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I am freelance photographer based in Greece.
You can visit my blog at: www.georgestratigis.tumblr.com/
Why I'm on Couchsurfing
Life is a surf.. and couchserfing is more than you can imagine.
I meet great people, amazing, kind & hospital everytime i am travelling!
Through the international society of CS, i have the chance to join the local way of life & enjoy the originality.
Live music, socializing & friendly people.
Obsessed with psychotherapy books the last few years & Irvin D. Yalom.
I also like to walk in different locations, in natural environment or urban cities.
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Techno, Electronica, Jazz, Rock, Classical and anything depending the mood.
One Amazing Thing I've Done
My last amazing experience was visiting Lesvos island, in order to photograph & volunteer the refugees crossing the borders of Turkey to Greece by boats. In a very short time, i had the chance to feel so much energy, meeting all these international volunteers & helping people from Syria, Afganistan, Kurdista to arrive safe and keep on their journy for a better life.
Another importan point in my life was meeting a very special american photographer, before he passed by. I work like assistant for him & i had the honor to be captured by him. Visit his work at www.voelkerstudio.com/.
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I like to talk about art & psychology.
I am also interested in cooking, but definitely i love sweets.
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Prep report: Superior secures record 36th trip to boys state hockey tournament
Aaron Miller scored two goals, including the game-winner in the third period, as Superior secured a record 36th trip to the Wisconsin boys hockey state tournament Saturday with a 3-2 victory over New Richmond in the Sectional 1 championship game at the Amery Ice Arena.
The Spartans (14-12-1) advance to a state quarterfinal game against Verona, a 2-1 winner over Madison West, at noon Thursday at Veterans Memorial Coliseum in Madison.
Miller scored his 30th goal of the season 36 seconds into the second period and Caden Tchop made it 2-0 for Superior at the 10:05 mark. New Richmond's Tanner Wisemiller trimmed the deficit to a goal when he scored his 23rd of the season at 14:05.
Miller tallied at 4:39 of the third for goal No. 31 and the most important of the season.
Superior goaltender Paxton Paine stopped 20 shots, while counterpart Adam Dilley made 20 of his 38 saves in the first period.
Boys Basketball
Barnum 61, Moose Lake-Willow River 57
Brandon Newman collected a game-high 29 points as the Bombers (25-2) edged the Rebels in a Section 7AA quarterfinal Saturday at Minnesota Duluth's Romano Gym.
Barnum, which won the regular-season matchup by 21 points, trailed 30-29 at halftime before rallying.
Eveleth-Gilbert 71, Virginia 66
The Golden Bears(16-11) shook off a seven-point halftime deficit to force overtime and top the Blue Devils (21-6) in their Section 7AA quarterfinal at Romano.
Mark Tikkanen paced Eveleth-Gilbert with 19 points, while Virginia's Jacob Quick led all scorers with 23.
The Golden Bears advance to face Barnum in Tuesday's semifinals at Romano.
Proctor 84, International Falls 65
Travis Carlson had 25 points and teammate Henry Habermann added 19 to lead the Rails (11-15) to the 7AA quarterfinal win at Romano.
Ben Humbert, the Broncos' all-time leading scorer, netted a game-high 20.
Esko 66, Aitkin 40
Kory Deadrick's 28 points keyed the top-seeded Eskomos' 7AA quarterfinal win at Romano.
Defending champion Esko (24-3) advances to play Proctor at 7:30 p.m. Tuesday.
Bigfork 47, Chisholm 39
Brady Thomas scored 16 points and the Huskies used a stifling defense to eliminate the Bluestreaks in a 7A quarterfinal at Lincoln Middle School in Hibbing, ending Chisholm coach Bob McDonald's storied 59-year career.
Bigfork (21-5) plays Fond du Lac Ojibwe, a 108-75 winner over Wrenshall, in Wednesday's semifinals. The other semifinal pits top-seeded Ely, a 72-66 winner over North Woods, against South Ridge, which topped Floodwood 55-44.
Jones second at state
Albert Lea freshman Garrett Aldrich dashed the state title hopes of two Northland wrestlers Saturday in the Minnesota state wrestling tourney at St. Paul's Xcel Energy Center.
Aldrich (39-7) topped Hibbing's A.J. Bethea 9-4 in the Class AA semifinals of the 106-pound weight class and then defeated Cole Jones of Grand Rapids 10-8 for the weight class title.
Bethea, an eighth-grader, dropped his wrestleback match to Keaten Schoor (37-8) of Kasson-Mantorville, 10-3, but won his fifth-place bout over Braydon Ortloff (27-17) of Detroit Lakes, 15-9, to finish his season 30-12.
Earlier in the day, Jones (36-5) earned a 15-0 technical fall over Ortloff in his semifinal match.
Grand Rapids sophomore David Brenden finished sixth at 126 to finish the year 34-10.


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Peter Odemwingie has the place to himself
Peter Odemwingie was back in training at West Bromwich Albion yesterday but cut a lonely figure as his team-mates were given the day off after their 1-0 defeat by Tottenham Hotspur on Sunday.
Odemwingie, who made a failed attempt to join Queens Park Rangers on transfer deadline day, must wait to discover whether he can win back the confidence of his team-mates.
Steven Reid, the former Ireland right back, said: "The club are dealing with it. We don't know what the outcome will be."


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Sean Barton was told by his coach at Woods Cross, Utah that his recruitment would pick up pretty quickly but even the 6-foot-3, 205-pound safety did not expect this kind of attention.
Stanford, BYU, Utah and Utah State have offered so far and Barton said he's hearing from UCLA, Nebraska, Georgia Tech and others.
The Utah standout admits it's an exciting time but he plans to take things slowly especially since he still hasn't taken many visits.
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"There really isn't a favorite right now," Barton said.
"I'm just trying to figure everything out. I'm hoping to make my decision before my senior season starts."
After his junior season it became pretty clear that his recruitment was about to get a lot busier.
Barton finished with 120 tackles (15 for loss) along with six interceptions and three sacks on defense. At running back, he rushed for 1,316 yards and 20 touchdowns.
"When I was a sophomore my coach told me to expect some stuff like this but it's coming a lot faster than I thought," Barton said.
"It's really exciting but I have a lot of work to do. It's really cool so far."
Some trips are coming up for Barton, who also caught 23 passes for 359 yards and two scores this past season.
The Woods Cross standout plans to attend junior days at Stanford, BYU and Utah and trips to Ohio State and Michigan are also being scheduled. After those visits, Barton might have a better idea where his recruitment is headed.
"It's still early for me," Woods said. "I haven't made any decisions yet."


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阿賀野型3番艦、矢矧 Lv162
Graphic Designer
Join Date: Mar 2006
Location: Belgium, Brussels
Age: 31
Character Discussion - Ushio
The purpose of this thread is to provide a place to discuss all things Ushio related.
To keep the discussion enjoyable for all Clannad fans, please follow the guidelines below and stay on-topic!
Note: Please don't use this for the specific episode / chapter / game talk, there are other threads for that stuff.
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|2009-02-26, 13:57
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Join Date: Mar 2007
Location: Area 11
Age: 35
I'll open up by saying that I have never seen a child character this... "real", before. The way she carries herself, the way she reacts to things that Tomoya says... everything about her is genuinely well done. There's something about the way Kyoto Animation brings their Key characters to life that is just astonishing and makes them far superior to anything else within the genre (in my opinion). Ushio's voice is, of course, a big part of her character, and Satomi is doing an amazing job. I can't get enough of her. KyoAni's Ushio definitely managed to surpass my incredibly high expectations.
|2009-02-26, 17:56
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"with you, happiness"
Join Date: Jan 2007
Can we have some other image of her in the Opening post?
She looked to much like Nagisa...
[On topic]
When I first saw her in the VN (the scene in the flower field), I was wishing so hard without realizing,
"God, give this family a chance somehow"
all teary
|2009-02-27, 06:11
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阿賀野型3番艦、矢矧 Lv162
Graphic Designer
Join Date: Mar 2006
Location: Belgium, Brussels
Age: 31
I guess a magazine scan would be better, should I find something more appropriate.
|2009-02-27, 10:02
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Join Date: Dec 2007
Location: at GNR, bringing you the truth, no matter how bad it hurts
Age: 33
she is beyond super cute
i totally loved nagisa, but i have to admit that as odd and crual as it may sound
nagisa dying so that ushio can be born, was worth it
i would still like it better if the trade ddint have to happen (but thast just me being greedy)
|2009-02-27, 14:13
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holy alexander
Join Date: Dec 2008
Location: vancouver
|2009-03-05, 23:30
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Junior Member
Join Date: Jan 2009
Spoiler for For episode 21:
Now, everyone together, we are going to BEND reality to make everything the way it should be. Focus your mental powers and never mind the consequences of meddling with the fabric of space and time, I'm sure it will all work out somehow and if not, well, we won't be around to see it anyway...
It will work...
|2009-03-08, 15:31
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Join Date: May 2006
Dude if he lost Ushio too, I'm not sure what Tomoyo would do or become. I don't even know how real life people could handle it. If it were to happen to me, I would conclude that life is out for me and hates me! Now if he were to start over again and have it all taken from him again, might as well end his life. Definitely the world is out for him!
|2009-03-11, 04:03
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Junior Member
Join Date: Mar 2009
Location: China
Er, well, my first post on this forum. By the way, is Ushio chan really died in episode 21? I don't play PC game CLANNAD...I like Nagisa but she died at last...and I really like Ushio, I hope Ushio will come back to life in episode 22.
By the way, that's my first post on this kind of forum, ^ ^, and I think it's fresh to see so many people live out of Asia love Japanese anime.
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Well, that's your lot for this week. X Factor 2012 has ditched its first act. But don't be sad, because we'll see Carolynne again. We'll see her in the beauty of a summer morning, or the magic in a child's smile or, more specifically, on another reality show in six months. Thanks again for all your comments. You really are very great, you know.
I'll be back here at 8:20 next Saturday night for another gut-bustingly long liveblog. If you join me, I'd be terribly grateful. Also, follow me on Twitter (I'm @StuHeritage, in case you needed it rammed down your throat again). Now for the love of god, change channels! Homeland starts any minute now! Go!
So it's deadlock. The public have spoken. Carolynne has been eliminated. And now: carnage.
Rylan has a full-on breakdown, Gary Barlow leaves the studio, Carolynne barely gets a word in. It's all going off. Hopefully Gary has gone to trim his beard.
After pulling a sad face and staying silent for literally a million years, Louis... stays silent until Dermot O'Leary screams abuse at him. Then he votes to save Carolynne. Then he votes to save Rylan. Then he takes it to deadlock, because he's Louis Walsh and that's just how he rolls. I bloody love Louis Walsh, me.
Nicole votes to send Carolynne home. Because she has to. Gary votes to send Rylan home. Because he hates joy. Tulisa votes to send Rylan home, because oh blah blah blah. It's down to Louis. Oh, this should be fun.
Carolynne is singing a ballad. I'm not sure what the ballad is, or if it was written so that every word has a superfluous 'y' in it, but that's how Carolynne has decided to sing it anyway.
I'm not saying that this performance is boring, but I just fell into a coma for an hour and woke up and she was still singing it. Ideally, based on those performances, both should go. But it's over the the judges.
Ah, he's singing One Night Only. Because that's essentially as long as he lasted on X Factor. To be fair to him, Rylan is giving this all he has; which is to say that he hasn't broken off and shouted "AWIGHT ESS FACKTER! WHAT AM I LIKE, EH?" yet.
A couple of missed lines later, which have probably sealed his fate in all honesty, and it's time for Carolynne.
First up is Rylan. I don't know what he's singing, but he's singing it in the style of a man running up a hill with an armful of shopping.
Here we go. Two singers. Two dreams. Two last shots at immortality. No discernible charisma whatsoever. This'll be fun.
Twitter seems to be split over who should go later. But, hey, I'm in charge so I'll embed this tweet and pretend that it's representative of the entire nation...
Although hopefully the entire nation is better at knowing the difference between 'of' and 'off'.
That leaves Rylan and Carolynne for the sing-off. So what'll happen now is that they'll both sing, everyone will pick Carolynne even though she's dullness personified and X Factor will be one long slow event-free deathmarch to Christmas. So that'll be fun.
Union J are through. That leaves Rylan, Carolynne and Christopher. People are chanting Rylan's name. But Christopher goes through.
Jahmene also through. The judges have one act left each. MANUFACTURED TENSION. And Jade is through.
And Melanie is through. Or, as Melanie would say, "HWAUUUUURARARGH!"
Lucy Spraggan is also free to sing songs about cobblers that an old lady told her another day. Also, MK1 are through. This pleases me.
District3 are also safe. Even though they performed first. This is an upset. Also, Ella is through. Good.
Kye is the first safe act. He hugs everyone and whoops. James is also safe. He doesn't whoop. He's too cool to whoop, the little Cardle in waiting.
And we're back. Time for the results. Ready?
Meanwhile on Twitter...
Ne-Yo has given everyone in the audience a glow-stick and ordered them to wave it around. Remember last year, when Coldplay did that amazing light display with thousands of synchronised LED wristbands? This was absolutely nothing like that. It looked like everyone in the audience was trying to ward off some midges. When he gets home, Ne-Yo's mother won't tell him that his glow-stick experiment failed. She's too classy for that. But he'll know. He'll know.
Ne-Yo's being quite brave here, because his new single doesn't really have any sort of tune whatsoever. But he does have a hat with his name sewn into it, which probably means that his mother loves him very much. She probably bleached his name onto his PE plimsolls with a knitting needle, too. I imagine that Ne-Yo's mother is quite a wonderful woman.
And now for Ne-Yo's performance. You remember Ne-Yo. R&B singer. Wears a hat. That's about it, really.
Anyway, Ne-Yo has probably been allowed to sing because he helped Nicole Scherzinger pick her final three contestants. In which case, brilliant - it means that next week's guest will be Sharon Osbourne dressed as a Pearly Queen doing Oops Upside Your Head on the spoons. Brilliant.
We're back. Lines are closed, so please stop not voting. Dermot's chatting to the judges. Basically this means that Nicole took her best shot at 'flirtatious' and missed by a mile, Louis made a joke about Simon Cowell and Gary Barlow muttered something through his beard. Hope that helps.
Because I'm doing this on a fancy new liveblogging platform, I can embed tweets now. So that's how I'll spend the ad breaks today. First up:
A YOGHURT ADVERT! But wait. You're not Martine McCutcheon. You look like her. But you're not her. Wait, I'm dreaming this, aren't I? This is all a dream. Oh, thank god. That means that all my teeth just didn't really fall out at the same time, too. Phew.
This is very Leona by the numbers. It starts quietly, then there are drums, and then Leona gets more and more overwrought, then she bends over for the big note, then the song finishes, then Dermot O'Leary asks her how she is, then she emits a single, barely audible, monotone beep. And then she walks off. Don't stop being you, Leona!
Backed by everyone's nan's net curtains all sewn together, Leona is singing her new song Trouble. At least I think she is – for some reason, her vocals have been given so much echo that she could legitimately be shouting to a child trapped down a well.
True story: I saw a picture of Leona Lewis earlier and my first thought was "God, what's happened to Tara Palmer-Tomkinson?"
And now for the first guest performance of the night. Leona Lewis is back! Properly back. Not like last time she was back with that weird dance song that wasn't very good, or that weird Nine Inch Nails cover that wasn't very good. She's back. Bleeding Love back. Probably.
Or maybe she's just been allowed to sing because she was a guest judge in the auditions this year. In which case, brilliant - it means that next week's guest will be Geri Halliwell. Brilliant.
There's Kye. There's Ella Henderson, being quite good. There's Carolynne Poole, being the opposite of Ella Henderson. And there's Jahmene, making a noise like a smoke alarm being eaten by a burning mouse. YOUR X FACTOR 2012 CONTESTANTS, EVERYONE!
There's Christopher Maloney, desperately pretending that the last 20 years didn't exist. There's Union J, shouting at a broken PlayStation. There's Jade Ellis, managing to sing an entire song that doesn't explicitly reference her daughter. There's Rylan, not being quite as good as I thought he'd be.
Song over, it's time for the first interminable recap of the night. There's District3. There's James Arthur. There's Melanie Masson, answering the question 'Do you need anybody?' with the word 'HWAAAAAUUUURGH!".
There's Lucy Spraggan and her songs about the horrible gap year pensioner who wouldn't leave her alone. There's MK1, singing Hot Chocolate.
They're doing an Emile Sande song, by the way. The Read All About It one. I already have read all about it, X Factor. The headline was Oh My God Seriously This Is Terrible Why Are You Even Doing This Haven't We All Suffered Enough I Mean Jesus.
James Arthur was the worst out of everyone. I feel like this needs to be reinforced.
Oh cripes. The group song's back for another year. One day, when planet Earth has been scorched by nuclear war, all that will survive are cockroaches and the X Factor group song. Those poor, poor cockroaches.
Still, let's meet the judges:
LOUIS: Jim just fixed it for him to be the world's least convincing Milk Tray Man.
TULISA: She's replaced her tattoo-wave with a wink. That's a bit rubbish, isn't it?
NICOLE: "What are you wearing tonight, Nicole?" "The face of an old lady trying to concentrate on a dot that doesn't exist". "Great, thanks Nicole!"
GARY: Just at the point where he should really consider giving his beard a bit of a trim.
Here's Dermot. No dancing tonight. Not even a twirl. He means business tonight. And that business is saying several numbers that correspond to underwhelming cover versions. As always.
Last night: X Factor started, and then didn't stop, and then didn't stop, and then didn't stop, and then didn't stop, and then didn't stop. And then stopped. There were also adverts. Lots of adverts.
I'll also happily play along with The Cube, if anyone readers want me to (NOTE: readers must provide own balls, a bucket, greenhouse and terrifying faceless samurai robofemme from the future).
I like The Chase. I like it so much that I'm going to play along with it here. Ready?
Sugar. Wrestling. Homeland. Australia. Warning. The Turner Prize. Bees. Monty Python. The Blackpool Tower. Les Miserables. Lager. Chloroform. Dollar. Tidy. Analyse This. Feathers.
There, that was fun. There'll be more of this next week, I promise.
Last year, the X Factor results show followed The Cube. This year, it follows The Chase. I like ITV's policy of making the X Factor results shows follow C-word gameshows. Next year, I hope it follows The Cabinet (a gameshow about cabinets) or The Crow (a gameshow about bad goth films that teenagers like).
Hello everyone. It's time for the first X Factor results liveblog of the year. If you've been here before, you know what to expect. If this is your first time, you're in for a treat – hardly anyone sings anything and it only lasts an hour. Imagine!
I hope you've all got over last night's fiasco of an opening show. Not only was it the longest television programme in living memory, but the sum of the much-vaunted Olympic theme basically amounted to packing a handful of medal-winners into a cage together, showing them onscreen for a twelfth of a millisecond and making them watch Justin Bieber's dad witlessly yelp Man In The Mirror for three hours. Surely things can only get better from here. Right? Anyone?
Tonight we're promised performances from Leona Lewis, performing her new single Still Not Bleeding Love; and Ne-Yo, performing his new single Apparently I Still Exist. And maybe, if we're all really lucky, One Direction might pop up for no reason whatsoever and do absolutely nothing again, because that was so much fun last night. And, of course, someone will be eliminated. But who? District3 performed first, which is never good. Carolynne Poole got the least enthusiastic reception, which is also never good. Melanie Masson blew out my eardrums, which is... actually, I didn't mind that so much. Based on last night's performance, any of them could face the chop, frankly.
I'll be back here at 8pm to guide you through the highs and lows of the next hour. If you'd be so kind as to play along in the comments, that'd be wonderful too. In the meantime, look, The Chase is on. See you in half an hour.


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text: I wanted to say Hello and introduce myself. I am in the middle of a career change (Im 38) and have been accepted to the local IUOE 701 (International Union of Operating Engineers) apprenticeship program as an equipment operator, completed the 4 week pre-apprenticeship training and am awaiting my first dispatch. Any other IUOE folks out there? This site seems to be fairly active and has a lot of good equipment discussions. Those of you who spend time at other sites may have seen me there, I try to use the same name at all the sites I join. So far, I havent run a lot of equipment; Bobcat 334 Mini-X Case 580L L/B JCB extended reach lift Older Hyster vib-roller Various farm tractors But loved every minuet of what I have done Regards, Rob


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3. My idea is to use this HTML template to create a blog without using CMS, i'm a bit new to this do let me know whether it's possible
1) This is a basic HTML and you can use it any where
2) you can use comment form with facebook and disqus
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also we will release wp version next month march
Regards, T20
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Clean and Great Work! GLWS!
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My only issues are:
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2. loading times way too long (might be that your server is just overwhelmed)
3. DISQUS comment system is a no-go for EU websites (think privacy & data protection) but I guess with wp-version this issue will be gone anyways
On my wishlist would also be a 3/4 + 1/4 layout for single post view.
Overall it's the nicest looking news template I've seen for a while and on top of my shopping list as soon as you realease it for wp
Hi, Thanks
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3) in next update i will add comment form as default + fb comment section
also this is a very easy to add columns in grid system, 1/4 3/4 …
Regards, T20
Nice work mate! GLWS!
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WP Version?
Thanks, sure wp will release in March
Nice theme!
just hope ready for wordpress theme
Sure wp version will release in March


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This special issue of Religion and Liberty offers our readers a sampling of initial reactions to the encyclical letter of Pope John Paul II which commemorates the hundredth anniversary of the inauguration of modern Catholic social teaching.
Our prediction is that Centesimus Annus (The Hundredth Year) will have a monumentally positive impact on the discussion of the relationship between religion and freedom. This discussion will revolve around the proper ordering of civil society, the role and limits of governmental intervention into economic activity, and the ultimate source of wealth creation: the human mind.
These are, of course, matters that the Acton Institute is attempting to raise. We are overjoyed with the document.
Yet a vigorous debate looms ahead. Already the theological spin doctors are attempting to mute this robust embrace of the free economy on the part of Christendom's largest denomination. Look for these commentators to attempt to interpret the document as retaining a large role for state interference into economic matters.
Our work is cut out for us. And the task is an ecumenical one. Centesimus Annus is addressed to all "men and women of good will," and the issues of poverty, the abuse of governmental power and authentic human liberty are surely issues which impact people in all societies, regardless of their faith commitment. The Acton Institute's programs, symposia and monographs are designed to address the issues the pope raises as we seek to educate tomorrow's religious leaders in the tenets of classical liberalism.
John Paul, himself no stranger to the inability of a command economy to provide for the needs of people, shows that the problem of interventionism is both a technical and a moral one. It is technical in the sense that socialism, and its variants, is inefficient. It is moral when it is understood that the rights to "private initiative, to ownership of property, and to freedom in the economic sector," to use the pope's words, are human rights.
As we see it , the empirical debate is over, having ended with the collapse of socialism. The moral debate, however, continues.
In the months and years ahead numerous articles, scholarly papers and books will be written about this dramatic development in Catholic social doctrine. No doubt studies will be forthcoming as to the sources the pope and his aids relied on in drafting Centesimus Annus.
One thing stands out very clearly to us. This document speaks with an American accent. We believe that in the same way that the American experiment influenced the drafting of the document of the Second Vatican Council, "On Religious Liberty," through the writings of the American Jesuit John Courtney Murray, so Centesimus Annus depends, to some extent, on American insights.
For anyone who has read Centesimus Annus and is familiar with the writings of Michael Novak, particularly The Spirit of Democratic Capitalism and Free Persons and the Common Good, this contention will not appear farfetched.
In 1984 Spirit was translated and illegally published in the then Communist Poland. When the publishers asked Mr. Novak, a resident scholar at the American Enterprise Institute and member of the Board of Advisors of the Acton Institute, what kind of remuneration he required, his request was simple: a copy of the edition for himself, and that a second copy be placed in the hands of the Polish pope.
The Polish Consul General in New York, Jerzy Surdykowsky recently confirmed the impact of Mr. Novak's writings saying that he "has had a tremendous intellectual influence on two generations of Poles."
Centesimus Annus will grow in significance and importance as we approach the millennium. The immediate controversies such as those surrounding the consistency between the papal document and the American bishops' 1986 letter on the U. S. economy will largely fade as the broader shift this document represents begins to emerge. This clear and authoritative development now places the Catholic Church firmly on the side of economic liberty. Indeed, throughout the document, there appears to be what might be called a "preferential option for liberty," because economic liberty is the only way to benefit the poor.
Religion–Catholic, Protestant and Jewish–has played a critical role in the downfall of collectivism in its communist, socialist and fascist manifestations, which, arguably, has constituted the bloodiest and darkest period of human history.
This pope, who has emerged from under the rubble of the colossal wreck of authoritarian rule, will be judged as prescient in teaching that ordered liberty is the greatest protector of human dignity.


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PARIS, Sept. 27 (UPI) -- Britain-Ireland won the European Tour's Vivendi Trophy with Seve Ballesteros for the fifth straight time Sunday, topping Continental Europe by five points.
The Britain-Ireland team needed just two points in the final round to clinch the trophy in Paris and got them in the first two matches, a 3 and 2 win by Graeme McDowell over Robert Karlsson and Rory McIlroy's 1-up decision over Henrik Stenson.
The event, which was played at the Saint- Nom-la-Breteche Golf Club, was formerly known as the Seve Trophy, named for for longtime golf star Seve Ballesteros.
Other winners in the final round were Robert Rock for Britain-Ireland and Anders Hansen, Soren Hansen, Miguel Angel Jimenez, Soren Kjeldsen and Francesco Molinari of Continental Europe. Two other matches were halved.


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H&M is having sales once again! Well, maybe I am a shopaholic =/ sometimes I find myself buying pretty clothes more than I should. But I believe shopping is something therapeutic for my mind and for my bad bays with a huge bad mood. Hum... shopping and chocolate with any doubt! But I buy, sell and also trade in first or second hand. When I get sick of clothes, need a little extra money, need space or I don't wear at all, I sell and trade them.
So I am going to show you guys my last purchases... I felt like buy some comfort clothes. I love all my gothic/alternative wardrobe, but at summer sometimes is very hard and difficult to wear always black, tight and fit, a lot of velvet, lace and heavy clothes. Corsets, pvc and vinyl sometimes become a nightmare.
Summer require more fresh, baggy and colorful clothes.
(Off course, doesn't matter how hard I try, I end up always buying a few black clothes XD It is on my blood!)
Both Dresses from H&M, 7€ each on sale
Both Tees from H&M, 5€ each on sale
Both from H&M, Black Dress 10€ on sale - Beige Tunic 7€ on sale
H&M Black Tee - 14,95€ not on sale
Both from H&M, Black Skulls Leggings 7€ on sale, Black Velvet Leggings 14,95€ not on sale
Both from H&M, Top 7€ on sale, Black Skirt 4,95€ (I got a discount, original price 9,95€)
Both from H&M, Bikini 5€ on sale, Green Tunic 4,95€ not on sale
Both from H&M, Tee 7,95€, Dress 14,95€ both not on sale
H&M Skirt 5€ on sale
H&M Crop Top 4,95€ not on sale
H&M Snow White Nail Polish 1€ on sale, Kiko Mint Sugar Matt Nail Polish 2,50 on sale (love the effect)
Street Store Mint Maxi Dress 12,50€ (not on sale)
I am absolutely in love with this minty maxi dress! Looking forward to wear it!!!
Bershka Tee, don't recall the price it wasn't on sale
Bershka Skirt, 4,99€ on sale
Pull & Bear Shorts, 9,99€ on sale
Both from Claire's, Black Earrings 3€, Eyes Earrings 1€ both on sale
Primark sunglasses, 1,50€
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We keep hearing that the City Gardens Project plans, which included the destruction of Union Terrace Gardens in Aberdeen, was important to the city's bid to become the City of Culture.
The definitions of the word "culture" include: 1) the quality in a person or society that arises from a concern for what is regarded as excellent in arts, letters, manners, scholarly pursuits etc; 2) that which is excellent in the arts, manners etc; 3) a particular form or stage of civilisation as that of a certain nation or period; 4) the behaviour and beliefs characteristic of a particular social, ethnic or age group. The plans for Union Terrace Gardens, in my opinion, did not fit into any of these categories.
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Today I am providing a brief description of the portfolio I made of the five top dividend stocks of the market's Gurus: Warren Buffett, Wilbur Ross, Steve Mandel, Seth Klarman and George Soros
I chose the five companies I will mention below because of their high dividend yield.
Let's take a look at each of them. I will then explain why I turned to them.
GlaxoSmithKline: (NYSE:GSK) This is one of the largest pharmaceutical companies in the world. Its record in the industry as well as the good results in the third quarter that highly matched my expectations called my attention. Furthermore, Glaxo is a well positioned company in the development of orphan drugs and has a strong position in the vaccine market and pricing power in a lupus drug.
I'm also particularly interested because it has gained a good position in emerging markets. Indeed, one of its drugs, Cervarix, is selling very well in Japan.
Glaxo generates about GBP6 billion in operating cash flow on an annual basis and closed 2010 with just under GBP6 billion in cash. It is definitely on a solid ground.
Glaxo's size ranks in the top tier of the pharmaceutical industry. This enormous bulk creates economies of scale in developing new drugs. In the highly uncertain race to drug development, the company's vast resources have created multiple opportunities for new blockbuster drugs. Glaxo's deep pockets have funded close to 20 major drugs in Phase III development. Further, the company has compiled more than 100 early-stage compounds in its pipeline. Recently approved lupus drug Benlysta should go on to develop into a blockbuster.
Warren Buffett kept the position unchanged in the last quarter.
Cooper Tire & Rubber (NYSE:CTB) is a low-cost replacement tire supplier that works through small independent tire dealers. It can be placed between the strong tire providers, such as Michelin and Firestone, and small ones. Despite it is not a low-cost producer and the consolidation among retailers may affect its pricing power, CTB is in an upward trend due to an increasing demand and constrained production capacity.
I think it became the Wilbur Ross top stock not only because of its $413 million cash in the balance sheet but also because CTB is taking steps to grow in emerging markets such as China, where it is making important investments to start manufacturing there.
I like the ability the company has to consistently earn returns above its capital cost in the future. Regarding CTB, at least 2010 is very decent. With $413 million in cash and a total $327 million in debt, it has been able to meet its net interest expenses. Furthermore, the operating income increased more than six times. Why wouldn't I think this situation can be enhanced in a future time?
Wilbur Ross reduced the position 40% in the last quarter
PDL BioPharma (NASDAQ:PDLI) is involved in antibody humanization patents and royalty assets. It is Seth Klarman's top dividend stock and I have no doubt why. Its cash position is $248 million, shares provide a nice return and the company is committed to return money to shareholders through dividends and convertible note buybacks.
Seth Klarman added to his position 68% from last quarter
YPF S.A (NYSE:YPF) is a Dividend Superstar and George Soros noticed that. It has good prospects to increase earnings. YPF is Argentina's largest energy company. It produces and owns approximately 50% of Argentina's oil and gas supplies, and also owns significant downstream assets.
The company currently pays approximately a 10% dividend (which is up significantly in recent days on a stock sell-off), has a forward P/E ratio of 9.13 and an EV/EBITDA ratio of only 4.86.
George Soros added to his position 144% in the last quarter
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While the nation is busy predicting the new baby Bachchan's looks and features like that of her mom Aishwarya Rai or grandpa Amitabh Bachchan, we have completely forgotten the importance of her dad Abhishek Bachchan.
Aishwarya Rai's baby delivery have been the hottest topic of the country for the past few weeks. Now when Ash has finally delivered a baby girl on November 16, numerologists and soothsayers are leaving no stone unturned to predict the Baby B's upcoming looks, personality and features.
Amitabh in his blog have already described the baby's look stating that the baby has inherited her mother Aishwarya Rai's light blue eyes. Numerologists say, "She will be a very good orator like her grandfather Amitabh. Also, she will get Aishwarya's mother's charitable nature and she will be interested in creative writing like her great grandfather Harivansh Rai Bachchan." Abhi's baby will be highly qualified, Sharma claims. "She will study languages, sociology or fine arts. She will be beautiful, have lustrous hair and sharp eyes. She may go on to become a singer or a great public figure."
With all such predictions and speculations, we definitely find one thing missing, that's Abhishek Bachchan. No one has even tried to find a common trait between the baby and her father, as people are just running to induce Ash and Big B's qualities into the newborn. Poor pa Abhishek, hope to see your daughter growing up carrying your traits.


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My name is Rita Haworth and my family and I have been serving with Back2Back Ministries since 2006. Over the years we have been blessed to serve as the hands and feet of Jesus. Were involved in many projects such as painting, building houses, medical centers, a school, outdoor fireplaces, building picnic tables, cleaning the childrens rooms, and most of all building relationships with the children of Monterrey Mexico. We have been blessed in so many ways through this minisitry, we are closer to God, we share the gospel more and have seen Gods promise of being a father to the fatherless.
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Suraj Pancholi with his father, Aditya Pancholi flew to Hyderabad on Friday to meet Salman Khan, who will be donning an independent producer's role for the remake of 1983 superhit Hero. The movie will see the launch of Suraj and Suniel Shetty's daughter Athiya.
The project has been preponed quicken Suraj's career plans. After Suraj Pancholi was granted bail, the young lad is already busy getting his life back on track!
Says a source close to the project, "Hero was supposed to begin shooting in January 2014. It will now start in November 2013. Salman has asked the entire team to get into a work-mode immediately. The script is being re-worked to suit today's times."
There is news that Laxmikant-Pyarelal's soundtrack from the original movie will be used in this film as well and Sajid-Wajid has been asked to do some fresh music as well.
Apparently, Salman Khan has asked Suraj to start gymming with a 'vengeance' after they had a meeting on Friday.
Says Suraj's father Aditya Pancholi, "Yes, by the grace of God everything seems to be getting back on the right track. We will be starting the film sooner than we thought."
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can you make a headache go away? rather than taking things out of your diet, you can add foods to improve your life. is he a dietitian and natural foods expert and author. dave grotto joins us. a guyeticiap what is that? >> i am a male and i am a regular guy and love food. who doesn't get excited about delicious tasting foods like what's before us here? >> you said this is food you should incorporate into your diet to help you? >> sure. the reason i wrote this book is patients were coming to me in private practice saying dave, stop telling me what not toe ed. tell me what i can add in to help fight cancer and the day- to-day challenges we have, fatigue, pain, mental, physical and sexual performances can be taken care of by food. >> let's do it. >> let the games begin. >> yeah. >> let's go right to the right. we have chocolate and tea. >> do you like chocolate? >> i do, but i'm allergic.
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Paul H. Cook, founder of A Child's Hope Foundation, which operates an orphanage in Timarche, about 25 miles from Port-au-Prince, said the foundation's board has been meeting to decide how to respond to the crisis.
The 200-plus orphans housed in the foundation's facility are alive and accounted for, but the country's needs are unimaginable. Currently the organization (www.achf.org) is planning to assemble care kits for the children.
"They need medicines, baby formula, diapers. They don't have any money. We will get totes for these items, put them in a container and get the container shipped," Cook said. "They need help in the worst way."
Kent White, who coordinates volunteer efforts for the foundation, said there are no plans to send volunteers to the country.
"We haven't taken volunteers down there for about three years because of safety issues — political unrest and kidnappings," he said. "And we're not planning on sending anyone right now. We'd just get in the way at this point."
White said he was referring people who want to help to one of the foundation's partners, Love A Child Inc. (www.loveachild.com), based in Tampa, Fla.
"They've been able to help us get things done. If I have confidence in anyone, it's those guys," White said.
Provo's HIT Web Design supports another Haitian orphanage, the Hope for Little Angels of Haiti, which was in the process of moving from Carrefour, a suburb of Port-au-Prince, into Port-au-Prince proper when the earthquake hit.2 comments on this story
Brad Stone, a co-owner of the company, said about half of the 60 orphans cared for by Hope for Little Angels, those who had been moved into the city, have been accounted for, but the Provo company is still waiting to hear about those in Carrefour.
"We are hoping we will have word on all the kids within the next 24 to 48 hours. It's just hard having any communication in there," he said.
"We are the sole provider for the orphanage," White said. "Even though Haiti is the poorest nation in the Western Hemisphere, it takes something like this for people to realize the need. This has drawn attention to a place in the world that really, really needs a lot of help … and not just water and food, but leadership."
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SANDY — Heading into this Saturday's third annual XFINITY High School Football Challenge at Rio Tinto Stadium, tournament organizers hope this is the year they found the perfect mix of competition for Jordan and Alta.
Back in 2011, inferior competition was invited to the doubleheader in Utah, and the two Sandy City schools proceeded to crush Taft, Calif., and Notre Dame, N.J., by a combined score of 105-0. Both schools naturally requested that Real Salt Lake president Bill Manning go out and find tougher competition for the 2012 event.
He most certainly did.
Jordan proved up for the challenge, while Alta was not.
Jordan ended up losing a 34-33 heartbreaker to nationally ranked St. John Bosco, Calif., which is currently ranked No. 1 nationally by MaxPreps, while Alta simply couldn't keep up with nationally acclaimed Don Bosco, N.J., falling 52-24.
Manning hopes this Saturday's doubleheader at 2 p.m. and 7 p.m. proves to be more competitive, a big reason Manning has made the XFINITY Challenge a priority of his through the years.
"More than anything, it's seeing how we match up with teams from out of state. It brings a little something different than just playing teams in Utah every weekend. That's really what it's come down to," said Manning.
Both Jordan and Alta head into Saturday's games coming off disappointing losses to 4A schools last Friday, and rebound wins certainly won't come easy.
Alta faces Allentown, N.J., at 2 p.m., and Manning said Allentown is an emerging public school in New Jersey that posted a 9-2 record last season.
The nightcap features Jordan vs. Bergen Catholic, N.J., a state runner-up last season and a program ranked in the top 100, according to MaxPreps. Bergen lost its season opener at No. 6 Curtis, La., last Saturday 24-13, and it appears to be the favorite against a Jordan team coming off last Friday's 59-36 loss to East.
During the first two years of the XFINITY Challenge, Manning found a team from the East Coast and West Coast to participate. Scheduling a West Coast team proved difficult this year, and Allentown jumped at the challenge to fill in.
"When we couldn't get a West Coast team I said let's go back to Jersey because their state association has better rules for their teams to go out of state," said Manning, who said it helps that the previous New Jersey participants have returned home and spoke glowingly about how the teams were treated.
Rio Tinto Stadium covers all the costs for the participating teams, and the festivities begin Thursday with a dinner at Rio Tinto Stadium for all four teams.
"Why are we doing all this?" said Manning. "Sandy City. Sandy City is part of this stadium."4 comments on this story
That's why Alta and Jordan will be the Utah teams participating in future XFINITY Challenges, and why the two rivals will likely be playing their 2014 region game on the neutral field at Rio Tinto Stadium. Manning said he's working on the mechanics and financial aspects with the principals of both schools, and said all parties are close to working out the details.
Manning said Rio Tinto Stadium would like to eventually host a couple of UHSAA state championship games as well, but added that four football games is the maximum the stadium grounds crew believes the field can support in a calendar year.


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You can choose to Connect as CD-ROM, Built-in CD-ROM - "Show a virtual CD-ROM containing some useful software."
Selecting this I see a device show up in Win7x32 named "iAmCdRom" using 1.22MB of space, read-only of course.
If anyone was thinking there might be some useful software on there, I have to report I found only a .PDF from 2007 titled "Universal Serial Bus
Micro-USB Cables and Connectors Specification", which though interesting reading (lubrication is recommended ?) is not otherwise particularly relevant or useful to us TrueSmart owners.
I wonder if there has been space allocated in the partitioning of the TrueSmart's memory to allow for that file to be stored, where other more useful things could be stored instead, eventually ? Can this space be recovered and used in a better way ?
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Firefighters have nearly extinguished a small but potentially dangerous fire that erupted in the San Bernardino National Forest as gusty Santa Ana winds blew through Southern California.
Authorities say the 15-acre fire near Crestline is 90 percent contained Friday evening and is expected to be fully contained by 7 a.m.
A red flag wind advisory was lifted for many mountain, valley and coastal areas. Wind gusts of 50 mph were recorded before winds died down.
The fire erupted late Thursday when a pickup truck went out of control on a curve on State Highway 18. The truck rolled 100 feet down a hillside and burst into flames.
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11 films on 9/11 give a global perspective
Published 10:00 pm, Thursday, September 4, 2003
For a new perspective on Sept. 11, ask an Afghan child living in a refugee camp in Iran, a West African boy with an ill mother or an Israeli journalist trying to get airtime for a suicide bombing at the same time as the World Trade Center attacks.
These are some of the viewpoints shown in "September 11," a series of 11 films -- each of them 11 minutes, 9 seconds and 1 frame long -- made by 11 directors from 11 different countries.
Artistic producer Alain Brigand said he conceived the project "to evoke the planetary echo of this event." The films succeed in doing so, to a point, and while some segments are better than others, they are all, as a whole, worth watching.
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Initially screened a year ago (and panned by Variety as "stridently anti-American"), the film was hard to stomach as the wounds still seemed too raw, the memories too internalized and fresh.
Now Americans have a little more distance from the event itself. Life has gone on. They've watched the war in Afghanistan and Iraq and the ongoing struggle to balance security concerns with civil rights. But parts of the film are sure to raise eyebrows, if not voices, in protest.
The most controversial segment has to be Egyptian director Youssef Chahine's piece. In it, he has a dialogue with a dead American soldier who perished in Beirut in 1983 when two suicide bombers killed 146 U.S. soldiers and 27 French servicemen.
"Only your soul is sacred and the world owes you everything? No one else deserves even a tear?" says the director, after pointing out the people killed by Americans in Vietnam, El Salvador, Iraq, Africa, Iran and (the country formerly known as) Palestine.
"It's a vicious circle of destructive stupidity."
A ham-fisted way to get the message across to be sure, but to respond to such venom in a similar manner would be hasty. As the film progresses, what becomes clear is that behind the anger is the fact that violence and loss are experienced daily in other countries and that we really don't get any better at shouldering the weight of suffering. Chahine wants Americans to show some of the empathy they expect from the world at their time of need.
One of the best segments is Alejandro GonzalezInarritu's piece. Phone calls from victims to their families woven in with media sound bites and prayers for the dead by Chamulas Indians play over infrequent shots of the attacks. The film is compelling and moving in a way that defies description. It's beautifully done. Mira Nair's piece (based on the true story) of an American Pakistani family whose oldest son goes missing during 9/11 is another wonderful film. The Hamdani family is tormented by the suspicion that their son was a terrorist. It turns out he was a paramedic who died after rushing to the World Trade Center to help.
Some of the filmmakers connect the pain and loss of that day to events around the world. For example, British director Ken Loach ties Sept. 11, 2001, to Sept. 11, 1973, when Chilean President Salvador Allende was killed during a CIA-backed coup d'etat, (putting dictator Augusto Pinochet in power). Again, a valid point made without much elegance.
Iranian filmmaker Samira Makhmalbaf (daughter of famed filmmaker Mohsen Makhmalbaf) illustrates the baffling nature of violence witnessed on Sept. 11 through the eyes of Afghan refugee children. While Makhmalbaf's use of children is a universal technique, it's been a major tradition since Samad Behrangi (an Iranian writer of "children's" stories who is believed to have been killed by the shah's secret police in 1968 for his anti-government messages).
This is the tool of artists from a country with limited freedom of expression being used to describe events in a country where freedom of expression is alternately valued and taken for granted.
Overall, the film contains personal and political stories, as well as the macrocosm and the microcosm of chaos, rage, sadness and confusion.


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Current Economic Collapse — There Are Numerous Warnings About A Potential World War and Economic Collapse
The ECONOMIC WINTER is Here with Peter Baxter [PRIME INTEREST]
Kondratieff Wave theory details how capitalist economies experience a recurring cycle. It's a boom and bust of around 60 years that coincides with a peak in credit. The cycle consists of four distinct phases based on mood changes. The tone determines the actions of individuals involved in the economy. The cycle duration of the so-called K-Wave is also similar to the human lifespan. So, when each economic "winter" rolls around, the problem is cultural memory loss. Bob talks to Peter Baxter, author of kondratieffwinter.com, about deflation in the winter cycle.
Correction in the report, I said 25,000 people they had to layoff it was 15,000
Congress is back in session on Sept 9. The President and other government officials are campaigning to persuade the congress to vote in their favor. There are reports that congress is headed for a no vote and since they are headed to a no vote they might not vote at all to save their careers. There are numerous warnings about a potential false flag to start the war.
10 Signs The Global Elite Are Losing Control
Here are ten signs that the elite are losing control over the people:
1. Official lies no longer effective: The lies they tell simply don't work anymore. There was a time when official lies, especially about war and peace, were believed. Because, after all, how evil would it be to lie about such things? Generally people want to believe they are being told the truth when life and death is at stake. The boy who cried wolf has cried one too many times. Even if they
2. No confidence in politics: US politicians have a paltry approval rating. The trust in government is at all-time lows here and around the world. Mainstream polls show only 10% of the public has confidence in Congress. In other words, 90% don't believe in them to be competent to govern.
SOURCE: http://www.foxnews.com
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Dennis Kucinich: Syria Strike Would Make U.S. 'Al Qaeda's Air Force,' Could Spark 'World War Three'
Bombing Syria would make US pilots 'Al-Qaeda's air force' — Kucinich
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Erick Mathoho's first goal for Kaizer Chiefs sealed a draw for the league leaders, who had to show their mettle against a toughened Maritzburg United outfit
Kaizer Chiefs held on to top spot in the PSL after fighting back against a steely Maritzburg United to earn a 1-1 draw at the Peter Mokaba Stadium in Polokwane.
A frenetic and physical display which resulted in seven bookings, finally saw the opener for Maritzburg United early in the second half, as Mario Booysen finished from close range after Delron Buckley sent in a dangerous ball which was handled poorly by Kaizer Chief's defenders.
Chiefs showed their fighting qualities and hit back in the 69th minute via a powerful header from Erick Mathoho, who beat Shu-Aib Walters from just inside the area.
Neither side could add to the scoreline as the match ended in an intruguing and dramatic stalemate, which keeps Kaizer Chiefs on top of the PSL standings.
Kaizer Chiefs was aiming to extend their lead over rivals Orlando Pirates in the PSL title race to seven points. They faced a Maritzburg United side which has seen a major dip in form in the second half of the season and has slipped to 7th on the log.
The Team of Choice created the first chance of the match eight minutes in when Dillon Sheppard sent in an accurate ball to find the head of Cuthbert Malajiila, but the club's top scorer sent his header into the stands.
The early minutes turned into an end-to-end battle as both teams looked to utilise their attacking talent, with Maritzburg coming close once more when Ruben Cloete tested Ithumeleng Khune with a powerful drive in the 18th minute.
Khune was up for the task with an acrobatic save, keeping Chiefs on level terms when a goal for the visitors seemed inevitable.
After the rip-roaring start to the encounter, the game settled as Chiefs began to find control over possession. But Maritzburg's attacking threat did not diminish, as the combination of Sheppard and Malajiila almost paid dividends on the 32 minute mark, but the winger's cross could not be turned on target by the striker.
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The sun hasn't set at the Chicago's oldest daily newspaper.
After days of negotiations and union votes that could have spelled doom, the Chicago Sun-Times reported that its owner, the Sun-Times Media Group, has reached a tentative agreement on a concessions package with all five of its Guild units.
"They have said they will recommend the revised amendment to all of their members prior to voting that begins today," Chicago Sun-Times Publisher John Barron said in a statement Wednesday afternoon.
The concessions package will be presentated to employees Wednesday afternoon and evening.
Last month, members of the Chicago Newspaper Guild were asked to lock in for at least three years the temporary 15 percent wage cuts imposed this spring. Other demands included wiping out seniority rules and reducing severance guarantees. Those terms were rejected.
Details of the latest agreement were not released.
On Tuesday, a day after the deadline passed for bid offers, a Lisle-based hedge fund manager said he wanted to put in an offer but had been blocked from meeting with union representatives. The company denied that claim.
If approved, Wednesday's deal makes easier a sale to businessman Jim Tyree in bankruptcy court. Tyree's group has offered $25 million for the newspaper, which filed for bankruptcy on March 31.


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Thor Enters The Fray In Latest Video, Photos From Avengers Set
With all of the photos of Chris Evans' Captain America coming out of the Cleveland set of The Avengers, many fans have wondered where the rest of Earth's Mightiest Heroes might be. Well, wonder no more … at least about a certain god of thunder. Warning: Spoilers follow!
In video from the employees of Medical Mutual of Ohio and in photos from ComicBookMovie, we get our first look at Chris Hemsworth's Thor joining the Sentinel of Liberty in the big battle of East Ninth Street, which is doubling for New York City's 42nd Street. The photos aren't so great, but the video is pretty solid. Expect more to trickle out soon, naturally.
Meanwhile, The Plain Dealer reveals that, in addition to the night scene being shot Monday at Public Square (standing in for Stuttgart, Germany), there will be "fireball explosions" next week in Parma, and other location in Cleveland will be transformed into a Russian stronghold.
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Expeditions: Conquistador - Review @ Universal Gaming Reviews
Universal Gaming Reviews add their positive review of Expeditions: Conquistador to the list.
Overall, Expeditions Conquistador is an excellent game that isn't without its own foibles but it's a game that feels like a lot of work has gone into crafting the experience and is not only well written but incredibly in-depth and well thought out. It's a game that may not appeal to some people and it's incredibly high difficulty and somewhat steep learning curve may deter a few people but it's a fun game overall and while it may be aggravating losing battles often the game gives you a lot of customization in the difficulty of the game and it's a game that I can gladly recommend giving a shot, especially if you like historical turn based strategy games or tactical RPG's with a twist.
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text: Alice Crookston Jensen1919 ~ 2011North Logan, UTOur beloved mother, grandmother, and great-grandmother Alice Crookston Jensen, 92, died Saturday, October 1, 2011, quietly at home. She was born February 6, 1919, in Logan, Utah, to Newell James and Ethel Magdalene Smith Crookston; she was the second of six children. She graduated with a degree in Education from the AC (Agriculture College, forerunner to Utah State University). She married Horace Lorenzo Jensen in North Logan on June 28, 1941, by her father. They were sealed in the Salt Lake LDS Temple on June 16, 1942. She was active in the LDS church and served in many positions including Primary President. She and Horace served an 18 month LDS mission in the California Fresno Mission. She also served in the Logan Temple for 9 years as an ordinance worker. She was a very loving grandmother who always made sure you had a chocolate chip cookie. She loved flowers in her own garden and in the canyon. She is survived by a brother Douglas Crookston (Farris), a sister Mae Wennergren (John), her daughter Maureen Grover (Bruce), her son Gary Jensen (Jane), 14 grandchildren, and 15 great grandchildren. She was preceded in death by one great grandson. Funeral Services will be held at noon, Wednesday, 5 October 2011 at the LDS Chapel located at 1650 East 2600 North, North Logan, Utah. Family and friends are invited to the viewing from 10:00-11:30 a.m. at the chapel prior to the service at noon. Burial will be in the Logan City Cemetery.


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Opening today at the Metropolitan Museum of Art, The Pictures Generation : 1974-1984 is the first major museum exhibition to focus on the tightly-knit group of artists, now collectively known as the 'pictures' generation, whose work formed what may be considered the last definitive movement of the 20th Century. Following up on Art in America's April issue, which revisited that decade from several critical perspectives, independent curator and critic Jess Wilcox spoke with the exhibition's curator, Douglas Eklund:
JESS WILCOX: The Pictures Generation : 1974–1984 takes it name from Douglas Crimp's 1977 Artist Space exhibition, Pictures, an exhibition which became best known through an edited and revised reprinting of the catalogue essay in a 1979 issue of October. Crimp's essay discussed work of Cindy Sherman, who was not originally included in the exhibition, and dropped the argument for Philip Smith; he was only briefly mentioned in the altered text. Over the span of these two short years there was a conscience effort at refining a critical historical argument.
DOUGLAS EKLUND: I think it also had to do with the fact that even though Cindy Sherman made one film still during the Pictures show, she hadn't really made enough to be considered [for the exhibition]. In the end, the whole point of The Pictures Generation is to include them all. I was lucky, because it's easy in hindsight to say that these people should have been [included] and this person shouldn't. At the time it was important to understand that not all of these people were known quantities -- David [Salle] and Matt [Mullican] weren't in the show; Richard only emerged later, and Cindy had only done one film still at that time. Obviously by 1979, she had made work that perfectly fit into that idea. As for the relegation of Smith, I don't have any idea why that happened. When I reviewed his work for this show, it seemed not strong enough to be included; it was a curatorial, aesthetic judgment on my part.
JW: Has thirty years proved enough distance for a critical reading of the Pictures phenomenon, considering that the artists and critics who helped shape the movement are still so actively involved in the dialogue?
DE: I think so. I'm in the tricky position of working with contemporary photography, which is my specific area of expertise. I think part of the surprise is to see it installed at the Met; the historical achievement [of that generation] is secure, but what that achievement actually is remains in question. The curator must make that first call. So I'm making an implicit statement of agreement. I think people who know the material will be surprised [by the exhibition].
It's better to look positively at the people who are in the exhibition. Artists like Nancy Dwyer, Charles Clough, and Michael Zwack are great artists; it's one of those strange historical things that they have not received as much attention. The show is a balancing act between works that people know, and works that people know but have never seen—like Sherrie Levine's appropriations, for instance. I made a point of having a representative body of them, so viewers can see them and not dismiss them offhand. Nancy Dwyer is another example: She's a great artist who is respected by her peers and her work should be better known. To see her work next to Cindy Sherman's—they were best friends—will be illuminating for a lot of people.
JW: The exhibition traces two groups of artists that became what we now know as the "pictures" generation. One group was from Cal Arts—they were John Baldessari's students—and the other was from Buffalo.
DE: I have worked with the artists pretty closely, and I think that the connection between CalArts and Hallwalls [Contemporary Art Center] is pretty clear. According to all of the oral histories, that there was a group of artists [from CalArts] that came to New York at the same time; there was another group of artists in Buffalo that were hungry to participate, and they made their own version of CalArts. It blows my mind to see the artists that were invited [to Buffalo]. That they did it themselves was a bit amazing.
Part of the problem with [the exhibition's] chronology is that I go from the earliest to the latest. A lot of the female post-conceptual artists had their own histories in New York, I understand their position: They were not waiting to be discovered or anointed by the CalArts or Hallwalls people. I would say that there are three groups of people: Baldessari's oddball conceptual art, that allowed Cal Arts artists to not be bound to the orthodoxies of conceptual art, the Hallwalls group, and those who were already in New York—Louise [Lawler], Sarah [Charlesworth], and Laurie Simmons]—who all have their own individual histories, which I tried to bring out in the text.
JW: How do you think The Pictures Generation functions differently from previous exhibitions that have used this group of artists to investigate the effects media? For instance, shows such as Image Scavengers at the ICA Philadelphia (1982), Forest of Signs, at LA MOCA (1989), and Image World at the Whitney (1989). How did you take these exhibitions into consideration, and how does your presentation differ from them?
DE: Ann Goldstein and Anne Rorimor's shows—not just Forest of Signs, but the minimalism and conceptual ones—were the template. My ambition was to do a show half as good as theirs in terms of bringing a scholarly view to this material. Anne and Chris Williams were instrumental in helping me choose the artists. Forest of Signs exhibited mostly then-recent work, and Anne's idea of representation had room for different people, such as Mike Kelly.
Image World was wide-ranging; that was the show that introduced me to these artists. I trace everything back to seeing that show, which started with Rauschenberg, and was about Post-War media and consumer culture. Pictures Generation is much narrower. Image World went out to Clegg & Gluttmann, Peter Nag and a wider range of artists from the 1980s. The exhibition—not for me to do, but someone else—would consider the late 1980's and early 90's. But I just don't know: I'm so close to it now that I have no clue how it's going to look.


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I WAS shy, a social wallflower and then I discovered bars.
Following news.com.au contributor Lucy Rocca's article yesterday about the "seven reasons why life is better without booze", I have been forced to come out of the shadows.
It's not that I don't see Lucy's point of view, but I think there are seven - and hey, why stop at seven? - things that make life better with booze.
1. Your health gets better. Rich in vitamins: nutritionists who say alcohol consumption robs the body of much-needed vitamins and minerals are missing the point. According to "consultants" I have met on bar stools, Stolichnaya and other clear spirits made from grains are high in Vitamin V. Add a twist of lime and it's dangerously close to being a health tonic.
2. Your looks improve - and so do everyone else's. Call it beer goggles. Listen to the words of the song There Ain't No Ugly People After 2am. Romance is born over a few drinks and blossoms after many more. Ask your parents, ask any happy couple - did they get together over a cuppa?
3. Easy to maintain your weight. The perfect diet: Bud light and a BLT. Weight's not a problem, just don't eat much. Once while I was living in New York, I managed to lose 10kg prior to my wedding. My regime: one BLT sandwich a day and endless beer - all the food groups. OK, so it was diet beer but I was out having fun, not sitting at home in my small New York flat sifting through my hope chest.
4. You have more time to get stuff done. Actually, it's a case of having less time to fill in. No more endless nights trawling through your old life and plenty of productive time in the pub - cocktail in hand - meeting new contacts and connecting with people in a way you just can't do on the internet.
5. Bartenders, a spiritual relationship. It's still sunny outside, but you are in the deep dark womb of the bar with the bartender silently polishing glasses. You may be talking, you may be in companionable silence. It's almost a holy experience, like with your priest in the confessional only less tortured.
6. You find out who you (and others) really are. Apart from in vino veritas, where everyone's true nature is drawn out by the genie in the bottle, there are other telling signs of pub etiquette that are more useful than character analysis. He always avoids a shout? He's mean, drop him. She flirts with the rest of the bar? Trash her. As much as non-drinking is said to be good for the heart and the liver, it's that other organ, the in-built s--t detector, that is enhanced by alcohol. Trust it with your every decision.
7. You feel good about life. Doctors says laughter can prolong life, and heaven only knows I've had more laughs in pubs, bars and drinking with my friends than anywhere else. And if you do go over the top, you won't be able to remember it the next morning.