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On 14 June 1856, after a scandalous and extremely high-profile trial, Dr William Palmer was hanged for the poisoning of his friend John Parsons Cook. The case was one of the most infamous of its time, and as the 12-day trial unfolded, accusations of no less than 14 murders came to light.
Dr Palmer's reputation as one of England's most famed poisoners has become so widespread that his effigy now appears in Madame Tussaud's Chamber of Horrors; but perhaps most scandalous was the way the Lord Chief Justice, the Attorney-General and the jury contrived against Palmer to secure a verdict of guilty as charged, despite the conflicting evidence.
A century after Palmer's public execution, Robert Graves revisits the case to determine what the evidence really says. They Hanged My Saintly Billy is Palmer's story, and a dramatic tale of murderous intrigue and betrayal.
Robert von Ranke Graves (24 July 1895 - 7 December 1985) was an English poet and novelist, scholar, translator and writer of antiquity, specialising in Classical Greece and Rome. During his long life he produced more than 140 works. Graves's translations and innovative analysis and interpretations of the Greek myths, the memoir of his early life, Good-Bye To All That, and his speculative study of poetic inspiration, The White Goddess, have never been out of print.
Graves earned his living by writing popular historical novels, including I, Claudius (for which he was awarded the James Tait Black Memorial Prize), King Jesus, The Golden Fleece and Count Belisarius. He was elected Professor of Poetry at Oxford in 1961 and made an honorary fellow of St John's College, Oxford, in 1971.
©1957 Robert Graves (P)2013 Audible Ltd
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"Breathtakingly good"
Firstly the audio production is masterful. Perhaps the best of near 1100 books I have listened to. It's a dramatic performance as you listen to a complex story unfold. Its recited in the 1st party and the setting is time suitable, sounding and using expression's that would have been used in 1830. I knew Robert Graves was good, but gracious, he is a real genius. The story starting slowly drags you in to disparate lives destined to collide, and like a Shakespeare tragedy you can see it coming but no one else seem to notice. Its fantastic, enthralling and to my shame I left it in my library for close on two years before listening. What a fool I was. I would put it up there with Jonathan Strange & Mr Norrell. It's a classic that somehow fell through the bars. Get it, and prepare to be entertained.
"Not what I was expecting"
More facts, more substance, it was sadly lacking in both for me.
I am not sure that I would
The narrator could have been a little less irritating with his "brummies' accent which he rather seemed to revel in.
In a nutshell, no, I am going to return it.
I thought it was going to be similar to "Death at the Priory" or "Dancing for the Hangman" both of these books are excellent. This however, was just plain tedious
This is a book by Robert Graves that i had not heard of. It is beautifully written, full of tension even though we know the ending. He puts the case for William Palmer's innocence clearly and persuasively without, ironically, painting him as a saint. The performance is first class and I found this book on audible via readings of HEBates by the same reader. I cannot recommend this highly enough.
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Jim Lee, the meteorologist-in-charge at the NWS forecast office in Sterling, says a problem with snow measurements at BWI during the late departed snowstorm means we will not have an official total, perhaps for several days.
On top of that, he says, it's not yet clear how they will measure the four-day storm in February 2003 that currently holds title as the biggest on record for Baltimore.
One thing Lee says he is confident about is that this storm did beat the 2003 storm, by at least a fraction of an inch.
Here's the deal:
The contractor paid to make snow measurements at BWI for the weather service (the NWS has none of its own personnel there) evidently failed to follow NWS protocols in measuring the snow.
Those rules say the observer must allow snow to fall on an official "snow board" for six hours, then wipe it clear and repeat the procedure every six hours until the snow ends.
The technique is designed to split the difference between measuring all the snow at once (which means the snow will have compacted some from its own the weight), or measuring it more frequently, and perhaps exaggerating the snow depth by eliminating most compaction.
The contractor measured every hour on the hour and added it up. That produced a total of 28.6 inches. He also took a "snow depth" reading, meaning that he measured all the snow at once, after it stopped falling. Because of compaction, that came to 24.7 inches.
"We don't have an observation for every six hours," Lee said.
Sterling is now consulting with headquarters, and with climatologists, to figure out how to make a reasonable estimate of what a six-hour measurement might have been. "We'll have to come up with an official estimate somewhere between the 24.7 inch snow depth and 28.6," Lee said.
But then what should they compare it to? The No. 1 snowstorm currently on Sterling's Top Twenty list is the Feb. 15-18 storm in 2003. The total on the Sterling Web page for that storm was 28.2 inches.
Did the storm that buried my car (left) beat that? It's not clear.
The 28.2-inch measurement on the Sterling Web site notwithstanding, the National Climatic Data Center doesn't recognize four-day storms, Lee said. Besides, the 2003 storm was actually two storms. His office is now focusing on two days of that storm for the official record challenge. That's the total of 24.4 inches that fell on Feb. 16 and 17, 2003.
If that's upheld by the NCDC, both measurements from BWI for the Super Bowl Weekend Storm just ended would beat that mark, so whatever intermediate figure they eventually agree on would as well. And that would make this the biggest two-day storm on record for Baltimore.
Lee like its chances. "I'm feeling pretty comfortable saying we broke a two-day snowfall record in Baltimore," he said.
UPDATE: Preliminarily, the NWS is estimating the storm's two-day BWI total at 24.8 inches, beating the 2003 storm by 0.4 inch.
In the meantime, Sterling's Top Twenty Snowstorms chart was taken off the Website Saturday afternoon. The site still lists the February 2003 storm as the biggest THREE-day storm on record for the city at 26.8 inches.
The biggest two-day storm, if downtown measurements are included, was in January 1922 - 26.3 inches.
Stay tuned.
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Everyday exposure to asthma triggers can cause airway inflammation in kids with asthma — even when they're not having breathing problems. Airway inflammation builds over time, putting kids at risk for unexpected flare-ups. They might feel fine, even as their airways are becoming swollen, narrow, and blocked.
It's not always possible to detect inflamed or obstructed airways just by listening to your child's breathing. So a doctor might recommend using an inexpensive, portable device called a peak flow meter to measure lung function. This information can help you manage your child's asthma and avoid major flare-ups.
A peak flow meter measures the flow of air as it's expelled from the lungs. To do this, your child will blow into the peak flow meter (as if blowing up a balloon). A marker will slide up a scale on the meter as your child blows out to indicate how much air was exhaled. The peak flow is the number where the marker stops on the scale.
A peak flow meter can tell you and your doctor:
If the peak flow is lower than usual, you know that your child's airways are inflamed and obstructed, making it difficult to blow air into the meter. This means that lung function isn't at its best and a flare-up might be on the way. This advance warning gives you a chance to take preventive measures, such as giving medicine.
Using a peak flow meter is simple:
The highest recorded number isn't the whole story. You should compare it with your child's personal best — the highest peak flow meter reading your child has ever gotten. Your doctor can help establish this personal best early in treatment. After that, your child may need to take regular readings as established in the asthma action plan. Compare these readings with the personal best each time.
If your doctor recommends using a peak flow meter, then he or she will set three zones of peak flow meter readings based on your child's personal best reading. The asthma action plan will include instructions about what to do for readings in each zone:
Peak flow meters need little care, but they do need to be washed regularly with hot water and mild soap. They also come in two ranges — one for younger kids and another for older kids, teens, and adults. Kids as young as 3 have been able to use peak flow meters, although the readings are most reliable in those older than 5 or 6.
Peak flow meters are only useful if you and your child use them as recommended, record the results, and share those results with the doctor.
Reviewed by: Elana Pearl Ben-Joseph, MD
Date reviewed: January 2014
Originally reviewed by: Nicole Green, MD
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Microfinance Nobel Laureate Inspires Developer to Seek to Open Bank Branch in C-U
Muhammad Yunus and his Grameen Bank won the 2006 Nobel Peace Prize for the concept of "microfinance". Now a local businessman wants to bring the concept to Champaign-Urbana.
Developer Peter Fox says he's in talks with Yunus to open a branch of Grameen America bank in Champaign-Urbana. He and his wife are pledging $100, 000 toward the project.
"This will be a donation to capitalize the bank", says Fox. "Then after that, we'd raise additional money. Obviously, we would do it on behalf of Grameen and they would set the ground rules. So we're just trying to be the catalyst to get it started --- then they would operate the venture."
Yunus explained the principles of microfinance during a talk Monday nigh at the University of Illinois. It involves the loaning of small amounts of money to people too poor to qualify for traditional bank loans, so they can start or improve their own businesses.
"We run a banking program in New York City right now, in Jackson Hieghts, called Grameen America, exactly the same as we do in Bangladesh, and with the same result", says Yunus. "We have over 2,000 borrowers have there -- all women. Average loan about $1500. Repayment is near 0."
From its start in Bangladesh in the 1980s, Grameen and other organizations offering "microcredit" have spread around the world, including to the U-S. Fox says he's very impressed with Grameen America bank, which currently runs operations in New York, San Francisco and Omaha. He says he'll need to raise another $700,000 to $800,000 for Grameen America to come to Champaign-Urbana.
Yunus' talk at the Univesity of Illinois received a standing ovation from a near-capacity crowd at Foellinger Auditorium on the U of I campus. Afterwards, university Interim President Stanley Ikenberry presented Yunus with the university's Presidential Award and Medallion.


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Love In Spite of Everything
By Rod Anderson , CP Cartoonist |
Pastor Greg Laurie of Harvest Church in Southern California shared Sunday how Christians can change their marriage by heeding to a four-word sentence found in the Bible.
"God invented marriage; it was His idea," and we need to get back to the "original template," Laurie said as he began his message titled, "4 words that can change your marriage."
Read more at http://www.christianpost.com/news/greg-laurie-4-words-that-can-change-your-marriage-96207/#0jZXo7CulZJSRuuP.99


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My Boy
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John Mayer in attendance
More coming
My Boy
My Boy
John Mayer in attendance
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My Boy
That;s all i have, I have some vids, maybe i'll upload them tomorrow
For those that may ask
We were sitting in section 122, row A
Camera is a Canon Powershot S5 IS
Full res and full quality
No digital zoom used just optical
For those that have read my threads before tonight was my son's first Knicks game, he's two, my wife came along we had a blast, considering the Knicks lost. Hope you all like the pics
Great pics man!! I like the ones with J-will and Marbury squaring off and the ones with David Lee.
Great shots man, the s5 is one of the best bridge cameras, too bad it can't shoot in raw mode
Great shots! I am happy to see a young knick fan! How much was that camera?
I think the cam was $400 at Best Buy & I had a 10% discount coupon.
B&H Photo has it for $359 i believe
My other question is how much did those tickets really cost? Cause I got my section 300 tickets for 30 $.
Face Value $240


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fisky009 (4)A pretty fine album from Iron Maiden as always. Catchy, fast and memorable songs. A band...northerncomfort (4.5)Unfortunately let down by a couple of good but not classic songs, this remains an awesome ...lyon1535 (5)One of Iron Maiden's greatest albums thus far - an album which proves that Maiden, althoug...Vanwarp (4)A Matter Of Life And Death is a solid Iron Maiden album. Enjoyable on the very first spin...
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Album Rating: 3.0Another AMOLAD review?Hehe!Well I was just listening to it and I felt I had to point out some things about it.
Album Rating: 3.5great review pos!
Album Rating: 3.5nice review :-)
Album Rating: 4.5Really like this album.
alligator you probably have the worst taste in music ever
iron maiden blows dick hard
Album Rating: 4.5LOL. okay yup, Iron Maiden are talentless morons.
Album Rating: 3.5shut the fuck out
Album Rating: 3.5to kitsch btw ofc
dude sarcasm doesnt work if what youre saying is actually true.
Album Rating: 4.570's and 80's metal is one of, if not the best genre of music!!
I don't really dig earlier metal.
Digging: Gamma Ray - Land of the Free
Album Rating: 3.580s thrash is where its at
Album Rating: 3.0 don't really dig earlier metal
Do you like this one?
Album Rating: 4.5haha I'll give you that. Although I lean more towards Judas Priest, Maiden, Motley Crue, Skid Row, early metallica stuff.
Do you like this one?
Album Rating: 3.0 "80s thrash is where its at"
American or European?
Album Rating: 3.5I prefer American but i love European also
this isnt thrash.
this is gay pop metal from the 70s and 80s.
probably my most hated genre
Album Rating: 3.5
this isnt thrash.
this is gay pop metal from the 70s and 80s.
probably my most hated genre
Album Rating: 3.0Hehe!!80's Maiden is just the essence of heavy metal!!
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Analysis: Netnayahu faces US crisis
The Israeli Prime Minister faces political meltdown as America steps up the pressure over settlements
Binyamin Netanyahu is not a natural gambler. He hates making decisions and will use every opportunity to defer and procrastinate. But this week he was handed a clear ultimatum by the White House: make the choice - us or your coalition.
His response: to continue playing for time.
Acceding to Secretary of State Hillary Clinton's demand that the Israeli government cancel the decision to build 1,600 new homes in the Charedi neighbourhood of Ramat Shlomo in east Jerusalem would guarantee a coalition crisis and a full-scale revolt within Likud. That much is certain and Mr Netanyahu will do everything to avert such an outcome or, at the very least, try and make sure it happens according to his timing.
The origin of the current dispute with the Americans tells us a lot about the inner dynamics of the Netanyahu coalition. He did not know that the Interior Ministry was about to announce planning approval for the new homes and was very angry at it coming out during Vice President Joe Biden's visit. The ministry is controlled by Shas; specifically by the party's leader, Eli Yishai. Mr Yishai's chief rival within the party is Housing Minister Ariel Attias, who is getting much of the credit for building new homes for the Charedi community.
Authorising the building is a way for Mr Yishai to burnish his own credentials both within the Charedi sector and with right-wing voters, the very voters who could vote for either Shas or Likud.
The Prime Minister's Office has issued new instructions that will coordinate all planning procedures, hopefully in a way that will make sure no embarrassing announcements come out during the next visit of a senior American official.
But Mr Netanyahu knows very well that as long as he needs Shas in his coalition, the potential for embarrassment (and worse) is always there.
Satisfying Shas and the right-wing, however, carries a price: the already deep crisis in his relationship with the Obama administration may deepen even further.
Mr Netanyahu's experience of American politics goes back even further than his Israeli experience. His belief is that an embattled administration, needing every vote it can get in Congress for health reform and facing potentially damaging mid-term elections later this year, can only go so far in intimidating Israel.
He knows that he will never be on friendly terms with Barack Obama but his instinct tells him that after a week of condemnations and stern statements, the administration will have to backtrack and start reassuring Israel's many allies in Washington.
The Netanyahu strategy for now seems clear. Shas, Yisrael Beiteinu and the Likud hardliners can topple his government tomorrow so, for now, he is appeasing them. This week he said that all Israeli prime ministers since 1967 had authorised building in east Jerusalem and he certainly isn't going to act differently. The Americans, on the other hand - he reckons - have gone as far as they can go.
Next week he will be in Washington. President Obama will be out of town but he will meet Vice President Biden and Secretary Clinton.
The tone of these meetings will be crucial. If they make reassuring statements on America's eternal commitment to Israel, he will know that he is safe for now.
But if they continue making public demands that he stops building in Jerusalem, he will know that something has fundamentally changed and will have to rethink his strategy. At that point, a phone call to Tzipi Livni, asking to restart coalition talks, may be his only option.
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Pakistan were unable to withstand a Thisara Perera all-round show and, despite a career-best 96 by opener Azhar Ali, lost by 76 runs at Pallekele in the Bank Alfalah presents Mobilink Jazz Cup second One-Day International (ODI).
The hosts, spurred by Tillakaratne Dilshan's unbeaten 119, piled up 280 for four off their quota. Dilshan was supported by captain Mahela Jayawardena who, coming in at number five, scored 53 off 48 balls. Perera then provided some fireworks late in the innings, hitting two sixes and as many fours in his 14-ball 24.
The all-rounder then returned with career-best figures of six for 44, the best ODI figures by any bowler against Pakistan, as starts were thrown away. Sri Lanka, with brilliant catching, remained in control under lights.
Perera, deservingly, was named man of the match for his performance.
"It is a 50-50 pitch," said the all-rounder. "You can hit and you can get wickets as well. I really enjoyed myself in this game as I could play my natural game. Now it's 1-1 in the series and, despite the manner of the win tonight, we have to carry this performance forward with three matches to go."
Pakistan captain Misbahul Haq, meanwhile, remained a disappointed man, seeking an improved in all three departments to come back strongly in the series.
"Sri Lanka played really well," he said. "Their opening partnership was very good. Dilshan, Mahela and then the late flourish at the end. The pitch was very good too. We started well but when Umar Akmal and myself were dismissed, the game turned.
"We have to work really hard in all three departments as Sri Lanka were better than us in all three departments."
Published in The Express Tribune, June 10th, 2012.


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It's possible that the ECB will extend the assets purchase beyond March 2017 today. The zloty has been slightly supported by a relatively hawkish MPC press conference.
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AT least two people have been hurt by collapsing seats at John Pearson Hall, Alresford Town Council heard.
Councillors approved a grant of £350 towards the replacement of the dangerous seats. At least six have collapsed, with city councillor Simon Cook one of the victims.
The council also backed a grant of £1,100 to Alresford Town Trust towards the running costs of its minibus and the purchase of a new one in 2018.


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Hollister DEIS Notice of Availability published in Federal Register
May 30, 2012, 13:07 ET from Great Basin Gold Ltd.
VANCOUVER, May 30, 2012 /PRNewswire/ - Great Basin Gold Ltd. ("Great Basin Gold" or the "Company") (TSX: GBG; NYSE MKT: GBG; JSE: GBG) announces that the publication of the Notice of Availability for the Hollister Underground Mine Project Draft Environmental Impact Statement (DEIS) in the Federal Register is expected on June 1, 2012. The Hollister Project is operated by Rodeo Creek Gold Inc., a wholly owned subsidiary of Great Basin Gold.
This marks a major milestone in the National Environmental Policy Act (NEPA) process for the Hollister Project. The NEPA process analyzes the Proposed Action in order to determine if there will be significant environmental effects and to consider the environmental and related social and economic effects of the Proposed Action.
The key activities outlined in the Hollister DEIS Proposed Action include the following:
- Continued and expanded surface and underground exploration activities;
- Transition from underground exploration and bulk sampling activities to full-scale production;
- The flexibility to install either another ramp, or a shaft or raise, in order to access different parts of the orebody; and
- Construction of an 11.6-mile power line to the mine site.
The standard comment period for DEIS documents is at least 45 days. During this time comments can be provided to the Bureau of Land Management (BLM) with regard to any aspect of the DEIS. After this period, the comments are analyzed and responses are generated. If there are substantive comments that require changes, additional analyses, corrections, etc., these will be addressed in the Final EIS (FEIS).
President and CEO Ferdi Dippenaar commented: "We are pleased that the NEPA process which we have been working on with the BLM since late 2009 has culminated in the publication of the DEIS. This is a significant milestone in the delivery of the Hollister project as a fully permitted operation. If all goes according to the planned administrative guidelines we anticipate that the FEIS could be ready during the second half of 2012."
About Great Basin Gold
Great Basin Gold (GBG: TSX; GBG: NYSE Amex; GBG: JSE) is a mining company engaged in the exploration and development of gold properties. The Company is currently focused on its two producing mines in the world's two richest gold regions: the Hollister gold mine on the Carlin Trend in Nevada, USA and the Burnstone gold mine, in the Witwatersrand goldfield of South Africa.
No regulatory authority has approved or disapproved the information contained in this news release.
Cautionary and Forward Looking Statement Information
This document contains "forward-looking statements" that were based on Great Basin's expectations, estimates and projections as of the dates as of which those statements were made. Generally, these forward-looking statements can be identified by the use of forward-looking terminology such as "outlook", "anticipate", "project", "target", "believe", "estimate", "expect", "intend", "should" and similar expressions. Forward-looking statements are subject to known and unknown risks, uncertainties and other factors that may cause the Company's actual results, level of activity, performance or achievements to be materially different from those expressed or implied by such forward-looking statements. These include but are not limited to:
- uncertainties and costs related to the Company's exploration and development activities, such as those associated with determining whether mineral resources or reserves exist on a property;
- uncertainties related to feasibility studies that provide estimates of expected or anticipated costs, expenditures and economic returns from a mining project; uncertainties related to expected production rates, timing of production and the cash and total costs of production and milling;
- uncertainties related to the ability to obtain necessary licenses, permits, electricity, surface rights and title for development projects;
- operating and technical difficulties in connection with mining development activities;
- uncertainties related to the accuracy of our mineral reserve and mineral resource estimates and our estimates of future production and future cash and total costs of production, and the geotechnical or hydrogeological nature of ore deposits, and diminishing quantities or grades of mineral reserves;
- uncertainties related to unexpected judicial or regulatory proceedings;
- changes in, and the effects of, the laws, regulations and government policies affecting our mining operations, particularly laws, regulations and policies relating to
- mine expansions, environmental protection and associated compliance costs arising from exploration, mine development, mine operations and mine closures;
- expected effective future tax rates in jurisdictions in which our operations are located;
- the protection of the health and safety of mine workers; and
- mineral rights ownership in countries where our mineral deposits are located, including the effect of the Mineral and Petroleum Resources Development Act (South Africa);
- changes in general economic conditions, the financial markets and in the demand and market price for gold, silver and other minerals and commodities, such as diesel fuel, coal, petroleum coke, steel, concrete, electricity and other forms of energy, mining equipment, and fluctuations in exchange rates, particularly with respect to the value of the U.S. dollar, Canadian dollar and South African rand;
- unusual or unexpected formation, cave-ins, flooding, pressures, and precious metals losses (and the risk of inadequate insurance or inability to obtain insurance to cover these risks);
- changes in accounting policies and methods we use to report our financial condition, including uncertainties associated with critical accounting assumptions and estimates;
- environmental issues and liabilities associated with mining including processing and stock piling ore;
- geopolitical uncertainty and political and economic instability in countries which we operate; and
- labour strikes, work stoppages, or other interruptions to, or difficulties in, the employment of labour in markets in which we operate mines, or environmental hazards, industrial accidents or other events or occurrences, including third party interference that interrupt the production of minerals in our mines.
For further information on Great Basin Gold, investors should review the Company's annual Form 40-F filing with the United States Securities and Exchange Commission www.sec.com and home jurisdiction filings that are available at www.sedar.com.
SOURCE Great Basin Gold Ltd.


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Intific, a subsidiary of Cubic Corporation, recently took part in one of the most prominent technology events in the world, South by Southwest 2015 (SXSW) to showcase its latest educational innovations.
Cubic is the world leader in Air Combat Training Systems (ACTS) and is dedicated to continually improving its products' performance and customer experience. Earlier this month Cubic hosted its 5th Biannual ICADS International Users' Group meeting. The meeting offers ICADS users from around the world an opportunity to meet with the United States Air Force and Cubic Global Defense to share their feedback and requirements.
All Cubic's ACTS include Individual Combat Aircrew Display System (ICADS) software. Cubic's ICADS software is an advanced Windows-based aircrew combat display and debrief system operated globally. This state of the art software provides real-time monitoring and control, which allows users to communicate with pilots, control simulated threats, and fire simulated weapons in real-time. ICADS is a product that was developed and is maintained through continual dialogue with pilots, range managers, testers and evaluators. It continues to evolve through internal funding, customer funded upgrades, customer feedback, and biannual ICADS Users' Group meetings.
Over the years, these collaborations have lead to major enhancements including:
During the two-day event this month, aircrew and ICADS operators were given the opportunity to watch live demonstrations of new features and innovative uses of existing features, which included:
Cubic values the collaboration and input from its customers. It is their experiences operating ICADS at air ranges around the world that allow our engineers to constantly innovate and improve these critical training systems. The ICADS International Users' Group is open to all ICADS users.
Since taking the reigns as Cubic Corporation's president and CEO in July 2014, Bradley H. Feldmann has developed a new company mission, vision and values system that he hopes will propel the enduring company forward.
The San Diego Business Journal recently recognized James R. Edwards, senior vice president and general counsel of Cubic Corporation, as the 2014 General Counsel of the Year in the category of Large Publicly Traded Companies among a wide range of esteemed nominees.
Neuroscience is providing opportunities to go beyond standard practices in the training and education domains. What it offers is greater reliability and objectivity by examining the biophysiology of each learner during the training experience. Through objective measurements, neuroscience can validate training by verifying how well a trainee is learning at a bio-physiological level.
Independence Day, commonly referred to as the Fourth of July, is an American holiday commemorating the Declaration of Independence from Great Britain. The federal holiday dates back to the 18th century American Revolution when in June 1776, representatives of the 13 colonies voted to declare independence.
Memorial Day is an American holiday observed on the last Monday of May to honor the men and women that made the ultimate sacrifice and died while serving in the United States military. It dates back to America's bloodiest war, the civil war, which claimed over 600,000 lives.
It was the efforts of President Harry S. Truman that led to the establishment of Armed Forces Day, a single holiday where citizens can come together to thank our military for their patriotic service in support of the United States of America.
New technology that promises to revolutionize training in the medical field by combining training with virtual reality was demonstrated at Wright State's National Center for Medical Readiness (NCMR) at Calamityville.
Cubic was recently presented two Bronze Stevie® Awards and two Bronze Telly Awards for videos produced during the past year by the Corporate Communications department.
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Our products and systems are in use in more than 35 nations.
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The establishment of interdisciplinary Master's and PhD programmes in sustainability science is opening up an exciting arena filled with opportunities for early-career scholars to address pressing sustainability challenges. However, embarking upon an interdisciplinary endeavor as an early-career scholar poses a unique set of challenges: to develop an individual scientific identity and a strong and specific methodological skill...
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Keystone species have a disproportionate influence on the structure and function of ecosystems. Here we analyze whether a keystone-like pattern can be observed in the relationship between transnational corporations and marine ecosystems globally. We show how thirteen corporations control 11-16% of the global marine catch (9-13 million tons) and 19-40% of the largest and most valuable stocks, including species that play importa...
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The Missouri-born actor, now based in Los Angeles, says he was immediately drawn to the character of Ben when he saw a casting notice for "The Rainbow Room" in Back Stage. "There was so much going on, just from the short description, that I felt I could grow and really have fun with," says Matthews. He was so passionate that he showed up without a scheduled audition—a risky move, though it paid off. Writer-director Sara Kumar, who found the majority of her actors through Back Stage, says his arrival was unexpected but serendipitous: "It was really weird because he walked in, and all of a sudden I was like, 'Oh my God, he might be Ben.' "
Considering the roles he was used to playing, Matthews admits that Ben was a bit of a stretch: "I think my type is a little more on the emotional side, while Ben is emotionally shallow and has a hard time with his relationships and opening up with people." Kumar, however, says it was casting at first sight: "In the play, Ben is an actor: very put together and very smooth. And Karnell kind of exudes all of those things."
Matthews describes "The Rainbow Room"—the proceeds from which were donated to Narsad Artworks, an L.A.-based nonprofit that funds scientific research into mental illness—as an incredibly positive experience. "The entire cast was very wonderful, and we had a great time, which is always a plus when you're doing the run of a show," he says. Kumar agrees and cites Matthews' professionalism and flexibility as instrumental to the show's success: "He was always willing to adjust his schedule when conflicts came up with the other actors—just extremely professional and always on top of everything. He's an incredible artist, and I really enjoyed working with him."
Matthews was interested in performing from a very young age; he credits his junior high school drama teacher with giving him the encouragement he needed to consider it as a career. He did a feature film earlier this year and is in rehearsals for another play. But he says his artistic pursuits are not confined to acting. His band, Karnell, which he describes as having a Top 40-ish rock 'n' roll sound, recently released an EP of original music titled "As Time Goes By."
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OneNote Tool Fix is the market leading system to fix OneNote files. MS OneNote fix solutions are common on the market, however they suffer from several drawbacks, notably they are not easy to use and they are not powerful enough to perform a deep scan of the affected file to uncover the errors and anomalies which are creating the issue for the file not working to begin with. We have dealt with the issue of ease of use by developing OneNote Tool Fix with novice users in mind - we have developed a simple to use GUI or Graphical User Interface, which effectively automates the whole file analysis and repair process. All you need to do is download OneNote Tool Fix and install it on your machine - this typically takes a couple of minutes and is easily completed - we also provide full installation support for all of our customers. Next run the utility - you will be take to the first screen which is Phase One of the process - all you have to do here is select the OneNote file you wish to recover. The second phase of the analysis and recovery process is where OneNote Tool Fix will perform a very thorough inspection of the affected file - this is known as a deep scan inspection - and it uses a very powerful error detection algorithm which will uncover even the smallest and best hidden error within the file date. When an anomaly is detected OneNote Tool Fix will automatically check the error to our error database which is constantly updated by our team and which will identify the anomaly and provide the recommended solution for the repair of the file. This process may take a few minutes, but ultimately how long it takes is dependent upon the size of the file and the speed of your computer processor. The final phase is where the results are given to you along with the recommendation for the repair of the file - all you have to do is to approve proceeding from the analysis stage through to recovery. All you have to do is download now!
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If you really want to understand what makes the U.S. economy tick these days, don't go to Silicon Valley, Wall Street, or Washington. Just take a short trip to your local hospital. Park where you don't block the ambulances, and watch the unending flow of doctors, nurses, technicians, and support personnel. You'll have a front-row seat at the health-care economy.
For years, everyone from politicians on both sides of the aisle to corporate execs to your Aunt Tilly have justifiably bemoaned American health care -- the out-of-control costs, the vast inefficiencies, the lack of access, and the often inexplicable blunders.
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But the very real problems with the health-care system mask a simple fact: Without it the nation's labor market would be in a deep coma. Since 2001, 1.7 million new jobs have been added in the health-care sector, which includes related industries such as pharmaceuticals and health insurance. Meanwhile, the number of private-sector jobs outside of health care is no higher than it was five years ago.
Sure, housing has been a bonanza for homebuilders, real estate agents, and mortgage brokers. Together they have added more than 900,000 jobs since 2001. But the pressures of globalization and new technology have wreaked havoc on the rest of the labor market: Factories are still closing, retailers are shrinking, and the finance and insurance sector, outside of real estate lending and health insurers, has generated few additional jobs.
Perhaps most surprising, information technology, the great electronic promise of the 1990s, has turned into one of the biggest job-growth disappointments of all time. Despite the splashy success of companies such as Google (GOOG ) and Yahoo! (YHOO ), businesses at the core of the information economy -- software, semiconductors, telecom, and the whole gamut of Web companies -- have lost more than 1.1 million jobs in the past five years. Those businesses employ fewer Americans today than they did in 1998, when the Internet frenzy kicked into high gear.
Meanwhile, hospitaL administrators like Steven Altschuler, president of Children's Hospital of Philadelphia, are on a hiring spree. Altschuler has added the equivalent of 4,000 new full-time jobs since he took over six years ago, almost doubling the hospital's workforce. To put this in perspective, all the nonhealth-care businesses in the Philadelphia area combined added virtually no jobs over the same stretch.
Altschuler plans to add 3,000 more employees over the next five years as the hospital, one of the nation's leading pediatric centers, spends $1.7 billion to expand. Next up is a new 1.2 million-square-foot research facility that will be packed with well-paid scientists and support staff. "Health care is the major engine for the economy of the city of Philadelphia," says Altschuler.
The City of Brotherly Love is hardly alone. Across the country, state and local politicians, desperate for growth, are crafting their economic development strategies around biotech and health care. California will pour $3 billion into stem cell research over the next 10 years, and other areas are on the same path. "Our downtown business leaders and politicians have traditionally considered health care as a cost center, not as an economic engine," says Baiju R. Shah, a former McKinsey & Co. consultant who runs Cleveland's BioEnterprise, a nonprofit founded four years ago to stimulate the local health-care and bioscience industries. "But people are waking up."
What they're waking up to is the true underpinnings of the much vaunted American job machine. The U.S. unemployment rate is 4.7%, compared with 8.2% and 8.9%, respectively, in Germany and France. But the health-care systems of those two countries added very few jobs from 1997 to 2004, according to new data from the Organization for Economic Cooperation & Development, while U.S. hospitals and physician offices never stopped growing. Take away health-care hiring in the U.S., and quicker than you can say cardiac bypass, the U.S. unemployment rate would be 1 to 2 percentage points higher.
Almost invisibly, health care has become the main American job program for the 21st century, replacing, at least for the moment, all the other industries that are vanishing from the landscape. With more than $2 trillion in spending -- half public, half private -- health care is propping up local job markets in the Northeast, Midwest, and South, the regions hit hardest by globalization and the collapse of manufacturing (map).
Health care is highly labor intensive, so most of that $2 trillion ends up in the pockets of workers. And at least so far, there's little leakage abroad in terms of patient care. "Health care is all home-produced," says Princeton University economist and health-care expert Uwe Reinhardt. The good news is that if the housing market falls into a deep swoon, health care could provide enough new jobs to prevent a wider recession. In August, health-services employment rose by 35,000, double the increase in construction and far outstripping any other sector.
John Maynard Keynes would nod approvingly if he were alive. Seventy years ago, the elegant British economist proposed that in tough times the government could and should spend large sums of money to create jobs and stimulate growth. His theories are out of fashion, but substitute "health care" for "government," and that's exactly what is happening today.
Make no mistake, though: The U.S. could eventually pay a big economic price for all these jobs. Ballooning government spending on health care is a major reason why Washington is running an enormous budget deficit, since federal outlays for health care totaled more than $600 billion in 2005, or roughly one quarter of the whole federal budget. Rising prices for medical care are making it harder for the average American to afford health insurance, leaving 47 million uninsured.
Moreover, as the high cost of health care lowers the competitiveness of U.S. corporations, it may accelerate the outflow of jobs in a self-reinforcing cycle. In fact, one explanation for the huge U.S. trade deficit is that the country is borrowing from overseas to fund creation of health-care jobs.
There's another enormous long-term problem: If current trends continue, 30% to 40% of all new jobs created over the next 25 years will be in health care. That sort of lopsided job creation is not the blueprint for a well-functioning economy. One solution would be to make health care less labor-intensive by investing a lot more in information technology. "Low productivity in health is mostly a product of low investment," says Harvard University economist Dale Jorgenson.
For now, though, health-care hiring is providing a safety net in areas where manufacturing and retailing are no longer dependable sources of jobs. Take Johnstown, Pa., a town that once hummed with activity from local steel mills, coal mines, and nearby factories. As most of these businesses closed, the town emptied out, going from a population of 63,000 in 1950 to 23,000 today.
Now, Conemaugh Health System, with about 5,000 workers, is the biggest employer in town. "Everyone has a Conemaugh parking sticker on their car," says Linda D. Suter, 48, who's in her second year at the nursing school Conemaugh operates. Suter's dad worked at a factory in a nearby town, now closed, that made backyard swing sets for kids.
Frank Kosnowsky sold appliances at the Sears (SHLD ) in Johnstown for 10 years, starting right out of high school. But he got fed up with the way the company was changing and started thinking about going to nursing school. "One day I had a disagreement with my boss, and the application went right in," says Kosnowsky, 29. "I wanted something that had a future." He worked part-time at Sears while he went to nursing school. Now, three years later, he's the first and only male nurse working at Conemaugh's neonatal intensive-care unit -- a career far different than that of his coal miner dad.
Suter and Kosnowsky live smack in the middle of the "Health Belt" that stretches from New England down through New York and Pennsylvania, across the Midwest and down through most of the South. These are areas where health care has been the major source of job growth over the past five years.
Nowhere is that truer than in Cleveland. There, Cleveland Clinic, with 29,000 employees, is the biggest employer by far. Next-largest is another hospital system, University Hospitals Health System, with 21,600 staffers. Then comes insurer Progressive Corp. (PGR ) and KeyCorp., each with fewer than 10,000 workers in the area. Cleveland Clinic's performance is pretty good for an outfit that started in 1921 with four docs in a building they planned to turn into a hotel if their vision didn't pay off.
Beyond its immediate employment tallies, the Clinic has a huge multiplier effect on the local economy. CEO Dr. Delos M. Cosgrove says it supports perhaps 75,000 jobs in all in the area, ranging from Clinic staffers to workers at hotels and restaurants -- which patients and their families use in more than 2.9 million patient visits per year -- to 3,000 suppliers to the Clinic.
Only a few years ago manufacturers were Cleveland's job engines. Companies such as machine-tool giant Warner & Swasey Co. don't even exist anymore. Conglomerate TRW was sold in 2002, and parts of it moved away. Fittingly, the Clinic now occupies its former headquarters, which TRW donated.
Health care has been one of the few economic bright spots in the Detroit area, too. Nancy M. Schlichting heads the sprawling Henry Ford Health System, founded by the great man himself in 1915. Schlichting is overseeing the construction of a new 300-bed hospital in West Bloomfield, Mich., a suburb of Detroit, which will eventually generate the equivalent of 1,200 full-time jobs. This expansion comes at a time when Ford Motor Co. (F ) is considering big layoffs.
Then there's North Carolina. Since 2001 it has seen a total job increase of 24,000, or 0.6%. Meager enough -- but take out the 60,000 jobs added by health care, and the state's jobs would have decreased by 36,000. Employment in manufacturing, retailing, trucking, utilities, and information all fell. And construction added only 5,000 jobs, a mere fraction of health care's contribution.
Oddly enough, the retirement meccas of Florida and Arizona are among the least dependent on health-care jobs for growth. Over the past five years the two states have gotten only 10% and 15%, respectively, of their new jobs from health-care services -- hospitals, doctor's offices, and nursing homes. Phoenix showed a job gain of 240,000, but only 30,000 were in health care. That's partly because the influx of elderly has been balanced by a rise in younger workers, too.
Is the health-care economy a good deal for workers? It is for Patricia A. McDonald, a second-year student nurse at Conemaugh. Before going to nursing school, McDonald, 46, sold insurance door-to-door, often driving close to 1,000 miles a week in rural areas to make cold calls. Her take in sales commissions was $35,000 to $40,000 a year, but that was before deducting expenses. Registered nurses in the Johnstown area, by comparison, are paid an average of almost $43,000 -- with no traveling. "This will be much better," says McDonald.
Unlike many other industries, health care offers a full range of jobs, from home health aides making very low wages through technicians and nurses making middle-class salaries up to well-paid doctors. On average, annual pay in private health services is $43,700, slightly above the private-sector average of $42,600.
Even more promising, health care has taken over the role manufacturing used to play in providing opportunities for less skilled workers to move up. Jeffrey Lites started as a part-time cashier in the cafeteria at Philadelphia's Children's Hospital in 1996 after being laid off as a computer operator. "I never envisioned working in a hospital," say Lites. But now, close to finishing his degree in early childhood education from Temple University, Lites works as a child-life assistant, providing recreation and activities for young patients who may stay for weeks or even months. "I have the best job in the entire hospital," says Lites, who moonlights as a musician on weekends.
The expansion of health care is also spinning off related jobs. Cleveland Clinic Innovations, a unit that funds startups, has already created 19 companies in its five years of existence. Together they employ about 186 people, including more than 50 in the Cleveland area. One, Cleveland BioLabs Inc. (CBLI ), went public in July and trades on NASDAQ. "We like to say that the New Economy is alive and well in the 40 blocks of the Cleveland Clinic," says Christopher Coburn, executive director of Cleveland Clinic Innovations.
James A. Martin is pursuing the same pot of gold in Shawnee, Kan., a city of almost 60,000 located just outside Kansas City. Martin, executive director of the Shawnee Economic Development Council, is helping the city set up a biosciences development district, the first in the state. He's hoping to build on the jobs already there, including the animal-health division of Bayer HealthCare (BAY ). "The high growth potential of biosciences jumped out at us," says Martin. "We got the bug."
Scott Becker, CEO of Conemaugh, is leading the effort to develop a technology park in a prime location in the center of Johnstown, where a mammoth dairy used to be. Potential biotech and info tech tenants include a company dealing with electronic medical records and another that's involved with drug trials. "The goal is to bring a new, younger workforce back to town," says Becker.
Shah of Cleveland's BioEnterprise cautions that biotech may not be the right economic development strategy for many places. For one, it's hard to develop a local biotech industry from scratch. "I've seen a lot of regions that take a swing at that," says Shah. Besides, he says, biotech mainly provides jobs for a small number of highly paid workers. For many communities, Shah favors a broader strategy of encouraging health-care delivery and medical equipment and supplies.
Still, using health-care spending to create the vast majority of new jobs, while beneficial in the short run, is not desirable over the long run. A well-balanced economy needs to provide a wide variety of jobs, not just positions for doctors, nurses, and medical technicians.
The biggest worry is that demand for health care will absorb too much of the workforce and squeeze out other types of jobs. If medical spending rises to 25% of gross domestic product by 2030, as many economists expect, health care's share of jobs could grow to 15% or 16% of the labor market from today's 12%, based on historical patterns.
Such a shift in employment would require health care to be the single biggest creator of jobs in the economy for the foreseeable future. And while the U.S. could in theory afford to spend 25% of GDP on health care, it's hard to imagine a world in which our children have to choose between working for the local hospital or the local health insurer.
The real question, then, is whether it is possible to restructure the health-care system to provide equally good care with fewer workers. The answer is yes, say some experts. "What we have consistently found is that the supply of physicians, except at the low end, has rather little influence on patient outcomes," says David Goodman, a professor at Dartmouth Medical School who started his career as a pediatrician in a rural county in Northern New Hampshire. Jonathan Weiner, a professor at Johns Hopkins University's Bloomberg School of Public Health, agrees: "I am absolutely certain that we can provide quality health care with fewer doctors."
These assertions miss the point, says Richard Cooper, a professor at the University of Pennsylvania School of Medicine. Cooper, a former dean at the Medical College of Wisconsin, argues that the health-care workforce grows along with real incomes and GDP. "When you get richer, you aren't going to triple your food expenditures," says Cooper. "But there's much more that can be done to improve health." Princeton economist Reinhardt concurs, noting that "if you did geriatric health properly, you'd need a lot more geriatricians."
But both sides can agree that more spending on information technology could reduce the need for so many health-care workers. It's a truism in economics that investment boosts productivity, and the U.S. lags behind other countries in this area. One reason: "Every other country has the payers paying for IT," says Johns Hopkins' Gerard Anderson, an expert on the economics of health care. "In the U.S. we're asking the providers to pay for IT" -- and they're not the ones who benefit.
Breakthroughs in technology offer other enticing possibilities for making health care less labor-intensive over the long run. Hakon Hakonarson just moved from Iceland to start up the new Center for Applied Genomics at Children's Hospital of Philadelphia. Hakonarson's group is using cutting-edge automated technology to analyze hundreds of DNA samples from hospital patients and their parents per day, something that wasn't possible until recently. His aim is to collect enough data within a short period of time to understand the genetic causes of childhood diseases and determine which children will respond best to which drugs. "If we go at this pace," says Hakonarson, "we will have something very powerful to analyze before yearend." The eventual result could be better, cheaper treatments, with fewer expensive side effects.
Meanwhile, Hakonarson employs 10 people in his lab as well as five nurses and medical assistants in the field who do nothing but ask families to participate in the study. For now, the health-care economy marches on.
By Michael Mandel, with Joseph Weber in Chicago


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Any feedback or suggestions would be appreciated as I want to make sure I got this one right.
Silent Night.
Digging: Langhorne Slim - Lost At Last, Vol 1
adeste fideles
I'll be home for christmas (best version ever IMO)
Thanks man just check one of the links and if you don't like it no worries.
does nothing for me but nice review
Digging: Motorpsycho - The Tower
should change your name to Rudolph
thanks man lol do you like frank sinatra menawati?
IIIIIIIIImmmm dreeeaming, uhva whiiiiiiite...
good review atari!
he was ok in Von Ryans Express
thanks Calc
frank sinatra just ok lmao :P
yea his acting was pretty average
i'm talking about his music though lol
oh he sang as well ? damn
yeah both frank sinatra and crosby acted and sang. Dude you haven't heard frank sinatra? fucking CLASSIC man. I'll link you a song
lol corse ive hear sinatra sing, damn rudolph your xmas joy is making you so easy to troll
i guarantee you've heard this song...
oh godamnit lol i was worried for a minute there
@Necro, don't worry about it haha it is what it is but i'm open to suggestions for improvement.
yes clockwork, a STRONG 5
if you say so batman ;)
nah I love xmas music and I can understand why some people don't but this one is a classic.
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A man is dead and three other people injured after police say he drove on the wrong side of the road in the Frankford section of the city.
Police say 25-year-old Angelo Mills of Philadelphia was driving a 1996 Honda Civic on the wrong side of the roadway in the southbound lane on Aramingo Avenue around 3:15 a.m. on Saturday. Mills' vehicle collided head on with a 2005 Buick LeSabre. The impact caused the Buick to crash into a 2010 Nissan Rogue.
Mills was pronounced dead at the scene. The driver of the Buick, 43-year-old Christian Price, suffered a left broken ankle and is currently in stable condition. Two passengers inside the Buick, 20-year-old Melissa Torrez and 22-year-old Michael Page were also injured in the crash. Torrez suffered internal injuries and is currently in critical condition. Page is currently in stable condition. Police say the driver of the Nissan was not injured.
Empty beer cans were scattered along the street at the scene of the crash. Police suspect Mills was intoxicated prior to the accident.
Aramingo Avenue was shut down in both directions after the crash but reopened after three hours.


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Rio Blanco County is located in rural northwestern Colorado. Meeker and Rangely are the two communities located within the County. Visit this beautiful area for one-of-a-kind experiences and enjoy your chance to "get away from it all!"
Facility Amenities: Historic Location, Maps & Brochures Available, Museum, Picnic Sites
Group Amenities: Accommodates Tour Groups, Bus/Motorcoach Parking off site, Bus/Motorcoach Parking on site
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WHO Bids to Prevent Ebola Spreading to Sudan from Uganda
The World Health Organization (WHO) and Sudanese authorities have taken measures to prevent the Ebola fever from spreading from Uganda to Sudan, a newspaper reported Wednesday.
Hashim al-Waqei, coordinator of WHO's Technical Unit, was quoted in Al-Ayam daily as saying his organization's office in Lokichokio in north Kenya was monitoring the disease in the border district of northern Uganda.
He stressed that no cases of the disease had been reported in Sudan.
WHO has sent medical supplies to Uganda aimed at slowing the spread of the disease and formed a technical committee to follow up and contain Ebola, which is now confined to the Gulu district, Waqei said.
The paper did not describe what the supplies were.
The newspaper reported that the Sudanese health ministry has instructed Sudan's regional health chiefs to take the necessary precautionary measures and tighten controls at border crossings.
The ministry's epidemic administration said medicines are available in case the disease surfaces in Sudan, the daily reported.
In Kampala, the Ugandan health authorities have reported a total of 165 cases of Ebola fever, including 60 deaths – KHARTOUM (AFP)
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- Kabul on verge of cholera epidemic
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Rhonda's Retreat
Stress Reliever
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I was frustrated and upset so I went to my EQ and started playing with Patchdraw. It's a great stress reliever!!
I feel much better now. Get's my mind off things and I had a good time playing.
My canoe in a sea of hearts! LOL
Now if I had to actually make this I probably would use a few less hearts! LOL
The canoe started out looking like a banana but my dgs Joey didn't think it looked much like a banana to him so I said what then a canoe? And I played with the shape til I got it to look like a canoe and then the hearts started out being stars but I got a bit carried away! LOL
I liked it anyway. I feel happier now.


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Drake Drops New Summer Jam '0 to 100′
While YMCMB was performing at Hot 97's Summer Jam 2014, Drake literally dropped a new summer jam called '0 to 100.'
Snippets of the track has been floating around the Internet for awhile but Drizzy was kind enough to bless us with this head-nodding banger on Sunday (June 1).
Produced by Boi-1da and Noah "40″ Shebib, with additional drumming by Paul Jefferies (aka Nineteen85), Drake goes off in tangents about groupies, haters and his early grind in the rap game.
"Man it's 2008, I'm trying paint the picture / Comeback Season in the works and now I'm thinking bigger / I got 40 in the studio, every night, late night / Gotta watch that s—, don't want to make him sicker / That's my n—-," he raps.
On the latter half of the song, Drake promises new music from himself and the rest of the OVO crew in Spring 2015.
"We already got Spring 2015 poppin', PND droppin', Reps Up P droppin', Majid Jordan droppin', OB droppin', not to mention me droppin'," the Toronto rhymer says over ethereal productions.
If you think Drake is resting on his rap laurels…think again.
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Liberty High School is not known for its abundance of organizations, but what it lacks in numbers it makes up in the passion and dedication of its club members.
Poplar Forest hosted a panel discussion on historic monuments, with a focus on the controversy surrounding Confederate monuments.
A small gathering, the largest group that could fit in Thomas Jefferson's dining room, listened to Calder Loth, a retired senior Virginia Department of Historical Resources architectural historian; Joseph McGill, founder of the Slave Dwelling Project; and Adam Dean, associate professor of history at Lynchburg College.
A concept for urban development areas (UDA) in the Forest and New London area drew a larger than expected crowd to a meeting at the Forest Library, Thursday night.
Approximately 100 people, most of whom opposed the plan, filled a room that was too small for a gathering of that size.
"We want to direct growth," said Gregg Zody, the county's director of community development before the meeting.
The Bedford Education Foundation held its annual back to school breakfast, Thursday, giving county educators a chance to highlight what the schools are doing.
Three Bedford County artists will take part in Franklin County's Artisan Studio & Harvest Tour this coming Saturday and Sunday. The three are members of Art Vision Gallery and Studio, located on Scruggs Road.
They spent weeks putting together their best project and on Sept. 29 students from all over the county got to enjoy it.
You'd think the President of the United States would have far greater concerns – North Korea, health care, our crumbling infrastructure – than what's happening on the playing fields of professional football.
But as we know, this idiot in the White House is unlike anyone before him, and we never know what will occupy his deranged mind. So, recently, he made one of his signature crazy speeches and went after NFL players who, to him, hadn't sufficiently worshipped the American flag.
Let me preface this column by reminding folks that I am not a Donald Trump fan. He wasn't my first choice for the Republican Party nominee last year. He wasn't my second or third choice either. I was appalled by the choice the two parties handed me and, during the debates between him and Satan's Sister, I often wished the earth would split open and swallow them both like Dathan and Abiram in the Old Testament (Numbers 16:31-33) so we could start over with better candidates.
Jim Vest is resigning from Council, Town Manager Bart Warner said, Tuesday, in a phone interview.
According to Warner, Vest and his wife are moving to Lynchburg to be closer to grandchildren. He said Vest will officially resign at Council's Oct. 10 meeting.
"Selfishly, I'm sad to see him go," Warner said.
Vest was noted for his budgetary expertise on Council.
Century 21 All-Service has announced a merger with Scott & Bond, Inc. located in Bedford.
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AOL CEO Tim Armstrong's callous decision to fire an employee for taking his picture during a conference call has haunted the executive and AOL for much of the last week. And now the alleged photos have surfaced online.
The pictures were posted on Jimromenesko.com earlier today. They were obtained from a tipster who grabbed them when they briefly appeared online.
Last week during a conference call with a 1,000 employees about the sad state of AOL's local news network Patch, Creative Director Abel Lenz snapped a couple photos of his boss. The activity, something Lenz had done before, caused Armstrong to fire him on the spot.
"Abel, put that camera down. Abel, you're fired. Out!" Armstrong said after he noticed what Lenz was doing.
The photos don't show much of anything, making Armstrong's action seem all the more rash.


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Local governments in Minnesota sometimes legislate their own rules for employers within their jurisdictions.
For example, Minneapolis and St. Paul have living-wage laws stipulating higher pay than the state minimum wage ($6.15 per hour for large employers), while a Duluth ordinance prohibits discrimination based on familial status.
Living-wage laws
Minneapolis has one of the most complex living-wage laws in the country. Any employer receiving a contract or city subsidy of $100,000 or more must provide one full-time living-wage job for each $25,000 of contract amount or subsidy. (City subsidies are defined as grants, contribution or personal property, real property, principal amounts on below-market-rate loans or any tax breaks.)
Employers that fail to comply must reimburse the city four times the shortfall amount. For example, a contractor performing work on a $1 million contract is obligated to provide 40 full-time living-wage jobs. If the employer provides only 39 jobs, it has a shortfall of $25,000 and must then reimburse the city $100,000.
Employers meeting the above criteria must pay employees 130% of the federal poverty rate, or $12.91 per hour. Or, they have the option of providing health insurance for workers and paying them $10.92 per hour. Health insurance products must meet city guidelines to qualify. Details are available at www.ci.minneapolis.mn.us/cped/living_wage.asp.
Besides its living-wage ordinance, Minneapolis has an Equal Benefits Ordinance that requires city contractors on contracts of $100,000 or more to provide to employees' domestic partners the same benefits they provide to spouses. The ordinance sets levels for bereavement leave; disability, health and life insurance; and moving and travel expenses.
Across the river in St. Paul, contractors face a similar, but somewhat simpler living-wage ordinance. The state capital requires the same pay amounts of $12.91 and $10.92 per hour, respectively, as Minneapolis, but they apply to all employees of city contractors on contracts of $100,000 or more. These figures are also pegged to the federal poverty rate.
Businesses that qualify as small businesses under certain state programs are exempt from St. Paul's requirement, as are employers that have collective bargaining agreements for lower wages. Other employers that believe they should be exempt can make their case prior to the contract letting. The city council may waive the requirement if the employer can make its case.Discrimination ban
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Kenny Cooper's first goal since late April nearly kept the Portland Timbers' feel-good party going on the heels of their 3-0 victory on Wednesday against the LA Galaxy.
But as it is, Portland will have to settle for a muted celebration after Cooper's strike in the 23rd minute was equalized by an Alan Gordon goal in the second half of a 1-1 tie Saturday night against the San Jose Earthquakes at Buck Shaw Stadium.
"We want to make the playoffs," Cooper said. "We had a great result. Again, after the midweek game against a top team, we showed great desire and determination in that game. But I thought we played well again and to get a point away from home. As long as it's still possible, we're going to keep battling and keep fighting, and the goal is to make the playoffs."
It was a rewarding moment for Cooper, who hadn't seen the back of the net since he scored on April 30 against Real Salt Lake. His season hit a low point when he was removed from the starting lineup after a 4-0 loss June 25 loss against FC Dallas.
But Cooper was forced back into action against Galaxy when starting forward Eddie Johnson sustained a concussion during warm-ups. And Cooper made the most of it, receiving praise for his play in that game.
It continued against San Jose, and this time he was rewarded when he split the Earthquakes defense for a one-time touch from the top of the box on a cross from Jorge Perlaza. It would have been hard, however, to tell that Cooper had just broken a two-month goal scoring drought judging by his tamed celebration. After the strike, the forward gingerly jogged to the Timbers bench for a quick hug from head coach John Spencer and a few high fives from teammates.
The humble Cooper deflected praise to his teammate.
"Great, great work by Perlaza," Cooper said. "He did really well handling the ball. He did a lot of great work and put it in place for me."
Cooper, a prolific scorer during his first four years in MLS with Dallas — he netted 18 goals in 2008 — was a considered a major building block of the Timbers expansion team. The scoring hasn't translated to Portland, and the goal Saturday was just his fourth of the season.
"I give the boys a lot of credit," Cooper said. "It was a great point. I thought the boys battled well."
The tie keeps Portland in seventh place, one point ahead of San Jose, as the Timbers run their unbeaten streak to three games. Before the Galaxy match, Spencer said he hoped his side could earn four points from the week's two games. Three points against the first-place Galaxy and one against San Jose was probably not what he expected, however.
"I think the draw was a fair result," Spencer said. "It was probably one of the most boring games of soccer I've seen in a long time. You can't always score two, three, four goals a game."