. Over the three days spectators will get a chance to see more than 90 handlers/dog teams compete against the tough Utah range sheep. In the trialing world, the ultimate test of a trial dog is to run against the western range ewe. The sheep used at the Wild n Woolie come from the flock of Clare Halterman and live on the Mountains above Coalville. These are sheep that are accustomed to running in flocks of a thousand or more. At the trial we break them into groups of five. The handlers and their dogs must then navigate the small groups of sheep around a course of panels and tasks. The trial is set up so that it replicates jobs that would be required of true working dogs. The handlers will stand at what is called the post. The contest begins with an outrun. This is when the border collie casts out thru about 300 yards of the field to pick up the group of sheep. He then fetches the sheep thru fetch panels and back to the handler. Around the post they go and into what is called the drive. The sheep are driven away from the handler and thru the drive away panels, turned and driven across the field to a drive away panel, then to a circle. In the circle the sheep are settled and then split and the dog must hold two sheep away from the other group of sheep. This is called the shed. Then the border collie gathers the sheep and puts them in a pen. Each team begins with 100 points and the judge takes away points for each mistake the team makes, such as not approaching the sheep in the correct manner, taking the sheep offline, etc. The teams work together with voice commands and whistles. At no time is the handler allowed to touch the sheep and the dog is allowed to grip the sheep only if they are charging. The grip must be on the head or the team is disqualified. The Wild n Woolie Sheepdog Trial will feature three levels; the Open Class for top level dog/handler teams, the nursery for dogs two years and younger, and Pro-Novice Class for teams with a member (handler or dog) at the pro level and the other at the novice level. The Wild n Woolie Sheepdog Trial is sanctioned by the United States Border Collie Handlers Association (USBCHA). Handlers will be competing for top spots which will warrant them points toward qualifying for the National Sheepdog Finals that will be held in Kalamath Falls, Oregon, in 2012. Events will be held from 7:00 am until about 5 pm all three days. Open class will be held on Thursday and Saturday. Pro Novice and Nursery classes will be held on Friday. Parking is at the Rodeo grounds , 202 East Park Road, Coalville. Entry will be the foot bridge. The cost for spectators is $5 at the gate. It is advisable to bring a chair and shade. Thursday will be Senior day. All Seniors get in free.
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Tribal Organization: Mohegan Tribe of Indians of Connecticut
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The Mohegan Tribal Gaming Authority, which owns the Mohegan Sun casino in Uncasville, Connecticut, has hoped to build an Indian casino resort in the Catskills since 2000. The tribe has now changed their plans to a commercial project.
The casino would be named the Mohegan Sun Concord. It would cost $600 million and be built at the site of the former Concord Resort Hotel in Thompson, New York. Total facility square footage will be 800,000.
Virtually all environmental approvals were obtained when applying to take land into federal trust for an Indian casino. It will have all local approvals in time for submission of application. It also has a resolution of support from Town of Thompson.
$600 million resort
75,000-square-foot casino
2,100 video lottery terminals
450 electronic table game positions
Seven restaurants (to be announced)
258 rooms
Ballrooms and meeting space - 10,000 square feet
Retail space
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Harness racing facility with a grandstand, 5/8 mile track and related paddock facilities. Simulcast facility for pari-mutuel wagering.
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text: Microsoft Corp. and Netscape Communications Corp., two of the Internet's biggest rivals, announced Wednesday a stunning alliance aimed at more tightly controlling the personal information that businesses collect about World Wide Web users. The teaming of the two software competitors reflected the heightened concern in the business community that government regulators may impose rules to crack down on privacy intrusions by Internet companies. Microsoft joined a plan that was first proposed by Netscape and two other Internet software companies, Firefly Network Inc. and Verisign Inc., two weeks ago. Their "open profiling standard" envisions new Web software that would allow computer users to determine what sort of personal information they are willing to share.


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26. We identified three main perspectives from which cyberethics issues can be examined. Can you think of any additional perspectives from which cyber ethic issues might also be analyzed? In addition to the Washintonienne, Twitter and Meirer scenarios that we examined, can you think of other recent cases involving cyberethics issues that would benefit from being analyzed from all three perspectives considered in chapter 1?
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(5) Rachel, November 15, 2013 12:37 AM
By focusing just on the externals in this world, one will not get very far in life. Our sages comment in Navi of ישעיה (Isaiah) that our externals are supposed to arouse our internals/help us focus spiritually. So, our materialism and humanly desires should help arouse our spiritual doings. We have to use our externals in the right way.
(4) Yishai, October 7, 2008 4:26 PM
Life is most definitely not meaningless, but...
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very entertaing, but you lost me at the end when he mentioned suicide??
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identity crisis
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I WILL STRIVE TO IMPART A FEELING OF SELF WORTH TO PEOPLE WHO HAVE NOT HAD MUCH TO BE PROUD OF, or BE HAPPY ABOUT, IN THEIR LIVES. JUST SHOWING A PERSON THAT YOU CARE ABOUT THEM IS A GOOD FIRST STEP. POINTING OUT THE GOOD QUALITIES WHICH THEY POSESS,(AND EVERY HUMAN BEING HAS GOOD QUALITIES) COULD VERY WELL PUT THEM ON THE ROAD TO HAPPINESS. I BELEIVE THIS IS A VERY HIGH FORM OF TZDAKA. ANY ONE FROM WHICH YOU WILL BENIFIT AT LEAST AS MUCH AS THE RECIPIANT. " SHANA TOVA"


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1) It is better than rain! Rain is just ugly and whenever it rains out I feel like it ruins my day in a bad way! Rain always puts people in bad gloomy moods. On the other hand snow at least looks nice, can be enjoyed, and does not put people it bad moods!
2) Snow ball fights! What better way to bring back your youth, and act like a kid again than a snow ball fight. No matter how old you get, picking up a chunk of snow, making a ball and throwing at someone will never will never get old!
3) Snow days! There was nothing better than back in the day, waking up when its snowing turning on the TV and waiting to see if your school comes across the bottom to let you know it is a SNOW DAY! Having a snow day when I was a kid was basically like hitting the mega bucks! A whole day to just do nothing.
4) It is an excuse to be lazy! Ohh it's snowing out well guess there is nothing I can really do today so I guess I will be lazy, sit on the couch, watch movies and just do nothing! We all need days like this every once in a while!
5) Everyone wants a cuddle buddy! Once winter hits ever girl looks for a cuddle buddy right!? Well once it starts snowing out the really got on the prowl and we all know that cuddling can lead to come fun (-:
What do you like the snow!??


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HTC has agreed to pay Microsoft a royalty when it sells a mobile phone running Google's Android operating system. But why does Microsoft make money from Google's software? Android is based on open source software - and Microsoft has long raised fears that aspects of Linux may infringe on its patents.
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She approaches the river that snakes far below him, sets up a video camera, and walks in to the rushing water, never to reappear. Startled by what he's witnessed and his inability to prevent it, Benny hurries down the tower to the scene of her death. He gathers up her belongings, and doesn't tell a soul about what he saw. Instead, he visits the address on a business card in the drowned girl's bag. He insinuates himself into a life she once lived. Meanwhile, the secret he carries threatens to destroy him.
©2004 Steven Sherrill; (P)2004 HighBridge Company
"[An] immaculately written, perversely comic novel....Mesmerizing and disturbing." (Booklist)
"[A] funny, bleak and poetic novel....Sherrill paints a wryly humorous, bawdy, scatological panorama of Southern culture....More than that, his limpid, naturalistic prose, woven with symbolic structure and philosophical insinuation, conveys a subtly convincing sense of the enervating voyeurism of modern life." (Publishers Weekly)
"Interesting & worth a listen!"
I liked this book. While the protaganist (Benny) is weak minded, sadomasochistic and basically a loser, the story is somehow interesting. Benny can't face reality, is unfaithful to himself and all of those around him. Yet he is not an evil person...we all have bits and pieces of him in ourselves, I think. The story makes you look a little at yourself, and this is not a bad thing (unless you can't handle it). The speaker, by the way, is excellent. A recommended read.
"Beautifully dense"
A magnificent book. The language is beautifully rich. The author does a wonderful thing, he describes the world of a simple person in a refreshingly intricate way.
Listening is bliss.
"Not the fantasy world of The Andy Griffith Show"
It is an interesting read, I would recommend with warnings however.
I loved Minotaur 'The Minotaur Takes a Cigarette Break', this book falls a little short in comparison. And seems to take place in the same town, or one very much like it, they do abound far out from the cities.
I'll be looking for more of his readings, so yes.
This may be one of the downfalls of this story, no one I'd like to go to dinner with here, this does not mean that there were no likeable characters, just people you would rather keep as acquaintances. Jeeter has an interesting place and could be worth a visit, if I had a friend that took me by, that is.
"Sick City USA"
This book was a painstacking adventure to listen too! The characters are something out of backwoods USA. The city and characters are unbelievably sick minded. The whole book is in search of finding out who the dead girl is and what she is all about. When we find out, it is anticlimatic and expected. Sorry for the negative words, but I found this book a waste of time.
"don't bother"
My entire book club hated this book. The characters are discusting and the story is even worse. However, we agreed that the narrator did a very good job and the author wrote well. Too bad the talent was wasted on such a terrible tale.
"Way In Over One's Head"
Steven Sherrill is an author of exquisite skill. He has the rare ability to be able to write novels in which not much really happens and yet every detail, every nuance is compelling. Even the most insignificant characters (a cat, for example) is given a back story that is as every bit as interesting as the protagonists.
And then we come to the protagonists. The hero...well, anti-hero as he is clearly utterly, utterly flawed, is so completely human that he is completely believable. We recognise fact that he stands by when he should intervene, and is fascinated by everything that goes wrong for others is something that we all do, whether we admit it or not, somehow makes us care about what happens to him, despite the terrible, terrible things he does. There is no question that this book is deeply disturbing and it is disturbing because we can identify with the Benny. Even the ending is true to his character, lacking in heroics or sense of doing the right thing.
Read by Holter Graham in an almost breathless style, this is a work of beauty. Hideous beauty.
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Girls' basketball: Parkers Prairie wins battle of area top teams
The Parkers Prairie girls were pushed as hard as they have been all season through 28 minutes on Tuesday night. Then in the final eight minutes, the Panthers pushed back to come away with a 48-39 win over a 10-1 Osakis team.
Parkers Prairie is beating teams by an average of 30 points per game this season. They are used to coasting toward the finish line in the second half, but that wasn't going to happen on this night. Not against an Osakis team that had already beaten third-ranked Sauk Centre and was eager to prove itself against another top team.
"It's a lot more fun to actually have to play a whole game and not come out in the second half," Panthers' senior forward Ally Taylor said. "It's more fun to know you have to play every second and play defense down there on every possession."
Ultimately, defense is what it came down to in the end. The Silverstreaks held a lead for most of the night before scoring just seven points over the final seven minutes, 27 seconds.
The Panthers increased their pressure near half court and caused a few turnovers that led to some easy buckets. That completely changed the momentum after Osakis had used a 9-0 run to take a 30-24 lead.
"They got that little run in the second half and that's when there was that moment when it just boiled down to defense," junior guard Micaela Noga said. "We just shut them down after that. It was our game through the rest of the second half, and we controlled the game with our defense."
The Silverstreaks didn't have an answer after a Taylor steal and lay-up gave Parkers Prairie a 33-32 lead with 7:12 left in the game. Taylor, who scored all seven of her points in the second half, followed that up with a three from the top of the key the next time down the court to expand a lead that her team never relinquished.
"They were really playing hard defense on all of us, but especially Micaela and Madi [Dorn]," Taylor said. "I just felt they needed me in the game, and I had to step up."
That's exactly what she has done all season after getting her feet wet as a junior. Taylor has taken on an expanded role on this year's team after the Panthers lost two starters in Tamara Schmidt and Kaylee Dorn last season. She didn't finish in double figures on Tuesday, but her seven points came at opportune times to help the Panthers change the momentum in the game.
"This year, I felt like I really had to step up after losing Kaylee and Tamara," Taylor said. "They were big scorers last year, so I felt it was my opportunity to step up and just be in that role. When I have the ball, I feel more confident this year and more like my team does need me to score, so I need to do something with the ball when I have it."
For Osakis, it felt like an opportunity missed. The Silverstreaks controlled the game for much of the night by slowing down the pace. Their goal was to not let the Panthers get out in transition and score easy buckets, and for the most part, they accomplished that.
Osakis used 10 points from Annalise Savageau in the first half to take a 21-19 lead into the break. The Silverstreaks weathered an early Panthers' run right out of the half to seemingly take control of the game again with that 9-0 spurt.
"We can't have lapses at the end of the game like we did," head coach Pat Kalpin said. "I thought we lost that game in three or four minutes of the game. We had some bad mistakes where passing the ball was kind of all over the place. We didn't execute offensively the way we should have. In a game like that, every possession is important and it proved true tonight."
That's why both these coaches were happy to schedule this kind of non-conference game in the middle of the season. Both Osakis and Parkers Prairie have high hopes come tournament time, and win or lose on Tuesday night, both teams got a taste of the kind of game they will likely have to win against a strong section opponent in March.
"Parkers is a good team," Kalpin said. "They're rated and undefeated for a reason. There's nothing to be ashamed of in losing to them. It's just how we lost that is probably the frustrating part. It has no bearing on where we're going to end up at the end of the year or anything. It's a game that's going to prepare us to get better."
OSAKIS TOTALS - FG - 15-46; Three-point FG - 2-10; Free throws - 7-8; Assists - 10; Blocks - 2; Rebounds - 21; Steals - 5; Turnovers - 11
OSAKIS - Tayler Waldvogel - 4 points, 1 assist, 1 rebound; Rachelle Rajdl - 2 points, 3 assists, 2 rebounds, 1 steal; Savageau - 15 points, 2 assists, 1 block, 5 rebounds, 1 steal; Brooke Sorenson - 10 points, 1 assist, 2 rebounds, 1 steal; Brittney Sadlemyer - 4 points, 2 assists, 2 rebounds, 1 steal; Becka Sadlemyer - 2 points, 2 assists, 2 rebounds, 1 steal; Madi Forsell - 2 points, 1 assist, 1 block, 5 rebounds, 1 steal
PARKERS PRAIRIE - Dorn - 14 points; Noga - 15 points; Taylor - 7 points; Brenna Warren - 6 points; LaDeanna Swanson - 4 points; Danielle Pratt - 2 points


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Since 1978 the South Bank Show is dedicated to providing insights into the world of art and artists. I dont mean like paintings I mean like films, music (classic and modern) books and obviously actually artworks, many usually dismiss this show as an old person thing but it's quite insightful the recent ones on REM and Lord of the Rings have been quite good and Melvyn Bragg is a good enough host.Watch It.
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The RMH Providence was nothing short of amazing for our family during our 4 week stay there Dec 2007 to Jan 2008. Besides always being our home away from home, we were always greeted with a smile and a warm welcome. We were so thankful for a place to rest between visiting our son, Benjamin. When we left the house, the circumstances were not good. We were bringing Ben home because there was nothing more that could be done for him. When we told the staff we were sending someone to clean our room and pack our stuff, they insisted they would do it for us. What a huge help! One less thing for us to have to do! We will always be thankful for the support we received during our stay there. And though it is a very difficult time to think about, we couldn't be more thankful that the house was there for us. It gave us more time to be with our precious Benjamin for the short time we had with him. Thank you RMH Providence!
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Cellulose Insulation Installation
Here is a great powerpoint on how to blow in cellulose into a wall. There is a real trick to doing this. Your generic blower rented from Home Depot does not have the power needed to dense pack to 3.5 pounds per cubic foot. But there are ways to work around this.
Check out the Dense Pack Cellulose Installation File.
We are insulating an entire house in Brooklyn right now and the tutorial was helpful to us, and we consider ourselves seasoned cellulose installers of Brooklyn brownstones. One of the main things is understanding how to use the blower to blow through the cracks in the house so that the cellulose dust fills them. You achieve this with a hole, among other things.


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If you want more power for your 300cc 4-stroke scooter, here it is: Malossi Racing Cylinder Kit 282cc aluminium d = 75.5mm Vespa GTS / GTS Super / GTS Super Sport / GTV 300cc.
Malossi products are popular for many reasons - durability, reliability, excellent workmanship, premium quality materials, top design, state-of-the-art production techniques, highest level quality control etc. This 282cc tuning cylinder represents all of these. More torque, higher top speed, better response and acceleration - it can't get much better.
As it is an aluminium cylinder, cooling properties are excellent. It is, like most HQ aluminium cylinders, Nikasil-coated to reduce wear and friction and to keep the temperature down. The piston is a real lightweight with low-friction piston rings.
- Nikasil-plated aluminium cylinder, 75.5mm / 63mm stroke
- aluminium 3-ring piston, with 16mm pin, rings + circlips
- cylinder gasket kit
Cylinder head is not included, keep the one you have or order separately.
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Name Malossi Racing Cylinder Kit 282cc aluminium Vespa GTS / GTV 300cc Item No. M3113958 Brand Malossi Homologation Yes Displacement 282cc Stroke Original Conrod Length Standard Product Line Hyper racing Material Aluminium Engine Type 2-stroke Cooling Type LC Bore 75,5 mm Piston Pin 16 mm Number of Piston Rings 3 Cylinder Head Not included
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This City Of Takers, Brother Lee and the Leather Jackals
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Matthew Paige and Zack Murphy ARE the Blackfoot Gypsies. They are the amplifier for your heart and soul, your love and hate, your on and off, your push and pull. With caution being checked at the door, there is no room for thinking... only feeling. Breaking the lines between hipsters, punks, posers, dads, normies, cowboys, rockers, and burnouts; everyone gets stripped to the core on the floor. And no one leaves the same as they came before.
Scouting the future of the American music that has been progressing since the dawn of time. There's no stunting the Blackfoot and there's no stopping the Gypsies.
The torch has been lit and will be carried with pride, speaking up for a generation unlike any other. It's all happening here, and it's all happening now.
This City Of Takers
Brother Lee and the Leather Jackals is a St. Louis outfit of snakes that hiss and spit chords and chaos of 60s-70s blues-infused rock and roll. The four piece's knack for reptilian antics manifests during their live sets. Ribald commentary, inside jokes, unintentional stage dives: the Jackals live and breathe the devil-may-care ethos of our cold-blooded comrades.
Members Josh Eaker, Danny Blaies, Jared Dickinson, and Dylan Doughty represent different facets of the Jackals nearly half-century of influences. Eaker has the rasp of a man who spent years carving salt mines. His throat coated with microscopic minerals, he chucks his voice around a room like an open can of paint. The mess it creates splashes against the wall of chunky, pedal shaken riffs haunted by the war cries of classic rock heroes. Stuck in the doldrums of Dallas, Texas, Eaker etched out song sketches alone, but afloat, in Dallas' musicianless pool. With a guitar and a superb grasp of Pro Tools, Eaker channeled his malaise into gritty guitar tracks slung under the eerie calls of a man searching for his voice. Joined by Blaies on drums after he returned to St. Louis, the two-piece began as Brother Lee, then added the Leather Jackals when Dickinson and Doughty joined on bass and keys. Together, Brother Lee and the Leather Jackals renounce the sleaze of alt-country and take the name and swagger of legends fallen before them: Derek and the Dominos and The Doors, most pointedly. Contemporaries Deer Tick and Tame Impala are cut from the same revivalist cloth.
Enveloped in tradition, Dickinson's bass gurgles and grumbles with the impatience of a chained dragon. Set free, it sets afoot across Eaker's guitar tracks with the clobbering power of John Deacon. Doughty's spattered keys rain over Blaies percussion which thumps like a heart looking down the barrel of a shotgun. Together the Jackals create a well-meaning raucous forever threatening to run off the rails at any given moment.
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The very sharp delineation and elevation difference between the upper and lower parts of the surface, and the apparent direction difference of 90 degrees between their markings is most intriguing. Has any explanation for this been suggested yet?
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Red Leaf Tea new matcha feature
I wanted to ask you what do you think of a new feature I'm working on.
We offer green matcha and white matcha as base for our flavored matcha collection.
Here are some of my ideas for a new base matcha:
Red Matcha
Black Matcha
50/50 Matcha (50% green matcha/50% white matcha)
Is it something you would use or am I just overdoing it?
Your opinions would be much helpful. It's hard to be the management, customer service, shipping department and marketing director. I could use some help, PLEASE…
Do you have any suggestions?
PS. New feature for Organic version of Matcha are coming next month as soon as shipment of Organic matcha comes :-)
Im in for this! Great idea! I don't feel there is an "over doing it" when it comes to giving consumers selection!
Its excellent you have organic on the way as well!
The more you can offer the better I say.
For those who are NEW venturing into Matcha who may feel overwhelmed you can include a link in the options area of your site that links them to a Matcha for Beginnings area of the site which could explain the options, the differences, etc.
Oh hey! You joined Steepster! Awesome! Welcome!
I'd love a red matcha base option. I don't drink as much matcha as I'd like because of my caffeine sensitivity, but a caffeine free matcha? Sign me up! :)
Here's the link to one of our matcha teas, see all the options we offer and let us know what else you'd like to see here.
Oh like it isn't hard enough already to choose!
Haha, all joking aside my brain is usually so overloaded I never even thought about the other kinds of matcha as available for the flavors and I think it's a great idea. Mainly because now flavors I personally probably wouldn't order with green matcha become possibilities and interests!
Oh that sounds wonderful! I've been wanting to try a red matcha, but I was apprehensive about trying it straight up since rooibos is such a strong flavour. A flavoured red matcha would be much less intimidating :P
Update: we have a new feature installed called Deal Of The Day. We would pick one item a day and give 50% OFF discount. Deal for that item is only good for one day (see the clock ticking?) Something similar to Groupon. This is a testing stage to see if it would help us get some more sales by offering big discounts. And I'm not talking about some teas that almost nobody wants to buy anyway. Today is Belgium Chocolate Matcha, tomorrow – who knows?
What do you think?
Awesome! I saw the sale and of course that leads to a must purchase. I will probably do so again even w/o a review gift certificate if it's one I want badly like chocolate!
I think this is an AMAZING idea!
Fabulous idea!
Have I mentioned I'm a sucker for sales?
Wow! So I totally missed seeing this today until amandas post about her order. This migh be the push for me to finally try matcha
Ahhh!! Best news :D
Bummer – no cash flow rolled in today BUT there is always TOMORROW maybe a different matcha will be added and maybe I will have MONEY lol
Love that there are specials now though!
Update: We have added White Matcha, Red Matcha, Black Matcha and 50/50 Matcha to your choices of flavored Matcha. More options coming soon :-)


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This is one of those moments that Today host Kathy Lee will be wishing she had done her research before going on air. Talking with guest Martin Short on Wednesday, Kathy Lee made a major mistake by asking Short a seemingly innocent question about how his wife was doing.
The problem? Short's wife died a year and a half ago from ovarian cancer. However, this was unknown to Kathy Lee and she continued to ask how long the two have been married and what keeps them in love.
Short acted like a pro on air during the awkward moment, but informed Kathy Lee during the commercial break about his wife. Coming back from commercial, Kathy Lee apologized for her mistake saying, "My apologies to him and his family."
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Does anyone have a clue about *how* Google decides which pages are similar to others?
Does it go all the way and checksums the text itself, or just stay at the page level and compares the the file names\checksums\size of the page as a whole?
specially those webmasters who put their efforts in writing content instead of swapping Links would be removed when there quality content is copied by other site of high PR.
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I mean if 2 urls give you *exactly* the same content...
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I would like to know this one too. I have many pages that show each merchant separately. The title, description, keywords and the body is the same, but, the name changes depending on what the merchant is.
For example: Amazon.com blah blah, Amazon.com blah
and Buy.com blah blah, Buy.com blah.
In some cases I have two links /pages, one for Amazon and one for amazon.com (the .com difference reflects on the title, desc, keywords and body as well. About 10 -15 mentions between all 4 places).
Can I improve things by doing it differently?
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Can I improve things by doing it differently?
If it works than what's the point in improving?
As far as I see 'blah' in your case is the same product it's just that it's described on different pages
What you are doing is a very common way of content duplication.
But it works with amazon products just as I know from the experience of one of my competitors.
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> If it works than what's the point in improving?
improve to do better :), get more visitors /money.
> As far as I see 'blah' in your case is the same product > it's just that it's described on different pages
actually it's more like saying, amazon.com /buy.com /storename.com offers, discounts etc. not products (not that it makes a big difference)
We are talking about over 400 pages of completely identical content... including graphics. Only the links to were changed to the new domain.
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Personally I believe that Google is not too concerened with duplicate content, unless near identical pages are on the same page of the SERP's and even then...... Google is very adamant on being quick loading and I would say that any duplicate content check would slow things down quite a bit.
In addition to that they are concerned with similar content (mainly on the same domain). What we have seen is that they even got stricter on how close a similar page may be to another page.
We found many pages with only the title and the URL in the SERP that have been fully indexed before. If we have 15 pages about different kinds of widgets it indexes one of them fully and the other 14 only show title/URL.
Part of all 15 pages is the same content and this behaviour of filtering out similar pages is there on different domains.
If so, I believe G uses the "related:" command to identify related pages with almost (identical) content.
Does anyone have a clue about *how* Google decides which pages are similar to others?
I don't know how google's dup filter works but found some very interesting threads:
- Duplicates and the challenges search engines face [webmasterworld.com]
Starting point for understanding how duplication is detected. - May, 2003
- How does Google determine dup. cont. anyway? [webmasterworld.com]
I see three or four copies of one page from my site . . . - June, 2003
- Google and duplicate Content [webmasterworld.com]
A few comments about duplicate content and google - August, 2002
There is a search time filter that trys to avoid having the same page on different sites filling the SERPs. We know that this one is there, because GG has told us how to override it. (I don't recall how, because I don't have any duplicate content to worry about)
Then there seems to be a filter that goes and tries to find garbage pages (often duplicates) in link farms.
What they absolutely do not do is compare every page on the web with every other page. That would require
n = number of pages in the index
n * ((n-1)/2) page comparisons.
If they have 5 billion pages in the index, this would require 12,499,999,997,500,000,000 page comparisons. That simply ain't happening.
I guess it would be a penalty for EXACT MIRRORED Pages, without a single word different (text).
whatever the original question was, Guys are much interested in knowing "if dupe content is caught, which page/site will be kicked out?".
one more thing...
if a site A of 100 pages have 5 pages just like B, and google see thtis... would the whole site suffer dupe content penalty?
But there is a difference between a filter and a penalty.
You may feel like you are being penalized by a filter, but you are just being removed from that specific result. A penalty will hurt you (but not necessarily remove you) across all results.
If you do not understand the difference, you will be ill-equipped to deal with it.
Just because google does not compare every page to every other page on the entire web, does not mean that they do not compare pages with a high probability of being similar.
Remember, Google has all your linking information. Links can tell a lot about the content, and content can tell a lot about the links.
If there are 3000 pages all pointing to one page with the same anchor text, they might run their diff program on those pages.
In fact, they do not have to compare them all with each other. They can run through a few pages, and if it appears to be clean, then look elsewwhere. If it is a bunch of cloned pages they will be removing duplicate content from the 3000 pages as they go. If all of them are duplicate, they only need to do 2999 compares to remove 2999 pages.
As to which ones they filter out of the results, I would bet on the one that was crawled first in the current index is the one that stays.
Google has no quick easy fair way to tell who "deserves" to be there, so they might as well go with the easiest answer for them.
"As to which ones they filter out of the results, I would bet on the one that was crawled first in the current index is the one that stays."
>>> suppose I have a site of only 1 page x.htm which was crawled 4 years back. I copy exact content from other 1 page site y.htm , which was crawled few days back.
Google catch the "Dupelicate content"....
would the new site be kicked out as it was crawled later?
On the other hand, a crawl from just a few days ago is only likely to be included as a "fresh" page, and fresh pages are stored differently and are (most likely) merged into the results at search time.
You seem sure that it is a penalty, and not a filter. Why do you believe this?
You also don't give any reason that you suspect that it is the dup content.
When I checked your profile to see if your home page was listed, you put LOL-that-would-be-a-disaster which suggests to me that you know that you are quite possibly crossing several lines. You also mention that you might be part of a bad neighborhood.
I just end up with this hunch that dup content, while part of your problem, is far from the only reason your site is sitting at PR0. With all that going on, you might have even failed a manual check of your site.
"Oh yeah, I should add that they might do something link an MD5 on all the pages and sort on that, then compare only those that have the same MD5, but then they will only remove those that are 100% matches"
I think that a variation of this might be correct:
Parse the DOM, concatenate the actual heavy bits of content (paragraphs?) together, checksum them, and then sort.
Thanks for all the guesses, by the way - the more and the less educated ones..
What mystifies me is why duplicate pages with identical titles, meta descriptions, and keywords appear right above each other in the SERPS.
What annoys me is that the guy who stole and copied my entire site not only appears above me in all the SERPS, but caused my site to be penalized for duplicate content (PR dropped from 6 to 3). I guess I'll have to wait for the next update to recover... even though the offending site is now shut down... Google won't pull these copied pages out of the SERPS for a month.
In terms of figuring out which page was the original, and which page was the duplicate, you might think that Google could do a little better, since most of these pages had not changed in a couple of months, and Google still had them in their cache. It would certainly be better if someone copies your pages that THEY get penalized for duplicate content... not you, the author.
I've been researching the duplicate content thing as well and came to the conclusion G had to use the related search feature seeking out duped pages. It is also possible they identify duped content dynamically, e.g. take the first 1000 results from the SERPs, then filter them again for duped content.
Although we'll never have a sample large enough to obtain absolute certainty, I'm pretty sure it comes down to this.
Stage 1 - normalize HTML, hash it and compare. Identical pages are found immediately.
Stage 2 - classic udiff comparison, difference beyond a pre-defined threshold signifies identical pages.
Stage 2 - parse HTML into a DOM tree, normalize it, use some kind of fuzzy logic to cross-relate the elements and compare the tree structure and the content of elements.
Result is a qualifier that mathematically describes the likelihood of two pages being content-identical.
On five datcenters the first result is www.widget.com
On four datacenters (-gv currently offline) the first result is widget.com, with no www.
All the other results (in terms of showing www always or never) are consistent across all datacenters.


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Tony Caplin was in charge of the Public Works Loan Board (PWLB) which provides loans to infrastructure projects.
Under anti-sleaze rules, anyone on a public body must inform ministers if they are made bankrupt.
A Government spokesman said: "Tony Caplin was appointed to a number of public bodies by the Labour party. He was re-appointed to the PWLB by the Prime Minister.
"He should have declared he was bankrupt. This has been pointed out to him and as a result he has resigned."
According to the Mail on Sunday, Mr Caplin was a friend of the Chancellor, George Osborne, who is a former chairman of the same City firm where Mr Cameron's father was a partner.
He previously worked for the Conservatives as their Chief Operating Officer, but Tory sources have emphasised he no longer has a role in the party. He has also left his post on the Medical Research Council.
Chris Leslie MP, Labour's Shadow Chief Secretary to the Treasury, told Sky News: "It is astonishing that the Prime Minister and the Chancellor could appoint someone who went bankrupt owing so much to the Treasury to run the Treasury's lending operations.
"For him to be bankrupted in 2012 and appointed by the Prime Minister as chairman of this key Treasury body the following year is surely a misjudgement too far by a Prime Minister with a track record of poor judgement in relation to his cronies.
"The Prime Minister and the Chancellor need to set out whether they knew about Mr Caplin's bankruptcy and debts to HMRC before making the appointment, whether it was a coincidence that the chairmanship was granted only weeks after Caplin was discharged as a bankrupt, and on which occasions they met with Caplin during the past four years."
The Labour MP and Chairman of the Public Account Committee, Margaret Hodge, told the Mail on Sunday: "This raises serious questions which should be investigated."
Conservative MP Douglas Carswell told the newspaper: "This proves the need for MPs to be given the right to interview public appointments instead of letting ministers hand them out to whoever they choose."


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Federal and state officials have announced that a number of Pennsylvania counties will get $1,048,000 to offset the costs of the February snowstorms, but Carbon, Schuylkill and Monroe counties are not among them.
The money will go to Adams, Allegheny, Armstrong, Beaver, Bedford, Blair, Butler, Cambria, Chester, Cumberland, Dauphin, Delaware, Fayette, Franklin, Fulton, Greene, Huntingdon, Indiana, Juniata, Lancaster, Lebanon, Perry, Philadelphia, Somerset, Westmoreland and York counties.
As the application process began in mid-April, PEMA Emergency Management specialist Gregory S. Showers said Carbon and Schuylkill counties and their municipalities failed to meet three criteria for federal disaster aid.
To meet the requirements, a record or near-record snowfall must occur, and the costs to the county and municipalities for snow removal operations during a continuous 48-hour period, and any other costs for emergency protective measures, must exceed the county per capita threshold of $3.23. The total costs of all counties meeting both criteria must exceed the state threshold of $15.9 million.
Carbon's threshold was $189,930.46; Schuylkill's was $485,585.28.
Also, PEMA said, neither county had a record or near-record snowfall.
Friday's announcement, from the Federal Emergency Management Agency and the Pennsylvania Emergency Management Agency, said the state, local governments and private, nonprofit organizations would receive the money as reimbursement for the costs and damages resulting from the snowstorms that buried the state from Feb. 5-11.
A federal disaster declaration for the state was issued on April 16.
"The snowstorms cost the affected local governments a great deal," said state coordinating officer Robert French. "The reimbursements from FEMA will go a long way in the return to normal operations for many agencies, localities and private nonprofits."
PEMA has already begun to distribute payments, said spokeswoman Ruth Miller.
"The state (PEMA) has already paid out over $300,000 in reimbursements," she said. "We are committed to continue to move the money to applicants within 30 days of getting it from the federal government."


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Kilmarnock add two more loan signings
Kilmarnock boss Lee Clark hopes to have completed his eighth loan signing of the summer in time for Charlee Adams to make his debut against Ross County.
The Birmingham midfielder's arrival was being finalised as the club announced that right-back Luke Hendrie had joined, also on loan, from Burnley.
Both 21-year-olds have initially agreed deals until January.
"As long as the paperwork gets cleared, they will be involved on Saturday," said Clark.
Londoner Adams, who has had previous loan spells with Lincoln City, played twice for Birmingham under Clark's successor there, Gary Rowett, in the Championship last season and his availability alerted rival suitors.
"I know Charlee very well," said the Kilmarnock boss. "I gave him his debut with Birmingham City and he went on to play more games under Gary.
"I know they think very highly of him there and we fought off some late competition from League One down south last night to get him.
"We are very happy with that. He is a very dynamic, aggressive midfield player or centre-half and, when I got the nod yesterday that he was available, which I was quite surprised about, we moved very quickly on it and thankfully we did because we nearly got intercepted late last night by a couple of clubs."
Leeds-born Hendrie has played for England at youth level but has previously been called up to the Scotland Under-20 squad, qualifying thanks to his father – former Bradford City and Middlesbrough forward John.
Although Hendrie has played in midfield, Clark views the 21-year-old, who ended last season on loan to Jackie McNamara's York City and had a previous spell with Hartlepool United, as a specialist at right-back, where midfielder Greg Taylor has been operating so far this season.
"We felt that, with Greg Taylor being a young player, it would be hard enough coming into the first team without having to play a different position that he does normally," said Clark.
"He's done a sterling job, but we felt we needed a specialist in there.
"Luke comes from good stock. I know his father very well."
Hendrie, who made 18 appearances as York were relegated from League Two, is the second player to arrive from Burnley in a week following last week's loan signing of midfielder George Green.
Adams' addition would bring the total of summer arrivals to 14 at Rugby Park, but Clark still has plans to bring in at least one more new face.
The latest signings were made possible by the sale of Josh Magennis to Charlton Athletic, but the Kilmarnock manager intends to send some of his own fringe players out on loan.
"We need to trim the size of the squad back, but sending them out on loan means these players will be playing competitive football and ready to come back in January," he added.


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Dividends cut a third at RSA
INSURER RSA hailed a recovery in its sluggish UK and mainland European business but slashed its dividend by 33 per cent, hammering its shares.
RSA, best known in Britain for its More Than home and motor insurance brand, said its UK and western Europe operation was set for better profits after boosting premiums by one per cent to £3.69billion. UK premiums rose two per cent to £3billion as growth in household and pet insurance offset a fall in personal motor cover. But RSA blamed last year's wet weather, the loss of a big motor contract and a rise in "slip and trip" accident claims to firms and councils for a fall in UK underwriting profits to £39million from £62million.
The shares crashed 19¼p to 117p after it said its total 2012 dividend would fall to 7.3p per share from 9.16p a year ago to offset falling investment income and persistent low bond returns. It also forecast a cut in the 2013 half year payout.
Chief executive Simon Lee said the decision was a prudent move to enable growth. "It is absolutely the right thing to do," he said.
Richard Curr at Prime Markets said hefty dividends had been the insurer's only real attraction. He said: "Just as the share price has showed signs of delivering a solid recovery, management does a proverbial shooting in the foot by a massive 33 per cent dividend cut."
Kevin Ryan at Investec said: "Economic torpor in much of the world and competitive insurance rates globally mean RSA will struggle to grow its top line."
RSA blamed Italian earthquakes, Hurricane Sandy and the cost of claims for the Costa Concordia cruise liner accident for a six per cent fall in annual group operating profit to £684million, ahead of £665million expected.
Expansion of its business in emerging markets and Canada fuelled a five per cent rise in total net premiums to £8.3billion with more than 65 per cent of premiums now coming from outside the UK.


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shinsaibashi 心斎橋
this section is actually about shinsaibashi suji, the shopping arcade that runs between namba (to the south) and shinsaibashi subway station (to the north). the shopping arcade actaully continues further north, but the places and pictures that follow are form the section between these two subway stations.
standing a little bit north of namba station, you have this view facing north. this is the entrance to the shopping arcade, next to the huge toho cinema building.
this is the view if you look to your right, leading back towards the area where kitchen supplies are sold.
toraya fabric store
this store has a nice selection of cute japanese prints on the first floor. the notions selction on an upper floor is also good. it's very close to namba station, on shinsaibashi suji.
athens book store
decent selection of craft books on the first floor in the back near the elevator. also english and art books on an upper floor.
picture coming soon
sanrio store (hello kitty ground zero)
multilevel store with all the hello kitty goods you might ever want, and more.
kawachi artists and designers supply
great source for art and craft supplies, including gocco supplies.
tokyu hands
biggest and best tokyu hands in osaka/kansai. a little bit off of the pedestrian shopping arcade. when you see this street, with the big shoe store step, cross the street then walk to the right.
walk past adidas and the gap, and tokyu hands is on your left.
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Authorities Looking For Meat Thief In Prior LakeWe've been reporting for several years on meat prices going up. Now, it seems some thieves are capitalizing on those prices. Authorities say someone broke into a pad-locked frozen meat truck as it was parked in Prior Lake. The thief stole $5,000 worth of meats.
CodeRED Helps Police Find Missing GirlA Twin Cities police department is crediting a phone message with helping them find a missing girl.


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Is the Cloud Educational Enterprise Resource Planning the Answer to Traditional Educational Enterprise Resource Planning Challenges in Universities?
Universities, the new target for Enterprise Resource Planning (ERP) providers such as Google, SAP and Databiz to provide such systems in order to manage their activities in a manner that add value to information from operations and main processes. However challenges have showed to get in the way of applying such systems, although some other universities applied them, and yet failed to get the expected outcomes. In this study the writer will demonstrate Educational Enterprise Resource Planning (EERP) concept along side with the challenges faced upon application; through a field study that conducted interviews with project managers and operators working on EERP in 10 universities in KSA, Jordan and UAE.


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A witty and provocative look at faith, commitment and unconditional love.
What do Sean Dugan, Mariska Hargitay and Patrick Heusinger all have in common: stints on hit TV shows! Sean appeared on Oz, Mariska stars on SVU and Patrick Heusinger is a Gossip Girl alum.
Opening night of new play Next Fall on March 11, 2010.
Photographer: Bruce Glikas,
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Peter Abraham broke the news late last night that the Red Sox reached an agreement with the star left fielder for $142 million, seven-years. Toucher & Rich talked with Abraham about the deal and why some people are not excited about this deal.
Does he think that there will be any major Red Sox players missing when opening day roles around? The guys also discuss what the batting order might look like.


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Medical Lobby Maintains Choke Hold To Restrict Access to Health Alternatives by Byrun Fox Media Bypass Magazine October 1996, 1-800-4-BYPASS The Indonesian island of Bali is probably the most beautiful place on earth, inhabited by a gentle and spiritual people. Many memories from my six-month stay in a small Balinese village remain, but one marks a turning point in my life. It was one of those moments in which a small shift in perspective alters direction and opens new horizons. I was sitting on a porch with Mad'e, a young boy of the family with whom we were staying. We had become good friends; I enjoyed his impish sense of humor and wild-deerlike playfulness. It was evening, and we could hear gamilan music weaving its way through the palm trees from some far-off trance dancing. It seemed that every second day was a cause for festivities in Bali, and many of them took place at that magical time just after sunset. Earlier that day, Mad'e had fallen from a mango tree and broken his forearm. He was in a great deal of pain and asked me to take him to the local witch doctor. We gathered together an offering of incense and flowers and headed off along a trail between emerald-green rice patties. The treatment of Mad'e's arm took about 15 minutes and involved manipulation and application of an herbal mixture that looked something like French onion soup. We paid with the offering of incense and flowers and were on our way. After returning to our village, Mad'e amazed me by picking up a football and throwing it at me using his recently treated arm. I don't really know whether that arm had been broken, but, before our visit to the witch doctor, he couldn't move his wrist, his forearm was swollen, and he was certainly in pain. Afterwards, it was obviously much better. As we sat on the porch in the humid tropical evening air, I started telling him about the kinds of pills that North Americans take: pills to wake up and to go to sleep, pills to make you hungry or to stop you from eating, pills to make you go to the bathroom and others to stop you from going to the bathroom, pills to make you have babies and pills to stop you from having babies, pills to speed you up and pills to slow you down, even pills to make you happier. At this point in our conversation, Mad'e was laughing so hard he fell off the small porch we were sitting on. This pill thing was beyond anything he had ever heard. The thought was ridiculous and incomprehensible, and, as I reflected upon it that evening, it became more and more ridiculous to me. We both ended up in hysterics. Well, that wonderful time in Bali was 25 years ago. Here I am sitting in front of my computer thinking about our North American medical system. What's really happening here? Doctors, through legislation, have gained two very interesting powers: the legal power to create a need and a monopoly on the ability to satisfy that need. One example of creating a need is their use of genetics. Here we are told what diseases to anticipate in our unborn children and how doctors might treat them in the womb. They have actually created a need for their services that includes us before we are born. On the other end of the time scale, they have considerable say in how and when we die. How many times have you read "consult your physician" on a package? Doctors assert secret knowledge of human nature which only they have the right to interpret and dispense. They claim a monopoly over the definition of who is a charlatan, what is deviant or abnormal, which remedies are to be administered. They possess exclusive jurisdiction over illness regardless of their ability to treat or cure it. The doctors have powerful allies, the pharmaceutical companies, to help them protect their turf. If you want to upset them, it's very simple: develop a simple and effective treatment for AIDS or cancer. If you want to really get them going, develop a self-administered treatment that leaves doctors and pharmaceutical companies out of the loop. Perhaps such a treatment already exists. Introducing Ozone Ozone is a tri-atomic form of oxygen (arranged in a bond of three or more atoms). In nature, it is created during lightning storms, and it can also be created by passing pure oxygen through an ozone generator. The generator energizes the oxygen with high-voltage electricity in the same way that lightning creates ozone when it strikes the earth and creates that wonderful, clean smell. In fact, lightning is nature's 'ozone therapy' for the planet. Ozone is a simple, easy-to-use, relatively inexpensive, broad-spectrum treatment. It can be administered at home or in a clinic. Side effects from ozone therapy are almost unheard of, unless you count government harassment. The Food and Drug Administration (FDA) has harassed and arrested people for administering ozone and thus helped create a fast-growing underground consisting of the converted and the cured. Numerous individuals now use ozone to treat illness and maintain good health in the privacy of their homes, while offshore clinics in Mexico and the Caribbean have patients lining up to spend $10,000 a week for similar treatment. In his book "Oxygen Therapies," Ed McCabe says, "This product is in direct competition with the pharmaceutical industry." It's so serious a threat that on May 27, 1993, Rep. Charles E. Shumer (D-N.Y.) called for legislation to mate the use or promotion of this "drug" a fraud felony punishable by 25 years in prison. He asked for "streamlining" prosecutions, "unleashing" our law-enforcement officials and "hunting down crooks who stalk our citizens." Why would anyone make such a fuss over something so simple? It works -- and with remarkable effectiveness in the treatment of the big money makers in the health- industry. From AIDS and cancer to arthritis and the common cold, more than 10 million doses of ozone have been administered in German clinics over the past 40 years, and its efficacy has been well documented by courageous researchers, mostly in Europe, and more recently in Russia and Cuba. What is the mechanism by which ozone works? It has a half- life of about 20 minutes. This means that after it is made, it immediately begins to break down and revert to its usual oxygen-molecule form. In this process, a single atom of oxygen is released -a negatively charged atom which selectively oxidizes and destroys pathogens -- ignoring our healthy cells which are protected by natural antioxidant coatings. Because of its tendency to revert to ordinary oxygen molecules, ozone cannot be bottled or stored. It must be manufactured at the point of use. From a pharmaceutical manufacturer's point of view, this makes it completely untenable as a product. If it can't be bottled and sold, why would a company undertake to sell it? Why would a company bother to research a product that could conceivably put its developer out of business? Though much of this information may appear new to you, it has been around awhile. Nikola Tesla earned the first patent on an ozone generator 100 years ago. In 1931, Doctor Otto Warburg won a Nobel Prize for his work proving cancer is caused by lack of oxygen at a cellular level. In the Prime Cause and Prevention of Cancer he reported, "The cause of cancer is no longer a mystery. We know it occurs when any cell is denied 60 percent of its oxygen requirement. This occurs through a buildup of pollution of toxicity within and around the cell which blocks and then damages the cellular oxygenation respiration mechanism." One can generalize Dr. Warburg's theory and state that the vast majority of our present day "chronic" diseases are the result of normal healthy cells switching from an oxidation process (aerobic) to an anaerobic fermentation process. This is a built-in survival mechanism that helps the cell survive but frequently kills the body. The air we breathe is about 20 percent oxygen, the rest is mostly nitrogen with some carbon dioxide. Due to pollution and the destruction of forests, the present oxygen level in our environment has decreased to half of what it was just 1,000 years ago. Present- toxins create an additional need for healthy levels of oxygen in the body. If we are to believe the contents of the 6,000 medical papers published on ozone and the results of 10 million treatments administered in Europe, it would seem that flooding the body with an ozone/oxygen mixture can reverse a large number of disease processes by destroying anaerobic viruses, bacteria and fungi. In the August 22, 1980, volume of Science, a peer-review article titled "Ozone Selectively Inhibits Growth of Human of Cancer Cells," reported, "Exposure to ozone ... inhibited cancer cell growth by more than 90 percent." Compared to conventional treatments, it is inexpensive, effective, and has no harmful side effects. It has been shown to deactivate the AIDS virus; this information has even appeared in the respected Journal of Hematology. A question frequently asked is, "If it's so effective, why haven't I heard of it before?" Keep in mind, there is no significant money in cures. Virtually any cure, once discovered, can be manufactured and distributed at a reasonable cost. The big money has always been in grants and for research and treatment, never in actual cures. Why would medical schools that receive funding from pharmaceutical companies teach doctors about ozone? It is simply not in their best interests. Ozone therapy is being intentionally suppressed. It is illegal to sell an ozone generator for medical treatment purposes, because under federal law it is a "medical device." It is illegal to administer ozone because it has been labeled a drug and, as yet, has no approval. Technically, it is illegal to talk about ozone as that can be construed as medical advice. In fact, people have been arrested for each of the above, but that doesn't stop people from buying them, mostly imported from Canada. What is a "gangster?" Isn't he someone who, for his own profit, grabs control of a basic necessity in order to corner the market and then use fear and intimidation as marketing tools? The U.S. medical profession has become just such a dominant, authoritative monopolistic entity, "legal" or not, and, it has suppressed the individual. Perhaps criticizing pharmaceutical companies and medical doctors is a waste of time. They may simply be the symptoms of our own eagerness to delegate away responsibility for our well-being to others in positions of authority. It's one thing to intellectualize about such things, but quite another to face them straight on when you or a loved one becomes ill. A number of years ago my mother died of breast cancer. Taken into a hospital, she was operated on and irradiated until her flesh hung on her like cooked meat. She suffered greatly, lived a few months longer, and then died. At that time, I lacked resources and knowledge, but I had a very clear feeling that there must be a better way. From the perspective of a small village in Bali, our medical system is insanely expensive, very impersonal and utterly lacking in spirituality. We have only one recognized medical model (allopathy) which is quick to exclude therapies it doesn't understand or finds threatening. The Balinese live as long as we do, with a level of happiness, joy and freedom most Westerners only envy. The "authorities" don't have all the answers. It is up to us to educate ourselves and take control in both prevention and treatment. (Byrun Fox is an alternative health care consultant based in Vancouver, British Columbia. He can be contacted at: (604) 524-4062.)


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Larry Busacca/Getty ImagesTeddy Forstmann pioneered private equity in the late 1970s and 80s. He was the first man to use borrowed money to buy a company, fix it, and then sell it for profit.
Last night he died of brain cancer at age 71, the NYT reports, and he will be remembered for his amazing record of charitable giving, and for living a life surrounded by glamorous women and powerful people.