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Naked Man Tasered by Police at Wal-Mart
A man who was trying on socks in a Wal-Mart in Pennsylvania was arrested by police after the man would not put his clothes back on.
The completely naked man was caught on surveillance video walking into the Wal-Mart. He then is seen walking casually to the undergarment section and then putting on the socks. He was eventually tasered by police and arrested after he refused to put his clothes on and leave the store.
The unusual scene involved 6'4" 300 lb., Verdon Lamont Taylor, after he was seen taking off all of his clothes while he was still in the parking lot at the Wal-Mart in Exton, Penn.
West Whiteland Township Police stated that officers were called to the scene around 5:30 p.m. Wednesday after Taylor was seen in the store wearing only socks, according to Fox.
The 32-year-old is then seen calmly walking into the Wal-Mart while other customers in the store do their best to avoid him as he walks through the store before stopping near the customer care center.
When he stops at the customer service center the video shows the man takes and opens the package of socks and then puts on one pair before he set off to continue walking around the store.
When police arrived he refused to obey the officers orders, local media reported. As the officers tried to approach Taylor he allegedly spit in the face of one of the officers. That action led the reaming officers to use non-lethal force who tasered the man in order to subdue him.
Taylor was arraigned on several charges including of indecent exposure, aggravated assault, simple assault, retail theft, receiving stolen property and disorderly conduct.
He was sent to Chester County prison where he remains after failing to post $50,000 bail. There has been a preliminary court hearing scheduled to take place on March 21.

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Charlie Sheen can be the life of the party, but he also knows how to steal focus.
When he showed up recently at a Fox-networks event for reporters -- a room filled with talent from "Glee," "It's Always Sunny in Philadelphia" and "House," among others -- he made a beeline for the back and outdoors. The media gave chase, eventually forming a cocoon around him as he held court to talk about his new weekly FX comedy, "Anger Management" (9 p.m. EDT Thursday, June 28).
Journalists clung to his every word -- and cigarette puff -- as he talked about his heavily hyped return to series TV. His swagger was an avatar of cool, much like the Las Vegas bad-boy days of Dean Martin and Frank Sinatra.
Reporters laughed at anything that Sheen made into a small aside while others asked questions posed as analytical phrasings.
In the new comedy, the scandal-ridden former star of the CBS smash "Two and a Half Men" portrays "a character with his own anger issues," says co-creator Bruce Helford, whose resume includes "Roseanne" and "The Drew Carey Show."
Sheen, 46, plays Charlie Goodson, a past minor league baseball player who deals with anger issues and helps others as a "nontraditional" therapist. His work and personal life are complicated by well-meaning friends and family. As traditional as the show may sound in concept, Sheen doesn't always want to be obvious with the comedy.
"He is in anger-management therapy. He's dealing with his demons, and he's dealing with his past demons he's created," Helford said. "He's a way more complicated character" than the one Sheen played on "Men."
Helford is no stranger to working with problematic talent. Sheen said he feels respected working with Helford, a man who will listen to Sheen's input before making decisions.
Make no mistake. Sheen is perfectly content making body-fluid jokes or going beyond just sexual innuendo for "Management."
However, "we're not going to do the obvious," Sheen said. "(Helford) has said, 'I won't make you say something you never want to say.' I said, 'I'm never going to not say something that is written.
"We need to hear it and then make a decision. We both showed up (on this show) on the same page."
Sheen will be facing issues familiar to him personally on "Management," his tendency to lash out and his party-boy ways.
He relishes the thought of digging into those areas. FX is giving Sheen's show 10 episodes. If the audience laps it up, 90 more episodes could be in the offing.
As for the past year of his life, Sheen has learned a few things. Among them: "It is what it was. I started to figure out (with the media) that I had to work with them and not against them.
"I had to choose wisely and take a little bit longer before I speak."
Other highlights for the week of June 24-30 (listings subject to change; check local listings):
-- "The Newsroom" (10 p.m., HBO). A network news anchor returns to work after a public meltdown to find that the landscape has changed -- and not for the better. Aaron Sorkin (of "West Wing") is the creator of this new drama with Jeff Daniels.
-- "Me (at) The Zoo" (9 p.m., HBO). This documentary answers the burning question: Whatever happened to Tennessee teenager Chris Crocker, who became famous fleetingly for his "Leave Britney Alone" Internet video and other rants?
-- "Final Witness" (10 p.m., ABC). In this true-crime-re-enactment series, the story of a murder is told from the victim's point of view.
-- "Trip Flip" (9 p.m., Travel Channel). Travel expert Bert Kreischer gets random strangers to join him on adventures.
-- "Wilfred" (10 p.m., FX). Robin Williams pops up in the season opener of the talking-dog-is-a-man's-best-enemy sitcom.
-- "Strangely Uplifting" (11 p.m., FX). Russell Brand is the host of this new late-night talk and comedy series.
-- "Chasing UFOs" (9 p.m., National Geographic Channel). Investigators make it their mission to get to the bottom of unexplained UFO sightings in this new series.
-- "Bigfoot" (9 p.m., Syfy). "Partridge Family" alum Danny Bonaduce and Barry Williams from "The Brady Bunch" fight over the legend in this movie.


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In industrialized countries, cutting meat consumption by just 30% would not only reduce greenhouse gases but also cut heart disease deaths by 17%. Tofurky, anyone? [Reuters]


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BOSTON (CBS) – The first Nor'easter of 2011 appears to be on its way to New England.
This is about as close as you can get to a meteorological "slam dunk" 36-48 hours in advance. Nearly all weather models agree that a significant winter storm will ride up the East Coast Tuesday and arrive here in New England near or just after midnight Tuesday.
A winter storm watch has been issued by the National Weather Service from Tuesday night through Wednesday evening for our entire area.
The snow is already falling in parts of Virginia and North Carolina and all major cities through the mid-Atlantic up into New England will be hit by this one.
3-to-6 inches is likely in parts of Washington D.C. and Baltimore, slightly more in Philadelphia, and New York City could be in line for another 6-to-12 inches of snow.
New England should be the jackpot this time, we are forecasting a widespread 8-to-14 inches of snowfall.
The only chance of totals being slightly lower is over the Cape and Islands where some mixing with sleet and rain may occur.
Watch Melissa Mack's forecast
The good news with this storm is that it will be a fairly quick mover. It's not going to stall off our coast like some major New England storms.
The bulk of the accumulation should occur between 3 a.m. and 3 p.m. on Wednesday with lighter snows before and after that timeframe.
More good news – the coastal flooding will be nothing like what it was during the Blizzard of late December.
The tides are not astronomically high, so just minor splash over is expected during the high tides at 4:30 a.m. and 4:30 p.m. on Wednesday.
Winds will be strong out of the northeast, especially along the coast. Residents there can expect gusts of 25-to-50 mph during Wednesday.
This storm will likely cancel school and other events planned on Wednesday.
If you were planning on traveling by plane or car you should check for delays or cancellations and plan lots of extra time.
Both commutes on Wednesday will be severely affected.
What's next?
Looks like more cold air and a few flakes over the weekend, but we are in a fairly stormy jet stream pattern, meaning this may not be our last Nor'easter this month.


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Called "heroic and spiritual" by The New York Times' Jennifer Dunning, Pascal Rioult explores what inspires humanity to endure during this time of social and economic upheaval. Rioult's fascination with what's sweet, sensual and intimate in loving relationships comes to the forefront as his beautiful company transports you into the inner chambers of your heart.
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God's Word – Do not those who plot evil go astray? But those who plan what is good find love and faithfulness. Proverbs 14:22
Proverbs 14 Love & Faithfulness
Heavenly Father,
We love you Lord, and we lift our voice to worship you… O Lord how our soul rejoices in you! We thank you for the gift of salvation through Christ. Thank you for your word of truth that equips us for every good work you call us to. We call out to you Father and you hear us and you deliver us from all of our troubles… Good and upright you are LORD; therefore you instruct sinners in their ways. You guide the humble in what is right and teach them their way. All your ways LORD are loving and faithful for those who keep the demands of your covenant. For the sake of your name, O LORD… We ask for your mercy and protection over our lives; ;our marriages; our families; our households. We ask for the forgiveness of our transgressions and sins. We will be faithful to forgive others as you have forgiven us. Do not those who plot evil go astray? But those who plan what is good find love and faithfulness. Thank you for your love and faithfulness that endures all things. May all hard work bring profit; let us remember that mere talk leads only to poverty. The wealth of the wise is their crown, but the folly of fools yields folly. Your daughters seek to forsake their foolish ways. We will not pour out lies about our neighbor. Your word teaches: A truthful witness saves lives, but a false witness is deceitful. We will fear you LORD, for you are our refuge and shield our salvation. Your word instructs: He who fears the LORD has a secure fortress, and for his children it will be a refuge. Thank you for being our refuge our strength for us and all generations to come. Thank you for the joy of your presence that is the Christ… We thank you for the answer to our prayers through the intersession of our Lord and Savior Christ Jesus… In Jesus name we pray…Amen!
Mercy, peace and love be yours in abundance,
Love in Christ,
Jennifer Pettiford
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Those who plan what is good find love and faithfulness
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As the cold as old as Alaska settled into the Yukon River valley on Monday night, the annual Iron Dog game of "who's on first'' was underway once again. Readers of a certain age will recognize "who's on first'' as an old routine performed by the late comedians Stan Abbott and Costello. Those of a younger age can review history thanks to the joys of technology.
And for those who don't want to go to the trouble, suffice to say this is the point in the Iron Dog when things get truly confusing because of the 30 hours of layover rest racers must take between Big Lake and Nome. Most of the racers have already done 8 hours in McGrath, which leaves 22 to be served in various forms -- eight on the river, 14 on the Bering Sea coast, or some other mix.
Even Iron Dog officials seemed confused by that on Monday. Here is how the Iron Dog Facebook page explained things to fans:
"Confused about who's in the lead? It's all about COURSE TIME. It's challenging to track unless you're familiar with the rules. So until all the teams start leveling out on their layovers, you have to do the math yourself to see who has the shortest course time. The clock runs continuously until they declare a layover. There are 30 hours of layovers on the way north and 20 hours on their way back to Fairbanks."
Well that simplified things, didn't it?
Akelstad, Johnson pace field
The official race standings had Tyler Akelstad from Palmer and Tyson Johnson from Eagle River in the lead. Johnson, 33, has been racing Iron Dog for more than a decade. Akelstad, 27, has been at it almost that long. They are no strangers to the front, but they have never won. In six of nine previous races, Aklestad failed to finish. Johnson has done better in terms of finishing, but had to sit out some years with snowmobile-race related injuries. Both have a reputation for driving hard, which in the world of Iron Dog racing can be as much a curse as a blessing.
Monday night, the pair was settled down in Kaltag, a windswept village in the crook of the Yukon where it goes from running west to bending south. They had declared an 8-hour layover and were comfortably resting. The temperature outside was 20 degrees below zero. And the official standings appeared to have them properly placed based on their average speed 47.7 mph over the first 600 to 700 miles of the course.
That is a speed calculated on the odometer measured between the checkpoints, which is different from that measured on the GPS (global positioning system) trackers on the racers' sleds. The GPS, which sends a signal ever few minutes and can miss some of the kinks in the trail, has Kaltag at 577.8 miles from the Big Lake start line. Official race checkpoint distances put Kaltag at more than 700 miles from the start.
Whatever the case, the math on average speed still works out the same for all teams, and it had Akelstad and Johnson and their Ski-Doos the fastest in the bunch. Behind them, the rest of the teams in the official top three seemed to make sense. In second were Team Arctic Cat riders Brian Dick and Eric Quam. Quam, 42, won the race in 2008 paired with Anchorage's Marc McKenna, but this year is racing with 34-year-old Dick, an engineer for Arctic Cat back in Thief River Falls, Minn., the brand's base. The Quam-Dick duo was averaging 46.7 mph when they stopped in Kaltag for an eight along with Aklestad and Johnson.
Also in Kaltag, and officially listed as third, were young Ski-Doo jockeys Aaron Bartel, 22, from Anchorage and Brad George, 19, from Wasilla. They were averaging 45.4 mph.
And then things got a little weird, because the next fastest team -- that of 41-year-old Chris Olds from Eagle River, a 2010 and 2011 champ, and new partner Mike Morgan from Anchorage -- were 14th in the standings despite an average speed of 44.47 mph. Olds and Morgan were the early race leaders, but stopped in Ruby to take one of those confusing layovers when other teams sped ahead on the trail.
What their average speed to Ruby means is hard to say, but most teams Monday were upping their averages for the race as they sped up the wide, open Yukon where the trail between villages is well traveled and well marked. By the time you read this, who knows where the 14th team will be. They could have their Polaris Switchbacks in the lead, or maybe just ahead of the officially fourth-placed team of defending champs in McKenna and Dusty VanMeter from Kasilof.
Defending Iron Dog champs, McKenna and VanMeter averaged 44 mph to Galena -- about halfway between Ruby and Kaltag -- where they parked for a layover.
Confused yet?
Seven top teams
Well, to simplify this just a bit, this much is obvious two days into the world's longest, toughest snowmobile race: The field of 39 teams is narrowing to a handful of top competitors. Only seven teams are averaging more than 40 mph: Those already mentioned, along with the team of Scott Davis from Soldotna and Todd Palin from Wasilla, and the duo of Ryan Sottosanti, 36, and Andrew Zwink, 23, both from Anchorage. Davis, 53, and Palin, 48, are the last graybeards left in contention, and they've still got a shot.
The 2013 Iron Dog champions are almost certain to come from among these front seven teams, but a lot more should be known when the race reaches Nome today.
One of the teams considered a top contender this year, the 2010 championship duo Todd Minnick and Nick Olstad of Wasilla, scratched on the way to Ophir because of mechanical issues.
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China BUYS Costa Rica For $1.5 Billion
China Buys Costa Rica For $1.5 Billion
Let's all be honest here. Costa Rica and Laura Chinchilla just sold the soul of Costa Rica. The price tag was $1.5 Billion, but I guess we can add that to the running total which includes the national stadium.
Do not forget that this includes a $900 Million line of credit for an oil refinery on the Caribbean coast. Showing once again that the Costa Rica government is not really wanting to go "green" and be carbon neutral. It also shows once again they do not care about the Caribbean coast of Costa Rica.
China Gives Costa Rica $900M Credit for Refinery
China will give Costa Rica a $900 million line of credit to finance the expansion and remodeling of an oil refinery in the Central American country's Caribbean coast, the two countries announced Monday.
During an official visit by Chinese President Xi Jinping, the two countries signed nine cooperation agreements totaling $1.5 billion that will provide resources for improving Costa Rican roads and public transit fleets, purchasing solar panels and the building of a new police school.
China lends Costa Rica $400 million on Xi visit
China lent Central American ally Costa Rica nearly $400 million on Monday during a visit by Chinese President Xi Jinping to a region where Beijing has traditionally vied with rival Taiwan for influence.
Costa Rica recently backed China in its dispute with Taiwan, which Beijing regards as a renegade province, in votes at the United Nations. Members of the Costa Rican opposition said the deals announced on Monday raised questions about what China expected in return.
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Improve your goat and beat climate change
The shadows are already getting longer as we head off to tate Reinhard's homestead deep in the mopane woodlands of northern Namibia. Andreas Shilomboleni, coordinator of the Country Pilot Partnership's (CPP) Climate Change Adaptation (CCA) project guns the Landcruiser over sandy roads that meander between the thousands of oshana's ‐ open spaces that get flooded in the rainy season.
Finally we arrive by the traditional kraal, a gathering of clay and straw huts where Reinhard Auala is waiting for us. After retiring from one of the country's largest diamond mines Auala, or tate Reinhard as he is amicably called, returned to his native Omusati Region, not far from the Angolan border, to focus on the family farm. Andreas has come to check up on the Boer goat that tate Reinhard received from the Climate Change Adaptation (CCA) project.
"The goat is dead," starts Auala off. "But not before producing ten offspring. He was a busy man," the manager ‐ turned‐ farmer laughs. In 2009, the CCA pilot project under the Country Pilot Partnership (CPP), an alliance of seven Ministries1 in Namibia supported by the United Nations Development Programme (UNDP) and the Global Environment Facility (GEF), started helping farmers to adapt to climate change by distributing improved livestock and seeds.
As we walk to the feeding trough in the fading daylight, tate Reinhard explains how the goats have helped him adapt to ever drier and hotter conditions in sub‐Sahara's most arid country. "Boer goats have more meat, they grow faster, produce more offspring and are well suited for hot, arid conditions," he sums up while studying the feeding herd of the goats. Like most farmers he knows the genealogy of every animal in his kraal by heart and he effortlessly singles out the offspring of the now infamous Boer goat that unfortunately didn't live very long. "The aim is to cross these Boer goats with our local goats to create a breed that has a higher rate of re‐productivity, is more valuable and better resistant to drought," he explains.
Auala and many farmers in the region see their livelihoods threatened by rapidly changing climatic conditions. Temperatures are rising while rains, already minimal in the dry nation, are getting more erratic. In the past few years, Namibia's growing seasons were plagued by alternating floods and dry spells, heavily affecting agricultural output.
The higher temperatures ‐ Namibia will see a 1 to 6 degree rise in the next few decades ‐ also greatly reduces reproductivity and milk yield of livestock. One of the ways to deal with the effects of global warming is to introduce species that are not only more productive but also can cope with the higher temperatures.
"The project gave improved goat rams to 120 households in the area," explains Shilomboleni. "The target is to extent this eventually to 200 households." And it's not just goats, he continues as we drive back over almost darkened roads. "We also distributed drought‐resistant fowls to twenty households and six community groups." Fowls? "Yes, we have handed out 80 Guinea fowls to replace chickens and have seen some good results."
The next day we drive to the remote Elondo village in the district around the northern town of Tsandi to see this climate change‐defiant poultry. Nine guinea fowls gaze at us suspiciously as we approach with our cameras and, startled, take flight in the opposite direction. Once again, the better reproductive qualities as well as the toughness of the birds to withstand global warming are praised by the community. "Guinea fowls lay more eggs, are bigger so they have more meat and they reproduce quite fast," says Miina Ipinge, who is a member of the HIV/AIDS support group: Imangulula, which means 'freedom for all'. The CCA project donated fowls to the group to help them overcome their already disadvantaged position, in fighting climate change, as women living with HIV.
"Temperatures have completely changed," says Miina who provides for fourteen people in her household. "On top of that, there has been a shift in rainfall making the growing season much shorter. This demands too much of both humans and animals that have to squeeze all their energy into a very short time. We just don't have enough food to sustain those high energy levels." Because the rains are late they cannot cool down the soils that becomes too hot to walk on during the summer months making it hard to work the field, adds Imangulula member Lempia Ndiili. The floods that occur with an alarmingly rising frequency on the other hand also make it harder to cultivate the land. "And the floods bring more birds which eat the little grain that we have managed to grow," she adds.
For them, climate change affects their duties as women which consists primarily of child rearing, cooking, working the field and collecting firewood and water, but can entail everything if there is no man in the household."Women have to travel long distances," says Ipinge "But it's when it gets hotter the period, in which you can get your work done, is shortened."
Their status as women living with HIV compounds the challenge they already face because of climate change. "If you are sick it is important to eat so that you are strong, can take your medicine and can work to grow more food," explains Ndiili. "But when there is little food to start with that is a problem." "Even women that don't have HIV are spending time taking care of those that do have the virus. In that time, they cannot work the land," adds Ipinge. "So, if you are not infected, you are still affected."
Someone who has taken the guinea fowl offer, and ran with it, is Elizabeth Hafyenanye from Okafifi village. A year ago she started with six fowls and now she has 22. "There would have been 23, but we ate one, it brings good luck,' she says good‐humouredly. She likes it that the fowls are not picky as chickens. "You can give them the fermented leftover of traditional brew and they will eat it," she laughs. "And people love to view them. School kids on tour will stop to admire the birds it has greatly enhanced my standing in the community."
Then serious: "I am trying to participate in all these projects in order to beat the effects of climate change. As soon as I hear about an adaptation project, I am on way to the agricultural extension office. I see it as an investment in the future and I am worried about when this project comes to an end." One other way, that meme Elizabeth hasn't explored yet, but has done wonders for Frieda Ndjolomba are the improved seeds that the CCA project handed out among farmers.
"I planted improved Kashana (pearl millet) and red machia (sorghum) seeds," she says. The result was good. The plants have more grain per stalk and the seeds are bigger. The plants also mature quickly, while the grain dries much faster."
The better yield helps her combat the negative effects of climate change. "People already had a saying about this area: 'how on earth does the pot get ready there?' but nowadays it's true. We spend more and more time looking for firewood as it gets drier. At least with these seeds we have a better harvest."


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This roleplay is a crossover between the Hunger Games and Pokemon. Essentially, your character will be participating in the Hunger Games, but rather than being able to grab weapons or other survival tools at the start, they can grab Pokeballs. What Pokemon is inside? You'll have to find out later.
I'm assuming, if you entered this thread, you're somewhat familiar with the Hunger Games plot. If not, here's a rundown anyway, and a refresher if you need it. :3
Essentially, the despotic government has split the country of Panem up into twelve districts, and to keep the districts divided and afraid, hosts a competition once a year called the Hunger Games. From each of the twelve districts, one male tribute and one female tribute between the ages of 12 and 18 are chosen by random drawing. Then, the tributes are taken to an arena, controlled by the Capitol, and are forced to fight to the death until only one remains. The winner would be showered in riches, but the rest are... obviously... dead.
In the beginning, the tributes get stylists, and go on interviews, and such, to win sponsors who will later send them survival supplies as they are competing in the games. But, we'll skip that part, because I have a feeling roleplaying all of that out will make people impatient and make the roleplay die before we get to the fun parts....
What is key here is that everyone starts from a small platform, that they can only step off of once the countdown finishes. If they step off early, they just get blown up. And, surrounding the start, there are weapons for killing the other tributes, and survival supplies to keep yourself alive. There is usually a massive bloodbath here at the start where the tributes kill each other over best supplies, though some tributes choose to avoid the bloodbath and just leave with no supplies.
However, in this roleplay, the supplies are 24 Pokeballs, each with a Pokemon inside. This means that if it worked out the way it was supposed to, one tribute would have one Pokemon. Surely, though, the stronger/faster tributes will make out with multiple Pokemon, and the weaker/slower may end up with none, unless they can scheme a way to take someone else's later on... That said, the tributes can use their Pokemon any way they can think of. Battle it out with other tributes, and the winner uses their Pokemon to kill the loser. Water Pokemon can be a source of drinking water, grass types can provide food, et cetera. If worst comes to worse, kill and eat your own Pokemon, but know that leaves you essentially unarmed. Unless a sponsor smiles upon you, and another Pokeball gets dropped in for you to find... but you've got to be a likable tribute for that to happen.
1) The rating is M, so violence can get... well, violent. People will die. Pokemon will die, and possibly be eaten. Heck, even people can be eaten, but that usually doesn't earn you sponsors. :3
2) That said, don't let it get super duper duper graphic, or super duper sexual. Characters can have fade-to-black moments, but obviously black must be faded to.
3) Basic rules apply: good grammar, no bunnying. That stuff.
4) Posts of 100-500 words sound good? Decent length, but no wall-o-texts.
5) I'm not making any characters that will be competing, instead I'll be the... President Snow and Seneca Crane of the competition, if you will. I'll make posts describing where the food is located, what obstacles are programmed in and when they appear, who gets what Pokemon, and when sponsors send things in. But I wouldn't also have a character compete, because that just wouldn't be fair now would it?
6) Speaking of characters, you each make 2, one male and one female. They can be from the same district, or 2 different districts, but I doubt I can find 24 whole people to fill my humble little roleplay, so everyone make two characters.
7) If your characters both die, you're not out of the RP for good. Join me in an OOC thread as a gamemaker that helps decide what challenges should be presented to those remaining. :D
8) I think that's about all the rules I can think of.
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District 2 - Masonry
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District 3 - Technology
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District 4 - Fishing
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District 5 - Power
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District 6 - Transportation
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District 7 - Lumber
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District 8 - Textiles
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District 9 - Grain
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District 10 - Livestock
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District 11 - Agriculture
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District 12 - Mining
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The following twenty-four Pokemon are inside the Pokeballs at the Cornucopia. The Pokemon are meant to symbolize the Districts in some way, and there is a "fair" mix of weak and strong...
- Gible
- Deino
- Larvitar
- Rhyhorn
- Klink
- Magnemite
- Magikarp
- Feebas
- Pikachu
- Emolga
- Pidgey
- Hoothoot
- Snover
- Bonsly
- Ralts
- Gothita
- Caterpie
- Weedle
- Tauros
- Miltank
- Cottonee
- Petilil
- Geodude
- Roggenrola
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For several years Avaloq has partnered with SOS-Kinderdorf in Angola, Brazil, Russia and the Philippines. With a great sense of commitment and enthusiasm, a group of our employees organises events such as bake sales, Easter egg colouring parties, flea markets, World Cup lottery tickets, etc., in order to support the neediest of our world citizens: the children.
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Any metal fan who ever felt that Sabbath was no longer Sabbath without Ozzy definitely missed out on some classic, epic heavy metal when the boys from Birmingham teamed up with Ronnie James Dio. The fusion of the two has always released good quality material, period. Bottom line.
It was an absolutely perfect line-up, but with one fatal flaw: both Iommi and Dio are strong, creative personalities, and you can only have one creative force in a group, not two very young egos fighting for control. A creative split was inevitable, and it occurred the year following this release, a split that would last nine years until the release of another great disc, "Dehumanizer", and of course their current incarnation, Heaven and Hell. C'mon, these guys were made for each other, like Siegfried & Roy, but without the cats and cockplay.
"Mob Rules" is a shining example of why Sabbath and Dio are a perfect fit. Although it's somewhat overshadowed by its predecessor, "Heaven and Hell", which has better continuity overall, this release still has some of the best, most time tested metal there is. It even offers one of Sabbath's finest moments, a track called "Sign of the Southern Cross", true epic metal for the ages. A classic. Beautifully written, structured and recorded, with a main riff so heavy it will haunt your dreams.
The opening track on the disc, "Turn Up the Night", is a fast-paced, chugging freight train similar to "Neon Knights", although not as good. This leads you to think the whole thing will be a repeat of the previous disc. But no, give it a chance, and you find a heavy metal jewel with a sound and style all its own. One thing you notice from the very first note is the lead hip-boot heaviness of the recording mix, which was probably the biggest and heaviest sound of 1981. Overall, the album is most interesting when the band focuses on what they were best at, epic doom metal, rather than blues based rock riffs. "Slipping Away" is the least interesting track, and "E5150" is pointless, unlike the instrumental experiments of older Sabbath classics, which I always enjoyed.
Standout tracks include "Voodoo", a classic evil Sabbath riff, with nothing new but it sounds totally kick-ass. The title track is heavy, fast and aggressive. The sound is so damn huge and everything is max. "Country Girl" is a classic catchy Sabbath riff similar to the Ozzy era material, with a nice modern melodic touch. "Falling Off the Edge of the World" is another great Sabbath moment. This track is simply awesome from start to finish, with its haunting intro, its slow building doom riff to its fast paced, heavier than hell main theme. The album ends with "Over and Over", a song that shows these guys knew as well as anybody how to write and play those power ballads that became so popular in the eighties, but with a lot less cheese.
Why did most of this stuff go unnoticed? 1981 was the era of sissy synth-pop on the airwaves, and heavy music was then being conquered by the energetic assault of the NWOBHM, lead by Iron Maiden, Def Leppard, Venom and others. Sabbath was an old dinosaur at this point, plodding its riffs from ten years before, looking for lost glory. But time has been kind. Any true metal fan will appreciate some of the finest heavy music ever made.


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The Autocrat of the Breakfast-Table
By Oliver Wendell Holmes
1882, 1891, 1902
(1) p.2,l.7. The "body of scientific young men in a great foreign city" was the Société d'Observation Medicale of Paris of which M. Louis was President, and M. M. Barth, Grisotte and our own Dr. Bowditch were members. They agreed in admiring their justly honored president, and thought highly of some of their associates, who have since made good their promise of distinction.
About the time these papers were published, the "Saturday Club" was founded, or rather found itself in existence, without any organization, almost without parentage. It was natural enough that such men as Emerson, Longfellow, Agassiz, Peirce, with Hawthorne, Motley, Sumner, when within reach, and others who would be good company for them, should meet and dine together once in a while, as they did, in point of fact, every month, and as some, who are still living, with other and newer members, still meet and dine. If some of them had not admired each other they would have been exceptions in the world of letters and science. The club deserves being remembered for having no constitution or by-laws, for making no speeches, reading no papers, observing no ceremonies, coming and going at will without remark, and acting out, though it did not proclaim, the motto, "Shall I not take mine ease in mine inn?" There was, and is, nothing of the Bohemian element about this Club, but it has had many good times and not a little good talking.
(2) p. 5, l. 27. The Treatise on Solitude is not so frequently seen lying about on library tables as in our younger days. I remember that I always respected the title and let the book alone.
(3) p.7, l. 1. It was an agreeable incident of two consecutive visits to Hartford Conn, that I met there the late Mrs. Sigourney. The second meeting recalled the first, and with it the allusion to the Huma, which bird is the subject of a short poem by another New England authoress, which may be found in Mr. Griswold's collection.
(4) p. 12, l. 25. There is something like this in J. H. Newman's Grammar of Assent. See Characteristics, arranged by W. S. Lilly, p. 81.
(5) p. 19, l. 3. The full-length pictures by Copler, [ed.: probably Copley] I was thinking of, are such as may be seen in the Memorial Hall of Harvard University, but many are to be met with in different parts of New England, sometimes in the possession of the poor descendants of the rich gentlefolks in lace ruffles and glistening satins, grandees and grand dames of the ante-Revolutionary period. I remember one poor old gentleman, who had nothing left of his family possessions but the full-length portrait of his ancestors, the Counsellor and his lady, saying with a gleam of the pleasantry that had come down from the days of Mather Byles and "Balch the Hatter," and Sigourney, that he fared not so badly after all, for he had a pair of canvas-backs every day through the whole year.
The mention of these names, all of which are mere traditions to myself and my contemporaries, reminds me of the long succession of wits and humorists whose companionship has been the delight of their generation, and who leave nothing on record by which they will be remembered; Yoricks who set the table in a roar, storytellers who gave us scenes of life in monologue better than the stilted presentments of the stage, and those always welcome friends with social interior furnishing, whose smile provoked the wit of others and whose rich, musical laughter was its abundant reward. Who among us in my earlier days ever told a story or carolled a rippling chanson so gaily, so easily, so charmingly as John Sullivan, whose memory is like the breath of a long bygone summer. Mr. Arthur Oilman has left his monument in the stately structures he planned; Mr. James T. Fields in the pleasant volumes full of precious recollections; but twenty or thirty years from now old men will tell their boys that the Yankee story-teller died with the first, and that the chief of our literary reminiscents, whose ideal portrait gallery reached from Wordsworth to Swinburne, left us when the second bowed his head and "fell on sleep," no longer to delight the guests whom his hospitality gathered around him with the pictures to which his lips gave life and action.
(6) p. 20, l. 12. "Our dear didascalos" was meant for Professor James Russell Lowell, now (1891) Minister to England. It requires the union of exceptional native gifts and generations of training to bring the "natural man" of New England to the completeness of scholarly manhood, such as that which adds new distinction to the name he bears, already remarkable for its successive generations of eminent citizens.
"Self-made" is imperfectly made, or education is a superfluity and a failure.
(7) p. 22, l. 20. This hoped-for but almost despaired-of event occurred on the 9th February 1875. The writer of the above lines was as much pleased as his fellow-citizens at the termination of an enterprise which gave constant occasion for the most inveterate pun on record. When the other conditions referred to are as happily fulfilled as this has been, he will still say as before, that it is time for the Ascension garment to be ordered.
(8) p. 23, l. 3. "The youngest of our great historians" referred to in the poem was John Lothrop Motley. His career of authorship was as successful as it was noble, and his works are among the chief ornaments of our national literature. Are Republics still ungrateful as of old?
(9) p. 29, l. 34. Accidents are liable to happen if no thoroughly trained expert happens to be present. When Catharine Hayes was burnt at Tyburn in 1726, the officiating artist scorched his own hands, and the whole business was awkwardly managed for want of practical familiarity with the process. We have still remaining a guide to direct us to one important part of the arrangements. Bishop Hooper was burned at Gloucester, England, in the year 1555. A few years ago in making certain excavations the charred stump of the stake to which he was bound was discovered. An account of the interesting ceremony, so important in ecclesiastical history-the argumentun ad ignum, with a photograph of the half-burned stick of timber, was sent to me by my friend Mr. John Bellows of Gloucester, a zealous antiquarian, widely known by his wonderful miniature French dictionary, one of the scholarly printers and publishers who honor the calling of Aldus and the Elzevirs. The stake was big enough to chain the whole bench of bishops to as fast as the Athanasian creed still holds them.
(10) p. 34, l. 3. We have been beaten in many races in England since this was written, and at last carried off the blue ribbon of the turf at Epsom. But up to the present time trotting matches and baseball are distinctively American, as contrasted with running races and cricket, which belong as of right to England. The wonderful effects of breeding and training in a particular direction are shown in the records of the trotting horse. In 1844 Lady Suffolk trotted a mile in 2.26 1/2, which was, I think, the fastest time to that date. In 1859 Flora Temple's time at Kalamazoo--I remember Mr. Emerson surprised me once by correcting my error of a quarter of a second in mentioning it--was 2.19 3/4. Dexter in 1867 brought the figures down to 2.17 1/4. There is now a whole class of horses that can trot under 2.20, and in 1881 Maud S. distanced all previous records with 2.10 1/4. Many of our best running horses go to England. Racing in distinction from trotting, I think, attracts less attention in this country now than in the days of American Eclipse and Henry.
(11) p. 36, l. 9. The beautiful island referred to is Naushon, the largest of a group lying between Buzzard's Bay and the Vineyard Sound, south of the mainland of Massachusetts. It is the noblest domain in New England, and the present Lord of the Manor is worthy of succeeding "the Governor of blessed memory."
(12) p. 43, l. 8. I remember being asked by a celebrated man of letters to let him look over an early, but somewhat elaborate, poem of mine. He read the manuscript and suggested the change of one word which I adopted in deference to his opinion. The emendation was anything but an improvement, and in later editions the passage read as when first written.
(13) p. 43, l. 28. I recollect a British criticism of the poem, with the slight alterations in which the writer was quite indignant at the treatment my convivial song had received. No committee, he thought, would dare to treat a Scotch author that way. I could not help being reminded of Sydney Smith and the surgical operation he proposed in order to get a pleasantry into the head of a North Briton.
(14) p. 58, l. 28. The Saturday Club, before referred to, answered as well to this description as some others better known to history. Mathematics, music, art, the physical and biological sciences, history, philosophy, poetry, and other branches of imaginative literature were all represented by masters in their several realms.
(15) p. 64, l. 7. The letters received by authors from unknown correspondents form a curious and, I believe, almost unrecorded branch of literature. The most interesting fact connected with these letters is this: "If a writer has a distinct personality of character, an intellectual flavor peculiarly his own, and his writings are somewhat widely spread abroad, he will meet with some, and it may be many, readers who are specially attracted to him by a certain singularly strong affinity. A writer need not be surprised when some simple-hearted creature, evidently perfectly sincere, with no poem or story in the background for which he or she wants your critical offices, meaning too frequently your praise, and nothing else, when this kind soul assures him or her that he or she, the correspondent, loves to read the productions of him or her, the writer, better than those of any other author living or dead. There is no need of accounting for their individual preferences. What if a reader prefer you to the classics, whose words are resounding through the corridors of time." You probably come much nearer to his intellectual level. The rose is the sweetest growth in the garden, but shall not your harmless necessary cat prefer the aroma of that antiquely, odorous Valerian, not unfamiliar to hysteric womanhood. "How can we stand the five things that are said of us," asked one of a bright New Englander, whom New York has borrowed from us. "Because we feel that they are true," he answered. At any rate if they are true for those who say them, we need not quarrel with their superlatives. But what revelations are to be read in these letters! From the lisp of vanity, commending itself to the attention of the object of its admiration, to the cry of despair, which means insanity or death, if a wise word of counsel or a helping hand does not stay it, what a gamut of human utterances! Every individual writer feels as if he or she were the only one to be listened to or succored, little remembering that merely to acknowledge the receipt of the letters that come by every post is no small part of every day's occupation to a good-natured and moderately popular writer.
(16) p. 66, l. 12. "The Leviathan" was the name first applied to the huge vessel afterwards known as the "Great Eastern." The trouble which rose from its being built out of its "native element," as the newspapers call it, was like the puzzle of the Primrose household after the great family picture, with "as many sheep as the painter could put in for nothing," was finished.
(17) p. 90, l. 28. I have now and then found a naturalist who still worried over the distinction between the Pearly Nautilus and the Paper Nautilus, or Argonauta. As the stories about both are mere fables, attaching to the Physalia or Portuguese men-of-war, as well as to the two Molluscs, it seems over-nice to quarrel with the poetical handling of a fiction sufficiently justified by the name commonly applied to the ship of pearl as well as the ship of paper.
(18) p. 165, l. 1. Since the days when this was written, the bicycle has appeared as the rival of the wherry. I have witnessed three appearances of the pedal locomotive. The first was when I was a boy. (The machine was introduced into Great Britain from France about 1820.) Some of the Harvard College students who boarded in my neighborhood had these machines, then called velocipedes, on which they used to waddle along like so many ducks, their feet pushing against the ground, and looking as if they were perched on portable tread-mills. They soon found that legs were made before velocipedes. Our grown-up young people may remember the second advent of the contrivance, now become a treadle locomotive. There were "rinks" where this form of roller skating had a brief run, and their legs again asserted their prior claim and greater convenience. At the Centennial Exhibition at Philadelphia, in 1876, I first saw the modern bicycles, some of them, at least, from Coventry, England. Since that time the bicycle glides in and out everywhere, noiseless as a serpent,And [wheels] rush in where [horses] fear to tread.
The boat flies like a sea-bird with its long, narrow, outstretched pinions; the bicycle rider, like feathered Mercury, with his wings on his feet. There seems to be nothing left to perfect in the way of human locomotion but aerial swimming, which some fancy is to be a conquest of the future.
(19) p. 221, l. 16. This poem was written for and read at a meeting of the Massachusetts Medical Society.
(20) p. 236, l. 6. "Mr. Paddock's row of English elms" has gone, but "Poor Benjamin" lies quietly under the same stone the schoolmistress saw through the iron rails.
(21) p. 243, l. 26. "That friend of mine" was the late Joseph Roby, once a fellow-teacher with me in the Medical School of Dartmouth College, afterwards professor in the University of Maryland. He was a man of keen intellect and warm affections, but out of the range of his official duties seen of few and understood only by a very limited number of intimates. I used to refer to my wise friend so often, and he was so rarely visible, that some doubted if there was any such individual, or if he were not of the impersonal nature of Sairy Gamp's Mrs. Harris. I remember Emerson was one of these smiling skeptics.
(22) p. 259, l. 17. The marble tablets and memorial windows in our churches and monumental buildings bear evidence as to whether the young men of favored social position proved worthy of their privileges or not during the four years of trial which left us a nation.
(23) p. 279, l. 6. It would have been well if I had consulted Notes and Queries before telling this story. A year or two before the time when I was writing, a number of communications relating to the subject were sent to that periodical. A correspondent called my attention to them, and other correspondents--Miss H. P., of London, the librarian of a public institution at Dublin; a young gentleman writing from Cornwall, and others whose residences I do not now remember--wrote to me, mentioning stories like that which the coachman told me. The self-reproduction of the legend wherever there was a stone to hang it on, seems to me so interesting, as bearing on the philosophy of tradition, that I subjoin a number of instances from Notes and Queries.
In the first the thief's booty was a deer and not a sheep, as the common account made it. The incident not only involved a more distinguished quadruped, but also was found worthy of being commemorated in rhyme.
Notes and Queries, January 5, 1856.
"In Potter's Churnwood, p. 179, a 'Legend of the Hangman's Stone,' in verse, is given, in which the death of John of Oxley is described.
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"'One shaft he drew on his well-tried yew,
And a gallant hart lay dead;
He tied its legs, and he hoisted his prize,
And he toiled over Lubcloud brow.
He reached the tall stone, standing out and alone,
Standing then as it standeth now;
With his back to the stone he rested his load,
And he chuckled with glee to think
That the rest of his way on the down hill lay
And his wife would have spiced the strong drink.
. . . . . . . . . .
A swineherd was passing o'er great Toe's Head,
When he noticed a motionless man;
He shouted in vain--no reply could he gain--
So down to the gray stone he ran.
All was clear. There was Oxley on one side the stone,
On the other the down-hanging deer:
The burden had slipped, and his neck it had nipped;
He was hanged by his prize-all was clear.'
"'When I was a youth,' the same writer continues, 'there were two fields in the parish of Foremark, Derbyshire, called the Great and the Little Hangman's Stone. In the former there was a stone, five or six feet high, with an indentation running across the top of it, and there was a legend that a sheep-stealer, once upon a time having stolen a sheep, had placed it on the top of the stone, and that it had slipped off and strangled him with the rope with which it was tied, and that the indentation was made by the friction of the rope caused by the struggles of the dying man.'--C. S. Greaves."
Notes and Queries, April 5, 1856.
Similar legends at different places.--"At the end of Lamber Moor on the road side between Haverford West and Little Haven, in the county of Pembroke, there is a stone about four feet high called 'Hang Davy Stone,' connected with which is a tradition of the accidental strangling of a sheep-stealer, similar to the legend mentioned by Mr. Greaves with reference to the stone at Foremark.--J. W. Phillips."
Notes and Queries, May 17, 1856.
"THE HANGMAN'S STONE.--It may be interesting to your correspondent Mr. J. W. Phillips, to be informed that at about five miles from Sidmouth, on the road to Colyton, on the right hand side of the road, and near Bovey House, is a large stone known by the name of 'Hangman's Stone.' The legend is precisely similar to that noticed by Mr. Phillips and by Mr. Greaves. -~N. S. Heineker."
Notes and Queries, May 31, 1856.
"HANGMAN STONES.--Some years ago there was still to be seen in a meadow belonging to me, situate near the north-western boundary of the parish of Littlebury, in Essex, a large stone, the name of which and the traditions attached to it were identical with those recorded by your correspondents, treating of 'Hangman Stones.' This stone was subsequently removed by the late Mr. Jabez Gibson to Saffron Walden, and still remains in his garden at that place. I have a strong impression that other 'Hangman Stones' are to be met with elsewhere, but I am unable to point out the exact localities.--Braybrooke."
"On the right side of the road between Brighton and Newhaven (about five miles, I think, from the former place) is a stone designated as above, and respecting which is told the same legend as that which is quoted by Henry Keasington.--H. E. C."
Notes and Queries, June 21, 1856.
"HANGMAN STONES.--At a picturesque angle in the road between Sheffield and Barnsley, and about three miles south of the latter place, there is a toll-bar called 'Hangman Stone Bar.' Attached to this title is the usual legend of a sheep-stealer being strangled by the kicking animal, which he had slung across his shoulders, and which pulled him backwards as he tried to climb over the stone wall inclosure with his spoil. I do not know that any particular stone is marked as the one on which the sheep was rested for the convenience of the thief in trying to make his escape, but the Jehu of the now extinct Barnsley mail always told this story to any inquiring passenger who happened to be one of five at top--as quaint a four-in-hand as you shall see.--Alfred Gatty."
I have little doubt that the story told by the "Jehu," which my memory may have embellished a little, as is not unusual with travellers' recollections, was the one to which I listened as one of the five outsiders, and in answer to my question the country boys used to insist upon it in my young days that stones grew. It seems to me probable that a very moderate monolith may have grown in my recollection to "a handsome marble column," and that "the lord of the manor" was my own phrase rather than our coachman's.
(24) p. 279, l. 16. I sent two or three copies to different correspondents.
(25) p. 282, l. 30. There are trees scattered about our New England towns worth going a dozen or a score of miles to see, if one only knew where to look for them. A mile from where I am now writing (Beverly Farms, Essex County, Massachusetts) is one of the noblest oaks I have ever seen, not distinguished so much for its size, though its branches must spread a hundred feet from bough-end to bough-end, as for its beauty and lusty promise. A few minutes' walk from the station at Rockport is a horse-chestnut which is remarkable for size of trunk and richness of foliage. I found that it measures 8 feet and 3 inches in circumference about 4 feet from tile ground. There may be larger horse-chestnut treeS in New England, but I have not seen or heard of them.
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Developing Countries Need Coal-Fired Power Plants
December 19, 2013
Coal has lifted 680 million people in China out of poverty over the past 30 years, says Bjørn Lomborn, director of the Copenhagen Consensus Center.
- Coal provides cheap and reliable power, which leads to development.
- Chinese cities like Beijing have bad smog problems from coal, but the economic tradeoff has been well worth it.
- In 1982, the average Chinese person earned $585 per year.
- In 2012, the average Chinese person earned $7,958 per year.
Even with these benefits, many rich countries do not support the use of coal in poor countries.
- Both the United States and the United Kingdom abstained from the World Bank vote to finance a coal-fired power plant in South Africa in 2010, even though the United States admitted that without a plant, South Africa's "economic recovery will suffer, adversely impacting electrification, job creation and social indicators."
- This year, both countries announced that they would not back international finance for coal-fired power plants in developing nations.
Coal is the cheapest option for poor nations.
- In South Africa, coal costs just $0.09 per kilowatt hour (kWh).
- In Ethiopia, Ghana and Kenya, electricity costs from hydropower, gas and oil will likely be between $0.16 and $0.25 per kWh.
- Solar lights, on the other hand, cost $2 per kWh.
For the world's poor, coal-fired electricity is a necessity. Many in developing nations burn dung, cardboard, and twigs indoors to cook and stay warm. This indoor pollution is not only 10 times higher than in the cities of advanced nations, but it is responsible for 3.5 million deaths each year.
Too many people are unwilling to acknowledge the environmental tradeoffs needed to improve the lives of the poor across the world.
Source: Bjørn Lomborn, "The Power to Develop," Project Syndicate, December 12, 2013.
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How do I locate, pick out, and purchase a piano?
And should I go acoustic (wood-and-strings) piano... or buy a digital (electronic) keyboard?
Electronic digital and electric pianos are generally not bad if you are performing music that is to some extent percussive, such as rock and roll, pop, jazz music, as well as blues favorites. But if you wish to engage in classical music that is certainly abundant of melody, such a digital keyboard is not really as fulfilling. You possibly can in fact start out with a digital keyboard while you learn the basic principles of music, but as you actually progress technically with your
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Choose an inexpensive spinet (aka: upright) piano over than an electronic keyboard, if you have the choice. If you have the room, you get bonus points if you can score a "grand piano" that is in acceptable condition.
Generally speaking, go electronic when:
1.) portability is an issue
2.) you need to play at a volume that does not disturb the neighbors (unless you intend to). Headphone optional keyboards afford privacy
3.) you wish to explore more than the traditional piano sound, or create unique instrumental sounds
4.) You want to interface it (via USB or MIDI) with a computer for education, composition,
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5.) YOU ARE SHORT OF MONEY and someone is selling or literally "giving away" their unused digital keyboard on Craigslist or local classified
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Do not worry about acquiring a top-name, high-priced piano while you are starting out. A playable one is going to do fine. As you progress with your studies, you could sell your "starter" piano and obtain an upgrade.
Going Traditional acoustic? Consider the following:
1.) Use the classifieds or Cragslist... or just ask around. A number of people give away their very own old family pianos.
2.) If you find a potential acoustic piano... do you like the way it sounds? Does it motivate you musically?
3.) Do you like the way it feels to play? Try actively playing each of the keys, starting low or high, and discover if they all operate. You might discover that a key may be difficult to play, effortless play, or maybe even "mushy" or perhaps "springy."
4.) Will it physically "fit" in the location where you intend to play it?
5.) Can you (or someone knowledgeable) safely transport the piano to your residence? Traditional acoustic pianos and stairs don't mix to well when moving them from point A to point B.
There are a few additional tips on purchasing an Electronic Digital Piano. Electric digital pianos may not have all the traditional "88 keys" that acoustic pianos usually have. For a lot of serious or college level academic courses, a 49-note or 61-note electric keyboard just won't do. OK... they will do in a pinch but you'll sacrifice piano playing technique if that is a factor. You won't be able to play a lot of acoustic piano (sheet) music with anything less than 61-notes (5 octaves). Try to get at least a 71-key or higher keyboard as a practical compromise when an 88-key electric piano is not in the cards.
To acquire any kind of perception of playing a real piano, you may need a keyboard having weighted keys that will simulate the actual "feel" of a piano. On less expensive models you can actually sense the spring which pushes the key and your finger as you release it piano. This may give you the reduced sensation akin to button-pushing. This is so unlike a real
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Empowering deserving military families with educational support and opportunities.
Very nice, plus they give an Evans Scholarship in his name.
The car does look a little small to put a baby seat in though :)
Nice prize.....missed it....was that the all electric car or the new 4 series......told my wife we could get into the tent at the tournament with her key and in her sweetest voice, she reminded me that our BMW is hers, not ours and what do you mean we..........women have a way with words.....they are the ultimate driving machine.....when the Nationwide was here, BMW was one of our sponsors and some of us volunteers went up to the plant in Greer, SC and drove down the players cars back to Charleston then took them back when the tournamet was over..........got to test drive most of them for at least fours hours each trip.....my favorite is the X6....smoothe SUV and very powerful.......fortunate to have driven all of them........I did not get one for my hole-in-one...shoot...cz : )
I bet it fits nicely in his garage. Give it to the wife.
Yes that was a very nice Ace. It was touch and go before it landed and also no unlucky bounce but instead rolled straight towards the pin. Congrats to Hunter and the Evans scholarship recipientY ) ***s).
Great reason to drive it. Get away.
I dont think he won a car but a donation to the evans scholars
I dont think he won a car but a donation to the evans scholars
he won both !
here are some pics of him in the car:)
Adam62482I dont think he won a car but a donation to the evans scholars
it was both. someone gets a scholarship and he got the new electric BMW.
Adam is saw he indeed won the car and a check. He played that shot perfectly using the slope on the left of the green.
That BMW i3 is cute...I'm sure he will donate to a good cause, very admirable and respected. Congrats to an amazing Ace!
Yep, he won a BMW i3 and a scholarship for someone else like me! Congratulations to him and the ESF. :)
That was an amazing shot he hit...great roll. That is too cool that a kid gets a scholarship. It doesn't hurt to win a BMW either.


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Should you have the right to know what's in Stephen Harper's daytimer? According to the Supreme Court of Canada, the answer is no. Ruling today, in
At issue was whether the PM's agenda falls within s.3(j) of the Privacy Act which,
"creates an exception by excluding from the scope of protection such information which pertains to "an individual who is or was an officer or employee of a government institution" and the information "relates to the position or functions of the individual". The exception seemingly reflects the view that federal officers or employees are entitled to less protection when the information requested relates to their position or function within the government. …The Commissioner… urges the Court to hold that, as "heads" presiding over departments, the Prime Minister and the Ministers are part of these "government institutions"… when exercising departmental functions. Similarly, she argues that the Prime Minister is an "officer" of the PCO. Alternatively, if ministerial offices are held to be separate entities, the Commissioner argues that any record relating to a departmental matter is presumptively under the "control" of the government institution over which the Minister presides, regardless of its creation or location within the ministerial office. Thus, any such record must be disclosed, unless it is specifically exempt under the Act."
The majority of the court disagreed, finding that,
" It would be inconsistent with Parliament's intention to interpret the Privacy Act in a way that would include the Prime Minister as an officer of a government institution. Had Parliament intended the Prime Minister to be treated as an "officer" of the PCO pursuant to the Privacy Act, it would have said so expressly. Thus, the relevant portions of the Prime Minister's agenda under the control of the RCMP and the PCO fall outside the scope of the access to information regime."
Critics who accuse the government of being too secretive may cry foul, but the ruling makes sense. The Prime Minister's job description includes many functions, but they are exercised in an umbrella fashion; he may wear many hats, but his official title is that of "Prime Minister". And he doesn't operate on the same level as a bureaucrat, political staffer, or ordinary MP. Issues of national security form part of his day job, and to properly exercise it, he should benefit from some level of privacy beyond that which accrues to more ordinary citizens.
Should the court have ruled the other way, potentially any and all the PM's personal diaries or calendars could have been subject to scrutiny – in other words, he couldn't put down a word relating to his job without risking that it become public. Sorry, but we don't have the
prima facieright to read the PM's every personal reflection – whether he chooses to publish memoirs kept while in office, or the list of who he had lunch with, should be his decision. At the end of the day, there are some agendas which should be kept hidden.
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To watch him play on the field, on the ice or the baseball diamond, he looks just like any other red-blooded Canadian kid who loves the thrill of playing the games.
When he's on the bench or the sidelines coughing up mucous violently, you know that this is no ordinary boy.
Reese Francey, 11, is determined not to let cystic fibrosis deny him the pleasures of competing at a variety of sports.
"He plays football at the highest level, hockey at the highest level and the highest level of baseball," said Sean Francey, his father. "Everyone who plays sports with him is just blown away when they first find out that he has a fatal disease."
Reese shocked doctors when he completed a half-marathon. He also plays volleyball and basketball and competes at cross country at school.
"I'm doing pretty good considering my health, that I'm able to do all this stuff," said Reese, a rather upbeat youngster who will play outside linebacker for the North Winnipeg Nomads when they face the Charleswood Broncos in the Football Manitoba peewee championship game Sunday morning.
"When I'm on the sidelines, I'm coughing pretty hard and coughing up stuff, and I breathe pretty hard. But I just love sports and I know that if I can physically keep myself in shape, it's great for me."
He does find it a little much sometimes, though.
"But I continue to push myself and say, ÔI can do this.' Knowing that I could end up in the hospital next week is hard," he said. "But I just play as hard as I can and go from there."
Cystic fibrosis is an inherited disease that affects the lungs and other organs, which is caused by defective genes in the parents. Mucous blocks the airways, which can cause repeated infections. There is no cure and many patients die young. The life expectancy for adults with the disease is 37.
"He has been hospitalized many times with pneumonia and he has trouble breathing," said Sean Francey. "He has to go in for two or three weeks at a time."
Sean and his wife, Shannon, have been pounding him on the back and front just to shake up the mucous since Reese was first diagnosed when he was 18 months old. They have also purchased a special $12,000 vest that will do it for Reese.
But they have still encouraged Reese to participate in sports.
"My wife and I said we won't treat him any differently just because he has a disability," Sean said. "We wanted to treat him just like his older brother (Riley, 13), who goes in for all kinds of sports."
Riley, who does not have cystic fibrosis, also plays different sports at the highest level.
"Reese is an amazing kid," said Nomads head coach Dan Noordman. "We put him on defence because his intensity is so incredible and he has that instinct for the ball. There are kids on our team who don't even know he is battling a disease. And we, as coaches, just shake our heads in amazement."
Noordman, who also coached Riley, was concerned when Reese first started playing. But Sean became the team's trainer and knew when his son wasn't quite right.
"But he's never missed a play out there," Noordman said. "He's such a great kid, and incredibly tough."
Reese, who also plays on special teams, helped the Nomads record an 8-0 season.
"I'm in the final for football for the first time," Reese said. "So, I'm pretty excited."
Like Noordman, Reese's baseball coach, Donnie Smith, said his teammates never knew there was anything amiss with him.
"If his dad hadn't mentioned it to me, I never would have known he had cystic fibrosis," said the former Winnipeg Goldeye. "But he said he wanted him to be treated like any other kid. He never once complained about what he'd been dealt with, and I don't think he missed a single game or practice.
"He's a great kid and he worked hard. Very inspirational."
Family always eager to make difference
He may be determined to be treated like a normal kid, but Reese Francey is still willing to talk at cystic fibrosis conferences.
"He doesn't like to talk about it a lot because it means he's not normal," said his father, Sean Francey, who used to sit on the National Cystic Fibrosis Canada board of directors. "But we do speak quite a bit to different groups at many different events."
They also help organize the annual Great Strides Walk that raised about $80,000 for the foundation in May.
There are only about 60 people affected by the disease in Manitoba, about 20 in Winnipeg, as the foundation seeks to find a cure for the defective gene that causes it.
Reese, by the way, also gets good grades in school.
"I make it work," said the Grade 6 student.
"I keep my grades up."
He also met his football hero, Winnipeg Blue Bombers legend Milt Stegall, at one of the many conferences they attend — along with former Bombers kicker Troy Westwood.
So, did he tell Westwood to get a haircut?
Then, he laughed.
Cystic Fibrosis facts
— There is no cure and there was a time when the life expectancy of someone with cystic fibrosis (CF) was just 10 years, but that has changed dramatically.
n People with cystic fibrosis "are now living longer, healthier lives than ever before," says the Cystic Fibrosis Canada website.
— The Cystic Fibrosis Foundation currently has the life expectancy pegged at 37, but believes that will improve with the development of new drugs to battle the disease.
— In fact, people with CF are now getting married and starting their own families.


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Chris Greer, an MDiv student at Fuller California Coast, tells of a backpacking trip and an unexpected source of deliverance.
Photo by Matt Lumpkin (MDiv '11)
This is a trustworthy saying, and everyone should accept it: "Christ Jesus came into the world to save sinners." --1 Timothy 1:15
It was the best apple I'd ever tasted.
Have you ever been in need of something—so in need of something that you were intently focused on it, completely impatient for it, and utterly desperate without it?
That's how I felt on my birthday in April 2009. My younger brother and I were in the final miles of a three-day backpacking trip on the Channel Islands. Beautiful views. Amazing weather. Fantastic fellowship. There was only one problem. Water. I failed to bring enough. I had grossly underestimated the impact of the temperatures and the exposure in this coastal island ecosystem. And now, in the final miles, we were paying for it. We had long been out of water—and long been in need of it.
We were intently focused on it, completely impatient for it, and becoming desperate without it.
The only thing in our packs holding any moisture at all were a couple of apples. Not exactly the two gallons of water I was hallucinating about. But two long miles from the dock where our boat would be waiting, we reached for those two small pieces of fruit, and to our surprise, they exploded with the moisture and energy we needed to trek the final two miles. I've never thought of apples the same way again.
This Christmas season, and every Christmas season, is a reminder of the unexpected deliverance God provides for the desperate spot we find ourselves in. The world is poor and needy and "the whole creation has been groaning in labor pains" (Romans 8:22), desperate for its redemption. And on that Christmas night the thirst was quenched, the need was met, the deliverer arrived. "Christ Jesus came into the world to save sinners."
Not unlike the apple in our packs—an unexpected source of great relief—Jesus arrives in the unexpected form of a baby, bringing unexpected life to a world in desperate need.
Jesus said, "Those who drink of the water that I will give them will never be thirsty" (John 4:14).
May God provide for you in the most unexpected ways this Christmas season. And may we never forget that our greatest need has already been met in Christ.


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An ROTC cadet has reportedly been struck ill by meningitis at Widener University, in the weeks after a Drexel student and Princeton student died from the illness.
That student is reportedly being treated at a hospital, and has viral meningitis, school administrators said, according to the Philadelphia Business Journal.
Stephanie Ross, 19, a sophomore at Drexel University studying engineering, died earlier this month after falling ill to a unique strain of bacterial meningitis.
The same strain killed a student at Princeton University a month earlier. Ross reportedly got ill days after seeing Princeton students visiting Philadelphia for a party.
While most schools require vaccinations against meningitis, this particular strain is not protected against by the vaccine, Judith A. O'Donnell, chief of infectious diseases at Penn-Presbyterian Medical Center, previously told Metro.
There are no other reported cases of meningitis at Widener University, according to a memo sent out by university officials.


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WINNIPEG - If you get yourself a new Winnipeg Jets jersey before the team starts wearing them on the ice, it will be as authentic as a $25 Gucci bag.
The teams new jerseys home and away, there wont be a third jersey for at least the first season will be unveiled in early September, but wont be available for purchase until weeks later.
The authentic jerseys wont be available until October, and replica jerseys likely not until November. That comes from the manufacturer, said Scott Brown, director of communications for True North Sports and Entertainment, which owns the Jets.
Nevertheless, photos purporting to be leaks of the new Jets jerseys have been circulating on the Internet for weeks.
Brown said a common one showing a dark blue jersey with the main plane logo in the middle is not even close to legitimate. The same goes for any other supposed sneak previews.
Bruno Delorme, a marketing professor at Concordia University and Marianopolis College in Montreal, said fake sports jerseys are a big time problem.
A lot of factories in China are flooding the market with unlicensed, counterfeit jerseys. Theyre shrewd. They know that even in tough economic times, sports is recession-proof, Delorme said. They look almost identical but the problems occur after you wash it four or five times.
Delorme said counterfeit jerseys are a common problem that the Montreal Canadiens launched a public-education campaign.
The campaign, called Lets Retire These Jerseys, warned fans that fakes may support unlawful labour conditions and organized crime, and even offered people the chance to turn in counterfeit jerseys for a rebate on a real one.
Brown said it all comes down to fans making the right choice. Do you want it right now or do you want the right thing? he said.
The Winnipeg Jets will have only two uniforms this coming season: home and away.
Although its become common over the past several years for NHL and other pro sports teams to don third jerseys for some games, it doesnt look like the Jets will follow suit, at least not this year.
There will likely not be a third alternate jersey this year, just due to the process of getting the main two done, said Scott Brown, director of communications for True North Sports and Entertainment, which owns the Jets. Were going to hopefully focus on the main logos and the main jerseys.


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