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Packaging automation, scalable, modular
At Pack Expo 2013, B&R Industrial Automation is showing standards-based, scalable, and modular control systems integrating logic, motion, robotics, human-machine interface (HMI), safety, I/O and data acquisition in one software development environment.
B&R Industrial Automation is showing standards-based, scalable, and modular control systems integrating logic, motion, robotics, human-machine interface (HMI), safety, I/O and data acquisition in a unified software development environment, suitable for use by packaging original equipment manufacturers (OEMs) and other OEMs, system integrators, and end users, at Pack Expo 2013 in Las Vegas, Sept. 23-25. A B&R industrial PC uses the latest third generation Intel Core i technology. B&R Automation PC 910 has, a multi-touch panel that has the form factor of an oversized Apple iPad, and also the latest integrated motor drive featuring flexible mounting and cabling options, onboard I/O and advanced safe motion functions, the AcoposMotor. B&R Automation Studio 4 is the newest generation of B&R's development environment that keeps development costs low and time to market short, despite the ever-increasing complexity of automation products.
Powerlink is a deterministic real-time protocol for standard Ethernet. This open source Ethernet protocol can address data and control needs on one wire, while reducing design costs, minimizing system jitter, and achieving maximum system performance.
The booth includes a multi-axis ActuatorLine demonstration unit from the linear technology manufacturer Rollon. The unit is a 5 actuator- 3 axis of motion infrared target practice game that is driven by B&R controls. Visitors will be able to test their shooting skills.
A demonstration unit featuring the Cognex In-Sight 7000 series vision system communicates via Powerlink and incorporates visualization and control technology for high-speed and high-precision product monitoring in production line operation.
Several North American and international machine builders will exhibit packaging machines using B&R technology. The machines will include the full range of primary, secondary and end-of-line packaging processes.
Support for students
For the third year in a row, B&R Industrial Automation's Packaging Solutions Group is sponsoring the student contest at Pack Exp, now officially called the Pack Solutions Challenge, for university students. This year's challenge is to recommend a packaging solution that provides an upgraded clean, accurate, drip-free filling system for mouthwash packaging that can handle the rigorous changeover demands of a private-label environment. Show attendees can view the students' recommendations and vote for their favorite at the Education & Workforce Development Pavilion in the Upper South hall.
B&R Industrial Automation Corp. is based in Roswell, Ga.
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Before the calendar turned, 2016 already had the makings of a pivotal year for manufacturing, and for the world.
There were the big events for the year, including the United States as Partner Country at Hannover Messe in April and the 2016 International Manufacturing Technology Show in Chicago in September. There's also the matter of the U.S. presidential elections in November, which promise to shape policy in manufacturing for years to come.
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Friday's cavalcade of World Cup qualifiers featured two of the world's most TV-friendly moments right here in CONCACAF. In Denver, the U.S. and Costa Rica played on despite a raging blizzard that left some of us wondering aloud how the game was played while an ocean away UEFA officials postponed Northern Ireland's qualifier against Russia for the same reason. Nevertheless, the Americans wound up with a 1-0 win that launched them into second place in the Hex.
Honduras' weather also proved a massive talking point. Several people in the Estadio Olimpico stands -- many of whom had been there since 10 a.m. when the doors opened -- fainted amid the intense heat that reached nearly 100 degrees Fahrenheit. On the pitch, Mexico opened up a 2-0 lead, but El Tri let their first win in San Pedro Sula since 1965 slip away in exactly three minutes.
The 2-2 draw left Mexico with only two points in the Hexagonal and sets up a must-win match Tuesday night against their biggest rivals, the United States. With such a massive game on the horizon, will the proverbial panic button be pushed in Mexico City should El Tri come away with anything other than a win?

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The work-life balance for men deserves greater attention from individuals, companies and governments, according to USQ academic Dr Erich Fein.
As a specialist in occupational and organisational psychology, Dr Fein said while the work-life balance for women was receiving considerable attention, aspects of work-life balance particularly salient to men called for more research.
"Mobile phones mean people are available 24/7 for calls and emails, and having proper respite in your time off means people shouldn't always be responding to those, or be expected to by their employer," Dr Fein said.
Dr Fein said people who involved themselves with community, family and social interaction were more likely to be happier, healthier and more effective overall.
"That can mean catching up with friends, or being involved with cultural, or recreational groups — they can all provide scaffolding for us outside the workplace," he said.
Dr Fein said he believed an effective work-life balance was ultimately the responsibility of the individual, but legislation could help.
"That goes particularly for men, because for women, the issue is already being addressed in many ways, such as long-term paid parental leave," he said.
Prior to becoming an academic, Dr Fein worked in United States' military assessment centres.
He said personnel who had strong cultural and religious ties, as well as other interests and hobbies outside worked better in managing work and life conflicts than those who did not.
"They gave themselves a chance to refresh and recuperate," he said.
Dr Fein said a sense of corporate responsibility, combined with an increased understanding for men that broad definitions of performance, beyond just financial performance, are critical for long-term success, and could well be the path to an improved work-life balance.
"Working more than 40 hours a week isn't going to necessarily hurt people, but not having time in your life when you have complete respite from your work will," he said.
"At the end of the day, it's the responsibility of individuals, but governments and organisations can help or hinder how they exercise that responsibility.
"The price you may pay is lower work-specific rewards, such as not being the highest paid in your field, but you can still do quality work."
Dr Fein said part of the battle for men to achieve a better work-life balance is encouraging them to adopt health-inducing behaviours.
"This could mean taking the time to cook and exercise, socialising more frequently, taking up or pursuing a hobby, or increasing commitment to family, religious and cultural groups, or community," he said.
To learn more about studying psychology at USQ, visit https://www.usq.edu.au/study/degrees/health-and-community/psychology


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Dramatic images on Roofers World Inc.'s website show what can happen when too much snow and ice accumulate on a roof. Cars get crushed. A photographer nearly suffers the same fate trying to film a Niagara Falls of snow cascading off one roof.
The company sells snow guards to prevent roof-top avalanches. It has installed more than 800 kilometres of its guards on the roofs of such clients as the Department of Defence, provincial airports and national retail chains.
Roofers World has been selling directly to contractors, architects, designers and installers for more than 25 years. It also serves retailers. But homeowners, too, can browse and shop for anti-snow measures on the company's website.
When the recession hit, Roofers World was not immune. It took defensive financial action to avoid getting snowed under as the economy contracted. The Ottawa-based company says it drew on a number of management initiatives. One of the more noteworthy was a move that kept accounts receivable from piling up and becoming a drag on cash flow.
The company designs, makes and distributes other roofing products, many with rather evocative names: the Red Ripper tool for scraping off shingles, Eternabond tape for sealing roof leaks, Banana Knives for cutting shingles, Leaf-Defier gutters, and roof anchor/restraint systems to keep window washers, painters and other workers from falling off buildings.
The company's customers like to stock their shelves in the winter months, and booking programs typically offer extended terms. "But before offering our new winter booking program, we negotiated a product discount in lieu of extended terms," vice-president Alastair Samson says. "This had a very positive impact on our cash flow."
Historically, Roofers World incurs a loss in the first quarter which, in combination with the extended terms (60 days), stressed their cash flow. The product discount "saw improved sales which, combined with faster payments, eased us into Q2 with positive cash flow," Mr. Samson reports.
The company also took other measures. One was intentionally reducing sales in product lines where payment was slower. Another was paying attention to the basics: "We stayed more focused on making sure invoices get out on time and that there are no errors that could cause delay in payment," Mr. Samson says.
15 ways to improve bill collection
When looking to maintain their cash flow during the downturn, Roofers World made collecting their bills a priority. Several books, articles and websites offer advice on what businesses can do to collect - prior to calling the collection agency.
1. Head off collection problems by screening customers carefully. Check with credit bureaus such as Equifax or Dun & Bradstreet. Get references. Speak to suppliers about the payment practices of a potential business customer.
2. Equip your sales force with mobile payment systems. Give them cellphones and Bluetooth devices that allow credit cards to be swiped or credit-card numbers to be entered at the point of sale.
3. Make it easier for customers to pay. Prominently display on your website a variety of online payment methods such as Google Checkout, Bill Me Later and PayPal.
4. Charge a high rate of interest on overdue balances, say 10 per cent. On bills sent out to customers, warn about the interest rates that will be applied.
5. Make a standing offer of a rebate for early or prompt payment. Or, like Roofers World, offer a rebate on an "as-needed" basis. Relatedly, offer a preferred customer plan where the perks can be withdrawn for untimely payment of bills.
6. Tighten up credit practices. Get credit card numbers on file. Convey to customers that there will be substantial fees for bounced cheques. Get co-signers for large loans. When the economy begins to tank, quickly rein in sales on product lines where payments come in slowly, and trim the creation of credit accounts.
7. Enlist the assistance of the sales force. Tap them for intelligence on customers and market conditions. Make commissions contingent on receiving payment for a sale. Involve them in approaching late payers, perhaps as the "good cop" to the "bad cop" from the collections department.
8. Set up a proper credit collection system. Make someone in the company responsible for tracking and collecting receivables. Select them for their aptitude for the job and train them in collection techniques.
9. Respond promptly to missed due dates. Send a written reminder as soon as payment is late. Let customers know you are serious about getting paid. The longer non-payment goes on, the harder it becomes to collect money.
10. Leave your baseball bat at home. Contact with customers should be civil, especially in the beginning. Confrontational techniques can be counterproductive. Lack of payment often reflects a personal hardship or unintentional failure to pay. A courteous, empathetic approach is often better for arriving at a solution.
11. In cases where non-payment is not deliberate, offering payment options - such as instalments in varying amounts and frequency - may work. People tend to co-operate more when they are given choices. If the customer is verifiably in dire straits, a portion of the debt can be forgiven upon receipt of the remainder.
12. For more deliberate forms of non-payment, create a set schedule for escalating demands. The first reminder could be followed by a series of more substantial requests, both written and over the phone. They should convey how the collection effort will be escalated, including warnings they will be reported to credit bureaus and/or turned over to a collection agency.
13. Learn the techniques professional debt collectors use when communicating with persons in arrears. Michelle Dunn, a former owner of a collections agency, offers insider perspectives on her website at www.michelledunn.com - as well as in her guides to collecting overdue accounts.
14. If you are a small business, consider going to small claims court. In Ontario, amounts as large as $25,000 can be adjudicated. But be prepared for delays and fees that could amount to more than $100.
15. Create a paper trail. Start with the sale itself: formalize it in a written agreement. Then make sure there are written reminders to pay. If matters end up in court, the paper trail will support claims for payment.


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Order the subscription back in May as a gift. Have still not recieved the free gift which was a a reason for choosing this magazine. Have received the magazines but all these months on no gift. Whenever I contact customer services robotically they say to wait 28 working days, rather than looking at where the delivery system has gone wrong. Really frustrating just to keep being told this especially as it is for a gift and i keep being asked when the gift will arrive. Very let down and will soon contact trading standards about their misleading sales tactics (no gift ever sent).


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DALLAS (105.3 THE FAN) – It's college football national signing day and 105.3 The Fan checks out the Red Raiders of the Texas Tech football team and how coach Tommy Tuberville plans to improve for the 2011 season.
Gregg Henson is joined by Chris Level of Rivals.com and redraidersports.com to talk about the upcoming season.
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Tuesday March 24, 2009
- Outstanding Restaurant:
- Babbo (Chef/Owner: Mario Batali, Owner: Joe Bastianich, New York, NY)
- Boulevard (Chef/Owner: Nancy Oakes, Owner: Pat Kuleto, San Francisco, CA)
- Fore Street (Chef/Owner: Sam Hayward, Owners: Victor Leon and Dana Street, Portland, ME)
- Highlands Bar & Grill (Chef/Owner: Frank Stitt, Birmingham, AL)
- Jean Georges (Chef/Owner: Jean-Georges Vongerichten, Owner: Phil Suarez, New York, NY)
- Outstanding Chef:
- Jose Andres (Minibar, Washington, D.C.)
- Dan Barber (Blue Hill, New York, NY)
- Tom Colicchio (Craft, New York, NY)
- Suzanne Goin (Lucques, Los Angeles, CA)
- Paul Kahan (Blackbird, Chicago, IL)
- Rising Star Chef:
- Nate Appleman (A16, San Francisco, CA)
- Sean Brock (McCrady's, Charleston, SC)
- Johnny Monis (Komi, Washington, D.C.)
- Gabriel Rucker (Le Pigeon, Portland, OR)
- Michael Solomonov (Zahav, Philadelphia, PA)
- Sue Zemanick (Gautreau's, New Orleans, LA)
- Best New Restaurant:
- The Bazaar by Jose Andres at SLS Hotel at Beverly Hills (Chef/Owner: Jose Andres, Owners: Sam Narian and Philippe Starck, Los Angeles, CA)
- Corton (Chef/Owner: Paul Liebrandt, Owner: Drew Nieporent, New York, NY)
- L2O (Chef: Laurent Gras, Owner: Richard Melman, Chicago, IL)
- Momofuku Ko (Chef/Owner: David Chang, New York, NY)
- Scarpetta (Chef/Owner: Scott Conant, New York, NY)
In addition, some of the special achievement award recipients include:
- Who's Who of Food & Beverage in America:
- David Burke (Chef, Entrepreneur, New York, NY)
- John T. Edge (Journalist, Director, Southern Foodways Alliance, Oxford, MS)
- Betty Fussell (Author, Culinary Historian, New York, NY)
- Dorothy Cann Hamilton (Founder, The French Culinary Institute, New York, NY)
- Clark Wolf (Clark Wolf Company, New York, NY)
- America's Classics:
- Breitbach's Country Dining (Owner: Mike Breitbach, Sherrill, IA)
- Totonno's (Owner: Lawrence Ciminieri, Brooklyn, NY)
- Mustache Bill's Diner (Owner: Bill Smith, Barnegat Light, NJ)
- Yank Sing (Owner: Vera Chan-Waller, San Francisco, CA)
- Arnold's Country Kitchen (Owners: Jack and Rose Arnold, Nashville, TN)
Winners of the Restaurant and Chef, Book, Design and Graphics, and special achievement awards will be celebrated at the highly-anticipated annual Awards Ceremony and Gala Reception, taking place on Monday, May 4, 2009 at Lincoln Center's Avery Fisher Hall. The Awards Ceremony and Gala Reception are open to the general public, and tickets can be purchased by calling the Awards Box Office at 212.925.0054 or by visiting www.JBFAwards.com. General public tickets are $450, but the James Beard Foundation is offering an "Early Bird Special" $50 ticket buyer discount from March 23rd - April 4th. The Journalism and Broadcast Media Awards will be presented at the invitation-only Media Awards Dinner on Sunday, May 3, 2009 at the Hudson Theatre in midtown Manhattan. All award winners will receive a certificate and a bronze medallion engraved with the James Beard Foundation Awards insignia. There are no cash awards.
Established in 1990, the James Beard Foundation Awards recognize culinary professionals for excellence and achievement in their fields and continue to emphasize the Foundation's mission: to celebrate, preserve, and nurture America's culinary heritage and diversity. The 2009 James Beard Foundation Awards will celebrate Women in Food. A highlight of the May 4th festivities will be the Gala Reception, which will take place following the Awards Ceremony at Avery Fisher Hall, featuring a line-up of some of America's most noteworthy female chefs, sommeliers, mixologists and artisanal producers. Lidia Matticchio Bastianich, acclaimed chef, restaurateur, television personality, cookbook author and multiple James Beard Foundation Award-winner, will serve as the honorary Gala Chair. As Gala Chair, Ms. Bastianich will work with the Awards Committee in the menu selection of the culinary talents featured at the Gala Reception."


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…In other words, this crisis — which, last Monday alone, wiped away more value from the market than the Congressional Budget Office estimates has been spent to date in Iraq and Afghanistan — is not important merely because it represents the most profound global ideological watershed since the fall of Soviet communism. It is important because it is a harbinger of massive global threats that fester within the system. And our leaders, from the president on down, have been caught as flat-footed by these new dangers as they were complacent and complicit in their hatching.
We now know that the costs to the U.S. government associated with this crash will surpass those associated with the wars in Iraq and Afghanistan. We also know that all such government cost estimates tend to be on the low side. We further know that the U.S. economy recovered quickly after 9/11 and that we are in the midst now of a global downturn that may last for many months and perhaps years. We know that there have been vastly more job losses — 600,000 recorded thus far this year in the United States — than were associated with the 9/11 shocks, and that the global job-loss totals that a recession is likely to bring will be measured in the millions. Among the poorest, the likely shocks to emerging markets caused by the United States' inability to spend freely will take a devastating human toll.
By all the metrics available to us, then, the current financial crisis easily exceeds the post-9/11 war on terror in economic terms. Human costs are harder to measure, of course, and the tolls of both events have been devastating. But the financial crisis will certainly touch many more people in many more countries than did 9/11. And even greater crises may loom ahead, thanks to our unwitting creation of a financial Frankenstein's monster of unregulated, risk-laden, global derivatives markets.
As the dithering U.S. governing class is grappling with the disposal of "toxic assets" in the U.S. economy, the world is moving on to debate what is widely seen as a toxic ideology: a form of market fundamentalism that promotes inequality…
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9/11 was big. This was bigger.
David Rothkopf – The Washington Post
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Girls launch lemonade stand for a cause, benefitting Northwoods Coalition for Family Safety
Lemonade stands are fixtures of summer for some youngsters.
Maggie Buckanaga, 12, and her friend, Mariah Dobson, 11, put a twist on the business by donating the proceeds of their Aug. 14 enterprise in the J.W. Smith Elementary School parking lot to the Bemidji shelter, a branch of the Northwoods Coalition for Family Safety.
The girls presented $15 to the shelter, keeping back $5 of proceeds to pay for their supplies of lemonade.
They said they set up their lemonade stand at J.W. Smith because the school is near their homes so they could refill their pitchers easily. And they liked the flow of people in the neighborhood.
"It's nice traffic because it's slow traffic," Maggie said.
The girls said they didn't put a sign up indicating they were going to donate the money to the shelter, but they told their customers.
"We sold lemonade for a quarter, but people put a dollar in," Mariah said.
"We thought that people needed the money more than we do," said Maggie.
The girls said they discussed whether to donate to the shelter or to the Bemidji Community Food Shelf, two nonprofits they are familiar with.
They said they decided on the shelter because they believe the food shelf receives more support from the community.
"She just turned 12," said Maggie's mother, Dana Morris. "So we're having those conversations about safety and (good) decisions."
Because the address of the shelter is confidential for the safety of residents, the girls took the money to the Law Enforcement Center and asked an officer to deliver the lemonade stand proceeds.
On Friday, Maggie and Mariah met with Mary Olson, the Northwoods Coalition for Family Safety executive director, and Beltrami County Sheriff Phill Hodapp, a member of the shelter board.
Olson read a letter of thanks to Maggie and Mariah.
"Over the years, we've received a lot of help and support from the community," Olson read. "We are so impressed, though, that 12-year-old young ladies already are thinking about others in the community, wanting to donate your hard-earned money instead of buying something for yourselves. We want you to know that, although we don't share the names of our residents or publicize our location, everyone here is aware of your thoughtfulness and appreciates it greatly."


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Bradford City fans had their ultimate dream shattered at Wembley by Swansea's emphatic League Cup win. But as Nick Westby reports, any feeling of self-pity was quickly put into perspective.
As they stared forlornly over their pint pots in the hostelries of London last night, or headed home immediately on the nation's motorway networks, there was much for Bradford City fans to ponder.
Why didn't City get at Swansea from the first whistle?
Why didn't they get stuck in to them, as they had done against Arsenal and Aston Villa?
Were their brave boys afflicted by stage fright?
Yet among the questioning and the ifs, buts and maybes, was an overwhelming sense of pride.
Those Bantams fans who poured out of Wembley last night did so with their flags still waving and their chests puffed out.
Granted, over 90 minutes their team had not given a true reflection of the majesty of this Cup run, but there was solace to be taken in how they had got there.
Merely being at Wembley was, after all, a marvellous accomplishment, the likes of which we may not see again in this lifetime.
"We got here but unfortunately couldn't make the last hurdle, but we didn't do ourselves any shame," mused Sen Mirza as he left the west end of the national stadium.
"I suppose we could have played a bit better, but the better team won.
"I'm still very proud. To get as far as this may not happen again in our lifetime.
"It's a day we'll always remember.
"Had we had the full-strength team we might have put up more of a fight."
Craig Dignam was equally elated, regardless of the result.
"That was a just a legendary day for Bradford City, even despite the fact we lost," he said.
"We were beaten and beaten well by a very good team, but at the end of the day we are not going to do this often.
"Of course we're disappointed, but the boys did us proud and 33,000 Bantams fans, wherever they came from around the world, came and waved their flags and had a good day."
Trish and Barry Lambert left Wembley a little frustrated by their side's capitulation.
"We didn't put any pressure on them at all," said Trish.
"We've been giant-killers all the way through and yet they just left them (yesterday). How many tackles did we make? How many shots did we have on goal?
"It's frustrating, but still, what an achievement to get here."
Fiona Bruce added: "They were playing a really, really good team and I'd like to say they did their best, but they didn't tackle enough, they didn't get stuck in enough.
"Very disappointed that they didn't get stuck in right from the start, but we're still proud."
That they were overcome by pride was evident at the end as the majority of the Bantams fans stayed behind to applaud their players as they received their runners-up medals.
Even despite the 5-0 scoreline and the fact that Bradford fans had to wait 87 minutes for their team's first shot on goal, some people still felt the result unjust, and that blame had to be apportioned.
"Kevin Friend is no friend of mine," laughed Ali Rizzy from Manningham. "He should have just given him (Matt Duke) a yellow card," referring to the dismissal of the Bantams' goalkeeper in the 56th minute, when the Leicestershire official applied the letter of the law mercilessly.
"As long as we went and attacked we might have been all right, but we didn't attack them.
"We conceded at the wrong times as well.
"There's always time for a comeback...but after the sending-off, it killed us."
Prior to kick-off, optimism and bewilderment was in abundance among the bedecked masses of Bradford fans.
Those in claret and amber, whether they be shirts, scarves or top hats, outnumbered the black and white of Swansea fans along Olympic Way, or Wembley Way as it is known to the traditionalist.
This was the biggest day in the Swans' history, too, but as a club on the rise, there was perhaps not the eagerness to grasp this opportunity as a once-in-a-lifetime experience.
Bantams fans, though, were determined to cherish every minute.
There were young and old, white and Asian faces; a diverse community united in pride at the achievement of their football club.
Andy Stronach was with family and neighbours on Wembley Way.
He said: "Thirty-eight years I've been supporting them, never thought I'd see a day like this.
"I was at Wolves when they got promoted (1999) but this means everything, it's amazing.
"I've been like a kid at Christmas. We're here to enjoy the day."
His companion, Daniel Strong, had only been a Bantams fan for five years.
"I never really watched football until Bradford got into League One, basically my dad took me, it was against Leyton Orient. We lost 2-0 but I fell in love there and then.
"I thought those glory days for Bantams fans were before my time."
Andy Smith, a Bradford ex-pat living in the south had met up with more than 20 of his family members, including the two brothers with whom he used to watch the Bantams.
"It's become a family day out, the stuff dreams are made of," said Andy.
City fans came from all over the world to share in the dream; from Japan and the United States, and even one fan from Australia who launched a campaign on Facebook to fly over if he got one million likes. He got 1.7 million.
Back on Wembley Way, one man was dressed as the Dalai Lama, replete with a face mask of Bantams captain Gary Jones.
It was one of those occasions to lose all inhibitions and enjoy yourself, regardless of the outcome.
And it wasn't just the regular husband and father, son, daughter, wife or grandmother who was revelling in the atmosphere and excitement before kick-off.
Former players, managers and heroes of the club strode English football's famous boulevard.
Peter Jackson, John Hendrie and Paul Jewell made the journey, smiles on their faces, a hearty handshake for everyone who stopped them, equally as astonished as the next person at how a club that had experienced the hardest of times, of tragedy and turmoil, was now the name on everyone's lips.
And even after such a one-sided final, the smiles were still there.
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Living in the electronic age couldn't keep this couple from steeping their romance in tradition.
Early in 2011, a mutual friend suggested that Megan O'Hara and Jamison Luten would get along, so they began chatting on Facebook. Megan was in graduate school in Tallahassee and he had settled in Jacksonville, but their hearts bridged the distance and they began dating.
"We saw each other a lot," said Megan, a speech therapist who works with autistic children.
Early in their relationship, Megan received an unexpected parcel in the mail. It was a handwritten letter from Jamison. They exchanged many letters over the following months, sharing observations, endearments and anecdotes while exploring one another's innermost selves.
"I think it was probably a feeling I've never had with anybody else," Jamison, a paramedic, said, "… I wanted to offer all of myself to her."
Several months after Megan moved back to Jacksonville in 2012, she accompanied Jamison on a mission trip to Haiti. Bonding through service somehow led them to discuss forging another bond: marriage.
Three days after they returned from Haiti last January, as they knelt during Mass at the Basilica of the Immaculate Conception, Jamison slipped a ring that had been his grandmother's onto Megan's finger. Then he whispered, "Will you marry me?" ever so softly in her ear.
"I could still taste the communion in my mouth. Christ was still present in my breath as I was saying that," Jamison, 25, said.
"Faith is a huge part of our relationship," Megan, 25, said.
Few brides are thrilled by bachelor parties, but Megan was particularly anxious. In lieu of a night out, Jamison went skydiving two days before the wedding.
"Someone texted us from the plane and said, 'Jamey's OK!' and we were all cheering," Megan's sister and matron of honor, Lauren O'Hara May, recalled.
Megan and Jamison said "I do" on Nov. 9 at Basilica of the Immaculate Conception.
Seeing Megan walk up the aisle in the wedding dress her mother and grandmother had worn before her had a lasting effect on the groom. "That was really the only time I was overcome with emotion as far as joy and happiness," Jamison said.
"They are the perfect couple 'cause they are both so spiritual. I think God matched them," Lauren said.
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BARRIE McKay last night admitted his rejection by Kilmarnock on medical grounds had given him the motivation to prove the Ayrshire club wrong and fuelled his desire to succeed at Rangers.
The winger, who celebrates his 18th birthday today – just in time for a wee tipple to toast the New Year – was at the Rugby Park club as a teenager only for the club's doctors to discover a hip defect which led to manager Kenny Shiels releasing him. It was a traumatic time for the young player, but thankfully there have been no recurrences of the problem since his emergence as a first pick for Rangers this season.
"I went for my medical and Kilmarnock said they had found a problem – it all escalated from there," McKay said. "Kenny Shiels and the physio told me I had to leave the club. When I came out I didn't want to do anything or see anybody.
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"Then I got the phone call from Rangers and it gave me a lift. So when I came here I felt I had a point to prove to Kilmarnock. I feel fine and I wouldn't say there is anything wrong with me. It's been a great year for me and I'm not quite sure how I top it. I'd like to keep playing and build on it and it would also be nice to get my first medal at Rangers."
If McKay wants a role model for putting early disappointment behind him to carve out a career, he could do worse than look at his manager. Ally McCoist recalls being passed over by none other than Sir Alex Ferguson at St Mirren, but it didn't stop him recording a glorious career for club and country.
The process, of course, also works in reverse, with Kris Boyd and Steven Naismith just two players that were released by Rangers only to be bought back for big fees. "I had seen a little of him Barrie, but I'd no idea he would progress the way he has," said McCoist. "I'm delighted, more than surprised, that Kilmarnock released him. But that's what happens – we've had boys who've gone and come back to bite you on the backside.
"The young boys we release, I shake them by the hand and tell them to go and prove us wrong. And if they do it, fantastic.
"I was let go by Fergie at St Mirren. When I was 13 or 14-years-old, Fergie used to pick me up at Calderwood in East Kilbride after I'd finished school. He would take Stevie Cowan and myself over to train with the 'S' Forms at St Mirren, while he trained the first team.
"Then we'd wait for him finishing and he'd take us back to East Kilbride. But I was told I was just too small. Devastated, I was. I have let him off, though. We've made up since then."


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Determinación econométrica del tipo de cambio en México
The present research examines the determinants of the nominal exchange rate in Mexico, for the short and long run. Based on a Cointegration model, we conclude that, for the long term, the nominal exchange rate is determined by: a) expectations of the nominal exchange rate; b) prices; c) monetary supply, and; d) productivity. While, for de short run, the nominal exchange rate is determined by: a) risk; expectations on the nominal exchange rate, and; c) prices.
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A 16-year-old student was arrested at Clarke Central High School Friday after being found roaming the hallways with marijuana, Athens-Clarke police said.
When questioning the student at about 9:50 a.m., a school resource officer noticed he was concealing something in his fist, and when the student opened his hand he was found to be holding a plastic bag containing marijuana, according to police.
The student was taken to the Youth Development Center and charged with possession of marijuana with intent to distribute and possession of marijuana within 1,000 feet of a school, police said.
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Chevron Press Release - Chevron And EPA Agree To Settle Richmond Refinery Dispute
RICHMOND, Calif., Oct. 15, 1998 -- Chevrons Richmond Refinery announced today that it has agreed to settle a dispute with the U.S. Environmental Protection Agency (EPA) by paying a $540,000 civil penalty rather than undertaking a potentially more costly litigation defense.
These events occurred between 1990 and 1995, and no harm was caused to the environment from any of them, said General Manager Bill Steelman. We are dedicated to operating the refinery with excellence and to preventing adverse impacts on the environment. We regret that any exceedences may have occurred.
The agreement, filed in Federal Court in San Francisco, focused primarily on the refinerys water discharge permit:
- Of almost 2400 wastewater tests from May 1990 through mid-1995, the refinery reported 16 cases in which its discharge limits were exceeded. The refinery believes these had no adverse impact on San Pablo Bay.
- The EPA says the refinery discharged stormwater containing some refining process water once in late 1994. The refinery believed this was allowed by its permit.
- The EPA says wastewater was discharged on occasion without carbon filtration and calls this a bypass of the refinerys treatment system. The refinery believed carbon filtration was an auxiliary process to be used when additional treatment was deemed necessary. As part of the settlement, however, Chevron installed additional carbon filters in 1995 and began routing wastewater through carbon filters on an on-going basis.
In addition, the settlement covered the following:
- Delayed reporting to federal authorities of three releases to air of potentially hazardous materials between July 1991 and February 1992. The events did not cause harm to the community. All were reported as soon as it was clear that reporting limits were exceeded.
- Minor inaccuracies in the annual toxic release inventory reports for 1989, 1990 and 1991.
Richmond Refinery employees have reviewed and improved procedures to ensure that similar events do not recur and are committed to meeting all environmental requirements, Steelman said.
Updated: October 1998


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Love-Shaped Story by Tommaso Pincio
358pp, Flamingo, £10
Who is Tommaso Pincio? His nom-de-plume is obviously a pun on Thomas Pynchon, and his debut novel, M (published in Italy in 1999), winks at Pynchon's V. His second novel, Lo Spazio Sfinito, a sci-fi romp in which Jack Kerouac is sent into space by Coca-Cola, has not yet touched down in English. His third, Un Amore dell'Altro Mondo, was issued in 2002 by his third Italian publisher in as many years, to mixed reviews. Yet here we have it, translated as Love-Shaped Story and featuring a cover shot of a winsome blond boy, his brow disfigured by the blood-red title.
Who is this boy? Type the words "Kurt Cobain" into an internet search engine and you will get hundreds of thousands of hits, including a number of "shrines" maintained by worshippers of the tragic Nirvana singer. Those fanatics, I presume, are the target audience for this sloppily crafted, excruciatingly pretentious novel.
Its hero is Homer B Alienson, a boy growing up in a Seattle logging town. The "B" stands for "Boddah", the name of Kurt Cobain's imaginary childhood friend, to whom many of Cobain's writings (including his suicide note) were addressed. When Homer is seven, his parents split up (in identical circumstances to Cobain's) and he decides that his real mother has been replaced by an alien bodysnatcher. Paranoia about being snatched himself causes him to stay awake for 20 years.
The adolescent Homer first meets his Doppelgänger under a bridge by a river. Kurt, homeless and fishing for his supper, explains to his new buddy that "eating fish is okay" because "they don't have feelings". This loose quote from the Nirvana song "Something in the Way" sets the tone for the symbiosis between Love-Shaped Story and Cobain's exhaustively documented history. Pincio puts some effort into sketching a relationship between two boys who are distinct but united by stomach ailments, divorced parents and so on, but after a while the evidence mounts that they are manifestations of the same person. Kurt and his shadow-friend both spend their adult lives addicted to heroin (euphemised as "System" in Homer's case), and are fated to blow out their brains with the same shotgun.
Homer's geeky misanthropy condemns him to loneliness, although he does fantasise about "Princess Heroine of the planet System - a girl as awesomely beautiful as space and as white as heroin". Such ad-campaign lyricism is just one facet of a 358-page overflow of prose that is almost exclusively devoted to defining and redefining the enigma of sloth. A staggering proportion of the book's sentences begin with declarations of inertia: "Homer impassively went on doing the little or nothing that he did..."; "His interactions with the surrounding world were so weak that..."; "After hours of catatonic contemplation..."
Jon Hunt has done an excellent job on the translation; Love-Shaped Story reads as though it was written straight into English. But then, there's nothing even vestigially European about Pincio's sensibility here; his mind is steeped in MTV, Twin Peaks and tacky reruns of American dreams. The maturity-phobic, zeitgeist-obsessed novels of Douglas Coupland and Bret Easton Ellis are obvious touchstones. Dialogue, of which there is regrettably very little, is Pincio's real strength, and suggests that he could write better, truer books than Love-Shaped Story if only he allowed his characters to talk to each other more. He is also capable of Vonnegutian drollery and the occasional vivid image, which a good editor might nurture. Alas, there is no sign of an editorial hand in this narcoleptic meditation on the crapness of human existence.
Early on, Homer explains to himself why he doesn't like literature: because it doesn't reflect reality. Reality, he muses, is a matter of "waiting for something to happen, hoping for something to happen, but it never does". It's the conclusion we might expect from a person who, on the previous page, acknowledges that "he could have turned the TV off, it's true. But for some reason he couldn't bring himself to do it." Tommaso Pincio, whoever he may be in reality, sorely needs to find a reason to switch off his TV.
Michel Faber's The Crimson Petal and the White is published by Canongate.


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Scottish family butcher Malcolm Allan's new factory was officially opened by MSP Richard Lochhead yesterday (25 February), following a £4m investment.
The site in Larbert has been up and running since early December, but saw its official ribbon-cutting this week, on the same day as founder Malcolm Allan's 95th birthday.
This year is also the 60th anniversary year for the business, which part-funded the new factory with the help of a grant from the Food Processing, Marketing and Co-operation scheme in 2012, of just under £850k.
James Allan, managing director, and son of Malcolm, said the firm had reached capacity at its existing premises, with increased demand prompting the decision to open a new production site.
The 25,000sq ft facility will enable to business to keep up with "demand for good traditional Scottish products from the supermarkets", said Allan.
Malcolm Allan is also launching new 1% fat sausage in response to the healthy eating trend, and the work by the Scottish government to reduce obesity in Scotland.
Including the new site, total employees at the business, which has an annual turnover of around £15m, now number approximately 150.


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Yesterday I received a notification mail that we released the Microsoft Server Virtualization Management Pack Beta 2 for System Center Operations Manager 2007. Download the Management Pack (MP) from the connect site. Note that will need to logon with your live ID.
Beside the MP you can now also download a pre-configured VHD that contains System Center Virtual Machine Manager Beta 2 (and all its prerequisites) to the SCVMM downloads section. This VHD can be used to easily test/demo SCVMM Beta 2 in your environment.
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OMAHA, Neb. --
A Grand Island, Neb., paramedic was the one in need of critical help recently when a black widow spider bit him on the arm.
The venom traveling through J.J. Wohlers' arm caused discoloration and unbearable pain.
Then it almost killed him.
His blood thickened, resulting in a stroke.
A blood clot in his leg was discovered before it made its way to his heart.
Wohlers is recovering from the incident.
Experts say black widows are common in Nebraska.
Males have yellow and red bands and spots.
Females, the poisonous sex, have a red hourglass shape on their stomach.
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Welcome to the surgical society at Bristol Medical School!
Interested in a career in surgery? Want a bit of help with your exams? Well Scrubs has the answer! Lifetime membership is just £5, giving you access to a host of events. Throughout the year we run a range of basic and advanced surgical workshops which include amongst others, suturing, knot tying, arterial anastomosis, tendon repair and laparascopic training. We organise a surgical exchange with Cardiff University and also run a series of surgical talks on SSCs, electives and women in surgery. Separate revision sessions for anatomy and clinical surgery to help you pass your exams are also held. To understand what a career in surgery entails and how to bag yourself a job we also host a surgical careers evening and offer talks about a surgical career at every surgical workshop! At the end of each year we host a national conference in conjunction with the Royal College of Surgeons of Edinburgh where you can present your work and win a national prize. Join Scrubs society and discovery surgery in a fun and professional environment!
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text: Increasingly, companies are adopting a customer-centric management strategy through which customer wants and needs drive a company's business processes. Disparate point systems, lacking the capability to analyze captured data in a holistic manner, render valuable information useless because it's hidden and inaccessible -- resulting in isolated, cumbersome decision-making. As a result, organizations are denied a holistic view of performance and actionable information, and therefore come up short on effective and efficient customer service across the enterprise.


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THERE are few 'lost Edinburgh' structures dating from the 1960s that are recalled as fondly as Goldbergs.
Located at High Riggs at the junction with Tollcross and Lauriston Place, Goldbergs department store proudly stood for over 25 years. Since its closure in 1990, it has gone from being a much missed shoppers paradise to securing a firm foothold within the annals of local legend.
The innovative owners of Goldbergs first opened a store in Glasgow in 1908, and by the middle of the century were ready to expand. They were intent on establishing a form of department store, that was at that time, unique to the city of Edinburgh. The bold, confident design represented a shift from the Victorian department stores of old. Twin gold statues adorned a plinth-like façade clad in distinctive marble and glass, the exterior loomed large over its surroundings. Tollcross was an area of town where the bleak, soot ridden tenements contrasted starkly against the clean-cut modernity that Goldbergs oozed. At its entrance, a car park provided an up to date convenience that automatically set it apart from its competition; here was a department store that embraced the future. Goldbergs yelled "cutting-edge" before you even had the chance to stroll through its automatic doors and traverse the impressively long escalators - both of which were considered new-fangled curiosities at the time.
The store was Jewish owned, and as a result was initially closed on a Saturday - a scenario which is difficult to imagine today. However, the obvious potential for increase in takings on weekends eventually convinced the owners to have a rethink. Asides from selling a variety of fashions and wares across 5 floors, the store also boasted a rooftop cafe offering castle views with a garden menagerie featuring a host of exotic birds. There was even a creche, providing one of the first and only family-friendly shopping precincts in the city at that time. Despite these advantages and its general retail dominance during the 1960s and 1970s, the creation of both the St. James and Waverley Shopping Centres were instrumental in the demise of Goldbergs. Sales suffered during the 1980s and since a proposed new highway system at Tollcross never came to fruition, the store simply couldn't compete based on location with its main two rivals. The axe finally fell in 1990 with demolition taking place in 1996. Apartments have since been built on the site.
High Riggs, the ancient and once prominent artery into old Edinburgh has never felt quite the same since.


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Another frequently cited source of symbolism within the book of Revelation is the various uninspired Jewish apocryphal writings:
Symbols and other suggestions are derived very frequently from the Old Testament, sometimes from common Hebrew folk-lore, and in some instances apparently from apocalyptic sources not preserved to us. There are passages in which critics are probably right in finding traces of the influence of some unknown apocalyptic writing.1
[The assumption of the two witnesses] into heaven (Rev. Rev. 11:12+) accords with that of Elijah (2K. 2K. 2:11), and with that of Moses as stated in The Assumption of Moses, mentioned by Clement of Alexandria and Origin. In this instance the Revelation seemingly assumes the familiarity of its readers with apocryphal literature.2Beckwith says that John incorporates common Hebrew folk-lore (non-truths) and bases meaning upon material which is unknown and in any case is not available to us. From the similarity of the ministry of one of the two witnesses with that of Moses, Tenney infers one must be Moses and therefore the reader is assumed to be in need of information from The Assumption of Moses to understand this fact. These are claims which are quite out of proportion with the hard evidence. Most often, our inability to understand some symbol in the book is not based upon the unavailability of an unknown apocalyptic writing, but our ignorance of the Old Testament. Further, familiarity with The Assumption of Moses is not required in order for one of the two witnesses to be Moses. Not to mention that there are reasons for supposing that neither of the two witnesses is Moses himself, but other Jews yet to be born.
Swete observes:
There is no evidence that any one of [the noncanonical apocalypses] has served him as a source; coincidences between the work of John and the extant Jewish books are nearly limited to minor points connected with the imagery and diction. Under the circumstances it is more than precarious to postulate sources of which nothing is known.3What many mistake as the dependence of John upon noncanonical apocalyptic writings is their common allusion to events from the Old Testament:
The general nature of the Revelation has been described as both apocalyptic and prophetic. Jewish apocalyptic literature can be seen in Isaiah Isa. 24:1-Isa. 27:1, Ezekiel Eze. 38:1-Eze. 39:1, Daniel Dan. 7:1-Dan. 12:1, and Zechariah Zec. 9:1-Zec. 14:1. Similar elements appear in the apocryphal books of Enoch, Baruch, Fourth Ezra, the Ascension of Isaiah, and the Apocalypse of Zephaniah. But none of these are quoted in the Revelation, which draws most of its symbolic imagery from the canonical Old Testament books. [emphasis added]4
1 Isbon T. Beckwith, The Apocalypse of John (Eugene, OR: Wipf and Stock Publishers, 2001), viii.
2 Merrill C. Tenney, Interpreting Revelation (Peabody, MA: Hendrickson Publishers, 1957), 191.
3 Henry Barclay Swete, The Apocalypse of St. John (Eugene, OR: Wipf and Stock Publishers, 1998, 1906), xlix.
4 Edward Hindson, Revelation: Unlocking the Future (Chattanooga, TN: AMG Publishers, 2002), 1.


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Cruz not concerned with quad flare-up
Cruz not concerned with quad flare-up
ANAHEIM -- Rangers outfielder Nelson Cruz was removed from Monday's game against the Angels with tightness in his left quad muscle. Cruz left the game in the seventh inning, but the situation is not considered serious. Cruz wears a sleeve on his legs to protect against these problems. He felt the muscle tighten while running before the game and finally decided to come out with his team leading, 8-2. When he took the sleeve off in the training room, he couldn't feel the tightness anymore.
"They did a lot of tests after I came out and I didn't feel anything," Cruz said. "But we were up six runs and I didn't think the team needed me. I felt it, so I wanted to be cautious." Cruz was 1-for-4 with a home run before coming out of the game. Cruz had to come out of a game on July 29 in Toronto because of the same problem. He missed two games because the Rangers were playing on the artificial turf at Rogers Centre. "It's not as bad as that," Cruz said. He was on the disabled list for 17 days in May because of a strained right quad muscle and was out three times last season because of strained muscles. That's why the Rangers are always cautious with him. The Rangers will know more Tuesday if Cruz will have to miss time. But if he does, it won't be for too long.
T.R. Sullivan is a reporter for MLB.com. Read his blog, Postcards from Elysian Fields, and follow him on Twitter @Sullivan_Ranger. This story was not subject to the approval of Major League Baseball or its clubs.


text: On Thu, Dec 09, 2010 at 05:48:30PM -0000, Sittampalam, Ganesh wrote: > Ian Lynagh wrote: > > > This sort of disagreement is exactly what the process was designed to > > avoid: People shouldn't be surprised by changes, as they have been > > discussed and agreed on the mailing list. > > Despite reading the libraries list, I've been uniformly surprised when > I've run into changes in the wild. IMO It's too hard to keep track of an > overview, amongst all the noise of discussions of individual proposals. > Perhaps if we had a web page with a log of accepted proposals and those > under discussion would help the situation, by gathering just the > summaries together in one place. I'm not sure I see how this would help. When you run into a change in the wild, don't you already know what it is? Are you wanting to be able to look up exactly what changed? Or when it changed? Or whether it was actually agreed, rather than an accidental change? Thanks Ian


text: I've been struggling to get a great tone from my Markbass setup. I run a CMD121P amp with a New York cab - had this for a while. However, I've recently changed bass, now got a 2012 American Standard Precision. Love the bass - but I just can't seem to nail 'the' tone. I'm pretty much playing with a pick in the current band, nickel wound D'addario strings. Tried everything at 12, bit of gain, fiddled with the filters....but it still sounds a bit top 'sharp'. I've rolled the tone off the bass about half way as well. Any suggestions on this? I've googled some settings, and it just confused me even more!


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Matt Schaub vs. TEN
Schaub broke 300 yards for the second straight time and has 103 attempts in the last two games. This bodes well for fantasy owners, as well as that due to injuries the Texans once mighty defense has been struggling. Schaub should be in for another solid effort this week against division-rival Tennessee. The Titans have allowed the sixth most fantasy yards to quarterbacks, and Schaub's first game was a solid 202-yard, two-touchdown performance in Week 4. Look for another starter-worthy performance this week from Schaub as the Texans get closer to clinching home-field advantage.
Cam Newton vs. KC
Newton is coming off his best fantasy performance of the season, accounting for four touchdowns in the Monday night win over the Eagles. Overall, Newton has been a bit of a disappointment this season, but he has the matchup this week to have another stellar performance. The Chiefs have allowed the ninth most fantasy points to quarterbacks and have allowed multiple passing touchdowns in five of their last six games. Newton also could be big on the ground as the Chiefs have yet to face a mobile quarterback this season. Look for Newton to be have one of the better quarterback performances this week in a battle of teams that will be drafting early in April.
Rashad Jennings vs. BUF
With injuries to Maurice Jones-Drew (foot) and Jalen Parmele (groin), Jennings is in line to see the bulk of the action against the Bills. Jennings has not bee very good, averaging just about 2.8 yards per carry, and he hasn't broken 60 yards despite getting double-digit carries in five of the last six games. However, this week should be Jennings' best shot to be fantasy relevant against Buffalo. The Bills have allowed the most fantasy points on the ground this season and have allowed a league-high 14 rushing touchdowns. While Jennings isn't a great player, he could be a nice one-week flex option, especially for owners dealing with injury bug that happens this time of year.
Eric Decker vs. TB
Decker has cooled off tremendously the last three weeks, catching just eight balls for 102 yards and a touchdown, and on the season has just one 100-yard game receiving. Still, the Broncos have been one of the better passing teams in the NFL and have a great matchup this week against Tampa. The Bucs have allowed the most fantasy points to wide receivers this season and have allowed touchdowns to receivers in six straight games. While Demaryius Thomas is clearly the top target in Denver, there should be enough balls to go around for Decker to have one of his better games of the season.
Martellus Bennett vs. WAS
The first three weeks of the season, Bennett played like a top-5 tight end, scoring touchdowns each week and averaging five catches a game. Since then, he hasn't found the endzone and has just one game of five catches. That game was against this week's opponent, the Redskins. Washington is the third worst team in the NFL against the tight end and has given up at least five catches to the position for seven straight weeks. Look for Bennett to have one of his best games in the past several months and be a low-end starter this week.
Joe Flacco vs. PIT
Flacco has been the ultimate feast-or-famine quarterback. He has four games with more than 300 yards and four games with fewer than 200. When the Ravens defeated the Steelers two week ago Flacco threw for just 164 yards and no touchdowns. Despite the Steelers' struggles in the win column without Ben Roethlisberger, they still rank second in fewest fantasy points allowed to the quarterback and have given up less than 200 yards passing in six straight games. Look for this to be a bench week for Flacco with much better options on the board.
Marshawn Lynch vs. CHI
Lynch's streak of four straight 100-yard games came to a halt last week against the Dolphins in a tough matchup. This week's matchup looks to be even tougher as the Seahawks have a pivotal showdown against the Bears in Chicago. The Bears rank second in the league in fewest fantasy point given up to running backs this season. While Lynch will be in your lineup, unless you have great depth, don't expect this to be a bounce-back week for him in the Windy City.
Stevan Ridley vs. MIA
Ridley has been on a roll lately, scoring touchdowns in each of his last four games and rushing for at least 97 yards in three of his last four games. This week the matchup is a tough one against the Dolphins. The Dolphins have surrendered the seventh fewest fantasy points against running backs and are especially good against the ground game, ranking fifth in yards allowed to running backs on the ground and fourth in touchdowns allowed (3). Again, Ridley is probably too good to keep out of your lineup, but don't be surprised if this is his worst game in the last month.
Steven Jackson vs. SF
Jackson had some success in his first outing against the 49ers, rushing for 101 yards, but that was on 29 carries in one of the worst performances the 49ers had all season. The 49ers appear to have righted the ship and come into the rematch with Jackson as the toughest team in the league against fantasy running backs. They have given up just one touchdown rushing in the last five weeks, and the last two opponents have combined for just 131 yards on 46 carries. Look for Jackson's hot three-week stretch to end this week against San Francisco.
Danario Alexander vs. CIN
At press time, Alexander (thigh) appears likely to play this week against Cincinnati. Since being inserted into the lineup, Alexander has been a real find for the Chargers. He has 17 catches for 304 yards and three touchdowns in the last three weeks. This week presents Alexander with his toughest matchup to date against the Bengals. The Bengals rank fourth in fantasy points allowed to the wide receiver position and have been hot lately, holding their last two opponents to just eight catches for 89 yards. Look for Alexander to have potential his lowest output of the season this week.
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Space Invaders Revolution DS Preview
Ever since video gaming was first around there has been one game that everyone has known or played and that is Space Invaders. It was one of the games that kicked off the gaming era and thus deserves its place in the gaming hall of fame. Many companies have tried to relive the game in the modern era but just going back and bringing it to a new console is not going to work. This is because at its core the game is extremely basic and the fact it is never completed can turn people away who have only recently started to game. Rising Star, a new European publisher, is set to change that with the release of Space Invaders Revolution for the DS.
Space Invaders, for those who don't know, tasks the player with shooting a number of ships which progressively get closer and closer to the players ship. The player must shoot all the ships before this occurs and as the numbers dwindle they become faster. Rising Star is promising that Revolution will have this game mode but they aren't just going to rehash it and put it on the market for the DS, they are completely revolutionizing the game, if you'll excuse the pun.
The main new game mode is known as the New Era mode where the game has been redesigned to be mission based and could reinvigorate the game enough to make it a decent title. You work between famous cities trying to take down the alien invasion with a number of constraints to make the game harder. The examples given thus far include London where players have to shoot invaders in colour coded order to complete the mission while in another, you may find invisible invaders. It is this that should make Revolution an extremely interesting game, especially when paired with the DS technology. The mode will have twenty locations, which sixty missions to complete meaning that Space Invaders Revolution may possibly be the most played in terms of length SI game for at least a decade. Players can now also gain powerups to help them in these missions. No longer do you just have the ship and shields, support craft, rapid fire and more shields can be picked up to help the cause.
The one interesting factor will be how they plan to use the Dual Screen setup. They have already confirmed that the game will be controllable via the controls and also the stylus but have failed to mention how the screens will be used. We're guessing that the invaders will just be positioned on the top screen with the ship and shields on the bottom.
Space Invaders Revolution will be a decent game for the DS, for fans of the series and perhaps has changed enough to bring even more people in. The jury is still out on remakes of SI and Rising Star may have just found the formula to bring it back to its most popular days, almost thirty years later. Look for it in April this year.
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Cozies, the mystery subgenre, are how Grammia takes her attention away from worrying about whether there will be enough money next time she rings open the cash register. She recently delighted in the combination of fine chocolate and taxidermy while knocking off JoAnna Carl's The Chocolate Moose Motive, the author's most recent tale of murder, mystery and fine chocolate.
Whenever Grammia (a conglobulation of Grandmother and Mamma Mia with roots lost to time) updated everyone back of the Cupid Alley shop with the latest from Warner Pier, the resort town on Lake Michigan where Texas beauty Lee McKinney seems regularly to stumble upon a little bit of death and a whole lot of intrigue while managing Aunt Nettie's TenHuis Chocolade shop, we began to think (too gruesomely and probably too glibly) of how much we'd like to see the book adapted for television — possibly under the title "Murder She Ate," celebrating Carl's mysteries, chocolate on television and also giving a shout out to the forever syndicated show starring Angela Lansbury as writer Jessica Fletcher who was always turning up something amiss in Cabot Cove, Maine.
Accompanying the dream of future television shows is the desire to learn more about the author. In real life she is a fifth-generation Oklahoman and former newspaper reporter for a quarter century or so, who loved mysteries from earliest reading age, was encouraged into writing cozies by a book editor and decided to base it around a chocolate shop as a daughter was then employed in one. She is also kindly enough to share a few minutes and answer some of our questions.
Cupid Alley Chocolatieres: Do you remember the first chocolate that made an impression on you and is there any path you can draw from that taste to the Chocoholic Mysteries?
JoAnna Carl: My mother loved chocolate and mysteries. As a pre-schooler I can remember loving chocolate milk, which she told me I called "choc." Once, she said, she was reading when I asked for "choc," and she replied, "Let me finish my chapter." I sighed and said, "Whenever I ask for choc, you say you want to finish your chapter." So you see that chocolate and mystery were linked in my mind from early childhood. There's no direct path from choc to Chocoholic, however.
CAC: What about a business selling chocolate suggested that it would make the perfect base for series of mysteries?
JC: The Chocoholic Mysteries were inspired by a former editor, who suggested I "try something cozy." When your editor makes a suggestion, a smart writer takes it seriously! It took me about eight hours from his suggestion to the recollection that my younger daughter was business manager for a small company that made luxury chocolates. Then the next day (I was at a convention) Earlene Fowler, author of fabulous mysteries with a background of quilting, commented, "No one's ever written a series with the word 'chocolate' in every title." My heart leaped, and I said, "Someone's about to." And Earlene said, "The idea's all yours." I give her all the credit for inspiring my titles!
Anyway, by the time I flew home from the convention I was well into the world of chocolate. First, because I could ask my daughter questions, it would be easy to research, and for a lot of reasons I won't enumerate here, I needed to act fast on the editor's suggestion. Second, it was an idea I could adapt to a small town setting, and I prefer a small town setting for a cozy. Third, there's nothing in the world more cozy than chocolate, and that's what the editor wanted.
Sometimes readers act disappointed when they hear that writers come up with ideas to order, so to speak. But every truly professional writer I've ever known has done this. It's what makes us "professional," I think. After all, being "professional" means you get paid for your work, right? On the other hand, a good writers write what they feel compelled to write, say what they have to say. Perhaps an analogy would be if a customer came to a dressmaker and said, "I need a gown for the Oscars." A professional dressmaker wouldn't then design and make her a pair of overalls, no matter how much the designer herself loved denim. But maybe overalls made of velvet and trimmed in tulle… Does this make any sense at all? A creative professional can give the customer what she wants, so to speak, while still being creative.
CAC: A particular treat of your books is how "chocolate lore" is infused. What are your favorite bits?
JC: I like the historical bits. One of the most fascinating books I've read about chocolate was The Emperors of Chocolate by Joel Glenn Brenner. This is a look at the long and bitter rivalry between Forest Mars Sr. and Milton S. Hershey. These two giants of American culture and of industry had lives as dramatic as any novel could be. Okay, you've uncovered one of my secrets! I'll always be more interested in people than in the melting point of chocolate. My books are mysteries, not how-to books on chocolate.
CAC: What are your personal favorite chocolates and how has writing about chocolate changed the way you enjoy chocolate?
JC: My favorite candy bar is Cadbury's Caramello, and I'm also very fond of Heath Bars – to the point I don't dare have either in the house. At least neither stays in the house very long. For homemade chocolate, I go for "Gran's Fudge" or "Linda's Toffee." The recipe for "Gran's Fudge" is among the lore in "The Chocolate Moose Mystery." Linda's Toffee is even better than a Heath Bar, but I'd have to track Linda down and get her permission before I could hand her recipe out, and I've lost touch with her son, who gave it to me.
Okay, okay, I admit I'm a chocolate lowbrow. Real chocolate aficionados taste chocolate much as wine freaks taste wine. First, they want only dark chocolate pastilles, little squares. they sniff it. They let it melt on the tongue. But I assure you they do not spit it in the waste jar! I, however, like sweet fillings, nuts, and other goodies mixed with my chocolate, and I wolf it down.
CAC: If you will, what kinds of recipes, mysteries and ideas are being cooked up in the kitchen of TenHuis Chocolade for future books?
JC: Things have changed for TenHuis Chocolade, and that's largely because my daughter left the chocolate business and went to work for a chicken wing company. (My new editor loves chocolate, but says there's no mystery in the chicken wing business!) Of course, she remembers a lot about chocolate – as I say, she was in the business office and didn't actually dip truffles, etc. But I was lucky enough to meet a really nice chocolatier named Elizabeth Garber (Twitter's @IndyChocolate), who owns and operates Best Chocolate in Town in Indianapolis. In addition to making fabulous chocolates, Elizabeth — and her husband and mother-in-law – is a mystery fan. If I need to know how to do something, I give her a ring, and she helps me. Plus, she lets me copy her product line. So the chocolates offered by TenHuis are a bit different from the ones in earlier books — more exotic — but they're still good and authentic.
CAC: In addition to the mysteries enveloping the world of Lee McKinney, and her Aunt Nettie, what other projects are near and dear to your heart?
JC: I'm not sure I have any projects ready for plugging. But someday…For one thing, I remain an unreconstructed Okie, although the Chocoholic books are laid in a Lake Michigan resort. Well, I love that area, too – we're "summer people," after all. But I'd eventually like to write something else laid in Oklahoma. Possibly historical. Oklahoma may have the most fascinating history of any state in the union. I'd like to mine it.
CAC note: The Chocolate Book Bandit, scheduled for publication in October is available for pre-order. Also, readers interested in seeing a different side of JoAnna Carl should consider that while Eve K. Sandstrom hasn't published anything new in a while, her "Down Home" books are available as POD books (order a print-on-demand copy through your local bookseller) and keep an eye out for announcement of an eBook deal on the Nell Matthews/Mike Svenson books published in the '90s.


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Vietnamese History: Thiên Sách Vương (天策王),reign: 954-965
Brought back by his younger brother Ngô Xương Văn to the throne, Ngô Xương Ngập soon abused his rights as the oldest son and began to rule Giao Chỉ as dictator. The country was ripe for open rivalries between different lords who fought each other to become the next successor.
[edit] Ngô Sứ Quân (吳使君),reign: 965-968
After Ngô Xương Ngập's death in 965, his son Ngô Xương Xí (吳昌熾) succeeded him. But as he ascended to the throne Ngô Xương Xí was faced with the daunting task of having his rule recognized by the now open rivalry between the 12 lords who fought one another as they vied for control of the country. With the announcement of his rule, the country was thrown into a chaotic period called the Thập Nhị Sứ Quân (十二使君) Rebellion.
[edit] "The 12 Lords Rebellion" or "Thập Nhị Sứ Quân Rebellion" (966-968)
The 12 Lords were:
* Ngô Xương Xí (the nominal emperor whose reign and rule were contested)
* Đỗ Cảnh Thạc
* Trần Lãm (who proclaimed himself Trần Minh Công. It was Trần Lãm who trained Đinh Bộ Lĩnh who soon would emerge and prove himself as the strongest of the 12 lords and eventually found the Đinh Dynasty.
* Kiều Công Hãn (who proclaimed himself Kiều Công Che)
* Nguyễn Khoan (who proclaimed himself Nguyễn Thái Bình)
* Ngô Nhật Khánh
* Lý Khê
* Nguyễn Thủ Tiệp
* Lý Đường
* Nguyễn Siêu
* Kiều Thuận
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SHERIDAN — As the weather warms and the land dries out, outdoorsmen of all varieties will take to the trails.
Whether hiking, biking or on horseback, these trekkers will likely unknowingly owe a debt of gratitude to a small local chapter of a national organization for the lovely path they are following.
The Wyoming Back Country Horsemen of America have been cleaning and maintaining trails throughout the state since 1989 when the Riverton-Lander chapter of a Montana-based club formed.
Just two years later the second chapter in the state formed and the Cloud Peak BCH have been serving Sheridan, Buffalo and Gillette ever since.
The idea was born out of the concern of horsemen in Montana after The Wilderness Act of 1964 passed without specific identification of which uses of government owned wilderness would be considered appropriate.
The first club was formed there in 1973 and pressured legislators to add wording stating "traditional recreational saddle and pack stock use is recognized as an appropriate and historical use of wilderness."
Today there are approximately 150 chapters nationwide with a total membership of more than 14,000 horsemen with a singular goal of protecting the people's right and ability to use the backcountry trails.
Though there are no paid members, even at the national officer level, the club describes themselves as a "working group."
Dwight French, president of the CPBCH, says the group will do any project they can to help keep trails open including building public trail head facilities.
Their duties include cutting back timber that has overgrown or fallen across a path and spending a great deal of time cleaning up trash.
The group lives by the motto "pack it in, pack it out" and even when on a family camping or hiking trip they vow to leave the areas they see in better condition than they found them. Recently a group even rode into the mountains on mules to break down and pack out old broken down snowmobiles that had been abandoned by riders.
Their hope is to leave no trace of man in the wilderness so future generations can have the same cherished experiences they have.
The biggest event each year is National Trails Day, held by all groups and trail enthusiasts nationally on the first Saturday in June.
Years ago, the chapter adopted a trailhead at Hole in the Wall and built highlines, created a public outhouse and painted trail signs to keep the public safe and on track. On the national working day, the group meets to provide maintenance to the items, repaint the signs, clear the paths of debris and pack out trash.
"We take care of everything we make for the community," French said. "We also took under our belt the Buffalo Run, an 8000 acre area anyone can ride, walk or horseback on, so it's not just trails."
The group cleans that area and the stretch of highway along it twice a year.
But it is not just the public that is benefitting from the services of the group; their many volunteer hours help the National Forest Service stay in budget as well.
"The forest service doesn't have the budget anymore to go around and clean all the trails, so we do what we can to help," said French. "There are just too many trails for them to have the money and man power to maintain them all."
The hours the volunteers log cleaning trails are recorded and sent to the Forest Service. According to the Bighorn National Forest Sheridan office, the Cloud Peak chapter personally contributed 206 hours of trail work in 2013, which equates to $3,090 in value. Since 1996, the Wyoming Back Country Horsemen of America have collectively contributed over $588,820 in volunteer labor on trails, at trailheads and in educational roles.
"We are fortunate to have a network of volunteers and partners who help us accomplish so much on the Bighorn National Forest," said Susan Douglas of the BNF. "Volunteers are an integral part of the work we do and the Back Country Horsemen are an important part of the volunteer program"
The chapter has approximately 35 active family members and several single members, which cost $30 and $25 in member dues annually, respectively. Though the original members of the Cloud Peak group were primarily located in Buffalo, French says he has seen a shift recently and most of the group is now younger and more active people from Sheridan.
To be a member, all you need is a love of the outdoors and a commitment to keep it clean. Members do not need to own horses as most of the cleaning and maintaining is done on foot.
Though the horsemen log a lot of working hours they are always sure to make time to enjoy the fruits of their labor as well. Whether taking an hour to joy ride after a clean-up or organizing a group pleasure ride or hike, the Cloud Peak members know how to enjoy and preserve the beauty of the Wyoming Wilderness.
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A Colorado appeals court judge will be the new executive director of the Nashville-based American Judicature Society starting Jan. 1, the AJS announced.
Russell Carparelli, judge of the Colorado Court of Appeals, was chosen after a national search, said Martha Hill Jamison, AJS president.
"Russell Carparelli is a superb choice to lead AJS into its second century," Jamison said.
The AJA announced an affiliation with Vanderbilt Law School in July, including relocating to the Vanderbilt campus from Des Moines.
Founded in 1913, the AJS is a nonpartisan organization with a national membership of judges, lawyers and other citizens interested in improving the nation's courts and the administration of justice. The AJS mission is to secure and promote an independent and qualified judiciary and a fair system of justice.
Judge Carparelli begins work at the AJS Jan. 1, following his retirement from the bench.
"I am honored to help lead AJS as it begins its second century and builds its relationship with Vanderbilt Law School," Carparelli said. "The task is nothing less than helping to preserve the rule of law and the freedom, equality and prosperity it enables."
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The smell is nutmeg and pumpkin. It's not overflowing cinnamon as some spiced teas can be. It smells like spiced pumpkin pie, and it's not a fake taste when you sip it. The spices aren't too strong, so I like it without milk. The spices aren't overall strong enough to stand milk very well, if you make it the traditional chai way, I mean. Just have to make it stronger next time I do that.