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The court approved Orchard Supply Hardware's request to get access to $177 million in financing to help the business run operations through the bankruptcy process.
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"We appreciate the Court's careful consideration and approval of our financing, which is critical to maintaining our normal operations during the Chapter 11 process" said Mark Baker, Orchard President and Chief Executive Officer.
Lowe's has put a bid of $205 million to acquire Orchard Supply's assets, which it plans to run as a standalone business with Orchard's current management team.
Lowe's bid will have to clear a bankruptcy auction where other suitors will be allowed to place competitive offers for the court to entertain.
Based in San Jose, Calif., and with fiscal 2012 annual revenue of $657 million, Orchard Supply operates 91 neighborhood hardware and garden stores, primarily located in densely populated markets in California.
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|The Mistress
My job as a mistress in your relationship is to give him a break from reality, yes, you and the kids are real but so are the bills and school fees and work stress. I'm where he de-stresses. I, the mistress know my place, trust me I do, I know to keep quiet when you call while we are together.
I know not to spend on his credit card but to ask for cash, all this is to protect you, yes ,you, from pain, humiliation and suffering, I get a tired frustrated man and send you a well rested happy man, thank me, don't disrespect the mistress for it! Calling me won't change the fact that my clothes are expensive and my car is paid off, it won't change the fact that my university fees are paid and I get to go to the weekend conferences or boy's nights out, swearing at me won't change the fact that he grabs my headboard while he rocks my world and screams like a girl, something you probably don't even know about the man you married.
You don't know the effort we put behind our little rendezvous just to keep your pudgy Bottom happy, and feeling secure.
Trust me, the mistress the more you come after me the more he wants me, the more money he spends on me, the more intense our sessions get.
A true mistress will never ask him to leave you, instead she encourages him to stay with you even if you have messed up badly.
We never consider getting pregnant out of fear of having to deal with your sour face for the rest of our lives. So relax, your kids are priority numero uno, even to us, we pick out the toys and clothes he shows up with, we encourage bonding time.
Consider yourself lucky if you find my number,saved in his male co-worker's or boss's name, at least you know he's taken care of when you are tired, and he's gonna come right back once we done re-furbishing my apartment. Oh and trust me, I do the fighting for us, its my job to make sure its just us two, any others will be dealt with severely by me, so don't ruin your manicure, I get a weekly one so its okay, let me do it.
I respect you, hence I stay away from family functions and make sure I take all my stuff out of the car when I was there,
I don't call after he's left the office because I know its your turn.
I, the mistress have my own things, the rest is just a bonus for having a kind and sharing attitude, I'm a professional with a great job and earn enough, I don't have time to tend to a full time relationship, not that i have one anyway hence i don't mind being the mistress and I don't mind when he goes home to you.
My advice to you wifey is to stay in your home, and don't pack your stuff and go tell your mom how you failed at being a wife, it just makes you look silly and weak and our man needs strong women around him. Look after your kids, tend to your home, cook those hearty meals you are so famous for, I can't cook with these nails. Don't ask about me, he's just going to lie and toss and turn in bed thinking about me in my Victoria secret set he bought me for valentines day.As you know, the mistress always gets the sexy stuff. Let me be, I will leave on my own accord one day, when i get tired of being his mistress.
If you don't we might just trade places and you are going to blame everyone but yourself for taking his heart from you. I don't intend to, I would rather spend my time and money on expensive holidays with our man. Truth is, I make him feel good, I'm a reminder of when he was young and I do all the things you are afraid to do, or just won't do because you believe you are past that, I'm forever young and I compliment him, you suit him, trust me honey, there is a huge difference.
I respect marriage and all it stands for, that's why I'm doing my part to help yours stay together, so don't think just because i'm a mistress I don't, I respect the nice thing you have done and I love your kids too much to hurt them. Don't cry over me, or what we do, let it be, play your part and I will do what I'm supposed to do.
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Republicans have offered a wide array of proposals to "repeal and replace" the Affordable Care Act since it became law in 2010. But few have come with the pedigree of the plan just unveiled by a trio of senior Senate Republicans.
The Patient Choice, Affordability, Responsibility and Empowerment Act, or CARE for short, is a proposal being floated by Sens. Richard Burr, R-N.C., Orrin Hatch, R-Utah, and Tom Coburn, R-Okla.
Hatch is the senior Republican on the Senate Finance Committee; Burr is on the health subcommittee of the Health, Education, Labor and Pensions Committee; Coburn is a physician. All three have spent much or all of their legislative careers working on health policy.
"Obamacare just isn't working," Hatch said on the Senate floor Monday afternoon. "Try as he might during tomorrow night's State of the Union address, President Obama will not be able to convince the American people that his health care law is anything other than an unmitigated disaster."
At a briefing for health reporters, aides to the senators said the goal of their proposal is to focus on bringing down costs. Hence the plan would repeal the ACA's requirements that most people have insurance, as well as requirements that insurers offer minimum benefits and employers offer insurance or face potential fines.
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And while the aides insisted that the overall plan is intended to create less disruption for people insured through their jobs, the GOP plan would be financed via a highly controversial mechanism: capping the so-called employer health insurance exclusion at 65 percent. That means that for the average worker, 35 percent of the health insurance benefits that are currently tax-free would instead be considered taxable income.
Economists across the political spectrum have recommended such a change as a way to curb the growing generosity of employer-provided health benefits. But the first small step toward that, a so-called Cadillac tax in the ACA, has proved so radioactive that most people doubt it will ever take effect as scheduled in 2018.
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This plan sucks. It's worse than the ACA in being favorable to the big insurance companies.
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So pretty much going back to the way it was with insurance companies being the only real beneficiaries.
Only now we would have to pay taxes on our employer contributions to the company healthcare plan
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So pretty much going back to the way it was with insurance companies being the only real beneficiaries.
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This plan sucks. It's worse than the ACA in being favorable to the big insurance companies.
Holy Crap people! Insurance companies suck.
And why should it be tied to employment anyway?
Single Payer!
Buy your own insurance if you don't want to use a single payer system. Nothing would stop you.
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Forget about competing with the family up the street the next time you bid on a new home - the real competition may be sitting at a computer in Shanghai.
With their government worried about a domestic housing bubble, more mainland Chinese investors are looking toward Canada's booming housing market as a haven for their dollars.
"The world continues to get smaller and smaller," said Don Lawby, president of Century 21 Canada Ltd. "There's investment coming from all over the world, but especially from countries that have any sort of restriction on ownership."
Chinese officials - alarmed by housing prices that increased by 7.8 per cent in the country's 70 biggest cities in 2009 - imposed a sales tax late last year on homes sold within five years of their purchase, in a bid to dampen speculation.
This has investors casting their eyes out of the country, with some Chinese entrepreneurs offering tours in the United States so investors can see properties in person.
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While Chinese residents have long looked to Canada as a site for their capital, and while they have been buying steadily in the Vancouver and Toronto real estate markets for years, the combination of a clampdown at home and a blazing hot market in this country is spurring even more interest.
Canada's real estate market rebounded strongly in 2009, with sales improving 7.7 per cent over 2008, and the national average price moving 5-per-cent higher. Low interest rates and a backlog of demand have been cited as reasons for the surge, and many analysts are calling for the market to cool down as domestic demand fades.
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To tap into the demand, Century 21 will unveil a new Chinese version of its website this week, the first major real estate company to do so in Canada. The site is the cornerstone of a strategy that will see the company increasingly marketing properties directly to consumers in mainland China.
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"However, a byproduct is that Canadian listings will be more visible to buyers from around the world … there's always a need for a safe haven to place money and invest."
Vancouver agent William Nip estimates he sells 40 properties to Chinese nationals each year, a number that has increased every year since he started dealing in property 17 years ago.
So far this year, most of his clients are looking to spend up to $2-million on premium properties.
"The bubble in China is already very big, so the government is encouraging them to take their money and spend somewhere else," said Mr. Nip, who works at Sutton Group West Coast Realty.
While there's no doubt the Chinese are looking abroad, Patrick Chovanec, a business professor at Beijing's Tsinghua University, cautioned that many would-be buyers aren't in a position to actually spend outside the country's borders despite their interest.
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The Los Angeles Angels figured to be AL West superpowers this season, at the very least. Many experts picked them to win the World Series heading into the 2013 season, and it wouldn't have been a tough proposition to argue.
Mike Trout? Check. Jered Weaver? Check. Albert Pujols? Check. And ... Josh Hamilton, check.
Pujols signed a mega-deal before the 2012 season and played in just 99 games in 2013. Hamilton was signed this past winter, given a $125 million deal, and tanked miserably.
Yet, here we are, in late October and the St. Louis Cardinals are back in the World Series without Pujols. The Texas Rangers were certainly not world-beaters in 2013, but they made it to an AL Wild Card tiebreaker despite a ton of injuries and adversity, and without Hamilton.
The Angels failed once again, finishing a distant third in the AL West as Pujols hit .258 with 17 homers and 64 RBIs in his 99 games in the second year of his 10-year, $240 million deal.
Hamilton just looked like a lost soul for much of the season before turning things around late in the year, and way too late to make a difference for the Angels. He finished the year hitting .250 with 21 homers and 79 RBIs in 151 games after hitting .285 with 43 homers and 128 RBIs in 2012 with the Rangers.
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Mobile ad-hoc networks having no fixed Infrastructure and without any physical connections of mobile devices such as laptop etc. Due to mobility of nodes, interference, multipath propagation and path loss, MANET has no fixed topology. Hence, MANET has to need dynamic routing protocols for these networks to function properly for delivering the data packets from source node to desired destination. This property of the nodes makes the mobile ad hoc networks unpredictable from the point of view of scalability and topology. In general, routing protocols for MANETs are designed based on the assumption that all participating nodes are fully cooperative.
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Can any one help me with ataching a hog head horizontally to a vertical board? the customer wants the head protruding off the wall from a flat piece of panel. HELP! Thank you in advance
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the pedestal plaques will allow you to position the skull at a slight angle for viewing (almost horiz) while maintaining a vetical board on the wall. they can also be used in desktop form (better be a big desk for boar skull). they are simple to make, but if you want to buy one, look in the WASCO or Van Dyke's catalog. they were listed in both. Once you see the picture of one, you will be amazed at how simple the design is. you might need to adjust the measurements to fit the boar (I don't remember if they had boar represented), AND the angle. all of the pics show the skull at a 30 -45% angle. minor adjustments could be done to go horizontal
hope this helps
How do you attach the lower jaw to the top jaw and then to the board?
usually when the lower jaw is used, the jaw is attached by using wire near the hinge... wiring it shut. clear two part epoxy could work, but you could really mess up with it. I am at work at the moment, but I can look when I get to the house, I have a reference that addresses the skull issue, and details how to do the jaw.
mounting to the panel is another issue, there are many different options, all of which will work.
a "grabber screw" with a small block of wood or backer in the skull, run the grabber screw through the bottom of the plank through the skull to the insert piece of wood... be careful... you can ruin all of your work by getting this too tight... pre-drilling is almost a must...
use threaded rod in similar fashion ... pre drill, then put a washer/nut combo inside the skull, with the htreaded rod extending down... through the predrilled hole in the plank... put a nut washer combo on bottom of plank... there ya go.
you can try to use one of the two part epoxies, but this could be fragile, plus could easily mar the finished appearance. it dries clear, but can be noticed. I do not advise this method since if the mount is moved, the epoxy can break free, and the whole thing come crashing down...
I am sure that there are a plethora with more experience that have other methods that might work better for you. these are ones that I have experience with. I too am looking for other methods of doing this that could increase the effectiveness of my work.
Have you done a search using the button to the left? there might be something in the archives on this.
I searched several different ways, but I can't find anything really similar to what I need. I appreciate your suggestions...I just keep reliving my customer explaining how he wanted it done...and my uh oh look I probably had on my face! If you get that info will you shoot me an email?
Thanks alot B2
by far the easiest way to attach any skull to a flat panel is to use a toggle bolt. just drill a hole the size of the bolt in your panel where you want it to be centered, drill a hole for the expanding "nut" to fit through into the skull, put bolt through panel, start nut onto bolt, push nut through hole in back of skull and screw tight. be sure you don't have too long of bolt or you won't get it tight or you might crack the skull through the front. I also put a "set screw" into the skull to keep it from spinning on the bolt. just drill a hole through the panel and skull then screw a drywall screw into the skull. works like a charm. I have used this on deer, antelope, elk, hogs, rams, etc. good luck
and it really only applied to the jaw issue. The book is David Gilchrist's Hunter / Fisherman's complete guide to the field care of trophies... he suggests drilling small hole at the jaw hinge (both sides) then wiring the skull and jaw together with aircraft safety wire (stainless steel wire). as for the attachment to the plank.... bonedaddy had excellent suggestion
BONEDADDY... That idea makes so much sense that I hit all around it but was never quite there. kinda makes me mad thinking of all the time and frustration spent on this part of the mount.
Stephen, I hope this helps. send me a pic of the finished product, I'd like to see how it comes out. if you have any more questions, either email me or just post it here.


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Google has reportedly secretly invested $100- $200 million in social gaming firm Zynga, according to a report by Techcrunch.
We have confirmed tonight that the details of the deal are correct, through a source familiar with the matter.
The investment is on top of other deals that have brought Zynga almost $500 million in capital in the past year. The deal reportedly closed a month ago and is part of a strategic partnership still being negotiated. Google itself made the investment, not Google Ventures, and Zynga could be part of Google Games, a new platform launching later this year.
Google Games will be part of a larger social network that Google is launching to compete with Facebook, and it will bring in users through all of Google's different connections to users, such as Gmail. Hence, Google Games could become a very serious contender in the social game space in a short period of time, our source tells us.
Zynga will add its games to Google Games, giving the platform an entry point into social games and the start of the kind of social graph — linking friends to friends — that Facebook has created. Sources told Techcrunch that Zynga's revenues for the first half of 2010 will be $350 million, half of which is operating profit. (This is despite a steady decline in Zynga's actual user numbers; that's because Zynga is improving how it makes money from the users who choose to pay for virtual items in its games. While a small percentage of users pay in Zynga games, Zynga benefits greatly when it increases its conversion of free users to pay users).
Zynga continues to work on high-level strategic deals. It has a new partnership with Softbank, which reportedly invested $150 million into Zynga as part of an alliance to take Zynga's games to Asia; it announced a partnership with Yahoo and it recently ended a feud with Facebook by striking a five-year agreement to use Facebook Credits, a new virtual currency system.
Google and Zynga have not responded to Techcrunch's request for comments. Zynga declined comment to me. Google recently hired a games evangelist, Mark Deloura, but it's unclear just how serious its Google Games effort will be. The company has listed a job opening for a product lead for Google Games. The description says the "product management leader, games" will be "responsible for developing Google's games commerce product strategy and partnering to build and manage the business with a cross-functional team."


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Firefighters reported smoke coming from the basement of the two-story middle unit townhouse upon arrival. Firefighters found the bulk of the fire in a room in the basement located near an electrical panel. Firefighters used a hose line to extinguish the fire in the room and simultaneously firefighters used a dry chemical fire extinguisher to stop the growing electrical panel fire. The home did not have working smoke alarms. The occupants initially delayed calling 911 as they attempted to extinguish the fire themselves; however, they left the basement after the fire continued to quickly grow in size and volume. The occupants did escape unharmed. Three adults have been displaced. Red Cross support was declined.
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BETT this week, and, in some ways, the highlight of our year.
Sarah and I are busy folks, popping up here and there through the week.
I am doing 4 presentations about The National Schools Film and Animation Awards at the BLI stand (C50) (Wednesday 13:55 Thursday 11:35 Friday 12:45 Saturday 12:10)
I am then off to present at an Apple event on Thursday afternoon.
Also taking part in the BESA Keynote – 'Breaking the Bonds of Learning' 12:30-13:30 on Wednesday.
Myself, Professor Angela McFarlane, Professor Stephen Heppell and Max Wainewright from 2Simple, will be resonding to a question raised by Merlin John: "If you think of education as an obstacle course that takes out an unacceptably high percentage of learners from every generation, which obstacles should be removed so that everyone gets a good run at learning"?
Look out for Sarah on the Mimio stand throughout the show.
The other main highlights, for us, are the eagerly anticipated "teacher-led" happenings:
Wednesday 13th January 2010 – TedX Orenda (Independently organised TED event)
An interesting and diverse collection of speakers.
Thursday 14th January 2010 – AmpEd (Amplified event)
The chance to engage in some contentious discussion.
Friday 15th January 2010 – TeachMeet
Teachmeet promises to be a huge event this year. See you there?
Throughout the week there is also the chance to share inspiration from many visionary teachers during TeachMeet Takeover.
Well done to all of those beavering away in the background to make these special events.
Give me a call (on 07798890475) if you fancy a natter or a coffee break to slow down this gloriously hectic flurry. 🙂
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The limiting extremal behaviour of speculative returns: an analysis of intra-daily data from the Frankfurt Stock Exchange
This paper provides a statistical analysis of high-frequency recordings of the German share price index DAX. The data set extends from November 1988 to the end of the year 1995 and includes all minute-to-minute changes during trading hours at the Frankfurt Stock Exchange. The focus of this study is on the limiting behaviour characterizing the tail regions of the empirical distribution. Application of the popular Hill estimator for the tail shape yields results very similar to those of other analyses of speculative returns. However, since the reliability of tail index estimation rests on the appropriateness of the tail regions, the question of optimally choosing the sample fraction emerges. Exploiting recent advances in extreme value theory a couple of novel approaches are applied for determining the optimum cut-off value for the 'tail' of the empirical distribution. As it turns out, most algorithms suggest that one has to go out quite far into the tails for estimation of the extremal index. The findings obtained at the highest frequency (minute-to-minute returns) are confirmed when considering data at various levels of time-aggregation. A test for stability of extreme value behaviour over time gives no clear indication of changes of the limiting distribution. It is also illustrated how the approximation of the tails can be used to estimate the likelihood of large returns.
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The recent revelation that Microsoft makes a packet from Android might come as a surprise.
But Android isn't the only competitor Microsoft makes money from – and more often than not, the competition is happy with the deal.
Neither Apple nor Microsoft likes Android, and they both feel it infringes a number of their patents, but they're taking very different approaches to Android handset manufacturers.


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text: WSJ had an interesting article about how much action time is observed for a typical baseball game: about 18-minutes in a typical 3-hr game, or about 10%. Downtime: Time bt pitches: 1:14:49 Time bt batters: 33:39 Time bt innings: 42:41 "....What's the bottom line? When we compare total action to total down time—even including debatable action such as pitches, trots and pickoff throws—total action time is 17:58. The average game time was 2 hours and 58 seconds, so the action portion of a typical game is 10%. That leaves 90% of the game as down time...." The Action in a Baseball Game Is About 18 Minutes - WSJ.com


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text: I just completed a pond/waterfall in my back yard (pictures to come). The total length is about 20' long and the pond is a max of 10' x 6', 3' deep. I think I fixed all of the leaks but I'm still losing about 1" of water a day. It has been hot here in KC, but I'm not sure how to tell if that is normal or I have a leak somewhere. I've pulled up rocks on both sides and don't see any water on the liner. Think it is still leaking, or will it evaporate that much? The daytime temperature has been in the low 90's.


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So many people are running around exhausted. Complaining about no sleep. Complaining about no fun time. The real reason is that people don't value rest.
We value productivity, getting things done. Rest = guilt. We want rest, but we really don't think it's important.
Think about the last time you had an unscheduled hour. Did you read, take a nap, relax to some music? Or did you clean or check off another to do? Or did you web surf and play with your phone – which seems restful but is a way to pretend to be productive while not really being. And disconnecting to those around you. Plus that screen time is not relaxing to your brain.
When you value rest, you are valuing the rejuvenating power of rest. For some reason we think we can go and go without downtime. And too often replace downtime with screen time which is not nearly as rejuvenating.
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- replenish energy
- build immunity
- better memory
- stress relief
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It is important to me because I have pain that stops me in my tracks when I fail to get adequate rest. Then I am useless, flat on my back for days & in a great deal of pain. I am a human stress barometer because as stress increases, pain increases so I have decided to take 3 short daily rest breaks & de stress with a couple hours pursuing hobbies once a week in 2013.
Dearest Beth,
Thank you for your blog this year for I have enjoyed every article and all the tips. This one struck a nerve with me for if I awake at 2 in the morning or 4 I think of something that needs doing. I am then unable to return to sleep. My family has slept to the sound of my pots and pans as I prepare their meals for that day or the ironing board being ajusted. There is always something no matter how organized or decluttered I become. Most times since our children are married and gone it is Bible study and prayer yet still very little sleep. I do get tired in the day but naps do not come. They call me an energizer bunny. My dear husband of 43 years sleeps by himself more than with me. Any ideas would be appreciated. I've tried a number to no avail.
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Mayor Bloomberg hopes to stub out teen smoking by banning cigarette sales in New York City to anyone under age 21.
Adults who are old enough to volunteer for military service and who are entrusted with sacred civic duties such as voting for the city's mayor might wonder why their mayor is trying to restrict their access to what is, after all, a legal product.
But those under 21 really needn't worry. It'll be easy to get around the proposed ban. Even with the law, teens would still be free to smoke and possess cigarettes legally; they'd just need to get older pals or their parents to buy their packs for them.
So it's hard to see why Bloomberg is wasting the last bits of his political capital trying to pry Zippos from the hands of 18-, 19- and 20-year-olds.
Honestly — New York's a town with a $70 billion budget, 350,000 employees and a City Council teeming with ambitious pols . . . and this is the brightest idea they've got?
If we were Freudians, we'd probably make more of Mike's oral fixation. The mayor appears to be obsessed with what goes into New Yorkers' mouths, be it salt, sugar, soda or smokes.
But that's for another day. We're more concerned with ensuring that the mayor's meaningful reforms survive after he leaves office. And Mike should be, too.
At this moment, for example, the NYPD is on trial in federal court, where a judge looks set to issue a ruling that will make it easier for criminals to carry illegal guns.
But Mike's mind is on his nanny bans.
Then there are the Democratic mayoral candidates who are vowing to dismantle his school reforms.
But Mike's mind is on his nanny bans.
At the same time, every public-employee union in the city — 152 in total — has its members working on an expired contract. The unions are all biding their time until the arrival of the next mayor, from whom they plan to squeeze crushing concessions.
But Mike's mind is on his nanny bans.
The mayor is free to spend his final days in office however he sees fit. But by focusing his time and energies on fluff like this new cigarette restriction, he's putting his real achievements at risk. That won't be good for the city, or for the mayor's legacy.
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OverviewCertainly one of the best multipitch climbs in the Wasatch, located on Middle Bell Tower. It sports an incredible shield of steep granite, which this route tackles. It's pretty incredible that this thing goes at .10a, although a couple of tension traverses are required. It goes totally free at .11c.
Getting ThereStart at the Bells Canyon Trailhead. Head up into the canyon, after a while you'll see the Bell towers on your left, pick out Middle Bell Tower. Bust left off the trail just before you are even with Middle Bell. Cross the river, with some mild bushwhacking, and scramble up to the base of the climb. You want to scramble up all the way, you'll figure it out, there are couple different ways to get to the start of the climb.
Route DescriptionPitch 1 (5.7) Climb under the huge roof to the right, pulling around the corner and continuing up chimney sort of thing. Pass a set of anchors on the climbers left, you may want to clip it for pro. There is a bolt on the right side further up, and another one missing a hanger a little further, you might be able to sling it with a small wired nut. There is a bolted belay. Long pitch, 165+ ft.
Pitch 2 (5.10a A0) This starts out by lowering the leader off the belay 15 feet or so until they can reach a long tattered sling on the main wall. Hand line up it, clip the bolt (there's both a 3/8 and 1/4" if I remember right). Now the fun, tension traverse left, staying as high on the nearly featureless slab as possible until you can reach a thin crack/groove. Climb this cruxy (10a) sequence, trying not to think about the ripper of a pendulum you'll take if you blow it. Gain the nice ledge, take a breath, and continue up, passing a couple of bolts on the face, until you reach another bolted belay on a nice footledge.
Pitch 3 (5.8 A0) The infamous Zion Curtain Pitch. Do another, easier tension traverse off a bolt over to the insane, hollow, pancake thin flake that extends for 100 or so feet. Climb this, it takes .5-.75 or so camalots, but gear is questionable, since it probably wouldn't hold a whipper. I found the flake to be 5.6ish myself. Clip a bolt at the top of the flake, make a couple nervy (5.8) slab moves left and up to another bolted belay.
Pitch 4 (5.9)- The rock changes here, to the more weathered, ball bearing sort of granite typical to Bells. Climb an awesome flake to handcrack straight up until you reach a roof. Traverse left under the overhang, finding the sequence to get over it on the left. Belay at a tree above the roof.
You can go up further, but you're on your own as far as beta goes.
Descent: 3 Double rope raps. 1 to the top of pitch 3, another to the top of pitch 2. From there you can double rope rap straight down over the huge roof to the base.


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text: Home > Health > Healthy Living Body Secrets: Hidden Facts About The Human Body Trina Remedios August 10, 2012 Body Secrets: Hidden Facts About The Human Body Image 9 / 21 X < PREVIOUS 1 2 3 4 5 6 7 8 9 10 11 12 13 14 15 16 17 18 19 20 NEXT > UP NEXT Common Skin Rashes During Summers Cancel https://www.indiatimes.com/lifestyle/health-and-fitness/common-skin-rashes-during-summers-150745.html Image 9 of 21 FULLSCREEN Trina Remedios August 10, 2012 Just like your finger print, your tongue has a unique print as well. The human body is a complex system, even in the 21st century. Every day is a new day for scientists and doctors. In this serious scenario, doctors and scientists share a good laugh on some of the unusual aspects of the human body. Today we're sharing some of these bizarre aspects about the human body; get ready to be in awe, gasp and continue to marvel at the human body. Here goes… *Images courtesy: © Thinkstock photos/ Getty Images Your brain comprises 80% of water. It may be the centre of the nervous system, but the brain itself cannot feel pain. Your facial hair grows faster compared to any other hair on the human body. You lose 60-100 strands of hair every day. A strand of human hair can weigh up to 3.5 ounces. Blondes have more hair than others. Your heart can build enough pressure to squirt blood 30 feet high. Just like your finger print, your tongue has a unique print as well. Women blink twice as many times as men do. During your lifetime, you will produce enough saliva to fill two swimming pools. Sexual intercourse takes place 120 million times on earth on any day. The largest cell in the human body is the female egg and the smallest is the male sperm. Most men have erections every hour or hour and a half during sleep. When you overeat, your hearing reduces. Monday is the day of the week when the risk of heart attack is greatest. You use 17 muscles to smile and 43 to frown. The strongest muscle in the human body is the tongue. It is impossible to tickle yourself. Your body has enough iron in it to make a 3 inch long nail. DON'T MISS Common Skin Rashes During Summers Wingsuit Flying PICS: Rain Room Exhibition How Smoking Ages Your Body 7 Pictures of Salman Khan Which Will Make Your Jaw Drop! 4.8K SHARES 12 Pictures That Prove Priyanka Chopra Is A Self Made Women! 141 SHARES 10 Pictures That Will Prove Alia Bhatt is Cute And Classy! 4.5K SHARES 8 Pictures That Will Prove Sunny Leone is Beautiful. 10 Pictures To Prove Sonam Kapoor Went From A Cute Kid To Fashionista! View more featured galleries


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Wow, Channing! Those Are Quite the Catwalk Pics
Derek Zoolander, eat your heart out, because Channing Tatum is giving your infamous blue steel a major run for its money! New pics of a young 23-year-old Channing surfaced on Thursday from the 2003 Mercedes Benz Fashion Week in New York, and let's just say, he's giving a whole new meaning to the phrase, "work it, own it!"


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That's kind of you to say 48 I do appreciate the comments, thank you. I must admit I do like the half brick and half white wood houses but a lovely converted mill works just as well for me. Thanks...Sue
I liked this one the best of the wonderful set today Sue. Prefer this style brick over the white and wood of the 'New Barns' cottage puzzle, but enjoyed all the pictures and puzzles very much ... just as I always do! Thank you
That's really nice of you pelross. Have a look back at my pictures and you should find some lovely cotswold cottages/houses, I think you will enjoy the puzzles. Thank you...Sue
Not too many, mostly I look forward to your sets. I live in the states, and enjoy the textures and styles of the old buildings.
Thank you pelross glad you enjoyed the puzzle. Have you seen any pictures of houses in the Cotswold, they have a lovely golden glow...Sue
I always look for these houses. The walls colors are so much fun! thank you, sueswan
...and chimneys although none in this picture but have a look at the 'Tickled Trout'. Thanks Joyces...Sue
I love these houses too and you know I love the water. Thanks Sue! :)))))))(time, 6:35)
I love the way mills, oast houses etc are converted to dwellings and not pulled down. They are expensive to buy so way out of my league but I still dream...Sue
Beautiful near the water. the picket fence , the clean lines of the houses, I could easily live here:-)


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Category: Civil Liberties
Deep in my heart, I do believe
A 1957 photo showing, left to right, Rev. Martin Luther King, Jr., Pete Seeger, Charis Horton, Rosa Parks, and Rev. Ralph Abernathy at the Highlander Folk School in Monteagle, Tennessee. It is thought to be the only photograph of King, Seeger, Parks, and Abernathy together.
The school was a training ground for the civil rights movement. Parks herself trained in the library pictured above shortly before her fateful refusal to give up her seat on a Montgomery city bus in 1956, the act of civil disobedience that touched off the 381-day Montgomery Bus Boycott.
Charis (pronounced with a hard "c") is the daughter of the Highlander School's founder, Myles Horton, and of Zilphia Mae Johnson Horton, best known for having launched We Shall Overcome along its tortuous path from gospel hymn to iconic civil rights anthem. The library is said to be the place where King first heard the song.
Charis was my classmate at the Putney School, a Vermont boarding school founded on the teachings of John Dewey and the Progressive Education Movement. A fellow classmate brought a copy of the photo to our reunion last June. I do not know the photographer.
If you've done no wrong, why fear NSA surveillance?
A catchy little ditty about surveillance of citizens, en français.
In partial translation:
If you have nothing to hide, then you could put a camera in your bedroom and your bathroom, and publish images on internet. Or if you have nothing to hide, then you can get your login and your password on facebook or in google, publish and everyone can go dig it.
Our lists of things to do
Our soft sms
Our writings of anger
And our address books
Our favorite pubs
Our schedules pool
Our sworn enemies
And the name of the neighboring
Nothing, nothing, nothing to be ashamed of
nothing, nothing, nothing, nothing to hide
H/T: Bethany Horne
Yet another assault on the sanctity of the voting booth
Progressive Conservatives are voting in Halifax at this hour on whether to review Jamie Baillie's leadership. Some of the delegates have cameras.
Contrarian isn't saying who. Pete Seeger taught us not to name names.
2014 Halifax version of the colored entrance
A childhood friend found this disturbing 1956 photograph by the late Life Magazine photographer Gordon Parks on the Facebook page of the African-American history group BlackPast.org. She reposted it on her own Facebook page, and I reposted to to mine, adding, "It's worth remembering that this was less than 60 years ago."
It didn't take long for Gus Reed to post this photo of the posh Hydrostone restaurant Epicurious Morsels, adding:
60 years ago there was a separate entrance for African Americans at the Birmingham bus station. 60 seconds ago, this was the wheelchair entrance at a restaurant in Halifax. One of hundreds of retail establishments like this, by the way. Can you explain the difference?
It's not the difference that should bother us, but the similarity. White southerners didn't bat an eye at segregationist signs in the 1950s. Mobile Canadians don't bat an eye at respectable establishments that exclude users of wheelchairs in the 20-teens.
Can I explain the difference? Yes. Canada lacks the public and political will to extend to people in wheel chairs the same civil rights we would be appalled to deny African Americans or Jews. After repeated protestations from Gus and others, HRM's all-powerful building code enforcers have begun insisting new businesses include wheelchair accessibility, but heaven forfend a ramp should intrude on a square inch of the city's notoriously wheelchair unfriendly sidewalks.
By the way, Epicurious Morsels and a lot of other Halifax establishments could solve this problem for less than $100 with a portable threshold ramp.
The growing clamor to grant Edward Snowden clemency
Briefly, because I can't say it better than these people did, please check out the links below for eloquent arguments about the value of Edward Snowden's lawbreaking, and the Obama administration's pernicious folly in persecuting him.
On the last day of October, from his exile in Russia, Snowden wrote a letter seeking clemency.
On the first day of January, a New York Times editorial endorsed his request.
Considering the enormous value of the information he has revealed, and the abuses he has exposed, Mr. Snowden deserves better than a life of permanent exile, fear and flight. He may have committed a crime to do so, but he has done his country a great service. It is time for the United States to offer Mr. Snowden a plea bargain or some form of clemency that would allow him to return home, face at least substantially reduced punishment in light of his role as a whistle-blower, and have the hope of a life advocating for greater privacy and far stronger oversight of the runaway intelligence community.
In a series of tweets, a US business journalist who has cheered on the excesses of the security state, condemned the Times' position.
The Atlantic's Conor Friedersdorf eviscerated Barro's argument in a logical tour-de-force.
When should a leaker of government secrets be forgiven rather than jailed? Here are some possible standards:
- When the leak reveals lawbreaking by the U.S. government
- When the leak reveals behavior deemed unconstitutional by multiple federal judges
- When a presidential panel that reviews the leaked information recommends significant reforms
- When the leak inspires multiple pieces of reform legislation in Congress
- When the leak reveals that a high-ranking national-security official perjured himself before Congress
- When the leak causes multiple members of Congress to express alarm at policies being carried out without their knowledge.
The Snowden leak meets all of those thresholds, among others….
Leaks of classified information in the United States will remain common, regardless of what happens to Snowden, because they frequently serve the interests of people in power—and they won't be prosecuted precisely because they are powerful or connected. That longstanding, bipartisan dynamic is far more important to the norms surrounding official secrets in the U.S. than how a singular, unrepeatable, once-in-a-generation leak is handled….
For apparently altruistic reasons, Snowden revealed scandalous instances of illegal behavior, and the scandal that mass surveillance on innocents is considered moral and legal by the national-security state, though it knew enough to keep that a secret. It is difficult to imagine another leak exposing policies so dangerous to a free society or state secrets so antithetical to representative government. The danger of a Snowden pardon creating a norm is virtually nonexistent.
The Friedersdorf piece in particular deserves to be read in its entirety.
How seriously did Canada Post consider people less mobile than they
Susan Dixon has started a petition:
Has anyone at Canada Post ever tried to to push a stroller or a wheelchair or a walker through the snow? I don't think they realize the impact of ending door-to-door mail delivery when it comes to the parents of young children, to the disabled, and to the elderly, especially in winter…
Did the government or Canada Post really consider how people in difficult circumstances might be affected? I am the mother of two young boys. My youngest has cerebral palsy and uses a walker or wheelchair to get around. For me, Canada Post's decision would mean having to bundle them up and struggle through the snow with a wheelchair just to get our mail. And I am just one of thousands of Canadians who must already overcome mobility challenges on a daily basis.
That's why I started this petition urging Canada Post to reconsider the plan to end door-to-door delivery, and think about how all Canadians would be affected. Please sign it and share it with your friends.
Remembrance Day reflections – with updates
Growing up in the 1950s and '60s in the United States, where right-wing scoundrels turned patriotic symbols into political cudgels, left me with a lifelong aversion to flags, ribbons, lapel pins, and other obligatory trappings of national fealty. When I moved to Canada, this aversion morphed into a disinclination to wear poppies.
As best I can tell, most Canadians see the poppy as a neutral symbol of respect for veterans. Social pressure to wear it is strong. Acquaintances and strangers alike view my failure to fall in step as inexplicable, disrespectful, and distasteful. I regret this. After years of attempts to explain my position, I mostly avoid the conversation today, and I regret that, too. I can only offer the hope that the occasional outlier's refusal to adopt mandatory, state-sanctioned idolatry is healthy for democracy.
In a Facebook post this morning, Coast journalist Tim Bousquet, who also grew up in the US, offered a succinct expression of one of my reasons for eschewing the opium flower:
- Kill 10 million boys pointlessly.
- Honour pointlessly killed boys with anti-war Remembrance Day ceremonies.
- Morph "honouring pointlessly killed boys" into "honouring veterans."
- Militarize Remembrance Day ceremonies.
- Label those opposed to war as anti-veteran.
- Anti-veteran = anti-troop = unpatriotic.
- More war.
(For the record, Bousquet included an eighth point: 8. Profit! I don't know that he's wrong about that, but it's not central to my own allergic reaction to tendentious heraldry.)
[UPDATE] Scott Taylor has a gutsy column on bullying around the poppy in today's Herald
[UPDATE 2] Contrarian reader Greg Marshall writes:
I wear a poppy religiously, to the point that, thanks to the crappy pins they use on them, I think I have bought half-a-dozen this year. It is not because of social pressure, but because I grew up doing it, and it feels right. My family was a veteran's family, and most of my parents' friends were vets as well. They were lucky, since few of them had been at the "sharp end," and did not have to wear the emotional effects of combat. That was for my high-school physics teacher, who did a tour on Halifaxes with 6 Group, and was a shadow of a man.
I don't share all your views on this issue, but I certainly understand and sympathize with them, and Bousquet's points are not without merit. I wish they were not. I can't put on the poppy without thinking of the waste of life these wars have caused, and the utter pointlessness of it.
[UPDATE 3] My old Daily News colleague Ryan Van Horne writes:
In attempting to explain why he doesn't wear a poppy, Tim Bousquet takes the worst possible reasons one could have for wearing one and assumes that everybody wears them only for those reasons.
World War 1 was a colossal waste of life and a pointless war. World War 2, while also a colossal waste of life, at least served a purpose for fighting back against tyranny. War is not a glorious endeavour, but a sometimes necessary evil.
One of the things that soldiers fought and died for was the freedom that you, Tim, and I enjoy to choose to wear a poppy and to write columns and blog posts without fear of retribution. If you eschew the poppy because it is against your principles, I hope that you and Tim at least recognize that young men died in a war to preserve that freedom.
I've never fought in a war and I don't know any veterans, but I have three sons who are the same age as many of the young men who went off to fight in World War 2. I know that a generation made a huge sacrifice and I appreciate that. That is why I wear a poppy and always will.
[UPDATE 4] Debra Forsyth-Smith writes:
As someone who lived in the U.S. for some years, I certainly applaud your point of view on many symbolic gestures which in reality are confusing at best and meaningless at worst.
But jingoism is not the same as respect and remembrance of sacrifice. It is in this spirit I wear the poppy. In the very same spirit, I respect your decision not to.
[UPDATE 5] Robert Collins writes:
I respect your opinion on wearing, or not wearing, the poppy, as I am sure many veterans do as well. I try to wear one but often lose it or don't have money with me when I see them available, or I hand mine to someone else who "needs" it for a particular situation.
Regardless, it is a personal decision and a personal choice. The problem that I have with your position (and Tim's) is that it is as political as the very reason you state for not wearing it. It is the Yin to the Yang in the argument. The poppy is not political. It is very simple. It is to remind us of individuals who died, often in tragic, horrible, and often very lonely situations. Some of them were in that situation knowing full well why. Some were there because they were lied to and some didn't understand why they were there but were told it was the right thing to do.
I see it as being similar to the ceremony in Berwick for Harley Lawrence. No one was there to make a statement about mental health or homelessness or anything else. They were there simply to honor a fellow human being who died in a tragic, horrible and very lonely situation.
It is too easy for us today to assume ulterior motives and become cynical about everything around us. For me, the poppy is a sanctuary from that to a simple and basic compassion for another person's sacrifice and loss. It can be very liberating and comforting if you allow it to take you there, but don't feel you have to let it.
Attention #NSPoli geeks: those tardy poll-by-poll results are finally in
Elections Nova Scotia quietly posted the poll-by-poll results of the October 8 Nova Scotia election on its website last Thursday
Preliminary poll-by-poll results are normally released immediately after the vote, but this year, for the first time in living memory, elections bureaucrats decided to keep the detailed results to themselves for three weeks. The only explanation offered was that the Chronicle-Herald wasn't interested in publishing them (as it had traditionally), so Chief Electoral Officer Richard P. Temporale decided no one else could have them either.
Aside from this inexcusable delay, the agency did a good job of presenting the tallies, making them available in both PDF format, with accompanying maps of the polling districts, and as a zip file* of 51 Excel spreadsheets, plus a riding-by-riding summary.
(In the past, Elections Nova Scotia has sometimes deliberately degraded the electronic files it makes public, so as to make them all but impossible for researchers to use. This retrograde practice has eased somewhat since Temporale ascended to the throne.)
I look forward to seeing what map geeks can do with these spreadsheets. Elections Nova Scotia publishes mapping shapefiles on its website for the 51 electoral districts, but alas, not for individual polling districts. It's possible these might be available on request, but Contrarian may not be the best person to ask.
[*Note: I have not linked directly to the zip file, because I expect doing so would trigger spam filters to reject the daily emailed version of Contrarian (see "Subscribe to Contrarian" at right). To download the zip file, click here, and then on the words, "Excel format" in the third bullet point.]


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Monday, November 23, 1998 Published at 13:37 GMT
AOL everywhere with Netscape deal
Like the ad, AOL could be coming at you from every direction
By Internet Correspondent Chris Nuttall
When AOL succeeds in acquiring Netscape Communications the deal will be a fitting climax to the Year of the Portal on the Web and mark the creation of an online services and Internet software behemoth to rival Microsoft.
The takeover will top the bewildering series of acquisitions and mergers taking place this year on the portal front, with companies building brands and adding features to retain Web users by acting as one-stop shops.
With Sun Microsystems also in on the deal, Microsoft's MSN portal, its Explorer browser and its NT operating system and server software will face a unified challenge of equal weight.
How the stats stack up
America Online this month announced that worldwide membership of its online service had exceeded 14 million. More than a billion e-mails were sent over AOL in October and there were 21 million visitors to its AOL.com Website, according to Relevant Knowledge.
Netscape's Netcenter portal drew nearly 16 million visitors in October, while Microsoft.com had 20 million and its msn.com portal, 12 million. Yahoo! is the most visited Website with 25 million visitors.
Netcenter might well be maintained following the takeover. It serves a different audience - mainly office workers - compared to the home users who have helped AOL to market dominance.
The CompuServe online service has managed to keep its identity since it was taken over by AOL, as it too has traditionally catered for a professional audience.
Browser battle could take decisive turn
When AOL buys Netscape, it could replace the Microsoft Explorer browser, which underlies its Internet access software, with Netscape's Navigator.
In the latest survey by the International Data Corporation, Explorer edged ahead of Navigator for the first time in the battle for market share.
It had 43.8% compared to Netscape's 41.5%, but 16 percentage points came from AOL's uptake of the browser. Its deal with Microsoft to include its browser with its software runs out at the end of the year.
AOL's founder Steve Case summarised its strategy in an interview last week: "Our view of this medium has always been pretty broad. These are pieces of a puzzle we are assembling...when it's assembled, it's AOL Anywhere."
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NEW YORK, Feb. 25 (UPI) -- Singer Beck and producer/songwriter Jon Brion have covered
the song "Everybody's Gotta Learn Sometime" for the soundtrack of Charlie Kaufman's new film.
The new version of the 1980 Korgis song will appear on the soundtrack of "Eternal Sunshine of the Spotless Mind," Billboard reported Wednesday.
The disc also features material by the Polyphonic Spree and Electric Light Orchestra and will be released March 16 by Hollywood Records.
"Eternal Sunshine of the Spotless Mind" stars Jim Carrey, Kate Winslet, Elijah Wood and Kirsten Dunst and was written by Kaufman and directed by Michel Gondry. It opens March 19 in U.S. theaters.


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It's a new season of SYTYCD, which means a whole new Cat Deeley wardrobe to droooool over. I WISH I could find a photo of the little red dress she wore on last night's elimination show, but alas, I cannot. Yet. Howevs, below are some of the amazing bananas she-just-killed-an-entire-family-of-five SICK ensembles that she has worn so far. Prepare yourselves.
Ames: She literally just killed an entire family of five. Literally. Tay. Tay. Tay. OMG Tay. (Did you read that RZ fired Taylor???) The dress last night looked like reworked vintage, don't you think? I mean, I don't think it was but it looked like it could be and that made me love it even more. And she was wearing a GLITTERY ROACH in her hair and looked adorable. Jerk.
Shan Again: Yes, I did hear that RZ fired Tay-Tay. I am skerred, mama. I cried. WHAT is Brad going to do????? If you need me, I will be rocking gently back and forth in the corner.
I think I pulled this photo from the official Cat Deeley website, which I will totally have to favorite. I'm a nerd like that. And just sightly stalkerish. This dress? I am SURE it's vintage, and it is perfection. Like Amy's addiction to ruffles, I think we all know by now about my crush on the bejeweled, bedazzled, and besparkled. This is Cleopatra hosts a cocktail soiree, and meluvs.Ames: Ab Fab.
Cat, why you gotta make the rest of us look like we've been on a two-day bender and just stopped in to the local Kum & Go, picked up whatever cheesy souvenier tee-shirt they are selling and slapped it on with a trucker's cap and some dirty Wrangler's? That's just wrong.
Ames: I love it when you recap your weekend outfits on here. And yes, Cat's slouchy sequin number is bananas.
Shan: Thanks for loaning it to me. Don't worry - I'll get it back to you before this weekend.
If I ever come back as an Alien queen, this is what I want to look like. Hells bells, if I ever come back as a Sunday school teacher, this is what I want to look like. Rouland Mouret dress and Givenchy heels.
Shan: Trudat!
Hey, Shan -
While we're at it with SYTYCD:
We have not discussed how much this guy (who can DANCE)
Reminds me of this guy (who drives me crazy)
Let's just say I'm not a big "Mango" fan.
Dude - you are RIGHT. I never thought it until now! Speaking of Mango - I have been perusing their website this morning and am wondering why the hell we do not have a store here in my hood. They cheap AND cute. Just like us!


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Monday, July 26, 2010
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I searched for a new word counter, and I've tried several, but I missed the old one.
Then YAY! I found one that looked just the same! To the right of this post, you can see my word count meter (in red, because that is, after all, the BEST color.) I'm happy to say that it has been sliding up and up and up this month.
Are you a fan of word count meters/plotting your progress?
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Aram, your hunch was right. No I was not able to load the Files and Images section. Just tracked it down. I was trying to add another BannerImage field on Page.php - obviously I did something wrong. I removed those lines of code and everything works again now.
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DePauw in Third after First Day of SCAC Track and Field Championships
April 24, 2009
April 24, 2009, Sewanee, Tenn. — DePauw's men totaled 39 points and are in third place after the first of two days at the Southern Collegiate Athletic Conference Track and Field Championships. Centre leads with 68 points, while Trinity is second with 52. Rhodes is fourth with 37.
Zack Weinberg paced the Tigers with a win in the 10,000 meters in 33.35.64, while Eric Hawley was fourth in 34:03.22.
Three Tigers scored in the 3,000-meter steeplechase as Jay Wellik was third in 9:57.37, Nick Pucillo was fourth in 10:07.58 and Steve Clark finished eighth in 10:25.71.
Chris Mahnken was third in the pole vault at 4.10 meters (13-5.25), while Robert Steele placed seventh in the long jump at 6.31 meters (20-8.5) and Tyler Doane finished seventh in the shot put with a throw of 12.82 meters (42-00.75).
The remaining events were run in prelims only with results available here. The top three finishers in each event earn all-SCAC honors.


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Scheduled to begin delivries in October, Thales Computers has taken the wraps off a new family of conduction cooled ruggedized 3U CompactPCI embedded board computers, starting with the PowerEngineC7.
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